cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prevalence and distribution of extended-spectrum β-lactamase and AmpC-producing Escherichia coli in two New Zealand dairy farm environments
Creators: name: Collis, Rose
name: Biggs, Patrick J.
name: Burgess, Sara
name: Midwinter, Anne
name: Brightwell, Gale
name: Cookson, Adrian
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat to human and animal health, with the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials being suggested as the main driver of resistance. In a global context, New Zealand (NZ) is a relatively low user of antimicrobials in animal production. However, the role antimicrobial usage on pasture-based dairy farms, such as those in NZ, plays in driving the spread of AMR within the dairy farm environment remains equivocal. Culture-based methods were used to determine the prevalence and distribution of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)- and AmpC-producing Escherichia coli from farm environmental samples collected over a 15-month period from two NZ dairy farms with contrasting management practices. Whole genome sequencing was utilised to understand the genomic epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance gene repertoire of a subset of third-generation cephalosporin resistant E. coli isolated in this study. There was a low sample level prevalence of ESBL-producing E. coli (faeces 1.7%; farm dairy effluent, 6.7% from Dairy 4 and none from Dairy 1) but AmpC-producing E. coli were more frequently isolated across both farms (faeces 3.3% and 8.3%; farm dairy effluent 38.4%, 6.7% from Dairy 1 and Dairy 4, respectively). ESBL- and AmpC-producing E. coli were isolated from faeces and farm dairy effluent in spring and summer, during months with varying levels of antimicrobial use, but no ESBL- or AmpC-producing E. coli were isolated from bulk tank milk or soil from recently grazed paddocks. Hybrid assemblies using short- and long-read sequence data from a subset of ESBL- and AmpC-producing E. coli enabled the assembly and annotation of nine plasmids from six E. coli, including one plasmid co-harbouring 12 antimicrobial resistance genes. ESBL-producing E. coli were infrequently identified from faeces and farm dairy effluent on the two NZ dairy farms, suggesting they are present at a low prevalence on these farms. Plasmids harbouring several antimicrobial resistance genes were identified, and bacteria carrying such plasmids are a concern for both animal and public health. AMR is a burden for human, animal and environmental health and requires a holistic “One Health” approach to address.
Stripe and short range order in the charge density wave of 1T-Cu$_x$TiSe$_2$
Creators: name: Novello, A. M.
name: Spera, M.
name: Scarfato, A.
name: Ubaldini, A.
name: Giannini, E.
name: Bowler, D. R.
name: Renner, Ch.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the impact of Cu intercalation on the charge density wave (CDW) in 1T-Cu$_{\text{x}}$TiSe$_{\text{2}}$ by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. Cu atoms, identified through density functional theory modeling, are found to intercalate randomly on the octahedral site in the van der Waals gap and to dope delocalized electrons near the Fermi level. While the CDW modulation period does not depend on Cu content, we observe the formation of charge stripe domains at low Cu content (x$
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Electrodynamical Forbiddance of the Strong Quadrupole Light-Molecule Interaction and Its Experimental Manifestation in Fullerene C60
Creators: name: Chelibanov, V. P.
name: Polubotko, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is demonstrated that the forbidden lines, which must be present in the SERS, TERS and SEIRA spectra of molecules with sufficiently high symmetry, associated with a strong quadrupole light-molecule interaction, are absent in the fullerene C60. This result is an experimental manifestation of an electrodynamical forbiddance of the strong quadrupole light-molecule interaction, which must be not only in molecules with cubic symmetry groups, but in the fullerene C60 also.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
A Dimensional Approach to Neurocognition in Psychopathology
Creators: name: Lipsitz, Orly
name: Ruocco, Anthony Charles
name: Carnovale, Michael
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology

description: Replicated evidence has demonstrated that individuals with psychiatric disorders often experience neurocognitive deficits; However, to date, disorder-specific relationships with neurocognition have not been sufficiently identified. One limitation of extant research may be the reliance on defining psychiatric disorders as binary entities based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM). The DSM is limited by poor inter-rater reliability, within-disorder heterogeneity, high levels of comorbidity, and arbitrary thresholds of “illness”. Empirically-based approaches for assessing psychopathology using hierarchical dimensional structures, such as the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP), aim to address the limitations of the DSM by organizing psychopathology from general to specific dimensions. Adopting a HiTOP approach for measuring psychopathology may better elucidate shared and unique relationships between psychopathology and neurocognition. In this remote, unsupervised study, 1000 adults with mental health concerns will complete the SPECTRA: Indices of Psychopathology (a dimensional assessment of psychopathology) and a neurocognitive battery. Data will be analyzed using structural equation modeling to evaluate the relationship between general and specific factors of psychopathology and neurocognition. Findings from this study may aid in identifying potential general or specific neurocognitive treatment targets.
Possibility of Systematic Study of Supernova Explosions by Nuclear Imaging Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Mizumura, Yoshitaka
name: Tanimori, Toru
name: Takada, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An all-sky monitor with nuclear imaging spectroscopy is a promising tool for the systematic study of supernova explosions. In particular, progenitor scenarios of type-Ia supernovae, which are not yet well understood, can be resolved using light curves in the nuclear gamma-ray band. Here we report an expected result of an all-sky monitor with imaging spectroscopy using electron-tracking Compton camera, which will enable us to observe nuclear gamma-ray lines from type-Ia supernovae.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC-XIV)
Permanent Underdetermination from Approximate Empirical Equivalence in Field Theory: Massless and Massive Scalar Gravity, Neutrino, Electromagnetic, Yang-Mills and Gravitational Theories
Creators: name: Pitts, J. Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classical and quantum field theory provide not only realistic examples of extant notions of empirical equivalence, but also new notions of empirical equivalence, both modal and occurrent. A simple but modern gravitational case goes back to the 1890s, but there has been apparently total neglect of the simplest relativistic analog, with the result that an erroneous claim has taken root that Special Relativity could not have accommodated gravity even if there were no bending of light. The fairly recent acceptance of nonzero neutrino masses shows that widely neglected possibilities for nonzero particle masses have sometimes been vindicated. In the electromagnetic case, there is permanent underdetermination at the classical and quantum levels between Maxwell's theory and the one-parameter family of Proca's electromagnetisms with massive photons, which approximate Maxwell's theory in the limit of zero photon mass. While Yang-Mills theories display similar approximate equivalence classically, quantization typically breaks this equivalence. A possible exception, including unified electroweak theory, might permit a mass term for the photons but not the Yang-Mills vector bosons. Underdetermination between massive and massless (Einstein) gravity even at the classical level is subject to contemporary controversy.
title: Electrochemical Generation of Catalytically Active Edge Sites in C₂N‐Type Carbon Materials for Artificial Nitrogen Fixation
Creators: name: Zhang, Wuyong
name: Zhan, Shaoqi
name: Qin, Qing
name: Heil, Tobias
name: Liu, Xiyu
name: Hwang, Jinyeon
name: Ferber, Thimo H.
name: Hofmann, Jan P.
name: Oschatz, Martin
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2022

description: The electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) to ammonia (NH₃) is a potentially carbon‐neutral and decentralized supplement to the established Haber–Bosch process. Catalytic activation of the highly stable dinitrogen molecules remains a great challenge. Especially metal‐free nitrogen‐doped carbon catalysts do not often reach the desired selectivity and ammonia production rates due to their low concentration of NRR active sites and possible instability of heteroatoms under electrochemical potential, which can even contribute to false positive results. In this context, the electrochemical activation of nitrogen‐doped carbon electrocatalysts is an attractive, but not yet established method to create NRR catalytic sites. Herein, a metal‐free C₂N material (HAT‐700) is electrochemically etched prior to application in NRR to form active edge‐sites originating from the removal of terminal nitrile groups. Resulting activated metal‐free HAT‐700‐A shows remarkable catalytic activity in electrochemical nitrogen fixation with a maximum Faradaic efficiency of 11.4% and NH₃ yield of 5.86 µg mg⁻¹cat h⁻¹. Experimental results and theoretical calculations are combined, and it is proposed that carbon radicals formed during activation together with adjacent pyridinic nitrogen atoms play a crucial role in nitrogen adsorption and activation. The results demonstrate the possibility to create catalytically active sites on purpose by etching labile functional groups prior to NRR.
High-temperature expansion for frustrated magnets: Application to the J1-J2 model on the BCC lattice
Creators: name: Richter, Johannes
name: Müller, Patrick
name: Lohmann, Andre
name: Schmidt, Heinz-Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the high-temperature expansion up to 11th order for the specific heat $C$ and the uniform susceptibility $χ_0$ and up to 9th order for the structure factor $S_{\bf Q}$ of the frustrated spin-half $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg model on the BCC lattice. We consider ferromagnetic as well as antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor exchange $J_1$ and frustrating antiferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbor exchange $J_2$. We discuss the influence of frustration on the temperature dependence of these quantities. Furthermore, we use the HTE series to determine the critical temperature $T_c$ as a function of the frustration parameter $J_2$.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, paper presented at the 20th International Conference on Magnetism, ICM 2015, Barcelona
Measurement of $σ_{\mathrm{ABS}}$ and $σ_{\mathrm{CX}}$ of $π^+$ on carbon by DUET
Creators: name: Guerra, E. S. Pinzon
name: Bhadra, S.
name: Berkman, S.
name: Cao, C.
name: de Perio, P.
name: Hayato, Y.
name: Ieki, K.
name: Ikeda, M.
name: Kanazawa, Y.
name: Kim, J.
name: Kitching, P.
name: Mahn, K.
name: Nakaya, T.
name: Nicholson, M.
name: Olchanski, K.
name: Rettie, S.
name: Tanaka, H. A.
name: Tobayama, S.
name: Wilking, M. J.
name: Yamauchi, T.
name: Yen, S.
name: Yokoyama, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The DUET Collaboration reports on the measurements of the absorption ($σ_{\mathrm{ABS}}$) and charge exchange ($σ_{\mathrm{CX}}$) cross sections of positively charged pions on carbon nuclei for the momentum range 201.6 MeV$/c$ to 295.1 MeV$/c$. The uncertainties on the absorption and charge exchange cross sections are $\sim$9.5\% and $\sim$18\%, respectively. The results are in good agreement with previous experiments. A covariance matrix correlating the 5 $σ_{\mathrm{ABS}}$ and 5 $σ_{\mathrm{CX}}$ measured data points is also reported
description: 11 pages, 15 figures. To be submitted to PRC
D7.2 Integration opportunities with awarded proposals in INFRAEOSC-07 v2.0
Creators: name: Bardi, Alessia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The report describes the collaborations between OpenAIRE-Nexus and the other INFRAEOSC-07 projects: C-SCALE, DICE, EGI-ACE, and RELIANCE. The collaborations contributed to the EOSC Interoperability Framework and to the delivery of added-value services for EOSC users
Columnar Shifts as Symmetry-Breaking Degrees of Freedom in Molecular Perovskites
Creators: name: Boström, Hanna L. B.
name: Hill, Joshua A.
name: Goodwin, Andrew L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce columnar shifts---collective rigid-body translations---as a structural degree of freedom relevant to the phase behaviour of molecular perovskites ABX$_{\textrm3}$ (X = molecular anion). Like the well-known octahedral tilts of conventional perovskites, shifts also preserve the octahedral coordination geometry of the B-site cation in molecular perovskites, and so are predisposed to influencing the low-energy dynamics and displacive phase transitions of these topical systems. We present a qualitative overview of the interplay between shift activation and crystal symmetry breaking, and introduce a generalised terminology to allow characterisation of simple shift distortions, drawing analogy to the "Glazer notation" for octahedral tilts. We apply our approach to the interpretation of a representative selection of azide and formate perovskite structures, and discuss the implications for functional exploitation of shift degrees of freedom in negative thermal expansion materials and hybrid ferroelectrics.
-The-Explanation-for-Dark-Matter-and-Dark-Energy.pdf
Creators: name: Lewis, Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: The following assumptions of the Big Bang theory are challenged and found to be false: the cosmological principle, the assumption that all matter formed at the same time and the assumption regarding the cause of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The evolution of the universe is described based on the conclusion that the universe is finite with a space boundary. This conclusion is reached by ruling out the possibility of an infinite universe or a universe which is finite with no boundary. In a finite universe, the centre of the universe can be located with reference to our home galaxy (The Milky Way) using the speed relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) rest frame and Hubble's law. This places our home galaxy at a distance of approximately 26 million light years from the centre of the universe. Because we are making observations from a point relatively close to the centre of the universe, the universe appears to be isotropic and homogeneous but this is not the case. The CMB is coming from a source located within the event horizon of the universe. There is sufficient mass in the universe to create an event horizon at the Schwarzschild radius. Galaxies form over time due to the energy released by the expansion of space. Conservation of energy must consider total energy which is mass (+ve) plus energy (+ve) plus spacetime curvature (-ve) so that the total energy of the universe is always zero. The predominant position of galaxy formation moves over time from the centre of the universe towards the boundary so that today the majority of new galaxy formation is taking place beyond our horizon of observation at 14 billion light years.
An optimal approximation formula for functions with singularities
Creators: name: Tanaka, Ken'ichiro
name: Okayama, Tomoaki
name: Sugihara, Masaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65D15, 41A25

description: We propose an optimal approximation formula for analytic functions that are defined on a complex region containing the real interval $(-1,1)$ and possibly have algebraic singularities at the endpoints of the interval. As a space of such functions,we consider a Hardy space with the weight given by $w_μ(z) = (1-z^{2})^{μ/2}$ for $μ> 0$, and formulate the optimality of an approximation formula for the functions in the space. Then, we propose an optimal approximation formula for the space for any $μ> 0$ as opposed to existing results with the restriction $0 < μ< μ_{\ast}$ for a certain constant $μ_{\ast}$. We also provide the results of numerical experiments to show the performance of the proposed formula.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
Barriers to Implementing Student-Led IEPs
Creators: name: Scheef, Andrew
name: Yeager, Kristopher
name: Deardorff, Malarie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Special Education and Teaching
subject: Education
subject: student led IEP

description: Research questions: 1) What do school personnel perceive to be barriers to implementing student-led IEPs? 2) What are the differences in perceived barriers to student-led IEP between those who report facilitating and those who report not facilitating student-led IEPs? Traditional teacher-led individualized education programs (IEPs) typically provide limited opportunities for students receiving special education services to meaningfully participate in the process. Even with a significant body of literature supporting the benefits of student-led IEPs, many school-based personnel maintain the traditional teacher-led model. As such, this mixed methods study explored barriers to student-led IEPs, including an analysis of the differences in perceptions between school personnel who currently report facilitating student-led IEPs and those who do report not facilitating student-led IEPs. In total, 275 participants completed quantitative survey items, with 155 of these same participants providing responses to a qualitative open-ended question. Results suggest common barriers to student-led IEPs include factors related to (a) students, (b) systemic issues, and (c) other IEP team members. In addition, those who do not have students who lead IEPs were more likely to identify the following specific factors as barriers: student ability, teacher self-efficacy, personal interest, and the age of the student.
Studying Relation Between Star Formation and Molecular Clumps on Subparsec Scales in 30 Doradus
Creators: name: Nayak, Omnarayani
name: Meixner, Margaret
name: Indebetouw, Remy
name: De Marchi, Guido
name: Koekemoer, Anton
name: Panagia, Nino
name: Sabbi, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present $\mathrm{^{12}CO}$ and $\mathrm{^{13}CO}$ molecular gas data observed by ALMA, massive early stage young stellar objects identified by applying color-magnitude cuts to \textit{Spitzer} and \textit{Herschel} photometry, and low-mass late stage young stellar objects identified via H$\mathrmα$ excess. Using dendrograms, we derive properties for the molecular cloud structures. This is the first time a dendrogram analysis has been applied to extragalactic clouds. The majority of clumps have a virial parameter equal to unity or less. The size-linewidth relations of $\mathrm{^{12}CO}$ and $\mathrm{^{13}CO}$ show the clumps in this study have a larger linewidth for a given size (by factor of 3.8 and 2.5, respectively) in comparison to several, but not all, previous studies. The larger linewidths in 30 Doradus compared to typical Milky Way quiescent clumps are probably due to the highly energetic environmental conditions of 30 Doradus. The slope of the size-linewidth relations of $\mathrm{^{12}CO}$, 0.65 $\pm$ 0.04, and $\mathrm{^{13}CO}$, 0.97 $\pm$ 0.12, are on the higher end but consistent within 3$\mathrmσ$ of previous studies. Massive star formation occurs in clumps with high masses ($> 1.83 \times 10^{2}\;\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$), high linewidths (v $> 1.18\;\mathrm{km/s}$), and high mass densities ($> 6.67 \times 10^{2}\;\mathrm{M_{\odot}\;pc^{-2}}$). The majority of embedded, massive young stellar objects are associated with a clump. However the majority of more evolved, low-mass young stellar objects are not associated with a clump.
description: Accepted by ApJ, 65 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables
Der Häufigkeitsdoppelbaum als didaktisch hilfreiches Werkzeug von der Unterstufe bis zum Abitur
Creators: name: Binder, Karin
name: Krauss, Stefan
name: Wassner, Christoph
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
subject: 510 Mathematik

description: Von der Unterstufe bis zum Abitur werden Schülerinnen und Schüler mit verschiedensten Aufgaben zu Personen (oder allgemein zu Objekten) mit zwei Merkmalen, die je zwei Ausprägungen haben, konfrontiert. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt, wie "Häufigkeitsdoppelbäume" als hilfreiches Werkzeug zum Verständnis von Anteilswerten (in der Unterstufe) und bedingten Wahrscheinlichkeiten (in der Oberstufe) eingesetzt werden können und wie eine schrittweise Einführung des Häufigkeitsdoppelbaumes gelingen kann. Die Ausführungen basieren auf einer Lehrerfortbildung, die im Februar 2017 an der Universität Regensburg stattgefunden hat.
Phase-Retrieved Tomography enables imaging of a Tumor Spheroid in Mesoscopy Regime
Creators: name: Ancora, Daniele
name: Di Battista, Diego
name: Giasafaki, Georgia
name: Psycharakis, Stylianos E.
name: Liapis, Evangelos
name: Zacharakis, Giannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical tomographic imaging of biological specimen bases its reliability on the combination of both accurate experimental measures and advanced computational techniques. In general, due to high scattering and absorption in most of the tissues, multi view geometries are required to reduce diffuse halo and blurring in the reconstructions. Scanning processes are used to acquire the data but they inevitably introduces perturbation, negating the assumption of aligned measures. Here we propose an innovative, registration free, imaging protocol implemented to image a human tumor spheroid at mesoscopic regime. The technique relies on the calculation of autocorrelation sinogram and object autocorrelation, finalizing the tomographic reconstruction via a three dimensional Gerchberg Saxton algorithm that retrieves the missing phase information. Our method is conceptually simple and focuses on single image acquisition, regardless of the specimen position in the camera plane. We demonstrate increased deep resolution abilities, not achievable with the current approaches, rendering the data alignment process obsolete.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures
title: Τοπίο επιτήρησης. Από την Παχιά Άμμο στην Ιεράπετρα
title: Surveillance land space. The case of Pachia Ammos to Ierapetra
Creators: name: Δαγαλακης Ζαχαριας
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας έρευνας είναι η διερεύνηση της μεθόδου επιτήρησης από τα οθωμανικά οχυρωματικά φρούρια, που διαμόρφωσαν τα «τοπία επιτήρησης», όπως ονομάζουμε, καθώς και η πυκνότητα και η χωροθέτησή τους στον τόπο της Ανατολικής Κρήτης. Αντικείμενο μελέτης αποτελεί το δίκτυο των οχυρώσεων που ανέπτυξαν οι Οθωμανοί, κατά την ύστερη περίοδο της κυριαρχίας τους, στον Νομό Λασιθίου, στο στενό πέρασμα που συνδέει τον οικισμό της Παχιάς Άμμου στον βορρά με την Ιεράπετρα στον νότο.
Τα οθωμανικά οχυρωματικά έργα καθώς και η σχέση «τόπος – τοπίο – μνήμη» γύρω απ’ αυτά, είναι ένα ζήτημα το οποίο έχει διερευνηθεί τμηματικά, με συγγράμματα που αναφέρονται στην ιστορία, εισηγήσεις, ανακοινώσεις σε συνέδρια, διδακτορικές διατριβές και ερευνητικές εργασίες. Η βιβλιογραφία που αφορά, γενικότερα, στις θεωρήσεις του ζητήματος εκείνου, αλλά και οι συσχετισμοί με το τοπίο της ανατολικής Κρήτης δεν απαντώνται συχνά. Τα εν λόγω οχυρά είναι σχεδόν άγνωστα στη βιβλιογραφία, με μόνο απλές αναφορές στην ύπαρξή τους. Αυτό ήταν ένα από τα κύρια προβλήματα κατά την εκπόνηση της εργασίας, που είναι μέχρι στιγμής μια προσπάθεια για την καταγραφή των οθωμανικών οχυρωματικών κτισμάτων, στο στενό Παχιάς Άμμου - Ιεράπετρας.
title: Late health effects and changes in lifestyle factors after cancer in childhood with and without subsequent second primary cancers – the KiKme case-control study
Creators: name: Brackmann, Lara Kim
name: Foraita, Ronja
name: Schwarz, Heike
name: Galetzka, Danuta
name: Zahnreich, Sebastian
name: Hankeln, Thomas
name: Löbrich, Markus
name: Poplawski, Alicia
name: Grabow, Desiree
name: Blettner, Maria
name: Schmidberger, Heinz
name: Marron, Manuela
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2022

description: Background: Improved treatments for childhood cancer result in a growing number of long-term childhood cancer survivors (CCS). The diagnosis and the prevalence of comorbidities may, however, influence their lifestyle later in life. Nonetheless, little is known about differences in late effects between CCS of a first primary neoplasm (FPN) in childhood and subsequent second primary neoplasms (SPN) and their impact on lifestyle. Therefore, we aim to investigate associations between the occurrence of FPN or SPN and various diseases and lifestyle in the later life of CCS. Methods: CCS of SPN (n=101) or FPN (n=340) and cancer-free controls (n=150) were matched by age and sex, and CCS additionally by year and entity of FPN. All participants completed a self-administered questionnaire on anthropometric and socio-economic factors, medical history, health status, and lifestyle. Mean time between FPN diagnosis and interview was 27.3 years for SPN and 26.2 years for FPN CCS. To confirm results from others and to generate new hypotheses on late effects of childhood cancer as well as CCS´ lifestyles, generalized linear mixed models were applied. Results: CCS were found to suffer more likely from diseases compared to cancer-free controls. In detail, associations with cancer status were observed for hypercholesterinemia and thyroid diseases. Moreover, CCS were more likely to take regular medication compared to controls. A similar association was observed for CCS of SPN compared to CCS of FPN. In contrast to controls, CCS rarely exercise more than 5 hours per week, consumed fewer soft and alcoholic drinks, and were less likely to be current, former, or passive smokers. Additionally, they were less likely overweight or obese. All other exploratory analyses performed on cardiovascular, chronic lung, inflammatory bone, allergic, and infectious diseases, as well as on a calculated health-score revealed no association with tumor status. Conclusion: CCS were more affected by pathologic conditions and may consequently take more medication, particularly among CCS of SPN. The observed higher disease burden is likely related to the received cancer therapy. To reduce the burden of long-term adverse health effects in CCS, improving cancer therapies should therefore be in focus of research in this area.
Calf diarrhoea- prevention is better than cure
Creators: name: Scully, Sabine
name: Earley, Bernadette
name: Waters, Sinead
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Calf health, diarrhea

description: Summary: Diarrhoea or scours is the most common disease in calves under one month of age. Calves with diarrhoea are commonly infected with rotavirus and cryptosporidia, which cannot be treated with antibiotics. A comprehensive herd health plan is necessary to prevent calf diarrhoea. Optimized colostrum management supports calf gut health and immune function. Biosecurity and sanitation procedures are of the utmost importance. The "HoloRuminant" EU-funded project is investigating the role of microbiomes in developing solutions to reduce early-life diseases such as diarrhoea.
description: this piece was written and published as a part of the public outreach event BEEF 2022 held at Teagasc Grange, Dunsany, Co, Meath, Ireland. For more information on this event visit: https://www.teagasc.ie/corporate-events/beef-open-day/
Prison news service - No. 43
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Correctional institutions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/880178
subject: Marion Penitentiary (Ill.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/611366
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103
subject: Prisons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077326
subject: Prison administration
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077006
subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Political prisoners' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1069664
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Prisoners' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077268
subject: Prisoners' writings, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077272
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Political prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1069636
subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Prison periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077063
subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077155
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200

description: The Prison News Network (PNS) focuses on political trials, repressive abuses of imprisonment and the resistance to such oppression. It was joined with another existing prison periodical called Marionette made by prisoners for prisoners and the general public to spread awareness of the conditions prisons, Marion Penitentiary, Illinois in particular.PNS editor: Bulldozer Collective. Articles include: "Censorship and repression in Indiana's penal system"; "International campaign to free Fred Hampton Jr."; "Anti-racist action update: zero tolerance for Nazis"; "Face to face with AIDS"; "Hey OPSEU, put a lid on it"; "Lucasville prisoners need your support now!!!"; "Super max prison planned for Ohio - protest now"; "Agitating violence at Lucasville"; "New Afrikan victory: statement from Trenton trial"; "Indiana update"; "Prisoner seeks information on TB skin testing"; "California D.O.C. is killing women with HIV/AIDS"; "To whom it may concern: "A few thoughts on racialism""; "Marionization of dungeon Hardee"; "Pennsylvania's genocidal formula"; "The politico-prisoner debate: from a pro and con perspective"; "Another response to P.O.W. debate"; "America's lost children"; "Independence/freedom ... an open letter to Afrikan youth ..."; "Native warriors declare Holy War against desecration"; "Declaration of war against exploiters of Lakota spirituality"; "Prisoners with HIV?AIDS Support Action Network"; [Book review] "The American Indian in the white man's prison: a story of genocide"; Bulldozer notes.
Microbiomes, Sustainability & Health
Creators: name: Scully, Sabine
name: Stafford, Michelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Board presented to event attendees of the Teagasc Moorepark Dairy Open Day 2023; "Securing a Sustainable Future". For more information on the open day visit: https://www.teagasc.ie/corporate-events/moorepark-open-day/
Extracting Geography from Trade Data
Creators: name: Li, Yuke
name: Wu, Tianhao
name: Marshall, Nicholas
name: Steinerberger, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding international trade is a fundamental problem in economics -- one standard approach is via what is commonly called the "gravity equation", which predicts the total amount of trade $F_ij$ between two countries $i$ and $j$ as $$ F_{ij} = G \frac{M_i M_j}{D_{ij}},$$ where $G$ is a constant, $M_i, M_j$ denote the "economic mass" (often simply the gross domestic product) and $D_{ij}$ the "distance" between countries $i$ and $j$, where "distance" is a complex notion that includes geographical, historical, linguistic and sociological components. We take the \textit{inverse} route and ask ourselves to which extent it is possible to reconstruct meaningful information about countries simply from knowing the bilateral trade volumes $F_{ij}$: indeed, we show that a remarkable amount of geopolitical information can be extracted. The main tool is a spectral decomposition of the Graph Laplacian as a tool to perform nonlinear dimensionality reduction. This may have further applications in economic analysis and provides a data-based approach to "trade distance".
$α$-scattering and $α$-induced reaction cross sections of $^{64}$Zn at low energies
Creators: name: Ornelas, A.
name: Mohr, P.
name: Gyürky, Gy.
name: Elekes, Z.
name: Fülöp, Zs.
name: Halász, Z.
name: Kiss, G. G.
name: Somorjai, E.
name: Szücs, T.
name: Takács, M. P.
name: Galaviz, D.
name: Güray, R. T.
name: Korkulu, Z.
name: Özkan, N.
name: Yalçın, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: alpha-nucleus potentials play an essential role for the calculation of alpha-induced reaction cross sections at low energies in the statistical model... Purpose: The present work studies the total reaction cross section sigma_reac of alpha-induced reactions at low energies which can be determined from the elastic scattering angular distribution or from the sum over the cross sections of all open non-elastic channels. Method: Elastic and inelastic 64Zn(a,a)64Zn angular distributions were measured at two energies around the Coulomb barrier at 12.1 MeV and 16.1 MeV. Reaction cross sections of the (a,g), (a,n), and (a,p) reactions were measured at the same energies using the activation technique. The contributions of missing non-elastic channels were estimated from statistical model calculations. Results: The total reaction cross sections from elastic scattering and from the sum of the cross sections over all open non-elastic channels agree well within the uncertainties. This finding confirms the consistency of the experimental data. At the higher energy of 16.1 MeV, the predicted significant contribution of compound-inelastic scattering to the total reaction cross section is confirmed experimentally. As a by-product it is found that most recent global alpha-nucleus potentials are able to describe the reaction cross sections for 64Zn around the Coulomb barrier. Conclusions: Total reaction cross sections of alpha-induced reactions can be well determined from elastic scattering angular distributions. The present study proves experimentally that the total cross section from elastic scattering is identical to the sum of non-elastic reaction cross sections. Thus, the statistical model can reliably be used to distribute the total reaction cross section among the different open channels.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C; abstract shortened due to arXiv limitations; revised submission: typo in Table III corrected; references updated
HoloRuminant- Understanding the rumen microbial colonisation of calves and its impact on performance
Creators: name: Stafford, Michelle
name: Smith, Paul
name: Scully, Sabine
name: Buckley, Frank
name: Waters, Sinead
name: Kenny, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: microbiome, rumen, calf

description: Summary: The microbiome refers to any organisms such as viruses, bacteria and fungi that live within or on a living host. Examples of microbiome habitats include the skin, body cavities, and mucosal surfaces of respiratory, gastrointestinal, and urogenital tracts. microbes with the rumen play a key role in the conversion of ingested feed into a source of energy and protein for ruminants. However, enteric methane is produced as a by-product of the microbial fermentation in the rumen. Understanding the temporal development and colonisation of the rumen of young calves, poses a potential avenue for the development of targeted probiotic and additive treatments aimed at increasing the productivity and sustainability of livestock production.
description: written and published as a part of the open day booklet for Teagasc Moorepark Dairy Open Day 2023. for more information about the open day please visit: https://www.teagasc.ie/corporate-events/moorepark-open-day/
Stellar activity with LAMOST. I. Spot configuration in Pleiades
Creators: name: Fang, Xiang-Song
name: Zhao, Gang
name: Zhao, Jing-Kun
name: Chen, Yu-Qin
name: Kumar, Yerra Bharat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the spectra of Pleiades and field stars from LAMOST DR2 archive to study how spottedness and activity vary as a function of mass at young ages. We obtained standard TiO band strength by measuring TiO bands near 7050 $Å$ from LAMOST spectra (R$\approx$1800) for large sample of field GKM dwarfs with solar metallicity. Analysis show that active dwarfs, including late G- and early K-type, have extra TiO absorption compare to inactive counterparts, indicating the presence of cool spots on their surface. Active late K- and M-dwarfs show deeper TiO2 and shallower TiO4 compare to inactive stars at a given TiO5, which could be partly explained through cool spots. We estimated cool spot fractional coverage for 304 Pleiades candidates by modelling their TiO2 (&TiO5) band strength with respect to standard value. Results show that surface of large fraction of K- and M-type members have very large spot coverage ($\sim$50%). We analysed a correlation between spot coverage, rotation and the amplitude of light variation, and found spot coverage on slow rotators ($R_{o}$ > 0.1) increases with decreasing Rossby Number $R_{o}$. Interestingly, we detected a saturation-like feature for spot coverage in fast rotators with a saturation level of 40%-50%. In addition, spot distribution in hotter fast rotators show more symmetrical compare to slow rotators. More interestingly, we detected large spot coverage in many M type members with no or little light variation. In bigger picture, these results provide important constraints for stellar dynamo on these cool active stars.
description: 20 pages, 20 figures
Calf Diarrhoea- prevention and the role of microbes
Creators: name: Scully, Sabine
name: Earley, Bernadette
name: Smith, Paul
name: Stafford, Michelle
name: Kenny, David
name: McAloon, Catherine
name: Fitzgerald, Ricki
name: Waters, Sinead
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Calf health, diarrhea, microbes

description: Summary: Diarrhoea or scour is the most common disease in calves under one month of age. Calf Diarrhoea has many causes and it may be non-infectious (mainly due to nutrition) or infectious. Optimal colostrum management is essential for the development of the calf's immune system and supports calf gut health. A microbiome is a community of microorganisms in a particular environment. The "HoloRuminant" EU-funded project is investigating the role of microbiomes in developing solutions to reduce early-life diseases including calf diarrhoea.
description: written and published as a part of Teagasc Moorepark Dairy Open Day 2023. For more information about the open day please visit https://www.teagasc.ie/corporate-events/moorepark-open-day/
Efficient big data assimilation through sparse representation: A 3D benchmark case study in seismic history matching
Creators: name: Luo, Xiaodong
name: Bhakta, Tuhin
name: Jakobsen, Morten
name: Nævdal, Geir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In a previous work \citep{luo2016sparse2d_spej}, the authors proposed an ensemble-based 4D seismic history matching (SHM) framework, which has some relatively new ingredients, in terms of the type of seismic data in choice, the way to handle big seismic data and related data noise estimation, and the use of a recently developed iterative ensemble history matching algorithm. In seismic history matching, it is customary to use inverted seismic attributes, such as acoustic impedance, as the observed data. In doing so, extra uncertainties may arise during the inversion processes. The proposed SHM framework avoids such intermediate inversion processes by adopting amplitude versus angle (AVA) data. In addition, SHM typically involves assimilating a large amount of observed seismic attributes into reservoir models. To handle the big-data problem in SHM, the proposed framework adopts the following wavelet-based sparse representation procedure: First, a discrete wavelet transform is applied to observed seismic attributes. Then, uncertainty analysis is conducted in the wavelet domain to estimate noise in the resulting wavelet coefficients, and to calculate a corresponding threshold value. Wavelet coefficients above the threshold value, called leading wavelet coefficients hereafter, are used as the data for history matching. The retained leading wavelet coefficients preserve the most salient features of the observed seismic attributes, whereas rendering a substantially smaller data size. Finally, an iterative ensemble smoother is adopted to update reservoir models, in such a way that the leading wavelet coefficients of simulated seismic attributes better match those of observed seismic attributes. (The rest of the abstract was omitted for the length restriction.)
description: Overlapping with our conference paper at ECMOR XV, 2016. This is the initial draft submitted for review
Profiling of volatile and non-volatile compounds in Dianhong by a combined approach of static headspace GC-MS and UPLC-MS
Creators: name: Sun, Yanzhi
name: Fu, Yingjie
name: Chen, Rirong
name: Zhang, Yipeng
name: Liao, Tougen
name: Xi, Hui
name: Sun, Shihao
name: Cheng, Zhihong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The systematic identification of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and non-VOCs will facilitate understanding the characteristic aroma and bioactive constituents of Dianhong. This article reported for the first time the volatile and non-volatile composition profiles of Dianhong from four main producing areas. A combined total of 42 VOCs were identified from four Dianhong samples by static headspace GC-MS. Thirteen VOCs were found to be important common components contributing to the characteristic aroma of Dianhong. The non-VOCs of Dianhong were evaluated by UPLC-ESI-MS, and Dianhong samples from four producing areas shared almost the same component profiles. Thirty-four components including derivatives of quinic acid, gallic acid, and catechin, flavone C-glycosides, flavonol O-glycosides, and alkaloids were characterized. Finally, catechin, gallic acid, 5-O-galloylquininc acid, and theobromine were characterized as the main non-VOCs in Dianhong. Dianhong samples from four main producing areas showed similar VOCs and non-VOCs profiles under our optimized GC-MS and LC-MS conditions.
Phase-transitions of the random bond Potts chain with long-range interactions
Creators: name: d'Auriac, Jean-Christian Anglès
name: Iglói, Ferenc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study phase-transitions of the ferromagnetic $q$-state Potts chain with random nearest-neighbour couplings having a variance $Δ^2$ and with homogeneous long-range interactions, which decay with the distance as a power $r^{-(1+σ)}$, $σ>0$. In the large-$q$ limit the free-energy of random samples of length $L \le 2048$ is calculated exactly by a combinatorial optimization algorithm. The phase-transition stays first-order for $σ< σ_c(Δ) \le 0.5$, while the correlation length becomes divergent at the transition point for $σ_c(Δ) < σ< 1$. In the latter regime the average magnetization is continuous for small enough $Δ$, but for larger $Δ$ it is discontinuous at the transition point, thus the phase-transition is of mixed order.
description: 9 pages 13 figures
Suppression of compensating native defect formation during semiconductor processing via excess carriers
Creators: name: Alberi, Kirstin
name: Scarpulla, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In many semiconductors, compensating defects set doping limits, decrease carrier mobility, and reduce minority carrier lifetime thus limiting their utility in devices. Native defects are responsible in many cases, but extrinsic dopants may also act as their own compensation when occupying an alternate lattice site. Suppressing the concentrations of compensating defects during processing close to thermal equilibrium is difficult because formation enthalpies are lowered as the Fermi level moves towards the majority band edge. Excess carriers, introduced for example by photogeneration, modify the formation enthalpy of semiconductor defects and thus can be harnessed during crystal growth or annealing to suppress such defect populations. Herein we develop a rigorous and general model for defect formation in the presence of steady-state excess carrier concentrations by combining the standard quasi-chemical formalism with a detailed-balance description that is applicable for any defect state in the bandgap. Considering the quasi-Fermi levels as chemical potentials, we demonstrate that increasing the minority carrier concentration increases the formation enthalpy for typical compensating centers, thus suppressing their formation. This effect is illustrated for the specific example of native GaSb antisite acceptors in nominally un-doped and extrinsically n-type doped GaSb. The model also predicts reductions in the concentration of ionized scattering centers as well as increased mobility. While our treatment is generalized for excess carrier injection or generation in semiconductors by any means, we provide a set of guidelines for applying the concept in photoassisted physical vapor deposition.