cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
H-alpha emission in local galaxies: star formation, time variability and the diffuse ionized gas
Creators: name: Tacchella, Sandro
name: Smith, Aaron
name: Kannan, Rahul
name: Marinacci, Federico
name: Hernquist, Lars
name: Vogelsberger, Mark
name: Torrey, Paul
name: Sales, Laura
name: Li, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nebular recombination line H$α$ is widely used as a star-formation rate (SFR) indicator in the local and high-redshift Universe. We present a detailed H$α$ radiative transfer study of high-resolution isolated Milky-Way and Large Magellanic Cloud simulations that include radiative transfer, non-equilibrium thermochemistry, and dust evolution. We focus on the spatial morphology and temporal variability of the H$α$ emission, and its connection to the underlying gas and star formation properties. The H$α$ and H$β$ radial and vertical surface brightness profiles are in excellent agreement with observations of nearby galaxies. We find that the fraction of H$α$ emission from collisional excitation amounts to $f_{\rm col}\sim5-10\%$, only weakly dependent on radius and vertical height, and that scattering boosts the H$α$ luminosity by $\sim40\%$. The dust correction via the Balmer decrement works well (intrinsic H$α$ emission recoverable within $25\%$), though the dust attenuation law depends on the amount of attenuation itself both on spatially resolved and integrated scales. Important for the understanding of the H$α$-SFR connection is the dust and helium absorption of ionizing radiation (Lyman continuum [LyC] photons), which are about $f_{\rm abs}\approx28\%$ and $f_{\rm He}\approx9\%$, respectively. Together with an escape fraction of $f_{\rm esc}\approx6\%$, this reduces the available budget for hydrogen line emission by nearly half ($f_{\rm H}\approx57\%$). We discuss the impact of the diffuse ionized gas, showing - among other things - that the extraplanar H$α$ emission is powered by LyC photons escaping the disc. Future applications of this framework to cosmological (zoom-in) simulations will assist in the interpretation of spectroscopy of high-redshift galaxies with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.
description: 26 pages, 20 figures, matches version accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 4: Figure S3. of Chemical hybridizing agent SQ-1-induced male sterility in Triticum aestivum L.: a comparative analysis of the anther proteome
Creators: name: Liu, Hongzhan
name: Zhang, Gaisheng
name: Wang, Junsheng
name: Li, Jingjing
name: Song, Yulong
name: Qiao, Lin
name: Niu, Na
name: Wang, Junwei
name: Ma, Shoucai
name: Li, Lili
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Hierarchical clustering of identified proteins of all 13 categories and dynamic expression profile for the DEPs. (DOCX 951Â kb)
Who benefits from hospital equity fund in Myanmar?
Creators: name: Htet, Soe
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Although Myanmar has committed itself to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC), with public spending on health of less than 1% of GDP, poor households face serious problems accessing healthcare services in Myanmar. Partly to address these concerns, in 2012 the Ministry of Health together with GAVI introduced the Hospital Equity Fund (HEF) project. The program was introduced in 20 townships/districts in 2012, gradually expanding to cover 180 townships by end of 2015. The goal of HEF was to increase the inpatient care access of the poor via targeted financial support for specific inpatient care needs. The effectiveness of the targeting strategy under the HEF project in reaching the poor was assessed. Data were collected in 2014 for 2 townships where HEF had been launched in 2012, using a household survey (204 households) and focus group discussions and in depth interviews among local government officials, health staff at the village level, NGO representatives and managers of HEF. Information on socioeconomic status, healthcare use, possession and knowledge of HEF memberships, HEF benefits received and administrative processes governing HEF was collected in each township. In a population segment that was mostly poor, 77% of the surveyed households had not heard of HEF. Among those that had, only one-half knew about the benefits available under HEF. Remarkably, only 1.7 % actually possessed an HEF card; and only 25% of hospitalized cases received HEF benefits. Bottlenecks in HEF fund transfers across government departments further restricted access to poor patients. Little staff effort went into disseminating information about HEF in local communities, as no budgetary allocations were available for this. Although HEF increased hospital use and lowered the financial burden for some households, poor targeting meant that needs of the poor were not well served in the two townships.
Production of light (anti)nuclei in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}~=~5.02$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of the production of nuclei and antinuclei in pp collisions has proven to be a powerful tool to investigate the formation mechanism of loosely bound states in high-energy hadronic collisions. In this paper, the production of protons, deuterons and $^3$He and their charge conjugates at midrapidity is studied as a function of the charged-particle multiplicity in inelastic pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ TeV using the ALICE detector. Within the uncertainties, the yields of nuclei in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ TeV are compatible with those in pp collisions at different energies and to those in p-Pb collisions when compared at similar multiplicities. The measurements are compared with the expectations of coalescence and Statistical Hadronisation Models. The results suggest a common formation mechanism behind the production of light nuclei in hadronic interactions and confirm that they do not depend on the collision energy but on the number of produced particles.
description: 21 pages, 5 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 15, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/7532
Origin of the Type-II Weyl state in topological antiferromagnetic YbMnBi2
Creators: name: Ni, Xiao-Sheng
name: Chen, Cui-Qun
name: Yao, Dao-Xin
name: Hou, Yusheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the topological nature of an antiferromagnet YbMnBi2 has been controversial. YbMnBi2 is regarded as a candidate of Type-II Weyl semimetals with magnetic moments of Mn atoms canting about 10° in some studies but as a Dirac semimetal without canting in others. By means of systematical density functional theory calculations, we show the perfect YbMnBi2 bulk has a collinear antiferromagnetic ordering and, naturally, it is a Dirac semimetal. Considering the vital role of magnetic moment canting in generating the Type-II Weyl state, we artificially cant the magnetic moments of Mn atoms and find that YbMnBi2 enters into the Type-II Weyl state from about 2°. Inspired by this and taking into account the possible defects in experiments, we suggest that Bi vacancies in Mn-Bi-Mn bonds, which produce sizable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and thereby cant the magnetic moments of Mn atoms, can tune the topological nature of YbMnBi2 from Dirac semimetals to Type-II Weyl semimetals. Our work unveils the possible underlying mechanism for the Type-II Weyl state in YbMnBi2, providing insights into the Weyl state in other magnetic topological materials.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Caractérisation expérimentale du comportement statique d’une connexion hybride acier-béton innovante
Creators: name: Benoit, Le Gac
name: Hugues, Somja
name: Franck, Palas
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Le niveau d’exigence de performance thermique dans les bâtiments a considérablement augmenté au cours des vingt dernières années. Par conséquent, la mise en oeuvre d’une isolation importante et le traitement des ponts thermiques sont devenus indispensables. Dans le cas de bâtiments en béton armé avec isolation thermique par l’extérieur, ce dernier point devient une préoccupation structurelle majeure, en particulier au niveau des connexions de balcons dont le monolithisme avec la façade doit être rompu. Pour ce type de liaison, un système de rupteur thermique doit être posé. Le rôle structurel de cet élément est non seulement de transférer une force verticale et un moment de flexion, mais également d'avoir une résistance horizontale suffisante pour les actions de vents et sismiques, le cas échéant. En considérant tous ces aspects, les rupteurs conventionnels, faits de barres en acier inoxydable, ne sont pas pleinement satisfaisants. C’est pourquoi une nouvelle solution de rupteur hybride acier béton a été développée. Elle se compose d'armatures tendues, de butons en U et de clés de cisaillement spécifiques. Dans cet article, les essais expérimentaux menés pour étudier le comportement statique de cette connexion sous actions verticales sont présentés. Une formulation analytique pour déterminer la rigidité en flexionnelle est proposée et validée à l'aide des résultats expérimentaux.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Dépendance thermique des performances en fatigue des enrobés bitumineux
Creators: name: Ktari, Rahma
name: Hornych, Pierre
name: Hammoum, Ferhat
name: Marsac, Paul
name: Nguyen, Mai Lan
name: Piau, Jean Michel
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Les niveaux de sollicitation et d’endommagement de la chaussée fluctuent en cours d’année. Le comportement en déformation et à la fatigue des matériaux bitumineux varient avec les cycles de la température. Cet article vise à traiter brièvement les résultats tirés de la bibliographie afin de déduire une loi d’évolution des performances en fatigue en fonction de la température. Une étude expérimentale sur une Grave Bitume de classe 3 (GB3), à des différentes températures a été réalisée avec des essais de fatigue en flexion 2 points sur éprouvettes trapézoïdales, en déformation imposée. Dans cette étude, la durée de vie en fatigue est évaluée par trois approches différentes : la première basée sur le critère classique de rupture (50% de chute de module initial), la deuxième sur une analyse de l'énergie dissipée et la troisième sur une analyse à partir d’une variable d’endommagement. L'analyse classique de la durée de vie en fatigue permet d'obtenir le paramètre de performance ε6 (à 1 million de cycles). Les résultats ont permis de valider une loi d’évolution ces performances en fonction de la température en comparaison avec les résultats de la bibliographie.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
$SO(5)$ Landau Model and 4D Quantum Hall Effect in The $SO(4)$ Monopole Background
Creators: name: Hasebe, Kazuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the $SO(5)$ Landau problem in the $SO(4)$ monopole gauge field background by applying the techniques of the non-linear realization of quantum field theory. The $SO(4)$ monopole carries two topological invariants, the second Chern number and a generalized Euler number, specified by the $SU(2)$ monopole and anti-monopole indices, $I_+$ and $I_-$. The energy levels of the $SO(5)$ Landau problem are grouped into $\text{Min}(I_+, I_-) +1$ sectors, each of which holds Landau levels. In the $n$-sector, $N$th Landau level eigenstates constitute the $SO(5)$ irreducible representation with $(p,q)_5=(N+I_+ + I_--n, N+n)_5$ whose function form is obtained from the $SO(5)$ non-linear realization matrix. In the $n=0$ sector, the emergent quantum geometry of the lowest Landau level is identified as the fuzzy four-sphere with radius being proportional to the difference between $I_+$ and $I_-$. The Laughlin-like wavefunction is constructed by imposing the $SO(5)$ lowest Landau level projection to the many-body wavefunction made of the Slater determinant. We also analyze the relativistic version of the $SO(5)$ Landau model to demonstrate the Atiyah-Singer index theorem in the $SO(4)$ gauge field configuration.
description: 1+32 pages, 7 figures; minor corrections
title: OFROM: interview avec unine15z38d
Creators: name: Delafontaine, François
name: Pochon, Floriane
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Français
subject: fra

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title: OFROM: interview avec unine15z36d
Creators: name: Delafontaine, François
name: Jungo, Magali
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Français
subject: fra

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description: Source: https://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.df297ut2.v2#10a2bb518ad44760d1adeae8015ff2909a6ea070
Additional file 5: Table S2a and b. of Chemical hybridizing agent SQ-1-induced male sterility in Triticum aestivum L.: a comparative analysis of the anther proteome
Creators: name: Liu, Hongzhan
name: Zhang, Gaisheng
name: Wang, Junsheng
name: Li, Jingjing
name: Song, Yulong
name: Qiao, Lin
name: Niu, Na
name: Wang, Junwei
name: Ma, Shoucai
name: Li, Lili
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Protein interaction network analysis by searching the STRING 10.0 according to Brachypodium distachyon homologous proteins and TAIR homologous proteins, respectively. (DOCX 42Â kb)
Analysis of the pseudoscalar hidden-charm tetraquark states with the QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
name: Xin, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we take all the color-antitriplet diquarks, such as the scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, axialvector and tensor diquarks, as the basic constituents to construct the local pseudoscalar four-quark currents without importing the explicit P-waves to implement the negative-parity, and investigate the mass spectroscopy of the pseudoscalar hidden-charm tetraquark states without strange, with strange and with hidden-strange in the framework of the QCD sum rules in a consistent and comprehensive way. We obtain the lowest mass $4.56\pm0.08\,\rm{GeV}$ for the pseudoscalar tetraquark state with the symbolic quark constituents $c\bar{c}u\bar{d}$, which is much larger than the experimental value $4239\pm18{}^{+45}_{-10}\,\rm{MeV}$ extracted by the LHCb collaboration.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
title: OFROM: interview avec unine15z35m
Creators: name: Delafontaine, François
name: Jungo, Magali
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Français
subject: fra

description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
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description: Source: https://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.aefb57ei.v2#f31b4143c36ec96320738089811b199a15d8259a
Enhancement of multifiber beam elements in the case of reinforced concrete structures for taking into account the lateral confinement of concrete due to stirrup
Creators: name: KHODER, Natalia
name: GRANGE, Stéphane
name: SIEFFERT, Yannick
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Pour déterminer la vulnérabilité sismique des structures existantes en béton armé, des méthodes de calcul numérique à l’échelle structurelle efficaces et suffisamment précises sont nécessaires. Dans le cas d’éléments poutres, les recherches actuelles concernent le développement de cinématiques enrichies pour mieux tenir compte de la déformée des sections. A cette échelle, des formulations permettent déjà de reproduire les déformations de cisaillement. En revanche, concernant les cadres d’armatures, soit ils ne sont pas du tout considérés, soit ils ne permettent pas d’établir un véritable équilibre global de la section transversale permettant de calculer le confinement du béton. Cependant, comme le montrent certains essais expérimentaux, la quantité d’armatures transversales pilote d’une manière significative le comportement de ces poutres. Le travail présenté dans cet article propose un modèle poutre multifibre enrichi pour la prise en compte de l’effet de confinement du béton par les armatures transversales. Des déplacements transversaux additionnels d’enrichissement permettent d’enrichir la cinématique de la section transversale pour y calculer l’équilibre. Le modèle est dans un premier temps validé avec des tests simples et une loi de comportement élastique linéaire pour le matériau composant la section.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Additional file 6: Figure S4. of Chemical hybridizing agent SQ-1-induced male sterility in Triticum aestivum L.: a comparative analysis of the anther proteome
Creators: name: Liu, Hongzhan
name: Zhang, Gaisheng
name: Wang, Junsheng
name: Li, Jingjing
name: Song, Yulong
name: Qiao, Lin
name: Niu, Na
name: Wang, Junwei
name: Ma, Shoucai
name: Li, Lili
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Protein interaction network analysis by searching the STRING 10.0 (TAIR homologous proteins). (DOCX 1653Â kb)
CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF A NEUROLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO MOTHER TONGUE AND READING LITERACY EDUCATION
Creators: name: Togayeva, Umida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: this article expresses current issues of methods of teaching the native language based on the neurolinguistic approach, the possibility of developing educational tasks from the native language based on the neurolinguistic approach, and the features of using best practices in the educational process.
Correlations at PT-symmetric quantum critical point
Creators: name: Dóra, Balázs
name: Sticlet, Doru
name: Moca, Catalin Pascu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a PT-symmetric Fermi gas with an exceptional point, representing the critical point between PT-symmetric and symmetry broken phases. The low energy spectrum remains linear in momentum and is identical to that of a hermitian Fermi gas. The fermionic Green's function decays in a power law fashion for large distances, as expected from gapless excitations, albeit the exponent is reduced from $-1$ due to the quantum Zeno effect. In spite of the gapless nature of the excitations, the ground state entanglement entropy saturates to a finite value, independent of the subsystem size due to the non-hermitian correlation length intrinsic to the system. Attractive or repulsive interaction drives the system into the PT-symmetry broken regime or opens up a gap and protects PT-symmetry, respectively. Our results challenge the concept of universality in non-hermitian systems, where quantum criticality can be masked due to non-hermiticity.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of Study of myopia progression and risk factors in Hubei children aged 7–10 years using machine learning: a longitudinal cohort
Creators: name: Li, Wenping
name: Tu, Yuyang
name: Zhou, Lianhong
name: Ma, Runting
name: Li, Yuanjin
name: Hu, Diewenjie
name: Zhang, Cancan
name: Lu, Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Finding and applying mainstream technology solutions for people with disabilities
Creators: name: Asiri, Mona
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: According to the World Health Organization (2011) the number of people with disabilities represents approximately 15% of the world’s population. Furthermore, 80% of these people are in developing countries. People with disabilities in these societies still have many problems in coping with lives of disability and being active members of their communities. Assistive technology is an important resource that helps people with disabilities be productive and participate in society. However, the high cost of assistive technology makes its solutions difficult to afford. This research aims to develop a mainstream technology selection framework (MTSF) that will help detect an individual’s abilities and match these abilities with the mainstream technology features to achieve the individual’s goal. The MTSF is based on activity theory and includes four instruments - assessment of needs and abilities (Interview 1), a decision tool, a search tool, and evaluation of technology effectiveness (Interview 2). A qualitative approach is used with the case study method to apply and evaluate the MTSF. Eight individuals with physical disabilities, three rehabilitation therapists, and one occupational therapist participated in this research. Semi-structured, open-ended interview questions were used to collect data. Grounded theory was used to analyse the collected data. The findings showed that the MTSF could bridge the gap created by the lack of a specialist tool for selecting effective mainstream technologies for people with disabilities. Moreover, the MTSF can be used by novice specialists who lack knowledge of the important factors that affect the selection of the effective technologies. The findings regarding the value of the recommended technologies provide promising results towards using mainstream technologies as effective alternatives to the traditional assistive technologies. Finally, an evaluation of the MTSF was conducted by the therapists. The findings regarding the effectiveness and comprehensiveness of the MTSF support that the systematic approach, which has been used to apply the MTSF, increased its effectiveness and the usefulness. Moreover, the systematic approach assisted the therapist in detecting issues that needed further consideration and support to achieve better technology solutions for people with disabilities.
Additional file 7: Figure S5. of Chemical hybridizing agent SQ-1-induced male sterility in Triticum aestivum L.: a comparative analysis of the anther proteome
Creators: name: Liu, Hongzhan
name: Zhang, Gaisheng
name: Wang, Junsheng
name: Li, Jingjing
name: Song, Yulong
name: Qiao, Lin
name: Niu, Na
name: Wang, Junwei
name: Ma, Shoucai
name: Li, Lili
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Cellular component, molecular function and biological process networks generated by BiNGO. (DOCX 417Â kb)
Challenges and Vital Role of Supply Chain and Procurement Management in Supplying Library-Related Materials and Services in Academic and Public Libraries in Qatar
Creators: name: Al Falo, Rania
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Supply chain
subject: Management
subject: Central Supply, Hospital/supply & distribution
subject: Public libraries
subject: Library Services
subject: Catalogs, Library
subject: Library service
subject: Library Administration
subject: Purchase
subject: Contract
subject: Agreement (contract)
subject: Contracts
subject: Contract Services/standards
subject: Contracts/standards
subject: Logistic Models
subject: Logistics
subject: electronic resources
subject: Digital Content

description: This dissertation investigates procurement techniques and Supply Chain Management's impact on the operations and the set strategies at academic and public libraries in Qatar. This research intends to examine the role of proper procurement methods in supplying library-related materials and services, reducing costs and meeting customers' satisfaction.

The significance of the research is the limitation of the theory and academic studies that examine and evaluate the procurement strategies' role in supplying and offering library-related materials and services in the middle east and Qatar.

The literature review critically discussed the theories of the SCM models, frameworks and innovations about procurement and purchasing practices elements in general and at academic libraries in detail as the collaboration, effective coordination and information sharing, strategic planning, vendor pre-qualification management, supplier business relationship, negotiation, and cost reduction.

This research followed a pragmatism philosophy and implemented a deductive approach with a simple mixed method as a methodological choice. Qualitative and quantitative data were used to interpret the web questionnaire answers.

The web survey targeted the procurement team's expertise and librarians involved in the purchasing process at academic and public libraries.

Thirty-two participants responded and were part of the data collection study. They shared a holistic insight into the current procurement practices, challenges, essential procurement strategies, and supply chain processes supporting the library's objective and customers' satisfaction and expectations.

The conclusion shows the main SCM challenges that libraries face and the followed procurement techniques and experience at academic and public libraries. The recommendations address the proper procurement techniques that can be applied to solve the current difficulties and enhance the process to achieve library objectives and operations enhancement.

The researcher identified the scope for further research to profoundly explore and evaluate the current procurement practices by following a case study method and applying it to the Qatar National Library.
Graphics processing unit accelerated lattice Boltzmann method simulations of dilute gravity currents
Creators: name: Adekanye, Damilola
name: Khan, Amirul
name: Burns, Alan
name: McCaffrey, William
name: Geier, Martin
name: Schönherr, Martin
name: Dorrell, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice Boltzmann method models offer a novel framework for the simulation of high Reynolds number dilute gravity currents. The numerical algorithm is well suited to acceleration via implementation on massively parallel computer architectures. Here we present two lattice Boltzmann method models of lock-exchange dilute gravity currents, in which the largest turbulent length scales are directly resolved. The three-dimensional simulations are accelerated by exporting computations to a graphics processing unit and are validated against experiments and high-resolution simulations for Reynolds numbers up to 30,000. The lattice Boltzmann method models achieve equivalent accuracy to conventional large eddy simulation models in the prediction of key flow properties. A conservative analysis of computational performance relative to conventional methods indicates that the presented framework reduces simulation times by two orders of magnitude. Therefore, it can be used as a foundation for the development of depth-resolving models that capture more of the complexity of environmental gravity currents.
description: 59 pages, 14 figures
Amélioration des sables marin par vibroflottation et stabilité du caisson
Creators: name: Khelalfa, Houssam
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Le traitement du sol par vibroflottation est une technique récente permettant l'amélioration d'un sol présentant de médiocres propriétés géo-mécaniques. En outre, ce traitement permet de minimiser le risque de liquéfaction et l’instabilité de caisson. Ce travail permet d’une part d’établir une simulation numérique bi-dimensionnelle d’un essai réel de vibroflottation, basé sur un modèle en éléments finis. d’autre part, le travail consiste à faire une étude numérique bidimensionnelle de la stabilité de caisson réalisé sur le sol traité, afin de vérifier son influence sur la stabilité de l’ouvrage. Les résultats de calcul seront comparés avec les mesures in-situ pour valider le modèle numérique.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
The role of food and aeroallergens in eosinophilic oesophagitis
Creators: name: Philpott, Hamish Lachlan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a chronic inflammatory condition that afflicts children and adults, and causes oesophageal narrowing and fibrosis, with the resultant clinical sequelae of dysphagia and food bolus obstruction events (FBOE), the latter often resulting is hospitalisation, emergency endoscopic removal and rarely but catastrophically oesophageal perforation. An increasing number of patients are being diagnosed with EoE, and this is independent of a growing awareness of this recently defined condition, but rather represents a true increase in the context of a global rise (in Western first-world countries) of allergic conditions per se. The mainstays of medical treatment for EoE are indefinite PPI therapy or swallowed topical corticosteroids. These therapeutic assets are highly effective but they do not ultimately target the etiologic cause of EoE. A role for aeroallergens (pollens) and dietary allergens (food) in precipitating or causing EoE has been suggested in a number of studies, albeit limited by their retrospective nature and lack of control group (in the case of aeroallergens), the predominance of paediatric literature and variable use of adjunctive treatment such as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) (in the case of food allergens). Highly restrictive elimination diets show promise in treating EoE. Unfortunately, the role of allergy tests in directing dietary therapy remains debatable and studies are again of a retrospective nature or utilise a small range of available tests. This means that even if dietary therapy works, that patients are required to undergo many gastroscopies during their treatment course, which is both inconvenient, expensive and has the associated risk of an anaesthetic. Thus, the need both to better understand the role of food and aeroallergens (with more comprehensive prospective studies), and to offer less invasive and thereby safer endoscopic surveillance is readily apparent.
Investigation de l’influence des variables de conception sur le comportement des voiles courts en béton armé
Creators: name: KEZMANE, Ali
name: BOUKAIS, Said
name: KHELIL, Nacim
name: KAHIL, Amar
name: NEKMOUCHE, Aghiles
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: La résistance ultime est la variable clé pour la conception et l'évaluation de la performance voiles courts en béton armé [WOO 90 ] [BRA 77] . L’évaluation précise de la résistance ultime est importante parce que les structures à voiles ou comportant des voiles sont susceptibles d'éprouver de multiples cycles de déformation pendant les tremblements de terre [LEF 90]. Les codes de dimensionnement, les manuels pratiques et la littérature fournissent un certain nombre d'équations pour prédire la résistance ultime des voiles en béton armé. Cependant, ces équations utilisent des variables de conception différentes pour estimer la résistance ultime. Pour déterminer la contribution de chaque variable sur la résistance ultime des voiles en béton armé, des études et des évaluations de l'effet de chacune de ces variables (acier vertical, renforcement des limites, acier horizontal, résistance du béton à la compression et l’élancement géométrique) ont été conduites en utilisant des simulations numériques basées sur des modélisation à l’échelle locale.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Extracting Photometric Redshift from Galaxy Flux and Image Data using Neural Networks in the CSST Survey
Creators: name: Zhou, Xingchen
name: Gong, Yan
name: Meng, Xian-Min
name: Cao, Ye
name: Chen, Xuelei
name: Chen, Zhu
name: Du, Wei
name: Fu, Liping
name: Luo, Zhijian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accuracy of galaxy photometric redshift (photo-$z$) can significantly affect the analysis of weak gravitational lensing measurements, especially for future high-precision surveys. In this work, we try to extract photo-$z$ information from both galaxy flux and image data expected to be obtained by China Space Station Telescope (CSST) using neural networks. We generate mock galaxy images based on the observational images from the Advanced Camera for Surveys of Hubble Space Telescope (HST-ACS) and COSMOS catalogs, considering the CSST instrumental effects. Galaxy flux data are then measured directly from these images by aperture photometry. The Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) are constructed to predict photo-$z$ from fluxes and images, respectively. We also propose to use an efficient hybrid network, which combines MLP and CNN, by employing transfer learning techniques to investigate the improvement of the result with both flux and image data included. We find that the photo-$z$ accuracy and outlier fraction can achieve $σ_{\rm NMAD} = 0.023$ and $η= 1.43\%$ for the MLP using flux data only, and $σ_{\rm NMAD} = 0.025$ and $η= 1.21\%$ for the CNN using image data only. The result can be further improved in high efficiency as $σ_{\rm NMAD} = 0.020$ and $η= 0.90\%$ for the hybrid transfer network. These approaches result in similar galaxy median and mean redshifts ~0.8 and 0.9, respectively, for the redshift range from 0 to 4. This indicates that our networks can effectively and properly extract photo-$z$ information from the CSST galaxy flux and image data.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Electrochemistry, acid-base chemistry, synthesis and characterization of TCNQF and TCNQF2-based materials – A comparison between four derivatives TCNQFn (n=0,1,2,4)
Creators: name: Vo, Nguyen Thang
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the redox and acid-base chemistry of TCNQF and TCNQF² in acetonitrile in comparision with those of TCNQ and TCNQF₄. The results describe a linear relationship between the number of fluoro substituents and the redox potential as well as the stability of TCNQFn and their anions. The disproportionation of TCNQFn- in the presence of Zn²⁺ in this study assembles that of TCNQ and TCNQF₄, however, the reaction rates is diverse. Transition metals complexes (Cu⁺, Ag⁺, Co²⁺, Ni²⁺) with TCNQFn (n =1-2) were synthesized eletrochemically and characterized. Different voltammetric behaviors have been observed, which wasn’t detected in systems containing TCNQ or TCNQF₄ implying a significant substituent effect of fluorinated substitution in the system.
Additional file 1: of A qualitative exploration of the discharge process and factors predisposing to readmissions to the intensive care unit
Creators: name: Ofoma, Uchenna
name: Dong, Yue
name: Gajic, Ognjen
name: Pickering, Brian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Oral script. (DOC 24Â kb)
Additional file 1 of Analysis of a nurse-provided on-call peritoneal dialysis support in an outpatient reference care centre
Creators: name: Albert, Annemarie
name: Richter, Stefan
name: Kalk, Philipp
name: Stieger, Philipp
name: Woitas, Rainer Peter
name: Braun-Dullaeus, Rüdiger C.
name: Albert, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1. Figures S1-S3, Tables S1-S5.
In situ detection of RF breakdown on microfabricated surface ion traps
Creators: name: Wilson, Joshua M.
name: Tilles, Julia N.
name: Haltli, Raymond A.
name: Ou, Eric
name: Blain, Matthew G.
name: Clark, Susan M.
name: Revelle, Melissa C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microfabricated surface ion traps are a principle component of many ion-based quantum information science platforms. The operational parameters of these devices are pushed to the edge of their physical capabilities as the experiments strive for increasing performance. When the applied radio-frequency (RF) voltage is increased too much, the devices can experience damaging electric discharge events known as RF breakdown. We introduce two novel techniques for in situ detection of RF breakdown, which we implemented while characterizing the breakdown threshold of surface ion traps produced at Sandia National Laboratories. In these traps, breakdown did not always occur immediately after increasing the RF voltage, but often minutes or even hours later. This result is surprising in the context of the suggested mechanisms for RF breakdown in vacuum. Additionally, the extent of visible damage caused by breakdown events increased with applied voltage. To minimize the probability for damage when RF power is first applied to a device, our results strongly suggest that the voltage should be ramped up over the course of several hours and monitored forbreakdown.
Additional file 8: Table S3. of Chemical hybridizing agent SQ-1-induced male sterility in Triticum aestivum L.: a comparative analysis of the anther proteome
Creators: name: Liu, Hongzhan
name: Zhang, Gaisheng
name: Wang, Junsheng
name: Li, Jingjing
name: Song, Yulong
name: Qiao, Lin
name: Niu, Na
name: Wang, Junwei
name: Ma, Shoucai
name: Li, Lili
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: BINGO analysis of differentially expressed proteins. (DOCX 20Â kb)
Comportement en flexion de structures hybrides acier-bois
Creators: name: JURKIEWIEZ, Bruno
name: DURIF, Sébastien
name: GRAZIDE, Cécile
name: BOUCHAIR, Abdelhamid
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: L’association de l’acier et du bois pour former des poutres mixtes peut apporter des améliorations vis-à-vis des performances mécaniques, notamment des instabilités élastiques, ainsi que de la protection au feu. Dans cette étude, des résultats d’essais de poutres mixtes acier-bois testées dans différentes configurations sont présentés. Chaque composant, acier et bois, est d’abord testé seul dans le domaine élastique et/ou dans le domaine plastique. Des composants identiques sont ensuite percés, assemblés et testés jusqu’à la ruine. Si la contribution du bois dans le domaine élastique est modeste, il n’en est pas de même à la ruine. La présence du bois retarde l’apparition du déversement et des instabilités locales et permet ainsi aux déformations plastiques de se développer augmentant alors la capacité portante de l’élément mixte en comparaison avec les composants seuls. Ces résultats préliminaires, basés sur une approche expérimentale, mettent en évidence le potentiel de cette association acier-bois pour des travaux ultérieurs
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Additional file 2: of A qualitative exploration of the discharge process and factors predisposing to readmissions to the intensive care unit
Creators: name: Ofoma, Uchenna
name: Dong, Yue
name: Gajic, Ognjen
name: Pickering, Brian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Interview Guide. (DOCX 12Â kb)
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis constraints on higher-order modified gravities
Creators: name: Asimakis, Petros
name: Basilakos, Spyros
name: Mavromatos, Nick E.
name: Saridakis, Emmanuel N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) data in order to impose constraints on higher-order modified gravity, and in particular on: (i) $f(G)$ Gauss-Bonnet gravity, and $f(P)$ cubic gravities, arising respectively through the use of the quadratic-curvature Gauss-Bonnet $G$ term, and the cubic-curvature combination, (ii) string-inspired quadratic Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to the dilaton field, (iii) models with string-inspired quartic curvature corrections, and (iv) running vacuum models. We perform a detailed investigation of the BBN epoch and we calculate the deviations of the freeze-out temperature $T_f$ in comparison to $Λ$CDM paradigm. We then use the observational bound on $ \left|\frac{δ{T}_f}{{T}_f}\right|$ in order to extract constraints on the involved parameters of various models. We find that all models can satisfy the BBN constraints and thus they constitute viable cosmological scenarios, since they can additionally account for the dark energy sector and the late-time acceleration, in a quantitative manner, without spoiling the formation of light elements during the BBN epoch. Nevertheless, the obtained constraints on the relevant model parameters are quite strong.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, version to appear in Phys.Rev.D
Gun-ngaypa Rrawa 'My Country': intercultural alliances in language research
Creators: name: Carew, Margaret Louise
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis presents the findings of an intercultural language research project involving speakers of the Gun nartpa language from north-central Arnhem Land. This was a collaboration based around a set of materials – audio recordings, photographs and notes – all artifacts of language research from a period of fieldwork undertaken between 1993 and 1996. A repatriation and documentation project called Gun nartpa Stories developed around those materials resulting in a community publication titled Gun ngaypa Rrawa ‘My Country’ (England, Muchana, Walanggay & Carew 2014). This thesis also arose from that project. Taken together, the thesis and the book is a hybrid work, reflecting an approach to language documentation that draws upon practice-led investigation. The work integrates academic and Gun nartpa accounts of the social meaning of stories and the ways in which these are situated within a web of sociality. This web, which the Gun nartpa and their Burarra neighbors call jarlakarr gun-murra ‘a network of many tracks’ is dynamic, adaptable and unbounded. It is underpinned by the relationality and practices of patrilocality and affinal kinship and shaped by historical and intercultural patterns of interaction locally and further afield. A central argument of this thesis is that my research alliance with the Gun-nartpa was formed around a contract relating to knowledge exchange and the practices surrounding that. This contract was framed in the idiom of joborr, stories that describe ethical and lawful conduct. It prescribed the projection of an ‘authentic’ local identity construct into the wider public realm through the prestige form of jurra (a Macassan term adopted by people in Arnhem Land, meaning ‘paper’, or ‘book’). The importance of literacy practices associated with the representations of knowledge as jurra, reflects the affordances provided in this context by Bible translation and liturgy development (1962-current), bilingual education programs in Maningrida (1974-2008) and local theories of story, knowledge, sociality and history. This thesis situates language research and narrative analysis at the centre of these intersecting affordances. Through foregrounding the socialities and narrative practices that characterise reflexive collaborative intercultural research, the work offers insight into ways that practice-led methodologies can integrate scholarly research and local perspectives on the social meaning of language research practices. In the context of rapidly shifting language ecologies in remote Indigenous communities, practice-led research provides one way that university based scholars can form alliances with language practitioners at the local level.