cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Le rôle infirmier dans la contribution à la diminution des réhospitalisations des personnes âgées en soins aigus somatiques
title: Le rôle infirmier dans la contribution à la diminution des réhospitalisations des personnes âgées en soins aigus somatiques
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sanchez, Elisa
name: Siegenthaler, Christina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Personnes âgées
subject: Prévention
subject: Réhospitalisation
subject: Soins aigus somatiques
subject: Rôle infirmier

description: Cette revue de littérature aborde le sujet des réhospitalisations des personnes âgées. Ce phénomène croissant, entraînant plusieurs conséquences sur l’expérience de vie de la personne âgée mais également sur les coûts pour les hôpitaux, est actuellement l’un des principaux défis de santé lié au vieillissement de la population. Le personnel soignant, et notamment les infirmiers, peut agir en première ligne afin de contribuer à la diminution de ces réhospitalisations. Ce travail a donc été élaboré afin de répondre à la question de recherche suivante: « Quel est le rôle infirmier dans la diminution des réhospitalisations de personnes âgées en soins aigus somatiques ? »
Space Astronomy for the mid-21st Century: Robotically Maintained Space Telescopes
Creators: name: Schartel, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The historical development of ground based astronomical telescopes leads us to expect that space-based astronomical telescopes will need to be operational for many decades. The exchange of scientific instruments in space will be a prerequisite for the long lasting scientific success of such missions. Operationally, the possibility to repair or replace key spacecraft components in space will be mandatory. We argue that these requirements can be fulfilled with robotic missions and see the development of the required engineering as the main challenge. Ground based operations, scientifically and technically, will require a low operational budget of the running costs. These can be achieved through enhanced autonomy of the spacecraft and mission independent concepts for the support of the software. This concept can be applied to areas where the mirror capabilities do not constrain the lifetime of the mission.
description: 4 pages, accepted in February 2012 for publication in AN
Three Essays in Financial Economics
Creators: name: Isakin, Maksim
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education--Finance
subject: Credit rating
subject: collateralized debt obligation
subject: User cost
subject: Stochastic Volatility
subject: demand system

description: This dissertation consists of three essays on financial economics. In the first essay, I build a theoretical model for pricing collateralized debt obligations (CDO) based on varying precision of credit ratings. A credit rating agency (CRA) produces noisy ratings to maximize the proportion of firms with high ratings but still ensures that firms choose lower risk projects. Increased fundamental volatility in bad times makes high-risk choices more appealing to firms, which the CRA responds to by increasing the precision of ratings. Only firms that can call existing bonds and issue new ones will choose low risk projects at such times. Therefore, the resulting high risk strategy for constrained firms in such periods implies that junior tranches get seriously impacted. In contrast, senior tranches are more exposed to growth shocks, which increase the risk of all firms' projects. I structurally estimate the parameters of the model and show that the model is able to explain the levels and a significant fraction of the volatilities of CDO tranche spreads. In the second essay, I take the user cost approach to modelling a banking firm and analyze banks' optimal response to monetary and regulatory changes. The bank maximizes its profit choosing the quantities of financial goods such as deposits, loans, and investments based on their user costs. I estimate the system of demand and supply of financial goods using data on U.S. banks over the 1992-2013 period. The policy tools change the user costs of the financial goods and, therefore, bank's demand and supply of financial goods. I report the effects of an increase in interest paid on reserves, federal funds rate and others. In the third essay, I develop a framework for estimating demand systems with autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH). In this setup, the conditional variance is a random variable depending on current and past information. Since most economic and financial time series are nonlinear, using parametric nonlinear demand systems with an ARCH-component can significantly improve the quality of a model. I prove the invariance of the maximum likelihood estimator with respect to the choice of an estimated demand subsystem.
Comparative study of many-body perturbation theory and time-dependent density functional theory in the out-of-equilibrium Anderson model
Creators: name: Uimonen, A. -M.
name: Khosravi, E.
name: Stan, A.
name: Stefanucci, G.
name: Kurth, S.
name: van Leeuwen, R.
name: Gross, E. K. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study time-dependent electron transport through an Anderson model. The electronic interactions on the impurity site are included via the self-energy approximations at Hartree-Fock (HF), second Born (2B), GW, and T-Matrix level as well as within a time-dependent density functional (TDDFT) scheme based on the adiabatic Bethe-Ansatz local density approximation (ABALDA) for the exchange correlation potential. The Anderson model is driven out of equilibrium by applying a bias to the leads and its nonequilibrium dynamics is determined by real-time propagation. The time-dependent currents and densities are compared to benchmark results obtained with the time-dependent density matrix renormalization group (tDMRG) method. Many-body perturbation theory beyond HF gives results in close agreement with tDMRG especially within the 2B approximation. We find that the TDDFT approach with the ABALDA approximation produces accurate results for the densities on the impurity site but overestimates the currents. This problem is found to have its origin in an overestimation of the lead densities which indicates that the exchange correlation potential must attain nonzero values in the leads.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Quantifying biomarkers of osteoarthritis in normal sheep synovium - a baseline
Creators: name: Solbak, Nathan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Inflammation
subject: Knee

description: Current evidence demonstrates focal synovial inflammation occurs during development of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA), suggesting synovium either reacts or contributes to adjacent articular damage. However, baseline measures for distinguishing early synovial inflammation from normal synovium have yet to be established. The hypothesis was that synovial samples from both hind limbs of immature (n=5) and skeletally mature sheep (n=5) would have no histological or molecular evidence of inflammation. Histological grading of synovium from four anatomic locations confirmed its homogeneity and absence of synovitis as scores were well below quantitative thresholds of "mildly inflamed". Interestingly, molecular quantification of six biomarkers of inflammation in normal synovium were low but not zero and varied 1 – 3 fold between different locations. The findings suggest a minimum 3 – fold difference in such biomarkers is required to establish synovitis. Baselines of normal sheep synovial histology and molecular biomarker expression for future studies of PTOA onset have been established.
title: Vieillissement de la population
title: les familles à la rescousse
titleType: Subtitle
title: Vieillissement de la population
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ravalitera, Mirana
name: Viroux, Jérôme
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Vieillissement
subject: Personnes âgées
subject: Aidant naturel
subject: Santé communautaire
subject: Chine

description: En même temps qu’il marque la fin de notre formation bachelor en soins infirmiers, ce travail marque pour nous le début d’une pratique infirmière enrichie par les compétences que nous avons acquises et mobilisées pour mener à bien ce projet. Notre travail de bachelor s’inscrit dans le programme d’immersion communautaire, IMCO, proposé par la faculté de biologie et de médecine de l’université de Lausanne, et depuis 2014, en collaboration avec l’Institut et Haute Ecole de la Santé La Source. D’une durée de trois semaines, du 11 au 29 juin 2018, notre immersion s’est déroulée à Wuxi, dans la province du Jiangsu, en République populaire de Chine. Ceci nous prépare, ainsi que les futurs médecins, à « un contexte mondialisé et à inscrire dans nos pratiques respectives la collaboration interprofessionnelle » (1). Ce travail conjoint avec deux étudiants de 3e année de médecine nous a permis, à travers l’exploration d’un pan de la problématique du vieillissement de la population, d’interroger des déterminants non-biomédicaux de la santé.
Spatial fluctuations in an optical parametric oscillator below threshold with an intracavity photonic crystal
Creators: name: Garcia-March, M. A.
name: De Castro, M. M.
name: Zambrini, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how to control spatial quantum correlations in a multimode degenerate optical parametric oscillator type I below threshold by introducing a spatially inhomogeneous medium, such as a photonic crystal, in the plane perpendicular to light propagation. We obtain the analytical expressions for all the correlations in terms of the relevant parameters of the problem and study the number of photons, entanglement, squeezing, and twin beams. Considering different regimes and configurations we show the possibility to tune the instability thresholds as well as the quantumness of correlations by breaking the translational invariance of the system through a photonic crystal modulation.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Can effects of quantum gravity be observed in the cosmic microwave background?
Creators: name: Kiefer, Claus
name: Kraemer, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the question whether small quantum-gravitational effects can be observed in the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation. An observation of such an effect is needed in order to discriminate between different approaches to quantum gravity. Using canonical quantum gravity with the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, we find a suppression of power at large scales. Current observations only lead to an upper bound on the energy scale of inflation, but the framework is general enough to study other situations in which such effects might indeed be seen.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, essay awarded first prize in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition 2012
Multi-line spectral imaging of dense cores in the Lupus molecular cloud
Creators: name: Benedettini, Milena
name: Pezzuto, Stefano
name: Burton, Micheal G.
name: Viti, Serena
name: Molinari, Sergio
name: Caselli, Paola
name: Testi, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The molecular clouds Lupus 1, 3 and 4 were mapped with the Mopra telescope at 3 and 12 mm. Emission lines from high density molecular tracers were detected, i.e. NH$_3$ (1,1), NH$_3$ (2,2), N$_2$H$^+$ (1-0), HC$_3$N (3-2), HC$_3$N (10-9), CS (2-1), CH$_3$OH (2$_0-1_0$)A$^+$ and CH$_3$OH (2$_{-1}-1_{-1}$)E. Velocity gradients of more than 1 km s$^{-1}$ are present in Lupus 1 and 3 and multiple gas components are present in these clouds along some lines of sight. Lupus 1 is the cloud richest in high density cores, 8 cores were detected in it, 5 cores were detected in Lupus 3 and only 2 in Lupus 4. The intensity of the three species HC$_3$N, NH$_3$ and N$_2$H$^+$ changes significantly in the various cores: cores that are brighter in HC$_3$N are fainter or undetected in NH$_3$ and N$_2$H$^+$ and vice versa. We found that the column density ratios HC$_3$N/N$_2$H$^+$ and HC$_3$N/NH$_3$ change by one order of magnitude between the cores, indicating that also the chemical abundance of these species is different. The time dependent chemical code that we used to model our cores shows that the HC$_3$N/N$_2$H$^+$ and HC$_3$N/NH$_3$ ratios decrease with time therefore the observed column density of these species can be used as an indicator of the chemical evolution of dense cores. On this base we classified 5 out of 8 cores in Lupus 1 and 1 out of 5 cores in Lupus 3 as very young protostars or prestellar cores. Comparing the millimetre cores population with the population of the more evolved young stellar objects identified in the Spitzer surveys, we conclude that in Lupus 3 the bulk of the star formation activity has already passed and only a moderate number of stars are still forming. On the contrary, in Lupus 1 star formation is on-going and several dense cores are still in the pre--/proto--stellar phase. Lupus 4 is at an intermediate stage, with a smaller number of individual objects.
description: 27 pages, 11 figures
Remembering with the Muppets: Considering the Media Franchise as a Site of Memory
Creators: name: McDermott, Brenda
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cinema
subject: Mass Communications
subject: Franchise
subject: Muppet
subject: Site of Memory
subject: Walt Disney Corporation
subject: Jim Henson

description: Despite their increasing dominance of the television and film markets, franchises are often viewed as lacking creativity or as the result of the increasing corporatization of Hollywood. While these explanations partly address the emergence of media franchises, they fail to explore why audiences continue to return to these reruns, reboots, or repeats. This dissertation examines one aspect of the social function of media franchises—their role in collective memory. By examining the press coverage of the Muppet franchise over the course of thirty years, this study outlines how the Muppet franchise is situated as a site of continuity between past and present. Using frame analysis, different mnemonic frames are identified as the press coverage responds to changes in the franchise. Twelve different mnemonic frames emerge from the analysis of press coverage of the Muppet franchise. These frames fit within Nora’s (1989) concept of a site of memory, suggesting that the press coverage of the Muppet franchise promotes its use as a site of memory. In conclusion, this dissertation argues that part of the appeal of franchise productions is their role as a site of memory, helping build social continuity. Thus, the Muppet franchise could function like other traditional sites of memory, memorials and museums. However, the Muppet franchise is privately owned and protected by intellectual property rights, unlike the national and public-ownership of traditional sites of memory. This private ownership could, therefore, have implications on the expression of memory, particularly how remembrance is transformed in a consumptive act.
Electron vortices in crystals
Creators: name: Löffler, Stefan
name: Schattschneider, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propagation of electron beams carrying angular momentum in crystals is studied using a multislice approach for the model system Fe. It is found that the vortex beam is distorted strongly due to elastic scattering. Consequently, the expectation value of the angular momentum as well as the local vortex components change with the initial position of the vortex and the propagation depth, making numerical simulations indispensable when analyzing experiments.
Nutritional properties of giant water bug, Lethocerus indicus a traditional edible insect species of North-East India
Creators: name: Devi, Mutum R.
name: Ummalyma, Sabeela B.
name: Brockmann, Axel
name: Raina, Vishakha
name: Rajashekar, Yallappa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cardiology

description: Edible insects play an important role in human health and food security. Among those, the Giant water bug, Lethocerus indicus (Lep.& Ser.) is a widely used edible insect known for its aroma, flavor, and therapeutic purposes. In the present study, we investigated the nutritional profile, natural habitat, and feeding behavior of L. indicus in aquarium conditions. A comparative analysis of male and female insects’ aroma contents and fatty acid (FA) profiles was also conducted. A dry fried male insect yielded volatile oil of 0.96%/2 g body weight, whereas a dry fried female yielded 0.48%/5.36 g of body weight. In terms of lipids, fresh male insects had 0.15%/5.42 g of body weight and fresh female insects had 0.28%/9.48 g of body weight. There are 24 volatile compounds specific to males, 37 specific to females, and 13 commons to both were identified. 2-Hexen-1-ol, acetate, (Z)- which smells like banana, was prevalently found in males while 4-Octene, 2,6-dimethyl-, [S-(Z)] was prevalently found in female insects. Fatty acids profile analysis detected 32 FA with 12 unique FA from males whereas 22 FA and 3 unique FA were identified from female insects. The SFA percentage present in males and females was 77.44% and 85.21%. Males had 6.78% MUFA content while females have 4.75%. Males have 18% PUFA content enriched with DHA, and EPA, while females had 10.04%. This study revealed that with the presence of a banana-like smell of volatile compound and more MUFA and PUFA in males, the native people of North-East India preferred male over female insects for entomophagy.
Similarity of Operators in the Bergman Space Setting
Creators: name: Douglas, Ronald G.
name: Kwon, Hyun-Kyoung
name: Treil, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47, 30, 53

description: We give a necessary and sufficient condition for an n-hypercontraction to be similar to the backward shift operator in a weighted Bergman space. This characterization serves as a generalization of the description given in the Hardy space setting, where the geometry of the eigenvector bundles of the operators is used.
Obtaining a Definition of Accountability in Medical-Surgical Nursing Practice
Creators: name: Sommerville, Kimberley
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Accountability

description: Accountability in nursing practice is not a new concept. Although the term is found extensively in nursing literature and regulatory documents, there has been no agreed upon definition. A review of the literature did not produce any definition from a nursing perspective. The purpose of this qualitative study was to obtain how the cultural group of registered nurses defined accountability. Interviews were conducted with 7 individual medical/surgical nurses and by analyzing their language through the ethnoscience methodology, a taxonomy evolved and a definition of accountability was developed. The three categories of the taxonomy of accountability were intent, process, and outcome. Together they help clarify and promote understanding for accountability in nursing practice.
Starspots on the fastest rotators in the Beta Pic moving group
Creators: name: Garcia-Alvarez, D.
name: Lanza, A. F.
name: Messina, S.
name: Drake, J. J.
name: van Wyk, F.
name: Shobbrook, R. R.
name: Butler, C. J.
name: Kilkenny, D.
name: Doyle, J. G.
name: Kashyap, V. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: We carried out high-resolution spectroscopy and BV(I)_C photometric monitoring of the two fastest late-type rotators in the nearby Beta Pictoris moving group, HD199143 (F7V) and CD-641208 (K7V). The motivation for this work is to investigate the rotation periods and photospheric spot patterns of these very young stars, with a longer term view to probing the evolution of rotation and magnetic activity during the early phases of main-sequence evolution. We also aim to derive information on key physical parameters, such as rotational velocity and rotation period. Methods: We applied maximum entropy (ME) and Tikhonov regularizing (TR) criteria to derive the surface spot map distributions of the optical modulation observed in HD199143 (F7 V) and CD-641208 (K7V). We also used cross-correlation techniques to determine stellar parameters such as radial velocities and rotational velocities. Lomb-Scargle periodograms were used to obtain the rotational periods from differential magnitude time series. Results: We find periods and inclinations of 0.356 days and 21.5deg for HD199143, and 0.355 days and 50.1deg for CD-641208. The spot maps of HD199143 obtained from the ME and TR methods are very similar, although the latter gives a smoother distribution of the filling factor. Maps obtained at two different epochs three weeks apart show a remarkable increase in spot coverage amounting to ~7% of the surface of the photosphere over a time period of only ~20 days. The spot maps of CD-641208 from the two methods show good longitudinal agreement, whereas the latitude range of the spots is extended to cover the whole visible hemisphere in the TR map. The distributions obtained from the first light curve of HD199143 show the presence of an extended and asymmetric active longitude with the maximum filling factor at longitude ~325degree.
description: Accepted by A&A. 13 pages, 13 figures (4 online included), 5 Tables
Generation Adequacy in a Highly Renewable Power System - Final Year Project/Thesis Dissertation
Creators: name: Hickey, Alan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified
Electrical energy generation (incl. renewables, excl. photovoltaics)

description: Final Year Project Disseration - Generation Adequacy in a Highly Renewable Power System
TAMILLA" VA "QAMAR" ROMANLARIDA AYOLLAR  OBRAZINING BADIIY TASVIRI
Creators: name: Aliqulova, Dildora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Mazkur maqolada Fransuz yozuvchisi F.Dyushenning "Tamilla" va "Qamar" romanlarda ayol obrazining tasviri haqida so'z boradi. Ularning harakteri dunyoqarashi, hayot yo'llarining turli xil so'qmoqlaridagi kechinmalari haqida fikr yuritilgan.
Split hypergraphs
Creators: name: Timar, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Generalizing the notion of split graphs to uniform hypergraphs, we prove that the class of these hypergraphs can be characterized by a finite list of excluded induced subhypergraphs. We show that a characterization by generalized degree sequences is impossible, unlike in the well-known case of split graphs. We also give an algorithm to decide whether a given uniform hypergraph is a split hypergraph. If it is, the algorithm gives a splitting of it; the running time is $O(N\log N)$. These answer questions of Sloan, Gy. Turán and Peled.
description: 13 pages
Three-dimensional Model for Microwave Heating with Varied Electrical Permittivity
Creators: name: Liu, Qingquan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: Engineering--Petroleum

description: Thermal oil recovery is typically used to recover heavy oil and bitumen. It involves raising the temperature of oil to dramatically reduce its viscosity. During this process, the temperature distribution is an important factor. Conventional thermal methods, such as steam injection, may not be effective for deep wells or thin zones. An alternative thermal process is electromagnetic heating. At present, there are no commercial tools that include electromagnetic heating in reservoir simulators and there are no models for full coupling of electromagnetic heating and multiphase flow. This dissertation sets out to develop an EM heating model that couples the fluid flow and thermal responses of a reservoir when an EM source is applied around a wellbore. Numerical solutions are obtained due to the complexity of the fluid flow and EM equations and their system. This model presents a two-phase, three-dimensional model that simulates the water and oil flow in a reservoir. The temperature distribution and improved oil recovery from electromagnetic heating are calculated when multiple phases are present. Case studies are presented to show the accuracy and applicability of the model.
Euryplax nitida Stimpson 1859
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Euryplacidae
Euryplax
Euryplax nitida

description: Euryplax nitida Stimpson, 1859
Material examined (N=1). 1f, 08/IX/2005, St. 0 5 (MZUESC #695).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, North Carolina, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, and Brazil (from Piauí to Santa Catarina) (Melo 1996).
Ecological notes. On sand, shell, rock, and coral bottoms. From shallow waters to 90 m (Melo 1996).
Previous records in Bahia. Gomes Corrêa (1972), Melo (1985), Barreto et al. (1993).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
Livelihood And Liberation: The Discourse And Reality Of Faith-based Development In San Carlos, Philippines
Creators: name: Moxham, Christopher Charles
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Social Sciences
subject: Geography
subject: Philippines
subject: Development
subject: Catholic Church

description: The smallest unit of the Philippine Catholic Church is the Basic Ecclesial Community (BEC), a group of families who come together for worship, bible study and reflection on their social circumstances. In many dioceses BECs are encouraged to move beyond mere reflection and act as agents of change, organizing cooperatively for meaningful and peaceful development. A significant corpus of literature has developed around the concept, and it emphasizes the power of small groups to effect change, and the power of a national network of BECs. In many respects the discourse of development through BECs resembles an ideal postdevelopment scenario but, as numerous commentators have explained, postdevelopment is unachievable due to a myriad of structural pressures pushing on any group. In the Philippines the material reality of poverty and powerlessness stands in the way of most BECs that seek development. One field season was spent in the Diocese of San Carlos, known nationally for its vigorous development thrust. Qualitative research methods, including in-depth interviews, conversation and participant observation, were employed. The ideal picture framed by the literature on BECs is measured against the reality of development in the rural countryside. Conclusions demonstrate a micro-managed series of programs orchestrated at the Diocese-level, and little semblance of self-sustainable grassroots development at the BEC level.
Making and defending intimate spaces : white waitresses policed in Vancouver's Chinatown cafes
Creators: name: Sia, Rosanne Amosovs
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In mid-1930s Vancouver, city authorities launched a campaign to ban white waitresses from Chinatown cafes. Canadian historians have overlooked this campaign because of the tendency to treat the Chinese in Canada as a separate history from working women and to focus on discourse analysis rather than experience. This obscures the importance of sexuality and cross-racial interaction to the lives of both Chinese “bachelors” and white working women in Canada. This paper shows how white waitresses, Chinese restaurant owners, and Chinese patrons created and defended a social space of cross-racial intimacies in Vancouver’s Chinatown cafes. By examining a variety of sources, including mainstream and labour newspapers, mayor’s and police records, oral histories, and Chinese-language newspapers, this paper considers the perspectives of the four groups involved in the campaign. City authorities constructed the cafes as immoral spaces, where white waitresses were enticed into prostitution by Chinese men. In the name of protecting white womanhood, they drew a gendered and racial line around Chinatown. Despite policies of racial and gender equality, labour organizations also viewed the campaign through this lens of morality. For the white waitresses and Chinese customers, on the other hand, these cafes opened up a social space to explore cross-racial intimacies. In the cafes, they flirted, formed friendships, and began sexual relationships. The Chinese “treated” the waitresses to dinner, gifts, or money in exchange for sexual intimacy. Some of these intimacies were purely functional, while others developed into relationships that fulfilled mutual interests, needs, and desires. Through these intimate practices, they created choices and opportunities not available outside of Chinatown. The ban forced the Chinese, and especially the white waitresses, to become self-reflective about their experience in the cafes. The Chinese condemned the ban as racial discrimination. Fifteen white waitresses marched on city hall, where they defended their rights as workers, their respectability, and their Chinese employers. The waitresses articulated why the Chinatown cafes held value in their lives and in Vancouver. They had lost their jobs and their reputations, but they took a political stand.
Small Molecule Biofilm Inhibitors with Antivirulence Properties against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Creators: name: Van Tilburg Bernardes, Erik
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences
subject: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
subject: antibiofilm
subject: biofilm
subject: exopolysaccharides
subject: Pel
subject: Psl
subject: high-throughput screening
subject: antivirulence

description: The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa grows within biofilms in the Cystic Fibrosis airways, leading to chronic, life-threatening infections. Biofilms are dense communities of bacteria surrounded by a protective polymeric extracellular matrix comprised of exopolysaccharides (EPS), proteins and extracellular DNA. The two major EPS molecules produced by P. aeruginosa are the Pel and Psl. Considering the essential role of EPS in biofilm formation, antimicrobial resistance and immune evasion, we developed a high-throughput gene expression screen for the identification of small molecules that reduce both pel and psl gene expression. Testing of the identified pel/psl repressors demonstrated their antibiofilm activity against static and flow biofilm models. Moreover, these antibiofilm molecules also reduce PAO1 virulence in a nematode infection model, as well as increase P. aeruginosa biofilm susceptibility to antibiotic killing. These small molecules represent a novel anti-infective strategy for the possible adjuvant treatment of chronic P. aeruginosa infections.
LHC would-be $γ\,γ$ excess as a non-perturbative effect of the electro-weak interaction
Creators: name: Arbuzov, Boris A.
name: Zaitsev, Ivan V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently reported would-be excess at $125\, GeV$ in invariant mass distribution of $γ\, γ$ and of $l^+\,l^+\,l^-\,l^-$ obtained in the course of the Higgs boson search at LHC is tentatively interpreted as a scalar bound state of two $W$. Non-perturbative effects of EW interaction obtained by application of Bogoliubov compensation approach lead to such bound state due to existence of anomalous three-boson gauge-invariant effective interaction. The application of this scheme gives satisfactory agreement with existing data without any adjusting parameter but the bound state mass $125\,GeV$, while $σ\,BR$ for $γ\,γ$ resonance is predicted to be twice more as the value for the SM Higgs. Decay channel $γ\,l^+\,l^-$ may serve as a decisive check of the interpretation.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1110.3137
BADIIY ASARDA INSON TASVIRI
Creators: name: Aliqulova, Dildora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada adabiy jarayonda insonning ijtimoiy hayotda tutgan o'rni, uning sohir tuyg'ulari, murakkab ruhiy olamini tasvirlashda falsafiy-psixologik, ramziy-majoziy obrazlilik ustunlik qilishi haqida to'xtalib o'tilgan. Shuningdek, Abdulla Qodiriyning «O'tgan kunlar» romani misolida tahlil qilingan.
Additional file 1 of Bisphenol A and its alternatives bisphenol S and F exposure with serum uric acid levels, hyperuricemia, and gout prevalence among US adults: a nationally representative cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Jiang, Shunli
name: Wang, Yongxin
name: Wang, Zengliang
name: Xu, Yaru
name: Li, Xi
name: Sun, Mingjia
name: Li, Bo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. STROBE Checklist for Cross-sectional Studies. Table S2. Associations of urinary bisphenols concentrations with serum uric acid levels (μmol/L), excluding individuals with anti-gout treatment. Table S3. Associations of urinary bisphenols concentrations with hyperuricemia prevalence, excluding individuals with anti-gout treatment. Table S4. Associations of urinary bisphenols concentrations with serum uric acid levels (μmol/L), adjusting drinks, organ and seafood intake. Table S5. Associations of urinary bisphenols concentrations with hyperuricemia prevalence, adjusting drinks, organ and seafood intake. Table S6. Associations of urinary bisphenols concentrations with gout prevalence, adjusting drinks, organ and seafood intake. Table S7. Associations of urinary bisphenols concentrations with eGFR levels. Table S8. Mediating effects of eGFR on the associations between urinary bisphenols and serum uric acid levels (μmol/L). Table S9. Sex difference of the study population, NHANES 2013-2016.
Effects of helical magnetic fields on the cosmic microwave background
Creators: name: Kunze, Kerstin E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A complete numerical calculation of the temperature anisotropies and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the presence of a stochastic helical magnetic field is presented which includes the contributions due to scalar, vector and tensor modes. The correlation functions of the magnetic field contributions are calculated numerically including a Gaussian window function to effectively cut off the magnetic field spectrum due to damping. Apart from parity-even correlations the helical nature of the magnetic field induces parity-odd correlations between the E- and B-mode of polarization (EB) as well as between temperature (T) and the polarization B-mode (TB).
description: 22 pages, 14 figures
Development of a Cox-Thompson inverse scattering method to charged particles
Creators: name: Palmai, Tamas
name: Apagyi, Barnabas
name: Scheid, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Cox-Thompson fixed-energy quantum inverse scattering method is developed further to treat long-range Coulomb interaction. Depending on the reference potentials chosen, two methods have been formulated which produce inverse potentials with singular or finite value at the origin. Based on the quality of reproduction of input experimental phase shifts, it is guessed that the p-alpha interaction possesses an interesting repulsive hard core.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
A IMPORTÂNCIA DA ATIVIDADE FÍSICA PARA A PROMOÇÃO DA QUALIDADE DE VIDA DO IDOSO
Creators: name: De Vasconcelos, Maria Vitória Gonçalves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Saúde do idoso, Qualidade de vida, Exercício físico.

description: O processo de envelhecimento é uma manifestação natural e gradual que determina uma fase da vida, caracterizada por alterações físicas, biopsicossociais e culturais. Portanto, com o envelhecimento global, é necessário que exista um olhar especial e uma atenção integral à saúde do idoso, uma vez que o próprio envelhecer relaciona-se a mudanças que acarretam problemas econômicos, físicos e mentais. Metodologia: Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa, produzida com o propósito de atenuar sobre a importância da atividade física voltada para a terceira idade fazendo um levantamento documental específico do tema. Desta forma, a respeito da construção do conteúdo adotou-se a análise de artigos de revisão, e resumos a partir do uso de três palavras chaves em destaque nos Descritores em Ciência da Saúde (DeCS): "saúde do idoso", "qualidade de vida" e "exercício físico”. Conforme uma sondagem dos documentos foi obtido os seguintes descritores, sendo eles: “saúde do idoso AND exercício físico” e “saúde do idoso AND qualidade de vida”, utilizando o ícone AND como estratégia de cruzamento dos termos para uma maior apresentação de artigos sobre a temática. Resultados e Discussões: Na presente revisão integrativa, se realizou a análise de sete artigos que atenderam aos critérios de inclusão inicialmente estabelecidos, onde no decorrer deste texto, serão apresentados os resultados obtidos nesta pesquisa. No quadro 2, estão descritas as especificações de cada artigo selecionado para a realização deste estudo de acordo com: título/autor/ano; objetivos; tipos de estudo; e os resultados. No que diz respeito aos periódicos onde foram publicados os artigos listados nessa pesquisa, alguns são das regiões do Brasil sendo elas: Piauí e Florianópolis. Considerações Finais: No que tange a promoção da qualidade de vida dos idosos, a prática de exercícios físicos auxilia não só na funcionalidade física, como também nos mais inúmeros aspectos da vida dessa população, como mentais e psicológicos, ou seja, propicia uma melhor saúde, uma vez que a prática de exercícios físicos ajuda a prevenir os mais variados males que acometem com mais prevalência os idosos.
Spanning trees with many leaves: lower bounds in terms of number of vertices of degree 1, 3 and at least~4
Creators: name: Karpov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C05, 05C07

description: We prove that every connected graph with $s$ vertices of degree~1 and 3 and $t$ vertices of degree at least~4 has a spanning tree with at least ${1\over 3}t +{1\over 4}s+{3\over 2}$ leaves. We present infinite series of graphs showing that our bound is tight.
description: 26 pages. Russian version: POMI Preprint 16/2011, http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/preprint/2011/11-16.html
The Effects of Oxidative Stress on Neuronal Membrane Permeability and Redox Sensitive Transport Mechanisms
Creators: name: Perry, Alexander
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Animal Physiology
subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Zoology
subject: Oxidative stress
subject: aging
subject: Lymnaea stagnalis
subject: Neuron
subject: Cell culture
subject: ABC transporter
subject: Multi-drug resistance-associated protein
subject: ROS
subject: Plasma membrane
subject: Endocytosis
subject: Lysosomes
subject: Propidium iodide
subject: Carboxyfluorescein
subject: Probenecid
subject: Fluorescein diacetate

description: Lipid peroxidation is a symptom of aging that is suspected to cause undesirable alterations to membrane properties. These alterations are postulated to induce membranes defects, which negatively affect aspects of cells and hinders their functionality. Neuronal plasma membranes contain constituents that are particularly susceptible to oxidative species; therefore, they are prime targets for lipid peroxidation. Neurons from Lymnaea stagnalis were used in combination with various fluorescent probes to assess membrane hydrophobic barrier function to exclude the entry of ionic molecules through unassisted means. However, instead of exclusively probing passive permeability, it was discovered that various forms of active membrane transport processes in neuronal membranes may also be regulated by redox reactions. Contrary to suggestions from modeling studies, lipid peroxidation appeared to only slightly alter passive membrane permeability, suggesting that biological membranes may contain certain constituents and/or mechanisms that prevents lipid peroxidation from being as detrimental as observed under artificial conditions.
Exploring a Process for Developing Usable Web APIs: A Case Study
Creators: name: Bhaskar, Rahul Kamal
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Computer Science

description: Developing a usable Application Programming Interface (API) is a complex and expensive task. Two major factors play important roles on the usability of an API: its design and the resources made available by designer (e.g. documentation, tutorials). Typically, developers evaluate the usability of an API after implementation, resulting in refactoring tasks that could be avoided if this evaluation were continuously conducted. This thesis explores a process for building usable APIs that combines concepts from an API usability evaluation method (Cognitive Dimensions) and an Agile development methodology (eXtreme Programming). Explored effectiveness of this process and the impact of different resources on usability, I implemented a web-based API and conducted a user study. Results from these two evaluations indicated that: the process was effective to design the API, but ignored some concerns around the resources; and usability was improved when functional examples with source code are provided.
A classification of spherically symmetric spacetimes
Creators: name: Tupper, Brian O. J.
name: Keane, Aidan J.
name: Carot, Jaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A complete classification of locally spherically symmetric four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes is given in terms of their local conformal symmetries. The general solution is given in terms of canonical metric types and the associated conformal Lie algebras. The analysis is based upon the local conformal decomposition into 2+2 reducible spacetimes and the Petrov type. A variety of physically meaningful example spacetimes are discussed.
Detection of jet precession in the active nucleus of M81
Creators: name: Marti-Vidal, I.
name: Marcaide, J. M.
name: Alberdi, A.
name: Perez-Torres, M. A.
name: Ros, E.
name: Guirado, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (See the complete and formatted abstract in the paper). We report on VLBI monitoring of the low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN) in M81 at 1.7, 2.3, 5, and 8.4GHz. These observations are phase-referenced to the supernova SN1993J (located in the same galaxy) and cover from late 1993 to late 2005. The source consists at all frequencies of a slightly resolved core and a small jet extension towards the north-east direction (position angle of ~65 degrees) in agreement with previous publications. We find that the position of the intensity peak in the images at 8.4GHz is very stable in the galactic frame of M81 (proper motion upper limit about 0.010 mas per year). We confirm previous reports that the peaks at all frequencies are systematically shifted among them, possibly due to opacity effects in the jet as predicted by the standard relativistic jet model. We use this model to estimate the magnetic field in the jet and the mass of the central black hole. We obtain a black-hole mass of ~2.e+7 solar masses, comparable to estimates previously reported, but the magnetic fields obtained are thousands of times lower than previous estimates. We find that the positions of the cores at 1.7, 2.3, and 5GHz are less stable than that at 8.4GHz and evolve systematically, shifting southward at a rate of several tens of micro-arcsec per year. The evolution in the jet orientation seems to be related to changes in the inclination of the cores at all frequencies. These results can be interpreted as due to a precessing jet. The jet precession also seems to be related to a flare in the flux densities at 5.0 and 8.4GHz, which lasts ~4 years. A continued monitoring of the flux density and the jet structure evolution in this LLAGN will be necessary to further confirm our jet precession model.
description: 16 pages; 13 figures; 8 tables. A&A (in press)