cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SU NIETZSCHE E BLOCH: NICHILISMO E AUTOCONTRADDITTORIET� DELLA SECOLARIZZAZIONE
Creators: name: CAMPOCCIA, GIUSEPPE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: This study starts from the hypothesis that self-contraddiction constitutes the bond of conjunction between nihilism and secularization. The circle of self-contraddiction constitutes here the central thread for the interpretation of the question of nihilism in Nietzsche and the question of the secularization of the religion as an important part of the thinking of Nietzsche and Bloch. From this point of view Bloch's considerations about�the secularization allow an analysis of the topic�of the nihilism in his work: the secularization of the west-religion shows her link with the main thesis of nihilism and can be interpreted�as her development. Therefore an important part of the thinking of Bloch can be read from the perspective of the renewal of the Nietzschean thesis of the self-contraddiction (self-disintegration) of Christianity in�Atheismus im Christentum,�that is as a philosophical development of the principle of the secularization of west-religion in conjuction with the self-contraddictory logic of the accomplished nihilism.
STUDY OF COLLOIDAL INTERACTIONS MEDIATED BY BIOMOLECULAR RECOGNITION AND BY ELECTROKINETIC FLOWS.
Creators: name: FORNASARI, LUCIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: This PhD thesis focuses on new types of interparticle interactions in colloidal dispersions. In particular, it considers interactions mediated by two different phenomena - biomolecular recognition and electrokinetic flows. The general purpose of this investigation is twofold: while we investigate new mechanisms providing new forms of colloidal interactions, we also exploit the measured interactions to better describe the phenomena at their origin. Indeed, the observed colloidal interactions enable to detect both biomolecular recognition and electrokinetic flows with sensitivity hardly achievable in other ways. In all cases, interactions have been investigated by optical techniques: static and dynamic light scattering, electric
transmitted light intensity and electric birefringence.
The first part of the thesis reports a systematic study of colloidal interactions performed on a dispersion of charged spherical latex particles having two peculiar properties: their surface can be functionalized with various surfactant molecules and their refractive index is very close to that of water. We have quantified
interparticle interactions through the measurement of the second virial coefficients extracted from static and
dynamic light scattering measurements. We have studied particles coated with various surfactants and in presence of various ionic strengths. In particular we have studied particles coated with glyco-lipids, so that
the colloids are effectively coated with sugar groups. In agreement with previous literature we have found attractive interaction in carbohydrate-coated colloidal dispersions when calcium ions are present in the solution.
The second part of the thesis reports a previously undescribed interaction found when colloidal mixture of large and small colloids charged of the same sign are under the effect of an electric field at low (sub-kHz) frequencies. Measurements of the intensity of the transmitted polarized light as a function of field strength and frequency on rods-spheres mixtures have revealed that the previously observed negative torque acting on the rods at low frequency, is accompanied by a field-induced clearing of the dispersion. Measurements
performed on mixtures of large (dilute) and small (semidilute) spherical colloids show that such clearing effect is universal and due to an anisotropic redistribution of the small spheres around the larger ones. O(E2)
electro-osmotic flows, greatly enhanced by the presence of the small spheres, can be the responsible mechanism of the phenomena observed in rod-sphere and sphere-sphere binary mixture of charged colloidal particles.
Chemomechanical Behavior of a Melt-Infiltrated SiC-Si Composite at 900C
Creators: name: Scofield, Gregory D
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Aerospace materials
Ceramics

description: The fracture behavior of melt-infiltrated, equivolume SiC-Si composites, designed to mimic the matrix phase of an industrial ceramic matrix composite (CMC), was examined with the aim of evaluating failure mechanisms operative in different atmospheres and temperatures, and at different applied stress rates. Specimens tested in four-point-bending at 900°C in flowing oxygen-gettered argon, air, or steam-rich atmospheres exhibited higher average fracture strengths than specimens tested at 25°C. Higher mean fracture strength values were obtained for specimens tested in flowing dry air or in a steam-rich atmosphere at 900°C than for specimens tested in high-purity, oxygen-gettered argon at this temperature. The increased fracture strengths obtained in air and in steam-rich atmospheres coincided with increased specimen oxidation, and apparent oxide filling and blunting of flaws in these composites. A transition in the location of catastrophic failure, from the site of preexisting damage created by a Vickers indentation to surface flaws located elsewhere on tension surfaces, was also consistent with such apparent oxide filling/healing of the Vickers indentation-induced flaws. Stress-rate-dependent failure was observed for melt-infiltrated SiC-Si composites tested at 900°C in oxygen-gettered argon and in a steam-rich atmosphere, with increasing average fracture strengths obtained for specimens loaded at decreasing stress rates. The apparent enhanced ductility of specimens loaded in oxygen-gettered argon at 0.111 MPa/min coincided with an increase in mean failure stress relative to specimens tested at 333 MPa/min in this atmosphere. The stress rate dependence of the mean fracture strength of specimens tested in the steam-rich atmosphere was greater than for specimens tested in oxygen-gettered argon. A transition in the location of catastrophic failure, from the site of preexisting damage created by a Vickers indentation to surface flaws located elsewhere on tension surfaces, was observed with a decreasing applied stress rate for specimens tested in the steam-rich atmosphere, but not for specimens tested in oxygen-gettered argon. Both of these latter trends were associated with the apparent oxide filling/healing of the Vickers indentation-induced flaws.
Combination of Bacteriophages and Antibiotics for Prevention of Vascular Graft Infections—An In Vitro Study
Creators: name: Ruemke, Stefan
name: Rubalskii, Evgenii
name: Salmoukas, Christina
name: Hermes, Kristina
name: Natanov, Ruslan
name: Kaufeld, Tim
name: Gryshkov, Oleksandr
name: Mutsenko, Vitalii
name: Rubalsky, Maxim
name: Burgwitz, Karin
name: Glasmacher, Birgit
name: Haverich, Axel
name: Rustum, Saad
name: Kuehn, Christian
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: antibiotics
subject: bacteriophage
subject: coating
subject: fibrin glue
subject: implant-associated infection
subject: prevention
subject: vascular graft
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: (1) Background: Implant-associated bacterial infections are usually hard to treat conservatively due to the resistance and tolerance of the pathogens to conventional antimicrobial therapy. Bacterial colonization of vascular grafts may lead to life-threatening conditions such as sepsis. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether conventional antibiotics and bacteriophages can reliably prevent the bacterial colonization of vascular grafts. (2) Methods: Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial infections were simulated on samples of woven PET gelatin-impregnated grafts using Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli strains, respectively. The ability to prevent colonization was evaluated for a mixture of broad-spectrum antibiotics, for strictly lytic species-specific bacteriophage strains, and for a combination of both. All the antimicrobial agents were conventionally tested in order to prove the sensitivity of the used bacterial strains. Furthermore, the substances were used in a liquid form or in combination with a fibrin glue. (3) Results: Despite their strictly lytic nature, the application of bacteriophages alone was not enough to protect the graft samples from both bacteria. The singular application of antibiotics, both with and without fibrin glue, showed a protective effect against S. aureus (0 CFU/cm2), but was not sufficient against E. coli without fibrin glue (M = 7.18 × 104 CFU/cm2). In contrast, the application of a combination of antibiotics and phages showed complete eradication of both bacteria after a single inoculation. The fibrin glue hydrogel provided an increased protection against repetitive exposure to S. aureus (p = 0.05). (4) Conclusions: The application of antibacterial combinations of antibiotics and bacteriophages is an effective approach to the prevention of bacteria-induced vascular graft infections in clinical settings.
sj-docx-1-son-10.1177_23779608211038845 - Supplemental material for Advance Care Planning for Intensive Care Patients During the Perioperative Period: A Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Kanako
name: Yonekura, Yuki
name: Hayama, Junko
name: Matsubara, Taketo
name: Misumi, Hiroyasu
name: Nakayama, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-son-10.1177_23779608211038845 for Advance Care Planning for Intensive Care Patients During the Perioperative Period: A Qualitative Study by Kanako Yamamoto, Yuki Yonekura, Junko Hayama, Taketo Matsubara, Hiroyasu Misumi and Kazuhiro Nakayama in SAGE Open Nursing
Additional file 1 of Late preterm birth and growth trajectories during childhood: a linked retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Yoshida-Montezuma, Yulika
name: Kirkwood, David
name: Sivapathasundaram, Branavan
name: Keown-Stoneman, Charles D. G.
name: de Souza, Russell J.
name: To, Teresa
name: Borkhoff, Cornelia M.
name: Birken, Catherine S.
name: Maguire, Jonathon L.
name: Brown, Hilary K.
name: Anderson, Laura N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Data sources used to define study participant characteristics and variable operationalization. Supplemental Table 2. Model fit comparison of predicted values at specific time points for the outcome of weight trajectory between the original model (3 knot) and model with the best fit (4 knot). Supplemental Table 3. Model fit comparison of predicted values at specific time points for the outcome of height trajectory between the original model (3 knot) and model with the best fit (4 knot). Supplemental Table 4. Predicted mean weight (kg) and 95% CI at each age (knot point) by gestational age category. Supplemental Table 5. Predicted mean height (cm) and 95% CI at each age (knot point) by gestational age category. Supplemental Table 6. Mean differences in monthly growth rates for zweight, zheight, and zBMI by gestational age categories during each growth period for study participants (N=4423). Supplemental Figure 1. Flowchart of study participants with weight/height data. Supplemental Figure 2. Growth curves for World Health Organization (WHO) standardized weight trajectories from 0 to 150 months by gestational age categories. The lines represent the growth curve, and the shaded areas represent the 95% confidence intervals. Supplemental Figure 3. Growth curves for World Health Organization (WHO) standardized height trajectories from 0 to 150 months by gestational age categories. The lines represent the growth curve, and the shaded areas represent the 95% confidence intervals. Supplemental Figure 4. Growth curves for World Health Organization (WHO) standardized BMI trajectories from 0 to 150 months by gestational age categories. The lines represent the growth curve, and the shaded areas represent the 95% confidence intervals.
SYNAPTIC PRUNING BY MICROGLIA IS ESSENTIAL IN NORMAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: PAOLICELLI, ROSA CHIARA IMMACOLATA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Microglia are highly motile phagocytic cells that infiltrate and take up residence in the developing brain where they are thought to provide a surveillance and scavenging function. However, although microglia have been shown to engulf and clear damaged cellular debris following brain insult, it remains less clear what role microglia play in the uninjured brain. Here we show that microglia actively engulf synaptic material and play a major role in synaptic pruning during postnatal development in mice. These findings provide a direct link between microglia surveillance and synaptic maturation and suggest that deficits in microglia function may contribute to synaptic alterations seen in some neurodevelopmental disorders.
Erratum to: The analytical beam element model: novel approach for fast calculation of vibrations in electric machines (e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, (2023), 140, 2, (290-301), 10.1007/s00502-023-01125-5)
Creators: name: Gerlach, Martin Enno
name: De Barros, Allan
name: Huang, Xudong
name: Langfermann, Markus
name: Ponick, Bernd
name: Ebrahimi, Amir
Publisher: name: Wien [u.a.] : Springer
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::070 | Nachrichtenmedien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen

description: In Table 5 of this article, the data in row 1 was mistakenly not centred. The table has been corrected in the original article as shown below. (Table presented.) Eigenfrequencies of the ABM compared to the FE models S1 S2 (Formula presented.) in Hz 1638 4061 9511 812 2143 3666 4808 6238 (Formula presented.) in Hz 1568 9568 9691 798 2123 3718 5100 6259 (Formula presented.) in % 2.84 2.25 S3 S4 (Formula presented.) in Hz 66.1 341.9 536.8 188.1 (Formula presented.) in Hz 64.4 178.4 334.8 527.8 7.6 21.3 65.0 188.0 (Formula presented.) in % 1.75 0.85
sj-docx-2-cvd-10.1177_20480040211047742 - Supplemental material for Reduced physical activity and weight gain are associated with an increase of depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. A general practitioners’ prospective observational study
Creators: name: Wernhart, Simon
name: Weihe, Eberhard
name: Rassaf, Tienush
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-cvd-10.1177_20480040211047742 for Reduced physical activity and weight gain are associated with an increase of depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. A general practitioners’ prospective observational study by Simon Wernhart, Eberhard Weihe and Tienush Rassaf in JRSM Cardiovascular Disease
title: Prospective Memory In Adults With Developmental Dyslexia
Creators: name: Zięcik, Adam P
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 2014

description: While short-term and working memory deficits in individuals with dyslexia are well documented, the effects of dyslexia on prospective memory (PM) have been neglected. A range of PM measures were administered to different samples of university students with and without dyslexia (typically N = 50, 25 per group, matched for age and IQ, and differing on reading and spelling measures). Questionnaire data indicated that individuals with dyslexia perceived themselves as significantly worse on everyday PM activities than non-dyslexics. These data were corroborated by ratings taken from close friends/relatives of the participants. Naturalistic data revealed that adults with dyslexia performed more poorly on a time-based task involving a delay of 40 minutes and 24 hours and an event-based PM task involving a one week delay. There were no event-based PM deficits in dyslexia in the experimental tasks. However, adults with dyslexia were significantly worse at time-based tasks. Difficulties with PM would, therefore, seem to be evident in adults with dyslexia and tend to manifest themselves in time-based PM tasks. This interpretation is consistent with executive functioning problems associated with dyslexia and theories that take a broader view of dyslexia than phonological processing alone.
sj-docx-1-spq-10.1177_01902725211045024 – Supplemental material for The Divergent Mental Health Effects of Dashed Expectations and Unfulfilled Aspirations: Evidence from American Lawyers’ Careers
Creators: name: Sendroiu, Ioana
name: Upenieks, Laura
name: Schafer, Markus
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-spq-10.1177_01902725211045024 for The Divergent Mental Health Effects of Dashed Expectations and Unfulfilled Aspirations: Evidence from American Lawyers’ Careers by Ioana Sendroiu, Laura Upenieks and Markus Schafer in Social Psychology Quarterly
An application of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) for measurement modeling on rail freight performance indicators: Case study on Thailand's new double-track railway
Creators: name: Patcharida Sungtrisearn
name: Preda Pichayapan
name: Klairung Ponanan
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Performance indicator
Rail freight transportation mode
Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)
Factor Analysis

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 51, 4, 434-441
Improving tribomechanical properties of polymeric nanocomposite coatings
Creators: name: MASOOD, MUHAMMAD TAMOOR
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: Low friction, high wear resistance and strong adhesion in polymeric coatings employed in a variety of industrial and domestic processes such as in ball bearings, water repellent surfaces, antiadhesive coatings, and anticorrosion systems are of significant interest for energy saving and durability purposes. Even small increases in friction can have implications on energy efficiency, life time expectancy and performance of such coatings.
Preferable PMSM rotor geometry for reduced axial flux components in the stator core; [Bevorzugte PMSM-Rotorgeometrie für reduzierte Axialfluss-Komponenten im Stator]
Creators: name: Blanken, Norman
name: Ponick, Bernd
Publisher: name: Wien [u.a.] : Springer
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Additional losses
subject: Additive manufacturing
subject: Axial end region
subject: Axial magnetic stator flux
subject: Fringing air-gap flux density
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::070 | Nachrichtenmedien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen

description: This paper describes various rotor geometries for the axial end region of permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) with the aim of reducing the axial magnetic stator flux component. This is achieved by considering the degrees of freedom for the three-dimensional geometry provided by state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies. The comparison of various approaches against conventional arrangements is discussed based on the effects on the axial magnetic stator flux in the end region and on the magnetic flux within the air-gap.
title: Men Selling Sex to Men:
Representations, identities, and experiences in contemporary London
Creators: name: Tyler, Allan Paul
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 2016

description: This study seeks to record and document the voices, experiences and representations of men
who sell sex to men in London through advertising in queer media. It examines the diverse
experiences and representations of men who sell sex to men and the roles they have in coconstructing
the meanings of queer, male, and sexual identities and practices. It explores data
triangulated from a queer ethnography of London’s queer scenes, including: semi-structured
interviews with key informants (n=20), samples of escort and masseur advertisements
collected from print media, data from social networking websites aimed at gay men, and field
notes from collecting data within London’s queer scenes. Eighteen of the interview
participants are gay or bisexual men who have used advertising to sell sex to other men in
London themselves. The study finds that classified advertising can be used as a canon of texts
to explore socially constructed records of sexual and economic stories. It details how men
have used promotion strategies and technologies to sell sex to other men in London from the
early 1990s to the present and how those media have evolved in that time. It suggest ways
that sex in this queer, commercial scene is often comparable to more explicit forms of
commercial sex transactions. In turn, shifts are illustrated in how sex work is defined here,
including ways that the socio-economic, embodied, performative priorities of queer men are
interrelated with their geographic and temporal contexts. The study examines ways that
typological models can be limiting to how sex work is understood and proposes an (inter-)
relational model grounded in the data from men who have sold sex, semiotic structures of
analysis, and queer theory. Finally, it argues that these frameworks usefully operationalise
structures of subjectivity in empirical research of human and social sciences.
Geoarchaeology of the coastal plain of the Bisagno stream during the Middle Holocene. A high resolution multi-proxy analysis of data from deep geological cores.
Creators: name: ROSSI, STEFANO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: Geoarchaeology of the coastal plain of the Bisagno stream during the Middle Holocene. A high resolution multi-proxy analysis of data from deep geological cores.
Cultivating efficiency in human resource management: The integration of Lean concept and IT solutions for operational enhancement
Creators: name: Chompoonoot Kasemset
name: Prim Fongsamootr
name: Takron Opassuwan
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Human resource management
Lean
ECRS
IT solutions

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 51, 4, 442-451
title: Evolution and Learning in Heterogeneous Environments
Creators: name: Jones, Daniel
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Behavioural ecology, landscape ecology, social learning, Baldwin effect, agent-based modelling, social simulation

description: A real-world environment is complex and non-uniform, varying over space and time. This thesis demonstrates the impact of such environmental heterogeneity upon the ways in which organisms acquire information about the world, via a series of individual-based computational models that apply progressively more detailed forms of environmental structure to understand the causal impact of four distinct environmental factors: temporal variability; task complexity; population structure; and spatial heterogeneity.

We define a baseline model, comprised of an evolving population of polygenic individuals that can follow three learning modes: innate behaviour, in which an organism acts according to its genetically-encoded traits; individual learning, in which an organism engages in trial-and-error to modify its inherited behaviours; and social learning, in which an individual mimics the behaviours of its peers.

This model is used to show that environmental variability and task complexity affect the adaptive success of each learning mode, with social learning only arising as a dominant strategy in environments of median variability and complexity. Beyond a certain complexity threshold, individual learning is shown to be the sole dominant strategy. Social learning is shown to play a beneficial role following a sudden environmental change, contributing to the dissemination of novel traits in a population of poorly-adapted individuals. 

Introducing population structure in the form of a k-regular graph,  we show that bounded and rigid neighbourhood relationships can have deleterious effects on a population, diminishing its evolutionary rate and equilibrium fitness, and, in some cases, preventing the population from crossing a fitness valley to a global optimum. A larger neighbourhood size is shown to increase the effectiveness of social learning, and results in a more rapid evolutionary convergence rate.
 
The research subsequently focuses on spatially heterogeneous environments, proposing a new method of constructing an environment characterised by two key metrics derived from landscape ecology, “patchiness” and “gradient”. We show that spatial complexity slows the rate of genetic adaptation when movement is restricted, but can increase the rate of evolution for mobile individuals. Social learning is shown to be particularly beneficial within heterogeneous environments, particularly when mobility is restricted, suggesting that phenotypic plasticity may act as a substitute for mobility.
ON THE EFFICIENCY OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC CONSTRUCTIONS
Creators: name: Wang, Mingyuan
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Theory of computation not elsewhere classified

description: Cryptography allows us to do magical things ranging from private communication over a public channel to securely evaluating functions among distrusting parties. For the real-world implementation of these tasks, efficiency is usually one of the most desirable objectives. In this work, we advance our understanding of efficient cryptographic constructions on several fronts.
Non-malleable codes are a natural generalization of error-correcting codes. It provides a weaker yet meaningful security guarantee when the adversary may tamper with the codeword such that error-correcting is impossible. Intuitively, it guarantees that the tampered codeword either encodes the original message or an unrelated one. This line of research aims to construct non-malleable codes with a high rate against sophisticated tampering families. In this work, we present two results. The first one is an explicit rate1 construction against all tampering functions with a small locality. Second, we present a rate-1/3 construction for three-split-state tampering and two-lookahead tampering.
In multiparty computation, fair computation asks for the most robust security, namely, guaranteed output delivery. That is, either all parties receive the output of the protocol, or no party does. By relying on oblivious transfer, we know how to construct MPC protocols with optimal fairness. For a long time, however, we do not know if one can base optimal fair protocol on weaker assumptions such as one-way functions. Typically, symmetric-key primitives (e.g., one-way functions) are much faster than public-key primitives (e.g., oblivious transfer). Hence, understanding whether one-way functions enable optimal fair protocols has a significant impact on the efficiency of such protocols. This work shows that it is impossible to construct optimal fair protocols with only black-box uses one-way functions. We also rule out constructions based on public-key encryptions and f-hybrids, where f is any incomplete function.
Collective coin-tossing considers a coin-tossing protocol among n parties. A Byzantine adversary may adaptively corrupt parties to bias the output of the protocol. The security ε is defined as how much the adversary can change the expected output of the protocol. In this work, we consider the setting where an adversary corrupts at most one party. 10 Given a target security ε, we wish to understand the minimum number of parties n required to achieve ε-security. In this work, we prove a tight bound on the optimal security. In particular, we show that the insecurity of the well-known threshold protocol is at most two times the optimal achievable security.
Additional file 1 of Mutation mapping of a variegated EMS tomato reveals an FtsH-like protein precursor potentially causing patches of four phenotype classes in the leaves with distinctive internal morphology
Creators: name: Dechkrong, Punyavee
name: Srima, Sornsawan
name: Sukkhaeng, Siriphan
name: Utkhao, Winai
name: Thanomchat, Piyanan
name: de Jong, Hans
name: Tongyoo, Pumipat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
The Effect of Near Wall Disturbances on a Compressible Turbulent Boundary Layer
Creators: name: Gaskins, Jonathan J
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Aerodynamics (excl. hypersonic aerodynamics)
Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This study investigates the effects of near wall disturbances in the form of roughness on a compressible turbulent boundary layer. The studies were carried out using numerical methods which directly solve the Navier-Stokes equations. This provides for unique opportunities to investigate three dimensional structures of the flow as well as avoid the loss of physical fidelity with turbulence modeling. Three cases were ran, a smooth wall case, and two rough wall cases with different heights of the roughness elements between the cases. The results are first visualized with different approaches. Then statistical methods were used to characterize the flow.
The idea of wall-similarity is common in rough wall studies. This theory assumes that at high enough Reynolds numbers, the difference of length scales between those relevant to the near-wall flow and those relevant to the outer layer are separated enough that the effect of roughness is localized to a region of the boundary layer known as the roughness sublayer. Some studies have suggested that the disruption of commonly seen coherent streaks of low and high-speed fluid near the wall will disrupt ejections and sweeping events, affecting the outer layer of the boundary layer. This study found that the presence of the roughness elements seemed to make the near wall streaks less visible when plotting planes that cut through roughness elements, but did not disrupt the presence of the vortices associated with the streaks. The presence of the streaks was also found to be better observed when plotting a plane of constant wall-normal distance. This is consistent with the statistical findings that wall-similarity is generally observed. One exception is a shift in the Reynolds stress profiles in the outer region of the rough wall cases from the smooth wall case. This may suggest that there is a need in compressible flow studies for another scaling parameter involving the roughness geometry. These findings are consistent with recent compressible flow rough wall studies.
Prediction of fatal crashes based on various victim types on national highways passing through urban areas of developing countries
Creators: name: Gandupalli, Srinivasa Rao
name: Purnanandam Kokkeragadda
name: Mukund R. Dangeti
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Safety measures
Crash data
Mid-block sections
Negative binomial
Count data model

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 51, 4, 452-461
Particle Size Distribution and Depth to Bedrock of Chinese Cultivated Soils: Implications for Soil Classification and Management
Creators: name: Zhao, Xiaoning
name: He, Wei
name: Xue, Lihua
name: Chen, Feng
name: Jia, Pingping
name: Hu, Yi
name: Zamanian, Kazem
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: agropedogenesis
subject: environmental planning
subject: global changes
subject: land utility
subject: soil taxonomy
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::630 | Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::640 | Hauswirtschaft und Familienleben

description: Although a number of studies have provided information on soil texture, soil classification, and depth to bedrock throughout China, few studies have combined this information, which is the basis for agricultural field management. A total of 81% of China’s cultivated lands are distributed among the Middle–Lower Yangtze Plain (18.2%), arid and semiarid North China Plain (18.2%), Northeast Plain (17%), Huang-Huai-Hai Plain (16.1%), and Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau (11.6%). The Huang-Huai-Hai Plain has the highest density of agricultural land (58.5%) and the greatest depth to bedrock of cultivated land (243–402 m). The lowest cultivated depth to bedrock (4–84 m) is concentrated in the Sichuan Basin and its surrounding regions. The main cultivated soil types are Anthrosols, Fluvisols, Cambisols, Phaeozems, Luvisols, Kastanozems, Leptosols, and Acrisols, under the main topsoil texture classes of loam, clay loam, silty clay loam, silt loam, sandy loam, and clay. The Fluvisols had the largest depth to bedrock (156 m) on the Middle–Lower Yangtze Plain and Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, with the highest silt soil distributions but comparable lower sand contents. The Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau had the highest clay soil content. The cultivation under Kastanozems and Leptosols on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and in arid and semiarid North China and under Phaeozems on the Northeast Plain should be restricted and managed very cautiously facing erosion risk. The higher percentages of Anthrosols are on the Middle–Lower Yangtze Plain (37%), in Southern China (32%), and on the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau (26%). The same cultivation aim (i.e., more crop 0production) has produced a similar range of properties over time among the soils developed on agricultural fields, which are classified as Anthrosols. However, various soil types can still be found in agroecosystems because of the variations in climate and topography. Our results highlight that the agriculture-based soil climate and topography shape the interaction of the soil development and not only the pedogenic history of the soil development under variations in the soil depth to bedrock but also the cultivation of distinct pedogenic features. This study provides cultivated soil information on the depth to bedrock, soil classification, and soil texture in China, as well as instructions for field strategies for sustainable agricultural development.
Essays on Secular Stagnation in the USA
Creators: name: BORSATO, ANDREA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Siena
Year: 2021

description: The dissertation analyzes the phenomenon of Secular Stagnation with respect to the United States and consists of three essays. In the first chapter I take a historical view to see which characteristics the literature associates with Secular Stagnation find support in the data. I focus on US macroeconomic data since 1870. The very simple setting allows me to grasp that it is apt to talk about Secular Stagnation in terms of productivity growth, since the decline is greater than any previous shortfall. Findings cast some doubt on Summers's hypothesis of negative natural rates and offer some evidence supporting Gordon's and Hein's stands. The second chapter starts by noticing as the debate on Secular Stagnation paid little attention to the profound interplay between income distribution, innovation, and productivity. I scrutinize US capitalistic evolution of last fifty years and inspect the way the distribution of income between wages and profits can determine the rate of innovative activity and then further attainments in productivity through an Agent-based SFC model. I advance the idea that the continuous shrinkage of the labour share may have resulted in a smaller incentive to invest in R&D activity, entailing the evident decline in productivity performances that marks US Secular Stagnation. In the third chapter, I extend the argument started with the second chapter and I also undertake an econometric analysis to test some predictions from the model to the empirical ground. I gather a panel of US manufacturing industries with data on total R&D expenditures, hourly wage rates, productivity levels and values of shipments from 1958 to 2011. I figure out that my series of interest are cointegrated, and I am then able to detect positive and long-lasting evidences, confirming the main theoretical results.
Grain Boundary Wetting by the Second Solid Phase: 20 Years of History
Creators: name: Straumal, Boris
name: Lepkova, Tatiana
name: Korneva, Anna
name: Gerstein, Gregory
name: Kogtenkova, Olga
name: Gornakova, Alena
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: grain boundaries
subject: melt
subject: phase diagrams
subject: phase transitions
subject: solid phase
subject: wetting
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: Grain boundaries (GBs) can be wetted by a second phase. This phase can be not only liquid (or melted), but it can also be solid. GB wetting can be incomplete (partial) or complete. In the case of incomplete (partial) wetting, the liquid forms in the GB droplets, and the second solid phase forms a chain of (usually lenticular) precipitates. Droplets or precipitates have a non-zero contact angle with the GB. In the case of complete GB wetting, the second phase (liquid or solid) forms in the GB continuous layers between matrix grains. These GB layers completely separate the matrix crystallites from each other. GB wetting by a second solid phase has some important differences from GB wetting by the melt phase. In the latter case, the contact angle always decreases with increasing temperature. If the wetting phase is solid, the contact angle can also increase with increasing temperature. Moreover, the transition from partial to complete wetting can be followed by the opposite transition from complete to partial GB wetting. The GB triple junctions are completely wetted in the broader temperature interval than GBs. Since Phase 2 is also solid, it contains GBs as well. This means that not only can Phase 2 wet the GBs in Phase 1, but the opposite can also occur when Phase 1 can wet the GBs in Phase 2. GB wetting by the second solid phase was observed in the Al-, Mg-, Co-, Ni-, Fe-, Cu-, Zr-, and Ti-based alloys as well as in multicomponent alloys, including high-entropy ones. It can seriously influence various properties of materials.
Development of ABAQUS-MATLAB Interface for Design Optimization using Hybrid Cellular Automata and Comparison with Bidirectional Evolutionary Structural Optimization
Creators: name: Antony, Alen
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Topology Optimization is an optimization technique used to synthesize models without any preconceived shape. These structures are synthesized keeping in mind the minimum compliance problems. With the rapid improvement in advanced manufacturing technology and increased need for lightweight high strength designs topology optimization is being used more than ever.There exist a number of commercially available software's that can be used for optimizing a product. These software have a robust Finite Element Solver and can produce good results. However, these software offers little to no choice to the user when it comes to selecting the type of optimization method used.It is possible to use a programming language like MATLAB to develop algorithms that use a specific type of optimization method but the user himself will be responsible for writing the FEA algorithms too. This leads to a situation where the flexibility over the optimization method is achieved but the robust FEA of the commercial FEA tool is lost.There have been works done in the past that links ABAQUS with MATLAB but they are primarily used as a tool for finite element post-processing. Through this thesis, the aim is to develop an interface that can be used for solving optimization problems using different methods like hard-kill as well as the material penalization (SIMP) method. By doing so it's possible to harness the potential of a commercial FEA software and gives the user the requires flexibility to write or modify the codes to have an optimization method of his or her choice. Also, by implementing this interface, it can also be potentially used to unlock the capabilities of other Dassault Systèmes software's as the firm is implementing a tighter integration between all its products using the 3DExperience platform.This thesis as described uses this interface to implement BESO and HCA based topology optimization. Since hybrid cellular atomata is the only other method other than equivalent static load method that can be used for crashworthiness optimization this work suits well for the role when extended into a non-linear region.
title: Airspace – Zones of Fidelity and Failure
Creators: name: Kerr, Vicki
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Airspace, Air New Zealand Flight 901, Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption, Air Traffic Control, expert systems, sublime, mobilities, air travel, infrastructure

description: Given our increasing reliance on air travel to function in all aspects of society, it seems imperative to expand our knowledge of airspace and the social relations that air travel enhances and makes possible.  My thesis offers a critical analysis of the technical safety systems that support air travel.  It finds fissures in the rationality that underlines our belief in the safety and sustainability of air travel and leaves open the question of whether our confidence in this system can be sustained only by the claim that it is inherently rational.
  
According to anthropologists Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, one of the defining characteristics of technological systems that achieve the cultural status of ‘infrastructure’, is that they ‘become visible upon breakdown’. (Bowker and Star 2000, 335)  Two real world events - a commercial airliner’s (Air New Zealand 901) collision with an Antarctic volcano, killing 257 people in 1979 and the closure of European airspace due to the presence of volcanic ash (eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland in 2010) expose the fragility of the infrastructural systems supporting air travel.  As conditions of exceptionality, these events pose a challenge to aspects of our spatial imaginary, allowing us to understand the contradictory interdependence of trust and risk.
 
Working across media, using video, sound, object making and print, my practice is concerned with the ‘breaking down’ of space.  My work reflects my increasing interest in the precariousness of empirically grounded monolithic systems that aspire towards comprehensive totality and stability through their own set of formal logics and structural parameters.
sj-docx-1-asn-10.1177_17590914211044000 - Supplemental material for Forelimb Motor Skills Deficits Following Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury: Underlying Dopaminergic and Neural Oscillatory Changes in Rat Primary Motor Cortex
Creators: name: Salimi, Omid
name: Zangbar, Hamid Soltani
name: Shadiabad, Soheila Hajizadeh
name: Ghorbani, Meysam
name: Ghadiri, Tahereh
name: Kalan, Abbas Ebrahimi
name: Kheyrkhah, Hasan
name: Shahabi, Parviz
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-asn-10.1177_17590914211044000 for Forelimb Motor Skills Deficits Following Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury: Underlying Dopaminergic and Neural Oscillatory Changes in Rat Primary Motor Cortex by Omid Salimi, Hamid Soltani Zangbar, Soheila Hajizadeh Shadiabad, Meysam Ghorbani, Tahereh Ghadiri, Abbas Ebrahimi Kalan, Hasan Kheyrkhah and Parviz Shahabi in ASN Neuro
sj-pdf-1-eup-10.1177_14651165211037208 - Supplemental material for Discrimination against mobile European Union citizens before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany
Creators: name: Fernández-i-Marín, Xavier
name: Rapp, Carolin H
name: Adam, Christian
name: James, Oliver
name: Manatschal, Anita
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-eup-10.1177_14651165211037208 for Discrimination against mobile European Union citizens before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany by Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Carolin H Rapp, Christian Adam, Oliver James and Anita Manatschal in European Union Politics
Effects of Short-Term Sodium Nitrate versus Sodium Chloride Supplementation on Energy and Lipid Metabolism during High-Intensity Intermittent Exercise in Athletes
Creators: name: Blau, Larissa Sarah
name: Gerber, Jan
name: Finkel, Armin
name: Lützow, Moritz
name: Maassen, Norbert
name: Röhrich, Magdalena Aleksandra
name: Hanff, Erik
name: Tsikas, Dimitrios
name: Shushakov, Vladimir
name: Jantz, Mirja
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: ammonia
subject: energy metabolism
subject: exercise
subject: free fatty acids
subject: nitrate supplementation
subject: nitric oxide
subject: nitrite
subject: oxygen consumption
subject: triglyceride
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: The aim of this study was to investigate the possible effects of chronic nitrate supplementation on the metabolites of energy metabolism during high-intensity, high-volume intermittent training (HIHVT). In this placebo-controlled double-blind study, 17 participants exercised 3 times a week on a cycle ergometer. Sodium nitrate or sodium chloride as the placebo was supplemented daily at 8.5 mg/kg body weight for 10 days. The training exercise consisted of a warm-up, a 45-min interval period, and a post-exercise period. Oxygen uptake, respiratory exchange ratio, and various parameters were measured in the venous blood and plasma. During training, the oxygen uptake and respiratory exchange ratio did not differ between the nitrate and the placebo group. Venous plasma concentrations of nitrate and nitrite were significantly increased in the nitrate group (p < 0.001 and p = 0.007, respectively). Triglyceride concentrations were significantly lower in the nitrate group than in the placebo group (p = 0.010). The concentration of free fatty acids in the plasma did not change upon nitrate supplementation and no significant differences were observed in the contribution of fat to energy metabolism during exercise. An increase in plasma ammonia concentration was observed in the nitrate group during and after exercise (p = 0.048). Metabolites of energy-rich phosphates did not differ between the nitrate and chloride groups, suggesting no improvement in efficiency through the supplemented nitrate. It was concluded that nitrate supplementation did not reduce oxygen uptake and adenosine triphosphate resynthesis by hydrolysis or through creatine kinase activity during high-intensity, high-volume intermittent exercise. Although, lipid metabolism as well as amino acid metabolism might be affected by nitrate supplementation during HIHVT.