cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Mathematical modelling of the dynamics and control of Salmonella on UK pig farms
Creators: name: Berriman, Alexander DC
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: The work in this thesis falls into three parts. The first part relates to the time spent with the industry as part of this CASE Studentship, whilst the second and third parts relate to stochastic transmission models and the analysis of interventions imposed upon these models. The second and third parts are linked by a common aim, which is to develop models to understand the dynamics of Salmonella transmission on a pig farm and thus identify key drivers of Salmonella. The thesis begins with an assessment and analysis of a Farm Tool Questionnaire that was developed by the industry. A total of 28 farms were visited, had pooled faecal samples taken and completed the Farm Tool Questionnaire. The main aim of this study was to pilot the developed tool and identify any areas that could be modified in order to enhance its usability. Furthermore, the results from the study were used in an attempt to highlight any possible areas of farm management that differ between Platinum farms and non-Platinum farms. It was shown that Platinum farms were likely to adopt a subset of biosecurity practices, which should consequently encourage farms to adopt a range of biosecurity practices rather than focusing on one aspect of biosecurity. The thesis then turns to the development of mathematical models in order to try and understand how the components of the system interact by using both numerical simulation and mathematical analysis. As farming methods differ considerably between farms, two key forms of unit structure were analysed: a fully slatted unit and a solid floored unit. The models were developed using a semi-stochastic transmission model similar to Xiao et al. [2006] (Y. Xiao, D. Clancy, N. P. French & R. G. Bowers. A semi-stochastic model for Salmonella infection in a multi-group herd. Mathematical Biosciences, 200(2):214-233, 2006). These were then used to assess any differences in dynamics as a result of farm structure. Finally, both sets of models were analysed in order to identify any possible interventions that could have some form of control on Salmonella prevalence at slaughter. The models showed that the key drivers of Salmonella transmission were the amount of bacteria shed and the probability of infection after exposure. As such, interventions focusing on these aspects should be implemented in order to see the most beneficial results. The rate at which infection was able to spread when shedding was high was found to be of great importance within the various models; indicating that solid flooring is a potential risk factor. Furthermore, as infection was able to spread quickly within the solid-floored unit, the time interval at which cleaning and disinfection were carried out could be of importance. However, this would require further investigation.
MPEC 2024-R289 : 2024 RW13
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RW13

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
ANALYSES OF THE RATIONALITY OF HYPNOTIC USE IN SENIORS IN ACUTE CARE
Creators: name: Zelinková, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: potentially inappropriate prescribing
aged
ageism
insomnia
hypno-sedatives

description: As the world population is ageing and the number of the seniors raises, the importance of knowledge and methods of geriatrics and gerontology increases. The seniors represent highly specific group of patients where multimorbidity, polypharmacotherapy and enlarged risk of adverse drug events often make drug treatment more complicated. Comprehensive geriatric assessment and acceptance of principals of geriatric prescribing represent key issues of rational drug therapy. This thesis is dedicated to the aspects of potentially inapproriate drug prescribing in patients suffering from insomnia and to analyses of the rationality of use of sedative/hypnotic agents in the Czech sample of seniors in acute care.
Is information on geriatric dosing enough for an appropriate prescription?
Creators: name: Manfredi, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: potentially inappropriate medications
drug regulation
discrimination
aged
ageism

description: Ageing is a physiological and unavoidable process, in which occur changes in the body composition, in the homeostatic control and in pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics for many medications. These age-related changes increase sensitivity of older patients both to drug-related problems and to the occurrence of age-related geriatric syndromes, e.g. instability, falls, cognitive impairments, delirium, etc. In those symptoms it is very difficult to identify the causes. It is known that drugs and particularly polypharmacy might worsen the quality of life in older adults and adverse drugs events can be also misinterpreted as geriatric syndromes. This creates a sort of circle, where it is complicated to understand for healthcare professionals which factors are the causes and which are the consequences of wrong treatment. Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) are high-risk medications in geriatric patients that must be prescribed rarely and with a special cautiousness. In fact, discrimination because of the age (ageism) is common in clinical trials where insufficient information is collected on how to appropriately treat older adults and also the lack of information in SPCs and drug formularies (on appropriate geriatric dosages and if medications are considered „PIMs“ in the aged) is a part of such discriminary practices. The aim of this study was to clarify for how many PIMs a geriatric dosage is stated in official drug information sources, mainly in Summary of Product Characteristics – SPCs and in some drug formularies. The works on this diploma thesis have been conducted under the EUROAGEISM H2020 project.
On the extended Whittaker category
Creators: name: Beraldo, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $G$ be a connected reductive group, with connected center, and $X$ a smooth complete curve, both defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Let $\operatorname{Bun}_G$ denote the stack of $G$-bundles on $X$. In analogy with the classical theory of Whittaker coefficients for automorphic functions, we construct a "Fourier transform" functor, called $\mathsf{coeff}_{G,\mathsf{ext}}$, from the DG category of $\mathfrak{D}$-modules on $\operatorname{Bun}_G$ to a certain DG category $\mathcal{W}h(G,\mathsf{ext})$, called the \emph{extended Whittaker category}. Combined with work in progress by other mathematicians and the author, this construction allows to formulate the compatibility of the Langlands duality functor $\mathbb{L}_G: \operatorname{IndCoh}_{\mathcal N}(\operatorname{LocSys}_{\check{G}}) \to \mathfrak{D}(\operatorname{Bun}_G)$ with the Whittaker model. For $G=GL_n$ and $G=PGL_n$, we prove that $\mathsf{coeff}_{G,\mathsf{ext}}$ is fully faithful. This result guarantees that, for those groups, $\mathbb{L}_G$ is unique (if it exists) and necessarily fully faithful.
description: To appear in Selecta Mathematica
MPEC 2024-R290 : 2024 RX13
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RX13

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: The low velocity impact response of sandwich structures
Creators: name: Hassan, Mohamad
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: In this study, the mechanical properties and fracture behaviour of a range of core materials have been investigated in order to elucidate the impact properties of sandwich structures. Initially, the compression properties of the core have been evaluated at quasi-static and impact rates of strain. It has been shown that the plastic collapse strength of the cores is highly rate-sensitive, increasing by up to one hundred percent in passing from quasi-static to dynamic rates of loading. Subsequently, the SENB (Mode I) and shear (Mode II) fracture properties of the polymer foams were evaluated. Mode I tests have shown that the crosslinked PVC foams and the PET foams fail in a brittle manner, however, the linear PVC foams fail in a ductile mode. Here, it has been shown that the Mode II shear toughnesses of the crosslinked PVC foams were up to thirty-five times greater than their corresponding Mode I values. Following this, a series of indentation tests were conducted on polymer-foam sandwich structures and their response was characterised using a Meyer indentation law of the form P = Cn. It has been shown that the value of the exponent parameter, n, does not vary significantly with the properties of the core or the skin, typically being close to unity for all tests. The contact stiffness, C, was found to depend on the plastic collapse strength of the foam, the indentor radius and the properties of the skin. It has been shown that a plot of contact stiffness against plastic collapse strength, containing all of the quasi-static and dynamic data, appears to yield a unique curve. Subsequently, the perforation resistances of a range of foam-based sandwich structures were investigated. The influence of the plastic collapse stress of the foam in determining the failure thresholds of the front and rear composite skins has been established. Here, a simple model has been used to successfully predict failure of the top surface composite skin in the sandwich structures. In addition, the force associated with perforating the lightweight core has been shown to be strongly dependent on the shear strength of the polymer foam. The perforation response of sandwich structures based on fully-recyclable materials has also been investigated. The design of the SRPP skin has a significant effect on the energy-absorbing characteristics of the sandwich structure, with the performance of systems based on multiple layer skins greatly exceeding that associated with a monolithic skin. It has been shown that when normalised by the areal density of the panels, those sandwich structures with multiple layer skins out-perform systems with monolithic skins as well as conventional GFRP/aluminium honeycomb sandwich structures.
title: Discovery and functionalisation of microporous materials
Creators: name: Culshaw, Jamie
name: Culshaw, Jamie
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: This thesis describes the preparation of a new [4+6] porous organic cage, CC12. The new cage has a N2 SABET of up to 946 m2/g, as well as inherent selectivity of gases based on polymorphism. This new porous organic cage has also been reduced and catenated as seen with previous cages. Cages have also been formed from aliphatic diamines, highlighting importance of diamine length in formation of either [2+3] or [4+6] cages (Chapter 3). CC1 has been prepared and reduced in situ to yield RC1, while CC5 was also reduced to produce RC5. These reduced cages have provided a route towards decorated cages via nucleophilic addition/elimination with various acid halides. While no porous materials were observed by addition of bulky or aliphatic groups, this new class of decorated cages presented an excellent basis for further reactions on a 12-armed core, higher than that of POSS alternatives (Chapter 4). Finally, RC1 has been polymerised with bis-acid halides to yield networks with modest N2 SABET of up to 106 m2/g. Decorated cages were also successfully homo-coupled by Yamamoto and polymerised with Sonogashira methods to yield polymers with N2 SABET of up to 150 m2/g. Decorated cages were lastly hyper cross-linked to yield H2 selective polymers and co-polymerised with benzene to yield N2 SABET of up to 954 m2/g (Chapter 5).
Tight triangulations of closed 3-manifolds
Creators: name: Bagchi, Bhaskar
name: Datta, Basudeb
name: Spreer, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57Q15, 57R20, 05C15

description: It is well known that a triangulation of a closed 2-manifold is tight with respect to a field of characteristic two if and only if it is neighbourly; and it is tight with respect to a field of odd characteristic if and only if it is neighbourly and orientable. No such characterization of tightness was previously known for higher dimensional manifolds. In this paper, we prove that a triangulation of a closed 3-manifold is tight with respect to a field of odd characteristic if and only if it is neighbourly, orientable and stacked. In consequence, the Kühnel-Lutz conjecture is valid in dimension three for fields of odd characteristic. Next let $\mathbb{F}$ be a field of characteristic two. It is known that, in this case, any neighbourly and stacked triangulation of a closed 3-manifold is $\mathbb{F}$-tight. For triangulated closed 3-manifolds with at most 71 vertices or with first Betti number at most 188, we show that the converse is true. But the possibility of an $\mathbb{F}$-tight non-stacked triangulation on a larger number of vertices remains open. We prove the following upper bound theorem on such triangulations. If an $\mathbb{F}$-tight triangulation of a closed 3-manifold has $n$ vertices and first Betti number $β_1$, then $(n-4)(617n- 3861) \leq 15444β_1$. Equality holds here if and only if all the vertex links of the triangulation are connected sums of boundary complexes of icosahedra.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 1: of Modulation of cancer signalling pathway(s) in two -stage mouse skin tumorigenesis by annonacin
Creators: name: Mohd Md Roduan
name: Roslida Abd Hamid
name: Norhafizah Mohtarrudin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Depiction of molecular mechanism of antitumor promotion effect by annonacin in two-stage mouse skin tumorigenesis. (DOCX 84 kb)
title: Reducing Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment: The Role of Environmental Product Declarations
Creators: name: Anderson, Jane
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2023

description: The embodied carbon of construction, caused by the production, transport, installation, maintenance and disposal of construction products, accounts for 12% of global CO2 emissions. However concerns about the availability and variation of embodied carbon data have been cited as barriers to the widespread adoption of embodied carbon assessment and regulation.

 This thesis examines these concerns through an analysis of embodied carbon data, including Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), for construction products. It describes the use and value of embodied carbon data and EPD by experienced UK embodied carbon practitioners. It addresses the availability of EPD globally, finding exponential growth in the number of EPD and considering the causes driving this growth. It provides an overview of EPD and embodied carbon data for the UK and finds similar availability as other countries when embodied carbon regulation was introduced. The increasing number of EPD has itself the potential to offer further insights. Using a quantitative meta-analysis of impacts from cement and concrete, steel, brick, and timber EPD, aleatory variability is found to explain the wide variation, and a typology of causes is proposed. The concept of EPD Landscapes is developed to visualise this variability within materials, providing a new approach to EPD analysis and an essential resource for stakeholders. The role of renewable energy in EPD is also explored, developing EPD Energy Arrays to identify products which have reduced both fossil and total primary energy demand, but raising concern of correlation between increasing the proportion of renewable energy and increased primary energy.

 As the construction industry starts on its journey towards net zero, this thesis combines the previously poorly connected knowledge of EPD in industry and academia, with a major and innovative analysis, providing new knowledge of direct relevance for multiple stakeholders looking to reduce the embodied carbon of the built environment.
title: Understanding Flipping Behaviour of Crude Oil Prices between Contango and Backwardation
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Hassan, Abubakar
Publisher: name: University of Dundee
Year: 2022

description: The last four decades have witnessed extraordinary volatility in crude oil prices, and this has severe implications for the race toward achieving a net-zero carbon emission target by 2050. This thesis attempts to understand the dynamic behaviour of crude oil prices through four interrelated essays on the flipping behaviour of crude oil prices between contango and backwardation market conditions. The thesis revealed interesting findings by employing robust econometric estimation techniques and innovative ideas on weekly and monthly Brent and WTI spot and futures prices spanning from January 1986 to April 2021. The first research essay reveals that price discovery takes place in Brent spot and WTI futures markets, and volatility spillovers from spot to futures market in the Brent market whereas, in the WTI market, volatility spillovers from futures to spot market. The second essay reveals that WTI stays longer in the backwardation market state, but the contango market state has a more profound impact on the crude oil market. The third essay reveals that six major oil price structural breaks significantly impact the contango and backwardation market conditions. The essay also shows that on April 20, 2020, the oil price shock flipped the oil market from backwardation to contango. Finally, the fourth essay reveals that convenience yield and inventory have a significant asymmetric nonlinear impact on crude oil prices, in line with the central prediction of the theory of storage. Overall, the thesis has four main contributions. First, it is the first research work to systematically explore the theory and evidence of the flipping behaviour of crude oil prices between contango and backwardation. Second, it is one of the pioneering research works in using Markov Regime-switching models and in harvesting the information content of crude oil futures curves. Third, it is also the first research work to analyse the impact of oil price structural breaks on contango and backwardation market states. Finally, the thesis uses econometric estimation techniques to bridge existing research voids on price discovery, volatility spillovers, and lead-lag relationships in Brent and WTI crude oil markets.
Der Einsatz von PCM in Wärmepumpen von Elektrofahrzeugen
Creators: name: Rusche, Stefan
name: Dimova, Daniela
name: Sonnekalb, Michael
name: Best, Pascal
Publisher: name: Deutscher Kälte- und Klimatechnischer Verein e. V.; Hannover
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mobile Wärmepumpenanwendung
subject: Reichweitenverlängerung
subject: PCM
subject: Kältemittel CO2
subject: 600 Technik::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften

description: DKV-Tagungsbericht 2017 - 22.-24. November 2017, Bremen - 44. Jahrgang; Tagungsdaten der CD-ROM entnommen; Aufsatz + Präsentationsfolien
MPEC 2024-R291 : 2024 RY13
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RY13

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Szegő kernel asymptotics and Kodaira embedding theorems of Levi-flat CR manifolds
Creators: name: Hsiao, Chin-Yu
name: Marinescu, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $X$ be an orientable compact Levi-flat CR manifold and let $L$ be a positive CR complex line bundle over $X$. We prove that certain microlocal conjugations of the associated Szegő kernel admits an asymptotic expansion with respect to high powers of $L$. As an application, we give a Szegő kernel proof of the Kodaira type embedding theorem on Levi-flat CR manifolds due to Ohsawa and Sibony.
description: 45 pages; expanded version including background on Levi-flat manifolds and several comments on the nature of the projector \Pi_k; v.2 is a final update to agree with the published paper
title: Authentic leadership development: A theoretical framework and intervention design based on Personal Construct Psychology
Creators: name: Ranieri, Alessia
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: Authentic leadership can foster positive personal and organisational outcomes. It can create a positive team climate, help align work with the organisation's mission and values (Luthans and Avolio, 2003), facilitate followers’ eudaemonic well-being (Ilies et al., 2005), encourage consistency and align individual behaviour with others' expectations over time (Sparrowe, 2005). Yet despite its popularity and positive outcomes, defining “authenticity” in leadership remains problematic (Zhu et al., 2019) and the question of the existence of a “true” or “inner” self to which one can be authentic to is still unanswered (Iszatt-White and Kempster, 2019). Furthermore, developmental interventions in the authenticity stream focus on self-awareness and the development of moral qualities, which are not always in line with what leaders may need to be more authentic. In order to improve the impact of developmental interventions, it is essential to create a model based on a well-grounded theoretical understanding of the concept of authenticity. In this study the researcher argues for a redefinition of authenticity that relies on an understanding of identity and addresses questions such as whether a “true” self exists, whether it is possible to always be authentic, and how authenticity emerges and can be developed. After having provided a theoretical perspective on authenticity and its development, the thesis proposes a coherent intervention design based on an adaptation of a constructivist tool called Fixed Role Therapy (Kelly, 1955). This intervention works with identity to develop leaders’ authenticity and it was empirically tested in a multiple case study design. The data of the qualitative analysis are encouraging and show the intervention promotes changes that allow leaders to experience higher level of authenticity. This is coherent with the literature on identity work and play to which the study contributes, strengthening the existing link between identity work and authentic leadership development.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROMPT TREATMENT AND PRESERVING THE LIVES OF BURN PATIENTS
Creators: name: *  Turki Mohammed Ahmed Alkhayri,*  Saeed Abdullah Alamri,*  ABDULRHMAN ALI ALSHAIKHI,*  AHMED BAJAN ALWAN ALABDALI, *  ALI SANI ALI ALKATHEERI,*  Mohammed Abdulaziz Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: First aid should be administered as soon as possible after the accident for best results in burn care. A sufficient understanding of how to treat burns using first aid helps lessen the severity of the injury. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the extent of first aid professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and information sources regarding treating burn patients in Saudi Arabia. To evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, and information sources on first aid for burns among those sent to the Burns Center in Saudi Arabia, a questionnaire-based survey was carried out.. In this survey, the appropriate sampling method was adopted. The variables consist of one variable, namely the age of first aid providers. The study showed that there are no statistical indications of the age of the aid providers on the extent of knowledge of the correct or proper ways of providing services. The survey responded to a total of 400 individuals. The average age of participants was 30 years. The study showed that there was awareness of the initial procedures for dealing with burns, both with regard to recording all information about the injury and also the correct handling of burns, identifying the nature and degree of burning and dealing with the degree appropriately. The results of the study showed that the average responses of the sample of paramedics to the study are positive with regard to high rates of awareness of the correct controls and procedures for dealing with burns sufferers at the time of crisis, indicating an increase in the awareness of paramedics of the importance of following the right and proper steps in the initial diagnosis of burns.

Key words: Burns, First Aid, First Degree Burns, Painkillers, Bandages
Adaptive numerical designs for the calibration of computer codes
Creators: name: Damblin, Guillaume
name: Barbillon, Pierre
name: Keller, Merlin
name: Pasanisi, Alberto
name: Parent, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Making good predictions of a physical system using a computer code requires the inputs to be carefully specified. Some of these inputs called control variables have to reproduce physical conditions whereas other inputs, called parameters, are specific to the computer code and most often uncertain. The goal of statistical calibration consists in estimating these parameters with the help of a statistical model which links the code outputs with the field measurements. In a Bayesian setting, the posterior distribution of these parameters is normally sampled using MCMC methods. However, they are impractical when the code runs are high time-consuming. A way to circumvent this issue consists of replacing the computer code with a Gaussian process emulator, then sampling a cheap-to-evaluate posterior distribution based on it. Doing so, calibration is subject to an error which strongly depends on the numerical design of experiments used to fit the emulator. We aim at reducing this error by building a proper sequential design by means of the Expected Improvement criterion. Numerical illustrations in several dimensions assess the efficiency of such sequential strategies.
Anisotropic inflation reexamined: upper bound on broken rotational invariance during inflation
Creators: name: Naruko, Atsushi
name: Komatsu, Eiichiro
name: Yamaguchi, Masahide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of a light vector field coupled to a scalar field during inflation makes a distinct prediction: the observed correlation functions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) become statistically anisotropic. We study the implications of the current bound on statistical anisotropy derived from the Planck 2013 CMB temperature data for such a model. The previous calculations based on the attractor solution indicate that the magnitude of anisotropy in the power spectrum is proportional to $N^2$, where $N$ is the number of $e$-folds of inflation counted from the end of inflation. In this paper, we show that the attractor solution is not compatible with the current bound, and derive new predictions using another branch of anisotropic inflation. In addition, we improve upon the calculation of the mode function of perturbations by including the leading-order slow-roll corrections. We find that the anisotropy is roughly proportional to $[2(\varepsilon_H+4η_H)/3-4(c-1)]^{-2}$, where $\varepsilon_H$ and $η_H$ are the usual slow-roll parameters and $c$ is the parameter in the model, regardless of the form of potential of an inflaton field. The bound from Planck implies that breaking of rotational invariance during inflation (characterized by the background homogeneous shear divided by the Hubble rate) is limited to be less than ${\cal O}(10^{-9})$. This bound is many orders of magnitude smaller than the amplitude of breaking of time translation invariance, which is observed to be ${\cal O}(10^{-2})$.
description: 23 pages
D7.5 - Report on Networking activities
Creators: name: FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
name: FUNDINGBOX ACCELERATOR SP. Z, O.O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Networking
BRIDGE
Industrial Groups
Clusters
PLATOON Community

description: This document summarises the networking activities performed in the project to seek synergies and ensure cooperation with other related H2020 funded projects, in particular with those which are represented at the BRIDGE initiative, and with industrial groups through collaboration, liaison and clustering with industry platforms and H2020 projects. Moreover, it collates the marketing strategy and activities developed to create the PLATOON Community.
title: Kierkegaard's contribution to the philosophy of history
Creators: name: Patios, Georgios
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: Kierkegaard is well known as a witty writer mainly occupied with Christianity. In this thesis however, Kierkegaard is depicted as a philosopher who can provide us with some new and authentic ideas about the nature of history. Kierkegaard’s approach to the problem of history is compared with Hegel’s philosophy of history and Heidegger’s view of history. Hegel’s philosophy of history is examined and analysed first and the conclusion is that we can clearly detect two main Hegelian assertions regarding history: first that reason is the main historical agent and second that human beings can fully know their past history. Kierkegaard’s arguments follow a totally different approach from that of Hegel’s. Kierkegaard argues that we cannot fully know our past history and that the crucial element in history is to decide about our future history instead of simply trying to understand our past history. It is also argued that Kierkegaard constructs human self in such a way that human beings must simultaneously create themselves and history by making decisions regarding their present and their future. It is further argued that neither Hegel nor Kierkegaard can, on their own, provide us with a total and full picture of the nature of history because Hegel on the one hand, focuses on the macroscopic view of history and Kierkegaard on the other, on the microscopic view (that is, from the point of view of the individual). This is why a possible synthesis of both views is suggested as a better way to truly understand history. Heidegger’s view of history is examined as a possible ‘existential’ alternative approach to history from that of Kierkegaard’s. The conclusion is that Heidegger cannot really offer us any help because he is either borrowing his main concepts from Kierkegaard or he is too vague.
N3E2
Creators: name: Hardison, Zoie
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoamerica
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/61/mesoamerica
subject: Basin of Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3/basin-of-mexico
subject: Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/134/mexico
subject: Mexico (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/326/mexico-state-territory
subject: United Mexican States (Country)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/438/united-mexican-states-country
subject: Central Mexico, Teotihuacan Valley
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/7/central-mexico-teotihuacan-valley
subject: Central Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/135/central-mexico
subject: Teotihuacan Valley
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/154/teotihuacan-valley
subject: Teotihuacan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/202/teotihuacan
subject: Valley of Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/44/valley-of-mexico
subject: Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/125/classic-period
subject: Terminal Formative
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/67/terminal-formative
subject: Teotihuacan Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7765/teotihuacan-period
subject: Early Classic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5560/early-classic
subject: Teotihuacan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/7527/teotihuacan
subject: Teotihuacano
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/9224/teotihuacano
subject: Teotihuacan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/92/teotihuacan
subject: Town / City
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/255/town-city
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Settlements
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/252/settlements
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: Site Survey Form Scan for Square N3E2
Additional file 1: of Modulation of cancer signalling pathway(s) in two -stage mouse skin tumorigenesis by annonacin
Creators: name: Mohd Md Roduan
name: Roslida Abd Hamid
name: Norhafizah Mohtarrudin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Depiction of molecular mechanism of antitumor promotion effect by annonacin in two-stage mouse skin tumorigenesis. (DOCX 72 kb)
Highly corrupted image inpainting through hypoelliptic diffusion
Creators: name: Boscain, Ugo
name: Chertovskih, Roman
name: Gauthier, Jean-Paul
name: Prandi, Dario
name: Remizov, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a new image inpainting algorithm, the Averaging and Hypoelliptic Evolution (AHE) algorithm, inspired by the one presented in [SIAM J. Imaging Sci., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 669--695, 2014] and based upon a semi-discrete variation of the Citti-Petitot-Sarti model of the primary visual cortex V1. The AHE algorithm is based on a suitable combination of sub-Riemannian hypoelliptic diffusion and ad-hoc local averaging techniques. In particular, we focus on reconstructing highly corrupted images (i.e. where more than the 80% of the image is missing), for which we obtain reconstructions comparable with the state-of-the-art.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
The non-commutative Khintchine inequalities for p<1
Creators: name: Pisier, Gilles
name: Ricard, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L51, 46L07, 47L25, 47L20

description: We give a proof of the Khintchine inequalities in non-commutative $L_p$-spaces for all $0< p<1$. These new inequalities are valid for the Rademacher functions or Gaussian random variables, but also for more general sequences, e.g. for the analogues of such random variables in free probability. We also prove a factorization for operators from a Hilbert space to a non commutative $L_p$-space, which is new for $0
description: Minor improvements (Remark 2.10 which was mistakenly omitted from previous version, is added to the current version). Paper will appear in J. Inst. Math Jussieu (unfortunately without Remark 2.10)
ภูมิปัญญาช่างทองอำเภอลับแล จังหวัดอุตรดิตถ์: กรณีศึกษากระบวนการสกัดทองคำและเงินบริสุทธิ์ด้วยวิธีกัดกรด
Creators: name: สุทธา รัตนศักดิ์
Publisher: name: สถาบันภาษาและกิจการต่างประเทศ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏเชียงราย
Year: 2566
Subjects: การจัดการความรู้ภูมิปัญญา
การสกัดโลหะมีค่า
SUTTHAR.MODEL

description: มังรายสาร วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์, 11, 2, 48-63
title: Niobium oxide based material for visible light photocatalysis
Creators: name: Ireland, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: The primary aim of the work presented in this thesis was to design and synthesise well-characterised material that would exploit visible light to promote photocatalysis, involving the degradation of organic compounds in water, or generation of hydrogen from the water splitting reaction. In doing so, both environmental concerns, such as the removal of pollutants in wastewater, and energy concerns, such as the generation of a clean and safe form of hydrogen for use as a renewable fuel could be addressed. The approach used was to employ existing methods to synthesise high surface area quasi-amorphous material that is active in UV light for photocatalysis, and then design and employ post synthetic modification to promote the material for visible light photocatalysis. Niobium (V) oxide was synthesised in a high surface area form, successfully scaling up the synthesis from 2 g to over 200 g quantities of as made material. This UV active photocatalyst was fully characterized by methods including X-ray diffraction and thermal gravimetric analysis. The material was used to degrade the model dye Methyl Orange and generate hydrogen from a methanol / water solution without further modification. By adding platinum group metals (PGMs) to the niobium (V) oxide, a greatly enhanced efficiency for hydrogen generation was realized. A survey of metals (platinum rhodium and palladium) and weight percentages of metal added (0.01 – 1%) was carried out, with the PGM added materials characterised for hydrogen generation using a methanol / water sacrificial reagent system, as well as PGM dispersion, TEM imaging, EDX and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for characterising the higher weight percentage material. Finally, chromium (III) oxide was added to the surface of the niobium (V) oxide in various weight percentages (1% - 5%). The optical properties of this composite material, in comparison with the starting materials were investigated, in particular the difference in diffuse reflectance of the starting materials and composite were highlighted to demonstrate charge transfer between the chromium (III) on the surface, and niobium (V), in the bulk of the material, with the oxidation states being confirmed by XPS. Furthermore, this material was found to degrade methyl orange under visible light. An action spectrum was carried out measuring the quantum efficiency of the reaction at different wavelengths, which proved it was the chromium – niobium charge transfer absorbance in isolation that was responsible for the methyl orange degradation.
Saperi di genere. Prospettive interdisciplinari su formazione, universit�, lavoro, politiche e movimenti sociali
Creators: name: Murgia, Annalisa
name: Poggio, Barbara
Publisher: name: Universit� di Trento
Year: 2018

description: Le asimmetrie di genere tuttora esistenti nei diversi contesti di produzione di conoscenza ? l'accademia cos� come altri ambiti di ricerca e di elaborazione ? si fondano sull?esistenza di stereotipi di genere, di pratiche e modelli culturali che tendono a definire e riprodurre opportunit� e destini differenziati e non paritetici per donne e uomini. Tali asimmetrie sono d?altra parte consolidate dal presupposto epistemico che la scienza, cos� come la stessa conoscenza, sia transculturale, universale e neutra rispetto alle differenze di genere. In tal senso, si apre una sfida per chi intende operare in una prospettiva di equit� e pari opportunit�, non solo riguardo al raggiungimento di una maggiore presenza delle donne nei percorsi professionali e nei processi decisionali, ma anche in merito alla messa in discussione critica del processo stesso di costruzione della scienza e della conoscenza.
MPEC 2024-R292 : 2024 RZ13
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RZ13

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
There exist no Minimally Knotted Planar Spatial Graphs on the Torus
Creators: name: Barthel, Senja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C10, 92E10, 57M25

description: We show that all nontrivial embeddings of planar graphs on the torus contain a nontrivial knot or a nonsplit link. This is equivalent to showing that no minimally knotted planar spatial graphs on the torus exist that contain neither a nontrivial knot nor a nonsplit link all of whose components are unknots.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Full Dyon Excitation Spectrum in Generalized Levin-Wen Models
Creators: name: Hu, Yuting
name: Geer, Nathan
name: Wu, Yong-Shi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In Levin-Wen (LW) models, a wide class of exactly solvable discrete models, for two dimensional topological phases, it is relatively easy to describe only single fluxon excitations, but not the charge and dyonic as well as many-fluxon excitations. To incorporate charged and dyonic excitations in (doubled) topological phases, an extension of the LW models is proposed in this paper. We first enlarge the Hilbert space with adding a tail on one of the edges of each trivalent vertex, to describe the internal charge degrees of freedom at the vertex. Then we study the full dyon spectrum of the extended LW models, including both quantum numbers and wave functions for dyonic quasiparticle excitations. The local operators associated with the dyonic excitations are shown to form the so-called tube algebra, whose representations (modules) form the quantum double (categoric center) of the input data (unitary fusion category). In physically relevant cases, the input data is from a finite or quantum group (with braiding $R$-matrices), we find that the elementary excitations (or dyon species), as well as any localized/isolated excited states, are characterized by three quantum numbers: charge, fluxon type, and twist. They provide a "complete basis" for many-body states in the enlarged Hilbert space. Concrete examples are presented and the relevance of our results to the electric-magnetic duality existing in the models is addressed.
description: 31 pages, 17 figures, v2 revised and resubmitted version
Creation of a high spatiotemporal resolution global database of continuous mangrove forest cover for the 21st Century (CGMFC-21)
Creators: name: Hamilton, Stuart
name: Casey, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The goal of this research is to provide high resolution local, regional, national and global estimates of annual mangrove forest area from 2000 through to 2012. To achieve this we synthesize the Global Forest Change database, the Terrestrial Ecosystems of the World database, and the Mangrove Forests of the World database to extract mangrove forest cover at high spatial and temporal resolutions. We then use the new database to monitor mangrove cover at the global, national and protected area scales. Countries showing relatively high amounts of mangrove loss include Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Guatemala. Indonesia remains by far the largest mangrove-holding nation, containing between 26 percent and 29 percent of the global mangrove inventory with a deforestation rate of between 0.26 percent and 0.66 percent annually. Global mangrove deforestation continues but at a much reduced rate of between 0.16 percent and 0.39 percent annually. Southeast Asia is a region of concern with mangrove deforestation rates between 3.58 percent and 8.08 percent during the analysis period, this in a region containing half of the entire global mangrove forest inventory. The global mangrove deforestation pattern from 2000 to 2012 is one of decreasing rates of deforestation, with many nations essentially stable, with the exception of the largest mangrove-holding region of Southeast Asia. We provide a standardized global spatial dataset that monitors mangrove deforestation globally at high spatiotemporal resolutions, covering 99 percent of all mangrove forests. These data can be used to drive the mangrove research agenda particularly as it pertains to improved monitoring of mangrove carbon stocks and the establishment of baseline local mangrove forest inventories required for payment for ecosystem service initiatives.
description: 31 pages, 3 tables, 1 Figure
Apéndice. Del discurso pedagógico a la política pública: la irrupción de la innovación en la agenda educativa catalana
Creators: name: Quilabert, Edgar
name: Moschetti, Mauro C.
name: Verger, Antoni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Innovation
Agenda Setting
Educational Policy
Policy Formation
Discourse Analysis

description: Apéndice I. Cuadro-resumen de los cambios normativos más relevantes en el sistema educativo catalán (educación obligatoria). Apéndice II. Listado de normativa mencionada y documentos analizados en Quilabert, Moschetti y Verger (2023).
A simplicial model for infinity properads
Creators: name: Hackney, Philip
name: Robertson, Marcy
name: Yau, Donald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P48, 18D20, 55U35, 18D50, 19D23

description: We show how the model structure on the category of simplicially-enriched (colored) props induces a model structure on the category of simplicially-enriched (colored) properads. A similar result holds for dioperads.
description: Final version
An Ordinal Minimax Theorem
Creators: name: Brandt, Felix
name: Brill, Markus
name: Suksompong, Warut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the early 1950s Lloyd Shapley proposed an ordinal and set-valued solution concept for zero-sum games called \emph{weak saddle}. We show that all weak saddles of a given zero-sum game are interchangeable and equivalent. As a consequence, every such game possesses a unique set-based value.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures