cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The role of supernovae inside AGN jets in UHECR acceleration
Creators: name: Bosch-Ramon, Valenti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jets of active galactic nuclei are potential accelerators of ultra high-energy cosmic rays. Supernovae can occur inside these jets and contribute to cosmic ray acceleration, particularly of heavy nuclei, but that contribution has been hardly investigated so far. We carried out a first dedicated exploration of the role of supernovae inside extragalactic jets in the production of ultra high-energy cosmic rays. We characterized the energy budget of supernova-jet interactions, and the maximum possible energies of the particles accelerated in those events, likely dominated by heavy nuclei. This allowed us to assess whether these interactions can be potential acceleration sites of ultra high-energy cosmic rays, or at least of their seeds. For that, we estimated the cosmic ray luminosity for different galaxy types, and compared the injection rate of cosmic ray seeds into the jet with that due to galactic cosmic ray entrainment. Since the supernova is fueled for a long time by the luminosity of the jet, the energy of a supernova-jet interaction can be several orders of magnitude greater than that of an isolated supernova. Thus, despite the low rate of supernovae expected to occur in the jet, they could still provide more seeds for accelerating ultra high-energy particles than cosmic ray entrainment from the host galaxy. Moreover, these interactions can create sufficiently efficient accelerators to be a source of cosmic rays with energies $\gtrsim 10$~EeV. Supernova-jet interactions can contribute significantly to the production of ultra high-energy cosmic rays, either directly by accelerating these particles themselves or indirectly by providing pre-accelerated seeds.
description: 4 pages, Letter accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics (in press)
Evaluating global vegetation products for application in heterogeneous forest-savanna landscapes
Creators: name: Pletcher, Elise
name: Smith-Tripp, Sarah
name: Evans, Damian
name: Schwartz, Naomi B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: While satellite-derived global vegetation structure products are powerful and easy to use, their utility for studying spatial patterns within heterogeneous landscapes such as forest-savanna mosaics has not been extensively evaluated. We explored the application of global vegetation structure products in heterogeneous landscapes by comparing them with Airborne Laser Scanning. Specifically, we assessed the accuracy and bias of two fractional cover products, MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) and Hansen Global Forest Change (GFC), and one global canopy height model, Global Forest Canopy Height Model (CHM), in comparison with the same variables derived from local ALS point clouds. We found that there were limitations to all three products. MODIS VCF was less accurate than its reported accuracy by at least 3%, and GFC was 10% less accurate than MODIS VCF. While Global CHM had a similar magnitude of error to its reported product accuracy, product agreement was much lower (R2 0.19 vs. R2 0.61). We also found that the context of the analysis is important when choosing whether to use one fractional product over the other. Global products should be applied with caution in heterogeneous landscapes. Increased training and validation from these landscapes could improve the performance of these products and their utility for landscape-scale ecological research.
Anticancer and antiproliferative activities of Algerian Origanum majorana L.’s essential oil on PC-3 and SKBR3 cells
Creators: name: Nourehouda, Hafid
name: Ouahiba, Bouchenak
name: Riza, Serttas
name: Mounir, Bouhenna Mustapha
name: Ouiza, Khiari
name: Sounia, Oussaid
name: Erdogan, Suat
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Hematology

description: Cancer is a prominent cause of death globally, with breast cancer and prostate cancer being among the most devastating types. Therefore, the available anticancer treatments have some drawbacks, like higher toxicity and limited bioavailability. Thus, this study aimed to investigate for the first time the anticancer activity of Algerian Origanum majorana L.’s essential oil (OMEO). This research assessed the chemical profile of Algerian OMEO by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The analysis revealed 29 compounds, which represent 98.08% of total volatile oil. The major compounds identified in OMEO were terpinen-4-ol (21.37%), γ-terpinene (15.78%), α-terpinene (10.43%), and trans-sabinene hydrate (9.27%). Additionally, MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide) was also used to test the cytotoxicity on prostate cancer (PC-3), breast cancer (SKBR3), and normal retinal pigment epithelium (ARPE-19) cell lines. The results showed a selective cytotoxicity effect by decreasing cell viability of PC-3 cancer cells with half inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 608.57 μg/mL and 672.5 μg/mL after 48h and 72h, respectively. Regarding SKBR3 cancer cells, the IC50 was 991.5 μg/mL. OMEO exhibited no significant cytotoxicity against normal (ARPE-19) cells. Furthermore, we conducted a cell apoptosis assay using Hochest 33342 dye to explore the potential mechanism pathway of OMEO. The findings verified that OMEO could trigger apoptosis in PC-3 and SBKR3 cancer cells. The ability of OMEO to inhibit cell migration assessed via wound healing assay revealed a significant decrease in cell migration. Our results imply that OMEO decreases cell viability by inducing cell apoptosis. Moreover, the oil suppresses cell migration in prostate cancer and breast cancer cells.
Probing the Galactic halo with RR Lyrae stars -- IV. On the Oosterhoff dichotomy of RR Lyrae stars
Creators: name: Zhang, Shan
name: Liu, Gaochao
name: Huang, Yang
name: Lv, Zongfei
name: Bird, Sarah Ann
name: Chen, Bingqiu
name: Zhang, Huawei
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Li, Xinyi
name: Tian, Haijun
name: Zhang, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use 3653 (2661 RRab, 992 RRc) RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) with 7D (3D position, 3D velocity, and metallicity) information selected from SDSS, LAMOST, and Gaia EDR3, and divide the sample into two Oosterhoff groups (Oo I and Oo II) according to their amplitude-period behaviour in the Bailey Diagram. We present a comparative study of these two groups based on chemistry, kinematics, and dynamics. We find that Oo I RRLs are relatively more metal rich, with predominately radially dominated orbits and large eccentricities, while Oo II RRLs are relatively more metal poor, and have mildly radially dominated orbits. The Oosterhoff dichotomy of the Milky Way's halo is more apparent for the inner-halo region than for the outer-halo region. Additionally, we also search for this phenomenon in the halos of the two largest satellite galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic clouds (LMC, SMC), and compare over different bins in metallicity. We find that the Oosterhoff dichotomy is not immutable, and varies based on position in the Galaxy and from galaxy-to-galaxy. We conclude that the Oosterhoff dichotomy is the result of a combination of stellar and galactic evolution, and that it is much more complex than the dichotomy originally identified in Galactic globular clusters.
title: Through the young offender lens : capturing experiences of restorative justice
Creators: name: O'Mahoney, Joanne Ruth Holland
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: Significant world-wide interest in restorative justice has resulted in reforms to the youth justice system in England and Wales, which include restorative features. The most explicitly restorative of these reforms is the referral order. Hitherto, evaluations of restorative justice initiatives have tended to focus on quantitative analyses based on reoffending rates, number of referrals and cost effectiveness, or structured questionnaire surveys with limited opportunities for participants to express their feelings about the process. Using ethnographic methods this research documents young offenders’ experiences of undertaking a referral order, with the main aim of assessing how far the referral order fits the theoretical framework underlying restorative justice. This research aims to add to existing theoretical and methodological debates and provide an additional source of information for policy makers and practitioners. Drawing on data gathered from observations and semi-structured interviews with practitioners and young people, the research explores the strengths and weaknesses of the way the referral order is being implemented, through the key restorative justice principles of stakeholder involvement, relationship building and repairing the harm done by crime. It finds that the referral order holds the potential to be a restorative approach to crime, but that there is a need to restructure the relationship between justice agencies and local communities. Young people report positive experiences of restorative panel meetings, but I suggest that young people need a more supportive environment in order to engage in a meaningful dialogue, and that the presence of a victim significantly increases their ability to empathise and express remorse. I argue that the criminal justice system’s retention of its coercive role, together with punitive indirect reparation activities, jeopardises restorative principles and values.
Dynamics of trans-Neptunian objects near the 3/1 mean-motion resonance with Neptune
Creators: name: Alves-Carmo, Alan J.
name: Vaillant, Timothée
name: Correia, Alexandre C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The complex classification of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) that are captured in mean-motion resonances (MMRs) and the constraint of their multiple origins are two significant open problems concerning the Solar System. The case-by-case study of the different MMRs and their characteristics provide information about their origin and dynamics, which helps us to understand the early stages of the Solar System evolution. In this paper, we study the dynamics of the detected TNOs close to a 3/1 MMR with Neptune. We initially use a semi-analytic three-body model to investigate the coplanar secular dynamics of these objects and find the stationary points. We then use surface sections and stability maps to analyse the non-averaged dynamics. These methods allow us to isolate the different stability regions and determine the extent of the chaotic regions. We show that stability maps are an extremely powerful tool for studying the resonant dynamics when they are computed in terms of the resonant angle. We then use these maps to study the non-planar three-body problem and the full dynamics in the presence of planetary perturbations. We confirm that TNOs near the 3/1 MMR regions can exist at very high inclinations. In the framework of the three-body problem, many of these objects can also be stable outside the 3/1 MMR owing to a Kozai secular resonance. However, when we take into account the perturbations of the four giant planets, the Kozai regions disappear and only the 3/1 MMR region remains, with eccentricities $e \lesssim 0.5$.
description: 17 pages, 17 figures, 1 table
RESISTIRE: Agenda for future research. Addressing the impacts of Covid-19 policies on gendered inequalities - cycle 3
Creators: name: Sandström, Lina
name: Callerstig, Anne-Charlott
name: Strid, Sofia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: COVID-19
gender+
research agenda
crisis
gender based violence
health inequalities
digitalization
crisis response

description: This Agenda for Future Research contains the identification of knowledge and research gaps. It outlines which research questions and topics future research should address in six distinct areas: health inequalities, age and ageing in times of crisis, digitalisation, access to green spaces, civic responses to crisis and gender-based violence.
Phages adapt to recognize an O-antigen polysaccharide site by mutating the “backup” tail protein ORF59, enabling reinfection of phage-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Creators: name: Li, Ping
name: Ma, Wenjie
name: Cheng, Jun
name: Zhan, Cuixing
name: Lu, Hongzhou
name: Shen, Jiayin
name: Zhou, Xin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Phages demonstrate remarkable promise as antimicrobial agents against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. However, the emergence of phage-resistant strains poses challenges to their effective application. In this paper, we presented the isolation of a phage adaptive mutant that demonstrated enhanced and sustained antibacterial efficacy through the co-evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) 111-2 and phage ZX1Δint in vitro. Our experiments revealed that phage ZX1Δint successfully completed the adsorption phase by binding to the host surface, specifically targeting the capsular polysaccharide (CPS) receptor via the primary receptor-binding protein (RBP) ORF60 and the auxiliary RBP ORF59. Upon exposure to phage predation, mutations in genes wbaP, wbaZ or wzc, which encode the synthesis of the CPS, conferred resistance by reducing phage adsorption. In response to these host defense mechanisms, the adaptive mutant phages have evolved to utilize an alternative binding site located on an O-antigen site of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) through a mutation in the backup RBP ORF59. This evolutionary change enabled the phages to reinfect previously phage-resistant strains. Notably, the adaptive mutant phage PR2 carrying the ORF59 mutation Q777R, demonstrated the capacity to infect both wild-type and resistant strains, exhibiting prolonged antimicrobial activity against the wild strains. In conclusion, our findings elucidated a complex phage-host adsorption-antagonism mechanism characterized by mutation-driven alterations in phage receptor recognition. This work contributes to a deeper understanding of phage adaptability and highlights the potential for phages to combat phage-resistant bacteria through an in vitro evolutionary approach.
MODELING AND CONTROL OF DROP VOLUME AND DROP JETTING VELOCITY IN DROP-ON-DEMAND INKJET PRINTING
Creators: name: Wang, Jie
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Dynamics, vibration and vibration control

description: Drop-on-demand (DoD) inkjet printing is a maskless, additive, low-cost, flexible, and digital process for delivering materials/inks that can be adapted to a wide range of additive and functional scenarios, including, but not limited to, pharmaceutical manufacturing, electronics fabrication, and scalable patterning. However, producing consistent small dosages with high placement accuracy can be challenging due to variations in ink properties and environmental conditions, leading to variations in printed content and drop placement errors. Since the current open-loop calibrations are time-consuming and subject to frequent line stoppage, this work aims to develop a modeling and control framework for regulating these features, drop volume and drop jetting velocity, which also can benefit the integration of commercial printheads with different actuations into wide inkjet printing applications. An equivalent circuit model based on the hydraulic analogy is proposed to characterize the drop volume growth at the nozzle and motivate the development of a data-driven autoregressive-exogenous (ARX) model integrated with a drop volume adjuster for drop volume estimation. Given the limited control access in the commercial printer, a two-input-two-output plant model is derived from experimental data which relates two control parameters of the firing waveform to two features, drop volume and drop jetting velocity, with stochastic parameters. The plant model then is synthesized into the control design, which uses drop-image-based one-step look ahead estimation of process model parameters. Boundedness and convergence of the parameter estimation error and stability of the closed-loop system are analyzed. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller in retaining consistent drop volume and drop jetting velocity for thousands of drops with narrow variances.
LANGUAGE EVOLUTION ONLINE? THE USE OF MULTIMODAL COHESION ON YOUTUBE
Creators: name: Liebschner Andrea
Publisher: name: Сервис plus
Year: 2021
Subjects: SOCIAL NETWORK
COHESION
CLASSIFICATION
CONNECTION
MULTIMEDIA

description: This research project deals with the classification of cohesive and multimodal relations between commentaries by viewers to a video of the YouTube channel Different Russia. Its videos present a personal perspective on Russian daily live situations with commentaries by the Russian host in English. Normally, a video receives around 100.000 views. Commentaries by viewers can be in English, Russian, and other languages. The channel was founded in 2015 and has more than 60.000 subscribers. This research aims to analyse the multimodal relations between commentaries and videos. The methodology for this analysis is based on Royce (2013) and Bateman (2014). Royce (2013) discovered visual message elements in the relation between images and text, which present a visual form of a linguistic entity. Visual message elements present a process with a verb and participants with a noun in a sentence. Nouns and adverbs express context such as place and time. The aim is to explain the connection between visual message elements and cohesive devices of commentaries and the video content in Different Russia. For the practical analysis 300 chronological posted commentaries from the selected YouTube channel were coded in an Excel-databank according to the following parameters, adapted from Herring and Kurtz (2010): Number of message, ID of the participant, responds to and cohesive device. The results show that the following cohesive devices were used between commentaries and a video: multimodal relations of repetition and collocation of nouns, verbs, adjectives, the use of personal and demonstrative pronouns, ellipsis of nouns.
Leakage-Abuse Attacks Against Forward and Backward Private Searchable Symmetric Encryption
Creators: name: Xu, Lei
name: Zheng, Leqian
name: Xu, Chengzhi
name: Yuan, Xingliang
name: Wang, Cong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) enables a server to efficiently search and update over encrypted files. To minimize the leakage during updates, a security notion named forward and backward privacy is expected for newly proposed DSSE schemes. Those schemes are generally constructed in a way to break the linkability across search and update queries to a given keyword. However, it remains underexplored whether forward and backward private DSSE is resilient against practical leakage-abuse attacks (LAAs), where an attacker attempts to recover query keywords from the leakage passively collected during queries. In this paper, we aim to be the first to answer this question firmly through two non-trivial efforts. First, we revisit the spectrum of forward and backward private DSSE schemes over the past few years, and unveil some inherent constructional limitations in most schemes. Those limitations allow attackers to exploit query equality and establish a guaranteed linkage among different (refreshed) query tokens surjective to a candidate keyword. Second, we refine volumetric leakage profiles of updates and queries by associating each with a specific operation. By further exploiting update volume and query response volume, we demonstrate that all forward and backward private DSSE schemes can leak the same volumetric information (e.g., insertion volume, deletion volume) as those without such security guarantees. To testify our findings, we realize two generic LAAs, i.e., frequency matching attack and volumetric inference attack, and we evaluate them over various experimental settings in the dynamic context. Finally, we call for new efficient schemes to protect query equality and volumetric information across search and update queries.
description: A short version of this paper has been accepted to the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'23)
Phages adapt to recognize an O-antigen polysaccharide site by mutating the ‘backup’ tail protein ORF59, enabling reinfection of phage-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Creators: name: Li, Ping
name: Ma, Wenjie
name: Cheng, Jun
name: Zhan, Cuixing
name: Lu, Hongzhou
name: Shen, Jiayin
name: Zhou, Xin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Phages demonstrate remarkable promise as antimicrobial agents against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. However, the emergence of phage-resistant strains poses challenges to their effective application. In this paper, we presented the isolation of a phage adaptive mutant that demonstrated enhanced and sustained antibacterial efficacy through the co-evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) 111-2 and phage ZX1Δint in vitro. Our experiments revealed that phage ZX1Δint successfully completed the adsorption phase by binding to the host surface, specifically targeting the capsular polysaccharide (CPS) receptor via the primary receptor-binding protein (RBP) ORF60 and the auxiliary RBP ORF59. Upon exposure to phage predation, mutations in genes wbaP, wbaZ or wzc, which encode the synthesis of the CPS, conferred resistance by reducing phage adsorption. In response to these host defense mechanisms, the adaptive mutant phages have evolved to utilize an alternative binding site located on an O-antigen site of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) through a mutation in the backup RBP ORF59. This evolutionary change enabled the phages to reinfect previously phage-resistant strains. Notably, the adaptive mutant phage PR2 carrying the ORF59 mutation Q777R, demonstrated the capacity to infect both wild-type and resistant strains, exhibiting prolonged antimicrobial activity against the wild strains. In conclusion, our findings elucidated a complex phage-host adsorption-antagonism mechanism characterized by mutation-driven alterations in phage receptor recognition. This work contributes to a deeper understanding of phage adaptability and highlights the potential for phages to combat phage-resistant bacteria through an in vitro evolutionary approach.
title: Fascism and the Italian-Scottish Community in Interwar Scotland
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Petrocelli, Remigio
Publisher: name: University of Dundee
Year: 2023

description: Between 1922 and 1940, the Italian government sought to win over to Fascism Italian emigrants. It was hoped that they would play an essential part in extending the influence and prestige of Italy under the Fascist regime and were to be used as a tool for the expansion of Fascist ideology. Through establishing and using fasci and Case d’Italia abroad and developing Italian schools, youth groups, and a network of social and propaganda activities, the Italian government attempted to ‘fascistise’ the Italian diaspora.

Through micro-historical research and extensive use of a range of hitherto neglected Italian primary sources, this thesis will investigate the ‘life’ of the fasci in Scotland from their foundation in the early 1920s until 1940. It will analyse its founders and focus on the activities, ordered and arranged by the Fascist government in Rome or spontaneously promoted, employed by the fasci in the Italian community throughout the interwar period in Scotland. By examining the recreational, political and propaganda activities, and assessing fasci membership and community participation in fascist activities, this thesis will demonstrate the pioneering role of the Glasgow fascio in Britain, the multifaceted approach of the Italian-Scots toward Fascism and the fasci’s results.

This thesis will shed light on the central role that Fascism, and the rhetoric used by proponents of Fascist ideology, played in Italian community-building and other aspects of the Italian-Scottish diaspora which, before the rise of Fascism in Italy in 1922, were wholly neglected by the Italian-Scots. It will also be demonstrated that the policies adopted by the Fascist regime in Italy throughout the years were mirrored by the fasci and impacted the small Italian-Scottish community. The prominent militaristic attitude of the regime of the second half of the 1930s that was put into action with the war in Abyssinia in October 1935 led to Italophobia that eventually exploded in June 1940 after the Italian declaration of war on Britain. Finally, this thesis will also explore the opposition of Italian and Scottish anti-fascists to the fasci in Scotland and Italian Fascism more generally.
Revisiting UV/optical continuum time lags in AGN
Creators: name: Kammoun, E. S.
name: Robin, L.
name: Papadakis, I. E.
name: Dovčiak, M.
name: Panagiotou, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present an updated version of our model (KYNXiltr) which considers thermal reverberation of a standard Novikov-Thorne accretion disc illuminated by an X-ray point-like source. Previously, the model considered only two cases of black hole spins, and assumed a colour correction factor $f_{\rm col} = 2.4$. Now, we extend the model to any spin value and colour correction. In addition, we consider two scenarios of powering the X-ray corona, either via accretion, or external to the accretion disc. We use KYNXiltr to fit the observed time lags obtained from intense monitoring of four local Seyfert galaxies (NGC 5548, NGC 4395, Mrk 817, and Fairall 9). We consider various combinations of black hole spin, colour correction, corona height, and fraction of accretion power transferred to the corona. The model fits well the overall time-lags spectrum in these sources (for a large parameter space). For NGC 4593 only, we detect a significant excess of delays in the U-band. The contribution of the diffuse BLR emission in the time-lags spectrum of this source is significant. It is possible to reduce the large best-fitting parameter space by combining the results with additional information, such as the observed Eddington ratio and average X-ray luminosity. We also provide an update to the analytic expression provided by Kammoun et al., for an X-ray source that is not powered by the accretion process, which can be used for any value of colour correction, and for two values of the black hole spin (0 and 0.998).
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Reassessing Agathias : early Byzantine historiography beyond Procopius
Creators: name: Ficulle, Larisa
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2023
Subjects: Agathias
Byzantine historiography
Greek language
Byzantine history
Procopius of Caesarea

description: This thesis aims to provide a new evaluation of the Histories of Agathias Scholasticus, one of the main sources for the reign of Justinian (527-565 CE). By contextualising the author and approaching his text with the tools of modern research, the thesis casts light on crucial aspects of sixth-century history, literature, and language. Through an interdisciplinary approach (history, literary criticism, philology, and linguistics), the research reappraises the Histories in all its complexity, focusing both on Agathias' specificities as a historian and on his role within early Byzantine historiographical production. Through a tripartite structure, constituted by a first section on myth, marvels and miracles in Procopius and Agathias, a second on Agathias’ ethnography, and a third on Agathias’ language, the thesis argues that this work is not just a classicising history written after the manner of Herodotus and Thucydides; not just a continuation of the Wars of Procopius, but also the work of an idiosyncratic, independent author who made idiosyncratic, independent literary choices.
การจัดการของเสียในห่วงโซ่อุปทานการผลิตฟักทองญี่ปุ่นภายใต้หลักการเศรษฐกิจหมุนเวียน: กรณีศึกษาการปลูกบนพื้นที่สูง
Creators: name: นลินรัตน์ ถาวรเจริญ
Publisher: name: คณะบริหารการพัฒนาสิ่งแวดล้อม สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร์
Year: 2023
Subjects: ระบบเศรษฐกิจหมุนเวียน
ของเสียทางการเกษตร
การจัดการของเสีย
ฟักทองญี่ปุ่น

description: วารสารการจัดการสิ่งแวดล้อม, 19, 1, 44-65
title: Normalisation of the Mu2e Stopping Target Monitor using HPGe Gamma-Ray Spectrometers
Creators: name: Tickle, Steven
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2024

description: The search for charged lepton flavour violation has so far returned negative results up to a branching limit of 4.2 times 10^-13 most recently at the Mu to E Gamma (MEG) experiment in 2016. The area of high luminosity physics on the precision frontier surrounding muon experiments provides a window into testing for new physics with stronger coupling to heavier particles. With the recent 4.2 sigma deviation from the Standard Model at the g-2 experiment at FNAL, the prospects of new decays and interactions relating to expanding the electroweak sector targeting heavy leptons are looking promising for examination. Here, we examine the deployment of the Mu2e stopping target monitor for the use of normalising signals in order to calculate branching ratios for decays. The chosen technology is high purity germanium crystals (HPGe) which are used to measure distinct gamma-ray flashes that correspond to energy transitions within the stopping targets which are characteristic of the number of stopped muons. Liverpool University provides the HPGe detectors, including testing, calibration, installation and support, for the Mu2e experiment to quantify these stopped muons by measuring target photon counts above 100kHz. It was found that the data acquisition (DAQ) system at Liverpool, despite data losses, maintained the ability to measure at the rates quoted at Fermilab exceeding 100kHz.
UNVEILING TRANSPARENCY: THE TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT'S CRUSADE AGAINST CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA'S PUBLIC SPHERE
Creators: name: Prof. Abimbola, Olufemi Akinola
name: Dr. Temitope, Adegoke Ogunleye
Publisher: name: SADI journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Treasury Single Account (TSA)
Financial Transparency
Public Sector Corruption
Financial Management
Nigeria

description: The Treasury Single Account (TSA) stands as a pivotal initiative in President Muhammadu Buhari's strategic arsenal against public sector corruption, aimed at enhancing accountability, financial discipline, and overall financial management in Nigeria. Initiated on August 9, 2015, the TSA directive mandated all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to consolidate their accounts from deposit money banking institutions into a designated federation government account. This move was orchestrated to bring transparency to financial transactions, ensuring a seamless link among all payment systems (Osagioduwa, 2019).

This study delves into the profound impact of the TSA on the Nigerian government's financial landscape. The policy's core objective is to streamline the collection and disbursement of government funds, eliminating the need for multiple financial systems. The implementation of the TSA has significantly heightened the transparency of government finances, curbing corruption within the government sector and reinforcing cost control mechanisms in various government parastatals (Ganyam, 2018). The research builds upon the hypothesis posited by Ivungu et al. (2020), suggesting that the TSA policy facilitates the efficient collection and timely deposit of all government earnings into the public treasury, bypassing the complexities of diverse financial systems.

The findings of this study underscore the transformative potential of the TSA policy in reshaping financial practices within the Nigerian government. By examining the impact on transparency, corruption mitigation, and cost management, the research contributes valuable insights to the ongoing discourse on public sector reforms. The implications of the TSA extend beyond financial management, providing a blueprint for other nations grappling with similar challenges in enhancing accountability and curbing corruption within the public sector
การวางแผนเส้นทางท่องเที่ยวฐานทรัพยากรสิ่งแวดล้อมสรรค์สร้างในเมืองรองริมแม่น้ำ
Creators: name: ปฏิพล ยอดสุรางค์
Publisher: name: คณะบริหารการพัฒนาสิ่งแวดล้อม สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร์
Year: 2023
Subjects: การท่องเที่ยวเมือง
เมืองรอง
สิ่งแวดล้อมสรรค์สร้าง
การวิเคราะห์โครงข่าย
การสำรวจอย่างรวดเร็ว

description: วารสารการจัดการสิ่งแวดล้อม, 19, 1, 66-89
รูปแบบการพัฒนาและการจัดการพื้นที่พักแรมด้วยรถบ้านในอุทยานแห่งชาติของประเทศไทย
Creators: name: นภวรรณ ฐานะกาญจน์ พงษ์เขียว
Publisher: name: คณะบริหารการพัฒนาสิ่งแวดล้อม สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร์
Year: 2023
Subjects: อุทยานแห่งชาติ
พื้นที่พักแรมด้วยรถบ้าน
สภาพแวดล้อมทางกายภาพ
ผู้ประกอบกิจกรรมพักแรมด้วยรถบ้าน
แบบแนวคิดในการพัฒนาทางกายภาพ

description: วารสารการจัดการสิ่งแวดล้อม, 19, 1, 90-109
Appendix 1: Literature review methods and results from Friends because of foes: synchronous movement within predator-prey domains
Creators: name: Prokopenko, Christina
name: Ellington, E. Hance
name: Robitaille, Alec
name: Aubin, Jaclyn
name: Balluffi-Fry, Julianna
name: Laforge, Michel
name: Webber, Quinn
name: Zabihi-Seissan, Sana
name: Vander Wal, Eric
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Appendix1_LiteratureReview_18MAR20024.docx
Knowledge regarding cancer-related fatigue: a survey of physical therapists and individuals diagnosed with cancer
Creators: name: Harrington, Shana E.
name: Fisher, Mary I.
name: Lee, Jeannette Q.
name: Cohn, Joy
name: Malone, Daniel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a common side effect and remains under-diagnosed. Screening of CRF by physical therapists (PTs) and patient perspectives of their experiences has not been comprehensively examined. To survey PTs to understand the frequency of CRF screening, and to assess the knowledge and experiences of survivors as it relates to CRF. Two separate electronic surveys developed by the authors were distributed. One targeted oncology PTs, the other for adult survivors of cancer. Of the 199 PT respondents, 36% reported screening for CRF at every encounter. Screening included interviews (46%) and/or standardized questionnaires (37%). The most common barriers to receiving treatment for CRF was lack of physician referrals and time constraints. Of patient responses (n = 61), 84% reported CRF as an important ongoing issue; 77% reported that they initiated the discussion about CRF with their provider, and 23% reported being told there were treatment options for CRF. CRF is common among cancer survivors. However, consistent screening by PTs is lacking. Patients with CRF frequently initiated the conversation with their providers because of symptoms and many patients were not told of treatment options. These findings represent a substantial gap in clinical practice regarding CRF screening and management.
Appendix 2: Summary results of behavior-specific resource selection functions from Friends because of foes: synchronous movement within predator-prey domains
Creators: name: Prokopenko, Christina
name: Ellington, E. Hance
name: Robitaille, Alec
name: Aubin, Jaclyn
name: Balluffi-Fry, Julianna
name: Laforge, Michel
name: Webber, Quinn
name: Zabihi-Seissan, Sana
name: Vander Wal, Eric
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Appendix2_bRSF_18MAR2024.docx
The ability of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) to indicate motor difficulties in infants in primary care
Creators: name: Tveten, Kine Melfald
name: Strand, Liv Inger
name: Riiser, Kirsti
name: Nilsen, Roy Miodini
name: Dragesund, Tove
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Delayed achievement of motor milestones may be an early indicator of motor difficulties. Parent-reported questionnaires may serve as an efficient, low-cost screening to identify infants in need of further clinical assessment, and thus be a helpful tool in busy health care centers. To examine the ability of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire, second edition (ASQ-2) to indicate motor difficulties in infants using the Infant Motor Profile (IMP) as the reference standard. A cross-sectional design was applied to examine the correlation between parent-reported data of the ASQ-2 and data from physiotherapist assessment using IMP. Included were 432 mainly low-risk infants aged 3–12 months from primary care. Overall, ASQ-2 gross and fine motor scores did not correlate well with the IMP total or domain scores. The ASQ-2 gross motor cut point (> 2SD below the mean), showed 34.3% sensitivity and 96.7% specificity using the 15th percentile from IMP performance domain as reference standard. The positive predictive value to indicate motor difficulties was 48%. The motor domains of ASQ-2 have poor ability to identify infants with motor difficulties as indicated by their IMP scores in low-risk infants.
Applied Research in Physical and Chemical Sciences
Creators: name: Dr. Susheel Singh
name: Dr. Ashok Kumar Mishra
name: Prof. R. K. Shukla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Physical Sciences and Chemical Sciences are considered as central science. Currently the scientists in the field Physical Sciences and Chemical Sciences are doing innovative researches. This book presents the premier multidisciplinary forum of the state-of-the-art research, development, and commercial prospective of recent advances in Physical Sciences and Chemical Sciences. This book will be a useful resource for researchers as well as professionals interested in the highly interdisciplinary field of materials science and engineering. The present volume is based on the contributions made by various authors on different important topic of “Applied Research in Physical and Chemical Sciences” and introduces the subject along the following topics: Phenolic Compounds as Potential Markers for Botanical and Geographical Origin of Honey, Multifunctional Behavior of Naturally Occurring Bioactive Compounds: NLO and Pharmaceutical Perspective, Conducting Polymer: Synthesis and application, General Synthetic Aspects of Organopalladium Compounds, Study of Molecular Interactions of Tetraalkylammonium Iodide in Binary Solvent Mixture by MFD at Temperature, Theoretical Methods of Computational Chemistry, Synthesis, Spectroscopic Characterization and Biological Evaluation of 7- (substitutedphenyl)-6-(ethoxycarbonyl)-1-phenyl-2,3,4,7-tetrahydro-1H-pyrrol[3,2- b]pyridine-3-carboxylic acids, Recent Development of Organoselenium Compounds, Enlargement of Filler-Polymer Interface on the Thermal Conductivity in Polymer Composites and An overview of Nitrate contamination in Water
แนวทางการจัดการขยะมูลฝอยชุมชนอย่างครบวงจรในพื้นที่เขตพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจพิเศษสระแก้วและบริเวณใกล้เคียงโดยใช้แผนภาพแสดงการไหลของขยะมูลฝอย
Creators: name: ชิษณุพงศ์ ประทุม
Publisher: name: คณะบริหารการพัฒนาสิ่งแวดล้อม สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร์
Year: 2023
Subjects: เขตพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจพิเศษสระแก้ว
แผนภาพแสดงการไหลของขยะมูลฝอย
การจัดการขยะมูลฝอย

description: วารสารการจัดการสิ่งแวดล้อม, 19, 1, 110-127
title: Implementation of TQM in Healthcare Laboratory Services: Shifting from Compliance Towards a Systems Quality Improvement Approach
Creators: name: Owino, Benard
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores quality improvement (QI) by providing insights into real-world laboratory problems and then suggests temporal and contextual change interventions. The laboratory under study plays a significant role in public health by providing data for use at the national, regional, and global levels. This role notwithstanding, the stakeholder and regulatory authorities cast doubt on laboratory service quality, prompting QI efforts. This multi-method qualitative research combines grounded theory and ethnography and employs critical realism and social constructivism philosophical approaches. The study utilizes participatory action research (PAR) models in interactive problem identification, action planning, implementation, and evaluation. I address the specific research objectives (1) build a contextualized evidence-based integrated framework for laboratory systems quality improvement; (2) understand macro-processes for institutionalizing quality improvement and (3) explore the role of knowledge management within a research community in the realization of Total Quality Management (TQM). This research addresses the question: What exists between TQM knowledge and implementation in a real context of action? 
The study involved eleven participants identified through purposive and convenience sampling. Participants completed two cycles of extensive actions in the specific laboratory setting for 21 months. The research cycle, iterative in design, takes an inductive-subjective-contextual approach. It yields researcher mindset paradigmatic shifts, drawing on pragmatist accounts and reflexivity. I locate manifestation of institutional change in institutional entrepreneurship as laboratory practitioners leverage actions, extending value for the patients and the stakeholders, following improved work and knowledge-sharing practices. 
The findings suggest the permeability of quality frameworks to social interaction, enabling practitioners to conceptualize what works in temporal settings. As social entrepreneurs, participants decide modalities for staging, framing, and propagating change. Participant connections to intersubjective realities, innovative engagement, and collaborative inquiry provide legitimacy in the process. Finally, I reflect on my experiences in conducting an empirical qualitative study from scholarship and practice contexts.
การส่งเสริมการมีส่วนร่วมในการคัดแยกขยะของนิสิตในหอพักมหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวรจังหวัดพิษณุโลก
Creators: name: เสาวลักณ์ ลิ้มศิริวงศ์
Publisher: name: คณะบริหารการพัฒนาสิ่งแวดล้อม สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร์
Year: 2023
Subjects: การมีส่วนร่วม
การคัดแยกขยะ
การประเมินผล
การส่งเสริม
หอพักมหาวิทยาลัย

description: วารสารการจัดการสิ่งแวดล้อม, 19, 1, 128-149
Occurrence of Phlebotomus mascittii (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in the Upper Rhine Valley of Alsace, France
Creators: name: Schaffner, Francis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Because of the apparent northwards spread of canine leishmaniosis cases, we decided to investigate the occurrence of the potential vector species, namely Phlebotomine sand flies, in the Upper Rhine valley of Alsace, France. Trappings were performed in the natural regions of the Vosges foothills and the Alsatian Jura, which looked the most suitable for sand flies, considering climate and environment. Fifteen locations (25 sites) were investigated by means of light traps and/or interception sticky traps in 2009, 2011 and 2018. Phlebotomus mascittii Grassi, 1908 was the only sand fly species identified, and it was detected at three locations of the Vosges foothills, in both 2011 and 2018. This study confirms the occurrence of P. mascittii in the Upper Rhine valley of Alsace, around 70 years after the first and single historical report. Our data do not suggest the recent northwards spread of the species. The observed low density of Phlebotominae suggests that the risk for Leishmania transmission in Alsace, if introduced, is very low.
Quantum algorithms for the simulation of perturbative QCD processes
Creators: name: Chawdhry, Herschel A.
name: Pellen, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computers are expected to give major speed-ups for the simulation of quantum systems. In these conference proceedings, we discuss quantum algorithms for the simulation of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) processes. In particular, we describe quantum circuits for simulating the colour part of the interactions of quarks and gluons. We implement our circuits on a simulated noiseless quantum computer and validate them by calculating colour factors for various examples of Feynman diagrams.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to the proceedings of RADCOR 2023