cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DATESSO: Self-Adapting Service Composition with Debt-Aware Two Levels Constraint Reasoning
Creators: name: Kumar, Satish
name: Chen, Tao
name: Bahsoon, Rami
name: Buyya, Rajkumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapidly changing workload of service-based systems can easily cause under-/over-utilization on the component services, which can consequently affect the overall Quality of Service (QoS), such as latency. Self-adaptive services composition rectifies this problem, but poses several challenges: (i) the effectiveness of adaptation can deteriorate due to over-optimistic assumptions on the latency and utilization constraints, at both local and global levels; and (ii) the benefits brought by each composition plan is often short term and is not often designed for long-term benefits -- a natural prerequisite for sustaining the system. To tackle these issues, we propose a two levels constraint reasoning framework for sustainable self-adaptive services composition, called DATESSO. In particular, DATESSO consists of a re ned formulation that differentiates the "strictness" for latency/utilization constraints in two levels. To strive for long-term benefits, DATESSO leverages the concept of technical debt and time-series prediction to model the utility contribution of the component services in the composition. The approach embeds a debt-aware two level constraint reasoning algorithm in DATESSO to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of self-adaptive service composition. We evaluate DATESSO on a service-based system with real-world WS-DREAM dataset and comparing it with other state-of-the-art approaches. The results demonstrate the superiority of DATESSO over the others on the utilization, latency and running time whilst likely to be more sustainable.
description: Accepted to the SEAMS '20. Please use the following citation: Satish Kumar, Tao Chen, Rami Bahsoon, and Rajkumar Buyya. DATESSO: Self-Adapting Service Composition with Debt-Aware Two Levels Constraint Reasoning. In IEEE/ACM 15th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, Oct 7-8, 2020, Seoul, Korea
TESTING NORMALITY IN ECONOMETRIC MODELS
Creators: name: Kiefer, Nicholas
name: Salmon, Mark
name: Kiefer, Nicholas
name: Salmon, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: A specification test based on an Edgeworth expansior is proposed and some of its useful properties are noted. In particular the test has an important additivity property, in that a test for higher-order alternatives simply adds additional, asymptotically independent X2 variates to tests against lower order alternatives.
Why Is There So Much More Research on Vision Than on Any Other Sensory Modality?
Creators: name: Hutmacher, Fabian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: visual dominance, visuo-centrism, visual turn, social constructionism, history of the senses, multimodal integration, perception
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Why is there so much more research on vision than on any other sensory modality? There is a seemingly easy answer to this question: It is because vision is our most important and most complex sense. Although there are arguments in favor of this explanation, it can be challenged in two ways: by showing that the arguments regarding the importance and complexity of vision are debatable and by demonstrating that there are other aspects that need to be taken into account. Here, I argue that the explanation is debatable, as there are various ways of defining “importance” and “complexity” and, as there is no clear consensus that vision is indeed the most important and most complex of our senses. Hence, I propose two additional explanations: According to the methodological-structural explanation, there is more research on vision because the available, present-day technology is better suited for studying vision than for studying other modalities – an advantage which most likely is the result of an initial bias toward vision, which reinforces itself. Possible reasons for such an initial bias are discussed. The cultural explanation emphasizes that the dominance of the visual is not an unchangeable constant, but rather the result of the way our societies are designed and thus heavily influenced by human decision-making. As it turns out, there is no universal hierarchy of the senses, but great historical and cross-cultural variation. Realizing that the dominance of the visual is socially and culturally reinforced and not simply a law of nature, gives us the opportunity to take a step back and to think about the kind of sensory environments we want to create and about the kinds of theories that need to be developed in research.
Practicing urban agriculture on campus : integrating the LFS Garden with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems community
Creators: name: Chen, Jessica
name: DiPardo, Shawn
name: Hermanto, Yuliana
name: Jennermann, Amy
name: Mananta, Lyviana
name: Lee, Sharon
name: Schroeder, Alanna
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The University of British Columbia Food System Project (UBCFSP) is an ongoing collaborative effort between AGSC 450 students, project collaborators and partners to build a more sustainable food system at UBC. The focus of scenario five was to expand the LFS Garden to the west side of the MacMillan building. The expansion was purposed to further enhance small scale organic production; provide food in the LFS community; and provide opportunities for hands on interdisciplinary learning. The group reviewed literature of previous AGSC 450 reports and communicated with project stakeholders, including Martin Hilmer, Jeff Nulty, Megan Halstead, Pearl Yip, Sophia Bake-French, Nick Gallant, Dr. Art Bomke, and Dr. Gwen Chapman. Through consultations, the group devised a business proposal that would be helpful for the development of LFS Garden which focused on: signage and communication; garden management; garden layout; composting; production, harvesting and distribution plan; budget and supply list; and education opportunities. The group also found that the LFS Garden had a potential to be implemented into education such as in Agroecology courses. In addition, the group has created garden management committed which includes Art Bomke, Martin Hilmer and Liska Richer. For the garden manager, all scenario 5 groups agreed to formulate an email that was sent out to all students in the faculty to attract students to the position. Furthermore, the group designed the garden layout that followed the concerns of community stakeholders, while utilizing creativity and imagination to create a garden that is a beautiful social space that is also sustainable. The project concludes with prioritizing the next steps towards implementation of the proposals. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Effect of Climate Condition on Productivity of Potato (Solanum Tuberosum L.) in Bandung District and North Minahasa District
Creators: name: Brotodjojo, RR. Rukmowati
name: Utami, H.A.R.
name: Poerwanto, Mofit E.
name: Hasanah, Khuswatun
name: Lakatos, Laszlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This material has been presented on 3rd International Conference on Advance Research in Agriculture and Food 2024 October 23 - 24, 2024.
Fracture of a viscous liquid
Creators: name: Restagno, Frederic
name: Lorenceau, Elise
name: Quere, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a viscous liquid hits a pool of liquid of same nature, the impact region is hollowed by the shock. Its bottom becomes extremely sharp if increasing the impact velocity, and we report that the curvature at that place increases exponentially with the flow velocity, in agreement with a theory by Jeong and Moffatt. Such a law defines a characteristic velocity for the collapse of the tip, which explains both the cusp-like shape of this region, and the instability of the cusp if increasing (slightly) the impact velocity. Then, a film of the upper phase is entrained inside the pool. We characterize the critical velocity of entrainment of this phase and compare our results with recent predictions by Eggers.
Odontoscirus lapidaria
Creators: name: Rostami, Aylar
name: Bagheri, Mohammad
name: Jamshidi, Soleyman
name: Paktinat-Saeij, Saeid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Bdellidae
Odontoscirus
Odontoscirus lapidaria

description: Odontoscirus lapidaria (Kramer, 1881)
 Bdella lapidaria Kramer, 1881: 444.
 Distribution: Cosmopolitan (Hernandes et al. 2016).
 Previous provincial records from Iran: Fars (Ostovan and Kamali 1995), Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari, Khuzestan (Kamali et al. 2001).
 Material examined: Two females from rotten leaves under apple tree and four nymphs from soil, Balesin village, 26 January 2016; one female from rotten leaves under apple tree, Seyyedlar village, 11 December 2015, Miyaneh city, East Azerbaijan province, Iran were collected by Aylar Rostami.
description: Published as part of Rostami, Aylar, Bagheri, Mohammad, Jamshidi, Soleyman & Paktinat-Saeij, Saeid, 2017, New records of Bdelloidea (Acari: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata) from Iran with a re-description of Spinibdella tadjikistanica Kuznetzov, pp. 245-258 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (4) on page 251, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i4.30958, http://zenodo.org/record/4644776
A possibility to determine the P-parity of the $Θ^+$ pentaquark in the ${p}{n}\to Λ^0Θ^+$ reaction
Creators: name: Uzikov, Yu. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin structure of the reaction ${\vec p}{\vec n}\to {\vec Λ^0} {\vec Θ}$ is analysed at the threshold in a model independent way under assumption that the $Θ^+$ is an isosinglet. We found that the sign of the spin-spin correlation parameter $C_{x,x}$ being measured in a double-spin experiment, determines the P-parity of the $Θ^+$ unambiguously. Furthermore we show that the polarization coefficients $K_x^x,K_y^y$ and $K_z^z$ which describe the polarization transfer from polarized beam or target to the final $Λ^0$ and $Θ^+$ are nonzero for a positive parity of the $Θ^+$ and equal zero for a negative parity. It allows one to determine the P-parity of the $Θ^+$ in a single-spin measurement, since the polarization of the $Λ^0$ can be measured via its decay $Λ^0\to π^-+ p$.
description: 8 pages, Latex . The spin 3/2 of the $\Theta^+$ and a discrimination for the isospin T=0,1 and 2 are briefly discussed; minor corrections are performed
title: Bridging the gap: literacy for students using augmentative and alternative communication
Creators: name: Van Gameren, Grietha E.
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Literacy
subject: People with disabilities—Means of communication

description: The purpose of this project was to gain a deeper understanding of how to support literacy skills with students who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The focus looked at finding an alternate means of assessing phonological awareness skills especially geared to students who are non-verbal or minimally verbal. A design-based research approach was used to survey elementary educators to identify a gap in literacy access for students using AAC and to create the Phonological Awareness Screen for Students using AAC (PASS-AAC). Results indicated that elementary educators did not find current assessment practices to be accessible for students with AAC and that the PASS-AAC would be a suitable alternative method. The findings in this project suggest that there is a need for alternative assessment methods for students using AAC and further trials with this population would be beneficial to get a deeper understanding how to best support literacy skills for AAC users.
Effective de Sitter brane via running radius
Creators: name: Uekusa, Nobuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the solution for effective couplings on a running de Sitter brane. A renormalization group formalism is developed for linearized gravity in a two de Sitter brane model. It is shown that the effective tension remains a constant similarly to the zero cosmological constant case. We also discuss the suppression of higher derivative terms.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures; typos corrected, conclusion changed, references added
Tunable two-dimensional electron system at the (110) surface of SnO$_2$
Creators: name: Dai, J.
name: Frantzeskakis, E.
name: Fortuna, F.
name: Lömker, P.
name: Yukawa, R.
name: Thees, M.
name: Sengupta, S.
name: Fèvre, P. Le
name: Bertran, F.
name: Rault, J. E.
name: Horiba, K.
name: Müller, M.
name: Kumigashira, H.
name: Santander-Syro, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the observation of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) at the $(110)$ surface of the transparent bulk insulator SnO$_2$, and the tunability of its carrier density by means of temperature or Eu deposition. The 2DES is insensitive to surface reconstructions and, surprisingly, it survives even after exposure to ambient conditions --an extraordinary fact recalling the well known catalytic properties SnO$_2$. Our data show that surface oxygen vacancies are at the origin of such 2DES, providing key information about the long-debated origin of $n$-type conductivity in SnO$_2$, at the basis of a wide range of applications. Furthermore, our study shows that the emergence of a 2DES in a given oxide depends on a delicate interplay between its crystal structure and the orbital character of its conduction band.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
Killing spinor-valued forms and their integrability conditions
Creators: name: Somberg, Petr
name: Zima, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35N10, 53A20, 53A55, 53B20, 53C21, 58J70

description: We study invariant systems of PDEs defining Killing vector-valued forms, and then we specialize to Killing spinor-valued forms. We give a detailed treatment of their prolongation and integrability conditions by relating the point-wise values of solutions to the curvature of the underlying manifold. As an example, we completely solve the equations on model spaces of constant curvature producing brand new solutions which do not come from the tensor product of Killing spinors and Killing-Yano forms.
title: Οικονομοτεχνική ανάλυση ξενοδοχειακής επιχείρησης στη Σαντορίνη
title: Business plan analysis of a hotel in Thira
Creators: name: Φυτρος Ιωαννης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2021

description: Στην διπλωµατική εργασία εξετάζεται και αναλύεται το ενδεχόµενο επένδυσης κεφαλαίου µε σκοπό την ίδρυση µίας νέας ξενοδοχειακής µονάδας στη Σαντορίνη. Αυτό θα έχει σαν αποτέλεσµα την γενικότερη ανάπτυξη της οικονοµίας του νησιού και παράλληλα θα βελτιωθεί ο τρόπος ζωής των κατοίκων.
          Ο στόχος της εργασίας είναι να γίνει µία ενδελεχής τεχνοοικονοµική ανάλυση του επενδυτικού σχεδίου. Με βάση την ανάλυση αυτή, ο επιχειρηµατίας θα µπορεί να αποφασίσει αν η νέα χρηµατική επένδυση τον ωφελεί οικονοµικά. Η εν λόγω διπλωµατική θεωρείται σηµαντική καθώς παρουσιάζει µερικούς τεχνοοικονοµικούς δείκτες οι οποίοι είναι απαραίτητοι για την ανάλυση ενός νέου επενδυτικού σχεδίου. Δυνητικά, µπορούν να ωφεληθούν νέοι επιχειρηµατίες διαβάζοντας την εργασία αυτή και να καταλάβουν ότι για να θεωρηθεί συµφέρουσα µία νέα χρηµατική επένδυση πρέπει να αναλυθούν κάποιοι τεχνοοικονοµικοί δείκτες, µερικοί των οποίων αναλύονται στην διπλωµατική.
Για τη µεθοδολογία που ακολουθείται γίνεται ανάλυση του επενδυτικού σχεδίου και µε ποιοτική και µε ποσοτική µεθοδολογία. Γίνεται ανάλυση σεναρίων. Η συλλογή δεδοµένων γίνεται µε βάση τις πληροφορίες που παρέχονται δωρεάν από την Ελληνική Στατιστική Εταιρία καθώς επίσης και από προσωπικές γνώσεις και πηγές.Τα αναµενόµενα αποτελέσµατα είναι αν εν τέλει η νέα χρηµατική επένδυση είναι οικονοµικά συµφέρουσα για τον επιχειρηµατία. Δίνεται βάση στην περεταίρω ανάλυση ενός νέου επενδυτικού σχεδίου και το πώς µελλοντικά πρέπει να δρουν οι επίµαχοι επιχειρηµατίες οι οποίοι θα έχουν πάντα ως στόχο την οικονοµική και κοινωνική τους βελτίωση.
Topological Charge of ADHM Instanton on R^2_{NC}*R^2
Creators: name: Tian, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have calculated the topological charge of U(N) instantons on non-degenerate noncommutative space time to be exactly the instanton number k in a previous paper [Mod.Phys.Lett. A18 1691]. This paper, which deals with the degenerate R^2_{NC}*R^2 case, is the continuation of that one. We find that the same conclusion holds in this case, thus complete the answer to the problem of topological charge of noncommutative U(N) instantons.
description: LaTeX, to appear in Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Additional file 1 of Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors antagonize lipotoxicity in human myeloid angiogenic cells and ADP-dependent activation in human platelets: potential relevance to prevention of cardiovascular events
Creators: name: Spigoni, Valentina
name: Fantuzzi, Federica
name: Carubbi, Cecilia
name: Pozzi, Giulia
name: Masselli, Elena
name: Gobbi, Giuliana
name: Solini, Anna
name: Bonadonna, Riccardo C.
name: Cas, Alessandra Dei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Diagram of experimental procedures and results.
High Temperature Superconductivity In Pd-[H(D)]X System
Creators: name: Sinha, K. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical model involving phonon and lochon (local charged boson) mediated pairing of electrons in Pd(H/D)x is suggested to explain the possible observation of superconductivity in the range 51K < Tc < 295K (when x exceeds unity). In the combined mechanism the lochons have transient existence on (H+/D+) resulting in (H-/D-) species. The coupling parameter lambda_1 for lochon induced processes depend linearly on x. The model explains the observation of the enhancement of Tc for x varying from 0.6 to 1.6. While the experimental observations are of great importance, it is desirable that other experimental groups confirm the results.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Potential dual inhibitors of PCSK-9 and HMG-R from natural sources in cardiovascular risk management
Creators: name: Waiz, Mohd
name: Alvi, Sahir Sultan
name: Khan, M. Salman
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: HMG-R
PCSK-9
statins
PCSK-9 inhibitors
ASCVD
natural secondary metabolites

description: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) stands amongst the leading causes of mortality worldwide and has attracted the attention of world’s leading pharmaceutical companies in order to tackle such mortalities. The low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) is considered the most prominent biomarker for the assessment of ASCVD risk. Distinct inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA reductase (HMG-R), the chief hepatic cholesterogenic enzyme, are being used since last seven decades to manage hypercholesterolemia. On the other hand, discovery and the association of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type-9 (PCSK-9) with increased ASCVD risk have established PCSK-9 as a novel therapeutic target in cardiovascular medicine. PCSK-9 is well reckoned to facilitate the LDL-receptor (LDL-R) degradation and compromised LDL-C clearance leading to the arterial atherosclerotic plaque formation. The currently available HMG-R inhibitors (statins) and PCSK-9 inhibitors (siRNA, anti-sense oligonucleotides, and monoclonal antibodies) have shown great promises in achieving LDL-C lowering goals, however, their life long prescriptions have raised significant concerns. These deficits associated with the synthetic HMG-R and PCSK-9 inhibitors called for the discovery of alternative therapeutic candidates with potential dual HMG-R and PCSK-9 inhibitory activities from natural origins. Therefore, this report firstly describes the mechanistic insights into the cholesterol homeostasis through HMG-R, PCSK-9, and LDL-R functionality and then compiles the pharmacological effects of natural secondary metabolites with special emphasis on their dual HMG-R and PCSK-9 inhibitory action. In conclusion, various natural products exhibit atheroprotective effects via targeting HMG-R and PCSK-9 activities and lipoprotein metabolism, however, further clinical assessments are still warranted prior their approval for ASCVD risk management in hypercholesterolemic patients.
description: EXCLI Journal; 21:Doc47; ISSN 1611-2156
Three Theorems on Inflation Taxes and Marginal Employment Subsidies
Creators: name: Oswald, Andrew J.
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Financial Economics
Industrial Organization

description: The paper studies the micro-economics of inflation taxes and marginal employment subsidies. It proves that under very weak assumptions (i) an inflation tax will reduce the long-run equilibrium wage or price and (ii) that a marginal employment subsidy will raise the longrun equilibrium employment level. The theorems are illustrated with examples. The paper also prove's (iii) that in special circumstances a tax on inflation is exactly equivalent to a marginal employment subsidy.
Distributive routing & congestion control in wireless multihop ad hoc communication networks
Creators: name: Glauche, Ingmar
name: Krause, Wolfram
name: Sollacher, Rudolf
name: Greiner, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to their inherent complexity, engineered wireless multihop ad hoc communication networks represent a technological challenge. Having no mastering infrastructure the nodes have to selforganize themselves in such a way that for example network connectivity, good data traffic performance and robustness are guaranteed. In this contribution the focus is on routing & congestion control. First, random data traffic along shortest path routes is studied by simulations as well as theoretical modeling. Measures of congestion like end-to-end time delay and relaxation times are given. A scaling law of the average time delay with respect to network size is revealed and found to depend on the underlying network topology. In the second step, a distributive routing & congestion control is proposed. Each node locally propagates its routing cost estimates and information about its congestion state to its neighbors, which then update their respective cost estimates. This allows for a flexible adaptation of end-to-end routes to the overall congestion state of the network. Compared to shortest-path routing, the critical network load is significantly increased.
description: 32 pages, to be published in Physica A
Odontoscirus meridionalis Thor 1931
Creators: name: Rostami, Aylar
name: Bagheri, Mohammad
name: Jamshidi, Soleyman
name: Paktinat-Saeij, Saeid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Bdellidae
Odontoscirus
Odontoscirus meridionalis

description: Odontoscirus meridionalis Thor, 1931
 Biscirus (Biscirus) meridionalis Thor, 1931: 74.
 Distribution: Cosmopolitan (Hernandes et al. 2016).
 Previous provincial records from Iran: Alborz (Ueckermann et al. 2007), East Azerbaijan (Bagheri and Paktinat-Saeij 2016), Mazandaran (Paktinat-Saeij et al. 2016b).
 Material examined: Two females from soil under apple tree, Chetab village, 11 December 2015, Miyaneh city, East Azerbaijan province, Iran were collected by Aylar Rostami.
description: Published as part of Rostami, Aylar, Bagheri, Mohammad, Jamshidi, Soleyman & Paktinat-Saeij, Saeid, 2017, New records of Bdelloidea (Acari: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata) from Iran with a re-description of Spinibdella tadjikistanica Kuznetzov, pp. 245-258 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (4) on page 251, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i4.30958, http://zenodo.org/record/4644776
Effective action and brane running
Creators: name: Brevik, Iver
name: Ghoroku, Kazuo
name: Yahiro, Masanobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the renormalized effective action for a Randall-Sundrum brane running in 5d bulk space. The running behavior of the brane action is obtained by shifting the brane-position without changing the background and the fluctuations. After an appropriate renormalization, we obtain an effective, low energy braneworld action, in which the effective 4d Planck mass is independent of the running-position. We address some implications of this effective action.
description: 15 pages, no figure
Global and Local Feature Learning for Ego-Network Analysis
Creators: name: Rizi, Fatemeh Salehi
name: Granitzer, Michael
name: Ziegler, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In an ego-network, an individual (ego) organizes its friends (alters) in different groups (social circles). This social network can be efficiently analyzed after learning representations of the ego and its alters in a low-dimensional, real vector space. These representations are then easily exploited via statistical models for tasks such as social circle detection and prediction. Recent advances in language modeling via deep learning have inspired new methods for learning network representations. These methods can capture the global structure of networks. In this paper, we evolve these techniques to also encode the local structure of neighborhoods. Therefore, our local representations capture network features that are hidden in the global representation of large networks. We show that the task of social circle prediction benefits from a combination of global and local features generated by our technique.
Measuring sustainability in universities : successes, challenges, and guidance in conducting an Ecological Footprint Assessment of the UBC campus
Creators: name: Bekkering, Ellen
name: Cheung, Grace
name: Farmer, David
name: Li, Maggie
name: Molnar, Meghan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The following report explores the rationale, methodologies and assumptions to conduct an Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA) of the UBC Point Grey campus which will aid future Land, Food, and Community III (LFC III) colleagues to perform an actual EFA at UBC. Our group explored the idea of performing an EFA of the UBC food system, but instead chose to focus on the entire UBC campus in the hopes that our work would help later groups identify and ameliorate the areas of largest contribution to UBC’s ecological footprint (EF). We saw that across the world, the universities that chose to conduct EFAs also focused on the entire campus and that the food system was a relatively small contributor to a campus’ EFA. We recommend that Rees and Wackernagel’s Consumption Land Use Matrix methodology be used to perform the EFA using the data collected from a variety of sources across campus. It is our belief that an EFA can become an important educational tool and a cornerstone of creating future sustainability programs and policies at UBC. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Antimicrobial activity of commercial photocatalytic SaniTise™ window glass
Creators: name: Kisand, Vambola
name: Visnapuu, Meeri
name: Rosenberg, Merilin
name: Danilian, Dmytro
name: Vlassov, Sergei
name: Kook, Mati
name: Lange, Sven
name: Pärna, Rainer
name: Ivask, Angela
Publisher: name: University of Tartu
Year: 2022
Subjects: antibacterial
photocatalytic
window glass

description: The dataset represents collection of raw data for different analyses used in the manuscript "Antimicrobial activity of commercial photocatalytic SaniTise™ window glass" submitted to MDPI journal Catalysts at 30.12.2021.
Fundamental limitations on Earth-like planet detection with Extremely Large Telescopes
Creators: name: Cavarroc, C.
name: Boccaletti, A.
name: Baudoz, P.
name: Fusco, T.
name: Rouan, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the fundamental limitations for the detection of extraterrestrial planets with Extremely Large Telescopes. For this task, a coronagraphic device combined to a very high order wavefront correction system is required but not sufficient to achieve the $10^{-10}$ contrast level needed for detecting an Earth-like planet. The stellar residuals left uncorrected by the wavefront correction system need to be calibrated and subtracted. In this paper, we consider a general model including the dynamic phase aberrations downstream the wavefront correction system, the static phase aberrations of the instrument and some differential aberrations provided by the calibration unit. A rather optimistic case of a filled circular pupil and of a perfect coronagraph is elsewhere assumed. As a result of the analytical study, the limitation mostly comes from the static aberrations. Using numerical simulations we confirm this result and evaluate the requirements in terms of phase aberrations to detect Earth-like planets on Extremely Large Telescopes.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted in A&A
Effect of Carbon on the Compound Layer Properties of AISI H13 Tool Steel in Pulsed Plasma Nitrocarburizing
Creators: name: Basso, Rodrigo L. O.
name: Figueroa, Carlos A.
name: Zagonel, Luiz F.
name: Pastore, Heloise O.
name: Wisnivesky, Daniel
name: Alvarez, Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to the mechanical and inertness properties of the Epsilon phase, its formation as a compact monolayer is most wanted in plasma surface treatments of steels. This phase can be obtained by the inclusion of carbon species in the plasma. In this work, we present a systematic study of the carbon influence on the compound layer in an AISI H13 tool steel by pulsed plasma nitrocarburizing process with different gaseous ratios.
description: post -print manuscript, 4 pages
Photon-assisted Fano Resonance and Corresponding Shot-Noise in a Quantum Dot
Creators: name: Ma, Zhongshui
name: Zhu, Yu
name: Li, Xin-Qi
name: Lin, Tsung-han
name: Su, Zhao-Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the Fano resonance in photon-assisted transport in a quantum dot and calculated both the coherent current and spectral density of shot noise. It is predicted, for the first time, that the shape of Fano profile will also appear in satellite peaks. It is found that the variations of Fano profiles with the strengths of nonresonant transmissions are not synchronous in absorption and emission sidebands. The effect of interference on photon-assisted pumped current has been also investigated. We further predict the current and spectral density of shot noise as a function of the phase, which exhibits an intrinsic property of resonant and nonresonant channels in the structures.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
The Costs of Achieving Sustainability
Creators: name: Faucheux, Sylvie
name: Froger, Geraldine
name: O'Connor, Martin
name: Faucheux, Sylvie
name: Froger, Geraldine
name: O'Connor, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The emergence of the concept of sustainable development has encouraged economists and decisionmakers to look at the the extent to which established systems for national accounting (SNA) can be modified to take account of concerns for ecological sustainability. In this paper, we examine carefully definitions of and methods for arriving at, "corrected aggregates" -- variously called "Green GNP", "environmentally corrected national income" (EN!), and"sustainable national income" (SNI) -- and their relationships to the "weak" and "strong" criterion of sustainability. In particular we consider the relation between an estimate of a SNI, and various measures that have been proposed for estimating an "environmentally corrected national income" (EN!). Two main types of EN! "correction" methodologies are distinguished and discussed: (i) those based on capital theory and the idea of accounting for depreciation of "natural capital" stocks; and (ii) those based on identification in biophysical, ecological and social ternzs of norms for sustainability, with subsequent estimates of the costs of achieving these norms. Our main conclusions are: (1) with careful applications, these two approaches can be regarded as complementary for the estimation of an EN!; (2) in no instances do these measures of an ENI correspond to estimations of SNI for a country. Rather, the existing ENIs can be regarded as embodying information about the "costs of achieving sustainability" given the existing capital stocks and about the "distance separating a country from sustainability". Conceptual and enzpirical estimation work should proceed by exploring the relationship between EN! and SNI as distinct and complementary policy reference points.
title: Σχεδιασμός μονάδας αναερόβιας χώνευσης οργανικού κλάσματος στερεών αποβλήτων και ιλύος βιολογικού καθαρισμού
title: Design of anaerobic digestion unit for an organic fraction of solid waste and sludge of biological treatment
Creators: name: Παπαδημητριου Γεωργιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2021

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αναλύει το σχεδιασμό και την κοστολόγηση μιας μονάδας αναερόβιας χώνευσης με απώτερο σκοπό την παραγωγή θερμικής και ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας, η οποία δέχεται ως πρώτη ύλη το οργανικό κλάσμα των ΑΣΑ και της ιλύος από την επεξεργασία λυμάτων στην περιοχή των Χανίων σύμφωνα με στοιχεία της ΔΕΔΙΣΑ.
Αρχικά, γίνεται περιγραφή αναλυτικά της διαδικασίας της αναερόβιας χώνευσης με σκοπό τη παραγωγή βιοαερίου, καθορίζοντας ταυτόχρονα και τις χρήσεις του, ενώ ταυτόχρονα γίνεται αναφορά και αναλύεται η ποιότητα του οργανικού κλάσματος των ΑΣΑ ως υποστρώματος για την αναερόβια χώνευση.
Ακόμη, προτείνεται και σχεδιάζεται μια ολοκληρωμένη μονάδα αναερόβιας χώνευσης σύμφωνα με τα δεδομένα που διαθέτουμε, έτσι ώστε να μπορέσει τελικά να λειτουργήσει και να γίνει οικονομικά βιώσιμη .
Στο τελευταίο κεφάλαιο της εργασίας παρατίθεται η σχετική τεχνοοικονομική μελέτη της εγκατάστασης.
Η συγκεκριμένη διπλωματική εργασία  έγινε με την βοήθεια της ΔΕΔΙΣΑ καθώς αυτή αποτέλεσε την κύρια πηγή δεδομένων

description: This paper discusses the design and costing of a unit of anaerobic digestion aiming to the production of thermal energy and electricity taking the organic fraction of solid waste and sludge of sewerage as raw material in the area of Chania, Crete, according to data collected by DEDISA. Initially, there is a detailed description of the process of anaerobic digestion aiming to the production of biogas as well as a definition of its uses. The quality of the organic fraction of solid waste as substrate for anaerobic digestion is also referenced and discussed. Moreover, a complete unit of anaerobic digestion is designed and proposed, according to the existing data, so that it can eventually operate and be economically sustainable. The technological and economic study of the plant is presented in the last chapter of the paper.
Additional file 1 of Cost analysis of depression using the national insurance system in South Korea: a comparison of depression and treatment-resistant depression
Creators: name: Daun Shin
name: Kim, Nam Woo
name: Kim, Min Ji
name: Rhee, Sang Jin
name: Park, Christopher Hyung Keun
name: Hyeyoung Kim
name: Yang, Bo Ram
name: Kim, Mi-Sook
name: Gum Jee Choi
name: Minjung Koh
name: Ahn, Yong Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary Table 1. Medical utilization of total PTD patients. Supplementary Table 2. Medical utilization and cost comparing by regimen. Supplementary Table 3. Clinical characteristics and cost analysis by TRD, PTD was not TRD, TRD unknown group
Coleoscirus buartsus Den Heyer 1980
Creators: name: Rostami, Aylar
name: Bagheri, Mohammad
name: Jamshidi, Soleyman
name: Paktinat-Saeij, Saeid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Cunaxidae
Coleoscirus
Coleoscirus buartsus

description: Coleoscirus buartsus Den Heyer, 1980
 Coleoscirus buartsus Den Heyer, 1980c: 106.
description: Published as part of Rostami, Aylar, Bagheri, Mohammad, Jamshidi, Soleyman & Paktinat-Saeij, Saeid, 2017, New records of Bdelloidea (Acari: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata) from Iran with a re-description of Spinibdella tadjikistanica Kuznetzov, pp. 245-258 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (4) on page 251, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i4.30958, http://zenodo.org/record/4644776
Possible link between the distribution of atomic spectral lines and the radiation-matter-equilibrium in the early universe
Creators: name: Richardt, Tim
name: Heinrich, Matthias
name: Gräfe, Markus
name: Szameit, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the uncanny resemblance of the global distribution of all experimentally known atomic spectral lines to the Planckian spectral distribution associated with black body radiation at a temperature of $T\approx9000\,\mathrm{K}$. This value coincides with the critical temperature of equilibrium between the respective densities of radiation and matter in the early universe.
Vortex lattice dynamics in a-NbGe detected by mode-locking experiments
Creators: name: Besseling, R.
name: Benningshof, O.
name: Kokubo, N.
name: Kes, P. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observed mode-locking (ML) of rf-dc driven vortex arrays in a superconducting weak pinning a-NbGe film. The ML voltage shows the expected scaling $V\propto f\sqrt{B}$ with $f$ the rf-frequency and $B$ the magnetic field. For large dc-velocity (corresponding to a large ML frequency), the ML current step width exhibits a squared Bessel function dependence on the rf-amplitude as predicted for ML of a lattice moving elastically through a random potential.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to M2S-HTSC Rio
Additional file 6 of Principles of RNA processing from analysis of enhanced CLIP maps for 150 RNA binding proteins
Creators: name: Nostrand, Eric L. Van
name: Pratt, Gabriel A.
name: Yee, Brian A.
name: Wheeler, Emily C.
name: Blue, Steven M.
name: Mueller, Jasmine
name: Park, Samuel S.
name: Garcia, Keri E.
name: Gelboin-Burkhart, Chelsea
name: Nguyen, Thai B.
name: Rabano, Ines
name: Stanton, Rebecca
name: Balaji Sundararaman
name: Wang, Ruth
name: Fu, Xiang-Dong
name: Graveley, Brenton R.
name: Yeo, Gene W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Review history.
title: Heroes and Villains: Narratives of Public Sector Reform in the UK and Scotland
Creators: name: Plunkett, Nikola
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: This study is based on a discourse analysis of reform narratives in two public sector organisations, one operating in a UK context and one in a Scottish context. The study uses the concept of organisational narratives (Gabriel, 1995; 1999; 2000; Sims, 2004) as a lens to organise and understand the presentation and translation of reform in these organisations and the wider government. The thesis argues that there is a fundamentally inconsistent alignment of public sector reform narratives within governments, and challenges notions of a ‘New Scotland' (Hassan and Warhurst, 2002; Paterson et al., 2004; Bechofer and McCrone, 2004) as being little more than rhetoric at the macro level of discourse. At the micro-organisational level, interviews with senior managers revealed that in both case-study organisations, common discursive devices and plot structures were utilised by managers in order to build authority and legitimacy within their organisations. It is these discourse linkages in the different policy practice sites that are the dominant narratives at work, rather than the macro level reform narratives of government. The thesis examines the notion of 'double reform' whereby Scottish public sector workers have been subject to both the general sweep of neo-liberal public sector reforms, and changes related to the greater devolution of powers. This notion is largely overlooked by existing literature. It is argued that this double reform has been an opportunity not a pressure, and that the Scottish Government has been able to exploit this opportunity for their own gain, to promote notions of Scotland as an independent nation-state. This thesis demonstrates however, that macro-level success in the construction of Scottish narratives has not resulted in an evenly translated narrative within the public sector, raising important issues for the use of discourse in future public sector reform projects.
Investigating the overall ecological footprint of the University of the University of British Columbia Point Grey Campus Food System
Creators: name: Branch, Christine
name: Choi, Wilson
name: Fung, Harrison
name: Hookham, Jessica
name: Kwong, Andrew
name: Liang, Jessica
name: Neufeld, Katie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The Faculty of Land of Food Systems in the University of British Columbia (UBC) has been researching and implementing sustainability initiatives through the Agricultural Sciences (AGSC) classes for several years, however, there is no current quantitative measure of the success of these programs. Therefore, our group has been assigned to investigate the feasibility of conducting an Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA) of the food system at the UBC Point Grey Campus. A literature review of previous academic institutions that have conducted an EFA was performed and the findings of Colorado College in the United States and the University of New Castle in Australia have been summarized. We also reviewed the partial analysis of the Pendulum Restaurant performed here at UBC and have determined how the knowledge gained from the project could be applied to an analysis of the entire food system. We then reviewed various methods available for carrying out an EFA and have determined that the component-based method used in the Pendulum Restaurant partial analysis would be the most practicable. We have provided a clear description of what we feel is the definition of the UBC food system and explained our reasoning behind this, as well as provided sample calculations that would be needed for an EFA. Lastly, we have summarized our main findings and made recommendations that pertain to the 2009 AGSC 450 students and teaching team. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Feeding to satiation induces mild oxidative/carbonyl stress in the brain of young mice
Creators: name: Kuzniak, Oksana V.
name: Sorochynska, Oksana M.
name: Bayliak, Maria M.
name: Klonovskyi, Andrii Ya.
name: Vasylyk, Yulia V.
name: Semchyshyn, Halyna M.
name: Storey, Kenneth B.
name: Garaschuk, Olga
name: Lushchak, Volodymyr I.
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: defensive enzymes
carbonyl proteins
α-dicarbonyl compounds
every-other-day fasting
lipid peroxides

description: Intermittent fasting as a dietary intervention can prevent overweight and obesity in adult organisms. Nevertheless, information regarding consequences of intermittent fasting for redox status and reactive metabolite-mediated processes that are crucial for the normal functioning of organisms is limited. Since the information on effects of intermittent fasting on parameters of oxidative/carbonyl stress in the brains of young mice was absent, the present study addressed these questions using an every-other-day fasting (EODF) protocol. The levels of carbonyl proteins were ~28 %, 22 % and 18 % lower in the cerebral cortex of EODF males and females and middle parts of the brain of EODF males, respectively, as compared to their ad libitum fed counterparts. Lipid peroxides and α-dicarbonyl compounds were lower only in the cortex and medulla part of EODF male brain. The EODF regimen resulted in higher total non-specific antioxidant capacity in different parts of male brain and a tendency to be higher this parameter in females. At the same time, EODF regimen had no effect on the activities of the defensive antioxidant enzymes, namely superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione-S-transferase, glutathione peroxidase, glyoxylase 1 and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in the cortex of both sexes, but even decreased activities of these enzymes in medulla and middle part of the brain. In general, the results suggest that in the brain of young mice ad libitum feeding induces mild oxidative/carbonyl stress which may be partially alleviated by the EODF regimen. The effect of EODF regimen is more pronounced in the medulla part than in the cortex.
description: EXCLI Journal; 21:Doc77; ISSN 1611-2156