cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Patient satisfaction towards Clinical laboratory services among Strengthening Laboratory Management towards Accreditation (SLMTA) Program Implementing Hospital Laboratories under Addis Ababa City Administration, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tefera, Zigba
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Introduction: Patient satisfaction is a major component of a quality management system, and a significant requirement in the ISO standards. It is also an important and useful quality improvement tool for clinical laboratory, health care organizations, and business in general. Most clinical laboratories are required to assess their patients satisfaction in order to maintain their accreditations. Objectives: To assess patient satisfaction on selected laboratory services and determine associated factors among SLMTA program implementing Hospital laboratories in Addis Ababa. Methods: Hospital based cross sectional study was conducted to assess patient satisfaction on laboratory services among SLMTA program implementing hospital laboratories at Zewditu memorial, Ras Desta Damtew memorial, Yekatit 12, Terunesh-Bejieng, Gandi memorial and Minilik II hospitals in Addis Ababa. A structured questionnaire was used to interview a total of 596 laboratory services user patients by trained data collectors. Data was entered and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Patient satisfaction was determined based on mean score cutoff. Result: Out of the 596 patients, 317 (53%) were satisfied with the laboratory services given in the six hospitals under Addis Ababa City Administration. There was significant association between educational status of respondents, SLMTA program laboratory STAR grade and turnaround time with level of satisfaction of patients (P- value < 0.05). In Likert Scale, the overall mean rate of satisfaction of patients with laboratory services was 3.92 out of the 5 points. The mean rate of satisfaction for different aspects of laboratory services ranged from 3.18 to 4.34. The highest mean rate of satisfaction were given for location of laboratory and measures taken to assure privacy during specimen collection with mean rating of 4.34 and 4.32 respectively. Patient satisfaction was lowest with the adequacy of sitting arrangement in waiting area, Cleanness of Latrine and Time spent waiting to get the laboratory result. Conclusion: The overall degree of patients' satisfaction with the clinical laboratory services was not satisfactory. Therefore, hospital administration and the laboratory department of each Hospitals should strive more to enhance patients' satisfaction by addressing the identified gaps.
Tangent cones of Hermitian Yang-Mills connections with isolated singularities
Creators: name: Jacob, Adam
name: Earp, Henrique Sá
name: Walpuski, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C07, 14J60, 32Q15

description: We give a simple direct proof of uniqueness of tangent cones for singular projectively Hermitian Yang-Mills connections on reflexive sheaves at isolated singularities modelled on $μ$-polystable holomorphic bundles over $\mathbf{P}^{n-1}$.
description: v2 sharpens the result proved in this note
Convergence of random oscillatory integrals in the presence of long-range dependence and application to homogenization
Creators: name: Lechiheb, Atef
name: Nourdin, Ivan
name: Zheng, Guangqu
name: Haouala, Ezedine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior of random oscillatory integrals in the presence of long-range dependence. As a byproduct, we solve the corrector problem in random homogenization of one-dimensional elliptic equations with highly oscillatory random coefficients displaying long-range dependence, by proving convergence to stochastic integrals with respect to Hermite processes.
description: revised, illustration of how to construct the random potential $a(x)$ is added
"Plant Epigenetics and Viral Pathogenesis"
Creators: name: Vanthana M
Publisher: name: trends in Agriculture Science
Year: 2024

description: The epigenetic modifications of plants are essential for their growth, development, survival and reproduction even during adverse conditions. The modifications at the DNA level, histone proteins, and non-coding RNA have made plants evolve against various abiotic and biotic stress factors. The change in the phenotype without any change in the genotype was first proposed by Conrad Hal Waddington in 1942, a leading evolutionary British biologist. Epigenetic trait has been defined as a “stably heritable phenotype resulting from changes in a chromosome without alterations in the DNA sequence” (Berger et al. 2009). They are the important source of phenotypic variation in natural populations. Unlike mammals in which epigenetic modification occurs during embryonic development, plants undergo epigenetic modification throughout their life cycle due to the presence of self-replicative stem cells called meristems. Plant viruses use the host machinery for their survival, whose multifunctional protein indeed acts as pathogenecity determinants though not all the factors involve in pathogenesis necessarily involves in essential process of life cycle. The replication, movement, encapsidation and transmission plays a crucial role in viral pathogenesis.  The plants have evolved many mechanisms to defend itself from many pathogens, among which epigenetic modification enables them to combat many pathogens including plant viral infections. The availability of many new advanced technologies has led to a deeper understanding of the regulation of gene expression through epigenetic modifications. DNA methylation is well-studied and well understood phenomenon of epigenetic modifications which can be traced using techniques like sodium bisulfite sequencing (Frommer et al, 1994), chromatin immunoprecipitation and next generation sequencing. Thus, the understanding of epigenetic modification grows rapidly in search of novel crop improvement and crop protection strategies.
Additional file 1 of The light aging behavior of daylight fluorescent paints: a colorimetric, photographic, Raman spectroscopic and fluorescence spectroscopic study
Creators: name: Reiß, Lukas
name: Prestel, Thomas
name: Giering, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
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: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures.
Magnetoexcitons break antiunitary symmetries
Creators: name: Schweiner, Frank
name: Main, Jörg
name: Wunner, Günter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show analytically and numerically that the application of an external magnetic field to highly excited Rydberg excitons breaks all antiunitary symmetries in the system. Only by considering the complete valence band structure of a direct band gap cubic semiconductor, the Hamiltonian of excitons leads to the statistics of a Gaussian unitary ensemble (GUE) without the need for interactions with other quasi-particles like phonons. Hence, we give theoretical evidence for a spatially homogeneous system breaking all antiunitary symmetries.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Lewis Arundel, or The railroad of life, no. 16
Creators: name: Smedley, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1818-1864
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Conduct of life
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/874563
subject: Social conflict
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122378
subject: Railroad travel
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1088689

description: Chapter one the train starts and the reader is introduced to three first class passengers. It proceeds to the Life and Times of Lewis Arundel. Illustrated by Charles Dicken's usual illustrator Hablot Knight Browne (also known as "Phiz").
Atmosphere-biosphere interactions and feedbacks in the Alaskan Arctic
Creators: name: Hallgren., Willow
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Pre-explosion dynamo in the cores of massive stars
Creators: name: Soker, Noam
name: Gilkis, Avishai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a speculative scenario where dynamo amplification of magnetic fields in the core convective shells of massive stars, tens of years to hours before they explode, leads to envelope expansion and enhanced mass loss rate, resulting in pre-explosion outbursts (PEOs). The convective luminosity in the burning shells of carbon, neon, oxygen, and then silicon, are very high. Based on the behavior of active main sequence stars we speculate that the convective shells can trigger magnetic activity with a power of about 0.001 times the convective luminosity. Magnetic flux tubes might buoy outward, and deposit their energy in the outer parts of the envelope. This in turn might lead to the expansion of the envelope and to an enhanced mass loss rate. If a close binary companion is present, mass transfer might take place and lead to an energetic outburst. The magnetic activity requires minimum core rotation and that the stochastic magnetic activity be on its high phase. Only in rare cases these conditions are met, accounting for that only the minority of core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) experience PEO. Such a pre-explosion magnetic activity might have implications for the explosion mechanism itself.
description: MNRAS, in press
Housing of Sheep and Goat Under Different Management Systems
Creators: name: Manoj Sharma and Aditi Gupta
Publisher: name: Bio vet innovator magazine
Year: 2024

description: Abstract:Sheep and goats are raised in both temperate and tropical climates. In India, more than 70% of small ruminant population is found in arid and semi-arid areas of western and southern peninsular regions. Each climatic condition has its own requirements for the design and construction of ideal animal housing. The basic requirement of adequate animal shelter is that it can be easily modifiable for the benefit of animals and provide protection against predators and thieves. Animal housing should shield the animals from extreme climatic conditions to minimize stress allowing optimal performance in terms of growth, health and reproduction. Animals need major protection from high/low ambient temperatures, humidity, solar radiations, wind and precipitation. In addition to that proper housing aid effective breeding management along with proper feeding and watering provisions. Housing should meet animal requirements but at the same time it should be cost effective.
Reflection Equation and Quantum Conjugacy Classes
Creators: name: Algethami, Dakhilallah
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2025

description: We study solutions of the Reflection Equation of the non-exceptional groups and the group G2 in connection with quantization of spherical conjugacy classes. In particular, we prove that all symmetric conjugacy classes quantized as subalgebras of endomorphisms in pseudo-parabolic Verma modules have a one-dimensional representation and admit an embedding to the function algebra on the quantum groups. We extend our studies to the Reflection Equation of basic quantum supergroups. In particular, we classify all solutions for the general linear quantum supergroup and construct invertible solutions for ortho-symplectic quantum super groups. We have generalized Letzter’s theory of quantum symmetric pairs to super-spherical pairs of basic quantum supergroups and relate them to the solutions of the Reflection Equation.
Assessment On the Storage Condition of Medical Laboratory Commodities In Medical Stores And Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of The Store Managers On The Appropriate Storage of Medical Laboratory Commodities in Government Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Hussien, Kelemework
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Background: Medical laboratory commodity management system especially storage system of laboratory supplies is a challenge for health professionals. Since absence of proper storage condition for laboratory supplies is leading to damaging and out of stock for essential supplies, the need of proper store management have gained a great attention. Methods: A Cross sectional study was conducted in eleven government hospitals' medical stores in Addis Ababa from January, 1, 2014 -February, 1, 2014. Data was collected using structured questionnaires. Data was entered by EPI INFO version 3.1statistical software and analyzed with SPSS version 20 statistical analysis software. Frequencies were used to express the assessment on the storage condition of medical laboratory commodities and Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of store managers on the appropriate storage of medical laboratory commodities. Results: Data was collected from eleven governmental hospitals found in Addis Ababa. Ten storage. Lack of adequate space and infrastructures to store medical laboratory commodities were challenges in half of the facilities. Adequate and regular training should be given to the responsible personnel for better storage of medical laboratory commodities (91%) hospitals' medical stores didn't have frozen storage of either -200C or -700C but all of the medical stores had cold storage of 2-80C. All hospital medical stores, except one, had guidelines for storing cold chain items. Only 4 (36.4%) of the hospitals were separate flammable chemicals whereas 6(54.5%) of them did separate hazardous chemicals and majority 10 (91%) did separate damaged and expired supplies from the non-expired and non-damaged commodities. All of the sore managers were responded that, they knew the appropriate storage of cold chain items while 2(18.2%) of them did not know how to properly store cold items. Seven (63.6%) of the store managers thought that monitoring store temperature is necessary and 6(54.5%) them thought that the quality of their store was in compliance with the standard storage guideline. Conclusion: The storage condition of majority of the facilities was in compliance with the standard storage guideline. Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of majority of the store managers on the appropriate storage of medical laboratory commodities, were adequate on all laboratory
Additional file 1 of Resveratrol-loaded gold nanoparticles enhance caspase-mediated apoptosis in PANC-1 pancreatic cells via mitochondrial intrinsic apoptotic pathway
Creators: name: Lee, Dong Gun
name: Lee, Mindong
name: Go, Eun Byeol
name: Chung, Namhyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary analysis for LDH leakage level, quantitative immunoblotting of cyclin D1 and sequence of AS1411 aptamer.
Lattice thermal expansion and anisotropic displacements in α-sulfur from diffraction experiments and first-principles theory
Creators: name: George, Janine
name: Deringer, Volker L.
name: Wang, Ai
name: Müller, Paul
name: Englert, Ulli
name: Dronskowski, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermal properties of solid-state materials are a fundamental topic of study with important practical implications. For example, anisotropic displacement parameters (ADPs) are routinely used in physics, chemistry, and crystallography to quantify the thermal motion of atoms in crystals. ADPs are commonly derived from diffraction experiments, but recent developments have also enabled their first-principles prediction using periodic density functional theory (DFT). Here, we combine experiments and dispersion-corrected DFT to quantify lattice thermal expansion and ADPs in crystalline α-sulfur (S8), a prototypical elemental solid that is controlled by the interplay of covalent and van der Waals interactions. We first report on single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements that provide new and improved reference data from 10 K up to room temperature. We then use several popular dispersion-corrected DFT methods to predict vibrational and thermal properties of α-sulfur, including the anisotropic lattice thermal expansion. Hereafter, ADPs are derived in the commonly used harmonic approximation (in the computed zero-Kelvin structure) and also in the quasi-harmonic approximation (QHA) which takes the predicted lattice thermal expansion into account. At the PBE+D3(BJ) level, the latter leads to excellent agreement with experiments. Finally, more general implications of this study for realistic materials modeling at finite temperature are discussed.
Theory of spin resonance in dilute magnetic alloys
Creators: name: Haberkern., Gerd Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Role of Plant Growth Regulators in Mulberry
Creators: name: Saranya M*
Publisher: name: trends in Agriculture Science
Year: 2024

description:  

Mulberry (Morus sp.) is the deep rooted, perennial crop is one of the economically important trees grown in Asian country which is sole food for silkworm growth and development. Plant growth regulators are organic compounds synthesized in specified plant parts in small quantity and are transported to the place of requirement leading to a change in physiological responses. The commercially available plant growth regulators are auxins, gibberellins, cytokinins, abscisic acid and ethylene. About 80% rooting was obtained from shoots cultured on the MS supplemented with NAA (1.0 mg/l) (Mohammad Anis et al., 2003). Regeneration and production of multiple shoots were achieved from nodal segments with auxillary buds of a field grown mature tree of Morus nigra L (Das et.al., 1995).
Determinación de las Isotermas de Equilibrio para los Granos de Maiz, Sorgo y Semilla de Nim
Creators: name: Mairena Floripe, Rosario Maria
Publisher: name: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI)
Year: 1998

description: El presente trabajo consiste en un estudio experimental sobre la determinación de las isoterrnas de desorción para el maíz, sorgo y semilla de nim triturado (d= 0.355 a 1.6 mm) a temperaturas de 30°C, 40°C y 50°C. Se realizó un ajuste matemático de cada experimento tomando como base catorce correlaciones semi-empíricas disponibles en la literatura, estas ecuaciones relacionan el contenido de humedad de equilibrio a diferentes condiciones de humedad relativa del aire y temperatura. Las curvas experimentales de los tres sistemas estudiados fueron ajustadas principalmente por cinco modelos con dos parámetros siendo éstos: Henderson, Luikov, Oswin, Henderson modificado, Halsey. Dos modelos con tres parámetros: Bet y Gab. Un modelo con cuatro parámetros: Peleg. Para los tres sistemas estudiados, como mínimo siete modelos dieron un buen ajuste en todo el rango experimental de las humedades relativas establecidas. En este estudio se concluyó que el contenido de humedad de equilibrio (Xe) incrementa con el aumento de la temperatura (°C). Tres modelos ajustaron a los tres sistemas con sus tres temperaturas respectivas : Oswin, Gab y Peleg.
On two conjectural supercongruences of Apagodu and Zeilberger
Creators: name: Liu, Ji-Cai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A07, 05A10

description: Let the numbers $α_n,β_n$ and $γ_n$ denote \begin{align*} α_n=\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}{2k\choose k},\quad β_n=\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}{2k\choose k}\frac{1}{k+1}\quad\text{and}\quad γ_n=\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}{2k\choose k}\frac{3k+2}{k+1}, \end{align*} respectively. We prove that for any prime $p\ge 5$ and positive integer $n$ \begin{align*} α_{np}&\equiv \left(\frac{p}{3}\right) α_n \pmod{p^2},\\ β_{np}&\equiv \begin{cases} \displaystyle β_n \pmod{p^2},\quad &\text{if $p\equiv 1\pmod{3}$},\\ -γ_n \pmod{p^2},\quad &\text{if $p\equiv 2\pmod{3}$}, \end{cases} \end{align*} where $\left(\frac{\cdot}{p}\right)$ denotes the Legendre symbol. These two supercongruences were recently conjectured by Apagodu and Zeilberger.
description: to appear in J. Difference Equ. Appl. This version is a bit different from the final version for publication
Performance Evaluation of Care Starttm Malaria Pf/Pv Combo Test at Arbaminch General Hospital and Health Center, Gamo Gofa Zone, South Ethiopia
Creators: name: Eticha, Temesgen
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Malaria remains endemic in 106 countries while parasite-based diagnosis increasing. Most suspected cases of malaria still not properly confirmed, resulting in over-use of anti-malarial drugs and poor disease monitoring. Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are method. But, since it has still drawback in correctly identifying malaria species, further studies should be carried out to use the CareStartTM Malaria Pf/Pv Combo Test instead of microscopy for the diagnosis of malaria alternative diagnostic methods which have enabled reliable biological diagnostic testing in all situations where previously only clinical diagnosis was available. The diagnostic accuracy of RDTs can vary significantly across different geographical regions. This variable quality of malaria RDTs, and consequently their diagnostic performance, have made it difficult for policy makers to determine which tests are the most suitable. Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of CareStart TM Malaria Pf/Pv Combo RDT by comparing with light microscope for malaria diagnosis in Arbaminch Hospital and Health center, Southern Ethiopia. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was conducted from October 1, 2015 up to October 15, 2016. A total of 160 patients were included in the study. Socio demographic data collection was done using structured questionnaire. Finger prick blood sample was obtained from those study subjects for Care StartTM Malaria Pf/Pv combo test, thin and thick film was prepared immediately for microscopic examination. Collected data from this study was entered using Epi Data version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 20.0 and Microsoft Excel 2013. Sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV was determined in comparison with the gold standard Microscopy method. Result: In this study, it was found that Care start TM combo test had an overall sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV of 97.44%, 93.67%, 93.83%, and 97.37% respectively, with Kappa value of 0.877 to detect the presence or absence of malaria. Sensitivity and specificity of the kit for p. falciparum detection was 63.27 % and 94.3% and for p. vivax detection was 86.96 % and 95.62 % respectively, which is below WHO standard. Agreement between Light microscopy and Care Start TM malaria RDT for specific identification of malaria species is moderate with kappa value of 0.568. It showed better performance at Arbaminch health center than Arbaminch Hospital with sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV of 96.07%, 80%, 92.45% and 88.88% respectively. Conclusion and recommendations: The kit evaluated has good overall performance in detection of malaria cases which is almost comparable with the Gold standard microscopy
Vegetation of Royal Melbourne Botanic Gardens annexe at Cranbourne
Creators: name: Gullan., P. K.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Equation of motion of canonical tensor model and Hamilton-Jacobi equation of general relativity
Creators: name: Chen, Hua
name: Sasakura, Naoki
name: Sato, Yuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The canonical tensor model (CTM) is a rank-three tensor model formulated as a totally constrained system in the canonical formalism. The constraint algebra of CTM has a similar structure as that of the ADM formalism of general relativity, and is studied as a discretized model for quantum gravity. In this paper, we analyze the classical equation of motion (EOM) of CTM in a formal continuum limit through a derivative expansion of the tensor up to the forth order, and show that it is the same as the EOM of a coupled system of gravity and a scalar field derived from the Hamilton-Jacobi equation with an appropriate choice of an action. The action contains a scalar field potential of an exponential form, and the system classically respects a dilatational symmetry. We find that the system has a critical dimension, given by six, over which it becomes unstable due to the wrong sign of the scalar kinetic term. In six dimensions, de Sitter spacetime becomes a solution to the EOM, signaling the emergence of a conformal symmetry, while the time evolution of the scale factor is power-law in dimensions below six.
description: 38 pages, one figure. Some explanations, a figure, and an appendix added, a misprinted equation corrected, no changes of physical contents
Additional file 1 of Towards preventing exfoliation glaucoma by targeting and removing fibrillar aggregates associated with exfoliation syndrome
Creators: name: Ghaffari Sharaf, Mehdi
name: Waduthanthri, Kosala D.
name: Crichton, Andrew
name: Damji, Karim F.
name: Unsworth, Larry D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Peptide enrichment during ex vivo biopanning against human lens capsules. Figure S1. Morphological analysis and immunofluorescence labeling of hTM Cells. (A–C) F-actin stained semi-confluent monolayer of cultured hTM cells. (D–F) hTM cells normally secreted fibronectin when grown on coverslips. (G–L) Grown cells expressed myocilin protein and laminin protein as a sign of normal phenotype. (M) Confluent monolayer of cultured cells showed contact inhibition having spindle-like shape, a typical characteristic of cultured hTM cells. (Sale bars = 50 µm).
Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum field isolates based on two PCR markers Merozoite Surface Protein 1 and 2 from kolla-shelle area, Arbaminch Zuria district, South West Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mohammed, Hussein
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Background: The population structure of the causative agents of human malaria, Plasmodium species including the most serious agent Plasmodium falciparum ( P.falciparum), depends on the local epidemiological and demographic situations, such as the incidence of infected people, the vector transmission intensity and migration of inhabitants (i.e. exchange between sites).One of the major characteristics of malaria parasites is their genetic diversity and an increasing number of studies have been reported on the population structure variation of P. falciparum based on the polymorphism of merozoite surface protein (MSP) 1 and 2. Limited data however are available from Ethiopia. Objective: To evaluate the extent of genetic diversity of P falciparum in Kola-Shele in South West of Ethiopia. Methods: Health facility based cross sectional study design was employed to determine the prevalence of genetic diversity of P.falciparum in Kola-Shele area. Eighty-eight stored dried blood spot samples which were collected between September and December, 2008 were used. Parasite DNA was extracted from the blood spot on to filter paper and analyzed by length polymorphism following gel electrophoresis of DNA products from nested polymerase chain reactions targeted block 2 of msp-1 and block 3 of msp-2,including their allelic families: K1,MAD20,RO33 and FC27,3D7/IC1, respectively. Data entry was done using Microsoft Excel sheet and was double entered to verify accuracy; data was analyzed using SPSS for windows 16 soft ware (SPSS INC, Chicago, IL, USA). Results: The total number of alleles identified in MSP1 block 2 was 11, while 12 alleles were observed in MSP2 block 3.In MSP1, K1was found to be the predominant allelic type, carried alone, with MAD20 and RO33 type. In MSP2, 3D7/IC was the most identified. Forty- three and sixty nine percent of isolates MSP1 and MSP2, respectively had high multiple genotypes and the overall mean multiplicity of infection was 1.8 (95% CI: 1.48-2.04). Conclusion: The Genetic diversity in P. falciparum field isolates in kolla-Shelle area were mixed and multiple infections were observed. K1 and 3D7/IC1 were the most predominant circulating allelic families
An Exact Solution of the Fokker-Planck Equation for Isotropic Scattering
Creators: name: Malkov, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytic solution for a Fokker-Planck equation that describes propagation of energetic particles through a scattering medium is obtained. The solution is found in terms of an infinite series of mixed moments of particle distribution. The spatial dispersion of a particle cloud released at t=0 evolves through three phases, ballistic (t>Tc), where Tc is the collision time.The ballistic phase is characterized by a decelerating expansion of the initial point source in form of a "box" distribution with thickening walls. The next, transdiffusive phase is marked by the box walls thickened to its size and a noticeable slow down of expansion. Finally, the evolution enters the conventional diffusion phase.
description: 15 pages, 3 Figures, improved numerics, to appear in PRD
Ecology of native and exotic birds in the suburban habitat
Creators: name: Green., Ronda J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Quarkonium Contribution to Meson Molecules
Creators: name: Cincioglu, E.
name: Nieves, J.
name: Ozpineci, A.
name: Yilmazer, A. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from a molecular picture for the X(3872) resonance, this state and its J^{PC}=2++ HQSS partner [X2(4012)] are analyzed within a model which incorporates possible mixings with 2P charmonium states. Since it is reasonable to expect the bare chi_{c1}(2P) to be located above the D\bar D* threshold, but relatively close to it, the presence of the charmonium state provides an effective attraction that will contribute to bind the X(3872), but it will not appear in the 2++ sector. Indeed in this latter sector, the chi_{c2}(2P) should provide an effective small repulsion, because it is placed well below the D*\bar D* threshold. We show how the 1++ and 2++ bare charmonium poles are modified due to the D(*)\bar D(*) loop effects, and the first one is moved to the complex plane. The meson loops produce, besides some shifts in the masses of the charmonia, a finite width for the 1++ dressed charmonium state. On the other hand, the X(3872) and X2(4012) start developing some charmonium content, which is estimated by means of the compositeness Weinberg sum-rule. We also show that for X(3872) molecular probabilities of around 70-90 %, the X2 resonance destabilizes and disappears from the spectrum, becoming either a virtual state or being located deep into the complex plane, with decreasing influence in the D* \bar D* scattering line.
description: 46 pages, 5 figures; Accepted in EPJC
Establishment of hematological reference intervals for apparently healthy adult residents in Asella town, southeast Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tadesse, Solomon
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Background: About 70% of medical decisions made by physicians are based on the information presented by laboratory results. However, test results by themselves are valueless unless reported with the appropriate reference interval or medical decision limit. Currently, Ethiopia use reference intervals adopted from textbooks that refer mainly to Caucasian subjects. The country having heterogeneous population, there is a need to establish locally derived hematological reference interval that could be used in Asella town, Arsi zone, Ethiopia. Objective: To establish hematological reference intervals for apparently healthy adults in Asella town, southeast, Ethiopia. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted from January to March 2019 on apparently healthy individuals in Asella town aged from 18-60 years. Predesigned and structured questionnaire was used for collection of data on socio-demographic characteristics and dietary pattern of the reference population. Systematic random sampling technique was used. About 3ml of EDTA whole blood was collected and analyzed using Sysmex KX 21N automated hematology analyzer which analyses 60 tests per hour. The data was entered and analyzed by appropriate statistical software (Epi Info and SPSS) and interpreted using non-parametric methods, by which central 95% of the measured values was included in the intervals. Result: a total of 494 participants were recruited and 424 participants were involved in this study with the median age of 28 years. Except WBC (3.4 to 10.1 x10 9 /L) which showed no significant difference, other men and non-pregnant women reference intervals are: RBC (4.77 to 6.07 x10 /L; 4.18 to 5.29 x10 12 /L), HGB (14.7 to 18.1 gm/dL; 12.7 to 15.7gm/dL), HCT (42.1 to 51.3%; 37.1 to 44.4%) and PLT (159 to 336 x10 9 /L; 177 to 376 x10 9 /L), respectively. Pregnant women's WBC, RBC, HGB and PLT are (4.9 to 13.2 x10 9 /L, 3.58 to 4.9 x10 12 /L, 11.0 to 14.6gm/dL and (138 to 368 x10 9 /L), respectively. Conclusion: most of the hematological RI of this study was significantly different from currently in use in Asella referral and teaching hospital laboratory. The difference was also observed in studies of other African countries as well as studies from different parts of Ethiopia. 12
Plasma Turbulence in the Scrape-off Layer of the ISTTOK Tokamak
Creators: name: Jorge, Rogerio
name: Ricci, Paolo
name: Halpern, Federico D.
name: Loureiro, Nuno F.
name: Silva, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of plasma turbulence in a poloidally limited scrape-off layer (SOL) are addressed, with focus on ISTTOK, a large aspect ratio tokamak with a circular cross section. Theoretical investigations based on the drift-reduced Braginskii equations are carried out through linear calculations and non-linear simulations, in two- and three-dimensional geometries. The linear instabilities driving turbulence and the mechanisms that set the amplitude of turbulence as well as the SOL width are identified. A clear asymmetry is shown to exist between the low-field and the high-field sides of the machine. A comparison between experimental measurements and simulation results is presented.
description: 24 pages, 15 figures, Accepted for publication - Physics of Plasmas
Spinon and bound state excitation "light cones" in Heisenberg XXZ Chains
Creators: name: Paula, A. L. de
name: Bragança, H.
name: Pereira, R. G.
name: Drumond, R. C.
name: Aguiar, M. C. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the out-of-equilibrium dynamics after a local quench that connects two spin-1/2 XXZ chains prepared in the ground state of the Hamiltonian in different phases, one in the ferromagnetic phase and the other in the critical phase. We analyze the time evolution of the on-site magnetization and bipartite entanglement entropy via adaptive time-dependent density matrix renormalization group. In systems with short-range inter- actions, such as the one we consider, the velocity of information transfer is expected to be bounded, giving rise to a light-cone effect. Interestingly, our results show that, when the anisotropy parameter of the critical chain is sufficiently close to that of the isotropic ferromagnet, the light cone is determined by the velocity of spin-wave bound states that propagate faster than single-particle ("spinon") excitations. Furthermore, we investigate how the system approaches equilibrium in the inhomogeneous ground state of the connected system, in which the ferromagnetic chain induces a nonzero magnetization in the critical chain in the vicinity of the interface.
SPIDERS: the spectroscopic follow-up of X-ray selected clusters of galaxies in SDSS-IV
Creators: name: Clerc, Nicolas
name: Merloni, Andrea
name: Zhang, Yu-Ying
name: Finoguenov, Alexis
name: Dwelly, Tom
name: Nandra, Kirpal
name: Collins, Chris A.
name: Dawson, Kyle
name: Kneib, Jean-Paul
name: Rozo, Eduardo
name: Rykoff, Eli
name: Sadibekova, Tatyana
name: Brownstein, Joel R.
name: Lin, Yen-Ting
name: Ridl, Jethro
name: Salvato, Mara
name: Schwope, Axel
name: Steinmetz, Matthias
name: Seo, Hee-Jong
name: Tinker, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SPIDERS (The SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources) is a program dedicated to the homogeneous and complete spectroscopic follow-up of X-ray AGN and galaxy clusters over a large area ($\sim$7500 deg$^2$) of the extragalactic sky. SPIDERS is part of the SDSS-IV project, together with the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) and the Time-Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS). This paper describes the largest project within SPIDERS before the launch of eROSITA: an optical spectroscopic survey of X-ray selected, massive ($\sim 10^{14}$ to $10^{15}~M_{\odot}$) galaxy clusters discovered in ROSAT and XMM-Newton imaging. The immediate aim is to determine precise ($Δ_z \sim 0.001$) redshifts for 4,000-5,000 of these systems out to $z \sim 0.6$. The scientific goal of the program is precision cosmology, using clusters as probes of large-scale structure in the expanding Universe. We present the cluster samples, target selection algorithms and observation strategies. We demonstrate the efficiency of selecting targets using a combination of SDSS imaging data, a robust red-sequence finder and a dedicated prioritization scheme. We describe a set of algorithms and work-flow developed to collate spectra and assign cluster membership, and to deliver catalogues of spectroscopically confirmed clusters. We discuss the relevance of line-of-sight velocity dispersion estimators for the richer systems. We illustrate our techniques by constructing a catalogue of 230 spectroscopically validated clusters ($0.031 < z < 0.658$), found in pilot observations. We discuss two potential science applications of the SPIDERS sample: the study of the X-ray luminosity-velocity dispersion ($L_X-σ$) relation and the building of stacked phase-space diagrams.
description: 27 pages, 31 figures, 9 tables. Tables in electronic format are available from http://www.sdss.org. Submitted to MNRAS
The role of red land crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis (Pocock, 1888); Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) in structuring rain forest on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean
Creators: name: Green., Peter T.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Anomalous dimensions of higher spin currents in large N CFTs
Creators: name: Hikida, Yasuaki
name: Wada, Taiki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine anomalous dimensions of higher spin currents in the critical O(N) scalar model and the Gross-Neveu model in arbitrary d dimensions. These two models are proposed to be dual to the type A and type B Vasiliev theories, respectively. We reproduce the known results on the anomalous dimensions to the leading order in 1/N by using conformal perturbation theory. This work can be regarded as an extension of previous work on the critical O(N) scalars in 3 dimensions, where it was shown that the bulk computation for the masses of higher spin fields on AdS_4 can be mapped to the boundary one in conformal perturbation theory. The anomalous dimensions of the both theories agree with each other up to an overall factor depending only on d, and we discuss the coincidence for d=3 by utilizing N=2 supersymmetry.
description: 36 pages, 5 figures, minor changes, references added, published version
Viral Disease in Silkworm – Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (Bombyx Mori L.)
Creators: name: Saranya M*
Publisher: name: trends in Agriculture Science
Year: 2024

description: Bombyx mori L (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) is very important economically as a silk producer in sericulture, and the insect is used as a model in biotechnology (Goldsmith et al., 2005). The mulberry silkworm life cycle is affected by a number of diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa. The genetic resistance of the silkworm to viral diseases is mainly controlled by polygenic mechanism. Resistance of silkworm to nucleopolyhedrosis virus (BmNPV), cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (BmCPV) and infectious flacherie virus (BmIFV) is controlled by polygenes. BmNPV is considered to cause the dreaded viral disease in sericulture industry. In silkworm, gut proteases, lipase and red fluorescent protein plays a major role in the defense mechanism against viral pathogens. Earlier, techniques have been developed to detect this viral disease such as the enzyme-link immunosorbent assay (ELISA), DNA hybridization, colloidal textile dye-based dipstick immunoassay and western blot analysis.PCR is an extremely sensitive technique which amplifies target DNA sequences and PCR amplification of conserved fragment enabled the detection of low level of viral DNA. PCR technique and polyhedrin gene (polh) used to detect early infection of Grasserie virus (BmNPV) in silkworm.
From Planck data to Planck era: Observational tests of Holographic Cosmology
Creators: name: Afshordi, Niayesh
name: Coriano, Claudio
name: Rose, Luigi Delle
name: Gould, Elizabeth
name: Skenderis, Kostas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test a class of holographic models for the very early universe against cosmological observations and find that they are competitive to the standard $Λ$CDM model of cosmology. These models are based on three dimensional perturbative super-renormalizable Quantum Field Theory (QFT), and while they predict a different power spectrum from the standard power-law used in $Λ$CDM, they still provide an excellent fit to data (within their regime of validity). By comparing the Bayesian evidence for the models, we find that $Λ$CDM does a better job globally, while the holographic models provide a (marginally) better fit to data without very low multipoles (i.e. $l\lesssim 30$), where the dual QFT becomes non-perturbative. Observations can be used to exclude some QFT models, while we also find models satisfying all phenomenological constraints: the data rules out the dual theory being Yang-Mills theory coupled to fermions only, but allows for Yang-Mills theory coupled to non-minimal scalars with quartic interactions. Lattice simulations of 3d QFT's can provide non-perturbative predictions for large-angle statistics of the cosmic microwave background, and potentially explain its apparent anomalies.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures; v2: version to appear in PRL