cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evolution of rotation and magnetic activity of solar-like stars with age:magneto-(gyro-)chronology
Creators: name: Mathur, Savita
name: Claytor, Zachary R.
name: Santos, \^Angela R. G.
name: Garc\'ia, Rafael A.
name: Amard, Louis
name: Bugnet, Lisa
name: Corsaro, Enrico
name: Bonanno, Alfio
name: Breton, Sylvain N.
name: Godoy-Rivera, Diego
name: Pinsonneault, Marc H.
name: van Saders, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stellar rotation
Stellar magnetic activity
Solar-like stars
Stellar evolution
Stellar ages

description: It is known that for a star like the Sun, rotation and magnetic activity evolve with age. Indeed, in 1972, Skumanich showed that on the main sequence, a solar-like star spins down and becomes less magnetically active with age. Such evolution opened the possibility to use rotation and magnetic activity as stellar clocks, known as gyrochronology for the former and magneto chronology for the latter. While these relations have been based on spectroscopic indexes such as CaHK and spectropolarimetric observations from surveys, the sample used is still small with up to a few thousands of stars.

 The recent catalog of rotation periods and photometric magnetic activity proxies for more than 55,000 stars observed by the Kepler mission is a goldmine to study the evolution of magnetic activity of solar-like stars. Using stellar models that include angular momentum evolution, we computed ages for the full sample of stars. We investigated relations between Sph, a photometric magnetic activity index, stellar ages as well as other stellar fundamental parameters (such as luminosity, metallicity, rotation periods). Such analysis is based on two different methods: a Bayesian fit of analytical relations and a Random Forest (RF) regressor. While our results depend on the stellar models used, the methodologies can be performed with other stellar models. In this talk, I will show the promising results found to predict ages using these methods with up to 5-6% median differences between the predictions and the stellar models. In particular, we show that adding the magnetic activity proxy, Sph, as input improves the age prediction. Our results are now being implemented in the PLATO stellar analysis system.
Lessons Learned from Blockchain Applications of Trusted Execution Environments and Implications for Future Research
Creators: name: Karanjai, Rabimba
name: Xu, Lei
name: Chen, Lin
name: Zhang, Fengwei
name: Gao, Zhimin
name: Shi, Weidong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern computer systems tend to rely on large trusted computing bases (TCBs) for operations. To address the TCB bloating problem, hardware vendors have developed mechanisms to enable or facilitate the creation of a trusted execution environment (TEE) in which critical software applications can execute securely in an isolated environment. Even under the circumstance that a host OS is compromised by an adversary, key security properties such as confidentiality and integrity of the software inside the TEEs can be guaranteed. The promise of integrity and security has driven developers to adopt it for use cases involving access control, PKS, IoT among other things. Among these applications include blockchain-related use cases. The usage of the TEEs doesn't come without its own implementation challenges and potential pitfalls. In this paper, we examine the assumptions, security models, and operational environments of the proposed TEE use cases of blockchain-based applications. The exercise and analysis help the hardware TEE research community to identify some open challenges and opportunities for research and rethink the design of hardware TEEs in general.
title: Ruta montana L. leaf essential oil and extracts
title: Characterization of bioactive compounds and suppression of crown gall disease
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hammami, Inés
name: Smaoui, Slim
name: Hsouna, Anis Ben
name: Hamdi, Naceur
name: Triki, Mohamed Ali
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ruta montana
subject: antifungal activity
subject: antibacterial activity
subject: essential oil
subject: in vivo assay
subject: 610

description: The aims of this study were to assess the antimicrobial efficacy of the leaf essential oil and the leaf extracts of R. montana against Botrytis cinerea, Fusarium oxysporum, Verticillium dahliae, Aspergillus oryzae and Fusarium solani. The oil (1.000 µg/disk) and the extracts (1.500 µg/disk) revealed a remarkable antifungal effect against the tested plant pathogenic fungi with a radial growth inhibition percentage of 40.0–80.0 % and 5.0–58.0 %, respectively along with their respective MIC values ranging from 100 to 1100 µg/mL and 250 to 3000 µg/mL. The oil had a strong detrimental effect on spore germination of all the tested plant pathogens along with the concentration as well as time-dependent kinetic inhibition of Fusarium oxysporum. Also, the oil exhibited a potent in vivo antifungal effect against Botrytis cinerea on tomato plants. Experiments carried out in plant revealed that the essential oil was slightly effective in suppression of gall formation induced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens on bitter almond. The results of this study indicate that the oil and extracts of R. montana leaves could become natural alternatives to synthetic fungicides to control certain important plant microbial diseases. The GC–MS analysis determined that 28 compounds, which represented 89.03 % of total oil, were present in the oil containing mainly 1-butene, methylcyclopropane, 2-butene and caryophyllene oxide.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 14, 2015
Topological obstructions to the diagonalisation of pseudodifferential systems
Creators: name: Capoferri, Matteo
name: Rozenblum, Grigori
name: Saveliev, Nikolai
name: Vassiliev, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58J40 (Primary) 35G35, 35J46, 35J47, 35J48 (Secondary)

description: Given a matrix pseudodifferential operator on a smooth manifold, one may be interested in diagonalising it by choosing eigenvectors of its principal symbol in a smooth manner. We show that diagonalisation is not always possible, on the whole cotangent bundle or even in a single fibre. We identify global and local topological obstructions to diagonalisation and examine physically meaningful examples demonstrating that all possible scenarios can occur.
description: v3: final version
Towards a Comprehensive Characterization of Grid Interpolation in the context of Grid-based Modelling
Creators: name: Clara, Miguel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Grid-based modelling techniques have been shown to enable the determination of stellar properties with a significant accuracy, justifying their use in the context of data exploitation from space missions like Kepler, TESS or PLATO as a way to better constrain stellar evolution models.
 In this context, the subgiant phase is both particularly interesting and challenging. Indeed, changes to the stellar structure allow the emergence of mixed modes, whose frequencies are characterized by a fast evolution with age, which can potentially allow the determination of stellar properties with great precision. However, current modelling techniques consider stellar grids that lack the necessary resolution to properly account for the fast mode frequency evolution, and require an interpolation algorithm to cover the parameter space in between the grid models when applying model-data comparison methods. The errors resulting from the interpolation of non-radial modes across different masses in a typical grid of subgiant models can be as high as a few tens of muHz (this is up to 2 orders of magnitude higher than the observational errors in some stars).
 In this presentation, we characterize the problem of frequency interpolation in the subgiant phase, and explore several possibilities to improve on the current procedures. We discuss the advantages of considering central density as the age proxy of interpolation over age, and cubic polynomial interpolation over linear, while interpolating along and across evolutionary tracks with different masses, quantifying the errors obtained with the different algorithms. We also discuss possible improvements resulting from the application of a variable transformation to the system, proposing a new age proxy for interpolation.
The Indonesian election of 1971 : an East Javanese perspective
Creators: name: Ward, Ken.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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TRAVESING BY RESECTION (Error Adjustment Using Least Square Method)
Creators: name: Shwana Manguri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Traversing, Traverse Adjustment, Resection, Accurate, Precise, and Control Point

description: Every engineering surveying works require very precise and accurate measurement down to sub-millimetre. Considering this quality of measurements the highly developed survey instruments have been invented. In addition, there are numerous of measurements and adjustments methods have been proposed. The traversing is a very common method which is used to establish a high accurate control points and adjustment control networks. That is used where the control points are visible to each other, where there is enough space to setup instruments (Total Station), and where using GNSS (GPS) is available.  However, in the case of having invisible control points, limited space to setup instruments (Total Station), and where using GPS is restricted or limited, it is not possible to use any traverse methods and adjustments. In order to address this problem this dissertation is proposed and examined a new method which is traversing by resection. For achieving the goal of the current dissertation ten trials have done with five main control stations. The data were collected within different observation that they are four, five, and six observations. Moreover, the tow different methods were used to calculate and analysis the data. Finally, the results achieved from the dissertation are precise and accurate, which all the results are in the confident level that they are in the range of ±σ and ± 2σ.
(202273) Margaret Elizabeth Pakenham
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.
Coupled plasma filtration adsorption (CPFA) plus continuous veno-venous haemofiltration (CVVH) versus CVVH alone as an adjunctive therapy in the treatment of sepsis
Creators: name: Hassan, Juita
name: Cader, Rizna Abdul
name: Kong, Norella C. T.
name: Mohd, Marlyn
name: Rahman, Abdul Raha
name: Hod, Rozita
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: acute kidney injury
subject: CPFA
subject: C reactive protein
subject: CVVH
subject: sepsis
subject: multiorgan dysfunction
subject: 610

description: To compare the efficacy of Coupled Plasma Filtration and Adsorption (CPFA) plus Continuous Veno-Venous Haemofiltration (CVVH) versus CVVH alone as an adjunct treatment of sepsis in terms of haemodynamic stability, inotropic requirement and inflammatory mediators. Design and Methods: Prospective randomized controlled trial involving septic patients with/without acute kidney injury (AKI) whom were randomized to receive CPFA + CVVH or CVVH alone. Haemodynamic parameters including inotropic requirements and inflammatory mediators [procalcitonin (PCT) and C reactive protein (CRP)] were measured. Results: Twenty-three patients [CPFA + CVVH (n = 11), CVVH (n = 12)] were enrolled. Haemodynamic stability occurred earlier and sustained in the CPFA + CVVH group with an increase in diastolic blood pressure (p = 0.001 vs. p = 0.226) and mean arterial pressure (p = 0.001 vs. p = 0.575) at the end of treatment with no increment in inotropic requirement. Both groups had a reduction in PCT and CRP (CPFA + CVVH: p = 0.003, p = 0.026 and CVVH: p = 0.008, p = 0.071 respectively). The length of intensive care unit stay, hospital stay and 30 day outcomes were similar between the groups. There was an inverse association between serum albumin and CRP (p = 0.018). Serum albumin positively correlated with systolic blood pressure (p = 0.012) and diastolic blood pressure (p = 0.009). We found a trend between CRP and length of hospital stay (p = 0.056). Patients with a lower PCT at 24 h had a better outcome (survival) than those with a higher PCT (p = 0.045). Conclusion: CPFA is a feasible, albeit expensive adjunctive extracorporeal treatment that may be superior to CVVH alone in the treatment of severe sepsis.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Disjoint odd circuits in a bridgeless cubic graph can be quelled by a single perfect matching
Creators: name: Kardoš, František
name: Máčajová, Edita
name: Zerafa, Jean Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C15, 05C70

description: Let $G$ be a bridgeless cubic graph. The Berge--Fulkerson Conjecture (1970s) states that $G$ admits a list of six perfect matchings such that each edge of $G$ belongs to exactly two of these perfect matchings. If answered in the affirmative, two other recent conjectures would also be true: the Fan--Raspaud Conjecture (1994), which states that $G$ admits three perfect matchings such that every edge of $G$ belongs to at most two of them; and a conjecture by Mazzuoccolo (2013), which states that $G$ admits two perfect matchings whose deletion yields a bipartite subgraph of $G$. It can be shown that given an arbitrary perfect matching of $G$, it is not always possible to extend it to a list of three or six perfect matchings satisfying the statements of the Fan--Raspaud and the Berge--Fulkerson conjectures, respectively. In this paper, we show that given any $1^+$-factor $F$ (a spanning subgraph of $G$ such that its vertices have degree at least 1) and an arbitrary edge $e$ of $G$, there always exists a perfect matching $M$ of $G$ containing $e$ such that $G\setminus (F\cup M)$ is bipartite. Our result implies Mazzuoccolo's conjecture, but not only. It also implies that given any collection of disjoint odd circuits in $G$, there exists a perfect matching of $G$ containing at least one edge of each circuit in this collection.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Neu-Evangelisierung als Herausforderung der Kirche nach der Verkündigung Johannes Pauls II.
Creators: name: Scheffczyk, Leo
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 4 Nr. 4 (1988): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 4, Heft 4
(202275) Mildred Ann Paine
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.
Arsenic, GSTO2 Asp142 polymorphism, health and treatment
Creators: name: Masoudi, Mohammad
name: Saadat, Mostafa
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: arsenic
subject: GSTO2
subject: health
subject: polymorphism
subject: treatment
subject: 610

description: Arsenic is a natural metallic element found in low concentrations in virtually every part of the environment, including waters and foods. The ingestion of arsenic by humans can cause a variety of disorders. Glutathione S-transferase omega (GSTO) is a member of phase II xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes. GSTO2 (a member of GST omega) participates in detoxification of inorganic arsenic. In human, the A>G transition at nucleotide position 424 of GSTO2 was reported. This variation causes an Asn142Asp substitution. The Asp142 allozyme was expressed at approximately 80 % of the level of Asn142 allozyme. It is hypothesized that the GSTO2 polymorphism may alter the risk of several diseases which are related to chronic arsenic poisoning. On the other hand, because arsenic trioxide is used for treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia; it is possible that Asn142 allozyme may decrease the therapeutic effect(s) of the drug.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 7, 2008
On consistency of Bayesian parameter estimators for a class of ergodic Markov models
Creators: name: A.I. Nurieva
name: A.Yu. Veretennikov
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bayesian estimator
consistency
ergodic Markov chain

description: The consistency of the Bayesian estimation of a parameter is shown for a class of ergodic discrete Markov chains. J.L. Doob’s method was used, offered earlier for the i.i.d. situation. The result may be useful in the reliability theory for models with unknown parameters, in the risk management in financial mathematics, and in other applications.
Islamic religious education in Kelantan : a study of its nature, organization, development and decline in a Malay society
Creators: name: bin Taib., Abdullah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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title: DNA damage
title: detection strategies
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kumari, Sunita
name: Rastogi, Rajesh P.
name: Singh, Kanchan L.
name: Singh, Shailendra P.
name: Sinha, Rajeshwar P.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: ageing
subject: cancer
subject: detection strategies
subject: DNA damage
subject: UV radiation
subject: 610

description: Even under the best of circumstances, DNA is constantly subjected to chemical modifications. Several types of DNA damage such as SSB (single strand break), DSB (double strand break), CPDs (cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers), 6-4PPs (6-4 photoproducts) and their Dewar valence isomers have been identified that result from alkylating agents, hydrolytic deamination, free radicals and reactive oxygen species formed by various photochemical processes including UV radiation. There are a number of strategies such as PCR (polymerase chain reaction), comet, halo, TUNEL (Terminal deoxyribonucleotidyltransferase-mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate nick end labeling) assay, HPLC-Electrospray tandem mass spectrometry, FISH (Fluorescence in situ hybridization), FCM (Flow cytometry), annexin V labeling, immunological assays including immunofluorescent and chemiluminescence thymine dimer detection, immunohistochemical assay, Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), Radio immunoassay (RIA), Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and electrochemical methods, that are commonly used to detect DNA damage in various organisms. The main aim of this review is to present a brief account of the above mentioned DNA damage detection strategies for the convenience of interested readers.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 7, 2008
Transient superconductivity from electronic squeezing of optically pumped phonons
Creators: name: Kennes, Dante M.
name: Wilner, Eli Y.
name: Reichman, David R.
name: Millis, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Advances in light sources and time resolved spectroscopy have made it possible to excite specific atomic vibrations in solids and to observe the resulting changes in electronic properties but the mechanism by which phonon excitation causes qualitative changes in electronic properties, has remained unclear. Here we show that the dominant symmetry-allowed coupling between electron density and dipole active modes implies an electron density-dependent squeezing of the phonon state which provides an attractive contribution to the electron-electron interaction, independent of the sign of the bare electron-phonon coupling and with a magnitude proportional to the degree of laser-induced phonon excitation. Reasonable excitation amplitudes lead to non-negligible attractive interactions that may cause significant transient changes in electronic properties including superconductivity. The mechanism is generically applicable to a wide range of systems, offering a promising route to manipulating and controlling electronic phase behavior in novel materials.
description: version as published
(202276) Dora Marian Paine
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.
title: Y96-14, Y97-01 LAUHAVRE Cruise
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Takeshi
name: Kobayashi, Kazuo
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: S/V YOKOSUKA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of Y96-14 on S/V YOKOSUKA from 1997-01-06 to 1997-01-27 and Y97-01 on S/V YOKOSUKA from 1997-01-30 to 1997-02-14.
Evolutionäre Algorithmen zur Optimierung von Modellen für laufende Roboter
Creators: name: Hebbel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Evolutionäre Algorithmen
subject: Laufmodellierung
subject: Laufoptimierung
subject: Robotersimulation
subject: Sony AIBO
subject: RoboCup
subject: 004
subject: Roboter
subject: Lernender Roboter
subject: Laufbewegung
subject: Evolutionärer Algorithmus

description: Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Modellierung und Optimierung von Laufbewegungen für zwei- und vierbeinige Roboter. Es werden parametrierbare Modelle für die Generierung von Laufbewegungen für zwei- und vierbeinige Roboter aufgestellt. Anschließend wird vorgestellt, wie Roboter mithilfe der Laufmodelle und dem Einsatz von Evolutionären Algorithmen autonom das Laufen erlernen. Zur Reduktion der benötigten Trainingsläufe werden verschiedene modellgestützte Evolutionsstrategien untersucht und eingesetzt. Da zur Beurteilung der Verfahren zahlreiche Optimierungsläufe notwendig sind, wird darüber hinaus präsentiert, wie ein physikalischer Robotersimulator lernt, sich möglichst so zu bewegen wie der reale Roboter.
Solutions of Lévy-driven SDEs with unbounded coefficients as Feller processes
Creators: name: Kühn, Franziska
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J35, 60H10, 60G51, 60J25, 60J75, 60G44

description: Let $(L_t)_{t \geq 0}$ be a $k$-dimensional Lévy process and $σ: \mathbb{R}^d \to \mathbb{R}^{d \times k}$ a continuous function such that the Lévy-driven stochastic differential equation (SDE) $$dX_t = σ(X_{t-}) \, dL_t, \qquad X_0 \sim μ$$ has a unique weak solution. We show that the solution is a Feller process whose domain of the generator contains the smooth functions with compact support if, and only if, the Lévy measure $ν$ of the driving Lévy process $(L_t)_{t \geq 0}$ satisfies $$ν(\{y \in \mathbb{R}^k; |σ(x)y+x|
Jahn-Teller Distortion and Dissociation of CCl$_4^+$ by Transient X-ray Spectroscopy Simultaneously at the Carbon K- and Chlorine L-Edge
Creators: name: Ross, Andrew D.
name: Hait, Diptarka
name: Scutelnic, Valeriu
name: Haugen, Eric A.
name: Ridente, Enrico
name: Balkew, Mikias B.
name: Neumark, Daniel M.
name: Head-Gordon, Martin
name: Leone, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy (XTAS) and theoretical calculations are used to study CCl$_4^+$ prepared by 800 nm strong-field ionization. XTAS simultaneously probes atoms at the carbon K-edge (280-300 eV) and chlorine L-edge (195-220 eV). Comparison of experiment to X-ray spectra computed by orbital-optimized density functional theory (OO-DFT) indicates that after ionization, CCl$_4^+$ undergoes symmetry breaking driven by Jahn-Teller distortion away from the initial tetrahedral structure (T$_d$) in 6$\pm$2 fs. The resultant symmetry-broken covalently bonded form subsequently separates to a noncovalently bound complex between CCl$_3^+$ and Cl over 90$\pm$10 fs, which is again predicted by theory. Finally, after more than 800 fs, L-edge signals for atomic Cl are observed, indicating dissociation to free CCl$_3^+$ and Cl. The results for Jahn-Teller distortion to the symmetry-broken form of CCl$_4^+$ and formation of the Cl -- CCl$_3^+$ complex characterize previously unobserved new species along the route to dissociation.
On the problem of genre in the light of the portrayal of the hero in I.E. Babel's "Red cavalry"
Creators: name: Mendelson, Danuta.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The resilience instrument for older adults: scale development and preliminary validation
Creators: name: Hu, Chun
name: Zhang, Chun-Qing
name: Liu, Jingdong
name: Gan, Yiqun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: The aim of the current study was to develop and validate an age-specific resilience scale, the Resilience Instrument for Older Adults (RIOA), in a total sample of community-dwelling Chinese older adults (N = 470, with 112 males and 358 females) in Hong Kong, China. A sequential approach was used to develop the RIOA in three stages. In Study 1, scale candidate items were generated and initial content validity of the RIOA were explored. In Study 2, the factorial structure of the RIOA was extracted using exploratory factor analysis. In Study 3, exploratory structural equation modeling was conducted to test the structure. The reliability and validity of the RIOA were also examined. A pool of 70 candidate items for RIOA was established with good content validity in Study 1. In Study 2, seven factors were identified to construct resilience with 27 items: perseverance, self-reliance, spirituality, social support, living in the moment, environmental support, and meaningfulness, reflecting internal, external and existential dimensions. In Study 3, the RIOA demonstrated acceptable internal consistency (α = 0.87) and good criterion as well as construct validities, with 24 items finally confirmed. The measurement model also displayed satisfying model fit and was proven invariant across gender. This study provided a reliable and valid age-specific instrument for the measurement of resilience in older people. It is believed that this measure could be utilised in older adults who might benefit from exposure to resilience-based interventions geared toward strengthening quality of life.
Industrialization of economies with low Manufacturing base
Creators: name: Atlaw, Alemu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The basic theme of the dissertation is placing structure of economies as an intermediate explanatory factor for attainment of sustained growth of low-income economies that are in transition from stagnant agricultural economy to modern economic growth. The dissertation sets out with conceptualization of a model applicable to structures of low income and under industrialized economies, and hypothesizes on the long term outcomes of these structures. Sustained growth is the result of a particular structure in which manufacturing growth drives economic growth. A structure where transaction services have expanded beyond certain levels stunts manufacturing. Empirical investigations were carried out to test the hypotheses on 35 countries that were low-income economies in 1970.The results provide support for centrality of manufacturing and for the retarding effect of non-optimal growth of transaction services on manufacturing growth.
On semitopological interassociates of the bicyclic monoid
Creators: name: Gutik, Oleg
name: Maksymyk, Kateryna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20M10, 22A15, 54D40, 54D45, 54H10

description: Semitopological interassociates $\mathscr{C}_{m,n}$ of the bicyclic semigroup $\mathscr{C}(p,q)$ are studied. In particular, we show that for arbitrary non-negative integers $m$, $n$ and every Hausdorff topology $τ$ on $\mathscr{C}_{m,n}$ such that $\left(\mathscr{C}_{m,n},τ\right)$ is a semitopological semigroup, is discrete. Also, we prove that if an interassociate of the bicyclic monoid $\mathscr{C}_{m,n}$ is a dense subsemigroup of a Hausdorff semitopological semigroup $(S,\cdot)$ and $I=S\setminus\mathscr{C}_{m,n}\neq\varnothing$ then $I$ is a two-sided ideal of the semigroup $S$ and show that for arbitrary non-negative integers $m$, $n$, any Hausdorff locally compact semitopological semigroup $\mathscr{C}_{m,n}^0=\mathscr{C}_{m,n}\sqcup\{0\}$ is either discrete or compact.
description: 8 pages
A Unified and Modular Model Predictive Control Framework for Soft Continuum Manipulators under Internal and External Constraints
Creators: name: Spinelli, Filippo A.
name: Katzschmann, Robert K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Fluidically actuated soft robots have promising capabilities such as inherent compliance and user safety. The control of soft robots needs to properly handle nonlinear actuation dynamics, motion constraints, workspace limitations, and variable shape stiffness, so having a unique algorithm for all these issues would be extremely beneficial. In this work, we adapt Model Predictive Control (MPC), popular for rigid robots, to a soft robotic arm called SoPrA. We address the challenges that current control methods are facing, by proposing a framework that handles these in a modular manner. While previous work focused on Joint-Space formulations, we show through simulation and experimental results that Task-Space MPC can be successfully implemented for dynamic soft robotic control. We provide a way to couple the Piece-wise Constant Curvature and Augmented Rigid Body Model assumptions with internal and external constraints and actuation dynamics, delivering an algorithm that unites these aspects and optimizes over them. We believe that a MPC implementation based on our approach could be the way to address most of model-based soft robotics control issues within a unified and modular framework, while allowing to include improvements that usually belong to other control domains such as machine learning techniques.
description: Accepted for IROS2022, Kyoto. Several changes according to reviews: updated MODEL section II, included comparison with Quasi-Static control, revised plots and figures
(202274) Gertrude Catherine Paine
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.
Ferenc Liszt as precursor of Wagner, Debussy, Schoenberg and Bartok
Creators: name: Howard, Leslie.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Systematic construction of spin liquids on the square lattice from tensor networks with SU(2) symmetry
Creators: name: Mambrini, Matthieu
name: Orus, Roman
name: Poilblanc, Didier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elaborate a simple classification scheme of all rank-5 SU(2)-spin rotational symmetric tensors according to i) the on-site physical spin-$S$, (ii) the local Hilbert space $V^{\otimes 4}$ of the four virtual (composite) spins attached to each site and (iii) the irreducible representations of the $C_{4v}$ point group of the square lattice. We apply our scheme to draw a complete list of all SU(2)-symmetric translationally and rotationally-invariant Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) with bond dimension $D\leqslant 6$. All known SU(2)-symmetric PEPS on the square lattice are recovered and simple generalizations are provided in some cases. More generally, to each of our symmetry class can be associated a $({\cal D}-1)$-dimensional manifold of spin liquids (potentially) preserving lattice symmetries and defined in terms of ${\cal D}$ independent tensors of a given bond dimension $D$. In addition, generic (low-dimensional) families of PEPS explicitly breaking either (i) particular point-group lattice symmetries (lattice nematics) or (ii) time reversal symmetry (chiral spin liquids) or (iii) SU(2)-spin rotation symmetry down to $U(1)$ (spin nematics or Néel antiferromagnets) can also be constructed. We apply this framework to search for new topological chiral spin liquids characterized by well-defined chiral edge modes, as revealed by their entanglement spectrum. In particular, we show how the symmetrization of a double-layer PEPS leads to a chiral topological state with a gapless edge described by a SU(2)$_2$ Wess-Zumino-Witten model.
description: 29 pages, 9 figures, 3 Appendices, revised version. Supplementary material with classification up to D=6 in the source file, and exact tensor expressions available as a Supplementary Material in the PRB published article
The "Null-A" superintegrability for monomial matrix models
Creators: name: Barseghyan, S.
name: Popolitov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that superintegrability (character expansion) property persists in the exotic sector of the monomial non-Gaussian matrix model, with potential $\Tr X^r$, in pure phase, where the naive partition function $\langle 1 \rangle$ vanishes. The role of the (anomaly-corrected) partition function is played by $\left\langleχ_ρ\right\rangle$ -- the Schur average of the suitably chosen \textit{square} partiton $ρ$; such partitions are well-known to correspond to singular vectors of the Virasoro algebra. Further, non-zero are only Schur averages $\left\langle χ_μ\right\rangle$ for such $μ$ that have $ρ$ as their $r$-core, and superintegrability formula features the value of the \textit{skew} Schur function $χ_{μ/ρ}$ at special point. The associated topological recursion and Harer-Zagier formula generalizations so far remain obscure.
بحث الدلالات اللونية للأزياء في عروض المسرح المدرسي.pdf
Creators: name: الدغلاوي, حيدر جعفر
name: الدغلاوي, حيدر جعفر
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: تمثل الأزياء المسرحية مع بقية عناصر العرض المسرحي الجانب المرئي ذات الطيف الواسع الشاغل لفضاء العرض ، اذ تعمل على الكشف عن أبعاد الشخصية ( الفسيولوجي ، سوسيولوجي ، سيكولوجي ) فضلاً عن زمكان أحداث الحكاية . ويتشكل اللون في الزي على وفق الضرورات الدرامية من جهة والشخصيات من جهة اخرى ، لنجد أن العلاقة بين الشخصية واللون في الزي علاقة جدلية تعمل على إثارة المتلقي فكريا ومعرفيا بوساطة الدلالات اللونية للزي المسرحي . ومن هنا قدم الباحث دراسته الموسومة بـ ( الدلالات اللونية للأزياء في عروض المسرح المدرسي ( مسرحية غابة اليوتيبيا انموذجاً ) ، في ضوء اربعة فصول على وفق المنهج العلمي البحثي ساعياً لتحقيق هدف البحث الذي يتلخص بالكشف عن الدلالة اللونية في أزياء مسرحية غابة اليوتيبيا . وقد خلص البحث الى مجموعة من النتائج أهمها : أحالت الازياء دلالات من الناحية الاجتماعية للشخصية اذ أحالها المخرج الى الرمز السياسي وبخاصة في شخصية الديك الذي عبر عنه بالفنان في زمن النظام البائد ، وكذلك الحال مع شخصية الكلب الذي عبرت ازياءه وإكسسواراته عن مفهوم الحكومة في تلك الحقبة .
Suppression and azimuthal anisotropy of prompt and nonprompt J/psi production in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nuclear modification factor RAA and the azimuthal anisotropy coefficient v[2] of prompt and nonprompt (i.e. those from decays of b hadrons) J/psi mesons, measured from PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV at the LHC, are reported. The results are presented in several event centrality intervals and several kinematic regions, for transverse momenta pt > 6.5 GeV/c and rapidity abs(y) < 2.4, extending down to pt = 3 GeV/c in the 1.6 < abs(y) < 2.4 range. The v[2] of prompt J/psi is found to be nonzero, but with no strong dependence on centrality, rapidity, or pt over the full kinematic range studied. The measured v[2] of nonprompt J/psi is consistent with zero. The RAA of prompt J/psi exhibits a suppression that increases from peripheral to central collisions but does not vary as a function of either y or pt in the fiducial range. The nonprompt J/psi RAA shows a suppression which becomes stronger as rapidity or pt increase. The v[2] and nuclear suppression of open and hidden charm, and of open charm and beauty, are compared.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and DOI. All the figures and tables, including additional supplemental figures, can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/HIN-14-005/index.html
Die Struktur von Goethes "Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren" im Spiegel der Literaturwissenschaft
Creators: name: Ceferin, Aleksandra L. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Resonant subgap current transport in Josephson field effect transistor
Creators: name: Bezuglyi, E. V.
name: Bratus', E. N.
name: Shumeiko, V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the current-voltage characteristics (IVCs) of the Josephson field effect transistor - a ballistic SNINS junction with superconducting (S) electrodes confining a planar normal metal region (N), which is controlled by the gate induced potential barrier (I). The calculations were performed using the computation technique developed earlier for long single-channel junctions in the coherent multiple Andreev reflections (MAR) regime. We find significant difference of the subgap current structure in these junctions compared to the subharmonic gap structure in tunnel junctions and atomic-size point contacts. For long junctions, whose length significantly exceeds the coherence length, the IVC exhibits current peaks at multiples (harmonics) of the difference $δ_m$ between the static Andreev levels, $eV_n = nδ_m$. Moreover, the averaged IVC follows the power rather than exponential behavior, and has a universal scaling with the junction transparency. This result is qualitatively understood using an analytical approach based on the concept of resonant MAR trajectories. In shorter junctions whose length is comparable to the coherence length, the IVC has an exponential form common for point contacts, however the current structures appear at the subharmonics of the Andreev interlevel distance, $eV_n = δ_m/n$ rather than the gap subharmonics $2Δ/n$.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
(202268) Frederick Walter Dudding
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.
The article in a generative-transformational grammar of German
Creators: name: Newman, John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Exploring the cosmological consequences of JLA supernova data with improved flux-averaging technique
Creators: name: Wang, Shuang
name: Wen, Sixiang
name: Li, Miao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we explore the cosmological consequences of the "Joint Light-curve Analysis" (JLA) supernova (SN) data by using an improved flux-averaging (FA) technique, in which only the type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at high redshift are flux-averaged. Adopting the criterion of figure of Merit (FoM) and considering six dark energy (DE) parameterizations, we search the best FA recipe that gives the tightest DE constraints in the $(z_{cut}, Δz)$ plane, where $z_{cut}$ and $Δz$ are redshift cut-off and redshift interval of FA, respectively. Then, based on the best FA recipe obtained, we discuss the impacts of varying $z_{cut}$ and varying $Δz$, revisit the evolution of SN color luminosity parameter $β$, and study the effects of adopting different FA recipe on parameter estimation. We find that: (1) The best FA recipe is $(z_{cut} = 0.6, Δz=0.06)$, which is insensitive to a specific DE parameterization. (2) Flux-averaging JLA samples at $z_{cut} \geq 0.4$ will yield tighter DE constraints than the case without using FA. (3) Using FA can significantly reduce the redshift-evolution of $β$. (4) The best FA recipe favors a larger fractional matter density $Ω_{m}$. In summary, we present an alternative method of dealing with JLA data, which can reduce the systematic uncertainties of SNe Ia and give the tighter DE constraints at the same time. Our method will be useful in the use of SNe Ia data for precision cosmology.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for Publication in JCAP
Anti-microbial properties of a multi-component alloy
Creators: name: Murray, Anne F.
name: Bryan, Daniel
name: Garfinkel, David A.
name: Jogensen, Cameron S.
name: Tang, Nan
name: Liyanage, WLNC
name: Lass, Eric A.
name: Yang, Ying
name: Rack, Philip D.
name: Denes, Thomas G.
name: Gilbert, Dustin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High traffic touch surfaces such as doorknobs, countertops, and handrails can be transmission points for the spread of pathogens, emphasizing the need to develop materials that actively self-sanitize. Metals are frequently used for these surfaces due to their durability, but many metals also possess antimicrobial properties which function through a variety of mechanisms. This work investigates metallic alloys comprised of several bioactive metals with the target of achieving broad-spectrum, rapid bioactivity through synergistic activity. An entropy-motivated stabilization paradigm is proposed to prepare scalable alloys of copper, silver, nickel and cobalt. Using combinatorial sputtering, thin-film alloys were prepared on 100 mm wafers with 50% compositional grading of each element across the wafer. The films were then annealed and investigated for alloy stability. Bioactivity testing was performed on both the as-grown alloys and the annealed films using four microorganisms -- Phi6, MS2, Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli -- as surrogates for human viral and bacterial pathogens. Testing showed that after 30 s of contact with some of the test alloys, Phi6, an enveloped, single-stranded RNA bacteriophage that serves as a SARS-CoV 2 surrogate, was reduced up to 6.9 orders of magnitude (>99.9999%). Additionally, the non-enveloped, double-stranded DNA bacteriophage MS2, and the Gram-negative E. coli and Gram-positive B. subtilis bacterial strains showed a 5.0, 6.4, and 5.7 log reduction in activity after 30, 20 and 10 minutes, respectively. Bioactivity in the alloy samples showed a strong dependence on the composition, with the log reduction scaling directly with the Cu content. Concentration of Cu by phase separation after annealing improved activity in some of the samples. The results motivate a variety of themes which can be leveraged to design ideal bioactive surfaces.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures