cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Η αναβίωση της σλαβικής μυθολογίας μέσα από το έργο του Ρώσου ζωγράφου Viktor Korolkov
Creators: name: Ματράκης, Αθανάσιος Θεοδώρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Βίκτορ Κορόλκοφ
Σλαβική μυθολογία
Σλαβικό πάνθεον
Viktor Korolkov
Slavic mythology
Slavic Pantheon

description: Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή εργασία δομείται σε πέντε κεφάλαια και ασχολείται με την αναβίωση της σλαβικής μυθολογίας μέσα από το έργο του Ρώσου ζωγράφου Viktor Korolkov. Το κεντρικό θέμα αυτής είναι η πρόσληψη της σλαβικής μυθολογίας από τον προαναφερθέντα ζωγράφο, όχι με όρους ιστορίας της τέχνης αλλά με έμφαση στο σλαβικό πάνθεον και τις μυθολογικές παραστάσεις που απεικονίζονται και αναπαρίστανται στο έργο του. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο γίνεται συνοπτική αναφορά στο βίο και το έργο του Ρώσου ζωγράφου Viktor Anatolyevich Korolkov. Ειδικότερα, παρατίθενται βιογραφικά στοιχεία για τις σπουδές του και τη συνολική καλλιτεχνική του δραστηριότητα του. Το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο πραγματεύεται τη σλαβική μυθολογία όπου γίνεται αναφορά στις πηγές της και στη συνέχεια παρατίθενται τα κοσμολογικά χαρακτηριστικά της και κλείνει με αναφορά στο σλαβικό πάνθεον. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο ακολουθεί η ανάλυση έργων του Korolkov που κατανέμεται σε ανδρικές και γυναικείες ανθρωπομορφικές θεότητες, εν συνεχεία σε ζωομορφικές και τέλος στην κατηγορία των κατώτερων πνευμάτων προβαίνοντας στην ανάλυση των έργων που έχουν επιλεγεί ενώ τέλος ακολουθεί το τέταρτο κεφάλαιο με τα συμπεράσματα.
description: The present thesis is structured in five chapters and deals with the revival of Slavic mythology through the work of the Russian painter Viktor Korolkov. Its central theme is the aforementioned painter's reception of Slavic mythology, not in terms of art history but with an emphasis on the Slavic Pantheon and the mythological representations depicted and represented in his work. In the first chapter a brief account of the life and work of the Russian painter Viktor Anatolyevich Korolkov is given. In particular, biographical data on his studies and his overall artistic activity are provided. The second chapter deals with Slavic mythology where its sources are mentioned and then its cosmological features are listed and concludes with a reference to the Slavic Pantheon. In the third chapter follows the analysis of Korolkov's works, which is divided into male and female anthropomorphic deities, then into zoοmorphic ones and finally into the category of lower spirits proceeding to the analysis of the selected works, and finally the fourth chapter follows with the conclusions.
Smooth-coated otter and North American beaver detection with Environmental DNA: Informing sampling design for conservation management
Creators: name: Duke, Alexandra  Christine Kahler
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: beaver
eDNA
non-destructive sampling
otter
quantitative PCR
species detection

description: The analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) can be an effective tool for detecting the presence of elusive or low-density organisms and has been demonstrated in some cases to be more effective at detecting small populations of wildlife than traditional monitoring methods. The majority of aquatic vertebrate eDNA studies, however, have focused on aquatic species such as fish and amphibians, which have high detection rates in water samples. Detection of semi-aquatic mammals using eDNA methods has been limited and has shown lower detection rates than other species. Effective monitoring of semi-aquatic mammals is especially important for species used as restoration tools or ecological indicators of ecosystem health. Whether eDNA is useful for monitoring semi-aquatic mammals is uncertain due to lower amounts of DNA introduced into the system and the environmental conditions that can decrease the probability of eDNA detection. Additionally, semi-aquatic mammals vary in their behaviors and interactions with the aquatic environment, highlighting the need for species-specific eDNA monitoring protocols. We used eDNA to detect the presence of two semi-aquatic mammal species. We conducted a pilot study to test the sensitivity of eDNA methods for detecting Lutrogale perspicillata in mangrove ecosystems in India. We found our assay to be effective in detecting smooth-coated otters within the mangrove ecosystem of Goa. Our results show that the probability of detection likely decreases with time and could be affected by tidal movements.
description: We also investigated the utility of eDNA detection methods for surveying and monitoring Castor canadensis. We conducted paired visual and eDNA surveys and tested three different sample collection and filtering methods. We also evaluated hypotheses of factors influencing eDNA detection. We found that eDNA sampling was effective for detecting North American beaver at sites with and without visual signs of their presence. The most efficient and effective method of eDNA sample collection was point sampling with the Smith-Root eDNA Sampler Backpack. We also found that detection probability increased with higher sample volumes. Our results show that careful and species-specific eDNA sampling methods can be an effective tool in the monitoring of semi-aquatic species.
Impacts of New Technology on Market Power: The Case of the Petroleum Industry
Creators: name: Nazer, Yousef
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fracking Technology
subject: Market Power
subject: OIL
subject: OPEC
subject: OPEC+
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation studies the recent developments of oil market and seeks to reassess the market power position for the major oil market participants in global crude oil industry (U.S. vs. OPEC). It investigates the role of new technology “fracking” in determining if a potential market power excretion in U.S. petroleum industry exist. Also, it looks in depth into the organization of Petroleum of Export Countries (OPEC), and evaluates and investigates the extent to which OPEC can still influence the oil market in the post fracking world. Our findings reveal that the U.S petroleum industry operates under imperfect competition, and there is a significant degree of monopolistic market power in both upstream and downstream industries. In addition, fracking technology has remarkably increased market power in the U.S. domestic crude oil market at the expense of exporters of crude oil shipped to U.S. Further, the study found that OPEC meetings have an impact on price fluctuations around OPEC meetings in comparison with other random dates that we have simulated. The results suggest that OPEC decisions aim to stabilize oil prices around fair equilibrium price in both short and medium run rather inflate. Last, OPEC+ is a crucial coalition to stabilize oil prices and without OPEC+ agreement; oil prices may expose to low equilibrium price.
Ο ναός της Παναγίας Χαλκέων στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Ιστορία - αρχιτεκτονική – ζωγραφική
Creators: name: Μαβίλης, Βασίλειος Σπυρίδωνα
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Παναγία
Χαλκέων
Θεσσαλονίκη
Panagia
Chalkeon
Thessaloniki

description: Ο σκοπός της παρούσης εργασίας είναι η ανάδειξη του ναού που βρίσκεται στο κέντρο της παλιάς πόλης της Θεσσαλονίκης, στο νότιο μέρος της αρχαίας Ρωμαϊκής αγοράς και είναι γνωστός με την σύγχρονη ονομασία «Παναγία των Χαλκέων», επίσης συναντάται και με την λαϊκή προσωνυμία «Κόκκινη Εκκλησιά». Παρατηρείται σημαντική ιστορική εξέλιξη του ναού από την ίδρυση του, με σπουδαίο αρχιτεκτονικό ρυθμό και με πλούσια ζωγραφική, όπως επιτάσσουν οι καλλιτεχνικές τάσεις της κάθε εποχής. Συμπερασματικά, ο ναός της Παναγίας των Χαλκέων είναι ένα από τα δέκα πέντε Παλαιοχριστιανικά και Βυζαντινά Μνημεία της Θεσσαλονίκης και συμπεριλαμβάνεται στο Κατάλογο της Παγκόσμιας Κληρονομιάς της UNESCO. Επίσης η διακόσμηση με τις τοιχογραφίες του ναού που έγιναν σε διάφορες φάσεις ανά των αιώνων, αποτελούν τη μόνη επιβεβαίωση της ακμής της ζωγραφικής και της ευμάρειας της Θεσσαλονίκης.
description: The goal of this paper is to promote the church which is located at the centre of the old town of Thessaloniki, in the southern part of the ancient Roman Agora, and is known by the contemporary name “Panagia Chalkeon” or the more vernacular term “Kokini Eklisia” (Red Church). It has been observed that since its foundation, the temple has been significantly developed with magnificent architectural style and elaborate painting as the artistic trends of each time required. In conclusion, the church of Panagia Chalkeon is one of the fifteen Old Christian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki and it is included on the World Heritage List of UNESCO. Also, the mural additions that were made at different times over the centuries are the only evidence for the thriving of painting and the prosperity of Thessaloniki.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών)
Study of signal to background discrimination and determination of the "signal strength" for ZZ boson production in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: Τουκμενίδης, Χρήστος Αποστόλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Παραγωγή μποζονίων Ζ
Ανάλυση δεδομένων
Μέτρηση ενεργού διατομής
Z boson production
Data analysis
Cross section measurement

description: The purpose of this thesis was to study methods for the analysis of experimental data in order to discriminate signal from background events related to the production of two Z bosons. The study was conducted through the identification of the channel where the two Z bosons decay into 2 leptons and 2 neutrinos. The thesis begins with the study and optimization of a suitable region in the phase space in order to maximally discriminate the signal events from all others that constitute the background. Various computational methods were used utilizing simulation samples and the results were cross-validated. Subsequently, the various sources of background were studied by defining appropriate regions in the phase space, one for each type of background, and utilizing the experimental data. The aim of the background study was to provide a more accurate estimation of the signal which is directly related to the background. The signal and background study resulted in the “signal strength” estimation which constitutes an expression of the event yield that has been estimated for the desired signal process. Utilizing the signal strength factor, a cross section measurement has been conducted for the signal channel under study.
description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η μελέτη μεθόδων ανάλυσης πειραματικών δεδομένων με σκοπό το διαχωρισμό μεταξύ σήματος και υποβάθρου, γεγονότων που αφορούν τη παραγωγή δύο Z μποζονίων. Η μελέτη πραγματοποιείται μέσω της ταυτοποίησης του καναλιού όπου τα δύο Z μποζόνια διασπώνται σε 2 λεπτόνια και 2 νετρίνo. Η εργασία ξεκινά με τη μελέτη και βελτιστοποίηση μιας κατάλληλης περιοχής του φασικού χώρου προκειμένου να απομονωθούν κατά το μέγιστο δυνατό, τα γεγονότα σήματος έναντι όλων των υπολοίπων που αποτελούν το υπόβαθρο. Χρησιμοποιήθηκαν διαφορετικές υπολογιστικές μέθοδοι αξιοποιώντας δεδομένα προσομοιώσεων και τα αποτελέσματα διασταυρώθηκαν μεταξύ τους. Στη συνέχεια μελετήθηκαν οι διάφορες πηγές υποβάθρου ορίζοντας κατάλληλες περιοχές στο φασικό χώρο, μία για κάθε είδος υποβάθρου, και αξιοποιώντας τα πειραματικά δεδομένα. Η μελέτη του υποβάθρου πραγματοποιήθηκε με σκοπό την ακριβέστερη εκτίμηση του σήματος με το οποίο σχετίζεται άμεσα. Η μελέτη του σήματος και του υποβάθρου είχε ως αποτέλεσμα την εκτίμηση του λεγόμενου «παράγοντα σήματος» που αποτελεί μία έκφραση του πλήθους γεγονότων που εκτιμήθηκε για το επιθυμητό σήμα. Μέσω του παράγοντα σήματος πραγματοποιήθηκε μια μέτρηση για την ενεργό διατομή που αφορά το υπό μελέτη κανάλι σήματος.
ASSESSING FUNCTIONAL ABILITY IN THE CLINIC WITH THE NIGHT OUT TASK
Creators: name: Chilton, Reanne L
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Compensatory Strategies
Everyday functioning
Functional assessment
Night Out Task

description: Among the challenges facing society today is the need to better understand and assess the trajectory of functional changes with aging. It is clear that many older adults successfully and safely age in place. It is also apparent that there is not a one-to-one relationship between cognitive changes and capacity to live independently. This suggests that there is a need to better understand the trajectory of functional changes with aging. The Night Out Task (NOT) is designed to fill an important area of need; standardized and ecologically valid assessment of functional abilities. The NOT is open-ended, complex, and allows for the measurement of both primary outcome variables (e.g., time and accuracy) and “compensation variables”, which are process-approach variables that are meant to map on to the types of compensatory strategies individuals use in their everyday lives (e.g., planning and checking). This study found the NOT is able to detect functional differences within a sample of healthy adults, comparing young adults (YAs; ages 18-39) to both young-old (YOAs; ages 60-69) and old-old (OOAs; ages 70+) cohorts. YAs performed better than the oldest group in accuracy, execution time, and number of both inefficient and inaccurate/incomplete errors. YAs additionally used fewer compensatory strategies than both older groups. Only one compensatory variable had a positive relationship to outcome; double-checking was related to improved accuracy and fewer inaccurate/incomplete errors.
Κατασκευές της Επισφάλειας από νέες και νέους Πανεπιστημιακής Εκπαίδευσης στην Ελλάδα: Κοινωνιοψυχολογικές Επιπτώσεις και Συλλογικές Διεκδικήσεις
Creators: name: Μυλωνάκη, Μαρία-Αγγελική Ματθαίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Εργασιακή Επισφάλεια
Κοινωνιοψυχολογικές Επιπτώσεις
Συλλογικές Διεκδικήσεις
Precarity
Socio-psychological implications
Collective Claims

description: Στόχος της παρούσας μελέτης είναι η διερεύνηση των κατασκευών της εργασιακής επισφάλειας και των κοινωνιοψυχολογικών και πολιτικών της επιπτώσεων στο λόγο νέων ενηλίκων υψηλού εκπαιδευτικού επιπέδου κατά τη μετά-Covid εποχή. Για τους σκοπούς της έρευνας πραγματοποιήθηκαν 15 ημι-δομημένες συνεντεύξεις με νέες και νέους 27-35 χρόνων κατόχων τίτλων τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης, επισφαλώς εργαζόμενων. Η θεματική ανάλυση των συνεντεύξεων έδειξε τον σύνθετο και πολυεπίπεδο χαρακτήρα του φαινομένου της επισφάλειας το οποίο αγγίζει διαφορετικές πτυχές της εργασίας όπως είναι οι (χαμηλές) απολαβές, οι ακούσιες μετακινήσεις, τα ωράρια εργασίας και το οποίο φαίνεται να επιδεινώθηκε με την πανδημία της Covid-19. Αναδείχτηκε ακόμη η επίδραση των επισφαλών συνθηκών στο συνολικό σχεδιασμό της ζωής των νέων εργαζομένων και στη δημιουργία μακροπρόθεσμων πλάνων ζωής. Τέλος, ενώ οι νέες και οι νέοι που συμμετείχαν στην έρευνα τάχθηκαν υπέρ των συλλογικών διεκδικήσεων και δράσεων ενάντια στην εργασιακή επισφάλεια και την επιδείνωση των συνθηκών εργασίας, υποστήριξαν ότι οι ίδιες οι επισφαλείς συνθήκες εργασίας τους δεν επιτρέπουν τη συμμετοχή τους σε τέτοιες δράσεις.
description: The aim of this study is to investigate the constructions of precarity and its socio-psychological and political implications in interview discourse provided by people of University Education in the post-Covid era. For the purposes of the study, 15 semi-structured interviews with people, aged 27-35 years, who hold higher education qualifications and are precariously-employed, were conducted. Thematic analysis of the interviews revealed the complex and multilevel nature of precarity phenomenon which bears on different aspects of employment such as (low) earnings, involuntary mobility, working hours and which seem to have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The impact of precarious conditions on the overall life planning of young workers and on the creation of long-term life plans was also highlighted. Finally, while the young people interviewed were in favor of collective claims and actions against precarity and deteriorating working conditions, they argued that their own precarious working conditions do not allow them to participate in such actions.
An Evaluation of Read Ordering for Genome Assembly
Creators: name: Keppler, Patrick Bryan
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Genome Assembly
Graphs
Vertex Reordering

description: The process of short read generation for de novo Genome Assembly results in a loss of information about the position each read originates from in the source genome. State-of-the-art assembly algorithms typically process reads as an un-ordered set, attempting to reconstruct ordering information relatively late in the assembly process. This thesis proposes an alternative framework where an ordering is recovered prior to the start of assembly. The ordered reads are then divided into blocks, where each block may be assembled as an independent process. The ordering is produced by constructing a graph model of read affinities, which is used as an input to graph vertex ordering algorithms. The efficacy of several graph ordering algorithms for use in this framework is compared, and the effects of a “perfect” ordering of reads for use in a distributed assembly approach is demonstrated.
Archosaur footprints (cf. Brachychirotherium) with unusual morphology from the Upper Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation (Norian–Rhaetian) of East Greenland
Creators: name: Klein, Hendrik
name: Milàn, Jesper
name: Clemmensen, Lars B.
name: Frobøse, Nicolaj
name: Mateus, Octávio
name: Klein, Nicole
name: Adolfssen, Jan S.
name: Estrup, Eliza J.
name: Wings, Oliver
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Three-dimensional models of the cf. Brachychirotherium pes–manus set (from MGUH 31233b) from the Upper Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation (Norian–Rhaetian) of East Greenland as a pdf (3D models created by Oliver Wings; photographs taken by Jesper Milàn).
Effect of novel apple virus combinations on commonly used apple rootstocks and their association with apple decline in Washington state.
Creators: name: Cross, Alex
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021

description: Apple decline is an emerging disease in Washington state which is characterized by the decline and sometimes death of young trees, typically 1-2 years old. Little is known about the cause of this disease and research in this area has not produced any conclusive evidence on this troublesome problem. RNA sequencing of decline effected trees has revealed several viruses present throughout various tissues including: APMV, ASGV, ASPV, ACLSV, ARWV-2 and CCGAV. Seven different rootstocks, which are commonly used, were chosen for inoculation of different virus combinations, with four rootstocks used for the final examination due to low viral presence in the other rootstocks. 9 months after inoculation, trees were dissected so that vascular tissue could be observed for any signs of potential damage. Various tissues were also taken from these trees for relative qPCR analysis to examine viral expression of the different viruses in each rootstock used. Histological observations revealed no real vascular damage of the rootstocks looked at. qPCR analysis revealed that CCGaV has higher replication when mixed with endemic viruses. This information is still informative as it suggests that these viruses do not pose any serious problems to apple growers. These growers can use this information to manage apple orchards accordingly.
Χαρακτηρισμός οξειδίων με την χρήση της φασματοσκοπίας Μössbauer 57Fe
Creators: name: Οικονόμου, Ασπασία Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Φασματοσκοπίας Μössbauer
Οξείδια
Υπέρλεπτες αλληλεπιδράσεις
Μössbauer Spectroscopy
Iron oxides
Hyperfine interaction

description: Στην εργασία αυτή μελετήθηκαν τρεις διαφορετικές σειρές δειγμάτων με διαφορετικούς στόχους για την κάθε μια. Στην πρώτη μελετώμενη σειρά ενώσεων ήταν ενώσεις BiFeO3. Για την σειρά αυτή ο στόχος ήταν διπλός, αρχικά να εκτιμηθεί η ποιότητα παρασκευής των δειγμάτων ως την επιθυμητή ένωση και στην συνέχεια εκμεταλλευόμενοι την μοναδικότητα που εμφανίζουν οι δευτερογενείς φάσεις του στα φάσματα Mössbauer να διερευνηθεί εάν αυτές δημιουργήθηκαν κατά την Παρασκευή των δειγμάτων. Στην συνέχεια μελετήθηκε η ένωση μαγνητίτη με σκοπό αρχικά να ταυτοποιηθεί η φάση και εν συνεχεία να ελεγχθεί η ύπαρξη του προσανατολισμό των μαγνητικών ροπών, κάτι το οποίο επιτυγχάνεται μέσω της αναλογίας των κορυφών που εμφανίζονται στα φάσματα Mössbauer. Τέλος η φασματοσκοπία Mössbauer στάθηκε το βασικό μας εργαλείο για την ταυτοποίηση ενός αγνώστου υλικού για εμάς που ήταν η λάβα. Τελικώς αποδείχθηκε ότι η τεχνική αυτή ήταν η καθοριστική για την ταυτοποίηση του υλικού.
description: In this work, three different series of samples were studied with different objectives for each one. In the first studied series of compounds were BiFeO3 compounds. For this series the goal was twofold, firstly to assess the preparation quality of the samples as the desired compound and then taking advantage of the uniqueness displayed by its secondary phases in the Mössbauer spectra to investigate if these were created during the preparation of the samples. Subsequently, the magnetite compound was studied in order to initially identify the phase and then to check the existence of the orientation of the magnetic moments, which is achieved through the ratio of the peaks that appear in the Mössbauer spectra. Finally Mössbauer spectroscopy was our main tool for the identification of an unknown material for us which was the lava. In the end it turned out that this technique was decisive for the identification of the material.
THE RELATION BETWEEN MATERNAL DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND PARENT-TEACHER REPORTING DISCREPANCY: EVALUATING PARENTING BEHAVIORS AND ENVIRONMENT AS RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS
Creators: name: Boland, Sarah
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021

description: Discrepancy among informant reporting can have significant implications on intervention and diagnostic/clinical decisions. The nature in which parental behaviors and family dynamics may impact the relation between maternal depression and informant discrepancies in reporting child behavior and temperament has not yet been investigated. Using an archival dataset, participants included 50 female caregivers who had children (ages 3 to 6 years) attending a Head Start preschool and 51 female caregivers who had children in the same age range attending a non-Head Start preschool. Both mothers and teachers completed measures assessing the variables of interest. First, it was expected that the Head Start group would have higher levels of maternal depression, home chaos, negative parenting behaviors, child internalizing symptoms, child externalizing symptoms, and negative affectivity as well as lower positive parenting behaviors, surgency, and effortful control based on both parent and teacher report. Additionally, it was expected that maternal depressive symptoms would positively relate to parent-teacher discrepancy on internalizing symptoms, externalizing symptoms, and negative affectivity, whereas it would negatively relate to parent-teacher discrepancy on surgency and effortful control. It was expected that positive parenting behaviors would attenuate the relation between depressive symptoms and discrepancy, whereas home chaos and negative parenting behaviors would exacerbate that relation. To address the existing literature’s mixed findings on the role of SES in over-reporting biases, the present study examined type of preschool (Head Start vs. non-Head Start) as a moderator of the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and discrepancy. Results yielded several significant correlations among variables of interest. Maternal depressive symptoms significantly predicted only internalizing discrepancy, which additionally held when accounting individually for home chaos, negative parenting, positive parenting, and preschool type. Depressive symptoms also marginally related to externalizing discrepancy at the zero-order level. Positive parenting positively correlated with externalizing discrepancy and effortful control discrepancy. Among explored moderators of the relation between depressive symptoms and discrepancy, only the interaction between preschool type and depressive symptoms marginally predicted effortful control discrepancy. Though the selected variables neither attenuated nor strengthened the relation between depressive symptoms and parent-teacher discrepancy, the current findings warrant several areas for future directions.
The Slottsmøya marine reptile Lagerstätte: depositional environments, taphonomy and diagenesis
Creators: name: Delsett, Lene L.
name: Novis, Linn K.
name: Roberts, Aubrey J.
name: Koeovoets, Maayke J.
name: Hammer, Øyvind
name: Druckenmiller, Patrick S.
name: Hurum, Jørn H.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A taphonomic description of each marine reptile specimen.
Deterministic Lateral Displacement Particle Detection Tool Utilizing Machine Vision and Machine Learning
Creators: name: Gioe, Eric Anthony
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: analysis automation
deterministic lateral displacement
machine vision
particle detection
Machine Learning

description: Deterministic Lateral Displacement (DLD) is a microfluidic method of separatingparticles in a solution, with one goal being the separation of circulating tumor cells
description: from blood. With a properly designed DLD for high-throughput flow, it is possible for
description: the DLD to be effective for particle separation while optimizing the time it requires
description: to process a sample. DLD is in its research and development stage, with much of the
description: analysis simulated or completed manually. There was a need to reduce the time of
description: analysis from hours with manual techniques, to less than a minute using automated
description: software analysis.
description: The Particle Detection Automation Tool provided initial developmental efforts for
description: a program that will reduce the analysis time of DLD videos in an easy-to-use manner.
description: For the basis of the tool, a reliable method of particle detection had to be created.
description: This was accomplished through Python and its available packages in machine vision
description: techniques such as probabilistic Hough transforms, Canny edge detection, and existing
description: tools such as OpenCV’s SimpleBlobDetector. The program development began with
description: detection methods such as simple thresholding, but added a GUI and was able to
description: detect particles consistently and with a high accuracy. Version 1 of the program had
description: an overall detection accuracy of 78.45%. After improvements to the program, the
description: final version of program, Version 4, the overall particle detection accuracy improved
description: to 96.84%. The particle distribution determination still needs to be improved.
description: Three machine learning techniques, Complement Naive Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbors,
description: and Support Vector Machines Radial Basis Function kernel, were implemented
description: and compared in the determination of the DLD mode. More data needs to be acquired,
description: analyzed, and labeled to have a larger dataset when re-training the machine
description: learning models to avoid over-fit machine learning models. There is still much work to
description: be done with improving the current version of the program and expanding the machine
description: learning analysis, while developing additional functions that enhance the capabilities
description: of the particle detection automation tool. However, it can be said that the program
description: presented here provides a solid basis for future development and implementation in
description: automated analysis.
Οι επιπλοκές της σαφηνεκτομής και η αντιμετώπισή τους
Creators: name: Οβαλόγλου, Καλλιόπη Αναστασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Σαφηνεκτομή
Επιπλοκές
Αντιμετώπιση
Saphenectomy
Complications
Treatment

description: Η επιπολής φλεβική ανεπάρκεια του δικτύου των κάτω άκρων είναι μια νόσος που αφορά και απασχολεί ένα μεγάλο ποσοστό του γενικού πληθυσμού και περιλαμβάνει μία πληθώρα συμπτωμάτων διαφορετικής βαρύτητας η οποία κυμαίνεται από τις ευρυαγγείες έως και τα φλεβικά έλκη με πιο συχνή κλινική εκδήλωση της νόσου την εμφάνιση των κιρσοειδών φλεβών, με ή χωρίς συμπτώματα . Η αντιμετώπιση της ποικίλει ανάλογα με τη βαρύτητα των συμπτωμάτων από συντηρητική ως επεμβατική. Η επεμβατική αντιμετώπιση της είναι η Σαφηνεκτομή η οποία είναι η πιο συνηθισμένη χειρουργική επέμβαση για την αντιμετώπιση της επιπολής φλεβικής ανεπάρκειας. Η επέμβαση περιλαμβάνει την απολίνωση στο ύψος της σαφηνομηριαίας συμβολής, την απολίνωση-διατομή όλων των πλάγιων κλάδων της σαφηνομηριαίας συμβολής, την εκρίζωση της μείζονος σαφηνούς φλέβας, την απολίνωση των διατιτραινουσών που ανεπαρκούν και την τοπική αφαίρεση των διευρυμένων κλάδων της γαστροκνημίας. Η Σαφηνεκτομή όπως και κάθε άλλη χειρουργική επέμβαση εμπεριέχει τον κίνδυνο ενός ποσοστού μείζονος ή ελάσσονος σημασίας επιπλοκών που μπορεί να προκύψουν, και όταν προκύψουν, επιβάλλεται να αντιμετωπιστούν κατάλληλα. Οι επιπλοκές αυτές και η αντιμετώπιση τους θα διερευνηθούν διεξοδικά στην παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή εργασία με σκοπό την καλύτερη κατανόηση των αιτιών, την πρόληψη τους για τη βελτίωση της ποιότητας ζωής των ασθενών.
description: Superficial venous insufficiency of the network of the lower limbs is a disease that concerns and concerns a large percentage of the general population and includes a multitude of symptoms of varying severity ranging from varicose veins to venous ulcers with the most frequent clinical manifestation of the disease being the appearance of varicose veins, with or without symptoms. Its treatment varies depending on the severity of the symptoms from conservative to invasive. Its invasive treatment is saphenectomy, which is the most common surgical procedure to treat superficial venous insufficiency. The operation includes ligation at the level of the saphenofemoral junction, ligation-transection of all lateral branches of the saphenofemoral junction, extirpation of the greater saphenous vein, ligation of deficient dititranates, and local removal of the enlarged gastrocnemius branches. Saphenectomy like any other surgical procedure carries the risk of a rate of major or minor complications that may occur, and when they do occur, they must be managed appropriately. These complications and their treatment will be thoroughly investigated in this postgraduate thesis in order to better understand the causes, their prevention to improve the quality of life of the patient’s.
World Systems Theory and Cross-National Variations in Trust
Creators: name: Leonard, Cassandra Althea
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: cross-national
subject: World Systems Theory
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Cross-national research identifies trust as being highly associated with a country’s income, inequality, average education, quality of institutions, and religious tradition. Using a measure of generalized trust from the World Values Survey question “Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you need to be careful when dealing with most people?” I examine the extent to which World Systems Theory is a better theoretical framework for predicting cross-national trust than previous frameworks across a 41 country sample. The findings suggest that a country’s place in the World System is a strong predictor of national-level trust, and that other previously-used predictors may be less important under this perspective.
Neuroinflammation and comorbidities are frequently ignored factors in CNS pathology
Creators: name: Lijun Sun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Virtually all drug interventions that have been successful pre-clinically in experimental stroke have failed to prove their efficacy in a clinical setting. This could be partly explained by the complexity and heterogeneity of human diseases as well as the associated co-morbidities which may render neuroprotective drugs less efficacious in clinical practice. One aspect of crucial importance in the physiopathology of stroke which is not completely understood is neuroinflammation. At the present time, it is becoming evident that subtle, but continuous neuroinflammation can provide the ground for disorders such as cerebral small vessel disease. Moreover, advanced aging and a number of highly prevalent risk factors such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes and atherosclerosis could act as “silent contributors” promoting a chronic proinflammatory state. This could aggravate the outcome of various pathological entities and can contribute to a number of subsequent post-stroke complications such as dementia, depression and neurodegeneration creating a pathological vicious cycle. However, recent data suggests that the inflammatory process might be closely linked with multiple neurodegenerative pathways related to depression. In addition, pro-inflammatory cytokines could play a central role in the pathophysiology of both depression and dementia.
Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη: Η σχέση αλληλεξάρτησης με την προστασία προσωπικών δεδομένων και οι νέες προκλήσεις για την προστασία του καταναλωτή
Creators: name: Παπαδημητρίου, Αλέξανδρος Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Προσωπικά δεδομένα
Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη
Πράξη για την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη
Personal Data
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Act

description: Η Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη αποτελεί την τεχνολογία αιχμής του 21ου αιώνα που θέτει υπό αμφισβήτηση βασικές αρχές της ζωής μας και τείνει να ανατρέψει την καθημερινότητά μας όπως την γνωρίζουμε. Οι εφαρμογές ΤΝ, η μηχανική μάθηση, η βαθιά μάθηση και οι εφαρμογές νευρωνικών δικτύων ενισχύουν την αντίληψη περί του ποιο είναι το πολυτιμότερο αγαθό στην ψηφιακή μας κοινωνία· Τα δεδομένα. Όλες οι παραπάνω τεχνολογίες ωθούν την ανθρωπότητα σε μια αλλαγή παραδείγματος. Η στενή σχέση των παραπάνω τεχνολογιών και ειδικότερα της ΤΝ με τον Γενικό Κανονισμό Προστασίας Δεδομένων, έγκειται στο γεγονός ότι συχνά απαιτείται η συλλογή δεδομένων προσωπικού χαρακτήρα για την εκπαίδευση και τη χρήση τους. Στο σημείο αυτό ωστόσο, είναι που εμφανίζονται και οι σχετικοί προβληματισμοί αναφορικά με τη χρήση των δεδομένων αυτών, τον σκοπό τους, την εσωτερική λειτουργία τέτοιων συστημάτων καθώς και τις συνέπειες τους στα θεμελιώδη δικαιώματα και στις ελευθερίες των φυσικών προσώπων. Στην παρούσα μελέτη θα γίνει αναφορά σε όλους τους παραπάνω προβληματισμούς και θα αναλύσουμε την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη, την σχέση της με τον ΓΚΠΔ και τις νέες προκλήσεις που φέρνει η καινοτόμος τεχνολογία στην προστασία των καταναλωτών.
description: Artificial Intelligence is the cutting-edge technology of the 21st century that challenges the basic principles of our lives and tends to disrupt our everyday life as we know it. AI applications, machine learning, deep learning, and neural network applications are reinforcing the perception of what is the most valuable asset in our digital society - Data. All of the above technologies are pushing humanity towards a paradigm shift. The close relationship of the above technologies, particularly AI, with the General Data Protection Regulation is that it often requires collecting personal data for training and its use. At this point, however, relevant concerns arise regarding the use of such data, their purpose, the internal functioning of such systems, and their consequences on individuals' fundamental rights and freedoms. In this study, we will refer to all the above concerns and analyze AI, its relationship with GDPR, and the new challenges that innovative technology brings to consumer protection.
THE RELATION BETWEEN LANGUAGE FLUENCY AND LANGUAGE APPLICATION WITH EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING IN MONOLINGUAL, BI/MULTILINGUAL COLLEGE-AGED INDIVIDUALS
Creators: name: Johnson, Shelby Lee
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021

description: Research has shown that bilingual individuals may have an advantage pertaining to tasks of executive functioning (EF) due to greater mental flexibility and inhibition of non-relevant stimuli. However, the extent of this advantage is unknown especially related to how often the additional language(s) is used, the level of language fluency in one or more languages, and, if any, when additional languages were learned. The current study aimed to understand the relation between language fluency and EF among monolingual and bi/multilingual individuals, how language usage frequency may relate to EF, and the importance of age of acquisition of language. No significant relation between language fluency and EF or between language application and EF was found for the full sample. Likewise, age of acquisition did not predict EF among the bi/multilingual group, nor did it moderate the relation of other language variables with EF. Potential explanations for the lack of significant findings related to specific neurocognitive measures given and demographics of participants are explored.
La producción científica de la UMSNH y su acceso
Creators: name: Martínez-Domínguez, Néstor Daniel
name: Rogel-Salazar, Rosario
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Science Policy

description: Se realiza una descripción de la producción científica (número de papers) de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicólas de Hidalgo (UMSNH-México) publicada en revistas indizadas en bases de datos de corriente principal (Scopus).
De esta manera, pudo detectarse el crecimiento de la producción científica de la UMSNH, así como sus grados de internacionalización, área de conocimiento y, sobre todo, el tipo de acceso de la investigación académica michoacana que participa en la conversación científica global.
Some fluid mechanics problems for space exploration
Creators: name: Muniyal Krishna, Santhosh Kumar
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021

description: Future space missions will depend on the ability to store fluids, transport fluids and process fluids. Fluids are used in many spacecraft systems, such as storage tanks, heating, and cooling, or to build/restore spacecraft structures. As space missions get longer, researchers want to conserve energy while utilizing these fluids in order to make longer space missions possible.
description: Liquid oscillations are common for a spacecraft, either during trajectory correction maneuvers or navigating the spacecraft during entry, descent, and landing. These oscillations affect the stability of the spacecraft. Even small disturbances in a spacecraft might cause the fluids to move or shift their position. Liquids in question are liquid hydrogen (LH2), liquid oxygen (LOX), and other liquids needed for life support, such as water. Capillary forces can be exploited to control these fluids. We develop and calibrate the numerical model to investigate the liquid oscillations for push experiments conducted in International Space Station.
description: Effective cryogenics storage management is the necessity for long duration space exploration. Liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX), fuel/oxidizer combination yields the highest specific impulse, or efficiency, and is the choice for NASA space exploration. Heat leaks into the fuel tank leading to evaporation of liquid hydrogen (LH2) and self-pressurization of tank. Zero Boil-Off Tank (ZBOT) can be realized using catalyzation of parahydrogen-orthohydrogen conversion. Current work describes about the computational fluid dynamics modeling for catalyzation of parahydrogen-orthohydrogen conversion.
description: Space debris is a growing problem which risk the current mission and future space exploration. Brazing with molten alloy is one of the possible solutions to repair the damaged spacecraft. To braze molten alloy effectively, it’s important to study the brazing of molten alloys on terrestrial conditions. Experiments are done to study kinetics of molten alloy on wetting/non-wetting surface. An unusual behavior of molten alloy is observed during these experiments. We explain the anomalous behavior through numerical modeling.
ANALYSIS OF VIABILITY, VARIABILITY AND PRESENCE OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE GENES IN EQUINE PROBIOTICS
Creators: name: Berreta, Ana Claudia Ramos
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Equine
Probiotic

description: Probiotics, by definition, are live microorganisms which when consumed in adequate amounts confer a health benefit to the host. The objective of this thesis is to critically evaluate some definition criteria of a probiotic and commercial probiotic label claims, highlighting areas for improvement in probiotic development. The first study evaluates the effect of an in vitro simulation of the equine proximal GI tract on probiotic viability. It suggests that enteric protection should be considered to improve microorganism viability in equine probiotics and that increasing gastric pH may improve survival of some microorganisms. The second study evaluated the content and inter-lot variability of commercial equine probiotic products using culture dependent and independent techniques. This study found that none of the evaluated commercial equine probiotic samples met their label claim for quantity and type of viable microorganisms but only two of eleven demonstrated inter-lot variability. In the third study, the objective is to determine if the transferrable vancomycin resistance genes vanA and vanB were present in probiotics marketed for use in animals that claimed to contain Enterococcus spp. It identified vanA in 2 out of 36 commercially available probiotics marketed for use in animals that also contained Enterococcus spp. DNA. This thesis highlights areas for improvement in probiotic development.
"A Citizen Same As You And I": Japanese American Student Relocation to Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington, 1942-1945
Creators: name: Vega, Mario Jesus
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: incarceration
internment
Japanese American
World War II
WWII
Asian American studies
Education

description: This thesis examines the relocation of Japanese Americans to the University of Idaho and Washington State College during World War II. Before the war, Japanese Americans faced limitations in the form of nativist policies that relegated them to second-class citizens. Nevertheless, Japanese Americans embraced Americanism as they worked to become equal citizens. After Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 threatened the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, including those enrolled in college. Hundreds of Japanese American students faced incarceration but were able to relocate inland thanks to the help of sympathetic faculty and citizens. In the early months of the war, two neighboring colleges, the University of Idaho and Washington State College, became potential locations where these students might resettle and find sanctuary. As Japanese American students arrived at these colleges, the towns became the setting for debates regarding relocation. As struggles between administrators, townspeople, and students took place, they reveal an ongoing discussion about American identity, citizenship, and race. The story of student relocation also illustrates the complex relationships between Japanese Americans and white Americans as the line between exclusion and tolerance was blurred. While anti-Japanese sentiment rose during the war, it was countered by Japanese American students and their allies who challenged nativist prejudice. The Japanese American response to prejudice and their embrace of American identity demonstrate a desire to change the United States into a more equal nation.
Response of 'Merlot' (Vitis vinifera) grapevine to defoliation caused by downy mildew (Plasmopara viticola) during the following growing season
Creators: name: Jermini, M.
name: Blaise, P.
name: Gessler, C.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: The downy mildew (Plasmopara viticola) epidemics on leaf canopy during the ripening phase causes a stress situation for the grapevine. The plant compensates the carbohydrate request of the berries mobilising the carbohydrate reserves stored in the woody parts. In this fourth study the impact of the reserves reduction on the growth and fertility and the recovering capacity of the plant were analysed during two consecutive periods of two years (first year = stress; second year = recovering). Two treatments were compared: “Untreated canopy” (to prevent quantity losses, the clusters were treated once with a contact fungicide at the discovery of the first downy mildew sporulation) and “Standard schedule” (schedule normally applied in the vineyard). The impact of decreased reserve contents in the following growth season has negatively influenced only the shoot elongation and the potential crop yield quantity of the “Untreated canopy” treatment. Nevertheless, a single recovery year was enough to rebuild the reserve pool particularly in the roots, confirming the acclimation potential of the grapevine.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 49 No. 4 (2010): Vitis
Australian Football as a Construct of the Frontier Contact Zone (Gerardo Papalia; Robert Pascoe)
Creators: name: Papalia, Gerardo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ethnic Studies
subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This essay examines the Aboriginal influences on Australian Rules Football by drawing on the post-structuralist theories of Deleuze and Guattari, particularly those relating to the 'nomad war machine', smooth and striated space, territorialization and deterritorialization, 'becomings-animal/spiritual'. The essay uses these conceptualisations to establish a meta-narrative which illuminates the relationship between settler culture and post-Invasion Indigenous culture. Australian Rules Football emerges as a product of the Aboriginal/settler frontier.
A critical geopolitics of observant practice at British military airshows
Creators: name: Rech, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 160499 Human Geography not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 160403 Social and Cultural Geography

description: This paper demonstrates how visual cultures of militarism take shape as part of a ‘thick’ geopolitics of being-in-place. It draws on historical accounts of, and empirical observations at, British military airshows, which it interprets via the concept of ‘observant practice’. The paper argues that the imaginative and rhetorical force of military spectacle and popular militarism are tied to its markedly enclavic spatiality i.e. to seeing and doing in-place. By taking seriously the spatial and sensory experience of British airshows, the paper extends recent work in critical geopolitics that questions the spatialized politics of experience, and brings them into dialogue with cultural geographies of tourism. It provides a brief history of the spectacular origins of aviation and of the use of airshows to the practice of statecraft, and demonstrates how airshows are an important element in the cultural phenomenon of militarisation. The paper takes forward debates around ‘the vision thing’ in critical geopolitics by illustrating why the notion of observant practice should not be dissociated from consideration of the spaces in and through which militaries become the object of visual curiosity. It expands, therefore, the potential of observant practice as a critique of popular military cultures.