cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A CRISPR way to treat Usher syndrome
Creators: name: Wang, Q
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: Usher syndrome (USH) is a rare and complex genetic disorder that causes both deafness and blindness. The Usher type 1F subtype (USH1F) is one of the most severe forms of this disease and is caused by mutations in the PCDH15 gene. This gene is located at the USH1F locus and encodes a protein that is expressed in the retina and cochlea; it plays an essential role in maintaining photoreceptor cells and sensory hair cells. Patients with the Arg245Ter variant in exon 8 of the gene typically have congenital deafness and develop retinal degeneration in teenage years, and there is currently no cure for this disease. The first section of this thesis describes the use of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to generate a robust in vitro model of PCDH15 retinal disease and combines this technology with gene editing approaches to conduct site-specific correction of the Arg245Ter mutation. Differentiation of Usher iPSCs and mutation-corrected iPSCs to retinal organoids was undertaken to investigate disease pathogenesis. Single-cell RNA-sequencing was performed to investigate the complexity of retinal organoids and compare gene expression profiles between PCDH15 Arg245Ter and wildtype stem cell-derived retinal cells. Additionally, an ‘exon skipping’ approach was investigated in an organoid model. The mutated exon was removed from the PCDH15 gene in stem cells using CRISPR technology, to assess the function of exon 8 in PCDH15 and to determine whether exon-skipping could be a therapy option for this disease. For all the above experiments, isogenic gene-editing H9 hESC cell lines (mutation knocked in and exon-skipped hESC) were generated and analysed in an identical manner. To expand our genome editing applications from bench to bedside, in the last part of this thesis I tested different adenoviral vectors in mature retinal organoids to determine virus transduction efficacy. This information will be used to inform virus selection in future clinical applications. The aims of this thesis were to: 1) establish a stem cell-based 3D organoid USH1F disease model; 2) correct the Arg245Ter mutation in human PSCs and determine if the gene-editing strategy changes the disease phenotype in retinal organoids; 3) determine which AAV can infect the retinal cells most efficiently. Taken together, this thesis provides proof-of-principle data for a CRISPR/Cas mediated gene editing approach for USH1F, and information to guide future clinical applications.
Mellin space bootstrap for global symmetry
Creators: name: Dey, Parijat
name: Kaviraj, Apratim
name: Sinha, Aninda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply analytic conformal bootstrap ideas in Mellin space to conformal field theories with $O(N)$ symmetry and cubic anisotropy. We write down the conditions arising from the consistency between the operator product expansion and crossing symmetry in Mellin space. We solve the constraint equations to compute the anomalous dimension and the OPE coefficients of all operators quadratic in the fields in the epsilon expansion. We reproduce known results and derive new results up to $O(ε^3)$. For the $O(N)$ case, we also study the large $N$ limit in general dimensions and reproduce known results at the leading order in $1/N$.
description: typos corrected
Synthesis of novel bivalent and multivalent ligands targeting the β₂ adrenergic and A₁ adenosine receptor and the synthesis of functionalised poly-l-lysine dendrimers
Creators: name: Karellas, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Time evolution of a pair of distinguishable interacting spins subjected to controllable and noisy magnetic fields
Creators: name: Grimaudo, R.
name: Belousov, Yu.
name: Nakazato, H.
name: Messina, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum dynamics of a $\hat{\mathbf{J}}^2=(\hat{\mathbf{j}}_1+\hat{\mathbf{j}}_2)^2$-conserving Hamiltonian model describing two coupled spins $\hat{\mathbf{j}}_1$ and $\hat{\mathbf{j}}_2$ under controllable and fluctuating time-dependent magnetic fields is investigated. Each eigenspace of $\hat{\mathbf{J}}^2$ is dynamically invariant and the Hamiltonian of the total system restricted to any one of such $(j_1+j_2)-|j_1-j_2|+1$ eigenspaces, possesses the SU(2) structure of the Hamiltonian of a single fictitious spin acted upon by the total magnetic field. We show that such a reducibility holds regardless of the time dependence of the externally applied field as well as of the statistical properties of the noise, here represented as a classical fluctuating magnetic field. The time evolution of the joint transition probabilities of the two spins $\hat{\mathbf{j}}_1$ and $\hat{\mathbf{j}}_2$ between two prefixed factorized states is examined, bringing to light peculiar dynamical properties of the system under scrutiny. When the noise-induced non-unitary dynamics of the two coupled spins is properly taken into account, analytical expressions for the joint Landau-Zener transition probabilities are reported. The possibility of extending the applicability of our results to other time-dependent spin models is pointed out.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
(501582) Mary Keen
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.
Pharmacological investigations of clozapine and clozapine analogues
Creators: name: Jones, Nigel Charles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The decay width of stringy hadrons
Creators: name: Sonnenschein, Jacob
name: Weissman, Dorin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we further develop a string model of hadrons by computing their strong decay widths and comparing them to experiment. The main decay mechanism is that of a string splitting into two strings. The corresponding total decay width behaves as $Γ=\frac\pi2 ATL$ where $T$ and $L$ are the tension and length of the string and $A$ is a dimensionless universal constant. We show that this result holds for a bosonic string not only in the critical dimension. The partial width of a given decay mode is given by $Γ_i/Γ=Φ_i\exp(-2πCm_{sep}^2/T)$ where $Φ_i$ is a phase space factor, $m_{sep}$ is the mass of the "quark" and "antiquark" created at the splitting point, and $C$ is a dimensionless coefficient close to unity. Based on the spectra of hadrons we observe that their (modified) Regge trajectories are characterized by a negative intercept. This implies a repulsive Casimir force that gives the string a "zero point length". We fit the theoretical decay width to experimental data for mesons on the trajectories of $ρ$, $ω$, $π$, $η$, $K^*$, $ϕ$, $D$, and $D^*_s$, and of the baryons $N$, $Δ$, $Λ$, and $Σ$. We examine both the linearity in $L$ and the exponential suppression factor. The linearity was found to agree with the data well for mesons but less for baryons. The extracted coefficient for mesons $A=0.095\pm0.015$ is indeed quite universal. The exponential suppression was applied to both strong and radiative decays. We discuss the relation with string fragmentation and jet formation. We extract the quark-diquark structure of baryons from their decays. A stringy mechanism for Zweig suppressed decays of quarkonia is proposed and is shown to reproduce the decay width of $Υ$ states. The dependence of the width on spin and flavor symmetry is discussed. We further apply this model to the decays of glueballs and exotic hadrons.
description: v1: 98 pages / v2: minor revisions, references added, 100 pages (41 figures) / v3: final published version, minor corrections, 100 pages
MPEC 2024-Q77 : 2024 QL1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 QL1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
(501584) John McDougal
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 coarse Cartan-Hadamard theorem with application to the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture
Creators: name: Fukaya, Tomohiro
name: Oguni, Shin-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 58J22, Secondary 20F67, 20F65

description: We establish a coarse version of the Cartan-Hadamard theorem, which states that proper coarsely convex spaces are coarsely homotopy equivalent to the open cones of their ideal boundaries. As an application, we show that such spaces satisfy the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture. Combined with the result of Osajda-Przytycki, it implies that systolic groups and locally finite systolic complexes satisfy the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture.
description: v.2 34 pages, added Section 7 on groups acting on a coarsely convex space. v.3 38 pages, added Section 8 on a functional analytic characterization of ideal boundaries
Proceedings of the 8th APSCE International Conference on Computational Thinking and STEM Education (CTE-STEM 2024)
Creators: name: N/A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 390405
subject: Educational technology and computing
classificationCode: 460804
subject: Computing education
classificationCode: 390307
subject: Teacher education and professional development of educators

description: 8th APSCE International Conference on Computational Thinking and STEM Education (CTE-STEM 2024)Date: 2024.5.28-30; Location: Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Website: https://ctestem24.bnu.edu.cn/Publication of Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education (ISSN: 2664-5661)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26008282
L’instrumentation intelligente des salles de classe au service de l’observation des interactions enseignant-apprenants
Creators: name: RICS, Revue
name: Laurent, Romain
name: Dessus, Philippe
name: Vaufreydaz, Dominique
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Teacher education and professional development of educators

description: La qualité de la relation entre enseignant et apprenants est un facteur-clé de l’amélioration des apprentissages. Si cette relation demeure observable par des méthodes dites classiques (auto et hétéro-rapportées), l’immixtion récente de la vision informatique dans les salles de classes est susceptible d’augmenter considérablement l'investigation de sa composante interactionnelle, dimension la plus manifeste et immédiate des relations entre apprenants et enseignants (Pianta, 1999). L’implantation de caméras alimentant des processus d’intelligence artificielle dans les salles de classe divise cependant la communauté scientifique. Entre contempteurs inquiets de la dataveillance et laudateurs enthousiasmés par les perspectives adaptatives d’un enseignant informé en temps réel de l’état, y compris caché, de ses apprenants, il nous semble possible de tracer une ligne de crête, à partir de laquelle l’impact de telles instrumentations dites computationnelles serait interrogé et négocié à l’aune du respect dû à l’intégrité de l’écologie de la salle de classe.
Anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions and Ichino's formula
Creators: name: Collins, Dan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F67

description: We give a new construction of a $p$-adic $L$-function $\mathcal{L}(f,Ξ)$, for $f$ a holomorphic newform and $Ξ$ an anticyclotomic family of Hecke characters of $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-d})$. The construction uses Ichino's triple product formula to express the central values of $L(f,ξ,s)$ in terms of Petersson inner products, and then uses results of Hida to interpolate them. The resulting construction is well-suited for studying what happens when $f$ is replaced by a modular form congruent to it modulo $p$, and has future applications in the case where $f$ is residually reducible.
description: 49 pages; Refereed version, to appear in Annales math\'ematiques du Qu\'ebec
A GNS construction of three-dimensional abelian Dijkgraaf-Witten theories
Creators: name: Müller, Lukas
name: Schweigert, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a detailed account of the so-called "universal construction" that aims to extend invariants of closed manifolds, possibly with additional structure, to topological field theories and show that it amounts to a generalization of the GNS construction. We apply this construction to an invariant defined in terms of the groupoid cardinality of groupoids of bundles to recover Dijkgraaf-Witten theories, including the vector spaces obtained as a linearization of spaces of principal bundles.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures, v2: typos corrected
title: An investigation of the application and performance execution of the aksak in the solo piano music of Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, Lubomir Pipkov, Vassil Kazandjiev, Ahmed Adnan Saygun and Ilhan Baran
Creators: name: Yildiz, GN
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: The term aksak refers to a specific type of asymmetrical metre that is widespread in the folk music traditions of the Balkan countries and Turkey. The present study examines the translation of the aksak from folklore into classical piano repertoire, focusing on solo piano works by the following six composers from Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey: Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, Lubomir Pipkov, Vassil Kazandjiev, Ahmed Adnan Saygun and Ilhan Baran. Outlining the individual approaches each composer has taken to incorporate aksak in their solo piano music, this research enlightens performance aspects of the selected repertoire. It aims to demonstrate the influence of these particular types of asymmetrical metres on the pianist’s internal awareness of the bar structure. This performance-based research project contains two complementary components: a folio of performances and a written exegesis. The folio consists of three solo recitals, in which piano works featuring aksak are juxtaposed with diverse piano repertoire, and a recording project that involves only compositions on aksak. The exegesis provides contextual background around the selected composers and their creative work with aksak. It presents the outcomes of an individually developed informed performance practice of the selected solo piano works featuring aksak. Through the process of preparing and rehearsing these works, the different approaches to the asymmetrical metres have been examined in relation to key musical elements such as tempo and tempo alterations, rhythm, texture and articulation. In alignment with the methodology applied, the primary outcomes of this research address musicological matters through a comparative analysis of composers’ individual approaches to the aksak in piano music, and performance issues relating to the pianist’s perception of the bar structure when performing these works. The project contributes to the existing research on performance of the aksak applied to other musical styles and represents inaugural research into the classical repertoire. It is hoped that it will inspire further investigation of this topic in the piano music of different composers and in genres beyond the solo piano repertoire.
title: Привлечение к субсидиарной ответственности и взыскание убытков с контролирующих должника лиц в условиях «коронавирусного» кризиса
Creators: name: Бараусова, Светлана
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В условиях вспыхнувшей по всему миру эпидемии коронавирусной инфекции экономическая ситуация во всем мире, а особенно в России, стала значительно хуже, особенно это ощутили большинство предпринимателей. Многие из них могут столкнуться с тем, что будут привлечены к субсидиарной ответственности, ввиду негативных последствий пандемии, которые прямым образом отражаются на экономической деятельности компаний и их платежеспособности. Правительство предприняло определенные действия для того, чтобы предприниматели «оставались на плаву» и у них было время вернуться «в строй» после «коронавирусного» кризиса, а именно ввело мораторий, в период действия которого запрещается возбуждать дела о несостоятельности (банкротстве) в отношении определенного круга лиц (Постановление Правительства РФ от 3 апреля 2020 г. № 428).
Intestinal efflux and metabolism processes as biochemical barriers to oral drug absorption
Creators: name: Johnson, Brendan Mark
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The Influence of Criminalism on Prosecutorial Discretion and Sentence Length
Creators: name: Moore, Graham
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2023

description:
Using the concept of criminalism, this paper addresses the disjunction in the sentencing and prosecution of bodies read as young, racialized as Black, and seen as male. Specifically, using the 2016 Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI), this thesis examines differences in sentence length across multiple intersecting statuses, institutions, and geographies as an empirical outcome. Results demonstrate a significant positive association between being read as young, racialized as Black, seen as male, and punishment in the extremes.
L’instrumentation intelligente des salles de classe au service de l’observation des interactions enseignant-apprenants
Creators: name: RICS, Revue
name: Laurent, Romain
name: Dessus, Philippe
name: Vaufreydaz, Dominique
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Teacher education and professional development of educators

description: Cette recherche qualitative porte sur la relation enseignant-élèves en 1re année du primaire dans le cadre d’une comparaison des systèmes éducatifs québécois et français. De nombreuses recherches (Espinosa, 2020 ; Fortin et al., 2011 ; Roffey, 2012; Virat, 2019) montrent qu’une relation enseignant-élèves de qualité est un élément majeur du bien-être social et psychologique de l’enseignant et de l’élève, mais qu’elle permet également la réussite éducative et scolaire des élèves. Dans le cadre de cette recherche, six enseignantes de 1re année de l’école primaire, dont trois québécoises et trois françaises, ont pris part à un entretien semi-dirigé qui a permis de recueillir leurs représentations et leurs pratiques déclarées au regard de la qualité de leur relation avec leurs élèves. Les résultats montrent des similitudes et des différences entre les deux systèmes éducatifs, notamment que les enseignantes françaises semblent accorder davantage d’importance aux apprentissages, contrairement aux enseignantes québécoises qui semblent plutôt accorder de l’importance aux liens affectifs.
(501585) Hannah McDougal
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.
Thermodynamical stability for perfect fluid
Creators: name: Fang, Xiongjun
name: He, Xiaokai
name: Jing, Jiliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to maximum entropy principle, it has been proved that the gravitational field equations could be derived by the extrema of total entropy for perfect fluid, which implies that thermodynamic relations contain information of gravity. In this manuscript, we obtain a criterion for thermodynamical stability of an adiabatic, self-gravitating perfect fluid system by the second variation of total entropy. We show, for Einstein's gravity with spherical symmetry spacetime, that the criterion is consistent with that for dynamical stability derived by Chandrasekhar and Wald. We also find that the criterion could be applied to cases without spherical symmetry, or under general perturbations. The result further establishes the connection between thermodynamics and gravity.
description: 10 pages
Socio-Economic and Political Determinants of Child Labor in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan
Creators: name: Zaman, Shah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2023

description:
There are more than 160 million child laborers globally and approximately 13.8 million in Pakistan. This study aims to investigate the socioeconomic and political determinants of child labor using the data set of the child labor survey 2018/2019. There are 24758 children from ages 5 to 17, after missing value analysis this study focuses on 24680 children. The author used binary logistic regression applying a nested model structure and found that an increase in household income reduces child labor, children of household heads only at higher education levels have a significant negative (p
(501587) Hannah McDougal
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.
Phonon limit to simultaneous near-unity efficiency and indistinguishability in semiconductor single photon sources
Creators: name: Iles-Smith, Jake
name: McCutcheon, Dara P. S.
name: Nazir, Ahsan
name: Mørk, Jesper
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semiconductor quantum dots have recently emerged as a leading platform to efficiently generate highly indistinguishable photons, and this work addresses the timely question of how good these solid-state sources can ultimately be. We establish the crucial role of lattice relaxation in these systems in giving rise to trade-offs between indistinguishability and efficiency. We analyse the two source architectures most commonly employed: a quantum dot embedded in a waveguide and a quantum dot coupled to an optical cavity. For waveguides, we demonstrate that the broadband Purcell effect results in a simple inverse relationship, where indistinguishability and efficiency cannot be simultaneously increased. For cavities, the frequency selectivity of the Purcell enhancement results in a more subtle trade-off, where indistinguishability and efficiency can be simultaneously increased, though by the same mechanism not arbitrarily, limiting a source with near-unity indistinguishability ($>99$\%) to an efficiency of approximately 96\% for realistic parameters.
Discrimination and development: the effect of maternal adversity on child neurobehavioral development
Creators: name: Hayes, Maria
name: Sridhar, N.
name: Nigg, J.T.
name: Gustafsson, H.C.
name: Sullivan, E.L.
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Infant
subject: Child
subject: Temperament
subject: Perceived Discrimination
subject: Infant Behavior
subject: Brain
subject: Parents
subject: Surveys and Questionnaires
subject: Maternal adversity

description: Early environmental factors, particularly adversities experienced by the birthing parent during gestation, can have a profound effect on child health, influencing both fetal brain development and infant behavior. The mechanisms by which such adversity contributes to child development, however, are not fully established. We prospectively examined the effect of maternal perceived discrimination on maternal distress and on offspring 1-month-old temperament. We hypothesized that maternal experiences of discrimination would worsen maternal distress and that maternal distress would predict alterations in infant temperament.
Structural studies of thyroxine binding globulin and fragments of transthyretin
Creators: name: Jarvis, Jacqueline Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Soil Property and Class Maps of the Conterminous US at 100 meter Spatial Resolution based on a Compilation of National Soil Point Observations and Machine Learning
Creators: name: Ramcharan, Amanda
name: Hengl, Tomislav
name: Nauman, Travis
name: Brungard, Colby
name: Waltman, Sharon
name: Wills, Skye
name: Thompson, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With growing concern for the depletion of soil resources, conventional soil data must be updated to support spatially explicit human-landscape models. Three US soil point datasetswere combined with a stack of over 200 environmental datasets to generate complete coverage gridded predictions at 100 m spatial resolution of soil properties (percent organic C, total N, bulk density, pH, and percent sand and clay) and US soil taxonomic classes (291 great groups and 78 modified particle size classes) for the conterminous US. Models were built using parallelized random forest and gradient boosting algorithms. Soil property predictions were generated at seven standard soil depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100 and 200 cm). Prediction probability maps for US soil taxonomic classifications were also generated. Model validation results indicate an out-of-bag classification accuracy of 60 percent for great groups, and 66 percent for modified particle size classes; for soil properties cross-validated R-square ranged from 62 percent for total N to 87 percent for pH. Nine independent validation datasets were used to assess prediction accuracies for soil class models and results ranged between 24-58 percent and 24-93 percent for great group and modified particle size class prediction accuracies, respectively. The hybrid "SoilGrids+" modeling system that incorporates remote sensing data, local predictions of soil properties, conventional soil polygon maps, and machine learning opens the possibility for updating conventional soil survey data with machine learning technology to make soil information easier to integrate with spatially explicit models, compared to multi-component map units.
description: Submitted to Soil Science Society of America Journal, 40 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables
A Change is Gonna Come: Examining Environmental Hazard Distribution and Gentrification in Atlanta, GA, 2005-2015
Creators: name: Keller, Brittany
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2023

description:
Past research has found that minority and low socioeconomic status families are more likely to reside in neighborhoods with a disproportionate number of environmental burdens than white and high socioeconomic status families.  It has also been posited that low-income minorities are replaced by higher-income whites when gentrification takes place in urban neighborhoods.  It is the goal of this study to identify patterns between official environmental hazard recognition and gentrification as defined by racial turnover in the city of Atlanta by using census data and information from the Georgia brownfield records and the Toxic Release Inventory.  I found that as the proportion of whites increased, the number of recognized environmental hazards increased and that the average number of recognized environmental hazards within the gentrifying census tracts was greater than that within census tracts that were not experiencing gentrification.
Spherical symmetry as a test case for unconstrained hyperboloidal evolution II: gauge conditions
Creators: name: Vañó-Viñuales, Alex
name: Husa, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present numerical solutions of the hyperboloidal initial value problem for a self-gravitating scalar field in spherical symmetry, using a variety of standard hyperbolic slicing and shift conditions that we adapt to our hyperboloidal setup. We work in the framework of conformal compactification, and study both evolutions that employ the preferred conformal gauge, which simplifies the formal singularities of our equations at null infinity, and evolutions without this simplification. In previous work we have used a staggered grid, which excludes null infinity, while now we include the option of placing a gridpoint directly at null infinity. We use both the generalized BSSN and conformal Z4 formulations of the Einstein equations, study the effect of different gauge conditions, and show that robust evolutions are possible for a range of choices.
description: 35 pages, 5 figures. Version accepted by CQG
Underreported Yet Overcrowded: Negligent Deaths and Prison Overcrowding in  the Context of Missing Prison Data in the United States
Creators: name: Sellers, Chloe
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2023

description:
With the highest incarceration rate in the world, the inability to provide adequate health care and facilities in United States prisons is paramount, especially given unequal incarceration rates by race. This study analyzes 1998 and 1999 National Prisoner Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice. Using the context of federal funding incentives and truth-in-sentencing laws, which drastically increased sentence lengths and overcrowding, this study explores the relationship between overcrowding and unnatural deaths among incarcerated populations at the state-level. The inability of United States prisons to address health and safety needs and the overwhelming lack of reporting and preventable deaths among state and federal-level prisons is cause for concern about the operations of these facilities. With COVID-19 posing new challenges to disease prevention and safety, the impacts of overcrowding, and its links to negligent death in prisons, this topic is as relevant an issue today as it was twenty years ago.
(501586) Mary McDougal
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.
title: Bayesian hierarchical models for ecological data: estimating population size, spatial and temporal patterns.
Creators: name: Ketwaroo, Fabian Ricardo
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: The work in this thesis presents three manuscripts, described in Chapters 2 to 4. Chapter 2 presents an evaluation of the popular N-mixture model in a Bayesian framework to corroborate and extend issues concerning N-mixture models previously discussed in a classical framework. Specifically, the chapter focuses on prior specification, when no prior information is available, as well as on model selection. For prior specification, a novel objective prior that is proper is implemented and tested, and its performance is compared to approximations of the Jeffreys prior. Model selection of an extensive class of N-mixture models is performed using the Watanable-Akaike information criterion (WAIC) in a wide range of scenarios. Chapter 3 presents a Bayesian hierarchical modelling framework for count data on species that exhibit temporary emigration (TE) at a site with temporally replicated sampling. This modelling framework accounts for observation error and models TE parametrically and non-parametrically to provide estimates of temporal population size. Temporal models and Dirichlet process mixture models are introduced to model TE parametrically and non-parametrically, respectively. Both of these approaches give rise to interesting ecological interpretations of TE. Additionally, using an efficient Bayesian variable selection algorithm, this modelling framework is further extended to identify important predictors of observation error. Chapter 4 presents a Bayesian spatial model that simultaneously models disease dynamics and population dynamics using spatial capture-recapture data and imperfect diagnostic tests. Accounting for observation error in both detection and diagnostic tests, this framework enables a better understanding of how disease dynamics relate to population demographics in spatiotemporal contexts at an individual level. Specifically, disease transmission is modelled as a function of population density. The supplementary material for each paper is presented in the appendix.
Investigation of the role of cannabinoids in the modulation of appetitive behaviour and body temperature in rats
Creators: name: Jamshidi, Nazila
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Faster biomineralization and osteogenesis on-a-chip using 3D bioprinting and microfluidics
Creators: name: Visalakshan, Rahul M.
name: Sousa, Mauricio
name: Taheri, Anthony
name: Athirasala, Avathamsa
name: Bertassoni, Luiz
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Culture Techniques
subject: Tissue Engineering
subject: Bioprinting
subject: Microfluidics
subject: Biomineralization
subject: Human bone regeneration

description: Bone defects can occur after trauma, infection, or oncologic resection and autologous bone grafting is the current treatment option. However, this method has its limitations in more severe injuries as it may cause infection and scarring at donor sites. Thus, developing biomaterials that are osteoinductive with live cells is essential for treating bone defects. We are creating a bone-like structure that are biomineralized to the nanoscale level and embedded with human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) that undergo osteogenic differentiation without any conventional supplements.
Effects of some anionic surfactants with differing irritation potentials on the structure and function of stratum corneum
Creators: name: Jagger, Catherine A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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(501588) George McDougal [MacDougal]
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.
Chromone-based PDE2 inhibitors as potential prostate cancer therapeutics
Creators: name: Holien, Jessica Kate
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Programs integrating nutrition, family planning, and other sexual and reproductive health services in low- and middle-income countries: a protocol for scoping review
Creators: name: Dwumah-Agyen, Matthew
name: Wafaie W. Fawzi
name: Yelverton, Cara
name: Uttara Partap
name: Ali, Nazia Binte
name: Shinde, Sachin
name: Shah, Iqbal
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Public Health
subject: Nutrition
subject: Integration
subject: Sexual and Reproductive Health
subject: Family planning

description: This is a scoping review protocol aimed at synthesizing evidences on integration efforts of nutrition, family planning, and other sexual and reproductive health services in low- and middle-income countries
Electron-electron attraction in an engineered electromechanical system
Creators: name: Széchenyi, Gábor
name: Pályi, András
name: Droth, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two electrons in a quantum dot repel each other: their interaction can be characterized by a positive interaction energy. From the theory of superconductivity, we also know that mechanical vibrations of the crystal lattice can make the electron-electron interaction attractive. Analogously, if a quantum dot interacts with a mechanical degree of freedom, the effective interaction energy can be negative; that is, the electron-electron interaction might be attractive. In this work, we propose and theoretically study an engineered electromechanical system that exhibits electron-electron attraction: a quantum dot suspended on a nonlinear mechanical resonator, tuned by a bottom and a top gate electrode. We focus on the example of a dot embedded in a suspended graphene ribbon, for which we identify conditions for electron-electron attraction. Our results suggest the possibility of electronic transport via tunneling of packets of multiple electrons in such devices, similar to that in superconducting nanostructures, but without the use of any superconducting elements.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
(501589) Ann [McDougal or MacDougal]
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.
Creative Industry, Public Policies and Creative Territories
Creators: name: EMMENDOERFER, MAGNUS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Creative economy
Sustainable Development
Public policy

description: Presentation Slides held on September 15, 2023, during the Panel ''Creative Industry, Public Policies and Creative Territories'' at the IV CIDI - International Congress of Interdisciplinary Dialogues: Territories, Territorialities and Contemporary Identities, organized by Feevale University, one of the co-founders of UNESCO Chair in Creative Economy and Public Policies. -------------- Slides de apresentação realizada no dia 15 de setembro de 2023, durante o Painel ''Indústria Criativa, Políticas Públicas e Territórios Criativos'' do IV CIDI - Congresso Internacional de Diálogos Interdisciplinares: Territórios, Territorialidades e Identidades Contemporâneas, organizado pela Universidade Feevale, uma das co-fundadores da Cátedra UNESCO em Economia Criativa e Políticas Públicas.
Intepretable Local Explanations Through Genetic Programming
Creators: name: Andersen, Hayden
name: Lensen, Andrew
name: Browne, Will
name: Mei, Yi
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4608
subject: Human-centred computing
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: No description supplied
Absolutely convex sets of large Szlenk index
Creators: name: Brooker, Philip A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B20, 46B03, 46B15, 47B10

description: Let $X$ be a Banach space and $K$ an absolutely convex, weak$^\ast$-compact subset of $X^\ast$. We study consequences of $K$ having a large or undefined Szlenk index and subsequently derive a number of related results concerning basic sequences and universal operators. We show that if $X$ has a countable Szlenk index then $X$ admits a subspace $Y$ such that $Y$ has a basis and the Szlenk indices of $Y$ are comparable to the Szlenk indices of $X$. If $X$ is separable, then $X$ also admits subspace $Z$ such that the quotient $X/Z$ has a basis and the Szlenk indices of $X/Z$ are comparable to the Szlenk indices of $X$. We also show that for a given ordinal $ξ$ the class of operators whose Szlenk index is not an ordinal less than or equal to $ξ$ admits a universal element if and only if $ξ
description: Accepted for publication in the North-Western European Journal of Mathematics. Page numbering in this version shall differ from the published version. The results of this version are the same as in the original upload to the arXiv, however there has been some reorganisation of the content to bring the statement of the main results of the paper forward to the Introduction section