cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The influence of mental toughness on the performance of elite intercollegiate athletes
Creators: name: Jones, Kelly A.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2011

description:
Research on mental toughness has gained momentum in the past decade, yet there is still a need for exploration of the topic and definition, especially from a developmental perspective. This study explored the influence of mental toughness on the performance of elite intercollegiate athletes by considering the mental skills athletes used to achieve success in their sport; consideration was also paid to the developmental aspects of the athletes. This study utilized both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 NCAA Division II All-American athletes using pre-determined questions related to the following content categories: developmental aspects, peak performance and flow, general performance characteristics, mental toughness, confidence, achievement motivation and passion for sport, coping with adversity, and performing effectively under pressure. Content analysis identified 418 raw data themes, from which 68 general themes were identified. Further content analysis resulted in 28 emergent themes which were grouped into the following umbrella categories: experiences, motivation, cognitive processes, success related mental skills, and mental toughness attributes. Several developmental aspects, mental skills, and mental toughness attributes were discovered as universal to all or the majority of the athletes who were interviewed. Based on the content analysis results, a definition for mental toughness is proposed. The athletes were also administered the Athletic Coping Skills Inventory - 28 as a quantitative measure of the mental skills used to achieve success in sport. The results obtained from this inventory were used in a descriptive manner. As a group, the athletes scored highest on the subscales of confidence and achievement motivation, coachability, and concentration. There was considerable variation between the athletes with regard to total scores obtained from the inventory.
Verkauft. Enteignet. Verbüchert. Eine kleine, aber feine Ausstellung über Wiener Liegenschaften 1938-1943 im Wien Museum
Creators: name: Mertens, Christian
Publisher: name: AKMB-news: Informationen zu Kunst, Museum und Bibliothek
Year: 2018

description: -
description: AKMB-news: Informationen zu Kunst, Museum und Bibliothek, Bd. 12, Nr. 1 (2006): AKMB-news
Pentraxina 3 come potenziale marcatore di danno endoteliale in gravidanze complicate da preeclampsia e ritardato accrescimento intrauterino.
Creators: name: COZZI, VERONICA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Objectives: Endothelial dysfunction typical of preeeclampsia (PE) is the result of an excessive maternal inflammatory response to pregnancy. PE can occur alone or together with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). We investigated PTX3 in maternal, fetal and placental compartments in complicated pregnancies. Study design: Maternal blood samples were collected during the III trimester in 53 PE, 43 IUGR and 50 normal pregnancies. Fetal samples were collected from the umbilical vein in 26 PE, 23 IUGR and 26 normal pregnancies at elective cesarean section. PTX3 plasma levels were determined by ELISA. Pattern and site of expression of PTX3 was studied by immunohistochemistry (IHC) on placenta, decidual bed and maternal peritoneum. Results: PE and IUGR pregnancies showed significantly higher median maternal PTX3 levels vs normal pregnancies (24.8 and 9.9 vs 3.8 ng/ml; p<0.001). IUGR showed significantly lower levels than PE (p<0.001). Severe PE revealed higher levels (33.1 vs 17.1 ng/ml, p<0.001) than mild PE. Severe PE with HELLP presented significantly higher levels. IHC on placenta and decidual bed biopsies showed similar expression in pathologic compared to normal cases. Maternal peritoneum expressed a significantly higher signal in the endothelium of pathological vs normal pregnancies. PTX3 was detected in the fetal circulation with values significantly higher in IUGR thsn in normal fetuses with a trend towards higher values in correlation with IUGR severity. Conclusions: We report elevated maternal levels of PTX3 in PE and IUGR pregnancies. PTX3 levels correlated to clinical severity of disease with higher PTX3 levels in severe than in mild PE, IUGR without clinical PE were significantly different from both normal and PE pregnancies. PTX3 increase may represent the expression of endothelial systemic damage on the maternal side. Moreover, PTX3 is detected in fetal blood and is significantly incresased in IUGR fetuses likely reflecting endothelial damage.
The Walnut Kernel : a password-capability based operating system
Creators: name: Castro, Maurice David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Development and validation of claims-based algorithms to identify pregnancy based on data from a university hospital in Japan
Creators: name: Tajima, Kentaro
name: Ishikawa, Tomofumi
name: Noda, Aoi
name: Matsuzaki, Fumiko
name: Morishita, Kei
name: Inoue, Ryusuke
name: Iwama, Noriyuki
name: Nishigori, Hidekazu
name: Sugawara, Junichi
name: Saito, Masatoshi
name: Obara, Taku
name: Mano, Nariyasu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: When using administrative data, validation is essential since these data are not collected for research purposes and misclassification can occur. Thus, this study aimed to develop algorithms identifying pregnancy and to evaluate the validity of administrative claims data in Japan. All females who visited the Tohoku University Hospital Department of Obstetrics in 2018 were included. The diagnosis, medical procedure, medication, and medical service addition fee data were utilized to identify pregnancy, with the electronic medical records set as the gold standard. Combination algorithms were developed using predefined pregnancy-related claims data with a positive predictive value (PPV) ≥80%. Sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP), PPV, and negative predictive value (NPV) with their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated for these combination algorithms. This study included 1757 females with a mean age of 32.8 (standard deviation: 5.9) years. In general, the individual claims data were able to identify pregnancy with a PPV ≥80%; however, the number of pregnancies identified using a single claims data was limited. Based on the combination algorithm with all of the categories, including diagnosis, medical procedure, medication, and medical service addition, the calculated SE, SP, PPV, and NPV were 73.4% (95% CI: 71.2%–75.4%), 96.9% (95% CI: 89.3%–99.6%), 99.8%,(95% CI: 99.4%–100.0%), and 12.3% (95% CI: 9.6%–15.4%), respectively. The combination algorithm to identify pregnancy demonstrated a high PPV and moderate SE. The algorithm validated in this study is expected to accelerate future studies that aim to identify pregnancies and evaluate pregnancy outcome.
The spin connection of twisted geometry
Creators: name: Haggard, Hal M.
name: Rovelli, Carlo
name: Vidotto, Francesca
name: Wieland, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Twisted geometry is a piecewise-flat geometry less rigid than Regge geometry. In Loop Gravity, it provides the classical limit for each step of the truncation utilized in the definition of the quantum theory. We define the torsionless spin-connection of a twisted geometry. The difficulty given by the discontinuity of the triad is addressed by interpolating between triads. The curvature of the resulting spin connection reduces to the Regge curvature in the case of a Regge geometry.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Development of a claims-based flare algorithm for systemic lupus erythematosus
Creators: name: Goetz, Iris
name: Choong, Casey
name: Winnie, Jennifer
name: Nelson, David R.
name: Birt, Julie
name: Noxon, Virginia
name: Varker, Helen
name: Zimmerman, Nicole
name: Tkacz, Joseph
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: To develop a claims-based algorithm identifying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) flares using a linked claims-electronic medical record (EMR) dataset. This study was a retrospective analysis of linked administrative claims and EMR data spanning 1 January 2003 to 31 March 2019. Included were adult SLE patients with at least 12 months of continuous enrollment in claims data, 12 months of clinical activity in EMR, and an absence of malignancies excluding basal and squamous cell carcinoma. Patient follow-up was divided into 30-day windows, and a proxy SLEDAI-2K score based on the EMR data was calculated for each 30-day period. A flare was defined as an increase of at least 4 from the baseline score. A series of potential flare predictor variables identified in claims were based on a combination of established variables from a previous algorithm, with the addition of other SLE-related indicators based on clinical input. Logistic regression models were built to predict monthly SLE flares. Inclusion criteria identified 2427 patients. Results from a logistic model with forward selection capping the number of variables at 10 performed well with a c-statistic of 0.76 and a Brier score of 0.07. The top five predictors were any inpatient admission (OR = 4.76), outpatient office visit (OR = 3.04), MRI (OR = 2.26), ER visit (OR = 2.25), and number of rheumatology visits (OR = 1.75); p < .01 for all. The final algorithm shows promise in providing an alternative and more streamlined way for identifying likely flares in administrative claims data that will advance the study of SLE within the context of flares.
title: The first pre- and post-wildfire charcoal quantification using peroxide-acid digestion
Creators: name: Pingree, Melissa R.A.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2011

description: In the summer of 2002, the 200,000-ha Biscuit Wildfire consumed a portion of  the 150-ha Long-Term Ecosystem Productivity (LTEP) experiment in the Siskiyou  National Forest, Oregon. The wildfire burned previously established 100-year-old conifer  control and thinned experimental units, which allows comparison with prescribed burn  and unburned units. This research evaluates the O horizon and mineral soil charcoal, a  key fire-related soil component that affects physical and chemical properties. Charcoal C  was quantified by a peroxide-acid digestion method developed for forest soils. Charcoal  C was 17% of the organic C for a reference Australian Vertisol soil and 9% for a German  Chernozem, which are similar to published values from a dichromate digestion method.  The charcoal C of the Siskiyou LTEP soils was quantified in hand-sorted charcoal from  the O horizon and in the < 4-mm fraction of the A (0-3 cm depth) and B1 (3-15 cm depth)  mineral soil horizons. The mineral soils contained substantial amounts of charcoal C and  no changes were detected as a result of prescribed or wildfire. Concentrations were 10 g  charcoal C/kg in A horizon and 7 g charcoal C/kg in B1 horizon and areal masses  averaged 1,860 kg charcoal C/ha in A layer soils and 5,260 kg charcoal C/ha for B1 layer  soils. Charcoal C in the O layer averaged 18 kg charcoal C/ha prior to the fire and was increased by a factor of 5 by both prescribed fire and wildfire. The effect of thinning on  wildfire-induced charcoal C changes was non-significant. Charcoal was formed at a rate  of 0.5 - 6.0% of surface woody fuels consumed in the wildfire. Long-term soil C  sequestration in the Siskiyou - LTEP soils is greatly influenced by the contribution of  charcoal C, which makes up 20% of mineral soil organic C. The significant effect of  recent fire on the O layer soils demonstrates the significant short-term effects of the Biscuit Wildfire and the dynamic nature of the O layer. This research reiterates the  importance of wildfire and prescribed fire to soil C in a Southwestern Oregon coniferous  forest ecosystem.
Nanosimulation of the cytoskeleton and related self-assembling structures : using computational techniques to analyse and model the structure and dynamics of microtubules, actin strands, viral assembly, plasmodesmata, and nanoscale structures in general
Creators: name: Betts, Christopher
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Additional file 1 of Genome-wide identification of ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporter and heavy metal associated (HMA) gene families in flax (Linum usitatissimum L.)
Creators: name: Khan, Nadeem
name: You, Frank M.
name: Datla, Raju
name: Ravichandran, Sridhar
name: Jia, Bosen
name: Cloutier, Sylvie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) plot of nine different tissues displaying the relative similarities between the biological replicates based on the log fold change values. Figure S2. Interaction network of ABC transporter genes (a) and HMA genes (b). Figure S3. Schematic representations of the two most stable genes among nine Cd candidate genes based on their conserved gene structure (a), gene expression (b), non-synonymous/synonymous substitution rates (c), and Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) (d).
The Embassy of Aliens
Creators: name: Chan, Hung Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: aliens, reimagining, futures

description: Without any scientifically confirmed discoveries to go on, what aliens look like, and the often violent and exploitative behavior and intentions that pop culture ascribes to them, are entirely products of our own imagination. Aliens come from inside ourselves. The Embassy of Aliens is a diplomacy initiative to develop and promote intragalactic tools through which to develop a reimagining of aliens. The first tool to be launched is a musical instrument that facilitates communication between humans and their inner alien. The project hopes to challenge the way we think about the stereotypes, stigmas, and borders we project onto others, societies and worlds.
Controlling spontaneous-emission noise in measurement-based feedback cooling of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Creators: name: Hush, M. R.
name: Szigeti, S. S.
name: Carvalho, A. R. R.
name: Hope, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Off-resonant optical imaging is the most popular method for continuous monitoring of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). However, the disturbance caused by scattered photons places a serious limitation on the lifetime of such continuously-monitored condensates. In this paper, we demonstrate that a new choice of feedback control can overcome the heating effects of the measurement backaction. In particular, we show that the measurement backaction caused by off-resonant optical imaging is a multimode quantum-field effect, as the entire heating process is not seen in single-particle or mean-field models of the system. Correctly simulating such continuously-monitored systems is only possible using the number-phase Wigner (NPW) particle filter, which is a hybrid between the leading techniques for simulating non-equilibrium dynamics in condensates and particle filters for simulating high-dimensional non-Gaussian filters in the field of engineering. The new control scheme will enable long-term continuous measurement and feedback on one of the leading platforms for precision measurement and the simulation of quantum fields, allowing for the possibility of single-shot experiments, adaptive measurements and robust state-preparation and manipulation.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures
SYNTHESIS OF INTEGRIN-TARGETING PRO-DRUGS FOR THE SELECTIVE RELEASE OF ANTI-TUMOR AGENTS
Creators: name: LOPEZ RIVAS, PAULA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: In this PhD work, a variety of new SMDCs were designed and synthesized featuring different types of linkers and cytotoxic payloads. All of them were characterized and conjugated to peptidomimetic ligands bearing the RGD sequence (namely, the cyclo[DKP-RGD] and cyclo[RDGfK] compounds) aimed at targeting ?V?3 integrin receptor, which is overexpressed in many human cancers. Firstly, six new conjugates containing peptide linkers prone to cleavage in intracellular vesicles (such as the lysosomes) were synthesized and evaluated in vitro. The loss of potency generally displayed by these SMDCs in antiproliferative assays prompted us to the design of new conjugates bearing peptide linkers susceptible to proteolysis in the extracellular environment. This strategy has got credits from literature data and it has been proposed as a promising alternative to internalizing conjugates. Based on this, two new conjugates containing aminoacid sequences recognized and cleaved by MMP-2 were synthesized. The conjugates? binding ability was studied by competitive binding assays on the integrin ?V?3 receptor was studied, and the effective cleavage of the peptide linker in the presence of recombinant human MMP-2 was observed. Finally, two new conjugates that may be activated both in intracellular compartments and in extracellular milieu, by means of the ubiquitous tumor-associated enzyme ?-glucuronidase, were synthesized and evaluated by their ability of inhibit biotinylated vitronectin (binding assays). Further evaluation of the efficient drug release from these non-internalizing prodrugs, brought at the diseased site by the RGD affinity for tumor-expressed integrins, will potentially support the clinical investigation of this anticancer devices.
MBE growth and characterization of a II-VI distributed Bragg reflector and microcavity lattice-matched to MgTe
Creators: name: Rousset, J. -G.
name: Kobak, J.
name: Slupinski, T.
name: Jakubczyk, T.
name: Stawicki, P.
name: Janik, E.
name: Tokarczyk, M.
name: Kowalski, G.
name: Nawrocki, M.
name: Pacuski, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the realization and characterization of a 20 fold, fully lattice-matched epitaxial distributed Bragg reflector based on (Cd,Zn)Te and (Cd,Zn,Mg)Te layers. We also present a microcavity based on (Cd,Zn,Mg)Te containing a (Cd,Zn)Te quantum well. Reflectivity spectra, photoluminescence in real space and in far field are presented.
description: 4 pages, 9 figures
Ageing in granular aluminium insulating thin films
Creators: name: Delahaye, Julien
name: Grenet, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new set of electrical field effect measurements on granular aluminium insulating thin films. We have explored how the conductance relaxations induced by gate voltage changes depend on the age of the system, namely the time elapsed since its quench at low temperature. A clear age dependence of the relaxations is seen, qualitatively similar to ageing effects seen in other well studied glassy systems such as spin glasses or polymers. We explain how our results differ from the previous ones obtained with different protocols in indium oxide and granular aluminium thin films. Our experimental findings bring new information on the dynamics of the system and put new constraints on the theoretical models that may explain slow conductance relaxations in disordered insulators.
description: 4 pages, 13th Transport in interacting disordered systems (TIDS13) conference, 31.08.2009 - 05.09.2009, Rackeve, Hungary
Hubble Space Telescope reveals multiple Sub-Giant Branch in eight Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Piotto, G.
name: Milone, A. P.
name: Anderson, J.
name: Bedin, L. R.
name: Bellini, A.
name: Cassisi, S.
name: Marino, A. F.
name: Aparicio, A.
name: Nascimbeni, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last few years many globular clusters (GCs) have revealed complex color-magnitude diagrams, with the presence of multiple main sequences (MSs), broaden or multiple sub-giant branches (SGBs) and MS turn offs, and broad or split red giant branches (RGBs). After a careful correction for differential reddening, high accuracy photometry with the Hubble Space Telescope presented in this paper reveals a broadened or even split SGB in five additional Milky Way GCs: NGC 362, NGC 5286, NGC 6656, NGC 6715, and NGC 7089. In addition, we confirm (with new and archival HST data) the presence of a split SGB in 47Tuc, NGC 1851, and NGC 6388. The fraction of faint SGB stars with respect to the entire SGB population varies from one cluster to another and ranges from $\sim$0.03 for NGC 362 to ~0.50 for NGC 6715. The average magnitude difference between the bright SGB and the faint SGB is almost the same at different wavelengths. This peculiarity is consistent with the presence of two groups of stars with either an age difference of about 1-2 Gyrs, or a significant difference in their overall C+N+O content.
description: 47 pages, 26 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Statistical properties of twin kHz QPO in neutron star LMXBs
Creators: name: Wang, D. H.
name: Chen, L.
name: Zhang, C. M.
name: Lei, Y. J.
name: Qu, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We collect the data of twin kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) published before 2012 from 26 neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) sources, then we analyze the centroid frequency (ν) distribution of twin kHz QPOs (lower frequency ν_1 and upper frequency ν_2) both for Atoll and Z sources. For the data without shift-and-add, we find that Atoll and Z sources show the different distributions of ν_1, ν_2 and ν_2/ν_1, but the same distribution of Δν(difference of twin kHz QPOs), which indicates that twin kHz QPOs may share the common properties of LXMBs and have the same physical origins. The distribution of Δνis quite different from constant value, so is ν_2/ν_1 from constant ratio. The weighted mean values and maxima of ν_1 and ν_2 in Atoll sources are slightly higher than those in Z sources. We also find that shift-and-add technique can reconstruct the distribution of ν_1 and Δν. The K-S test results of ν_1 and Δνbetween Atoll and Z sources from data with shift-and-add are quite different from those without it, and we think that this may be caused by the selection biases of the sample. We also study the properties of the quality factor (Q) and the root-mean-squared (rms) amplitude of 4U 0614+09 with the data from the two observational methods, but the errors are too big to make a robust conclusion. The NS spin frequency (ν_s) distribution of 28 NS-LMXBs show a bigger mean value (about 408Hz) than that (about 281 Hz) of the radio binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which may be due to the lack of the spin detections from Z sources (systematically lower than 281 Hz). Furthermore, on the relations between the kHz QPOs and NS spin frequency ν_s, we find the approximate correlations of the mean values of Δνwith NS spin and its half, respectively.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables
title: Targeting watersheds for enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in Whatcom County, Washington
Creators: name: Symonds, Kara
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2006

description:
Anadromous salmon populations of the Pacific Northwest have been decreasing for decades in response to a variety of factors, such as habitat destruction, overharvesting, and declining water quality. In Washington State's Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 1, the State Conservation Commission listed the habitat limiting factors for salmon and steelhead as: sedimentation problems associated with landslides, overharvesting, lack of large woody debris, warmer stream temperatures, and impacts to riparian, floodplain, water quality, and flow conditions. The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) addresses habitat limiting factors associated with agricultural land use. CREP projects involve the installation of forested riparian buffers along anadromous steams in agricultural areas while providing farmers with financial assistance to compensate for lost production. CREP projects are designed to provide a variety of ecological benefits, such as large woody debris recruitment potential, stream shading and cooling, and pollutant and sediment trapping. The program could have more impact if enrollment is targeted towards watersheds that show the most potential to gain ecological benefits from CREP buffers. The primary objective of this research is to target WRIA 1 watersheds for CREP enrollment using water quality, salmon habitat, and soil data criteria within a Geographic Information System (GIS) framework. The goal of the research is to provide a targeted approach to CREP enrollment that addresses both salmon habitat limiting factors and soil conservation planning. The results of this study show that Silver, Bertrand, Johnson, Ten Mile, Schell, Deer, Black Slough, Breckenridge, California, and Lower South Fork Nooksack watersheds show the most potential to benefit from increased CREP enrollments.
Fluctuation analysis: can estimates be trusted?
Creators: name: Ycart, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 92D25, 60J28

description: The estimation of mutation probabilities and relative fitnesses in fluctuation analysis is based on the unrealistic hypothesis that the single-cell times to division are exponentially distributed. Using the classical Luria-Delbrück distribution outside its modelling hypotheses induces an important bias on the estimation of the relative fitness. The model is extended here to any division time distribution. Mutant counts follow a generalization of the Luria-Delbrück distribution, which depends on the mean number of mutations, the relative fitness of normal cells compared to mutants, and the division time distribution of mutant cells. Empirical probability generating function techniques yield precise estimates both of the mean number of mutations and the relative fitness of normal cells compared to mutants. In the case where no information is available on the division time distribution, it is shown that the estimation procedure using constant division times yields more reliable results. Numerical results both on observed and simulated data are reported.
Rylands Esoterica; Magic, Monsters and Macabre at The John Rylands Research Insitute and Library
Creators: name: Robinson, James
Publisher: name: University of Manchester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This lightning talk will delve into the esoteric items that the John Rylands Research Institute and Library holds, being brought together in the Magic Monsters and Macabre MDC collection. The collection currently has 40 items, from alchemical texts to confessions and executions of prisoners, certificates of pagan sacrifice to experimental early photography.
 Earlier this year I started to look at expanding the collection, and have begun my own research into what else is hidden away on the shelves and in boxes, and have uncovered some fantastic items that will be added. I have also begun an Instagram page; @Rylands_Esoterica sharing content with a wide audience and engaging with social media from a more personal approach as a staff member.
Modes of star formation from Herschel
Creators: name: Testi, Leonardo
name: Bressert, Eli
name: Longmore, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize some of the results obtained from Herschel surveys of the nearby star forming regions and the Galactic plane. We show that in the nearby star forming regions the starless core spatial surface density distribution is very similar to that of the young stellar objects. This, taken together with the similarity between the core mass function and the initial mass function for stars and the relationship between the amount of dense gas and star formation rate, suggest that the cloud fragmentation process defines the global outcome of star formation. This "simple" view of star formation may not hold on all scales. In particular dynamical interactions are expected to become important at the conditions required to form young massive clusters. We describe the successes of a simple criterion to identify young massive cluster precursors in our Galaxy based on (sub-)millimetre wide area surveys. We further show that in the location of our Galaxy where the best candidate for a precursor of a young massive cluster is found, the "simple" scaling relationship between dense gas and star formation rate appear to break down. We suggest that in regions where the conditions approach those of the central molecular zone of our Galaxy it may be necessary to revise the scaling laws for star formation.
description: To appear in the IAUS292 proceedings
The strong environmental dependence of black hole scaling relations
Creators: name: McGee, Sean L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate how the scaling relations between central black hole mass (Mbh) and host galaxy properties (velocity dispersion, bulge stellar mass and bulge luminosity) depend on the large scale environment. For each of a sample of 69 galaxies with dynamical black hole measurements we compile four environmental measures (nearest neighbor distance, fixed aperture number density, total halo mass, and central/satellite). We find that central and satellite galaxies follow distinctly separate scalings in each of the three relations we have examined. The Mbh - sigma relation of central galaxies is significantly steeper (6.38 +/- 0.49) than that of satellite galaxies (4.91 +/- 0.49), but has a similar intercept. This behavior remains even after restricting to a sample of only early type galaxies or after removing the 8 brightest cluster galaxies. The Mbh - sigma relation shows more modest differences when splitting the sample based on the other environmental indicators, suggesting that they are driven by the underlying satellite/central fractions. Separate relations for centrals and satellites are also seen in the power law scaling between black hole mass and bulge stellar mass or bulge luminosity. We suggest that gas rich, low mass galaxies undergo a period of rapid black hole growth in the process of becoming satellites. If central galaxies on the current Mbh - sigma relation are representative progenitors of the satellite population, the observations imply that a sigma = 120 km/s galaxy must nearly triple its central black hole mass. The elevated black hole masses of massive central galaxies are then a natural consequence of the accretion of satellites.
description: 16 pages, MNRAS, in press
Chiral Symmetry and Many-Body Effect in Multilayer Graphene
Creators: name: Hamamoto, Yuji
name: Kawarabayashi, Tohru
name: Aoki, Hideo
name: Hatsugai, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Influence of the chiral symmetry on the many-body problem in multilayer graphene in magnetic fields is investigated. For a spinless electron model on the honeycomb lattice the many-body ground state is shown to be a doubly-degenerate chiral condensate irrespective of the number of layers. The energy spectrum calculated numerically with the exact diagonalization method reveals for ABC-stacked multilayer graphenes that the many-body gap decreases monotonically with the number of layers.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, proceeding of the 20th International Conference on High Magnetic Fields in Semiconductor Physics (HMF-20)
title: АКАДЕМИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ЗВУКА И АУДИАЛЬНЫЙ РЕНЕССАНС В УРБАНИСТИКЕ
Creators: name: Майорова, Ксения
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Цель статьи заключается в прояснении взаимосвязи между развитием академических исследований звука, с одной стороны, и городских исследований и градостроительной практики, с другой стороны, в перспективе изучения звукового измерения идентичности места. Обнаружив чёткую хронологическую параллель между формированием междисциплинарной исследовательской области Sound Studies и всплеском интереса к звуку в урбанистике, автор называет второе явление аудиальным ренессансом и анализирует понятийную базу обсуждения звука в городских исследованиях и градостроительной практике. В конечном счёте автор приходит к выводу, что получившее распространение в урбанистическом дискурсе понятие «саундскейп» не соответствует актуальным теоретическим разработкам в Sound Studies. Во избежание повторения ошибок, связанных с употреблением недостаточно актуального концептуального аппарата, в исследованиях идентичности места, автор предлагает понятие «identity of a place». В отличие от «place identity», оно открывает возможность для обнаружения в нём звукового измерения, которое не будет отягчено субъективизмом.
Revisiting eight-manifold flux compactifications of M-theory using geometric algebra techniques
Creators: name: Babalic, Elena-Mirela
name: Lazaroiu, Calin-Iuliu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by open problems in F-theory, we reconsider warped compactifications of M theory on 8-manifolds to AdS3 spaces in the presence of a non-trivial field strength of the M-theory 3-form, studying the most general conditions under which such backgrounds preserve N=2 supersymmetry in three dimensions. In contrast with previous studies, we allow for the most general pair of Majorana generalized Killing pinors on the internal 8-manifold, without imposing any chirality conditions on those pinors. We also show how such pinors can be lifted to the 9-dimensional metric cone over the compactification 8-manifold. We describe the translation of the generalized Killing pinor equations for such backgrounds to a system of differential and algebraic constraints on certain form-valued pinor bilinears and develop techniques through which such equations can be analyzed efficiently.
description: 9 pages, conference proceedings for "The 8th Workshop on Quantum Field Theory and Hamiltonian Systems", Sept. 2012, Craiova, Romania
Discriminating between lepton number violating scalars using events with four and three charged leptons at the LHC
Creators: name: del Aguila, Francisco
name: Chala, Mikael
name: Santamaria, Arcadi
name: Wudka, Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many Standard Model extensions predict doubly-charged scalars; in particular, all models with resonances in charged lepton-pair channels with non-vanishing lepton number; if these are pair produced at the LHC, the observation of their decay into $l^\pm l^\pm W^\mp W^\mp$ will be necessary in order to establish their lepton-number violating character, which is generally not straightforward. Nonetheless, the analysis of events containing four charged leptons (including scalar decays into one or two taus as well as into W bosons) makes it possible to determine whether the doubly-charged excitation belongs to a multiplet with weak isospin T = 0, 1/2, 1, 3/2 or 2 (assuming there are no excitations with charge > 2); though discriminating between the isosinglet and isodoublet cases is possible only if charged-current events cannot produce the doubly-charged isosinglet.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures. V3: matches published version
Measurement of the rapidity-even dipolar flow in Pb-Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: Jia, Jiangyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rapidity-even dipolar flow v1 associated with dipole asymmetry in the initial geometry is measured over a broad range in transverse momentum 0.5 GeV
description: 9 pages, 6 figures. Proceedings for the 28th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Dorado Del Mar, Puerto Rico, United States Of America, 7 - 14 Apr 2012
A self-reconfiguring computer system
Creators: name: Saleeba, Zik Michael Graeme
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
$γ$ gravity: Steepness control
Creators: name: O'Dwyer, M.
name: Joras, S. E.
name: Waga, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a simple generalization of the metric exponential $f(R)$ gravity theory that is cosmologically viable and compatible with solar system tests of gravity. We show that, as compared to other viable $f(R)$ theories, its steep dependence on the Ricci scalar $R$ facilitates agreement with structure constraints, opening the possibility of $f(R)$ models with equation-of-state parameter that could be differentiated from a cosmological constant ($w_{de}=-1$) with future surveys at both background and perturbative levels.
description: v3: matches the version accepted by PRD
Saddle-Node Bifurcation Associated with Parasitic Inductor Resistance in Boost Converters
Creators: name: Fang, Chung-Chieh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Saddle-node bifurcation occurs in a boost converter when parasitic inductor resistance is modeled. Closed-form critical conditions of the bifurcation are derived. If the parasitic inductor resistance is modeled, the saddle-node bifurcation occurs in the voltage mode control or in the current mode control with the voltage loop closed, but not in the current mode control with the voltage loop open. If the parasitic inductor resistance is not modeled, the saddle-node bifurcation does not occur, and one may be misled by the wrong dynamics and the wrong steady-state solutions. The saddle-node bifurcation still exists even in a boost converter with a popular type-III compensator. When the saddle-node bifurcation occurs, multiple steady-state solutions may coexist. The converter may operate with a voltage jump from one solution to another. Care should be taken in the compensator design to ensure that only the desired solution is stabilized. In industry practice, the solution with a higher duty cycle (and thus the saddle-node bifurcation) may be prevented by placing a limitation on the maximum duty cycle.
description: Minor revision from a manuscript dated in 2010
Testing phenomenological and theoretical models of dark matter density profiles with galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Silva, Leandro J. Beraldo e
name: Lima, Marcos
name: Sodré, Laerte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the stacked gravitational lensing mass profile of four high-mass (M >~10^{15}Msun) galaxy clusters around z ~ 0.3 from Umetsu et al. to fit density profiles of phenomenological [Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW), Einasto, Sérsic, Stadel, Baltz-Marshall-Oguri (BMO) and Hernquist] and theoretical (non-singular Isothermal Sphere, DARKexp and Kang & He) models of the dark matter distribution. We account for large-scale structure effects, including a 2-halo term in the analysis. We find that the BMO model provides the best fit to the data as measured by the reduced chi^2. It is followed by the Stadel profile, the generalized NFW profile with a free inner slope and by the Einasto profile. The NFW model provides the best fit if we neglect the 2-halo term, in agreement with results from Umetsu et al. Among the theoretical profiles, the DARKexp model with a single form parameter has the best performance, very close to that of the BMO profile. This may indicate a connection between this theoretical model and the phenomenology of dark matter halos, shedding light on the dynamical basis of empirical profiles which emerge from numerical simulations.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables. Submitted to MNRAS Published in MNRAS - Correction of typos and inclusion of description of data
Electroweak Measurements in Electron-Positron Collisions at W-Boson-Pair Energies at LEP
Creators: name: The ALEPH Collaboration
name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: The L3 Collaboration
name: The OPAL Collaboration
name: The LEP Electroweak Working Group
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the electron-positron collider LEP at CERN from 1995 to 2000 are reported. The combined data set considered in this report corresponds to a total luminosity of about 3 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the four LEP experiments ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 130 GeV to 209 GeV. Combining the published results of the four LEP experiments, the measurements include total and differential cross-sections in photon-pair, fermion-pair and four-fermion production, the latter resulting from both double-resonant WW and ZZ production as well as singly resonant production. Total and differential cross-sections are measured precisely, providing a stringent test of the Standard Model at centre-of-mass energies never explored before in electron-positron collisions. Final-state interaction effects in four-fermion production, such as those arising from colour reconnection and Bose-Einstein correlations between the two W decay systems arising in WW production, are searched for and upper limits on the strength of possible effects are obtained. The data are used to determine fundamental properties of the W boson and the electroweak theory. Among others, the mass and width of the W boson, $M_W$ and $Γ_W$, the branching fraction of W decays to hadrons, $B(W\to\mathrm{had})$, and the trilinear gauge-boson self-couplings $g^Z_1$, $κ_γ$ and $λ_γ$ are determined to be: M_W = 80.376 \pm 0.033 ~GeV Γ_W = 2.195 \pm 0.083 ~GeV B(W\to\mathrm{had}) = 67.41 \pm 0.27 % g^Z_1 = 0.984 ^{+0.018}_{-0.020} κ_γ= 0.982 \pm 0.042 λ_γ= -0.022 \pm 0.019
description: This revision: Final journal version (Physics Reports)
Pendidikan Kristen Bagi Etika dan Karakter Siswa Studi pada Yayasan Sekolah Kristen Indonesia
Creators: name: Susanto, Hery
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: karakter
subject: etika
subject: pendidikan moral
subject: Pendidikan Kristen

description: Pendidikan Kristen bukan sekedar menjadi pendidikan moral biasa tetapi juga membawa visi dan misi membangun manusia yang cerdas berkarakter dan beretika
title: Kategorisierung und Bewertung plattformübergreifender Ansätze für die Auswahl eines Frameworks
Creators: name: Bertels, Anja
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek der Technischen Hochschule Köln
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft

description: Die plattformübergreifende Entwicklung ist eine populäre Art der Anwendungsentwicklung, die in der Forschung und Industrie immer weiter an Relevanz gewinnt. Dabei wird eine Codebasis geschrieben, die auf mehreren Betriebssystemen lauffähig ist. Das Ziel dieses Ansatzes ist es unter anderem, die Zeit- und Kosteneffizienz zu optimieren. Es gibt verschiedene Ansätze der plattformübergreifenden Entwicklung. Die einzelnen Frameworks lassen sich wiederum in diese Ansätze einteilen. Durch die steigende Akzeptanz dieser Art der Entwicklung herrscht eine zu große Auswahl an Frameworks, von denen jedes eigene Stärken und Schwächen aufweist. Dies ist ein Problem, da Entwickelnde keine Übersicht und Einordnung der Frameworks für ihre individuellen Bedürfnisse haben. Um diesem Problem entgegen zu wirken, wird in dieser Arbeit ein Verfahren entwickelt, mit dem das passende Framework für die Rahmenbedingungen des jeweiligen Projekts ermittelt werden kann. Dazu werden die Frameworks Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, React Native und Vue.js, das zur Umsetzung einer PWA genutzt wird, für eine mobile Anwendung getestet, die auf Android und iOS Geräten laufen soll. Zusätzlich werden 44 Kriterien ermittelt, anhand derer die Frameworks bewertet werden. Mit dem resultierenden Verfahren kann sowohl eine objektive, als auch eine subjektive Auswertung der Frameworks erfolgen, um eine geeignete Auswahl zu treffen.
description: Cross-platform development is a popular type of application development that is becoming increasingly relevant in research and industry. It involves writing a code base that can run on multiple operating systems. The goal of this approach is, among other things, to optimize time and cost efficiency. There are various approaches to cross-platform development. The individual frameworks can be divided into these approaches. Due to the increasing acceptance of this type of development, there is too much choice of frameworks, each of which has its own strengths and weaknesses. This is a problem because developers do not have an overview and taxonomy of the frameworks suitable for their individual needs. To solve this problem, a method to identify the appropriate framework for the context of the project at hand is developed in this thesis. For this purpose, the frameworks Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, React Native and Vue.js, which is used to implement a PWA, are tested for a mobile application that is to run on Android and iOS devices. In addition, 44 criteria are identified based on which the frameworks are evaluated. With the resulting procedure, both an objective and a subjective evaluation of the frameworks can be carried out in order to make a suitable selection.