cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Natural soil microbes alter flowering phenology and the intensity of selection on flowering time in a wild Arabidopsis relative
Creators: name: Lundberg, Derek S.
name: Mitchell-Olds, Thomas
name: Tringe, Susannah G.
name: Wagner, Maggie R.
name: Dangl, Jeffery L.
name: Coleman-Derr, Devin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Plant phenology is known to depend on many different environmental variables, but soil microbial communities have rarely been acknowledged as possible drivers of flowering time. Here we tested separately the effects of four naturally occurring soil microbiomes and their constituent soil chemistries on flowering phenology and reproductive fitness of Boechera stricta, a wild relative of Arabidopsis. Flowering time was sensitive to both microbes and the abiotic properties of different soils; varying soil microbiota also altered patterns of selection on flowering time. Thus, soil microbes potentially contribute to phenotypic plasticity of flowering time and to differential selection observed between habitats. We also describe a method to dissect the microbiome into single axes of variation that can help identify candidate organisms whose abundance in soil correlates with flowering time. This approach is broadly applicable to search for microbial community members that alter biological characteristics of interest.
An experimental demonstration of room-temperature spin transport in n-type Germanium epilayers
Creators: name: Dushenko, Sergey
name: Koike, Mariko
name: Ando, Yuichiro
name: Shinjo, Teruya
name: Myronov, Maksym
name: Shiraishi, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first experimental demonstration of room-temperature spin transport in n-type Ge epilayers grown on a Si(001) substrate. By utilizing spin pumping under ferromagnetic resonance, which inherently endows a spin battery function for semiconductors connected with the ferromagnet, a pure spin current is generated in the n-Ge at room temperature. The pure spin current is detected by using the inverse spin Hall effect of either Pt or Pd electrode on the n-Ge. A theoretical model including a geometrical contribution allows to estimate a spin diffusion length in n-Ge at room temperature to be 660 nm. The temperature dependence of the spin relaxation time provides evidence for Elliott-Yafet spin relaxation mechanism.
description: 27 pages, 6 figures, Suppelmental Materials
THz mobility and polarizability: impact of transformation and dephasing on the spectral response of excitons in a 2D semiconductor
Creators: name: Quick, Michael T.
name: Ayari, Sabrine
name: Owschimikow, Nina
name: Jaziri, Sihem
name: Achtstein, Alexander W.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::541 Physikalische Chemie
subject: excitonic polarizability
subject: conductivity
subject: optical pump–THz probe
subject: conventional oscillator model
subject: terahertz spectroscopy

description: We introduce a response theory based transformation for excitonic polarizability into mobility, which allows an in-depth analysis of optical pump–THz probe conductivity experiments, and compare the results with those of a conventional oscillator model. THz spectroscopy is of high interest e.g. for investigations in high bandwidth and low noise nanoelectronics or solar energy harvesting nanomaterials. In contrast to simple ω scaling of estimated static polarizability, suggested in the literature, an appropriate transformation of the spectral response into mobility can be achieved in principle forward and backward due to the presence of dephasing, as we show for the exemplary system of CdSe nanoplatelets. Common analysis approaches capture the excitonic properties only under specific conditions, and do not apply in many cases. We demonstrate that a thermal distribution of excitons and transitions between higher states in general have to be considered and that dephasing has to be taken into account for a proper transformation at all temperatures. The presented in-depth understanding of the exciton mobility in nanoparticles can help improve e.g. solar hydrogen generation, charge extraction efficiencies of solar cells, or light emission performance of LEDs.
Health and Labor Supply in the Context of HIV/AIDS: The Long-Run Economic Impacts of Antiretroviral Therapy
Creators: name: Graff Zivin, Joshua
name: Thirumurthy, Harsha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Using longitudinal survey data collected in Kenya, this paper estimates the longer-term impacts of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on the labor supply of treated adults and their household members. Building upon previous work in Kenya, data collected from 2004–2006 indicate that early evidence on the short-run impacts of ART tends to be upheld over the long-term as well. The results show that the labor supply response among treated adults occurs rapidly and is sustained through the 3-year observation period in our study. These results underscore the strong relationship between health and labor supply that has been observed in other contexts.
title: The framework species approach to forest restoration: using functional traits as predictors of species performance.
Creators: name: Betts, Hannah
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Due to forest degradation and loss, the use of ecological restoration techniques has become of particular interest in recent years. One such method is the Framework Species Approach (FSA), which was developed in Queensland, Australia. The Framework Species Approach involves a single planting (approximately 30 species) of both early and late successional species. Species planted must survive in the harsh conditions of an open site as well as fulfilling the functions of; (a) fast growth of a broad dense canopy to shade out weeds and reduce the chance of forest fire, (b) early production of flowers or fleshy fruits to attract seed dispersers and kick start animal-mediated seed distribution to the degraded site. The Framework Species Approach has recently been used as part of a restoration project in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park in northern Thailand by the Forest Restoration Research Unit (FORRU) of Chiang Mai University. FORRU have undertaken a number of trials on species performance in the nursery and the field to select appropriate species. However, this has been time-consuming and labourintensive. It has been suggested that the need for such trials may be reduced by the pre-selection of species using their functional traits as predictors of future performance. Here, seed, leaf and wood functional traits were analysed against predictions from ecological models such as the CSR Triangle and the pioneer concept to assess the extent to which such models described the ecological strategies exhibited by woody species in the seasonally-dry tropical forests of northern Thailand. It was found that seed storage behaviour (orthodox and recalcitrant) was strongly linked to other functional traits and that this was the basis of observed differences in performance based on seed size. There was evidence for the existence of a leaf economic spectrum in these forests and for differing positions of deciduous and evergreen species on this spectrum. It was further found that wood hydraulic capacity and safety was more strongly linked to leaf traits than wood mechanical strength; reflecting the importance of the seasonal drought in this type of forest. Selected functional traits were then used to predict the performance of species within the FORRU project. It was found that a combination of wood and leaf traits that encompassed mechanical strength, hydraulic capacity and water storage best described species growth rates in most years and that survival may be linked to a combination of both drought and pathogen load that differs by year due to environmental conditions. In conclusion, functional traits were found to be valuable indicators of performance in forest restoration projects.
Material Boundaries
Creators: name: Marr, Anne
name: Hoyes, Rebecca
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
On the rate of convergence to Rosenblatt-type distribution
Creators: name: Anh, Vo
name: Leonenko, Nikolai
name: Olenko, Andriy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G60, 60F05, 60G12

description: The main result of the article is the rate of convergence to the Rosenblatt-type distributions in non-central limit theorems. Specifications of the main theorem are discussed for several scenarios. In particular, special attention is paid to the Cauchy, generalized Linnik's, and local-global distinguisher random processes and fields. Direct analytical methods are used to investigate the rate of convergence in the uniform metric.
description: 25 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected
title: Assessing indoor residual spraying for malaria control in Chikhwawa, Malawi, using exit traps in houses
Creators: name: Nyoni, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Rationale Indoor residual spraying (IRS), using lambda-cyhalothrin, was piloted in Malawi in 2007 by the Presidents Malaria Initiative (PMI) in Nkhota-kota district. The Ministry of Health scaled up IRS to six additional districts across Malawi including Chikhwawa, in 2011. This study was designed to assess the impact of IRS against a background of high malaria prevalence and possible insecticide resistance on the major malaria vectors of Malawi, Anopheles gambiae and An. funestus in Chikhwawa; and to measure the impact of IRS on entomological indices and malaria prevalence in children of under 5 years of age. Methodology Three sentinel sites (Mwingama, Namila and Tsekera) were established in Chikhwawa and 6 window exit traps installed at each site. IRS was conducted in February 2011. Mosquitoes were captured daily, from October 2010 to April 2012, and analysed for species abundance and sporozoites. Separate mosquito collections were carried out using standard WHO insecticide susceptibility assays on An. gambiae and An. funestus from the sentinel sites. Insecticide quantification of IRS was determined by colorimetric analysis of the wall pads placed on selected houses within the sentinel sites. Anaemia and parasitaemia were determined in children of less than 5 years old from a 50 villages catchment area including the three sentinel sites, through rolling malaria indicator surveys (rMIS). Results and Conclusion The study has shown large heterogeneity in mosquito abundance between sentinel sites. Suspected cross resistance found was found in both An. gambiae and An. funestus to carbamates, organophosphates and pyrethroids suggesting a metabolic based resistance mechanism. Clear resistance (77% mortality) was only found at Namila to deltamethrin in An. funestus. There was significant change in resistance pattern at Namila in An. funestus to lambda-cyhalothrin between 2011 and 2012 (X2 = 6.011, p = 0.014). No statistically significant change was observed in An. gambiae and An. funestus abundance differences pre-post IRS suggesting programmatic IRS challenges in Chikhwawa. There was a decline on parasitaemia prevalence from an average of 41% to 29% post IRS. While entomological surveillance is important for the vector control programme in Malawi, there is a need to utilise this data to improve the actual IRS activities, especially when combined with the results of malaria burden as seen here.
Animal Waste Utilization on Cropland and Pastureland: A Manual for Evaluating Agronomic and Environmental Effects
Creators: name: , Science
name: , Science
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpt from the report: The spreading of livestock and poultry manures and bedding on land has been a convenient and long-used disposal method that benefits the soil. For proper animal waste management, one must consider the application methods, type and management of livestock or poultry, and many land, crop, and climatic factors. This manual describes and evaluates some of these variables. The objectives of this manual are threefold: • Provide information for applying animal wastes to land in terms of agronomic benefit and/or pollution potential. • Provide basic information to enable planners to reduce or control nonpoint pollution from animal wastes applied to land. • Provide sufficient information to enable planners to integrate the many variables into beneficial land-application systems.
description: Prepared under an Interagency Agreement with the Office of Research and Development, EPA. This joint USDA/EPA report is published as partial fulfillment of provisions of the Clean Water Act (Public Law 92-500 as amended by Public Law 95-217), which reaffirms the objective of restoring and maintaining the quality of the Nation’s waters.
Early childhood length-for-age is associated with the work status of Filipino young adults
Creators: name: Adair, Linda S.
name: Tan, Vivencia L.
name: Carba, Delia B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Most studies on childhood health and human capital in developing countries examine how early childhood linear growth relates to later human productivity as reflected in schooling success. Work status is another important human capital outcome related to early child health. This study examines the relationship of linear growth restriction at two years of age to work status in young adults who have, for the most part completed their schooling and further explores whether this relationship differs by gender. The analysis sample of 1,795 was drawn from participants in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey, which followed individuals from birth to age 20–22 years. Work status in 2005 was represented by three categories: not working, working in an informal job, and working in a formal job. Formal work in the Philippines, as in most countries, is associated with regular hours, higher wages and benefits. Analyses were stratified by gender and current school enrolment, and adjusted for socioeconomic status and attained years of schooling. Among males no longer in school, higher length-for-age Z score (LAZ) at age 2 was associated with a 40% increase in likelihood of formal work compared to not working. In females, each 1 unit increase in LAZ was associated with 0.2 higher likelihood of formal vs. informal work. No significant associations were observed in the small sample of young adults still in school. To improve job prospects of young adults, it is important to provide proper nutrition in early childhood and adequate educational opportunities during schooling years.
Unionicola (Prasadatax) brandti Vidrine 1985
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Unionicola
Unionicola brandti

description: Unionicola (Prasadatax) brandti Vidrine, 1985
Records from the study area: Kerala—John & Inasu (2005).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: SE Asia, India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Aharonov-Bohm oscillations and electron gas transitions in hexagonal core-shell nanowires with an axial magnetic field
Creators: name: Royo, Miquel
name: Segarra, Carlos
name: Bertoni, Andrea
name: Goldoni, Guido
name: Planelles, Josep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use spin-density-functional theory within an envelope function approach to calculate electronic states in a GaAs/InAs core-shell nanowire pierced by an axial magnetic field. Our fully 3D quantum modeling includes explicitly the description of the realistic cross-section and composition of the sample, and the electrostatic field induced by external gates in two different device geometries, gate-all-around and back-gate. At low magnetic fields, we investigate Aharonov-Bohm oscillations and signatures therein of the discrete symmetry of the electronic system, and we critically analyze recent magnetoconductance observations. At high magnetic fields we find that several charge and spin transitions occur. We discuss the origin of these transitions in terms of different localization and Coulomb regimes and predict their signatures in magnetoconductance experiments.
Current and emerging drug treatment strategies to tackle invasive community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection: what are the challenges?
Creators: name: Vena, Antonio
name: Castaldo, Nadia
name: Magnasco, Laura
name: Bavastro, Martina
name: Limongelli, Alessandro
name: Giacobbe, Daniele Roberto
name: Bassetti, Matteo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections represent a leading cause of purulent skin and soft tissue infections in some geographical regions. Traditionally, ‘old antibiotics’ such as trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, tetracyclines, clindamycin, chloramphenicol,vancomycin, and teicoplanin have been used to treat these infections, but these were often associated with low efficacy and excessive side effects and toxicity, especially nephrotoxicity. Along with the development of new compounds, the last decade has seen substantial improvements in the management of CA-MRSA infections. In this review, the authors discuss the current and emerging drug treatment strategies to tackle invasive CA-MRSA infections. Articles reported in this review were selected from through literature searches using the PubMed database. The availability of new drugs showing a potent in vitro activity against CA-MRSA represents a unique opportunity to face the threat of resistance while potentially reducing toxicity. All these compounds represent promising options to enhance our antibiotic armamentarium. However, data regarding the use of these new drugs in real-life studies are limited and their best placement in therapy and in terms of optimization of medical resources and balance of cost-effectiveness requires further investigation.
Life of the Cloth: Stories in the Making
Creators: name: Sweeney, Clair
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
title: Dr. jur. Gustav Keller-Bühler, a. Ständerat, 1867-1932
title: (Reden gehalten bei seiner Bestattung)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ryhiner, Wilhelm
name: Schmid, R.
name: Schrafl, A.
name: Keller, Emil
name: Corti, Robert
name: Häberlin, Heinrich
Publisher: name: Buchdruckerei Winterthur
Year: 1932
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Keller, Gustav
subject: Winterthur

description: Inhalt: Ansprache von Herrn Dekan W. Ryhiner ; Nachruf von Herrn a. Nationalrat Dr. R. Schmid ; Nachruf von Herrn Dr. h.c. A. Schrafl ; Nachruf von Herrn Regierungs- und Nationalrat E. Keller, Aarau ; Abschiedsworte von Herrn Dr. Robert Corti ; Abschiedsworte von Herrn Bundesrat H. Häberlin
Unionicola (Prasadatax) diversipes K. Viets 1926
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Unionicola
Unionicola diversipes

description: Unionicola (Prasadatax) diversipes K. Viets, 1926
Records from the study area: Bengal—K. Viets (1926a, b); Kerala—John & Inasu (2005); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India, Burma.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
title: An exploration of teacher - pupil communication, narrative thinking and learning
Creators: name: Cwenar, Stasia
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: This thesis reports some of the complex issues encountered, researched and addressed in the context of participatory, practitioner action research to support student learning in educational settings. Research methods were devised in response to genuine school-based situations working with colleagues within communities of practice. The focus is the interplay between teachers’ communicative competence and teaching styles and students’ communicative competence and learning abilities. A series of four linked studies are reported which involved several hundred participants from pre-school to adult in a range of socio-economic and cultural settings, using mixed methods including interviews, observations and a comparative study. Improvements are reported in the cognitive-linguistic ability of students in relation to their narrative abilities following interventions conducted in classroom settings. The interventions involved support for narrative thinking and communication skills based around exploratory talk. The results suggest a positive relationship between students’ communicative and narrative competences and the potential for effective academic learning. Nursery school observations and interviews in Japan revealed informed and effective educational and cultural support for young children’s narrative competence and Japanese participants’ comparatively advanced development in narrative thinking. The results of the studies suggest that teachers’ classroom interactions involving exploratory talk serve to support and help improve students’ narrative competence and inner speech to support formal academic learning. The findings are discussed in terms of pedagogical knowledge, school culture and the UK educational climate.
A general estimator for the right endpoint - with an application to supercentenarian women's records
Creators: name: Alves, Isabel Fraga
name: Neves, Cláudia
name: Rosário, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We extend the setting of the right endpoint estimator introduced in Fraga Alves and Neves (Statist. Sinica 24:1811--1835, 2014) to the broader class of light-tailed distributions with finite endpoint, belonging to some domain of attraction induced by the extreme value theorem. This stretch enables a general estimator for the finite endpoint, which does not require estimation of the (supposedly non-positive) extreme value index. A new testing procedure for selecting max-domains of attraction also arises in connection with asymptotic properties of the general endpoint estimator. The simulation study conveys that the general endpoint estimator is a valuable complement to the most usual endpoint estimators, particularly when the true extreme value index stays above $-1/2$, embracing the most common cases in practical applications. An illustration is provided via an extreme value analysis of supercentenarian women data.
description: Another version published in Extremes Journal
The declining prevalence of overweight among Russian children: Income, diet, and physical activity behavior changes
Creators: name: Adair, Linda
name: Jahns, Lisa
name: Popkin, Barry M.
name: Mroz, Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The aim of this study is to examine the relationships among income, diet, physical activity behaviors and overweight among Russian children during a period of economic upheaval. Subjects include 2151 schoolchildren aged 7-13 derived from cross-sectional waves of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys in 1995 and in 2002. Diet was assessed by 24-h recall and physical activity (hrs/week) and household income by parental questionnaire. Hours spent in vigorous activities were low (1.0-1.5 hrs/week), and time spent in sedentary behaviors increased from 31 to 37 hrs/week between 1995 and 2002. In 1995 there was a direct relationship of income to energy and fat intake, and time spent in vigorous activity, and an inverse relationship of income to hrs/wk spent in moderate activities (such as walking to school). The effect of having low income parents was less in 2002 than in 1995. Overweight prevalence did not differ significantly by income in either year, but there was a significant decline in overweight among high income children. Only hours spent in moderate physical activity was moderately protective against overweight. Income disparities do not explain trends in overweight among Russian children.
Community Voices in Design Practice: A Case Study of Understanding Older Adults' Clothing Needs for Keeping Warm at Home
Creators: name: Gwilt, Alison
name: Homer, Catherine
name: Sherriff, Graeme
name: Childs, Charmaine
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
title: Advanced sensing technologies and systems for lung function assessment
Creators: name: Lee, Chang Sheng
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: Chest X-rays and computed tomography scans are highly accurate lung assessment tools, but their hazardous nature and high cost remain a barrier for many patients. Acoustic imaging is an alternative to lung function assessment that is non-hazardous, less costly, and has a patient-to-equipment approach. In this thesis, the suitability of acoustic imaging for lung health assessment is proven via systematic review and numerical airway modelling. An acoustic lung sound acquisition system, consisting of an optimal denoising filter translated into imaging for continual and reliable lung function assessment, is then developed. To the author’s best knowledge, locating obstructed airways via an acoustic lung model andthe resulting acoustic lung imaging have yet to be investigated in the open literature; hence,a novel acoustic lung spatial model was first developed in this research, which links acousticlung sounds and acoustic images with pathologic changes. About 89% structural similaritybetween an acoustic reference image based on actual lung sound and the developed modelacoustic image based on the computation of airway impedance was achieved. External interference is inevitable in lung sound recordings; thus, an indirect unifying of wavelet-based total variation (WATV) and empirical Wiener denoising filter is proposed to enhance recorded lung sound signals. To the author’s best knowledge, the integration of WATV and Wiener filters has not been investigated for lung sound signals. Selection and analysis of optimal parameters for the denoising filter were performed through a case study. The optimal parameters achieved through simulation studies led to an average 12.69 ± 5.05 dB improvement in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and the average SNR was improved by 16.92 ± 8.51 dB in the experimental studies. The hybrid denoising filter significantly enhances the signal quality of the captured lung sounds while preserving the characteristics of a lung sound signal and is less sensitive to the variation of SNR values of the input signal. A robust system was developed based on the established lung spatial model and denoising filter through hardware redesign and signal processing, which outperformed commercial digital stethoscopes regarding SNR and root mean square error by about 8 dB and 0.15, respectively. Regarding sensing sensitivity power spectrum mapping, the developed system sensors’ position is neutral, as opposed to digital stethoscopes, when representing lung signals, with a signal power loss ratio of around 5 dB compared to 10 dB from digital stethoscopes. The developed system obtains better detection by about 10% in the obstructed airway region compared to digital stethoscopes in the experimental studies.
title: Bi+ men and their intimate partners: sexual identities, intimate relationships and binegativity
Creators: name: Lawton, Samuel John
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: Bisexual men stand at a distinct intersection of stigmatisation, and binegativity is a unique social problem distinct from homophobia. This thesis scopes the breadth of binegativity and its various forms, developing a typology and exploring plural understandings of bisexuality. Drawing on 17 semi-structured interviews with bi+ men and their partners (25 participants overall), experiences of binegativity are explored, with romantic relationships analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Despite no explicit questions about prejudice, all participants reported experiencing binegativity, often unakin to homophobia, both implicitly and explicitly, the latter as threats or acts of violence from strangers. In contrast, implicit binegativity denies bisexuality’s existence, and was displayed by close family, whose understanding of bisexuality was overshadowed by stereotypes, and participants were burdened undoing misunderstanding through education. Romantic relationships were sites of safety, positivity and growth, with identities being explored and developed, mutual understandings reached and experimentation outside of monogamous, heteronormative and patriarchal relationship structures negotiated. Some participants relayed that their partner choice was in some way shaped by heteronormative family expectations. Identities were often expressed plurally, with participants often expressing at least two sexual identity labels simultaneously, some of them contextually used over others. I conclude that bisexual+ people suffer epistemic injustices which exclude them from articulations of LGBTQ equality and same-sex marriage debates which emphasise monosexuality, sameness to heterosexuality and fixity. I suggest that education is a possible avenue away from binegativity, along with everyday articulations of bisexuality that challenge a status quo characterised by binary thinking about gender and sexuality.
From Counterfeit to Classroom
Creators: name: Armstrong, Angela
name: Muirhead, Ann
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Transport of organelles by elastically coupled motor proteins
Creators: name: Bhat, Deepak
name: Gopalakrishnan, Manoj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Motor-driven cargo transport is a complex phenomenon where multiple motor proteins attached on to a cargo engage in pulling activity, often leading to tug-of-war, displaying bidirectional motion. However, most mathematical and computational models ignore the details of the motor-cargo interaction. Here, we study a generic model in which N motors are elastically coupled to a cargo, which itself is subjected to thermal noise in the cytoplasm and to an additional external applied force. The motor-hopping rates are chosen to satisfy detailed balance with respect to the energy of elastic stretching. With these assumptions, an (N+1)-variable master equation is constructed for dynamics of the motor-cargo complex. By expanding the hopping rates to linear order in fluctuations in motor positions, we obtain a linear Fokker-Planck equation. The deterministic equations governing the average quantities are separated out and explicit analytical expressions are obtained for the mean velocity and diffusion coefficient of the cargo. We also study the statistical features of the force experienced by an individual motor and quantitatively characterize the load-sharing among the cargo-bound motors. The mean cargo velocity and the effective diffusion coefficient are found to be decreasing functions of the stiffness. While increase in the number of motors N does not increase the velocity substantially, it decreases the effective diffusion coefficient which falls as 1/N asymptotically. We further show that the cargo-bound motors share the force exerted on the cargo equally only in the limit of vanishing elastic stiffness; as stiffness is increased, deviations from equal load sharing are observed. Numerical simulations agree with our analytical results where expected. Interestingly, we find in simulations that the stall force of a cargo elastically coupled to motors is independent of the stiffness.
Genotoxicity in Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) from a PAH-contaminated Superfund site on the Elizabeth River, Virginia
Creators: name: Jung, Dawoon
name: Di Giulio, Richard T.
name: Collins, Leonard B.
name: Matson, Cole W.
name: Bickham, John W.
name: Stapleton, Heather M.
name: Swenberg, James A.
name: Laban, Geoff
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The Atlantic Wood Industries Superfund site (AWI) on the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth, VA is heavily contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from a wood treatment facility. Atlantic killifish, or mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus), at this Superfund site are exposed to very high concentrations of several carcinogens. In this study, we measured PAH concentrations in both fish tissues and sediments. Concurrently, we assessed different aspects of genotoxicity in the killifish exposed in situ. Both sediment and tissue PAH levels were significantly higher in AWI samples, relative to a reference site, but the chemistry profile was different between sediments and tissues. Killifish at AWI exhibited higher levels of DNA damage compared to reference fish, as measured via the flow cytometric method (FCM), and the damage was consistent with sediment PAH concentrations. Covalent binding of benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) metabolites to DNA, as measured via LC-MS/MS adduct detection methods, were also elevated and could be partially responsible for the DNA damage. Using similar LC-MS/MS methods, we found no evidence that oxidative DNA adducts had a role in observed genotoxicity.
Unionicola (Pentatax) affinis Piersig 1906
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Unionicola
Unionicola affinis

description: Unionicola (Pentatax) affinis (Piersig, 1906)
New records: India, Uttaranchal, Khandagad, pool, viii. 2008 leg. Kumar, 0/1/0 (mounted).
Records from the study area: Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala—Cook (1967); Maharashtra, West Bengal—Lundblad (1969); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, China, Thailand.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Unionicola (Pentatax) armata Walter 1929
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Unionicola
Unionicola armata

description: Unionicola (Pentatax) armata Walter, 1929
Records from the study area: Maharashtra, Karnataka—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974); West Bengal, Maharashtra—Lundblad (1969).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Burma.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
title: Quadrupole moments of strongly deformed shapes in 154Er
Creators: name: Revill, John
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: The quadrupole moments of strongly deformed, ultrahigh-spin bands in the nucleus 154Er have been measured for the first time, providing a calibration for recent measurements made for similar bands in 157Er and 158Er using the same method. High-spin states up to ∼52ħ have been populated using the fusion-evaporation reaction 110Pd(48Ti,4nγ)154Er at a beam energy of 215 MeV, in an experiment performed at the ATLAS facility at Argonne National Laboratory, USA, using the Gammasphere detector array. Two new ultrahigh-spin bands, believed to be triaxially deformed, have been observed in 154Er in addition to the known triaxial strongly deformed (TSD) band and superdeformed (SD) axially symmetric prolate band. The quadrupole moments, Qt, of three of these bands have been measured using the Doppler-shift attenuation method (DSAM), with values of 11.0 ± 0.6 eb for the known TSD band, 19.5 ± 1.5 eb for the SD band and 10.0 ± 0.9 eb for one of the new bands. Cranked Nilsson-Strutinsky (CNS) calculations are compared with results and possible nucleon configurations are discussed. A configuration similar to that of the yrast SD band of the isotone 152Dy is assigned to the 154Er SD band. Based on their Qt, the triaxial bands appear more consistent with configurations corresponding to a TSD shape with a negative γ deformation parameter. The Qt of ∼11 eb is consistent with previous results for the four TSD bands in 157,158Er. These results challenge theoretical calculations that predict positive-γ TSD shapes to be energetically favoured over negative-γ shapes.
Deconvolution estimation of mixture distributions with boundaries
Creators: name: Lee, Mihee
name: Burch, Christina
name: Shen, Haipeng
name: Hall, Peter
name: Tolle, Jon
name: Marron, J. S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: In this paper, motivated by an important problem in evolutionary biology, we develop two sieve type estimators for distributions that are mixtures of a finite number of discrete atoms and continuous distributions under the framework of measurement error models. While there is a large literature on deconvolution problems, only two articles have previously addressed the problem taken up in our article, and they use relatively standard Fourier deconvolution. As a result the estimators suggested in those two articles are degraded seriously by boundary effects and negativity. A major contribution of our article is correct handling of boundary effects; our method is asymptotically unbiased at the boundaries, and also is guaranteed to be nonnegative. We use roughness penalization to improve the smoothness of the resulting estimator and reduce the estimation variance. We illustrate the performance of the proposed estimators via our real driving application in evolutionary biology and two simulation studies. Furthermore, we establish asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators.
An axiomatic approach to gradients with applications to Dirichlet and obstacle problems beyond function spaces
Creators: name: Arnlind, Joakim
name: Björn, Anders
name: Björn, Jana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 49J27 (Primary), 31E05, 35J50, 35J66, 49Q20, 46L51, 46L52 (Secondary)

description: We develop a framework for studying variational problems in Banach spaces with respect to gradient relations, which encompasses many of the notions of generalized gradients that appear in the literature. We stress the fact that our approach is not dependent on function spaces and therefore applies equally well to functions on metric spaces as to operator algebras. In particular, we consider analogues of Dirichlet and obstacle problems, as well as first eigenvalue problems, and formulate conditions for the existence of solutions and their uniqueness. Moreover, we investigate to what extent a lattice structure may be introduced on (ordered) Banach spaces via a norm-minimizing variational problem. A multitude of examples is provided to illustrate the versatility of our approach.
description: 36 pages
An Internet of Soft Things
Creators: name: Briggs-Goode, Amanda
name: Glazzard, Martha
name: Walker, Sarah
name: Lucas, Rachel
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Real-time solar wind prediction based on SDO/AIA coronal hole data
Creators: name: Rotter, T.
name: Veronig, A. M.
name: Temmer, M.
name: Vrsnak, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an empirical model based on the visible area covered by coronal holes close to the central meridian in order to predict the solar wind speed at 1 AU with a lead time up to four days in advance with a 1hr time resolution. Linear prediction functions are used to relate coronal hole areas to solar wind speed. The function parameters are automatically adapted by using the information from the previous 3 Carrington Rotations. Thus the algorithm automatically reacts on the changes of the solar wind speed during different phases of the solar cycle. The adaptive algorithm has been applied to and tested on SDO/AIA-193A observations and ACE measurements during the years 2011-2013, covering 41 Carrington Rotations. The solar wind speed arrival time is delayed and needs on average 4.02 +/- 0.5 days to reach Earth. The algorithm produces good predictions for the 156 solar wind high speed streams peak amplitudes with correlation coefficients of cc~0.60. For 80% of the peaks, the predicted arrival matches within a time window of 0.5 days of the ACE in situ measurements. The same algorithm, using linear predictions, was also applied to predict the magnetic field strength from coronal hole areas but did not give reliable predictions (cc~0.2).
description: under revision for Solar Physics
Microelectrophoresis platform for fast serial analysis of single cells
Creators: name: Jiang, Dechen
name: Sims, Christopher E.
name: Allbritton, Nancy L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: A capillary-based microelectrophoresis platform for fast serial analysis of single cells is described. In this system, the capillary remains fixed and a two-channel flow system is used to rapidly switch the buffer surrounding the capillary inlet from a physiological buffer to an electrophoretic buffer. Single cells are retained in the physiologic-buffer channel utilizing an array of cell microwells patterned into the channel floor. The defined addresses of the cells on the array enable the sequential delivery of individual cells to the inlet of the capillary, where a focused laser pulse lyses the cell. The cell chamber is moved along a preordained route so that the inlet of the capillary is located in the electrophoresis buffer for separation and the physiological buffer during cell sampling. The throughput of the current system is limited by peak overlap between successive samples. Key characterizations of this system including the fluid flow rates, the cell array dimensions, and laser energies were performed. To demonstrate this system, 28 cells loaded with Oregon green and fluorescein were serially analyzed in under 16 min, a rate of 1.8 cells/min.