cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Preparation of organic-inorganic hybrid adhesion promoters for polyurethane-metal adhesion and their properties
Creators: name: Le, Manh Linh
name: Jung, Myung Chul
name: Kim, Hyo Won
name: Kim, Juyoung
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: This study reports the synthesis of organic-inorganic (O-I) hybrid adhesion promoters, which were synthesized by an in situ sol-gel process, using alkoxysilane functionalized polymer precursor (AFAP) and other alkoxysilanes such as (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES) and (3-glycidyloxypropyl)trimethoxysilane (GPTMS). These adhesion promoters were then applied between polyurethane (PU) and metal substrate for improving adhesive strength between them. In particular, by modifying the input parameters including molecular structure of AFAP, weight ratios between AFAP and alkoxysilane, and r value (molar ratio of H2O/Si), the adhesive strength can be significantly improved by more than twice as high as compared to that of pristine samples without application of O-I hybrid adhesion promoters. It was reported that the combination of (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES) and AFAP synthesized from glycerol propoxylate (Mw = 266 g/mol) and polyethylene glycol (Mw = 300 g/mol) with high r value showed the highest adhesive strength compared to other O-I hybrid adhesion promoters. Additionally, the properties of various hybrid materials such as particle size distribution, touch drying speed, degree of condensation, molecular weight, and adhesive strength were characterized by dynamic light scattering test, 29Si-NMR, MALDI-TOF, and shear strength test.
Calculation of critical points of multicomponent mixtures using the BWRS equation
Creators: name: Dahouk, Mohammed A. (Mohammed Ahmed), 1956-
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: QC 307 D33 1982
subject: Critical point

description: Bibliography: p. 76-82.
description: A computational procedure has been developed for solving two nonlinear equations that characterize the critical state for multi­component mixtures described by the Benedict-Webb-Rubin-Starling (BWRS) equation of state. The two equations are obtained by setting to zero the quadratic and the cubic forms in the Taylor series expansion of the Helmholtz free energy as a function of the mole numbers. The procedure treats finding a zero of the quadratic form (which defines the stability limit) as an eigenvalue problem where temperature is the eigenvalue at a given volume. The cubic form is treated then as a function of volume alone and its zeros are found by the secant method. A computer program has been developed and used for calculating vapour-liquid and liquid-liquid critical points for multicomponent systems. A proposal was developed for providing initial guesses for volume and temperature which permitted convergence to a vapour-liquid critical point in all cases. The proposed algorithm has been used to perform critical point computations on mixtures with up to 20 components. It is capable of converging to a vapour-liquid critical point (if one exists) for all the systems studied in three to six iterations. High density, liquid­liquid critical points have also been calculated by making an appropri­ate initial volume guess. It was found that the BWRS equation can have many stable and unstable points satisfying the critical criteria for a given mixture. Even for pure components, a second unstable critical point can be calculated.
0069 In the Artist's Studio with L'Illustration
Creators: name: Esner, Rachel
Publisher: name: RIHA Journal
Year: 2013

description: This article explores the two series of visits to the artist's studio that appeared in the famed French illustrated magazine L'Illustration in the 1850s and in 1886. An in-depth examination of both the texts and images reveals the verbal and visual tropes used to characterize the artists and their spaces, linking these to broader notions of "the artist" – his moral characteristics, behaviors, and artistic practice – as well as to the politics of the art world and the (bourgeois) ideology of L'Illustration. The aim is to uncover not only the language but also the mechanics of the "mediatization" of the image of the artist in this crucial period.
description: RIHA Journal, 2013: RIHA Journal
L'Affrontement des sexes dans les romans d'Anne Hebert
Creators: name: Davis, Pauline (Pauline Marie), 1940-
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: PS 9515 E22 Z6 1983
subject: Hebert, Anne, 1916- - Criticism and interpretation

description: Bibliography: p. 93-95.
Clinical Outcomes and Predictors of Poor Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes on Basal Bolus Insulin Regime
Creators: name: Abidin, Nurul Huda Zainal
name: Rashidah Bahari
name: Nor Nadziroh Ibrahim
name: Nor, Lisa Mohamed
name: Noor, Nurain Mohd
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Basal Bolus Insulin
Basal Bolus Insulin Regime
Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes
Clinical Outcomes
Predictors
Poor Glycemic Control

description: Introduction National Diabetes Registry showed that insulin used among type 2 diabetic (T2DM) has increased from 23.1% in 2013 to 30.3% in 2019. DiabCare also showed the increment used of basal-bolus among outpatient public hospitals from 10.6% in 2008 to 20.6% in 2013. Despite the increasing use of insulin, three-quarters of patients still do not have good glycemic control. This study aimed to describe the diabetic patients on the basal-bolus regime and the predictors of poor glycemic control. Methodology A cross-sectional study was conducted among T2DM patients on basal-bolus regime attending an endocrine clinic, Putrajaya hospital from January to December 2019. Demographic and clinical profiles were retrieved. Logistic regressions were used to predict factors associated with poor glycemic control (defined as HbA1c >8%). Results There were 789 subjects, 61.1% had HbA1c > 8.0%, with mean HbA1c of 8.87%. The mean age was 57 years, with the majority had a duration of diabetes of more than 10 years. Eighty-one percent of subjects were on combination with oral antidiabetic drugs (OAD). The mean total insulin dose was 86.5unit/day. In multivariate analysis, combinations with OAD (OR 1.73, 95% CI 1.04-2.89); elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) (OR 1.98, 95% CI 1.35-2.92); high fasting plasma glucose (OR 3.64, 95% CI 2.34-5.67) and total insulin requirement/day (OR 1.01, 95% CI 1.01-1.02) were associated with poor glycemic control. Conclusion The glycemic control in our population was suboptimal. Combinations with OAD, higher fasting plasma glucose levels, LDL-C, and total insulin requirement were predictors of poor glycemic control. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Splinter Session "Solar and Stellar Flares"
Creators: name: Fletcher, L.
name: Hudson, H. S.
name: Cauzzi, G.
name: Getman, K. V.
name: Giampapa, M.
name: Hawley, S. L.
name: Heinzel, P.
name: Johnstone, C.
name: Kowalski, A. F.
name: Osten, R. A.
name: Pye, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This summary reports on papers presented at the Cool Stars-16 meeting in the splinter session "Solar and Stellar flares." Although many topics were discussed, the main themes were the commonality of interests, and of physics, between the solar and stellar flare communities, and the opportunities for important new observations in the near future.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
0073 Oblivion Deferred: Altichiero in the Fifteenth Century
Creators: name: Richards, John
Publisher: name: RIHA Journal
Year: 2013

description: Altichiero was the dominant north Italian painter of the later Trecento. In Padua, in the 1370s and early 1380s, he worked for patrons close to Petrarch and his circle and perhaps in direct contact with the poet himself. By the time of the second edition of Vasari's Vite(1568) the memory of Altichiero's work had suffered significant occlusion, and Vasari's account of him is little more than an appendix to his life of Carpaccio. Only since the later nineteenth century, and particularly in the last fifty or so years, has Altichiero's reputation been restored. It is the purpose of this paper to examine aspects of that reputation throughout the century or so after the painter's death (by April 1393).
description: RIHA Journal, 2013: RIHA Journal
The Association between Tobacco and Body Mass Index (BMI) among School-going Adolescent in Malaysia: Results from National Health Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2017
Creators: name: Seman Zamtira
name: Majit Singh Jayvikramjit Singh
name: Sanaudi Ridwan
name: Yeop Abd Rashid Nor Hazimah
name: Azahadi, Omar Mohd
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: NHMS 2017
Body Mass Index
Tobacco
School-going Adolescent
Malaysia
National Health Morbidity Survey

description: Introduction Tobacco and obesity, both are among the leading causes that contribute to most public health issues. Due to the diversity of tobacco product used today, the study was conducted to examine the association between tobacco and BMI. Methodology This study used data from the NHMS 2017, a nationwide cross-sectional survey that implemented a two-stage stratified random sampling design. In total, 13135 adolescents were studied. Complex sample logistic regression analyses was used to examine the odds of past 30-day tobacco-product use according to BMI stratified by gender. BMI was analyzed categorically using the World Health Organization Growth Reference 2007 (WHO 2007). BMI-for-Age z-score weight status was categorized as underweight/normal weight, overweight and obese. Results Adolescent classified as obesity found to have significant association to use any tobacco products but not for the overweight group. Univariate analyses revealed that male adolescents who smoked any tobacco products were significantly less likely to be obese, whereas female adolescent's smokers were found to be more likely at risk. However, after controlling for several potential confounding factors, only female adolescents who use any tobacco, e-cigarette, smokeless and other tobacco are more likely to be obese with Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) 1.59 (95%Confidence Interval (CI):1.25, 2.02), AOR=1.86 (95%CI:1.36, 2.56), AOR=1.66 (95%CI:1.14, 2.43) AOR=1.62 (95%CI:1.05, 2.52) respectively. Discussion / Conclusion Female adolescent smoker had a higher chance of being obese. There is a need for further research to identify genetic, metabolic and hormonal changes which affects BMI. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Non-metric chaotic inflation
Creators: name: Enqvist, Kari
name: Koivisto, Tomi
name: Rigopoulos, Gerasimos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider inflation within the context of what is arguably the simplest non-metric extension of Einstein gravity. There non-metricity is described by a single graviscalar field with a non-minimal kinetic coupling to the inflaton field $Ψ$, parameterized by a single parameter $γ$. We discuss the implications of non-metricity for chaotic inflation and find that it significantly alters the inflaton dynamics for field values $Ψ\gtrsim M_P/γ$, dramatically changing the qualitative behaviour in this regime. For potentials with a positive slope non-metricity imposes an upper bound on the possible number of e-folds. For chaotic inflation with a monomial potential, the spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio receive small corrections dependent on the non-metricity parameter. We also argue that significant post-inflationary non-metricity may be generated.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
0070 Szathmári, un mare artist documentarist
Creators: name: Ionescu, Adrian Silvan
Publisher: name: RIHA Journal
Year: 2013

description: Carol Pop de Szathmari was born in Cluj, Transylvania, on 11 January 1812. His talent for painting shone out from an early age. Being a passionate traveller, Szathmari journeyed through Europe and often crossed the Carpathian Mountains to visit Wallachia and its capital Bucharest, where he eventually settled in 1843. An accomplished landscape and portrait painter, at ease with both watercolours and oil paints, Szathmari obtained commissions from the wealthy Wallachian boyars. Szathmari kept up constant, good relations with the successive ruling princes of Wallachia for whom he painted portraits and various other compositions. By 1848, Szathmari began to experiment with photography. The outbreak of the Russian-Ottoman War in late June 1853 saw the Romanian principalities occupied by the Russian army. In April 1854, Szathmari filled a van with his cameras and glass plates and went to the border of the Danube to document the fighting between the Russian and Turkish armies. The result of Szathmari's bravery and hard work was a photographic album. His album, containing some two hundred images, became famous due to its presentation at the 1855 Paris World Exhibition and Szathmari was awarded the Second Class Medal for his work. From that time on, photography, painting and lithography were always closely connected in Szathmari's career. In 1864 he became member of the Société Française de Photographie in Paris and in 1870 of the one in Vienna. In 1863, he received the title of Ruling Prince's Court Painter and Photographer which he kept for the rest of his life. The official painter followed his patron, Prince Carol I, on the battlefield during the Russian-Romanian-Ottoman War of 1877, which was waged south of the Danube. Along martial compositions and albums, Szathmari had long been attracted by folk types and produced a large series of pictures with peasants, gypsies, postillions, merchants and artisans. He toured the fairs and the crowded streets of the town in search of picturesque types. The artist's last major work was the chromolithographic album of the symbolic carts which paraded the Capital city on 10-11 May 1881, King Carol's coronation pageant. Szathmari died in Bucharest 3 June 1887.
description: RIHA Journal, 2013: RIHA Journal
0082 All about Eve
Creators: name: Szymański, Wojciech
name: Kolenda, Karolina
Publisher: name: RIHA Journal
Year: 2014

description: The article employs the category of Romantic irony for an interpretation of Eva Hesse's work. It takes as its starting point one of Arthur Danto's texts, where the American philosopher makes a positive re-evaluation of the artist's work, and reads it as a largely humorous combination of two – seemingly incongruent – traditions of American art of the 20thcentury: Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. Features that Danto finds humorous, the author of the present article considers exemplary of Romantic irony, an approach that he finds in Eva Hesse's oeuvre. In the second part of the article, two competing interpretations of Eva Hesse's work are presented: Robert Pincus-Witten's and Lucy R. Lippard's. However, with the use of the notion of Romantic irony their standpoints can be reconciled, with a simultaneous indication of a previously dismissed, yet crucial, ironic aspect of the work of the American artist.
description: RIHA Journal, 2014: RIHA Journal
Low-energy monopole strength in exotic Nickel isotopes
Creators: name: Khan, E.
name: Paar, N.
name: Vretenar, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-energy strength is predicted for the isoscalar monopole response of neutron-rich Ni isotopes, in calculations performed using the microscopic Skyrme HF+RPA and relativistic RHB+RQRPA models. Both models, although based on different energy density functionals, predict the occurrence of pronounced monopole states in the energy region between 10 MeV and 15 MeV, well separated from the isoscalar GMR. The analysis of transition densities and corresponding particle-hole configurations shows that these states represent almost pure neutron single hole-particle excitations. Even though their location is not modified with respect to the corresponding unperturbed states, their (Q)RPA strength is considerably enhanced by the residual interaction. The theoretical analysis predicts the gradual enhancement of low-energy monopole strength with neutron excess.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Physical Review C
Are We Giving Sufficient Protein in Parenteral Nutrition Support to Adult Patients in Intensive Care Unit?
Creators: name: Fiona, Fong Pui Wun
name: Saedon, Mahmud Majdi Bin Mahmud
name: Bangguan, Stella Caroline J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Parenteral Nutrition
Protein
Parenteral Nutrition Support
Adult Patients
Intensive Care Unit

description: Introduction Protein plays a significant role in nutrition support, especially for patients at intensive care unit (ICU) who commonly suffer from net loss of protein. ASPEN and ESPEN guidelines recommend a minimum protein of 1.2g/kg/day for ICU patients, while Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) recommends 0.8g/kg/day for chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 4-5. Methodology This was a cross-sectional study involving all adult ICU patients receiving PN in Hospital Queen Elizabeth (HQE) and HQE II from January 2018 to April 2019 to determine protein sufficiency. Information was obtained from patients' pharmacotherapy review forms. If PN and enteral nutrition (EN) were received concurrently, protein from both sources was accounted for. Results Among the 52 patients, majority were male (n=41; 78.8%) with median age of 52 years old (IQR=34.5). Median duration of PN support was 6 days (IQR=6.3), and gastrointestinal perforation was the most common indication (n=11; 21.2%). All 45 non-CKD patients (86.5%) received minimum recommended protein of 1.2g/kg/day. Ten patients (19.2% out of 52) who received PN and EN concurrently received a higher average protein up to 1.5g/kg/day. Out of 7 patients (13.5%) with underlying CKD stage 4-5, two (3.8% of total 52 patients) received insufficient protein below 0.8g/kg/day due to restriction of fluid (ROF).   Discussion/Conclusion Majority of the patients received sufficient protein as per guidelines, otherwise with justifiable reason. In real-life practice, discrepancy may occur due to the fixed-content formulations of commercial PN bags and the local practice of deciding PN regimen mainly based on calorie requirement. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
0094 On Sixteenth-century Copies of the Reliefs from the Column of Trajan – Two New Drawings from an Unknown Rotulus
Creators: name: Heenes, Volker
Publisher: name: RIHA Journal
Year: 2014

description: This article presents two recently discovered drawings of the reliefs on the Trajan's column. To put them in their proper artistic context, the drawings are compared to known examples of such reproductions of the sixteenth century. Current research questions the attribution of codex ms. 254 in the Biblioteca dell'Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte in Rome to Jacopo Ripanda. The two series with representations of the column's entire frieze preserved in the Biblioteca (mss. 254 and 320) are therefore considered as two different strings of transmission of a yet to be identified original, from which derive all other drawings of the reliefs on the Trajan's Column. Research directed at the contextualisation of the newly published drawings has confirmed this view. The drawings belong without doubt to one of the two strings of transmission. In addition, an archaeological examination of representational details of this depiction has resulted in the suggestion of a new date for the rotuli from a private collection in Paris.
description: RIHA Journal, 2014: RIHA Journal
0087 Model Making and Anti-Competitive Practices in the Late Eighteenth-Century London Sculpture Trade
Creators: name: Craske, Matthew
Publisher: name: RIHA Journal
Year: 2014

description: This article concerns the generation of anti-competitive practices, and the associated discontents, that rose to the fore in the London sculpture trade in the late eighteenth century (1770-1799). It charts the business strategies and technical procedures of the most economically successful practitioners, whose workshops had some of the characteristics of manufactories, and whose critics accused them of conducting a "monopoly" trade. Small-scale practitioners lost out in the competition for great public contracts on account of their design processes and their inability to represent any manifestation of "establishment". A combination of three factors increased the gap between a handful of powerful "manufacturers" and the rest of the trade: the foundation of the Royal Academy, shifts in the ways designs were evaluated, and a growing number of very lucrative contracts for public sculpture. I conclude that such were the discontents within the London trade that by the 1790s, there was a marked tendency for practitioners who were not manufacturers to be attracted to democratic political movements, to the Wilkite call for liberty and the rise of civic radicalism in the merchant population of London.
description: RIHA Journal, 2014: Special Issue "When Art History Meets Design History"
0100 A noble circle
Creators: name: Svenningsen, Jesper
Publisher: name: RIHA Journal
Year: 2014

description: This article presents a closer look at an important moment in the history of art collecting in Denmark when Italian art first began to be admired by noble virtuosi. During the last decade of the 17th and first quarter of the 18th century, a number of art collections were formed by young Danish noblemen, most of whom had travelled in the company of Crown Prince Frederik. Due to the very incomplete level of documentation we are now often frustratingly unable to gauge the exact size and contents of these collections. Yet the sources presented in the article do suggest a strong bias towards Italian art, by old masters as well as contemporary painters.
description: RIHA Journal, 2014: Special Issue "Collecting Italian Art North of the Alps 1700–1800"
Constraining conformal field theories with a slightly broken higher spin symmetry
Creators: name: Maldacena, Juan
name: Zhiboedov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider three dimensional conformal field theories that have a higher spin symmetry that is slightly broken. The theories have a large N limit, in the sense that the operators separate into single trace and multitrace and obey the usual large N factorization properties. We assume that the spectrum of single trace operators is similar to the one that one gets in the Vasiliev theories. Namely, the only single trace operators are the higher spin currents plus an additional scalar. The anomalous dimensions of the higher spin currents are of order 1/N. Using the slightly broken higher spin symmetry we constrain the three point functions of the theories to leading order in N. We show that there are two families of solutions. One family can be realized as a theory of N fermions with an O(N) Chern-Simons gauge field, the other as a N bosons plus the Chern-Simons gauge field. The family of solutions is parametrized by the 't Hooft coupling. At special parity preserving points we get the critical O(N) models, both the Wilson-Fisher one and the Gross-Neveu one. Our analysis also fixes the on shell three point functions of Vasiliev's theory on AdS_4 or dS_4.
description: 54 pages, 3 figures
Synchronous choppers in high performance AC/DC converters
Creators: name: Divan, Deepakraj Malhar
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: TK 2796 D58 1985
subject: Electric current converters

description: Bibliography: p. 222-227.
description: The suitability of the synchronous chopper-converter combination is investigated for high power multi-quadrant AC/DC converter applications. Various aspects including harmonic reduction, filter optimization and control requirements for four quadrant operation are analysed in detail. A new chopper configuration is proposed as is the concept of a microprogrammable sequential controller, necessary for realising the required complexity of control. Extensive experimental results are included to verify expected system performance levels.
0108 Reading Muranów. Memory of a place / memory of an architect Commentary on the postwar work of Bohdan Lachert
Creators: name: Uchowicz, Katarzyna
name: Kolenda, Karolina
Publisher: name: RIHA Journal
Year: 2014

description: The text concentrates on the concept of South Muranów – a residential quarter / monument realised in the area of the Warsaw ghetto by the architect Bohdan Lachert. It attempts to show this work as an artistic myth created by the artist. An analysis of the architect's texts and a reconstruction of the circumstances in which the project was realised, as well as the details of Lachert's biography reveal new layers of this architectonic palimpsest. Clear references to the bold visions of Śródmieście (City Centre) by Maciej Nowicki and an adaptation for the purposes of residential quarter / place of memory experiments at transforming rubble, popular in the 1940s, provoke questions about the originality of the concept of Muranów, whose unquestionable value is the spatial composition stemming from pioneering experiments by Katarzyna Kobro, organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, and Nowicki'c new functionalism. The history of the quarter is at the same time a microcosm of the initial years of rebuilding Warsaw and of the socialist realist chaos after 1949, as well as a record of the search for artistic subjectivity of a Modernist architect in a new reality.
description: RIHA Journal, 2014: Special Issue "Contemporary Art and Memory" (Part I)
Aspirin Administration for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) in Emergency Department (ED) and Pre Hospital Care (PHC) at Cluster Hospitals in Central Selangor: A Prospective Study
Creators: name: Shirlyn, Tan
name: Ying, Lou Jing
name: Sithirai, Kokila
name: Afina Fathinsakinah Binti Che Md. Sefai
name: Safura Binti Mohd . Mokhtaruddin
name: Dr. Ahmad Tajuddin Bin Mohamad Nor
name: Dr. Mohd. Aminuddin Bin Abd. Latib
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Acute Coronary Syndrome
Pre Hospital Care
Aspirin
Administration
Cluster Hospitals
Selangor
Malaysia
Cluster Hospital
Prospective Study

description: Introduction Early aspirin administration has been shown to significantly reduce acute myocardial infarction mortality rate in ACS patients. Various guidelines mentioned to give aspirin early but the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of healthcare workers (HCWs) in ED and PHC regarding aspirin administration has not been explored. This study aims to investigate the KAP of aspirin administration among ACS patients in ED and PHC in cluster hospitals in Selangor. Methodology This is a multi-centre, cross-sectional questionnaire-based study conducted in cluster hospitals in central Selangor. Doctors, nurses and medical assistants working in ED and PHC were randomly sampled to answer the questionnaire. The questionnaire was validated by ED and PHC seniors with cardiac post-basic and a pilot study was conducted prior to data collection. Results A total of 272 responses were obtained, with fair distribution in gender and professions. Most of the responders were 20-30 years old (n=180, 66.2%) and with 1-5 years working experience (n=202, 74.2%). About 50% of responders were aware that aspirin is the first drug given and 70-89% of them practice giving aspirin as the first drug (doctors=89.4%, medical assistants=80%, nurses=69.9%). Majority (>90%) served aspirin correctly, either crush, dissolve and swallow or chew and swallow. Less than half would serve aspirin if patient is allergic to painkillers such as mefenemic acid (doctors=44.7%, medical assistants=44.2%, nurses=43.5%). Conclusion Overall, HCWs in ED and PHC have high tendency to serve aspirin to ACS patients but need to be more confident when they encounter patients with contraindications or hypersensitivity to aspirin. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
The pinning quantum phase transition in a Tonks Girardeau gas: diagnostics by ground state fidelity and the Loschmidt echo
Creators: name: Lelas, K.
name: Ševa, T.
name: Buljan, H.
name: Goold, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the pinning quantum phase transition in a Tonks-Girardeau gas, both in equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium, using the ground state fidelity and the Loschmidt echo as diagnostic tools. The ground state fidelity (GSF) will have a dramatic decrease when the atomic density approaches the commensurate density of one particle per lattice well. This decrease is a signature of the pinning transition from the Tonks to the Mott insulating phase. We study the applicability of the fidelity for diagnosing the pinning transition in experimentally realistic scenarios. Our results are in excellent agreement with recent experimental work. In addition, we explore the out of equilibrium dynamics of the gas following a sudden quench with a lattice potential. We find all properties of the ground state fidelity are reflected in the Loschmidt echo dynamics i.e., in the non equilibrium dynamics of the Tonks-Girardeau gas initiated by a sudden quench of the lattice potential.
15 Minutes or Less: Does the Ambulance Response Time (ART) Has Impact on Patient's Outcome?
Creators: name: Ramlee Nur Athirah
name: Mohd Najib Abdul Ghani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ambulance Response Time
Patient's Outcome

description: Background Ambulance response time is one of the key performance indexes set by the Ministry of Health Malaysia, in which the response time must be less than 15 minutes in priority one cases. The correlation of ART and patient's outcomes has never been assessed before in Malaysian setting. Objective The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of ART and patient's outcomes in Kelantan, Malaysia. Methods: This was a single centre study conducted in Kota Bharu Kelantan with an Emergency Medical System serving 347,673 population of various races, age, and gender. Patients included were coordinated by Medical Emergency Call Centre who received call from Malaysian Emergency Response Services (MERS) 999 or direct line. Patients must meet Delta and Echo classification using Medical Priority Dispatch System for priority one cases with age more or equal to 18 years. Data collection was done from November 2019 to March 2020. Patient outcomes were analysed using IBM SPSS version 25 in terms of mortality, morbidity, and the length of stay (LOS). Results A total of 175 ambulance calls were recorded during the study period in which the ambulances could reach 141 (80.6%) of patients within 15 minutes or less. The remains 34 (19.4%) patients were responded in more than 15 minutes. Association between ART and mortality and morbidity were not significant with p-value=0.746 and p-value=0.749. Medians for the LOS among admitted patients were the same (four days). Conclusion This study showed that there are no significant correlations between ART (less or equal to 15 minutes) and patient outcomes. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Pair-transfer probability in open- and closed-shell Sn isotopes
Creators: name: Grasso, M.
name: Lacroix, D.
name: Vitturi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Approximations made to estimate two-nucleon transfer probabilities in ground-state to ground-state transitions and physical interpretation of these probabilities are discussed. Probabilities are often calculated by approximating both ground states, of the initial nucleus A and of the final nucleus A\pm 2 by the same quasiparticle vacuum. We analyze two improvements of this approach. First, the effect of using two different ground states with average numbers of particles A and A\pm2 is quantified. Second, by using projection techniques, the role of particle number restoration is analyzed. Our analysis shows that the improved treatment plays a role close to magicity, leading to an enhancement of the pair-transfer probability. In mid-shell regions, part of the error made by approximating the initial and final ground states by a single vacuum is compensated by projecting onto good particle number. Surface effects are analyzed by using pairing interactions with a different volume-to-surface mixing. Finally, a simple expression of the pair-transfer probability is given in terms of occupation probabilities in the canonical basis. We show that, in the canonical basis formulation, surface effects which are visible in the transfer probability are related to the fragmentation of single-particle occupancies close to the Fermi energy. This provides a complementary interpretation with respect to the standard quasiparticle representation where surface effects are generated by the integrated radial profiles of the contributing wave functions.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Parasites and parasitism of the whitefish of Lake McGregor and Travers Reservoir, Alberta
Creators: name: Drouin, Theodore E. (Theodore Emile), 1944-
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: QL 638 S2 D74 1982
subject: Whitefishes
subject: Parasites - Fishes

description: Bibliography: p. 265-280.
An optical/NIR survey of globular clusters in early-type galaxies III. On the colour bimodality of GC systems
Creators: name: Chies-Santos, A. L.
name: Larsen, S. S.
name: Cantiello, M.
name: Strader, J.
name: Kuntschner, H.
name: Wehner, E. M.
name: Brodie, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interpretation that bimodal colour distributions of globular clusters (GCs) reflect bimodal metallicity distributions has been challenged. Non-linearities in the colour to metallicity conversions caused by the horizontal branch (HB) stars may be responsible for transforming a unimodal metallicity distribution into a bimodal (optical) colour distribution. We study optical/near-infrared (NIR) colour distributions of the GC systems in 14 E/S0 galaxies. We test whether the bimodal feature, generally present in optical colour distributions, remains in the optical/NIR ones. The latter colour combination is a better metallicity proxy than the former. We use KMM and GMM tests to quantify the probability that different colour distributions are better described by a bimodal, as opposed to a unimodal distribution. We find that double-peaked colour distributions are more commonly seen in optical than in optical/NIR colours. For some of the galaxies where the optical (g-z) distribution is clearly bimodal, the (g-K) and (z-K) distributions are better described by a unimodal distribution. The two most cluster-rich galaxies in our sample, NGC4486 and NGC4649, show some interesting differences. The (g-K) distribution of NGC4649 is better described by a bimodal distribution, while this is true for the (g-K) distribution of NGC4486 GCs only if restricted to a brighter sub-sample with small K-band errors (< 0.05 mag). Formally, the K-band photometric errors cannot be responsible for blurring bimodal metallicity distributions to unimodal (g-K) colour distributions. However, simulations including the extra scatter in the colour-colour diagrams (not fully accounted for in the photometric errors) show that such scatter may contribute to the disappearance of bimodality in (g-K) for the full NGC4486 sample. For the less cluster-rich galaxies results are inconclusive due to poorer statistics. [Abridged]
description: A&A accepted, 15 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables
Factors associated with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) among Malaysian Men 40 years and above: Findings from National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2019
Creators: name: Fuad, Mohamad Anuar Mohamad
name: Bahari, Ismail Shaiful
name: Ashraf, Mohamed Daud Mohamed
name: Solihin, Rezali Muhammad
name: Azlan, Kassim Mohd Shaiful
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: National Health and Morbidity Survey
NHMS 2019
NHMS
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
Malaysian Men
40 years old
Findings

description: Introduction Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) is one of the major men's health challenges and is thought to be linked to other comorbidities and unhealthy lifestyles. This study analyses the factors associated with developing LUTS among Malaysian men 40 years and above in 2019. Methods The study was part of the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2019. Validated self-administered bilingual International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) was used to assess the LUTS. The grading was based on a standard scoring system with participants scored 8 to 35 in IPSS considered having probable moderate-severe LUTS. Other comorbidities and unhealthy lifestyles were also obtained using face-to-face interview and in-situ measurements such as anthropometry assessment and blood check-up. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 21. Results 2,251 men were included in this study. Prevalence of probable LUTS among Malaysian men was 16.3% (95%CI 14.1-18.8) with high prevalence were recorded among inactive males, 19.9% (95%CI:15.5-25.2), with two or more comorbidities, 18.6% (95%CI:15.6-21.9) and aged 60 years and above, 23.9% (95%CI 19.8-28.6). Inactive males were significantly associated with probable LUTS with AOR 1.57 (95%CI: 1.23, 2.00). Male aged 50 to 59 years old were significantly associated with probable LUTS with AOR 1.49 (95% CI: 1.09,2.03) while male aged 60 years and above with AOR 2.25 (95% CI: 1.69,3.01). Conclusions Ageing and physical inactive among male are associated with development of moderate to severe LUTS. It is recommended to have a more in-depth investigation such as clinical profiling of subjects to be included in the next survey. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Supersymmetrization Schemes of D=4 Maxwell Algebra
Creators: name: Kamimura, Kiyoshi
name: Lukierski, Jerzy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Maxwell algebra, an enlargement of Poincare algebra by Abelian tensorial generators, can be obtained in arbitrary dimension D by the suitable contraction of O(D-1,1) \oplus O(D-1,2) (Lorentz algebra \oplus AdS algebra). We recall that in D=4 the Lorentz algebra O(3,1) is described by the realification Sp_R(2|C) of complex algebra Sp(2|C)\simeq Sl(2|C) and O(3,2)\simeq Sp(4). We study various D=4 N-extended Maxwell superalgebras obtained by the contractions of real superalgebras OSp_R(2N-k; 2|C)\oplus OSp(k;4), (k=1,2,...,2N) (extended Lorentz superalgebra \oplus extended AdS superalgebra). If N=1 (k=1,2) one arrives at two different versions of simple Maxwell superalgebra. For any fixed N we get 2N different superextensions of Maxwell algebra with n-extended Poincare superalgebras (1\leq n \leq N) and the internal symmetry sectors obtained by suitable contractions of the real algebra O_R(2N-k|C)\oplus O(k). Finally the comments on possible applications of Maxwell superalgebras are presented.
description: 14 pages, LaTeX
Jahresbericht des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier für 1939
Creators: name: Dehn, Wolfgang
name: Gose, Erich
name: Hussong, Ludwig
name: Koethe, Harald
name: Kutzbach, Friedrich
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2020

description: [nicht vorhanden]
description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 15 (1940): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Synthesis and anticancer activity of novel Eugenol derivatives against breast cancer cells
Creators: name: Alam, Mohammad Mahboob
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Eugenol chemically known as 4-allyl-2-methoxyphenol is a major phenolic component of Syzigium aromaticum and associated with significant biological activities. In the present work, new eugenol 1,2,3-triazole derivatives have been synthesized, characterized using NMR, mass spectrometry, IR, and elemental analysis and screened for their anticancer activity against breast cancer cells. Compound 9, namely 3-(4-((4-allyl-2-methoxyphenoxy)methyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)-N'-(4-methylbenzoyl) benzohydrazide was found to be the most potent candidate and better than eugenol in exhibiting cytotoxicity with IC50 6.91 and 3.15 μM, comparable to Doxorubicin with IC50 6.58 and 3.21 μM against MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 cells, respectively. Furthermore, compound 9 treated MCF-7 cells as observed by propidium iodide staining significantly increased cell population of S phase and G2 phase to 43.64% and 35.19%, respectively therefore arresting cell cycle at G2 and S phase. These results indicate that eugenol linked 1,2,3-triazole ring could be used as anticancer leads for the treatment of this deadly diseases.
Calculating a maximizer for quantum mutual information
Creators: name: Dorlas, Tony
name: Morgan, Ciara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain a maximizer for the quantum mutual information for classical information sent over the quantum qubit amplitude damping channel. This is achieved by limiting the ensemble of input states to antipodal states, in the calculation of the product-state capacity for the channel, the resulting maximizing ensemble consisting of just two non-orthogonal states. We also consider the product-state capacity of a convex combination of two memoryless channels and demonstrate in particular that it is in general not given by the minimum of the capacities of the respective memoryless channels.
description: Published in IJQI (2008). One figure added
Sociodemographic Characteristics of Healthcare Staffs in a Lead Cluster Hospital
Creators: name: Kwan, Jia Ni
name: Loh, Hong Chuan
name: Heoy Teng Lee
name: Irene, Loh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sociodemographics
Lead cluster hospital
Characteristics
Healthcare Staffs

description: Introduction The increasing feminisation of the healthcare workforce has been reported in Malaysia and globally, leading to challenges in human resources for health and policy implications for the future. Hence, the objective of our study was to determine the demographics of the healthcare staffs at Hospital Seberang Jaya, Penang. Methodology An online survey was conducted from November 2020 to December 2020. A questionnaire was sent out to the healthcare staff to enquire about some basic sociodemographic features like gender, age, marital status, ethnicity, religion, and so forth.   Results Female respondents had a mean (SD) age of 34.3 (7.6) years and male respondents were slightly younger with a mean (SD) age of 32.9 (7.3) years. The trend in ethnicity was similar in both male and female groups. The majority of the respondents were Malay, followed by Chinese and Indian. This also correlated with the pattern observed for religious affiliation where Islam was the most common religion practiced by both male (57.0%) and female respondents (77.2%). In addition, more than 60% of the male respondents and close to 80% of the female respondents were married. Generally, there were more male respondents smoking (7.6% versus 1.8%) and reporting alcohol use (15.2% versus 4.1%). More than 95% of the female respondents claimed that they did not engage in smoking and drinking. Conclusion The healthcare workforce at Hospital Seberang Jaya were predominantly females in their 30s. A future study to examine the differences between the genders in earnings is warranted. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/