cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Iberian dogs – a diachronic genomic analysis
Creators: name: Pires, Ana Elisabete
name: Blaschikoff, Ludmilla
name: Guimarães, Silvia
name: Goor, Mahaut
name: Serra, Octávio
name: Simões, Fernanda
name: Detry, Cleia
name: Ginja, Catarina
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2024

description: Objectives: Dogs are an important genetic patrimony and in Portugal several functional breeds have been developed. The analysis of their genomes including those from ancient samples can provide a good opportunity to understand the origins and evolution of dogs from more peripheral regions, as well as to infer some of the morphological characteristics exhibited by past individuals.


Materials and Methods: We employed well-established molecular biology methods, such as high-throughput sequencing and a nuclear capture assay, in order to recover endogeneous ancient DNA (aDNA) and SNP data from 14 ancient specimens dated from Mesolithic (~8,000 yBP) through the Middle Ages. Whole genomes from present-day Iberian dogs (n=46) and Iberian wolves (n=2) were also retrieved for a comprehensive study of dog diversity. Regarding data analysis some specific scripts were improved by our team and adjusted to either modern or ancient samples.


Results: Although poorly preserved, aDNA was recovered. The endogenous content (%) is not correlated with the antiquity of each sample (r=-0,42, ns). Ancient dog mitogenomes (>90%, 3x coverage) are distributed within the variability of the A and C clades, while present-day dogs show a wider range of variability: clades A to D. WGS allowed the identification of 12 dogs (9 males, 3 females) and 3 ancient wolves (2, 1). Based on autosomal markers, ancient dogs show either a single or a mixed ancestry, while present-day dogs show a single ancestry/breed meaning they are genetically well-defined breeds. From 3 Roman dogs (Spain), 3-7 SNPs involved in determining the morphology were recovered whereas for one of the ancient wolves, only a single locus was recovered.


Conclusions: DNA (mitochondrial and nuclear) was recovered from Canis archaeological samples, and it helped in documenting the presence of dogs and describe their genomic composition in Iberia.


 


Keywords: Archaeogenomics; Dog; Evolution; Breeds.


 


Funding: Woof Project - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029545 & PTDC/HAR-ARQ/29545/2017
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 15 (2024): II Encontro de Investigação da FMV da Universidade Lusófona- Edição Especial
Native Skywatchers and the Ojibwe Giizhig Anung Masinaaigan-Ojibwe Sky Star Map
Creators: name: Lee, Annette S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Native Skywatchers programming addresses the loss of Ojibwe and Dakota star knowledge. The goal is to help preserve indigenous astronomy and pass it on to future generations. The star knowledge will serve as a cornerstone inspiration for native communities and at the same time be influential to Native students interested in science and math. Presented here is the Ojibwe Giizhig Anung Masinaaigan-Ojibwe Sky Star Map created by Annette Lee and collaborators as part of the Native Skywatchers Middle School Teachers Workshop held June 2012.
Distant Clock Synchronization Using Entangled Photon Pairs
Creators: name: Valencia, Alejandra
name: Scarcelli, Giuliano
name: Shih, Yanhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a proof-of-principle experiment on distant clock synchronization. Besides the achievement of picosecond resolution at 3 kilometer distance, this experiment demonstrated a novel concept for high accuracy non-local timing and positioning based on the quantum feature of entangled states.
description: To appear in Applied Physics Letters
title: Numerical simulation of core-level spectroscopies
Creators: name: Winder, Mathias
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: core-level spectroscopy
subject: Anderson impurity model
subject: dynamical mean-field theory
subject: transition metal oxides
subject: core-level spectroscopy
subject: Anderson impurity model
subject: dynamical mean-field theory
subject: transition metal oxides

description: Core-level X-ray spectroscopies are widely used for investigating electronic structures of transition metal (TM) compounds. In core-level spectroscopies an incident photon excites a core electron where the created core hole acts as a positive test charge. The electronic properties can be determined by core-level spectra, influenced by the reaction of the system to the core hole. For the investigation of TM compounds different kinds of core-level X-ray spectroscopies are available. X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) provides photoelectron spectra, whereas X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) provides absorption spectra due to the excitation of core electrons to valence states. Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) is a second-order optical process where the incident photon gets absorbed, such as in XAS, but the spectra are generated by relaxation processes. We present within this thesis a computational study of Cu L-edge RIXS for LaCuO3 and NaCuO2 which are two typical high-valence transition-metal oxides. Basis of the approach is a theoretical framework based on the local-density approximation and dynamical mean-field theory (LDA+DMFT) which is applied on the Anderson impurity model (AIM) to calculate spectral functions of various core-level X-ray spectroscopies. Recent experiments revealed unusual coexistence of bound and continuum excitations in the L-edge RIXS spectra where the underlying physics is still a challenging part of research. This study is motivated by these experiments and we analyze in detail the behavior of the fluorescence-like (FL) feature and show how it is connected to the details of the electronic and crystal structure. On the studied compounds we demonstrate how material details determine whether the electron-hole continuum can be excited in the L-edge RIXS process.
LOKALNY ROZWÓJ GOSPODARCZY W POLSCE: KONWERGENCJA CZY DYWERGENCJA?
Creators: name: Kołodziejczyk, Danuta
name: Kołodziejczyk, Danuta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: local economic development
subject: convergence
subject: divergence

description: The research is aimed at presenting economic development trends of the gminas in Poland and concluding whether the process of convergence of divergence takes place there. On the basis of selected features, the synthetic indicator of economic development in 2005 and 2012 was calculated using the Hellwig’s method. For this purpose the statistical data from the Local Data Bank of the Central Statistical Office were used. When analysing the process of economic development, four types of gminas were identified (the leading, acceding, regressing and lagging ones). The results of the surveys indicate that there is no convergence within the entire research area. Convergence can be seen only in small groups of acceding gminas. However, high disparities in the level of economic development continue to exist, which arises, among other things, from the fact that individual gminas have a different susceptibility to socio-economic changes.
Hemoparasites occurrence in healthy African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus) in mainland Portugal
Creators: name: Portela, Gonçalo
name: Nóbrega, Mário
name: Santos, Tiago
name: Marques, Cátia
name: Alves, Margarida
name: Ramilo, David W
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2024

description: Objectives: Since there is a lack of knowledge on the infection by Haemoproteus, Plasmodium and Leucocytozoon not only in Psittacus erithacus but also in Psittacidae family, the main objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of these heamosporidians in healthy Psittacus erithacus in mainland Portugal.


Materials and Methods: A total of 70 blood samples were taken from asymptomatic Psittacus erithacus kept in several private collections from mainland Portugal.


Results: The presence of hemoparasites was assessed by microscopic observation of blood smears. The detection of Haemoproteus spp. and Plasmodium spp. infection was possible in 8 out of 70 individuals accounting for a prevalence of infection of 11.43%. Leucocytozoon spp. was not detected in any of the smears.


Conclusions: Detection of Haemoproteus spp. and Plasmodium spp. infection is more common than Leucozytozoon spp. infection. This difference is not because Leucocytozoon spp. infection is rare, but due to the life cycle of this parasite that is detected in peripheral blood only for short periods of time. Given the lack of data on hemosporidian distribution in Portugal, namely in Psittacidae species, this work represents an important contribution to a better understanding of the epidemiological impact of the infection in captive fauna of Psittacus erithacus. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first surveillance study of haemosporidia in this species in Portugal.


 


Keywords: Haemosporidian; Haemoproteus spp.; Plasmodium spp.; Leucozytozoon spp.; Psittacus erithacus.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 15 (2024): II Encontro de Investigação da FMV da Universidade Lusófona- Edição Especial
A Full-Potential-Linearized-Augmented-Plane-Wave Electronic Structure Study of delta-Plutonium and the (001) Surface
Creators: name: Wu, Xueyuan
name: Ray, Asok K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic and geometric properties of bulk fcc delta-plutonium and the quantum size effects in the surface energies and the work functions of the (001) ultra thin films (UTF) up to 7 layers have been investigated with periodic density functional theory calculations within the full-potential linearized augmented-plane wave (FP-LAPW) approach as implemented in the WIEN2k package. Our calculated equilibrium atomic volume of 178.3 a.u.^3 and bulk modulus of 24.9 GPa at the fully relativistic level of theory, i.e. spin-polarization and spin-orbit coupling included, are in good agreement with the experimental values of 168.2 a.u.^3 and 25 GPa (593 K), respectively. The calculated equilibrium lattice constants at different levels of approximation are used in the surface properties calculations for the thin films. The surface energy is found to be rapidly converged with the semi-infinite surface energy predicted to be 0.692eV at the fully-relativistic level.
description: 27 pages,8 figures
Exploring an integral approach to generative dialogue as a means for bringing about transformative learning in groups
Creators: name: Gunnlaugson, Carl Olen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis attempts to integrate Scharmer’s model of generative dialogue with transformative learning theory and with Wilber’s integral theory to show how generative dialogue can support and engage transformative learning in groups. The three chapters of the body of the thesis each explore specific facets of generative dialogue with an overarching interest in how generative dialogue can serve educators within adult and higher learning settings--particularly those who are invested in supporting the conditions for transformative learning in the classroom. In addition, elements of Wilber’s integral theory are introduced both to open up new conceptual and experiential frontiers within the field of transformative learning and to improve generative dialogue theory and practice.
Deteção molecular e prevalência de circovírus dos psitacídeos em Papagaios-Cinzentos (Psittacus erithacus) (in vivo) em várias regiões de Portugal continental
Creators: name: Portela, Gonçalo
name: Nóbrega, Mário
name: Santos, Tiago
name: Terraso, Ana
name: Lima, João Ribeiro
name: Marques, Cátia
name: Alves, Margarida
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2024

description: Objetivos: Os objetivos deste estudo foram determinar a prevalência da infeção por BFDV em P. erithacus assintomáticos mantidos em cativeiro em Portugal Continental e caracterizar as suas condições de maneio, permitindo identificar medidas de prevenção da disseminação do vírus.


Material e Métodos: Foram colhidas amostras de sangue de 10 aves adultas, saudáveis, da espécie P. erithacus provenientes de 10 criadores distintos de 9 concelhos de Portugal Continental, perfazendo um total de 100 animais. Foi realizada a extração de DNA, seguida de um controlo de qualidade através da amplificação de um gene housekeeping (12S rDNA). A deteção do DNA viral foi realizada por PCR nested, confirmada pela presença de um produto de PCR com cerca de 359 pb. De forma complementar, foi realizado um questionário epidemiológico sobre cada criador e cada ave incluída por forma a caracterizar os animais em estudo.


Resultados: A presença de DNA viral de BFDV foi identificada em oito amostras, valor que corresponde a uma prevalência global de infeção assintomática por BFDV de 8% (8/100). As aves positivas pertenciam a 6 criadores localizados em vários distritos de Portugal. Quanto às condições de maneio das aves, foi possível observar que alguns criadores mantêm fatores que são reconhecidos pela comunidade científica como favoráveis à disseminação e manutenção de BFDV.


Conclusões: Dada a sua importância clínica e a escassez de informação sobre a distribuição de BFDV em Portugal, este trabalho representa um importante contributo epidemiológico e clínico para a fauna cativa de P. erithacus no nosso País. É demonstrada também a necessidade de sensibilizar os criadores para a importância deste vírus e da implementação de medidas que minimizem a sua disseminação sobretudo em aves sem sinais clínicos que representam um importante reservatório de BFDV.


 


Palavras-chave: BFDV; Psittacus erithacus; PCR.


 


Fontes de financiamento: Este trabalho foi financiado pela Universidade Lusófona (projecto FMV_Estágios_21-22).
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 15 (2024): II Encontro de Investigação da FMV da Universidade Lusófona- Edição Especial
title: National concert hall Sarajevo
Creators: name: Janković, Bogdan
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: National concert hall
subject: Sarajevo

description: Sarajevo befindet entlang des Flusses Miljacka, mit den Bergen im Süden und Norden der Stadt begrenzt. Stadt-Architektur ist ein mix aus verschiedenen Kultur und Design. Der Standort des Projekts ist Marijin Dvor / B-Quadranten. Der Standort in Marijin Dvor liegt zwischen dem alten Teil der Stadt im Osten, und die neue Stadtteil im Westen. Umgeben von Natur, Fluss Miljacka und Wilsons Promenade in der Nähe von Verwaltungsund Geschäftsgebäude des Parlaments und UNITIC Wolkenkratzern. Die Lage ist auch wichtiger Bestandteil der Hauptverkehrsstraßen im Zentrum von Sarajevo - Treffpunkt der modernen und alten Teil der Stadt - neue touristische Attraktion. Nationale Concet Hall ist Teil des Stadtplans für 1998 centar von Sarajevo zu entwickeln.
description: The city of Sarajevo is located in the valley of the river Miljacka, surrounded by the mountains on both the south and the north side of the city.The city architecture is a mixture of different cultures and designs. The location of the project is in Marijin Dvor / B quadrant. The site in Marijin Dvor lies between the old part of the city in the east and the new city part stretching to the west. It is surrounded by a beautiful countryside, the river Miljacka and Wilson`s Lane in the vicinity of the administrative and business buildings of the Parliament and UNITIC skyscrapers. The location also represents an important part of the main transport route in central Sarajevo - the meeting point of the modern and old part of the city - a new touristic attraction. National Concert Hall is part of the Urban plan for the development of the central part of Sarajevo from 1998.
Current Oscillations in Quasi-2D Charge-Density-Wave 1T-TaS2 Devices: Revisiting the "Narrow Band Noise" Concept
Creators: name: Geremew, Adane K.
name: Rumyantsev, Sergey
name: Lake, Roger
name: Balandin, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on current oscillations in quasi two-dimensional (2D) 1T-TaS2 charge-density-wave devices. The MHz-frequency range of the oscillations and the linear dependence of the frequency of the oscillations on the current resemble closely the "narrow band noise," which was often observed in the classical bulk quasi-one-dimensional (1D) trichalcogenide charge-density-wave materials. In bulk quasi-1D materials, the "narrow band noise" was interpreted as a direct evidence of the charge-density-wave sliding. Despite the similarities, we argue that the nature of the MHz oscillations in quasi-2D 1T-TaS2 is different from the "narrow band noise." Analysis of the biasing conditions and current indicate that the observed oscillations are related to the current instabilities due to the voltage-induced transition from the nearly commensurate to incommensurate charge-density-wave phase.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
OKREŚLENIE STOPNIA POLARYZACJI GŁÓWNYCH KIERUNKÓW PRODUKCJI ZWIERZĘCEJ W POLSCE
Creators: name: Kopiński, Jerzy
name: Kopiński, Jerzy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: grade of polarization
subject: regional differentiation
subject: kinds of production
subject: animal production

description: The paper showed analyzes the change of trends and determine the degree of the territorial polarization of the main kinds of animal production in Poland. To assess the degree of territorial polarization adopted to determine the angle of slope the line trend changes the attributes (a = tgα). The analysis shows that between the 2002-2004 and 2009-2011 years, was found significant deepening of regional differences in the intensity of cattle in Poland, and the territorial polarization stocking load of cattle amounted to more than 21°. The observed differences between regions in terms of the loads pigs are still big, but in the analyzed period were not worsened or rather there has been a small convergence (about 2.7°). The pigs stock in the period of 2002-2012 was reduced by almost 40%. Keeping this trend will affect the food security of the country but also on the level of employment and income of the rural population and the resources of natural fertilizers which are of great importance for soil fertility. Changes in cattle stock were quite small. In the analyzed period total cattle population increased by 4.4% while the cows stock decreased by 14.4%.
Caracterização molecular de Hepatozoon canis em Portugal
Creators: name: Zúquete, Sara
name: Gazalle, Paula
name: Belas, Adriana
name: Fonseca, Joana
name: Pereira, André
name: Ramilo, David W
name: Munhoz, Ana
name: Delgado, Inês L S
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2024

description: Objectivos: Foram detetados gamontes, suspeitos de Hepatozoon canis, no sangue periférico de uma cadela que se apresentou no Hospital Escolar da Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária da Universidade Lusófona. Hepatozoon canis é um protozoário transmitido por vetores que afeta o cão doméstico, adquirido através da ingestão de carraças infetadas, que tem vindo a ser detetado em Portugal desde 1988. Contudo, o conhecimento sobre as suas características moleculares é vago. Este estudo pretendeu analisar a composição molecular do gene da pequena subunidade do RNA ribossomal (18S-rRNA) de H. canis relatado em Portugal.


Materiais e Métodos: Foi extraído DNA para amplificar uma região do 18S-rRNA por PCR e o amplicão foi sequenciado pelo método de Sanger. Foram obtidas da base de dados GenBank as sequências de 18S-rRNA de H. canis reportadas em Portugal, assim como sequências de H. canis reportadas em outros países e sequências de outras espécies para análise filogenética. As sequências foram alinhadas pelo método MAFFT G-INS-i e foi construída uma árvore por inferência filogenética baseada em máxima verosimilhança. Foi estimada a percentagem de identidade entre sequências H. canis com a ferramenta SIAS.


Resultados: A análise da sequência pela ferramenta Blastn sugere que se trata de H. canis (99.82% identidade e 100% cobertura, MK091088). Após eliminação de sequências redundantes, obteve-se 4 sequências distintas que foram comparadas com a obtida no presente estudo. Estas sequências mostraram um alto grau de identidade que variou entre 93% e 100%. A árvore filogenética mostra uma clara separação entre as sequências de H. canis e as sequências das restantes espécies, contudo não evidencia nenhum subgrupo dentro das sequências H. canis.


Conclusões: A análise do gene 18S-rRNA verificou homogeneidade das sequências de H. canis reportadas em Portugal e não detetou diferenças significativas entre estas e as sequências de H. canis detetadas em outros países.


Palavras chave: Hepatozoon canis; Portugal; Filogenia; 18S-rRNA.


Financiamento: Projeto exploratório DeVPat - Projetos de Investigação da Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária da Universidade Lusófona 2022.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 15 (2024): II Encontro de Investigação da FMV da Universidade Lusófona- Edição Especial
Puzzles at High $p_T$ at RHIC and Their Resolution
Creators: name: Hwa, Rudolph C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several puzzles about the data at high $p_T$ in heavy-ion collisions are listed. The resolution of them all is given in the framework of parton recombination. More specifically, it is the recombination of the soft and semi-hard shower partons that enhances the region $30$ without the introduction of any new physics.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, Talk presented at XXXIV International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics; July 26 - August 1, 2004; Sonoma State University, California, USA
Health and economic impact of Covid-19 in Bangladesh
Creators: name: M Shahiduzzaman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140104 Microeconomic Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 110303 Clinical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Health and economic impact of Covid-19 in Bangladesh
Magnon antibunching in a nanomagnet
Creators: name: Yuan, H. Y.
name: Duine, Rembert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the correlations of magnons inside a nanomagnet and identify a regime of parameters where the magnons become antibunched, i.e., where there is a large probability for occupation of the single-magnon state. This antibunched state is very different from magnons at thermal equilibrium and microwave-driven coherent magnons. We further obtain the steady state analytically and describe the magnon dynamics numerically, and ascertain the stability of such antibunched magnons over a large window of magnetic anisotropy, damping and temperature. This means that the antibunched magnon state is feasible in a wide class of low-damping magnetic nanoparticles. To detect this quantum effect, we propose to transfer the quantum information of magnons to photons by magnon-photon coupling and then measure the correlations of photons to retrieve the magnon correlations. Our findings may provide a promising platform to study quantum-classical transitions and for designing a single magnon source.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Evaluation of aerobic oral flora of healthy ball pythons (Phyton regius)
Creators: name: Silva, Mafalda
name: Antunes, João
name: Valença, Andreia
name: Patrício, Rui
name: Marcelino, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2024

description: Objectives: Ball pythons are among the most common species commercially bred and kept as exotic pets. Pet reptiles are reported reservoirs of a variety of pathogenic bacteria and a potential source of multidrug-resistant bacteria transmission, representing a serious concern for public health safety. Reptile bacterial diseases can be caused by primary pathogens but are frequently the result of immunocompromising conditions that allow overgrowing of commensal bacteria. Thus, to correctly interpret the significance of bacterial isolates from ill animals, there is the need to first determine the normal flora, that is relatively unknown in ball pythons.


Materials and Methods: Oral swabs were aseptically collected from twenty healthy adult ball pythons and preserved in Amies medium. Samples were supplemented with Brain-heart infusion broth and incubated at 37ºC for 24h. They were then streaked onto selective and chromogenic media plates and again incubated at 37ºC for 24-72h. After Gram staining, bacteria were identified using a VITEK® 2 system.


Results: A total of 57 colonies were isolated, resulting in the identification of 12 species, five Gram-positive (Enterococcus faecium, E. gallinarum, Staphylococcus xylosus, S. sciuri, and Micrococcus luteus) and seven Gram-negative (Aeromonas hydrophila, Salmonella spp., Morganella morganii, Acinetobacter spp., Enterobacter spp., Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa).


Conclusions: This study is a contribute to the establishment of ball pythons’ normal oral flora and identifies potentially pathogenic bacteria. These findings caution the need to further characterize the normal flora in this species. Ongoing studies will provide more data on the normal oral and cloacal bacterial flora of Python regius and evaluate the antibiotic susceptibility of this flora. This will allow us to assess the zoonotic potential of ball pythons by identifying potentially human pathogens and multidrug-resistant bacteria.


 


Keywords: Oral flora; Aerobic bacteria; Multidrug-resistant bacteria; Python regius.


 


Funding: 2022/23 Exploratory project grant (PythonFlora), from Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lusófona University (FMV-ULusófona).
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 15 (2024): II Encontro de Investigação da FMV da Universidade Lusófona- Edição Especial
KHFAC Manuscript AJP-Heart Circ Physiol Appendix
Creators: name: Hadaya, Joseph
name: Buckley, Una
name: Gurel, Nil Z.
name: Chan, Christopher
name: Swid, Mohammad
name: Bhadra, Niloy
name: Vrabec, Tina
name: Hoang, Jonathan
name: Smith, Corey
name: Shivkumar, Kalyanam
name: L. Ardell, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Appendix containing Supplemental Table 1-4 for publication with primary manuscript in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology (https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00568.2021).
Gauged D=7 Supergravity on the S**1/Z_2 Orbifold
Creators: name: Avramis, Spyros D.
name: Kehagias, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the most general couplings of a bulk seven-dimensional Yang-Mills-Einstein N=2 supergravity with a boundary six-dimensional chiral N=(0,1) theory of vectors and charged hypermultiplets. The boundary consists of two brane worlds sitting at the fixed points of an S^1/Z_2 compactification of the seven-dimensional bulk supergravity. The resulting 6D massless spectrum surviving the orbifold projection is anomalous. By introducing boundary fields at the orbifold fixed points, we show that all anomalies are cancelled by a Green-Schwarz mechanism. In addition, all couplings of the boundary fields to the bulk are completely specified by supersymmetry. We emphasize that there is no bulk Chern-Simons term to cancel the anomalies. The latter is traded for a Green-Schwarz term which emerges in the boundary theory after a duality transformation implemented to construct the bulk supergravity.
description: LaTeX, 42 pages; typos corrected, reference added, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Enhanced Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Acute Kidney Disease Through Thiazolidinedione
Creators: name: Chang, Li-Yang
name: Wu, Vin-Cent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321402
subject: Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
classificationCode: 320101
subject: Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
classificationCode: 320214
subject: Nephrology and urology

description: This study investigates the impact of thiazolidinedione (TZD) treatment in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) during the acute kidney disease (AKD) phase. Using the TriNetX platform, researchers assessed the risk of all-cause mortality, major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), and major adverse kidney events (MAKE) in patients who received TZD within 90 days of an AKD diagnosis. Over a median follow-up of 1.5 years, TZD treatment was associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality (HR 0.68), MACE (HR 0.68), and MAKE (HR 0.75), suggesting that TZD may help manage complications in T2DM patients with AKD.
Exploring the Bayesian parameter estimation of binary black holes with LISA
Creators: name: Marsat, Sylvain
name: Baker, John G.
name: Canton, Tito Dal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The space-based gravitational wave detector LISA will observe mergers of massive black hole binary systems (MBHBs) to cosmological distances, as well as inspiralling stellar-origin (or stellar-mass) binaries (SBHBs) years before they enter the LIGO/Virgo band. Much remains to be explored for the parameter recovery of both classes of systems. Previous MBHB analyses relied on inspiral-only signals and/or a simplified Fisher matrix analysis, while SBHBs have not yet been extensively analyzed with Bayesian methods. We accelerate likelihood computations by (i) using a Fourier-domain response of the LISA instrument, (ii) using a reduced-order model for non-spinning waveforms that include a merger-ringdown and higher harmonics, (iii) setting the noise realization to zero and computing overlaps in the amplitude/phase representation. We present the first simulations of Bayesian inference for the parameters of massive black hole systems including consistently the merger and ringdown of the signal, as well as higher harmonics. We clarify the roles of LISA response time and frequency dependencies in breaking degeneracies and illustrate how degeneracy breaking unfolds over time. We also find that restricting the merger-dominated signal to its dominant harmonic can make the extrinsic likelihood very degenerate. Including higher harmonics proves to be crucial to break degeneracies and considerably improves the localization of the source, with a surviving bimodality in the sky position. We also present simulations of Bayesian inference for the extrinsic parameters of SBHBs, and show that although unimodal, their posterior distributions can have non-Gaussian features.
description: 34 pages, 18 figures
Discourses of concealment and resistance : a critical/feminist disability analysis of BC’s Disability Designation Review
Creators: name: Prieur, Deborah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In 2002, British Columbia's (BC) Liberal Government introduced new social assistance legislation which radically changed the philosophy and access to social assistance for poor people with and without disabilities throughout the province. This thesis is an analysis of one aspect of this policy shift, the Ministry of Human Resources' Disability Designation Review, a massive review of almost 19,000 people who had been receiving Disability Benefits 2 under the previous legislation. Using the tools of feminist and post-structural discourse analysis and a critical/feminist disability lens, I challenge the apparent objectivity and neutrality of the Reassessment Form and the Ministry's rationale for the review by unpacking the discursive strategies the Ministry used to legitimize the review as a fair, impartial, objective, and neutral information gathering exercise to ensure services were going to those "most in need." I argue that rather than a neutral, objective, and harmless information gathering exercise, the review was yet another attack against poor people in the welfare wars fuelled by the neoliberal ideology and governing practices common to many western liberal democracies. In addition to deconstructing the discourses used to justify, promote and rationalize the review, I explore the resistance to the review by analyzing the discourses disability advocates and their supporters used to challenge and disrupt the government's agenda. I conclude that the review is an example of disabling social policy which forced people with disabilities to position themselves as unable and incapable as possible in order to claim their right to income and support.
KHFAC Manuscript AJP-Heart Circ Physiol Appendix
Creators: name: Hadaya, Joseph
name: Buckley, Una
name: Gurel, Nil Z.
name: Chan, Christopher
name: Swid, Mohammad
name: Bhadra, Niloy
name: Vrabec, Tina
name: Hoang, Jonathan
name: Smith, Corey
name: Shivkumar, Kalyanam
name: L. Ardell, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Appendix containing Supplemental Methods, Supplemental Table 1, Supplemental Table 2 for evaluation with submission of primary manuscript to American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
Infeção por helmintes pulmonares e gastrointestinais em gatos (Felis catus) da área metropolitana de Lisboa: Estudo preliminar
Creators: name: Santos, C
name: Alves, Margarida
name: Monteiro, MC
name: Rocha, Ana
name: Cruz, Adrian
name: Ramalhete, Beatriz
name: Trindade, Bárbara
name: Delgado, Inês L S
name: Maia, Carla
name: Ramilo, David W
name: Pereira, André
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2024

description: Objetivos: Os gatos (Felis catus) podem ser afetados por um vasto leque de helmintes, alguns dos quais com potencial zoonótico. Neste contexto, o presente estudo teve como objetivo estimar a prevalência de infeção por helmintes gastrointestinais e pulmonares em gatos da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (AML).


Materiais e Métodos: Entre novembro de 2022 e abril de 2023 foram recolhidas e analisadas, pelos métodos de Baermann, sedimentação e flutuação com centrifugação, amostras fecais de gatos da AML.


Resultados: A infeção por helmintes gastrointestinais e/ou pulmonares foi diagnosticada em 9,2% dos gatos amostrados (9/87), dos quais 33,3% (3/9) apresentavam infeções mistas. O parasita mais prevalente foi Aelurostrongylus abstrusus (5,7%; 5/87), seguido por ancilostomídeos (3,4%; 3/87), Mesocestoides spp. (2,3%; 2/87), Toxascaris leonina e Toxocara cati (2,3%; 2/87).


Conclusões: Os resultados deste estudo demonstram que, entre os helmintes que mais frequentemente afetam os gatos da AML, vários têm potencial zoonótico, sendo fulcral promover um controlo parasitológico eficaz e regular em prol da saúde pública e animal.


 


Palavras-chave: gatos, helmintes, coprologia, zoonose, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa


 


Financiamento: Este trabalho foi financiado pela Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária da Universidade Lusófona através do projeto de investigação “FIZP” Feline Intestinal Zoonotic Protozoa – 2022/2023.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 15 (2024): II Encontro de Investigação da FMV da Universidade Lusófona- Edição Especial
Hyper-Kamiokande
Creators: name: Kudenko, Yury
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A next generation water Cherenkov detector Hyper-Kamiokande to be built in Japan is described. The main goals of this project include a sensitive measurement of CP violation in neutrino oscillations, a search for proton decay and study of solar, atmospherics and astrophysical neutrinos. Key features of the Hyper-Kamiokande detector are described. The main emphasis is put on large photosensors. The recent progress in the development of near neutrino detectors is also presented.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. Proceedings paper of the INSTR20 conference
Cosmic Superstrings Revisited
Creators: name: Polchinski, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is possible that superstrings, as well as other one-dimensional branes, could have been produced in the early universe and then expanded to cosmic size today. I discuss the conditions under which this will occur, and the signatures of these strings. Such cosmic superstrings could be the brightest objects visible in gravitational wave astronomy, and might be distinguishable from gauge theory cosmic strings by their network properties.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures. Presented at the Mitchell Conference on Superstring Cosmology, GR17, Cosmo 04, and the 2004 APS-DPF Meeting. v2: typos fixed, references added, some added discussion of pulsar bounds and Hagedorn transitions
KONKURENCJA NA RYNKU ZAOPATRZENIA I ZBYTU PRZYGRANICZNYCH OBSZARÓW WIEJSKICH POŁUDNIOWO-ZACHODNIEJ POLSKI
Creators: name: Kropsz-Wydra, Irena
name: Kurtyka-Marcak, Izabela
name: Kropsz-Wydra, Irena
name: Kurtyka-Marcak, Izabela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: competition
subject: market supply and sales
subject: enterprises
subject: rural areas
subject: the south-western borderland
subject: Poland

description: The research aim to assess the level of competition on the market supply and sales, and the trend observed in the phenomenon of competition in the market. Information was obtained on the basis of the opinion of entrepreneurs selected companies located in rural areas southwestern borderland Polish. Research was conducted in 2011 among 127 businesses operating in selected municipalities borderland. Studies have shown the average intensified competition had the in the market supply and sales in the opinion of half of entrepreneurs, and a one quarter of the population phenomenon assessed as the large. Whereas the tendency of changes in the phenomenon of competition is increasing in the market the supply according to one quarter of respondents, and on the selling market in assessing more than one third of total respondents borderland. More than half of the entrepreneurs did not see significant changes in this regard.
mandela Project 1 1 (1).pdf
Creators: name: Awuni, Prosper Mandela Amaltinga
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Diseases

description: Background: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) claimed 11,310 lives in 2014 and has ravaged more than 2,074 lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Both outbreaks have been blamed entirely on weak health systems (inadequately prepared frontline health care workers, logistics, and infrastructure). During both Ebola Virus Disease outbreaks, borders have played a crucial role in the response and control of EVD spread. The purpose of this study was to assess the preparedness of port workers in the Upper East Region of Ghana against EVD and describe the cross-border population health situation in the Upper East Region of Ghana against EVD. Methods: A cross-sectional study was adopted with desk reviews and case studies, interviews, and Focus group discussions. A narrative synthesis of the studies was used to answer our questions. Results: This study revealed that the port workers are ill-prepared against EVD because of inadequate infrastructure, logistic constraints, perceived corrupt practices and low public spending on health, deficiencies in the health institutions and absence of cross border collaboration, and inadequate port health officials. Conclusion: The entire healthcare system is faced with an emergency dilemma and this has negative implications for the entire population of the Upper East Region. The health system has a reactionary approach to disease emergencies instead of putting the necessary structures in place for unforeseen events. We do not know when next EVD will strike and which country it will emerge. It may well be a different zoonotic disease which we are not well prepared for. Ghana must strengthen the capacity of the port workers to detect people coming into the country to prevent the importation of infectious diseases of unknown origin in the future
Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Peterson, B. M.
name: Horne, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reverberation mapping is a proven technique that is used to measure the size of the broad emission-line region and central black hole mass in active galactic nuclei. More ambitious reverberation mapping programs that are well within the capabilities of Hubble Space Telescope could allow us to determine the nature and flow of line-emitting gas in active nuclei and to assess accurately the systematic uncertainties in reverberation-based black hole mass measurements.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures. To appear in Planets to Cosmology: Essential Science in Hubble's Final Years, ed. M. Livio (Cambridge: CUP), in press (2005)
ZNACZENIE FUNDUSZY UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ W PROCESIE MODERNIZACJI GOSPODARSTW ROLNICZYCH W POLSCE NA PRZYKŁADZIE WOJEWÓDZTWA PODKARPACKIEGO
Creators: name: Kusz, Dariusz
name: Kusz, Dariusz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: modernization
subject: farm
subject: EU founds

description: The aim of the work is identify and define the role of public aid in investment activity in modernization of farms. The study is based on 129 randomly selected farms from Podkarpackie province. Research was conducted in 2012 in selected farms using questionnaire interview about farms organizations, the results of economic and evaluation of the investments. The period of analysis covered the years 2004 to 2011. It has been stated that in surveyed farms increased agricultural land and also improved the ratio of labor to the agricultural land and technical equipment of labor.
Assessment of the microbiological quality and safety in takeaway sushi meals in Portugal
Creators: name: Alegria, Sandy
name: Santos, Maria Isabel
name: Furtado, Rosália
name: Correia, Cristina
name: Lima, Ana
name: Pedroso, Laurentina
name: Ramos, Sónia
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2024

description: Objectives: In this study, it was our goal to evaluate the microbiological quality and safety of takeaway ready-to-eat sushi meals in the region of Lisbon, Portugal. 


Materials and Methods: A total of 62 sushi samples, with different fish varieties, were purchased in takeaway services (31 from hypermarkets and 31 from a traditional restaurant). An automated test (TEMPO®) for the enumeration of food hygiene and quality indicators was used; and aerobic mesophilic microorganisms, Enterobacteriaceae, Escherichia coli, coagulase-positive Staphylococci and Bacillus cereus were counted. For Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes, the VIDAS® immunoenzymatic system was used. The samples were classified as either satisfactory, borderline or unsatisfactory according to the Portuguese guidelines.


Results: Of the total samples analysed, 48.4% (30/62) were classified as having an unsatisfactory microbiological level, corresponding to 54.8% (17/31) of the samples from hypermarkets and 41.9% (13/31) of restaurant samples. As for the remaining samples, 35.5% (22/62) were classified with borderline level and only 16.1% (10/62) were classified as having a satisfactory microbiological level. Concerning fish variety, of the 62 sushi samples analysed, 40.3% (25/62) were made with tuna, 50% (31/62) were made with salmon and 9.7% (6/62) were made with shrimp. Of these, 64% (16/25), 29% (9/31) and 83.4% (5/6) were classified as unsatisfactory, respectively from tuna, salmon and shrimp. Finally, none of pathogens studied, Salmonella spp., L. monocytogenes and Vibrio spp. was detected in any of the samples under study.


Conclusions: Our results indicate the need to improve good practices in takeaway sushi preparation, and since the worst microbiological results were obtained in hypermarkets, this work further suggests that there is an essential need to improve food safety plans in these establishments, to obtain a final product with the desired quality level.


 


Keywords: Sushi; Pathogenic microorganisms; Good practices; Food safety.


Funding: This study was supported by a grant by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 15 (2024): II Encontro de Investigação da FMV da Universidade Lusófona- Edição Especial
Multiplicities, pictographs, and volumes
Creators: name: Coquereaux, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E46 05E10 17B10 15B52

description: The present contribution is the written counterpart of a talk given in Yerevan at the SQS'2019 International Workshop "Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries" (SQS'2019, 26 August - August 31, 2019). After a short presentation of various pictographs (O-blades, metric honeycombs) that one can use in order to calculate SU(n) multiplicities (Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, Kostka numbers), we briefly discuss the semi-classical limit of these multiplicities in relation with the Horn and Schur volume functions and with the so-called Rn-polynomials that enter the expression of volume functions. For n < 7 the decomposition of the Rn-polynomials on Lie group characters is already known, the case n=7 is obtained here.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the SQS'2019 International Workshop "Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries" held in Yerevan (26 August - August 31, 2019)