cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ο υπομνηματισμός του Μιχαήλ Εφεσίου στο ένατο βιβλίο των Ηθικών Νικομαχείων
Creators: name: Σαββίδου, Αφροδίτη Αγγελου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Μιχαήλ Εφέσιος
φιλία
υπομνηματισμός
Michael of Ephesus
philia
commentary

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι να παρουσιάσει τον υπομνηματισμό του βυζαντινού σχολιαστή Μιχαήλ της Εφέσου στο ένατο βιβλίο των Ηθικών Νικομαχείων του Αριστοτέλη, που αφορά την φιλία και την διατήρησή της. Παρατίθενται οι υπομνηματιστικές τεχνικές των Βυζαντινών, αλλά αναδεικνύεται και η ιδιαιτερότητα του σχολιασμού του Μιχαήλ. Ο Εφέσιος έδειξε ιδιαίτερη αγάπη στην αριστοτελική φιλοσοφία και υπομνημάτισε πολλά έργα του Σταγειρίτη χωρίς η ενασχόλησή του να περιορίζεται στο πεδίο της ηθικής. Στα εισαγωγικά κεφάλαια της μελέτης παρουσιάζεται η απήχηση του αριστοτελικού έργου στο Βυζάντιο και η επίδρασή του στους λογίους της εποχής, οι οποίοι με τα σχόλιά τους έδωσαν πολλές και διαφορετικές διαστάσεις στην αριστοτελική σκέψη. Ο Εφέσιος χάρη στην οξυδέρκειά του, το ανεπιτήδευτο ύφος του και την μακρά εξοικείωση με την αριστοτελική φιλοσοφία καταφέρνει να παρουσιάσει την σκέψη του Αριστοτέλη στον αναγνώστη, αναδεικνύοντας το μεγαλείο της σκέψης του ρίχνοντας φως σε όλα τα σκοτεινά και δυσνόητα σημεία του έργου. Η ανάλυση των επιχειρημάτων, η χρήση παραλληλισμών και παραδειγμάτων και η εξήγηση των αριστοτελικών χωρίων μέσω άλλων έργων του Σταγειρίτη καθιστά τον υπομνηματισμό αυτό ιδιαιτέρως λειτουργικό για τον αριστοτελικό αναγνώστη αλλά και σήμα κατατεθέν για την βυζαντινή σχολιαστική παράδοση
description: The purpose of this study is to present the remark of the Byzantine commentator Michael of Ephesus in the ninth book of the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, which topic is friendship and its preservation. The commentary techniques of Byzantine commentators are presented, but the specificity of Michael's commentary is also highlighted. Ephesios admired Aristotelian philosophy and memorized many works by Stageiritis without his interest being limited to the field of morality. The introductory chapters of the study present the resonance of the Aristotelian work in Byzantium and its effect on the scholars of the time, who, with their comments, gave many different dimensions in Aristotelian thought. Ephesios, thanks to his sharpness, his unpretentious style and his familiarity with Aristotelian philosophy, succeeded in presenting Aristotle's thought to the reader, highlighting the grandeur of his thinking, giving light to all the dark and tricky points of the original work. The analysis of the arguments, the use of parallelisms and examples and the explanation of the Aristotelian passages through other works by Stageiritis makes this commentary particularly functional for the Aristotelian reader but also a trademark for the Byzantine commentary tradition
Functional meta lenses for compound plasmonic vortex field generation and control
Creators: name: Prinz, Eva
name: Spektor, Grisha
name: Hartelt, Michael
name: Mahro, Anna-Katharina
name: Aeschlimann, Martin
name: Orenstein, Meir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface plasmon polaritons carrying orbital angular momentum are of great fundamental and applied interest. However, common approaches for their generation are restricted to having a weak dependence on the properties of the plasmon-generating illumination, providing a limited degree of control over the amount of delivered orbital angular momentum. Here we experimentally show that by tailoring local and global geometries of vortex generators, a change in circular polarization handedness of light imposes arbitrary large switching in the delivered plasmonic angular momentum. Using time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy we demonstrate pristine control over the generation and rotation direction of high-order plasmonic vortices. We generalize our approach to create complex topological fields and exemplify it by studying and controlling a "bright vortex", exhibiting the breakdown of a high-order vortex into a mosaic of unity-order vortices while maintaining the overall angular momentum density. Our results provide tools for plasmonic manipulation and could be utilized in lab-on-a-chip devices.
Additional file 1 of Facilitators and barriers to implementing provider-initiated HIV counselling and testing at the clinic-level in Ekurhuleni District, South Africa
Creators: name: Mshweshwe-Pakela, Nolundi
name: Mabuto, Tonderai
name: Ntombela, Nasiphi
name: Hlongwane, Mpho
name: Kubeka, Griffiths
name: Kerrigan, Deanna L.
name: Hoffmann, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Modeling On-Line Art Auction Dynamics Using Functional Data Analysis
Creators: name: Reddy, Srinivas K.
name: Dass, Mayukh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we examine the price dynamics of on-line art auctions of modern Indian art using functional data analysis. The purpose here is not just to understand what determines the final prices of art objects, but also the price movement during the entire auction. We identify several factors, such as artist characteristics (established or emerging artist; prior sales history), art characteristics (size; painting medium--canvas or paper), competition characteristics (current number of bidders; current number of bids) and auction design characteristics (opening bid; position of the lot in the auction), that explain the dynamics of price movement in an on-line art auction. We find that the effects on price vary over the duration of the auction, with some of these effects being stronger at the beginning of the auction (such as the opening bid and historical prices realized). In some cases, the rate of change in prices (velocity) increases at the end of the auction (for canvas paintings and paintings by established artists). Our analysis suggests that the opening bid is positively related to on-line auction price levels of art at the beginning of the auction, but its effect declines toward the end of the auction. The order in which the lots appear in an art auction is negatively related to the current price level, with this relationship decreasing toward the end of the auction. This implies that lots that appear earlier have higher current prices during the early part of the auction, but that effect diminishes by the end of the auction. Established artists show a positive relationship with the price level at the beginning of the auction. Reputation or popularity of the artists and their investment potential as assessed by previous history of sales are positively related to the price levels at the beginning of the auction. The medium (canvas or paper) of the painting does not show any relationship with art auction price levels, but the size of the painting is negatively related to the current price during the early part of the auction. Important implications for auction design are drawn from the analysis.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/088342306000000196 in the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Το Θέατρο Ντοκουμέντο ως θεατρικό είδος. Το Θέατρο Ντοκουμέντο ως εκπαιδευτικό εργαλείο
Creators: name: Σταμάτη, Ευαγγελία Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Θέατρο Ντοκουμέντο
Εκπαιδευτικό Δράμα
Εκπαιδευτικό εργαλείο
Documentary Theatre
Drama in Education
Educational tool

description: Η παρούσα εργασία πραγματεύεται το Θέατρο Ντοκουμέντο ως θεατρικό είδος και επιχειρεί να το συνδέσει με την εκπαίδευση. Πρόθεση και επιδίωξή μας είναι να διερευνήσουμε τη χρησιμότητά του ως εργαλείου εκπαίδευσης. Η εργασία διαρθρώνεται σε έξι κεφάλαια. Στον πρόλογο αναλύονται οι προβληματισμοί που οδήγησαν στην επιλογή του θέματος. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο επιχειρείται η παρουσίαση του Θεάτρου Ντοκουμέντο ως είδος: πώς ορίζεται, με ποια είδη συγγενεύει, που, πώς, πότε και γιατί εμφανίστηκε, ποια είναι η σύγχρονη μορφή του, ποιες οι ιδιαιτερότητές του ως θεατρικού είδους, ποια η σχέση του με αυτό που ονομάζουμε πολιτικό θέατρο και η παρουσία του στη σύγχρονη Ελλάδα. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο αναλύεται η σχέση του θεάτρου με την εκπαίδευση και, ειδικότερα, η σύνδεση του Θεάτρου Ντοκουμέντο με αυτή. Στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο δίνεται μια παρουσίαση της μεθοδολογίας που πρόκειται να ακολουθήσουμε: της Έρευνας Δράσης. Στη συνέχεια καταγράφεται η παρέμβαση που πραγματοποιήθηκε, στο πλαίσιο της εργασίας αυτής, με μια ομάδα εφήβων, προκειμένου να διερευνηθεί η δυνατότητα χρήσης του Θεάτρου Ντοκουμέντο ως εκπαιδευτικό εργαλείο. Τέλος, στα συμπεράσματα, κατατίθενται τα αποτελέσματα της διερευνητικής αυτής διαδικασίας
description: The present project deals with the Documentary Theater as a theatrical genre and attempts to associate it to education. Our intention is to explore its usefulness as an educational tool. This thesis is structured in six chapters. The preface analyzes the concerns that led to the selection of the subject. The second chapter attempts to present the Documentary Theater as a theatrical genre: how it is defined, how it is related to other theatrical genres, how, when and why it appeared, what is its modern form, what its particularities are as a theatrical genre, its relation with what we call political theater and its presence in modern Greece. The third chapter analyzes the relationship of theater with education and, in particular, the connection of the Documentary Theater with it. The fourth chapter gives a presentation of the methodology we are going to follow: the Action Research. It then records the intervention that took place in this work with a group of teenagers to explore the possibility of using the Documentary Theater as an educational tool. Finally, the results of this exploratory process are presented in the conclusions
Evolutionary games on graphs
Creators: name: Szabo, Gyorgy
name: Fath, Gabor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Game theory is one of the key paradigms behind many scientific disciplines from biology to behavioral sciences to economics. In its evolutionary form and especially when the interacting agents are linked in a specific social network the underlying solution concepts and methods are very similar to those applied in non-equilibrium statistical physics. This review gives a tutorial-type overview of the field for physicists. The first three sections introduce the necessary background in classical and evolutionary game theory from the basic definitions to the most important results. The fourth section surveys the topological complications implied by non-mean-field-type social network structures in general. The last three sections discuss in detail the dynamic behavior of three prominent classes of models: the Prisoner's Dilemma, the Rock-Scissors-Paper game, and Competing Associations. The major theme of the review is in what sense and how the graph structure of interactions can modify and enrich the picture of long term behavioral patterns emerging in evolutionary games.
description: Review, final version, 133 pages, 65 figures
Additional file 1 of A pragmatic evaluation of a public health knowledge broker mentoring education program: a convergent mixed methods study
Creators: name: Clark, Emily C
name: Dhaliwal, Bandna
name: Ciliska, Donna
name: Neil-Sztramko, Sarah E
name: Steinberg, Marla
name: Dobbins, Maureen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. The TIDieR (Template for Intervention Description and Replication) checklist.
Measurement of delamination crack tip displacement in G/E laminates using scanning electron microscopy
Creators: name: Ferguson, James S.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: A method of measuring delamination crack tip displacements in graphite/epoxy specimens in a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) is presented. The technique involves the application of a grid to the specimen edge by evaporating a layer of gold through a thin mesh. The specimens are then placed into a jig which allows the application of Mode I or II loads individually or simultaneously. The specimen is placed into the SEM and a series of photographs are taken from slightly ahead of the crack tip to approximately 800 microns behind the crack tip. The photos are subsequently enlarged to 8"x10" size, and the gold grid then provides a reference system for making measurement of the relative displacements that occur under load. This method was used to examine the actual crack tip displacement profiles, which were then compared with the profiles that are predicted by Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM). It was found that LEFM was quite accurately able to predict the shape of the profiles, but that the magnitudes were influenced by a number of physical phenomena that were encountered. The measured displacements in Mode I were nearly always smaller than predicted due to the presence of fibre bridging in the specimens. Mode II displacements appeared to be influenced by variations in the local fibre volume fraction of the specimens which resulted in local modulus changes. Mixed-mode testing revealed an interaction that is not predicted by classical LEFM. The addition of a small Mode I load to a Mode II load resulted in increased shear displacements in nine of ten cases. The addition of a Mode II load to a Mode I load, however, resulted in increased, decreased or unchanged opening displacements. Examination of the displacements at the crack starter insert, prior to any crack growth, indicated that its behaviour is distinctly different than an actual crack. This is most likely due to the presence of a large resin pocket, which forms during manufacture at the end of the insert.
"MAQOMAT AL-HARIRIY ASARINING ARAB ADABIYOTIDA TUTGAN O'RNI
Creators: name: Oxunjanov, Abdulhay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Arab adabiyoti tarixida maqomat janri alohida o’rin tutadi. Bu janr, o’ziga xos strukturasi, til va uslubiy xususiyatlari bilan ajralib turadi. Maqomat al-Haririy, Abu Muhammad al-Haririy tomonidan yozilgan maqomot to’plamidir va bu asar arab adabiyotining eng muhim namunalari hisoblanadi. Ushbu tezisda maqomat al-Haririyning arab adabiyotidagi o’rni, uning adabiy ahamiyati, til va uslubi, shuningdek, uning adabiy an’analari va ta’sirini tahlil qilish maqsad qilinadi.
Diagrammatic calculation of thermodynamical quantities in nuclear matter
Creators: name: Soma, V.
name: Bozek, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In medium T-matrix calculations for symmetric nuclear matter at zero and finite temperatures are presented. The internal energy is calculated from the Galitskii-Koltun's sum rule and from the summation of the diagrams for the interaction energy. The pressure at finite temperature is obtained from the generating functional form of the thermodynamic potential. The entropy at high temperature is estimated and compared to expressions corresponding to a quasiparticle gas.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 2 of A pragmatic evaluation of a public health knowledge broker mentoring education program: a convergent mixed methods study
Creators: name: Clark, Emily C
name: Dhaliwal, Bandna
name: Ciliska, Donna
name: Neil-Sztramko, Sarah E
name: Steinberg, Marla
name: Dobbins, Maureen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Appendix 2. Interview structure.
Il progetto 3DLab-Sicilia
Creators: name: Barbera, Roberto
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: 3DLab-Sicilia
VR4Health

description: Presentazione fatta da Roberto Barbera al Convegno "VR4Health – Applicazione delle tecnologie della realtà virtuale nell’ambito della Salute" organizzato congiuntamente dall’Università degli Studi di Catania e dall’IRCCS Oasi Maria SS. di Troina nell’ambito delle attività del progetto 3DLab-Sicilia (www.3dlab-sicilia.it).
 Il programma del Convegno, comprensivo di tutte le presentazioni, è visionabile al link https://agenda.infn.it/e/vr4health
Biologically Inspired Navigational Strategies Using Atmospheric Scattering Patterns
Creators: name: Ashkanazy, Julia
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Aerospace engineering
subject: Robotics
subject: Bio-inspired Navigation
subject: Celestial Navigation
subject: Dorsal Rim Area
subject: Insect Vision
subject: Polarization vision

description: A source of accurate and reliable heading is vital for the navigation of autonomous systems such as micro-air vehicles (MAVs). It is desirous that a passive computationally efficient measure of heading is available even when magnetic heading is not. To confront this scenario, a biologically inspired methodology to determine heading based on atmospheric scattering patterns is proposed. A simplified model of the atmosphere is presented, and a hardware analog to the insect Dorsal Rim Area (DRA) photodetection is introduced. Several algorithms are developed to map the patterns of polarized and unpolarized celestial light to heading relative to the sun. Temporal information is used to determine current solar position, and then merged with solar relative heading resulting in absolute heading. Simulation and outdoor experimentation are used to validate the proposed heading determination methodology. Celestial heading measurements are shown to provide closed loop heading control of a ground based robot.
Conformal invariance of the writhe of a knot
Creators: name: Langevin, R.
name: O'Hara, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 53A30

description: We give a new proof of an old theorem by Banchoff and White 1975 that claims that the writhe of a knot is conformally invariant.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Ενίσχυση της λεκτικής εργαζόμενης μνήμης των ατόμων με σύνδρομο Down με τη χρήση ψηφιακού παιχνιδιού: μια πειραματική προσέγγιση
Creators: name: Μεταξά, Μαρία Ευάγγελου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Σύνδρομο Down
Λεκτική εργαζόμενη μνήμη
Ψηφιακό παιχνίδι
Down syndrome
Verbal working memory
Digital game

description: Είναι γεγονός ότι τα άτομα με σύνδρομο Down παρουσιάζουν ελλείμματα που αφορούν στη λεκτική βραχύχρονη μνήμη και κατ’ ακολουθίαν υστερούν στον αντίστοιχο τομέα της εργαζόμενης μνήμης. Σκοπός της παρούσας έρευνας είναι να διερευνήσει αν η εξάσκηση μέσω ενός ψηφιακού παιχνιδιού μνήμης μπορεί να επιφέρει βελτίωση στη λεκτική εργαζόμενη μνήμη του συγκεκριμένου πληθυσμού. Για το σκοπό αυτό, λοιπόν, δημιουργήθηκε το παιχνίδι μνήμης «Memorize- Image it!» που εφαρμόστηκε στην ομάδα παρέμβασης και αξιοποιήθηκε το επικυρωμένο πρόγραμμα «BrainHQ» για την ενεργή ομάδα ελέγχου. Συνολικά, το δείγμα αποτελείτο από 20 άτομα με σύνδρομο Down ηλικίας 9- 46 ετών, τα οποία τοποθετήθηκαν τυχαία στις δύο ομάδες. Μετά από τις 5 συνεδρίες, όπου πραγματοποιήθηκαν τα προγράμματα εξάσκησης για κάθε ομάδα, έγινε φανερό ότι το «Memorize- Image it!» μπορεί να επιφέρει βελτίωση στη λεκτική εργαζόμενη μνήμη των ατόμων με σύνδρομο Down. Συγκεκριμένα, τα αποτελέσματα ανέδειξαν ότι το ψηφιακό παιχνίδι βελτίωσε την απόδοση των συμμετεχόντων στην ανάκληση ψηφίων, ενώ δεν συνέβαλε στην ανάκληση λέξεων ούτε στην αντίστροφη ανάκληση ψηφίων
description: It is a fact that Down syndrome is associated with verbal short memory impairments and subsequently with verbal working memory deficits. The purpose of the current research is to explore whether computerized training through a digital memory game can improve verbal working memory performance of the particular population. The memory game "Memorize-Image it!" was developed and used by the intervention group and the validated program "BrainHQ" was applied to the active control group. Twenty individuals with Down syndrome aged 9- 46 years randomly assigned to each group. After both groups followed five sessions training, it became clear that "Memorize-Image it!" improved verbal working memory performance. Specifically, the results suggest that training through the memory game can improve the performance of the digit span, while it does not contribute to the word span or the backward digit span performance
A new lactone from mangrove endophytic fungus Aspergillus sp. GXNU-A9
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenxiu
name: Hao, Lili
name: Qin, Xiaoya
name: Huang, Jiguo
name: Yang, Ruiyun
name: Li, Jun
name: Huang, Xishan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A new lactone, asperlactone A (1), and four known lactone derivatives 2–5 were isolated from the mangrove endophytic fungus Aspergillus sp. GXNU-A9. Their structures were elucidated based on high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (HR-ESI-MS) datum, extensive nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic analysis, and comparison with literature data. The structure of 1 was further confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, and the absolute configuration of 1 was established. Compounds 1–5 were evaluated for their anti-inflammatory activities against nitric oxide (NO) production, and compounds 1–5 showed moderate inhibitory activities with IC50 values ranging from 15.87 to 30.48 µM.
An Evidence Based Search Method For Gravitational Waves From Neutron Star Ring-downs
Creators: name: Clark, J.
name: Heng, I. S.
name: Pitkin, M.
name: Woan, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The excitation of quadrupolar quasi-normal modes in a neutron star leads to the emission of a short, distinctive, burst of gravitational radiation in the form of a decaying sinusoid or `ring-down'. We present a Bayesian analysis method which incorporates relevant prior information about the source and known instrumental artifacts to conduct a robust search for the gravitational wave emission associated with pulsar glitches and soft $γ$-ray repeater flares. Instrumental transients are modelled as sine-Gaussian and their evidence, or marginal likelihood, is compared with that of Gaussian white noise and ring-downs via the `odds-ratio'. Tests using simulated data with a noise spectral density similar to the LIGO interferometer around 1 kHz yield 50% detection efficiency and 1% false alarm probability for ring-down signals with signal-to-noise ratio $ρ=5.2$. For a source at 15 kpc this requires an energy of $1.3\times 10^{-5}M_{\astrosun}c^2$ to be emitted as gravitational waves.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
A search for substellar members in the Praesepe and sigma Orionis clusters
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Garcia, B. M.
name: Osorio, M. R. Zapatero
name: Bejar, V. J. S.
name: Bihain, G.
name: Navascues, D. Barrado y
name: Caballero, J. A.
name: Morales-Calderon, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged). We have conducted deep photometric searches for substellar members of the Praesepe (0.5-1 Gyr) and sigma Orionis (3 Myr) star clusters using the Sloan i' and z' filters, the 3.5-m and the 5-m Hale telescopes on the Calar Alto and Palomar Observatories, respectively. The total area surveyed was 1177 arcmin^2 (Praesepe) and 1122 arcmin^2 (sigma Orionis) down to 5-sigma detection limits of i'= 24.5 and z'= 24 mag, corresponding to masses of 50-55 M_Jup (Praesepe) and 6 M_Jup (sigma Orionis). Besides recovering previously known cluster members reported in the literature, we have identified new photometric candidates in both clusters whose masses expand the full range covered by our study. In sigma Orionis, follow-up NIR photometry has allowed us to confirm the likely cluster membership of three newly discovered planetary-mass objects. The substellar mass function of sigma Orionis, which is complete from the star-brown dwarf borderline down to 7 M_Jup, keeps rising smoothly with a slope of alpha = 0.6^{+0.5}_{-0.1}. Very interestingly, one of the faintest Praesepe candidates for which we have also obtained follow-up JHK photometry nicely fits the expected optical and infrared photometric sequence of the cluster. From its colors, we have estimated its spectral type in the L4-L6 range. If confirmed as a true Praesepe member, it would become the first L-type brown dwarf (50-60 M_Jup) identified in an intermediate-age star cluster. Our derivation of the Praesepe mass function depends strongly on the cluster age. For the youngest possible ages (500-700 Myr), our results suggest that there is a deficit of Praesepe brown dwarfs in the central regions of the cluster, while the similarity between the Praesepe and sigma Orionis mass functions increases qualitatively for models older than 800 Myr.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. Figures 1, 7, and 9-12 are available in jpeg format
Symptomatic and functional outcomes following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction; Implications for post-traumatic osteoarthritis
Creators: name: West, Thomas
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320226
subject: Surgery
classificationCode: 320225
subject: Sports medicine
classificationCode: 320218
subject: Pain

description: Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
The three flavor LOFF phase of QCD
Creators: name: Ippolito, Nicola D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell (LOFF) phase of QCD with three flavors, using a Ginzburg-Landau expansion of the free energy, and a NJL point-like four-fermion interaction, with the quantum numbers of single-gluon exchange.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, To appear as a Proceeding of the Helmholtz International Summer School "Dense Matter In Heavy Ion Collisions and Astrophysics", JINR, Dubna 2006
Dressing operators in equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of $\mathbb{CP}^1$
Creators: name: Takasaki, Kanehisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14N35, 37K10

description: Okounkov and Pandharipande proved that the equivariant Toda hierarchy governs the equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of $\mathbb{CP}^1$. A technical clue of their method is a pair of dressing operators on the Fock space of 2D charged free fermion fields. We reformulate these operators as difference operators in the Lax formalism of the 2D Toda hierarchy. This leads to a new explanation to the question of why the equivariant Toda hierarchy emerges in the equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of $\mathbb{CP}^1$. Moreover, the non-equivariant limit of these operators turns out to capture the integrable structure of the non-equivariant Gromov-Witten theory correctly.
description: latex2e using packages amsmath,amssymb,amsthm; (v2) A typo in the definition of E_k(z) on page 6 corrected; (v3) Some more explanations are added to the proof of Proposition 4 and the logarithmic flows of the non-equivariant limit
Radial Velocity Studies of Southern Close Binary Stars.II
Creators: name: Duerbeck, Hilmar W.
name: Rucinski, Slavek M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radial-velocity measurements and sine-curve fits to the orbital velocity variations are presented for 14 close binary stars, S Ant, TT Cet, TW Cet, AA Cet, RW Dor, UX Eri, YY Eri, BV Eri, CT Eri, SZ Hor, AD Phe, TY Pup, HI Pup and TZ Pyx. All are double-lined binaries and all except the last one are contact binaries. The orbital data must be considered preliminary because of the relatively small number of observations (6 - 12), a circumstance which is partly compensated by the good definition of the broadening functions used for the RV determinations.
description: accepted by AJ for Januray 2007; order of the authors changed re V.1
Magnetic order and valency at La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ interfaces
Creators: name: Zenia, H.
name: Gehring, G. A.
name: Temmerman, W. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on first principles calculations of the electronic structure of La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ junction with two possible types of interface terminations. We find that the La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$O/TiO$_{2}$ interface preserves the interlayer ferromagnetic coupling between the interface MnO$_{2}$ layer and the bulk. The other interface, MnO$_{2}$/SrO, favours antiferromagnetic coupling with the bulk. By inserting two unit cells of undoped LaMnO$_{3}$ at the interface the ferromagnetism is recovered. This is understood in terms of the doping level and the mobility of carriers near the interface.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables
Ο Θεσσαλικός Διαφωτισμός και η σχολική εκπαίδευση. Η περίπτωση της Σχολής των Μηλεών του Πηλίου
Creators: name: Τσαγγαλία, Βασιλική Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Θεσσαλικός Διαφωτισμός
Μηλιές
Εκπαίδευση
Thessalian Enlightenment
Milies
Education

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας διατριβής ήταν να μελετήσει και να παρουσιάσει τις συνθήκες που διαμορφώθηκαν στη Θεσσαλία όσον αφορά την εκπαίδευση και τη διάδοση των γνώσεων κατά τα χρόνια του Ευρωπαϊκού και στη συνέχεια του Νεοελληνικού Διαφωτισμού. Επίσης παρουσιάζεται ο όρος Θεσσαλικός Διαφωτισμός για να συμπεριλάβει όλους εκείνους τους φορείς που ασχολήθηκαν με το θέμα της μόρφωσης των υπόδουλων Ελλήνων κατά τα χρόνια της τουρκοκρατίας. Αναφέρονται επίσης τα σχολεία που λειτούργησαν στον συγκεκριμένο γεωγραφικό χώρο καθώς και οι λόγιοι που δίδαξαν και έζησαν στη Θεσσαλία. Πιο συγκεκριμένα παρουσιάζεται ο χώρος του Πηλίου και οι συνθήκες που υπήρξαν εκεί σε οικονομικό, κοινωνικό και εκπαιδευτικό τομέα. Το τελευταίο μέρος της είναι αφιερωμένο στη Σχολή των Μηλεών, ένα αντιπροσωπευτικό δείγμα σχολείου της εποχής που ιδρύθηκε από τρεις φωτισμένους λόγιους της εποχής, τον Γρηγόριο Κωνσταντά, τον Άνθιμο Γαζή και τον Δανιήλ Φιλιππίδη. Παρουσιάζονται τα στοιχεία που αφορούν τη λειτουργία της Σχολής, οι βιογραφίες των ιδρυτών της, το εκπαιδευτικό της πρόγραμμα αλλά και η πολύ σημαντική της βιβλιοθήκη
description: The aim of this research was to study and present the conditions formed in Thessaly that were related to education and schooling during the age of the European Enlightenment and subsequently the Greek Enlightenment. Moreover, the term Thessalian Enlightenment is introduced in order to include all those factors that were involved in the process of educating the enslaved Greeks during the Turkish rule. Additionally, reference is made to the schools which were established in this specific region and the scholars who taught and lived in Thessaly. More specifically, the region of Pelion along with the economic, social and educational conditions are presented. The last part of the study is dedicated to the School of Milies, an indicative example of school of the era. The school was established by three illuminated scholars of the time namely, Gregorios Konstantas, Anthemos Gazis and Daniil Philippides. There are details given related to the operation of the School, the biographies of the founders, its educational curriculum and furthermore, its exceptional library
Grammatical elicitation: Tense and aspect
Creators: name: Ovelar, Irma Easty
name: Russell, Katherine
name: Bossi, Madeline
name: Dabkowski, Maksymilian
name: Drummond, Emily
name: Grabowski, Emily
name: Jarvis, Rebecca
name: Khuu, Phuong
name: Michael, Lev
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: gug

description: Meanings of unmarked verbs, telicity.
Additional file 1 of Participation in scheduled asthma follow-up contacts and adherence to treatment during 12-year follow-up in patients with adult-onset asthma
Creators: name: Takala, Jaana
name: Vähätalo, Iida
name: Tuomisto, Leena E.
name: Niemelä, Onni
name: Ilmarinen, Pinja
name: Kankaanranta, Hannu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Participation in scheduled asthma follow-up contacts and adherence to treatment during 12-year follow-up in patients with adult-onset asthma. An additional data file containing more study statistics and methodology.
Comparative Analysis of the Effectiveness and Safety of Drug-eluting Versus Bare-metal Coronary Stents Among Patients Registered in the Multi-Payer Claims Database
Creators: name: Bermudez, Jessica
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: acute coronary syndromes
subject: coronary stent
subject: cox proportional hazards
subject: drug-eluting
subject: health policy
subject: surveillance

description: There is conflicting evidence as to whether bare-metal stents (BMS) or drug-eluting stents (DES) are more effective at preventing restenosis. The purpose of this study is to compare the safety and effectiveness of BMS versus DES in the coronary artery using unconventional and potentially more efficient post-market surveillance methods. A retrospective cohort study was conducted of 217,654 Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance beneficiaries ages 41 years and older who were treated with coronary stenting between January 2007 and December 2010. Incidence of coronary health outcomes was measured for 2-3.5 years after stent implantation using claims data and assessed using Cox proportional hazards regression models stratified by gender and race. At baseline, DES recipients were younger, had higher rates of ischemia and high cholesterol, and had lower rates of prior myocardial infarction and hypertension compared to BMS recipients. Compared to BMS, DES use was associated with a significant reduction of myocardial infarction (Hazard Ratio (HR): 0.811; CI: [0.774, 0.84]), coronary artery bypass graft (HR 0.627; CI: [0.590, 0.666]), and repeat percutaneous coronary intervention (HR 0.910; CI: [0.888, 0.933]) at a median follow-up of 659 days. Use of DES was associated with superior CHD outcomes compared to BMS regardless of gender. Increased event-free probability for DES compared to BMS was seen among whites and Asians for AMI, among whites only for CABG, and across all races for repeat stenting.
The cardiac actions of platelet activating factor : possible involvement in endotoxix shock
Creators: name: Pugsley, Michael Kenneth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Endotoxic shock involves impairment of the cardiovascular system. Shock is a complex pathophysiological process involving many mechanisms, including interactions between endotoxin, the production of eicosanoids and PAF, and involvement of the immune system, specifically the monocytic cell types e.g. macrophages. Many studies, especially those of Salari and Walker (1989), have shown that endotoxin-stimulated macrophages produce substances which mediate cardiac dysfunction in isolated rat hearts and that PAF antagonists afford the greatest protection against these substances. The studies described in this thesis began with characterization of the pharmacological actions of PAF on rat hearts since Salari and Walker showed that PAF was probably being produced as the result of endotoxin action on macrophages. Rat hearts were used in the Salari and Walker study and the literature is sparse concerning the actions of PAF on the rat heart. Both in vitro and in vivo actions of PAF were examined on the rat heart and circulatory system. To assess whether PAF was acting directly or indirectly on the heart, a series of experiments were performed. It was determined that PAF acted directly on coronary vasculature and on myocytes. The effects of a series of antagonists of PAF, leukotrienes, thromboxanes as well as cyclooxygenase inhibitors on responses to PAF were studied. Each antagonist was examined at two concentrations (0.01 and 1.0 µM). Only ibuprofen had a protective action. In view of the lack of action of PAF antagonists on the cardiac actions of PAF, the LD₅₀ for PAF was determined in a population of Swiss CD₁ mice in order to determine the ED50 value for novel PAF antagonists. The PAF antagonist, RP 59227 was also examined for antiarrhythmic activity in anesthetised acutely prepared rats. The drug did not significantly reduce the incidence of ventricular tachycardia; however, ventricular fibrillation was reduced to 30% of control. We have also examined the actions of endotoxin on the heart in vitro and in vivo. Endotoxin had very little action in vitro and in vivo on the ECG. However, endotoxin produced the expected and sustained decrease in blood pressure and this was attenuated by ibuprofen. On the other hand, ibuprofen did not change PAF actions in vivo. These studies suggest that endotoxin does not mimic the actions of PAF. However, the possibility remains that a slow release of PAF, via the stimulation of monocytes, is involved in endotoxin action.
Wake-foil interactions and energy harvesting efficiency in tandem oscillating foils
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Bernardo Luiz R.
name: Su, Yunxing
name: Guillaumin, Quentin
name: Breuer, Kenneth S.
name: Franck, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Oscillating foils in synchronized pitch/heave motions can be used to harvest hydrokinetic energy. By understanding the wake structure and its correlation with the foil kinematics, predictive models for how foils can operate in array configurations can be developed. To establish a relationship between foil kinematics and wake characteristics, a wide range of kinematics is explored in a two-foil tandem configuration with interfoil spacing from four to nine chord lengths separation and multiple interfoil phases. Using data from experiments and simulations, an in-depth wake analysis is performed and the mean velocity and the turbulent kinetic energy are quantified in the wake. With this energy quantification, the trailing foil efficiency is modified to account for the mean flow in addition to the energy transported by the coherent leading edge vortices (LEVs) shed from the leading foil. With the mean wake velocity, a predictive wake model is able to distinguish three regimes through analyzing trailing foil efficiency profiles and the strength of the primary LEV shed from the leading foil. Dividing the wake into regimes is an insightful way to narrow the range of foil kinematics and configurations and improve the energy harvesting in a two-tandem foil array.
description: 44 pages, 21 figures
Additional file 1 of Determining intention, fast food consumption and their related factors among university students by using a behavior change theory
Creators: name: Didarloo, Alireza
name: Khalili, Surur
name: Aghapour, Ahmad Ali
name: Moghaddam-Tabrizi, Fatemeh
name: Mousavi, Seyed Mortaza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. The questionnire used in the study to collect the data. The first part of the questionnaire included General characteristics. The second part of the questionnaire consisted of the Constructs of TPB. The third part consisted of knowledge of participants. The fourth part consisted of Fast food use.
A new PPN parameter to test Chern-Simons gravity
Creators: name: Alexander, Stephon
name: Yunes, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Chern-Simons (CS) gravity in the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) framework through a weak-field solution of the modified field equations. We find that CS gravity possesses the same PPN parameters as general relativity, except for the inclusion of a new term, proportional to the CS coupling and the curl of the PPN vector potential. This new term leads to a modification of frame dragging and gyroscopic precession and we provide an estimate of its size. This correction might be used in experiments, such as Gravity Probe B, to bound CS gravity and test string theory.
description: 4 pages, replaced with version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Letters (December, 2007)
Mediating and moderating effects of locus of control and appraisals of control on burglary victim coping
Creators: name: Mackoff, Randy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to examine control beliefs and their role in the different ways victims cope with burglary. Two studies were conducted. In the first study, participants were college students who had been burglarized within the previous year. The volunteers were men and women between the ages of 19 and 37 (N=61). The participants completed Levenson's (1981) locus of control scale. The following week, in order to assist recall, the participants viewed a 2-minute video that depicted a residential burglary in progress. Immediately following the video, they completed a coping measure, situational appraisals of control measure, and importance of outcome measure. The second study was a conceptual replication of the first study and therefore followed the same procedures. However, in order to assess locus of control prior to victimization, participants were male and female college students (N=102) who had never been burglarized (experimentally induced victims). Zero-order correlations, discriminant analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression were used to examine the main, mediating, and moderating effects of locus of control, importance of outcome, situational appraisals of control, and gender on coping functions. Because previous research has found gender differences in reaction to criminal victimization, i t was hypothesized that the influence that gender has on coping results from an individual's locus of control orientation. It was also expected that the direction or strength of the locus of control and coping relation would be influenced by an individual's gender and by how much importance he or she attached to the victimization experience. In both the victim group and experimentally induced victim group, emotion-focused coping was significantly predicted by gender, locus of control, importance of outcome, and situational appraisals of control. However, problem-focused coping was significantly predicted by gender, locus of control, importance of outcome, and situational appraisals of control for the victim group only. Locus of control did not influence the gender and coping relation. The results indicated that in both groups men who held strong powerful others locus of control beliefs used less emotion-focused coping. In contrast, in the burglary victim group, women who held strong powerful others locus of control beliefs used more emotion-focused coping. However, there was no relationship between powerful others locus of control beliefs and emotion-focused coping for women in the experimentally induced victim group. For experimentally induced victims, both men and women with high chance locus of control beliefs used more emotion-focused coping. In both groups, importance of outcome did not moderate the locus of control and coping relation. Implications of these results and suggestions for future research are discussed.
The Lack of Halo Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
Creators: name: Swartz, Douglas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The premise that Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) exist beyond the optical extent of nearby galaxies is investigated. A published catalog containing 41 ULX candidates located between 1 and ~3 times the standard D_{25} isophotal radius of their putative host galaxies is examined. Twenty-one of these sources have spectroscopically-confirmed distances. All 21 are background objects giving a 95% probability that at least 37 of the 41 candidates are background sources. Thirty-nine of the 41 sources have X-ray-to-optical flux ratios, -1.6
description: 4 pages accepted to ApJL
Edit distance for timed automata
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus
name: Majumdar, Rupak
Publisher: name: IST Austria
Year: 2013
Subjects: 000 Computer science, knowledge & general works

description: The edit distance between two (untimed) traces is the minimum cost of a sequence of edit operations (insertion, deletion, or substitution) needed to transform one trace to the other. Edit distances have been extensively studied in the untimed setting, and form the basis for approximate matching of sequences in different domains such as coding theory, parsing, and speech recognition. In this paper, we lift the study of edit distances from untimed languages to the timed setting. We define an edit distance between timed words which incorporates both the edit distance between the untimed words and the absolute difference in timestamps. Our edit distance between two timed words is computable in polynomial time. Further, we show that the edit distance between a timed word and a timed language generated by a timed automaton, defined as the edit distance between the word and the closest word in the language, is PSPACE-complete. While computing the edit distance between two timed automata is undecidable, we show that the approximate version, where we decide if the edit distance between two timed automata is either less than a given parameter or more than delta away from the parameter, for delta>0, can be solved in exponential space and is EXPSPACE-hard. Our definitions and techniques can be generalized to the setting of hybrid systems, and we show analogous decidability results for rectangular automata.