cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Development of indicators for the on-farm assessment of sheep welfare
Creators: name: Joan Phythian, Clare
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The objective of the work presented in this thesis was to develop valid, reliable and feasible indicators for the on-farm assessment of sheep welfare. In the absence of a reference test for animal welfare assessment, the welfare indicators in this thesis were developed within the Farm Animal Welfare Council( FAWC) Five Freedoms framework. A scientific literature review and the consensus opinion of a panel of experts were used to judge the face and consensual validity of a selection of indicators of sheep welfare. Experts identified 193 current on-farm welfare issues for sheep and subsequently suggested a range of animal- (n = 26), resource-( n = 13) and management-based indicators( n = 22) in order to assess the on-farm welfare of adult sheep( > 1 year-old), growing lambs (> 6 weeks -
All spin-1 topological phases in a single spin-2 chain
Creators: name: Kshetrimayum, Augustine
name: Tu, Hong-Hao
name: Orus, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we study the emergence of different Symmetry-Protected Topological (SPT) phases in a spin-2 quantum chain. We consider a Heisenberg-like model with bilinear, biquadratic, bicubic, and biquartic nearest-neighbor interactions, as well as uniaxial anisotropy. We show that this model contains four different effective spin-1 SPT phases, corresponding to different representations of the $(\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2) + T$ symmetry group, where $\mathbb{Z}_2$ is some $π$-rotation in the spin internal space and $T$ is time-reversal. One of these phases is equivalent to the usual spin-1 Haldane phase, while the other three are different but also typical of spin-1 systems. The model also exhibits an $SO(5)$-Haldane phase. Moreover, we also find that the transitions between the different effective spin-1 SPT phases are continuous, and can be described by a $c=2$ conformal field theory. At such transitions, indirect evidence suggests a possible effective field theory of four massless Majorana fermions. The results are obtained by approximating the ground state of the system in the thermodynamic limit using Matrix Product States via the infinite Time Evolving Block Decimation method, as well as by effective field theory considerations. Our findings show, for the first time, that different large effective spin-1 SPT phases separated by continuous quantum phase transitions can be stabilized in a simple quantum spin chain.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, revised version. To appear in PRB
The Culture of the Collection: A Case Study of Youth Librarian’s Personal Beliefs and How They Impact Purchasing Choices in Public and School Libraries
Creators: name: Kalk, DeAnna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: Public librarians
School librarians
Case study
Collection management (Libraries)

description: This case study examines collection development practices for young adult collections in public and school libraries. It examines the following research questions: 1. To what extent do personal beliefs impact the collection development practices for young adult collections in public and school libraries? 2. What are young adult librarians’ perceptions of best practices for inclusive and ethical collection development? This study utilizes a survey from public and school librarians in North Carolina to examine the extent that librarian bias impacts their collection development curation.
Effects of the FIFA 11+ and a modified warm-up programme on injury prevention and performance improvement among youth male football players
Creators: name: Asgari, Mojtaba
name: Alizadeh, Mohammad Hossein
name: Shahrbanian, Shahnaz
name: Nolte, Kevin
name: Jaitner, Thomas
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 796
subject: Fußball
subject: Verletzung |
subject: Prävention |
subject: Aufwärmen |
subject: Jugend |

description: Introduction The effects of the FIFA11+ programme (the 11+) on ankle and groin injuries and performance have remained questionable. The latter, particularly, has potentially reduced the implementation rate and applicability of the programme. This study aimed to evaluate the mid-to-long-term effects of the 11+ and a modified programme including football-specific exercises on injury prevention and performance improvement. Materials and methods Three teams of the Iranian Youth League (division two) volunteered to participate in this study and were randomly assigned to two intervention groups (F11+; n = 29, M11+; n = 31) and a control group (n = 30). The F11+ followed the FIFA 11+ programme, whereas the M11+ performed modified exercises three times weekly as a warm-up protocol before training and competition through a football season. The control group carried out its routine warm-ups, including joggings, basic football drills, and static stretches, while having no injury prevention approaches. Lower extremity injuries, as well as exposure time for each player, were recorded. The football-specific performance was assessed using the Illinois Agility and Slalom Dribbling tests. ANOVA, Fisher Freeman Halton, and chi-square tests were used to analyze the data. Results Injury incidences differed significantly between groups (p = 0.02, C = 0.40), with M11+ reporting the lowest incidence. Significant differences between the pre- and posttest as well as differences between the groups for development over time were revealed for the Illinois agility and dribbling speed (p≤0.01). Both performance tests demonstrated a large time effect, as the effect sizes for time in agility and dribbling speed were 0.74 (CI = [0.66; 0.79]) and 0.86 (CI = [0.79; 0.87]), respectively. The effect size for the interaction can be categorized as medium, with 0.38 (CI = [0.25; 0.49]) for agility and 0.52 (CI = [0.40; 0.61]) for dribbling speed. M11+ showed the largest improvement in both. Discussion Mid-to-long-term application of a structured dynamic warm-up that integrates injury prevention and performance approaches may lower injury incidences and improve youth subelite players’ performance. Although additional studies with larger samples are needed to prove the results of the current study, the amateur clubs/teams could integrate such twofold dynamic warm up into their routine training plan and benefit its advantages on injury prevention and performance improvement.
description: PLoS one;Vol. 17, 2022, Issue 10, Artikel-ID e0275545
FROM OVERWHELMED TO OVERCOMING: DEVELOPING A PRE-INGEST PROCESSING MANUAL FOR BORN DIGITAL CONTENT
Creators: name: Hulinsky, Carter Garde
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital Preservation
Electronic records
Archives

description: This paper discusses the challenges of implementing the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model for born-digital materials in digital preservation. Although the OAIS model has been globally recognized for its universal terminologies and conceptual standards, it offers little guidance in terms of tangible implementation. Consequently, archivists have created various methods and tools for OAIS-compliant digital archival preservation workflows. This paper presents a project at Duke University Medical Center Archives, which aims to enhance the repository’s current Electronic Records Processing Guide using the digital materials from two recent accessions. The revised guide will be tested and developed, utilizing open-source digital forensic tools to process electronic records for ingest into the repository’s OAIS-compliant integrated archives management system. The outcomes of this project will provide increased stability and efficiency in processing a larger volume of digital materials.
Strong Gravitational Lensing by Kiselev Black Hole
Creators: name: Younas, Azka
name: Jamil, Mubasher
name: Bahamonde, Sebastian
name: Hussain, Saqib
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the gravitational lensing scenario due to Schwarzschild-like black hole surrounded by quintessence (Kiselev black hole). We work for the special case of Kiselev black hole where we take the state parameter $w_{q}=-\frac{2}{3}$. For the detailed derivation and analysis of the bending angle involved in the deflection of light, we discuss three special cases of Kiselev black hole: non-extreme, extreme and naked singularity. We also calculate the approximate bending angle and compare it with exact bending angle. We found the relation of bending angles in the decreasing order as: naked singularity, extreme Kiselev black hole, non-extreme Kiselev black hole and Schwarzschild black hole. In the weak field approximation, we compute the position and total magnification of relativistic images as well.
title: 'In order when most out of order' : crowds and crowd scenes in Shakespearean drama
Creators: name: Mladinovic, Mirjam
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: This thesis investigates the representations of crowds and crowd scenes in Shakespearean drama. Contrary to the assumption that the crowd's character in early modern drama had a peripheral role, this thesis argues that Shakespeare's crowd is a complex "character" in its ,. own right, and that the playwright's use of it in his drama reveals its dramatic importance. / On the stage the crowd was not dangerous because its role was scripted. This study further proposes to view the character of the crowd from a perspective that has not been applied before in reading Shakespeare's drama. It employs Martin Buber's concept 'I-Thou', aiming to demonstrate that Shakespeare's dramatic characters should be perceived as "dramatic items", and examined through their relations, dramatic and theatrical. Furthermore, this thesis introduces the concept of 'the space of the character' which, unlike the term 'character', refers to theatrical relations that shape "dramatic identities" during the theatrical production. This thesis argues that our understanding of the dramatised hero and the crowd is only fully accomplished when we understand, and acknowledge, the relation between them, and that the relation is not only apparent, but inherent to crowd scenes. It is this non-tangible outcome of interaction between staged characters, and the network of these different theatrical relations, that constitutes the 'theatrical' effectiveness of the crowd scene. This thesis further argues that the crowd scenes are always political in nature, and that they focus not only on the interaction between the crowd and the authority figure, but also on the interaction between the stage and the audience. The key point is that the role of the audience in theatre has been widely debated and recognised, and yet the role of crowd scenes has not. This study insists that a crowd scene should be seen as a dramaturgical device or a theatrical trope that utilises the presence of the audience in such a way that no other scene can. It can incorporate the audience in the theatre and simultaneously give them voice on the stage. Through his dramatisation of the character of the crowd Shakespeare reforms our views about crowds. He reminds his audience that the "crowd" is not a many- headed multitude at all times, but that it consists of individuals with different view points. Shakespeare's crowd is thus meaningful and always' in order when most out of order'.
Extraction of Pharmacokinetic Evidence of Drug-drug Interactions from the Literature
Creators: name: Kolchinsky, Artemy
name: Lourenço, Anália
name: Wu, Heng-Yi
name: Li, Lang
name: Rocha, Luis M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: H.2.8; H.3.1; J.3

description: Drug-drug interaction (DDI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and a subject of intense scientific interest. Biomedical literature mining can aid DDI research by extracting evidence for large numbers of potential interactions from published literature and clinical databases. Though DDI is investigated in domains ranging in scale from intracellular biochemistry to human populations, literature mining has not been used to extract specific types of experimental evidence, which are reported differently for distinct experimental goals. We focus on pharmacokinetic evidence for DDI, essential for identifying causal mechanisms of putative interactions and as input for further pharmacological and pharmaco-epidemiology investigations. We used manually curated corpora of PubMed abstracts and annotated sentences to evaluate the efficacy of literature mining on two tasks: first, identifying PubMed abstracts containing pharmacokinetic evidence of DDIs; second, extracting sentences containing such evidence from abstracts. We implemented a text mining pipeline and evaluated it using several linear classifiers and a variety of feature transforms. The most important textual features in the abstract and sentence classification tasks were analyzed. We also investigated the performance benefits of using features derived from PubMed metadata fields, various publicly available named entity recognizers, and pharmacokinetic dictionaries. Several classifiers performed very well in distinguishing relevant and irrelevant abstracts (reaching F1~=0.93, MCC~=0.74, iAUC~=0.99) and sentences (F1~=0.76, MCC~=0.65, iAUC~=0.83). We found that word bigram features were important for achieving optimal classifier performance and that features derived from Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms significantly improved abstract classification. ...
description: PLOS One (2015)
Cellular automata in the light of COVID-19
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Sourav
name: Roychowdhury, Suparna
name: Chaudhuri, Indranath
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Currently, the world has been facing the brunt of a pandemic due to a disease called COVID-19 for the last 2 years. To study the spread of such infectious diseases it is important to not only understand their temporal evolution but also the spatial evolution. In this work, the spread of this disease has been studied with a cellular automata (CA) model to find the temporal and the spatial behavior of it. Here, we have proposed a neighborhood criteria which will help us to measure the social confinement at the time of the disease spread. The two main parameters of our model are (i) disease transmission probability (q) which helps us to measure the infectivity of a disease and (ii) exponent (n) which helps us to measure the degree of the social confinement. Here, we have studied various spatial growths of the disease by simulating this CA model. Finally we have tried to fit our model with the COVID-19 data of India for various waves and have attempted to match our model predictions with regards to each wave to see how the different parameters vary with respect to infectivity and restrictions in social interaction.
description: 12 pages, 43 figures and presented in ICNDA 2022
D7.2 Report on Techno-economic Optimization
Creators: name: Rubio, Pedro
name: Ferreres, Maitane
name: Tatva Bhanderi
name: Chandler, Nicholas
name: Rohani, Shahab
name: Schöttl, Peter
name: Weiss, Julius
name: Fluri, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This document is the deliverable D7.2 of the project POLYPHEM. It is planned in the framework of the Work Package 7 (System Modelling and Performance Assessment). In this WP, a dynamic simulation model of the overall plant is developed in several steps. This deliverable contains the information for Task 7.2. In this task, a techno-economic optimization of the plant has been developed based on the objective costs of the project. For this purpose, Fraunhofer ISE has developed the OPTIPHEM tool chain, which is responsible for designing the plant, evaluating the optical performance of the heliostat field, simulating the annual performance of the complete system model (updated from D7.1) and performing the techno-economic optimization.
Grain legumes in Finland
Creators: name: Schauman, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Ground for Growth organized its first networking event that took place on the 13th of February 2019 in Helsinki, Tieteiden talo. Various actors involved in legume-based value chains attended the event. This included representatives from research institutes, universities, extension services, food and plant breeding companies and processors. The event started with four presentations from the University of Helsinki: Kristina Lindström gave a presentation on grain legumes and her research; Fred Stoddard gave a presentation on bringing grain legumes to Finland; Tuula Sontag-Strohm gave a presentation on highlighting important technological solutions for processing grain legumes; and lastly, Casimir Schauman presented the project Legumes Translated to the participants.
Hyperspectral unmixing with spectral variability using a perturbed linear mixing model
Creators: name: Thouvenin, Pierre-Antoine
name: Dobigeon, Nicolas
name: Tourneret, Jean-Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a mixed hyperspectral data set, linear unmixing aims at estimating the reference spectral signatures composing the data - referred to as endmembers - their abundance fractions and their number. In practice, the identified endmembers can vary spectrally within a given image and can thus be construed as variable instances of reference endmembers. Ignoring this variability induces estimation errors that are propagated into the unmixing procedure. To address this issue, endmember variability estimation consists of estimating the reference spectral signatures from which the estimated endmembers have been derived as well as their variability with respect to these references. This paper introduces a new linear mixing model that explicitly accounts for spatial and spectral endmember variabilities. The parameters of this model can be estimated using an optimization algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers. The performance of the proposed unmixing method is evaluated on synthetic and real data. A comparison with state-of-the-art algorithms designed to model and estimate endmember variability allows the interest of the proposed unmixing solution to be appreciated.
description: to appear, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2015
Illustration of 2 Fusion Designs and Estimators
Creators: name: Shook-Sa, B.E.
name: Breskin, A.
name: Cole, S.R.
name: Hudgens, M.G.
name: Edwards, J.K.
name: Rosin, S.
name: Zivich, P.N.
Publisher: name: NLM (Medline)
Year: 2023

description: "Fusion" study designs combine data from different sources to answer questions that could not be answered (as well) by subsets of the data. Studies that augment main study data with validation data, as in measurement-error correction studies or generalizability studies, are examples of fusion designs. Fusion estimators, here solutions to stacked estimating functions, produce consistent answers to identified research questions using data from fusion designs. In this paper, we describe a pair of examples of fusion designs and estimators, one where we generalize a proportion to a target population and one where we correct measurement error in a proportion. For each case, we present an example motivated by human immunodeficiency virus research and summarize results from simulation studies. Simulations demonstrate that the fusion estimators provide approximately unbiased results with appropriate 95% confidence interval coverage. Fusion estimators can be used to appropriately combine data in answering important questions that benefit from multiple sources of information.
Fine particulate matter and incident coronary heart disease events up to 10 years of follow-up among Deepwater Horizon oil spill workers
Creators: name: Huynh, T.B.
name: Lawrence, K.G.
name: Edwards, J.K.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Whitsel, E.A.
name: Keil, A.P.
name: Chen, D.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Werder, E.J.
name: Groth, C.P.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Engeda, J.
name: Pratt, G.C.
name: Jackson, W.B., II
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Heiss, G.
name: Sandler, D.P.
Publisher: name: Academic Press Inc.
Year: 2023

description: Background: During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster, in-situ burning and flaring were conducted to remove oil from the water. Workers near combustion sites were potentially exposed to burning-related fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Exposure to PM2.5 has been linked to increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), but no study has examined the relationship among oil spill workers. Objectives: To investigate the association between estimated PM2.5 from burning/flaring of oil/gas and CHD risk among the DWH oil spill workers. Methods: We included workers who participated in response and cleanup activities on the water during the DWH disaster (N = 9091). PM2.5 exposures were estimated using a job-exposure matrix that linked modelled PM2.5 concentrations to detailed DWH spill work histories provided by participants. We ascertained CHD events as the first self-reported physician-diagnosed CHD or a fatal CHD event that occurred after each worker's last day of burning exposure. We estimated hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) for the associations between categories of average or cumulative daily maximum PM2.5 exposure (versus a referent category of water workers not near controlled burning) and subsequent CHD. We assessed exposure-response trends by examining continuous exposure parameters in models. Results: We observed increased CHD hazard among workers with higher levels of average daily maximum exposure (low vs. referent: HR = 1.26, 95% CI: 0.93, 1.70; high vs. referent: HR = 2.11, 95% CI: 1.08, 4.12; per 10 μg/m3 increase: HR = 1.10, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.19). We also observed suggestively elevated HRs among workers with higher cumulative daily maximum exposure (low vs. referent: HR = 1.19, 95% CI: 0.68, 2.08; medium vs. referent: HR = 1.38, 95% CI: 0.88, 2.16; high vs. referent: HR = 1.44, 95% CI: 0.96, 2.14; per 100 μg/m3-d increase: HR = 1.03, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.05). Conclusions: Among oil spill workers, exposure to PM2.5 from flaring/burning of oil/gas was associated with increased risk of CHD.
title: Multi-sensual analysis of Near Eastern Neolithic communal architecture and the implications for communities
Creators: name: Suzanne  McBride, Alexis
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: A comprehensive, systematic analysis of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic non-domestic architecture demonstrates the variability in the way communities were facing the challenges presented by changing life practices. Using a multi-sensual, embodied methodology, the affordances of the structures are examined and demonstrate that the large majority of the structures provided an open, undifferentiated experience for participants. Activities held in these spaces would therefore have provided opportunities for intensely arousing common experiences, enhancing community cohesion. The methodology used in this thesis demonstrates that some of the structures examined were not integrative community spaces, functioning either as industrial, domestic, or other specialised spaces. This highlights the fact that while some PPN communities were constructing non-domestic architecture as a manifestation of the relationships developing in the PPN, other solutions existed.
Additional file 1 of Developing and evaluating a SAFER model to screen for diabetes complications among people experiencing homelessness: a pilot study protocol
Creators: name: Scott, Sara
name: Grewal, Eshleen K.
name: Tariq, Hamna
name: Campbell, David J. T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. CONSORT checklist of information to include when reporting a pilot trial.
Sexual and gender-based harassment against police employees in European countries: A scoping review
Creators: name: Rostami, Arian
name: Burman, Monica
name: Ghazinour, Mehdi
name: Hansson, Jonas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Sexual and gender-based harassment has become a pervasive concern in the field of the work environment. In male-dominated jobs such as police work, in which masculine behaviors are considered valued and appropriate norms, women and the other groups with non-normative expressions of gender and sexuality who are not accepted based on masculine values, deal with more discrimination and harassment This scoping review aims 1) to assess the characteristics of the existing scientific literature regarding sexual and gender-based harassment against police employees in European countries, and 2) to map the existing research to highlight the gaps for future studies in the police field.
Magneto-optical Kerr and Faraday effects in bilayer antiferromagnetic insulators
Creators: name: Zhu, Wan-Qing
name: Shan, Wen-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Control and detection of antiferromagnetic topological materials are challenging since the total magnetization vanishes. Here we investigate the magneto-optical Kerr and Faraday effects in bilayer antiferromagnetic insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$. We find that by breaking the combined mirror symmetries with either perpendicular electric field or external magnetic moment, Kerr and Faraday effects occur. Under perpendicular electric field, antiferromagnetic topological insulators (AFMTI) show sharp peaks at the interband transition threshold, whereas trivial insulators show small adjacent positive and negative peaks. Gate voltage and Fermi energy can be tuned to reveal the differences between AFMTI and trivial insulators. We find that AFMTI with large antiferromagnetic order can be proposed as a pure magneto-optical rotator due to sizable Kerr (Faraday) angles and vanishing ellipticity. Under external magnetic moment, AFMTI and trivial insulators are significantly different in the magnitude of Kerr and Faraday angles and ellipticity. For the qualitative behaviors, AFMTI shows distinct features of Kerr and Faraday angles when the spin configurations of the system change. These phenomena provide new possibilities to optically detect and manipulate the layered topological antiferromagnets.
description: 8 pages,11 figures
Additional file 2 of Developing and evaluating a SAFER model to screen for diabetes complications among people experiencing homelessness: a pilot study protocol
Creators: name: Scott, Sara
name: Grewal, Eshleen K.
name: Tariq, Hamna
name: Campbell, David J. T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2: Appendix A. Participant report.
High sensitivity, real time drug screening on parasitic nematodes
Creators: name: Pandey, Santosh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cell development, proliferation and death
Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified
Analytical biochemistry
Medical parasitology
Medical bacteriology
Animal management
Animal protection (incl. pests and pathogens)
Animal welfare

description: This new microfluidic platform offers a more sensitive method for screening drugs and their effects on the locomotion of free living and parasitic nematodes. The chip is capable of monitoring four nematode parameters (number of worms responsive, number of worms leaving the drug well, average worm velocity and time until unresponsiveness) to provide a more detailed analysis and resolution of drug resistance. The drug screening experiment is divided into three parts: pre-exposure study, dose exposure, and post-exposure study, through which the innate pre-exposure locomotion, the transient response during drug exposure, and the time-resolved, post-exposure behavior can be observed in real-time at a single-worm resolution. We have demonstrated the workability of the microfluidic platform on C. elegans and O. dentatum using levamisole, and the results of the experiment suggest that the proposed scheme could significantly improve the resolution and sensitivity of in vivo testing.
 Carr, J. A., Parashar, A., Gibson, R., Robertson, A. P., Martin, R. J., & Pandey, S. (2011). A microfluidic platform for high-sensitivity, real-time drug screening on C. elegans and parasitic nematodes. Lab on a Chip, 11(14), 2385–2396. https://doi.org/10.1039/C1LC20170K https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/LC/c1lc20170k
Additional file 3 of Developing and evaluating a SAFER model to screen for diabetes complications among people experiencing homelessness: a pilot study protocol
Creators: name: Scott, Sara
name: Grewal, Eshleen K.
name: Tariq, Hamna
name: Campbell, David J. T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3: Appendix B. Baseline Questionnaire.
title: A framework for assessment of the impact of supply chains on the growth strategy of SME's
Creators: name: Qiu, Jun
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) are facing an ever increasing pressure to think carefully and strategically of ways to compete and grow in what can only be described as a turbulent business environment. This more so for those SME's that have built their growth strategy on the development of new product where the competition is shifting from a company orientation to a supply chain based rivalry. Accordingly achieving qualities such as agility are becoming critical to the success of supply chains. Such dramatic changes make the traditional approaches to business strategy, i.e business growth strategy, which has been based on the company providing a match between its business environment and its internal capability questionable. While, the value of supply chain in determining organization's growth strategy has received some attention a practical perspectives and solution yet to be provided. This research has focused on studying and exploring the position of supply chain in the growth strategy formulation process in SME's to identify the main factors contributing to the above concept and the relationship among the strategic influencing factors from a market, dynamic capability, and supply chain points of view. The research was conducted through: an extensive literature review; three in-depth case studies to identify how practitioners think and act with respect to the position of supply chain issues in growth strategy formulation and why it is important to involve the supply chain issues earlier in growth strategy formulation. A mini-survey and semi-structured interview followed the findings of case studies to extract more evidence at a broader scope. From the above study, a conceptual framework is proposed from which a practical approach emerged to assist SME's that develop new product to think about the supply chain proactively thus future proofing their product and securing their growth strategy.
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Even-Mendoza, Karine
name: Monat, Raphaël
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Software and its engineering

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: DARTS, Vol. 10, Special Issue of the 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024), pages 0:i-0:xii
Spin-orbit interaction in InSb nanowires
Creators: name: van Weperen, I.
name: Tarasinski, B.
name: Eeltink, D.
name: Pribiag, V. S.
name: Plissard, S. R.
name: Bakkers, E. P. A. M.
name: Kouwenhoven, L. P.
name: Wimmer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use magnetoconductance measurements in dual-gated InSb nanowire devices together with a theoretical analysis of weak antilocalization to accurately extract spin-orbit strength. In particular, we show that magnetoconductance in our three-dimensional wires is very different compared to wires in two-dimensional electron gases. We obtain a large Rashba spin-orbit strength of $0.5 -1\,\text{eVÅ}$ corresponding to a spin-orbit energy of $0.25-1\,\text{meV}$. These values underline the potential of InSb nanowires in the study of Majorana fermions in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor devices.
description: Version as accepted for publication as a Rapid in Phys. Rev. B
Acute Semigroups, the Order Bound on the Minimum Distance and the Feng-Rao Improvements
Creators: name: Bras-Amorós, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 20M14, 94B65, 94B27, 14G50, 11T71, 14Q05

description: We introduce a new class of numerical semigroups, which we call the class of {\it acute} semigroups and we prove that they generalize symmetric and pseudo-symmetric numerical semigroups, Arf numerical semigroups and the semigroups generated by an interval. For a numerical semigroup $Λ=\{λ_0<λ_1<\dots\}$ denote $ν_i=\#\{j\midλ_i-λ_j\inΛ\}$. Given an acute numerical semigroup $Λ$ we find the smallest non-negative integer $m$ for which the order bound on the minimum distance of one-point Goppa codes with associated semigroup $Λ$ satisfies $d_{ORD}(C_i)(:=\min\{ν_j\mid j>i\})=ν_{i+1}$ for all $i\geq m$. We prove that the only numerical semigroups for which the sequence $(ν_i)$ is always non-decreasing are ordinary numerical semigroups. Furthermore we show that a semigroup can be uniquely determined by its sequence $(ν_i)$.
description: Published in IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2004. MR2094884. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1706.09765
Additional file 4 of Developing and evaluating a SAFER model to screen for diabetes complications among people experiencing homelessness: a pilot study protocol
Creators: name: Scott, Sara
name: Grewal, Eshleen K.
name: Tariq, Hamna
name: Campbell, David J. T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 4: Appendix C. Follow-Up Questionnaire.
Designing Acoustically Active Colloids using Biologically Derived and Bioinspired Materials
Creators: name: Vidallon, Mark Louis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 30304 Physical Chemistry of Materials
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30603 Colloid and Surface Chemistry
subject: 20405 Soft Condensed Matter
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microbubbles, due to their strong sound-reflecting properties, have been the considered as the gold standard in enhancing visual contrast and help obtain clearer ultrasound images for effective diagnosis of diseases. In this current thesis, small, bubble-generating and gas-containing materials were developed using natural and biologically inspired materials, specifically red blood cells and bioinspired polydopamine. This combines the capability of microbubbles to act as ultrasound contrast enhancing agents and the natural compatibility of these components, which can extend their applications from imaging to controlled drug release and enhanced efficacy of therapeutics.
Trimodality Therapy vs Definitive Chemoradiation in Older Adults With Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer
Creators: name: Sandler, R.S.
name: Nichols, H.B.
name: Gaber, C.E.
name: Sanoff, H.K.
name: Shaheen, N.J.
name: Lund, J.L.
name: Edwards, J.K.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: Background: The comparative effectiveness of trimodality therapy vs definitive chemoradiation for treating locally advanced esophageal cancer in older adults is uncertain. Existing trials lack generalizability to older adults, a population with heightened frailty. We sought to emulate a hypothetical trial comparing these treatments using real-world data. Methods: A cohort of adults aged 66-79 years diagnosed with locally advanced esophageal cancer between 2004 and 2017 was identified in the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results-Medicare database. The clone-censor-weight method was leveraged to eliminate time-related biases when comparing outcomes between treatments. Outcomes included overall mortality, esophageal cancer-specific mortality, functional adverse events, and healthy days at home. Results: A total of 1240 individuals with adenocarcinomas and 661 with squamous cell carcinomas were identified. For adenocarcinomas, the standardized 5-year risk of mortality was 73.4% for trimodality therapy and 83.8% for definitive chemoradiation (relative risk [RR] = 0.88, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.82 to 0.95). Trimodality therapy was associated with mortality risk reduction for squamous cell carcinomas (RR = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.70 to 1.01). The 1-year incidence of functional adverse events was higher in the trimodality group (adenocarcinomas RR = 1.40, 95% CI = 1.22 to 1.65; squamous cell carcinomas RR = 1.21, 95% CI = 1.00 to 1.49). Over 5 years, trimodality therapy was associated with 160 (95% CI = 67 to 229) and 177 (95% CI = 51 to 313) additional home days in individuals with adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas, respectively. Conclusions: Compared with definitive chemoradiation, trimodality therapy was associated with reduced mortality but increased risk of function-related adverse events. Discussing these tradeoffs may help optimize care plans.
Classification of curves in affine geometry
Creators: name: Nadjafikhah, Mehdi
name: Mahdipour-Shirayeh, Ali
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geometry
subject: 10102 Algebraic and Differential Geometry
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is devoted to represent a complete classification of
space curves under affine transformations in the view of Cartan’s theorem.
Spivak has applied the method without trying to complite the problem
and to find the invariants. Furthermore, we propose a necessary and
sufficient condition for the invariants and suggest their applications in
physics, computer vision and image processing.
On the End of Authority : Interview with Peter Eisenman
Creators: name: Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy
Publisher: name: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT), University of Belgrade
Year: 2025

description: Interview with Peter Eisenman

Since writing his PhD thesis at Cambridge until today, Peter Eisenman has thematized “End” several times, which is why he was the logical choice to be the editor of this issue of Khōrein. Initially, he agreed to this without hesitation, which would have made this his de facto ‘fourth stadium’ of reflecting on “End” (although certainly not the last, as he feared). However, in conversation with the editorial team of Khōrein, his role and contribution to this issue changed. We can say that we attempted to imitate in one way or another his possible activity of editing an issue, evoking texts on ‘End’ from the eighties (“The End of the Classical”) or his variations on “End” from 2016 (The End of Authority... Theory or End of Author). There is probably no position on “End” among architects and philosophers that has not been influenced by Eisenman’s thinking on the matter. The interview before you sat ready on Eisenman’s desk at Eisenman Architects Office (450 Seventh Ave); he provided us with a copy in the spring of 2017, and then he reworked and edited it for publication in Khōrein late last year, removing some answers that we nevertheless found interesting. We do not know who conducted the interview, nor whether it is a transcript of questions and responses from one or more of the lectures Eisenman gave in 2016 across architecture departments (the most famous of which was at Princeton, entitled “The End of Authority,” held on September 19, 2016). Finally, this interview has nothing to do with the interview entitled “The End of Authority: Peter Eisenman with Julian Rose,” published in 2020.
Impact of extractive industries on malaria prevalence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a population-based cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Emch, M.
name: Mitchell, C.L.
name: Mwandagalirwa, M.K.
name: Juliano, J.J.
name: Tshefu, A.K.
name: Edwards, J.K.
name: Janko, M.M.
name: Pence, B.W.
Publisher: name: Nature Research
Year: 2022

description: Extraction of natural resources through mining and logging activities provides revenue and employment across sub-Saharan Africa, a region with the highest burden of malaria globally. The extent to which mining and logging influence malaria transmission in Africa remains poorly understood. Here, we evaluate associations between mining, logging, and malaria in the high transmission setting of the Democratic Republic of the Congo using population-representative malaria survey results and geographic data for environmental features and mining and logging concessions. We find elevated malaria prevalence among individuals in rural areas exposed to mining; however, we also detect significant spatial confounding among locations. Upon correction, effect estimates for mining and logging shifted toward the null and we did not find sufficient evidence to detect an association with malaria. Our findings reveal a complex interplay between mining, logging, space, and malaria prevalence. While mining concessions alone may not drive the high prevalence, unobserved features of mining-exposed areas, such as human migration, changing vector populations, or parasite genetics, may instead be responsible.
Erbium-based multifuncional compounds as molecular microkelvin-tunable driving-sensing units
Creators: name: Rybusiński, Jarosław
name: Fąs, Tomasz
name: Martin-Ramos, Pablo
name: Lavín, Victor
name: Szczytko, Jacek
name: Suffczyński, Jan
name: Martín, Inocencio R.
name: Martin-Gil, Jesus
name: Silva, Manuela Ramos
name: Camargo, Bruno Cury
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the selective control of the magnetic response and photoluminescence properties of Er3+ centers with light, by associating them with a highly conjugated beta-diketonate (1,3-di(2-naphthyl)-1,3-propanedione) ligand. We demonstrate this system to be an optically-pumped molecular compound emittingin infra-red, which can be employed as a precise heat-driving and detecting unit for low temperatures
description: 5 figures, version of record
Die diffusionsgewichtete Magnetresonanztomographie in der Diagnostik retinaler Ischämien und ischämischer Optikusneuropathien
Creators: name: Danyel, Leon Alexander
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: central retinal artery occlusion
subject: ischemic optic neuropathy
subject: magnetic resonance imaging
subject: diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Die vorliegende Habilitationsschrift umfasst Arbeiten zur Anwendung der diffusionsgewichteten Magnetresonanztomographie im Bereich vaskulärer neuroophthalmologischer Erkrankungen. Sie thematisiert die systematischen Erstbeschreibungen retinaler Diffusionsrestriktionen im Rahmen des Zentralarterienverschlusses und Zentralarterienastverschlusses als Korrelate von Ischämien der Netzhaut. Darüber hinaus wird der diagnostische Nutzen der diffusionsgewichteten Magnetresonanztomographie in der Diagnostik arteriitischer ischämischer Optikusneuropathien im Rahmen der Riesenzellarteriitis behandelt.
Additional file 5 of Developing and evaluating a SAFER model to screen for diabetes complications among people experiencing homelessness: a pilot study protocol
Creators: name: Scott, Sara
name: Grewal, Eshleen K.
name: Tariq, Hamna
name: Campbell, David J. T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 5: Appendix D. Interview Guides.