cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Abrupt Temperautre and Hydroclimate Transition in Southeast Africa During Glacial Termination V: The Organic Geochemical Record from Lake Malawi
Creators: name: Ramirez, Briana
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Africa's climate became progressively drier and more variable in the last few million years (e.g., deMenocal, 2004). Of particular interest, is a shift to drier and more variable conditions in the Olorgesailie Formation (Kenya) between 500 and 300 thousand years ago (ka) in which Potts et al. (2018) observed a turnover of ~85% of large-body mammalian fauna to smaller-body related taxa, suggesting that the shift was an evolutionary response to better adapt to the changing climate. However, a hiatus in the Olorgesailie record means that the cause of this faunal shift is still an outstanding question. Here, we analyze Lake Malawi drill core MAL 05–1 (~11ºS, 34ºE) to investigate if a specific climatic event stands out as a possible driver of the dramatic change observed in the East African mammal community. We use organic geochemical proxies including branched glycerol diaklyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs), leaf wax carbon and deuterium isotopic records to develop high-resolution temperature, vegetation, and precipitation records, respectively, between 600 and 200 ka. Results show a dramatic and abrupt temperature increase of ~6°C occurring in less than 3000 years during Glacial Termination V, which is the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 12 to MIS 11 transition at ~430 ka. Notably, this deglacial warming coincides with enriched leaf wax deuterium isotopic values suggesting a shift to more arid conditions in interglacial MIS 11 than in glacial MIS 12. Results also show another abrupt warming period in which temperature increased ~9°C around MIS 7 (~240 ka). We propose that the major warming and drying during Termination V in East Africa represents a significant abrupt change in the climate of eastern Africa and was a likely driver of the major faunal turnover noted in the Olorgesailie Basin.
Screening of cell-virus, cell-cell, gene-gene interactions among kingdoms of life at single cell resolution
Creators: name: 王浩宇(Haoyu Wang)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2021
Subjects: Transcriptome or Gene expression
Multispecies

description: 严重急性呼吸系统综合症冠状病毒 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 的爆发对全球健康构成了重大而紧迫的威胁。 SARS-CoV-2 的确切动物起源仍不清楚，了解其宿主范围对于防止种间传播至关重要。此前，我们评估了 SARS-CoV-2 在宠物、家畜、家禽和野生动物中的靶细胞谱。在此，我们将这项调查扩展到更广泛的动物物种和病毒，为大规模筛选潜在病毒宿主提供全面的来源。构建了几种哺乳动物物种（羊驼、仓鼠、刺猬、龙猫等）的单细胞图谱，以及不同谱系动物的肺、脑和外周血单核细胞 (PBMC) 的比较图谱，从中我们系统地分析了来自哺乳动物、鸟类、爬行动物、两栖动物和无脊椎动物的 20 多种 113 种病毒的病毒进入因子。还鉴定了保守的细胞连接组和调节组，揭示了这些物种之间的基本细胞-细胞和基因-基因串扰。总体而言，我们的研究可以帮助确定 SARS-CoV-2 和多种病毒的潜在宿主范围和组织嗜性，并揭示宿主-病毒共同进化的足迹。
Microplastics in Local Communities’ Tap Water
Creators: name: Rattell, Zachary T
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Microplastics are an emerging environmental contaminant. One of the ways microplastics can get into the environment is by the breakdown of larger plastics. These plastics can come from industrial practices, discarded fabrics, agriculture, and general plastic waste. As these plastics are broken down microplastics leach into the environment. The widespread use of plastics has resulted in the spread of microplastic contaminants all over the world. Microplastics have been reported to be in drinking water, so this paper is looking at the presence of microplastics in local communities of different demographics and socioeconomic statuses. In other studies of different drinking water contamination, minority, and low-income communities had worse quality water. In this paper, methods for sampling, extraction, and analysis with Laser Direct Infrared Spectroscopy were used. Out of Cities A, B, and C, City A, with the largest population, higher percentage of minorities, and worse off socioeconomic status, had the highest particle count. More research is needed in this field to find how socioeconomic status can affect exposure to microplastic contamination.
Christoph Ulf / Robert Rollinger (Hrsg.): Lag Troia in Kilikien? Der aktuelle Streit um Homers Ilias
Creators: name: Schulz-Koppe, Heinz-Jürgen
Publisher: name: Forum Classicum
Year: 2017

description: Rezension zu: Christoph Ulf / Robert Rollinger (Hrsg.): Lag Troia in Kilikien? Der aktuelle Streit um Homers Ilias. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, 448 Seiten (ISBN978-3- 534-23208-6).
description: Forum Classicum, Nr. 1 (2014): Forum Classicum
title: Χρηματοοικονομική ανάλυση συμπεριφοράς μεταποιητικών μικρομεσαίων επιχειρήσεων Ελλάδας
Creators: name: Τσουκαλά Ουρανία
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2004

description: φ. 1: Οι ελληνικές ΜΜΕ και το οικονομικό περιβάλλον -- Κεφ. 2: Οι ΜΜΕ σε Ε.Ε.-Η.Π.Α.-Ιαπωνία -- Κεφ. 3: Προοπτικές εξέλιξης ΜΜΕ -- Κεφ. 4: Στατιστική ανάλυση δείγματος μεταποιητικών μικρομεσαίων επιχειρήσεων -- Κεφ. 5: Αξιολόγηση και κατάταξη μεταποιητικών ΜΜΕ, με βάση τη μέθοδο PROMETHEE
title:  La tutela degli animali nel dibattito parlamentare sulle proposte di modifica della Costituzione nella XVIII legislatura
Creators: name: D’Alessandro  ,  Maria Silvia
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2022

description: La riforma dell’art. 9 Cost., che introduce la tutela dell’ambiente, della biodiversità, degli ecosistemi e degli animali, si colloca in una visione sistemica che supera l’antropocentrismo dell’ordinamento. Sugli animali, fornisce un’indicazione valoriale che indirizzerà la produzione normativa. La riserva di legge dello Stato che stabilirà i modi e le forme della tutela degli animali rappresenta un limite verso il basso per le Regioni che potranno disporre una disciplina più stringente.
description: Nuovi orizzonti sulla tutela degli animali
Multiple Z' -> t-tbar signals in a 4D Composite Higgs Model
Creators: name: Barducci, D.
name: De Curtis, S.
name: Mimasu, K.
name: Moretti, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the production of top-antitop pairs at the Large Hadron Collider as a testbed for discovering heavy Z' bosons belonging to a composite Higgs model, as, in this scenario, such new gauge interaction states are sizeably coupled to the third generation quarks of the Standard Model. We study their possible appearance in cross section as well as (charge and spin) asymmetry distributions. Our calculations are performed in the minimal four-dimensional formulation of such a scenario, namely the 4-Dimensional Composite Higgs Model (4DCHM), which embeds five new $Z'$s. We pay particular attention to the case of nearly degenerate resonances, highlighting the conditions under which these are separable in the aforementioned observables. We also discuss the impact of the intrinsic width of the new resonances onto the event rates and various distributions. We confirm that the 14 TeV stage of the LHC will enable one to detect two such states, assuming standard detector performance and machine luminosity. A mapping of the discovery potential of the LHC of these new gauge bosons is given. Finally, from the latter, several benchmarks are extracted which are amenable to experimental investigation.
description: 30 pages, 3 figures. Text and figures updated to match published version
Factors influencing the occurrence and spread of aquatic invasive species in watershed systems
Creators: name: Ortiz, Hazel M
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Watershed systems are experiencing rapid changes to water quality and hydrologic regimes due in part to climate-induced changes in temperature and precipitation, urbanization, and increases in aquatic invasive species. Aquatic invasive species are one of the primary threats to ecosystems, contributing to loss of biodiversity, altered hydrologic regimes, and stream degradation. Urban land use and climatic factors influence the spread of invasive species, presenting greater challenges for future invasive species management. There is a need for more research that evaluates the watershed process in connection with urban land use and climate change factors in relation to invasive species spread. This study will examine factors of climate change and land use that may be influencing the spread and occurrence of aquatic invasive plants within the Connecticut River watershed. There will be four species involved in this study: Eurasian milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), Variable milfoil (Myriophyllum heterophyllum), Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillate), and the European water chestnut (Trapa natans). Hydrological conditions within the watershed will be analyzed using the SWAT model through the HAWQS interface. ArcGIS Pro will be used to combine and prepare data so that it may be utilized through MaxEnt. MaxEnt will be used to create species distribution models to estimate the probability of the presence of invasive aquatic plant species in the Connecticut river watershed.
title: Ένα έμπειρο σύστημα υποστήριξης αποφάσεων μάρκετινγκ
Creators: name: Ματσατσίνης Νίκος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 1995

description: Κεφ. 1: Αποφάσεις μάρκετινγκ -- Κεφ. 2: Φιλοσοφία και εξέλιξη των πληροφοριακών συστημάτων μάρκετινγκ -- Κεφ. 3: Μεθοδολογία ανάπτυξης, έρευνας αγοράς και σχεδιασμού νέων προϊόντων -- Κεφ. 4: Ανάλυση, σχεδιασμός και ανάπτυξη του Markex -- Κεφ. 5: Εφαρμογή στην ανάπτυξη προϊόντος ελαιολάδου για τη γαλλική χώρα
PARTICIPATORY WETLAND GOVERNANCE IN RAMSAR – ASSESSING LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION IN INDIA
Creators: name: Ravandale, Seema
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Due to the alarming rate of global wetland depletion, the Ramsar Convention, an international wetland conservation and management treaty, was signed in 1971. As of today, 172 countries are signatories. The intricate connection of local communities, their indigenous knowledge and hence their participation in the wetland governance has been recently recognized by Ramsar to protect the community's right over wetlands and to establish the joint stewardship of government and communities on these vital resources. Ramsar Convention provides a broader framework for participatory wetland governance; however, there needs to be more clarity on how various countries understand, perceive, and adopt community participation in their national policies. The case of India, where communities depend on wetland bodies for lives and livelihoods, makes an appropriate case for similar countries in South Asia. Qualitative research methodologies are applied at various stages of the research. The participatory wetland governance proposed under the Ramsar Convention and India's national and state policies is analyzed based on the framework developed under this research. The pair of state and wetland sites are selected for detailed case analysis to understand the diversities and commonalities of the policy framework. The comparative examination between Ramsar and India and across the four sites helps to understand the policy diversions.
The policy diversions from Ramsar's framework are observed in national and state policies. However, the case studies provide new insights embedded in the contextual setting to draw policy recommendations to create better opportunities for community participation in India and Ramsar Convention. The meaning of community participation in theories is prone to various interpretations in practice. This research provides a way to decipher the meaning of participation, bridge the gap between theories and practice, and propose practical and achievable community participation in wetland governance.
title: O ρόλος των υπολογιστικών παιγνίων στη διοίκηση ανθρώπινου δυναμικού
title: The role of gamification in human resources management
Creators: name: Ρουσσινος Νικολαος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Ένα σύγχρονο φαινόμενο με αυξημένο ενδιαφέρον για μελέτη είναι αυτό της παιχνιδοποίησης ή gamification και της εφαρμογής του σε διάφορους επιχειρησιακούς και όχι μόνο τομείς. Tα υπολογιστικά παίγνια συνθέτουν έναν εναλλακτικό ορισμό της παιχνιδοποίησης ή gamification όπως έχει επικρατήσει. Εξετάζεται η σύνδεσή τους με τα παιχνίδια, ενώ ακόμη γίνεται εκτενής αναφορά σε ορισμούς, με σκοπό την πλήρη αποσαφήνιση του όρου. Παρόλο που το φαινόμενο είναι πολυδιάστατο, στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζεται η σύνδεση του gamification με τη διοίκηση ανθρώπινου δυναμικού. Πραγματοποιείται μια βιβλιογραφική επισκόπηση που έχει ως στόχο την διερεύνηση του gamification στον τομέα της διαχείρισης ανθρώπινων πόρων. Για περαιτέρω ανάλυση του θέματος εξετάζονται διαφορετικές περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες, που αφορούν σε εταιρίες με διαφορετικό κλάδο δραστηριοποίησης της μίας από την άλλη. Η έρευνα πραγματοποιείται μέσω συνεντεύξεων με στελέχη εταιριών, σχετικά με την εξοικείωσή τους με την έννοια του όρου gamification και τη χρήση του ως εργαλείο προσέλκυσης, επιλογής και αξιολόγησης προσωπικού.
description: A modern phenomenon of increased study interest is the gamification and its application in business, as well as other sectors. Computing games compose an alternative definition of gamification. Their connection to games is also being 	considered, while extensive definitions are being made, to fully clarify the term. Although the phenomenon is multidimensional, this diploma thesis examines the connection between gamification and human resources management. In addition, a bibliographic review is presented, aiming to explore furthermore the role of gamification in the field of human resources management. Finally, a deeper analysis of this concept is based upon different case studies. These case studies represent the aspects on the matter of companies operating in different sectors. The survey is conducted through interviews of company executives, having as a key point their familiarization with the term of gamification and its use as a recruitment tool.
Combining Simulation and the MspA Nanopore to Study p53 Dynamics and Interactions
Creators: name: Schultz, Samantha A
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

p53 is a transcription factor and an important tumor suppressor protein that becomes activated due to DNA damage. Because of its role as a tumor suppressor, mutations in the gene that encodes it are found in over 50% of human cancers. The N-terminal transactivation domain (NTAD) of p53 is intrinsically disordered and modulates the function and interactions of p53 in the cell. Its disordered structure allows it to be controlled closely by post-translation modifications that regulate p53’s ability to bind DNA and interact with regulatory binding partners. p53 is an attractive target for developing cancer therapeutics, but its intrinsically disordered region makes it difficult for traditional experimental techniques to resolve its heterogeneous conformational ensemble. This challenge necessitates the use of techniques that can capture the transient structural features and interactions of p53 to aid in designing effective drugs that can modulate and stabilize its activity. Hybrid-resolution (HyRes) II is a coarse-grained molecular dynamics force field that was parameterized specifically to capture the dynamics of IDPs and can give insight into secondary structure propensity and how post-translational modifications affect the structural ensemble of the protein. Nanopore experiments allow for real-time, single-molecule studies of protein dynamics and interactions with binding partners through characteristic changes in the current that passes through the nanopore. Pairing nanopore experiments with simulations can give insight into the molecular detail of IDP ensembles and interactions, revealing a fuller picture of how p53 is controlled in stressed cell conditions and how its structure is affected due to various modifications and small molecules with therapeutic implications. Herein, we show the HyRes II force field can capture the complex, long-range dynamics of the p53 tetramer and provide molecular-level detail of the p53 autoinhibition mechanism, which is enhanced by the phosphorylation of the NTAD. Secondly, we use the MspA nanopore to capture the differences in events of the wild-type NTAD and a cancer-associated NTAD mutant. Lastly, we detect a small molecule binding to the WT NTAD using nanopore sensing. This approach of integrating MD simulations and nanopore experiments can be applied to the study of other IDPs which are prevalent in biology and integral to human health and disease.
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Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg
Year: 2017

description: [nicht vorhanden / not available]
description: Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg, Bd. 12 (1987): Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg
Structural evolution of anisotropic SmCo6.8Hf0.2 nanocrystalline magnet prepared by hot deformation
Creators: name: Wang, Hong
name: Zhang, Dongtao
name: Li, Yuqing
name: Yang, Yuqi
name: Yang, Jianjun
name: Liu, Weiqiang
name: Yue, Ming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: SmCo7-based permanent magnets with a TbCu7-type structure have excellent high-temperature performance. However, most of the previously reported SmCo7 nanocrystalline magnets were isotropic, which limited their application. So the preparation of anisotropic SmCo7 magnets with preferred texture is still a challenge. In this work, we prepared anisotropic SmCo6.8Hf0.2 nanocrystalline magnets by hot pressing and hot deformation method. EBSD results indicated that the {0001} orientation texture of the hot deformed magnet was remarkably preferred, which further improved the remanence. Subsequently, the structural evolution process was systematically characterized by TEM. It provides crucial insight for developing high-performance SmCo7-based magnets. Impact Statement: Up to now, most of the previously reported SmCo7 nanocrystalline magnets were isotropic, which limited their application. This work opens up new opportunities to create high-performance SmCo7-based nanostructured magnets.
title: Εφαρμογή ιστού για την καταγραφή μαθησιακών αποτελεσμάτων
Creators: name: Πιαλογλου Αλικη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Στα πλαίσια της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας, πραγματοποιήθηκε η ανάπτυξη ενός Πληροφοριακού Συστήματος στον ιστό (web application), για την καταγραφή των μαθησιακών αποτελεσμάτων των μαθημάτων, σύμφωνα με την Αρχή Διασφάλισης και Πιστοποίησης της Ποιότητας στην Ανώτατη Εκπαίδευση (ΑΔΙΠ) και την διεθνή βιβλιογραφία. Το Σύστημα αναπτύχθηκε με χρήση τεχνολογιών PHP, JavaScript και MySQL και είναι διαθέσιμο προς χρήση στην ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση http://perigrammata.tuc.gr. Στην εφαρμογή αυτή οι διδάσκοντες συμπληρώνουν μία φόρμα, η οποία ακολουθεί τη μορφή ενός εντύπου (περίγραμμα μαθήματος), που έχει διανείμει η ΑΔΙΠ και είναι απαραίτητο για την πιστοποίηση και τη διασφάλιση της ποιότητας των μαθημάτων. Το Σύστημα υλοποιήθηκε για τη διευκόλυνση των διδασκόντων, καθώς τους δίνει τη  δυνατότητα να εισάγουν το περιεχόμενο και τα μαθησιακά αποτελέσματα του μαθήματός τους. Επιπλέον, καταγράφουν τον τρόπο διδασκαλίας που ακολουθούν και την διαδικασία αξιολόγησης των φοιτητών. Πιο συγκεκριμένα το Σύστημα καθοδηγεί τον χρήστη βήμα-βήμα για να καταγράψει σωστά, να τεκμηριώσει και να αποθηκεύσει τα μαθησιακά αποτελέσματα και να έχει τη δυνατότητα να εξάγει τις πληροφορίες σε αρχείο τύπου pdf. Είναι εύκολο στη χρήση του και επεκτάσιμο, αφού μπορεί κάποιος με τις απαραίτητες γνώσεις, να το βελτιώσει και να διευρύνει τις λειτουργίες του. Μετά την καταχώρηση όλων των στοιχείων ενός μαθήματος στην πλατφόρμα, ο διδάσκων παραπέμπεται σε ένα ηλεκτρονικό ερωτηματολόγιο μέτρησης της ικανοποίησης, με σκοπό τη στατιστική τεκμηρίωση της φιλικότητας και πληρότητας του Πληροφοριακού Συστήματος.
Additional file 5 of Impact of body mass index on in-hospital mortality in older patients hospitalized for bacterial pneumonia with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Okada, Akira
name: Yamaguchi, Satoko
name: Jo, Taisuke
name: Yokota, Isao
name: Ono, Sachiko
name: Ikeda Kurakawa, Kayo
name: Nangaku, Masaomi
name: Yamauchi, Toshimasa
name: Kadowaki, Takashi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 5: Table 5. Odds ratios for in-hospital mortality for covariates in the multivariable regression analysis (sensitivity analysis 2).
Privacy Preservation by Disassociation
Creators: name: Terrovitis, Manolis
name: Liagouris, John
name: Mamoulis, Nikos
name: Skiadopoulos, Spiros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we focus on protection against identity disclosure in the publication of sparse multidimensional data. Existing multidimensional anonymization techniquesa) protect the privacy of users either by altering the set of quasi-identifiers of the original data (e.g., by generalization or suppression) or by adding noise (e.g., using differential privacy) and/or (b) assume a clear distinction between sensitive and non-sensitive information and sever the possible linkage. In many real world applications the above techniques are not applicable. For instance, consider web search query logs. Suppressing or generalizing anonymization methods would remove the most valuable information in the dataset: the original query terms. Additionally, web search query logs contain millions of query terms which cannot be categorized as sensitive or non-sensitive since a term may be sensitive for a user and non-sensitive for another. Motivated by this observation, we propose an anonymization technique termed disassociation that preserves the original terms but hides the fact that two or more different terms appear in the same record. We protect the users' privacy by disassociating record terms that participate in identifying combinations. This way the adversary cannot associate with high probability a record with a rare combination of terms. To the best of our knowledge, our proposal is the first to employ such a technique to provide protection against identity disclosure. We propose an anonymization algorithm based on our approach and evaluate its performance on real and synthetic datasets, comparing it against other state-of-the-art methods based on generalization and differential privacy.
description: VLDB2012
DEP Bulletin:Volume 35 Issue 18
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
State of Cancer in the United States
Creators: name: Taylor, Christopher J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Data Visualization
JavaScript
Python

description: As I have an interest in healthcare technology and statistics, I wanted to create a visualization of how different types of cancer impact different communities in the United States. These communities can have varied impacts of cancer, that could be driven by various external factors that can be explored visually. Additionally, cancers have different survival rates and can hit a community and individuals harder, visualizing this difference can help bring better understanding to cancer’s impact on a community. This webpage visualizes these communities’ overall cancer profile looking at at different demographics, cancer sites, survival rates, and geography determine how cancer impacts communities around the country. The Data for these visualizations came from three major sources the CDC, National Cancer Institute, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Number of cancer cases by msa, and varying demographics in 2016 came from the CDC. While 5 year conditional survival rates calculated from 2000-2016 were pulled from SEER portal of the National Cancer Institute, and lastly we used Metropolitan area population estimates in 2016 from the the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Caulobacter ClpXP Adaptor PopA’s Domain Interactions in the Adaptor Hierarchy of CtrA Degradation
Creators: name: Scudder, Thomas P
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

The degradation and recycling of protein is a process essential for the maintenance and regulation of cellular function. More specifically, in Caulobacter crescentus, the ClpXP protease is responsible for driving progression through the cell cycle and protein quality control. This protease utilizes three known adaptors to selectively degrade proteins that initiate different stages of development. This thesis will elaborate on the specific binding interface on one of these adaptors, PopA, with another, RcdA, and focus in on specific residues on PopA and investigate their roles in adaptor binding and delivery of CtrA, the master regulator of Caulobacter. Finally, I will investigate the relationship between and necessity of these adaptors using a mutant PopA that does not require the presence of RcdA or the other adaptor, CpdR. The remainder of this thesis will present data that arises from these projects.
Exotic baryons from a heavy meson and a nucleon
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro
name: Ohkoda, Shunsuke
name: Yasui, Shigehiro
name: Hosaka, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate a hadronic molecule formed by a heavy meson and a nucleon respecting heavy quark symmetry. The tensor force of pion exchange potential plays a dominate role to produce an strong attraction in this system. Solving coupled channel Schrödinger equations for PN and P* N, we find many bound and resonant states with isospin I=0 while there are few resonances in I=1 state. The rich structures with I=0 indicate that the spectrum of heavy baryons near the threshold is influenced by the contributions from such hadron composite structures.
description: To appear in the proceedings of The 5th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm 2012)
A REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF THE LINKED DECISIONS IN THE CONFISCATION OF ILLEGALLY TRADED TURTLES
Creators: name: Smith, Desiree
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Over the last few decades, freshwater turtles have become more common in the global illegal wildlife trade because of the growing demand in the pet trade. Illegally traded turtles may be intercepted and deposited by a number of agencies. However, when turtles are confiscated, many uncertainties and risks make releasing them back to the wild difficult. Therefore, we used tools from decision analysis to achieve the following three objectives: (1) to identify points of intervention in illegal turtle trade using conceptual models, (2) to outline the linked decisions for turtle confiscation and repatriation using decision trees, and (3) to evaluate the decision trees for two example scenarios, one with complete information and one with uncertainty. We used the wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) as a case study, which is a species of conservation concern, in part due to illegal wildlife trafficking. We conducted informational interviews of biologists, law enforcement, land managers, and zoo staff, which we refer to as a decision makers. Interviews revealed that decisions regarding the disposition of confiscated turtles are complicated by uncertainty in disease status and potential differences in origin and confiscation locations. Decision makers that handle confiscated turtles also recognize that their decisions are linked, where linkages rely on personal contacts. In evaluating our decision trees, we found that despite different amounts and kinds of uncertainties, release of the confiscated wood turtles to the wild provided the highest conservation value. Collectively, our research shows how the use of decision trees can help improve decision making in the face of uncertainty.
title: Στατιστικός έλεγχος διαδικασιών με τη συνάρτηση απώλειας του Taguchi
title: Statistical process control using the Taguchi loss function
Creators: name: Σελεαρη Αιμιλιανα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Τα διαγράμματα ελέγχου είναι σημαντικά εργαλεία στατιστικού ελέγχου ποιότητας. Αυτά τα διαγράμματα χρησιμοποιούνται για να αποφασιστεί εάν μια διαδικασία έχει επιτύχει μια κατάσταση στατιστικού ελέγχου και για να διατηρήσουν τον τρέχοντα έλεγχο μιας διαδικασίας. Για να χρησιμοποιηθεί κάποιο από αυτά τα διαγράμματα, πρέπει να καθοριστούν τρεις παράμετροι σχεδιασμού. Το μέγεθος του δείγματος n , η περίοδος δειγματοληψίας h , και ο συντελεστής των ορίων ελέγχου k (ο αριθμός της τυπικής απόκλισης πάνω ή κάτω από την κεντρική γραμμή).
   Το βέλτιστο διάγραμμα σε αυτή την εργασία λαμβάνει υπόψη τη συνάρτηση απώλειας του Taguchi και ελαχιστοποιεί τη συνολική μέση απώλεια μιας διαδικασίας εκτός ελέγχου (ML διάγραμμα). Στην εργασία εξετάζεται μια μεθοδολογία τριών φάσεων για το στατιστικό έλεγχο διαδικασιών για τη σχεδίαση και λειτουργία ενός διαγράμματος ML. Η κατανομή πιθανότητας των μέσων αλλαγών μπορεί να μοντελοποιηθεί μέσω μίας κατανομής Rayleigh που βασίζεται στο ρυθμό δειγματοληψίας που πραγματοποιούνται.
   Στα πλαίσια της διπλωματικής εργασίας παρουσιάζονται διάφορες παραλλαγές της χρήσης της συνάρτησης απώλειας του Taguchi στον στατιστικό έλεγχο διαδικασιών και εξετάζεται ένας αλγόριθμος βελτιστοποίησης που έχει αναπτυχθεί σε περιβάλλον Matlab.
Additional file 6 of Impact of body mass index on in-hospital mortality in older patients hospitalized for bacterial pneumonia with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Okada, Akira
name: Yamaguchi, Satoko
name: Jo, Taisuke
name: Yokota, Isao
name: Ono, Sachiko
name: Ikeda Kurakawa, Kayo
name: Nangaku, Masaomi
name: Yamauchi, Toshimasa
name: Kadowaki, Takashi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table 6. Odds ratios for in-hospital mortality for covariates in the multivariable regression analysis (sensitivity analysis 3).
Additional file 3 of Body mass index and mild cognitive impairment among rural older adults in China: the moderating roles of gender and age
Creators: name: Yuan, Yemin
name: Li, Jie
name: Zhang, Nan
name: Fu, Peipei
name: Jing, Zhengyue
name: Yu, Caiting
name: Zhao, Dan
name: Hao, Wenting
name: Zhou, Chengchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Distribution of MMSE scores among older adults
Convergence results for systems of linear forms on cyclic groups, and periodic nilsequences
Creators: name: Candela, Pablo
name: Sisask, Olof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11B30, Secondary 11K70

description: Given a positive integer $N$ and real number $α\in [0, 1]$, let $m(α,N)$ denote the minimum, over all sets $A\subset \mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z}$ of size at least $αN$, of the normalized count of 3-term arithmetic progressions contained in $A$. A theorem of Croot states that $m(α,N)$ converges as $N\to\infty$ through the primes, answering a question of Green. Using recent advances in higher-order Fourier analysis, we prove an extension of this theorem, showing that the result holds for $k$-term progressions for general $k$ and further for all systems of integer linear forms of finite complexity. We also obtain a similar convergence result for the maximum densities of sets free of solutions to systems of linear equations. These results rely on a regularity method for functions on finite cyclic groups that we frame in terms of periodic nilsequences, using in particular some regularity results of Szegedy (relying on his joint work with Camarena) and equidistribution results of Green and Tao.
description: 35 pages; Minor revisions, plus an update taking into account the preprint arXiv:1404.7742 of Manners
Fat Lowering Effects of Piperine in Caenorhabditis elegans
Creators: name: Teng, Zhoutai
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

P iperine is an alkaloid found in pepper plant, w hich exhibits many health benefits including anti aging, anti cancer, anti diabetic, and anti inflammatory effects. However, the anti obesity research of piperine is limited. Therefore, th is study was done to determine the effects of piperine on fat accumulation, using in vivo model, Caenor habditis elegans . Treatment with 100 μ M piperine reduce fat content of wild type C. elegans by 17% over control. Pumping rate was not affected by piperine, suggesting piperine has no effects on food intake of worms. Mutant strains were tested to determine t he fat reducing mechanisms. daf 2 , daf 12 , and daf 12 mutant strains failed to decrease the fat content by piperine, suggesting piperine may regulates fat accumulation via DAF 2, DAF 12, and DAF 16.
title: Θεωρία και μέτρα κινδύνου με εφαρμογές σε θέματα επιχειρησιακών μοντέλων περιβάλλοντος
Creators: name: Δονας Αθανασιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Τι είναι η θεωρία κινδύνου και πώς αυτή ορίζεται και χρησιμοποιείται σε επιχειρησιακά μοντέλα?
Στόχος της παρούσα πτυχιακής εργασίας είναι η μελέτη των βασικών στοιχείων της Θεωρίας Κινδύνου και η παρουσίαση των μαθηματικών εργαλείων που οδηγούν στην ποσοτικοποίηση και κατ’ επέκταση στην εκτίμηση του ρίσκου σε συγκεκριμένες εφαρμογές. Στην κατεύθυνση αυτή γίνεται μία ανασκόπηση της βιβλιογραφίας για το θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο της επιστημονικής αυτής περιοχής, καθώς και για τις εφαρμογές που έχουν προταθεί μέχρι σήμερα σε θέματα επιχειρησιακών μοντέλων περιβάλλοντος.
Επιπλέον, προτείνεται μία εφαρμογή εκτίμησης κινδύνου σε ένα επιχειρησιακό μοντέλο προσομοίωσης θαλάσσιου κυματισμού το οποίο βασίζεται στη χρονική διάρκεια και το μέγεθος του σημαντικού ύψους κύματος σε επιλεγμένες περιοχές μελέτης. Τα δεδομένα τα οποία χρησιμοποιήθηκαν προέρχονται από σταθμούς τόσο του Ειρηνικού Ωκεανού όσο και του Αιγαίου Πελάγους αλλά και από αντίστοιχες προσομοιώσεις του μοντέλου πρόγνωσης θαλάσσιου κυματισμού.
Για την παραπάνω εφαρμογή και τη στατιστική ανάλυση των αποτελεσμάτων κατασκευάστηκε σχετικός αλγόριθμος - υπολογιστικό πρόγραμμα στη γλώσσα Matlab ο οποίος περιλαμβάνεται στα αποτελέσματα της πτυχιακής εργασίας.

description: What is risk theory and how is it defined and used in operational models?
The main aim of this dissertation is to study the basic elements of Risk Theory and to present the mathematical tools that support risk quantification and assessment in specific applications.
Towards this direction, a review of the literature is firstly attempted on the theoretical background of this scientific area as well as on applications that have been proposed so far operational environmental models.
In addition, a risk assessment application is proposed for a sea wave simulation model based on the time duration and magnitude of significant wave height over selected study areas. The data utilized are obtained from buoy records over the Pacific Ocean and the Aegean Sea as well as from corresponding simulations of the wave prediction model.
The above application and the statistical analysis of the results are based on Matlab based algorithms - computational programs that were developed within the framework of this work.
Helioseismology with PICARD
Creators: name: Corbard, T.
name: Salabert, D.
name: Boumier, P.
name: Appourchaux, T.
name: Hauchecorne, A.
name: Journoud, P.
name: Nunge, A.
name: Gelly, B.
name: Hochedez, J. F.
name: Irbah, A.
name: Meftah, M.
name: Renaud, C.
name: Turck-Chièze, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PICARD is a CNES micro-satellite launched in June 2010 (Thuillier at al. 2006). Its main goal is to measure the solar shape, total and spectral irradiance during the ascending phase of the activity cycle. The SODISM telescope onboard PICARD also allows us to conduct a program for helioseismology in intensity at 535.7 nm (Corbard et al. 2008). One-minute cadence low-resolution full images are available for a so-called medium-$l$ program, and high-resolution images of the limb recorded every 2 minutes are used to study mode amplification near the limb in the perspective of g-mode search. First analyses and results from these two programs are presented here.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, Eclipse on the Coral Sea: Cycle 24 Ascending, GONG 2012 / LWS/SDO-5 / SOHO 27, November 12 - 16, 2012, Palm Cove, Queensland. Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics Conference Series on March 1st 2013
Canton Zurich floating car based link speed measurements
Creators: name: Hackney, J.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2005
Subjects: Zurich
Floating car
Speed
Network
IV
Kanton Netzmonitoring
Individualverkehr
Kantonales Netzmodell
KVM98
Link speeds
GPS
Network calibration

description: Travel Survey Metadata Series, 17
Heat Flow in the Southern Margin of Salar de Atacama: Deep Groundwater Temperature Distributions and the Implications for Subsurface Flow and Land Surface Energy Budgets
Creators: name: Thomas, Graham
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Salar de Atacama (SdA) located in Northern Chile is home to one of the planet’s largest salar systems and lithium resources. Managing groundwater resources in salars is not obvious due to the lack of scientific understanding on the connectivity between the freshwater and brine systems. Using heat as a tracer in SdA provides a cost-effective method to further investigate groundwater flow in salars. This study employs 372 temperature-depth profiles from 90 boreholes between 2013-18 to understand the distinct thermal zones and flow between them in SdA. Three thermal zones exist within the southern margin of SdA’s thermal regime, at higher elevations alluvial fans containing freshwater have a temperature range between 23-28 °C. Down-gradient 2.5 km into the salar transition zone, characterized by freshwater lagoons and newly formed carbonates, the temperature range decreases to 12-17 °C. The transition zone, adjacent to the mature halite crust which hosts a lithium bearing brine and ranges in temperature from 18-22 °C. A 2D numerical groundwater and heat flow model was created to test three hydrologic scenarios to determine how the currently observed thermal regime exists and what the role of groundwater flow is between the different thermal zones. Results demonstrate that a focused flow concept matches current thermal observations with warm inflowing water discharging into the transition zone, cooling due to evaporation, reinfiltrating and preferentially flowing near the surface and discharging again at lagoons near the halite nucleus. Initial focused flow models had the halite nucleus and transition zone hydraulically connected, but results displayed advective flow between the two zones and the halite nucleus carried too much heat from current observations. Indicating the halite nucleus and transition zone has minimal connection, otherwise advective flow would result in thermal equilibrium and a lack of distinct zones as observed. Proper interpretation of temperature-depth profiles along with 2D models place critical constraints on the connectivity between the brine and freshwater systems, providing insight into salar surface energy budgets and a more comprehensive understanding of groundwater flow in the southern margin of SdA. This work gives a new perspective on the groundwater system in SdA while also contributing a novel case study to using heat as a tracer in salar systems.
title: Study of operation process, production planning and forecasting of Voglyplast Co.
title:  Μελέτη παραγωγικής διαδικασίας, προγραμματισμός και πρόβλεψη παραγωγής της εταιρείας Voglyplast
Creators: name: Καψουλια Αικατερινη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: The increasing competition in business environment, as well as the challenging financial situation in Greece, require an effective and efficient production planning in any company in order to overcome the obstacles and remain competitive. This thesis is conducted at Voglyplast Co., which is a manufacturing company that produces PET preforms, bottles and jars.  The main sections of the thesis are the modelling and the simulation of certain scenarios of the production process and the demand forecasting for 2018.
Initially, the Petri Net formalism is used for modelling the production process of fifteen best-selling products, which are divided into three categories according to the characteristics of their production. Then, the simulation of alternative scenarios of the production process takes place and the results that are obtained indicate the potential improvement of the production capacity.
The demand of the following year is based on the past observations of each product. Four different forecasting models are implemented, but the most reliable and accurate with respect to the error measurements is finally chosen.
Finally, in the conclusion, recommendations for the improvement of the operation process are presented and future potential extensions of the present thesis are proposed.
Additional file 4 of Body mass index and mild cognitive impairment among rural older adults in China: the moderating roles of gender and age
Creators: name: Yuan, Yemin
name: Li, Jie
name: Zhang, Nan
name: Fu, Peipei
name: Jing, Zhengyue
name: Yu, Caiting
name: Zhao, Dan
name: Hao, Wenting
name: Zhou, Chengchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 4. An analysis of a non-linear association
A local exchange theory for trapped dipolar gases
Creators: name: Baillie, D.
name: Blakie, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a practical Hartree-Fock theory for trapped Bose and Fermi gases that interact with dipole-dipole interactions. This theory is applicable at zero and finite temperature. Our approach is based on the introduction of local momentum distortion fields that characterize the exchange effects in terms of a local effective potential. We validate our theory against existing theories, finding excellent agreement with full Hartree-Fock calculations.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Annual Greenland mass trends from 2003-2015 from a Bayesian hierarchical modelling (BHM) approach
Creators: name: Chuter, Stephen
name: Rougier, Jonty
name: Zammit-Mangion, Andrew
name: Schumacher, Maike
name: Bamber, Jonathan L
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Presentation at EGU 2018, Vienna, Austria, 8-13 April 2018
Effect of Alliaria petiolata management on post-eradication seed bank dynamics
Creators: name: Thompson, Chloe
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) is an aggressive non-native and invasive forb that negatively impacts native arbuscular mycorrhizal communities and inhibits or prevents the growth of native plant species. Invasive species mitigation and management strategies that use native revegetation vary in success. This study focuses on which species naturally regenerate in areas where A. petiolata has been mitigated to help inform restoration efforts. Seedling emergence of species within the seed bank of four plot types (uninvaded, invaded, chemically treated, and mechanically treated) were observed two years post restoration efforts to determine which native species are likely to persist to seedlings following management. Species abundance and percent cover of all plant species were recorded to evaluate the presence of species in addition to plant health and physiological differences. Native species abundance was significantly reduced within herbicide treated plots as compared to untreated and invaded plots (p=0.02). Plots treated with mechanical removal had the greatest percent cover of native plants as compared to all other plot types but were dominated by colonizing species which is typical of a disturbed habitat. Mechanical removal also resulted in a greater abundance and stability among functional groups of native species, than those treated with herbicide. Forb species dominated coverage of plots over other functional groups when treated with herbicide. Alliaria petiolata invasion and management methods significantly impacted forb and graminoid species, as they had significantly lower abundance in plots treated with herbicide. The results demonstrate that the method of removal as well as the presence of A. petiolata affects emergence of plant species from the seedbank. The additional disturbance of mechanical removal may alter successional trajectories following invasion. Herbicide treatment resulted in the most similar species abundance as the uninvaded reference plots, which had the lowest seedling emergence and percent cover.