cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in Belgian nursing homes: results of three point prevalence surveys between 2010 and 2016
Creators: name: Latour, Katrien
name: Catry, Boudewijn
name: Devleesschauwer, Brecht
name: Buntinx, Frank
name: De Lepeleire, Jan
name: Jans, Béatrice
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Characteristics of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial prescriptions as reported by the 25 nursing homes participating in all three Belgian HALT surveys, 2010-2016. Table presenting the characteristics of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial prescriptions as reported by the 25 nursing homes participating in all three Belgian HALT surveys, 2010-2016.
Additional file 1 of The equity road ahead for financing non-national immunization program vaccines in China: challenges and opportunities from a qualitative study
Creators: name: Jiang, Mingzhu
name: Jiang, Weixi
name: Yan, Xuanxuan
name: Ma, Haifeng
name: Zhou, Sijuan
name: Ying, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Mathematical Programming Applications in Agroforestry Planning
Creators: name: Reeves, Laurence H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1991

description: Agroforestry as a sustainable production system has been recognized as a land use system with the potential to slow encroachment of agriculture onto forested lands in developing countries. However, the acceptance of nontraditional agroforestry systems has been hampered in some areas due to the risk-averse nature of rural agriculturalists. By explicitly recognizing risk in agroforestry planning, a wider acceptance of agroforestry is possible. This thesis consists of a collection of three papers that explore the potential of modern stock portfolio theory to reduce financial risk in agroforestry planning.
The first paper presents a theoretical framework that incorporates modern stock portfolio theory through mathematical programming. This framework allows for the explicit recognition of financial risk by using a knowledge of past net revenue trends and fluctuations for various cropping systems, with the assumption that past trend behavior is indicative of future behavior. The paper demonstrates how financial risk can be reduced by selecting cropping systems with stable and/or negatively correlated net revenues, thereby reducing the variance of future net revenues.
Agroforestry systems generally entail growing simultaneously some combination of plant and/or animal species. As a result, interactions between crops usually cause crop yields within systems to deviate from what would be observed under monocultural conditions, thus requiring some means of incorporating these interactions into mathematical models.
The second paper presents two approaches to modeling such interactions, depending on the nature of the interaction. The continuous system approach is appropriate under conditions where yield interactions are linear between crops and allows for a continuous range of crop mixtures. The discrete system approach should be used where nonlinear interactions occur. Under this second approach, decision variables are defined as fixed crop mixtures with known yields.
In the third paper, the techniques presented above were applied to a case study site in Costa Rica. Using MOTAD programming and a discrete system approach, a set of minimum-risk farm plans were derived for a hypothetical farm. For the region studied, results indicate that reductions in risk require substantial reductions in expected net revenue.
title: Safety from fires and explosions in hospital operating rooms
Creators: name: Sereda, P. J.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: operating theaters
subject: bloc opératoire
subject: fire safety
subject: sécurité incendie
subject: explosions
subject: explosion accidentelle
subject: industrial accidents
subject: accident du travail
subject: conductive floorings
subject: revêtement de sol antistatique

description: The hazards of fire and explosion in operating rooms may too easily be treated as minor details. Architects, engineers and hospital administrators should be aware of the special nature of the equipment and facilities that can be provided. Full advantage of these facilities can be realized only if the operating room staff institute certain procedures and take certain precautions to avoid the sources of ignition of anaesthetic gases.
description: On ne donne pas toujours l'importance qu'il faudrait aux risques d'incendie et d'explosion dans les salles d'opération. Les architectes, ingéneiurs et administrateurs des hôpitaux devraient connâitre la nature spéciale des moyens dont on dispose pour réduire les risques d'incendie et d' explosion dans les salles d'opération. Pour que ces moyens soient vraiment efficaces il faut que le personnel des salles d'opération établisse des règlements et prenne certaines précautions dans le but d'empêcher les gaz anesthésiques de s'enflammer.
Additional file 1 of Genetic variability and characters association for yield, yield attributing traits and protein content of lentil (Lens Culinaris Medikus) genotype in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Takele, Emebet
name: Mekbib, Firew
name: Mekonnen, Fikru
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Mean values of 13 quantitative traits of 64 lentil genotypes grown at Debre Berhan 2018.
The best offence is a good defence? : The effects of ballistic missile defence on nuclear deterrence
Creators: name: Dwyer, James
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Despite a significant amount of research addressing the effects of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) on nuclear deterrence, little consensus exists as to how BMD specifically affects the strategic calculus of great power nuclear deterrence. Nor is there consensus as to why great powers would seek to destabilise the offence-offence balance that has dominated great power relations during and after the Cold War. This study tests whether a theoretical framework of offensive realism, in combination with deterrence theory and offence-defence theory, can provide a compelling argument as to why great powers would seek to deploy BMD, and what steps affected rival great powers would take to address the resulting strategic imbalance. To do this, the thesis presents two case studies, assessing US BMD deployments in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, the claimed purpose of these deployments (the defence against the 'rogue' states Iran and North Korea respectively) and whether these deployments are actually oriented towards providing defence against Russia and China. By analysing the US BMD deployments, and the subsequent responses Russia and China are taking to address or circumvent the threat posed by US BMD, the thesis presents the argument that offensive realism provides a credible and authoritative explanation for both the US motivations for deploying BMD, namely increasing its relative power, and moving closer to achieving nuclear superiority over its rivals. Further, the study found that the effects of BMD on great powers are not homogenous, and do not have a single effect ‚Äö- Rather, the impacts vary due to the existing nuclear relationship between Russia and the US on the one hand, and the US and China on the other. The result of this difference is that Russia and China are responding in different ways, and that Russia, due to its reliance on its nuclear deterrent and tactical nuclear weapons, is suffering more adverse effects than China, which does not rely as heavily on its nuclear deterrent for its overall security. Additionally, the study finds that current BMD capabilities are irrelevant, and that it is the perception of potential future capability that are causing Russia and China to respond to US BMD in order to maintain the credibility of their respective nuclear deterrents.
title: The Influence of Redd Distribution and Microhabitat Availability on the Distribution and Abundance of Young-of-the-year Trout in the Green River, Utah
Creators: name: Buntjer, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1992

description: Redd distribution, redd density, and physical habitat were used to explain the distribution and abundance of young-of-the-year (YOY) brown trout (Salmo trutta) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the Green River, Utah. The importance of variables at both a microhabitat and macrohabitat scale were assessed using stepwise regression analysis. Availability of cover (rock and vegetation) and proximity to spawning sites were the most important variables used to explain the distribution and abundance of YOY brown trout and rainbow trout. In addition, YOY brown trout and rainbow trout occupied specific microhabitats and showed patterns of use for particular depths, substrates, and cover. However, the importance of variables differed by year, indicating that variables other than those measured were also influencing their distribution and abundance. The results of my study indicate that variables at both a microhabitat and macrohabitat scale may be important in explaining the distribution and abundance of YOY trout in streams. Therefore, to better understand the habitat requirements of stream fishes and to better explain their distribution and abundance in streams future, studies may need to incorporate both physical habitat variables and variables affecting recruitment.
Additional file 1 of Differences in seasonal dynamics, ecological driving factors and assembly mechanisms of planktonic and periphytic algae in the highly urban Fenhe River
Creators: name: Zhao, Kangxu
name: Wang, Wei
name: Huang, Hanjie
name: Lv, Junping
name: Liu, Xudong
name: Nan, Fangru
name: Shi, Ying
name: Xie, Shulian
name: Feng, Jia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
D3.4: Automated in situ instruments setup, prototype processors and products
Creators: name: Peters, Steef
name: Poser, Kathrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: in situ, optical measurements, WISPstation, services, automation

description: Within the framework of the EOMORES project in-situ optical sensors were installed and tested. The idea is that continuously registering optical sensors serve several purposes, of which the most important are: 1) Collect reference reflectance data during satellite overpasses to calibrate and validate satellite reflectances 2) Complement the satellite and modelling products in the EOMORES portfolio by providing high frequency point measurements of reflectance and derived water quality products The fixed position optical in-situ sensors (WISPstations) were developed by Water Insight and five advanced prototype instruments were sent to local partners and placed at various locations during 2018. The data were collected autonomously and processed in near-real time by the WISPcloud back-end system and made available to the partners for access by API. After the trial period, the process of installation, maintenance, data collection and -processing and output provision was evaluated by the partners. The scope of this document is to report on the technical properties of the WISPstation instrument the data requests possible through the API the location and timing of the instrument installations some preliminary results a bundling of the results of the initial evaluation of the installed instrument
Lattice chirality, anomaly matching, and more on the (non)decoupling of mirror fermions
Creators: name: Poppitz, Erich
name: Shang, Yanwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study 't Hooft anomaly matching in lattice models with strong Yukawa or multi-fermion interactions. Strong non-gauge interactions among the mirror fermions in a vectorlike lattice gauge theory are introduced with the aim to obtain, in a strong-coupling symmetric phase, a long-distance unbroken gauge theory with chiral fermions in a complex representation. We show how to use exact lattice chirality to analyze the anomaly matching conditions on chiral symmetry current correlators at finite lattice spacing and volume. We perform a Monte Carlo study of the realization of anomaly matching in a toy two-dimensional model with an anomalous mirror-fermion content at strong mirror Yukawa coupling. We show that 't Hooft anomaly matching is satisfied, in most of the phase diagram, via the minimal solution in either the massless fermion or "Goldstone" mode, while in some cases there are extra massless vectorlike mirror fermions. The mirror spectrum at strong coupling is thus consistent with long-distance unitarity. We discuss the implications of our results for future studies of the most interesting case of the decoupling of anomaly-free mirror-fermion sectors.
description: 46 pages, 8 figures, some typos fixed and references added
title: Influence of the Ruminant Digestive Process on the Germinability of Range Forage Species
Creators: name: Al-Mashikhi, Mohammed S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1993

description: Ingestion and dispersal of seeds of desirable species by domestic livestock is potentially important as a range improvement practice, but the passage of seed by livestock has only been studied in a fragmented way, particularly for species adapted to rangelands of western North America. The objectives of this research were to examine the effects of different periods of exposure to in vitro and in vivo digestion processes in cattle on the germinability of several grass species, and determine if the in vitro incubation technique is a good predictor of seed fate following passage through the ruminant digestive tract.
Seeds of 13 grass species adapted to the Intermountain West were exposed to in vitro incubation for 24, 48, and 72 hours, and then tested for germination at an optimal temperature regime (10°C night/20°C day) in a controlled environment chamber. Germination responses varied considerably among grass species with changes in length of exposure to in vitro incubation, but germination decreased for incubated seed compared to untreated seed for all species.
Five species with the highest germination in in vitro incubation trials were fed to Holstein steers in in vivo digestion trials. Approximately 20% of the ingested seeds were recovered for all species 6 days after feeding, and the highest recovery occurred 2 and 3 days after feeding. Germination of undamaged, recovered seeds decreased as passage time through the digestive tract increased. Of the species tested, seeds of Psathyrostachys juncea, Thinopyrum ponticum, Agropyron cristatum X A. desertorum, and Elytrigia repens X Pseudoroegneria spicata have the greatest potential to survive passage through the digestive tract and germinate in appreciable numbers. The in vitro incubation technique may be used as a crude indicator of seed fate following passage through the digestive tract.
Structural health monitoring of VBI systems via signal processing of vibration data
Creators: name: Mousavi, M
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis presents a collection of innovative signal processing strategies to detect both location and severity of damage in bridge structures using moving mass experiments. The literature reviewed shows that parametric damage detection strategies require different types of information from the both intact and damaged structures, such as (1) a finite element model (FEM) of the intact structure, (2) data collected from the intact structure, or (3) data collected only from the damaged structure. Methods are proposed that exploit one or more of the aforementioned information types. These methods are tested using numerical Vehicle Bridge Interaction (VBI) models that consider the effect of road roughness, measurement noise and boundary conditions through Monte Carlo simulation. Analytical formulas are derived to calculate damage severity using data obtained from VBI models. The proposed methods are proven to be robust to as much as 100% noise in measurements and their superiority over other state-of-the-art methods from the literature is demonstrated. In particular it is noted that in most methods reported in the literature a constant moving load velocity is assumed, while the present work demonstrates the ability to locate and quantify the damage with a moving load of variable velocity. Finally, state-of-the-art real-time damage detection may use advanced sensing technologies. It is shown how a new piezo-floating-gate (PFG) sensor may be used in a damage detection strategy that outperforms other techniques proposed in the literature
An information theoretic measure of algorithmic complexity
Creators: name: Wright, Lois E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This work is a study of an information theoretic model which is used to develop a complexity measure of an algorithm. The measure is defined to reflect the computational cost and structure of the given algorithm. In this study computational costs are expressed as the execution times of the algorithm, where the algorithm is coded as a program in a machine independent language, and analysed in terms of its representation as a pseudograph. It is shown that this measure aids in deciding which sections of the algorithm should be optimized, segmented or expressed as subprograms. The model proposed is designed to yield a measure which reflects both the program flow and computational cost. Such a measure allows an 'optimal' algorithm to be selected from a set of algorithms, all of which solve the given problem. This selection is made with a more meaningful criterion for decision than simply execution cost. The measure can also be used to further analyse a given algorithm and point to where code optimization techniques should be applied. However it does not yield a method of generating equivalent algorithms.
Additional file 1 of Hospital performance comparison of inpatient fall rates; the impact of risk adjusting for patient-related factors: a multicentre cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Bernet, Niklaus S
name: Everink, Irma HJ
name: Schols, Jos MGA
name: Halfens, Ruud JG
name: Richter, Dirk
name: Hahn, Sabine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. Overview of predictors included in the inpatient fall risk adjustment model and their corresponding odds ratios.
Additional file 1 of Synthesis, in silico molecular docking analysis, pharmacokinetic properties and evaluation of antibacterial and antioxidant activities of fluoroquinolines
Creators: name: Fekadu, Mona
name: Zeleke, Digafie
name: Abdi, Bayan
name: Guttula, Anuradha
name: Eswaramoorthy, Rajalakshmanan
name: Melaku, Yadessa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Additional Appendix S1–S7.
On strong mass segregation around a massive black hole: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics
Creators: name: Preto, Miguel
name: Amaro-Seoane, Pau
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present, for the first time, a clear $N$-body realization of the {\it strong mass segregation} solution for the stellar distribution around a massive black hole. We compare our $N$-body results with those obtained by solving the orbit-averaged Fokker-Planck (FP) equation in energy space. The $N$-body segregation is slightly stronger than in the FP solution, but both confirm the {\it robustness} of the regime of strong segregation when the number fraction of heavy stars is a (realistically) small fraction of the total population. In view of recent observations revealing a dearth of giant stars in the sub-parsec region of the Milky Way, we show that the time scales associated with cusp re-growth are not longer than $(0.1-0.25) \times T_{rlx}(r_h)$. These time scales are shorter than a Hubble time for black holes masses $\mbul \lesssim 4 \times 10^6 M_\odot$ and we conclude that quasi-steady, mass segregated, stellar cusps may be common around MBHs in this mass range. Since EMRI rates scale as $\mbul^{-α}$, with $α\in [1\4,1]$, a good fraction of these events should originate from strongly segregated stellar cusps.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJL
title: Assessing Mourning Dove Population Declines: Changes in Nesting Dynamics and the Role of Perch Sites
Creators: name: Meyers, Paul M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: I replicated a nesting study carried out 40 years ago in southern Utah to assess reasons for long-term population declines of mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) in the western United States. I compared current nesting patterns to similar data collected in 1952. I saw little difference in nest success and nest predation, but reproductive output and nest density decreased dramatically. The number of young fledged per pair of adults was only 64% of that estimated in 1952. A 1-2 week delay in the nesting season contributed to this decrease, but cannot explain it entirely. Nest density was about 20% of that in 1952 and total reproductive output for the study area about 12-19%. Underlying causes for these changes are uncertain, but patterns of delayed nesting, high nest abandonments, and low reproductive output are similar to those seen in stressed bird populations (e.g., food/nutrient limitation or increased toxicant levels). Finally, highest nest density occurred in a habitat type (i.e., Chalk Creek) considered unimportant for doves in 1952. Nests in Chalk Creek suffered higher predation and abandonment rates than those in irrigation ditches.
I also examined the effect of perch sites on nest density and distribution in two ways. First, I demonstrated a significant correlation between nest density and perch s:te density in riparian plots. Second, I erected artificial perch sites in the second year of the study and recorded changes in nest densities. For the year of the study only, nest density was higher in the experimental plots, but the difference was not statistically significant. From the levels recorded the previous year, however, nest densities increased in the experimental plots and decreased in the control plots. This difference was statistically significant, suggesting that mourning doves use the presence of perch sites as cues for habitat selection. Finally, in comparing the presence of other avian species, I found significantly more blackbirds (Aqelaius phoenicus and Euphaqus cyanocephalus) and western meadowlarks (Sturnella neglecta) in experimental plots than in control plots.
Additional file 1 of Design and baseline characteristics of the ILD-PRO registry in patients with progressive pulmonary fibrosis
Creators: name: Lobo, L Jason
name: Liu, Yi
name: Li, Peide
name: Ramaswamy, Murali
name: Swaminathan, Aparna C
name: Veeraraghavan, Srihari
name: Fan, Yanni
name: Neely, Megan L
name: Palmer, Scott M
name: Olson, Amy L
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1: Additional file 1: Graphical abstract. Additional file 2: Enrolling centers and PIs. Additional file 3: Immunosuppressant or cytotoxic therapies received at enrollment into the ILD-PRO Registry. Additional file 4: Characteristics that differed significantly between patients with shorter vs longer times from ILD diagnosis to enrollment into the ILD-PRO Registry. Additional file 5: Characteristics that differed significantly between patients enrolled into the ILD-PRO Registry and IPF-PRO Registry.
title: Use of Multispectral Aerial Videography for Jurisdictional Delineation of Wetland Areas
Creators: name: Shoemaker, James A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: Multispectral aerial videography was used to reproduce the jurisdictional delineation of wetland area of approximately 50 hectares in Davis County, Utah Imagery from the system consisted of three-band composite with wavelengths covering 550 nm (±10 nm), 650 nm (±10 nm), and 850 nm (±10 nm). The site was overflown at three different flight dates during the 1992 growing season (June 2, July 22, October 1). Imagery resolution varied from 0.56 m to 0.81 m. Mosaiced images were analyzed with a Supervised clustering/maximum likelihood classifier, ISODATA clustering/Euclidan classifier, statistical clustering/maximum likelihood classifier, and fuzzy c-means clustering. Overall accuracies for wetland/upland designations as compared to ground truth data varied from 60% to 75%. The ISODATA method was the poorest performer for all dates and both of two accuracy testing techniques. Supervised clustering and statistical clustering were comparable with a slight edge in accuracy to the supervised clustering. The best all-round performer was the fuzzy c-means algorithm in terms of time spent and accuracy.
Particle Condensation in Pair Exclusion Process
Creators: name: Kim, Sang-Woo
name: Lee, Joongul
name: Noh, Jae Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Condensation is characterized with a single macroscopic condensate whose mass is proportional to a system size $N$. We demonstrate how important particle interactions are in condensation phenomena. We study a modified version of the zero-range process by including a pair exclusion. Each particle is associated with its own partner, and particles of a pair are forbidden to stay at the same site. The pair exclusion is weak in that a particle interacts with only a single one among all others. It turns out that such a weak interaction changes the nature of condensation drastically. There appear a number of mesoscopic condensates: the mass of a condensate scales as $m_{\rm con}\sim N^{1/2}$ and the number of condensates scales as $N_{\rm con} \sim N^{1/2}$ with a logarithmic correction. These results are derived analytically through a mapping to a solvable model under a certain assumption, and confirmed numerically.
description: 4 pages, 2 figure
A QoT Estimation Method using EGN-assisted Machine Learning for Network Planning Applications
Creators: name: Müller, Jasper
name: Patri, Sai Kireet
name: Fehenberger, Tobias
name: Mas-Machuca, Carmen
name: Griesser, Helmut
name: Elbers, Jörg-Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An ML model based on precomputed per-channel SCI is proposed. Due to its superior accuracy over closed-form GN, an average SNR gain of 1.1 dB in an end-to-end link optimization and a 40% reduction in required lightpaths to meet traffic requests in a network planning scenario are shown.
description: This work has been performed in the framework of the CELTIC-NEXT project AI-NET-PROTECT (Project ID C2019/3-4), and it is partly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FKZ16KIS1279K)
Additional file 1 of A custom tailored, evidence-based, theory-informed intervention for healthcare professionals to prevent burnout (LAGOM): study protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Koch, Anna K.
name: Schröter, Marleen
name: Berschick, Julia
name: Schiele, Julia K.
name: Bogdanski, Martin
name: Steinmetz, Melanie
name: Stritter, Wiebke
name: Voss, Andreas
name: Seifert, Georg
name: Kessler, Christian S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Approximation by Lipschitz, C^{p} smooth functions on weakly compactly generated Banach spaces
Creators: name: Fry, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B20

description: The following result was announced in the earlier version(s) of this paper: On weakly compactly generated Banach spaces which admit a Lipschitz, C^{p} smooth bump function, one can uniformly approximate uniformly continuous, bounded, real-valued functions by Lipschitz, C^{p} smooth functions. Unfortunately, there is a gap in the proof which renders the proof in its present form incorrect
description: The author withdraws the paper as the proof of the main result announced in this note in its current form has a gap which renders it incorrect
Chern flat manifolds that are torsion-critical
Creators: name: Zhang, Dongmei
name: Zheng, Fangyang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C55

description: In our previous work, we introduced a special type of Hermitian metrics called {\em torsion-critical,} which are non-Kähler critical points of the $L^2$-norm of Chern torsion over the space of all Hermitian metrics with unit volume on a compact complex manifold. In this short note, we restrict our attention to the class of compact Chern flat manifolds, which are compact quotients of complex Lie groups equipped with compatible left-invariant metrics. Our main result states that, if a Chern flat metric is torsion-critical, then the complex Lie group must be semi-simple, and conversely, any semi-simple complex Lie group admits a compatible left-invariant metric that is torsion-critical.
description: 7 pages
Standing torsional Alfvén waves as the source of the rotational period variation in magnetic early-type stars
Creators: name: Takahashi, Koh
name: Langer, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The influence of magnetic fields on stellar evolution remains unresolved. It has been proposed that if there is a large-scale magnetic field in the stellar interior, torsional waves could arise, efficiently transporting angular momentum. In fact, the observed variations in the rotation periods of some magnetic stars may be attributed to these torsional waves' standing waves. Aims. To demonstrate the existence of torsional waves through modeling of the rotational period variations. Method. We conduct an eigenmode analysis of standing waves based on one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations. The internal magnetic field structures are parametrically represented to treat poloidal fields with different degrees of central/surface concentration. The obtained frequencies are compared with the observed frequencies of the rotational period variations, thereby constraining the internal magnetic field structures. Results. The 67.6 years exhibited by CU Vir is reproduced for surface-concentrated magnetic field structures. The rotational period variations of all ten magnetic stars analyzed in this study are inconsistent with a centrally concentrated magnetic field. Conclusions. Torsional waves can reproduce the observations of rotational period variations. The large-scale magnetic fields within magnetic stars would be concentrated on the surface.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. submitted to A&A
title: Dynamic Multi-species Animal Habitat Modeling with Forest Succession Models
Creators: name: Compton, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1992

description: This research determines and demonstrates the ability to simulate dynamic multispecies animal habitat suitability with forest succession models. A literature review of dynamic animal habitat models is presented. The structure of an existing forest simulation model (MASS10) was modified from a basal area-based model to a volume-based model (DYNAM10). The forest model was calibrated using data from permanent-plot growth and vegetation samples collected by USDA Forest Service Forest Survey procedures. The theoretical growth parameters used to simulate stand development were validated. Predictions of DBH and height growth, as well as stand-level behavior, were verified. A subroutine, VEGDYN, was added to DYNAMlO to simulate 34 structural vegetation parameters required by animal Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) models. Predictions of the structural parameters were verified. Ten animal-species HSI models were linked to DYNAMlO via the program HSI.FOR, and predicted dynamic HSI values were verified by hand-calculation. Typical patterns of dynamic HSI predictions are presented and discussed.
Additional file 1 of Development and validation of contextual measures of sexual harassment perceptions, experiences, and coping for women employees in Ethiopian hospitality workplaces
Creators: name: Worke, Mulugeta Dile
name: Koricha, Zewdie Birhanu
name: Debelew, Gurmesa Tura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: SA 1. The identified domains, definitions, and dimensions in developing and validating sexual harassment perception, experiences and coping mechanisms questionnaires for women working in Bahir Dar city hospitality workplaces between July 1 and August 30, 2021. SA 2. The content validity assessments. SA 3. Cognitive Protocol. SA 4. Survey questionnaires. SA 5. Participants’ characteristics and working organisation related to Bahir Dar city hospitality workplaces between July 1 and August 30, 2021. SA 6. Pearsons’s product-moment correlations for concurrent validity. SA 7. Predictive Validity.
title: Soil Heterogeneity and its Exploitation by Plants
Creators: name: Jackson, Robert B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1992

description: In this dissertation I first examine the ability of individual plants in the field to garner localized soil nutrients. I then measure actual soil variability around perennial plants and use various statistics to quantify the scale and degree of that variability.
Soil patches on opposite sides of Pseudoroegneria spicata tussocks were treated with distilled water or a nutrient solution containing N, P, or K in three field experiments. When P was augmented in the enriched soil patches, rates of P uptake increased significantly for roots from enriched patches compared with roots in control patches. Rates of ammonium and potassium uptake were apparently unchanged. When N was augmented in the enriched patches, rates of ammonium and potassium uptake increased significantly. When K was augmented in the enriched patches, no changes were seen for any of the nutrients.
Plant shading was found to limit the ability of Agropyron desertorum tussocks to increase rates of nutrient uptake in enriched soil microsites. Roots of unshaded plants selectively increased phosphate uptake capacity in enriched patches by up to 73%, but shading limited this response. Enrichment of the soil patches resulted in significantly greater phosphate concentrations in roots of both shaded and unshaded plants.
Nutrient heterogeneity in the soil at a native sagebrush-steppe site was quite high, with ammonium and nitrate varying by over two orders of magnitude and phosphate and potassium close to one order of magnitude within a 10x12- m area. Within 0.5x0.5-m subplots around individual plants, ammonium and nitrate varied by an average factor of 11 and 12, respectively, with less average variation for phosphate and potassium. Geostatistical semivariograms showed that soil ammonium, nitrate, phosphate, potassium, pH, and organic matter all showed detectable autocorrelation only at scales of less than 1.0 to 1.5 m. Indices of microbial activity showed no detectable autocorrelation even at the smallest measurement scale of 12.5 cm. From the degree and scale of heterogeneity encountered, I conclude that root plasticity and active foraging in a heterogeneous soil environment are likely to be important to the nutrient balance of many plants.
Scaled momentum distributions of charged particles in dijet photoproduction at HERA
Creators: name: ZEUS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scaled momentum distributions of charged particles in jets have been measured for dijet photoproduction with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 359 pb-1. The distributions are compared to predictions based on perturbative QCD carried out in the framework of the modified leading-logarithmic approximation (MLLA) and assuming local parton-hadron duality (LPHD). The universal MLLA scale, Lambda_eff, and the LPHD parameter, kappa^ch, are extracted.
description: 30 pages of which 12 are text, 6 figures, 3 tables
Anisim : an animated interactive simulation monitoring system
Creators: name: Walker, Ward J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: An interactive system is described which allows for the graphic construction, simulation, and simultaneous animation of an arbitrary network of queues. A method is proposed and implemented for representing the events of a discrete simulation by a continuous animation on a graphics terminal. Techniques are presented for the display of parallel animation "sequences," and a non-trival mapping of simulation time into animation time is described which preserves the relative order and time relationships between events. The program implemented combines this animation facility with other simulation monitoring and control features. The usefulness of this type of approach is discussed with respect to computer-aided design applications, educational tools, and research tools. An interactive dialogue which makes use of the lightpen and a menu of commands is implemented for the construction and modification of the queuing network. Certain relevent aspects of man-machine interaction are discussed. Also, some prospects are considered for applying the animation techniques developed in this implementation to other discrete event processes.
title: Effects of Water Stress Preconditioning on Plant Water Relations and Transplant Survival of Artemisia cana and Agropyron intermedium
Creators: name: Ernstsen, Jerriann
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1993

description: Typically, dormant seedlings are transplanted when revegetating nonirrigated disturbed lands in order to prevent transplant shock triggered by water stress. Since dormant seedlings have to be used, this limits the duration of the transplant season. It may be possible to increase this limited season by inducing acclimation responses that would increase drought tolerance. Preconditioning actively growing seedlings to water stress prior to transplanting could induce acclimation responses such as solute accumulation and/or stomatal modulation.
Under greenhouse conditions, A. cana and A. intermedium seedlings were subjected to three water stress preconditioning treatments: a well watered control, one dry-down cycle, and three dry-down cycles. After conditioning, seedlings were either allowed to dry-down in their containers until leaf senescence, or were transplanted to disturbed land sites. Plant water potential components, relative water content, and leaf mortality were measured.
Immediately following treatments, water relations parameters of preconditioned seedlings were not markedly different from controls in either species. At the end of the final dry-down, water stress preconditioning had not induced active or passive solute accumulation, prolonged leaf survival when exposed to lethal drought conditions, or resulted in differences in transplant survival rates under the experimental conditions of this study.
Intergalactic magnetism in a gamma-ray beam as a model of Porphyrion
Creators: name: Neronov, A.
name: Vazza, F.
name: Brandenburg, A.
name: Caprini, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the magnetic field in the jets of the recently discovered 7 Mpc long Porphyrion system. We use non-detection of the system in gamma-rays to derive a lower bound on the co-moving magnetic field strength at the level of ~10 nG. This value is consistent with recent estimates of magnetic fields in the filaments of the Large Scale Structure. We discuss the possibility that, instead of being the extreme case of a radio jet formation scenario, Porphyrion actually traces a very-high-energy gamma-ray beam emitted by an active galactic nucleus. In such a model, jets do not need to spread into the voids of the Large Scale Structure to appear straight on a very large distance range, and several anomalies of the standard radio jet scenarios can be solved at once.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Competitive Interaction between Crested Wheatgrasses and Cheatgrass
Creators: name: Francis, Mark G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1993

description: Current revegetation practices in the lntermountain West include the use of Nordan (Agropyron desertorum) and Hycrest (A. cristatum x desertorum) crested wheatgrass on rangeland susceptible to cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) invasion, although little quantitative data exists that compares their competitive abilities. We evaluated both the competitive ability of Hycrest and Nordan in two-species mixtures with cheatgrass, and evaluated seedling establishment characteristics for all three species in a greenhouse study. Linear and nonlinear models were developed for a range of densities for each species to predict median above-ground biomass and tiller numbers. In both experiments, increasing Hycrest and Nordan densities reduced their own biomass and tiller production while cheatgrass biomass and tiller production was not influenced. However, increasing cheatgrass densities reduced both Hycrest and Nordan biomass and tiller production, as well as its own biomass and tiller production. Examination of trends in competition indices, such as relative resources totals, substitution rates and perceived densities indicated that as seedlings, Hycrest was a better competitor with cheatgrass than Nordan at lower crested wheatgrass densities (130 plants/m2 ). Results from this experiment indicate that Hycrest is a better competitor than Nordan with cheatgrass and suggest that seeding Hycrest at lower densities than currently recommended may optimize its seedling growth when competing with cheatgrass. Future research concerning competition in these species using similar designs should focus on competition in successive years after establishment and on field experiments to verify these results.
title: Dungpat Microenvironmental Effects on Germination and Establishment of Crested Wheatgrass
Creators: name: Akbar, Ghulam
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: Complementary greenhouse and field studies investigated the effects of ambient environmental conditions on cattle dungpat moisture, temperature, nutrient concentration, and crust formation dynamics, which in turn influence seed germination and seedling establishment in dungpats. 'Hycrest' crested wheatgrass [Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) X A. cristatum (L.) Gaert.] was used as a representative revegetation species.
After collecting feces from Holstein steers that had been fed crested wheatgrass seeds, uniform dungpats were prepared and placed on two soil types (loam and coarse sand) in containers under three watering treatments (field capacity, 1/2 field capacity, and no water) in the greenhouse. Dungpat and underlying soil microenvironmental factors, and germination and seedling development, were monitored for 14 weeks. Moisture and temperature were favorable for germination during the first 4 weeks, but increasing crust thickness prevented most of the developing seedlings from emerging from dungpats. Seedling emergence, development, and survival were greatest at the peripheral region of dungpats on the loam soil at moisture contents of 1/2 field capacity or higher.
Uniform dungpats containing passed seeds and unpassed seeds were placed on a silt loam soil in the field in the spring (late April 1993) under natural and above-normal precipitation regimes and in the fall (late October 1993) under natural precipitation. Unpassed seeds were also broadcast and drill-seeded into soil seedbeds at the same times. Microenvironmental factors and germination and plant establishment were monitored for 49 weeks in the spring experiment and 17 weeks in the fall experiment. For dungpat treatments, seedling emergence and survival were greater for unpassed than passed seeds in both precipitation regimes; however, sufficient numbers of seedlings established from passed seeds, and these plants had greater biomass and similar or greater seed production than plants from unpassed seeds. Slight changes in nutrients in dungpats and underlying soil indicated that partial decomposition and mineralization of dungpats had occurred by the end of the spring experiment.
Both studies indicate that dungpat microenvironmental factors are greatly influenced by ambient moisture, temperature, and insolation, and by the nature of the underlying soil. These studies support the claim that plants established in dungpats could serve as nuclei of seed production for surrounding areas.
Additional file 1 of Brand interchangeability of pepsinogen tests in the real-world setting after eradication of Helicobacter pylori: a community-based study
Creators: name: Chiang, Tsung-Hsien
name: Chen, Yen-Nien
name: Chen, Yi-Ru
name: Tseng, Yu-Hua
name: Shieh, Chun-Fu
name: Liu, Cheng-Ying
name: Chiu, Han-Mo
name: Chiang, Hung
name: Shun, Chia-Tung
name: Wu, Ming-Shiang
name: Lin, Jaw-Town
name: Lee, Yi-Chia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. The baseline data of endoscopic receivers/refusers, and the multivariate logistic regression models between the two pepsinogen test brands.