cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Pesticide toxicity
title: a mechanistic approach
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lushchak, Volodymyr I.
name: Matviishyn, Tetiana M.
name: Husak, Viktor V.
name: Storey, Janet M.
name: Storey, Kenneth B.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Bioaccumulation
subject: Biotransformation
subject: Pollutants
subject: Mechanisms
subject: Oxidative stress
subject: Xenobiotics
subject: 610

description: Pesticides are known for their high persistence and pervasiveness in the environment, and along with products of their biotransformation, they may remain in and interact with the environment and living organisms in multiple ways, according to their nature and chemical structure, dose and targets. In this review, the classifications of pesticides based on their nature, use, physical state, pathophysiological effects, and sources are discussed. The effects of these xenobiotics on the environment, their biotransformation in terms of bioaccumulation are highlighted with special focus on the molecular mechanisms deciphered to date. Basing on targeted organisms, most pesticides are classified as herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides. Herbicides are known as growth regulators, seedling growth inhibitors, photosynthesis inhibitors, inhibitors of amino acid and lipid biosynthesis, cell membrane disrupters, and pigment biosynthesis inhibitors, whereas fungicides include inhibitors of ergosterol biosynthesis, protein biosynthesis, and mitochondrial respiration. Insecticides mainly affect nerves and muscle, growth and development, and energy production. Studying the impact of pesticides and other related chemicals is of great interest to animal and human health risk assessment processes since potentially everyone can be exposed to these compounds which may cause many diseases, including metabolic syndrome, malnutrition, atherosclerosis, inflammation, pathogen invasion, nerve injury, and susceptibility to infectious diseases. Future studies should be directed to investigate influence of long term effects of low pesticide doses and to minimize or eliminate influence of pesticides on non-target living organisms, produce more specific pesticides and using modern technologies to decrease contamination of food and other goods by pesticides.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
lncRNA involvement in hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis and prognosis
Creators: name: Abbastabar, Maryam
name: Sarfi, Mohammad
name: Golestani, Abolfazl
name: Khalili, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
subject: long non-coding RNA (lncRNAs)
subject: Metastasis
subject: Prognosis
subject: Liver
subject: 610

description: Eukaryotic lncRNAs are RNA molecules defined to be greater than 200 bp in length that are not translated to a protein and operate through several mechanisms, including participating in chromatin remodeling and methylation, influencing the integrity and stability of proteins and complexes, or acting as a sponge for miRNA inhibition. A number of recent studies have concentrated on the relationship between long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and cancer. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most prevalent histological type of liver tumors, accounting for about 80 % of the cases worldwide. Lack of proper molecular markers for diagnosis of HCC and treatment evaluation is a significant problem. Dysregulated expression of HCC-related lncRNAs such as MEG-3, MALAT1, HULC, HOTAIR, and H19 have been identified and closely related with tumorigenesis, metastasis, prognosis and diagnosis. In this review, we summarized recent highlighted functions and molecular mechanisms of the most extensively studied lncRNAs in the pathophysiology of hepatocellular carcinoma and their potential for serving as probable therapeutic targets.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
A Streaming Approach For Efficient Batched Beam Search
Creators: name: Yang, Kevin
name: Yao, Violet
name: DeNero, John
name: Klein, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an efficient batching strategy for variable-length decoding on GPU architectures. During decoding, when candidates terminate or are pruned according to heuristics, our streaming approach periodically "refills" the batch before proceeding with a selected subset of candidates. We apply our method to variable-width beam search on a state-of-the-art machine translation model. Our method decreases runtime by up to 71% compared to a fixed-width beam search baseline and 17% compared to a variable-width baseline, while matching baselines' BLEU. Finally, experiments show that our method can speed up decoding in other domains, such as semantic and syntactic parsing.
description: EMNLP 2020
CONTRIBUTION OF THE GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM TO THE ECONOMIES OF GREENVILLE COUNTY AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE, 2000
Creators: name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Barkley, David L.
name: Warner, Mellie L.
name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Barkley, David L.
name: Warner, Mellie L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: This report summarizes the economic and fiscal impacts of the Greenville Hospital System (GHS) on Greenville County and the South Carolina Upstate (Greenville, Anderson, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens and Spartanburg counties). In 2000, GHS had operating revenues, net of adjustments for charity and negotiated charges, of $606 million and had 8,211 employees on the payroll for at least part of the year. GHS also generates significant economic impacts from purchases of supplies, equipment, and utilities; from construction of new facilities; from local spending by GHS employees; and from local expenditures by visitors to the GHS patients and by students at GHS training programs. Moreover, GHS payroll and expenditures result in local "multiplier" effects in the area. Finally, county and municipal governments, school districts and special purpose districts receive tax revenues from the direct and secondary impacts of GHS on the private sector.
title: Micro-magnetic and microstructural characterization of wear progress on case-hardened 16MnCr5 gear wheels
title: paper dedicated to Professor Michael Pohl on the occasion of his 75th birthday
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Knyazeva, Marina
name: Rozo Vasquez, Julian
name: Gondecki, Leonard
name: Weibring, Max
name: Pöhl, Fabian
name: Kipp, Monika
name: Tenberge, Peter
name: Theisen, Werner
name: Walther, Frank
name: Biermann, Dirk
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Wear
subject: Non-destructive testing
subject: Micro-magnetic testing
subject: Surface fatigue
subject: 660
subject: Materialermüdung
subject: Magnetische Werkstoffprüfung
subject: Zerstörungsfreie Werkstoffprüfung

description: The evaluation of wear progress of gear tooth flanks made of 16MnCr5 was performed using non-destructive micro-magnetic testing, specifically Barkhausen noise (BN) and incremental permeability (IP). Based on the physical interaction of the microstructure with the magnetic field, the micro-magnetic characterization allowed the analysis of changes of microstructure caused by wear, including phase transformation and development of residual stresses. Due to wide parameter variation and application of bandpass filter frequencies of micro-magnetic signals, it was possible to indicate and separate the main damage mechanisms considering the wear development. It could be shown that the maximum amplitude of BN correlates directly with the profile form deviation and increases with the progress of wear. Surface investigations via optical and scanning electron microscopy indicated strong surface fatigue wear with micro-pitting and micro-cracks, evident in cross-section after 3 × 105 cycles. The result of fatigue on the surface layer was the decrease of residual compression stresses, which was indicated by means of coercivity by BN-analysis. The different topographies of the surfaces, characterized via confocal white light microscopy, were also reflected in maximum BN-amplitude. Using complementary microscopic characterization in the cross-section, a strong correlation between micro-magnetic parameters and microstructure was confirmed and wear progress was characterized in dependence of depth under the wear surface. The phase transformation of retained austenite into martensite according to wear development, measured by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) was also detected by micro-magnetic testing by IP-analysis.
Cargo claims: delivery of cargo under fraudulent Bill of Landing
Creators: name: Κόβα, Δέσποινα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fraudulent B/L
subject: Charter party chain
subject: Dangerous goods
subject: Letter of indemnity

description: Στην διπλωματική αυτή εργασία γίνεται ανάλυση απαίτησης ενάντια ενός πλοιοκτήτη, η οποία διαμορφώθηκε από τη στιγμή που μέρος του φορτίου ξεφορτώθηκε χαλασμένο. Παρά το γεγονός ότι η απαίτηση βασίζεται σε πλαστές φορτωτικές, η παράμετρος ότι ο πλοιοκτήτης και η ασφαλιστική εταιρεία που είναι υπεύθυνη για ζημίες έναντι τρίτων δεν μπορούσαν να εγγυηθούν την οικονομική κάλυψη της απαίτησης, οδήγησε τους αντίδικους να συλλάβουν το πλοίο, να γίνει αναστολή της λειτουργίας του και να το ωθήσουν σε δημοπρασία. Σε όλη την έκταση της διπλωματικής αυτής εργασίας, γίνεται ανάλυση των λειτουργιών της ναύλωσης ενός καραβιού, η καθημερινή διαχείριση, οι ασφάλειες και οι νομικές καλύψεις που θα πρέπει να έχει ένα καράβι.
Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 promotes bladder cancer growth through inhibiting NF-kB dependent apoptosis
Creators: name: Hu, Guodong
name: Wang, Xiu
name: Han, Yi
name: Wang, Ping
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: PRMT5
subject: Bladder cancer
subject: NF-kB
subject: Apoptosis
subject: 610

description: Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) has emerged as a key regulator of tumorigenesis. However, how PRMT5 functions in bladder cancer, the most common malignancy of the urological system, is unknown. We described here that PRMT5 is highly expressed in bladder cancer cell lines and primary human bladder cancer tissues. PRMT5 enhances the proliferation and colony formation of bladder cancer cells. PRMT5 knockdown induces bladder cancer cell apoptosis. Mechanistically, PRMT5 enhances NF-kB activation by targeting crucial anti-apoptotic genes such as BCLXL and c-IAP1, thereby inhibiting tumor cell apoptosis and sustaining proliferation. Importantly, PRMT5 inhibitor opposed tumor growth and BCLXL and c-IAP1 transcription in the bladder cancer xenograft model. Collectively, the current suggests the crucial role of PRMT5 as a promising therapeutic target in bladder cancers.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
Η τεχνολογία του blockchain και η επίδραση της στο διεθνές νομισματικό σύστημα
Creators: name: Χατζιάρας, Δημήτριος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Blockchain
subject: Smart contracts
subject: Διεθνές νομισματικό σύστημα

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματεύεται την τεχνολογία του blockchain και το πως αυτή επιδρά στον διεθνές νομισματικό σύστημα. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, αναλύεται η πορεία εξέλιξης του διεθνούς νομισματικού συστήματος και η μορφή που έχει πάρει αυτό. Έπειτα, αναλύεται η τεχνολογία του blockchain η οποία έχει καταφέρει μέσω των καινοτομιών που φέρει να οδηγήσει την διεθνή επιστημονική κοινότητα και ειδικότερα και την οικονομική κοινότητα να μελετήσουν την παραπάνω τεχνολογία ενδελεχώς τα τελευταία χρόνια με σκοπό να αξιοποιήσουν τα θετικά που αυτή η τεχνολογία προσφέρει προς όφελος της παγκόσμιας οικονομίας. Η τεχνολογία του blockchain έχει απασχολήσει τα τελευταία χρόνια όχι μόνο διεθνείς οργανισμούς και κυβερνήσεις κρατών αλλά και τους ιδιώτες οι οποίοι επιθυμούν την αξιοποίηση της προς όφελος των επιχειρήσεων τους.
Microstructural characterization of the anisotropy and cyclic deformation behavior of selective laser melted AlSi10Mg structures
Creators: name: Awd, Mustafa
name: Stern, Felix
name: Kampmann, Alexander
name: Kotzem, Daniel
name: Tenkamp, Jochen
name: Walther, Frank
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: AlSi10Mg
subject: Selective laser melting
subject: Mechanical properties
subject: Porosity
subject: Anisotropy
subject: 660
subject: Selective-Laser-Melting
subject: Mechanische Eigenschaft
subject: Porosität
subject: Anisotropie

description: The laser-based fusion of metallic powder allows construction of components with arbitrary complexity. In selective laser melting, the rapid cooling of melt pools in the direction of the component building causes significant anisotropy of the microstructure and properties. The objective of this work is to investigate the influence of build anisotropy on the microstructure and mechanical properties in selective laser melted AlSi10Mg. The alloy is comprehensively used in the automotive industry and has been one of the most frequently investigated Al alloys in additive manufacturing. Using specimens produced in three different building orientations with respect to the build platform, the anisotropy of the microstructure and defects will be investigated using scanning electron microscopy and microcomputed tomography. The analysis showed a seven-times higher pore density for the 90°-specimen compared to the 0°-specimen. The scanning electron microscopy revealed the influence of the direction of the cooling gradient on the constitution of the eutectic phase. Mechanical properties are produced in quasi-static and fatigue tests of variable and constant loading amplitudes. Specimens of 0° showed 8% higher tensile strength compared to 90°-specimens, while fracture strain was reduced almost 30% for the 45°-specimen. The correlation between structural anisotropy and mechanical properties illustrates the influence of the building orientation during selective laser melting on foreseen fields of application.
DO MANUFACTURING PLANTS CLUSTER ACROSS RURAL AREAS? EVIDENCE FROM A PROBABILISTIC MODELING APPROACH
Creators: name: Barkley, David L.
name: Kim, Yunsoo
name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Barkley, David L.
name: Kim, Yunsoo
name: Henry, Mark S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: A statistical procedure for detecting "contagious" location patterns for manufacturing establishments is presented. Manufacturing industries' establishment clustering tendencies are ranked based on the "dispersion parameter" of the negative binomial distribution. Establishment data are for three-digit SIC manufacturing industries, nonmetro counties of BEA Component Economic Areas, 1981 and 1992. Findings indicate that virtually all manufacturing industries cluster establishments in nonmetro areas. Approximately two-thirds of the industries had dispersion parameters indicating a high or moderate level of spatial concentration. The propensity to cluster plants in nonmetro CEAs was evident for both 1981 and 1992, though weaker in 1992. Much of the industry clustering in nonmetro areas appears to be attributable to local "natural advantages" and not to inter-firm spillovers.
Three-party quantum secure direct communication based on Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states
Creators: name: Jin, Xing-Ri
name: Ji, Xin
name: Zhang, Ying-Qiao
name: Zhang, Shou
name: Hong, Suc-Kyoung
name: Yeon, Kyu-Hwang
name: Um, Chung-In
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a three-party simultaneous quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) scheme by using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. This scheme can be directly generalized to $N$-party QSDC by using $n$-particle GHZ states. We show that the many-party simultaneous QSDC scheme is secure not only against the intercept-and-resend attack but also against the disturbance attack.
description: To appear in Phys. Lett. A
TARGETING GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES FOR LANCASTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, 2002
Creators: name: Barkley, David L.
name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Warner, Mellie L.
name: Barkley, David L.
name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Warner, Mellie L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Industry targeting is the process of focusing industrial development programs and efforts at specific industries or clusters of related industries. An industry targeting program identifies industries for which the region offers a competitive advantage in terms of labor availability and skills, location, and availability of public services. Lancaster County's industrial targeting project has two principal objectives: identify manufacturing industries that have high potential for locating in the county and identify manufacturing industries that provide attractive economics development impacts in terms of future job growth, wages paid, and contributions to the local tax base.
INDICATORS OF INHABITANT, HOUSEHOLD, FAMILY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: McLean, Edward L.
name: Roper, Cindy G.
name: McLean, Edward L.
name: Roper, Cindy G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Social and economic futures are dependent on numbers of housing units, families, households and individuals, and on many characteristics of aggregate populations. Research reported in this manuscript is focused on the states of North Carolina and South Carolina and the counties therein. The chief concern is change; e.g., numerical and percentage increase or decrease. These dynamics refer to basic components of population: births, deaths and residential relocation.
On tensor network representations of the (3+1)d toric code
Creators: name: Delcamp, Clement
name: Schuch, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define two dual tensor network representations of the (3+1)d toric code ground state subspace. These two representations, which are obtained by initially imposing either family of stabilizer constraints, are characterized by different virtual symmetries generated by string-like and membrane-like operators, respectively. We discuss the topological properties of the model from the point of view of these virtual symmetries, emphasizing the differences between both representations. In particular, we argue that, depending on the representation, the phase diagram of boundary entanglement degrees of freedom is naturally associated with that of a (2+1)d Hamiltonian displaying either a global or a gauge $\mathbb Z_2$-symmetry.
Mandatory sustainability reporting in Germany: does size matter?
Creators: name: Bergmann, Alexander
name: Posch, Peter
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: SMEs
subject: Sustainability reporting
subject: Competitive advantages
subject: Stakeholder theory
subject: Resource-based view
subject: Formalization of CSR
subject: 330
subject: Corporate Social Responsibility
subject: Nachhaltigkeitsbericht
subject: Klein- und Mittelbetrieb
subject: Stakeholder
subject: Unternehmensgröße
subject: Ressourcentheorie

description: This article studies how German firms evaluate a recent national corporate social responsibility (CSR) law based on a European Union directive and the burden they expect regarding their organizational responsibilities due to mandatory sustainability reporting. One hundred and fifty-one firms of different sizes directly or indirectly affected by the law are included in the survey and their responses empirically analyzed using two-tailed t-tests and simple linear regression. Anchoring the discussion in stakeholder theory and the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) literature while considering large-firm idiosyncrasies, the results show differing effects on SMEs and large firms as well as firms which are directly and indirectly affected. Findings show that firm size only matters for the evaluation of the law by directly affected firms, while size does not matter in the case of indirectly affected firms. Possible moderators of this evaluation are grounded in the resource-based theory and formalization of CSR. This article contributes to the understanding of when firm size matters in the case of mandatory sustainability reporting and underlines the role of organizational resources and capabilities as well as the special position of SMEs.
Epithelial cell integrin phenotype in drug-induced gingival overgrowth tissue
Creators: name: Walsh, Priscilla M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Gingival overgrowth can be an unpleasant side effect of the commonly prescribed medications nifedipine and cyclosporin. Integrins are transmembrane glycoproteins that mediate cell-to-cell and cell-to-extracellular matrix cell adhesion events. The aim of this study was to characterize epithelial cell integrin phenotype in drug-induced gingival overgrowth tissue. Human gingival biopsies of patients taking nifedipine, cyclosporin, or a combination of both medications were used. Integrins and their ligands were localized in frozen sections using immunohistochemistry. Comparisons between integrin expression in normal and the drug-induced gingival tissue were made. The drug-induced gingival overgrowth tissue exhibited an increase in suprabasal expression of integrins αvβ1, α5β1, and αvβ6 which is similar to the integrin expression during wound healing. The integrin αvβ6 was expressed, however, with similar frequency in both the control and the drug-induced gingival overgrowth groups. Fibronectin, a possible ligand for the α5β1 and αvβ6 integrins, was not only expressed within the connective tissue of all groups, but was also expressed around some of the basal keratinocytes of the control, nifedipine-, and cyclosporin-induced gingival overgrowth groups. No relationship between inflammation and integrin expression could be identified. The results suggest that the epithelium of drug-induced gingival overgrowth tissue exhibit certain changes in its integrin repetoire. This upregulation of certain integrins, which is consistent to one seen during wound healing, could result in controlling the formation of the connective tissue.
HOUSEHOLDS' EXPERIENCES WITH THE RED IMPORTED FIRE ANT IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Dukes, F.R.
name: Miller, Stephen E.
name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Vander Mey, Brenda J.
name: Horton, Paul M.
name: Dukes, F.R.
name: Miller, Stephen E.
name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Vander Mey, Brenda J.
name: Horton, Paul M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), abbreviated as RIFA, is believed to have been brought by accident to Mobile, Alabama in the 1930s via ship ballast from South America. The RIFA was first reported in Charleston and Orangeburg counties in South Carolina in 1952 and has since spread to all 46 counties in the state. The RIFA has had adverse impacts on the environments it has infested. In natural environments, the young of ground-nesting insects, reptiles, birds and mammals are subject to RIFA predation. In agriculture, the RIFA damages crops and livestock. The RIFA poses a health threat to humans, as it is aggressive and has a venomous sting. To learn more about the current impacts of the RIFA, a random sample of South Carolina households was conducted between November 1998 and January 1999. This report summarizes the survey results.
Coloron excitations of the SU(3) Haldane--Shastry model
Creators: name: Schuricht, Dirk
name: Greiter, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent publication, we proposed two possible wave functions for the elementary excitations of the SU(3) Haldane--Shastry model (HSM), but argued on very general grounds that only one or the other can be a valid excitation. Here we provide the explicit details of our calculation proving that the wave function describing a coloron excitation which transforms according to representation $\bar{3}$ under SU(3) rotations if the spins of the original model transform according to representation 3, is exact. We further provide an explicit construction of the exact color-polarized two-coloron eigenstates, and thereby show that colorons are free but that their relative momentum spacings are shifted according to fractional statistics with parameter $g=2/3$. We evaluate the SU(3) spin currents. Finally, we interpret our results within the framework of the asymptotic Bethe Ansatz and generalize some of them to the case of SU($n$).
The CAMELS project: Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations
Creators: name: Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco
name: Anglés-Alcázar, Daniel
name: Genel, Shy
name: Spergel, David N.
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
name: Dave, Romeel
name: Pillepich, Annalisa
name: Hernquist, Lars
name: Nelson, Dylan
name: Torrey, Paul
name: Narayanan, Desika
name: Li, Yin
name: Philcox, Oliver
name: La Torre, Valentina
name: Delgado, Ana Maria
name: Ho, Shirley
name: Hassan, Sultan
name: Burkhart, Blakesley
name: Wadekar, Digvijay
name: Battaglia, Nicholas
name: Contardo, Gabriella
name: Bryan, Greg L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations --CAMELS-- project. CAMELS is a suite of 4,233 cosmological simulations of $(25~h^{-1}{\rm Mpc})^3$ volume each: 2,184 state-of-the-art (magneto-)hydrodynamic simulations run with the AREPO and GIZMO codes, employing the same baryonic subgrid physics as the IllustrisTNG and SIMBA simulations, and 2,049 N-body simulations. The goal of the CAMELS project is to provide theory predictions for different observables as a function of cosmology and astrophysics, and it is the largest suite of cosmological (magneto-)hydrodynamic simulations designed to train machine learning algorithms. CAMELS contains thousands of different cosmological and astrophysical models by way of varying $Ω_m$, $σ_8$, and four parameters controlling stellar and AGN feedback, following the evolution of more than 100 billion particles and fluid elements over a combined volume of $(400~h^{-1}{\rm Mpc})^3$. We describe the simulations in detail and characterize the large range of conditions represented in terms of the matter power spectrum, cosmic star formation rate density, galaxy stellar mass function, halo baryon fractions, and several galaxy scaling relations. We show that the IllustrisTNG and SIMBA suites produce roughly similar distributions of galaxy properties over the full parameter space but significantly different halo baryon fractions and baryonic effects on the matter power spectrum. This emphasizes the need for marginalizing over baryonic effects to extract the maximum amount of information from cosmological surveys. We illustrate the unique potential of CAMELS using several machine learning applications, including non-linear interpolation, parameter estimation, symbolic regression, data generation with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), dimensionality reduction, and anomaly detection.
description: 34 pages, 19 figures, Matches published version. CAMELS webpage at https://www.camel-simulations.org
title: Androgen receptor (AR)-CAG trinucleotide repeat length and idiopathic male infertility
title: a case-control trial and a meta-analysis
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mobasseri, Narges
name: Babaei, Faezeh
name: Karimian, Mohammad
name: Nikzad, Hossein
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Male infertility
subject: Androgen receptor
subject: CAG repeat
subject: Genetic association
subject: 610

description: CAG trinucleotide repeats in androgen receptor (AR) gene encode a polyglutamine tract in AR N-terminal transactivation domain. Studies have been conducted to evaluate the effect of CAG repeat length on male infertility, which have yielded contradictory results. This study aimed to explore the number of AR-CAG repeats in 150 fertile controls and 150 idiopathic infertile men, divided into four azoospermia, oligozoospermia, asthenozoospermia, and teratozoospermia subgroups. In addition, a meta-analysis was conducted based on previous studies to assess the association of the mentioned variation with male infertility in recent years. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting followed by an electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gel was used for AR-CAG genotype detecting. Moreover, a systematic search was performed in PubMed, Web of Science, Science Direct, and Google Scholar databases to collect eligible studies for meta-analysis purpose. According to the results, a significant association was observed between increased length of AR-CAG polymorphism and male infertility (p< 0.0001). Furthermore, there were similar significant associations in the azoospermia (p= 0.048), asthenozoospermia (p= 0.013) and teratozoospermia (p= 0.002) subgroups. In addition, meta-analysis on forty studies showed a significant association between AR-CAG polymorphism in the overall analysis (SMD= 0.199, 95 % CI= 0.112-0.287, p<0.001) and the Caucasian subgroup (SMD= 0.151, 95 % CI= 0.040-0.263, p= 0.008). Our results elucidated that long stretches of CAG repeat might lead to AR dysfunction, contributing to male infertility especially in the Caucasian population.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
Οι αγορές πετρελαίου κι εμπορευμάτων στη ναυτιλία - Μαύρη και Μεσόγειος Θάλασσα
Creators: name: Πετράτου, Μυρτώ
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Πετρέλαιο
subject: Δεξαμενόπλοια
subject: Ναυλαγορές
subject: Μαύρη Θάλασσα
subject: Μεσόγειος Θάλασσα
subject: COVID-19
subject: Συμβόλαια

description: Η παρούσα Διπλωματική Εργασία εξετάζει τις αγορές πετρελαίου και εμπορευμάτων στην ναυτιλία, επικεντρώνοντας στην περιοχή της Μαύρης Θάλασσας, καθώς και στην περιοχή της Μεσογείου. Ειδικότερα, εξετάζεται το πετρέλαιο και τα προϊόντα αυτού, ενώ στη συνέχεια γίνεται λόγος για την παγκόσμια αγορά πετρελαίου και των προϊόντων αυτού, καθώς επίσης και για τα πλοία που αναλαμβάνουν την μεταφορά του. Ακολούθως εξετάζονται οι ναυλαγορές, δίνοντας έμφαση στα συμβόλαια πώλησης και στα συμβόλαια ναύλωσης, ενώ παρουσιάζονται ορισμένα λιμάνια της Μαύρης Θάλασσας, καθώς και ορισμένα λιμάνια της περιοχής της Μεσογείου, τα οποία θεωρούνται ότι είναι ιδιαίτερα σημαντικά για την μεταφορά πετρελαίου και των προϊόντων του. Τέλος, καθώς το 2020 σημαδεύτηκε από την πρωτόγνωρη υγειονομική κρίση του COVID19 , γίνεται αναφορά στις επιπτώσεις του και την εξέλιξη της αγοράς του πετρελαίου ως απόρροια της κοινωνικής αποστασιοποίησης που επέφερε η πανδημία. Σχετικά με την μεθοδολογία που χρησιμοποιείται στην παρούσα εργασία, πρόκειται για βιβλιογραφική αναζήτηση σε επιστημονικά περιοδικά, τα οποία μελετούν ζητήματα πετρελαίου και εμπορίας αυτού, καθώς επίσης και σε σχετικά συγγράμματα. Επιπλέον, χρησιμοποιείται σχετικό υλικό από το διαδίκτυο, εστιάζοντας σε ιστοσελίδες που αναφέρονται σε ζητήματα ναυτιλίας και εμπορίας πετρελαίου.
ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CALIFORNIA'S GOLF COURSE FACILITIES IN 2000
Creators: name: Templeton, Scott R.
name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Jin, Bihui
name: Zilberman, David
name: Templeton, Scott R.
name: Henry, Mark S.
name: Jin, Bihui
name: Zilberman, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: People spent $4.350 billion at California golf course facilities in 2000. The total sales, income, and tax impacts on the state economy were $7.872 billion, $4.546 billion, and $1.370 billion in 2000. Direct sales of $4.251 billion directly supported 62,173 jobs, and , through indirect and induced sales impacts, an additional 37,609 jobs.
Academic institutional entrepreneurs in Germany: navigating and shaping multi-level research commercialization governance
Creators: name: Leisyte, Liudvika
name: Sigl, Lisa
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Academic entrepreneurship
subject: Institutional entrepreneurship
subject: Individual agency
subject: Research commercialization governance
subject: 370
subject: Entrepreneurship
subject: Forschung
subject: Kommerzialisierung

description: In this article, we aim to explore the agency of scientific entrepreneurs and research managers in shaping their Triple Helix contexts. Drawing on institutional documents and in-depth interviews with research managers and scientists in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the study shows that trust in scientific entrepreneurs from research managers, their scientific standing and leadership, and type of academic entrepreneurship are central in shaping the Triple Helix relationships. Research managers frame themselves as passive service-providers for scientists’ commercialization activities while scientists see them as facilitating creative employment arrangements. Research managers perceive scientists as self-motivated highly creative risk-takers. The studied scientific entrepreneurs negotiate their institutional arrangements and find flexible solutions for the structural barriers within their research organisations. At the same time, they tend to avoid taking personal risks when it comes to contractual arrangements and their careers. The study identifies two types of agency exerted to shape the Triple Helix context—bricolage and institutional entrepreneurship. Bricolage activities and the trust of research managers in the leadership and autonomy of scientific entrepreneurs prepare the basis for institutional change. This can be the ground for institutional entrepreneurship to take place and reshape the Triple Helix relationships in the particular context.
HANDLING DURABLE AND NONDURABLE FARM INPUT DECISIONS USING A SINGLE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Creators: name: Bradford, Garnett L.
name: Miller, Stephen E.
name: Bradford, Garnett L.
name: Miller, Stephen E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: Students in economics are taught that the optimal usage of a nundurable input occurs when the value of its marginal product (VMP) equals its marginal cost (MC). However, this fundamental condition has rarely been extended to durable inputs. Even advanced textbooks have done little to compare and contrast the optimality conditions for durables versus nondurables. This paper outlines and compares a common VMP-MC decision for (1) nondurables in a single-period time horizon, (2) durables in a finite planning horizon, and (3) durables in an infinite planning horizon.
Cosmological parameters from combined second- and third-order aperture mass statistics of cosmic shear
Creators: name: Kilbinger, Martin
name: Schneider, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present predictions for cosmological parameter constraints from combined measurements of second- and third-order statistics of cosmic shear. We define the generalized third-order aperture mass statistics and show that it contains much more information about the bispectrum of the projected matter density than the skewness of the aperture mass. From theoretical models as well as from LCDM ray-tracing simulations, we calculate and and their dependence on cosmological parameters. The covariances including shot noise and cosmic variance of M_ap^2, M_ap^3 and their cross-correlation are calculated using ray-tracing simulations. We perform an extensive Fisher matrix analysis, and for various combinations of cosmological parameters, we predict 1-sigma-errors corresponding to measurements from a deep 29 square degree cosmic shear survey. Although the parameter degeneracies can not be lifted completely, the (linear) combination of second- and third-order aperture mass statistics reduces the errors significantly. The strong degeneracy between Omega_m and sigma_8, present for all second-order cosmic shear measures, is diminished substantially, whereas less improvement is found for the near-degenerate pair consisting of the shape parameter Gamma and the spectral index n_s. Uncertainties in the source galaxy redshift z_0 increase the errors of all other parameters.
description: Revised version, 15 pages, 10 figures, in press at A&A. Some changes were made including an extension of the analysis. Matches the published version
Generation of Carroll-Field-Jackiw term in the Functional Integral approach within Horava-Lifshitz $z=3$ CPT-violating QED
Creators: name: Mariz, T.
name: Martinez, R.
name: Nascimento, J. R.
name: Petrov, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we apply the functional integral methodology to induce the Carroll-Field-Jackiw (CFJ) term in Horava-Lifshitz $z=3$ CPT-violating QED, where Lorentz and CPT breaking for fermion and photon sectors is introduced, and show that the CFJ term is finite but undetermined.
description: 12 pages, version accepted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
A MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT ZONE DELINEATION IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Dillon, Carl R.
name: Dillon, Carl R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The identification of optimal management zones, including optimal uniform grid size, is a complex issue central to the successful implementation of variable rate input application. A novel economic optimization model is developed and applied that identifies the economically optimal management zone. Variable rate seeding can increase profits and reduce risk.
Using theory-based test construction to develop a new curriculum-based measurement for sentence reading comprehension
Creators: name: Jungjohann, Jana
name: DeVries, Jeffrey M.
name: Mühling, Andreas
name: Gebhardt, Markus
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Curriculum-based measurement
subject: Reading assessment
subject: Web-based assessment
subject: Sentence reading comprehension
subject: Special educational needs
subject: Primary school age
subject: Progress monitoring
subject: 370
subject: Sonderpädagogik
subject: Grundschulkind
subject: Curriculum
subject: Lesekompetenz
subject: Curriculumbasierte Messung

description: Reading comprehension at sentence level is a core component in the students' comprehension development, but there is a lack of comprehension assessments at the sentence level, which respect the theory of reading comprehension. In this article, a new web-based sentence-comprehension assessment for German primary school students is developed and evaluated using a curriculum-based measurement (CBM) framework. The test focuses on sentence level reading comprehension as an intermediary between word and text comprehension. The construction builds upon the theory of reading comprehension using CBM-Maze techniques. It is consistent on all tasks and contains different syntactic and semantic structures within the items. This paper presents the test development, a description of the item performance, an analysis of its factor structure, and tests of measurement invariance, and group comparisons (i.e., across gender, immigration background, over two measurement points, and the presence of special educational needs; SEN). Third grade students (n = 761) with and without SEN finished two CBM tests over 3 weeks. Results reveal that items had good technical adequacy, the constructed test is unidimensional, and it is valid for students both with and without SEN. Similarly, it is valid for both sexes, and results are valid across both measurement points. We discuss our method for creating a unidimensional test based on multiple item difficulties and make recommendations for future test construction.
Null-eigenvalue localization of quantum walks on real-world complex networks
Creators: name: Bueno, Ruben
name: Hatano, Naomichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First we report that the adjacency matrices of real-world complex networks systematically have null eigenspaces with much higher dimensions than that of random networks. These null eigenvalues are caused by duplication mechanisms leading to structures with local symmetries which should be more present in complex organizations. The associated eigenvectors of these states are strongly localized. We then evaluate these microstructures in the context of quantum mechanics, demonstrating the previously mentioned localization by studying the spread of continuous-time quantum walks. This null-eigenvalue localization is essentially different from the Anderson localization in the following points: first, the eigenvalues do not lie on the edges of the density of states but at its center; second, the eigenstates do not decay exponentially and do not leak out of the symmetric structures. In this sense, it is closer to the bound state in continuum.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Η ελληνική εκπαίδευση στο εξωτερικό ως μέσο πολιτιστικής διπλωματίας. Η περίπτωση της Λατινικής Αμερικής
Creators: name: Βασιλάκη, Ζαφειρώ
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ήπια ισχύς
subject: Δημόσια διπλωματία
subject: Πολιτιστική διπλωματία
subject: Εκπαίδευση
subject: Ελλάδα
subject: Ομογενείς
subject: Ελληνικά σχολεία του εξωτερικού
subject: Ελληνική εκπαιδευτική διπλωματία
subject: Ελληνική εκπαίδευση στη Λατινική Αμερική

description: Τα τελευταία χρόνια, πολλά κράτη επενδύουν στη δημόσια διπλωματία για την ενίσχυση της ισχύος τους στο διεθνές πολιτικό στερέωμα. Ένας σημαντικός κλάδος της δημόσιας διπλωματίας είναι και η πολιτιστική διπλωματία, που αποτελεί μέσο διεθνούς προβολής ενός κράτους μέσω του πολιτισμού του. Στην προβολή της πολιτιστικής ταυτότητας ενός κράτους στο εξωτερικό, μπορεί η εκπαίδευση να έχει πρωταγωνιστικό ρόλο. Η αξιοποίηση της εκπαίδευσης ως διπλωματικού μέσου για τη θετική ενίσχυση της διεθνούς εικόνας ενός κράτους και την αύξηση της ήπιας ισχύος του, απασχολεί εδώ και αρκετά χρόνια το σύγχρονο κόσμο, αν και στην πραγματικότητα αποτελεί μια πολύ παλιά μέθοδο ισχυροποίησης των κρατών στον πλανήτη. Η Ελλάδα φαίνεται να αναγνωρίζει τυπικά τα οφέλη που προκύπτουν από την αξιοποίηση της εκπαίδευσης και του πολιτισμού στις διεθνείς της σχέσεις, παρόλα αυτά η έλλειψη υψηλού οράματος, πολιτικών στρατηγικών και σύγχρονης πολιτιστικής παραγωγικότητας, αποτελούν τα σοβαρότερα εμπόδια για την αποτελεσματική προβολή της χώρας στο εξωτερικό, μιας χώρας που διατηρεί ένα ισχυρό πλεονέκτημα έναντι άλλων κρατών, αυτό της μεγάλης, φημισμένης και ελκυστικής πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς της. Σε μια δύσκολη εποχή για τη χώρα, οι Έλληνες της ομογένειας, ο θεσμός του ελληνικού σχολείου και κάθε είδους πρόγραμμα ελληνικής εκπαίδευσης στο εξωτερικό, μπορούν να συμβάλλουν στη βελτίωση των διακρατικών της σχέσεων και την ισχυροποίησή της σε διεθνές επίπεδο. Η παρουσία της ομογένειας στη Λατινική Αμερική και της ελληνικής εκπαίδευσης στην περιοχή είναι πολύχρονη και αξιοσημείωτη, αν και τα τελευταία χρόνια υποβαθμίζεται. Αυτό ενισχύεται λόγω κυρίως της έλλειψης στήριξης από τους αρμόδιους φορείς της Ελλάδας, γεγονός που πιστεύουμε πως απαιτεί τον επαναπροσδιορισμό των στόχων της εξωτερικής πολιτικής της χώρας και την αναθεώρηση των διπλωματικών της στρατηγικών, λαμβάνοντας υπ’ όψιν το ρόλο της εκπαίδευσης ως διπλωματικού εργαλείου και τα σύγχρονα δεδομένα για το θέμα.
Fermi Surface as a Driver for the Shape-Memory Effect in AuZn
Creators: name: McDonald, R. D.
name: Lashley, J. C.
name: Singleton, J.
name: Goddard, P. A.
name: Drymiotis, F.
name: Harrison, N.
name: Harima, H.
name: Suzuki, M. -T.
name: Migliori, A.
name: Smith, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Martensites are materials that undergo diffusionless, solid-state transitions. The martensitic transition yields properties that depend on the history of the material and may allow it to recover its previous shape after plastic deformation. This is known as the shape-memory effect (SME). We have succeeded in identifying the primary electronic mechanism responsible for the martensitic transition in the shape-memory alloy AuZn by using Fermi-surface measurements (de Haas-van Alphen oscillations) and band-structure calculations. This strongly suggests that electronic band structure is an important consideration in the design of future SME alloys.
THE NON-NEUTRALITY OF WTO BORDER TAX ADJUSTMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EXCISE TAXES UNDER IMPERFECT COMPETITION
Creators: name: McCorriston, Steve
name: Sheldon, Ian M.
name: McCorriston, Steve
name: Sheldon, Ian M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: Border tax adjustments for environmental taxes should leave imports of final goods unchanged. If intermediate and final goods markets are imperfectly competitive though, non-neutrality can result. Under Cournot behavior, an import tax equal to the environmental tax is too high, and under Bertrand, an import subsidy is the appropriate policy.
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Creators: name: Crøger, Jonas Wessel
name: Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (DKNVS)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1846

description: Ønsker pengeunderstøttelse til å utgi en oversettelse av prof. Liscos fortolkning av Det Nye Testamente
Fatigue and corrosion fatigue behaviour of brazed stainless steel joints AISI 304L/BAu-4 in synthetic exhaust gas condensate
Creators: name: Schmiedt-Kalenborn, Anke
name: Lingnau, Lars Andree
name: Manka, Matthias
name: Tillmann, Wolfgang
name: Walther, Frank
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Brazed joint
subject: AISI 304L/BAu-4
subject: Fatigue
subject: Corrosion fatigue
subject: Synthetic exhaust gas condensate
subject: 660
subject: Materialermüdung
subject: Korrosion

description: As brazed stainless steel components in service often have to withstand cyclic loads in corrosive environments, the corrosion fatigue properties of brazed joints have to be characterised. Application-relevant corrosion fatigue tests in corrosive media are extremely rare for brazed joints and cyclic deformation curves are barely investigated. In this study, fatigue tests of brazed AISI 304L/BAu-4 joints were performed in air and synthetic exhaust gas condensate K2.2 according to VDA 230-214. The fatigue behaviour of the brazed joints was compared to properties of the austenitic base material. Strain, electrical, magnetic, temperature and electrochemical measurement techniques were applied within fatigue and corrosion fatigue tests to characterise the cyclic deformation and damage behaviour of the brazed joints. It was found that the fatigue strength of 397 MPa at 2 × 106 cycles was reduced down to 51% due to the superimposed corrosive loading. Divergent microstructure-related damage mechanisms were identified for corrosion fatigue loadings and fatigue loadings of specimens in the as-received and pre-corroded conditions. The investigations demonstrate the important role of corrosive environments for the mechanical performance of brazed stainless steel joints.