cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Impact of SMART Media Technologies (SMT) on the Spiritual Experience of Hajj Pilgrims
Creators: name: Qurashi, Jahanzeeb
name: Sharpley, Richard A
Publisher: name: Technological University Dublin
Year: 2018

description: Over the last three decades, information and communication technologies have advanced rapidly and continue to do so. Nowadays, the popularity and spread of socalled Smart Media Technologies (SMT) is not only transforming the lives of tourists around the world in general, but is impacting on the experience of pilgrims on the Hajj in Saudi Arabia in particular. Indeed, the Saudi government has undertaken a number of initiatives to encourage the use of SMT in the religious tourism industry. Specifically, the availability of SMT services such as Hajj Apps, E-bracelets for pilgrims, free WIFI and mobile charging services in Grand Mosques (in both Makkah and Madinah), dedicated social media websites, and the ability of pilgrims to take advantage of smartphone activities are facilitating and enhancing their technological and social experience of the Hajj. However, the introduction of ‘high-tech’ into the Hajj is arguably impacting on the nature of the pilgrims’ experience, challenging its fundamental spirituality by transforming it into something more akin to a ‘cyber experience’, an experience which competes with and jeopardises the principles of the Islamic religious journey of the Hajj with its focus on worship, simplicity and nonostentatious behaviour. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore how the spiritual experience of pilgrims may be influenced by the availability and use of various SMT services. The findings suggest ways in which these technological services both enhance and impact negatively on the pilgrim’s spiritual experience.
title: Λήψη αποφάσεων στα βασιζόμενα στους πράκτορες συστήματα
Creators: name: Αληφραγκή Σοφία
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2008

description: 1. Βασικές έννοιες πιθανοτήτων  2. Χρήσιμα θεωρήματα  3. Εφαρμογές-μοντελοποίηση λήψης αποφάσεων  4. Λήψη αποφάσεων υπό κίνδυνο  5. Λήψη αποφάσεων υπό αβεβαιότητα  6. Πράκτορες και ομαδική λήψη αποφάσεων  7. Κατανεμημένη λήψη αποφάσεων  8. Αυτόματη και διαδοχική λήψη αποφάσεων  9. Μοντελοποίηση πρακτόρων ως ποιοτικοί λήπτες αποφάσεων  10. Αυτόματη λήψη αποφάσεων στον προγραμματισμό δράσης  11. Συμπεράσματα
Role of Network Topology in the Synchronization of Power Systems
Creators: name: Lozano, Sergi
name: Buzna, Lubos
name: Díaz-Guilera, Albert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study synchronization dynamics in networks of coupled oscillators with bimodal distribution of natural frequencies. This setup can be interpreted as a simple model of frequency synchronization dynamics among generators and loads working in a power network. We derive the minimum coupling strength required to ensure global frequency synchronization. This threshold value can be efficiently found by solving a binary optimization problem, even for large networks. In order to validate our procedure, we compare its results with numerical simulations on a realistic network describing the European interconnected high-voltage electricity system, finding a very good agreement. Our synchronization threshold can be used to test the stability of frequency synchronization to link removals. As the threshold value changes only in very few cases when aplied to the European realistic network, we conclude that network is resilient in this regard. Since the threshold calculation depends on the local connectivity, it can also be used to identify critical network partitions acting as synchronization bottlenecks. In our stability experiments we observe that when a link removal triggers a change in the critical partition, its limits tend to converge to national borders. This phenomenon, which can have important consequences to synchronization dynamics in case of cascading failure, signals the influence of the uncomplete topological integration of national power grids at the European scale.
description: The final publication is available at http://www.epj.org (see http://www.springerlink.com/content/l22k574x25u6q61m/)
Additional file 1 of Assembly and phylogeographical analysis of novel Taenia solium mitochondrial genomes suggest stratification within the African-American genotype
Creators: name: Jiménez-Avalos, Gabriel
name: Soto-Obando, Alina
name: Solis, Maria
name: Gilman, Robert H.
name: Cama, Vitaliano
name: Gonzalez, Armando E.
name: García, Hector H.
name: Sheen, Patricia
name: Requena, David
name: Zimic, Mirko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Mapping statistics of the genome assembly. The number of reads mapped to the Chinese mitochondrial genome (reference) and their mean quality scores before trimming (pre) are given. The number of reads mapped after trimming (post); and the coverage, the genome length in base pairs (bp), the %GC, and the N50 of the assembly in nucleotides (nt) are also shown. Table S2. Gene arrangement of T. solium mitochondrial genomes from Peru, Mexico, and China (reference). The size of each genome in base pairs (bp) is given in parenthesis next to the mitochondrial genome name. Position intervals per gene are shown. The size of each gene (in bp) is specified in parentheses next to each position interval. Start and stop codons of each protein-coding gene per mitochondrial genome are also specified. Table S3. Sequence composition of the haplotypes formed in the COX1 and CYTB networks. Sequences (with their accession numbers) included in each haplotype are specified.
One-Loop Radiative Corrections to the QED Casimir Energy
Creators: name: Moazzemi, Reza
name: Mojavezi, Amirhosein
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate one-loop radiative corrections to the Casimir energy in the presence of two perfectly conducting parallel plates for QED theory within the renormalized perturbation theory. In fact, there are three contributions for radiative corrections to the Casimir energy, up to order $α$. Only the two-loop diagram, which is of order $α$, has been computed by Bordag et. al (1985), approximately. Here, up to this order, we consider corrections due to two one-loop terms, i.e., photonic and fermionic loop corrections resulting from renormalized QED Lagrangian, more precisely. Our results show that only the fermionic loop has a very minor correction and the correction of photonic loop vanishes.
description: 12 Revtex4 pages and two figures, revised version to appear in EPJC
Optimum inhomogeneity of local lattice distortions in La2CuO4+y
Creators: name: Poccia, Nicola
name: Ricci, Alessandro
name: Campi, Gaetano
name: Fratini, Michela
name: Puri, Alessandro
name: Di Gioacchino, Daniele
name: Marcelli, Augusto
name: Reynolds, Michael
name: Burghammer, Manfred
name: Saini, Naurang Lal
name: Aeppli, Gabriel
name: Bianconi, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic functionalities in materials from silicon to transition metal oxides are to a large extent controlled by defects and their relative arrangement. Outstanding examples are the oxides of copper, where defect order is correlated with their high superconducting transition temperatures. The oxygen defect order can be highly inhomogeneous, even in "optimal" superconducting samples, which raises the question of the nature of the sample regions where the order does not exist but which nonetheless form the "glue" binding the ordered regions together. Here we use scanning X-ray microdiffraction (with beam 300 nm in diameter) to show that for La2CuO4+y, the "glue" regions contain incommensurate modulated local lattice distortions, whose spatial extent is most pronounced for the best superconducting samples. For an underdoped single crystal with mobile oxygen interstitials in the spacer La2O2+y layers intercalated between the CuO2 layers, the incommensurate modulated local lattice distortions form droplets anticorrelated with the ordered oxygen interstitials, and whose spatial extent is most pronounced for the best superconducting samples. In this simplest of high temperature superconductors, there are therefore not one, but two networks of ordered defects which can be tuned to achieve optimal superconductivity. For a given stoichiometry, the highest transition temperature is obtained when both the ordered oxygen and lattice defects form fractal patterns, as opposed to appearing in isolated spots. We speculate that the relationship between material complexity and superconducting transition temperature Tc is actually underpinned by a fundamental relation between Tc and the distribution of ordered defect networks supported by the materials.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
On regular polytopes
Creators: name: Boya, Luis J.
name: Rivera, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B45, 11R52, 51M20, 52B11, 52B15, 57S25

description: Regular polytopes, the generalization of the five Platonic solids in 3 space dimensions, exist in arbitrary dimension $n\geq-1$; now in {\rm dim}. 2, 3 and 4 there are \emph{extra} polytopes, while in general dimensions only the hyper-tetrahedron, the hyper-cube and its dual hyper-octahedron exist. We attribute these peculiarites and exceptions to special properties of the orthogonal groups in these dimensions: the $\mathrm{SO}(2)=\mathrm{U}(1)$ group being (abelian and) \emph{divisible}, is related to the existence of arbitrarily-sided plane regular polygons, and the \emph{splitting} of the Lie algebra of the $\mathrm{O}(4)$ group will be seen responsible for the Schläfli special polytopes in 4-dim., two of which percolate down to three. In spite of {\rm dim}. 8 being also special (Cartan's \emph{triality}), we argue why there are no \emph{extra} polytopes, while it has other consequences: in particular the existence of the three \emph{division algebras} over the reals $\mathbb{R}$: complex $\mathbb{C}$, quaternions $\mathbb{H}$ and octonions $\mathbb{O}$ is seen also as another feature of the special properties of corresponding orthogonal groups, and of the spheres of dimension 0,1,3 and 7.
description: To appear in the journal "Reports on Mathematical Physics (Poland)"
Nonlinear multidimensional gravity and the Australian dipole
Creators: name: Bronnikov, K. A.
name: Melnikov, V. N.
name: Rubin, S. G.
name: Svadkovsky, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existing observational data on possible variations of fundamental physical constants (FPC) confirm more or less confidently only a variability of the fine structure constant $α$ in space and time. A model construction method is described, where variations of $α$ and other FPCs (including the gravitational constant $G$) follow from the dynamics of extra space-time dimensions in the framework of curvature-nonlinear multidimensional theories of gravity. An advantage of this method is a unified approach to variations of different FPCs. A particular model explaining the observable variations of $α$ in space and time has been constructed. It comprises a FRW cosmology with accelerated expansion, perturbed due to slightly inhomogeneous initial data.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure. Comments and references added
The Athena SWAN Process to Promote Gender Equity in Third-Level Education in Ireland
Creators: name: Houghton, Frank
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Athena SWAN
gender equity
education
Ireland

description: Introduction: Sexism and misogyny remains an ongoing threat to optimal health and medical services. An important factor in health and medical services is the education and training pipeline into these careers. A substantial body of literature demonstrates the impacts of sexism in third-level education and training institutions developing future health service staff. Athena SWAN accreditation is a benchmark designed to counter such institutional and individual sexist practices in education settings to foster equality. In recent years the Athena SWAN process has expanded to include professional and administrative staff, as well as academics. This process has also evolved to move beyond a narrow focus on gender, to also include other crucial issues such as race, sexuality and gender identity. Methods: This examination is based on the author’s role as a participant observer and critiques the Athena SWAN process in an Institute of Technology in Ireland. Results: This examination identifies a substantial number of deficits in the Athena SWAN process, as well as also identifying institutional resistance strategies to such gender equality work. Conclusion: The current Athena SWAN process in Ireland is critically flawed. Suggested strategies for those engaged in such work into the future are outlined.
Additional file 1 of From pressure in the pipeline to accelerating ascension: a survey to understand professional experiences of and opportunities for Canadian women in the healthcare sector
Creators: name: Desveaux, L.
name: Pirmohamed, J.
name: Hussain-Shamsy, N.
name: Gray, C. Steele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary data tables.
Additional file 1 of Exercise snacking to improve physical function in pre-frail older adult memory clinic patients: a 28-day pilot study
Creators: name: Western, Max J.
name: Welsh, Tomas
name: Keen, Kristen
name: Bishop, Vanessa
name: Perkin, Oliver J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1
title: Πρόβλεψη των σημείων αναστροφής της τάσης μετοχών με την χρήση του ANFIS και ενός νευρωνικού δικτύου βασιζόμενο σε γενετικούς αλγορίθμους
Creators: name: Μπραµιμης Ηλίας
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2007

description: 1. Εισαγωγή -- 2. Θεωρητική προσέγγγιση των μοντέλων -- 3. Ανάλυση των μοντέλων -- 4. Αποτελέσματα από τη χρήση των μοντέλων
Simplex Z_2 spin liquids on the Kagome lattice with Entangled Pair States: spinon and vison coherence lengths, topological entropy and gapless edge modes
Creators: name: Poilblanc, Didier
name: Schuch, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gapped Z_2 spin liquids have been proposed as candidates for the ground-state of the S=1/2 quantum antiferromagnet on the Kagome lattice. We extend the use of Projected Entangled Pair States to construct (on the cylinder)Resonating Valence Bond (RVB) states including both nearest-neighbor and next-nearest neighbor singlet bonds. Our ansatz -- dubbed "simplex spin liquid" -- allows for an asymmetry between the two types of triangles (of order 2-3% in the energy density after optimization) leading to the breaking of inversion symmetry. We show that the topological Z_2 structure is still preserved and, by considering the presence or the absence of spinon and vison lines along an infinite cylinder, we explicitly construct four orthogonal RVB Minimally Entangled States. The spinon and vison coherence lengths are extracted from a finite size scaling w.r.t the cylinder perimeter of the energy splittings of the four sectors and are found to be of the order of the lattice spacing. The entanglement spectrum of a partitioned (infinite) cylinder is found to be gapless suggesting the occurrence, on a cylinder with {\it real} open boundaries, of gapless edge modes formally similar to Luttinger liquid (non-chiral) spin and charge modes. When inversion symmetry is spontaneously broken, the RVB spin liquid exhibits an extra Ising degeneracy, which might have been observed in recent exact diagonalisation studies.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures - v2 with moderate revision of abstract, text and conclusion
title: Ανάπτυξη και εφαρμογή συστήματος αξιολόγησης στρατηγικής σε οργανισμό παροχής υπηρεσιών υγείας
Creators: name: Ορφανουδάκη Ευαγγελία
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2008

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
Wilhelm Avenarius, Mittelrhein
Creators: name: Fink, Otto
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2017

description: Rezension zu: Wilhelm Avenarius, Mittelrhein. Mit Hunsrück, Eifel, Westerwald. Landschaft, Geschickte, Burgenkunde, Kultur, Kunst. Nürnberg (Glock und Lutz) 1974, 480 S., 54 Fotos, davon 26 ganzseitige, 3 Risse, eine Karte, Ganzleinen
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 16, Nr. 1 (1975): Burgen und Schlösser. Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
title: Μεθοδολογία επιλογής ανεμογεννητριών για βελτιστοποίηση της ποιότητας ισχύος
Creators: name: Ποτηράκης Γεώργιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2008

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
title: Κατασκευή μεταλλικής δεξαμενής υγραερίου
title: Construction of metal liquefied petroleum gas tank
Creators: name: Ζαφειρης Αθανασιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Η διπλωματική αυτή εργασία αναφέρεται στην μελέτη με σκοπό την κατασκευή δεξαμενής υγραερίου. Αναφέρονται:
-Η χημική σύσταση του υγραερίου καθώς και τα διάφορα χαρακτηριστικά του.
-Τα χαρακτηριστικά των υλικών που χρησιμοποιούνται καθώς και η αντοχή αυτών
-Η διαδικασία κατασκευής ενός τέτοιου πιεστικού δοχείου
-Δημιουργία μοντέλου δεξαμενής στο creo και έλεγχος αντοχής με τη βοήθεια του simulate απο το creo.
-Τα μηχανήματα που χρησιμοποιούνται
Όλη η εργασία έγινε με βάση το Ευρωπαϊκό Πρότυπο και την Ελληνική νομοθεσία.
title: Μοντελοποίηση με χρήση συστημάτων φλοιού και στερεών μοντέλων
title: Blueprinting and solid modeling combination
Creators: name: Τροχιδης Κωνσταντινος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Το αντικείμενο της διπλωματικής εργασίας αυτής είναι η μοντελοποίηση με χρήση συστημάτων φλοιού και στερεών μοντέλων(Blueprinting and Solid Modeling Combination) ενός βενζινοκίνητου τηλεκατευθυνόμενου αυτοκινήτου. Για να επιτύχουμε την μοντελοποίηση αυτή χρησιμοποιήσαμε δύο σχεδιαστικά προγράμματα το Pro Engineer 2.0 καθώς και το PTC Creo Parametric 2.0. Η διπλωματική αυτή παρουσιάζει βήμα, βήμα  την μοντελοποίηση και την σχεδίαση κάθε επιμέρους εξαρτημάτων, που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν. Για την σχεδίαση τους χρησιμοποίησα δύο διαφορετικούς τρόπους σχεδίασης: την μοντελοποίηση με συστήματα φλοιού(Blueprinting) και την στερεά μοντελοποίηση(Solid Modeling). Τέλος, συνδυάσαμε όλα μαζί τα εξαρτήματα που δημιουργήσαμε για να χτίσουμε και να δώσουμε την τελική μορφή στο βενζινοκίνητο.
Quantum Phase Slips in one-dimensional Josephson Junction Chains
Creators: name: Ergül, Adem
name: Lidmar, Jack
name: Johansson, Jan
name: Azizoğlu, Yağız
name: Schaeffer, David
name: Haviland, David B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied quantum phase-slip (QPS) phenomena in long one-dimensional Josephson junction series arrays with tunable Josephson coupling. These chains were fabricated with as many as 2888 junctions, where one sample had a tunable weak link in the middle. Measurements were made of the zero-bias resistance, $R_0$, as well as current-voltage characteristics (IVC). The finite $R_0$ is explained by QPS and shows an exponential dependence on $\sqrt{E_J/E_C}$ with a distinct change in the exponent at $R_0=R_Q=h/4e^2$. When $R_0 > R_Q$ the IVC clearly shows a remnant of the Coulomb blockade, which evolves to a zero-current state with a sharp critical voltage as $E_J$ is tuned to a smaller value. The zero-current state below the critical voltage is due to coherent QPS and we show that these are enhanced at the central weak link. Above the critical voltage a negative differential resistance is observed which nearly restores the zero-current state.
Testing Lorentz invariance of dark matter
Creators: name: Blas, Diego
name: Ivanov, Mikhail M.
name: Sibiryakov, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possibility to constrain deviations from Lorentz invariance in dark matter (DM) with cosmological observations. Breaking of Lorentz invariance generically introduces new light gravitational degrees of freedom, which we represent through a dynamical timelike vector field. If DM does not obey Lorentz invariance, it couples to this vector field. We find that this coupling affects the inertial mass of small DM halos which no longer satisfy the equivalence principle. For large enough lumps of DM we identify a (chameleon) mechanism that restores the inertial mass to its standard value. As a consequence, the dynamics of gravitational clustering are modified. Two prominent effects are a scale dependent enhancement in the growth of large scale structure and a scale dependent bias between DM and baryon density perturbations. The comparison with the measured linear matter power spectrum in principle allows to bound the departure from Lorentz invariance of DM at the per cent level.
description: 42 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 1 of An open-label pilot trial assessing tolerability and feasibility of LSD microdosing in patients with major depressive disorder (LSDDEP1)
Creators: name: Donegan, Carina Joy
name: Daldegan-Bueno, Dimitri
name: Sumner, Rachael
name: Menkes, David
name: Evans, William
name: Hoeh, Nicholas
name: Sundram, Frederick
name: Reynolds, Lisa
name: Ponton, Rhys
name: Cavadino, Alana
name: Smith, Todd
name: Roop, Partha
name: Allen, Nathan
name: Abeysinghe, Binu
name: Svirskis, Darren
name: Forsyth, Anna
name: Bansal, Mahima
name: Muthukumaraswamy, Suresh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Participant information sheet and informed consent form.
Additional file 1 of Prevalence of pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) in children and adolescents with eating disorders
Creators: name: Aman, Marya
name: Coelho, Jennifer S.
name: Lin, Boyee
name: Lu, Cynthia
name: Westwell-Roper, Clara
name: Best, John R.
name: Stewart, S. Evelyn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. PANS and PANDAS questionnaire.
title: Αξιολόγηση της αποτελεσματικότητας της αστυνόμευσης σε κάθε νομό της Ελλάδας
Creators: name: Κολοσιωνη Μαρια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Το πρόβλημα των τροχαίων ατυχημάτων παίρνει ραγδαίες εξελίξεις και απασχολεί κάθε μέρα όλο και περισσότερο κόσμο, τόσο απλούς πολίτες που είτε οδηγούν οι ίδιοι είτε μέλη της οικογένειάς τους, όσο και το σύνολο των κοινωνικών φορέων και ιδιαίτερα την Τροχαία. Δυστυχώς στην Ελλάδα δεν έχουν γίνει αρκετές έρευνες πάνω σε αυτό τον τομέα. Αυτός είναι και ο λόγος διεξαγωγής αυτής της εργασίας. Στοιχεία από το Αρχείο της Ελληνικής Αστυνομίας δόθηκαν προς μελέτη ώστε να διεξαχθεί μια πλήρη έρευνα για την αξιολόγηση της αποτελεσματικότητας της αστυνόμευσης σε κάθε νομό της Ελλάδας. Από το 1999 έως το 2014 είχαν συγκεντρωθεί στοιχεία από το Αρχηγείο της Ελληνικής Αστυνομίας για τους νεκρούς, τους σοβαρά και ελαφρά τραυματισμένους, για τα θανατηφόρα, τα σοβαρά και ελαφρά ατυχήματα και τέλος τις παραβάσεις, που σημειώθηκαν σε κάθε νομό της Ελλάδας για κάθε έτος ξεχωριστά.
Optimal error regions for quantum state estimation
Creators: name: Shang, Jiangwei
name: Ng, Hui Khoon
name: Sehrawat, Arun
name: Li, Xikun
name: Englert, Berthold-Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rather than point estimators, states of a quantum system that represent one's best guess for the given data, we consider optimal regions of estimators. As the natural counterpart of the popular maximum-likelihood point estimator, we introduce the maximum-likelihood region---the region of largest likelihood among all regions of the same size. Here, the size of a region is its prior probability. Another concept is the smallest credible region---the smallest region with pre-chosen posterior probability. For both optimization problems, the optimal region has constant likelihood on its boundary. We discuss criteria for assigning prior probabilities to regions, and illustrate the concepts and methods with several examples.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, 23 references; title changed; v2 corrects some short-comings of v1 and reports additional details
title: Qualitative and quantitative modeling of maritime air pollutants: control technologies, environmental impacts and cost assessment
Creators: name: Κουτσουπης Αλεξανδρος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: This thesis examines the costs and benefits of reduction measures for the shipping industry. Also, this paper provides a wider viewpoint by integrating the technological cost of the reduction methods and the social environmental benefits from emission reduction. We quantitatively analyse the merits of the control methods available in marine air pollution control practice by using data based on already related studies. After that, detailed NOx, SO2 and PM2.5 emissions have been estimated for cruise ships in the main Greek ports for the years 2013 and 2014. All the data used were, carefully collected from local Port authorities and compared with similar data of other sources to harmonize any discrepancies. Generally, it is quite difficult to find a general acceptable solution for every ship, because each ship has different needs. However, the results of our study showed that the most feasible and cost-effective technologies may be found among Sea Water Scrubbing, Selective Catalytic Reduction or LNG and Shore Side Power (Cold Ironing).
Crossing pedestrian traffic flows,diagonal stripe pattern, and chevron effect
Creators: name: Cividini, J.
name: Hilhorst, H. J.
name: Appert-Rolland, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study two perpendicular intersecting flows of pedestrians. The latter are represented either by moving hard core particles of two types, eastbound ($\symbp$) and northbound ($\symbm$), or by two density fields, $\rhop_t(\brr)$ and $\rhom_t(\brr)$. Each flow takes place on a lattice strip of width $M$ so that the intersection is an $M\times M$ square. We investigate the spontaneous formation, observed experimentally and in simulations, of a diagonal pattern of stripes in which alternatingly one of the two particle types dominates. By a linear stability analysis of the field equations we show how this pattern formation comes about. We focus on the observation, reported recently, that the striped pattern actually consists of chevrons rather than straight lines. We demonstrate that this `chevron effect' occurs both in particle simulations with various different update schemes and in field simulations. We quantify the effect in terms of the chevron angle $Δθ_0$ and determine its dependency on the parameters governing the boundary conditions.
description: 36 pages, 22 figures
Supplementary data - figures and table from A diabetes-like biochemical and behavioural phenotype of Drosophila induced by predator stress
Creators: name: Krama, Tatjana
name: Bahhir, Diana
name: Ots, Liina
name: Popovs, Sergejs
name: Bartkevičs, Vadims
name: Pugajeva, Iveta
name: Krams, Ronalds
name: Merivee, Enno
name: Must, Anne
name: Rantala, Markus J.
name: Krams, Indrikis
name: Jõers, Priit
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Predation can have both lethal and non-lethal effects on prey. The nonlethal effects of predation can instil changes in prey life history, behaviour, morphology and physiology, causing adaptive evolution. The chronic stress caused by sustained predation on prey is comparable to chronic stress conditions in humans. Conditions like anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress syndrome have also been implicated in the development of metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes. In this study, we found that predator stress induced during larval development in fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster impairs carbohydrate metabolism by systemic inhibition of Akt protein kinase, which is a central regulator of glucose uptake. However, Drosophila grown with predators survived better under direct spider predation in the adult phase. Administration of metformin and 5-hydroxytryptophane (5-HTP), a precursor of the neurotransmitter serotonin, reversed these effects. Our results demonstrate a direct link between predator stress and metabolic impairment, suggesting that a diabetes-like biochemical phenotype may be adaptive in terms of survival and reproductive success. We provide a novel animal model to explore the mechanisms responsible for the onset of these metabolic disorders that are highly prevalent in human populations.
FAST low frequency pulsar survey
Creators: name: Yue, Youling
name: Li, Di
name: Nan, Rendong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is under construction and will be commissioned in September 2016. A low frequency 7-beam receiver working around 400 MHz is proposed for FAST early science. It will be optimized for a whole FAST sky drift-scan pulsar survey. Simulations show that about 1500 new normal pulsars will be discovered, as while as about 200 millisecond pulsars.
description: Proceedings of IAUS 291 "Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years", J. van Leeuwen (ed.); 3 pages, 2 figures
title: Τραπεζικοί κίνδυνοι και εταιρική διακυβέρνηση. Μια εμπειρική μελέτη των ευρωπαϊκών τραπεζών
title: Bank risk & corporate governance. An empirical study of european banks
Creators: name: Ψαρακης Ευτυχιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Σε μια περίοδο κρίσης για το Ευρωπαϊκό και το Ελληνικό τραπεζικό σύστημα η αποτελεσματική λειτουργία της Εταιρικής Διακυβέρνησης περισσότερο από ποτέ είναι επιτακτική ανάγκη. Μέσω της διαφάνειας και της επάρκειας της παρεχόμενης πληροφορίας στα ενδιαφερόμενα μέρη, η επιβίωση, η υγιή ανάπτυξη και η αποφυγή χρεοκοπιών που πραγματοποιήθηκαν στο παρελθόν, είναι εφικτός στόχος. Η εταιρική διακυβέρνηση ως ολοκληρωμένο σύστημα το οποίο λειτουργεί σε ένα πιστωτικό ίδρυμα έχει στόχο την εξασφάλιση των δικαιωμάτων των μετόχων αλλά και την αποφυγή οικονομικών και λογιστικών σκανδάλων. Στα πλαίσια αυτά επειδή είναι σημαντικό ζήτημα και απασχολεί τις ευρωπαϊκές εποπτικές αρχές και τις διοικήσεις των τραπεζών, η Ευρωπαϊκή Κεντρική Τράπεζα έχει δημιουργήσει το πλαίσιο εκείνο μέσα στο οποίο οι διοικήσεις των τραπεζών θα διασφαλίσουν τα δικαιώματα των ενδιαφερόμενων μερών τους.

Στην μεταπτυχιακή διατριβή που θα αναπτυχθεί στα επόμενα κεφάλαια θα εξεταστεί αν και πόσο βασικοί παράγοντες, σύμφωνα με την βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση, της εταιρικής διακυβέρνησης μπορούν να επηρεάσουν τους κινδύνους τους οποίους αναλαμβάνουν οι διοικήσεις των Ευρωπαϊκών Τραπεζικών Ιδρυμάτων. Στη εργασία αυτή εξετάζονται Ευρωπαϊκές Τράπεζες οι οποίες έλαβαν μέρος στο τεστ αντοχής της Ευρωπαϊκής Κεντρικής Τράπεζας το 2013.

Αναφορικά με την δομή της εργασίας, αρχικά δίνεται ο ορισμός της εταιρικής διακυβέρνησης και γίνεται μια συνοπτική περιγραφή των σημαντικότερων παραγόντων κινδύνου που επηρεάζουν τόσο τα τραπεζικά ιδρύματα όσο και το χρηματοπιστωτικό σύστημα στο σύνολό του. Στο κεφάλαιο 5 υλοποιείται μια εμπειρική μελέτη η οποία ξεκινά με μια συνοπτική ανάλυση των δεδομένων και των αποτελεσμάτων. Στη συνέχεια εξετάζεται αν και κατά πόσο η μεταβλητή ανάληψης κινδύνου, επηρεάζεται από τους παράγοντες τις εταιρικής διακυβέρνησης, τόσο στο έτος βάσης όσο και στα δύο σενάρια του τεστ αντοχής της Ευρωπαϊκή Κεντρική Τράπεζα.

Η εργασία αποτελείται από έξι κεφάλαια που πραγματεύονται την σχέση της εταιρικής διακυβέρνησης με τον κίνδυνο τον οποίο αναλαμβάνουν τα Ευρωπαϊκά Τραπεζικά ιδρύματα. Στα κεφάλαια αυτά θα αναπτυχθεί τόσο το θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο της μελέτης όσο και η πρακτική προσέγγιση ώστε να γίνει σαφές η οποιαδήποτε σχέση των παραγόντων που μελετώνται σε συνδυασμό με τα αναλυτικά αποτελέσματα της σχετικής έρευνας που διενεργήθηκε.
Conditional Symmetries and the Canonical Quantization of Constrained Minisuperspace Actions: the Schwarzschild case
Creators: name: Christodoulakis, T.
name: Dimakis, N.
name: Terzis, Petros A.
name: Doulis, G.
name: Grammenos, Th.
name: Melas, E.
name: Spanou, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A conditional symmetry is defined, in the phase-space of a quadratic in velocities constrained action, as a simultaneous conformal symmetry of the supermetric and the superpotential. It is proven that such a symmetry corresponds to a variational (Noether) symmetry.The use of these symmetries as quantum conditions on the wave-function entails a kind of selection rule. As an example, the minisuperspace model ensuing from a reduction of the Einstein - Hilbert action by considering static, spherically symmetric configurations and r as the independent dynamical variable, is canonically quantized. The conditional symmetries of this reduced action are used as supplementary conditions on the wave function. Their integrability conditions dictate, at a first stage, that only one of the three existing symmetries can be consistently imposed. At a second stage one is led to the unique Casimir invariant, which is the product of the remaining two, as the only possible second condition on $Ψ$. The uniqueness of the dynamical evolution implies the need to identify this quadratic integral of motion to the reparametrisation generator. This can be achieved by fixing a suitable parametrization of the r-lapse function, exploiting the freedom to arbitrarily rescale it. In this particular parametrization the measure is chosen to be the determinant of the supermetric. The solutions to the combined Wheeler - DeWitt and linear conditional symmetry equations are found and seen to depend on the product of the two "scale factors"
description: 20 pages, LaTeX2e source file, no figures
ADVANCED SLA MANAGEMENT IN CLOUD COMPUTING
Creators: name: SOARES, GERSON ANTUNES
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: The advent of high-performance technologies and the increase in volume of data used by organizations led to the need for migration from an internal structure to Cloud environment. The continuous development of tools, methods and techniques have expanded the understanding of the various functions, structures and processes related to Cloud Computing. However, the increase in computing power led to the development and use of more complex models, including this scope the complexity of Service Level Agreements (SLA). The need for understanding at a high level of SLAs established between customers and service providers in Cloud led to different studies on the definition and standardization of these agreements. Nowadays, cloud computing technologies are becoming more and more popular, especially with respect to data storage. However, the processes used to determine the Cloud Service Agreements do not consider the final customer?s needs, considering only the supply capacity of the service provider. For these reasons, the development of service agreements that meets the needs of customers should be designed in order to increase the usability of Cloud environments, and enabling the discovery of new areas of application in accordance with market demand. In this context, the use of ontologies that describes the information that composes each type of service, and thus enable an understanding of the agreements reached, is configured as an approach to be considered. Moreover, the generalization and abstraction of information that can be observed in different services allows a broader vision for managing SLAs. For these reasons, this thesis aims to find innovative methods for the composition of Service Level Agreements in Cloud Computing. In particular, the methods presented allow demonstrate the convergence of several consolidated techniques in research on Cloud SLA using a new approach that considers new demands on Cloud and allows control of the established agreements, in addition to effectively ensure the application of the concept of XaaS (everything as a service). The originality of the approach allows the registration, search, composition and control of services in Cloud using the same structure. The new approach presented in this thesis allows the understanding of the impact of the new services requested by customers, giving the provider the possibility of simulating the use of the necessary resources to meet the new services? requests. From the presentation of a conceptual framework we can demonstrate the use of our approach through the examples of different situations presented in the real world and considering the new market possibilities.
LINEAR SYSTEMS ON IRREDUCIBLE HOLOMORPHIC SYMPLECTIC MANIFOLDS
Creators: name: NOVARIO, SIMONE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2021

description: In questa tesi studiamo alcuni sistemi lineari completi associati a divisori di schemi di Hilbert di 2 punti su una superficie K3 proiettiva complessa con gruppo di Picard di rango 1, e le mappe razionali indotte. Queste variet� sono chiamate quadrati di Hilbert su superfici K3 generiche, e sono esempi di variet� irriducibili olomorfe simplettiche (variet� IHS). Nella prima parte della tesi, usando la teoria dei reticoli, gli operatori di Nakajima e il modello di Lehn?Sorger, diamo una base per il sottospazio vettoriale dell?anello di coomologia singolare a coefficienti razionali generato dalle classi di Hodge razionali di tipo (2, 2) sul quadrato di Hilbert di una qualsiasi superficie K3 proiettiva. In seguito sfruttiamo un teorema di Qin e Wang insieme a un risultato di Ellingsrud, G�ttsche e Lehn per ottenere una base del reticolo delle classi di Hodge integrali di tipo (2, 2) sul quadrato di Hilbert di una qualsiasi superficie K3 proiettiva. Nella seconda parte della tesi studiamo il problema seguente: se X � il quadrato di Hilbert di una superficie K3 generica che ammette un divisore ampio D con q(D) = 2, dove q � la forma quadratica di Beauville-Bogomolov-Fujiki, descrivere geometricamente la mappa razionale indotta dal sistema lineare completo |D|. Il risultato principale della tesi mostra che tale X, tranne nel caso del quadrato di Hilbert di una superficie quartica generica di P^3, � una doppia EPW sestica, cio� il ricoprimento doppio di una EPW sestica, una ipersuperficie normale di P^5, ramificato nel suo luogo singolare. Inoltre la mappa razionale indotta da |D| coincide proprio con tale ricoprimento doppio. Gli strumenti principali per ottenere questo risultato sono la descrizione del reticolo delle classi integrali di Hodge di tipo (2, 2) della prima parte della tesi e l?esistenza di un?involuzione anti-simplettica su tali variet� per un teorema di Boissi�re, Cattaneo, Nieper-Wi�kirchen e Sarti.
Additional file 2 of Paternal high-fat diet altered SETD2 gene methylation in sperm of F0 and F1 mice
Creators: name: Wei, Suhua
name: Luo, Shiwei
name: Zhang, Haifeng
name: Li, Yandong
name: Zhao, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Tables S2-S4. Primers of the Sequence1-3 of SETD2 for Methylation analysis.
Additional file 1 of Unraveling the phenotypic and genomic background of behavioral plasticity and temperament in North American Angus cattle
Creators: name: Alvarenga, Amanda B.
name: Oliveira, Hinayah R.
name: Turner, Simon P.
name: Garcia, Andre
name: Retallick, Kelli J.
name: Miller, Stephen P.
name: Brito, Luiz F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Variance components over time for cow at weaning temperament using a random regression model. Table S2. Number of overlapping genomic regions among the top 20 windows with the highest module effect for cow at weaning temperament. Table S3. Genes within the top genomic regions for cow at weaning temperament across the age groups. Table S4. Genes identified for the average cow at weaning temperament and learning and behavioral plasticity for cow at weaning temperament. Table S5. Functional annotation for genes controlling average of cow at weaning temperament and learning and behavioral plasticity. Table S6. Quantitative trait loci that overlap with the genomic regions for the average of cow at weaning temperament (inter) and learning and behavioral plasticity (slope). Table S7. Variance components for cow at weaning temperament using a repeatability model. Table S8. (Co)variance components for yearling and cow at weaning temperament using a two-trait model. Table S9. (Co)variance components for yearling and cow at weaning temperament as a single-trait repeatability model. Table S10. (Co)variance components for average cow at weaning temperament (AverCT) and learning and behavioral plasticity (LBP) of a dataset containing animals with more than two records. Table S11. Variance components over time for cow at weaning temperament using a random regression model and data of animals with at least two records.
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF UNDERCURRENT AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES TOWARDS CIRCULAR NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT
Creators: name: HERRERA MORENO, AXEL MAURICIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2021

description: Circular Economy consists of re-designing effective processes that allow the subsequent recovery of wastes for new production methods, avoiding using new resources. However, an emerging holistic approach requires evidence of its systemic capacities to transition from unsustainable linear practices that had led our planet to face significant environmental problems such as climate change and alteration of biochemical flows. This study aimed to assess technologies that have proven to close C, N, and P loops regarding their overall environmental impact from two study cases; a) Microalgae production by using nutrient and water recovered streams; and b) Integrated anaerobic digestion system with precision agriculture, and bioenergy production. Results showed that the re-use of end-products is critical for positive environmental impacts due to avoided emissions from production, transport, and use of mineral sources, satisfying the aim of supporting a closed-loop integrated system. Nutrient recovery practices reduced GHG emissions, protected and enhanced soil carbon stocks, improved ground- and surface-water quality.
Additional file 6 of Engineering of Trichoderma reesei for enhanced degradation of lignocellulosic biomass by truncation of the cellulase activator ACE3
Creators: name: Chen, Yumeng
name: Wu, Chuan
name: Fan, Xingjia
name: Zhao, Xinqing
name: Zhao, Xihua
name: Shen, Tao
name: Wei, Dongzhi
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 6: Figure S5. Saccharification of corn stover by the crude enzyme from Rut-C30, PC-3-7 and PC-3-7-A723. The crude enzymes from Rut-C30, PC-3-7 and PC-3-7-A723 were mixed with 5% (w/v) corn stover and the same volumes of crude enzyme (5 mL). Values represent the mean and standard deviation of triplicate measurements.
Werner Meyer, Die Burgruine Alt-Wartburg im Kanton Aargau
Creators: name: Leistikow, Dankwart
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2017

description: Rezension zu: Werner Meyer, Die Burgruine Alt-Wartburg im Kanton Aargau. Bericht über die Forschungen 1966/67 Schweizer Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, herausg. vom Schweizerischen Burgenverein, Band 1, Walter-Verlag, Olten 1974
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 16, Nr. 2 (1975): Burgen und Schlösser. Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege