cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 12 of Comparison of five different methodologies for evaluating ankle–foot orthosis stiffness
Creators: name: Shuman, Benjamin R.
name: Totah, Deema
name: Gates, Deanna H.
name: Gao, Fan
name: Ries, Andrew J.
name: Russell Esposito, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 12: Figure S10. Matrix. A) Representative test session for each previously described test fixture. AFO stiffness is computed from the linear fit while the AFO is being loaded in dorsiflexion. B) Average stiffness across cycles for each test session for each of the previously described test fixtures.
Scaling of the Strain Hardening Modulus of Glassy Polymers with the Flow Stress
Creators: name: Robbins, M. O.
name: Hoy, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent letter, Govaert et al. examined the relationship between strain hardening modulus $G_r$ and flow stress $σ_{flow}$ for five different glassy polymers. In each case, results for $G_r$ at different strain rates or different temperatures were linearly related to the flow stress. They suggested that this linear relation was inconsistent with simulations. Data from previous publications and new results are presented to show that simulations also yield a linear relation between modulus and flow stress. Possible explanations for the change in the ratio of modulus to flow stress with temperature and strain rate are discussed.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures: clarified arguments on linear proportionality. Accepted for publication in J. Poly. Sci Part B - Polym. Phys
Structural racism in school contexts and adolescent depression: Development of new indices for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and beyond
Creators: name: Hargrove, Taylor W.
name: Polos, Jessica A.
name: McDade, Thomas W.
name: Kershaw, Kiarri N.
name: Koning, Stephanie M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description:
Racial discrimination is an important predictor of racial inequities in mental and physical health. Scholars have made progress conceptualizing and measuring structural forms of racism, yet, little work has focused on measuring structural racism in social contexts, which are especially relevant for studying the life course consequences of racism for health. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we take a biosocial, life course approach and develop two life stage-specific indices measuring manifestations of structural racism in school contexts in adolescence, a sensitive period of development. The first is a school contextual disadvantage index (CDI), which captures differences in resources and opportunities across schools that have been partly determined by socio-historic structural racism that has sorted Black students into more disadvantaged schools. The second is a school structural racism index (SRI), which measures differences in resources and opportunities between Black and white students within schools. Then, we relate these indices to adolescent depressive symptoms. We find that among both Black and white students of both genders, higher CDI levels are associated with more depressive symptoms. However, Black students are twice as likely to be in schools with a CDI above the median compared to white students. We also find that, controlling for the CDI, the SRI is positively associated with depressive symptoms among Black boys and girls only. Finally, the CDI and the SRI interact to produce a pattern where the likelihood of depressive symptoms increases as the SRI increases, but only among Black boys and girls in low-disadvantage schools. These findings underscore the importance of measuring structural racism in social contexts in multifaceted ways to study life course health inequities.
Tessellated and stellated invisibility
Creators: name: Diatta, Andre
name: Nicolet, Andre
name: Guenneau, Sebastien
name: Zolla, Frederic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the expression for the anisotropic heterogeneous matrices of permittivity and permeability associated with two-dimensional polygonal and star shaped cloaks. We numerically show using finite elements that the forward scattering worsens when we increase the number of sides in the latter cloaks, whereas it improves for the former ones. This antagonistic behavior is discussed using a rigorous asymptotic approach. We use a symmetry group theoretical approach to derive the cloaks design.
IMMUNOMODULATORY EFFECTS OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS FROM EXTRA-VIRGIN OLIVE OIL IN INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELLS
Creators: name: MUTO, ERI
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: It is known that olive oil, one of the main components of Mediterranean diet, contain several phenolic compounds (i.e. oleuropein aglycone, luteolin, apigenin) with antioxidant activities; thus these compounds could possess a protective role in specific pathological conditions, such as the inflammatory diseases. Aim of the present work was to investigate the immunomodulatory effects of olive oil phenols (OPs) on intestinal epithelial cells (Caco-2). Based on current knowledge on intestinal inflammation, we focused on NF-kB signalling and expression and secretion of IL-8, a typical NF-kB regulating gene, which are rapidly induced in response to pro-inflammatory cytokines and is involved in the acute phase of gastrointestinal inflammation. The study was performed using a phenolic extract from virgin olive oil (OPs) characterized by mass spectrometry and Caco-2 cells were treated with different stimuli (IL-1?, TNF? or LPS) that activate NF-kB by different mechanisms. We found that TNF? and IL-1? induced NF-kB driven transcription and OPs completely abolished the induction of promoter activity in a concentration-dependent manner. In cells treated with LPS, IL-8 mRNA expression and secretion were induced and significantly reduced after co-treatment with OPs. TNF-? and IL-1? induced the expression and secretion of IL-8; however, OPs did not reduce these effects. Moreover, in the presence of IL-1?, OPs further increased IL-8 production. To gain further inside of the contradictory effect of OPs on NF-kB driven transcription and IL-8 expression in the presence of IL-1?, we evaluated IL-8 mRNA stability. OPs increased the IL-8 mRNA stability compared with the cell treated with IL-1?; this could account the increase of IL-8 production despite the inhibition of NF-kB signalling. Taken together these results indicate that OPs effects on expression and secretion of IL-8 depend on the inflammatory stimulus and suggest that OPs, in addition to NF-kB pathway, may act by other additional mechanisms on the inflammatory response in Caco-2 cells.
Universal nonlinear entanglement witnesses
Creators: name: Kotowski, Marcin
name: Kotowski, Michal
name: Kus, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a universal recipe for constructing nonlinear entanglement witnesses able to detect non-classical correlations in arbitrary systems of distinguishable and/or identical particles for an arbitrary number of constituents. The constructed witnesses are expressed in terms of expectation values of observables. As such they are, at least in principle, measurable in experiments
description: 14 pages
Additional file 4 of Comparison of five different methodologies for evaluating ankle–foot orthosis stiffness
Creators: name: Shuman, Benjamin R.
name: Totah, Deema
name: Gates, Deanna H.
name: Gao, Fan
name: Ries, Andrew J.
name: Russell Esposito, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S2. Blue Rocker 2.5. A) Representative test session for each previously described test fixture. AFO stiffness is computed from the linear fit while the AFO is being loaded in dorsiflexion. B) Average stiffness across cycles for each test session for each of the previously described test fixtures.
Additional file 9 of Comparison of five different methodologies for evaluating ankle–foot orthosis stiffness
Creators: name: Shuman, Benjamin R.
name: Totah, Deema
name: Gates, Deanna H.
name: Gao, Fan
name: Ries, Andrew J.
name: Russell Esposito, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 9: Figure S7. SpryStep. A) Representative test session for each previously described test fixture. AFO stiffness is computed from the linear fit while the AFO is being loaded in dorsiflexion. B) Average stiffness across cycles for each test session for each of the previously described test fixtures.
Capture and thermal inactivation of airborne pathogens by multi-layer wire mesh screens
Creators: name: Zarghanishiraz, Reza
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The critical lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic underscore the utmost importance of proactively addressing airborne transmitting diseases, necessitating comprehensive research and development of air purifying devices aimed at eliminating airborne pathogens, to safeguard public health. In this study, particle-laden airflow is passed through multiple layers of finely woven metal mesh screens located at different angular orientations which will both capture the particles and inactivate the pathogens by thermal treatment. The metal mesh screens are used as heating elements by applying a voltage to them to heat the air and take it to 150° C. It has been shown in the previous studies that the required exposure time for achieving a 3-log reduction of viral load (i.e. 99.9% inactivation) in SARS-CoV2 as a pathogen example at this temperature is as small as 0.02 s. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations took place in an Eulerian-Lagrangian framework using ANSYS Fluent to study the particle removal efficiency of the mesh screen layer under 16 airflow velocities ranging from 0.01-5 m/s for 10 particle size groups ranging from 50 nm-10μm. The impact of wire diameter, mesh porosity, heating and airflow temperature on the particle removal efficiency of the layers was studied. The results were presented based on dimensionless parameters, Stokes and Peclet numbers and were compared to the previous studies. A drop in removal efficiency of the particles with an intermediate-Stokes number was observed when wires were used as heating elements. Lastly, the pressure drop and quality factor of the mesh screens were examined.
Signature of QCD critical point: Anomalous transverse velocity dependence of antiproton-proton ratio
Creators: name: Luo, Xiaofeng
name: Shao, Ming
name: Li, Cheng
name: Chen, Hongfang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate the QCD critical point focusing effect on transverse velocity ($β_{t}$) dependence of antiproton to proton ($\bar{p}/p$) ratio, which was recently proposed by Asakawa {\it et al.} as an experimental signature of QCD critical point in high energy heavy ion collisions (HICs). For quantitative analysis, Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) transport model and THERMal heavy-IoN generATOR (THERMINATOR) are applied to calculate the corresponding $β_{t}$ dependence of $\bar{p}/p$ ratio for three gedanken focused isentropic trajectories with different focusing degree on QCD phase diagram. Finally, we obtained an observable anomaly in $β_{t}$ dependence of $\bar{p}/p$ ratio, which can be employed as a signature of QCD critical point.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures; To be published on Physics Letters B
The Evolution of Spheroidal Galaxies in Different Environments
Creators: name: Fritz, Alexander
name: Ziegler, Bodo L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the kinematic and chemical evolution of 203 distant spheroidal (elliptical and S0) galaxies at 0.2
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Astronomische Nachrichten (proceedings of Symposium 6 of the JENAM 2008, Vienna)
The LQC evolution operator of FRW universe with positive cosmological constant
Creators: name: Kaminski, Wojciech
name: Pawlowski, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The self-adjointness of an evolution operator $Θ_Λ$ corresponding to the model of flat FRW universe with massless scalar field and cosmological constant quantized in the framework of Loop Quantum Cosmology is studied in the case $Λ>0$. It is shown, that for $Λ
description: RevTex4, 8 pages
The Role of Cold Flows in the Assembly of Galaxy Disks
Creators: name: Brooks, A. M.
name: Governato, F.
name: Quinn, T.
name: Brook, C. B.
name: Wadsley, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use high resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to demonstrate that cold flow gas accretion, particularly along filaments, modifies the standard picture of gas accretion and cooling onto galaxy disks. In the standard picture, all gas is initially heated to the virial temperature of the galaxy as it enters the virial radius. Low mass galaxies are instead dominated by accretion of gas that stays well below the virial temperature, and even when a hot halo is able to develop in more massive galaxies there exist dense filaments that penetrate inside of the virial radius and deliver cold gas to the central galaxy. For galaxies up to ~L*, this cold accretion gas is responsible for the star formation in the disk at all times to the present. Even for galaxies at higher masses, cold flows dominate the growth of the disk at early times. Within this modified picture, galaxies are able to accrete a large mass of cold gas, with lower initial gas temperatures leading to shorter cooling times to reach the disk. Although star formation in the disk is mitigated by supernovae feedback, the short cooling times allow for the growth of stellar disks at higher redshifts than predicted by the standard model.
description: accepted to ApJ
Additional file 10 of Comparison of five different methodologies for evaluating ankle–foot orthosis stiffness
Creators: name: Shuman, Benjamin R.
name: Totah, Deema
name: Gates, Deanna H.
name: Gao, Fan
name: Ries, Andrew J.
name: Russell Esposito, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 10: Figure S8. SpryStep Max. A) Representative test session for each previously described test fixture. AFO stiffness is computed from the linear fit while the AFO is being loaded in dorsiflexion. B) Average stiffness across cycles for each test session for each of the previously described test fixtures.
C4 article: Implications of COVID‐19 in transplantation
Creators: name: article, Contributors to the C4
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A novel coronavirus has had global impact on individual health and health care delivery. In this C4 article, contributors discuss various aspects of transplantation including donor and recipient screening, management of infected patients, and prevention of coronavirus disease (COVID). Donor screening with SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid testing (NAT) close to the time of procurement is recommended. Many programs are also screening all potential recipients at the time of admission. The management of COVID has evolved with remdesivir emerging as a new potential option for transplant recipients. Dexamethasone has also shown promise and convalescent plasma is under study. Prevention strategies for transplant candidates and recipients are paramount. Pediatric-specific issues are also discussed. Strategies for the psychological well-being of patients and providers are also imperative, in addition to future research priorities for transplantation.
MICROPRINCE-Open access pilot line for Micro-Transfer-Printing of functional components on wafer level
Creators: name: Wicht, Sebastian
name: Krieger, Uwe
name: Guenther, Daniela
name: Heise, Niclas
name: Krojer, Matthias
name: Kittler, Gabriel
name: Naumann, Falk
name: Altmann, Frank
name: Gomez, David
name: Fecioru, Alin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Micro-transfer-printing
open access pilot line

description: Micro-transfer-printing (μTP) represents a versatile micro-assembly technology which has been developed in laboratory and (for photo-voltaic application) in an industrial environment over the last ten years. Within the European funded ECSEL project “MICROPRINCE” the worldwide first open access pilot line for μTP will be installed in the clean room facilities of the X-FAB MEMS Foundry GmbH. Moreover, the project possesses the objective to demonstrate the capabilities of this pilot line for heterogeneous integration of different application scenarios. Therefore, functional components for several target applications will be transferred and assembled on wafer level and the benefits of the μTP technology will be explained.
Paludicola Pet. Taguara
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Leptodactylidae
Paludicola

description: * Paludicola Henselii Pet.
Taguara v. F M. [3]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 673, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Characterisation of protein-truncating and missense variants in PALB2 in 15 768 women from Malaysia and Singapore
Creators: name: Ng, Pei Sze
name: Boonen, Rick ACM
name: Wijaya, Eldarina
name: Chong, Chan Eng
name: Sharma, Milan
name: Knaup, Sabine
name: Mariapun, Shivaani
name: Ho, Weang Kee
name: Lim, Joanna
name: Yoon, Sook-Yee
name: Mohd Taib, Nur Aishah
name: See, Mee Hoong
name: Li, Jingmei
name: Lim, Swee Ho
name: Tan, Ern Yu
name: Tan, Benita Kiat-Tee
name: Tan, Su-Ming
name: Tan, Veronique Kiat-Mien
name: Van Dam, Rob Martinus
name: Rahmat, Kartini
name: Yip, Cheng Har
name: Carvalho, Sara
name: Luccarini, Craig
name: Baynes, Caroline
name: Dunning, Alison M
name: Antoniou, Antonis
name: Van Attikum, Haico
name: Easton, Douglas F
name: Hartman, Mikael
name: Teo, Soo Hwang
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cancer genetics
1506
genetic predisposition to disease
germ-line mutation

description: Funder: National University Cancer Institute, Singapore; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011105
description: Background: Rare protein-truncating variants (PTVs) in partner and localiser of BRCA2 (PALB2) confer increased risk to breast cancer, but relatively few studies have reported the prevalence in South-East Asian populations. Here, we describe the prevalence of rare variants in PALB2 in a population-based study of 7840 breast cancer cases and 7928 healthy Chinese, Malay and Indian women from Malaysia and Singapore, and describe the functional impact of germline missense variants identified in this population. Methods: Mutation testing was performed on germline DNA (n=15 768) using targeted sequencing panels. The functional impact of missense variants was tested in mouse embryonic stem cell based functional assays. Results: PTVs in PALB2 were found in 0.73% of breast cancer patients and 0.14% of healthy individuals (OR=5.44; 95% CI 2.85 to 10.39, p<0.0001). In contrast, rare missense variants in PALB2 were not associated with increased risk of breast cancer. Whereas PTVs were associated with later stage of presentation and higher-grade tumours, no significant association was observed with missense variants in PALB2. However, two novel rare missense variants (p.L1027R and p.G1043V) produced unstable proteins and resulted in a decrease in homologous recombination-mediated repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Conclusion: Despite genetic and lifestyle differences between Asian and other populations, the population prevalence of PALB2 PTVs and associated relative risk of breast cancer, are similar to those reported in European populations.
Higgs Phenomenology of Scalar Sequestering
Creators: name: Kim, Hyung Do
name: Kim, Ji-Hun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The light Higgs mass in the MSSM is highly constrained and is predicted to be close to M_Z which causes a tension between the LEP II Higgs mass bound 114 GeV and the natural electroweak symmetry breaking in the MSSM. The usual way to increase the light CP even Higgs mass was to increase the quartic coupling of the up type Higgs. We point out that the light Higgs mass can be increased by reducing the off-diagonal term in the mass matrix when tan beta is moderate, which is about 5 to 10. As a result no mixing and/or a Higgs mixing angle of the opposite sign arises and the branching ratio of Higgs decay is drastically changed. This is possible in scalar sequestering scenario in which mu parameter can be large independently of the electroweak symmetry breaking. We also discuss the same effect in the BMSSM.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Optimal teleportation via thermal entangled states of a two-qubit Heisenberg Chain
Creators: name: Zhou, Yue
name: Zhang, Guo-Feng
name: Li, Shu-Shen
name: Abliz, Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the optimal teleportation based on Bell measurements via the thermal states of a two-qubit Heisenberg XXX chain in the presence of Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) anisotropic antisymmetric interaction and obtain the optimal unitary transformation. The explicit expressions of the output state and the teleportation fidelity are presented and compared with those of the standard protocol. It is shown that in this protocol the teleportation fidelity is always larger and unit fidelity is achieved at zero temperature. The DM interaction can enhance the teleportation fidelity at finite temperatures, as opposed to the effect of the interaction in the standard protocol. Cases with other types of anisotropies are also discussed.
description: Accepted by EPL
Additional file 3 of Comparison of five different methodologies for evaluating ankle–foot orthosis stiffness
Creators: name: Shuman, Benjamin R.
name: Totah, Deema
name: Gates, Deanna H.
name: Gao, Fan
name: Ries, Andrew J.
name: Russell Esposito, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Blue Rocker. A) Representative test session for each previously described test fixture. AFO stiffness is computed from the linear fit while the AFO is being loaded in dorsiflexion. B) Average stiffness across cycles for each test session for each of the previously described test fixtures.
Systematic reviews: Structure, form and content
Creators: name: Phillips, Veronica
name: Barker, Eleanor
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Original Articles
Libraries
PRISMA
PRISMA-P
Research support
Systematic reviews

description: This article aims to provide an overview of the structure, form and content of systematic reviews. It focuses in particular on the literature searching component, and covers systematic database searching techniques, searching for grey literature and the importance of librarian involvement in the search. It also covers systematic review reporting standards such as PRISMA-P and PRISMA, critical appraisal and tools and resources to support the review and ensure it is conducted efficiently and effectively. Finally, it summarizes the requirements when screening search results for inclusion in the review, and the statistical synthesis of included studies’ findings.
REGN-EB3: First Approval
Creators: name: Markham, Anthony
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: DeclarationsFunding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding. Authorship and Conflict of interest Anthony Markham is a contracted employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to the review and are responsible for the article content. Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent to publish, Availability of data and material, Code availability not applicable Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here Abstract REGN-EB3 (INMAZEB®, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals) is a combination of three fully-human monoclonal antibodies – atoltivimab (REGN3470), maftivimab (REGN3479), and odesivimab (REGN3471) – that target Ebola virus glycoprotein. Based on the results of the PALM study conducted during an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, REGN-EB3 was recently approved by the US FDA as a treatment for Ebola virus infection. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of REGN-EB3 leading to this first approval for the treatment of infection caused by Zaire ebolavirus (Ebola virus) in adult and paediatric patients.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Additional file 5 of Comparison of five different methodologies for evaluating ankle–foot orthosis stiffness
Creators: name: Shuman, Benjamin R.
name: Totah, Deema
name: Gates, Deanna H.
name: Gao, Fan
name: Ries, Andrew J.
name: Russell Esposito, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S3. ToeOff. A) Representative test session for each previously described test fixture. AFO stiffness is computed from the linear fit while the AFO is being loaded in dorsiflexion. B) Average stiffness across cycles for each test session for each of the previously described test fixtures.
The Role of Marketting Manageement Practices in the the Nigerian business sector A case study of selected Firms in Cross River State 08-May-2023 17-06-05.pdf
Creators: name: Obo, Ekpenyong  Bassey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Marketing management (incl. strategy and customer relations)

description: The purpose of this body was to investigate the role management practice amoung business firms in nigerian business sector. To achieve the research objectives two research questions and a research hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. A total of 24 business firms were used in the study. The hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance…..
Jet energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma by stream instabilities
Creators: name: Mannarelli, Massimo
name: Manuel, Cristina
name: Gonzalez-Solis, Sergi
name: Strickland, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evolution of the plasma instabilities induced by two jets of particles propagating in opposite directions and crossing a thermally equilibrated non-Abelian plasma. In order to simplify the analysis we assume that the two jets of partons can be described with uniform distribution functions in coordinate space and by Gaussian distribution functions in momentum space. We find that while crossing the quark-gluon plasma, the jets of particles excite unstable chromomagnetic and chromoelectric modes. These fields interact with the particles (or hard modes) of the plasma inducing the production of currents; thus, the energy lost by the jets is absorbed by both the gauge fields and the hard modes of the plasma. We compare the outcome of the numerical simulations with the analytical calculation performed assuming that the jets of particles can be described by a tsunami-like distribution function. We find qualitative and semi-quantitative agreement between the results obtained with the two methods.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 7 of Comparison of five different methodologies for evaluating ankle–foot orthosis stiffness
Creators: name: Shuman, Benjamin R.
name: Totah, Deema
name: Gates, Deanna H.
name: Gao, Fan
name: Ries, Andrew J.
name: Russell Esposito, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 7: Figure S5. WalkOn Reaction. A) Representative test session for each previously described test fixture. AFO stiffness is computed from the linear fit while the AFO is being loaded in dorsiflexion. B) Average stiffness across cycles for each test session for each of the previously described test fixtures.
Development and implementation of sequencing strategies to combat global epidemics of viral pathogens
Creators: name: Lapointe, Hope Ryan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing technologies allow novel research and public health opportunities to characterize and intervene in viral outbreaks across the globe. The overarching aim of this thesis is to utilize various sequencing technologies to characterize viral pathogens for different purposes. Here, three different sequencing approaches for monitoring the human pathogens Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are discussed. HIV genotyping can be utilized to identify drug resistance-associated mutations and guide HIV treatment. However, access to such testing is currently insufficient in resource-limited settings to enable routine genotypic HIV drug resistance testing. Retrospective studies in the form of resistance surveys can be performed to assess population-level HIV drug resistance. Here, two large HIV resistance surveys were performed for Eswatini and Malawi to identify the proportion of individuals with pre-existing HIV drug resistance. These data were pivotal in these countries’ selection of HIV treatments for their populations. Sequencing also has the potential to identify the time of viral infection based the accumulation of mutations in the genome. A discussion is provided where this approach is used in the context of identifying causes of failure of tenofovir pre-exposure prophylaxis for preventing HIV infection. Conversely, phylogenetic analysis of sequence data, which reveals the relatedness between viral sequences, can inform outbreak monitoring. Another discussion on the practical and ethical considerations of utilizing HIV sequence data is provided. The second objective of this thesis is to develop and implement newer “next-generation” sequencing platforms to better characterize genetic patterns amongst other viruses. A genotype-independent sequencing assay for the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) on the Illumina MiSeq is described and validated. This assay enables parallel identification of the HCV infection genotype, as well as detection of any resistance-associated mutations. Additionally, a nanopore sequencing assay was rapidly deployed during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to sequence the causative agent, SARS-CoV-2. A final study describes the development of a SARS-CoV-2 sequencing strategy in collaboration with the Artic Network. This thesis supports the ongoing use of sequencing to characterize viral pathogens for therapy optimization and molecular epidemiology.
On the Yang-Mills two-loop effective action with wordline methods
Creators: name: Pawlowski, Jan M.
name: Schmidt, Michael G.
name: Zhang, Jian-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the two-loop effective action for covariantly constant field strength of pure Yang-Mills theory in the presence of an infrared scale. The computation is done in the framework of the worldline formalism, based on a generalization procedure of constructing multiloop effective actions in terms of the bosonic worldline path integral. The two-loop beta-function is correctly reproduced. This is the first derivation in the worldline formulation, and serves as a nontrivial check on the consistency of the multiloop generalization procedure in the worldline formalism.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Workplace Spirituality, Employee Engagement and Employee Loyalty: A Conceptual Study on their Interconnection
Creators: name: Kumari, Dr. Anita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified
Human resources management
Human resources and industrial relations not elsewhere classified
Human information behaviour
Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management)

description: As opposed to the early modern time, the variety of work has remarkably changed in the contemporary era. Today’s workforce experiences greater desolation and disassociation from associates due to distance working, and continual use of business technology like emailing, and sharing files through various platforms may also make personnels feel less akined in their nest. The level of subjective effort employees are willing to put forth on behalf of their employer is a key indicator of how committed they are to their jobs. This is what is meant when we talk about employee engagement. Highly engaged employees surpass the bottom line commitment marked off in their work specification,bringing in new ideas and thinking unconventionally making headway for the organisations which is very progressive in nature, as has been observed in many prior research results. This is similar to how people make one self-available for handing their time and energy to accommodate a cause they are genuinely zealous about. The idea that each person has internal logics,rightness, and inclination to engage in professions that offer their lives and the lives of others more purpose is included in the concept of spirituality. According to a PwC India report, up to 37% of millennials plan to change jobs in the upcoming year. The goal of the current paper is to investigate the relationship between employee engagement, workplace spirituality (purposeful work, a sense of belonging , and alignment with organisational values) and employee loyalty (intention to stay) {JOUR Aboobaker, Nimitha Edward, Manoj K.A., Zakkariya 2020/01/02 Workplace spirituality and employee loyalty: an empirical investigation among millennials in India } particular relation to millennials, who are three times as likely than other generations to move occupations
Additional file 13 of Comparison of five different methodologies for evaluating ankle–foot orthosis stiffness
Creators: name: Shuman, Benjamin R.
name: Totah, Deema
name: Gates, Deanna H.
name: Gao, Fan
name: Ries, Andrew J.
name: Russell Esposito, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 13: Figure S11. Matrix Max. A) Representative test session for each previously described test fixture. AFO stiffness is computed from the linear fit while the AFO is being loaded in dorsiflexion. B) Average stiffness across cycles for each test session for each of the previously described test fixtures.
Real-Time Optimization for Dynamic Ride-Sharing
Creators: name: Pouls, Martin
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ride-Sharing
Mobility-as-a-Service
Vehicle Routing
Repositioning

description: Throughout the last decade, the advent of novel mobility services such as ride-hailing, car-sharing, and ride-sharing has shaped urban mobility. While these types of services offer flexible on-demand transportation for customers, they may also increase the load on the, already strained, road infrastructure and exacerbate traffic congestion problems. One potential way to remedy this problem is the increased usage of dynamic ride-sharing services. In this type of service, multiple customer trips are combined into share a vehicle simultaneously. This leads to more efficient vehicle utilization, reduced prices for customers, and less traffic congestion at the cost of slight delays compared to direct transportation in ride-hailing services. In this thesis, we consider the planning and operation of such dynamic ride-sharing services. We present a wider look at the planning context of dynamic ride-sharing and discuss planning problems on the strategical, tactical, and operational level. Subsequently, our focus is on two operational planning problems: dynamic vehicle routing, and idle vehicle repositioning. Regarding vehicle routing, we introduce the vehicle routing problem for dynamic ridesharing and present a solution procedure. Our algorithmic approach consists of two phases: a fast insertion heuristic, and a local search improvement phase. The former handles incoming trip requests and quickly assigns them to suitable vehicles while the latter is responsible for continuously improving the current routing plan. This way, we enable fast response times for customers while simultaneously effectively utilizing available computational resources. Concerning the idle vehicle repositioning problem, we propose a mathematical model that takes repositioning decisions and adequately reflects available vehicle resources as well as a forecast of the upcoming trip request demand. This model is embedded into a real-time planning algorithm that regularly re-optimizes the movement of idle vehicles. Through an adaptive parameter calculation process, our algorithm dynamically adapts to changes in the current system state. To evaluate our algorithms, we present a modular simulation-based evaluation framework. We envision that this framework may also be used by other researchers and developers. In this thesis, we perform computational evaluations on a variety of scenarios based on real-world data from Chengdu, New York City, and Hamburg. The computational results show that we are able to produce high-quality solutions in real-time, enabling the usage in high-demand settings. In addition, our algorithms perform robustly in a variety of settings and are quickly adapted to new application settings, such as the deployment in a new city.
Economic Cooperative Models: Agricultural cooperatives in Greece and the need to modernize their operation for the sustainable development of local societies
Creators: name: Kalogiannidis, Stavros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150307 Innovation and Technology Management
subject: 150308 International Business

description: Cooperation and in addition the creation of cooperatives and cooperative companies in the agricultural sector influence the effort of small farmers to survive in conditions of increased competition. Farmers are in many cases considered "small" entrepreneurs compared to their counterparts in other sectors of the economy. Therefore, the need for survival leads most of the farmers to unite in order to gain bargaining power. Agricultural cooperatives were and remain the only mechanism for gaining bargaining power of small and weak producers, which is the main reason for creating cooperatives. Due to their historical process, we can understand their role in the development of the Greek economy. Finally, the study of their problems in last year’s presents the need for the planning of a modernized cooperative model, based on the most important principles of social economy.
Additional file 1 of Prevalence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Japan based on a claims database analysis
Creators: name: Kondoh, Yasuhiro
name: Suda, Takafumi
name: Hongo, Yoshie
name: Yoshida, Manami
name: Hiroi, Shinzo
name: Iwasaki, Kosuke
name: Takeshima, Tomomi
name: Homma, Sakae
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Age- and sex-specific ratios of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to pirfenidone tablets in the MDV database (April 2017–March 2018). Figure S2. Age- and sex-specific prevalence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Japan using the (a) MDV database (April 2017–March 2018) and (b) JMDC database (January–December 2018). The fourth NDB Open Data and demographic data (April 2017–March 2018) were used with the MDV database to calculate the prevalence. Figure S3. Age- and sex-specific populations in the JMDC database (January–December 2018). Figure S4. Age- and sex-specific prevalence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by year (2015–2019) in the JMDC database. Figure S5. Age- and sex-specific populations in the MarketScan database (January–December 2017). Figure S6. Age- and sex-specific populations in the Medicare database (January–December 2018). Figure S7. Age- and sex-specific prevalence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in the US using the (a) MarketScan database (January–December 2017) and (b) Medicare database (January–December 2018). Figure S8. Age- and sex-specific prevalence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in the MarketScan database (
Core, Periphery and Ideology in Aceramie Cyprus
Creators: name: Ronen, Avraham
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 45/46 (1995): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
On the ambiguity of field correlators represented by asymptotic perturbation expansions
Creators: name: Caprini, Irinel
name: Fischer, Jan
name: Vrkoč, Ivo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the divergence pattern of perturbation expansions in Quantum Field Theory and the (assumed) asymptotic character of the series, we address the problem of ambiguity of a function determined by the perturbation expansion. We consider functions represented by an integral of the Laplace-Borel type along a general contour in the Borel complex plane. Proving a modified form of the Watson lemma, we obtain a large class of functions having the same asymptotic perturbation expansion. Some remarks on perturbative QCD are made, using the particular case of the Adler function.
Konothrips polychaeta Goldarazena & Mitchell & Hance 2017, sp.n.
Creators: name: Goldarazena, Arturo
name: Mitchell, Adam
name: Hance, Thierry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Konothrips
Konothrips polychaeta

description: Konothrips polychaeta sp.n.
 Distribution: United States (Delaware). Host Plant: Andropogon virginicus (Poaceae)
description: Published as part of Goldarazena, Arturo, Mitchell, Adam & Hance, Thierry, 2017, Konothrips polychaeta sp. n. from Delaware, North America, with a key to the three species of this genus, pp. 445-450 in Zootaxa 4341 (3) on page 449, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.13, http://zenodo.org/record/1040031
Risk management framework for methylmercury in artisanal small-scale gold mining
Creators: name: Alhassan, Hadisu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Artisanal Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is largely a poverty-driven activity that has become the largest contributor (i.e., 38%) to mercury pollution globally. There is growing evidence that the sector is expanding rapidly with an increased emission of mercury into the environment. Mercury is a toxic chemical that has a detrimental effect on human health. With methylmercury being the most toxic form of mercury, and having a bioaccumulative property, fish consumption poses a major health risk. Data on mercury in ASGM communities is scarce and therefore makes evaluating methylmercury health risks difficult. This research developed a methylmercury risk management framework aimed at addressing the gaps in the sector. This was achieved by applying a multi-species fugacity mass balance fate and transport model to predict mercury. The model incorporated uncertainty by defining statistical distributions for input parameters. The concentrations and fugacities of the various species of mercury were determined for the air, water, and sediment compartments. Subsequently, the 95th percentile of the bulk water concentration of methylmercury was used with a bioconcentration factor to determine fish tissue methylmercury concentration, which formed the basis for the development of a probabilistic health risk model. Following the estimation of chronic daily intake and using a reference dose of methylmercury, the health risk was found to be unacceptable beyond the 2.5th percentile on the hazard quotient distribution. However, scenario analyses demonstrated that reducing mercury emissions by 20% could reduce risk by about 60%. To help reduce/eliminate methylmercury health risk, the framework further provides an uncertainty-based multicriteria decision analysis model that will help make robust decisions in choosing relatively safer ASGM methods. Finally, a review of ASGM sector formalization was conducted to assess the impact of regulatory policies on mercury pollution. The assessment indicated that Ghana, like many other countries, largely failed in its quest to formalize the ASGM sector. The research concludes that reducing excessive bureaucratic steps to formalization, reviewing certain laws pertaining to the duration and sizes of ASM concessions, and properly engaging stakeholders are essential to effective sector regulation and a reduction in mercury pollution.