cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
APPLIED PHARMACOECONOMICS – METHODOLOGY, STRUCTURING AND CONDUCTING OF PHARMACOECONOMICAL STUDIES
Creators: name: Grigorov, Evgeni
name: Vaseva, Virsavia
name: Getov, Ilko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The applied pharmacoeconomics is a result of the increased application of pharmacoeconomics methods in the real world to assess cost-benefit balance of drug therapy and treatment approaches. Till now, this has been the missing piece of the pharmacoeconomics puzzle and the missing link that pulls together all the concepts into a “user-friendly” discipline. The most popular application of pharmacoeconomics is to support decision-making and to help decision-makers to raise a better, more informed, and more complete decisions regarding pharmaceuticals. The complete regulatory, clinical and pharmacy actions should assess the three major primary outcomes: Clinical, Economic and Humanistic whenever possible. It can be concluded, that applied pharmacoeconomics was the “missing link” in healthcare and hospital management and public funds spending for pharmaceuticals. The economic principles in pharmacy and their methods can be successfully applied in the “real world” to enhance decision-making through above 12 steps process for conducting a local pharmacoeconomic evaluation.
RDA TIGER D2.1 Communications Toolkit
Creators: name: Delipalta, Alex
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: EOSC
RDA

description: The RDA TIGER Communication Toolkit builds on the RDA brand, utilises existing materials and expands them where appropriate. This document outlines communications and marketing materials that will be used during the project lifetime to facilitate RDA TIGER service awareness primarily, but also to support the RDA TIGER individual services.
Arctic ground squirrels in the Southwest Yukon Territory : evidence for habitat specific demography and source-sink dynamics
Creators: name: Donker, Scott A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Arctic ground squirrels (Urocitellus parryii plesius) of the southwest Yukon Territory occupy three distinct habitat types: boreal forest, low elevation meadows and alpine areas. Populations in boreal forest habitat have been shown to be synchronous with the 10-year snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) cycle in the region due to shared predators. Relatively little is known about arctic ground squirrel populations occupying low altitude meadow and alpine meadow habitat types. Since 2000, populations in the boreal forest have remained low and in some locations have been extirpated. The first objective of this study was to investigate the distribution and abundance of arctic ground squirrels in different habitats over a large spatial scale. Density and relative abundance data were collected at numerous locations in boreal forest, low elevation meadow and alpine meadow habitat types. Populations in the boreal forest were found to be extirpated while those in low elevation meadow habitat contained self-sustaining populations that were significantly larger. The extirpation of ground squirrels from the boreal forest and continued persistence of populations in low elevation meadow habitat suggests that the boreal forest may be functioning as sink habitat and that low elevation and alpine meadows are population sources. The second objective of this study was to more closely investigate the population dynamics of arctic ground squirrels in boreal forest, low elevation meadow and alpine meadow habitats. Survivorship and movement data collected provide empirical evidence for the existence of source-sink dynamics between low elevation meadow (source) and boreal forest habitat (sink). The existence of source-sink dynamics between boreal forest and low-elevation meadow habitat appears to be implicated in the current prolonged low in the 10-year snowshoe hare cycle due to sustained predation pressure in the boreal forest.
Intermediate mass dileptons from the passage of jets and high energy photons through quark-gluon plasma
Creators: name: Yong-Ping, Fu
name: Yun-De, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production of the intermediate mass dileptons originating from the annihilation and Compton scattering of the jets and high energy photons (resolved photons) passing through the quark-gluon plasma is calculated. The contribution of the dilepton yield due to the jet-plasma and high energy photon-plasma interaction is pronounced compared to the thermal and Drell-Yan dilepton spectrum at intermediate mass. The ordinary spectrum of thermal and Drell-Yan processes is enhanced by the jet and photon-plasma mechanism. The numerical results match to the PHENIX data accurately in the intermediate mass region for Au-Au 200 GeV/A collisions at RHIC.
description: 2 figures
Higgs and Dark Matter Hints of an Oasis in the Desert
Creators: name: Cheung, Clifford
name: Papucci, Michele
name: Zurek, Kathryn M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent LHC results suggest a standard model (SM)-like Higgs boson in the vicinity of 125 GeV with no clear indications yet of physics beyond the SM. At the same time, the SM is incomplete, since additional dynamics are required to accommodate cosmological dark matter (DM). In this paper we show that interactions between weak scale DM and the Higgs which are strong enough to yield a thermal relic abundance consistent with observation can easily destabilize the electroweak vacuum or drive the theory into a non-perturbative regime at a low scale. As a consequence, new physics--beyond the DM itself--must enter at a cutoff well below the Planck scale and in some cases as low as O(10 - 1000 TeV), a range relevant to indirect probes of flavor and CP violation. In addition, this cutoff is correlated with the DM mass and scattering cross-section in a parameter space which will be probed experimentally in the near term. Specifically, we consider the SM plus additional spin 0 or 1/2 states with singlet, triplet, or doublet electroweak quantum numbers and quartic or Yukawa couplings to the Higgs boson. We derive explicit expressions for the full two-loop RGEs and one-loop threshold corrections for these theories.
description: 29 pages, 13 figures
An adaptive, high-order phase-space remapping for the two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equations
Creators: name: Wang, Bei
name: Miller, Greg
name: Colella, Phil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The numerical solution of high dimensional Vlasov equation is usually performed by particle-in-cell (PIC) methods. However, due to the well-known numerical noise, it is challenging to use PIC methods to get a precise description of the distribution function in phase space. To control the numerical error, we introduce an adaptive phase-space remapping which regularizes the particle distribution by periodically reconstructing the distribution function on a hierarchy of phase-space grids with high-order interpolations. The positivity of the distribution function can be preserved by using a local redistribution technique. The method has been successfully applied to a set of classical plasma problems in one dimension. In this paper, we present the algorithm for the two dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equations. An efficient Poisson solver with infinite domain boundary conditions is used. The parallel scalability of the algorithm on massively parallel computers will be discussed.
An Expanded Hypothesis That Relates the History of the Human-Experience-Of-Time to Culture, Technology and Belief Systems in Addition to Language
Creators: name: Doble, Rick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: astronomy, Babylon, cathedral thinking, clocks, consumer society, hunter-gatherer, language, linguistics, Medieval, Middle Ages, mythology, neolithic, paleolithic, religion, technology, time, timekeeping, e

description: Before this article, I proposed the following hypothesis: As language evolved from the beginning, it developed in tandem with a growing sense of time. In this article, I now want to expand that idea to not only include language but technology, culture and belief systems. I also provide links to my former article in this document.
Analyzing establishment nonresponse using an interpretable regression tree model with linked administrative data
Creators: name: Phipps, Polly
name: Toth, Daniell
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To gain insight into how characteristics of an establishment are associated with nonresponse, a recursive partitioning algorithm is applied to the Occupational Employment Statistics May 2006 survey data to build a regression tree. The tree models an establishment's propensity to respond to the survey given certain establishment characteristics. It provides mutually exclusive cells based on the characteristics with homogeneous response propensities. This makes it easy to identify interpretable associations between the characteristic variables and an establishment's propensity to respond, something not easily done using a logistic regression propensity model. We test the model obtained using the May data against data from the November 2006 Occupational Employment Statistics survey. Testing the model on a disjoint set of establishment data with a very large sample size $(n=179,360)$ offers evidence that the regression tree model accurately describes the association between the establishment characteristics and the response propensity for the OES survey. The accuracy of this modeling approach is compared to that of logistic regression through simulation. This representation is then used along with frame-level administrative wage data linked to sample data to investigate the possibility of nonresponse bias. We show that without proper adjustments the nonresponse does pose a risk of bias and is possibly nonignorable.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS521 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
BIOFUEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NAZE, OWERRI-NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, IMO STATE
Creators: name: Onwukwe, Chukwuemeka Ozioma S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biofuels
Biomasses
Fossil fuels
Independent Assessors Correlation Module
Three-dimensional Laboratory Module

description: The policy framework of the Nigerian Bio-fuel Policy and Incentives (2007) clearly gives the Federal Government of Nigeria the legal backing to initiate and develop proactive measures aimed at maximizing the potentials of biofuels. This is only possible through the existence of a facility that is saddled with the responsibility of carrying out cutting-edge research into biofuels and biomasses.
With the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, its loss of revenue to fuel importation and, most especially, the downward slide of the country’s energy and power indices, it has become imperative for the country to key into the biofuel revolution in order to secure its place in the committee of “green” nations. Methodology adopted for the collation of data were through interviews, observations and case studies conducted on six (6) relevant and related facilities of semblance. Independent Assessors Correlation Module involving six (6) professionals from the construction industry was used to analyze variables that were used as final design considerations.
Results showed that the proposed scheme would, among other variables, adopt a three-dimensional laboratory module as planning layout for laboratories, support spaces and offices while restrictive circulation pattern and security of laboratory test procedures are among some of the design tenets adopted in the scheme. The design solution/scheme adopted is in strict compliance to the 2003 United States of America Department of Defense Whole Building Design Guide which ensured that the proposed Biofuel Research Institute is properly planned and equipped to facilitate pristine and informed research into biofuels and biomasses.
Swift/XRT monitoring of the candidate Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient IGR J16418-4532
Creators: name: Romano, P.
name: Mangano, V.
name: Ducci, L.
name: Esposito, P.
name: Evans, P. A.
name: Vercellone, S.
name: Kennea, J. A.
name: Burrows, D. N.
name: Gehrels, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the Swift monitoring of the candidate supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT) IGR J16418-4532, for which both orbital and spin periods are known (~3.7d and ~1250s, respectively). Our observations, for a total of ~43ks, span over three orbital periods and represent the most intense and complete sampling of the light curve of this source with a sensitive X-ray instrument. With this unique set of observations we can address the nature of this transient. By applying the clumpy wind model for blue supergiants to the observed X-ray light curve, and assuming a circular orbit, the X-ray emission from this source can be explained in terms of the accretion from a spherically symmetric clumpy wind, composed of clumps with different masses, ranging from ~5E16 g to 1E21g. Our data suggest, based on the X-ray behaviour, that this is an intermediate SFXT.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 8 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
Alkali-stable GH11 endo-β-1,4 xylanase (XynB) from Bacillus subtilis strain CAM 21: application in hydrolysis of agro-industrial wastes, fruit/vegetable peels and weeds
Creators: name: Monica, P.
name: Kapoor, Mukesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: GH11 endo-xylanases, due to their inherent structural and biochemical properties, are the key to efficient bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass into value-added products. A GH11 endo-xylanase (XynB) from Bacillus subtilis strain CAM 21 was cloned, over-expressed and purified (Mw∼24 kDa) using Ni-NTA affinity chromatography. XynB showed optimum activity at pH 7.0 and 50°C and was stable (>88%) in a broad range of pH (4–11). The apparent Km, Kcat and Kcat/Km of XynB were 2.9 mg/ml, 1961.2/sec, and 675.62 ml/mg/sec, respectively using birchwood xylan as substrate. XynB was a classical endo-xylanase as it hydrolyzed birchwood xylan to xylo-oligosaccharides and not xylose. Kinetic stability of XynB at 45–53°C was between 43-182 min. Secondary structure analysis of XynB using far-UV CD spectroscopy revealed presence of 51.85% β strands and 2.64% α helix and was consistent with the homology modeling studies. XynB hydrolyzed the xylan extracted from agro-industrial wastes and fruit/vegetable peels by releasing up to 670 mg/g of reducing sugars. The xylan extracted from weeds (Ageratum conyzoides, Achyranthes aspera and Tridax procumbens) had characteristic signatures of hemicelluloses and after XynB hydrolysis showed cracks, peeling and release of up to 135.2 mg/g reducing sugars.
Investigating the effect of different inulin-rich substrate preparations from Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) tubers on efficient inulooligosaccharides production
Creators: name: Bedzo, Oscar K. K.
name: van Rensburg, Eugéne
name: Görgens, Johann F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology

description: Commercial production of inulooligosaccharides (IOS) relies largely on chicory roots. However, Jerusalem artichoke (JA) tubers provide a suitable alternative due to their high inulin content and low cultivation requirements. In this study, three inulin-rich substrate preparations from JA were investigated to maximize IOS production, namely powder from dried JA tuber slices (Substrate 1), solid residues after extracting protein from the JA powder (Substrate 2) and an inulin-rich fraction extracted from protein extraction residues (Substrate 3). The preferred temperature, pH and inulin substrate concentration were determined after which enzyme dosage and extraction time were optimized to maximize IOS extraction from the three substrates, using pure chicory inulin as benchmark. Under the optimal conditions, Substrate 3 resulted in the highest IOS yield of 82.3% (w/winulin). However, IOS production from the Substrate 1 proved more efficient since it renders the highest overall IOS yield (mass of IOS per mass of the starting biomass). In the case of co-production of protein and IOS from the JA tuber in a biorefinery concept, IOS production from the Substrate 2 is preferred since it reduces the inulin losses incurred during substrate preparation. For all the inulin-rich substrates studied, an enzyme dosage of 14.8 U/ginulin was found to be optimal at reaction time less than 6 h. JA tuber exhibited excellent potential for commercial production of IOS with improved yield and the possible advantage of a reduced biomass cost.
First Science Observations with SOFIA/FORCAST: The FORCAST Mid-infrared Camera
Creators: name: Herter, T. L.
name: Adams, J. D.
name: De Buizer, J. M.
name: Gull, G. E.
name: Schoenwald, J.
name: Henderson, C. P.
name: Keller, L. D.
name: Nikola, T.
name: Stacey, G.
name: Vacca, W. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) completed its first light flight in May of 2010 using the facility mid-infrared instrument FORCAST. Since then, FORCAST has successfully completed thirteen science flights on SOFIA. In this paper we describe the design, operation and performance of FORCAST as it relates to the initial three Short Science flights. FORCAST was able to achieve near diffraction-limited images for lambda > 30 microns allowing unique science results from the start with SOFIA. We also describe ongoing and future modifications that will improve overall capabilities and performance of FORCAST.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, Accepted by ApJ Letters
The Culture Project: An Analysis of Cultural Spaces in Calgary’s Centre City
Creators: name: Robinson, Lancelot
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Anthropology--Cultural
subject: Culture

description: Calgary’s Centre City has supported cultural activity for over 137 years. Today 204 unique cultural spaces representing 23 function types are found there. This project developed an inventory that identified the types and characteristics of the spaces that exist in Centre City today. Ultimately this was done to understand the relationships that individual spaces form with one another, and to evaluate these spaces in order to determine the degrees of their success or failure. The outcomes of this evaluation contributed to the development of recommendations for the continued support of existing and the creation of future successful cultural spaces in Calgary’s Centre City.
Holographic duals of Boundary CFTs
Creators: name: Chiodaroli, Marco
name: D'Hoker, Eric
name: Gutperle, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New families of regular half-BPS solutions to 6-dimensional Type 4b supergravity with $m$ tensor multiplets are constructed exactly. Their space-time consists of $AdS_2 \times S^2$ warped over a Riemann surface with an arbitrary number of boundary components, and arbitrary genus. The solutions have an arbitrary number of asymptotic $AdS_3 \times S^3$ regions. In addition to strictly single-valued solutions to the supergravity equations whose scalars live in the coset $SO(5,m)/SO(5)\times SO(m)$, we also construct stringy solutions whose scalar fields are single-valued up to transformations under the $U$-duality group $SO(5,m;\bZ)$, and live in the coset $SO(5,m;\bZ)\backslash SO(5,m)/SO(5)\times SO(m)$. We argue that these Type 4b solutions are holographically dual to general classes of interface and boundary CFTs arising at the juncture of the end-points of 1+1-dimensional bulk CFTs. We evaluate their corresponding holographic entanglement and boundary entropy, and discuss their brane interpretation. We conjecture that the solutions for which $Σ$ has handles and multiple boundaries correspond to the near-horizon limit of half-BPS webs of dyonic strings and three-branes.
description: 60 pages, pdfLaTeX, 10 figures
Primordial Magnetic Field Effects on the CMB and Large Scale Structure
Creators: name: Yamazaki, Dai G.
name: Ichiki, Kiyotomo
name: Kajino, Toshitaka
name: Mathew, Grant J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic fields are everywhere in nature and they play an important role in every astronomical environment which involves the formation of plasma and currents. It is natural therefore to suppose that magnetic fields could be present in the turbulent high temperature environment of the big bang. Such a primordial magnetic field (PMF) would be expected to manifest itself in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies, and also in the formation of large- scale structure. In this review we summarize the theoretical framework which we have developed to calculate the PMF power spectrum to high precision. Using this formulation, we summarize calculations of the effects of a PMF which take accurate quantitative account of the time evolution of the cut off scale. We review the constructed numerical program, which is without approximation, and an improvement over the approach used in a number of previous works for studying the effect of the PMF on the cosmological perturbations. We demonstrate how the PMF is an important cosmological physical process on small scales. We also summarize the current constraints on the PMF amplitude $B_λ$ and the power spectral index $n_B$ which have been deduced from the available CMB observational data by using our computational framework.
description: 26 pages, 13 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1001.2012
Split neutrinos - leptogenesis, dark matter and inflation
Creators: name: Mazumdar, Anupam
name: Morisi, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a simple framework to split neutrinos with a slight departure from tribimaximal mixing - where two of the neutrinos are Majorana type which provide thermal leptogenesis. The Dirac neutrino with a tiny Yukawa coupling explains primordial inflation and the cosmic microwave background radiation, where the inflaton is the gauge invariant flat direction. The observed baryon asymmetry, and the scale of inflation are intimately tied to the observed reactor angle, which can be further constrained by the LHC and the neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. The model also provides the lightest right handed sneutrino as a part of the inflaton to be the dark matter candidate.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Special designed deep eutectic solvents for the recovery of high added-value products from olive leaf: a sustainable environment for bioactive materials
Creators: name: Şahin, Selin
name: Kurtulbaş, Ebru
name: Bilgin, Mehmet
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Deep Eutectic Solvents have been specially designed, and used for the extraction of phenolics from olive tree (Olea europea) leaves. 11 deep eutectic solvents containing a hydrogen bond donor (glycerol, ethylene glycol, lactic acid, urea, dimethyl urea and D-sorbitol) and a hydrogen bond acceptor (L-proline, citric acid, glycerol, ethylimidazole and methylimidazole) with several molar ratios have been designed. Addition of water into the solvent system increased the extraction efficiency by a remarkable difference (45%). After the best combination has been decided to extract the primary phenolic (oleuropein), operation conditions (water content in the deep eutectic solvent, speed of the homogenizer and time for the extraction) of the homogenizer-aided extraction (HAEX) for olive leaf extract has been optimized through Box-Behnken design of Response Surface Approach. The experimental yields of oleuropein, verbascoside and rutin were 15.50, 5.51 and 0.98 mg per gram dried leaf under the optimal conditions (48.9% of water in DES for 60 sec at 13310 rpm). Our best DES (citric acid/lactic acid) has yielded the most efficient extract rich in oleuropein, even with an ≈8% higher performance than that of a most commonly used solvent (75% ethanol).
Sensing remote nuclear spins
Creators: name: Zhao, Nan
name: Honert, Jan
name: Schmid, Berhard
name: Isoya, Junichi
name: Markham, Mathew
name: Twitchen, Daniel
name: Jelezko, Fedor
name: Liu, Ren-Bao
name: Fedder, Helmut
name: Wrachtrup, Jörg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sensing single nuclear spins is a central challenge in magnetic resonance based imaging techniques. Although different methods and especially diamond defect based sensing and imaging techniques in principle have shown sufficient sensitivity, signals from single nuclear spins are usually too weak to be distinguished from background noise. Here, we present the detection and identification of remote single C-13 nuclear spins embedded in nuclear spin baths surrounding a single electron spins of a nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond. With dynamical decoupling control of the centre electron spin, the weak magnetic field ~10 nT from a single nuclear spin located ~3 nm from the centre with hyperfine coupling as weak as ~500 Hz is amplified and detected. The quantum nature of the coupling is confirmed and precise position and the vector components of the nuclear field are determined. Given the distance over which nuclear magnetic fields can be detected the technique marks a firm step towards imaging, detecting and controlling nuclear spin species external to the diamond sensor.
Electromechanical Shape Memory Alloy Actuators for Blood Extraction
Creators: name: Berka, Martin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Public Health
subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: electromechanical actuators
subject: blood sampling
subject: diabetes
subject: nitinol
subject: skin lancing
subject: needles
subject: glucose monitoring
subject: Shape Memory Alloy
subject: wearable
subject: rapid prototyping
subject: design

description: This thesis concerns the design, prototyping and testing of a series of compact electromechanical actuators for drawing capillary blood for analysis by the e-Mosquito wearable, autonomous glucose monitoring system for diabetes. All the designs used contracting shape memory alloy wires, fixed geometry and millimetre-scale moving parts, primarily to extend a disposable lancet needle from the device and into the skin. The lancet was to enter the skin at an acute angle that increased to 90° at full extension, with the goal of increasing blood flow. Attention was paid to isolation and replaceability of external parts, improving manufacturability and increasing actuator power. Satisfactory control and extension of the lancet along the intended path were achieved, leading to the conclusion that the increased elastic response of skin makes angled needle insertion impractical and to the investigation of other techniques for blood sampling with autonomous devices.
On the connectivity of the Julia sets of meromorphic functions
Creators: name: Baranski, Krzysztof
name: Fagella, Nuria
name: Jarque, Xavier
name: Karpinska, Boguslawa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that every transcendental meromorphic map f with a disconnected Julia set has a weakly repelling fixed point. This implies that the Julia set of Newton's method for finding zeroes of an entire map is connected. Moreover, extending a result of Cowen for holomorphic self-maps of the disc, we show the existence of absorbing domains for holomorphic self-maps of hyperbolic regions whose iterates tend to a boundary point. In particular, the results imply that periodic Baker domains of Newton's method for entire maps are simply connected, which solves a well-known open question.
description: 34 pages, 10 figures
title: Benchmarking Tree Canopy in Sydney's Hot Schools
Creators: name: Pfautsch, Sebastian
name: Wujeska-Klause, Agnieszka
name: Rouillard, Susanna
Publisher: name: Western Sydney University
Year: 2020

description: This project identified the 100 most vulnerable schools to heat in Greater Western Sydney using a newly developed Heat Score. The Heat Score combines socio-economic information that captures exposure, sensitivity and adaptivity of local communities to heat with environmental data related to surface and air temperatures of urban space. Analyses provided in this report will assist the development of the most effective tree planting strategies for each of Sydney’s 100 hot schools.
Chemical Additives and Foam to Enhance SAGD Performance
Creators: name: Li, Ran
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: SAGD
subject: Chemical Additives
subject: Foam

description: Adding chemical additives with in-situ generation of foam is an approach to enhance SAGD (steam assisted gravity drainage) performance both in terms of oil production and SOR (steam oil ratio). Simulation study tells that, owing to gas mobility control, interfacial tension reduction and emulsification, the steam chamber profile is substantially controlled with a reduced heat loss, and the residual oil saturation drops dramatically. A heterogeneous model based on a Suncor Firebag project is further employed to testify that bubbles are conducive to improve volumetric sweep efficiency by diverting steam into low-permeable area. Simultaneously, foam favors to reduce the influences of top water zone and maintain a bowl-shaped and uniformly-developed steam chamber growth. Afterwards, an analytical method is introduced to further explain the physical mechanisms with a modified finger rising model, which shows that CAFA-SAGD (chemical additives and foam assisted SAGD) owns a lower finger rising velocity with less steam consumption.
LiLa: Linking Latin. Building a Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin
Creators: name: Passarotti, Marco
name: Cecchini, Flavio Massimiliano
name: Franzini, Greta
name: Litta, Eleonora
name: Mambrini, Francesco
name: Ruffolo, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Latin
LiLa Knowlege Base

description: Poster presenting the first steps of the LiLa project.
A Note on Fuzzy Set--Valued Brownian Motion
Creators: name: Bongiorno, Enea Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we prove that a fuzzy set--valued Brownian motion $B_t$, as defined in [1], can be handle by an $R^d$--valued Wiener process $b_t$, in the sense that $B_t =\indicator{b_t}$; i.e. it is actually the indicator function of a Wiener process.
Alpheus intrinsecus Bate 1888
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Alpheidae
Alpheus
Alpheus intrinsecus

description: Alpheus intrinsecus Bate, 1888
Material examined (N=1). 1f, 06/VIII/2005, St. 0 3 (MZUESC #705).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – from Puerto Rico to Brazil (from Piauí to Santa Catarina). Eastern Atlantic – from Spanish Sahara to Gabon (Christoffersen 1979).
Ecological notes. Mud, clay, sand, sand with gorgonians, Halodule beds, coarse sand with shells, calcareous algae. Intertidal to 40 m (Christoffersen 1979).
Previous records in Bahia. Bate (1888), Moreira (1901), Almeida et al. (2006, 2007).
Remarks. The type locality of A. intrinsecus is off Salvador, Bahia (Bate 1888).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
Demonstration of a state-insensitive, compensated nanofiber trap
Creators: name: Goban, A.
name: Choi, K. S.
name: Alton, D. J.
name: Ding, D.
name: Lacroûte, C.
name: Pototschnig, M.
name: Thiele, T.
name: Stern, N. P.
name: Kimble, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the experimental realization of an optical trap that localizes single Cs atoms ~215 nm from surface of a dielectric nanofiber. By operating at magic wavelengths for pairs of counter-propagating red- and blue-detuned trapping beams, differential scalar light shifts are eliminated, and vector shifts are suppressed by ~250. We thereby measure an absorption linewidth Γ/2π= 5.7 \pm 0.1 MHz for the Cs 6S1/2,F=4 - 6P3/2,F'=5 transition, where Γ/2π= 5.2 MHz in free space. Optical depth d~66 is observed, corresponding to an optical depth per atom d_1~0.08. These advances provide an important capability for the implementation of functional quantum optical networks and precision atomic spectroscopy near dielectric surfaces.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Novel Silicon n-in-p Pixel Sensors for the future ATLAS Upgrades
Creators: name: La Rosa, A.
name: Gallrapp, C.
name: Macchiolo, A.
name: Nisius, R.
name: Pernegger, H.
name: Richter, R. H.
name: Weigell, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In view of the LHC upgrade phases towards HL-LHC the ATLAS experiment plans to upgrade the Inner Detector with an all silicon system. The n-in-p silicon technology is a promising candidate for the pixel upgrade thanks to its radiation hardness and cost effectiveness, that allow for enlarging the area instrumented with pixel detectors. We present the characterization and performance of novel n-in-p planar pixel sensors produced by CiS (Germany) connected by bump bonding to the ATLAS readout chip FE-I3. These results are obtained before and after irradiation up to a fluence of 10^16 1-MeV n_eq/cm^2, and prove the operability of this kind of sensors in the harsh radiation environment foreseen for the pixel system at HL-LHC. We also present an overview of the new pixel production, which is on-going at CiS for sensors compatible with the new ATLAS readout chip FE-I4.
description: Preprint submitted to NIM-A Proceedings (Elba 2012)
Quantum Painleve-Calogero Correspondence
Creators: name: Zabrodin, A.
name: Zotov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Painleve-Calogero correspondence is extended to auxiliary linear problems associated with Painleve equations. The linear problems are represented in a new form which has a suggestive interpretation as a "quantized" version of the Painleve-Calogero correspondence. Namely, the linear problem responsible for the time evolution is brought into the form of non-stationary Schrodinger equation in imaginary time, $\p_t ψ=(1/2\, \p_x^2 +V(x,t))ψ$, whose Hamiltonian is a natural quantization of the classical Calogero-like Hamiltonian $H=1/2\, p^2 +V(x,t)$ for the corresponding Painleve equation.
description: 55 pages, references added
A Phase-Entrained Particle Filter for Human Motion Synchronization
Creators: name: Manikashani, Peyman
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Human Motion Synchronization
subject: Phase-Entrainment

description: Humans have a specialized ability to synchronize their movements with a perceived auditory feedback. The association between human locomotion and sound feedback is especially profound when the movement has a periodic nature and the feedback is rhythmic. Dancing or marching with rhythmic music are examples of such association. This thesis presents a human motion feedback system capable of generating rhythmic auditory feedback synchronized to a periodic movement. We demonstrate the synchronization in the context of an everyday, yet complex example of human locomotion: normal walking gait. Our system relies on visual measurements provided by a conventional RGB camera and utilizes a phase-entrained particle filter to synchronize an oscillator with a subject's movement in real-time. A long-term prospect of this research is that rhythmic sonic feedback in sync with walking gaits has potential to be used in therapeutic applications for clinical treatment of gait disorders.
Wood in the human environment : restorative properties of wood in the built indoor environment
Creators: name: Fell, David Robert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In this study, the stress-reducing effects of wood and plants were studied in the context of an office environment. This study took a psychophysiological approach to stress and attempted to assess the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system. Four office environments were studied in this factorial design: wood and plants, wood and no plants, no wood and plants, and no wood and no plants. One hundred and nineteen university undergraduate students were assigned to one of four test conditions. Skin conductance and inter beat interval were continuously monitored throughout the experiment. The experiment consisted of a 10-minute baseline period, a 12-20 minute stressful task, and a 10-minute recovery period. Wood effects were found with respect to skin conductance level (SCL) and frequency of non-specific skin conductance responses (F-NS-SCR), both indicators of sympathetic system activation. Subjects exposed to wood had lower SCL in the baseline period and lowers F-NS-SCR in all periods of the study. No plant effect was found with respect to sympathetic activation. Further, there was no evidence of wood-plant interactions. Spectral analysis of HRV data was used to measure parasympathetic activation. No treatment effects were found with respect to parasympathetic activation. This study provides evidence that wood provides stress-reducing effects similar to the well studied effect of exposure to nature in the field of environmental psychology. The practical implication of this effect is that wood may be able to be applied indoors to provide stress reduction as a part of the evidence-based and biophilic designs of hospitals, offices, schools, and other built environments.
The Role of Prolactin in the Cellular Response to DNA Damaging Agents
Creators: name: Karayazi Atici, Odul
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biology--Cell
subject: prolactin, breast cancer, DNA damage

description: High serum levels of the peptide hormone prolactin are associated with increased breast cancer risk and poor prognosis. Prolactin is also involved in breast cancer resistance to different chemotherapeutics. The overall goal of this project is to investigate potential pathways involved in prolactin induced resistance to DNA damaging agents with the hypothesis that the cross-talk between the prolactin pathway and the DNA damage response is important in the mechanism. We previously identified that one isoform of heat shock protein-90 (HSP90), Hsp90alpha, is a prolactin-Janus kinase-2 (Jak2)-signal transducer and activator of transcription-5 (Stat5) regulated gene in breast cancer cells. We have now observed that prolactin increased the viability of breast cancer cells to DNA damaging chemotherapeutics, and Hsp90 inhibitors, 17AAG and BIIB021, abrogated the effect of prolactin, indicating the mechanism of enhanced viability involves the master cancer chaperone Hsp90. The stability of Jak2 and both the total ataxia-telangiectasia mutated protein (ATM) and phospho-ATM appear to be dependent on functional Hsp90. Inhibition of Jak2 and ATM, with highly selective inhibitors (G6 and KU55933, respectively), abrogated prolactin enhanced viability, suggesting their role in prolactin induced cell viability. Drug combination experiments with Hsp90 inhibitor BIIB021 and doxorubicin, and ATM inhibitor KU55933 and doxorubicin, showed drug synergism between doxorubicin and both KU55933 and BIIB021 in MCF7 breast cancer cells. Interestingly, in orthotopic xenograft studies, autocrine prolactin from human breast cancer cells increased the tumor latency of doxorubicin induced DNA damaged cells in SCID mice compared to untreated or prolactin or doxorubicin alone. We hypothesize that this is in part due to the cross-talk of the prolactin and DNA damage response pathways that may be affecting the tumor microenvironment.
Neglected cultivars for the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region (East Georgia): ampelography, phenology, and agro-climatology
Creators: name: Meladze, Maia
name: Mamasakhlisashvili, Londa
name: Ujmajuridze, Levan
name: Migliaro, Daniele
name: Domanda, Corrado
name: Rustioni, Laura
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2023

description: Georgia is an important source of grapevine intra-specific variability for viticulture. This biodiversity can be a suitable tool to face the challenge of climate change. Nevertheless, it is important to take into account the interaction between the interest genotype and the local environment, whose climate is changing due to global heating. In this work, we put in relation the phenotypic behavior of some neglected Georgian cultivars (‘Tabidziseuli’, ‘Daisi’, ‘Qvelouri’, ‘Bazaleturi Colikouri’) from the Mtskheta-Mtianeti Georgian region to the agro-climatology of the region itself. The phenological phases and the vegetation length of these four grape varieties were described, as well as their principal ampelographic characters. The impact of global heating on the agro-climatology of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region has also been established, by comparing the sum of active temperatures (>10°C) of multi-years (1948-2017) with those calculated for the future scenario (2020-2050, temperature increase by 2°C). Based on this comparison, three agro-climatic zones have been confirmed within the region: dry subtropical, mountain and high mountain. The scenario of temperature increase by 2°C in the next three decades will cause the sum of active temperatures to reach 3900-4000°C in the dry subtropical zone, 3400-3500°C in the mountain zone and 1900-2000°C in the high mountain zone. Considering the vegetation length of the cultivars analyzed, it can be expected a shift of the most suitable sites for viticulture from the dry subtropical zone to the mountain area. High mountain seems not to be suitable for the cultivation of the studied cultivars. Given this environmental variability within the region, the increase in temperature will not suppress viticulture in Mtskheta-Mtianeti, if the real temperature does not exceed the level predicted by scenario.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2023): Vitis
title: Factors Influencing Dental Hygiene Job Retention in the Private Practice Setting
Creators: name: Hamman, Kristin A.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: The purpose of this study was to determine what role the following factors have in influencing dental hygienists to remain in a private practice employment setting for five or more years: (1) working conditions, (2) the employer and the organizational structure of the employment setting, (3) scope of practice, and (4) personal factors. A random sample of 1200 licensed dental hygienists in 12 states was surveyed (100/state). Only dental hygienists working in one private practice setting for a minimum of five years completed the questionnaire; nonpracticing dental hygienists returned the questionnaire unanswered. A 69.9 percent response rate was established. Of those dental hygienists returning questionnaires, 14.3 percent were not practicing (N=108), and 85. 7 percent were currently practicing (N=755). Data were analyzed using univariate analyses (frequency distributions), bivariate analyses (Pearson's correlation coefficients [r]}, and multivariate analyses (factor analyses).

Analyses revealed six major factors identified by dental hygienists for remaining in a private practice setting for at least five years: (1) quality/safe work environment, (2} time management for quality dental hygiene services, (3) effective employer office policies/procedures and personnel management, (4) employer support of professional career, (5) supportive work environment, and (6) variety in scope of practice.

Factors explaining dental hygienists longevity in private practice are inversely related to those factors identified as reasons for hygienists leaving the profession in previous attrition and re-entry studies. Therefore, deliberate employment policies and practices can be effective employer strategies for increasing retention, longevity, and job satisfaction of dental hygienists in the private practice setting.