cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK university students: lessons from September-December 2020 and modelling insights for future student return.
Creators: name: Enright, Jessica
name: Hill, Edward M
name: Stage, Helena B
name: Bolton, Kirsty J
name: Nixon, Emily J
name: Fairbanks, Emma L
name: Tang, Maria Lan
name: Brooks-Pollock, Ellen
name: Dyson, Louise
name: Budd, Chris J
name: Hoyle, Rebecca B
name: Schewe, Lars
name: Gog, Julia
name: Tildesley, Michael J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
epidemic modelling
higher education
pandemic modelling

description: In this paper, we present work on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in UK higher education settings using multiple approaches to assess the extent of university outbreaks, how much those outbreaks may have led to spillover in the community, and the expected effects of control measures. Firstly, we found that the distribution of outbreaks in universities in late 2020 was consistent with the expected importation of infection from arriving students. Considering outbreaks at one university, larger halls of residence posed higher risks for transmission. The dynamics of transmission from university outbreaks to wider communities is complex, and while sometimes spillover does occur, occasionally even large outbreaks do not give any detectable signal of spillover to the local population. Secondly, we explored proposed control measures for reopening and keeping open universities. We found the proposal of staggering the return of students to university residence is of limited value in terms of reducing transmission. We show that student adherence to testing and self-isolation is likely to be much more important for reducing transmission during term time. Finally, we explored strategies for testing students in the context of a more transmissible variant and found that frequent testing would be necessary to prevent a major outbreak.
description: This work was supported by EPSRC grant no EP/R014604/1. The authors would also like to thank the Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in Mathematical Sciences (V-KEMS) for the support during the workshop Unlocking higher education Spaces – What Might Mathematics Tell Us? where work on this paper was undertaken. K.J.B. acknowledges support from a University of Nottingham Anne McLaren Fellowship. E.L.F. acknowledges support via K.J.B.’s fellowship and the Nottingham BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership. M.L.T. was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant no. EP/N509620/1). E.B.-P., E.J.N., L.D., J.R.G. and M.J.T. were supported by UKRI through the JUNIPER modelling consortium (grant no. MR/V038613/1). E.M.H., L.D. and M.J.T. were supported by the Medical Research Council through the COVID-19 Rapid Response Rolling Call (grant no. MR/V009761/1). H.B.S. is funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (grant no. 202562/Z/16/Z). J.E. is partially funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant no. EP/T004878/1).
การออกแบบแบบจําลองการให้ผลป้อนกลับบนฐานการรู้คิดของผู้เรียนในการเรียนรู้ภาษาสอบถามเชิงโครงสร้าง
Creators: name: ชูศักดิ์ ยาทองไชย
Publisher: name: หน่วยวิจัยวิทยาศาสตร์ เทคโนโลยี และสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อการเรียนรู้ คณะวิทยาศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยศรีนครินทรวิโรฒ
Year: 2561
Subjects: การให้ผลป้อนกลับ
การรู้คิด
ระบบการสอนเสริมอัจฉริยะ
ภาษาสอบถามเชิงโครงสร้าง

description: วารสารหน่วยวิจัยวิทยาศาสตร์ เทคโนโลยี และสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อการเรียนรู้ (JSTEL), 9, 1, 46-59
Applications of Toponogov's comparison theorems for open triangles
Creators: name: Kondo, Kei
name: Tanaka, Minoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recently we generalized Toponogov's comparison theorem to a complete Riemannian manifold with smooth convex boundary, where a geodesic triangle was replaced by an open (geodesic) triangle standing on the boundary of the manifold, and a model surface was replaced by the universal covering surface of a cylinder of revolution with totally geodesic boundary. The aim of this article is to prove splitting theorems of two types as an application. Moreover, we establish a weaker version of our Toponogov comparison theorem for open triangles, because the weaker version is quite enough to prove one of the splitting theorems.
description: This article is a version split from our article "Toponogov comparison theorem for open triangles" (arXiv:0905.3236) to submit to a journal. 19 pages, no figures
title: Predicting environmental risk of transmission of leptospirosis
Creators: name: Pedra, GG
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease distributed worldwide, caused by contact with the spirochete bacteria Leptospira. The bacteria are transmitted when animal and human reservoirs come into contact with an environment contaminated with the urine of an infected animal. The ecology of leptospirosis includes complex interactions between the environmental reservoir, the animal reservoir, human infection and the bacteria. Most of the knowledge built up about leptospirosis and human infection is related to medical epidemiology and the animal reservoir. In this thesis, some of the main issues related to the dynamics of Leptospira in the environment were explored and tools were developed to improve understanding of the dynamics of the bacteria in the environment. In order to improve parameter estimation related to the dynamics of the bacteria in the environment, some major gaps were identified and techniques to fill those gaps improved. The first technique developed was to improve animal abundance estimation using removal methods. The improvement of the technique showed that animal abundance could be estimated more accurately and precisely while also being robust to intrinsic variation. This method will provide a more accurate estimation of the level of environmental contamination by rats. Although models that estimate bacterial survival in the environment exist, no models specifically looked at the survivability of leptospires within the environment. Therefore, a survival model was developed that could estimate survival rates of leptospires in microcosms designed to replicate natural environments. The results provided very insightful results that can help planning the duration and frequency of an environmental intervention. Water has been shown to be very relevant for the transmission of human leptospirosis, where rainfall has been associated with infections in endemic regions. The last two studies developed here explored different hydrological techniques in order to produce fine scale environmental risk maps which can be used in disease management. The results obtained here demonstrated in particular the role of multidisciplinary research. Here, the research produced an improvement of the knowledge in different areas such as population ecology, microbiology, hydrology and public health.
Energy-Efficient Precoding for Multiple-Antenna Terminals
Creators: name: Belmega, E. V.
name: Lasaulce, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of energy-efficient precoding is investigated when the terminals in the system are equipped with multiple antennas. Considering static and fast-fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, the energy-efficiency is defined as the transmission rate to power ratio and shown to be maximized at low transmit power. The most interesting case is the one of slow fading MIMO channels. For this type of channels, the optimal precoding scheme is generally not trivial. Furthermore, using all the available transmit power is not always optimal in the sense of energy-efficiency (which, in this case, corresponds to the communication-theoretic definition of the goodput-to-power (GPR) ratio). Finding the optimal precoding matrices is shown to be a new open problem and is solved in several special cases: 1. when there is only one receive antenna; 2. in the low or high signal-to-noise ratio regime; 3. when uniform power allocation and the regime of large numbers of antennas are assumed. A complete numerical analysis is provided to illustrate the derived results and stated conjectures. In particular, the impact of the number of antennas on the energy-efficiency is assessed and shown to be significant.
PESCO and Third Countries: Breaking the Deadlock in European Security
Creators: name: Aydin-Düzgit, Senem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: European Union; EU-Turkey Relations; PESCO; Defense; Foreign Policy; Security; Transatlantic Alliance; Integrated Security

description: FEUTURE Voice No.3

On December 11, 2017, 25 member states of the European Union (EU) formally launched the permanent structured cooperation (PESCO) in the area of defense. Although the legal provisions behind PESCO have been in place since the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, they have not translated into any concrete initiative until recently. A multitude of factors from the British decision to exit the EU and Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 to the growing rift in foreign policy and security issues between the EU and the Trump administration, including doubts over the commitment of the latter towards the transatlantic alliance, have played a key role in the EU’s decision to move toward a more integrated security and defense policy.
description: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692976. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
title: Operating characteristics of a Transparent Cathode Discharge
Creators: name: Hardiment, T
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: A Transparent Cathode Discharge has been studied, with the aim of identifying operating regimes in which ions and neutrals are reactive species. The device consists of a cylindrical, powered cathode grid, that has generally been operated within a grounded anode grid, held concentric with the cathode. The principal mode structure evident across the operating pressure range is found to represent discharges sustained respectively by the activity of electrons at higher pressures, and ionic and neutral species at lower pressures. This is ascertained by analysis of the optical emission from the plasma, showing processes of excitation to be caused by these species. The discharge occurring at higher pressures, of tens to hundreds mTorr, has been characterised as an electron-driven 'cathode-confined' mode, that is shown to be sustained in part by the so-called 'hollow cathode effect'. The discharge occurring at lower pressures, of units to tens mTorr, is characterised as an 'ion beam' mode, composed of radially-convergent ion beams, from which Doppler-shifted light provides direct evidence for the presence of energetic ions and neutrals. Quasi-spherical space charge objects are observed to appear within the cathode, during operation at moderately low pressures of units to tens mTorr, and cathode currents of tens of mA. Larger space charge objects, termed 'fireballs', are observed to appear at a narrower range of conditions, and to show some analogous characteristics to these. Analysis of distributions of current and optical emission indicate the fireball objects to have a more complex internal structure. The physical dependences shown by the different operating modes upon the geometry of the electrode arrangement have been identified, so that the type and stability of plasma produced may be engineered by informed design. Discharge apparatus configurations have been identified that might be favourable for the creation of additionally-stable ion- and neutral-driven plasmas, and also for higher-power operation in convergent geometries.
The drop of the coherence of the lower kHz QPOs is also observed in XTE J1701-462
Creators: name: Barret, Didier
name: Bachetti, Matteo
name: Miller, M. Coleman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the quality factor and RMS amplitude of the lower kHz QPOs from XTE J1701-462, a unique X-ray source which was observed in both the so-called Z and atoll states. Correcting for the frequency drift of the QPO, we show that, as in all sources for which such a correction can be applied, the quality factor and RMS amplitude drops sharply above above a critical frequency. For XTE J1701-462 this frequency is estimated to be ~800 Hz, where the quality factor reaches a maximum of ~200 (e.g. a value consistent with the one observed from more classical systems, such as 4U~1636-536). Such a drop has been interpreted as the signature of the innermost stable circular orbit, and that interpretation is consistent with the observations we report here. The kHz QPOs in the Z state are much less coherent and lower amplitude than they are in the atoll state. We argue that the change of the QPO properties between the two source states is related to the change of the scale height of the accretion disk; a prediction of the toy model proposed by barret et al. (2007). As a by-product of our analysis, we also increased the significance of the upper kHz QPO detected in the atoll phase up to 4.8 sigma (single trial significance), and show that the frequency separation (266.5+/-13.1 Hz) is comparable with the one measured from simultaneous twin QPOs the Z phase.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Functional brain network activity predicts behaviour in schizophrenia
Creators: name: Luk, Jessica
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Impairment in language association and detriments in executive functioning are characteristic features of schizophrenia. Available external measures are often used to describe the profile of schizophrenia, but whether these measures can reflect underlying neuropathology of schizophrenia remains to be answered. In the current research, we attempt to 1) identify functional brain networks underlying a semantic association task and 2) relate functional brain activity to external measures of behaviour, symptomatology, and neurocognition. A data-driven exploratory method was employed to investigate the functional brain networks underlying a semantic association and word recall task, and how these networks may be impaired in schizophrenia. This revealed three distinct networks: a Language Network (LN), Default Mode Network (DMN), and Volitional Attention/Response Network (VAN/RN). All three networks exhibited the greatest magnitude of activation or deactivation under the distant association, forgotten condition. The activation of the DMN significantly differed between patients and controls, where schizophrenia patients showed a greater sensitivity to recall relative to controls, reflected in an increased magnitude of deactivation of the DMN. One interpretation posits that the distant association and forgotten condition was more difficult, and required a greater shift of available cognitive resources away from the DMN (a task-negative network) to the LN and VAN/RN (task-positive networks). A greater shift in resources towards the LN and VAN/RN may have come at a cost of background processes of encoding and memory, where few resources were available for making word pair memories. Analyses relating brain networks to external measures of cognition showed that, while brain networks were able to significantly predict scanner-based behavioural measures of reaction time, accuracy, and recall, they were unable to predict either symptom or neurocognitive measures. Specifically, a desired balance between networks and brain networks acting in conjunction was able to significantly relate to in-scanner behaviour. Taken together, these studies provide evidence that the functional brain networks may be disordered in schizophrenia, and sheds light on how functional network activation relates to external measures of behaviour and symptoms. The results of these series of studies may have implications for informing decisions for personalized targets in future therapeutic treatments of schizophrenia.
Beyond the storm in EU-Turkey relations
Creators: name: Tocci, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: European Union; EU-Turkey Relations; Turkey's EU-membership; Customs Union; Single Market; Migration

description: FEUTURE Voice No.4

When Turkey is discussed in the European Union, and vice versa, all talk is about conflict, divergence and mutual recrimination nowadays. Political tones on both sides are acrimonious, high-level contact is circumscribed, and public opposition to Turkey’s EU membership stands at a staggering 77 percent in the Union. Turks too, who in the mid-2000s backed EU membership by 74 percent, today reject the proposition by a slim majority. Taken together even a staunch supporter of Turkey’s European future like myself now has second thoughts.
description: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692976. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
Stakeholder perspectives on the integration of oral health into national health schemes-A mixed method study research design in Delhi, India.pdf
Creators: name: Malhotra, Sneha
name: Mohanty, Vikrant
name: Balappanavar, Aswini Y.
name: Gupta, Vaibhav
name: Kapoor, Shivam
name: Kapoor, Surbhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Health Care
subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: 111717 Primary Health Care

description: This study was carried out to assess the factors and perception of various stakeholders on integration of oral health into the national health schemes using mixed method research design. Oral diseases are among the most prevalent diseases of humanity. This notion echoes the global situation, where, despite a significant disease burden, oral diseases are neglected and there is lack of implementation of programmes and policies for it. Resources for health are scarce and the oral health sector does not have a separate budget allocation. Commonly, patients pay out of their pockets to receive treatment from both public and private dentists. Also, there is a need for training of various stakeholders including dental auxiliaries such as oral hygienists and dental lab technicians, no successive efforts are made. There is a lack of public health planners and managers with (dental) public health training at administration and management level, leading to a void in terms of technical support in terms of integrated population-wide policies that can address oral diseases. Hence, there is a need of a comprehensive oral health policy and integration with existing National Health Policy and programmes. A mixed method study design was adopted. In first phase quantitative data were collected from various stakeholders which explored their knowledge, attitude regarding oral health, oral hygiene practices, barriers in integration oral health in national health schemes. In second phase, qualitative data were collected using Focused Group Discussion where participants provided an insight on integration of oral health into the national health schemes.
Blow-up profiles of solutions for the exponential reaction-diffusion equation
Creators: name: Pulkkinen, Aappo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the blow-up of solutions for a semilinear reaction diffusion equation with exponential reaction term. It is know that certain solutions that can be continued beyond the blow-up time possess a nonconstant selfsimilar blow-up profile. Our aim is to find the final time blow-up profile for such solutions. The proof is based on general ideas using semigroup estimates. The same approach works also for the power nonlinearity.
Additional file 4 of Cutaneous lesions in psoriatic arthritis are enriched in chemokine transcriptomic pathways
Creators: name: Johnsson, Hanna
name: Cole, John
name: Siebert, Stefan
name: McInnes, Iain B.
name: Graham, Gerard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. Expression of chemokine ligands in skin.
Impact of IL-4 receptor inhibition on morbidity related to H1N1 infection in a murine model of allergic asthma
Creators: name: Shahangian, Kimeya
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: The 2009 H1N1 pandemic observed a large percentage of morbidity and mortality attributed to individuals with asthma. However, a consistent lack of preventative and therapeutic interventions failed to protect this vulnerable population. Vaccines are the most effective method of prevention, yet they take at least 6 months to be developed following outbreak of a pandemic strain. Meanwhile, antiviral drugs are the sole method of treatment, yet their clinical use can be restricted due to drug resistance. Hence, pre-planning is required to develop interventions that could protect the vulnerable asthmatic population prior to the occurrence of the next influenza pandemic. A Th2-skewed inflammatory response has been implicated in the development of some of the characteristics of asthma, whereby IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 signaling promotes airway eosinophilia and lung remodeling. IL-4 and IL-13 signal through the common alpha subunit of the IL-4 receptor (IL-4Rα) to induce their effector function. Clinical trials have found the blockade of IL-4Rα to be highly effective at reducing the rate of asthmatic exacerbations. However, it has yet to be determined whether IL-4Rα blockade could protect against pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1)-mediated morbidity. We hypothesized that IL-4Rα blockade could be used as a treatment method in an established pH1N1 infection, and as a prevention method prior to and after pH1N1 infection, in a murine model of allergic asthma. Our findings indicate that both the treatment and prevention strategies of IL-4Rα blockade induce a significant reduction in pH1N1-mediated weight-loss in house dust-mite (HDM) sensitized mice. Furthermore, reduced weight-loss was associated with a significant reduction in the number of viral copies, indicating improved viral control. Lastly, IL-4Rα preventative intervention induced a significant reduction in the level of airway goblet cell metaplasia and the percentage of eosinophils in Bronchoalveolar Lavage (BAL), pointing to lessened allergic manifestations. While influenza pandemics are rare, they have a devastating effect on the most vulnerable individuals suffering from asthma. Hence, developing pharmaceutical interventions that could benefit this population are of outmost value. Findings from our study could be considered as a strategy to reduce the risk of complications in asthmatic individuals during an H1N1 influenza pandemic.
The hazardous (mis)perception of Self-estimated Alcohol intoxication and Fitness to drivE-an avoidable health risk: the SAFE randomised trial.
Creators: name: Köchling, Jöran
name: Geis, Berit
name: Chao, Cho-Ming
name: Dieks, Jana-K
name: Wirth, Stefan
name: Hensel, Kai O
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Road Safety
Driving Under The Influence
Dui
Drink-driving
Public Health Concern
Alcohol-Related Road Traffic Accident
Perceived Alcohol Intoxication

description: BACKGROUND: Worldwide, alcohol-related road traffic accidents represent a major avoidable health risk. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of self-estimating the degree of acute alcohol intoxication regarding the legal driving limit, and to identify risk factors for misjudgement. METHODS: In this prospective randomised controlled crossover trial, 90 social drinkers (mean age 23.9 ± 3.5 years, 50% female) consumed either beer or wine. Study group subjects were made aware when exceeding the legal driving limit (BrAC = 0.05%). Controls received no information about their BrAC. For crossover, beer or wine were consumed in the opposite order. RESULTS: 39-53% of all participants exceeded the legal driving limit whilst under the impression to be still permitted to drive. Self-estimation was significantly more accurate on study day 2 (p = 0.009). Increasing BrAC positively correlated with self-estimation inaccuracy, which was reproducible during crossover. Multiple regression analysis revealed fast drinking and higher alcohol levels as independent risk factors for inaccurate self-estimation. CONCLUSIONS: Social drinkers are commonly unaware of exceeding the legal driving limit when consuming alcohol. Self-estimating alcohol intoxication can be improved through awareness. Dedicated awareness programs, social media campaigns and government advice communications should be utilised to address this avoidable hazard. Trial registration The trial was registered prospectively at the Witten/Herdecke University Ethics Committee (trial registration number 140/2016 on 04/11/2016) and at the DRKS-German Clinical Trials Register (trial registration number DRKS00015285 on 08/22/2018-Retrospectively registered). Trial protocol can be accessed online.
Additional file 5 of Cutaneous lesions in psoriatic arthritis are enriched in chemokine transcriptomic pathways
Creators: name: Johnsson, Hanna
name: Cole, John
name: Siebert, Stefan
name: McInnes, Iain B.
name: Graham, Gerard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5. Expression of chemokine receptors in skin.
Trait-Based Vaccination of Individual Meerkats (Suricata suricatta) against Tuberculosis Provides Evidence to Support Targeted Disease Control.
Creators: name: Patterson, Stuart J
name: Clutton-Brock, Timothy
name: Pfeiffer, Dirk U
name: Drewe, Julian A
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: targeted disease control
meerkats
trait-based vaccination
wildlife disease

description: Individuals vary in their potential to acquire and transmit infections, but this fact is currently underexploited in disease control strategies. We trialled a trait-based vaccination strategy to reduce tuberculosis in free-living meerkats by targeting high-contact meerkats (socially dominant individuals) in one study arm, and high-susceptibility individuals (young subordinates) in a second arm. We monitored infection within vaccinated groups over two years comparing the results with untreated control groups. Being a member of a high-contact group had a protective effect on individuals' survival times (Hazard Ratio = 0.5, 95% Confidence Interval, CI: 0.29-0.88, p = 0.02) compared to control groups. Over the study, odds of testing positive for tuberculosis increased more than five-fold in control groups (Odds Ratio = 5.40, 95% CI = 0.94-30.98, p = 0.058); however, no increases were observed in either of the treatment arms. Targeted disease control approaches, such as the one described in this study, allow for reduced numbers of interventions. Here, trait-based vaccination was associated with reduced infection rates and thus has the potential to offer more efficient alternatives to traditional mass-vaccination policies. Such improvements in efficiency warrant further study and could make infectious disease control more practically achievable in both animal (particularly wildlife) and human populations.
After the Elections: Ten Takeaways on Turkey's European Future
Creators: name: Soler i Lecha, Eduard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: European Union; EU-Turkey Relations; Elections; Crises; Post-electoral Scenarios; Nationalism, Economy; Growth; US sanctions; Iran; Refugees; Voters

description: FEUTURE Voice No.5

A little reluctantly, most European leaders called or sent messages to congratulate Erdoğan on his victory in the June 24th elections. A few days later, the EU's General Affairs Council stated that Turkey was moving further away from the European Union and that the conditions were not in place to advance the accession negotiations or the modernisation of the Customs Union. They did, though, commit to continue working on subjects such as migration, energy and security. Turkey's reaction was as expected: Europe’s attitude was called hypocritical, inconsistent and unfair. Are we moving towards a train wreck or a scenario in which the need to cooperate mitigates the tension?
description: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692976. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
Parameters of the Local Warp of the Stellar-Gaseous Galactic Disk from the Kinematics of Tycho-2 Nearby Red Giant Clump Stars
Creators: name: Bobylev, Vadim V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the three-dimensional kinematics of about 82000 Tycho-2 stars belonging to the red giant clump (RGC). First, based on all of the currently available data, we have determined new, most probable components of the residual rotation vector of the optical realization of the ICRS/HIPPARCOS system relative to an inertial frame of reference, ω_x,ω_y,ω_z)= (-0.11,0.24,-0.52)+/-(0.14,0.10,0.16) mas/yr. The stellar proper motions in RA have then be corrected by applying the correction ω_z = -0.52 mas/yr. We show that, apart from their involvement in the general Galactic rotation described by the Oort constants A= 15.82+/-0.21 km/s/kpc and B=-10.87+/-0.15 km/s/kpc, the RGC stars have kinematic peculiarities in the Galactic yz plane related to the kinematics of the warped stellar-gaseous Galactic disk. We show that the parameters of the linear Ogorodnikov-Milne model that describe the kinematics of RGC stars in the zx plane do not differ significantly from zero. The situation in the yz plane is different. For example, the component of the solid-body rotation vector of the local solar neighborhood around the Galactic x axis is M_32- = -2.6+/-0.2 km/s/kpc. Two parameters of the deformation tensor in this plane, namely M_23^+ = 1.0+/-0.2 km/s/kpc and (M_33-M_22)= -1.3+/-0.4 km/s/kpc, also differ significantly from zero. On the whole, the kinematics of the warped stellar-gaseous Galactic disk in the local solar neighborhood can be described as a rotation around the Galactic X axis (close to the line of nodes of this structure) with an angular velocity (-3.1+/-0.5) < Ω_W < (-4.4+/-0.5) km/s/kpc.
description: 17 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures
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title: Integral transformations in the planar model of hydraulic fracturing
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Year: 2020
Subjects: planar3d
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lower filter
Fourier discrete conversion
Haar wavelet conversion
matrix vector multiplication

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description: This paper considers integral transformations in a planar model of a hydraulic fracture. The first part explores the use of a low-pass filter based on the discrete Fou-rier transform and the Haar wavelet transform. The second part of the paper considers matrix-vector multiplication using the discrete Fourier transform.
On sphere-filling ropes
Creators: name: Gerlach, Henryk
name: von der Mosel, Heiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C15 (Primary) 49Q10, 51M15, 51M25, 53A04 (Secondary)

description: What is the longest rope on the unit sphere? Intuition tells us that the answer to this packing problem depends on the rope's thickness. For a countably infinite number of prescribed thickness values we construct and classify all solution curves. The simplest ones are similar to the seamlines of a tennis ball, others exhibit a striking resemblance to Turing patterns in chemistry, or to ordered phases of long elastic rods stuffed into spherical shells.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
Implementing Performance Competitive Logical Recovery
Creators: name: Lomet, David
name: Tzoumas, Kostas
name: Zwilling, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: New hardware platforms, e.g. cloud, multi-core, etc., have led to a reconsideration of database system architecture. Our Deuteronomy project separates transactional functionality from data management functionality, enabling a flexible response to exploiting new platforms. This separation requires, however, that recovery is described logically. In this paper, we extend current recovery methods to work in this logical setting. While this is straightforward in principle, performance is an issue. We show how ARIES style recovery optimizations can work for logical recovery where page information is not captured on the log. In side-by-side performance experiments using a common log, we compare logical recovery with a state-of-the art ARIES style recovery implementation and show that logical redo performance can be competitive.
description: VLDB2011
Visualizing Standing Light Waves in Continuous-Beam Transmission Electron Microscopy
Creators: name: Weber, Jonathan T.
name: Müller, Niklas
name: Schröder, Alexander
name: Schäfer, Sascha
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: ultrafast transmission electron microscopy, nonlinear photoemission, Lorentz microscopy, standing optical waves, waveguide modes, femtosecond laser
subject: 530 Physik

description: The phase-resolved imaging of confined light fields
by homodyne detection is a cornerstone of metrology in nanooptics
and photonics, but its application in electron microscopy has
been limited so far. Here, we report the mapping of optical modes
in a waveguide structure by illumination with femtosecond light
pulses in a continuous-beam transmission electron microscope.
Multiphoton photoemission results in a remanent charging pattern
which we image by Lorentz microscopy. The resulting image
contrast is linked to the intensity distribution of the standing light
wave and is quantitatively described within an analytical model.
The robustness of the approach is showcased in a wider parameter
range and more complex sample geometries including micro- and
nanostructures. We discuss further applications of light-interference-
based charging for electron microscopy with in situ optical excitation, laying the foundation for advanced measurement
schemes for the phase-resolved imaging of propagating light fields.
Additional file 1 of Changes in emergency department utilisation in Germany before and during different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, using data from a national surveillance system up to June 2021
Creators: name: Schranz, Madlen
name: Boender, T. Sonia
name: Greiner, Timo
name: Kocher, Theresa
name: Wagner, Birte
name: Greiner, Felix
name: Bienzeisler, Jonas
name: Diercke, Michaela
name: Grabenhenrich, Linus
name: Aigner, Annette
name: Ullrich, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1. Model fit for overall consultations showing number of cases per week (black) and fitted values (red) for A): a two-week delay, B): a one-week delay and C): no delay. Supplementary Fig. 2. Relative number of emergency department consultations stratified by weekday of consultation comparing the pandemic phases. Supplementary Fig. 3. Relative number of emergency department consultations stratified by hour of consultation comparing the pandemic phases. Supplementary Fig. 4. Relative change in % and 95 confidence interval for all emergency department consultations, comparing every pandemic phase with the pre-pandemic reference period. Supplementary Fig. 5. Relative change in % and 95 confidence interval for all emergency department consultations by weekday, comparing every pandemic phase with the pre-pandemic reference period. Supplementary Fig. 6. Relative change in % and 95 confidence interval for all emergency department consultations by hour of day, comparing every pandemic phase with the pre-pandemic reference period. Supplementary Table 1. Relative percentage change, 95% confidence interval and p-value for the pre-pandemic trend (i.e. linear time from start of study period until start of first interruption). Supplementary Table 2. Absolute and relative number of all emergency department consultations, consultations by age group, acuity level, weekday, and hour of day, stratified by pandemic phases.
Breast screening atypia and subsequent development of cancer: protocol for an observational analysis of the Sloane database in England (Sloane atypia cohort study).
Creators: name: Jenkinson, David
name: Freeman, Karoline
name: Clements, Karen
name: Hilton, Bridget
name: Dulson-Cox, Joanne
name: Kearins, Olive
name: Stallard, Nigel
name: Wallis, Matthew G
name: Sharma, Nisha
name: Kirwan, Cliona
name: Pinder, Sarah
name: Provenzano, Elena
name: Shaaban, Abeer M
name: Stobart, Hilary
name: McDonnell, Samantha
name: Thompson, Alastair M
name: Taylor-Phillips, Sian
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Public health
1506
1724
health policy
protocols & guidelines
breast tumours
public health

description: INTRODUCTION: The National Health Service (NHS) Breast Screening Programme aims to detect cancer earlier when treatment is more effective but can harm women by over diagnosing and overtreating cancers which would never have become symptomatic. As well as breast cancer, a spectrum of atypical epithelial proliferations (atypia) can also be detected as part of screening. This spectrum of changes, while not cancer, may mean that a woman is more likely to develop breast cancer in the future. Follow-up of atypia is not evidence based. We currently do not know which atypia should be detected to avoid future cancer. This study will explore how atypia develops into breast cancer in terms of number of women, time of cancer development, cancer type and severity, and whether this varies for different types of atypia. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The Sloane cohort study began in April 2003 with ongoing data collection including atypia diagnosed through screening at screening units in the UK. The database for England has 3645 cases (24 September 2020) of epithelial atypia, with follow-up from 1 to 15 years. The outcomes include subsequent invasive breast cancer and the nature of subsequent cancer. Descriptive statistics will be produced. The observed rates of breast cancer at 1, 3 and 6 years for types of atypia will be reported with CIs, to enable comparison to women in the general population. Time to event methods will be used to describe the time to breast cancer diagnosis for the types of atypia, including flexible parametric modelling if appropriate. Patient representatives from Independent Cancer Patients' Voice are included at every stage of the research. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study has received research ethics approval from the University of Warwick Biomedical and Scientific Research Ethics Committee (BSREC 10/20-21, 8 October 2020), Public Health England office for data release approvals (ODR1718_313) and approval from the English Breast Research Advisory Committee (BSPRAC_031). The findings will be disseminated to breast screening clinicians (via journal publication and conference presentation), to the NHS Breast Screening Programme to update their guidelines on how women with atypia should be followed up, and to the general public.
Essence of the vacuum quark condensate
Creators: name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
name: Roberts, Craig D.
name: Shrock, Robert
name: Tandy, Peter C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the chiral-limit vacuum quark condensate is qualitatively equivalent to the pseudoscalar meson leptonic decay constant in the sense that they are both obtained as the chiral-limit value of well-defined gauge-invariant hadron-to-vacuum transition amplitudes that possess a spectral representation in terms of the current-quark mass. Thus, whereas it might sometimes be convenient to imagine otherwise, neither is essentially a constant mass-scale that fills all spacetime. This means, in particular, that the quark condensate can be understood as a property of hadrons themselves, which is expressed, for example, in their Bethe-Salpeter or light-front wavefunctions.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
title: A l’aube du projet 360° :
title: les enseignant-e-s -novices et expert-e-s- face à l’inclusion des élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers dans une classe ordinaire
titleType: Subtitle
title: A l’aube du projet 360° :
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rossier, Jade
name: Fleury, Tara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: inclusion scolaire
subject: élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers
subject: Enseignants novices
subject: Enseignants experts

description: A l’heure actuelle, l’inclusion scolaire ainsi que concept 360° sont au cœur des préoccupations de l’école vaudoise. Dans ce contexte précis, ce travail de mémoire a pour objet de déterminer quels facteurs, à savoir, les connaissances théoriques, les années d’expérience, les expériences vécues ainsi que le sentiment d’auto-efficacité, seraient susceptibles d’influencer la capacité des enseignant-e-s à inclure des élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers (EBEP). Pour ce faire, nous avons sélectionné deux catégories d’enseignants-e-s : les enseignant-e-s expert-e-s, avec plus cinq années de pratique en tant qu’enseignant-e, ainsi que les novices, encore en formation HEP ou avec moins de cinq années d’expérience dans l’enseignement. Concernant la méthode, nous avons recueilli 32 questionnaires (16 expert-e-s/ 16 novices) basés sur une méthode mixte (données qualitatives et à la fois quantitatives). Le questionnaire se compose de quatre parties : Informations sur le cursus professionnel (1), le sentiment d’auto-efficacité (2), la différenciation pédagogique (3) ainsi que des questions à développer (4). Dans un premier temps, les résultats de notre recherche confirment que les enseignant-e-s novices ont de meilleures connaissances théoriques au sujet de l’inclusion que les enseignant- e-s expert-e-s. Ensuite, nous ne pouvons affirmer que partiellement le fait que les expériences vécues, en lien avec l’inclusion ou le handicap, corrèlent positivement avec la capacité des enseignant-e-s à inclure des EBEP. Quant au nombre d’années d’expérience, il semblerait que les enseignant-e-s expert-e-s incluraient légèrement davantage les EBEP que les novices, sur le plan de la différenciation pédagogique. Concernant, le sentiment d’auto-efficacité, les résultats révèlent que le fait d’avoir un sentiment élevé d'auto-efficacité corrèle positivement avec la capacité à inclure des EBEP dans sa classe, et ceci quel que soit le nombre d’années d’enseignement. Finalement, une grande réflexion a également été menée au sujet de la formation HEP dont bénéficient les enseignante-e-s novices au sujet de l’inclusion. Il en résulte que, malgré des cours sur l’inclusion en cours de formation plus abondants que les expert-e-s, les novices n’ont pas le sentiment d’être suffisamment formé-e-s pour appréhender l’inclusion des EBEP. En effet, la plupart des enseignant-e-s regrette le contenu des formations HEP, jugées trop théoriques et pas assez didactico-pédagogiques.
Additional file 1 of Assessing the efficiency of health systems in achieving the universal health coverage goal: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Arhin, Kwadwo
name: Oteng-Abayie, Eric Fosu
name: Novignon, Jacob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
What do Turkey-EU Relations mean in the Eastern Neighborhood?
Creators: name: Gilbreath, Dustin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: European Union; EU-Turkey Relations; Southern and Eastern Neighbourhood; Political Drivers; EU-Russia Relationship; Turkey-Russia Relations

description: FEUTURE Voice No.6

Drivers from the Southern and Eastern Neighbourhoods” most of the potential political drivers of the Turkey-EU relationship from the eastern neighborhood are unlikely to have much impact on these relations in the medium term. But what are the implications of the Turkey-EU relationship for the eastern neighborhood? They seem to be just as minimal as the eastern neighbourhood drivers’ on the EU-Turkey relationship. However, Turkey-EU relations do have a small, indirect impact if Turkey’s, the EU’s, and the eastern neighborhood’s relations with Russia are taken into account.
description: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692976. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein