cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
O contexto das missões UNAVEM/MONUA
Creators: name: János, Besenyő
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160604 Defence Studies
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Nas missões da ONU de manutenção de paz em Angola, entre 1991 e 1999, prestaram serviço militares e polícias húngaros. Para além de testemunhos pessoais, o presente livro oferece um relance sobre a história de Angola e sobrea complexidade étnico-religiosa da sua sociedade e cultura, incluindo também os aspectos económicos e geopolíticos da actualidade neste país.Os militares e policiais húngaros que chegaram a Angola cumpriram principalmente tarefas de verifi cação e de observação da paz, e fi zeram-no num contexto assaz puritano e muito diferente quando comparado com as condições húngaras, no que diz respeito ao clima e higiene. Para estes operacionais, o perigo maior, além dos provenientes do próprio exercício da sua atividadede manutenção de paz, foram as doenças contagiosas e tropicais, como a malária, a varíola, a disenteria ou o tifo.É muito provável que a maioria dos leitores nunca tenha ouvido falar sobre as diversas relações que uniram Angola e Hungria, países fi sicamente tão distantes.A título de exemplo: Magyar László, chegado ao território da actual Angola em 1848, como enviado do sultão de Kalabar, acaba por casar um ano depois com uma das fi lhas do rei do Bié. O diário que escreveu informa-nos detalhadamente sobre as suas viagens de exploração e, em reconhecimento do alto valor das suas observações, em 1858 este ‘descobridor’ húngaro foi eleito membro correspondente da Academia das Ciências Húngaras. Desafortunadamente,a maioria dos seus papéis perdeu-se num incêndio em Benguela, pelo que a sua obra persiste apenas de forma fragmentária.Os autores do presente volume foram entrevistando e recolhendo as memórias ainda vivas dos observadores húngaros da ONU, cujas experiências pessoaisem Angola – relatadas nas páginas seguintes – enriquecem os nossos conhecimentos. Ao informar-nos do quotidiano duma missão, os seus valiosos depoimentos tornam próximo e humano o mundo tão distante em quetrabalharam.Constitui um motivo de alegria especial este excelente livro – fruto da colaboração do Centro de Investigação Científi ca do Estado Maior do Exército Húngaro, da Embaixada de Angola e da Universidade ELTE de Budapeste ser agora publicado em português, reforçando as relações de amizade que unem os dois povos. Sinto-me satisfeito e orgulhoso pelo empenho dos soldados húngaros, que souberam contribuir para o estabelecimento da estabilidadee da paz angolanas.
title: ADCO, Second cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVe siècle), Cart. 22 (G 126), 110 folios, f. 0053
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Second cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 22 (G 126), 110 folios, f. 0053, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Second cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 22 (G 126), 110 folios, f. 0053, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
La République Centrafricaine
Creators: name: János, Besenyő
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140101 History of Economic Thought
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 160604 Defence Studies
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 210310 Middle Eastern and African History

description: Au cours de son histoire longue de plus de 1100 ans, la Hongrie a toujours été, certes dans des formations diverses et avec un territoire varié, une puissance principalement terrestre. Pour cette raison, elle intégrait en premier lieu les évolutions de l’Europe continentale. La conception des dirigeants politiques du pays a cependant impliqué, dès la fin du 19e siècle, les services de nos soldats dans des contrées lointaines, dans l’objetcif de maintenir la paix. Depuis le changement de régime, de nombreusesrégions du monde, situées plus loin de la Hongrie sont devenus terrain d’opération (de paix) de l’Armée hongroise. La mission de l’ONU en Angola y fit entrer le continent africain.Le présent ouvrage englobe les informations relatives à la République centrafricaine, un État encore inconnu pour les soldats hongrois sur le plan professionnel. Il le fait de la manière la plus étendue : des aspects géographiques et historiques, à travers les conditions économiques et infrastructurelles jusqu’au domaine politique et militaire.Lors de la rédaction de la publication de l’Atelier des Recherches Scientifiques de l’état-major de l’Armée hongroise, les auteurs ont aussi intégré les expériences des officiers supérieurs hongrois de retour de leur missionau quartier général de Larissa des Forces de l’Union Européenne RCA (EUFOR RCA OHQ). Le motif et le choix de la date de l’élaboration de la présentation du pays doivent être liés à ce que le commandement de l’Armée hongroise puisse mettre, de façon proactive, à la dispositiondu contingent de la mission l’ouvrage contenant, à côté des informations indispensables, des cartes ; et ceci avant l’envoi des troupes.Je pense cependant que le présent volume aidera non seulement les personnels de la mission à approfondir les connaissances relatives à la République centrafricaine, mais qu’il pourra aussi trouver sa place dans l’orientation bibliographique de la sphère civile et de l’enseignementsupérieur non militaire.
A data-driven text mining and semantic network analysis for design information retrieval
Creators: name: Shi, Feng
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Data-Driven Design is an emerging area with the advent of big-data tools. Massive information stored in electronic and digital forms on the internet provides potential opportunities for knowledge discovery in the fields of design and engineering. The aim of the research reported in this thesis is to facilitate the design information retrieval process based on large-scale electronic data through the use of text mining and semantic network techniques. We have proposed a data-driven pipeline for design information retrieval including four elements, from data acquisition, text mining, semantic network analysis, to data visualisation and user interaction. Web crawling techniques are applied to fetch massive online textual data in data acquisition process. The use of text mining enables the transformation of data from unstructured raw texts into a structured semantic network. A retrieval analysis framework is proposed based on the constructed semantic network to retrieve relevant design information and provoke design innovation. Finally, a web-based platform B-Link has been developed to enable user to visualise the semantic network and interact with it through the proposed retrieval analysis framework. Seven case studies were conducted throughout the thesis to investigate the effectiveness and gain insights for each element of the pipeline. Thousands of design post news items and millions of engineering and design peer reviewed papers can be efficiently captured by web crawling techniques. Through the use of itemset mining and noun phrase chunking, a semantic network constructed based on these textual data is shown to capture more inherent design- and engineering-oriented concepts and relations, compared to the benchmarking approaches: WordNet, ConceptNet, NeLL and Wikipedia. A retrieval analysis framework has been developed with different retrieval behaviours to retrieve either common general or domain-specific concepts, explicit or implicit knowledge relations, which are found to satisfy various knowledge demands in our real design projects at the conceptual stage. Finally, the result of a user test is shown to be consistent with these findings.
Spontaneous Breaking of Lepton Number and Cosmological Domain Wall Problem
Creators: name: Lazarides, George
name: Reig, Mario
name: Shafi, Qaisar
name: Srivastava, Rahul
name: Valle, José W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that if global lepton number symmetry is spontaneously broken in a post inflation epoch, then it can lead to the formation of cosmological domain walls. This happens in the well-known "Majoron paradigm" for neutrino mass generation. We propose some realistic examples which allow spontaneous lepton number breaking to be safe from such domain walls.
description: 8 pages, References added, Discussion on Domain Wall Problem Expanded, Conclusions Unchanged, Version Published in Phys. Rev. Lett
miR-542: a novel regulator for muscle mass and function
Creators: name: Farre Garros, Roser
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Loss of skeletal muscle mass and function is a common co-morbidity of a number of chronic diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and a range of critical illnesses as well as in ageing, affecting the quality of life of these individuals. However, the mechanisms by which this occurs have not been completely elucidated. Previous studies in the group identified changed in the levels of several microRNAs in the quadriceps of COPD patients. We focused on the microRNAs that showed the largest and most significant increased expression between patients and controls. One of the elevated microRNAs was miR-542-3p, which was chosen after performing a bioinformatics analysis and saw interesting predicted targets in the muscle wasting context. MiR-542-3p was also found to be elevated in the quadriceps muscle of sarcopenic patients. In this thesis, we aimed to determine if miR-542-5p was also elevated in those two cohorts and if a similar pattern for miR-542-3p/-5p was seen in critical illness such as patients with intensive care unit acquired weakness (ICUAW). We also aimed to identify the molecular pathways by which these miRNAs contributed to muscle impairment or dysfunction. miR-542-3p/5p levels were found elevated in COPD and sarcopenic patients but more markedly elevated in patients with ICUAW. In vitro, miR-542-3p decreased the expression of mitochondrial (MRPS10) and cytoplasmic (RPS23) ribosomal proteins and reduced 12S and 18S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) suggesting mitochondrial and cytoplasmic ribosomal stress. miR-542-3p/-5p promoted the nuclear accumulation of phospho SMAD2/3 and suppressed expression of SMURF1, SMAD7 and PPP2CA which are inhibitors of the system, indicative of increased TGF-β signalling. In vivo, miR-542 over expression caused muscle wasting in the targeted muscle, decreased mitochondrial function, 12S rRNA and 18S rRNA levels and SMAD7 expression, consistent with the effects of the miRNA in vitro. In patients with ICUAW similar results were observed, the expression of 12S and 18S rRNA and SMURF1, SMAD7 and PPP2CA were reduced, suggesting mitochondrial and cytoplasmic ribosomal stress and increased TGF-β signalling.
$b \to c τν_τ$ Decays: A Catalogue to Compare, Constrain, and Correlate New Physics Effects
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Srimoy
name: Nandi, Soumitra
name: Patra, Sunando Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we have predicted the standard model (SM) values of the asymmetric and angular observables in $B\to D^{(\ast)}τν_τ$ decays, using the results of the new up-to-date analysis in $B\to D^{(*)}\ellν_{\ell}$. We have also revisited the SM prediction of the inclusive ratio $\mathcal{R}_{X_c}$, and have given its values in different schemes of the charm quark mass. This is the first analysis which includes all the known corrections in the SM. In addition, we have analysed the $b\to cτν_τ$ decay modes in a model-independent framework of effective field theory beyond the standard model. Considering all the possible combinations of the effective operators in $b \to c τν_τ$ decays and using the Akaike Information Criterion, we find out the scenarios which can best explain the available data on these channels. In the selected scenarios, best-fit values and correlations of the new parameters are extracted. Using these results, predictions are made on various observables in the exclusive and inclusive semitaunic $b \to c $ decays. The graphical correlations between these observables are shown, which are found to be useful in discriminating various new physics scenarios.
description: 22 pages and 7 captioned figures. New section with plots and several corrections added. Version submitted to EPJC
Tringa gambetta Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Charadriiformes
Scolopacidae
Tringa
Tringa gambetta

description: Tringa gambetta [spec. nov.]
T. rostro pedibusque rubris, corpore luteo cinereoque variegato, subtus albo. Fn. svec. 153.
Gambetta. Aldr. orn. l. 20. c. 26. Raj. av. 107.
Habitat in Europa.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 148, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402) (11 H 1160), f. 00187
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2017
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP

description: Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1160). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1160), f. 00187, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
title: Техническая механика
title: Учебное пособие для СПО
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Королев П.В.
Publisher: name: Профобразование, Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2020

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены основные понятия и аксиомы теоретической механики, элементы теории напряженного и деформированного состояний, принципы расчетов на прочность и жесткость деталей машин, классификация и назначение механических передач. Подготовлено с учетом требований Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта среднего профессионального образования. Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по укрупненным группам специальностей 08.00.00 «Техника и технологии строительства», 13.00.00 «Электро- и теплоэнергетика», 22.00.00 «Технологии материалов», 23.00.00 «Техника и технологии наземного транспорта», изучающих дисциплины «Техническая механика», «Техническая механика с основами технических измерений». Также учебное пособие будет полезно для учащихся по специальностям 12.02.04 «Электромеханические приборные устройства», 15.02.13 «Техническое обслуживание и ремонт систем вентиляции и кондиционирования», 21.02.14 «Маркшейдерское дело», изучающих данные дисциплины.
title: Cactus Yearbook, 2022
Creators: name: University Of Texas At Austin
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: yearbook
subject: University of Texas at Austin

description: Table of Contents: Summer (p.6) -- Fall (p.16) -- Winter (p.50) -- Spring (p.86) -- Cactus Standout (p.124) -- Graduate Photos (p.144) -- Student Organization Photos (p.150)
Supplementary material for "Algorithmic Profiling in the Workplace: Employee Perception and Technostress"
Creators: name: Ulvestad Paulsen, Magnus
name: Seide Molléri, Jefferson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: algorithmic profiling
workplace
public organization
perception
technostress
case study
interview
survey
chilling effect

description: These resources were part of a mixed-method case study that explored how algorithmic profiling in a Norwegian municipality impacted employee well-being, with a focus on technostress, privacy concerns, and algorithmic fairness. The materials include documentation used in the study, such as the survey questionnaire, interview guide, and informed consent forms.
3D meso- and macro-scale models for nonlinear analysis of masonry systems
Creators: name: Minga, Eleni
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Unreinforced masonry (URM) is a heterogeneous material with complex strongly nonlinear behaviour which depends on the arrangement of its constituents and their individual properties. This work is motivated by the need for more accurate numerical strategies for the simulation of URM structural components and systems. To this end, meso- and macro-scale modelling approaches are proposed, to tackle different challenges in the field. In all the developments, focus is placed on two points: (i) 3D descriptions that predict both the in-plane and out-of-plane behaviour of masonry, (ii) efficiency and robustness, so that the models can be applied in the study of real structures. Starting from a detailed approach, a 3D mesoscale model which represents the brick units with 3D solid elements and the potential cracking surfaces with zero thickness cohesive interface elements is employed. A nonlinear constitutive law based on plasticity and damage is proposed to describe the cyclic behaviour of the cohesive interfaces. The model can reproduce decohesion and frictional sliding in the interfaces, as well as the crushing of masonry under compression. Increased robustness is achieved by means of a two-step solution procedure that decouples the evolution of plasticity and damage. Subsequently, the issue of coupling of the mesoscale model with meshes of other material components to simulate heterogeneous structures is examined. Within this scope, a coupling finite element for the tying of non-conforming 3D meshes is developed. Using the mesh tying method, a modelling strategy for heterogeneous URM structures is proposed, in which the URM components are described in mesoscale and other material components are modelled independently with continuum meshes. The individual non-conforming domains are then tied together with the use of the coupling element, while their physical interaction is accounted for by cohesive elements arranged along the interface. Identifying the potentially restraining computational cost of the detailed mesoscale representation of full-scale URM structures, the final part of this work proceeds with the development of a masonry macroelement, which represents a plane URM assembly as an homogeneous block interacting with adjacent elements through cohesive interfaces. Flexural and shear sliding damage within the URM assembly are concentrated in the surrounding interfaces, while additional deformation modes of the inner block represent in and out-of-plane diagonal cracking. As a result, the macroelement captures all the principle in- and out-of-plane failure modes of URM walls under cyclic loading conditions, including mixed-mode damage. In parallel, it ensures computational efficiency and is therefore appropriate for the analysis of large scale URM buildings under complex loading conditions.
The Three-Dimensional Mass Distribution in NGC 1700
Creators: name: Statler, Thomas S.
name: Dejonghe, Herwig
name: Smecker-Hane, Tammy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A variety of modeling techniques is used with surface photometry from the literature and recently acquired high-accuracy stellar kinematic data to constrain the three-dimensional mass distribution in the luminous cuspy elliptical galaxy NGC 1700. First, we model the radial velocity field and photometry, and, using a Bayesian technique, estimate the triaxiality T and short-to-long axis ratio c in five concentric annuli between approximately 1 and 3 effective radii. The results are completely consistent with T being constant inside about 2.5 r_e (36 arcsec; 6.7/h kpc). Adding an assumption of constant T as prior information gives an upper limit of T < 0.16 (95% confidence); this relaxes to T < 0.22 if it is also assumed that there is perfect alignment between the angular momentum and the galaxy's intrinsic short axis. Near axisymmetry permits us then to use axisymmetric models to constrain the radial mass profile. Using the Jeans (moment) equations, we demonstrate that 2-integral, constant-M/L models cannot fit the data; but a 2-integral model in which the cumulative enclosed M/L increases by a factor of roughly 2 from the center out to 12/h kpc can. Three-integral models constructed by quadratic programming show that, in fact, no constant-M/L model is consistent with the kinematics. Anisotropic 3-integral models with variable M/L, while not uniquely establishing a minimum acceptable halo mass, imply, as do the moment models, a cumulative M/L_B approximately 10 h at 12/h kpc. We conclude that NGC 1700 represents the best stellar dynamical evidence to date for dark matter in elliptical galaxies.
description: 26 pages, Latex, AASTeX v4.0, with 11 eps figures. To appear in The Astronomical Journal, January 1999. Figures 1 and 3 are color but are readable in b/w
Pharmacokinetics of stilbene analogues and their application as novel anti-inflammatory agents for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Creators: name: Yeo, Samuel Chao Ming
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an escalating global health problem that is associated with massive healthcare costs. There are currently no effective therapies which can significantly ameliorate the underlying inflammation and alter the natural history of this disease. As such, the development of novel anti-inflammatory therapy is urgently needed. Resveratrol, the stilbene analogue found naturally in berries, has anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects in several disease models related to airway inflammation. However, its therapeutic application is limited by its relatively weak potency and poor pharmacokinetics and its anti-inflammatory mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. In recent years, other stilbene analogues have emerged as viable alternatives with superior pharmacokinetics and potency but their pharmacological properties are still not well understood. This project extensively investigated the pharmacology of stilbene analogues by first profiling the pharmacokinetics of some analogues to identify possible structural determinants of pharmacokinetics, followed by examining the anti-inflammatory effects and cellular mechanisms of these compounds to identify promising drug candidates. Studies in this thesis using a pre-clinical rat pharmacokinetic model indicated that meta-hydroxy groups in the stilbene analogue structure are associated with poor pharmacokinetics and methylation appears to reduce its susceptibility to clearance. Using transformed and primary airway epithelial cell models, some stilbene analogues were shown to be more potent than resveratrol in inhibiting the release of inflammatory cytokines, IL-6 and CXCL8. Their anti-inflammatory actions involved the suppression of major inflammatory transcription factors, NF-κB and AP-1, and more importantly, were mediated through abrogating the activation of the PI3K/Akt signalling pathway, which is distinct from the actions of dexamethasone. These studies established isorhapontigenin as the most potent stilbene analogue with better pharmacokinetics than resveratrol which substantiate its further development as a novel anti-inflammatory agent for COPD.
A Fast and Scalable Joint Estimator for Integrating Additional Knowledge in Learning Multiple Related Sparse Gaussian Graphical Models
Creators: name: Wang, Beilun
name: Sekhon, Arshdeep
name: Qi, Yanjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of including additional knowledge in estimating sparse Gaussian graphical models (sGGMs) from aggregated samples, arising often in bioinformatics and neuroimaging applications. Previous joint sGGM estimators either fail to use existing knowledge or cannot scale-up to many tasks (large $K$) under a high-dimensional (large $p$) situation. In this paper, we propose a novel \underline{J}oint \underline{E}lementary \underline{E}stimator incorporating additional \underline{K}nowledge (JEEK) to infer multiple related sparse Gaussian Graphical models from large-scale heterogeneous data. Using domain knowledge as weights, we design a novel hybrid norm as the minimization objective to enforce the superposition of two weighted sparsity constraints, one on the shared interactions and the other on the task-specific structural patterns. This enables JEEK to elegantly consider various forms of existing knowledge based on the domain at hand and avoid the need to design knowledge-specific optimization. JEEK is solved through a fast and entry-wise parallelizable solution that largely improves the computational efficiency of the state-of-the-art $O(p^5K^4)$ to $O(p^2K^4)$. We conduct a rigorous statistical analysis showing that JEEK achieves the same convergence rate $O(\log(Kp)/n_{tot})$ as the state-of-the-art estimators that are much harder to compute. Empirically, on multiple synthetic datasets and two real-world data, JEEK outperforms the speed of the state-of-arts significantly while achieving the same level of prediction accuracy. Available as R tool @ http://jointnets.org/
description: ICML 2018; Proof and Design of W in Appendix; Available as R tool "jeek". This updated version correct a few equation errors
Integrated Adaptive Closed Loop Electronic Systems for Advanced Obesity Treatment
Creators: name: Mirza, Khalid Baig
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The increase in morbidity due to obesity, coupled with risks, complexity and cost of existing interventions have encouraged researchers to look at alternative obesity treatment techniques. Obesity management can either begin at a stage where, there is no alternative other than surgery to treat the person or at a pre-emptive stage where the onset of morbid obesity can be prevented through intelligent feedback on making lifestyle changes. In this research, an integrated system or technological platform is described, to manage morbid obesity therapeutically through intelligent Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS), as a minimally invasive alternative to highly invasive approaches, such as bariatric surgery. An emerging therapeutic neuromodulatory obesity treatment technique is VNS. VNS has shown traction in tackling obesity with minimally invasive surgical impact on the body and no anatomical modi caton to the body. The data from from clinical studies have demonstrated the clinical feasibility of using VNS as an obesity management technique and have also supported commercially available solutions such as the VBLOC Maestro system, a VNS implant for obesity management by ReShape Lifesciences (previously EnteroMedics). However, the current state of the art VNS consists of obesity management technology in which a neural stimulator implant is interfaced to the vagus nerve using non-piercing cu ff electrodes. A key de ficiency in the current technology is the lack of intelligent feedback parameters to impact therapy decisions, in this case when and how much therapeutic stimulation dosage to be delivered. Previous studies have utilised fixed VNS parameters on patients who have Body Mass Index (BMI) within a pre-selected band. The stimulation parameters may di ffer signi ficantly between patients and studies have demonstrated that VNS administered in relation to meal intake on a daily basis, shows double the percentage weight loss observed during chronic VNS. In this research, the use of dual mode biosignal recording has been proposed to enable intelligent closed loop VNS. This thesis describes an integrated platform with neurochemical and electrical sensor interfacing with the vagus nerve, to record and process electrical and chemical signals on the nerve using the same sensor and intelligently stimulate the vagus nerve. The start of stimulation is governed by the presence of a chemical signature speci c to the presence of a gut hormone. The dosage of electrical stimulation is determined on the basis of electrical Compound Nerve Action Potential (CNAP) signals, which can be used to create a fiber profi le of the nerve. As a work in progress, this thesis also presents proof-of-concept results to demonstrate the potential to record and monitor salivary leptin hormone concentration, as a feedback signal to predict weight loss in achieving early stage, preventive management of obesity through food-habit or dietary and lifestyle changes.
Thermodynamic work cost of quantum estimation protocols
Creators: name: Lipka-Bartosik, Patryk
name: Demkowicz-Dobrzanski, Rafal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss thermodynamic work cost of various stages of a quantum estimation protocol: probe and memory register preparation, measurement and extraction of work from post-measurement states. We consider both (i) a multi-shot scenario, where average work is calculated in terms of the standard Shannon entropy and (ii) a single-shot scenario, where deterministic work is expressed in terms of min- and max-entropies. We discuss an exemplary phase estimation protocol where estimation precision is optimized under a fixed work credit (multi-shot) or a total work cost (single-shot). In the multi-shot regime precision is determined using the concept of Fisher information, while in the single-shot case we advocate the use of confidence intervals as only they can provide a meaningful and reliable information in a single-shot experiment, combining naturally with the the concept of deterministic work.
description: 25 pages, 3 figures, published version
Envelope structure of deeply embedded young stellar objects in the Serpens Molecular Cloud
Creators: name: Hogerheijde, M. R.
name: van Dishoeck, E. F.
name: Salverda, J. M
name: Blake, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aperture synthesis and single-dish (sub) millimeter molecular lines and continuum observations reveal in great detail the envelope structure of deeply embedded young stellar objects (SMM1, SMM2, SMM3, SMM4) in the densely star-forming Serpens Molecular Cloud. Resolved millimeter continuum emission constrains the density structure to a radial power law with index -2.0 +/- 0.5, and envelope masses of 8.7, 3.0, and 5.3 M_sol for SMM1, SMM3, and SMM4. The core SMM2 does not seem to have a central condensation and may not have formed a star yet. The molecular line observations can be described by the same envelope model, if an additional, small amount of warm (100 K) material is included. This probably corresponds to the inner few hundred AU of the envelope were the temperature is high. In the interferometer beam, the molecular lines reveal the inner regions of the envelopes, as well as interaction of the outflow with the surrounding envelope. Bright HCO+ and HCN emission outlines the cavities, while SiO and SO trace the direct impact of the outflow on ambient gas. Taken together, these observations provide a first comprehensive view of the physical and chemical structure of the envelopes of deeply embedded young stellar objects in a clustered environment on scales between 1000 and 10,000 AU.
description: 46 pages, incl. 12 postscript figures, uses ApJ latex and psfig macros
‘GlycosaminoGlycome’ microarrays: Applications in studies of recognition by anti-human stem cell antibodies, growth factors and morphogens
Creators: name: Wu, Nian
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: This thesis is focused on construction of microarrays of the GlycosaminoGlycome including glycosaminoglycan (GAG) polysaccharides [chondroitin sulphates, heparan sulphates, heparin, keratan sulphate (KS) and hyaluronan] and the derived oligosaccharides as neoglycolipids (NGLs), and their application to characterization of a stem cell antigen R-10G and investigation of GAG-binding preferences of growth factors and morphogens to which human stem cells respond. R-10G antigen is of special interest as it is expressed on human embryonic stem (ES) and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, but not on human embryonal carcinoma cells. Screening analysis using the GAG polysaccharide microarray showed strong binding of antibody R-10G specifically to bovine cornea KS, but little or no binding to other KS preparations or GAG polysaccharides. ‘Designer’ arrays were then constructed from KS oligosaccharides obtained by partial depolymerisation using keratanases and mild acid treatment. The oligosaccharides were fractionated by gel-filtration and HPLC, with monitoring by mass spectrometry (MS) before conversion to NGLs for antigenic analysis. KS oligosaccharide fractions terminating with Gal (keratanase II digestion products) rather than GlcNAc at the non-reducing end were strongly bound by R-10G, and the minimum chain length was hexasaccharide. Among oligosaccharides separated from the hexasaccharide faction, Structure A (overleaf) assigned by NMR and Structure B assigned by MS/MS are antigen-positive, whereas Structure C is antigen-negative. Galβ1-4GlcNAc(6S)β1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc(6S)β1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc(6S) (A) Galβ1-4GlcNAc(6S)β1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAcβ1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc(6S) (B) Galβ1-4GlcNAcβ1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc(6S)β1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc(6S) (C) This suggests that the sulphate at the internal GlcNAc residue is not required and the sulphate at the non-reducing terminal GlcNAc residue is the key element. A novel finding in screening of growth factors and morphogens using the GlycosaminoGlycome microarray is that KS is bound by fibroblast growth factor 2 and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) 2, but not wingless-3a, sonic hedgehog and BMP-4. This opens the way into searching for a role for fully and undersulphated KS on stem cells.
The role of intellectual capital in the financial performance of listed manufacturing firms in Pakistan
Creators: name: Butt, Farook Yahya
Publisher: name: Central Queensland University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agency theory
Asset turnover
Business firms
Capital employed efficiency
Developed countries
Developing countries
Financial performance
Gross profit margin
Human capital
Intellectual capital
Long-term profit
Manufacturing
Pakistan

description: Intellectual capital is emerging as a growing area of research in accounting and management literature. Prior research still reveals competing arguments about the concepts and components of intellectual capital. Empirical research on the importance of intellectual capital in developing countries’ contexts was recognised in the early 2000s. However, there is a lack of research examining the role of intellectual capital in the financial performance of firms in developing countries. This study contributes to knowledge in several ways. Prior studies used return on equity, return on capital employed, and return on assets to determine the long-term profit performance of firms. However, none of those studies focused on the impact of intellectual capital on the short-term profit performance of firms. This study broadened the scope of research aiming to examine how intellectual capital influences both the shortterm and the long-term profit performance of firms. Another contribution of this study is that it considered all firms in the manufacturing sector in Pakistan while prior studies were mostly undertaken on the textile companies. The study developed and tested four hypotheses to explain the impact of intellectual capital on the short-term and long-term profitability of the selected firms. Data were collected from the annual reports of 24 manufacturing firms listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. Data covered a period of 2012 - 2016 with observations of 120 firm-years. For hypotheses testing, the partial least square method was used to assess the structural equation model (PLS-SEM). The results of the study prove all four hypotheses, including the partial mediational effect of short-term profit between the value-added intellectual capital and long-term profit performance. The study has implications for the listed manufacturing firms in Pakistan to perceive the suggested links between intellectual capital and various types of financial performance of firms. In the absence of generally accepted theories neither found nor suggested in prior research, the study used the resource-based theory which suggests insights for future researchers to perceive and explain the varying relationships between intellectual capital and financial performance of firms.
Signature of relic heavy stable neutrinos in underground experiments
Creators: name: Fargion, D.
name: Khlopov, M. Yu.
name: Konoplich, R. V.
name: Mignani, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Considering heavy stable neutrinos of 4th generation we calculate the relic density of such neutrinos in the Universe. Taking into account the condensation of heavy neutrinos in the Galaxy and applying the results of calculations to experimental data from underground experiments on search for WIMPs in elastic neutral current scattering on nuclei we found an exclusion region of neutrino mass 60 GeV < m < 290 GeV. The bounds obtained from present underground experiments while confirming the previous bounds derived from analysis of cosmic ray spectra are more relible ones. We discuss also the first indication of elastic scattering induced by WIMP in DAMA experiment finding a very narrow window of neutrino mass 45 GeV < m < 50 GeV compatible with the possible signal rate in the detector.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Copernicus In Situ TAC, Real Time Quality Control for WAVES
Creators: name: Copernicus Marine In Situ Team,
Publisher: name: Copernicus in situ TAC
Year: 2020

description: In April 2017, CMEMS plans to launch the WAVES NRT products. This document is focused in the automatic RTQC of the collected wave data. The validation procedure includes the delayed mode quality control of the data and will be specified in another guideline. To perform any kind of quality control to wave data, first it’s necessary to know the nature of the measurements and the analysis performed to those measurements to obtain the wave parameters. For that reason next chapter is dedicated to show the usual wave analysis and the different parameters and estimators obtained.
Tringa interpres Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Charadriiformes
Scolopacidae
Tringa
Tringa interpres

description: Tringa interpres [spec. nov.]
T. pedibus rubris, corpore nigro albo ferrugineoque vario, pectore abdomineque albo. It. gottl. 217. Fn. svec. 154.
Morinellus canadensis. Edw. av. 141. t. 141.
Habitat in Europa & America septentrionali.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 148, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
The Spatial Clustering of Primordial Black Holes
Creators: name: Desjacques, Vincent
name: Riotto, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
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: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) are the dark matter (or a fraction thereof) has attracted much attention recently. Their spatial clustering is a fundamental property which determines, among others, whether current observational constraints are evaded within a given mass range, whether merging is significant and whether primordial black holes could generate cosmological structure. We treat them as discrete objects and clarify the issue of their spatial clustering, with an emphasis on short-range exclusion and its impact on their large scale power spectrum. Even if a Poissonian self-pair term is always present in the zero-lag correlation, this does not necessarily imply that primordial black holes are initially Poisson distributed. However, while the initial PBH clustering depends on the detailed shape of the small-scale power spectrum, we argue that it is not relevant for a narrow spectral feature and primordial black hole masses still allowed by observations.
description: 5 pages. Comments welcome (v2): refined calculation of the initial clustering, conclusions amended accordingly (v3) Details added. Matches version published in Phys. Rev
The eclipsing X-ray pulsar X-7 in M33
Creators: name: Dubus, G.
name: Charles, P. A.
name: Long, K. S.
name: Hakala, P. J.
name: Kuulkers, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using our extensive ROSAT X-ray observations of M33, we confirm a 3.45 day eclipse period for the Einstein source X-7 (Larson & Schulman, 1997) and discover evidence for a 0.31-s pulse period. The orbital period, pulse period and observed X-ray luminosity are remarkably similar to SMC X-1. We therefore suggest M33 X-7 is a neutron star high mass X-ray binary with a 15-40 Msol O/B companion and a binary separation of 25-33 Rsol if the companion is almost filling its Roche lobe.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS
Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades Cluster. III. A deep IZ survey
Creators: name: Osorio, M. R. Zapatero
name: Rebolo, R.
name: Martin, E. L.
name: Hodgkin, S. T.
name: Cossburn, M. R.
name: Magazzu, A.
name: Steele, I. A.
name: Jameson, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a deep CCD-based IZ photometric survey of a ~1 sq. deg area in the central region of the Pleiades Galactic open cluster. The magnitude coverage of our survey (from I~17.5 down to 22) allows us to detect substellar candidates with masses between 0.075 and 0.03 Msol. Details of the photometric reduction and selection criteria are given. Finder charts prepared from the I-band images are provided.
description: 11 pages with 8 figures, 4 of them are finder charts given in gif format. Accepted for publication in A&AS. Also available at http://www.iac.es/publicaciones/preprints.html
Optical Ring Cavity Search for Axion Dark Matter
Creators: name: Obata, Ippei
name: Fujita, Tomohiro
name: Michimura, Yuta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel experiment to search for axion dark matter which differentiates the phase velocities of the left and right-handed polarized photons. Our optical cavity measures the difference of the resonant frequencies between two circular-polarizations of the laser beam. The design of our cavity adopts double-pass configuration to realize a null experiment and give a high common mode rejection of environmental disturbances. We estimate the potential sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling constant $g_{aγ}$ for the axion mass $m \lesssim 10^{-10}$ eV. In a low mass range $m \lesssim 10^{-15}$ eV, we can achieve $g_{aγ} \lesssim 3\times 10^{-16} ~\text{GeV}^{-1}$ which is beyond the current bound by several orders of magnitude.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
ADCP product user manual for REProcessed IN SITU product (ADCP PUM)
Creators: name: Copernicus Marine In Situ TAC
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2019

description: This Product User Manual describes the reprocessed wave dataset called INSITU_GLO_UV_L2_REP_OBSERVATIONS_013_044 dataset GLOBAL_REP_ADCP distributed by the Copernicus Marine in situ Thematic Assembly Centre: how it is built, what is the content, what data services are available to access them, and how to use the files. The "in situ TAC" is a distributed system built on the existing activities and services developed previously within the EU supported projects (MyOcean, Mersea, MFSTEP, FerryBox, SEPRISE ...) and EuroGOOS Regional alliances (ROOSes). It aims at providing a research and operational framework to develop and deliver in situ observations and derived products based on such observations, to address progressively global but also regional needs either for monitoring, modelling or downstream service development.
The Effect of Self-gravity of Gas on Gas Fueling in Barred Galaxies with a Supermassive Black Hole
Creators: name: Fukuda, Hiroyuki
name: Habe, Asao
name: Wada, Keiichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In our previous paper, we have shown that a gas disk in the nuclear region of a barred galaxy which contains a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) rapidly evolves into a nuclear gas ring by the effect of an additional inner Lindblad resonance caused by the SMBH. In this paper, we investigate the fate of the gas ring, involving self-gravity of gas, using two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations. We find that the gas ring becomes gravitationally unstable for a gas surface density of gas above a critical value, and fragments into several gas clumps. Some denser clumps increase their mass via the accretion of the surrounding gas and collisions with other clumps, and finally a very massive gas clump (10^7 M_sun) is formed. Due to the torque from the most massive clump, a part of the gas in the ring loses its angular momentum and falls into the galactic center. As a result, a nuclear gas disk (50 pc) is formed around the SMBH. The accretion rate for $R<50$ pc attains about 1 M_sun/yr for 3.5*10^7 yr. At the final phase of the bar-driven fueling, self-gravity is crucial for the angular momentum transfer of the gas. This is a new mechanism for gas fueling to the vicinity of the SMBH.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, AASTeX, submitted to ApJ