cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Meta-analysis of expression and methylation signatures indicates a stress-related epigenetic mechanism in multiple neuropsychiatric disorders
Creators: name: Zhu, Kaiyi
name: Ou Yang, Tai-Hsien
name: Dorie, Vincent Joseph
name: Zheng, Tian
name: Anastassiou, Dimitris
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Neurobehavioral disorders
Pathology
Epigenetics
Methylation
Stress (Psychology)--Physiological aspects
Systems biology

description: Similar environmental risk factors have been implicated in different neuropsychiatric disorders (including major psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases), indicating the existence of common epigenetic mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis shared by different illnesses. To investigate such commonality, we applied an unsupervised computational approach identifying several consensus co-expression and co-methylation signatures from a data cohort of postmortem prefrontal cortex (PFC) samples from individuals with six different neuropsychiatric disorders—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, alcoholism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s—as well as healthy controls. Among our results, we identified a pair of strongly interrelated co-expression and co-methylation (E–M) signatures showing consistent and significant disease association in multiple types of disorders. This E–M signature was enriched for interneuron markers, and we further demonstrated that it is unlikely for this enrichment to be due to varying subpopulation abundance of normal interneurons across samples. Moreover, gene set enrichment analysis revealed overrepresentation of stress-related biological processes in this E–M signature. Our integrative analysis of expression and methylation profiles, therefore, suggests a stress-related epigenetic mechanism in the brain, which could be associated with the pathogenesis of multiple neuropsychiatric diseases.
Stage and street : the cultural history of the early modern Thames
Creators: name: Crover, Sarah Margaret
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: This dissertation is an intervention in a body of work that seeks to narrate the cultural history of the early modern Thames: in it, I aim to rewrite the story of the network of relations between the Thames and its human neighbours. Until now, scholars have overlooked the river’s cultural centrality as both a major English highway and an important London pageant stage. Three main theoretical disciplines form the substrate of my project: historicism, cultural geography, and ecocriticism. Each has very different modes of organizing the world, yet, I argue, bringing these disparate viewpoints into conversation is the only way to engage with the Thames holistically. My discussion flows from tidal current to chronicle, and from chorography and Frost Fair to stage play. While this dissertation’s focus is the sixteenth-century Thames, its chronological scope extends from the completion date of the Historia Regnum Britanniae (c. 1138) to the 1684 Frost Fair on the frozen river. In five chapters I consider the Thames as a fluid staging ground and tidal field of cultural production for the city, the court and the nation. The chapters explore consecutively, its ecology and administration; its cultural mythos; its civic and royal water pageantry; its Frost Fairs; and finally, its relationship with London stage plays. I argue, in this dissertation, for a more varied and dynamic ecocritical engagement with this protean river: I contend that the Thames shaped formulations of English national identity as much as desires of cultural ascendancy inscribed the Thames. Collectively, these chapters argue that while water spectacle and local legend inscribed the river’s surfaces, attempting to transform them into controlled and “practiced places” by means of calculated traversals (Lefebvre, de Certeau), the riverine movements of the Thames, “both familiar and strange” (Brayton 198), continually destabilized these comfortable dreams of mastery, slipping past all the regulations and stories generated to contain it and reshaping both them and their authors.
D8.1 Standardization Landscape and Applicable Standards
Creators: name: Postigo, Rafael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: geothermal retrofitting
standardization
applicable standards

description: The Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE), as a European Standardization Body, is a partner in the GEOFIT project to provide support regarding the standardization tasks included in the project. In order to fulfil this commitment, this deliverable D8.1 "Standardization landscape and applicable standards" has been prepared to guide the partners about the published standards and standards under development that can be applicable to GEOFIT. This deliverable contains the fields of interest related to GEOFIT project, given by its consortium, and, from this starting point, identification and analysis of the standardization technical committees (TC) related with the project as well as of the published standards and standards under development that can be useful and relevant for the project activities. Furthermore, it can help in the future to identify standardization gaps that can be covered by the results of the project.
A class of GUP solutions in deformed quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Pedram, Pouria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various candidates of quantum gravity such as string theory, loop quantum gravity and black hole physics all predict the existence of a minimum observable length which modifies the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to so-called Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). This approach results in the modification of the commutation relations and changes all Hamiltonians in quantum mechanics. In this paper, we present a class of physically acceptable solutions for a general commutation relation without directly solving the corresponding generalized Schrodinger equations. These solutions satisfy the boundary conditions and exhibit the effect of the deformed algebra on the energy spectrum. We show that, this procedure prevents us from doing equivalent but lengthy calculations.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
The Importance of Icelandic Ice Sheet Growth and Retreat on Mantle CO2 Flux
Creators: name: Armitage, John J.
name: Ferguson, David J.
name: Petersen, Kenni D.
name: Creyts, Timothy T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Glaciology
subject: Volcanism
subject: Magmatism
subject: Climatic changes
subject: Ice sheets

description: Climate cycles may significantly affect the eruptive behavior of terrestrial volcanoes due to pressure changes caused by glacial loading, which raises the possibility that climate change may modulate CO2 degassing via volcanism. In Iceland, magmatism is likely to have been influenced by glacial activity. To explore if deglaciation therefore impacted CO2 flux, we coupled a model of glacial loading over the last ∼120 ka to melt generation and transport. We find that a nuanced relationship exists between magmatism and glacial activity. Enhanced CO2 degassing happened prior to the main phase of late Pleistocene deglaciation, and it is sensitive to the duration of the growth of the ice sheet entering into the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), as well as the rate of ice loss. Ice sheet growth depresses melting in the upper mantle, creating a delayed pulse of CO2 out-gassing, as the magmatic system recovers from the effects of loading.
D2.5 Report on new Mobility Data sharing standards
Creators: name: OBREGON GONZALEZ, Renee
name: BLANCO JUSTICIA, Alberto
name: CHEVALLIER, Thierry
name: DJELOUAT, Maroua-Dorsaf
name: KARIMI, Mohamed
name: LAUER, Johannes
name: LETTICH, Francesco
name: MECHYAKHA, Hiba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FAIR principles
specifications
data sharing
mobility standards
GTFS
NeTEx
DATEX II
GBFS
MaaS
SIRI
MDS
OJP
LOD
RDF
OWL
SPARQL
OGC
OSM
DCAT
DCAT-AP
Mobility Data Spaces
building blocks
metadata exchange
semantic interoperability standards

description: Standardisation is essential when producing and exchanging data, especially if this can be used bymany organizations to improve or find solutions to our current mobility problems. This report containsinformation about the last updates regarding mobility standards (public transport, micro-mobility andshared mobility, traffic road data, journey planning, vehicle related data, mobility as a service andticketing data) and cross-domain standards related to new mobility data sharing. This report is partof task 2.3 on Standard Requirements of the MobiDataLab project and it follows the State-of-the-arton Mobility Data sharing (deliverable 2.4). This document will provide an overview of standards, andit will discuss their application in this project, their evolution, and the way their implementation iscarried out.
Development and application of microfluidic single-cell polymerase chain reaction
Creators: name: White, Adam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Methods for single-cell analysis are critical to revealing cell-to-cell variability in biological systems, such as during development or onset of disease, where the characteristics of heterogeneity and minority cell populations are obscured by population-averaged measurements. Analysis of individual cells has been limited due to challenges associated with small amounts of starting material, combined with the cost and throughput required to examine large numbers of cells. Microfluidic approaches are well suited to single-cell analysis, providing increased sensitivity, economy of scale, and automation. This thesis presents the development and application of microfluidic technology for single cell gene expression analysis. The foundational contribution of this work is an integrated microfluidic device capable of performing high-precision RT-qPCR measurements of gene expression from hundreds of single cells per run. This device executes all steps of single cell processing including cell capture, cell lysis, reverse transcription, and quantitative PCR. This device is further expanded upon by integrating the single cell and nucleic acid processing capabilities with final measurement of cDNA by high-density digital PCR. The direct quantification of single molecules by digital PCR has advantages over RT-qPCR in the measurement of low abundance transcripts, as well as obviating the need for relative abundance measurements or calibration standards. This technology is demonstrated in over 5,000 individual cell measurements of mRNA, microRNA, and single nucleotide variant detection in a variety of cell types. Finally, this technology is applied to study the performance of lipid nanoparticles in delivery of RNA, and manipulation of gene expression in cells. The microfluidic integration of cell and nucleic acid processing established in this thesis permits analysis of hundreds of single cells in parallel, while improving work flow and reducing technical variation compared to samples prepared in microliter volumes. Ultimately, this advances the tools available for precisely measuring transcripts in single cells, and has application in research and clinical settings.
Evidence for strong extragalactic magnetic fields from Fermi observations of TeV blazars
Creators: name: Neronov, Andrii
name: Vovk, Ievgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic fields in galaxies are produced via the amplification of seed magnetic fields of unknown nature. The seed fields, which might exist in their initial form in the intergalactic medium, were never detected. We report a lower bound $B\ge 3\times 10^{-16}$~gauss on the strength of intergalactic magnetic fields, which stems from the nonobservation of GeV gamma-ray emission from electromagnetic cascade initiated by tera-electron volt gamma-ray in intergalactic medium. The bound improves as $λ_B^{-1/2}$ if magnetic field correlation length, $λ_B$, is much smaller than a megaparsec. This lower bound constrains models for the origin of cosmic magnetic fields.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 6 of Recombinant anti-Müllerian hormone in the maturation medium improves the in vitro maturation of human immature (GV) oocytes after controlled ovarian hormonal stimulation
Creators: name: Bedenk, Jure
name: Režen, Tadeja
name: Železnik Ramuta, Taja
name: Jančar, Nina
name: Vrtačnik Bokal, Eda
name: Geršak, Ksenija
name: Virant Klun, Irma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6. Box plot of RT–qPCR results for AMHR2 gene expression. Different groups of in vitro matured oocytes are represented with the median line and standard deviation.
title: Otto Naegeli
title: 1871-1938
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Schmid, Hans
name: Kummer, Georg
Publisher: name: Buchdruckerei Kühn & Co.
Year: 1938
Subjects: subject: 580 Pflanzen (Botanik)
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Naegeli, Otto
subject: Ermatingen
subject: Zürich

description: Sonderdruck aus: Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Schaffhausen, Heft 14, 1938, Nummer 4, Seiten 185-210
Does inspiratory resistive loading cause expiratory muscle fatigue?
Creators: name: Peters, Carli Monica
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Expiratory resistive loading (ERL) elicits inspiratory as well as expiratory muscle fatigue, suggesting parallel co-activation of the inspiratory muscles during expiration. It is unknown whether the expiratory muscles are similarly co-activated to the point of fatigue during inspiratory resistive loading (IRL). The purpose of this study was to determine whether IRL elicits expiratory as well as inspiratory muscle fatigue. Male subjects (n=10) underwent isocapnic IRL to task failure (60% maximal inspiratory pressure, 15 breaths/min, 0.7 inspiratory duty cycle). Abdominal and diaphragm contractile function was assessed at baseline and at 3, 15 and 30 min post-IRL by measuring gastric twitch pressure (Pga,tw) and transdiaphragmatic twitch pressure (Pdi,tw) in response to potentiated magnetic stimulation of the thoracic and phrenic nerves, respectively. Electromyographic activity of the diaphragm, rectus abdominis, and external oblique was monitored to ensure consistency of stimulation. Fatigue was defined as >15% reduction from baseline in Pga,tw or Pdi,tw. During IRL (mean ± SE; 11.9 ± 2.5 min), mean arterial pressure and heart rate increased in a time-dependent manner (13 mmHg and 50 beats/min for the final min, respectively). Pdi,tw was significantly lower than baseline (34.1 ± 3.2 cmH₂O) at 3 min (23.2 ± 1.9 cmH₂O, p<0.05) and 15 min post-IRL (24.2 ± 1.7 cmH₂O, p<0.05). Pga,tw was not significantly different from baseline after IRL. These results suggest that IRL elicits objective evidence of diaphragm, but not abdominal, muscle fatigue. Agonist-antagonist interactions for the respiratory muscles appear to be more important during ERL than during IRL. Future studies attempting to characterize the physiological consequences of diaphragm fatigue, without the confounding effects of abdominal fatigue, can use IRL to induce diaphragm fatigue.
RIBEIRO, Agostinho; BRAGA, Alexandra, coord. - Museu de Lamego: pergaminhos. Lisboa: Instituto Português de Museus, 2002. 92 p.
Creators: name: Vilar, Hermínia Vasconcelos
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
Charge separation by photoexcitation in semicrystalline polymeric semiconductors: An intrinsic or extrinsic mechanism?
Creators: name: Paquin, Francis
name: Latini, Gianluca
name: Sakowicz, Maciej
name: Karsenti, Paul-Ludovic
name: Wang, Linjun
name: Beljonne, David
name: Stingelin, Natalie
name: Silva, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We probe charge photogeneration and subsequent recombination dynamics in neat regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) films over six decades in time by means of time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. Exciton dissociation at 10K occurs extrinsically at interfaces between molecularly ordered and disordered domains. Polaron pairs thus produced recombine by tunnelling with distributed rates governed by the distribution of electron-hole radii. Quantum-chemical calculations suggest that hot-exciton dissociation at such interfaces results from a high charge-transfer character.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
FONTES, João Luís Inglês (coord.) - A . dos Cunhados: itinerários da memória. A-dos-Cunhados: Edição Pró-Memória, 2002. 576 p.
Creators: name: Jorge, Ana Maria C. M.
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
Age stratigraphy in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet inferred from radio-echo sounding horizons
Creators: name: Winter, Anna
name: Steinhage, Daniel
name: Creyts, Timothy T.
name: Kleiner, Thomas
name: Eisen, Olaf
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic
Geomorphology
Glaciology
Ice sheets

description: The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains a wealth of information that can be extracted from its internal architecture such as distribution of age, past flow features, and surface and basal properties. Airborne radar surveys can sample this stratigraphic archive across broad areas. Here, we identify and trace key horizons across several radar surveys to obtain the stratigraphic information. We transfer the age–depth scales from ice cores to intersecting radar data. We then propagate these age scales across the ice sheet using the high fidelity continuity of the radar horizons. In Dronning Maud Land, including Dome Fuji, we mapped isochrones with ages of 38 and 74 ka. In the central region of East Antarctica around Dome Concordia, Vostok and Dome Argus, we use isochrone ages of 38, 48, 90 and 161 ka. Taking together both regions, we provide isochrone depths traced along a combined profile length of more than 40 000 km and discuss uncertainties of the obtained stratigraphy, as well as factors important to consider for further expansion. This data set is the most extensive distribution of internal horizons in East Antarctica to date. The isochrone depths presented in this study are available on PANGAEA (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.895528; Winter et al., 2018).
Do experiment and the correspondence principle oblige revision of relativistic quantum theory?
Creators: name: Kauffmann, Steven Kenneth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent preliminary data gathered by the Fermilab MINOS Collaboration suggest with 95% confidence that the mass of the muon neutrino differs from that of its antineutrino partner, which contradicts the entrenched relativistic quantum theory notion that a free antiparticle is a negative-energy free particle compelled to travel backwards in time. Also a discrepancy of about five standard deviations in the value of the proton charge radius recently obtained from muonic hydrogen versus that previously obtained from electronic hydrogen casts doubt on the calculation of the dominant relativistic QED contributions to the effects that are actually measured (e.g., the Lamb shift): these QED contributions dominate proton charge radius contributions less in muonic hydrogen than in electronic hydrogen. The negative-energy "free particles" of entrenched relativistic quantum theory are well-known features of the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, which are shown to have many other unphysical features as well. The correspondence principle for relativistic particles is incompatible with these two equations, produces no unphysical features and implies only positive energies for free particles, which eliminates the very basis of the entrenched notion of antiparticles, as well as of the CPT theorem. This principle thus requires antiparticles to arise from charge conjugation (or more generally CP) invariance, whose known breaking is naturally expected to produce mass splitting between particle and antiparticle, in consonance with the preliminary MINOS data. It also requires revamping of relativistic QED, which is in accord with the doubt cast on it by the proton charge radius results, and implies that QED is nonlocal, i.e. has no Hamiltonian density.
description: 17 pages
3D biomechanical oropharyngeal model for training and diagnosis of dysphagia
Creators: name: Farazi, Md Moshiur Rahman
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Swallowing is a complex oropharyngeal process governed by intricate neuromuscular functions. Dysfunction in swallowing, clinically termed as dysphagia, can significantly reduce the quality of life. Modified barium swallow (MBS) studies are performed to produce vidoefluoroscopy (VF) for visualizing swallowing dynamics to diagnose dysphagia. To train the clinicians learning standardized dysphagia diagnosis, 2D animated videos coupled with VF are used. However, it is hypothesised that the physiologic components of the oral domain may benefit from extension of the training materials, such as inclusion of 3D models. We develop a 3D biomechanical swallowing model of the oropharyngeal complex to extend the clinical dysphagia diagnosis training materials. Our approach incorporates realistic geometries and accurate timing of swallowing events derived from training animations that have been clinically validated. We develop rigid body models for the bony structures and finite element models (FEM) for the deformable soft structures, and drive our coupled biomechanical model kinematically with accurate timing of swallowing events. We implement an airway-skin mesh using a geometric skinning technique that unifies geometric blending for rigid body model with embedded surface for FEMs to incorporate the deformation of upper airway during a swallowing motion. We use smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique to simulate a fluid bolus in the airway-skin mesh where the model dynamics drive the bolus to emulate bolus transport during a swallowing motion. We validate this model in two phases. Firstly, we compare the simulated bolus movement with input data and match the swallowing kinematics identified in the standardized animations. Secondly, we extend existing training material for standardized dysphagia diagnosis with our 3D model. To test the usefulness of the extended training set using 3D visualizations, we conduct a pilot user study involving Speech Language Pathologists. The pilot data indicate that clinicians believe the additional 3D views are useful for identifying the salient features for differentiating between different swallowing impairments, such as direction, strength and timing of the tongue motion, and could be a useful addition to the current standardized MBSImP™© training system.
JERÓNIMO, Helena Mateus - Ética e Religião na sociedade tecnológica: os Jesuítas portugueses e a revista Brotéria (1985-2000). Lisboa: Editorial Notícias, 2003. 246 p.
Creators: name: Franco, José Eduardo
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
PEREIRA, José Carlos Francisco - Neotomismo e arte moderna: Brotéria (1902~1960). Prefácio de José Fernandes Pereira. Lisboa: Fundação Lusíada, 2002. Cól. Lusíada; 24. 166 p.
Creators: name: Gomes, Pinharanda
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
SDSS surface photometry of M 31 with absorption corrections
Creators: name: Tempel, Elmo
name: Tuvikene, Taavi
name: Tamm, Antti
name: Tenjes, Peeter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The objective of this work is to obtain an extinction-corrected distribution of optical surface brightness and colour indices of the large nearby galaxy M 31 using homogeneous observational data and a model for intrinsic extinction. We process the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) images in ugriz passbands and construct corresponding mosaic images, taking special care of subtracting the varying sky background. We apply the galactic model developed in Tempel et al. (2010) and far-infrared imaging to correct the photometry for intrinsic dust effects. We obtain observed and dust-corrected distributions of the surface brightness of M 31 and a map of line-of-sight extinctions inside the galaxy. Our extinction model suggests that either M 31 is intrinsically non-symmetric along the minor axis or the dust properties differ from those of the Milky Way. Assuming the latter case, we present the surface brightness distributions and integral photometry for the Sloan filters as well as the standard UBVRI system. We find the following intrinsic integral colour indices for M 31: (U-B)_0=0.35; (B-V)_0=0.86; (V-R)_0=0.63; (R-I)_0=0.53; the total intrinsic absorption-corrected luminosities of M 31 in the B and the V filters are 4.10 and 3.24 mag, respectively.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A. The high-resolution zoomable colour image of M 31 can be seen at http://www.aai.ee/~elmo/m31/
Teachers’ emotion regulation as a protective factor against burnout
Creators: name: Miller, Miriam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Burnout, a phenomenon which involves emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment, is one reason that many educators report leaving the teaching profession. Many of the risk factors associated with burnout have been explored at great length but very little attention has been paid to the protective factors that might mitigate burnout. Accordingly, this study examined the role emotion regulation, both the general knowledge of emotion regulation skills and the reported use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, two common emotion regulation strategies, plays in relation to job satisfaction and burnout. Participants were 233 K-12 teachers who were enrolled in the Summer Principals Academy graduate program for aspiring teacher leaders at Teacher College, Columbia University, between 2008 and 2012. Participants completed self-reported measures regarding their use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, job satisfaction and two aspects of burnout (personal accomplishment and emotional exhaustion). Participants also completed a performance measure of Emotional Intelligence, which included a knowledge test of overall emotion regulation ability. Results of simultaneous hierarchical regression analyses indicated that, contrary to hypotheses, emotion regulation was not, a protective factor against teachers’ experience of burnout in the present sample. The study begs replication, however, as the present sample was not fully representative of the general teaching population (i.e., participants were highly satisfied with their jobs and were studying to become school administrators).
AZEVEDO, Carlos A. Moreira - Igreja Portucalense na recepção do II Concílio do Vaticano: Igreja Portucalense, boletim da diocese do Porto (1970-1984): índices. Porto: Diocese do Porto, 1998. 78 p.
Creators: name: Fontes, Paulo
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
BARRETO, José - Religião e sociedade: dois ensaios. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2002. 175 p.
Creators: name: Fontes, Paulo
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
Additional file 7 of Recombinant anti-Müllerian hormone in the maturation medium improves the in vitro maturation of human immature (GV) oocytes after controlled ovarian hormonal stimulation
Creators: name: Bedenk, Jure
name: Režen, Tadeja
name: Železnik Ramuta, Taja
name: Jančar, Nina
name: Vrtačnik Bokal, Eda
name: Geršak, Ksenija
name: Virant Klun, Irma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7. Q-Q plot of RT–qPCR results for AMHR2 gene expression. These plots show that all of the obtained results are fairly normally distributed despite the low number of samples. The outlier is the last group of in vivo matured oocytes, where no AMHR2 gene expression was observed. Because of this group, ANOVA was not possible, and Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance had to be used.
Translation of collision geometry fluctuations into momentum anisotropies in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Qin, Guang-You
name: Petersen, Hannah
name: Bass, Steffen A.
name: Müller, Berndt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a systematic framework for the study of the initial collision geometry fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and investigate how they evolve through different stages of the fireball history and translate into final particle momentum anisotropies. We find in our event-by-event analysis that only the few lowest momentum anisotropy parameters survive after the hydrodynamical evolution of the system. The geometry of the produced medium is found to be affected by the pre-equilibrium evolution of the medium and the thermal smearing of the discretized event-by-event initial conditions, both of which tend to smear out the spatial anisotropies. We find such effects to be more prominent for higher moments than for lower moments. The correlations between odd and even spatial anisotropy parameters during the pre-equilibrium expansion are quantitatively studied and found to be small. Our study provides a theoretical foundation for the understanding of initial state fluctuations and the collective expansion dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
description: 15 pages, 19 figures
TORGAL, Luís Filipe - As "Aparições de Fátima": imagens e representações (1917-1939). Lisboa: Temas & Debates, 2002. 241 p.
Creators: name: Reis, Bruno Cardoso
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
Giant Flexoelectric Effect in Ferroelectric Epitaxial Thin Films
Creators: name: Lee, Daesu
name: Yoon, A.
name: Jang, S. Y.
name: Yoon, J. -G.
name: Chung, J. -S.
name: Kim, M.
name: Scott, J. F.
name: Noh, T. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on nanoscale strain gradients in ferroelectric HoMnO3 epitaxial thin films, resulting in a giant flexoelectric effect. Using grazing-incidence in-plane X-ray diffraction, we measured strain gradients in the films, which were 6 or 7 orders of magnitude larger than typical values reported for bulk oxides. The combination of transmission electron microscopy, electrical measurements, and electrostatic calculations showed that flexoelectricity provides a means of tuning the physical properties of ferroelectric epitaxial thin films, such as domain configurations and hysteresis curves.
description: Accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett
DOCUMENTAÇÃO Crítica de Fátima. Vol. 3: Das Aparições ao Processo Canónico Diocesano. Fátima: Santuário de Fátima, 2003; 2004. 2 tomos (1-917-1918; 1918-1920)
Creators: name: Reis, Bruno Cardoso
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
Constrained Monte Carlo Method and Calculation of the Temperature Dependence of Magnetic Anisotropy
Creators: name: Asselin, P.
name: Evans, R. F. L.
name: Barker, J.
name: Chantrell, R. W.
name: Yanes, R.
name: Chubykalo-Fesenko, O.
name: Hinzke, D.
name: Nowak, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a constrained Monte Carlo method which allows us to traverse the phase space of a classical spin system while fixing the magnetization direction. Subsequently we show the method's capability to model the temperature dependence of magnetic anisotropy, and for bulk uniaxial and cubic anisotropies we recover the low-temperature Callen-Callen power laws in M. We also calculate the temperature scaling of the 2-ion anisotropy in L10 FePt, and recover the experimentally observed M^2.1 scaling. The method is newly applied to evaluate the temperature dependent effective anisotropy in the presence of the N'eel surface anisotropy in thin films with different easy axis configurations. In systems having different surface and bulk easy axes, we show the capability to model the temperature-induced reorientation transition. The intrinsic surface anisotropy is found to follow a linear temperature behavior in a large range of temperatures.
Cadmium removal from industrial sewage by using Bentonite and Kaolinite absorbent gravels
Creators: name: Asrari, Elham
name: Rezaee, Ali Reza
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2023

description: Many types of water pollutants have been identified and categorized. Heavy metals is one of the most important and hazardous ones. Among all heavy metals, cadmium has a significant effect on all living organisms. Cadmium can be dissolved in water and be absorbed by Plants and then concentrates and moves up the food chain. Which causes toxication in Plants and causing Cancer and numerous other illnesses in humans and other living beings. Using surface absorption is proved to be a suitable method for removing heavy metals from industrial sewages. In this study, Bentonite and Kaolinite were used as surface absorption agents and White Cement was used as a binding agent to keep particles in a firm gravel shape. When poured into the current of sewage, surface absorbing gravels can remove Cadmium ions from sewage. Performance affecting factors such as optimum mass ratio between absorbent agent and binder agent, an optimum mass ratio between Bentonite and Kaolinite, gravels diameter, primary concentration of Cadmium, contact duration and sewage pH was separately examined and optimized by measuring post contact concentration of Cadmium of the samples. Results showed that gravels with absorbent: binder ratio of 3:1, absorbent mass made out of 80% bentonite and 20% kaolinite, when broken to a diameter of 4.75mm < D <6.35mm can refine sewage with 250ppm primary concentration of Cadmium and pH of 7.5 up to 99.97% in 5 hours contact duration.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 54 (2023)
Bio-oil production from co-pyrolysis of rice husk and plastic waste
Creators: name: Anaga, Ekpe S.
name: Oji, Akuma A.
name: Okwonna, Obumneme O.
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2023

description: Bio-oil has been produced from the co-pyrolytic reaction of rice husk and 2 grades of plastic wastes (LDPE and PET). The effect of catalysis on the yield was considered while the physicochemical properties of the products were evaluated and a comparison drawn between the properties of the oil and that of the commercial grade diesel. FT-IR and GC-MS analysis were also used to characterize the samples. Furthermore, the performance of a DI diesel engine was evaluated using both grades of oil. Results showed an improved yield of the oil through catalysis. The heating value and cetane number of the pyrolysis oil closely compared with commercial-grade diesel. Chemical compound identification through the GC-MS analysis showed the bio-oil to comprise mainly of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons. FT-IR analysis of the by-product bio-char upon comparison with FT-IR analysis of the rice husk biomass confirmed the chemical modification of the biomass after the pyrolysis process. From the result of this work, co-pyrolysis of both feedstock gave rise to high grade oil whose properties compares favorably with the commercial grade diesel. This is therefore an interesting alternative to fossil fuel whereas the improved properties indicate that it could have a better performance than a single biomass in terms of fuel properties.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 54 (2023)
Level Eulerian Posets
Creators: name: Ehrenborg, Richard
name: Hetyei, Gábor
name: Readdy, Margaret
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 06A07, Secondary 05A15, 05C30, 52B22, 57M15

description: The notion of level posets is introduced. This class of infinite posets has the property that between every two adjacent ranks the same bipartite graph occurs. When the adjacency matrix is indecomposable, we determine the length of the longest interval one needs to check to verify Eulerianness. Furthermore, we show that every level Eulerian poset associated to an indecomposable matrix has even order. A condition for verifying shellability is introduced and is automated using the algebra of walks. Applying the Skolem--Mahler--Lech theorem, the ${\bf ab}$-series of a level poset is shown to be a rational generating function in the non-commutative variables ${\bf a}$ and ${\bf b}$. In the case the poset is also Eulerian, the analogous result holds for the ${\bf cd}$-series. Using coalgebraic techniques a method is developed to recognize the ${\bf cd}$-series matrix of a level Eulerian poset.
A Model for the Formation of Eskers
Creators: name: Hewitt, Ian J.
name: Creyts, Timothy T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Glaciology
subject: Glacial landforms
subject: Eskers
subject: Ice sheets

description: We develop a mathematical model for esker formation by the continuous deposition of sediments near the mouth of water-filled subglacial tunnels. We assume a retreating ice sheet margin and prescribe meltwater and sediment supply to a channelized subglacial drainage system. The hydrodynamic model for the subglacial channel has its cross section governed by wall melting, creep closure, and sediment deposition. Sediment-carrying capacity typically increases downstream, before decreasing rapidly near the margin, suggesting that most deposition occurs there. This can lead to “choking” near the margin, which is offset by enhanced melting to keep the channel open. The model shows that the deposition rate varies roughly quadratically with sediment supply and inversely with water flux. For given sediment supply, the model suggests esker formation is most prevalent in smaller channels. Larger ice sheet melt rates likely produce more closely spaced eskers, but with smaller cross sections.
Additional file 1 of Motivational determinants of physical activity in disadvantaged populations with (pre)diabetes: a cross-cultural comparison
Creators: name: De Man, Jeroen
name: Kasujja, Francis Xavier
name: Delobelle, Peter
name: Annerstedt, Kristi Sidney
name: Alvesson, Helle Mölsted
name: Absetz, Pilvikki
name: Wouters, Edwin
name: Daivadanam, Meena
name: Guwatudde, David
name: Puoane, Thandi
name: Remmen, Roy
name: Tabana, Hanani
name: Van Olmen, Josefien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Investigating mineral dissolution kinetics by Flow-Through Time-Resolved Analysis (FT-TRA)
Creators: name: De Baere, Bart
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This thesis evaluates the applicability of flow-through time-resolved analysis (FT-TRA) to address problems ranging from determining mineral dissolution kinetics and dissolution regimes, to unraveling the elemental composition of multiple mineral phases in microfossils, to predicting drainage chemistry from mine waste. FT-TRA consists of a gradient pump, which continuously passes eluent of fixed or varying composition through a small flow-through reactor containing a small amount of solid sample. The effluent composition is then analyzed online using an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer in time-resolved mode, or is collected in a fraction collector for subsequent offline analysis, depending on the goal of the experiment. It is found that FT-TRA is well suited to study mineral dissolution kinetics. Using forsterite as a case study, it is shown that FT-TRA can be used to rapidly determine mineral dissolution rate parameters. The high temporal resolution data generated by FT-TRA documents in detail, and in real-time the gradual formation of surface leached layers as well as sporadic and abrupt exfoliation events occurring during dissolution. A range in eluent residence times in the reactor can be applied by controlling the eluent flow with the gradient pump, allowing for the empirical determination of the dissolution regime (surface- or transport-controlled), which must be established prior to interpreting mineral dissolution rates measured during the experiment. When combining FT-TRA data with pore scale modeling, dissolution rate constants can still be determined, even when the dissolution experiment is conducted under transport-controlled conditions. The added value of this continuous eluent flow system for assessing the leaching behavior of mine waste is also evaluated. The ability to carry out experiments in a relatively short time period provides a new means to elucidate the mechanism and conditions resulting in the release of toxic metals from mine waste during weathering. Finally, using insight gained from studying mineral dissolution kinetics, the premise on which FT-TRA was used to distinguish the elemental ratios of different biogenic mineral phases in microfossils for paleoceanographic reconstruction is re-evaluated.
Global sustainability development and China’s emergence as a promotor
Creators: name: Wang, Shuying
name: Islam, Md. Ziaul
name: Wang, Shuwei
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2023

description: Sustainability, that, stands on three pillars, social, economic, and environmental, and the idea or concept of “sustainable development” binds them together to uplift the spirit of development. China appears as an emerging global development partner in the late 1980s for sharing the development with sustainable development. After World War II, the world community sought global peace and security, freedom, socio-economic development, and environmental protection to reconstruct a new world. China responded to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972, realizing the importance of nature and the environment worldwide. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and International Green Development Coalition (BRIGC) promote the Agenda 2030 of Sustainable Development. The country also emphasizes on global green governance, such as south-south environmental cooperation and Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation and Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). Therefore, this paper discusses the presence of China in global platforms, focusing on Carbon Dioxide (CO2) reduction policies, promoting renewable energy generation (REG), endeavoring for marine sustainability, green finance, agriculture, and biodiversity conservation, referring China’s ecological civilization (EC) construction as an example.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 54 (2023)
LOPES, Maria Antónia - Pobreza, assistência e controlo social: Coimbra (1750-1850). Viseu: Palimage Editores, 2000. 2 vols.
Creators: name: Henriques, Cláudia
name: Bolinha, Hélio
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
Increased fall precipitation in the southeastern US driven by higher-intensity, frontal precipitation
Creators: name: Bishop, Daniel Alexander
name: Williams, A. Park
name: Seager, Richard
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Climatic changes
Precipitation (Meteorology)
Fronts (Meteorology)
Atmospheric circulation

description: During 1895‐2018, fall precipitation increased by nearly 40% in the southeastern United States north of the Gulf of Mexico due to increased circulation around the western North Atlantic Subtropical High, which enhanced moisture transports into the region. We find here that these increases in southeastern U.S. fall precipitation manifested almost entirely as increases in precipitation intensity, not frequency. Further, the enhanced moisture transports increased precipitation totals far more on the highest‐intensity precipitation days than on the lower‐intensity days, leading to nearly all of the increase to be delivered on extreme (top‐5% intensity) precipitation days. Eighty‐seven percent of the fall precipitation increase was driven by non‐tropical storms (mostly frontal), not tropical cyclones, though the proportion of precipitation falling as either storm type did not change. Further research is needed to evaluate whether these observed precipitation increases are likely to continue, stabilize, or reverse.
Exploring Emerging Perceptions of Contemplative Pedagogy Among Faculty Participating in a Professional Development Program
Creators: name: Hirschmann, Kenneth Alan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Education
Teaching
Reflective teaching
Student-centered learning
Universities and colleges--Faculty

description: This study seeks to explore the emerging perceptions of Contemplative Pedagogy of a small number of faculty that have engaged in a workshop on the subject. Through surveys and an interview, the story of the development of their practice unfolds in order to glimpse at the reflective practices that drive their professional and personal development, and their ability to reconceive their understanding of and approach to teaching. By incorporating contemplative methods into a professional reflective practice, faculty might gain the experience and comfort with the techniques to begin applying them to their professional practice.