cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pattern of Knowledge and Practice of Pharmacists Regarding Medication Abortion in Private Pharmacies in Addis Ababa Ethiopia: a Mystery Client Study
Creators: name: Tefera, Mahlet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background Comprehensive abortion care holds particular promise for Africa where abortion-related morbidity and mortality are high [2]. In Ethiopia, the service is available and is semi legalized with listed indications. One of the method for terminating pregnancy is medication abortion. In many developing countries pharmacy employees, many with no training in medication abortion sell the pills without prescription [4]. In this study we examined the pattern of knowledge and practice of pharmacists on medication abortion in private pharmacies Addis Ababa using mystery client study. Methods A descriptive cross sectional design was used using both facility based assessment and mystery client observation. From 8 sub cities that were selected randomly 84 pharmacies were chosen by an equal probability systematic sampling. Facility based data collection was done using interview with the pharmacist then after a month undercover clients returned to these pharmacies to gather data using observation. A bivariate analysis was conducted to examine pharmacy workers' behavior, and dispensing practices and P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results All pharmacies that were visited provide medication abortion service. In the facility based data 8(10.3%) said they give the service using prescription, but in the mystery client study none of the pharmacists asked for prescription to give the service. Concerning dosage of drugs only 33(71.74%) told the women the correct dose of the drug. Discussion The overall practice of the care providers in this study show that even if the law does not allow for pharmacists to provide medical abortion drugs without prescription, over-the-counter sales without prescriptions is widespread. Conclusions Access to medical abortion has significantly increased in private pharmacies but knowledge and practice regarding medication abortion provision is sub-optimal among pharmacists. Recommendation It is recommended that focus should be given in addressing the most vulnerable groups in the community by creating awareness concerning constitution and technical guideline of safe abortion
Modifiable risk factors for invasive meningococcal disease, Edmonton, Alberta, 1999-2002: a case-control study
Creators: Honish, Lance Everett
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2005

An outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in the Capital Health region (metro Edmonton, Alberta) between December 1999 and June 2002 resulted in 84 laboratory-confirmed cases. Most cases (89%) were infected with Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C, and the highest age-specific incidence was observed in the 15-19 year age cohort (32% of cases). A case-conrol study was conducted to identify IDM risk factors among outbreak cases. Controls were recruited through random-digit dialing, an matched to cases on age and gender. A questionnaire was telephone-administered to 132 study Participants (44 cases 88 controls). Conditional logistic regression was utilized to calculate risk measures. Multivariate analysis revealed three statistically significant risk factors (bar patronage, "rave" attendance, maternal smoking) and one protective factor (humidifer use in the home). While the precision of risk estimates was low in the multivariate model, this study has identified rave attendance as an emergent IMD risk factor.
Design and synthesis of mimetics for conopeptides [omega]-conotoxin GVIA and conantokin-G
Creators: name: Lok., Yen Phei
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Paramagnon dispersion and damping in doped Na$_{x}$Ca$_{2-x}$CuO$_2$Cl$_2$
Creators: name: Lebert, Blair W.
name: Bacq-Labreuil, Benjamin
name: Dean, Mark P. M.
name: Ruotsalainen, Kari
name: Nicolaou, Alessandro
name: Huotari, Simo
name: Yamada, Ikuya
name: Yamamoto, Hajime
name: Azuma, Masaki
name: Brookes, Nicholas B.
name: Yakhou, Flora
name: Miao, Hu
name: Santos-Cottin, David
name: Lenz, Benjamin
name: Biermann, Silke
name: d'Astuto, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering, we measure the paramagnon dispersion and damping of undoped, antiferromagnetic Ca$_2$CuO$_2$Cl$_2$ as well as doped, superconducting Na$_{x}$Ca$_{2-x}$CuO$_2$Cl$_2$. Our estimation of the spin-exchange parameter and width of the paramagnon peak at the zone boundary $X=(0.5,0)$ confirms that no simple relation can be drawn between these parameters and the critical temperature $T_\mathrm{c}$. Consistently with other cuprate compounds, we show that upon doping there is a slight softening at $(0.25,0)$, but not at the zone boundary $X$. In combination with these measurements we perform calculations of the dynamical spin structure factor of the one-band Hubbard model using cluster dynamical mean-field theory. The calculations are in excellent agreement with the experiment in the undoped case, both in terms of energy position and width. While the increase in width is also captured upon doping, the dynamical spin structure factor shows a sizable softening at $X$, which provides insightful information on the length-scale of the spin fluctuations in doped cuprates.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, small corrections in references. Accepted for publication in Physical Review B (American Physical Society)
Evolution of the Baryon Asymmetry through the Electroweak Crossover in the Presence of a Helical Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Kamada, Kohei
name: Long, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elaborate upon the model of baryogenesis from decaying magnetic helicity by focusing on the evolution of the baryon number and magnetic field through the Standard Model electroweak crossover. The baryon asymmetry is determined by a competition between the helical hypermagnetic field, which sources baryon number, and the electroweak sphaleron, which tends to wash out baryon number. At the electroweak crossover both of these processes become inactive; the hypermagnetic field is converted into an electromagnetic field, which does not source baryon number, and the weak gauge boson masses grow, suppressing the electroweak sphaleron reaction. An accurate prediction of the relic baryon asymmetry requires a careful treatment of the crossover. We extend our previous study [K. Kamada and A. J. Long, Phys. Rev. D94, 065301 (2016), arXiv:1606.08891[astro-ph.CO]], taking into account the gradual conversion of the hypermagnetic into the electromagnetic field. If the conversion is not completed by the time of sphaleron freeze-out, as both analytic and numerical studies suggest, the relic baryon asymmetry is enhanced compared to previous calculations. The observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe can be obtained for a primordial magnetic field that has a present-day field strength and coherence length of $B_0 \sim 10^{-17} \, {\rm G}$ and $λ_0 \sim 10^{-3} \, {\rm pc}$ and a positive helicity. For larger $B_0$ the baryon asymmetry is overproduced, which may be in conflict with blazar observations that provide evidence for an intergalactic magnetic field of strength $B_0 \gtrsim 10^{-14\sim16} \, {\rm G}$.
description: 21 pages + 5 pages appendices and references, 4 figures; v2: comments and references added, matches version published in PRD
Viable Vector Coherent Oscillation Dark Matter
Creators: name: Kitajima, Naoya
name: Nakayama, Kazunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a viable model of the vector coherent oscillation dark matter. The vector boson is coupled to the inflaton through the kinetic function so that the effective Hubble mass term is cancelled out. In order to avoid strong constraints from isocurvature perturbation and statistically anisotropic curvature perturbation, the inflaton is arranged so that it does not contribute to the observed large scale curvature perturbation and we introduce a curvaton. We found viable vector coherent oscillation dark matter scenario for the wide vector mass range from $10^{-21}\,{\rm eV}$ to $1\,{\rm eV}$.
description: 28 pages, 3 figures
Quantum anomalous Hall insulator in ionic Rashba lattice of correlated electrons
Creators: name: Wysokiński, Marcin M.
name: Brzezicki, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we propose an exactly solvable two-dimensional lattice model of strongly correlated electrons that realizes a quantum anomalous Hall insulator with Chern number $\mathcal{C}=1$. First, we show that the interplay of ionic potential, Rashba spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting leads to the appearance of quantum anomalous Hall effect. Next, we calculate in an exact manner Chern number for the correlated system where electron-electron interactions are introduced in the spirit of Hatsugai-Kohmoto model using two complementary methods, one relying on the properties of many-body groundstate and the other utilizing single-particle Green's function, and subsequently we determine stability regions. By leveraging the presence of inversion symmetry we find boundaries between topological and trivial phases on the analytical ground. Notably, we show that in the presence of correlations onset of topological phase is no longer signalled by a spectral gap closing consistently with phenomenon called in literature as {\it first-order topological transition}. We provide a clear microscopic understanding of this inherently many-body feature by pinpointing that the lowest energy excited states in the correlated system are no longer of the single-particle nature and thus are not captured by a spectral function.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Prolate-oblate asymmetric shape phase transition in the interacting boson model with SU (3) higher-order interactions
Creators: name: Wang, Tao
name: He, Bing-cheng
name: Li, Dong-kang
name: Zhou, Chun-xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Prolate-oblate shape phase transition is an interesting topic in nuclear structure, which is useful for understanding the intrinsic interactions between nucleons. Recently, the interacting boson model with $SU(3)$ higher-order interactions was proposed, in which the prolate shape and the oblate shape are not described in a mirror symmetric way. This asymmetric description seems more realistic. The level evolutions, $B(E2)$ values and other important indicators showing the prolate-oblate asymmetric transitions are investigated in detail, and realistic structure evolutions from $^{180}$Hf to $^{200}$Hg are compared. A key finding is that, the average deformation of the prolate shape is nearly twice the one of the oblate shape. These results, together with the successful description of the $B(E2)$ anomaly in $^{168,170}$Os, $^{172}$Pt, the $γ$-soft properties of $^{196}$Pt, $^{82}$Kr and the normal states of $^{110}$Cd, support the validity of the new model.
description: 16pages,19 figures
Evaluation of barrier concepts
Creators: name: Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: flexible food packaging
food packaging
packaging
flexible packaging
barrier concept
plastic packaging
circular plastics

description: The main tasks of Work Package (WP) 4 comprise the evaluation of migration barrier concepts in order to assess if contaminations are reduced down to threshold values below which there is a very low probability of adverse health effects toxicological concern.

The design of high performance functional barriers is required to effectively prevent migration of any residual contaminants from the post-consumer recyclates (PCR), and to keep them below the migration limits set out by legislations and European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in order to qualify the packaging structures for food contact applications.

For this purpose, barrier structures as developed in WP5 containing a virgin PE-layer were intentionally contaminated with selected surrogates and subjected to permeation experiments. The results of permeation experiments serve as a basis to conclude on the effectiveness of the barrier layers (and combination thereof) and will support WP5 in defining the final design of novel flexible packaging.

The permeation tests were performed on functional barrier combinations of inorganic or polymeric coatings. Moreover, barrier lacquer formulations were investigated.

 

Note: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101003806.
title: Generationengerechtigkeit im Betrieb
title: Erweiterte Forschungsperspektiven und Betriebsratspolitik
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Justice between generations in companies a wider scope of research and works council policy
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Strauß, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Lucius & Lucius Verlagsgesellschaft
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: demographic change
subject: industrial relations
subject: occupational groups
subject: Demografischer Wandel
subject: Personengruppen
subject: industrielle Beziehungen
subject: 300
subject: 650

description: Anwendungsorientierte Forschung im Themenfeld "Demografischer Wandel und Arbeit" hat zurzeit Konjunktur. Gleichzeitig wird ein Auseinanderklaffen von reichhaltigen Forschungsergebnissen und noch recht spärlichen betrieblichen Aktivitäten zur Bewältigung alternder Belegschaften beklagt. Der vorliegende Beitrag vertritt die These, dass dieses Missverhältnis auch auf Defizite der Forschung zurückzuführen ist. Solche Defizite bestehen insbesondere in der Vernachlässigung mikropolitischer Dimensionen von Betrieben, in einer weitgehenden Ausblendung von sozialmoralischen Standards, die sich auf "Alte" und "Junge" in Betrieben beziehen und in einer Ausblendung des Wandels dieser Normen und Werte. Diese These wird am Beispiel von Betriebsräten als betriebspolitischen Akteuren und deren Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen im Hinblick auf unterschiedliche Generationen im Betrieb entfaltet. Dabei erweist sich, dass ein entsprechendes Forschungsdesign bisher weitgehend separierte Forschungslinien wie Generationenforschung, empirische Gerechtigkeitsforschung und Forschung zu industriellen Beziehungen verzahnen muss.
description: Applied research in the subject area "demographic change and work" is booming. At the same time there is a lament about a gap between a wealth of research results and poor company activities coping with their aging workforce. This contribution points out that the above-mentioned disproportion leads back to research deficits, in particular to ignore the microstructure of companies and to fade out moral standards relating to "young" and "old" in companies as well as the change of these standards. The article develops this thesis dealing with work councils as political protagonists in companies and their ideas of justice between age groups and generations. It turns out that an appropriate research design has to combine research areas till now existing separately, for example research on generations, empirical research on justice and research on industrial relations.
description: Arbeit
Magnitude of Sexual Abuse among Male High School Students in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Tesfaye, Rahel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2009

description: Background: sexual abuse as including any of the following acts committed by an adult or under: attempted or completed sexual intercourse (i.e., oral, anal, vaginal); touching, kissing, or rubbing up ; exhibiting their body parts ; or having the view any type of sex act Objective: To determine the magnitude, contributing factors and the health consequence of sexual abuse among male high school students Addis Ababa city administration . Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study involving 884 randomly selected students among 9 Addis Ababa high schools was conducted in March 2009. Pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data, which was entered and cleaned using EPI version 6 statistical packages and analysis of data was done using SPSS for windows, odds ratio with 95% confidence interval was made, and for independent variables that have borderline association with the dependent variable entered to a model to look for confounding effect. Results: As this study indicates, sexual abuse of boy students in Addis Ababa is common with a life time prevalence of rape and sexual harassment of 4.3%, and 68.2%, respectively. The chance of experiencing sexual coercion was higher among students who live alone (AOR = 2.87; 95% CI; 1.07, 7.66) and among students who live with others (AOR =1.80; 95% CI = 1.04, 3.11) than students living with both. Similarly, the odds of experiencing rape in their life time was higher among students who live with others (Adj OR=2.20; 95% CI; 1.04, 4.68) than those who live with their biological parents. Conclusion and recommendation: Sexual abuse of boys is associated with those living alone or living out side their parents. Considering these findings, providing information, education and counseling service of students living outside their real biological parents is important.
Pedomyia namaqua Londt 1994, sp. n.
Creators: name: Londt, Jason G. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Pedomyia
Pedomyia namaqua

description: namaqua sp. n. Mystax yellow with strong black macrosetae ventrolaterally, occupying J of face; scutellar setae pale brownish; ♂ genitalia as in Figs 70-72........, Material (NMSA - Type 1113): SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province: I ♂ (HT): 'Sth Africa Cape Prav / 12 km W Soutfontein. / 3017DA 4.ix. l 98 I / 1. Londt, L. Schoeman / and B. Stuckenberg / Succulent Karoo'. Etymology: from Namaqualand.
description: Published as part of Londt, Jason G. H., 1994, Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 25. A key to the genera of the subfamily Stenopogoninae with new synonymy and descriptions of six new genera, pp. 71-96 in ANNALS OF THE NATAL MUSEUM 35 on page 92, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8360701
Operator systems and convex sets with many normal cones
Creators: name: Weis, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 52A20, 52B05, 47L07, 51D25, 47A12 (Primary), 81P16, 14P10 (Secondary)

description: The state space of an operator system of $n$-by-$n$ matrices has, in a sense, many normal cones. Merely this convex geometrical property implies smoothness qualities and a clustering property of exposed faces. The latter holds since each exposed face is an intersection of maximal exposed faces. An isomorphism translates these results to the lattice of ground state projections of the operator system. We work on minimizing the assumptions under which a convex set has the mentioned properties.
description: 20 pages, one figure, discrepancy to v1: minor corrections, discussion of operator systems added (-> change of title)
A New $Om(z)$ Diagnostic of Dark Energy in General Relativity Theory
Creators: name: Myrzakulov, N.
name: Koussour, M.
name: Gogoi, Dhruba Jyoti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a new parametrization of dark energy based on the $Om(z)$ diagnostic tool behavior. For this purpose, we investigate a functional form of the $Om(z)$ that predicts the popular dark energy dynamical models, namely phantom and quintessence. We also found the famous cosmological constant for specified values of the model's parameters. We employed the Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach to constrain the cosmological model using Hubble, Pantheon samples, and BAO datasets. Finally, we used observational constraints to investigate the characteristics of dark energy evolution and compare our findings to cosmological predictions.
description: The European Physical Journal C accepted version
Medicare/medicaid insurance, rurality, and black race associated with provision of hepatocellular carcinoma treatment and survival
Creators: name: Chang, Y.
name: Hayashi, P.H.
name: Moon, A.M.
name: Stitzenberg, K.B.
name: Sanoff, H.K.
name: Lund, J.L.
name: Barritt, A.S., IV
Publisher: name: Harborside Press
Year: 2021

description: Background: Early treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is associated with improved survival, but many patients with HCC do not receive therapy. We aimed to examine factors associated with HCC treatment and survival among incident patients with HCC in a statewide cancer registry. Materials and Methods: All patients with HCC from 2003 through 2013 were identified in the North Carolina cancer registry. These patients were linked to insurance claims from Medicare, Medicaid, and large private insurers in North Carolina. Associations between prespecified covariates and more advanced HCC stage at diagnosis (ie, multifocal cancer), care at a liver transplant center, and provision of HCC treatment were examined using multivariate logistic regression. A Cox proportional hazards model was developed to assess the association between these factors and survival. Results: Of 1,809 patients with HCC, 53% were seen at a transplant center,90 days from diagnosis, with lower odds among those who were Black (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.54; 95% CI, 0.39-0.74), had Medicare insurance (aOR, 0.35; 95% CI, 0.21-0.59), had Medicaid insurance (aOR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.28-0.77), and lived in a rural area; odds of transplant center visits were higher among those who had prediagnosis alpha fetoprotein screening (aOR, 1.74; 95% CI, 1.35-2.23) and PCP and gastroenterology care (aOR, 1.66; 95% CI, 1.27-2.18). Treatment was more likely among patients who had prediagnosis gastroenterology care (aOR, 1.68; 95% CI, 0.98-2.86) and transplant center visits (aOR, 2.42; 95% CI, 1.74-3.36). Survival was strongly associated with age, cancer stage, cirrhosis complications, and receipt of HCC treatment. Individuals with Medicare (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 1.58; 95% CI, 1.20-2.09) and Medicaid insurance (aHR, 1.55; 95% CI, 1.17-2.05) had shorter survival than those with private insurance. Conclusions: In this population-based cohort of patients with HCC, Medicare/Medicaid insurance, rural residence, and Black race were associated with lower provision of HCC treatment and poorer survival. Efforts should be made to improve access to care for these vulnerable populations.
Current-generating double layer shoe with a porous sole
Creators: name: Kolomeisky, Anatoly B.
name: Kornyshev, Alexei A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a principle and a simple theory of a novel reverse electroactuator, in which the electrical current is generated by pumping of an electrolytic liquid into nonwetting pores of a polarized electrode. The theory establishes the relationship between the variation of external pressure and the electrical current. The effective current density is amplified by high porosity of the electrode. The suggested principle can be implemented into a design of a shoe which will be generating an AC current simply by walking. Estimates of typical parameters and operation regimes of such device suggest that one can easily generate a peak current density of ~17 mA/cm2. This would produce some 1.7 A from each shoe at 0.65 W average power density, without hampering walking.
A theoretical study of anions in ionic lattices
Creators: name: Lo., Bruce Wai Ning
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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$Λ\barΛ$ final-state interaction in the reactions $e^+e^-\to ϕΛ\bar Λ$ and $e^+e^- \to ηΛ\bar Λ$
Creators: name: Haidenbauer, Johann
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Near-threshold $Λ\barΛ$ mass spectra for the reactions $e^+e^- \to ηΛ\barΛ$ and $e^+e^- \to ϕΛ\barΛ$ are investigated with an emphasis on the role played by the interaction in the $Λ\barΛ$ system. A variety of $Λ\barΛ$ potential models is employed that have been established in the analysis of data on $p\bar p\to Λ\barΛ$ in the past. It is shown that the near-threshold enhancement observed for the two $e^+e^-$ reactions can be reproduced by considering the $Λ\barΛ$ final-state interaction in the partial waves suggested by the helicity-angle analysis of the experiments. For $e^+e^- \to ηΛ\barΛ$ the same $Λ\barΛ$ $S$-wave interaction as in $e^+e^- \to Λ\barΛ$ is relevant and with it a consistent description of the pertinent measurements can be achieved. It is pointed out that a nonzero threshold cross section as observed for the latter reaction is not supported by the new $ηΛ\barΛ$ data.
description: 8 pages, 5, figures
Possible Molecular Explanation for the Resonance $Y(4500)$
Creators: name: Güngör, Elif
name: Sundu, Hayriye
name: Süngü, Jale Y.
name: Veliev, Elşen V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The BESIII collaboration has discovered a new state with hidden charm-strange. Its mass is intriguingly close to the $ D_s\bar{D}_{s1} $ threshold and does not have the properties of the charmonium states. Working with the QCD sum rules (QCDSR) approach, we test if the charmonium-like structure $ Y (4500) $, detected in the invariant mass spectrum $ K^+ K^-J/ψ$ may be interpreted as an exotic $ D_s\bar{D}_{s1} $ molecular structure with $ J^{PC}=1^{--} $. Considering the contributions of QCD condensates up to operator dimension ten, we estimate the mass and decay constant of $Y(4500)$ resonance. We get $ m_Y = (4488.35 \pm 11.54) $ MeV in excellent agreement with the meson mass reported by BESIII and $ f_Y=(4.04 \pm 0.36)\times 10^{-3} $$ \mathrm{GeV^4} $. Our findings indicate that a pseudoscalar-axialvector molecule current can well describe this state.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Bootstrapping a Five-Loop Amplitude Using Steinmann Relations
Creators: name: Caron-Huot, Simon
name: Dixon, Lance J.
name: McLeod, Andrew
name: von Hippel, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analytic structure of scattering amplitudes is restricted by Steinmann relations, which enforce the vanishing of certain discontinuities of discontinuities. We show that these relations dramatically simplify the function space for the hexagon function bootstrap in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Armed with this simplification, along with the constraints of dual conformal symmetry and Regge exponentiation, we obtain the complete five-loop six-particle amplitude.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 impressive table, and 2 ancillary files. v2: a few clarifications and references added; version to appear in PRL
Quality of Health Care in Private Clinics in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Afework, Senait
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2000

description: Involvement of the private sector in provision of health services has progressively increased in many developing countries including Ethiopia. Promotion of the private sector involvement is also one of the health care financing strategy in Ethiopia. A cross sectional descriptive study was done on Quality of Care in private clinics in Addis Ababa in April, 2000. Different levels of clinics were randomly selected and assessments were done on structural aspects, performance of health workers in polyclinic outpatient department and patients satisfaction with the different aspects of care given. It was found that most clinics fulfill the structural requirements of the MOH with regard to staffing, equipment and medications. Neverthless few clinics were found not to fulfill the minimum requirements put in the guideline. With regard to performance, various aspects of mal performance were observed where the highest problem was concerning treatments given to patients.Thirty seven percent of treatments given to patients were rated to be unacceptable. Over prescription of antibiotics and injections was also found specially in small clinics. Patients were generally satisfied in all aspects of medical care where highest satisfaction was in relation to courtesy of providers and relatively lower satisfaction with cost. Findings are discussed in comparision with findings in public and private health facilities in Ethiopia and other countries. It is recommended that regulation be strengthened. Inclusion of the assessment of process of care in quality control measures is also recommended.
Hydrothermal geochemistry of copper in chloride and acetate brines
Creators: name: Liu., Weihua
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Όψεις της καθημερινής ζωής και της διαβίωσης των Ελλήνων στρατιωτών στο μικρασιατικό μέτωπο (1919 – 1922)
Creators: name: Αγιάνογλου, Παναγιώτης Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Μικρασιατική Εκστρατεία
Ημερολόγια στρατιωτών
Συνθήκες διαβίωσης
Asia Minor Campaign
Soldiers’ diaries
Living conditions

description: Η εκατοστή επέτειος του Α΄ Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου συνέπεσε με μια «στροφή» στην ιστοριογραφία του και στην μελέτη πτυχών του, που δεν είχαν μελετηθεί. Ανάμεσα σε αυτές η καθημερινή εμπειρία των στρατιωτών στο μέτωπο και η μάχη τους με ανάγκες της καθημερινότητας, όπως η διατροφή και οι μολυσματικές ασθένειες. Ενώ η ιστορία της Μικρασιατικής Εκστρατείας υπό το πρίσμα των στρατηγών και των πολιτικών γεγονότων είναι γνωστή, η εμπειρία των στρατιωτών παραμένει ανεξερεύνητη. Η εργασία αυτή, επηρεασμένη από την διεθνή ιστοριογραφία του Α΄ Π.Π και το κενό της εγχώριας βιβλιογραφίας, αποπειράται να παρουσιάσει την ιστορία «από τα κάτω», θέτοντας στο επίκεντρο τους στρατιώτες, ενώ συγχρόνως επιχειρείται να διερευνηθεί η σύνδεση που υπήρχε μεταξύ της διαβίωσης στο Μέτωπο και της έκβασης της Εκστρατείας. Πέρα, λοιπόν, από το πρώτο κεφάλαιο, στο οποίο παρουσιάζεται η εξέλιξη της Στρατιάς Μικράς Ασίας από τη στιγμή που αποβιβάσθηκε στην προκυμαία της Σμύρνης μέχρι την οριστική της αποχώρηση από τη Μικρά Ασία και αναφέρεται σε αδρές γραμμές το πολιτικό και διπλωματικό συγκείμενο, τα υπόλοιπα κεφάλαια αφορούν όψεις της ζωής των στρατιωτών στο Μέτωπο, όπως είναι η διατροφή τους, οι κακουχίες που αντιμετώπιζαν, οι τρόποι με τους οποίους περνούσαν τον ελεύθερο χρόνο τους και τα συναισθήματά τους. Η εργασία βασίζεται σε ημερολόγια, απομνημονεύματα και αλληλογραφία στρατιωτών της Μικρασιατικής Εκστρατείας
description: The centennial of the WW1 coincided with a turn in the historiography of the war and the study of neglected aspects. Among them the everyday experience of the soldiers in the front and their “fights” with daily needs, such as nutrition or infectious diseases. While the history the Asia Minor Campaign has been studied in its political and military aspects, the experience of the soldiers who participated in the Campaign remains unexplored. This thesis, influenced by the international trends in the historiography of the WW1 and the lacuna of national literature, will attempt to present the history 'from below', by putting the soldiers at the center of the study, while it attempts to examine the connection between the living conditions at the Front and Campaign’s outcome. Apart from the first chapter, which presents the evolution of the Army of Asia Minor from the moment, it disembarked on the quay of Smyrna until its final withdrawal from Asia Minor, and roughly the political and diplomatic context, the remaining chapters deal with aspects of the life of the soldiers at the Front, such as their nutrition, the hardships they faced, the ways they spent their free time and their emotions. The thesis is based on diaries, memoirs and correspondence of soldiers, of the Asia Minor Campaign
Characterization of the response of IHEP-IME LGAD with shallow carbon to Gamma Irradiation
Creators: name: Sun, Weiyi
name: Fan, Yunyun
name: Zhao, Mei
name: Cui, Han
name: Yu, Chengjun
name: Li, Shuqi
name: Feng, Yuan
name: Huang, Xinhui
name: Liang, Zhijun
name: Jia, Xuewei
name: Wang, Wei
name: Wu, Tianya
name: Li, Mengzhao
name: da Costa, João Guimarães
name: Xu, Gaobo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGAD) for the High-Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) are crucial in reducing pileups in the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. Numerous studies have been conducted on the bulk irradiation damage of LGADs. However, few studies have been carried out on the surface irradiation damage of LGAD sensors with shallow carbon implantation. In this paper, the IHEP-IME LGADs with shallow carbon implantation were irradiated up to 2 MGy using gamma irradiation to investigate surface damage. Important characteristic parameters, including leakage currents, breakdown voltage (BV), inter-pad resistances, and capacitances, were tested before and after irradiation. The results showed that the leakage current and BV increased after irradiation, whereas overall inter-pad resistance exhibited minimal change and remained above $10^9\ Ω$ before and after irradiation. Capacitance was found to be less than 4.5 pF with a slight decrease in the gain layer depletion voltage (V$_{gl}$) after irradiation. No parameter affected by the inter-pad separation was observed before and after irradiation. All characteristic parameters meet the requirements of HGTD, and this design can be used to further optimization.
High Precision Full Stokes Spectropolarimetry of the Sun as a star-Instrument design aspects
Creators: name: Bose, Souvik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic field plays a major role in governing the dynamics of the sun. Many interesting features like sunspots, flares, prominences, and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) occur on its surface due to the dynamics associated with the magnetic fields. The magnetic activity exhibits spatial scales ranging from very fine scale (below the resolution limit of the current largest telescope) to large scale such as sunspots, active regions and the spatial scales as large as the sun itself. While the major efforts in building large telescopes is going on towards the goal of resolving smallest structure possible we propose here to measure the magnetic field on the global scale. For this purpose we propose an instrument to carryout high precision and high accurate spectropolarimetry of sun-as-a-star. In this thesis, we explore various instrumental design aspects that are necessary to make such observations. As part of the design consideration we have analysed a major noise source i.e. seeing induced cross-talk through simulation as well as using the measured scintillation data. Further, we have analysed full disk Stokes images from SOLIS/VSM and SDO/HMI for the purpose of getting a rough idea on the disk averaged Stokes signal level. The instrument design aspects are mainly constrained by the need to modulate the light before it enters the telescope and image the full sun as a point source. Modulating the light before it enters the telescope has the advantage of completely avoiding the instrumental polarization which will enable us to carry out high accurate polarimetric measurements. We have explored in this thesis various concepts of polarization modulator and spectral discriminator and worked out their suitability for the purpose of carrying out high precision and high accurate spectropolarimetry of sun-as-a-star at high spectral resolution.
description: The above manuscript is not a research paper but a master's thesis. On further investigation, we find that there are certain critical modifications which needs to be made in the text in chapter 4. Therefore, the author has decided to withdraw the article henceforth
Higher order theory of quasi-isodynamicity near the magnetic axis of stellarators
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Eduardo
name: Plunk, Gabe G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The condition of quasi-isodynamicity is derived to second order in the distance from the magnetic axis. We do so using a formulation of omnigenity that explicitly requires the balance between the radial particle drifts at opposite bounce points of a magnetic well. This is a physically intuitive alternative to the integrated condition involving distances between bounce points, used in previous works. We investigate the appearance of topological defects in the magnetic field strength (``puddles''). A hallmark of quasi-isodynamic fields, the curved contour of minimum field strength, is found to be inextricably linked to these defects. Our results pave the way to constructing solutions that satisfy omnigenity to a higher degree of precision, and also to simultaneously consider other physical properties, like shaping and stability.
Pedomyia simba Londt 1994, sp. n.
Creators: name: Londt, Jason G. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Pedomyia
Pedomyia simba

description: simba sp. n. Metathoracic femur brown-yellow ventrally, black dorsally (if only proximally)....6 Setae of mystax, vertex and occiput long, shiny yellow; legs entirely orangeyellow except for dorsoproximal parts of femora which are dark red-brown to blackish; thorax dorsally with long shiny yellow setae; ♂ genitalia as in Figs 76-78 """',......................................................................................... Material (NMSA - Type 1114): SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province: 2 ♂ (HT & PT): ' Sth Africa: Cape Prov / 15 km E of Wellington / Bain's Kloof 3319CA / Londt & Quickelberge / 550 m 22.xi. 1986 / Grassy slopes Rocks'; 2 ♂ (PT), Witte River, Wellington, xi. 1922, Lawrence (SAMC); I ♀ (PT), Klip Vlei, Garies [30°33'S: 17°59'E], xi. 1931, Museum staff (SAMC). Etymology: Bantu. simba -lion (refers to the long yellow setae covering much of body).
description: Published as part of Londt, Jason G. H., 1994, Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 25. A key to the genera of the subfamily Stenopogoninae with new synonymy and descriptions of six new genera, pp. 71-96 in ANNALS OF THE NATAL MUSEUM 35 on page 92, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8360701
SEM-CS: Semantic CLIPStyler for Text-Based Image Style Transfer
Creators: name: Kamra, Chanda G
name: Mastan, Indra Deep
name: Gupta, Debayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: CLIPStyler demonstrated image style transfer with realistic textures using only the style text description (instead of requiring a reference style image). However, the ground semantics of objects in style transfer output is lost due to style spillover on salient and background objects (content mismatch) or over-stylization. To solve this, we propose Semantic CLIPStyler (Sem-CS) that performs semantic style transfer. Sem-CS first segments the content image into salient and non-salient objects and then transfers artistic style based on a given style text description. The semantic style transfer is achieved using global foreground loss (for salient objects) and global background loss (for non-salient objects). Our empirical results, including DISTS, NIMA and user study scores, show that our proposed framework yields superior qualitative and quantitative performance.
description: 11 Pages, 4 Figures, 2 Tables
Protecting Classical-Quantum Signals in Free Space Optical Channels
Creators: name: Villaseñor, E.
name: Winnel, M. S.
name: Ralph, T. C.
name: Aguinaldo, R.
name: Green, J.
name: Malaney, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to turbulence and tracking errors, free-space optical channels involving mobile transceivers are characterized by a signal's partial loss or complete erasure. This work presents an error correction protocol capable of protecting a signal passing through such channels by encoding it with an ancillary entangled bipartite state. Beyond its ability to offer protection under realistic channel conditions, novel to our protocol is its ability to encompass both classical and quantum information on the encoded signal. We show how, relative to non-encoded direct transmission, the protocol can improve the fidelity of transmitted coherent states over a wide range of losses and erasure probabilities. In addition, the use of ancillary non-Gaussian entangled bipartite states in the signal encoding is considered, showing how this can increase performance. Finally, we briefly discuss the application of our protocol to the transmission of more complex input states, such as multi-mode entangled states.
Η κατανάλωση συνταγογραφούμενων προϊόντων και μη.συ.φα προϊόντων κατά την διάρκεια της πανδημίας covid-19 από 01/01/2020 έως 30/06/2021
Creators: name: Σιώτη, Κυριακή Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Συνταγογραφούμενα φάρμακα
Μη.συ.φα
Covid-19
Prescription medicines
Otc

description: Στις 11 Μαρτίου, το ξέσπασμα του νέου κορονοϊού (COVID-19) ανακοινώθηκε ως παγκόσμια πανδημία. To lockdown που έλαβε χώρα σε πολλές χώρες παγκοσμίως και ο ακόλουθος αποκλεισμός οδήγησε σε αλλαγές στον τρόπο με τον οποίο ο κόσμος αντιλαμβάνεται την θεραπεία. Αυτή η μελέτη στόχευε να εξετάσει την ευαισθητοποίηση και τη στάση των μαθητών έναντι των μη συνταγογραφούμενων φαρμάκων και εάν το lockdown επηρέασε τη χρήση φαρμάκων χωρίς ιατρική συνταγή. Αυτή η μελέτη στοχεύει στη διερεύνηση της κατανάλωσης συνταγογραφούμενων και μη συνταγογραφούμενων φαρμάκων κατά τη διάρκεια της πανδημίας COVID-19 από 01/01/2020 – 30/6/2021. Για το σκοπό αυτό, συλλέχθηκαν στοιχεία από φαρμακείο του Δήμου Κομοτηνής με χρήση συνταγών αλλά και αγορών φαρμάκων χωρίς ιατρική συνταγή που πραγματοποιήθηκαν στο φαρμακείο από 01/01/2020 έως 30/6/2021 μέσω του προγράμματος Διοσκουρίδης SmartXpress. Από αυτά τα στοιχεία προέκυψε ότι τόσο οι αγορές φαρμάκων με συνταγή όσο και χωρίς ιατρική συνταγή είχαν αυξηθεί κατά την υπό εξέταση περίοδο, και ιδίως οι αγορές αντιβιοτικών και βιταμινών. Πρέπει να γίνει περισσότερη έρευνα σε αυτόν τον τομέα προκειμένου να εξαχθούν ασφαλέστερα συμπεράσματα στο εγγύς μέλλον
description: On the 11th of March, the novel coronavirus (COVID–19) outbreak was announced as a global pandemic. The lockdown that took place in many countries around the world and the subsequent blockade led to changes in the way people perceive treatment. This study aimed to examine students’ awareness and attitude towards over–the–counter medications and whether lockdown impacted students’ over–the–counter medication use. This study aims to investigate the consumption of prescription and of over–the–counter medication during the COVID–19 pandemic from 01/01/2020 – 30/6/2021. For this purpose, data was collected from a pharmacy in the Municipality of Komotini using prescriptions but also over the counter medicines purchases that were executed in the pharmacy from 01/01/2020 to 30/6/2021 through the Dioscourides SmartXpress program. From these data it was shown that both prescription and over the counter medicine purchases had risen during the period concerned, and especially the purchases of antibiotics and vitamins. More research must be done in this area in order to draw safer conclusions in the near future
Martensitic transformations in In-Tl and Ni-Al alloys
Creators: name: Liu., M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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