cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of a Continuous Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) Vortex-Flow Chamber for Improved Treatment Homogeneity Based on Hydrodynamic Optimization
Creators: name: Schottroff, Felix
name: Knappert, Justus
name: Eppmann, Pauline
name: Krottenthaler, Anna
name: Horneber, Tobias
name: McHardy, Christopher
name: Rauh, Cornelia
name: Jaeger, Henry
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Technologie
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: pulsed electric fields
subject: treatment chamber design
subject: proof of concept
subject: process optimization
subject: numerical simulation
subject: differentiation of thermal and electric field effects
subject: non-thermal inactivation of microorganisms
subject: effects of PEF on alkaline phosphatase
subject: PEF

description: Pulsed electric fields (PEF) treatment is an effective process for preservation of liquid products in food and biotechnology at reduced temperatures, by causing electroporation. It may contribute to increase retention of heat-labile constituents with similar or enhanced levels of microbial inactivation, compared to thermal processes. However, especially continuous PEF treatments suffer from inhomogeneous treatment conditions. Typically, electric field intensities are highest at the inner wall of the chamber, where the flow velocity of the treated product is lowest. Therefore, inhomogeneities of the electric field within the treatment chamber and associated inhomogeneous temperature fields emerge. For this reason, a specific treatment chamber was designed to obtain more homogeneous flow properties inside the treatment chamber and to reduce local temperature peaks, therefore increasing treatment homogeneity. This was accomplished by a divided inlet into the chamber, consequently generating a swirling flow (vortex). The influence of inlet angles on treatment homogeneity was studied (final values: radial angle α = 61°; axial angle β = 98°), using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). For the final design, the vorticity, i.e., the intensity of the fluid rotation, was the lowest of the investigated values in the first treatment zone (1002.55 1/s), but could be maintained for the longest distance, therefore providing an increased mixing and most homogeneous treatment conditions. The new design was experimentally compared to a conventional co-linear setup, taking into account inactivation efficacy of Microbacterium lacticum as well as retention of heat-sensitive alkaline phosphatase (ALP). Results showed an increase in M. lacticum inactivation (maximum Δlog of 1.8 at pH 7 and 1.1 at pH 4) by the vortex configuration and more homogeneous treatment conditions, as visible by the simulated temperature fields. Therefore, the new setup can contribute to optimize PEF treatment conditions and to further extend PEF applications to currently challenging products.
Path integral approach to the Wigner representation of canonical density operators for discrete systems coupled to harmonic baths
Creators: name: Montoya-Castillo, Andrés
name: Reichman, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a semi-analytical form for the Wigner transform for the canonical density operator of a discrete system coupled to a harmonic bath based on the path integral expansion of the Boltzmann factor. The introduction of this simple and controllable approach allows for the exact rendering of the canonical distribution and permits systematic convergence of static properties with respect to the number of path integral steps. In additions, the expressions derived here provide an exact and facile interface with quasi- and semi-classical dynamical methods, which enables the direct calculation of equilibrium time correlation functions within a wide array of approaches. We demonstrate that the present method represents a practical path for the calculation of thermodynamic data for the spin-boson and related systems. We illustrate the power of the present approach by detailing the improvement of the quality of Ehrenfest theory for the correlation function $\mathcal{C}_{zz}(t) = \mathrm{Re}\langle σ_z(0)σ_z(t)\rangle$ for the spin-boson model with systematic convergence to the exact sampling function. Importantly, the numerically exact nature of the scheme presented here and its compatibility with semiclassical methods allows for the systematic testing of commonly used approximations for the Wigner-transformed canonical density.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, submitted to JCP
Additional file 17 of A wide range of missing imputation approaches in longitudinal data: a simulation study and real data analysis
Creators: name: Jahangiri, Mina
name: Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
name: Goldfeld, Keith S.
name: Daneshpour, Maryam S.
name: Mostafaei, Shayan
name: Khalili, Davood
name: Moghadas, Mohammad Reza
name: Akbarzadeh, Mahdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 17: Figure S17. MC plot using JointAI package based on the model: DBP ~ Age + Sex + BMI + Time +(1|Id).
Is the pen mightier than the electronic signature? : the Australian businesses' perspective
Creators: name: Srivastava., Aashish
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: Understanding DeFi Through the Lens of a Production-Network Model
Creators: name: Chiu, Jonathan
name: Koeppl, Thorsten
name: Yu, Hanna
name: Zhang, Shengxing
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2023

description: Decentralized finance (DeFi) is composed of a variety of heterogeneous sectors that are interconnected through an input-output network of its tokens. We first use a panel data set to empirically document the evolution of the DeFi network across its different sectors. Instead of looking at the misleading measure of total value locked, we then employ a standard, theoretical production-network model to measure the value added and service outputs of the different DeFi sectors. Finally, based on a calibrated version of our model, we study which factors drive DeFi token prices and predict the equilibrium effects when network interconnectedness increases.
description: La finance décentralisée se compose de différents secteurs hétérogènes qui sont interconnectés à travers un réseau d’entrées-sorties de jetons. Dans ce document, nous partons d’un ensemble de données de panel pour d’abord constater empiriquement l’évolution de ce réseau dans ses différents secteurs. Ensuite, plutôt que d’observer l’indicateur trompeur qu’est la valeur totale verrouillée, nous utilisons un modèle théorique standard de réseau de production pour mesurer la valeur ajoutée et la production de services de ces secteurs. Enfin, d’après une version étalonnée de notre modèle, nous étudions les facteurs qui influent sur les prix des jetons de la finance décentralisée et prédisons les effets d’équilibre attendus lorsque l’interconnectivité des secteurs augmente.
Spiked Instantons from Intersecting D-branes
Creators: name: Nekrasov, Nikita
name: Prabhakar, Naveen S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The moduli space of spiked instantons that arises in the context of the BPS/CFT correspondence is realised as the moduli space of classical vacua, i.e. low-energy open string field configurations, of a certain stack of intersecting D1-branes and D5-branes in Type IIB string theory. The presence of a constant B-field induces an interesting dynamics involving the tachyon condensation.
description: 50 pages
Women incorporated : equality and diversity strategies in large organisations in Australia
Creators: name: Spearritt., Katie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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OpenOFM: an open-source implementation of the multi-segment Oxford Foot Model
Creators: name: Dixon, Philippe C.
name: Drew, Elodie E.
name: McBride, Sean P.
name: Harrington, Marian
name: Stebbins, Julie
name: Zavatsky, Amy B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: The Oxford Foot Model (OFM) is a widely-used multi-segment foot model for the evaluation of foot motion. To date, custom code based on the original scientific publications have failed to reproduce results available through the Vicon plug-in (ViconOFM). This highlights a lack of transparency, affecting the accessibility and understanding of the model. Therefore, the aims of this study are to (1) replicate ViconOFM using Python for open-source distribution (openOFM v1.0) and (2) reproduce the original scientific description of the OFM in a second version (openOFM v1.1), highlighting differences between both versions. A dataset comprising one healthy adult and a set of five patients with heterogeneous foot pathologies was used for analyses. Evaluation was conducted using the normalised root mean square error (NRMSE) between the inter-segment angles and arch heights of both implementations. The openOFM v1.1 was developed based on the original OFM publications. The average NRMSE between ViconOFM and openOFM v1.0, using both healthy and pathological gait, was of 0.0012. Based on our openOFM v1.1 implementation, differences between ViconOFM and the original OFM description from the literature are due to an integrated smoothing and gap filling function and changes in segment definitions. The negligible differences between ViconOFM and openOFM v1.0 in healthy and pathological gait supports the concurrent validity of openOFM. Providing users with both openOFM versions enables informed use of either model and allows further investigation into the implications of these differences. The open-source nature of the project promotes further development. Modelling foot movement is a complex task requiring methodological transparencyThe Oxford Foot Model (OFM) is only accessible within commercial software (Vicon)Open-source code for the OFM (openOFM) was developed and validatedDifferences were found between Vicon OFM and the OFM descriptions in literatureopenOFM addresses these differences and provides a platform for future development Modelling foot movement is a complex task requiring methodological transparency The Oxford Foot Model (OFM) is only accessible within commercial software (Vicon) Open-source code for the OFM (openOFM) was developed and validated Differences were found between Vicon OFM and the OFM descriptions in literature openOFM addresses these differences and provides a platform for future development
Additional file 18 of A wide range of missing imputation approaches in longitudinal data: a simulation study and real data analysis
Creators: name: Jahangiri, Mina
name: Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
name: Goldfeld, Keith S.
name: Daneshpour, Maryam S.
name: Mostafaei, Shayan
name: Khalili, Davood
name: Moghadas, Mohammad Reza
name: Akbarzadeh, Mahdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 18: Figure S18. Trace plot using JointAI package based on the model: SBP ~ Age + Sex + BMI + Time +(1|Id).
Radiative and mechanical feedback into the molecular gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. I. N159W
Creators: name: Lee, Min-Young
name: Madden, Suzanne
name: Lebouteiller, Vianney
name: Gusdorf, Antoine
name: Godard, Benjamin
name: Wu, Ronin
name: Galametz, Maud
name: Cormier, Diane
name: Petit, Franck Le
name: Roueff, Evelyne
name: Bron, Emeric
name: Carlson, Lynn
name: Chevance, Melanie
name: Fukui, Yasuo
name: Galliano, Frederic
name: Hony, Sacha
name: Hughes, Annie
name: Indebetouw, Remy
name: Israel, Franck
name: Kawamura, Akiko
name: Bourlot, Jacques Le
name: Lesaffre, Pierre
name: Meixner, Margaret
name: Muller, Erik
name: Nayak, Omnarayani
name: Onishi, Toshikazu
name: Roman-Duval, Julia
name: Sewilo, Marta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) observations of N159W, an active star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In our observations, a number of far-infrared cooling lines including CO(4-3) to CO(12-11), [CI] 609 and 370 micron, and [NII] 205 micron are clearly detected. With an aim of investigating the physical conditions and excitation processes of molecular gas, we first construct CO spectral line energy distributions (SLEDs) on 10 pc scales by combining the FTS CO transitions with ground-based low-J CO data and analyze the observed CO SLEDs using non-LTE radiative transfer models. We find that the CO-traced molecular gas in N159W is warm (kinetic temperature of 153-754 K) and moderately dense (H2 number density of (1.1-4.5)e3 cm-3). To assess the impact of the energetic processes in the interstellar medium on the physical conditions of the CO-emitting gas, we then compare the observed CO line intensities with the models of photodissociation regions (PDRs) and shocks. We first constrain the properties of PDRs by modelling Herschel observations of [OI] 145, [CII] 158, and [CI] 370 micron fine-structure lines and find that the constrained PDR components emit very weak CO emission. X-rays and cosmic-rays are also found to provide a negligible contribution to the CO emission, essentially ruling out ionizing sources (ultraviolet photons, X-rays, and cosmic-rays) as the dominant heating source for CO in N159W. On the other hand, mechanical heating by low-velocity C-type shocks with ~10 km/s appears sufficient enough to reproduce the observed warm CO.
description: accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 19 of A wide range of missing imputation approaches in longitudinal data: a simulation study and real data analysis
Creators: name: Jahangiri, Mina
name: Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
name: Goldfeld, Keith S.
name: Daneshpour, Maryam S.
name: Mostafaei, Shayan
name: Khalili, Davood
name: Moghadas, Mohammad Reza
name: Akbarzadeh, Mahdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 19: Figure S19.MC plot using JointAI package based on the model: SBP ~ Age + Sex + BMI + Time + (1|Id).
How community managers affect online idea crowdsourcing activities
Creators: name: Hornuf, Lars
name: Jeworrek, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: crowdsourcing
subject: open innovation
subject: crowdsourced innovation
subject: crowdworking
subject: ideation
subject: managerial attention
subject: 330

description: In this study, we investigate whether and to what extent community managers in online collaborative communities can stimulate crowd activities through their engagement. Using a novel data set of 22 large online idea crowdsourcing campaigns, we find that active engagement of community managers positively affects crowd activities in an inverted U-shaped manner. Moreover, we evidence that intellectual stimulation by managers increases community participation, while individual consideration of users has no impact on user activities. Finally, the data reveal that community manager activities that require more effort, such as media file uploads instead of simple written comments, have a larger effect on crowd participation.
Competing interactions in population-imbalanced two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Galteland, Peder N.
name: Sudbø, Asle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate with and without synthetic "spin-orbit" interactions in two dimensions. Density- and phase-fluctuations of the condensate are included, allowing us to study the impact of thermal fluctuations and density-density interactions on the physics originating with spin-orbit interactions. In the absence of spin-orbit interactions, we find that inter-component density interactions deplete the minority condensate. The thermally driven phase transition is driven by coupled density and phase-fluctuations, but is nevertheless shown to be a phase-transition in the Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class with close to universal amplitude ratios irrespective of whether both the minority- and majority condensates exist in the ground state, or only one condensate exists. In the presence of spin-orbit interactions we observe three separate phases, depending on the strength of the spin-orbit coupling and inter-component density-density interactions: a phase-modulated phase with uniform amplitudes for small intercomponent interactions, a completely imbalanced, effectively single-component, condensate for intermediate spin-orbit coupling strength and suficciently large inter-component interactions, and a phase-modulated \textit{and} amplitude-modulated phase for sufficiently large values of both the spin-orbit coupling and the inter-component density-density interactions. The phase which is modulated by a single $\bv q$-vector only is observed to transition into an isoptropic liquid through a strong de-pinning transition with periodic boundary conditions, which weakens with open boundaries.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review B
Additional file 20 of A wide range of missing imputation approaches in longitudinal data: a simulation study and real data analysis
Creators: name: Jahangiri, Mina
name: Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
name: Goldfeld, Keith S.
name: Daneshpour, Maryam S.
name: Mostafaei, Shayan
name: Khalili, Davood
name: Moghadas, Mohammad Reza
name: Akbarzadeh, Mahdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 20: Figure S20. The convergence plot of the JM-MLMM method.
Transmitting more than 10 bit with a single photon
Creators: name: Tentrup, T. B. H.
name: Hummel, T.
name: Wolterink, T. A. W.
name: Uppu, R.
name: Mosk, A. P.
name: Pinkse, P. W. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Encoding information in the position of single photons has no known limits, given infinite resources. Using a heralded single-photon source and a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM), we steer single photons to specific positions in a virtual grid on a large-area spatially resolving photon-counting detector (ICCD). We experimentally demonstrate selective addressing any location (symbol) in a 9072 size grid (alphabet) to achieve 10.5 bit of mutual information between the sender and receiver per detected photon. Our results set the stage for very-high-dimensional quantum information processing.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Ultrafine Entanglement Witnessing
Creators: name: Shahandeh, Farid
name: Ringbauer, Martin
name: Loredo, Juan C.
name: Ralph, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement witnesses are invaluable for efficient quantum entanglement certification without the need for expensive quantum state tomography. Yet, standard entanglement witnessing requires multiple measurements and its bounds can be elusive as a result of experimental imperfections. Here we introduce and demonstrate a novel procedure for entanglement detection which seamlessly and easily improves any standard witnessing procedure by using additional available information to tighten the witnessing bounds. Moreover, by relaxing the requirements on the witness operators, our method removes the general need for the difficult task of witness decomposition into local observables. We experimentally demonstrate entanglement detection with our approach using a separable test operator and a simple fixed measurement-device for each agent. Finally we show that the method can be generalized to higher-dimensional and multipartite cases with a complexity that scales linearly with the number of parties.
description: 5 pages + 3 pages supplemental material, 4 figures
IX Международная научно-практическая конференция «Актуальные аспекты развития науки и общества в эпоху цифровой трансформации»
Creators: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Publisher: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Year: 2023

description: IX Международная научно-практическая конференция «Актуальные аспекты развития науки и общества в эпоху цифровой трансформации»
Additional file 21 of A wide range of missing imputation approaches in longitudinal data: a simulation study and real data analysis
Creators: name: Jahangiri, Mina
name: Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
name: Goldfeld, Keith S.
name: Daneshpour, Maryam S.
name: Mostafaei, Shayan
name: Khalili, Davood
name: Moghadas, Mohammad Reza
name: Akbarzadeh, Mahdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 21: TableS1. The sample data for the first 20 individuals of TCGS (NA: missing value).
Coordination and the political economy of Australian industry policy
Creators: name: Shaw., Brendan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Die Bauwirtschaft im Land Bremen
Creators: name: Holtrup, André
name: Syben, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Institut für Arbeit und Wirtschaft (IAW)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Branchenanalyse
subject: Baugewerbe
subject: 330

description: Das Umfeld fürs Bauen ist derzeit günstig. Neben der statistischen Aufarbeitung verknüpfen wir unsere Branchenanalysen immer auch mit einer Bewertung der Arbeitsbedingungen und der Frage, wie diese verbessert werden können. Der Boom beim Bauen kommt noch zu wenig bei den Beschäftigten an – und das obwohl das Gewinnen und Halten von Fachkräften das dringlichste Thema für die Betriebe ist. Im Baugewerbe mit seinem besonderen Regelungsrahmen ist auch die Politik gefordert, die Rahmenbedingungen für einen fairen Wettbewerb zu verbessern.
Quantum-like models cannot account for the conjunction fallacy
Creators: name: Boyer-Kassem, Thomas
name: Duchêne, Sébastien
name: Guerci, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Human agents happen to judge that a conjunction of two terms is more probable than one of the terms, in contradiction with the rules of classical probabilities---this is the conjunction fallacy. One of the most discussed accounts of this fallacy is currently the quantum-like explanation, which relies on models exploiting the mathematics of quantum mechanics. The aim of this paper is to investigate the empirical adequacy of major quantum-like models which represent beliefs with quantum states. We first argue that they can be tested in three different ways, in a question order effect configuration which is different from the traditional conjunction fallacy experiment. We then carry out our proposed experiment, with varied methodologies from experimental economics. The experimental results we get are at odds with the predictions of the quantum-like models. This strongly suggests that this quantum-like account of the conjunction fallacy fails. Future possible research paths are discussed.
description: 29 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables in Theory and Decision (2016)
The Open Field Initiative: Open Source, Open Data
Creators: name: Shirts, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: open source software, molecular simulation, atomistic force field

description: "The Open Field Initiative: Open Source, Open Data" a talk on Monday, August 14th in the session "Free and Source Software: Harnessing the Power of Data" at ACS Fall 2023, San Francisco, CA by Michael R. Shirts, University of Colorado Boulder (representing OpenFF)
description: NIH R01GM132386
A proposal for the thermodynamics of certain open systems
Creators: name: Fidaleo, Francesco
name: Viaggiu, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B03, 82A15, 82B30, 82B35

description: Motivated by the fact that the (inverse) temperature might be a function of the energy levels in the Planck distribution $n_ε=\frac1{ζ^{-1}e^{β(ε)ε}-1}$ for the occupation number $n_ε$ of the level $ε$, we show that it can be naturally achieved by imposing the constraint concerning the conservation of a weighted sum $\sum_εf(ε)εn_ε$, with a fixed positive weight function $f$, of the contributions of the single energy levels occupation in the Microcanonical Ensemble scheme, obtaining $β(ε)\propto f(ε)$. This immediately addresses the possibility that also a weighted sum $\sum_εg(ε)n_ε$ of the particles occupation number is conserved, having as a consequence that the chemical potential might be a function of the energy levels of the system as well. This scheme leads to a thermodynamics of open systems in the following way: the equilibrium is reached when the entropy function is maximised under the constraints that some weighed sums of occupation of the energy levels and the occupation numbers are conserved. The standard case of isolated systems corresponds to the weight functions being trivial (i.e. $f, g$ are identically 1). For such open systems, new and unexpected phenomena which might happen in nature can appear, like the Bose Einstein Condensation in excited levels. The ideas outlined in the present paper may provide a new approach for the treatment of the irreversible thermodynamics.
description: 20 pages, to appear in Physica A
Investment (FDI) Policy for Azerbaijan / Final report
Creators: name: Günther, Jutta
name: Jindra, Björn
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Foreign direct investment
subject: Investment policy
subject: Azerbaijan
subject: 330

description: This report is intended to develop a mid- to long-term strategy for (foreign direct) investment in the Azerbaijan economy in the non-oil-sector with suggestions for the design of an investment policy. The recommendations are given against the background of and with reference to examples from Central and East European transition economies including East Germany. The comparative approach, however, is limited and has to pay attention to the fact that the Azerbaijan economy has very different starting conditions in many respects.
Additional file 22 of A wide range of missing imputation approaches in longitudinal data: a simulation study and real data analysis
Creators: name: Jahangiri, Mina
name: Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
name: Goldfeld, Keith S.
name: Daneshpour, Maryam S.
name: Mostafaei, Shayan
name: Khalili, Davood
name: Moghadas, Mohammad Reza
name: Akbarzadeh, Mahdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 22: Table S2. Descriptive statistics for continuous variables of TCGS participants included inthe present study at each phase (BMI: body mass index, DBP:diastolic blood pressure, SBP: systolic blood pressure, and SD: std. deviation).
Land configuration and nutrient management model increased the productivity through improved soil enzyme activities in an organic cotton wheat production system
Creators: name: Yadav, Rajni
name: Goyal, Vishal
name: Bhardwaj, Krishan Kumar
name: Kumar, Rakesh
name: Duhan, Darshana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Suitable land configuration and nutrient approach are essential for sustaining crop production under semi-arid Inceptisols of India. The study aimed to assess the effect of land configuration (raised bed [RB] and flat bed [FB]) and nutrient approach, viz., organic (Organic), inorganic (soil test crop response [STCR]), and integrated nutrient management (STCR-Integrated plant nutrient supply [IPNS]) along with farm yard manure (FYM) and control (CK) on soil’s physicochemical and biological properties after two consecutive cycles of cotton-wheat. Results showed that land configuration did not impact the pH, organic carbon, and its stock at 0–15 and 15–30 cm soil. However, bulk density was reduced (2.03%) and microbial biomass carbon increased (5.12%) significantly under RB at 0–15 cm soil compared to FB planting. The RB significantly increased the available N (4.06%), P (8.40%) and K (4.22%) and urease (8.37%), alkaline phosphatase (6.10%), and dehydrogenase activity (8.28%) of soils compared to FB. Soil physicochemical and biological properties were highly impacted under STCR-IPNS treatment and least under control at both depths. Integrated treatment showed the highest seed cotton (3097 kg ha−1) and wheat grain yield (6085 kg ha−1); however, land configuration did not impact the yield of both crops. Further, RB increased the protein content of wheat by 1.1% and the ginning percentage and lint index of cotton by 2.4% and 5.5%, respectively compared to FB. In terms of nutrient management, cotton and wheat quality parameters were found higher for STCR-IPNS treatment. Thus, the study suggests that RB planting with an integrated nutrient approach could be a sustainable and feasible practice for quality food and fiber production for semi-arid Inceptisols.
Feedback traps for virtual potentials
Creators: name: Gavrilov, Momčilo
name: Bechhoefer, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Feedback traps are tools for trapping and manipulating single charged objects, such as molecules in solution. An alternative to optical tweezers and other single-molecule techniques, they use feedback to counteract the Brownian motion of a molecule of interest. The trap first acquires information about a molecule's position and then applies an electric feedback force to move the molecule. Since electric forces are stronger than optical forces at small scales, feedback traps are the best way to trap single molecules without "touching" them. Feedback traps can do more than trap molecules: They can also subject a target object to forces that are calculated to be the gradient of a desired potential function U(x). If the feedback loop is fast enough, it creates a virtual potential whose dynamics will be very close to those of a particle in an actual potential U(x). But because the dynamics are entirely a result of the feedback loop--absent the feedback, there is only an object diffusing in a fluid--we are free to specify and then manipulate in time an arbitrary potential U(x,t). Here, we review recent applications of feedback traps to studies on the fundamental connections between information and thermodynamics, a topic where feedback plays an even more-fundamental role. We discuss how recursive maximum likelihood techniques allow continuous calibration, to compensate for drifts in experiments that last for days. We consider ways to estimate work and heat to a precision of 0.03 kT over these long experiments. Finally, we compare work and heat measurements of the costs of information erasure, the Landauer limit of kT ln2 per bit of information erased. We argue that when you want to know the average heat transferred to a bath in a long protocol, you should measure instead the average work and then infer the heat using the first law of thermodynamics.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
A Reinterpretation of Special Relativity
Creators: name: Whitefoot, Alan D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: electron geometry
toroidal electron
electron radii
Special Relativity
absolute space
invariant space
time variance
relatively moving observers
quantum level
virtual photon

description: In Special Relativity it is well established that relatively moving observers measure different times for an observed event. However, it is always assumed that relatively moving observers agree on their relative velocity, expressed as v/c, even though velocity is a function of time. Special Relativity can be reinterpreted by adding an assumption that space is invariant. Relatively moving observers will then find different relative velocities and time variance will be shown to be a result of how measurements are referenced at the quantum level.
description: PDF export from a Maple document
Allocative efficiency in health : development of a priority setting model and application to non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Segal., Leonie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The Optimal Physical Recovery After Hospitalization (OPRAH) intervention to improve physical activity and protein intake after oncological surgery: a feasibility study
Creators: name: de Leeuwerk, Marijke
name: Dam, Suzanne ten
name: van der Heide, Marieke
name: Kruizenga, Hinke
name: Geleijn, Edwin
name: de Groot, Vincent
name: van der Leeden, Marike
name: van der Schaaf, Marike
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Developmental Biology
Mental Health

description: (1) To assess the feasibility of a blended intervention, combining a smartphone app for self-monitoring of physical activity and protein intake with coaching from a physiotherapist and dietician after hospitalization and (2) to evaluate the associated study procedures. A single-arm feasibility study was performed with adult patients scheduled for curative intent gastrointestinal or lung cancer surgery. Patients were provided with a smartphone app and accelerometer one week before surgery, which they used for six weeks following discharge. In addition, patients received coaching from a physiotherapist and dietician. Feasibility was assessed by evaluating participation and completion rates, user adherence, system usability score (SUS), as well as experiences and safety, based on predefined criteria. In total, 32 patients were included, with participation and completion rates of 69 and 75%, respectively. User adherence to wearing the accelerometer was deemed satisfactory (91%), while user adherence to protein intake was suboptimal (59%). The mean SUS was acceptable (73.5). Patient experiences were predominantly positive, although some patients mentioned a lack of options in the protein registration tool. The intervention is feasible for implementation in a larger study. To improve adherence, modifications are needed regarding self-recording of protein intake. Study procedures require minor modifications. Patients after oncological surgery are positive about an intervention that combines a smartphone app for self-monitoring of physical activity and protein intake with coaching by a physiotherapist and dietician after hospitalization.Although the effect on functional recovery has yet to be examined in a randomized controlled trial, the blended Optimal Physical Recovery After Hospitalization (OPRAH) intervention seems to contribute to the self-management of patients, since there was a substantial increase in physical activity and most patients achieved their protein requirements. Patients after oncological surgery are positive about an intervention that combines a smartphone app for self-monitoring of physical activity and protein intake with coaching by a physiotherapist and dietician after hospitalization. Although the effect on functional recovery has yet to be examined in a randomized controlled trial, the blended Optimal Physical Recovery After Hospitalization (OPRAH) intervention seems to contribute to the self-management of patients, since there was a substantial increase in physical activity and most patients achieved their protein requirements.
R&D towards the CMS RPC Phase-2 upgrade
Creators: name: Fagot, A.
name: Cimmino, A.
name: Crucy, S.
name: Gul, M.
name: Rios, A. A. O.
name: Tytgat, M.
name: Zaganidis, N.
name: Aly, S.
name: Assran, Y.
name: Radi, A.
name: Sayed, A.
name: Singh, G.
name: Abbrescia, M.
name: Iaselli, G.
name: Maggi, M.
name: Pugliese, G.
name: Verwilligen, P.
name: Van Doninck, W.
name: Colafranceschi, S.
name: Sharma, A.
name: Benussi, L.
name: Bianco, S.
name: Piccolo, D.
name: Primavera, F.
name: Bhatnagar, V.
name: Kumari, R.
name: Mehta, A.
name: Singh, J.
name: Ahmad, A.
name: Ahmed, W.
name: Asghar, M. I.
name: Awan, I. M.
name: Hoorani, H. R.
name: Muhammad, S.
name: Shah, M. A.
name: Shahzad, H.
name: Cho, S. W.
name: Choi, S. Y.
name: Hong, B.
name: Kang, M. H.
name: Lee, K. S.
name: Lim, J. H.
name: Park, S. K.
name: Kim, M. S.
name: Gouzevitch, M.
name: Grenier, G.
name: Lagarde, F.
name: Laktineh, I. B.
name: Bernardino, S. Carpinteyro
name: Estrada, C. Uribe
name: Pedraza, I.
name: Moreno, S. Carrillo
name: Valencia, F. Vazquez
name: Pant, L. M.
name: Buontempo, S.
name: Cavallo, N.
name: Esposito, M.
name: Fabozzi, F.
name: Lanza, G.
name: Orso, I.
name: Lista, L.
name: Meola, S.
name: Merola, M.
name: Paolucci, P.
name: Thyssen, F.
name: Braghieri, A.
name: Magnani, A.
name: Montagna, P.
name: Riccardi, C.
name: Salvini, P.
name: Vai, I.
name: Vitulo, P.
name: Ban, Y.
name: Qian, S. J.
name: Choi, M.
name: Choi, Y.
name: Goh, J.
name: Kim, D.
name: Aleksandrov, A.
name: Hadjiiska, R.
name: Iaydjiev, P.
name: Rodozov, M.
name: Stoykova, S.
name: Sultanov, G.
name: Vutova, M.
name: Dimitrov, A.
name: Litov, L.
name: Pavlov, B.
name: Petkov, P.
name: Bagaturia, I.
name: Lomidze, D.
name: Avila, C.
name: Cabrera, A.
name: Sanabria, J. C.
name: Crotty, I.
name: Vaitkus, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The high pseudo-rapidity region of the CMS muon system is covered by Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) only and lacks redundant coverage despite the fact that it is a challenging region for muons in terms of backgrounds and momentum resolution. In order to maintain good efficiency for the muon trigger in this region additional RPCs are planned to be installed in the two outermost stations at low angle named RE3/1 and RE4/1. These stations will use RPCs with finer granularity and good timing resolution to mitigate background effects and to increase the redundancy of the system.
description: 13th Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and related detectors, 22-26 February 2016, Ghent University, Belgium
The determinants of international tourism flows : empirical evidence from Australia
Creators: name: Seetaram., Neelu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Additional file 23 of A wide range of missing imputation approaches in longitudinal data: a simulation study and real data analysis
Creators: name: Jahangiri, Mina
name: Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
name: Goldfeld, Keith S.
name: Daneshpour, Maryam S.
name: Mostafaei, Shayan
name: Khalili, Davood
name: Moghadas, Mohammad Reza
name: Akbarzadeh, Mahdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 23: Table S3. The statistic for mean and variances for all incomplete variables using miceadds package for FCS-LMM-LN and FCS-LMM-LN-het imputation methods.
Exponential Family Mixed Membership Models for Soft~Clustering of Multivariate Data
Creators: name: White, Arthur
name: Murphy, Thomas Brendan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For several years, model-based clustering methods have successfully tackled many of the challenges presented by data-analysts. However, as the scope of data analysis has evolved, some problems may be beyond the standard mixture model framework. One such problem is when observations in a dataset come from overlapping clusters, whereby different clusters will possess similar parameters for multiple variables. In this setting, mixed membership models, a soft clustering approach whereby observations are not restricted to single cluster membership, have proved to be an effective tool. In this paper, a method for fitting mixed membership models to data generated by a member of an exponential family is outlined. The method is applied to count data obtained from an ultra running competition, and compared with a standard mixture model approach.
First-principles re-investigation of bulk WO3
Creators: name: Hamdi, Hanen
name: Salje, Ekhard K. H.
name: Ghosez, Philippe
name: Bousquet, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using first-principles calculations, we analyze the structural properties of tungsten trioxide WO3 . Our calculations rely on density functional theory and the use of the B1-WC hybrid functional, which provides very good agreement with experimental data. The hypothetical high-symmetry cubic reference structure combines several ferroelectric and antiferrodistortive (antipolar cation motions, rotations and tilts of oxygen octahedra) structural instabilities. The instability related to antipolar W motions combines with those associated to oxygen rotations and tilts to produce the biggest energy reduction, yielding a P21/c ground state. This non-polar P21/c phase is only different from the experimentally reported Pc ground state by the absence of a very tiny additional ferroelectric distortion. The calculations performed on a stoichiometric compound so suggest that the low temperature phase of WO3 is not intrinsically ferroelectric and that the reported ferroelectric character might arise from extrinsic defects such as oxygen vacancies. Independently, we also identify never observed R3m and R3c ferroelectric phases with large polarizations and low energies close to the P 21/c ground state, which makes WO3 a potential antiferroelectric material. The relative stability of various phases is discussed in terms of the couplings between different structural distortions, highlighting a very complex interplay involving improper-like couplings up to fourth order in the energy expansion in the cubic phase.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Synchronised Swimming of Two Fish
Creators: name: Novati, Guido
name: Verma, Siddhartha
name: Alexeev, Dmitry
name: Rossinelli, Diego
name: van Rees, Wim M.
name: Koumoutsakos, Petros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76Z10

description: We study the fluid dynamics of two fish-like bodies with synchronised swimming patterns. Our studies are based on two-dimensional simulations of viscous incompressible flows. We distinguish between motion patterns that are externally imposed on the swimmers and self-propelled swimmers that learn manoeuvres to achieve certain goals. Simulations of two rigid bodies executing pre-specified motion indicate that flow-mediated interactions can lead to substantial drag reduction and may even generate thrust intermittently. In turn we examine two self-propelled swimmers arranged in a leader-follower configuration, with a-priori specified body-deformations. We find that the swimming of the leader remains largely unaffected, while the follower experiences either an increase or decrease in swimming speed, depending on the initial conditions. Finally, we consider a follower that synchronises its motion so as to minimise its lateral deviations from the leader's path. The leader employs a steady gait while the follower uses a reinforcement learning algorithm to adapt its swimming-kinematics. We find that swimming in a synchronised tandem can yield up to about 30% reduction in energy expenditure for the follower, in addition to a 20% increase in its swimming-efficiency. The present results indicate that synchronised swimming of two fish can be energetically beneficial.
More on the conformal mapping of quasi-local masses: The Hawking-Hayward case
Creators: name: Hammad, Fayçal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conformal transformation of the Hawking-Hayward quasi-local mass is reexamined. It has been found recently that the conformal transformation of the latter exhibits the 'wrong' conformal factor compared to the way usual masses transform under conformal transformations of spacetime. We show, in analogy with what was found recently for the Misner-Sharp mass, that unlike the purely geometric definition of the Hawking-Hayward mass, the latter exhibits the 'right' conformal factor whenever expressed in terms of its material content via the field equations. The case of conformally invariant scalar-tensor theories of gravity is also examined. The equivalence between the Misner-Sharp mass and the Hawking-Hayward mass for spherically symmetric spacetimes manifests itself by giving identical peculiar behaviors under conformal transformations.
description: 22 pages
Additional file 2 of Metabolomics analysis reveals changes related to pseudocyst formation induced by iron depletion in Trichomonas vaginalis
Creators: name: Cheng, Wei-Hung
name: Huang, Po-Jung
name: Lee, Chi-Ching
name: Yeh, Yuan-Ming
name: Ong, Seow-Chin
name: Lin, Rose
name: Ku, Fu-Man
name: Chiu, Cheng-Hsun
name: Tang, Petrus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. File 2: The relative amount of phospholipid derivatives identified in the metabolomics analysis. The relative values of phospholipid derivatives identified are shown as the fold-change from ID (gray bar) to IR (black bar) (ID/IR) cells. Significance is indicated by asterisks: *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001. IR, iron-rich; ID, iron-deficient.
Technology, knowledge spillovers and the Indian growth miracle
Creators: name: Saxena., Shishir
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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