cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigation of chitosan nanoparticles as a carrier of therapeutic agents: Bio-mechanical effects on cancer cell line, applications in delivery of gene and chemotherapeutic agents
Creators: name: Shahrouz Taranejoo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Chitosan derivatives are used in drug and gene delivery applications due to their outstanding biological features. Chitosan, owing to its unique chemical structure, can fabricate nanoparticles through simple nanofabrication methods using various crosslinkers. There are several exclusive characteristics including the ability of forming conjugates with negatively charged materials such as DNA, siRNA and alginate, anticancer characteristics, relatively long blood circulation period as well as low uptake through reticulo endothelial system (RES) and mucoadhesion that make chitosan derivatives as a promising class of carriers for therapeutic delivery applications.
 Despite the increasing trend of applications for chitosan nanoparticles, in different research works these nanoparticles mainly were studied only from one or two particular perspectives. there are a limited number of comprehensive studies from different perspectives regarding pharmaceutical applications of the chitosan nanoparticles for cancer treatment. In addition, there is lack of study on biomechanical effects of the chitosan-anti cancer drug conjugates on cancerous cells.
 The aim of this PhD research program is to in-depth investigation of chitosan nanoparticles from different perspectives for pharmaceutical applications especially in cancer therapy (e.g. method of fabrication, physiological-responsive derivatives, biomechanical effects and development its prolonged release characteristics). In the first part of this project, a new redox responsive nanostructure based on chitosan derivative was designed, synthesized and employed for gene delivery application. In the second part, we demonstrated an efficient tumor targeting chitosan-based nanoparticulate drug delivery system, designed for the oral administration of cancer therapeutic agents. For the first time, a dual microfluidic platform was employed to synthesize nanocarriers with highly pH-tunable core-shell structure. In the third part, we investigated the effects of albendazole encapsulated chitosan nanoparticles on the mechanical behaviour of the cytoskeleton of SW48 (Human colon adenocarcinoma cell line. The anticancer efficacy of the chitosan-drug conjugates as well as its selectivity towards the cancer cells were examined. In the final part of this project, a recently-developed gel aspiration-ejection fabrication technique of dense collagen hydrogel (DNS CG) and chitosan-sulfated cyclodextrin (CS-SCD) conjugation was used to design hierarchical drug delivery system for prolonged controlled release of therapeutic agents.
Non--power law behavior of the radial profile of phase--space density of halos
Creators: name: Del Popolo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the pseudo phase-space density, $ρ(r)/σ^3(r)$, of $Λ$CDM dark matter halos with and without baryons (baryons+DM, and pure DM), by using the model introduced in Del Popolo (2009), which takes into account the effect of dynamical friction, ordered and random angular momentum, baryons adiabatic contraction and dark matter baryons interplay. We examine the radial dependence of $ρ(r)/σ^3(r)$ over 9 orders of magnitude in radius for structures on galactic and cluster of galaxies scales. We find that $ρ(r)/σ^3(r)$ is approximately a power-law only in the range of halo radius resolved by current simulations (down to 0.1% of the virial radius) while it has a non-power law behavior below the quoted scale, with inner profiles changing with mass. The non-power-law behavior is more evident for halos constituted both of dark matter and baryons while halos constituted just of dark matter and with angular momentum chosen to reproduce a Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) density profile, are characterized by an approximately power-law behavior. The results of the present paper lead to conclude that density profiles of the NFW type are compatible with a power-law behavior of $ρ(r)/σ^3(r)$, while those flattening to the halo center, like those found in Del Popolo (2009) or the Einasto profile, or the Burkert profile, cannot produce radial profile of the pseudo-phase-space density that are power-laws at all radii. The results argue against universality of the pseudo phase-space density and as a consequence argue against universality of density profiles constituted by dark matter and baryons as also discussed in Del Popolo (2009).
description: 20 pages; 7 figs. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0906.4447 and arXiv:1012.4322
Process optimisation of solar thermal technology with power station carbon capture
Creators: name: Lambert, Tristan Hiley
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In chemical engineering design, process plants are often capable of turndown and flexible operation to maximise profitability depending on demand and price signals, and the optimisation of these processes needs to take into account the variability in the plant operation. By performing the optimisation with flexible operating conditions the overall plant performance can be improved. The optimisation process makes use of two computational modelling techniques: multi-objective optimisation (MOO) and surrogate modelling. Multi-objective optimisation allows for the optimisation of two or more competing variables simultaneously. In the cases studied here, the long individual simulation time coupled with the large number of individual simulations required meant that the total simulation time was prohibitive for dynamic MOO. In order to reduce computation time surrogate models of the processes are developed using artificial neural networks. A statistical dynamic modelling framework within a multi-objective optimisation methodology is developed to optimise a process plant’s performance. Here the dynamic modelling is used to optimise the economic and environmental performance of natural gas combined cycle power plant systems fitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS) and solar thermal energy (STE) in a time-integrated MOO framework. This framework allows for variable process inputs and flexible operation based on external signals, such as product price. By introducing a probabilistic approach to the modelling of flexible operation allows for more data to be included in the analysis. The methodology for dynamic modelling of flexible operation could be applied to other industrial processes that face similar dynamic economic and/or environmental conditions. From a CCS standpoint dynamic MOO was used to show that variable capture can be used to make the CCS plant more profitable over steady state operation. At a capture rate of 80 % the NPV of a gas turbine combined cycle with CCS improved by 38 m$AU by utilising flexible operation of the capture process. This also allows for various economic scenarios to incentivise the reduction of CO₂ emissions from natural gas based power plants, with the use of CCS and STE used to reduce the greenhouse emissions. The economic strategies of a carbon price and governmental grants are investigated to determine the levels of policy help to incentivise implementing CO₂ reduction technologies. In order to achieve a financial incentive for limiting CO₂ emissions from a combined cycle power plants equipped with CCS a government co-investment grant of 50 % of the capital costs and a carbon price of 83 $AU/tCO₂ is required.
Uma História da educação rural brasileira a partir da modulação paraibana (1858 a 1970)
Creators: name: Antonio Carlos Ferreira Pinheiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: educação/escola rural;
formação de professoras/es
propriedade da terra

description: Este livro tem como objetivo contribuir com o processo de construção de uma história da escolarização no meio rural/campo brasileiro pela sua modulação paraibana, no período de 1858 a 1970. Para tanto, delimitamos este longo período em cinco subperíodos, quais sejam: Um primeiro que abarca o período de 1858-1897; um segundo que contempla o período de 1898 a 1934; um terceiro delimitado pelos anos de 1935 a 1949; um quarto demarcado pelo intervalo de tempo de 1950 a 1964, e um quinto que observa o breve período de 1965 a 1970. Nesse sentido, verificamos que as preocupações com a educação/ensino rural/campo foram se transformando ao assumirem novos contornos, discursos e perspectivas objetivando justificar a sua expansão a partir de políticas educacionais que envolveram, inclusive, a formação de professoras/es.
Vortex structures with complex points singularities in the two-dimensional Euler equation. New exact solutions
Creators: name: Tur, A. V.
name: Yanovsky, V. V.
name: Kulik, K. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we found the new class of exact stationary solutions for 2D-Euler equations. Unlike of already known solutions, the new one contain complex singularities. We consider as complex, point singularities which have the vector field index greater than one. For example, the dipole singularity is complex because its index is equal to two. We present in explicit form a large class of exact localized stationary solutions for 2D-Euler equations with the singularity which index is equal to three. The obtained solutions are expressed in terms of elementary functions. These solutions represent complex singularity point surrounded by vortex satellites structure. We discuss also motion equation of singularities and conditions for singularity point stationarity which provides the stationarity of complex vortex configuration.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures
Improvements in the manufacturing of pharmaceutical dry powder formulations: a novel method of blend analysis using a coloured tracer
Creators: name: Barling, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The optimisation of dry powder pharmaceutical blending is very challenging, and often relies on costly and time consuming trial-and-error approaches which waste a lot of material. A novel method has been developed which can be used in place of the drug to quickly and effectively evaluate the progression of a dry powder mixing. By blending a small amount of colour tracer with the pharmaceutical formulation bulk, a vast amount of information on blend kinetics and behaviour can be extracted. Information on the degree of tracer spread and breakup can be obtained from measurement of the blend’s colour, as well as providing quantitative insight into the energy input to the blend and its uniformity. It can also be used to identify conditions which may cause unintentional and undesirable particle damage during blending. By reducing the amount of drug required in preliminary testing, the colour tracer method provides a cost effective means of ensuring equivalent blending conditions between mixer types, scales and operating conditions.
Supplementary document for Pulse wave measurement system by rPPG from multiple human sites by including the sole - 6600304.pdf
Creators: name: Takahashi, Masato
name: yamaguchi, takeshi
name: Akihiro, Ito
name: Carrillo, Francisco-J Renero-
name: AMEMIYA, Ayumi
name: Tsumura, Norimichi
name: Iijima, Norio
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Comparison of Absorption and Peak Intensity Used for Pulse Wave Measurement
Antiperiodic spin-1/2 XXZ quantum chains by separation of variables: Complete spectrum and form factors
Creators: name: Niccoli, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider the spin 1/2 highest weight representations for the 6-vertex Yang-Baxter algebra on a finite lattice and analyze the integrable quantum models associated to the antiperiodic transfer matrix. For these models, which in the homogeneous limit reproduces the XXZ spin 1/2 quantum chains with antiperiodic boundary conditions, we obtain in the framework of Sklyanin's quantum separation of variables (SOV) the following results: I) The complete characterization of the transfer matrix spectrum (eigenvalues/eigenstates) and the proof of its simplicity. II) The reconstruction of all local operators in terms of Sklyanin's quantum separate variables. III) One determinant formula for the scalar products of separates states, the elements of the matrix in the scalar product are sums over the SOV spectrum of the product of the coefficients of the states. IV) The form factors of the local spin operators on the transfer matrix eigenstates by a one determinant formula given by simple modifications of the scalar product formula.
description: 29 pages
Practice environment factors and evidence-based practice implementation: A scoping review of recent literature
Creators: name: Furtado, Luis Carlos Do Rego
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Registration of the scoping review entitled "Practice Environment Factors and Evidence-Based Practice Implementation: A Scoping Review of Recent Literature". We are pleased to register our scoping review on the topic of practice environment factors and evidence-based practice implementation. The aim of this review is to explore the recent literature on the practice environment factors that influence the implementation of evidence-based practices in various healthcare settings. Our review will follow the established framework of scoping reviews, including a comprehensive search strategy, selection of relevant studies, data extraction and analysis, and synthesis of findings. We will systematically search electronic databases, including PubMed, CINAHL, and PsycINFO, to identify relevant studies published in the last ten years. We will include all study designs that report on the practice environment factors that affect the implementation of evidence-based practices in any healthcare setting. Two independent reviewers will screen all identified studies' titles, abstracts, and full-text articles. Data will be extracted using a standardized form, including study characteristics, practice environment factors, and evidence-based practice outcomes. Our review will provide valuable insights into the factors that facilitate or hinder the implementation of evidence-based practices in healthcare settings, which can inform the development of effective strategies for promoting evidence-based practice. We plan to disseminate our findings through peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations. We look forward to conducting this scoping review and contributing to the growing body of literature on evidence-based practice implementation.
Momentum-driven feedback and the Mass-sigma relation in non-isothermal galaxies
Creators: name: McQuillin, Rachael C.
name: McLaughlin, Dean E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve for the velocity fields of momentum-conserving supershells driven from galaxy centres by steady winds from supermassive black holes or nuclear star clusters (central massive objects: CMOs). We look for the critical CMO mass that allows such a shell to escape from its host galaxy. In the case that the host galaxy dark matter halo is a singular isothermal sphere, we find that the critical CMO mass derived by King, which scales with the halo velocity dispersion as M_crit \propto σ^4, is necessary, but not by itself sufficient, to drive shells to large radii in the halo. Furthermore, a CMO mass at least 3 times the King value is required to drive the shell to the escape speed of the halo. In the case of CMOs embedded in protogalaxies with non-isothermal dark matter haloes, which we treat here for the first time, we find a critical CMO mass that \textit{is sufficient} to drive \textit{any} shell (under a steady wind) to escape \textit{any} galaxy with a peaked circular speed profile. In the limit of large halo mass, relevant to real galaxies, this critical CMO mass depends only on the value of the peak circular speed of the halo, scaling as M_crit \propto V_c,pk^4. Our results therefore relate to observational scalings between black hole mass and asymptotic circular speed in galaxy spheroids. They also suggest a natural way of extending analyses of M-σrelations for black holes in massive bulges, to include similar relations for nuclear clusters in lower-mass and disc galaxies.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Typos corrected, bibliography amended
Modeling Water: Insights Into the Physical-Chemistry Properties by Using Force Fields
Creators: name: Gomez, Silvio Carlos
name: Gomez Martinez, Luis Gabriel
name: Combariza, Aldo F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Poster of participation in the XV Encuentro Departamental de Semilleros de Investigación RedCOLSI - Universidad de Sucre - Sincelejo - Colombia.
Resonant modes in strain-induced graphene superlattices
Creators: name: Pellegrino, F. M. D.
name: Angilella, G. G. N.
name: Pucci, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones is explicitly considered. The latter corresponds to an anisotropic, possibly non-uniform, Fermi velocity. Along with the modes with unit transmission usually found across a single barrier, we analytically find additional resonant modes when considering a periodic structure of several strain-induced barriers. We also study the band-like spectrum of bound states, as a function of conserved energy and transverse momentum. Such a strain-induced superlattice may thus effectively work as a mode filter for transport in graphene.
Blueprint of Developed Elevation of Proposed Shopping Center, Stony Brook, L.I., October 24, 1939
Creators: name: Smythe, Richard Haviland
name: Melville, Ward, 1887-1977
name: Organization, Ward Melville Heritage
name: Stony Brook Community Fund
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: Stony Brook
Sketches
Blueprints
Plans
Architects
Shopping centers
Architectural drawings
Stores & shops

description: This blueprint shows the developed elevation of a proposed shopping center located in Stony Brook, L.I. This plan was completed by architect Richard Haviland Smythe, located at 681 fifth avenue, New York. Dated for October 24, 1939.
Nanocoolers
Creators: name: Horvat, Martin
name: Prosen, Tomaž
name: Casati, Giulio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple kinematic model of a non-equilibrium steady state device, which can operate either as a heat engine or as a refrigerator. The model is composed of two or more scattering channels where the motion is fully described by deterministic classical dynamics, which connect a pair of stochastic (infinite) heat and particle baths at unequal temperatures. We discuss precise kinematic conditions under which our model may approach Carnot's optimal efficiency in different situations.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
The Current and Future State of Digital Wallets
Creators: name: O'Donnell, Darrell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460805
subject: Fairness, accountability, transparency, trust and ethics of computer systems
classificationCode: 470208
subject: Culture, representation and identity
classificationCode: 460806
subject: Human-computer interaction
classificationCode: 460401
subject: Cryptography
classificationCode: 460402
subject: Data and information privacy
classificationCode: 460406
subject: Software and application security

description: The World Economic Forum states that we are in the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Technologies are converging and provide immense potential for shifting how we can improve every aspect of our lives.
Underneath all of that technology lies the internet, which has a flaw that could have been fatal – until recently it has lacked a built-in digital identity. Hacks to get around this missing piece have resulted in huge security gaps and abusive digital relationships. The availability of a Digital Identity that makes personal and business sense is removing this shortfall and multi-billion dollar industries will be impacted.
Organizations and people who understand how digital identity works will see the early benefits and likely receive more of the benefits. The stakes are enormous:
“digital ID has the potential to unlock economic value equivalent to 3 to 13 percent of GDP in 2030” – McKinsey Global Institute
The sponsors of this study recognize that a Digital Wallet is a requirement for us to be able to assert the appropriate control of our Digital Identities. Without a Digital Wallet, which allows us to control our Digital Identities – both at a personal and business level – we won’t be able to realize the benefits.
The study culminates with this open report. This report provides:
definition of what a Digital Wallet is clarification about where the Digital Wallet industry and ecosystem is currentlyguidance for organizations to move forward as the Digital Wallet ecosystem forms
The Digital Wallet ecosystem is in a very early stage. Organizations that are true innovators will find a rich and frothy environment that they can work in, influence, and drive forward. Those organizations that only use “innovation theatre” should stay away for now and let the market formalize. Be realistic – innovators are a very small percentage (2.5%) of society.
Simple use cases are finding success and the learning is accelerating. Small projects are gaining traction. The Digital Wallet ecosystem is shifting rapidly and leaders are emerging. Understanding where you and your organization fit is crucial. This report aims to be a starting point. The Digital Wallet space is immature and many predictions here will be wrong – either in timing or even in intent. However, the shift to a world where we have a Digital Wallet that empowers us is happening. We aim to provide the basics so you and your organization can begin to plan, explore, and learn.
Shona morphophonemics : repair strategies in Karanga and Zezuru
Creators: name: Mudzingwa, Calisto
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis investigates how Shona, an African language spoken in Zimbabwe deals with potentially onsetless syllables (heterosyllabic VV sequences & initial onsetless syllables) and subminimal words. The thesis focuses on the morphophonemics of Karanga and Zezuru—the two principal dialects of Shona. Karanga and Zezuru morphophonemic processes observed in this thesis have only one primary goal; to achieve the typical or preferred Shona phonological structures—the consonant-vowel (CV) syllable and the disyllabic Prosodic Word. Often, when morphemes are concatenated, the resultant phonological structures do not conform to these typical structures. The study examines the repair strategies that Karanga and Zezuru employ to achieve the CV syllable and the disyllabic Prosodic Word. The overall analysis is couched in Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky (2004 [1993]. Hiatus resolution strategies are conditioned by prosodic domains/boundaries, and a detailed prosodic parsing is required to account for this phenomenon. The Prosodic Stem, Prosodic Word and the Clitic Group are the prosodic domains relevant for this study. Owing to the impossibility of unifying the cliticization and coalescence facts with the other strategies in a single constraint ranking, two strata are posited—the Word (lexical) and the Phrasal (Postlexical) using the Lexical Phonology and Morphology-Optimality Theory (Kiparsky 2000, 2003). At the Word level, Glide formation is the default strategy, and at the Phrasal level, it is coalescence. Employing the Clements and Hume (1995) Unified Feature Geometry model, with the addition of the feature [pharyngeal], all the hiatus-breakers [j w ʔ ɦ] are analyzed as products of spreading. Karanga and Zezuru display greater variation with respect to prosodic minimality and initial onsetless syllables than in hiatus resolution. It is argued that Zezuru enforces WORD MINIMALITY at the expense of ONSET, and Karanga enforces ONSET at the expense of WORD MINIMALITY. Karanga displays internal variation; it allows initial onsetless syllables in function words but not in lexical ones. Based on tone, reduplication, minimality and cliticization, initial onsetless syllables are argued to be morified, syllabified and not extra-prosodic and therefore do not warrant any special representation.
Zeroing in on Supersymmetric Radiation Amplitude Zeros
Creators: name: Hewett, JoAnne L.
name: Ismail, Ahmed
name: Rizzo, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiation amplitude zeros have long been used to test the Standard Model. Here, we consider the supersymmetric radiation amplitude zero in chargino-neutralino associated production, which can be observed at the luminosity upgraded LHC. Such an amplitude zero only occurs if the neutralino has a large wino fraction and hence this observable can be used to determine the neutralino eigenstate content. We find that this observable can be measured by comparing the p_T spectrum of the softest lepton in the trilepton $χ_1^\pm χ_2^0$ decay channel to that of a control process such as $χ_1^+ χ_1^-$ or $χ_2^0 χ_2^0$. We test this technique on a previously generated model sample of the 19 dimensional parameter space of the phenomenological MSSM, and find that it is effective in determining the wino content of the neutralino.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures
Correlation between flexibility of chain-like polyelectrolyte and thermodynamic properties of its solution
Creators: name: Sajevic, T.
name: Rescic, J.
name: Vlachy, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structural and thermodynamic properties of the model solution containing charged oligomers and the equivalent number of counterions were studied by means of the canonical Monte Carlo simulation technique. The oligomers are represented as (flexible) freely jointed chains or as a linear (rigid) array of charged hard spheres. In accordance with the primitive model of electrolyte solutions, the counterions are modeled as charged hard spheres and the solvent as dielectric continuum. Significant differences in the pair distribution functions, obtained for the rigid (rod-like) and flexible model are found but the differences in thermodynamic properties, such as, enthalpy of dilution and excess chemical potential, are less significant. The results are discussed in light of the experimental data an aqueous polyelectrolyte solutions. The simulations suggest that deviations from the fully extended (rod-like) conformation yield slightly stronger binding of counterions. On the other hand, the flexibility of polyions, even when coupled with the ion-size effects, cannot be blamed for qualitative differences between the theoretical results and experimental data for enthalpy of dilution.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Wearable and Stretchable Soft Electronics Based on Ultrathin Gold Nanowires
Creators: name: Gong, Shu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Wearable and highly flexible or stretchable electronics, including sensing devices, electrode components and energy storage devices are essential component for future human machine interfaces and bio monitoring. However, such electronics meet difficulties on current rigid and brittle wafer-based electric circuitry system. An alternative solution is to integrate the attributes of flexibility and stretchability of novel materials or novel structures to realize soft electronics. Nanotechnology offers new opportunities in designing soft electronics.
 Despite impressive recent advances, it remains challenging to achieve high conductivity, high stretchability and ultrathin device dimension into a single type of soft electronic device. Ultrathin gold nanowires (Au NWs) are mechanically flexible yet robust, which exhibited serpentine structure at nanoscale behaving like ‘polymer chains’ due to their ultrathin nature (2 nm in width, with an aspect ratio of >10,000). Hence, the Au NWs is intrinsically stretchable thus showing great potential in constructing novel soft electronics.
 To address the existing challenges, this thesis introduces a bunch of novel soft and wearable electronics based on ultrathin Au NWs. In details, we designed and fabricated highly sensitive pressure sensor, highly stretchable strain gauge sensor, flexible and transparent electrode, stretchable and transparent supercapacitor for the application of wearable biomedical monitoring, sports tracking, human machine interfacing and wearable energy supplier. In addition, ultrathin Au NWs possess several unique feature to soft electronics: 1) high sensitivity: a piezoresistive pressure sensor with sensitivity of 1.14/kPa can be achieved, which allowed real-time monitoring of human wrist pulse and tiny acoustic vibration. 2) High stretchability: a strain gauge sensor based on Au NWs thin film with thickness of only 1.64 μm could be working at strains exceeding 350%, >100 times larger than its metal counterparts. 3) High transparency and conductivity: we explored a simple yet efficient solution-based bottom-up strategy to fabricate Au NWs mesh film which could achieve both high transparency (>92%) and conductivity. 4) Ultrathin device dimensions: due to soft and serpentine-like geometry of ultrathin Au NWs, well-aligned Au NWs thin film (8 nm in thickness) could achieve high transparency (>90% at 550 nm) and excellent stretchability (>50%) simultaneously.
 Thus, the aim of this project is to develop a general and inexpensive strategy to construct wearable electronic devices based on ultrathin gold nanowires. We believed our strategies opened a new route to future wearable electronics.
A List of Groups of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Supercluster
Creators: name: Makarov, D. I.
name: Uklein, R. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a list of groups consisting of dwarf galaxies only. The sample contains 126 objects, mainly combined in pairs. The most populated group contains six dwarf galaxies. The majority of systems considered reside in the low-density regions and evolve unaffected by massive galaxies. The characteristic sizes and velocity dispersions of groups are 30 kpc and 11 km/s, respectively. They resemble the associations of dwarf galaxies, but are more compact. On the whole, groups and associations form a continuous sequence. Alike the associations, our groups possess high mass-to-luminosity ratios, what is indicative of a large amount of dark matter present in these systems.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, to be published in Astrophysical Bulletin 67, p.123 (2012)
The Effect of Firm-Controlled Store Type Touchpoints on Customer’s Discrete Emotions: An Exploratory Study on Physical Store & Online Store
Creators: name: Triviño, Jyro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Marketing management (incl. strategy and customer relations)
Marketing theory
Marketing communications

description: Customer experience is a broad and multi-dimensional phenomenon, which currently divides academic scholars in terms of constructs and measurement. This study aims to examine some acceptable yet under-measured customer experience constructs already developed. The comparative exploration of the physical store and online store firm-controlled touchpoints seeks to identify differences or similarities in customers’ perceived affective response, which can help firms improve their current touchpoint design. Set in a business-to-customer context in the Philippines during a Covid-19 community quarantine, a total sample of 338 respondents evaluated their recent interaction during the purchase stage. A causal-comparative exploratory research design was utilized using linear and moderated regression and showed that both physical and online store touch points significantly influence customers’ positive discrete emotions. However, positive discrete emotions elicited during an online store interaction are higher than in a physical store. It also revealed that the moderating effect of individual context is insignificant.
Population size estimation based upon ratios of recapture probabilities
Creators: name: Rocchetti, Irene
name: Bunge, John
name: Böhning, Dankmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Estimating the size of an elusive target population is of prominent interest in many areas in the life and social sciences. Our aim is to provide an efficient and workable method to estimate the unknown population size, given the frequency distribution of counts of repeated identifications of units of the population of interest. This counting variable is necessarily zero-truncated, since units that have never been identified are not in the sample. We consider several applications: clinical medicine, where interest is in estimating patients with adenomatous polyps which have been overlooked by the diagnostic procedure; drug user studies, where interest is in estimating the number of hidden drug users which are not identified; veterinary surveillance of scrapie in the UK, where interest is in estimating the hidden amount of scrapie; and entomology and microbial ecology, where interest is in estimating the number of unobserved species of organisms. In all these examples, simple models such as the homogenous Poisson are not appropriate since they do not account for present and latent heterogeneity. The Poisson-Gamma (negative binomial) model provides a flexible alternative and often leads to well-fitting models. It has a long history and was recently used in the development of the Chao-Bunge estimator. Here we use a different property of the Poisson-Gamma model: if we consider ratios of neighboring Poisson-Gamma probabilities, then these are linearly related to the counts of repeated identifications.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS436 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
L’interrogation à l’oral en français contemporain : une étude quantitative des structures interrogatives
Creators: name: Aylward, Travis Rendle Jenner
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Le but de ce projet était de réaliser une étude quantitative sur l’interrogation à l’oral en français contemporain de France. Cette étude porte uniquement sur les questions associées à l’interrogation partielle et les particules interrogatives combien, comment, où, pourquoi, et quand. On est parti avec l’hypothèse que les locuteurs ont de fortes tendances à garder la structure syntaxique déclarative ou Sujet + Verbe (+ Objet) dans leurs interrogations. On a fait cette étude à partir d’une compilation de transcriptions de documents oraux provenant de locuteurs divers et traitant de sujets variés. On a analysé un total de 468 particules interrogatives à partir des constructions verbales et interrogatives. On a regardé les fonctions valencielles et rectionelles, les verbes principaux, la présence des prépositions et des introducteurs, les formes de l’interrogation directe et indirecte, la place de la particule par rapport au verbe principal, la présence de est-ce que ainsi que le type et la place du sujet dans la construction. En outre, on a fait un survol des études précédentes et on a comparé les données quand c’était possible. En général, on a trouvé que les particules analysées avaient des traits qui leur sont particuliers. Toutefois, dans l’ensemble, on a trouvé que les questions directes étaient de loin les formes les plus fréquentes et que les particules se trouvaient la plupart du temps en tête de la phrase. Par ailleurs, on a trouvé que la présence de est-ce que était peu fréquente et que les sujets étaient principalement pronominaux et antéposés au verbe principal.
Long-term Variation of the Corona in Quiet Regions
Creators: name: Kamio, S.
name: Mariska, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) spectra recorded daily at Sun center from the end of 2006 to early 2011, we studied the long-term evolution of the quiet corona. The light curves of the higher temperature emission lines exhibit larger variations in sync with the solar activity cycle while the cooler lines show reduced modulation. Our study shows that the high temperature component of the corona changes in quiet regions, even though the coronal electron density remains almost constant there. The results suggest that heat input to the quiet corona varies with the solar activity cycle.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in Solar Physics
Study on Multicellular Systems Using a Phase Field Model
Creators: name: Nonomura, Makiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A model of multicellular systems with several types of cells is developed from the phase field model. The model is presented as a set of partial differential equations of the field variables, each of which expresses the shape of one cell. The dynamics of each cell is based on the criteria for minimizing the surface area and retaining a certain volume. The effects of cell adhesion and excluded volume are also taken into account. The proposed model can be used to find the position of the membrane and/or the cortex of each cell without the need to adopt extra variables. This model is suitable for numerical simulations of a system having a large number of cells. The two-dimensional results of cell adhesion, rearrangement of a cell cluster, and chemotaxis as well as the three-dimensional results of cell clusters on the substrate are presented.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
title: Social Work in Emergency Departements - eine Studie zur Analyse des Bedarfs von Sozialer Arbeit in bayerischen Notaufnahmen
Creators: name: Spreitzer, Claudia
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Landshut
Year: 2023

description: Frau Spreitzer setzt sich in Ihrer Masterarbeit mit dem Themengebiet Soziale Arbeit in Notaufnahmen auseinander. Das Ziel der Arbeit ist es herauszufinden, ob Mitarbeiter*innen in bayerischen Notaufnahmen einen Bedarf sehen, Soziale Arbeit in die multidisziplinären Teams zu integrieren. Im theoretischen Teil der Arbeit findet ausgehend von einer Betrachtung der gesellschaftlichen Ausgangslage in Deutschland und des deutschen Krankenhaussystem eine Beschreibung der bayerischen Notaufnahmen statt. Zusätzlich wird die Soziale Arbeit in deutschen Krankenhäusern, sowie die Soziale Arbeit in Notaufnahmen im internationalen Kontext näher beleuchtet. Der folgende empirische Teil ist nochmals untergliedert in eine qualitative „Vorstudie“, in der sechs Expert*inneninterviews mit Mitarbeiter*innen aus vier verschiedenen Kliniken durchgeführt wurden. Deren Auswertung nach der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse lieferte wichtige Hinweise für die darauffolgende Onlineumfrage (Studie SoANa). An dieser wiederum haben 73 Studienteilnehmer*Innen teilgenommen. Als zentrale Erkenntnisse zeigt sich unter anderem, dass es in den Notaufnahmen einen Anstieg an Fällen mit „sozialer Indikation“ gebe und dass insbesondere die Fälle mit normaler Behandlung oder nicht dringender Behandlung (eingeteilt nach dem Manchester Triage System) zugenommen hätten. Eine große Mehrheit (88,9 %) der befragten Mitarbeiter*innen der bayerischen Notaufnahmen sehen einen Bedarf an Sozialer Arbeit in Notaufnahmen, wobei durch die Befragung deutlich wurde, dass bisher wenig Kenntnis darüber besteht, welche Aufgaben Sozialarbeiter*innen übernehmen könnten. Die Studie SoANa hat somit nicht nur relevante Daten generiert, sondern auch Informationen zum Thema Soziale Arbeit in Notaufnahmen weitergegeben. Insgesamt belegt die Masterarbeit den Bedarf und die Notwendigkeit der Integration von Sozialer Arbeit in Notaufnahmen und liefert damit relevante und schlüssige Antworten auf eine akute Krise.
Modeling Water: Insights Into Water Physical-Chemistry Behavior Via Force Fields
Creators: name: Gomez Jaraba, Silvio Carlos
name: Gomez Martinez, Luis Gabriel
name: Combariza, Aldo F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Poster of participation in the XXV Encuentro Nacional de Semilleros de Investigación RedCOLSI - Universidad de Medellin - Medellin - Colombia.
Symplectic integration of space debris motion considering several Earth's shadowing models
Creators: name: Hubaux, Ch.
name: Lemaître, A.
name: Delsate, N.
name: Carletti, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we present a symplectic integration scheme to numerically compute space debris motion. Such an integrator is particularly suitable to obtain reliable trajectories of objects lying on high orbits, especially geostationary ones. Indeed, it has already been demonstrated that such objects could stay there for hundreds of years. Our model takes into account the Earth's gravitational potential, luni-solar and planetary gravitational perturbations and direct solar radiation pressure. Based on the analysis of the energy conservation and on a comparison with a high order non-symplectic integrator, we show that our algorithm allows us to use large time steps and keep accurate results. We also propose an innovative method to model Earth's shadow crossings by means of a smooth shadow function. In the particular framework of symplectic integration, such a function needs to be included analytically in the equations of motion in order to prevent numerical drifts of the energy. For the sake of completeness, both cylindrical shadows and penumbra transitions models are considered. We show that both models are not equivalent and that big discrepancies actually appear between associated orbits, especially for high area-to-mass ratios.
Models for quasielastic electron and neutrino-nucleus scattering
Creators: name: Giusti, Carlotta
name: Meucci, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models developed for the exclusive and inclusive quasielastic (QE) electron-nucleus scattering have been extended to QE neutrino-nucleus scattering. Different descriptions of final-state interactions (FSI) are compared. For the inclusive electron scattering the relativistic Green's function model (RGF) is compared with a model based on the use of relativistic purely real mean field (RMF) potentials in the final state. Both approaches lead to a redistribution of the strength but conserving the total flux. Results for electron and neutrino scattering are presented and discussed in different conditions and kinematics. The results of the RGF and RMF models are compared with the double-differential charged-current QE neutrino cross sections recently measured by the MiniBooNE collaboration using a carbon target.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, contribution to the XIII Conference on Problems in Theoretical Nulcear Physics in Italy, Cortona 6-8 April 2011
EXISTÊNCIAS
Creators: name: Robson Xavier da Costa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: artes visuais
Pesquisa em/sobre artes visuais
ANPAP.

description: Nesta coletânea reunimos textos de alguns dos conferencistas e palestrantes do 31º Encontro Nacional da ANPAP – Existências – de 2022 e dos representantes do Comitê de Curadoria (CC) como forma registrar alguns dos resultados do encontro nacional. Toda a programação realizada teve registro audiovisual no canal do Youtube ESTÚDIO ANPAP EXISTÊNCIAS e pode ser acessada gratuitamente. Neste e-book Existências abordamos diferentes perspectivas das pesquisas em/sobre artes visuais desenvolvidas no Brasil e na Colômbia, relações com a cidade, seus aspectos sociais, econômicos, questões sobre o feminismo na arte e o campo da pesquisa em curadoria.
EXISTÊNCIAS
Creators: name: Robson Xavier Da Costa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: artes visuais
Pesquisa em/sobre artes visuais
ANPAP.

description: Nesta coletânea reunimos textos de alguns dos conferencistas e palestrantes do 31º Encontro Nacional da ANPAP – Existências – de 2022 e dos representantes do Comitê de Curadoria (CC) como forma registrar alguns dos resultados do encontro nacional. Toda a programação realizada teve registro audiovisual no canal do Youtube ESTÚDIO ANPAP EXISTÊNCIAS e pode ser acessada gratuitamente. Neste e-book Existências abordamos diferentes perspectivas das pesquisas em/sobre artes visuais desenvolvidas no Brasil e na Colômbia, relações com a cidade, seus aspectos sociais, econômicos, questões sobre o feminismo na arte e o campo da pesquisa em curadoria.
Ontologies4Spreadsheets: OntoMaton
Creators: name: Neumann, Steffen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: metadata
ontologies
google spreadsheets

description: Similar to SWATE, Ontomaton is an extension to Google Spreadsheets, offering Ontology Term lookup. Ontomaton was developed by Team ISA. This presentation quickly shows that Ontomaton exists, and what it can do.
Usos y costumbres sobre placas en el noreste
Creators: name: Pérez Caballero, Jesús
Publisher: name: Milenio Monterrey
Year: 2022
Subjects: México
Tamaulipas
Matamoros
matriculación
«autos chocolate»
informalidad
ensayo
George Perec

description: «Innumerables carros que circulan por Matamoros están sin matricular o tienen placas estrambóticas. Merece la pena conocer estas últimas, para entender que la regularización de matriculaciones –o, en este contexto, cualquier tipo de regulación legal– no puede ser formalista, pues el caudal y la inventiva parecen inagotables en la ciudad mexicana más al noreste. Me encomiendo a George Perec para la siguiente enumeración de placas vistas».
description: Milenio Monterrey (en línea)
Ontologies4SchemaOrg
Creators: name: Neumann, Steffen
name: Meier, Rene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: metadata
SchemaOrg
Bioschemas
Ontologies

description: The domain-specific JSON-LD based metadata in Schema.org and Bioschemas.org allows to provide property values not only as free-text or URL, but also as a DefinedTerm from a DefinedTermSet. Several examples exist where e.g., terms from OBO Ontologies are used, automatic FAIR evaluators honor their use, and validators start to check that valid terms are used.This presentation gives examples, suggests a discussion of (documented) best practices, and calls for (more) implementations.