cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spin Relaxation in Ge/Si Core-Shell Nanowire Qubits
Creators: name: Hu, Yongjie
name: Kuemmeth, Ferdinand
name: Lieber, Charles M.
name: Marcus, Charles M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling decoherence is the most challenging task in realizing quantum information hardware. Single electron spins in gallium arsenide are a leading candidate among solid- state implementations, however strong coupling to nuclear spins in the substrate hinders this approach. To realize spin qubits in a nuclear-spin-free system, intensive studies based on group-IV semiconductor are being pursued. In this case, the challenge is primarily control of materials and interfaces, and device nanofabrication. We report important steps toward implementing spin qubits in a predominantly nuclear-spin-free system by demonstrating state preparation, pulsed gate control, and charge-sensing spin readout of confined hole spins in a one-dimensional Ge/Si nanowire. With fast gating, we measure T1 spin relaxation times in coupled quantum dots approaching 1 ms, increasing with lower magnetic field, consistent with a spin-orbit mechanism that is usually masked by hyperfine contributions.
Larval description of Gyrelmis (Coleoptera: Elmidae)
Creators: name: González-Córdoba, Marcela
name: Martínez-Román, Nicolás
name: Shepard, William
name: Manzo, Verónica
name: Zúñiga, María del Carmen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Elmidae is a diverse family of aquatic Coleoptera with nearly 1500 species and 150 genera in the world. However, most of the species and genera lack larval associations. One of these genera is Gyrelmis, which has 12 species reported from Brazil, Colombia and French Guiana. The larva of Gyrelmis is described and illustrated in this work from specimens collected in Colombia and French Guiana. The larva of Gyrelmis is similar to that of Xenelmis in its humpback, conical body which tapers apically, and the integumentary surface being smooth, not tuberculate. It can be distinguished from other genera, especially Xenelmis, because it has pleurites on only one abdominal segment, a prosternum with two anterolateral and one central and one posteromedial sclerites, meso and metasternum with one anterior and two lateral sclerites, closed procoxal cavities, a short sensorium on the second antennomere, clypeus and anterior region of head without teeth, thorax and first abdominal segments with integumentary expansions, and with spine-like setae on the pleural regions of the abdominal and thoracic tergites.
Vibrated polar disks: spontaneous motion, binary collisions, and collective dynamics
Creators: name: Deseigne, Julien
name: Léonard, Sébastien
name: Dauchot, Olivier
name: Chaté, Hugues
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spontaneous motion, binary collisions, and collective dynamics of "polar disks", i.e. purpose-built particles which, when vibrated between two horizontal plates, move coherently along a direction strongly correlated to their intrinsic polarity. The motion of our particles, although nominally three-dimensional and complicated, is well accounted for by a two-dimensional persistent random walk. Their binary collisions are spatiotemporally extended events during which multiple actual collisions happen, yielding a weak average effective alignment. We show that this well-controlled, "dry active matter" system can display collective motion with orientationally-ordered regions of the order of the system size. We provide evidence of strong number density in the most ordered regimes observed. These results are discussed in the light of the limitations of our system, notably those due to the inevitable presence of walls.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, 4 movies
Structural and magnetic properties of CoTeMoO$_6$ revisited
Creators: name: Li, Yu
name: Coles, Jared
name: Gui, Xin
name: Park, Hyowon
name: Wu, Yan
name: Chen, Xinglong
name: Chen, Jing-han
name: Wang, Xiaoping
name: Cao, Huibo
name: Stadler, Shane
name: Chmaissem, Omar
name: Young, David P.
name: Rosenkranz, Stephan
name: DiTusa, John F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have conducted a comprehensive investigation into the magnetic properties of the chiral multiferroic material CoTeMoO$_6$. In contrast with the previous claim of canted antiferromagnetic order with ferromagnetic components, our investigation reveals an antiferromagnetic ground state with compensated moments, providing an interesting platform for exploring exotic material properties. Through careful measurements of magnetization under a series of applied field, we demonstrate that there exist two sequential field-induced magnetic transitions in CoTeMoO$_6$, with one occurring at $H_{c1}$=460 Oe along the a-axis, and the other at $H_{c2}$=1.16 T with the field along the b-axis. The values of $H_{c1}$ and $H_{c2}$ exhibit strong angular dependence and diverge with different rates as the applied field is rotated 90 degrees within the ab plane. This reflects the distinct nature of these transitions, which is further supported by the different critical behavior of $H_{c1}$ and $H_{c2}$, characterized by the values of $γ$,in the function of $H_c=H_0\times(1-\frac{T}{T_c})^n$. Furthermore, we have demonstrated that there exist structural and magnetic twin domains in CoTeMoO$_6$ that strongly affect the experimental measurement of their macroscopic properties. Intriguingly, these twin domains can be related to the orthorhombicity/chirality of the crystal structure with the space group $P2_1 2_1 2$. We further explored the magnetic and structural domains with uniaxial pressure and polarized light microscopy. Our results suggest that CoTeMoO$_6$ could be used as a unique platform for investigating the intriguing physics involving intertwined degrees of freedom. The tunability of the underlying domain distribution and its strong anisotropy could also be useful for developing functional devices and applications.
description: 11 figures 6 tables
Products of Nearly Holomorphic Eigenforms
Creators: name: Beyerl, Jeffrey
name: James, Kevin
name: Trentacoste, Catherine
name: Xue, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F11, 11F37

description: We prove that the product of two nearly holomorphic Hecke eigenforms is again a Hecke eigenform for only finitely many choices of factors.
description: 8 pages
title: Young people, individualism, and welfare conditionality over time
Creators: name: Rochow, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: Recent generations of young people in the UK have transitioned to adulthood during a period of insecure labour markets, unaffordable housing, welfare retrenchment, economic recessions, and the proliferation of self-help discourses. Young people who cannot rely on informal support are increasingly unlikely to realise the traditional cornerstones of adulthood: secure employment and owner-occupied housing. These markers of adulthood have been restructured and restricted for recent generations of young people. However, the market-orientated state enforces onus on the individual to realise a secure future. Labour activation backed up by behavioural regulation is now ubiquitous in policy approaches which seek to address worklessness and poverty in advanced capitalist societies. Conditionality is fundamental to the design of contemporary social security systems, which operate on the basis that behavioural changes on an individual level can overcome structural barriers. The intensification of this policy trend is associated with the broader political obsession with long-range social mobility and the cultural fixation with self-improvement. Contemporary UK welfare policy encourages young people to psychologise structural problems and internalise the self-improvement discourse. Self-improvement discourses and individualised futures have been particularly significant for recent generations of young people. Their transitions to adulthood have coincided with the explosion in the self-help mindset that challenges in life should be addressed, and aspirations realised, through adapting the individual. This rhetoric has been pedalled more readily through contemporary education systems, proliferating social media platforms, and influencer culture. The messaging appears empowering; those who have succeeded by neoliberal metrics provide those who are struggling in the contemporary labour market with the tools to supposedly unlock their potential. In practice however, this behaviourist framing of labour market outcomes can undermine structural inequalities and covertly maintain the existing social order by upholding the concept of a meritocracy. This thesis explores young people’s experiences of contemporary conditional social security systems and how they navigate and respond to behavioural regulation, insecure employment, conditional housing pathways, and worklessness over time. The thesis employs secondary analysis of qualitative longitudinal data, of a youth (16-25) subsample comprised of 56 young people and 114 total interviews, drawn from the Welfare Conditionality Project (2013-2019), to investigate how young people who experience conditional social security systems make sense of the behavioural regulation and how they conceptualise pathways to their aspirations.
Charybdis hellerii A. Milne Edwards 1867
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Charybdis
Charybdis hellerii

description: Charybdis hellerii A. Milne Edwards, 1867
Material examined (N=16). 1m, 19/IX/2000, 13°57'05”S / 38°59'68”W (MZUESC #09); 1m, 1f, 25/III/2005, St. 0 5 (MZUESC #687); 1f, 28/VIII/2004, St. 0 5 (MZUESC #720).
Distribution. Red Sea, Djibouti, Somalia, South Africa, Madagascar, Persian Gulf, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sri Lanka, India, China, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, New Caledonia, Australia, and Hawaii. Eastern Mediterranean – Egypt and Israel. Western Atlantic – Florida, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guyana, and Brazil (from Ceará to Santa Catarina) (Dineen et al. 2001; Tavares & Amouroux 2003; Bezerra & Almeida 2005).
Ecological notes. This species has a preference for soft bottoms, but there are records from hard substrata such as rocks and corals (Lemaitre 1995). Mantelatto & Souza-Carey (1998) found juveniles in association with the bryozoan Schizoporella unicornis (Johnston, 1874). Campos & Türkay (1989) and Dineen et al. (2001) reported individuals collected in mangrove roots (Rhizophora mangle). Intertidal to 51 m (Lemaitre 1995).
Previous records in Bahia. Carqueija & Gouvêa (1996), Almeida et al. (2003, 2006).
Remarks. C. hellerii is a non-indigenous portunid crab of Indo-West Pacific origin. The occurrence of this species in Bahia was first reported by Carqueija & Gouvêa (1996), in Todos os Santos Bay. A further report, from Camamu Bay, was provided by Almeida et al. (2003). See Bezerra & Almeida (2005) for a summary of the Brazilian records of C. hellerii.
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
Control of open quantum systems: Manipulation of a qubit coupled to a thermal bath by an external driving field
Creators: name: Sun, Haoran
name: Galperin, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fast and reliable manipulation with qubits is fundamental for any quantum technology. The implementation of these manipulations in physical systems is the focus of studies involving optimal control theory. Realistic physical devices are open quantum systems. So far, studies in optimal control theory have primarily utilized the Redfield/Lindblad quantum master equation to simulate the dynamics of such systems. However, this Markov description is not always sufficient. Here, we present a study of qubit control utilizing the nonequilibrium Green's function method. We compare the traditional master equation with more general Green's function results and demonstrate that even in the parameter regime suitable for the application of the Redfield/Lindblad approach, the two methods yield drastically different results when addressing evolution involving mixed states. In particular, we find that, in addition to predicting different optimal driving profiles, a more accurate description of system evolution enables the system to reach the desired final state much more quickly. We argue that the primary reason for this is the significance of the non-Markov description of driven system dynamics due to the effect of time-dependent driving on dissipation.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
The influence of Daphnia spp. on resuspended sediments in shallow prairie lakes
Creators: name: Elgin, Erick
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Limnology
subject: Daphnia
subject: shallow lakes
subject: macrophytes
subject: resuspended sediments
subject: water clarity

description: Low water transparency in shallow lakes, which may limit macrophyte growth, is usually attributed to excessive phytoplankton biomass. However, abundant resuspended sediments also contribute substantially to reductions in water clarity. The ability of the large-bodied zooplankter, Daphnia to increase water clarity by reducing phytoplankton is well studied, but less is known about Daphnia’s effect on resuspended sediments. To evaluate Daphnia’s ability to reduce suspended detritus and inorganic particles and the resulting effect on late summer macrophyte biomass, I combined field observations with a field enclosure experiment. My field results suggest that abundant Daphnia can reduce detritus concentrations and that this effect is most pronounced in the spring. I also demonstrate that summer macrophyte biomass and plant species richness increases with lower spring turbidity. My field enclosure experiment confirms that Daphnia are capable of clearing resuspended sediments during both low and high turbidity conditions in spring.
Spin texture readout of a Moore-Read topological quantum register
Creators: name: Romers, J. C.
name: Schoutens, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the composite Charged Spin Texture (CST) over the Moore-Read quantum Hall state that arises when a collection of elementary CSTs are moved to the same location. Following an algebraic approach based on the characteristic pair correlations of the Moore-Read state, we find that the resulting CST is set by the fusion sector of the underlying non-Abelian quasiparticles. This phenomenon provides a novel way to read out the quantum register of a non-Abelian topologically ordered phase.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Adalimumab in the treatment of moderate-severe hidradenitis suppurativa: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Creators: name: Borges, Sofia
name: Menezes, Nuno
name: Silva, Catarina
name: Torres, Tiago
Publisher: name: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia / Portuguese Journal of Pharmacotherapy
Year: 2018

description: Introduction: To assess the cost-effectiveness of adalimumab versus supportive care  in the treatment of adults with active moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa who have had an inadequate response to or are intolerant of conventional systemic therapy in Portugal.

Methods: A Markov model with 5 health states (high response, response, partial response, non-response, or death) and 4-week cycles was developed to estimate long-term effectiveness and cost of treating patients with adalimumab versus supportive care. Data from head-to-head clinical trials (PIONEER I and II) were used to estimate transition probabilities and utilities. Resource use was characterized by Portuguese experts’ panel. Unitary costs were extracted from national official sources and expressed in 2015 euros. Incremental cost per quality adjusted life years gained was estimated for a lifetime horizon in the societal perspective, assuming a 3.5% annual discount rate for costs and consequences. Deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were performed.

Results: From the societal perspective, for a lifetime horizon, the model predicted a cost of €241,957 for adalimumab and €223,903 for supportive care, resulting in 12.32 and 11.55 quality adjusted life years (QALY), respectively. Thus, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio is estimated to be €23,332/QALY gained (or €35,225/QALY from the Portuguese National Health System perspective). Patients receiving adalimumab incurred more treatment costs (+€39,243), partially offset by less direct medical costs (-€13,130) and indirect costs (-€7,877) than patients receiving supportive care. In deterministic sensitivity analyses, incremental cost-effectiveness ratios ranged between €1,347 (0% discount) and €42,465 (utilities’ assumption). The probability of adalimumab’s cost-effectiveness was 61.2% for a willingness-to-pay threshold of €30,000 and 78% for €50,000.

Conclusion: Adalimumab is the first and only drug approved by the European Medicines Agency for Hidradenitis Suppurativa and its cost-effectiveness in Portugal is demonstrated in this economic analysis.
description: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia / Portuguese Journal of Pharmacotherapy, v. 10 n. 1 (2018): Janeiro
Influence of major mergers on the radio emission of elliptical galaxies
Creators: name: Wen, Y. H.
name: Wen, Z. L.
name: Han, J. L.
name: Hou, L. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the influence of major mergers on the radio emission of elliptical galaxies. We use a complete sample of close pairs, which contains 475 merging and 1828 non-merging paired elliptical galaxies of M_r
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in A&A, minor changes
Editorial
Creators: name: Aranda Da Silva, José
Publisher: name: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia
Year: 2018

description: Os últimos meses de 2017 foram férteis em notícias relacionadas com a avaliação dos medicamentos.
Em finais de novembro é publicado um importante plano de trabalho acordado entre a Agência Europeia do Medicamento (EMA) e EunetHTA visando criar sinergias entre a “avaliação regulatória e a avaliação de tecnologias de saúde” ao longo do ciclo de vida do medicamento. Recordemos que nalguns países são entidades diferentes que efetuam estes dois níveis de avaliação dos medicamentos, o que pode por vezes levar a duplicações nos procedimentos de avaliação.
Em dezembro é anunciada a localização da sede da EMA em Amesterdão depois de uma decisão final por sorteio, sendo Milão a outra cidade melhor pontuada entre as diversas candidatas.
Em Portugal, em dezembro, no mesmo momento em que se anuncia a criação de uma Agência para a Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica, é também anunciada a deslocalização do INFARMED,I.P., para o Porto.
Este anúncio gerou alguma perturbação no sector e entre os trabalhadores do INFARMED,I.P. Foi entretanto nomeada uma comissão de peritos independentes de várias zonas do país e diferentes especialidades, para avaliar o impacto desta anunciada deslocalização (Despacho n.º 10857/2017, de 12 de dezembro 2017). Esta comissão terá que apresentar um relatório da avaliação até junho.
Nota marcante já em 2018 foi a apresentação pública (https://www.wook.pt/livro/salvar-o-sns-joao-semedo/20277202) por António Arnault e João Semedo de uma proposta de alteração da Lei de Bases da Saúde. Também um grupo de profissionais de saúde enviou ao Parlamento uma petição com um pedido de discussão do documento “Agora a saúde: Acessível, Gratuita e Inclusiva”, com princípios e orientações para a revisão da Lei de Bases da Saúde.
Entretanto o governo nomeou uma comissão presidida por Maria de Belém, constituída por juristas e representantes de associações de doentes, com o objetivo de propor uma nova Lei de Bases da Saúde (Despacho n.º 1222-A/2018, de 2 de fevereiro 2018).
A revista conta neste número com os artigos originais «Adalimumab in the treatment of moderate-severe hidradenitis suppurativa: a cost-effectiveness analysis» e «Qual deve ser o papel do farmacêutico clínico no serviço de urgência? A perspetiva do médico», o artigo de revisão «Resistência à colistina e sua disseminação: implicações em saúde pública» e o artigo de opinião «Inteligência artificial e medicina: haverá lugar para o factor humano?...». Disponibilizamos ainda as secções de documentos publicados, normas aprovadas e em consulta, legislação relevante, prémios e agenda para o próximo trimestre, que julgamos serem de relevante interesse para os nossos leitores.
description: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia, v. 10 n. 1 (2018): Janeiro
Boundary Scattering in Ballistic Graphene
Creators: name: Masubuchi, Satoru
name: Iguchi, Kazuyuki
name: Yamaguchi, Takehiro
name: Onuki, Masahiro
name: Arai, Miho
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Machida, Tomoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report magnetotransport measurements in ballistic graphene/hexagonal boron nitride mesoscopic wires where the charge carrier mean free path is comparable to wire width $W$. Magnetoresistance curves show characteristic peak structures where the peak field scales with the ratio of cyclotron radius $R_\textrm{c}$ and wire width $W$ as $W/R_\textrm{c} = 0.9 \pm 0.1$, due to diffusive boundary scattering. The obtained proportionality constant between $R_\textrm{c}$ and $W$ differs from that of a classical semiconductor 2D electron system where $W/R_\textrm{c} = 0.55$.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Chemical Characteristics of Ambient Fine Particles in Calgary
Creators: name: Yu, Kuangyou
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: Engineering--Environmental

description: Airborne fine particles (PM2.5) play a major role in air quality. This study focuses on the chemical composition of PM2.5 and its seasonal variation in 2015, based on an 8-month observation campaign in Calgary. Elemental carbon, organic carbon, and nine kinds of water-soluble ions were analyzed in this study. PM2.5 samples were collected by URG-3000ABC air sampler and were analyzed by DRI Model 2001A Thermal/Optical Carbon Analyzer and ICS-2500 ion chromatography. The concentration of PM2.5 has demonstrated a significant seasonal variation with an elevated concentration in summer (13±6μg/m3) and low concentration in winter (9±3μg/m3), which is opposite to most previous studies. Most of the water-soluble inorganic ion components have shown opposite variations. Organics were the main chemical components accounting for 59% of PM2.5. Secondary organic carbon accounted for more than 65% of the total organic carbon. Therefore, the seasonal variation of PM2.5 followed the pattern of SOC.
title: Characterisation and absolute quantification of nanosized V and Nb precipitates in high manganese steel using DualEELS
Creators: name: Bobynko, Joanna
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nanocharacterisation, DualEELS, precipitates, vanadium, niobium, 3d.

description: The dispersion strengthening is a process that strengthens the material's matrix with use of the smallest precipitates. The most power comes from the character of the nanostructures, their chemical compositions, crystallographic structures, sizes, shapes and interfaces between matrix and precipitates. Through analytical methods it is possible to study and achieve the optimal mechanical properties of elements produced from high-manganese steels with dispersive nanoparticles such as carbides or carbo-nitrides. So far the most effective research methods are transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy with use of multiple detectors such as Dual Electron Energy Loss Spectrometer (DualEELS), Energy Dispersion X-ray detector, (EDX) or Gatan Imaging Filter (GIF). The DualEELS, which is mostly developed during this thesis, is a technique which results in spectrum imaging of all elements presented in the analyzed area. The material studied during this Ph.D. is a high-manganese steel with vanadium and niobium carbides or carbo-nitrides with various sizes from few to dozen of nanometers, but the average is less than 20nm. The main goal of this Ph.D. is to advance the current available methods of nano-analysis using DualEELS of the smallest precipitates embedded in the matrix supported by improved and optimized sample preparation method with Focused ion Beam (FIB) lamella. The advancement is made in several fields including development of acquisition conditions, development of sample preparation technique using low voltages at FIB, and development and adaptation of the novel post-processing routines of the acquired data using Gatan DualEELS QuantumER post-column detector. The post-processing routine involved quantitative and qualitative analysis of precipitates, which required new values of partial cross-sections and mean free paths of inelastic scattering events estimated and calculated based on experimental (standards) approach. The results consist of fully quantified precipitates (V,Ti)(N,C) and ((Nb,Ti)C) supported by chemical profiles, comparison discussion between specimen, with a pseudo-3D reconstruction of spectrum imaging of these precipitates, which means that all elements have individually calculated thicknesses. The results gave a glimpse into the nucleation of the smallest precipitates, unexpectedly different than in most literature, showing that in this case there is no core-shell structure in mixed transition metal carbides. The Ti, which is not an intentional part of the alloy, acts as a nucleation sites, but is not built over core for the V or Nb mixed precipitates. These results are shown by four examples of V-steel and three of Nb-steel. They are presented as spectrum imaging signals, separated from matrix, with pseudo 3D representation and quantified in absolute manner with the accuracy down to a few atoms.
VI Reunião Anual da Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia «Controvérsias com Medicamentos»
Creators: name: ., Revista Portuguesa De Farmacoterapia
Publisher: name: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia
Year: 2017

description: A VI Reunião Anual da Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia, com o tema «Controvérsias com Medicamentos» contou com a presença de profissionais da área da saúde, médicos, farmacêuticos, profissionais da indústria farmacêutica e representantes de associações e entidades relevantes a nível nacional, com diferentes posições sobre os temas em análise. A reunião foi dividida em quatro painéis: Importância da diferenciação terapêutica na abordagem individual”, “Assegurar a formação contínua em farmacoterapia
no séc. XXI”, “Utilização de dados reais na reavaliação das tecnologias de saúde” e, por fim, “Degradação do preço do medicamento: ameaça à Saúde Pública?”.
description: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia, v. 9 n. 3 (2017): Julho
Real Closed Exponential Subfields of Pseudoexponential Fields
Creators: name: Shkop, Ahuva C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03C60

description: In this paper, we prove that a pseudoexponential field has continuum many non-isomorphic countable real closed exponential subfields, each with an order preserving exponential map which is surjective onto the nonnegative elements. Indeed, this is true of any algebraically closed exponential field satisfying Schanuel's conjecture.
Chirped-pulse laser amplifier and passive enhancement cavity for generation of extreme ultraviolet light
Creators: name: Lam, Matthew Hon C
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light has many potential applications, including spectroscopy and scattering experiments in physical chemistry and atmospheric science. The dominant method for producing high-flux coherent radiation in this spectral range is synchrotron radiation produced from highly subscribed national-scale facilities such as the Canadian Light Source. An alternative to synchrotron radiation is high harmonic generation (HHG), a nonlinear optical process requiring high optical intensities. This thesis describes the development of an optical amplifier and passive enhancement cavity in order to realize a table-top EUV source. A chirped-pulse ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier system outputs 20 W average power from an initial mode-locked laser outputting pulses at 80 MHz and 160 mW average power. The pulses, of duration ~250 fs after the amplifier, are coupled to a high-finesse cavity which further increases the power by a factor of 500. The peak intensity achieved in the cavity is over 10¹⁴ W/cm² and is an order of magnitude above the intensity required to drive HHG in xenon gas.
Tribal Ways of War: Combat Branch Conceptualizations of Warfare in the United States Army, 1983 - 1999
Creators: name: Stephenson, Harris
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Military Studies
subject: Political Science--International Law and Relations
subject: Military
subject: Culture
subject: Army
subject: US

description: This thesis addresses the questions: how did the three primary combat branches, or tribes, of the United States Army – the Infantry, Armor, and Artillery – conceptualize warfare from 1983 to 1999? Additionally, how does that relate to the Army’s military culture, and strategic environment? Primary research of the Infantry, Armor, and Artillery’s professional journals is used to understand how intra-organizational units’ conceptualizations of warfare related and interacted with the international system, the American national security apparatus, and the Army’s military culture. These conceptualizations were characterized by complex relationships with events, where they were influenced by and shaped responses to changes in the international system, fluctuations in the American national security apparatus, and internal dynamics within the Army itself. Ultimately, this demonstrates the complexity of militaries and provides greater insight into how organizations function, but, more importantly, it reveals the power of tribal conceptualizations to shape responses in a bottom-up manner.
Additional file 1 of Graves disease is associated with increased risk of clinical Alzheimer’s disease: evidence from the Medicare system
Creators: name: Yashkin, Arseniy Pavlovich
name: Kolpakov, Stanislav
name: Ukraintseva, Svetlana
name: Yashin, Anatoliy
name: Akushevich, Igor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Appendix A. Supplementary Table 1.  Summary Statistics for Unconfirmed Graves Disease. Supplementary Table 2.  Propensity Score Matching Quality and Group Comparison for Unconfirmed Graves. Supplementary Table 3. Logistic Group Membership Models. Supplementary Figure S1. Trends in Unconfirmed graves disease prevalence.  Supplementary Figure S2. Trends in Unconfirmed graves disease incidence.
title: Intellectual property and intangible cultural heritage in Celtic-derived countries
Creators: name: Blakely, Megan Rae
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: intellectual property, intangible cultural heritage, law, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, United Kingdom, tourism.

description: This dissertation examines the symbiotic relationship between intellectual property (“IP”) law and cultural heritage law, with an emphasis on intangible cultural heritage (“ICH”). These two fields of law have historically operated in relative isolation from each other, but the overlap of subject matter and practical effect of implementation is evident; the actual creative and traditional practices by individuals and communities are the subject matter of both fields. The central thrust of the research is to locate the effects of these two legal fields and to inform policy, research, and legislation when this previously under-considered effect and influence exists. This is accomplished through case studies of ICH and statutory intervention in three countries with diverse ICH: tartan in Scotland; cultural tourism and branding in Ireland, and the Welsh language and eisteddfodau in Wales. These countries were selected as they 1) are geographically proximate, 2) have shared cultural history, 3) are or were recently in a union legal structure with partially devolved governance powers, and 4) are ‘knowledge-based’ economies with strong IP laws. This selection facilitates the dissertation’s original contributions to research, which include highlighting the influence of ICH on IP law and how IP shapes ICH. This interaction challenges the domestic and international differential legal treatment between developed, Global North countries as IP- and knowledge-producing and developing and Global South countries as ICH- and culture-producing. Theoretical patterns emerged from the case studies: namely, first- and second-wave adoption, which is complementary to Hobsbawm and Ranger’s invented traditions; and ‘tangification’, which identifies the process through which ICH becomes IP in a modern legal framework and highlights the risks to ICH integrity as well as the over-extension of IP law. Each of these contributions support the assertion that properly managing risk to and safeguarding ICH, which provides social and economic benefits, can also help to ensure that IP law is functioning in a manner reflecting its jurisprudential underpinnings, facilitating longevity and enforceability of the law.
title: A reassessment of the Anglo-Saxon artefacts from Scotland: material interactions and identities in early medieval northern Britain
Creators: name: Blackwell, Alice
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Archaeology, Anglo-Saxon artefacts, Scotland, ethnogenesis, identity.

description: This thesis identifies and interprets the 5th to 9th-century Anglo-Saxon artefacts found within modern Scotland. It uses them to consider material expressions of ethnogenesis and to examine political, economic and ecclesiastical relations within early medieval northern Britain. In total, 221 objects are catalogued and discussed. The earliest finds suggest contact with the changing late/post-Roman frontier, while among the latest objects is a hacked finger ring deposited in a Viking-age hoard. The corpus includes several pieces of early 6th-century Style I metalwork, a cluster of 7th-century elite gold and garnet fittings, a large number of glass beads, a group of loom weights, and a substantial body of 8th/9th-century strap-ends and pins. Many are stray finds, though material was identified among excavated assemblages from monastic, chapel, settlement, hillfort and crannog sites, and from the chance discovery of several hoards and burials. In an attempt to move beyond a culture-history paradigm that has been deeply embedded in past work on these artefacts, this thesis employs the theories of hybridisation and entanglement, emphasising agency in the selection and reimagination of material culture in processes of identity creation. It identifies evidence for the promulgation of an elite Anglo-Saxon identity in 7th-century Lothian and argues that the region was being presented as a royal heartland. Bordering areas appear to have rejected Anglo-Saxon material culture outright, while regions further away, particularly Galloway and Argyll, were receptive to using and hybridising it. It is suggested that these differences were governed by the desire to show difference from immediate neighbours (for instance between polities within the Solway region) or create new identities (for instance incorporating former kindred-groups in Argyll). Different patterns were apparent in the 8th/9th-century finds: south-east and south-west Scotland appear to have had similar access to late Anglo-Saxon material, including a handful of high-status objects manufactured within Northumbria, while other parts of Scotland produced relatively few finds beyond imported vessel glass and a scatter of metal finds along the coast. While this might suggest a similar cultural context across southern Scotland and a contrast to that north of the Forth–Clyde, differences in deposition, particularly in the presence of hoards in the south-west, show the material was clearly being used and conceived differently. Above all else, this thesis demonstrates that no work on early medieval Northumbria should ignore material found north of the modern national border.
Editorial
Creators: name: Aranda Da Silva, José
Publisher: name: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia
Year: 2017

description: Nos últimos meses a nota mais significativa na área da Farmacoterapia foi a publicação de nova legislação referente ao Sistema Nacional de Avaliação de Tecnologias de Saúde (SiNATS), o Decreto-Lei n.º 115/2017, de 7 de setembro. A criação do SiNATS há cerca de dois anos e meio gerou grandes expetativas pois anunciava-se a criação de um sistema de avaliação das tecnologias da saúde moderno e que resultava da audição prévia de numerosos peritos e parceiros envolvidos no processo (ver neste número da Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia o artigo de João Martins). Os anos seguintes revelaram algumas indecisões na implementação do sistema criando alguma instabilidade que se refletiu no atraso na efetiva aplicação das etapas anunciadas. Esperemos que estas alterações contribuam para uma maior eficiência do sistema e para uma cada vez maior transparência no processo de funcionamento.
Este número da revista conta com o artigo original «Dinâmica e concorrência regulada do mercado das farmácias em Portugal», e com os artigos de opinião «Da monitorização da segurança dos medicamentos para a monitorização da segurança dos doentes: um eixo estratégico para a atividade dos farmacêuticos» e «SiNATS: Criar o futuro». Disponibilizamos ainda as secções habituais, que julgamos de relevante interesse para os nossos leitores.
Pela primeira vez são publicados na Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia os resumos das comunicações do Congresso Nacional dos Farmacêuticos 2017, a decorrer nos dias 12, 13 e 14 de outubro. É um desafio que que aceitámos e que julgamos interessante para os nossos leitores, assim como esperamos que seja do agrado dos congressistas.
description: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia, v. 9 n. 4 (2017): Outubro
Boltzmann-type approach to transport in weakly interacting one-dimensional fermionic systems
Creators: name: Bartsch, Christian
name: Gemmer, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate transport properties of one-dimensional fermionic tight binding models featuring nearest and next-nearest neighbor hopping, where the fermions are additionally subject to a weak short range mutual interaction. To this end we employ a pertinent approach which allows for a mapping of the underlying Schrödinger dynamics onto an adequate linear quantum Boltzmann equation. This approach is based on a suitable projection operator method. From this Boltzmann equation we are able to numerically obtain diffusion coefficients in the case of non-vanishing next-nearest neighbor hopping, i.e., the non-integrable case, whereas the diffusion coefficient diverges without next-nearest neighbor hopping. For the latter case we analytically investigate the decay behavior of the current with the result that arbitrarily small parts of the current relax arbitrarily slowly which suggests anomalous diffusive transport behavior within the scope of our approach.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
SPARK for Learning: Examining Emotion Regulation in Children with SLD
Creators: name: Bishop, Juliana Amy
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Emotion Regulation
subject: Physical Activity
subject: SPARK for Learning

description: The current study investigated the relationship between daily physical activity and emotion regulation in children with a Specific Learning Disorder (SLD) aged 8 to 12 years old. Eighteen children with SLD participating in the SPARK for Learning intervention were matched one-to-one on age and sex to children with SLD in the control group. Students completed self-report measures on emotion regulation and emotion regulation strategies. Overall, results indicated no significant differences in emotion regulation solely based on the SPARK for Learning intervention. For total emotion regulation and the expressive suppression strategy, significant interactions were found across time and group suggesting that the SPARK for Learning intervention impacted students differentially across time. Results of this study suggest that additional research should focus on the SPARK for Learning program to determine what other factors daily physical activity influences.
title: ‘In her tyme’: Understandings of time in seventeenth-century Scottish recipe books
Creators: name: Manders, Finnella M.M.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: ‘“In her tyme”: Understandings of Time in Seventeenth-Century Scottish Recipe Books’ is an original contribution to historical understanding of life in early modern Scotland, primarily concerned with representations of time and temporality in seventeenth-century Scottish recipe books. It principally draws from the National Library of Scotland’s holding of culinary and medical recipe books, focusing on eight manuscripts written across the seventeenth and into the early-eighteenth centuries. All of the writers it considers were Scottish noblewomen with charge of rural estates of varying sizes. This thesis asks how time was understood by these recipe-book writers. It explores temporal expression from clock time to ‘forever’; analyses the ways in which time was culturally and historically constructed; and specifically relates its findings to the experiences of elite women in early modern Scotland. It is situated within early modern Scottish women’s history, and benefits from interdisciplinary research in the areas of time studies and recipe-book studies. Exploring representations of time from the minutiae to beyond the lifetime, this thesis makes three key contributions. First, it establishes that time was understood as complex and ‘multi-temporal’. It then argues that the specific representations explored here represent a ‘timescape’ unique to the writers of these texts. These core understandings then draw towards the argument that ‘temporal agency’ was a significant part of the political and cultural influence of elite women in early modern Scotland. Throughout, the importance of studying time and bringing it into conversation with the field of Scottish women’s history, is clear.
Northeast USA Region-Wide Assessment of the Vulnerability of Coastal Forests to Sea Level Rise
Creators: name: Lathrop, Richard G.
name: Allen, Brenda
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: As sea levels rise along the northeastern US, coastal forest ecosystems are being impacted. To better enable climate-smart decision-making, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub engaged researchers at Rutgers University to conduct a synthesis of the current state of knowledge concerning how northeastern U.S. coastal forests, specifically those in mid-Atlantic and southern New England states (VA, MD, DE, NJ, NY, CT, and MA), are responding to impacts from climate change. Drawing upon the scientific literature, expert interviews, and a January 2020 convening of scientists and land managers at the U.S. National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland, this synthesis identifies key knowledge gaps as well as potential management approaches. As a follow-up to this report, researchers undertook a geographic information system (GIS)-based analysis to map out those portions of the MidAtlantic-southern New England coastal forest most vulnerable to ongoing sea level rise (SLR). The analysis made use of best available data from NOAA, the US Forest Service and the US Geological Survey.
Embrach : Ct. Zürich
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1885

description: Ganzheitliche Dorfansicht von Westen gesehen, eventuell vom Chimenhof fotografiert
description: Anonyme/r Fotograf/in
description: Die panoramaartige Fotografie wurde in einer Montage aus drei Fotos zusammengestellt: die zwei Trennlinien sind sichtbar
description: Obwohl die Fabrik Seidenzwirnerei Zinggeler bereits 1865 in Embrach eröffnet wurde, ist sie nirgendwo auf der Fotografie zu sehen
Reducing sequencing complexity in dynamical quantum error suppression by Walsh modulation
Creators: name: Hayes, David
name: Khodjasteh, Kaveh
name: Viola, Lorenza
name: Biercuk, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study dynamical error suppression from the perspective of reducing sequencing complexity, in order to facilitate efficient semi-autonomous quantum-coherent systems. With this aim, we focus on digital sequences where all interpulse time periods are integer multiples of a minimum clock period and compatibility with simple digital classical control circuitry is intrinsic, using so-called em Walsh functions as a general mathematical framework. The Walsh functions are an orthonormal set of basis functions which may be associated directly with the control propagator for a digital modulation scheme, and dynamical decoupling (DD) sequences can be derived from the locations of digital transitions therein. We characterize the suite of the resulting Walsh dynamical decoupling (WDD) sequences, and identify the number of periodic square-wave (Rademacher) functions required to generate a Walsh function as the key determinant of the error-suppressing features of the relevant WDD sequence. WDD forms a unifying theoretical framework as it includes a large variety of well-known and novel DD sequences, providing significant flexibility and performance benefits relative to basic quasi-periodic design. We also show how Walsh modulation may be employed for the protection of certain nontrivial logic gates, providing an implementation of a dynamically corrected gate. Based on these insights we identify Walsh modulation as a digital-efficient approach for physical-layer error suppression.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures