cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Problembasiertes Lernen in der Ernährungs- und Verbraucherbildung
Creators: name: Duschl, Antonia
Year: 2024

description: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der forschungsgestützten Entwicklung und Analyse von didaktisch-methodischem Unterrichtsmaterial zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext des Unterrichtsfaches Haushaltsökonomie und Ernährung für die Sekundarstufe 1. Als Grundlage und Problemaufriss dienen folgende Fakten: In Österreich werden aktuell pro Kopf 63 Kilogramm Fleisch verzehrt (APA Science Redaktion, 2022). Der Fleischkonsum hat sich damit seit den 1960er Jahren nahezu vervierfacht. Dieser übermäßige Fleischkonsum hat auch enorme Auswirkungen auf andere Länder: In den Jahren 1998 bis 2021 wurden im argentinischen Teil des Gran Chaco Waldes ungefähr 7 Millionen Hektar Wald vernichtet (Redweik, 2023). Ein Großteil dieser Abholzung erfolgte illegal. Grund für diese starke Abholzung sind die argentinische Rinderzucht und der steigende Anbau von Soja, das als Tierfutter benötigt wird (Yousefi et al., 2018). Die vorliegende Masterarbeit greift den genannten Aspekt des übermäßigen Fleischkonsums und dessen Auswirkungen auf. Forschungsgeleitet wird für den Unterricht didaktisch-methodisch Material entwickelt. Als Grundlage wurde die Methode des Mysterys gewählt, die dem Ansatz des Problembasierten Lernens zuzuordnen ist. Es findet daher in dieser Arbeit eine forschungsgeleitete Entwicklung von Unterrichtsmaterial nach dem Design Based Research Ansatz statt. Im theoretischen Teil dieser Arbeit wird das Konzept des Problembasierten Lernens genauer erläutert und auf dessen Einsatz im schulischen Kontext (Ernährungsunterricht) eingegangen. Zudem wird die Methode des Mysterys und deren Entwicklung, Umsetzung und Aufbau genauer skizziert. Im weiteren Verlauf dieser Masterarbeit erfolgt eine systematische Analyse und Kategorisierung bereits vorhandener Unterrichtsmaterialien zur Methode Mystery und dem Themenfeld Nachhaltigkeit. Auf dieser Basis erfolgt anschließend die forschungsgeleitete Erstellung eines Unterrichtsmaterials zum Themenkomplex des übermäßigen Fleischkonsums und der teils illegalen Abholzung des Regenwaldes. Das erstellte Material wird im weiteren Verlauf der Arbeit mithilfe von drei ExpertInneninterviews evaluiert. Die transkribierten und codierten Interviews dienen als Basis für die Beschreibung der Interviewergebnisse. Das Material wird schlussendlich auf Grundlage des Feedbacks optimiert. Als Ergebnis liefert diese Arbeit neues Unterrichtsmaterial, das von Lehrpersonen in der Sekundarstufe 1 im Kontext der Ernährungs-und VerbraucherInnenbildung eingesetzt werden kann.
Non-asymptotic error estimates for the Laplace approximation in Bayesian inverse problems
Creators: name: Helin, Tapio
name: Kretschmann, Remo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47J06, 62E17, 62E20, 62F15, 65D30, 65D32, 65J20, 65J22

description: In this paper we study properties of the Laplace approximation of the posterior distribution arising in nonlinear Bayesian inverse problems. Our work is motivated by Schillings et al. (2020), where it is shown that in such a setting the Laplace approximation error in Hellinger distance converges to zero in the order of the noise level. Here, we prove novel error estimates for a given noise level that also quantify the effect due to the nonlinearity of the forward mapping and the dimension of the problem. In particular, we are interested in settings in which a linear forward mapping is perturbed by a small nonlinear mapping. Our results indicate that in this case, the Laplace approximation error is of the size of the perturbation. The paper provides insight into Bayesian inference in nonlinear inverse problems, where linearization of the forward mapping has suitable approximation properties.
Overtone spectra and intensities of tetrahedral molecules in boson-realization models
Creators: name: Hou, Xi-Wen
name: Xie, Mi
name: Dong, Shi-Hai
name: Ma, Zhong-Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stretching and bending vibrational spectrum and the intensities of infrared transitions in a tetrahedral molecule are studied in two boson-realization models, where the interactions between stretching and bending vibrations are described by a quadratic cross term and by Fermi resonance terms, called harmonically coupled and Fermi resonance boson-realization model, respectively. The later is a development of our recent model. As an example, the two models are applied to the overtone spectrum and the intensities of silicon tetrafluorde. Those models provide fits to the published experimental vibrational eigenvalues with standard deviations 1.956 cm$^{-1}$ and 0.908 cm$^{-1}$, respectively. The intensities of infrared transitions of its complete vibrations are calculated in the two models, and results show a good agreement with the observed data.
description: 14 pages Revtex, no figure, to appear in Annals of Physics
Heating causes non-linear microwave absorption anomaly in single wall carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Márkus, B. G.
name: Gyüre-Garami, B.
name: Sági, O.
name: Csősz, G.
name: Márkus, F.
name: Simon, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microwave impedance measurements indicate a non-linear absorption anomaly in single wall carbon nanotubes at low temperatures (below $20$ K). We investigate the nature of the anomaly using a time resolved microwave impedance measurement technique. It proves that the anomaly has an extremely slow, a few hundred second long dynamics. This strongly suggests that the anomaly is not caused by an intrinsic electronic effect and that it is rather due to a slow heat exchange between the sample and the environment.
Fifteen Years on the Rock: Archaeological Research, Administration, and Compliance on Black Mesa, Arizona
Creators: name: Powell, Shirley
name: Andrews, Peter P.
name: Nichols, Deborah L.
name: F. E. Smiley
Publisher: name: Society for American Archaeology
Year: 1983
Subjects: Black Mesa, AZ
Basketmaker II Period
Basketmaker III to Pueblo I
Navajo
Anasazi
Compliance
Black Mesa Archaeological Project
Administration
Archaeological Research
Archaeological Overview
Data Recovery / Excavation
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
Systematic Survey

description: The Black Mesa Archaeological Project has been conducting field investigations and archaeological research in northeastern Arizona since 1967. The work is contracted for by Peabody Coal Company in order to comply with federal, state, and tribal statutes. The longevity of the project, as well as its size and complexity, affords a unique opportunity to evaluate and refine research, project administration, and legal compliance procedures. In most situations, clear advantages have resulted from the opportunities to learn from the project’s history. Unfortunately, changing statutes and changing interpretations of the same statutes have resulted in major problems—both for the archaeologists and for the Peabody Coal Company.
MOESM2 of A lipidated bi-epitope vaccine comprising of MHC-I and MHC-II binder peptides elicits protective CD4 T cell and CD8 T cell immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Creators: name: Rai, Pradeep
name: Sathi Chodisetti
name: Sudeep Maurya
name: Nadeem, Sajid
name: Weiguang Zeng
name: Janmeja, Ashok
name: Jackson, David
name: Agrewala, Javed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Titration of peptide dose for in vitro stimulation. Mice were immunized with L91 or L4.8 (20 nmol) and boosted after 7 d (10 nmol). Splenocytes were obtained after 15 d of immunization and in vitro stimulated with different concentrations of (A) L91 and (B) L4.8 for 72 h. Splenocyte proliferation was assessed by 3H-thymidine incorporation assay and expressed as counts per minute (cpm). Figure S2. Gating strategy for CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells. The P1 gate was made on lymphocytes, P2 gate on SSC-A/CD4+ T cells and P3 on SSC-A/CD8+ T cells zones. Further, analysis of T cells was done on the gated cells. Figure S3. Gating strategy for monitoring the expression of KLRG1+ T cells and target lysis. (A) The P1 gate was made on lymphocyte zone. P2 gate on SSC-A and CD4+ T cells while P3 gate on SSC-A and CD8+ T cells. (B) For target lysis two gates were made in CFSEhi and CFSElo cells on SSC-A. Later, histogram was plotted for the analysis. Figure S4. Gating strategy for monitoring the expression of IFN-γ+ and TNF-α+ CD4 T cells. (A, B) The primary gate was made on lymphocyte zone and secondary gate on SSC-A and (A) CD4+ T cells; (B) CD8 T cells. The percentage of IFN-γ+/TNF-α+ was monitored on secondary zones (CD4+/SSC-A; CD8+/SSC-A). The isotype-matched control did not show any double positive T cell population. (C, D) Bar diagram represents the comparison of polyfunctional (C) CD4 T cells and (D) CD8 T cells (IFN-γ+ TNF-α+) obtained from BCG and BCG-L4.8 groups. The data are represented as mean ± SEM. *p ≤ 0.05; ****p ≤ 0.0001.
Resisting hostility generated by terror: An agent-based study
Creators: name: Huet, Sylvie
name: Deffuant, Guillaume
name: Nugier, Armelle
name: Streith, Michel
name: Guimond, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We aim to study through an agent-based model the cultural conditions leading to a decrease or an increase of discrimination between groups after a major cultural threat such as a terrorist attack. We propose an agent-based model of cultural dynamics inspired from the social psychological theories. An agent has a cultural identity comprised of the most acceptable positions about each of the different cultural worldviews corresponding to the main cultural groups of the considered society and a margin of acceptance around each of these most acceptable positions. An agent forms an attitude about another agent depending on the similarity between their cultural identities. When a terrorist attack is perpetrated in the name of an extreme cultural identity, the negatively perceived agents from this extreme cultural identity modify their margins of acceptance in order to differentiate themselves more from the threatening cultural identity. We generated a set of populations with cultural identities compatible with data given by a survey on groups' attitudes among a large sample representative of the population of France; we then simulated the reaction of these agents facing a threat. For most populations, the average attitude toward agents with the same preferred worldview as the terrorists becomes more negative; however, when the population shows some cultural properties, we noticed the opposite effect as the average attitude of the population becomes less negative. This particular context requires that the agents sharing the same preferred worldview with the terrorists strongly differentiate themselves from the terrorists' extreme cultural identity and that the other agents be aware of these changes.
Assessment of Roadway Features Along Apache Trail (State Route 88) from Milepost 201.00 to 220.18
Creators: name: Sullivan, Michael
Publisher: name: Tonto National Forest
Year: 2014
Subjects: Tonto National Forest
Apache Trail
State Route 88
20th Century
1950's
1900'S
Historic
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Culvert
Pipes
Concrete Block
Cattle guard
Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features
Bridge
Retaining Wall
Road
Trail
Roadway
Assessment
Architectural Survey
Site Evaluation / Testing

description: It is the intent of this document to determine which engineering features along the paved portion of the Apache Trail, State Route 88, between mileposts 201.00 and 220.18 should be considered contributing elements to the historic character of the Apache Trail. This section of the road is informally referred to as the “paved portion” because, not surprisingly, it is that portion of the Apache Trail surfaced with asphalt. An assessment of the features along the unpaved portion will be done in a future document. The end of pavement marks a good point to separate the analysis since there is over a mile of trail from the end of pavement north with no road features. The maintenance history of the paved portion is quite different than that of the unpaved section allowing an analysis of that section in isolation. The Apache Trail is one of most significant historic roads in Arizona. It has been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, C, and D. It has also been listed on the States Register of Historic Places, in 1986 the Forest Service placed it in its Scenic Byway Program, and in 1987 Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) designated it an historic road.
Oral history interview with George Miks, 2002
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Obstetricians
Gynecologists
Abortion--United States
Abortion services--Minnesota
Abortion services--North Dakota
Reproductive rights--United States
Pro-life movement--United States

description: Experiences as a "circuit provider" who travels between Minnesota and North Dakota to provide abortions in rural areas; reminiscences about flying own plane to provide abortions; difficulty of inclement weather in Minnesota and North Dakota; frustrations about other doctors' unwillingness to provide abortions; concerns about being able to retire and finding replacement doctors; unhappiness about inadequate after-abortion care women receive at area hospitals; training at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and first experiences with botched abortions; impact of anti-abortion protestors on his personal life and the profession general; long distances women must travel for abortions; award from the National Abortion Federation as and "unsung hero" for travel several hundred thousand miles to provide abortions and only missing clinic once
Counting elliptic fibrations on K3 surfaces
Creators: name: Festi, Dino
name: Veniani, Davide Cesare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J28 14J27 (14J50)

description: We solve the problem of counting jacobian elliptic fibrations on an arbitrary complex projective K3 surface up to automorphisms. We then illustrate our method with several explicit examples.
description: More examples added. 27 pages, 7 tables
Additional file 3 of At-home testing to mitigate community transmission of SARS-CoV-2: protocol for a public health intervention with a nested prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Ciccone, Emily J.
name: Conserve, Donaldson F.
name: Dave, Gaurav
name: Hornik, Christoph P.
name: Kuhn, Marlena L.
name: Herling, Jessica L.
name: Song, Michelle
name: Alston, Shani
name: Singler, Lindsay
name: Schmidt, Michael D.
name: Jones, Aaron
name: Broderick, Samuel
name: Wruck, Lisa M.
name: Kibbe, Warren A.
name: Aiello, Allison E.
name: Woods, Christopher W.
name: Richmond, Alan
name: Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael
name: Corbie-Smith, Giselle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Summary of SYCT substudy activities. This table includes timing and content of questionnaires.
Réflexion sur des mesures transformatrices pour la transition agricole
Creators: name: Soubelet, Hélène
name: Goffaux, Robin
name: Perrot, Thomas
name: Couvet, Denis
Publisher: name: Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
Year: 2025
Subjects: agriculture

description: Dans un contexte où l’usage des pesticides est controversé, il parait important de s’accorder sur une vision commune autour d’une évolution nécessaire des systèmes agro-alimentaires. 

Certaines pratiques mises en œuvre au sein du système alimentaire contribuent à des problèmes de santé publique et à la perte de biodiversité. Fournir une alimentation en quantité et qualité nutritionnelle suffisantes à des prix accessibles pour tous et toutes est un enjeu collectif partagé.  

L’objet de cette note est de discuter des enjeux de politiques publiques, d’identifier les verrous et les leviers, de donner des clés pour initier un « changement transformateur » sur la question des pesticides en France, et plus généralement sur les mesures de la transition agricole et écologique. 

L’usage des pesticides en Europe est un des éléments d’un triptyque socio-technique composé de la culture sélective des plantes, des intrants de synthèse et de l’utilisation de machines agricoles. Ces éléments sont interdépendants : changer un élément, tel que les pesticides, est donc difficile et impliquerait un changement transformateur des différents éléments du système.
Site specific characterisation of hydrocracking catalysts using nanoanalytical electron microscopy
Creators: name: Husain, Sehban
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: During use, carbonaceous material or ‘coke’ can deposit on catalysts resulting in decreased activity and lifetime. In this thesis, the results of investigations into the structure and distribution of coke, on hydrocracking catalysts, are reported. The material consists of zeolite Y, alumina binder as well as tungsten and nickel sulfide. An extensive investigation regarding the preparation of the catalysts for electron microscopy was carried out. It was established that microtoming produced specimen damage and hence regions of porosity, zeolite and alumina binder were difficult to identify. Single beam and dual beam focused ion beam (FIB) milling produced intact specimens and the spatial distribution of the catalysts was maintained, although thinner specimens were obtained using the latter technique. Energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) mapping identified gallium and platinum as artefacts in specimens that had been prepared by a single beam FIB system. In addition, argon ion beam milling was used and this technique produced large regions of thin material. Energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM) was employed to reveal the distribution of carbon in the catalyst. Carbon was identified on alumina binder, zeolite grains and meso-/macro-pores, although the distribution of carbon was generally not uniform as it is determined by the density and strength of acid sites, geometry of pores and the proximity of metal sulfide crystallites. All of these factors, especially pores size and shape, vary in the catalysts. Coke is thought to consist of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS), of selected PAH standards, was performed to obtain the electron energy-loss near edge structure (ELNES) of carbon. In addition, the ELNES of four PAHs was modelled using multiple scatter calculations. EELS of the catalysts revealed that PAHs are present on zeolitic components but ELNES was not identified on the alumina binder. This is possibly because alumina contains larger pores than zeolite Y; therefore larger molecules can diffuse into the alumina structure, which increases the chemical variety of the coke species as the molecules are not sterically impeded.
title: Menschenrechtsklagen zum Schutz der Umwelt und des Klimas
Creators: name: Obkircher, Robert
Year: 2024

description: Die negativen Auswirkungen der von Menschen verursachten Veränderungen des globalen Klimas zählen zu den drängendsten Problemen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Da die derzeit implementierten umweltpolitischen Maßnahmen nicht ausreichen, um die Klimaerwärmung auf ein nachhaltiges Maß zu begrenzen, versuchen soziale Bewegungen durch Klimaklagen auf juristischem Weg einen stärkeren Klima- bzw. Umweltschutz durchzusetzen. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Masterarbeit wurden zwei dieser Klagen, welche sich auf die Verletzung von Menschenrechten beziehen, in Hinblick auf ihre rechtlichen Argumentationsgrundlagen und die gewählten Strategien analysiert. Dabei wurde zum einen die Klimaklage des Vereins KlimaSeniorinnen gegen die Schweiz als Beispiel gewählt, welche vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte eingebracht wurde. Zum anderen wurde der Fall der Vereinigung Indigenous communities of the Lhaka Honhat Association gegen die Republik Argentinien betrachtet. Dabei führen die betroffenen Gemeinschaften in der vor dem Interamerikanischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte eingebrachten Klage eine Verletzung ihrer Menschenrechte an. Um die jeweiligen relevanten Aspekte in Hinblick auf die beiden Klagen miteinander zu vergleichen, wurden rechtliche Dokumente, Medienartikel und sonstige relevante Texte anhand einer Framing-Analyse untersucht. Die Untersuchung hat gezeigt, dass trotz der unterschiedlichen regionalen Menschenrechtssysteme, in denen die jeweiligen Klagen verortet sind, ähnliche Frames und somit Argumentationsstrategien durch die sozialen Bewegungen gewählt wurden.
description: The negative effects of human made changes to the global climate are among the most pressing problems of the 21st century. As the currently implemented environmental policy measures are not sufficient to limit global warming to a sustainable level, social movements are using climate change litigation in order to enforce more efficient climate and environmental protection through legal action. In this master's thesis, two of these lawsuits, which relate to a violation of human rights, were analyzed with regard to their legal arguments and strategies. On the one hand, the climate change litigation case brought by the association KlimaSeniorinnen vs. Switzerland before the European Court of Human Rights was chosen as an example. On the other hand, the case of the Indigenous communities of the Lhaka Honhat Association vs. the Republic of Argentina was analyzed. In the complaint filed before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the communities allege a violation of their human rights. In order to compare the relevant aspects of the two complaints, legal documents, media articles and other relevant texts were examined by using a framing analysis. The analysis showed that despite different regional human rights systems, in which the respective cases are located, similar frames and thus argumentation strategies were chosen by the social movements.
Additional file 1: of Infliximab associated with faster symptom resolution compared with corticosteroids alone for the management of immune-related enterocolitis
Creators: name: Johnson, Daniel
name: Chrystia Zobniw
name: Trinh, Van
name: Junsheng Ma
name: Bassett, Roland
name: Abdel-Wahab, Noha
name: Anderson, Jaime
name: Davis, Jennifer
name: Joseph, Jocelyn
name: Uemura, Marc
name: Noman, Ali
name: Hamzah Abu-Sbeih
name: Cassian Yee
name: Rodabe Amaria
name: Patel, Sapna
name: Tawbi, Hussein
name: Glitza, Isabella
name: Davies, Michael
name: Wong, Michael
name: Woodman, Scott
name: Wen-Jen Hwu
name: Hwu, Patrick
name: Yinghong Wang
name: Diab, Adi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Kaplan-Meier analysis of time to treatment failure in patients with stage IV melanoma. Median TTF was 9.0 months (95% CI 5.6 months–not reached) in the IFX group and 12.5 months (95% CI 5.8 months–not reached) in the CS group. Median follow-up 26 months. (DOCX 48 kb)
Additional file 3: of Comparative analysis of cytokinin response factors in Brassica diploids and amphidiploids and insights into the evolution of Brassica species
Creators: name: Kong, Lijun
name: Zhao, Kun
name: Gao, Yingying
name: Miao, Liming
name: Chen, Chaoquan
name: Deng, Hang
name: Liu, Zhenning
name: Yu, Xiaolin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Conserve motif alignment of three types CRFs. The figure was obtained by ClustalX and WedLogo 3 ( http://weblogo.threeplusone.com /). (DOC 3169 kb)
Crotonia momitoi Colloff & Perdomo 2009
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Crotoniidae
Crotonia
Crotonia momitoi

description: Crotonia momitoi Colloff & Perdomo, 2009: 10
— Holotype female (MVMA), moss Dicranoloma billardierei, The Beeches, Lady Talbot Drive, near. Warburton, Yarra Ranges National Park, Victoria, Australia (37°29'13.53"S, 145°49'59"E, 800 m).
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
A Cultural Resources Survey for a Proposed Easement on Arizona State Lands for the SRP Vinyard Road Rehabilitation Project, Pinal County, Arizona
Creators: name: Cox, Eric S.
Publisher: name: Northland Research, Inc.
Year: 2016
Subjects: San Tan Valley
Queen Creek
Pinal (County)
Rehabilitation Project
Vinyard Road Rehabilitation Project
Salt River Project
Easement
Cultural Resources Survey
SRP
Site Evaluation / Testing
Systematic Survey

description: Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed a Class III cultural resources survey for the proposed Salt River Project (SRP) Vinyard Road Rehabilitation Project located on State Trust Lands administered by the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD), in Pinal County, Arizona. The proposed project area consists of both an electrical line easement and a temporary construction easement to be used for the installation of both overhead and underground electrical lines. The survey was initiated as part of the ASLD right of way (ROW) application (No. 17-118930). The purpose of the survey was to locate any cultural resources within the area of direct effects that may be impacted by the installation of the electrical lines. The goal was to identify and assess archaeological sites for their eligibility for listing in the Arizona Register of Historic Places (ARHP) and the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The area of potential effects (APE) for direct impacts was defined as a 3.9 acre parcel that includes an electrical line easement and temporary construction easement extending from the existing 500kV/230kV transmission pole P-5 to the Central Arizona Project (CAP) ROW. To buffer the proposed APE and provide SRP flexibility, an 11.5 acre area that includes the APE was surveyed during the fieldwork for this project. Northland archaeologist Eric Cox (Principal Investigator) completed the survey on July 22, 2016. The project was conducted under Arizona State Museum (ASM) blanket permit number 2016-007bl (Accession Number 2016-0329). Information on the AZSITE online cultural resource database revealed that some portions of the current project area had been previously surveyed in the 1970s and 1980s and that no previously recorded cultural resources were located within the area of direct effects. During the current survey no archaeological sites or isolated objects (IOs) were recorded. Northland recommends that no further archaeological investigations are necessary for the current project area.
Hydrological and water resources modelling under uncertainty and climate change: An application to the Limpopo basin, Botswana
Creators: name: Kenabatho, Kebuang Piet
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: The application of water resources planning models to semi-arid or arid areas is expected to be particularly challenging because of the high variability of rainfall and streamflow, highly limited historic observations, sparse rain gauge and flow networks with significant periods of missing rainfall and potential data quality issues. These lead to high uncertainty in rainfall and hydrological models which need to be explicitly represented in model predictions. These uncertainties are expected to increase when considering future predictions associated with the effects of climate change. This has presented an opportunity for this thesis to develop a framework of uncertainty analysis in hydrological and water resources modelling. The framework consists of multi-site continuous time stochastic rainfall model to (1) identify suitable rainfall predictors, (2) infill the missing values in the historic rainfall data, (3) extend the limited rainfall observations, and (4) generate rainfall under climate change scenarios by downscaling global climate models outputs. The stochastically infilled rainfall data allows calibration of a hydrological model under input uncertainty. The rainfall model together with the uncertain hydrological model are then used to generate multiple realisations of reservoir inflows over a 100-year period, first assuming a stationary climate and secondly under a changed climate. This framework is applied to the upper Limpopo basin in Botswana, using 25 years of observed daily rainfall and flow data for model calibration. A Generalised Linear Model was used for the rainfall and a semi-distributed version of the IHACRES model was used for the hydrology. A proposed 382 Mm3 reservoir at the outlet of this basin, which is part of Botswana‘s national water resource strategy, is re-evaluated in light of the extended inflow data and the estimated uncertainty. Analysis within this thesis revealed that the effects of data and model parameter uncertainty on water resources planning models can be high, and thus should not be ignored. The thesis advocates a shift from deterministic to stochastic ways of infilling missing rainfall values, and for consideration of hydrological model uncertainty, climate model and climate scenario uncertainties. Given the high uncertainty in the semi arid case study, priority areas can be identified, which may include acquiring and expanding the gauge networks, building efficient and robust data collection processing and achieving to improve the existing database so as to support and enable quality research.
Square Gravity
Creators: name: Baillie, C. F.
name: Johnston, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We simulate the Ising model on dynamical quadrangulations using a generalization of the flip move for triangulations with two aims: firstly, as a confirmation of the universality of the KPZ/DDK exponents of the Ising phase transition, worthwhile in view of some recent surprises with other sorts of dynamical lattices; secondly, to investigate the transition of the Ising antiferromagnet on a dynamical loosely packed (bipartite) lattice. In the latter case we show that it is still possible to define a staggered magnetization and observe the antiferromagnetic analogue of the transition.
description: LaTeX file and 7 postscript figures bundled together with uufiles
Hemodynamics and Endothelial Cell Biology in Cardiovascular Diseases
Creators: name: Foin, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: Atherosclerotic plaques develop preferentially in curved and branching arteries in-vivo. Lipids and inflammatory cells accumulation in the intimal layer of the arterial wall is considered as the main driving mechanism in the disease progression. Evidences suggest that this focal distribution of plaques may result from the combination of systemic risk factors including high plasma cholesterol, smoking, diabetis, hypertension or genetic pre-disposition and local hemodynamic risk factors such as low and oscillatory flows. The exact mechanism of the biological and biomechanical interactions between the endothelium, blood flow and the growing lesion underneath still remains unclear. This thesis is a study on the relationship between biomechanical factors found in proatherogenic flow and endothelial inflammation. The thesis focuses in particular on the effect of secondary flows on wall shear stress and mass transport distribution. To that end, we have combined different techniques from flow imaging, 3D flow reconstruction, vascular biology and mathematical simulation of biological network. In particular, shear stress is involved in the regulation of the pro-inflammatory transcription factor nuclear factor -kB (NF-kB) and the vasoregulator Nitric Oxide. The role of endothelial Nitric Oxide and wall shear stress on NF-kB activation is still controversial. We investigated here the hypothesis that NO negatively regulates NF- kB activation in flow chamber with sheared endothelial cells and using a mathematical model of the NF-kB-NO pathway. Understanding the underlying relationship between hemodynamic factors and inflammatory cells transport to the wall may contribute to the development of better therapies or interventional practices to treat patients with atherosclerotic diseases.
Massive chiral random matrix ensembles at beta = 1 & 4 : QCD Dirac operator spectra
Creators: name: Nagao, T.
name: Nishigaki, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The zero momentum sectors in effective theories of QCD coupled to pseudoreal (two colors) and real (adjoint) quarks have alternative descriptions in terms of chiral orthogonal and symplectic ensembles of random matrices. Using this correspondence, we compute correlation functions of Dirac operator eigenvalues within a sector with an arbitrary topological charge in a presence of finite quark masses of the order of the smallest Dirac eigenvalue. These novel correlation functions, expressed in terms of Pfaffians, interpolate between known results for the chiral and quenched limits as quark masses vary.
description: 12 pages, REVTeX 3.1, 2 figures; (v2) corrections on signatures in eqs.(48), (53), (C7), and on referential notes
Reduced sensitivity of the $(d, p)$ cross sections to the deuteron model beyond adiabatic approximation
Creators: name: Gómez-Ramos, M.
name: Timofeyuk, N. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been reported [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 162502 (2016)] that (d, p) cross sections can be very sensitive to the n-p interactions used in the adiabatic treatment of deuteron breakup with nonlocal nucleon-target optical potentials. To understand to what extent this sensitivity could originate in the inaccuracy of the adiabatic approximation we have developed a leading-order local- equivalent continuum-discretized coupled-channel model that accounts for non-adiabatic effects in the presence of nonlocality of nucleon optical potentials. We have applied our model to the astro- physically relevant reaction $^{26m}$Al$(d, p) ^{27}$Al using two different n-p potentials associated with the lowest and the highest n-p kinetic energy in the short-range region of their interaction, respectively. Our calculations reveal a significant reduction of the sensitivity to the high n-p momenta thus confirming that it is mostly associated with theoretical uncertainties of the adiabatic approximation itself. The non-adiabatic effects in the presence of nonlocality were found to be stronger than those in the case of the local optical potentials. These results argue for extending the analysis of the $(d, p)$ reactions, measured for spectroscopic studies, beyond the adiabatic approximation.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
On the evaluation of some three-body variational integrals
Creators: name: Caro, Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stable recursive relations are presented for the numerical computation of the integrals $$\int d{\bf r}_1 d{\bf r}_2 r_1^{l-1} r_2^{m-1} r_{12}^{n-1} \exp{\{-αr_1 -βr_2 -γr_{12}\}}$$ ($l$, $m$ and $n$ integer, $α$, $β$ and $γ$ real) when the indices $l$, $m$ or $n$ are negative. Useful formulas are given for particular values of the parameters $α$, $β$ and $γ$.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure (PS) and 3 tables. Old figures 2 and 3 replaced by Tables I and III. A further table added. Paper enlarged giving some tips on the convergence of quadratures
title: Das Scheitern umweltethischer Ansprüche in der Praxis
Creators: name: Draxler, Laura
Year: 2023

description: Auch wenn sich viele Menschen darin einig sind, dass Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung von Tierleid, Umweltschäden und Klimawandel erforderlich sind und Verhaltensänderungen in Bezug auf unser Ess-, Konsum- und Reiseverhalten notwendig sind, schaffen es nur wenige diese Veränderungen umzusetzen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll es um diese Kluft zwischen dem als „moralisch“ und „richtig“ bewerteten Verhalten und dem tatsächlichen Verhalten gehen. Dabei ist von Interesse welche Faktoren sich als Widerstände moralischen Handelns im Kontext der Umweltethik auftun können bzw. welche Einflüsse die Entscheidung für die „richtige“ Handlungsalternative erschweren. Um mögliche bedeutsame Faktoren für moralisches Verhalten herauszuarbeiten, wird untersucht, wie moralische Ansprüche praktisch werden können, bzw. unter welchen Gegebenheiten, Bedingungen und Voraussetzungen sie realisiert werden können und welche Faktoren die Bereitschaft, der moralischen Handlung Vorrang gegenüber anderen Handlungen zu geben, beeinflussen. Dafür werden Theorien zur Erklärung von moralischem Verhalten bzw. Umweltverhalten herangezogen. Anschließend wird der zentralen Fragestellung dieser Arbeit nachgegangen. Diese konzentriert sich auf ausgewählte Faktoren, die sich als Barrieren für moralisches Handeln in umweltrelevanten Kontexten herausgestellt haben. Hier werden beispielsweise Wert- und Normalitätsvorstellungen, Erwartungshaltungen, Weltanschauungen, Ideologien und Mythen, mit denen Menschen als Mitglieder sozialer Gruppen, einer Gesellschaft und Kultur konfrontiert werden, thematisiert. Aber auch die, durch die Medien (und die Werbung) vermittelten, teils widersprüchlichen Botschaften an Konsument*innen, die gezielte Verschleierung von Wahrheiten und die unvorteilhafte Sprache in der Klimakommunikation können Umweltverhalten erschweren bzw. verhindern. Ferner sind die Komplexität des Klimawandels und die damit verbundene Unsicherheit bezüglich Nachhaltigkeitsbewertungen und Verantwortlichkeiten Faktoren, die einer Verhaltensänderung im Weg stehen können.
Classification of constraints using chain by chain method
Creators: name: Loran, F
name: Shirzad, A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce "chain by chain" method for constructing the constraint structure of a system possessing both first and second class constraints. We show that the whole constraints can be classified into completely irreducible first or second class chains. We found appropriate redefinition of second class constraints to obtain a symplectic algebra among them.
description: 23 pages, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
Lattice relaxations in disordered Fe-based materials in the paramagnetic state from first principles
Creators: name: Gambino, Davide
name: Alling, Björn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we propose a method for the structural relaxation of magnetic materials in the paramagnetic regime, in an adiabatic fast-magnetism approximation within the disordered local moment (DLM) picture in the framework of density functional theory (DFT). The method is straight forward to implement using any $ab$ $initio$ code that allows for structural relaxations. We illustrate the importance of considering the disordered magnetic state during lattice relaxations by calculating formation energies and geometries for an Fe vacancy and C insterstitial atom in bcc Fe as well as bcc Fe$_{1-x}$Cr$_x$ random alloys in the paramagnetic state. In the vacancy case, the nearest neighbors to the vacancy relax towards the vacancy of 0.16 Å (-5% of the ideal bcc nearest neighbor distance), which is twice as large as the relaxation in the ferromagnetic case. The vacancy formation energy calculated in the DLM state on these positions is 1.60 eV, which corresponds to a reduction of about 0.1 eV compared to the formation energy calculated using DLM but on ferromagnetic-relaxed positions. The carbon interstitial formation energy is found to be 0.41 eV when the DLM relaxed positions are used, as compared to 0.59 eV when the FM-relaxed positions are employed. For bcc Fe$_{0.5}$Cr$_{0.5}$ alloys, the mixing enthalpy is reduced by 5 meV/atom, or about 10%, when the DLM state relaxation is considered, as compared to positions relaxed in the ferromagnetic state.
Kolmogorov $n$-widths for linear dynamical systems
Creators: name: Unger, Benjamin
name: Gugercin, Serkan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37M99, 47B35, 65P99, 34A45, 35A35, 93C05

description: Kolmogorov $n$-widths and Hankel singular values are two commonly used concepts in model reduction. Here we show that for the special case of linear time-invariant dynamical (LTI) systems, these two concepts are directly connected. More specifically, the greedy search applied to the Hankel operator of an LTI system resembles the minimizing subspace for the Kolmogorov n-width and the Kolmogorov $n$-width of an LTI system equals its $(n+1)st$ Hankel singular value once the subspaces are appropriately defined. We also establish a lower bound for the Kolmorogov $n$-width for parametric LTI systems and illustrate that the method of active subspaces can be viewed as the dual concept to the minimizing subspace for the Kolmogorov $n$-width.
description: S. Adv Comput Math (2019)
MOESM1 of A lipidated bi-epitope vaccine comprising of MHC-I and MHC-II binder peptides elicits protective CD4 T cell and CD8 T cell immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Creators: name: Rai, Pradeep
name: Sathi Chodisetti
name: Sudeep Maurya
name: Nadeem, Sajid
name: Weiguang Zeng
name: Janmeja, Ashok
name: Jackson, David
name: Agrewala, Javed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Description of lipidated and free peptides in the vaccine. Table shows the detail of the sequence of MHC class I and MHC class II binding promiscuous peptides and the presence or absence of Pam2Cys used in the vaccine constructs. mL4.8/mF4.8 are murine restricted epitopes. ‘+’: presence; ‘−’: absence.
Wei Hua's Four Parameter Potential Comments and Computation of Moleculer Constants α_e and ω_e x_e
Creators: name: Kaur, Sarvpreet
name: Mahajan, C. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The value of adjustable parameter $C$ and the four-parameter potential $U(r) = D_{e}\left [ \frac{1-{exp}[-b(r-r_{e})]}{1-C{exp} [-b(r-r_{e})]} \right ]^{2}$ has been expressed in terms of molecular parameters and its significance has been brought out. The potential so constructed, with $C$ derived from the molecular parameters, has been applied to ten electronic states in addition to the states studied by Wei Hua. Average mean deviation has been found to be 3.47 as compared to 6.93, 6.95 and 9.72 obtained from Levine2, Varshni and Morse potentials, respectively. Also Dunham's method has been used to express rotation-vibration interaction constant $(α_{e})$ and anharmonocity constant $(ω_{e}x_{e})$ in terms of $C$ and other molecular constants. These relations have been employed to determine these quantities for 37 electronic states. For $α_{e}$, the average mean deviation is 7.2% compared to 19.7% for Lippincott's potential which is known to be the best to predict the values. Average mean deviation for $(ω_{e}x_{e})$ turns out to be 17.4% which is almost the same as found from Lippincott's potential function.
description: 19 RevTex Pages, 1 Ps figure, submitted to J. Phys. B
Analytic index and chiral fermions
Creators: name: Fujikawa, Kazuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent application of an index relation of the form, $dim\ ker\ M - dim\ ker\ M^{\dagger} = ν$, to the generation of chiral fermions in a vector-like gauge theory is reviewed. In this scheme the chiral structure arises from a mass term with a non-trivial index.The essence of the generalized Pauli-Villars regularization of chiral gauge theory, which is based on this mechanism, is also clarified.
description: 18 pages, plain Latex
Additional file 3: of Effects of alleles in crossbred pigs estimated for genomic prediction depend on their breed-of-origin
Creators: name: Sevillano, Claudia
name: Napel, Jan Ten
name: GuimarĂŁes, Simone
name: Fabyano Silva
name: Calus, Mario
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Proportion of genetic variance for residual feed intake explained by the top 10 LD blocks for purebred and crossbred performance by breed-of-origin. (PDF 215 kb)
Additional file 4: of The LEAD trial - the effectiveness of a decision aid on decision making among citizens with lower educational attainment who have not participated in FIT-based colorectal cancer screening in Denmark: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Gabel, Pernille
name: Larsen, Mette
name: Kirkegaard, Pia
name: Edwards, Adrian
name: Andersen, Berit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Trial registration. (DOCX 38 kb)