cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modulation of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines Expression of the Biofield Energy (The Trivedi Effect®) Based Herbomineral Formulation in Mouse Splenocytes
Creators: name: Liu, Su-Mei Chen
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2019
Subjects: Natural Sciences

description: With the increasing popularity of herbomineral preparations in healthcare, a new proprietary herbomineral formulation was formulated with ashwagandha root extract and three minerals viz. zinc, magnesium, and selenium. The aim of the study was to evaluate the immunomodulatory potential of Biofield Energy Healing (The Trivedi Effect®) on the herbomineral formulation using murine splenocyte cells. The test formulation was divided into two parts. One was the control without the Biofield Energy Treatment. The other part was labelled the Biofield Energy Treated sample, which received the Biofield Energy Healing Treatment remotely by twenty renowned Biofield Energy Healers. Through MTT assay, all the test formulation concentrations from 0.00001053 to 10.53 µg/mL were found to be safe with cell viability ranging from 102.61% to 194.57% using splenocyte cells. The Biofield Treated test formulation showed a significant (p≤0.01) inhibition of TNF-α expression by 15.87%, 20.64%, 18.65%, and 20.34% at 0.00001053, 0.0001053, 0.01053, and 0.1053, µg/mL, respectively as compared to the vehicle control (VC) group. The level of TNF-α was reduced by 8.73%, 19.54%, and 14.19% at 0.001053, 0.01053, and 0.1053 µg/mL, respectively in the Biofield Treated test formulation compared to the untreated test formulation. The expression of IL-1β reduced by 22.08%, 23.69%, 23.00%, 16.33%, 25.76%, 16.10%, and 23.69% at 0.00001053, 0.0001053, 0.001053, 0.01053, 0.1053, 1.053 and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively compared to the VC. Additionally, the expression of MIP-1α significantly (p≤0.001) reduced by 13.35%, 22.96%, 25.11%, 22.71%, and 21.83% at 0.00001053, 0.0001053, 0.01053, 1.053, and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively in the Biofield Treated test formulation compared to the VC. The Biofield Treated test formulation significantly down-regulated the MIP-1α expression by 10.75%, 9.53%, 9.57%, and 10.87% at 0.00001053, 0.01053, 0.1053 and 1.053 µg/mL, respectively compared to the untreated test formulation. The results showed the IFN-γ expression was also significantly (p≤0.001) reduced by 39.16%, 40.34%, 27.57%, 26.06%, 42.53%, and 48.91% at 0.0001053, 0.001053, 0.01053, 0.1053, 1.053, and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively in the Biofield Treated test formulation compared to the VC. The Biofield Treated test formulation showed better suppression of IFN-γ expression by 15.46%, 13.78%, 17.14%, and 13.11% at concentrations 0.001053, 0.01053, 0.1053, and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively compared to the untreated test formulation. Overall, the results demonstrated that The Trivedi Effect®- Biofield Energy Healing (TEBEH) has the capacity to potentiate the immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory activity of the test formulation. Biofield Energy may also be useful in organ transplants, anti-aging, and stress management by improving overall health and quality of life.
About one application of a complex variable function to investigation of interaction of a dislocation with a pore in powder materials
Creators: name: Kniazeva, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interaction of a rectilinear screw dislocation with a parabolic pore is described and investigated.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Theory of optical transitions in graphene nanoribbons
Creators: name: Sasaki, K.
name: Kato, K.
name: Tokura, Y.
name: Oguri, K.
name: Sogawa, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Matrix elements of electron-light interactions for armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons are constructed analytically using a tight-binding model. The changes in wavenumber ($Δn$) and pseudospin are the necessary elements if we are to understand the optical selection rule. It is shown that an incident light with a specific polarization and energy, induces an indirect transition ($Δn=\pm1$), which results in a characteristic peak in absorption spectra. Such a peak provides evidence that the electron standing wave is formed by multiple reflections at both edges of a ribbon. It is also suggested that the absorption of low-energy light is sensitive to the position of the Fermi energy, direction of light polarization, and irregularities in the edge. The effect of depolarization on the absorption peak is briefly discussed.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Connectivity of tropicalizations
Creators: name: Cartwright, Dustin
name: Payne, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14T05

description: We show that the tropicalization of an irreducible variety over a complete or algebraically closed valued field is connected through codimension 1, giving an affirmative answer in all characteristics to a question posed by Einsiedler, Lind, and Thomas in 2003.
description: 7 pages
Supporting Multiscale Maritime Governance through Maritime Spatial Planning Relevant Data and Assessment Techniques in the Adriatic-Ionian Macro-Region
Creators: name: Roy, Sanjoy
name: Depellegrin, Daniel
name: Gissi, Elena
name: Sarretta, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Maritime Spatial Planning
Multiscale maritime governance
Marine governance matrix
Cumulative effect assessment
Adriatic-Ionian

description: This research aims to support multiscale maritime governance in the Adriatic-Ionian Macro-region (AIR) through the analysis of Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) relevant governance schemes. The research is based on a four-step analytical framework aimed at the systematic collection of spatial and non-spatial data to characterize multiscale maritime governance in the AIR. A so-called MSP governance matrix has been developed for the categorization of MSP-relevant governance schemes. A test case using cumulative effects assessment (CEA) tool in three ecologically and biologically significant areas (EBSA) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) demonstrates how the collected information can be linked to a CEA decision support tool (DST) for a multiscale analysis of protection priorities under EBSA boundaries. Results show that the governance schemes act on different spatial scales and that marine conservation is a priority along with their sectorial dimensions. The CEA tool depicted that the Slovenian, Italian, and Croatian waters were highly affected by anthropogenic activities. The analysis of EBSAs shows higher impacts on the Northern Adriatic EBSA compared to the Jabuka-Pomo Pit and the Southern Adriatic-Ionian Strait. The developed framework can be applied to any marine area for the characterization of governance schemes, providing data sources for DSTs and management.
Occupant Satisfaction with Underfloor Air Distribution Systems in a Cold Climate: A Field Study
Creators: name: Bos, Megan
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Psychology--Behavioral
subject: Physiological
subject: UFAD
subject: Human Factors
subject: Thermal Comfort
subject: Indoor Environmental Controls Ergonomics
subject: Indoor Environmental Quality
subject: PMV-PPD
subject: Field Study

description: The demand to reduce GHG emissions and corporate rethinking of interior environments has encouraged the use of underfloor air distribution systems (UFAD). This relatively new space conditioning system is believed to provide benefits of better energy performance, improved indoor air quality, workplace flexibility, higher levels of occupant comfort and personal control. However most of the research on this technology and its relation to occupant comfort has been limited to laboratory settings and use of Fanger’s heat balance model to determine whether the system provides acceptable thermal comfort. The later fails to confirm that the conditions provided by UFAD are satisfactory to occupants in-situ. This field study of the City of Calgary’s Water Center examined UFAD in terms of occupant comfort in a cold climate. Both physical measurements and occupant response was collected. Overall the findings were very positive. Occupant responses indicated participants were generally satisfied with their comfort level and indoor air temperature. The median PMV value also indicated that the thermal conditions were within the acceptable range.
The strong decays of K1 resonances
Creators: name: Tayduganov, Andrey
name: Kou, Emi
name: Yaouanc, Alain Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the K1--> K pi pi strong interaction decays. Using the 3P0 quark-pair-creation model to derive the basic parametrization, we discuss in detail how to obtain the various partial wave amplitudes into the possible quasi-two-body decay channels as well as their relative phases from the currently available experimental data. We obtain the K1 mixing angle to be thetaK1= 60 deg, in agreement with previous works. Our study can be applied to extract the information needed for the photon polarization determination of the radiative B--> K1 gamma decay.
description: 57 pages, 10 figures
3+1 and 3+2 Sterile Neutrino Fits
Creators: name: Giunti, Carlo
name: Laveder, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of fits of short-baseline neutrino oscillation data in 3+1 and 3+2 neutrino mixing schemes. In spite of the presence of a tension in the interpretation of the data, 3+1 neutrino mixing is attractive for its simplicity and for the natural correspondence of one new entity (a sterile neutrino) with a new effect (short-baseline oscillations). The allowed regions in the oscillation parameter space can be tested in near-future experiments. In the framework of 3+2 neutrino mixing there is less tension in the interpretation of the data, at the price of introducing a second sterile neutrino. Moreover, the improvement of the parameter goodness of fit is mainly a statistical effect due to an increase of the number of parameters. The CP violation in short-baseline experiments allowed in 3+2 neutrino mixing can explain the positive antinu_mu -> antinu_e signal and the negative nu_mu -> nu_e measurement in the MiniBooNE experiment. For the CP-violating phase we obtained two minima of the marginal chi^2 close to the two values where CP-violation is maximal.
description: 9 pages
Supercooperation in Evolutionary Games on Correlated Weighted Networks
Creators: name: Buesser, Pierre
name: Tomassini, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we study the behavior of classical two-person, two-strategies evolutionary games on a class of weighted networks derived from Barabási-Albert and random scale-free unweighted graphs. Using customary imitative dynamics, our numerical simulation results show that the presence of link weights that are correlated in a particular manner with the degree of the link endpoints, leads to unprecedented levels of cooperation in the whole games' phase space, well above those found for the corresponding unweighted complex networks. We provide intuitive explanations for this favorable behavior by transforming the weighted networks into unweighted ones with particular topological properties. The resulting structures help to understand why cooperation can thrive and also give ideas as to how such supercooperative networks might be built.
description: 21 pages
MPEC 2023-X70 : 2023 XH1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 XH1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
β-cyclodextrins modified with different chain lengths and their physical characterization with and without the attachment to gold nanoparticles.
Creators: name: Lam, Wing Man
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Chemistry--Organic
subject: Chemistry--Physical
subject: Cyclodextrin
subject: Nile Red
subject: Fluorescence
subject: Gold
subject: Nanoparticle

description: Beta-cyclodextrins (β-CDs) are a family of water soluble, naturally occurring cyclic oligosaccharides with a hydrophobic cavity that is used to host hydrophobic guest molecules. The numerous hydroxyl groups allow the native β-CD to be easily functionalized via synthetic modifications. By attaching modified CDs to the surface of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) through a thiol moiety, its surface plasmon resonance effect can be taken advantage of. The AuNPs exhibit a photothermal effect upon irradiation which can alter the binding constant of guest molecules in β-CD hosts. Therefore, we attached novel β-CDs with different length ethylene glycol chains in hopes of studying in a distance-dependent manner the changes in the binding between the host and guest molecules. Prior to the attachment of the modified β-CDs to the surface of the AuNPs, Nile Red (NR) was utilized as a fluorescent guest to physically characterize the modified β-CDs.
Computational Modeling of Cascade Effect on Blade Elements with an Airfoil Profile
Creators: name: Yan, Haoxuan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Cascade
subject: CFD
subject: Wind Turbine

description: The aim of this project is to investigate the effect of cascade on lift and drag coefficients and the angle of attack at which lift to drag ratio is maximized using the method of CFD. The blades of wind turbines are separated by a finite distance in the azimuthal direction. The Blade Element Theory (BET) assumes a blade element to be an airfoil and the blade element is independent to each other; and conducting experiments for low solidity blades is difficult. Thus, CFD would be an appropriate method to investigate how the cascade effect would impact the aerodynamics of wind turbines. The computational results were compared with experimental results (Hoffmann 1996). User Defined Functions (UDF) of transition SST model were also tested in order to find the most optimal correlations. The results show that the lift and drag coefficients are influenced by the solidity and pitch angle.
Delayed exchange of stabilities in a class of singularly perturbed parabolic problems
Creators: name: Nefedov, Nikolai N.
name: Schneider, Klaus R.
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Singularly perturbed parabolic problem
subject: delayed exchange of stabilities
subject: upper and lower solutions
subject: 35B25
subject: 35K20

description: We consider a class of singularly perturbed parabolic problems in case of exchange of stabilities, that is, the corresponding degenerate equation has two intersecting roots. By means of the technique of asymptotic lower and upper solutions we prove that the considered initial-boundary value problem has a unique solution exhibiting the phenomenon of delayed exchange of stabilities. Thus, the problem under consideration has a canard solution.
The impact of the ISN/RPS classification of glomerulonephritis in systemic lupus erythematosus on the histological diagnosis of focal and diffuse lupus nephritis
Creators: name: Beeby, Melike
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Lupus nephritis classification
subject: ISN/RPS
subject: class-switching
subject: reclassification
subject: glomerular sclerosis
subject: WHO 1995

description: Different frequencies for each class of LN have been reported when the biopsies were classified according to WHO and ISN/RPS classification systems.The purpose of this study was to investigate the reason for the observed differences in frequencies of LN, when the biopsies are classified under different classifications. The inclusion of sclerotic glomeruli in the count of total glomeruli affected by LN, in the ISN/RPS 2003 classification, might be a possible reason for the differences in diagnoses. We reclassified 172 renal biopsies with LN class III and IV using two different classification systems.Our results indicate the importance of the change in handling the sclerotic glomeruli, which resulted in class-switching in some of the cases. This is important because depending on the approach of the clinician, it may lead to an increased immunosuppression for the same lesion when diagnosed under the ISN/RPS classification compared to the 1995 WHO classification system.
title: Особенности государственного регулирования развития монопрофильных муниципальных образований
title: State Regulation Features of Development of Single-industry Municipalities
Creators: name: Кулай, Светлана Владимировна
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2019

description: Статья посвящена вопросам государственного регулирования социально-экономического развития моногородов, а также существующим мерам и инструментам поддержки данных территорий. Приведен анализ статистических данных по моногородам Российской Федерации, в частности Кемеровской области.
description: The article is devoted to issues of state regulation of social and economic development of single-industry towns, as well as existing measures and tools to support these territories. The analysis of statistical data on single-industry towns of the Russian Federation, including Kemerovo Oblast, is presented.
Anomalous negative differential thermal resistance in a momentum-conserving lattice
Creators: name: Zhong, Wei-Rong
name: Zhang, Mao-Ping
name: Ai, Bao-Quan
name: Hu, Bambi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A two-segment Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices has been investigated by using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics. Here we present an anomalous negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) that have not been reported in Frenkel-Kontorova and ϕ_4 lattices up to the present. The NDTR disappears at low temperature region. The region of NDTR shifts from the large to the small temperature difference region as the system size increases. Anomalous dependence of NDTR on the temperature can be explained as the negative effect induced by the nonlinear coupling. The explanation can also cover the phenomenon of NDTR in momentum-nonconserved lattices.
description: 5figures
Rocky core solubility in Jupiter and giant exoplanets
Creators: name: Wilson, Hugh F.
name: Militzer, Burkhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gas giants are believed to form by the accretion of hydrogen-helium gas around an initial protocore of rock and ice. The question of whether the rocky parts of the core dissolve into the fluid H-He layers following formation has significant implications for planetary structure and evolution. Here we use ab initio calculations to study rock solubility in fluid hydrogen, choosing MgO as a representative example of planetary rocky materials, and find MgO to be highly soluble in H for temperatures in excess of approximately 10000 K, implying significant redistribution of rocky core material in Jupiter and larger exoplanets.
Rethinking Environment: The Ethics of a Constructionist View of Our Relation to Nature
Creators: name: Jankunis, Frank
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Environmental Philosophy
subject: Environmental Ethics
subject: Richard Lewontin
subject: constructed niche
subject: climate change
subject: individualism and holism
subject: Geoengineering
subject: constructionism
subject: non-human ethics

description: In this thesis I argue that the constructionist theory of the relation between organism and environment has several important implications for ethics. Chapter 1 lays the groundwork for later chapters by elucidating the concepts and terms used in later discussions and providing the motivation for the project. In Chapter 2 I introduce the constructionist theory of the relation between organism and environment. In Chapter 3 I argue that the constructionist theory can be used to criticize exemplars of individualism and holism in ethics and to criticize the idea that individualism and holism are incompatible. In Chapter 4 I turn to climate change and geoengineering, arguing that a class of objection to geoengineering cannot be sustained in light of the theory of the constructed niche. In Chapter 5 I argue that the constructionist theory provides reason to recognize moral obligations to environments, providing a convincing answer to a central theoretical problem in environmental ethics.
The Media Literacy & Food Marketing Lesson Plan II: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Students’ Learning Experiences
Creators: name: Loewen, Jewel
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education--Health
subject: Comprehensive School Health
subject: Media Literacy
subject: Food Marketing
subject: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

description: The Media Literacy & Food Marketing Lesson Plan II is an initiative designed to increase young people’s media and food packaging literacy. The current study provided a qualitative assessment of the program from a Comprehensive School Health (CSH) perspective, examining the experiences of six Grade 8 students one month following participation. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis approach was applied, utilizing semi-structured interviews to capture the participants’ firsthand accounts. The results provided valuable insight into the perceptions of the participants, illuminating their reflections about becoming critical consumers through Lesson Plan II, as well as finding personal meaning in the topics at hand. These results were discussed in relation to the four interrelated pillars of the CSH model, namely: Teaching and Learning, Social and Physical Environments, Healthy School Policy, and Partnerships and Services. The findings hold important implications for the continued application, evaluation, and refinement of Lesson Plan II curriculum.
Probing the correlations in composite signals
Creators: name: Sargsyan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The technique of degree of randomness is used to model the correlations in sequences containing various subsignals and noise. Kolmogorov stochasticity parameter enables to quantify the randomness in number sequences and hence appears as an efficient tool to distinguish the signals. Numerical experiments for a broad class of composite signals of regular and random properties enable to obtain the qualitative and quantitative criteria for the behavior of the descriptor depending on the input parameters typical to astrophysical signals.
description: Eur.Phys.J. to appear, 6 pages, 6 figures
Distance Map Registration
Creators: name: Okock Polycarp Omondi
name: Jozef, Urban
name: Mikula Karol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Distance Maps
Registration
Gradient Descent
Atlas
Segmentation
Affine transformation
Stochastic
Parallelization
graphics processing unit
Cuda

description: The presentation of this work was made at PhD Student AACEE competition 2018, in Bratislava at Slovak University of Technology

This work was motivated by the Atlas-based segmentation (ABS) method, where we find the correspondences between shapes used in the atlas construction. The contribution the previous work are

	Extension of shape registration method to 3D data.
	Representation of the shapes using distance map function.
	Using gradient descent methods to find the optimal Affine transformation in the optimization criterion.
	Efficiency improvements through

		Using Stochastic Gradient Descent method
		Parallelization of the distance map algorithm using graphics processing unit
Modular invariance of closed bosonic string theory with a pp-wave background
Creators: name: Lidstrom, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: After a brief review of the necessary parts of the theory of the bosonic string, a consistent pp-wave background with constant dilaton and constant three-index antisymmetric field strength is introduced. In particular, the gravitational background is the plane wave with constant coefficients, and the antisymmetric field strength is chosen such that the worldsheet theory is both diff×Weyl invariant and stable. The one-loop closed bosonic string amplitude is evaluated and shown to be modular invariant. Then the free energy of a free closed string gas is calculated, modular invariance of it is proved, and the result is shown to be equivalent to the sum of free energies for the individual particle states.
Ergänzungen zur Kalibrierung/Prüfung von Härteprüfmaschinen : Richtlinie DKD-R 9-3
Creators: name: Baumann, Stephan
name: Beisel, Peter
name: Buchmann, Frank
name: Ellermeier, Jörg
name: Gerber, Siegfried
name: Hauck, Benjamin
name: Herzog, Silvio
name: Höll, Robert
name: Karl, Gerd
name: Latzke, Sascha
name: Licht, Rudenz
name: Menelao, Febo
name: Musmann, Michael
name: Neumann, Steffen
name: Nimptsch, Daniel
name: Nowaczyk, Dirk
name: Reinold, Helge
name: Reinstädt, Philipp
name: Ruppel, David
name: Sawla, Amritlal
name: Schulz, Jörg
name: Steiner, Jörg
name: Uebach, Andreas
name: Wehr, Jörn
name: Wirth, Oliver
name: Wolf, Pedro
name: Worthmann, Mike
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2023
Subjects: DKD-Richtlinie
Härteprüfmaschinen
DIN EN ISO 6506-2
DIN EN ISO 6507-2
DIN EN ISO 6508-2

description: Die Festlegungen der Richtlinie DKD-R 9-3 sollen die akkreditierten Kalibrierlaboratorien unterstützen, die Kalibriernormen DIN EN ISO 6506-2, DIN EN ISO 6507-2 und DIN EN ISO 6508-2 vergleichbar und verlässlich bei der Kalibrierung und Überprüfung von Härteprüfmaschinen anzuwenden. In der Richtlinie soll auf besonders wichtige oder unklar definierte Punkte der Norm konkret eingegangen werden.
Screening and finite size corrections to the octupole and Schiff moments
Creators: name: Flambaum, V. V.
name: Kozlov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parity (P) and time reversal (T) violating nuclear forces create P, T -odd moments in expansion of the nuclear electrostatic potential. We derive expression for the nuclear electric octupole field which includes the electron screening correction (similar to the screening term in the Schiff moment). Then we calculate the Z alpha corrections to the Schiff moment which appear due to the finite nuclear size. Such corrections are important in heavy atoms with nuclear charge Z > 50. The Schiff and octupole moments induce atomic electric dipole moments (EDM) and P, T -odd interactions in molecules which are measured in numerous experiments to test CP-violation theories.
Methods and Applications in the Analysis of Correlated Non-Gaussian Data
Creators: name: Withanage, Niroshan Nilmini Kumara Perera
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Biostatistics
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Statistics
subject: Analysis of Correlated Non-Gaussian Data

description: The first part of this thesis involves the development of models and associated methodologies for the analysis of multi-disease reader-based correlated binary diagnostic data from binocular or paired (e.g., fellow eyes) organs. These entail the construction of joint models that can flexibly represent the complex dependence structure characterizing the nature of the relationships between measurements on the same and/or different subjects. A hierarchical generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) is proposed to estimate disease-specific sensitivities and specificities for the correlated binocular binary data, assuming readers are nested within patients, with patients assumed to be independent. Reader-, disease-, and organ-specific random effects are incorporated to capture the variability between readers, between diseases, and within-patient (i.e., between paired organs), respectively. However, in many reader-based diagnostic studies, the same readers assess all of the patients, and hence, patients and readers are crossed rather than nested. We thus relax the assumption that measurements from different patients are independent, and develop a methodology based on GLMMs with crossed and nested random effects using the data cloning approach. In the second part, a new copula-based approach to joint modeling of clustered non-Gaussian outcomes with disparate non-Gaussian distributions is developed. Specifically, the Gaussian copula is used to glue separate linear mixed models (LMMs) and/or GLMMs for multiple outcomes and to model the dependence between the outcomes; the resulting joint model is referred as a Gaussian copula mixed model (GCMM). Unlike in conventional shared-parameter LMM/GLMM methodology, the approach does not assume conditional independence of outcomes; hence, the GCMM generalizes and provides greater modeling flexibility than conventional LMMs and GLMMs. The GCMM approach is able to capture the different associations in the data, including the correlations between the same and/or different outcomes for the same and/or different subjects within a cluster, as well as the direct correlation between the outcomes for the same subject. Implementation of the methodology is readily carried out using standard statistical software and packages such as SAS's PROC NLMIXED. The GCMM approach is illustrated using data from a comet assay study and a study on pain among children, as well as the diabetic retinopathy data in first part.
Calappa ocellata Holthuis 1958
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Calappidae
Calappa
Calappa ocellata

description: Calappa ocellata Holthuis, 1958
Material examined (N=1). 1m, 07/VIII/2005, St. 0 5 (CrUESB#231).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – North Carolina, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil (from Amapá to Rio de Janeiro) (Melo 1996).
Ecological notes. On mud, sand, gravel, and stone bottoms. From shallow waters to 80 m (Melo 1996).
Previous records in Bahia. Gomes Corrêa (1972), Barreto et al. (1993), Almeida et al. (2007).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
The impact of information system on user effectiveness:A case study of using transaction control log and accounting system for Revenue Department organization officials
Creators: name: Jamchan Kongpol
Publisher: name: MSMIS Thammasat University
Year: 2564
Subjects: User effectiveness
Transaction control log and accounting system
User satisfaction
Workplace environment
Wellbeing

description: Journal of information systems in Business JISB, 7, 2, 6
Historical Vehicle Traffic Analysis and Commute Time Prediction Using Web Mining
Creators: name: Kaur, Charanjeet
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Web mining
subject: Traffic Analysis
subject: Big Data

description: Analyzing historical vehicle traffic data has many applications including urban planning and intelligent in-vehicle route prediction. A common practice to acquire this data is through roadside sensors. This approach is expensive because of infrastructure and planning costs and cannot be easily applied to new routes. A Web mining approach is proposed to address these limitations. The proposed system gathers information about vehicle commute times, accidents, and weather reports from heterogeneous Web sources. This information is combined to support vehicle traffic analytics. Clustering analysis is performed on historical data that investigates the traffic patterns of highways and arterial roads with factors having the most impact on commute time. A commute time prediction model is built on historical vehicle traffic data analytics. Commute time prediction model is trained with the traffic problems faced in the past and forecasts the commute time incorporating the impact of external factors such as weather and accidents.
Are there hadronic bound states above the QCD transition temperature?
Creators: name: Ratti, Claudia
name: Bellwied, Rene
name: Cristoforetti, Marco
name: Barbaro, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent lattice QCD calculations, at physical pion masses and small lattice spacings that approach the continuum limit, have revealed that non-diagonal quark correlators above the critical temperature are finite up to about 2 $T_c$. Since the transition from hadronic to free partonic degrees of freedom is merely an analytic cross-over, it is likely that, in the temperature regime between 1-2 $T_c$, quark and gluon quasiparticles and pre-hadronic bound states can coexist. The correlator values, in comparison to PNJL model calculations beyond mean-field, indicate that at least part of the mixed phase resides in color-neutral bound states. A similar effect was postulated for the in-medium fragmentation process, i.e. for partons which do not thermalize with the system and thus constitute the non-equilibrium component of the particle emission spectrum from a deconfined plasma phase. Here, for the first time we investigate the likelihood of forming bound states also in the equilibrated, parton dominated phase above $T_c$ which is described by lattice QCD.
description: 15 pages, 4 Figures
Cenozoic Cooling Patterns from the Canadian Cordillera using the Uranium-Thorium-Helium Method
Creators: name: Bacque, David
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Tectonics
subject: Thermochronology
subject: Canadian Cordillera

description: The Cenozoic cooling history of the Canadian Cordillera is important for understanding large-scale processes and relative importance of smaller geologic features. Our study uses the uranium-thorium-helium method, which provides a cooling history for upper crust (~2-6 km). Our data helps resolve near surface problems such as the amount and extent of overburden removed during the Cenozoic, the possible mechanisms to explain the loss of the thick overburden (i.e. tectonic, climate, erosion), and how our regional cooling history fits into the cooling histories we already have for the Cordillera. Using our data we estimated the amount of overburden removed from the Foreland Belt portion of our study, since the L. Paleocene, to be 5-9 km and did extend further west into the Cordillera. Using hanging wall and footwall relationships, we found that faulting, despite lying in the extensional regime in the current model did not control cooling.
The scattering of LyA radiation in the intergalactic medium: numerical methods and solutions
Creators: name: Higgins, Jonathan
name: Meiksin, Avery
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two methods are developed for solving the steady-state spherically symmetric radiative transfer equation for resonance line radiation emitted by a point source in the Intergalactic Medium. One method is based on solving the ray and moment equations using finite differences. The second uses a Monte Carlo approach incorporating methods that greatly improve the accuracy compared with previous approaches in this context. Several applications are presented serving as test problems for both a static medium and an expanding medium, including inhomogeneities in the density and velocity fields. Solutions are obtained in the coherent scattering limit and for Doppler RII redistribution with and without recoils. We find generally that the radiation intensity is linear in the cosine of the azimuthal angle with respect to radius to high accuracy over a broad frequency region across the line centre for both linear and perturbed velocity fields, yielding the Eddington factors f(nu) = 1/3 and g(nu) = 3/5. We show the radiation field produced by a point source divides into three spatial regimes for a uniformly expanding homogeneous medium: at radii r small compared with a characteristic radius r*, the mean intensity near line centre varies as 1/ r^(7/3), while at r > r* it approaches 1/ r^2; for r << r* it is modified by frequency redistribution. Before the reionization epoch, r* takes on the universal value 1.1 Mpc, independent of redshift. The mean intensity and scattering rate are found to be very sensitive to the gradient of the velocity field, growing exponentially with the amplitude of the perturbation as the limit of a vanishing velocity gradient is approached near the source. We expect the 21cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization to thus be a sensitive probe of both the density and the peculiar velocity fields.
description: 27 pages, 26 figures, 10 supplementary tables; submitted to MNRAS
Generalized quark-antiquark potential in AdS/CFT
Creators: name: Forini, Valentina
name: Drukker, Nadav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk we present a family of Wilson loop operators which continuously interpolates between the 1/2 BPS line and the antiparallel lines, and can be thought of as calculating a generalization of the quark--antiquark potential for the gauge theory on S^3 x R. We evaluate the first two orders of these loops perturbatively both in the gauge and string theory. We obtain analytical expressions in a systematic expansion around the 1/2 BPS configuration, and comment on possible all-loop patterns for these Wilson loops.
description: 6 pages. Proceedings of the "XVII European Workshop on String Theory 2011", Padova, Italy, 5-9 September 2011
Colour Fields Computed in SU(3) Lattice QCD for the Static Tetraquark System
Creators: name: Cardoso, N.
name: Cardoso, M.
name: Bicudo, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The colour fields created by the static tetraquark system are computed in quenched SU(3) lattice QCD, in a 24^3 x 48 lattice at beta=6.2 corresponding to a lattice spacing a=0.07261(85) fm. We find that the tetraquark colour fields are well described by a double-Y, or butterfly, shaped flux tube. The two flux tube junction points are compatible with Fermat points minimizing the total flux tube length. We also compare the diquark-diantiquark central flux tube profile in the tetraquark with the quark-antiquark fundamental flux tube profile in the meson, and they match, thus showing that the tetraquark flux tubes are composed of fundamental flux tubes.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, 0 tables, one reference added, work done partly under the PT-LQCD Collaboration
Determining the Maximal Physiological Steady State in Cycling with Precision: Critical Power Estimations or Self-selected Exercise Intensity?
Creators: name: Mattioni Maturana, Felipe
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: power-time relationship
subject: 3-minute all-out
subject: maximal lactate steady state
subject: exercise intensity thresholds

description: Giving the inherent limitations of critical power (CP) testing and the demanding maximal lactate steady state (MLSS) protocol, this thesis aimed: i) to compare the power outputs (POs) derived from two methods of estimating CP (i.e., the power-time relationship (CPHYP) and the 3-minute all-out test (CP3MIN)) and the determined MLSS; and ii) to test cyclists’ ability to predict their highest sustainable PO (CPSELF). Thirteen healthy young participants (26±3 yr; 69.0±9.2 kg; 174±10 cm; 60.4±5.9 mL·kg-1·min-1) were tested. PO at MLSS was lower than CPHYP and CP3MIN (p<0.05). PO at CPSELF was similar (p>0.05) to MLSS. The mean difference between the measures of MLSS and CPSELF was zero, and both methods presented similar (p>0.05) metabolic responses. The disagreement between CPHYP and CP3MIN with the PO at MLSS questions the ability of CP to estimate the maximal steady state, while CPSELF may offer an alternative approach to predict it with more precision.
Factors that Influence College Online Marketing Group Members' Intention to Purchase and Continuance to Use the Markets in Website Facebook
Creators: name: Patchara Mitanee
Publisher: name: MSMIS Thammasat University
Year: 2564
Subjects: Online marketplace
Expectation-confirmation
Marketing mix
Participation

description: Journal of information systems in Business JISB, 7, 2, 22
Living between the call and the burden : teacher stories of burnout
Creators: name: Meyer, Gregory Scott
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Teachers live in a space between the calling and the burden – between the impulse to teach and the everyday stressors of teaching. According to research related to workplace stress, burnout is the result of long-term stress which has not been addressed over time. Teacher burnout is a major problem and is on the rise in British Columbia. In this thesis, I identify and describe the phenomenon of teacher burnout through teachers’ stories, and document ways teachers avoid and cope with stress and burnout. I interviewed six teachers in a focus group. Since they knew each other as fellow students in a Master’s program, a feeling of trust, empathy, confidentiality, and safety had already been established. As a result, the teachers disclosed their emotional and raw stories around stress and burnout. As a methodology, I use narrative inquiry to create meaning out of the teachers’ lived experiences around burnout and coping with stress. I use autoethnography to engage my own personal voice and stories as a teacher, enabling me to examine the cultural aspects of burnout by considering the social contexts in which it occurs. From my analysis of the literature on teacher burnout and the teachers’ stories (including my own), four themes emerge: stability, relationships, control, and culture/acculturation. As a framework, I locate the four themes between the call and the burden.
Neurodegeneration: the link between synaptic loss and lysosome function
Creators: name: Donnelier, Julien
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Neurodegeneration
subject: synapse
subject: lysosome
subject: chloroquine
subject: padk
subject: csp
subject: cysteine string protein

description: There is a large ongoing international effort to understand the pathogenic cascade underlying neurodegenerative diseases in order to rationally develop therapies. Here we investigate the role of two elements: 1) Changes in BKα channel expression, 2) Changes in lysosomal activity in crude synaptosomes from CSPα KO mice. CSPα is a presynaptic neuroprotective chaperone protein that, when mutated causes synaptic loss and neurodegeneration. BK channel KO, and intraperitoneal injections with chloroquine (lysosomal inhibitor), and Z-Phe-Ala-diazomethylketone which increases lysosomal activity did not halt neurodegeneration or alter the composition of crude synaptosomes. We report that a subset of endo-lysosomal proteins is present in crude synaptosomes.
Factors Influencing Purchase Intention of Online Game Items : A Case Study of KARDRIDER RUSH+
Creators: name: Nitchakarn Mahakijthiradej
Publisher: name: MSMIS Thammasat University
Year: 2564
Subjects: Technology Acceptance Model
Purchase Intention
Mobile Online Game
game Item
Virtual Goods

description: Journal of information systems in Business JISB, 7, 2, 40
Atlas-Based Image Segmentation
Creators: name: Okock Polycarp Omondi
name: Urbán Jozef
name: Mikula Karol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Atlas
Segmentation
Shapes
PCA

description: The image segmentation algorithm extending Geodesic Active Contours method by an influence of prior knowledge of segmented shape is discussed in this work. It consists of two main steps. The first one is the training phase where a set of shape patterns is  created. Signed distance function is calculated to the boundaries of the shapes in atlas using an efficient distance calculation algorithm. The individual shapes represented by distance functions are registered to each other using standard gradient method.

Eigen shapes (atlas significant shapes) are calculated from the whole set of shapes using Principal Component Analysis. The second phase is image segmentation using Geodesic Active Contours method which is extended by an influence of the expected prior shape. Estimation of prior shape is original, based on the current segmentation and computed eigen shapes calculated from atlas of shape patterns.
The Role of Polynucleotide Kinase/Phosphatase in Non-Homologous End Joining
Creators: name: Piett, Cortt
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: cancer
subject: Radiation
subject: Biochemistry
subject: PNKP

description: Ionizing radiation (IR) is the predominant form of therapy for a wide variety of cancers. IR induces numerous variations of genomic lesions which can reduce cell proliferation and growth. The most cytotoxic of these DNA lesions is the double strand break (DSB). A DSB occurs when single stranded breaks (SSBs) occur in close proximity to one another on opposite DNA strands. IR-induced DNA strand breaks frequently contain non-ligatable 5’-hydroxyl and/or 3’- phosphate groups. Human polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase (PNKP) exhibits 5’ DNA kinase and 3’ DNA phosphatase activities, making it ideal for converting “dirty” DSB ends to compatible ends prior to ligation. This work examines DSBR kinetics of PNKP-deficient cells in an isogenic background, and demonstrates that PNKP deficient cells exhibit a late DSB repair defect in a cell cycle dependent manner. Live cell imaging demonstrates that PNKP requires its FHA domain, DNA-PKcs, and PARP for recruitment/retention to DNA damage sites in vivo.
Factors Influencing Consumers' Expense in Mobile Game (In-App Purchase)
Creators: name: Suthichai Pattarasopark
Publisher: name: MSMIS Thammasat University
Year: 2564
Subjects: Perceived value
Customer engagement
Theory of planned behavior
Mobile game
Purchase intention

description: Journal of information systems in Business JISB, 7, 2, 56