cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modernizing Quantum Annealing using Local Searches
Creators: name: Chancellor, Nicholas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I describe how real quantum annealers may be used to perform local (in state space) searches around specified states, rather than the global searches traditionally implemented in the quantum annealing algorithm. Such protocols will have numerous advantages over simple quantum annealing. By using such searches the effect of problem mis-specification can be reduced, as only energy differences between the searched states will be relevant. The quantum annealing algorithm is an analogue of simulated annealing, a classical numerical technique which has now been superseded. Hence, I explore two strategies to use an annealer in a way which takes advantage of modern classical optimization algorithms. Specifically, I show how sequential calls to quantum annealers can be used to construct analogues of population annealing and parallel tempering which use quantum searches as subroutines. The techniques given here can be applied not only to optimization, but also to sampling. I examine the feasibility of these protocols on real devices and note that implementing such protocols should require minimal if any change to the current design of the flux qubit-based annealers by D-Wave Systems Inc. I further provide proof-of-principle numerical experiments based on quantum Monte Carlo that demonstrate simple examples of the discussed techniques.
description: 26 pages, 8 figures, typos in and around eq. 9 and 10 rectified in v2, path integral quantum annealing results added in v3 at referees request, minor corrections in v4 including addition of simulated annealing data at referee request. Note added about relvant citation which was missed in the published version in v5
Breaking the Shackles of 1982: The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood in the 2011 uprising
Creators: name: DARA THERESE CONDUIT
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This thesis re-examined the history of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood to both identify whether the 1982 Hama uprising has skewed interpretations of the movement, and to understand the role that the group is playing in the current Syrian conflict. Based on interviews with Brotherhood and Syrian opposition members, Arabic-language documents and archival research, it is argued that the group is neither as violent nor undemocratic as the Hama uprising implied. Nonetheless, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has acquired deep flaws throughout its history that have prevented it from achieving its much-anticipated political rehabilitation in the current conflict.
Lower semicontinuity of the entropic disturbance and its applications in quantum information theory
Creators: name: Shirokov, M. E.
name: Holevo, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that for any infinite-dimensional quantum channel the entropic disturbance (defined as difference between the $χ$-quantity of a generalized ensemble and that of the image of the ensemble under the channel) is lower semicontinuous on the natural set of its definition. We establish a number of useful corollaries of this property, in particular, we prove the continuity of the output $χ\textrm{-}$quantity and the existence of $χ$-optimal ensemble for any quantum channel under the energy-type input constraint.
description: 22 pages, improved version
Electro-optic Measurement of the Wake Fields of a Relativistic Electron Beam
Creators: name: Carneiro, J.-P.
name: Colestock, P. L.
name: Edwards, H. T.
name: Fitch, M. J.
name: Melissinos, A. C.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Rechenschwache Kinder Gib mir 10 - Ein Instrument zur Förderung des dezimalen Verständnisses
Creators: name: Hofmann, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: Laut Untersuchungen sind etwa 3-7 % der Primarschülerinnen und -schüler rechenschwach. Das heisst, in fast jeder Klasse sitzt ein Kind mit einer Rechenschwäche. In einer Studie konnte aufgezeigt werden, dass diesen Kindern grundlegende Elemente des Basisstoffes der ersten vier Schuljahre fehlen. Die Förderung eines dieser Elemente wird in der Literatur als besonders wichtig für das mathematische Lernen beschrieben: Das dezimale Verständnis. Die vorliegende Entwicklungsarbeit befasst sich mit der Förderung dieser Kompetenz und der Herstellung eines geeigneten Werkzeugs für rechenschwache Kinder. Schliesslich wurde ein Förderinstrument namens ‚Gib mir 10’ geschaffen, welches parallel zum Mathematiklehrmittel ‚Mathematik Primarstufe 3’ eingesetzt werden kann. Es besteht aus einem Arbeitsheft, Fördermaterial und einem Handbuch für die heilpädagogische Fachperson.
Weak Nanoscale Chaos And Anomalous Relaxation in DNA
Creators: name: Mazur, Alexey K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anomalous non-exponential relaxation in hydrated biomolecules is commonly attributed to the complexity of the free-energy landscapes, similarly to polymers and glasses. It was found recently that the hydrogen-bond breathing of terminal DNA base pairs exhibits a slow power-law relaxation attributable to weak Hamiltonian chaos, with parameters similar to experimental data. Here, the relationship is studied between this motion and spectroscopic signals measured in DNA with a small molecular photoprobe inserted into the base-pair stack. To this end, the earlier computational approach in combination with an analytical theory is applied to the experimental DNA fragment. It is found that the intensity of breathing dynamics is strongly increased in the internal base pairs that flank the photoprobe, with anomalous relaxation quantitatively close to that in terminal base pairs. A physical mechanism is proposed to explain the coupling between the relaxation of base-pair breathing and the experimental response signal. It is concluded that the algebraic relaxation observed experimentally is very likely a manifestation of weakly chaotic dynamics of hydrogen-bond breathing in the base pairs stacked to the photoprobe, and that the weak nanoscale chaos can represent an ubiquitous hidden source of non-exponential relaxation in ultrafast spectroscopy.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 65
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Studienordnung des Studienfachs Mathematik - Sekundarstufe 2 -
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 65
title: Nanoporöse Polymernetzwerke: Strukturdynamik und Adsorption flüchtiger organischer Verbindungen
Creators: name: Kraffczyk, Hanna
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: Das Phänomen der Adsorption kann großflächig dazu genutzt werden, etablierte industrielle Prozesse, wie z.B. thermische Trennverfahren, durch nachhaltigere adsorptionsbasierte Alternativen zu ersetzen. Lange Zeit wurden für solche Anwendungen lediglich klassische Materialien wie Zeolithe und Aktivkohlen eingesetzt. Heutzutage steht vermehrt die Untersuchung neuartiger mikroporöser Gerüstverbindungen im Fokus, deren Herstellung sich durch eine hohe Variabilität einsetzbarer Netzwerkbausteine auszeichnet. So lassen sich Adsorbenseigenschaften gezielt auf Anforderungen ausgewählter Anwendungen zuschneiden. Im Gegensatz zu klassischen Adsorbentien, die rigide Strukturen besitzen, weisen die neuen Materialien häufig flexible Netzwerkeigenschaften auf, was während Adsorptionsprozessen zu strukturellen Veränderungen führen kann. Gleichzeitig folgt hieraus, dass sich während der Adsorption kein beobachtbares thermodynamisches Gleichgewicht einstellt. Dennoch werden Adsorptionsisothermen, die definitionsgemäß den Gleichgewichtszustand beschreiben sollen, standardmäßig zur Charakterisierung poröser flexibler Materialien eingesetzt.
In dieser Arbeit wird der Adsorptionsprozess am Beispiel verschiedener Adsorbentien aus zwei Materialklassen untersucht. Zu diesem Zwecke wurden zunächst ultrahochvernetzte Polymere (HCPs) und metallorganische Gerüstverbindungen (MOFs) unter Einsatz von Benzol-, Naphthalin- und Anthracen-basierten Netzwerkbausteinen synthetisiert. Dabei wird der Einfluss der Ausdehnung des konjugierten π Elektronensystem auf die chemischen Oberflächeneigenschaften der Adsorbentien am Beispiel der Benzol- und Cyclohexan-Adsorption untersucht. Anhand der Reinstoffisothermen wird das Trennpotential der hergestellten Feststoffe für die adsorptionsbasierte Separation der beiden organischen Dämpfe durch verschiedene literaturbekannte Methoden evaluiert.
Letztlich befasst sich diese Arbeit am Beispiel der HCPs mit der Frage, inwiefern die strukturelle Integrität der Adsorbentien die Messung und Interpretation von Adsorptionsisothermen beeinflusst. Unter Berücksichtigung der Kinetik einzelner Isothermenpunkte wird eine neue Strategie zur Analyse von Adsorptionsisothermen vorgeschlagen. Diese Herangehensweise ermöglicht es, die Gesamtadsorption auf mehrere Prozesse unterschiedlicher Zeitskala aufzuteilen. Im Falle der HCPs lassen sich neben der klassischen Adsorption auch signifikante Einflüsse von Quellung des flexiblen Netzwerks identifizieren.
iPROLEPSIS Newsletter No.1
Creators: name: Leipuviene, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Psoriatic Arthritis; Digital health care; AI; Personalised digital care

description: We kindly welcome you to get acquainted with iPROLEPSIS - Horizon Europe Research & Innovation project. This is four-year effort that will conduct research to explain the transition from health to Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), and innovate towards an AI-driven toolkit for disease screening, progression monitoring, and treatment optimisation, to empower healthcare professionals and individuals with or at risk of PsA. Our first newsletter provides all the essential information about the project's vision, pillars, objectives, and the partners involved. Follow us at our social media accounts and visit our website for more information: https://www.iprolepsis.eu/.
(201143) Sarah Drake
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The influence of Interleukin-33 and Galanin on bone biology
Creators: name: Eeles, Damien
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Bone is required for mechanical support and movement of the body, as well as playing an important role in maintaining calcium homeostasis. Bone remodelling relies on the action of several specialised cell types; osteoblasts, which form bone, osteoclasts, which break down and resorb bone and osteocytes, which form a mechanosensory network within the bone and are thought to regulate bone mass. The Interleukin-1 family member Interleukin-33 (IL-33), and its receptor ST2L, were shown to be expressed by osteoblasts. IL-33 treatment of osteoblasts increased in vitro mineralisation, while inhibiting in vitro osteoclast formation. This thesis aimed to further investigate the regulation and effect of IL-33 in bone. IL-33 mRNA levels and protein levels were found to be induced by Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) and Oncostatin M (OSM) treatment. The increase in mineralisation previously observed in vitro with IL-33 treatment was confirmed. IL-33 was found to suppress mRNA levels of the osteocyte produced factor sclerostin in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo. This suppression of sclerostin may explain the osteogenic effect of IL-33 found in vitro. Our group previously found that IL-33 failed to generate osteoclasts from mouse precursors, however some controversial work by Mun and colleagues indicated that IL-33 could stimulate osteoclastic cell formation from human monocyte precursors in a RANKL independent manner. The work described in this thesis indicated that IL-33 did indeed possess this ability; however the osteoclastic cell formation response was inconsistent. Despite finding that IL-33 could affect osteoblasts and osteoclasts, and that IL-33 mRNA levels are increased in bone fracture, no difference in bone mass or biomechanical characteristics of healed bone fractures was found in IL-33 receptor knockout (ST2KO) mice. Finally, our lab previously found that the neuropeptide galanin and its receptors are present in bone cells and galanin treatment improved bone injury healing. However, this thesis could not identify a direct effect of galanin on bone cells.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 08/83
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderung der Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Maschinenbau an der Universität Dortmund
description: Nebenfachvereinbarung zwischen den Abteilungen Mathematik und Chemie über das Nebenfach Chemie mit den Schwerpunktfächern 1. Anorganische Chemie, 2. Organische Chemie, 3. Physikalische Chemie, 4. Technische Chemie im Diplomstudiengang Mathematik vom 23. 06. 1983
description: Nebenfachvereinbarung zwischen den Abteilungen Mathematik und Maschinenbau über das Nebenfach "Technische Mechanik" im Diplomstudiengang Mathematik vom 23. 06. 1983
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 8, 1983
Classical Holographic Codes
Creators: name: Brehm, Enrico M.
name: Richter, Benedikt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we introduce classical holographic codes. These can be understood as concatenated probabilistic codes and can be represented as networks uniformly covering hyperbolic space. In particular, classical holographic codes can be interpreted as maps from bulk degrees of freedom to boundary degrees of freedom. Interestingly, they are shown to exhibit features similar to those expected from the AdS/CFT correspondence. Among these are a version of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula and intriguing properties regarding bulk reconstruction and boundary representations of bulk operations. We discuss the relation of our findings with expectations from AdS/CFT and, in particular, with recent results from quantum error correction.
description: 28 pages, 9 figures; matches published version
(201141) Lucien Louis Laurent Antony
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Empirical Investigation of Extreme Single-Particle Behavior of Nuclear Quadrupole Moments in Highly Collective A ~ 150 Superdeformed Bands
Creators: name: Clark, R. M.
name: Clark, S. T.
name: Fallon, P.
name: Hackman, G.
name: Janssens, R. V. F.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Gedenkfeier anlässlich der Bestattung von Emil Rüd, alt Kreispostdirektor, Freitag, den 23. August 1957 im Krematorium in Zürich
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Karl
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1957
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Rüd, Emil

description: Enthält: Einleitung von Pfarrer Karl Zimmermann; Ansprache von Karl Zimmermann, Pfarrer am Neumünster in Zürich; Ansprache von Kreispostdirektor Emil Wegmann; Ansprache von Direktor Julius Reutter; Ansprache von Waisenrat Werner Furrer, Präsident der Sektion Uto S.A.C.; Abschiedsworte von Marc Moser-Merkli.
Evidence for a Hard Ionizing Spectrum from a z=6.11 Stellar Population
Creators: name: Mainali, Ramesh
name: Kollmeier, Juna A.
name: Stark, Daniel P.
name: Simcoe, Robert A.
name: Walth, Greg
name: Newman, Andrew B.
name: Miller, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Magellan/FIRE detection of highly-ionized CIV 1550 and OIII] 1666 in a deep infrared spectrum of the z=6.11 gravitationally lensed low-mass galaxy RXC J2248.7-4431-ID3, which has previously-known Lyman-alpha. No corresponding emission is detected at the expected location of HeII 1640. The upper limit on HeII paired with detection of OIII] and CIV constrains possible ionization scenarios. Production of CIV and OIII] requires ionizing photons of 2.5-3.5 Ryd, but once in that state their multiplet emission is powered by collisional excitation at lower energies (~0.5 Ryd). As a pure recombination line, HeII emission is powered by 4 Ryd ionizing photons. The data therefore require a spectrum with significant power at 3.5 Ryd but a rapid drop toward 4.0 Ryd. This hard spectrum with a steep drop is characteristic of low-metallicity stellar populations, and less consistent with soft AGN excitation, which features more 4 Ryd photons and hence higher HeII flux. The conclusions based on ratios of metal line detections to Helium non-detection are strengthened if the gas metallicity is low. RXJ2248-ID3 adds to the growing handful of reionization-era galaxies with UV emission line ratios distinct from the general z=2-3 population, in a way that suggests hard ionizing spectra that do not necessarily originate in AGN.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication to ApJL
Open-Source Portable Photodetection Platform
Creators: name: Kerestes, Ondrej
name: Pohanka, Miroslav
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental Monitoring
subject: Analytical Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: cholinesterase
subject: field-analysis
subject: photometry
subject: point-of-care test
subject: open-source
subject: pesticide
subject: affordable

description: This project presents Open-Source Portable Photometric Platform. The Arduino Uno based photometer with programmable RGB LED as a light source. User can measure a colourful solutions and carry out enzymatic assays.
Two Measures of Dependence
Creators: name: Lapidoth, Amos
name: Pfister, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Two families of dependence measures between random variables are introduced. They are based on the Rényi divergence of order $α$ and the relative $α$-entropy, respectively, and both dependence measures reduce to Shannon's mutual information when their order $α$ is one. The first measure shares many properties with the mutual information, including the data-processing inequality, and can be related to the optimal error exponents in composite hypothesis testing. The second measure does not satisfy the data-processing inequality, but appears naturally in the context of distributed task encoding.
description: 40 pages; 1 figure; published in Entropy
(201142) Matthew White
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Dirac's monopole, quaternions, and the Zassenhaus formula
Creators: name: Soloviev, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the quaternionic quantization scheme proposed by Emch and Jadczyk for describing the motion of a quantum particle in the magnetic monopole field, we derive an algorithm for finding the differential representation of the star product generated by the quaternionic Weyl correspondence on phase-space functions. This procedure is illustrated by the explicit calculation of the star product up to the second order in the Planck constant. Our main tools are an operator analog of the twisted convolution and the Zassenhaus formula for the products of exponentials of noncommuting operators.
description: LaTeX, 19 pages; published version, minor typos corrected
Unterrichtsinhalte von Brückenangeboten für Jugendliche mit einem besonderen Bildungsbedarf
Creators: name: Zogg, Julia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen wie an weiterführenden Sonderschulen Unterrichtsinhalte für Jugendliche im Übergang zwischen Sonderschule und Berufsleben gewichtet werden. Dafür wurden vier Experteninterviews mit Heilpädagogen und Heilpädagoginnen von Brückenangeboten durchgeführt. Diese werden mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen auf, dass sich der Unterricht in den vier Einzelfällen an denselben Schlüsselkompetenzen orientiert. In der vertieften Auseinandersetzung wird aber klar, dass diese Kompetenzen sehr unterschiedlich verstanden und ausgelegt werden. Um ein besseres Verständnis der Unterrichtsinhalte von weiterführenden Sonderschulen zu schaffen, werden als weiterführende Möglichkeiten drei Prototypen von Brückenangeboten formuliert.
Boltzmann-Gibbs states in topological quantum walks and associated many-body systems: Fidelity and Uhlmann parallel transport analysis of Phase Transitions
Creators: name: Mera, Bruno
name: Vlachou, Chrysoula
name: Paunković, Nikola
name: Vieira, Vítor R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform the fidelity analysis for Boltzmann-Gibbs-like states in order to investigate whether the topological order of 1D fermionic systems at zero temperature is maintained at finite temperatures. We use quantum walk protocols that are known to simulate topological phases and the respective quantum phase transitions for chiral symmetric Hamiltonians. Using the standard approaches of the fidelity analysis and the study of edge states, we conclude that no thermal-like phase transitions occur as temperature increases, i.e., the topological behaviour is washed out gradually. We also show that the behaviour of the Uhlmann geometric factor associated to the considered fidelity exhibits the same behaviour as the latter, thus confirming the results obtained using the previously established approaches.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Correlation between creatine kinase (CK) and thermography: a systematic review with meta-analysis
Creators: name: Santos, Tales Magalhães Dos
name: Bunn, Priscila Dos Santos
name: Aidar, Felipe José
name: Mello, Danielli
name: Neves, Eduardo Borba
Publisher: name: Motricidade
Year: 2022

description: This research aimed to investigate the association between the skin temperature variation of the skin identified by thermography and serum CK values in healthy subjects based on a systematic review with meta-analysis. A systematic literature search was performed in June 2021 in the SCOPUS, MEDLINE, and Web of Science databases (2000 to 2021). MeSH and DeCS platforms were used to find the descriptors in English referring to the terms "thermography" and "creatine kinase" with their synonyms (nine and 13, respectively) to find studies, following the PIRT strategy: Participants (healthy subjects); Index Test (thermography); Reference Test (CK collection); Target Condition (having analysed the results of the Index and Reference Test). A meta-analysis was performed to calculate the association between variables. A total of 483 files were retrieved from the databases, and 13 were selected for analysis (five met the criteria for meta-analysis). Considering the 13 studies reviewed, there is a general balance in obtaining results of CK increase along with skin temperature versus studies that didn't observe any association between the measures. However, the meta-analysis showed no significant association between the variables analysed (r = -0.05; p = 0.06; 95%CI = -0.11 to 0.00). This result suggests that the result of one test cannot estimate the result of the other. It was concluded that there is no good association between CK levels and thermography results; it's recommended the use of thermal images in addition to other evaluation methods in order to assist in the determination of special differential diagnoses of musculoskeletal injuries. PROSPERO registration number CRD42021262109
description: Motricidade, Vol. 18 No. 3 (2022): Motricidade
Mature Women and Higher Education: Reconstructing Identity and Family Relationships
Creators: name: Webber, Louise Anne
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Identity
Mature women
Family capital
Transformation
Higher Education
College

description: Previous research suggests that through engagement with Higher Education (HE), mature women students experience identity change and transformation which could lead to conflict and strain on marital relationships. The aims of this thesis are to explore the effects of identity transformation on mature women and the family unit as a whole, through a consideration of the impact of HE on family life. Qualitative methods were adopted using a narrative inquiry methodology of focused interviews, mind mapping and a student led mosaic approach to gather the data. Women with families were selected from one Foundation Degree in Early Years in a College Higher Education (CHE) environment. The views of their husbands were also gathered through interviews. This thesis argues that HE study had transformative effects on the whole family, not just the identity of the women students. Previously to HE, the women’s identity was firmly placed in the home as mothers. HE could be seen to change and reconstruct their position as a mother. These transformations and positional changes concerned family routines, relationships and parenting approaches. The women participants believed that their husbands benefitted from the secondary effects of transformation as a result of their wives’ HE studies and identity change. My thesis contributes to knowledge on this topic through the development of a model of family capital which consists of emotional, economic, cultural and social capital. Time is recognised as an important aspect of capital production and identity transformation. Husbands were viewed as reliable providers of family capital; however children who are normally viewed as consumers of family capital also became providers of capital. Through accessing capital support and having their studies valued by their family, women were able to justify their time spent on HE and minimise their feelings of guilt. This thesis is of relevance for women students and HE tutors. Using the findings of this study, HE staff can highlight the transformative effect of HE study on women students. Through raising an awareness of the importance of family capital and support networks, then HE success is more likely to be achieved.
Wahrnehmungskartei Aufgabensammlung zur Unterstützung der Wahrnehmungsleistung in der Schuleingangsstufe
Creators: name: Bosshard, Susanne
name: Kolb, Gabi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: Davon ausgehend, dass Lernen und Wahrnehmung in einem engen Zusammenhang stehen, gehen wir in dieser Arbeit der Frage nach, wie und mit welchen Mitteln Wahrnehmungsleistungen im Unterricht unterstützt werden können. Auf Grund theoretischer Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen Handlungsmodellen (Ayres, Affolter, Montessori), der Berücksichtigung neurologischer Erkenntnisse und unserem pädagogischen Erfahrungswissen, haben wir in Form einer „Wahrnehmungskartei“ Aufgaben zur Unterstützung von Wahrnehmungsprozessen entwickelt. Theoretische Grundlagen zur Wahrnehmung und Informationen zur Beobachtung von Auffälligkeiten ergänzen die Ideensammlung. Gedacht sind die Aufgaben für vier- bis achtjährige Kinder der Schuleingangsstufe. Die Aufgabensammlung liegt dieser Arbeit bei. Die Kartei wurde mittels Fragebogen evaluiert. Die Auswertung der Evaluation, die Reflexion und ein Ausblick schliessen diese Arbeit ab.
(201144) John Standen Paine
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Mental health in toddlers at high-risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders: a longitudinal investigation
Creators: name: Crea, Katherine
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology, and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The objective in this program of research was to investigate mental health during toddlerhood in children at familial high-risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) by virtue of having an older sibling with the diagnosis. Research has shown that siblings of children with ASD are almost 20 times more likely to have ASD than general population samples. However, there have been mixed results on whether these high-risk siblings are also at increased risk for mental health difficulties. Arguably, this increased risk for mental health problems may be due to both genetic and environmental risk factors. Firstly, ASD confers increased risk for mental health problems. Secondly, high-risk siblings may be at increased risk for temperamental difficulties, which are a known risk factor for mental health problems in typically developing samples. Thirdly, environmental risk factors including the presence of mental health difficulties in parents and probands with ASD may place younger siblings at increased risk of also developing mental health problems. The results showed that at both 2- and 3-years, younger siblings of children with ASD showed elevated mental health problems compared to children growing up in family environments unaffected by ASD (i.e., low-risk siblings). Although there were key differences in temperament between high- and low-risk siblings, this was only found to be an important predictor of concurrent and prospective internalising problems. Lastly, parent stress and proband mental health difficulties were found to be important predictors of toddler mental health difficulties concurrently at age 2-years, but had less prospective impact to age 3-years. Siblings of children with ASD therefore appear to be at increased risk for mental health problems even in toddlerhood and it is important to consider both genetic and environmental risk factors when developing mental health prevention and intervention strategies.
Incentivizing Resilience in Financial Networks
Creators: name: Leduc, Matt V.
name: Thurner, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: When banks extend loans to each other, they generate a negative externality in the form of systemic risk. They create a network of interbank exposures by which they expose other banks to potential insolvency cascades. In this paper, we show how a regulator can use information about the financial network to devise a transaction-specific tax based on a network centrality measure that captures systemic importance. Since different transactions have different impact on creating systemic risk, they are taxed differently. We call this tax a Systemic Risk Tax (SRT). We use an equilibrium concept inspired by the matching markets literature to show analytically that this SRT induces a unique equilibrium matching of lenders and borrowers that is systemic-risk efficient, i.e. it minimizes systemic risk given a certain transaction volume. On the other hand, we show that without this SRT multiple equilibrium matchings exist, which are generally inefficient. This allows the regulator to effectively stimulate a `rewiring' of the equilibrium interbank network so as to make it more resilient to insolvency cascades, without sacrificing transaction volume. Moreover, we show that a standard financial transaction tax (e.g. a Tobin-like tax) has no impact on reshaping the equilibrium financial network because it taxes all transactions indiscriminately. A Tobin-like tax is indeed shown to have a limited effect on reducing systemic risk while it decreases transaction volume.
description: 38 pages, 9 figures
A polarimetric approach for constraining the dynamic foreground spectrum for cosmological global 21-cm measurements
Creators: name: Nhan, Bang D.
name: Bradley, Richard F.
name: Burns, Jack O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmological global (sky-averaged) 21-cm signal is a powerful tool to probe the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in high-redshift Universe ($z \leq 6$). One of the biggest observational challenges is to remove the foreground spectrum which is at least four orders of magnitude brighter than the cosmological 21-cm emission. Conventional global 21-cm experiments rely on the spectral smoothness of the foreground synchrotron emission to separate it from the unique 21-cm spectral structures in a single total-power spectrum. However, frequency-dependent instrumental and observational effects are known to corrupt such smoothness and complicates the foreground subtraction. We introduce a polarimetric approach to measure the projection-induced polarization of the anisotropic foreground onto a stationary dual-polarized antenna. Due to Earth rotation, when pointing the antenna at a celestial pole, the revolving foreground will modulate this polarization with a unique frequency-dependent sinusoidal signature as a function of time. In our simulations, by harmonic decomposing this dynamic polarization, our technique produces two separate spectra in parallel from the same observation: (i) a total sky power consisting both the foreground and the 21-cm background, (ii) a model-independent measurement of the foreground spectrum at a harmonic consistent to twice the sky rotation rate. In the absence of any instrumental effects, by scaling and subtracting the latter from the former, we recover the injected global 21-cm model within assumed uncertainty. We further discuss several limiting factors and potential remedies for future implementation.
description: 16 pages, 22 figures, 2 tables. Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal. This is the final version after addressing referee's comments
Adaptive Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Measure Comparisons for Recommender Systems
Creators: name: Del Corso, Gianna M.
name: Romani, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65F99

description: The Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) of the rating matrix has shown to be an effective method to tackle the recommendation problem. In this paper we propose new methods based on the NMF of the rating matrix and we compare them with some classical algorithms such as the SVD and the regularized and unregularized non-negative matrix factorization approach. In particular a new algorithm is obtained changing adaptively the function to be minimized at each step, realizing a sort of dynamic prior strategy. Another algorithm is obtained modifying the function to be minimized in the NMF formulation by enforcing the reconstruction of the unknown ratings toward a prior term. We then combine different methods obtaining two mixed strategies which turn out to be very effective in the reconstruction of missing observations. We perform a thoughtful comparison of different methods on the basis of several evaluation measures. We consider in particular rating, classification and ranking measures showing that the algorithm obtaining the best score for a given measure is in general the best also when different measures are considered, lowering the interest in designing specific evaluation measures. The algorithms have been tested on different datasets, in particular the 1M, and 10M MovieLens datasets containing ratings on movies, the Jester dataset with ranting on jokes and Amazon Fine Foods dataset with ratings on foods. The comparison of the different algorithms, shows the good performance of methods employing both an explicit and an implicit regularization scheme. Moreover we can get a boost by mixed strategies combining a fast method with a more accurate one.
(201139) Ethel Maud Rose Cunningham
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Factors associated with perceived quality in Turkish fitness centres: A qualitative perspective
Creators: name: Sevilmiş, Ali
name: Çevik, Hüseyin
name: García-Fernández, Jerónimo
Publisher: name: Motricidade
Year: 2022

description: This study aimed to define the general factors affecting the quality of fitness centres from the point of view of the members' opinions and the relation densities of the features within these factors. The study was carried out using the qualitative method. Data coding was done utilising MAXQDA, a qualitative data analysis program. MAXQDA's code co-occurrence model feature is employed to visualise code relationships. According to the research findings, the most intense relationship that the factors affecting the staff quality perception of fitness centres have with each other was defined as “Willing to help-Friendliness”. When looking at the results obtained in other factors, codes of "Expertise-Communication" for the quality of the trainer, "Facility Atmosphere-Air conditioning" for the quality of the physical environment, and “Meeting the need-Program variety” for the program quality were associated with each other. Findings from this study provide implications for facility managers who need to closely monitor fitness centres’ physical environment, staff, instructors, program quality and implement remedial measures as needed.
description: Motricidade, Vol. 18 No. 3 (2022): Motricidade
Validity and reliability of maximum oxygen uptake on an Air Bike arm- and leg-ergometer
Creators: name: Canário-Lemos, Rui
name: Machado-Reis, Víctor
name: Garrido, Nuno Domingos
name: Rafael-Moreira, Tiago
name: Peixoto, Rafael
name: Nobre-Pinheiro, Bruno
name: Vilaça-Alves, José
Publisher: name: Motricidade
Year: 2022

description: Air Bike ergometers have recently appeared and become popular among fitness. These ergometers combine the use of upper or lower limbs while remaining seated. Its characteristic is that of a system of external load imposed through air resistance which increases with the cadence imposed on the equipment. The present study aimed to evaluate the reliability of the ramp test and standard leg-cycle ergometer to assess maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max). For this purpose, eighteen physically active young men, with ages between 19 and 29 years (mean ± standard deviation = 21.78 ± 2.44), performed three maximal incremental ramp tests in random order: one test on a cycle ergometer and two tests on an Air Bike arm- and leg- ergometer (test and re-test) with cardiorespiratory measurements throughout the tests. VO2max and maximum heart rate (HRmax) were significantly higher in the Air Bike compared with the cycle ergometer (53.06 ± 8.72 vs 47.38 ± 9.15 mL/min/kg), 181.93 ± 10.20 vs 176.07 ± 5.28 bpm, p <0.001; 95% CI = 3.41 - 7.95; ES = 0.30 and p = 0.01; 95% CI = 1.44 - 10.29; ES = 0.34, respectively for VO2max and HRmax). There were no differences between the two ergometers in the maximum respiratory exchange ratio (RER) and test duration (1.21 ± 0.13 vs 1.21 ± 0.13, 598.06 ± 37.28 vs 612.22 ± 86.40 s, p = 0.9; IC95 % = -0.05 - 0.05; ES = 0 and p = 0.4; 95% CI = -46.12 - 17.79; ES = -0.11, respectively for RER and test duration). Both VO2max and HRmax showed to be reliable when assessed with the Air Bike ergometer. The maximal test carried out on the Air Bike is a reliable ergometer to assess VO2max and probably enables a higher VO2max as compared with a standard leg-cycle ergometer.
description: Motricidade, Vol. 18 No. 3 (2022): Motricidade
Nutrient dynamics in floodplain wetland soils and sediments
Creators: name: Attygalla, Nirmala Wijeratne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Environmental Management and Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
title: Особенности полиморфизма генов PIT-1, PRL у коров кавказской бурой породы, разводимой в Республике Дагестан
Creators: name: Суржикова, Евгения Семеновна
name: Михайленко, Татьяна Николаевна
name: Евлагина, Дарья Дмитриевна
Publisher: name: ФГБНУ КНЦЗВ
Year: 2022

description: В данной работе представлены результаты ДНК-тестирования коров кавказской бурой породы, разводимой в кооперативном хозяйстве «Агрофирма Чох» Гунибского района Рес-публики Дагестан. Определён полиморфизм по генам молочной продуктивности: гипофи-зарный фактор транскрипции (PIT–1), пролактин (PRL). Полученные данные показывают различия по распределению частот встречаемости аллелей и генотипов в горной и в равнин-ной местности.
The European Perception of the Native American, 1750 - 1850
Creators: name: Pratt, Stephanie Rose
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1989

description: The thesis on which I have based my research proposes that while the European perception of the Native American from 1750 to 1850 came to be mediated via all the visual arts, it was specifically via the graphic media that the proliferation of imagery concerning the Native American developed certain iconic and representational conventions and that these consistently overwhelmed other sources of information, from experience to written interpretation. The ubiquity of certain modes of presentation, of figure-types, and of synecdoches which stood for the Native American (e.g. feather decoration or the tomahawk) resulted almost entirely from graphic methods of visual elucidation. The tyranny of such visual types lies not only in their effective re-constitution of known, familiar imagery but also in the qualitative characterization of the Native American figure. In their reduction of the figure to symbolic and emblematic patterns of content, these few visual tokens belied the greater, complex reality of Native American existence, and left the European perception of it in a static position. It is only through the collation and analysis of all the various modes of visual expression, both graphic and ‘high’ art instances, that these tokens of the visual representation of the Native American can be discerned and their proliferation be analysed as a determinant in the ‘construction’ of the Native American.
(201137) Reginald Bray
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.