cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Auction-based approach to the job-shop problem with parallel batch processing and a machine availability constraint
Creators: name: Zeng, Chengkuan
name: Liu, Zixuan
name: Tang, Jiafu
name: Fan, Zhi-Ping
name: Yan, Chongjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In military manufacturing enterprises, exceptionally high product performance standards are generally met by using heat treatment followed by machining. These procedures are typically parallel batch-processing (BP) scheduling problems and job-shop problems, respectively. A mixed-integer nonlinear programming model is created to describe the problem with a machine availability constraint, which is divided into two stages: BP and machine processing (MP). Furthermore, an auction-based approach is developed in which jobs are categorized into batches during the BP stage and resources are allocated to operating machines during the MP stage. A local search operator is then applied to optimize the obtained feasible solutions. Benchmark instances are enlarged to adapt to the proposed problem. The approach is tested and compared to existing algorithms, and statistical analysis is performed using SPSS Statistics. The results show that the auction-based approach is effective and stable, and has absolute advantages in solving large-scale instances.
title: Ανάλυση τραπεζικών δεδομένων με τη χρήση αλγορίθμων μηχανικής μάθησης και δημιουργία μοντέλου εκτίμησης του δείκτη Customer Lifetime Value
title: Bank data analysis and modelling of Customer Lifetime Value in banking sector
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Σιγάλας, Μιχαήλ
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: RFM
subject: Fintech
subject: Μηχανική μάθηση
subject: Μεγάλα δεδομένα
subject: Τραπεζική
subject: Ανάλυση
subject: Κατηγοριοποίηση
subject: Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
subject: Banking
subject: Ψηφιακός μετασχηματισμός
subject: Μάθηση με επίβλεψη

description: Βασικός στόχος της παρούσας εργασίας είναι να εξετάσει το καθεστώς λειτουργίας του τραπεζικού κλάδου σε σχέση με την ενσωμάτωση των νέων τεχνολογιών. Θα εκτιμηθούν τα περιθώρια ένταξης νέων τεχνολογιών στην παραγωγική διαδικασία και συγκεκριμένα εργαλείων τα οποία θα εκμεταλλεύονται τη γνώση και τις πρακτικές της μηχανικής μάθησης. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, θα εξεταστεί η εφαρμογή της έννοιας της Αξίας του Χρόνου Ζωής του Πελάτη – Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) στους τραπεζικούς οργανισμούς, σε αντιπαραβολή με άλλους επιχειρηματικούς τομείς στους οποίους ήδη εφαρμόζεται με επιτυχία. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό, θα επιχειρηθεί η κατανόηση των χαρακτηριστικών τα οποία καθορίζουν τη λειτουργία μίας τράπεζας καθώς και τις σχέσεις της με την αγορά, τόσο σε μακροοικονομικό όσο και σε μικροοικονομικό επίπεδο. Απώτερος σκοπός είναι η δημιουργία προτύπων τα οποία θα επεξηγούν την αλληλεπίδραση μίας τράπεζας με τους ίδιους τους πελάτες. Τα παραπάνω μεγέθη θα μετασχηματιστούν σε μεταβλητές και θα εκφραστούν μέσα από μαθηματικά και στατιστικά μεγέθη ώστε να είναι δυνατή η ανάλυση τους μέσω μοντέλων μηχανικής μάθησης. Κατόπιν της στοιχειοθετήσεως του προβλήματος μέσω της επιχειρησιακής οπτικής, θα πραγματοποιηθεί καταγραφή και αξιολόγηση μεθόδων ανάλυσης και αλγορίθμων που προέρχονται από τον χώρο της στατιστικής και της μηχανικής μάθησης βάσει των χαρακτηριστικών τα οποία θα έχουν εξαχθεί από την μοντελοποίηση του προβλήματος. Στη συνέχεια θα συγκεντρωθούν εφαρμογές και υλοποιήσεις από την υφιστάμενη τεχνογνωσία και βιβλιογραφία, οι οποίες θα ληφθούν υπόψη στον μετέπειτα σχηματισμό ενός μοντέλου μηχανικής μάθησης το οποίο θα επικεντρώνεται στη μέτρηση, διαχείριση και τελικώς την πρόβλεψη της Αξίας του Χρόνου Ζωής του Πελάτη σε έναν τραπεζικό οργανισμό. Θα επιχειρηθεί η δημιουργία πολλαπλών μοντέλων μηχανικής μάθησης τα οποία θα έχουν τη δυνατότητα να εκφράσουν την έννοια του Key Performance Indicator “ Customer lifetime value”, με σκοπό την τελική αντιπαραβολή και αξιολόγησης της αξιοπιστίας των μοντέλων. Στη συνέχεια θα επιλεγεί το αποδοτικότερο μοντέλο το οποίο και θα αποτελέσει το βασικό μέρος μίας εφαρμογής η οποία θα δύναται να προβλέψει τις αγοραστικές ικανότητες και επιθυμίες ενός πελάτη τραπεζικών προϊόντων και υπηρεσιών. Ως βασικό εργαλείο υλοποίησης επιλέχθηκε η γλώσσα προγραμματισμού Python καθώς και οι σουίτες οι οποίες την υποστηρίζουν. Σε επίπεδο τελικής εφαρμογής κρίθηκε χρήσιμη για τους σκοπούς της εργασίας η δημιουργία και η διαχείριση Βάσης δεδομένων (SQL) καθώς και επιπλέον εργαλείων ανάλυσης και οπτικοποίησης δεδομένων.
A new method for predicting precipitation δ18O distribution based on deep learning and spatio-temporal clustering
Creators: name: Li, Yang
name: Huo, Siyuan
name: Ma, Bin
name: Pei, Bingbing
name: Tan, Qiankun
name: Guo, Qing
name: Wang, Deng
name: Yu, Longbiao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Predicting precipitation δ18O accurately is crucial for understanding water cycles, paleoclimates, and hydrological applications. Yet forecasting its spatio-temporal distribution remains challenging due to complex climate interactions and extreme events. We developed a method combining spatio-temporal clustering and deep learning neural networks to improve multi-site, multi-year precipitation δ18O predictions. Using a comprehensive dataset from 33 German sites (1978–2012), our model considers precipitation δ18O and its controlling factors, including precipitation and temperature distribution. We applied the K-means ++ method for classification and divided data into training and prediction sets. The convolutional neural network (CNN) model extracted spatial features, while the bi-directional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) model focused on temporal features. Spatio-temporal clustering using K-means ++ improved forecast accuracy and reduced errors. This study highlights the potential of deep learning and clustering techniques for forecasting complex spatio-temporal data and offers insights for future research on isotope distributions.
er Modellversuch "M3 Medienintegration im Mathematikunterricht" an bayerischen Gymnasien
Creators: name: Bichler, Ewald
name: Fritsche, Frank
name: Weigand, Hans-Georg
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Im Schuljahr 2003/04 initiierte das Bayerische Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus den Modellversuch "M3 Medienintegration im Mathematikunterricht", im Rahmen dessen der Einsatz von Taschencomputern (TC) bzw. Graphikrechnern mit Computer-Algebra-Systemen (CAS) ab der Jahrgangsstufe 10 an Gymnasien erprobt wird. Die Ergebnisse dieses Langzeitprojekts führten dazu, dass der TC ab dem kommenden Schuljahr in allen Schulen eingesetzt und in Prüfungen und dem Abitur verwendet werden kann. Im Vortrag wird ein Überblick über den bisherigen Verlauf des Projekts, die Ergebnisse verschiedener empirischer Untersuchungen (Vergleichstests, Leistungstests mit dem TC, Wertungsfragebögen für Schüler und Lehrer, Einschätzung von Klassenarbeiten, Interviews mit Schülern und Lehrern) sowie ein Ausblick auf das weitere Vorgehen gegeben.
The impact of intrinsic charm on the parton distribution functions
Creators: name: Aleedaneshvar, Alireza
name: Goharipour, Muhammad
name: Rostami, Saeedeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we present a new investigation about the impact of intrinsic charm (IC) on the physical observables, in particular, on the heavy structure function $F_2^c$. Since IC distribution is dominant at large Bjorken variable $x$, normally, it is expected that it can be explored only at large $x$. But, by studying the correlation of the charm density in the proton with $F_2^c$, we are going to show that the IC component can also be effective at low $x$. To investigate further, we perform three QCD global analyses of parton distribution functions (PDFs), by including the EMC $F_2^c$ data that are recognized as clear evidence for existence of the intrinsic charm in the proton, and also by considering the IC component. Although the fit of the EMC data is extremely poor due to the data points with lower $x$ values, i.e. $x< $0.05, but these analyses can give us new information about the impact of EMC data and IC contribution on the behaviour of PDFs.
description: I withdraw this paper since my supervisor require me to withdraw this paper
Optimizing time–cost trade-off decisions in an interval transportation problem with multiple shipment options
Creators: name: Singh, Shalabh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This article makes an attempt to build on the extant literature on time–cost trade-off in a transportation problem. The idea is to agglomerate the world of multiple shipment options along with the uncertainty in demand/supply requirements to the traditional set-up. The article introduces a bi-objective transportation model with multi-choice cost and time coefficients along with interval demand and supply constraints. Such a transportation framework is more generalized and provides a much broader view to a decision-maker. The research proposes an efficient iterative algorithm for generating the Pareto frontier that solves a minimum cost flow problem at each iteration. The special structure of this network flow problem is exploited to obtain computationally efficient results. The proposed method is applied to a real-world case study of UPS Express Critical in the United States. The analysis suggests that significant savings in cost and time objectives can be achieved over the traditional set-ups.
A sense of entitlement: society, status and anxiety in Van Diemen’s Land 1820-1840
Creators: name: Derkley, Karin
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: Thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

During the 1820s and 1830s a group of British migrants settled in what was then known as Van Diemen's Land (later to be renamed Tasmania). This group of people were mostly of the middle rank, relatively wealthy but lacking the land and status they craved. Despite Van Diemen's Land’s role as a convict colony, they were attracted by the Colonial Government’s promise of free grants of land there and the hope that they might there by become colonial landed gentry in what they saw as a Little England that just happened to be on the other side of the world. As masters of convict servants they hoped to build their fortunes and establish a vast landed estate, and enjoy the prestige of being the First Rankin this new society. However, this thesis argues that their presumptions and expectations were to be thwarted in many ways. They were to discover that their new home was not a Little England, and the environment and politico-social world they encountered there would come to irrevocably and distinctively shape the way this particular colonial society was to develop over the nineteenth century, and arguably until today. It would also impact on the way this group of people would come to be singled out by successive generations as the villains of the Australian colonial story.
From 3D topological quantum field theories to 4D models with defects
Creators: name: Delcamp, Clement
name: Dittrich, Bianca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (2+1) dimensional topological quantum field theories with defect excitations are by now quite well understood, while many questions are still open for (3+1) dimensional TQFTs. Here we propose a strategy to lift states and operators of a (2+1) dimensional TQFT to states and operators of a (3+1) dimensional theory with defects. The main technical tool are Heegard splittings, which allow to encode the topology of a three--dimensional manifold with line defects into a two--dimensional Heegard surface. We apply this idea to the example of BF theory which describes locally flat connections. This shows in particular how the curvature excitation generating surface operators of the (3+1) dimensional theory can be obtained from closed ribbon operators of the (2+1) dimensional BF theory. We hope that this technique allows the construction and study of more general models based on unitary fusion categories.
description: 25 pages
Wie argumentieren Grundschulkinder im Mathematikunterricht?
Creators: name: Fetzer, Marei
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Das vom Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft prämierte Modellvorhaben Lehrerausbildung im Verbundprojekt OLAW widmet sich dem Aufbau diagnostischer Kompetenz bei angehenden Lehrkräften. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Leistungsfeststellung, Lernprozessanalyse und Förderdiagnostik. Eine Zwischenevaluation ließ Fortschritte in diagnostischer Kompetenz deutlich werden. Es zeigen sich aber auch grundsätzliche Probleme, die mit spezifischen Veranstaltungen zur Diagnostik allein nicht zu bewältigen sind.
Novel formulation of Slichter’s model for permeability determination in unconsolidated materials: a critical review through field data
Creators: name: Urumović, Kosta
name: Pola, Marco
name: Pavičić, Ivica
name: Duić, Željko
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Slichter’s model is a theoretical model that can be used for quantifying the permeability of non-cohesive materials. An inaccurate form of the equation has prevailed, undermining this model, which has been considered unreliable. This paper revises Slichter’s work and proposes a corrected formulation of his equation by redefining key parameters such as the referential grain size, the porosity function, and the area of the pores. This approach was tested for poorly graded sands and well-graded sandy gravels in northern Croatia and a literature control group of heterogeneous sediments. The results were compared with permeabilities determined from: (1) pumping and slug tests, and (2) the well-established Hazen’s experimental and Kozeny-Carman theoretical formulae. High correlativity between the different methods and with the field results confirmed the validity of the corrected Slichter’s equation for predicting the permeability of non-cohesive materials, regardless of their gradation and mean geometric grain size.
title: 'The form of the formless': a hermeneutical exegesis of the Tripartite Tractate from Nag Hammadi Codex I
Creators: name: Brewer, Matthew Clark
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: This is a theological and philosophical exegesis of the largest, and most systematic, extant Valentinian text: the Tripartite Tractate. While focusing on the detail of that text, there ever remains a wider concern for the fundamental orientation of the tradition within which it stands, particularly as represented by the other Valentinian texts of the Nag Hammadi Library. My intention in this study is to begin a hermeneutical engagement with the Valentinian tradition as embodied in the tractate . I have followed Ricoeur's method of entering the world of the text in order to discover its intentions and concerns, on its own terms and in its own language; to read from within it in order to articulate its meaning in a way that opens up its world to those reading it in an environment that is radically different from its original one. The study demonstrates why ‘nonduality’ is the only adequate characterisation of Valentinian Christianity.
Confidence corridors for multivariate generalized quantile regression
Creators: name: Chao, Shih-Kang
name: Proksch, Katharina
name: Dette, Holger
name: Härdle, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: smoothing and nonparametric regression
subject: bootstrap
subject: expectile regression
subject: goodness-of-fit tests
subject: quantile treatment effect
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: We focus on the construction of confidence corridors for multivariate nonparametric generalized quantile regression functions. This construction is based on asymptotic results for the maximal deviation between a suitable nonparametric estimator and the true function of interest which follow after a series of approximation steps including a Bahadur representation, a new strong approximation theorem and exponential tail inequalities for Gaussian random fields. As a byproduct we also obtain confidence corridors for the regression function in the classical mean regression. In order to deal with the problem of slowly decreasing error in coverage probability of the asymptotic confidence corridors, which results in meager coverage for small sample sizes, a simple bootstrap procedure is designed based on the leading term of the Bahadur representation. The finite sample properties of both procedures are investigated by means of a simulation study and it is demonstrated that the bootstrap procedure considerably outperforms the asymptotic bands in terms of coverage accuracy. Finally, the bootstrap confidence corridors are used to study the efficacy of the National Supported Work Demonstration, which is a randomized employment enhancement program launched in the 1970s. This article has supplementary materials online.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;19/2014
The activity of the plant defensin NaD1 against human fungal pathogens
Creators: name: Hayes, Brigitte Maria Elizabeth
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The plant defensin NaD1 is a small cysteine-rich peptide that has potent antifungal activity against pathogens of plants. Its mechanism of action has been partially defined against the plant pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (Fov). It has a three step mechanism which involves binding to the hyphal cell wall, disruption of the plasma membrane and entry into the cytoplasm, where reactive oxygen species are produced. The primary aim of this thesis was to evaluate whether NaD1 has potential for the treatment of human fungal diseases and to shed more light on the mechanism of action. This study revealed that NaD1 inhibits the growth of a number of fungal pathogens which affect human health, including Candida albicans, which can cause invasive infections of mucosal tissues, and species of Cryptococcus and Aspergillus, which can cause meningitis and infect the lungs. NaD1's activity against yeast allowed the use of several experimental techniques to which yeast cells are more amenable than filamentous fungi, including time-lapse microscopy and flow cytometry. Furthermore, libraries of mutants and advanced genomic data are available. This led to the discovery that NaD1's three step mechanism of action initially observed in Fov is conserved in C. albicans, so findings in yeast are also likely to apply to filamentous fungal species. Using confocal microscopy, cellular inhibitors and deletion mutants it was revealed that NaD1 enters the cytoplasm of C. albicans, and most likely does so by endocytosis. After entering the cytoplasm, retrograde transport is not required for NaD1's antifungal activity. Screening of a partial C. albicans deletion mutant library revealed that the high-osmolarity glycerol stress response pathway protects the yeast from the deleterious effects of NaD1. The role of various stress pathways in enhancing tolerance to antifungal peptides and fungicides was reviewed and led to the hypothesis that manipulation of these stress response pathways could be used to enhance the activity of antifungal molecules.
Deep learning of dispersion engineering in two-dimensional phononic crystals
Creators: name: Miao, Xuan-Bo
name: Dong, H. W.
name: Wang, Yue-Sheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To control wave propagation in phononic crystals (PnCs), it is crucial to perform the inverse design of dispersion engineering. In this article, a robust deep-learning method of dispersion engineering in two-dimensional (2D) PnCs is developed by combining deep neural networks (DNNs) with the genetic algorithm (GA), which can be easily extended to reach any target in the trained DNNs’ calculation domain. A high-precision and robust DNN model to predict the bounds of energy bands of 2D PnCs is proposed, forming the forward prediction process. This DNN model shows high efficiency in the testing structures while keeping the mean relative error near 0.1%. The inverse design of PnCs is implemented by DNNs combined with the GA, building the back–forward retrieval process, which can exactly produce the desired PnCs with the expected bandgap bounds in only a few seconds. The proposed framework is promising for constructing arbitrary PnCs on demand.
Cellulose acetate bio-based membrane: optimization of the fabrication conditions and organic dye separation efficiency
Creators: name: Rania, Morsi
name: Corticelli Franco
name: Denis, Gentili
name: Vittorio, Morandi
name: Massimiliano, Cavallini
name: Barbara, Ventura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Oral Presentation at the "PERMEA 2019 - Membrane Conference of Visegrád Countries", 26-29 August 2019, Budapest, Hungary.
description: Oral Communication O-57
Quantification of multidimensional entanglement stored in a crystal
Creators: name: Tiranov, Alexey
name: Designolle, Sébastien
name: Cruzeiro, Emmanuel Zambrini
name: Lavoie, Jonathan
name: Brunner, Nicolas
name: Afzelius, Mikael
name: Huber, Marcus
name: Gisin, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of multidimensional entanglement opens new perspectives for quantum information processing. However, an important challenge in practice is to certify and characterize multidimensional entanglement from measurement data that are typically limited. Here, we report the certification and quantification of two-photon multidimensional energy-time entanglement between many temporal modes, after one photon has been stored in a crystal. We develop a method for entanglement quantification which makes use of only sparse data obtained with limited resources. This allows us to efficiently certify an entanglement of formation of 1.18 ebits after performing quantum storage. The theoretical methods we develop can be readily extended to a wide range of experimental platforms, while our experimental results demonstrate the suitability of energy-time multidimensional entanglement for a quantum repeater architecture.
The archaeology of community emergence and development on Mabuyag in the Western Torres Strait
Creators: name: Wright, Duncan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the archaeology of one Torres Strait Islander community - the Goemulgal of Mabuyag in Central Western Torres Strait. It provides the first detailed archaeological study into the emergence and development of historically and ethnographically-known villages in the Torres Strait. It offers a detailed chronology for settlement shifts across a residential island. The close examination of settlement and subsistence histories on Mabuyag furnishes chronological insights into the changing role of villages for a single island community. By examining chronologies previously established by archaeological researchers working in Torres Strait, this thesis adds to emerging broad chronological patterns across the region. Torres Strait lies at a crucial point both geographically and conceptually between Australia and the Pacific. This thesis examines methodologies used in both regions which examine bounded archaeological communities. It then applies a model of social archaeology and regionalisation to examine the settlement history of Mabuyag. By investigating sites of importance to the community this thesis moves beyond an archaeology of disconnected sites and materials to one that is alive and important to the Goemulgaw people today.
Design for regression models with correlated errors
Creators: name: Dette, Holger
name: Pepelyshev, Andrey
name: Zhigljavsky, Anatoly
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: The present article is a draft of a chapter in the Handbook of Design and Analysis of Experiments and provides a survey of results on experimental design for linear regression models with correlated responses.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;58/2012
(200939) William John Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Phenomenological analysis of associated production of $Z^0+b$ in the $b \rightarrow J/ψX$ decay channel at the LHC
Creators: name: Lansberg, Jean-Philippe
name: Shao, Hua-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ATLAS collaboration recently reported on the first observation of associated-production of a $Z^0$ boson with a $J/ψ$. We recently claimed that the corresponding yield of the {\it prompt} $J/ψ$ was dominated by double parton scatterings in the ATLAS acceptance with a somewhat small value of $σ_{\rm eff}$. We also found out that single parton scatterings were only dominant at large transverse momenta. We present here the first phenomenological analysis of another part of the ATLAS data sample, namely of a $Z^0$ boson plus a {\it non-prompt} $J/ψ$. Our study is performed at next-to-leading order in $α_s$ and includes parton-shower effects via the {\sc\small MadGraph5_aMC@NLO} framework. We find out that the data, unlike the case of prompt $J/ψ+Z^0$, do not hint at significant DPS contributions. Owing to the current experimental and theoretical uncertainties, there is still a room for these but with a lower limit of $σ_{\rm eff}$ close to 5 mb. We stress the importance of QCD corrections to account for the ATLAS data.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables; v2: matched to journal version
Rational design of cyclic peptide inhibitors of matriptase
Creators: name: Quimbar Dominguez, Pedro Maximiliano
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Matriptase is a type II transmembrane serine protease that is key to several important physiological functions including angiogenesis and cell growth. Impaired activity of matriptase is relevant to several diseases. One of these is cancer where deregulated matriptase activity enables angiogenesis, metastasis and tumour growth. These effects are produced through proteolytic activation of signalling pathways, such as c-Met, and through disruption of the extracellular matrix. The aim of this thesis was to generate variants of the naturally occurring cyclic peptides sunflower trypsin inhibitor-1 and Momordica cochinchinensis trypsin inhibitor-II to increase affinity for matriptase and to enhance specificity over trypsin, a closely related protease. Naturally occurring cyclic peptides offer great stability and scaffolds amenable to changes which are features suitable for drug design. The first step towards this goal was the evaluation of specific amino acid interactions at the interface between the enzyme and inhibitor through an alanine scan of inhibitor variants. This revealed key residues that were not amenable to changes but also revealed residues that reduced affinity for trypsin and enhanced specificity for matriptase when modified. The recombinant expression of matriptase was also evaluated using a variety of expression vectors in yeast and bacteria. Active enzyme was successfully produced in bacteria after refolding. The optimisation of this method allowed generation of mutant enzymes where residues were substituted to assess their role in the putative interactions. The nature and amino acid residue partners involved in these interactions were also evaluated through molecular dynamics simulations. This in silico approach also aided in evaluation of inhibitors prior to synthesis. The cleavage specificity of matriptase for cleavage was assessed with the intention to adapt the reactive loops of the inhibitors for a better fit at the active site. This was done using a phage display library. While this produced limited results, it revealed an important feature about specificity which was implemented into the inhibitor scaffolds with encouraging results.
Bioethanol potentials of corn cob hydrolysed using cellulases of Aspergillus niger and Penicillium decumbens
Creators: name: Saliu, Bolanle Kudirat
name: Sani, Alhassan
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: corn cob
subject: endoglucanase
subject: ethanol
subject: exoglucanase
subject: sugar
subject: 610

description: Corn cob is a major component of agricultural and domestic waste in many parts of the world. It is composed mainly of cellulose which can be converted to energy in form of bioethanol as an efficient and effective means of waste management. Production of cellulolytic enzymes were induced in the fungi Aspergillus niger and Penicillium decumbens by growing them in mineral salt medium containing alkali pre-treated and untreated corn cobs. The cellulases were characterized and partially purified. Alkali pre-treated corn cobs were hydrolysed with the partially purified cellulases and the product of hydrolysis was fermented using the yeast saccharomyces cerevisae to ethanol. Cellulases of A. niger produced higher endoglucanase and exoglucanase activity (0.1698 IU ml-1 and 0.0461 FPU ml-1) compared to that produced by P. decumbens (0.1111 IU ml-1 and 0.153 FPU ml-1). Alkali pre-treated corn cob hydrolysed by cellulases of A. niger yielded 7.63 mg ml-1 sugar which produced 2.67 % (v/v) ethanol on fermentation. Ethanol yield of the hydrolysates of corn cob by cellulases of P. decumbens was much lower at 0.56 % (v/v). Alkali pre-treated corn cob, hydrolysed with cellulases of A. niger is established as suitable feedstock for bioethanol production.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 11, 2012
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 7/2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Promotionsordnung der Fakultät Chemie der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 20. März 2013
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 7, 2013
Anisotropic homogenized composite mediums arising from truncated spheres, spheroids, and ellipsoids
Creators: name: Mackay, Tom G.
name: Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Closed-form expressions were recently derived for depolarization dyadics for truncated spheres and truncated spheroids, and the formalism was extended to truncated ellipsoids. These results were exploited to develop an implementation of the Maxwell Garnett homogenization formalism for the relative permittivity parameters of homogenized composite mediums (HCMs) arising from an isotropic host medium impregnated with isotropic inclusions that are truncated spheres, spheroids, and ellipsoids. In so doing, the anisotropy of the HCM was related to the geometry of the inclusions: in general, the more the shape of the inclusions deviated from spherical, the greater was the degree of anisotropy exhibited by the HCM.
Effect of Friction on Dense Suspension Flows of Hard Particles
Creators: name: Trulsson, M.
name: DeGiuli, E.
name: Wyart, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use numerical simulations to study the effect of particle friction on suspension flows of non-Brownian hard particles. By systematically varying the microscopic friction coefficient $μ_p$ and the viscous number $J$, we build a phase diagram that identifies three regimes of flow: Frictionless, Frictional Sliding, and Rolling. Using energy balance in flow, we predict relations between kinetic observables, confirmed by numerical simulations. For realistic friction coefficient and small viscous numbers (below $J\sim 10^{-3}$) we show that the dominating dissipative mechanism is sliding of frictional contacts, and we characterize asymptotic behaviors as jamming is approached. Outside this regime, our observations support that flow belongs to the universality class of frictionless particles. We discuss recent experiments in the context of our phase diagram.
description: 8 pages
A grammatical description of the Tondano (Toundano) language
Creators: name: Brickell, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Arts, Communication, and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis is a grammatical description of Tondano (Toulour dialect), an endangered Austronesian language primarily spoken in the northern tip of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tondano has a number of typological similarities to indigenous languages spoken in the Philippines, northern Borneo, and Taiwan, with the most prominent being a symmetrical voice marking system. The data for this research come from extensive in situ fieldwork in the Minahasa region of North Sulawesi over a period of approximately eleven months during three field trips. The primary source of data are digital audio and video recordings which comprise a variety of discourse genres. This thesis contains 10 chapters which cover the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the language, with special attention given to the symmetrical voice marking system and the effects it has on various parts of the grammar. This research represents the sole contemporary grammatical description of this language within a broad framework of Basic Linguistic Theory.
Discovery Studio Tutorials
Creators: name: Smith, Vivian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Discovery Studio™ (DS) is a professional life science molecular simulation software. The main functions of DS currently include: protein characterization (including protein-protein interactions), homology modeling, molecular mechanics calculations and molecular dynamics simulations, structure-based drug design tools (including ligand-protein interactions, novel drug design and molecular docking), small molecule-based drug design tools (including quantitative conformational relationships, pharmacophore, database screening, and ADMET), and combinatorial library design and analysis.
CyberSecDome 1st Poster
Creators: name: Anaxagorou, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This poster is considered as an open dissemination material of CyberSecDome project.All the dissemination material of the project could be used by the project partners to disseminate the project's vision and results, raising the number of the stakeholders within the research and business community. However, are fullly accesible also to the audience.

"CyberSecDome aims to optimise the collaborative response among the stakeholder within the Digital Infrastructure ecosystem by sharing information and knowledge through specific standards and/or formats.To this end, the project will implement an information and knowledge platform that includes functions, rules and structures combined with decentralized approaches to govern and facilitate collaboration and dissemination of threat intelligence and AI model-related information. It combines the concepts of complete decentralization and adopts swarm learning to disseminate the information between the CyberSecDome and relevant parties without any necessity of a centralized node".
Auger Stimulated Ion Desorption of Negative Ions via K-Capture Radioactive Decay
Creators: name: Chechik, Victor
name: Crooks, Richard M.
name: Sabapathy, Rajaram C.
name: Schweikert, E. A.
name: Verkhoturov, S. V.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Antibody-dependent immune responses elicited by blood stage-malaria infection contribute to protective immunity to the pre-erythrocytic stages
Creators: name: Tumwine-Downey, Irene
name: Deroost, Katrien
name: Levy, Prisca
name: McLaughlin, Sarah
name: Hosking, Caroline
name: Langhorne, Jean
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Model organisms
subject: Infectious Disease
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: No description supplied
Low-Congestion Shortcuts without Embedding
Creators: name: Haeupler, Bernhard
name: Izumi, Taisuke
name: Zuzic, Goran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distributed optimization algorithms are frequently faced with solving sub-problems on disjoint connected parts of a network. Unfortunately, the diameter of these parts can be significantly larger than the diameter of the underlying network, leading to slow running times. Recent work by [Ghaffari and Hauepler; SODA'16] showed that this phenomenon can be seen as the broad underlying reason for the pervasive $Ω(\sqrt{n} + D)$ lower bounds that apply to most optimization problems in the CONGEST model. On the positive side, this work also introduced low-congestion shortcuts as an elegant solution to circumvent this problem in certain topologies of interest. Particularly, they showed that there exist good shortcuts for any planar network and more generally any bounded genus network. This directly leads to fast $O(D \log^{O(1)} n)$ distributed algorithms for MST and Min-Cut approximation, given that one can efficiently construct these shortcuts in a distributed manner. Unfortunately, the shortcut construction of [Ghaffari and Hauepler; SODA'16] relies heavily on having access to a genus embedding of the network. Computing such an embedding distributedly, however, is a hard problem - even for planar networks. No distributed embedding algorithm for bounded genus graphs is in sight. In this work, we side-step this problem by defining a restricted and more structured form of shortcuts and giving a novel construction algorithm which efficiently finds a shortcut which is, up to a logarithmic factor, as good as the best shortcut that exists for a given network. This new construction algorithm directly leads to an $O(D \log^{O(1)} n)$-round algorithm for solving optimization problems like MST for any topology for which good restricted shortcuts exist - without the need to compute any embedding. This includes the first efficient algorithm for bounded genus graphs.
description: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. ACM (2016) Distributed Computing, 2020 (DIST)
An exported protein of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum plays a role in modifications of the erythrocyte membrane and parasite survival in the host
Creators: name: Uyen, Nguyen Thi To
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [to the] School of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
ABIOTIC STRESS SIGNALLING IN THE FUCUS EMBRYO
Creators: name: COELHO, SUSANA
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2002

description: Fucoid algae live in the intertidal region where they experience daily fluctuations in light and external osmotic environment. High light, especially in combination with ultraviolet (UV) radiation and hyper-osmotic stress affected the cellular physiology of Fucus embryos. Two photoinhibition responses were recognised. Firstly, a rapid decline of the photosystem II (PSII) efficiency, linked with the operation of the xanthophyl cycle, followed by a slower decline correlated with reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. As a result of enhanced ROS production, a slower repair of the PSII efficiency was observed, particularly with increased UV-B doses. Development of the embryos was transiently affected by UV-B. The cellular signal transduction pathway during hyper-osmotic stress was investigated. ROS production in response to hyperosmotic stress comprised two distinct components. The first ROS component coincided closely with the origin of a Ca2+ wave in the peripheral cytosol at the growing cell apex, had an extracellular origin, and was necessary for the Ca2+ wave. Patch clamp experiments showed that a non-selective cation channel was stimulated by H2O2, and may underlie the initial cytosolic Ca2+ elevation. The spatio-temporal pattern of the Ca2+ wave was thus determined by peripheral ROS production. The second, later ROS component localised to the mitochondria and was a direct consequence of the Ca2+ wave. The first, but not the second component was required for short-term adaptation to osmotic stress, probably through the activity of cell wall bromoperoxidases. Mitogen-activated protein kinases may be involved in the hyper-osmotic stress response downstream or independently of the mitochondrial ROS production.
title: Complex Project ECA – Extra Containercapaciteit Antwerpen: deelrapport 1. Inschatting van de verandering in SSC met behulp van een multivariaat model voor de continue meetstations
Creators: name: Plancke, Yves
name: De Maerschalck, Bart
name: Meire, Dieter
Publisher: name: Flanders Hydraulics
Year: 2022

description: Title : WL Rapporten. Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium: Antwerpen. Volume : 21_128_1 Issue : Pagination : VIII, 24 + 13 bijl.
Enhanced multi-functional membranes for water treatment and desalination: Optimization of the fabrication conditions
Creators: name: Rania, Morsi
name: Corticelli Franco
name: Denis, Gentili
name: Vittorio, Morandi
name: Massimiliano, Cavallini
name: Barbara, Ventura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Poster presented at the "Engineering with Membranes Conference 2019", 8-10 April 2019, Båstad, Sweden.
description: Poster Presentation PT-S1-23
Communicative Competencies in Nursing: A Situation- and Competence-Based Curriculum
Creators: name: Partsch, Sebastian
name: Muths, Sabine
name: Darmann-Finck, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Curriculum Development
subject: Curriculum principles
subject: Situation-based curriculum
subject: Epistemological approaches
subject: Nurse education curriculum
subject: Competence Development
subject: 610

description: The project (model) curriculum communicative competences in nursing aimed at developing a curriculum for promoting communicative and counseling skills in the training of nurses to improve standardization of teaching and learning for communication competencies in nursing schools in Germany. The project focused on determining outcomes, content, methods of teaching and learning, and the order of the learning situations for the 3 years of training. In this publication, we will describe our approach for developing the curriculum and the curriculum principles we have used. The curriculum is competence-based, partial competencies of communicative competence are gradually fostered to an increasingly higher level. It is also situation-based, with learning situations becoming more and more complex as the training progresses. Also, various epistemological approaches were integrated into the learning situations.
(200942) William Frederick Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A crystal embedding into Lusztig data of type $A$
Creators: name: Kwon, Jae-Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37, 22E46, 05E10

description: Let $i$ be a reduced expression of the longest element in the Weyl group of type $A$, which is adapted to a Dynkin quiver with a single sink. We present a simple description of the crystal embedding of Young tableaux of arbitrary shape into $i$-Lusztig data, which also gives an algorithm for the transition matrix between Lusztig data associated to reduced expressions adapted to quivers with a single sink.
description: 22 pages, minor corrections; introduction revised, statements and proofs of Proposition 4.1 and Theorem 4.2 revised, comments added on Remark 4.4, typos corrected