cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Treatment of Saline Organic Wastewater by a Submerged Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (SAMBR)
Creators: name: Vyrides, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2009

description: The aim of this thesis was to assess the potential of a Submerged Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (SAMBR) for the treatment of saline organic wastewater.. Firstly, it was found that anaerobic biomass can be acclimatised to salinities up to 20 g NaCl/L over a period of about 35 days during three batch feedings. Experiments were also carried out to evaluate the performance of anaerobic biomass during a sudden reduction and re-exposure to salinity; anaerobic biomass showed high performance during fluctuations in salinity. Then, SAMBRs were used for saline sewage treatment and it was found that 99% Dissolve Organic Carbon (DOC) removal could be obtained at 8 hours hydraulic retention time (HRT). Different start-up strategies and inoculation of halotolerant species into a SAMBR were investigated. In addition, the reduction of biogas sparging time caused an increase in TMP by 0.025 bar, but also an increase in effluent DOC removal and inside the SAMBR by 10% and 20%, respectively. Powdered Activated Carbon (PAC) addition resulted in a TMP decrease of 0.070 bar, and a 30% and 5% increase in DOC removal inside the SAMBR and effluent, respectively.The mechanisms of anaerobic biomass under high salinity were studied by investigating the role of compatible solutes, extracellular polysaccharides (EPS), and Archaeal microbial evolution. Glycine betaine was found to have the most positive effect on anaerobic biomass when added to medium with high salinity. This was found not only in batch experiments, but also in continuous ones using a SAMBR. The effluent composition from the SAMBR treating saline wastewater was analysed, and post treatment strategies using mainly PAC were analysed. The treatment of this effluent with 1.7 g PAC/L can lead to greater than 80% DOC removal. The treatment of wastewater with high salinity and Cr (III) in a system consisting of a SAMBR, an aerobic Memebrane Bioreactor (MBR) and a PAC column was examined. The system obtained 95% and 70% removal of Cr (III) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), respectively. Using molecular techniques inside the SAMBR, species were identified that were capable of surviving in high salinity and Cr (III). In a short-period experiment, relaxation, liquid backwash and gas backwash techniques were compared and showed the superiority of gas backwashing to reduce fouling of the membrane. The specific resistances of a membrane operated for 100 days in the SAMBR showed that more than 90% of the total resistance was attributed to the biofilm cake layer, about 5-7% to the compounds attached on the membrane surface and about 3% to the membrane resistance and to the compounds in the inner pores of the membrane.
The mixed quantum Rabi model
Creators: name: Duan, Liwei
name: Xie, You-Fei
name: Chen, Qing-Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analytical exact solutions to the mixed quantum Rabi model (QRM) including both one- and two-photon terms are found by using Bogoliubov operators. Transcendental functions in terms of $4 \times 4$ determinants responsible for the exact solutions are derived. These so-called $G$-functions with pole structures can be reduced to the previous ones in the unmixed QRMs. The zeros of $G$-functions reproduce completely the regular spectra. The exceptional eigenvalues can also be obtained by another transcendental function. From the pole structure, we can derive two energy limits when the two-photon coupling strength tends to the collapse point. All energy levels only collapse to the lower one, which diverges negatively. The level crossings in the unmixed QRMs are relaxed to avoided crossings in the present mixed QRM due to absence of parity symmetry. In the weak two-photon coupling regime, the mixed QRM is equivalent to an one-photon QRM with an effective positive bias, suppressed photon frequency and enhanced one-photon coupling, which may pave a highly efficient and economic way to access the deep-strong one-photon coupling regime.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Suppl. Table 1: The risk of specific cancers with height and with BMI; Suppl. Table 2: Geographical comparisons of the influence of height on the risk of specific cancers.; Suppl. Figure 1: The lack of correlation between the effect of height and of obesity on the risk of specific cancers. from Size matters: height, cell number and a person's risk of cancer
Creators: name: Nunney, Leonard
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Hazard ratio (HR) defining the increase in cancer risk per 10cm incease in height (and 95% confidence interval), plus, for males and females, the relative cancer risk (RR) per 5kg/m2 increase in BMI. Bolded values are significantly different from 1.0 (p<0.05). Height HR data are from the references indicated. BMI RR data from Renehan et al (2008)1, noting that specific RR values are: (a) post-menopausal only, (b) averaged across the sexes, and (c) adenocarcinoma only.; Pairwise comparison of hazard ratios between the geographical populations used in each of the four studies [22–25] across cancer types. Significant comparisons (at 5%) are bolded, based on a z-test with a critical value for p<0.05 of ±3.46 (women) (94 tests) & ±3.24 (men) (42 tests),using a Bonferroni correction. References: UK [22]; USA [23]; Norway, Sweden & Austria [24], and Korea [25].; The lack of correlation between the effect of height and of obesity on the risk of specific cancers in women (circles; r=−0.024, df=16, ns) and men (triangles; r=0.328, df=14, ns). The height effect is measured by HR10 and the obesity effect by the change in relative risk per 5 units of BMI. Data are from Suppl. Table 1 and the points are enclosed by the 95% confidence ellipses. Specific cancers represented are: 1=lung (smoker); 2=lung (never smoker); 3=stomach; 4=pancreas; 5=leukemia; 6=multiple myeloma; 7=rectum; 8=non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; 9=liver; 10=colon; 11=melanoma; 12=urinary tract/kidney; 13=thyroid; 14=biliary tract; 15=oesophagus; in females only, 16f=endometrium; 17f=ovary; 18f=breast; and in men only, 19m=prostate.
Alternative evaluations of halos in nuclei
Creators: name: Karataglidis, S.
name: Dortmans, P. J.
name: Amos, K.
name: Bennhold, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data for the scattering of 6He, 8He, 9Li, and 11Li from hydrogen are analyzed within a fully microscopic folding model of proton-nucleus scattering. Current data suggest that of these only 11Li has a noticeable halo. For 6He, we have also analysed the complementary reaction 6Li(gamma,pi)6He(gs). The available data for that reaction support the hypothesis that 6He may not be a halo nucleus. However, those data are scarce and there is clearly a need for more to elicit the microscopic structure of 6He.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures (added 4 figures), added reference. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Historic Properties Mitigation Plan for Phase I Development Proposed by the Williams Gateway Airport Authority
Creators: name: J. Simon Bruder
name: Keane, Melissa
Publisher: name: Dames & Moore
Year: 1996
Subjects: Gilbert
Arizona
Gila River Indian Community
Sossaman Road
Maricopa County
Queen Creek
Williams Airforce Base
Mesa
Hohokam
Historic
Euroamerican
AZ U:10:24 (ASU)
Southwest Germann Site
Midvale site
AZ U:10:20 (ASU)
Hamlet / Village
Town / City
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Military Structure
Non-Domestic Structures
Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Road
Settlements
Historic Background Research
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan

description: The Williams Gateway Airport Authority (WGAA) is planning Phase 1 development of its portion of the former Williams Air Force Base in Maricopa County, Arizona. This report describes the proposed development, the consideration of alternatives to the proposed development, and the six historic World War II hangars and the two archaeological sites in the area of potential effect. The report then outlines proposed mitigation of the anticipated adverse effect. Finally, this report describes the implementation of the mitigation plan, including the study team and a proposed schedule. Two appendices present additional information and documentation supporting the proposed development.
Oral history interview with Ervin Farkas, 1987
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Lawyers
Jews--Persecutions
Jews, Hungarian

description: Laws concerning foreigners in Hungary during World War II; legal work representing persecuted Jews; account of deportation and killing of Hungarian Jews; personal experiences in labor camp; work with Jewish Office of Hungarian Welfare Bureau; attempts to prevent deportation of Hungarian Jews; account of arrest and torture of his father; family background and history
The ecology, conservation and management of Nile crocodiles Crocodylus niloticus in a human dominated landscape
Creators: name: Aust, Patrick Welby
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2009

description: Nile crocodiles were extensively persecuted throughout much of the 20th century. The extinction of the species was only averted by the timely intervention of conservationists and by the beginning of the 21st century most populations had recovered. Many of the conservation measures designed to curb the original extinction threats remain unchanged and are now perceived by some to be outdated. The recovery of Nile crocodile populations has been accompanied by rapid human population growth and demands for freshwater resources. This phenomenon has resulted in a converging conflict crisis between Nile crocodiles and humans. The aim of this thesis is to (a) quantify the extent of human crocodile conflict (HCC) and (b) establish the implications for conservation and development. (a)The extent of HCC was assessed by (i) analysing losses incurred by local communities (ii) analysing the demographics of crocodiles in relation to human activities (iii) analysing the relationship between humans and crocodile prey species. Nile crocodiles pose a substantial threat to subsistence livelihoods whilst rural communities have significant negative impacts on crocodiles (i) Estimates suggest an annual loss of between ~255 and ~6864 cattle per year and damage to an estimated 71500 fishing nets per year in North Eastern Namibia. (ii) All crocodile size classes showed a negative relationship with people at the inter- and intra-river levels. (iii) Crocodile prey species showed a significant negative spatial relationship with cattle. (b) Conservation and management implications were assessed by estimating the spatial patterns of HCC explanatory variables on a continental scale. Protected areas are important for crocodile conservation. The use of crocodile habitat as boundaries for protected areas raises important questions relating to HCC.
Astronomical observation tasks short-term scheduling using PDDS algorithm
Creators: name: Kornilov, Matwey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A concept of the ground-based optical astronomical observations efficiency is considered in this paper. We believe that a telescope efficiency can be increased by properly allocating observation tasks with respect to the current environment state and probability to obtain the data with required properties under the current conditions. An online observations scheduling is assumed to be essential part for raising the efficiency. The short-term online scheduling is treated as the discrete optimisation problems which are stated using several abstraction levels. The optimisation problems are solved using a parallel depth-bounded discrepancy search (PDDS) algorithm [13]. Some aspects of the algorithm performance are discussed. The presented algorithm is a core of open-source chelyabinsk C++ library which is supposed to be used at 2.5 m telescope of Sternberg Astronomical Institude of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Silver King to Hayden Transmission Line Study, Socio-Cultural Baseline Report
Creators: name: R.C. Fuller Associates
Publisher: name: R.C. Fuller Associates
Year: 1976
Subjects: Gila County
Pinal County
Arizona
Kearny
Superior
San Manuel
Mammoth
Winkelman
Oracle
Hayden
Hamlet / Village
Town / City
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Settlements
Ethnographic Research
Ethnohistoric Research
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

description: This socio-cultural report is focused on the people who live and work in the area likely to be affected by the proposed transmission line. This area is generally those sections of eastern Pinal and western Gila counties which are primarily involved with the copper mining industry. Figure 1, the Socio-cultural study area map, shows this area. The area shown in Figure 1 includes populated areas not included in the specifically designated project study area as shown in Figure 2. This difference illustrates the fact that the socio-cultural effects of the transmission line will be felt primarily in populated areas serving the mining industry rather than primarily where the transmission line is physically located.
Self-Duality beyond Chiral p-Form Actions
Creators: name: Miao, Yan-Gang
name: Manvelyan, R.
name: Mueller-Kirsten, H. J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The self-duality of chiral p-forms was originally investigated by Pasti, Sorokin and Tonin in a manifestly Lorentz covariant action with non-polynomial auxiliary fields. The investigation was then extended to other chiral p-form actions. In this paper we point out that the self-duality appears in a wider context of theoretical models that relate to chiral p-forms. We demonstrate this by considering the interacting model of Floreanini-Jackiw chiral bosons and gauge fields, the generalized chiral Schwinger model (GCSM) and the latter's gauge invariant formulation, and discover that the self-duality of the GCSM corresponds to the vector and axial vector current duality.
description: Latex, 13 pages, no figures, minor typos corrected
Final Report on Archaeological Testing at Crimson Pueblo, AZ U:9:173 (ASM), and The Denmark School Site Along the Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202) Between Gilbert and Thomas Roads in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona
Creators: name: Banks L. Leonard
name: Hill, Rebecca J.
name: Breternitz, Cory Dale
Publisher: name: Soil Systems, Inc.
Year: 2001
Subjects: Gilbert Road
Thomas Road
McDowell Road
Arizona
Maricopa County
Red Mountain Freeway
Mesa
Hohokam
Historic
Crimson Pueblo
AZ U:9:173 (ASM)
Denmark School
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
Domestic Structures
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Agricultural or Herding
Canal or Canal Feature
Burial Pit
Archaeological Feature
Pit
Refuse Pit
Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
Pit House / Earth Lodge
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Shell
Ceramic
Chipped Stone
Glass
Ground Stone
Building Materials
Human Remains
Metal
Archaeological Overview
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
Site Evaluation / Testing

description: Archaeological testing was conducted on a portion of Crismon Pueblo (AZ U:9:173 [ASM]), the Denmark School site, and a segment of additional property between Gilbert Road and Thomas Road in the right-of-way of the Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202) in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. The project area was originally covered with in-use citrus orchards. Therefore, prior to the initiation of fieldwork, tree removal was conducted within and adjacent to the right-of-way, which required monitoring. Testing consisted of the excavation, inspection, and documentation of 362 backhoe trenches to obtain information on the subsurface distribution of cultural deposits in the right of way and to develop eligibility recommendations for Crismon Pueblo (AZ U:9:173 [ASM]) and the Denmark School site for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Artifacts were collected from the modern ground surface and from the trench excavations as part of the fieldwork.
Aspects of M-theory and quantum information
Creators: name: Borsten, Leron
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: As the frontiers of physics steadily progress into the 21st century we should bear in mind that the conceptual edifice of 20th-century physics has at its foundations two mutually incompatible theories; quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general theory of relativity. While general relativity refuses to succumb to quantum rule, black holes are raising quandaries that strike at the very heart of quantum theory. M-theory is a compelling candidate theory of quantum gravity. Living in eleven dimensions it encompasses and connects the five possible 10-dimensional superstring theories. However, Mtheory is fundamentally non-perturbative and consequently remains largely mysterious, offering up only disparate corners of its full structure. The physics of black holes has occupied centre stage in uncovering its non-perturbative structure. The dawn of the 21st-century has also played witness to the birth of the information age and with it the world of quantum information science. At its heart lies the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. Entanglement has applications in the emerging technologies of quantum computing and quantum cryptography, and has been used to realize quantum teleportation experimentally. The longest standing open problem in quantum information is the proper characterisation of multipartite entanglement. It is of utmost importance from both a foundational and a technological perspective. In 2006 the entropy formula for a particular 8-charge black hole appearing in M-theory was found to be given by the ’hyperdeterminant’, a quantity introduced by the mathematician Cayley in 1845. Remarkably, the hyperdeterminant also measures the degree of tripartite entanglement shared by three qubits, the basic units of quantum information. It turned out that the different possible types of three-qubit entanglement corresponded directly to the different possible subclasses of this particular black hole. This initial observation provided a link relating various black holes and quantum information systems. Since then, we have been examining this two-way dictionary between black holes and qubits and have used our knowledge of M-theory to discover new things about multipartite entanglement and quantum information theory and, vice-versa, to garner new insights into black holes and M-theory. There is now a growing dictionary, which translates a variety of phenomena in one language to those in the other. Developing these fascinating relationships, exploiting them to better understand both M-theory and quantum entanglement is the goal of this thesis. In particular, we adopt the elegant mathematics of octonions, Jordan algebras and the Freudenthal triple system as our guiding framework. In the course of this investigation we will see how these fascinating algebraic structures can be used to quantify entanglement and define new black hole dualities.
Proposed Mead to Phoenix 500kV DC Transmission Line Project: Appendix A: Summary, Study Sample Units 1-22
Creators: name: Keller, Donald R.
name: Weaver, Donald E.
Publisher: name: Museum of Northern Arizona
Year: 1983
Subjects: Hackberry, AZ
Anvil Rock Ranch, AZ
Bagdad, AZ
Anvil Rock, AZ
Groom Spring, AZ
Arrastra Mountains, AZ
Senator Mountain, AZ
Garnet Mountain, AZ
Red Lake, AZ
White Hills, AZ
Bottleneck Wash, AZ
Tin Mountain, AZ
Mt. Perkins, AZ
Fort Rock Ranch, AZ
Black Canyon, AZ
Mt. Perkins, NV
Boulder City, NV
Willow Beach, AZ
Black Canyon, NV
Ringbolt Rapids, AZ
Willow Beach, NV
Nelson, NV
Ringbolt Rapids, NV
Fire Mountain, AZ
Searchlight, NV
Fire Mountain, NV
Wickenburg SW, AZ
Searchlight, CA
Calderwood Butte, AZ
White Tank Mts, AZ
Historic
1940-PRESENT
1950S-1960S
NA17, 317
NA17, 309
NA17, 314
NA17, 311
NA17, 313
NA17, 310
NA17, 316
NA17, 315
NA17, 312
Commercial or Industrial Structures
Isolated Artifact
Factory / Workshop
Habitation Site
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Settlements
Encampment
Temporary Campsite
Domestic Structures
Rock Ring
Sleeping Circle
Quarry
Room Block / Compound / Pueblo
Rock Shelter
Sleeping patch
Homestead
Trail
Ceramic
Chipped Stone
Chert
Quartz
Granitic Rock
Chert Chopper
Chert Scraper
Isolated granite mano
Chert Flake
Chert hammerstone
Archaeological Overview
Site Evaluation / Testing

description: Summary of study units 1-22 of sites selected throughout Arizona and Nevada. Includes a table listing the presence of vegetation and cultural remains, accompanied by a base map for each of the study units.
Cohomology of generalized configuration spaces
Creators: name: Petersen, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $X$ be a topological space. We consider certain generalized configuration spaces of points on $X$, obtained from the cartesian product $X^n$ by removing some intersections of diagonals. We give a systematic framework for studying the cohomology of such spaces using what we call "tcdga models" for the cochains on $X$. We prove the following theorem: suppose that $X$ is a "nice" topological space, $R$ is any commutative ring, $H^\bullet_c(X,R)\to H^\bullet(X,R)$ is the zero map, and that $H^\bullet_c(X,R)$ is a projective $R$-module. Then the compact support cohomology of any generalized configuration space of points on $X$ depends only on the graded $R$-module $H^\bullet_c(X,R)$. This generalizes a theorem of Arabia.
description: 47 pages. V2: significant revision, inaccuracies corrected. Final version
AAPL, Chapter 10, Macrofloral Remains
Creators: name: Cummings, Linda Scott
Publisher: name: PaleoResearch Laboratories
Year: 2017
Subjects: Arizona
New Mexico
California
Santa Barbara
Texas
McCamey
AAP 134-004
AAP 125-001
AAP 158-004
AAP 159-004
AAP 220-002
AAP 196-007
AAP 163-001
AAP 013-001
AAP 159-012
AAP 009-001
AAP 198-001
AAP 026-001
AAP 171-001
AAP 014-007
AAP 099-001
AAP 074-002
AAP 027-001
AAP 103-008
Pollen
Wood
Basketry
Human Remains
Macrobotanical
Macrofloral Remains
Environment Research

description: The data discussed here apply only to charred remains recovered in this macrofloral study. It is assumed that all uncharred material represents modern contaminants, and therefore it is not discussed. Table 10.2 lists all charred macrobotanical remains recovered in samples from the archeological sites, except for Site 74-002. At the end of this chapter is a complete listing of macrobotanical remains recovered charred and uncharred.
Non-Abelian Field Theory of stable non-BPS Branes
Creators: name: Lambert, Neil D.
name: Sachs, Ivo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the action for the non-abelian field theory living on parallel non-BPS D3-branes in type IIA theory on the orbifold T^4/I_4(-1)^F_L. The classical moduli space for the massless scalars originating in the ``would be'' tachyonic sector shows an interesting structure. In particular, it contains non-abelian flat directions. At a generic point in this branch of the moduli space the scalars corresponding to the the separations of the branes acquire masses and the branes condense. Although these tree level flat directions are removed by quantum corrections we argue that within the loop approximation the branes still condense.
description: 1 reference added
Archaeological Survey of the Butterfield Stage Overland Route, Gila Bend to Mobile, Maricopa County, Arizona
Creators: name: Hackbarth, Mark R.
Publisher: name: northland research, inc.
Year: 1995
Subjects: Gila Bend, AZ
Mobile, AZ
Maricopa (County)
Arizona (State / Territory)
Modern
Prehistoric
Historic
AZ T:15:29 (ASM)
AZ T:15:31 (ASM)
AZ T:15:30 (ASM)
AZ T:14:99 (ASM)
AZ T:14:98 (ASM)
AZ T:15:32 (ASM)
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Archaeological Feature
Cairn
Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features
Campfire Ring
Isolated Artifact
Rock Alignment
Rock Art
Petroglyph
Trail
Shell
Plainware
Wood
Ceramic
Red-on-Buffware
Chipped Stone
Glass
Metal
Redware
Butterfield Stage Overland Route
Archaeological Overview
Reconnaissance / Survey
Site Evaluation / Testing

description: A pedestrian Class III archaeological survey of a 50 m corridor along 23 mi. (37 km) of an alignment known as the Butterfield Stage Overland Route. The survey recorded six archaeological sites and 83 isolated occurrences of prehistoric artifacts. Materials relating to the use of the route as a historic travel corridor dominated the travel corridor site. Artifacts associated with prehistoric land uses were also identified.
Additional file 1 of First-line treatment with TKI plus brain radiotherapy versus TKI alone in EGFR-mutated non-small cell Lung cancer with brain metastases: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Song, Yaowen
name: Lin, Shuiyu
name: Chen, Jun
name: Dang, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S1 PRISMA Checklist. Table S2 Search strategy. Table S3 Quality assessment of retrospective studies using the Newcastle-Ottawa scale. Table S4 GRADE assessment. Fig S1 Funnel plots of publication bias. OS, overall survival; iPFS, intracranial progression-free survival. Fig S2 Sensitivity analysis. OS, overall survival; iPFS, intracranial progression-free survival.
Papillacarus indistinctus Ermilov, Anichkin & Wu 2012
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Papillacarus
Papillacarus indistinctus

description: Papillacarus indistinctus Ermilov, Anichkin & Wu, 2012: 79
— Holotype (ZIRAS), Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve, Dong Nai Province,Southern Vietnam (11º27'N, 107º22'E).
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
Towards a Non-Perturbative Renormalization of Euclidean Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Burda, Z.
name: Kownacki, J. -P.
name: Krzywicki, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A real space renormalization group technique, based on the hierarchical baby-universe structure of a typical dynamically triangulated manifold, is used to study scaling properties of 2d and 4d lattice quantum gravity. In 4d, the $β$-function is defined and calculated numerically. An evidence for the existence of an ultraviolet stable fixed point of the theory is presented
description: 12 pages Latex + 1 PS fig
A Study on Rural Development through Employment Generation Programs in Madurai District – A Case Study
Creators: name: M Regina Mary
name: M. Manjula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 140205 Environment and Resource Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Rural Employment is inextricably bound with the challenge of meeting the first millennium development goal of reducing by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) launched in 2005 has yielded the best results and is now the largest employment generation scheme in the world.
Governments, decentralisation, and the risk of electoral defeat
Creators: name: Collignon, Sofia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: In the last three decades several countries around the world have transferred authority from their national to their regional governments. However, not all their regions have been empowered to the same degree and important differences can be observed between and within countries. Why do some regions obtain more power than others? Current literature argues that variation in the redistribution of power and resources between regions is introduced by demand. Yet these explanations are conditional on the presence of strong regionalist parties or territorial cleavages. This article proposes instead a theory that links the government’s risk of future electoral defeat with heterogeneous decentralisation, and tests its effects using data from 15 European countries and 141 regions. The results provide evidence that parties in government protect themselves against the risk of electoral defeat by selectively targeting decentralisation towards regions in which they are politically strong. The findings challenge previous research that overestimates the importance of regionalist parties while overlooking differences between regions.
Robust low power CMOS methodologies for ISFETs instrumentation
Creators: name: Chan, Wai Pan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: I have developed a robust design methodology in a 0.18 [Mu]m commercial CMOS process to circumvent the performance issues of the integrated Ions Sensitive Field Effect Transistor (ISFET) for pH detection. In circuit design, I have developed frequency domain signal processing, which transforms pH information into a frequency modulated signal. The frequency modulated signal is subsequently digitized and encoded into a bit-stream of data. The architecture of the instrumentation system consists of a) A novel front-end averaging amplifier to interface an array of ISFETs for converting pH into a voltage signal, b) A high linear voltage controlled oscillator for converting the voltage signal into a frequency modulated signal, and c) Digital gates for digitizing and differentiating the frequency modulated signal into an output bit-stream. The output bit stream is indistinguishable to a 1st order sigma delta modulation, whose noise floor is shaped by +20dB/decade. The fabricated instrumentation system has a dimension of 1565 [Mu] m 1565 [Mu] m. The chip responds linearly to the pH in a chemical solution and produces a digital output, with up to an 8-bit accuracy. Most importantly, the fabricated chips do not need any post-CMOS processing for neutralizing any trapped-charged effect, which can modulate on-chip ISFETs’ threshold voltages into atypical values. As compared to other ISFET-related works in the literature, the instrumentation system proposed in this thesis can cope with the mismatched ISFETs on chip for analogue-to-digital conversions. The design methodology is thus very accurate and robust for chemical sensing.
Evolution of optical gain properties through three generations of electroluminescent fluorene-based polymers
Creators: name: Cheung, E Cheung Cora
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: Conjugated polymer semiconductors combine the processing and mechanical characteristics of plastics with the desirable optical and electronic properties of semiconductors. The aim of the research reported in this thesis was to investigate the evolution of the optical gain properties through three generations of electroluminescent fluorene-based polymers. Detailed optical, optoelectrical and gain characterisations were carried out on a range of different electroluminescent polyfluorene-based polymers. It was discovered that not all of the polymers were gain media as some were unable to give ASE. SC006 was found to be the most intriguing material among the rest of the tested polymers; this third generation polymer was found to be a non ASE material while achieving a high PLQE of 96% with 1.3ns-long excited state lifetime. Therefore it was evident that optimised highly efficient light emitting conjugate polymers for PLEDs are not necessarily effective optical gain media, and high steady state PLQE and long excited state lifetime are insufficient for good optical gain properties. Furthermore, in order to investigate the ASE quenching mechanism in SC006, a series of solvatochromism studies were carried out on this polymer. The time-resolved PL characteristics were compared between polymers of second and third generations. The combination of intermolecular and intramolecular energy transfer process was found to be responsible for the ASE quenching. Moreover, the effects of the differences in Yamamoto and Suzuki synthesis routes on optical gain properties of the first generation statistical and alternating copolymers were investigated and were found to be insignificant. Finally, the application of the gain quenching mechanism was demonstrated by an optical switching process performed on a polymer DFB laser. This enabled complete control over the laser emission from the polymer laser, thus achieving a minimum of a thirty fold reduction in the visible light output in the presence of a control pulse.
Constructing the light-front QCD Hamiltonian
Creators: name: Paston, S. A.
name: Franke, V. A.
name: Prokhvatilov, E. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the light-front Lagrangian and the corresponding Hamiltonian that produce a theory perturbatively equivalent to the conventional QCD in the Lorentz coordinates after the regularization is removed. The regularization used is nonstandard and breaks the gauge invariance. But after the regularization is removed, this invariance is restored by the introduction of a finite number of counterterms with coefficients dependent on the regularization parameters.
description: LaTex 2.09, 22 pages, 2 figures. In this corrected version the counterterms are given in more exact form
Archaeological Investigations, Salt River Project, Silverking to Kyrene Transmission Line, Tonto National Forest Boundary to Silverking, Pulling, Wire Setup, Sleeving, and Guying Site Survey, Tonto National Forest, Pinal County, Arizona: Final Report for Archaeological Survey of Pulling, Wire Setup, Sleeving, and Guying Sites from the Tonto National Forest Boundary to Silverking
Creators: name: Yablon, Ronald K.
Publisher: name: Museum of Northern Arizona, Department of Anthropology
Year: 1979
Subjects: Tonto National Forest
Pinal (County)
NA15,721
NA15,697
Ceramic
Chipped Stone
Salt River Project
Archaeological Clearance
SRP
Sliverking-to-Kyrene Transmission Line
Site Evaluation / Testing
Systematic Survey

description: Twenty-six small parcels of Tonto National Forest property, which are scheduled to be impacted by Salt River Project transmission line construction, were surveyed by the Museum of Northern Arizona. No unrecorded archaeological sites were located. Archaeological clearance for these areas is recommended.
Synthesis, characterization, antimicrobial and cytotoxicity evaluation of quaternary cadmium (II)-quercetin complexes with 1,10-phenanthroline or 2,2’-bipyridine ligands
Creators: name: Srivastava, Tanu
name: Mishra, Sunil Kumar
name: Tiwari, Om Prakash
name: Kumar, Avinash
name: Tiwari, Kavindra Nath
name: Kumar, Pradeep
name: Dixit, Jyoti
name: Kumar, Jitendra
name: Singh, Amit Kumar
name: Verma, Pooja
name: Saini, Rajesh
name: Singh, Angaraj
name: Dwivedi, Ashutosh Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: This study reports the synthesis and antibacterial evaluation of two novel complexes, [Cd (Q) (Bpy) (CH3COO)2, complex 1] and [Cd (Q) (Phen) (CH3COO)2, complex 2], based on quercetin ligand. The method of synthesis was by reacting natural flavonoid quercetin (Q) with a good chelator (Bpy = 2,2’-bipyridine, Phen= 1,10-phenanthroline and Q = quercetin) and metal ions. The produced metal complexes were studied in the solid state by Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and in solution by UV-Vis absorption. Further analysis included high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) for confirmation. To understand the nature and coordination of quercetin and its metal complexes, density functional theory (DFT) calculation was performed. The scavenging (DPPH radical), antibacterial, MTT, enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant activity assay, cytotoxicity assay (fluorescence study) were done and quercetin was used for comparison. Both complex 1 and complex 2 induced loss of cell viability via impairment of metabolic activity, leakage of intracellular proteins, and increased oxidative stress. The free-radical scavenging activity of complex 2 (IC50 340.175 µg/mL) was statistically significantly more potent than that of complex 1. The MIC values of complex 2 (7.80 µg/mL Escherichia coli, 15.62 µg/mL Staphylococcus aureus) were higher as compared to complex 1 and quercetin in both test microorganisms. There was inhibition of cell proliferation in Escherichia coli treated with 2 µg/mL of complex 2, whereas Staphylococcus aureus did not show inhibition at this concentration. The cytotoxicity screening on MG 63 cell line showed that the compounds were safe up to 500 mg/L.
Archaeological Survey of a Transmission Line Corridor Located Adjacent to the East Side of Idaho Road, Between Superstition Drive and Lost Dutchman Drive, Apache Junction, Pinal County, Arizona
Creators: name: Fortier, Edward M.
name: Stone, Lyle M.
Publisher: name: Archaeological Research Services
Year: 1981
Subjects: Superstition Drive
Idaho Road
Lost Dutchman Drive
Apache Junction
Pinal (County)
Arizona (State / Territory)
Salt River Project
SRP
Systematic Survey

description: This record contains a letter summary the results of a 1981 archaeological survey by Archaeological Research Services, Tempe, Arizona within a Salt River Project transmission line corridor in Pinal County, Arizona. No cultural resources were located during the survey.
Causes, effects and remedies of rural urban migration in India
Creators: name: M Regina Mary
name: M. Manjula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 140205 Environment and Resource Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140218 Urban and Regional Economics

description: In India, rural population is moved to urban for their betterment of life style and better opportunity. Sometimes people move for environmental reasons. Migration can also happen because of some other reasons or due to a range of push and pull factors.
Oral history interview with Esther Diamond 1984
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Educational tests and measurements

description: Early research; work with Science Research Associates, 1952-83: doctorate through Science Research Associates tuition reimbursement program, editor of Better Living and Newsletter series, author of Higher Education Planning kit, National Merit Scholarship Program technical manual and test program, construction of National Merit Examination, Betty Crocker Search for American Homemaker of Tomorrow, American College Testing, supervision of Kuder Interest Inventories; history of Science Research Associates, especially influence of Lyle Spencer.
The relation between stellar magnetic field geometry and chromospheric activity cycles II: The rapid 120 day magnetic cycle of Tau Bootis
Creators: name: Jeffers, S. V.
name: Mengel, M.
name: Moutou, C.
name: Marsden, S. C.
name: Barnes, J. R.
name: Jardine, M. M.
name: Petit, P.
name: Schmitt, J. H. M. M.
name: See, V.
name: Vidotto, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the aims of the BCool programme is to search for cycles in other stars and to understand how similar they are to the Sun. In this paper we aim to monitor the evolution of $τ$ Boo's large-scale magnetic field using high-cadence observations covering its chromospheric activity maximum. For the first time, we detect a polarity switch that is in phase with $τ$ Boo's 120 day chromospheric activity maximum and its inferred X-ray activity cycle maximum. This means that $τ$ Boo has a very fast magnetic cycle of only 240 days. At activity maximum $τ$ Boo's large-scale field geometry is very similar to the Sun at activity maximum: it is complex and there is a weak dipolar component. In contrast, we also see the emergence of a strong toroidal component which has not been observed on the Sun, and a potentially overlapping butterfly pattern where the next cycle begins before the previous one has finished.
description: 6 pages, accepted by MNRAS
MOESM3 of Blocking CD47 efficiently potentiated therapeutic effects of anti-angiogenic therapy in non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Zhang, Xuyao
name: Wang, Yichen
name: Fan, Jiajun
name: Chen, Wei
name: Luan, Jingyun
name: Mei, Xiaobin
name: Wang, Shaofei
name: Li, Yubin
name: Ye, Li
name: Li, Song
name: Tian, Wenzhi
name: Yin, Kai
name: Ju, Dianwen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. The expression of CD47 on NSCLC cells was detected by flow cytometry.
A Study on Academic Anxiety and Academic Achievement
Creators: name: Halder, Ujjwal Kumar
name: Samit Kumar Das
name: Bapi Mishra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Education

description: 21ST century can be indicated as the century of competition. Everywhere there is a race, a competition. With the huge development in science and technology, all part of the world is connected with this competition. Especially in the field of education, this competition rapidly increased among the students. To survive in this competition, educational achievement is necessary and compulsory to all and for good educational achievement, anxiety free,a positive environment is also essential. Academic anxiety is a deliberating factor which impact on students' academic achievement. In the present study, the researchers made an attempt to investigate the gender difference in relation to academic anxiety and academic achievement of the students of secondary level. The researchers also tried to find out the correlation between academic anxiety and academic achievement. A sample of 237 (128 boys and 109 girls) of secondary level students of class VIII were selected randomly. Analyzing the data, the result shows that girls students has more academic anxiety than boys. It was also found that there is a negative and significant correlation (r= -0.10) between academic anxiety and academic achievement.
The impact and importance of voluntary counselling and testing for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Cremin, Ide
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2010

description: Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV is promoted as a primary prevention strategy to reduce the heterosexual transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. A theoretical framework for the determinants of uptake of VCT and behavioural outcomes following VCT was developed. Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data collected from 2003 to 2005 from ten countries were analysed to test the framework by comparing nationally representative trends in uptake of testing. Data from a population-based open cohort study in Manicaland, Zimbabwe was also used to test this framework by analysing trends in sexual behaviour and behaviour change associated with having received VCT. DHS data indicate that knowledge of serostatus varied widely between countries and ranged from 2% among women in Guinea to 27% among women in Rwanda. Despite these varied levels of testing, univariate analysis showed the profile of testers to be remarkably similar across countries with respect to socio-demographic characteristics. Adjusted analyses indicate that a secondary or higher level of education and an awareness that treatment exists are key determinants of uptake of VCT. Uptake of VCT in the Manicaland cohort is low, at 8.6% in the most recent survey. Against a background of behavioural risk reduction in the general population, there was no evidence for additional risk reduction associated with having received VCT in the Manicaland cohort. This work provides a baseline for monitoring trends in testing and exploring changes in the profile of those who get tested as provision of testing and treatment services increase. Within the Manicaland study population, these results do not provide evidence that VCT can promote behavioural risk reduction, in a context of background reductions in risk. Uptake of VCT is expected to increase in this population as treatment becomes available. It is important that VCT services are monitored and evaluated and the importance of risk reduction is emphasised through good quality counselling. To succeed as a prevention measure, VCT must attain a high coverage of the sexually active population and lead to sustained risk reduction among both infected and uninfected individuals.
Cultural Resource Survey of a Proposed Substation Site, Seaton Substation Exchange
Creators: name: RECON-Regional Environmental Consultants
Publisher: name: RECON-Regional Environmental Consultants
Year: 1989
Subjects: Apache Junction, AZ
Cultural Resource Survey
Salt River Project
Substation
SRP
Substation Cultural Resource Survey
Historic Background Research
Records Search / Inventory Checking
Site Evaluation / Testing
Systematic Survey

description: On March 2, 1989, Regional Environmental Consultants (RECON) conducted an archaeological survey on the proposed Seaton Substation Exchange Site for the Salt River Project. Prior to the survey, an archaeological background file search was conducted at the State Historic Preservation Office, Arizona State Parks and Recreation Department, and Pueblo Grande Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. No sites were recorded within the study area.