cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thermography based breast cancer detection using texture features and minimum variance quantization
Creators: name: Milosevic, Marina
name: Jankovic, Dragan
name: Peulic, Aleksandar
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: breast cancer
subject: classification
subject: segmentation
subject: thermography
subject: texture analysis
subject: 610

description: In this paper, we present a system based on feature extraction techniques and image segmentation techniques for detecting and diagnosing abnormal patterns in breast thermograms. The proposed system consists of three major steps: feature extraction, classification into normal and abnormal pattern and segmentation of abnormal pattern. Computed features based on Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrices (GLCM) are used to evaluate the effectiveness of textural information possessed by mass regions. A total of 20 GLCM features are extracted from thermograms. The ability of feature set in differentiating abnormal from normal tissue is investigated using a Support Vector Machine classifier, Naive Bayes classifier and K-Nearest Neighbor classifier. To evaluate the classification performance, five-fold cross validation method and Receiver operating characteristic analysis was performed. The verification results show that the proposed algorithm gives the best classification results using K-Nearest Neighbor classifier and a accuracy of 92.5 %. Image segmentation techniques can play an important role to segment and extract suspected hot regions of interests in the breast infrared images. Three image segmentation techniques: minimum variance quantization, dilation of image and erosion of image are discussed. The hottest regions of thermal breast images are extracted and compared to the original images. According to the results, the proposed method has potential to extract almost exact shape of tumors.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
A non-variational approach to the existence of nonzero positive solutions for elliptic systems
Creators: name: Cid, José Ángel
name: Infante, Gennaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 35J47, secondary 35B09, 35J57, 35J60, 47H10

description: We provide new results on the existence of nonzero positive weak solutions for a class of second order elliptic systems. Our approach relies on a combined use of iterative techniques and classical fixed point index. Some examples are presented to illustrate the theoretical results.
description: 13 pages
Hume's logic and the nature of laws
Creators: name: Tierney, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Towards Laser Control of Open Quantum Systems: Memory Effects
Creators: name: Puthumpally-Joseph, R.
name: Atabek, O.
name: Mangaud, E.
name: Desouter-Lecomte, M.
name: Sugny, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laser control of Open Quantum Systems (OQS) is a challenging issue as compared to its counterpart in isolated small size molecules, basically due to very large numbers of degrees of freedom to be accounted for. Such a control aims at appropriately optimizing decoherence processes of a central two-level system (a given vibrational mode, for instance) towards its environmental bath (including, for instance, all other normal modes). A variety of applications could potentially be envisioned, either to preserve the central system from decaying (long duration molecular alignment or orientation, qubit decoherence protection) or, to speed up the information flow towards the bath (efficient charge or proton transfers in long chain organic compounds). Achieving such controls require some quantitative measures of decoherence in relation with memory effects in the bath response, actually given by the degree of non-Markovianity. Characteristic decoherence rates of a Spin-Boson model are calculated using a Nakajima-Zwanzig type master equation with converged HEOM expansion for the memory kernel. It is shown that, by adequately tuning the two-level transition frequency through a controlled Stark shift produced by an external laser field, non-Markovianity can be enhanced in a continuous way leading to a first attempt towards the control of OQS.
Quantitative population-health relationship (QPHR) for assessing metabolic syndrome
Creators: name: Worachartcheewan, Apilak
name: Nantasenamat, Chanin
name: Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya, Chartchalerm
name: Prachayasittikul, Virapong
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: metabolic syndrome
subject: cardiovascular diseases
subject: diabetes
subject: data mining
subject: QPHR
subject: 610

description: Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a condition that predisposes individuals to the development of cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: A cross-sectional investigation of 15,365 participants residing in metropolitan Bangkok who had received an annual health checkup in 2007 was used in this study. Individuals were classified as MS or non-MS according to the International Diabetes Federation criteria using BMI cutoff of ≥ 25 kg/m2 plus two or more MS components. This study explores the utility of quantitative population-health relationship (QPHR) for predicting MS status as well as discovers variables that frequently occur together. The former was achieved by decision tree (DT) analysis, artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM) and principal component analysis (PCA) while the latter was obtained by association analysis(AA). Results: DT outperformed both ANN and SVM in MS classification as deduced from its accuracy value of 99 % as compared to accuracies of 98 % and 91 % for ANN and SVM, respectively. Furthermore, PCA was able to effectively classify individuals as MS and non-MS as observed from the scores plot. Moreover, AA was employed to analyze individuals with MS in order to elucidate pertinent rule from MS components that occur frequently together, which included TG+BP, BP+FPG and TG+FPG where TG, BP and FPG corresponds to triglyceride, blood pressure and fasting plasma glucose, respectively. Conclusion: QPHR was demonstrated to be useful in predicting the MS status of individuals from an urban Thai population. Rules obtained from AA analysis provided general guidelines (i.e. co-occurrences of TG, BP and FPG) that may be used in the prevention of MS in at risk individuals.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization And Mapping: Towards the Robust-Perception Age
Creators: name: Cadena, Cesar
name: Carlone, Luca
name: Carrillo, Henry
name: Latif, Yasir
name: Scaramuzza, Davide
name: Neira, Jose
name: Reid, Ian
name: Leonard, John J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)consists in the concurrent construction of a model of the environment (the map), and the estimation of the state of the robot moving within it. The SLAM community has made astonishing progress over the last 30 years, enabling large-scale real-world applications, and witnessing a steady transition of this technology to industry. We survey the current state of SLAM. We start by presenting what is now the de-facto standard formulation for SLAM. We then review related work, covering a broad set of topics including robustness and scalability in long-term mapping, metric and semantic representations for mapping, theoretical performance guarantees, active SLAM and exploration, and other new frontiers. This paper simultaneously serves as a position paper and tutorial to those who are users of SLAM. By looking at the published research with a critical eye, we delineate open challenges and new research issues, that still deserve careful scientific investigation. The paper also contains the authors' take on two questions that often animate discussions during robotics conferences: Do robots need SLAM? and Is SLAM solved?
Stability of Dirac Liquids with Strong Coulomb Interaction
Creators: name: Tupitsyn, Igor
name: Prokof'ev, Nikolay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop and apply the Diagrammatic Monte Carlo technique to address the problem of stability of the Dirac liquid state (in a graphene type system) against strong long-range part of the Coulomb interaction. So far, all attempts to deal with this problem in the field-theoretical framework were limited either to perturbative or RPA treatments, with diametrically opposite conclusions. Our calculations aim at the approximations-free solution with controlled accuracy by computing vertex corrections from higher-order skeleton diagrams and establishing the renormalization group flow of the effective Coulomb coupling constant. We unambiguously show that with increasing the system size $L$ (up to $ln(L) \sim 40$), the coupling constant always flows towards zero; i.e. the two dimensional Dirac liquid is an asymptotically free $T=0$ state with divergent Fermi velocity.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
(202476) Albert Edward Grant
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.
Auditory event-related potentials as indicators of good prognosis in coma of non-anoxic etiology
Creators: name: Jabbour, Rosette
name: Sawaya, Raja A.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: awakening
subject: cardiac arrest
subject: coma
subject: electrophysiology
subject: P300
subject: prognosis
subject: survival
subject: vegetative state
subject: 610

description: The aim of this study is to evaluate whether auditory event-related potentials can predict the prognosis of recovery from coma resulting from different etiologies. The results of this study could then be used as an adjuvant test in helping the clinician evaluate patients in coma. We performed P300 auditory event-related potentials on 21 patients who developed a state of coma at our institution. We compared the results to the Glasgow coma scale at the onset of coma, on day 3, and day 21. We found that patients who developed coma secondary to cardiopulmonary arrest had no P300, and did not develop one, irrespective of their GCS, or their survival. Patients who developed coma from causes other than cardiopulmonary arrest who had a P300 at the onset of their coma, or developed one in the days that followed, ended up surviving their coma. On the other hand, patients in coma from non-cardiac causes who did not have, or developed a P300, did not survive their coma. We concluded that P300 had no prognostic value in coma secondary to anoxic brain injury, while it was an indicator of good prognosis if it was present in patients in coma from nonanoxic causes.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 8, 2009
Quantum common causes and quantum causal models
Creators: name: Allen, John-Mark A.
name: Barrett, Jonathan
name: Horsman, Dominic C.
name: Lee, Ciaran M.
name: Spekkens, Robert W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reichenbach's principle asserts that if two observed variables are found to be correlated, then there should be a causal explanation of these correlations. Furthermore, if the explanation is in terms of a common cause, then the conditional probability distribution over the variables given the complete common cause should factorize. The principle is generalized by the formalism of causal models, in which the causal relationships among variables constrain the form of their joint probability distribution. In the quantum case, however, the observed correlations in Bell experiments cannot be explained in the manner Reichenbach's principle would seem to demand. Motivated by this, we introduce a quantum counterpart to the principle. We demonstrate that under the assumption that quantum dynamics is fundamentally unitary, if a quantum channel with input A and outputs B and C is compatible with A being a complete common cause of B and C, then it must factorize in a particular way. Finally, we show how to generalize our quantum version of Reichenbach's principle to a formalism for quantum causal models, and provide examples of how the formalism works.
description: 23 pages. v2 improves exposition in a few places
Facilitating computer supported cooperative work with socio-technical self-descriptions
Creators: name: Kunau, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: CSCW
subject: Computer-supported cooperative work
subject: Software engineering
subject: Software-Technik
subject: Organisationsentwicklung
subject: Systemtheorie
subject: 004

description: How can the concept of self-description from newer systems theory be used for improving the co-evolvement of software engineering and organizational change in CSCW-projects? This thesis suggests transferring the concept of self-description into a concept of socio-technical self-description allowing an organization to describe its own computer supported work processes. The presentation of results is organized in four steps: First, a theoretical foundation is elaborated; second, an initial methodological is presented; third, empirical evidence from two explorative case studies is analyzed; fourth, a finalized methodological concept is derived.
Quo vadis, hochschuldidaktische (Hochschul)Forschung?
Creators: name: Battaglia, Santina
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 21. Jahrgang 2010 Heft 1
Aldous Huxley : the early novels. From microcosm to the millennium
Creators: name: Peters, Mark L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Characterization of a scintillating lithium glass ultra-cold neutron detector
Creators: name: Jamieson, Blair
name: Rebenitsch, Lori A
name: Hansen-Romu, Sean
name: Lauss, Bernhard
name: Lindner, Thomas
name: Martin, Jeffery W
name: Pierre, Edgard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A $^{6}$Li glass based scintillation detector developed for the TRIUMF neutron electric dipole moment experiment was characterized using the ultra-cold neutron source at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). The data acquisition system for this detector was demonstrated to perform well at rejecting backgrounds. An estimate of the absolute efficiency of background rejection of $99.7\pm0.1$% is made. For variable ultra-cold neutron rate (varying from $
description: 15 pages, 17 figures, submitted to EPJ A
Aymans, Winfried/Egler, Anna/Listl, Joseph (Hrsg.), Fides et lus
Creators: name: Rees, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 8 Nr. 2 (1992): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 8, Heft 2
Loanwords in Melbourne Japanese
Creators: name: Masumi-So, H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Code-switching as a developmental phenomenon in child bilingual acquisition
Creators: name: Lee-Wong, S. M. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Die Berechnung von Multipolmomenten mit der Basis-Set-Reduction-Methode
Creators: name: Krabbe, Heiko
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Dipolmomente
subject: Quadropolmomente
subject: Quantenchemie
subject: Ab-Initio-Verfahren
subject: Configuration-Interaction
subject: MRCI
subject: Partitionierung
subject: CASPT-2
subject: MRPT
subject: BSR-Methode
subject: MRD-CI
subject: Störungsrechung
subject: Vielteilchensystem
subject: dipole moment
subject: quadrupole moment
subject: quantum chemistry
subject: Ab-initio-method
subject: partioning
subject: bsr-method
subject: perturbation theory
subject: many-particle system
subject: 530

description: In dieser Arbeit wird exemplarisch an Multipolmomenten untersucht, inwieweit die energieoptimierende BSR-Methode zur approximativen Bestimmung von Ein-Elektron-Operator-Erwartungswerten geeignet ist. Die BSR ist eine Näherungsmethode zur SD-MRCI. Sie beruht auf der Partitionierung des Hilbert-Raumes in einen primären Referenzraum und einen sekundären Raum, der in 2. Ordnung Multi-Referenz-Störungsrechnung behandelt wird. Während aufgrund des Brillouin-Theorems Einfachanregungen bezüglich des Hartree-Fock-Zustandes kaum zur Korrelationsenergie beitragen, sind sie eminent wichtig, um die elektrischen Eigenschaften eines Moleküls korrekt zu beschreiben. In 2. Ordnung Multi-Referenz-Störungsrechnung können Einfachanregungen aber gerade wegen des Brillouin-Theorems nur indirekt über die Doppelanregungen in die Dichtematrix eingehen, wenn sie nicht bereits direkt im Referenzraum enthalten sind. In dieser Arbeit wird gezeigt, daß dementsprechend für Ein-Elektron-Operator-Erwartungswerte mehr Referenzkonfigurationen als bei der Berechnung von Korrelationsenergien notwendig sind. Dabei erwies sich die BSR-Methode als eine kontrollierbare Approximation zur SD-MRCI, die mit wachsendem primären Raum systematisch besser wird. Das beobachtete nahezu montone Konvergenzverhalten der BSR-Dipolmomente wird offenbar durch die in der BSR enthaltene Relaxation des primären Raumes bewirkt. Ohne diese Relaxation sind die berechneten Dipolmomente in Abhängigkeit vom primären Raum Schwankungen unterworfen und konvergieren langsamer gegen die SD-MRCI-Werte. Es konnten Indizien dafür gefunden werden, daß insbesondere die Berücksichtigung von Einfachanregungen im primären Raum zu einer Verbesserung der BSR-Multipolmomente führen. Im Vergleich mit der SD-MRCI wurden mit der BSR bereits adäquate Ergebnisse erzielt, wenn nur etwa 5% der SD-MRCI-Konfigurationen in der CI-Entwicklung des primären Raumes berücksichtigt wurden. Das BSR-Verfahren ist somit auch für die Berechnung von Multipolmomenten eine effiziente Methode. In der Arbeit wird die BSR-Methode in Relation zu verwandten Verfahren wie der MRD-CI und CASPT2 gestellt. Es zeigt sich, daß die BSR vergleichbare Ergebnisse erzielt.
Save lake Balkhash Update Social Integration 2023.jpg
Creators: name: Ussenaliyeva, Aizhan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 410401
subject: Conservation and biodiversity
classificationCode: 410402
subject: Environmental assessment and monitoring
classificationCode: 410403
subject: Environmental education and extension
classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management
classificationCode: 410405
subject: Environmental rehabilitation and restoration
classificationCode: 410406
subject: Natural resource management
classificationCode: 410407
subject: Wildlife and habitat management

description: As accurately planned in the beginning of this year I continue integrating my global water research Save Lake Balkhash International with multiple constructs of our society, such as governments, industries, public, science, arts, sports and religion.
Protective effect of L-ornithine-L-aspartate and silymarin on chemically induced kidney toxicity and thyroid dysfunction in mice
Creators: name: Jatwa, Rameshwar
name: Kar, Anand
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Carbon tetrachloride
subject: lipid peroxidation
subject: L-ornithine-L-aspartate
subject: mice
subject: thyroid hormones
subject: type-1 iodothyronine 5’-monodeiodinase
subject: 610

description: The present study was designed to reveal the hitherto unknown efficacy of two commonly used hepatoprotective drugs, L-ornithine-L-aspartate (lornit) and silymarin in the regulation of kidney toxicity and thyroid dysfunction in mice. Renal and hepatic lipid peroxidation (LPO) was induced by the administration of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) for 2 weeks (2.0 gm/kg twice a week). In two separate groups, along with CCl4 animals were also treated with either lornit (200 mg/kg) or silymarin (100 mg/kg) every day for the same duration. Other than hepatic and renal LPO, alterations in the concentrations of serum triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4), glucose and insulin and in hepatic type-1 iodothyronine 5’monodeiodinase (5’DI) activity were considered as major parameters. Simultaneously activities of serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphahatase (ALP) and hepatic and renal superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and reduced glutathione content (GSH) were also studied. Lornit or silymarin administration reversed almost all the toxic effects exhibited by CCl4 including enhanced tissue LPO, serum ALT, AST and ALP activities and the concentrations of insulin and glucose. Both test drugs also significantly increased hepatic 5’DI activity, cellular antioxidants such as SOD, CAT and GSH and serum levels of both the thyroid hormones.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 7, 2008
An investigation of turbidity and sediment transport in the Yarra River, Victoria
Creators: name: Lammerts van Bueren, Désirée.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A multi-wavelength observation and investigation of six infrared dark clouds
Creators: name: Zhang, Chuan-Peng
name: Yuan, Jing-Hua
name: Li, Guang-Xing
name: Zhou, Jian-Jun
name: Wang, Jun-Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are ubiquitous in the Milky Way, yet they play a crucial role in breeding newly-formed stars. Aims. With the aim of further understanding the dynamics, chemistry, and evolution of IRDCs, we carried out multi-wavelength observations on a small sample. Methods. We performed new observations with the IRAM 30 m and CSO 10.4 m telescopes, with tracers ${\rm HCO^+}$, HCN, ${\rm N_2H^+}$, ${\rm C^{18}O}$, DCO$^+$, SiO, and DCN toward six IRDCs G031.97+00.07, G033.69-00.01, G034.43+00.24, G035.39-00.33, G038.95-00.47, and G053.11+00.05. Results. We investigated 44 cores including 37 cores reported in previous work and seven newly-identified cores. Toward the dense cores, we detected 6 DCO$^+$, and 5 DCN lines. Using pixel-by-pixel spectral energy distribution (SED) fits of the $\textit{Herschel}$ 70 to 500 $μ$m, we obtained dust temperature and column density distributions of the IRDCs. We found that ${\rm N_2H^+}$ emission has a strong correlation with the dust temperature and column density distributions, while ${\rm C^{18}O}$ showed the weakest correlation. It is suggested that ${\rm N_2H^+}$ is indeed a good tracer in very dense conditions, but ${\rm C^{18}O}$ is an unreliable one, as it has a relatively low critical density and is vulnerable to freezing-out onto the surface of cold dust grains. The dynamics within IRDCs are active, with infall, outflow, and collapse; the spectra are abundant especially in deuterium species. Conclusions. We observe many blueshifted and redshifted profiles, respectively, with ${\rm HCO^+}$ and ${\rm C^{18}O}$ toward the same core. This case can be well explained by model "envelope expansion with core collapse (EECC)".
description: 24 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables. To be published in A&A. The resolutions of the pictures are cut down
Constraints on small-field axion inflation
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Tatsuo
name: Oikawa, Akane
name: Omoto, Naoya
name: Otsuka, Hajime
name: Saga, Ikumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study general class of small-field axion inflations which are the mixture of polynomial and sinusoidal functions suggested by the natural and axion monodromy inflations. The axion decay constants leading to the successful axion inflations are severely constrained in order not to spoil the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis and overproduce the isocurvature perturbation originating from the QCD axion. We in turn find that the cosmologically favorable axion decay constants are typically of order the grand unification scale or the string scale which is consistent with the prediction of closed string axions.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures; v2 published version
Can transition radiation explain the ANITA event 3985267?
Creators: name: Motloch, Pavel
name: Alvarez-Muñiz, Jaime
name: Privitera, Paolo
name: Zas, Enrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate whether transition radiation from a particle shower crossing the interface between Earth and air and induced by an Earth-skimming neutrino can explain the upward event announced recently by the ANITA Collaboration. While the properties of the observed signal can in principle be explained with transition radiation, the flux necessary for a successful explanation is in tension with the current best limits from the Pierre Auger Observatory, the IceCube neutrino detector and the ANITA balloon. We also show that in this scenario, the direction of the incoming neutrino is determined precisely to within a few degrees, from the polarization properties of the observed events and thanks to the Earth opacity to ultra high energy neutrinos.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, version accepted to PRD
Which-way double slit experiments and Born rule violation
Creators: name: Quach, James Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In which-way double-slit experiments with perfect detectors, it is assumed that having a second detector at the slits is redundant, as it will not change the interference pattern. We however show that if higher-order or non-classical paths are accounted for, the presence of the second detector will have an effect on the interference pattern. Accounting for these non-classical paths also means that the Sorkin parameter in triple-slit experiments is only an approximate measure of Born rule violation. Using the difference between single and double which-way detectors, we give an alternative parameter which is an exact measure of Born rule violation.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
(202477) Ernest Newman Freer Grant
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 view from the other side : the outcast figure in the novels of Jean Rhys
Creators: name: Hill, Christina .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Die Autonomie der Vernunft und die enge gegenseitige Beziehung und Verträglichkeit zwischen Vernunft und Glauben
Creators: name: Seifert, Josef
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 8 Nr. 2 (1992): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 8, Heft 2
General formalism for Fourier based Wave Front Sensing
Creators: name: Fauvarque, Olivier
name: Neichel, Benoit
name: Fusco, Thierry
name: Sauvage, Jean-François
name: Girault, Orion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce in this article a general formalism for Fourier based wave front sensing. To do so, we consider the filtering mask as a free parameter. Such an approach allows to unify sensors like the Pyramid Wave Front Sensor (PWFS) and the Zernike Wave Front Sensor (ZWFS). In particular, we take the opportunity to generalize this two sensors in terms of sensors' class where optical quantities as, for instance, the apex angle for the PWFS or the depth of the Zernike mask for the ZWFS become free parameters. In order to compare all the generated sensors of this two classes thanks to common performance criteria, we firstly define a general phase-linear quantity that we call meta-intensity. Analytical developments allow then to split the perfectly phase-linear behavior of a WFS from the non-linear contributions making robust and analytic definitions of the sensitivity and the linearity range possible. Moreover, we define a new quantity called the SD factor which characterizes the trade-off between these two antagonist quantities. These developments are generalized for modulation device and polychromatic light. A non-exhaustive study is finally led on the two classes allowing to retrieve the usual results and also make explicit the influence of the optical parameters introduced above.
title: Early Warning System on a National Level
title: Project AMSEL
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Apel, Martin
name: Biskup, Joachim
name: Flegel, Ulrich
name: Meier, Michael
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 004

description: We present the architecture of an automatic early warning system (EWS) that aims at providing predictions and advice regarding security threats in information and communication technology without incorporation of cognitive abilities of humans and forms the basis for drawing a situation picture. Our EWS particularly targets the growing malware threat and shall achieve the required capabilities by combining malware collectors, malware analysis systems, malware behavior clustering, signature generation and distribution and malware/misuse detection system into an integrated process chain. The quality and timeliness of the results delivered by theEWS are influenced by the number and location of participating partners that share information on security incidents. In order to enable such a cooperation and an effective deployment of the EWS, interests and confidentiality requirements of the parties involved need to be carefully examined. We discuss technical details of the EWS components, evaluate alternatives and examine the interests of all parties involved in the anticipated deployment scenario.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 20
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1973
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Diplomprüfungsordnung für die Diplomprüfung in Chemie
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 20
Apoptosis: molecular mechanisms and pathogenicity
Creators: name: Rastogi, Rajesh P.
name: , Richa
name: Sinha, Rajeshwar P.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: apoptosis
subject: apoptosis-inducing drugs
subject: caspase
subject: necrosis
subject: pathogenesis
subject: photodynamic therapy
subject: ultraviolet radiation
subject: 610

description: Apoptosis triggered by exogenous and endogenous stimuli such as ultraviolet radiation, oxidative stress, and genotoxic chemicals is a crucial phenomenon within biological systems. DNA damage activates and stabilizes p53 in nucleus and cytoplasm and regulates other proteins that stimulate intrinsic and extrinsic apoptotic pathways. Apoptosis is morphologically distinct from that of necrosis and both the phenomena depend on the types, developmental stages, physiological environment of tissues and the nature of death signal. Malfunctioning of apoptotic pathway may cause human diseases like cancer, neurodegenerative and autoimmune disorders. Recently, potent apoptosis-inducing compounds associated with human health have been recorded that prevent tumor promotion, progression, and the occurrence of cellular inflammatory responses. Certain photosensitizing drugs are being employed in photodynamic therapy to induce apoptosis for the treatment of cancer and non-cancerous cells. This review emphasizes the molecular mechanisms of apoptosis, associated diseases and certain therapeutic agents implicated in the elimination of malignant cells.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 8, 2009
ADD-OPT: Accelerated Distributed Directed Optimization
Creators: name: Xi, Chenguang
name: Xin, Ran
name: Khan, Usman A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we consider distributed optimization problems where the goal is to minimize a sum of objective functions over a multi-agent network. We focus on the case when the inter-agent communication is described by a strongly-connected, \emph{directed} graph. The proposed algorithm, ADD-OPT (Accelerated Distributed Directed Optimization), achieves the best known convergence rate for this class of problems,~$O(μ^{k}),0
(202475) Thirza Elizabeth Grant
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.
Prehistoric cairns of Vancouver Island
Creators: name: Sylvester, Frank, 1837-1908
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cairns
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/843928
subject: Indigenous peoples
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/970213

description: Appears to be notes for a talk that Frank Sylvester gave, concerning burial cairns on Vancouver Island, his method of excavation of the cairns, and his theories as to the meaning of the cairns, and the ancestry of the people buried there. Handwritten manuscript, on ruled paper with red-lined margin. Pages hand-numbered 1-20. Signed and dated: Frank Sylvester, Victoria, B.C., June 10, 1901.
The nation-state : a threat to world order?
Creators: name: Burrowes, Robert James.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Spin-orbit coupled fermions in an optical lattice clock
Creators: name: Kolkowitz, S.
name: Bromley, S. L.
name: Bothwell, T.
name: Wall, M. L.
name: Marti, G. E.
name: Koller, A. P.
name: Zhang, X.
name: Rey, A. M.
name: Ye, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Engineered spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in cold atom systems can aid in the study of novel synthetic materials and complex condensed matter phenomena. Despite great advances, alkali atom SOC systems are hindered by heating from spontaneous emission, which limits the observation of many-body effects, motivating research into potential alternatives. Here we demonstrate that SOC can be engineered to occur naturally in a one-dimensional fermionic 87Sr optical lattice clock (OLC). In contrast to previous SOC experiments, in this work the SOC is both generated and probed using a direct ultra-narrow optical clock transition between two electronic orbital states. We use clock spectroscopy to prepare lattice band populations, internal electronic states, and quasimomenta, as well as to produce SOC dynamics. The exceptionally long lifetime of the excited clock state (160 s) eliminates decoherence and atom loss from spontaneous emission at all relevant experimental timescales, allowing subsequent momentum- and spin-resolved in situ probing of the SOC band structure and eigenstates. We utilize these capabilities to study Bloch oscillations, spin-momentum locking, and Van Hove singularities in the transition density of states. Our results lay the groundwork for the use of OLCs to probe novel SOC phases of matter.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures, and Methods section with 3 Extended Data figures. Reformatted from previous version, with reduced length and reduced number of citations to match journal format
Le diabète sucré dans la commune de Bab El Oued : prévalence et facteurs de risque.
Creators: name: Mehenni, Ouardia
name: Smail, Nourredine
name: Djoudi, Fatma Zohra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Endocrinology

description: Although diabetes represents a major public health problem worldwide in recent decades, epidemiological information is insufficiently comprehensive and detailed about diabetes and its risk factors in our country. The objectives of our study were to estimate the prevalence of diabetes and to hypothesise potential risk factors for the disease in the population of the commune of Bab El Oued (Algiers).
Villagers of Modernity: A Study of the Urban Village in Shenzhen, China
Creators: name: Gao, Yanming
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: urban village
subject: Shenzhen
subject: urbanization
subject: hukou
subject: modernity
subject: migrant workers

description: Drawing upon ethnography and archival research, this long-form journalism depicts life in an urban village (chengzhongcun) in Shenzhen, China. Specifically, this article aims to explore the intricate relationship between the municipal government, the urban policies, and urban villagers. While the urban village in China is a well-discussed topic, the significance of this article rises from its attention to the diverse individual lived experience in an urban village that is unique to Shenzhen, a modern southern Chinese city. By contrasting the seemingly unregulated yet vibrant urban village area to the grand narrative of socialist modernity that Shenzhen is known for, this article asks the question of who the city is for, and how urban villagers can fit in the modernity narrative of Shenzhen.
Synoptic snapshots: monitoring lake water quality over 4 decades in an urbanizing region
Creators: name: Doucet, C.
name: Johnston, L.
name: Hiscock, A.
name: Bermarija, T.
name: Hammond, M.
name: Holmes, B.
name: Smith, T.
name: Lalonde, B.
name: Parent, D.
name: Deacoff, C.
name: Scott, R.
name: Kurek, J.
name: Jamieson, R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Doucet C, Johnston L, Hiscock A, Bermarija T, Hammond M, Holmes B, Smith T, Lalonde B, Parent D, Deacoff C, Scott R, Kurek J, Jamieson R. 2023. Synoptic snapshots: monitoring lake water quality over 4 decades in an urbanizing region. Lake Reserv Manage. 39: 101–119. Synoptic water quality surveys—measuring major ions, nutrients, pH, organic matter, and trace elements—have been conducted in ∼50 lakes in the Halifax Regional Municipality (Nova Scotia, Canada) once per decade since 1980. In this study, lake water quality over 40 yr was examined and urban development was evaluated as a possible driver of observed changes. More than half of the lakes experienced strong (>50%) increases in conductivity, iron, sodium, chloride, calcium, and total phosphorus (TP), and strong decreases in acidity (i.e., [H+]). Between 20% and 50% of the lakes experienced strong increases in nitrate, alkalinity, zinc, color, aluminum, dissolved organic carbon, and magnesium, and strong decreases in manganese and sulfate. In 2021, national guidelines for the protection of aquatic life were exceeded by chloride, aluminum, manganese, and arsenic in certain lakes. Land cover classification from circa 1980 and 2020 revealed that although change in urban development within the lake watersheds ranged from a decrease of 11 percentage points to an increase of 48 percentage points, the majority (90%) of watersheds experienced an increase. Urban development was associated with increased chloride, conductivity, sodium, calcium, and TP concentrations. Other parameters appear to be more influenced by hydrology, watershed characteristics, climate, and decreased acid deposition. Results highlight emerging water quality concerns, such as elevated aluminum concentrations, and increased concentrations of chloride, nutrients, and arsenic, which should be the focus of strategic monitoring and mitigation efforts.
Military professionalism in Indonesia : Javanese and western military traditions in army ideology to the 1970s
Creators: name: Britton, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
(202471) Mary Maria Pratley
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.
New bioactive triterpenoids and antimalarial activity of Diospyros rubra Lec.
Creators: name: Cherdtrakulkiat, R.
name: Prachayasittikul, S.
name: Prachayasittikul, V.
name: Ruchirawat, S.
name: Saraban, P.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: antimalarial and cytotoxic activities
subject: antimicrobial
subject: Diospyros rubra Lec.
subject: triterpenoids
subject: 610

description: The first investigation of the chemical constituents and bioactivities of Diospyros rubra Lec. is reported. D. rubra extracts were screened for antimicrobial, antimalarial and cytotoxic activities. They were only shown to be active antimalarials. The extracts with good antimalarial activity were isolated and extensively purified to give lupeol (1), lupenone (2), betulin (3), lupeol acetate (4), 28-O-acetylbetulin (5), β-sitosteryl-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (6) and a mixture of β-sitosterol and stigmasterol. Some of the isolates were tested for antimicrobial and cytotoxic actions. Betulin (3) displayed antimicrobial activity against Streptococcus pyogenes with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 85 μg/mL. Interestingly, bioactive fractions all selectively exerted some antimicrobial activity against Corynebacterium diphtheriae NCTC 10356 with the MIC range of 64–256 μg/mL. The study provides data to support the medicinal importance of the D. rubra.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 9, 2010
Eupaleoides chiloensis Gordon 1994
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Guillermo
name: Cotoras, Darko D.
name: Grez, Audrey A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Eupaleoides
Eupaleoides chiloensis

description: Eupaleoides chiloénsis Gordon, 1994 (Fig 4j).
Examined material: 1 ex. “ Holotype, Chile, HC12, Chepu, Chiloé, 42 S, 30 ft. 11.X.1958, Secondary scrub (MNHN)”.
Original reference: Gordon (1994): “Chiloé”.
Comments: The species is only known from the male holotype. Endemic for the island.
description: Published as part of Gonzalez, Guillermo, Cotoras, Darko D. & Grez, Audrey A., 2020, Annotated list of island lady beetles from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), pp. 501-526 in Zootaxa 4852 (5) on page 515, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4410156