cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Distribution of the Domination Number of Class Cover Catch Digraphs for Non-uniform One-dimensional Data
Creators: name: Ceyhan, Elvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C80; 60C05; 60E05; 60D05

description: For two or more classes of points in $\R^d$ with $d \ge 1$, the class cover catch digraphs (CCCDs) can be constructed using the relative positions of the points from one class with respect to the points from the other class. The CCCDs were introduced by (Priebe, DeVinney, and Mar-chette, (2001). On the distribution of the domination number of random class catch cover di-graphs. Statistics and Probability Letters, 55:239-246) who investigated the case of two classes, $\X$ and $\Y$. They calculated the exact (finite sample) distribution of the domination number of the CCCDs based on $\X$ points relative to $\Y$ points both of which were uniformly distri-buted on a bounded interval. We investigate the distribution of the domination number of the CCCDs based on data from non-uniform $\X$ points on an interval with end points from $\Y$. Then we extend these calculations for multiple $\Y$ points on bounded intervals.
Overture for Piano (Corn Mother Opera) [Adagio]
Creators: name: Elia, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Music

description: The "Corn Mother Opera" is a short chamber opera, conceived primarily by Vita and Ishmael Wallace. The work is based on an old Lenape tale, and created by a group of musicians, writers, and composers on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on the afternoon of April 14th. In the period of ~3 hours, this group got together and co-wrote what would become a 40 minute opera, which was produced the next day on April 15th, on 113th Street at 9PM. Anthony Elia was the composer of three parts (Overture, Introduction with Chorus, and Return of the Corn Mother), while Ishmael Wallace was also a composer. There were several other individuals involved, including opera director Anna Etsuko Tsuri, who directed the opera. NB: The Overture is to be played meditatively and slow.
Critical phenomena in disc-percolation model and its application to relativistic heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Ke, Hongwei
name: Xu, Mingmei
name: Liu, Lianshou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through studying the critical phenomena in continuum-percolation of discs, we find a new approach to locate the critical point, i.e. using the inflection point of $P_\infty$ as an evaluation of the percolation threshold. The susceptibility, defined as the derivative of $P_\infty$, possess finite-size scaling property, where the scaling exponent is the reciprocal of $ν$ -- the critical exponent of correlation length. The possible application of this approach to the study of the critical phenomena in relativistic heavy ion collisions is discussed. The critical point for deconfinement can be extracted by the inflection point of $P_{\rm QGP}$ -- the probability for the event with QGP formation. The finite-size scaling of its derivative can give the critical exponent $ν$, which is a rare case that can provide an experimental measure of a critical exponent in heavy ion collisions.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint and body image importance in females across the lifespan
Creators: name: Burbury, JL
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this review was to analyse the literature concerning body dissatisfaction, and dietary restraint in females of all ages to identify patterns across the female lifespan and to explore the role of the developmental milestones and body image importance in female's body dissatisfaction and dietary restraint. Sociocultural theory suggests that body dissatisfaction occurs as a result of females feeling pressure to achieve the \thin ideal\" a representation of what society deems as attractive. Invariably women are unable to achieve this unrealistic standard and as a result become dissatisfied with their own body. As females age and experience a number of developmental milestones they move further away from this ideal therefore from a sociocultural perspective it has been suggested that body dissatisfaction might increase with age. Despite this research has consistently shown that body dissatisfaction remains stable across the adult female lifespan (Pliner Chaiken & Flett 1990; Tiggemann & Lynch 2001; Webster & Tiggemann 2003). It has been suggested that body image importance may play an important role in explaining the relationship between body dissatisfaction and dietary restraint for females at different ages and stages and this assumption is also examined in this review."
Aurora Suite for Solo 'Cello (5. Pluie du Matin ~ Morning Rain)
Creators: name: Elia, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Music

description: This work is a suite for solo 'cello written for colleagues and friends of the composer (Aurore Cartier and Mathieu Barbin) in April 2013. Mr. Barbin is an accomplished 'cellist, who performs regularly in Europe and NYC. The 8-parts of this work reflect aspects of morning (playing on the word "Aurore" in French) and include: 1. Aube ~Daybreak 2. Naissance ~ Emergent Morning 3. Aurore ~ Aurora 4. Lever du soliel ~ Sunrise 5. Pluie du Matin ~ Morning Rain 6. Éveil ~ Awakening 7. Nuages ~ Clouds and 8. Les rayons du soleil ~ Sun rays
The work of Fred Cohen
Creators: name: Levi, Ran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P99, 55R80, 20F05, 20F36, 55P42

description: This paper gives an overview of Fred Cohen's work and is a summary of the talk which I gave during his 60th birthday conference, held at the University of Tokyo in July 2005.
description: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 7 April 2009
Additional file 1 of Mothers’ nonstandard work schedules and adolescent obesity: a population-based cross-sectional study in the Tokyo metropolitan area
Creators: name: Kachi, Yuko
name: Abe, Aya
name: Eguchi, Hisashi
name: Akiomi Inoue
name: Akizumi Tsutsumi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Association between mothers’ several types of nonstandard work schedule and adolescents’ obesity among a high-income group, overall and by sex.
Association of Neighborhood Environment Impact on HDP and GDM Among Women in Illinois
Creators: name: Reed, Tiffany
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Hypertensive Disease of pregnancy (HDP) and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) are the leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. Both disproportionately affect women of color in the United States. There is growing evidence that neighborhood residential segregation and socioeconomic disadvantage contribute to poor maternal outcomes in women of color at risk for HDP and GDM. In Illinois, the magnitude and burden of HDP and GDM by race/ethnicity and neighborhood disadvantage is unknown. Objectives: The objective of this study is to use discharge data from 2018-2020 to determine if there is variation in the prevalence of HDP and GDM by race/ethnicity in Illinois and examine whether race and ethnicity variation in HDP and GDM is moderated by the zip code linked Area Deprivation Index (ADI). Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional analysis used administrative discharge data from all women patients who had live births in Illinois over a three-year period (2018-2020). Data were linked to a neighborhood-level measure of socioeconomic status, the ADI, to examine the associations with ADI and race/ethnicity by HDP and GDM. Multivariate analyses were performed to control for covariates and determine if associations vary by race/ethnicity and neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage. Results: Multivariate analyses showed that after adjusting for race/ethnicity and covariates, non-Hispanic Black women had a 1.60 increased risk of being exposed to HDP compared to non-Hispanic white women (OR, 1.60; 95% CI, 1.55-1.65). Similarly, Hispanic (OR, 1.45; 95% CI, 1.40-1.50), Asian or Pacific Islander ((OR, 2.07; 95% CI, 1.97-2.17), and American Indian or Native Alaskan women (OR, 1.43; 95% CI, 1.17-1.74) were at increased risk of being exposed to GDM compared to non-Hispanic White women. There was evidence that the interaction between the ADI quintiles and race/ethnicity were statistically significant (p<0.001). Conclusion: In Illinois, women of color living in the most disadvantaged ADI quintiles carried the greatest burden of both HDP and GDM compared to those living in the least disadvantaged quintile. Therefore, women of color in disadvantaged neighborhood environments who are at greatest risk for HDP and GDM need culturally responsive strategies and interventions to address these health inequities that lead to poor maternal outcomes.
title:  La città, l’archivio, lo studioso e l’immagine: attorno a un aggiornamento fiorentino del Bilderatlas warburghiano
Creators: name: Cinquegrani, Mattia
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: IMAGO. Studi di cinema e media. Nuova serie – Vol. 29
Aurora Suite for Solo 'Cello (8. Les rayons du soleil ~ Sun rays)
Creators: name: Elia, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Music

description: This work is a suite for solo 'cello written for colleagues and friends of the composer (Aurore Cartier and Mathieu Barbin) in April 2013. Mr. Barbin is an accomplished 'cellist, who performs regularly in Europe and NYC. The 8-parts of this work reflect aspects of morning (playing on the word "Aurore" in French) and include: 1. Aube ~Daybreak 2. Naissance ~ Emergent Morning 3. Aurore ~ Aurora 4. Lever du soliel ~ Sunrise 5. Pluie du Matin ~ Morning Rain 6. Éveil ~ Awakening 7. Nuages ~ Clouds and 8. Les rayons du soleil ~ Sun rays
The origin of inclusions in the electroslag remelting process
Creators: name: Bell, Mark Moshe
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The aim of this work was to determine whether (ASTM E-45) D-type inclusions are a necessary component of ESR ingots. Therefore, experiments were undertaken to ascertain the origin of the inclusions. Pure iron (FVE) and electrolytic nickel were melted through CaF₂+CaO+Al₂0₃ slags, and the changes in the metal compositions (with respect to calcium, aluminum and oxygen) were measured. The composition changes could not be accounted for by simple chemical slag/metal reactions. Hence, electrochemical slag/metal reactions were inferred. These reactions were detected, and the accompanying rectification of the 60 Hz A.C. melting current was measured. It was thus concluded that both chemical and electrochemical slag metal reactions contribute to the final composition of the metal. The cooling and solidification paths of the various metal compositions were then studied. With the use of the classical nucleation theory it was found that the metal compositions after reacting with the slag, provide sufficient supersaturation for inclusion nucleation at the latter stages of solidification. As in the latter stages of solidification little time and material is available for inclusion growth it was concluded that small inclusions are to be expected in the ESR solidification mode. Since the chemical and electrochemical reactions are an inherent part of the electroslag process, we are able to conclude that small globular oxide inclusions are a necessary result of the normal method of electroslag melting.
Additional file 2 of Mothers’ nonstandard work schedules and adolescent obesity: a population-based cross-sectional study in the Tokyo metropolitan area
Creators: name: Kachi, Yuko
name: Abe, Aya
name: Eguchi, Hisashi
name: Akiomi Inoue
name: Akizumi Tsutsumi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Association between mothers’ work schedule and adolescents’ obesity for employed mothers, overall and stratified by income level.
Musique Inconnue, ou, raisons suspendus
Creators: name: Elia, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Music

description: This short work for piano was written for NY pianist and friend of the composer, Ishmael Wallace. There is a bit of a joke in the title of the work, which refers to the bass clef note clusters, which look like hanging grapes!
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of a novel hemostatic adhesive powder in patients with upper gastrointestinal tumor bleeding
Creators: name: Jongbeom Shin
name: Boram Cha
name: Park, Jin-Seok
name: Weonjin Ko
name: Kwon, Kye Sook
name: Lee, Jin-Woo
name: Kim, Hyung Kil
name: Shin, Yong Woon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Baseline clinical characteristics of study subjects according to re-bleeding. Table 2. Bleeding characteristics of study subjects according to re-bleeding.
Croll Revisited: Why Is the Northern Hemisphere Warmer Than the Southern Hemisphere?
Creators: name: Kang, Sarah M.
name: Seager, Richard
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Atmosphere

description: The question of why, in the annual-mean, the Northern Hemisphere is warmer than the Southern Hemisphere is addressed, revisiting an 1870 paper by James Croll. We first show that ocean is warmer than land in general which, acting alone, would make the Southern Hemisphere with greater ocean fraction warmer. Croll thought it was caused by greater specific humidity and greenhouse trapping over ocean than over land. However, for any given temperature, greenhouse trapping is actually greater over land. Instead, oceans are warmer than land because of smaller surface albedo. However, inter-hemispheric differences in total albedo are negligible because the impact of differences in land-sea fraction are o set by Southern Hemisphere ocean and land reflecting more than their Northern Hemisphere counterparts. In agreement with Croll, it is shown that northward cross-equatorial ocean heat transport is critical for the warmer Northern Hemisphere. This is examined in a simple box model based on the energy budget of each hemisphere. The inter-hemispheric difference forced by ocean heat transport is enhanced by the positive water vapor-greenhouse feedback, and is partly compensated by the southward atmospheric energy transport. To fully explain the temperature difference in this way, requires a northward ocean heat transport at the extreme of observational estimates. A better fit to data is found when a larger basic state greenhouse trapping in the Northern Hemisphere, conceived as imposed by continental geometry, is imposed. Therefore, despite some modifications to his theory, analysis of modern data confirms Croll's 140 year-old theory that the warmer Northern Hemisphere is partly because of northward cross-equatorial ocean heat transport.
Additional file 1 of Analysis of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance genes in group B streptococcus from clinical samples
Creators: name: Mudzana, Raymond
name: Rooyen T. Mavenyengwa
name: Muchaneta Gudza-Mugabe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Gel Electrophoresis Pictograms (Fig. 1 to Fig. 9).
Galilean equations for massless fields
Creators: name: Niederle, J.
name: Nikitin, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 78A25, 35Qxx

description: Galilei-invariant equations for massless fields are obtained via contractions of relativistic wave equations. It is shown that the collection of non-equivalent Galilei-invariant wave equations for massless fields with spin equal 1 and 0 is very reach and corresponds to various contractions of the representations of the Lorentz group to those of the Galilei one. It describes many physically consistent systems, e.g., those of electromagnetic fields in various media or Galilean Chern-Simon models. Finally, classification of all linear and a big group of non-linear Galilei-invariant equations for massless fields is presented.
description: Section 5 has been improved and extended
IMPLEMENTING THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM TECHNIQUE WITH ELEMENTARY-LEVEL LEARNERS AND DETERMINING ITS EFFICACY IN IMPROVING THEIR SPEAKING ABILITIES.
Creators: name: Rakhmonova, Dilnavoz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In education, teaching is always equal to art, and the current educational world is focused on the integration of technology and the promotion of students autonomous teaching and learning approaches. Unlike the traditional way of teaching, the majority of educational organizations and teachers have already adapted to utilize the flipped classroom approach during the lesson's conduction due to its several advantages. This pedagogical approach provides an alteration of group activeness into individual performance, and in-class learning exposure is replaced with outside, self-learning comprehension of the previously shared materials.
Additional file 2 of Analysis of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance genes in group B streptococcus from clinical samples
Creators: name: Mudzana, Raymond
name: Rooyen T. Mavenyengwa
name: Muchaneta Gudza-Mugabe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Five supplementary tables; Table S1. The oligonucleotide primers used for amplifying various genes in GBS. Table S2. Presence or absence of the expected amplicons in the 43 GBS isolates. Table S3. Presence or absence of antibiotic resistance genes in the resistant and intermediate isolates. Table S4. Disk diffusion zone diameters and E-test results for the 43 GBS isolates. Table S5. GBS Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance Genes Spearman Rank Correlations.
Hydrolysis of aluminum sulphate solutions at high temperatures
Creators: name: Nikolic, Cvetko
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Normal and acid aluminum sulphate solutions containing about 6.0 gr/1 of aluminum and up to 50 gr/1 SO₄⁼ were hydrolyzed until equilibrium was reached in the temperature region 125-250°C. Under the equilibrium conditions the only stable solid phase observed in equilibrium with a liquid phase of various compositions was basic aluminum sulphate with nominal formula 3A1₂0₃..4S0₃.9H₂O. A small portion of the ternary diagrams for the system A1₂O₃-SO₃-H₂O at 225°C and 250°C was constructed. A mixture of aluminum sulphate and other metal sulphates, K₂S0₄, Na₂S0₄, Li₂SO₄, FeSO₄ and CuSO₄ i.e. was hydrolyzed at 225°C in order to find the effect of these salts on hydrolysis. The overall hydrolysis reaction was found to occur according to the chemical equation: 6A1⁺⁺⁺+ 4HS0₄⁻ + 14H₂O ⃗ 3Al₂0₃.4S0₃.9H₂0 + 14H⁺ The equilibrium constants at 125, 150, 175, 200, 225 and 250°C were determined. Finally a mechanism for the hydrolysis of aluminum sulphate was proposed.
Degree Distributions in General Random Intersection Graphs
Creators: name: Shang, Yilun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study a variant of the standard random intersection graph model ($G(n,m,F,H)$) in which random weights are assigned to both vertex types in the bipartite structure. Under certain assumptions on the distributions of these weights, the degree of a vertex is shown to depend on the weight of that particular vertex and on the distribution of the weights of the other vertex type.
description: 7 pages
Edward S. Corwin and the American Constitution: A Bibliographical Analysis
Creators: name: Crews, Kenneth D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Biography

description: Edward S. Corwin's constitutional theories have influenced scholars and lawyers throughout the twentieth century. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Henry Steele Commager acknowledge their debt to Corwin's analysis of presidential powers. Louis W. Koenig recently highlighted the modern relevance of Corwin's observations about presidential powers and about federalism and the relationship between the national and state governments. Professor Corwin remains a subject of modern interest for the continuing vitality of his ideas and for his historic prominence in politics and constitutional law. A biography and bibliography are the fountainhead for understanding Professor Corwin. Much has been written about his theories, so this book turns attention to Corwin the man. His writings and scholarship are invariably major elements of the biography, and its central thesis relates Corwin's personality to his flood of publications. But I do not detail the content of his writings. Instead, I attempt to reveal Edward Corwin's influences and experiences in youth, his development as a professor, and his ventures with politics. The bibliography offers ample references to other essays elaborating on Corwin's many theories.
Additional file 1 of Genomic variability of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae within pig lung lobes
Creators: name: Tonni, Matteo
name: M. Beatrice Boniotti
name: Gasparrini, Sara
name: Guarneri, Flavia
name: Formenti, Nicoletta
name: Pieters, Maria
name: Pasquali, Paolo
name: Alborali, Giovanni L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Allele calling table. Each VNTR type is identified as a combination of different VNTR locus. The number of repeats of each locus is determinate by the number of base pair (bp) for that locus.
Agriculture And Trade in Pre-Bahamani Goa
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology

description: There aren’t many studies of role of agriculture in the economics and politics in Koṁkaṇ during the 11th to 16th centuries; Chakravarti is one of the very few who have done much work on it; that is the reason we return to him again and again. What comes clear from his studies is the interplay of the agriculture and trade during this time, amply testified by the numerous stone inscriptions and copper plates of the South Koṁkaṇ Śilāhār. There are references to gifts of coconuts and coconut orchards in the Bhogighar plates of Chittaraja (1026 CE) and Ranavad stone inscription of Somesvara (1259 CE). [Chakravarti, 2016 : An Emergent Coastal Polity: The KonkanCoast Under The Silaharas (10th To 13th centuries AD), in Studies in People’s History, vol. 3, no. 2, 118] One commodity that seems to have dominated the coastal trade, other than the coconut, was the areca nut; production of areca nuts on a mass scale as a commercial crop evidences to its importance in the trade; so much so that one of the ship-owning merchant, probably an Arab, had the name Ali B. Phophali. [Chakravarti, 2011 : The Pull Towards The Coast: Politics And Polity In India(600-1300 CE), in Indian History Congress]
From Surviving to Thriving: Repositories in the Library-Based Publishing Ecosystem
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Library science
Information science

description: The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship's Digital Repository Manager, Robert Hilliker, presents a Pecha Kucha at the Open Repositories 2012 conference (http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/), exploring how the collaborative framework of CDRS enables the development of shared platforms of digital research support services. He argues that the time has come to move past the image of the repository manager as the lonely "Innkeeper at the Roach Motel" (per Dorothea Salo's article of the same name: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/22088) and to envision them as part of a team of beekeepers, ensuring the health and productivity of the institution's research hives.
LevevÉvÖe, line and martial law : a history of the dispossession of the Mairremmener people of Van Diemen's Land 1803-1832
Creators: name: Calder, GK
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The history of the dispossession of the Mairremmener People is an analogue for the histories of indigenous peoples in all those lands seized by the British under the cloak of the ideology of imperialism and the conceit of the superiority of Western culture. In Van Diemen's Land in the years between 1803 and 1832, the Mairremmener People suffered the brunt of colonial expansion, and were its prime victims. Their history is the substance of this thesis.
Fractionation and Focusing of Leukocytes using Inertial Microfluidics
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Prithviraj
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Leukocytes or white blood cells (WBCs) account for less than 1% of all blood cells, yet have a significant impact on person’s health. Assessment of WBC subtypes, their numbers and status play a critical role in disease diagnostics. Traditionally, leukocyte isolation and counting is performed using Ficoll-Paque density gradient centrifugation or using immunofluorescence based cytometry (fluorescent activated cell sorting (FACS) and magnetic activated cell sorting (MACS)). While these systems offer high throughput, high separation efficiency, and high purity, they are expensive and rely on cell surface markers for target selection. Microfluidic systems have emerged as viable alternatives to these benchtop methods, offering small device size, reduced costs, rapid analysis, as well as high efficiency and high purity. In this work, a sheath-flow aided inertial microfluidic device is demonstrated for isolating subsets of leukocytes from human whole blood. Inertial microfluidics is a label-free approach that leverages hydrodynamic forces acting on cells suspended in flow and the inertia of the carrier fluid to sort cells based on their physical phenotype (primarily size, but also shape and deformability). Thus, it is suitable for sorting of leukocyte subsets due to their distinct differences in cell size. Inertial microfluidics was also used to demonstrate sheath-less focusing of cells in triangular cross-section microchannels. In these channels, due to asymmetry in the velocity profile, a size-dependent single stable equilibrium position near channel apex emerges. When coupled with a laser counting system, a sheathless flow cytometer with a throughput of >300/s can be demonstrated. Finally, this work also reports on a fabrication process for microfluidic devices that can be performed in a low-cost improvised fabrication room in ambient light, in place of a conventional yellow-light cleanroom environment. Ultimately, the approaches demonstrated in this work offer promising alternatives to isolating and sorting of leukocytes and their subpopulations.
H2020 Project SIMRA – Social Innovations in Marginalised Rural Areas
Creators: name: Klaus, Wagner
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural Policy
Rural Development
Social Innovations
Governance

description: SIMRA seeks to advance understanding of social innovation and innovative governance in agriculture, forestry and rural development, and how to boost them, particularly in marginalised rural areas across Europe, including non-EU, especially Mediterranean countries. It encompasses the complexities and various dimensions, and understanding of how to support enhanced governance and social innovation, addressing specificities and priorities of social needs and new social relationships and collaborations. These objectives will be achieved by: 1. Developing systematic frameworks: a) theoretical - for improved knowledge of the complexity of SIs and its dimensions, and its impact on unfolding territorial capital; b) operational - based on a trans-disciplinary coalition (researchers and practitioners) to advance understanding of preconditions and success factors (e.g. instruments, incentives etc.) for implementing/operationalizing social innovations. 2. Creating a categorisation of social innovations which encompasses the specificities in terms of social priorities, relationships/collaborations etc. and serves as an instrument to explore reasons why regions with similar conditions display diverging paths and to turn diversity into strength. 3. Creating an integrated set of methods to evaluate social innovations and its impacts on economic, social, environmental, institutional and policy dimensions of territorial capital. 4. Co-constructed evaluation of social innovations in case studies across the spatial variation of European rural areas, considering which components of territorial capital foster and, or mainstream rural development. 5. Synthesis and dissemination of new or improved knowledge of social innovations and novel governance mechanisms to promote social capital and institutional capacity building and inform effective options/solutions for shaping sustainable development trajectories. 6. Creating collaborative learning and networking opportunities and launching innovative actions at different/multiple scales, with continuous interactions among researchers, knowledge brokers and stakeholders to foster and mainstream social innovation, leaving a durable legacy. SIMRA (running from 2016-2020) is a cooperation of 23 partners from all over Europe and Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon too. It is coordinated by the James Hutton Institute, UK. The Austrian Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics will participate in the development of theoretical concepts and care for an Austrian case study of the agricultural sector, to be selected and evaluated due to the criteria developed in the course of the project.
Working with Citizen Scientists
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Astronomy
Environmental sciences
Science--Study and teaching
Information technology

description: Citizen scientists, members of the public who voluntarily contribute to scientific research projects, have informed research on protein-folding, discovered new celestial bodies, and tracked wildlife after last year's Gulf oil spill. In this discussion, the panelists share their experiences with citizen science initiatives and consider what factors contribute to a successful collaboration with interested amateurs. How have scientists created the necessary tools and infrastructure to gather data or verify analyses carried out by large numbers of citizen scientists? How do research funders and the scientific community view these projects? What does the future hold for citizen science? Panelists: David W. Hogg is an astronomer and physicist at New York University. One of the spin-offs of his research in observational cosmology, and in engineering systems that can manage and analyze enormous data sets, is Astrometry.net, a Web-based service that automatically calibrates amateur images of the sky for use in scientific investigations. Jane Hunter is a Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) at the University of Queensland and the Director of the eResearch Lab where she leads a team developing software services for managing and analyzing scientific and research data. Rick Bonney is Director of Program Development and Evaluation at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and a co-founder of the lab's citizen science program. Founder and director of www.citizenscience.org, he studies the impacts of public engagement in science.
Mindfulness meditation training and attention in older adults : an ERP study
Creators: name: Bertrand, CL
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Given the current and predicted physical and financial costs of cognitive decline in older adults, considerable research attention has focussed on finding interventions effective in slowing or reversing this decline. More recently, mindfulness meditation practices, derived from Buddhist meditation techniques have been considered as possible attentional training tools. The present study examined the electrophysiological correlates of attention in healthy older adults before and after 10 weeks of mindfulness meditation training in the Vipassana tradition. A visual threestimulus oddball paradigm was employed and accuracy and reaction time measures, as well as event related potentials (ERPs) were compared before and after the mindfulness meditation course. Mean amplitude and peak latency of ERP components P3a and P3b were measured in response to the novel and target stimuli in the oddball task respectively at the two time points. Participants were 16 healthy adults aged between 60-85 years (M= 68.13, SD = 7.22) with no previous meditation experience. Results failed to show support for the hypotheses that mindfulness training would be associated with improved performance on behavioural measures and reduced P3a and P3b amplitude and latency as elicited by the novel and target stimuli respectively. The implications of these results were considered in context of the varied results of previous work in the study of the relationship between mindfulness meditation and attention, particularly in older adults. Recommendations for future research centre on the need for rigorously conducted randomised controlled trials to further explore this relationship and the potential for mindfulness meditation to be incorporated into cognitive training programs. Separate from the declines in cognitive domains seen in different forms of dementia, cognitive decline is also a normal consequence of ageing in otherwise healthy individuals (Epel, Daubenmier, Moskowitz, Folkman, & Blackburn, 2009; Slagter, Davidson, & Lutz, 2011). Older adults show not only general slowing of information processing, but also deteriorations in specific higher cognitive functioning. This age-related cognitive decline has been found to occur across a variety of cognitive domains, such as: episodic memory; visuo-spatial skills; and executive functioning including working memory and attention (Buckner, 2004; Hseih, Liang, & Tsai, 2011). Such declines may have a significant effect on an individual's ability to live independently and undertake various activities of daily living; and subsequently, their quality of life may decline (Wolinsky et al., 2006).
Role of galactic gaseous halos in recycling enriched winds from bulges to disks: A new bulge-disk chemical connection
Creators: name: Bekki, K.
name: Tsujimoto, T.
name: Chiba, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate for the first time that gaseous halos of disk galaxies can play a vital role in recycling metal-rich gas ejected from the bulges and thus in promoting chemical evolution of disks. Our numerical simulations show that metal-rich stellar winds from bulges in disk galaxies can be accreted onto the thin disks owing to hydrodynamical interaction between the gaseous ejecta and the gaseous halos, if the mean densities of the halos (rho_ hg) are as high as 10^{-5} cm^{-3}. The total amount of gas that is ejected from a bulge through a stellar wind and then accreted onto the disk depends mainly on rho_ hg and the initial velocity of the stellar wind. About ~ 1% of gaseous ejecta from bulges in disk galaxies of scale length a_d can be accreted onto disks around R ~ 2.5 a_ d for a reasonable set of model parameters. We discuss these results in the context of the origin of the surprisingly high metallicities of the solar neighborhood disk stars in the Galaxy. We also discuss some implications of the present results in terms of chemical evolution of disk galaxies with possibly different rho_ hg in different galaxy environments.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures (1 color), accepted by ApJL
Children of prisoners : passive victims or humans with rights?
Creators: name: Burton, PG
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Over the past few decades, the phenomenon of children of prisoners has produced a small but growing body of literature, much of which focuses on the lack of affirmative action by governments in Western countries (including Australia) to support the children. There are a number of key areas where appropriate levels of intervention are deficient ‚ÄövÑvÆ resulting in there being no clear lines of accountability and specific state agencies have not been identified and given a mandate to respond to the needs of this very vulnerable population. They are consistently 'falling through the cracks'. This study asks whether the rights of the children are being met as assessed in relation to relevant articles of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). Historically these children have been overlooked, especially by the criminal justice system, resulting in them being labelled as an invisible population, forgotten victims of crime, and collateral damage of the legal system ‚ÄövÑvÆ presenting a picture of the children as marginalised and socially excluded. This thesis describes the phenomenon of 'children of prisoners' by looking at their own (and their parent's) circumstances before, during and after the state's intervention resulting in the parent's imprisonment. It argues that children of prisoners should be recognised as a unique group with complex needs. It also acknowledges that the children and their families are often a difficult group to work with. It looks at common themes which emerge across jurisdictions, especially the impacts on the children, as various stakeholders respond (or fail to respond) to their needs. It also examines international and domestic human rights instruments, conventions, declarations, petitions and proposals concerning the rights of the children. Finally, it lists key findings and the difficulties of global ideals regarding the children finding their way into state legislation and policy to augment the human rights of the children of prisoners.
Differentiating substantiated and unsubstantiated allegations of family violence in high conflict families
Creators: name: Chu, J
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Family violence is a significant social and psychological issue. Allegations of family violence are common in child custody evaluations. There is evidence to suggest that approximately 50 percent of family violence allegations are unsubstantiated. Therefore, it is important for psychologists conducting child custody evaluations to be able to differentiate between true and false allegations of family violence. The aim of this study was to examine high conflict family law cases to determine what factors would differentiate substantiated from unsubstantiated family violence allegations in child custody disputes. The results showed a number of distinguishing factors between the three groups: no family violence, unsubstantiated family violence and substantiated family violence. The distinguishing factors related to employment history, community integration, parental relationship, parenting, home environment, and timing of application. Limitations and future directions are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Metabolic profile distinguishes laminitis-susceptible and -resistant ponies before and after feeding a high sugar diet
Creators: name: Delarocque, Julien
name: Reiche, Dania B.
name: Meier, Alexandra D.
name: Warnken, Tobias
name: Feige, Karsten
name: Sillence, Martin N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of individual ponies in the sample population, including age, PPID status, season of sampling and insulin concentrations. Ten pre-laminitic (PL) and ten non-laminitic (NL) ponies were included in the study. Postprandial plasma samples were available from all ponies. Basal plasma samples were available for five NL and five PL ponies.
Models for Campus-Based Publishing
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Education, Higher
Information science

description: As both academic libraries and university presses struggle with budget pressures and the increasing dominance of networked technology in scholarly publishing, many institutions are establishing library-press partnerships in an effort to rethink the role universities play in scholarly communication. These relatively new collaborations vary in their organizational structure and priorities. What institutional factors influence how the library-press collaborations are structured, and how do the priorities and projects of different partnerships compare? Panelists: Maria Bonn, Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan Library; Monica McCormick, Program Officer for Digital Scholarly Publishing at New York University, reporting jointly to the Division of Libraries and NYU Press; and Charles Watkinson, Director of Purdue University Press, a unit of Purdue University Libraries.
Some aspects of switching amplifiers and their performance
Creators: name: Grainger, Anthony Andre
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Chapter I examines current usage and existing theory of switching amplifiers. Areas where existing or potential usage extend beyond published theory are defined, the most important area being the lack of adequate switching wave descriptions. The work aimed at redressing the imbalance between theory and practice is described and its relationship to the thesis outlined. In Chapter II the steps necessary to form a switching wave description are outlined. The amplifier features incorporated include details of the encoder, the switch array, and the control signals which flow between encoder and switch array. The input-output characteristic and other design features are combined with the requirements of the encoder and switch array to define restrictions on the switch control signals and the switching wave. In Chapter III detailed switching waveform descriptions are derived for waves controlled by natural samplers, modified natural samplers, and regular samplers. The low frequency components of the descriptions are used to define the sampling wave shapes needed to achieve specific input-output characteristics for amplifiers with both d.c. and a.c. supply waveforms. A modified natural sampler is described which permits compensation for arbitary supply waveform perturbations. The high frequency components of the waveforms are an important by-product of the method of derivation. In Chapter IV the fidelity of information transfer through switching amplifiers is examined. The waveform descriptions are used to evaluate the spectrum of passband noise for natural and regular sampling control with both d.c. and a.c. supplies. The inter-relationship between signal quality, bandwidth, and sampling rate is derived for each amplifier, and comparisons are made between amplifiers. Chapter V provides a basis for the analysis of the low frequency performance of switching amplifiers embedded in feedback networks. The application of the analysis to amplifiers using any form of natural sampling is demonstrated and the extension to regular sampling outlined. The method described also provides criteria not previously described elsewhere. Chapter VI deals with the class of self-oscillating encoders based on a linear filter feedback path and a comparator with hysteresis. The performance limits of the simplest system are described. A method for predicting the d.c. input-output characteristic of all such encoders is presented and its application to two particular encoders discussed. Chapter VII describes a switching amplifier from the point of view of energy flow from source to load. The restrictions on amplifier structure and performance imposed by this view, and by real components, are outlined and some of the limits imposed by present hardware briefly discussed. An equivalent circuit for the energy flow path incorporates many of the features discussed.
Singular equal equations
Creators: name: Dow, Murray Leslie
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The classical analytic solution of the dominant singular integral equation ... is found by transforming the equation into a Riemann boundary problem. (The above integral is interpreted as a Cauchy principal value.) This analytic solution is not very useful for numerical work, since it requires the evaluation of a Cauchy principal value integral of a function Z, which has, in general, algebraic logarithmic singularities at ¬¨¬±1. Three alternative solutions are found which avoid this problem. These solutions are used as the basis of an algorithm for the numerical solution of the above singular integral equation. Convergence of this algorithm is proved, and four examples are given, including the H equation of Chandrasekhar. An algorithm and a computer program is also given for the solution of the complete singular integral equation ... Two examples are given, including the numerical solution of a singular integral equation arising in neutron transport theory.