cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effect of temperature and pH on the growth and biomechanics of coralline algae
Creators: name: Guenther, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Climate change is progressing rapidly and is causing shifts in ecosystem function, species distributions, biodiversity, and abundances worldwide. In this thesis, I explore the physiological and biomechanical responses of red algae in multiple life history stages to climate change. In Chapter 1, I introduce the looming threat of climate change, and some of the forces driving ocean acidification. I introduce my study system and my study species: rocky intertidal ecosystems and articulated coralline algae. I also describe potential differences in responses to ocean acidification based on life history stage. Finally, I give an overview of my dissertation and objectives. In Chapter 2, I investigate the effect that ocean acidification may have on spore stages of red algae. Under reduced pH, I document a reduction in spore settlement of both Pterosiphonia bipinnata and Corallina vancouveriensis, and weakened spore attachment in C. vancouveriensis. Results demonstrate that ocean acidification can negatively impact macroalgal spore adhesion in both calcified and non-calcified algae, but in different phases of their spore adhesion process. In Chapter 3, I explore the effect of elevated pCO₂ and temperature on the growth, calcification, and material properties of two species of articulated coralline algae. I found that increased temperatures and reduced pH were found to negatively affect growth rates of these two species of coralline algae. On the other hand, increased temperature and reduced pH had little influence on the amount of calcium carbonate in the intergenicula, and also had minimal effects on the biomechanical properties. In Chapter 4, I explore the amount of natural variability of chemistry in tidepools and attempted to relate chemical differences to differences in Corallina vancouveriensis growth, calcification, and biomechanics. In general, I found that organisms within tidepools greatly alter the chemistry of the surrounding water, and these changes are larger in magnitude than what is predicted for global climate change. I also found that, despite extreme changes in chemistry during low tides, C. vancouveriensis was still able to grow all year long.
Dark Viscous Fluid coupled with Dark Matter and future singularity
Creators: name: Sebastiani, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study effects of viscous fluid coupled with dark matter in our universe. We consider bulk viscosity in the cosmic fluid and we suppose the existence of a coupling between fluid and dark matter, in order to reproduce a stable de Sitter universe protected against future-time singularities. More general inhomogeneous fluids are studied related to future singularities.
description: 11 pages
title: Fish gastrointestinal sampling protocol for microplastics extraction and quantification
Creators: name: De Witte, Bavo
name: Catarino, Ana
name: Vandecasteele, Loes
name: Dekimpe, Michael
name: Deloof, Daphne
name: Pint, Steven
name: Hostens, Kristian (Kris)
name: Everaert, Gert
name: Torreele, Els
Publisher: name: Flanders Marine Institute
Year: 2021

description: Title : Volume : Issue : Pagination : 4
Optimization of the transmission of observable expectation values and observable statistics in Continuous Variable Teleportation
Creators: name: Farias, L. Albano
name: Stephany, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the statistics of observables in continuous variable quantum teleportation in the formalism of the characteristic function. We derive expressions for average values of output state observables in particular cumulants which are additive in terms of the input state and the resource of teleportation. Working with Squeezed Bell-like states, which may be optimized in a free parameter for better teleportation performance we discuss the relation between resources optimal for fidelity and for different observable averages. We obtain the values of the free parameter which optimize the central momenta and cumulants up to fourth order. For the cumulants the distortion between in and out states due to teleportation depends only on the resource. We obtain optimal parameters for the second and fourth order cumulants which do not depend on the squeezing of the resource. The second order central momenta which is equal to the second order cumulants and the photon number average are optimized by the same resource. We show that the optimal fidelity resource, found in reference (Phys. Rev. A {\bf 76}, 022301 (2007)) to depend also on the characteristics of input, tends for high squeezing to the resource which optimizes the second order momenta. A similar behavior is obtained for the resource which optimizes the photon statistics which is treated here using the sum of the squared differences in photon probabilities of input and output states as the distortion measure. This is interpreted to mean that the distortions associated to second order momenta dominates the behavior of the output state for large squeezing of the resource. Optimal fidelity and optimal photon statistics resources are compared and is shown that for mixtures of Fock states they are equivalent.
description: 25 pages, 11 figures
The complex universe: recent observations and theoretical challenges
Creators: name: Labini, Francesco Sylos
name: Pietronero, Luciano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large scale distribution of galaxies in the universe displays a complex pattern of clusters, super-clusters, filaments and voids with sizes limited only by the boundaries of the available samples. A quantitative statistical characterization of these structures shows that galaxy distribution is inhomogeneous in these samples, being characterized by large-amplitude fluctuations of large spatial extension. Over a large range of scales, both the average conditional density and its variance show a nontrivial scaling behavior: at small scales, r<20 Mpc/h, the average (conditional) density scales as 1/r. At larger scales, the density depends only weakly (logarithmically) on the system size and density fluctuations follow the Gumbel distribution of extreme value statistics. These complex behaviors are different from what is expected in a homogeneous distribution with Gaussian fluctuations. The observed density inhomogeneities pose a fundamental challenge to the standard picture of cosmology but it also represent an important opportunity which points to new directions with respect to many cosmological puzzles. Indeed, the fact that matter distribution is not uniform, in the limited range of scales sampled by observations, rises the question of understanding how inhomogeneities affect the large-scale dynamics of the universe. We discuss several attempts which try to model inhomogeneities in cosmology, considering their effects with respect to the role and abundance of dark energy and dark matter.
description: 30 pages, 10 figures
Nanoscale Effects on Heterojunction Electron Gases in GaN/AlGaN Core/Shell Nanowires
Creators: name: Wong, Bryan M.
name: Léonard, François
name: Li, Qiming
name: Wang, George T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic properties of heterojunction electron gases formed in GaN/AlGaN core/shell nanowires with hexagonal and triangular cross-sections are studied theoretically. We show that at nanoscale dimensions, the non-polar hexagonal system exhibits degenerate quasi-one-dimensional electron gases at the hexagon corners, which transition to a core-centered electron gas at lower doping. In contrast, polar triangular core/shell nanowires show either a non-degenerate electron gas on the polar face or a single quasi-one-dimensional electron gas at the corner opposite the polar face, depending on the termination of the polar face. More generally, our results indicate that electron gases in closed nanoscale systems are qualitatively different from their bulk counterparts.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures. To appear in Nano Letters. Corrected some typos
Choroidal and Brain Metastases from Papillary Thyroid Cancer
Creators: name: Poyraz, Ahmet
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Acceptance testing
subject: Education
subject: Metastases

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 44 years
description: Clinical History: A 44-year-old male with papillary thyroid cancer was admitted to our hospital with evidence of headache, drowsiness, vomiting, and severe decrease in vision at left eye. Final Diagnosis: CHOROIDAL AND BRAIN METASTASES FROM PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER
Wave turbulence on the surface of a ferrofluid in a horizontal magnetic field
Creators: name: Dorbolo, Stéphane
name: Falcon, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report observations of wave turbulence on the surface of a ferrofluid submitted to a magnetic field parallel to the fluid surface. The magnetic wave turbulence shows several differences compared to the normal field case reported recently. The inertial zone of the magnetic wave turbulence regime is notably found to be strongly increased with respect to the normal field case, and to be well described by our theoretical predictions. The dispersion relation of linear waves is also measured and differs from the normal field case due to the absence of the Rosensweig instability.
description: in press in Phys. Rev. E (2011)
SVILUPPO DI METODI ANALITICI PER IL CONTROLLO DI QUALIT� DI INTEGRATORI ALIMENTARI A BASE VEGETALE DESTINATI ALLA PERDITA DI PESO E AL MIGLIORAMENTO DELLE PRESTAZIONI SPORTIVE
Creators: name: DOS SANTOS, ARIANA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: The market of food supplements is expanding quickly; these products, especially those derived from plants, are usually considered as "natural" and free of side effects. They are often used by patients at their own discretion, in a uncontrolled way and without medical advice. Furthermore, some of these supplements have never been included in clinical studies that prove their efficacy and / or safety and for some of these products do not exist a correspondence between the contents indicated on the label and the real one. This means that consumers could buy them, or also import them, if not available in the market of their country, without any difficulty but even without receiving any guarantee about their quality. In addition to the risk that these products may present for consumer?s health, there is a risk for professional athletes to obtain positive results in drug tests. The competent authorities and food businesses need for scientific information on the quality and safety of these products, including those imported from abroad. The purpose of the first part of this study was to conduct a systematic review on adverse effects of dietary supplements containing the plant Citrus aurantium, alone or in combination with other stimulant compounds. Data on adverse events in humans following the consumption of these products have been collected in the literature and a causality assessment of clinical cases, when not specified, was performed in agreement with the Pharmacovigilance Guidelline from the World Health Organization. The purpose of the second part of this thesis was to verify the contents of active amines and steroidal compounds in food supplements, paying particular attention to products based on plant extracts. Various analytical approaches have been used for the detection and quantification of these compounds: Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC), High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS). This investigation has at the same time allowed us to verify the accuracy of the information given on the products label by comparing them with the actual content of the substances measured. This research is part of the activities in the European Project PlantLIBRA (Plant Food Supplements: Levels of Intake, Benefit and Risk Assessment). The project is part of the Seventh European Framework Programme, which aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of food supplements containing plants and derivatives, in order to support regulatory actions.
Wealth and Income Inequality in the Twenty-First Century
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Economics
Wealth
Income distribution
Equality
Equilibrium (Economics)

description: Inequality has become the issue of the day. It is not just the large numbers in poverty; it is the evisceration of the middle, the increasing proportion of income that goes to the top. One startling statistic succeeds another: 8 men have as much wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion in the world. That there will be social, political, and economic consequences goes without saying.
UNRAVELING THE ROLE OF BPC PROTEINS IN INFLORESCENCE AND FLOWER DEVELOPMENT IN A. THALIANA
Creators: name: SIMONINI, SARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: BPC proteins belong to a small plant specific family of transcription factors and they share functional similarities with the GAGA ASSOCIATED FACTOR (GAF) of Drosophila melanogaster. In Arabidopsis thaliana, there are seven BPs genes, although BPC5 is considered a pseudogene. Except BPC5, BPC genes are ubiquitously expressed in all plant tissues throughout development and this overlap in expression could suggest that BPCs act redundantly. The C-terminal domain of BPC proteins facilitates binding to DNA at GA-rich sequences and for BPC1, a consensus binding site has been proposed. However, little is known about their function in gene regulation and INNER NO OUTER, SEEDSTICK and LEAFY COTYLEDON2 are the only BPC target genes identified until now. To study BPC function in vivo, we have now constructed bpc1 bpc2 bpc3 triple mutants, which develop inflorescences comprising more flowers than wild-type plants, their phyllotaxis is altered and flowers develop extra floral organs. These features could be linked to meristem size and activity: it is well known that plants with bigger and/or more active meristems produce higher number of flowers and floral organs respect to wild-type. An involvement of BPC regulators in meristem maintenance has not been uncovered yet, however the BBR factor (the BPC homolog in barley) binds and regulates the BKN3 gene, the barley homolog of Arabidopsis SHOOTMERISTEMLESS (STM). In Arabidopsis, STM is involved in meristem maintenance and activity and it is also involved in the cytokinin pathway, a class of plant hormones able to promote shoot meristem growth and maintenance. These data made it interesting to investigate the involvement of BPCs and their role in the cytokinin pathway.
Inorganic fine sediment deposition in rivers with run-of-river hydropower projects and Coastal Tailed Frog (Ascaphus truei) tadpoles in coastal British Columbia
Creators: name: Courcelles, Danielle Monique Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Freshwater species are the most threatened group among terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems globally. Riverine species are particularly at risk and their conservation is likely to require an enhanced understanding of the effects of alterations to natural flow regimes. Run-of-river (RoR) hydropower has the potential to affect natural flow regimes and is an increasing component of energy portfolios. In particular, increased sedimentation due to decreases in discharge below RoR weirs may have deleterious biological effects on primary production and associated aquatic species. I hypothesized that primary production would decrease with higher fine sediment deposition, and in turn impair growth and survival of Coastal Tailed Frog (Ascaphus truei) tadpoles. I conducted tadpole surveys and quantified biofilm above three RoR weirs and in the diversion reach of each installation in British Columbia, Canada, during peak summer productivity. I also conducted an in situ mesocosm experiment with three levels of fine sediment deposition to determine the effects of fine sediment on tadpole growth and survival. I found that fine sediment deposition on the top surfaces of stones was higher in the diversion reach of two rivers with RoR hydropower projects, but varied in magnitude depending on the river. Fine sediment was positively associated with higher chlorophyll a biomass and ash-free dry mass on all three rivers. Tadpole density was consistently lower by nearly 50% in the diversion reach for all three rivers with RoR hydropower projects. The results from my mesocosm experiment suggested that survival and average tadpole growth tends to be lower as fine sediment amount increases. Although our experimental results were not conclusive, if fine sediment does decrease growth and survival of Coastal Tailed Frog tadpoles, this may indicate that higher fine sediment deposition in the diversion reach of rivers where discharge is reduced have the potential to impact Coastal Tailed Frog populations in these watersheds.
Theoretical and experimental study of ion flux formation in an asymmetric high-frequency capacitive discharge
Creators: name: Schweigert, I. V.
name: Ariskin, D. A.
name: Chernoiziumskaya, T. V.
name: Smirnov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parameters of a high frequency capacitive discharge in argon in axially symmetric chambers of different geometries are studied in experiments and by means of two-dimensional kinetic modeling by the Particle-in-Cell method. It is demonstrated that a change in the ratio of the areas of the driven and grounded electrodes can substantially increase the ion energy on the electrode practically without disturbing the plasma parameters. Particular attention is paid to studying the self-bias voltage and the ion distribution function on the electrode for gas pressures ranging from 15 to 70 mTorr. The results of self-consistent calculations are in good agreement with experimental data.
description: 7 pages, 12 figures
ROLE OF VACCINATION FOR PREVENTING STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS AND COAGULASE-NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCI INTRAMAMMARY INFECTIONS IN DAIRY HERDS.
Creators: name: ROTA, NICOLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: The aim of this paper was to evaluate vaccine efficacy under field conditions against Staphylococcus aureus and Coagulase Negative Staphylococci (CNS) intramammary infections (IMI) in dairy cows. During the 21-month duration of the study, 1,156 lactations in 809 cows were identified in two herds. At the beginning of the trial, all cows that were due to calve were vaccinated until approximately 50% of cows in the milking herd were vaccinated (~6 months). At that point in time (50% vaccination coverage was reached), cows were systemically random assigned to be vaccinated or left as negative controls. Cows that were vaccinated got the 1st injection 45 days (+ 3 days) before the expected parturition date, the 2nd injection 35 days (5 weeks) thereafter (+ 3 days), corresponding to 10 days before the expected parturition date and 3rd vaccination was done at 52 days (+ 3 days) after the actual parturition date. Cure rate, risk of new infections, prevalence, incidence and duration of infections were analyzed. The farms showed a large difference in management to control infection during the study. In conclusion vaccination reduced the basic reproduction ratio of Staph. aureus by approximately 45% and for CNS by approximately 35%. Vaccination is a valuable tool in improving the incidence and prevalence of staphylococcal infection in herds. Vaccine utilization will need to be combined with excellent milking procedures, culling of known infected cattle and other management procedures to further reduce incidence and duration of infection.
The Multi-periodic Blazhko Modulation of CZ Lacertae
Creators: name: Sódor, Á.
name: Jurcsik, J.
name: Szeidl, B.
name: Váradi, M.
name: Henden, A.
name: Vida, K.
name: Hurta, Zs.
name: Posztobányi, K.
name: Dékány, I.
name: Szing, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thorough analysis of the multicolour CCD observations of the RRab-type variable, CZ Lacertae is presented. The observations were carried out in two consecutive observing seasons in 2004 and 2005 within the framework of the Konkoly Blazhko Survey of bright, northern, short-period RRab variables. The O-C variation of CZ Lac indicated that a significant period decrease took place just around the time of the CCD observations. Our data gave a unique opportunity to study the related changes in the pulsation and modulation properties of a Blazhko star in detail. Two different period components ($\approx$14.6 d and $\approx$18.6 d) of the Blazhko modulation were identified. Both modulation components had similar strength. The periods and amplitudes of the modulations changed significantly from the first season to the next, meanwhile, the mean pulsation amplitude slightly decreased. The modulation frequencies were in a 5:4 resonance ratio in the first observing season then the frequencies shifted in opposite directions, and their ratio was close to the 4:3 resonance in the next season. The interaction of the two modulations caused beating with a period of 74~d in the first season, which resembled the 4-yr-long cycle of the $\approx$40-d modulation of RR Lyr. The mean values of the global physical parameters and their changes with Blazhko phase of both modulation components were determined by the Inverse Photometric Method.
description: 12 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
POST-NEWTONIAN COSMOLOGY IN THE EULERIAN AND LAGRANGIAN FRAMES
Creators: name: VILLA, ELEONORA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: This thesis is devoted to the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation of General Relativity in Cosmology.�We analysed the procedure for passing from GR to Newtonian theory in both the Eulerian and the Lagrangian approaches to gravitational dynamics and also the connection between the two. In the GR framework we provided the transformation equations from the Poisson gauge to the synchronous and comoving gauge for the metric in the Newtonian approximation, being completely non-linear in the standard perturbation theory. We fully recovered equations and solution for the metric both in the relativistic perturbation theory up to second order and in the Newtonian limit at any order. We then extend our transformation to the PN approximation and our results are consistent with GR up to second order in perturbation theory.� We specialise the PN Lagrangian dynamics to globally plane-parallel configurations. We obtained the analytical solution of the Einstein field equations. The solution is non-perturbative in the standard sense, exact up to PN order and extends the Zel?dovich approximation which, in turn, is exact for non-linear plane-parallel dynamics in Newtonian gravity. An application of our solution in the context of the back-reaction proposal is eventually given, providing a PN estimation of kinematical back-reaction, mean spatial curvature, average scale-factor and expansion rate. �
Laguerre and Meixner orthogonal bases in the algebra of symmetric functions
Creators: name: Olshanski, Grigori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analogs of Laguerre and Meixner orthogonal polynomials in the algebra of symmetric functions are studied. This is a detailed exposition of part of the results announced in arXiv:1009.2037. The work is motivated by a connection with a model of infinite-dimensional Markov dynamics.
description: Latex, 52pp
title: Extraction and quantification of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tract of fish
Creators: name: De Witte, Bavo
name: Catarino, Ana
name: Vandecasteele, Loes
name: Dekimpe, Michael
name: Meyers, Nelle
name: Deloof, Daphne
name: Pint, Steven
name: Hostens, Kristian (Kris)
name: Everaert, Gert
name: Torreele, Els
Publisher: name: Flanders Marine Institute
Year: 2021

description: Title : Volume : Issue : Pagination : 4
Approximations of Sobolev norms in Carnot groups
Creators: name: Barbieri, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper deals with a notion of Sobolev space $W^{1,p}$ introduced by J.Bourgain, H.Brezis and P.Mironescu by means of a seminorm involving local averages of finite differences. This seminorm was subsequently used by A.Ponce to obtain a Poincaré-type inequality. The main results that we present are a generalization of these two works to a non-Euclidean setting, namely that of Carnot groups. We show that the seminorm expressd in terms of the intrinsic distance is equivalent to the $L^p$ norm of the intrinsic gradient, and provide a Poincaré-type inequality on Carnot groups by means of a constructive approach which relies on one-dimensional estimates. Self-improving properties are also studied for some cases of interest.
ON THE BIRCH AND SWINNERTON-DYER CONJECTURE FOR ELLIPTIC CURVES OF ANALYTIC RANK ONE
Creators: name: BERTI, ANDREA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: In this thesis work we obtain some evidences in the direction of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer formula for elliptic curves of analytic rank one
Ein Beitrag zum Modellverständnis der Produktentstehung - Strukturierung von Zielsystemen mittels C&CM
Creators: name: Oerding, Jochen
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: Systemtechnik
Produktentwicklungsprozess
Zielsystem
C&CM

description: Vernetzung und Integration spielen in der heutigen Produktentstehung eine zentrale Rolle. Daraus ergeben sich vielfältige und unüberschaubare Prozesse. Es wird ein Modell vorgeschlagen mit dem sich die Prozesse an dem Zielsystem ausrichten lassen. Das Modell beruht auf dem Verständnis der Systemtechnik und auf dem etablierten C&CM Modell. 
Effiziente und Zielgerichtete Produktentwicklungsprozesse sind das Ergebnis.
The complete relativistic kinetic model of symmetry violation in isotopic expanding plasma. III. Specific entropy calculation
Creators: name: Ignatyev, Yu. G.
name: Alsmadi, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70E55, 70F45, 70S05, 82B40, 83G55, 85A30

description: A complete model of baryon production in an expanding, primordially symmetric hot Universe is constructed in the framework of general-relativistic kinetic theory. In this model specific model for a baryon is calculated and graphs of the value dependence are constructed.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Summary of ENVISION Deliverable 5.3: Decision-making toolbox for inclusive conservation in protected areas
Creators: name: López-Rodríguez, María Dolores
name: Ruiz-Mallén, Isabel
name: Oteros-Rozas, Elisa
name: March, Hug
name: Lo, Veronica
name: Cebrián Piqueras, Miguel Ángel
name: Plieninger, Tobias
name: Raymond, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Protected areas
Governance
Inclusive conservation
Biodiversity
Participatory decision-making
Policy Tools
Stakeholders
Spain

description: This report is a summary of ENVISION Deliverable 5.3, a toolbox which introduces a set of participatory action-research tools to help protected areas managers and practitioners enhance social engagement in conservation decision-making by identifying, navigating and balancing visions, tensions, and power relations between stakeholders. The toolbox has been co-created in the context of the ENVISION project between scientists and protected areas managers to support the development of socially inclusive policies and management actions in protected areas, and it is based on the approaches developed in four protected areas in Europe and U.S.A.: Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, Spain; Västra Harg Nature Reserve; Sweden; Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park, and Kromme Rijn region, Netherlands; Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S.A.
ATTRIBUTED RELATIONAL SIFT-BASED REGIONS GRAPH (ARSRG):DESCRIPTION, MATCHING AND APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: MANZO, MARIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: Finding correspondences between images is a crucial activity in many
overlapping fields of research, such as Image Retrieval and Pattern
Recognition. Many existing techniques address this problem using
local invariant image features, instead of color, shape and texture,
that to some degree loose the large scale structure of the image. In
this thesis, in order to account for spatial relations among the local
invariant features and to improve the image representation, first a
graph data structure is introduced, where local features are represented
by nodes and spatial relations by edges; second an algorithm
able to find matches between local invariant features, organized in
graph structures, is built; third a mapping procedure from graph
to vector space is proposed, in order to speed up the classification process.
Effectiveness of the proposed framework is demonstrated through
applications in image-based localization and art painting. The literature shows many approximate algorithms to solve these problems,
so a comparison with the state of the art is performed in each step
of the process. By using both local and spatial information,
the proposed framework outperforms its competitors for the
image correspondence problems.
Birth after caesarean : an investigation of decision-making for mode of delivery
Creators: name: Munro, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Clinical practice guidelines indicate that over 80% of women with a previous caesarean should be offered a planned vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC), however only one third of eligible women choose to plan a VBAC. Shared decision-making (SDM) interventions support women to make choices based on their informed preferences. To facilitate implementation of SDM it is necessary to understand the patient (micro), health services (meso), and policy (macro) factors that influence decision-making. Objectives: My objective is to explore attitudes toward and experiences with decision-making for mode of birth after caesarean section in British Columbia (BC) to identify factors that influence implementation of SDM. Methods: In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with women eligible for VBAC, care providers, and health service decision makers recruited from three rural and two urban BC communities. Integrated knowledge translation (iKT) principles guided study design, while constructivist grounded theory informed iterative data collection and analysis. Findings were interpreted using complex adaptive systems theory (CAS). Results: Analysis of interviews (n=57) and CAS interpretation revealed that the factors influencing decisions resulted from interactions between the micro, meso, and macro levels of the health care system. Women formed early preferences for mode of delivery (after the primary caesarean) through careful deliberation of the social risks and benefits of mode of delivery. Physicians acted as information providers of clinical risks and benefits, with limited discussion of patient preferences. Decision makers serving large hospitals revealed concerns related to liability and patient safety. These stemmed from limited access to surgical resources, which had resulted from budget constraints. To facilitate mutual understanding among stakeholder groups, iKT activities included policy dialogues and the creation of a policy brief. Conclusion: To facilitate the effective implementation of SDM in clinical practice for mode of delivery after a previous caesarean section, it is necessary to address the needs of women, care providers, and decision makers. These include initiating decision support immediately after the primary caesarean, assisting women to address the social risks that influence their preferences, managing perceptions of risk related to patient safety and litigation among physicians, and access to surgical resources.
Auswirkungen der Korngröße auf das Kontaktermüdungsverhalten von Nickel
Creators: name: Knyrim, Jörg
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: Nanoindentation
Kontaktermüdung
zyklisches Gleiten
zyklischer Eindruckversuch
Kornwachstum

description: Der Einfluss der Korngröße von Nickel auf das Kontaktermüdungsverhalten in zyklischen Eindruckversuchen sowie zyklischen Gleitversuchen wurde untersucht.
Für den zyklischen Eindruckversuch wurde ein Versagenskriterium auf Basis der in situ gemessenen Kontaktsteifigkeit definiert. Beim zyklischen Gleitversuch wurde die Änderung der Härte des Materials aufgrund der Gleitversuche gemessen.
Zudem wurden mikrostrukturelle Änderungen mittels fokussierter Ionenstrahlmikroskopie untersucht.
DEFORMATION AND METAMORPHISM RELATIONSHIPS IN ACID AND FEMIC PROTHOLITHS OF THE AUSTROALINE CONTINENTAL CRUST SUBDUCTED AND EXHUMED IN THERMAL REGIME SEVERELY DEPRESSED
Creators: name: DELLEANI, FRANCESCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Intrusives of pre-Alpine age and their high grade country rocks, subducted-exhumed in Alpine times, has been studied with petro-structural methods, applied after quality mapping. In this subduction environment, focus was oriented on interaction of deformation and metamorphic transformation progress, in areas offering a mosaic of different tectonometamorphic steps. Such apparently incoherent distribution of structural imprints, representing various discrete states of the tectonic sequence heterogeneously frozen in adjacent space, has been recomposed into a coherent progression of deformation events by means of foliation trajectory mapping. Such work guaranteed a petrographic analysis of the mineral support of sequentially ordered planar fabrics, used for thermobarometrical estimates of the deformative and metamorphic evolution. This evaluation has been performed in acid and femic protoliths intruded in the continental crust of the Sesia-Lanzio Zone in the internal Western Alps.
Classical Stability of the BTZ Black Hole in Topologically Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Birmingham, Danny
name: Mokhtari, Susan
name: Sachs, Ivo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the classical stability of the BTZ black hole within the context of topologically massive gravity. The linearized perturbation equations can be solved exactly in this case. By choosing standard boundary conditions appropriate to the stability problem, we demonstrate the absence of modes which grow in time, for all values of the Chern-Simons coupling.
description: 11 pages
Additional file 1 of MiR-144-3p inhibits gastric cancer progression and stemness via directly targeting GLI2 involved in hedgehog pathway
Creators: name: Lu, Yixun
name: Zhang, Benlong
name: Wang, Baohua
name: Wu, Di
name: Wang, Chuang
name: Gao, Yunhe
name: Liang, Wenquan
name: Xi, Hongqing
name: Wang, Xinxin
name: Chen, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. All primers used in experiments. Table S2. Details of antibodies used in experiments.
MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF THERAPEUTIC ACTION OF 3� TRIMESTER AMNIOTIC FLUID CELLS IN A MOUSE MODEL OF SPINAL CORD INJURY
Creators: name: SCESA, GIUSEPPE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a disabling degenerative disease that heavily impacts on patient's life. To date, treatments available are mostly vain, thought to target the inflammatory processes sustaining the secondary damage: in this scenario, the use of stem cells represents a promising new therapeutic strategy as it might permit a complete recovery of the patient through a regeneration of damaged nerve fibers. Among the different type of stem cells available, we focused on 3� trimester amniotic fluid-derived cells (Afs), verifying their potential therapeutic activity on a mouse model of SCI.
Only the cultures expressing NG2 were able to elicit an improvement in the motor performance, obtained through a better preservation of damaged tissue. It was observed a higher angiogenesis in the perilesion area, sustained by an upregulation of the pro-angiogenic genes HIF-1? and VEGF; furthermore macrophage infiltration levels were significantly reduced in cells treated mice compared to controls. The Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF) mRNA and protein levels resulted higher in the filtering organs, as the lungs, and in the bloodstream of transplanted animals, suggesting an endocrine effect of the cells.
The ability of the cells to produce HGF was confirmed in vitro, after stimulation with proinflammatory cytokines, like IL1-? and LPS, suggesting the cells might be responsive to an environment-induced activation.
Given these results, AFs demonstrated to exert a therapeutic effect in our animal model of spinal cord injury.
Entwicklung von hoch strahlenharten Siliziumstreifensensoren für den Einsatz am Super Large Hadron Collider. Development of highly radiation hard silicon strip sensors for application at the Super Large Hadron Collider
Creators: name: Frey, Martin
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: silicon
sensor
magnetic Czochralski
CMS
SLHC

description: The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector upgrade at the Super Large Hadron Collider (Large Hadron Collider upgrade) requires highly radiation hard tracking sensors. Charge collection efficiencies, signal to noise ratios, resolutions and field formations of highly irradiated sensors based on Magnetic Czochralski silicon have been explored. The material shows more than sufficiently good properties to serve as a basis for sensors to be applied in the entire strip region of a CMS tracker upgrade.
Many-body interactions in quasi-freestanding graphene
Creators: name: Siegel, David A.
name: Park, Cheol-Hwan
name: Hwang, Choongyu
name: Deslippe, Jack
name: Fedorov, Alexei V.
name: Louie, Steven G.
name: Lanzara, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Landau-Fermi liquid picture for quasiparticles assumes that charge carriers are dressed by many-body interactions, forming one of the fundamental theories of solids. Whether this picture still holds for a semimetal like graphene at the neutrality point, i.e., when the chemical potential coincides with the Dirac point energy, is one of the long-standing puzzles in this field. Here we present such a study in quasi-freestanding graphene by using high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We see the electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions go through substantial changes when the semimetallic regime is approached, including renormalizations due to strong electron-electron interactions with similarities to marginal Fermi liquid behavior. These findings set a new benchmark in our understanding of many-body physics in graphene and a variety of novel materials with Dirac fermions.
description: PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print June 27, 2011
title: A bird's eye view of the Middle Palaeolithic: Avian Fossil Remains and Their Contribution to Neanderthal research in Eurasia
Creators: name: Amos, L
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2023

description: The study of Neanderthal behaviour and ecology has been shaped by the overarching question of Neanderthal cognitive modernity. The debates concerning Neanderthal cultural complexity and subsistence strategies cross paths in the study of birds. Recent research has shed light on the contribution of bird remains as a proxy in interpretations of Middle Palaeolithic diet and behaviour. Additionally, birds function as excellent indicators of past climate and environmental conditions because some species have highly restricted niche requirements. This thesis contributes new information to our understanding of Neanderthal behaviour and ecology across their geographical and temporal range by employing ecological and taphonomic methods to bird remains recovered from five Neanderthal sites: Gorham’s Cave and Devil’s Tower Rockshelter in Gibraltar, Cova Negra, Spain, Scladina Cave, Belgium, and Tabun Cave, Israel. Intra- and inter-site analyses establish that Neanderthals exploited gamebirds and wetland species for subsistence purposes in all five locations. Ecological results indicate that the Neanderthal bioclimatic and habitat niche did not vary by geographic position. Within their niche, Neanderthals efficiently exploited birds as a regular addition to their diet, focussing their efforts on specific taxa. This conflicts with earlier research, which proposed that Neanderthals were incapable of conceptualising the complex strategies necessary for hunting birds and small, fast game.
Additional file 1 of Structure–activity relationship-based chemical classification of highly imbalanced Tox21 datasets
Creators: name: Idakwo, Gabriel
name: Thangapandian, Sundar
name: Luttrell, Joseph
name: Li, Yan
name: Wang, Nan
name: Zhou, Zhaoxian
name: Hong, Huixiao
name: Yang, Bei
name: Zhang, Chaoyang
name: Gong, Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Text S1. SMOTEENN algorithm. Figure S1. Illustration of SMOTE and ENN techniques. (a) The original imbalanced data; (b) Synthetic samples are generated for the minority class using SMOTE. (c) Using ENN, those mislabeled synthetic samples were removed from the minority class. (d) The rebalanced data after the application of SMOTEENN. Table S1. Evaluation metrics derived for four classification methods (RF, RUS, SMO and SMN) with twelve Tox21 qHTS assay datasets. Specificity and two other metrics (sensitivity and SSG, both appearing in Table 2) are shown.
ENERGY EXPENDITURE, GLUCOSE METABOLISM AND BODY COMPOSITION IN BABOONS AT BASELINE AND AFTER A PARTIAL PANCREATECTOMY AND A 13 WEEKS OF CONTINUOUS INFUSION OF EXENATIDE
Creators: name: CASIRAGHI, FRANCESCA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is an extremely complex endocrine and metabolic disease, and the two major causes are impaired insulin secretion and increased insulin resistance in several organs and tissues. A non-human primate is an invaluable model for the study of human diseases due to their close genetic, anatomical and physiological similarities to humans. They are widely used in biomedical research aiming to elucidate the physiological and molecular mechanisms of different diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, age-related changes in metabolic parameters, obesity, T2DM, atherosclerosis etc.
This entire project has different aims; the first is to confirm that baboons are a very suitable model for studying metabolic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, age-related changes in metabolic parameters, obesity etc, and confirm baboons as a model in a physical activity studies related to improving health and well-being. In fact, the first study was conducted to evaluate the SenseWear� Armband (SWA), a metabolic holter used in humans to estimate the resting and the total energy expenditure in baboon and verify his reliability to estimate energy expenditure during resting and different activities also in non-human primates.
The second and more complex study was related to elucidate, at least in part, the effects of a continuous infusion of a medication for the treatment of T2DM (Exenatide) in a non-human primate, in a model with impaired ?-cell function, reporting a insulin sensitizing effect in the Exenatide-treated group, an increase insulin sensitivity and ?-cells function and decrease in total body weight. This type of research could be extremely valuable for helping to develop potential new treatments for T2DM.
In conclusion, in the first study we demonstrated that the SWA is a reliable and simple method to estimate total energy expenditure (TEE) and resting energy expenditure (REE) in non-human primate, baboons, by placing it in the ?metabolic jacket?.
In the second study we found a powerful, direct, insulin sensitizing effect of EXE on normal glucose tolerant baboons.
These studies provide novel solid basis for further clinical trials aimed at preserving and supporting subjects with diabetes or at high risk of developing it.
title: World War I Collection
Creators: name: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Publisher: name: University Archives, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 3
subject: FOS: Medical and health sciences
classificationCode: 6.1
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: USUHS Archives Finding Aid
World War I Collection
2022
Modellierung von Autoabgaskatalysatoren
Creators: name: Mladenov, Nikolay
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: numerische Simulation
CFD
DETCHEM
reaktive Kanalströmung
heterogene Katalyse
Autoabgasnachbehandlung

description: Diese Dissertation befaßt sich mit der numerischen Modellierung von monolithischen Autoabgaskatalysatoren unter Berücksichtigung verschiedener Transportmodelle in Gasphase und poröser Washcoatschicht sowie heterogener Reaktionsmechanismen, die auf Elementarreaktionen aufbauen. Hierbei wird der Einfluß mehrerer
Modellparameter auf die Schadstoffumsätze im Katalysator mit Hilfe des Softwarepakets zur Simulation reaktiver Strömungen DETCHEM untersucht.