cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Государственные и муниципальные финансы
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2024

description: Учебник подготовлен с целью систематизации теоретических знаний по курсу «Государственные и муниципальные финансы», выработки практических навыков и умений решения задач в сфере государственных и муниципальных финансов. Содержит вопросы по темам курса, тестовые, расчетно-аналитические и творческие задания. Учебник подготовлен в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Предназначен для студентов укрупненной группы направлений подготовки и специальностей «Экономика и управление», изучающих дисциплину «Государственные и муниципальные финансы». Издание будет полезно преподавателям экономических факультетов высших учебных заведений.
GN5-1 M8.2 Business Model for a European R&E Security Intelligence Hub
Creators: name: Andreou, Stephanos
name: Gray, Tony
name: Kajo, Ergys
name: Koelewijn, Melvin
name: Miłostan, Maciej
name: Mooi, Roederick
name: Näslund, Victor
name: Nussbacher, Hank
name: Pettai, Fredrik
Publisher: name: GÉANT
Year: 2023
Subjects: Security
Security Products
Security Services

description: This white paper presents the business model of a Research and Education Security Intelligence Hub – a virtual organisation that seeks to create, collect, analyse, classify, and share actionable security intelligence for research and education. It highlights the key outcomes of a Business Model Canvas workshop, SWOT analysis and indicative information-sharing agreements, providing guidance for the next steps required towards establishing the Hub.
On the robustness to symmetry of some nonparametric multivariate one-sample sign-type tests
Creators: name: Y. H. Dovoedo
name: S. Chakraborti
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Many nonparametric multivariate one-sample tests in the literature require the assumption of symmetry or directional symmetry to be distribution-free. Examples include the bivariate sign test of Blumen [A new bivariate sign test. J Am Stat Assoc. 1958;53(282):448–456], the bivariate sign test of Brown and Hettmansperger [An affine invariant bivariate version of the sign Test. J R Stat Soc B. 1989;51(1):117–125], the multivariate sign test of Randles [A simpler, affine invariant, multivariate, distribution-free sign test. J Am Stat Assoc. 2000;95:1263–1268] and the multivariate signed-rank test of Oja and Randles [Multivariate nonparametric tests. Stat Sci. 2004;19:598–605]. In the current literature, it is not known how robust these tests are to the assumption of (directional) symmetry. When the symmetry assumption is not satisfied, the observed or attained significance level (the type I error probability or the size) of these tests may be unacceptably different from the specified nominal value. In this paper, we examine this robustness issue for the four nonparametric multivariate one-sample sign-type tests cited above in a simulation study, using data from several families of distributions. The popular parametric Hotelling's T2 test included as a benchmark. Conclusions and recommendations are offered.
On-Scene Injury Severity Prediction (OSISP) Algorithm for Truck Occupants
Creators: name: Candefjord, Stefan
name: Buendia, Ruben
name: Fagerlind, Helen
name: Bálint, András
name: Wege, Claudia
name: Sjöqvist, Bengt Arne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry

description: Objective: The aim of this study is to develop an on-scene injury severity prediction (OSISP) algorithm for truck occupants using only accident characteristics that are feasible to assess at the scene of the accident. The purpose of developing this algorithm is to use it as a basis for a field triage tool used in traffic accidents involving trucks. In addition, the model can be valuable for recognizing important factors for improving triage protocols used in Sweden and possibly in other countries with similar traffic environments and prehospital procedures.Methods: The scope is adult truck occupants involved in traffic accidents on Swedish public roads registered in the Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition (STRADA) database for calendar years 2003 to 2013. STRADA contains information reported by the police and medical data on injured road users treated at emergency hospitals. Using data from STRADA, 2 OSISP multivariate logistic regression models for deriving the probability of severe injury (defined here as having an Injury Severity Score [ISS] > 15) were implemented for light and heavy trucks; that is, trucks with weight up to 3,500 kg and ⩾ 16,500 kg, respectively. A 10-fold cross-validation procedure was used to estimate the performance of the OSISP algorithm in terms of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC).Results: The rate of belt use was low, especially for heavy truck occupants. The OSISP models developed for light and heavy trucks achieved cross-validation AUC of 0.81 and 0.74, respectively. The AUC values obtained when the models were evaluated on all data without cross-validation were 0.87 for both light and heavy trucks. The difference in the AUC values with and without use of cross-validation indicates overfitting of the model, which may be a consequence of relatively small data sets. Belt use stands out as the most valuable predictor in both types of trucks; accident type and age are important predictors for light trucks.Conclusions: The OSISP models achieve good discriminating capability for light truck occupants and a reasonable performance for heavy truck occupants. The prediction accuracy may be increased by acquiring more data. Belt use was the strongest predictor of severe injury for both light and heavy truck occupants. There is a need for behavior-based safety programs and/or other means to encourage truck occupants to always wear a seat belt.
Buffer-preposed QoS adaptation framework and load shedding techniques over streams
Creators: name: Zhou, Rui
name: Wang, Guoren
name: Han, Donghong
name: Gong, Pizhen
name: Xiao, Chuan
name: Li, Hongru
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Maintaining the quality of queries over streaming data is often thought to be of tremendous challenge since data arrival rate and average per-tuple CPU processing cost are highly unpredictable. In this paper, we address a novel buffer-preposed QoS adaptation framework on the basis of control theory and present several load shedding techniques and scheduling strategies in order to guarantee the QoS of processing streaming data. As the most significant part of our framework, buffer manager consisting of scheduler, adaptor and cleaner, is deliberately introduced and analyzed. The experiments on both synthetic data and real life data show that our system, which is built by adding several concrete strategies on the framework, outperforms existing works on both resource utilization and QoS assurance.
Bovine tuberculosis
Creators: name: Prakash Joshi1, Anamika Thakur2, Akash Thakor3, Bhavesh Pandor4
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: Bovine tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, poses significant challenges to both human and animal health worldwide. This article examines various aspects of bovine TB, including its etiology, clinical symptoms in humans and animals, laboratory diagnosis, and vaccination strategies. In humans, bovine TB can manifest with symptoms such as persistent coughing, chest pain, weakness, and fever, while in animals, clinical signs may include progressive emaciation, fever, and respiratory distress. Laboratory diagnosis involves tuberculin skin tests, acid-fast staining, PCR, and isolation on selective media. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, derived from attenuated M. bovis, is effective in humans but less so in animals. While BCG vaccination remains an important tool for tuberculosis control in both populations, ongoing research efforts are focused on improving vaccine efficacy and implementing integrated control measures for comprehensive disease management.Top of Form
Supplementary document for Selective active resonance tuning for multi-mode nonlinear photonic cavities - 6750256.pdf
Creators: name: Logan, Alan
name: Yama, Nicholas
name: Fu, Kai-Mei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document including additional resonator coupling simulations and analysis of phase matching effects
Signature-based filtering techniques for structural joins of XML data
Creators: name: Huo, Huan
name: Wang, Guoren
name: Yang, Chuan
name: Zhou, Rui
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Queries on XML documents typically combine selections on element contents, and, via path expressions, the structural relationships between tagged elements. Efficient support for structural joins is thus the key to efficient implementation of XML queries. With a stack to keep ancestordescendant structural relationships, stack-tree join algorithm enhances the performance of structural joins by reducing deducible unnecessary comparisons. However, stack-tree join cannot prevent 'unwanted' comparisons between elements that do no participate in the join. To solve this problem, we propose a signature filter, which takes advantage of encoding schemes proposed for XML and occupies a little space. Then we present an pointer-based signature filter to skip the 'unwanted' elements. In order to further improve the filtering efficiency, we finally propose an optimized pointer-based filter with the conjunction of two signatures. Performance study shows that our signaturebased filters have excellent filtering performance and significantly improve the performance of structural joins.
Acipenser gueldenstaedtii Brandt & Ratzeburg 1833
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Acipenseriformes
Acipenseridae
Acipenser
Acipenser gueldenstaedtii

description: 4. Acipenser gueldenstaedtii Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1833
Common name. Russian sturgeon
Taxonomy. Original description: Acipenser gueldenstaedtii Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1833: 13, pl. 3 (figs. 2, 2A-E) [Caspian Sea and tributaries; Black Sea; no types known].
Revisions. Berg (1948: 78).
Illustrations. Kottelat & Freyhof (2007: 51, fig.).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450-Turan Plain, 452-Caspian Marine.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Tas mahi baeri.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: CR.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
XARAKAT TAYANCH A'ZOLARIDA NUQSONI BOR O'QUVCHI YOSHLARDA AXBOROT VOSITALARIDAN TO'G'RI FOYDALANISH MADANIYATINI SHAKILLANTIRISH METODIKASI
Creators: name: Eminov, Behzodbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqola, xarakat tayanch azolarida nuqsoni bor o‘quvchi yoshlarda axborot vositalaridan to‘g‘ri foydalanish madaniyatini shakllantirish metodikasini tahlil etadi. Maqolada, o‘quvchilarning axborot texnologiyalaridan samarali foydalanish ko‘nikmalarini rivojlantirishga oid ilmiy tadqiqotlar va amaliy metodlar keltirilgan. Xarakat tayanch azolarida nuqsoni bor o‘quvchilarga axborot vositalaridan to‘g‘ri foydalanish madaniyatini shakllantirish, ta’lim jarayonining samaradorligini oshirish va ularning jamiyatda o‘z o‘rnini topishga yordam beradi.
Supplementary document for Stability-enhanced low-frequency fiber optic hydrophone based on an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer - 6860478.pdf
Creators: name: Luo, Wei
name: Zuo, Qing
name: Wang, Yuxiang
name: Li, Dinghan
name: Chen, Song
name: Guo, Yingying
name: Qiao, Haifeng
name: Wang, Hao
name: Tu, Rui
name: Tu, Xin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Biofidelity Corridors for Sternum Kinematics in Low-Speed Side Impacts
Creators: name: Subit, Damien
name: Pipkorn, Bengt
name: Möhler, Felix
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biophysics

description: Objective: Field data show that side impact car crashes have become responsible for a greater proportion of the fatal crashes compared to frontal crashes, which suggests that the protection gained in frontal impact has not been matched in side impact. One of the reasons is the lack of understanding of the torso injury mechanisms in side impact. In particular, the deformation of the rib cage and how it affects the mechanical loading of the individual ribs have yet to be established. Therefore, the objective of this study was to characterize the ribcage deformation in side impacts by describing the kinematics of the sternum relative to the spine.Methods: The 3D kinematics of the 1st and of the 5th or 6th thoracic vertebrae and of the sternum were obtained for three Post Mortem Human Subjects (PMHS) impacted laterally by a rigid wall traveling at 15 km/h. The experimental data were processed to express the kinematics of the sternum relative to the spine throughout the impact event. Methods were developed to interpolate the kinematics of the vertebrae for which experimental data were not available.Results: The kinematics of the sternocostal junction for ribs 1 to 6 as well as the orientation of the sternum were expressed in the vertebra coordinate systems defined for each upper thoracic vertebra (T1 to T6). Corridors were designed for the motion of the sternum relative to each vertebra. In the experiments, the sternum moved upward for all rib levels (1 to 6), and away from the spine with an amplitude that increased with the decreasing rib level (from rib 1 to rib 6). None of the differences observed in the kinematics could be correlated to the occurrence of rib fractures.Conclusions: This study provides both qualitative and quantitative information for the ribcage skeletal kinematics in side impact. This data set provides the information required to better evaluate computational models of the thorax for side impact simulations. The corridors developed in this study provide new biofidelity targets for the impact response of the ribcage. This study contributes to augmenting the state of knowledge of the human chest deformation in side impact to better characterize the rib fracture mechanisms.
Tuning the hydrophobicity of mica surfaces by hyperthermal Ar ion irradiation
Creators: name: Keller, Adrian
name: Fritzsche, Monika
name: Ogaki, Ryosuke
name: Bald, Ilko
name: Facsko, Stefan
name: Dong, Mingdong
name: Kingshott, Peter
name: Besenbacher, Flemming
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The hydrophobicity of surfaces has a strong influence on their interactions with biomolecules such as proteins. Therefore, for in vitro studies of bio-surface interactions model surfaces with tailored hydrophobicity are of utmost importance. Here, we present a method for tuning the hydrophobicity of atomically flat mica surfaces by hyperthermal Ar ion irradiation. Due to the sub-100 eV energies, only negligible roughening of the surface is observed at low ion fluences and also the chemical composition of the mica crystal remains almost undisturbed. However, the ion irradiation induces the preferential removal of the outermost layer of K+ ions from the surface, leading to the exposure of the underlying aluminosilicate sheets which feature a large number of centers for C adsorption. The irradiated surface thus exhibits an enhanced chemical reactivity toward hydrocarbons, resulting in the adsorption of a thin hydrocarbon film from the environment. Aging these surfaces under ambient conditions leads to a continuous increase of their contact angle until a fully hydrophobic surface with a contact angle ›80° is obtained after a period of about 3 months. This method thus enables the fabrication of ultrasmooth biological model surfaces with precisely tailored hydrophobicity.
Supplementary document for Stability-enhanced low-frequency fiber optic hydrophone based on an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer - 6881716.pdf
Creators: name: Zuo, Qing
name: Wang, Yuxiang
name: Li, Dinghan
name: Chen, Song
name: Guo, Yingying
name: Qiao, Haifeng
name: Wang, Hao
name: Tu, Rui
name: Tu, Xin
name: Luo, Wei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Acipenser nudiventris Lovetsky 1828
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Acipenseriformes
Acipenseridae
Acipenser
Acipenser nudiventris

description: 5. Acipenser nudiventris Lovetsky, 1828
Common name. Fringebarbel sturgeon
Taxonomy. Original description: Acipenser nudiventris Lovetsky, 1828: 78, pl. 6, fig. 2 [Aral Sea; no types known; original description reproduced in Berg (1905: 2, footnote)].
Revisions. Berg (1948: 66).
Illustrations. Berg (1948: 68, figs. 55-56).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450-Turan Plain, 452-Caspian Marine.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Tas mahi shekam brahne.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: CR.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Acipenser persicus Borodin 1897
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Acipenseriformes
Acipenseridae
Acipenser
Acipenser persicus

description: 6. Acipenser persicus Borodin, 1897
Common name. Persian sturgeon
Taxonomy. Original description: Acipenser persicus Borodin, 1897: 18, figs. [Ural River to Ural'sk, Kazakhstan; Kura River, Azerbijan; southern shore of Caspian Sea, Iran; Syntypes: (2 measured) none at ZIN].
Revisions. Berg (1948: 81 as Acipenser güldenstädti persicus).
Illustrations. Kottelat & Freyhof (2007: 54).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450-Turan Plain, 452-Caspian Marine.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Qara burun, Tas mahi-ye Irani.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: CR.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
D3.2 - Report on existing domain ontologies in identified domains
Creators: name: Le Franc, Yann
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Domain Ontology
Landscape analysis
FAIR evaluation
topological analysis

description: OntoCommons aims at defining a semantic interoperability framework to support the documentation of industrial data with ontologies. This document summarises the landscape analysis on domain ontologies. The scope of this analysis covers the domains of Physics and Chemistry, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Thermal and Process Engineering, and Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering.A dataset of 130 ontologies has been created based on expert inputs collected during workshops and surveys. Using this dataset, we collected information both manually and automatically to better describe the landscape (number of ontologies by domains, usage of Top-Level Ontologies, serialisation, complexity, compliance to FAIR principles, domain coverage, etc.).This first analysis highlighted the strong heterogeneities within and among the different domains and the low level of compliance to FAIR principles for each community.
Super resolution image reconstruction in parallel magnetic resonance imaging
Creators: name: Lu, Yanhong
name: Yang, Ran
name: Zhang, Jingxin
name: Zhang, Cishen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In clinical applications, images with high resolution are often desired and required which may provide more details for doctors to make precise diagnosis. In this paper, an approach is proposed to increase image resolution of parallel magnetic resonance imaging. Since different receiver coils have different sensitivity profiles, different receiver channel models are constructed to map the original image information to low resolution images of different channels. Based on these models, the degradation function of every low resolution image can be obtained to compute the high resolution image iteratively using the well known super resolution approach. An in-vivo experiment is also provided to illustrate the feasibility and robustness of the proposed approach.
Acipenser ruthenus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Acipenseriformes
Acipenseridae
Acipenser
Acipenser ruthenus

description: 7. Acipenser ruthenus Linnaeus, 1758
Common name. Sterlet sturgeon
Taxonomy. Original description: Acipenser ruthenus Linnaeus, 1758: 237 [Danube River; holotype: NRM 96].
Revisions. Berg (1948: 70).
Illustrations. Kottelat & Freyhof (2007: 55, fig.).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450-Turan Plain, 452-Caspian Marine.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Mahi-ye kaviar.—Reported from the middle and South Caspian Sea by Naseka and Bogutskaya (2009) but not confirmed by specimens for Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020); Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: EN.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Monitoring the Key Components and Elimination of Asphaltenes Precipitation in Crude by a New Alternative Route
Creators: name: M. Vaqas
name: M. A. Iqbal
name: M. Aliemuddin
name: Naveed, A.
name: M. Tahir, H.
name: M. Arshad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: The crude composition was determined by distillation on a true boiling point apparatus individually. Then crude naphthas were introduced to a gas chromatograph and asphaltenes were determined by extraction. Quantities of key components were calculated by prescribed mathematical equations. On the basis of relative quantities of key components, 21 blends of 12 crudes were prepared caused asphaltenes precipitation in desalter. Seven blends remained successful, causing no further asphaltenes precipitation, and one of the successful blends was chosen to prepare a batch of 55,000 barrels and was passed through desalter. No further asphaltenes precipitation was found during the whole operation.
Anisotropic and Long-Range Vortex Interactions in Two-Dimensional Dipolar Bose Gases
Creators: name: Mulkerin, Brendan
name: van Bijnen, R. M. W.
name: O’Dell, D. H. J.
name: Martin, A. M.
name: Parker, N. G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We perform a theoretical study into how dipole-dipole interactions modify the properties of superfluid vortices within the context of a two-dimensional atomic Bose gas of co-oriented dipoles. The reduced density at a vortex acts like a giant antidipole, changing the density profile and generating an effective dipolar potential centred at the vortex core whose most slowly decaying terms go as 1/ρ2 and lnâ¡(ρ)/ρ3. These effects modify the vortex-vortex interaction which, in particular, becomes anisotropic for dipoles polarized in the plane. Striking modifications to vortex-vortex dynamics are demonstrated, i.e., anisotropic corotation dynamics and the suppression of vortex annihilation.
The Contribution of Pre-impact Posture on Restrained Occupant Finite Element Model Response in Frontal Impact
Creators: name: Subit, Damien
name: Poulard, David
name: Bingbing Nie
name: John-Paul Donlon
name: Kent, Richard W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Physiology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Medicine
subject: Biophysics

description: Objective: The objective of this study was to discuss the influence of the pre-impact posture to the response of a finite element human body model (HBM) in frontal impacts.Methods: This study uses previously published cadaveric tests (PMHS), which measured six realistic pre-impact postures. Seven postured models were created from the THUMS occupant model (v4.0): one matching the standard UMTRI driving posture as it was the target posture in the experiments, and six matching the measured pre-impact postures. The same measurements as those obtained during the cadaveric tests were calculated from the simulations, and biofidelity metrics based on signals correlation (CORA) were established to compare the response of the seven models to the experiments.Results: The HBM responses showed good agreement with the PMHS responses for the reaction forces (CORA = 0.80 ± 0.05) and the kinematics of the lower part of the torso but only fair correlation was found with the head, the upper spine, rib strains (CORA= 0.50 ± 0.05) and chest deflections (CORA = 0.67 ± 0.08). All models sustained rib fractures, sternal fracture and clavicle fracture. The average number of rib fractures for all the models was 5.3 ± 1.0, lower than in the experiments (10.8 ± 9.0).Variation in pre-impact posture greatly altered the time histories of the reaction forces, deflections and the rib strains, mainly in terms of time delay, but no definite improvement in HBM response or injury prediction was observed. By modifying only the posture of the HBM, the variability in the impact response was found to be equivalent to that observed in the experiments. The postured HBM sustained from 4 to 8 rib fractures, confirming that the pre-impact posture influenced the injury outcome predicted by the simulation.Conclusions: This study tries to answer an important question: what is the effect of occupant posture on kinematics and kinetics. Significant differences in kinematics observed between HBM and PMHS suggesting more coupling between the pelvis and the spine for the models which makes the model response very sensitive to any variation in the spine posture. Consequently, the findings observed for the HBM cannot be extended to PMHS. Besides, pre-impact posture should be carefully quantified during experiments and the evaluation of HBM should take into account the variation in the predicted impact response due to the variation in the model posture.
Metabolomics reveals the perturbations in the metabolome of Caenorhabditis elegans exposed to titanium dioxide nanoparticles
Creators: name: Mudiam, Mohana Krishna Reddy
name: Ch Ratnasekhar
name: Sonane, Madhavi
name: Satish, Aruna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: The increasing use of nanotechnology in our daily life can have many unintended effects and pose adverse impact on human health, environment and ecosystems. Wider application of engineered nanoparticles, especially TiO2 nanoparticles (TiO2 NP) necessitates the understanding of toxicity and mechanism of action. Metabolomics provides a unique opportunity to find out biomarkers of nanoparticles exposure, which leads to the identification of cellular pathways and their biological mechanisms. Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC–MS)-based metabolomics approach was used in the present study to understand the toxicity of sub-lethal concentrations (7.7 and 38.5 µg/ml) of TiO2 NP (<25 nm) in well-known, soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). Multivariate pattern recognition analysis reflected the perturbations in the metabolism (amino acids, organic acids, sugars) of C. elegans on exposure to TiO2 NP. The biological pathways affected due to the exposure of TiO2 NP were identified, among them mainly affected pathways are tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, arachidonic acid metabolism and glyoxalate dicarobxylate metabolism. The manifestation of differential metabolic profile in organism exposed to TiO2 (NP or bulk particle) was witnessed as an effect on reproduction. The present study demonstrates that metabolomics can be employed as a tool to understand the potential toxicity of nanoparticles in terms of organism–environment interactions as well as in assessing the organism function at the molecular level.
Impediments to Health Innovation in Canada: Identifying Policy Barriers in Alberta’s Precision Health Innovation and Commercialization Ecosystem
Creators: name: Scott, Craig
name: Eng, Hubert
name: Dubyk, Alexander
name: Zwicker, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2020

description: Health systems globally are shifting towards precision health (PH), the utilization of individual information to inform health and social services delivery to improve health outcomes. PH is a major area of focus for economic development across the globe, however most Canadian provinces do not have a clear strategy for this sector. This research examines Alberta’s PH innovation and commercialization (I&C) ecosystem to identify key policy barriers in the development of new technologies and processes. An environmental scan of existing policies for PH through the lens of an innovation framework revealed three gaps in the PH I&C system. There is a lack of formal leadership, such as an I&C decision-making body; public policy development and implementation does not involve industry; and lastly, demand stimulating policies are absent or underrepresented. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted to identify policy challenges utilizing perspectives from senior level executives currently engaged in PH I&C in Alberta. Participants were grouped by category from the Triple Helix Model of Innovation – Government, Industry and Academia. A qualitative thematic analysis of the interviews was conducted on the interview transcripts, coded using NVivo software, to generate thematic policy challenges. The findings from the interviews were grouped into five major policy challenges. Sub-optimal coordination between the various ecosystem players was the most consistent and prevalent findings across all groups. Most respondents identified the absence of a mandated organization for PH I&C as an impediment to decision-making. Multi-sectoral activity and collaboration were identified as concerns despite the importance of these activities in this sector. Tension between academics and government (including health service providers) was present between the research funding mechanisms “discovery-driven” versus “demand-pull”. Many respondents were concerned with the low level of local innovation public procurement by the health system. Findings suggest the need for a stronger role of governance structures to coordinate PH innovation ecosystem activity. A group with the capacity to address the multifaceted and interdisciplinary policy challenges may improve PH I&C outcomes in Alberta. Future research is required to inform design of horizontal and vertical governance structures.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 13 (2020)
METHODS OF INVESTIGATING COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING.
Creators: name: Vakhidova, Fatima
name: Galuzina, Varvara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This research delves into the exploration of various methodologies utilized to investigate the cognitive processes involved in acquiring foreign languages. Acknowledging the intricate nature of language learning, this study aims to elucidate the diverse approaches and techniques used in studying the cognitive aspects of this process. Drawing insights from cognitive science, linguistics, and educational psychology, the investigation scrutinizes how learners engage with and internalize a new language. By synthesizing existing research and presenting novel perspectives, this abstract offers a comprehensive overview of the current landscape of research methodologies in the realm of cognitive processes in foreign language education.
Precision Health Changes Health Innovation, Commercialization Ecosystems and Public Health Emergency Response Systems
Creators: name: Scott, Craig
name: Zwicker, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2020

description: The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how vital it is for the Alberta government to incorporate precision health (PH) planning into its public health ecosystem. Public health shocks demand quick thinking, rapid adaptation and good decision- making driven by data. PH offers all that and more, and not just in health care. In ordinary times, PH tailors diagnosis and treatment to an individual patient’s needs. When a crisis arises, PH focuses on assessing risks to provide targeted interventions and treatments to larger populations.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 13 (2020)
Kinematic interpolation of movement data
Creators: name: Long, Jed A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Mobile tracking technologies are facilitating the collection of increasingly large and detailed data sets on object movement. Movement data are collected by recording an object’s location at discrete time intervals. Often, of interest is to estimate the unknown position of the object at unrecorded time points to increase the temporal resolution of the data, to correct erroneous or missing data points, or to match the recorded times between multiple data sets. Estimating an object’s unknown location between known locations is termed path interpolation. This paper introduces a new method for path interpolation termed kinematic interpolation. Kinematic interpolation incorporates object kinematics (i.e. velocity and acceleration) into the interpolation process. Six empirical data sets (two types of correlated random walks, caribou, cyclist, hurricane and athlete tracking data) are used to compare kinematic interpolation to other interpolation algorithms. Results showed kinematic interpolation to be a suitable interpolation method with fast-moving objects (e.g. the cyclist, hurricane and athlete tracking data), while other algorithms performed best with the correlated random walk and caribou data. Several issues associated with path interpolation tasks are discussed along with potential applications where kinematic interpolation can be useful. Finally, code for performing path interpolation is provided (for each method compared within) using the statistical software R.
Assessing the genetic diversity of the mangrove oyster Crassostrea rhizophorae (Bivalvia, Ostreidae) by microsatellite markers in southeastern Brazil
Creators: name: Galvão, Márcia Santos Nunes
name: Hilsdorf, Alexandre Wagner Silva
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Oysters of the genus Crassostrea are an economically important resource occurring along the Brazilian coast, mainly in estuarine regions. Inter- and intra-population genetic diversity is essential for monitoring long-term genetic changes and for sustainable use of this bivalve by coastal fishing communities. Microsatellite markers were used to evaluate the genetic diversity of natural populations of the mangrove oyster Crassostrea rhizophorae in southeastern Brazil. Samples of 150 oysters from four areas were analyzed. Microsatellite loci were obtained from an enriched microsatellite library. The genetic structure was evaluated using an index of genetic differentiation described previously. The effective population size and rate of gene flow were estimated through a maximum likelihood coalescent approach using Migrate. The mean number of alleles ranged from 10 to 21 and the expected heterozygosity from 0.89 to 0.91. Evidence of a possible bottleneck effect under three mutational models was found. The Dest index indicated low to moderate differentiation among sample locales. Coalescent analysis showed variation in effective population size and asymmetry in the gene flow among samples. Levels of genetic variability and differentiation found among C. rhizophorae populated banks have important implications for the sustainable harvest, cultivation and conservation of this marine resource in the studied area.
Kinematic interpolation of movement data
Creators: name: Long, Jed A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Mobile tracking technologies are facilitating the collection of increasingly large and detailed data sets on object movement. Movement data are collected by recording an object’s location at discrete time intervals. Often, of interest is to estimate the unknown position of the object at unrecorded time points to increase the temporal resolution of the data, to correct erroneous or missing data points, or to match the recorded times between multiple data sets. Estimating an object’s unknown location between known locations is termed path interpolation. This paper introduces a new method for path interpolation termed kinematic interpolation. Kinematic interpolation incorporates object kinematics (i.e. velocity and acceleration) into the interpolation process. Six empirical data sets (two types of correlated random walks, caribou, cyclist, hurricane and athlete tracking data) are used to compare kinematic interpolation to other interpolation algorithms. Results showed kinematic interpolation to be a suitable interpolation method with fast-moving objects (e.g. the cyclist, hurricane and athlete tracking data), while other algorithms performed best with the correlated random walk and caribou data. Several issues associated with path interpolation tasks are discussed along with potential applications where kinematic interpolation can be useful. Finally, code for performing path interpolation is provided (for each method compared within) using the statistical software R.
Influence of secondary ligand on structures and topologies of lanthanide coordination polymers with 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine hexaacetic acid
Creators: name: Bunlawee Yotnoi
name: Natthaya Meundaeng
name: Watcharee Funfuenha
name: Mookda Pattarawarapan
name: Prior, Timothy J.
name: Apinpus Rujiwatra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: A series of new lanthanide coordination polymers has been synthesized and structurally characterized; [Ln4(TTHA)2(pzac)(H3O)2(H2O)]·5H2O (Ln = Pr (1a) and Nd (1b)), [Sm8(TTHA)4(pzac)0.5(H3O)(H2O)7.5]·4H2O (2), [Ln4(HTTHA)2(SO4)(H2O)4]·5H2O (Ln = Pr (3a) and Nd (3b)), where H6TTHA = 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine hexaacetic acid, and H2pzac = 2,5-dioxo-piperazine-1,4-diacetic acid. The compounds feature 3-D frameworks comprising the deprotonated H6TTHA as the primary ligand and either the in situ generated pzac2− or sulfate as the secondary ligands. The influence of the deprotonated H6TTHA in directing the framework structures through preferential coordination modes and molecular conformation is described. The effect of the secondary ligands in increasing the compactness of the frameworks and in the alternation of the framework topologies based on the four-connected pts type is described.
On the use of the substitution method in left-censored environmental data
Creators: name: Shoari, Niloofar
name: Jean-Sébastien Dubé
name: Shoja'eddin Chenouri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: In risk assessment and environmental monitoring studies, concentration measurements frequently fall below detection limits (DL) of measuring instruments, resulting in left-censored data. The principal approaches for handling censored data include the substitution-based method, maximum likelihood estimation, robust regression on order statistics, and Kaplan-Meier. In practice, censored data are substituted with an arbitrary value prior to use of traditional statistical methods. Although some studies have evaluated the substitution performance in estimating population characteristics, they have focused mainly on normally and lognormally distributed data that contain a single DL. We employ Monte Carlo simulations to assess the impact of substitution when estimating population parameters based on censored data containing multiple DLs. We also consider different distributional assumptions including lognormal, Weibull, and gamma. We show that the reliability of the estimates after substitution is highly sensitive to distributional characteristics such as mean, standard deviation, skewness, and also data characteristics such as censoring percentage. The results highlight that although the performance of the substitution-based method improves as the censoring percentage decreases, its performance still depends on the population's distributional characteristics. Practical implications that follow from our findings indicate that caution must be taken in using the substitution method when analyzing censored environmental data.
Acipenser stellatus Pallas 1771
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Acipenseriformes
Acipenseridae
Acipenser
Acipenser stellatus

description: 8. Acipenser stellatus Pallas, 1771
Common name. Starry sturgeon
Taxonomy. Original description: Acipenser stellatus Pallas, 1771: 460 [Volga River at Simbirsk, Caspian Sea, Ural River to Gwje; no types known].
Revisions. Berg (1948: 96).
Illustrations. Kottelat & Freyhof (2007: 56, fig.).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450-Turan Plain, 452-Caspian Marine.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Ozoonboroon, Derakul, Tirij, Puze draz.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020); Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: CR.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Towards a national bio-environmental data facility: experiences from the Atlas of Living Australia
Creators: name: Belbin, Lee
name: Williams, Kristen J
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics

description: The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA: http://www.ala.org.au) provides the largest free and open repository of integrated biological and environmental information in a consistent format for the Australian region. As of June 2015, the ALA contained over 55 million records (10% of Global Biodiversity Information Facility’s (GBIF’s) total), consisting of 150,000+ native and alien species, nearly 500 layers of gridded and polygonal bio-environmental data, 39+ million pages of biological literature, and 45,000+ images of species and other integrated biological data. The development of the research interface to the ALA (http://spatial.ala.org.au) was the trigger to develop an architecture designed to tightly integrate environmental data for online use with biological data. Environmental layers are classed as environmental (gridded with continuous values) or contextual (polygonal with discrete class values). A suite of analysis and visualization tools have been developed to demonstrate the value of integrating the ALA’s biological and environmental data. This paper outlines the purpose and process of establishing the ALA and discusses the integration of environmental data relevant to biodiversity research in the Australian region and the vision for continually improved services for research, area management, education, and citizen science. The ALA’s environmental infrastructure addresses current needs but increased data types, volumes, and resolution suggests new directions are needed to provide quality services into the future. The experience of building the ALA has relevance for other agencies setting up similar infrastructure which supports integrated access to and use of their national biological and environmental information.