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Ian McEwan: A Novel Approach to Political Communication
Creators: name: Cohen, Naor
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mass Communications
subject: Literature--English
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Ian McEwan
subject: Politics and fiction
subject: Pluralism
subject: Communication
subject: Black Dogs
subject: Amsterdam
subject: Saturday

description: Since authors are skilled communicators, novels can help reimagine our communicative motivations and public sphere in a contemporary context. Their fiction can situate politically-conscious narratives in pertinent, culturally salient contexts to reflect and challenge our deepest convictions. In this work I consider three novels by British author Ian McEwan, which show his liberal-communicative thought: Black Dogs, Amsterdam and Saturday. These texts exemplify his aesthetically accomplished and intellectually dense oeuvre. Each novel explores one major theme. Black Dogs addresses historical narratives, concerned with how we integrate past events into our current identities. Amsterdam challenges the notion that expert elites can achieve greatness when their actions lack moral responsibility. Saturday undermines the deterministic conception of reason and science in light of political, economic and ecological insecurity and irrationality in today’s post-9/11 world. In all three books, daily random events shatter the protagonists’ worldviews. McEwan takes a liberal-pluralist approach, representing the contingent and irrational elements challenging classic liberalism. Promoting individual autonomy, reason, and scientific progress, perfectionist liberal thinkers like John Locke and John Rawls presented fundamental moral entitlements that bind all human beings across time and place by virtue of their humanity. However, as different cultures interact, issues of legitimacy, stability and cooperation in democratic societies arise. Current political and communication theory addresses these concerns by seeking common ground from which to evaluate diverse political orders. Influenced by John Durham Peters’s ethical-political communication theory, this study sets out a theoretical framework that combines political and communicative investigations, and sees today’s liberal and communicative projects as similarly motivated. Within this space, I critically examine McEwan’s contribution to a communicative and political moral code that can guide us through the fact of pluralism. This moral code accepts the burden of reason, and the fragility of happiness in modern time, pointing to our psychological pathologies and contradictions in moral conscience. We can be skeptical about our moral, political and scientific convictions while avoiding moral relativism. We can celebrate individual autonomy, self-fulfillment and freedom of choice only if they come with empathic interest for the other. Any other possibility will diminish our greatest achievements.
High-Performance CMOS Image Sensor and System for Imaging Tissue Hemodynamics
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Imager
subject: Hemodynamics
subject: DBS
subject: CIS
subject: CTIA

description: Monitoring changes in tissue oxygenation and blood volume is an important aspect of understanding the mechanisms of many diseases and creating corresponding therapeutic interventions. Spectroscopic imaging is adopted in my research to provide a non-contact recording method. Traditionally, such imaging is performed in anesthetized and restrained animals using benchtop instrumentation or miniaturized systems connecting to benchtop instruments through optical fibers or electrical cables, which limits the design and scope of studies. To create a miniaturized imaging system that realizes stand-alone operation on awake and freely-moving rats, I designed and implemented an imaging system, consisting of a miniaturized optical system, a high-performance complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor and a storage circuit. The system was electrically and optically characterized and proved to be capable of imaging reflectance changes related to tissue hemodynamics in response to deep brain stimulation (DBS).
Elemental abundance differences in the 16 Cygni binary system: a signature of gas giant planet formation?
Creators: name: Ramirez, I.
name: Melendez, J.
name: Cornejo, D.
name: Roederer, I. U.
name: Fish, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The atmospheric parameters of the components of the 16Cygni binary system, in which the secondary has a gas giant planet detected, are measured accurately using high quality observational data. Abundances relative to solar are obtained for 25 elements with a mean error of 0.023 dex. The fact that 16CygA has about four times more lithium than 16CygB is normal considering the slightly different masses of the stars. The abundance patterns of 16CygA and B, relative to iron, are typical of that observed in most of the so-called solar twin stars, with the exception of the heavy elements (Z>30), which can, however, be explained by Galactic chemical evolution. Differential (A-B) abundances are measured with even higher precision (0.018 dex, on average). We find that 16CygA is more metal-rich than 16CygB by 0.041+/-0.007 dex. On an element-to-element basis, no correlation between the A-B abundance differences and dust condensation temperature (Tc) is detected. Based on these results, we conclude that if the process of planet formation around 16CygB is responsible for the observed abundance pattern, the formation of gas giants produces a constant downwards shift in the photospheric abundance of metals, without a Tc correlation. The latter would be produced by the formation of terrestrial planets instead, as suggested by other recent works on precise elemental abundances. Nevertheless, a scenario consistent with these observations requires the convective envelopes of 1 Msun stars to reach their present-day sizes about three times quicker than predicted by standard stellar evolution models.
description: ApJ, in press
Additional file 1 of A data-driven algorithm to support the clinical decision-making of patient extrication following a road traffic collision
Creators: name: Vaughan-Huxley, Eyston
name: Griggs, Joanne
name: Mohindru, Jasmit
name: Russell, Malcolm
name: Lyon, Richard
name: Avest, Ewoud ter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Using auroral streamers to remote sense radial transport in the nightside magnetosphere
Creators: name: Grono, Eric
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics
subject: Electricity and Magnetism
subject: Fluid and Plasma
subject: Space Physics
subject: Magnetosphere
subject: Aurora
subject: Plasma
subject: Northern Lights
subject: Bursty bulk flow
subject: Streamers
subject: Auroral imaging

description: Using one year of ground-based Meridian Scanning Photometer (MSP) data, a survey of auroral streamers was carried out. Streamers are understood to be signatures of bursty bulk flows (BBFs) in the central plasma sheet (CPS) which are responsible for the majority of Earthward energy, plasma, and magnetic flux transport in the magnetosphere [Zesta et al., 2000; Angelopoulos et al., 1994]. The primary objective of this project was to study the large-scale behaviour and statistics of BBFs in a fundamentally new way, using streamers. Superposed epoch keograms were created and distinct trends were observed coinciding with the appearance of streamers in both the 486 and 558 nm MSP data. A distribution of streamer penetration depths was created to investigate how frequently BBFs reach the inner magnetosphere. Using the 1989 Tsyganenko magnetosphere model, these events were traced to the CPS to approximate their speed and trajectories.
Turbulence driven particle transport in Texas Helimak
Creators: name: Toufen, Dennis L.
name: Guimarães-Filho, Zwinglio O.
name: Caldas, Iberê L.
name: Marcus, Francisco A.
name: Gentle, Kenneth W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the turbulence driven particle transport in Texas Helimak (K. W. Gentle and Huang He, Plasma Sci. and Technology, 10, 284 (2008)), a toroidal plasma device with one-dimensional equilibrium with magnetic curvature and shear. Alterations on the radial electric field, through an external voltage bias, change spectral plasma characteristics inducing a dominant frequency for negative bias values and a broad band frequency spectrum for positive bias values. For negative biased plasma discharges, the transport is high where the waves propagate with phase velocities near the plasma flow velocity, an indication that the transport is strongly affected by a wave particle resonant interaction. On the other hand, for positive bias the plasma has a reversed shear flow and we observe that the transport is almost zero in the shearless radial region, an evidence of a transport barrier in this region.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures
Clustering by hypergraphs and dimensionality of cluster systems
Creators: name: Albeverio, S.
name: Kozyrev, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In the present paper we discuss the clustering procedure in the case where instead of a single metric we have a family of metrics. In this case we can obtain a partially ordered graph of clusters which is not necessarily a tree. We discuss a structure of a hypergraph above this graph. We propose two definitions of dimension for hyperedges of this hypergraph and show that for the multidimensional p-adic case both dimensions are reduced to the number of p-adic parameters. We discuss the application of the hypergraph clustering procedure to the construction of phylogenetic graphs in biology. In this case the dimension of a hyperedge will describe the number of sources of genetic diversity.
description: 15 pages
Design and Testing of a Fingertip Haptic Interface
Creators: name: Stobart, Christopher
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Haptic
subject: Smart Glasses
subject: Smart Watch
subject: Multimodal Feedback
subject: Ultra-mobile Interface
subject: Force Sensitivity
subject: Human Resolution
subject: Smallest Key

description: Fingertip force sensitivity threshold, human resolution, multimodal feedback, and interface miniaturization for ultra-mobile devices such as smart watches and glasses are investigated in this thesis. An FHI (Fingertip Haptic Interface) was designed and built to measure the position and force resolution of the human fingertip. The thumb and forefinger resolutions were identified as 212um and 133um, respectively. The force threshold at which the forefinger detects pulses was found experimentally to be F(t) = .148t + 28.7 where t is the pulse width in ms, and F(t) is the fingertip force in mN. It was found that visual feedback dominates user input tasks, but during eyes-free usage haptic feedback provides an improvement that quickly dissipates with increased task difficulty. Finally, the smallest target size that can be reliably selected was found to be two to three times the smallest resolution of the index finger or thumb.
Electric Dipolar Kondo Effect Emerging from Vibrating Magnetic Ion
Creators: name: Hotta, Takashi
name: Ueda, Kazuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a magnetic ion vibrates in a metal, it inevitably introduces a new channel of hybridization with conduction electrons and in general, the vibrating ion induces electric dipole moment. In such a situation, we find that magnetic and non-magnetic Kondo effects alternatively occur due to the screening of spin moment and electric dipole moment of vibrating ion. In particular, electric dipolar two-channel Kondo effect is found to occur for weak Coulomb interaction. We also show that magnetically robust heavy-electron state appears near the fixed point of electric dipolar two-channel Kondo effect. We believe that the {\it vibrating} magnetic ion opens a new door in the Kondo physics.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile
Creators: name: Contreras, Hugo
name: Candia, Cristian
name: Troncoso, Rodrigo
name: Ferres, Leo
name: Bravo, Loreto
name: Lepri, Bruno
name: Rodriguez-Sickert, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: (PDF 2.3 MB)
The Africanized Honey Bee in the United States: What Will Happen to the U.S. Beekeeping Industry?
Creators: name: McDowell, Robert
name: McDowell, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: African honey bee
subject: Africanized honey bee
subject: Apis mellifera adansonii
subject: economic impacts
subject: beekeeping
subject: bee industry economics
subject: queen and package bee production
subject: migratory beekeeping
subject: almond pollination
subject: honey and beeswax production
subject: Apis mellifera scutellata

description: The U.S. beekeeping industry may experience annual losses of $26 million to $58 million if the Africanized honey bee (AHB) colonizes the South and Southwest and causes the kinds of problems it has caused elsewhere. If the AHB colonizes the area that has at least 240 frost-free days a year, losses could range from $49 million to $58 million annually, depending on the behavior of the bee. If the AHB colonizes the area south of latitude 32° North, the economic losses could range from $26 million to $31 million annually, depending on the behavior of the AHB. Every aspect of beekeeping—honey and beeswax production, queen and package bee production, pollination, and migratory beekeeping—could be adversely affected
ORGANIZATION OF COMPETITIVE GAMES IN PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Creators: name: Zunnunova, Nozima
name: Komilova, Sayyoraxon
name: Omonova, Nargizaxon
name: Yo'ldashaliyeva, Shahinabonu
name: Olimova, Husnida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article will talk about the issues of proper organization of physical education activities in "preschool educational organizations". It is written to the children about where, for how long, with what tools and in what parts the training is carried out.
Mechchate et al 2023 - Supplementary Tables and Figures
Creators: name: Al Batran, Rami
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cell metabolism

description: Supplementary Table 1. Supplementary Table 2. Supplementary Table 3. Supplementary Figure 1 Supplementary Figure 2 Supplementary Figure 3 Supplementary Figure 4 Supplementary Figure 5 Supplementary Figure 6 Supplementary Figure 7
Topological superfluid in one-dimensional spin-orbit coupled atomic Fermi gases
Creators: name: Liu, Xia-Ji
name: Hu, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne 3122, Australia
description: 7 pages, 8 figures; submitted to Physical Review A
The Spitzer Spectroscopic Survey of S-type Stars
Creators: name: Smolders, K.
name: Neyskens, P.
name: Blommaert, J. A. D. L.
name: Hony, S.
name: Van Winckel, H.
name: Decin, L.
name: Van Eck, S.
name: Sloan, G. C.
name: Cami, J.
name: Uttenthaler, S.
name: Degroote, P.
name: Barry, D.
name: Feast, M.
name: Groenewegen, M. A. T.
name: Matsuura, M.
name: Menzies, J.
name: Sahai, R.
name: van Loon, J. Th.
name: Zijlstra, A. A.
name: Acke, B.
name: Bloemen, S.
name: Cox, N.
name: de Cat, P.
name: Desmet, M.
name: Exter, K.
name: Ladjal, D.
name: Ostensen, R.
name: Saesen, S.
name: van Wyk, F.
name: Verhoelst, T.
name: Zima, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: S-type AGB stars are thought to be in the transitional phase between M-type and C-type AGB stars. Because of their peculiar chemical composition, one may expect a strong influence of the stellar C/O ratio on the molecular chemistry and the mineralogy of the circumstellar dust. In this paper, we present a large sample of 87 intrinsic galactic S-type AGB stars, observed at infrared wavelengths with the Spitzer Space Telescope, and supplemented with ground-based optical data. On the one hand, we derive the stellar parameters from the optical spectroscopy and photometry, using a grid of model atmospheres. On the other, we decompose the infrared spectra to quantify the flux-contributions from the different dust species. Finally, we compare the independently determined stellar parameters and dust properties. For the stars without significant dust emission, we detect a strict relation between the presence of SiS absorption in the Spitzer spectra and the C/O ratio of the stellar atmosphere. These absorption bands can thus be used as an additional diagnostic for the C/O ratio. For stars with significant dust emission, we define three groups, based on the relative contribution of certain dust species to the infrared flux. We find a strong link between group-membership and C/O ratio. We show that these groups can be explained by assuming that the dust-condensation can be cut short before silicates are produced, while the remaining free atoms and molecules can then form the observed magnesium sulfides or the carriers of the unidentified 13 and 20 micron features. Finally, we present the detection of emission features attributed to molecules and dust characteristic to C-type stars, such as molecular SiS, hydrocarbons and magnesium sulfide grains. We show that we often detect magnesium sulfides together with molecular SiS and we propose that it is formed by a reaction of SiS molecules with Mg.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
A Low-Power Streaming Speech Enhancement Accelerator For Edge Devices
Creators: name: Wu, Ci-Hao
name: Chang, Tian-Sheuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Transformer-based speech enhancement models yield impressive results. However, their heterogeneous and complex structure restricts model compression potential, resulting in greater complexity and reduced hardware efficiency. Additionally, these models are not tailored for streaming and low-power applications. Addressing these challenges, this paper proposes a low-power streaming speech enhancement accelerator through model and hardware optimization. The proposed high performance model is optimized for hardware execution with the co-design of model compression and target application, which reduces 93.9\% of model size by the proposed domain-aware and streaming-aware pruning techniques. The required latency is further reduced with batch normalization-based transformers. Additionally, we employed softmax-free attention, complemented by an extra batch normalization, facilitating simpler hardware design. The tailored hardware accommodates these diverse computing patterns by breaking them down into element-wise multiplication and accumulation (MAC). This is achieved through a 1-D processing array, utilizing configurable SRAM addressing, thereby minimizing hardware complexities and simplifying zero skipping. Using the TSMC 40nm CMOS process, the final implementation requires merely 207.8K gates and 53.75KB SRAM. It consumes only 8.08 mW for real-time inference at a 62.5MHz frequency.
Development of a low cost micro-pump
Creators: name: Khalilian, Sina
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: micro-pump, micro-valve, piezoelectric, low cost, design for manufacturing

description: There is a growing demand for micro-pumps as a subcomponent in micro-fluidic systems. In order to make micro-pumps more suitable for most of cost-sensitive mass applications such as micro cooling systems, fuel cells and disposable biomedical applications, a design targeted toward lowest manufacturing cost, high endurance, and reliability is devised for the micro-pump. In this work, a check-valve micro-pump with a piezoelectric motivator was selected as a low cost design. By following a modular design approach, the total number of parts to be manufactured is minimized. This design is composed of four parts, the upper and lowers casing halves, a single plate inlet and outlet valve, and a piezoelectric disc. To achieve high durability and reliability, stainless steel shim stock was selected as the valve material. Micro-injection moulding and chemical etching processes were selected for the fabrication processes of the casings and the valve, respectively. Also, to facilitate the assembly process and for sealing the micro-pump casing, a heat press method of assembly was designed and tested. To predict performance of the micro-pump, a modular simulation model was developed. In this model, results from static flow testing of the micro-valves, piezoelectric displacement test, and finite element structural analysis were incorporated in the model. As a result, a practical model for predicting the micro-pump performance at operating frequencies below 50 Hz is achieved. This simulation model can be useful in parameter selection, optimization and also micro-valve selection for different application requirements of the micro-pump. As a result of this work, by applying design for manufacturing and mass fabrication methods to the overall micro-pump design, a low cost micro-pump designed for high performance and useful to a variety of applications is obtained.
Fate of global superconductivity in arrays of long SNS junctions
Creators: name: Eley, Serena
name: Gopalakrishnan, Sarang
name: Goldbart, Paul M.
name: Mason, Nadya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Normal-metal films overlaid with arrays of superconducting islands undergo Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) superconducting transitions at a temperature $T_{BKT}$. We present measurements of T$_{BKT}$ for arrays of mesoscopic Nb islands patterned on Au films for a range of island spacings $d$. We show that $T_{BKT} \sim 1/d^2$, and explain this dependence in terms of the quasiclassical prediction that the Thouless energy, rather than the superconducting gap, governs the inter-island coupling. We also find two deviations from the quasiclassical theory: (i) $T_{BKT}$ is sensitive to island height, because the islands are mesoscopic; and (ii) for widely spaced islands the transition appears to lead, not to a superconducting state, but to a finite-resistance "metallic" one.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Novel strategies for antagonizing the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase pathway in disease
Creators: name: Yau, Tien Yin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway is a critical regulator of cell physiology. This project aims to investigate several novel approaches to target the PI3K pathway. First, in order to determine the importance of PI3K regulators on normal cells, I investigated the effect of PTEN haploinsufficiency on glucose regulation in mice. Even a 50% reduction in PTEN expression was sufficient to increase phosphorylation of the downstream targets AKT and GSK3β. Next, I wanted to see if PI3K pathway could treat idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Since the established ITP therapy (IVIg) is thought to signal through SH2-containing inositol 5’ phosphatase (SHIP), I tested the ability of a SHIP activator AQX-MN100 to reverse a murine model of ITP. In the classic model of ITP, AQX-MN100 was unable to rescue mice from antibody-mediated platelet destruction. However, prophylactic AQX-MN100 prevented the infection-mediated form of ITP. I then studied the potential uses of AQX-016A/AQX-MN100 in the hematopoietic malignancies multiple myeloma (MM) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). AQX-016A/AQX-MN100 successfully induced apoptosis of the cancer cell lines in vitro in both a time and dose dependant manner. I then investigated the potential of a small molecule ILK inhibitor to inhibit early prostatic dysplasia/hyperplasia in a murine model. Under the initial experimental parameters chosen, the ILK inhibitor was not able to inhibit dysplasia/hyperplasia. However, further studies are required to determine whether ILK inhibition may be an effective therapeutic strategy for treatment of prostate cancer. Finally, I attempted to potentiate the effects of PI3K pathway inhibitors with borrelidin, an inhibitor of tRNA synthetase, which successfully exhibited synergy with the PI3K inhibitor LY294002, but only exhibited additive effects with the ILK inhibitor. The results of this project show the validity of targeting members of the PI3K pathway either in alone or in combination with a synergistic pathway.
Delineating the acute, intermediate, and long-term effects of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide on breathing
Creators: name: Mosca, Erin Victoria
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Respiration
subject: Physiology
subject: PACAP

description: Recent evidence suggests that pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP) is an important stress peptide, involved in the response to acute and chronic stress. Consistent with this function, we also know that PACAP plays a vital role in modulating breathing in neonatal mammals exposed to respiratory and temperature stress, though the exact mechanisms and locations of action are unknown. Likewise, while PACAP stimulates the adult carotid body acutely, the effect of PACAP on breathing in adult mammals over the intermediate term (days) and long term (months) has not been studied. Thus, the aim of the present work was to help delineate the acute, intermediate, and long-term roles of PACAP in modulating breathing in neonatal and adult mammals. In order to study the acute role of PACAP in a neonatal model, we first developed the in situ neonatal rat working heart-brainstem preparation and tested its efficacy using a known stimulant of neonatal respiration, theophylline. In using our newly developed preparation we were able to determine where theophylline acts to stimulate neonatal breathing and also make important comparisons between our semi-intact preparation and more reduced slice preparations (Chapter 2). We then used the in situ neonatal rat working heart-brainstem preparation to study the acute effects of exogenously applied PACAP (Chapter 3). We then studied the intermediate effects of PACAP on breathing by using a model of respiratory stress (chronic intermittent hypoxia) known to alter baseline ventilation as well as the acute hypoxic response (Chapter 4). Finally, we studied the effect of neonatal-maternal separation – a stress known to have long-term effects on breathing – and used quantitative RT-PCR to determine changes in PACAP gene expression in various breathing- and stress-related tissues. Important new findings from these studies include: 1) theophylline stimulates neonatal breathing independently of the carotid bodies, though adenosine receptors in the neonatal carotid body may play a role in mediating the hypoxic response; 2) exogenous PACAP potently stimulates and stabilizes neonatal breathing via carotid body-dependent and -independent mechanism, respectively; 3) PACAP is crucial in adult mice for surviving chronic intermittent hypoxia (a stress of intermediate duration often used to model sleep apnea; 4) chronic stress that has long-term effects on breathing does not change PACAP gene expression, but PACAP gene expression in stress-related tissues is sex-dependent. The experiments performed in this thesis thus help to elucidate the important role of PACAP in neonates and adults, and lead to the conclusion that the effects of PACAP on breathing may be intricately associated with the role of PACAP in stress responses.
Additional file 1 of Optimum iron-pyrophosphate electronic coupling to improve electrochemical water splitting and charge storage
Creators: name: Srivastava, Rishabh
name: Chaudhary, Himanshu
name: Kumar, Anuj
name: de Souza, Felipe M.
name: Mishra, Sanjay R.
name: Perez, Felio
name: Gupta, Ram K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Bedside nurses' attitude toward evidence-based practice: the effectiveness of an e-learning program in changing EBP beliefs and attitudes, a pilot study
Creators: name: James, Wendy Ann N.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Purpose of Study:The purpose of this study was to collect information on bedside nurses' attitudes and beliefs about EBP, conduct an educational session on EBP via an e-learning program, and then determine if there was a change in attitude and beliefs about EBP.Methdology:All the bedside nurses who participated in this randomized controlled study completed the EBP Beliefs Scale. (This scale served as the pre- and post-test). Nurses were then randomized to a control group, Arm 1 (one-page brochure on EBP) and the experimental group, Arm 2 (an educational session on EBP) via an e-learnin program called Talent Manager. A post-test using the same EBP Beliefs Scale was again completed by all nurses.Results:Study findings did not show that an educational session on an e-learning program was significantly effective in changing bedside nurses' attitudes and beliefs about EBP as compared to a one-page brochure. Overall, nurses had a positive attitude toward EBP.Implications for Practice:The educational session on EBP can be included in the annual review required for all nurses at the hospital where the research was conducted. It can serve as a reminder to the nurses to continue their implementation of EBP in daily practice. The educational session guides the nurses through the EBP process. It provided information to the nurses on how to develop a focused clinical question using the PICO framework, identify and search electronic databases, select appropriate studies for the best evidence, analyze a research article, and determine its level of evidence and methodological quality.
Parity-Violating Hydrodynamics in 2+1 Dimensions
Creators: name: Jensen, Kristan
name: Kaminski, Matthias
name: Kovtun, Pavel
name: Meyer, Rene
name: Ritz, Adam
name: Yarom, Amos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study relativistic hydrodynamics of normal fluids in two spatial dimensions. When the microscopic theory breaks parity, extra transport coefficients appear in the hydrodynamic regime, including the Hall viscosity, and the anomalous Hall conductivity. In this work we classify all the transport coefficients in first order hydrodynamics. We then use properties of response functions and the positivity of entropy production to restrict the possible coefficients in the constitutive relations. All the parity-breaking transport coefficients are dissipationless, and some of them are related to the thermodynamic response to an external magnetic field and to vorticity. In addition, we give a holographic example of a strongly interacting relativistic fluid where the parity-violating transport coefficients are computable.
description: 39+1 pages
Koncentracja władzy jako sposób rządzenia obozu Zjednoczonej Prawicy w latach 2015 2019 Diagnoza i konsekwencje
Creators: name: Makowski, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified

description: Autor analizuje wzorzec rządzenia publicznego widoczny w obozie prawicy w latach 2015–2019. Stawia tezę, że nosi on wiele cech silnej koncentracji władzy jako metody uzyskania pożądanych celów w sferze rywalizacji politycznej i polityki publicznej wraz ze stosowaniem nieformalnych komponentów rządzenia. Przejawem koncentracji władzy jest centralizacja, czyli przenoszenie różnych funkcji państwa z niższych (w szczególności samorządowych) szczebli na wyższe, a także silne ingerowanie w wiele sfer życia publicznego, które wcześniej pozostawały apolityczne (Dziewulski, 1981; Mitchell, 1991). The author analyses the pattern of governance of the right-wing parties in Poland between 2015 and 2019. It bears many features of a concentration of powers as a method of achieving desired goals in the sphere of political competition and public policy along with the use of informal components. The manifestation of concentration of power is centralisation, understood as the transfer of functions of the state from the lower (in particular local government) levels to the higher, as well as strong interference of the central government in many areas of public life that previously remained apolitical.
Is Radioactive Decay Really Exponential?
Creators: name: Aston, Philip J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radioactive decay of an unstable isotope is widely believed to be exponential. This view is supported by experiments on rapidly decaying isotopes but is more difficult to verify for slowly decaying isotopes. The decay of 14C can be calibrated over a period of 12,550 years by comparing radiocarbon dates with dates obtained from dendrochronology. It is well known that this approach shows that radiocarbon dates of over 3,000 years are in error, which is generally attributed to past variation in atmospheric levels of 14C. We note that predicted atmospheric variation (assuming exponential decay) does not agree with results from modelling, and that theoretical quantum mechanics does not predict exact exponential decay. We give mathematical arguments that non-exponential decay should be expected for slowly decaying isotopes and explore the consequences of non-exponential decay. We propose an experimental test of this prediction of non-exponential decay for 14C. If confirmed, a foundation stone of current dating methods will have been removed, requiring a radical reappraisal both of radioisotope dating methods and of currently predicted dates obtained using these methods.
A 71.2-$μ$W Speech Recognition Accelerator with Recurrent Spiking Neural Network
Creators: name: Yang, Chih-Chyau
name: Chang, Tian-Sheuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper introduces a 71.2-$μ$W speech recognition accelerator designed for edge devices' real-time applications, emphasizing an ultra low power design. Achieved through algorithm and hardware co-optimizations, we propose a compact recurrent spiking neural network with two recurrent layers, one fully connected layer, and a low time step (1 or 2). The 2.79-MB model undergoes pruning and 4-bit fixed-point quantization, shrinking it by 96.42\% to 0.1 MB. On the hardware front, we take advantage of \textit{mixed-level pruning}, \textit{zero-skipping} and \textit{merged spike} techniques, reducing complexity by 90.49\% to 13.86 MMAC/S. The \textit{parallel time-step execution} addresses inter-time-step data dependencies and enables weight buffer power savings through weight sharing. Capitalizing on the sparse spike activity, an input broadcasting scheme eliminates zero computations, further saving power. Implemented on the TSMC 28-nm process, the design operates in real time at 100 kHz, consuming 71.2 $μ$W, surpassing state-of-the-art designs. At 500 MHz, it has 28.41 TOPS/W and 1903.11 GOPS/mm$^2$ in energy and area efficiency, respectively.
Modeling the topology of protein interaction networks
Creators: name: Schneider, Christian M.
name: de Arcangelis, Lucilla
name: Herrmann, Hans J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A major issue in biology is the understanding of the interactions between proteins. These interactions can be described by a network, where the proteins are modeled by nodes and the interactions by edges. The origin of these protein networks is not well understood yet. Here we present a two-step model, which generates clusters with the same topological properties as networks for protein-protein interactions, namely, the same degree distribution, cluster size distribution, clustering coefficient and shortest path length. The biological and model networks are not scale free but exhibit small world features. The model allows the fitting of different biological systems by tuning a single parameter.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Tarcze antykryzysowe - dokończenie budowy państwa PiS-u? Ustawodawstwo okresu pandemii a korupcja
Creators: name: Makowski, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified

description: Nietransparentny proces legislacyjny i niekontrolowany lobbing; ograniczanie dostępu do informacji publicznej; wyłączanie odpowiedzialności i rozliczalności polityków i urzędników za decyzje publiczne oraz dalsze osłabienie administracji publicznej – to główne obszary ryzyk korupcyjnych wskazane w analizie pierwszych czterech tarcz antykryzysowych, opublikowanej przez forumIdei Fundacji Batorego. Walcząc z pandemią COVID-19 rząd zawarł w tzw. „tarczach antykryzysowych” wiele rozwiązań, które nie tylko zwiększają ryzyko korupcji, ale też wydają się zmierzać nie tyle do ograniczenia negatywnych skutków kryzysu, co – przy okazji – do wzmocnienia pozycji obozu władzy. Analiza omawia m.in. rozwiązania, które już na początku pandemii na długi czas wyłączyły możliwość uzyskiwania informacji publicznej. Przez wiele miesięcy obywatele, w tym również dziennikarze, nie mieli swobody w dostępie do informacji o działaniach lokalnych władz i nie mogli reagować, gdyby prowadziły one do nadużyć. W analizie autorzy pokazują również jak szerokie i wielopoziomowe są przepisy „tarcz antykryzysowych” zwalniające funkcjonariuszy publicznych z odpowiedzialności za decyzje dotyczące wydatkowania pieniędzy podatników. To nie tylko tzw. „ustawa o bezkarności”, ale wiele innych przepisów zawartych w tarczach, zwalniających urzędników i polityków z odpowiedzialności za kontrowersyjne decyzje dotyczące przetargów czy dotacji, którym mogła towarzyszyć korupcja. Autorzy opisują również jakie dalekosiężne konsekwencje mogą mieć zawarte w tarczach przepisy pozwalające dokonać zwolnień w administracji rządowej. To za ich pomocą – usprawiedliwiając się walką z pandemią – obóz władzy może dokonać kolejnych czystek w służbie cywilnej i pozbyć się ostatnich, niezależnych, profesjonalnych urzędników, którzy zdołali przetrwać poprzednie fale zwolnień. Jeśli do tego dojdzie, będzie to oznaczać nie tylko pogłębienie upartyjnienia administracji publicznej, ale także osłabienie zdolności państwa do walki z kryzysem.
Additional file 1 of Metabolites of Trichoderma harzianum re-balance T-reg/Th-17 cytokine axis in epileptic rats
Creators: name: Alblihed, Mohamed A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Changes in the biochemical estimation of some pro/and antioxidant biomarkers, pro/ and anti-inflammatory cytokines in the hippocampal homogenate tissue of different groups: control (C), epileptic (EP), VPA-treated (EP-VPA), and epileptic treated with T. harzianum culture filtrate (E-ThCF). Means for groups in homogeneous subsets are displayed the subset of alpha = 0.05. and all values were represented as Mean ± Std & n = 6 animals/group. Asterisks represent significant post-Hoc one-way ANOVA results of improvement over time, whereas n.s. means non-significant difference p>0.05; *means p<0.05; ** p<0.01 and *** <0.001. This scale is applied for seizure-related behavioral changes and their severity. Each number represents the latency and duration of the seizure severity. The data were analyzed using the Tukey-Kramer method for post-hoc analysis to compare various groups with each other.
U.S. Cropland, Urbanization, and Landownership Patterns
Creators: name: Gustafson, Greg C.
name: Bills, Nelson L.
name: Gustafson, Greg C.
name: Bills, Nelson L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Cropland
subject: potential cropland
subject: urbanization
subject: landownership

description: Most U.S. farmland is in no danger of being overrun by urban sprawl. Less than 20 percent of U.S. cropland is in metropolitan counties. Cropland in the Northeast is under more urban pressure than elsewhere because more than three-fourths of it is within or adjacent to urban counties. Ownership patterns of cropland are also different in metropolitan counties, with a higher proportion held in small parcels, by nonfarmers, and by nonfamily corporations than in rural areas. Such differences in ownership patterns may presage conversion of cropland to other uses.
Variable Selection in Log-linear Birnbaum-Saunders Regression Models for High-dimensional Survival Data via the Elastic-Net and Stochastic EM
Creators: name: Zhang, Yukun
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Birnbaum-Saunders (BS) distribution is broadly used to model failure times with reliability and survival data. In this thesis, we propose a simultaneous parameter estimation and variable selection procedure in a log-linear BS regression model for high-dimensional survival data. We introduce a path-wise algorithm via cyclical coordinate descent method based on the elastic-net penalty. To deal with censored survival data, we iteratively run a combination of Stochastic Expectation Maximization algorithm (SEM) and variable selection procedure to generate pseudo-complete data and select variables until convergence. Treating pseudo-complete data as uncensored data via SEM simplifies computation and makes it possible to incorporate iterative least squares for parameter estimation and variable selection simultaneously. We demonstrate the efficacy of our method using simulated and real data sets.
Relativistic Binaries in Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Benacquista, Matthew J.
name: Downing, Jonathan M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galactic globular clusters are old, dense star systems typically containing 10\super{4}--10\super{7} stars. As an old population of stars, globular clusters contain many collapsed and degenerate objects. As a dense population of stars, globular clusters are the scene of many interesting close dynamical interactions between stars. These dynamical interactions can alter the evolution of individual stars and can produce tight binary systems containing one or two compact objects. In this review, we discuss theoretical models of globular cluster evolution and binary evolution, techniques for simulating this evolution that leads to relativistic binaries, and current and possible future observational evidence for this population. Our discussion of globular cluster evolution will focus on the processes that boost the production of hard binary systems and the subsequent interaction of these binaries that can alter the properties of both bodies and can lead to exotic objects. Direct {\it N}-body integrations and Fokker--Planck simulations of the evolution of globular clusters that incorporate tidal interactions and lead to predictions of relativistic binary populations are also discussed. We discuss the current observational evidence for cataclysmic variables, millisecond pulsars, and low-mass X-ray binaries as well as possible future detection of relativistic binaries with gravitational radiation.
description: 88 pages, 13 figures. Submitted update of Living Reviews article
Crystal structure and physical properties of AmPd5Al2
Creators: name: Griveau, J. -C.
name: Gofryk, K.
name: Bouëxière, D.
name: Colineau, E.
name: Rebizant, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the crystal structure, magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, electrical and thermoelectrical properties of AmPd5Al2, the americium counterpart of the unconventional superconductor NpPd5Al2. AmPd5Al2 crystallizes in the ZrNi2Al5-type of structure with lattice parameters: a = 4.1298 A and c = 14.7925 A. Magnetic measurements of AmPd5Al2 indicate a paramagnetic behavior with no hint of magnetic ordering nor superconductivity down to 2 K. This aspect is directly related to its 5f6 electronic configuration with J = 0. The specific heat measurements confirm the non magnetic ground state of this compound. The low temperature electronic specific heat γ_el = 20 mJ mol-1K-2 is clearly enhanced as compared to americium metal. All transport measurements obtained point to a metallic behavior in AmPd5Al2.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures; Accepted to be published in Physical Review B (January 24, 2011)
Holochlora falcata Tan, Liu & Ingrisch 2024
Creators: name: Tan, Ming Kai
name: Damit, Dayang Fazrinah Binti Awg
name: Japir, Razy
name: Chung, Arthur Y. C.
name: Robillard, Tony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Holochlora
Holochlora falcata

description: Holochlora falcata Tan, Liu & Ingrisch, 2024
(Figs 2C, 8)
Holochlora falcata Tan, Liu & Ingrisch, 2024 in Tan et al., 2024a: 464.
New material examined. EAST MALAYSIA; Sabah State • 1♂; Maliau Basin Conservation Area, at Maliau Basin Studies Centre accommodation (Keruing); N4.73588 E116.97442; 17 November 2024, evening; attracted to light; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.137 (ZRC).
Remarks. First described from Mount Trus Madi, the new material collected in Maliau Basin represents a new locality record.
Type locality. EAST MALAYSIA: Sabah: Mount Trus Madi.
Distribution. Borneo: Sabah State: Mount Trus Madi, Maliau Basin [new locality record].
description: Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai, Damit, Dayang Fazrinah Binti Awg, Japir, Razy, Chung, Arthur Y. C. & Robillard, Tony, 2025, New species, new locality records and descriptions of calling songs of Phaneropterinae from Sabah, pp. 505-528 in Zootaxa 5604 (4) on page 512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/15214059