cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Experimental Validation Data for CFD of Steady and Transient Mixed Convection on a Vertical Flat Plate
Creators: name: Lance, Blake W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description:
In this computer age, simulations are becoming common in science and engineering. One category of simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), begins with physical equations but adds approximations and calibrations in order to complete solutions. Translating these equations into computer languages may cause unintended errors. If simulation results are to be used for decision making, their accuracy needs to be assessed. This accuracy assessment is the theory behind the field of Verification & Validation.

Verification involves confirming the translation of physical equations to computer language was per- formed correctly. It also features methods to detect many types of code errors. Validation is quite different in that it involves the comparison of experimental data with simulation outputs. This way, errors in simulation predictions may be assessed. Validation requires highly-detailed data and description to accompany these data, and uncertainties in these data are very important. Ideally, the validation experiment measures all information required for simulation inputs. Matching inputs ensures that any possible differences in the outputs are only due to the model.

The purpose of this work is to provide highly complete validation data to assess the accuracy of CFD simulations. The physics were mixed convection. Convection is a heat transfer mode where heat is carried by a moving fluid. Mixed convection occurs where natural convection and forced convection forces are similar, such as in low-speed flows. A vertical flat plate is heated and used for a convection boundary condition. A wind tunnel that was built specifically for validation experiments was used. Air is the working fluid whose velocity is measured using a modern optical technique called Particle Image Velocimetry. Many thermocouples were used to measure the temperature of all four walls and the inlet air. Commercial heat flux sensors (HFSs) were used in the heated wall.

The two cases were steady and transient mixed convection. Steady mixed convection was studied in two orientations. First with buoyancy in the same direction of the flow and second with buoyancy in the opposite direction. The transient data were for a ramp-down flow transient. This unsteady flow was repeated many times for ensemble-averaging of the results. In both cases, uncertainty was estimated in all of the results. Additionally, the transient case was simulated with CFD, matching inputs, and a validation study was performed.

An additional study was conducted to assess the accuracy of the commercial HFSs as they were believed to be in error. The air temperature was measured very close to the wall surface. The temperature gradient is proportional to heat flux, the rate of heat energy transfer over an area. Potential errors of this method were estimated and a thorough uncertainty study was performed. Additionally, a study was performed to identify the error source of the HFSs.
title: School-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Adolescents with Anxiety
Creators: name: Petersen, Julie M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Mental health problems, particularly anxiety, are a growing problem in adolescents. Some treatments (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy) have been shown effective for youth anxiety, but do not help all adolescents. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a treatment supported for anxiety in adults, has yet to be fully researched in adolescents. ACT is a flexible therapy that is understood to be appropriate, if not ideal, for younger populations and schools. The present study compares a school-based, group ACT for adolescents with anxiety to a waitlist.
Adolescents (N = 26) with anxiety were randomized to a 12 week waitlist or to participate in a school-based, group ACT for anxiety. The groups took place during the school day, ranging from .5-1 hours for 1-2 times a week, depending on the school. Over the course of the study, the adolescents completed four surveys of anxiety, other mental health variables, and class absences.
Adolescents in the ACT groups reported less anxiety and fewer class absences after receiving treatment as compared to the waitlist group. No differences were found for other mental health variables. Participants reported that the ACT groups were acceptable and enjoyable. These findings demonstrate that ACT groups may be beneficial to integrate within school settings. They also support the use of ACT with younger populations with anxiety more broadly.
Development of pyruvate dehydrogenase in white fat, brown fat and liver of the rat
Creators: name: Bailey, Kathryn Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The total activity and the fraction of the enzyme in the active form of pyruvate dehydrogenase was assayed in white fat, brown fat and liver throughout the development of the rat. In white adipose tissue, the total activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase and the fraction of the enzyme in the active form did not change significantly during development. In brown adipose tissue, the total activity increased until the late suckling period. After weaning, a decrease was noted. The fraction of the enzyme in the active form did not increase until after ten days of age, reached its highest level in the late suckling period and remained at this level after weaning. Pyruvate dehydrogenase in liver decreased in both total activity and percentage activity in the early neonatal period. Both parameters increased after this period, reaching their highest levels in the late suckling period. In both fetal liver and fetal brown fat, the total activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase was increased by in vitro incubation with insulin.
A Review on Communication Protocols for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Inspection Application
Creators: name: Shi, Liping
name: Marcano, Néstor J. Hernández
name: Jacobsen, Rune Hylsberg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The communication system is a critical part of the system design for the autonomous UAV. It has to address different considerations, including efficiency, reliability and mobility of the UAV. In addition, a multi-UAV system requires a communication system to assist information sharing, task allocation and collaboration in a team of UAVs. In this paper, we review communication solutions for supporting a team of UAVs while considering an application in the power line inspection industry. We provide a review of candidate wireless communication technologies {for supporting communication in UAV applications. Performance measurements and UAV-related channel modeling of those candidate technologies are reviewed. A discussion of current technologies for building UAV mesh networks is presented. We then analyze the structure, interface and performance of robotic communication middleware, ROS and ROS2. Based on our review, the features and dependencies of candidate solutions in each layer of the communication system are presented.
description: 28 pages
Dextran mediated interactions of Actinomyces viscosus
Creators: name: Bourgeau, Gene
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Actinomyces viscosus was shown to be only the second oral organism capable of being aggregated by low amounts of dextran (as few as 3 molecules of dextran per bacterial cell); Streptococcus mutans being the first. Aggregation was shown to depend on dextran molecular weight and dextran concentration. Ions were required for aggregation to occur but there was no specific ion requirement. Concanavalin A and phytohemagglutinin both inhibited dextran induced aggregation as did the simple sugars sucrose, trehalose, melezitose and mannose. The heating of cells to 100°C in distilled water removed the ability to aggregate while heating at 100°C for up to one hour in the presence of divalent cations lowered but did not eliminate this ability. Treatment of A. viscosus cells with various proteases and a dextranase preparation eliminated the ability to aggregate via dextran. Dextran induced aggregation was not limited to one A. viscosus strain but was a property displayed by several ATCC strains and several freshly isolated strains. Dextran induced aggregation was also shown to be a potential means of interbacterial aggregation in the oral cavity since it mediates an interaction between A. viscosus and both Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sanguis. This interaction was similar in most respects to that involving only A. viscosus or only S. mutans.
title: Big Fires, Big Trees, and Big Plots: Enhancing our Ecological Understanding of Fire with Unprecedented Field Data
Creators: name: Furniss, Tucker J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Wildfire is an inexorable process in western landscapes, posing a major challenge to land managers: how can we use fire to restore healthy forests without jeopardizing human communities? The purpose of this dissertation is to produce research that will help guide management and support effective wildland fire use in fire-prone forests.
I utilized a longitudinal dataset from a single, large forest plot that burned under serendipitous circumstances during the 2013 Rim Fire. My research revealed that post-fire mortality models under-predict mortality of large trees, and may need to be re-calibrated to perform well under future climates. I used satellite-derived data to estimate fire severity, and found that while severity maps may be accurate at broad scales, they failed to capture fine-scale patterns in fire effects. I examined the spatial elements of fire-related mortality, and demonstrate that beetles, pathogens, and inter-tree competition mediated fire effects and provoked complex, spatially structured mortality for years following fire. Finally, I disentangled the interactive effects of fire, beetles, and drought to provide a more mechanistic understanding of compound disturbance dynamics.
This represents the first collection of fire ecology research to emerge from a single, exhaustively sampled, longitudinal monitoring plot. This dissertation not only enhances our ecological understanding of fire, it demonstrates the profound potential for large-scale observational research to contribute novel perspectives to the field of fire science.
title: The Rhetoric of the Double-Voiced: Strategic Ambiguity in the Silent Protest Parade
Creators: name: Crow, Shelby R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Examinations of historical social movements offer great insight into contemporary social justice activism. In this thesis, I analyzed the Silent Protest Parade of 1917. The Silent Protest Parade consisted of approximately 10,000 African American men, women, and children who marched in complete silence to illuminate racial violence and the lynchings of African Americans. I argued that through the concept of strategic ambiguity, protesters were able to communicate between African American and powerful White audiences, many of whom held racist beliefs and attitudes.
三元平衡系统与反物质研究.pdf
Creators: name: 林 杨
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 20201 Atomic and Molecular Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20602 Field Theory and String Theory
subject: 20203 Particle Physics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: 反物质是正常物质的相反状态。当正反物质相遇时，双方就会相互湮灭抵消，发生爆炸并产生巨大能量。正电子、负质子都是反粒子，它们跟通常所说的电子、质子相比较，电量相等但电性相反。科学家设想在宇宙中可能存在完全由反粒子构成的物质，也就是反物质。电子和反电子的质量相同，但有相反的电荷。质子与反质子也是这样。粒子与反粒子不仅电荷相反，其他一切可以相反的性质也都相反。
La Heimat scomparsa. Fratture, memorie e identità nella giovane letteratura tedesca post-Wende
Creators: name: Pelloni, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2014
Subjects: identity negotiation; post-Wende-literature; trauma and memory

description: This article examines recurring motifs of so called “Wende-literature” in recent autobiographical writing and autofiction, in order to analyse how the latest generation of young writers has interpreted Germany’s recent past from division to reunification. The objective is to outline the contours of a generational experience, which is both new and yet characterized by an urge to confront the German past and its
renegotiation.
description: LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente, Vol 2 (2013)
INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN VARIABLES ON ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT: A CASE STUDY IN THE HOTEL SECTOR OF CORDOBA
Creators: name: Santa Cruz, Francisco González
name: Sánchez Cañizares, Sandra María
name: López-Guzmán, Tomás
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2013

description: The hotel industry is characterised by close and direct contact between the employee and the customer. For this reason, one of the most effective ways to achieve customer satisfaction and loyalty is to ensure that employees who provide the service feel committed to the organisation where they work. By doing so, hotel businesses can gain a sustainable competitive advantage and improve organisational performance. Based on these premises, this article aims to determine the relationships between certain variables associated with the job and the organisational commitment of the individual. The hypotheses tests reveal a strong relationship between stable and permanent employment and higher levels of organisational commitment among hotel employees.
description: tourismos, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2013)
ARE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS READY FOR BOLOGNA? A PEDAGOGICAL PROJECT IN A TOURISM COURSE
Creators: name: Ramos, Ana
name: Ramos, George
name: Cruchinho, Alexandra
name: Delgado, Fernanda
name: Pereira, Paula
name: Sapeta, Paula
name: Afonso, Paulo
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2013

description: The implementation of the Bologna process in higher education leads to rethinking the teaching-learning assumptions. Higher education today is focused on curricula, teaching-learning processes, subjects and course programmes attending to European credits system, teachers’ qualification and training, academic success and scholar results, performance standards, assessment of institutions, assessment of skills (and not merely knowledge).In 2010 a project (Construction of Learning | ConstAp) was developed in the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal. The main goal was to motivate the adoption of changes concerning classroom methodologies and students’ autonomous workload guidance in the scope of the Bologna process implementation.This paper presents a proposal of pedagogical intervention to deal with the mentioned objectives, a project applied in a specific tourism course. The paper presents the first results collected regarding the project’s implementation and seeks to impart a methodology that can be applied to similar courses.
description: tourismos, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2013)
LEMON PEEL (CITRUS LIMON L.) AS POTENTIAL SOURCE OF HESPERIDIN: AN ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL OF HESPERIDIN VIA SUPPRESSING MDA (MALONDIALDEHYDE) IN SODIUM ARSENITE-INDUCED HEPATOTOXICITY
Creators: name: MARIA SALEEM
name: RIZWAN SHUKAT
name: TAHIR ZAHOOR
name: BEENISH ISRAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Aspartate aminotransferase, Catalase, Glutathione peroxidase, Malondialdehyde, Superoxide dismutase.

description: Abstract

Present study was conducted to check the effect of lemon peel extract (LPE) against SA (Sodium Arsenite)-induced liver toxicity that results in dysfunction of liver due to increase in oxidative stress. HPLC analysis with C18 column was used to analyze hesperidin content in lemon peel at 280nm. Antioxidant potential of hesperidin was analyzed via efficacy for this purpose. Sprague dawely rats were divided into 5 groups (n=30). Liver toxicity was induced by consuming 10 mg sodium arsenic per kilogram of rat body weight. Different concentrations of LPE were introduced to each experimental unit. Effectiveness of doses were analyzed by biochemical parameters. Blood samples were collected at different intervals to estimate the serum ALT (Alanine aminotransferase), AST (Aspartate aminotransferase), MDA (Malondialdehyde), SOD (Superoxide dismutase), CAT (Catalase) and GPx (Glutathione peroxidase) level. Lemon peel extract had 16.5430 mg/100g hesperidin. Serum ALT (38.16±1.25 U/L), AST (31.67±3.06) and MDA (2.68±0.01) level was significantly lowered after LP extract consumption as compared with SA-induced liver toxicity group (38.16±1.25), (97.16±4.58) respectively. While serum SOD (163.17±1.25 U/mL), CAT (112.0±1 U/mL) and GPx (3.12±0.017 MU/L) level was significantly higher after LP extract consumption as compared with disease group (78.00±0.50 U/mL), (74.0±1.0 U/mL) and (0.83±0.04 MU/L) respectively. Present study demonstrated that lemon peel has potential to attenuate SA-induced liver toxicity and oxidative stress that directly correlated to its pharmacological properties based on polyphenol (especially hesperidin dominant flavonoid) content. Lemon peel extract has great potential against oxidative stress and related disorders. There is dire need to attain an appropriate method for extraction of lemon peel extract to get its maximum benefits.
Cantieri tanatologici. Trauma vs scrittura nell’opera di Chloé Delaume
Creators: name: Piva, Marika
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2014

description: This article investigates the relationship between trauma and writing in Chloé Delaume’s oeuvre. Autofiction, the genre chosen by the French author, together with her personal idea of literature, creates a fictional universe whose aim is to change the real one. In this way, trauma is, at the same time, the subject of Delaume’s books and the result she wants to achieve. The mise en scène of her private story, through formal research and language experimentation, aspires to create a new identity for herself and to involve her readers in an individual search for awareness.
description: LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente, Vol 2 (2013)
DETERMINING THE TOURISM DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS OF THE GREEK REGIONS, BY USING TALC THEORY
Creators: name: Polyzos, Serafeim
name: Tsiotas, Dimitrios
name: Kantlis, Alexios
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2013

description: This paper utilizes the theoretical framework of the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model and applies an empirical analysis on the data for the period 1980- 2009. The TALC multi-stage process is simulated to a logistic curve and thus it obtains a characteristic growth coefficient r(t) expressing its time duration. This study considers three versions for the logistic growth coefficient and presents the spatial distribution of each coefficient on the Greek interregional map. This approach allows to distinguish the regions that they have reached their tourism developmental capabilities faster than the others and to distinguish these that are still capable for further development. The overall treatment provides the developmental potentials of each Greek prefecture and elects some interesting issues for the tourism policy making in Greece.
description: tourismos, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2013)
La vergogna motivazionale e paralizzante.  La figura del parvenu negli scritti di L. Onerva, sullo sfondo storico della Finlandia di inizi Novecento
Creators: name: Parente-Čapková, Viola
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2014
Subjects: Finnish literature; gender aspect; Onerva; parvenu/nousukas; shame

description: This article examines the phenomenon of the nousukas (upstart, parvenu, social climber), a “strategic hybrid” figure from Finnish literature at the turn of the 20th century, against the ideological background of 19th century Finnish nationalism. L. Onerva (Hilja Onerva Lehtinen, 1882-1972), an influential Finnish writer of the first decades of the 20th century, concentrated specifically on the phenomenon in her collection of short stories Nousukkaita (Parvenues, 1911). The article’s analysis of the trauma of shame, connected to the figure of the nousukas, is based on various short stories from Onerva’s collection, particularly those entitled “Veren ääni” and “Marja Havu”. Intersectional analysis of the texts highlights the relevance of gender, social class and ethnicity to the types of shame experienced by L. Onerva’s social climbers.
description: LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente, Vol 2 (2013)
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay August 1998
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Newspaper reading/buying frequency; approval of President Julio Maria Sanguinetti; approval of district mayor; likability of politicians and presidential candidates; plans for voting in primary elections; economic situation of your family; approval of ANCAP, a state-owned oil and alcohol company; driving skills of Uruguayans; automobile/driving experiences and plans; government attention on national problems; government handling of drugs; eating habits; economic situation of the country; voting in referendums; political spectrum position; past voting history; future voting tendencies. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
On the formation of massive galaxies: A simultaneous study of number density, size and intrinsic colour evolution in GOODS
Creators: name: Ferreras, Ignacio
name: Lisker, Thorsten
name: Pasquali, Anna
name: Khochfar, Sadegh
name: Kaviraj, Sugata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of number density, size and intrinsic colour is determined for a volume-limited sample of visually classified early-type galaxies selected from the HST/ACS images of the GOODS North and South fields (version 2). The sample comprises 457 galaxies over 320 arcmin2 with stellar masses above 3E10 Msun in the redshift range 0.43E11 Msun) do not show any appreciable change in comoving number density or size in our data. Furthermore, when including the results from 2dFGRS, we find that the number density of massive early-type galaxies is consistent with no evolution between z=1.2 and 0, i.e. over an epoch spanning more than half of the current age of the Universe. Massive galaxies show very homogeneous **intrinsic** colour distributions, featuring red cores with small scatter. The distribution of half-light radii -- when compared to z=0 and z>1 samples -- is compatible with the predictions of semi-analytic models relating size evolution to the amount of dissipation during major mergers. However, in a more speculative fashion, the observations can also be interpreted as weak or even no evolution in comoving number density **and size** between 0.4
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. Submitted for publication in MNRAS
title: Ataturk vs. Soleimani: Political Philosophy & Contemporary Archetypes
Creators: name: Tolhurst, Rachel R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis is an examination of the lives of Qassem Soleimani and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk through the lens of the political philosophies of Plato and Niccolò Machiavelli. Qassem Soleimani and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk were noted for their militant lives and share certain qualities of character in their pre-political careers that provide a unique opportunity for a direct comparison and the formulation of a normative claim assessing their relative successes and/or failures despite their many similarities. Through the course of this research the conclusion asserts that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a more capable man than Soleimani to ascend to a position of political power specifically due to his prioritization of Platonic principles from an early age which guided his pre-political career. Soleimani, on the other hand, pursued a militant path more consistent with the values of a Machiavellian prince and was therefore faced with a greater degree of difficulty in attempting to transition to political life. The theories of Plato and Machiavelli each propose strategies for moving toward an ideal state of governance but apply very different methods for achieving it. While Plato values the pursuit and inclusion of reason and enlightenment for all leaders, Machiavelli assigns more importance the object of power regardless of societal consciousness. Plato’s most realistic model of a leader that is not the famed philosopher king, is the timocratic man, largely militant but not a stranger to the pursuit of reason. Machiavelli’s model is a militant expert with a mastery of cunning and possibly duplicitous management of personal affairs. Ataturk more closely resembles the timocratic man than Soleimani in his early dedication to the goal of broad societal education and altruistic notions of political reform. Soleimani’s life was more characterized by militancy and the elements of conflict and deception that arise in Machiavelli’s model of leadership. As a result, Ataturk was more prepared to face the challenges of the political sphere and Soleimani was left vulnerable and ill-equipped to tackle international disputes.
Electron-vibron coupling in suspended carbon nanotube quantum dots
Creators: name: Mariani, Eros
name: von Oppen, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent experiments, we investigate the electron-vibron coupling in suspended carbon nanotube quantum dots, starting with the electron-phonon coupling of the underlying graphene layer. We show that the coupling strength depends sensitively on the type of vibron and is strongly sample dependent. The coupling strength becomes particularly strong when inhomogeneity-induced electronic quantum dots are located near regions where the vibronic mode is associated with large strain. Specifically, we find that the longitudinal stretching mode and the radial breathing mode are coupled via the strong deformation potential, while twist modes couple more weakly via a mechanism involving modulation of the electronic hopping amplitudes between carbon sites. A special case are bending modes: for symmetry reasons, their coupling is only quadratic in the vibron coordinate. Our results can explain recent experiments on suspended carbon nanotube quantum dots which exibit vibrational sidebands accompanied by the Franck-Condon blockade with strong electron-vibron coupling.
title: Malformaciones nefro-urológicas en edad pediátrica
Creators: name: García Ortega, Ana Azahara
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir los hallazgos radiológicos de las malformaciones congénitas nefrourológicas en la edad pediátrica con la presentación de una serie de casos descritos en nuestro hospital (HCUVA) que ilustren cada una de...
D3-brane Potentials from Fluxes in AdS/CFT
Creators: name: Baumann, Daniel
name: Dymarsky, Anatoly
name: Kachru, Shamit
name: Klebanov, Igor R.
name: McAllister, Liam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a comprehensive treatment of the scalar potential for a D3-brane in a warped conifold region of a compactification with stabilized moduli. By studying general ultraviolet perturbations in supergravity, we systematically incorporate `compactification effects' sourced by supersymmetry breaking in the compact space. Significant contributions to the D3-brane potential, including the leading term in the infrared, arise from imaginary anti-self-dual (IASD) fluxes. For an arbitrary Calabi-Yau cone, we determine the most general IASD fluxes in terms of scalar harmonics, then compute the resulting D3-brane potential. Specializing to the conifold, we identify the operator dual to each mode of flux, and for chiral operators we confirm that the potential computed in the gauge theory matches the gravity result. The effects of four-dimensional curvature, including the leading D3-brane mass term, arise directly from the ten-dimensional equations of motion. Furthermore, we show that gaugino condensation on D7-branes provides a local source for IASD flux. This flux precisely encodes the nonperturbative contributions to the D3-brane potential, yielding a promising ten-dimensional representation of four-dimensional nonperturbative effects. Our result encompasses all significant contributions to the D3-brane potential discussed in the literature, and does so in the single coherent framework of ten-dimensional supergravity. Moreover, we identify new terms with irrational scaling dimensions that were inaccessible in prior works. By decoupling gravity in a noncompact configuration, then systematically reincorporating compactification effects as ultraviolet perturbations, we have provided an approach in which Planck-suppressed contributions to the D3-brane effective action can be computed.
description: 70 pages
title: Elizabeth Pickett Tolman: One Woman's Experience with Polygamy and Infertility
Creators: name: LeFevre, Brooke R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis examines the intersection of plural marriage, as practiced by nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints, and female infertility. It does so by examining the diary of Elizabeth Pickett Tolman. This diary was kept from 1875-1894 and provides an intimate view of the experiences of an infertile first wife who struggled with the principle of plural marriage and pursued multiple medical treatments for her infertility. This study helps to fill in an area that has been largely unresearched by scholars of the history of women’s health and Mormon historians. Elizabeth’s diary shows that while infertility was a unique experience for her because of the reality of plural marriage and the fact that her husband was able to have children by another woman, the way Elizabeth thought about her infertility and the treatment that she sought out align with larger social and medical trends in American history.
A novel human lncRNA SANT1 cis-regulates the expression of SLC47A2 by altering SFPQ/E2F1/HDAC1 binding to the promoter region in renal cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Gao, Zhangzhao
name: Chen, Mengjiao
name: Tian, Xueke
name: Chen, Lu
name: Chen, Le
name: Zheng, Xiaoli
name: Wang, Hua
name: Chen, Jinchao
name: Zhao, An
name: Yao, Qingqing
name: Zhu, Qianying
name: Jin, Shengnan
name: Hu, Haihong
name: Zeng, Su
name: Yu, Lushan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: SLC47A2 encodes MATE 2-K in the kidney, which mediates the secretion of certain endogenous and exogenous compounds. SLC47A2 was dramatically repressed in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and a lower level of SLC47A2 might act as a negative prognostic marker, although the mechanism is not well understood. In this study, we aimed to investigate the mechanism via which SLC47A2 is downregulated in RCC. Based on the annotation information of the SLC47A2 locus available in the UCSC genome browser database, we identified a novel lncRNA, which is transcribed from the SLC47A2 locus and named it SANT1. Overexpression and knock-down assays were performed to investigate the effects of SANT1 on cis-regulation of SLC47A2. We verified the direct binding between SANT1 and SFPQ/E2F1/HDAC1 using the cross-linking and immunoprecipitation (CLIP) assay. Chromatin immunoprecipitation was performed to confirm the molecular mechanism via which SANT1 activates the transcription of the SLC47A2 coding region. We observed that SANT1 can cis-regulate its own genetic locus. In tumour-adjacent tissues, the SLC47A2 locus highly expresses SANT1, which can remove the regulatory SFPQ/E2F1/HDAC1 suppressor complex from the promoter region, thereby significantly increasing the levels of the H3K27ac modification and RNAPII binding. Owing to a low SANT1 level, the binding of this inhibitory complex in the promoter region is upregulated in RCC, which results in silencing of the SLC47A2 coding region. In conclusion, we identified a novel lncRNA and elucidated the mechanism via which it regulates SLC47A2 expression in RCC.
Singularity-Free Fully-Isotropic Translational Parallel Manipulators
Creators: name: Carricato, Marco <1973>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2002
Subjects: ING-IND/13 Meccanica applicata alle macchine

description: Parallel mechanisms show desirable characteristics such as a large payload to robot weight ratio, considerable stiffness, low inertia and high dynamic performances. In particular, parallel manipulators with fewer than six degrees of freedom have recently attracted researchers’ attention, as their employ may prove valuable in those applications in which a higher mobility is uncalled-for. 
The attention of this dissertation is focused on translational parallel manipulators (TPMs), that is on parallel manipulators whose output link (platform) is provided with a pure translational motion with respect to the frame.
The first part deals with the general problem of the topological synthesis and classification of TPMs, that is it identifies the architectures that TPM legs must possess for the platform to be able to freely translate in space without altering its orientation.
The second part studies both constraint and direct singularities of TPMs. In particular, special families of fully-isotropic mechanisms are identified. Such manipulators exhibit outstanding properties, as they are free from singularities and show a constant orthogonal Jacobian matrix throughout their workspace. As a consequence, both the direct and the inverse position problems are linear and the kinematic analysis proves straightforward.
description: I meccanismi paralleli possiedono caratteristiche vantaggiose, quali un elevato
carico pagante rispetto al peso del robot, una considerevole rigidezza, bassa inerzia e
alte prestazioni dinamiche. In particolare, i manipolatori paralleli con meno di sei
gradi di libertà hanno recentemente attratto l’attenzione dei ricercatori, potendo il
loro impiego risultare utile in applicazioni nelle quali non sia necessaria una più alta
mobilità.
L’oggetto della presente tesi è costituito dai manipolatori paralleli traslanti
(TPM), così detti in quanto il proprio membro terminale (piattaforma) esibisce un
moto di pura traslazione rispetto al telaio.
La prima parte affronta, in termini generali, il problema della sintesi topologica,
nonché della classificazione, dei TPM. In particolare, s’individuano le architetture
che le gambe di un TPM devono possedere affinché la piattaforma del meccanismo
possa traslare liberamente nello spazio senza alterare il proprio orientamento.
La seconda parte studia le singolarità dei TPM, tanto quelle di vincolo quanto
quelle dirette, e individua speciali famiglie di meccanismi completamente isotropi.
Tali manipolatori mostrano proprietà notevoli, in quanto sono privi di singolarità e
possiedono una matrice jacobiana ortogonale e costante in tutto lo spazio di lavoro. I
problemi di posizione sia diretto che inverso risultano lineari e l’analisi cinematica
immediata.
Programmable reconfiguration of Physarum machines
Creators: name: Adamatzky, Andrew
name: Jones, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a large cell capable of solving graph-theoretic, optimization and computational geometry problems due to its unique foraging behavior. Also the plasmodium is unique biological substrate that mimics universal storage modification machines, namely the Kolmogorov-Uspensky machine. In the plasmodium implementation of the storage modification machine data are represented by sources of nutrients and memory structure by protoplasmic tubes connecting the sources. In laboratory experiments and simulation we demonstrate how the plasmodium-based storage modification machine can be programmed. We show execution of the following operations with active zone (where computation occurs): merge two active zones, multiple active zone, translate active zone from one data site to another, direct active zone. Results of the paper bear two-fold value: they provide a basis for programming unconventional devices based on biological substrates and also shed light on behavioral patterns of the plasmodium.
Flavor-singlet mesons in N_f=2+1 QCD with dynamical overlap quarks
Creators: name: JLQCD
name: collaborations, TWQCD
name: :
name: Kaneko, T.
name: Aoki, S.
name: Chiu, T. W.
name: Fukaya, H.
name: Hashimoto, S.
name: Hsieh, T. H.
name: Noaki, J.
name: Shintani, E.
name: Yamada, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on our study of flavor-singlet mesons in three-flavor QCD with dynamical overlap quarks. Gauge ensembles are generated on a 16^3 x 48 lattice at a lattice spacing of 0.10 fm with the strange quark masses around its physical value m_s,phys and up and down quark masses down to m_s,phys/5. Connected and disconnected meson correlators are calculated using the all-to-all quark propagator. We present our preliminary results on the spectrum of flavor-singlet pseudoscalar and vector mesons.
description: 7 pages, talk presented at The XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - LAT2009, July 26-31 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China
Pathways placement opportunities
Creators: name: Marais, Debbi
Publisher: name: Edge Hill University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This brochure provides an overview of a work-based placement opportunity as part of our Masters in Public health. It is a competitive and popular elective module giving students the opportunity to apply for an authentic placement with a real world task and assignment which may be local or international (remote). The application process is competitive and follows and authentic application, shortlisting and interview process before students are placed with organisations for a 12-week flexible placement. This module has also been mirrored at the University of Monash, Australia and placement opportunities are shared across the institutions.
title: Lesiones esplénicas múltiples: Hallazgos en diferentes técnicas de imagen y su relevancia en el estudio de patología multisistémica
Creators: name: Peghini Gavilanes, Esteban
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Spleen
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Education
subject: Pathology
subject: Cysts
subject: Haemangioma

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
El objetivo de esta revisión es presentar alradiólogo casos que ejemplifiquen adecuadamente los principales tipos de patología esplénica múltiple así como los diferentes métodos de imagen utilizados para su...
title: tourismos, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2013)
Creators: name: Tourismos
Publisher: name: University of the Aegean
Year: 2013

description: Tourism and Sustainable Development: Reconsidering a Concept of Vague Policies1...360-364 AN OPTIMAL HUB SELECTION ALGORITHM IN MARITIME TRANSPORT SYSTEMS BASED ON THE HUB AND SPOKE MODEL...345-359 PRELIMINARY INSIGHTS ON BRITISH TRAVELLERS’ ACCOUNTS OF SICILIAN ORANGES...341-347 SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF TOURISM: AN APPLICATION OF NEW ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY IN SELECTED COUNTRIES...323-336 THE EFFECTS OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS LIVELIHOOD SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ORANG ASLI AT THE KG.SG. RUIL, CAMERON HIGHLANDS...301-321 ATTITUDES OF LOCAL RESIDENTS TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN A DEVELOPING SOCIETY: THE CASE OF TORQABEH, IRAN...289-299 FACTORS AFFECTING MUSEUM VISITORS’ SATISFACTION: THE CASE OF GREEK MUSEUMS...271-287 EXAMINING THE IMAGE OF A TOURISM DESTINATION: EVIDENCE FROM CRETE...259-270 IMPACT OF GREEN MARKETING ON PERCEIVED IMAGE AND BEHAVIOURAL INTENTIONS OF CONSUMERS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM RESTAURANT PRACTICES...233-257 THE PRO LOCO ITALIAN VOLUNTEERS INVOLVED IN THE PROMOTION OF TOURIST EVENTS...215-232 THE EFFECTS OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS ON THE PERFORMANCES OF ACCOMMODATION ESTABLISHMENT OPERATING IN TOURISM INDUSTRY...195-214 A NOTE ON THE MECHANISMS TO OBTAIN SUSTAINABLE ECOTOURISM THROUGH PRICE MANAGEMENT...179-194 DETERMINING THE TOURISM DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS OF THE GREEK REGIONS, BY USING TALC THEORY...159-178 ARE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS READY FOR BOLOGNA? A PEDAGOGICAL PROJECT IN A TOURISM COURSE...137-158 INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN VARIABLES ON ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT: A CASE STUDY IN THE HOTEL SECTOR OF CORDOBA...117-135 TOURISM IMPACTS and SUPPORT FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF PAMUKKALE IN TURKEY...97-115 THE ROLE OF TOURISM IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES...77-95 INTERNATIONAL TOURISTS’ ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS HOTELS IN ACCRA...57-75 EXPLORING TOURISTS’ ‘PUSH AND PULL’ MOTIVATIONS TO VISIT MAURITIUS AS A HOLIDAY DESTINATION...39-56 MANAGING CONFLICTING ATTITUDES: NATIONAL PARKS IN ICELAND AND JAPAN...21-38 PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES OF CSR IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: ANALYZING A CASE STUDY...1-19 Initial Pages & Editorial...i-xv
Plasmonic resonances and hot spots in Ag octopods
Creators: name: Naumov, Ivan I.
name: Li, Zhiyong
name: Bratkovsky, Alexander M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New type of plasmonic nanoparticles - silver octopods that can be synthesized with a variety of shapes - have been demonstrated to show versatile optical response using the discrete dipole approximation. The octopods show a complex behavior at optical (visible, IR) wavelengths, with three major resonances that can be tuned up to a desired response that makes them especially attractive to use in e.g. high-performance surface enhanced Raman (SERS) detectors. The excited resonant modes strongly depend on the geometrical parameters of the stars, while dependence on their orientation with respect to an incident radiation is moderate, owing to cubic symmetry. The field "hot spots" are formed with the local field enhancement up to 50 times compared to an incident field. They are usually localized at the surface between the arms and may be both "electric" and "magnetic". While the former are of primary importance for SERS, the latter may be identified by trapping magnetic nanoparticles in their vicinity. The results are in very good agreement with the data where available and may be used as a type of a "shape spectroscopy" for the nanoparticles.
description: 12 pages. 6 figures
LEMON PEEL (CITRUS LIMON L.) AS POTENTIAL SOURCE OF HESPERIDIN: AN ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL OF HESPERIDIN VIA SUPPRESSING MDA (MALONDIALDEHYDE) IN SODIUM ARSENITE-INDUCED HEPATOTOXICITY
Creators: name: MARIA SALEEM
name: RIZWAN SHAUKAT
name: TAHIR ZAHOOR
name: BEENISH ISRAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Aspartate aminotransferase, Catalase, Glutathione peroxidase, Malondialdehyde, Superoxide dismutase.

description: Abstract

Present study was conducted to check the effect of lemon peel extract (LPE) against SA (Sodium Arsenite)-induced liver toxicity that results in dysfunction of liver due to increase in oxidative stress. HPLC analysis with C18 column was used to analyze hesperidin content in lemon peel at 280nm. Antioxidant potential of hesperidin was analyzed via efficacy for this purpose. Sprague dawely rats were divided into 5 groups (n=30). Liver toxicity was induced by consuming 10 mg sodium arsenic per kilogram of rat body weight. Different concentrations of LPE were introduced to each experimental unit. Effectiveness of doses were analyzed by biochemical parameters. Blood samples were collected at different intervals to estimate the serum ALT (Alanine aminotransferase), AST (Aspartate aminotransferase), MDA (Malondialdehyde), SOD (Superoxide dismutase), CAT (Catalase) and GPx (Glutathione peroxidase) level. Lemon peel extract had 16.5430 mg/100g hesperidin. Serum ALT (38.16±1.25 U/L), AST (31.67±3.06) and MDA (2.68±0.01) level was significantly lowered after LP extract consumption as compared with SA-induced liver toxicity group (38.16±1.25), (97.16±4.58) respectively. While serum SOD (163.17±1.25 U/mL), CAT (112.0±1 U/mL) and GPx (3.12±0.017 MU/L) level was significantly higher after LP extract consumption as compared with disease group (78.00±0.50 U/mL), (74.0±1.0 U/mL) and (0.83±0.04 MU/L) respectively. Present study demonstrated that lemon peel has potential to attenuate SA-induced liver toxicity and oxidative stress that directly correlated to its pharmacological properties based on polyphenol (especially hesperidin dominant flavonoid) content. Lemon peel extract has great potential against oxidative stress and related disorders. There is dire need to attain an appropriate method for extraction of lemon peel extract to get its maximum benefits.
PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES OF CSR IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: ANALYZING A CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Martinez, Patricia
name: Del Bosque, Ignacio Rodríguez
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2013

description: This paper aims to offer a preliminary case study of CSR issues being addressed in the hospitality sector in order to disseminate best practice. By employing a qualitative research findings reveal that Meliá Hotels International has its own approach to CSR by incorporating a new cultural dimension to this notion. Moreover, findings illustrate how MHI define its CSR policy according to the stakeholder approach, being the main beneficiaries from these activities consumers and local communities. This study also provides evidence that strength of CSR commitment varies by topic, and that value creation for MHI can be uncertain since many CSR initiatives do not cause a reduction in costs.
description: tourismos, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2013)
Encoding information into precipitation structures
Creators: name: Martens, Kirsten
name: Bena, Ioana
name: Droz, Michel
name: Racz, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Material design at submicron scales would be profoundly affected if the formation of precipitation patterns could be easily controlled. It would allow the direct building of bulk structures, in contrast to traditional techniques which consist of removing material in order to create patterns. Here, we discuss an extension of our recent proposal of using electrical currents to control precipitation bands which emerge in the wake of reaction fronts in A^{+} + B^{-} -> C reaction-diffusion processes. Our main result, based on simulating the reaction-diffusion-precipitation equations, is that the dynamics of the charged agents can be guided by an appropriately designed time-dependent electric current so that, in addition to the control of the band spacing, the width of the precipitation bands can also be tuned. This makes straightforward the encoding of information into precipitation patterns and, as an amusing example, we demonstrate the feasibility by showing how to encode a musical rhythm.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, presented at SigmaPhi 2008