cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kinetic turbulence in shining pair plasma: intermittent beaming and thermalization by radiative cooling
Creators: name: Zhdankin, Vladimir
name: Uzdensky, Dmitri A.
name: Werner, Gregory R.
name: Begelman, Mitchell C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-energy astrophysical systems frequently contain collisionless relativistic plasmas that are heated by turbulent cascades and cooled by emission of radiation. Understanding the nature of this radiative turbulence is a frontier of extreme plasma astrophysics. In this paper, we use particle-in-cell simulations to study the effects of external inverse Compton radiation on turbulence driven in an optically thin, relativistic pair plasma. We focus on the statistical steady state (where injected energy is balanced by radiated energy) and perform a parameter scan spanning from low magnetization to high magnetization ($0.04 \lesssim σ\lesssim 11$). We demonstrate that the global particle energy distributions are quasi-thermal in all simulations, with only a modest population of nonthermal energetic particles (extending the tail by a factor of $\sim 2$). This indicates that nonthermal particle acceleration (observed in similar non-radiative simulations) is quenched by strong radiative cooling. The quasi-thermal energy distributions are well fit by analytic models in which stochastic particle acceleration (due to, e.g., second-order Fermi mechanism or gyroresonant interactions) is balanced by the radiation reaction force. Despite the efficient thermalization of the plasma, nonthermal energetic particles do make a conspicuous appearance in the anisotropy of the global momentum distribution as highly variable, intermittent beams (for high magnetization cases). The beamed high-energy particles are spatially coincident with intermittent current sheets, suggesting that localized magnetic reconnection may be a mechanism for kinetic beaming. This beaming phenomenon may explain rapid flares observed in various astrophysical systems (such as blazar jets, the Crab nebula, and Sagittarius A*).
description: 26 pages, 30 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
User-Driven Change enabled by Malleable Information Technology
Creators: name: Lehrig, Tim
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2019
Subjects: 000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
330 Economics
650 Management & public relations

description: Malleable technologies promise almost infinite applications for organizations. Users can utilize the generic functionalities of such technologies to support personal tasks or combine and adapt them to create custom artefacts and, hence, shape organizational routines. Although users have a crucial part in the transition from generic potentials to effective use of malleable technologies, we know little about processes and factors that facilitate users in this endeavor and how created artefacts evolve over time. This dissertation presents three studies, which target these research gaps. The studies draw on affordance theory, cognitive load theory, routine theory and momentum of change and apply qualitative and quantitative methods to the case of a malleable technology implementation project in an organization. The results suggest that users perceive and actualize afforded potentials of malleable technologies through different processes, which depend on user characteristics and local environmental factors. Moreover, the longitudinal observations show that users often perform a series of changes, when they form custom artefacts from malleable technologies. The intensity of these changes can be described as momentum that depends on factors like the existing artefact or the embeddedness of the related routine. Overall, the dissertation findings open the black box of user-driven change under malleable technology and help to explain variations in the created momentum of change.
Additional file 1 of One-photon red light-triggered disassembly of small-molecule nanoparticles for drug delivery
Creators: name: Long, Kaiqi
name: Han, Han
name: Kang, Weirong
name: Lv, Wen
name: Wang, Lang
name: Wang, Yufeng
name: Ge, Liang
name: Wang, Weiping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Synthesis of the BTAEA molecule. Figure S2. 1H-NMR spectrum of Compound 4. Figure S3. ESI-MS spectrum of Compound 4. Figure S4. 1H-NMR spectrum of Compound 5. Figure S5. ESI-MS spectrum of Compound 5. Figure S6. 1H-NMR spectrum of Compound 6 (BTAEA). Figure S7. ESI-MS spectrum of Compound 6 (BTAEA). Figure S8. Serum stability of PTX/Pt/BTNPs for 24 h under 37 oC. Figure S9. Standard curves of BTAEA (a) and PTX (b) based on areas of HPLC elution peaks. Figure S10. (a) Size and (b) PDI of the BTAEA nanoparticles contained different ratios (5%, 10% and 20%) of DSPE-mPEG. (c) Encapsulation efficiency and loading capacity of PTX in BTNPs with different feeding ratios (PTX/BTAEA, w/w). Table S1. Composition of PTX/Pt/BTNPs. Figure S11. Photolysis of BTAEA in Pt/BTNPs with 635 nm light irradiation (50 mW/cm2). Figure S12. LC-MS spectrum of an irradiated solution of Pt/BTNPs. Figure S13. Photolysis of BTAEA in BTNPs with 635 nm light irradiation (50 mW/cm2). Figure S14. Photolysis of BTAEA in BTNPs with 530 nm light irradiation (50 mW/cm2). Figure S15. TEM image and DLS data of PTX/Pt/BTNPs in aqueous solutions after red light irradiation (635 nm, 50 mW/cm2, 10 min). Figure S16. CLSM images of intracellular ROS generation in 4T1 cells treated with PBS, BTNPs, Pt/BTNPs and PTX/Pt/BTNPs, separately. Figure S17. Representative photomicrographs of hematoxylin & eosin-stained sections of heart, lung, spleen, liver and kidney from different treatment groups.
Parthian Cities and Strongolds in Turkmenistan, in: International Journal of Eurasian Studies 2, 2014, Beijing (China), 117-125.
Creators: name: Olbrycht, Marek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History

description: Marek jan Olbrycht, Parthian Cities and Strongolds in Turkmenistan, in: International Journal of Eurasian Studies 2, 2014, Beijing (China), 117-125.
Report on the PCaPAC 2000 Workshop
Creators: name: Bacher, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In October 2000, the third PCaPAC (PCs and Particle Accelerator Controls) workshop took place at DESY. This paper presents a summary of the workshop. The workshop reviewed existing and new PC-based accelerator control systems, from small-scale to large-scale installations. It demonstrated convincingly the advantage of modern, commercial mass-market products used for accelerator controls. Disadvantages of these technologies were reported as well. Large-scale PC systems inherently bring administrative concerns into the picture. In this vein, special emphasis was given to system administration for distributed systems. A major topic of the workshop was the integration of different control system approaches as well as the integration of different platforms within the same control system. In particular, PC-based concepts offer the simple opportunity to interface to commercial SCADA systems. In addition, large emphasis was given to the presentation of future developments including the next network trends to data exchange via SOAP and XML.
description: ICALEPCS 2001 TUBT005
Graviton oscillations in the two-brane world
Creators: name: Barvinsky, Andrei
name: Kamenshchik, Alexander
name: Kiefer, Claus
name: Rathke, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the braneworld effective action in the two-brane Randall-Sundrum model. In the framework of this essentially-nonlocal action we reveal the origin of an infinite sequence of gravitational wave modes -- the usual massless one as well as the tower of Kaluza-Klein massive ones. Mixing of the modes, which parametrically depends on the background value of the modulus of the extra dimension, can be interpreted as radion-induced gravitational-wave oscillations, a classical analogue to meson and neutrino oscillations. We show that these oscillations arising in M-theory-inspired braneworld setups could lead to effects detectable by gravitational-wave interferometers.
description: 8 pages, conceptual clarifications included, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Aceria liriothrix
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Aceria
Aceria liriothrix

description: Aceria liriothrix (Nalepa, 1918)
 Eriophyes liriothrix Nalepa, 1918: 70–71.
 Aceria liriothrix; Amrine & Stasny, 1994: 59.
 Host. Dendrocnide peltata (Urticaceae).
 Habit. Erineum.
 Distribution. Indonesia (Java).
 Remarks. Nalepa (1918) provided no figures for this species.
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 38
Biomimetic nanoparticles delivered hedgehog pathway inhibitor to modify tumour microenvironment and improved chemotherapy for pancreatic carcinoma
Creators: name: Jiang, Ting
name: Zhang, Bo
name: Zhang, Long
name: Wu, Xuemei
name: Li, Haichun
name: Shen, Shun
name: Luo, Zimiao
name: Liu, Xianping
name: Hu, Yu
name: Pang, Zhiqing
name: Jiang, Xinguo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: The unique tumour microenvironment (TM) of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) including highly desmoplastic ECM and low tumour perfusion supports a considerable barrier for effective delivery of nanomedicines. Effectively modulating PDA microenvironment to enhance tumour drug delivery represents a pinpoint in the field of PDA treatment. In this study, it was the first time that biomimetic nanoparticles, which were designed in the form of erythrocyte membrane-camouflaged PLGA nanoparticles (MNP), were utilized for PDA microenvironment modulation. Cyclopamine (CYC), an inhibitor of Hedgehog pathway that contributed a lot to desmoplastic ECM of PDA, was selected as the model drug and successfully encapsulated into MNP. Advantages of CYC-loaded MNP (CMNP) included favourable biocompatibility, long circulation time, and powerful TM modulation effect. CMNP could effectively deliver CYC to the tumour site, disrupt tumour ECM, increase functional vessels, and improve tumour perfusion significantly. The combination treatment with CMNP and PTX-loaded MNP (PMNP) successfully improved PTX delivery to tumour, resulting in remarkable tumour growth inhibition in vivo. Therefore, biomimetic nanoparticles provide a new strategy for modulating PDA TM and will have great potential to improve the therapeutic effects of nanomedicines for PDA patients.
Hedging in Field Theory Models of the Term Structure
Creators: name: Baaquie, Belal E.
name: Srikant, Marakani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We use path integrals to calculate hedge parameters and efficacy of hedging in a quantum field theory generalization of the Heath, Jarrow and Morton (HJM) term structure model which parsimoniously describes the evolution of imperfectly correlated forward rates. We also calculate, within the model specification, the effectiveness of hedging over finite periods of time. We use empirical estimates for the parameters of the model to show that a low dimensional hedge portfolio is quite effective.
description: 18 figures, Invited Talk, International Econophysics Conference, Bali, 28-31 August 2002
High-efficiency refracting millimeter-wave metasurfaces
Creators: name: Olk, Andreas E.
name: Macchi, Pierre E. M.
name: Powell, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Printed circuit metasurfaces have attracted significant attention in the microwave community for their versatile wavefront manipulation capability. Despite their promising potential in telecommunications and radar applications, few transmissive metasurfaces have been reported operating at millimeter-wave frequencies. Several secondary effects including fabrication tolerances, interlayer near-field coupling and the roughness of conductors are more severe at such high frequencies and can cause significant performance degradation. Additionally, very accurate experimental techniques are required in order to characterise these effects. In this work, we present highly efficient refracting metasurfaces operating at 83 GHz. We use a synthesis technique that minimizes performance degradation due to effects such as interlayer near-field coupling and conductor roughness. Our experimental characterization includes an accurate determination of the intensity of all forward propagating Floquet harmonics in a broad frequency range. The experimental data shows very good agreement with full-wave simulation and verifies our synthesis method.
Does avatar identification make unjustified video game violence more morally consequential?
Creators: name: Allen, Johnie J.
name: Anderson, Craig A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Video games can be morally consequential, with immoral in-game behavior affecting moral outcomes, but less is known about what may amplify these effects. Avatar identification is one potential moderator. We integrated three lines of research on moral disengagement, moral foundations, and avatar identification to conceptually replicate and extend previous studies on video games and morality. We used a 2 (justification: unjustified vs. justified violence) x 2 (avatar: high vs. low identification) between-participants experiment with guilt, moral cleansing, and post-play sacredness of the care and fairness foundations as moral outcomes. Participants (N = 233) also completed measures of morally-relevant traits before gameplay. Participants felt guiltier after unjustified (vs. justified) violence. People with high trait levels of care foundation salience and personal distress also felt guiltier. Unjustified (vs. justified) violence did not affect the other moral outcomes. Avatar identification did not moderate the effects of unjustified violence, but this is likely because participants identified less with their avatars after engaging in unjustified violence. This unexpected effect suggests that players distance themselves from immoral avatars. Theoretical implications are discussed.
42. (2014) De Zijderoute in de Oudheid, in: De Krim - Goud en geheimen van de Zwarte Zee, Amsterdam 2014, 58-73. 5p
Creators: name: Olbrycht, Marek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas

description: Marek Jan Olbrycht, De Zijderoute in de Oudheid, in: De Krim - Goud en geheimen van de Zwarte Zee, Amsterdam 2014, 58-73.
Measurement of Spin Transfer Observables in Antiproton-Proton -> Antilambda-Lambda at 1.637 GeV/c
Creators: name: Bassalleck, B.
name: Berdoz, A.
name: Bradtke, C.
name: Bröders, R.
name: Bunker, B.
name: Dennert, H.
name: Dutz, H.
name: Eilerts, S.
name: Eyrich, W.
name: Fields, D.
name: Fischer, H.
name: Franklin, G.
name: Franz, J.
name: Gehring, R.
name: Geyer, R.
name: Goertz, S.
name: Harmsen, J.
name: Hauffe, J.
name: Heinsius, F. H.
name: Hertzog, D.
name: Johansson, T.
name: Jones, T.
name: Khaustov, P.
name: Kilian, K.
name: Kingsberry, P.
name: Kriegler, E.
name: Lowe, J.
name: Meier, A.
name: Metzger, A.
name: Meyer, C. A.
name: Meyer, W.
name: Moosburger, M.
name: Oelert, W.
name: Paschke, K. D.
name: Plückthun, M.
name: Pomp, S.
name: Quinn, B.
name: Radtke, E.
name: Reicherz, G.
name: Röhrich, K.
name: Sachs, K.
name: Schmitt, H.
name: Schoch, B.
name: Sefzick, T.
name: Stinzing, F.
name: Stotzer, R.
name: Tayloe, R.
name: Wirth, St.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin transfer observables for the strangeness-production reaction Antiproton-Proton -> Antilambda-Lambda have been measured by the PS185 collaboration using a transversely-polarized frozen-spin target with an antiproton beam momentum of 1.637 GeV/c at the Low Energy Antiproton Ring at CERN. This measurement investigates observables for which current models of the reaction near threshold make significantly differing predictions. Those models are in good agreement with existing measurements performed with unpolarized particles in the initial state. Theoretical attention has focused on the fact that these models produce conflicting predictions for the spin-transfer observables D_{nn} and K_{nn}, which are measurable only with polarized target or beam. Results presented here for D_{nn} and K_{nn} are found to be in disagreement with predictions from existing models. These results also underscore the importance of singlet-state production at backward angles, while current models predict complete or near-complete triplet-state dominance.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Dimethylethanolamine Decreases Epileptiform Activity in Acute Human Hippocampal Slices in vitro
Creators: name: Kraus, Larissa
name: Hetsch, Florian
name: Schneider, Ulf C.
name: Radbruch, Helena
name: Holtkamp, Martin
name: Meier, Jochen C.
name: Fidzinski, Pawel
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: drug development
subject: epilepsy
subject: ex vivo
subject: hippocampus
subject: human
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of focal epilepsy with about 30% of patients developing pharmacoresistance. These patients continue to suffer from seizures despite polytherapy with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) and have an increased risk for premature death, thus requiring further efforts for the development of new antiepileptic therapies. The molecule dimethylethanolamine (DMEA) has been tested as a potential treatment in various neurological diseases, albeit the functional mechanism of action was never fully understood. In this study, we investigated the effects of DMEA on neuronal activity in single-cell recordings of primary neuronal cultures. DMEA decreased the frequency of spontaneous synaptic events in a concentration-dependent manner with no apparent effect on resting membrane potential (RMP) or action potential (AP) threshold. We further tested whether DMEA can exert antiepileptic effects in human brain tissue ex vivo. We analyzed the effect of DMEA on epileptiform activity in the CA1 region of the resected hippocampus of TLE patients in vitro by recording extracellular field potentials in the pyramidal cell layer. Epileptiform burst activity in resected hippocampal tissue from TLE patients remained stable over several hours and was pharmacologically suppressed by lacosamide, demonstrating the applicability of our platform to test antiepileptic efficacy. Similar to lacosamide, DMEA also suppressed epileptiform activity in the majority of samples, albeit with variable interindividual effects. In conclusion, DMEA might present a new approach for treatment in pharmacoresistant TLE and further studies will be required to identify its exact mechanism of action and the involved molecular targets.
Technical Efficiency of Melon Farms under the Marketing Strategy of Agircultural Cooperatives
Creators: name: Shimizu, Takafusa
name: Shimizu, Takafusa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The purpose of this paper is to measure the technical efficiency of farms on the basis of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and to present an analytical method of farm diagnosis using measurements obtained for melon farms in Japan. The paper first describes the objectives of melon farms operating under the marketing strategy of agricultural cooperatives and explains DEA, which measures the technical efficiency of such farms. It then uses this analytical method to measure technical efficiency for each farm and demonstrates h6w technical efficiency is dependent not only on the management performance of production of melons and other crops but also on the number of full-time farm workers. In addition, the effect of management perlormance on technical efficiency is analysed quantitatively for each size group of full-time farm workers. The paper also illustrates how DEA can be used for farm diagnosis when the management performance of inefficient melon farms is compared with that of efficient farms. DEA is able to indicate some efficient farms as the optimum solution that should be treated as the model for the improved management of inefficient farms. Data are drawn from a sample of 91 melon farms in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture.
The Diadem in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods, Anabasis 5, 2014, 177-187.
Creators: name: Olbrycht, Marek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History

description: Marek Jan Olbrycht, The Diadem in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods, Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 5, 2014, 177-187.
The Exposure-Background Duality in the Searches of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Creators: name: Singh, M. K.
name: Wong, H. T.
name: Singh, L.
name: Sharma, V.
name: Singh, V.
name: Yue, Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tremendous efforts are required to scale the summit of observing neutrinoless double beta decay ($0 νββ$). This article quantitatively explores the interplay between exposure (target mass X data taking time) and background levels in $0 νββ$ experiments. In particular, background reduction can substantially alleviate the necessity of unrealistic large exposure as the normal mass hierarchy (NH) is probed. The non-degenerate (ND)-NH can be covered with an exposure of O(100) ton-year, which is only an order of magnitude larger than those planned for next generation projects - provided that the background could be reduced by 0($10^{-6}$) relative to the current best levels. It follows that background suppression will be playing increasingly important and investment-effective, if not determining, roles in future $0 νββ$ experiments with sensitivity goals of approaching and covering ND-NH.
description: V2 Published Version: 10 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables
Agricultural Produce Cess In Tanzania: Policy Options For Fiscal Reforms
Creators: name: Nyange, David
name: Tschirley, David
name: Nassoro, Hussein
name: Gaspar, Abeid
name: Nyange, David
name: Tschirley, David
name: Nassoro, Hussein
name: Gaspar, Abeid
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: International Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Rural taxation policy is a major issue in many countries of Africa as they pursue more decentralized forms of governing and at the same time work to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and fairness of their tax systems. Tanzania has struggled with this issue since at least 1962, when it expanded countrywide the limited decentralization that had occurred under the colonial regime, then abolished LGAs in 1972 in favor of “Madaraka Mikoani”, only to reinstate them and enshrine them in the constitution in 1984. With wide powers to set tax policy and practice at local level, made possible by the Local Government Finance Act (LGFA) of 1982, Tanzania soon experienced a dizzying array of taxes and fees, with dramatically differing rates across LGAs.
Color Evaporation and Elastic $Υ$ Photoproduction at DESY HERA
Creators: name: Ducati, M. B. Gay
name: Goncalves, V. P.
name: Mariotto, C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diffractive photoproduction of vector mesons is usually described considering the two-gluon (Pomeron) exchange, non-diagonal parton distributions and the contribution of the real part to the cross section. In this letter we analyze the diffractive photoproduction of the $Υ$ at HERA using an alternative model, the Color Evaporation Model (CEM), where the cross section is simply determined by the boson-gluon cross section and an assumption for the production of the colorless state. We verify that, similarly to the $J/Ψ$ case, the HERA data for this process can be well described by the CEM. Moreover, we propose the analyzes of the ratio $R = σ_Υ / σ_{J/Ψ}$ to discriminate between the distinct approaches.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PRD (Brief Reports)
Rebrotamento de estacas e gemas subterrâneas de oito espécies da Família Costaceae nativas do oeste do Acre, Brasil
Creators: name: Lima, Carine Bezerra
name: Mendonça, Clara Da Costa
name: Liesenfeld, Marcus Vinicius Athaydes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Botany

description: A capacidade de uma planta rebrotar é uma estratégia adaptativa ligada à resiliência e é determinada pelas características do banco de gemas. Os rizomas das plantas da Família Costaceae além da condução de água e nutrientes, desempenham mais de uma função em determinadas fases do ciclo de vida da planta, tal como a de reprodução vegetativa. O estudo objetivou avaliar comparativamente o rebrote de estacas e bulbos de diferentes espécies da Família Costaceae nativas do oeste do Estado do Acre, observando índices de rebrote.
Aceria litseae
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Aceria
Aceria litseae

description: Aceria litseae (Keifer, 1972)
 Eriophyes litseae Keifer, 1972: 9–10.
 Aceria litseae; Amrine & Stasny, 1994: 60.
 Aceria litseae; Mohanasundaram, 1982b: 423.
 Aceria litseae; Huang & Wang, 2004a: 64.
 Host. Litsea elliptica, L. wightiana (Lauraceae).
 Habit. Galls or erineum.
 Distribution. Singapore (Catchment Area, Seletar Reservoir); China (Taiwan); India.
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 39
Innovation in the U.S. Health Care System’s Organization and Delivery
Creators: name: DiStefano, Michael
name: Kang, So-Yeon
name: Socal, Mariana
name: Anderson, Gerard
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2022

description: Over the past decades, the U.S. has attempted a wide array of innovations in the areas of health care organization and delivery. Canadian policy makers may be interested in some of the successes and failures in the United States health care system. This briefing summarizes recent trends in six areas: fiscal federalism, expanding benefits, payment reform, virtual and digital health, supply chain reforms and healthcare workforce. The federal government allocates money to the states based on per capita income in that state to support state health care programs such as the Medicaid program and Children’s Health Insurance Program. Additional fiscal transfers are also used to incentivize states to provide other services. Benefit expansion currently focuses on expanding Medicare to include hearing care, broadening the benefits covered by Medicare Advantage (managed care plans) plans, and using Medicaid waiver programs to expand eligibility and benefits for low-income individuals. Alternative Payment Models and expanding Medicare Advantage are transforming the system from fee-for-service toward a value-based system. Accelerated use of digital and virtual care is being promoted by waiving restrictions on coverage of telehealth services for acute and chronic conditions and primary care. Shortages of health care inputs, especially pharmaceuticals, were a chronic problem exacerbated by COVID-19. In response, onshoring of pharmaceutical production and expanding drug shortage surveillance and transparency in the drug supply chain is starting. Finally, the federal government has established research centers to track the number of primary care doctors and improve the distribution of physicians in the most disadvantaged areas.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2022)
Aceria longana Boczek & Knihinicki 1998
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Aceria
Aceria longana

description: Aceria longana Boczek & Knihinicki, 1998
 Aceria longana Boczek & Knihinicki, 1998: 141–143.
 Host. Dimocarpus longan (Sapindaceae).
 Habit. Cause curling of leaves, brooming of twigs and bud proferation.
 Distribution. Thailand (Bangkok).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 39
Vitamin D in Acute Campylobacteriosis-Results From an Intervention Study Applying a Clinical Campylobacter jejuni Induced Enterocolitis Model
Creators: name: Mousavi, Soraya
name: Lobo De Sá, Fábia Daniela
name: Schulzke, Jörg-Dieter
name: Bücker, Roland
name: Bereswill, Stefan
name: Heimesaat, Markus M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Campylobacter jejuni
subject: acute enterocolitis
subject: campylobacteriosis model
subject: host-pathogen interaction
subject: intervention study
subject: intestinal epithelial barrier function
subject: vitamin D
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Human Campylobacter infections are progressively rising and of high socioeconomic impact. In the present preclinical intervention study we investigated anti-pathogenic, immuno-modulatory, and intestinal epithelial barrier preserving properties of vitamin D applying an acute campylobacteriosis model. Therefore, secondary abiotic IL-10-/- mice were perorally treated with synthetic 25-OH-cholecalciferol starting 4 days before peroral Campylobacter jejuni infection. Whereas, 25-OH-cholecalciferol application did not affect gastrointestinal pathogen loads, 25-OH-cholecalciferol treated mice suffered less frequently from diarrhea in the midst of infection as compared to placebo control mice. Moreover, 25-OH-cholecalciferol application dampened C. jejuni induced apoptotic cell responses in colonic epithelia and promoted cell-regenerative measures. At day 6 post-infection, 25-OH-cholecalciferol treated mice displayed lower numbers of colonic innate and adaptive immune cell populations as compared to placebo controls that were accompanied by lower intestinal concentrations of pro-inflammatory mediators including IL-6, MCP1, and IFN-γ. Remarkably, as compared to placebo application synthetic 25-OH-cholecalciferol treatment of C. jejuni infected mice resulted in lower cumulative translocation rates of viable pathogens from the inflamed intestines to extra-intestinal including systemic compartments such as the kidneys and spleen, respectively, which was accompanied by less compromised colonic epithelial barrier function in the 25-OH-cholecalciferol as compared to the placebo cohort. In conclusion, our preclinical intervention study provides evidence that peroral synthetic 25-OH-cholecalciferol application exerts inflammation-dampening effects during acute campylobacteriosis.
Improving patients' role confusion and perceptions of the oncology nurse practitioner
Creators: name: Kannan, Rajni
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: Purpose of Project: The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to evaluate if using educational resources and Nurse Practitioner (NP) bios would improve patient perceptions about the role of the NP. Methodology: This quality improvement project evaluated participants using a pre-and post-questionnaire design. Twenty participants were given an educational brochure on the role of the NP and a mock bio after the initial questionnaire and asked to repeat the questionnaire. A paired t-test was conducted via SPSS to test the null hypothesis of the mean scores pre and post-education. A delta was calculated in the pre and post-questionnaire total mean score to determine the change in knowledge. Pre and post-questions were analyzed to identify the most significant delta and lowest delta from pre- and post-questionnaires to identify the most significant change in knowledge and where education gaps remain. Results: 18 out of 20 participants were evaluable. The paired t-test indicated that the participants' scores after they received educational resources (M=90.11, SD =9.99) were significantly higher than before education (M=82.7, SD=12.7), t17=4.56, p=<.001. Implications for Practice: Cost-effective educational resources and bios can help improve patients' understanding of the role of the NP. Patients need to be educated on their care providers' various roles and responsibilities. The resources utilized for this project can be adopted in multiple healthcare settings where NPs practice.
Die Alexandergründungen in den nordiranischen Ländern im Lichte der geographischen Tradition der Antike, [in] Alexander V. Podossinov (ed.), The Periphery of the Classical World in Ancient Geography and Cartography (Colloquia Antiqua 12), Leuven – Paris – Walpole MA: Peeters 2014, 95-121.
Creators: name: Olbrycht, Marek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History

description: Marek Jan Olbrycht, Die Alexandergründungen in den nordiranischen Ländern im Lichte der geographischen Tradition der Antike, [in] Alexander V. Podossinov (ed.), The Periphery of the Classical World in Ancient Geography and Cartography (Colloquia Antiqua 12), Leuven – Paris – Walpole MA: Peeters 2014, 95-121.
A simple, entropy-based dissipation trigger for SPH
Creators: name: Rosswog, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) schemes need to be enhanced by dissipation mechanisms to handle shocks. Most SPH formulations rely on artificial viscosity and while this is working well in pure shocks, attention has to be payed to avoid dissipation where it is not wanted. Commonly used approaches include limiters and time-dependent dissipation parameters. The former try to distinguish shocks from other types of flows that do not require dissipation while in the latter approach the dissipation parameters are steered by some source term ("trigger") and, if not triggered, they decay to a pre-described floor value. The commonly used source terms trigger on either compression, $-\nabla\cdot\vec{v}$, or its time derive. Here we explore a novel way to trigger SPH-dissipation: based on the entropy growth rate between two time steps we identify "troubled particles" that need to have dissipation added because they are either passing through a shock wave or become noisy. Our new scheme is implemented into the Lagrangian hydrodynamics code MAGMA2 and scrutinized in a number of shock and fluid instability tests. We find excellent results in shocks and only a moderate (and desired) switch-on in instability tests, despite our conservatively chosen trigger parameters. The new scheme is robust, trivial to implement into existing SPH codes and does not add any computational overhead.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures; changes in response to referee report
Distinct types of conservative attitudes mediate the link between media preference and presidential candidate endorsement
Creators: name: Xiaowen Xu
name: Burton, Caitlin M.
name: Plaks, Jason E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Do mass media preferences help to shape specific political attitudes and voting preferences? In two studies, participants completed measures of media genre preferences, three distinct dimensions of political attitudes, and political candidate endorsement (Study 2 only). We found that higher liking of Active (e.g., action films, adventure books) and Masculine genres (e.g., sports TV, business books), and higher disliking of Cerebral (e.g., classical music, philosophy books) and Alternative genres (e.g., punk music, horror films) predicted endorsement of a dimension of conservatism that emphasizes libertarian independence. Preference for Communal genres (e.g., family films, soap opera TV) and dislike toward Alternative genres predicted endorsement of a second dimension of conservatism that emphasizes religious traditionalism. Preference for Communal, Active, and Masculine genres, and dislike toward Cerebral genres, predicted a third dimension of conservatism that emphasizes ethnic separateness. Study 2 found that these distinct dimensions of conservatism mediated the links between media preferences and endorsement for political candidates in the 2016 US election. Further analyses provided evidence against an alternative pathway in which media preferences mediate the link between conservatism and candidate endorsement. Taken together, these findings suggest that preference for distinct genres of media encourages distinct types of political attitudes.
Fast Tetrahedral Meshing in the Wild
Creators: name: Hu, Yixin
name: Schneider, Teseo
name: Wang, Bolun
name: Zorin, Denis
name: Panozzo, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a new tetrahedral meshing method, fTetWild, to convert triangle soups into high-quality tetrahedral meshes. Our method builds on the TetWild algorithm, replacing the rational triangle insertion with a new incremental approach to construct and optimize the output mesh, interleaving triangle insertion and mesh optimization. Our approach makes it possible to maintain a valid floating-point tetrahedral mesh at all algorithmic stages, eliminating the need for costly constructions with rational numbers used by TetWild, while maintaining full robustness and similar output quality. This allows us to improve on TetWild in two ways. First, our algorithm is significantly faster, with running time comparable to less robust Delaunay-based tetrahedralization algorithms. Second, our algorithm is guaranteed to produce a valid tetrahedral mesh with floating-point vertex coordinates, while TetWild produces a valid mesh with rational coordinates which is not guaranteed to be valid after floating-point conversion. As a trade-off, our algorithm no longer guarantees that all input triangles are present in the output mesh, but in practice, as confirmed by our tests on the Thingi10k dataset, the algorithm always succeeds in inserting all input triangles.
An educational intervention to enable children to assess claims about the benefits and harms of treatments
Creators: name: Nsangi, Allen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The Informed Health Choices project aimed to teach children to think critically about health claims and choices. The goal was to enable them to make informed personal choices, participate in policy debates and contribute to informed health policy decisions when they are older – as patients, future health professionals, future policy makers and citizens. The first objective of this thesis was to develop resources that teach primary school children in Uganda to assess health claims and make informed health choices. The second objective was to evaluate the impact of the resources on children’s ability to think critically about health claims and choices. The third objective was to explore unintended consequences and factors that might affect scaling up use of the resources. The fourth objective was to ascertain if children retained what they learned for at least one year.
Cryptopone Emery 1893
Creators: name: Fernandes, Io
name: Delabie, Jhc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cryptopone

description: Key to the workers of Cryptopone species from the New Word (modified from Mackay & Mackay, 2010). 1. Mandibles nearly elongate-triangular, oblique masticatory margin nearly continuous with basal border, the latter having 4 - 5 teeth; tooth at mid-length of mandible noticeably longer than others; petiolar node as seen from side subtriangular, tapered markedly to a narrowly rounded apex; Mexico (Veracruz), Central America to southeastern Brazil (São Paulo)............................................................. C. guianensis (Weber) 1’. Mandibles triangular, basal and masticatory margins meeting at distinct angle, with at least 6 teeth, approximately equal in length; petiole as seen from side nearly subquadrate, feebly tapered dorsally.........…..........….......…………........ 2 2. Dorsal face of petiole narrowly convex, shorter than posterior margin in lateral view; anterior half of subpetiolar process translucent and conspicuously larger; United States (Missouri south to Florida), Mexico, Central America at least as far south as Panama ……………............... C. gilva (Roger) 2’. Dorsal face of petiole broadly convex, nearly equal in length to posterior margin in lateral view; anterior half of subpetiolar process not translucent; Peru east to the Guianas, south to Bolivia..................................................................... 3 3. Small species TL:>5.00 mm; mandible with 7 teeth; clypeus is slightly concave medially with a small raised medial tooth along the anterior margin; Caribbean Islands, Colombia to Brazil (São Paulo)................................. C. holmgreni (Wheeler) 3’. Large species TL:>7.00 mm; mandibles with at least 7 teeth; clypeus medially convex and unarmed (Rondônia)............................................................................. C. pauli sp. nov
description: Published as part of Fernandes, Io & Delabie, Jhc, 2019, A New Species of Cryptopone Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Brazil with Observations on the Genus and a Key for New Word Species, pp. 408-413 in Sociobiology 66 (3) on page 411, DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v66i3.4354, http://zenodo.org/record/3560195
description: {"references": ["Mackay, W. P. & Mackay, E. E. (2010). The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hym.: Formicidae). Lewiston: Edwin Mellon Press, 642 p."]}
Persia Beyond the Imperial Frontiers: the Nomads of the South Ural Region versus the Near East, Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 6, 2015, 257-275.
Creators: name: Olbrycht, Marek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History

description: Marek Jan Olbrycht, Persia Beyond the Imperial Frontiers: the Nomads of the South Ural Region versus the Near East, Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 6, 2015, 257-275.
New group structures for Carbon onions and Carbon nanotubes via affine extensions of non-crystallographic Coxeter groups
Creators: name: Twarock, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results underlining the conjecture that affine extensions for non-crystallographic Coxeter groups are suitable mathematical objects for the description of the symmetries of Carbon onions and Carbon nanotubes. It is the hope that these considerations will shed new light on open questions concerning structure, stability and formation of these fullerenes.
description: 13 pages, submitted to Phys. Lett. A
Aceria malloti
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Aceria
Aceria malloti

description: Aceria malloti (Nalepa, 1923)
 Eriophyes malloti Nalepa, 1923: 425.
 Aceria malloti; Amrine & Stasny, 1994: 62.
 Host. Mallotus tiliaefolius (Euphorbiaceae).
 Habit. Erineum, galls.
 Distribution. Indonesia (Java).
 Remarks. Nalepa (1923) provided no figures for this species.
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 39
Advancing Supply Chain Resilience for Canadian Health Systems
Creators: name: Snowdon, Anne
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2022

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed significant fragilities in the current capacity and function of global healthcare supply chains. During the first wave of the pandemic, long, undiversified, and lean global supply chains were destabilized by a massive surge in demand for care, that required high volumes of critical health products for care delivery (Snowdon, Saunders & Wright, 2021). China, the primary manufacturer of a number of critical health products and the first site of a COVID-19 outbreak, temporarily shuttered its manufacturing capacity. As a result, there were severe product shortages across every global health system. Manufacturers were unable to rapidly scale their production capacity to meet the sudden and dramatic increase in the demand for critical products, which resulted in a destabilizing “ripple effect” across global healthcare supply chains. The COVID-19 pandemic, and the surge in supply demands it created, exposed the fragility that rapidly destabilized these global healthcare supply chains. This destabilization of healthcare supply chains impacted every jurisdiction in Canada and touched the lives of healthcare workers, patients, citizens, and non-permanent residents (such as temporary foreign workers).
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2022)