cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Orthogonal 16-point Approximate DCT for Image and Video Compression
Creators: name: da Silveira, T. L. T.
name: Bayer, F. M.
name: Cintra, R. J.
name: Kulasekera, S.
name: Madanayake, A.
name: Kozakevicius, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A low-complexity orthogonal multiplierless approximation for the 16-point discrete cosine transform (DCT) was introduced. The proposed method was designed to possess a very low computational cost. A fast algorithm based on matrix factorization was proposed requiring only 60~additions. The proposed architecture outperforms classical and state-of-the-art algorithms when assessed as a tool for image and video compression. Digital VLSI hardware implementations were also proposed being physically realized in FPGA technology and implemented in 45 nm up to synthesis and place-route levels. Additionally, the proposed method was embedded into a high efficiency video coding (HEVC) reference software for actual proof-of-concept. Obtained results show negligible video degradation when compared to Chen DCT algorithm in HEVC.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables
The development of the role of Special Assistance Resource Teacher in primary schools : the utilization of a needs assessment technique to identify and assess the requirements of personnel in the implementation of the Special Assistance Program in schools
Creators: name: Newton, Helen F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Il teorema di Pitagora: come si rapportano Costituzione, populismo e sovranismo?, in G. Allegri, A. Sterpa e N. Viceconte, a cura di, Questioni costituzionali al tempo del populismo e del sovranismo, Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, 2019, (9788893915281), pp. 11-49
Creators: name: Sterpa, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Populismo
Costituzione
Sovranismo

description: Esame del concetto di populismo nella chiave di lettura della democrazia costituzionale italiana.
Molossops Peters 1865
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Molossops

description: Molossops Peters, 1865. Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 575. COMMENT: Includes Cynomops and Neoplatymops as subgenera; see Jones et al., 1977, Occas. Pap. Mus. Texas Tech Univ., 47:28, and Freeman, 1981: 133, respectively. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405016003000000 as Molossops. 5301405016006000000 as Neoplatymops.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 208, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Jones, J. K., Jr., P. Swanepoel, and D. C. Carter. 1977. Annotated checklist of the bats of Mexico and Central America. Occasional Papers, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 47: 1 - 35.", "Freeman, P. W. 1981. A multivariate study of the family Molossidae (Mammalia: Chiroptera): Morphology, ecology, evolution. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 7: 1 - 173."]}
Additional file 1 of Treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis in Hungary – consensus recommendation from the Hungarian neuroimmunology society
Creators: name: Rajda, Cecilia
name: Rózsa, Csilla
name: Mike, Andrea
name: Lovas, Gábor
name: Mezei, Zsolt
name: Jakab, Gábor
name: Ács, Péter
name: Rum, Gábor
name: Simó, Magdolna
name: Jobbágy, Zita
name: Bíró, Zita
name: Trauninger, Anita
name: Imre, Piroska
name: Mátyás, Klotild
name: Deme, István
name: Illés, Zsolt
name: Csepany, Tunde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Impacts of climate change on Arctic Sea Ice
Creators: name: Blockley, E.W.
name: Aksenov, Y.
name: Campbell, K.
name: Hewitt, H.T.
name: Oltmanns, M.
name: Screen, J.A.
name: Tsamados, M.
Publisher: name: Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP), Lowestoft, UK
Year: 2023

description: MCCIP Rolling Evidence Updates
Social dimensions of volcanic hazards, risk and emergency response procedures in southern Iceland
Creators: name: Bird, Deanne K
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The Katla volcano in southern Iceland is one the most hazardous in the country. Frequent, destructive eruptions producing catastrophic jokulhlaup (glacial outburst floods), tephra fall and lightning hazards pose a serious risk to many local communities. Extensive geological and geophysical research details the current state of Katla and provides insights into past eruptive episodes but only one study, conducted with residents from two communities in 2004, had assessed Katla with respect to the local population. In order to develop successful risk mitigation strategies however, emergency management agencies must consider the hazard in conjunction with the varying factors affecting the society at risk. As a result, this research explores some of the social dimensions of hazard, risk and emergency response procedures in relation to Katla. The aim of the research is to provide a social framework for disaster risk reduction by offering an in-depth social assessment to complement the physical. Using mixed methods research, the study incorporates field observations during evacuation exercises, semi-structured interviews with emergency management officials and residents, and structured questionnaire interviews with residents, tourists and tourism employees. The research shows that each stakeholder group is inherently different and volcanic risk mitigation strategies need to be structured accordingly. Recent efforts which culminated in full-scale evacuation exercises in 2006 did not take this into consideration. On a practical level, these exercises indicated that most residents would respond positively to evacuation orders. At a conceptual level however, this research identified many contextual issues, (e.g. knowledge and perception of hazard and risk, level of trust) which affect people's ability to adopt the recommended protective action. In rural communities, emergency management agencies need to consider local knowledge, livelihood connections and attachment to place in order to develop effective mitigation strategies. Within the tourism sector, emergency management agencies must ensure that education campaigns raise awareness of hazard, risk and emergency response procedures. Significant effort is still urgently needed to address disaster risk reduction in southern Iceland as Katla is thought to be in a heightened state of activity and an eruption, without prolonged precursory signals, is expected in the near future.
Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Between Metasurfaces: A Full-Wave Study Based on 2D Grooved Metal Plates
Creators: name: Dai, Jin
name: Dyakov, Sergey A.
name: Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.
name: Yan, Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metamaterials possess artificial bulk and surface electromagnetic states. Tamed dispersion properties of surface waves allow one to achieve controllable super-Planckian radiative heat transfer (RHT) process between two closely spaced objects. We numerically demonstrate enhanced RHT between two 2D grooved metal plates by a full-wave scattering approach. The enhancement originates from both transverse magnetic spoof surface plasmon polaritons and a series of transverse electric bonding- and anti-bonding waveguide modes at surfaces. The RHT spectrum is frequency-selective, and highly geometrically tailorable. Our simulation also reveals thermally excited non-resonant surface waves in constituent materials can play a prevailing role for RHT at an extremely small separation between two plates, rendering metamaterial modes insignificant for the energy transfer process.
Eumops hansae Sanborn 1932
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Eumops
Eumops hansae

description: Eumops hansae Sanborn, 1932. J. Mammal., 13:356. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Santa Catarina, Joinville, Colonia Hansa. DISTRIBUTION: Costa Rica; Panama; Venezuela; Guyana; Brazil. COMMENT: Includes amazonicus; see Gardner, et al., 1970, J. Mammal., 51:727; Eger, 1977, R. Ont. Mus. Life Sci. Contrib., 110:44. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405016002006001 as E. hansae. 5301405016002002001 as E. amazonicus.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Eger, J. L. 1977. Systematics of the genus Eumops. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences, Contribution, 110: 1 - 69."]}
Eumops glaucinus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Eumops
Eumops glaucinus

description: Eumops glaucinus (Wagner, 1843). Arch. Naturgesch., 9(1):368. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Mato Grosso, Cuiaba. DISTRIBUTION: Colima, Michoacan and Distrito Federal (Mexico) to Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, N. Argentina, Brazil, and Surinam; Jamaica; Cuba; Florida (U.S.A.). COMMENT: Includes floridanus; see Eger, 1977, R. Ont. Mus. Life Sci. Contrib., 110:43. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405016002005001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Eger, J. L. 1977. Systematics of the genus Eumops. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences, Contribution, 110: 1 - 69."]}
Eumops auripendulus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Eumops
Eumops auripendulus

description: Eumops auripendulus (Shaw, 1800). Gen. Zool. Syst. Nat. Hist., 1 (1): 137. TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana. DISTRIBUTION: Oaxaca and Chiapas (Mexico) to Peru, N. Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, E. Brazil, and Trinidad. COMMENT: Called abrasus in Hall and Kelson, 1959:211; but see Husson, 1962, Zool. Meded. Rijks. Mus. Nat. Hist. Leiden, 58:243-246; Hall, 1981:248. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405016002003001 as E. auripendulus. 5301405016002001001 as E. abrasus.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R., and K. R. Kelson. 1959. The mammals of North America. Ronald Press Co., New York, 1: 1 - 546; 2: 547 - 1083 + 79.", "Husson, A. M. 1962. The bats of Suriname. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 58: 1 - 282, 30 pls.", "Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90."]}
Additional file 2 of Treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis in Hungary – consensus recommendation from the Hungarian neuroimmunology society
Creators: name: Rajda, Cecilia
name: Rózsa, Csilla
name: Mike, Andrea
name: Lovas, Gábor
name: Mezei, Zsolt
name: Jakab, Gábor
name: Ács, Péter
name: Rum, Gábor
name: Simó, Magdolna
name: Jobbágy, Zita
name: Bíró, Zita
name: Trauninger, Anita
name: Imre, Piroska
name: Mátyás, Klotild
name: Deme, István
name: Illés, Zsolt
name: Csepany, Tunde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Cheiromeles torquatus Horsfield 1824
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Cheiromeles
Cheiromeles torquatus

description: Cheiromeles torquatus Horsfield, 1824. Zool. Res. Java, Part 8. TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia, Penang. DISTRIBUTION: Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, S.W. Philippines, and nearby small islands. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405016001002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Constraints of the physics of low-mass AGB stars from CH and CEMP stars
Creators: name: Cristallo, S.
name: Karinkuzhi, D.
name: Goswami, A.
name: Piersanti, L.
name: Gobrecht, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a set of published elemental abundances from a sample of CH stars which are based on high resolution spectral analysis of ELODIE and SUBARU/HDS spectra. All the elemental abundances were derived from local thermodynamic equilibrium analysis usingmodel atmospheres, and thus, they represent the largest homogeneous abundance data available for CH stars up to date. For this reason, we can use the set to constrain the physics and the nucleosynthesis occurring in low mass AGB stars. CH stars have been polluted in the past from an already extinct AGB companion and thus show s-process enriched surfaces. We discuss the effects induced on the surface AGB s-process distributions by different prescriptions for convection and rotation. Our reference theoretical FRUITY set fits only part of the observations. Moreover, the s-process observational spread for a fixed metallicity cannot be reproduced. At Fe/H]>-1, a good fit is found when rotation and a different treatment of the inner border of the convective envelope are simultaneously taken into account. In order to increase the statistics at low metallicities, we include in our analysis a selected number of CEMP stars and, therefore, we compute additional AGB models down to [Fe/H]=-2.85. Our theoretical models are unable to attain the large [hs/ls] ratios characterizing the surfaces of those objects. We speculate on the reasons for such a discrepancy, discussing the possibility that the observed distribution is a result of a proton mixing episode leading to a very high neutron density (the so-called i-process)
description: Accepted for publication on ApJ
Eumops maurus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Eumops
Eumops maurus

description: Eumops maurus (Thomas, 1901). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 7:141. TYPE LOCALITY: Guyana, Kanuku Mtns. DISTRIBUTION: Guyana; Surinam. COMMENT: Includes geijskesi; see Eger, 1977, R. Ont. Mus. Life Sci. Contrib., 110:46-48. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405016002007001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Eger, J. L. 1977. Systematics of the genus Eumops. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences, Contribution, 110: 1 - 69."]}
An evaluation of the Keymath diagnostic arithmetic test and an assessment of its value as a diagnostic instrument in Australian schools
Creators: name: Morgan, Elsie Edith.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Religion in Seleukid Syria: gods at the crossroads (301-64 BC)
Creators: name: Wright, Nicholas Luke
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The dissertation Religion in Seleukid Syria: gods at the crossroads (301-64 BC) takes an integrative approach to the study of Hellenistic cult and cultic practices across the Levant during the period of domination by the Seleukid dynasty. It employs a synthesis of archaeological, numismatic and historical evidence in order to establish an overview of 'religion' in a period and region which is often under-represented in standard historical accounts, both ancient and modern. -- This study discusses religion on two principal levels, that of the state, and that of the individual communities which made up the state. An investigation of state attitudes towards religion discusses the manipulation of both Hellenic and indigenous beliefs by the king and his court in order to secure support among the military and the wider populace. It also places the establishment of the royal cult within this framework and illustrates how and why members of the royal family attained godhead in their own lifetime. With respect to individual communities, the study presents a series of case studies that explore the evidence for religious activity at a local and regional level. This principally takes the form of a study of cultic buildings, but encompasses issues of religious festivals and ritual activity where the evidence allows. -- The investigation of Syrian cult under the Seleukids has three principal outcomes. It documents one of the principal aspects of the lives of the past communities. Secondly it outlines the development of religious practices and expression in the region which was the birthplace of the modern world's three most influential monotheistic religions. Finally, the research methodology allows religion to be used as a lens through which the wider processes of acculturation and rejection within a colonial context may be explored - processes which continue to effect our own increasingly cosmopolitan world.
ABDULLA QAHHOR ASARLARIDA UCHRAYDIGAN EVFEMIZMLAR, ULARNING XUSUSIYATLARI ("ASROR BOBO" VA "O'JAR" HIKOYALARI ASOSIDA)
Creators: name: Urokov, X.U.
name: Mardonova, Sug'diyona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Har bir kitobxon uchun asar o‘qish, undan o‘ziga kerakli didaktik tarbiyaviy xulosalarni olish, albatta, zavqli. Ushbu maqolada Abdulla Qahhorning “Asror bobo” hikoyasdagi tarbiyaviy jihatlar, urush davrida insonlarning bir-birlariga bo‘lgan mehr-muhabbati va “O‘jar” hikoyasida ikki oshnaning masxara darajasidagi “nodon”lik qilish tasvirini ko‘ramiz, hikoyalardagi evfemizmlarning qo‘llanilish sabablari va ularning xususiyatlarini o‘rganishga harakat qildik.
Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in exoplanet direct-imaging instruments with a Zernike phase-mask sensor. II. Concept validation with ZELDA on VLT/SPHERE
Creators: name: N'Diaye, M.
name: Vigan, A.
name: Dohlen, K.
name: Sauvage, J. -F.
name: Caillat, A.
name: Costille, A.
name: Girard, J. H. V.
name: Beuzit, J. -L.
name: Fusco, T.
name: Blanchard, P.
name: Merrer, J. Le
name: Mignant, D. Le
name: Madec, F.
name: Moreaux, G.
name: Mouillet, D.
name: Puget, P.
name: Zins, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Warm or massive gas giant planets, brown dwarfs, and debris disks around nearby stars are now routinely observed by dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments on large, ground-based observatories. These facilities include extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) and state-of-the-art coronagraphy to achieve unprecedented sensitivities for exoplanet detection and spectral characterization. However, differential aberrations between the ExAO sensing path and the science path represent a critical limitation for the detection of giant planets with a contrast lower than a few $10^{-6}$ at very small separations (<0.3\as) from their host star. In our previous work, we proposed a wavefront sensor based on Zernike phase contrast methods to circumvent this issue and measure these quasi-static aberrations at a nanometric level. We present the design, manufacturing and testing of ZELDA, a prototype that was installed on VLT/SPHERE during its reintegration in Chile. Using the internal light source of the instrument, we performed measurements in the presence of Zernike or Fourier modes introduced with the deformable mirror. Our experimental and simulation results are consistent, confirming the ability of our sensor to measure small aberrations (<50 nm rms) with nanometric accuracy. We then corrected the long-lived non-common path aberrations in SPHERE based on ZELDA measurements. We estimated a contrast gain of 10 in the coronagraphic image at 0.2\as, reaching the raw contrast limit set by the coronagraph in the instrument. The simplicity of the design and its phase reconstruction algorithm makes ZELDA an excellent candidate for the on-line measurements of quasi-static aberrations during the observations. The implementation of a ZELDA-based sensing path on the current and future facilities (ELTs, future space missions) could ease the observation of the cold gaseous or massive rocky planets around nearby stars.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, A&A accepted on June 3rd, 2016. v2 after language editing
Additional file 1 of Enhancing the interferon-γ release assay through omission of nil and mitogen values
Creators: name: Jung, Yun Jung
name: Park, Ji Eun
name: Park, Ji Won
name: Lee, Keu Sung
name: Chung, Wou Young
name: Park, Joo Hun
name: Sheen, Seung Soo
name: You, Seulgi
name: Sun, Joo Sung
name: Park, Kyung Joo
name: Kim, Youn Jung
name: Park, Kwang Joo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: table S1. Univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression analyses to identify factors associated with high TBAg IFN-γ levels in the IGRA (QFT-GIT).
Natural hazards, impacts and climate change
Creators: name: Crompton, Ryan Peter
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: As natural disaster losses have risen worldwide so too has concern that anthropogenic climate change might be contributing to this trend. This thesis tests the ongoing validity of consensus statements from a 2006 workshop dedicated to this issue. It presents new analyses that explore current and projected relationships between weather-related natural disaster losses and climate change (natural variability and anthropogenic). -- Analyses of a variety of natural disaster loss databases - Australian weather-related insured losses; building damage due to Australian bushfires, and the economic losses from US tropical cyclones - and a review of other recent tropical cyclone loss studies, support the 2006 workshop consensus statements and contribute to current consensus statements. These include: that societal change and economic development are the principal factors driving the increasing trend in natural disaster losses and it is not possible to determine what portion might be attributed to anthropogenic climate change; in many regions socioeconomic factors will be the main drivers of future increases in economic losses, at least for tropical and extratropical storms, and that the detection or attribution of anthropogenic climate change signals in economic loss data is extremely unlikely to occur over periods of several decades, at least for US tropical cyclone and global weather-related natural disaster losses. -- The results have important implications for policy aimed at minimising future losses. Policy responses need to consider and respond to multiple drivers of change. Employing both mitigation and adaptation contemporaneously will benefit society now and into the future. There is much to be gained in both the short and long term from reducing societal vulnerability to natural hazards and improved building standards and better land use planning are key ways to achieve this. In the absence of effective policy, future losses in many regions will rise rapidly due to expected societal changes and economic development. Anthropogenic climate change effects may exacerbate this trend. -- While the extreme impacts that natural hazards inflict on society capture public interest, difficulties with detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change signals in natural disaster loss data means that there are far better justifications for action on greenhouse gas emissions.
Material-independent modes for electromagnetic scattering
Creators: name: Forestiere, Carlo
name: Miano, and Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter, we introduce a representation of the electromagnetic field for the analysis and synthesis of the full-wave scattering by a homogeneous dielectric object of arbitrary shape in terms of a set of eigenmodes independent of its permittivity. The expansion coefficients are rational functions of the permittivity. This approach naturally highlights the role of plasmonic and photonic modes in any scattering process and suggests a straightforward methodology to design the permittivity of the object to pursue a prescribed tailoring of the scattered field. We discuss in depth the application of the proposed approach to the analysis and design of the scattering properties of a dielectric sphere.
Eumops perotis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Eumops
Eumops perotis

description: Eumops perotis (Schinz, 1821). Thierreich, 1:870. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Rio de Janiero, Campos do Goita Cazes, Villa Sao Salvador. DISTRIBUTION: San Francisco Bay and Texas (U.S.A.) to Zacatecas (Mexico); Colombia to N. Argentina and E. Brazil; Cuba; perhaps N. Chile. COMMENT: Includes trumbulli; see Koopman, 1978, Am. Mus. Novit., 2651:22; but also see Eger, 1977, R. Ont. Mus. Life Sci. Contrib., 110:53. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405016002008001 as E. perotis. 5301405016002009001 as E. trumbulli.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on pages 207-208, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Eger, J. L. 1977. Systematics of the genus Eumops. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences, Contribution, 110: 1 - 69."]}
The theory and practice of Rudolf Steiner
Creators: name: Mullins, Darrell K.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Additional file 2 of Enhancing the interferon-γ release assay through omission of nil and mitogen values
Creators: name: Jung, Yun Jung
name: Park, Ji Eun
name: Park, Ji Won
name: Lee, Keu Sung
name: Chung, Wou Young
name: Park, Joo Hun
name: Sheen, Seung Soo
name: You, Seulgi
name: Sun, Joo Sung
name: Park, Kyung Joo
name: Kim, Youn Jung
name: Park, Kwang Joo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: table S2. Univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression analyses to determine factors associated with high TBAg − Nil IFN-γ levels in the IGRA (QFT-GIT).
$HZ$ associated production at the LHC within the littlest Higgs model at NLO+NLL accuracy
Creators: name: Liang-Wen, Chen
name: Wen-Gan, Ma
name: Ren-You, Zhang
name: Xiao-Zhou, Li
name: Yong, Wang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the $HZ$ associated production at the $14~{\rm TeV}$ LHC in the littlest Higgs model (LHM) and study the corrections of the transverse momentum resummation and threshold resummation at the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy and the fixed-order prediction at the QCD next-to-leading order (NLO) including the contribution from the one-loop-induced $gg$-fusion channel. The QCD NLO+NLL effects on the integrated cross section and the distributions of transverse momentum and invariant mass of the $HZ$ system for the $HZ$ production in the LHM are discussed. The distributions of transverse momentum and invariant mass of the $HZ$ system are evaluated by means of the transverse momentum resummation and threshold resummation, respectively. We estimate their scale uncertainties and find that the predictions obtained at the QCD NLO+NLL accuracy are much more reliable than those using the pure NLO approach. We see also that the relative deviation between the results in the LHM and the standard model is considerably reduced by the resummation effects, but still observable.
description: 36 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 3 of Enhancing the interferon-γ release assay through omission of nil and mitogen values
Creators: name: Jung, Yun Jung
name: Park, Ji Eun
name: Park, Ji Won
name: Lee, Keu Sung
name: Chung, Wou Young
name: Park, Joo Hun
name: Sheen, Seung Soo
name: You, Seulgi
name: Sun, Joo Sung
name: Park, Kyung Joo
name: Kim, Youn Jung
name: Park, Kwang Joo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: table S3. Univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression analyses to identify factors associated with IGRA (QFT-GIT) positivity.
Molossops greenhalli
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Molossops
Molossops greenhalli

description: Molossops greenhalli (Goodwin, 1958). Am. Mus. Novit., 1877:3. REVIEWED BY: B. Villa-Ramirez (BVR). TYPE LOCALITY: Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad, Port of Spain, Botanic Gardens. DISTRIBUTION: Nayarit; Jalisco, Guerrero, and Oaxaca (Mexico) to Honduras; Costa Rica to Ecuador and Venezuela; Trinidad; Surinam; N. E. Brazil. COMMENT: In subgenus Cynomops; see Freeman, 1981:155. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405016003003001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 208, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Freeman, P. W. 1981. A multivariate study of the family Molossidae (Mammalia: Chiroptera): Morphology, ecology, evolution. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 7: 1 - 173."]}
title: Γεωγραφική αποτύπωση Ελληνικού Λιμενικού Συστήματος
title: Geoinformatics surveying of the Greek Port System
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Σουλτάνης, Ιωάννης
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Λιμενικό σύστημα
Ελληνικό λιμενικό σύστημα
Χερσαία λιμενική ζώνη
Γεωγραφικά συστήματα πληροφοριών
Λιμάνια
Ψηφιοποίηση
Ψηφιακό διανυσματικό αρχείο
Χαρτογραφική σύνθεση

description: Με τους λιμένες να αναπτύσσονται συνεχώς, πολλοί είναι οι ερευνητές που οι οποίοι προσπαθούν να αποσαφηνίσουν την έννοια τους. Η διαχείριση, η ανάπτυξη και η λειτουργία ενός λιμένα εξαρτώνται σε μεγάλο βαθμό από τις νέες τεχνολογίες, οι οποίες αφομοιώνονται όλο και περισσότερο για την μεγιστοποίηση της αποδοτικότητας του. Η Ελλάδα εξαιτίας του αριθμού των νησιών που υπάρχουν εντός των συνόρων της και λόγω του μεγάλου μήκους της ακτογραμμής της, διαθέτει ένα εκτεταμένο και πολύπλοκο λιμενικό συστήματα το οποίο από το 2018 βρίσκεται στην 3η φάση της μεταρρύθμισης του. Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι η ανάλυση της έννοιας του λιμένα και των Γεωγραφικών Συστημάτων Πληροφοριών (GIS) και η παρουσίαση του Ελληνικού λιμενικού συστήματος. Παράλληλα, με την χρήση των GIS ψηφιοποιήθηκε η χερσαία ζώνη των 57 λιμένων που αποτελούν τη ραχοκοκαλιά του Ελληνικού λιμενικού συστήματος (ΚΥΑ 8315.07 ΦΕΚ 202/Β’/2007) και δημιουργήθηκε ψηφιακό διανυσματικό αρχείο το οποίο αποθηκεύει όλες τις γεωγραφικές οντότητες εντός της χερσαίας ζώνης των λιμένων. Τα αποτελέσματα από όλη τη διαδικασία της ψηφιοποίησης της χερσαίας λιμενικής ζώνης της ραχοκοκαλιάς του Ελληνικού λιμενικού συστήματος έδειξαν πως σε 12 από τους 57 λιμένες δεν βρέθηκε ΦΕΚ ή κάποιο νομοθετικό πλαίσιο το οποίο οριοθετεί τη χερσαία λιμενική ζώνη. Τέλος, αξίζει να σημειωθεί πως η ψηφιακή αποτύπωση των λιμένων της χώρας μπορεί να ωφελήσει το ΥΝΑΝΠ αλλά και τους φορείς διαχείρισης των λιμένων ως βοηθητικό μέσο για την διαμόρφωση της λιμενικής πολιτικής από την πολιτεία, αλλά και τη διαμόρφωση στρατηγικής για την ανάπτυξη ή αλλαγές στην χερσαία ζώνη των λιμένων.
Proton irradiation results for long-wave HgCdTe infrared detector arrays for NEOCam
Creators: name: Dorn, M.
name: Pipher, J. L.
name: McMurtry, C.
name: Hartman, S.
name: Mainzer, A.
name: McKelvey, M.
name: McMurray, R.
name: Chevara, D.
name: Rosser, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HgCdTe detector arrays with a cutoff wavelength of ~10 $μ$m intended for the NEOCam space mission were subjected to proton beam irradiation at the University of California Davis Crocker Nuclear Laboratory. Three arrays were tested - one with 800 $μ$m substrate intact, one with 30 $μ$m substrate, and one completely substrate-removed. The CdZnTe substrate, on which the HgCdTe detector is grown, has been shown to produce luminescence in shorter wave HgCdTe arrays that causes elevated signal in non-hit pixels when subjected to proton irradiation. This testing was conducted to ascertain whether or not full substrate removal is necessary. At the dark level of the dewar, we detect no luminescence in non-hit pixels during proton testing for both the substrate-removed detector array and the array with 30 $μ$m substrate. The detector array with full 800 $μ$m substrate exhibited substantial photocurrent for a flux of 103 protons/cm$^2$-s at a beam energy of 18.1 MeV (~ 750 e$^-$/s) and 34.4 MeV ($\sim$ 65 e$^-$/s). For the integrated space-like ambient proton flux level measured by the Spitzer Space Telescope, the luminescence would be well below the NEOCam dark current requirement of <200 e$^-$/s, but the pattern of luminescence could be problematic, possibly complicating calibration.
description: 9 figures, 32 pages
Molossops aequatorianus Cabrera 1917
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Molossops
Molossops aequatorianus

description: Molossops aequatorianus Cabrera, 1917. Trab. Mus. Nac. Cienc. Nat. Zool., 31: 20. TYPE LOCALITY: Ecuador, Los Rios, Babahoyo. DISTRIBUTION: Ecuador. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405016003001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 208, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Graphene Gas Osmometers
Creators: name: Dolleman, Robin J.
name: Cartamil-Bueno, Santiago J.
name: van der Zant, Herre S. J.
name: Steeneken, Peter G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here it is shown that graphene membranes that separate 2 gases at identical pressure are deflected by osmotic pressure. The osmotic pressure is a consequence of differences in gas permeation rates into a graphene enclosed cavity. The deflection of the few layer graphene membranes is detected by an interferometric technique for measuring their tension-induced resonance frequency. Using a calibration measurement of the relation between resonance frequency and pressure, the time dependent osmotic pressure on the graphene is extracted. The osmotic pressure for different combinations of gases shows large differences that can be accounted for by a model based on the different gas permeation rates. Thus a graphene membrane based gas osmometer with a responsitivity of ~60 kHz/mbar and nanoscale dimensions is demonstrated.
Bushells and the cultural logic of branding
Creators: name: Khamis, Susie
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Since its introduction in 1883, the Bushells brand of tea has become increasingly identified with Australia's national identity. Like Arnott's, QANTAS and Vegemite, Bushells has become a part of the nation's cultural vocabulary, a treasured store of memories and myths. This thesis investigates how Bushells acquired this status, and the transformation by which an otherwise everyday item evolved from the ordinary to the iconic. In short, through Bushells, I will demonstrate the cultural logic of branding. -- Bushells is ideally suited for an historical analysis of branding in Australia. Firstly, tea has been a staple of the Australian diet since the time of the First Fleet. So, it proves a fitting example of consumer processes since the early days of White settlement. From this, I will consider the rise of an environment sensitive to status, and therefore conducive to branding. In the late nineteenth century, Bushells was challenged to appeal to the burgeoning corps of middle class consumers. To this end, the brand integrated those ideals and associations that turned its tea into one that flattered a certain sensibility. Secondly, having established its affinity with a particular market group, the middle class, Bushells was well positioned to track, acknowledge and incorporate some of the most dominant trends of the twentiethcentury; specifically, the rise of a particular suburban ideal in the 1950s, and changing conceptions of gender, labour and technology. Finally, in the last two decades, Bushells has had to concede decisive shifts in fashion and taste; as Australia's population changed, so too did tea's place and prominence in the market. This thesis thus canvasses all these issues, chronologically and thematically. To do this, I will contextualise Bushells' advertisements in terms of the contemporary conditions that both informed their content, and underpinned their appeal. -- Considering the breadth and depth of this analysis, I argue that in the case of Bushells there is a cultural logic to branding. As brands strive for relevance, they become screens off which major societal processes can be identified and examined. As such, I will show that, in its address to consumers, Bushells broached some of the most significant discourses in Australia's cultural history.
Retardation effects in induced atomic dipole-dipole interactions
Creators: name: Graham, S. D.
name: McGuirk, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present mean-field calculations of azimuthally averaged retarded dipole-dipole interactions in a Bose-Einstein condensate induced by a laser, at both long and short wavelengths. Our calculations demonstrate that dipole-dipole interactions become significantly stronger at shorter wavelengths, by as much as 30-fold, due to retardation effects. This enhancement, along with inclusion of the dynamic polarizability, indicate a method of inducing long-range interatomic interactions in neutral atom condensates at significantly lower intensities than previously realized.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
The presence of intraperitoneal, retroperitoneal and pleural fluid in acute Puumala hantavirus infection
Creators: name: Tervo, L.
name: Outinen, T.
name: Kiekara, T.
name: Tietäväinen, J.
name: Paakkala, A.
name: Pörsti, I.
name: Huhtala, H.
name: Mäkelä, S.
name: Mustonen, J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Puumala hantavirus (PUUV) causes most cases of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Europe. PUUV infection is characterised by acute kidney injury, thrombocytopenia and increased capillary leakage. Typical symptoms are fever, headache, nausea, abdominal and back pain. This study aimed to evaluate the amount and distribution of intraperitoneal, retroperitoneal and pleural fluid and the association of fluid collections to the symptoms and clinical findings in patients with acute PUUV infection. Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed on 27 hospitalised patients with acute PUUV infection. The clinical and laboratory findings and patients’ symptoms were analysed in relation to the imaging findings. The thickness of the fluid collections was measured in millimetres (mm) from axial images. Fluid collections were found in all patients. The amount of intraperitoneal fluid correlated positively with plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) level (r = 0.586, p = .001), while it had an inverse correlation with serum creatinine concentration (r = −0.418, p = .030). Retroperitoneal fluid also correlated inversely with serum creatinine and cystatin C concentrations (r = −0.501, p = .008 and r = −0.383, p = .048, respectively). The amount of fluid was not greater in patients with abdominal or back pain. Patients with back pain had higher serum creatinine compared with patients without back pain, 452 µmol/L (range 88–1071) vs. 83 µmol/L (range 60–679), p = .004. Fluid collections were found in all patients. A greater amount of intraperitoneal fluid associates with higher CRP concentrations but not with higher serum creatinine levels. Back pain associates with higher creatinine level but not with the presence of fluids.
B fields in OB stars (BOB): Concluding the FORS2 observing campaign
Creators: name: Schoeller, M.
name: Hubrig, S.
name: Fossati, L.
name: Carroll, T. A.
name: Briquet, M.
name: Oskinova, L. M.
name: Jarvinen, S.
name: Ilyin, I.
name: Castro, N.
name: Morel, T.
name: Langer, N.
name: Przybilla, N.
name: Nieva, M. F.
name: Kholtygin, A. F.
name: Sana, H.
name: Herrero, A.
name: Barba, R. H.
name: de Koter, A.
name: collaboration, the BOB
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The "B fields in OB stars" (BOB) collaboration is based on an ESO Large Programme, to study the occurrence rate, properties, and ultimately the origin of magnetic fields in massive stars. In the framework of this programme, we carried out low-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of a large sample of massive stars using FORS2 installed at the ESO VLT 8-m telescope. We determined the magnetic field values with two completely independent reduction and analysis pipelines. Our in-depth study of the magnetic field measurements shows that differences between our two pipelines are usually well within 3sigma errors. From the 32 observations of 28 OB stars, we were able to monitor the magnetic fields in CPD-57 3509 and HD164492C, confirm the magnetic field in HD54879, and detect a magnetic field in CPD-62 2124. We obtain a magnetic field detection rate of 6+-3% for the full sample of 69 OB stars observed with FORS2 within the BOB programme. For the pre-selected objects with a v sin i below 60 km/s, we obtain a magnetic field detection rate of 5+-5%. We also discuss X-ray properties and multiplicity of the objects in our FORS2 sample with respect to the magnetic field detections.
description: 12 pages, 3 tables, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Exact correlations in a single file system with a driven tracer
Creators: name: Kundu, A.
name: Cividini, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of a single driven tracer particle in a bath of other particles performing the random average process on an infinite line using a stochastic hydrodynamics approach. We consider arbitrary fixed as well as random initial conditions and compute the two-point correlations. For quenched uniform and annealed steady state initial conditions we show that in the large time $T$ limit the fluctuations and the correlations of the positions of the particles grow subdiffusively as $\sqrt{T}$ and have well defined scaling forms under proper rescaling of the labels. We compute the corresponding scaling functions exactly for these specific initial configurations and verify them numerically. We also consider a non translationally invariant initial condition with linearly increasing gaps where we show that the fluctuations and correlations grow superdiffusively as $T^{3/2}$ at large times.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, supplementary material appended. To appear in EPL