cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of the Mishrif Formation Using an Advanced Method of Interpretation
Creators: name: Al-Fatlawi, Omar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401907
subject: Petroleum and reservoir engineering

description: The Mishrif Formation is one of the most important geological formations in Iraq consisting of limestone, marl, and shale layers since it is one of the main oil producing reservoirs in the country, which contain a significant portion of Iraq's oil reserves. The formation has been extensively explored and developed by the Iraqi government and international oil companies, with many oil fields being developed within it. The accurate evaluation of the Mishrif formation is key to the successful exploitation of this field. However, its geological complexity poses significant challenges for oil production, requiring advanced techniques to accurately evaluate its petrophysical properties.This study used advanced well-logging analysis techniques, including mineralogical inversion with the Quanti-Elan model employed in Schlumberger's Techlog software to evaluate this formation. The lithology, clay volume, porosity, permeability, and hydrocarbon saturation data were obtained from the open hole logging of three wells in a southern Iraqi oil field. The environmental correction was applied for open-hole logging tools, and the primary mineral of the formation was determined using porosity log cross-plotting. Pickett plot technique was utilized to determine water resistivity and Archie's parameters, and the reconstruction log was generated based on volumetric and response parameters for each component. Based on thorough analysis, the clay volume of the Mishrif formation is estimated to be about 10%, which is a common value for this rock type. The porosity was computed based on the total fluid volume, ranging from 11% to 14%, and water saturation was determined using Archie's equation. The final results of the volume of each component for rock and fluid are presented using computer programming interpretation. The results of this study provide valuable insights into the petrophysical properties of the Mishrif formation and are expected to inform for better interpretation and evaluation of petrophysical properties of similar formations, which is essential for optimum field development planning as well as minimising the uncertainties.
Relato de experiência do processo de desenvolvimento e planejamento do novo Oasisbr
Creators: name: Marques, Gabriel Silveira
name: Faria, Marcos Antonio Vieira
name: Oliveira, Renan Rangel de
name: Silva, Jesiel Viana da
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão O meu Póster em 40 segundos da 13ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, formato híbrido, de 10 a 12 de outubro de 2022.
Field limit and nano-scale surface topography of superconducting radio-frequency cavity made of extreme type II superconductor
Creators: name: Kubo, Takayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field limit of superconducting radio-frequency cavity made of type II superconductor with a large Ginzburg-Landau parameter is studied with taking effects of nano-scale surface topography into account. If the surface is ideally flat, the field limit is imposed by the superheating field. On the surface of cavity, however, nano-defects almost continuously distribute and suppress the superheating field everywhere. The field limit is imposed by an effective superheating field given by the product of the superheating field for ideal flat surface and a suppression factor that contains effects of nano-defects. A nano-defect is modeled by a triangular groove with a depth smaller than the penetration depth. An analytical formula for the suppression factor of bulk and multilayer superconductors are derived in the framework of the London theory. As an immediate application, the suppression factor of the dirty Nb processed by the electropolishing is evaluated by using results of surface topographic study. The estimated field limit is consistent with the present record field of nitrogen-doped Nb cavities. Suppression factors of surfaces of other bulk and multilayer superconductors, and those after various surface processing technologies can also be evaluated by using the formula.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Vacuum densities for a brane intersecting the AdS boundary
Creators: name: de Mello, E. R. Bezerra
name: Saharian, A. A.
name: Setare, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Wightman function, the mean field squared and the vacuum expectation values of energy-momentum tensor for a scalar field in AdS spacetime, in the presence of a brane perpendicular to the AdS boundary. On the brane the field operator obeys Robin boundary condition. The vacuum expectation values are decomposed into the boundary-free AdS and brane-induced contributions. In this way, for points away from the brane, the renormalization is reduced to the one in pure AdS spacetime. It is shown that at proper distances from the brane larger than the AdS curvature radius the brane-induced expectation values decay as power-law for both massless and massive scalars. This behavior is in contrast to that for a plane boundary in Minkowski spacetime, with an exponential decay for massive fields. For Robin boundary conditions different from Dirichlet and Neumann ones, the brane-induced part in the energy density is positive near the brane and negative at large distances. For Dirichlet/Neumann boundary condition the corresponding energy density is negative/positive everywhere. We show that, for a fixed value of the proper distance from the brane, near the AdS boundary, the Neumann boundary condition is an "attractor" in the general class of Robin boundary conditions, whereas Dirichlet boundary condition is an "attractor" near the horizon.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures In this new version accepted for publication in PRD, a subsection on the bulk-to-boundary propagator has been adeded
The Individual and Annual Health Costs of Foodborne Illness in the United States
Creators: name: Minor, Travis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Health Economics and Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Overview: • Economic welfare-based method to estimate the health costs associated with foodborne illness (FBI) – Consists of known viruses, bacteria, parasites, allergens, two marine biotoxins, and unspecified illnesses – Present both lost QALYs and dollars • Accounts for reductions in well-being from both functional disability and physical symptoms – Primary illness, secondary effects, and premature mortality; as well as the direct medical costs.
description: USDA Economists Group Seminar, August 25, 2014.
Additional file 2 of Implementing personalised care planning for older people with frailty: a process evaluation of the PROSPER feasibility trial
Creators: name: Kime, Nicky
name: Wright, Alan
name: Heaven, Anne
name: Hawkins, Rebecca
name: Smith, Jane
name: Cundill, Bonnie
name: Foy, Robbie
name: Lawton, Rebecca
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Hulme, Claire
name: Clegg, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Topic Guide 1. Age UK PIC / SW Post-Training Interview.
D5.1 Manufacturing/ Installation of the thermal storage
Creators: name: Alain Ferriere,
name: Juan-Manuel Carruncho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This document is the deliverable D5.1 of the project POLYPHEM. It is planned in the framework of the Work Package 5 (Manufacturing and installation of the prototype plant). The deliverable D5.1 is a demonstrator. It shows that the thermal energy storage (TES) tank is erected on the site of the solar tower facility THEMIS (France) as part of the prototype plant. The TES tank is made of concrete for the basement and for the wall. The filler bed consists of stacks of concrete bricks arranged in a compact pattern. ARRAELA designed the concrete material and erected the tank on site. CIEMAT supplied the measurement instruments and CNRS was in charge of the civil works, the implementation of the filler bed and the instrumentation.
Vulnerability Detection Approaches on Application Behaviors in Mobile Environment
Creators: name: Ouaguid, Abdellah
name: Ouzzif, Mohamed
name: Abghour, Noreddine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: A.0

description: Several solutions ensuring the dynamic detection of malicious activities on Android ecosystem have been proposed. These are represented by generic rules and models that identify any purported malicious behavior. However, the approaches adopted are far from being effective in detecting malware (listed or not) and whose form and behavior are likely to be different depending on the execution environment or the design of the malware itself (polymorphic for example). An additional difficulty is added when these approaches are unable to capture, analyze, and classify all the execution paths incorporated in the analyzed application earlier. This suggests that the functionality of the analyzed application can constitute a potential risk but never explored or revealed. We have studied some malware detection techniques based on behavioral analysis of applications. The description, characteristics, and results obtained from each technique are presented in this article wherein we have also highlighted some open problems, challenges as well as the different possible future directions of research concerning behavioral analysis of malware.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, Accepted Paper at the 35th International Business Information Management Association Conference, which is held in Seville, Spain on 1-2 April 2020
Heat flow in anharmonic crystals with internal and external stochastic baths: A convergent polymer expansion for a model with discrete time and long range interparticle interaction
Creators: name: Pereira, Emmanuel
name: Mendonça, Mateus S.
name: Lemos, Humberto C. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a chain of oscillators with anharmonic on-site potentials, with long range interparticle interactions, and coupled both to external and internal stochastic thermal reservoirs of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type. We develop an integral representation, a la Feynman-Kac, for the correlations and the heat current. We assume the approximation of discrete times in the integral formalism (together with a simplification in a subdominant part of the harmonic interaction) in order to develop a suitable polymer expansion for the model. In the regime of strong anharmonicity, strong harmonic pinning, and for the interparticle interaction with integrable polynomial decay, we prove the convergence of the polymer expansion uniformly in volume (number of sites and time). We also show that the two-point correlation decays in space such as the interparticle interaction. The existence of a convergent polymer expansion is of practical interest: it establishes a rigorous support for a perturbative analysis of the heat flow problem and for the computation of the thermal conductivity in related anharmonic crystals, including those with inhomogeneous potentials and long range interparticle interactions.
Future sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to dark matter annihilations from the cosmic diffuse neutrino signal
Creators: name: Moline, Angeles
name: Ibarra, Alejandro
name: Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological observations and cold dark matter N-body simulations indicate that our Universe is populated by numerous halos, where dark matter particles annihilate, potentially producing Standard Model particles. In this paper we calculate the contribution to the diffuse neutrino background from dark matter annihilations in halos at all redshifts and we estimate the future sensitivity to the annihilation cross section of neutrino telescopes such as IceCube or ANTARES. We consider various parametrizations to describe the internal halo properties and for the halo mass function in order to bracket the theoretical uncertainty in the limits from the modeling of the cosmological annihilation flux. We find that observations of the cosmic diffuse neutrino flux at large angular distances from the galactic center lead to constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross section which are complementary to (and for some extrapolations of the astrophysical parameters, better than) those stemming from observations of the Milky Way halo, especially for neutrino telescopes not pointing directly to the Milky Way center, as is the case of IceCube.
description: 33 pages, 8 figures. Discussion slightly changed and figures updated without including the concentration-mass power-law relation for the final results. Uncertainties reduced, but main conclusions unchanged. Matches version to be published in JCAP
PREVALENCE OF ABNORMAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC PATTERNS IN FEMALE FOOTBALLERS IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Okoye, Chukwudi Okechukwu
Publisher: name: kEITH jOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Electrocardiogram, footballers, sudden cardiac death, athlete

description: This study aimed at evaluating the prevalence of abnormal electrocardiographic (ECG) patterns in female footballers to assess the need for screening program for conditions that leads to sudden cardiac death (SCD) among athletes

Background: Pre-participation screening with ECG reduces the incidence of SCD in athletes. However, SCDs has very low occurrence in athletes. In Nigeria, people with symptoms or family history of hereditary heart problems or early cardiac death are the only ones who can be screened for cardiac disorders.

Methods: 56 female footballer’s ages 19 to 40 years underwent ECG screening. Electrocardiograms were analyzed for group 1 (training-related) and group 2 (potentially pathological) patterns following the 2010 European Society of Cardiology guideline for interpreting ECG in athletes.

Results: Mean age of the players was 26.3 ± 5.0, mean body mass index was 23.12 kg/m2 ± 2.49, mean resting heart rate was 73.55 beats per minute ± 13.26, mean systolic blood pressure was 127.77 mmHg ± 119.47, and mean diastolic blood pressure was 71.62 mmHg ± 8.94. 42.9% of the participants had normal ECG. Group 1 patterns occurred in 30.4% of the female footballers while Group 2 patterns occurred in 37.5%. Anterior ischemia comprised the majority (19.6%) of the changes, sinus bradycardia (16.1%) and T-wave inversions constituted 12.5%.

Conclusions: The study demonstrated that apart from sinus bradycardia, non-exercise related ECG changes such as ischemia and T wave abnormalities were major ECG changes among female footballers in Nigeria. ECG is vital to identify cardiac abnormalities in order to minimize the risk of sudden cardiac death during exercise
Additional file 3 of Implementing personalised care planning for older people with frailty: a process evaluation of the PROSPER feasibility trial
Creators: name: Kime, Nicky
name: Wright, Alan
name: Heaven, Anne
name: Hawkins, Rebecca
name: Smith, Jane
name: Cundill, Bonnie
name: Foy, Robbie
name: Lawton, Rebecca
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Hulme, Claire
name: Clegg, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Topic Guide 2. Age UK PIC Two Month Review Interview.
Longitudinal Associations Between Neighborhood Factors and HIV Care Outcomes in the WIHS
Creators: name: Blair-Spence, A.
name: Cohen, M.
name: Wentz, E.
name: Adimora, A.A.
name: Edmonds, A.
name: Chandran, A.
name: Palar, K.
name: Benning, L.
name: Adedimeji, A.
name: Wilson, T.E.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2020

description: Identifying structural determinants affecting HIV outcomes is important for informing interventions across heterogeneous geographies. Longitudinal hierarchical generalized mixed-effects models were used to quantify the associations between changes in certain structural-level factors on HIV care engagement, medication adherence, and viral suppression. Among women living with HIV in the WIHS, ten-unit increases in census-tract level proportions of unemployment, poverty, and lack of car ownership were inversely associated with viral suppression and medication adherence, while educational attainment and owner-occupied housing were positively associated with both outcomes. Notably, increased residential stability (aOR 5.68, 95% CI 2.93, 9.04) was positively associated with HIV care engagement, as were unemployment (aOR: 1.59, 95% CI 1.57, 1.60), lack of car ownership (aOR 1.14, 95% CI 1.13, 1.15), and female-headed households (aOR 1.23, 95% CI 1.22, 1.23). This underscores the importance of understanding neighborhood context, including factors that may not always be considered influential, in achieving optimal HIV-related outcomes.
Diakonie und die Option für die Anderen
Creators: name: Mette, Norbert
name: Schneider, Gert
name: Steinkamp, Hermann
name: Cavigelli, Zeno
name: Hartlaub, Peter
name: Erharter, Helmut
Publisher: name: Diakonia
Year: 1970

description: Diakonia, Bd. 24 Nr. 5 (1993): Diakonia, Band 24, Heft 5
A Bayesian Multivariate Functional Dynamic Linear Model
Creators: name: Kowal, Daniel R.
name: Matteson, David S.
name: Ruppert, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a Bayesian approach for modeling multivariate, dependent functional data. To account for the three dominant structural features in the data--functional, time dependent, and multivariate components--we extend hierarchical dynamic linear models for multivariate time series to the functional data setting. We also develop Bayesian spline theory in a more general constrained optimization framework. The proposed methods identify a time-invariant functional basis for the functional observations, which is smooth and interpretable, and can be made common across multivariate observations for additional information sharing. The Bayesian framework permits joint estimation of the model parameters, provides exact inference (up to MCMC error) on specific parameters, and allows generalized dependence structures. Sampling from the posterior distribution is accomplished with an efficient Gibbs sampling algorithm. We illustrate the proposed framework with two applications: (1) multi-economy yield curve data from the recent global recession, and (2) local field potential brain signals in rats, for which we develop a multivariate functional time series approach for multivariate time-frequency analysis. Supplementary materials, including R code and the multi-economy yield curve data, are available online.
Food flavour creations
Creators: name: Deb Choudhury, Santanu
name: Shah, Munir
name: Realini Cujo, Carolina
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3006
subject: Food sciences

description: Most meat co-products have traditionally generated little economic value, with some even having a negative value due to their disposal costs, representing a significant waste. From a sustainability perspective, it is important to reduce this waste and create more value from meat co-products, especially targeting the food industry. Many of these meat co-products contain an appreciable amount of nutrients like essential amino acids, minerals and vitamins, and could be developed into higher value ingredients for a range of industries including food service. They can also be considered as raw materials for the generation of bioactives [1] and to produce extracts with excellent functional properties suited for a wide variety of food industry applications.Novel approaches to flavour development create opportunities to develop new applications from co-products. The creation of unique flavour profiles to satisfy consumers’ continuing craving for novelty and their growing interest in flavour pairing is a major challenge for food companies. Chefs also must master the ability to develop flavours that create balance and harmony in the final product and create a complex multi-sensory experience in consumers. Traditional approaches to flavour development, whereby development chefs attempt to create new sensory experiences through applying previous experience, trial-and-error, and panel tasting, will not be able to identify the full opportunity-set of flavour combinations. This is because there are many possible combinations and interactions between the numerous chemical compounds of ingredients that largely determine how consumers experience flavour. To be able to identify and exploit this opportunity-set of possible flavour combinations more rapidly and comprehensively, traditional approaches to new flavour development need to be complemented with science-based computational approaches that are better equipped to systematically explore a large range of possible combinations of chemical compounds.
Parton distributions in the LHC era: MMHT 2014 PDFs
Creators: name: Harland-Lang, L. A.
name: Martin, A. D.
name: Motylinski, P.
name: Thorne, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present LO, NLO and NNLO sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. These MMHT2014 PDFs supersede the `MSTW2008' parton sets, but are obtained within the same basic framework. We include a variety of new data sets, from the LHC, updated Tevatron data and the HERA combined H1 and ZEUS data on the total and charm structure functions. We also improve the theoretical framework of the previous analysis. These new PDFs are compared to the `MSTW2008' parton sets. In most cases the PDFs, and the predictions, are within one standard deviation of those of MSTW2008. The major changes are the $u-d$ valence quark difference at small $x$ due to an improved parameterisation and, to a lesser extent, the strange quark PDF due to the effect of certain LHC data and a better treatment of the $D \to μ$ branching ratio. We compare our MMHT PDF sets with those of other collaborations; in particular with the NNPDF3.0 sets, which are contemporary with the present analysis.
description: Final version. Some additional comments/clarifications and minor corrections. 83 pages, 116 figures. PDFs can be obtained from http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/mmht
title: Portfolio of compositions with accompanying written component
Creators: name: Johnson, Louis James
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The main focus of my PhD submission is a portfolio of compositions. This selection of pieces presents work for a variety of ensemble types, from symphony orchestra, through different kinds of chamber groups, to compositions for solo instrumentalists. Although all of the pieces were written for some kind of concert setting, my portfolio includes music that was written to act as the basis of a film score, music that uses text specifically written for me to set as part of an operatic project and groups of pieces that share and represent parts of larger connected conceptual worlds. My music explores different approaches to form, content, compositional system, word-setting and instrumentation; however, there are musical and conceptual connections that run across and between pieces, some works realising shared fundamental material whilst others seek to develop in contrasting directions. The portfolio is accompanied by a written component that falls into two main parts. The first part investigates the relationship between narrative and music through a comparative analysis of aspects of narrative theory and music theory. The aim of this investigation was to ascertain whether or not music can be understood to function as narrative and whether such functioning could be described using terminology commonly applied to descriptions of narrative in other artistic media. The results of this investigation revealed a number of possible ways that musical narrative could be understood and described as well as suggesting how such ideas could be applied to the process of composition. The second part of the written component is concerned with a discussion of the works in my portfolio of compositions. Each piece is looked at in detail with regard to all aspects of its context and construction. This approach has allowed for an in-depth examination of my compositional methodology and has facilitated an understanding of how my work and working methods have developed during the course of my PhD studies. For the purposes of this examination, I have divided my portfolio into two broad categories: pieces that engage with extra-musical aspects and pieces that engage with musical conventions of various kinds or, as I have termed them, meta-musical aspects. This division has enabled me to draw out conceptual and musical connections between individual works and groups of pieces; it has also enabled me to suggest ways in which my work operates as narrative. This, in turn, potentially demonstrates that narrative is not something that is necessarily extra-musical but that it might instead be a category that can embrace both musical conventions and a wider conceptual context in the processes of composing and understanding music.
Formally-Sharp DAgger for MCTS: Lower-Latency Monte Carlo Tree Search using Data Aggregation with Formal Methods
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Debraj
name: Busatto-Gaston, Damien
name: Raskin, Jean-François
name: Pérez, Guillermo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Code and layout files for AAMAS 2023 paper
Synthesis and characterization of ultra-soft alginate hydrogel mimicking lung tissue
Creators: name: Li, Xiangpeng
name: Gou, Jihua
name: Maiti, Chiranjit
name: Ilegbusi, Olusegun J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Alginate hydrogels possess properties analogous to those of the extracellular matrix (ECM). Thus, their mechanical behavior approximates soft tissue, which makes them desirable for the production of tissue-equivalent soft deformable structures. This study aims to determine the synthesis-structure-property relationship for alginate hydrogel with the Young’s modulus in the range of 10°~101 kPa, mimicking to that of human lung tissue. Hydrogels, a 3D polymer network embedded in a water-rich environment. Homogeneous alginate hydrogels are synthesized by a direct mixture of sodium alginate and CaCO3, followed by the addition of D-glucono-δ-lactone (GDL) to initiate in-situ Ca2+ release and gelation. The influence of alginate concentration and molar ratio of the constituent calcium ion to carboxyl group from alginate monomer are evaluated while the Young’s modulus of the hydrogel is carefully controlled within the desired range. FTIR and SEM are used to characterize the influence of synthesis parameters at the molecular and microstructure levels. Tension and compression testing are performed to determine the Young’s modulus of the material. Empirical relations are established between synthesis parameters and the mechanical property. The result of the study will be subsequently used to guide the additive manufacturing of soft deformable structures based on alginate hydrogels.
Harmonic Analysis and Free Field Realization of the Takiff Supergroup of GL(1|1)
Creators: name: Babichenko, Andrei
name: Creutzig, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Takiff superalgebras are a family of non semi-simple Lie superalgebras that are believed to give rise to a rich structure of indecomposable representations of associated conformal field theories. We consider the Takiff superalgebra of gl(1|1), especially we perform harmonic analysis for the corresponding supergroup. We find that every simple module appears as submodule of an infinite-dimensional indecomposable but reducible module. We lift our results to two free field realizations for the corresponding conformal field theory and construct some modules.
Gone but Not Lost: Implications for Estimating HIV Care Outcomes When Loss to Clinic Is Not Loss to Care
Creators: name: Adedimeji, A.
name: Yotebieng, M.
name: Anastos, K.
name: Twizere, C.
name: Edmonds, A.
name: Nash, D.
name: Herce, M.E.
name: Lesko, C.R.
name: Murenzi, G.
name: Tymejczyk, O.
name: Edwards, J.K.
name: Lelo, P.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2020

description: Background: In some time-to-event analyses, it is unclear whether loss to follow up should be treated as a censoring event or competing event. Such ambiguity is particularly common in HIV research that uses routinely collected clinical data to report the timing of key milestones along the HIV care continuum. In this setting, loss to follow up may be viewed as a censoring event, under the assumption that patients who are "lost" from a study clinic immediately enroll in care elsewhere, or a competing event, under the assumption that people "lost" are out of care all together. Methods: We illustrate an approach to address this ambiguity when estimating the 2-year risk of antiretroviral treatment initiation among 19,506 people living with HIV who enrolled in the IeDEA Central Africa cohort between 2006 and 2017, along with published estimates from tracing studies in Africa. We also assessed the finite sample properties of the proposed approach using simulation experiments. Results: The estimated 2-year risk of treatment initiation was 69% if patients were censored at loss to follow up or 59% if losses to follow up were treated as competing events. Using the proposed approach, we estimated that the 2-year risk of antiretroviral therapy initiation was 62% (95% confidence interval: 61, 62). The proposed approach had little bias and appropriate confidence interval coverage under scenarios examined in the simulation experiments. Conclusions: The proposed approach relaxes the assumptions inherent in treating loss to follow up as a censoring or competing event in clinical HIV cohort studies.
Effects of interlayer spacing and applied pressure on the lanthanide transport in MoS2-based two-dimensional channels
Creators: name: Xiong, Qinsi
name: Liu, Chong
name: Schatz, George C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Rare-earth elements (REEs) are critical to modern industry but difficult to separate due to their subtle and monotonic changes in physicochemical properties. MoS2-based two-dimensional (2D) materials offer novel opportunities for enhancing REE separation, exhibiting a distinct volcano-shaped transport performance distribution that peaks at Sm3+. However, the specific contributions of thermodynamic and kinetic factors to ion transport within 2D confinement remain unclear. In this study, we conducted a series of non-equilibrium all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to explore the effects of interlayer spacing and external pressure on the transport of lanthanide ions in Å-scale acetate functionalized 2D MoS2 (MoS2-COOH) channels. We examined ion entry and permeation rates, water flux, dehydration, and binding modes. The simulation results reveal that the transport trends of lanthanide ions are jointly driven by the dehydration degree and the relative-binding strengths of ions to water and to the acetate within the 2D channels. Notably, the dehydration pattern of lanthanide ions during permeation is closely linked to kinetic factors. Overall, this study provides a detailed atomistic understanding of the mechanisms underlying lanthanide ion transport under confinement. These findings point to the significant potential for tuning confinement and chemical functionalization within Å-scale channels for more efficient REE separation.
Seventeenth century Surrey-Hampshire border pottery wasters from St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey
Creators: name: Jarrett, Chris D
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Surrey Archaeological Collections, 106, 101-142
description: Excavations at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey uncovered the heavily truncated base of a pottery kiln and red- and whiteware pottery wasters made in the Surrey--Hampshire border ware tradition dating to the mid--late 17th century. The location of Chertsey as a production centre for this pottery is of interest for being an outlier of the main area along the river Blackwater and centred on Farnborough, 18km south-east of this site. The find of these pottery wasters was unexpected in this location, although early 17th century wasters had been previously recovered at Victory Park, Addlestone, 2.5km to the east. Analysis of the St Peter's Hospital border wares allows for a comparison of the similarities and differences with those of the main production centres (Ash, Cove, Farnborough Hill and Hawley) and domestic assemblages, particularly of London.
title: The Textures and Microstructures of the Calcium Sulphate Minerals Anhydrite Gypsum and Bassanite
Creators: name: Christine Hildyard, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Evaporitic rocks containing minerals such as anhydrite, gypsum and bassanite, are of central importance in a number of geological scenarios. They play an important role in localizing deformation, acting as detachment horizons in many foreland fold and thrust belts, implying that their strength is generally lower than other rocks. Characterizing the microstructure of evaporites is therefore important for interpreting the larger scale deformation history of these rocks. Dehydration reactions of high grade metamorphic rocks, e.g. serpentinite, in subduction zones, are thought to be one mechanism that can trigger seismicity. Similar dehydration reactions of hydrous gypsum to bassanite or anhydrite can be used as analogues for these deeper scenarios. This thesis studies the microstructures of naturally deformed, coarse grained and fine grained anhydrite rocks from the Triassic Evaporites of the northern Apennines, using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). The technique was used to measure crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) and misorientations both within grains and between grains. CPO and grain distortions within the coarse grained anhydrite rocks are found to be consistent with activity on the known (100)[001] easy slip system. It is found that there is little evidence of recovery although some dynamic recrystallization by grain boundary bulging is observed. CPO, grains distortions and misorientation distributions within the fine grained anhydrite rocks indicate activity of the (100)[010] and (001)[100] slip systems. Dynamic recrystallization by grain migration and sub-grain migration is inferred and evidence is found of a possible grain boundary sliding mechanism at the finest grain sizes. A suite of experimentally deformed and dehydrated Volterra gypsum samples are also analysed using EBSD. CPO in post-experiment bassanite is found to mimic the original gypsum c-axis orientation. Bassanite grain size is shown to relate to the degree of reaction overstep. In some samples two distinct morphologies of bassanite grains are found; large (0.5-2 mm), euhedral crystals and small «50 urn), acicular crystals, representing two different bassanite polymorphs.
Additional file 4 of Implementing personalised care planning for older people with frailty: a process evaluation of the PROSPER feasibility trial
Creators: name: Kime, Nicky
name: Wright, Alan
name: Heaven, Anne
name: Hawkins, Rebecca
name: Smith, Jane
name: Cundill, Bonnie
name: Foy, Robbie
name: Lawton, Rebecca
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Hulme, Claire
name: Clegg, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Topic Guide 3. Age UK Team Leader Exit Interview.
CBRAIN: a web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroinformatics research
Creators: name: Caron, Bryan
name: Adalat, Reza
name: Beck, Natacha
name: Boroday, Serge
name: Das, Samir
name: Khalili-Mahani, Najmeh
name: Quesnel, Darcy
name: Rioux, Pierre
name: Valevicius, Darius
name: Evans, Alan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Abstract for poster presentation at the Big Data Neuroscience Workshop 2022, from September 15 - 16, 2022 in Austin, TX.
White Papers submitted to Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033
Creators: name: Chartier, Alex T
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: aeronomy, atmosphere, ionosphere, space, solar, heliophysics, decadal survey, white papers

description: White papers submitted to the National Academies' Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. These were uploaded to Amazon Web Services, but are hard to access directly. Users may do so by clicking the links in the final column of the spreadsheet (also included in the upload): 20220908082838-SurveyExport.csv Authorship information is given in each paper and in the spreadsheet. Any citations of these white papers should refer to those authors.
Zero modes of Overlap fermions, instantons, and monopoles
Creators: name: Di Giacomo, Adriano
name: Hasegawa, Masayasu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relations between instantons, monopoles, and Chiral symmetry breaking. The monopoles are important topological configurations existing in QCD which are believed to produce colour confinement. The groups of University of Kanazawa and Pisa have produced by Lattice simulations many results supporting the idea that QCD vacuum is a dual superconductor. Instantons are related to Chiral symmetry breaking, as explained e.g. in the instanton liquid model of E. V. SHURYAK. Clarifying quantitatively the relation between monopoles and instantons is not easy, also because monopoles are three dimensional objects, while instantons are four dimensional. We generate configurations, adding monopole-antimonopole pairs of opposite charges by a monopole creation operator. We observe that the monopole creation operator only adds long monopole loops in the configurations. Then, we count the number of fermion zero modes in the configurations using Overlap fermions as a tool. Finally, we find that one monopole-antimonopole pair makes one zero mode of plus or minus chirality, that is to say, one instanton of plus or minus charge.
description: A contribution to the 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
title: Connecting textual patterns to text aboutness
Creators: name: ke  Li, Yuan
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: This thesis investigates the relationships between cohesion in texts and the meanings of the texts. I analyze hard news texts and the summaries written by competent readers for the texts in terms of nuclei (i.e. the combinations of Process and Medium) (Halliday, 1994), and examine the characteristics of the nuclei that recur in a text and are also considered as important to the meaning of the text. There are two main findings of my present study. The first is that when two or more recurrent nuclei in a text are considered as important to the meaning of the text, the relationship in the lead that holds between the nuclei are also thought of as important to the text's meaning. This finding provides evidence for the claim made by many linguists that the conjunctive relations that hold between the propositions in a passage are important to the meaning of the passage. The other main finding of my study is that when the nuclei that are considered as important to the meanings of the texts in which they occur are found in leads, they have a strong tendency to occur in primary or independent clauses; on the other hand, when the nuclei occurring in leads are however not considered as important to the meanings of the texts in which they occur, they tend to occur in secondary or embedded clauses. This finding indicates that the distribution of information in leads is not random. The propositions in a lead that are important to the meaning of the text in which they occur are often foregrounded in major types of clause, while those that are not thought of as important to the meaning of the text are often backgrounded in minor types of clause.
Additional file 5 of Implementing personalised care planning for older people with frailty: a process evaluation of the PROSPER feasibility trial
Creators: name: Kime, Nicky
name: Wright, Alan
name: Heaven, Anne
name: Hawkins, Rebecca
name: Smith, Jane
name: Cundill, Bonnie
name: Foy, Robbie
name: Lawton, Rebecca
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Hulme, Claire
name: Clegg, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Topic Guide 4. Age UK PIC Exit Interview.
title: Emulsion templating as a route to the release of organic micro- and nano- particles
Creators: name: Cameron Grant, Neil
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Many useful organic molecules such as drugs are poorly soluble in water. Novel ways of the deployment of these molecules are as stable nanodispersions. In our research we aim to produce a method for the creation of nanoparticles via a technique called emulsion-evaporation. These techniques include the creation of emulsions, ~olymerisation and A.,. .•••• ,. • freeze-drying. The production of these nanoparticles in-situ with templated porous polymers by these techniques was used. This avoids the problem of nanoparticle aggregation. These nanoparticles can be released into an aqueous medium by diffusing out of the porous scaffold or by a stimuli-sensitive trigger. We describe here the preparation of porous poly N-isopropylacrylamide. The swelling of the polymer and contraction above a solution temperature were explored for the uptake and release of polymeric colloids. The thesis discusses the application of readily soluble aqueous nanodispersions prepared by using a polyvinyl alcohol/sodium dodecyl sulphate (PVA/SDS) monolith prepared by emulsion templating. The monoliths can be prepared with the in-situ formation of drug nanoparticles which, readily solubilises the drug as nanodispersions. The thesis continues to explore stimuli as a method for the release of the organic nanoparticles: a chitosan based emulsion templated monolith was prepared which can release the formed nanoparticles from the scaffolds via control of pH. Finally, the use of a disulphide crosslinked polymer was explored for the release of organic nanoparticles. The particles could be released from the polymer by using a disulphide bond "cleaver" which degrades the polymer and thus releasing the internal organic nanoparticles. ii
Dietikon im Wandel der Zeit [1830-1890]
Creators: name: Wiederkehr, Lorenz
Publisher: name: Buchdruckerei Oscar Hummel
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Dietikon
subject: Limmat
subject: Reppisch
subject: Industrialisierung
subject: Dietikon. Gemeinderat
subject: Gemeindeverwaltung
subject: Gemeindeentwicklung

description: Inhalt: Dietikon 1830-1890, Bauerngemeinde zu Beginn der Industrialisierung ; Gewässer und ihre Korrektionen ; Industrie und Handwerk ; Die Behörden ; Gesetze und Verträge.
A Roman tile kiln at Rosehill, Reigate
Creators: name: Vaughan-Williams, A
name: Palmer, A
name: Li, Han
name: Corke, Emma
name: Branch, Nicholas P
name: Scott, A
name: Poulton, Rob
name: Austin, Phil
name: Burgess, Peter M
name: Jones, Phil M
name: Bird, David G
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Surrey Archaeological Collections, 106, 143-194
description: An unusually well-preserved Roman tile kiln was excavated in the grounds of Rosehill, Doods Way, Reigate in 2004 and revealed a Type III rectangular updraught kiln with substantial remains of the stokehole, fire tunnel and combustion chamber surviving to a level just below where the oven floor would have been. Other evidence suggests the former presence of a cover building around it. Notable features of the kiln include an elaborate drainage system of box-flue tiles (most with combed decorative schemes, but thirteen with relief-patterned designs) and an imposing facade principally formed with large Upper Greensand (Reigate Stone) blocks, which close examination indicates were 'seconds' from an industry producing large high-quality ashlar items. The kiln had undergone considerable wear during its first phase of use and was then subject to substantial repairs and alterations, notably a narrowing of the bore of the combustion chamber. The final firing of the kiln was archaeomagnetically dated to AD 40-101 at 95% probability while other evidence indicates activity continuing until at least the early 2nd century AD. Previous discoveries in the immediate area suggest it formed part of a substantial complex (the Doods Farm industry). The evidence from this site and from the Ashtead tile industry supports an early (mid-1st century) date for the beginnings of relief-patterned tile production and offers insights into the way producers of the W-chevron group of die patterns interacted. In turn, this draws further attention to the rapid development and innovation in Roman baths technology in the South-East and the ways in which it was managed. The additional identification, from the Reigate Stone blocks, of a nearby quarrying and stone-dressing industry, implies substantial capital investment to underpin the burgeoning infrastructure of Roman Britain.