cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of the oral endothelin-receptor antagonist bosentan on echocardiographic and doppler measures in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension
Creators: name: Hinderliter, Alan
name: Kronenberg, Andrew
name: Rocchi, Guido
name: Nagueh, Sherif
name: Pulido, Tomas
name: Barst, Robyn
name: Channick, Richard
name: Manes, Alessandra
name: Galiè, Nazzareno
name: Kurzyna, Marcin
name: Rainisio, Maurizio
name: Leconte, Isabelle
name: Frantz, Robert
name: Rubin, Lewis
name: Simonneau, Gerald
name: Torbicki, Adam
name: Espinola-Zavaleta, Nilda
name: Dujardin, Karl
name: Fourme, Thierry
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of bosentan (125 or 250 mg twice daily) on echocardiographic and Doppler variables in 85 patients with World Health Organization class III or IV pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). BACKGROUND Bosentan, an orally active dual endothelin-receptor antagonist, improves symptoms, exercise capacity, and hemodynamics in patients with PAH. METHODS Patients had primary pulmonary hypertension (84%) or PAH associated with connective tissue disease. Of these, 29 patients received placebo and 56 received bosentan (1:2 randomization). Six-minute walk tests and echocardiograms were performed at baseline and after 16 weeks of treatment. RESULTS Baseline characteristics were similar in the placebo and bosentan groups, and echocardiographic and Doppler findings were consistent with marked abnormalities of right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular (LV) structure and function that were due to PAH. The treatment effect on 6-min walking distance was 37 m in favor of bosentan (p = 0.036). Treatment effects of bosentan compared with placebo on other parameters were as follows: Doppler-derived cardiac index = + 0.4 l/min/m2(p = 0.007), LV early diastolic filling velocity = + 10.5 cm/s (p = 0.003), LV end-diastolic area = + 4.2 cm2(p = 0.003), LV systolic eccentricity index = -0.12 (p = 0.047), RV end-systolic area = -2.3 cm2(p = 0.057), RV:LV diastolic areas ratio = -0.64 (p = 0.007), Doppler RV index = -0.06 (p = 0.03), and percentage of patients with an improvement in pericardial effusion score = 17% (p = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Bosentan improves RV systolic function and LV early diastolic filling and leads to a decrease in RV dilation and an increase in LV size in patients with PAH.
Research in Teacher Education: Volume 7, No.1, May 2017
Creators: name: Garby-Czerniawski, Gerry
name: Hudson, Anthony
name: Smith, M.
name: Bell, C.
name: Baker, Alison
name: Archer, L.
name: Hoskin, Janet
name: Robertson, Graham
Publisher: name: The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Year: 2017

description: The Research in Teacher Education publication is published twice a year by the School of Education and Communities, University of East London, Water Lane, London E15 4LZ. The periodical offers a forum for informed debate and discussion on all aspects of teacher education. The publication showcases work from the teacher education teams at the School of Education and Communities and the wider teacher education community in the UK.

The definition of ‘research’, in its broadest sense includes any gathering of data, information and ‘facts’ designed to advance knowledge. While nurturing and publicising the creative talent within teacher education the periodical seeks to stimulate, provoke and extend discussion and debate with other professionals associated with this field. In addition to contributions from the team of teacher educators at the School, each edition of Research in Teacher Education will publish research findings, book reviews and/or opinion pieces from guest writers associated with the School of Education and Communities.
Gender differences in advanced heart failure: insights from the BEST study
Creators: name: Ghali, Jalal
name: Rosenberg, Yves
name: Young, James
name: Yancy, Clyde
name: Goldman, Steven
name: Adams, Kirkwood
name: Peberdy, Mary Ann
name: Krause-Steinrauf, Heidi
name: Lindenfeld, JoAnn
name: Khan, Steven
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to determine the influence of gender on baseline characteristics, response to treatment, and prognosis in patients with heart failure (HF) and impaired left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). BACKGROUND: Under-representation of women in HF clinical trials has limited our understanding of gender-related differences in patients with HF. METHODS: The impact of gender was assessed in the Beta-Blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST) which randomized 2,708 patients with New York Heart Association class III/IV and LVEF < or =0.35 to bucindolol versus placebo. Women (n = 593) were compared with men (n = 2,115). Mean follow-up period was two years. RESULTS: Significant differences in baseline clinical and laboratory characteristics were found. Women were younger, more likely to be black, had a higher prevalence of nonischemic etiology, higher right and left ventricular ejection fraction, higher heart rate, greater cardiothoracic ratio, higher prevalence of left bundle branch block, lower prevalence of atrial fibrillation, and lower plasma norepinephrine level. Ischemic etiology and measures of severity of HF were found to be predictors of prognosis in women and men. However, differences in the predictive values of various variables were noted; most notably, coronary artery disease and LVEF appear to be stronger predictors of prognosis in women. In the nonischemic patients, women had a significantly better survival rate compared with men. CONCLUSIONS: In HF patients with impaired LVEF, significant gender differences are present, and the prognostic predictive values of some variables vary in magnitude between women and men. The survival advantage of women is confined to patients with nonischemic etiology.
Real-time 3D Single Object Tracking with Transformer
Creators: name: Shan, Jiayao
name: Zhou, Sifan
name: Cui, Yubo
name: Fang, Zheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: LiDAR-based 3D single object tracking is a challenging issue in robotics and autonomous driving. Currently, existing approaches usually suffer from the problem that objects at long distance often have very sparse or partially-occluded point clouds, which makes the features extracted by the model ambiguous. Ambiguous features will make it hard to locate the target object and finally lead to bad tracking results. To solve this problem, we utilize the powerful Transformer architecture and propose a Point-Track-Transformer (PTT) module for point cloud-based 3D single object tracking task. Specifically, PTT module generates fine-tuned attention features by computing attention weights, which guides the tracker focusing on the important features of the target and improves the tracking ability in complex scenarios. To evaluate our PTT module, we embed PTT into the dominant method and construct a novel 3D SOT tracker named PTT-Net. In PTT-Net, we embed PTT into the voting stage and proposal generation stage, respectively. PTT module in the voting stage could model the interactions among point patches, which learns context-dependent features. Meanwhile, PTT module in the proposal generation stage could capture the contextual information between object and background. We evaluate our PTT-Net on KITTI and NuScenes datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of PTT module and the superiority of PTT-Net, which surpasses the baseline by a noticeable margin, ~10% in the Car category. Meanwhile, our method also has a significant performance improvement in sparse scenarios. In general, the combination of transformer and tracking pipeline enables our PTT-Net to achieve state-of-the-art performance on both two datasets. Additionally, PTT-Net could run in real-time at 40FPS on NVIDIA 1080Ti GPU. Our code is open-sourced for the research community at https://github.com/shanjiayao/PTT.
description: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2108.06455
Early Reading Experiences of White Working-Class Trainee Teachers
Creators: name: Baker, Alison
Publisher: name: The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Year: 2017

description: In Primary Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) trainees who considered themselves white British working class were asked to be interviewed for a small-scale research project. Six students volunteered to be interviewed. They all self-identified as women, and ranged in age from 24 to 52. Initially the research project was focused upon the trainees’ identification with characters in books that they read as children, but the discussion ranged beyond this to the reading background of their families, their experiences at school and their views of themselves as readers now. Most of the trainees remembered their mothers as reading role models. Most had positive experiences of learning to read at school, although this did not always translate into reading for pleasure. All trainees seemed to value reading fiction over non-fiction.
Tinselenidene: a Two-dimensional Auxetic Material with Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity and Ultrahigh Hole Mobility
Creators: name: Zhang, Li-Chuan
name: Qin, Guangzhao
name: Fang, Wu-Zhang
name: Cui, Hui-Juan
name: Zheng, Qing-Rong
name: Yan, Qing-Bo
name: Su, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of extensive ab initio calculations, a new two-dimensional (2D) atomic material tin selenide monolayer (coined as tinselenidene) is predicted to be a semiconductor with an indirect gap (1.45 eV) and a high hole mobility (of order 10000 cm2V-1S-1), and will bear an indirect-direct gap transition under a rather low strain (<0.5 GPa). Tinselenidene has a very small Young's modulus (20-40 GPa) and an ultralow lattice thermal conductivity (<3 Wm-1K-1 at 300 K), making it probably the most flexible and most heat-insulating material in known 2D atomic materials. In addition, tinseleniden has a large negative Poisson's ratio of -0.17, thus could act as a 2D auxetic material. With these intriguing properties, tinselenidene could have wide potential applications in thermoelectrics, nanomechanics and optoelectronics.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Thermal treatment of sewage sludge for phosphorus fertilizer production: a model experiment
Creators: name: Steckenmesser, Daniel
name: Vogel, Christian
name: Herzel, Hannes
name: Félix, Roberto
name: Adam, Christian
name: Steffens, Diedrich
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Phosphorus (P) resource availability and quality is declining and recycling P-fertilizers from waste materials are becoming increasingly important. One important secondary P resource is sewage sludge (SSL) where P is often bound as aluminum phosphate (Al-P), iron phosphate (Fe-P) and polyphosphate (poly-P), respectively. Thermal treatment in different ways is a promising way in P recycling to produce highly plant-available P-fertilizers. To investigate mechanisms behind transformation of hardly available P-species toward plant-available P forms we treated a model SSL containing different kinds of defined P sources by low-temperature conversion (LTC) at 500 °C and subsequent thermochemical treatment of the LTC product with Na additives (TCT) at 950 °C, respectively. Pot experiments with ryegrass were carried out to determine the plant availability of P of the different treatments. The poly-P (here pyrophosphates) based fertilizers had a very high plant availability after both thermal treatments. During LTC treatment the plant availability of the Fe-P and Al-P variants increased because of the formation of Fe(II)-phosphates and/or pyro-/polyphosphates. Especially the formation of Al-polyphosphate shows a high plant availability. The subsequent TCT further increased strongly the plant availability of the Fe-P variants because of the formation of highly plant-available CaNaPO4. Thus, a direct TCT without prior LTC probably also produce CaNaPO4 and is recommended for Fe-P based SSL. However, a molar Ca/P ratio of ∼1 in the fertilizer is favorable for CaNaPO4 formation. Thus, the knowledge on the source of primary P in SSL is essential for choosing the accurate thermal treatment method to produce highly plant-available P-fertilizers from SSL.
Delay-Tolerant ICN and Its Application to LoRa
Creators: name: Kietzmann, Peter
name: Alamos, Jose
name: Kutscher, Dirk
name: Schmidt, Thomas C.
name: Wählisch, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Connecting long-range wireless networks to the Internet imposes challenges due to vastly longer round-trip-times (RTTs). In this paper, we present an ICN protocol framework that enables robust and efficient delay-tolerant communication to edge networks. Our approach provides ICN-idiomatic communication between networks with vastly different RTTs. We applied this framework to LoRa, enabling end-to-end consumer-to-LoRa-producer interaction over an ICN-Internet and asynchronous data production in the LoRa edge. Instead of using LoRaWAN, we implemented an IEEE 802.15.4e DSME MAC layer on top of the LoRa PHY and ICN protocol mechanisms in RIOT OS. Executed on off-the-shelf IoT hardware, we provide a comparative evaluation for basic NDN-style ICN [60], RICE [31]-like pulling, and reflexive forwarding [46]. This is the first practical evaluation of ICN over LoRa using a reliable MAC. Our results show that periodic polling in NDN works inefficiently when facing long and differing RTTs. RICE reduces polling overhead and exploits gateway knowledge, without violating ICN principles. Reflexive forwarding reflects sporadic data generation naturally. Combined with a local data push, it operates efficiently and enables lifetimes of >1 year for battery powered LoRa-ICN nodes.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables
(102412) George Edward Emmet
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Hormone replacement therapy is associated with improved survival in women with advanced heart failure
Creators: name: Khan, Steven
name: Rosenberg, Yves
name: Yancy, Clyde
name: Thaneemit-Chen, Surai
name: Lowes, Brian
name: Krause-Steinrauf, Heidi
name: Ghali, Jalal
name: Peberdy, Mary Ann
name: Larsen, Rhonda
name: Adams, Kirkwood
name: Lindenfeld, JoAnn
name: Young, James
name: Goldman, Steven
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is associated with an improved prognosis in women with advanced heart failure (HF) and systolic dysfunction. BACKGROUND: There are about two million postmenopausal women in the U.S. with HF. However, limited data are available to assess the effects of HRT on survival in this large group of patients. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of women age 50 years and over entered into the Beta-Blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST) was conducted using Cox regression analysis comparing survival in HRT users and non-users after correcting for baseline variables known to predict survival in women with HF and systolic dysfunction. RESULTS: In 493 women age 50 years and older, HRT was associated with a significant reduction in mortality-21% mortality in HRT users and 34% in non-users (p = 0.025). Multivariate analysis demonstrated a hazard ratio for mortality of 0.6 (95% confidence interval = 0.36 to 0.97) (p = 0.039) for HRT users. The benefits of HRT were noted only in women with a nonischemic etiology of HF (n = 237). CONCLUSIONS: Hormone replacement therapy is associated with a marked improvement in survival in postmenopausal women with advanced HF. A prospective, randomized trial of HRT should be performed in this large group of patients.
Cooper pair splitter in a photonic cavity: Detection of Andreev scatterings
Creators: name: Bułka, Bogdan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We simulated the radiative response of the cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) coupled to the double quantum dot Cooper pair splitter and analyzed its spectral dependence to get insight into dynamics of the Cooper pair transfers. The model is confined to the energy subspace where two entangled electrons are transferred to two normal electrodes through the inter-dot singlet state on two proximitized quantum dots. Our research is focused on the Andreev scatterings in the subgap regime, for which the local charge susceptibility $Π(ω_p)$ is derived, by means of Keldysh Green functions, in a whole bias voltage range. In particular, in the large voltage limit the spectrum of $Π(ω_p)$ is expressed by a simple analytical formula, which shows various dissipation processes related with photon-induced transitions between the Andreev bound states.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Troponin T and quantitative ST-segment depression offer complementary prognostic information in the risk stratification of acute coronary syndrome patients
Creators: name: Mahaffey, Kenneth
name: Harrington, Robert
name: Newby, L. Kristin
name: Armstrong, Paul
name: Hasselblad, Vic
name: Fu, Yuling
name: Topol, Eric
name: Christenson, Robert
name: Califf, Robert
name: Van de Werf, Frans
name: Kaul, Padma
name: Ohman, E. Magnus
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: OBJECTIVES Our primary objective was to examine the prognostic relationship between baseline quantitative ST-segment depression (ST ↓) and cardiac troponin T (cTnT) elevation. The secondary objectives were to: 1) examine whether ST ↓ provided additional insight into therapeutic efficacy of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa therapy similar to that demonstrated by cTnT and 2) explore whether the time to evaluation impacted on each marker's relative prognostic utility. BACKGROUND The relationship between the baseline electrocardiogram (ECG) and cTnT measurements in risk-stratifying patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) has not been evaluated comprehensively. METHODS The study population consisted of 959 patients enrolled in the cTnT substudy of the Platelet IIb/IIIa Antagonism for the Reduction of Acute coronary syndrome events in a Global Organization Network (PARAGON)-B trial. Patients were classified as having no ST ↓ (n = 387), 1 mm ST ↓ (n = 433), and ST ↓ ≥2 mm (n = 139). Forty-percent (n = 381) were classified as cTnT-positive based on a definition of ≥0.1 ng/ml. RESULTS Six-month death/(re)myocardial infarction rates were 8.4% among cTnT-negative patients with no ST ↓ and 26.18% among cTnT-positive patients with ST ↓ ≥2 mm. On ECGs done after 6 h of symptom onset, ST ↓ ≥2 mm was associated with higher risk compared to its presence on ECGs done earlier (odds ratio [OR] 7.3 vs. 2.1). In contrast, the presence of elevated cTnT within 6 h of symptom was associated with a higher risk of adverse events compared with elevations after 6 h (OR 2.4 vs. 1.5). CONCLUSIONS Quantitative ST ↓ and cTnT status are complementary in assessing risk among ACS patients and both should be employed to determine prognosis and assist in medical decision making.
Overcoming the Challenge of a Visible Facial Difference at Interview: Familiarisation can be Effective
Creators: name: Stone, Anna
name: De Grouchy, C.
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2024
Subjects: visible facial difference, face, employment, discrimination, familiarisation

description: Previous studies have shown that a candidate with a visible facial difference (VFD) may experience discrimination during recruitment. This study investigated whether a VFD imposes a disadvantage in a simulated job interview and whether pre-familiarisation to the candidate’s appearance can reduce the disadvantage. Participants (n = 128) observed a video of a job interview in one of three conditions: a short audio pre-familiarisation and no VFD at interview (Control); audio pre-familiarisation and VFD at interview (Unexpected); and video pre-familiarisation then VFD at interview (Familiarised). Participants subsequently evaluated the candidate on personal and professional traits. Results revealed higher evaluations in the Unexpected compared to Control condition for Professional Skills, Emotional Stability, and especially strongly for Warmth, attributed to positive discrimination. In the Familiarised condition, the evaluations lay between Control and Unexpected, the only significant difference being lower Warmth in Familiarised than Unexpected. Of particular interest, different traits were associated with the key variable of Role Suitability in the three conditions: in Control, Role Suitability correlated with the job-relevant traits of Emotional Stability and Professional Skills; in Unexpected, the association with Professional Skills was weaker, and there was a significant association with Warmth; in Familiarised, there were no significant associations. In the Familiarised condition, compared to Unexpected, participants found the candidate’s appearance less distracting, and believed the pre-familiarisation would help the interviewer. These results were interpreted as suggesting that a VFD may harm the candidate’s chances of being evaluated fairly on their merits, but this disadvantage may be partially overcome by pre-familiarisation.
description: This is the SPSS dataset to support the statistical analysis reported in the accompanying journal article: Visible Facial Difference at Interview
Troponin: an important prognostic marker and risk-stratification tool in non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes
Creators: name: Goldmann, Britta
name: Newby, L. Kristin
name: Ohman, E. Magnus
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Over the past decade, there has been a progressive evolution of cardiac marker testing in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). This has not only resulted in a dramatic shift in how we view the diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI), but it has also extended the role of cardiac marker testing into risk stratification and guidance of treatment decisions. By the year 2000, the development of highly sensitive and cardiac-specific troponin assays had resulted in a consensus change in the definition of MI, placing increased emphasis on cardiac-marker testing with troponins as the new gold standard. Furthermore, and perhaps more importantly, the role of the troponins as superior markers of subsequent cardiac risk in ACS patients became firmly established. Most recently, the supportive role of these markers in identifying patients with ACS who may derive particular benefit from potent anti-thrombotic and anti-platelet therapy or early invasive treatment strategies has been demonstrated. This paper will review the evolution of these important roles of troponin testing for risk stratification in ACS.
(102406) Percy John Solomon Overton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
UOCS-VIII. UV Study of the open cluster NGC 2506 using ASTROSAT
Creators: name: Panthi, Anju
name: Vaidya, Kaushar
name: Jadhav, Vikrant
name: Rao, Khushboo K.
name: Subramaniam, Annapurni
name: Agarwal, Manan
name: Pandey, Sindhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an intermediate-age open cluster NGC 2506 using the \textit{ASTROSAT}/UVIT data and other archival data. We identified 2175 cluster members using a machine learning-based algorithm, ML--MOC, on Gaia EDR3 data. Among the cluster members detected in UVIT filters, F148W, F154W, and F169M, we detect 9 blue straggler stars (BSS), 3 yellow straggler stars (YSS) and 3 red clump (RC) stars. We construct multi-wavelength spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of these objects to characterize them and to estimate their parameters. We discovered hot companions to 3 BSS, 2 YSS and 3 RC candidates and estimated their properties. The hot companions with estimated temperatures, T$\mathrm{_{eff}}$ $\sim$ 13250--31000 K, are WDs of extremely low-mass ($\sim$ 0.20 M$_\odot$), low-mass ($\sim$ 0.20--0.40 M$_\odot$), normal mass ($\sim$ 0.40--0.60 M$_\odot$), and high-mass ($\sim$ 0.8 M$_\odot$). We suggest that systems with extremely low mass and low mass WDs as companions are formed via Case-A/Case-B mass transfer mechanism. A BSS is the likely progenitor of the high mass WD, as a star with more than the turn-off mass of the cluster is needed to form a high mass WD. Thus, systems with high mass WD are likely to be formed through merger in triple systems. We conclude that mass transfer as well as merger pathways of BSS formation are present in this cluster.
(102407) Reginald Ernest Overton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(102410) Cecil Marian Emmet
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Non-invariance of weak approximation with Brauer-Manin obstruction for surfaces
Creators: name: Wu, Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study the property of weak approximation with Brauer-Manin obstruction for surfaces with respect to field extensions of number fields. For any nontrivial extension of number fields L/K, assuming a conjecture of M. Stoll, we construct a smooth, projective, and geometrically connected surface over K such that it satisfies weak approximation with Brauer-Manin obstruction off all archimedean places, while its base change to L fails. Then we illustrate this construction with an explicit unconditional example.
description: This is a part of our paper "Non-invariance of the Brauer-Manin obstruction for surfaces" arXiv:2103.01784
(102403) Hannah [Overton]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
MDI Gurgoan.pdf
Creators: name: Burghate, Mukul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Leadership

description: Purpose: People often wish to start their organization but are unable to do so owing to a lack of suitable financial backing from banks or other sources. The 'Stand Up India Scheme' is one of the important moves made by the Indian government to make it easier for SC/ST or at least one female borrower to start a greenfield business. Methodology: The data is gathered through secondary data. To interpret the data, necessary tables, graphs, and figures are used. Finding: This article explores and investigates the financial assistance provided to young entrepreneurs under the government of India's 'Stand up India Scheme. ‘The stand-up India scheme shows positive impact on entrepreneurship development. Research limitation: The actual benefits have not been examined with the beneficiaries because this study is based on secondary data released on numerous websites and reports. Social implication: The 'Stand up India Scheme' not only gives financial assistance to young entrepreneurs, but it also provides opportunities for their growth and progress in the future. Such programs will undoubtedly aid in the creation of a conducive environment for entrepreneurship development. Originality/Value: The study reveals that entrepreneurs are undoubtedly the most important players in the modern economy in the previous era: they have created new jobs and wealth, invented new products and services, and revolutionized the economy and society.
Anemia as a risk factor and therapeutic target in heart failure
Creators: name: Adams, Kirkwood
name: Felker, G. Michael
name: Gattis, Wendy
name: O'Connor, Christopher
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Anemia has recently been recognized as an important comorbid condition and potentially novel therapeutic target in patients with heart failure (HF). Anemia is common in HF patients, with a prevalence ranging from 4% to 55% depending on the population studied. Multiple potential mechanisms of interaction exist between anemia and the clinical syndrome of HF, including hemodilution, inflammatory activation, renal insufficiency, and malnutrition. A growing body of literature from observational databases and clinical trials suggests that anemia is an independent risk factor for adverse outcomes in patients with HF. Although preliminary data suggest that treatment of anemia may result in significant symptomatic improvement in HF, aggressive treatment of anemia may also be associated with increased risk of hypertension or thrombosis. Multiple ongoing studies will provide definitive data on the balance of risks and benefits of anemia treatment in chronic HF.
(102405) Charlotte Ada Solomon
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Quantum phase transitions in the Kitaev--Heisenberg model on a single hexagon
Creators: name: Gotfryd, Dorota
name: Oleś, Andrzej M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of the Kitaev--Heisenberg model on a single hexagon. The energy spectra and spin--spin correlations obtained using exact diagonalisation indicate quantum phase transitions between antiferromagnetic and anisotropic spin correlations when the Kitaev interactions increase. In cluster mean-field approach frustrated nearest neighbor exchange stabilizes the stripe phase in between the Néel phase and frustrated one which evolves towards the Kitaev spin liquid.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, Euroconference Physics of Magnetism, Pozna\'n 2014
Research in Teacher Education: Volume 3, No.1, April 2013
Creators: name: Garby-Czerniawski, Gerry
name: Edmonds, Casey
name: Ameen, Ruhul
name: Herrington, Neil
name: Macklin, John
name: Ayres, Daniel
name: Clarke, John
name: Menter, Ian
name: Kidd, Warren
name: Wells, David
name: Hassan, Nasima
name: Tyrrell, Christopher
name: Poon, Kokhung
name: Pye, Tony
name: Alexandrou, Alex
name: Mudd, Janine
Publisher: name: The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Year: 2013

description: The Research in Teacher Education publication is published twice a year by the School of Education and Communities, University of East London, Water Lane, London E15 4LZ. The periodical offers a forum for informed debate and discussion on all aspects of teacher education. The publication showcases work from the teacher education teams at the School of Education and Communities and the wider teacher education community in the UK.

The definition of ‘research’, in its broadest sense includes any gathering of data, information and ‘facts’ designed to advance knowledge. While nurturing and publicising the creative talent within teacher education the periodical seeks to stimulate, provoke and extend discussion and debate with other professionals associated with this field. In addition to contributions from the team of teacher educators at the School, each edition of Research in Teacher Education will publish research findings, book reviews and/or opinion pieces from guest writers associated with the School of Education and Communities.
Outcome of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in diabetics treated with fibrinolytic or combination reduced fibrinolytic therapy and platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition: Lessons from the GUSTO V trial
Creators: name: Tang, W.H. Wilson
name: Lee, David
name: Califf, Robert
name: Jia, Gang
name: Armstrong, Paul
name: Booth, Joan
name: Guetta, Victor
name: Wilcox, Robert
name: Gurm, Hitinder
name: Lincoff, A. Michael
name: Ohman, E.M.
name: Topol, Eric
name: Van de Werf, Frans
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: OBJECTIVES We studied the outcome of diabetics enrolled in the Global Use of Strategies to Open Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO) V trial to assess whether the combination of half-dose reteplase and abciximab provides any propitious benefits over standard fibrinolytic therapy in diabetic patients. BACKGROUND Diabetics with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) have a worse outcome compared with nondiabetics. Higher-risk patients are usually more likely to benefit from advances in medical therapy. METHODS We analyzed diabetic patients enrolled in the GUSTO V trial to assess the outcome of those randomized to the combination of half-dose reteplase and abciximab versus those randomized to reteplase. We also evaluated whether any differences existed in presentation and outcome of MI among the diabetics versus the nondiabetics enrolled in the study. RESULTS The trial enrolled 13,782 nondiabetics and 2,633 diabetics. Compared to nondiabetics, diabetics had a significantly higher mortality at 30 days (8.5% vs. 5.1%, p < 0.001) and at 1 year (12.7% vs. 7.5%, p < 0.001). Among the diabetic subset, no significant difference existed in the incidence of 30-day (8.8% vs. 8.2%, p = 0.52) or 1-year mortality (13.0% vs. 12.4%, p = 0.62) among patients randomized to reteplase compared to those receiving combination of abciximab and reteplase. The incidence of reinfarction (2.5% vs. 4.3%, p = 0.013), recurrent ischemia (11.8% vs. 14.9%, p = 0.017), and urgent revascularization (10.9% vs. 13.3%, p = 0.055) at seven days was lower in diabetics treated with the combination therapy. CONCLUSIONS Compared to nondiabetics, diabetics continue to have a worse outcome with MI. Although combination therapy did not provide a survival benefit, nonfatal ischemic outcomes, including reinfarction, recurrent ischemia, and urgent revascularization, were substantially reduced.
Spreadsheet validation for Flat slabs in eccentric punching shear experimental database and analysis
Creators: name: Vargas, Daniel
name: Lantsoght, Eva
name: Genikomsou, Katerina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Database
Spreadsheet Validation
Eccentric Punching shear
Flat slabs
Reinforced concrete

description: Eccentric punching shear can occur in concrete slab-column connections when the connection is subjected to shear and unbalanced moments. Typically, this situation results in edge and corner columns and is thus a common practical case. However, most punching experiments in the literature are concentric punching shear experiments. This paper presents a database of eighty-eight experiments on flat slabs under eccentric punching shear, including a summary of the testing procedure of each reference and a description of the slab specimens. Additionally, a linear finite element analysis of all the specimens is included to determine the relevant sectional shear forces and moments. Finally, the ultimate shear stresses from the database experiments are compared to the shear capacities determined with the ACI 318-19, Eurocode 2 NEN-EN 1992-1-1:2005, and the Model Code 2010. The result of this comparison shows that the Model Code 2010 is the most precise model with an average tested over the predicted shear ratio of 0.96 and a coefficient of variation of 27.96%. It can be concluded that this study represents the inconsistencies of the currently used methods and the lack of experimental information.
Elementary Properties of Positive Concave Mappings with Applications to Network Planning and Optimization
Creators: name: Cavalcante, Renato L. G.
name: Shen, Yuxiang
name: Stańczak, Slawomir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study presents novel methods for computing fixed points of positive concave mappings and for characterizing the existence of fixed points. These methods are particularly important in planning and optimization tasks in wireless networks. For example, previous studies have shown that the feasibility of a network design can be quickly evaluated by computing the fixed point of a concave mapping that is constructed based on many environmental and network control parameters such as the position of base stations, channel conditions, and antenna tilts. To address this and more general problems, given a positive concave mapping, we show two alternative but equivalent ways to construct a matrix that is guaranteed to have spectral radius strictly smaller than one if the mapping has a fixed point. This matrix is then used to build a new mapping that preserves the fixed point of the original positive concave mapping. We show that the standard fixed point iterations using the new mapping converges faster than the standard iterations applied to the original concave mapping. As exemplary applications of the proposed methods, we consider the problems of power and load planning in networks based on the orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technology.
Research in Teacher Education: Volume 5, No.1, May 2015
Creators: name: Garby-Czerniawski, Gerry
name: Wiseman, Sue
name: Hellawell, Beate
name: White, Ml
name: Robertson, Graham
name: Linington, Mary
name: Martin, Estelle
name: Sikes, P.
name: Ayres, Daniel
name: Hussain, Victoria
name: Herrington, Neil
name: Hurley, Cathy
Publisher: name: The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Year: 2015

description: The Research in Teacher Education publication is published twice a year by the School of Education and Communities, University of East London, Water Lane, London E15 4LZ. The periodical offers a forum for informed debate and discussion on all aspects of teacher education. The publication showcases work from the teacher education teams at the School of Education and Communities and the wider teacher education community in the UK.

The definition of ‘research’, in its broadest sense includes any gathering of data, information and ‘facts’ designed to advance knowledge. While nurturing and publicising the creative talent within teacher education the periodical seeks to stimulate, provoke and extend discussion and debate with other professionals associated with this field. In addition to contributions from the team of teacher educators at the School, each edition of Research in Teacher Education will publish research findings, book reviews and/or opinion pieces from guest writers associated with the School of Education and Communities.
Temporal spectrum of multi-conjugate adaptive optics residuals and impact of tip-tilt anisoplanatism on astrometric observations
Creators: name: Carlà, Giulia
name: Plantet, Cédric
name: Busoni, Lorenzo
name: Agapito, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) will assist a new era of ground-based astronomical observations with the extremely large telescopes and the Very Large Telescope. High precision relative astrometry is among the main science drivers of these systems and challenging requirements have been set for the astrometric measurements. A clear understanding of the astrometric error budget is needed and the impact of the MCAO correction has to be taken into account. In this context, we propose an analytical formulation to estimate the residual phase produced by an MCAO correction in any direction of the scientific field of view. The residual phase, computed in the temporal frequency domain, allows to consider the temporal filtering of the turbulent phase from the MCAO loop and to extract the temporal spectrum of the residuals, as well as to include other temporal effects such as the scientific integration time. The formulation is kept general and allows to consider specific frameworks by setting the telescope diameter, the turbulence profile, the guide stars constellation, the deformable mirrors configuration, the modes sensed and corrected and the tomographic reconstruction algorithm. The formalism is presented for both a closed loop and a pseudo-open loop control. We use our results to investigate the effect of tip-tilt residuals on MCAO-assisted astrometric observations. We derive an expression for the differential tilt jitter power spectrum that also includes the dependence on the scientific exposure time. Finally, we investigate the contribution of the differential tilt jitter error on the future astrometric observations with MAVIS and MAORY.
A Very Deep Chandra Observation of the Galaxy Group NGC 5813: AGN Shocks, Feedback, and Outburst History
Creators: name: Randall, S. W.
name: Nulsen, P. E. J.
name: Jones, C.
name: Forman, W. R.
name: Bulbul, E.
name: Clarke, T. E.
name: Kraft, R.
name: Blanton, E. L.
name: David, L.
name: Werner, N.
name: Sun, M.
name: Donahue, M.
name: Giacintucci, S.
name: Simionescu, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a very deep (650 ks) Chandra X-ray observation of the galaxy group NGC~5813, the deepest Chandra observation of a galaxy group to date. Earlier observations showed two pairs of cavities distributed roughly collinearly, with each pair associated with an elliptical shock front. The new observations confirm a third pair of outer cavities, collinear with the other pairs, and reveal an associated outer outburst shock at ~30 kpc. This system is therefore unique in exhibiting three cavity pairs, each associated with an unambiguous AGN outburst shock front. The implied mean kinetic power is roughly the same for each outburst, demonstrating that the average AGN kinetic luminosity can remain stable over long timescales (~50 Myr). The two older outbursts have larger, roughly equal total energies as compared with the youngest outburst, implying that the youngest outburst is ongoing. We find that the radiative cooling rate and the mean shock heating rate of the gas are well balanced at each shock front, suggesting that AGN outburst shock heating alone is sufficient to offset cooling and establish AGN/ICM feedback within at least the central 30 kpc. This heating takes place roughly isotropically and most strongly at small radii, as is required for feedback to operate. We suggest that shock heating may play a significant role in AGN feedback at smaller radii in other systems, where weak shocks are more difficult to detect. We find non-zero shock front widths that are too large to be explained by particle diffusion. Instead, all measured widths are consistent with shock broadening due to propagation through a turbulent ICM with a mean turbulent speed of ~70 km/s. Finally, we place lower limits on the temperature of any volume-filling thermal gas within the cavities that would balance the internal cavity pressure with the external ICM.
description: 24 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ