cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Amplitude and frequency sensing of microwave fields with a superconducting transmon qudit
Creators: name: Kristen, Maximilian
name: Schneider, Andre
name: Stehli, Alexander
name: Wolz, Tim
name: Danilin, Sergey
name: Ku, Hsiang S.
name: Long, Junling
name: Wu, Xian
name: Lake, Russell E.
name: Pappas, David P.
name: Ustinov, Alexey V.
name: Weides, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments with superconducting circuits require careful calibration of the applied pulses and fields over a large frequency range. This remains an ongoing challenge as commercial semiconductor electronics are not able to probe signals arriving at the chip due to its cryogenic environment. Here, we demonstrate how the on-chip amplitude and frequency of a microwave signal can be inferred from the ac Stark shifts of higher transmon levels. In our time-resolved measurements we employ Ramsey fringes, allowing us to detect the amplitude of the systems transfer function over a range of several hundreds of MHz with an energy sensitivity on the order of $10^{-4}$. Combined with similar measurements for the phase of the transfer function, our sensing method can facilitate pulse correction for high fidelity quantum gates in superconducting circuits. Additionally, the potential to characterize arbitrary microwave fields promotes applications in related areas of research, such as quantum optics or hybrid microwave systems including photonic, mechanical or magnonic subsystems.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
OSCARS D2.1 - Clusters' Services and Data Sources Portfolios
Creators: name: Chambers, Sally
name: Nentwich, Melanie
name: Guerrieri, Giovanni
name: Hienola, Anca
name: Pierre, Marion
name: Kurzmeier, Michael
name: Barbot, Laure
name: Chazallet, Léo
name: López Lerida, Joaquín
name: David, Romain
name: Millar, Paul
name: Ďurčo, Matej
name: Wolff-Boenisch, Bonnie
name: Kaczmirek, Lars
name: Tedds, Jonathan
name: Götz, Andy
name: Bodera Sempere, Jordi
name: Ivanoaica, Teodor
name: Wagh, Jayesh
name: Liberante, Fabio
name: Iess, Alberto
name: Liaskos, Nektarios
name: Rybina, Arina
name: Saunders, Gary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: EOSC
EOSC services
FAIR data
Science Clusters
ENVRI
ESCAPE
PaNOSC
LS RI
SSHOC
Data source portfolio
services portfolio
composable services

description: The aim of this deliverable: D2.1 Clusters’ Services and Data Sources Portfolios, carried out in the framework of WP2: Composable Research Infrastructure Services in EOSC of the OSCARS Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research and Society project, was to catalogue, evaluate and undertake a gap analysis of the Services and FAIR Data resources offered by the five Science Clusters in the domains of Astronomy and Particle Physics, Environmental Science, Life Science, Photon and Neutron Science and Social Sciences and Humanities. This work was undertaken in the context of the emerging EOSC Federation, where the Science Clusters and their related Research Infrastructures play a crucial role. The deliverable covers the initial versions of the Cluster catalogues, their mapping, consolidation and transition to Services and Data Source Portfolios, as well as an initial exploration of potential Composability Scenarios for each of the Clusters. The final goal of the deliverable was to highlight possible common approaches, foster knowledge exchange between the Science Clusters and identify where the EOSC services can facilitate the composability of these offerings. This deliverable provides a solid foundation for the remaining work on composability and engagement which will be continued in WP2.
The Communication Complexity of Set Intersection and Multiple Equality Testing
Creators: name: Huang, Dawei
name: Pettie, Seth
name: Zhang, Yixiang
name: Zhang, Zhijun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we explore fundamental problems in randomized communication complexity such as computing Set Intersection on sets of size $k$ and Equality Testing between vectors of length $k$. Sağlam and Tardos and Brody et al. showed that for these types of problems, one can achieve optimal communication volume of $O(k)$ bits, with a randomized protocol that takes $O(\log^* k)$ rounds. Aside from rounds and communication volume, there is a \emph{third} parameter of interest, namely the \emph{error probability} $p_{\mathrm{err}}$. It is straightforward to show that protocols for Set Intersection or Equality Testing need to send $Ω(k + \log p_{\mathrm{err}}^{-1})$ bits. Is it possible to simultaneously achieve optimality in all three parameters, namely $O(k + \log p_{\mathrm{err}}^{-1})$ communication and $O(\log^* k)$ rounds? In this paper we prove that there is no universally optimal algorithm, and complement the existing round-communication tradeoffs with a new tradeoff between rounds, communication, and probability of error. In particular: 1. Any protocol for solving Multiple Equality Testing in $r$ rounds with failure probability $2^{-E}$ has communication volume $Ω(Ek^{1/r})$. 2. There exists a protocol for solving Multiple Equality Testing in $r + \log^*(k/E)$ rounds with $O(k + rEk^{1/r})$ communication, thereby essentially matching our lower bound and that of Sağlam and Tardos. Our original motivation for considering $p_{\mathrm{err}}$ as an independent parameter came from the problem of enumerating triangles in distributed ($\textsf{CONGEST}$) networks having maximum degree $Δ$. We prove that this problem can be solved in $O(Δ/\log n + \log\log Δ)$ time with high probability $1-1/\operatorname{poly}(n)$.
description: 44 pages
Chrysoestia drurella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Chrysoestia
Chrysoestia drurella

description: Chrysoestia drurella (Fabricius, 1775)
Ekaterinburg 29.VII.2005; Kidriasovo 29.V.1998; Miass 24.VI.2003; Verbljushka 10–12.VI.1998. A total of 5 exx.
 Distribution. Holarctic. Widely distributed through Europe and Russia.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Effects of Variety and Spacing on Percentage (%) Emergence and Grain Weight of Maize in Asaba Area of Delta State
Creators: name: Enujeke, E.C.
name: Enujeke, E.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Maize variety
subject: Spacing
subject: Percentage emergence
subject: Grain weight
subject: Asaba Delta State

description: This study was carried out in the Teaching and Research Farm of Delta State University, Asaba Campus from March 2008 to December 2009 to evaluate the response of maize varieties to three different plant spacings. It was a factorial experiment carried out in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) replicated three times. Ten maize varieties were evaluated under three different plant spacings for their percentage emergence and grain weight. The results of percentage emergence showed that open-pollinated variety BR9922-DMRSF2 which had 93.2% in 2008 and 93.8% in 2009 had highest percentage emergence. The results obtained from the grain weights indicated that hybrid variety 9022-13 that was sown at 75cm x 15cm which yielded 6.3 tha-1 in 2008 and 6.4 tha-1 in 2009 was superior, followed by open-pollinated variety BR9922-DMRSF2 which yielded 4.7tha-1 in 2008 and 4.9tha-1 in 2009. The effects of interaction showed that variety and space were significantly (p<0.05) different and positively affected maize grain weight. Based on the study, it is recommended that (i) Hybrid maize variety 9022-13 which was outstanding in grain weight be grown in the study area. Alternatively, farmers who prefer open-pollinated varieties could grow BR9922-DMRSF2. (ii) Spacing of 75cm x 15cm which resulted in better percentage emergence and highest grain weight be adopted in maize production.
Relativistic bottomonium spectrum from anisotropic lattices
Creators: name: Liao, X.
name: Manke, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on our results from a fully relativistic simulation of the quenched bottomonium spectrum. Using an anisotropic formulation of Lattice QCD, we were able to retain a very fine resolution into the temporal direction for a range of different lattice spacings. At fixed renormalized anisotropy we study the scaling properties of the spectrum and compare our results with non-relativistic calculations.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, Lattice2001 (heavyquark)
Carnet nº 2, commencé à Vienne (p. 84)
Creators: name: Péraire, Lucien
name: CNRS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: created: 12-10-1928
Typicality-Based Variational Cluster Approach to Thermodynamic Properties of the Hubbard Model
Creators: name: Nishida, Hisao
name: Fujiuchi, Ryo
name: Sugimoto, Koudai
name: Ohta, Yukinori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the variational-cluster-approximation method based on the thermal-pure-quantum-state approach and apply the method to the calculations of the thermodynamic properties of the Hubbard model, thereby obtaining the temperature dependence of the single-particle excitation spectra, entropy and specific heat, and order parameter of the antiferromagnetic phase efficiently. We thus demonstrate that the method developed here has a potential power for elucidating finite-temperature properties of strongly correlated electron systems.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
CLEANING OF THE INNER SURFACE OF THE OIL PIPELINE
Creators: name: Abbasov, E.
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Development of the International Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: cleaning
inner layer
pipeline
pollution
corrosion
deposits
scrapers

description: The work is devoted to the issues of cleaning the inner surface of the pipeline. Here are the types of contam-ination, the main methods of cleaning pipelines and the features of the use of various cleaning devices.
On fundamental computational barriers in the mathematics of information
Creators: name: Bastounis, Alexander James
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Numerical Analysis
Mathematics of information
Computational Theory
Harmonic Analysis

description: This thesis is about computational theory in the setting of the mathematics of information. The first goal is to demonstrate that many commonly considered problems in optimisation theory cannot be solved with an algorithm if the input data is only known up to an arbitrarily small error (modelling the fact that most real numbers are not expressible to infinite precision with a floating point based computational device). This includes computing the minimisers to basis pursuit, linear programming, lasso and image deblurring as well as finding an optimal neural network given training data. These results are somewhat paradoxical given the success that existing algorithms exhibit when tackling these problems with real world datasets and a substantial portion of this thesis is dedicated to explaining the apparent disparity, particularly in the context of compressed sensing. To do so requires the introduction of a variety of new concepts, including that of a breakdown epsilon, which may have broader applicability to computational problems outside of the ones central to this thesis. We conclude with a discussion on future research directions opened up by this work.
description: This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant EP/H023348/1 for the University of Cambridge Centre for Doctoral Training, the Cambridge Centre for Analysis.
Quantum Critical Behavior in Disordered Itinerant Ferromagnets: Instability of the Ferromagnetic Phase
Creators: name: Sessions, S. L.
name: Belitz, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An effective field theory is derived that describes the quantum critical behavior of itinerant ferromagnets as the transition is approached from the ferromagnetic phase. This complements a recent study of the critical behavior on the paramagnetic side of the phase transition, and investigates the role of the ferromagnetic Goldstone modes near criticality. We find that the Goldstone modes have no direct impact on the critical behavior, and that the critical exponents are the same as determined by combining results from the paramagnetic phase with scaling arguments.
description: 11 pp., revtex4, no figs
Peanut allergy: a prospective study of thresholds, co-factors, mediators and severity
Creators: name: Dua, Shelley
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: peanut
allergy
thresholds
severity
co-factors
tryptase

description: Peanut allergy is a public health concern which affects a significant proportion of the population. Accidental exposure to peanut can cause severe and fatal reactions in peanut allergic individuals and currently their only safeguard is to practise careful avoidance. Identification and protection of at-risk members of the allergic population is critical in managing this life-threatening condition. This thesis produces key data to enable this. A prospective study was performed on 60 peanut allergic participants to determine thresholds of reactivity to peanut using oral challenges with incrementally increasing amounts of peanut protein. Following a double-blind placebo-controlled peanut challenge, participants received three further peanut challenges, two with co-factors: sleep deprivation and exercise, and one without. Severity was measured using a numerical scale derived from symptoms and serum tryptase was measured at each challenge. A total of 187 challenges were performed. Findings were that the median amount of peanut protein which induces a reaction in 10% of the population (ED10) was 12.3mg (95% CI 7.3,20.4) equivalently this suggests that 90% of the allergic population will not react to doses below this level. Both sleep deprivation and exercise have a significant effect on lowering reaction threshold (ED10), by 5 times and 2.5 times respectively. Separately there is a reduction in threshold with successive challenges. Co-factors also significantly increased symptom severity during challenge reactions. In particular sleep deprivation significantly increased the severity of gastrointestinal symptoms suggesting that a stressful stimulus may affect intestinal permeability. Evidence was provided for the importance of asthma as a risk factor which increased the severity of respiratory symptoms during reaction. Using a novel visual analogue scale for measuring the participant’s perception of severity, a poor correlation was observed between the participant’s perception of the reaction and the overall numerical severity score, suggesting that participants misperceive severe symptoms. This thesis provides the first data showing that symptom patterns in repeated challenges show a high degree of homogeneity within individuals, but importantly that this symptom homogeneity is also observed across individuals. Lastly the utility of serum tryptase in identifying food allergic reactions has been disputed previously. This thesis provides evidence of its value and identifies a rise cut-off of 30% as being diagnostic of a food allergic reaction, but cautions that acute levels must be compared with baseline as this rise may occur within the normal range.
description: Food Standards Agency, UK Government
Inverse Currents in Hamiltonian Coupled Transport
Creators: name: Wang, Jiao
name: Casati, Giulio
name: Benenti, Giuliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The occurrence of an inverse current, where the sign of the induced current is opposite to the applied force, is a highly counterintuitive phenomenon. We show that inverse currents in coupled transport (ICC) of energy and particle can occur in a one-dimensional interacting Hamiltonian system when its equilibrium state is perturbed by coupled thermodynamic forces. This seemingly paradoxical result is possible due to the self-organization occurring in the system in response to the applied forces.
description: 4+2 pages
Herbicides Use by Smallholder Farmers in the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
Creators: name: Mutambara, Jackqeline
name: Mutambara, Jackqeline
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Weed
subject: Adoption
subject: Regression
subject: Chemical
subject: Manual

description: This study was carried out to investigate the use of herbicides by smallholder farmers in crop production and determine the socio-economic factors that influence adoption of herbicides in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 451 smallholder farmers randomly selected. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis and regression analysis were used in analyzing the data. Results showed that farmers used manual (50%) and chemical (50%) weed control options. Factor analysis revealed that 10 socio-economic factors related to weed control could represent the initial set of 20 factors without much compromise on quality of data. The extracted factors together with their communalities were; sex (0.69), household size (0.82), education (0.68), distance to extension ((0.86), distance to input supply (0.84), land (0.79), agricultural courses (0.75), farming objective (0.59), knowledge (0.8) and livestock units (0.69). Regressing these extracted factors with use of herbicides revealed that the coefficients of variables representing household size (-0.023), education (0.042), farming objective (-0.008), livestock (0.598) and knowledge (0.037) factors were significant determinants of herbicide use. The study concluded that to induce adoption of herbicides, policy efforts should be directed towards reducing family sizes, knowledge, education, livestock ownership, and commercialization of crop farming by farmers. However there is a need for further analysis to ascertain the social and economic worth of herbicides as an option in weed control.
Nonmetro Population Older than Metro: Relatively Fewer Working Age Adults
Creators: name: Beale, Calvin L.
name: Fuguitt, Glenn V.
name: Beale, Calvin L.
name: Fuguitt, Glenn V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: The median age of nonmetro people has risen, but is still not greatly above that of metro residents. Typically, nonmetro counties have a lower proportion of their people at prime working ages, 20-44 years, and a higher percentage at retirement age. They also still have a modestly higher share of children ages 5-19. The greatest divergence from the national profile occurs in farming-dependent and retirement areas, where, from different causes, higher than normal shares of older people are found.
Dynamo and Electrical Jet in Hall Plasmas, Application to Astrophysics
Creators: name: Rudakov, L. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic field in Hall plasmas is frozen in the electron component and is advected not only with the plasma motion but also with the electrical current flow. Its coupling with the plasma may be not as strong as characteristic of the MHD approximation. The rotation and slipping of the magnetic field result in a very different and less efficient magnetic field generation by dynamo - rotating plasma disk in magnetic field. We found a some exact analytical solutions of nonlinear equations describing the dynamo. In particular, the dynamo may not dissipate the energy in the steady state limit. The 3-component magnetic field and magnetic energy are generated and accumulated during the transition time only. An electrical jet is the other unusual phenomenon for MHD. It was investigated theoretically and experimentally for laboratory plasmas during the last 15 years and now is used for fast current switching. We found periodical or shock-like nonlinear wave traveling along a Hall plasma column and not associated with plasma motion. A nonlinear equation describing a possible steady state magnetic field distribution and current flow in Hall plasma conductor is derived that differs from the Grad-Shafranov equation for the low pressure MHD plasma. In conclusion we discuss application of our results to astrophysical plasmas. This physics could be important for understanding the evolution of dusty plasma disks and jets around new stars.
description: PDF, 8 pages with 1 figure, found stabilizing term for magneto-rotational instability
Away-from-Home Meat Consumption in China
Creators: name: Liu, Hongbo
name: Parton, Kevin A.
name: Zhou, Zhangyue
name: Cox, Rod
name: Liu, Hongbo
name: Parton, Kevin A.
name: Zhou, Zhangyue
name: Cox, Rod
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Consumer/Household Economics

description: This paper investigates significant forces that affect away-from-home (AFH) meat consumption in China. Multivariate Tobit models were used to analyze a set of survey data from 340 households in Jiangsu, Shandong, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, and Sichuan Provinces in 2005. AFH meat consumption accounts for an increasing share of food consumption expenditure in China. Aside from income level and urban location, family characteristics (e.g., the employment status of the wife and the opportunity to participate in collective consumption) also influence AFH meat consumption. Beef and mutton consumption is higher in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning. This paper makes the case that studies of food consumption in China should focus on expenditure on food away from home. In addition, future studies should integrate food consumption at home with food consumption away from home. As the Chinese economy continues to grow and the country becomes more urbanized, the wealth generated will result in further rapid growth in AFH beef consumption. Sourcing an adequate supply to meet the increasing demand will pose a significant challenge for the Chinese beef industry and the Chinese government.
DATA SUPPLEMENT.docx
Creators: name: Aghilinejad, Arian
name: Niema Pahlevan
name: Amlani, Faisal
name: Liu, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental Figures and Tables
MOESM1 of Lessons about the reliability of congenital syphilis and vertical HIV transmission data learned from case reviews in Uruguay: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Cabrera, Susana
name: Silveira, Mariangela
name: Visconti, Ana
name: GarcĂ­A, Fabian
name: Aguirre, Rafael
name: Leon, Rodolfo Ponce De
name: Quian, Jorge
name: Serruya, Suzanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Sociocultural characteristics among congenital syphilis cases after a maternal diagnosis, Uruguay, 2015â 2017. Table S2. Analysis of cases resulting in vertical HIV transmission, Uruguay, 2013â 2017. (DOCX 34 kb)
Hypothesizing ICT4D in Philippine Agriculture: Deriving from Trends, Setting Directions
Creators: name: Manalo IV, Jaime A.
name: Van De Fliert, Elske
name: Manalo IV, Jaime A.
name: Van De Fliert, Elske
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The yield gap in rice production can be narrowed by improving farmers’ access to information. In recent years, the Philippines has witnessed a profusion of information and communication technology (ICT) interventions expected to increase Filipino famers’ access to rice farming information, led by the PhilRice Farmers’ Text Center. Despite these initiatives, the digital divide further excludes the marginalized. Drawing from literature on ICT for development (ICT4D) and recent trends in Philippine ICT, this paper proposes policy directions that can be pursued by the agriculture sector for more relevant ICT interventions (i.e., making technology generation participatory, marrying of disciplines, exploring technological hybrids, focusing on critical evaluation of ICTs, and tapping farmers’ children as infomediaries). It is essential to engage farmers in various stages (i.e., from design to evaluation) of ICT initiatives.
DYNAMICS OF THE INCIDENCE OF THE POPULATION OF RUSSIA WITH ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) FOR THE PERIOD 2016-2020
Creators: name: Cheblokova, K.
name: Ishchenko, O.
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Development of the International Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: AIDS
HIV
demography
statistics
sexually transmitted infections
sex education
dynamics

description: National security of the state, its economic, social and demographic well-being depend on the level of health of the population. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic illustrate a global global health problem. The prevalence of HIV infection has a significant im-pact on population change, HIV infection is included in the list of socially significant diseases. Over the past 5 years, the number of patients with human immunodeficiency syndrome has decreased in Russia. This article is devoted to the analysis of the dynamics of the incidence rates of the population with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome for the period 2016-2020.
Progress of Mongolian Microfinance: A Case Study of Khan Bank and XacBank
Creators: name: Dulamragchaa, Orosoo
name: Izumida, Yoichi
name: Dulamragchaa, Orosoo
name: Izumida, Yoichi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: This paper examines the activities of Mongolian financial intermediation and the factors influencing the progress of Mongolian microfinance. These were evaluated using data from household surveys in selected areas, financial statements of Khan Bank and XacBank, and information obtained from interviews with officers of said banks. The analysis found that the performance of these two banks improved significantly. Moreover, Mongolian microfinance advanced as innovative methods were introduced. The new concept of collateral is considered the most important development. Loans secured using various kinds of collateral and guarantee are effective in heightening loan recovery in Mongolian microfinance.
Localised Dosing and Nanodetection Using a Novel Scanning Ion Conductance Microscope and Its Application to Alzheimer's Disease
Creators: name: Chen, Wei-Hsin Chen
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Alzheimer's Disease
Scanning ion conductance microscopy
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
Abeta
alpha-synuclein (Asyn)
astrocyte
ATP sensor
oligomer-induced transient pores
biophysical
aggregates
antibody
nanobody
assay

description: Scanning ion conductance microscopy (SICM) is a technique for non-contact topographic imaging. In this thesis, a biophysical investigation into Alzheimer's Disease (AD) was carried, with toxic oligomers dosed locally and quantitatively on to single astrocytes using SICM and simultaneously monitoring the response of the target cell. Examination of the effectiveness of antibodies that bind to Abeta or alpha-synuclein (Asyn)peptides depends on the measurement of oligomer-induced abnormal calcium homeostasis in single astrocytes. The method was shown to work at physiological concentrations of oligomers. A series of experiments measuring the reduction in calcium inux in mixtures of antibodies and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of AD patients suggested that the binding to co-oligomers composed of Abeta and Asyn may be crucial in the treatment of AD. Furthermore, it may be beneficial to test antibodies before the clinical trial using this assay. The mechanism of this entry of calcium is hypothesised to be the result of the formation of oligomer-induced transient pores in the cell membrane. To verify this hypothesis, a new SICM instrument was built with two nanopipettes; one for dosing and one for detection of the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) release from these pores. A variety of different ATP sensors were made. The best had a sensitivity of 10 micro molar and works as a hexokinase-cofunctioned electrolyte-gated organic field-effect-transistor. However no statistically significant results for ATP release have been obtained in the experiments performed to date. Overall this thesis describes new biophysical methods to study the effect of protein aggregates on live cells and the effectiveness of potential therapies, such as antibodies and nanobodies, to reduce these aggregate induced effects. It can be applied to synthetic aggregates of Abeta or the aggregates present in human CSF.
description: Taiwan-Cambridge Scholarship
EMERGENCY SONOGRAPHY AT THE EARLY HOSPITAL STAGE IN MULTIPROFILE HOSPITALS EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Creators: name: Mazurenko, O.
name: Polosenko, S.
name: Angelyuk, V.
name: Kirichenko, S.
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Development of the International Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: emergency medical care
Emergency department
Emergency ultrasonography
epidemiology

description: Ultrasound in the Emergency department (ED) has long been recognized as a powerful complementary tool for diagnostics of the emergency abdominal and / or pleural cavities diseases, and in 90% of cases it is the basic method of the patient examining. The article presents the results of epidemiological research of 1000 Emergency ultrasonography (EUS) in the ED of the multidisciplinary hospital. Results. The main groups of patients who underwent urgent sonography were persons with a previous diag-nosis of 1) acute pancreatitis (25.5%), 2) blunt and stab wound of the abdominal cavity and extraperitoneal space (24.4%), 3) acute appendicitis (16, 9%), and 4) acute cholecystitis (12.7%). The main task of EUS in the ED is a visualization of pneumoand / or hemothorax, free fluid in the abdominal cavity, including between the loops of the intestine, in the omental sac, pelvis, as well as intestinal peristalsis, the degree of it expansion, visualization the nephrolithiasis or ovarian diseases, including apoplexy and cysts. Unsatisfied results of the US due to the large number of artifacts was recorded in 4.6%. Conclusions. Urgent sonography at the early hospital stage is one of the main additional diagnostic methods at the stage of the emergency department of the hospital. This article will useful for sonographers, emergency physicians, surgeons as well as public health managers.
INFLUENCE OF BRIDGE PROSTHESES ON THE STATE OF PERIODONTAL TISSUES
Creators: name: Orujov, A.
name: Jafarova, A.
name: Kerimli, N.
name: Alizade, A.
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Development of the International Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: periodontium
etiology
local causes
orthopedic constructions
bridge prosthesis

description: It is almost impossible to find a person in the world who would not have had any dental problems at least once: caries, toothache or any other disease. However, most of the patients are in no hurry to go to the dentist; in most cases, an inadequate visit to a specialist leads to the loss of teeth. Medicine at the present stage of development makes it easy to solve this prob-lem; now there are various prostheses that allow replacing lost teeth [1]. According to statistics, the need of patients for prostheses is up to 95%. One of the most popular among prostheses are bridges, they are used in 42-89% of cases [2, p. 34; 3, p. 127]. This design contributes to the complete restoration of lost teeth, which helps to maintain the correct diction, taste and restore the aesthetic dental appearance. However, in addition to positive aspects, these prostheses also have negative ones, they can affect the state of the periodontium. The study of this effect is especially important in connection with the increase in the number of patients requiring prosthetics.
Band edge lasing in chiral nematic liquid crystals
Creators: name: McLaren-Jones, Jennifer Sian Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: liquid crystal
laser
photonic

description: For the last 20 years, there has been considerable interest in chiral nematic liquid crystal band edge lasers. The birefringent molecules of chiral nematic liquid crystals form a periodic helical structure, which results in a photonic bandgap for circularly polarised light with the same sense of rotation as the helix. A large increase in effective gain is seen for a fluorescent gain medium within the liquid crystal at the band edges, resulting in lasing. Applications of liquid crystal lasers could include miniature medical diagnostic tools, large-area holographic laser displays, and environmental sensing. The wavelength of emission from dye-doped chiral nematic liquid crystals is highly flexible, with lasers demonstrated across the visible range and near infra-red.This thesis investigates two routes for improving the functionality of chiral nematic liquid crystal lasers, supported by mathematical modelling of expected lasing wavelengths based on reflection and transmission by anisotropic layers. Perovskite is tested as a replacement for fluorescent laser dyes as a gain medium,both in the form of quantum dots dispersed in liquid crystal, and as films placed in liquid crystal structures. It is shown that while the perovskite tested provides some emission, it is not compatible for lasing in these devices, and suggestions for building on these results are made. In-plane switching is tested and developed as a means to achieve tuning of the laser wavelength, demonstrating a continuous wavelength shift of 15 nm, from 600.71 nm to 585.03 nm, over a voltage range of 100 V. This is an improvement on previous tuning in related devices, and may be extended with optimisation of cell thickness,electrode geometry, and initial lasing wavelength. Accurate descriptions of the refractive index profile of the liquid crystal and perovskite are developed and included in mathematical modelling, in addition to descriptions of the wavelength-dependent gain of a laser dye and perovskite. Suggestions for developing this modelling are made, particularly by the inclusion of accurate modelling of the distortion caused by in-plane switching.
MOESM4 of A mutant allele of ζ-carotene isomerase (Z-ISO) is associated with the yellow pigmentation of the “Pinalate” sweet orange mutant and reveals new insights into its role in fruit carotenogenesis
Creators: name: Rodrigo, María
name: Lado, Joanna
name: Alós, Enriqueta
name: Alquézar, Berta
name: Dery, Orly
name: Hirschberg, Joseph
name: Zacarías, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Functional analysis of citrus Z-ISO in E.coli pPROLYCOPENE strain. Carotenes composition in extracts from E. coli with pPROLYCOPENE plasmid and C Z-ISO from ‘Navelate or ‘Pinalate’ (mutant) P5 and P6 cDNAs. E. coli with pPROLYCOPENE alone was used as control. Carotenoid analysis in E. coli cells was determined by HPLC-PAD as described in Material and Methods section.
Spatial Distribution of Farm-Family Resources in the Mid-Hills of Nepal
Creators: name: Bhatta, Gopal Datt
name: Doppler, Werner
name: Bhatta, Gopal Datt
name: Doppler, Werner
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Consumer/Household Economics
Farm Management

description: The location of farm households along the spatial gradient affects resource availability and farmers’ livelihoods. Many socioeconomic variables have strong spatial affinity that would otherwise be overlooked by data aggregation at household levels. The Geographic Information System (GIS) displays and analyzes socioeconomic data that could aid many social researchers in understanding socioeconomic reality influenced by geographical positions. This paper aims to integrate socioeconomic data into a GIS environment. It examines spatial tendencies of farm-family resources in the mid-hills of Nepal using spatial and random sampling techniques. Farmers living in relatively flat lands and nearby urban centers have small families, higher level of education, farm and family income. In addition, they have small agricultural holdings and engage in commercial farming. Meanwhile, the opposite applies to farmers living in the hills. These spatial differences are related mainly to road, market, and other infrastructure that are crucial for agricultural development and livelihood enhancement. Strong spatial trend in socioeconomic aspects and farm-family resource availability infer the need to focus development activities spatially.
Does CPT violation affect the B_d meson life times and decay asymmetries?
Creators: name: Datta, Amitava
name: Paschos, E. A.
name: Singh, L. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study indirect CPT violating effects in B_d meson decays and mixing, taking into account the recent constraints on the CPT violating parameters from the Belle collaboration. The life time difference of the B_d meson mass eigenstates, expected to be negligible in the standard model and many of its CPT conserving extensions, could be sizeable (\sim a few percent of the total width) due to breakdown of this fundamental symmetry. The time evolution of the direct CP violating asymmetries in one amplitude dominated processes (inclusive semileptonic B_d decays, in particular) turn out to be particularly sensitive to this effect.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures. Typos corrected and references added
XMM-Newton observations of the neutron star X-ray transient KS 1731-260 in quiescence
Creators: name: Wijnands, Rudy
name: Guainazzi, Matteo
name: van der Klis, Michiel
name: Mendez, Mariano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on XMM-Newton observations performed on 2001 September 13-14 of the neutron star X-ray transient KS 1731-260 in quiescence. The source was detected at an unabsorbed 0.5-10 keV flux of only 4 - 8 x 10^{-14} erg/s, depending on the model used to fit the data, which for a distance of 7 kpc implies a 0.5-10 keV X-ray luminosity of approximately 2 - 5 x 10^{32} erg/s. The September 2001 quiescent flux of KS 1731-260 is lower than that observed during the Chandra observation in March 2001. In the cooling neutron star model for the quiescent X-ray emission of neutron star X-ray transients, this decrease in the quiescent flux implies that the crust of the neutron star in KS 1731-260 cooled down rapidly between the two epochs, indicating that the crust has a high conductivity. Furthermore, enhanced cooling in the neutron star core is also favored by our results.
description: Accepter for publication in ApJ Letters, 22 May 2002
Evidence for a Collisional Mechanism Affecting Kuiper Belt Object Colors
Creators: name: Stern, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kuiper Belt (KB) region of the solar system, stretching from 30 to at least 50 AU, contains Pluto-Charon, some ~105 Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) larger than 100 km in diameter, and myriad smaller bodies produced by collisions among KBOs (Farinella, Davis, & Stern 2000). The most notable physical attribute of the KBOs discovered to date is their reflectance color diversity, ranging from gray (i.e., neutral) to very red (Tegler & Romanishin 2000). We report here evidence for a statistical correlation between the colors of KBOs and the mean random impact speed that these objects experience, lending evidence to suggestions some years ago by modelers (Jewitt & Luu 1996) that a competition between collisional resurfacing and radiation reddening may contribute to the color diversity of KBOs.
NATIONAL RUSSIAN CALCULATOR OF STRATIFICATION OF TOTAL RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS AFTER ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
Creators: name: Lozhkina, N.
name: Barbarich, V.
name: Voskoboinikov Yu.
name: Spiridonov, A.
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Development of the International Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: calculator
stratification of total risk of cardiovascular complications
acute myocardial infarc-tion

description: In the State Budgetary Institution of Public Health of the Novosibirsk Region (Russian Federation) "Clinical City Hospital No. 1" (Regional Vascular Center), a calculator for stratification of the total risk of cardiovascular complications after acute myocardial infarction was invented. In a recent open Non-Randomized Parallel Group Study, an approach has been developed for determining the annual prognosis of a patient with myocardial infarc-tion. The calculation of "personal coefficients of risk factors" allows assessing the significance of each factor in a particular patient, personifying rehabilitation and secondary prevention. This innovative approach solves the prob-lem of low reproducibility of numerous prognostic risk scales TIMI, GRACE, PURSUIT, CADILLAC, RECORD. A significant drawback and the reason for the low information content of many assessment methods is that they were developed on the basis of the European and American populations without taking into account the specific factors of the countries of Eastern Europe, the CIS and the Russian Federation that affect the prognosis of patients with ACS.
Bayesian design and analysis of external pilot trials for complex interventions
Creators: name: Wilson, Duncan T.
name: Wason, James M. S.
name: Brown, Julia
name: Farrin, Amanda J.
name: Walwyn, Rebecca E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: External pilot trials of complex interventions are used to help determine if and how a confirmatory trial should be undertaken, providing estimates of parameters such as recruitment, retention and adherence rates. The decision to progress to the confirmatory trial is typically made by comparing these estimates to pre-specified thresholds known as progression criteria, although the statistical properties of such decision rules are rarely assessed. Such assessment is complicated by several methodological challenges, including the simultaneous evaluation of multiple endpoints, complex multi-level models, small sample sizes, and uncertainty in nuisance parameters. In response to these challenges, we describe a Bayesian approach to the design and analysis of external pilot trials. We show how progression decisions can be made by minimising the expected value of a loss function, defined over the whole parameter space to allow for preferences and trade-offs between multiple parameters to be articulated and used in the decision making process. The assessment of preferences is kept feasible by using a piecewise constant parameterisation of the loss function, the parameters of which are chosen at the design stage to lead to desirable operating characteristics. We describe a flexible, yet computationally intensive, nested Monte Carlo algorithm for estimating operating characteristics. The method is used to revisit the design of an external pilot trial of a complex intervention designed to increase the physical activity of care home residents.
MOESM1 of A mutant allele of ζ-carotene isomerase (Z-ISO) is associated with the yellow pigmentation of the “Pinalate” sweet orange mutant and reveals new insights into its role in fruit carotenogenesis
Creators: name: Rodrigo, María
name: Lado, Joanna
name: Alós, Enriqueta
name: Alquézar, Berta
name: Dery, Orly
name: Hirschberg, Joseph
name: Zacarías, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Spectra of ζ-carotene isomers identified in chromatograms of ‘Pinalate’ carotenoid extracts. Z1, 9,15,9′-tri-cis-ζ-carotene; Z2, ζ-carotene isomer; Z3, ζ-carotene isomer; Z4, 9,9′-di-cis-ζ-carotene; Z5, ζ-carotene isomer; Z6, ζ-carotene isomer.
Isophrictis anthemidella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Isophrictis
Isophrictis anthemidella

description: Isophrictis anthemidella (Wocke, 1871)
Burannoe 03. VII.2003; Chalk Hills 03–07.VI.1998, 10–11.VI.2001, 29–30.VI.2003; Guberlja 26. VI.2003; Kuvandyk 14. VI.1998; Novoiletzk 09. VI.1998; Sakmara river 20–21. VI.1996; Verbljushka 30. V – 02. VI.1998; Zesnokovka 09. VI.2001.
 Distribution. Widely distributed through Europe. Outside Europe reported from the Caucasus and Central Asia.
 Remarks. In calcareous slopes the larva feeds in flowers of Anthemis trotzkiana.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655