cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Making wonder tales
title: an exploration of material writing practice for ecological storymaking
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dean, Claire
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Creative practice
practice as research
Creative writing
digital literature
environmental storytelling
material practice
writing technologies
digital storymaking

description: We are confronted by multiple ecological crises worldwide and there is
      growing evidence that fact-based communication is not helping people to
      engage with environmental issues. Traditionally, stories have connected
      people with wider nature, and there have been appeals from
      conservationists, scientists and theorists for new stories to be shared.
      To date, however, very little consideration has been given to the ways
      these new stories may be shaped through contemporary writing practices.
      Digital technologies provide writers with new opportunities for practice
      and for reflection on their role in making and sharing stories. This
      research inquiry uses practice as research to uncover links between
      material writing practice – an approach where all materials, including the
      digital, become part of the composition process – and ecological stories.
      The research is framed by three initial questions:

      1) How can writing practices be developed with new technologies for
      ecological storymaking?

      2)How are stories changed when new writing practices are developed for
      ecological storymaking?

      3) What does the development of these writing practices mean for the role
      and continuing relevance of the writer?

      Through substantial reflexive practice, over the course of three projects,
      the inquiry revealed interrelationships between a story’s subject,
      content, form and medium, which are often overlooked by mainstream
      contemporary publishing. By avoiding technological determinism and
      reducing hierarchies of materials, an approach to material writing
      practice was developed that uses a range of methods to uncover new
      possibilities for making and sharing stories. The process-centred approach
      was shared with other practitioners through workshops and their responses
      highlighted the benefits of material experiment for practitioners in
      expanding creative practice and connecting with wider nature. Participant
      responses, along with my own discoveries through process, demonstrate that
      creating opportunities for ecological storymaking is a valuable action for
      change. Through a series of propositions for writers, this research
      answers the call for new stories with the contribution not just of new
      stories, but a new approach to storymaking.
Facile fabrication of biocompatible injectable blended polymeric hydrogel with bioactive nanoformulation to improving cardiac tissue regeneration efficiency after myocardial infarction for nursing care potential applications
Creators: name: Sun, Qinqin
name: Yao, Jia
name: Zhang, Zhijun
name: Li, Juan
name: Zhang, Xue
name: Wang, Hui
name: Du, Xufang
name: Li, Min
name: Zhao, Ying
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Recent years, cardiac vascular disease has arisen owing to acute myocardial infarction (MI) and heart failure leading to death worldwide. Various treatments are available for MI in modern medicine such as implantation of devices, pharmaceutical therapy, and transplantation of organs, nonetheless, it has many complications in finding an organ donor, devices for stenosis, high intrusiveness and long-time hospitalization. To overcome these problems, we have designed and developed a novel hydrogel material with a combination of Se NPs loaded poly(ethylene glycol)/tannic acid (PEG/TA) hydrogel for the treatment of acute MI repair. Herein, Se NPs were characterized by effective analytical and spectroscopic techniques. In vitro cell compatibility and anti-oxidant analyses were examined on human cardiomyocytes in different concentrations of Se NPs and appropriate Se NPs loaded hydrogel samples to demonstrate its greater suitability for in vivo cardiac applications. In vivo investigations of MI mice models injected with Se hydrogels established that LV wall thickness was conserved significantly from the value of 235.6 µm to 390 µm. In addition, the relative scar thickness (33.6%) and infarct size (17.1%) of the MI model were enormously reduced after injection of Se hydrogel when compared to the Se NPs and control (MI) sample, respectively, which confirmed that Se introduced hydrogel have greatly influenced on the restoration of the infarcted heart. Based on the investigated results of the nanoformulation samples, it could be a promising material for future generations treatment of acute myocardial infarction and cardiac repair applications. Design of novel combination of Se NPs loaded poly(ethylene glycol)/tannic acid conductive hydrogel The prepared material provides favourable cell compatibility and anti-oxidant abilities Hydrogel samples significantly influenced In vitro pro- and anti-inflammatory behaviours It could be developed hydrogel promises of outstanding efficiency for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction
Global modeling of radiatively driven accretion of metals from compact debris disks onto the white dwarfs
Creators: name: Bochkarev, Konstantin V.
name: Rafikov, Roman R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent infrared observations have revealed presence of compact (radii < R_Sun) debris disks around more than a dozen of metal-rich white dwarfs (WD), likely produced by tidal disruption of asteroids. Accretion of high-Z material from these disks may account for the metal contamination of these WDs. It was previously shown using local calculations that the Poynting-Robertson (PR) drag acting on the dense, optically thick disk naturally drives metal accretion onto the WD at the typical rate \dot M_{PR} \approx 10^8 g/s. Here we extend this local analysis by exploring global evolution of the debris disk under the action of the PR drag for a variety of assumptions about the disk properties. We find that massive disks (mass > 10^{20} g), which are optically thick to incident stellar radiation inevitably give rise to metal accretion at rates \dot M > 0.2\dot M_{PR}. The magnitude of \dot M and its time evolution are determined predominantly by the initial pattern of the radial distribution of the debris (i.e. ring-like vs. disk-like) but not by the total mass of the disk. The latter determines only the disk lifetime, which can be several Myr or longer. Evolution of an optically thick disk generically results in the development of a sharp outer edge of the disk. We also find that the low mass (< 10^{20} g), optically thin disks exhibit \dot M << \dot M_{PR} and evolve on characteristic timescale \sim 10^5-10^6 yr, independent of their total mass.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ
Comparison of the ecological niche of two closely related toads (Bufo bufo and Bufo verrucosissimus)
Creators: name: Gül, Serkan
name: Dursun, Cantekin
name: Kutrup, Bilal
name: Üzüm, Nazan
name: Özdemir, Nurhayat
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Understanding climatic variables to determine the ecological niche is crucial to explaining species distributions and revealing how sister species coexist within a geographic area. Here, we used ecological niche modeling to determine the ecological niche patterns of two toad species in Türkiye: Bufo bufo and Bufo verrucosissimus. Thus, we tested the ecological niche divergence and similarity between these species. In our results, the potential distribution of B. verrucosissimus showed high suitability throughout all Caucasus hotspots, and this suitability has been found even along the middle and western coast of Türkiye, but suitability was found to be very weak in the southern part of Türkiye. For B. bufo, the distribution pattern indicated high suitability along the Black Sea and Mediterranean coasts of Türkiye, but this suitability was low throughout Caucasus hotspots. Furthermore, we found that among B. bufo and B. verrucosissimus, the niches are not identical, but this situation is different in the background test. Therefore, we suggested that although there is niche conservatism between the two sister species, this pattern is caused by geographic barriers, not climatic parameters.
Equilibrium and Termination
Creators: name: Danos, Vincent
name: Oury, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a reduction of the termination problem for a Turing machine (in the simplified form of the Post correspondence problem) to the problem of determining whether a continuous-time Markov chain presented as a set of Kappa graph-rewriting rules has an equilibrium. It follows that the problem of whether a computable CTMC is dissipative (ie does not have an equilibrium) is undecidable.
COLD GASS, an IRAM legacy survey of molecular gas in massive galaxies: I. Relations between H2, HI, stellar content and structural properties
Creators: name: Saintonge, Amelie
name: Kauffmann, Guinevere
name: Kramer, Carsten
name: Tacconi, Linda J.
name: Buchbender, Christof
name: Catinella, Barbara
name: Fabello, Silvia
name: Gracia-Carpio, Javier
name: Wang, Jing
name: Cortese, Luca
name: Fu, Jian
name: Genzel, Reinhard
name: Giovanelli, Riccardo
name: Guo, Qi
name: Haynes, Martha P.
name: Heckman, Timothy M.
name: Krumholz, Mark R.
name: Lemonias, Jenna
name: Li, Cheng
name: Moran, Sean
name: Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nemesio
name: Schiminovich, David
name: Schuster, Karl
name: Sievers, Albrecht
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are conducting COLD GASS, a legacy survey for molecular gas in nearby galaxies. Using the IRAM 30m telescope, we measure the CO(1-0) line in a sample of ~350 nearby (D=100-200 Mpc), massive galaxies (log(M*/Msun)>10.0). The sample is selected purely according to stellar mass, and therefore provides an unbiased view of molecular gas in these systems. By combining the IRAM data with SDSS photometry and spectroscopy, GALEX imaging and high-quality Arecibo HI data, we investigate the partition of condensed baryons between stars, atomic gas and molecular gas in 0.1-10L* galaxies. In this paper, we present CO luminosities and molecular hydrogen masses for the first 222 galaxies. The overall CO detection rate is 54%, but our survey also uncovers the existence of sharp thresholds in galaxy structural parameters such as stellar mass surface density and concentration index, below which all galaxies have a measurable cold gas component but above which the detection rate of the CO line drops suddenly. The mean molecular gas fraction MH2/M* of the CO detections is 0.066+/-0.039, and this fraction does not depend on stellar mass, but is a strong function of NUV-r colour. Through stacking, we set a firm upper limit of MH2/M*=0.0016+/-0.0005 for red galaxies with NUV-r>5.0. The average molecular-to-atomic hydrogen ratio in present-day galaxies is 0.3, with significant scatter from one galaxy to the next. The existence of strong detection thresholds in both the HI and CO lines suggests that "quenching" processes have occurred in these systems. Intriguingly, atomic gas strongly dominates in the minority of galaxies with significant cold gas that lie above these thresholds. This suggests that some re-accretion of gas may still be possible following the quenching event.
description: Accepted for publications in MNRAS. 32 pages, 25 figures
A Block Based Scheme for Enhancing Low Luminated Images
Creators: name: Devi, A. Saradha
name: Priyadharsini, S. Suja
name: Athinarayanan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper the background detection in images in poor lighting can be done by the use of morphological filters. Lately contrast image enhancement technique is used to detect the background in image which uses Weber's Law. The proposed technique is more effective one in which the background detection in image can be done in color images. The given image obtained in this method is very effective one. More enhancement can be obtained while comparing the results. In this technique compressed domain enhancement has been used for better result.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, 2 national conferences
Additional file 2 of Scalable ion concentration polarization dialyzer for peritoneal dialysate regeneration
Creators: name: Kim, Wonseok
name: Hong, Seongjun
name: Kim, Kihong
name: Lee, Sunhwa
name: Shin, Dong Ah
name: Yang, Seung Hee
name: Lee, Jeongeun
name: Kim, Kyunghee
name: Lee, Kyoung Jin
name: Cho, Woo Sang
name: Lee, Hajeong
name: Kim, Dong Ki
name: Kim, Hee Chan
name: Kim, Yon Su
name: Lee, Jung Chan
name: Sung, Gun Yong
name: Kim, Sung Jae
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Multipod Bi(Cu2‑xS)n nanocrystals formed by dynamic cation−ligand complexation and their use as anodes for potassium-ion batteries
Creators: name: Kapuria, Nilotpal
name: Imtiaz, Sumair
name: Sankaran, Abinaya
name: GEANEY, HUGH
name: KENNEDY, TADHG
name: SINGH, SHALINI
name: RYAN, KEVIN M.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: We report the formation of an intermediate lamellar Cu–thiolate complex, and tuning its relative stability using alkylphosphonic acids are crucial to enabling controlled heteronucleation to form Bi(Cu2-xS)n heterostructures with a tunable number of Cu2-xS stems on a Bi core. The denticity of the phosphonic acid group, concentration, and chain length of alkylphosphonic acids are critical factors determining the stability of the Cu–thiolate complex. Increasing the stability of the Cu–thiolate results in single Cu2-xS stem formation, and decreased stability of the Cu–thiolate complex increases the degree of heteronucleation to form multiple Cu2-xS stems on the Bi core. Spatially separated multiple Cu2-xS stems transform into a support network to hold a fragmented Bi core when used as an anode in a K-ion battery, leading to a more stable cycling performance showing a specific capacity of ∼170 mAh·g–1 after 200 cycles compared to ∼111 mAh·g–1 for Bi–Cu2-xS single-stem heterostructures.
Quantum Magnetism with Polar Alkali Dimers
Creators: name: Gorshkov, Alexey V.
name: Manmana, Salvatore R.
name: Chen, Gang
name: Demler, Eugene
name: Lukin, Mikhail D.
name: Rey, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that dipolar interactions between ultracold polar alkali dimers in optical lattices can be used to realize a highly tunable generalization of the t-J model, which we refer to as the t-J-V-W model. The model features long-range spin-spin interactions J_z and J_perp of XXZ type, long-range density-density interaction V, and long-range density-spin interaction W, all of which can be controlled in both magnitude and sign independently of each other and of the tunneling t. The "spin" is encoded in the rotational degree of freedom of the molecules, while the interactions are controlled by applied static electric and continuous-wave microwave fields. Furthermore, we show that nuclear spins of the molecules can be used to implement an additional (orbital) degree of freedom that is coupled to the original rotational degree of freedom in a tunable way. The presented system is expected to exhibit exotic physics and to provide insights into strongly correlated phenomena in condensed matter systems. Realistic experimental imperfections are discussed.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of Geospatial analysis of cholera outbreak in Lusaka, Zambia, between 2023 and 2024
Creators: name: Ngosa, William
name: Imamura, Tadatsugu
name: Mbewe, Nyuma
name: Seriki, Joseph
name: Nzila, Oscar
name: Mfune, Fred
name: Zulu, Godfrey
name: Mulando, Chomba
name: Chiluba, Tizha
name: Miyanda, Luo
name: Phiri, Agness
name: Sichone, Lucy
name: Mwape, Galion
name: Mulenga, Kapambwe
name: Chileshe, Charles
name: Mabuku, Nawa
name: Banda, Dabwiso
name: Yan, Fangyu
name: Kamigaki, Taro
name: Chilengi, Roma
name: Sinyange, Nyambe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary material 1: Table 1. Definitions of environmental factors produced using the data from the demographic health survey (DHS) 2018. Table 2. Dataset of cholera-suspected cases in Lusaka District, 2023-24.
Unbegleitet – Begleitet – Und dann? Unterstützung durch Beratung - Ehemalige minderjährige Flüchtlinge und vorläufig aufgenommene Personen in der Sozialhilfe des Kantons Luzern
Creators: name: Garibovic, Jasmina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In Europa, im speziellen in der Schweiz, ist die Flüchtlingsthematik ein harsch diskutiertes und emotionales Thema. Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit minderjährigen Personen, die ihre Heimat ohne Begleitung einer Erwachsenen Person hinter sich lassen und auf gefährlichen, langwierigen Routen mit verschiedensten Gefahren in die Schweiz kommen und Asyl beantragen. Diese werden Mineurs non accompagnés genannt. Wie sieht die Betreuung dieser schutzbedürftigen Personen aus und wie ändert sich diese nach Erreichen der Volljährigkeit? Dieser Frage wird in dieser Arbeit nachgegangen. Danach wird aufgrund entwicklungspsychologischer Ansätze analysiert, wie die Betreuung dieser mittlerweile erwachsen gewordenen Personen in der Sozialhilfe des Kantons Luzern verbessert werden kann. Hierzu wird die Beratung als Hauptbetreuungselement definiert. Dazu werden die beiden Beratungskonzepte <> und <> und deren Methoden untersucht und es wird herausgearbeitet, wie effektiv diese beiden für diese spezielle Entwicklungsphase der besagten Personengruppe sind. Die Arbeit kommt zum Schluss, dass mehrere Aspekte beider Beratungskonzepte und -methoden sehr positiv auf die Entwicklung dieser jungen Erwachsenen einwirken können. Verschiedene Elemente werden für die Praxis vorgeschlagen.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa 2019 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialarbeit, 2019 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA201903
Speaking of Bakhtin : a study of the sociolinguistic discourse on Bakhtin and language
Creators: name: Volek, Michael Edward
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Thirty years after Mikhail Bakhtin came to the attention of the English-speaking world with Emerson & Holquist’s translation of The Dialogic Imagination, he continues to hold a prominent place in the scholarly fancy – particularly among those concerned with the sociality of language. But what have we learned from Bakhtin during this time? How has the “Bakhtinian perspective” contributed to the way researchers study and interpret linguistic phenomena? And more importantly, what can we learn about the sociality of language from the way Bakhtin has been taken up in the scholarly discourse? These questions are addressed in the present study by comparing Bakhtin’s discourse (as it has been received) with the uptake of his theory in a selection of five peer-reviewed journals published between the years 2000 and 2011. Seven of the most commonly cited topics are examined in detail: (1) genre, (2) hybridization, (3) style & stylization, (4) double-voicing, (5) heteroglossia, (6) linguistic stratification & centralization, and (7) authority. The surprising conclusion is that Bakhtin has had relatively little influence on the way these ideas are understood, even when he is cited as their source or inspiration, and that he is frequently invoked in support of views that he argues vigorously against. This disagreement is explained not as a breakdown of communication (in the structural sense), but – in line with Bakhtin’s own observations about the nature of discourse – as a product of the sociality of language, in which the histories and concerns of his interpreters actively shape the meanings they take him to be offering. The scholarly discourse on Bakhtin becomes a case study for the very phenomena Bakhtin describes. It reveals that even avowedly “social” language research continues to reflect what Bakhtin calls “the centralizing tendencies in the life of language”. In particular, it reveals the enduring influence of Saussure and semiotic theory at the expense of the genuinely social model that Bakhtin consistently articulates. It consequently provides the occasion for a critique of the uptake and reproduction of theory in the “softer” social sciences, calling into question the adequacy of scholarly conventions in the face of socio-linguistic reality.
Nonclassical properties of coherent states and excited coherent states for continuous spectra
Creators: name: Honarasa, G. R.
name: Tavassoly, M. K.
name: Hatami, M.
name: Roknizadeh, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the definition of coherent states for continuous spectra and analogous to photon added coherent states for discrete spectra, we introduce the excited coherent states for continuous spectra. It is shown that, the main axioms of Gazeau-Klauder coherent states will be satisfied, properly. Nonclassical properties and quantum statistics of coherent states, as well as the introduced excited coherent states are discussed. In particular, through the study of quadrature squeezing and amplitude squared squeezing, it will be observed that both classes of the above states can be classified in the intelligent states category.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Algebraic characterisation of one-way patterns
Creators: name: Dunjko, Vedran
name: Kashefi, Elham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We give a complete structural characterisation of the map the positive branch of a one-way pattern implements. We start with the representation of the positive branch in terms of the phase map decomposition, which is then further analysed to obtain the primary structure of the matrix M, representing the phase map decomposition in the computational basis. Using this approach we obtain some preliminary results on the connection between the columns structure of a given unitary and the angles of measurements in a pattern that implements it. We believe this work is a step forward towards a full characterisation of those unitaries with an efficient one-way model implementation.
Exact diagonalization study of the tunable edge magnetism in graphene
Creators: name: Luitz, David J.
name: Assaad, Fakher F.
name: Schmidt, Manuel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tunable magnetism at graphene edges with lengths of up to 48 unit cells is analyzed by an exact diagonalization technique. For this we use a generalized interacting one-dimensional model which can be tuned continuously from a limit describing graphene zigzag edge states with a ferromagnetic phase, to a limit equivalent to a Hubbard chain, which does not allow ferromagnetism. This analysis sheds light onto the question why the edge states have a ferromagnetic ground state, while a usual one-dimensional metal does not. Essentially we find that there are two important features of edge states: (a) umklapp processes are completely forbidden for edge states; this allows a spin-polarized ground state. (b) the strong momentum dependence of the effective interaction vertex for edge states gives rise to a regime of partial spin-polarization and a second order phase transition between a standard paramagnetic Luttinger liquid and ferromagnetic Luttinger liquid.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
A Chandra Observation of the Nearby Sculptor Group Sd Galaxy NGC 7793
Creators: name: Pannuti, Thomas G.
name: Schlegel, Eric M.
name: Filipovic, Miroslav D.
name: Payne, Jeffrey L.
name: Petre, Robert
name: Harrus, Ilana M.
name: Staggs, Wayne D.
name: Lacey, Christina K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We conducted a Chandra ACIS observation of the nearby Sculptor Group Sd galaxy NGC 7793. At the assumed distance to NGC 7793 of 3.91 Mpc, the limiting unabsorbed luminosity of the detected discrete X-ray sources (0.2-10.0 keV) is approximately 3x10^36 ergs s^-1. A total of 22 discrete sources were detected at the 3-sigma level or greater including one ultra-luminous X-ray source (ULX). Based on multiwavelength comparisons, we identify X-ray sources coincident with one SNR, the candidate microquasar N7793-S26, one HII region and two foreground Galactic stars. We also find that the X-ray counterpart to the candidate radio SNR R3 is time-variable in its X-ray emission: we therefore rule out the possibility that this source is a single SNR. A marked asymmetry is seen in the distribution of the discrete sources with the majority lying in the eastern half of this galaxy. All of the sources were analyzed using quantiles to estimate spectral properties and spectra of the four brightest sources (including the ULX) were extracted and analyzed. We searched for time-variability in the X-ray emission of the detected discrete sources using our measured fluxes along with fluxes measured from prior Einstein and ROSAT observations. From this study, three discrete X-ray sources are established to be significantly variable. A spectral analysis of the galaxy's diffuse emission is characterized by a temperature of kT = 0.19-0.25 keV. The luminosity function of the discrete sources shows a slope with an absolute value of Gamma = -0.65+/-0.11 if we exclude the ULX. If the ULX is included, the luminosity function has a long tail to high L_X with a poor-fitting slope of Gamma = -0.62+/-0.2. The ULX-less slope is comparable to the slopes measured for the distributions of NGC 6946 and NGC 2403 but much shallower than the slopes measured for the distributions of IC 5332 and M83.
description: 67 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
NTCP S267F variant associates with decreased susceptibility to HBV and HDV infection and decelerated progression of related liver diseases
Creators: name: Binh, Mai Thanh
name: Xuan Hoan, Nghiem
name: Van Tong, Hoang
name: Sy, Bui Tien
name: Trung, Ngo Tat
name: Bock, C. Thomas
name: Toan, Nguyen Linh
name: Song, Le Huu
name: Bang, Mai Hong
name: Meyer, Christian G.
name: Kremsner, Peter G.
name: Velavan, Thirumalaisamy P.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: HBV
subject: HDV
subject: NTCP
subject: S267F
subject: Liver diseases
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objectives To determine potential associations of the rs2296651 variant (c.800C > T, S267F) of NTCP with HBV and HBV plus concomitant HDV infection as well as with the progression of related liver diseases. Methods The S267F variant was genotyped by DNA sequencing in 620 HBV-infected patients and 214 healthy controls (HCs). Among the patients, 450 individuals were tested for HDV by a nested PCR assay. Logistic regression was applied to examine the association. Results The S267F variant was found more frequently among HCs (16%) compared to HBV-infected (6%) and HBV-HDV co-infected patients (3%) (HBV patients vs HC: OR = 0.32, P = 0.00002 and HDV patients vs. HC: OR = 0.17, P = 0.018). The frequency of S267F variant was inversely correlated with CHB, LC or HCC patients compared with HCs (OR = 0.31, P = 0.001; OR = 0.32, P = 0.013; OR = 0.34, P = 0.002, respectively). S267F variant was also associated with decreased risk of the development of advanced liver cirrhosis (LC) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (Child B and C vs. Child A, OR = 0.26, adjusted P = 0.016; BCLC B,C,D vs. BCLC A, OR = 0.038, P = 0.045, respectively). In addition, patients with the genotype CT had lower levels of AST, ALT, total and direct bilirubin as well as higher platelet counts, indicating an association with a more favorable clinical outcome. Conclusion The NTCP S267F variant of the SLC10A1 gene exhibits protective effects against HBV and HDV infection and is associated with a reduced risk of developing to advanced stages of LC and HCC.
The space of measurement outcomes as a spectrum for non-commutative algebras
Creators: name: Spitters, Bas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bohrification defines a locale of hidden variables internal in a topos. We find that externally this is the space of partial measurement outcomes. By considering the double negation sheafification, we obtain the space of measurement outcomes which coincides with the spectrum for commutative C*-algebras.
Integration traumatisierter und in Heimen wohnender UMAs auf dem schweizerischen Arbeitsmarkt
Creators: name: Gözen, Hâle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Keine Beschreibung.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa 2019 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialarbeit, 2019 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA201903
Additional file 1 of Implementing a new clinical service – what’s your elevator pitch?
Creators: name: Sureshkumar, Ashvene
name: Scandiffio, Jillian
name: Luong, Dorothy
name: Munce, Sarah
name: Lai, Nanette
name: Feng, Gregory
name: Bayley, Mark
name: Oh, Jiwon
name: Kastner, Monika
name: Furlan, Andrea D.
name: Sud, Abhimanyu
name: Feinstein, Anthony
name: Simpson, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Ausentismo Laboral relacionado con problemas familiares del enfermero
Creators: name: Romano, Silbana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: La investigación analizó la relación entre el ausentismo laboral y la situación familiar del enfermero, en un servicio de enfermería en un hospital municipal del conurbano bonaerense. Fue su objetivo, determinar los problemas familiares del personal de enfermería y su incidencia en el ausentismo laboral, dado que constituye un grave problema dentro del mundo laboral, repercutiendo en forma negativa en el paciente por la calidad de cuidados que recibe, sobre el clima de trabajo en equipo, dificultando el logro de objetivos, en la falta de implicación del cuidado continuado e integral al paciente y, por último, sobre el presupuesto de recursos humanos, al aumentar el gasto sanitario. El trabajo se llevó a cabo mediante un estudio de tipo descriptivo, transversal, retrospectivo y analítico. Los principales resultados arrojados fueron: Del total de la distribución relacionada a la interferencia del trabajo en el tiempo dedicado a su pareja, la mayoría respondió que siempre interfiere, así como también se siente insatisfecho con el escaso tiempo dedicado a su familia y a su vez, insatisfecho con el tiempo dedicado al trabajo. En cuanto a los factores que más influyen en su ausentismo laboral, el mayor número se volcó a problemas con sus hijos, problemas de pareja, enfermedades propias y familiares. Concluyendo, a partir de la formulación del problema, el marco teórico, la recolección bibliográfica, la información obtenida por la institución, las encuestas realizadas, se determinó que existen factores de índole familiar y social, biológicos y médicos, que inciden en la problemática del ausentismo laboral.
Melting and Freezing Lines for a Mixture of Charged Colloidal Spheres with Spindle-Type Phase Diagram
Creators: name: Lorenz, Nina J.
name: Palberg, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the phase behavior of a binary mixture of like-charged colloidal spheres with a size ratio of 0.9 and a charge ratio of 0.96 as a function of particle number density n and composition p. Under exhaustively deionized conditions the aqueous suspension forms solid solutions of body centered cubic structure for all compositions. The freezing and melting lines as a function of composition show opposite behavior and open a wide, spindle shaped coexistence region. Lacking more sophisticated treatments, we model the interaction in our mixtures as an effective one-component pair energy accounting for number weighted effective charge and screening constant. Using this description, we find that within experimental error the location of the experimental melting points meets the range of melting points predicted for monodisperse, one component Yukawa systems made in several theoretical approaches. We further discuss that a detailed understanding of the exact phase diagram shape including the composition dependent width of the coexistence region will need an extended theoretical treatment.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
Semantics of a Typed Algebraic Lambda-Calculus
Creators: name: Valiron, Benoît
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.3.2; F.4.1

description: Algebraic lambda-calculi have been studied in various ways, but their semantics remain mostly untouched. In this paper we propose a semantic analysis of a general simply-typed lambda-calculus endowed with a structure of vector space. We sketch the relation with two established vectorial lambda-calculi. Then we study the problems arising from the addition of a fixed point combinator and how to modify the equational theory to solve them. We sketch an algebraic vectorial PCF and its possible denotational interpretations.
Suizidale Jugendliche in der freiwilligen Jugendberatung - mögliche Interventionen
Creators: name: Käslin, Daniela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Gegenstand dieser Bachelorarbeit sind suizidale Jugendliche zwischen zwölf bis 18 Jahren, welche freiwillige Beratungsangebote aufsuchen. Aufgrund unterschiedlicher Entwicklungsaufgaben sowie diverser Risikofaktoren unterliegen Jugendliche einem besonders hohen Suizidrisiko. Einige suchen in diesem Zusammenhang freiwillige, psychosoziale Beratungsstellen auf. Aufgabe von Sozialarbeitenden ist es, die Suizidalität der Jugendlichen einzuschätzen und angemessene Interventionen einzuleiten. Für Sozialarbeitende in genannten Tätigkeitsfeldern ergeben sich durch die Minderjährigkeit der Klientel und die damit verbundenen Rechte und berufsethischen Aspekte unterschiedliche Spannungsfelder. Diese beeinflussen die Planung und Durchführung angemessener Interventionen. Im Folgenden wird dargelegt, wie diese Spannungsfelder in der Praxis berücksichtigt und gelöst werden können und welche Interventionen sich unter Berücksichtigung der Rechte, Pflichten und berufsethischen Aspekte ergeben. Die Autorin ist zum Ergebnis gekommen, dass Interventionen aufgrund einer differenzierten Einschätzung der Suizidalität eingeleitet werden müssen. Bei den Interventionen muss dem Dilemma von Übernahme von Fürsorge durch Sozialarbeitende und der Autonomie der Klientel Rechnung getragen werden. Für Sozialarbeitende ist es von grosser Bedeutung, dass die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit mit medizinischen und therapeutischen Fachpersonen gepflegt und das Netzwerk in der Begleitung suizidaler Jugendlicher gegebenenfalls aktiviert wird. Ebenfalls unumgänglich ist der Einbezug der Eltern. Wie dieser gestaltet wird und wann der richtige Zeitpunkt zum Einbezug ist, ist individuell zu entscheiden.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa 2019 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialarbeit 2019 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA201903
Rock fall engineering : development and calibration of an improved model for analysis of rock fall hazards on highways and railways
Creators: name: Wyllie, Duncan C.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: My research on rock falls over the last five years is an extension of my 45 year professional career that has included a wide variety of rock fall projects. This experience has provided me with an excellent understanding of rock fall behavior; the objective of my research has been to apply this to developing improvements in rock fall modeling methods and design of rock fall containment structures. My research to meet these objectives has involved the following: Case studies – details of rock fall behavior at six locations with varied topography and geology are presented, and the results have been used to verify the application of impact mechanics theory to rock falls, and to calibrate modeling programs. Rock fall trajectories and velocities – the application of Newtonian mechanics to rock fall trajectories and velocities is described, and results compared with actual translational and angular velocities, and trajectory heights. Impact mechanics – the application of theoretical impact mechanics to rock fall impacts is discussed in terms of [normal impulse – relative velocity] diagrams for rough, rotating bodies, and equations relating impact and restitution velocities and angles. Coefficient of restitution – it is shown that the normal coefficient of restitution defined by the normal final and impact velocities is related primarily to impact angle rather than slope material properties. Furthermore, for shallow impact angles less than about 20 degrees, the normal coefficient of restitution can be greater than 1.0. Energy changes – energy is lost during impact and gained during trajectories. Equations for energy changes are developed, as well as diagrams showing values of changing potential, kinetic and angular energies during rock falls. Rock fall modeling – results of rock fall modeling using the RocScience program RocFall 4.0 for five case studies are presented; the applicable input parameters are listed. Design of protection structures –impact mechanics and scale model tests of protection nets show that these structures can be designed to redirect rather than stop rock falls, and to absorb energy uniformly during impact. These properties mean that only a portion of the impact energy is absorbed by the net and that forces induced in the net are minimized.
Additional file 1 of 3-Bromopyruvate-loaded bismuth sulfide nanospheres improve cancer treatment by synergizing radiotherapy with modulation of tumor metabolism
Creators: name: He, Yiman
name: Chen, Huawan
name: Li, Wenbo
name: Xu, Lu
name: Yao, Huan
name: Cao, Yang
name: Wang, Zhigang
name: Zhang, Liang
name: Wang, Dong
name: Zhou, Di
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Medicine
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file: Fig S1-S2 TEM images of Bi2O3 nanoparticles and Bi2S3 nanospheres. Fig. S3 The porosity of Bi2S3 nanospheres. Fig. S4 Stability of Bi2S3 nanospheres with or without PEG modification in PBS. Fig. S5 The Tyndall effect of Bi2S3 nanospheres in PBS. Fig. S6 (a) UV-vis absorbance spectra of 3BP at various concentrations. (b) The relative absorbance of 3BP at 282 nm against concentration. Fig S7. Cumulative release of 3BP from Bi2S3-3BP. Fig. S8 HK-II viability of 4T1 cells. Fig. S9 Mean Fluorescence intensity quantitative analysis of hypoxia red fluorescence. Fig. S10 Cell viability of 4T1 cells after treat with Rapa and 3-MA. Fig. S11 The recorded PA intensity of Bi2S3-3BP at λ = 700–950 nm. Fig. S12 In vitro PA contrast images and PA values of Bi2S3-3BP at different concentrations. Fig. S13 In vivo PA images of tumors in tumor-bearing mice after intravenously injection of Bi2S3-3BP at different time points. Fig. S14 Changes of PA-signal intensities within tumor regions at corresponding time points. Fig. S15 In vitro CT contrast images and HU values of Bi2S3-3BP at different concentrations. Fig. S16 In vivo CT images of tumor-bearing mice after intravenously injection of Bi2S3-3BP at different time points
Photoacoustic imaging for prostate brachytherapy
Creators: name: Pan, Leo Lijia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is an emerging imaging modality that relies on the PA effect. The PA effect is caused by exposing an optically absorbing sample to near-infrared light which causes the sample to experience a temporary temperature increase through optical absorption. The heated region undergoes thermoelastic expansion and produces an abrupt and localized pressure change. This change results in a transient PA wave that propagates out toward the sample surface for collection by an ultrasound (US) transducer. Through image reconstruction, the optical property of the sample can be obtained. PA imaging is promising in detecting brachytherapy seeds during prostate brachytherapy. The high absorption coefficient of the metallic seeds leads to high PA imaging contrast. One major drawback is the limited imaging depth due to high optical attenuation of the excitation light in tissue. One of the goals of this thesis is to conduct initial feasibility tests of enhancing the PA contrast through brachytherapy seeds modifications. Seed coated with a contrast enhancing material shows an increase of 18 dB in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and two time increase in the imaging depth (5 cm). Another method of silver coating leads to a 5 dB improvement in the SNR of the modified seeds. An alternative approach in using dyed ethanol solution as a contrast enhancing agent by filling the spaces between two seeds is also reported. The result showed improvement comparable to the black paint method. Another goal is to propose a novel method of tissue typing in PA imaging. A temperature change in tissue can lead to changes of several tissue parameters which can be used for tissue typing. One of the parameters is the speed of sound in tissue, which increases in water-based non-fatty tissue and decreases in fatty tissue as temperature is raised. We show that on average, 6.9±1.5 %/min increase and 4.2±1.5 %/min decrease in PA intensity are observed in porcine liver and bovine fat samples respectively through one minute of laser heating. These results demonstrate that by analyzing the PA intensity change of the illuminated sample, one can extract characteristic information that can lead to tissue type differentiation.
Additional file 1 of Cognitive Level Enhancement through Vision Exams and Refraction (CLEVER): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Marmamula, Srinivas
name: Alladi, Suvarna
name: Umapathy, Keerthana
name: Chan, Ving Fai
name: MacKenzie, Graeme
name: Lohfeld, Lynne
name: Mettla, Asha Latha
name: Rayasam, Sridevi
name: Gothwal, Vijaya K.
name: Narayanan, Raja
name: Pyda, Giridhar
name: Chadalavada, Harithaa P.
name: Thomas, Priya
name: Sigwadhi, Lovemore Nyasha
name: Azuara-Blanco, Augusto
name: McDowell, Cliona
name: McMullan, Susan
name: Murphy, Lynn
name: Clarke, Mike
name: Ehrlich, Joshua R.
name: Sweenor, Bonnielin
name: O’Neill, Ciaran
name: Komaravolu, Shashidhar
name: Maulik, Pallab K.
name: Murthy, G. V. S.
name: Kumar, Keshav
name: Nyshadham, Anant
name: Adhvaryu, Achyuta
name: McCabe, Christopher
name: Bloom, David E.
name: Lee, Jinkook
name: Lin, Frank
name: Coghlan, Seán
name: Khanna, Rohit C.
name: Congdon, Nathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
T Tauri candidates and accretion rates using IPHAS: method and application to IC1396
Creators: name: Barentsen, Geert
name: Vink, Jorick S.
name: Drew, J. E.
name: Greimel, R.
name: Wright, N. J.
name: Drake, J. J.
name: Martin, E. L.
name: Valdivielso, L.
name: Corradi, R. L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The INT Photometric H-Alpha Survey (IPHAS) is a 1800 deg^2 survey of the Northern Galactic Plane, reaching down to r'~21. We demonstrate how the survey can be used to (1) reliably select classical T Tauri star candidates and (2) constrain the mass accretion rates with an estimated relative uncertainty of 0.6 dex. IPHAS is a necessary addition to spectroscopic surveys because it allows large and uniform samples of accretion rates to be obtained with a precise handle on the selection effects. We apply the method on a region of 7 deg^2 towards the HII region IC1396 in Cepheus OB2 and identify 158 pre-main sequence candidates with masses between 0.2 and 2.0 Msun and accretion rates between 10^-9.2 and 10^-7.0 Msun yr^-1. We find a power-law dependency between the stellar mass and the accretion rates with a slope of α= 1.1 +/- 0.2, which is less steep than indicated by previous studies. We discuss the influence of method-dependent systematic effects on the determination of this relationship. The majority of our sample consists of faint, previously unknown, low-mass T Tauri candidates (56 per cent between 0.2 and 0.5 Msun). Many candidates are clustered in front of three bright-rimmed molecular clouds, which are being ionized by the massive star HD206267 (O6.5V). We discover a spatio-temporal gradient of increasing accretion rates, increasing Spitzer infrared excess, and younger ages away from the ionizing star, providing a strong indication that the formation of these clusters has been sequentially triggered by HD206267 during the last ~1 Myr.
description: Accepted 8 March 2011 for publication in MNRAS