cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scientific study of Vedic Knowledge Agnihotra
Creators: name: Abhang, Pranay
name: Girish Pathade
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 100199 Agricultural Biotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 100299 Environmental Biotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental biotechnology

description: Objective: To study effect of Agnihotra fumes on: 1. Expt No: 1: Microbial count in the surrounding air 2. Expt No: 2: plant growth 3. Expt No: 3: NO2 level 4. Expt No: 4: SO2 level To study effect of Agnihotra ash on: 1. Expt No: 5: Skin disease of animal and humans. 2. Expt No: 6: Seed germination 3. Expt No: 7: Genotoxic chemicals (colchicine and methyl parathion) 4. Expt No: 8-11: Bacterial pathogenecity. 5. Expt No: 12: Water purification using Agnihotra ash Study of different components in Agnihotra: 1. Expt No: 13: Time- sunrise time, sunset time and any time (between sunrise and sunset) 2. Expt No: 14: Mantra- with mantra (sunrise and sunset) and without mantra 3. Expt No: 15: Rice- brown rice (unpolished) and white rice (polished) 4. Expt No: 16: Ghee- cow ghee and buffalo ghee 5. Expt No: 17: Pot- copper pot and steel pot of same size and shape
Study the effects of Yadnya fumes on SOx and NOx levels in the surrounding environment
Creators: name: Abhang, Pranay
name: Girish Pathade
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Environmental Science
Biotechnology

description: Yadnya is a ritual of offerings accompanied by chanting of Vedic mantras derived from the practice in Vedic times. Due to Yadnya fumes and overall process it affects environmental elements, hence its effects on oxides of sulphur and nitrogen were studied as they are the major air pollutants. Effects of Agnihotra Yadnya, Shrisukta Yadnya and somyag Yadnya were studied by collecting surrounding air using handy sampler. SOx and NOx levels before Yadnya, during Yadnya and after Yadnya were calculated and compared from collected air. As per our results, SOx levels decreases up to 10 times (almost reduces to 90%) that of initial levels due to all three Yadnyas. NOx levels increases 10 -20 % that of initial levels, but at the end of all Yadnyas NOx level reduces that to initial. Hence by performing Yadnya SOx and NOx pollution can be controlled.
EVALUATION OF MEDIA COMPONENTS AND REPLACE THEM WITH SEA WATER FOR SCYTONEMIN PRODUCTION BY USING NOSTOCALES
Creators: name: Abhang, Pranay
name: Girish Pathade
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 100303 Fermentation
subject: FOS: Industrial biotechnology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 60701 Phycology (incl. Marine Grasses)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Scytonemin is a naturally occurring UV screening pigment, found in extracellular sheaths of most of the Nostocales. Accumulation of scytonemin in extracellular sheath is regulated by many of the nutrients and physiochemical parameters. The purpose of this study was to evaluate BG 11 media component by using Plackett-Burman statistical design and study their effective concentrations on the production of scytonemin, by using four isolated Nostocales Scytonema sp., Plectonema sp., Spirulina sp., and Lyngbya sp. All four fresh water cyanobacteria were adopted for 3% salinity and BG 11 media is then replaced with sea water, by adjusting evaluated components and providing optimum physiochemical conditions for scytonemin production. As per our results, NaNO3 (nitrate), K2HPO4 (phosphate + potassium), CaCl2 (calcium) and MgSO4 (Magnesium) has significant effect on scytonemin production. NaNO3 concentration varies from 0% to 0.015%. MgSO4 at 10 times more concentration increases scytonemin yield by 2 folds. CaCl2 presence decreases scytonemin yield, optimized concentration was 10 time less as that of original concentration. Optimized concentrations for pH, salinity and temperature were 7- 8, 2% and 28 – 30 0C, respectively. Scytonemin produced by using sea water culture was about 2.5% of dry weight of all 4 cyanobacteria.
Treatment of sports muscle injury with Traumeel. Clinical case report
Creators: name: SANCHEZ CORTES, CLAUDIA ANDREA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320225
subject: Sports medicine
classificationCode: 420899
subject: Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420799
subject: Sports science and exercise not elsewhere classified

description: In sports practice, muscle involvement represents between 10 to 55% of injuries, with mechanical trauma being the main cause. The majority (about 90%) of muscle injuries are bruises and tears. This clinical case report is of a 60-year-old male patient who consulted for a muscle injury in the right lower limb, caused during kitesurfing. When getting off the surfboard, there is a sudden abduction movement of the lower limbs. The patient reports pain, functional limitation and has bruising in the right lower limb. Soft tissue ultrasound revealed a grade I tear of the biceps femoris muscle and a grade II tear of the adductor longus muscle, with edema of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Treatment with Traumeel is initiated orally, parenterally in biopuncture technique and in topical application. On day 23 after the injury, the patient manifests absence of pain and functional limitation, with resolution of hematomas and muscle tears, evidenced by ultrasound reported within normal limits. On day 30 after the injury, the patient resumes his sporting activity, that is, in a much shorter time than it usually takes to recover from grade II tears (2 to 3 months). In this case, appropriate diagnosis and management optimized recovery and minimized the time to return to sports practice.
Peristenus pallipes
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Peristenus
Peristenus pallipes

description: Peristenus pallipes (Curtis, 1833)   Material examined: Province ofGolestan: Gorgan, 36°50′N 54°30′E, 110 m, (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀), July 2011.
  Distribution outside Iran: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA (Yu et al. 2012).
  Host records: A large number of hosts were reported: Adelphocoris lineolatus Goeze, 1778 (Yu et al. 2012), A. rapidus (Say, 1832), Capsus ater (Linnaeus, 1758), Closterotomus norvegicus (Gmelin, 1790), Labops hirtus Knight, 1922, Leptoptema dolabrata (Linnaeus, 1758), Lygus spp., Notostira erratica (Linnaeus, 1758), Plagiognathus medicagus Arrand, 1958, Trigonotylus coelestialium (Kirkaldy, 1902) (Hemiptera: Miridae). Others belonging to the order Coleoptera (Chrysomelidae): Timarcha tenebricosa (Fabricius, 1775) (Yu et al. 2012). It was also reported as a parasitoid of Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois, 1818) (Hemiptera: Miridae) (Bilewicz-Pawinska, 1977, 1982). In Canada, this species was reported as parasitoid of a number of plant bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae): Adelphocoris lineolatus Goeze, 1778, A. rapidus (Say, 1832), Leptopterna dolobrata (Linnaeus, 1758), Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois, 1818), Capsus ater Linnaeus, 1758 (Loan 1980).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, 2015, A faunistic study on the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae) from Iran., pp. 149-156 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 151, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715663
Meteorus cinctellus
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Meteorus
Meteorus cinctellus

description: Meteorus cinctellus (Spinola, 1808)
 Material examined: Province of Qazvin: Takestan, 36°00′N 49°33′E, 1228 m, (1 ♀ ), April 2013 .
  Distribution outside Iran: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012).
  Host records: Meteorus cinctellus is recorded as the parasitoid on the leaf roller moth Gypsonoma neglectana (Duponchel, 1843) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) (Yu et al. 2012; Stigenberg & Hansen 2013). It was also reared from Crambus uliginosellus Zeller, 1850, Eudonia angustea (Curtis, 1827), Nomophila noctuella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), Pyrausta purpuralis (Linnaeus, 1758), Scoparia ambigualis (Treitschke, 1829), Eudonia truncicolella (Stainton, 1849) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) (Stigenberg & Shaw 2013).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, 2015, A faunistic study on the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae) from Iran., pp. 149-156 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on pages 151-152, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715663
Microctonus aethiops Nees von Esenbeck 1834
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus aethiops

description: Microctonus aethiops Nees von Esenbeck, 1834
 Material examined: Province of Semnan: Shahrud, Jangal-e Abr, 35°30′N 55°30′E, 1311 m, (1 ♀ ), September 2011 .
  Distribution outside Iran: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, UK, Uruguay, USA, Uzbekistan (Yu et al. 2012).
  Host records: Phyllotreta nemorum (Linnaeus, 1758), P. vittula (Redtenbacher, 1849) (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea), Hypera brunneipennis (Boheman, 1834), H. melas (Fabricius, 1792), H. nigrirostris (Fabricius, 1775), H. postica (Gyllenhal, 1813), H. rumicis (Linnaeus, 1758), H. variabilis (Herbst, 1795), Irenimus aemulator Broun, 1893, I. aequalis Broun, 1895, I. duplex ( Broun, 1904), I. egens ( Broun, 1904), I. stolidus Broun, 1886, Listronus bonariensis Kuschel, 1955, Nicaeana cervinus Boheman, 1840, Prosayleus sp., Rhinocyllus conicus Frolich, 1792, Sitona bicolor ( Fahraeus, 1840), S. crinita (Herbst, 1795), S. cylindricollis (Fahraeus, 1840) (Yu et al. 2012), and Coniocleonus excoriatus (Gyllenhal, 1834) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (Papp 2011 -2012). Tobias (1971) reported the following species as hosts to this species: Sitona sp., Phytonomus meles (Fabricius, 1792), and Brachyderes incanus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, 2015, A faunistic study on the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae) from Iran., pp. 149-156 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 153, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715663
A Secondary Analysis of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Khalil, Aya
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: Indigenous
COVID-19
mutual aid
public health

description: Mutual aid, deeply rooted in human history, has consistently emerged as a powerful mechanism of support, particularly during times of crisis. In Canada, Indigenous communities have leveraged mutual aid practices to foster resilience and collective wellbeing throughout challenges such as COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed and exacerbated the disproportionate burden of infection and mortality faced by Indigenous peoples. This study explores the experiences of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation who recorded no confirmed COVID-19 cases for the first 20 months of the pandemic, despite their vulnerabilities. Through a secondary analysis of qualitative data from sharing circles and interviews, this research explored the strategies used by members of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan to safeguard their wellness throughout COVID-19. The findings provided valuable insights into health responses within Indigenous communities, emphasizing the importance of incorporating Indigenous knowledge and values into public health practices.
Microctonus stelleri
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus stelleri

description: Microctonus stelleri (Loan, 1972)   Material examined: Province ofMazandaran: Babol, 36°30′N 52°35′E, 25 m, (1 ♂, 1 ♀), June 2012.
  Distribution outside Iran: Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Lithuania, Mongolia, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (Yu et al. 2012).
  Host records: Hypera nigrirostris (Fabricius, 1775), H. postica (Gyllenhal, 1813), and H. variabilis (Herbst, 1795) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, 2015, A faunistic study on the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae) from Iran., pp. 149-156 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 153, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715663
Isolation of Nostocales and Study the Effects of Scytonemin on Growth Profile and Melanogenesis by Using Melanoma Cell Line
Creators: name: Abhang, Pranay
name: Girish Pathade
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 60802 Animal Cell and Molecular Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60701 Phycology (incl. Marine Grasses)

description: The purpose of this study was to screen scytonemin, a UV screening pigment, in isolated Nostocales, Scytonema sp., Plectonema sp., Spirulina sp., and Lyngby sp. Scytonemin was isolated by silica gel column chromatography and its effects were tested in vitro for growth profile and melanogenesis on B16F10 mouse melanoma cell line. In order to study effect of these scytonemin on growth profile- cell viability count, MTT and DCPIP cytotoxicity assay, Comet genotoxicity assay and microscopic observations were considered. To study tyrosinase enzyme activity- diphenolase assay and native SDS PAGE methods were used.  Scytonemin isolated from Scytonema sp. and Lyngby sp. shows decrease in melanogenesis, which inhibit tyrosinase activity, having 30.25 µM, 100.25 µM IC 50 values respectively. While that of scytonemin isolated from Plectonema sp. and Spirulina sp. was not showing effect on melanogenesis as tyrosinase activity not altered, having 45.5 µM, 60.5 µM IC 50 values respectively.
The 5.25 & 5.7 $μ$m Astronomical Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission Features
Creators: name: Boersma, C.
name: Mattioda, A. L.
name: Bauschlicher, C. W.
name: Peeters, E.
name: Tielens, A. G. G. M.
name: Allamandola, L. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Astronomical mid-IR spectra show two minor PAH features at 5.25 and 5.7 $μ$m (1905 and 1754 cm$^{\rm - 1}$) that hitherto have been little studied, but contain information about the astronomical PAH population that complements that of the major emission bands. Here we report a study involving both laboratory and theoretical analysis of the fundamentals of PAH spectroscopy that produce features in this region and use these to analyze the astronomical spectra. The ISO SWS spectra of fifteen objects showing these PAH features were considered for this study, of which four have sufficient S/N between 5 and 6 $μ$m to allow for an in-depth analysis. All four astronomical spectra show similar peak positions and profiles. The 5.25 $μ$m feature is peaked and asymmetric, while the 5.7 $μ$m feature is broader and flatter. Detailed analysis of the laboratory spectra and quantum chemical calculations show that the astronomical 5.25 and 5.7 $μ$m bands are a blend of combination, difference and overtone bands primarily involving CH stretching and CH in-plane and CH out-of-plane bending fundamental vibrations. The experimental and computational spectra show that, of all the hydrogen adjacency classes possible on PAHs, solo and duo hydrogens consistently produce prominent bands at the observed positions whereas quartet hydrogens do not. In all, this a study supports the picture that astronomical PAHs are large with compact, regular structures. From the coupling with primarily strong CH out-of-plane bending modes one might surmise that the 5.25 and 5.7 $μ$m bands track the neutral PAH population. However, theory suggests the role of charge in these astronomical bands might also be important.
description: Accepted ApJ, 40 pages in pre-print, 14 figures, two online
Townesilitus bicolor
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Townesilitus
Townesilitus bicolor

description: Townesilitus bicolor (Wesmael, 1835)
 Material examined: Province of Golestan: MinudAsht, 37°10′N 55°30′E, 31 m, (2 ♀♀ ), October 2012. Distribution outside Iran: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK (Yu et al. 2012)  .
  Host records: Aphthona euphorbiae (Schrank, 1781), A. violacea (Koch, 1803), Chaetocnema aridula (Gyllenhal, 1827), C. hortensis (Fourcroy, 1785), Longitarsus ballotae (Marsham, 1802), Phratora vitellinae (Linnaeus, 1758), Phyllotreta armoraciae (Koch, 1803), P. atra (Fabricius, 1775), P. cruciferae (Goeze, 1777), P. diademata Foudras, 1860, P. nemorum (Linnaeus, 1758), P. striolata (Fabricius, 1803), P. undulata (Kutschera, 1860), P. vittula (Redtenbacher, 1849), Psylliodes attenuata (Koch, 1803) (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea), Dendrolimus pini (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) (Yu et al. 2012). In Israel, it was reported from Coniocleonus excoriatus (Gyllenhal) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (Papp 2011 -2012).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, 2015, A faunistic study on the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae) from Iran., pp. 149-156 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 154, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715663
BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF AGNIHOTRA ON ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Abhang, Pranay
name: Manasi Patil
name: Moghe, Pramod
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 100101 Agricultural Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl. Biosensors)
subject: FOS: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: 100204 Environmental Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl. Biosensors)
subject: FOS: Environmental biotechnology

description: Agnihotra is a type of sacrifice, which consists of making four offerings per day, two at sunrise and two at sunset of brown rice mixed with cow ghee to the fire, accompanied by chanting of mantras. Though Agnihotra is a Vedic ritual, it has scientific background and therefore we studied the effects of Agnihotra and its ash on the environment and plant growth. Experiments were performed to study the effects of Agnihotra fumes on microbial load, SOx and NOx levels in ambient air and plant growth. Experiments were also conducted to check the effects of Agnihotra ash on seed germination, plant growth, plant genotoxicity and water purification. From the study it was observed that Agnihotra resulted in reduction in microbial load and SOx levels but slight increase in NOx levels in surrounding air. There was significant increase in seed germination and plant growth as well as genotoxicity was neutralized due to Agnihotra ash. Our results suggest that Agnihotra ash can be used to purify waste water. It can be seen that Agnihotra is beneficial for environment and agriculture.
piabenaud/SoilErosionMap: SoilErosionMap
Creators: name: Benaud, Pia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The publication 'National-scale geodata describe widespread accelerated soil erosion' Benaud et al. (2020) that runs alongside this code and shiny app is now published at https://piabenaud.shinyapps.io/SoilErosionMap/ and available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706119323407
piabenaud/SoilErosionMap: First release of SoilErosionMap
Creators: name: Benaud, Pia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Soil Erosion
Geodatabase
R Shiny
R Leaflet

description: Pre-release pending publication of associated peer-reviewed article. The code and geodatabase used to build SoilErosionMap alongside Benaud et al (In review) National-scale geodata describe widespread accelerated soil erosion. Geoderma.
Lines in supersingular quartics
Creators: name: Degtyarev, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J28, 14J27, 14N25

description: We show that the number of lines contained in a supersingular quartic surface is 40 or at most 32, if the characteristic of the field equals 2, and it is 112, 58, or at most 52, if the characteristic equals 3. If the quartic is not supersingular, the number of lines is at most 60 in both cases. We also give a complete classification of large configurations of lines.
description: Final version accepted for publication. Theorem 1.1 had to be stated in a weaker version
Mechanical behaviour and microstructure of short-fibre-reinforced polybutylene terephthalate
Creators: name: Abdo, Dani
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91399 Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Short-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics are widely used in industry. They are light-weight, have excellent mechanical properties and can be processed via injection moulding. This allows the mass production of high-quality components with excellent geometric accuracy. Their superior isolation properties make them a good choice for electrical housings in the automotive sector. Due to the importance and precise nature of applications, in which such products are employed, a deep understanding of their deformation and fractures under specific conditions is essential. A typical example of such thermoplastics is polybutylene terephthalate (PBT).In this thesis, an evaluation of mechanical and morphological properties of short-glass-fibre-reinforced (SGFR) PBT and SGFR PBT TPEE (thermoplastic polyester elastomer: an impact-enhancing additive) is performed, emphasising the effect of TPEE on strain-rate-dependent behaviour and plastic deformation together with assessment of energy-dissipation levels. Experimental studies including uniaxial tensile testing performed at different strain rates revealed degradation in the overall tensile properties and a reduced strain-at-break value as result of TPEE addition to PBT. Furthermore, cyclic tests and incremental loading tests showed that the plastic strain at different loading rates increased with introduction of TPEE in the composite. Dynamic mechanical analysis of the studied materials revealed an increase in viscosity, loss-modulus values and damping capability (tan δ) of the TPEE composite over a specified frequency range, while a damage analysis on basis of degradation of the Young’s modulus demonstrated increased damage initiation and accumulation for this composite.A study of fracture-surface morphology of tensile-tested samples uncovered the effect of microstructure on variations in mechanical properties, observed in the experimentation part of the study. The analysis demonstrated a significant effect of microstructure on mechanical performance of the PBT composites. The increased plastic strain was proved to be a result of higher plasticity observed in the fractographs. Larger ductile-area fractions were measured on PBT-GF10 TPEE fracture surfaces at all strain rates, in addition to increased void nucleation and relatively insufficient fibre-matrix interfacial adhesion in the TPEE composite. This was evident by the stretched gaps around pull-out glass fibres. The increased energy dissipation was linked to higher deformation and plasticity of the fracture surface. Moreover, an increased viscoplastic material flow was observed in the TPEE composite, demonstrated by formation of conic structures around glass fibres, which, in turn, enhanced the damping properties of this composite.
The Pointillist principle for variation operators and jump functions
Creators: name: Hughes, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B25

description: We extend the pointillist principles of Moon and Carrillo--de Guzmán to variational operators and jump functions.
description: 11 pages. Accepted to Revista de la Uni\'on Matem\'atica Argentina. In this version, small changes were made to the introduction and bibliography while a mistake was corrected in the proofs
Давид Хаят.Антираковая диета. Продукты, которые мы должны есть, чтобы защититься от опасного недуга.2015.pdf
Creators: name: Doe, Jonn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 30502 Natural Products Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Давид Хаят.Антираковая диета. Продукты, которые мы должны есть, чтобы защититься от опасного недуга.2015
A factorisation theory for generalised power series and omnific integers
Creators: name: L'Innocente, Sonia
name: Mantova, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F25, 13F15 (primary), 13A05, 03E10 (secondary)

description: We prove that in every ring of generalised power series with non-positive real exponents and coefficients in a field of characteristic zero, every series admits a factorisation into finitely many irreducibles of infinite support, the number of which can be bounded in terms of the order type of the series, and a unique product, up to multiplication by a unit, of factors of finite support.
 We deduce analogous results for the ring of omnific integers within Conway's surreal numbers, using a suitable notion of infinite product. In turn, we solve Gonshor's conjecture that the omnific integer $ω^{\sqrt{2}} + ω+ 1$ is prime.
 We also exhibit new classes of irreducible and prime generalised power series and omnific integers, generalising previous work of Berarducci and Pitteloud.
description: 64 pages; clarify bound in Theorem A; typographical corrections
Rigid Surface Operator and Symbol Invariant of Partitions
Creators: name: Li, Chuanzhong
name: Shou, Bao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The symbol is used to describe the Springer correspondence for the classical groups by Lusztig. We refine the explanation that the $S$-duality maps of the rigid surface operators are symbol preserving maps. And we find that the maps $X_S$ and $Y_S$ used in the construction of $S$-duality maps are essentially the same. We clear up cause of the mismatch problem of the total number of the rigid surface operators between the $B_n$ and $C_n$ theories. And we construct all the $B_n/C_n$ rigid surface operators which can not have a dual. A classification of the problematic surface operators is made.
description: 27 pages, 30 figures and 6 tables, typo corrected, english improved. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1708.07388
Combinatorial modifications of Reeb graphs and the realization problem
Creators: name: Michalak, Łukasz Patryk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C76, 57M15, 05C38

description: We prove that, up to homeomorphism, any graph subject to natural necessary conditions on orientation and the cycle rank can be realized as the Reeb graph of a Morse function on a given closed manifold $M$. Along the way, we show that the Reeb number $\mathcal{R}(M)$, i.e. the maximum cycle rank among all Reeb graphs of functions on $M$, is equal to the corank of fundamental group $π_1(M)$, thus extending a previous result of Gelbukh to the non-orientable case.
description: 18 pages; The final publication is available at link.springer.com: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-020-00260-6
The distribution of Weierstrass points on a tropical curve
Creators: name: Richman, David Harry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14T15 (Primary), 05C22, 14H55, 57M12, 60B10, 94C05 (Secondary)

description: We show that on a metric graph of genus $g$, a divisor of degree $n$ generically has $g(n-g+1)$ Weierstrass points. For a sequence of generic divisors on a metric graph whose degrees grow to infinity, we show that the associated Weierstrass points become distributed according to the Zhang canonical measure. In other words, the limiting distribution is determined by effective resistances on the metric graph. This distribution result has an analogue for complex algebraic curves, due to Neeman, and for curves over non-Archimedean fields, due to Amini.
description: 39 pages, 12 figures, comments welcome! v3: final version, to appear in Selecta Math
Deep Attentive Features for Prostate Segmentation in 3D Transrectal Ultrasound
Creators: name: Wang, Yi
name: Dou, Haoran
name: Hu, Xiaowei
name: Zhu, Lei
name: Yang, Xin
name: Xu, Ming
name: Qin, Jing
name: Heng, Pheng-Ann
name: Wang, Tianfu
name: Ni, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic prostate segmentation in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images is of essential importance for image-guided prostate interventions and treatment planning. However, developing such automatic solutions remains very challenging due to the missing/ambiguous boundary and inhomogeneous intensity distribution of the prostate in TRUS, as well as the large variability in prostate shapes. This paper develops a novel 3D deep neural network equipped with attention modules for better prostate segmentation in TRUS by fully exploiting the complementary information encoded in different layers of the convolutional neural network (CNN). Our attention module utilizes the attention mechanism to selectively leverage the multilevel features integrated from different layers to refine the features at each individual layer, suppressing the non-prostate noise at shallow layers of the CNN and increasing more prostate details into features at deep layers. Experimental results on challenging 3D TRUS volumes show that our method attains satisfactory segmentation performance. The proposed attention mechanism is a general strategy to aggregate multi-level deep features and has the potential to be used for other medical image segmentation tasks. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/wulalago/DAF3D.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables. Accepted by IEEE transactions on Medical Imaging
Marketing Leadership Strategy and Firm Profitability of Cosmetic Businesses in Thailand
Creators: name: Sasichai Pimpan
Publisher: name: Thonburi University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Marketing Leadership Strategy
Marketing Innovation Creativity
Marketing Response Excellence
Marketing Advantage Sustainability
Firm Profitability

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Thonburi University, 16, 2, 1-12
Necessary conditions for local controllability of a particular class of systems with two scalar controls
Creators: name: Giraldi, Laetitia
name: Lissy, Pierre
name: Moreau, Clément
name: Pomet, Jean-Baptiste
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider affine control systems with two scalar controls, such that one control vector field vanishes at an equilibrium state. We state two necessary conditions of local controllability around this equilibrium, involving the iterated Lie brackets of the system vector fields, with controls that are either bounded, small in L $\infty$ or small in W 1,$\infty$. These results are illustrated with several examples.
Tensor decompositions on simplicial complexes with invariance
Creators: name: Cuevas, Gemma De las
name: Riera, Matt Hoogsteder
name: Netzer, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a framework to analyse invariant decompositions of elements of tensor product spaces. Namely, we define an invariant decomposition with indices arranged on a simplicial complex, and which is explicitly invariant under a group action. We prove that this decomposition exists for all invariant tensors after possibly enriching the simplicial complex. As a special case we recover tensor networks with translational invariance and the symmetric tensor decomposition. We also define an invariant separable decomposition and purification form, and prove similar existence results. Associated to every decomposition there is a rank, and we prove several inequalities between them. For example, we show by how much the rank increases when imposing invariance in the decomposition, and that the tensor rank is the largest of all ranks. Finally, we apply our framework to nonnegative tensors, where we define a nonnegative and a positive semidefinite decomposition on arbitrary simplicial complexes with group action. We show a correspondence to the previous ranks, and as a very special case recover the nonnegative, the positive semidefinite, the completely positive and the completely positive semidefinite transposed decomposition.
description: 33 pages, exposition improved in version 2
Identifying high-risk subgroups for self-harm in adolescents and young adults: A longitudinal latent class analysis of risk factors
Creators: name: Mcevoy, David
name: Brannigan, Ross
name: WALSH, CATHAL
name: Arensman, Ella
name: Clarke, Mary
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Self-harm is a major public health concern in young people and is governed by a complex interaction of different risk factors. While many studies have identified these risk factors, less is known about how they tend to co-occur together. Methods: A latent class analysis was conducted using risk factors for self-harm from two waves at ages 13 and 17 from the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study their associations with self-harm were examined longitudinally at ages 17 and 20, respectively. Results: At age 13, there was a ‘peer problems’ group with higher probabilities of bullying, being unpopular and internalising problems and a ‘school and substance use problems’ group with higher probabilities of substance use, truancy or excessive absence from school and violence. Both of these two groups had over a two-fold risk of self-harm at age 17 in comparison to the low risk factor group. At age 17, there was a group with depression that was diagnosed by a medical professional with the highest relative risk (RR:13.9 (95 % CI 10.2–19.0)) of self-harm at age 20. Two other groups with undiagnosed depression had high probabilities of being bullied, and either high or low probabilities of substance use that had a 9.4 (95 % CI 6.8–13.1) and 7.4 (95 % CI 5.5–10.0) relative risk of self-harm at age 20, respectively. Conclusions: Identifying hidden sub-groups using risk factors for self-harm in young people can inform potential public health interventions by clinicians and other professionals who work with young people.
Robust statistical modeling of monthly rainfall: The minimum density power divergence approach
Creators: name: Hazra, Arnab
name: Ghosh, Abhik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62P12

description: Statistical modeling of monthly, seasonal, or annual rainfall data is an important research area in meteorology. These models play a crucial role in rainfed agriculture, where a proper assessment of the future availability of rainwater is necessary. The rainfall amount during a rainy month or a whole rainy season} can take any positive value and some simple (one or two-parameter) probability models supported over the positive real line that are generally used for rainfall modeling are exponential, gamma, Weibull, lognormal, Pearson Type-V/VI, log-logistic, etc., where the unknown model parameters are routinely estimated using the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE). However, the presence of outliers or extreme observations is a common issue in rainfall data and the MLEs being highly sensitive to them often leads to spurious inference. Here, we discuss a robust parameter estimation approach based on the minimum density power divergence estimator (MDPDE). We fit the above four parametric models to the detrended areally-weighted monthly rainfall data from the 36 meteorological subdivisions of India for the years 1951-2014 and compare the fits based on MLE and the proposed optimum MDPDE; the superior performance of MDPDE is showcased for several cases. For all month-subdivision combinations, we discuss the best-fit models and median rainfall amounts.
description: 32 pages, 6 Tables, 7 Figures
Continuous K-Theory and Cohomology of Rigid Spaces
Creators: name: Dahlhausen, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish a connection between continuous K-theory and integral cohomology of rigid spaces. Given a rigid analytic space over a complete discretely valued field, its continuous K-groups vanish in degrees below the negative of the dimension. Likewise, the cohomology groups vanish in degrees above the dimension. The main result provides the existence of an isomorphism between the lowest possibly non-vanishing continuous K-group and the highest possibly non-vanishing cohomology group with integral coefficients. A key role in the proof is played by a comparison between cohomology groups of an admissible Zariski-Riemann space with respect to different topologies; namely, the rh-topology which is related to K-theory as well as the Zariski topology whereon the cohomology groups in question rely.
description: v3: last submitted and final version
All aboard! Challenges and successes in professional development for physics lab TAs
Creators: name: Doucette, Danny
name: Clark, Russell
name: Singh, Chandralekha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At large research universities in the USA, introductory physics labs are often run by graduate student teaching assistants (TAs). Thus, efforts to reform introductory labs should address the need for effective and relevant TA professional development. We developed and implemented a research-based professional development program that focuses on preparing TAs to effectively support inquiry-based learning in the lab. We identify positive effects by examining three possible ways in which the professional development might have impacted TAs and their work. First, we examine lab TAs' written reflections to understand the effect of the program on TAs' ways of thinking about student learning. Second, we observe and categorize TA-student interactions in the lab in order to investigate whether TA behaviors are changing after the professional development. Third, we examine students' attitudes toward experimental science and present one example case in which students' attitudes improve for those TAs who `buy in' to the professional development. Our results suggest lab TA professional development may have a tangible positive impact on TA performance and student learning.
description: 2019 PERC Proceedings
Exceptional points of discrete-time random walks in planar domains
Creators: name: Abe, Yoshihiro
name: Biskup, Marek
name: Lee, Sangchul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a sequence of lattice approximations $D_N\subset\mathbb Z^2$ of a bounded continuum domain $D\subset\mathbb R^2$ with the vertices outside $D_N$ fused together into one boundary vertex $\varrho$, we consider discrete-time simple random walks in $D_N\cup\{\varrho\}$ run for a time proportional to the expected cover time and describe the scaling limit of the exceptional level sets of the thick, thin, light and avoided points. We show that these are distributed, up a spatially-dependent log-normal factor, as the zero-average Liouville Quantum Gravity measures in $D$. The limit law of the local time configuration at, and nearby, the exceptional points is determined as well. The results extend earlier work by the first two authors who analyzed the continuous-time problem in the parametrization by the local time at $\varrho$. A novel uniqueness result concerning divisible random measures and, in particular, Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos, is derived as part of the proofs.
description: 56 pages, 2 figures, continuation of arXiv:1903.04045
On irreversible spread of influence in edge-weighted graphs
Creators: name: Zaker, Manouchehr
Publisher: name: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics
Year: 2020

description: Various kinds of spread of influence occur in real world social and virtual networks. These phenomena are formulated by activation processes and irreversible dynamic monopolies in combinatorial graphs representing the topology of the networks. In most cases, the nature of influence is weighted and the spread of influence depends on the weight of edges. The ordinary formulation and results for dynamic monopolies do not work for such models. In this paper we present a graph theoretical analysis for spread of weighted influence and mention a real world example realizing the activation model with weighted influence. Then we obtain some extremal bounds and algorithmic results for activation process and dynamic monopolies in directed and undirected graphs with weighted edges.
description: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2020)
On irreversible spread of influence in edge-weighted graphs
Creators: name: Zaker, Manouchehr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C69, 05C22, 05C20, 05C85, 91D30

description: Various kinds of spread of influence occur in real world social and virtual networks. These phenomena are formulated by activation processes and irreversible dynamic monopolies in combinatorial graphs representing the topology of the networks. In most cases the nature of influence is weighted and the spread of influence depends on the weight of edges. The ordinary formulation and results for dynamic monopolies do not work for such models. In this paper we present a graph theoretical analysis for spread of weighted influence and mention a real world example realizing the activation model with weighted influence. Then we obtain some extremal bounds and algorithmic results for activation process and dynamic monopolies in directed and undirected graphs with weighted edges.
Integrable systems associated to the filtrations of Lie algebras
Creators: name: Jovanovic, Bozidar
name: Sukilovic, Tijana
name: Vukmirovic, Srdjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J35, 17B63, 17B80, 53D20

description: In 1983 Bogoyavlenski conjectured that if the Euler equations on a Lie algebra $\mathfrak g_0$ are integrable, then their certain extensions to semisimple lie algebras $\mathfrak g$ related to the filtrations of Lie algebras $\mathfrak g_0\subset \mathfrak g_1\subset \mathfrak g_2\dots\subset\mathfrak g_{n-1}\subset \mathfrak g_n=\mathfrak g$ are integrable as well. In particular, by taking $\mathfrak g_0=\{0\}$ and natural filtrations of $\mathfrak{so}(n)$ and $\mathfrak{u}(n)$, we have Gel'fand-Cetlin integrable systems. We proved the conjecture for filtrations of compact Lie algebras $\mathfrak g$: the system are integrable in a noncommutative sense by means of polynomial integrals. Various constructions of complete commutative polynomial integrals for the system are also given.
description: 17 pages, final version. The classification of multiplicity free subgroups of compact Lie groups from the first arXiv version of the paper is published in "Almost multiplicity free subgroups of compact Lie groups and polynomial integrability of sub-Riemannian geodesic flows", Letters in Mathematical Physics, 114 (2024) 14, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-023-01757-w
Confidence and discoveries with e-values
Creators: name: Vovk, Vladimir
name: Wang, Ruodu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F03, 62F25, 62G10, 62G15 (Primary) 62A01 (Secondary)

description: We discuss systematically two versions of confidence regions: those based on p-values and those based on e-values, a recent alternative to p-values. Both versions can be applied to multiple hypothesis testing, and in this paper we are interested in procedures that control the number of false discoveries under arbitrary dependence between the base p- or e-values. We introduce a procedure that is based on e-values and show that it is efficient both computationally and statistically using simulated and real-world datasets. Comparison with the corresponding standard procedure based on p-values is not straightforward, but there are indications that the new one performs significantly better in some situations.
description: 50 pages, 13 figures, and 5 tables
Relations between Reeb graphs, systems of hypersurfaces and epimorphisms onto free groups
Creators: name: Marzantowicz, Wacław
name: Michalak, Łukasz Patryk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65 (Primary), 57M15, 57R90 (Secondary)

description: We construct a correspondence between epimorphisms $φ\colon π_1(M) \to F_r$ from the fundamental group of a compact manifold $M$ onto the free group of rank $r$, and systems of $r$ framed non-separating hypersurfaces in $M$, which induces a bijection onto framed cobordism classes of such systems. In consequence, for closed manifolds any such $φ$ can be represented by the Reeb epimorphism of a Morse function $f\colon M \to \mathbb{R}$, i.e. by the epimorphism induced by the quotient map $M \to \mathcal{R}(f)$ onto the Reeb graph of $f$. Applying this construction we discuss the problem of classification up to (strong) equivalence of epimorphisms onto free groups, providing a new purely geometrical-topological proof of the solution of this problem for surface groups.
description: Published in Fundamenta Mathematicae (online first)