cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Training & user onboarding activities report (interim)
Creators: name: Chondros, Nikos
name: Sciacca, Eva
name: Quintana, Josep
name: Kovacs, Katalin
name: Tibaldi, Alessandro
name: Vitorino, Ricardo
name: Nomikou, Paraskevi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: EOSC
Security
Underwater Research
Atmospheric Research
Planetary Science

description: The objective of deliverable D7.6 is to report on the training and user onboarding activities carried out in NEANIAS. In this document we report the internal training activities aimed at project members, focusing on the introduction of open science practices, EOSC way of working, and capacity building sessions on core services. Then, we present the onboarding and training strategy for external users, covering the activities delivered and foreseen by the thematic work packages, such as specific webinars and participation in international events, as well as the actions related to the first NEANIAS Open Call for Innovation.
title: Xpert Bladder Cancer Monitor in the follow-up of patients affected by non muscle invasive bladder cancer (nmibc): an update
Creators: name: D'Elia, Carolina
name: Trenti, Emanuela
name: Pycha, Alexander
name: Mian, Christine
name: Schwienbacher, Christine
name: Hanspeter, Esther
name: Pycha, Armin
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction and objectives: The Xpert Bladder Cancer Monitor kit is a new urinary marker test based on the evaluation of 5 targets mRNAs (ABL1, CRH, IGF2, UPK1B and ANXA10), overexpressed in patient with BC. The aim of our study was to further evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the Xpert BC Monitor[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 45. Gemeinsame Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie und der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung
Identities of the left-symmetric Witt algebras
Creators: name: Kozybaev, Daniyar
name: Umirbaev, Ualbai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $P_n=k[x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n]$ be the polynomial algebra over a field $k$ of characteristic zero in the variables $x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n$ and $\mathscr{L}_n$ be the left-symmetric Witt algebra of all derivations of $P_n$. We describe all right operator identities of $\mathscr{L}_n$ and prove that the set of all algebras $\mathscr{L}_n$, where $n\geq 1$, generates the variety of all left-symmetric algebras. We also describe a class of general (not only right operator) identities for $\mathscr{L}_n$.
description: 14 pages
A Deficient Mean: Moral Theorizing at the Level of Discrimination
Creators: name: HASRA, HARITS ALTHOF
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Philosophy not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis argues that we should not morally theorize at the level of discrimination. A plausible candidate for why discrimination is wrong will be broad enough to explain why acts are wrong generally, and therefore require engagement with broader debates. If not, it is unlikely to do justice to the breadth and complexity of discrimination, offering partial explanations at best for why discrimination is wrong. Inverting the familiar idea of a golden mean, I argue that theorizing at the level of discrimination occupies a deficient mean. Hence, we ought to theorize more broadly and/or more narrowly.
The far left, cultural politics, and the question of style in Australian literature
Creators: name: GAWEN, NAISH PATRICK
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature)

description: This thesis looks at the role of the far left in the production and reception of literature in Australia, including examining writers such as Christina Stead, the mid-century socialist realists, and Patrick White.
title: Metaanalyse und methodische Qualitätsbewertung von Leitlinien des Harnblasenkarzinoms: Welche sollen wir verwenden?
Creators: name: Maisch, Philipp
name: Retz, Margitta
name: Gschwend, Jürgen E.
name: Koll, Florestan
name: Schmid, Sebastian C.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Für die Diagnose und Behandlung des Harnblasenkarzinoms haben zahlreiche Fachgesellschaften eigene Leitlinien (LL) publiziert. Fehlende Standards in der Leitlinienentwicklung führen jedoch zu erheblichen Unterschieden in der methodischen Qualität dieser LL. Methoden:[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 45. Gemeinsame Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie und der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung
title: Η επέκταση της πόλης Σητείας στο παραλιακό της μέτωπο
title: The expansion of Sitia city along the coastal front

Creators: name: Παθιακη Μαριαννα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description:  Με την παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία, επιχειρείται ο σχεδιασμός της επέκτασης της πόλης της Σητείας στο βόρειο – ανατολικό της μέτωπο. Η περιοχή μελέτης έχει ως όρια το σημείο που τελειώνει το υφιστάμενο σχέδιο πόλης και ορίζεται από το ρέμα του ποταμού  Παντέλη έως τον οικισμό του Πετρά ,κατά τον άξονα ανατολής – δύσης και την παραλιακή  ζώνη στο βόρειο μέτωπο. Πρόκειται για μια περιοχή η οποία χρήζει τουριστικής αλλά και οικιστικής ανάπτυξης, καθώς αποτελεί συνέχεια του παραλιακού μετώπου και κατ’ επέκταση του κέντρου της πόλης. Συνεπώς , προτείνεται ένα οικιστικό μοντέλο , όπου εκεί θα συνυπάρχουν όλοι , στα πλαίσια της Γενικής κατοικίας. Πιο συγκεκριμένα , το παραλιακό μέτωπο χαρακτηρίζεται ως ένα ‘’γραμμικό κέντρο’’ , μια ζώνη με χρήσεις κεντρικών λειτουργιών , εμπορίου και αναψυχής. Ακόμα λόγω της έλλειψης χώρων πολιτισμού στην πόλη , χωροθετείται ένα πολιτιστικό κέντρο , το οποίο περιέχει θεατρικές εγκαταστάσεις. Λόγω της αύξησης του πληθυσμού της Σητείας την τελευταία δεκαετία , αλλά και της ανάγκης της περιοχής για τουριστική ανάπτυξη, στο μεγαλύτερο μέρος της περιοχής μελέτης σχεδιάζεται ένα μοντέλο συλλογικής κατοίκησης , με διαφορετικές τυπολογίες κατοικιών. Τέλος δημιουργείται μια πορεία που συνδέει τα σημεία ενδιαφέροντος και αποτελείται από δημόσιους ανοιχτούς χώρους για τους κατοίκους και τους επισκέπτες της περιοχής.
Analysing Mechanisms for Virtual Channel Management in Low-Diameter networks
Creators: name: Cano, Alejandro
name: Camarero, Cristóbal
name: Martínez, Carmen
name: Beivide, Ramón
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To interconnect their growing number of servers, current supercomputers and data centers are starting to adopt low-diameter networks, such as HyperX, Dragonfly and Dragonfly+. These emergent topologies require balancing the load over their links and finding suitable non-minimal routing mechanisms for them becomes particularly challenging. The Valiant load balancing scheme is a very popular choice for non-minimal routing. Evolved adaptive routing mechanisms implemented in real systems are based on this Valiant scheme.
 All these low-diameter networks are deadlock-prone when non-minimal routing is employed. Routing deadlocks occur when packets cannot progress due to cyclic dependencies. Therefore, developing efficient deadlock-free packet routing mechanisms is critical for the progress of these emergent networks. The routing function includes the routing algorithm for path selection and the buffers management policy that dictates how packets allocate the buffers of the switches on their paths. For the same routing algorithm, a different buffer management mechanism can lead to a very different performance. Moreover, certain mechanisms considered efficient for avoiding deadlocks, may still suffer from hard to pinpoint instabilities that make erratic the network response. This paper focuses on exploring the impact of these buffers management policies on the performance of current interconnection networks, showing a 90\% of performance drop if an incorrect buffers management policy is used. Moreover, this study not only characterizes some of these undesirable scenarios but also proposes practicable solutions.
title: Molekulare Subtypisierung auf Basis der Zytokeratin-Expression zur Vorhersage eines Ansprechens auf Instillationstherapie beim pT1 Harnblasenkarzinom
Creators: name: Herdegen, Sonja
name: Wirtz, Ralph Markus
name: Denzinger, Stefan
name: Erben, Philipp
name: Kriegmair, Maximilian C.
name: Stöhr, Robert
name: Eckstein, Markus
name: Burger, Maximilian
name: Otto, Wolfgang
name: Hartmann, Arndt
name: Breyer, Johannes
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Die differentielle Zytokeratin-Expression (CK) ist ein Merkmal der basalen (KRT5) und luminalen (KRT20) Subtypen beim muskelinvasiven Harnblasenkarzinom (MIBC). Beim nicht-muskelinvasiven Harnblasenkarzinom (NMIBC) im Stadium pT1 wurde gezeigt, dass der luminale Subtyp mit einem schlechteren[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 45. Gemeinsame Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie und der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung
What is liquid in random porous media: the Barker-Henderson perturbation theory
Creators: name: Holovko, M. F.
name: Patsahan, T. M.
name: Shmotolokha, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the Barker-Henderson (BH) perturbation theory to the study of a Lennard-Jones fluid confined in a random porous matrix formed by hard sphere particles. In order to describe the reference system needed in this perturbation scheme, the extension of the scaled particle theory (SPT) is used. The recent progress in the development of SPT approach for a hard sphere fluid in a hard sphere matrix allows us to obtain very accurate results for thermodynamic properties in such a system. Hence, we combine the BH perturbation theory with the SPT approach to derive expressions for the chemical potential and the pressure of a confined fluid. Using the obtained expressions, the liquid-vapour phase diagrams of a LJ fluid in HS matrix are built from the phase equilibrium conditions. Therefore, the effect of matrix porosity and a size of matrix particles is considered. It is shown that a decrease of matrix porosity lowers both the critical temperature and the critical density, while the phase diagram becomes narrower. An increase of a size of matrix particles leads to an increase of the critical temperature. From the comparison it is observed that the results obtained from the theory are in agreement with computer simulations. The approach proposed in the present study can be extended to the case of anisotropic fluid particles in HS matrices.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
title: Vergleich der Radiotherapie mit radikaler Zystektomie in Patienten, die für eine systematische Chemotherapie nicht geeignet sind
Creators: name: D'Andrea, David
name: Abufaraj, Mohammad
name: Soria, Francesco
name: Gust, Kilian
name: Haitel, Andrea
name: Stangl-Kremser, Judith
name: Goldner, Gregor
name: Grubmüller, Bernhard
name: Shariat, Shahrokh F.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Forschungsfrage: Die radikale Zystektomie (RC) ist mit einer signifikanten Morbidität und Mortalität verbunden. Darüber hinaus ist das allgemeine Patientenkollektiv mit Blasenkrebs älter und multimorbid. Viele Patienten erhalten daher blasenerhaltende Therapien wie Radiotherapie [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 45. Gemeinsame Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie und der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung
Effects of high CD4 cell counts on death and attrition among HIV patients receiving antiretroviral treatment: an observational cohort study
Creators: name: Shen, Zhiyong
name: Liu, Xuanhua
name: Tang, Zhenzhu
name: Ruan, Yuhua
name: Feng, Yi
name: Chen, Yi
name: Xing, Hui
name: Liao, Lingjie
name: Shao, Yiming
name: Lan, Guanghua
name: Zhang, Heng
name: Pan, Stephen W.
name: Zhu, Qiuying
name: Su, Jinming
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Current WHO guidelines recommend initiating ART regardless of CD4+ cell count. In response, we conducted an observational cohort study to assess the effects of pre-ART CD4+ cell count levels on death, attrition, and death or attrition in HIV treated patients. This large HIV treatment cohort study (n = 49,155) from 2010 to 2015 was conducted in Guangxi, China. We used a Cox regression model to analyze associations between pre-ART CD4+ cell counts and death, attrition, and death or attrition. The average mortality and ART attrition rates among all treated patients were 2.63 deaths and 5.32 attritions per 100 person-years, respectively. Compared to HIV patients with 500 CD4+ cells/mm 3 at ART initiation had a significantly lower mortality rate (Adjusted hazard ratio: 0.56, 95% CI: 0.40-0.79), but significantly higher ART attrition rate (AHR: 1.17, 95% CI: 1.03-1.33). Results from this study suggest that HIV patients with high CD4+ cell counts at the time of ART initiation may be at greater risk of treatment attrition. To further reduce ART attrition, it is imperative that patient education and healthcare provider training on ART adherence be enhanced and account for CD4 levels at ART initiation.
title: Geriatrisches Assessment vor urologischen Tumoroperationen als Prädiktoren von Komplikationen, funktionellem Outcome und Mortalität
Creators: name: Kahlmeyer, Andreas
name: Kraulich, Matthias
name: Goebell, Peter J.
name: Taubert, Helge
name: Wach, Sven
name: Ritt, Martin
name: Gassmann, Karl-Günter
name: Wullich, Bernd
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Zunehmend wird der Einsatz geriatrische Assessments zur Optimierung der Therapieplanung auch bei urologischen Tumorerkrankungen gefordert. Ziel dieser laufenden Studie ist die Evaluation der Eignung verbreiteter geriatrischer Assessment-Tools als Prädiktoren von Komplikationen, funktionellem[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 45. Gemeinsame Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie und der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung
CRIME OPPORTUNITY & RISK FORECASTING: A NEW PERSPECTIVE APPLIED TO STREET ROBBERIES IN JOHANNESBURG CENTRAL, SOUTH AFRICA
Creators: name: VAN JAARSVELD, FRANCOIS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Crime policy

description: The study’s aim was to design and develop a new crime forecasting model called Crime Opportunity & Risk Forecasting (CORF) to address the existing limitations to implementation within the South African context. The CORF model addressed these limitations through a synthesized template of Criminology’s Opportunity Theories, and an uncomplicated, cost-effective and thorough design, that resulted in the successful forecast of 81% of street robberies that took place in Johannesburg Central during April 2017. The successful forecast indicated that the CORF model could provide valuable academic insights for scholars and present governments with a formidable new tool to prevent crime.
Comparative aspects of spin-dependent interaction potentials for spin-1/2 and spin-1 matter fields
Creators: name: Malta, P. C.
name: Ospedal, L. P. R.
name: Veiga, K.
name: Helayël-Neto, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper sets out to establish a comparative study between classes of spin- and velocity-dependent potentials for spin-1/2 and spin-1 matter currents/sources in the non-relativistic regime. Both (neutral massive) scalar and vector particles are considered to mediate the interactions between (pseudo-)scalar sources or (pseudo-)vector currents. Though our discussion is more general, we contemplate specific cases in which our results may describe the electromagnetic interaction with a massive (Proca-type) photon exchanged between two spin-1/2 or two spin-1 carriers. We highlight the similarities and peculiarities of the potentials for the two different types of charged matter and also focus our attention on the comparison between the particular aspects of two different field representations for spin-1 matter particles. We believe that our results may contribute to a further discussion of the relation between charge, spin and extensibility of elementary particles.
description: In this version (v5), a Corrigendum has been added after the published paper
Justicia glabra K. D. Koenig ex Roxburgh. Moreover 1820
Creators: name: Soumya, Puliyakode
name: Sunojkumar, Purayidathkandy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Acanthaceae
Justicia
Justicia glabra

description: Justicia glabra K.D. Koenig ex Roxb (1820: 132)
 Lectotype (designated here):— INDIA, Koenig s.n. (BM001253079) Fig. 1.
 Notes:— Justicia glabra was first introduced by Roxburgh in Hortus Bengalensis (1814) as a nomen nudum. Later he (Roxburgh 1820) validated the name by providing a small description. He mentioned the type locality as “coast of Coromandel”, but did not mention any specimens. Graham (1988) cited the type as " India, Koenig s.n. (? isotype BM)”. Based on this information, we traced the specimen at BM having the annotation “Coromandel prope Tanjore, K.D. Koenig” in Koenig’s handwriting. From this it is clearly understood, that the specimen was collected by Koenig from Tanjore (previously Tanjore is a part of Coromandel). So, it is reasonable to mention that Roxburgh consulted Koenig’s specimen, while describing J. glabra and based on his annotation, Roxburgh wrote the author citation as J. glabra K.D. Koenig ex Roxburgh. Moreover, according to Stafleu and Cowan (1983), Koenig was an employee at British Museum. Since Roxburgh ascribed the plant name to Koenig, the specimen collected by Koenig at BM can qualify as original material according to Art. 9.4 a) of ICN (Turland et al., 2018). The type citation of Graham (1988: 589) did not achieve to select a lectotype for the name Justicia glabra because she did not explicitly accept that specimen (or gathering) as the lecotype of the name (Art.9.11). Here, we select the BM duplicate (BM001253079) as the lectotype according to Art. 9.3 & 9.12 of ICN (Turland et al., 2018).
description: Published as part of Soumya, Puliyakode & Sunojkumar, Purayidathkandy, 2019, Typification of three names in Justicia L. (Acanthaceae), pp. 138-142 in Phytotaxa 391 (2) on page 138, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.391.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13724228
Spin pumping from a ferromagnet into a hopping insulator: the role of resonant absorption of magnons
Creators: name: Yue, Z.
name: Pesin, D. A.
name: Raikh, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent experiments on spin pumping from a ferromagnet into organic materials in which the charge transport is due to hopping, we study theoretically the generation and propagation of spin current in a hopping insulator. Unlike metals, the spin polarization at the boundary with ferromagnet is created as a result of magnon absorption within pairs of localized states and it spreads following the current-currying resistor network (although the charge current is absent). We consider a classic resonant mechanism of the ac absorption in insulators and adapt it to the absorption of magnons. A strong enhancement of pumping efficiency is predicted when the Zeeman splitting of the localized states in external magnetic field is equal to the frequency of ferromagnetic resonance. Under this condition the absorption of a magnon takes place within individual sites.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Underwater Thematic Services Release #1 (U1/U2/U3) software
Creators: name: Wintersteller, Paul
name: Quintana, Josep
name: Campos, Ricard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Software
Release

description: This deliverable presents the list of the thematic underwater services of WP2 released by NEANIAS project in its first release cycle, due in M12 of the project.
title: Vergleich der radikalen Zystektomie vs. blasenerhaltenden Therapie beim muskelinvasivem Harnblasenkarzinom: Eine Matched-Pair Analyse
Creators: name: Huber, Toni
name: Pickl, Christoph
name: Lex, Lisa
name: Haas, Maximilian
name: Gierth, Michael
name: Breyer, Johannes
name: Burger, Maximilian
name: Mayr, Roman
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Die radikale Zystektomie mit entsprechender Harnableitung stellt den Goldstandard beim muskelinvasiven und instillationsrefraktären nicht-muskelinvasiven Harnblasenkarzinom dar. Trotz dieser klaren Empfehlung lehnen manche Patienten den Eingriff ab. Es handelt sich hierbei meist um[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 45. Gemeinsame Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie und der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung
Die nachbiblischen Akzentverschiebungen im historischen Entwicklungsgang des eschatologischen Denkens
Creators: name: Müller-Goldkuhle, Peter
Publisher: name: Concilium
Year: 1970

description: Concilium, Bd. 5 Nr. 1 (1969): Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie, Band 5, Heft 1
Electronic Excitation Dynamics in Liquid Water under Proton Irradiation
Creators: name: Reeves, Kyle G.
name: Kanai, Yosuke
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Molecular behaviour of liquid water under proton irradiation is of great importance to a number of technological and medical applications. The highly energetic proton generates a time-varying field that is highly localized and heterogeneous at the molecular scale, and massive electronic excitations are produced as a result of the field-matter interaction. Using first-principles quantum dynamics simulations, we reveal details of how electrons are dynamically excited through non-equilibrium energy transfer from highly energetic protons in liquid water on the atto/femto-second time scale. Water molecules along the path of the energetic proton undergo ionization at individual molecular level, and the excitation primarily derives from lone pair electrons on the oxygen atom of water molecules. A reduced charge state on the energetic proton in the condensed phase of water results in the strongly suppressed electronic response when compared to water molecules in the gas phase. These molecular-level findings provide important insights into understanding the water radiolysis process under proton irradiation.
Koopman operator learning using invertible neural networks
Creators: name: Meng, Yuhuang
name: Huang, Jianguo
name: Qiu, Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6
subject: 65Mxx (Primary), 68Txx (Secondary)

description: In Koopman operator theory, a finite-dimensional nonlinear system is transformed into an infinite but linear system using a set of observable functions. However, manually selecting observable functions that span the invariant subspace of the Koopman operator based on prior knowledge is inefficient and challenging, particularly when little or no information is available about the underlying systems. Furthermore, current methodologies tend to disregard the importance of the invertibility of observable functions, which leads to inaccurate results. To address these challenges, we propose the so-called FlowDMD, aka Flow-based Dynamic Mode Decomposition, that utilizes the Coupling Flow Invertible Neural Network (CF-INN) framework. FlowDMD leverages the intrinsically invertible characteristics of the CF-INN to learn the invariant subspaces of the Koopman operator and accurately reconstruct state variables. Numerical experiments demonstrate the superior performance of our algorithm compared to state-of-the-art methodologies.
E-Liquid Autofluorescence can be used as a Marker of Vaping Deposition and Third-Hand Vape Exposure
Creators: name: Davis, Eric S.
name: Tarran, Robert
name: Goodell, Henry
name: Sassano, M. Flori
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: In the past 5 years, e-cigarette use has been increasing rapidly, particularly in youth and young adults. Due to the novelty of e-cigarettes (e-cigs) and e-cigarette liquids (e-liquids), research on their chemo-physical properties is still in its infancy. Here, we describe a previously unknown and potentially useful property of e-liquids, namely their autofluorescence. We performed an emission scan at 9 excitation wavelengths common to fluorescent microscopy and found (i) that autofluorescence differs widely between e-liquids, (ii) that e-liquids are most fluorescent in the UV range (between 350 and 405 nm) and (iii) fluorescence intensity wanes as the emission wavelength increases. Furthermore, we used the autofluorescence of e-liquids as a marker for tracking e-cig aerosol deposition in the laboratory. Using linear regression analysis, we were able to quantify the deposition of a "vaped" e-liquid onto hard surfaces. Using this technique, we found that every 70 mL puff of an e-cigarette deposited 0.019% e-liquid (v/v) in a controlled environment. Finally, we vaped a surface in the laboratory and used our method to detect e-cig aerosol third-hand exposure. In conclusion, our data suggest that e-cigarette autofluorescence can be used as a marker of e-cigarette deposition.
The Co-construction of knowledge of climate change adaption in Malawi’s environmental communication
Creators: name: Chavinda, Chimwemwe R.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The overarching question that this thesis addresses is how science-led discourse on climate change is integrated with local language and culture to teach about sustainability in Malawi? I answer this question by examining the interactions of experts and the community as participants in the Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme (LCBCCAP) in, Zomba, Malawi. This thesis draws on a theoretical framework that combines Social Constructionism, Communication for development and social change. The data collection for this study included interviews with experts, communities in Lake Chilwa Basin and an analysis of community radio programmes. Using the case study approach and corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, the thesis further examined the discursive practices of various social actors and how climate change is re-contextualized from global to local discourse. The findings in this study show that although the communities in Lake Chilwa Basin were exposed to various sources of information; through the media and experts’ discourse, their understanding of climate change was mediated by local culture and knowledge. The study shows that culture plays an important role in the way local people understand nature and climate change, challenging the notion that science is the only way we can talk about climate change. This study contributes to the understanding of how communication between experts and the community unfolds within donor-funded adaptation programmes. The findings from this study further show that although communication within LBCCAP was conceptualised as participatory, the earlier models of modernization and information deficit were at the centre of the communication process. This thesis argues that local communities are disadvantaged if they participate in projects which do not utilise their cultural resources. Therefore, climate change communication should acknowledge the role of culture in the understanding of climate change among local communities. This study concludes by recommending that there is a need for a good mechanism for integrating local knowledge and culture in climate change communication.
title: Rektor Dr. Robert Keller
title: 1854-1939
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hunziker, Rudolf
Publisher: name: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: 370 Bildung und Erziehung
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Keller, Robert
subject: Winterthur

description: Sonderdruck aus: Jahresbericht der Alt-Vitodurania ; Nr. 37/38
Shrinkability, relative left properness, and derived base change
Creators: name: Hackney, Philip
name: Robertson, Marcy
name: Yau, Donald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a connected pasting scheme $\mathcal G$, under reasonable assumptions on the underlying category, the category of $\mathfrak C$-colored $\mathcal G$-props admits a cofibrantly generated model category structure. In this paper, we show that, if $\mathcal G$ is closed under shrinking internal edges, then this model structure on $\mathcal G$-props satisfies a (weaker version) of left properness. Connected pasting schemes satisfying this property include those for all connected wheeled graphs (for wheeled properads), wheeled trees (for wheeled operads), simply connected graphs (for dioperads), unital trees (for symmetric operads), and unitial linear graphs (for small categories). The pasting scheme for connected wheel-free graphs (for properads) does _not_ satisfy this condition. We furthermore prove, assuming $\mathcal G$ is shrinkable and our base categories are nice enough, that a weak symmetric monoidal Quillen equivalence between two base categories induces a Quillen equivalence between their categories of $\mathcal G$-props. The final section gives illuminating examples that justify the conditions on base model categories.
description: Final version, to appear in NYJM
Acoustically-induced slip in sheared granular layers: application to dynamic earthquake triggering
Creators: name: Ferdowsi, Behrooz
name: Griffa, Michele
name: Guyer, Robert A.
name: Johnson, Paul A.
name: Marone, Chris
name: Carmeliet, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fundamental mystery in earthquake physics is ``how can an earthquake be triggered by distant seismic sources?'' Here, we use discrete element method simulations of a granular layer, during stick-slip, that is subject to transient vibrational excitation to gain further insight into the physics of dynamic earthquake triggering. Using Coulomb friction law for grains interaction, we observe delayed triggering of slip in the granular gouge. We find that at a critical vibrational amplitude (strain) there is an abrupt transition from negligible time-advanced slip (clock advance) to full clock advance, {\it i.e.}, transient vibration and triggered slip are simultaneous. The critical strain is order of $10^{-6}$, similar to observations in the laboratory and in Earth. The transition is related to frictional weakening of the granular layer due to a dramatic decrease in coordination number and the weakening of the contact force network. Associated with this frictional weakening is a pronounced decrease in the elastic modulus of the layer. The study has important implications for mechanisms of triggered earthquakes and induced seismic events and points out the underlying processes in response of the fault gouge to dynamic transient stresses.
Spin-orbit coupling and operation of multi-valley spin qubits
Creators: name: Veldhorst, M.
name: Ruskov, R.
name: Yang, C. H.
name: Hwang, J. C. C.
name: Hudson, F. E.
name: Flatté, M. E.
name: Tahan, C.
name: Itoh, K. M.
name: Morello, A.
name: Dzurak, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin qubits composed of either one or three electrons are realized in a quantum dot formed at a Si/SiO_2-interface in isotopically enriched silicon. Using pulsed electron spin resonance, we perform coherent control of both types of qubits, addressing them via an electric field dependent g-factor. We perform randomized benchmarking and find that both qubits can be operated with high fidelity. Surprisingly, we find that the g-factors of the one-electron and three-electron qubits have an approximately linear but opposite dependence as a function of the applied dc electric field. We develop a theory to explain this g-factor behavior based on the spin-valley coupling that results from the sharp interface. The outer "shell" electron in the three-electron qubit exists in the higher of the two available conduction-band valley states, in contrast with the one-electron case, where the electron is in the lower valley. We formulate a modified effective mass theory and propose that inter-valley spin-flip tunneling dominates over intra-valley spin-flips in this system, leading to a direct correlation between the spin-orbit coupling parameters and the g-factors in the two valleys. In addition to offering all-electrical tuning for single-qubit gates, the g-factor physics revealed here for one-electron and three-electron qubits offers potential opportunities for new qubit control approaches.
Endothelial cell-surface tissue transglutaminase inhibits neutrophil adhesion by binding and releasing nitric oxide
Creators: name: Haroon, Zishan A.
name: Zhou, Hua-Lin
name: Stamler, Jonathan S.
name: Hausladen, Alfred
name: Juang,
name: Lindberg, Robert A.
name: Dewhirst, Mark W.
name: Lai, Thung-S.
name: Greenberg, Charles S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Nitric oxide (NO) produced by endothelial cells in response to cytokines displays anti-inflammatory activity by preventing the adherence, migration and activation of neutrophils. The molecular mechanism by which NO operates at the blood-endothelium interface to exert anti-inflammatory properties is largely unknown. Here we show that on endothelial surfaces, NO is associated with the sulfhydryl-rich protein tissue transglutaminase (TG2), thereby endowing the membrane surfaces with anti-inflammatory properties. We find that tumor necrosis factor-α-stimulated neutrophil adherence is opposed by TG2 molecules that are bound to the endothelial surface. Alkylation of cysteine residues in TG2 or inhibition of endothelial NO synthesis renders the surface-bound TG2 inactive, whereas specific, high affinity binding of S-nitrosylated TG2 (SNO-TG2) to endothelial surfaces restores the anti-inflammatory properties of the endothelium, and reconstitutes the activity of endothelial-derived NO. We also show that SNO-TG2 is present in healthy tissues and that it forms on the membranes of shear-activated endothelial cells. Thus, the anti-inflammatory mechanism that prevents neutrophils from adhering to endothelial cells is identified with TG2 S-nitrosylation at the endothelial cell-blood interface.
Spin Wave Driven Skyrmions in a Bipartite Antiferromagnetic Lattice
Creators: name: Lau, Michael
name: Häusler, Wolfgang
name: Thorwart, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a Skyrmion in a classical bipartite antiferromagnetic lattice can be spatially displaced in a controlled manner by externally applied spin waves. We reveal the relation between the Skyrmion motion and the spin wave properties. To this end, we derive a classical spin wave formalism which is tailored to the antiferromagnetic two-dimensional square lattice. The antiferromagnetic spin waves can be classified into two types with respect to their polarization, with two modes each. The circularly polarized spin waves oscillate with different amplitudes in the respective sublattices and induce a Skyrmion Hall effect. The two modes are symmetric under sublattices exchange and determine the overall sign of the Hall angle. Linearly polarized spin waves oscillate elliptically, however, with the same amplitude on each sublattice. These accelerate the Skyrmion solely into their own propagation direction. The two modes are symmetric under component x-y exchange and impact Bloch- or Néel Skyrmions differently. Our results indicate possible technical applications of spin-wave driven Skyrmion motion. As one example we propose a racetrack where spin waves pump Skyrmions along the track in antiferromagnets.
Situating Intimacy: Design Framework for a Breastfeeding-Friendly City
Creators: name: ARVANDA, ENIRA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 330411
subject: Urban design
classificationCode: 440509
subject: Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)
classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design
classificationCode: 330306
subject: Design practice and methods

description: This thesis contributes to knowledge by studying spatial contexts and elements of the built environment that encourage public breastfeeding. It explores and studies women's everyday breastfeeding experiences in order to gain a better understanding of women's behaviour and public space use. This research aims at developing strategies that encourage breastfeeding women to occupy public spaces; proposes tools that can be used to investigate different possibilities of spatial inhabitation; and discusses ways to develop an inclusive and gender-sensitive design framework for the planning of a breastfeeding-friendly urban environment.
Enhancement of Perivascular Spaces in 7 T MR Image using Haar Transform of Non-local Cubes and Block-matching Filtering
Creators: name: Wang, Qian
name: Lin, Weili
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Hou, Yingkun
name: Zong, Xiaopeng
name: Park, Sang Hyun
name: Zhang, Jun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Perivascular spaces (PVSs) in brain have a close relationship with typical neurological diseases. The quantitative studies of PVSs are meaningful but usually difficult, due to their thin and weak signals and also background noise in the 7 T brain magnetic resonance images (MRI). To clearly distinguish the PVSs in the 7 T MRI, we propose a novel PVS enhancement method based on the Haar transform of non-local cubes. Specifically, we extract a certain number of cubes from a small neighbor to form a cube group, and then perform Haar transform on each cube group. The Haar transform coefficients are processed using a nonlinear function to amplify the weak signals relevant to the PVSs and to suppress the noise. The enhanced image is reconstructed using the inverse Haar transform of the processed coefficients. Finally, we perform a block-matching 4D filtering on the enhanced image to further remove any remaining noise, and thus obtain an enhanced and denoised 7 T MRI for PVS segmentation. We apply two existing methods to complete PVS segmentation, i.e., (1) vesselness-thresholding and (2) random forest classification. The experimental results show that the PVS segmentation performances can be significantly improved by using the enhanced and denoised 7 T MRI.
Asymmetry of steady state current fluctuations in nonequilibrium systems
Creators: name: Belousov, Roman
name: Cohen, E. G. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For systems in nonequilibrium steady states, a novel modulated Gaussian probability distribution is derived to incorporate a new phenomenon of biased current fluctuations, discovered by recent laboratory experiments and confirmed by molecular dynamics simulations. Our results consistently extend Onsager-Machlup fluctuation theory for systems in thermal equilibrium. Connections with the principles of Statistical Mechanics due to Boltzmann and Gibbs are discussed. At last, the modulated Gaussian distribution is of potential interest for other statistical disciplines, which make use of the Large Deviation theory.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
A stable Higgs portal with vector dark matter
Creators: name: Duch, Mateusz
name: Grzadkowski, Bohdan
name: McGarrie, Moritz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore an extension of the Standard Model by an additional U (1) gauge group and a complex scalar Higgs portal. As the scalar is charged under this gauge factor this simple model supplies a vector dark matter candidate satisfying the observed relic abundance and limits from direct dark matter searches. An additional Higgs-like state, that may be heavier or lighter than the observed Higgs, is present and satisfies LEP and LHC bounds whilst allowing for absolute stability of the electroweak vacuum in a range of parameter space.
description: 32 pages, 18 figures, v2: references added, minor corrections, published in JHEP
Alsidium seaforthii J. Agardh
Creators: name: Resendiz, María Luisa Núñez
name: Dreckmann, Kurt M.
name: Sentíes, Abel
name: Wynne, Michael J.
name: Tejera, Hilda León
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Rhodophyta
Florideophyceae
Ceramiales
Rhodomelaceae
Alsidium
Alsidium seaforthii

description: Alsidium seaforthii (Turner) J.Agardh
Thallus fleshy, reddish, 6–20 cm long, with flattened axes in cross section, 480–500 μm x 260–280 μm in diameter. Main axes branching pseudo-dichotomously; branches covered with alternating opposite arranged ramuli (Fig. 9). Polysiphonous organization, with 8 pericentral cells, 60–85 μm x 50–65 μm in diameter, elongated, arising from a central spherical axial cell (40–50 μm in diameter) (Fig. 10). Medulla with two layers of rounded cells, 45–75 μm in diameter. Cortex with one layer of conspicuously pigmented cells, 12–18 μm in diameter (Fig. 10).
 Taxonomic comment: This species and the following species had been treated as species of Bryothamnion until very recently. García-Soto & Lopez-Bautista (2018) presented molecular-based evidence to propose the merger of Bryothamnion within Alsidium. These two species had been assigned to that genus in the past, and so those two names are reinstated.
description: Published as part of Resendiz, María Luisa Núñez, Dreckmann, Kurt M., Sentíes, Abel, Wynne, Michael J. & Tejera, Hilda León, 2019, Marine red algae (Rhodophyta) of economic use in the algal drifts from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, pp. 219-240 in Phytotaxa 387 (3) on page 230, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.387.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13724318
Signs of Life: Images of the living world in Honorius Augustodunensis and Hildegard of Bingen
Creators: name: SKIPWORTH, HANNAH ELLEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Religious studies not elsewhere classified
Environmental philosophy
Historical studies not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores how the natural world was understood in selected works by Augustinian canon, Honorius Augustodunensis (c. 1070-c. 1140) and the visionary Benedictine nun, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). Through the use of intellectual history and the principles of ecosemiotics, I demonstrate how Honorius and Hildegard understood the universe as a collection of signs that could illuminate the divine. I examine selections from their written works to draw out their shared appreciation for the universe, and how they diverged in aspects of their interpretation.
The hydrogen bond network of water supports propagating optical phonon-like modes
Creators: name: Elton, Daniel C.
name: Fernández-Serra, M. -V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The local structure of liquid water as a function of temperature is a source of intense research. This structure is intimately linked to the dynamics of water molecules, which can be measured using Raman and infrared spectroscopies. The assignment of spectral peaks depends on whether they are collective modes or single molecule motions. Vibrational modes in liquids are usually considered to be associated to the motions of single molecules or small clusters. Using molecular dynamics simulations we find dispersive optical phonon-like modes in the librational and OH stretching bands. We argue that on subpicosecond time scales these modes propagate through water's hydrogen bond network over distances of up to two nanometers. In the long wavelength limit these optical modes exhibit longitudinal-transverse splitting, indicating the presence of coherent long range dipole-dipole interactions, as in ice. Our results indicate the dynamics of liquid water have more similarities to ice than previously thought.
description: accepted into Nat. Comm
Planifier: Guide pratique
Creators: name: Aldis, Helen
name: Allamand, Ana
name: Osborn, Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Ces guides mettent en évidence ce que nous avons appris des actions et des études de cas dans LIAISON. L’objectif est d’aider tous ceux qui utilisent ces méthodes à améliorer la manière dont ils co-innovent dans le domaine de l’agriculture, de la sylviculture et du développement rural. LIAISON (Better Rural Innovation: Linking Actors, Instruments and Policies through Networks) est un projet multi-acteurs qui a été financé dans le cadre du PEI Agri, une initiative lancée par la Commission européenne en 2012 dont l’objectif est de favoriser une agriculture et une sylviculture compétitives et durables qui « réalisent plus et mieux avec moins ». L’innovation interactive rassemble une diversité d’acteurs publics et privés de l’innovation (agricul-teurs, conseillers, chercheurs, entreprises, ONG, etc.) possédant des connaissances et des expériences com-plémentaires dans l’évaluation, la co-création et la diffusion de solutions pratiques aux besoins réels des agriculteurs et des forestiers. Ces besoins découlent des problématiques quotidiennes auxquelles sont confron-tés les agriculteurs, les forestiers et les entreprises rurales. Les innovations générées par une approche interactive peuvent fournir des solutions bien adap-tées au terrain et plus faciles à mettre en oeuvre.