cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A prece de Salomão ou o espírito das leis: homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Manuel de Pinho Ferreira
Creators: name: Cunha, Jorge Teixeira Da
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 2 (2010): Teologia nos últimos trinta anos: no trigésimo aniversário da Humanística e Teologia
Non-equilibrium supercurrent through a quantum dot: current harmonics and proximity effect due to a normal metal lead
Creators: name: Jonckheere, Thibaut
name: Zazunov, Alex
name: Bayandin, K.
name: Shumeiko, Vitaly
name: Martin, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Hamiltonian model for a quantum dot which is placed between two superconducting leads with a constant bias imposed between these leads. Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh technique, we focus on the subgap current, where it is known that multiple Andreev reflections (MAR) are responsible for charge transfer through the dot. Attention is put on the DC current and on the first harmonics of the supercurrent. Varying the energy and width of the resonant level on the dot, we first investigate a cross-over from a quantum dot regime to a quantum point contact regime when there is zero coupling to the normal probe. We then study the effect on the supercurrent of the normal probe which is attached to the dot. This normal probe is understood to lead to dephasing, or alternatively to induce reverse proximity effect. We describe the full crossover from zero dephasing to the incoherent case. We also compute the Josephson current in the presence of the normal lead, and find it in excellent agreement with the values of the non-equlibrium current extrapolated at zero voltage.
Thermal instability in X-ray photoionized media in Active Galactic Nuclei: II. Role of the thermal conduction in warm absorber
Creators: name: Czerny, B.
name: Chevallier, L.
name: Goncalves, A. C.
name: Rozanska, A.
name: Dumont, A. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A photoionized gas under constant pressure can display a thermal instability, with three or more solutions for possible thermal equilibrium. A unique solution of the structure of the irradiated medium is obtained only if electron conduction is considered. The subject of our study is to estimate how the effect of thermal conduction affects the structure and transmitted spectrum of the warm absorber computed by solving radiative transfer with the code TITAN. We developed a new computational mode for the code TITAN to obtain several solutions for a given external conditions and we test a posteriori which solution is the closest one to the required integral condition based on conduction. We demonstrate that the automatic mode of the code TITAN provides the solution to the radiative transfer which is generally consistent with the estimated exact solution within a few per cent accuracy, with larger errors for some line intensities (up to 20 per cent) for iron lines at intermediate ionization state.
description: Astronomy and Astrophysics (in press)
Two arguments that the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function are irrational
Creators: name: Wolf, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We have used the first 2600 nontrivial zeros gamma_l of the Riemann zeta function calculated with 1000 digits accuracy and developed them into the continued fractions. We calculated the geometrical means of the denominators of these continued fractions and for all cases we get values close to the Khinchin's constant, what suggests that gamma_l are irrational. Next we have calculated the n-th square roots of the denominators q_n of the convergents of the continued fractions obtaining values close to the Khinchin-Levy constant, again supporting the common believe that gamma_l are irrational.
description: Some improvements added and misprints corrected. The red lines in Fig.1 and Fig.3 does not hide the circles. Added Fig. 6 and some references
SMART CITIES AND GREEN BUILDING TECHNOLOGY
Creators: name: saravanan, kavitha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 350611
subject: Service marketing

description: Just construction of tall buildings alone does not make a smart city. A smart city should comprise of free wifi access, mobile accessibility, surveillance security to avoid cyber threats, reduction in carbon emission and footprints, easier and faster commutes, etc
Effects of Fines Content and Plasticity on Index Properties and Hydraulic Conductivity of Coarse-Fine Mixtures
Creators: name: Ekici, Anıl
name: Huvaj, Nejan
name: Akguner, Cem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90501 Civil Geotechnical Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Ten coarse-fine mixtures (CFM) (intermediate soils) having fines contents (FC) of 0%, 12%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and plasticity indices (PI) of 5% and 15% were prepared in the laboratory by mixing different fractions of gravel, sand, nonplastic silt, kaolin, and bentonite. Index properties, volume change during saturation, specific surface area (SSA), and saturated hydraulic conductivity of CFM were investigated. For compacted CFM, a FC=15% (for PI=5%) and FC=12% (for PI=15%) represent the transition between coarse- and fine-dominant behavior based on intergranular void ratio. The total SSA of CFM may be estimated from the weighted average of SSA determined individually for each soil fraction since the SSA of the cohesive portion was observed to be linearly proportional to the percent fractions of kaolin and bentonite. Hydraulic conductivity estimations based on the SSA of soils proposed by the Kozeny–Carman equation underpredicted the hydraulic conductivity of CFM by one to four orders of magnitude. Alternatively, the formulations from consolidation theory and modified Hazen’s correlation utilizing effective particle size, D10, and void ratio, e, estimated the hydraulic conductivity within an order of magnitude. Although hydraulic conductivity decreased with the increase of FC and PI, a smaller amount of decrease was observed in low plastic CFM.
Effect of helicity and rotation on the free decay of turbulent flows
Creators: name: Teitelbaum, T.
name: Mininni, P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The self-similar decay of energy in a turbulent flow is studied in direct numerical simulations with and without rotation. Two initial conditions are considered: one non-helical (mirror-symmetric), and one with maximal helicity. The results show that, while in the absence of rotation the energy in the helical and non-helical cases decays with the same rate, in rotating flows the helicity content has a major impact on the decay rate. These differences are associated with differences in the energy and helicity cascades when rotation is present. Properties of the structures that arise in the flow at late times in each time are also discussed.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
The speed of Markovian relaxation towards the ground state
Creators: name: Vogl, Malte
name: Schaller, Gernot
name: Brandes, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For sufficiently low reservoir temperatures, it is known that open quantum systems subject to decoherent interactions with the reservoir relax towards their ground state in the weak coupling limit. Within the framework of quantum master equations, this is formalized by the Born-Markov-secular (BMS) approximation, where one obtains the system Gibbs state with the reservoir temperature as a stationary state. When the solution to some problem is encoded in the (isolated) ground state of a system Hamiltonian, decoherence can therefore be exploited for computation. The computational complexity is then given by the scaling of the relaxation time with the system size $n$. We study the relaxation behavior for local and non-local Hamiltonians that are coupled dissipatively with local and non-local operators to a bosonic bath in thermal equilibrium. We find that relaxation is generally more efficient when coherences of the density matrix in the system energy eigenbasis are taken into account. In addition, the relaxation speed strongly depends on the matrix elements of the coupling operators between initial state and ground state. We show that Dicke superradiance is a special case of our relaxation models and can thus be understood as a coherence-assisted relaxation speedup.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, reviewer suggestions included, to appear in PRA
Using deep learning cloud classification in cloud feedback and climate sensitivity determination
Creators: name: Kuma, Peter
name: Bender, Frida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: We develop a deep convolutional neural network for determination of cloud types in low-resolution daily mean top-of-atmosphere shortwave and longwave radiation images, corresponding to the classical cloud types recorded by human observers in the Global Telecommunication System. We train this network on the CERES top of atmosphere radiation dataset, and apply this network on the CMIP6 abrupt-4xCO2 model output to determine long-term change in cloud type occurrence in these models with increasing CO2 concentration. We contrast these results with corresponding cloud type change in historical satellite measurements. The proposed neural network approach is broadly applicable for model, reanalysis and satellite imagery evaluation because it does not require high resolution and corresponds to the cloud types commonly recorded at weather stations worldwide.
Forensic Insights: Analyzing and Visualizing Fitbit Cloud Data
Creators: name: Hegde, Poorvi Umesh
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460404
subject: Digital forensics

description: Wearable devices are ubiquitous. There are over 1.1 billion wearable devices in the
market today[1]. The market is projected to grow at a rate of 14.6% annually till 2030[2].
These devices collect and store a large amount of data[3]. A major amount of this collected
data is stored in the cloud. For many years now, law enforcement organizations have been
continuously encountering cases that involve a wearable device in some capacity. There have
also been examples of how these wearable devices have helped in crime investigations and
insurance fraud investigations [4],[5],[6],[7],[8]. The article [4] performs an analysis of 5 case
studies and 57 news articles and shows how the framing of wearables in the context of the
crimes helped those cases. However, there still isn’t enough awareness and understanding
among law enforcement agencies on leveraging the data collected by these devices to solve
crimes. Many of the fitness trackers and smartwatches in the market today have more or
less similar functionalities of tracking data on an individual’s fitness-related activities, heart
rate, sleep, temperature, and stress [9]. One of the major players in the smartwatch space is
Fitbit. Fitbit synchronizes the data that it collects, directly to Fitbit Cloud [10]. It provides
an Android app and a web dashboard for users to access some of these data, but not all.
Application developers on the other hand can make use of Fitbit APIs to use user’s data.
These APIs can also be leveraged by law enforcement agencies to aid in digital forensic
investigations. There have been previous studies where they have developed tools that make
use of Fitbit Web APIs [11],[12], [13] but for various other purposes, not for forensic research.
There are a few studies on the topic of using fitness tracker data for forensic investigations
[14],[15]. But very few have used the Fitbit developer APIs [16]. Thus this study aims to
propose a proof-of-concept platform that can be leveraged by law enforcement agencies to
access and view the data stored on the Fitbit cloud on a person of interest. The results
display data on 12 categories - activity, body, sleep, breathing, devices, friends, nutrition,
heart rate variability, ECG, temperature, oxygen level, and cardio data, in a tabular format
that is easily viewable and searchable. This data can be further utilized for various analyses.
The tool developed is Open Source and well documented, thus anyone can reproduce the
process.
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Additional file 13 of Multiple links between 5-methylcytosine content of mRNA and translation
Creators: name: Schumann, Ulrike
name: Zhang, He-Na
name: Sibbritt, Tennille
name: Pan, Anyu
name: Horvath, Attila
name: Gross, Simon
name: Clark, Susan J.
name: Yang, Li
name: Preiss, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Figure S7. Sequence context and NSUN2-dependence of candidate m5C sites. Related to Fig. 4. A: Gene Ontology (GO) term enrichment of candidate sites. Analysis was performed using the enrichGO function in ClusterProfiler using transcriptome-wide candidate sites (n = 846), with all genes detected at FKPM≥1 in the bsRNA-seq used as background. Bonferroni correction was applied and terms with p < 0.05 deemed enriched. The ten most enriched terms for Cellular Component (left) and Biological Process (right) are shown (for full list see Table S7). No enrichment was obtained for Molecular Function GO terms. B: Codon position enrichment analysis of candidate sites within the CDS of protein-coding genes. All three codon positions were analysed and are indicated at the top. Codons preferentially containing candidate sites are indicated in red, with significance following Fisher’s exact test indicated: ns - not significant. C: Sequence context of candidate sites (top) in comparison to all cytosines in the same transcripts (bottom). Logos were generated for candidate sites present within the four RNA transcript regions (5′UTR: m5C, N = 91; Null = 150,943. CDS: m5C, N = 410; Null = 1,139,649. 3′UTR: m5C, N = 201; Null = 589,922. Intronic: m5C, N = 152; Null = 26,326,026). All sites from ‘protein-coding’ (N = 846) and ‘NMD’ RNA biotypes (N = 8) were included. D: Spatial enrichment analyses of candidate sites within mRNAs. Site are placed into bins as indicated on the x-axis. Site distribution across bins is compared to matching randomised cytosine sampling (Null) and the log10 Odds-ratio (OR) is plotted as a red line with the 95% confidence interval (CI) shaded. Significance of enrichment is plotted as the log10 p-value by blue bars: ns - not significant. Analyses were anchored at either the transcription start (left) or the transcription end (right) and performed using RNAModR with a bin width of 100 nt and a window of 400 nt for the 5′UTR or 1000 nt for the 3′UTR region.
Structure dependent asymmetry in sequential breakup from the reaction Li⁶(He³,pα)He⁴
Creators: name: Reimann, Michael Andrew,
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: An axial asymmetry about, the direction of motion of Li⁵ has been seen in the breakup of the ground state of this nucleus as an intermediate state in the reaction Li⁶(He³,pα)He⁴. The total cross section for this process was found to be a few hundred millibarns, an order of magnitude greater than predicted by a statistical model calculation, and the asymmetry amounts to a factor of 2.0 ± 0.3 in the double, differential cross section. It is shown that this asymmetry in the secondary decay of the sequential breakup process can arise from the memory retained by the intermediate state of its structure during the primary reaction, in which a neutron is transferred from Li⁶ to He³. It was found that the strength of the asymmetry is sharply dependent upon the duration of the final state interaction. This confirms the proposed interpretation and suggests that further data could lead to useful information regarding correlation of the p-shell nucleons in the Li⁶ ground state.
O Concilio Vaticano II e a arte: uma abordagem à teologia do espaço litúrgico
Creators: name: Gomes, José Ribeiro
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 2 (2010): Teologia nos últimos trinta anos: no trigésimo aniversário da Humanística e Teologia
Trinta anos de reflexão eclesiológica: caminhos, questões e tarefas na recepção do Concílio
Creators: name: Pinho, José Eduardo Borges De
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 2 (2010): Teologia nos últimos trinta anos: no trigésimo aniversário da Humanística e Teologia
JAFFÉ, Dan – El Talmud y los orígenes judíos del cristianismo Jesús, Pablo y los judeo-cristianos en la literatura talmúdica, Bilbao, Desclée de Brouwer 2009, 235 pp.
Creators: name: Carvalho, José Carlos
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 1 (2010): Raízes e identidade do sacerdócio presbiterial
TAUBER, Alfred I – Patient autonomy and the Ethics Responsibility. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press, 2005, 328pp
Creators: name: Osswald, Walter
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 1 (2010): Raízes e identidade do sacerdócio presbiterial
An EM algorithm for analyzing right-censored survival data under the semiparametric proportional odds model
Creators: name: Wang, Lu
name: Wang, Lianming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: The semiparametric proportional odds (PO) model is a popular alternative to Cox’s proportional hazards model for analyzing survival data. Although many approaches have been proposed for this topic in the literature, most of the existing approaches have been found computationally expensive and difficult to implement. In this article, a novel and easy-to-implement approach based on an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is proposed for analyzing right-censored data. The EM algorithm involves only solving a low-dimensional estimating equation for the regression parameters and then updating the spline coefficients in simple closed form at each iteration. Our method is robust to initial values, converges fast, and provides the variance estimates in closed form. Simulation studies suggest that the proposed method has excellent performance in estimating both regression parameters and the baseline survival function, even when the right censoring rate is very high. The method is applied to a large dataset about breast cancer survival extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database maintained by the U.S. National Cancer Institute. This method is now available in R package regPOr for public use.
PETROVICH, Nicola – 2009. La voce dell’amore. Verità e agape nel Nuovo pensiero di Franz Rosenzweig. Sulla Persona e sulla Famiglia 1. Siena: Edizioni Cantagalli
Creators: name: Tavares, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 1 (2010): Raízes e identidade do sacerdócio presbiterial
ALVES, Herculano – Sementes da Palavra I Antigo Testamento; II Novo Testamento; III Evangelhos, Coimbra, Colecção Dinamização Bíblica vols.30; 31; 32, Difusora Bíblica 2009
Creators: name: Carvalho, José Carlos
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 1 (2010): Raízes e identidade do sacerdócio presbiterial
Quantum Phases of Bose-Hubbard Model in Optical Superlattices
Creators: name: Chen, Bo-Lun
name: Kou, Su-Peng
name: Zhang, Yunbo
name: Chen, Shu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we analyze the quantum phases of multiple component Bose-Hubbard model in optical superlattices, using a mean-field method, the decoupling approximation. We find that the phase diagrams exhibit complected patterns and regions with various Charge Density Wave (CDW) for both one- and two- component cases. We also analyze the effective spin dynamics for the two-component case in strong-coupling region at unit filling, and show the possible existence of a Spin Density Wave (SDW) order.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Numeracy and Medical Decision Making
Creators: name: Anderson, Britta L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation explores the concept of numeracy, the ability to use and understand numbers, and its association with health and medical decision making. Four studies were conducted. The first study assessed physicians' statistical literacy in a sample of obstetrician-gynecologists. The second study found that high and low numerate individuals were affected differently by the order in which information was presented to them. The third study found that numeracy was not associated with body mass index, physical activity, or the medical outcomes survey short form twenty. The fourth study found that smokers were more numerate than never smokers when controlling for demographic variables, but not intelligence or memory, and that numeracy was associated with intelligence, memory, and need for cognition. Finally, in studies two through four, it was found that around 60% of each sample was grouped as high- or low-numerate by both objective and subjective numeracy scales.
Tree-level unitarity in Gauge-Higgs Unification
Creators: name: Haba, Naoyuki
name: Sakamura, Yutaka
name: Yamashita, Toshifumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically estimate a scale $Λ_{uni}$ at which tree-level unitarity is violated in the $SO(5)\times U(1)_X$ gauge-Higgs unification model by evaluating amplitudes for scattering of the longitudinal W bosons. The scattering amplitudes take larger values in the warped spacetime than in the flat spacetime, and take maximal values when $θ_H=π/2$, where $θ_H$ is the Wilson line phase along the extra dimension. We take into account not only the elastic scattering but also possible inelastic scatterings in order to estimate $Λ_{\rm uni}$. We found that $Λ_{\rm uni}\simeq 1.3m_{KK}$ in the warped spacetime, and $Λ_{\rm uni}\simeq 140m_{KK}$ in the flat spacetime, where $m_{KK}$ is the Kaluza-Klein mass scale. The tree-level unitarity is violated at $O(1TeV)$ for $θ_H=π/2$ in the former case due to the vanishing WWH coupling.
description: 37 pages, 9 figures, some comments added
Principles of Tobacco Irrigation
Creators: name: Jones, J. N.
name: Sparrow, G. N.
name: Miles, J. D.
name: Jones, J. N.
name: Sparrow, G. N.
name: Miles, J. D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1960
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: Excerpts from the report: The practice of irrigating tobacco is becoming more and more accepted by tobacco growers. For example, it was estimated that 28,000 acres of tobacco land had been provided with facilities for irrigation in 1954. By 1957 the acreage had increased to about 100,000. This bulletin discusses only the general principles of irrigating tobacco. Problems peculiar to tobacco types or to individual geographic areas are not discussed. It is possible that the general advice given may run counter to locally accepted practices. In that event, farmers should follow local recommendations. For the proper design and operation of an irrigation system, a reliable engineer or a representative of an established agricultural agency should be consulted.
bnma: Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis using 'JAGS'. Presentation at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: Seo, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Recently, there has been many developments of Bayesian network meta-analysis (NMA) packages in R. The general aim of these packages is to provide users who are not familiar with Bayesian NMA a tool that can automate the model. Many of these packages implement the Lu and Ades framework, often referred to as the contrast-based model. Currently, none of these packages incorporate options to utilize baseline risk. We have developed a package named ‘bnma’ which provide most of the implementations in ‘gemtc’ and additionally include options to model baseline risk. Our objectives are (1) to describe a general framework for incorporating baseline risk in Bayesian NMA (2) to illustrate how to implement this framework in ‘bnma’ using a dataset in smoking cessation counseling programs. We implemented two different approaches to model using the baseline risk. ‘bnma’ can model baseline risk as exchangeable and can implement the model commonly referred to as contrast-based model with random study intercept. Furthermore, by including baseline risk as a trial-level covariate, we can potentially reduce both heterogeneity and inconsistency in NMA and improve the overall mode fit. Different assumptions can be made when using baseline risk as a covariate i.e. common, exchangeable, and independent; we show how each can be fitted in ‘bnma’. We compare differences in the analysis with different assumptions on baseline risk.
Large-Scale Outflows from AGN: a link between central black holes and galaxies
Creators: name: Proga, Daniel
name: Kurosawa, Ryuichi
name: Nagamine, Kentaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize the results from numerical simulations of mass outflows from AGN. We focus on simulations of outflows driven by radiation from large-scale inflows. We discuss the properties of these outflows in the context of the so-called AGN feedback problem. Our main conclusion is that this type of outflows are efficient in removing matter but inefficient in removing energy.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 267 "Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies"
BOAVENTURA, S. – Itinerário da Mente para Deus, Tradução de António Soares Pinheiro, S.J.; Uma leitura introdutória de Maria Manuela Brito Martins, Colecção Textos Franciscanos, Ed. Centro de Estudos Franciscanos, Porto, 2009, 223 pgs
Creators: name: Castro, José Acácio
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 1 (2010): Raízes e identidade do sacerdócio presbiterial
On alpha-decay in heavy nuclei
Creators: name: Scherk, Leonard Raymond
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The alpha-particle reduced widths for the ground state in Po²¹² are calculated on the basis of the nuclear shell model, employing the technique of Harada, but treating the nuclear surface in a more direct manner. It is contended that the calculations of previous authors, who have generally used a square-edge nucleus and a Coulomb barrier rounded-off by the nuclear potential of Igo, have, essentially, used the equivalent square-edge nucleus model of Vogt. Their J.W.K.B. estimate of the barrier penetrabilities is checked by an analytic calculation in Chapter 3 and is found to be reasonable. It is shown in Chapter 4 that, in the scattering of an alpha-particle from the ground state of Pb²⁰⁸, the diffuse nuclear edge considerably enhances the one-body reduced widths and, in a direct manner, that it similarly enhances the one-body differential elastic scattering cross-section. In this manner, it is demonstrated that the radius involved in the equivalent square-edge nucleus model must be considerably larger than that of the diffuse-edge nucleus to which it corresponds. This is shown directly in Chapter 5, where the validity of the equivalent square-edge nucleus model in heavy nuclei is examined. It is contended that this explains the large radii found in previous calculations. This is demonstrated directly by repeating the calculation of Harada with the diffuse nuclear edge being introduced in a direct manner. Although the effects of configuration mixing have not been directly examined, it has been concluded that shell model calculations can explain the major part of rates provided that the nuclear surface is manner.
TAVARES, Pedro Vilas Boas – Os Loios em Terras de Santa Maria da Feira, Ed. do Município de Santa Maria da Feira, 2009, 227 p.
Creators: name: Pinho, Arnaldo De
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 1 (2010): Raízes e identidade do sacerdócio presbiterial
Numeracy and Medical Decision Making
Creators: name: Anderson, Britta L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This dissertation explores the concept of numeracy, the ability to use and understand numbers, and its association with health and medical decision making. Four studies were conducted. The first study assessed physicians' statistical literacy in a sample of obstetrician-gynecologists. The second study found that high and low numerate individuals were affected differently by the order in which information was presented to them. The third study found that numeracy was not associated with body mass index, physical activity, or the medical outcomes survey short form twenty. The fourth study found that smokers were more numerate than never smokers when controlling for demographic variables, but not intelligence or memory, and that numeracy was associated with intelligence, memory, and need for cognition. Finally, in studies two through four, it was found that around 60% of each sample was grouped as high- or low-numerate by both objective and subjective numeracy scales.
Climate sensitivity and the Southern Ocean: the effect of the "too few, too bright" model cloud problem
Creators: name: Kuma, Peter
name: Bender, Frida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Equilibrium and transient climate sensitivity (ECS and TCS) are some of the most fundamental properties characterising the future climate. Progress in estimating climate sensitivity over the last three decades has been hampered by a large climate model spread of ECS and TCS estimates, and more recently by a large increase in ECS predicted by several models in the latest generation of the Climate Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6). Clouds have been identified as the major source of this uncertainty and the recent increase in estimated ECS. A "too few, too bright" model cloud problem has been found in several regions of the globe, including tropical latitudes and the Southern Ocean. Southern Ocean has also been a major focus of changes in model microphysics in an effort to simulate more realistic supercooled liquid clouds. Here, we focus on the too few, too bright problem in the Southern Ocean in CMIP6 models and its possible relation to climate sensitivity. We explore the possibility of applying new emergent constraints on climate sensitivity based on metrics of the too few, too bright problem. We use satellite and and ship-based observational datasets such as lidar and radiometer observations for constraining climate sensitivity and evaluation of clouds in this region across generations of CMIP models.
Formation and tidal evolution of hot super-Earths in multiple planetary systems
Creators: name: Zhou, Ji-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hot super-Earths are exoplanets with masses < 10 Earth masses and orbital periods < 20 days. Around 8 hot super-Earths have been discovered in the neighborhood of solar system. In this lecture, we review the mechanisms for the formation of hot super-Earths, dynamical effects that play important roles in sculpting the architecture of the multiple planetary systems. Two example systems (HD 40307 and GJ 436) are presented to show the formation and evolution of hot super-Earths or Neptunes.
description: 12 pages, 4 color figures, Lecture in 'Extrasolar planets in Multi-Body systems: Theory and Observation',Torun (Poland), August 25-29, 2008, to appear in European Astronomical Society Publication Series
MOREIRA, Maria de Fátima Semblano Pereira – A Igreja serva no Concílio Vaticano II e em Paulo VI, Évora, 2009, 336 p.
Creators: name: Pinho, Arnaldo De
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 1 (2010): Raízes e identidade do sacerdócio presbiterial
Hyperfine-induced valley mixing and the spin-valley blockade in carbon-based quantum dots
Creators: name: Pályi, András
name: Burkard, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hyperfine interaction (HFI) in carbon nanotube and graphene quantum dots is due to the presence of 13C atoms. We theoretically show that in these structures the short-range nature of the HFI gives rise to a coupling between the valley degree of freedom of the electron and the nuclear spin, in addition to the usual electron spin-nuclear spin coupling. We predict that this property of the HFI affects the Pauli blockade transport in carbon-based double quantum dots. In particular, we show that transport is blocked only if both the spin and the valley degeneracies of the quantum dot levels are lifted, e.g., by an appropriately oriented magnetic field. The blockade is caused by four "supertriplet" states in the (1,1) charge configuration.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; v2: published version
Re-investigation of the excited states of Gd 154
Creators: name: Ng, Leung-Kai
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The excited states of Gd 154 obtained from the decay of Eu 154 have been investigated. Precise measurements of the energies and intensities of the gamma transitions have been made, using Lithium-drifted Germanium detectors. A revised decay scheme is presented in which all the gamma transitional energies agree with the corresponding energy differences between levels to within 1 Kev. A 1263.3 Kev level is established by the presence of a gamma transition of 892.7 Kev. Two other gamma transitions of energies, 903.6 Kev and 582.1 Kev from the negative-parity levels to the 2⁺ beta excited level have also been discovered. The proper locations of the 995.9 Kev and 1004.5 Kev in the decay scheme are confirmed by a gamma-gamma coincidence method using a Germanium detector and a NaI(Tl) scintillator. The energies and intensities of the internal conversion electrons and the beta transitions have been measured by an intermediate image spectrometer. Their values are quite consistent with the established decay scheme. Theoretical values of the energy levels and the branching ratios for gamma transitions have been calculated, using the Asymmetric Rotator Model (J.P. Davidson's treatment). The 'stiffness' parameter of the nucleus µ and its asymmetry parameter γ obtained are 0.402 and 11.52 degrees respectively. Comparison of the experimental and theoretical energies of seven positive-parity levels gives a root-mean-square deviation of 1.5 %. Three out of the four experimental branching ratios are in good agreement with the theoretical values. The monopole transition probability for the transition from the 0⁺ beta excited state to the 0⁺ ground state measured also agrees with the present theoretical calculation.
Farm Tractors: Trends in Type, Size, Age and Use
Creators: name: Csorba, Julius J.
name: Csorba, Julius J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1960
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: Since 1920, farm tractors, along with other sources of mechanical power, have almost completely replaced animal power on United States farms. Modern farm tractors are more powerful, lighter in weight, more versatile, and easier to handle than their predecessors of 20 years ago. Also, more types are available from which to choose. This report summarizes and interprets the latest available data on trends in the type, size, age, and use of farm tractors in the United States.
Refined Configuration Results for Extremal Type II Lattices of Ranks 40 and 80
Creators: name: Elkies, Noam D.
name: Kominers, Scott D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11H55 (Primary) 05B30, 11F11 (Secondary)

description: We show that, if L is an extremal Type II lattice of rank 40 or 80, then L is generated by its vectors of norm min(L)+2. This sharpens earlier results of Ozeki, and the second author and Abel, which showed that such lattices L are generated by their vectors of norms min(L) and min(L)+2.
description: 3 pages
STEIN, Edith – Correspondance I (1917-1933), Introduction, traduction et annotations par Cécile Rastoin, Paris, Cerf, Ed. Du Carmel, 2009, 767 p.
Creators: name: Pinho, Arnaldo De
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 1 (2010): Raízes e identidade do sacerdócio presbiterial
QUEIRUGA, Andrés Torres; GARCIA, Manuel Rivas, [Coords.] – Dicionário enciclopédia do pensamento galego, Consello de Cultura Galega, 2008, 723 p.
Creators: name: Pinho, Arnaldo De
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 1 (2010): Raízes e identidade do sacerdócio presbiterial
Novas formas de presidência da comunidade e de distribuição do clero
Creators: name: Cunha, Arlindo De Magalhães Ribeiro Da
name: Vasconcelos, Rui Pedro
name: Pinheiro, João Emanuel Pereira
Publisher: name: Humanística e Teologia
Year: 2010

description: Humanística e Teologia, v. 31 n. 1 (2010): Raízes e identidade do sacerdócio presbiterial
Sulfamethoxazole activates antioxidant defense response against Alternaria solani infection in Solanum lycopersicum Linn
Creators: name: Thinakaran, Ajeethkumar Manickam
name: Adaikkalam, Charumathi
name: Asaithambi, Vinothini
name: Nagarathinam, Radhakrishnan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The present study focuses on the potency of sulfamethoxazole (Sm) on inducing resistance against Alternaria solani infection. Anatomical observation indicated calcium oxalate deposits in pathogen-infected tissue compared to control plants. Sm pretreated and pathogen-infected tomato leaves showed decreased accumulation of calcium oxalate crystals. The oxalic acid content is found decreased in Sm (3 µM) pretreated and pathogen-infected leaves at 36 h compared to control and pathogen-infection (PI). Sm treatment resulted in transient and significant increase in H2O2 level during early stages of PI. A significant increase in superoxide dismutase, guaiacol dependent peroxidase and polyphenol oxidase was evident in Sm treated leaves which altogether contributed to protection of tomato from oxidative stress due to PI. Sm treatment followed by PI resulted in accumulation of superoxide anion compared to A. solani infected plants. In conclusion, Sm treatment regulate balance between antioxidants and free radicals, induces antioxidant enzymes and thereby controlling pathogen ingress.
Automatic Lidar and Ceilometer Framework (ALCF)
Creators: name: Kuma, Peter
name: McDonald, Adrian
name: Morgenstern, Olaf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Atmospheric lidar measurements are a well-established tool for remote sensing of clouds. For over a decade, spaceborne lidar measurements produced by the CALIOP instrument on the CALIPSO satellite and CATS on the International Space Station have proven invaluable for model cloud evaluation in general circulation and numerical weather forecasting models. They have revealed the vertical structure of clouds, particularly in combination with radar instruments, which is impossible to obtain with passive remote sensing instruments. However, the measurements are limited by rapid attenuation of the lidar signal in thick clouds. Ground-based lidar measurements are becoming more common due to greater availability of instruments such as ceilometers installed on a wide scale globally. They can provide much needed lidar measurements of clouds ”from below”, but processing of lidar data and model evaluation using this data is not well-developed compared to satellite measurements. We present an open source tool called the Automatic Lidar and Ceilometer Framework (ALCF) which implements common lidar processing steps such as resampling, noise removal, cloud detection, calculation of statistics, as well as model—observation intercomparison by bundling the COSP/ACTSIM lidar simulator and allowing it to produce ”curtain” lidar pseudo-measurements from model output of various models (MERRA-2, AMPS, CMIP5) corresponding to ground-based and shipborne instruments (Vaisala CL31, CL51, Lufft CHM 15k, Sigma Space MiniMPL). These pseudo-measurements can be compared in an ”apples to apples” comparison with observations. We hope this tool will enable ground-based lidars to be used more commonly for model evaluation and improvement efforts.
Simulation of the Spin Field Effect Transistors: Effects of Tunneling and Spin Relaxation on its Performance
Creators: name: Gao, Yunfei
name: Low, Tony
name: Lundstrom, Mark S.
name: Nikonov, Dmitri E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerical simulation of spin-dependent quantum transport for a spin field effect transistor (spinFET) is implemented in a widely used simulator nanoMOS. This method includes the effect of both spin relaxation in the channel and the tunneling barrier between the source/drain and the channel. Account for these factors permits setting more realistic performance limits for the transistor, especially the magnetoresistance, which is found to be lower compared to earlier predictions. The interplay between tunneling and spin relaxation is elucidated by numerical simulation. Insertion of the tunneling barrier leads to an increased magnetoresistance. Numerical simulations are used to explore the tunneling barrier design issues.
description: 31 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Journal of Applied Physics
From self-sufficient provision of water and energy to regenerative urban development and sustainability: exploring the potentials in Mashhad City, Iran
Creators: name: Sarabi, Shahrzad Gholizadeh
name: Rahnama, Mohammad Rahim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Increased resource demand due to rapid urbanization has made cities like Mashhad highly dependent on their surroundings for resource supply and waste disposal, and has negatively impacted their local-regional hinterlands. To reduce the metabolic footprint of cities and create an environmentally restorative relationship between cities and their supporting ecosystems, a transition toward local alternative and renewable sources is essential. This paper explores potentials for water and energy self-sufficient provision in Mashhad using the Urban Harvesting method to practically illustrate how cities could seek opportunities to meet their needs within their boundaries before relying on external supplies. Results showed that solar photovoltaic and biogas could provide 4495.2 and 472.6 GWh/yr electricity, altogether enabling Mashhad to offset 100% of its consumption. Water cascading and recycling have the potential to meet 72% of the demand, and replace around 125 mcm/yr of imported water. Similarly, water self-sufficiency would increase by 5%–8% (8.6–14.7 mcm/yr) when collecting rainwater from rooftops.
Participatory multi-objective optimization for planning dense and green cities
Creators: name: Wicki, Sergio
name: Schwaab, Jonas
name: Perhac, Jan
name: Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The consideration of urban ecosystem services becomes increasingly important when planning compact cities. We implement a multi-objective optimization approach to support decision-makers in their efforts to develop green and dense cities. Embedded in a participatory process, the applied genetic algorithm allows us to assess spatial tradeoffs between urban ecosystem services and compactness. The optimization model is embedded in a decision support system for interactive analysis and communication of the results, facilitating the engagement of planners to support sustainable development. We illustrate the process in a multi-level case study in Singapore, a tropical city state aiming to pursue its distinct greening strategy. The whole process, from the problem definition to the obtained solution set, is evaluated using a feedback loop with stakeholders. Using this approach, we identify robust and best-suited urban development locations as well as temporal prioritization schemes evolving around future public transportation nodes.