cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Novel technique in RGD-functionalisation of unstructured and structured inanimate surfaces
Creators: name: Kalinina, Sviatlana
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2007

description: Integrin mediated cell adhesion can be mimicked by the tripeptide RGD. In this work, a novel method for immobilization was developed using isothiocyanate-terminated RGD-peptides, which were covalently bound to aminated surfaces. Mouse fibroblasts as well as other cell lines specifically recognised and spread on these RGD-surfaces. Cells rearranged their actin cytoskeleton and formed active focal contacts. A soft-lithography-based microcontact printing was applied to create 2D patterned surfaces.
Additional file 1 of Adherence therapy for adults with type 2 diabetes: a feasibility study of a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Alenazi, Fatimah
name: Peddle, Monica
name: Bressington, Daniel
name: Mahzari, Moeber
name: Gray, Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1. CONSORT 2010 checklist of information to include when reporting a randomised trial*.
Creating a Representation of Items and Version that Support Efficient Evaluation of the Transaction-Time Axis in XML-Based Databases
Creators: name: Mekala, Kaylan Goutham
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: This project was developed to create a platform for implementing the features and query support provided by the transaction time axis (tt-axis). The basis for this platform is a new numbering plan called item version timestamp level numbering (IVTLN), and it extends an existing numbering plan, namely, dewey level numbering (DLN), by including version and timestamp information. Thus, the transaction time axis provides a temporal perspective for XML nodes in addition to non-temporal axes like the ancestor and descendant axes. This project provides an efficient, extensible, and comprehensible platform for the implementation of the new numbering plan and the services provided by the transaction time axis.
From Princesa to Princess with a Prince: 1994 and 2001 Fernanda's Stories
Creators: name: Shvanyukova, Polina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2012

description: In an analysis of what presents itself as a cinematic transposition of a literary text, it is difficult to break away from the “binary oppositions [...] literature versus cinema, high culture versus mass culture, original versus copy" (James Naremore). In the case of Princesa (2001), directed by Henrique Goldman, it is questionable whether we can speak about an adaptation at all. As Goldman himself stated, he got the idea for making the film after reading the eponymous 1994 book written by Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque in collaboration with Maurizio Jannelli. In his film, Goldman has made drastic changes to the autobiographical story of Fernanda, the Brazilian transsexual prostitute who travels to Europe in order to earn money for her sex-change operation. However, the film was in fact dedicated to the memory of the real Fernanda, who had passed away in the meantime. In this contribution, the two works will be examined in their relationship to a third source-text by paying special attention to the processes of worldmaking as developed in Nelson Goodman's seminal 1978 book and expanded in the 2010 collection of essays Cultural Ways of Worldmaking. Media and Narratives.
description: Between, Vol 2, N° 4 (2012): L’adattamento: le trasformazioni delle storie nei passaggi di codice
Exotic phases induced by strong spin-orbit coupling in ordered double perovskites
Creators: name: Chen, Gang
name: Pereira, Rodrigo
name: Balents, Leon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct and analyze a microscopic model for insulating rock salt ordered double perovskites, with the chemical formula A$_2$BB'O$_6$, where the B' atom has a 4d$^1$ or 5d$^1$ electronic configuration and forms a face centered cubic (fcc) lattice. The combination of the triply-degenerate $t_{2g}$ orbital and strong spin-orbit coupling forms local quadruplets with an effective spin moment $j=3/2$. Moreover, due to strongly orbital-dependent exchange, the effective spins have substantial biquadratic and bicubic interactions (fourth and sixth order in the spins, respectively). This leads, at the mean field level, to three main phases: an unusual antiferromagnet with dominant octupolar order, a ferromagnetic phase with magnetization along the $[110]$ direction, and a non-magnetic but quadrupolar ordered phase, which is stabilized by thermal fluctuations and intermediate temperatures. All these phases have a two sublattice structure described by the ordering wavevector ${\boldsymbol Q} =2π(001)$. We consider quantum fluctuations and argue that in the regime of dominant antiferromagnetic exchange, a non-magnetic valence bond solid or quantum spin liquid state may be favored instead. Candidate quantum spin liquid states and their basic properties are described. We also address the effect of single-site anisotropy driven by lattice distortions. Existing and possible future experiments are discussed in light of these results.
description: 25 pages, 21 figures
A remark on the Lagrange structure of the unfolded field theory
Creators: name: Kaparulin, D. S.
name: Lyakhovich, S. L.
name: Sharapov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Any local field theory can be equivalently reformulated in the so-called unfolded form. General unfolded equations are non-Lagrangian even though the original theory is Lagrangian. Using the theory of a scalar field as a basic example, the concept of Lagrange anchor is applied to perform a consistent path-integral quantization of unfolded dynamics. It is shown that the unfolded representation for the canonical Lagrange anchor of the d'Alembert equation inevitably involves an infinite number of space-time derivatives.
description: 17 pages, minor corrections
53. MFF w Karlowych Warach
Creators: name: Góralik, Mikołaj Jakub
Publisher: name: DiGZ. Digitalen Zugang zu Wissen demokratisch gestalten e. V. in cooperation with ZeM
Year: 2018
Subjects: Polish cinema; Eastern Europe; Crystal globe; Cold war; film; festival.

description: Mikołaj Jakub Góralik's review of the 53d Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (29 June - 7 July, 2018)
description: Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, No 6 (2018): Women at the Editing Table: Revising Soviet Film History of the 1920s and 1930s
Constraining the role of star cluster mergers in nuclear cluster formation: Simulations confront integral-field data
Creators: name: Hartmann, Markus
name: Debattista, Victor P.
name: Seth, Anil
name: Cappellari, Michelle
name: Quinn, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present observations and dynamical models of the stellar nuclear clusters (NCs) at the centres of NGC 4244 and M33. We then compare these to an extensive set of simulations testing the importance of purely stellar dynamical mergers on the formation and growth of NCs. Mergers of star clusters are able to produce a wide variety of observed properties, including densities, structural scaling relations, shapes (including the presence of young discs) and even rapid rotation. Nonetheless, difficulties remain, most notably that the second order kinematic moment V_rms = (V^2 + sigma^2)^(1/2) of the models is too centrally peaked to match observations. This can be remedied by the merger of star clusters onto a pre-existing nuclear disc, but the line-of-sight velocity V is still more slowly rising than in NGC 4244. Our results therefore suggest that purely stellar dynamical mergers cannot form NCs, and that gas dissipation is a necessary ingredient for at least ~50% of a NC's mass. The negative vertical anisotropy found in NGC 4244 however requires at least 10% of the mass to be accreted as stars, since gas dissipation and in situ star formation leads to positive vertical anisotropy.
description: 19 pages, 23 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Software for Analyzing Municipal Water Data to Design Water Conservation Strategies
Creators: name: Welsh, Adrian Patton
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Planning for drought and growth-induced water scarcity is a challenge confronting municipal water departments. When water shortages occur, demand management policies and programs are often implemented to encourage water conservation. Due to the nature of water resources and municipal water delivery systems, cities are concerned about meeting citizens’ water needs. A city can review water billing records to see how much water people use, but how do they know how much water people need? Standards and guidelines have been established for indoor water use (gallons/person/day), but the amount of water needed to irrigate outdoor landscapes is more variable, highly contextualized, and harder to determine. To aid in answering that question, this project developed a custom software application, Landscape Water Use Software, which allows water billing data to be integrated with GIS and other types of municipal databases. Using GIS and remotely sensed images gives the software a strong spatial component for use of parcel, structure, and land cover data. The resulting output shows how actual landscape water use compares with estimated landscape water need, which is then used to determine capacity to conserve outdoor water. The software can display spatial patterns and analyze factors contributing to water use variation. This project will help cities design landscapewater conservation programs that have the greatest potential for water savings.
Determination of the real poles of the Igusa zeta function for curves
Creators: name: Ibadula, Denis
name: Segers, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The numerical data of an embedded resolution determine the candidate poles of Igusa's p-adic zeta function. We determine in complete generality which real candidate poles are actual poles in the curve case.
description: 18 pages
Is US Military Intervention Effective in Promoting Democratic Practices in Latin American Governments?
Creators: name: Jones, Mindi
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: The United States is an influential superpower with military, political and economic prominence throughout the world. Since the Spanish American War of 1898, the US has been the hegemonic power in the western hemisphere. Because of its strong influence, US military involvement in other countries is highly scrutinized both internationally and domestically.
Stressors Across the Lifespan and Dementia Risk: A Statistical Method Analysis
Creators: name: Borrowman, Megan Platt
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: The Cache Lifespan Stressors and Alzheimer's Disease (LSAD) study has access to data from the Cache County Study on Memory Health and Aging (CCS) that have been linked to the extensive genealogical and vital records from the Utah Population Database (UPDB). Information about stressful life events experienced by the original 5092 CCS participants has been extracted objectively from the UPDB, without the possibility of recall bias. This information was then statistically analyzed to look for relationships between key stressors and dementia risk. The LSAD study made it possible to examine the correlation between stressors as well as look at patterns or groupings that may exist among the stressors.
For this project, we will apply, compare and contrast a variety of methods to explore the relationship between stressors and dementia status. We first assessed significant associations between stressors and dementia using chi-square tests, logistic regression, and stepwise logistic regression. CART and Random Forests were also used to evaluate which variables are most predictive of dementia status. To explore interrelationships among the stressors, principal components analysis, factor analysis, and cluster analysis were performed. These last methods also obtain dimension reduction of the set of stressor variables to a smaller set of factors or clusters of stressors. For each of the methods, we explored some basic strategies to account for the high rate of missingness among some of the stressors.
Natural Resource Curse in Nepal with Emphasis on Deforestation and Violence
Creators: name: Pathak, Abhinav
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: For many decades, economists have discussed the role of agricultural productivity and natural resources in economic development. By the late 20th century, various studies showed the poor growth experience of resource-rich countries in the post- world war-II period. Doppellhofer (2000) concluded that none of the countries with extremely abundant natural resources in 1970 grew rapidly for the next 20 years, with the exception of Malaysia, Mauritius and Iceland. Other studies that yielded similar conclusions include Auty (1990), Gelb (1988), Sachs and Warner (1995, 1999), and Gylfason et al. (1999). This phenomenon of lower economic growth among resource abundant countries is known as a resource curse.
Great Expectations goes to Hollywood. La rilettura di un classico da Lean a Cuarón
Creators: name: Simeone, Marialaura
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2012

description: L'articolo intende dare una lettura dell'adattamento di Great Expectations, da parte di Alfonso Cuaron, in rapporto non solo al romanzo di Dickens ma soprattutto nei confronti dell'adattamento di David Lean del 1946. Il film di Lean funziona, infatti, per Cuaron da ipotesto da riadattare per un pubblico contemporaneo ed hollywoodiano.Il tempo in Lean rimane quello ottocentesco con tutto ciò che ne comporta (differenze di classe, obblighi sociali), Cuarón, invece, tradisce fin dalla prima inquadratura il romanzo d'origine, spostando l'azione in Florida e ai giorni nostri. E non è più Londra il luogo da raggiungere per compiere la propria formazione ma New York. Il bianco e nero che è in un certo senso già del libro si trasforma in un'esuberanza del colore che trascina con sé personaggi ed azioni, recitazione, montaggio, colonna sonora. Nonostante i presupposti lascerebbero pensare ad un chiaro happy end, il film del regista messicano non lascia, però, entrare metaforicamente la luce dalla finestra come avviene in Lean e ciò perché il dopoguerra di Lean può ancora avere delle grandi speranze da realizzare, il postmodernismo di Cuarón fatica a crederci.
description: Between, Vol 2, N° 4 (2012): L’adattamento: le trasformazioni delle storie nei passaggi di codice
Proposal Project to Improve Greeting Skills of an Adult with Disabilities Using Social Stories
Creators: name: Palmer-Ormsby, Jamie Dawn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Mike is a 22 year-old adult with CHARGE Syndrome and autism spectrum conditions. Mike often struggles to greet and interact appropriately when people come to visit him and his family at his house. The purpose of this project was to help Mike improve his greeting and overall social skills. One event that seems to provoke problem behavior in people with autism is sudden unannounced schedule changes. Advanced warning of schedule changes have been used to prepare people with disabilities similar to Mike’s to teach social and behavioral skills. Social stories have also been used as an intervention to give individuals with disabilities scripted information that they can follow in social situations. This study used an advanced warning strategy during intervention 1. This strategy did not prove to be successful. Therefore we implemented a second strategy consisting of an advanced warning as well as a social story intervention. Social stories were created involving Mike and each of his seven nieces and nephews. Baseline data was collected before the interventions were implemented on whether Mike greeted his nieces and nephews in a friendly manner, on Mike’s attitude, outbursts, and on whether he engaged each child in an activity during the visit. This same data was collected during each phase of the study. Intervention one, advanced warning phase proved to be unsuccessful. The second, social story intervention, including an advanced warning plus social story, required Mike to read the social story aloud to an adult before the visiting children arrived. This intervention resulted in an increase in friendly greetings, positive attitude, and involvement in activities with the visiting children. Engaged in activities with the nieces and nephews, and outbursts showed little change. Mikes overall attitude during the visits made some improvement.
Precision measurement of the ratio B(t -> Wb)/B(t -> Wq)
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
name: Abazov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of the ratio of top quark branching fractions R = B(t -> Wb)/B(t -> Wq), where q can be a d, s or b quark, in the lepton+jets and dilepton ttbar final states. The measurement uses data from 5.4 fb-1 of ppbar collisions collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We measure R = 0.90 +/- 0.04, and we extract the CKM matrix element |Vtb| as |Vtb| = 0.95 +/- 0.02, assuming unitarity of the 3x3 CKM matrix.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett., 7 pages
Additional file 1 of Misreporting of height and weight by primary school children in Japan: a cross-sectional study on individual and environmental determinants
Creators: name: Mori, Sachie
name: Asakura, Keiko
name: Sasaki, Satoshi
name: Nishiwaki, Yuji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Agreement between self-reported and measured height/weight for the boys (Bland-Altman plots). Dashed line shows the mean difference between self-reported and measured height/weight. Horizontal lines represent 95% limits of agreement.
Optimal Reinsertion of Cancelled Train Lines
Creators: name: Jespersen, Julie
name: Clausen, Jens
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2006

description: One recovery strategy in case of a major disruption in a rail network is to cancel all trains on a specific line of the network. When the disturbance has ended, the cancelled line must be reinserted as soon as possible. In this article we present a mixed integer programming (MIP) model for calculating the best way to reinsert cancelled train lines in a rail network covered by a periodic timetable. Using a high abstraction level it has been possible to incorporate the temporal aspect in the model only relying on the information embedded in the train identification numbers of each departure. The model finds the optimal solution in an average of 0.5 CPU seconds in each test case.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Årg. 1 Nr. 1 (2006): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Additional file 2 of Misreporting of height and weight by primary school children in Japan: a cross-sectional study on individual and environmental determinants
Creators: name: Mori, Sachie
name: Asakura, Keiko
name: Sasaki, Satoshi
name: Nishiwaki, Yuji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Figure 2. Agreement between self-reported and measured height/weight for the girls (Bland-Altman plots). Dashed line shows the mean difference between self-reported and measured height/weight. Horizontal lines represent 95% limits of agreement.
Evaluation of railway capacity
Creators: name: Landex, Alex
name: Kaas, Anders H.
name: Schittenhelm, Bernd
name: Schneider-Tilli, Jan
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2006

description: This paper describes the relatively new UIC 406 method for calculating capacity consumption on railway lines. The UIC 406 method is an easy and effective way of calculating the capacity consumption, but it is possible to expound the UIC 406 method in different ways which can lead to different capacity consumptions. This paper describes the UIC 406 method and how it is expounded in Denmark. The paper describes the importance of choosing the right length of the line sections examined and how line sections with multiple track sections are examined. Furthermore, the possibility of using idle capacity to run more trains is examined. The paper presents a method to examine the expected capacity utilization of future timetables. The method is based on the plan of operation instead of the exact (known) timetable. At the end of the paper it is described how it is possible to make capacity statements of a railway network. Some of the aspects which have to be paid attention to making annual capacity statements are presented too.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Årg. 1 Nr. 1 (2006): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Dietary Patterns and Cognitive Decline in Aged Populations
Creators: name: Bowles, Austin J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: In this paper, we discuss distinctive features of longitudinal studies, and illustrate two regression-based methods for the analysis of longitudinal data. A study of dietary patterns and cognitive decline (Cache County Memory Study) is used to motivate our discussion and analysis. Cognitive decline is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, the sixth leading cause of all deaths among Americans. The study attempted to identify dietary patterns associated with reduced risk of age-related cognitive decline in elderly populations. Higher levels of adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) and/or Mediterranean diets were found to be associated with increased cognitive function at the beginning of the study. These differences were not strengthened or weakened over time, but were maintained over the 11 year duration of the study. Diets characterized by high intake of whole grains and nuts were also found to be associated with higher baseline cognitive function, but there was no evidence that these diets are associated with increased or decreased rates of decline after baseline.
Lipid nanoparticles for delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics
Creators: name: Chen, Sam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Nucleic acid therapies have the potential to enable the treatment of disorders previously untreatable. However, significant barriers prevent the rapid development of nucleic acid therapeutics and necessitate the use of sophisticated delivery systems. The overall objective of this dissertation is to develop more effective and tolerable lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for nucleic acid delivery. Specifically, LNP that vary in size, stability and composition were tested for activity after subcutaneous and intravenous injection in order to optimize LNP properties. Furthermore, the incorporation of novel lipophilic pro-drugs co-delivered with nucleic acids was explored as a means to improve tolerability. The first part of this dissertation explores the use of subcutaneous administration for LNP-siRNA. There are compelling reasons to develop LNP-siRNA that can be administered subcutaneously. These include the potential for self-administration, a prolonged therapeutic window due to a depot effect and access to cell types that are in contact with the lymphatic system, in addition to tissues available through the circulation. We found that particle size and PEG steric barrier are both important for drainage from the injection site and subsequent accumulation in the liver. Although small LNP exhibited improved drainage and access to the systemic circulation, activity was impaired. The second part of this dissertation addresses this issue. The decrease in LNP activity can be attributed to the pronounced size dependent instability of LNP. By altering the amino-lipid content and the PEG-lipid used, the activity and stability of these systems can be greatly improved. The previous two parts of this dissertation identified limitations to existing LNP systems. First, administration of LNP containing nucleic acids could result in immune stimulation. Second, efforts to improve LNP activity must go beyond existing components. The last part of this dissertation proposes a general pro-drug strategy for enabling direct incorporation of additional compounds into the LNP. As an example dexamethasone, a corticosteroid commonly used to minimize infusion-related reactions, was used. Direct incorporation greatly improved the ability of dexamethasone to ameliorate immune stimulation by LNP containing nucleic acids. This work shows that when appropriately designed, LNP systems can have improved activity and tolerability, potentially expanding its clinical utility.
War, Gender, and the Polarization Process: Gender as an Intervening Variable in Attitude Formation toward Outgroups
Creators: name: Dawson, Kristen Kay
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: War and the consequences of war have long been a subject of study in the field of political science. In addition, much debate and disagreement has centered around which factors are most important in determining the onset of war. Based on previous literature that has established fairly consistent gender differences with respect to the gendered role of warfare (Goldstein, 2001; Marini, 1990), I speculate that gender may also influence polarization attitudes, which are thought to act as precursors to war. Whenever the attitudes of ingroups rapidly polarize and their members become extremely fearful of an outgroup, begin to dehumanize outgroup members, treat them as inferior, and begin to perceive the outgroup as morally depraved, we may be witnessing a process that primes individuals to participate in violent actions, including war, directed at members of the outgroup. Traumatic events, such as murderous acts against members of an ingroup, may trigger a polarization process. Similarly, hate speeches, that is, attempts by elites to convince members of an ingroup that there is an imminent and real threat posed by outgroups, may also trigger polarization. After exposure to one of these traumatic events, undergraduate students at Utah State University were asked to report their fear, dehumanization, and moral depravity attitudes towards three distinct outgroups-- Al Qaeda, Muslims, and undocumented immigrants. These results were compared to students who were not exposed to a traumatic event and examined for statistically significant differences. Results were also broken down by gender within each treatment group in order to indicate if men and women reacted differently in their attitudes towards outgroups after exposure to traumatic events. Results indicate that gender may act as a mediating variable in the polarization process, particularly after exposure to hate speech.
CN Morphology Studies of Comet 103P/Hartley 2
Creators: name: Knight, Matthew M.
name: Schleicher, David G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on narrowband CN imaging of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 obtained at Lowell Observatory on 39 nights from 2010 July until 2011 January. We observed two features, one generally to the north and the other generally to the south. The CN morphology varied during the apparition: no morphology was seen in July; in August and September the northern feature dominated and appeared as a mostly face-on spiral; in October, November, and December the northern and southern features were roughly equal in brightness and looked like more side-on corkscrews; in January the southern feature was dominant but the morphology was indistinct due to very low signal. The morphology changed smoothly during each night and similar morphology was seen from night to night. However, the morphology did not exactly repeat each rotation cycle, suggesting that there is a small non-principal axis rotation. Based on the repetition of the morphology, we find evidence that the fundamental rotation period was increasing: 16.7 hr from August 13-17, 17.2 hr from September 10-13, 18.2 hr from October 12-19, and 18.7 hr from October 31-November 7. We conducted Monte Carlo jet modeling to constrain the pole orientation and locations of the active regions based on the observed morphology. Our preliminary, self-consistent pole solution has an obliquity of 10 deg relative to the comet's orbital plane (i.e., it is centered near RA = 257 deg and Dec=+67 deg with an uncertainty around this position of about 15 deg) and has two mid-latitude sources, one in each hemisphere.
description: Accepted by The Astronomical Journal; 23 pages of text, 2 tables, 8 figures
Infrastrukturforbedringer på S-banen - tog til tiden
Creators: name: Kaas, Anders H.
name: Wellendrof, Niels
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2006

description: Det omfattende projekt ”Infrastruktur nye S-tog” som har haft til mål at forberede for nye S-tog samt at hæve hastigheden til 120 km/h, er snart ved at være afsluttet. Selvom der i dette projekt er blevet foretaget mange gode forbedringer af S-banen, er der stadig perspektiver og behov, som ikke er dækket af projekt ”Infrastruktur nye S-tog”. DSB S-tog ønsker således at forbedre regulariteten, herunder genopretningsmulighederne, ved i samarbejde med Banedanmark og Trafikstyrelsen, at få foretaget en række forbedringer af S-banens infrastruktur. Endvidere er det et stort ønske at køre flere S-tog på de centrale afsnit. For at få et overblik over mulige forbedringer, har DSB S-tog udarbejdet en bruttoliste over en række ønsker til forbedringer af togfølge og vendemuligheder mv., med en op-listning af mulige infrastrukturprojekter, og effekter af disse. DSB S-tog har rettet henvendelse til Atkins for at få en umiddelbar vurdering af hvilke af disse løsninger Atkins anser for mest oplagte, set såvel ud fra en trafikal som en teknisk-/økonomisk betragtning.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Årg. 1 Nr. 1 (2006): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Europæiske udstødningsnormer for motorkøretøjer
Creators: name: Kubel, Dorte
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2006

description: Indlægget gør status for aktiviteter i EU, der vedrører reguleringen af udstødningsgasser fra motorkøretøjer. I september 2005 fremlagde Kommissionen en Temastrategi for luftforurening. Et af elementerne til at opnå forbedret luftkvalitet, er en stramning af reguleringen af udstødningsgasser fra motorkøretøjer. På den baggrund fremsatte Kommissionen i december 2005 forslag til normer for person- og varebiler (Euro 5). Forslaget forventes at træde i kraft omkring 2010. Indlægget fokuserer på baggrund, indhold og status for Euro 5 forslaget. Det vigtigste aspekt i forslaget er, at der gennemføres en stramning i grænseværdierne for køretøjers emission af partikler og NOx. Der er desuden fremlagt forslag fra flere medlemslande om, at der allerede nu fastsættes et næste trin af grænseværdier (Euro 6) for NOx.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Årg. 1 Nr. 1 (2006): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Automatic real-time 2D-to-3D video conversion
Creators: name: Wafa, Abrar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The generation of three-dimensional (3D) videos from monoscopic two-dimensional (2D) videos has received a lot of attention in the last few years. Although the concept of 3D has existed for a long time, the research on converting from 2D-to-3D in real-time is still on going. Current conversion techniques are based on generating an estimated depth map for each frame from different depth cues, and then using Depth Image Based Rendering (DIBR) to synthesize additional views. Efficient interactive techniques have been developed in which multiple depth factors (monocular depth cues) are utilized to estimate the depth map using machine-learning algorithms. The challenge with such methods is that they cannot be used for real-time conversion. We address this problem by proposing an effective scheme that generates high quality depth maps for indoor and outdoor scenes in real-time. In our work,we classify the 2D videos into indoor or outdoor categories using machine-learning-based scene classification. Subsequently, we estimate the initial depth mapsfor each video frame using different depth cues based onthe classification results. Then, we fuse these depth maps and the final depth map is evaluated in two steps. First, depth values are estimated at edges. Then, these depth values are propagated to the rest of the image using an edge-aware interpolation method. Performance evaluations show that our method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art 2D-to3D conversion methods.
Buckled circular monolayer graphene: a graphene nano-bowl
Creators: name: Neek-Amal, M.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stability of circular monolayer graphene subjected to a radial load using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. When monolayer graphene is radially stressed, after some small circular strain ($\sim 0.4%$) it buckles and bends into a new bowl like shape. Young's modulus is calculated from the linear relation between stress and strain before the buckling threshold, which is in agreement with experimental results. The prediction of elasticity theory for the buckling threshold of a radially stressed plate is presented and its results are compared to the one of our atomistic simulation. Jarzynski equality is used to estimate the difference between the free energy of the non-compressed states and the buckled states. From a calculation of the free energy we obtain the optimum radius for which the system feels the minimum boundary stress.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision: The Importance of Recruiting and Its Relationship with Team Performance
Creators: name: Lloyd, Nathan S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Talent wins college football games. Wins bring in money. Colleges, fans and media hype up the recruiting season as the key to success in the college football season. Is it though? Athletic programs spend large sums of capital and resources to recruit the most talented players possible. This paper explores the relationship between recruited talent and team performance using a simultaneous equations model. Higher players’ talent leads to better team performance and a recruiting class has its biggest impact immediately following signing. A team’s performance, especially of the most recent season, impacts its ability to recruit. Talent and success experience bidirectional causation, meaning they concurrently cause each other. The theory that top teams maintain top status is true. The theory holds true for all teams as well. Bidirectional causation proved here explains lack of performance mobility across all levels of the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
Inelastic Na+H collision data for non-LTE applications in stellar atmospheres
Creators: name: Barklem, P. S.
name: Belyaev, A. K.
name: Dickinson, A. S.
name: Gadea, F. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rate coefficients for inelastic Na+H collisions are calculated for all transitions between the ten levels up to and including the ionic state (ion-pair production), namely Na(3s,3p,4s,3d,4p,5s,4d,4f,5p)+H(1s) and Na+ + H-. The calculations are based on recent full quantum scattering cross-section calculations. The data are needed for non-LTE applications in cool astrophysical environments, especially cool stellar atmospheres, and are presented for a temperature range of 500-8000 K. From consideration of the sensitivity of the cross-sections to input quantum chemical data and the results of different methods for the scattering calculations, a measure of the possible uncertainties in the rate coefficients is estimated.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, A&A accepted
An Exploration of the Potential Benefits of Healing Gardens on Veterans with PTSD
Creators: name: Anderson, Brock Justin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Healing gardens are places that facilitate in improving or restoring an individual’s mental or physical health. Today, therapeutic landscape design is a growing facet of landscape architecture. This study looks at the potential benefits of using healing gardens in addition to traditional methods of treatment for veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
A reasonable amount of research has been done into the area of therapeutic landscapes and their influence on certain populations, but the potential positive effects these healing gardensmay hold for veterans suffering from PTSD seems to be unidentified. This study examines the history of healing gardens, problems facing veteran populations today, current treatment methods for PTSD, and how healing gardens could be beneficial to veterans with PTSD. A Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare facility that is in the process of implementing a healing garden was usedto determine how their PTSD patients will potentially use a healing garden space during treatment.
The purpose of this study was to describe some of the potential benefits that healing gardens could have on veterans suffering from PTSD. Other VA facilities can use this information in the future when implementing healing gardens for PTSD patients. This study is intended to increase awareness of the potential benefits healing gardens might hold for veterans suffering from PTSD and encourage further research into the area.
Un caso di ri-scrittura scenica. Dino Buzzati dal racconto al dramma
Creators: name: Trifiro', Katia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2012

description: Il presente lavoro studia il passaggio dal racconto Il mantello (1942) all’adattamento teatrale omonimo, con l’obiettivo di verificare le relazioni tra pagina letteraria e codice scenico, sulla base di motivi conduttori affini e diverse esigenze strutturali, indagando l’idea del testo fonte nell’adattamento e la sua sopravvivenzaLa prospettiva è quella di un confronto tra due sistemi semiotici differenti, attraverso l’analisi di una operazione di adattamento in cui è il medesimo autore a riscrivere il proprio testo in vista di un mutato contesto ricettivo, modalizzandolo su uno specifico meccanismo generatore di senso. Allestito nel 1960, l’atto unico Il mantello riporta infatti, rispetto all’ipotesto che lo ha generato, i dispositivi discorsivi e visuali di una riscrittura scenica in cui si dilatano i tempi e lo spazio dell’azione principale, strutturata su una inedita coralità di personaggi, portatori di una trama centrifuga di micro-narrazioni.Rimane centrale la fascinazione del rêvenant, una delle declinazioni della morte nell’immaginario dell’autore, destinato a prendere corpo nel soldato protagonista, cui è concesso un breve, illusorio, ritorno tra i vivi. Ascrivibile per un verso alla cornice del racconto di guerra, attinta dall’esperienza biografica e professionale, Il mantello si apparenta così all’ossessione spettrale che incombe su altre riduzioni teatrali buzzatiane, tra le suggestioni di Wilder e Lee Masters.
description: Between, Vol 2, N° 4 (2012): L’adattamento: le trasformazioni delle storie nei passaggi di codice
Sustainable Water Resources Management with Special Reference to Rainwater Harvesting - Case Study of KartaManTul, Java, Indonesia
Creators: name: Brontowiyono, Widodo
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: Research focuses on land use in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, and its changes based on population statistics, LANDSAT images, rainfall records and runoff calculation using CN method. Results and recommendations focus on solutions to water resources problems, giving special attention to RWH. Methods and techniques are proposed, based on vulnerability levels of water availability; on aquifer conditions and socio-cultural factors. This study provides the scientific basis for a true IWRM project.
Additional file 1 of MIR210HG promotes breast cancer progression by IGF2BP1 mediated m6A modification
Creators: name: Shi, Wenjing
name: Tang, Yongzhe
name: Lu, Jing
name: Zhuang, Yihui
name: Wang, Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: File 1. Table S1. Primers used in q-PCR analysis. Table S2. Primary antibodies used in western blot, q-ChIP and IHC. Table S3. Primers used in liciferase assay. Table S4. Primers used in qChIP analysis. File 2. Original gels.
Exactly solvable Schrödinger operators
Creators: name: Dereziński, Jan
name: Wrochna, Michał
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically describe and classify 1-dimensional Schrödinger equations that can be solved in terms of hypergeometric type functions. Beside the well-known families, we explicitly describe 2 new classes of exactly solvable Schrödinger equations that can be reduced to the Hermite equation.
description: 20 pages, v2
Telescope Bibliometrics 101
Creators: name: Grothkopf, Uta
name: Lagerstrom, Jill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: During recent years, bibliometric studies have become increasingly important in evaluating individual scientists, institutes, and entire observatories. In astronomy, often librarians are involved in maintaining publication databases and compiling statistics for their institutions. In this paper, we present a look behind the scenes to understand who is interested in bibliometric statistics, which methodologies astronomy librarians apply, and what kind of features next-generation bibliographies may include.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. To appear in: Future Professional Communication in Astronomy II (FPCA-II)
Ontologiebasierte Werkzeuge zur Unterstützung von Organisationen bei der Einführung und Durchführung von Wissensmanagement
Creators: name: Hefke, Mark
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden zwei Softwarewerkzeuge für die technische Unterstützung von Wissensmanagement (WM) konzipiert und technisch umgesetzt, die zum einen den Reifegrad von Unternehmen unter Verwendung von beliebigen Reifegradmodellen für WM erfassen und darauf basierend Handlungsempfehlungen zur Verfügung stellen, zum anderen auf das Anforderungsprofil eines Unternehmens zugeschnittene Best Practices für WM identifizieren und auf die neue Unternehmenssituation übertragen.
Suzaku and BeppoSAX X-ray Spectra of the Persistently Accreting Neutron-Star Binary 4U 1705-44
Creators: name: Lin, Dacheng
name: Remillard, Ronald A.
name: Homan, Jeroen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the broad-band spectra of 4U~1705--44 obtained with {\it Suzaku} in 2006--2008 and by {\it BeppoSAX} in 2000. The source exhibits two distinct states: the hard state shows emission from 1 to 150 keV, while the soft state is mostly confined to be $<40$ keV. We model soft-state continuum spectra with two thermal components, one of which is a multicolor accretion disk and the other is a single-temperature blackbody to describe the boundary layer, with additional weak Comptonization represented by either a simple power law or the SIMPL model by Steiner et al. The hard-state continuum spectra are modeled by a single-temperature blackbody for the boundary layer plus strong Comptonization, modeled by a cutoff power law. While we are unable to draw firm conclusions about the physical properties of the disk in the hard state, the accretion disk in the soft state appears to approximately follow $L\propto T^{3.2}$. The deviation from $L\propto T^4$, as expected from a constant inner disk radius, might be caused by a luminosity-dependent spectral hardening factor and/or real changes of the inner disk radius in some part of the soft state. The boundary layer apparent emission area is roughly constant from the hard to the soft states, with a value of about 1/11 of the neutron star surface. The magnetic field on the surface of the NS in 4U~1705--44 is estimated to be less than about $1.9\times 10^8$ G, assuming that the disk is truncated by the ISCO or by the neutron star surface. Broad relativistic Fe lines are detected in most spectra and are modeled with the diskline model. The strength of the Fe lines is found to correlate well with the boundary layer emission in the soft state. In the hard state, the Fe lines are probably due to illumination of the accretion disk by the strong Comptonization emission.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal