cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Social Sustainability of Digital Transformation: Empirical Evidence from EU-27 Countries
Creators: name: Nosratabadi, Saeed
name: Atobishi, Thabit
name: HegedHus, Szilard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In the EU-27 countries, the importance of social sustainability of digital transformation (SOSDIT) is heightened by the need to balance economic growth with social cohesion. By prioritizing SOSDIT, the EU can ensure that its citizens are not left behind in the digital transformation process and that technology serves the needs of all Europeans. Therefore, the current study aimed firstly to evaluate the SOSDIT of EU-27 countries and then to model its importance in reaching sustainable development goals (SDGs). The current study, using structural equation modeling, provided quantitative empirical evidence that digital transformation in Finland, the Netherlands, and Denmark are respectively most socially sustainable. It is also found that SOSDIT leads the countries to have a higher performance in reaching SDGs. Finally, the study provided evidence implying the inverse relationship between the Gini coefficient and reaching SDGs. In other words, the higher the Gini coefficient of a country, the lower its performance in reaching SDGs. The findings of this study contribute to the literature of sustainability and digitalization. It also provides empirical evidence regarding the SOSDIT level of EU-27 countries that can be a foundation for the development of policies to improve the sustainability of digital transformation. According to the findings, this study provides practical recommendations for countries to ensure that their digital transformation is sustainable and has a positive impact on society.
Identification and properties of the photospheric emission in GRB090902B
Creators: name: Ryde, F.
name: Axelsson, M.
name: Zhang, B. B.
name: McGlynn, S.
name: Pe'er, A.
name: Lundman, C.
name: Larsson, S.
name: Battelino, M.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Bissaldi, E.
name: Bregeon, J.
name: Briggs, M. S.
name: Chiang, J.
name: de Palma, F.
name: Guiriec, S.
name: Larsson, J.
name: Longo, F.
name: McBreen, S.
name: Omodei, N.
name: Petrosian, V.
name: Preece, R.
name: van der Horst, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observed the bright and long GRB090902B, lying at a redshift of z = 1.822. Together the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) cover the spectral range from 8 keV to >300 GeV is covered. Here we show that the prompt burst spectrum is consistent with emission from the jet photosphere combined with non-thermal emission described by a single power-law with photon index -1.9. The photosphere gives rise to a strong quasi-blackbody spectrum which is somewhat broader than a single Planck function and has a characteristic temperature of ~290keV. We derive the photospheric radius Rph = (1.1 \pm 0.3) x 10^12 Y^{1/4} cm and the bulk Lorentz factor of the flow, which is found to vary by a factor of two and has a maximal value of Gamma = 750 Y^{1/4}. Here Y is the ratio between the total fireball energy and the energy emitted in the gamma-rays. We find that during the first quarter of the prompt phase the photospheric emission dominates, which explains the delayed onset of the observed flux in the LAT compared to the GBM. We model the photospheric emission with a multi-color blackbody and its shape indicates that the photospheric radius increases at higher latitudes. We interpret the broad band emission as synchrotron emission at R ~ 4x10^15 cm. Our analysis emphasize the importance of having high temporal resolution when performing spectral analysis on GRBs, since there is strong spectral evolution.
description: Accepted by ApJ Letters
Additional file 8 of Impact of antipsychotics in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: D’Alò, Gian Loreto
name: Crescenzo, Franco De
name: Amato, Laura
name: Cruciani, Fabio
name: Davoli, Marina
name: Fulceri, Francesca
name: Minozzi, Silvia
name: Mitrova, Zuzana
name: Morgano, Gian Paolo
name: Nardocci, Franco
name: Saulle, Rosella
name: Schünemann, Holger Jens
name: Scattoni, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8: GRADE Evidence profile.
(+)-{1,2-Bis[(2R,5R)-2,5-diethyl-phospho-lan-1-yl]ethane- κ2 P,P′}(≠4-cyclo-octa-1,5-diene)rhodium(I) tetra-fluoridoborate
Creators: name: Schulz, S.
name: Fischer, C.
name: Drexler, H.-J.
name: Heller, D.
Publisher: name: Chester : International Union of Crystallography
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crystal structure
subject: Chemistry
subject: Crystallography
subject: 540

description: The title compound, [Rh(C8H12)(C18H 36P2)]BF4, exhibits a rhodium(I) complex cation with a bidentate bis-phosphine ligand and a bidentate 2, 2-coordinated cyclo-octa-1,5-diene ligand. The ligands form a slightly distorted square-planar coordination environment for the Rh(I) atom. An intra-molecular P-Rh-P bite angle of 83.91 (2)° is observed. The dihedral angle between the P - Rh - P and the X - Rh - X planes (X is the centroid of a double bond) is 14.0 (1)°. The BF4 anion is disordered over two positions in a 0.515 (7):0.485 (7) ratio.
Matrix Ansatz, lattice paths and rook placements
Creators: name: Corteel, Sylvie
name: Josuat-Verges, Matthieu
name: Prellberg, Thomas
name: Rubey, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give two combinatorial interpretations of the Matrix Ansatz of the PASEP in terms of lattice paths and rook placements. This gives two (mostly) combinatorial proofs of a new enumeration formula for the partition function of the PASEP. Besides other interpretations, this formula gives the generating function for permutations of a given size with respect to the number of ascents and occurrences of the pattern 13-2, the generating function according to weak exceedances and crossings, and the n-th moment of certain q-Laguerre polynomials.
Syngas Production from Propane Using Atmospheric Non-thermal Plasma
Creators: name: Ouni, Fakhreddine
name: Khacef, Ahmed
name: Cormier, Jean Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Propane steam reforming using a sliding discharge reactor was investigated under atmospheric pressure and low temperature (420 K). Non-thermal plasma steam reforming proceeded efficiently and hydrogen was formed as a main product (H2 concentration up to 50%). By-products (C2-hydrocarbons, methane, carbon dioxide) were measured with concentrations lower than 6%. The mean electrical power injected in the discharge is less than 2 kW. The process efficiency is described in terms of propane conversion rate, steam reforming and cracking selectivity, as well as by-products production. Chemical processes modelling based on classical thermodynamic equilibrium reactor is also proposed. Calculated data fit quiet well experimental results and indicate that the improvement of C3H8 conversion and then H2 production can be achieved by increasing the gas fraction through the discharge. By improving the reactor design, the non-thermal plasma has a potential for being an effective way for supplying hydrogen or synthesis gas.
description: 12 pages
(tert-Butylimido)bis(η5-cyclopenta-dienyl) pyridinezirconium(IV)
Creators: name: Kaleta, K.
name: Arndt, P.
name: Spannenberg, A.
name: Rosenthal, U.
Publisher: name: Chester : International Union of Crystallography
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crystal structure
subject: Chemistry
subject: Crystallography
subject: 540

description: The title compound, [Zr(C5H5)2(C 4H9N)(C5H5N)], was obtained from the reaction of (C5H5)2Zr(py)(η2- Me3SiC2SiMe3) (py is pyridine) and tBuN=C=NtBu alongside the formation of (C 5H5)2Zr(CNtBu)(2-Me 3SiC2SiMe3). The zirconium atom is coordinated in a distorted tetrahedral geometry by two cyclopentadienyl ligands, a pyridine ligand, and a tertbutylimido ligand via a Zr=N double bond. The tertbutyl group is disordered over two positions in a 0.634 (5):0.366 (5) ratio.
Modernizing commercial rate design to align the private benefits of distributed energy storage with system and social welfare
Creators: name: Haley, Matthew Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Battery
Energy storage
Retail electricity rates
Emissions
Distributed Energy Resources

description: The adoption of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) – such as battery energy storage and rooftop solar - are revolutionizing the topology and operation of the electric grid. When paired with smart control and communication technologies, DERs transform traditional electricity customers into providers of (potentially zero-emission) energy and grid services. Electricity rates - the policies that govern the retail use cases for these technologies – however, lag the technological advances of the modern grid. Retail rates designed in a less technically complex era – such as demand charges – do not send price signals that align customer behavior with either grid or social benefits. In this research we investigate the retail rate incentives for the commercial segment of energy customers in Texas. Texas provides an interesting test case for commercial investment in energy storage for two reasons: first, low energy prices driven by cost declines in renewables and natural gas has caused commercial and industrial energy use in Texas to grow compared to other states, second, retail restructuring in Texas has diversified the types of rates a commercial customer can choose from. In this analysis, we formulate a linear program to optimize commercial DER behavior over a variety of increasingly time-responsive commercial rate designs. We then utilize four years of historical data from ERCOT and 15 commercial building load profiles to investigate how each retail rate design aligns with system and social objectives including emission reductions. I find that time invariant rates – such as demand charges - often provide perverse incentives to some classes of commercial DER applications that increase system-wide costs and can increase emissions. In comparison I find that exposing commercial DER customers to dynamic prices that better reflects real-time system needs decreases overall costs and decreases emissions.
title: A Proposal That the City Manager Form of Government be Adopted in Logan, Utah
Creators: name: Benson, Serge N.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1977

description: Logan, Utah has a number of organizational and procedural problems, as do many other American cities. This study was initiated with the hope that some system could be ascertained that would solve or alleviate most of these problems.
The history and development of the City Manager Plan of Government was researched thoroughly and a number of cities with the plan in operation in whole, or in part, were studied.
The conclusion was that Logan, Utah would substantially improve the efficiency of its operations as a whole if it adopted the City Manager Plan. This thesis is of the advocacy type, as the author was convinced early in the study that Logan could resolve many of its problems and gain stature among cities by assuming a more business-like stance in the business end of its operations.
title: The IMGRID Computer System for Land Use Studies: Testing and Documentation for Utah State University
Creators: name: Bremer, Walter Donald
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1977

description: This paper is the result of the adaptation and testing of the IMGRID Programming System acquired from Harvard University, for land use studies in the Department Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University. The system utilizes rectangular coordinate grid cell data for storage and analysis, and is now in operation on the Burroughs B 6700 computer system.
The operation of Utah State IMGRID is documented here to reflect the types of analyses which are currently performed in this region, and examples provided to demonstrate the system to graduate students and others who are interested in land use analysis.
Information is also which will assist in preparing the system to accept the modeling criteria and information from different study sites for analysis.
This paper is directed towards a user who has a limited knowledge of computer applications in land use studies.
title: Identification of Products Arising from the Metabolism of Cis-and Trans-Chlordane by Rat Liver Microsomes in Vitro: Outline of a Possible Metabolic Pathway
Creators: name: Brimfield, Alan Arthur
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1977

description: The metabolism of pure cis- and trans- chlordane was studied in vitro. Microsomal preparations from the livers of male rats induced with cis- or trans-chlordane in feed for ten days were used to metabolize the pure compound corresponding to the inducer. Subsequent extraction, column fractionation and combined gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy resulted in the characterization of four compounds not previously reported from an in vitro system.
In addition to the substrate, trans-chlordane extracts contained species with the following molecular weights and empirical formulae: m/e 370, c 10 H 5 Cl 7 , heptachlor; m/e 352, c 10 H 6 0C1 6, a hydroxylated chlordene; and m/e 422, c 10 H 6 0C1 8 , a hydroxylated chlordane. Dichlo rochlo rdene, oxychlordane and 1- chloro- 2 -hydroxychlordene chlorohydrin were also present, With the exception of the hydroxychlordane and heptachlor, cis - chlordane extracts contained all of the metabolites found in the trans-incubates. Additionally, a fully saturated compound m/e 372, c 10 H 7 c1 7, a dihydroheptachlor, was present. The 1, 2-trans-dihydrodiol of heptachlor found in previous in vitro incubates of cis-chlordane was not present in this extract.
This information has been incorporated into a proposed route for the biotransformation of the chlordanes that offers an explanation for the observed differences in the metabolism of cis - and trans-chlordane . The pathway is based on the reductive dechlorination of the chlordanes through dihydroheptachlor to dihydrochlordene. Parallel pathways of hydroxylation, desaturation and epoxide formation arise at each of these species and at chlordane itself. The trans-isomer is predominantly desaturated or hydroxylated while the cis-isomer mainly undergoes dehaloge nation.
Modeling the Impact of Mentoring on Women's Work-LifeBalance: A Grounded Theory Approach
Creators: name: Bahrami, Parvaneh
name: Nosratabadi, Saeed
name: Palouzian, Khodayar
name: Hegedus, Szilard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this study was to model the impact of mentoring on women's work-life balance. Indeed, this study considered mentoring as a solution to create a work-life balance of women. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews with both mentors and mentees of Tehran Municipality were conducted and the collected data were analyzed using constructivist grounded theory. Findings provided a model of how mentoring affects women's work-life balance. According to this model, role management is the key criterion for work-life balancing among women. In this model, antecedents of role management and the contextual factors affecting role management, the constraints of mentoring in the organization, as well as the consequences of effective mentoring in the organization are described. The findings of this research contribute to the mentoring literature as well as to the role management literature and provide recommendations for organizations and for future research.
Combinatorics and geometry of finite and infinite squaregraphs
Creators: name: Bandelt, Hans-Jurgen
name: Chepoi, Victor
name: Eppstein, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C62; 05C75

description: Squaregraphs were originally defined as finite plane graphs in which all inner faces are quadrilaterals (i.e., 4-cycles) and all inner vertices (i.e., the vertices not incident with the outer face) have degrees larger than three. The planar dual of a finite squaregraph is determined by a triangle-free chord diagram of the unit disk, which could alternatively be viewed as a triangle-free line arrangement in the hyperbolic plane. This representation carries over to infinite plane graphs with finite vertex degrees in which the balls are finite squaregraphs. Algebraically, finite squaregraphs are median graphs for which the duals are finite circular split systems. Hence squaregraphs are at the crosspoint of two dualities, an algebraic and a geometric one, and thus lend themselves to several combinatorial interpretations and structural characterizations. With these and the 5-colorability theorem for circle graphs at hand, we prove that every squaregraph can be isometrically embedded into the Cartesian product of five trees. This embedding result can also be extended to the infinite case without reference to an embedding in the plane and without any cardinality restriction when formulated for median graphs free of cubes and further finite obstructions. Further, we exhibit a class of squaregraphs that can be embedded into the product of three trees and we characterize those squaregraphs that are embeddable into the product of just two trees. Finally, finite squaregraphs enjoy a number of algorithmic features that do not extend to arbitrary median graphs. For instance, we show that median-generating sets of finite squaregraphs can be computed in polynomial time, whereas, not unexpectedly, the corresponding problem for median graphs turns out to be NP-hard.
description: 46 pages, 14 figures
Grammatical contrastive analysis of English and Chinese basic structures
Creators: name: Cheung, Man-Bing Steve
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Students learning a foreign language are apt to apply their own linguistic habits to the new language. Actually many problems of foreign language learning arise out of the interference of the learner’s first language habits. Thus modern linguists believe that a given foreign language cannot be successfully taught in an identical way to a group of students with different linguistic backgrounds. While it is true that problems of the learning of a foreign language are various, and that each of them must be attacked with a different technique, the technique of Contrastive Analysis can be universally applied in foreign language teaching. Contrastive analysis of the source language and the target language has been proved fruitful by Professor Robert Lado formerly of the University of Michigan, especially in devising tests and preparing teaching materials. This thesis, which is based upon Professor Lado’s method, is a contrastive analysis of English and Chinese basic syntactical structures, and an attempt to establish a hierachy of difficulty so as to help teachers who teach English as a second language to Chinese students. The work is confined to the syntactical level. Other levels of the formal structure of language such as the phonological level, the morphophonemic level, and the semantic level, are beyond the scope of the purpose of the paper. The analysis is presented in the transformational approach demonstrated by Noam Chomsky in "A Transformational Approach to Syntax". (See Introduction) The thesis is divided into five sections. In each section, except Section 1, descriptions and contrastive analyses of the two languages are made so that conclusions can be reached and problems of Chinese speakers learning English can be predicted. Section 1 is an introduction which explains the use of contrastive analysis, and justifies the adoption of the transformational approach. Section 2 is an illustration, by generating sentences, of the English and Chinese Phrase Structure rules. Section 3 describes the Noun Phrases in both languages. Section 4 is a discussion of the personal pronoun, while Section 5 contains a classification of English and Chinese verbs. It is hoped that this paper will be of some value for teachers who are teaching English to Chinese speakers, and also that it will provide other teachers with some insight into the values of contrastive analysis in foreign language teaching.
Additional file 6 of Impact of antipsychotics in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: D’Alò, Gian Loreto
name: Crescenzo, Franco De
name: Amato, Laura
name: Cruciani, Fabio
name: Davoli, Marina
name: Fulceri, Francesca
name: Minozzi, Silvia
name: Mitrova, Zuzana
name: Morgano, Gian Paolo
name: Nardocci, Franco
name: Saulle, Rosella
name: Schünemann, Holger Jens
name: Scattoni, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: Forest plots for comparisons between antipsychotics (D2 blockers) and Placebo – subgroup analyses (ABC-Irritability ≥18 vs All ASDs).
Additional file 7 of Impact of antipsychotics in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: D’Alò, Gian Loreto
name: Crescenzo, Franco De
name: Amato, Laura
name: Cruciani, Fabio
name: Davoli, Marina
name: Fulceri, Francesca
name: Minozzi, Silvia
name: Mitrova, Zuzana
name: Morgano, Gian Paolo
name: Nardocci, Franco
name: Saulle, Rosella
name: Schünemann, Holger Jens
name: Scattoni, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7: Funnel Plots for outcome with estimates for at least 8 studies.
Turning a First Order Quantum Phase Transition Continuous by Fluctuations: General Flow Equations and Application to d-Wave Pomeranchuk Instability
Creators: name: Jakubczyk, P.
name: Metzner, W.
name: Yamase, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive renormalization group equations which allow us to treat order parameter fluctuations near quantum phase transitions in cases where an expansion in powers of the order parameter is not possible. As a prototypical application, we analyze the nematic transition driven by a d-wave Pomeranchuk instability in a two-dimensional electron system. We find that order parameter fluctuations suppress the first order character of the nematic transition obtained at low temperatures in mean-field theory, so that a continuous transition leading to quantum criticality can emerge.
Additional file 1 of Macular edema after rhegmatogenous retinal detachment repair: risk factors, OCT analysis, and treatment responses
Creators: name: Pole, Cameron
name: Chehaibou, Ismael
name: Govetto, Andrea
name: Garrity, Sean
name: Schwartz, Steven D.
name: Hubschman, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Descriptive statistics for all three groups, as explained in results population section.
HelixJet: An innovative plasma source for next-generation additive manufacturing (3D printing)
Creators: name: Schäfer, Jan
name: Quade, Antje
name: Abrams, Kerry J.
name: Sigeneger, Florian
name: Becker, Markus M.
name: Majewski, Candice
name: Rodenburg, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Interscience
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: additive manufacturing
subject: electron microscopy
subject: plasma printing
subject: polyamide
subject: thermography
subject: 530
subject: 540

description: A novel plasma source (HelixJet) for use in additive manufacturing (AM)/3D printing is proposed. The HelixJet is a capacitively coupled radio frequency plasma with a double-helix electrode configuration that generates a surprisingly stable and homogeneous glow plasma at low flow rates of argon and its mixtures at atmospheric pressure. The HelixJet was tested on three polyamide powders usually used to produce parts by laser sintering, a powder-based AM process, to form local deposits. The chemical composition of such plasma-printed samples is compared with thermally produced and laser-sintered samples with respect to differences in morphology that result from the different thermal cycles on several length scales. Plasma prints exhibit unique features attributable to the nonequilibrium chemistry and to the high-speed heat exchange.
title: The Formation of Desired and Ideal Family Size Among Utah High School Senior Females and Males, 1974
Creators: name: Hagen, Linda Rose
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: The purpose of this study is to measure the direct and indirect relationships between socio-economic and demographic variables and ideal and desired family size preferences among male and female high school seniors in Utah in 1974. Furthermore, the analysis will be carried out separately for males and females in order to see if male and female ideal and desired family size preferences are influenced differently by the socio-economic and demographic variables. A model will be developed and tested of the process by which ideal and desired family size preferences are formulated.
The model used in the analysis is based upon Westoff and Potvin's "theory of ideal family size formation." Westoff and Potvin's "theory of ideal family size formation" states family size of female's is a result of early socialization. The socialization can be influenced by four categories of processes. The four categories are family size in environment variables, social context variables, consistency and continuity in life experiences, and interaction between beliefs and behavior. The socio-economic and demographic variables selected to test this model were size of family of orientation, place of residence, social class, religion, religiosity, desired age at marriage , ideal age at marriage, the number of circumstances females or males would consider acceptable for the use of birth control, and education difference.
The application of Westoff and Potvin's "theory of ideal family size formation" was a better fit for desired family size of females or males than ideal family size of females or males.
Desired family size of females was influenced by religion, religiosity , size of family of orientation, and the number of circumstances females/males find acceptable for the use of birth control. Desired family size of females was also influenced by social class.
Ideal family size of females is different from ideal family size of males. Both ideal family size of females and males was influenced by religion. Ideal family size of males was al so influenced by religiosity and social class.
The given socio-economic and demographic variables explained 39 percent of the variation for female desired family size and 29.5 percent of the variation for male desired family size. The given socio-economic and demographic variables explain 4 percent of the variation for female ideal family size and 17 percent of the variation for male ideal family size.
Efficiency of plasma-processed air for biological decontamination of crop seeds on the premise of unimpaired seed germination
Creators: name: Wannicke, Nicola
name: Wagner, Robert
name: Stachowiak, Joerg
name: Nishime, Thalita M.C.
name: Ehlbeck, Joerg
name: Weltmann, Klaus‐Dieter
name: Brust, Henrike
Publisher: name: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Interscience
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: decontamination
subject: germination
subject: NTP
subject: plasma
subject: plasma processed air
subject: seeds
subject: 530
subject: 540

description: In this study, the antimicrobial effect of plasma-processed air (PPA) generated by a microwave-induced nonthermal plasma was investigated for preharvest utilization using three crop species: Barley, rape, and lupine. Bacillus atrophaeus spores were chosen as a model, inoculated onto seeds, and subsequently treated with PPA at two different flow rates, different filling regimes, and gas exposure times. PPA treatment was efficient in reducing viable spores of B. atrophaeus, reaching sporicidal effects in all species at certain parameter combinations. Maximum germination of seeds was strongly reduced in barley and rape seeds at some parameter combination, whereas it had a modest effect on lupine seeds. Seed hydrophilicity was not altered. Overall, PPA investigated in this study proved suitable for preharvest applications.
Additional file 1 of Adherence to self-managed exercises for patients with persistent subacromial pain: the Ad-Shoulder feasibility study
Creators: name: Major, Daniel H.
name: Grotle, Margreth
name: Littlewood, Chris
name: Brox, Jens Ivar
name: Matre, Dagfinn
name: Gallet, Heidi V.
name: Røe, Yngve
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. CONSORT 2010 checklist of information to include when reporting a pilot or feasibility trial.
title: Larval Biology of Some Utah Chrysididae
Creators: name: Ouayogode, Bakary Vassery
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: Biologies of eight chrysidid species were described. These wasps parasitized bees and wasps collected in trap nests set at several sites in two canyons near Logan, Utah. The completed nests were taken to the laboratory and the parasitized ones were kept for study of the development a l biology and behavior of both host and parasites.
The larval stages of Chrysura smaragdicolor, Chrysura sonorensis, Chrysis parkeri, Chrysis derivata, Chrysis coerulans, Cerotachrysis enhuycki, Trichrysis doriae and Hedychridium solierellae were studied. Omalus iridescens and Omalus purpuratus larvae were observed only in the fifth instar. The major differences between species or genera were found in the first instar larvae. The other larval instars differed in size but behaved similarly. The first instar larvae had a sclerotized, prognathous head, sharp sickle shape mandibles. When threatened the parasite larvae could escape quickly with the help of the forked appendages of the first segment. All the species except in Chrysura killed the host in the first instar and fed on the prey stored by their hosts. The Chrysura first instar attacked the host bee larva only after the latter had spun its cocoon. By the fifth instar all species of larvae had developed several teeth (two to three) at the distal end of each mandible. The hardening of these teeth coincided with the change of the food consistency from liquid to solid.
The study also included a proposed evolutionary scheme of the possible pathway of morphological and behavioral characters that might ensure more successful parasitism.
A new translation of Lucian's De Dea Syria with a discussion of the cult at Hierapolis
Creators: name: Darcus, Roy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis seeks to provide a new translation of Lucian's De Dea Syria, and a discussion of the cult at Hierapolis. The translation is intended to be a clear and simple rendition of the text. The location of Hierapolis, the city Lucian describes, in northern Syria makes it possible for the cult to be derived either from Asia Minor or from Syria. The discoveries of Ras Shamra, however, have provided a picture of a fertility cult of the second millennium B.C., and Hierapolis seems to exhibit a later version of this religious pattern. First of all, the names of the chief deities, Atargatis and Hadad, reflect a Syrian origin since both are Semitic. Second, the myths that Lucian relates of the Flood and of Stratonike and Kombabos also seem to derive from a Syrian or Mesopotamian background. Finally, the rites practised there fit in with the fertility cult of Syria satisfactorily. The possibility of influence from Asia Minor, especially in later times, must always be considered, however, and the presence of the Galli at Hierapolis, as well as some of the structure of the spring feast, may be a result of influence from there. In the main, however, the cult seems basically Syrian, and there seems no need to search for a non-Syrian origin.
Nitrosylation vs. oxidation – How to modulate cold physical plasmas for biological applications
Creators: name: Lackmann, Jan-Wilm
name: Bruno, Giuliana
name: Jablonowski, Helena
name: Kogelheide, Friederike
name: Offerhaus, Björn
name: Held, Julian
name: Schulz-Von Der Gathen, Volker
name: Stapelmann, Katharina
name: Von Woedtke, Thomas
name: Wende, Kristian
Publisher: name: San Francisco, California, US : PLOS
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Thiol moieties
subject: cold plasma
subject: redox-signaling pathways
subject: 500
subject: 610

description: Thiol moieties are major targets for cold plasma-derived nitrogen and oxygen species, making CAPs convenient tools to modulate redox-signaling pathways in cells and tissues. The underlying biochemical pathways are currently under investigation but especially the role of CAP derived RNS is barely understood. Their potential role in protein thiol nitrosylation would be relevant in inflammatory processes such as wound healing and improving their specific production by CAP would allow for enhanced treatment options beyond the current application. The impact of a modified kINPen 09 argon plasma jet with nitrogen shielding on cysteine as a thiol-carrying model substance was investigated by FTIR spectroscopy and high-resolution mass spectrometry. The deposition of short-lived radical species was measured by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, long-lived species were quantified by ion chromatography (NO2-, NO3-) and xylenol orange assay (H2O2). Product profiles were compared to samples treated with the so-called COST jet, being introduced by a European COST initiative as a reference device, using both reference conditions as well as conditions adjusted to kINPen gas mixtures. While thiol oxidation was dominant under all tested conditions, an Ar + N2/O2 gas compositions combined with a nitrogen curtain fostered nitric oxide deposition and the desired generation of S-nitrosocysteine. Interestingly, the COST-jet revealed significant differences in its chemical properties in comparison to the kINPen by showing a more stable production of RNS with different gas admixtures, indicating a different •NO production pathway. Taken together, results indicate various chemical properties of kINPen and COST-jet as well as highlight the potential of plasma tuning not only by gas admixtures alone but by adjusting the surrounding atmosphere as well.
Tachyon-Dilaton-induced Inflation as an alpha'-resummed String Background
Creators: name: Alexandre, Jean
name: Kostouki, Anna
name: Mavromatos, Nick E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of a novel functional method on the world-sheet of the string, we discuss simple but re-summed (in the Regge slope) inflationary scenarios in the context of closed Bosonic strings, living in four target-space dimensions, in the presence of non-trivial tachyon, dilaton and graviton cosmological backgrounds. The inflationary solutions are argued to guarantee the vanishing of the corresponding Weyl anomaly coefficients in a given world-sheet renormalization scheme, thereby ensuring conformal invariance of the corresponding sigma-model to all orders in the Regge slope. The key property is the requirement of "homogeneity" of the corresponding Weyl anomaly coefficients. Inflation entails appropriate relations between the dilaton and tachyon field configurations, whose form can lead to either a de Sitter vacuum, incompatible though (due to the cosmic horizons) with the perturbative string scattering amplitudes, or to cosmic space-times involving brief inflationary periods, interpolating smoothly between power-law and/or Minkowski Universes. The latter situation is characterized by well-defined scattering amplitudes, and is thus compatible with a perturbative string framework. It is this scenario that we consider a self-consistent ground state in our framework, which is based on local field redefinitions of background fields.
description: 35 pages Latex, three eps figures incorporated
Revista Evaluación de Riesgos Laborales
Creators: name: Miranda Mayo, José Javier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 350505
subject: Occupational and workplace health and safety

description: Magazine oriented to safety and health at work. The magazine aims to be a vehicle to support the dissemination of studies and research related to the prevention of work accidents. It is a medium designed for researchers and authors committed to change, who are developing work methods, research or innovations based on collaboration with other fields different and complementary to those of their specialization, which are necessary to interpret and address the different dangers and occupational hazards. . In addition to disseminating studies and research on the social consequences derived from work accidents.
Following the refugee relocation scheme: Ideological interpretations of interstate shared responsibility in Romania
Creators: name: Bejan, Raluca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: EU's relocation scheme, interstate solidarity, Romania's migration policy

description: The number of irregular migrant entries within the European Union (EU) increased by 546% in 2015. Sea arrivals totaled 1,015,078 in 2015, 362,753 in 2016, and 172,301 in 2017. No policy has adequately addressed this humanitarian crisis, partially because of the deep ideological divisions within the EU regarding the implementation of the 2015 refugee relocation scheme. This paper uses interview data (n = 14) to explore how Romanian policymakers and elected representatives interpret the idea of interstate shared responsibility in relation to the EU’s relocation system for internally redistributing refugees and to examine what version of interstate solidarity is considered politically desirable. It starts from the premise that member states’ reluctance to adopting the relocation scheme was associated with contradictory ideological interpretations of the idea of shared responsibility, as well as dissimilar perceptions of what it means to fairly share accountability with respect to EU-wide migration matters.
Molecular Auger Interferometry
Creators: name: Khokhlova, M.
name: Cooper, B.
name: Ueda, K.
name: Prince, K.C.
name: Kolorenč, P.
name: Ivanov, M.
name: Averbukh, V.
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publ.
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: interferometric measurement theory
subject: Auger-active states
subject: Auger interferogram
subject: 530

description: We propose a theory of interferometric measurement of a normal Auger decay width in molecules. Molecular Auger interferometry is based on the coherent phase control of Auger dynamics in a two-colour (ω/2ω) laser field. We show that, in contrast to atoms, in oriented molecules of certain point groups (e.g. CH3F) the relative ω/2ω phase modulates the total ionisation yield. A simple analytical formula is derived for the extraction of the widths of Auger-active states from a molecular Auger interferogram, avoiding the need of either attosecond or high-resolution spectroscopy.
AC Transport at Holographic Quantum Hall Transitions
Creators: name: Alanen, Janne
name: Keski-Vakkuri, Esko
name: Kraus, Per
name: Suur-Uski, Ville
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute AC electrical transport at quantum Hall critical points, as modeled by intersecting branes and gauge/gravity duality. We compare our results with a previous field theory computation by Sachdev, and find unexpectedly good agreement. We also give general results for DC Hall and longitudinal conductivities valid for a wide class of quantum Hall transitions, as well as (semi)analytical results for AC quantities in special limits. Our results exhibit a surprising degree of universality; for example, we find that the high frequency behavior, including subleading behavior, is identical for our entire class of theories.
description: 26 pages including 7 figures. (v2): correction to section 3, added reference. (v3): clarified comparison to previous work, (v4): a couple of comments and references added
Contamination of short GRBs by giant magnetar flares: Significance of downward revision in distance to SGR 1806-20
Creators: name: Crowther, Paul A
name: Bibby, Joanne L
name: Furness, James P
name: Clark, J Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We highlight how the downward revision in the distance to the star cluster associated with SGR 1806-20 by Bibby et al. reconciles the apparent low contamination of BATSE short GRBs by intense flares from extragalactic magnetars without recourse to modifying the frequency of one such flare per 30 years per Milky Way galaxy. We also discuss the variety in progenitor initial masses of magnetars based upon cluster ages, ranging from ~50 Msun for SGR 1806-20 and iAXP CXOU J164710.2-455216 Westerlund 1 to ~17 Msun for SGR 1900+14 according to Davies et al. and presumably also 1E 1841-045 if it originated from one of the massive RSG clusters #2 or #3.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, contributed talk from `Neutron Stars and Gamma Ray Bursts' accepted for dedicated volume of Advances in Space Research
Influence of surface parameters on dielectric-barrier discharges in argon at subatmospheric pressure
Creators: name: Stankov, M.
name: Becker, M.M.
name: Bansemer, R.
name: Weltmann, K.-D.
name: Loffhagen, D.
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publ.
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: argon
subject: dielectric barrier discharge
subject: numerical modelling
subject: relative permittivity
subject: secondary electron emission
subject: 530

description: The influence of the secondary electron emission coefficient, γ, and the relative permittivity, ɛr, of the dielectric layers on the characteristics of dielectric-barrier discharges (DBDs) is studied by means of numerical modelling and calculated results are compared with experimental data. The analysis has been performed for a geometrically symmetric, plane-parallel DBD in argon with copper electrodes covered by quartz dielectrics. A time-dependent, spatially one-dimensional fluid model involving the drift-diffusion approximation is applied for the numerical analysis of the DBD operating sinusoidally at a frequency of 24 kHz with applied voltages between 1.8 and 3.4 kV and pressures from 100 to 650 mbar. Main features of the model as well as the experimental setup and procedures are given. The modelling studies show especially the sensitivity of the results on the specific choice of γ and ɛr regarding the occurrence and intensity of discharge peaks, the appearance of one or more smaller peaks after the main peak, as well the establishment of a single periodic, multiperiodic or even chaotic temporal evolution of the DBD. In particular, generally good agreement between measured and calculated discharge current signals and the power dissipated in the discharge is found for γ = 0.02 and ɛr = 4.2.
Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Multiple Planning Horizons
Creators: name: Yao, Jiayu
name: Pan, Weiwei
name: Doshi-Velez, Finale
name: Engelhardt, Barbara E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we study an inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) problem where the experts are planning under a shared reward function but with different, unknown planning horizons. Without the knowledge of discount factors, the reward function has a larger feasible solution set, which makes it harder for existing IRL approaches to identify a reward function. To overcome this challenge, we develop algorithms that can learn a global multi-agent reward function with agent-specific discount factors that reconstruct the expert policies. We characterize the feasible solution space of the reward function and discount factors for both algorithms and demonstrate the generalizability of the learned reward function across multiple domains.
description: Accepted at RLC 2024
Themes and strategies in early requirements gathering: an investigation into analyst-client interaction
Creators: name: Urquhart, C
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines early requirements gathering, a necessarily verbal interchange between an analyst and client which represents the starting point of specification of a new information system, or amendments to an existing system. Six case studies of analyst--client interaction are presented, consisting of a number of data sources: a video taped interaction and review, paragraphs from the analyst and client presented prior to the interaction, and individual interviews with analyst and client carried out before and after their interaction. The findings from the study are viewed through a theoretical framework that groups the issues associated with early requirements gathering from four perspectives: Social, Definitional, Environmental and Individual. The videotaped interactions were first subjected to analysis using grounded theory techniques which yielded two major categories, that of Systems Analysis Strategies and Conversational Strategies. The codes generated from this phase of analysis were used as foundation for further analysis of the videotaped interactions and the other data sources. In this way, the micro analysis provided a solid foundation for subsequent macro-analysis, with the use of topics as an intermediate unit of analysis of the interactions. This further analysis generated a number of themes that serve as a fruitful avenue for discussion of early requirements gathering: Issues to Be Discussed, Scope of System, Information Input to System, Processes Associated With System, Links in Information, Future Action, Problem Identification, Information Output from System, Analyst'S Understanding of Processes, Future Solutions, Organisational Context, Personal Disclosures, Professional Relationships, Note Taking and Use of Props. These themes are further organised and discussed using the theoretical framework. The thesis concludes by evaluating the methodology used and the theory produced. It is suggested that both the systems analysis and conversational strategies identified, and the themes, represent findings that could be usefully disseminated to IS practice and education, given the apparent paucity of treatment of the communicational aspects of early requirements gathering in these two arenas.