cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Polarised light modular microscopy (Pol-ModMicro) for identifying hemozoin crystals in Plasmodium
Creators: name: Eadie, Fraser
name: Gibbins, Matthew P
name: Gibson, Graham
name: Marti, Matthias
name: Akhil Kallepalli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: polarised light microscope
polarisation
malaria
plasmodium
open source
microscope

description: In this repository, you will find all the files needed to recreate the Pol-ModMicro system. These include: Unmodified OpenFlexure files; as used in the system. Modified/Updated Components to allow ModLight integration OpenFlexure Nano Motor Controller files Bill of Materials Abstract: Plasmodium spp. are the protozoan parasites responsible for malaria. Plasmodium spp. synthesise a biocrystal, hemozoin, which can be observed under cross-polarised light. These birefringent crystals can be seen due to different refractive indices of the hemozoin crystal and red blood cells. Here, we present a polarised light modular microscopy (Pol-ModMicro) solution, complete with illumination sources and a robust imaging system to capture birefringence and identify the parasites. We achieve this by combining ModLight light sources with bespoke components designed for the OpenFlexure microscope to image blood smears. Further, a simple and robust algorithm capable of enhancing birefringence is presented. This solution provides image quality that is comparable to a substantially more expensive proprietary microscope.
description: This work was made possible with support from the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) [EP/R511705/1] and EPSRC funding to QuantIC [EP/M01326X/1].
Additional file 1 of N6-methyladenosine RNA modification regulates strawberry fruit ripening in an ABA-dependent manner
Creators: name: Zhou, Leilei
name: Tang, Renkun
name: Li, Xiaojing
name: Tian, Shiping
name: Li, Bingbing
name: Qin, Guozheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Pearson correlation analysis of input reads in the m6A peak regions identified from m6A-seq. Figure S2. Pearson correlation analysis of immunoprecipitation (IP) reads in the m6A peak regions identified from m6A-seq. Figure S3. Validation of confident m6A peaks. Figure S4. Sequence motif identified within the m6A peaks by HOMER ( http://homer.ucsd.edu/homer/ ). Figure S5. LC-MS/MS assay revealing the total m6A levels in strawberry fruit at S6, RS1, and RS3 stages. Figure S6. Heat map of m6A enrichment ratios of differential m6A peaks identified in fruit at RS1 stage compared to those at S6 stage. Figure S7. Gene Ontology (GO) analysis of transcripts containing m6A peaks during strawberry ripening. Figure S8. The m6A modification and expression level for gene in ABA pathway and gene encoding translation initiation factors and elongation factors in octoploid cultivated strawberry. Figure S9. Validations of specific m6A sites in the NCED5, ABAR, and AREB1 transcripts. Figure S10. Identification of the conserved MT-A70 domain of m6A methyltransferases MTA and MTB in diploid woodland strawberry and octoploid cultivated strawberry. Figure S11. Protein sequence alignment of the MT-A70 domains in m6A methyltransferases. Figure S12. Influence of MTA silencing on mRNA stability. Figure S13. The changes in translation efficiency of ABA signaling gene and ripening genes in the MTA-silenced or the MTA-overexpressed fruits. Figure S14. Informations of m6A-seq in the MTA-silenced fruits and the control. Figure S15. m6A enrichment and gene expression for the SlDML2 homologs in strawberry fruit. Figure S16. m6A enrichment for DNA methyltransferase genes from m6A-seq data. Figure S17. Regulatory model for the m6A-mediated ripening in climacteric tomato fruit and non-climacteric strawberry fruit.
Additional file 1 of Traditional Chinese herbal medicine for treating novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Li, Yuxi
name: Liu, Xiaobo
name: Guo, Liuxue
name: Li, Juan
name: Zhong, Dongling
name: Zhang, Yonggang
name: Clarke, Mike
name: Jin, Rongjiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P 2015 Checklist.
The Angular Diameter and Effective Temperature of the Lithium-Rich K Giant HD 148293 from the CHARA Array
Creators: name: Baines, Ellyn K.
name: McAlister, Harold A.
name: Brummelaar, Theo A. ten
name: Turner, Nils H.
name: Sturmann, Judit
name: Sturmann, Laszlo
name: Goldfinger, P. J.
name: Farrington, Christopher D.
name: Ridgway, Stephen T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measured the angular diameter of the lithium-rich K giant star HD 148293 using Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array interferometer. We used our measurement to calculate the star's effective temperature, which allowed us to place it on an H-R diagram to compare it with other Li-rich giants. Its placement supports the evidence presented by Charbonnel & Balachandran that it is undergoing a brief stage in its evolution where Li is being created.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in the ApJ
Symplectic geometry of rationally connected threefolds
Creators: name: Tian, Zhiyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M22

description: We study symplectic geometry of rationally connected $3$-folds. The first result shows that rationally connectedness is a symplectic deformation invariant in dimension $3$. If a rationally connected $3$-fold $X$ is Fano or $b_2(X)=2$, we prove that it is symplectic rationally connected, i.e. there is a non-zero Gromov-Witten invariant with two insertions being the class of a point. Finally we prove that many rationally connected $3$-folds are birational to a symplectic rationally connected variety.
description: 25 pages. Preliminary version. Comments are welcome
Physics as quantum information processing
Creators: name: D'Ariano, Giacomo Mauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The experience from Quantum Information has lead us to look at Quantum Theory (QT) and the whole Physics from a different angle. The information-theoretical paradigm---"It from Bit'---prophesied by John Archibald Wheeler is relentlessly advancing. Recently it has been shown that QT is derivable from pure informational principles. The possibility that there is only QT at the foundations of Physics has been then considered, with space-time, Relativity, quantization rules and Quantum Field Theory (QFT) emerging from a quantum-information processing. The resulting theory is a discrete version of QFT with automatic relativistic invariance, and without fields, Hamiltonian, and quantization rules. In this paper I review some recent advances on these lines. In particular: i) How space-time and relativistic covariance emerge from the quantum computation; ii) The derivation of the Dirac equation as free information flow, without imposing Lorentz covariance; iii) the information-theoretical meaning of inertial mass and Planck constant; iv) An observable consequence of the theory: a mass-dependent refraction index of vacuum. I will then conclude with two possible routes to Quantum Gravity.
description: Work presented at the conference QCMC 2010 held on 19-23 July 2010 at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Oscillations of hot, young neutron stars: Gravitational wave frequencies and damping times
Creators: name: Burgio, G. F.
name: Ferrari, V.
name: Gualtieri, L.
name: Schulze, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study how the frequencies and damping times of oscillations of a newly born, hot proto-neutron star depend on the physical quantities which characterize the star quasi-stationary evolution which follows the bounce. Stellar configurations are modeled using a microscopic equation of state obtained within the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock, nuclear many-body approach, extended to the finite-temperature regime. We discuss the mode frequency behaviour as function of the lepton composition, and of the entropy gradients which prevail in the interior of the star. We find that, in the very early stages, gravitational wave emission efficiently competes with neutrino processes in dissipating the star mechanical energy residual of the gravitational collapse.
description: 11 pages, 4 tables, 3 figures
Static conductivity of charged domain wall in uniaxial ferroelectric-semiconductors
Creators: name: Eliseev, E. A.
name: Morozovska, A. N.
name: Svechnikov, G. S.
name: Gopalan, Venkatraman
name: Shur, V. Ya.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire theory we calculated numerically the static conductivity of both inclined and counter domain walls in the uniaxial ferroelectrics-semiconductors of n-type. We used the effective mass approximation for the electron and holes density of states, which is valid at arbitrary distance from the domain wall. Due to the electrons accumulation, the static conductivity drastically increases at the inclined head-to-head wall by 1 order of magnitude for small incline angles theta pi/40 by up 3 orders of magnitude for the counter domain wall (theta=pi/2). Two separate regions of the space charge accumulation exist across an inclined tail-to-tail wall: the thin region in the immediate vicinity of the wall with accumulated mobile holes and the much wider region with ionized donors. The conductivity across the tail-to-tail wall is at least an order of magnitude smaller than the one of the head-to-head wall due to the low mobility of holes, which are improper carries. The results are in qualitative agreement with recent experimental data for LiNbO3 doped with MgO.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, 1 appendix
The distinguishing factor for gravity models: stellar population synthesis
Creators: name: Zonoozi, Akram Hasani
name: Haghi, Hosein
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Alternative gravitations of Milgrom (MOND), Moffat (MOG), and CDM scenarios all simulate rotation curves of spirals with reasonable details. They display significant disparities however in predicting the stellar mass-to-light ($M_*/L$) ratios of the galaxies. We maintain this feature could serve as a distinguishing factor between different alternative theories. We analyze the rotation curves of 46 low- and high-surface brightness galaxies and compare the resulting $M_*/L$s with the predictions of the Stellar Population Synthesis (SPS) scheme. The color-$M_*/L$ correlation obtained for MOND is consistent with predictions of SPS models. MOG does not show this consistency, and the $M_*/L$s of CDM model shows large dispersions. Furthermore, $M_*/L$ ratios of MOND with Bekenstein interpolating function favor Kroupa's initial mass function (IMF) of the SPS scheme, while those of MOND with standard and simple interpolating functions are consistent with Salpeter's IMF. Here is another indication to differentiate between different IMFs that are used in SPS context.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, accepted in A&A
Monte Carlo study of carrier-light coupling in terahertz quantum cascade lasers
Creators: name: Jirauschek, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for self-consistently including the optical cavity field into Monte Carlo-based carrier transport simulations. This approach allows for an analysis of the actual lasing operation in quantum cascade lasers, considering effects such as gain saturation and longitudinal mode competition. Simulation results for a terahertz quantum cascade laser are found to be consistent with experiment.
Subnational carbon pricing policies in British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec : economic and political factors influencing the choice of instruments to abate emissions
Creators: name: Krupa, Timothy Eugene
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: While climate change is widely considered to be one of the major challenges facing the planet today, the Government of Canada has yet to apply market-based instruments to abate greenhouse gas emissions. Canadian federalism, however, allows subnational governments to take action on climate policy. The purpose of this research is to understand why Canada’s three most populous provinces – British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec – implemented different carbon pricing policies after committing to a unified policy route under the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) in 2008. Since then, BC adopted a carbon tax; Québec followed through with their WCI commitment and now trades emissions permits with California; and, to date, Ontario has yet to price carbon. This study seeks to explain the carbon pricing instrument of choice (dependent variable) as a function of the political systems and economic structures (independent variables). The first hypothesis is that differences in provincial party systems determined different carbon pricing policies. A two-party system, for example, tends to allow right-of-centre parties to implement carbon pricing more easily, as the BC Liberals maintained support from the business community and limited the hemorrhage of disaffected conservative voters while implementing a robust carbon tax. Right-wing parties in three or multi-party systems pose a greater threat to preventing governing parties from implementing aggressive carbon pricing mechanisms, as observed in Ontario and Québec. Québec’s multi-party system permitted less aggressive action, while Ontario’s three-party situation may have played a role in preventing the ability to implement carbon pricing to date. The second hypothesis considers carbon pricing as a function of the differences in the structures of the provincial economies. BC avoided capital outflow by not trading emissions with jurisdictions that have superior potential to reduce emissions. In Ontario, the previously promised coal phase-out and a unique economic structure, including economic dependence on competitive, trade-exposed, and fragile carbon-intensive industries during a recession, and a shifting taxation landscape, prevented carbon pricing to date. In Québec, the recognized risk of capital outflow did not prevent the selection of cap-and-trade. The economic structures of each province interacted with the party systems to help determine instrument choice.
Invasion speeds for structured populations in fluctuating environments
Creators: name: Schreiber, Sebastian J.
name: Ryan, Maureen E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 92D40 (primary), 47G20 (secondary)

description: We live in a time where climate models predict future increases in environmental variability and biological invasions are becoming increasingly frequent. A key to developing effective responses to biological invasions in increasingly variable environments will be estimates of their rates of spatial spread and the associated uncertainty of these estimates. Using stochastic, stage-structured, integro-difference equation models, we show analytically that invasion speeds are asymptotically normally distributed with a variance that decreases in time. We apply our methods to a simple juvenile-adult model with stochastic variation in reproduction and an illustrative example with published data for the perennial herb, \emph{Calathea ovandensis}. These examples buttressed by additional analysis reveal that increased variability in vital rates simultaneously slow down invasions yet generate greater uncertainty about rates of spatial spread. Moreover, while temporal autocorrelations in vital rates inflate variability in invasion speeds, the effect of these autocorrelations on the average invasion speed can be positive or negative depending on life history traits and how well vital rates ``remember'' the past.
Semianalytic theory of self-similar optical propagation and mode locking using a shape-adaptive model pulse
Creators: name: Jirauschek, Christian
name: Ilday, F. Ömer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A semianalytic theory for the pulse dynamics in similariton amplifiers and lasers is presented, based on a model pulse with adaptive shape. By changing a single parameter, this test function can be continuously tweaked between a pure Gaussian and a pure parabolic profile and can even represent sech-like pulses, the shape of a soliton. This approach allows us to describe the pulse evolution in the self-similar and other regimes of optical propagation. Employing the method of moments, the evolution equations for the characteristic pulse parameters are derived from the governing nonlinear Schrödinger or Ginzburg-Landau equation. Due to its greatly reduced complexity, this description allows for extensive parameter optimization, and can aid intuitive understanding of the dynamics. As an application of this approach, we model a soliton-similariton laser and validate the results against numerical simulations. This constitutes a semianalytic model of the soliton-similariton laser. Due to the versatility of the model pulse, it can also prove useful in other application areas.
Kanata Declaration
Creators: name: Attendees Of The NDSF Summit
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: digital research infrastructure
subject: https://dictionary.casrai.org/Research_data_management
subject: https://dictionary.casrai.org/Data_management
subject: https://dictionary.casrai.org/Digital_infrastructure

description: The Kanata Declaration reflects a broad consensus from the Research Data Management (RDM) community on priorities for the data management component of the emerging DRI Strategy. The intended targets are Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED), as well as decision makers and participants in the broader research community.
title: Jack A. Comstock World War II Diary Collection
Creators: name: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Publisher: name: University Archives, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3
subject: FOS: Medical and health sciences
classificationCode: 6.1
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: USUHS Archives Finding Aid
Jack A. Comstock World War II Diary Collection
2023
Memory Estimation of Inverse Operators
Creators: name: Baskakov, Anatoly G.
name: Krishtal, Ilya A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We use methods of harmonic analysis and group rep- resentation theory to estimate memory decay of the inverse oper- ators in Banach spaces. The memory of the operators is defined using the notion of the Beurling spectrum. We obtain a general continuous non-commutative version of the celebrated Wiener's Tauberian lemma with estimates of the "Fourier coefficients" of inverse operators. In particular, we generalize various estimates of the elements of the inverse matrices. The results are illus- trated with a variety of examples including integral and integro- differential operators.
description: 52 pages
Self-gravitating interferometry and intrinsic decoherence
Creators: name: Gooding, David William Francisco
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: To investigate the possibility that an intrinsic form of gravitational decoherence can be theoretically demonstrated within canonical quantum gravity, we develop a model of a self-gravitating interferometer, and analyze the WKB regime of its reduced phase space quantization. We search for evidence in the resulting interference pattern that general relativity necessarily places limits on coherence, due to the inherent ambiguity associated with forming superpositions of geometries. We construct the "beam" of the interferometer out of WKB states for an infinitesimally thin shell of matter, and work in spherical symmetry to eliminate the occurrence of gravitational waves. For internal consistency, we encode information about the beam optics within the dynamics of the shell itself, by arranging an ideal fluid on the surface of the shell with an equation of state that enforces beam-splitting and reflections. The interferometric analysis is performed for single-mode inputs, and coherence is shown to be fully present regardless of gravitational self-interaction. Next we explore the role coordinate choices play in our description of the interferometer, by considering a family of generalized coordinate systems and their corresponding quantizations. Included in this family are the Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates, which are related to a network of infalling observers that are asymptotically at rest, and the Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, which are related to a network of infalling observers that travel at the speed of light. We then introduce another model, obtained by adding to the shell a harmonic oscillator as an internal degree of freedom. The internal oscillator evolves with respect to the local proper time of the shell, and therefore serves as a clock that ticks differently depending on the shell's position and momentum. If we focus only on the external dynamics, we must trace out the clock degree of freedom, and this results in a form of intrinsic decoherence that shares some features with a recently-proposed "universal" decoherence mechanism attributed to gravitational time dilation. We discuss some variations of this proposal, and point out a way to bootstrap the gravitational contribution to the time dilation decoherence with self-gravitation. We interpret this as a fundamentally gravitational intrinsic decoherence effect.
title: Statistisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Zürich 1905
title: Stat. Jahrb. Stadt Zür.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Stat. Jahrb. Stadt Zür.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Kommissionsverlag Rascher & Co.
Year: 1906
Subjects: subject: 314 Allgemeine Statistiken zu Europa
subject: Amtliche Statistik
subject: Bevölkerungsstatistik
subject: Wirtschaftsstatistik
subject: Baustatistik
subject: Stadtleben
subject: Zürich

description: Die in dieser Ausgabe publizierten Daten beziehen sich zum grössten Teil auf folgenden Zeitabschnitt: 1893, 1904, 1905
description: Der Stadtratsbeschluss vom 23. Juni 1906 legte den Grundstein für das statistische Jahrbuch der Stadt Zürich. Ziel war unter anderem, der Bevölkerung einen einfacheren und bequemeren Zugang zu den statistischen Daten zu verschaffen, welche bisher im städtischen Amtsblatt veröffentlicht wurden. Gleichzeitig konnte das Arbeitsgebiet des Statistischen Amtes ausgedehnt werden. So fanden die Statistik der Neubauten und der Handänderungen Platz im neuen Jahrbuch. Von Beginn an sollte das Jahrbuch kein blosses Tabellenwerk werden, sondern mit textlichen Erläuterungen angereichert sein. Um einer zu starken Verzögerung der Veröffentlichung entgegenzuwirken, fanden nicht alle ursprünglich geplanten Inhalte Einzug in die erste Ausgabe. Doch die folgenden Jahrgänge sollten inhaltlich laufend erweitert werden.
Levy preservation and associated properties for $f$-divergence minimal equivalent martingale measures
Creators: name: Cawston, S.
name: Vostrikova, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G07, 60G51, 91B24

description: We study such important properties of $f$-divergence minimal martingale measure as Levy preservation property, scaling property, invariance in time property for exponential Levy models. We give some useful decomposition for $f$-divergence minimal martingale measures and we answer on the question which form should have $f$ to ensure mentioned properties. We show that $f$ is not necessarily common $f$-divergence. For common $f$-divergences, i.e. functions verifying $f"(x) = ax^ γ,\, a>0,\, γ\in \mathbb R$, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of $f$-minimal martingale measure.
description: 30 pages, no figures
title: Statistisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Zürich 1906
title: Stat. Jahrb. Stadt Zür.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Kommissionsverlag Rascher & Co.
Year: 1907
Subjects: subject: 314 Allgemeine Statistiken zu Europa
subject: Amtliche Statistik
subject: Bevölkerungsstatistik
subject: Wirtschaftsstatistik
subject: Baustatistik
subject: Stadtleben
subject: Zürich

description: Die in dieser Ausgabe publizierten Daten beziehen sich zum grössten Teil auf folgenden Zeitabschnitt: 1906
description: Der zweite Jahrgang des Statistischen Jahrbuchs der Stadt Zürich blieb inhaltlich und vom Aufbau her mehrheitlich unverändert. So soll dem Leser der Vergleich mit dem Vorjahr vereinfacht werden. Dieser Grundsatz sollte sich über alle nachfolgenden Jahrgänge fortziehen. Trotzdem konnten bereits im zweiten Jahr neue Daten aufgenommen werden. So wurde das Werk mit den leer stehenden Wohnungen und im Bau befindlichen Gebäude von 8 Nachbarorten der Stadt Zürich erweitert.
Smart Finite State Devices: A Modeling Framework for Demand Response Technologies
Creators: name: Turitsyn, Konstantin
name: Backhaus, Scott
name: Ananyev, Maxim
name: Chertkov, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce and analyze Markov Decision Process (MDP) machines to model individual devices which are expected to participate in future demand-response markets on distribution grids. We differentiate devices into the following four types: (a) optional loads that can be shed, e.g. light dimming; (b) deferrable loads that can be delayed, e.g. dishwashers; (c) controllable loads with inertia, e.g. thermostatically-controlled loads, whose task is to maintain an auxiliary characteristic (temperature) within pre-defined margins; and (d) storage devices that can alternate between charging and generating. Our analysis of the devices seeks to find their optimal price-taking control strategy under a given stochastic model of the distribution market.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, submitted IEEE CDC 2011
Perceived attributes and dimensions of accessibility in adapted bathrooms
Creators: name: da Silva, Marcelo Benetti Correa
name: de Atayde Moschen, Suane
name: Cecatto, Brunella
name: Larentis, Fabiano
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This work aims to explore the perceived accessibility of adapted toilets according to the user’s perspective, indicating the relevance of their attributes and features for persons with reduced mobility. There are recent studies addressing accessibility, but few focus on adapted toilets, making this study of adapted toilets in Brazil unique. A total of 98 disabled users with restricted mobility and carers took part in a survey after using adapted toilets. The study sample variance resulted in 27 attributes, distributed in eight factors: accessories, transit ability, access, hydro sanitary facilities, facilities, openings, safety, and ergonomic comfort. Multiple linear regression analysis was applied to identify attributes with impact on general satisfaction. The results identified three primary attributes in terms of design, execution and improvement of the user experience. Findings demonstrate a gap between the recommended standards and what the user perceives to be important, which has ramifications for the further development of standards and the design and construction of adapted toilets. The implication is that it is necessary to pay more attention to what the users need, and thus help to improve the users’ experience, satisfaction and wellbeing.
Quantitative Modeling of PET Images in the Diagnostic Assessment of Brain and Prostate Cancer
Creators: name: Smith, Nathaniel John
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Molecular imaging (incl. electron microscopy and neutron diffraction)
Biomedical imaging
Radiology and organ imaging

description: Herein, the development, optimization, and evaluation of quantitative techniques are presented for dynamic PET studies in cancer imaging applications. Dynamic PET image analysis techniques are first applied to 18F-fluoroethyltyrosine (FET) PET imaging of glioma and brain metastasis patients. In a second application, dynamic PET image analysis techniques are applied to 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET imaging for primary prostate cancer patients. Overall, the application of dynamic PET imaging techniques supports improved clinical outcomes and enhanced clinician confidence for treatment modifications.
Hyperplane sections and the subtlety of the Lefschetz properties
Creators: name: Cook, David
name: Nagel, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13C40, 14M10, 14N99

description: The weak and strong Lefschetz properties are two basic properties that Artinian algebras may have. Both Lefschetz properties may vary under small perturbations or changes of the characteristic. We study these subtleties by proposing a systematic way of deforming a monomial ideal failing the weak Lefschetz property to an ideal with the same Hilbert function and the weak Lefschetz property. In particular, we lift a family of Artinian monomial ideals to finite level sets of points in projective space with the property that a general hyperplane section has the weak Lefschetz property in almost all characteristics, whereas a special hyperplane section does not have this property in any characteristic.
description: 9 pages
Five New and Three Improved Mutual Orbits of Transneptunian Binaries
Creators: name: Grundy, W. M.
name: Noll, K. S.
name: Nimmo, F.
name: Roe, H. G.
name: Buie, M. W.
name: Porter, S. B.
name: Benecchi, S. D.
name: Stephens, D. C.
name: Levison, H. F.
name: Stansberry, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present three improved and five new mutual orbits of transneptunian binary systems (58534) Logos-Zoe, (66652) Borasisi-Pabu, (88611) Teharonhiawako-Sawiskera, (123509) 2000 WK183, (149780) Altjira, 2001 QY297, 2003 QW111, and 2003 QY90 based on Hubble Space Telescope and Keck 2 laser guide star adaptive optics observations. Combining the five new orbit solutions with 17 previously known orbits yields a sample of 22 mutual orbits for which the period P, semimajor axis a, and eccentricity e have been determined. These orbits have mutual periods ranging from 5 to over 800 days, semimajor axes ranging from 1,600 to 37,000 km, eccentricities ranging from 0 to 0.8, and system masses ranging from 2 x 10^17 to 2 x 10^22 kg. Based on the relative brightnesses of primaries and secondaries, most of these systems consist of near equal-sized pairs, although a few of the most massive systems are more lopsided. The observed distribution of orbital properties suggests that the most loosely-bound transneptunian binary systems are only found on dynamically cold heliocentric orbits. Of the 22 known binary mutual or-bits, orientation ambiguities are now resolved for 9, of which 7 are prograde and 2 are retro-grade, consistent with a random distribution of orbital orientations, but not with models predicting a strong preference for retrograde orbits. To the extent that other perturbations are not dominant, the binary systems undergo Kozai oscillations of their eccentricities and inclinations with periods of the order of tens of thousands to millions of years, some with strikingly high amplitudes.
description: In press in Icarus, 29 pages, 5 figures, 13 tables
Generation and characterization of a lysine (K)-specific methyltransferase 2D knockout human cell line
Creators: name: Huff, Ryan Donald
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Lysine (K)-specific methyltransferase 2D (KMT2D) encodes a histone-lysine N-methyltransferase that catalyzes the methylation of histone 3 lysine 4 (H3K4me), which is an epigenetic modification involved in transcriptional regulation. KMT2D is a recurrent target of somatic mutation in at least 27 types of cancer, with the majority of KMT2D mutations (54%) predicted to result in the loss of protein function. In particular, KMT2D is mutated in ~85% of patients with follicular lymphoma, with ~50% of cases harboring multiple mutations in KMT2D. Disruption of KMT2D function has been linked to a rare pediatric disorder named Kabuki syndrome where ~75% of patients harbour heterozygous loss of function (LOF) mutations. To investigate the impact of LOF KMT2D mutations on H3K4 methylation and transcription I inactivated KMT2D using zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) technology in the human cell line HEK293A. Consistent with previous studies, HEK293 KMT2D LOF cell lines demonstrated loss of KMT2D was sufficient to reduce bulk mono- and dimethylation of H3K4 in the cell. Previous studies have demonstrated that KMT2D’s epigenetic function is involved in nuclear hormone transactivation, and that disruption of nuclear hormone signaling via the retinoic acid receptor (RAR) leads to lymphomagenesis in mouse models. To study the link between RAR signaling and KMT2D, I investigated RAR signaling in HEK293 KMT2D LOF cell lines. I observed KMT2D was necessary for robust induction of RAR response genes RARA2, RARB2, and RARG in the presence of 9-cis-retinoic acid. These results are compatible with the notion that LOF KMT2D mutations may aid cancer cells in escaping RA induced differentiation by impairing RA dependent transcription of differentiation promoting genes.
Field Course Guide Sequence Stratigraphy (Chapada Diamantina Ba): from basin fill to reservoir zonation
Creators: name: Magallhães, A.J.C
name: Raja Gabaglia, G.P.
name: Fragoso, D.G.C.
name: Guadagnin, F.
name: Lima-Filho, F.P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Chapada Diamantina
High-resolution sequence stratigraphy
Field guide

description: Field Course Guide Sequence Stratigraphy (Chapada Diamantina Ba): from basin fill to reservoir zonation. Avaliable in English and Portuguese versions.
4. A Digital Exploration of 16th-Century Heretical Networks in the Italian Medical Context:  Methodological Challenges and Research Perspectives
Creators: name: Celati, Alessandra
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: After the Reformation began in 1517, Protestant ideas soon crossed the Alps and spread out of Italian cities, fascinating (especially, but not exclusively) the humanists and scholars who were part of the late-Renaissance intellectual environment. In particular, between the 1530s and the 1590s a great number of Italian physicians absorbed, promoted, and re-elaborated, often in radical terms, the reformed and heretical discourse.

In this article I am presenting some research perspectives and methodological challenges concerning the application of social network research and digital humanities tools to the history of 16th-century religious dissent. In particular, I will discuss and examine the reconstruction, out of a sample of 200 cases, of a network of dissident physicians who faced religious repression and opposed dogmatic confessional boundaries in Italy, and in their European diaspora, as a part of my own ongoing interdisciplinary research.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 14 (2018)
A class of dust-like self-similar solutions of the massless Einstein-Vlasov system
Creators: name: Rendall, Alan D.
name: Velazquez, Juan J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper the existence of a class of self-similar solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov system is proved. The initial data for these solutions are not smooth, with their particle density being supported in a submanifold of codimension one. They can be thought of as intermediate between smooth solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov system and dust. The motivation for studying them is to obtain insights into possible violation of weak cosmic censorship by solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov system. By assuming a suitable form of the unknowns it is shown that the existence question can be reduced to that of the existence of a certain type of solution of a four-dimensional system of ordinary differential equations depending on two parameters. This solution starts at a particular point $P_0$ and converges to a stationary solution $P_1$ as the independent variable tends to infinity. The existence proof is based on a shooting argument and involves relating the dynamics of solutions of the four-dimensional system to that of solutions of certain two- and three-dimensional systems obtained from it by limiting processes.
description: 47 pages
Diet and Exercise for FRAILty (DEFRAIL):The effect of a standardised exercise and nutritional intervention on clinical and biochemical markers of frailty in older adults
Creators: name: Bambrick, Pádraig
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110321 Rehabilitation and Therapy (excl. Physiotherapy)
subject: 110602 Exercise Physiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110317 Physiotherapy

description: Introduction: Frailty in older adults is a growing challenge. There is now an evidence base for the role of exercise and protein supplementation in counteracting frailty, but this has not been adequately translated into practice.
Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study, Diet & Exercise for FRAILty (DEFRAIL), was to develop an effective intervention suitable for widespread uptake. Our first objective was to design an intervention suitable for a wide spectrum of older adults and deliverable in a community setting. The second was to evaluate its effect on frailty and related measures.
Methods: A modified Delphi process was conducted to develop a draft program, followed by a pilot trial with pre-frail participants. The final intervention (an eightweek program of multicomponent exercise and protein-supplemented milk) was evaluated in a single-group pre-test/post-test study. The primary outcome measure was the Fried frailty criteria (FFC), along with a range of secondary outcome measures. Comparison of change scores over the control period (regular activity) and intervention period (DEFRAIL program) allowed estimation of the treatment effect.
Results: 22 participants (16 females, 6 males) completed the intervention (mean age 84.5 years, mean FFC 3.55 prior to the intervention). An improvement of -2.05 points was observed in the mean FFC, along with improvements of -3.19 seconds in the mean Timed Up & Go and -1.41 points in the mean Geriatric Depression Scale (Short Form) score. No significant change was observed for measures of body mass composition, arterial stiffness, cognition, pain or quality-of-life. Dietary analysis demonstrated increased protein and Vitamin D intake but not carbohydrate or energy intake.
Conclusion: Our preliminary results suggest that the DEFRAIL program is feasible to deliver in an integrated setting and effective at reducing frailty. Given the growing prevalence of frailty, we feel there is an urgent need to incorporate an intervention such as this into public health policy.
A multi-scale multi-frequency deconvolution algorithm for synthesis imaging in radio interferometry
Creators: name: Rau, Urvashi
name: Cornwell, Tim J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims : We describe MS-MFS, a multi-scale multi-frequency deconvolution algorithm for wide-band synthesis-imaging, and present imaging results that illustrate the capabilities of the algorithm and the conditions under which it is feasible and gives accurate results. Methods : The MS-MFS algorithm models the wide-band sky-brightness distribution as a linear combination of spatial and spectral basis functions, and performs image-reconstruction by combining a linear-least-squares approach with iterative $χ^2$ minimization. This method extends and combines the ideas used in the MS-CLEAN and MF-CLEAN algorithms for multi-scale and multi-frequency deconvolution respectively, and can be used in conjunction with existing wide-field imaging algorithms. We also discuss a simpler hybrid of spectral-line and continuum imaging methods and point out situations where it may suffice. Results : We show via simulations and application to multi-frequency VLA data and wideband EVLA data, that it is possible to reconstruct both spatial and spectral structure of compact and extended emission at the continuum sensitivity level and at the angular resolution allowed by the highest sampled frequency.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
title:  Intensive Workshop on Power, Trauma and Grading for Online Campus Community at the Columbia University School of Social Work
Creators: name: Marquart, Matthea S.
name: Baez, Johanna C.
name: Garay, Kristin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Social work education
Web-based instruction
Distance education
Grading and marking (Students)
Psychic trauma
Classroom environment--Social aspects

description: An intensive workshop on power, trauma, and grading was provided as a pre-semester professional development training for the Online Campus community at the Columbia University School of Social Work on power, trauma, and grading. This innovative 6-hour online workshop over two days was created in response to instructor and student feedback around online classroom power dynamics and grading challenges. The workshop covered the following three topics: power dynamics in classrooms, trauma-informed teaching and learning, and how to implement trauma-informed grading practices. The live online workshop was highly interactive, with opportunities for participants to share experiences and ask questions to enhance teaching and learning with the Online Campus. The training used scholarly literature and classroom examples to adapt innovative ideas on power dynamic models (French & Raven, 1959; Raven, 1964) and trauma-informed teaching frameworks (Carello & Butler, 2015) with the overall goal of removing possible barriers to learning in online courses. This combination of ideas is unique and a contribution to the field of teaching and learning, as these models have not yet been combined and applied to online education. The workshop overviewed the literature and frameworks on the above models and provided opportunities for participants to adapt these ideas to their online teaching and grading practices. Challenging classroom moments around power, trauma, and grading were explored and tools provided for addressing different situations. The downloadable materials include the following: (1) Workshop slides: a. Slides day 1: Introduction and power dynamics in classrooms b. Slides day 1: Trauma-informed teaching and learning c. Slides day 2: Challenging classroom moments and power, trauma, and grading d. Slides day 2: Grading in the Canvas learning management system and trauma-informed teaching (2) Handout on trauma informed teaching and learning examples
2. L’Antiquité tardive à l’épreuve du genre
Creators: name: Kerneis, Soazick
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: De plus en plus s’impose la conviction que l’image du corps est une construction sociale et comme telle fonde une certaine représentation de la différenciation sexuelle. Appliqué à la matière historique, la question sera de savoir si un concept aussi contemporain que celui du genre peut aider à la compréhension de sociétés dont les valeurs sont étrangères aux nôtres. C’est le monde romain qui m’occupera ici, car la problématique du genre y rencontre la pesanteur de la norme juridique. La personne à Rome est un acteur qui joue son rôle dans la Cité, un rôle conditionné par l’appartenance sexuelle. D'où la prémière section: « L’identité sexuelle comme paramètre de la personne dans l’espace public ». Si l’identité sexuelle est affaire de pouvoir, on peut se poser la question de savoir ce que devient la division des sexes lorsque les cadres politiques de la cité vacillent. En reprenant le titre de l’ouvrage de Judith Butler, nous traiterons en second lieu « Du trouble dans le genre ». L’avènement des royaumes dits barbares introduit dans un univers modélisé par Rome d’autres façons de penser le rapport entre les sexes. C’est ce qui nous retiendra dans un troisième temps: « Les représentations du genre dans les royaumes dits barbares ».
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 14 (2018)
Interval Linear Algebra
Creators: name: Kandasamy, W. B. Vasantha
name: Smarandache, Florentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15XX, 20XX

description: In this book we use only special types of intervals and introduce the notion of different types of interval linear algebras and interval vector spaces using the intervals of the form [0, a] where the intervals are from Zn or Z+ \cup {0} or Q+ \cup {0} or R+ \cup {0}. A systematic development is made starting from set interval vector spaces to group interval vector spaces. Vector spaces are taken as interval polynomials or interval matrices or just intervals over suitable sets or semigroups or groups. Main feature of this book is the authors have given over 350 examples. This book has six chapters. Chapter one is introductory in nature. Chapter two introduces the notion of set interval linear algebras of type one and two. Set fuzzy interval linear algebras and their algebras and their properties are discussed in chapter three. Chapter four introduces several types of interval linear bialgebras and bivector spaces and studies them. The possible applications are given in chapter five. Chapter six suggests nearly 110 problems of all levels.
description: 247 pages