cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Alienation, Modernization, and Animal Welfare: Human-Animal Relationships at the Farm, State, and Country Levels
Creators: name: Briscoe, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Our relationships with animals are important for us as humans, for the environment, and for the animals themselves. In this dissertation I look at the relationships between humans and animals at three scales: farm, U.S. state, and country. Specifically, I address how factors like economic growth, technological innovation, and globalization affect human relationships with animals. Understanding how these factors influence human-animal relationships is important for improving these relationships and deciding which directions will most contribute to sustainable outcomes. I address the social factors that influence human-animal relationships in three studies.
In the first study I surveyed and interviewed dairy farmers in Washington. I asked them how farm size and the technologies and practices they used on their farm influenced their relationship with their work and with their cows. I then analyzed how these relationships influenced their overall life satisfaction. Farmers reported that farm size made it difficult to stay connected with their cows but that new technologies helped farmers connect in new ways with their cows while avoiding conventional negative interactions. Both relationships with work and cows were related to life satisfaction, which is important for farmers, who as a population face high levels of stress.
In the second study I used data from government sources and the Humane Society of the United States to assess how economic growth influenced farm animal protection in the United States. The results of my analyses suggest that economic growth may have a positive effect on farm animal protection. This is encouraging news for policymakers hoping for win-win scenarios to improve animal welfare – though more research on direct animal welfare is needed.
Lastly, in the third study I used data from Voiceless: The Animal Protection Institute and the World Bank to see how economic growth influenced farm animal cruelty on a global scale. The results suggest that economic growth reduces some types of farm animal cruelty but increases others. Trade with high-income countries may have a spillover effect with lower-income countries that reduces farm animal cruelty in those countries.
An evidence-base for the implementation of hospital-based palliative care programs in routine cancer practice: A systematic review
Creators: name: Rizvi, F
name: Wilding, HE
name: Rankin, NM
name: Le Gautier, R
name: Gurren, L
name: Sundararajan, Vijaya
name: Bellingham, K
name: Chua, J
name: Crawford, GB
name: Nowak, AK
name: Le, B
name: Mitchell, G
name: McLachlan, SA
name: Sousa, TV
name: Hudson, R
name: IJzerman, M
name: Collins, A
name: Philip, J
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420316
subject: Palliative care
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems

description: Background: Despite global support, there remain gaps in the integration of early palliative care into cancer care. The methods of implementation whereby evidence of benefits of palliative care is translated into practice deserve attention. Aim: To identify implementation frameworks utilised in integrated palliative care in hospital-based oncology services and to describe the associated enablers and barriers to service integration. Design: Systematic review with a narrative synthesis including qualitative, mixed methods, pre-post and quasi experimental designs following the guidance by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (PROSPERO registration CRD42021252092). Data sources: Six databases searched in 2021: EMBASE, EMCARE, APA PsycINFO, CINAHL, Cochrane Library and Ovid MEDLINE searched in 2023. Included were qualitative or quantitative studies, in English language, involving adults >18 years, and implementing hospital-based palliative care into cancer care. Critical appraisal tools were used to assess the quality and rigour. Results: Seven of the 16 studies explicitly cited the use of frameworks including those based on RE-AIM, Medical Research Council evaluation of complex interventions and WHO constructs of health service evaluation. Enablers included an existing supportive culture, clear introduction to the programme across services, adequate funding, human resources and identification of advocates. Barriers included a lack of communication with the patients, caregivers, physicians and palliative care team about programme goals, stigma around the term ‘palliative’, a lack of robust training, or awareness of guidelines and undefined staff roles. Conclusions: Implementation science frameworks provide a method to underpin programme development and evaluation as palliative care is integrated within the oncology setting.
Additional file 8 of Sex-specific associations between diabetes and dementia: the role of age at onset of disease, insulin use and complications
Creators: name: Zhou, Chunmiao
name: Dong, Caiyun
name: Xie, Ziwei
name: Hao, Wenting
name: Fu, Chunying
name: Sun, Huizi
name: Zhu, Dongshan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8: Appendix. STROBE Statement—checklist of items that should be included in reports of cohort studies.
title: Characterization and Immobilization of Thermophilic Lipases for the Interesterification of Soybean Oil
Creators: name: Najm, Teif A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Lipases are currently used in food technology for the modification of fats and oils. Lipase can synthesize, hydrolyze, and rearrange fatty acids, thus, resulting in their extensive use in industrial applications. The thermal stability of lipase is an essential characteristic for this application. Thermophilic bacteria are an important source for producing thermostable lipases because of their tolerance to high heat. Lipolytic enzymes can be purified using several purification methods, but these purification processes are often expensive and complex.Results from this study showed that lipases can be extract from thermophilic bacteria (Geobacillius stearothermophilus (GS) and Anoxybacillus flavithermus (AF)). Molecular weight of the lipase from (LGS) was approximately 42 kDa, and approximately 33 kDa for the lipase from AF (LAF). Ethanol precipitation and heat treatment are simple methods for enzyme purification and can result in high enzyme yields with moderate purification folds compared to more complex methods.
This study has shown the characterization of both LGS and LAF. The optimal Ph for LGS activity was at Ph 7.5 and the optimum enzyme activity of LAF was at Ph 8.0. Both enzymes were stable at a Ph range of 6 to 8 over 12 h at 4 °C, and the thermostability of both enzymes was between 20 to 80 °C. LGS had the highest Vmax value with p-nitrophenyl acetate while its lowest Km value was with p-nitrophenyl dodecanoic. LAF had the highest Vmax with p-nitrophenyl myristate, and its lowest Km with p-nitrophenyloctanoate. LGS preferentially hydrolyzed p-nitrophenyl acetate and p-nitrophenyl octanoate while the LAF preferentially hydrolyzed p-nitrophenyl myristate and p-nitrophenyl dodecanoate.
Results showed both lipase enzymes were successfully immobilized using silica beads. Both immobilized lipases were used to interesterify SBO with PA and change the chemical composition and melting point of the oil. PA concentration significantly decreased after 24 h at all reaction ratios, and the TAG concentration was significantly different after interesterification. FFA concentration changed after SBO interesterification, and the melting points of the samples increased from 4 °C to 40 °C. The results suggest that both immobilized lipases have suitable properties for oil interesterification and industrial applications.
Measuring the X-ray Background in the Reionization Era with First Generation 21 cm Experiments
Creators: name: Christian, Pierre
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-ray background during the epoch of reionization is currently poorly constrained. We demonstrate that it is possible to use first generation 21 cm experiments to calibrate it. Using the semi-numerical simulation, 21cmFAST, we calculate the dependence of the 21 cm power spectrum on the X-ray background flux. Comparing the signal to the sensitivity of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) we find that in the redshift interval z=8-14 the 21 cm signal is detectable based on the upper limit set by the present-day unresolved soft X-ray background. We show that there is no degeneracy between the X-ray production efficiency and the Lyman-Alpha production efficiency and that the degeneracy with the ionization fraction of the intergalactic medium can be broken.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP
title: Analysis of Large Embankment Dam in Case of Rapid Drawdown and Earthquake Aftershock
Creators: name: Vivithkeyoonvong, Pothikul
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Dams and reservoirs are important as a source of freshwater as well as for regulating flooding and producing hydroelectricity. The same as with any other manmade structure, dams need to monitored and maintained to prevent disastrous failure.
One of the events that can reduce the stability of an embankment dam is rapid drawdown. Rapid drawdown is when the water level decreases at such a rapid rate that the dam material(s) cannot drain and adjust to the change in time. Without the buttressing effect of the water, the upstream slope of the dam becomes less stable. Another threat to dam stability is earthquake shakings. Strong seismic event can cause damage to dams and appurtenant structures.
The analysis is run in the program GeoStudio 2020 using existing data, reasonable estimation, well-accepted theories, and engineering judgment.
The results of this study show that this mode of failure should be considered for embankment dams. The analyses results shows that Sirikit Dam outperforms the required factors of safety in the largest possible event of rapid drawdown and aftershock. This method of analysis can be extended to other embankment dams. Further research could estimate the probability of this event.
Additional file 2 of Photon and Proton irradiation in Patient-derived, Three-Dimensional Soft Tissue Sarcoma Models
Creators: name: Roohani, Siyer
name: Loskutov, Jürgen
name: Heufelder, Jens
name: Ehret, Felix
name: Wedeken, Lena
name: Regenbrecht, Manuela
name: Sauer, Rica
name: Zips, Daniel
name: Denker, Andrea
name: Joussen, Antonia M.
name: Regenbrecht, Christian R. A.
name: Kaul, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: Neurotrophic Factor Genetics of Cognitive Progression and Neuropsychiatric Symptom Presentation in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
Creators: name: Matyi, Joshua Matthew
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: The Cache County Study on Memory in Aging (CCSMA) and subsequent Dementia Progression Study (DPS) were two research studies that took place in Cache County, Utah. These studies followed 5092 participants aged 65 or older for approximately 12 years and looked at risk and protective factors for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. One of the factors investigated was genes that are known to influence brain health, such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a protein found in the brain that helps with the survival of brain cells.
BDNF genes have been shown to be associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) risk, but little is known about the influence these genes have after dementia is diagnosed. The current study looked at how BDNF related genes were associated with learning and memory abilities (i.e. cognitive ability) and problematic behaviors (e.g. delusions, agitation/aggression, anxiety) in individuals from the CCSMA and DPS who were diagnosed with ADRD. This research is important to help understand what may contribute to often-seen differences in dementia progression and help inform possible treatment decisions.
The results of the current project showed that BDNF genes influenced both progression of cognitive difficulties and problematic behaviors in individuals with ADRD. Additionally, it was shown that many of these effects depended on the sex of the individual, such that men and women progressed at different rates and were influenced by different BDNF related genotypes. These results provide evidence of the influence of BDNF genes after dementia diagnosis and highlights the need to investigate contributing factors related to the sex of the individual. Targeted medication or behavioral treatment of dementia that both improves BDNF function in the brain, as well as mitigates any sex-related effects, may also be another avenue for future research.
Microwave-induced zero-resistance" states and second-harmonic generation in an ultraclean two-dimensional electron gas
Creators: name: Mikhailov, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microwave-induced resistance oscillations (MIRO) and "zero-resistance" states (ZRS) were discovered in ultraclean two-dimensional electron systems in 2001-2003 and have attracted great interest from researchers. A comprehensive theory of these phenomena was developed in 2011: It was shown that all experimentally observed dependencies can be naturally explained by the influence of the ponderomotive forces which arise in the near-contact regions of the two-dimensional electron gas under the action of microwaves. Now we show that the same near-contact physical processes should lead to another nonlinear electrodynamic phenomenon - the second-harmonic generation. We calculate the frequency, magnetic field, mobility, and power dependencies of the second-harmonic intensity and show that it can be as large as ~ 0.5 mW/cm2 under realistic experimental conditions. A part of this paper is devoted to a further discussion of the MIRO/ZRS phenomena: we explain how the ponderomotive-force theory explains different experimental details, including those which were not known in 2011, and critically discuss alternative theories.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures, substantial changes have been made
Blackboard Rules for Coordinating Context-aware Applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Creators: name: Jacquet, Jean-Marie
name: Linden, Isabelle
name: Staicu, Mihail-Octavian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Thanks to improvements in wireless communication technologies and increasing computing power in hand-held devices, mobile ad hoc networks are becoming an ever-more present reality. Coordination languages are expected to become important means in supporting this type of interaction. To this extent we argue the interest of the Bach coordination language as a middleware that can handle and react to context changes as well as cope with unpredictable physical interruptions that occur in opportunistic network connections. More concretely, our proposal is based on blackboard rules that model declaratively the actions to be taken once the blackboard content reaches a predefined state, but also that manage the engagement and disengagement of hosts and transient sharing of blackboards. The idea of reactiveness has already been introduced in previous work, but as will be appreciated by the reader, this article presents a new perspective, more focused on a declarative setting.
description: In Proceedings FOCLASA 2012, arXiv:1208.4327
Additional file 3 of Cognitive behavioural therapy self-help intervention preferences among informal caregivers of adults with chronic kidney disease: an online cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Coumoundouros, Chelsea
name: Farrand, Paul
name: Hamilton, Alexander
name: von Essen, Louise
name: Sanderman, Robbert
name: Woodford, Joanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Survey.
Interaction induced staggered spin-orbit order in two-dimensional electron gas
Creators: name: Das, Tanmoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and formulate an interaction induced staggered spin-orbit order as a new emergent phase of two-dimensional Fermi gases. We show that when some form of inherent spin-splitting via Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling renders two helical Fermi surfaces to become significantly `nested', a Fermi surface instability arises. To lift this degeneracy, a spontaneous symmetry breaking spin-orbit density wave develops, causing a surprisingly large quasiparticle gapping with chiral electronic states. Since the staggered spin-orbit order is associated with a condensation energy, quantified by the gap value, destroying such spin-orbit interaction costs sufficiently large perturbation field or temperature or de-phasing time. BiAg$_2$ surface state is shown to be a representative system for realizing such novel spin-orbit interaction with tunable and large strength, and the spin-splitting is decoupled from charge excitations. These functional properties are relevant for spin-electronics, spin-caloritronics, and spin-Hall effect applications.
description: Accepted in PRL
Frühmittelalterliche Keramik aus Duisburg
Creators: name: Tischler, Fritz
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 28, Nr. 1/2 (1944-1950)
Pragmatics of Humor in Operah Winfrey and Piers Morgan Shows
Creators: name: Abbas, Nawal Fadhil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Humor
functions
interpersonal interaction
topic shift
Operah Winfrey
Piers Morgan

description: Humor is the quality of being amusing or comic in literature and speech. It is sometimes used to enhance the utterances so as to make them more comfortable since it is considered a common element of human interaction. That is why it has been given a considerable attention by many scholars from different fields of knowledge such as linguistics, psychology and sociology. In linguistics, many scholars have tried to define humor and to show its functions and the factors that enable the humor act to be adequate and interesting. This led many theories and approaches to be formulated in order to study humor from different perspectives among which the incongruity theory by Kant (1790) and the relief theory by Morreall [1]. In addition, the non-observance of Grice’s conversational maxims [2] can be used as a means of creating humor. As such, the present study is intended with the aims of pragmatically analyzing humor as a strategic means by which participants achieve their goals in interpersonal interaction, in particular in TV talk shows, namely, Oprah Winfrey Show and Piers Morgan Show. It also aims to investigate the way by which participants shift the topic of interaction whenever they try to avoid a certain topic by adopting a humorous style. The study has come to the conclusion that there are many factors that affect humor in TV talk shows including the personality of the host and his/her interviewees, the topic of interaction and the way through which a character deals with a certain topic.
Additional file 3 of Photon and Proton irradiation in Patient-derived, Three-Dimensional Soft Tissue Sarcoma Models
Creators: name: Roohani, Siyer
name: Loskutov, Jürgen
name: Heufelder, Jens
name: Ehret, Felix
name: Wedeken, Lena
name: Regenbrecht, Manuela
name: Sauer, Rica
name: Zips, Daniel
name: Denker, Andrea
name: Joussen, Antonia M.
name: Regenbrecht, Christian R. A.
name: Kaul, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 3
No Energy Equipartition in Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Trenti, M.
name: van der Marel, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is widely believed that globular clusters evolve over many two-body relaxation times toward a state of energy equipartition, so that velocity dispersion scales with stellar mass as σ~ m^{-η} with η= 0.5. We show that this is incorrect, using direct N-body simulations with a variety of realistic IMFs and initial conditions. No simulated system ever reaches a state close to equipartition. Near the center, the luminous main-sequence stars reach a maximum η_{max} ~ 0.15 \pm 0.03. At large times, all radial bins convergence on an asymptotic value η_{\infty} ~ 0.08 \pm 0.02. The development of this "partial equipartition" is strikingly similar across our simulations, despite the range of initial conditions employed. Compact remnants tend to have higher ηthan main-sequence stars (but still η< 0.5), due to their steeper (evolved) mass function. The presence of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) decreases η, consistent with our previous findings of a quenching of mass segregation under these conditions. All these results can be understood as a consequence of the Spitzer instability for two-component systems, extended by Vishniac to a continuous mass spectrum. Mass segregation (the tendency of heavier stars to sink toward the core) has often been studied observationally, but energy equipartition has not. Due to the advent of high-quality proper motion datasets from the Hubble Space Telescope, it is now possible to measure η. Detailed data-model comparisons open up a new observational window on globular cluster dynamics and evolution. Comparison of our simulations to Omega Cen observations yields good agreement, confirming that globular clusters are not generally in energy equipartition. Modeling techniques that assume equipartition by construction (e.g., multi-mass Michie-King models) are approximate at best.
description: Minor revision, conclusions unchanged: 12 pages, 8 figures, MNRAS accepted
title: Blessed Are the Poor (in Spirit): Wealth and Poverty in the Writings of the Greek Christian Fathers of the Second Century
Creators: name: Hayden, Jacob D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: This paper examines how Greek Christian authors engaged with the topics of poverty and wealth during the second and third centuries CE - a period of major transition for the Christian Church. Beginning with the latest documents in the Greek New Testament (c. 90 - 120), this study traces these themes through the works of the Apostolic Fathers, including Clement of Rome (c. 35 - 99), Ignatius of Antioch (c. 34 - 108), and Polycarp of Smyrna (c. 69 - 155). It then addresses to the apologetic authors Justin Martyr (c. 100 - 165) and Irenaeus (c. 130 - 202). In the works of all these authors, “the poor” were considered to be a privileged class in the eyes of God. However, this status came to be questioned by Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 - 215), whose work The Rich Man’s Salvation is demonstrated to have fundamentally deviated from the traditional understanding of wealth and poverty. Clement eschewed the notion of an inherently “blessed” class of the poor in order to make Christian doctrine welcoming to more wealthy individuals. Clement’s work altered part of the character of Christian theology, but in doing so, he helped the movement expand throughout the Roman Empire.
Die Altstadt auf dem Rockesberg bei Unteriflingen (Württ. Schwarzwald)
Creators: name: Goessler, Peter
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 28, Nr. 1/2 (1944-1950)
Sigillata-Formschüssel des 4. Jahrhunderts von Landstuhl
Creators: name: Sprater, Friedrich
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 28, Nr. 1/2 (1944-1950)
Diffraction catastrophes threaded by quantized vortex skeletons caused by atom-optical aberrations induced in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Simula, T. P.
name: Petersen, T. C.
name: Paganin, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a nonlinear atom-optics experiment to create diffraction catastrophes threaded by quantized vortex skeletons in Bose-Einstein condensed matter waves. We show how atom-optical aberrations induced in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates evolve into specific caustic structures due to imperfect focusing. Vortex skeletons, whose cross-sections are staggered vortex lattices, are observed to nucleate inside the universal diffraction catastrophes. Our observations shed further light on the structure and dynamics of Bose-novae and suggest applications of matter wave diffraction catastrophes, including detection of the order parameter pairing symmetry in cold gas experiments.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
A cross-sectional study of screen time frequency, home media environment, and childhood depression
Creators: name: Chin, Michelle
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: pediatric depression
childhood depression
home media environment
screen time
solutions sciences labb

description: Depression is a major public health concern for children. Emergence of early depressive symptoms in childhood are predictive of more intense depression, diminished health outcomes, and development of other co-morbidities later in life. Because children are exposed to digital technologies at young ages, excessive screen time has been studied as a potential predictor of depression. Several studies have shown that for each additional hour of screen time, a child’s odds for depression increase. Additionally, the home media environment has been shown to substantially increase the frequency of screen use among children. Therefore, the primary research objective was to determine if more screen time was correlated with higher rates of depression, as measured by the Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI). The secondary research objective was to investigate whether the presence of electronics in the child’s bedroom is associated with higher CDI scores. Our data showed that screen time frequency was not correlated with depression. However, children who slept with a video game console in their bedroom reported significantly higher CDI scores than children who did not. In conclusion, our findings merit further research of the home media environment and contributes to the current literature aiming to establish causal links between screen time and childhood depression.
A Procedure for Splitting Processes and its Application to Coordination
Creators: name: Jongmans, Sung-Shik T. Q.
name: Clarke, Dave
name: Proença, José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a procedure for splitting processes in a process algebra with multi-actions (a subset of the specification language mCRL2). This splitting procedure cuts a process into two processes along a set of actions A: roughly, one of these processes contains no actions from A, while the other process contains only actions from A. We state and prove a theorem asserting that the parallel composition of these two processes equals the original process under appropriate synchronization. We apply our splitting procedure to the process algebraic semantics of the coordination language Reo: using this procedure and its related theorem, we formally establish the soundness of splitting Reo connectors along the boundaries of their (a)synchronous regions in implementations of Reo. Such splitting can significantly improve the performance of connectors.
description: In Proceedings FOCLASA 2012, arXiv:1208.4327
VSC Leden Dag 2023 - Win:win:win voor citizen science én wetenschapsmusea
Creators: name: Gold, Margaret
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Win:win:win voor citizen science én wetenschapsmusea
Wat maakt citizen science projecten waardevol voor bezoekers, musea én wetenschappers? In deze sessie deelt Marit Bogert van TU Delft Science Centre haar ervaring met citizen science-projecten en geeft Margaret Gold van Citizen Science Nederland (CS-NL) een actueel overzicht van inspirerende projecten en de belangrijkste veranderingen in binnen- en buitenland op dit gebied. Daarna ga je nadenken over kansen van citizen science projecten in jouw museum: wat zou jij willen doen in 2024? In het slot van de meeting peilen we kort jullie enthousiasme voor een mogelijke CS-NL & VSC-intervisiegroep.
Chromatic X-Ray imaging with a fine pitch CdTe sensor coupled to a large area photon counting pixel ASIC
Creators: name: Bellazzini, R.
name: Spandre, G.
name: Brez, A.
name: Minuti, M.
name: Pinchera, M.
name: Mozzo, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An innovative X-ray imaging sensor with intrinsic digital characteristics is presented. It is based on Chromatic Photon Counting technology. The detector is able to count individually the incident X-ray photons and to separate them according to their energy (two 'color' images per exposure). The energy selection occurs in real time and at radiographic imaging speed (GHz global counting rate). Photon counting, color mode and a very high spatial resolution (more than 10 l.p./mm at MTF50) allow to obtain an optimal ratio between image quality and absorbed dose. The individual block of the imaging system is a two-side buttable semiconductor radiation detector made of a thin pixellated CdTe crystal (the sensor) coupled to a large area VLSI CMOS pixel ASIC. 1, 2, 4, 8 tile units have been built. The 8 tiles unit has 25cm x 2.5cm sensitive area. Results and images obtained from in depth testing of several configurations of the system are presented. The X-Ray imaging system is the technological platform of PIXIRAD Imaging Counters s.r.l., a recently constituted INFN spin-off company.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
Additional file 4 of Cognitive behavioural therapy self-help intervention preferences among informal caregivers of adults with chronic kidney disease: an online cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Coumoundouros, Chelsea
name: Farrand, Paul
name: Hamilton, Alexander
name: von Essen, Louise
name: Sanderman, Robbert
name: Woodford, Joanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Guidance for Reporting Involvement of Patients and the Public 2 – short form (GRIPP2-SF).
Römische Holzfunde aus Pforzheim
Creators: name: Dauber, Albrecht
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 28, Nr. 3/4 (1944-1950)
Additional file 5 of Cognitive behavioural therapy self-help intervention preferences among informal caregivers of adults with chronic kidney disease: an online cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Coumoundouros, Chelsea
name: Farrand, Paul
name: Hamilton, Alexander
name: von Essen, Louise
name: Sanderman, Robbert
name: Woodford, Joanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. DASS-21 categories.
An Interactive Effect of English Intervention Programme and Medium of Instruction at School of Prospective Teachers on Their Attitude towards English
Creators: name: Munnazza Afreen Ansari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Attitude towards English
English language
communication skills
Medium of instruction
intervention programme

description: This paper examines the interaction between an English language communication skills intervention programme and the medium of instruction used in B.Ed. students' schools on their attitudes toward English. For this reason, a 40-hour intervention programme focusing on English language communication skills has been established for B.Ed. students. Students' attitudes about English were assessed using a researcher-created rating scale. The researcher created a personal data sheet for B.Ed. students to collect information about student-teachers' medium of instruction at school. The study included 70 B.Ed. students in each of the experimental and control groups. The experimental group was given an intervention programme, while the control group was not given any. ANCOVA was used to analyse the data. The educational approach was successful in improving B.Ed students' attitudes toward English. The effect size of the intervention programme on attitudes towards English language is 2.21 which is high in magnitude.
Arne Furumark, The Chronology of Mycenaean Pottery / Arne Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery. Analysis and Classification
Creators: name: Müller, Kurt
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Arne Furumark, The Chronology of Mycenaean Pottery. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Stockholm 1941. 156 S., 4 Abb.

Rezension zu: Arne Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery. Analysis and Classification. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Stockholm 1941. XIX, 689 S., 75 Abb.
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 28, Nr. 3/4 (1944-1950)
title: ДИНАМИКА ЖИВОЙ МАССЫ  ОВЕЦ ПРИ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИИ СЕЯНЫХ ПАСТБИЩ  НА БАЗЕ ОВЦЕВОДЧЕСКИХ МОДЕЛЬНЫХ ФЕРМ ЮГА КАЗАХСТАНА
title: DYNAMICS OF SHEEP LIVE WEIGHT WHEN USING SEEDED PASTURES ON THE BASIS OF SHEEP-BREEDING MODEL FARMS IN THE SOUTH OF KA-ZAKHSTAN
Creators: name: Паржанов, Ж.А.
name: Ажиметов, Н.Н.
name: Сейткаримов, А.
name: Ажибеков, Б.А.
name: Тастанбекова, Г.Р.
Publisher: name: ФГБНУ "Северо-Кавказский федеральный научный аграрный центр"
Year: 2020

description: В статье приводятся данные по изучению динамики живой массы  овец при ис-пользовании сеяных пастбищ. Установлено, что привесы у овец, в зависимости от их содержания на разных видах пастбищ в разные периоды роста и развития растительно-сти, увеличиваются неодинаково.
В условиях Южного Казахстана одной из важнейших  отраслей  животноводства является овцеводство, базирующееся практически на круглогодичном использовании разных типов пастбищ. Однако  кормовая продуктивность этих пастбищ при бесси-стемном использовании значительно снижается. Следует отметить, что разработанные до настоящего времени приемы рационального использования  пастбищ слишком об-щи и плохо учитывают конкретную экологическую обстановку в различных природ-ных районах.
При существующей форме хозяйствования не все формы агроформирования, имеющие определенные границы землепользования, обладают двумя или более типами пастбищ. Большинство из них расположены на одном типе пастбищ, то есть одного сезона использования, что затрудняет бесперебойное обеспечение пастбищным кормом в другие сезоны года.
description: The article provides data on the study of the live weight dynamics in sheep when using seeded pastures. It was established that the weight gain in sheep, depending on their keeping in different types of pastures at different periods of vegetation growth and development, does not increase equally.
In the conditions of southern Kazakhstan, one of the most important branches of ani-mal husbandry is sheep breeding, which is based practically on year-round use of pasture dif-ferent types. However, the forage productivity of these pastures with unsystematic use is sig-nificantly reduced. It should be noted that the methods developed for the rational use of pas-tures to date are too general and poorly take into account the specific environmental situation in various natural areas.
Under the current form of management, not all forms of agricultural formation that have certain land-use boundaries have two or more types of pasture. Most of them are located on one type of pasture, that is, one season of use, which complicates the uninterrupted supply of pasture feed in other seasons of the year.
Generalized Householder Transformations for the Complex Symmetric Eigenvalue Problem
Creators: name: Noble, J. H.
name: Lubasch, M.
name: Jentschura, U. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an intuitive and scalable algorithm for the diagonalization of complex symmetric matrices, which arise from the projection of pseudo--Hermitian and complex scaled Hamiltonians onto a suitable basis set of "trial" states. The algorithm diagonalizes complex and symmetric (non--Hermitian) matrices and is easily implemented in modern computer languages. It is based on generalized Householder transformations and relies on iterative similarity transformations T -> T' = Q^T T Q, where Q is a complex and orthogonal, but not unitary, matrix, i.e, Q^T equals Q^(-1) but Q^+ is different from Q^(-1). We present numerical reference data to support the scalability of the algorithm. We construct the generalized Householder transformations from the notion that the conserved scalar product of eigenstates Psi_n and Psi_m of a pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanical Hamiltonian can be reformulated in terms of the generalized indefinite inner product [integral of the product Psi_n(x,t) Psi_m(x,t) over dx], where the integrand is locally defined, and complex conjugation is avoided. A few example calculations are described which illustrate the physical origin of the ideas used in the construction of the algorithm.
description: 14 pages; RevTeX; font mismatch in Eqs. (3) and (15) is eliminated
Miloje M. Vasić, Jonska Kolonija Vinča
Creators: name: Reinecke, Paul
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Miloje M. Vasić, Jonska Kolonija Vinča (Zbornik filozofskog fakulteta universiteta u Beogradu 1, 1948, S 85—235, Taf. 1—451, mit russ und franz. Résumé).
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 28, Nr. 3/4 (1944-1950)
Additional file 6 of Cognitive behavioural therapy self-help intervention preferences among informal caregivers of adults with chronic kidney disease: an online cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Coumoundouros, Chelsea
name: Farrand, Paul
name: Hamilton, Alexander
name: von Essen, Louise
name: Sanderman, Robbert
name: Woodford, Joanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Data corresponding to Figure 2-4.
Additional file 4 of Photon and Proton irradiation in Patient-derived, Three-Dimensional Soft Tissue Sarcoma Models
Creators: name: Roohani, Siyer
name: Loskutov, Jürgen
name: Heufelder, Jens
name: Ehret, Felix
name: Wedeken, Lena
name: Regenbrecht, Manuela
name: Sauer, Rica
name: Zips, Daniel
name: Denker, Andrea
name: Joussen, Antonia M.
name: Regenbrecht, Christian R. A.
name: Kaul, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 4
Observation of Quantum Effects in sub Kelvin Cold Reactions
Creators: name: Henson, Alon B.
name: Gersten, Sasha
name: Shagam, Yuval
name: Narevicius, Julia
name: Narevicius, Edvardas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been a long-standing quest to observe chemical reactions at low temperatures where reaction rates and pathways are governed by quantum mechanical effects. So far this field of Quantum Chemistry has been dominated by theory. The difficulty has been to realize in the laboratory low enough collisional velocities between neutral reactants, so that the quantum wave nature could be observed. We report here the first realization of merged neutral supersonic beams, and the observation of clear quantum effects in the resulting reactions. We observe orbiting resonances in the Penning ionization reaction of argon and molecular hydrogen with metastable helium leading to a sharp increase in the absolute reaction rate in the energy range corresponding to a few degrees kelvin down to 10 mK. Our method is widely applicable to many canonical chemical reactions, and will enable a breakthrough in the experimental study of Quantum Chemistry.
Holographic thermalization in Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Creators: name: Zeng, Xiao-Xiong
name: Liu, Wen-Biao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the spirit of AdS/CFT correspondence, we study the thermalization of a dual conformal field theory to Gauss-Bonnet gravity by modeling a thin-shell of dust that interpolates between a pure AdS and a Gauss-Bonnet AdS black brane. The renormalized geodesic length and minimal area surface, which in the dual conformal field theory correspond to two-point correlation function and expectation value of Wilson loop, are investigated respectively as thermalization probes. The result shows that as the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient increases, the thermalization time decreases for both the thermalization probes, which can also be confirmed by studying the motion profile of the geodesic and minimal area surface. In addition, for both the renormalized geodesic length and minimal area surface, there is an overlapped region for a fixed boundary separation, which implies that the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant has little effect on the thermalization probes there.
description: Accepted by Physics letter B, typos are corrected and a paragraph of discussion is added
Dynamics of localized modes in a composite multiferroic chain
Creators: name: Chotorlishvili, L.
name: Khomeriki, R.
name: Sukhov, A.
name: Ruffo, S.
name: Berakdar, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a coupled ferroelectric/ferromagnetic system, i.e. a composite multiferroic, the propagation of magnetic or ferroelectric excitations across the whole structure is a key issue for applications. Of a special interest is the dynamics of localized magnetic or ferroelectric modes (LM) across the ferroelectric-ferromagnetic interface, particularly when the LM's carrier frequency is in the band of the ferroelectric and in the band gap of the ferromagnet. For a proper choice of the system's parameters, we find that there is a threshold amplitude above which the interface becomes transparent and a band gap ferroelectric LM penetrates the ferromagnetic array. Below that threshold, the LM is fully reflected. Slightly below this transmission threshold, the addition of noise may lead to energy transmission, provided that the noise level is not too low nor too high, an effect that resembles stochastic resonance. These findings represent an important step towards the application of ferroelectric and/or ferromagnetic LM-based logic.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Phys. Rev. Lett, (2013)
The Neutrino Mass Hierarchy from Nuclear Reactor Experiments
Creators: name: Ciuffoli, Emilio
name: Evslin, Jarah
name: Zhang, Xinmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 10 years from now reactor neutrino experiments will attempt to determine which neutrino mass eigenstate is the most massive. In this letter we present the results of more than seven million detailed simulations of such experiments, studying the dependence of the probability of successfully determining the mass hierarchy upon the analysis method, the neutrino mass matrix parameters, reactor flux models, geoneutrinos and, in particular, combinations of baselines. We show that a recently reported spurious dependence of the data analysis upon the high energy tail of the reactor spectrum can be removed by using a weighted Fourier transform. We determine the optimal baselines and corresponding detector locations. For most values of the CP-violating, leptonic Dirac phase delta, a degeneracy prevents NOvA and T2K from determining either delta or the hierarchy. We determine the confidence with which a reactor experiment can determine the hierarchy, breaking the degeneracy.
description: 12 pages, v3: +backgrounds, energy response and other challenges