cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating the discount on trade sale transactions
Creators: name: Carlton, Tony
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Officer (2007) finds that subsidiaries sold between public companies trade at a 30% discount relative to comparable public market acquisitions. This discount is attributed to target parents selling assets under liquidity pressures and adverse credit market conditions. This implies a transfer of wealth from sellers to buyers, and a material friction in the market for corporate control. I present an alternative view. Assets sold by target parents are more likely to be poorly performing, non-core and sold at a tax loss. The reported discounts reflect this difference in underlying value, not a transfer of wealth from seller to buyer. I test whether reported discounts are driven by liquidity-pressured target parents or reflect the sale of less valuable subsidiaries. I present four key results. First, Officer (2007) uses the combination of arithmetic mean and percent discounts, procedures which are strongly influenced by asymmetric distribution of discounts. Alternative methods result in lower, or even zero, discounts. Second, measurement of discounts needs to allow for asset specific characteristics. I find that the target’s income status and size are associated with reported discounts. Third, using measures of financial constraints and new measures of seasoned equity market conditions, I find little correlation between discounts, measures of financial constraints and measures of equity market conditions. There is some evidence of a fire sale mechanism operating but the circumstances apply to a small portion of the sample, and cannot be used to explain pervasive discounts. Finally, acquirers buying assets at a discount should attract a larger share of wealth created in a sale. This result may explain the so-called listing effect. I find no association between discounts and the acquirer’s share of wealth created or returns. It is tempting to apply the logic of the private company discount to the sale of subsidiaries by public companies. However publicly listed target parents have a wider range of funding strategies and exit strategies than privately owned companies. The case that sizable discounts on the sale of subsidiaries exist, and are attributable to liquidity pressures on target parents, is still to be made.
Introduction of Adonis aestivalis as a new source of effective cytotoxic cardiac glycoside
Creators: name: Hosseini, Marzieh
name: Mahboubeh Taherkhani
name: Nohooji, Majid Ghorbani
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Cardiac glycosides are used for treatment of irregular heartbeats, cardiac arrhythmia and congestive heart failures. In this research, digitoxin as a cardiac glycoside was identified and isolated for the first time in the world from Adonis aestivalis and investigated for its cytotoxic activity against cervical cancer cell (HeLa) lines and human lymphocytes by MTT test. Digitoxin extracted from the aerial parts of the plant collected from west of Iran and purified by column and thin layer chromatographic techniques. The structure of isolated cardiac glycoside was identified by IR, 1H NMR and 13C NMR methods and so the presence of digitoxin was established. The half maximal inhibitory concentration values for cervical cancer and lymphocyte cells were obtained to be 5.62 and 412.94 μg/mL. The results of this study introduced the new resource of digitoxin which has considerable cytotoxic effects against HeLa cancer cells but did not damage normal human lymphocyte cells.
Phase transitions in chiral magnets from Monte Carlo simulations
Creators: name: Belemuk, A. M.
name: Stishov, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the unusual temperature dependence of the specific heat in MnSi, comprising a combination of a sharp first-order feature accompanied by a broad hump, we study the extended Heisenberg model with competing exchange $J$ and anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya $D$ interactions in a broad range of ratio $D/J$. Utilizing classical Monte Carlo simulations we find an evolution of the temperature dependence of the specific heat and magnetic susceptibility with variation of $D/J$. Combined with an analysis of the Bragg intensity patterns, we clearly demonstrate that the observed puzzling hump in the specific heat of MnSi originates from smearing out of the virtual ferromagnetic second order phase transition by helical fluctuations, which manifest themselves in the transient multiple spiral state. These fluctuations finally condense into the helical ordered phase via a first order phase transition as is indicated by the specific heat peak. Thus the model demonstrates a crossover from a second-order to a first-order transition with increasing $D/J$. Upon further increasing $D/J$ another crossover from a first-order to a second-order transition takes place in the system. Moreover, the results of the calculations clearly indicate that these competing interactions are the primary factor responsible for the appearance of first order phase transitions in helical magnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction.
КОМПЛЕКСНЫЕ ГЕОФИЗИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ 2015-2017 ГГ. НА БИЛЯРСКОМ ГОРОДИЩЕ
Creators: name: БЕЗДУДНЫЙ ВЛАДИМИР ГРИГОРЬЕВИЧ
name: ШАКИРОВ ЗУФАР ГУМАРОВИЧ
name: СИТДИКОВ АЙРАТ ГАБИТОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Археология евразийских степей
Year: 2018
Subjects: АРХЕОЛОГИЯ
ГЕОФИЗИКА
СРЕДНЕВЕКОВЬЕ
БИЛЯРСКОЕ ГОРОДИЩЕ
ДРЕВНИЕ ОБЪЕКТЫ
ГОРОДСКАЯ ПЛАНИРОВКА
АРХЕОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ РАСКОПКИ
ARCHEOLOGY
GEOPHYSICS
MIDDLE AGES
BILYAR SETTLEMENT
ANCIENT OBJECTS
URBAN PLANNING
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS

description: Несколькими геофизическими методами на Билярском городище в 2015-2017 гг. исследовано около 1,5 га площади памятника. Высокое качество результатов геофизических методов исследования на территории средневекового Биляра, в первую очередь, обусловлено отсутствием поздней переработки культурного слоя на его основной территории и отсутствием коммуникаций, которые могли бы создавать помехи для аппаратуры. По предыдущим исследованиям также известно, что застройка на Биляре производилась из кирпича, который дает наибольшие аномалии при распределении градиентов магнитного поля. Выявленные геофизическими работами сооружения, попавшие в границы раскопа XLIV, подтверждены археологическими исследованиями.
ПРЕДМЕТЫ ИЗ РАСКОПОК В.А. ГОРОДЦОВА НА ГОРОДИЩЕ МАДЖАРЫ В 1907 Г. (ПО МАТЕРИАЛАМ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОГО МУЗЕЯ)
Creators: name: БОЛДЫРЕВА ЕКАТЕРИНА МИХАЙЛОВНА
Publisher: name: Археология евразийских степей
Year: 2018
Subjects: ЗОЛОТАЯ ОРДА
ГОРОД МАДЖАР
В.А. ГОРОДЦОВ
АРХЕОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ КОЛЛЕКЦИЯ
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЙ МУЗЕЙ

description: Автором статьи был сделан обзор и общая характеристика предметов из коллекции В.А. Городцова, поступивших в музей после исследований 1907 года на территории золотоордынского города Маджар. В научный оборот были введены материалы из первых археологических раскопок, проведенных на этом памятнике.
Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Salman, Ibrahim M.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The aims of this thesis were to: first, identify if a temporal impairment in baroreflex control of sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) occurs in a novel rodent model of chronic kidney disease (CKD), the Lewis Polycystic kidney (LPK) rat, and if deficits in the afferent, central and/or efferent components of the baroreflex exist; second, assess whether baroreflex dysfunction in CKD is differentially expressed in male and female genders and is contributed to by sex-dependent deteriorations in different components of the baroreflex pathway; third, investigate whether altered reflex control of the heart and sympathetic vasomotor tone relates to deficits in the vagal afferent pathway, a bioreceptor-independent mechanism that can similarly modulate efferent autonomic nerve activity; and fourth, to examine the hypothesis that ongoing elevation of SNA is a key pathological feature of CKD using conscious dual recording of blood pressure (BP) and SNA in the LPK.
The condensation of the corona for the correlation between the hard X-ray photon index $Γ$ and the reflection scaling factor $\Re$ in active galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Qiao, Erlin
name: Liu, B. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observationally, it is found that there is a strong correlation between the hard X-ray photon index $Γ$ and the Compton reflection scaling factor $\Re$ in active galactic nuclei. In this paper, we propose that the $Γ-\Re$ correlation can be explained within the framework of the condensation of the hot corona onto the cold accretion disc around a supermassive black hole. In the model, it is presumed that, initially, a vertically extended hot gas (corona) is supplied to the central supermassive black hole by capturing the interstellar medium and stellar wind. In this scenario, when the initial mass accretion rate $\dot M/ \dot M_{\rm Edd} \gtrsim 0.01$, at a critical radius $r_{\rm d}$, part of the hot gas begins to condense onto the equatorial disc plane of the black hole, forming an inner cold accretion disc. Then the matter is accreted in the form of the disc-corona structure extending down to the innermost stable circular orbits of the black hole. The size of the inner disc is determined by the initial mass accretion rate. With the increase of the initial mass accretion rate, the size of the inner disc increases, which results in both the increase of the Compton reflection scaling factor $\Re$ and the increase of the hard X-ray photon index $Γ$. By comparing with a sample of Seyfert galaxies with well-fitted X-ray spectra, it is found that our model can roughly explain the observations. Finally, we discuss the possibility to apply our model to high mass X-ray binaries, which are believed to be fueled by the hot wind from the companion star.
description: Accepted for publication by MNRAS, 8 pages, 7 figures
ТРИ ГОДА АРХЕОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ ЗОЛОТООРДЫНСКОГО ГОРОДА МАДЖАР (2015 - 2017). ИТОГИ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ
Creators: name: БОЧАРОВ СЕРГЕЙ ГЕННАДИЕВИЧ
name: ОБУХОВ ЮРИЙ ДМИТРИЕВИЧ
name: СИТДИКОВ АЙРАТ ГАБИТОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Археология евразийских степей
Year: 2018
Subjects: ЗОЛОТАЯ ОРДА
ГОРОД МАДЖАР
СЕВЕРНЫЙ КАВКАЗ
АРХЕОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ
ИСТОРИЧЕСКАЯ ТОПОГРАФИЯ
ПРОИЗВОДСТВО КОЖ
НАХОДКИ
ПОЛИВНАЯ КЕРАМИКА
GOLDEN HORDE
TOWN OF MADZHAR
NORTHERN CAUCASUS
ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES
HISTORICAL TОPOGRAPHY
LEATHER PRODUCTION
FINDINGS
GLAZED CERAMICS

description: Археологическая экспедиция «Каффа» Института археологии им. А.Х. Халикова Академии Наук Республики Татарстан с 2015 г. проводит систематические исследования золотоордынского Маджарского городища. Эти работы выполняются в рамках реализации мероприятий государственной программы Республики Татарстан «Сохранение национальной идентичности татарского народа (2014 2019 годы)». В статье в краткой форме публикуются основные результаты полученные в течении трёхлетнего периода исследования города Маджар.
Power Spectrum Identification for Quantum Linear Systems
Creators: name: Levitt, Matthew
name: Guta, Madalin
name: Nurdin, Hendra I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate system identification for general quantum linear systems. We consider the situation where the input field is prepared as stationary (squeezed) quantum noise. In this regime the output field is characterised by the power spectrum, which encodes covariance of the output state. We address the following two questions: (1) Which parameters can be identified from the power spectrum? (2) How to construct a system realisation from the power spectrum? The power spectrum depends on the system parameters via the transfer function. We show that the transfer function can be uniquely recovered from the power spectrum, so that equivalent systems are related by a symplectic transformation.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Automatica. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1608.01227
The hypoglycemic and antioxidant activities of garden cress (Lepidium sativum L.) seed on alloxan-induced diabetic male rats
Creators: name: Attia, Eman S.
name: Amer, Afaf H.
name: Hasanein, Manal A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The hypoglycemic and antioxidants activities of the methanol extract of Lepidium sativum seeds was tested in alloxan-induced diabetic male rats. Thirty male albino rats weighing 190–200 g were divided into five groups as follows: negative control, positive control and three diabetic groups treated with three concentrations of L. sativum methanol extract for four weeks. Induction of hyperglycemia in the positive control group increased blood glucose, glycated hemoglobin A1c, immunoglobulins, liver enzyme, lipid peroxide and kidney function, total cholesterol, low-density lipoproteins, very low-density lipoproteins and decreased antioxidants and high-density lipoproteins compared with the negative control. Furthermore, pancreas tissues showed pathological changes compared with the negative control. Treating the diabetic rats with L. sativum methanol extract decreased blood sugar and restored all biochemical and histological changes to the normal. It could be concluded that L. sativum methanol extract succeeded in controlling diabetes, increasing antioxidants and ameliorating lipid profile.
title: ADCO, Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0861
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0861, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0861, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Rituals of apparition in the Theban Magical Library
Creators: name: Dosoo, Korshi
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the evidence for divinatory practices in Roman Egypt, focusing on rituals for questioning deities, and using the so-called "Theban Magical Library" as the core corpus within which this practice is examined. The first chapter examines the evidence for this archive, its publication and reception history, as well as its form and contents, in terms of physical, scribal, linguistic, and ritual features. This analysis is then used to situate the Library within the cultural context of Roman Egypt, and the historical development of Egyptian magical practice. The second and third chapters focus on the “ritual of apparition”, setting out a structural approach that focuses on the way in which recurrent features are combined and elaborated into a wide array of individual rituals. Alongside a lexicographical discussion of Greek and Egyptian terms for such rituals, the second chapter discusses the social context within which these practices may have taken place, and sets out a hypothetical cognitive schema within which the rituals may have been understood and experienced as efficacious. The third chapter focuses on the particular components of these rituals, looking at the way in which objects and actions were fitted into larger rituals, and how variations in their employment affected the way in which they “functioned” as parts of the practitioner’s ritual technology.
Evaluation of a combined drought indicator and its potential for agricultural drought prediction in southern Spain
Creators: name: Jiménez-Donaire, María Del Pilar
name: Tarquis, Ana
name: Uan Vicente Giráldez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Drought prediction is crucial, especially where the rainfall regime is irregular, such as in Mediterranean countries. A new combined drought indicator (CDI) integrating rainfall, soil moisture and vegetation dynamics is proposed. Standardized precipitation index (SPI) is used for evaluating rainfall trends. A bucket-type soil moisture model is employed for keeping track of soil moisture and calculating
 anomalies, and, finally, satellite-based normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data are used for monitoring vegetation
 response. The proposed CDI has four levels, at increasing degrees of severity: watch, warning, alert type I and alert type II.
 This CDI was thus applied over the period 2003–2013 to five study sites, representative of the main grain-growing areas
 of SW Spain. The performance of the CDI levels was assessed by comparison with observed crop damage data. Observations show a good match between crop damage and the CDI. Important crop drought events in 2004–2005 and 2011–2012, distinguished by crop damage in between 70% and 95% of the total insured area, were correctly predicted by the proposed CDI in all five areas.
description: Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
MOESM8 of Construction of a high-density genetic map and QTL mapping of leaf traits and plant growth in an interspecific F1 population of Catalpa bungei Ã— Catalpa duclouxii Dode
Creators: name: Lu, Nan
name: Zhang, Miaomiao
name: Xiao, Yao
name: Han, Donghua
name: Liu, Ying
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Yi, Fei
name: Zhu, Tianqing
name: Ma, Wenjun
name: Fan, Erqin
name: Qu, Guanzheng
name: Wang, Junhui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 8: Figure S3. QTL analysis of the seven leaf traits using the ICIM method in GACD. The x-axis indicates the map position (cM) in the 20 LGs, while the y-axis represents the LOD score. The horizontal line in the chart represents the LOD threshold.
Traces of surfactants can severely limit the drag reduction of superhydrophobic surfaces
Creators: name: Peaudecerf, François J.
name: Landel, Julien R.
name: Goldstein, Raymond E.
name: Luzzatto-Fegiz, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) have the potential to achieve large drag reduction for internal and external flow applications. However, experiments have shown inconsistent results, with many studies reporting significantly reduced performance. Recently, it has been proposed that surfactants, ubiquitous in flow applications, could be responsible, by creating adverse Marangoni stresses. Yet, testing this hypothesis is challenging. Careful experiments with purified water show large interfacial stresses and, paradoxically, adding surfactants yields barely measurable drag increases. This suggests that other physical processes, such as thermal Marangoni stresses or interface deflection, could explain the lower performance. To test the surfactant hypothesis, we perform the first numerical simulations of flows over a SHS inclusive of surfactant kinetics. These simulations reveal that surfactant-induced stresses are significant at extremely low concentrations, potentially yielding a no-slip boundary condition on the air--water interface (the "plastron") for surfactant amounts below typical environmental values. These stresses decrease as the streamwise distance between plastron stagnation points increases. We perform microchannel experiments with thermally-controlled SHSs consisting of streamwise parallel gratings, which confirm this numerical prediction. We introduce a new, unsteady test of surfactant effects. When we rapidly remove the driving pressure following a loading phase, a backflow develops at the plastron, which can only be explained by surfactant gradients formed in the loading phase. This demonstrates the significance of surfactants in deteriorating drag reduction, and thus the importance of including surfactant stresses in SHS models. Our time-dependent protocol can assess the impact of surfactants in SHS testing and guide future mitigating designs.
description: 25 pages including supplemental information, 7 figures; videos available on request
Coordination compounds of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-indazole with Cu(II), Co(II) and Ag(I): structural, antimicrobial, antioxidant and enzyme inhibition studies
Creators: name: Ezzat Khan
name: Gul, Zarif
name: Shahzad, Adnan
name: Jan, Muhammad Saeed
name: Farhat Ullah
name: M. N. Tahir
name: Awal Noor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Coordination behavior of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-indazole (H-Ind) with Cu(II), Co(II), and Ag(I) was studied. The ligand affords complexes bearing different geometries depending upon the metal and anion present in the starting salts. Five compounds with different structural perspectives, trans-[CuCl2(H-Ind)4] (1), trans-[CuBr2(H-Ind)4] (2), trans-[Cu(CH3COO)2(H-Ind)2] (3), trans-[CoCl2(H-Ind)4] (4), and [Ag(H-Ind)2]NO3 (5), were obtained. The ligand adopts tetrahydro-1H-indazole isomeric form in Cu(II) and Co(II) complexes and with Ag(I) ion the same ligand adopts tetrahydro-2H-indazole form. In the case of sterically demanding acetate counter ion in contrast to Cl or Br, the Cu(II) ion accepts two equivalents of the ligand and four-coordinated square planar complex was obtained. With AgNO3, the expected complex was obtained. The yield of reactions was >80% and all complexes were obtained as crystalline material from the reaction mixtures. Their structures were determined by X-ray diffraction and all complexes were tested for antibacterial (Enterobacter sakazkii, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniea), antifungal (Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumegatus, Aspergillus nigar, Fusarium oxysporium), and antioxidant (2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid (ABTS) and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH)) activities. The same were also tested as inhibitors against acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) .
Privacy-preserving Scanpath Comparison for Pervasive Eye Tracking
Creators: name: Ozdel, Suleyman
name: Bozkir, Efe
name: Kasneci, Enkelejda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As eye tracking becomes pervasive with screen-based devices and head-mounted displays, privacy concerns regarding eye-tracking data have escalated. While state-of-the-art approaches for privacy-preserving eye tracking mostly involve differential privacy and empirical data manipulations, previous research has not focused on methods for scanpaths. We introduce a novel privacy-preserving scanpath comparison protocol designed for the widely used Needleman-Wunsch algorithm, a generalized version of the edit distance algorithm. Particularly, by incorporating the Paillier homomorphic encryption scheme, our protocol ensures that no private information is revealed. Furthermore, we introduce a random processing strategy and a multi-layered masking method to obfuscate the values while preserving the original order of encrypted editing operation costs. This minimizes communication overhead, requiring a single communication round for each iteration of the Needleman-Wunsch process. We demonstrate the efficiency and applicability of our protocol on three publicly available datasets with comprehensive computational performance analyses and make our source code publicly accessible.
description: Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, ETRA (May 2024)
The law of evidence in the Islamic criminal justice system: a critical appraisal in the light of modern technology
Creators: name: Korbatieh, Souha
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Sharia has continuously developed since Islam's inception in the seventh century CE. This thesis focuses on hudud criminal law evidentiary requirements, particularly adultery, and critically assesses the impact of modern technology on these laws. Many modern Muslim states implementing sharia or a part of it are struggling to incorporate technological advancements into their criminal evidence rules. In assessing the desirability of updating sharia proofs, this thesis establishes modern technology can be comfortably incorporated as circumstantial proof in sharia under the legal concept of ijtihad. Such proof, however, means it cannot be used to prove hudud crimes, such as adultery, which would contravene maqasid of sharia and hudud, including contravening sharia privacy principles. Instead, modern technology, such as DNA testing, should be used as paternity verification at a wife's request to establish her innocence in li'an cases or to prove paternity under family laws to provide welfare rights to children. In a similar vein, CCTV footage may beneficially be treated as admissible evidence in establishing truth and justice in Islamic criminal law. This thesis concludes by (a) finding that, while modern technology can be incorporated within sharia evidence laws, there are restrictions on its use due to the unique aspects of hudud and its sharia objectives; and (b) offering pragmatic recommendations to integrate modern technology in the sharia criminal law of evidence.
Solar Ellerman Bombs in 1-D Radiative Hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Reid, A.
name: Mathioudakis, M.
name: Kowalski, A.
name: Doyle, J. G.
name: Allred, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) appear to show impulsive brightenings in high temperature lines, which when combined with simultaneous ground based observations in H$α$, appear co-spatial to Ellerman Bombs (EBs). We use the RADYN 1-dimensional radiative transfer code in an attempt to try and reproduce the observed line profiles and simulate the atmospheric conditions of these events. Combined with the MULTI/RH line synthesis codes, we compute the H$α$, Ca II 8542~Å, and Mg II h \& k lines for these simulated events and compare them to previous observations. Our findings hint that the presence of superheated regions in the photosphere ($>$10,000 K) is not a plausible explanation for the production of EB signatures. While we are able to recreate EB-like line profiles in H$α$, Ca II 8542~Å, and Mg II h \& k, we cannot achieve agreement with all of these simultaneously.
description: Accepted into ApJL. 4 Figures, 1 Table
Application of Viola-Jones Control Model for Emotion Recognition Based on Facial Expression and Body Gestures
Creators: name: Isiaka, Fatima
name: Adamu, Zainab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460201
subject: Artificial life and complex adaptive systems
classificationCode: 460202
subject: Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
classificationCode: 460207
subject: Modelling and simulation
classificationCode: 460306
subject: Image processing

description: Body gestures are one of the crucial components of body language and can also be used for emotion recognition in people. This could include movement and depths and changes in the motion of the body in a confined environment. However, these aspects remain less explored to recognise emotion while facial expressions and examples such as speech-based approaches are widely investigated. This paper introduces a custom method of emotion recognition through facial expressions and body gestures in people based on Viola-Jones using Matlab images saved in the archive and a thousand images online collection of a thousand body gestures and facial expressions. A Viola Jones control model was used to save these images and to identify features that recognise different forms of emotion saved in the database. The surroundings of the person also help to map the right emotion and expression on the face of the person. Tracking points and error tracking were computed for each class of emotion detected; prediction accuracy is close to 78% for each predicted class of emotion.
title: AN, Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Y5266, f. p1010036
Creators: name: Claustre, Julie
name: Nationales, Archives
name: Archives Nationales
name: Claustre, Julie
name: ArchivesNationales/J.CLAUSTRE/H.REGAZZI/2020
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Châtelet
subject: registre

description: Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Archives Nationales, Y5266. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Bibliographic citation: Archives Nationales, Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Y5266, f. p1010036
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Creators: name: Sofianto, Eko Wahyu Nur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mendeley

description: Acara One Day all about Mendeley salah satunya mengangkat materi tentang PDF Viewer: Anotasi dan Highlighting dimana pada fitur mendeley setiap pdf dapat diberikan di anotasi dalam rangka mempermudah menulis artikel.
Universality of Coherent Raman Gain Suppression in Gas-Filled Broadband-Guiding Photonic Crystal Fibers
Creators: name: Hosseini, Pooria
name: Mridha, Manoj K.
name: Novoa, David
name: Abdolvand, Amir
name: Russell, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As shown in the early 1960s, the gain in stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) is drastically suppressed when the rate of creation of phonons (via pump-to-Stokes conversion) is exactly balanced by the rate of phonon annihilation (via pump-to-anti-Stokes conversion). This occurs when the phonon coherence waves synchronized vibrations of a large population of molecules have identical propagation constants for both processes, i.e., they are phase-velocity matched. As recently demonstrated, hydrogen-filled photonic crystal fiber pumped in the vicinity of its zero dispersion wavelength provides an ideal system for observing this effect. Here we report that Raman gain suppression is actually a universal feature of SRS in gas-filled hollow-core fibers, and that it can strongly impair SRS even when the dephasing rate is high, particularly at high pump powers when it is normally assumed that nonlinear processes become more (not less) efficient. This counterintuitive result means that intermodal stimulated Raman scattering (for example between LP01 and LP11 core modes) begins to dominate at high power levels. The results reported have important implications for fiber-based Raman shifters, amplifiers or frequency combs, especially for operation in the ultraviolet, where the Raman gain is much higher.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
title: 01_1619
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Murder & masochism: exploring violence as a mode of engaging with fiction in From Software's Dark souls
Creators: name: Stamatov, Daniel
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Violence permeates the act of playing videogames, extending beyond superficial representations of violence into the culturally formative. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the complexity of videogame violence through a close reading of From Software's Dark souls. I argue that violence functions as a mode of engaging with fiction in videogames. Players destabilise the potential meanings a videogame can generate by altering its material reality through play and translating their experiences of it through interpretation. Videogames reshape players by conditioning them toward new modes of playing, thinking and feeling. Ultimately, videogame violence is a mode of engaging with fiction that enables a mutually transformative interaction between players and videogames.
The bright homunculus in our head: individual differences in intuitive sensitivity to logical validity
Creators: name: Ghasemi, Omidreza
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Classical dual process theories of human reasoning attribute explicit reasoning to effortful, deliberative thinking. Lacking any access to the formal rules of logic and probability, according to these models, intuitive processes rely exclusively on superficial features of the problem. In recent years, however, researchers have demonstrated that reasoners are able to solve simple logical or probabilistic problems relatively automatically, a capability which has been called logical intuition. In two experiments, we examined the existence of this capability by instructing participants to rate their judgment of likeability (Experiment 1) and brightness (Experiment 2) of several reasoning problems. In order to investigate individual differences in these measures of logical intuition, participants were also asked to complete two scales of cognitive ability and cognitive style. The results showed that participants rated the conclusion to logically valid statements more likable and more physically bright. Although participants with higher cognitive ability showed greater logical intuition in their liking judgment, this effect, however, was absent when the brightness task, as another measure of logical intuition, was used. We discuss the implications of our findings for recent dual process theories of human reasoning.
MOESM9 of Construction of a high-density genetic map and QTL mapping of leaf traits and plant growth in an interspecific F1 population of Catalpa bungei Ã— Catalpa duclouxii Dode
Creators: name: Lu, Nan
name: Zhang, Miaomiao
name: Xiao, Yao
name: Han, Donghua
name: Liu, Ying
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Yi, Fei
name: Zhu, Tianqing
name: Ma, Wenjun
name: Fan, Erqin
name: Qu, Guanzheng
name: Wang, Junhui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 9: Figure S4. QTL analysis of the plant growth traits at different time points using the ICIM method in GACD. The x-axis indicates the map position (cM) in the 20 LGs, while the y-axis represents the LOD score. The horizontal line in the chart is the LOD threshold.
This blows: social and cultural perceptions of ancient Roman brass instruments and musicians
Creators: name: Cross, Rodney
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis evaluates the uses and sociocultural perceptions of the four main ancient Roman brass instruments: bucina, cornu, lituus and tuba, across a range of contexts including: gladiatorial games, religious festivals, funerals and the Roman army. The omission of an origin myth and their strong association with violence and death implies a general negative perception of these instruments in the ancient Roman world (Ziolkowski, 1999). These negative connotations are further supported by primary literary evidence. The positive symbolic use in relation to Roman concepts of imperium (power), and auctoritas (authority), especially within triumphal processions, on the other hand, complicates this view. This thesis will attempt to reconcile these two conflicting perspectives through highlighting their distinct function within Roman society, which heavily influenced their presentation within the primary source tradition. This thesis will also raise a number of key issues within the broader disciplinary area of study, including issues of: disciplinarity, terminology, and methodology. The present work is divided into four main parts: I) a literature review and a proposed methodology, II) a discussion of relevant disciplinary, terminological, typological and iconographical issues, III) an overview of the contextual uses of Roman brass instruments and IV) an evaluation of the perceptions, power and symbolism that were associated with them.
The investigation of the relationship between body dysmorphic disorder and psychological problems and comprise it among female athletes and non athletes students.
Creators: name: Ghasemi, Abdollah
name: PooraghaeiArdakani, Zahra
name: Momeni, Maryam
name: Falahatimarvast, Mehdi
name: Azimzade, Elham
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150404 Sport and Leisure Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 170114 Sport and Exercise Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The aim of the present study was to compare the body dysmorphic disorder and investigate the relationship between the sub-scale of the psychological problems and body dysmorphic disorder of the athletes and nonathletes university girl students. The subjects of the research comprise 60 individuals whose ages are between 19- 25. The instruments used to collect data for the dependant variable included a personal information, BICI and SCL90 questionnaires. The results showed that the body dysmorphic disorder of the athletes are better than nonathletes and the relationship between body dysmorphic disorder and all of sub-scales of psychological problems in nonathletes is higher than athletes.body dysmorphic disorderathletes and nonathletes psychological problemsuniversity girl students
title: Jacques Leibowitch?, "The triple combination of D4T DDI 3TC as first or second line treatment in patients with AIDS."
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111231432426
description: created: start=1975;end=2018
Automatic Defect Detection in Sewer Network Using Deep Learning Based Object Detector
Creators: name: Ha, Bach
name: Schalter, Birgit
name: White, Laura
name: Koehler, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Maintaining sewer systems in large cities is important, but also time and effort consuming, because visual inspections are currently done manually. To reduce the amount of aforementioned manual work, defects within sewer pipes should be located and classified automatically. In the past, multiple works have attempted solving this problem using classical image processing, machine learning, or a combination of those. However, each provided solution only focus on detecting a limited set of defect/structure types, such as fissure, root, and/or connection. Furthermore, due to the use of hand-crafted features and small training datasets, generalization is also problematic. In order to overcome these deficits, a sizable dataset with 14.7 km of various sewer pipes were annotated by sewer maintenance experts in the scope of this work. On top of that, an object detector (EfficientDet-D0) was trained for automatic defect detection. From the result of several expermients, peculiar natures of defects in the context of object detection, which greatly effect annotation and training process, are found and discussed. At the end, the final detector was able to detect 83% of defects in the test set; out of the missing 17%, only 0.77% are very severe defects. This work provides an example of applying deep learning-based object detection into an important but quiet engineering field. It also gives some practical pointers on how to annotate peculiar "object", such as defects.
Coordination compounds of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-indazole with Cu(II), Co(II) and Ag(I): Structural, antimicrobial, antioxidant and enzyme inhibition studies
Creators: name: Ezzat Khan
name: Gul, Zarif
name: Shahzad, Adnan
name: Jan, Muhammad Saeed
name: Frahat Ullah
name: M.N. Tahir
name: Awal Noor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Coordination behavior of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-indazole (H-Ind) with Cu(II), Co(II) and Ag(I) was studied. The ligand affords complexes bearing different geometries depending upon the metal and anion present in the starting salts. Five compounds with different structural perspectives, trans-[CuCl2(H-Ind)4] (1), trans-[CuBr2(H-Ind)4] (2), trans-[Cu(CH3COO)2(H-Ind)2] (3), trans-[CoCl2(H-Ind)4] (4) and [Ag(H-Ind)2]NO3 (5), were obtained. The ligand adopts tetrahydro-1H-indazole isomeric form in Cu(II) and Co(II) complexes and with Ag(I) ion the same ligand adopts tetrahydro-2H-indazole form. In the case of sterically demanding acetate counter ion in contrast to Cl or Br, the Cu(II) ion accepts two equivalents of the ligand and four-coordinate square planar complex was obtained. With AgNO3 the expected complex was obtained. The yield of reactions was >80% and all complexes were obtained as crystalline material from the reaction mixtures. Their structures were determined by X-ray diffraction and all complexes were tested for antibacterial (Enterobacter sakazkii, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniea), antifungal (Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumegatus, Aspergillus nigar, Fusarium oxysporium) and antioxidant (2,2’-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid (ABTS) and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH)) activities. The same were also tested as inhibitors against acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE).
Three essays on benchmarks, derivatives and OTC markets
Creators: name: Steffen, Tom
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This dissertation consists of three empirical studies. Collectively, the chapters cover over the-counter(OTC) markets and assess the interactions with centralized exchange-traded markets via benchmarks and financial derivatives. Chapter 1, "The impact of commodity benchmarks on derivatives markets: The case of the Dated Brent assessment and Brent futures", examines the response of the futures market to the key spot oil benchmark assessed and published by Platts. Futures trading activity intensifies during the assessment window and aligns with the direction of the upcoming benchmark publication. A substantially increased arrival rate of informed traders suggests that sophisticated traders induce the futures price run-up ahead of the Dated Brent assessment ending point. The general increase in the arrival rates of both informed and uninformed traders during the assessment window underscores the benchmark's significance as a critical financial market infrastructure element. Chapter 2, "Skin in the game: Resource proximity and price impact", exploits a novel dataset incorporating OTC oil forward trading with exchange-traded futures activity to investigate the intricate interactions between both markets. I confirm that the futures market is the uncontested information leader, but that the forward market contributes a non-negligible proportion to the determination of the efficient oil price. Further, I find that fundamental supply and demand information, likely gained through 'skin in the game' in upstream and downstream oil infrastructure, proxied by the traders' centrality in the forward market, is revealed to the futures market by their forward trading activity. Chapter 3, "The visible hand: Benchmarks, regulation, and liquidity", suggests that a more precise assessment of the OTC interest rate swap benchmark can enhance welfare by improving the traders' ability to monitor the dealers. The transition from the unregulated submission-based ISDAFIX regime to the more transparent and regulated market-based ICE Swap Rate regime provides a natural experiment for testing this proposition empirically. Utilizing proprietary electronic order book data for USD interest rate swaps, I confirm that liquidity in the underlying swaps, affected by the regime switch, improves significantly more vis-à-vis swaps not impacted by the change in assessment procedure.