cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The international working travel experiences of Australian DIY musicians
Creators: name: McKeering, John Alexander
Publisher: name: Central Queensland University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Travel experiences
Australian musicians
DIY (Do-It-Yourself) working musicians

description: This research explores the travel experiences of Australian DIY (Do-It-Yourself) working musicians. It was undertaken because there was a lack of existing academic literature on this topic. The research question is: For the benefit of Australian DIY musicians who aspire to travel and work internationally, what can be learned from interviewing those who have gone before? Fifteen working musicians who have travelled internationally were interviewed to find out what kind of obstacles and advantages they encountered while touring. There were eight males and seven females with experience as performers, ranging in age between 24 and 54 years. Several of the respondents have been awarded or nominated by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Several had ARIA chart success. Semi-structured interviews were conducted by the researcher, himself an entertainer. The data was then analysed using Grounded Theory methodology. Most of the performers interviewed claim to have received little or no sustainable financial viability from international touring experiences. A predominant emergent theme regarding the motivation for touring is “passion” for performing. Positive factors noted included life experience, exploring different markets, meeting new industry contacts, bonding experiences for touring party members, and being a worthwhile working vacation for reasons other than making money. Major drawbacks included expenses borne by the individual that were unclaimable as business expenses for income tax purposes in Australia; being unable to maintain full-time, paying employment while touring; and the stresses of long-distance travel, constant performing and separation from family, leading to mental health issues. Key conclusions drawn were that changes could be made to improve experiences for Australian musicians travelling abroad. Suggestions included provision of increased assistance from government agencies; establishment of better networking opportunities for musicians to exchange ideas; and negotiation of excess baggage concessions for internationally travelling musicians. This thesis revealed themes that deserved further specific and in-depth research, including how the mental health risks for travelling musicians and their support crews could be better managed; what were the exotic qualities that Australian musicians appreciated in particular overseas regions; and what cultural attitudes towards musicians in various countries influenced those regulatory environments? An appendix to the thesis reviews the visa regulations pertaining to travelling working musicians in many international jurisdictions.
Discovery of Correlated Behavior Between the HXR and the Radio Bands in Cygnus X-3
Creators: name: McCollough, M. L.
name: Robinson, C. R.
name: Zhang, S. N.
name: Harmon, B. A.
name: Hjellming, R. M.
name: Waltman, E. B.
name: Foster, R. S.
name: Ghigo, F. D.
name: Briggs, M. S.
name: Pendleton, G. N.
name: Johnston, K. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using CGRO/BATSE hard X-ray (HXR) data and GHz radio monitoring data from the Green Bank Interferometer (GBI), we have performed a long term study ($\sim$ 1800 days) of the unusual X-ray binary Cyg X-3 resulting in the discovery of a remarkable relationship between these two wavelength bands. We find that, during quiescent radio states, the radio flux is strongly anticorrelated with the intensity of the HXR emission. The relationship switches to a correlation with the onset of major radio flaring activity. During major radio flaring activity the HXR drops to a very low intensity during quenching in the radio and recovers during the radio flare. Injection of plasma into the radio jets of Cyg X-3 occurs during changes in the HXR emission and suggests that disk-related and jet-related components are responsible for the high energy emission.
description: 19 pages, Latex, 4 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Ap.J
Network analysis of synthesizable materials discovery
Creators: name: Aykol, Muratahan
name: Hegde, Vinay I.
name: Hung, Linda
name: Suram, Santosh
name: Herring, Patrick
name: Wolverton, Chris
name: Hummelshøj, Jens S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assessing the synthesizability of inorganic materials is a grand challenge for accelerating their discovery using computations. Synthesis of a material is a complex process that depends not only on its thermodynamic stability with respect to others, but also on factors from kinetics, to advances in synthesis techniques, to the availability of precursors. This complexity makes the development of a general theory or first-principles approach to synthesizability currently impractical. Here we show how an alternative pathway to predicting synthesizability emerges from the dynamics of the materials stability network: a scale-free network constructed by combining the convex free-energy surface of inorganic materials computed by high-throughput density functional theory and their experimental discovery timelines extracted from citations. The time-evolution of the underlying network properties allows us to use machine-learning to predict the likelihood that hypothetical, computer-generated materials will be amenable to successful experimental synthesis.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
The Use of Telehealth for Forensic Psychiatric and Psychological Pre-Sentence Reports
Creators: name: Lakshman, Amirtha
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2025

description: The COVID-19 pandemic increased telehealth use among forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. While telehealth has been studied in clinical contexts, its use in forensic assessments remains limited. This study compared 243 pre-sentence reports (105 telehealth, 138 in-person) and 220 sentencing comments from the County Court of Victoria. Findings indicated overall equivalence with key differences: telehealth reports were longer, highlighted limitations, included more mental status details, and showed greater diagnostic certainty. Sentencing comments referenced telehealth reports positively and in greater detail, while in-person reports had more ‘excluded’ diagnoses restated. These findings provide insight into telehealth’s role and offer recommendations for its use.
Possibility of observing Higgs bosons at the ILC in the lepton-specific 2HDM
Creators: name: Hashemi, Majid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Higgs boson pair production at a linear $e^+e^-$ collider is analyzed in the $4τ$ final state in the context of lepton-specific or type IV 2HDMs. Both beams are assumed to be unpolarized. The Higgs boson pairs (HA) are produced through off-shell $Z^*$ production and decay to $τ$-jets which is the main decay channel for neutral Higgs bosons in type IV. Using a simplified detector simulation based on SiD detector at ILC, the 4$τ$ signal is studied through the $τ$-jet pair invariant mass reconstruction. Several benchmark scenarios are considered for center of mass energies of 500 and 1000 GeV at integrated luminosity of 500$fb^{-1}$. Among Standard Model (SM) background processes, the main background is $e^+e^- \to ZZ$ followed by $Z \to ττ$. This background is however, well under control. With the luminosity assumed in the analysis, striking signals are obtained beyond the reach of LHC. Such signals would allow for precise determination of masses and cross sections and alredy much lower luminosities are sufficient for discovery.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
NNLO QCD study of polarised W + W − production at the LHC
Creators: name: Poncelet, Rene
name: Popescu, Andrei
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
QCD Phenomenology

description: Abstract: Longitudinal polarisation of the weak bosons is a direct consequence of Electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism providing an insight into its nature, and is instrumental in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. We perform a polarisation study of the diboson production in the pp →e+veμ−v¯μ process at NNLO QCD in the fiducial setup inspired by experimental measurements at ATLAS. This is the first polarisation study at NNLO. We employ the double-pole approximation framework for the polarised calculation, and investigate NNLO effects arising in differential distributions.
Additional file 2: of Clustering the autisms using glutamate synapse protein interaction networks from cortical and hippocampal tissue of seven mouse models
Creators: name: Brown, Emily
name: Lautz, Jonathan
name: Davis, Tessa
name: Gniffke, Edward
name: VanSchoiack, Alison
name: Neier, Steven
name: Tashbook, Noah
name: Nicolini, Chiara
name: Fahnestock, Margaret
name: Schrum, Adam
name: Smith, Stephen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Figure S1. AKT phosphorylation is reduced in VPA mice but normal in all other models examined. Related to Fig. 6 (A) Representative western blots of cortical samples from adult mice probed with the indicated antibodies. (B) Quantification, axes match Fig. 6. N = 3–10 individuals per genotype. *p
Measurements of Far-UV Emission from Elliptical Galaxies at z=0.375
Creators: name: Brown, Thomas M.
name: Ferguson, Henry C.
name: Deharveng, Jean-Michel
name: Jedrzejewski, Robert I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ``UV upturn'' is a sharp rise in spectra of elliptical galaxies shortward of rest-frame 2500 A. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nearby giant elliptical galaxies, and is thought to arise primarily from low-mass evolved stars on the extreme horizontal branch and beyond. Models suggest that the UV upturn is a very strong function of age for these old stellar populations, increasing as the galaxy gets older. In some models the change in UV/optical flux ratio is a factor of 25 over timescales of less than 3 Gyr. To test the predictions for rapid evolution of the UV upturn, we have observed a sample of normal elliptical galaxies in the z=0.375 cluster Abell 370 with the Faint Object Camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. A combination of two long-pass filters was used to isolate wavelengths shortward of rest-frame 2700 A, providing a measurement of the UV upturn at a lookback time of approximately 4 Gyr. Surprisingly, the four elliptical galaxies observed show a range of UV upturn strength that is similar to that seen in nearby elliptical galaxies, with an equivalent 1550-V color ranging from 2.9-3.4 mag. Our result is inconsistent with some models for the UV upturn; other models are consistent only for a high redshift of formation (z_f >= 4).
description: 4 pages, Latex. 1 figure. To appear in ApJL. Uses emulateapj.sty and apjfonts.sty. Revision includes minor ApJ edits & fixes typos
Modelling social and societal mechanisms as decision tools for sustainable infrastructures production for common good concern in developing countries: CGC–APDC
Creators: name: Nana, Ursula Joyce Merveilles Pettang
name: Mbiada, Patrick Joël Mbiada
name: Yonzou, Cédric Cabral Fandjio
name: Pettang, Chrispin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Generally organised in various association forms, population of developing countries gather their different efforts to set up infrastructures and useful constructions for their well-being. Understanding how they carry out construction projects makes possible to identify components of process used for their development. This paper’s aim is to formulate a new organisational model including all those populations’ means and facilitates individual’s participation for common good infrastructures through a managing tool. To achieve this aim, proposed model takes into account social, economic, technical matters. In fact, it builds a strategy to organise all means, contributions and efforts to rise up large-scale project with individual’s characteristics and involvement. It strives Social and Solidarity Economy and organises communities’ efforts for a general growth. With CGC – APDC process proposed, populations become real vectors of construction and it enables them to boost the development of their community while improving the projects quality and relevance.
An output-sensitive algorithm for the minimization of 2-dimensional String Covers
Creators: name: Popa, Alexandru
name: Tanasescu, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: String covers are a powerful tool for analyzing the quasi-periodicity of 1-dimensional data and find applications in automata theory, computational biology, coding and the analysis of transactional data. A \emph{cover} of a string $T$ is a string $C$ for which every letter of $T$ lies within some occurrence of $C$. String covers have been generalized in many ways, leading to \emph{k-covers}, \emph{$λ$-covers}, \emph{approximate covers} and were studied in different contexts such as \emph{indeterminate strings}. In this paper we generalize string covers to the context of 2-dimensional data, such as images. We show how they can be used for the extraction of textures from images and identification of primitive cells in lattice data. This has interesting applications in image compression, procedural terrain generation and crystallography.
The Deuterium Abundance at z=0.701 towards QSO 1718+4807
Creators: name: Tytler, David
name: Burles, Scott
name: Lu, Limin
name: Fan, Xiao-Ming
name: Wolfe, Arthur
name: Savage, Blair D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present constraints on the deuterium to hydrogen ratio (D/H) in the metal-poor gas cloud at redshift $z=0.701$ towards QSO 1718+4807. We use new Keck spectra in addition to Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) spectra. We use an improved redshift and a lower \HI column density to model the absorption. The HST spectrum shows an asymmetric Lyman-$α$ (\lya) feature which is produced by either \HI at a second velocity, or a high abundance of D. Three models with a single simple H+D component give $8 \times 10^{-5} < D/H < 57 \times 10^{-5}$ (95%), a much larger range than reported by Webb et al (1997a,b). A more sophisticated velocity distribution, or a second component is necessary for lower D/H. With two components, which could be a part of one absorbing structure, or separate clouds in a galaxy halo, we find $D/H < 50 \times 10^{-5}$. We do not know if this second component is present, but it is reasonable because 40 -- 100% of absorption systems with similar redshifts and \HI column densities have more than one component.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the Astronomical Journal (Jan 1999)
Computational models of attachment and self-attachment
Creators: name: Cittern, David
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: We explore, using a variety of models grounded in computational neuroscience, the dynamics of attachment formation and change. In the first part of the thesis we consider the formation of the traditional organised forms of attachment (as defined by Mary Ainsworth) within the context of the free energy principle, showing how each type of attachment might arise in infant agents who minimise free energy over interoceptive states while interacting with caregivers with varying responsiveness. We show how exteroceptive cues (in the form of disrupted affective communication from the caregiver) can result in disorganised forms of attachment (as first uncovered by Mary Main) in infants of caregivers who consistently increase stress on approach, but can have an organising (towards ambivalence) effect in infants of inconsistent caregivers. The second part of the thesis concerns Self-Attachment: a new self-administrable attachment-based psychotherapy recently introduced by Abbas Edalat, which aims to induce neural plasticity in order to retrain an individual's suboptimal attachment schema. We begin with a model of the hypothesised neurobiological underpinnings of the Self-Attachment bonding protocols, which are concerned with the formation of an abstract, self-directed bond. Finally, using neuroscientific findings related to empathy and the self-other distinction within the context of pain, we propose a simple spiking neural model for how empathic states might serve to motivate application of the aforementioned bonding protocols.
title: ADCO, Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0871
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: cartulaire
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0871, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0871, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Rallus lariformis Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Gruiformes
Rallidae
Rallus
Rallus lariformis

description: Rallus lariformis [spec. nov.]
R. subtus albido-flavescens, cervice caerulescenti maculato, digitis marginatis.�
Larus fissipes. Alb. av. 2. p. 75. t. 82.
Rallus cinereus facie Lari. Klein. av. 103.
Habitat in Europa.
Cauda huic longiuscula; ideoque anceps genus.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 153, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Factors Impacting on Satisfaction and Continuance Intention of English Literature Students on the Use of Cloud-based E-learning in Ningxia, China
Creators: name: Chen, Nan
Publisher: name: Assumption University Press
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cloud-Based E-Learning
Course Content Quality
Perceived Usefulness
Satisfaction
Continuance Intention

description: AU-GSB e-Journal, 17, 1, 11-23
Reaction Time and Visual Memory in Connection with Alcohol Use in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder.
Creators: name: Mazumder, Atiqul Haq
name: Barnett, Jennifer
name: Lindberg, Nina
name: Torniainen-Holm, Minna
name: Lähteenvuo, Markku
name: Lahdensuo, Kaisla
name: Kerkelä, Martta
name: Hietala, Jarmo
name: Isometsä, Erkki Tapio
name: Kampman, Olli
name: Kieseppä, Tuula
name: Jukuri, Tuomas
name: Häkkinen, Katja
name: Cederlöf, Erik
name: Haaki, Willehard
name: Kajanne, Risto
name: Wegelius, Asko
name: Männynsalo, Teemu
name: Niemi-Pynttäri, Jussi
name: Suokas, Kimmo
name: Lönnqvist, Jouko
name: Niemelä, Solja
name: Tiihonen, Jari
name: Paunio, Tiina
name: Palotie, Aarno
name: Suvisaari, Jaana
name: Veijola, Juha
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Schizophrenia
Alcohol
Cognition
Reaction time
Schizoaffective Disorder
Visual Memory

description: The purpose of this study was to explore the association between cognition and hazardous drinking and alcohol use disorder in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Cognition is more or less compromised in schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder and alcohol use might aggravate this phenomenon. The study population included 3362 individuals from Finland with diagnoses of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Hazardous drinking was screened with the AUDIT-C (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test for Consumption) screening tool. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) diagnoses were obtained from national registrar data. Participants performed two computerized tasks from the Cambridge Automated Neuropsychological Test Battery (CANTAB) on a tablet computer: The Five-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task (5-CSRTT) or the reaction time (RT) test and the Paired Associative Learning (PAL) test. The association between alcohol use and the RT and PAL tests was analyzed with log-linear regression and logistic regression, respectively. After adjustment for age, education, housing status, and the age at which the respondents had their first psychotic episodes, hazardous drinking was associated with a lower median RT in females and less variable RT in males, while AUD was associated with a poorer PAL test performance in terms of the total errors adjusted scores (TEASs) in females. Our findings of positive associations between alcohol and cognition in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder are unique.
Segregated Optical-NIR colour distributions of MDS galaxies
Creators: name: Ferreras, I.
name: Cayon, L.
name: Martinez-Gonzalez, E.
name: Benitez, N.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a K survey of 29 fields covering approximately 90 arcmin^2 from the Medium Deep Survey (MDS) catalogue down to a completeness magnitude of K=18.0 (limiting magnitude K=19.0). The morphology obtained by the MDS team using high resolution images from HST/WFPC2 along with our NIR observations allow a Colour-Magnitude and Colour-Colour analysis that agrees in general with spectral evolution models (Bruzual & Charlot 1998) especially if a reasonable range of metallicities for the Simple Stellar Populations used (0.2 < Z/Zsolar < 2.5) is considered. However, a significant population of spheroids was found, which appear bluer than expected, confirming previous observations (Forbes et al. 1996, Koo et al. 1996, Glazebrook et al. 1998). This blueness might possibly signal the existence of non-negligible star formation in ellipticals and bulges at medium redshift. A number counts calculation for different morphological types show disks become the dominant population at faint magnitudes. The median redshift of the sample is z~0.2, from a photometric redshift estimation using V-K and I-K. A search for EROs in the survey field was also performed, with no detection of objects having I-K > 4.5, setting an upper limit to the number density of EROs at dn_{EROs}/dΩ< 0.011 arcmin^{-2} (K < 18.0).
description: LaTeX file, uses mn.sty. Submitted to MNRAS, revised version after referee's report. 7 pages with 8 EPS figures
Attention Based Fully Convolutional Network for Speech Emotion Recognition
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuanyuan
name: Du, Jun
name: Wang, Zirui
name: Zhang, Jianshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task for three main reasons: 1) human emotion is abstract, which means it is hard to distinguish; 2) in general, human emotion can only be detected in some specific moments during a long utterance; 3) speech data with emotional labeling is usually limited. In this paper, we present a novel attention based fully convolutional network for speech emotion recognition. We employ fully convolutional network as it is able to handle variable-length speech, free of the demand of segmentation to keep critical information not lost. The proposed attention mechanism can make our model be aware of which time-frequency region of speech spectrogram is more emotion-relevant. Considering limited data, the transfer learning is also adapted to improve the accuracy. Especially, it's interesting to observe obvious improvement obtained with natural scene image based pre-trained model. Validated on the publicly available IEMOCAP corpus, the proposed model outperformed the state-of-the-art methods with a weighted accuracy of 70.4% and an unweighted accuracy of 63.9% respectively.
On Source Density Evolution of Gamma-ray Bursts
Creators: name: Che, H.
name: Yang, Y.
name: Nemiroff, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent optical afterglow observations of gamma-ray bursts indicate a setting and distance scale that many relate to star-formation regions. In this paper, we use $$ and a set of artificial trigger thresholds to probe several potential GRB source density evolutionary scenarios. In particular, we compare a uniform subset of BATSE 4B data to cosmological scenarios where GRBs evolve as the comoving density, the star formation rate, the QSO rate, and the SN Type Ic rate. Standard candle bursts with power-law spectra and a universe without vacuum energy were assumed. Our results significantly favor a comoving density model, implying that GRB source density evolution is weaker than expected in these evolutionary scenarios. GRB density might still follow star-formation rates given proper concurrent GRB luminosity evolution, significant beaming, significant error in standard candle assumptions, or were a significant modification of star formation rate estimates to occur.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ
Kinetic studies of alcohol oxidation to methyl esters and amides catalysed by gold nanoparticles on titania (Au/TiO2) in continuous flow systems
Creators: name: Roberts, Felicity Jane
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Methyl esters and amides are valuable compounds in fine chemicals synthesis, with methyl esters used in flavourings and perfumes, while amides are used in many industries from polymers to pharmaceuticals. Alcohols are desirable starting materials as they can be sustainably sourced, however both methyl ester synthesis from alcohols and methanol, and amide synthesis from alcohols and amines conventionally involve wasteful processes using stoichiometric quantities of metal oxidants and other toxic reagents. In this project a greener synthesis route was developed and studied for each reaction, employing plug flow reactors with a heterogeneous catalyst in the form of Au/TiO2 and green oxidants and solvents. A continuous flow methyl ester synthesis route from benzyl alcohol and methanol with hydrogen peroxide over Au/TiO2 was studied, Scheme 1. Using experimental observations, a reaction model was constructed in Berkeley Madonna (a differential equation solver), to draw conclusions about the reaction pathway, including the role of H2O2 and factors determining product selectivity. This model was then fitted to experimental data to determine reaction parameters such as rate constants and activation energies. Initial attempts at amide synthesis over Au/TiO2 in a single plug flow reactor were unsuccessful, therefore a system with two reactors in series was built and characterised. In the first reactor of the tandem system, the alcohol to aldehyde transformation took place over Au/TiO2 with oxygen gas, while the second reactor was for amide synthesis from the aldehyde and amine using H2O2, Scheme 2. After initial screenings of process conditions, solvents and catalysts to maximise product yields for each step, both stages of the reaction were studied separately for the reaction of benzyl alcohol and morpholine. As with the methyl ester synthesis above, a reaction model was developed in Berkeley Madonna and fitted to experimental data. Finally amide synthesis from decanol and morpholine was carried out and compared to the benzyl alcohol process.
Local Analytic Sector Subtraction at NNLO
Creators: name: Magnea, Lorenzo
name: Maina, Ezio
name: Pelliccioli, Giovanni
name: Signorile-Signorile, Chiara
name: Torrielli, Paolo
name: Uccirati, Sandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method for the local subtraction of infrared divergences at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, for generic infrared-safe observables. Our method attempts to conjugate the minimal local counterterm structure arising from a sector partition of the radiation phase space with the simplifications following from analytic integration of the counterterms. In this first implementation, the method applies to final-state massless particles. We show how our method compactly organises infrared subtraction at NLO, we deduce in detail the general structure of the subtraction terms at NNLO, and we provide a proof of principle with a complete application to a simple process at NNLO.
description: Matching journal version, minor corrections
Rallus benghalensis Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Gruiformes
Rallidae
Rallus
Rallus benghalensis

description: Rallus benghalensis [spec. nov.]
R. corpore vertice oculisque albis, capite colloque nigris, alis dorsoque viridibus, remigibus primariis ru- bro-maculatis.
Rallus benghalensis. Alb. av. 3. p. 85. t. 90.
Habitat in Asia.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 153, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Approximate Hamiltonian for baryons in heavy-flavor QCD
Creators: name: Serafin, Kamil
name: Gómez-Rocha, María
name: More, Jai
name: Głazek, Stanisław D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aiming at relativistic description of gluons in hadrons, the renormalization group procedure for effective particles (RGPEP) is applied to baryons in QCD of heavy quarks. The baryon eigenvalue problem is posed using the Fock-space Hamiltonian operator obtained by solving the RGPEP equations up to second order in powers of the coupling constant. The eigenstate components that contain three quarks and two or more gluons are heuristically removed at the price of inserting a gluon-mass term in the component with one gluon. The resulting problem is reduced to the equivalent one for the component of three quarks and no gluons. Each of the three quark-quark interaction terms thus obtained consists of a spin-dependent Coulomb term and a spin-independent harmonic oscillator term. Quark masses are chosen to fit the lightest spin-one quarkonia masses most accurately. The resulting estimates for bbb and ccc states match estimates obtained in lattice QCD and in quark models. Masses of ccb and bbc states are also estimated. The corresponding wave functions are invariant with respect to boosts. In the ccb states, charm quarks tend to form diquarks. The accuracy of our approximate Hamiltonian can be estimated through comparison by including components with two gluons within the same method.
description: Post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in The European Physical Journal C, 35 pages, 7 figures
Determinants of Satisfaction and Loyalty in Innovative Personal Health Assistant Services for Potential Hypertension Patients: A Case Study on a Private Hospital in Thailand
Creators: name: Ruengrong Ongpattanakit
Publisher: name: Assumption University Press
Year: 2024
Subjects: Service Quality
Satisfaction
Loyalty
Hypertension
Health Assistant Services

description: AU-GSB e-Journal, 17, 1, 24-34
Efficient extraction of semantic information from medical images in large datasets using random forests
Creators: name: Kanavati, Fahdi
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Large datasets of unlabelled medical images are increasingly becoming available; however only a small subset tend to be manually semantically labelled as it is a tedious and extremely time-consuming task to do for large datasets. This thesis aims to tackle the problem of efficiently extracting semantic information in the form of image segmentations and organ localisations from large datasets of unlabelled medical images. To do so, we investigate the suitability of supervoxels and random classification forests for the task. The first contribution of this thesis is a novel method for efficiently estimating coarse correspondences between pairs of images that can handle difficult cases that exhibit large variations in fields of view. The proposed methods adapts the random forest framework, which is a supervised learning algorithm, to work in an unsupervised manner by automatically generating labels for training via the use of supervoxels. The second contribution of this thesis is a method that extends our first contribution so as to be applicable efficiently on a large dataset of images. The proposed method is efficient and can be used to obtain correspondences between a large number of object-like supervoxels that are representative of organ structures in the images. The method is evaluated for the applications of organ-based image retrieval and weakly-supervised image segmentation using extremely minimal user input. While the method does not achieve image segmentation accuracies for all organs in an abdominal CT dataset compared to current fully-supervised state-of-the-art methods, it does provide a promising way for efficiently extracting and parsing a large dataset of medical images for the purpose of further processing.
title: 01_1257
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Controlling mitochondrial dynamics: population genetics and networks
Creators: name: Hoitzing, Hanne
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Mitochondria form an essential component of nearly all eukaryotic cells, are implicated in numerous diseases and may play important roles in ageing. Mitochondrial populations are dynamic, controlled and heterogeneous, with different types -- both mutant and wildtype -- potentially coexisting in single cells. This thesis will study the dynamics of both mitochondria and their genetic material (mtDNA) to improve our understanding of the role of these dynamics in pathology and ageing. This study suggests, as well as critically evaluates, reasons for the existence of complex continuous mitochondrial networks using coarse-grained mathematical models, underlining a nonlinear relation between functionality and network structure. Understanding the link between morphology and function is important as disruption of the former is directly implicated in cellular dysfunction. We perform experiments in which we measure the influence of mitochondrial fusion and division events on integrated mitochondrial membrane potential, an indicator of functionality, and find evidence for its conservation. The cellular homeostatic control acting on a mitochondrial population is poorly understood; to address this, we study the influence of general feedback control strategies on mutant and wildtype mtDNA dynamics. We introduce a simple linear control mechanism that captures a wide variety of biologically observed dynamics, and study optimal parameterisations through the construction of an energy-based mitochondrial cost function. Not only cellular control, but also gene-therapeutic control of mtDNA is studied, allowing us to investigate optimal treatment strategies to reduce mutant loads. The cellular proportion of mutant mtDNA molecules, known as heteroplasmy, is crucial in mitochondrial disease and we study the influence of cellular mtDNA exchange on heteroplasmy dynamics and mutant expansion during ageing. We find that this exchange of genetic material can induce preferential mutant expansion during ageing (even in the face of selection against mutants) through a stochastically driven increase in cellular mean heteroplasmy levels.
Size-Exclusion Chromatography Separation Reveals That Vesicular and Non-Vesicular Small RNA Profiles Differ in Cell Free Urine.
Creators: name: Karttunen, Jenni
name: Stewart, Sarah E
name: Kalmar, Lajos
name: Grant, Andrew J
name: Karet Frankl, Fiona E
name: Williams, Tim L
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Urine
Small RNA
Extracellular Vesicles
Cell-Free System
Humans
MicroRNAs
Ultrafiltration
Ultracentrifugation
Chromatography, Gel

description: Urinary extracellular vesicles (EVs) and their RNA cargo are a novel source of biomarkers for various diseases. We aimed to identify the optimal method for isolating small (<200 nm) EVs from human urine prior to small RNA analysis. EVs from filtered healthy volunteer urine were concentrated using three methods: ultracentrifugation (UC); a precipitation-based kit (PR); and ultrafiltration (UF). EVs were further purified by size-exclusion chromatography (SEC). EV preparations were analysed with transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Western blotting, nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) and an Agilent Bioanalyzer Small RNA kit. UF yielded the highest number of particles both before and after SEC. Small RNA analysis from UF-concentrated urine identified two major peaks at 10-40 nucleotides (nt) and 40-80 nt. In contrast, EV preparations obtained after UC, PR or SEC combined with any concentrating method, contained predominantly 40-80 nt sized small RNA. Protein fractions from UF+SEC contained small RNA of 10-40 nt in size (consistent with miRNAs). These data indicate that most of the microRNA-sized RNAs in filtered urine are not associated with small-sized EVs, and highlights the importance of removing non-vesicular proteins and RNA from urine EV preparations prior to small RNA analysis.
Distinct Composition-Dependent Topological Hall Effect in Mn2-xZnxSb
Creators: name: Nabi, Md Rafique Un
name: Li, Yue
name: Velthuis, Suzanne G E te
name: Chhetri, Santosh Karki
name: Upreti, Dinesh
name: Basnet, Rabindra
name: Acharya, Gokul
name: Phatak, Charudatta
name: Hu, Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spintronics, an evolving interdisciplinary field at the intersection of magnetism and electronics, explores innovative applications of electron charge and spin properties for advanced electronic devices. The topological Hall effect, a key component in spintronics, has gained significance due to emerging theories surrounding noncoplanar chiral spin textures. This study focuses on Mn2-xZnxSb, a material crystalizing in centrosymmetric space group with rich magnetic phases tunable by Zn contents. Through comprehensive magnetic and transport characterizations, we found that the high-Zn (x>0.6) samples display THE which is enhanced with decreasing temperature, while THE in the low-Zn (x<0.6) samples show an opposite trend. The coexistence of those distinct temperature dependences for THE suggests very different magnetic interactions/structure for different compositions and underscores the strong coupling between magnetism and transport in Mn2-xZnxSb. Our findings contribute to understanding topological magnetism in centrosymmetric tetragonal lattices, establishing Mn2-xZnxSb as a unique platform for exploring tunable transport effects and opening avenues for further exploration in the realm of spintronics.
description: 23 pages, 6 Figures, Accepted
Factors Impacting on Satisfaction and Behavioral Intention of Social Science Majors Students Toward E-learning: A Case Study of a public university in Sichuan, China
Creators: name: Zhao, Yi
Publisher: name: Assumption University Press
Year: 2024
Subjects: E- learning
System Quality
Satisfaction
Behavioral Intention
Higher Education

description: AU-GSB e-Journal, 17, 1, 35-44
Clinicopathological investigations of the cholinergic basal forebrain in Lewy body disorders and ageing
Creators: name: Liu, Alan King Lun
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: Cholinergic dysfunction has long been associated with cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, neuropathological and functional imaging studies have also found significant cortical cholinergic deficit in Lewy body disorders (LBD), but in a different pattern from that in AD. There is topographical cholinerigic innervation to the cortex and the hippocampus from the basal forebrain. In light of differences in cognitive deficits seen in LBD and AD, I hypothesised that cholinergic basal forebrain subregions are differentially affected in these disorders. In this thesis, novel tissue techniques have been developed for the visualisation of pathology in human post-mortem brain tissue in three-dimensions. Based on a thorough review of the literature and my personal observations, I have established a simplified subdivisional scheme of the nucleus basalis of Meynert (nbM) in the human brain. Using this scheme, a quantification of nbM cholinergic neurons and assessment of neuropathological burden were performed in a large cohort of LBD and AD cases. Severe neuronal depletion across the entire nbM was observed in LBD with cognitive impairment and relative sparing of the anterior nbM was found in AD, supporting findings from previous neuropathological and imaging studies. Further investigation was carried out in the more rostral, hippocampal-projecting cholinergic group in the vertical limb of the nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca. Significant neurodegeneration in this area was identified in LBD with cognitive impairment, but not AD, suggesting its possible role in retrieval memory function via projection to the hippocampal CA2 subfield. In the final section, it was demonstrated that lactacystin injection into the rat nbM can replicate certain pathological and clinical features of LBD with dementia and this may be a useful model for the disease. Results from these studies support my initial hypothesis regarding differential susceptibility of the basal forebrain subregions in LBD and AD.
Bidirectional Learning for Robust Neural Networks
Creators: name: Pontes-Filho, Sidney
name: Liwicki, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A multilayer perceptron can behave as a generative classifier by applying bidirectional learning (BL). It consists of training an undirected neural network to map input to output and vice-versa; therefore it can produce a classifier in one direction, and a generator in the opposite direction for the same data. The learning process of BL tries to reproduce the neuroplasticity stated in Hebbian theory using only backward propagation of errors. In this paper, two novel learning techniques are introduced which use BL for improving robustness to white noise static and adversarial examples. The first method is bidirectional propagation of errors, which the error propagation occurs in backward and forward directions. Motivated by the fact that its generative model receives as input a constant vector per class, we introduce as a second method the hybrid adversarial networks (HAN). Its generative model receives a random vector as input and its training is based on generative adversarial networks (GAN). To assess the performance of BL, we perform experiments using several architectures with fully and convolutional layers, with and without bias. Experimental results show that both methods improve robustness to white noise static and adversarial examples, and even increase accuracy, but have different behavior depending on the architecture and task, being more beneficial to use the one or the other. Nevertheless, HAN using a convolutional architecture with batch normalization presents outstanding robustness, reaching state-of-the-art accuracy on adversarial examples of hand-written digits.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks