cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating provider experience with clinic decision support to improve HIV testing recommendations implementation
Creators: name: Tailor, Amrita
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Background: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that almost one-third of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmissions stem from people who were unaware of their HIV infection. However, HIV testing as recommended has been sub-optimal. Clinic decision support systems (CDSS) can integrate testing into routine care and improve HIV testing rates, however its implementation is less understood. This project aims to identify factors influencing HIV testing CDSS use and implementation. Methods: An explanatory sequential mixed methods design that integrated the Human-Organization-Technology fit (HOT-fit) framework within a 21-question survey and interview methods. Descriptive statistics, chi square test, fishers exact test, and direct content analysis methods were used to analyze data. Participants of the survey and interview were recruited from multiple networks with access to providers in located in high HIV burden areas.Results: There were 36 survey respondents and 10 interview participants. Respondents reported an overall positive response bias towards using CDSS. Survey analysis identified type of CDSS (stepwise protocol, clinical encounter documentation forms, general link to current testing recommendations) was significantly associated with provider perceptions about CDSS. Interview analysis reflected organizational factors had the largest role in CDSS implementation, followed by human then technology factors. Theoretical propositions to characterize complex relationships between the human, organization, and technology were identified, including new relationships absent from the HOT-fit framework. Discussion: Developing, implementing, or using an HIV testing CDSS is not a straightforward process. The findings revealed that before engaging in the CDSS implementation, it is important to assess the need for the CDSS, available financial and human resources, the organizational environment, type of interorganizational relationship, and suitable CDSS format(s). During the implementation, it is important to diagnose problem areas (e.g., provider lack of knowledge about HIV) and identify appropriate treatment options (e.g., training). It is important to monitor and evaluate the progress of normalizing the HIV testing CDSS usage in that organization and its clinical impact (e.g., high clinical efficiency).Conclusion: By understanding the existing system and mapping the desired system, organizations can outline a thoughtful plan using the findings from this research.
A Metalinguagem Religiosa
Creators: name: Candeias Sales, José
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2017

description: Resumo As aves tiveram uma enorme importância na vida natural, económica, artística e espiritual do antigo Egipto, permitindo entender as origens da cultura egípcia, o funcionamento da sua realeza, a organização das oferendas nos altares das divindades e dos defuntos e o próprio comportamento das suas divindades. Entre as suas muitas aves que receberam a atenção dos antigos Egípcios no domínio mitológico, interessa perceber as suas principais características, modos de atuação e papéis que desempenharam, bem como as metáforas e os símbolos que lhe foram associados para exprimirem, por exemplo, alguns conceitos maiores do pensamento religioso egípcio. Palavras-Chave: aves, mitologia, pensamento religioso, metáforas, símbolos. Abstract Birds had a huge importance in the natural, economic, artistic and spiritual life of ancient Egypt, opening a way to understanding the origins of the Egyptian culture, the ways of functioning of its royalty, the organization of the offerings on the altars of the deities and the deceased and the behavior of the deities’ itself. Among the many birds that got ancient Egyptian’s attention in the mythological scene, it is important to understand their main characteristics, operating modes and roles played, as well as the metaphors and the symbols associated to it to express, for example, among bigger concepts of the Egyptian religious thought. Keywords: birds, mythology, religious thought, metaphors, symbols.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, v. 1 n. 20 (2017): «O anticlericalismo e os desafios da contemporaneidade ao Cristianismo»
Reference-less measurement of the transmission matrix of a highly scattering material using a DMD and phase retrieval techniques
Creators: name: Dremeau, Angelique
name: Liutkus, Antoine
name: Martina, David
name: Katz, Ori
name: Schulke, Christophe
name: Krzakala, Florent
name: Gigan, Sylvain
name: Daudet, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates experimental means of measuring the transmission matrix (TM) of a highly scattering medium, with the simplest optical setup. Spatial light modulation is performed by a digital micromirror device (DMD), allowing high rates and high pixel counts but only binary amplitude modulation. We used intensity measurement only, thus avoiding the need for a reference beam. Therefore, the phase of the TM has to be estimated through signal processing techniques of phase retrieval. Here, we compare four different phase retrieval principles on noisy experimental data. We validate our estimations of the TM on three criteria : quality of prediction, distribution of singular values, and quality of focusing. Results indicate that Bayesian phase retrieval algorithms with variational approaches provide a good tradeoff between the computational complexity and the precision of the estimates.
Nota de abertura e índice
Creators: name: Mendes Pinto, Paulo
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2017

description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões Revista Semestral: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões – nº20 (2017) «O anticlericalismo e os desafios da contemporaneidade ao Cristianismo» Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias CICMER - Centro de Investigação em Cosmovisões e Mundivivências Espirituais e Religiosas / CICPRIS – Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política, Relações Internacionais e Segurança Mestrado em Ciência das Religiões
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, v. 1 n. 20 (2017): «O anticlericalismo e os desafios da contemporaneidade ao Cristianismo»
KINETIC AND PROCESS MODELS FOR THE UPGRADING OF BIOETHANOL AND CARBON DIOXIDE
Creators: name: TRIPODI, ANTONIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: Primary sources recycle, renewable energy production, and limitation of fossil carbon release as greenhouse gas are deeply connected scientific issues that have been quickly emerging for the last fifty years. Constant improvements of energetic cycles efficiencies and in the atom-economy of chemical reactions are effectively sided by the substitution of carbon and oil with biomass as source of building blocks and power. Sugars or cellulose, in turn, becomes all the more versatile and are exploited more efficiently if converted into methane, syngas or ethanol. This latter liquid has already been established for long as a renewable fuel, its transformation into green plastic is a mature technology thanks first to Alumina- or zeolite-based catalysts for ethylene production; its reforming into hydrogen has been made viable by the skillful use of Ni-based materials (beside more costly noble metals) and further reactions paths are being open on still different catalysts. This work presents three feasibility studies and basic process designs to upgrade ethanol into higher value chemicals: ethylene, ammonia, and acetonitrile. A fourth study is dedicated to the conversion of ethanol into the more versatile hydrogen, that acts also the pivot to feed indirectly a fuel cell and produce electricity, rather than thermal power. A fifth design makes hydrogen follow the reverse power-to-gas route: this key energy-carrier meets then the carbon dioxide released by other processes, and the two are recombined to yield methane. They are graphically shown in figure. This thesis consists of two parts. In the first, for each process are reviewed the basic reaction mechanism and the best-performing catalytic formulations, either inherited from the literature or tested directly in the laboratories of this University. The mass and energy balances from the reactor to the separation units are calculated mainly with Aspen Plusootnote{Aspen Technology Inc.}; several side-calculations have been performed with other software as specified. The second part reports the experimental study supporting the calculation of the separative blocks in the ethanol-acetonitrile process. Several experiments of drying, thermal decomposition, miscibility, batch distillation and micro-distillation have been carried out: they show the salting-out of acetonitrile from water in presence of ammonium salts, a phenomenon not always addressed by commonly used thermodynamic calculation packages.
Views on the Contemporary Challenges to Christianity
Creators: name: Caldeira Da Silva, Fernando
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2017

description: Resumo O cristianismo é desafiado por várias tendências contemporâneas, quer internas quer externas, que este artigo estuda. Internamente, o cristianismo está a ser desafiado a alterar os símbolos religiosos utilizados na devoção individual e no culto coletivo. Contudo, transformações culturais ou os problemas ecológicos (para utilizar dois exemplos), exercem uma enorme pressão no cirstianismo, incitando-o a repensar a sua posição relativamente a desafios externos. Uma questão radical está a ser colocada à Igrejas Cristãs, líderes e membros, relacionada com o tipo de posição moral que os cristãos devem adotar de forma a encarar os problemas e males do mundo, como a guerra, a população deslocada, a fome, as secas e a corrupção. Este artigo analisa a pressão contemporânea interna e externa colocadas perante o cristianismo. Palavras-Chave: Cristianismo contemporâneo, desafios, etica, moral, consciencia. Abstract Christianity is challenged by various internal as well as external contemporary trends which this article studies. Internally, Christianity is being challenged to change the religious symbols used in individual devotion and collective worship. However, cultural transformation as well as ecological problems (to use two examples) place enormous pressure on Christianity urging Christianity to rethink its stance regarding external challenges. A radical question is being posed to Christian Churches, leaders and members, which is related to the type of moral position Christians should take in order to address the problems and evils of the world like war, population displacement, famine, drought, and corruption. This article addresses contemporary internal pressure as well as external challenges posed to Christianity. Keywords: Contemporary Christianity, challenges, ethics, moral, conscience
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, v. 1 n. 20 (2017): «O anticlericalismo e os desafios da contemporaneidade ao Cristianismo»
Critical Success Factors of BI Project Implementation: An Implementation Methodology Perspective
Creators: name: Ranjbarfard, Mina
name: hatami, zeynab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150302 Business Information Systems

description: َAim: The purpose of this paper is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Business Intelligence (BI) implementation projects by studying the existing BI project implementation methodologies and to compare these methodologies based on the identified CSFs.Background: The implementation of BI project has become one of the most important technological and organizational innovations in modern organizations. The BI project implementation methodology provides a framework for demonstrating knowledge, ideas and structural techniques. It is defined as a set of instructions and rules for implementing BI projects. Identifying CSFs of BI implementation project can help the project team to concentrate on solving prior issues and needed resources. Methodology: Firstly, the literature review was conducted to find the existing BI project implementation methodologies. Secondly, the content of the 13 BI project implementation methodologies was analyzed by using thematic analysis method. Thirdly, for examining the validation of the 20 identified CSFs, two questionnaires were distributed among BI experts. The gathered data of the first questionnaire was analyzed by content validity ratio (CVR) and 11 of 20 CSFs were accepted as a result. The gathered data of the second questionnaire was analyzed by fuzzy Delphi method and the results were the same as CVR. Finally, 13 raised BI project implementation methodologies were compared based on the 11 validated CSFs.
A Fundamental Plane of Spiral Structure in Disk Galaxies
Creators: name: Davis, Benjamin L.
name: Kennefick, Daniel
name: Kennefick, Julia
name: Westfall, Kyle B.
name: Shields, Douglas W.
name: Flatman, Russell
name: Hartley, Matthew T.
name: Berrier, Joel C.
name: Martinsson, Thomas P. K.
name: Swaters, Rob A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spiral structure is the most distinctive feature of disk galaxies and yet debate persists about which theory of spiral structure is the correct one. Many versions of the density wave theory demand that the pitch angle is uniquely determined by the distribution of mass in the bulge and disk of the galaxy. We present evidence that the tangent of the pitch angle of logarithmic spiral arms in disk galaxies correlates strongly with the density of neutral atomic hydrogen in the disk and with the central stellar bulge mass of the galaxy. These three quantities, when plotted against each other, form a planar relationship which, we argue should be fundamental to our understanding of spiral structure in disk galaxies. We further argue that any successful theory of spiral structure must be able to explain this relationship.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, and 1 table
Report on a vision for each territory for resilient R&I ecosystems by RRI approach in the transition to digitalisation.
Creators: name: Hörlesberger, Marianne
name: Kasztler, Andrea
name: Wepner, Beatrix
name: Magaña, Mario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: RRI
H2020
digiterri
digitalization
innovation system & digitalization
innovation dynamics & modelling

description: The deliverable describes the developed visions in the three DigiTeRRI territories for becoming a digitalised territory by means of responsible research and innovation (RRI). The context and starting points are indicated. The process is described.
An interlaboratory comparison of measurements from filament-stretching rheometers using common test fluids
Creators: name: Anna, Shelley
name: McKinley, Gareth H
name: Nguyen, Duc A
name: Sridhar, Tam
name: Muller, Susan J
name: Huang, Jin
name: James, David F
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Following development of a filament-stretching extensional rheometer at Monash University,
similar rheometers have been designed and built in other laboratories. To help validate the basic
technique, a collaborative program was undertaken to compare results from several instruments.
First, three test fluids prepared at the University of California at Berkeley were characterized in
steady and transient shear flows there and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ~M.I.T.!, and
then tested in extensional rheometers at M.I.T., Monash and the University of Toronto. Each fluid
is a constant-viscosity solution of narrow-molecular-weight-distribution polystyrene dissolved in
oligomeric polystyrene. The solute molecular weights are 2.0, 6.5, and 20 million g/mol, and the
polymer concentration in each fluid is 0.05 wt.%. From linear viscoelastic measurements, the Zimm
relaxation times of the fluids are found to be 3.7, 31, and 150 s, respectively. The scaling of
relaxation times with molecular weight indicates better-than-theta solvent quality, a finding consistent with independent intrinsic viscometry measurements of equilibrium coil size. Each fluid
was tested in the three filament stretching rheometers at similar Deborah numbers. Despite
variations in instrument design and the general difficulty of the technique, transient Trouton ratios
measured in the three instruments are shown to agree quantitatively.
An LP NLP based branch and bound algorithm for MINLP optimization
Creators: name: Quesada, Ignacio
name: Grossmann, Ignacio E.
name: Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Abstract: "This paper is aimed at improving the solution efficiency of MINLP problems in which the bottleneck lies in the combinatorial search for the 0-1 variables. An LP/NLP based Branch and Bound algorithm is proposed in which the explicit solution of an MILP master problem is avoided at each major iteration. Instead, the master problem is defined dynamically during the tree search to reduce the number of nodes that need to be examined. A branch and bound search is conducted to predict lower bounds by solving LP subproblems until feasible integer solutions are found. At these nodes nonlinear programming subproblems are solved providing upper bounds and new linear approximations which are used to tighten the linear representation of the open nodes in the search tree.To reduce the size of the LP subproblems, new types of linear approximations are proposed which exploit linear substructures in the MINLP problem. The extension to nonconvex problems is also discussed. Numerical results on several test problems are reported which show that the expense of solving the MILP master problem in the outer-approximation algorithm can be greatly reduced. Typically fewer than 50% of the total number of nodes to be enumerated, while in most cases the number of NLP subproblems to be solved remains the same."
Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD)
Creators: name: Silva Meneses, Jonatas
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2017

description: Resumo O presente artigo destaca a Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus no Brasil, suas principais características teológicas e doutrinárias, possíveis rupturas e continuidades. As características foram apresentadas e analisadas de forma comparativa, passado e presente, sem a pretensão de esgotar a temática, tendo em vista ser, este artigo, parte de trabalho maior de pesquisa sobre a história dessa igreja no Brasil e em Portugal. A perspectiva principal foi pensar a IURD com base nos seus sincretismos e pragmatismo geradores da mensagem proselitista divulgada nos seus templos e nos meios de comunicação: rádio, televisão e material impresso (jornais, revistas e livros). Palavras-chave: ruptura, continuidade e sincretismo. Abstract This article highlights the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Brazil, its main theological and doctrinal characteristics, possible ruptures and continuities. The features were presented and analysed in a comparative way, past and present, without the preten-sion of exhausting the subject, in order to be, this article, part of larger work of research on the history of this church in Brazil and in Portugal. The main perspective was think-ing the UCKG based on their sincretismos and pragmatism proselytizing message gen-erators disclosed in their temples and in the media: radio, television and printed matter (newspapers, magazines and books). Keywords: rupture, continuity and Syncretism.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, v. 1 n. 20 (2017): «O anticlericalismo e os desafios da contemporaneidade ao Cristianismo»
On the modulation of RR Lyrae stars in the globular cluster M3
Creators: name: Jurcsik, J.
name: Smitola, P.
name: Hajdu, G.
name: Nuspl, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new, extended time-series photometry of M3 RR Lyrae stars has revealed that four of the ten double-mode stars show large-amplitude Blazhko modulation of both radial modes. The first, detailed analysis of the peculiar behavior of the unique, Blazhko RRd stars is given. While the P1/P0 period ratio is normal, and the overtone mode is dominant in the other RRd stars of the cluster, the period ratio is anomalous and the fundamental mode has a larger (or similar) mean amplitude than the overtone has in Blazhko RRd stars. The modulations of the fundamental and overtone modes are synchronized only in one of the Blazhko RRd stars. No evidence of any connection between the modulations of the modes in the other three stars is found. The Blazhko modulation accounts, at least partly, for the previously reported amplitude and period changes of these stars. Contrary to the $\sim50$$%$ Blazhko statistics of RRab and RRd stars, Blazhko modulation occurs only in 10$%$ of the overtone variables in M3. Four of the five Blazhko RRc stars are bright, evolved objects, and one has a similar period and brightness as Blazhko RRd stars have. The regions of the instability strip with high and low occurrence rate of the Blazhko modulation overlap with the regions populated by first- and second-generation stars according to theoretical and observational studies, raising up the possibility that the Blazhko modulation occurs preferentially in first-generation RR Lyrae stars.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Application of a parallel traveling salesman problem algorithm to no-wait flowshop scheduling
Creators: name: J. F. Pekny
name: D. L. Miller
name: McRae, Gregory J.
name: Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Technical Report
FLiCR: A Fast and Lightweight LiDAR Point Cloud Compression Based on Lossy RI
Creators: name: Heo, Jin
name: Phillips, Christopher
name: Gavrilovska, Ada
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors are becoming available on modern mobile devices and provide a 3D sensing capability. This new capability is beneficial for perceptions in various use cases, but it is challenging for resource-constrained mobile devices to use the perceptions in real-time because of their high computational complexity. In this context, edge computing can be used to enable LiDAR online perceptions, but offloading the perceptions on the edge server requires a low-latency, lightweight, and efficient compression due to the large volume of LiDAR point clouds data. This paper presents FLiCR, a fast and lightweight LiDAR point cloud compression method for enabling edge-assisted online perceptions. FLiCR is based on range images (RI) as an intermediate representation (IR), and dictionary coding for compressing RIs. FLiCR achieves its benefits by leveraging lossy RIs, and we show the efficiency of bytestream compression is largely improved with quantization and subsampling. In addition, we identify the limitation of current quality metrics for presenting the entropy of a point cloud, and introduce a new metric that reflects both point-wise and entropy-wise qualities for lossy IRs. The evaluation results show FLiCR is more suitable for edge-assisted real-time perceptions than the existing LiDAR compressions, and we demonstrate the effectiveness of our compression and metric with the evaluations on 3D object detection and LiDAR SLAM.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, conference paper
Mode-matching in multiresonant plasmonic nanoantennas for enhanced second harmonic generation
Creators: name: Celebrano, Michele
name: Wu, Xiaofei
name: Baselli, Milena
name: Großmann, Swen
name: Biagioni, Paolo
name: Locatelli, Andrea
name: De Angelis, Costantino
name: Cerullo, Giulio
name: Osellame, Roberto
name: Hecht, Bert
name: Duò, Lamberto
name: Ciccacci, Franco
name: Finazzi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Boosting nonlinear frequency conversion in extremely confined volumes remains a key challenge in nano-optics, nanomedicine, photocatalysis, and background-free biosensing. To this aim, field enhancements in plasmonic nanostructures are often exploited to effectively compensate for the lack of phase-matching at the nanoscale. Second harmonic generation (SHG) is, however, strongly quenched by the high degree of symmetry in plasmonic materials at the atomic scale and in nanoantenna designs. Here, we devise a plasmonic nanoantenna lacking axial symmetry, which exhibits spatial and frequency mode overlap at both the excitation and the SHG wavelengths. The effective combination of these features in a single device allows obtaining unprecedented SHG conversion efficiency. Our results shed new light on the optimization of SHG at the nanoscale, paving the way to new classes of nanoscale coherent light sources and molecular sensing devices based on nonlinear plasmonic platforms.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
A Peregrinação à Lapa do Bom Jesus
Creators: name: Dworak, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2017

description: Resumo O cristianismo, desde os seus inícios, sentiu-se desafiado pela realidade histórica, social, econômica, cultural e religiosa, entre outras. Com o advento da modernidade, marcada pelo secularismo, ele não só perdeu seu importante lugar como formador de identidades, mas também se viu cercado pela ditadura do sistema comercial. Ele foi acusado por alguns pensadores como fator de atraso social. E se de um lado, o cristianismo, ao longo de todo este tempo, sentiu-se desafiado, e muitas vezes abertamente perseguido, por outro, tornou-se um elemento desafiador. Neste artigo pretendemos refletir sobre alguns destes desafios no contexto das peregrinações. Levamos aqui em conta as peregrinações que acontecem no Santuário do Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brasil e que foram objeto de nosso estudo em vista da tese de doutoramento. Palavras-chave: Secularização. Cristianismo. Peregrinação. Bom Jesus da Lapa Abstract From its beginnings, Christianity, felt challenged by historical, social, economic, cultural and religious reality, among others. With the advent of modernity, marked by secularism, it not only lost its important place as an identity former, but it was also surrounded by the dictatorship of the commercial system. It was accused, too, by some thinkers as a factor of social backwardness. If on the one hand, Christianity, throughout all this time, felt challenged, and often openly persecuted, on the other, became a challenging factor. In this article we intend to reflect on some of these challenges in the context of pilgrimages. For our analisis we will tolk here about pilgrimeges that take place in the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil and which were the object of our studies in view of the doctoral thesis. Keywords: Secularization. Christianity. Pilgrimage. Bom Jesus da Lapa
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, v. 1 n. 20 (2017): «O anticlericalismo e os desafios da contemporaneidade ao Cristianismo»
Urbanization and sustainable land use planning challenges in the Mazandaran metropolitan area, the case of Sari city
Creators: name: Sahraei Juybari, Ahmad
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Planning system
subject: Urban development
subject: Land use changes
subject: Land consumption
subject: Urban sprawl growth
subject: The Mazandaran metropolitan area
subject: Sari city
subject: 710
subject: Sari
subject: Masenderan
subject: Siedlungsplanung
subject: Zersiedlung

description: After the industrial revolution in the late eighteenth century, massive changes in the social and economic sectors occurred, particularly in cities. These changes have accelerated urban growth by providing more financial resources and opportunities for urban areas than rural areas. As a result, cities have become larger, more populated than rural areas, and urban issues have become more complex and serious. The city of Sari, since the last decades, has been facing massive migration, uncontrolled land-use change, non-sustainable consumption of farmlands, and sprawling growth. Simultaneously growing the city, the city's issues became more challenging. Methodologically, this thesis benefits from methodological pluralism and seeks to analyze the city of Sari with attention to the defined objectives and questions in chapter one. Methodological pluralism involves employing multiple methods to obtain a value. Therefore, this thesis applied several mathematical models and softwares considering the types of data. Parts of the data were collected from the published data and reports by Iran’s national and regional organizations. Moreover, some of the data that were not available were collected through field works, surveys, and interviews with experts and managers. The results show that the current centralized political structure has made urban management ineffective and reduced public participation in the planning and executing processes. The results of the models for analyzing the urban system in the Mazandaran metropolitan area have shown agglomeration of the population in the urban areas, especially in the big cities, particularly in Sari. The urban system is centralized, and there is an imbalance between the size and rank of cities, especially in big cities. Also, the results of land-use change modeling and working with satellite images have shown that the city of Sari has been faced with massive sprawling growth, particularly during the last decades. And finally, the results of land-use changes analysis using GIS and aerial images have shown progressed unplanned land-use changes, particularly near the official border of Sari city.
GENE THERAPY FOR GYRATE ATROPHY OF CHOROID AND RETINA AND FOR USH1B RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA
Creators: name: DELL'AQUILA, FABIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2021

description: Inherited Retinal Diseases (IRDs) represent a major cause of blindness worldwide. Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector-based gene therapies represent the most promising treatments. We aimed to develop gene therapies for gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina (GA) and Usher syndrome type 1B (USH1B) retinitis pigmentosa. GA is characterized by ornithine aminotransferase [OAT, coding sequence (CDS) ?1.3 Kb] deficiency. We demonstrated in vitro expression and activity of 3XFlag-tagged human OAT (hOAT-3XFlag). AAV vector carrying the hOAT-3XFlag expression cassette improved the structural retinal defects in the Oat-/- mouse model of GA. Bi-allelic mutations in the Myosin7A gene (MYO7A) (CDS ?6.7 Kb) cause USH1B, the most common combination of inherited congenital deafness and blindness. We demonstrated effective delivery and expression of MYO7A in mice and pigs using dual AAV vectors. During AAV manufacturing, we found a contaminant vector resulting from recombination between two homologous sequences in the AAV vector containing the 5? half of hMYO7A. This was removed by changing one of the two sequences while maintaining the same MYO7A expression levels in vivo. We selected three therapeutic doses of dual AAV-hMYO7A that rescue retinal defects in shaker-1 mice, a mouse model of USH1B. These doses will be translated in patients with USH1B. In the same mouse model, we confirmed biological potency of dual AAV-hMYO7A that will be used in the clinical trial. Overall, these studies offer promising results, paving the way for a gene therapy of GA and for the clinical translation of dual AAV vectors in USH1B subjects.
Future cosmological sensitivity for hot dark matter axions
Creators: name: Archidiacono, Maria
name: Basse, Tobias
name: Hamann, Jan
name: Hannestad, Steen
name: Raffelt, Georg
name: Wong, Yvonne Y. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the potential of a future, large-volume photometric survey to constrain the axion mass $m_a$ in the hot dark matter limit. Future surveys such as Euclid will have significantly more constraining power than current observations for hot dark matter. Nonetheless, the lowest accessible axion masses are limited by the fact that axions lighter than $\sim 0.15$ eV decouple before the QCD epoch, assumed here to occur at a temperature $T_{\rm QCD} \sim 170$ MeV; this leaves an axion population of such low density that its late-time cosmological impact is negligible. For larger axion masses, $m_a \gtrsim 0.15$ eV, where axions remain in equilibrium until after the QCD phase transition, we find that a Euclid-like survey combined with Planck CMB data can detect $m_a$ at very high significance. Our conclusions are robust against assumptions about prior knowledge of the neutrino mass. Given that the proposed IAXO solar axion search is sensitive to $m_a\lesssim 0.2$ eV, the axion mass range probed by cosmology is nicely complementary.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
Water and Related Land Resources, Florida West Coast Tributaries
Creators: name: United States Department Of Agriculture
name: United States Department Of Agriculture
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: The Florida West Coast Tributaries Basin includes the drainage areas of all streams and intervening areas which drain into the Gulf of Mexico between the Suwannee River on the north and the Caloosahatchee River on the south. It contains approximately 10,080 square miles, encompassing all of eight counties and portions of ten other counties. In 1963, the land area accounted for 6,016,800 acres with water occupying 430,100 acres. Of the total land area in 1963, 5,373,400 acres were in agricultural uses, and 643,400 acres were utilized for non-agricultural purposes. The water area included 186,800 acres of fresh water, and 243,300 acres of salt water in bays and inlets and considered as part of the overall county acreages. The objectives of the study were to: a. Determine the extent and location of present agricultural resources and resource development of the Basin. b. Suggest a desirable pattern of land use and treatment for agriculture recognizing the demands for additional area for non-agricultural purposes, for two target dates - 1980 and 2015. c. Determine the projected water requirements for agriculture. d. Evaluate the feasibility of works of improvement for upstream watershed protection, flood prevention, and agricultural water management. e. Locate water impoundment sites and evaluate their potential for flood prevention; beneficial water use, including water for irrigation, recreation, and fish and wildlife; and for low flow augmentation. f. Evaluate the economic impacts resulting from projected 1980 and 2015 agricultural land use changes.
description: The Florida State Board of Conservation has begun an inventory of the water and related land resources of the State. The inventory will provide information and data for use in administering and planning the physical aspects of development, management, and use of water and related land resources by major drainage basins, or river basin groups. To insure broad and adequate coverage, the Florida State Board of Conservation requested the assistance of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in making an Investigation and preparing a summary report covering the agricultural phases of the water and related land resources of the Florida West Coast Tributaries area. Cooperation in such endeavors is authorized under Section VI of Public Law 566. The assembly of information and data, and the preparation of the U.S.D.A.'s report was under the leadership of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service with the cooperation of the U. S. Forest Service and the Economic Research Service.
Consumed by boredom: food choice motivation and weight changes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P.
name: Pekrun, Reinhard
name: IGOU, ERIC RAYMOND
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Boredom is an established cause and correlate of eating behavior. Yet, existing work offers a scattered range of plausible motivations for why this is. We examined among 302 people representative of the adult UK population what motivations they had for selecting food during the COVID-19 pandemic and how this related to boredom. As predicted, bored people choose food less for health reasons and more for convenience. Boredom reduced ethical and ‘natural content’ motivations for selecting food and was not associated with choosing food to regulate one’s mood or to experience unfamiliarity. Boredom was also associated with greater absolute changes in weight over the course of the pandemic. Boredom did not predict weight gains or losses overall. These findings offer insights into the role that boredom plays in eating motivations in particular and health-relevant outcomes in general.
Independence of Satellites of Torus Knots in the Smooth Concordance Group
Creators: name: Pinzón-Caicedo, Juanita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25 (Primary), 57N70, 58J28 (Secondary)

description: The main goal of this article is to obtain a condition under which an infinite collection $\mathscr{F}$ of satellite knots (with companion a positive torus knot and pattern similar to the Whitehead link) freely generates a subgroup of infinite rank in the smooth concordance group. This goal is attained by examining both the instanton moduli space over a 4-manifold with tubular ends and the corresponding Chern-Simons invariant of the adequate 3-dimensional portion of the 4-manifold. More specifically, the result is derived from Furuta's criterion for the independence of Seifert fibred homology spheres in the homology cobordism group of oriented homology 3-spheres. Indeed, we first associate to $\mathscr{F}$ the corresponding collection of 2-fold covers of the 3-sphere branched over the elements of $\mathscr{F}$ and then introduce definite cobordisms from the aforementioned covers of the satellites to a number of Seifert fibered homology spheres. This allows us to apply Furuta's criterion and thus obtain a condition that guarantees the independence of the family $\mathscr{F}$ in the smooth concordance group.
title: Оценка эффективности ненатяжных методов пластики в лечении паховых грыж (клинико-экономический анализ)
title: Evaluation of the Efficiency of Tension-Free Methods of Inguinal Hernias Repair (Clinical and Economic Analysis)
Creators: name: Асутаев, Шариф Джамалович
name: Дарвин, Владимир Васильевич
name: Поборский, Александр Николаевич
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2022

description: Цель – на основании сравнительного анализа клинической и экономической эффективности
определить оптимальные подходы к выбору метода ненатяжной паховой герниопластики. Материалы и методы. Проведено сравнительное исследование результатов лечения 128 пациентов мужского пола с первичной
односторонней паховой грыжей по методам Лихтенштейна, тотальной экстраперитoнеальной герниoпластики
и лапарoскопической трансабдoминальной предбрюшиннoй герниопластики. До операции и спустя год оценивали параметры качества жизни пациентов по опроснику EQ-5D для расчета показателя количества лет жизни с учетом ее качества, служившего критерием эффективности анализируемых хирургических технологий.
Проведен анализ соотношения «затраты – полезность» с использованием прямых затрат. Результаты. Анализ
соотношения «затраты – полезность» показал, что независимо от колебаний затрат и изменений качества жизни
пациентов более дорогостоящие эндоскопические методы вмешательства экономически оправданы, при этом
предпочтительной технологией стала тотальная экстраперитoнеальная герниoпластика, а лапарoскопическая
трансабдoминальная предбрюшинная герниопластика – выгодным вложением.
description: The study aims to determine optimal approaches for selecting a tension-free method of inguinal
hernia repair based on a comparative analysis of clinical and economic efficiency. Materials and methods.
A comparative study of the results of treatment of 128 male patients with primary unilateral inguinal hernia
was carried out using the Lichtenstein technique, total extraperitoneal repair and laparoscopic transabdominal
preperitoneal repair. Prior to surgery and a year later, the EQ-5D questionnaire was used to assess the parameters
of the quality of life of patients and further calculate Quality-Adjusted Life Years. The questionnaire served as a
criterion for the efficiency of the analyzed surgical technologies. An analysis of cost-effectiveness ratio was carried
out using direct costs. Results. The analysis of cost-effectiveness ratio showed that, regardless of fluctuations
in costs and changes in the patients’ quality of life, more expensive endoscopic interventions are economically
justified. In addition to that, total extraperitoneal repair proved to be the technique of choice, and transabdominal
preperitoneal repair – a profitable investment.
Mundus Inversus e o Reino dos Céus
Creators: name: Vistas, Pedro
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2017

description: Resumo O propósito deste estudo é identificar e explorer a distinção entre o Cristianismo enquanto caricatura popular, genericamente atacado, e o Cristianismo real ou essencial, estabelecido por Cristo. O ensaio defenderá que o Cristianismo na sua mensagem radical e na sua experiência não é, de modo algum, secularizável, descobrindo nos Evangelhos como Cristo via o mundo civilizado: como mundus inversus. Palavras-chave: Cristianismo / anticlericalismo / mundo / evangelização / Igreja Católica Abstract The purpose of this study is to identify and explore the distinction between Christianity as the popular caricature so generally attacked, and the real-essential Christianity established by Christ. The essay will argue that Christianity in its radical message and experience is not, in any sense, secularizable, discovering, in the Gospels, how Christ saw the civilized world: as mundus inversus. Keywords: Christianity / anti-clericalism / world / evangelism / Catholic Church
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, v. 1 n. 20 (2017): «O anticlericalismo e os desafios da contemporaneidade ao Cristianismo»
Plasma wakefield acceleration studies using the quasi-static code WAKE
Creators: name: Jain, Neeraj
name: Palastro, John
name: Antonsen, T. M.
name: Mori, Warren B.
name: An, Weiming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quasi-static code WAKE [P. Mora and T. Antonsen, Phys. Plasmas {\bf 4}, 217(1997)] is upgraded to model the propagation of an ultra-relativistic charged particle beam through a warm background plasma in plasma wakefield acceleration. The upgraded code is benchmarked against the full particle-in-cell code OSIRIS [Hemker et al., Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams {\bf 3}, 061301(2000)] and the quasi-static code QuickPIC [Huang et al., J. Comp. Phys. {\bf 217}, 658 (2006)]. The effect of non-zero plasma temperature on the peak accelerating electric field is studied for a two bunch electron beam driver with parameters corresponding to the plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET. It is shown that plasma temperature does not affect the energy gain and spread of the accelerated particles despite suppressing the peak accelerating electric field. The role of plasma temperature in improving the numerical convergence of the electric field with the grid resolution is discussed.
description: The following article has been submitted to Physics of Plasmas. After it is published, it will be found at http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pop
Association of Tobacco Advertising, Promotion, and Sponsorship (TAPS) exposure on smoking intention and current smoking behavior among youth in Indonesia
Creators: name: Fauzi, Ridhwan
name: Arumsari, Imas
name: Maruf, Mohammad Ainul
name: Ahsan, Abdilah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: This study aimed to assess the association of Tobacco Advertising Promotion and Sponsorship (TAPS) exposure on smoking intensity and smoking behavior among youth in Indonesia. This study used secondary data from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2019. The participants were secondary students from grades 7 to 12. We used multiple logistic regression to assess the association of TAPS exposure with smoking intention among smokers and current smoking status. More than half of participants (64,54%) reported being exposed by TAPS in television, followed by outdoor media (60,82%) and point of sales (55,45%). About 2.27% of 7,679 nonsmoking participants had the intention to smoke cigarettes. Furthermore, TAPS exposure in sports events, music concerts, community gatherings, or social events, being offered free tobacco products, owning the tobacco industry’s merchandise, and receiving vouchers of cigarettes discounts was associated with the smoking intention of nonsmokers and current smoking status. In addition, a significant association was found between TAPS exposure in television, the internet, and print media with current smoking status among youth in Indonesia. TAPS exposure was significantly associated with smoking intention and smoking behavior among youth in Indonesia. Therefore, we recommended that the government ban TAPS in any form.
O Estado laico e as confissões religiosas
Creators: name: Portas, Miguel
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2014

description: O Estado laicoe as confissões religiosas
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, n. 1 (2002): Millenarium: Imagens de Fim e de Recomeço na Cultura Ocidental | A Liberdade Religiosa em Portugal