cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Production of biofuels for transport in Colombia: an assessment through sustainability tools
Creators: name: Triana, Carlos Ariel Ramírez
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Bioenergy has emerged as a potentially sustainable alternative to the use of fossil fuels for transport and industrial uses. Developing nations, such as Colombia, can seize the advantages of modernizing rural areas by using cleaner energy and having more economic opportunities with bioenergy initiatives, provided the trade-offs between fiber, food, feed and fuel can be managed. This Thesis examines the bioenergy program now under way in Colombia, where comparative advantages (shared with other tropical countries) in production of sugar cane and palm oil are being built on. While the technologies associated with use of these feedstocks are well known, nevertheless their scaling up in a country like Colombia poses considerable environmental, social, economic and business challenges.The thesis poses two fundamental questions based on current Colombian conditions, namely (1) can the Colombian biofuel industry produce bioethanol and biodiesel under sustainable guidelines; and (2) to what extent is it possible to expand energy crops for biofuels production purposes without jeopardizing sustainability goals? A sustainability approach based on recognized techniques such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) allows for a comprehensive social, economic and environmental analysis of the whole cradle-to-grave progress of the bioenergy value chain. An original LCA analysis is conducted for the Colombian bioenergy sector, with results indicating that considerable savings in GHG emissions are achieved while producing sustainable and competitive bioenergy products. Nevertheless expansion of sugarcane and palm oil crops is possible but constrained by biophysical, legal, ecological and socio-economic conditions, established to safeguard sustainable production. Utilising Geographic Information Systems (GIS) some maps were created which clarify the potential for bioenergy expansion in Colombia. The Thesis thereby engages with the bioenergy capabilities of Colombia, and drawing on the literature from other tropical and Latin American countries, provides original estimates of the country's biopotential as well as needed policy settings to bring Colombia to its full capacity.To sum up, this document argues that sustainable production and use of biofuels is feasible and would meet expected market demands over time.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IV, Cart. 188 (11 H 73), f. 0209v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IV, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 188 (11 H 73), f. 0209v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IV, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 188 (11 H 73), f. 0209v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Supplementary Material for: Skin Infections due to Bacteria in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Review
Creators: name: Ilyas, M.
name: Maganty, N.
name: Ginsberg, Z.
name: Sharma, A.
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine

description: Though there is an abundance of information on cutaneous malignancies in transplant recipients, cutaneous infections in solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) are underrepresented in the dermatological literature. Our paper provides a comprehensive review of bacterial cutaneous infections within the solid organ transplant population. Cutaneous bacterial infections may lead to significant morbidity and even mortality in this immunosuppressed population. Thus, it is to the benefit of both dermatologists and other transplant care providers to better understand and recognize the features of cutaneous bacterial infections in SOTRs. This paper can aid providers in promptly identifying, diagnosing, and treating bacterial skin infections. This review discusses the diagnosis and treatment of the following bacterial species: Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Nocardia, Mycobacteria, and Bartonella henselae.
Incidence and medical costs of chronic obstructive respiratory disease in Spanish hospitals: a retrospective database analysis
Creators: name: Darbà, Josep
name: Ascanio, Meritxell
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: This study aimed to assess the comorbidity profile, use of health care resources and medical costs of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treated at the hospital level in Spain. Admission records of patients with COPD and at least two admissions registered between January 2016 and December 2020 were obtained from a Spanish hospital discharge database and analyzed in a retrospective multicenter study. 95,140 patients met the inclusion criteria; 69.1% were males with a median age of 75 years. Mean Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) was 1.9 in the index admission, increasing to 2.1 during the follow-up period. An acute exacerbation of COPD was registered in 93.6% of patients in the index admission; other secondary diagnoses included respiratory failure (56.8%), essential hypertension (36.9%), hypercholesterolemia (26.7%) and diabetes (26.3%). The age-adjusted incidence rate of COPD was 22.6 per 10,000 persons over the study period, decreasing significantly in the year 2020. Mortality rate was 4.1% for COPD patients, increasing to 6.6% in the year 2020. The year 2020, 191 patients registered a COVID-19 infection, with a mortality rate of 23.0%. Length of hospital stay, and intensive care unit (ICU) stay increased in the follow-up period versus the index admission, similar to admission costs. Mean admission cost was €3212 in the index admission, with cost increases being associated with age, length of stay, ICU stay and CCI. Patients’ condition worsened significantly over the follow-up period, in terms of comorbidity and dependence on respirator, with an increased mortality rate and higher admission costs.
Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of the medicinal herb Eleutherococcus nodiflorus and its phylogenetic implications
Creators: name: Li, Minjun
name: Gong, Qiuyi
name: Zhou, Manjia
name: Liu, Qiang
name: Cheng, Rubin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Eleutherococcus nodiflorus (Dunn) S. Y. Hu is a momentous medicinal plant belonging to the Araliaceae family. In the current investigation, we determined the complete chloroplast genome of E. nodiflorus and analyzed the phylogenetic relationship among Eleutherococcus plants. The chloroplast genome of E. nodiflorus exhibited a typical quadripartite structure with a full length of 156,770 bp, including 133 genes, containing 88 protein-coding genes, 8 rRNA genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 1 presumed pseudogene (ycf1). The overall GC content observed was 37.95%, with the highest GC content of 43.02% found in the IR region. Comparative genome analysis revealed five highly variable regions among Eleutherococcus species, providing potential markers for further investigations on species identification and population genetics. A total of 44 small simple repeats were identified throughout the chloroplast genome of E. nodiflorus. The phylogenetic analysis indicated a sister relationship between E. nodiflorus and E. eleutheristylus, suggesting a close genetic relationship between the two Eleutherococcus plants. These results enhance the understanding of the plant evolution within Eleutherococcus plants and provide basic genetic resources for the development of species identification and investigation of population genetic diversity of the Eleutherococcus genus and Araliaceae.
Is GPT-4 Alone Sufficient for Automated Essay Scoring?: A Comparative Judgment Approach Based on Rater Cognition
Creators: name: Kim, Seungju
name: Jo, Meounggun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in Automated Essay Scoring (AES), but their zero-shot and few-shot performance often falls short compared to state-of-the-art models and human raters. However, fine-tuning LLMs for each specific task is impractical due to the variety of essay prompts and rubrics used in real-world educational contexts. This study proposes a novel approach combining LLMs and Comparative Judgment (CJ) for AES, using zero-shot prompting to choose between two essays. We demonstrate that a CJ method surpasses traditional rubric-based scoring in essay scoring using LLMs.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, Learning @ Scale 2024
title: Assiette avec graffite SICCA (Inv. 2013.19.1079.1) – Oppidum de Bibracte
Creators: name: Bibracte
Publisher: name: Conservatoire National des Données 3D (CND3D)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: assiette

description: Si les Gaulois avaient la réputation de rejeter l écriture  ils n étaient pas pour autant illettrés. Pour preuve  ces graffitis qui transcrivent la langue gauloise à l aide de l alphabet grec  puis  à partir de la fin du Ier siècle avant notre ère  de l alphabet latin. Tracés à la pointe sèche sur des vases  des cruches et autres pièces de vaisselle en terre cuite  ils permettaient à leurs propriétaires de marquer leur bien.
title: Mail à Michel Kazatchkine, Luc Montagnier, Didier Sicard, Bertran Auvert, Bernard Hirschel, Robert Gallo, Paul Volberding, Anthony Fauci, Michael Saag, Daniel Zagury, Jean-Claude Ameisen ; copie à Stanislas Pol, Luc Perrin, L. Barrett ; mail transféré le 6 octobre 2008 à Christine Restif (Unesco)
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Pièce jointe attachée : graphique "Remanent anti HIV activity under Discontinuous ARV".
description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111134190915
description: created: start=2008-10-03;end=2008-10-06
Additional file 2 of FGFR3 signaling and function in triple negative breast cancer
Creators: name: Chew, Nicole
name: Nguyen, Elizabeth
name: Shih-Ping Su
name: Novy, Karel
name: Chan, Howard
name: Nguyen, Lan
name: Jennii Luu
name: Simpson, Kaylene
name: Lee, Rachel
name: Daly, Roger
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Interactions of proteins exhibiting tyrosine phosphorylation specific to SUM185PE cell line using STRING software
title: ADCO, Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0617
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0617, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0617, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Additional file 1 of Plasma omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and recurrence of endometrial cancer
Creators: name: Li, Peiqin
name: Shan, Boer
name: Jia, Keyu
name: Hu, Fan
name: Xiao, Ying
name: Zheng, Jusheng
name: Gao, Yu-Tang
name: Wang, Huaying
name: Gao, Ying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Phase-space mixing in dynamically unstable, integrable few-mode quantum systems
Creators: name: Mathew, Ranchu
name: Tiesinga, Eite
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quenches in isolated quantum systems are currently a subject of intense study. Here, we consider quantum few-mode systems that are integrable in their classical mean-field limit and become dynamically unstable after a quench of a system parameter. Specifically, we study a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a double-well potential and an antiferromagnetic spinor BEC constrained to a single spatial mode. We study the time dynamics after the quench within the truncated Wigner approximation (TWA) and find that system relaxes to a steady state due to phase-space mixing. Using the action-angle formalism and a pendulum as an illustration, we derive general analytical expressions for the time evolution of expectation values of observables and their long-time limits. We find that the deviation of the long-time expectation value from its classical value scales as $1/O(\ln N )$, where $N$ is the number of atoms in the condensate. Furthermore, the relaxation of an observable to its steady state value is a damped oscillation and the damping is Gaussian in time. We confirm our results with numerical TWA simulations.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
Linee Guida per la creazione di documenti accessibili
Creators: name: Perillo, Gianluca
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: accessibilità
documenti accessibili

description: I documenti accessibili sono tali quando consentono di accedere alle informazioni necessarie a tutti, inclusi coloro che hanno disabilità visive, cognitive o motorie, anche se dovessero utilizzare tecnologie assistive o configurazioni particolari. Questo documento descrive l'importanza per le pubbliche amministrazioni di produrre documenti accessibili e fornisce informazioni tecniche e pratiche sull'utilizzo di alcuni strumenti software dedicati alla creazione dei documenti per perseguire questo scopo. In particolare, viene descritto il ciclo di produzione completamente digitale di un documento, dall'utilizzo dell'editor di testo fino alla corretta conversione in formato pdf che mantenga tutti i criteri di accessibilità.
Non-piezoelectric effects in piezoresponse force microscopy
Creators: name: Seol, Daehee
name: Kim, Bora
name: Kim, Yunseok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has been used extensively for exploring nanoscale ferro/piezoelectric phenomena over the past two decades. The imaging mechanism of PFM is based on the detection of the electromechanical (EM) response induced by the inverse piezoelectric effect through the cantilever dynamics of an atomic force microscopy. However, several non-piezoelectric effects can induce additional contributions to the EM response, which often lead to a misinterpretation of the measured PFM response. This review aims to summarize the non-piezoelectric origins of the EM response that impair the interpretation of PFM measurements. We primarily discuss two major non-piezoelectric origins, namely, the electrostatic effect and electrochemical strain. Several approaches for differentiating the ferroelectric contribution from the EM response are also discussed. The review suggests a undamental guideline for the proper utilization of the PFM technique, as well as for achieving a reasonable interpretation of observed PFM responses.
description: 46 pages, 14 figures
title: Assiette avec graffite SICCA (Inv. 2013.19.1079.1)
Creators: name: Golánová, Petra
name: Bochnak, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Conservatoire National des Données 3D (CND3D)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: assiette
subject: Artefact
subject: ACQUISITION

description: Modèle 3D
MSP-Podcast SER Challenge 2024: L'antenne du Ventoux Multimodal Self-Supervised Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition
Creators: name: Duret, Jarod
name: Rouvier, Mickael
name: Estève, Yannick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this work, we detail our submission to the 2024 edition of the MSP-Podcast Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) Challenge. This challenge is divided into two distinct tasks: Categorical Emotion Recognition and Emotional Attribute Prediction. We concentrated our efforts on Task 1, which involves the categorical classification of eight emotional states using data from the MSP-Podcast dataset. Our approach employs an ensemble of models, each trained independently and then fused at the score level using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The models were trained using various strategies, including Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) fine-tuning across different modalities: speech alone, text alone, and a combined speech and text approach. This joint training methodology aims to enhance the system's ability to accurately classify emotional states. This joint training methodology aims to enhance the system's ability to accurately classify emotional states. Thus, the system obtained F1-macro of 0.35\% on development set.
Real-world clinical management of individuals with Rett syndrome: a physician survey
Creators: name: May, Damian M.
name: Neul, Jeffrey L.
name: Satija, Ambika
name: Cheng, Wendy Y.
name: Lema, Neema
name: Boca, Andra
name: Lefebvre, Patrick
name: Piña-Garza, Jesús Eric
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder. Management strategies are heterogeneous with no clear definition of success. This study describes physician decision-making regarding diagnosis, therapeutic goals, and management strategies to better understand RTT clinical management in the US. This study was conducted among practicing physicians, specifically neurologists and pediatricians in the US with experience treating ≥2 individuals with RTT, including ≥1 individuals within the past two years. In-depth interviews with five physicians informed survey development. A cross-sectional survey was then conducted among 100 physicians. Neurologists had treated more individuals with RTT (median: 12 vs. 5, p < 0.001) than pediatricians throughout their career and were more likely to report being “very comfortable” managing RTT (31 vs. 4%, p < 0.001). Among physicians with experience diagnosing RTT (93%), most evaluated symptoms (91%) or used genetic testing (86%) for RTT diagnoses; neurologists used the 2010 consensus diagnostic criteria more than pediatricians (54 vs. 29%; p = 0.012). Improving the quality of life (QOL) of individuals with RTT was the most important therapeutic goal among physicians, followed by improving caregivers’ QOL. Most physicians used clinical practice guidelines to monitor the progress of individuals with RTT, although neurologists relied more on clinical scales than pediatricians. Among all physicians, the most commonly treated symptoms included behavioral issues, epilepsy/seizures, and feeding issues. Management strategies varied by symptom, with referral to appropriate specialists being common across symptoms. A large proportion of physicians (37%) identified the lack of novel therapies and reliance on symptom-specific management as an unmet need. Although most physicians had experience and were comfortable diagnosing and treating individuals with RTT, better education and support among pediatricians is warranted. Additionally, novel treatments that target multiple symptoms associated with RTT could reduce the burden and improve the QOL of individuals with RTT and their caregivers.
Development and evaluation of two brief, group treatments for music performance anxiety in community musicians: a preliminary study
Creators: name: Halls, Naomi Carolyn
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The purpose of this study was to develop, administer and evaluate two brief group treatments for music performance anxiety aimed at reducing anxiety and improving performance quality. This study also investigated for differences in measurement outcomes between treatments. A cognitive behavioural therapy treatment was developed for the study from an existing empirically proven treatment, Chilled (Rapee et al., 2006), focusing on cognitive, physiological and behavioural symptoms. The second treatment, based on a protocol developed by Gardenswartz and Craske (2001), targeted physiological symptoms and delivered relaxation strategies. Treatments were administered in a workshop format over one day with four treatment sessions, preceded by a pedagogic practice skills session. The practice skills sessions functioned as a placebo treatment and included no active treatment component. A quasi-experimental group randomisation design compared the treatments in a heterogeneous sample of community musicians. Sixty-eight participants completed measures of trait anxiety,anxiety sensitivity, depression, and music performance anxiety. Participants also performed four times (pre- and post-placebo, post-treatment and follow-up) and were assessed for performance quality by an expert judge. The results suggest that both treatments offered significant gains for the musicians: anxiety was reduced and performance quality improved after treatment. Results of a feedback survey suggested that a majority of participants were satisfied with treatment workshops overall (98%),and reported that the treatment had given them strategies for managing anxiety and improving performance (99%). Despite an absence of statistically significant differences between treatments, treatment efficacy was demonstrated at different points, thus indicating the need for further explication.
Microwave Photodetection in an Ultraclean Suspended Bilayer Graphene pn Junction
Creators: name: Jung, Minkyung
name: Rickhaus, Peter
name: Zihlmann, Simon
name: Makk, Peter
name: Schönenberger, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the potential of bilayer graphene as a cryogenic microwave photodetector by studying the microwave absorption in fully suspended clean bilayer graphene pn junctions in the frequency range of $1-5$ GHz at a temperature of 8 K. We observe a distinct photocurrent signal if the device is gated into the pn regime, while there is almost no signal for unipolar doping in either the nn or pp regimes. Most surprisingly, the photocurrent strongly peaks when one side of the junction is gated to the Dirac point (charge-neutrality point CNP), while the other remains in a highly doped state. This is different to previous results where optical radiation was used. We propose a new mechanism based on the phototermal effect explaining the large signal. It requires contact doping and a distinctly different transport mechanism on both sides: one side of graphene is ballistic and the other diffusive. By engineering partially diffusive and partially ballistic devices, the photocurrent can drastically be enhanced.
Raw Data Human Fovea Collimated Light
Creators: name: Tschulakow, Alexander
name: Oltrup, Theo
name: Bende, Thomas
name: Sebatian Schmelzle
name: Schraermeyer, Ulrich
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Structural Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60111 Signal Transduction
subject: 60807 Animal Structure and Function

description: Results of light transmission measurement of 3 human retinae (foveal area)
Thermal performance of metallic nanofluids in microchannel heat sink
Creators: name: Clark, Duncan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: A numerical investigation of the heat transfer enhancement of a two-dimensional microchannel heat sink (MCHS) using Al2O3-water, CuO-water and TiO2-water was conducted. The numerical methodology uses mathematical models for continuity, momentum, energy and solid temperature to model the fluid flow through the MCHS. The effect of the metallic nanoparticles on the thermal performance of the heat transfer fluid (HTF) in the heat sink was examined for the volume concentrations of 1%, 3% and 5%. Techniques for increasing the thermal performance of HTF are to raise the thermal conductivity of the fluid and/or to reduce the viscosity. Analysis of the effect the individual thermo-physical properties have on the thermal boundary layer and the total thermal performance is conducted. The results depict that for Al2O3-water and Cuo-waternanofluids the overall thermal performance is increased compared to the pure base fluid of water, with the most effective volume concentrations at 5% and 3%. TiO2-water nanofluid decreased in thermal perfomance at all volume concentrations. Overall, Al2O3-water nanofluid at the volume concentration of 5% shows the most effective heat transfer capabilities in the MCHS.
Distributed Data Access in Industrial Edge Networks
Creators: name: Raptis, Theofanis P.
name: Passarella, Andrea
name: Conti, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless edge networks in smart industrial environments increasingly operate using advanced sensors and autonomous machines interacting with each other and generating huge amounts of data. Those huge amounts of data are bound to make data management (e.g., for processing, storing, computing) a big challenge. Current data management approaches, relying primarily on centralized data storage, might not be able to cope with the scalability and real time requirements of Industry 4.0 environments, while distributed solutions are increasingly being explored. In this paper, we introduce the problem of distributed data access in multi-hop wireless industrial edge deployments, whereby a set of consumer nodes needs to access data stored in a set of data cache nodes, satisfying the industrial data access delay requirements and at the same time maximizing the network lifetime. We prove that the introduced problem is computationally intractable and, after formulating the objective function, we design a two-step algorithm in order to address it. We use an open testbed with real devices for conducting an experimental investigation on the performance of the algorithm. Then, we provide two online improvements, so that the data distribution can dynamically change before the first node in the network runs out of energy. We compare the performance of the methods via simulations for different numbers of network nodes and data consumers, and we show significant lifetime prolongation and increased energy efficiency when employing the method which is using only decentralized low-power wireless communication instead of the method which is using also centralized local area wireless communication.
description: This work was funded by the EC through the FoF-RIA Project AUTOWARE (No. 723909)
Biochemical properties of cellulolytic and xylanolytic enzymes from Sporotrichum thermophile and their utility in bioethanol production using rice straw
Creators: name: Singh, Bijender
name: Bala, Anju
name: Anu
name: Alokika
name: Kumar, Vinod
name: Singh, Davender
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Production of cellulolytic and xylanolytic enzymes by Sporotrichum thermophile was enhanced using response surface methodology in solid-state fermentation (SSF) using wheat straw and cotton oil cake. Cellulolytic and xylanolytic enzymes were partially purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation followed by ion exchange and gel filtration chromatographic techniques. Xylanase of S. thermophile is neutral xylanase displaying optimal activity at 60 °C with Km and Vmax values of 0.2 mg/mL and 238.05 µmole/min, respectively. All cellulases produced by the thermophilic mold showed optimal activity at pH 5.0 and 60 °C with Km values of 0.312 mg/mL, 0.113 mg/mL, and 0.285 mM for carboxymethyl cellulase (CMCase), filter paper cellulase (FPase), and β-glucosidase, respectively and while Vmax values were 181.81, 138.88, and 66.67 µmole/min, respectively. The presence of various metal ions (Ca2+ and Co2+), chemical reagent (glutaraldehyde), and surfactants (Tween 80 and Triton X-100) significantly improved the activities of all enzymes. All the enzymes showed high storage stability under low temperature (−20 and 4 °C) conditions. Cellulolytic and xylanolytic enzymes resulted in enhanced liberation of reducing sugars (356.34 mg/g) by hydrolyzing both cellulosic and hemicellulosic fractions of ammonia-pretreated rice straw as compared to other pretreatment methods used in the study. Fermentation of enzymatic hydrolysate resulted in the formation of 28.88 and 27.18 g/L of bioethanol in separate hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF) process by Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia stipitis, respectively. Therefore, cellulolytic and xylanolytic enzymes of S. thermophile exhibited ideal properties of biocatalysts useful in the saccharification of cellulosic and hemicellulosic fractions of rice straw for the production of bioethanol.
Minimum Manhattan Distance Approach to Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Multiobjective Optimization Problems
Creators: name: Chiu, Wei-Yu
name: Yen, Gary G.
name: Juan, Teng-Kuei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A minimum Manhattan distance (MMD) approach to multiple criteria decision making in multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) is proposed. The approach selects the final solution corresponding with a vector that has the MMD from a normalized ideal vector. This procedure is equivalent to the knee selection described by a divide and conquer approach that involves iterations of pairwise comparisons. Being able to systematically assign weighting coefficients to multiple criteria, the MMD approach is equivalent to a weighted-sum (WS) approach. Because of the equivalence, the MMD approach possesses rich geometric interpretations that are considered essential in the field of evolutionary computation. The MMD approach is elegant because all evaluations can be performed by efficient matrix calculations without iterations of comparisons. While the WS approach may encounter an indeterminate situation in which a few solutions yield almost the same WS, the MMD approach is able to determine the final solution discriminately. Since existing multiobjective evolutionary algorithms aim for a posteriori decision making, i.e., determining the final solution after a set of Pareto optimal solutions is available, the proposed MMD approach can be combined with them to form a powerful solution method of solving MOPs. Furthermore, the approach enables scalable definitions of the knee and knee solutions.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Compression using Quasi-Interpolation
Creators: name: Buhmann, Martin
name: Dai, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 41A15, 41A30, 65D15, 41A05, 65D05

description: We consider quasi-interpolation with a main application in radial basis function approximations and compression in this article. Constructing and using these quasi-interpolants, we consider wavelet and compression-type approximations from their linear spaces and provide convergence estimates. The results include an error estimate for nonlinear approximation by quasi-interpolation, results about compression in the space of continuous functions and a pointwise convergence estimate for approximands of low smoothness.
SARS-CoV-2 IgG seropositivity after the severe Omicron wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong
Creators: name: Poon, Rosana Wing-Shan
name: Chan, Brian Pui-Chun
name: Chan, Wan-Mui
name: Fong, Carol Ho-Yan
name: Zhang, Xiaojuan
name: Lu, Lu
name: Chen, Lin-Lei
name: Lam, Joy-Yan
name: Cheng, Vincent Chi-Chung
name: Wong, Samson S. Y.
name: Kok, Kin-Hang
name: Yuen, Kwok-Yung
name: To, Kelvin Kai-Wang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has led to a major wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong between January and May 2022. Here, we used seroprevalence to estimate the combined incidence of vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection, including subclinical infection which were not diagnosed at the acute stage. The overall seropositive rate of IgG against receptor binding domain (anti-RBD IgG) increased from 52.2% in December 2021 to 89.3% in May 2022. The level of anti-RBD IgG was lowest in the 0–9 and ≥80 year-old age groups in May 2022. The seropositive rate of antibody against ORF8, which reflects the rate of prior infection, was 23.4% in May 2022. Our data suggest that although most individuals were either vaccinated or infected after the fifth wave, children and older adults remain most vulnerable. Public health measures should target these age groups in order to ameliorate the healthcare consequences of upcoming waves.
Quasars in the Galactic Anti-Center Area from the LAMOST DR3
Creators: name: Huo, Zhi-Ying
name: Liu, Xiao-Wei
name: Shi, Jian-Rong
name: Xiang, Mao-Sheng
name: Huang, Yang
name: Yuan, Hai-Bo
name: Zhang, Jian-Nan
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Wang, Jian-Ling
name: Wu, Yu-Zhong
name: Cao, Zi-Huang
name: Zhang, Yong
name: Hou, Yong-Hui
name: Wang, Yue-Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a sample of quasars discovered in the area of Galactic Anti-Center (GAC) of $150^{\circ} \leq l \leq 210^{\circ}$ and $|b| \leq 30^{\circ}$, based on the LAMOST Data Release 3 (DR3). The sample contains 151 spectroscopically confirmed quasars. Among them 80 are newly discovered with the LAMOST. All those quasars are very bright, with $i$ magnitudes peaking around 17.5\, mag. All the newly quasars are discovered serendipitously, targeted originally with the LAMOST as stars of bluer colours, except for a few targeted as variable, young stellar object candidates. This bright quasar sample at low Galactic latitudes will help fill the gap in the spatial distribution of known quasars near the Galactic disk that are used to construct astrometric reference frame for the purpose of accurate proper motion measurements, for example, Gaia. They are also excellent tracers to probe the kinematics and chemistry of the interstellar medium of the Milky Way disk and halo via absorption line spectroscopy.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letter
title: ADCO, Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1497-1504) (11 H 1172), f. 00461
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: comptes
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP

description: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1497-1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1172). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1497-1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1172), f. 00461, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Cost effectiveness analysis of CAR-T cell therapy for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma in China
Creators: name: Wu, Weijia
name: Ding, Shuyi
name: Mingming, Zhang
name: Yuping, Zhou
name: Sun, Xueshan
name: Zhao, Zixuan
name: Yang, Yi
name: Hu, Yongxian
name: Dong, Hengjin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Hematology

description: The landscape of treatment strategies for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) has dramatically changed due to the emergence of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of two CAR-T cell treatments for RRMM patients from the perspective of the Chinese healthcare system. A Markov model was used to compare currently available salvage chemotherapy with Idecabtagene vicleucel (Ide-cel) and Ciltacabtagene autoleucel (Cilta-cel) for treatment of patients with RRMM. The model was developed based on data from three studies: CARTITUDE-1, KarMMa, and MAMMOTH. The healthcare cost and utility of RRMM patients were collected from a provincial clinical center in China. In the base case analysis, 3.4% and 36.6% of RRMM patients were expected to be long-term survivors after 5 years of Ide-cel and Cilta-cel treatment, respectively. Compared to salvage chemotherapy, Ide-cel and Cilta-cel were associated with incremental QALYs of 1.19 and 3.31, and incremental costs of US$140,693 and $119,806, leading to ICERs of $118,229 and $36,195 per QALY, respectively. At an ICER threshold of $37,653/QALY gained, the probability that Ide-cel and Cilta-cel are cost-effective were estimated to be 0% and 72%, respectively. With younger target people entering the model, and a partitioned survival model in scenario analysis, the ICERs of Cilta-cel and Ide-cel changed rather mildly and their cost-effectiveness results were the same as base analysis. Based on the willingness-to-pay of 3-times China’s per capita GDP in 2021, Cilta-cel was considered to be a more cost-effective option compared to salvage chemotherapy for RRMM in China, while Ide-cel was not.
Maxi Scherer, Andrew D Mitchell and Dharshini Prasad, ‘Sources of Procedural Law in International Dispute Settlement’ in Joanna Gomula, Stephan Wittich and Markus Stemeseder (eds), Research Handbook on International Procedural Law (Edward Elgar, 2024) 30–52
Creators: name: Scherer, Maxi
name: Mitchell, Andrew
name: Prasad, Dharshini
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 480310
subject: Public international law
classificationCode: 480305
subject: International arbitration
classificationCode: 480506
subject: Litigation, adjudication and dispute resolution

description: This chapter explores the diverse sources of procedural law applicable in international dispute settlement. It examines the foundational role of treaties, customary international law, and general principles of law recognized by civilized nations, providing a comprehensive analysis of how procedural norms are established and applied across different international forums, including the International Court of Justice, World Trade Organization, and various arbitral tribunals. Special attention is given to the distinctions between particular and generally applicable sources of procedural law, the influence of domestic laws, and the impact of arbitral rules and decisions. The chapter underscores the complexity and dynamism inherent in the procedural aspects of international dispute resolution, highlighting the interplay between global legal traditions and the evolving needs of international adjudication.
Top management team diversity and firm performance: the effects of team orientation and process "a study of Australian SME"
Creators: name: Karkavandi, Zahra Sadeghinejad
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Previous research on the relationship between top management team (TMT) diversity and firm performance has reported inconsistent findings. Following scholars' suggestions and in an attempt to provide a better understanding of the role of TMT diversity, this study examines a relatively new aspect of managerial cognition known as "metacognition". It integrates insights from entrepreneurship literature with the upper echelons perspective to introduce the concept of TMT metacognitive diversity to the existing discussion on the TMT diversity-firm performance relationship. To further reveal how and under what conditions TMT metacognitive diversity functions effectively, this study integrates entrepreneurial orientation and TMT behavioral integration as a mediator and moderator respectively. Eleven hypotheses were developed and tested using the structural equation modeling (SEM). To supplement the survey data, seven semi-structured interviews (two TMTs) were conducted. Based on both the quantitative and qualitative findings, several theoretical and managerial implications were developed. This research makes a contribution to both upper echelons and entrepreneurship literature. It enriches upper echelons research by going beyond the traditional focus on TMT demographics and directly measuring managerial cognition. It advances the entrepreneurship literature by explaining entrepreneurial initiatives from the upper echelons perspective. Suggestions are made for future research.
Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: agricultural adjustment
Creators: name: Edwards, Geoff
name: Bates, Winton
name: Edwards, Geoff
name: Bates, Winton
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: adjustment
subject: impediments
subject: market failure
subject: reconstruction
subject: structural change

description: Over the last 60 years, Australian and New Zealand agricultural economists have promoted a better understanding of agricultural adjustment pressures and opportunities among farmers and policy makers. They have emphasised that adjustment pressures faced by farmers are linked to economy-wide growth processes and that adjustment problems have been aggravated by past government policies, including closer settlement and measures distorting markets for agricultural outputs and inputs. Economists who argued that provision of adjustment assistance would be preferable to price support policies helped to change the focus of agricultural policy toward facilitating adjustment. When rural adjustment schemes were established in the early 1970s, the case for them was made largely in terms of impediments to efficient adjustment in capital and labour markets. However, the schemes involved elements of ‘government failure’, especially concessional interest rates. Over the following decades, as economists became increasingly sceptical about market failure rationales, adjustment assistance schemes gradually became decreasingly important. Nevertheless, there is ongoing support for the view that adjustment assistance can sometimes enable less efficient and less equitable polices to be avoided.
Dealing with uncertainty in collaborative planning: developing adaptive strategies for the IJsselmeer
Creators: name: Zandvoort, Mark
name: Brugge, Rutger Van Der
name: Vlist, Maarten J. Van Der
name: Brink, Adri Van Den
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Adaptive strategies to deal with uncertainty in water management are often collaboratively developed. So far, however, little attention has been paid to the influence of collaboration on handling uncertainty through adaptive planning. In this paper, we study how collaboration has influenced the handling of uncertainty through adaptive planning for water management strategies for the IJsselmeer area in the Netherlands. We show how a fixation on certainty, different perspectives among actors and unclear responsibilities between arenas affect the handling of uncertainty, and found that it is adversely affected by collaboration. The use of adaptive planning challenged current water uses and system functions, creating resistance from actors. We conclude that developing a shared problem perception, creating a common understanding of uncertainties and ensuring a clear demarcation between the water system, its societal functions and water usage, are necessary to make adaptive planning successful in handling uncertainty.