cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(1294) Bessie Gadd
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.
Ανάλυση των βασικών απαιτήσεων, των λειτουργικοτήτων και των θεματικών αντικειμένων πλατφόρμας κυκλικής οικονομίας
Creators: name: Διάφας, Γεώργιος
name: Μερντάνι, Ανέστης
name: Ταλιουρίδης, Ιωάννης
name: Εφραιμίδης, Αλέξανδρος
name: Κοντίνη, Άννα
name: Παπαχαραλάμπους, Αλέξανδρος
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: πλατφόρμα, κυκλική οικονομία, οικονομία διαμοιρασμού, βιωσιμότητα, λειτουργικότητες

description: Στόχος του έργου EFFICIOUS είναι η δημιουργία μιας online πλατφόρμας, η οποία θα φέρνει σε επαφή εταιρείες, που επιθυμούν να ανταλλάξουν μη χρήσιμα (για τις ίδιες) προϊόντα, εξοπλισμό ή υπηρεσίες. Η πλατφόρμα θα προσφέρει επιπλέον τη δυνατότητα της ανακύκλωσης προϊόντων, ακόμα και της δωρεάς σε φιλανθρωπικές οργανώσεις ή ιδρύματα που το έχουν ανάγκη. Σε αυτή τη δημοσίευση, παρουσιάζεται η δημιουργία user stories. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο, καταγράφεται κάθε πιθανή χρήση της πλατφόρμας με σκοπό να αποτυπωθούν οι λειτουργίες της και όλες οι περιπτώσεις στις οποίες θα χρειαστεί ιδιαίτερη προσοχή στη φάση της υλοποίησης. Επίσης, περιγράφονται οι λειτουργίες οι οποίες μπορούν να προστεθούν στο μέλλον, βελτιώνοντας και κάνοντας την πλατφόρμα πιο ανταγωνιστική. Επιπρόσθετα, θα γίνει διερεύνηση του περιεχομένου της πλατφόρμας που κατασκευάζεται, όπως marketplace, προφίλ χρηστών, σύστημα ανταλλαγής μηνυμάτων κ.λπ. Το περιεχόμενο των σελίδων θα προσδιοριστεί σύμφωνα πάντα με τις ανάγκες των χρηστών.
Irregular conformal blocks, with an application to the fifth and fourth Painlevé equations
Creators: name: Nagoya, Hajime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop the theory of irregular conformal blocks of the Virasoro algebra. In previous studies, expansions of irregular conformal blocks at regular singular points were obtained as degeneration limits of regular conformal blocks; however, such expansions at irregular singular points were not clearly understood. This is because precise definitions of irregular vertex operators had not been provided previously. In this paper, we present precise definitions of irregular vertex operators of two types and we prove that one of our vertex operators exists uniquely. Then, we define irregular conformal blocks with at most two irregular singular points as expectation values of given irregular vertex operators. Our definitions provide an understanding of expansions of irregular conformal blocks and enable us to obtain expansions at irregular singular points. As an application, we propose conjectural formulas of series expansions of the tau functions of the fifth and fourth Painlevé equations, using expansions of irregular conformal blocks at an irregular singular point.
description: 26 pages
SF-SGL: Solver-Free Spectral Graph Learning from Linear Measurements
Creators: name: Zhang, Ying
name: Zhao, Zhiqiang
name: Feng, Zhuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work introduces a highly-scalable spectral graph densification framework (SGL) for learning resistor networks with linear measurements, such as node voltages and currents. We show that the proposed graph learning approach is equivalent to solving the classical graphical Lasso problems with Laplacian-like precision matrices. We prove that given $O(\log N)$ pairs of voltage and current measurements, it is possible to recover sparse $N$-node resistor networks that can well preserve the effective resistance distances on the original graph. In addition, the learned graphs also preserve the structural (spectral) properties of the original graph, which can potentially be leveraged in many circuit design and optimization tasks. To achieve more scalable performance, we also introduce a solver-free method (SF-SGL) that exploits multilevel spectral approximation of the graphs and allows for a scalable and flexible decomposition of the entire graph spectrum (to be learned) into multiple different eigenvalue clusters (frequency bands). Such a solver-free approach allows us to more efficiently identify the most spectrally-critical edges for reducing various ranges of spectral embedding distortions. Through extensive experiments for a variety of real-world test cases, we show that the proposed approach is highly scalable for learning sparse resistor networks without sacrificing solution quality. We also introduce a data-driven EDA algorithm for vectorless power/thermal integrity verifications to allow estimating worst-case voltage/temperature (gradient) distributions across the entire chip by leveraging a few voltage/temperature measurements.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2104.07867
(1290) Mary [Baynes]
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-linear evolution of the BAO scale in alternative theories of gravity
Creators: name: Bellini, Emilio
name: Zumalacarregui, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scale of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) imprinted in the matter power spectrum provides an almost-perfect standard ruler: it only suffers sub-percent deviations from fixed comoving length due to non-linear effects. We study the BAO shift in the large Horndeski class of gravitational theories and compute its magnitude in momentum space using second-order perturbation theory and a peak-background split. The standard prediction is affected by the modified linear growth, as well as by non-linear gravitational effects that alter the mode-coupling kernel. For covariant Galileon models, we find a $14-45\%$ enhancement of the BAO shift with respect to standard gravity and a distinct time evolution depending on the parameters. Despite the larger values, the shift remains well below the forecasted precision of next-generation galaxy surveys. Models that produce significant BAO shift would cause large redshift-space distortions or affect the bispectrum considerably. Our computation therefore validates the use of the BAO scale as a comoving standard ruler for tests of general dark energy models.
description: 4 pages plus references, 1 Figrue, 1 Table, PRD accepted
Interferon- -Oligodendrocyte Interactions in the Regulation of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
Creators: name: Strand, Krystle
name: McMahon, Eileen
name: Popko, Brian
name: Miller, Stephen D.
name: Balabanov, Roumen
name: Begolka, Wendy
name: Goswami, Rajendra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is an animal model of the human demyelinating disorder multiple sclerosis (MS). The immune cytokine interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) is believed to participate in disease pathogenesis in both EAE and MS. In the present study, we examined the significance of IFN-gamma-oligodendrocyte interactions in the course of EAE. For the purpose of our study, we used the previously described [proteolipid protein/suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (PLP/SOCS1)] transgenic mouse line that displays suppressed oligodendrocyte responsiveness to IFN-gamma. PLP/SOCS1 mice developed EAE with an accelerated onset associated with enhanced early inflammation and markedly increased oligodendrocyte apoptosis. Moreover, we found that IFN-gamma pretreatment of mature oligodendrocytes in vitro had a protective effect against oxidative stress and the inhibition of proteasome activity and resulted in upregulation in expression of a number of chemokines, including CXCL10 (IP10), CCL2 (MCP-1), CCL3 (MCP-1alpha), and CCL5 (RANTES). These results suggest that IFN-gamma-oligodendrocyte interactions are of significance to the clinical and pathological aspects of EAE. In addition, the present study suggests that oligodendrocytes are not simply targets of inflammatory injury but active participants of the neuroimmune network operating during the course of EAE.
(1291) Ethel [Russell]
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.
ENHANCING THE NURSE-PATIENT COMMUNICATION AND PATIENT SATISFACTION
Creators: name: Carolina Uranga
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: nurse-patient relationship
communication strategies
patient satisfaction
patient experience
nursing communication
AIDET
commit to sit

description: Interventions to enhance a trusting patient-nurse relationship are paramount to improving patient satisfaction. Communicating effectively and understanding the patient’s perspective has lowered patients’ anxiety and increased patients’ sense of control and confidence regarding their health status. Purpose: Enhance The HOPE Experience Program by incorporating the Commit to Sit component and assessing its impact on patient satisfaction. The aims were to: a) increase nurses’ knowledge and skills on the elements of the Commit to Sit; b) increase the number of nurses who implement Commit to Sit strategy; and c) evaluate patient satisfaction using the CAHPS Top Box Scores for nursing communication. Methods: Forty registered nurses in a 33-bed oncology unit received educational intervention between September and October 2023. A pre-post-test design was utilized to measure changes in knowledge, practice, and patient satisfaction using a survey, observations audits, and CAHPS Top Box Scores. Intellectus Statistics software was used to analyze pre-and post-data using paired and independent samples t-test with a significant level set at P<.005. Results: Over 50% of eligible nurses participated. The educational intervention significantly improved nurses’ knowledge (p<.001) and skills (p=.001); but not patient satisfaction. Discussion: Implementation of Commit to Sit was possible. Barriers identified to sitting during patient interactions were insufficient chairs, possibly due to inconsistent patient room sizes. Conclusion: Ongoing education and observations of The HOPE Experience program and Commit to Sit strategies are vital to hardwiring them into practice.
Boosting thermoelectric efficiency using time-dependent control
Creators: name: Zhou, Hangbo
name: Thingna, Juzar
name: Hänggi, Peter
name: Wang, Jian-Sheng
name: Li, Baowen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermoelectric efficiency is defined as the ratio of power delivered to the load of a device to the rate of heat flow from the source. Till date, it has been studied in presence of thermodynamic constraints set by the Onsager reciprocal relation and the second law of thermodynamics that severely bottleneck the thermoelectric efficiency. In this study, we propose a pathway to bypass these constraints using a time-dependent control and present a theoretical framework to study dynamic thermoelectric transport in the far from equilibrium regime. The presence of a control yields the sought after substantial efficiency enhancement and importantly a significant amount of power supplied by the control is utilised to convert the wasted-heat energy into useful-electric energy. Our findings are robust against nonlinear interactions and suggest that external time-dependent forcing, which can be incorporated with existing devices, provides a beneficial scheme to boost thermoelectric efficiency.
description: 8 pages + 3 figures (Accepted in Scientific Reports)
Supplementary Material from Integrating plant species contribution to mycorrhizal and seed dispersal mutualistic networks.
Creators: name: Correia, Marta
name: Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana
name: Timóteo, Sérgio
name: Freitas, Helena
name: Heleno, Ruben
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Mutualistic interactions like those established between plants and mycorrhizal fungi or seed dispersers are key drivers of plant population dynamics and ecosystem functioning; however, these interactions have rarely been explored together. We assembled a tripartite fungi–plant–disperser network in the Gorongosa National Park—Mozambique, to test (1) if diversity and importance of plant mutualists above- and belowground are correlated, and (2) whether biotically and abiotically dispersed plants are associated with distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). We quantified seed dispersal by animals for 1 year and characterized the AMF of 26 common plant species. Sixteen plant species were dispersed by 15 animals and colonized by 48 AMF virtual taxa (VT), while the remaining 10 plant species were not dispersed by animals and associated with 34 AMF VT. We found no evidence for a correlation between the number of plant partners above- and belowground or on plant specialization on both types of partners. We also found no evidence for differentiation of AMF communities between biotically and abiotically dispersed plants. Our results suggest that the establishment of plant interactions with seed dispersers and mycorrhizal fungi is largely independent and that both biotically and abiotically dispersed plants seem to associate with similar communities of AMF.
Extended Decoupled Anisotropic Solutions in $f(\mathcal{R},\mathcal{T},\mathcal{R}_{γχ}\mathcal{T}^{γχ})$ Gravity
Creators: name: Sharif, M.
name: Naseer, Tayyab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we consider static spherical structure to develop some anisotropic solutions by employing the extended gravitational decoupling scheme in the background of $f(\mathcal{R},\mathcal{T},\mathcal{R}_{γχ}\mathcal{T}^{γχ})$ gravity, where $\mathcal{R}$ and $\mathcal{T}$ indicate the Ricci scalar and trace of the energy-momentum tensor, respectively. We transform both radial as well as temporal metric functions and apply them on the field equations that produce two different sets corresponding to the decoupling parameter $ξ$. The first set is associated with isotropic distribution, i.e., modified Krori-Barua solution. The second set is influenced from anisotropic factor and contains unknowns which are determined by taking some constraints. The impact of decoupling parameter is then analyzed on the obtained physical variables and anisotropy. We also investigate energy conditions and some other parameters such as mass, compactness and redshift graphically. It is found that our solution corresponding to pressure-like constraint shows stable behavior throughout in this gravity for the considered range of $ξ$.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures
Indirect reach of heavy MSSM Higgs bosons by precision measurements at future lepton colliders
Creators: name: Kakizaki, Mitsuru
name: Kanemura, Shinya
name: Kikuchi, Mariko
name: Matsui, Toshinori
name: Yokoya, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), the bottom Yukawa coupling of the Higgs boson can considerably deviate from its Standard Model prediction due to non-decoupling effects. We point out that the ratio of the Higgs boson decay branching fraction to a bottom quark pair and that to a $W$-boson pair from the same production channel is particularly sensitive to large additional MSSM Higgs boson mass regions at future electron-positron colliders. Based on this precision measurement, we explicitly show the indirect discovery reach of the additional Higgs bosons according to planned programs of the International Linear Collider.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables
Supplementary Material from Integrating plant species contribution to mycorrhizal and seed dispersal mutualistic networks
Creators: name: Correia, Marta
name: Rodríguez-Echeverría, Susana
name: Timóteo, Sérgio
name: Freitas, Helena
name: Heleno, Ruben
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Mutualistic interactions like those established between plants and mycorrhizal fungi or seed dispersers are key drivers of plant population dynamics and ecosystem functioning; however, these interactions have rarely been explored together. We assembled a tripartite fungi–plant–disperser network in the Gorongosa National Park—Mozambique, to test (1) if diversity and importance of plant mutualists above- and belowground are correlated, and (2) whether biotically and abiotically dispersed plants are associated with distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). We quantified seed dispersal by animals for 1 year and characterized the community of 26 common plant species. Sixteen plant species were dispersed by 15 animals and colonized by 48 AMF virtual taxa (VT), while the remaining 10 plant species were not dispersed by animals and associated with 34 AMF VT. We found no evidence for a correlation between the number of plant partners above- and belowground or on plant specialization on both types of partners. We also found no evidence for differentiation of AMF communities between biotically and abiotically dispersed plants. Our results suggest that the establishment of plant interactions with seed dispersers and mycorrhizal fungi is largely independent and that both biotically and abiotically dispersed plants seem to associate with similar communities of AMF.
Lymphotoxin   Receptor (Lt R): Dual Roles in Demyelination and Remyelination and Successful Therapeutic Intervention Using Lt R-Ig Protein
Creators: name: Plant, Sheila R.
name: O'Connor, Brian P.
name: Ting, Jenny P.Y.
name: Carson, Monica J.
name: Fu, Yang Xin
name: Thrash, J. Cameron
name: Iocca, Heather A.
name: Wang, Ying
name: Arnett, Heather A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Inflammation mediated by macrophages is increasingly found to play a central role in diseases and disorders that affect a myriad of organs, prominent among these are diseases of the CNS. The neurotoxicant-induced, cuprizone model of demyelination is ideally suited for the analysis of inflammatory events. Demyelination on exposure to cuprizone is accompanied by predictable microglial activation and astrogliosis, and, after cuprizone withdrawal, this activation reproducibly diminishes during remyelination. This study demonstrates enhanced expression of lymphotoxin beta receptor (Lt betaR) during the demyelination phase of this model, and Lt betaR is found in areas enriched with microglial and astroglial cells. Deletion of the Lt betaR gene (Lt betaR-/-) resulted in a significant delay in demyelination but also a slight delay in remyelination. Inhibition of Lt betaR signaling by an Lt betaR-Ig fusion decoy protein successfully delayed demyelination in wild-type mice. Unexpectedly, this Lt betaR-Ig decoy protein dramatically accelerated the rate of remyelination, even after the maximal pathological disease state had been reached. This strongly indicates the beneficial role of Lt betaR-Ig in the delay of demyelination and the acceleration of remyelination. The discrepancy between remyelination rates in these systems could be attributed to developmental abnormalities in the immune systems of Lt betaR-/- mice. These findings bode well for the use of an inhibitory Lt betaR-Ig as a candidate biological therapy in demyelinating disorders, because it is beneficial during both demyelination and remyelination.
(1289) John Baynes
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 height of multiple edge plane trees
Creators: name: Heuberger, Clemens
name: Prodinger, Helmut
name: Wagner, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A16, 05A15, 05C05, 60C05

description: Multi-edge trees as introduced in a recent paper of Dziemiańczuk are plane trees where multiple edges are allowed. We first show that $d$-ary multi-edge trees where the out-degrees are bounded by $d$ are in bijection with classical $d$-ary trees. This allows us to analyse parameters such as the height. The main part of this paper is concerned with multi-edge trees counted by their number of edges. The distribution of the number of vertices as well as the height are analysed asymptotically.
Spectral distortions of the CMB dipole
Creators: name: Balashev, S. A.
name: Kholupenko, E. E.
name: Chluba, J.
name: Ivanchik, A. V.
name: Varshalovich, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) dipole anisotropy related to the primordial recombination radiation (PRR) and primordial $y$- and $μ$-distortions. The signals arise due to our motion relative to the CMB restframe and appear as a frequency-dependent distortion of the CMB temperature dipole. To leading order, the expected relative distortion of the CMB dipole does not depend on the particular observation directions and reaches the level of $10^{-6}$ for the PRR- and $μ$-distortions and $10^{-5}$ for the $y$-distortion in the frequency range 1 -- 700 GHz. The temperature differences arising from the dipole anisotropy of the relic CMB distortions depend on the observation directions. For mutually opposite directions, collinear to the CMB dipole axis, the temperature differences because of the PRR- and $μ$-dipole anisotropy attain values $ΔT\simeq 10\,$nK in the considered range. The temperature difference arising from the $y$-dipole anisotropy may reach values of up to $1\,μ$K. The key features of the considered effect are as follow: (i) an observation of the effect does not require absolute calibration; (ii) patches of sky with minimal foreground contamination can be chosen. Future measurements of the CMB dipole distortion thus will provide an alternative method for direct detection of the PRR-, $y$-, and $μ$-distortions. The $y$-distortion dipole may be detectable with PIXIE at a few standard deviations.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, published in ApJ
IMPROVING SCHOOL NURSE CONFIDENCE WITH CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING TECHNOLOGY
Creators: name: Stacy Seiler
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: school nurse
type 1 diabetes
T1D
continuous glucose monitoring
CGM

description: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) offers reliable glycemic measurements and improved health outcomes for pediatric patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1D). With CGM use becoming the new pediatric standard of care for T1D management, it is increasingly common for children with diabetes to arrive in school wearing CGM devices. School nurses’ lack of familiarity with this new technology can lead to dangerous methods of assessment, interpretation, and treatment of sensor glucose results in the school environment. This project aimed to increase confidence among school nurses in providing accurate and safe treatment decisions for students with T1D by developing and evaluating an evidence-based, standardized CGM protocol. A total of 22 school nurses were recruited to complete an adapted Diabetes Device Confidence Scale, assessing their confidence in operating CGM devices before and after exposure to a standardized CGM assessment protocol. Results revealed an overall increase in confidence related to CGM knowledge, use, and assessment following observation of an educational module detailing a standardized approach to CGM assessment tailored to school nurses. Open-ended responses from participants were additionally gathered to identify barriers and facilitators for implementation of this protocol into clinical practice. This project highlights the potential of a standardized assessment tool for school nurses to increase their confidence in caring for students with CGMs at school, informing future integration of CGM training into clinical practice guidelines to promote safe and accurate treatment decisions for students with T1D at school.
Additional data and results from Rise of the titans: baleen whales became giants earlier than thought.
Creators: name: Bianucci, Giovanni
name: Marx, Felix G.
name: Collareta, Alberto
name: Stefano, Agata Di
name: Landini, Walter
name: Morigi, Caterina
name: Varola, Angelo
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Figures S2, Tables S2-S3, detailed locality and age data, and sensitivity analysis
Positive operator-valued measures in quantum decision theory
Creators: name: Yukalov, V. I.
name: Sornette, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the correct mathematical foundation of quantum decision theory, dealing with uncertain events, requires the use of positive operator-valued measure that is a generalization of the projection-valued measure. The latter is appropriate for operationally testable events, while the former is necessary for characterizing operationally uncertain events. In decision making, one has to distinguish composite non-entangled events from composite entangled events. The mathematical definition of entangled prospects is based on the theory of Hilbert-Schmidt spaces and is analogous to the definition of entangled statistical operators in quantum information theory. We demonstrate that the necessary condition for the appearance of an interference term in the quantum probability is the occurrence of entangled prospects and the existence of an entangled strategic state of a decision maker. The origin of uncertainties in standard lotteries is explained.
description: Latex file, 17 pages
Phasic Dopamine Release Evoked by Abused Substances Requires Cannabinoid Receptor Activation
Creators: name: Cheer, Joseph F.
name: Ariansen, Jennifer L.
name: Phillips, Paul E.M.
name: Wassum, Kate M.
name: Aragona, Brandon J.
name: Sombers, Leslie A.
name: Heien, Michael L.A.V.
name: Wightman, R. Mark
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Transient surges of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens are associated with drug seeking. Using a voltammetric sensor with high temporal and spatial resolution, we demonstrate differences in the temporal profile of dopamine concentration transients caused by acute doses of nicotine, ethanol, and cocaine in the nucleus accumbens shell of freely moving rats. Despite differential release dynamics, all drug effects are uniformly inhibited by administration of rimonabant, a cannabinoid receptor (CB
Discovery of GRS 1915+105 variability patterns in the Rapid Burster
Creators: name: Bagnoli, T.
name: Zand, J. J. M. in 't
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of two new types of variability in the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary MXB 1730-335 (the 'Rapid Burster'). In one observation in 1999, it exhibits a large-amplitude quasi-periodic oscillation with a period of about 7 min. In another observation in 2008, it exhibits two 4-min long 75 per cent deep dips 44 min apart. These two kinds of variability are very similar to the so-called $ρ$ or 'heartbeat' variability and the $θ$ variability, respectively, seen in the black hole low-mass X-ray binaries GRS 1915+105 and IGR J17091-3624. This shows that these types of behavior are unrelated to a black hole nature of the accretor. Our findings also show that these kinds of behaviour need not take place at near-Eddington accretion rates. We speculate that they may rather be related to the presence of a relatively wide orbit with an orbital period in excess of a few days and about the relation between these instabilities and the type II bursts.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS letters
(1287) Anna [Baynes]
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.
Outer crust of a cold non-accreting magnetar
Creators: name: Basilico, D.
name: Arteaga, D. Peña
name: Roca-Maza, X.
name: Colò, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The outer crust structure and composition of a cold, non-accreting magnetar is studied. We model the outer crust to be made of fully equilibrated matter where ionized nuclei form a Coulomb crystal embedded in an electron gas. The main effects of the strong magnetic field are those of quantizing the electron motion in Landau levels and of modifying the nuclear single particle levels producing, on average, an increased binding of nucleons in nuclei present in the Coulomb lattice. The effect of an homogeneous and constant magnetic field on nuclear masses has been predicted by using a covariant density functional, in which induced currents and axial deformation due to the presence of a magnetic field that breaks time-reversal symmetry have been included self-consistently in the nucleon and meson equations of motion. Although not yet observed, for $B\gtrsim 10^{16}$G both effects contribute to produce different compositions and to enlarge the range of pressures typically present in common neutron stars. Specifically, in such a regime, the magnetic field effects on nuclei favor the appearance of heavier nuclei at low pressures. As $B$ increases, such heavier nuclei are also preferred up to larger pressures. In the most extreme case, the whole outer crust is almost made of ${}_{40}^{92}$Zr$_{52}$.
description: Published version
Additional data and results from Rise of the titans: baleen whales became giants earlier than thought
Creators: name: Bianucci, Giovanni
name: Marx, Felix G.
name: Collareta, Alberto
name: Stefano, Agata Di
name: Landini, Walter
name: Morigi, Caterina
name: Varola, Angelo
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Figures S2, Tables S2-S3, detailed locality and age data, and sensitivity analysis
Recent Advances in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Systems Security
Creators: name: Ghubaish, Ali
name: Salman, Tara
name: Zolanvari, Maede
name: Unal, Devrim
name: Al-Ali, Abdulla
name: Jain, Raj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapid evolutions in micro-computing, mini-hardware manufacturing, and machine to machine (M2M) communications have enabled novel Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to reshape many networking applications. Healthcare systems are among these applications that have been revolutionized with IoT, introducing an IoT branch known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) systems. IoMT systems allow remote monitoring of patients with chronic diseases. Thus, it can provide timely patients' diagnostic that can save their life in case of emergencies. However, security in these critical systems is a major challenge facing their wide utilization. In this paper, we present state-of-the-art techniques to secure IoMT systems' data during collection, transmission, and storage. We comprehensively overview IoMT systems' potential attacks, including physical and network attacks. Our findings reveal that most security techniques do not consider various types of attacks. Hence, we propose a security framework that combines several security techniques. The framework covers IoMT security requirements and can mitigate most of its known attacks.
Quantum gates by periodic driving
Creators: name: Shi, Z. C.
name: Yi, X. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological quantum computation has been extensively studied due to its robustness against decoherence. A conventional way to realize it is by adiabatic operations---it requires relatively long time to accomplish so that the speed of quantum computation slows down. In this work, we present a method to realize topological quantum computation by periodic driving. Compared to the adiabatic evolution, the total operation time can be regulated arbitrarily by the amplitude and frequency of the periodic driving. For the sinusoidal driving, we give an expression for the total operation time in the high-frequency limit. For the square wave driving, we derive an exact analytical expression for the evolution operator without any approximations, and show that the amplitude and frequency of driving field depend on its period and total operation time. This could provide a new direction in regulations of the operation time in topological quantum computation.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Gender Roles on Climate Smart Agriculture on Small Holders Farmers of some Selected Root and Tuber Crops in Imo State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Agoh E.C
name: Chukwuemeka O.S
name: Ekeledo P.I.
name: Udemezue, J.C.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: The study assessed gender roles on climate smart agriculture on small holder’s farmers of some selected root and tuber crops (cassava, sweet potato, yam and ginger) in Imo state Nigeria. Gender disparities persist in agriculture, particularly among smallholder farmers cultivating root and tuber crops. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used in selecting 108 respondents. Purposively, male and female farmers who were involved in climate smart agriculture of root and tuber crops were selected. Data were collected with the aid of questionnaire and analyzed with statistical tools such as frequency tables, percentages, and mean. The result reveals that the mean age for both genders was 50 years with the majority being married (64.8%) and educated (63.8%). Family land was the primary source of land ownership (55.5%), with an average farm size of less than 1 hectare. Analysis of CSA practices utilization highlights gender disparities across various practices. In water management, males showed higher utilization rates in precision irrigation (52%) and drip irrigation (43%) compared to females. Similarly, in smart agricultural practices, males exhibited higher adoption rates in mixed farming (77%) and integrated pest management (76%) compared to females. However, females showed higher adoption rates in some practices like mulching (73%) and adjusting planting dates (85%). Age-related patterns in CSA practices adoption were observed, with older farmers utilized precision irrigation, drainage management, and bio-gas, while younger farmers preferred drip irrigation, cover crops, and mulching. The study recommends a well tailored age specific educational training program to address the gender gaps among farmers.
Stepping into the Third Dimension
Creators: name: Feng, David
name: Jen, Dennis
name: Weinberg, Richard J.
name: Taylor II, Russell M.
name: Burette, Alain
name: Marshburn, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Recent advances in optical-sectioning microscopy, along with novel fluorescent proteins and probes, give us the tools to image molecules and their interactions in space and time. Investigators using these tools routinely collect multichannel three-dimensional (3D) images and time series, but analyzing such complex datasets requires sophisticated visualization techniques. We here provide an overview of the principles and practices of 3D visualization of multichannel microscopic data. We also describe ImageSurfer, a new software package for volume visualization and data analysis. ImageSurfer is freely available (www.imagesurfer.org) and provides powerful interactive tools to explore and analyze complex multichannel 3D datasets. Although ImageSurfer is designed with fluorescent microscopy in mind, it is also effective for other types of data, including 3D datasets acquired by functional magnetic resonance imaging and EM tomography.
(1288) Emma [Baynes]
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.
Supplemental figure 1, Colors used during transitive inference training;Design of the training and testing apparatus; Supplemental Table 1 from Transitive inference in Polistes paper wasps.
Creators: name: Tibbetts, Elizabeth A.
name: Agudelo, Jorge
name: Sohini Pandit
name: Riojas, Jessica
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Design of the training and testing apparatus. During training, wasps were free to move through the rectangle for 30 seconds. The area near the negative stimulus was electrified, while the area near the neutral stimulus was not electrified. During the 10 trial test, wasps were removed as soon as they ‘made a choice’ by moving past the small dividers 2.5cm from each end of the rectangle. No part of the arena was electrified for the transitive inference test where preference for B vs D and A vs E were tested. P. dominula drawing by John Megahan.; Results of one-sample t-test comparing choices to the neutral 50:50 expectation. AB first indicates wasps that were trained to discriminate A vs B on day 1. DE first indicates wasps that were trained to discriminate D vs E on day 1.
Discovery of blue companions to two southern Cepheids: WW Car and FN Vel
Creators: name: Kovtyukh, V.
name: Szabados, L.
name: Chekhonadskikh, F.
name: Lemasle, B.
name: Belik, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A large number of high-dispersion spectra of classical Cepheids were obtained in the region of the CaII H+K spectral lines. The analysis of these spectra allowed us to detect the presence of a strong Balmer line, H$ε$, for several Cepheids, interpreted as the signature of a blue companion: the presence of a sufficiently bright blue companion to the Cepheid results in a discernible strengthening of the CaII H + Hepsilon line relative to the CaII K line. We investigated 103 Cepheids, including those with known hot companions (B5-B6 main-sequence stars) in order to test the method. We could confirm the presence of a companion to WW Car and FN Vel (the existence of the former was only suspected before) and we found that these companions are blue hot stars. The method remains efficient when the orbital velocity changes in a binary system cannot be revealed and other methods of binarity detection are not efficient.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, published on MNRAS in March 2015
The Solar Wind Charge-Exchange Production Factor for Hydrogen
Creators: name: Kuntz, K. D.
name: Collado-Vega, Y. M.
name: Collier, M. R.
name: Connor, H. K.
name: Cravens, T. E.
name: Koutroumpa, D.
name: Porter, F. S.
name: Robertson, I. P.
name: Sibeck, D. G.
name: Snowden, S. L.
name: Thomas, N. E.
name: Wash, B. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production factor, or broad band averaged cross-section, for solar wind charge-exchange with hydrogen producing emission in the ROSAT 1/4 keV (R12) band is $3.8\pm0.2\times10^{-20}$ count degree$^{-2}$ cm$^4$. This value is derived from a comparison of the Long-Term (background) Enhancements in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey with magnetohysdrodynamic simulations of the magnetosheath. This value is 1.8 to 4.5 times higher than values derived from limited atomic data, suggesting that those values may be missing a large number of faint lines. This production factor is important for deriving the exact amount of 1/4 keV band flux that is due to the Local Hot Bubble, for planning future observations in the 1/4 keV band, and for evaluating proposals for remote sensing of the magnetosheath. The same method cannot be applied to the 3/4 keV band as that band, being composed primarily of the oxygen lines, is far more sensitive to the detailed abundances and ionization balance in the solar wind. We also show, incidentally, that recent efforts to correlate XMM-Newton observing geometry with magnetosheath solar wind charge-exchange emission in the oxygen lines have been, quite literally, misguided. Simulations of the inner heliosphere show that broader efforts to correlate heliospheric solar wind charge-exchange with local solar wind parameters are unlikely to produce useful results.
description: 19 pages, 16 figures, submitted to ApJ
title: Reboots in Lazy-Grounding ASP-Solving
Creators: name: Behofsics, Paul
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Answer Set Programming
subject: Lazy Grounding
subject: Logic Programming
subject: Declarative Problem Solving
subject: Solvers

description: Answer set programming (ASP) is a declarative problem solving approach from the area of knowledge representation and reasoning. It uses logical rules for the purpose of knowledge processing. The state-of-the-art solvers for answer set programs initially, before starting the solving process, perform a grounding phase that potentially leads to an exponential blowup in memory. This effect is called the grounding bottleneck. The lazy-grounding approach interleaves the grounding and solving phases to avoid this grounding bottleneck. In lazy-grounding, rules are grounded incrementally as soon as they are relevant to the solving process. So far the lazy-grounding ASP solver Alpha considers a monotonically growing set of rules obtained from grounding. This potentially leads to ground rules becoming detrimental to the search performance as they are stored and processed for longer than they remain of interest to the search. This thesis proposes a technique, called reboots, that allows the removal of ground rules obtained during the search. Reboots are defined and their correctness is proven formally. Several strategies for the decision when to perform reboots are proposed. Furthermore, reboots and proposed strategies are implemented for the Alpha solver. Experimental results show that, using this technique, larger instances can be solved and performance improvements can be achieved for some problems.
Deliverable 1.2. SUNRISE Technological Roadmap
Creators: name: Faber, Carina
name: Yagut Allahverdiyeva-Rinne
name: Artero, Vincent
name: Baraton, Laurent
name: Barbieri, Andrea
name: Bercegol, Hervé
name: Fleischer, Maximilian
name: Huynhthi, Han
name: Kargul, Joanna
name: Lepaumier, Hélène
name: Lopez, Laura
name: Magnuson, Ann
name: Roth, Arne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: roadmap, carbon-neutral society, fossil-free fuels, climate stability, renewable energy

description: Roadmap document for the SUNRISE action, it aims at promoting a large-scale research initiative to provide short and long-term solutions to enable the transition to a circular economy powered by sunlight through the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals. SUNRISE’s main objective is to facilitate a carbon-neutral society by using abundantly available molecules – carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen – to replace fossil-based raw materials for the production of a broad range of chemicals and fuels. This way, our initiative targets a sustainable CO2 cycle, where the concentration in the atmosphere is decreased and then maintained at a level compatible with climate stability, committing to the sustainable use of natural resources and land.