cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Zylindrischer Linearmotor mit konzentrierten Wicklungen für hohe Kräfte
Creators: name: Wegener, Ralf
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Synchronlinearmotor
subject: Linearmotor
subject: Feldberechnung
subject: Sensor
subject: Mathematisches Modell
subject: Simulation
subject: 620

description: Die hier vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung und Auslegung einer zylindrisch aufgebauten permanenterregten Synchronlinearmaschine. Die Besonderheit der vorgestellten Maschine ist das neuartige Statorkonzept, bei dem die Spulen nicht in solenoiden Wicklungen, sondern als diskrete Einzelspulen angeordnet sind. Diese Spulen sind auf flussführenden Kernen radial um den zylindrischen Läufer herum angeordnet und in Gruppen zu je acht Spulen auf eine Phase des Drehstromsystems geschaltet. Zur Homogenisierung des Flusses im Luftspalt sind die Kerne jeder Spulengruppe mit einem Eisenring verbunden. Dieser besondere Aufbau des Stators ermöglicht eine sehr einfache und kostengünstige Herstellung der Spulen, da diese außerhalb des Motors gefertigt werden und erst zur Endmontage aufgeschoben werden können. Der Läufer des Linearmotors besteht aus einem Eisenrohr, auf das radial magnetisierte ringförmige Magnete aufgeschoben werden. Eine Verklebung oder Laminierung ist nicht erforderlich. Sowohl Läufer als auch Stator der vorgestellten Maschine werden nicht geblecht, was wiederum einen Kostenvorteil gegenüber anderen Konstruktionen darstellt. Zur Berechnung der Motorkraft wird sowohl ein einfaches analytisches Modell abgeleitet, als auch die numerische Feldberechnung verwendet. Mit Hilfe dieser Methoden wird anschließend die Konstruktion des Motors und die Auslegung der einzelnen Komponenten optimiert. Dabei wird ein Schwerpunkt auf die Maximierung der Schubkraft bei gleichzeitiger Minimierung der Rastkräfte gelegt. Für die Regelung des Motors wird ein Servoumrichter verwendet, wozu ein Positionssensor entwickelt wird, der den besonderen konstruktiven Aufbau des Motors ausnutzt. In diesem Zusammenhang wird ein mathematisches Modell des Linearmotors abgeleitet, um das Regelverhalten des Motors zu simulieren. Zur Verifikation der Motorkonstruktion und der aufgestellten Modelle wird ein Prototyp aufgebaut und umfassend vermessen. Die Messungen haben gezeigt, dass alle zu Beginn der Arbeit gestellten Anforderungen hervorragend erreicht wurden. Die angestrebte Schubkraft des Motors von 500 Newton wird nahezu über den gesamten Verfahrbereich erreicht. Die Simulationsergebnisse der entwickelten mathematischen Modelle erreichen eine gute Übereinstimmung mit den Messdaten.
Radiative $h_{c/b}$ decays to $η$ or $η^\prime$
Creators: name: Zhu, Ruilin
name: Dai, Jian-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent measurements of the radiative decay rates of the \emph{P}-wave spin singlet charmonium $h_c$ to the light meson $η$ or $η^\prime$ by the BESIII Collaboration, we investigate the decay rates of these channels at order $αα_s^4$. The photon is radiated mainly from charm quark pairs in the lowest order Feynman diagrams, since the diagrams where a photon radiated from light quarks are suppressed by $α_s$ or the relative charm quark velocity $v$, due to Charge parity conservation. The form factors of two gluons to $η$ or $η^\prime$ are employed, which are the major mechanism for $η$ and $η^\prime$ productions. $η(η^\prime)$ is treated as a light cone object when we consider that the parent charmonium mass is much heavier than that of the final light meson. We obtain the branching ratio ${\cal B}(h_c\to γη^\prime) = (1.94^{+0.70}_{-0.51})\times 10^{-3}$ in the nonrelativistic QCD approach, which is in agreement with the BESIII measurement. The prediction of the branching ratio of $h_c\to γη$ is also within the range of experimental error after including the larger uncertainty of the total decay width $Γ_{h_c}$. The applications of these formulae to the radiative decays to $η(η^\prime)$ of the \emph{P}-wave spin singlet bottomonium $h_b(nP)$ are presented. These studies will shed some light on the $η- η^\prime$ mixing effects, the flavor SU(3) symmetry breaking, as well as the nonperturbative dynamics of charmonium and bottomonium.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, and 1 table;To appear in Physical Review D
The Asymptotically Safe Standard Model: From quantum gravity to dynamical chiral symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Pastor-Gutiérrez, Álvaro
name: Pawlowski, Jan M.
name: Reichert, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive non-perturbative study of the phase structure of the asymptotically safe Standard Model. The physics scales included range from the asymptotically safe trans-Planckian regime in the ultraviolet, the intermediate high-energy regime with electroweak symmetry breaking to strongly correlated QCD in the infrared. All flows are computed with a self-consistent functional renormalisation group approach, using a vertex expansion in the fluctuation fields. In particular, this approach takes care of all physical threshold effects and the respective decoupling of ultraviolet degrees of freedom. Standard Model and gravity couplings and masses are fixed by their experimental low energy values. Importantly, we accommodate for the difference between the top pole mass and its Euclidean analogue. Both, the correct mass determination and the threshold effects have a significant impact on the qualitative properties, and in particular on the stability properties of the specific ultraviolet-infrared trajectory with experimental Standard Model physics in the infrared. We show that in the present rather advanced approximation the matter part of the asymptotically safe Standard Model has the same number of relevant parameters as the Standard Model, and is asymptotically free. This result is based on the novel UV fixed point found in the present work: the fixed point Higgs potential is flat but has two relevant directions. These results and their analysis are accompanied by a thorough discussion of the systematic error of the present truncation, also important for systematic improvements.
description: 41 pages, 19 figures. v3: summary of approximations and suggestions from referees v2: discussion of full eigenfunctions of fixed point solution added in Section V, typos corrected, citations added
Encouraging community participation in bushfire preparedness : the role of the Municipal Fire Prevention Officer
Creators: name: Whelan, Michael.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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On depth zero L-packets for classical groups
Creators: name: Lust, Jaime
name: Stevens, Shaun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22F50

description: By computing reducibility points of parabolically induced representations, we construct, to within at most two unramified quadratic characters, the Langlands parameter of an arbitrary depth zero irreducible cuspidal representation $π$ of a classical group (which may be not-quasi-split) over a nonarchimedean local field of odd residual characteristic. From this, we can explicitly describe all the irreducible cuspidal representations in the union of one, two, or four L-packets, containing $π$. These results generalize the work of DeBacker-Reeder (in the case of classical groups) from regular to arbitrary tame Langlands parameters.
description: 36 pages
Malaria in Pregnancy in Three Woredas of East Shoa
Creators: name: Taffa, Negussie
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 1994

description: A cross-sectiona l, community based study of malaria was condu c t ed from September-December 1993 , in an un stab l e ma laria endemi c area in Eastern Shoa , Ethiopia, to determine the prevalence and document the c l inical features and treatment responses in pregnant and non pregnant women. A total of 1,767 women were studied. Ninety (11.3%) pregnant and 63{6.6%) non pregnant women were found to have malaria parasitemi a (P=O.OOl). The rate in primigravidae was hi gher than in multigravidae, 212(12.24%) and 31 4{11 .4%) respectively, though the difference was not sta ti stical ly s igni ficant. Overa ll Plasmodial prevalence showed 49.7% Plasmodium v i vax and 50.3% Plasmodium falciparum. Mean gestat ional age o f the pregnant women was 21.09± 10.2 weeks wi th Peak malari a parasitemia around mid- pregnancy. Maj ority of cases were symptomatic during diagnosis and symptoms were not different between pregnant and non pregnant. Conjun ct i va l pallor was more documented in pregnant than in non pregnant (OR = 3.04, 95% CI.1.47,6 . 33). Mean haematocrit in the pregnant was 30.3± 4.6% a nd 33.4± 6.8% in the non pregnant (P= 0.000 1) . Primigravidae showed lower haematocrit va lues a nd higher mean parasite counts when compared to multigravidae (P =0.03 and 0.06 respectively). Mean asexual malaria parasite count was 6, 561± 5,259/micro litter of blood and 4,598± 4,275/micro litter of b l ood in pregnant and non pregnant respectively (P= 0.01). ix Clinical responses in both groups were not signi f icantly different. Findings are discussed and recommendations made regarding future studies.
Assessment of Radiation exposure of Diagnostic x-rays among Patients and Personnel
Creators: name: Tesfahun, Alemu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2005

description: Background: Medical diagnostic radiation is manmade sources of exposure in medical practices. Ionizing radiation yields known health hazard that may vary from skin burn to cancer or death. In Ethiopia, health facilities are growing in number with the increasing facility of radiology services. However, the number of personnel, the provision of spare part of machine, quality assurance and other aspect has not grown with demand of safety. Objectives: The study was designed to assess the status of radiation exposure due to diagnostic xrays among patients and personnel. Methods: Cross-sectional study was carried out in 43 functional diagnostic x-ray institutions from January to February 2005 in Addis Ababa. A total of 215 patients who were examined for chest posterior-anterior (PA) were randomly selected. In addition, all radiology personnel who had dose report of the year 2004 were the study subjects. National Radiation Protection Authority completed radiation surveillance and quality control records of institutions were also considered. Results: The mean (SD) skin entrance dose of patients was 1.877(1.546) mSv. Out of the total 215 patients, 206(95.8%) of patients' shallow dose and 191(88.8%) patients entrance deep dose were greater than 0.4mSv. The annual mean (SD) skin entrance dose for radiology personnel was found to be 0.407(0.225) mSv. According to records analysis of the National Radiation Protection Authority quality control, 15(19.2%), 13(16.7%) and 17(21.8%) of institutions machines were deviated with in unacceptable range in their generator voltage, the machines timer and, their collimation and beam alignment respectively. Multi variate analysis indicated that exposure setting v i i i greater than 25mAS [OR= 3.141; 95% CI = (1.170-8.432)] had impact on patients' received dose to be high. Conclusion: Adult patients examined for chest-PA entrance dose was abnormally high. Thus, great efforts will be expected from different sectors of the country in order to bring the patients received dose for specified radiological procedure to minimum level.
title: Pilot und Autopilot
title: Unmittelbare intentionale und inzidentelle Anpassungen von Bewegungen an Veränderungen der visumotorischen Verstärkung
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sülzenbrück, Sandra
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Psychomotorik
subject: Werkzeuggebrauch
subject: Visumotorische Transformationen
subject: Implizites Lernen
subject: Explizites Wissen
subject: Intentionale Bewegungsanpassungen
subject: Inzidentelle Bewegungsanpassungen
subject: Visuelle Wahrnehmung
subject: Anpassung
subject: 150

description: Bei der Benutzung einer Computermaus muss der Nutzer das Verhältnis zwischen der wahrgenommenen Weite der Cursorbewegung auf dem Monitor und der Weite der Handbewegung, den sogenannten Verstärkungsfaktor, in die Bewegungsplanung einbeziehen. In der Literatur wird beschrieben, dass Menschen ihre Bewegungen an Veränderungen dieses visumotorischen Verstärkungsfaktors anpassen können, ohne diese Veränderung und ihre Bewegungsanpassung daran zu bemerken. Diese nicht intendierte Bewegungsanpassung wird als inzidentelle Anpassung bezeichnet. In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll geklärt werden, welche Auswirkung die Information über das Auftreten einer nur mit geringer Wahrscheinlichkeit bemerkten Verstärkungsänderung und eine daraus resultierende intentionale Bewegungsanpassung auf diese inzidentelle Anpassung hat. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass bei angezeigter Veränderung des visumotorischen Verstärkungsverhältnisses sowohl intentionale als auch inzidentelle Anpassungsprozesse auftraten. Die Größe der Anpassung unter dieser Bedingung entsprach der Summe der durch die intentionalen und inzidentellen Prozesse separat ausgelösten Bewegungsanpassungen. Diese Additivität beider Anpassungsprozesse konnte auch dann gezeigt werden, wenn intentionale und inzidentelle Prozesse entgegengesetzt gerichtet waren. Aus diesen Ergebnissen kann geschlussfolgert werden, dass intentionale und inzidentelle Anpassungsprozesse an eine Veränderung der visumotorischen Verstärkung parallel ablaufen und additiv zur Entstehung der Gesamtanpassung zusammenwirken. Während sich die inzidentellen Prozesse durch eine geringe interindividuelle Varianz auszeichneten, zeigten sich in der intentionalen Anpassung große interindividuelle Unterschiede. Das Auftreten von gleich großen Nacheffekten der Verstärkungsänderung bei über die Verstärkungsänderung informierten und nicht informierten Versuchspersonen läßt darauf schließen, dass es sich bei der inzidentellen Anpassung um den Erwerb eines inneren Modells der Transformation handelt, während die intentionale Anpassung nicht zu Modi fikationen der intern repräsentierten visumotorischen Transformation führt.
Bedeutungsgruppen unter den Substantiven nach der Nominalform ma/iqtāl mit Pluralformen nach ma/iqtallîm/ôt im Althebräischen
Creators: name: Soden, Wolfram Von
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Althebraistik
Year: 1970

description: Zeitschrift für Althebraistik, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (1988): Zeitschrift für Althebraistik, Band 1, Heft 1
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu
Creators: name: Correia, Sergio
name: Luck, Stephan
name: Verner, Emil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We study the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on mortality and economic activity across U.S. cities during the 1918 Flu Pandemic. The combination of fast and stringent NPIs reduced peak mortality by 50% and cumulative excess mortality by 24% to 34%. However, while the pandemic itself was associated with short-run economic disruptions, we find that these disruptions were similar across cities with strict and lenient NPIs. NPIs also did not worsen medium-run economic outcomes. Our findings indicate that NPIs can reduce disease transmission without further depressing economic activity, a finding also reflected in discussions in contemporary newspapers.
The Lyman-alpha luminosity function at z=5.7-6.6 and the steep drop of the faint end: implications for reionization
Creators: name: Santos, Sérgio
name: Sobral, David
name: Matthee, Jorryt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new results from the widest narrow band survey search for Lyman-alpha (Lya) emitters at z=5.7, just after reionization. We survey a total of 7 deg$^2$ spread over the COSMOS, UDS and SA22 fields. We find over 11,000 line emitters, out of which 514 are robust Lya candidates at z=5.7 within a volume of 6.3x10$^6$ Mpc$^3$. Our Lya emitters span a wide range in Lya luminosities, from faint to bright (L$_{\rm Lyα}\sim10^{42.5-44}$ erg s$^{-1}$) and rest-frame equivalent widths (EW$_0$~25-1000 Å) in a single, homogeneous data-set. By combining all our fields we find that the faint end slope of the z=5.7 Lya luminosity function is very steep, with $α=-2.3^{+0.4}_{-0.3}$. We also present an updated z=6.6 Lya luminosity function, based on comparable volumes and obtained with the same methods, which we directly compare with that at z=5.7. We find a significant decline of the number density of faint Lya emitters from z=5.7 to z=6.6 (by $0.5\pm0.1$ dex), but no evolution at the bright end/no evolution in L*. Faint Lya emitters at z=6.6 show much more extended haloes than those at z=5.7, suggesting that neutral Hydrogen plays an important role, increasing the scattering and leading to observations missing faint Lya emission within the epoch of reionization. All together, our results suggest that we are observing patchy reionization which happens first around the brightest Lya emitters, allowing the number densities of those sources to remain unaffected by the increase of neutral Hydrogen fraction from z~5 to z~7.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
AddictionScience2023.pdf
Creators: name: Lent, Michelle R.
name: Dugosh, Karen L.
name: Callahan, Hannah
name: Hurstak, Emily
name: Mazur, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Health Research Alliance
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical psychology

description: Data capture and statistical approach All study data were collected and managed using REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) hosted at the University of Pennsylvania [15]. Descriptive statistics were calculated to characterize the sample at study entry and to generate prevalence rates for lifetime suicidal ideation and attempts. Next, a series of bivariate correlations were calculated between each of the binary suicide-related response variables (i.e., lifetime ideation, lifetime attempts) and clinical and demographic factors that may be associated with suicidality (age, education completed [years], gender identity [male/female with additional responses added for non-binary, etc.], race [White, Black, Other], ethnicity, years of heroin use and other opioid use, lifetime history of depression or anxiety [yes/no], physical and/or sexual abuse [yes/no], presence of a chronic pain-related condition [yes/no], parole/ probation [yes/no], days worked [past 30 days], and lifetime years of daily use of more than one substance [including alcohol]). Finally, a series of logistic regression analyses were performed to predict each of the suicide related binary response variables.
Restricted universal groups for right-angled buildings
Creators: name: Bossaert, Jens
name: De Medts, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51E24, 22F50, 22D05

description: In 2000, Marc Burger and Shahar Mozes introduced universal groups acting on trees. Such groups provide interesting examples of totally disconnected locally compact groups. Intuitively, these are the largest groups for which all local actions satisfy a prescribed behavior. Since then, their study has evolved in various directions. In particular, Adrien Le Boudec has studied restricted universal groups, where the prescribed behavior is allowed to be violated in a finite number of vertices. On the other hand, we have been studying universal groups acting on right-angled buildings, a class of geometric objects with a much more general structure than trees. The aim of the current paper is to combine both ideas: we will study restricted universal groups acting on right-angled buildings. We show several permutational and topological properties of those groups, with as main result a precise criterion for when these groups are simple.
description: 25 pages
Chimney retractions in affine buildings encode orbits in affine flag varieties
Creators: name: Milićević, Elizabeth
name: Schwer, Petra
name: Thomas, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E42 (Primary), 05E45, 14M15, 20G25, 51E24 (Secondary)

description: This paper determines the relationship between the geometry of retractions and the combinatorics of folded galleries for arbitrary affine buildings, and so provides a unified framework to study orbits in affine flag varieties. We introduce the notion of labeled folded galleries for any affine building X and use these to describe the preimages of chimney retractions. When X is the building for a group with an affine Tits system, such as the Bruhat-Tits building for a group over a local field, we can then relate labeled folded galleries and shadows to double coset intersections in affine flag varieties. This result generalizes the authors' previous joint work with Naqvi on groups over function fields.
description: 32 pages, 5 figures best viewed in color; final version to appear in Innov. Incidence Geom. (special volume in memory of Jacques Tits)
Evaluation of Mini Nutritional Assessment tool among Elderly population in Yeka Sub city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Agachew, Mesfin
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Background: Malnutrition is the most important determinant factor for elders on their general health and quality of life. Eventhogh the life expectancy of Ethiopian elders is increasing; there was no valid tool to assess the nutritional status of elders. Body Mass Index (BMI) may be unreliable to assess the nutritional status of elders if used as single measurement. Mini nutritional assessment (MNA) tool is the most widely used and noninvasive tool to assess the nutritional status of elders. MNA tool was not validated and practiced for intervention in Ethiopian elderly population. Objective: To evaluate the reliability and validity of mini nutritional assessment tool among elders in Yeka sub city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Method: Community based cross sectional study was conducted among 506 elders. Two stage cluster sampling method and systematic random sampling technique was employed to address study subjects. The reliability and validity of the MNA tool and MNA-SF were evaluated against BMI. A modified short Mini Nutritional Assessment (MS-MNA) tool was derived by a principal component analysis. The items to create MS-MNA were derived from the full MNA tool and appetite assessment tool. Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and cut off point were evaluated to determine validity of full MNA and MS-MNA. The reliability also assessed using Cronbaches α coefficient. Criterion-related validity of the MNA tool was evaluated computing the correlation between total MNA score and single anthropometric measurements. Youden index used to determine best cut of points for MNA and MS-MNA tool. Result: The mean MNA score was 19.9± 4.5. Cronbaches α value of full MNA tool was found 0.7.The overall accuracy of full MNA was 91% (95 % CI, 87.5%--94.9%, p< 0.001). The sensitivity and specificity of full MNA tool using established cut of point was 87.9% and 89.6% respectively. Using Youden index the best cut of point to detect malnourished and risk of malnutrition was found 16 with sensitivity 90.4% and specificity 86.8%. Cronbaches α value of MS-MNA tool was found 0.71. The overall accuracy of MS-MNA was found 87 %( 95%CI, 0.837-0.910, p<0.001). Using Youden index the best cut of point was 14.5 with sensitivity and specificity of 80% and 80.2% respectively. Conclusion: Full MNA tool was valid and reliable to identify elders as malnourished, at risk of malnutrition and well-nourished with modulation of cut of points. The MS-MNA tool was also reliable and valid nutritional assessment tool. However, the short MNA tool was not valid and reliable in this study. Further research is recommended to validate the MS-MNA tool against biochemical markers.
title: Ion Channels Orchestrate Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Progression and Therapy
Creators: name: Hofschröer, Verena
name: Najder, Karolina
name: Rugi, Micol
name: Bouazzi, Rayhana
name: Cozzolino, Marco
name: Arcangeli, Annarosa
name: Panyi, Gyorgy
name: Schwab, Albrecht
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a devastating disease with a dismal prognosis. Therapeutic interventions are largely ineffective. A better understanding of the pathophysiology is required. Ion channels contribute substantially to the "hallmarks of cancer." Their expression is dysregulated in cancer, and they are "misused" to drive cancer progression, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Ion channels are located in the cell membrane at the interface between the intracellular and extracellular space. They sense and modify the tumor microenvironment which in itself is a driver of PDAC aggressiveness. Ion channels detect, for example, locally altered proton and electrolyte concentrations or mechanical stimuli and transduce signals triggered by these microenvironmental cues through association with intracellular signaling cascades. While these concepts have been firmly established for other cancers, evidence has emerged only recently that ion channels are drivers of PDAC aggressiveness. Particularly, they appear to contribute to two of the characteristic PDAC features: the massive fibrosis of the tumor stroma (desmoplasia) and the efficient immune evasion. Our critical review of the literature clearly shows that there is still a remarkable lack of knowledge with respect to the contribution of ion channels to these two typical PDAC properties. Yet, we can draw parallels from ion channel research in other fibrotic and inflammatory diseases. Evidence is accumulating that pancreatic stellate cells express the same "profibrotic" ion channels. Similarly, it is at least in part known which major ion channels are expressed in those innate and adaptive immune cells that populate the PDAC microenvironment. We explore potential therapeutic avenues derived thereof. Since drugs targeting PDAC-relevant ion channels are already in clinical use, we propose to repurpose those in PDAC. The quest for ion channel targets is both motivated and complicated by the fact that some of the relevant channels, for example, KCa3.1, are functionally expressed in the cancer, stroma, and immune cells. Only in vivo studies will reveal which arm of the balance we should put our weights on when developing channel-targeting PDAC therapies. The time is up to explore the efficacy of ion channel targeting in (transgenic) murine PDAC models before launching clinical trials with repurposed drugs.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
Das Bedeutungspotential der Afformativkonjugation - zum sprachgeschichtlichen Hintergrund des Althebräischen
Creators: name: Müller, Hans-Peter
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Althebraistik
Year: 1970

description: Zeitschrift für Althebraistik, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (1988): Zeitschrift für Althebraistik, Band 1, Heft 1
CRISI-ADAPT II: Climate services description
Creators: name: Monjo, R
name: Paradinas, C
name: Prado, C
name: Redolat, D
name: Gaitan, E
name: Rivera, A
name: de Diego, E
name: Torres, I
name: Russo, B
name: Paindelli, A
name: Bojic, O
name: Skouroupathi, M
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Climate
Climate change
Climate services
Climate adaptation
CBA
Statistical downscaling
Urban flooding
Hydrological drought

description: The main CRISI-ADAPT II product is a holistic-based decision-support tool that is offered as a specialised climate service to validate adaptation planning and operations. This tool consists of two modules, the Climate Risk Information Tool (CRIT) and the Monitoring Extreme Events Tool (MEET). These modules enable end-users to improve their decisions to face climate-related impacts with adaptation planning or to identify new opportunities for improving efficiency in their operations. This tool offers several services that are included in what was budgeted to be developed during CRISI-ADAPT II project, but has the potential to include some others that could be developed specifically under request. CRISI-ADAPT II consortium has also the potential to offer different more advanced climate services if needed. All of this can be consulted in the attached PDF file at this post.
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Public participation and constraints on decision making for conservation and development in the Dandenong Ranges
Creators: name: Boekel, Con.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Regularity-Constrained Fast Sine Transforms
Creators: name: Suzuki, Taizo
name: Kyochi, Seisuke
name: Tanaka, Yuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This letter proposes a fast implementation of the regularity-constrained discrete sine transform (R-DST). The original DST \textit{leaks} the lowest frequency (DC: direct current) components of signals into high frequency (AC: alternating current) subbands. This property is not desired in many applications, particularly image processing, since most of the frequency components in natural images concentrate in DC subband. The characteristic of filter banks whereby they do not leak DC components into the AC subbands is called \textit{regularity}. While an R-DST has been proposed, it has no fast implementation because of the singular value decomposition (SVD) in its internal algorithm. In contrast, the proposed regularity-constrained fast sine transform (R-FST) is obtained by just appending a regularity constraint matrix as a postprocessing of the original DST. When the DST size is $M\times M$ ($M=2^\ell$, $\ell\in\mathbb{N}_{\geq 1}$), the regularity constraint matrix is constructed from only $M/2-1$ rotation matrices with the angles derived from the output of the DST for the constant-valued signal (i.e., the DC signal). Since it does not require SVD, the computation is simpler and faster than the R-DST while keeping all of its beneficial properties. An image processing example shows that the R-FST has fine frequency selectivity with no DC leakage and higher coding gain than the original DST. Also, in the case of $M=8$, the R-FST saved approximately $0.126$ seconds in a 2-D transformation of $512\times 512$ signals compared with the R-DST because of fewer extra operations.
Mapping future flood and heat disadvantage in Great Britain: An analysis of the current state of adaptation policies in projected hotspots at a local scale
Creators: name: Kuhl, Melanie M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Climate Change, Climate Justice, Adaptation State, Climate Action, Great Britain, Flood Risk, Heat Disadvantage, Mapping

description: Climate change impacts are not distributed equally or fairly (“just”) and the need to focus adaptation efforts on socially vulnerable communities is increasingly recognized. This paper identifies and maps the top 30 heat and flood disadvantaged British local authorities using open-source data and it investigates the status of and reasons for lack of adaptation actions based on a literature review. The results indicated relatively high to acute heat risks for the urban areas and high to extreme flood risks to numerous local authorities across Great Britain. While most authorities had climate action plans in place, the overall performance scores were low, only half had adaptation plans, and they lacked evidence on implementation. Funding and possibly knowledge gaps were identified as limiting factors and barriers to adaptation. These results suggest that British local authorities not only need more adaptation plans, but they also need to implement them and monitor their success. This research can assist policy makers during the adaptation planning process by allocating financial resources to those in need, with the goal to increase their resilience to future climate change impacts.
description: A research paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Environmental Practice.
Effect of school feeding program on anemia and stunting among primary school children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; a quasi experimental study
Creators: name: Tadesse, Kidist
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Background: School feeding is the Provision of meal at school with a primary objective of alleviating short-term hunger, reducing malnutrition and improving child survival. Prevalence of Stunting and anemia are high in children living in urban slums. In Ethiopia the burden of anaemia is the most common nutritional deficiency as in many developing countries. Stunting is a problem of high public health importance with major unenthusiastic health and societal impacts in the developing world .School meals should be designed to improve the nutrient intake and Nutritional status of beneficiaries. Objective; The study aimed at evaluating the effect of school feeding programs on anemia and stunting levels among beneficiaries and on evaluating meals for adequacy in nutrient contribution. Method; a quasi-experimental study was conducted among primary school children enrolled in governmental primary schools in Addis Ababa Ethiopia from April to May 2018.Samples were selected by simple random sampling . To assess the portion size and nutrient contribution of the school meal Weighed food record method was used. Hemoglobin was determined by a haemoglobin meter (HemoCue AB). Height for age index was computed from Anthropometric measurements. Stata version 14, WHO Anthroplus and Nutri survey software were used for data analysis. A total sample size of 409 (203 in the Feeding and 206 in the Non feeding groups) were involved in the study. Result the response rate was 96.6% in the intervention (those involved in school feeding programs) and 98.1% in the comparison group (those not involved in school feeding programs). The mean ± SD age was 11.8 ± .14 and 12.09 ± 0.13 in the intervention and comparison groups respectively. From the total 409 participants 67 (16.38%) were anemic. Level of anemia was 13.3% and 19.42% in the intervention and comparison group respectively (p<0.05). Stunting prevalence was similar among the two study arms (32.5% in intervention Vs 31.6% in comparison).Iron contribution from School meals was adequate for all age and sex groups except for girls in the age group of 10-14 years . Conclusion and Recommendation School feeding was effective in reducing anemia but it was not effective on decreasing levels of stunting among participants .The school meal contributed the adequate amount for Iron but it failed to contribute the recommended amount for Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Zinc , protein and Energy. The school meals need to be reviewed by the responsible body in order to increase the nutrient content, and improve stunting, we suggest considering Multiple Micronutrient powders to fortify school meals with the necessary nutrients.
A method for assessing the recreational value of inland waterbodies in Victoria : a summary and critique
Creators: name: Ford, H. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Krakatau, Letusan Dahsyat Mendunia
Creators: name: Pramasto, Arafah
name: Firnando, Rifkhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Planetary geology
Geology not elsewhere classified
Asian history
Transnational history
Historical studies not elsewhere classified
Disaster and emergency management

description: Focus Kini, 12 Juli 2023
 Rifkhi Firnando, S.Pd. & Arafah Pramasto, S.Pd.
 Membahas letusan Krakatau, terkhusus pada tahun 1883 dan akibatnya kepada manusia disertai kajian rangkaian letusan hingga lebih dari satu milenium. Penulisan ini berusaha mengingatkan kita betapa pentingnya mengembangkan riset mengenai aktifitas vulkanis beserta teknologi dalam mitigasi bencana alam yang lebih modern, canggih, efektif, dan efisien.
The Impact of Singing on Visual and Multisensory Speech Perception in Children on the Autism Spectrum
Creators: name: Feldman, Jacob I.
name: Tu, Alexander
name: Conrad, Julie G.
name: Kuang, Wayne
name: Santapuram, Pooja
name: Woynaroski, Tiffany G.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sensory processes, perception and performance

description: Autistic children show reduced multisensory integration of audiovisual speech stimuli in response to the McGurk illusion. Previously, it has been shown that adults can integrate sung McGurk tokens. These sung speech tokens offer more salient visual and auditory cues, in comparison to the spoken tokens, which may increase the identification and integration of visual speech cues in autistic children. Forty participants (20 autism, 20 non-autistic peers) aged 7–14 completed the study. Participants were presented with speech tokens in four modalities: auditory-only, visual-only, congruent audiovisual, and incongruent audiovisual (i.e., McGurk; auditory ‘ba’ and visual ‘ga’). Tokens were also presented in two formats: spoken and sung. Participants indicated what they perceived via a four-button response box (i.e., ‘ba’, ‘ga’, ‘da’, or ‘tha’). Accuracies and perception of the McGurk illusion were calculated for each modality and format. Analysis of visual-only identification indicated a significant main effect of format, whereby participants were more accurate in sung versus spoken trials, but no significant main effect of group or interaction effect. Analysis of the McGurk trials indicated no significant main effect of format or group and no significant interaction effect. Sung speech tokens improved identification of visual speech cues, but did not boost the integration of visual cues with heard speech across groups. Additional work is needed to determine what properties of spoken speech contributed to the observed improvement in visual accuracy and to evaluate whether more prolonged exposure to sung speech may yield effects on multisensory integration.
Emprunts suméro-akkadiens en hébreu biblique
Creators: name: Lipiński, Edward
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Althebraistik
Year: 1970

description: Zeitschrift für Althebraistik, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (1988): Zeitschrift für Althebraistik, Band 1, Heft 1
ferret: a Framework for Benchmarking Explainers on Transformers
Creators: name: Attanasio, Giuseppe
name: Pastor, Eliana
name: Di Bonaventura, Chiara
name: Nozza, Debora
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As Transformers are increasingly relied upon to solve complex NLP problems, there is an increased need for their decisions to be humanly interpretable. While several explainable AI (XAI) techniques for interpreting the outputs of transformer-based models have been proposed, there is still a lack of easy access to using and comparing them. We introduce ferret, a Python library to simplify the use and comparisons of XAI methods on transformer-based classifiers. With ferret, users can visualize and compare transformers-based models output explanations using state-of-the-art XAI methods on any free-text or existing XAI corpora. Moreover, users can also evaluate ad-hoc XAI metrics to select the most faithful and plausible explanations. To align with the recently consolidated process of sharing and using transformers-based models from Hugging Face, ferret interfaces directly with its Python library. In this paper, we showcase ferret to benchmark XAI methods used on transformers for sentiment analysis and hate speech detection. We show how specific methods provide consistently better explanations and are preferable in the context of transformer models.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted to EACL 2023 (System Demonstration). More details at https://github.com/g8a9/ferret
Synästhesien im biblischen Althebräisch in Übersetzung und Auslegung
Creators: name: Ḳedar, Binyamin Zeʾev
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Althebraistik
Year: 1970

description: Zeitschrift für Althebraistik, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (1988): Zeitschrift für Althebraistik, Band 1, Heft 1
title: Partizipative Infrastrukturentwicklung in nordhessischen Dorfgemeinschaften
Creators: name: Koch, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Infrastrukturentwicklung
subject: Dorfleben
subject: Mitbestimmung
subject: ländlicher Raum
subject: ehrenamtliches Engagement
subject: Lebensqualität
subject: 300
subject: 710
subject: Nordhessen
subject: Infrastrukturplanung
subject: Dorfentwicklung
subject: Ländlicher Raum
subject: Mitbestimmung

description: Zugleich: Dissertation, Universität Kassel, 2022
Global numerical simulations of the rise of vortex-mediated pulsar glitches in full general relativity
Creators: name: Sourie, Aurélien
name: Chamel, Nicolas
name: Novak, Jérôme
name: Oertel, Micaela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study in detail the role of general relativity on the global dynamics of giant pulsar glitches as exemplified by Vela. For this purpose, we carry out numerical simulations of the spin up triggered by the sudden unpinning of superfluid vortices. In particular, we compute the exchange of angular momentum between the core neutron superfluid and the rest of the star within a two-fluid model including both (non-dissipative) entrainment effects and (dissipative) mutual friction forces. Our simulations are based on a quasi-stationary approach using realistic equations of state (EoSs). We show that the evolution of the angular velocities of both fluids can be accurately described by an exponential law. The associated characteristic rise time $τ_{\text{r}}$, which can be precisely computed from stationary configurations only, has a form similar to that obtained in the Newtonian limit. However, general relativity changes the structure of the star and leads to additional couplings between the fluids due to frame-dragging effects. As a consequence, general relativity can have a large impact on the actual value of $τ_{\text{r}}$: the errors incurred by using Newtonian gravity are thus found to be as large as $\sim 40 \%$ for the models considered. Values of the rise time are calculated for Vela and compared with current observational limits. Finally, we study the amount of gravitational waves emitted during a glitch. Simple expressions are obtained for the corresponding characteristic amplitudes and frequencies. The detectability of glitches through gravitational wave observatories is briefly discussed.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures, minor changes to match version to be published in MNRAS
"Gehe hin in Frieden (išlwm/bšlwm)!"
Creators: name: Jenni, Ernst
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Althebraistik
Year: 1970

description: Zeitschrift für Althebraistik, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (1988): Zeitschrift für Althebraistik, Band 1, Heft 1
CRISI-ADAPT II: CRIT-MEET platform for supporting the decision making and adaptation planning
Creators: name: Rivera, A
name: de Diego, E
name: Monjo, R
name: Rubio, S
name: Paradinas, C
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Climate
Decision Support System
Climate adaptation
CRISI-ADAPT II
Climate change

description: The challenge of the adaptation to climate change and extreme events demands decision-support tools to manage risks. The main CRISI-ADAPT-II product is a holistic-based decision-support tool that is offered as a specialised climate service to validate adaptation planning and operations. This tool consists of two modules, the Climate Risk Information Tool (CRIT) and the Monitoring Extreme Events Tool (MEET). These modules enable end-users to improve their decisions to face climate-related impacts with adaptation planning or to identify new opportunities for improving efficiency in their operations. Both tools, interconnected, were co-designed and co-developed by the CRISI-ADAPT II consortium and stakeholders to be adapted to each of the 4 sectors studied in the project, providing a specific set of data to each of the case studies. This platform offers different modules, being: weather forecast, seasonal forecast, downscaled climate projections and adaptation and mitigation measures for identified vulnerable elements. The platform here offered is a free-to-access general version for the area surrounding the Case Studies and it can be found at the link https://tool.crisi-adapt2.eu/. Only information regarding seasonal and climate projections is offered due to the rest of info being under payment or restricted due to its confidential nature. Seasonal forecast is displayed from the ECMWF-SEAS5 model, collected from the Copernicus C3S platform, and combined with Model Output Statistics (MOS) on monthly basis. Obtained variables are similar, involving maximum and minimum temperature, total precipitation, wind gusts and relative humidity. Regarding climate projections, Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5) scenarios of 10 CMIP6 models were considered and sorted regarding their changes; offered for mean and extreme climate variables, with ERA5-Land reanalysis selected as a reference baseline for all the cases. Variables are provided by 30-years span period, from historical, up to the end of the Century. Climate data are available for all the case studies, while tailored menu and options are displayed in function of the case study characteristics.
description: URL: https://tool.crisi-adapt2.eu/