cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Concordance for cardiovascular risk changes within families of patients with coronary disease participating in a preventive cardiology programme
Creators: name: Jennings, Catriona Sian
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2012

description: Aims: To investigate concordance for lifestyle – smoking, diet and physical activity - between married couples when one has developed coronary disease, and concordance for lifestyle change over one year in a nurse-led, multidisciplinary, family centred, prevention programme across six countries. Methods: In the EUROACTION trial consecutive coronary patients were recruited from hospitals, with their partners, to this programme. Concordance for smoking, diet and physical activity, and cardiovascular risk factors, was investigated at the initial assessment, at 16 weeks and one year. Findings: 645 couples attended the initial assessment and 65% of couples returned at one year. At the time of the coronary event, there were nearly two times as many couples, than expected by chance, currently smoking. Couples were also concordant at baseline for saturated fat (r=0.41) fruit and vegetables (r=0.67) and for physical activity (r=0.25). With the exception of total cholesterol, cardiovascular risk factors in couples were all significantly correlated: body mass index (BMI) r=0.22; waist circumference (WC) r=0.12; systolic blood pressure (SBP) r=0.20; total cholesterol (TC) r=0.07; LDL-C r=0.13; HDL-C r=0.27 and fasting blood glucose (FBG) r=0.20 reflecting concordance for lifestyle. The smoking quit rate at one year was significantly higher at 74% in patients with a partner who was a non-smoker compared to 50% in patients with a partner who smoked (p=0.03). There was significant concordance for change at one year between patients and partners for: saturated fat r=0.43; fruit and vegetables r=0.61; physical activity r=0.40; BMI r=0.21; WC r=0.22; SBP r=0.13; TC r=0.21 and HDL-C r=0.34. Patients making the healthiest lifestyle changes were associated with partners making similarly healthy changes. Interpretation: Couples had an unhealthy concordant lifestyle at baseline but became healthier during the course of the preventive cardiology programme, with concordance for change between couples at both 16 weeks and one year. As couples are concordant for lifestyle, with observational evidence of concordance for change, we should focus on couples rather than patients alone.
Total synthesis of cruentaren A
Creators: name: Fouche, Marianne
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2011

description: Cruentaren A, a highly cytotoxic metabolite, which also inhibits F-ATPase, was synthesized using our recently developed methodology on resorcylic acid lactones natural products. [Molecular structure diagrams appear here. To view, please open pdf attachment] Alcohol A was prepared on a multigram scale in 13 steps starting from (S)-Roche ester and using highly stereoselective reactions such as Evans aldol reaction and asymmetric propargylation. [Molecular structure diagrams appear here. To view, please open pdf attachment] Key fragment B was synthesized in 11 steps from 1,3-propanediol. The 1,2-anti-configuration was installed with a Brown crotylation. Diketo-dioxinone D was generated from C-acylation between Weinreb amide B and keto-dioxinone C. Ketene generation by thermolysis followed by trapping with alcohol A and aromatization afforded resorcylate derivative E. [Molecular structure diagrams appear here. To view, please open pdf attachment] Finally after a sequence consisting of the following key steps: ring closing alkyne metathesis, coupling between amine G and acid H and Lindlar hydrogenation, cruentaren A was obtained. [Molecular structure diagrams appear here. To view, please open pdf attachment]
The role of the P2X7 receptor in cigarette smoke driven-inflammation associated with COPD
Creators: name: Eltom, Suffwan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2011

description: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a cigarette smoke (CS)-driven inflammatory airway disease with an increasing global prevalence. Currently, there are no effective therapies to stop the relentless progression of this disease. In the inflammatory milieu present in the lungs of animal models of, and human patients with COPD are increased levels of cytokines (IL-1β/IL-18) linked to activation of the NLRP3-Inflammasome. It has been postulated that exposure to CS leads to the release of endogenous danger signals (e.g. ATP) activating the NLRP3-Inflammasome via the P2X7 receptors driving the maturation and release of IL-1β and IL-18. The literature suggests that these cytokines are central to the chronic inflammation in the airway which drives the pathological changes seen in COPD. My hypothesis is that blockade of the P2X7 - NLRP3-Inflammasome pathway will attenuate the inflammation present in CS-induced airway inflammation. I developed an acute (3-day) model of COPD-like inflammation to investigate the role of the P2X7 receptor in this pathway. I demonstrated that CS-induced neutrophilia in a pre-clinical model is temporally associated with markers of Inflammasome activation (increased caspase 1 activity and release of IL-1β/IL-18) in the lungs. I used genetically modified mice lacking functional P2X7 receptors to show attenuation in caspase-1 activity, IL-1β release and airway neutrophilia in response to acute CS exposure but not LPS-induced airway inflammation. These findings were validated using a specific P2X7 receptor antagonist. Furthermore, I confirmed that the role of this pathway was not restricted to early stages of disease development by showing increased caspase-1 activity in lungs from a more chronic exposure to CS (28-day) and patients with COPD. This translational data suggests the P2X7-Inflammasome pathway plays an on-going role in disease pathogenesis. These results advocate the crucial role of the P2X7 – caspase-1 axis in CS-induced inflammation, highlighting this as a possible therapeutic target in combating COPD.
Benchmark Test of CP-PACS for Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Yoshie, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CP-PACS is a massively parallel computer dedicated for calculations in computational physics and will be in operation in the spring of 1996 at Center for Computational Physics, University of Tsukuba. In this article, we describe the architecture of the CP-PACS and report the results of the estimate of the performance of the CP-PACS for typical lattice QCD calculations.
description: 12 pages (5 figures), Postscript file, talk presented at "QCD on Massively Parallel Computers" (Yamagata, Japan, March 16-18,1995)
Oral history interview with William M. Cameron 1975
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Executives
Containers
International business enterprises

description: Education; Cameron Can Machinery Company; contacts with Europe and South American in 1930s; sale of Cameron Can Machinery to Continental Can in 1944; reopening of European market after World War II; management reorganization 1950s; problems of Clearing can plant and Hazel-Atlas Glass; retirement.
Oral history interview with William Lovell, 2000
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Clergy
Civil rights movements--History--20th century.--United States
Civil rights--Religious aspects--20th century
World War, 1939-1945--Draft resisters
Pacifism

description: Reverend William Lovell begins this interview by recalling memories of his childhood in China, where his parents worked as missionaries. He chronicles their move back to and around the United States. Lovell characterizes his early political influences, including: his parents politics and their involvement in the Fellowship of Reconciliation, his education at a Quaker school, and a tour of the underside of New York City by a divinity school student. He discusses his parents' education, their experience of the Depression, and their work in both China and the US. Additionally, Lovell discusses his own work at a factory in Cleveland and his membership in a union there. He shares his memories of the "Union Eight," their experience in prison, and their lives after they were released. He elaborates on his relationship with another of the "Union Eight," George Houser. Lovell explains his role in the early formation of CORE and his help in the organization's expansion to Detroit. He shares his impressions of Bayard Rustin, his memories of the Detroit riots, and the story of how he met his wife Ellen. Lovell also talks about his experience within the church, where he presided over the first interracial congregation in Chicago. He shares the racial demographics of the neighborhoods surrounding his church, which were impacted by Japanese resettlement into Chicago. Lovell discusses his experience preaching with a Black co-minister and his subsequent struggle finding other churches comfortable with integrated congregations and pacifist politics. In broader terms, Lovell talks about how Christian denominations differ and the continued religious debates on homosexuality
Hierarchical Evolution in Poor Groups of Galaxies
Creators: name: Zabludoff, Ann I.
name: Mulchaey, John S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To examine the evidence for hierarchical evolution on mass scales of 10^13-10^14 solar masses, we apply a statistic that measures correlations between galaxy velocity and projected position (Dressler & Shectman 1988) to data for six poor groups of galaxies, HCG 42, HCG 62, NGC 533, NGC 2563, NGC 5129, and NGC 741. Each group has more than 30 identified members (Zabludoff & Mulchaey 1998ab). The statistic is sensitive to clumps of galaxies on the sky whose mean velocity and velocity dispersion deviate from the kinematics of the group as a whole. The kinematics of galaxies within about 0.1 Mpc of the group center do not deviate from the global values, supporting our earlier claim that the group cores are close to virialization or virialized. We detect significant substructure (at 99.9% confidence) in the two groups with the most confirmed members, HCG 62 and NGC 741, that is attributable mostly to a subgroup lying 0.3-0.4 Mpc outside of the core. We conclude that at least some poor groups, like rich clusters, are evolving via the accretion of smaller structures from the field. With larger poor group surveys, the incidence of such accretion and the distribution of subgroup masses are potential constraints of cosmological models on mass scales of less than 10^13-10^14 solar masses and on physical scales of less than 0.5 Mpc.
description: 9 pages, AASLaTeX with 2 pages of figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0227r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0227r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0227r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Plant growth promoting bacteria and citric acid promote growth and cadmium phytoremediation in ryegrass
Creators: name: Yang, Xiaoqian
name: Li, Jiapeng
name: Yang, Zhonghua
name: Chen, Mengxin
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Based on the growth-promoting effect of plant growth promoting bacteria on plants and the mobilization of Cd by citric acid, an experiment was designed in which the combined treatment of Bacillus megaterium and citric acid promoted ryegrass to repair Cd-contaminated soil. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of different treatments on the antioxidant enzyme activity, photosynthesis intensity, Cd accumulation, and rhizosphere cadmium migration under cadmium contamination conditions. And the soil morphology and structure changes were studied by infrared spectroscopy FourierTransformInfrared(FT-IR) and scanning electron microscope Energy Dispersive Spectrometer(SEM-EDS) before and after different treatments. The results show that the combined treatment of Bacillus megaterium and citric acid significantly improved the oxidative stress defense and plant photosynthesis and increased of rye biomass. rye biomass 1.28 times higher than CK treatment. Joint treatment significantly increased the amount of shoot accumulation of Cd, 2.31 times higher than CK treatment, increased the migration and accumulation of cadmium. FTIR and SEM-EDS also showed that the organic constituents such as O-H, C-O and C-N in soils as a major mechanism for mobilization of the heavy metal Cd. Thus, the combined treatment of Bacillus megaterium and citric acid can promote plant growth, improve the damage to ryegrass caused by single organic acid addition, and improve the plant extraction efficiency, which is a feasible way to repair Cd-contaminated soil through activated extraction system. The novelty of this study is the combined application of bacteria and chelating agents to ryegrass to improve phytoremediation efficiency. Bacillus giganosus has a good role in promoting the growth of ryegrass. As citrate, a small molecule chelate, can activate heavy metal cadmium and detoxify heavy metals, so it was selected. This study revealed in detail the response of ryegrass to the heavy metal Cd after exogenous addition of Bacillus gigansus and citrate, which is important for the application of cadmium removal by phytoremediation. Exogenous Bacillus megaterium has a pro-growth effect on ryegrass. The combined treatment of Bacillus megaterium and citric acid significantly improved oxidative defense mechanisms in ryegrass to alleviate Cd stress in plants. FTIR and SEM-EDS showed that the joint treatment significantly improved the soil nutrient content. Combined application of citric acid and Bacillus megaterium showed the highest removal rate of cadmium.
Vision of East Central Europe in the thoughts of Polish intellectual elites of a 1989 turning point
Creators: name: Political Preferences
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The thesis presented in this article advances that creation of the idea of East Central Europe, which was shaped by the social elite of Central-European nations since the 50s, played an essential role on the turn of 1989. The creation of such idea laid foundations of political talks and treaties on the recognition of borders. It reduced mutual claims and helped avoid conflict of borders and ethnic riots. Discussions between the elite of border nations reduced mutual prejudices and stereotypes, also in the context of relationships between the entire societies. In Poland, the deliberations on the idea of East Central Europe had later determined prerogatives of foreign policy conducted by the first non-communist governments and had become a manifestation of the fact that the country on the Vistula River had always been part of European civilization, separated by the Iron Curtain for several decades of the second half of 20th century.
Gold catalysis for selective oxidation for application to bio-derived substrates
Creators: name: Chaturvedula, Sumana
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2012

description: The depletion of fossil resources, the volatility of the oil price market and the urgency to mitigate the effects of climate change have pushed the development in chemical industry for sustainable, energy efficient and economic processes for fine chemical production. Selective oxidation of alcohols using noble metal catalysts is a key catalytic conversion for the production of carbonylic and carboxylic compounds for the chemical, pharmaceutical, automobile or consumer goods industry. Gold based catalysts, in particular, have demonstrated superior performance over commonly employed catalysts or stoichiometric oxidants. Challenges, however, remain to develop not only active and selective catalysts but with a long lifetime for industrial application. This thesis is based on the study and development of gold based catalyst systems for the selective oxidation of alcohols under mild conditions. The main model compound studied is the selective oxidation of salicyl alcohol to salicyl aldehyde and salicylic acid. Salicyl aldehyde is a very important chemical compound for the production of a range of fine chemicals and chelating compounds with an estimated market capacity of 4000-6000 tonnes/year. Reactions were carried out in a semi-batch stirred glass reactor under atmospheric pressure using air as oxidant and water as solvent. The setup successfully enabled the direct study of the kinetics and mechanism without influences of mass transport. Studies demonstrated the reaction followed sequential mechanism of first order with the consecutive oxidation of salicyl aldehyde to salicylic acid. The main catalyst system used was gold on powdered activated carbon, prepared by sol-immobilisation using Tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium chloride (THPC) as stabiliser. 1wt% Au/C achieved maximum turnover frequency numbers (TOF) of 342 h-1 and selectivities of 79% towards salicyl aldehyde at 100% conversion. The increase in gold loading to 3wt% resulted in a decrease in activity caused by an increased gold particle size. The addition of Pd as second active metal showed the formation of an alloy and a decrease in activity with the increase in Pd amount. The application of the Au/C catalyst system for continuous processing was investigated using gold on granular carbon in a trickle bed reactor. Base-free selective oxidation of salicyl alcohol was studied via synthesis of MgO dispersed on oxides, in particular hydrotalcites. The basicity, measured by CO2 adsorption capacity, increased with increased loading of MgO. The catalysts showed potential activity, achieving 59% conversion with 90% selectivity towards salicyl aldehyde.
Social divisions in discursive approach – political narrative of Law and Justice after 2015 parliamentary elections
Creators: name: Political Preferences
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Many political scientists treat Poland as a democracy that confront the challenges from the "tyranny of the majority", since Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) party gained parliamentary majority in 2015. It is also considered that using constitutional amendments, institutional arrangements and new legislation PiS has deeply divided Polish society.
The aim of the paper is to examine the multidimensional nature of hidden social divisions that strongly reapear in Poland after 2015. In the paper authors analyze their historical aspects, visualize them and try to disclose direct impact that political narration of the winning party has on them. By analyzing PiS stance – presented at the official PiS YouTube channel – in the light of classical Lipset-Rokkan theory of socio-political cleavages we are trying to show that discursive strategies adopting by parties might go against existing deep-rooted social divisions due to historical narration adopted by the party.
The leucine-rich repeat immune protein family in malaria vector mosquitoes
Creators: name: Upton, Leanna Marie
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2012

description: A novel mosquito-specific family of leucine-rich repeat immune proteins (LRIMs) was recently identified in Anopheles gambiae, the major vector of malaria in Africa. The founding family members, LRIM1 and APL1C, form a heterodimer circulating in the mosquito hemolymph and mediate killing of malaria parasites through their interaction with the complement C3-like effector, TEP1. This PhD thesis investigated the role of the LRIM family in mosquito immunity. Transcriptional profiling demonstrated that different LRIMs show distinct responses to malarial, fungal, bacterial and viral infections as well as to blood feeding. Certain LRIMs are broadly induced whereas others respond specifically to particular immune challenges, suggesting that there is specificity within the LRIM family towards different infections. RNA interference-mediated gene silencing identified LRIM9 as a novel antagonist of the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei, with a putative role in parasite melanisation. Silencing LRIM9 partially inhibits the activity of phenoloxidase, a key enzyme in the melanisation pathway, but does not affect tissue melanisation. Unlike the LRIM1/APL1C heterodimer, LRIM9 circulates as a monomer in the mosquito hemolymph and is not involved in antibacterial defence. As LRIM9 does not interact with TEP1 and is not involved in TEP1 activity against Plasmodium, its precise function in the mosquito immune system remains unclear. Importantly, LRIM9 is highly upregulated in female mosquitoes after blood feeding but does not function in mosquito reproduction. The findings reported in this thesis indicate that the LRIM family has diversified to respond to infections with different microbes that mosquitoes encounter in their blood feeding lifestyle. LRIM9 is an important novel candidate for involvement in defence against malaria parasites. We hypothesise that LRIM9 is induced after blood feeding in anticipation of blood-borne infections, which is an original concept in mosquito immunity.
X^∞ - Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest - Die Antwort auf das Fermi-Paradoxon: Ethik statt Technologie
Creators: name: The Auctor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Fermi Paradox
subject: Antispeciesism
subject: Accountability
subject: Ethical Governance
subject: Singularity
subject: Systems Theory
subject: Systems theory
subject: System Theory

description: Das Fermi-Paradoxon fragt: Wenn es Milliarden von potenziell bewohnbarenPlaneten gibt - warum ist es so still im Universum?Dieses Paper schlägt eine Antwort vor, die den bisherigen Diskurs radikal dreht:Nicht technologische Hürden verhindern interstellare Allianzfähigkeit  sondern ethi-sche Unreife.Das X∞ -Modell beschreibt ein systemisches Steuerungsprinzip, das Verantwor-tung als mathematisch operationalisierbare Gröÿe verankert. Accountability, Cap-basierte Wirkungstragfähigkeit, Rückkopplungspicht und Schutz der Schwachenersetzen darin klassische Machtarchitekturen. Diese Logik lässt sich nicht nur aufKI-Governance oder Gesellschaften anwenden, sondern auch auf die Frage, welcheZivilisationen den Übergang zur Singularität langfristig stabil durchschreiten kön-nen.Die These dieses Papers: Ethische Reife, nicht Intelligenz, ist das eigentliche Fil-terkriterium für interstellare Allianzfähigkeit. X∞ ist dabei kein Dogma, sonderneine strukturell formulierbare Anschlusslogik  unabhängig von Biologie, Technolo-gie oder Kultur.Dieses Paper verbindet mathematische Modelle, Systemtheorie, ethische Fundie-rung und aktuelle Forschung zur Singularität, um die stillste Frage des Universumsneu zu beantworten.
Detection of the interfacial exchange field at a ferromagnetic insulator-nonmagnetic metal interface with pure spin currents
Creators: name: Muduli, P. K.
name: Kimata, M.
name: Omori, Y.
name: Wakamura, T.
name: Dash, Saroj P.
name: Otani, YoshiChika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At the interface between a nonmagnetic metal (NM) and a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) spin current can interact with the magnetization, leading to a modulation of the spin current. The interfacial exchange field at these FI-NM interfaces can be probed by placing the interface in contact with the spin transport channel of a lateral spin valve (LSV) device and observing additional spin relaxation processes. We study interfacial exchange field in lateral spin valve devices where Cu spin transport channel is in proximity with ferromagnetic insulator EuS (EuS-LSV) and yttrium iron garnet Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (YIG-LSV). The spin signals were compared with reference lateral spin valve devices fabricated on nonmagnetic Si/SiO$_2$ substrate with MgO or AlO$_x$ capping. The nonlocal spin valve signal is about 4 and 6 times lower in the EuS-LSV and YIG-LSV, respectively. The suppression in the spin signal has been attributed to enhanced surface spin-flip probability at the Cu-EuS (or Cu-YIG) interface due to interfacial spin-orbit field. Besides spin signal suppression we also found widely observed low temperature peak in the spin signal at $T \sim$30 K is shifted to higher temperature in the case of devices in contact with EuS or YIG. Temperature dependence of spin signal for different injector-detector distances reveal fluctuating exchange field at these interfaces cause additional spin decoherence which limit spin relaxation time in addition to conventional sources of spin relaxation. Our results show that temperature dependent measurement with pure spin current can be used to probe interfacial exchange field at the ferromagnetic insulator-nonmagnetic metal interface.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted in Physical Review B
Finite Temperature QCD with Wilson Quarks: A Study with a Renormalization Group Improved Gauge Action
Creators: name: Iwasaki, Y.
name: Kanaya, K.
name: Kaya, S.
name: Sakai, S.
name: Yoshie, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finite temperature transition in lattice QCD with degenerate Wilson quarks is investigated on an $N_t=4$ lattice, using a renormalization group improved gauge action. We find the following for the $N_F=2$ case: 1) The transition is smooth for a wide range of the quark mass. 2) The chiral transition is continuous. 3) The chiral condensation well satisfies a scaling relation with the critical exponents of the 3 dimensional $O(4)$ spin model. For $N_F=3$, we find that the chiral transition is of first order.
description: 4 pages (6 figures), Postscript file, Contribution to Lattice 95 proceedings
Beaverdam Creek Watershed Study Report 2005-2012
Creators: name: Allan, Craig J.
name: Gagrani, Vijaya
name: Diemer, John A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Hydrology
subject: 40608 Surfacewater Hydrology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Monitoring report compiled for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Stormwater Services by researchers at UNC-Charlotte describing hydrology and water quality in the Beaverdam Creek watershed in 2005-2012.
Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: I. Mass Measurements and Cosmological Parameters
Creators: name: Cooray, Asantha R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under the assumption that the gas mass fraction of galaxy clusters estimated out to an outer hydrostatic radius is constant, it is possible to constrain the cosmological parameters by using the angular diameter distance relation with redshift. We applied this to a sample of galaxy clusters from redshifts of 0.1 to 0.94, for which published gas and total masses are available from X-ray data. After scaling the gas fraction values to the r_500 radius (Evrard, Metzler & Navarro 1996), we find an apparent decrease in gas fractions at high redshifts, which can be scaled back to the mean gas fraction value at z ~ 0.1 to 0.2 of (0.060 \pm 0.002) h^{-3/2}, when Ω_m = 0.55^{+0.35}_{-0.23} (1-σstatistical error, Ω_m + Ω_Λ =1). However, various sources of systematic errors can contribute to the change in gas mass fraction from one cluster to another, and we discuss such potential problems in this method.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to A&A Let March 1, 1998; Accepted March 24, 1998. Minor changes in content
Additional file 1 of Maternal methylmercury exposure through rice ingestion and child neurodevelopment in the first three years: a prospective cohort study in rural China
Creators: name: Rothenberg, Sarah E.
name: Korrick, Susan A.
name: Liu, Jihong
name: Nong, Yanfen
name: Nong, Hua
name: Hong, Chuan
name: Trinh, Eva P.
name: Jiang, Xu
name: Biasini, Fred J.
name: Ouyang, Fengxiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Detailed Laboratory Methods, Detailed Methods for the Food Frequency Questionnaire, Supplementary Tables 1–5, Supplementary Figures 1–2, and References.
Additional file 1 of Virtual reality as a method of cognitive training of processing speed, working memory, and sustained attention in persons with acquired brain injury: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Johansen, T.
name: Matre, M.
name: Løvstad, M.
name: Lund, A.
name: Martinsen, A. C.
name: Olsen, A.
name: Becker, F.
name: Brunborg, C.
name: Ponsford, J.
name: Spikman, J.
name: Neumann, D.
name: Tornås, S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Measuring the Recoverability of Close Binaries in Gaia DR2 with the Robo-AO Kepler Survey
Creators: name: Ziegler, Carl
name: Law, Nicholas M.
name: Baranec, Christoph
name: Morton, Tim
name: Riddle, Reed
name: De Lee, Nathan
name: Huber, Daniel
name: Mahadevan, Suvrath
name: Pepper, Joshua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Robo-AO survey of Kepler planetary candidate host stars, the largest adaptive optics survey yet performed, to measure the recovery rate of close stellar binaries in Gaia DR2. We find that Gaia recovers binaries down to 1" at magnitude contrasts as large as 6; closer systems are not resolved, regardless of secondary brightness. Gaia DR2 binary detection does not have a strong dependence on the orientation of the stellar pairs. We find 177 nearby stars to Kepler planetary candidate host stars in Gaia DR2 that were not detected in the Robo-AO survey, almost all of which are faint (G>20); the remainder were largely targets observed by Robo-AO in poor conditions. If the primary star is the host, the impact on the radii estimates of planet candidates in these systems is likely minimal; many of these faint stars, however, could be faint eclipsing binaries that are the source of a false positive planetary transit signal. With Robo-AO and Gaia combined, we find that 18.7% of Kepler planet candidate hosts have nearby stars within 4". We also find 36 nearby stars in Gaia DR2 around 35 planetary candidate host stars detected with K2. The nearby star fraction rate for K2 planetary candidates is significantly lower than that for the primary Kepler mission. The binary recovery rate of Gaia will improve initial radius estimates of future TESS planet candidates significantly, however ground-based high-resolution follow-up observations are still needed for precise characterization and confirmation. The sensitivity of Gaia to closely separated binaries is expected to improve in later data releases.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables, Accepted to AJ
Semileptonic Decays of D and B Mesons
Creators: name: Güsken, S.
name: Schilling, K.
name: Siegert, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of our ongoing investigation concerning semileptonic decays of heavy pseudoscalar mesons into pseudoscalar and vector mesons. Particular attention is paid to uncertainties in the $q^2$ and the heavy quark mass dependence of formfactors. Moreover we present a non-perturbative test to the LMK current renormalization scheme for vector current transition matrix elements and find remarkable agreement.
description: 3 pages, uuencoded, contribution to Lat 95
MOESM1 of Effect of lymph node dissection on stage-specific survival in patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma treated with nephroureterectomy
Creators: name: Zhai, Ting-Shuai
name: Jin, Liang
name: Zhou, Zhen
name: Liu, Xiang
name: Liu, Huan
name: Chen, Wei
name: Lu, Jing-Yi
name: Yao, Xu-Dong
name: Feng, Li-Ming
name: Ye, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Year of diagnosis for UTUC patients stratified by lymph node dissection. Table S2. Descriptive characteristics of 1961 LND patients according to T stage. Table S3. Extent of LND in the same stage disease. Table S4. AJCC N stage distribution according to LND status. Figure S1. Trend of LND rate from 2004 to 2015. Figure S2. Trend of 5-year OS rate across all tumor stages according to LND status. Figure S3. Trend of 5-year CSS rate across all tumor stages according to LND status.
Angular momentum and local gravitational instability in galaxy discs: does $Q$ correlate with $j$ or $M\,$?
Creators: name: Romeo, Alessandro B.
name: Mogotsi, Keoikantse Moses
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new diagnostic for exploring the link between angular momentum and local gravitational instability in galaxy discs. Our diagnostic incorporates the latest developments in disc instability research, is fully consistent with approximations that are widely used for measuring the stellar specific angular momentum, $j_{\star}=J_{\star}/M_{\star}$, and is also very simple. We show that such a disc instability diagnostic hardly correlates with $j_{\star}$ or $M_{\star}$, and is remarkably constant across spiral galaxies of any given type (Sa$\!-\!$Sd), stellar mass ($M_{\star}=10^{9.5}\!-\!10^{11.5}\,\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$) and velocity dispersion anisotropy ($σ_{z\star}/σ_{R\star}=0\!-\!1$). The fact that $M_{\star}$ is tightly correlated with star formation rate ($\mathrm{SFR}$), molecular gas mass ($M_{\mathrm{mol}}$), metallicity ($12+\log\mathrm{O/H}$) and other fundamental galaxy properties thus implies that nearby star-forming spirals self-regulate to a quasi-universal disc stability level. This proves the existence of the self-regulation process postulated by several star formation models, but also raises important caveats.
description: MNRAS Letters, in press. Minor revision to match the accepted version (added Fig. 1, Sect. 3.2, the final paragraph of Sect. 4, references and clarifications)
Beaverdam Creek Watershed Monitoring Report 2005 – 2008
Creators: name: Allan, Craig J.
name: Diemer, John A.
name: Gagrani, Vijaya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Hydrology
subject: 40608 Surfacewater Hydrology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Monitoring report compiled for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Stormwater Services by researchers at UNC-Charlotte describing hydrology and water quality in the Beaverdam Creek watershed in 2005-2008.
MANAGING NUCLEAR ENERGY EVENTS: AN EVALUATION OF CAUSES AND RISK MANAGEMENT MEASURES
Creators: name: Aljahouri, Saif
Publisher: name: College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, University of Derby
Year: 2024
Subjects: Emergency; Risk Management; Major Causes; Holistic Guidance; Nuclear Power Stations.

description: Nuclear energy can be beneficial, yet risky when there is an accidental release or unforeseen disastrous event. As more countries start their nuclear energy programmes, it is important to revisit how safe working practices can be ensured to prevent or minimise the impacts of nuclear incidents, accidents and emergencies. To this end, the research aims to identify and critically examine the major causes of emergency in nuclear power stations, and to evaluate the effectiveness of risk management methods and practices in nuclear power stations, in order to develop holistic guidance for safer working practices in countries starting to build nuclear power stations and their nuclear power programme.
The causes of emergency in nuclear power stations and what constitute effective risk management measures were identified in a survey completed by 317 respondents working in the nuclear energy sector in the USA, South Korea and other countries. Twelve interviewees from Europe with several years of working experience in the sector further explained the major causes that need to be better managed through holistic safer practices to prevent the causes of emergency in nuclear power stations.
The findings from the mixed methods approach indicate that no single risk management method is sufficient for dealing with nuclear energy hazard events that occur on levels 4-7 (IAEA scale). The two major causes of nuclear energy events require a combination of ISO risk management process, application of framework and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) standards as well as reflection on lessons learned. Through risk management principles, more effective and safer working practices can be achieved by countries starting nuclear energy operations. 
The main implication of the research findings is that the safety culture in nuclear power stations needs to be improved through better understanding that the characteristics of major causes identified in this research need to be mitigated. Therefore, the holistic guidance developed based on this research finding has both theoretical and practical contributions. The theoretical contribution of this research is that this study advances current accident causation theories like situation awareness, domino and multiple cause theories by tailoring explanations for, and characteristics of, causes of emergency in nuclear power stations. Originality is demonstrated in this research as it provides evidence-based recommendations for countries starting nuclear energy industries in order to successfully manage, prevent (where possible) and mitigate the impact of future accidents and emergencies in the energy sector in general and in nuclear power stations in particular.
O'ZBEK MUMTOZ MUSIQA MEROSI.
Creators: name: Ro'ziyeva, Saidabonu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ush bu maqola o’zbek mumtoz musiqa merosi haqida yozilgan bo’lib hozirgi kunda jamiyatimizdagi o’rni haqida bayon etilgan. O’zbek musiqasiga hissa qo’shgan bastakorlar va qo’shiqchilar hayoti ijodlari ham keltirib o’tilgan.
Bioactivity of new AmB-PMA nanoparticle in prophylaxis and treatment of transplant-related invasive aspergillosis
Creators: name: Shirkhani, Khojasteh
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Abstract: Aspergillus species are opportunistic mould pathogens that can cause a wide variety of pulmonary diseases. They are mainly caused by Aspergillus fumigatus (Munoz et al., 2006). Germination of conidia in hosts with a susceptible immune system is the first step in Aspergillus infection, and invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a major cause of mortality in transplant patients. Due to the increased occurrence of IA in high-risk populations, prophylaxis against IA is important. Prophylactic prevention of life threatening infections with drugs is now the preferred clinical strategy for these patients rather than treating the disease after it has become established. Inhaled amphotericin B (AmB) has potential for preventing IA and it has been reported to decrease the incidence of IA in solid organ transplant patients (Arthur et al., 2004). I have generated a new respiratory formulation of AmB (AmB-PMA) with a commercially available high purity, low polydispersity and non-toxic poly methacrylic acid sodium salt (PMA-Na). The chemical synthesis was optimized and showed that AmB-PMA complex was effective against A. fumigatus and was also less toxic than Fungizone in-vitro. The efficacy of AmB-PMA was determined in-vivo in BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice. Mice were infected intranasally with A. fumigatus CEA10 and treated with AmB-PMA by the nasal and nebulisation routes. In this thesis, the optimum routes of in-vivo administration, dosing regimens and treatment frequency were defined. Disease progression in A. fumigatus-infected BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice was monitored by histology, qPCR analysis of chemokine and cytokine responses in mouse lung, colony forming unit (CFU) and qPCR for Aspergillus ribosomal 28S rRNA. The results showed a significant reduction in CFU and DNA fungal load in AmB-PMA infected mice as compared to infected untreated mice. In addition, AmB-PMA could also affect cytokine production by increasing IFN-γ production and reducing MIP-1β, TNF-α and IL-10 as compared to infected untreated mice. However, the increase in IFN-γ production was not statistically significant when compared to infected untreated mice. My thesis demonstrates that a new low-cost AmB based PMA-Na polymer antifungal drug can be successfully given by the aerosol route to immuno-suppressed mice by nebulisation to prevent IA.
A Catalog of 200 Galaxy Clusters Serendipitously Detected in the ROSAT PSPC Pointed Observations
Creators: name: McNamara, A. Vikhlinin. B. R.
name: Forman, W.
name: Jones, C.
name: Quintana, H.
name: Hornstrup, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a catalog of 200 clusters of galaxies serendipitously detected in 647 ROSAT PSPC pointings covering 158 square degrees. This is one of the largest X-ray selected cluster samples, comparable in size only to the ROSAT All-Sky Survey sample of nearby clusters (Ebeling et al. 1997). We detect clusters in the inner 17.5 arcmin of the ROSAT PSPC field of view using the spatial extent of their X-ray emission. Cluster X-ray luminosities range from 10^42 erg/s to ~5x10^44 erg/s, i.e. from poor groups to rich clusters. The cluster redshifts range from z=0.015 to z>0.5. The catalog lists X-ray fluxes, core-radii, spectroscopic redshifts for 73 clusters and photometric redshifts for the remainder. We have optically confirmed 200 of 223 X-ray sources as clusters of galaxies. Of the remaining 23 sources, 18 are likely false detections arising from blends of unresolved point X-ray sources, and for 5 we have not obtained deep CCD images. Above a flux of 2e-13 erg/s/cm**2, 98\% of extended X-ray sources are optically confirmed clusters. The log N-log S relation derived from our catalog shows excellent agreement with previous results: EMSS and ROSAT All-Sky survey BCS in teh bright end and WARPS at intermediate fluxes. Our cluster counts appear to be systematically higher than those from a 50 deg^2 survey of Rosati et al. (1998). In particular, at a flux of 2e-13 erg/s/cm**2, we find a surface density of clusters of 0.57+/-0.07 per square degree, which is a factor of 1.3 more than found by Rosati et al. This difference is marginally significant at the ~2 sigma level. The large area of our survey makes it possible to study the evolution of the X-ray luminosity function in the high luminosity range inaccessible with other, smaller area ROSAT surveys.
description: To appear in Aug 1, 1998 issue of ApJ (vol 502)
Oral history interview with William McGill 1997
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019

description: Childhood: born New York City, son of vaudeville musician; Fordham University: psychology, 1939-1943; work at Burndy Engineering, Los Angeles, 1944-1945; Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]: doctorate, psychology, research at Lincoln Laboratory; expulsion from MIT; Columbia University: professor, economics and psychology, 1956-1964; research at Scripps Institute of Oceanography; chancellor, University of California at San Diego [UCSD]; president, Columbia University; role in student movement at UCSD, Columbia, 1968; association with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: budget issues, split from Columbia, 1972; member of board of directors, Texaco, 1973; reminiscences of colleagues.
Light propagation and optical scalars in torsion theories of gravity
Creators: name: Akhshabi, Siamak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the propagation of light rays and evolution of optical scalars in gauge theories of gravity where torsion is present. Recently the modified Raychaudhuri equation in the presence of torsion has been derived. We use this result to derive the basic equations of geometric optics for several different interesting solutions of the Poincar{é} gauge theory of gravity. The results show that the focusing effects for neighboring light rays will be different than general relativity. This in turn has practical consequences in the study of gravitational lensing effects and also determining the angular diameter distance for cosmological objects.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
2005-2012 Beaverdam Creek Watershed Study Report
Creators: name: Allan, Craig J.
name: Gagrani, Vijaya
name: Diemer, John A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Hydrology
subject: 40608 Surfacewater Hydrology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Monitoring report compiled for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Stormwater Services by researchers at UNC-Charlotte describing hydrology and water quality in the Beaverdam Creek watershed in 2005-2012.
QCD sum rules for the $Δ$ isobar in neutron matter
Creators: name: L., Jesuel Marques
name: Lee, Su Houng
name: Park, Aaron
name: Matheus, R. D.
name: Jeong, Kie Sang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the properties of the $Δ$ isobar in the symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter using the QCD sum rules approach based on the energy dispersion relation. Allowing for different continuum thresholds for the polarization tensors with different dimensions, we find stable masses for the $Δ$ in both the vacuum and the medium. Compared to the nucleon case, we find that the vector repulsion is smaller for the $Δ$ while the scalar attraction is similar (75 MeV vector repulsion and 150 MeV scalar attraction in the symmetric matter). The smaller vector repulsion can be understood using the Pauli principle and a constituent quark model. Also the isospin dependence of the quasiparticle energy, which mainly comes from the vector self energy, is quite weak. We also allow for an explicit $π-N$ continuum contribution to the polarization function, but find its effect to be minimal. Phenomenological consequences of our results are discussed.
description: 18 pages, 6 figure, Updated version as revised in the publication