cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Particle rearrangements during transitions between local minima of the potential energy landscape of a supercooled Lennard-Jones liquid
Creators: name: Vogel, Michael
name: Doliwa, Burkhard
name: Heuer, Andreas
name: Glotzer, Sharon C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The potential energy landscape (PEL) of supercooled binary Lennard-Jones (BLJ) mixtures exhibits local minima, or inherent structures (IS), which are organized into meta-basins (MB). We study the particle rearrangements related to transitions between both successive IS and successive MB for a small 80:20 BLJ system near the mode-coupling temperature T_MCT. The analysis includes the displacements of individual particles, the localization of the rearrangements and the relevance of string-like motion. We find that the particle rearrangements during IS and MB transitions do not change significantly at T_MCT. Further, it is demonstrated that IS and MB dynamics are spatially heterogeneous and facilitated by string-like motion. To investigate the mechanism of string-like motion, we follow the particle rearrangements during suitable sequences of IS transitions. We find that most strings observed after a series of transitions do not move coherently during a single transition, but subunits of different sizes are active at different times. Several findings suggest that the occurrence of a successful string enables the system to exit a MB. Moreover, we show that the particle rearrangements during two consecutive MB transitions are basically uncorrelated. Specifically, different groups of particles are highly mobile during subsequent MB transitions. Finally, the relation between the features of the PEL and the relaxation processes in supercooled liquids is discussed.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
The HERA-B Ring Imaging Cherenkov Counter
Creators: name: Arino, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The HERA-B RICH uses a radiation path length of 2.8 m in C_4F_10 gas and a large 24 square meters spherical mirror for imaging Cherenkov rings. The photon detector consists of 2240 Hamamatsu multi-anode photomultipliers with about 27000 channels. A 2:1 reducing two-lens telescope in front of each PMT increases the sensitive area at the expense of increased pixel size, resulting in a contribution to the resolution which roughly matches that of dispersion. The counter was completed in January of 1999, and its performance has been steady and reliable over the years it has been in operation. The design performance of the RICH was fully reached: the average number of detected photons in the RICH for a beta=1 particle was found to be 33 with a single hit resolution of 0.7 mrad and 1 mrad in the fine and coarse granularity regions, respectively.
description: 29 pages, 23 figures
title: The use of imaging in COVID-19 – results of a global survey by the International Society of Radiology
Creators: name: Blazic, Ivana
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Management
subject: Lung

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: The survey was conducted from 6 th to 26 th April 2020. For this purpose, an online questionnaire regarding the use of imaging in COVID-19 patients was prepared using Survey Monkey. The survey was sent to renowned representatives of ISR and ESR...
Η μεταβολή των δ-διμερών σε οξείες παθήσεις κοιλίας μη αγγειακής αιτιολογίας
Creators: name: Τσαμουρλίδης, Γεώργιος Βλαδίμηρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: δ-διμερή
Παθήσεις Κοιλίας
Γενική χειρουργική - Αγγειοχειρουργική
d-dimers
Abdominal diseases
General Surgery – Vascular surgery

description: Η παρούσα πτυχιακή εργασία αρχικά παρουσιάζει το θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο με το οποίο θα πρέπει να είναι εξοικειωμένος ο αναγνώστης ώστε να κατανοήσει τις in vivo και in vitro αντιδράσεις που συσχετίζονται με τα δ-διμερή. Έπειτα αναλύονται κάποιοι προβληματισμοί που απασχολούν τη βιβλιογραφία όσον αφορά στις δυσκολίες χρήσης των δ-διμερών ως εξέταση ρουτίνας και συσχέτισης με φλεβική θρομβοεμβολή (VTE). Επίσης, μελετάται ο ρόλος των δ-διμερών στη διαφορική διάγνωση επειγόντων χειρουργικών περιστατικών και η διερεύνηση της διαγνωστικής τους αξίας για αγγειοχειρουργική συσχέτιση. Τέλος μελετάται η πιθανή συσχέτιση (θετική ή αρνητική) διάφορων παραγόντων – συννοσηροτήτων με τα δ-διμερή ανεξαρτήτως διάγνωσης. Στη διερεύνηση χρησιμοποιήθηκε το Pearson Chi-Square test όπου ικανοποιούνταν οι συνθήκες χρήσης αυτού ή το Fisher’s Exact test σε αντίθετη περίπτωση με το Phi coefficient (Cramer’s V) να υποδεικνύει το μέγεθος της συσχέτισης. Το Shapiro-Wilks test χρησιμοποιήθηκε για να εκτιμηθεί εάν οι τιμές εμπίπτουν σε μια κανονική κατανομή πάνω σε σύστημα 2 αξόνων. Το Mann-Whitney test χρησιμοποιήθηκε για έλεγχο συσχέτισης σε απόλυτες τιμές δ-διμερών ενώ οι προηγούμενες δοκιμασίες χρησιμοποιήθηκαν αφότου διαχωρίστηκαν οι τιμές σε αυξημένες (>500mg FEU/mL) ή εντός φυσιολογικών ορίων (0-500 mg FEU/mL).
description: This study provides the theoretical basis, which one should be familiar with in order to comprehend the variety of in vivo and in vitro reactions associated with the d-dimers. Furthermore this study shows some of the issues that occur when using the d-dimers as routine testing and its correlation to venous thromboembolism. It also studies the potential role of d-dimers in the differential diagnosis of acute surgical cases/diseases and their diagnostic value. Lastly, the potential correlation of various factors – comorbidities of any diagnosis with the d-dimer values is examined. Pearson Chi-Square test was used where appropriate for that matter. Otherwise, the Fisher’s Exact test along with the Phi coefficient (Cramer’s V) were used to quantify the strength of the correlation. The Shapiro-Wilks test was used to define whether the d-dimers’ values form a normal distribution. The Mann-Whitney test was used to correlate the exact values of d-dimers while the previous ones to correlate two groups of values: within normal range (0-500mg FEU/mL) or above normal range (>500mg FEU/mL).
Dark Matter Freeze Out during an Early Cosmological Period of QCD Confinement
Creators: name: Berger, Dillon
name: Ipek, Seyda
name: Tait, Tim M. P.
name: Waterbury, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standard lore states that there is tension between the need to accommodate the relic density of a weakly interacting massive particle and direct searches for dark matter. However, the estimation of the relic density rests on an extrapolation of the cosmology of the early Universe to the time of freeze out, untethered by observations. We explore a nonstandard cosmology in which the strong coupling constant evolves in the early Universe, triggering an early period of QCD confinement at the time of freeze out. We find that depending on the nature of the interactions between the dark matter and the Standard Model, freeze out during an early period of confinement can lead to drastically different expectations for the relic density, allowing for regions of parameter space which realize the correct abundance but would otherwise be excluded by direct searches.
title: Imaging dosimetry in clinical practice during the implementation of the European Directive 2013/59/EURATOM
Creators: name: Vano, Eliseo
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Dosimetry
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiation physics

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: The topics considered as the most relevant needing an European consensus, were: 1. Information on radiation exposure for patients; 2. Individual optimisation; 3. Accidental and unintended exposures; 4. Dosimetric trigger levels for some individual...
Systoechus robustus Bezzi 1912
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Systoechus
Systoechus robustus

description: Systoechus robustus Bezzi
 Systoechus robustus Bezzi, 1912: 608.
 Systoechus bechuanus Hesse, 1936: 163. syn. nov.
 Distribution. Botswana, Malawi, Namibia *, Zambia, Zimbabwe *.
 Material examined. 7♂♂, 2♀♀, 15 km W of Karabib on road to Usakos, 21°56’S 25°42’E, 5.iv.1998, 97/98/244B general, F.W. & S.K. Gess (AMGS); 13♂♂, 1♀, Solitaire, 23°52’S 16°00’E, 30.iv.2002, F.W. & S.K. Gess, general, 01/02/161 (AMGS).
 Notes. Genitalia of Solitaire males are identical with those of S. bechuanus Hesse (illustrated in Hesse, 1938). Thus, the only character separating these species is the colour of the legs—dark­reddish brown to black in S. bechuanus and reddish­yellow in S. robustus —therefore S. bechuanus Hesse is a synonym.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Can customary systems of land tenure facilitate agricultural productivity growth? An investigation in the West African Sahel
Creators: name: Kusunose, Yoko
name: Theriault, Veronique
name: Alia, Didier Y.
name: Kusunose, Yoko
name: Theriault, Veronique
name: Alia, Didier Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: International Development

description: Presentation ID 16103
Multi-level trust-based intelligence schema for securing of internet of things (IoT) against security threats using cryptographic authentication
Creators: name: Mabodi, Kobra
name: Yusefi, Mehdi
name: Zandiyan, Shahram
name: Irankhah, Leili
name: Fotohi, Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The internet of things (IoT) is able to provide a prediction of linked, universal, and smart nodes that have autonomous interaction when they present services. Because of wide openness, relatively high processing power, and wide distribution of IoT things, they are ideal for attacks of the gray hole. In the gray hole attack, the attacker fakes itself as the shortest path to the destination that is a thing here. This causes the routing packets not to reach the destination. The proposed method is based on the AODV routing protocol and is presented under the MTISS-IoT name which means for the reduction of gray hole attacks using check node information. In this paper, a hybrid approach is proposed based on cryptographic authentication. The proposed approach consists of four phases, such as the verifying node trust in the IoT, testing the routes, gray hole attack discovery, and the malicious attack elimination process in MTISS-IoT. The method is evaluated here via extensive simulations carried out in the NS-3 environment. The experimental results of four scenarios demonstrated that the MTISS-IoT method can achieve a false positive rate of 14.104%, a false negative rate of 17.49%, and a detection rate of 94.5% when gray hole attack was launched.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures, journal
Spillover Effects of Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Genetically Modified Cotton Expansion in India
Creators: name: Baylis, Kathy
name: Crost, Benjamin
name: Pullabhotla, Hemant K.
name: Baylis, Kathy
name: Crost, Benjamin
name: Pullabhotla, Hemant K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: International Development

description: Presentation ID 16492
Timandromorphini
Creators: name: Ban, Xiaoshuang
name: Jiang, Nan
name: Cheng, Rui
name: Xue, Dayong
name: Han, Hongxiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae

description: TIMANDROMORPHINI
Inoue (1961) erected Timandromorphini based on a single genus, Timandromorpha Inoue. The diagnostic characters were summarized in Inoue (1961), Hausmann (1996), Holloway (1996) and Han & Xue (2011a). Holloway (1996) stated that the Timandromorphini share a modified eighth segment of the male abdomen with the Aracimini and referred to the fact that the ovipositor lobes of the female genitalia are intermediate between the typical type of Geometrinae (oblique and papillate) and the modified type of Geometrini (more sclerotized, smoother and slenderer). Although in Sihvonen et al. (2011), Timandromorpha is a sister to Aracimini, in this study, Timandromorphini is the sister-group to Geometrini, indicating a close relationship to the latter.
description: Published as part of Ban, Xiaoshuang, Jiang, Nan, Cheng, Rui, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2018, Tribal classification and phylogeny of Geometrinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) inferred from seven gene regions, pp. 653-672 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 (3) on page 668, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly013, http://zenodo.org/record/14825023
Πρόβλεψη οργανικού άνθρακα και pH στο έδαφος από φάσματα ανάκλασης στο ορατό–υπέρυθρο με ασαφή νευρωνικά δίκτυα
Creators: name: Τιφτίκογλου, Ιορδάνης Χαράλαμπου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Φασματοσκοπία εδάφους
Φασματική υπογραφή
Οργανικός άνθρακας
FCM SC
Subtractive clustering
lucas, PH, SOC

description: Η μελέτη και η προστασία του περιβάλλοντος και ειδικότερα του εδάφους είναι βασική μας υποχρέωση γιατί από αυτό μας εξασφαλίζει τα απαραίτητα αγαθά για να καλύψουμε τις βασικές μας ανάγκες. Η κλιματική αλλαγή με τις διεργασίες της διάβρωσης και της ξηρασίας και των πυρκαγιών που εκδηλώνονται σε όλο τον πλανήτη μας απειλεί με ιλιγγιώδη ταχύτητα να καταστρέψει το πανέμορφο περιβάλλον στο οποίο ζούμε. Επομένως κρίνεται επιτακτική η ανάγκη η αναζήτηση νέων καλλιεργειών οι οποίες θα εμπλουτίσουν και θα ενισχύσουν τη δομή του εδάφους. Επίσης θα πρέπει να μελετήσουμε τις φυσικοχημικές ιδιότητες του εδάφους και να εκτιμήσουμε τις τιμές του pH και του οργανικού άνθρακα SOC με τη βοήθεια της φασματοσκοπίας εδάφους. Για το λόγο αυτό η Ευρωπαϊκή Στατιστική Υπηρεσία EUROSTAT με την αγροτική διεύθυνση του Ευρώπης συνεργάστηκαν για τη δημιουργία της βάσης Lucas στην οποία συγκεντρώνονται όλες οι βασικές πληροφορίες που αφορούν το έδαφος. ΟΙ πληροφορίες αυτές θα επεξεργαστούν με μαθηματικά μοντέλα όπως μηχανική μάθηση, Fuzzy Logic, νευρωνικά δίκτυα για εκτιμήσουμε ταχύτατα και όσο καλύτερα γίνεται τις τιμές των ιδιοτήτων του εδάφους.
description: The study and protection of the environment and in particular of the soil is our basic obligation because it provides us with the necessary goods to meet our basic needs. Climate change with the processes of erosion and drought and fires occurring all over our planet threatens at breakneck speed to destroy the beautiful environment in which we live. It is therefore imperative to look for new crops that will enrich and strengthen the structure of the soil. We should also study the pHysicochemical properties of soil and estimate the values of pH and activated SOC carbon with the help of soil spectroscopy. For this reason, the European Statistical Office EUROSTAT and the Rural Directorate of Europe have worked together to establish the Lucas which gathers all the basic information relating to the soil. This information will be processed with mathematical models such as machine learning, Fuzzy Logic, neural networks to assess rapidly and as best as possible the values of soil properties.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Λογιστικής και Χρηματοοικονομικής (Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας)
Molecular characterization and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in environmental substrates from three dairy farms in Eastern Cape, South Africa
Creators: name: Athini Ntloko
name: Martins Ajibade Adefisoye
name: Green, Ezekiel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: This study analysed 330 environmental substrates from three dairy farms for the occurrence, drug resistance and the genetic mutations of MTBC (Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex) in Eastern Cape, South Africa using PCR, while the Genotype MTBDRplus assay was used for drug susceptibility and genetic mutations analyses. About 17% (55/330) of the samples were positive for MTBC at 16.7% (water), 13.3% (soil) and 20% (hayfeed). Isoniazid resistance was detected in 47.3% (26/55) of the samples while 16.4% (9/55) were multidrug-resistant. Genetic mutations were detected on the rpoB gene (resistance to rifampicin) with frequencies ranging from 53.6% (D516V) to 21.4% (H526D), while mutations on the katG and inhA genes (resistance to isoniazid) ranged between 14.3% and 80%. Incidents of diverse genetic mutations in the environmental matrices suggest possible resistance to other anti-TB drugs not assayed in this study and emphasizes the need for continuous monitoring of drug resistance patterns for timely detection and control of new clonal groups of MTBC.
Systoechus xerophilus Hesse 1938
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Systoechus
Systoechus xerophilus

description: Systoechus xerophilus Hesse
 Systoechus xerophilus Hesse, 1938: 467.
 Distribution. Namibia, South Africa (Western Cape).
 Material examined. 2♀♀, Gobabis District, Somerkoms 521, 20°01’59”S 19°57’22”E, 6–8.ii.2001, A.H. Kirk­Spriggs & E. Marais, Malaise trap sample; 2♂♂, 2♀♀, Otjiwene District, De Hoek 878, 21°56’26”S 20°58’55”E, 3–6.ii.2001, A.H. Kirk­Spriggs & M. Wheeler.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Agricultural Growth and its Spillover Effects on Agricultural and Rural Transformation: An Analysis of Zambian Household Survey Data
Creators: name: Snyder, Jason E.
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Samboko, Paul C.
name: Snyder, Jason E.
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Samboko, Paul C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: International Development

description: Presentation ID 16569
Larvicidal activity of Magonia pubescens A. St.-Hil. (Sapindaceae) seed and leaf extract on Aedes aegypti
Creators: name: Desiderio, Elisangela Oliveria
name: Júnior, Valdo Soares Martins
name: Caldeira, Alisson Samuel Portes
name: de Almeida Alves, Tânia Maria
name: Cruz, Juliana Pimenta
name: Vieira, Thallyta Maria
name: Vasconcelos, Viviane Oliveira
name: Duarte, Eduardo Robson
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Plant-derived compound emerges as alternatives to integrated control of Aedes aegypti, the main transmitter of Chikungunya, Dengue, Zika virus. The effects of Magonia pubescens A. St.-Hill extracts on Ae. aegypti larval development were assessed. Four in vitro assays analysed the insecticidal potential (% larval mortality) of aqueous and ethanolic (EE) extracts of leaves and seeds. The extracts were analysed using UHPLC–MS/MS. By comparing to data from three databases, 12 compounds from different classes were identified in the EE, including coumarins, phenolic acids, polyphenols, and flavonoids. The EE from the leaves was the most effective, with an LC90 of 0.262 mg/mL. Morphological alterations were observed in larvae exposed to the extracts, showing epithelial walls with extravasation of intestinal contents. These findings highlight the effectiveness of M. pubescens extract as a bioinsecticidal agent against Ae. aegypti larvae.
Invisible Hand Effect in an Evolutionary Minority Game Model
Creators: name: Sysi-Aho, Marko
name: Saramaki, Jari
name: Kaski, Kimmo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the properties of a Minority Game with evolution realized by using genetic crossover to modify fixed-length decision-making strategies of agents. Although the agents in this evolutionary game act selfishly by trying to maximize their own performances only, it turns out that the whole society will eventually be rewarded optimally. This "Invisible Hand" effect is what Adam Smith over two centuries ago expected to take place in the context of free market mechanism. However, this behaviour of the society of agents is realized only under idealized conditions, where all agents are utilizing the same efficient evolutionary mechanism. If on the other hand part of the agents are adaptive, but not evolutionary, the system does not reach optimum performance, which is also the case if part of the evolutionary agents form a uniformly acting "cartel".
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
title: Image quality assessment in medical imaging as a cornerstone for radiation protection
Creators: name: Hoeschen, Christoph
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Physics
subject: Observer performance
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Artificial Intelligence

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: There are various approaches to try to cope with these demands:- one can perform receiver operating studies (like in 1) or other studies looking for subjective image quality descriptors based on imaging tasks. The big challenge in this case would be...
Tensile behavior of dual-phase titanium alloys under high-intensity proton beam exposure: radiation-induced omega phase transformation in Ti-6Al-4V
Creators: name: Ishida, Taku
name: Wakai, Eiichi
name: Makimura, Shunsuke
name: Casella, Andrew M.
name: Edwards, Danny J.
name: Prabhakaran, Ramprashad
name: Senor, David J.
name: Ammigan, Kavin
name: Bidhar, Sujit
name: Hurh, Patrick G.
name: Pellemoine, Frederique
name: Densham, Christopher J.
name: Fitton, Michael D.
name: Bennett, Joe M.
name: Kim, Dohyun
name: Simos, Nikolaos
name: Hagiwara, Masayuki
name: Kawamura, Naritoshi
name: Meigo, Shin-ichiro
name: Yonehara, Katsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A high-intensity proton beam exposure with 181 MeV energy has been conducted at Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer facility on various material specimens for accelerator targetry applications, including titanium alloys as a beam window material. The radiation damage level of the analyzed capsule was 0.25 dpa at beam center region with an irradiation temperature around 120 degree C. Tensile tests showed increased hardness and a large decrease in ductility for the dual alpha+beta-phase Ti-6Al-4V Grade-5 and Grade-23 extra low interstitial alloys, with the near alpha-phase Ti-3Al-2.5V Grade-9 alloy still exhibiting uniform elongation of a few % after irradiation. Transmission Electron Microscope analyses on Ti-6Al-4V indicated clear evidence of a high-density of defect clusters with size less than 2 nm in each alpha-phase grain. The beta-phase grains did not contain any visible defects such as loops or black dots, while the diffraction patterns clearly indicated omega-phase precipitation in an advanced formation stage. The radiation-induced omega-phase transformation in the beta-phase could lead to greater loss of ductility in Ti-6Al-4V alloys in comparison with Ti-3Al-2.5V alloy with less beta-phase.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures, In Press
An Independent eSignature Validation Module for Academics
Creators: name: University of Porto
Publisher: name: ESVA
Year: 2023

description: This infographics shows how the EWP-compatible electronic signature validation module works. 

The independent signature verification module was developed by ESVA - eSignature Validator for Academics - a project co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility.  This tools aims to support European higher education institutions and student service providers on the exchange and verification of trustable documents and data through the EWP network.
title: EURAMED rocc-n-roll: Developing a European strategic research agenda and a corresponding roadmap for medical applications of ionizing radiation
Creators: name: Hoeschen, Christoph
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Economics
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Ethics
subject: Education
subject: PET
subject: Experimental
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Artificial Intelligence

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: Acknowledging the importance of medical applications as the largest man-made source of exposure with ionizing radiation and the great possibilities of applying ionizing radiation in medicine, the EURATOM programme has launched a call for a...
title: Awareness of Radiation Risk by Staff Justifying and Requesting Radiological Examinations
Creators: name: Lopez Bernal, Teo
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Education and training
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: Background: Investigations involving ionising radiation are integral to almost every patient's pathway through hospital. Although the risk is small, in the United Kingdom (UK) an estimated 100-250 deaths occur each year from cancers directly related...
Chemical constituents and biological activities of the whole plant of Cuscuta chinensis Lam
Creators: name: Tursun, Erkin
name: Qiao, Yujie
name: Dai, Le
name: Yu, Jiaxing
name: Yusuf, Abdulla
name: Abudurexiti, Adila
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: A total of twenty-one compounds were obtained from the whole plant of Cuscuta chinensis Lam. The compounds’ structures were identified as 3-hydroxy-N-phenethylpropanamide (1), (+)-pinoresinol-O-β-D- glucopyranoside (2), simplexoside (3), (+)-pinoresinol (4), scopoletin (5), (-)-loliolide (6), N-trans-feruloyltyramine (7), (+)-syringaresinol (8), medioresinol (9), 3,4-dehydrotheaspirone (10), 2-ethoxy-1H-pyrimidine-4,6-dione (11), ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate(12), hydroquinone (13), vanillic acid (14), β-daucosterol (15), methyl 2,4,6-trihydroxybenzoate (16), roseoside (17), vomifoliol (18), pyrocatechol (19), E-p-coumaric acid (20), Z-p-hydroxy-cinnamic acid (21). Among them, ten compounds (1,3,5,6,10,11,16,17,18,19) were isolated from this plant for the first time, while compound 1 was isolated as an undescribed natural compound. Moreover, the dichloromethane and ethyl acetate extracts indicated potential bioactivity, and compound 2 showed certain anti-inflammatory activity. This study provides a scientific basis for elucidating the composites and activity of C. chinensis.
New measurement on photon yields from air and the application to the energy estimation of primary cosmic rays
Creators: name: Nagano, M.
name: Kobayakawa, K.
name: Sakaki, N.
name: Ando, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The air fluorescence technique is used to detect ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR), and to estimate their energy. Of fundamental importance is the photon yield due to excitation by electrons, in air of various densities and temperatures. After our previous report, the experiment has been continued using a Sr90 $β$ source to study the pressure dependence of photon yields for radiation in nitrogen and dry air. The photon yields in 15 wave bands between 300 nm and 430 nm have been determined. The total photon yield between 300 nm and 406 nm (used in most experiments) in air excited by a 0.85 MeV electron is 3.81+-0.13 (+-13 % systematics) photons per meter at 1013 hPa and 20 $^{\circ}$C. The air density and temperature dependencies of 15 wave bands are given for application to UHECR observations.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX with elsart.cls, accepted by Astroparticle Physics
Rural America At A Glance, 2011 Edition
Creators: name: Kusmin, Lorin D.
name: Kusmin, Lorin D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: This report highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas, focusing on the U.S. rural economy, including employment, population, poverty, and income trends.
Final results from DELPHI on the searches for SM and MSSM Neutral Higgs bosons
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abdallah, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These final results from DELPHI searches for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson, together with benchmark scans of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) neutral Higgs bosons, used data taken at centre-of-mass energies between 200 and 209 GeV with a total integrated luminosity of 224 pb^-1. The data from 192 to 202 GeV are reanalysed with improved b-tagging for MSSM final states decaying to four b-quarks. The 95% confidence level lower mass bound on the Standard Model Higgs boson is 114.1 GeV/c2. Limits are also given on the lightest scalar and pseudo-scalar Higgs bosons of the MSSM.
description: 69 pages, 31 figures, journal version; minor text changes, figure 24 added
How Americans Rate Their Diet Quality: An Increasingly Realistic Perspective
Creators: name: Gregory, Christian
name: Smith, Travis
name: Wendt, Minh
name: Gregory, Christian
name: Smith, Travis
name: Wendt, Minh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Diet perceptions
subject: nutrition information
subject: consumer perceptions
subject: diet rating
subject: CSFII
subject: NHANES
subject: FCBS

description: Over the last 20 years, awareness of diet-related health concerns has become widespread in the United States as obesity, along with its associated human and financial costs, has increased. To estimate how this awareness affects Americans’ perceptions of their own diet quality over this period and the factors associated with self-assessed diet health, we examine data from both the 1989-91 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes of Individuals and the 2005-08 Flexible Consumer Behavior Survey module of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We find, first, that Americans have become much less likely to rate their diets as “Excellent” or “Very Good” in terms of healthfulness, even though the healthfulness of the American diet has undergone little change over this period. Second, current self-ratings of diet are inversely related to the frequency of fastfood and food-away-from-home consumption and positively related to the frequency of sharing meals with family. In addition, self-ratings of diet are positively associated with household availability of dark green vegetables and low-fat milk and negatively associated with availability of sweetened soft drinks.
Numerical simulations of rotating cylindrical polytropes
Creators: name: Σασλή, Αργυρώ Αντωνίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Υπολογιστική Φυσική
Αριθμητικές προσομοιώσεις
Κυλινδρικά πολύτροπα
Computational Physics
Numerical simulations
Cylindrical polytropes

description: We study the numerical simulation of rotating cylindrical polytropes. The initial conditions are uniformly or differentially rotating polytropes described by a polytropic equation of state. The configurations are evolved in time in order to determine the numerical properties of a hybrid finite-difference/Fourier method in two dimensions, as well as the application of hyperviscosity to stabilize the code. We show test cases, including radial oscillations of nonrotating cylindrical polytropes and discuss the prospects of applying this numerical method to the study of the onset of convective instabilities.
description: Μελετάμε αριθμητικές προσομοιώσεις περιστρεφόμενων κυλινδρικών πολυτρόπων. Οι αρχικές συνθήκες αφορούν πολύτροπα με ομογενή ή διαφορική περιστροφή, τα οποία περιγράφονται από μια πολυτροπική καταστατική εξίσωση. Οι διαμορφώσεις αυτές εξελίσσονται στο χρόνο έτσι ώστε να προσδιορίσουμε τις αριθμητικές ιδιότητες της υβριδικής μεθόδου πεπερασμένων διαφορών και μεθόδου Fourier στις δύο διαστάσεις, καθώς και την εφαρμογή του “hyperviscosity” για τη σταθεροποίηση του κώδικα. Δείχνουμε αποτελέσματα διαφορετικών περιπτώσεων, συμπεριλαμβανομένου και ακτινικών ταλαντώσεων μη περιστρεφόμενων κυλινδρικών πολυτρόπων, και συζητάμε την προοπτική να εφαρμοστεί η αριθμητική μέθοδος αυτή για την μελέτη της εμφάνισης θερμικών ασταθειών.
Trends and Developments in Hog Manure Management: 1998-2009
Creators: name: Key, Nigel
name: McBride, William D.
name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Sneeringer, Stacy
name: Key, Nigel
name: McBride, William D.
name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Sneeringer, Stacy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: hog production
subject: manure management
subject: structural change
subject: environmental regulation

description: In the past decade, hog production has increasingly become consolidated, with larger operations producing a greater volume of hog manure on smaller areas. With less cropland for spreading the manure, hog farmers may be compensating through more effective manure management. The authors use data from 1998 to 2009 collected in three national surveys of hog farmers. Over this period, structural changes in the hog sector altered how manure is stored and handled. Changes to the Clean Water Act, State regulations, and local confl icts over air quality also affected manure management decisions. The fi ndings further suggest that environmental policy has infl uenced conservation-compatible manure management practices. The authors examine how the use of nutrient management plans and of practices such as controlled manure application rates vary with scale of production and how these practices changed over the study period. This report is an update of an earlier report, Changes in Manure Management in the Hog Sector: 1998-2004.
Diaporthe species associated with twig blight and dieback of Vaccinium corymbosum in Portugal, with description of four new species
Creators: name: Hilário, Sandra
name: Amaral, Inês A.
name: Gonçalves, Micael F. M.
name: Lopes, Anabela
name: Santos, Liliana
name: Alves, Artur
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Blueberry, an increasingly cultivated fruit crop in Portugal, is known to be susceptible to twig blight and dieback caused by species of Diaporthe. The diversity of Diaporthe species associated with symptomatic and asymptomatic Vaccinium corymbosum plants in Portugal was assessed. A multilocus sequence analysis of the rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and the translation elongation factor 1-alpha (tef1-α), β-tubulin (tub2), calmodulin (cal), and histone 3 (his3) genes revealed the presence of Diaporthe foeniculina, Diaporthe rudis, and four new species, which are described as Diaporthe crousii, Diaporthe phillipsii, Diaporthe rossmaniae, and Diaporthe vacuae. These new species were characterized in terms of their morphology, mating strategies, and temperature growth requirements. In artificial inoculation trials of V. corymbosum cv. Bluecrop plants, all Diaporthe species caused minor symptoms. Further, no differences in aggressiveness were apparent between species. This study provides the first survey of Diaporthe species associated with blueberry twig blight and dieback in Portugal. It disclosed the occurrence of a diverse assemblage of Diaporthe species, whose status and impact as pathogens of blueberry is not yet fully understood.
On the Doorstep of the Information Age: Recent Adoption of Precision Agriculture
Creators: name: Schimmelpfennig, David
name: Ebel, Robert
name: Schimmelpfennig, David
name: Ebel, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Information technology
subject: precision agriculture
subject: variable-rate technology
subject: yield monitors
subject: Global Positioning System (GPS) mapping
subject: auto-steering
subject: conservation technology

description: The adoption of precision agriculture, which encompasses a suite of farm-level information technologies, can improve the efficiency of input use and reduce environmental harm from the overapplication of inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides. Still, the adoption of precision agricultural technologies and practices has been less rapid than envisioned a decade ago. Using Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) data collected over the past 10 years, this report examines trends in the adoption of four key information technologies—yield monitors, variable-rate application technologies, guidance systems, and GPS maps—in the production of major field crops. While yield monitoring is now used on over 40 percent of U.S. grain crop acres, very few producers have adopted GPS maps or variable-rate input application technologies.
Joining Practice Research
Creators: name: DION TUCKWELL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Design

description: 'Joining Practice Research' is a practice-led PhD grounded by a co-design project. This study examines how we evaluate the contribution of design expertise within sites of collaborative (interdisciplinary) research. This project supposes that the expertise of the designer has shifted with changes in the contribution design makes to socially orientated problems. 'Joining' becomes significant as method to form better knowledge around this re-imagining of design practice.
A novel countermeasure technique to protect WSN against denial-of-sleep attacks using firefly and Hopfield neural network (HNN) algorithms
Creators: name: Fotohi, Reza
name: Bari, Somayyeh Firoozi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) contain numerous nodes that their main goals are to monitor and control environments. Also, sensor nodes distribute based on network usage. One of the most significant issues in this type of network is the energy consumption of sensor nodes. In fixed-sink networks, nodes which are near the sink act as an interface to transfer data of other nodes to sink. This causes the energy consumption of sensors reduces rapidly. Therefore, the lifetime of the network declines. Sensor nodes owing to their weaknesses are susceptible to several threats, one of which is denial-of-sleep attack (DoSA) threatening WSN. Hence, the DoSA refers to the energy loss in these nodes by maintaining the nodes from entering energy-saving and sleep mode. In this paper, a hybrid approach is proposed based on mobile sink, firefly algorithm based on leach, and Hopfield neural network (WSN-FAHN). Thus, mobile sink is applied to both improve energy consumption and increase network lifetime. Firefly algorithm is proposed to cluster nodes and authenticate in two levels to prevent from DoSA. In addition, Hopfield neural network detects the direction route of the sink movement to send data of CH. Furthermore, here WSN-FAHN technique is assessed through wide simulations performed in the NS-2 environment. The WSN-FAHN procedure superiority is demonstrated by simulation outcomes in comparison with contemporary schemes based on performance metrics like packet delivery ratio (PDR), average throughput, detection ratio, and network lifetime while decreasing the average residual energy.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures, Journal
Nanomachines Based on Carbon Nanotubes
Creators: name: Lozovik, Yurii E.
name: Minogin, Andrey V.
name: Popov, Andrey M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility for double-wall carbon nanotube to operate as the bolt and nut pair is studied. The barriers for relative motions of walls along the helical "thread" line and for jumps on neighbour helical lines are calculated as functions of wall lengths for the set of double-wall carbon nanotubes. The dynamics of relative motion of carbon nanotube walls along the helical line under the action of external forces is considered. Perforated nanodrill, variable nanoresistor and other principally new nanotube based mechanical nanodevices using these motion are proposed. Possible operation modes of proposed nanodevices are discussed.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Federal Tax Policies and Low-Income Rural Households
Creators: name: Durst, Ron
name: Farrigan, Tracey
name: Durst, Ron
name: Farrigan, Tracey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: earned income credit
subject: child credit
subject: rural households
subject: poverty
subject: tax policy
subject: refundable tax credits

description: The authors analyze the increasing use of refundable tax credits targeted to low- and moderate-income households in the Federal individual income tax and determine their implications for rural America. To identify rural and urban households, the analysis matches a zip code approximation of the 2006 Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes with Internal Revenue Service Individual Income Tax zip code and related data. These data are then used to examine the impact of the recent expansions to income tax credit programs on affected households. The analysis finds that expansions to both the refundable and nonrefundable portions of the Earned Income and Child Tax credits have provided a major source of income support for low-income workers and their families. This is especially true in the South, where the rural poor are concentrated.
Topological Dynamics of Exponential Maps on their Escaping Sets
Creators: name: Rempe, Lasse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F10 (primary), 30D05 (secondary)

description: We develop an abstract model for the dynamics of an exponential map $z\mapsto \exp(z)+κ$ on its set of escaping points and, as an analog of Boettcher's theorem for polynomials, show that every exponential map is conjugate, on a suitable subset of its set of escaping points, to a restriction of this model dynamics. Furthermore, we show that any two attracting and parabolic exponential maps are conjugate on their sets of escaping points; in fact, we construct an analog of Douady's "pinched disk model" for the Julia sets of these maps. On the other hand, we show that two exponential maps are generally not conjugate on their sets of escaping sets. Using the correspondence with our model, we also answer several questions about escaping endpoints of external rays, such as when a ray is differentiable in such an endpoints or how slowly these endpoints can escape to infinity.
description: 38 pages, 3 figures. // V3: Several typos fixed; some overall revision; parts of the material in Sections 5, 7 and 11 have been rewritten
The WIC Fruit and Vegetable Cash Voucher: Does Regional Price Variation Affect Buying Power?
Creators: name: Leibtag, Ephraim
name: Kumcu, Aylin
name: Leibtag, Ephraim
name: Kumcu, Aylin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: WIC
subject: fruit and vegetable voucher
subject: fruit and vegetable prices
subject: Nielsen Homescan
subject: geographic price variation

description: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides supplemental foods to low-income women, infants, and children at nutritional risk. Since October 2009, WIC packages have included a fi xed-value voucher for purchasing fruits and vegetables. Although this should help increase fruit and vegetable consumption for all WIC participants, regional price variation could lead to different buying power—and nutritional benefi ts—across the country. Using 2004-06 Nielsen Homescan data, the authors examine the prices of fruits and vegetables (fresh, frozen, and canned) in 26 metropolitan market areas to determine how price variations affect the voucher’s purchasing power. The authors fi nd that the 20 most commonly purchased fruits and vegetables cost 30-70 percent more in the highest priced market areas than in the lowest, implying that WIC participants in more expensive areas might be able to purchase fewer fruits and vegetables than those living where these items are cheaper. The lowest priced market for fruits and vegetables was the Nashville, Birmingham, Memphis, and Louisville area, while the highest was San Francisco.
Zinnomyia Hesse
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Zinnomyia

description: Zinnomyia Hesse
 Zinnomyia Hesse, 1955: 387.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081