cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Numerical study of space charge electric field inside Resistive Plate Chamber
Creators: name: Dey, Tanay
name: Mukhopadhyay, Supratik
name: Chattopadhyay, Subhasis
name: Sadukan, Jhilam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resistive plate chamber (RPC) is one of the state-of-the-art particle detection technology for the High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. The basic operating mechanism of an RPC involves ionization of gas due to the passage of charged particles followed by electron transport , avalanche, and subsequent electromagnetic induction on readout strips due to the movement of the electrons and ions. Especially during streamer mode of operation, the electric field applied to the RPC can get significantly modified due to the presence of large number of electrons and ions. In this study, we have worked on dominant issues related to the estimation of electric field due to the space charge arising out of the presence of electrons, ions within an RPC. For this purpose we have considered two approaches: representation of the space charge cloud as (a) a collection of ring charges, and (b) as a collection of line charges. The results from these different methods have been compared with results available in the literature.
description: Rpc 2020 conference proceedings
Supporting breastfeeding In Local Communities (SILC) in Victoria, Australia: a cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: McLachlan, Helen
name: Forster, Della
name: Amir, Lisa
name: Meabh Cullinane
name: Touran Shafiei
name: LF Watson
name: Lael Ridgway
name: Cramer, Rhian
name: Small, Rhonda
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Objectives: Breastfeeding has significant health benefits for mothers and infants. Despite recommendations from the WHO, by 6 months of age 40% of Australian infants are receiving no breast milk. Increased early postpartum breastfeeding support may improve breastfeeding maintenance. 2 community-based interventions to increase breastfeeding duration in local government areas (LGAs) in Victoria, Australia, were implemented and evaluated. Design: 3-arm cluster randomised trial. Setting: LGAs in Victoria, Australia. Participants: LGAs across Victoria with breastfeeding initiation rates below the state average and > 450 births/year were eligible for inclusion. The LGA was the unit of randomisation, and maternal and child health centres in the LGAs comprised the clusters. Interventions: Early home-based breastfeeding support by a maternal and child health nurse (home visit, HV) with or without access to a community-based breastfeeding drop-in centre (HV+drop-in). Main outcome measures: The proportion of infants receiving 'any' breast milk at 3, 4 and 6 months (women's self-report). Findings: 4 LGAs were randomised to the comparison arm and provided usual care (n=41 clusters; n=2414 women); 3 to HV (n=32 clusters; n=2281 women); and 3 to HV+drop-in (n=26 clusters; 2344 women). There was no difference in breastfeeding at 4 months in either HV (adjusted OR 1.04; 95% CI 0.84 to 1.29) or HV+drop-in (adjusted OR 0.92; 95% CI 0.78 to 1.08) compared with the comparison arm, no difference at 3 or 6 months, nor in any LGA in breastfeeding before and after the intervention. Some issues were experienced with intervention protocol fidelity. Conclusions: Early home-based and community-based support proved difficult to implement. Interventions to increase breastfeeding in complex community settings require sufficient time and partnership building for successful implementation. We cannot conclude that additional community-based support is ineffective in improving breastfeeding maintenance given the level of adherence to the planned protocol. Trial registration number: ACTRN12611000898954; Results.
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, March/April 2007
Creators: name: Thompson, Stephen
name: Miller, Patricia
name: Reynolds, Bruce
name: Livington, Jane
name: Dunn, John
name: Todd, Anne
name: Thompson, Stephen
name: Miller, Patricia
name: Reynolds, Bruce
name: Livington, Jane
name: Dunn, John
name: Todd, Anne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features- Above the belt; The big chill; Branding for success; Miracle on the bayou; Winds of change; Housecleaning co-op members see income, benefits rise; Farmer co-ops report record net income
ROSAT-SDSS Galaxy Clusters Survey. I. The Catalog and the correlation of X-ray and optical properties
Creators: name: Popesso, P.
name: Boehringer, H.
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Voges, W.
name: York, D. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a detailed comparison of the appearance of cluster of galaxies in X-rays and in the optical, we have compiled a comprehensive database of X-ray and optical properties of a sample of clusters based on the largest available X-ray and optical surveys: the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The X-ray galaxy clusters of this RASS-SDSS catalog cover a wide range of masses, from groups of 10^{12.5} solar masses to massive clusters of 10^{15} solar masses in the redshift range from 0.002 to 0.45. The RASS-SDSS sample comprises all the X-ray selected objects already observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (114 clusters). For each system we have uniformly determined the X-ray and optical properties. The total optical luminosity can be determined with a typical uncertainty of 20% with a result independent of the choice of local or global background subtraction. We found that the z band cluster luminosity determined within an aperture of 0.5 Mpc h_{70}^(-1) provides the best correlation with the X-ray luminosity with a scatter of about 60-70%. The scatter decreases to less than 40% if the correlation is limited to the bright X-ray clusters. The resulting correlation of L_X and L_{op} in the z and i bands shows a logarithmic slope of 0.38, a value not consistent with the assumption of a constant M/L. Consistency is found, however, for an increasing M/L with luminosity as suggested by other observations. We also investigated the correlation between L_{op} and the X-ray temperature obtaining the same result.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A, 47 pages, 19 figures
Η Σικελία μετά την ενοποίηση. Το αίσθημα της ματαιότητας και της απομάγευσης στα έργα: Οι Αντιβασιλείς του Φεντερίκο Ντε Ρομπέρτο, Οι γέροι και οι νέοι του Λουίτζι Πιραντέλο και Ο Γατόπαρδος του Τζουζέπε Τομάζι ντι Λαμπεντούζα
Creators: name: Ταλαγκόζη, Πασχαλία Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Σικελία
Αριστοκρατία
Ενοποίηση
Sicily
Aristocracy
Unification

description: Στην παρούσα Διπλωματική εργασία μελετήθηκαν τρία έργα Σικελών συγγραφέων γραμμένα σε διαφορετική χρονική περίοδο με φόντο, όμως, το ίδιο ιστορικό και κοινωνικοπολιτικό πλαίσιο της Σικελίας και της ευρύτερης Ιταλίας, κατά το δεύτερο μισό του 19ου αιώνα. Μέσα από τρεις αριστοκρατικές οικογένειες που εξελίσσονται και επηρεάζονται από τις συγκεκριμένες ιστορικές και κοινωνικοπολιτικές συνθήκες εκείνης της εποχής αναδύονται αισθήματα ματαίωσης και απογοήτευσης καθώς οι ελπίδες των υπέρμαχων της ιταλικής Ενοποίησης από τα προσδοκώμενα ζητούμενα δεν θα τελεσφορήσουν. Μελετάται το ιστορικό πλαίσιο της εποχής, το λογοτεχνικό είδος (ιστορικό ή/και αντι-ιστορικό μυθιστόρημα) στο οποίο ανήκουν τα τρία έργα, οι αφηγηματικές δομές καθώς επίσης οι συγκλίσεις και οι αποκλίσεις που παρουσιάζουν μεταξύ τους μέσα από ποικίλες κριτικές αναγνώσεις. Επιπλέον, μέσα από επιλεγμένες μεταφράσεις αποσπασμάτων προσεγγίζεται ο πυρήνας της παρούσας εργασίας αποτελούμενος από τις θεματικές των έργων που αφορούν την εξαχρείωση της “ράτσας”, τα καταπατημένα ιδανικά και τις ανεκπλήρωτες προσδοκίες όσων οραματίστηκαν την Ενοποιημένη Ιταλία.
description: In this Thesis three texts of Sicilian authors were studied, which have been written in different time periods with the same historical and socio-political background context of Sicily and Italy in the second half of the 19th century. Feelings of frustration and disappointment emerge from three aristocratic families that were evolved and influenced by this specific historical and socio-political conditions of that time, as the hopes and expectations of the supporters of Italian Unification will not come true. The historical context of the era is studied, the literary genre (historical and/or anti-historical novel) to which the three texts belong, the narrative structures as well as the convergences and discrepancies that they present with each other through various reviews. In addition, the core of the present work is approached through selected translations of excerpts, consisting of the themes of the texts concerning the expropriation of the "race", the trampled ideals and the unfulfilled expectations of those who envisioned a Unified Italy.
Temporal evolution of the "thermal" and "superthermal" income classes in the USA during 1983-2001
Creators: name: Silva, A. Christian
name: Yakovenko, Victor M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Personal income distribution in the USA has a well-defined two-class structure. The majority of population (97-99%) belongs to the lower class characterized by the exponential Boltzmann-Gibbs ("thermal") distribution, whereas the upper class (1-3% of population) has a Pareto power-law ("superthermal") distribution. By analyzing income data for 1983-2001, we show that the "thermal" part is stationary in time, save for a gradual increase of the effective temperature, whereas the "superthermal" tail swells and shrinks following the stock market. We discuss the concept of equilibrium inequality in a society, based on the principle of maximal entropy, and quantitatively show that it applies to the majority of population.
description: v.3: 7 pages, 5 figures, EPL style, more references added
Synchronous RNA conformational changes trigger ordered phase transitions in crystals
Creators: name: S Ramakrishnan
name: JR Stagno
name: CE Conrad
name: J Ding
name: P Yu
name: YR Bhandari
name: YT Lee
name: G Pauly
name: O Yefanov
name: MO Wiedorn
name: J Knoska
name: D Oberthür
name: TA White
name: A Barty
name: V Mariani
name: C Li
name: W Brehm
name: WF Heinz
name: V Magidson
name: S Lockett
name: MS Hunter
name: S Boutet
name: Zatsepin, Nadia
name: X Zuo
name: TD Grant
name: S Pandey
name: M Schmidt
name: JCH Spence
name: HN Chapman
name: YX Wang
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Time-resolved studies of biomacromolecular crystals have been limited to systems involving only minute conformational changes within the same lattice. Ligand-induced changes greater than several angstroms, however, are likely to result in solid-solid phase transitions, which require a detailed understanding of the mechanistic interplay between conformational and lattice transitions. Here we report the synchronous behavior of the adenine riboswitch aptamer RNA in crystal during ligand-triggered isothermal phase transitions. Direct visualization using polarized video microscopy and atomic force microscopy shows that the RNA molecules undergo cooperative rearrangements that maintain lattice order, whose cell parameters change distinctly as a function of time. The bulk lattice order throughout the transition is further supported by time-resolved diffraction data from crystals using an X-ray free electron laser. The synchronous molecular rearrangements in crystal provide the physical basis for studying large conformational changes using time-resolved crystallography and micro/nanocrystals.
Additional file 1 of Identification of metabolic syndrome using phenotypes consisting of triglyceride levels with anthropometric indices in Korean adults
Creators: name: Lee, Bum Ju
name: Kim, Jong Yeol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Basic characteristics and brief descriptions of variables used in this study. Supplementary Table 2. Baseline data between normal and MetS groups in men and women.
H.-G. Gadamer και Αριστοτέλης: απόπειρα αποσαφήνισης της φιλοσοφικής ερμηνευτικής κατά το πρότυπο της αριστοτελικής ηθικής
Creators: name: Σταύρου, Σοφία Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Γκάνταμερ και Αριστοτέλης
Φιλοσοφική Ερμηνευτική
Αριστοτελική Ηθική
Gadamer and Aristotle
Philosophical Hermeneutics
Aristotelian Ethics

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση της σχέσης μεταξύ αριστοτελικής ηθικής και φιλοσοφικής ερμηνευτικής, όπως αυτή συλλαμβάνεται από τον Hans-Georg Gadamer. Υπό τον ερευνητικό φακό τίθενται οι λόγοι που έστρεψαν τον Gadamer να αναζητήσει στο αριστοτελικό έργο ένα υπόδειγμα για τη δική του φιλοσοφική ερμηνευτική, καθώς και οι συνεπαγωγές που προκύπτουν από αυτήν την ερμηνευτική ιδιοποίηση. Κύριο άξονα της μελέτης συνιστά η ανάλυση των αναλογιών που διαβλέπει η γκανταμεριανή οπτική, έχοντας στο επίκεντρο τη σχέση φρόνησης και κατανόησης. Ανήκει, τελικώς, η φιλοσοφική ερμηνευτική στην πρακτική φιλοσοφία; Η εργασία προχωρά στην κριτική αποτίμηση του εγχειρήματος και στην κατάδειξη των ασυνεπειών. Ως καταλληλότερη μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση επιλέχθηκε η διεξοδική εξέταση δύο κειμένων όπου εμφανίζεται ως ζητούμενο η σχέση πρακτικής φιλοσοφίας και φιλοσοφικής ερμηνευτικής. Πρόκειται για ένα κεφάλαιο του magnum opus «Αλήθεια και Μέθοδος» (1960) και ένα μεταγενέστερο γραπτό με τίτλο «Η ερμηνευτική ως πρακτική φιλοσοφία» (1972).
description: The purpose of the present thesis is the examination of the relation between Aristotelian ethics and philosophical hermeneutics, as it is perceived by Hans-Georg Gadamer. The main focus lies on the reasons that led Gadamer to present Aristotle's practical philosophy as a paradigm for his philosophical hermeneutics and on the implications of this hermeneutical appropriation. The analysis of the analogy that Gadamer uncovers and, in particular, the relation of phronesis and understanding, constitute the central axis of the investigation. A question arises: does philosophical hermeneutics belong to practical philosophy? By critically examining Gadamer's interpretation, the research sheds light on certain inconsistencies in his thought. Following what was considered the most suitable methodological approach, the paper closely examines two texts where Gadamer discusses the relation of practical philosophy and philosophical hermeneutics, namely a chapter of his magnum opus 'Truth and Method' (1960) and 'Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy' (1972).
Rotation Measure synthesis applied on synthetic SKA images of galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Loi, Francesca
name: Murgia, Matteo
name: Govoni, Federica
name: Vacca, Valentina
name: Bonafede, Annalisa
name: Ferrari, Chiara
name: Prandoni, Isabella
name: Feretti, Luigina
name: Giovannini, Gabriele
name: Li, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future observations with next generation radio telescopes will help us to understand the presence and the evolution of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters through the determination of the so-called Rotation Measure (RM). In this work, we applied the RM-synthesis technique on synthetic SKA1-MID radio images of a pair of merging galaxy clusters, measured between 950 and 1750 MHz with a resolution of 10 arcsec and a thermal noise of 0.1$μ$Jy/beam. The results of our RM-synthesis analysis are compared to the simulations' input parameters. We study two cases: one with radio haloes at the cluster centres, and another without. We found that the information obtained with the RM-synthesis is in general agreement with the input information. Some discrepancies are however present. We characterise them in this work, with the final goal of determining the potential impact of SKA1-MID on the study of cluster magnetic fields.
description: 17 pages, 17 figures
Σχολιασμένη διερμηνεία στο πλαίσιο της πρακτικής άσκησης της Κατεύθυνσης Διερμηνείας του ΔΠΜΣ Διερμηνείας και Μετάφρασης με έμφαση στις δυσκολίες που προέκυψαν και τον ρόλο του διερμηνέα
Creators: name: Σωτάκη, Κωνσταντίνα Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ρόλος διερμηνέα
Δυσκολίες
Interpreter’s role
Difficulties

description: Η παρούσα εργασία περιγράφει τις δυσκολίες που αντιμετώπισε η γράφουσα κατά τη διάρκεια της εργασίας της ως διερμηνέα συνεδρίων στο πλαίσιο της πρακτικής της άσκησης για το ΔΠΜΣ Διερμηνείας του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου. Η τελευταία πραγματοποιήθηκε για διάφορους φορείς και σε διάφορους χώρους. Μεταξύ άλλων, για το ραδιόφωνο της ΕΡΤ στο πλαίσιο του Διεθνούς Φεστιβάλ Ντοκιμαντέρ Θεσσαλονίκης (2019) και της Διεθνούς Έκθεσης Βιβλίου, αλλά και στο Διεθνές Συνέδριο «Πάντα ρεί: Η αλλαγή στις Θεραπευτικές Κοινότητες». Στόχος της είναι να αναδείξει τον ρόλο του διερμηνέα και τις διαφορετικές ανάγκες και δυσκολίες της κάθε μορφής διερμηνείας σε διαφορετικά περιβάλλοντα. Για να το επιτύχει, συνδυάζει το βιβλιογραφικό υπόβαθρο με την πολύτιμη εμπειρία της γράφουσας.
description: The current thesis aims to describe the difficulties of an interpreter during her practicum in the context of her MA in Conference Interpreting in the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki. The student has worked as a conference interpreter in various occasions. Among others: at the Thessaloniki Public Radio Station (ERT) in the context of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival and the Thessaloniki International Book Fair, as well as in the International Conference “Everything Flows: Change in the Therapeutic Community for Addiction” in the Concert Hall of Thessaloniki. Through this thesis, the student has tried to show the role of a conference interpreter, as well as to highlight their needs and difficulties within different settings. In order to achieve this objective, the writer has combined the bibliography with her own valuable experience.
Nonreciprocal Phased-Array Antennas
Creators: name: Zang, J. W.
name: Alvarez-Melcon, A.
name: Gomez-Diaz, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A phased-array antenna is a device that generates radiation patterns whose shape and direction can be electronically controlled by tailoring the amplitude and phase of the signals that feed each element of the array. These devices provide identical responses in transmission and reception due to the constrains imposed by time-reversal symmetry. Here, we introduce the concept of nonreciprocal phased-array antennas and we demonstrate that they can exhibit drastically different radiation patterns when operated in transmission or in reception. The building block of the array consists of a time-modulated resonant antenna element that provides very efficient frequency conversion between only two frequencies: one associated to waves propagating in free-space and the other related to guided signals. Controlling the tunable nonreciprocal phase response of these elements with the phase of low-frequency modulation signals permits to independently tailor the transmission and reception radiation patterns of the entire array. Measured results at microwaves confirm isolation levels over 40 dB at desired directions in space with an overall loss below 4 dB. We believe that this concept can be extended across the electromagnetic spectrum provided adequate tuning elements are available, with important implications in communication, sensing, and radar systems, as well as in thermal management and energy harvesting.
description: 26 pages; 16 figures; 1 table
Oreodera tuberosa Monne & Fragoso 1988
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oreodera
Oreodera tuberosa

description: 83. Oreodera tuberosa Monné & Fragoso, 1988
Type locality — Brazil, Rondônia: Pimenta Bueno. (MNRJ). Distribution — French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Rondônia).
 Oreodera tuberosa Monné & Fragoso, 1988: 824, fig. 17; Julio et al., 2000: 46 (holotype).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
T-Duality: Topology Change from H-flux
Creators: name: Bouwknegt, P.
name: Evslin, J.
name: Mathai, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: T-duality acts on circle bundles by exchanging the first Chern class with the fiberwise integral of the H-flux, as we motivate using E_8 and also using S-duality. We present known and new examples including NS5-branes, nilmanifolds, Lens spaces, both circle bundles over RP^n, and the AdS^5 x S^5 to AdS^5 x CP^2 x S^1 with background H-flux of Duff, Lu and Pope. When T-duality leads to M-theory on a non-spin manifold the gravitino partition function continues to exist due to the background flux, however the known quantization condition for G_4 fails. In a more general context, we use correspondence spaces to implement isomorphisms on the twisted K-theories and twisted cohomology theories and to study the corresponding Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem. Interestingly, in the case of decomposable twists, both twisted theories admit fusion products and so are naturally rings.
description: 36 pages, latex2e, uses xypic package. Made only a few superficial changes in the manuscript
Oreodera turnbowi McCarty 2001
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oreodera
Oreodera turnbowi

description: 84. Oreodera turnbowi McCarty, 2001
Type locality — Mexico, Chiapas: vicinity of Chivero. (EMEC). Distribution — Mexico (Chiapas).
 Oreodera turnbowi McCarty, 2001: 25, fig. 9.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Additional file 1 of Income-related inequality in quality-adjusted life expectancy in Korea at the national and district levels
Creators: name: Dohee Lim
name: Jinwook Bahk
name: Minsu Ock
name: Ikhan Kim
name: Hee-Yeon Kang
name: Yeon-Yong Kim
name: Park, Jong
name: Khang, Young-Ho
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary methods. Supplementary Table 1. Number of subjects from the National Health Information Database of National Health Insurance Service by year and income quintile. Supplementary Table 2. Number of deaths from the National Health Information Database of the National Health Insurance Service by year and income quintile. Supplementary Table 3. Number of subjects from the Korean Community Health Survey by year and income quintile. Supplementary Table 4. Central tendency (mean and median) and dispersion (standard deviation = SD, range, and interquartile range = IQR) for district-level quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) and life expectancy (LE) by income quintile, 2008-2014. Supplementary Table 5. Correlations of the area deprivation index with district-level quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) by gender and income quintile, 2008-2014. Supplementary Table 6. Correlations of the area deprivation index with district-level life expectancy (LE) by gender and income quintile, 2008-2014. Supplementary Table 7. Correlations of district characteristics with district-level quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) by gender and income quintile, 2008-2014. Supplementary Table 8. Correlations of district characteristics with district-level life expectancy (LE) by gender and income quintile, 2008-2014. Supplementary Figure 1. Correlations of quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) with inter-quintile income differences in QALE at the district level. Supplementary Figure 2. Plots of correlations of the area deprivation index with district-level quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) by gender and urbanization level. Supplementary Figure 3. Plots of correlations of the area deprivation index with inter-quintile income differences in district-level quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) by gender and urbanization level. Supplementary Figure 4. Plots of correlations of district characteristics with district-level quality-adjusted life expectancy by gender and urbanization level. Supplementary Figure 5. Plots of correlations of district characteristics with inter-quintile income differences in district-level quality-adjusted life expectancy by gender and urbanization level.
Early-stage dynamics of chloride ion–pumping rhodopsin revealed by a femtosecond X-ray laser
Creators: name: JH Yun
name: X Li
name: J Yue
name: JH Park
name: Z Jin
name: C Li
name: H Hu
name: Y Shi
name: S Pandey
name: S Carbajo
name: S Boutet
name: MS Hunter
name: M Liang
name: RG Sierra
name: TJ Lane
name: L Zhou
name: U Weierstall
name: Zatsepin, Nadia
name: M Ohki
name: JRH Tame
name: SY Park
name: JCH Spence
name: W Zhang
name: M Schmidt
name: W Lee
name: H Liu
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Chloride ion–pumping rhodopsin (ClR) in some marine bacteria utilizes light energy to actively transport Cl into cells. How the ClR initiates the transport is elusive. Here, we show the dynamics of ion transport observed with time-resolved serial femtosecond (fs) crystallography using the Linac Coherent Light Source. X-ray pulses captured structural changes in ClR upon flash illumination with a 550 nm fs-pumping laser. High-resolution structures for five time points (dark to 100 ps after flashing) reveal complex and coordinated dynamics comprising retinal isomerization, water molecule rearrangement, and conformational changes of various residues. Combining data from time-resolved spectroscopy experiments and molecular dynamics simulations, this study reveals that the chloride ion close to the Schiff base undergoes a dissociation–diffusion process upon light-triggered retinal isomerization. −
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, March/April 2008
Creators: name: Chesnick, David
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: Lies, Mitch
name: Ling, K. Charles
name: Bowman, Eric
name: Painter, Kathleen
name: Ebert, Jessica
name: Campbell, Dan
name: Chesnick, David
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: Lies, Mitch
name: Ling, K. Charles
name: Bowman, Eric
name: Painter, Kathleen
name: Ebert, Jessica
name: Campbell, Dan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features - Largest 100 ag co-ops post record sales, margins; 75 years strong: Oregon cherry co-op; Whey to ethanol; Norhtwest Passage; Organic and beyond; North wind; State of art; Ag versus industrial waste for energy; Alto dairy sold to Saputo Cheese USA
On the Possibility of V4444 Sgr as a Recurrent Nova
Creators: name: Kato, T.
name: Yamaoka, H.
name: Kiyota, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: V4444 Sgr (Nova Sgr 1999) has been recently suggested to be a possible recurrent nova based on the detection of the preexisting dust, which may have been formed in a previous outburst. We examined this possibility using the available outburst observations, including the VSNET observations. We also noticed that this nova was recorded in the OGLE II public photometric database, which covered both preoutburst and late decline phases. The outburst light curve constructed from these observations showed a plateau phase, particularly in the OGLE II I-band light curve, which was followed by a more rapid decline. The light curve resembled those of "fast" recurrent novae and candidates in the presence of the distinct plateau phase. The outburst spectrum and the preoutburst magnitude more resembled those of classical novae, but they do not exclude the possibility of a recurrent nova.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, to appear in PASJ
Forecasting multiple functional time series in a group structure: an application to mortality
Creators: name: Shang, Han Lin
name: Haberman, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62P05, 97K80

description: When modeling sub-national mortality rates, we should consider three features: (1) how to incorporate any possible correlation among sub-populations to potentially improve forecast accuracy through multi-population joint modeling; (2) how to reconcile sub-national mortality forecasts so that they aggregate adequately across various levels of a group structure; (3) among the forecast reconciliation methods, how to combine their forecasts to achieve improved forecast accuracy. To address these issues, we introduce an extension of grouped univariate functional time series method. We first consider a multivariate functional time series method to jointly forecast multiple related series. We then evaluate the impact and benefit of using forecast combinations among the forecast reconciliation methods. Using the Japanese regional age-specific mortality rates, we investigate one-step-ahead to 15-step-ahead point and interval forecast accuracies of our proposed extension and make recommendations.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, to be published in ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1705.08001
Spatial Action Maps for Mobile Manipulation
Creators: name: Wu, Jimmy
name: Sun, Xingyuan
name: Zeng, Andy
name: Song, Shuran
name: Lee, Johnny
name: Rusinkiewicz, Szymon
name: Funkhouser, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Typical end-to-end formulations for learning robotic navigation involve predicting a small set of steering command actions (e.g., step forward, turn left, turn right, etc.) from images of the current state (e.g., a bird's-eye view of a SLAM reconstruction). Instead, we show that it can be advantageous to learn with dense action representations defined in the same domain as the state. In this work, we present "spatial action maps," in which the set of possible actions is represented by a pixel map (aligned with the input image of the current state), where each pixel represents a local navigational endpoint at the corresponding scene location. Using ConvNets to infer spatial action maps from state images, action predictions are thereby spatially anchored on local visual features in the scene, enabling significantly faster learning of complex behaviors for mobile manipulation tasks with reinforcement learning. In our experiments, we task a robot with pushing objects to a goal location, and find that policies learned with spatial action maps achieve much better performance than traditional alternatives.
description: To appear at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2020. Project page: https://spatial-action-maps.cs.princeton.edu
Can flexible timing of harvest for translocation reduce the impact on fluctuating source populations?
Creators: name: Verdon, Simon
name: Mitchell, William F
name: Clarke, Michael F
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract: Context. Species translocations are used in conservation globally. Although harvest for translocation may have negative impacts on source populations, translocation programs rarely explore ways of minimising those impacts. In fluctuating source populations, harvest timing may affect its impact because population size and trajectory vary among 5 years. Aims. We explored whether the timing and scale of harvest can be altered to reduce its impact on a fluctuating source population of Mallee Emu-wrens, Stipiturus mallee; an endangered passerine in south-eastern Australia. Mallee Emuwren populations fluctuate with ,5–10-year drought–rain cycles. Methods. We used population viability analysis (PVA) to compare the impact of five harvest scales (no harvest, 100, 10 200, 300 or 500 individuals) under three population trajectories (increasing, stable or decreasing) and two initial population sizes (our model-based estimate of the population size and the lower 95% confidence interval of that estimate). To generate a model-based estimate of the population size, we surveyed 540 sites (9 ha), stratified according to environmental variables known to affect Mallee Emu-wren occurrence. We used an information-theoretic approach with N-mixture models to estimate Mallee Emu-wren density, and extrapolated results over all potential habitat. 15 Key Results. We estimate that in spring 2019, the source population consisted of 6449 individuals, with a minimum of 1923 individuals (lower 95% confidence interval). Of 48 harvest scenarios, only seven showed no impact of harvest within 5 years (15%). Those seven all had increasing population trajectories and carrying capacity set to equal initial population size. Twenty-six populations showed no impact of harvest within 25 years (54%). These were either increasing populations that had reached carrying capacity or decreasing populations nearing extinction. 20 Conclusions. Initial population size, carrying capacity, harvest scale and population trajectory were all determinants of harvest impact. Given the importance of carrying capacity, further research is required to determine its role in the Mallee Emu-wren source population. Implications. Harvesting Mallee Emu-wrens after high-rainfall years will have the least impact because source populations are likely to be large with increasing trajectories. For fluctuating source populations, flexibility in the timing of 25 harvest can reduce its impact and should be considered during translocation planning.
Additional file 2 of The use of taxon-specific reference databases compromises metagenomic classification
Creators: name: Marcelino, Vanessa R.
name: Holmes, Edward
name: Sorrell, Tania
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary Materials and Methods.
Contemporary food policy challenges and opportunities
Creators: name: Andersen-Pinstrup, Per
name: Andersen-Pinstrup, Per
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food production
subject: political economy
subject: rural poverty

description: The global food system and related government policies are in disarray. In response to expected increasing food prices and greater food price volatility, national governments are pursuing a variety of policies. Some policies amplify price fluctuations while others attempt to prohibit price signals from reaching domestic markets. Extreme weather events, irrational expectations by speculators, sensationalism by the news media, oil price fluctuations and the pursuit of self-interests by international organisations, NGOs and the private sector, have created a sense of uncertainty and heightened political risks among many governments, pushing governments towards crisis management, short-term political interventions and bandaid solutions. This paper discusses these interventions, the associated policy challenges and related policies. The paper will argue that food price volatility will continue to be with us, but that real food prices need not increase. It will further show that the main bottlenecks in expanding food production in most low-income developing countries are found outside the farm and that government intervention in the food system should focus on improvements in rural infrastructure, domestic markets and policies to facilitate efficiency and effectiveness in postharvest value chains and input sectors. Full costing of environmental damage is suggested to be pursued to help assure sustainability.
Additional file 1 of Modifiable risk factors of congenital malformations in bale zone hospitals, Southeast Ethiopia: an unmatched case-control study
Creators: name: Alemayehu Mekonnen
name: Alemu Hordofa
name: Tamiru Kitila
name: Sav, Adem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. English language version of the consent form and questionnaires which was developed for this study.
Selecting and supporting future graduates in British Columbia
Creators: name: Salem, Stephen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The educational journey is long and difficult. Students who engage in further studies face many challenges as they progress towards a degree or other certification. These barriers are both academic and non-academic, and higher educational institutions need to be aware of these challenges in order to support students in their journey to credential completion. This essay will provide an overview of factors considered relevant to success both from the student’s perspective and the institution’s perspective. This journey begins long before a student applies and in many cases continues off and on for the rest of his or her life.
Splitting of a doubly quantized vortex through intertwining in Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Mottonen, M.
name: Mizushima, T.
name: Isoshima, T.
name: Salomaa, M. M.
name: Machida, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability of doubly quantized vortices in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates of 23Na is examined at zero temperature. The eigenmode spectrum of the Bogoliubov equations for a harmonically trapped cigar-shaped condensate is computed and it is found that the doubly quantized vortex is spectrally unstable towards dissection into two singly quantized vortices. By numerically solving the full three-dimensional time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation, it is found that the two singly quantized vortices intertwine before decaying. This work provides an interpretation of recent experiments [A. E. Leanhardt et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 190403 (2002)].
description: 4 pages, 3 figures (to be published in PRA)
Oreodera undulata Bates 1861
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oreodera
Oreodera undulata

description: 85. Oreodera undulata Bates, 1861
Type locality — Brazil, Amazonas: Ega [Tefé]. (MNHN). Distribution — Ecuador, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso).
 Oreodera undulata Bates, 1861: 49; Tavakilian et al., 1997: 315, 316 (hosts); Monné, 2001b: 46 (cat. hosts).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Insights into the selectivity of a brain-penetrant CDK4/6 vs CDK1/2 inhibitor for glioblastoma used in multiple replica molecular dynamics simulations
Creators: name: Sun, Jiahao
name: Liang, Shanshan
name: Liu, Xinguo
name: Zhang, Shaolong
name: Li, Meng
name: Zhang, Qinggang
name: Chen, Jianzhong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs) play an important role in cell cycle regulation and their dysfunction is associated with many cancers. That is why CDKs have been attractive targets for the treatment of cancer. Glioblastoma is a cancer caused by the aberrant expression of CDK4/6, so exploring the mechanism of the selection of CDK4/6 toward inhibitors relative to the other family members CDK1/2 is essential. In this work, multiple replica molecular dynamics (MRMD) simulations, principal component analysis (PCA), free energy landscapes (FELs), molecular mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann/Generalized Born surface area (MM-PB/GBSA) and other methods were integrated to decipher the selectively binding mechanism of the inhibitor N1J to CDK4/6 and CDK1/2. Molecular electrostatic potential (MESP) analysis provides an explanation for the N1J selectivity. Residue-based free energy decomposition reveals that most of the hot residues are located at the same location of CDKs proteins, but the different types of residues in different proteins cause changes in binding energy, which is considered as a potential developmental direction to improve the selectivity of inhibitors to CDK4/6. These results provide insights into the source of inhibitor and CDK4/6 selectivity for the future development of more selective inhibitors.
Orbital scattering by random interactions with extended substructures
Creators: name: Peñarrubia, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents $N$-body and stochastic models that describe the motion of tracer particles in a potential that contains a large population of extended substructures. Fluctuations of the gravitational field induce a random walk of orbital velocities that is fully specified by drift and diffusion coefficients. In the impulse and local approximations the coefficients are computed analytically from the number density, mass, size and relative velocity of substructures without arbitrary cuts in forces or impact parameters. The resulting Coulomb logarithm attains a well-defined geometrical meaning, $\ln(Λ)=\ln (D/c)$, where $D/c$ is the ratio between the average separation and the individual size of substructures. Direct-force and Monte-Carlo $N$-body experiments show excellent agreement with the theory if substructures are sufficiently extended ($c/D\gtrsim 10^{-3}$) and not spatially overlapping ($c/D\lesssim 10^{-1}$). However, close encounters with point-like objects ($c/D\ll 10^{-3}$) induce a heavy-tailed, non-Gaussian distribution of high-energy impulses that cannot be described with Brownian statistics. In the point-mass limit ($c/D\approx 0$) the median Coulomb logarithm measured from $N$-body models deviates from the theoretical relation, converging towards a maximum value $\langle \ln(Λ)\rangle \approx 8.2$ independently of the mass and relative velocity of nearby substructures.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted to MNRAS
Flow in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC
Creators: name: Tonjes, Marguerite Belt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of flow can provide information on the initial state dynamics and the degree of equilibration attained in heavy ion collisions. This contribution presents results for both elliptic and directed flow as determined from data recorded by the PHOBOS experiment in Au+Au runs at RHIC at sqrt(sNN) = 19.6, 130 and 200 GeV. The PHOBOS detector provides a unique coverage in pseudorapidity for measuring flow at RHIC. The systematic dependence of flow on pseudorapidity, transverse momentum, centrality and energy is discussed.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, Quark Matter 2004 proceedings
Can flexible timing of harvest for translocation reduce the impact on fluctuating source populations?
Creators: name: Verdon, Simon
name: Mitchell, William
name: Clarke, Michael
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4101
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation

description: Abstract: Context. Species translocations are used in conservation globally. Although harvest for translocation may have
negative impacts on source populations, translocation programs rarely explore ways of minimising those impacts. In
fluctuating source populations, harvest timing may affect its impact because population size and trajectory vary among
5 years.
Aims. We explored whether the timing and scale of harvest can be altered to reduce its impact on a fluctuating source
population of Mallee Emu-wrens, Stipiturus mallee; an endangered passerine in south-eastern Australia. Mallee Emuwren populations fluctuate with ,5–10-year drought–rain cycles.
Methods. We used population viability analysis (PVA) to compare the impact of five harvest scales (no harvest, 100,
10 200, 300 or 500 individuals) under three population trajectories (increasing, stable or decreasing) and two initial
population sizes (our model-based estimate of the population size and the lower 95% confidence interval of that estimate).
To generate a model-based estimate of the population size, we surveyed 540 sites (9 ha), stratified according to
environmental variables known to affect Mallee Emu-wren occurrence. We used an information-theoretic approach with
N-mixture models to estimate Mallee Emu-wren density, and extrapolated results over all potential habitat.
15 Key Results. We estimate that in spring 2019, the source population consisted of 6449 individuals, with a minimum of
1923 individuals (lower 95% confidence interval). Of 48 harvest scenarios, only seven showed no impact of harvest within
5 years (15%). Those seven all had increasing population trajectories and carrying capacity set to equal initial population
size. Twenty-six populations showed no impact of harvest within 25 years (54%). These were either increasing populations
that had reached carrying capacity or decreasing populations nearing extinction.
20 Conclusions. Initial population size, carrying capacity, harvest scale and population trajectory were all determinants of
harvest impact. Given the importance of carrying capacity, further research is required to determine its role in the Mallee
Emu-wren source population.
Implications. Harvesting Mallee Emu-wrens after high-rainfall years will have the least impact because source
populations are likely to be large with increasing trajectories. For fluctuating source populations, flexibility in the timing of
25 harvest can reduce its impact and should be considered during translocation planning.