cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Characteristics of an effective policy dealing with immigrant student integration : a case study of the Toronto District School Board's Parent and Community Involvement policy
Creators: name: Turnpenny, Casey
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The object of this paper is to understand the extent to which the Toronto District School Board’s Parent and Community Involvement policy possesses what could be considered the main characteristics of an effective policy dealing with the integration of immigrant students. The research method used in this paper is a policy case study. Scholarly research on immigrant integration and models of school policy addressing the integration of immigrant students were reviewed to develop a conceptual model for analysis of the Parent and Community Involvement policy. The conceptual model represents school policy responses to issues of immigrant student integration, and aligns them with notions of immigrant integration (Economic, Linguistic, Social/Cultural and Political). Original TDSB policy documents were analyzed, and the findings compared to the conceptual model to highlight the similarities and differences between the conceptual model and the TDSB’s policy. By providing examples of successful school-wide policies, along with a conceptual model upon which to compare current school policy, this study could possibly inform policy revisions related to the integration of immigrant students in similar school districts.
Αξιολόγηση και μελλοντικές εκτιμήσεις της θερμοκρασίας και της βροχόπτωσης στον ευρύτερο ευρωπαϊκό χώρο με τη χρήση σύγχρονων δυναμικών μοντέλων
Creators: name: Χαλισιάνη, Σταυρούλα Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Δυτική Ευρώπη
Ακραίοι δεικτες
Αξιολόγηση κλιματικών μοντέλων
West Europe
Extreme indices
Evaluation of climate models

description: Το ολοένα και αυξανόμενο ενδιαφέρον της επιστημονικής κοινότητας για την κλιματική αλλαγή σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, έχει στρέψει την προσοχή σε ποσοτικές μελλοντικές εκτιμήσεις της θερμοκρασίας και της βροχόπτωσης. Στη παρούσα μελέτη εκτιμάται η μεταβολή των δύο αυτών παραμέτρων για την περιοχή της δυτικής Ευρώπης, με τη χρήση τριών κλιματικών μοντέλων. Η εκτίμηση των μεταβολών αφορά δύο μελλοντικές περιόδους, 2021-2050 και 2071-2100, ενώ ως περίοδος αναφοράς ορίζεται η περίοδος 1961-1990, για την οποία χρησιμοποιούνται δεδομένα e-OBS. Επιλέχτηκε να αναλυθούν και να μελετηθούν τόσο οι μέσες όσο και οι ακραίες τιμές (με τη βοήθεια ακραίων δεικτών) των δύο μεταβλητών. Στο πρώτο στάδιο της μελέτης, έγινε αξιολόγηση των τριών RCM’s, η οποία βασίστηκε στη σύγκριση των δεδομένων εξόδου τους με την βάση δεδομένων e-OBS, που παρέχει δεδομένα βροχόπτωσης και θερμοκρασίας σε σημεία πλέγματος από παρατηρήσεις μετεωρολογικών σταθμών στην περιοχή μελέτης για την περίοδο αναφοράς. Στη συνέχεια, γίνεται μια προσπάθεια μελλοντικής εκτίμησης των δύο μεταβλητών για την περιοχή μελέτης, μέσω των τριών κλιματικών μοντέλων
description: The increased interest of the scientific community in global climate change has drawn attention to quantitative future estimates of temperature and rainfall. This study evaluates the change of these two parameters for the western European region, using three climate models. The estimation of the changes concerns two future periods, 2021-2050 and 2071-2100, while the reference period is defined as the period 1961-1990, for which e-OBS data are used. It was chosen to analyze and study both the mean and the extreme values (with the help of extreme markers) of the two variables. In the first stage of the study, the three RCM's were evaluated, based on the comparison of their output data with the e-OBS database, which provides rainfall and temperature data at grid points from observations of meteorological stations in the study area for the reference period. Next, an attempt is made to assess the two variables for the study area, through the three climate models.
New metabolites produced by endophyte Clonostachys rosea B5 − 2
Creators: name: Unang Supratman
name: Suzuki, Takuma
name: Nakamura, Tomoki
name: Yokoyama, Yasuhiro
name: Harneti, Desi
name: Maharani, Rani
name: Supriatno Salam
name: Fajar Fauzi Abdullah
name: Koseki, Takuya
name: Shiono, Yoshihito
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The endophytic fungus, Clonostachys rosea B5-2 was isolated from mangrove plants and subjected to the one strain many compounds (OSMAC) methodology. By this approach, it was found that modification of the culture media enhanced the production of secondary metabolites by C. rosea B5-2. The apple juice supplemented solid rice media led to significant changes in the secondary metabolism of the fungus, C. rosea B5-2, and induced the production of four new compounds, (-)-dihydrovertinolide (2), and clonostach acids A (3), B (4), and C (5) together with the known compound, (-)-vertinolide (1). The new compound (-)-dihydrovertinolide (2) exhibited phytotoxicity against lettuce seedlings at a concentration of 50 mg L−1.
Environmental variable logger technical report
Creators: name: Fuentes-Pérez, Juan Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sensors
Fishways
Monitoring

description: The deliverable titled "Environmental Variable Logger Technical Report and User Guide" provides a comprehensive description of the developed environmental variable node, along with a user guide. This resource aims to facilitate the expansion of environmental variables recorded at each study case of Smart Fishways, thereby enhancing the monitoring and analysis capabilities of the system.
Dual Polarization Full-Field Signal Waveform Reconstruction Using Intensity Only Measurements for Coherent Communications
Creators: name: Chen, Haoshuo
name: Fontaine, Nicolas K.
name: Gene, Joan M.
name: Ryf, Roland
name: Neilson, David T.
name: Raybon, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Conventional optical coherent receivers capture the full electrical field, including amplitude and phase, of a signal waveform by measuring its interference against a stable continuous-wave local oscillator (LO). In optical coherent communications, powerful digital signal processing (DSP) techniques operating on the full electrical field can effectively undo transmission impairments such as chromatic dispersion (CD), and polarization mode dispersion (PMD). Simpler direct detection techniques do not have access to the full electrical field and therefore lack the ability to compensate for these impairments. We present a full-field measurement technique using only direct detection that does not require any beating with a strong carrier LO. Rather, phase retrieval algorithms based on alternating projections that makes use of dispersive elements are discussed, allowing to recover the optical phase from intensity-only measurements. In this demonstration, the phase retrieval algorithm is a modified Gerchberg Saxton (GS) algorithm that achieves a simulated optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) penalty of less than 4dB compared to theory at a bit-error rate of 2 times 10-2. Based on the proposed phase retrieval scheme, we experimentally demonstrate signal detection and subsequent standard 2x2 multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) equalization of a polarization-multiplexed 30-Gbaud QPSK transmitted over a 520-km standard single-mode fiber (SMF) span.
Gradual vs. Maximal Acceleration: Their Influence on the Prescription of Maximal Speed Sprinting in Team Sport Athletes
Creators: name: Young, Warren B
name: Duthie, Grant M
name: James, Lachlan
name: Talpey, Scott
name: Benton, Dean T
name: Kilfoyle, Anthony
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: The primary purpose of this study was to determine if a difference existed between peak speed attained when performing a sprint with maximal acceleration versus from a gradual build-up. Additionally, this investigation sought to compare the actual peak speed achieved when instructed to reach 75% and 90% of maximum speed. Field sport athletes (n = 21) performed sprints over 60 m under the experimental conditions, and the peak speed was assessed with a radar gun. The gradual build-up to maximum speed (8.30 ± 0.40 m·s−1 ) produced the greater peak speed (effect size = 0.3, small) than the maximum acceleration run (8.18 ± 0.40 m·s−1 ), and the majority of participants (62%) followed this pattern. For the sub-maximum runs, the actual mean percentage of maximum speed reached was 78 ± 6% for the 75% prescribed run and 89 ± 5% for the 90% prescription. The errors in attaining the prescribed peak speeds were large (~15%) for certain individuals, especially for the 75% trial. Sprint training for maximum speed should be performed with a gradual build-up of speed rather than a maximum acceleration. For sub-maximum interval training, the ability to attain the prescribed target peak speed can be challenging for field sport athletes, and therefore where possible, feedback on peak speeds reached should be provided after each repetition.
Dynamic Coronary Roadmapping via Catheter Tip Tracking in X-ray Fluoroscopy with Deep Learning Based Bayesian Filtering
Creators: name: Ma, Hua
name: Smal, Ihor
name: Daemen, Joost
name: van Walsum, Theo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is typically performed with image guidance using X-ray angiograms in which coronary arteries are opacified with X-ray opaque contrast agents. Interventional cardiologists typically navigate instruments using non-contrast-enhanced fluoroscopic images, since higher use of contrast agents increases the risk of kidney failure. When using fluoroscopic images, the interventional cardiologist needs to rely on a mental anatomical reconstruction. This paper reports on the development of a novel dynamic coronary roadmapping approach for improving visual feedback and reducing contrast use during PCI. The approach compensates cardiac and respiratory induced vessel motion by ECG alignment and catheter tip tracking in X-ray fluoroscopy, respectively. In particular, for accurate and robust tracking of the catheter tip, we proposed a new deep learning based Bayesian filtering method that integrates the detection outcome of a convolutional neural network and the motion estimation between frames using a particle filtering framework. The proposed roadmapping and tracking approaches were validated on clinical X-ray images, achieving accurate performance on both catheter tip tracking and dynamic coronary roadmapping experiments. In addition, our approach runs in real-time on a computer with a single GPU and has the potential to be integrated into the clinical workflow of PCI procedures, providing cardiologists with visual guidance during interventions without the need of extra use of contrast agent.
Additional file 1 of Investigation into the predictive performance of colorimetric sensor strips using RGB, CMYK, HSV, and CIELAB coupled with various data preprocessing methods: a case study on an analysis of water quality parameters
Creators: name: Nutthatida Phuangsaijai
name: Jaroon Jakmunee
name: Kittiwachana, Sila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Predictive performance of colorimetric sensors using ULR model and colorimetric sensor arrays using PLS model without data preprocessing. Table S2. Predictive performance of Mn2+ test strips using ULR, MLR and PLS coupled with various forms of data-reprocessing. Table S3. Predictive performance of Fe2+/Fe3+ test strips using ULR, MLR and PLS coupled with various forms of data-reprocessing. Table S4. Predictive performance of Cu2+ test strips using ULR, MLR and PLS coupled with various forms of data-reprocessing. Table S5. Predictive performance of NO3- test strips using ULR, MLR and PLS coupled with various forms of data-reprocessing. Table S6. Predictive performance of PO43- test strips using ULR, MLR and PLS coupled with various forms of data-reprocessing. Table S7. Predictive performance of SO42- test strips using ULR, MLR and PLS coupled with various forms of data-reprocessing. Table S8. Predictive performance of pH test strips using ULR, MLR and PLS coupled with various forms of data-reprocessing. Table S9. Predictive performance of total hardness test strips using ULR, MLR and PLS coupled with various forms of data-reprocessing.
Συλλογές Ευάγγελου Αβέρωφ- Τοσίτσα: Νοηματικός Μουσειολογικός Προγραμματισμός και Σχεδιασμός
Creators: name: Μητσιούλη, Τατιανή Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Συλλεκτική δραστηριότητα
Συλλογές
Μουσειολογικός Προγραμματισμός και Σχεδιασμός
Collecting
Collections
Conceptual Museological Planning and Design

description: Η ιστορία του «συλλέγειν», μετρά πολλά χρόνια και τα παραδείγματα των συλλεκτών ανά τους αιώνες πληθαίνουν. Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πρόκειται να παρουσιάσουμε τον συλλέκτη Ευάγγελο Αβέρωφ-Τοσίτσα και να αναδείξουμε τις συλλογές που δημιούργησε κατά τη διάρκεια της ζωής του. Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι η μελέτη και η παρουσίαση μιας ολοκληρωμένης πρότασης από έναν νοηματικό σχεδιαστή, η οποία επιθυμεί να παρουσιάσει στον δυνητικό επισκέπτη τις συλλογές που συνέθεσε ο Ε. Αβέρωφ-Τοσίτσας, και να αποκρυπτογραφήσει όσο αυτό είναι δυνατόν, την πρόθεση του συλλέκτη για τη σύσταση των συλλογών αυτών. Συμπεράναμε λοιπόν όπως θα δείτε και στη συνέχεια, ότι οι συλλογές του αντιπροσώπευαν ,την ιδεολογική πεποίθηση του συλλέκτη περί διαχρονικής και αδιάσπαστης συνέχειας του ελληνικού έθνους, από τον 5ο αιώνα π.Χ έως τον σύγχρονο 20ο αιώνα.
description: The history of collecting counts many years and the examples of collectors over the centuries are increasing. In this thesis, we are going to present the collector Evangelos Averoff- Tositsas and to highlight the collections he created during his lifetime. The purpose of this thesis is the study and the presentation of a complete proposal by a semantic designer, who wants to present to the potential visitor, the collections compiled by Evangelo Averoff-Tositsa and to decipher as much as possible, the intention of the collector to create these collections. In conclusion, as you will see below, his collections represented the ideological belief of the collector, about the timeless and inseparable continuity of the Greek Nation from the 5th century BC until the modern 20th century.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Παιδαγωγικό Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης (Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Μακεδονίας
Achieving Fair Random Access Performance in Massive MIMO Crowded Machine-Type Networks
Creators: name: Marinello, José Carlos
name: Abrão, Taufik
name: Souza, Richard Demo
name: de Carvalho, Elisabeth
name: Popovski, Petar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The use of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) to serve a crowd of user equipments (UEs) is challenged by the deficit of pilots. Assuming that the UEs are intermittently active, this problem can be addressed by a shared access to the pilots and a suitable random access (RA) protocol. The strongest-user collision resolution (SUCRe) is a previously proposed RA protocol that often privileges the UEs closer to the base station (BS). In contrast, we propose a novel RA protocol using a decentralized pilot power allocation method that aims at a fairer performance. The proposed access class barring with power control (ACBPC) protocol allows each UE to estimate, without additional overhead, how many UEs collided for the chosen pilot and calculate an ACB factor, which is then used to determine the pilot retransmission probability in the next protocol step. The results show that the proposed ACBPC protocol is superior to SUCRe in terms of providing a fair connectivity for very crowded networks, although still being distributed and uncoordinated as the original SUCRe protocol.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Counterintuitive transitions in the multistate Landau-Zener problem with linear level crossings
Creators: name: Sinitsyn, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the Brundobler-Elser hypothesis in the multistate Landau-Zener problem to the case when instead of a state with the highest slope of the diabatic energy level there is a band of states with an arbitrary number of parallel levels having the same slope. We argue that the probabilities of counterintuitive transitions among such states are exactly zero.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Half-Filled Lowest Landau Level on a Thin Torus
Creators: name: Bergholtz, Emil J.
name: Karlhede, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve a model that describes an interacting electron gas in the half-filled lowest Landau level on a thin torus, with radius of the order of the magnetic length. The low energy sector consists of non-interacting, one-dimensional, neutral fermions. The ground state, which is homogeneous, is the Fermi sea obtained by filling the negative energy states and the excited states are gapless neutral excitations out of this one-dimensional sea. Although the limit considered is extreme, the solution has a striking resemblance to the composite fermion description of the bulk $ν=1/2$ state--the ground state is homogeneous and the excitations are neutral and gapless. This suggests a one-dimensional Luttinger liquid description, with possible observable effects in transport experiments, of the bulk state where it develops continuously from the state on a thin torus as the radius increases.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Afroestricus vorax Scarbrough Table Of Contents 2005, sp. n.
Creators: name: Scarbrough Table Of Contents, Aubrey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Afroestricus
Afroestricus vorax

description: Afroestricus vorax, sp. n.
Figs. 187–192, 196
 Male. Because of its similarity to A. vittatus and A. sanfoka only significant characters are included. Measurements, body 19 mm; wing 12.6 mm. FHWR 1.0:4.3; FWLR 1.0:2.0; m 1 WR 1.0:3.6:3.9; HFWLR 1.0:30. Head: Postocular bristles extend to midlateral margin of head. Abdomen: Apical three segments with one bristle in each apical corner. Terminalia (Figs. 187–192): Epandrium broadly rounded apically, with a small dorsoapical notch. Gonostylus and aedeagus distinctive. Hypandrium round apically.
 Female. Measurements, body 18.0 mm; wing 13.4 mm; FHWR 1.0:4.2; FWLR 1.0:2.0; m 1 WR 1.0:4.1:4.3; HFWLR 1.0: 4.2. Abdomen: Terga 6 to 8 and sternum 7 with sparse, unusually stout, black bristles. Terminalia: Damaged, not dissected.
 Type material. Holotype M, NIGER: Tsernaoua, 13°53’N 5°20’E, 13.viii.1987, Narigot, A. Paolt, rec. (MRAC). Paratype: 1 M, [UGANDA] Musée Du Congo, E. Lac. Albert: Butiaba [1°48’30”N 31°12’59”E], 20.ix.1937, H.J. Brédo (MRAC).
Additional material. 1 F [poor condition, abdomen damaged apically], same data as holotype (MRAC).
Distribution (Tables 1, 2; Fig. 196). Niger and Uganda; collected in August and September (Tables 1, 2).
 Etymology. Latin vorax for vicious, referring to the predaceous habits of asilids.
 Remarks. Afroestricus vorax is similar to A. sankofa and A. vittatus in the unusually thick femora of the male, the stout posteroventral bristle on the middle femora of both sexes but is distinguished from them by the characters of the terminalia (Figs. 187–192).
description: Published as part of Scarbrough Table Of Contents, Aubrey G., 2005, Afroestricus, a new Afrotropical Ommatine (Diptera: Asilidae) genus with twenty species and two species groups, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 1041 (1) on pages 68-69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1041.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050609
Deceptive Labeling: Hypergames on Graphs for Stealthy Deception
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Abhishek N.
name: Luo, Huan
name: Leslie, Nandi O.
name: Kamhoua, Charles A.
name: Fu, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the increasing sophistication of attacks on cyber-physical systems, deception has emerged as an effective tool to improve system security and safety by obfuscating the attacker's perception. In this paper, we present a solution to the deceptive game in which a control agent is to satisfy a Boolean objective specified by a co-safe temporal logic formula in the presence of an adversary. The agent intentionally introduces asymmetric information to create payoff misperception, which manifests as the misperception of the labeling function in the game model. Thus, the adversary is unable to accurately determine which logical formula is satisfied by a given outcome of the game. We introduce a model called hypergame on graph to capture the asymmetrical information with one-sided payoff misperception. Based on this model, we present the solution of such a hypergame and use the solution to synthesize stealthy deceptive strategies. Specifically, deceptive sure winning and deceptive almost-sure winning strategies are developed by reducing the hypergame to a two-player game and one-player stochastic game with reachability objectives. A running example is introduced to demonstrate the game model and the solution concept used for strategy synthesis.
description: 6 page, 3 figures, submitted to CDC 2020/L-CSS
Chimeric antigen receptor T cells form nonclassical and potent immune synapses driving rapid cytotoxicity
Creators: name: Davenport, AJ
name: Cross, RS
name: Watson, KA
name: Liao, Yang
name: Shi, Wei
name: Prince, HM
name: Beavis, PA
name: Trapani, JA
name: Kershaw, MH
name: Ritchie, DS
name: Darcy, PK
name: Neeson, PJ
name: Jenkins, Misty
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3204
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 3211
subject: Oncology and carcinogenesis

description: Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells are effective serial killers with a faster off-rate from dying tumor cells than CAR-T cells binding target cells through their T cell receptor (TCR). Here we explored the functional consequences of CAR-mediated signaling using a dualspecific CAR-T cell, where the same cell was triggered via TCR (tcrCTL) or CAR (carCTL). The carCTL immune synapse lacked distinct LFA-1 adhesion rings and was less reliant on LFA to form stable conjugates with target cells. carCTL receptors associated with the synapse were found to be disrupted and formed a convoluted multifocal pattern of Lck microclusters. Both proximal and distal receptor signaling pathways were induced more rapidly and subsequently decreased more rapidly in carCTL than in tcrCTL. The functional consequence of this rapid signaling in carCTL cells included faster lytic granule recruitment to the immune synapse, correlating with faster detachment of the CTL from the target cell. This study provides a mechanism for how CAR-T cells can debulk large tumor burden quickly and may contribute to further refinement of CAR design for enhancing the quality of signaling and programming of the T cell.
Superstatistics: Theory and Applications
Creators: name: Beck, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superstatistics is a superposition of two different statistics relevant for driven nonequilibrium systems with a stationary state and intensive parameter fluctuations. It contains Tsallis statistics as a special case. After briefly summarizing some of the theoretical aspects, we describe recent applications of this concept to three different physical problems, namely a) fully developed hydrodynamic turbulence b) pattern formation in thermal convection states and c) the statistics of cosmic rays.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics as a contribution to the topical issue on nonextensive statistical mechanics
Optimizing the Write Fidelity of MRAMs
Creators: name: Kim, Yongjune
name: Jeon, Yoocharn
name: Guyot, Cyril
name: Cassuto, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) is a promising memory technology due to its high density, non-volatility, and high endurance. However, achieving high memory fidelity incurs significant write-energy costs, which should be reduced for large-scale deployment of MRAMs. In this paper, we formulate an optimization problem for maximizing the memory fidelity given energy constraints, and propose a biconvex optimization approach to solve it. The basic idea is to allocate non-uniform write pulses depending on the importance of each bit position. The fidelity measure we consider is minimum mean squared error (MSE), for which we propose an iterative water-filling algorithm. Although the iterative algorithm does not guarantee global optimality, we can choose a proper starting point that decreases the MSE exponentially and guarantees fast convergence. For an 8-bit accessed word, the proposed algorithm reduces the MSE by a factor of 21.
Additional file 1 of Implementation of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy in a tertiary referral center for interstitial lung diseases: a cohort study on diagnostic yield, complications, and learning curves
Creators: name: Davidsen, Jesper Rømhild
name: Skov, Inge Raadal
name: Louw, Ida Guldbæk
name: Laursen, Christian B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Characteristics of three patients with IPAF diagnosis and their MDD conclusions.
Lipid exchange enhances geometric pinning in multicomponent membranes on patterned substrates
Creators: name: Rinaldin, Melissa
name: Fonda, Piermarco
name: Giomi, Luca
name: Kraft, Daniela J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments on supported lipid bilayers featuring liquid ordered/disordered domains have shown that the spatial arrangement of the lipid domains and their chemical composition are strongly affected by the curvature of the substrate. Furthermore, theoretical predictions suggest that both these effects are intimately related with the closed topology of the bilayer. In this work, we test this hypothesis by fabricating supported membranes consisting of colloidal particles of various shapes lying on a flat substrate. A single lipid bilayer coats both colloids and substrate, allowing local lipid exchange between them, thus rendering the system thermodynamically open, i.e. able to exchange heat and molecules with an external reservoir in the neighborhood of the colloid. By reconstructing the Gibbs phase diagram for this system, we demonstrate that the free-energy landscape is directly influenced by the geometry of the colloid. In addition, we find that local lipid exchange enhances the pinning of the liquid disordered phase in highly curved regions. This allows us to provide estimates of the bending moduli difference of the domains. Finally, by combining experimental and numerical data, we forecast the outcome of possible experiments on catenoidal and conical necks and show that these geometries could greatly improve the precision of the current estimates of the bending moduli.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Lorentz Contraction of Bound States in 1+1 Dimensional Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Jarvinen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Lorentz contraction of a fermion-antifermion bound state in 1+1 dimensional QED. In 1+1 dimensions the absence of physical, propagating photons allows us to explicitly solve the weak coupling limit α<< m^2 of the Bethe-Salpeter bound state equation in any Lorentz frame. In a time-ordered formalism it is seen that all pair production is suppressed in this limit. The wave function is shown to contract while the mass spectrum is invariant under boosts.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures; v2: text shortened, some comments added, references updated, version to appear in Phys Rev D
Sesquiterpenoids from Saussurea costus
Creators: name: Hanh, Tran Thi Hong
name: Pham Thi Cham
name: Nguyen Thi Thuy My
name: Nguyen The Cuong
name: Nguyen Hai Dang
name: Quang, Tran Hong
name: Huong, Tran Thu
name: Nguyen Xuan Cuong
name: Nguyen Hoai Nam
name: Van Minh, Chau
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Sixteen sesquiterpenoids (1 – 16), including two new compounds namely saussucostusosides A and B (1 and 2), were isolated from the roots of Saussurea costus by various chromatographic separations. Their structures were elucidated by 1 D and 2 D NMR and HR-QTOF-MS experiments. Among isolated compounds, costunlide (6), 3β-[4-hydroxymethacryloyloxy]-8α-hydroxycostunolide (10) and 11β,13-dihydrozaluzanin C (16) exhibited potent inhibitory effects on LPS-induced NO production in RAW264.7 cells with IC50 values of 7.08 ± 0.34, 2.40 ± 0.06 and 5.55 ± 0.24 µM, respectively.
High dynamic range CdTe mixed-mode pixel array detector (MM-PAD) for kilohertz imaging of hard x-rays
Creators: name: Philipp, Hugh T.
name: Tate, Mark W.
name: Shanks, Katherine S.
name: Purohit, Prafull
name: Gruner, Sol M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hard x-ray, high-speed, high dynamic range scientific x-ray imager is described. The imager is based on the mixed-mode pixel array detector (MM-PAD) readout chip coupled to a 750 micron thick cadmium telluride (CdTe) sensor. The full imager is a 2 x 3 tiled array of MM-PAD sensor/readout chip hybrids. CdTe improves detection for high energy x-rays as compared to silicon sensors, enabling efficient x-ray imaging to extend to >100 keV. The detector is capable of 1 kHz imaging and in-pixel circuitry has been designed to allow for well depths of greater than 4 x 10^{6} 80 keV x-rays. A charge integrating front-end allows for quantitative measurement of high flux x-ray images beyond the capabilities of photon counting detectors. Detector performance is summarized and experimental measurements are presented.
Supplementary tables and figures from Sex-specific impact of inbreeding on pathogen load in the striped dolphin
Creators: name: Gkafas, Georgios A.
name: Jong, Menno De
name: Exadactylos, Athanasios
name: Raga, Juan Antonio
name: Aznar, Francisco J.
name: A. Rus Hoelzel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: The impact of inbreeding on fitness has been widely studied and provides consequential inference about the adaptive potential and the impact on survival for reduced and fragmented natural populations. Correlations between heterozygosity and fitness are common in the literature, but they rarely inform about the likely mechanisms. Here, we investigate a pathology with a clear impact on health in striped dolphin hosts (a nematode infection that compromises lung function). Dolphins varied with respect to their parasite burden of this highly pathogenic lung nematode (Skrjabinalius guevarai). Genetic diversity revealed by high-resolution restriction-associated DNA (43 018 RADseq SNPs) analyses showed a clear association between heterozygosity and pathogen load, but only for female dolphins, for which the more heterozygous individuals had lower Skrjabinalius guevarai burden. One locus identified by RADseq was a strong outlier in association with parasite load (heterozygous in all uninfected females, homozygous for 94% of infected females), found in an intron of the citron rho-interacting serine/threonine kinase locus (associated with milk production in mammals). Allelic variation at the Class II MHC DQB locus was also assessed and found to be associated with both regional variation and with pathogen load. Both sex specificity and the identification of associating functional loci provide insight into the mechanisms by which more inbred individuals may be more susceptible to the infection of this parasite. This provides important insight towards our understanding of the impact of inbreeding in natural populations, relevant to both evolutionary and practical conservation considerations.
Additional file 1 of Modified team-based and blended learning perception: a cohort study among medical students at King Saud University
Creators: name: Albarrak, Ahmed I.
name: Nasriah Zakaria
name: Jwaher Almulhem
name: Khan, Samina A.
name: Norshahriza Abdul Karim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Coumarin (2H-1-benzopyran-2-one): a novel and eco-friendly aphicide
Creators: name: Pavela, Roman
name: Maggi, Filippo
name: Benelli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Coumarin (2H-1-benzopyran-2-one) is a phenolic compound derived from the shikimate pathway and synthesized by various medicinal and aromatic plants as parent molecule of a large group of secondary metabolites, namely coumarins. Its main utilization is as fixative in perfumes and flavour enhancer. Given its role as phytoalexin and phagodepression activity, herein we evaluated for the first time its efficacy against several insect species: the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae, the moth Spodoptera littoralis, the housefly, Musca domestica and the filariasis vector Culex quinquefasciatus. Two non-target species were also included in our toxicity evaluation experiments: the ladybug Harmonia axyridis and the earthworm Eisenia fetida. Results highlighted remarkable selectivity of coumarin, being highly toxic to M. persicae aphids (LC50(90) values of 1.3(1.9) mg L−1) and friendly to natural enemies of aphids as well as soil invertebrates.
On the costs of being small: Case evidence from Kenyan family farms
Creators: name: Karfakis, Panagiotis
name: Ponzini, Giulia
name: Rapsomanikis, George
name: Karfakis, Panagiotis
name: Ponzini, Giulia
name: Rapsomanikis, George
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Farm Management
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: We analyse allocative efficiency of major input factors for farmers in Kenya.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7562e.pdf
Rice germ macro- and micronutrients: a new opportunity for the nutraceutics
Creators: name: Rondanelli, Mariangela
name: Miccono, Alessandra
name: Peroni, Gabriella
name: Nichetti, Mara
name: Infantino, Vittoria
name: Spadaccini, Daniele
name: Alalwan, Tariq A.
name: Faliva, Milena Anna
name: Perna, Simone
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The aim of this study is to characterise the rice germ from the nutritional point of view. The latest laboratory methods for evaluation of macronutrients and micronutrients have been used. Rice germ has a high protein content (18 g per 100 g of edible product) with considerable amounts of essential amino acids (mainly lysine, histidine and valine), fatty acids (mainly monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids), and fibre (7 g per 100 g). Regarding water-soluble vitamins, rice germ has high amounts of thiamine (B1) and vitamin B6, while vitamin E is the main fat-soluble vitamin present. Iron (77% of RDA) and magnesium (108% of RDA) are the two main minerals found in rice germ. Given its great nutritional value, it will be of interest in future studies to explore ways for rice germ to be incorporated into dietary supplements aimed at increasing nutrition intake for a specific population.
Assessing the policy environment for cash crops in Malawi: what could hinder the achievement of the National Export Strategy objectives?
Creators: name: Gourichon, Hélène
name: Cameron, Alethia
name: Pernechele, Valentina
name: Gourichon, Hélène
name: Cameron, Alethia
name: Pernechele, Valentina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper examines the main issues affecting producers of export crops in Malawi that could compromise the attainment of the National Export Strategy (NES) 2013-2018 targets. The analysis assesses the level of policy support to the major export crops (cotton, groundnuts, sugar, tea and tobacco) for the period 2005-2013, by calculating the Nominal Rate of Protection (NRP), the Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRA) and the Market Development Gap (MDG) indicators for producers and by analysing public expenditure targeting the aforementioned commodities. The results show that trade and market policies resulted in disincentives of -15 percent on average for cash crop producers mainly due to poor infrastructure, lack of competition, weak enforcement and/or inefficiency of producer price policies, and limited budgetary support to cash crops value chain development. The analysis offers further evidence to guide the prioritization of policies and investments in view of fully attaining the NES objectives, including facilitation of farmers' access to markets, promotion of a more competitive environment for agri-business, and development of a transparent market information system.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7444e.pdf
$π/K/p$ production and Cronin effect from p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 200$ GeV from the PHENIX experiment
Creators: name: Matathias, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results on identified particle production in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV at mid-rapidity measured by the PHENIX experiment. The centrality and flavor dependence of the Cronin effect in d+Au collisions is measured. The Cronin effect for the protons in d+Au is larger than that for the pions, but not large enough to account for the ``anomalous'' proton to pion ratio in central Au+Au collisions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2004)
Mechanical feedback effects on primordial black hole accretion
Creators: name: Bosch-Ramon, Valenti
name: Bellomo, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter may consist, at least partially, of primordial black holes formed during the radiation-dominated era. The radiation produced by accretion onto primordial black holes leaves characteristic signatures on the properties of the medium at high redshift, before and after Hydrogen recombination. Therefore, reliable modelling of accretion onto these objects is required to obtain robust constraints on their abundance. We investigate the effect of mechanical feedback, i.e. the impact of outflows (winds and/or jets) on the medium, on primordial black hole accretion, and thereby on the associated radiation. Using analytical and numerical calculations, we study for the first time whether outflows can reduce the accretion rate of primordial black holes with masses similar to those detected by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration. Despite the complexity of the accretion rate evolution, mechanical feedback is able to significantly reduce the primordial black hole accretion rate, at least by an order of magnitude, when outflows are aligned with the motion of the compact object. If the outflow is perpendicular to the direction of motion, the effect is less important but still non-negligible. Outflows from primordial black holes, even rather weak ones, can significantly decrease the accretion rate, effectively weakening abundance constraints on these objects. Our results motivate further numerical simulations with a more realistic setup, which would yield more precise quantitative predictions.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics (version after proofs; very minor changes)
Gradual vs. Maximal Acceleration: Their Influence on the Prescription of Maximal Speed Sprinting in Team Sport Athletes
Creators: name: Young, Warren B
name: Duthie, Grant M
name: James, Lachlan
name: Talpey, Scott W
name: Benton, Dean T
name: Kilfoyle, Anthony
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: The primary purpose of this study was to determine if a difference existed between peak speed attained when performing a sprint with maximal acceleration versus from a gradual build-up. Additionally, this investigation sought to compare the actual peak speed achieved when instructed to reach 75% and 90% of maximum speed. Field sport athletes (n = 21) performed sprints over 60 m under the experimental conditions, and the peak speed was assessed with a radar gun. The gradual build-up to maximum speed (8.30 ± 0.40 m·s−1 ) produced the greater peak speed (effect size = 0.3, small) than the maximum acceleration run (8.18 ± 0.40 m·s−1 ), and the majority of participants (62%) followed this pattern. For the sub-maximum runs, the actual mean percentage of maximum speed reached was 78 ± 6% for the 75% prescribed run and 89 ± 5% for the 90% prescription. The errors in attaining the prescribed peak speeds were large (~15%) for certain individuals, especially for the 75% trial. Sprint training for maximum speed should be performed with a gradual build-up of speed rather than a maximum acceleration. For sub-maximum interval training, the ability to attain the prescribed target peak speed can be challenging for field sport athletes, and therefore where possible, feedback on peak speeds reached should be provided after each repetition.
Additional file 2 of Implementation of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy in a tertiary referral center for interstitial lung diseases: a cohort study on diagnostic yield, complications, and learning curves
Creators: name: Davidsen, Jesper Rømhild
name: Skov, Inge Raadal
name: Louw, Ida Guldbæk
name: Laursen, Christian B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 2. Nine cases in whom BAL was decisive in combination with TBLC on MDD.
Creating a peer network to support publication by graduate students in nursing
Creators: name: Panchuk, Kristi
name: Gray, Kelly
name: Moody, Elaine
name: Desrosiers, Sarah
Publisher: name: Nurse Author & Editor
Year: 2013

description: Publication is a key product of the knowledge generation process in nursing; it is also a performance measure in both the university setting and with funding bodies. Earlier this year, Grech and Evans (2012) described the barriers faced by junior faculty and the importance of providing support to encourage publications in high-ranked peer reviewed journals. Similarly, graduate students experience pressures and barriers related to publication—lack of time and experience, difficulty responding to reviews, and rejection. Strategies to support students’ publication efforts have been described in the literature: supervisor support and writing courses and workshops offered by the university of school of nursing (Belcher 2009; Cuthbert & Spark 2008; Lei & Chang, 2009). In this paper we describe a novel strategy developed by graduate students in nursing to create a supportive environment for students wanting to pursue publication – a student-led peer-support network called Summer Pub Club. We describe our program and how it helped graduate students gain skills and experience writing for publication.