cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Atherosclerosis
Creators: name: Usman, Ammara
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Atherosclerosis
Carotid Artery Disease
Dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging
USPIO-enhanced MR Imaging
vertebral artery disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging

description: Stroke remains the most common cause of long-term disability with approximately two-thirds of ischaemic strokes resulting from underlying carotid atherosclerotic disease. The clinical management of carotid artery disease relies primarily on the evaluation of the severity of carotid artery luminal stenosis. However, there is growing evidence that morphological and functional information about carotid plaques may also be crucial for the assessment of the severity of atherosclerosis. High-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is an emerging imaging technique, which has shown great promise in providing detailed information about plaque pathobiology besides luminal stenosis. Using a special contrast medium called ultrasmall superparamagnetic particles of iron oxide (USPIO), MR imaging can also help in the assessment of carotid plaque inflammation. In this dissertation, I explore the different MR imaging modalities for the assessment of morphological, biomechanical and functional characteristics of the atherosclerotic plaques in different patient cohorts, to assess the efficacy of these techniques in identifying high-risk atherosclerotic plaques. It is important to identify these individuals with vulnerable plaques and are the risk of future cerebrovascular events so that they receive optimal medical therapy and timely surgical intervention. Overall the results of this dissertation provide strong support for the use of functional MR imaging techniques i.e. USPIO-enhanced and Dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging for detailed morphological and functional assessment of plaques. This may help refine risk stratification especially in subgroups of patients with asymptomatic carotid disease. This may assist in in improving our standing of the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease in different patient cohorts and help to determine disease severity and prognosis, as well as providing a biomarker to assess the efficacy of established or novel therapeutic interventions
description: PhD funded by Mountbatten Cambridge International Scholarship in collaboration with Cambridge Trust, Christ’s College and Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust. Research Project funded by Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS.
RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY OF IRRIGATED-HYV BORO RICE CULTIVATION BY DIFFERENT FARM SIZE GROUPS AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME IN DTW II PROJECT AREA OF MYMENSINGH
Creators: name: Mandal, K. C.
name: Sabur, S. Abdus
name: Molla, A. R.
name: Mandal, K. C.
name: Sabur, S. Abdus
name: Molla, A. R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The study seeks to verify the contending propositions of size productivity relationship prevailing in DTW II Project, to measure and compare per hectare cost, returns, farm productivity, to estimate the impact of farm size on employment. It uses empirical data collected through a lengthy intensive farm survey of 220 sample farmers in an area of Mymensingh district in Bangladesh. The study shows that medium farms obtained the highest yield and gross margin despite using least amount of inputs. They were technically more efficient but no farm group was found to be efficient allocatively. The study also shows that there is scope to increse the doses of fertilizer despite its higher price in the recent years. It is also found that small farms created more employment opportunities and medium farms used resources more efficiently in the study area.
On some generalized stopping power sum rules
Creators: name: Nersisyan, Hrachya B.
name: Das, Amal K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lindhard-Winther (LW) equipartition sum rule shows that within the linear response theory, the stopping power of an energetic point-charge projectile in a degenerate electron gas medium, receives equal contributions from single-particle and collective excitations in the medium. In this paper we show that the LW sum rule does not necessarily hold for an extended projectile ion and for ion-clusters moving in a fully degenerate electron gas. We have derived a generalized equipartition sum rule and some related sum rules for this type of projectiles. We also present numerical plots for He$^{+}$ ion and He$^{+}$ ion-clusters.
description: 2 figures, LaTeX
MOESM1 of Health-related quality of life and its socio-economic and cultural predictors among advanced cancer patients: evidence from the APPROACH cross-sectional survey in Hyderabad-India
Creators: name: Jacob, Jean
name: Palat, Gayatri
name: Verghese, Naina
name: Chandran, Priya
name: Vineela Rapelli
name: Kumari, Sanjeeva
name: Chetna Malhotra
name: Teo, Irene
name: Finkelstein, Eric
name: Ozdemir, Semra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Survey instrument.
The Optical Afterglow of GRB 011211
Creators: name: Holland, Stephen T.
name: Soszynski, I.
name: Gladders, Michael D.
name: Barrientos, L. F.
name: Berlind, P.
name: Bersier, David
name: Garnavich, Peter M.
name: Jha, Saurabh
name: Stanek, K. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present early-time optical photometry and spectroscopy of the optical afterglow of the gamma-ray burst GRB 011211. The spectrum of the optical afterglow contains several narrow metal lines which are consistent with the burst occurring at a redshift of 2.140 +/- 0.001. The optical afterglow decays as a power law with a slope of alpha = 0.83 +/- 0.04 for the first approximately two days after the burst at which time there is evidence for a break. The slope after the break is at least 1.4. There is evidence for rapid variations in the R-band light approximately 0.5 days after the burst. These variations suggest that there are density fluctuations near the gamma-ray burst on spatial scales of approximately 40--125 AU. The magnitude of the break in the light curve, the spectral slope, and the rate of decay in the optical, suggest that the burst expanded into an ambient medium that is homogeneous on large scales. We estimate that the local particle density is between approximately 0.1 and 10 cm^{-3} and that the total gamma-ray energy in the burst was 1.2--1.9 x 10^{50} erg. This energy is smaller than, but consistent with, the ``standard'' value of (5 +/- 2) x 10^{50} erg. Comparing the observed color of the optical afterglow with predictions of the standard beaming model suggests that the rest-frame V-band extinction in the host galaxy is less than approximately 0.03 mag.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures, AASTeX 5.02, to appear in AJ Referee's report incorporated, minor changes in the text
Microscopic theory of fractional excitations in gapless bilayer quantum Hall states: semi-quantized quantum Hall states
Creators: name: Türker, Oğuz
name: Meng, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the low-energy theory of semi-quantized quantum Hall states, a recently observed class of gapless bilayer fractional quantum Hall states. Our theory shows these states to feature gapless quasiparticles of fractional charge coupled to an emergent Chern-Simons gauge field. These gapless quasiparticles can be understood as composites of electrons and Laughlin-like quasiparticles. We show that semi-quantized quantum Hall states exhibit perfect interlayer drag, host non-Fermi liquid physics, and serve as versatile parent states for fully gapped topological phases hosting anyonic excitations.
description: 33 pages
Phronia basalis Winnertz 1863
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Phronia
Phronia basalis

description: 86. Phronia basalis Winnertz, 1863 **
 Material examined. C19 25.III.06 1 ♂, 9.XI.06 3 ♂♂ 1 ♀. C60 10.XI.06 2 ♂♂. C69 12.XI.06 1 ♂. C70 9.V.04 1 ♂. S1 21.III–4.IV.06 ♂♂, 4–18.IV.06 ♂♂, 19.IX–3.X.06 ♂♂, 3–17.X.06 2 ♂♂, 17–31.X.06 ♂♂. S2 21.III–4.IV.06 ♂♂, 4–18.IV.06 ♂♂, 11–25.VII.06 ♂♂. S3 21.III–4.IV.06 ♂♂, 3–17.X.06 ♂♂ ♀. SAR1 29.IX–21.X.03 15 ♂♂ 6 ♀, 21.X–17.XI.03 ♂♂ ♀, 12.XII.03–8. I.04 ♂♂ ♀, 5–22.XI.04 ♂♂, 8–21.I.04 ♂♂ ♀, 21.I–16.II.04 ♂♂ ♀, 16.II–15.VI.04 ♂♂ ♀, 15–30.VI.04 ♂♂, 30.VI–16.VIII.04 ♂♂, 22.XI– 17.XII.04 ♂♂, 17.XII.04–4.I.05 3 ♂♂, 4.I–18.I.05 7 ♂♂ 8 ♀, 18.I–1.III.05 ♂♂ ♀, 1.III–29.IV.05 ♂♂ ♀, 29.IV–30.V.05 ♂♂ ♀, 13–30.IX.05 1 ♂, 30.IX–17.X.05 3 ♂♂, 17.X–3.XI.05 1 ♂, 16.XI–2.XII.05 5 ♂♂ 10 ♀, 3–16.XI.05 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀, 2–16.XII.05 14 ♂♂ 12 ♀, 16.XII.05–3.I.06 37 ♂♂ 21 ♀, 6.X–5.XI.06 ♂♂.
 Chorotype. Type 3 [1.03 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Western Palaearctic including North Africa and the Near East.
 Italian distribution. Sardinia only.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
EFFICIENCY OF FISH MARKETING AT BHUBANESHWAR CITY OF ORISSA (INDIA) : SOME POLICY IMPLICATIONS
Creators: name: Shrivastava, R. S.
name: Ranadhir, M.
name: Shrivastava, R. S.
name: Ranadhir, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper examines the efficiency of fish marketing at Bhubaneswar city. A sample of 5 wholesalers, 5 commission agents and 40 retailers were taken for primary data collection on.prices of fish and marketing costs. The channel III shows that 85 percent of the demand for fish was met by fish producers of Andhra Pradesh. The producers' share in consumers rupee was highest for local producers and lowest for non local producers. The largest component of price spread and net margin was attributed to retailers followed by wholesalers and commission agents. The net income of non local producers-cum-wholesalers was found to be highest because they handle larger quantity of fish. Also, the return to one rupee investment was recorded to be more than 100 percent. There exists a scope of earning super normal profit by intermediaries because market was not perfectly competitive. It is recommended that government should formulate suitable aqua price policy for eliminating imperfection from the market.
Towards algorithmic use of chemical data
Creators: name: Jacob, Philipp-Maximilian
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: networks
network of organic chemistry
chemoinformatics
sustainability
chemical engineering
synthesis planning
chemistry
reaction prediction

description: The growth of chemical knowledge available via online databases opens opportunities for new types of chemical research. In particular, by converting the data into a network, graph theoretical approaches can be used to study chemical reactions. In this thesis several research questions from the field of data science and graph theory are re-formulated for the chemistry-specific data. Firstly, the structure of chemical reactions data was studied using graph theory. It was found that the network of reactions obtained from the Reaxys data was scale-free, that on average any two species were separated by six reactions, and that evidence for a hierarchy of nodes existed, most clearly in that the hubs that combine a large share of connections onto them also facilitate a large proportion of routes across the network. The hierarchy was also evidenced in the clustering and degree correlations of nodes. Next, it was investigated whether Reaxys could be mined to construct a network of reactions and use it to plan and evaluate synthesis routes in two case studies. A number of heuristics were developed to find synthesis routes using the network taking chemical structures into account. These routes were fed into a multi-criteria decision making framework scoring the routes along environmental sustainability considerations. The approach was successful in discovering and scoring synthesis route candidates. It was found that Reaxys lacked process data in many instances. To address this a proposal for extension of the RInChI reaction data format was developed. The final question addressed was whether the network could be used to predict future reactions by using Stochastic Block Models. Block model-based link prediction performed impressively, being able to achieve a classification accuracy of close to 95% during time-split validation on historic data, differentiating future reaction discoveries from random data. Next, a set of transformation suggestions was thus evaluated and a framework for analysing these results was presented. Overall, the thesis was able to further the understanding of the network’s topology and to present a framework allowing the mining of Reaxys to plan synthesis routes and target R&D efforts in a specific area to discover new reactions.
description: Cambridge Trust and Peterhouse
PRODUCTION OF HOMESTEAD ENTERPRISES: IMPLICATIONS ON INCOME AND WOMEN'S STATUS
Creators: name: Rahman, M. H.
name: Rahman, M. H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Production Economics

description: This paper attempted to explore mainly the consequences of homestead crop production under homestead agro-forestry (HAF) practices on the family income and women's status. The data from HAF practising households reveal that these farms have earned substantial income and production gains. The women of the households gained in terms of higher social status. The gender status in particular has improved significantly on these households as evidenced by the increased participation of HAF practising women in taking decisions on crucial socio-economic matters in the households.
Trichonta comica Gagne 1981
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Trichonta
Trichonta comica

description: 96. Trichonta comica Gagné, 1981 **
 Material examined. U1 21.XI.05 1 ♂ (det. by O. Kurina).
 Chorotype. Type 1 [1.01 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Holarctic, in Europe a mainly nordic distribution but has also been recorded from the French mainland, Switzerland and Montenegro (included under the former Yugoslavia by Chandler (2004a) based on an unpublished record).
 Italian distribution. Sardinia only.
 Notes. [O. Kurina pers. comm.] The specimen has both hind legs and one fore and mid legs lost but terminalia have survived. Using the key by Gagné (1981) it runs to the couplet including the rare Holarctic species Trichonta comica Gagné, 1981 and the Palaearctic T. concinna Gagné, 1981. The lateral part of the gonostylus is identical with Gagné’s fig. 71 but tergites 9–10 are most similar to T. concinna (Gagné’s fig 76). Further, the aedeagal projections in this specimen are dorsoventrally hooked (visible in lateral view). Gagné used the term “twisted” (probably equivalent to hooked) for T. concinna and straight for T. comica but the specimen is more similar to T. comica.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
Public Perception and attitude of Taxpayers on Value added tax.
Creators: name: Abdimahad, Bashir Abshir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Public Perception
attitude of Taxpayers
Value added tax

description: ABSTRACT

The purpose of this thesis is to study the public perception and attitude towards value-added tax in Galkaio city. Public perception and attitude are evaluated on the basis of their opinion—what they think and what they know about VAT. The data are collected through a well-structured questionnaire, and those are distributed to 138 respondents. For the purpose of analysis and interpretation, the researcher has used the following statistical tools: SPSS. On the basis of analysis and interpretation, the researcher introduces the major findings that the majority of the respondents have a disagreeing opinion or negative thought towards the VAT. One of the reasons that most respondents have a negative view is that most of them believe that the government doesn’t spend the tax revenues on necessary welfare assistance, which means tax revenue is used for personal assistance. The study recommended increasing the awareness of VAT in society and also educating people.
The acoustic spectrum of alpha Cen A
Creators: name: Bouchy, F.
name: Carrier, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the analysis of Doppler p-mode observations of the G2V star $α$ Cen A obtained with the spectrograph CORALIE in May 2001. Thirteen nights of observations have made it possible to collect 1850 radial velocity measurements with a standard deviation of about 1.5 m s$^{-1}$. Twenty-eight oscillation modes have been identified in the power spectrum between 1.8 and 2.9 mHz with amplitudes in the range 12 to 44 cm s$^{-1}$. The average large and small spacing are respectively equal to 105.5 and 5.6 $μ$Hz. A comparison with stellar models of $α$ Cen A is presented.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures, A&A accepted
Physical Observables from Lattice QCD at Fixed Topology
Creators: name: Brower, R.
name: Chandrasekharan, S.
name: Negele, J. W.
name: Wiese, U. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Because present Monte Carol algorithms for lattice QCD may become trapped in a given topological charge sector when one approaches the continuum limit, it is important to understand the effect of calculating at fixed topology. In this work, we show that although the restriction to a fixed topological sector becomes irrelevant in the infinite volume limit, it gives rise to characteristic finite size effects due to contributions from all $θ$-vacua. We calculate these effects and show how to extract physical results from numerical data obtained at fixed topology.
description: Lattice 2001 (Confinement) 3 pages
Key Protected Classification for Collaborative Learning
Creators: name: Sarıyıldız, Mert Bülent
name: Cinbiş, Ramazan Gökberk
name: Ayday, Erman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large-scale datasets play a fundamental role in training deep learning models. However, dataset collection is difficult in domains that involve sensitive information. Collaborative learning techniques provide a privacy-preserving solution, by enabling training over a number of private datasets that are not shared by their owners. However, recently, it has been shown that the existing collaborative learning frameworks are vulnerable to an active adversary that runs a generative adversarial network (GAN) attack. In this work, we propose a novel classification model that is resilient against such attacks by design. More specifically, we introduce a key-based classification model and a principled training scheme that protects class scores by using class-specific private keys, which effectively hide the information necessary for a GAN attack. We additionally show how to utilize high dimensional keys to improve the robustness against attacks without increasing the model complexity. Our detailed experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique. Source code is available at https://github.com/mbsariyildiz/key-protected-classification.
description: Accepted to Pattern Recognition
DETERMINANTS OF RICE SUPPLY IN BANGLADESH : A CASE OF PROFIT FUNCTION APPROACH USING CROSS SECTION DATA
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Nuimuddin
name: Khan, Kibria Masud
name: Kabir, Mahfuzul
name: Chowdhury, Nuimuddin
name: Khan, Kibria Masud
name: Kabir, Mahfuzul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: As rising fertilizer prices translate into bleak implication for "apparent" incentives for rice production-an undoubtedly important segment of Bangladesh's rural economy-a research question assumes key importance. Of price and nonprice class of variables determining rice output, which is more potent? We answer this question using a cross-section data set for 1989/90 on the basis of a profit-function based approach. Use of cross-section data is justified on account of timeseries data being unable to evaluate the absorption of fixed factors as required by the analytical method chosen. This of course means that the time frame is the long, and not the short run. We show that prices overall are more often insignificant determinants of rice output, while nonprice variables-farm size, the adoption of high-yielding-variety (HYV) technology and farmer's managerial ability-often register statistically significant influences on rice supply. Within the class of price variables, the wage rate is alone that decisively matters to output in the aman season; fertiliser prices, the cause of much recent discussion, do not make any difference to output supply. In the long run, it is the price of labour and not fertiliser prices that deserve more analytical and policy attention. It is adaptive research on, and the diffusion of, modern rice technology, and access to education and capital by the farmer that is more fundamentally important to rice production. In the atmosphere of Bangladesh today, this finding, however trite and shopworn, can take a wellattended recital, de novo.
Charm and bottom quark masses from QCD moment sum rules
Creators: name: Eidemuller, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work the charm and bottom quark masses are determined from QCD moment sum rules for the charmonium and upsilon systems. In our analysis we include both the results from non-relativistic QCD and perturbation theory at next-next-to-leading order. For the pole masses we obtain $M_c=1.75\pm 0.15$ GeV and $M_b=4.98\pm 0.125$ GeV. Using the potential-subtracted mass in intermediate steps of the calculation the MS-masses are determined to $m_c(m_c) = 1.19 \pm 0.11$ GeV and $m_b(m_b) = 4.24 \pm 0.10$ GeV.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, talk given at the High-Energy Physics International Conference in QCD, Montpellier, France, 2-9 July 2002
MOESM1 of Socio-demographic and facility-based determinants of perceived quality of nutrition Services of Pregnant and Lactating Adolescent Girls in Trans-Mara east Sub-County, Narok County, Kenya
Creators: name: Okeyo, David
name: Sussy Gumo
name: Munde, Elly
name: Opiyo, Charles
name: Zablon Omungo
name: Olyaro, Maureen
name: Ndirangu, Rachel
name: Nanlop Ogbureke
name: Efange, Sophie
name: Collins Ouma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. This is the questionnaire used to generate the quantitative data on this article which is provided as Additional file 1: S1
Two-Loop QCD Corrections to the Higgs plus three-parton amplitudes with Top Mass Correction
Creators: name: Jin, Qingjun
name: Yang, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the two-loop QCD corrections to the Higgs plus three-parton amplitudes with dimension-seven operators in Higgs effective field theory. This provides the two-loop S-matrix elements for Higgs plus one-jet production at the LHC with top-mass correction. We apply efficient unitarity plus IBP methods which are described in detail. We also study the color decomposition of the fermion cuts and find a connection between fundamental and adjoint representations which can be used to reduce non-planar to planar unitarity cuts in the Higgs to three-gluon amplitudes. We obtain final results in simple analytic form which exhibits intriguing hidden structures. The principle of maximal transcendentality is found to be satisfied for all results. The lower transcendentality parts also contain universal building blocks and can be written in compact analytic form, suggesting further hidden structures.
description: 41 pages, 11 figures
PROFIT EFFICIENCY AMONG RICE PRODUCERS IN NORTHEAST AND NORTHERN THAILAND
Creators: name: Rahman, Sanzidur
name: Rahman, Sanzidur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Farm-specific profit inefficiency among Khao Dawk Mali and glutinous rice producers was estimated from a stochastic profit frontier. The mean level of farm inefficiency, given farm-specific prices and level of fixed factors, was estimated at 32% (with range 33%-92%) for Khao Dawk Mali and 20% (with range 50%-93%) for glutinous rice, respectively. The average loss of profit per ha is estimated at Baht 3,858 for Khao Dawk Mali and Baht 2,702 for glutinous rice, respectively. A 25% reduction in the estimated profit loss among Khao Dawk Mali rice producers would generate about Baht 293 million additional profit each season.
Economic Analyses of the Seadrift Wind-Aided Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations
Creators: name: Abena Mbarga, Ange Hilaire
name: Rainwater, Ken
name: Song, Lianfa
name: Cleveland, Theodore
name: Williams, William Ross
Publisher: name: Texas Water Journal
Year: 2021

description: Seadrift is located on the Texas Gulf Coast with a population of 1,364 people as of the 2010 U.S. Census. In 2012, the city started operation of a $610,878 wind turbine, dedicated to its wastewater treatment plant. The city hoped to save $25,500 yearly using wind energy to displace some of the plant’s electrical demand. The plant’s average load is 0.05 million gallons per day, requiring 236,000 kWh (8.05*108 BTU) yearly. The paper details how Seadrift used manufacturer curves to predict turbine energy production, and how preliminary geotechnical, economic, and environmental analyses help design renewable energy projects. From 2012 to 2015, Seadrift saved $15,928 per year, with yearly wind energy production of 155,738 kWh (5.31*108 BTU) and net present value of $211,493. This study shows how government agencies and rural communities can collaborate to find economically viable solutions to water-energy nexus challenges in Texas and beyond. Citation: Mbarga AHA, Rainwater K, Song L, Theodore C, Williams WR. 2021. Economic Analyses of the Seadrift Wind-Aided Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations. Texas Water Journal. 12(1):42-57. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21423/twj.v12i1.7096.
description: Texas Water Journal, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2021)
Ghazal Poetry and the Marwanids: A study of Kuthayyir Azza
Creators: name: Wilder, Samuel Truman
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Umayyad poetry
Kuthayyir ibn Abd al-Rahman
Ghazal poetry
Arabic Literature
Classical Arabic Poetry
Qur'an
Arabic Poetry and Ritual

description: This dissertation offers a comprehensive study of the life and work of Kuthayyir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, a love poet and panegyrist who died in AH 106 / 725 in his hometown of Medina, in the Hijaz. The dissertation reexamines the rise of monothematic love poetry in the pre- and early Islamic period, and offers a new perspective on the relationship between poetry and power, between early Islamic rituals (such as the performance of the Hajj) and rightful claims to rulership, and between cognate motifs in Umayyad poetry and the Qur'an. The interpretation of the life and work of Kuthayyir sets Hijazi love poetry of the first Islamic century within the historical context of political contexts and patronage programs in the period during and following the conflict known as the Second Fitna. Chapter One introduces the fundamental challenges to the study of Umayyad-era poetry, outlines the approach to the sources, and surveys Kuthayyir's life and textual corpus. Chapter Two reviews the scholarship on the emergence of love poetry in the first Islamic century, provides a reading of the akhbar frame in which Umayyad-era ghazal is presented, then provides translations and philological commentaries on four of Kuthayyir’s ghazal poems. The translations are followed by two essays studying aspects of Kuthayyir’s poetics, comprising a study of the poet's frequent references to pilgrimage (ḥajj), and a discussion of the poet's deployment of a ‘love-sick’ poetic persona that evokes parallels with prophet-narratives in the Qurʾān. Chapter Three then offers a comprehensive account of Kuthayyir’s career as a panegyric poet, tracing his successive patronage relationships, translating and interpreting his major praise poetry, and exploring thematic and tonal overlaps between the poet’s love poetry and panegyric. The dissertation makes the case that Kuthayyir's ghazal and panegyric should be read together, and that his patronage by the post-Fitna Marwanid elite must be considered central to our historical interpretation of his poetry. While his love poetry embeds the expression of individual erotic experience within the landscape of the sacred Ḥijāz, so does his praise poetry deploy the representation of the Ḥijāz and its rituals as a means for affirming Marwānid claims of authority. This interpretation of Kuthayyir’s work is contrasted to earlier interpretations of Umayyad-era ghazal poetry, which have focussed primarily on ghazal poetry as a creative manifestation of the disruption engendered by the societal shifts of the first Islamic century.
Study on the Future Climate Change and Its Influence on the Growth Stage and Yield of Wheat in Weifang City
Creators: name: YUAN, Jing
name: XU, Jianping
name: SUN, Lijuan
name: ZHANG, Xiuzhen
name: WANG, Xiaoli
name: YUAN, Jing
name: XU, Jianping
name: SUN, Lijuan
name: ZHANG, Xiuzhen
name: WANG, Xiaoli
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Climate change
subject: Wheat
subject: Growth stage
subject: Yield
subject: Impact

description: In order to study the trend of climate change in the future in Weifang, and analyze the impact of climate change on the local wheat production, the air temperature and precipitation in Weifang from 2021 to 2050 were simulated by using the regional climate model PRECIS. And then put the meteorological data into the crop model to simulate the growth of wheat under climate change conditions in the future. The results showed that there would be a trend of rising temperature and increasing precipitation in Weifang in the future. Climate warming would result in growth period of wheat to be ahead of schedule and yield reduction. If taking into account the effect of CO2, the yield of wheat would increase.
Stochastic resonance as a collective property of ion channel assemblies
Creators: name: Schmid, G.
name: Goychuk, I.
name: Hänggi, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: By use of a stochastic generalization of the Hodgkin-Huxley model we investigate both the phenomena of stochastic resonance (SR) and coherence resonance (CR) in variable size patches of an excitable cell membrane. Our focus is on the challenge how internal noise stemming from individual ion channels does affect collective properties of the whole ensemble. We investigate both an unperturbed situation with no applied stimuli and one in which the membrane is stimulated externally by a periodic signal and additional external noise. For the nondriven case, we demonstrate the existence of an optimal size of the membrane patch for which the internal noise causes a most regular spike activity. This phenomenon shall be termed intrinsic CR. In presence of an applied periodic stimulus we demonstrate that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) exhibits SR vs. decreasing patch size, or vs. increasing internal noise strength, respectively. Moreover, we demonstrate that conventional SR vs. the external noise intensity occurs only for sufficiently large membrane patches, when the intensity of internal noise is below its optimal level. Thus, biological SR seemingly is rooted in the collective properties of large ion channel ensembles rather than in the individual stochastic dynamics of single ion channels.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
MOESM2 of Addressing context to understand physical activity among Muslim university students: the role of gender, family, and culture
Creators: name: Ghadir Aljayyousi
name: Munshar, Maher Abu
name: Al-Salim, Farid
name: Osman, El
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
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 2: Table S1. Demographics for Participants from Qatar University.
Single-Error Detection and Correction for Duplication and Substitution Channels
Creators: name: Tang, Yuanyuan
name: Yehezkeally, Yonatan
name: Schwartz, Moshe
name: Farnoud, Farzad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motivated by mutation processes occurring in in-vivo DNA-storage applications, a channel that mutates stored strings by duplicating substrings as well as substituting symbols is studied. Two models of such a channel are considered: one in which the substitutions occur only within the duplicated substrings, and one in which the location of substitutions is unrestricted. Both error-detecting and error-correcting codes are constructed, which can handle correctly any number of tandem duplications of a fixed length $k$, and at most a single substitution occurring at any time during the mutation process.
description: Author-submitted, peer-reviewed, version
Study of the Immune Correlates of Protection in Rhesus Macaques Vaccinated against Simian Immunodeficiency Virus
Creators: name: Gorini, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: immunology
antibody
vaccine
vaccinology
hiv
simian immunodeficiency virus
siv
monoclonal
cloning
innate
immunity
immunisation
prophylaxis

description: After more than thirty years since the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was identified, only the RV144 phase III vaccine clinical trial provided evidence of protection from virus infection, with 31.2% of the patients protected at three years since the end of the immunisation phase. Statistical analyses support serum IgG antibody recognition of the V2 region of viral gp120 as a mechanism of protection from acquisition. One hypothesis is that antibodies to this region might block the interaction with the integrin $\alpha4\beta7$, which protrudes from the surface of mucosal CD4+ T cells and is thought to capture the virus and facilitate infection. However, that $\alpha4\beta7$ blocking might be a protective mechanism of RV144 vaccination has yet to be definitively demonstrated. In this thesis, I aimed to describe at the molecular level the immune mechanisms of protection in a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) vaccinated in an RV144-like schedule and protected from Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) infection, with a particular focus on the humoral immune response of the animal. More specifically, vaccine-induced monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed against the V2 region of SIV were isolated and characterised. One of them, NCI09, has been identified as a potent inhibitor of SIV gp120 interaction with human $\alpha4\beta7$. Notably, NCI09 antigen recognition is negatively affected by the presence of ITS41, a mAb targeting a distant epitope on V2. Moreover, to experimentally prove this mechanism I performed the passive immunoprophylaxis of rhesus macaques using the anti-V2 mAb ITS09. Unfortunately, this mAb proved ineffective in providing protection both alone and in combination. Finally, a vaccination protocol based on the immunisation regimen of RV144, but modified to elicit stronger immune responses was tested. Surprisingly, the protocol failed to afford protection. However, in a parallel group immunised with the standard RV144 regimen, protection was observed and correlated with the intensity of the innate immune responses. These results provide insights into possible mechanisms of protection of RV144 vaccination against HIV. Furthermore, these findings suggest that there may be a degree of structural plasticity of the V2 region that may impact its interaction with $\alpha4\beta7$ and evasion mechanisms from a potentially protective humoral immune response.
Commentary: Fresh, Clean Water for Texans Now and for Generations to Come
Creators: name: King, Tracy
Publisher: name: Texas Water Journal
Year: 2021

description: Editor-in-Chief's Note: The Texas Water Journal invited Texas state Representative Tracy O. King, incoming chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources, to share his thoughts on what is ahead for the Natural Resources Committee. The opinion expressed in this commentary is the opinion of the individual author and not the opinion of the Texas Water Journal or the Texas Water Resources Institute. Received 26 February 2021, Accepted 3 March 2021, Published online 4 March 2021 Citation: King TO. 2021. Commentary: Fresh, Clean Water for Texans Now and for Generations to Come. Texas Water Journal. 12(1):40-41. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21423/twj.v12i1.7135.
description: Texas Water Journal, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2021)
title: Pour une géographie littéraire à l'école
title: Pour une géographie littéraire à l'école
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Knebusch, Julien
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Géographie littéraire
subject: interdisciplinarité
subject: didactique
subject: culture
subject: représentation
subject: mondialisation

description: Ce mémoire présente la géographie littéraire comme un champ dynamique et actuel de la recherche et de la création littéraires permettant de renouveler l’approche des textes littéraires. Il soulève les enjeux et la pertinence de l’introduction d’un tel axe de l’interdisciplinarité à l’école du point de vue de la didactique de la littérature (corpus littéraires et narratologie, par exemple) et aborde la notion de « culture géographique » qu’un tel axe interdisciplinaire est susceptible de développer. De ce fait, le mémoire examine la nécessaire complémentarité des disciplines, conçues comme ressources l’une pour l’autre, afin d’ouvrir le regard des élèves sur le monde. Concrètement, le mémoire offre un cadre opérationnel pour la mise en oeuvre de séquences didactiques qui croisent littérature et géographie à l’école. Pour cela, il propose des axes de questionnements, des concepts organisateurs, mais aussi des ressources (sites Internet, bibliographies, corpus, etc.) pour étudier la littérature, notamment suisse, sous l’angle de la géographie et de l’espace. A ce titre sont présentés et commentés différentes séquences didactiques montées conjointement par des enseignants de lettres et de géographie au sein de gymnases vaudois. Pour terminer ce mémoire expose un exemple de séquence didactique interdisciplinaire sur la question de la représentation de la mondialisation. Cette séquence doit permettre aux élèves de s’interroger sur leur perception du phénomène. La séquence est conçue pour un cours facultatif réunissant enseignants de français, d’histoire et de géographie.
New limits on neutrino non-standard mixings based on prescribed singular values
Creators: name: Flieger, Wojciech
name: Gluza, Janusz
name: Porwit, Kamil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Singular values are used to construct physically admissible 3-dimensional mixing matrices characterized as contractions. Depending on the number of singular values strictly less than one, the space of the 3-dimensional mixing matrices can be split into four disjoint subsets, which accordingly corresponds to the minimal number of additional, non-standard neutrinos. We show in numerical analysis that taking into account present experimental precision and fits to different neutrino mass splitting schemes, it is not possible to distinguish, on the level of 3-dimensional mixing matrices, between two and three extra neutrino states. It means that in 3+2 and 3+3 neutrino mixing scenarios, using the so-called $α$ parametrization, ranges of non-unitary mixings are the same. However, on the level of a complete unitary 3+1 neutrino mixing matrix, using the dilation procedure and the Cosine-Sine decomposition, we were able to shrink bounds for the "light-heavy" mixing matrix elements. For instance, in the so-called seesaw mass scheme, a new upper limit on $| U_{e4} | $ is about two times stringent than before and equals 0.021. For all considered mass schemes the lowest bounds are also obtained for all mixings, i.e. $| U_{e4} | , | U_{μ4} | , | U_{τ4} | .$ New results obtained in this work are based on analysis of neutrino mixing matrices obtained from the global fits at the 95% CL.
description: Version accepted for publication in JHEP
Tables S3-S7 from Eggs of extinct dwarf island emus retained large size
Creators: name: Hume, Julian P.
name: Robertson, Christian
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Algorithms for egg and body mass calculations based on femur measuremnets, and T-test analyses of egg length, width and volume, plus egg thickness
Zygomyia valeriae Chandler 1991
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Zygomyia
Zygomyia valeriae

description: 102. Zygomyia valeriae Chandler, 1991
 Literature records. Sardinia (Chandler 2004a; Chandler 2008).
 Material examined. V1 10.VI.1972 1 ♂.
 Chorotype. Type 4 [2.01 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. European.
 Italian distribution. Northern mainland (Chandler 2003, 2004b, 2008; Kurina 2008) and Sardinia.
 Notes. Chandler (2004a) recorded this species from Sardinia based on the specimen cited above.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
Determination of Key Correlates of Agricultural Labour Migration in Less Resources Endowed Areas of Tamil Nadu
Creators: name: Sundaravaradarajan, K.R.
name: Sivakumar, P.
name: Jahanmohan, K.R.
name: Sundaravaradarajan, K.R.
name: Sivakumar, P.
name: Jahanmohan, K.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural labour
subject: Labour migration
subject: Tamil Nadu

description: This study has been conducted in the backward district of Perambalur, which is a less resource-endowed district of Tamil Nadu, with the following objectives: (i) to identify the major causes and empirically determine the key correlates of agricultural labour migration in the study area, and (ii) to identify the causes for rural out-migration. The study has been conducted by taking landless (group I) and landed (group II) respondents. The Garatte ranking of the causes of migration has revealed that of the ten push factors and ten pull factors (both economic and non-economic), lack of continuous employment at place of origin is at the first rank with mean score of 77 and 78 per cent for group I and group II, respectively, followed by low wages at place of origin and economic condition of the family. On the pull side also, economic reasons, viz. availability of job at destination has achieved the first rank with mean score of 75 for group I and 74 for group II, followed by hope of getting a job and higher wages. In the case of non-economic reasons, surplus labour availability at places of origin has received maximum scoring on the push side and skill development on the pull side. The study has concluded that though both economic and non-economic reasons are responsible for migration of agricultural labourers, economic reasons are stronger. Not only that, push forces of migration have been identified more strong than pull forces in catalyzing migration. The study has given some policy implications also for consideration of policymakers in Indian agriculture.
Pedagogy as Dialogue between Cultures: Exploring Halaqah: an Islamic dialogic pedagogy that acts as a vehicle for developing Muslim children’s shakhsiyah (personhood, autonomy, identity) in a pluralist society
Creators: name: Ahmed, Farah
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Dialogic
educational dialogue
classroom talk
oral pedagogy
culture
Islamic education
Muslim schools
Muslim children
Muslim youth
character
autonomy
shakhsiyah
halaqah
tarbiyah
t’alim
t’adib
fundamental British values
British Muslim
identity
double-consciousness
dialogical-self
liminal
aporia
al-Ghazali
al-Attas
liberal-communitarian
culturally relevant
indigenous knowledge
critical pedagogy
critical thinking

description: Abstract This thesis presents an argument for the use of dialogic halaqah to develop the personal autonomy of young Muslims in twenty-first century Britain. It begins by developing a theoretical grounding for Islamic conceptualisations of personal autonomy and dialogic pedagogy. In doing so, it aims to generate dialogue between Islamic and ‘western’ educational traditions, and to clarify the theoretical foundation of halaqah, a traditional Islamic oral pedagogy, that has been adapted to meet the educational needs of Muslim children in contemporary Britain. Dialogic halaqah is daily practice in two independent British Muslim faith-schools, providing a safe space for young Muslims to cumulatively explore challenging issues, in order to facilitate the development of selfhood, hybrid identity and personal autonomy, theorised as shakhsiyah Islamiyah. This thesis examines the relationship between thought, language, and the development of personal autonomy in neo-Ghazalian, Vygotskian and Bakhtinian traditions, and suggests the possibility of understanding shakhsiyah Islamiyah as a dialogical Muslim-self. This theoretical work underpins an empirical study of data generated through dialogic halaqah held with groups of schoolchildren and young people. Using established analytic schemes, data from these sessions are subjected to both thematic and dialogue analyses. Emergent themes relating to autonomy and choice, independent and critical thinking, navigating authority, peer pressure, and choosing to be Muslim are explored. Themes related to halaqah as dialogic pedagogy, whether and how it supports the development of agency, resilience and independent thinking, and teacher and learner roles in halaqah, are examined. Moreover, findings from dialogue analysis, which evaluates the quality of educational dialogue generated within halaqah, that is, participants’ capacity to engage in dialogue with each other, as well as with an imagined secular other, are presented. The quality of the dialogic interactions is evaluated, as is evidence of individual participant’s autonomy in their communicative actions.
description: Funded by Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation