cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Motion of discrete interfaces through mushy layers
Creators: name: Braides, Andrea
name: Solci, Margherita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the geometric motion of sets in the plane derived from the homogenization of discrete ferromagnetic energies with weak inclusions. We show that the discrete sets are composed by a `bulky' part and an external `mushy region' composed only of weak inclusions. The relevant motion is that of the bulky part, which asymptotically obeys to a motion by crystalline mean curvature with a forcing term, due to the energetic contribution of the mushy layers, and pinning effects, due to discreteness. From an analytical standpoint it is interesting to note that the presence of the mushy layers imply only a weak and not strong convergence of the discrete motions, so that the convergence of the energies does not commute with the evolution. From a mechanical standpoint it is interesting to note the geometrical similarity of some phenomena in the cooling of binary melts.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures
Quick Searching at the Library: A Usability Study on Combining Web Scale Discovery Tools for the Ultimate Search Interface
Creators: name: Arnold, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Web sites--Design
Academic libraries
Usability testing

description: Research was conducted to develop a clear picture of user preference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by having representative users answer questions about their use of the library in a questionnaire and following up with a usability test. The usability testing involved two main goals: first, participants compared two search pages, one with tabs similar to the current library homepage and one without that is similar to a Google interface. This first goal also tested the library's new combined search known as Articles + Catalog. The second portion of the tests involved having the participants respond to a proposed library homepage in order to gather feedback for a redesign project. The resulting data showed users preferred the tabbed widget, but overall participants were not averse to the use of the simple widget on the proposed library homepage since the information they found most important was still available.
NBC News Poll: 1996 Election
Creators: name: NBC News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Bill Clinton job performance (1); 1996 election (9); 1996 Congressional election (2); family's situation compared to four years ago (1); Whitewater (1); Ross Perot (1); Bob Dole vs. Bill Clinton (5); on-line services (4); name of the most annoying political leader (1); favorite portrayal of the President (1); evangelical Christianity (1); the Christian Coalition (1).
A Free Exhaustive Literature Review on Hops (Humulus lupulus L.)
Creators: name: Harbour, Keven Bélanger
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: This article presents a background on hop chemistry, methods of addition during the brewing process to provide aroma and bitterness, and it discusses the optimal conditions for dry-hopping to maximize aroma extraction while minimizing bitterness and other issues. Essential oil extraction occurs much faster than what is commonly believed by brewers, reaching a maximum within only 2–3 days, and it is not negatively impacted by lower temperatures. This review discusses the potential problems of refermentation that may occur in packaged dry-hopped beers from the degradation of unfermentable carbohydrates by hop dextrinases, and the limits of the IBU scale in dry-hopped or sour beers to correlate perceived bitterness with iso-α-acids levels. While hop varieties can vary in bitter acids and essential oil levels and composition, the aroma of raw hops may not correlate well with the ‘hoppy aroma’ of the final product due to biotransformation of geraniol and enzymatic release of geranyl esters and polyfunctional thiols by brewing yeast. Timing of addition, temperature, alcohol levels, agitation, yeast strain, and even fermentation vessel dimensions are all factors that can influence the extraction, transformation, haze formation or loss of volatiles by the scrubbing effect of carbon dioxide and adsorption to yeast cells. Finally, the newest products available for brewers are presented, from new hop products to genetically-modified yeasts with enhanced thiol cleavage ability, to potential plant alternatives to hops. A link is provided in the ‘Background Section’ of the paper that takes the reader to the full paper and list of detailed references.
CNN/ORC Poll: Health Care Reform/War in Iraq and Afghanistan/Ted Kennedy
Creators: name: CNN
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: Barack Obama job performance (1); direction of Obama policies (1); characteristics/qualities of Obama (10); Obama's accomplishments (1); Obama keeping promises (1); Obama paying attention specific problems (2); democratic control of Congress (1); opinion of people in news (10); dealing with specific issues in following year (15); parties handling problems (1); direction of country (1); direction of respondent's life (1); economic conditions (2); government regulation of largest banks (1); assisting Haiti (1); Obama presidency increasing likelihood of terrorist attack (1); health care reform (4); war in Iraq (1); troops in Iraq (1); war in Afghanistan (1); troops in Afghanistan (1); special election in Massachusetts (2); expectations for Obama's speech (1); Obama's speech instilling confidence (1); Obama taking on new goals and priorities (1): watching the speech (1).
Siparuna gesnerioides A. DC.
Creators: name: MONRO, A. K.
name: SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D.
name: GONZÁLEZ, F.
name: CHACÓN, O.
name: SOLANO, D.
name: RODRÍGUEZ, A.
name: ZAMORA, N.
name: FEDELE, E.
name: CORREA, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Laurales
Siparunaceae
Siparuna
Siparuna gesnerioides

description: Siparuna gesnerioides (Kunth) A.DC.
Limoncillo (CR).
 Terrestrial shrubs. Distribution in PILA 0–2500 m, low elevation mixed forest, mixed forest in transition to low elevation forest, mixed forest in transition to cloud forest, cloud forest, low elevation oak forest. Global distribution: Mexico, Costa Rica to Venezuela. Records: D. Santamaría 3799 (INB), E. Alfaro 736 (INB).
description: Published as part of MONRO, A. K., SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D., GONZÁLEZ, F., CHACÓN, O., SOLANO, D., RODRÍGUEZ, A., ZAMORA, N., FEDELE, E. & CORREA, M., 2017, A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 322 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.322.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13698397
Mechanical and microseismic characteristics of anisotropic coal under static and dynamic loads
Creators: name: LI, JING
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Geomechanics and resources geotechnical engineering
Civil geotechnical engineering
Mining engineering

description: This thesis involves extensive experimental analyses to investigate anisotropic coal failure characteristics and mechanisms with the influence of bedding planes, loading rates (quasi-static & dynamic) and loading conditions (single and cyclic compression, tensile and shear). Coal deformation and fracturing processes are presented in detail from surface to internal. Apart from that, microseismic (acoustic emission) signals from fast-growing cracks in dynamic testing were captured and analysed for interpreting coal failure mechanisms.
CNN/ORC Poll: Politics/Foreign Relations
Creators: name: CNN
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: Barack Obama job performance (1); party preference for congressional candidate (4); politicians deserving re-election (5); third party faction in congress (2); Obama/Republican cooperation (2); Democratic/Republican cooperation (1); party approaching bipartisanship (2); economic conditions (1); congress creating jobs (1); Congress handling health care (1); provisions on health care bill (6); Obama responding to Christmas bombing attempt (1); trying Christmas bomber (1); reading Christmas bomber his rights (1); providing Christmas bomber with lawyer (1); people in the news (4); Tea Party (4); Chinese/American relations (3); Tibet (1); shutting down Iran's nuclear program (2); Iran possessing nuclear weapons (2); homosexuality in military (1); homosexuality (1); system of government (1); trust in government (3); size of government (1); democracy (1); describing Washington officials (4); running the country (1); sleep (2); working third shift (2); social class (1); describing Obama's social class (1); George Washington lying to public (1); Abraham Lincoln lying to public (1).
Cosmological singularity theorems and splitting theorems for N-Bakry-Emery spacetimes
Creators: name: Woolgar, Eric
name: Wylie, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Lorentzian manifolds with a weight function such that the $N$-Bakry-Émery tensor is bounded below. Such spacetimes arise in the physics of scalar-tensor gravitation theories, including Brans-Dicke theory, theories with Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction, and low-energy approximations to string theory. In the "pure Bakry-Émery" $N= \infty$ case with $f$ uniformly bounded above and initial data suitably bounded, cosmological-type singularity theorems are known, as are splitting theorems which determine the geometry of timelike geodesically complete spacetimes for which the bound on the initial data is borderline violated. We extend these results in a number of ways. We are able to extend the singularity theorems to finite $N$-values $N\in (n,\infty)$ and $N\in (-\infty,1]$. In the $N\in (n,\infty)$ case, no bound on $f$ is required, while for $N\in (-\infty,1]$ and $N= \infty$, we are able to replace the boundedness of $f$ by a weaker condition on the integral of $f$ along future-inextendible timelike geodesics. The splitting theorems extend similarly, but when $N=1$ the splitting is only that of a warped product for all cases considered. A similar limited loss of rigidity has been observed in prior work on the $N$-Bakry-Émery curvature in Riemannian signature when $N=1$, and appears to be a general feature.
description: In this version, a completeness assumption in theorems 1.9, 1.10, and 1.11 that had been too strong is now stated correctly
CNN/ORC Poll: Congress/Economy/Bullying
Creators: name: CNN
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Barack Obama job performance (1); Obama meeting expectations (1); Congressional party preference (6); voter enthusiasm (1); country better off with particular part in congress (1); candidate support for Obama influencing vote (1); candidate support for Tea Party movement influencing vote (1); party views too extreme (3); responsibility for economic problems (1); party policies more likely to improve economy (1): most important problem (1); most important economic problem (1); direction of country (1); economic recession (2); Obama making economy better (2); extending Bush tax cuts (1); homosexuals in military (1); Congress handling health care (1); health care bill helping family (1); health care bill helping other families (1); health care bill helping family (1); War in Afghanistan (2); voting (6); bullying among children (2); problem of bullying (2); bullying among adults (1).
Probing the micro-mechanics and thermal expansion coefficients of granite's rock-forming minerals
Creators: name: MA, ZHAOYANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Hydraulic fracturing is typically adopted to enhance permeability by creating a large contact area between the fluids and the hot rock. Thermal cracking will occur due to cold fluid injection near the wellbore and along the primary hydraulic fracture surface. However, the associated micro-crack initiation and propagation mechanisms in heterogeneous crystalline rocks are still unclear. This study addresses the micro-crack initiation and propagation of poly-crystalline granite. The mechanical properties of granite are estimated using homogenization methods based upon the micro-scale mechanical properties and thermal expansion coefficients of major rock-forming minerals as well as its micro-structural information.
title: Design, synthesis, and cytotoxicity of bifunctional anticancer agents targeted to mitochondria
Creators: name: Kamel, Mohamad Ali
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2023

description: One of the major challenges of cancer chemotherapy is multidrug resistance (MDR) leading to failure and drug withdrawal. A major factor in drug resistance is the overexpression of transmembrane P-gp protein efflux pumps in cancer cell membranes that leads to low intracellular concentrations of drug. Motivated by either absent or low presence and activity of P-gp in mitochondrial membranes, the aim of this research is to design and develop novel candidate drugs that are delivered selectively to the mitochondria of cancer cells by exploiting the significant difference in mitochondrial membrane potential compared to normal cells.

A novel series of hybrid anthracenediones as potential anticancer agents that target and inhibit the unique properties of mitochondria in cancer cells has been synthesised and characterised by chemical, chromatographic and physical methods (HRMS and NMR). Bifunctional members of the series possess a lipophilic triphenylphosphonium (TPP) delocalised cation as a mitochondrial targeting vector and incorporate a cytotoxic dichloroacetic acid (DCA) moiety capable of inhibiting the mitochondrial enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 2 (PDK2).

Several new compounds from the series are actively cytotoxic in the sensitive MCF-7 breast carcinoma cell line and notably, retain their activity (equitoxic) in the (high) P-gp expressing HCT-15 colon carcinoma cell line resistant to clinically used drugs.

Confocal microscopy studies demonstrate that active compounds are taken up by cancer cells and rapidly accumulate in the mitochondria, avoiding the cell nucleus, thereby demonstrating proof of principle.

Compounds (MK39 and MK44) amongst the anthracenedione-TPP-DCA hybrids have the potential to be efficiently delivered to tumour cells and provide lead candidates. The potential for circumvention of MDR, and improving the therapeutic index, should improve efficacy and limit systemic side effects in patients, compared with current chemotherapy.
Bomarea acutifolia Herb.
Creators: name: MONRO, A. K.
name: SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D.
name: GONZÁLEZ, F.
name: CHACÓN, O.
name: SOLANO, D.
name: RODRÍGUEZ, A.
name: ZAMORA, N.
name: FEDELE, E.
name: CORREA, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Liliales
Alstroemeriaceae
Bomarea
Bomarea acutifolia

description: Bomarea acutifolia (Link & Otto) Herb.
Papa de venado (CR).
 Terrestrial twiners. Distribution in PILA 1200–3500 m, mixed forest in transition to low elevation forest, mixed forest in transition to cloud forest, cloud forest, low elevation oak forest, páramo. Global distribution: Mexico to Panama. Records: B.B. Klitgaard 801 (BM, INB), G. Davidse 29044 (MO), G. Davidse 29263 (CR), G. Davidse 29263 (MO), S. Knapp 10055 (BM, INB), Sytsma 4957 (MO).
description: Published as part of MONRO, A. K., SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D., GONZÁLEZ, F., CHACÓN, O., SOLANO, D., RODRÍGUEZ, A., ZAMORA, N., FEDELE, E. & CORREA, M., 2017, A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 322 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.322.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13698397
Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: April 2002 Health News Interest Index: Prescription Drugs/Mammograms
Creators: name: Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health
name: Kaiser Family Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2002

description: Most important health care problem (3); Important news stories (7); Prescription drug discount cards (1); Mammograms (1); Institute of Medicine recent report (1).
Traffic control and management in transportation networks considering connected and autonomous vehicles
Creators: name: NGUYEN, HUE PHU CUONG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Optimisation
Transport engineering
Autonomous vehicle systems

description: The emerging Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) technologies are acknowledged to hold a great promise to mitigate challenging problems in the current transportation networks. Particularly, the connectivity and automation features of CAVs can enable advanced control methods regarding the movements of individual vehicles, which in turn can be leveraged for efficient traffic congestion management. To this end, many works in the literature have focused on the joint control strategy for an isolated intersection while the system-wide investigation for the joint trajectory planning of vehicles and signal control in transportation networks with multiple intersections has not been thoroughly studied. Therefore, this thesis aims to fill this gap by developing an advanced control framework that combines a design of traffic signal timings and a detailed trajectory control policy for individual vehicles in large-scale signalized transportation networks in the presence of CAVs.
Pressure Shift and Gravitational Red Shift of Balmer Lines in White Dwarfs. Rediscussion
Creators: name: Halenka, J.
name: Olchawa, W.
name: Madej, J.
name: Grabowski, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Stark-induced shift and asymmetry, the so-called pressure shift (PS) of $H_α$ and $H_β$ Balmer lines in spectra of DA white dwarfs (WDs), as masking effects in measurements of the gravitational red shift in WDs, have been examined in detail. The results are compared with our earlier ones from before a quarter of a century (Grabowski et al. 1987, hereafter ApJ'87; Madej and Grabowski 1990). In these earlier papers, as a dominant constituent of the Balmer-line-profiles, the standard, symmetrical Stark line profiles, shifted as the whole by PS-effect, were applied to all spectrally active layers of the WD atmosphere. At present, in each of the WD layers, the Stark-line-profiles (especially of $H_β$) are immanently asymmetrical and shifted due to the effects of strong inhomogeneity of the perturbing fields in plasma. To calculate the Stark line-profiles in successive layers of the WD atmosphere we used the modified Full Computer Simulation Method (mFCSM), able to take adequately into account the complexity of local elementary quantum processes in plasma. In the case of the $H_α$ line, the present value of Stark-induced shift of the synthetic $H_α$ line-profile is about twice smaller than the previous one (ApJ'87) and it is negligible in comparison with the gravitational red shift. In the case of the $H_β$ line, the present value of Stark-induced shift of the synthetic $H_β$ line-profile is about twice larger than the previous one. The source of this extra shift is the asymmetry of $H_β$ peaks.
description: 31 pages, 13 figures. The Astrophysical Journal, accepted for publication
The MOSDEF Survey: Electron Density and Ionization Parameter at $z\sim2.3$
Creators: name: Sanders, Ryan L.
name: Shapley, Alice E.
name: Kriek, Mariska
name: Reddy, Naveen A.
name: Freeman, William R.
name: Coil, Alison L.
name: Siana, Brian
name: Mobasher, Bahram
name: Shivaei, Irene
name: Price, Sedona H.
name: de Groot, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using observations from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey, we investigate the physical conditions of star-forming regions in $z\sim2.3$ galaxies, specifically the electron density and ionization state. From measurements of the [O II]$λλ$3726,3729 and [S II]$λλ$6716,6731 doublets, we find a median electron density of $\sim250$ cm$^{-3}$ at $z\sim2.3$, an increase of an order of magnitude compared to measurements of galaxies at $z\sim0$. While $z\sim2.3$ galaxies are offset towards significantly higher O$_{32}$ values relative to local galaxies at fixed stellar mass, we find that the high-redshift sample follows a similar distribution to the low-metallicity tail of the local distribution in the O$_{32}$ vs. R$_{23}$ and O3N2 diagrams. Based on these results, we propose that $z\sim2.3$ star-forming galaxies have the same ionization parameter as local galaxies at fixed metallicity. In combination with simple photoionization models, the position of local and $z\sim2.3$ galaxies in excitation diagrams suggests that there is no significant change in the hardness of the ionizing spectrum at fixed metallicity from $z\sim0$ to $z\sim2.3$. We find that $z\sim2.3$ galaxies show no offset compared to low-metallicity local galaxies in emission line ratio diagrams involving only lines of hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, but show a systematic offset in diagrams involving [N II]$λ$6584. We conclude that the offset of $z\sim2.3$ galaxies from the local star-forming sequence in the [N II] BPT diagram is primarily driven by elevated N/O at fixed O/H compared to local galaxies. These results suggest that the local gas-phase and stellar metallicity sets the ionization state of star-forming regions at $z\sim0$ and $z\sim2$.
description: 26 pages, 14 figures, accepted to ApJ
Majorana-time-reversal symmetries: a fundamental principle for sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations
Creators: name: Li, Zi-Xiang
name: Jiang, Yi-Fan
name: Yao, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fundamental open issue in physics is whether and how the fermion sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations can be solved generically. Here, we show that Majorana-time-reversal (MTR) symmetries can provide a unifying principle to solve the fermion sign problem in interacting fermionic models. By systematically classifying Majorana-bilinear operators according to the anti-commuting MTR symmetries they respect, we rigorously proved that there are two and only two fundamental symmetry classes which are sign-problem-free and which we call the "Majorana class" and "Kramers class", respectively. Novel sign-problem-free models in the Majorana class include interacting topological superconductors and interacting models of charge-4e superconductors. We believe that our MTR unifying principle could shed new light on sign-problem-free QMC simulation on strongly correlated systems and interacting topological matters.
description: Accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett. Added more references and moved part of the paper into the Supplemental Material
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND DURABILITY OF FRP-TIMBER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Creators: name: ALMUTAIRI, AHMED DEKHEELALLAH M
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Structural engineering
Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The use of glass ﬁbre reinforced polymer (GFRP) has been increasing due to its considerable advantages such as high strength-to-weight ratio, resistance to corrosion, ease of installation and the relatively low cost. In comparison, wood is vulnerable to biological deterioration and harsh environmental conditions over time. It appears that a proper combination of GFRP and timber may take advantage of their individual merits and provide satisfactory mechanical performance and durability for the resulting FRP/timber composite structure. This PhD research studies the performances of GFRP timber composite structures including GFRP-confined timber structure and GFRP timber sandwich structure.
Constraining cosmology with pairwise velocity estimator
Creators: name: Ma, Yin-Zhe
name: Li, Min
name: He, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we develop a full statistical method for the pairwise velocity estimator previously proposed, and apply Cosmicflows-2 catalogue to this method to constrain cosmology. We first calculate the covariance matrix for line-of-sight velocities for a given catalogue, and then simulate the mock full-sky surveys from it, and then calculate the variance for the pairwise velocity field. By applying the $8315$ independent galaxy samples and compressed $5224$ group samples from Cosmicflows-2 catalogue to this statistical method, we find that the joint constraint on $Ω^{0.6}_{\rm m}h$ and $σ_{8}$ is completely consistent with the WMAP 9-year and Planck 2015 best-fitting cosmology. Currently, there is no evidence for the modified gravity models or any dynamic dark energy models from this practice, and the error-bars need to be reduced in order to provide any concrete evidence against/to support $Λ$CDM cosmology.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Spectral Characterization of Young Free-floating Planetary-mass Objects
Creators: name: Piscarreta, Lara
name: Muzic, Kora
name: Almendros-Abad, Víctor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Surveys in star-forming regions reveal the existence of free-floating planetary-mass objects (PMOs) that have masses that overlap with those of giant exoplanets but do not orbit a star. A detailed spectral characterization of PMOs is lacking due to their intrinsic faintness, significant extinction present in young environments, and, at these low luminosities, considerable contamination coming from background field objects. Nearby young moving groups (ages 15-200 Myr) are useful laboratories as they enable the study of objects that, due to their effective temperatures, will share many spectral properties with younger, planetary-mass objects.
 In this work, we construct a spectral library of young late-type objects and provide methods for spectral typing and gravity-class assessment. This is important and timely since the upcoming observations with the James Webb Space Telescope will uncover large datasets of spectra from young objects (ages < 5 Myr) in the early-L to late-T spectral type range, which were previously non-detectable.
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Multi-Functional Separation Mode-Ion Chromatography Using L-Pyroglutamic Acid Eluent for Simultaneous Determination of Sugars, Organic Acids, and Ethanol during Multiple Parallel Fermentation of Rice Wine
Creators: name: Takeoka, Marino
name: Hoki, Yoshiro
name: Yoshinaka, Taichi
name: Hirano, Kentarou
name: Mitsui, Yuta
name: Doi, Tomotaka
name: Takemura, Akihiko
name: Asano, Tohru
name: Katoh, Reina
name: Nose, Akira
name: Kozaki, Daisuke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: An effective evaluation method for understanding fermentation is required to support the implementation of newly developed yeast strains in brewing. Our group developed a multi-functional separation mode-ion chromatography (MFS-IC) with conductivity and refractive index detectors to separate key species (glucose, ethanol, and organic acids: pyruvate, citrate, L-malate, and succinate) with ethyl α-D-glucoside and glycerol to understand the fermentation behavior in brewing. Optimal chromatographic resolutions for determining eight different key species in rice wine by the MFS-IC were obtained in 45 min on low-molecular size-exclusion chromatographic separation columns modified with a strong cation-exchanger as the stationary phase with an eluent of L-pyroglutamic acid. Understanding the behavior of analytes in rice wine samples during rice wine fermentation enables the monitoring of the progress of saccharification, glycolysis, ethanol fermentation, and the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. These results are expected to contribute to understanding fermentation characteristics and implementing newly developed yeast strains in the fermentation field.
Multi-Source Data Interpretation for Smart Structural Monitoring
Creators: name: ZHANG, YIMING
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Structural engineering

description: Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems have been gradually equipped for important structures to trace structural health status through various sensors. The data recorded by sensors reflect the variation of structural responses and the environment, which is valuable for evaluating structural performance. Developing the prediction methods that can quantify the uncertainties is critical for smart structural monitoring. Bayesian approaches provide a powerful tool to characterize the uncertainty involved in different civil engineering problems. This study aims to develop prediction approaches that identify the abnormal data and structural behaviour as well as reconstruct the missing data within the Bayesian framework.
The influence of vegetation and inhabitant soil microbiota on faecal pathogen inactivation in stormwater biofilters
Creators: name: Galbraith, Penelope
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Microbiology not elsewhere classified
Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified
Environmental engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Stormwater represents a valuable alternative water resource with scope for recycling and beneficial use. However, stormwater often contains disease-causing faecal pathogens which require prior removal. Stormwater biofilters are sustainable, soil-plant based passive infiltration systems which demonstrate promising pathogen treatment. Nevertheless, due to their passive nature, biofilters often display inconsistent treatment performance. This project investigated how plants and native microbes inhabiting these systems could be engineered for enhanced pathogen treatment. It was found that significant antimicrobial-producing plants and their microbial symbionts supported increased pathogen treatment within biofilters. Consequently, these features are recommended for future application within biofilters for improved treatment efficacy.
PSRA/Newsweek Poll # 12: Pre-Election/Sniper
Creators: name: Newsweek
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2002

description: Interest in politics (1); Registered to vote (1); November election for U.S. Congress (1); More likely to vote for Democratic party's candidate or Republican party's candidate (2); Important issues in deciding vote for Congress (1); Voting in Area (1); Personally voting in November election (1); Voting by absentee ballot (2); George W. Bush job performance (1); Party to do a better job at handling certain issues (1); Fight against terrorism (1); Before taking military action against Iraq (1); Opinion of U.S. military action against Iraq (1); Sniper attacks in Washington DC area (1); Children worrying about becoming sniper victim (1); Sniper attacks; isolated case or not (1); Media coverage of sniper attacks (2); Supporting stricter gun control laws (1); Ballistic fingerprinting of gun bullets (1); Owning a firearm (1); Voting frequency (1); voting were you currently live (1); Chances you will vote in November Election (1).
VNS 2000 Election: Maryland Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Associated Press
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: Fox News
name: NBC News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: 2000 presidential election vote (1); financial situation (1); 1996 presidential election vote (1); Bill Clinton job performance (1); opinion of Bill Clinton (1); if Al Gore vs. George W. Bush, who would you vote for (1); 2000 Senatorial vote (1); member of labor union (1).
Towards next-generation cement composites: Graphene oxide–silica reinforcement and artificial neural network-based characterisation
Creators: name: LIN, JUNLIN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified
Construction materials

description: Graphene oxide nanosheets have demonstrated strong potential for reinforcing cement composites, but their poor dispersion in the cement matrix and difficulty of identification from microstructure remained to be solved. This thesis overcomes the dispersion issue and proposes effective approaches to image-based microstructure characterisation of graphene oxide-reinforced cement composites.
Long-term non-linear predictability of ENSO events over the 20th century
Creators: name: Astudillo, H. F.
name: Abarca-del-Rio, R.
name: Borotto, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the monthly recorded history (1878-2013) of the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), a descriptor of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, can be well described as a dynamic system that supports an average nonlinear predictability well beyond the spring barrier. The predictability is strongly linked to a detailed knowledge of the topology of the attractor obtained by embedding the SOI index in a wavelets base state space. Using the state orbits on the attractor we show that the information contained in the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is sufficient to provide average nonlinear predictions for time periods of 2, 3 and 4 years in advance throughout the 20th century with an acceptable error. The simplicity of implementation and ease of use makes it suitable for studying non linear predictability in any area where observations are similar to those that describe the ENSO phenomenon.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures 1 table
VNS 2000 Election: Michigan Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Associated Press
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: Fox News
name: NBC News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: 2000 presidential election vote (1); financial situation (1); 1996 presidential election vote (1); Bill Clinton job performance (1); opinion of Bill Clinton (1); if Al Gore vs. George W. Bush, who would you vote for (1); issue decide presidential vote (1); government view (1); gun control (1); labor union (1); candidate quality (1); Senatorial election vote (1); attacks on candidates unfair (1); religious right (1); supporter of John McCain (1); candidate say anything to get elected (1); candidate issues vs. qualities (1); knowledge to serve as president (1); top priority for federal budget surplus (1); attend religious services (1).
The Quantitative Reasoning for College Science (QuaRCS) Assessment, 1: Development and Validation
Creators: name: Follette, Katherine B.
name: McCarthy, Donald W.
name: Dokter, Erin
name: Buxner, Sanlyn
name: Prather, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Science is an inherently quantitative endeavor, and general education science courses are taken by a majority of college students. As such, they are a powerful venue for advancing students' skills and attitudes toward mathematics. This article reports on the development and validation of the Quantitative Reasoning for College Science (QuaRCS) Assessment, a numeracy assessment instrument designed for college-level general education science students. It has been administered to more than four thousand students over eight semesters of refinement. We show that the QuaRCS is able to distinguish varying levels of quantitative literacy and present performance statistics for both individual items and the instrument as a whole. Responses from a survey of forty-eight Astronomy and Mathematics educators show that these two groups share views regarding which quantitative skills are most important in the contexts of science literacy and educated citizenship, and the skills assessed with the QuaRCS are drawn from these rankings. The fully-developed QuaRCS assessment was administered to nearly two thousand students in nineteen general education science courses and one STEM major course in early 2015, and results reveal that the instrument is valid for both populations.
A Bosonic Analog of a Topological Dirac Semi-Metal: Effective Theory, Neighboring Phases, and Wire Construction
Creators: name: Lapa, Matthew F.
name: Cho, Gil Young
name: Hughes, Taylor L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a bosonic analog of a two-dimensional topological Dirac Semi-Metal (DSM). The low-energy description of the most basic 2D DSM model consists of two Dirac cones at positions $\pm\mathbf{k}_0$ in momentum space. The local stability of the Dirac cones is guaranteed by a composite symmetry $Z_2^{\mathcal{TI}}$, where $\mathcal{T}$ is time-reversal and $\mathcal{I}$ is inversion. This model also exhibits interesting time-reversal and inversion symmetry breaking electromagnetic responses. In this work we construct a bosonic version by replacing each Dirac cone with a copy of the $O(4)$ Nonlinear Sigma Model (NLSM) with topological theta term and theta angle $θ=\pm π$. One copy of this NLSM also describes the gapless surface termination of the 3D Bosonic Topological Insulator (BTI). We compute the time-reversal and inversion symmetry breaking electromagnetic responses for our model and show that they are twice the value one gets in the DSM case matching what one might expect from, for example, a bosonic Chern insulator. We also investigate the stability of the BSM model and find that the composite $Z_2^{\mathcal{TI}}$ symmetry again plays an important role. Along the way we clarify many aspects of the surface theory of the BTI including the electromagnetic response, the charges and statistics of vortex excitations, and the stability to symmetry-allowed perturbations. We briefly comment on the relation between the various descriptions of the $O(4)$ NLSM with $θ=π$ used in this paper (a dual vortex description and a description in terms of four massless fermions) and the recently proposed dual description of the BTI surface in terms of $2+1$ dimensional Quantum Electrodynamics with two flavors of fermion ($N=2$ QED$_3$). In a set of four Appendixes we review some of the tools used in the paper, and also derive some of the more technical results.
description: 33 pages, 4 appendixes, v2: small corrections and added references, v3: new section added (Sec. VI) and additional references. To appear in PRB
Sofres Opinion, October 1971-II (82483)
Creators: name: Sofres Opinion
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1987

description: Occupation; evaluation of work; commuting time; preference for shorter hours or higher pay; job security; retirement age; pension; education fulfillment; adequacy of income; expenditures; effect of advertising on buying; entertainment; insurance; children's profession possibilities; children's happiness; housing; life style of neighbors; increased material
Percolation-based congestion analysis and its applications in transportation networks
Creators: name: RAFATI, Homayoun HAMEDMOGHADAM
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Thermodynamics and statistical physics
Transport engineering
Other physical sciences not elsewhere classified
Complex physical systems

description: Congestion is the most important factor compromising the efficiency of transportation systems. Fundamental laws of traffic flow theory have been studied intensively for decades and there is a deep understanding of congestion dynamics in transportation networks at different scales. In comparison, however, the attention to the organization of congestion is only heightened recently in the area of complex networks. We use percolation theory, a heavily applied tool in statistical physics, to study the conflict between passenger flows and different levels of congestion in transportation networks. Thereby, a theoretical framework is proposed that allows for identifying the evolving critical bottleneck links in road and public transportation networks. We show that treating these bottlenecks guarantees a decisive improvement in network efficiency.
Study of a Sorghum Malt Wort Supplemented with Vernonia amygdalina Extract, a Substitute Hop Compound for Bitterness
Creators: name: Kapepa, Arthur Amisi
name: Bimpi, Danny L.
name: Kibi, Stanis K.
name: Benge, Raphaël A.
name: Bwanganga, Jean-Claude T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Malted sorghum wort, supplemented with Vernonia amygdalina extract during boiling, was fermented with a Saccharomyces strain for 192 h. This was a preliminary study to examine how use of this substitute hop compound affected alcohol production and yeast growth. Alcohol content was modelled as a 3-parameters Gompertz growth model. The three levels of extract of Vernonia amygdalina, which were added to sorghum malt wort, induced reductions in alcohol content of 3, 12, and 25% after 192 h of fermentation and reductions in optical density at 600 nm of 27, 33, and 48%, respectively, were obtained. Yeast growth curve peaked at around 60 h and alcohol decreased as the content of Vernonia amygdalina extract increased.
Identifying spatial invasion of pandemics on metapopulation networks via anatomizing arrival history
Creators: name: Wang, Jian-Bo
name: Wang, Lin
name: Li, Xiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Spatial spread of infectious diseases among populations via the mobility of humans is highly stochastic and heterogeneous. Accurate forecast/mining of the spread process is often hard to be achieved by using statistical or mechanical models. Here we propose a new reverse problem, which aims to identify the stochastically spatial spread process itself from observable information regarding the arrival history of infectious cases in each subpopulation. We solved the problem by developing an efficient optimization algorithm based on dynamical programming, which comprises three procedures: i, anatomizing the whole spread process among all subpopulations into disjoint componential patches; ii, inferring the most probable invasion pathways underlying each patch via maximum likelihood estimation; iii, recovering the whole process by assembling the invasion pathways in each patch iteratively, without burdens in parameter calibrations and computer simulations. Based on the entropy theory, we introduced an identifiability measure to assess the difficulty level that an invasion pathway can be identified. Results on both artificial and empirical metapopulation networks show the robust performance in identifying actual invasion pathways driving pandemic spread.
description: 14pages, 8 figures; Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Phonon transport and thermal conductivity in two-dimensional materials
Creators: name: Gu, Xiaokun
name: Yang, Ronggui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides, have attracted increased interest due to their potential applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Thermal transport in two-dimensional materials could be quite different from three-dimensional bulk materials. This article reviews the progress on experimental measurements and theoretical modeling of phonon transport and thermal conductivity in two-dimensional materials. We focus our review on a few typical two-dimensional materials, including graphene, boron nitride, silicene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and black phosphorus. The effects of different physical factors, such as sample size, strain and defects, on thermal transport in Two-dimensional materials are summarized. We also discuss the environmental effect on the thermal transport of two-dimensional materials, such as substrate and when two-dimensional materials are presented in heterostructures and intercalated with inorganic components or organic molecules.
description: 67 pages, 18 figures. Submitted to Annual Review of Heat Transfer
Sofres Opinion, January 1972-I (82516)
Creators: name: Sofres Opinion
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1997

description: Most important event in last month; events needing governmental priority; political evaluation; future outlook; a united Europe; Great Britain's entry into Common Market; Pompidou and de Gaulle's aid in building a united Europe; European Parliament election; European government, currency' army and flag; independent European defense; India/Pakistan, China/USSR, Israel/Arabian; East/West German and USA/USSR conflicts; recent scandals: people involved, governmental investigation, and effect on elections; treatments of prisoners; statements by Pleven and prison administration; deputy candidate preference; interest in politics; respondent as Leftist/Right-Wing; demographic.
DAVLAT-XUSUSIY ShERIKLIK ASOSIDA JAMOAT XAVFSIZLIGINI TA'MINLAShNING ASOSLARINI TAKOMILLAShTIRIShNING AYRIM MASALALARI
Creators: name: Saidov Sharofidddin Abdug'aniyevich, O'zbekiston Respublikasi Jamoat xavfsizligi universiteti  mustaqil izlanuvchisi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada jamoat xavfsizligini ta’minlashda davlat-xususiy sheriklik (DXSh) modeli orqali davlat va xususiy sektor o‘rtasidagi hamkorlikni samarali yo‘lga qo‘yish uchun huquqiy asoslarni mustahkamlash bo‘yicha taklif va tavsiyalar ishlab chiqilgan. Ushbu takliflar DXSh loyihalarini amalga oshirishda qonunchilikni takomillashtirish, nazorat va monitoring mexanizmlarini kuchaytirish, shaffoflikni ta’minlash hamda moliyalashtirish manbalarini diversifikatsiya qilish kabi masalalarni qamrab oladi.

Kalit so‘zlar: jamoat xavfsizligi, davlat-xususiy sheriklik, huquqbuzarlik, jamoat xavfsizligini ta’minlash, xavfsizlik va boshqalar