cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mechanical Properties of Flax-Polypropylene Composites from Dry Flexible Towpregs: Influence of Radial Position of Flax Fibers in the Towpreg
Creators: name: Goud, Vijay
name: Khan, Ashraf Nawaz
name: Ramasamy, Alagirusamy
name: Das, Apurba
name: Kalyanasundaram, Dinesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The radial position of the flax fibers as reinforcement and polypropylene (pp) fibers as matrix was altered using friction spinning in three distinctive sequences from core to sheath, namely, (a) pp-flax-flax-pp (PFFP), (b) flax-pp-flax-pp (FPFP), and (c) flax-flax-pp-pp (FFPP). Interestingly, at the towpregs stage, PFFP demonstrated higher tensile characteristics than FPFP and FFPP. The towpregs were consolidated to yield three unidirectional composites (UDCs), namely, UDC-PFFP, UDC-FPFP, and UDC-FFPP, using compression molding. The tensile strength of the composites (σUDC−FFPP> σUDC−FPFP> σUDC−PFFP) was contrary to the breaking load (f) of the corresponding towpregs (fFFPP< fFPFP< fPFFP) which necessitated the current investigation. Remarkably, the UDC with the lowest tensile as well as interlaminar shear strength i.e. UDC-PFFP, yielded the maximum energy absorption in Charpy and Notch impact tests. In the towpreg, the flax fibers when placed at the core position, slid over each other resulting in poor strength in FFPP while post-curing the pp matrix impregnated the core flax fibers in UDC-FFPP, resulting in the highest strength amongst the three UDCs in tensile and flexural modes. Micro-computed tomography (µCT) was carried out to confirm the same. Thus, the user can select the requisite fiber-matrix radial positions within towpreg to suit the ultimate applications.
A pobreza em Portugal: tendências e conjeturas
Creators: name: Cantante; Frederico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Pobreza
Taxa de risco de pobreza
Limiar de risco de pobreza
privação material e social
emprego
Salário Mínimo Nacional
inflação

description: Resumo:
Este texto explora, de forma sintética, questões metodológicas e conceptuais em torno do conceito de pobreza, analisa as suas tendências e promove reflexões acerca dos fenómenos da pobreza monetária e da privação material e social. Em termos substantivos, é feita uma análise diacrónica e comparativa da incidência da pobreza e do seu limiar; identificam-se as principais categorias sociais e territórios com uma incidência da pobreza mais elevada; promove-se uma simulação acerca da evolução do salário mínimo na exposição à pobreza de várias categorias sociais; medem-se os impactos das transferências sociais e duas formas de desproteção social; conjeturam-se cenários para a evolução recente da pobreza monetária relativa e da privação material e social.
 
Abstract:
This study briefly explores methodological and conceptual issues regarding the concept of poverty, analyzes its evolution in Portugal and reflects upon the phenomena of income poverty and material and social deprivation. The following topics are addressed: a diachronic and comparative analysis of the incidence of poverty and its threshold; the main social categories and territories with the highest incidence of poverty; a simulation of the impact of the minimum wage on the exposure to income poverty; the impacts of social transfers on the risk of poverty rate and the analysis of two forms of unprotection; recent evolution of income poverty and material and social deprivation.
Effective dynamics of microorganisms that interact with their own trail
Creators: name: Kranz, W. Till
name: Gelimson, Anatolij
name: Zhao, Kun
name: Wong, Gerard C. L.
name: Golestanian, Ramin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Like ants, some microorganisms are known to leave trails on surfaces to communicate. We explore how trail-mediated self-interaction could affect the behavior of individual microorganisms when diffusive spreading of the trail is negligible on the timescale of the microorganism using a simple phenomenological model for an actively moving particle and a finite-width trail. The effective dynamics of each microorganism takes on the form of a stochastic integral equation with the trail interaction appearing in the form of short-term memory. For moderate coupling strength below an emergent critical value, the dynamics exhibits effective diffusion in both orientation and position after a phase of superdiffusive reorientation. We report experimental verification of a seemingly counterintuitive perpendicular alignment mechanism that emerges from the model.
description: new figure with experimental results; expanded appendix
Nationalism and Othering in the Contemporary Era: The Non-South African Black and Xenophobia in South Africa
Creators: name: Muyanga, Amukelani
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: A wave of populism is certainly sweeping the world yet again. In Africa, the ugliest face of violent nationalism can be observed in South Africa, where regular spikes of xenophobia are an affront to the pan Africanist project that leaders on the continent have been trying to actualize for decades. This paper explores socio-economic, political, psychological, and cultural dimensions of the othering of the non-South African black, which are ultimately rooted in the fear of experiencing increased scarcity in an already economically infertile field for the low class, unemployed citizen. The paper attempts to propose a way forward that includes strengthening individual states on the continent and specifically addressing fear based behaviors.
Introduction
Creators: name: Pier, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Global Africana Review is a scholarly journal for undergraduates, which adheres to the rigorous editorial procedures of any professional academic journal. We openly invite students to submit original research articles on any and all topics having to do with Africa, African Americans, and the broader African diaspora. Submissions that meet our editorial board’s standards for academic rigor and originality are sent out for review to faculty members with specialized knowledge of the topics in question. Articles that pass this review are then revised by their authors, resubmitted, professionally edited and proofread, and published. This vetting and revision process ensures that students take their research and writing projects to the highest possible level, producing polished, sophisticated, and useful contributions to ongoing disciplinary conversations in global Africana Studies.
A robust deuterium abundance; Re-measurement of the z=3.256 absorption system towards the quasar PKS1937-1009
Creators: name: Riemer-Sørensen, S.
name: Webb, J. K.
name: Crighton, N.
name: Dumont, V.
name: Ali, K.
name: Kotuš, S.
name: Bainbridge, M.
name: Murphy, M. T.
name: Carswell, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The primordial deuterium abundance is an important tracer of the fundamental physics taking place during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. It can be determined from absorption features along the line of sight to distant quasars. The quasar PKS1937-1009 contains two absorptions systems that have been used to measure the primordial deuterium abundance, the lower redshift one being at z_abs = 3.256. New observations of this absorber are of a substantially higher signal-to-noise and thus permit a significantly more robust estimate of the primordial deuterium abundance, leading to a D/H ratio of 2.45+/-0.28 x10^-5. Whilst the precision of the new measurement presented here is below that obtained from the recent cosmological parameter measurements by Planck, our analysis illustrates how a statistical sample obtained using similarly high spectral signal-to-noise can make deuterium a competitive and complementary cosmological parameter estimator and provide an explanation for the scatter seen between some existing deuterium measurements.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, matches version accepted by MNRAS
Uniqueness of the de Sitter spacetime among static vacua with positive cosmological constant
Creators: name: Hijazi, Oussama
name: Raulot, Simon
name: Montiel, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that, among all (n + 1)-dimensional spin static vacua with positive cosmological constant, the de Sitter spacetime is characterized by the fact that its spatial Killing hori-zons have minimal modes for the Dirac operator. As a consequence, the de Sitter spacetime is the only vacuum of this type for which the induced metric tensor on some of its Killing horizons is at least equal to that of a round (n -- 1)-sphere. This extends unique-ness theorems shown by Boucher-Gibbons-Horowitz and Chruciel to more general horizon metrics and to the non-single horizon case.
description: in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014
Approximating TSP on Metrics with Bounded Global Growth
Creators: name: T.-H. Hubert Chan
name: Gupta, Anupam
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a canonical NP-complete problem which is known to be MAX-SNP hard even on (high-dimensional) Euclidean metrics [39]. In order to circumvent this hardness, researchers have been developing approximation schemes for low-dimensional metrics [4, 38] (under different notions of dimension). However, a feature of most current notions of metric dimension is that they are "local": the definitions require every local neighborhood to be well-behaved. In this paper, we consider the case when the metric is less restricted: it has a few "dense" regions, but is "well-behaved on the average"?

To this end, we define a global notion of dimension which we call the correlation dimension (denoted by dimC), which generalizes the popular notion of doubling dimension. In fact, the class of metrics with dimC = O(1) not only contains all doubling metrics, but also contains some metrics containing uniform submetrics of size √n. We first show, using a somewhat "local" argument, that one can solve TSP on these metrics in time 2O(√n); we then take advantage of the global nature of TSP (and the global nature of our definition) to give a (1 + ε)-approximation algorithm that runs in sub-exponential time: i.e., in 2O(nδε-4dimC)-time for every constant 0 < δ < 1.
Azoria and Archaic Urbanization
Creators: name: Haggis, D. C.
Publisher: name: Universite Catholique de Louvain
Year: 2014

description: We began digging at Azoria in 2002, with the goal of studying the development of an Early Iron Age (EIA) and Archaic settlement on Crete. We shaped our research design to fit the language of culture-history narratives of urbanization, polis formation, and Archaic political economies, along the way, engaging questions of the early Greek household, the development of political architecture, and the relationship between sociopolitical organization and resource mobilization (Haggis et alii 2011a; 2011b). This paper reflects on the results of the past decade of fieldwork while integrating results of recent excavation at the site.
Additional file 1 of Maternal and newborn plasma oxytocin levels in response to maternal synthetic oxytocin administration during labour, birth and postpartum – a systematic review with implications for the function of the oxytocinergic system
Creators: name: Buckley, Sarah
name: Uvnäs-Moberg, Kerstin
name: Pajalic, Zada
name: Luegmair, Karolina
name: Ekström-Bergström, Anette
name: Dencker, Anna
name: Massarotti, Claudia
name: Kotlowska, Alicja
name: Callaway, Leonie
name: Morano, Sandra
name: Olza, Ibone
name: Magistretti, Claudia Meier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Search strings for systematic review: Description: Search strings for systematic review: ‘Maternal and newborn plasma oxytocin levels in response to maternal synthetic oxytocin administration during labour, birth and postpartum – a systematic review. Implications for the function of the oxytocinergic system’.
Properly colored and rainbow copies of graphs with few cherries
Creators: name: Sudakov, Benny
name: Volec, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let G be an n-vertex graph that contains linearly many cherries (i.e., paths on 3 vertices), and let c be a coloring of the edges of the complete graph K_n such that at each vertex every color appears only constantly many times. In 1979, Shearer conjectured that such a coloring c must contain a properly colored copy of G. We establish this conjecture in a strong form, showing that it holds even for graphs G with O(n^(4/3)) cherries and moreover this bound on the number of cherries is best possible up to a constant factor. We also prove that one can find a rainbow copy of such G in every edge-coloring of K_n in which all colors appear bounded number of times. Our proofs combine a framework of Lu and Szekely for using the lopsided Lovasz local lemma in the space of random bijections together with some additional ideas.
Worst-case optimal squares packing into disks
Creators: name: Fekete, Sándor P.
name: Gurunathan, Vijaykrishna
name: Juneja, Kushagra
name: Keldenich, Phillip
name: Kleist, Linda
name: Scheffer, Christian
Publisher: name: Journal of Computational Geometry
Year: 2022

description: $\newcommand{\nicefrac}{\tfrac}$We provide a tight result for a fundamental problem arising from packing squares into a circular container: The critical density of packing squares into a disk is $\delta=\nicefrac{8}{5\pi}\approx 0.509$. This implies that any set of (not necessarily equal) squares of total area $A \leq \nicefrac{8}{5}$ can always be packed into a disk with radius 1; in contrast, for any $\varepsilon>0$ there are sets of squares of total area $\nicefrac{8}{5}+\varepsilon$ that cannot be packed, even if squares may be rotated. This settles the last (and arguably, most elusive) case of packing circular or square objects into a circular or square container: The critical densities for squares in a square ($\nicefrac{1}{2}$), circles in a square ($\nicefrac{\pi}{(3+2\sqrt{2})}\approx 0.539)$ and circles in a circle ($\nicefrac{1}{2}$) have already been established, making use of recursive subdivisions of a square container into pieces bounded by straight lines, or the ability to use recursive arguments based on similarity of objects and container; neither of these approaches can be applied when packing squares into a circular container. Our proof uses a careful manual analysis, complemented by a computer-assisted part that is based on interval arithmetic. Beyond the basic mathematical importance, our result is also useful as a blackbox lemma for the analysis of recursive packing algorithms. At the same time, our approach showcases the power of a general framework for computer-assisted proofs, based on interval arithmetic.
description: Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 13 No. 2: Special Issue of Selected Papers from SoCG 2021
Does asymmetric dark matter always lead to an anti-neutrino signal?
Creators: name: Fukuda, Hajime
name: Matsumoto, Shigeki
name: Mukhopadhyay, Satyanarayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under rather generic assumptions, we show that in the asymmetric dark matter (ADM) scenario, the sign of the B-L asymmetry stored in the dark matter sector and the standard model sector are always the same. One particularly striking consequence of this result is that, when the dark matter decays or annihilates in the present universe, the resulting final state always involves an anti-neutrino. As a concrete example of this, we construct a composite ADM model and explore the feasibility of detecting such an anti-neutrino signal in atmospheric neutrino detectors.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Excavations at Azoria, 2003-2004, Part 1: The Archaic Civic Complex
Creators: name: West, W. C.
name: Stephanakis, E.
name: Mook, M. S.
name: Scarry, C. M.
name: Haggis, D. C.
name: Snyder, L. M.
name: Fitzsimons, R. D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This article constitutes the first of two reports on fieldwork conducted at Azoria in eastern Crete during the 2003 and 2004 excavation seasons. The focus of excavation was on the South Acropolis, where buildings of Archaic date (7th-early 5th century b.c.) suggesting public or civic functions have come to light. The complex includes a possible andreion on the west slope, a cult building on the terrace south of the peak, and storerooms and kitchens associated with a monumental public building on the southwest terrace. A 3rd-century b.c. dump on the southeast slope provides important information about the limited reoccupation of the site in the Hellenistic period.
Additional file 1 of Epigenetics as a versatile regulator of fibrosis
Creators: name: Liu, Yangdan
name: Wen, Dongsheng
name: Ho, Chiakang
name: Yu, Li
name: Zheng, Danning
name: O’Reilly, Steven
name: Gao, Ya
name: Li, Qingfeng
name: Zhang, Yifan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. lncRNAs involved in fibrosis of different organs.
Feelings on Faces. From Physiognomics to Neuroscience
Creators: Freedberg, David A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Psychophysiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Of all the ways in which the outward signs of the body express inner feeling, physiognomy and gesture have been the most studied. In this essay, I will deal with physiognomy and its related form, pathognomy. Gesture must wait for another occasion. Both physiognomy and the study of gesture, at least in their traditional and historical forms, have generally been taken as the very type of disciplines that have ignored the pressures of culture and difference, failing to take into account the social construction both of interiority and of its outward manifestations. It is true that physiognomy and pathognomy, like the study of gesture, sought to establish fixed correlations between expression and emotion, when in fact the relationship between particular expressions and specific emotions are very oft en the product of cultural and contextual constraints, pressures, and circumstance. Or so the usual insistence runs. Hence, for example, the continuing high scepticism about projects like Charles Le Brun's and the complete disdain of the physiognomic projects of Lavater. Even Darwin's great work on the subject has only recently begun to return to favor (though only hesitantly amongst academic humanists), despite its clear articulation of the role of cultural constraints on emotional expression) In what follows, I will set out how, contrary to conventional views of the neurosciences as reductionist, the neuroscience of facial expression and its emotional recognition does not in fact impugn this role, but substantially enhances it. My aim is to suggest that the role of culture in the construction of both feeling and expression is considerably more complex than current views of cultural determinism seem to allow.
Additional file 1 of A six-month prospective, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover, dietary trial design to investigate the potential of psychobiotics on seizure semiology and comorbidities in canine epilepsy: study protocol
Creators: name: Schmidt, Teresa
name: Meller, Sebastian
name: Meyerhoff, Nina
name: Twele, Friederike
name: Zanghi, Brian
name: Volk, Holger Andreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Standardised online questionnaire. The questionnaire is evaluating the following aspects: general information (signalment, diet, training, diagnostics and treatment of epilepsy), seizure semiology, behavioural profile and quality of life. The questionnaire is based on previously validated owner-completed behavioural questionnaires: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Rating Scale (ADHD RS) [55], Dog Personality Questionnaire (DPQ) [57], Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Rating Scale (CCDR) [58], Canine Behavioural Assessment & Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ) [59], Evaluation of Quality of Life in Dogs with IE (EpiQoL) [68]. Gained data is used to assess the initial study eligibility, to acquire retrospective data of the baseline period prior study entry and prospective data of the intervention and placebo period during trial participation.
A holographic principle for the existence of imaginary Killing spinors
Creators: name: Hijazi, Oussama
name: Raulot, Simon
name: Montiel, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Suppose that $Σ=\partialΩ$ is the $n$-dimensional boundary, with positive (inward) mean curvature $H$, of a connected compact $(n+1)$-dimensional Riemannian spin manifold $(Ω^{n+1},g)$ whose scalar curvature $R\ge -n(n+1)k^2$, for some $k\textgreater{}0$. If $Σ$ admits an isometric and isospin immersion $F$ into the hyperbolic space ${\mathbb{H}^{n+1}\_{-k^2}}$, we define a quasi-local mass and prove its positivity as well as the associated rigidity statement. The proof is based on a holographic principle for the existence of an imaginary Killing spinor. For $n=2$, we also show that its limit, for coordinate spheres in an Asymptotically Hyperbolic (AH) manifold, is the mass of the (AH) manifold.
description: in Journal of Geometry and Physics, Elsevier, 2015
Additional file 2 of A six-month prospective, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover, dietary trial design to investigate the potential of psychobiotics on seizure semiology and comorbidities in canine epilepsy: study protocol
Creators: name: Schmidt, Teresa
name: Meller, Sebastian
name: Meyerhoff, Nina
name: Twele, Friederike
name: Zanghi, Brian
name: Volk, Holger Andreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2. Owner information sheet. Providing detailed information about the aim and procedure of the intervention study.
Comparison theorems for hyperbolic type metrics
Creators: name: Dovgoshey, Oleksiy
name: Hariri, Parisa
name: Vuorinen, Matti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51M10, 30C65

description: The connection between several hyperbolic type metrics is studied in subdomains of the Euclidean space. In particular, a new metric is introduced and compared to the distance ratio metric.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
The Second Order Pole over Split Quaternions
Creators: name: Libine, Matvei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This is an addition to a series of papers [FL1, FL2, FL3, FL4], where we develop quaternionic analysis from the point of view of representation theory of the conformal Lie group and its Lie algebra. In this paper we develop split quaternionic analogues of certain results from [FL4]. Thus we introduce a space of functions ${\cal D}^h \oplus {\cal D}^a$ with a natural action of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{gl}(2,\mathbb H_{\mathbb C}) \simeq \mathfrak{sl}(4,\mathbb C)$, decompose ${\cal D}^h \oplus {\cal D}^a$ into irreducible components and find the $\mathfrak{gl}(2,\mathbb H_{\mathbb C})$-equivariant projectors onto each of these irreducible components.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the "Proceedings of the 30th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods", to be published as a volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Proceedings
Asymptotic Convergence of Scheduling Policies with Respect to Slowdown
Creators: name: Harchol-Balter, Mor
name: Sigman, Karl
name: Wierman, Adam
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We explore the performance of an M/GI/1 queue under various scheduling policies from the perspective of a new metric: the slowdown experienced by the largest jobs. We consider scheduling policies that bias against large jobs, towards large jobs, and those that are fair, e.g., processor-sharing (PS). We prove that as job size increases to infinity, all work conserving policies converge almost surely with respect to this metric to no more than 1/(1−ρ), where ρ denotes the load. We also find that the expected slowdown under any work conserving policy can be made arbitrarily close to that under PS, for all job sizes that are sufficiently large.
Additional file 3 of A six-month prospective, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover, dietary trial design to investigate the potential of psychobiotics on seizure semiology and comorbidities in canine epilepsy: study protocol
Creators: name: Schmidt, Teresa
name: Meller, Sebastian
name: Meyerhoff, Nina
name: Twele, Friederike
name: Zanghi, Brian
name: Volk, Holger Andreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3. Standardised seizure diary. Owner recordings of seizure frequency, severity, subtype, seizure triggers, antiseizure drug administration, probiotic administration, rescue therapy, adverse events and additional medication.
Monthly Vegetation Condition Anomalies using Digital Earth Africa Data Cube
Creators: name: Digital Earth Africa
Publisher: name: GEO Knowledge Hub
Year: 2022
Subjects: Anomalies
NDVI
Vegetation
Climatology

description: What is it about
Understanding how the vegetated landscape responds to longer-term environmental drivers such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) or climate change, requires the calculation of standardized anomalies. Standardized anomalies subtract the long-term mean from an observation of interest and then divide the result by the long-term standard deviation, thus removing seasonal variability and highlighting change related to longer-term drivers. 
This notebook allows for easy replication of analysis across Africa, by simply changing the analysis parameters. The user guide provides an overview of the analysis, resources used/supplied, and directions on how to reproduce the analysis.
This knowledge package includes the necessary data, computational resources, and instructions required to reproduce the methodology used in Digital Earth Africa's 'Monthly Vegetation Condition Anomalies' Jupyter Notebook. 
The User's Guide provides an overview of the application.
Generating quadrature squeezed light with dissipative optomechanical coupling
Creators: name: Qu, Kenan
name: Agarwal, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent demonstration of cooling of a macroscopic silicon nitride membrane based on dissipative coupling makes dissipatively coupled optomechanical systems as promising candidates for squeezing. We theoretically show that such a system in a cavity on resonance can yield good squeezing which is comparable to that produced by dispersive coupling. We also report the squeezing resulting from the combined effects of dispersive and dissipative couplings and thus the device can be operated in one regime or the other. We derive the maximal frequency and quadrature angles to observe squeezing for given optomechanical coupling strengths. We also discuss the effects of temperature on squeezing.
Aura: An Architectural Framework for User Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Creators: name: Joao Pedro Sousa
name: Garlan, David
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ubiquitous computing poses a number of challenges for software architecture.
One of the most important is the ability to design software systems that accommodate
dynamically-changing resources. Resource variability arises naturally
in a ubiquitous computing setting through user mobility (a user moves
from one computing environment to another), and through the need to exploit
time-varying resources in a given environment (such as wireless bandwidth).
Traditional approaches to handling resource variability in applications attempt
to address the problem by imposing uniformity on the environment. We argue
that those approaches are inadequate, and describe an alternative architectural
framework that is better matched to the needs of ubiquitous computing. A key
feature of the architecture is that user tasks become first class entities. User
proxies, or Auras, use models of user tasks to set up, monitor and adapt computing
environments proactively. The architectural framework has been implemented
and is currently being used as a central component of Project Aura,
a campus-wide ubiquitous computing effort.
Supplementary of Association of gestational diabetes with the dynamic changes of gut microbiota in offspring from 1 to 6 months of age
Creators: name: Song, Qiying
name: Zhou, Tao
name: Chen, Shaoyun
name: Liao, Ying
name: Huang, Hongli
name: Xiao, Bin
name: Zhang, Jian V.
name: Ma, Liya
name: Zhu, Yuanfang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Maternal and infant characteristics comparison between the GDM and non-GDM groups
Myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery and per operative fibrin metabolism in patients undergoing hip-fracture surgery: an observational study
Creators: name: Wahlstrøm, Kirsten L.
name: Ekeloef, Sarah
name: Gögenur, Ismail
name: Münster, Anna-Marie B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) is associated with a 2-3-fold increased risk of subsequent major cardiovascular events and postoperative mortality. The pathological mechanism behind MINS is not fully uncovered. We hypothesized that patients with MINS following hip fracture surgery would have an altered haemostatic balance pre- and postoperative compared with patients without MINS. This was investigated in a prospective single-centre observational study including patients consecutively. The outcomes were changes in thrombin generation, fibrinogen/fibrin turnover, tissue plasminogen activator, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and fibrin structure measurements in patients developing MINS and patients who did not. Outcomes were measured preoperatively and two hours postoperatively. Seventy-two patients were included whereof 26 (36%) patients developed MINS. D-dimer delta values were significantly higher in patients developing MINS than in patients who did not (p = 0.01). After adjusting for age, sex, smoking, alcohol abuse, atrial fibrillation, anticoagulant medication preoperative CRP, preoperative creatinine and duration of surgery, the association remained significant (p = 0.04). There were no significant changes in thrombin generation, in markers of fibrinogen/fibrin turnover besides D-dimer, or in fibrin structure measurements pre- and postoperatively between patients with and without MINS. As such, a relationship between the coagulative and fibrinolytic activity and MINS cannot be ruled out in patients with MINS after hip fracture surgery. Registration: The study was an observational sub-study to a multicentre randomised clinical trial registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02344797)
Determination of the interfacial heat transfer coefficient in hot stamping of aluminium alloys
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaochuan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The characteristic properties of aluminium alloys, e.g. their high strength-weight ratio, high thermal conductance, excellent corrosion resistance and good recyclability, render them ideal materials to reduce air pollution and improve the fuel economy of vehicles. However, their low formability at room temperature limits their application in industry. In recent years, hot stamping was developed as a promising technology to form sheet metal components from aluminium alloys at elevated temperatures to increase their formability. The interfacial heat transfer coefficient (IHTC), an essential thermophysical parameter in hot stamping processes, should therefore be identified not only to retain the full mechanical strength of the formed components by achieving the critical quenching rates for different aluminium alloys, but also to optimise the production rate by controlling the quenching process. The present research aims to determine the IHTC values for 7075 and 6082 aluminium alloys under different experimental conditions. A dedicated IHTC test facility, IHTC-mate, was developed to precisely measure the temperature evolutions of the specimens and thus accurately determine their IHTC values with high stability and repeatability. Subsequently, the effects of the contact pressure, tool material, coating material, specimen thickness, lubricant and initial blank temperature on the IHTC were identified. It was found that the IHTC increased logarithmically with increasing contact pressure. In addition, the applications of tools, coatings and lubricants with higher thermal conductivities, as well as specimens with larger thickness and higher initial blank temperature could raise the IHTC values. Furthermore, a mechanism-based IHTC model was developed to predict the IHTC evolutions as a function of those influential factors, and enable the interaction between the IHTC evolutions and lubricant layer thickness diminution with sliding distance at different contact pressures and sliding speeds. Hemispherical dome and B-pillar forming tests were conducted to form 7075 and 6082 aluminium alloys. The good agreements between the experimental and simulated temperature evolutions of the components being formed validated the determined IHTC results and developed IHTC model. Consequently, the temperature evolutions and cooling rates of the components being formed in hot stamping processes could be predicted. Furthermore, the processing window and tool design could be optimised to achieve the critical cooling rates and thus retain the full mechanical strength of the formed components.
Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities
Creators: name: MohammadTaghi  Hajiaghayi
name: Kleinberg, Robert
name: Sandholm, Tuomas W
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal online mechanisms. This work generally assumes that the size of the market (number of bidders) is known a priori, but that the mechanism designer has no knowledge of the distribution of bid values. However, in many real-world applications (such as online ticket sales), the opposite is true: the seller has distributional knowledge of the bid values (e.g., via the history of past transactions in the market), but there is uncertainty about market size. Adopting the perspective of automated mechanism design, introduced by Conitzer and Sandholm, we develop algorithms that compute an optimal, or approximately optimal, online auction mechanism given access to this distributional knowledge. Our main results are
twofold. First, we show that when the seller does not know the market size, no constant-approximation to the optimum efﬁciency or revenue is achievable in the worst case, even under the very strong assumption that bid values are i.i.d. samples from a distribution known to the seller. Second, we show that when the seller has distributional knowledge of the market size as well as the bid values, one can do well in several senses. Perhaps most interestingly, by combining dynamic programming with prophet inequalities (a technique
from optimal stopping theory) we are able to design and analyze online mechanisms which are temporally strategyproof (even with respect to arrival and departure times) and approximately efﬁciency(revenue)-maximizing. In exploring the interplay between automated mechanism design and prophet inequalities, we prove new prophet inequalities motivated by the auction setting.
Διαδικτυακή διαφήμιση στα social media (Instagram, Tik Tok) και πρόθεση αγοράς
Creators: name: Enxhi Cenaj  Gezim  (Έντζι Τσενάϊ )
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Διαδικτυακή διαφήμιση
Μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης
Πρόθεση αγοράς
Online advertising
social media
Purchase intention

description: Στη παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχοντας λάβει υπόψιν την υπάρχουσα βιβλιογραφία, πραγματοποιήθηκε μελέτη στη προσπάθεια να γίνει κατανοητή η επίδραση της διαδικτυακής διαφήμισης που πραγματοποιείται στα Social Media (χρησιμοποιήθηκαν οι περιπτώσεις του Instagram και του Tik Tok) στη πρόθεση αγοράς. Αναλυτικότερα, έχοντας κατανοήσει το σημαντικό ρόλο της διαφήμισης στο διαδικτυακό κόσμο, επιλέχθηκε να ερευνηθεί η επιρροή που ασκεί στην πρόθεση αγοράς του καταναλωτή μέσα από τις διάφορες μορφές που μπορεί να λάβει (διαφημιστικές αναρτήσεις, influencing, e-WOM). Επιπλέον, προβλήθηκαν δυο διαφημίσεις, οι οποίες προώθησαν το ίδιο προϊόν, προκειμένου να συγκριθεί ο βαθμός επιρροής ανάμεσα σε προϊόντα που διαφημίζονται απευθείας από την εταιρεία και προϊόντα που διαφημίζονται από παράγοντες επιρροής στα Social Media. Τα ευρήματα που προέκυψαν ήταν μεγάλης στατικής σημαντικότητας λόγω της μορφολογίας και της ικανοποιητικής ποσότητας του δείγματος, ανοίγοντας το δρόμο για περεταίρω έρευνα
description: In this thesis, taking into account the existing literature, a study was carried out in an attempt to understand the effect of online advertising carried out on social media (the cases of Instagram and Tik Tok were used) on purchase intention. More in detail, having understood the important role of advertising in the online world, it was chosen to research the influence it exerts on the consumer's purchase intention through the various forms it can take (sponsored, influencing, e-WOM). In addition, two ads promoting the same product were shown in order to compare the degree of influence between products advertised directly by the company and products advertised by social media influencers. The resulting findings were of great statistical significance due to the morphology and quantity of the sample, paving the way for further research
title: Rose of Sharon :
title: Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: New Varieties of Plants
Rose of Sharon

description: The purpose of these guidelines (“Test Guidelines”) is to elaborate the principles contained in the General Introduction (document TG/1/3), and its associated TGP documents, into detailed practical guidance for the harmonized examination of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) and, in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.
How to Write a Review Article?
Creators: name: Dr. Surendra Bahadur Mathur
name: Dr. Devendra Mishra
Publisher: name: IJDBP
Year: 2023

description: The generation of evidence is an ongoing process  
in  the  field  of  medicine.  Basic  and  clinical  
research have been the pillars of modern medicine  
and  continue  to  be  the  strength  of  a  modern  
medical  practitioner.  With  increasing  number  
of  biomedical  journals  and  therefore  research  
articles being published, staying updated with the  
current evidence is a necessity for the clinician.
One  of  the  five  goals  of  an  Indian  medical  
graduate  as  prescribed  by  the  National  Medical  
Commission  is  to  function  as  a  lifelong  learner  
committed to continuous improvement of skill and  
knowledge [1]. It would be ideal that any topic of  
concern  is  thoroughly  searched,  read,  reviewed  
and analyzed by going through all the literature.  
However, this is easier said than done. This task  
is nothing less than swimming in the middle of an  
ocean with no land in sight.The variability in the  
quality  and  content  of  the  enormous  amount  of  
information available confuses the clinician who  
ends up having more unanswered questions than  
before. It is for such situations that a state of the  
art, reliable, well written review article acts like  
a lifeboat.  
A review article is a comprehensive synthesis of  
published  and  unpublished  material  on  a  topic.  
It is a well planned and well-organized analysis  
of all the literature relevant to a topic of interest  
providing  a  useful  summary  and  answers  to  
the  reader's  doubts  and  questions.  It  facilitates  
the  medical  practitioner  to  take  evidence  based  
clinical judgements and decisions. It is a practical  
solution to the problems of excessive information,  
divergent  views  and  lack  of  consensus  on  a  
topic.  Review  articles  aid  decision  making  in  
clinical   practice   by   summarizing   enormous  
information  available,  in  a  coherent  and  easily  
understandable  form,  thereby  acting  as  guides  
for  practicing  evidence-based  medicine.  They  
facilitate  in  understanding  of  recent  advances,  
complex topics and sub topics, which are not a  
part  of  the  conventional  textbooks.  They  help  
in  the  identification  of  relations,  contradictions,  
controversies and lacunae in the existing literature,  
and provide a direction for future research.
Increase in cysteine-mediated multimerization under attractive protein–protein interactions
Creators: name: Jakob, Leo A.
name: Mesurado, Tomás
name: Jungbauer, Alois
name: Lingg, Nico
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: The CASPON enzyme became an interesting enzyme for fusion protein processing because it generates an authentic N-terminus. However, the high cysteine content of the CASPON enzyme may induce aggregation via disulfide-bond formation, which can reduce enzymatic activity and be considered a critical quality attribute. Different multimerization states of the CASPON enzyme were isolated by preparative size exclusion chromatography and analyzed with respect to multimerization propensity and enzymatic activity. The impact of co-solutes on multimerization was studied in solution and in adsorbed state. Furthermore, protein–protein interactions in the presence of different co-solutes were measured by self-interaction chromatography and were then correlated to the multimerization propensity. The dimer was the most stable and active species with 50% higher enzymatic activity than the tetramer. Multimerization was mainly governed by a cysteine-mediated pathway, as indicated by DTT-induced reduction of most caspase multimers. In the presence of ammonium sulfate, attractive protein–protein interactions were consistent with those observed for higher multimerization when the cysteine-mediated pathway was followed. Multimerization was also observed under attractive conditions on a chromatographic stationary phase. These findings corroborate common rules to perform protein purification with low residence time to avoid disulfide bond formation and conformational change of the protein upon adsorption.