cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating photolysis and sorption of antibiotics in both laboratory and environmental settings
Creators: name: Stauffenberg, Katherine Marie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: There is growing public health concern about the development of antimicrobial strains of bacteria and the possibility that the continuous exposure of natural microbes to antibiotic residues in the environment could be one pathway. For a complete perspective on fate and transport of antibiotics in the aquatic environment and their potential role in this process, both aqueous phase and sediment concentrations are important to determine environmental exposure. Sulfamethoxazole (SMX), trimethoprim (TMP), ciprofloxacin (CPX), and tetracycline (TCC) were quantified in surface water and sediment extracts using standard addition and isotopically labeled surrogates. While SMX was found at the highest concentrations in surface waters (198-328 ng/L), CPX was the most concentrated in the sediments (20-25 ng/g). An alternative fate for aqueous phase antibiotics is that of photolysis. To evaluate this process under laboratory conditions, a reactor was constructed to simulate a controlled stream environment. SMX was shown to degrade in the presence of UV-light into sulfanilic acid and a photoisomer. Highly organic sediments were the most efficient at removing SMX from the aqueous phase.
The relationship between insulin resistance and surrogates of adiposity in children and adolescents
Creators: name: Hawkins, Jessica Noelle Ziebell
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: This study investigated the relationship between insulin resistance (HOMA-IR>4.0) and six adiposity surrogates in children and adolescents: body mass index (BMI), BMI percentiles (BMI %), sum of skinfolds (SSF), waist circumference (WC), WC percentiles (WC %), and waist circumference to height ratio (WHtR). Step-wise multiple regression models for HOMA-IR, including age, sex, and ethnicity, found that SSF was the strongest surrogate for predicting insulin resistance (r2=0.298) with little influence from age, sex, and ethnicity. The weakest predictor was BMI % (r2=0.148) and was significantly influenced by age, sex, and ethnicity. Odds ratios were determined for risk of developing insulin resistance. These were highest for SSF compared to the other surrogates, with SSF >28 mm, increasing the risk of insulin resistance 9.2 times (CI=7.0-11.9). Thus, SSF appears to be the most independent surrogate to predict insulin resistance and BMI % the least independent surrogate.
Towards a Theory of the QCD String
Creators: name: Dubovsky, Sergei
name: Gorbenko, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a new model of four-dimensional relativistic strings with integrable dynamics on the worldsheet. In addition to translational modes this model contains a single massless pseudoscalar worldsheet field - the worldsheet axion. The axion couples to a topological density which counts the self-intersection number of a string. The corresponding coupling is fixed by integrability to $Q=\sqrt{7\over 16π}\approx 0.37$. We argue that this model is a member of a larger family of relativistic non-critical integrable string models. This family includes and extends conventional non-critical strings described by the linear dilaton CFT. Intriguingly, recent lattice data in $SU(3)$ and $SU(5)$ gluodynamics reveals the presence of a massive pseudoscalar axion on the worldsheet of confining flux tubes. The value of the corresponding coupling, as determined from the lattice data, is equal to $Q_L\approx0.38\pm0.04$.
description: 33 pages, 7 figures
Design with forms as well as patterns
Creators: name: Cai, Jiaxiu
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: The research investigates How can the morphological approach in combination with the pattern language approach assist urban designers to achieve historical continuity in urban design both on theory and application levels. This research overviews the developments and applications of the two approaches worldwide with a special emphasis on the Dutch school. The Dutch morphological reduction technique and the Dutch interpretation of a pattern language are used in the case study—Wuhan, a Chinese city—to study the transformation of urban form and lifestyle. The multi-scalar historical morphological analysis results in an atlas that consists of four series of analytical maps on three levels of scale as well as 13 spatial structuring elements of the city; whereas the public life study results in a pattern book consisting of 20 individual patterns and three pattern languages. The practical implications and relevance for -- the design of -- the future of the city are discussed. The research is set up in a systematic and symmetrical manner for comparison of and reflection on the two approaches. It concludes that: • The morphological approach can be used to interpret first space (perceived space) and convey its information into second space (conceived space), whereas the pattern language approach can be used to interpret third space (lived space) and convey its information into second space (conceived space). • The morphological approach has a tendency to work from large scale to small scale and the pattern language approach tends to be built up from small scale to large scale, whereas urban design works with multiple scales at the same time. • The morphological approach and the pattern language approach provide means for urban designers to systematically recognize historical layers so as to distil the meaning in the physical and non-physical contexts respectively. Consirately adding another layer that contains the contemporary meaning (design intervention) to these recognized layers is the way to pass down and simultaneously generate incremental change in the tradition of the context. This results in historical continuity and thus in permanence in urban design. • The morphological approach, the pattern language approach, and urban design are processes in themselves and can be combined into one integrated process. • The morphological approach, the pattern language approach and urban design are characterized by reduction, abstraction, interpretation, and communication. • Some properties of the two approaches can be seen as counterparts because the roles these properties play in the design process tend to be similar: • Individual homogeneous areas vs Individual patterns; • Structural homogeneous areas vs Anchoring points/ Structuring patterns; • Secondary connections in homogeneous areas vs Linkages between patterns; • ? / Typology of homogeneous areas vs Clusters of patterns.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 30 (2018): Design with forms as well as patterns
Repercussions of politicized regulation exemplified by compulsory new TC1507-maize 90-day rat feeding study
Creators: name: Roper, Jason
name: Carlson, Anne
name: Podevin, Nancy
name: Wang, Yiwei
name: Mathesius, Carey
name: Herman, Rod
Publisher: name: Journal of Regulatory Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: TC1507, DAS-Ø15Ø7-1, 90-day rat feeding study, regulation, prescriptive, GMO, EFSA
• The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) oversees the safety assessment of GM crops
• EFSA concluded that 90-day rat feeding studies are generally not required to assess safety
• Despite this, the European Regulators require rat feeding studies for all new GM events
• EFSA now requires prescriptive rat studies to support single component events in stacks
• An approved product, TC1507 maize, was again found safe to rats in compulsory repeat study
• This retroactively applied requirement for an approved product is grossly unjustified

description: Politicized and prescriptive regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops has unintended adverse effects, including misdirected resources and reduced benefits. In the case of animal testing, this suboptimal use of resources includes the needless sacrifice of animals. Whole-food animal feeding studies are generally of negligible value in the risk assessment of GM crops, a position that was affirmed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Contrary to EFSA’s 2011 position, in 2013, the European Commission directed that 90-day rat studies be conducted for new GM events. As no EFSA guidance was available for hypothesis-free 90-day rat feeding studies, EFSA interpreted this as a mandate to develop a prescriptive study design. Recently, EFSA has retroactively required 90-day rat studies be completed under new study guidelines for previously approved component single events as part of the approval of breeding stacks. Having been unable to secure a derogation (exemption) from EFSA, a new compulsory 90-day rat study was conducted with TC1507 maize to support a breeding-stack submission. As previously shown, TC1507 maize does not adversely affect rats. This politically driven additional animal testing is risk disproportionate, at odds with European and international standards for animal welfare, and provides no scientific value to the safety assessment for GM breeding stacks.
description: Journal of Regulatory Science, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022)
The American Spice Trade Association’s response to New York State’s new regulatory policies for heavy metals in spices
Creators: name: Kelly, Shannen
name: Shumow, Laura
name: Scrafford, Carolyn
name: Beru, Nega
Publisher: name: Journal of Regulatory Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spices
Regulation
Action Level
Heavy Metals
Lead
Cadmium
Arsenic
New York
Food Safety

description: Not Applicable
description: Journal of Regulatory Science, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022)
Southern Soul, Southern Slam: The Jambalaya Soul Slam and Bull City Slam Team
Creators: name: Hall, Jackson
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: This thesis is an ethnography of the Jambalaya Soul Slam and Bull City Slam Team based in Durham, North Carolina. Specifically, incorporating elements of thick description and documentary photography, this ethnography investigates how the poets of the Jambalaya Soul Slam community and the Bull City Slam Team engage with the politics of southernness and Blackness in the ways they write, perform, discuss aesthetics, and hold space during local slams, regional competitions, and national competitions. Discourses of communitas and subjectivity are critical to poetry slam scholarship: How do poetry slams channel individual performances and crowd participation to become zones of communitas? How do poets, particularly the Black southern poets of the Jambalaya community, adapt the generative potential of communitas to re-write the scripts that white hegemony has imposed on their identities and their work? For the poets of the Jambalaya and the Bull City Slam Team, southernness becomes a means through which poets define how they engender communitas in the rooms they enter and how they discover alternate possibilities for what southern spoken aesthetics and identities, especially as the intersection of Blackness, can represent. Ultimately, the fact that the poets do not coalesce at a singular conception of what southernness means to their art and ethics is the point. For them, southernness is a much about coming together at a common table as it is about charting new paths of possibility—in how they write, how they perform, and how they hold community.
United States Biostimulant Industry Recommended Guidelines to Assess the Efficacy, Composition, and Safety of Plant Biostimulant Products
Creators: name: Biological Products Industry Alliance
Publisher: name: Journal of Regulatory Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: plant biostimulant products
biostimulants
guidelines
efficacy
composition
safety
Plant Biostimulants
Guidelines to Support Efficacy
Guidelines to Support Composition
Guidelines to Support Safety

description: Plant biostimulant products are gaining significant traction as valuable tools in the agricultural and horticultural sectors, facilitating sustainable crop production and environmentally conscious operations while bettering plant growth, quality, and yield. These unique products cannot be classified as fertilizers, nor do they work directly on pests like pesticides. Working to enhance plant nutritional processes, they offer invaluable aid to producers, sustainably improving the efficiency of inputs and natural resources. Unlike widely used agrochemicals, plant biostimulant products lack consistent regulatory oversight in the United States, thus limiting their use. In this article, members of the Biostimulant Industry Workgroup (BIW) recommend guiding criteria when verifying plant biostimulant product claims. It is anticipated these principles will strengthen the credibility of developed and emerging plant biostimulant products and help prepare technology developers for the foreseeable measures enacted as governmental regulations come about in the United States.
description: Journal of Regulatory Science, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022)
A national probabilistic characterization of local crop proximity and density for refining US screening level exposure estimates of pesticides in surface water arising from agricultural use
Creators: name: Holmes, Christopher M
name: Desmarteau, Dean
name: Ritter, Amy
name: Hendley, Paul
Publisher: name: Journal of Regulatory Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: Aquatic exposure modeling
Catchment
Pyrethroids
Surface water
Geographic Information System
Landscape
Spatial
Ecological Risk Assessment
Pesticide exposure modeling
Spatial analysis

description: Rising world population and changing diets are increasing the need for efficient and effective food and fiber production. Pesticides are used across the US to control pests and improve food yield and quality, but these benefits are offset by their potential to reach and possibly impact aquatic or terrestrial ecosystems. Regulatory agencies rely on prospective exposure models that often start with conservative simplifying assumptions that are refined with additional information if needed. The USEPA ecological risk assessment framework for pesticides assumes, at screening level, that 100% of the area draining to a water body is cropped. However, at the grower’s real-world scale, this simplifying assumption is generally not realistic and should be refined for higher tier assessment. The present study developed a US-wide spatially explicit analysis of crop density and proximity to surface waters to characterize the potential for pyrethroid insecticides to enter flowing surface waters. Reliable, transparent, and publicly available government spatial cropping and hydrology datasets were employed at the catchment-scale across the full extent of agricultural production in the US were used to generate fifteen novel crop-specific probabilistic distributions describing the extent and proximity of each crop to the flowing water body defining small catchments. These were used to refine estimated environmental concentrations using USEPA standard regulatory scenarios to evaluate the importance of considering agricultural landscapes when refining aquatic pesticide concentrations. Incorporating these real-world probabilities of crop occurrence and proximity showed that, while potential maximal aquatic exposure concentrations are unchanged, the probability of exceeding regulatory decision-making concentration endpoints is much lower than predicted by standard assumptions (e.g., 1.9 to ~50-fold reductions by crop for 90% of catchments). Additionally, we show that the relative ranking of crops by their aquatic pesticide exposure potential may change from that indicated when cropping density and proximity are considered.
description: Journal of Regulatory Science, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022)
Rapid, field-deployable method for determination of seafood decomposition by compact mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Self, Randy
name: McLendon, Michael
name: Lock, Christopher
name: Hu, Jinxin
Publisher: name: Journal of Regulatory Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: Compact mass spectrometry
Seafood Decomposition
Portable devices
Rapid Analysis
Rapid analysis

description: Seeking alternatives to sensory which can be performed in non-laboratory field environments has been a recent emphasis in regulatory assessment of seafood decomposition. To this end, an international sampling effort produced samples of 23 different seafood products, which were subjected to controlled decomposition of varying levels on ice. This produced samples of each product for a wide range of decomposition states, and these were scored by a sensory expert on a standard 1-100 scale. Samples were then analyzed by a novel technique involving headspace analysis and compact mass spectrometry. The mass spectrometry data was used to create computer models, guided by the sensory data, to generate a calculated score analogous to a sensory score. Models based on a training set of samples were then used to calculate scores for a test set, and accuracy was assessed by comparing these calculated scores to original sensory data. Calculated scores agreed with sensory findings with respect to overall decomposition state for 96.3% of samples (n=547), with seven false positive (1.3%) and 13 false negative (2.4%) findings. Reproducibility was also assessed via triplicate analysis on separate days for low, middle, and high decomposition states. All sample ranges for these replicates were within 20 points, with 89% (n=66) within 15 points, 73% within 10, and 35% within five. Given the performance of the method, along with the small form factor and manageable operation requirements of the instrument as well as simplicity of sample preparation, this appears to offer a potentially useful technique for field testing of seafood decomposition.
description: Journal of Regulatory Science, Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022): Special Issue on Regulatory Applications of Portable Tools and Methods to Monitor Toxic Substances in Consumer Products
Main-belt comets: sublimation-driven activity in the asteroid belt
Creators: name: Hsieh, Henry H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our knowledge of main-belt comets (MBCs), which exhibit comet-like activity likely due to the sublimation of volatile ices, yet orbit in the main asteroid belt, has increased greatly since the discovery of the first known MBC, 133P/Elst-Pizarro, in 1996, and their recognition as a new class of solar system objects after the discovery of two more MBCs in 2005. I review work that has been done over the last 10 years to improve our understanding of these enigmatic objects, including the development of systematic discovery methods and diagnostics for distinguishing MBCs from disrupted asteroids (which exhibit comet-like activity due to physical disruptions such as impacts or rotational destabilization). I also discuss efforts to understand the dynamical and thermal properties of these objects.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures; to appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 318
Spain's Historical Memory Law: a study of successful historical reconciliation
Creators: name: Dimitrov, Ivo Tzvetanov
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: I explore the Historical Memory Law (Ley 52/2007) as a successful model of historical reconciliation. I argue that the HML can be conceived as a renewed source of legitimacy for the Spanish state and as a progressive model of reconciliation, applicable to democratizing countries. First, I address how the pacted transition has affected reparation and rehabilitation efforts. Second, I respond to the critics by extensively analyzing the legal framework and victim compensations from the onset of the Transition. Autonomous division of power and the legacy of the pacted transition emerge as limiting factors in HML implementation. Thirdly, I identify left-leaning regional parties as the key actor in the political effort and propose a comprehensive four-stage model that maps out the reconciliation effort (negation, amnesia, accommodation, reconciliation). I conclude that historical reconciliation will deal with memory recuperation (exhumations, symbols removal, sentences annulment) and depend on a new generation of post-Transition Spaniards.
Regulatory Compliance Monitoring Paradigms and the Relationship of Regulatory Compliance/Licensing with Program Quality: A Policy Commentary
Creators: name: Fiene, Richard John
Publisher: name: Journal of Regulatory Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: regulatory compliance, program monitoring, licensing, program quality
monitoring and surveillance

description: This policy commentary deals with two key issues within regulatory science related to the best methods for measuring regulatory compliance: Program monitoring paradigms and the relationship of regulatory compliance/licensing with program quality. Examples from program monitoring paradigms include: 1) Substantial versus Monolithic. 2) Differential Monitoring versus One size fits all monitoring. 3) “Not all standards are created equal” versus “All standards are created equal”. 4) “Do things well” versus “Do no harm”. 5) Strength based versus Deficit based. 6) Formative versus Summative. 7) Program Quality versus Program Compliance. 8) 100-0 scoring versus 100 or 0 scoring. 9) QRIS versus Licensing. 10) Non-Linear versus Linear. Examples from the relationship of regulatory compliance/licensing with program quality include: 1) “Do no harm” versus “Do good”. 2) Closed system versus Open system. 3) Rules versus Indicators. 4) Nominal versus Ordinal measurement. 5) Full versus Partial compliance. 6) Ceiling effect versus No Ceiling effect. 7) Gatekeeper versus Enabler. 8) Risk versus Performance.
description: Journal of Regulatory Science, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022)
El poder del soberano. Furia globalizadora, fuerzas neoliberales y el devoramiento del Estado en la planetarización del capital
Creators: name: Canaza-Choque, Franklin Américo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 380301
subject: History of economic thought
classificationCode: 380302
subject: Macroeconomic theory
classificationCode: 380304
subject: Microeconomic theory
classificationCode: 380399
subject: Economic theory not elsewhere classified

description: Pensar que el capital ha quedado ahí, solo en aquellas regiones de poder económico y desconocer de su final en las llamadas zonas depositarias de poder emergente, es todavía un análisis inacabado. Entender el ritmo globalizador, presume antes, agudizar dos fenómenos unificados. El primero, la faceta donde el capital ha terminado por apoderarse a niveles más profundos sobre la figura del Estado y las fuentes de riqueza. El segundo, el agravamiento de esa fase toma impulso-poder con la misma evolución y el perfeccionamiento que presenta las tecnologías de la información y comunicación como elementos definitivos de su impacto. De esta manera, el presente pretende analizar el poder del Estado en medio de los efectos fungidos y (re)producidos por la planetarización del capital, donde la furia de la globalización y las decisiones neoliberales han acabado aplastando en menor o mayor proporción los sueños sociales o los deseos nacidos del pueblo.
Joint Color-Spatial-Directional clustering and Region Merging (JCSD-RM) for unsupervised RGB-D image segmentation
Creators: name: Hasnat, Md. Abul
name: Alata, Olivier
name: Trémeau, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advances in depth imaging sensors provide easy access to the synchronized depth with color, called RGB-D image. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised method for indoor RGB-D image segmentation and analysis. We consider a statistical image generation model based on the color and geometry of the scene. Our method consists of a joint color-spatial-directional clustering method followed by a statistical planar region merging method. We evaluate our method on the NYU depth database and compare it with existing unsupervised RGB-D segmentation methods. Results show that, it is comparable with the state of the art methods and it needs less computation time. Moreover, it opens interesting perspectives to fuse color and geometry in an unsupervised manner.
description: submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Dynamical thermalization in Bose-Hubbard systems
Creators: name: Schlagheck, Peter
name: Shepelyansky, Dima L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically study a Bose-Hubbard ring of finite size with disorder containing a finite number of bosons that are subject to an on-site two-body interaction. Our results show that moderate interactions induce dynamical thermalization in this isolated system. In this regime the individual many-body eigenstates are well described by the standard thermal Bose-Einstein distribution for well-defined values of the temperature and the chemical potential which depend on the eigenstate under consideration. We show that the dynamical thermalization conjecture works well both at positive and negative temperatures. The relations to quantum chaos, quantum ergodicity and to the Aberg criterion are also discussed.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Synagogue on Delos: identification and context
Creators: name: Schindler, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: This thesis reassesses the much debated identification of the building GD 80 on Delos as a synagogue. First, the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence and its significance for determining the function of the building is critically analyzed. Second, the Delian complex is compared with several other pre-70 CE buildings in Judea and Ostia that also have been interpreted as synagogues. It is argued that any definite identification of the building GD 80 is not currently possible.
Helping Pregnant Smokers Quit: A Multi-Centre RCT of Electronic Cigarette and Nicotine Patches
Creators: name: Pesola, Franceca
name: Smith, Katie
name: Przulj, Dunja
name: Lewis, Sarah
name: Griffiths, Chris
name: Hajek, Peter
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Statistical Analysis Plan v2.0
Binding energy of the $X(3872)$ at unphysical pion masses
Creators: name: Baru, V.
name: Epelbaum, E.
name: Filin, A. A.
name: Gegelia, J.
name: Nefediev, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chiral extrapolation of the $X(3872)$ binding energy is investigated using the modified Weinberg formulation of chiral effective field theory for the $D \bar{D}^*$ scattering. Given its explicit renormalisability, this approach is particularly useful to explore the interplay of the long- and short-range $D \bar{D}^*$ forces in the $X(3872)$ from studying the light-quark (pion) mass dependence of its binding energy. In particular, the parameter-free leading-order calculation shows that the $X$-pole disappears for unphysical large pion masses. On the other hand, without contradicting the naive dimensional analysis, the higher-order pion-mass-dependent contact interaction can change the slope of the binding energy at the physical point yielding the opposite scenario of a stronger bound $X$ at pion masses larger than its physical value. An important role of the pion dynamics and of the 3-body $D\bar{D}π$ effects for chiral extrapolations of the $X$-pole is emphasised. The results of the present study should be of practical value for the lattice simulations since they provide a non-trivial connection between lattice points at unphysical pion masses and the physical world.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures
Behavioral patterns relating to thermal comfort and energy consumption
Creators: name: Anastasios, Iounnou
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: Since the introduction of computers, the way research is performed has changed significantly. A huge amount of data can be gathered and handled by a computer, compared to the situation before these machines were commonly available to scientists and households. Every interaction with a computer system or sensor can be recorded, resulting to an abundance of data that has already surpassed the human capability to analyze and understand them. Computers are not only used for monitoring, creating and recording data but also they have become the tool to analyze these data with the use of certain automations that otherwise would make the data analysis take years. The aim of this paper is to go a step further in this direction. Repetitive behavioral actions in sensor rich environments, such as the dwellings of the Ecommon measurement campaign, can be observed and categorized into patterns through data mining techniques. These discoveries could form the basis of a model of tenant behavior that could lead to a self-learning automation strategy [16] or better occupancy data to be used for better predictions of building simulation software such as Energy+ or ESP-r and others.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 27 (2018): Thermal comfort and energy related occupancy behavior in Dutch residential dwellings
Conclusions and recommendations
Creators: name: Anastasios, Ioannou
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: The broader aim of this thesis was to contribute towards a more sustainable built environment, by first looking at how to seek ways to improve the existing simulation software’s ability to predict the energy consumption of residential dwellings by identifying the most important parameters that affect energy consumption and indoor comfort, which is tightly related to energy consumption. The second aim of this study was to compare the results of both PMV and adaptive models with data obtained with the use of a sensor rich smart environment. Such environments in the residential sector are still in their infancy but improvements in information technology, sensor miniaturization, software development, and analysis techniques (such as pattern recognition methods) will result to a smarter built environment in the future.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 27 (2018): Thermal comfort and energy related occupancy behavior in Dutch residential dwellings
Vacuum energy in some particular quantum field theories
Creators: name: Jora, Renata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the properties of a class of quantum field theories endowed with an equal number of anti commuting and commuting field variables, the most common example being the supersymmetric models. Based on the scaling properties of the partition function we find that these theories have the quantum energy momentum tensor associated to dilatations and thus the vacuum energy equal to zero.
description: 7 pages, version published
Reliability and validity of scales used in the GROW Zambia evaluation with early adolescents in Lusaka
Creators: name: Hadfield, Kristin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Child Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Early adolescence
subject: Positive psychology
subject: Scale validation
subject: Wellbeing
subject: Zambia

description: These analyses are planned to determine whether measures of psychological resilience, hope, gratitude, gratitude to God, and grit have reliability and validity for use with Zambian early adolescents. They are part of a larger project evaluating the efficacy of Global Resilience Oral Workshops (GROW) in Zambia. More information on GROW and that project can be found here: https://www.growglobalresilience.com/
Simulated Diagenesis of the Iron-Silica Precipitates in Banded Iron Formations
Creators: name: Hinz, Isaac
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: greenalite, crystallization, magnesium substitution, magnetite, serpentine
subject: Geological Sciences
subject: Science

description: Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geology or Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Structural stability, vibrational and bonding properties of potassium 1,1$'$-dinitroamino-5,5$'$ bistetrazolate: An emerging green primary explosive
Creators: name: Yedukondalu, N.
name: Vaitheeswaran, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Potassium 1,1$'$-dinitroamino-5,5$'$ bistetrazolate (K$_2$DNABT) is a nitrogen rich (50.3 $\%$ by weight, \ce{K2C2N12O4}) green primary explosive with high performance characteristics namely velocity of detonation (D = 8.33 km/s), detonation pressure (P = 31.7 GPa) and fast initiating power to replace existing toxic primaries. In the present work, we report density functional theory (DFT) calculations on structural, equation of state, vibrational spectra, electronic structure and absorption spectra of K$_2$DNABT. We have discussed the influence of weak dispersive interactions on structural and vibrational properties through the DFT-D2 method. We find anisotropic compressibility (b $
Eφαρμογή εδώδιμων μεμβρανών με αιθέριο έλαιο ρίγανης στον έλεγχο του παθογόνου μικροργανισμού Listeria monocytogenes σε φέτες νούμπουλου κατά την υπό κενό συντήρηση στους 10οC
Creators: name: Gounadaki, A.S.
name: Bozinaki, D.
name: Mannaki, C.
name: Skandamis, P.N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Slide presentation of the Greek talk “Application of edible films with essential oil of oregano in the control of the pathogenic microorganism Listeria monocytogenes in slices of numbulo during vacuum storage at 10°C”, presented by Bozinaki D. at the 7th Panhellenic congress on meat and products thereof. 3 – 5 February 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece
Proposal for a Domain Wall Nano-Oscillator driven by Non-uniform Spin Currents
Creators: name: Sharma, Sanchar
name: Muralidharan, Bhaskaran
name: Tulapurkar, Ashwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new mechanism and a related device concept for a robust, magnetic field tunable radio-frequency (rf) oscillator using the self oscillation of a magnetic domain wall subject to a uniform static magnetic field and a spatially non-uniform vertical dc spin current. The self oscillation of the domain wall is created as it translates periodically between two unstable positions, one being in the region where both the dc spin current and the magnetic field are present, and the other, being where only the magnetic field is present. The vertical dc spin current pushes it away from one unstable position while the magnetic field pushes it away from the other. We show that such oscillations are stable under noise and can exhibit a quality factor of over 1000. A domain wall under dynamic translation, not only being a source for rich physics, is also a promising candidate for advancements in nanoelectronics with the actively researched racetrack memory architecture, digital and analog switching paradigms as candidate examples. Devising a stable rf oscillator using a domain wall is hence another step towards the realization of an all domain wall logic scheme.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, Supplementary Information,Accepted for publication in Scientific Reports
LoCuSS: Testing hydrostatic equilibrium in galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Smith, G. P.
name: Mazzotta, P.
name: Okabe, N.
name: Ziparo, F.
name: Mulroy, S. L.
name: Babul, A.
name: Finoguenov, A.
name: McCarthy, I. G.
name: Lieu, M.
name: Bahe, Y.
name: Bourdin, H.
name: Evrard, A. E.
name: Futamase, T.
name: Haines, C. P.
name: Jauzac, M.
name: Marrone, D. P.
name: Martino, R.
name: May, P. E.
name: Taylor, J. E.
name: Umetsu, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium in an X-ray luminosity selected sample of 50 galaxy clusters at $0.15
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, accepted by MNRAS
Introduction
Creators: name: Ioannou, Anastasios
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: The focus of this study is to contribute towards both the above-mentioned directions of research. The first aim is to test the sensitivity of the parameters that affect energy consumption and comfort in the residential built environment in a theoretical basis. The second aim is to investigate if it would be possible, with the help of a sensor rich environment, to validate both prevailing models for indoor comfort, the PMV and adaptive model, and explore the dynamics between occupancy behavior, indoor comfort and energy consumption in the built environment. Sensor rich environments in the residential sector are not present yet in large scale; therefore, this study investigates a small, but still significant, sample of dwellings. The aim is not to achieve representativeness for the complete residential building sector but to research if the methodology of using sensors to gather quantitative and subjective data (related to thermal comfort, occupancy behavior, and energy consumption) is promising enough and could lead to potential energy savings without compromising the indoor comfort of occupants.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 27 (2018): Thermal comfort and energy related occupancy behavior in Dutch residential dwellings
Energy Performance and comfort in residential buildings
Creators: name: Ioannou, Anastasios
name: Itard, Laure
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: Energy performance simulation is a generally used method for assessing the energy consumption of buildings. Simulation tools, though, have shortcomings due to false assumptions made during the design phase of buildings, limited information on the building’s envelope and installations and misunderstandings over the role of the occupant’s behavior. This paper presents the results of a Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis on the factors (relating to both the building and occupant behavior) that affect the annual heating energy consumption and the PMV comfort index. The PMV results are presented only for the winter (heating) period, which is important for energy consumption in Northern Europe. The reference building (TU Delft Concept House) was simulated as both a Class-A and Class F dwelling and with three different heating systems. If behavioral parameters are not taken into account, the most critical parameters affecting heating consumption are the window U value, window g value and wall conductivity. When the uncertainty of the building-related parameters increases, the impact of the wall conductivity on heating consumption increases considerably. The most important finding was that when behavioral parameters like thermostat use and ventilation flow rate are added to the analysis, they dwarf the importance of the building parameters. For the PMV comfort index the most influential parameters were found to be metabolic activity and clothing, while the thermostat had a secondary impact.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 27 (2018): Thermal comfort and energy related occupancy behavior in Dutch residential dwellings
In-situ and real time measurements of thermal comfort and its determinants in thirty residential dwellings in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Anastasios, Ioannou
name: Itard, Laure
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: Reducing energy consumption in the residential sector is an imperative EU goal until 2020. An important boundary condition in buildings is that energy savings should not be achieved at the expense of thermal comfort. However, there is little known about comfort perception in residential buildings and its relation to the PMV theory. In this research, an in-situ method for real time measurements of the quantitative and subjective parameters that affect thermal comfort as well as the reported thermal comfort perception was developed and applied in 30 residential dwellings in the Netherlands. Quantitative data (air temperature, relative humidity, presence) have been wirelessly gathered with 5 minutes interval for 6 months. The thermal sensation was gathered wirelessly as well, using a battery powered comfort dial. Other subjective data (metabolic activity, clothing, actions related to thermal comfort) were collected twice a day using a diary. The data analysis showed that while the neutral temperatures are well predicted by the PMV method, the cold and warm sensations are not. It seems that people reported (on a statistically significant way) comfortable sensation while the PMV method does not predict it, indicating a certain level of psychological adaptation to expectations. Additionally it was found that, although clothing and metabolic activities were similar among tenants of houses with different thermal quality, the neutral temperature was different: in houses with a good energy rating, the neutral temperature was higher than in houses with a poor rating.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 27 (2018): Thermal comfort and energy related occupancy behavior in Dutch residential dwellings
The concept of tomb under the nomadic traditions: redefining the tombs of Khitan nobles in the Liaq Empire (907-1125 CE)
Creators: name: Lu, Qi
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: In this thesis, I examine the tombs of Khitan nobles in the Liao Empire (907-1125 CE), established by the Khitan, nomadic people originating from the steppe zone of the Eurasian landmass. I redefine the concept of the tomb of the Khitan in Liao Empire within within this larger geographic and cultural context during the Middle Period, approximately the tenth through thirteenth centuries. The Khitan had an early burial history of not burying the deceased in the tombs, but placing them on the trees in the mountain and cremating the remains three years later. However, the Khitan built Chinese-looking tombs during the Liao period once they had intimate interactions with the Chinese. I argue that although the Khitan learn from the Chinese to build tombs, they changed the Chinese concept of tomb and applied the Chinese forms to gradually concretize a unique Khitan understanding of burial. Tomb, for the Khitan, is not supposed to be an enduring posthumous residence but a space that enables the ephemeral ritual practice to happen on the deceased and transform the body.
The Role of Erupting Sigmoid in Triggering a Flare with Parallel and Large-Scale Quasi-Circular Ribbons
Creators: name: Joshi, Navin Chandra
name: Liu, Chang
name: Sun, Xudong
name: Wang, Haimin
name: Magara, Tetsuya
name: Moon, Y. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present observations and analysis of an interesting sigmoid formation, eruption and the associated flare that occurred on 2014 April 18 using multi-wavelength data sets. We discuss the possible role of the sigmoid eruption in triggering the flare, which consists of two different set of ribbons: parallel ribbons as well as a large-scale quasi-circular ribbon. Several observational evidence and nonlinear force-free field extrapolation results show the existence of a large-scale fan-spine type magnetic configuration with a sigmoid lying under a section of the fan dome. The event can be explained with the following two phases. During the pre-flare phase, we observed the formation and appearance of sigmoid via tether-cutting reconnection between the two sets of sheared fields under the fan dome. The second, main flare phase, features the eruption of the sigmoid, the subsequent flare with parallel ribbons, and a quasi-circular ribbon. We propose the following multi-stage successive reconnections scenario for the main flare. First, tether-cutting reconnection is responsible for the formation and the eruption of the sigmoid structure. Second, the reconnection occurred in the wake of the erupting sigmoid produces the parallel flare ribbons on the both sides of the circular polarity inversion line. Third, the null-type reconnection higher in the corona, possibly triggered by the erupting sigmoid, leads to the formation of a large quasi-circular ribbon. For the first time we suggest a mechanism for this type of flare consisting of a double set of ribbons triggered by an erupting sigmoid in a large scale fan-spine type magnetic configuration.
description: 32 Pages, 13 figures, Accepted for Publication in ApJ
In-situ real time measurements of thermal comfort and comparison with the adaptive comfort theory in Dutch residential dwellings
Creators: name: Anastasios, Ioannou
name: Itard, Laure
name: Agarwal, Tushar
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: Indoor thermal comfort is generally assessed using the PMV or the adaptive model. This research presents the results obtained by in-situ real time measurements of thermal comfort and thermal comfort perception in 17 residential dwellings in the Netherlands. The study demonstrates the new possibilities offered by relatively cheap, sensor-rich environments to collect data on clothing, heating, and activities related to thermal comfort, which can be used to improve and validate existing comfort models. The results are analyzed against the adaptive comfort model and its underlying assumptions. Data analysis showed that while indoor temperatures are within the adaptive model’s comfort bandwidth, occupants often reported comfort sensations other than neutral. Furthermore, when indoor temperatures were below the comfort bandwidth, tenants also often reported that they felt ‘neutral’. The adaptive model could overestimate as well as underestimate the occupant’s adaptive capacity towards thermal comfort. Despite the significant outdoors temperature variation, the indoor temperature of the dwellings and the clothing were observed to remain largely constant. Certain actions towards thermal comfort such as ‘turning the thermostat up’ were taking place while tenants were reporting thermal sensation ‘neutral’ or ‘a bit warm’. This indicates that either there is an indiscrimination among the various thermal sensation levels or alliesthesia plays a role and the neutral sensation is not comfortable, or many actions are happening out of habit and not in order to improve one’s thermal comfort. A chi2 analysis showed that only six actions were correlated to thermal sensation in thermally poorly efficient dwellings, and six in thermally efficient dwellings.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 27 (2018): Thermal comfort and energy related occupancy behavior in Dutch residential dwellings