cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nonequilibrium static diverging length scales on approaching a prototypical model glassy state
Creators: name: Hopkins, Adam B.
name: Stillinger, Frank H.
name: Torquato, Salvatore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Maximally random jammed states of hard spheres are prototypical glasses. We study the small wavenumber $k$ behavior of the structure factor $S(k)$ of overcompressed million-sphere packings as a function of density up to the jammed state. We find both a precursor to the glassy jammed state evident long before the jamming density is reached and an associated growing length scale, extracted from the volume integral of the direct correlation function $c(r)$, which diverges at the "critical" jammed state. We also define a nonequilibrium index $X$ and use it to demonstrate that the packings studied are intrinsically nonequilibrium in nature well before the critical point is reached.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Long-term Liability for Carbon Capture and Storage Project Activities within the Clean Development Mechanism
Creators: name: Radu, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Carbon capture and storage
subject: Long-term Liability
subject: Clean Development Mechanism
subject: climate change
subject: International Environmental Law
subject: Non-permanence

description: Recent research has emphasized the importance of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) as a greenhouse gas mitigation option for responding to the risk posed by global warming. When regulating CCS, however, long-term liability has proved to be one of the most difficult aspects to address. This thesis is concerned with long-term liability for non-permanence for CCS as a Clean Development Mechanism project activity. The purpose of this thesis is to identify the optimum solution to address this problem. In order to achieve this, the thesis puts CCS in the context of other CDM project activities (Afforestation and Reforestation) which pose analogous non-permanence challenges. It also examines two different liability regimes: the international regime for oil tankers and the European Union’s CCS legislation. It then proposes a test based on three major principles of international environmental law to measure the appropriateness of different liability schemes before concluding that a transfer of liability to the host country is the optimum way to address liability.
Calcium-rich gap transients in the remote outskirts of galaxies
Creators: name: Kasliwal, Mansi M.
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Nugent, Peter E.
name: Sullivan, Mark
name: Bildsten, Lars
name: Yaron, Ofer
name: Perets, Hagai B.
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Ben-Ami, Sagi
name: Bhalerao, Varun B.
name: Bloom, Joshua S.
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Frail, Dale A.
name: Ganeshalingam, Mohan
name: Horesh, Assaf
name: Howell, D. Andrew
name: Law, Nicholas M.
name: Leonard, Douglas C.
name: Li, Weidong
name: Ofek, Eran O.
name: Polishook, David
name: Poznanski, Dovi
name: Quimby, Robert M.
name: Silverman, Jeffrey M.
name: Sternberg, Assaf
name: Xu, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From the first two seasons of the Palomar Transient Factory, we identify three peculiar transients (PTF09dav, PTF10iuv, PTF11bij) with five distinguishing characteristics: peak luminosity in the gap between novae and supernovae (M_R = 15.5 to -16.5), rapid photometric evolution (rise-time ~12--15 days), large photospheric velocities (~6000 to 11000 km/s), early spectroscopic evolution into nebular phase (~1 to 3 months) and peculiar nebular spectra dominated by Calcium. We also culled the extensive decade-long Lick Observatory Supernova Search database and identified an additional member of this group, SN 2007ke. Our choice of photometric and spectroscopic properties was motivated by SN 2005E (Perets et al. 2010). To our surprise, as in the case of SN 2005E, all four members of this group are also clearly offset from the bulk of their host galaxy. Given the well-sampled early and late-time light curves, we derive ejecta masses in the range of 0.4--0.7 Msun. Spectroscopically, we find that there may be a diversity in the photospheric phase, but the commonality is in the unusual nebular spectra. Our extensive follow-up observations rule out standard thermonuclear and standard core-collapse explosions for this class of "Calcium-rich gap" transients. If the progenitor is a white dwarf, we are likely seeing a detonation of the white dwarf core and perhaps, even shockfront interaction with a previously ejected nova shell. In the less likely scenario of a massive star progenitor, a very non-standard channel specific to a low-metallicity environment needs to be invoked (e.g., ejecta fallback leading to black hole formation). Detection (or lack thereof) of a faint underlying host (dwarf galaxy, cluster) will provide a crucial and decisive diagnostic to choose between these alternatives.
description: 12 figures, 3 tables
title: Didaktik der berufsmoralischen Bildung in Wirtschaft und Verwaltung
Creators: name: Retzmann, Thomas
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications Online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2017

description: Die Entwicklung moderner Konzeptionen der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik wie auch die beachtenswerten Anstrengungen in den Unternehmen haben bislang nur erste Spuren in der kaufmännischen Berufsbildung hinterlassen. Eine systematische Integration wirtschaftsethischer Problemstellungen in das kaufmännische Curriculum steht bis dato aus, obwohl seit einiger Zeit die Notwendigkeit der schulischen Wertebildung oder gar der Werteerziehung verstärkt diskutiert wird. Doch beide Diskurse haben sich bislang eher parallel vollzogen.
Berufsmoralische Bildung wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit als die Entfaltung der Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft zum moralischen Handeln verstanden. Sie ist bezogen auf berufliche Anforderungssituationen und damit auf berufstypische Aufgaben und Probleme, zu deren kompetenter und selbstständiger Lösung die Auszubildenden befähigt werden sollen. 
Mit seiner Didaktik der berufsmoralischen Bildung arbeitet der Verfasser eine fachliche Systematik und eine systemische Kasuistik zur Integration wirtschaftsethischer Problemstellungen in Prozesse der kaufmännischen Berufsbildung heraus. Zugleich zeigt er die Prinzipien und Optionen einer systemischen Kasuistik auf.
The Relation Between Line Emission and Brightest Cluster Galaxies in Three Exceptional Clusters: Evidence for Gas Cooling from the ICM
Creators: name: Hamer, S. L.
name: Edge, A. C.
name: Swinbank, A. M.
name: Wilman, R. J.
name: Russell, H. R.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Sanders, J. S.
name: Salom, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a strong spatial correlation between brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) and the peak density and cooling rate of the intra-cluster medium (ICM). In this paper we combine integral field spectroscopy, CO observations and X-ray data to study three exceptional clusters (Abell 1991, Abell 3444 and Ophiuchus) where there is a physical and dynamical offset between the BCG and the cooling peak to investigate the connection between the cooling of the intracluster medium, the cold gas being deposited and the central galaxy. We find the majority of the optical line emission is spatially coincident with the peak in the soft X-rays. In the case of A1991 we make separate detections of CO(2-1) emission on the BCG and on the peak of the soft X-ray emission suggesting that cooling continues to occur in the core despite being offset from the BCG. We conclude that there is a causal link between the lowest temperature (< 2 keV) ICM gas and the molecular gas(~ 30K). This link is only apparent in systems where a transitory event has decoupled the BCG from the soft X-ray peak. We discuss the prospects for identifying more examples of this rare configuration.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, Resubmitted to MN after addressing referees comments
On the formation of glycolaldehyde in dense molecular cores
Creators: name: Woods, Paul M.
name: Kelly, George
name: Viti, Serena
name: Slater, Ben
name: Brown, Wendy A.
name: Puletti, Fabrizio
name: Burke, Daren J.
name: Raza, Zamaan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Glycolaldehyde is a simple monosaccharide sugar linked to prebiotic chemistry. Recently it was detected in a molecular core in the star-forming region G31.41+0.31 at a reasonably high abundance. We investigate the formation of glycolaldehyde at 10K to determine whether it can form efficiently under typical dense core conditions. Using an astrochemical model, we test five different reaction mechanisms that have been proposed in the astrophysical literature, finding that a gas-phase formation route is unlikely. Of the grain-surface formation routes, only two are efficient enough at very low temperatures to produce sufficient glycolaldehyde to match the observational estimates, with the mechanism culminating in CH3OH + HCO being favoured. However, when we consider the feasibility of these mechanisms from a reaction chemistry perspective, the second grain-surface route looks more promising, H3CO + HCO.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Hamburg Open Science: Forschungsdatenmanagement: Arbeitsplan 2020
Creators: name: Rajski, Beate
name: Hardjowirogo, Sarah
name: Jürs, Patrick
name: Krenzlin, Konrad
name: Pinarak, Hakan
name: Quenum, Eugène
name: Thiemann, Kathrin
name: Wörner, Kai
name: Wurlitzer, Marcus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: work plan
project
research data management
Hamburg

description: Work plan 2020 for the project research data management within the programme Hamburg Open Science
Physical Therapy Management for Children with Cerebral Palsy after Lower Limb Botulinum Toxin Type A Injections
Creators: name: Benard, Laura
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Physical Therapy
subject: Cerebral Palsy
subject: Botulinum Toxin

description: Botulinum toxin type A (BtA) injections to reduce spasticity for children with cerebral palsy (CP) are often accompanied by physical therapy (PT) treatment. This series of studies examined current PT strategies across Canada using survey methodology, and evaluated outcomes after PT and BtA injections using single subject methodology. Survey results revealed that variation in therapy most often related to the child’s functional level and the goals of the intervention. Outcomes after PT and BtA injection indicated that PT may help prolong the effect of BtA on range of motion, but long term functional improvements were not sustained. Care pathways for PT treatment were developed, incorporating the literature, current practice and study results. More work is needed to identify the effectiveness of specific PT treatments for children with CP after lower limb BtA injections; this work will support ongoing updates and reviews of existing care pathways.
Additional file 1 of Facile adipocyte uptake and liver/adipose tissue delivery of conjugated linoleic acid-loaded tocol nanocarriers for a synergistic anti-adipogenesis effect
Creators: name: Hsu, Ching-Yun
name: Liao, Chia-Chih
name: Lin, Zih-Chan
name: Alalaiwe, Ahmed
name: Hwang, Erica
name: Lin, Tzu-Wei
name: Fang, Jia-You
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1
Factors affecting environmental behaviour of house inhabitants in Canada
Creators: name: Alexiadis, Pavlos
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The present study examined environmental behaviour of house inhabitants in Canada. An environmental psychology approach was followed. Over one thousand completed questionnaires were collected through a mail survey. Results indicated adoption levels for environmental housing behaviours were, in general, satisfactory. However, a large variation in adoption levels among behaviours was observed with waste management behaviours having the highest percentages of adoption and water conservation behaviours having the lowest. Numerous variables were found to have an effect on behaviour although this was at most of a moderate level magnitude. Variables measured at a level specific to a given behaviour were exerting the highest influence on behaviour. A theoretical model was formulated to explain environmental housing behaviour. The model was considered to be effective in capturing the main factors that affect behaviour at a general level, despite certain limitations in its generalisability. It can be of use to either researchers or policy makers concerned with environmental housing behaviour. Although current behaviour adoption levels are not regarded as low, a number of suggestions to further increase adoption were proposed to deal with increasing environmental pressures. These recommendations included employing variables that may affect one’s ability and motivation to process a persuasive message and implementing approaches that utilise a given behaviour’s relative advantage, compatibility, trialability, complexity, and observability.
Cosmopterix zieglerella
Creators: name: Wieser, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cosmopterigidae
Cosmopterix
Cosmopterix zieglerella

description: Cosmopterix zieglerella (Hübner, [1810])
Wie Leucoptera spartifoliella (Siehe oben) wurde C. zieglerella im Rahmen eines „Publikumsleuchtens“ im Freilichtmuseum Maria Saal erstmals für Kärnten nachgewiesen. Der erste Hinweis auf diese ihnen unbekannte Species erfolgte durch die Naturfotografen B. Brudermann und G. Indra. Ein Barcode (Barcodekenndaten in BOLD: KLM Lep 12374/LEAST1619-18) und morphologische Untersuchungen durch den Autor (KOSTER & SINEV 2003) bestätigte die Vermutung, dass es sich um die in Hopfenblättern minierende Cosmopterigidae handeln könnte (leg. Wieser, det. Wieser). Erfreulicherweise liegt durch Herrn Brudermann sogar ein Lebendfoto des Beleges vor. Der Nachweis ist mit 16.6.2017 datiert. Die Art ist in Österreich weit verbreitet, nunmehr nur mehr aus Osttirol nicht belegt (HUEMER 2013).
description: Published as part of Wieser, Christian, 2017, Weitere Erstfunde und bemerkenswerte Schmetterlingsnachweise aus Kärnten (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 285-291 in Rudolfinum – Jahrbuch des Landesmuseums für Kärnten 2017 on page 288, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5725317
Sub-gap in the Edge States of 2-D Chiral Superconductor with Rough Surface
Creators: name: Nagato, Y.
name: Higashitani, S.
name: Nagai, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the rough surface effects on a two-dimensional chiral $k_x+ik_y$ superconductor. The atomic scale roughness at the surface is considered using the random $S$ matrix model. The roughness effects on the self-consistent order parameter, the surface mass current and the surface density of states are studied using the quasi-classical theory. We find that the surface mass current is suppressed by the surface roughness. The surface density of states shows a quite similar behavior to that of superfluid ${}^3$He B phase. When the surface is specular, the surface Andreev bound states form a band which fills the bulk energy gap $Δ_{\rm bulk}$. When the surface becomes diffusive, there occurs a sharp upper edge of the surface bound states band and there opens a sub-gap between the edge and the bulk energy gap. We show that this sub-gap is induced by the repulsion between the surface bound states and the propagating Bogoliubov quasi-particles through the second order process of roughness.
description: To be oublished in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Cultivating Compassion in the Classroom: Exploring the Phenomenon of Compassion in an Upper Elementary School Classroom Community
Creators: name: Tebay, Garette
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education--Elementary
subject: Education--Guidance and Counseling
subject: Education--Health
subject: Compassion
subject: Mindfulness
subject: Integral Theory
subject: Multiperspective
subject: Narrative Inquiry

description: This research is concerned with “cultivating compassion,” as a means of helping the individual see the interconnectedness of being. This study of the phenomenon of compassion in a classroom community, draws on Wilber’s model of Integral theory for its conceptual framework, development of research questions, methodology, and data analysis. The perspectives of integral methodological pluralism were employed in this mixed-methods research design, where narrative inquiry was complemented with additional methods to tell the story of the grade 4/5 classroom under study. The aim was to provide a comprehensive exploration of the use of mindfulness techniques in this classroom, for supporting the development of compassion in this group of preadolescents. Themes of enhanced self-awareness, increased calm, and happiness were evident, not only in the students, but in their teacher as well. This perceived calm and self-awareness created a shift in the behaviours observed in the classroom—and in the relationships within it. The study explored the classroom, as it is situated within the context of the school and its mandates, as well as within the school district and provincial policies. The analysis of data determined that the impact of the mindfulness program was centered on this classroom, and the teacher. The idea of the positive potential of the inclusion of mindfulness teaching, at the system level also arose from the analysis. A number of implications and recommendations were identified for the implementation of whole-school programming by system leaders, as well as for the integration of meaningful mindfulness activities in classrooms.
Area-dependence of spin-triplet supercurrent in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Wang, Yixing
name: Pratt,, W. P.
name: Birge, Norman O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Josephson junctions containing multiple ferromagnetic layers can carry spin-triplet supercurrent under certain conditions. Large-area junctions containing multiple domains are expected to have a random distribution of 0 or pi coupling across the junction surface, whereas magnetized samples should have uniquely pi coupling everywhere. We have measured the area dependence of the critical current in such junctions, and confirm that the critical current scales linearly with area in magnetized junctions. For as-grown (multi-domain) samples, the results are mixed. Samples grown on a thick Nb base exhibit critical currents that scale sub-linearly with area, while samples grown on a smoother Nb/Al multilayer base exhibit critical currents that scale linearly with area. The latter results are consistent with a theoretical picture due to Zyuzin and Spivak that predicts that the as-grown samples should have global pi/2 coupling.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
A new perspective on the Faddeev equations and the $\bar{K}NN$ system from chiral dynamics and unitarity in coupled channels
Creators: name: Oset, E.
name: Jido, D.
name: Sekihara, T.
name: Torres, A. Martinez
name: Khemchandani, K. P.
name: Bayar, M.
name: Yamagata-Sekihara, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent work concerning the $\bar{K}N$ interaction and Faddeev equations with chiral dynamics which allow us to look at the $\bar{K}NN$ from a different perspective and pay attention to problems that have been posed in previous studies on the subject. We show results which provide extra experimental evidence on the existence of two $Λ(1405)$ states. We then show the findings of a recent approach to Faddeev equations using chiral unitary dynamics, where an explicit cancellation of the two body off shell amplitude with three body forces stemming from the same chiral Lagrangians takes place. This removal of the unphysical off shell part of the amplitudes is most welcome and renders the approach unambiguous, showing that only on shell two body amplitudes need to be used. With this information in mind we use an approximation to the Faddeev equations within the fixed center approximation to study the $\bar{K}NN$ system, providing answers within this approximation to questions that have been brought before and evaluating binding energies and widths of this three body system. As a novelty with respect to recent work on the topic we find a bound state of the system with spin S=1, like a bound state of $\bar{K}$-deuteron, less bound that the one of S=0, where all recent efforts have been devoted. The width is relatively large in this case, suggesting problems in a possible experimental observation.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures, one misprint corrected, Nuclear Physics A in press
A new theorem on the existence of the Riemann-Stieltjes integral and an improved version of the Loéve-Young inequality
Creators: name: Łochowski, Rafał M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A42, 26A45, 34L30

description: Using the notion of the truncated variation we obtain a new theorem on the existence and estimation of the Riemann-Stieltjes integral. As a special case of this theorem we obtain an improved version of the Loéve-Young inequality for the Riemann-Stieltjes integrals driven by irregular signals. Using this result we strenghten some results of Terry Lyons on the existence of solutions of integral equations driven by moderately irregular signals.
description: More comprehensive paper, with similar results is "Integration of rough paths - the truncated variation approach, arXiv:1409.3757"
“Within the Common People's Grasp”: Colombian Medical Publications and their Authors, 1821-1851
Creators: name: Velez Mendoza, Rogelio Andres
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: History
subject: History--Latin American
subject: History of Science
subject: Public Health
subject: History of medicine
subject: Colombia
subject: History of Public Health
subject: Latin America
subject: Medicine
subject: History
subject: Medical Publications

description: This thesis examines how university-educated physicians in Bogotá, Colombia made use of the printing press between 1821 and 1851, the first three decades after the country’s political independence from Spain. The first years of republican existence for the country brought challenges for the governing elite, which included public health issues such as disease epidemics and endemic conditions. This research examines the medical publications that were printed in the city starting in 1821 focusing on standalone publications such as books, booklets, and single-page proclamations. By analyzing the production of such publications, it aims at identifying the motivations and expectations of the physicians who wrote them. Furthermore, it describes how they understood the use of printed material in their goals as a group of professionals. This thesis demonstrates that physicians created a substantial corpus of medical publications and produced knowledge in a local setting using the printing press. In addition, university doctors expected to extend their practice and values down the social scale by opening new spaces to emphasize their importance to society at large. In order to reach the lower classes, medical authors resorted to a simpler writing style and relied on the help of cultural intermediaries, such as the clergy. Moreover, early nineteenth century physicians perpetuated previous colonial discourses around class and race to stake out their position in post-colonial settings. As a result, while acting as a conservative faction that did not escape the Spanish tradition, university-trained doctors were unable to curtail the influence of charlatans and empiric healers.
Crossovers induced by discrete-time quantum walks
Creators: name: Chisaki, Kota
name: Konno, Norio
name: Segawa, Etsuo
name: Shikano, Yutaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider crossovers with respect to the weak convergence theorems from a discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW). We show that a continuous-time quantum walk (CTQW) and discrete- and continuous-time random walks can be expressed as DTQWs in some limit. At first we generalize our previous study [Phys. Rev. A \textbf{81}, 062129 (2010)] on the DTQW with position measurements. We show that the position measurements per each step with probability $p \sim 1/n^β$ can be evaluated, where $n$ is the final time and $0<β<1$. We also give a corresponding continuous-time case. As a consequence, crossovers from the diffusive spreading (random walk) to the ballistic spreading (quantum walk) can be seen as the parameter $β$ shifts from 0 to 1 in both discrete- and continuous-time cases of the weak convergence theorems. Secondly, we introduce a new class of the DTQW, in which the absolute value of the diagonal parts of the quantum coin is proportional to a power of the inverse of the final time $n$. This is called a final-time-dependent DTQW (FTD-DTQW). The CTQW is obtained in a limit of the FTD-DTQW. We also obtain the weak convergence theorem for the FTD-DTQW which shows a variety of spreading properties. Finally, we consider the FTD-DTQW with periodic position measurements. This weak convergence theorem gives a phase diagram which maps sufficiently long-time behaviors of the discrete- and continuous-time quantum and random walks.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure
Modulation of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines Expression of the Biofield Energy (The Trivedi Effect®) Based Herbomineral Formulation in Mouse Splenocytes
Creators: name: Christie, Steven Lee
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2019
Subjects: Natural Sciences

description: With the increasing popularity of herbomineral preparations in healthcare, a new proprietary herbomineral formulation was formulated with ashwagandha root extract and three minerals viz. zinc, magnesium, and selenium. The aim of the study was to evaluate the immunomodulatory potential of Biofield Energy Healing (The Trivedi Effect®) on the herbomineral formulation using murine splenocyte cells. The test formulation was divided into two parts. One was the control without the Biofield Energy Treatment. The other part was labelled the Biofield Energy Treated sample, which received the Biofield Energy Healing Treatment remotely by twenty renowned Biofield Energy Healers. Through MTT assay, all the test formulation concentrations from 0.00001053 to 10.53 µg/mL were found to be safe with cell viability ranging from 102.61% to 194.57% using splenocyte cells. The Biofield Treated test formulation showed a significant (p≤0.01) inhibition of TNF-α expression by 15.87%, 20.64%, 18.65%, and 20.34% at 0.00001053, 0.0001053, 0.01053, and 0.1053, µg/mL, respectively as compared to the vehicle control (VC) group. The level of TNF-α was reduced by 8.73%, 19.54%, and 14.19% at 0.001053, 0.01053, and 0.1053 µg/mL, respectively in the Biofield Treated test formulation compared to the untreated test formulation. The expression of IL-1β reduced by 22.08%, 23.69%, 23.00%, 16.33%, 25.76%, 16.10%, and 23.69% at 0.00001053, 0.0001053, 0.001053, 0.01053, 0.1053, 1.053 and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively compared to the VC. Additionally, the expression of MIP-1α significantly (p≤0.001) reduced by 13.35%, 22.96%, 25.11%, 22.71%, and 21.83% at 0.00001053, 0.0001053, 0.01053, 1.053, and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively in the Biofield Treated test formulation compared to the VC. The Biofield Treated test formulation significantly down-regulated the MIP-1α expression by 10.75%, 9.53%, 9.57%, and 10.87% at 0.00001053, 0.01053, 0.1053 and 1.053 µg/mL, respectively compared to the untreated test formulation. The results showed the IFN-γ expression was also significantly (p≤0.001) reduced by 39.16%, 40.34%, 27.57%, 26.06%, 42.53%, and 48.91% at 0.0001053, 0.001053, 0.01053, 0.1053, 1.053, and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively in the Biofield Treated test formulation compared to the VC. The Biofield Treated test formulation showed better suppression of IFN-γ expression by 15.46%, 13.78%, 17.14%, and 13.11% at concentrations 0.001053, 0.01053, 0.1053, and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively compared to the untreated test formulation. Overall, the results demonstrated that The Trivedi Effect®- Biofield Energy Healing (TEBEH) has the capacity to potentiate the immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory activity of the test formulation. Biofield Energy may also be useful in organ transplants, anti-aging, and stress management by improving overall health and quality of life.
Simulation of an SEIR infectious disease model on the dynamic contact network of conference attendees
Creators: name: Stehlé, Juliette
name: Voirin, Nicolas
name: Barrat, Alain
name: Cattuto, Ciro
name: Colizza, Vittoria
name: Isella, Lorenzo
name: Régis, Corinne
name: Pinton, Jean-François
name: Khanafer, Nagham
name: Broeck, Wouter Van den
name: Vanhems, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spread of infectious diseases crucially depends on the pattern of contacts among individuals. Knowledge of these patterns is thus essential to inform models and computational efforts. Few empirical studies are however available that provide estimates of the number and duration of contacts among social groups. Moreover, their space and time resolution are limited, so that data is not explicit at the person-to-person level, and the dynamical aspect of the contacts is disregarded. Here, we want to assess the role of data-driven dynamic contact patterns among individuals, and in particular of their temporal aspects, in shaping the spread of a simulated epidemic in the population. We consider high resolution data of face-to-face interactions between the attendees of a conference, obtained from the deployment of an infrastructure based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices that assess mutual face-to-face proximity. The spread of epidemics along these interactions is simulated through an SEIR model, using both the dynamical network of contacts defined by the collected data, and two aggregated versions of such network, in order to assess the role of the data temporal aspects. We show that, on the timescales considered, an aggregated network taking into account the daily duration of contacts is a good approximation to the full resolution network, whereas a homogeneous representation which retains only the topology of the contact network fails in reproducing the size of the epidemic. These results have important implications in understanding the level of detail needed to correctly inform computational models for the study and management of real epidemics.
The Rasmussen invariant, four-genus and three-genus of an almost positive knot are equal
Creators: name: Tagami, Keiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An oriented link is positive if it has a link diagram whose crossings are all positive. An oriented link is almost positive if it is not positive and has a link diagram with exactly one negative crossing. It is known that the Rasmussen invariant, $4$-genus and $3$-genus of a positive knot are equal. In this paper, we prove that the Rasmussen invariant, $4$-genus and $3$-genus of an almost positive knot are equal. Moreover, we determine the Rasmussen invariant of an almost positive knot in terms of its almost positive knot diagram. As corollaries, we prove that any almost positive knot is not homogeneous, and there is no almost positive knot of $4$-genus one.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. The statement of Corollary 1.2 was corrected. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1405.4061
title: Animation und Zufall : Eine Untersuchung anhand ausgewählter Beispiele
Creators: name: Schneider, Laura Isabel
Publisher: name: Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Year: 2023

description: In dieser Bachelorarbeit untersuche ich die Rolle des Zufalls in Hinblick auf meinen Abschlussfilm. Ich argumentiere für seine Rolle als kreativen Impuls. Mittels Filmen der handgemachten Animation der Künstler/innen Len Lye, Schmelzdahin, Man Ray und Caroline Leaf analysiere ich zudem den Aspekt der materialbedingten Unvorhersehbarkeit und Innovation.
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 36 Nr. 3 (1992): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes In Florenz
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2024

description: Band XXXVI (1992), Heft 3
description: Jacopo Vignola, Alessandro Manzuoli und die Villa Isolani in Minerbio: zu den frühen Antikenstudien von Vignola ...287-328
A New Look at Three Drawings for Villa Madama, and Some Related Images...275-286
Jacopo Vignola, Alessandro Manzuoli und die Villa Isolani in Minerbio...287-328
A new look at three drawings for Villa Madama and some related images...275-286
Carmen senum...263-274
Long-term Monitoring of the Black Hole Binary GX 339-4 in the High/Soft State during the 2010 Outburst with MAXI/GSC
Creators: name: Shidatsu, Megumi
name: Ueda, Yoshihiro
name: Nakahira, Satoshi
name: Negoro, Hitoshi
name: Yamaoka, Kazutaka
name: Sugizaki, Mutsumi
name: Hiroi, Kazuo
name: Kawai, Nobuyuki
name: Mihara, Tatehiro
name: Matsuoka, Masaru
name: Kimura, Masashi
name: Ishikawa, Masaki
name: Isobe, Naoki
name: Kitayama, Hiroki
name: Kohama, Mitsuhiro
name: Matsumura, Takanori
name: Morii, Mikio
name: Nakagawa, Yujin E.
name: Nakajima, Motoki
name: Serino, Motoko
name: Sootome, Tetsuya
name: Sugimori, Kousuke
name: Suwa, Fumitoshi
name: Toizumi, Takahiro
name: Tomida, Hiroshi
name: Tsuboi, Yohko
name: Tsunemi, Hiroshi
name: Ueno, Shiro
name: Usui, Ryuichi
name: Yamamoto, Takayuki
name: Yamazaki, Kyohei
name: Yoshida, Atsumasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of monitoring the Galactic black hole candidate GX 339-4 with the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) / Gas Slit Camera (GSC) in the high/soft state during the outburst in 2010. All the spectra throughout the 8-month period are well reproduced with a model consisting of multi-color disk (MCD) emission and its Comptonization component, whose fraction is <= 25% in the total flux. In spite of the flux variability over a factor of 3, the innermost disk radius is constant at R_in = 61 +/- 2 km for the inclination angle of i = 46 deg and the distance of d=8 kpc. This R_in value is consistent with those of the past measurements with Tenma in the high/soft state. Assuming that the disk extends to the innermost stable circular orbit of a non-spinning black hole, we estimate the black hole mass to be M = 6.8 +/- 0.2 M_sun for i = 46 deg and d = 8 kpc, which is consistent with that estimated from the Suzaku observation of the previous low/hard state. Further combined with the mass function, we obtain the mass constraint of 4.3 M_sun < M < 13.3 M_sun for the allowed range of d = 6-15 kpc and i < 60 deg. We also discuss the spin parameter of the black hole in GX 339-4 by applying relativistic accretion disk models to the Swift/XRT data.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ (Suzaku+MAXI special issue)
Projecting possessors: A Morphosyntactic Investigation of Nominal Possession in Tigrinya
Creators: name: Gebregziabher, Keffyalew
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: alienable, inalienable, possession, Amharic, Hebrew, Tigrinya,
subject: nominal predicate, argument, and modifier

description: In this dissertation, I examine the grammatical expression of possession in Tigrinya, a lesser-studied Semitic language of Ethiopia and Eritrea. I show that possession in Tigrinya is encoded by two strategies, which differ in both structure and function: (i) PREDICATIONAL STRATEGY has the particle nay and is used for alienable possession; (ii) ARGUMENTAL STRATEGY or BARE POSSESSION has no nay and is used for inalienable possession. To account for such differences, I propose different treatments for both types of possession. For alienable or nay-marked possession, I consider two competing hypotheses that have been proposed for a similar element yå- in Amharic, a very closely related language: Either yå- is a genitive case-marker (Ouhalla 2004) or yå- is a LINKER (den Dikken 2007a). I argue that the two hypotheses are untenable because they fail to account for all the facts of Tigrinya. I develop an alternative proposal and claim that nay is a nominal copula and that its role is to introduce a predicational relation between the nay-marked predicate (e.g., possessor) and its subject (e.g., possessee). For inalienable or bare possession, I first compare them with similar constructions in Hebrew: Construct state nominals (CSNs). I show that Tigrinya bare possessive nominals (BPNs) are a type of CSN. I also consider two competing hypotheses previously proposed for Semitic CSNs: Head movement (SHM) (Ritter 1991) and snowballing phrasal movement (SPM) (Shlonsky 2004). I argue that SPM is both theoretically and empirically inadequate for Tigrinya and that HM should be recast in line with current Minimalist assumptions (Chomsky 1995b et seq.). I develop an alternative analysis arguing that both Tigrinya and Hebrew CSNs involve a non-standard head movement – head-to-Spec movement accompanied by Morphological Merger (Matushansky 2006) in their DP structure. Additionally, I claim that differences between Tigrinya and Hebrew arise due to unique properties of the categories N and D: While Hebrew Ns are inherently specified for a [DEF] feature, Tigrinya Ns are not. Also, while the [DEF] feature of the D head in Hebrew is inherently unvalued and strong ([_DEF*]) and causes the N to move to D, the [DEF] feature of the D head in Tigrinya is inherently valued ([±DEF]) and does not cause the noun to move. Finally, generalizing from the proposal of possession herein, the dissertation makes predictions about alienable and inalienable possession in natural languages in general. It proposes that cross-linguistic variation arises due to the availability of both an argumental and a predicative strategy for expressing alienable possession. Each of these strategies requires different functional categories and induces substantial differences in the syntactic structure.
MEDICAMENTOS BIOSSIMILARES DE ANTICORPOS MONOCLONAIS NO TRATAMENTO DE TUMORES SÓLIDOS
Creators: name: Alcobia, Armando
name: Espírito Santo, Jorge
name: Aranda Da Silva, José
name: Braga, Florbela
name: Gervásio, Helena
name: Abreu De Sousa, Joaquim
name: Gonçalves, João
name: Varela, Clementina
name: Afonso, Noémia
Publisher: name: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia
Year: 2015

description: .
description: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia, v. 7 n. 2 (2015): Abril
A new dynamical parameter for the study of sticky orbits in a 3D galactic model
Creators: name: Zotos, Euaggelos E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A 3D dynamical model is used to study the motion in the central parts of an elliptical galaxy, hosting a massive and dense nucleus. Our aim is to investigate the regular or chaotic character of the motion, with emphasis in the different chaotic components, as well as the sticky regions of the dynamical system. In order to define the character of the motion in the 2D system, we use the classical method of the Poincare x-px phase plane, the Lyapunov Characteristic Exponent (LCE) and the dynamical parameter - the S(c) spectrum. Then the results obtained from the 2D system are used to investigate the properties of the 3D system. For this, we introduce and use a new dynamical parameter, the S(k) spectrum, which proves to be a very reliable and fast method to detect the islandic motion and the evolution of the sticky orbits in the 3D system. Numerical experiments conducted by the new S(k) spectrum suggest that the different chaotic components in the 3D system do not interact for time intervals much larger than the age of the galaxy. The results indicate that the different sticky regions do not lead to a unified chaotic sea. Thus, the behavior of the 3D sticky orbits differs from that observed in the 2D system. Furthermore, the 3D motion near the center of a triaxial elliptical galaxy seems to be very complicated, displaying several families of resonant orbits, different chaotic components and sticky regions, while only a small fraction of orbits is regular. The comparison with earlier results reveals the importance of the conception of the new dynamical spectrum.
description: Accepted for publication in Baltic Astronomy journal
The Palomar Transient Factory photometric calibration
Creators: name: Ofek, E. O.
name: Laher, R.
name: Law, N.
name: Surace, J.
name: Levitan, D.
name: Sesar, B.
name: Horesh, A.
name: Poznanski, D.
name: van Eyken, J. C.
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
name: Nugent, P.
name: Zolkower, J.
name: Walters, R.
name: Sullivan, M.
name: Agueros, M.
name: Bildsten, L.
name: Bloom, J.
name: Cenko, S. B.
name: Gal-Yam, A.
name: Grillmair, C.
name: Helou, G.
name: Kasliwal, M. M.
name: Quimby, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) provides multiple epoch imaging for a large fraction of the sky. Here we describe the photometric calibration of the PTF data products that relates the PTF magnitudes to other mag systems. The calibration process utilizes SDSS r~16 mag point source objects as photometric standards. During photometric conditions, this allows us to solve for the extinction coefficients and color terms, and to estimate the camera illumination correction. This also enables the calibration of fields that are outside the SDSS footprint. We test the precision and repeatability of the PTF photometric calibration. Given that PTF is observing in a single filter each night, we define a PTF calibrated magnitude system for R-band and g-band. We show that, in this system, 59% (47%) of the photometrically calibrated PTF R-band (g-band) data achieve a photometric precision of 0.02-0.04 mag. Given the objects' color, the PTF magnitude system can be converted to other systems. A night-by-night comparison of the calibrated magnitudes of individual stars observed on multiple nights shows that they are consistent to a level of ~0.02 mag. Most of the data that were taken under non-photometric conditions can be calibrated relative to other epochs of the same sky footprint obtained during photometric conditions. We provide a guide describing the use of the PTF photometric calibration data products, as well as the transformations between the PTF magnitude system and the SDSS and Johnson-Cousins systems. (abridged).
description: Accepted to PASP, 10 pages
Regional politics of carbon taxation : lessons from British Columbia
Creators: name: Peet, Chelsea
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This research examines the reactions of British Columbians to the provincial carbon tax legislation implemented in 2008. It focuses particularly on northern interior communities and commuter suburbs in the Lower Mainland. In studying these jurisdictions, the paper attempts to explain the vocal opposition to the policy from communities in British Columbia’s northern interior and the quiescent reaction in the Lower Mainland. These responses are complicated by the fact that numerous sources have shown that northerners are not disproportionately impacted by the carbon tax, and in fact, commuters in the Lower Mainland tend to drive farther on average to get to work than rural British Columbians. Thus, the evidence indicates that the residents that appeared undisturbed by the carbon tax, and not the vocal citizens of northern BC, feel a greater impact from the implementation of the carbon tax policy. In light of this regional development, the paper attempts to address two questions. First, how can we explain the paradoxical reactions displayed by these jurisdictions? Second, what do the distinct reactions tell us about the politics of carbon pricing and about regional political dynamics in British Columbia? To answer these questions, the paper employs three theoretical approaches; Mancur Olson’s theory of collective action, electoral incentive theory, and an ideational argument. While each theory builds upon and reinforces the others, ideas are argued to have the greatest capacity to explain the outcomes in these distinct regions. Community identities that were perceived and formed long before the carbon tax policy was ever imagined manifested themselves in this new policy debate. The longstanding sense of regional alienation in the north was significant in fostering northern perceptions of the carbon tax policy, while the absence of such historic world views, as well as some with good policy motives, encouraged the reserved approach in the Lower Mainland.
Bandwidth enhancement and optical performances of multiple quantum well transistor lasers
Creators: name: Taghavi, Iman
name: Kaatuzian, Hassan
name: Leburton, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed rate-equation-based model is developed to study carrier transport effects on optical and electrical characteristics of the Multiple Quantum Well Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Laser in time-domain. Simulation results extracted using numerical techniques in small-signal regime predict significant enhancement in device optical bandwidth when multiple quantum wells are used. Cavity length and base width are also modified to optimize the optoelectronic performances of the device. An optical bandwidth of \approx 60GHz is achieved in the case of 5 quantum wells each of 70A widths and a cavity length of 200um.