cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Critique of “Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method”
Creators: name: Hart, Andrew S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: After reading successive drafts and the final version of Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method, I am troubled by a dissonance between the title and the actual messages of this document. Much more than “recognizing,” the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Preservation of Library Materials Committee
“endorses digitization as an accepted preservation reformatting option for a range of materials.” Yet, the Committee does not adequately address concerns about preservation implications inherent to digital reformatting – concerns that have been a frequent topic of discussion within the profession over the past decade.
This is not to say that digitization has no role in preservation but rather to say its role is too easily misunderstood. I believe ARL would better serve its membership and the field in general by exploring more systematically the conditions under which digitization is a plausible preservation strategy, describing the ongoing costs and risks in greater detail, and articulating more clearly the relationships between digitization for the purpose of preservation and digitization for other reasons.
Semiblind Hyperspectral Unmixing in the Presence of Spectral Library Mismatches
Creators: name: Fu, Xiao
name: Ma, Wing-Kin
name: Bioucas-Dias, José
name: Chan, Tsung-Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The dictionary-aided sparse regression (SR) approach has recently emerged as a promising alternative to hyperspectral unmixing (HU) in remote sensing. By using an available spectral library as a dictionary, the SR approach identifies the underlying materials in a given hyperspectral image by selecting a small subset of spectral samples in the dictionary to represent the whole image. A drawback with the current SR developments is that an actual spectral signature in the scene is often assumed to have zero mismatch with its corresponding dictionary sample, and such an assumption is considered too ideal in practice. In this paper, we tackle the spectral signature mismatch problem by proposing a dictionary-adjusted nonconvex sparsity-encouraging regression (DANSER) framework. The main idea is to incorporate dictionary correcting variables in an SR formulation. A simple and low per-iteration complexity algorithm is tailor-designed for practical realization of DANSER. Using the same dictionary correcting idea, we also propose a robust subspace solution for dictionary pruning. Extensive simulations and real-data experiments show that the proposed method is effective in mitigating the undesirable spectral signature mismatch effects.
Three- and four-wave resonances in the nonlinear quadratic Kelvin lattice
Creators: name: Pezzi, Andrea
name: Comito, Tiziana
name: Bustamante, Miguel D.
name: Onorato, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate analytically and numerically the nonlinear Kelvin lattice, namely a chain of masses and nonlinear springs, as in the alpha-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) chain, where, in addition, each mass is connected to a nonlinear resonator, i.e., a second mass free to oscillate. Both nonlinearities are quadratic in the equations of motion. This setup represents the simplest prototype of nonlinear wave propagation on a nonlinear metamaterial. In the linear case, we diagonalize the system, and the two branches of the dispersion relation can be found. Using this result, we derive in the nonlinear case the equations of motion for the normal variables in Fourier space, obtaining a system governed by triad interactions among the two branches of the dispersion relation. We find that the transfer of energy between these two branches is ruled by three- and four-wave resonant interactions. We perform numerical simulations of the primitive equations of motion and highlight the role of resonances as an efficient mechanism for transferring energy. Moreover, as predicted by the theory, we provide direct evidence that four-wave resonances appear on a time scale that is longer than the time scale for three-wave resonances. We also assess the recurrence behaviour (usual in the FPUT system) for the nonlinear Kelvin lattice, and we show that, while recurrence is observed if all the energy is placed, at time t=0, in the lowest mode of the acoustical branch, a non-recurrent behaviour is observed if the initial energy is located in the optical branch.
description: Author Accepted Manuscript version (CNSNS)
Cognitive study and upgrading of the 20th century architectonic heritage: experiences and methodologies
Creators: name: Ascione, Paola
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: One component of the heritage of publicly funded property developments put up since the Second World War is residential districts designed by leading architects in which upgrading has to take into account considerations of safeguarding. The raising of the threshold from 50 to 70 years before safeguarding norms come into effect means that local authorities and management companies have sole responsibility for the modification and safeguarding of this heritage. This paper looks at some examples of 20th century housing estates designated for upgrading in order to highlight the specific strategies adopted, selected from a range of actions based on the need for accurate knowledge and collective agreement by all the parties involved right from the design phase.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
Lasioglossum villosulum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum villosulum

description: Lasioglossum villosulum (Kirby, 1802)
 26.VII.1998, 5J, 10♀; 23.V.1999, Hypochoeris radicata, 18♀, Lapsana communis, 4♀, Papaver rhoeas, 1♀; 13.VI.1999, Hypochoeris radicata, 6♀; 13.VI.1999, Ranunculus sp., 1♀; 18.VI.1999, Asteraceae, 1♀; 18.VI.1999, Ranunculus, 1♀; 18.VI.1999, bac jaune, 10♀; 1- 14.VII.1999, bac jaune, 12♀; 8.V.2000, Leucanthemum vulgare, 1♀; 8.V.2000, Hypochoeris radicata, 19♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Mesiotelus Simon 1897
Creators: name: Fu, Jianying
name: Zhang, Feng
name: Zhu, Mingsheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Liocranidae
Mesiotelus

description: Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 Mesiotelus Simon, 1897:143; Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 304. Type species: Cheiracanthium tenuissimus L. Koch, 1866, by original designation. DIAGNOSIS. The presence of a long male palp (especially long tibia and patella) distinguishes the genus Mesiotelus from other liocranid genera. The genus Mesiotelus presumably has close affinities with the Palearctic genus Liocranum and the Nearctic genus Hesperocranum on the basis of potentially derived genitalic characters: male palpal tibia with a prolateral lobe and epigynum with a similar conformation, including an anterior hood and posterior spermathecal sacs and ducts [Ubick & Platnick, 1991]. Mesiotelus can be distinguished from Hesperocranum by: tibiae and metatarsi I, II with interspersed typical spines and relatively few pairs of ventral bristles (Fig. 7), while the latter without spine and with numerous pairs of ventral bristles on tibiae and metatarsi I—III; epigynum with single hood anteriorly, while the latter with a bipartite hood; also Mesiotelus can be further distinguished from Hesperocranum by having recumbent, feathery leg setae, and the male with prognathous chelicerae. Mesiotelus is also very similar to the Liocranum, but can be distinguished from the latter by: metatarsi I, II with only one pair of long ventral spines, while the latter has two or three pairs of long ventral spines; epigynum with a single small, half-moon shaped hood anteriorly, while the latter often has a large and variously shaped hood; also Mesiotelus can be further distinguished from Liocranum by having fewer pairs of ventral bristles on tibiae and metatarsi I, II.
description: Published as part of Fu, Jianying, Zhang, Feng & Zhu, Mingsheng, 2008, Redescription of a little-known spider species, Mesiotelus lubricus (Simon, 1880) (Aranei: Liocranidae) from China, pp. 169-173 in Arthropoda Selecta 17 (3) on page 171, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.815376
description: {"references": ["Simon E. 1897. Histoire naturelle des araignees. Paris. Vol. 2. P. 1 - 192.", "Song D. X., Zhu M. S, Chen J. 2001. The Fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House. 510 pp.", "Ubick D., Platnick N. I. 1991. On Hesperocranum, a new spider genus from western North America (Araneae, Liocranidae) // American Museum Novitates. No. 3019. P. 1 - 12."]}
Living with a Stoma After Surgical Resection for Rectal Cancer: An Interpretive Phenomenological Study to Understand How Stomas Can Affect Physical Activity
Creators: name: Saunders, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cancer
Physical activity
Stoma
Ostomy

description: The benefits of physical activity for cancer survivors are numerous and well-substantiated. However, it is unclear how to accommodate specific cancer treatments, such as a stoma as part of treatment for rectal cancer, in order to be physically active. To bridge this gap, this study undertook an interpretive phenomenological analysis to explore the experience of 15 rectal cancer survivors' engagement in physical activity with a stoma. Overall, three themes were found: 1) understanding the drive and the motivation to be physically active, 2) despite being motivated to be physically active with a stoma it can be challenging, and 3) how to be physically active with a stoma: lessons learned. The findings suggest rectal cancer survivors with a stoma require motivational support and enhanced competence and self-efficacy in order to engage in greater physical activity. Incorporating these skills into current information and supportive services targeting rectal cancer survivors with a stoma may help promote physical activity in this population.
Spaces for performances: recovery and increase in value between flexibility and interference
Creators: name: Fiore, Vittorio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: This contribute deals with the politics of improvement of the spaces for performances through strategies whose aim is the sustainable recovery, based on the ‘historic’ principles of flexibility of the spaces and on the recent targets of the contamination between genres and interdisciplinarity of educational and productive activities. The theatre architectures can interact with the performances, affecting their birth and development in the area of ‘the residential projects’, giving the contamination of artistic genders a clear run; wished event for a cultural growth and innovation, but also it represents the only way to make these manufactures live according to the politics of virtuous multifunctionality, especially for those cultural heritages of the provinces.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
Penrose Limit and Non-relativistic geometries
Creators: name: Mathur, Abhishek
name: Srivastava, Yogesh K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the AdS/CFT duality, considerations of plane wave metric which is obtained as Penrose limit of $AdS_5 \times S^5$ proved to be quite useful and interesting. In this work, we obtain Penrose limit metrics for Lifshitz, Schrodinger, hyperscaling violating Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating Schrodinger geometries. These geometries usually contain singularities for certain range of parameters and we discuss how these singularities appear in the Penrose limit metric. For some cases, there are non-singular metrics possible for certain parameter values and the metric can be extended beyond the coordinate singularity, as discussed in many previous works. Corresponding Penrose limit metrics also display similar features. For the hyperscaling violating Schrodinger metric, we obtain metric extension for some cases.
description: 30 pages,no figures
Automatic Poetry Classification Using Natural Language Processing
Creators: name: Kesarwani, Vaibhav
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Natural language processing
Machine learning
Deep learning
Metaphor
Poetry
Rhyme
Word embeddings
Diction
Computational poetry
Poetry classification

description: Poetry, as a special form of literature, is crucial for computational linguistics. It has a high density of emotions, figures of speech, vividness, creativity, and ambiguity. Poetry poses a much greater challenge for the application of Natural Language Processing algorithms than any other literary genre. Our system establishes a computational model that classifies poems based on similarity features like rhyme, diction, and metaphor. For rhyme analysis, we investigate the methods used to classify poems based on rhyme patterns. First, the overview of different types of rhymes is given along with the detailed description of detecting rhyme type and sub-types by the application of a pronunciation dictionary on our poetry dataset. We achieve an accuracy of 96.51% in identifying rhymes in poetry by applying a phonetic similarity model. Then we achieve a rhyme quantification metric RhymeScore based on the matching phonetic transcription of each poem. We also develop an application for the visualization of this quantified RhymeScore as a scatter plot in 2 or 3 dimensions. For diction analysis, we investigate the methods used to classify poems based on diction. First the linguistic quantitative and semantic features that constitute diction are enumerated. Then we investigate the methodology used to compute these features from our poetry dataset. We also build a word embeddings model on our poetry dataset with 1.5 million words in 100 dimensions and do a comparative analysis with GloVe embeddings. Metaphor is a part of diction, but as it is a very complex topic in its own right, we address it as a stand-alone issue and develop several methods for it. Previous work on metaphor detection relies on either rule-based or statistical models, none of them applied to poetry. Our methods focus on metaphor detection in a poetry corpus, but we test on non-poetry data as well. We combine rule-based and statistical models (word embeddings) to develop a new classification system. Our first metaphor detection method achieves a precision of 0.759 and a recall of 0.804 in identifying one type of metaphor in poetry, by using a Support Vector Machine classifier with various types of features. Furthermore, our deep learning model based on a Convolutional Neural Network achieves a precision of 0.831 and a recall of 0.836 for the same task. We also develop an application for generic metaphor detection in any type of natural text.
Additional file 4 of Pilot clinical trial and phenotypic analysis in chemotherapy-pretreated, metastatic triple-negative breast cancer patients treated with oral TAK-228 and TAK-117 (PIKTOR) to increase DNA damage repair deficiency followed by cisplatin and nab paclitaxel
Creators: name: Lang, Jessica D.
name: Nguyen, Tuong Vi V.
name: Levin, Maren K.
name: Blas, Page E.
name: Williams, Heather L.
name: Rodriguez, Esther San Roman
name: Briones, Natalia
name: Mueller, Claudius
name: Selleck, William
name: Moore, Sarah
name: Zismann, Victoria L.
name: Hendricks, William P.D.
name: Espina, Virginia
name: O’Shaughnessy, Joyce
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 4
Ultrafast slow-light: Raman-induced delay of THz-bandwidth pulses
Creators: name: Bustard, Philip J.
name: Heshami, Khabat
name: England, Duncan G.
name: Spanner, Michael
name: Sussman, Benjamin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and experimentally demonstrate a scheme to generate optically-controlled delays based on off-resonant Raman absorption. Dispersion in a transparency window between two neighboring, optically-activated Raman absorption lines is used to reduce the group velocity of broadband 765 nm pulses. We implement this approach in a potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) waveguide at room temperature, and demonstrate Raman-induced delays of up to 140 fs for a 650-fs duration, 1.8-THz bandwidth, signal pulse; the available delay-bandwidth product is $\approx1$. Our approach is applicable to single photon signals, offers wavelength tunability, and is a step toward processing ultrafast photons.
description: 5+4 pages, 4+2 figures
Conditioned anti-immobility by ketamine: a comparison to escitalopram and bupropion
Creators: name: Melanson, Brett
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Research Methods in Life Sciences
subject: Animal Experimentation and Research

description: This study was designed to explore the clinical belief that ‘set and setting’ play an important role in favorable responses to psychedelic agents such as ketamine (KET). In fact, there is evidence in animals that the antidepressant effects of this drug may involve drug-environment interactions in which a context paired with its effects acquires the ability to influence behavior. Therefore, it was investigated in male Sprague-Dawley rats whether exposure to a context paired with the effects of KET, or with the effects of the common antidepressant medications bupropion (BUP) and escitalopram (ESC), could produce an antidepressant-like conditioned response. In Experiment 1, subjects received saline in a vehicle-paired context (denoted as CS-), and 0, 10, or 20 mg/kg KET, 10 mg/kg ESC, or 10 mg/kg BUP in a drug-paired context (denoted as CS+), on 10 alternating days (5 pairings with each context). The rats were then exposed drug-free to the CS- and CS+ prior to the assessment of immobility in the forced swimming test. Experiment 2 assessed approach/avoidance responses induced by the CS- and CS+ in a place conditioning test. It was found that exposure to the KET CS+ significantly reduced immobility without affecting general locomotor activity in comparison to the SAL CS+ and the BUP CS+, but not the ESC CS+. Moreover, no group differences were observed in the place conditioning test, indicating that the anti-immobility effect of the KET CS+ was likely not influenced by a conditioned incentive or aversive state. Together, these data suggest that a KET-paired context can elicit a conditioned antidepressant-like response, which may be a mechanism involved in its sustained antidepressant effects.
Light-Dependent Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Mediated by Microalgal Cell Extract
Creators: name: Bao, Zeqing
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Silver nanoparticles
Microalgae
Biosynthesis
Chlorophyll
Light-dependent reaction
Mechanism

description: Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are a promising nanomaterial with numerous applications and high level of commercialization. Biomass-mediated AgNP synthesis has emerged as a novel approach for producing AgNPs and microalgal biomasses have been found particularly advantageous. However, few studies have so far focused on microalgae-mediated biosynthesis and the mechanism of AgNP biosynthesis is still elusive. The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to investigate effects of different parameters on the biosynthesis of AgNPs; 2) to investigate the mechanisms involved in such a bioprocess. It was found that the cell extract of Neochloris oleoabundans prepared by whole cell aqueous extraction (WCAE) in boiling water bath was able to reduce Ag+ to AgNPs. It was further discovered that sonication of algal cells before extraction could enhance the efficiency of cell extraction and enable AgNP biosynthesis using cell extract obtained by disrupted cell aqueous extraction (DCAE) at room temperature. Light was required for AgNP biosynthesis and rainbow tests showed that purple and blue lights were particularly necessary. Based on experimental results, we hypothesize the mechanism of microalgae-mediated AgNP synthesis to be a chlorophyll-mediated reaction, in which chlorophylls are excited upon absorbing photons in the purple and blue spectra and donate electrons to reduce Ag+, the lost electrons are replenished by water-splitting reaction.
The value of time
Creators: name: Faroldi, Emilio
name: Cipullo, Francesca
name: Chierici, Pietro
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: In recent years the relationship between sport, good health and the surroundings has been, and in fact still is, one of the fields of greatest promise and rich in opportunity for strategic local development: through the enhancement of suitable dedicated facilities, businesses in the leisure industry are a model capable of producing services, competition and innovation. In fact, the process of developing cultural assets, such as those of the Spa sector and sports facilities, is one of the striking elements of the updated systematic and incremental approach to the issue of the renovation and transformation of city infrastructure. In this perspective, the public-private partnership model is one of the possible operational scenarios capable of guaranteeing efficient and feasible solutions.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
BIAS Study
Creators: name: Latham, Melissa
name: Fitzpatrick, Skye
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: borderline personality disorder
subject: communication
subject: couples
subject: self-injury
subject: suicide

description: Longitudinal observation of 250 couples wherein one partner has BPD (or subthreshold BPD) as well as recent suicidal or self-injurious behavior (SSI) or communication about such potential behavior. Participants will complete questionnaires at 4 time points over one year and complete EMA five times each day for the first month of the study. The goal of the study is to understand how partners' communication and emotions affect subsequent SSI.
Lasioglossum xanthopus
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum xanthopus

description: Lasioglossum xanthopus (Kirby, 1802)
 23.V.1999, Carduus crispus var. multiflorus, 3♀; 8.V.2000, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, 1♀; 8.V.2000, Linum perenne, 1♀; 24.V.2001, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, 1♀; 7.V.2002, bac jaune, 1♀; 26.IV.2011, Linum perenne, 3♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
The institutional design of intra-party democracy through legal instruments: Turkish case
Creators: name: Turkmen, Ali
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: The importance of political parties for contemporary representative democracies is beyond dispute. Despite their significance for state-level democracy, political parties continue to be regarded as oligarchical and to be criticised because of their internal practices. For this reason, intra-party democracy (IPD) warrants in-depth analysis. This thesis investigates IPD in Turkey, primarily from the perspective of participatory democracy, with the purpose of suggesting reforms to the Turkish Political Parties Law (TPPL). Turkish political parties and Turkish party regulation provide an interesting case because there is a significant difference between mature democracies and Turkey regarding IPD regulation. IPD in established democracies has always been regarded as a private concern of parties and has been left unregulated. IPD in Turkey, by contrast, is provided for both by the constitution and the TPPL. Although IPD is a constitutional and legal requirement in Turkey, however, political parties in fact display a high level of non-democratic administration. The main reason is that the TPPL only pays lip service to the idea of IPD and requires no specific measures apart from establishing a party congress with a representative form of democracy. By establishing and holding party congresses, political parties are perceived as conforming to the requirements of IPD under the law. In addition, the contested nature of democracy as a concept has impeded the creation of efficacious legal principles. Thus, the existing party law fails to tackle the lack of IPD within political parties and, for this reason, is in need of reform. Furthermore, almost every Turkish party’s own constitution highlights the importance of IPD and promises IPD. However, these declared commitments to IPD in their constitutions alone, especially in countries where the democratic culture is weak, are unlikely to make much difference in practice. Accordingly, external regulation is necessary to ensure the protection of the rights and interests of the party members with regards to their participation in intra-party decision-making processes. Nevertheless, in spite of a general consensus in favour of reforming the TPPL, a lack of consensus exists as to what kind of reforms should be adopted. This thesis proposes that reforming the TPPL in line with an approach based on participatory democracy could provide better IPD within Turkish political parties, citing as evidence comparative case studies of the participatory practices for policy-making, leadership selection and candidate selection in mature democracies. This thesis also analyses membership registration and the effect of state funding on IPD, which are highly problematic in Turkey and represent impediments to the flourishing of IPD.
Pre-Registration of Sparkman & Walton (2017) Replication at NUI Galway
Creators: name: Noone, Chris
name: Thornhill, Lily
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: CREP

description: Lily Thornhill is a final year Psychology student at National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), who is replicating and extending Sparkman & Walton's (2017) study on normative messaging and intentions to reduce meat-eating, in fulfillment of a Research Project module assessment. This online study serves as basis for a final year project (FYP) design and is supervised by Dr. Chris Noone (NUIG). We intend to extend the study to assess the effects of normative message exposure on self-efficacy regarding reducing meat-eating, which was inspired largely by Sparkman & Walton's (2019) paper on dynamic norms and their resolution of perceived personal barriers to behavioural change. We aim to acquire a target sample size of 120 1st and 2nd year NUIG Psychology students who can self-select to take part in the study through utilisation of a NUIG research participation database. Participants will be provided with a link to an online questionnaire hosted on Qualtrics software, which will randomly assign individuals to either a dynamic or static normative message condition. Participants will be asked to fill out a follow-up free response question, "Why do you think that is?" after message exposure to determine whether they concur with the intended salience of the message, as recommended by Sparkman & Walton (2017) in the original study's OSF page. This "manipulation check" question was not included in the original study, however, meaning a slight deviation may be noted in this replication. Next, the original study's Experiment 1 variable, interest in eating less meat and demographic information will be measured and collected using the allocated questionnaire. This will be followed by quantification of the extension focus variable; perceived self efficacy about reducing meat-eating through provision of an adapted 18-item version of Bandura's (2006) Self-Efficacy in Regulating Eating Habits Scale.
Financial Strategies and Policies to Enhance the Public Building Stock
Creators: name: Terranova, Ferdinando
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The financialisation of the real economy has created parallel markets. Among these that of real estate occupies an important place for its impact on the living standards of the population, on the liveability of cities and on landscapes both urban and rural. The reduction of the public debt is considered the necessary condition to contain the attacks of speculative finance. The need to raise cash in addition to fiscal income turns to enhancing the economic use of public building stock, either under the form of lease or of transfer. The community finds itself deprived of assets accumulated over time with great sacrifice and used primarily for social purposes. Opposing the privatization of state property is possible, as is exploiting them for a social use of common assets.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
Measuring Changes in Local Surveillance and Investigation Capacity
Creators: name: Bevc, Christine A.
name: Davis, Mary V.
name: Schenck, Anna P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Background: The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa and confirmation of the first cases in the United States highlight the need for robust and responsive public health surveillance system. With a 25% decline in funding since 2007, the impact on local surveillance capacities has not previously been described.

Purpose: The Surveillance & Investigation domain of the Local Health Department Preparedness Capacities Survey (PCAS) was reweighted to reflect the national profile of LHDs. Changes in subdomain performance of capacities and the effect of population size on subdomain capacity performance were examined over time.

Methods: Participating LHDs (n=208) from the PCAS sample were reweighted according to characteristics from the 2010 National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Profile. Overall changes in preparedness capacity across four subdomains from 2010 to 2012 were tested for significant differences using a weighted t-test. A series of weighted least squares regression models were used to determine whether population size may have modified the temporal changes in preparedness capacity.

Results: Significant declines were observed in the preparedness capacity in three of the four subdomains of Surveillance & Investigation. Results suggest that surveillance inputs from various sources, including hospitals, urgent care, poison control, pharmacies, and schools absentee reporting, especially for larger LHDs, may be more sensitive to changes or shifts over time versus others.

Implications: Declines in preparedness capacity may have affected the ability of LHDs, particularly larger ones, to effectively respond to community preparedness needs and, specifically, the detection of highly communicable and novel disease events.
Seladonia tumulorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Seladonia
Seladonia tumulorum

description: Seladonia tumulorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 26.VII.1998, 1J, 1♀, Matricaria inodora, 1♀; 1-14.VII.1999, bac jaune, 2♀; 8.V.2000, Rapistrum rugosum, 3♀, Isatis tinctoria, 2♀, Hypochoeris radicata, 1♀; 7.V.2002, Isatis tinctoria, 2♀, Leucanthemum vulgare, 2♀, bac jaune, 5♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Not all spacetime coordinates for general-relativistic ray tracing are created equal
Creators: name: Bozzola, Gabriele
name: Chan, Chi-kwan
name: Paschalidis, Vasileios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models for the observational appearance of astrophysical black holes rely critically on accurate general-relativistic ray tracing and radiation transport to compute the intensity measured by a distant observer. In this paper, we illustrate how the choice of coordinates and initial conditions affect this process. In particular, we show that propagating rays from the camera to the source leads to different solutions if the spatial part of the momentum of the photon points towards the horizon or away from it. In doing this, we also show that coordinates that are well suited for numerical General-Relativistic MagnetoHydroDynamic (GRMHD) simulations are typically not optimal for generic ray tracing. We discuss the implications for black-hole images and show that radiation transport in optimal and non-optimal spacetime coordinates lead to the same images up to numerical errors and algorithmic choices.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, matches PRD version
Exploitation, transfer and rationalization of public assets
Creators: name: Giani, Loredana
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The paper traces the regulatory evolution of the processes of exploitation, transfer and rationalization of public assets, highlighting the different philosophies underlying the numerous regulatory interventions over the years, the first characterized by an essentially business approach, which aimed to ensure the monetization of assets in order to deal with more immediate budgetary needs. The second, which was more reluctant to assert itself, gives greater consideration the welfare of the community with the consequent provision of processes which rather than aiming at the mere sale of assets seek to properly exploit them within integrated programs provided by the public proprietors (bodies). And it is in this context that the characteristics of securitization processes and their criticalities, as well as the new instruments such as the long lease for exploitation, have been analyzed.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
Quantum squeezing of motion in a mechanical resonator
Creators: name: Wollman, E. E.
name: Lei, C. U.
name: Weinstein, A. J.
name: Suh, J.
name: Kronwald, A.
name: Marquardt, F.
name: Clerk, A. A.
name: Schwab, K. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a result of the quantum, wave-like nature of the physical world, a harmonic oscillator can never be completely at rest. Even in the quantum ground state, its position will always have fluctuations, called the zero-point motion. Although the zero-point fluctuations are unavoidable, they can be manipulated. In this work, using microwave frequency radiation pressure, we both prepare a micron-scale mechanical system in a state near the quantum ground state and then manipulate its thermal fluctuations to produce a stationary, quadrature-squeezed state. We deduce that the variance of one motional quadrature is 0.80 times the zero-point level, or 1 dB of sub-zero-point squeezing. This work is relevant to the quantum engineering of states of matter at large length scales, the study of decoherence of large quantum systems, and for the realization of ultra-sensitive sensing of force and motion.
Sphecodes crassus Thomson 1870
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes crassus

description: Sphecodes crassus Thomson, 1870
26.VII.1998, talus autoroute, 2J; 1-14.VII.1999, bac jaune, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Divestment of public real estate properties: adelante, ma con juicio
Creators: name: Cacciamani, Claudio
name: Ielasi, Federica
name: Peron, Sonia
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The divestment of public properties consist in ceding for a valuable consideration public properties to private people. The advantage linked up to the divestment of public real estate is anyway evident: the Government immediately obtains the funds it needs, with beneficial effects, both in relation to public finances, both for the growth of economic and financial system. The main obstacle to the sale is the fact that real estate is very diverse in terms of type, ownership, use, geographical location. Despite this, the sale of real estate of Public Administration is an initiative fully correct.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
The microbiology of diabetic foot infections: a Ghanaian perspective
Creators: name: Gyamfi-brobbey, George
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU), a major complication of both types 1 and 2 diabetes, develops in about 15–25% of people living with the disease. In Ghana, DFUs contribute to most hospital admissions (53%) among diabetics with high rates of amputation (33.3%) and death (8.8%). Diabetic foot ulcers are predisposed to infections from bacteria in the environment which normally colonise these wounds as multicellular communities called biofilms. Biofilms have been found to have increased resistance to antimicrobial agents probably due to the presence of an extracellular matrix that retards or prevents the entry of antimicrobial agents into the bacterial community, antibiotic resistance genes and/or the presence of persister cells that are unresponsive to antimicrobial agents. The work presented here studied the role of 2 multidrug resistant DFU isolates, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Proteus mirabilis in maintaining the chronicity of diabetic foot ulcers. Using 3 in vitro biofilm models; the conventional microtitre plate and Minimum Biofilm Eradication Concentration (MBEC™) High-Throughput assays and the Quasi–Vivo® continuous flow system, K. pneumoniae and P. mirabilis were found to be positive for acyl–homoserine lactone production, biofilm and persister cell producers and could resist and/or tolerate antibiotics such as ceftazidime and levofloxacin up to 1280 times their minimum inhibitory concentration. K. pneumoniae and P. mirabilis were also found to express the interspecies AI–2 quorum sensing molecules which significantly increased biofilm formation and fold induction of bioluminescence in a luxS mutant V. harveyi reference strain. Quorum sensing (QS) inhibition assays using baicalin hydrate, cinnamaldehyde and 2(5H)–furanone showed considerable inhibition of K. pneumoniae and P. mirabilis biofilm formation but failed to completely inhibit their growth. The combinatorial effects of antibiotics and QS inhibitors/antimicrobial peptides such as polymyxin B and polymyxin B nonapeptide determined as fractional inhibitory concentration (FIC) index suggests that, additive and synergistic effects produced by the combination of two antimicrobial agents have the potential to eradicate biofilms. Data from the FIC indices determined from the combination assays can provide the basis for the formulation of topical treatment for DFUs.
The most iron-deficient stars as the polluted population III stars
Creators: name: Komiya, Yutaka
name: Suda, Takuma
name: Fujimoto, Masayuki Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the origin of the most iron-poor stars including SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 with [Fe/H] < -7.52. We compute the change of surface metallicity of stars with the accretion of interstellar matter (ISM) after their birth using the chemical evolution model within the framework of the hierarchical galaxy formation. The predicted metallicity distribution function agrees very well with that observed from extremely metal-poor stars. In particular, the lowest metallicity tail is well reproduced by the Population III stars whose surfaces are polluted with metals through ISM accretion. This suggests that the origin of iron group elements is explained by ISM accretion for the stars with [Fe/H]$\lesssim -5$. The present results give new insights into the nature of the most metal-poor stars and the search for Population III stars with pristine abundances.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Managerial competences as a strategic element in the decision-making of Real Estate Development
Creators: name: Fecchio, Alberto
name: Casara, Ernesto
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: A real estate plan works when is a part of a wider project which regards the society needs in a certain place. To know where to invest and the risk/performance profile, it is necessary to know the profit and loss profile of the building in the future, in addition to building costs. A correct real estate valuation does not exist if upstream a deep knowledge of real estate, financial, statistical, investors’ psychology (science or knowledge) cycles, as well as an experience of years do not exist, which allows to acquire sensibility even towards unpredictable events. The dynamic real estate management is the necessary tool to increase the recurring revenue, the capital gain, to improve cash, decrease risks. The real estate manager, consisting in a team with integrated skills, with “on field” experience, with business logical knowledge, with roots on territory, able to share the business risk, with knowledge of public administrations’ procedures and complexity, is able to support the real estate investor in the development procedure. The evolution of the decision process must follow the trend that since 2009 has seen the overcoming of redevelopment projects compared to new building projects, with higher costs and complexity, but more sustainable from the environmental and space rationalization point of view. Redevelopment processes will be framed in complex territorial development projects, with guarantees of transparency of administrative processes and times, in order to attract international funds, that today are prevented to operate due to great uncertainty of the administrative process management in Italy.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
Comment on "Electromagnetic Radiation under Explicit Symmetry Breaking"
Creators: name: Simovski, C.
name: Miroshnichenko, A.
name: Belov, P.
name: Krasnok, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently published paper [PRL 114, 147701 (2015)] contains several misleading statements and misinterpretations of known facts. The main massage of the paper [PRL 114, 147701 (2015)] is as follows: "We have shown that explicit symmetry breaking in the structural configuration of charges leads to symmetry breaking of the electric field which results in electromagnetic radiation due to non-conservative current within a localized region of space and time" seems to transcend mere empiricism, touching the theoretical foundations of electromagnetism. Moreover, basic mistakes are numerous in this article and its main claim is wrong. Below we prove it citing the paper and arguing against it.
Contributions of iconic gesture to concurrent and displaced word learning
Creators: name: Motamedi, Yasamin
name: Polytimou, Aikaterini
name: Fan, Jieyun
name: Andreuccioli, Luisa
name: Rozic, Gal
name: Wonnacott, Elizabeth
name: Marshall, Chloë
name: Perniss, Pamela
name: Vigliocco, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We plan an experiment that will test whether iconic gestures facilitate word learning in children aged 30-54 months. We teach children novel words to describe events, accompanied by either iconic or interactive gestures in two learning contexts: a concurrent learning context, where exposure to the label + gesture co-occurs with the event, and a displaced context, where label + gesture exposure occurs after the event has been shown.
High-Responsivity Graphene-Boron Nitride Photodetector and Autocorrelator in a Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit
Creators: name: Shiue, Ren-Jye
name: Gao, Yuanda
name: Wang, Yifei
name: Peng, Cheng
name: Robertson, Alexander D.
name: Efetov, Dmitri K.
name: Assefa, Solomon
name: Koppens, Frank H. L.
name: Hone, James
name: Englund, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as promising materials for broadband and ultrafast photodetection and optical modulation. These optoelectronic capabilities can augment complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices for high-speed and low-power optical interconnects. Here, we demonstrate an on-chip ultrafast photodetector based on a two-dimensional heterostructure consisting of high-quality graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. Coupled to the optical mode of a silicon waveguide, this 2D heterostructure-based photodetector exhibits a maximum responsivity of 0.36 A/W and high-speed operation with a 3 dB cut-off at 42 GHz. From photocurrent measurements as a function of the top-gate and source-drain voltages, we conclude that the photoresponse is consistent with hot electron mediated effects. At moderate peak powers above 50 mW, we observe a saturating photocurrent consistent with the mechanisms of electron-phonon supercollision cooling. This nonlinear photoresponse enables optical on-chip autocorrelation measurements with picosecond-scale timing resolution and exceptionally low peak powers.