cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scalable joint segmentation and registration framework for infant brain images
Creators: name: Wu, Guorong
name: Wang, Li
name: Lin, Weili
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Dong, Pei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The first year of life is the most dynamic and perhaps the most critical phase of postnatal brain development. The ability to accurately measure structure changes is critical in early brain development study, which highly relies on the performances of image segmentation and registration techniques. However, either infant image segmentation or registration, if deployed independently, encounters much more challenges than segmentation/registration of adult brains due to dynamic appearance change with rapid brain development. In fact, image segmentation and registration of infant images can assists each other to overcome the above challenges by using the growth trajectories (i.e., temporal correspondences) learned from a large set of training subjects with complete longitudinal data. Specifically, a one-year-old image with ground-truth tissue segmentation can be first set as the reference domain. Then, to register the infant image of a new subject at earlier age, we can estimate its tissue probability maps, i.e., with sparse patch-based multi-atlas label fusion technique, where only the training images at the respective age are considered as atlases since they have similar image appearance. Next, these probability maps can be fused as a good initialization to guide the level set segmentation. Thus, image registration between the new infant image and the reference image is free of difficulty of appearance changes, by establishing correspondences upon the reasonably segmented images. Importantly, the segmentation of new infant image can be further enhanced by propagating the much more reliable label fusion heuristics at the reference domain to the corresponding location of the new infant image via the learned growth trajectories, which brings image segmentation and registration to assist each other. It is worth noting that our joint segmentation and registration framework is also flexible to handle the registration of any two infant images even with significant age gap in the first year of life, by linking their joint segmentation and registration through the reference domain. Thus, our proposed joint segmentation and registration method is scalable to various registration tasks in early brain development studies. Promising segmentation and registration results have been achieved for infant brain MR images aged from 2-week-old to 1-year-old, indicating the applicability of our method in early brain development study.
Proximate and mineral composition of the long-spined Sea Urchin (Diadema setosum) roe
Creators: name: Al-Asif, Abdulla-
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Analytical biochemistry
Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified
Proteomics and intermolecular interactions (excl. medical proteomics)
Systems biology

description: Gonad of sea urchin is considered as food delicacy in many parts of the world due to high nutrition and mineral contents. Several species of sea urchins are available in Malaysia and reported from different habitat, including seagrass beds, coastal breakwater, coral reefs and other ecologically important habitats. The current study was undertaken to evaluate the proximate and mineral composition of long spined sea urchin (Diadema setosum) roe collected from breakwater of Terengganu, Malaysia in October 2019, November 2019 and January 2020. The samples were analysed for proximate including protein, lipid, moisture, and ash content of sea urchin roe. The macro, micro minerals and heavy metals were also evaluated including Ca, Fe, Zn, Cu, Co, Se, Mg, Ni, Pb, Al, and Cd. The result suggested that, long spined sea urchin (Diadema setosum) roe can be considered as good sources of food due to high percentage of protein (ranged between 36.21±0.44 and 50.14±4.63). The presence of heavy metal such as Ni, Pb, and Cd suggesting the breakwater environments were not good enough and the possible sources of heavy metals contamination in sea water environment must be stopped and eradicated. This study provides important information with regard to the proximate and mineral values of D. setosum, as well as the need for a better management of its habitat before D. setosum can be widely promoted as delicacy in this region.
title: ПРОБЛЕМЫ МАРКЕТИНГОВЫХ КОММУНИКАЦИЙ В РАЗВИТИИ ИНДУСТРИИ СПОРТИВНЫХ МЕРОПРИЯТИЙ
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Мурадова, С.Ш.
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2018
Subjects: МАРКЕТИНГОВЫЕ КОММУНИКАЦИИ
ИНДУСТРИЯ СПОРТА
ЧЕМПИОНАТ МИРА ПО ФУТБОЛУ
СПОРТИВНОЕ МЕРОПРИЯТИЕ

Abstract
Theoretical Estimate of the Sensitivity of the CUORE Detector to Solar Axions
Creators: name: Li, Dawei.
name: Creswick, R. J.
name: Avignone, F. T.
name: Wang, Yuanxu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we calculate the potential sensitivity of the CUORE detector to axions produced in the Sun through the Primakoff process and detected by the inverse coherent Bragg-Primakoff process. The conversion rate is calculated using density functional theory for the electron density and realistic expectations for the energy resolution and background of CUORE. Monte Carlo calculations for $5~$y$\times741~$kg=$3705~$kg y of exposure are analyzed using time correlation of individual events with the theoretical time-dependent counting rate and lead to an expected limit on the axion-photon coupling $g_{aγγ}<3.83\times 10^{-10}~GeV^{-1}$ for axion masses less than $100$ eV.
description: Corrected typos and made the form of the references uniform
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28647.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 19.11.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28552.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 27.05.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28501.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 09.03.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28471.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 21.01.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28546.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 19.05.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Strong Decay widths and Coupling Constant of Recent Charm Meson States
Creators: name: Batra, Meenakshi
name: Upadhyay, Alka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an effective Lagrangian approach based on heavy quark symmetry and chiral dynamics, we explore the strong decay widths and branching ratios of various resonances and suggest their JP find the coupling constants involved in the strong decays through pseudoscalar mesons. The present work also discusses about the possible spin-parity assignments of recently observed states by LHCb collaboration.
description: 13 pages, 3 tables and 6 plots, 2015(EPJC: Communicated)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28526.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.04.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
CSF Volumetric Analysis for Quantification of Cerebral Edema After Hemispheric Infarction
Creators: name: Chen, Yasheng
name: Ford, Andria
name: Lee, Jin-Moo
name: An, Hongyu
name: Dhar, Rajat
name: Heitsch, Laura
name: Yuan, Kristy
name: Kulik, Tobias
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Malignant cerebral edema (CED) complicates at least 20 % of large hemispheric infarcts (LHI) and may result in neurological deterioration or death. Midline shift (MLS) is a standard but crude measure of edema severity. We propose that volumetric analysis of shifts in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) over time provides a reliable means of quantifying the spectrum of edema severity after LHI.
title: ОЦЕНКА УСТОЙЧИВОСТИ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОГО ПРОИЗВОДСТВА В РЕГИОНЕ НА ОСНОВЕ ПЯТИУРОВНЕВЫХ НЕЧЕТКИХ [0,1] -КЛАССИФИКАТОРОВ
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Куликова, Ю.В.
name: Сахарова, Л.В.
name: Стрюков, М.Б.
name: Храмов, В.В.
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2018
Subjects: СТАНДАРТНЫЕ МНОГОУРОВНЕВЫЕ НЕЧЕТКИЕ [0,1] –КЛАССИФИКАТОРЫ
МЕТОДИКА ОЦЕНКИ
СТАТИСТИЧЕСКИЕ ДАННЫЕ
КОМПЛЕКСНАЯ ОЦЕНКА

Abstract
title: Macro-Scale Molecular Communications
Creators: name: McGuiness, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: The use of electromagnetic (EM) waves to transmit information has allowed our society to collaborate and share information on a scale that was unimaginable just a few decades ago. But as with any technology, there are areas where EM-based communications do not function well. For example, underwater and underground communications where EM waves experience high attenuation. This limitation has generated interest in an alternative mode of information transmission, molecular communications. In this thesis, after giving a survey of micro- and macro-scale molecular communications, the two most important aspects of molecular communications are identified: macroscale molecular communications and the experimental analysis of molecular communications. Molecular communication has been dominated so far by interest in the nano-scale, where the application focus is on drug-delivery and DNA communications, etc. Studies in the macro-scale are relatively rare compared to nano- and micro-scale research. This thesis looks closely at macro-scale molecular communication and attempts to improve our understanding of this novel communication paradigm. To achieve this, a mathematical model was developed, based on the advective-diffusion equation (ADE). The model was compared with experimental results, and showed a strong correlation. In addition, a model was developed to simulate molecular communication in both 1D and 3D environments. To generate the modulated chemicals and transmit them in the environment, an inhouse- built odour generator was used, and to detect the chemicals in the environment a mass spectrometer (MS) with a quadrupole mass analyser (QMA) was employed. Mass spectrometers have the ability to distinguish multiple chemicals in the environment concurrently, making them ideal detectors for use in molecular communications. Based on the experimental setup, various aspects of the communication paradigm are investigated in the three main sections. The first section focuses on the fundamental parameters that govern the propagation of molecules in a flow. The second section delves into the communication properties of this new form of information transfer. The final section studies aspects of simultaneous multiple-chemical transmission. Based on this multiple-chemical transmission, modulation methods are developed that exploit this new approach for use in molecular communications.
Effect of High-Dose Simvastatin on Cerebral Blood Flow and Static Autoregulation in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Creators: name: Powers, William J.
name: Dhar, Rajat
name: Scalfani, Michael
name: Chicoine, Michael
name: Derdeyn, Colin P.
name: Zazulia, Allyson R.
name: Diringer, Michael N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Statins may promote vasodilation following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and improve the response to blood pressure elevation. We sought to determine whether simvastatin increases cerebral blood flow (CBF) and alters the response to induced hypertension after SAH.
title: СИСТЕМНО-ИНЖЕНЕРНЫЙ ПОДХОД К ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯМ СЛОЖНЫХ МНОГОМЕРНЫХ СИСТЕМ НА ОСНОВЕ МЯГКИХ МОДЕЛЕЙ
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Крамаров, С.О.
name: Храмов, В.В.
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2018
Subjects: МЯГКИЕ ВЫЧИСЛЕНИЯ
СИСТЕМА СИСТЕМ
СИСТЕМНАЯ ИНЖЕНЕРИЯ
ЦИФРОВАЯ ПЛАН-СХЕМА

Abstract
title: ПРОЕКТ «СМАРТ» - КАК АКТИВНАЯ ЭРГОТЕХНИЧЕСКАЯ СИСТЕМА: ОСНОВНЫЕ СВОЙСТВА И МЕТОДЫ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Крамаров, С.О.
name: Горбачева, А.А.
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2018
Subjects: СПУТНИКОВЫЙ МОНИТОРИНГ
СЛОЖНАЯ СИСТЕМА
ПРОЕКТ «СМАРТ»
ЭРГОТЕХНИЧЕСКАЯ СИСТЕМА

Abstract
title: ОЦЕНКА ИНФОРМАТИВНОСТИ КОНТУРНЫХ ДАННЫХ О ПРОТЯЖЕННЫХ ОБЪЕКТАХ СЕЛЬХОЗНАЗНАЧЕНИЯ В ПРОЦЕССЕ СПУТНИКОВОГО МОНИТОРИНГА
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Бочаров, А.А.
name: Митясова, О.Ю.
name: Храмов, В.В.
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2018
Subjects: ИНФОРМАТИВНОСТЬ
МОНИТОРИНГ
ПРОГНОЗ ЧУВСТВИТЕЛЬНОСТИ
ДОСТОВЕРНОСТЬ РАСПОЗНАВАНИЯ

Abstract
Adolescents with irritable bowel syndrome report increased eating-associated symptoms, changes in dietary composition, and altered eating behaviors: a pilot comparison study to healthy adolescents
Creators: name: Squires,
name: van Tilburg,
name: Reed-Knight,
name: Chitkara,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: About half of adult Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) patients report symptoms with eating and disordered eating habits. However little is known about eating in adolescent IBS patients, a common age at which eating disorders develop. The aim of the study was to investigate if adolescents with IBS are more likely than healthy controls to experience eating associated symptoms, report disordered eating patterns, and show differences in diet composition.
New Exclusion Limits for the Search of Scalar and Pseudoscalar Axion-Like Particles from "Light Shining Through a Wall"
Creators: name: Ballou, R.
name: Deferne, G.
name: Finger, M.
name: Finger, M.
name: Flekova, L.
name: Hosek, J.
name: Kunc, S.
name: Macuchova, K.
name: Meissner, K. A.
name: Pugnat, P.
name: Schott, M.
name: Siemko, A.
name: Slunecka, M.
name: Sulc, M.
name: Weinsheimer, C.
name: Zicha, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physics beyond the Standard Model predicts the possible existence of new particles that can be searched at the low energy frontier in the sub-eV range. The OSQAR photon regeneration experiment looks for "Light Shining through a Wall" from the quantum oscillation of optical photons into "Weakly Interacting Sub-eV Particles", such as axion or Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), in a 9 T transverse magnetic field over the unprecedented length of $2 \times 14.3$ m. In 2014, this experiment has been run with an outstanding sensitivity, using an 18.5 W continuous wave laser emitting in the green at the single wavelength of 532 nm. No regenerated photons have been detected after the wall, pushing the limits for the existence of axions and ALPs down to an unprecedented level for such a type of laboratory experiment. The di-photon couplings of possible pseudo-scalar and scalar ALPs can be constrained in the nearly massless limit to be less than $3.5\cdot 10^{-8}$ GeV$^{-1}$ and $3.2\cdot 10^{-8}$ GeV$^{-1}$, respectively, at 95% Confidence Level.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Case study nr 7: Securing sustainable food production in Northern Norway under the auspices of climatic changes Lessons learned (in native language) (D.3.4.7)
Creators: name: Dale, Brigt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: akvakultur, oppdrett, grenseoverskridende klimarisiko, beredskap, bærekraftig utvikling

description: Both on land and at sea, communities in the County of Nordland, Norway are embedded, both economically, structurally and culturally to food production in industries such as fishing, agriculture and aquaculture Multiple stressors threaten the future viability of these industries though, of which climate change are but one, if at all recognized. Indeed, previous research has shown that in the primary industries in the county, few (if any) informants present climate change as the most important present danger to their livelihoods. With this backdrop, this case will focus on the aquaculture industry in Nordland county, and specifically how practitioners own perception of their resilience and adaptive capacity enables (or un-ables) food industry actors in the county when facing the cumulative impacts of global climatic changes and the policies expected to arise when seeking to adapt to them. In this case, we have chosen to work closely with an established network of salmon producers called NCE Aquaculture, whose environment group have participated in two workshops. In these workshops we identified several threats along impact chains and on potential initiatives and efforts the practitioners found pertinent to minimize their impacts. Both threats and efforts identified were qualitatively assessed and prioritized, and thus provide a sound basis for an analysis of sectoral adaptive capacity and preparedness.
Fecal incontinence in irritable bowel syndrome: Prevalence and associated factors in Swedish and American patients
Creators: name: Palsson,
name: Heymen,
name: Whitehead,
name: Simrén,
name: Bajor,
name: Törnblom,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Fecal incontinence (FI) is a prevalent but poorly recognized problem in the general population with profound negative effects on daily life. The prevalence of FI in IBS and its association with clinical, demographic and pathophysiological factors are largely unknown.
Towards Enabling Overture as a Platform for Formal Notation IDEs
Creators: name: Couto, Luís Diogo
name: Larsen, Peter Gorm
name: Hasanagić, Miran
name: Kanakis, Georgios
name: Lausdahl, Kenneth
name: Tran-Jørgensen, Peter W. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Formal Methods tools will never have as many users as tools for popular programming languages and so the effort spent on constructing Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) will be orders of magnitudes lower than that of programming languages such as Java. This means newcomers to formal methods do not get the same user experience as with their favourite programming IDE. In order to improve this situation it is essential that efforts are combined so it is possible to reuse common features and thus not start from scratch every time. This paper presents the Overture platform where such a reuse philosophy is present. We give an overview of the platform itself as well as the extensibility principles that enable much of the reuse. The paper also contains several examples platform extensions, both in the form of new features and a new IDE supporting a new language.
description: In Proceedings F-IDE 2015, arXiv:1508.03388
Investigating the Consequences of Herpesvirus Integration into Host Telomeres
Creators: name: Wood, Michael L.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The two species of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6A and HHV-6B) and chicken Marek's disease virus (MDV) include sequences homologous to (TTAGGG)n within their genomes and have the capacity to integrate into telomeres in their hosts. As a result of historic germline integrations into telomeres, approximately 1% of the human population carry an inherited, chromosomally integrated copy of HHV-6 in every cell (iciHHV-6). The iciHHV-6 genome can be partially or completely released from its integrated state and we have previously proposed that this is achieved via a t-loop mediated mechanism. Single TElomere Length Analysis (STELA) and long range PCRs were used to explore the relationship between these integrated viruses and the host telomere. Here, it was shown that spontaneous truncation of the integrated HHV-6 genome leads to the formation of a novel telomere at one of two telomere repeat containing positions within the HHV-6 genome. The short novel telomere or the presence of telomere-like repeats in the novel telomere may have the potential to trigger a DNA damage response and cellular senescence. These events were detected in vivo and in vitro, therefore carriers of iciHHV-6 may experience greater genome instability than individuals without iciHHV-6. Detection of these truncation events in sperm suggest than genome instability in the germline explains of how iciHHV-6-DR-only carriers have arisen and work on the iciHHV-6 integration site provide strong evidence that this is exactly what has happened. HHV-6B contains a highly variable region (pvT1) that was revealed to be unique in 87% of HHV-6B carriers, rising to 100% in unrelated carriers of noninherited HHV-6B. pvT1 has been used to monitor transmission of HHV-6B within families, supporting the idea that non-inherited HHV-6 is usually transmitted within families. pvT1 was also used to ?nd evidence that iciHHV-6 can reactivate and be transmitted. The ?rst demonstration that de novo HHV-6 integrations occur in saliva from healthy donors who have non-inherited HHV-6. This is strong supporting evidence that HHV-6 becomes latent by integrating into telomeres. In this study, the telomere associated with integrated MDV was shown to form in a speci?c region of telomere repeats in MDV. The relative orientations of the MDV genome regions were also investigated and it was discovered that the MDV genome consistently integrates in the same orientation. Finally, a model of MDV integration and release as a precursor to MDV reactivation was proposed.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28467.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 08.01.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
title: Individual variation in sociality and social foraging strategies in the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator)
Creators: name: Jones, Teri
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: Animals in groups experience both costs and benefits from social associations. For instance, sociality may increase competition and the risk of disease exposure, while conversely providing benefits of increased predator protection, foraging efficiency and access to sources of social information. Colonial species live in a particularly complex social environment, presenting significant opportunity for intraspecific social interactions. Indeed access to social information, particularly in terms of social foraging, has frequently been proposed as an important factor driving coloniality. Both colonial breeding and foraging aggregations are characteristic traits among seabird species, making them an ideal system to study aspects of social foraging in relation to colonial living. However, due to the vast size of many seabird colonies and the long distance covered during foraging, it has previously been difficult to examine the scale of such foraging aggregations, and the individual factors that drive social behaviours. By simultaneously tracking 85% of the breeding population of a colony of Australasian gannets (Morus serrator), this thesis aims to quantify the importance of sociality across multiple contexts associated with foraging. I demonstrate that individuals associate at the colony at a frequency greater than expected by chance, and that this coordination at the colony provides foraging information, as co-departing individuals share more similar initial foraging locations. Using multi-layer social network analysis, I further demonstrate that individuals vary consistently in their sociality across foraging states (colony departure, commuting, foraging and colony return), but show individual flexibility in their social associations. This work also highlights the context-dependent nature of social foraging decisions, as the use of social foraging behaviour differed with habitat choice. Lastly, I examine social foraging decisions during commuting (following) and foraging (patch joining) in the context of a producer-scrounger foraging game. I provide evidence that use of exploitative foraging strategies varies with time and space during foraging, which are expected to relate to foraging motivation and scrounging opportunity. Overall, this thesis makes the first individual level quantification of social associations during foraging in a colonial seabird, highlighting both its importance to this population and its opportunistic nature.
FOUR WHEEL DRIVE TOURISM AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR REMOTE AREAS
Creators: name: Taylor, Andrew
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2010

description: Desert areas account for around 70% of Australia’s landmass but are home to less than 3% of the population. The economies of many desert areas have been described as marginal or peripheral. Tourism is an important economic activity for desert destinations and one sector, four wheel drive tourism, has been gaining increasing attention. This paper examines the spending patterns of four wheel drive visitors to desert regions of the Northern Territory of Australia and compares them to non-four wheel drive leisure visitors for a five year period from 2000 to 2004. In addition to assessing the amount of expenditure (overall and per day), the research investigates whether there were differences in expenditure items and the dispersal of expenditure among destinations. This information can help inform decisions about levels of investment for attracting the four wheel drive market which might be justified, and the types of product opportunities that might arise from a growing market.
description: tourismos, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2010)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28583.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 16.07.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Improving biofeedback for the treatment of fecal incontinence in women: implementation of a standardized multi-site manometric biofeedback protocol
Creators: name: Markland,
name: Meikle,
name: Whitehead,
name: Andy,
name: Harm-Ernandes,
name: Dyer,
name: Sutkin,
name: Cichowski,
name: McCormick,
name: Shaffer,
name: Jelovsek,
name: Newman,
name: Rardin,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Standardized training and clinical protocols using biofeedback for the treatment of fecal incontinence are important for clinical care. Our primary aims were to develop, implement, and evaluate adherence to a standardized protocol for manometric biofeedback to treat fecal incontinence.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28655.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 14.12.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Rayleigh waves, surface disorder, and phonon localization in nanostructures
Creators: name: Maurer, L. N.
name: Mei, S.
name: Knezevic, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a technique to calculate thermal conductivity in disordered nanostructures: a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solution of the elastic wave equation combined with the Green-Kubo formula. The technique captures phonon wave behavior and scales well to nanostructures that are too large or too surface disordered to simulate with many other techniques. We investigate the role of Rayleigh waves and surface disorder on thermal transport by studying graphenelike nanoribbons with free edges (allowing Rayleigh waves) and fixed edges (prohibiting Rayleigh waves). We find that free edges result in a significantly lower thermal conductivity than fixed ones. Free edges both introduce Rayleigh waves and cause all low-frequency modes (bulk and surface) to become more localized. Increasing surface disorder on free edges draws energy away from the center of the ribbon and toward the disordered edges, where it gets trapped in localized surface modes. These effects are not seen in ribbons with fixed boundary conditions and illustrate the importance of phonon surface modes in nanostructures.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28616.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 11.09.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Combining optogenetic stimulation and fMRI to validate a multivariate dynamical systems model for estimating causal brain interactions
Creators: name: Albaugh, Daniel
name: Shih, Yen-Yu Ian
name: Ryali, Srikanth
name: Chen, Tianwen
name: Kochalka, John
name: Fang, Zhongnan
name: Menon, Vinod
name: Lee, Jin Hyung
name: Supekar, Kaustubh
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: State-space multivariate dynamical systems (MDS) (Ryali et al., 2011) and other causal estimation models are being increasingly used to identify directed functional interactions between brain regions. However, the validity and accuracy of such methods is poorly understood. Performance evaluation based on computer simulations of small artificial causal networks can address this problem to some extent, but they often involve simplifying assumptions that reduce biological validity of the resulting data. Here, we use a novel approach taking advantage of recently developed optogenetic fMRI (ofMRI) techniques to selectively stimulate brain regions while simultaneously recording high-resolution whole-brain fMRI data. ofMRI allows for a more direct investigation of causal influences from the stimulated site to brain regions activated downstream and is therefore ideal for evaluating causal estimation methods in vivo. We used ofMRI to investigate whether MDS models for fMRI can accurately estimate causal functional interactions between brain regions. Two cohorts of ofMRI data were acquired, one at Stanford University and the University of California Los Angeles (Cohort 1) and the other at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Cohort 2). In each cohort optical stimulation was delivered to the right primary motor cortex (M1). General linear model analysis revealed prominent downstream thalamic activation in Cohort 1, and caudate-putamen (CPu) activation in Cohort 2. MDS accurately estimated causal interactions from M1 to thalamus and from M1 to CPu in Cohort 1 and Cohort 2, respectively. As predicted, no causal influences were found in the reverse direction. Additional control analyses demonstrated the specificity of causal interactions between stimulated and target sites. Our findings suggest that MDS state-space models can accurately and reliably estimate causal interactions in ofMRI data and further validate their use for estimating causal interactions in fMRI. More generally, our study demonstrates that the combined use of optogenetics and fMRI provides a powerful new tool for evaluating computational methods designed to estimate causal interactions between distributed brain regions.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28600.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 06.08.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cathedral Peak CAT9 #1 station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Cathedral Peak
Hydrological
Soil Diviner tube
Soil water content

description: This package contains supporting information for the hydrological data collected at Cathedral Peak's CAT9 #1 station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
title: On the Resolution of Foliation Singularities via Jet Schemes
Creators: name: Carter, Philip Joshua
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: We aim to contribute to the problem of finding desingularisations of codimension-1 holomorphic foliations in arbitrary ambient dimension. To this end, we prove an alternate characterisation of simple singularities, which leads to an equivalent condition for the existence of a desingularisation in the non-dicritical case. We then give some results and conjectures to show when this condition is satisfied.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28614.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.09.1992, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1992

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Distortionary Agricultural Policies: Their Productivity, Location and Climate Variability Implications for South Africa During the 20th Century
Creators: name: Greyling, Jan
name: Pardey, Philip G.
name: Senay, Senait
name: Greyling, Jan
name: Pardey, Philip G.
name: Senay, Senait
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: South Africa
subject: Maize
subject: Policy
subject: Spatial Economics

description: During the first half of the 20th century, the policy stance towards South African agriculture swung from suppression to support. More recently, the agricultural support policies were eliminated. Using newly constructed, long-run (1918-2015) data concerning maize production, yield and average price, we show these switching agricultural policy regimes had significant production, productivity, and climate risk implications for the maize sector. At its peak, this policy-induced movement reduced maize productivity by between 7.9 and 15.3 percent. The removal of the distortions coincided with a contraction in the total area planted to maize, but some spatial productivity perturbations still persist.
Living in the Telling
Creators: name: Funaki, Hine
name: Macdonald, Liana
name: Knox, Johanna
name: McKinnon, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3303
subject: Design
classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing
classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Stories provide listeners or readers a doorway to understand the storyteller’s context and live in the telling. We, as Māori Indigenous scholars (doctoral students, researchers, and academics), bring together our stories, in the forms of creative nonfiction and poetry located in Aotearoa New Zealand and Te Whenua Moemoeā Australia, to tell the ways we navigate colonial spaces while also imagining our desired future. Centring Indigenous storytelling methods and sensory ethnography, we bring together the interrelatedness that situates our stories across time and place. The next wave of Indigenous researchers will be stepping into these spaces that we now walk, so it is timely and crucial that we find creative ways to provide clearer direction for them. We tell our stories in this paper as an act of hope that our stories might spark a fire in the reader’s heart to also tell theirs.