cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Seismic and Tsunamigenic Characteristics of a Multimodal Rupture of Rapid and Slow Stages: The Example of the Complex 12 August 2021 South Sandwich Earthquake
Creators: name: Metz, M.
name: Vera, Felipe
name: Ponce, A. Carrillo
name: Cesca, S.
name: Babeyko, A.
name: Dahm, T.
name: Saul, J.
name: Tilmann, Frederik
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earthquake
subject: Seismic Characteristics
subject: Tsunamigenic Characteristics
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: On 12 August 2021, a >220 s lasting complex earthquake with Mw > 8.2 hit the South Sandwich Trench. Due to its remote location and short interevent times, reported earthquake parameters varied significantly between different international agencies. We studied the complex rupture by combining different seismic source characterization techniques sensitive to different frequency ranges based on teleseismic broadband recordings from 0.001 to 2 Hz, including point and finite fault inversions and the back-projection of high-frequency signals. We also determined moment tensor solutions for 88 aftershocks. The rupture initiated simultaneously with a rupture equivalent to a Mw 7.6 thrust earthquake in the deep part of the seismogenic zone in the central subduction interface and a shallow megathrust rupture, which propagated unilaterally to the south with a very slow rupture velocity of 1.2 km/s and varying strike following the curvature of the trench. The slow rupture covered nearly two-thirds of the entire subduction zone length, and with Mw 8.2 released the bulk of the total moment of the whole earthquake. Tsunami modeling indicates the inferred shallow rupture can explain the tsunami records. The southern segment of the shallow rupture overlaps with another activation of the deeper part of the megathrust equivalent to Mw 7.6. The aftershock distribution confirms the extent and curvature of the rupture. Some mechanisms are consistent with the mainshocks, but many indicate also activation of secondary faults. Rupture velocities and radiated frequencies varied strongly between different stages of the rupture, which might explain the variability of published source parameters.
ACRIM-gap and total solar irradiance revisited: Is there a secular trend between 1986 and 1996?
Creators: name: Krivova, N. A.
name: Solanki, S. K.
name: Wenzler, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A gap in the total solar irradiance (TSI) measurements between ACRIM-1 and ACRIM-2 led to the ongoing debate on the presence or not of a secular trend between the minima preceding cycles 22 (in 1986) and 23 (1996). It was recently proposed to use the SATIRE model of solar irradiance variations to bridge this gap. When doing this, it is important to use the appropriate SATIRE-based reconstruction, which we do here, employing a reconstruction based on magnetograms. The accuracy of this model on months to years timescales is significantly higher than that of a model developed for long-term reconstructions used by the ACRIM team for such an analysis. The constructed `mixed' ACRIM - SATIRE composite shows no increase in the TSI from 1986 to 1996, in contrast to the ACRIM TSI composite.
description: 4 figures
title:  Fare televisione con la televisione. L’archivio multimediale Mediaset come deposito memoriale e dispositivo di innovazione
Creators: name: Sfardini, Anna
name: Balossino, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: L’articolo ricostruisce la storia, finora poco esplorata, dell'archivio multimediale di Mediaset, il secondo attore più importante nel contesto del broadcasting nazionale, evidenziando la sua natura ibrida di deposito memoriale e dispositivo di innovazione. L’archivio rappresenta oggi un elemento centrale di un’azienda televisiva sia come strumento di conservazione sia, soprattutto, come supporto indispensabile alle strategie produttive ed editoriali. Obiettivo dell’articolo è di delineare genesi, strategie di sviluppo e ruolo nei processi produttivi dell’archivio Mediaset, dagli anni ’80, quando è stato fondato, fino ad oggi, focalizzando l’attenzione sulle logiche che ne hanno governato la costruzione, gli usi e le limitazioni nel suo utilizzo, le figure professionali coinvolte in quest’area di media management, divenuta nel tempo sempre più centrale.

The essay reconstructs the hitherto little explored history of Mediaset's multimedia archive, the second most important player in the national broadcasting context, highlighting its hybrid nature as both a memorial repository and an innovation device. Today, the archive represents a central element for a television company, serving as both a preservation tool and, above all, an indispensable support for production and editorial strategies. The objective of the essay is to outline the genesis, development strategies, and role of the Mediaset archive in production processes from the 1980s, when it was founded, to the present day. It focuses on the logics governing its construction, its uses and limitations, and the professional figures involved in this increasingly central area of media management.
description: IMAGO. Studi di cinema e media. Nuova serie – Vol. 29
Autophagy induction and bactericidal activity in Dictyostelium discoideum
Creators: name: Pflaum, Katherine
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: The innate immune system is the body?s first line of defense and uses pattern recognition machinery to identify conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) to detect and neutralize pathogens. Dictyostelium discoideum is a unique model organism that phagocytizes bacteria for nutritional purposes. We have shown that D. discoideum cells will clear intracellular bacteria faster in the presence of the PAMP, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) suggesting that they may detect and respond to bacterial pathogens through pattern recognition machinery. In this study we extend these findings showing that LPS pre-treatment will stimulate autophagosomal maturation in D. discoideum cells exposed to Staphylococcus aureus. The induction of autophagy by rapamycin causes D. discoideum cells to degrade intracellular bacteria at a faster rate. Here we also show that the increased rate of LPS-stimulated bacterial degradation is dependent upon the autophagy related proteins, Atg1 and Atg9, thus linking D. discoideum pattern recognition and the induction of autophagy.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2012.
Lessons from EU Interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Mali: Explaining EU Crisis Response (In-)Effectiveness
Creators: name: Peters, Ingo
name: Ferhatovic, Enver
name: Heinemann, Rabea
name: Sturm, Sofia Marie
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: European Union foreign policy
subject: EU Crisis Response policy
subject: Lessons learned from CSDP interventions
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::327 Internationale Beziehungen

description: The sobering experiences with Western engagement in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Mali in general and respective EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions in particular, suggest that EU efforts toward conflict resolution and state-building are systematically undermined by a lack of political settlement on the strategic level. This renders political stabilization via promoting good governance on the ground mostly futile. Moreover, the lack of local ownership in partner countries and coherent policies between the EU institutions and the EU Members States limit CSDP missions’ effectiveness and impact. The added value of this synoptic analysis rests with its combination of three analytical perspectives: 1) a systematic evaluation of missions’ impact effectiveness; 2) the inference of general and case-specific factors constraining and enabling EU crisis response effectiveness, and 3) the suggestion of avenues for theorizing on EU crisis response missions’ effectiveness. Moreover, this analysis draws on primary EU sources, and expert literature and incorporates additional data springing from interviews in Brussels as well as in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Mali.
Quantum Divided Power Algebra, q-Derivatives and Some New Quantum Groups
Creators: name: Hu, Naihong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37, 81R50, 17B35

description: The discussions in the present paper arise from exploring intrinsically the structure nature of the quantum $n$-space. A kind of braided category $\Cal {GB}$ of $\La$-graded $þ$-commutative associative algebras over a field $k$ is established. The quantum divided power algebra over $k$ related to the quantum $n$-space is introduced and described as a braided Hopf algebra in $\Cal {GB}$ (in terms of its 2-cocycle structure), over which the so called special $q$-derivatives are defined so that several new interesting quantum groups, especially, the quantized polynomial algebra in $n$ variables (as the quantized universal enveloping algebra of the abelian Lie algebra of dimension $n$), and the quantum group associated to the quantum $n$-space, are derived from our approach independently of using the $R$-matrix. As a verification of its validity of our discussion, the quantum divided power algebra is equipped with a structure of $U_q(\frak {sl}_n)$-module algebra via a certain $q$-differential operators realization. Particularly, one of the four kinds of roots vectors of $U_q(\frak {sl}_n)$ in the sense of Lusztig can be specified precisely under the realization.
description: 28 pages
Coagulo
Creators: name: PsykoSapiens
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Verità sul mondo, la vita, la morte, il pensiero, il sogno e l’uomo è un viaggio attraverso i confini della conoscenza umana, un percorso che dissolve le convenzioni e i dualismi, per svelare nuove vie di significato. Ogni tema viene esplorato con l’intento di destrutturare le maschere del linguaggio e del pensiero, immergendosi in una realtà che non è oggetto ma processo.  

Il mondo si rivela come flusso senza volto, la vita come fiamma momentanea, la morte come atto creativo, il pensiero come chiave e prigione, il sogno come spazio senza confini e l’uomo come nodo di infinite contraddizioni. Tutto è movimento, trasformazione e continua ridefinizione, senza verità ultime né origini definitive.  

Un invito a danzare nel flusso della realtà, riconoscendo che il nulla stesso può generare nuove possibilità.
The influence of hearing aids on the quality of life of the elderly in an underprivileged community: a pilot study
Creators: name: Niedermeyer, Bridget M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: The current study aimed to identify and treat hearing loss in an underprivileged community and evaluate the effect, if any, amplification had on quality of life. A total of 15 adults, between the ages of 67 and 89 years, completed a cognitive screening, using the Six-Item Screener (SIS) and a hearing handicap screening, using the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly-Screener (HHIE-S) and underwent a peripheral hearing assessment. Seven of these participants were excluded from the analysis, as they did not meet the criteria for this study (4-frequency PTA (.5, 1, 2, & 4 kHz) ? 26 dB HL, in at least one ear). Seven participants were fitted bilaterally. One participant, with a unilateral moderate to severe hearing loss, was fit with a contralateral routing of signals (CROS) hearing aid system. All participants fitted with hearing aids completed the HHIE-S questionnaire again, 4-5 weeks after their hearing aid fitting.     Improvement in HHIE-S scores (lower scores) indicating an improved quality of life (QOL) after 4-5 weeks of hearing aid use were observed; however, when analyzed it was not a significant finding. The results also revealed a strong positive correlation between right and left ear 4-frequency PTAs and pre-HHIE-S scores. The correlation revealed that the more severe the hearing loss the greater impact on emotional and social quality of life as indicated by the HHIE-S scores. Results from this pilot study indicate that future studies should include more participants, use of the adaptation manager on the hearing aid(s) at the initial fitting, at least one follow-up appointment after the initial hearing aid fitting and before any follow-up questionnaires, and a longer duration between initial hearing aid fitting and administration of the second HHIE-S.
description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2013.
VLBI Observations of SN 2008D
Creators: name: Bietenholz, M. F.
name: Soderberg, A. M.
name: Bartel, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on two epochs of very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the Type Ib/c supernova SN 2008D, which was associated with the X-ray outburst XRF 080109. At our first epoch, at t = 30 days after the explosion, we observed at 22 and 8.4 GHz, and at our second, at t = 133 days, at 8.4 and 5.0 GHz. The VLBI observations allow us to accurately measure the source's size and position at each epoch, and thus constrain its expansion velocity and proper motion. We find the source at best marginally resolved at both epochs, allowing us to place a 3sigma upper limit of ~0.75c on the expansion velocity of a circular source. For an elongated source, our measurements are compatible with mildly relativistic expansion. However, our 3sigma upper limit on the proper motion is 4 micro-arcsec/day, corresponding to an apparent velocity of <0.6c, and is consistent with a stationary flux centroid. This limit rules out a relativistic jet such as an gamma-ray burst jet away from the line of sight, which would be expected to show apparent proper motion of >c. Taken together, our measurements argue against the presence of any long-lived relativistic outflow in SN 2008D. On the other hand, our measurements are consistent with the nonrelativistic expansion velocities of <30,000 km/s and small proper motions (<500 km/s) seen in typical supernovae.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Activism and women?s health: Planned Parenthood?s use of social media during the 2012 Susan G. Komen funding controversy
Creators: name: Milli, Annie M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: In 2011 and 2012, social media activism-generated by individuals, groups, corporations, and nonprofit organizations-gained considerable media attention. Using content analysis, this paper examined Facebook and Twitter activity during one such news event: the 2012 funding controversy between Planned Parenthood and Susan G. Komen. Viewed through the lens of the Situational Theory of Publics, it considered how Planned Parenthood?s social media strategy was impacted by the involvement of hot-issue publics. The study found that Planned Parenthood used similar activist strategies before, during, and after the controversy. It found notable differences between messages on Planned Parenthood?s Facebook and Twitter sites. It also identified patterns in messages receiving high levels of Facebook interactions. Its results have implications for nonprofit organizations? social media strategies, including suggestions on appropriate message frequency, message variety, and message content. Still more studies are needed to explain nonprofits? social media use, using evidence from additional activism-related cases.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2013.
Constraining the dark fluid
Creators: name: Kunz, Martin
name: Liddle, Andrew R
name: Parkinson, David
name: Gao, Changjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological observations are normally fit under the assumption that the dark sector can be decomposed into dark matter and dark energy components. However, as long as the probes remain purely gravitational, there is no unique decomposition and observations can only constrain a single dark fluid; this is known as the dark degeneracy. We use observations to directly constrain this dark fluid in a model-independent way, demonstrating in particular that the data cannot be fit by a dark fluid with a single constant equation of state. Parameterizing the dark fluid equation of state by a variety of polynomials in the scale factor $a$, we use current kinematical data to constrain the parameters. While the simplest interpretation of the dark fluid remains that it is comprised of separate dark matter and cosmological constant contributions, our results cover other model types including unified dark energy/matter scenarios.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures incorporated. Updated to new observational data including SHOES determination of H0; new citations added
Evaluation of floating treatment wetlands in stormwater retention ponds on poultry farms to reduce nutrient loading
Creators: name: Lowman, Joshua Keith
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Evaluation of floating treatment wetlands in stormwater retention ponds on poultry farms to reduce nutrient loading Best management practices (BMPs) such as stormwater retention ponds are implemented to collect runoff and drainage from poultry farms and provide a possible intervention point for water treatment. Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) are thought to remove pollutants from surrounding water columns. The majority of research conducted on FTWs focuses on nutrient removal via plant uptake. The results of prior studies conclude that plant uptake of nutrients alone is not a reliable source of nutrient removal because macrophytes and microalgae only temporarily immobilize N; this conclusion suggests that without periodic harvesting of plants, nutrient cycling would occur, while permanent removal of N is dependent upon denitrification. Floating treatment wetlands were evaluated to see if they could be used as a BMP. Denitrification potential was evaluated in the sediment and FTW through a denitrification enzyme assay by measuring the maximum potential of the microbial community at sample collection. Denitrification potentials among the FTWs were 5 to 7 times higher than rates found among pond sediments. Although significant denitrification was present, maximum nutrient removal could only take place if plants were harvested from FTWs in addition to microbial denitrification. The combination of plants and organisms within FTW matrices could potentially reduce nitrogen concentrations within stormwater retention ponds. Floating treatment wetlands provide a new tool that could assist in the uptake of nutrients, especially those associated with eutrophication. Floating treatment wetlands should be further analyzed but could potentially serve as a successful BMP in low flow systems within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2013.
Transmission protocols for instruction streams
Creators: name: Bergstra, J. A.
name: Middelburg, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.1; D.2.4; F.1.1; F.3.1

description: Threads as considered in thread algebra model behaviours to be controlled by some execution environment: upon each action performed by a thread, a reply from its execution environment -- which takes the action as an instruction to be processed -- determines how the thread proceeds. In this paper, we are concerned with the case where the execution environment is remote: we describe and analyse some transmission protocols for passing instructions from a thread to a remote execution environment.
description: 13 pages
Διγλωσσία και Προσχολική Εκπαίδευση. Εκπαιδευτική Πολιτική και Διδακτικές Πρακτικές σύμφωνα με τις απόψεις των εκπαιδευτικών
Creators: name: Σιακωτού, Χρυσοβαλάντου
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Διγλωσσία -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Εκπαίδευση, Προσχολική -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Πολυπολιτισμική εκπαίδευση -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Εκπαίδευση και κράτος -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Νηπιαγωγοί -- Επιμόρφωση -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Νηπιαγωγεία -- Κοινωνικές απόψεις -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Διγλωσσία
subject: Αντιλήψεις νηπιαγωγών για διγλωσσία
subject: Διαπολιτισμική εκπαίδευση
subject: Επιμόρφωση νηπιαγωγών
subject: Bilinguality
subject: Children's perceptions of bilinguality
subject: Intercultural education
subject: Children's education

description: Αριθμός Εισαγωγής: 013621 cd
description: Η παρούσα εργασία αποσκοπεί στη διερεύνηση των στάσεων και των αντιλήψεων των νηπιαγωγών για τη διγλωσσία. Το πρώτο κεφάλαιο αναφέρεται σε διάφορα ευρήματα της επιστημονικής βιβλιογραφίας για τη διγλωσσία στην εκπαίδευση. Στο συγκεκριμένο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζεται η ιστορική ανασκόπηση της διγλωσσίας στην εκπαίδευση υπό κοινωνιολογική προσέγγιση, οι συνέπειες της διγλωσσίας στις ακαδημαϊκές επιδόσεις και διάφορες μελέτες για την πολιτισμικά ανταποκρινόμενη διδασκαλία. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζονται οι αντιλήψεις των δασκάλων και των νηπιαγωγών για τη διγλωσσία σε διεθνές και σε εθνικό επίπεδο, και η σημασία της μειονοτικής γλώσσας, ως γλωσσολογική και οντολογική ετερότητα και ως ευκαιρία για εκμάθηση της ξένης γλώσσας. Το τρίτο κεφάλαιο αναφέρεται στην εκπαιδευτική πολιτική της Ελλάδας, τη διγλωσσία, τις στρατηγικές διδασκαλίας και τα μοντέλα εκπαίδευσης και τα σχέδια δράσης και τις εκπαιδευτικές πολιτικές στην Ελλάδα. Το τέταρτο κεφάλαιο αφορά στην προσχολική εκπαίδευση και σε θέματα διγλωσσίας, περιλαμβάνει τον ορισμό της διγλωσσίας, τη δίγλωσση εκπαίδευση, την προσχολική αγωγή και τα θέματα διγλωσσίας, τις επιπτώσεις της διγλωσσίας στα παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας και τις διδακτικές πρακτικές για τη διγλωσσία στην προσχολική εκπαίδευση. Eν συνεχεία, στο πέμπτο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζεται η μεθοδολογία της έρευνας, ο σκοπός, το ερευνητικό κενό και τα ερευνητικά ερωτήματα της παρούσας διπλωματικής, η ερευνητική μέθοδος, η δειγματοληψία και ο Κώδικας Δεοντολογίας, τα ερευνητικά εργαλεία και η μέθοδος ανάλυσης δεδομένων. Στο κεφάλαιο ερμηνεία αποτελεσμάτων έρευνας θα αναλυθούν και θα ερμηνευθούν τα ευρήματα. Τέλος, θα ακολουθήσει η διεξαγωγή συμπερασμάτων της παρούσας έρευνας.
Let me not then die ingloriously: Homer, Afghanistan and leadership
Creators: name: Cook, Adam F.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014

description: The neglect of studying Homer has resulted in a deficiency in the formal training and leadership of military commanders. As a military we focus our attention on theory, maneuver or tactics. Leadership is frequently discussed also; however, we forego any instruction on The Iliad and The Odyssey while these texts represent a brilliant source of information with which to groom military leaders. While tactics and arms change throughout history, what remains consistent from the times of Ancient Greece to our current period is the human condition. The effects of combat in all its forms have not changed since Achilles took the battlefield. Yet we neglect Homer because he offers no strategic or tactical advantage. As military leaders we have sacrificed the opportunity for a more thorough understanding of our troops and their struggles so that we can dream of our own Cannae. We would be better served by reading Homer to gain knowledge of the troops of we lead.
description: Themis -- Death -- Wrath -- Nostos
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2014.
Changing patterns of residential land use in the municipality of Maple Ridge, 1930-1960
Creators: name: Ivanisko, Henry Imrich
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study attempts to explain and account for the residential land use patterns of Maple Ridge for a thirty year period from 1930 to 1960. The residential land use pattern for I960 is presented in Chapter I; its development and characteristics are accounted for by the reconstruction of patterns for 1930, 1940, and 1950, in Chapters II, III, and IV respectively. Information from which the patterns of residential land use emerged for each decade was obtained from Assessment Rolls at the Maple Ridge Municipal Hall, Haney, and verified by municipal officials and observation. Residential land use in Maple Ridge began and spread from the centres of Haney and Hammond and formed a scattered pattern extending away from the Fraser River along the major avenues and roads. An uncontrolled pattern of scattered residential building characteristic of 1950 reached sprawl proportions by I960.
First Results from the CHEPS: Exoplanets and the Discovery of an Eccentric Brown Dwarf in the Desert
Creators: name: Jenkins, James S.
name: Jones, Hugh R. A.
name: Gozdziewski, Krzysztof
name: Migaszewski, Cezary
name: Barnes, John R.
name: Jones, Matias I.
name: Rojo, Patricio
name: Pinfield, David J.
name: Day-Jones, Avril C.
name: Hoyer, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a brown dwarf on an eccentric orbit and with a semimajor axis that places it in the brown dwarf desert region around the star HD191760. The star has a spectral type of G3IV/V and a metallicity ([Fe/H]) of 0.29 dex. HD191760 adds to the small number of metal-rich stars with brown dwarf companions. The brown dwarf (HD191760b) is found to have an orbital period of 505.57+/-0.40 days and semimajor axis of 1.35+/-0.01 AU, placing it firmly in the brown dwarf desert. The eccentricity of HD191760b is found to be 0.63+/-0.01, meaning it reaches as close as 0.5 AU from the host star. Dynamical simulations indicate that no inner planets could reside at separations beyond ~0.17 AU due to the disastrous gravity imposed by HD191760b. In addition to these first results we also refine the orbits found for the exoplanets around the stars HD48265, HD143361 and HD154672. All 1-planet solutions are in agreement with those previously published by the Magellan Planet Search.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Factors contributing to the intraspecific variation of hypoxia tolerance in juvenile striped bass (Morone saxatilis)
Creators: name: Lipkey, Genine K.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Hypoxia in coastal waters is a growing concern. Hypoxic zones in the Chesapeake Bay may pose a threat to the striped bass (Morone saxatilis) population. Hypoxia tolerance can be extremely variable among individual fish of similar size. How well an individual copes with hypoxia is determined by many factors. The purpose of this study is to investigate two factors thought to influence intraspecific variation in hypoxia tolerance: (1) locomotion and (2) social status. Individual striped bass were exposed to hypoxia individually and in groups. When exposed individually they were tested in both static flow (< 3 cm s-1) and moderate flow conditions (50% estimated Ucrit). When exposed in groups, behavioral observations were made before exposure to determine social status of individuals. Individuals were found to be much less tolerant of hypoxia when forced to swim in moderate flow conditions, and social status did not have an effect on hypoxia tolerance.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University; 2012.
Symmetries and geometrically implied nonlinearities in mechanics and field theory
Creators: name: Sławianowski, Jan Jerzy
name: Kovalchuk, Vasyl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discussed is relationship between nonlinearity and symmetry of dynamical models. The special stress is laid on essential, non-perturbative nonlinearity, when none linear background does exist. This is nonlinearity essentially different from ones given by nonlinear corrections imposed onto some linear background. In a sense our ideas follow and develop those underlying Born-Infeld electrodynamics and general relativity. We are particularly interested in affine symmetry of degrees of freedom and dynamical models. Discussed are mechanical geodetic models where the elastic dynamics of the body is not encoded in potential energy but rather in affinely-invariant kinetic energy, i.e., in affinely-invariant metric tensors on the configuration space. In a sense this resembles the idea of Maupertuis variational principle. We discuss also the dynamics of the field of linear frames, invariant under the action of linear group of internal symmetries. It turns out that such models have automatically the generalized Born-Infeld structure. This is some new justification of Born-Infeld ideas. The suggested models may be applied in nonlinear elasticity and in mechanics of relativistic continua with microstructure. They provide also some alternative models of gravitation theory. There exists also some interesting relationship with the theory of nonlinear integrable lattices.
description: 34 pages, 4 figures; Bulletin of Computing Centre named after A.A.Dorodnitsyn, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2009 (in Russian)
Antifungal defenses in subterranean termites and Cryptocercus woodroaches
Creators: name: Denier, Diandra
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: The secreted ?-1,3-glucanase activity of Gram-negative bacteria binding proteins (GNBPs) provides woodroaches with important prophylactic protection from fungal pathogens such as Metarhizium anisopliae. Cuticular washes have antifungal activity against M. anisopliae conidia that was suppressed by an inhibitor (GDL) of termite GNBP ?-1,3- glucanase activity. Cryptocercus punctulatus nymphs that were treated with GDL and subsequently exposed to M. anisopliae conidia show significantly greater mortality than the untreated nymphs exposed to conidia. The ?-1,3- glucanase activity of GNBPs therefore appears to be critical for protecting Cryptocercus woodroaches from fungal pathogens. Analysis of local and foreign Metarhizium strains indicates that Metarhizium has the potential to influence the evolution of the termite immune system. To investigate Metarhizium strain variety and virulence, six strains were isolated and identified from nearby Reticulitermes flavipes collection sites. Colonies varied significantly in their susceptibility to the six isolates of Metarhizium, which were collected across a rough transect of approximately 1 km. These fungal isolates represented three separate species, M. brunneum, M. robertsii and M. guizhouense. There was a significant correlation between the genetic distance between isolates and their difference in virulence in three of four termite colonies. This variety of Metarhizium over small spatial scales suggests that adaptive evolution in the termite immune system may arise as a result of a virulent Metarhizium strain periodically creating epizootics that are countered by the evolution of resistance in the host. Messenger RNA sequences of Gram Negative Bacteria-binding Protein 1 (GNBP1) were identified and analyzed in two species of subterranean termites. Using population genetic methods, comparisons were made between this gene and two additional antifungal genes in the subterranean termites and two species of woodroaches, Cryptocercus punctulatus and Cryptocercus wrighti. An analysis of nucleotide intraspecific polymorphism indicated that these genes frequently face selective sweeps, possibly as a result of a virulent fungal strain spreading through populations and selecting for resistant specific alleles that afford the greatest resistance to infection.
description: A common antifungal defense strategy in Cryptocercus woodroaches & termites -- Variation in subterranean termite susceptibility to indigenous Metarhizium species -- A comparison of the selective pressure on antifungal genes in Cryptosercus woodroaches & termites.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2013.
Additional file 1 of Analysing the expenditure on childbearing: a community-based cross-sectional study in rural areas of Punjab (India)
Creators: name: Mahajan, Niharika
name: Kaur, Baljit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Interview Schedule.
title: Automated dialogue systems for requirements elication practice
title: Requirements engineering with automated dialogue systems
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Boquist, Erika Marie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014

description: Background: Requirements gathering is a vital part of the software development lifecycle. The act of requirements elicitation revolves around prompting prospective clients with questions that will result in an efficient set of requirements. The questions an analyst, software engineer, developer, or project manager asks and the way that they follow up on those questions to probe clients for requirements provide information to aid in the requirements elicitation process and a system's development as a whole. Problem Definition: The act of requirements elicitation is difficult and requires an immense amount of skill and attention to detail to not only draw all requirements from the clients, but to also provide a solid basis for system development. Choosing a questioning methodology is vital to comprehensive coverage of all categories of requirements. Approaches: The intention of this project was to develop an automated dialogue system that would allow users to interact with and discover appropriate questions for requirements elicitation. The notion of a question answer (QA) system would give users the ability to engage in a natural language, human-like conversation, to simulate an environment in which an analyst could ask questions to elicit system requirements. For this project, two types of dialogue systems were implemented. The first interaction was an AIML closed-domain chatbot allowing for open-ended set of inputs, whereas the second closed-domain iteration implemented a closed set of acceptable inputs. Each iteration accounted for all requirement categories and possibility of questions based on a prompting technique that was researched and deemed to be a best fit for the system descriptions that were included in the dialogue system's domain. Results: In conducting a pilot study on the first iteration chatbot, a number of limitations regarding AIML?s handling of an extremely open-ended variety of questions specific to a requirements elicitation domain were discovered. The nature of the second iteration's restricted set of inputs guaranteed 100% accuracy in the system's responses, but removed the user's ability to devise their own questions. Conclusions: This project was an introduction to developing a much larger system aiding in the training of students pursuing and understanding of requirements engineering and the requirements elicitation phase of the software development lifecycle. The dialogue system implementations, results and findings of this thesis will be used in a doctoral study expected to continue.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2014.
Interlayer coherent composite Fermi liquid phase in quantum Hall bilayers
Creators: name: Alicea, Jason
name: Motrunich, Olexei I.
name: Refael, G.
name: Fisher, Matthew P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Composite fermions have played a seminal role in understanding the quantum Hall effect, particularly the formation of a compressible `composite Fermi liquid' (CFL) at filling factor nu = 1/2. Here we suggest that in multi-layer systems interlayer Coulomb repulsion can similarly generate `metallic' behavior of composite fermions between layers, even if the electrons remain insulating. Specifically, we propose that a quantum Hall bilayer with nu = 1/2 per layer at intermediate layer separation may host such an interlayer coherent CFL, driven by exciton condensation of composite fermions. This phase has a number of remarkable properties: the presence of `bonding' and `antibonding' composite Fermi seas, compressible behavior with respect to symmetric currents, and fractional quantum Hall behavior in the counterflow channel. Quantum oscillations associated with the Fermi seas give rise to a new series of incompressible states at fillings nu = p/[2(p \pm 1)] per layer (p an integer), which is a bilayer analogue of the Jain sequence.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
A system for collection and analysis of opinions in microblog data: a text mining approach
Creators: name: Vaidyanathakumar, Ranjan M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Microblogging has become a very popular communication platform among Internet users. Its applications are rich sources of data for text mining, opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Its services are also becoming a platform for marketing and public relations for organizations and political parties. Political parties are interested to know if people support their program or not. Social organizations are asking people?s opinion on current debates. All this information can be obtained from microblogging services, as their users post everyday what they like/dislike, and their opinions on many aspects of their life. In our paper, we focus on using Twitter, the most popular microblogging platform, for the task of text mining and opinion mining commonly known as sentiment analysis. We propose a system to acquire, manage, manipulate, analyze microblog data and report results. We discuss and apply various text processing techniques for opinion mining and apply several machine learning algorithms to analyze if bloggers have an opinion on a particular issue. In this study, we collected over 9,256,819 tweets on the issue of same-sex marriage in Maryland and across USA. Using Na?ve Bayes and support vector machine classifiers we find that we can identify opinionated tweets with an accuracy of 90% and 55% respectively.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2013.
Additional file 2 of Slit/Robo signaling regulates Leydig cell steroidogenesis
Creators: name: Martinot, Emmanuelle
name: Boerboom, Derek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Figures.
Accelerating Universe with spacetime torsion but without dark matter and dark energy
Creators: name: Minkevich, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that cosmological equations for homogeneous isotropic models deduced in the framework of the Poincaré gauge theory of gravity by certain restrictions on indefinite parameters of gravitational Lagrangian take at asymptotics the same form as cosmological equations of general relativity theory for $ΛCDM$-model. Terms related to dark matter and dark energy in cosmological equations of standard theory for $ΛCDM$-model are connected in considered theory with the change of gravitational interaction provoked by spacetime torsion.
description: 4 pages
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of a panel of tumor-specific differentially-methylated DNA regions in IRF4, IKZF1 and BCAT1 for blood-based detection of colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Young, Graeme P.
name: Symonds, Erin L.
name: Nielsen, Hans Jørgen
name: Ferm, Linnea
name: Christensen, Ib J.
name: Dekker, Evelien
name: Vlugt, Manon Van Der
name: Mallant-Hent, Rosalie C.
name: Boulter, Nicky
name: Yu, Betty
name: Chan, Michelle
name: Tevz, Gregor
name: LaPointe, Lawrence C.
name: Pedersen, Susanne K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The multi-panel real-time PCR asssay. Table S1. Positivity by progression of cellular atypia (dysplasia in adenomas) and degree of invasion (T stage in cancer) in cases without disseminated disease. Table S2. Test accuracy for detection of advanced adenomas and adenomas with high grade dysplasia based on all possible combinations of genes.
Replication pack of paper - Exploring Non-CS Learners' Experience in Brazil
Creators: name: Faria Gomes, Renata
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This is the replication pack and arquives of the paper Exploring Non-CS Learners' Experience in Brazil. The content are:

File

Description

Type

Answers-anomized
All questionaire answeres (with sensitive data anomized)
sheets / excel

Code Book
All the generated codes during data analysis
sheets / excel

codebook-background
Image showing how the student´s background was coded
image

codebook-objective
Image showing how the student´s objective was coded
image

literature-review
More details about the literature review (search string, criteria, database and results)
pdf

questionaire
The used questionaire
pdf

coded_results
The results with the numbers of each category coded
Table

database-reference
Used as reference data and transformation for comparission
Table

demographics
Demographics relanshionship between reference and our work
Table

map_distribution.pdf
A image showing the brazillian map contrasting our work and the reference's
image

map_distribution.png
Other works about non-it courses in literature
Table

Related-works
Past surveys about the same subject (related to ours)
Table

survey-questions-objectives
How the questions of survey were design, considering our RQs
Table
The radio AGN population dichotomy: Green valley Seyferts versus red sequence low-excitation AGN
Creators: name: Smolcic, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio outflows of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are invoked in cosmological models as a key feedback mechanism in the latest phases of massive galaxy formation. Recently it has been suggested that the two major radio AGN populations -- the powerful high-excitation, and the weak low-excitation radio AGN (HERAGN and LERAGN, resp.) -- represent two earlier and later stages of massive galaxy build-up. To test this, here we make use of a local (0.04
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, to appear in ApJL
Apis mellifera Worker Bees Selected for Varroa-sensitive Hygiene Show Higher Specific Sensitivity and Perception Speed Towards Low Concentrations of Chemical Cues Emitted by the Brood
Creators: name: Ivanova, Ivelina
name: Bienefeld, Kaspar
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Varroa-sensitive hygiene
subject: Olfactory sensitivity
subject: Resistance breeding
subject: Apis mellifera
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Varroa-sensitive hygiene (VSH) is highly influenced by the worker bee’s olfactory ability. Workers bred for VSH and non-selected control line workers were tested for differences in their speed and perception ability when presented with highly diluted stimuli. Four different substances (citral – dilution 1:1300, linalool dilution 1:1300, Varroa-parasitized brood extract, isopropanol) were used as tactile stimuli for differential conditioning with the proboscis extension response (PER). Discrimination ability and generalization were assessed. In a second set of conditioning experiments differences in sensitivity to the highly diluted citral and the Varroa-parasitized brood extract as reinforced stimuli (Cs +) were explored between workers from both lines. The worker bees were classified into three groups (Time points) depending on how long before they started correctly extending their proboscis to the Cs + , and results were examined separately for each of the two stimuli and group. While the VSH-selected line exhibited a significantly higher perception ability for the parasitized brood extract than the non-selected line, the two lines showed no differences when conditioned with the floral stimulus citral as Cs + . Furthermore, the VSH-selected line displayed a significantly higher number of worker bees that perceived the complex bouquet of the Varroa-parasitized brood extract at the earliest time grouping (Time point 1). The odds of perception at the earliest possible time point were 2.6-times higher for the VSH-selected line. Although no comparison was made between healthy and parasitized brood, the results indicate an enhanced specific sensitivity in VSH-selected workers towards chemical cues emitted by the brood, which might play a role in the detection of Varroa destructor.
Additional file 1 of Changes after cancer diagnosis and return to work: experience of Korean cancer patients
Creators: name: Bae, Ka Ryeong
name: Cho, Juhee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Semi-structured Interview Questions
ФУҚАРОЛИК СУД ИШЛАРИНИ ЮРИТИШ ВАЗИФАЛАРИ ВА УЛАРНИ АМАЛГА ОШИРИШНИНГ ПРОЦЕССУАЛ КАФОЛАТЛАРИ
Creators: name: МАНСУРОВА, ХУЛКАР
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: мақолада фуқаролик суд ишларини юритиш вазифалари ва уларни амалга оширишнинг процессуал кафолатлари таҳлил қилиниб, унда фуқаролик суд ишларини юритиш вазифалари сифатида фуқаролик ишларини адолатли кўриб чиқиш ва ҳал этишни назарда тутиш таклифи асослантирилган.