cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fantastic enzymes: where and how to find them (FEBS Network post)
Creators: name: Ferrer, Manuel
name: Molina-Espeja, Patricia
name: Daniotti, Sara
name: Müller, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: enzymes
biotechnology
detergents
cosmetics
textiles

description: Enzymes are everywhere. Wherever you look in a living organism, there they are. Inside yourself exist at least 4000 different enzymes (proteins with catalytic activity) carrying out substantial reactions that allow you to breathe, to be nourished, to obtain energy, to run, to think… It is estimated that all over the globe live more than 1012 different microbial species. This number is more than 100-fold higher than the current world population. Altogether, microbial species contain 1010 to 1015 different enzymes, but only 0.0001% of them have been recovered. Imagine the possibilities! Currently, enzymes are used in a multitude of sectors, including automotive sector (e.g., car-body parts), building industry (e.g., bio-based concrete admixtures), mechanical engineering sector (e.g., bio-lubricants), energy sector (e.g., biogas), chemical and pharmaceutical sectors (e.g., bio-based platform chemicals), agriculture and forestry sector (e.g., plant and animal breeding), food and beverage industry (e.g., enzyme-processed foods and drinks), consumer goods (bio-based cleaning and cosmetic agents), and textiles and clothing (e.g., bio-processed fabrics). The molecular understanding of the highly specific catalytic enzyme activity has increased in the last years, but many questions on the underlying mechanisms and biochemical reactions remain unknown. Therefore, we are way too far from easily discovering the perfect enzyme for every use we envision.
description: Published by FEBS Network https://bit.ly/3fd8zZ4
Oscillatory Motion of a Camphor Grain in a One-Dimensional Finite Region
Creators: name: Koyano, Yuki
name: Sakurai, Tatsunari
name: Kitahata, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The motion of a self-propelled particle is affected by its surroundings, such as boundaries or external fields. In this paper, we investigated the bifurcation of the motion of a camphor grain, as a simple actual self-propelled system, confined in a one-dimensional finite region. A camphor grain exhibits oscillatory motion or remains at rest around the center position in a one-dimensional finite water channel, depending on the length of the water channel and the resistance coefficient. A mathematical model including the boundary effect is analytically reduced to an ordinary differential equation. Linear stability analysis reveals that the Hopf bifurcation occurs, reflecting the symmetry of the system.
description: 13 pages, 15 figures
Additional file 1 of How personality influences health outcomes and quality of life in adult patients with cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Niehammer, Ute
name: Straßburg, Svenja
name: Sutharsan, Sivagurunathan
name: Taube, Christian
name: Welsner, Matthias
name: Stehling, Florian
name: Hirtz, Raphael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Building family skills together: implementing a family intervention in an adult mental health team
Creators: name: O'Hanlon, Brendan John
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the The Bouverie Centre, Faculty of Health Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The research described in this thesis was conducted as part of an implementation and outcome research project called Building Family Skills Together. My research used an Ethnographic Action Research methodology to determine how to best implement Behavioural Family Therapy (BFT), a psychoeducational family intervention, in the routine practice of a continuing care team in an adult mental health service. Implementation science informed an approach where I was located part-time in the continuing care team as a family practice specialist for two years. All practitioners were trained and the team was provided with intensive implementation support to enable practitioners to provide BFT within their case management role. Practitioners generally found it difficult to engage families in BFT and the extent of their pre-existing contact with families appeared important in this process. BFT offered practitioners a positive and contrasting experience of practice, although they found BFT challenging to integrate with case management. Co-working was critical to practitioners overcoming their anxiety about conducting BFT. Families were initially uncomfortable in participating in BFT, yet found it helpful especially in promoting open discussion of the impact of mental illness. Although a hierarchical and defensive team culture constrained adoption of BFT, organisational changes were made to integrate and accommodate the intervention within clinical care. Staff turnover negatively impacted on implementation. My multi-faceted implementation role sought to achieve a balance between problem-solving, acknowledging success, driving change, and promoting on-going shared ownership. Coworking, monitoring uptake, the use of informal feedback and capitalising on the role of emerging champions were important in implementation. Whilst intensive implementation support did not appear to increase individual practitioner uptake compared to levels reported in previous research, an organisational structure was established to co-ordinate BFT and support practitioners through the appointment of practice champions. Recommendations for implementing family interventions in mental health and for further research are provided.
Endodontic Management of Mesotaurodontic Mandibular Second Molar combined with C-shaped Canal - A Case Report
Creators: name: Ashwini KS
name: Nagaveni NB
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: Taurodontism is a morpho-anatomical change in the shape of the tooth in which the body of the tooth is enlarged and the roots are reduced in size. Although taurodontism is a dental rarity, this unusual radicular form should merit circumspect considerations in planning and treatment. Endodontic management in taurodont teeth has been described as complex and difficult. The present case report describes the successful completion of endodontic treatment in a Mesotaurodont teeth with a c-shaped canal in the permanent mandibular second left molar with appropriate use of instruments and techniques and also emphasizes the importance of its management.
(200789) Elizabeth Hanson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Internetangebot in Bibliotheken
Creators: name: Graf, Dorothee
name: Klein, Diane
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 020

description: Welche Angebote gibt es, in welchen und in wie vielen Bibliotheken werden sie angeboten? Es gilt inzwischen als beinahe selbstverständliche Forderung an Bibliotheken, sich im Internet präsentieren zu müssen. Für die beiden Hauptgruppen, wissenschaftliche und öffentliche Bibliotheken, haben wir die generelle Präsenz mit einer Homepage sowie die konkret aufgeführten Angebote untersucht. Doch was macht jeweils den Mehrwert der Internetpräsentation aus, wird er genutzt oder gezielt eingesetzt? Neben der Verlängerung der Öffnungszeiten der Bibliothek werden das Angebot an Medien sowie die Art und der Umfang der möglichen Dienstleistungen erweitert. Diese Aspekte werden jeweils in Bezug auf die Kunden gesehen; daraus ergeben sich bei den verschiedenen Bibliothekstypen unterschiedliche Nutzungsmöglichkeiten der Internetpräsentation. Wir wollen kein Bibliotheksranking aufstellen, sondern vielmehr einen gesamtdeutschen Überblick geben und Besonderes hervorheben.
Uncolored Random Tensors, Melon Diagrams, and the SYK Models
Creators: name: Klebanov, Igor R.
name: Tarnopolsky, Grigory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Certain models with rank-$3$ tensor degrees of freedom have been shown by Gurau and collaborators to possess a novel large $N$ limit, where $g^2 N^3$ is held fixed. In this limit the perturbative expansion in the quartic coupling constant, $g$, is dominated by a special class of "melon" diagrams. We study "uncolored" models of this type, which contain a single copy of real rank-$3$ tensor. Its three indexes are distinguishable; therefore, the models possess $O(N)^3$ symmetry with the tensor field transforming in the tri-fundamental representation. Such uncolored models also possess the large $N$ limit dominated by the melon diagrams. The quantum mechanics of a real anti-commuting tensor therefore has a similar large $N$ limit to the model recently introduced by Witten as an implementation of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model which does not require disorder. Gauging the $O(N)^3$ symmetry in our quantum mechanical model removes the non-singlet states; therefore, one can search for its well-defined gravity dual. We point out, however, that the model possesses a vast number of gauge-invariant operators involving higher powers of the tensor field, suggesting that the complete gravity dual will be intricate. We also discuss the quantum mechanics of a complex 3-index anti-commuting tensor, which has $U(N)^2\times O(N)$ symmetry and argue that it is equivalent in the large $N$ limit to a version of SYK model with complex fermions. Finally, we discuss similar models of a commuting tensor in dimension $d$. While the quartic interaction is not positive definite, we construct the large $N$ Schwinger-Dyson equation for the two-point function and show that its solution is consistent with conformal invariance. We carry out a perturbative check of this result using the $4-ε$ expansion.
description: 26 pages, 16 figures, v2: sections 3 and 5 expanded, minor corrections, references added, v3: minor corrections, a reference added, v4: minor corrections, v5: spectrum of the complex model corrected; a note added about "uncolored" higher rank tensors
Exactly Solvable Models for Symmetry-Enriched Topological Phases
Creators: name: Cheng, Meng
name: Gu, Zheng-Cheng
name: Jiang, Shenghan
name: Qi, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct fixed-point wave functions and exactly solvable commuting-projector Hamiltonians for a large class of bosonic symmetry-enriched topological (SET) phases, based on the concept of equivalent classes of symmetric local unitary transformations. We argue that for onsite unitary symmetries, our construction realizes all SETs free of anomaly, as long as the underlying topological order itself can be realized with a commuting-projector Hamiltonian. We further extend the construction to anti-unitary symmetries (e.g. time-reversal symmetry), mirror-reflection symmetries, and to anomalous SETs on the surface of three-dimensional symmetry-protected topological phases. Mathematically, our construction naturally leads to a generalization of group extensions of unitary fusion categories to anti-unitary symmetries.
description: 56 pages, 5 figures; v2 29 pages with two columns, references updated; v3 journal reference added
(200793) Maria Allen
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Exact scaling laws for helical three-dimensional two-fluid turbulent plasmas
Creators: name: Andrés, Nahuel
name: Galtier, Sebastien
name: Sahraoui, Fouad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive exact scaling laws for a three-dimensional incompressible helical two-fluid plasma, without the assumption of isotropy. For each ideal invariant of the two-fluid model, i.e. the total energy, the electron helicity and the proton helicity, we derive simple scaling laws in terms of two-point increments correlation functions expressed in terms of the velocity field of each species and the magnetic field. These variables are appropriate for comparison with \textit{in-situ} measurements in the solar wind at different spatial ranges and data from numerical simulations. Finally, with the exact scaling laws and dimensional analysis we predict the magnetic energy and electron helicity spectra for different ranges of scales.
description: 1 Figure
A pressure-induced topological phase with large Berry curvature in Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$Te
Creators: name: Liang, Tian
name: Kushwaha, Satya
name: Kim, Jinwoong
name: Gibson, Quinn
name: Lin, Jingjing
name: Kioussis, Nicholas
name: Cava, R. J.
name: Ong, N. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The picture of how a gap closes in a semiconductor has been radically transformed by topological concepts. Instead of the gap closing and immediately re-opening, topological arguments predict that, in the absence of inversion symmetry, a metallic phase protected by Weyl nodes persists over a finite interval of the tuning parameter (e.g. pressure $P$) . The gap re-appears when the Weyl nodes mutually annihilate. We report evidence that Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$Te exhibits this topological metallic phase. Using pressure to tune the gap, we have tracked the nucleation of a Fermi surface droplet that rapidly grows in volume with $P$. In the metallic state we observe a large Berry curvature which dominates the Hall effect. Moreover, a giant negative magnetoresistance is observed in the insulating side of phase boundaries, in accord with \emph{ab initio} calculations. The results confirm the existence of a topological metallic phase over a finite pressure interval.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, 1 table
title: The transfer of school leadership theories across national boundaries: A study of Brunei Darussalam secondary education
Creators: name: Letham, Matt
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390201
subject: Education policy
classificationCode: 390403
subject: Educational administration, management and leadership

description: The Brunei Darussalam Ministry of Education (MoE) has committed itself to utilising practice from international contexts in order to develop and improve its education system. Against this background, this research employed a mixed methods research design, to answer the question: how well do school leadership theories created in other cultures transfer to the context of secondary education in Brunei Darussalam? Three phases were employed in the research design. First, a document analysis identified school leadership theories originating external to Brunei Darussalam, reflected within a key MoE document. Second, the questionnaire phase of the research design asked secondary principals, deputy principals, and teachers to respond to 50 leadership practices on two five-point Likert scales, which measured frequency of use and significance, respectively. And third, in the semi-structured interviews, participants were asked to comment on the reasons for the key outcomes of the questionnaire phase. Discourse analysis, which identified discursive assumptions and the positions these placed stakeholders in, was then used to interpret the responses of the interview participants. This research concluded that discursive assumptions dictated whether leadership theories from external sources, and their associated practices, transferred effectively into the Brunei Darussalam secondary education system.
ESCRT-II role in cell biology, development and disease
Creators: name: Ilievska, Jasmina
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The ESCRT machinery is comprised of four distinct complexes (-0, -I, -II and -III) that have crucial roles in the endosomal and autophagic pathways. In the endocytic pathway, ESCRTs target ubiquitinated cargo to endosomes and aid in the formation of the intraluminal vesicles making them essential for regulation of receptor signaling, cell survival, proliferation and polarity. In the autophagic pathway, functional ESCRTs are vital for efficient fusion of autophagic vesicles with the endocytic pathway and for degradation of both endosomal and autophagic vesicle cargos. In many model systems, mutations in the ESCRT machinery are typically linked to a variety of different pathologies, including cancer and neurodegeneration. In the autophagic pathway, ESCRT-deficient cells cause an accumulation of protein aggregates, which are hallmarks of neurodegenerative disease. Cancer and neurodegenerative diseases are the second and third most common causes of death respectively, and place a large economic and social burden on the community. Development of treatments and therapies is largely dependent on our understanding of the underlying signaling pathways. Studying such pathways in simple eukaryotic models has many benefits, the cellular machinery of lower organisms is similar to mammalian cells but the structure of the genome, tissues and organs is simpler and more amenable to experimental study. In this research we knocked down the expression of the ESCRT-II subunits, Vps22, Vps25 and Vps36 in the simple eukaryotic model Dictyostelium and studied its role in endocytosis and autophagy. Our findings show ESCRT-II subunits localizing on endosomal and autophagosomal membranes and co-localizing with mammalian markers including: Rab7, ubiquitin and LC3B. Our novel findings also show ESCRT-II subunits co-localizing with endolysosomal proteins CLN5 and CLN7 and calmodulin. Decreased expression of ESCRT-II displayed no effect of axenic growth, but showed increased growth on bacterial lawns and increased phagocytic and macropinocytic uptake. These results suggest that ESCRT-II has a negative endocytic role. Decreased expression of ESCRT-II also caused defects in morphogenesis with co-transformants exhibiting thicker shorter stalks and increased DIF-1 induced vacuolization and cell death, which suggests that this complex has a negative autophagic role. Our research also examined the broader functions of ESCRT-II, and we have uncovered unexpected links with the TORC1 pathway, a kinase complex that controls cellular metabolism.
Chalcogenosilacyclopentanes US Pat. 11,542,284
Creators: name: Arkles, Barry
name: Liberatore, Richard
name: Pan, Youlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: silicon chemistry
heterocyclic compounds
tellurium compounds
selenium compounds
chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
Atomic Layer Deposition

description: A new class of compounds known as chalcogenosilacyclopentanes is described. These compounds are five-membered ring structures containing a silicon-selenium or silicon-tellurium bond, as shown in Formulas (I) and (II). In these compounds, the substituents on the silicon and on the ring carbons may be hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, aromatic, or ether groups. The chalcogenosilacyclopentane compounds undergo ring-opening reactions with hydroxyl and other protic functionalities and may be used to prepare substrates that are amenable to thin film deposition techniques such as ALD and CVD.
(200788) John Hanson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Bericht zur "Sommerschule zu empirischen Forschungsmethoden in der chinesischen Sprachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik", Göttingen, 5.-8.9.2018
Creators: name: DO, Hue San
Publisher: name: CHUN - Chinesischunterricht
Year: 2022

description: CHUN - Chinesischunterricht, Bd. 34 (2019): CHUN - Chinesischunterricht
Chinesisch als Schulfach in Deutschland
Creators: name: Shahar-Büchsel, Ulrike
name: La Mela, Verena
Publisher: name: CHUN - Chinesischunterricht
Year: 2022

description: Eine Etablierung von mehr China-Kompetenz in der deutschen Gesellschaft erfordert eine tiefere Verankerung chinesischer Sprachkenntnisse und chinabezogener interkultureller Kompetenzen in der deutschen Bildungslandschaft. Der schulische Sprachunterricht kann ganz besonders zum Aufbau von interkultureller kommunikativer Kompetenz bereits in der Sekundarstufe beitragen und entscheidende Grundlagen für eine erfolgreiche Auseinandersetzung mit der Herausforderung durch Chinas Aufstieg legen. In dieser Studie werden auf der Basis von ausführlichen, semi-strukturierten Interviews mit über 30 Chinesischlehrern, Hochschuldozenten und anderen Praktikern das Potenzial, die fachliche Positionierung und die didaktischen Herausforderungen von Chinesisch als schulischer Fremdsprache analysiert. Dabei werden Entwicklungshemmnisse und Gelingensbedingungen identifiziert und in ihrer gesellschaftlichen Bedingtheit in den Blick genommen. Auf der Grundlage einer vertieften Auseinandersetzung mit den Erfahrungen und Perspektiven der Fachvertreter wird die Frage beantwortet, welcher Bildungswert dem Chinesischen als distanter Fremdsprache im schulischen Kontext zukommen kann und welche gesellschaftlichen und institutionellen Faktoren einen potenziellen Ausbau des Faches beeinflussen.
description: CHUN - Chinesischunterricht, Bd. 34 (2019): CHUN - Chinesischunterricht
Chalcogenosilacyclopentanes US Pat. Appl. 20200317699
Creators: name: Arkles, Barry
name: Liberatore, Richard
name: Pan, Youlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: silicon chemistry
heterocyclic compounds
tellurium compounds
selenium compounds
chemical vapor deposition (CVD)

description: A new class of compounds known as chalcogenosilacyclopentanes is described. These compounds are five-membered ring structures containing a silicon-selenium or silicon-tellurium bond, as shown in Formulas (I) and (II). In these compounds, the substituents on the silicon and on the ring carbons may be hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, aromatic, or ether groups. The chalcogenosilacyclopentane compounds undergo ring-opening reactions with hydroxyl and other protic functionalities and may be used to prepare substrates that are amenable to thin film deposition techniques such as ALD and CVD.
Tunka-Rex: Status, Plans, and Recent Results (ARENA 2016)
Creators: name: Schröder, F. G.
name: Bezyazeekov, P. A.
name: Budnev, N. M.
name: Fedorov, O.
name: Gress, O. A.
name: Haungs, A.
name: Hiller, R.
name: Huege, T.
name: Kazarina, Y.
name: Kleifges, M.
name: Korosteleva, E. E.
name: Kostunin, D.
name: Krömer, O.
name: Kungel, V.
name: Kuzmichev, L. A.
name: Lubsandorzhiev, N.
name: Mirgazov, R. R.
name: Monkhoev, R.
name: Osipova, E. A.
name: Pakhorukov, A.
name: Pankov, L.
name: Prosin, V. V.
name: Rubtsov, G. I.
name: Wischnewski, R.
name: Zagorodnikov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tunka-Rex, the Tunka Radio extension at the TAIGA facility (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy) in Siberia, has recently been expanded to a total number 63 SALLA antennas, most of them distributed on an area of one square kilometer. In the first years of operation, Tunka-Rex was solely triggered by the co-located air-Cherenkov array Tunka-133. The correlation of the measurements by both detectors has provided direct experimental proof that radio arrays can measure the position of the shower maximum. The precision achieved so far is 40 g/cm^2, and several methodical improvements are under study. Moreover, the cross-comparison of Tunka-Rex and Tunka-133 shows that the energy reconstruction of Tunka-Rex is precise to 15 %, with a total accuracy of 20 % including the absolute energy scale. By using exactly the same calibration source for Tunka-Rex and LOPES, the energy scale of their host experiments, Tunka-133 and KASCADE-Grande, respectively, can be compared even more accurately with a remaining uncertainty of about 10 %. The main goal of Tunka-Rex for the next years is a study of the cosmic-ray mass composition in the energy range above 100 PeV: For this purpose, Tunka-Rex now is triggered also during daytime by the particle detector array Tunka-Grande featuring surface and underground scintillators for electron and muon detection.
description: Proceedings of ARENA 2016
Additional file 1 of A survey and stakeholder consultation of Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA) programmes in English maternity services
Creators: name: Forbes, Camilla
name: Alderson, Hayley
name: Domoney, Jill
name: Papamichail, Alexandra
name: Berry, Vashti
name: McGovern, Ruth
name: Sevdalis, Nick
name: Rankin, Judith
name: Newburn, Mary
name: Healey, Andy
name: Easter, Abigail
name: Heslin, Margaret
name: Feder, Gene
name: Hudson, Kristian
name: Wilson, Claire A.
name: Melendez-Torres, G. J.
name: Howard, Louise M.
name: Trevillion, Kylee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1.
(200790) Cuthbert Singleton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
On $\ell$-torsion in class groups of number fields
Creators: name: Ellenberg, Jordan
name: Pierce, Lillian B.
name: Wood, Melanie Matchett
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For each integer $\ell \geq 1$, we prove an unconditional upper bound on the size of the $\ell$-torsion subgroup of the class group, which holds for all but a zero-density set of field extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$ of degree $d$, for any fixed $d \in \{2,3,4,5\}$ (with the additional restriction in the case $d=4$ that the field be non-$D_4$). For sufficiently large $\ell$ (specified explicitly), these results are as strong as a previously known bound that is conditional on GRH. As part of our argument, we develop a probabilistic "Chebyshev sieve," and give uniform, power-saving error terms for the asymptotics of quartic (non-$D_4$) and quintic fields with chosen splitting types at a finite set of primes.
description: 27 pages, updated from v1 with minor edits to exposition
'Mas alla de la basura': la representacion y la voz del recolector informal de materiales reciclables en textos escritos y filmicos de tres paises sudamericanos
Creators: name: Wrigley, Meredith Louise
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment for the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Languages, Histories and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

In the 1988 Argentinian novella El basural the narrator, a waste-picker named Doña Argentina, highlights to her implicit interlocutor the importance of looking ‘más allá de la basura’ [beyond rubbish]. This is an appeal to him and, by extension, the reader to reconsider preconceived views not merely of waste, but also of the waste-picker. This dissertation examines the representation of the waste-picker in post-1950s written and filmic texts from three bordering South American countries ― Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil ― affected by a common crisis. The investigation centres on the waste-picker’s capacity for self-representation within the texts and the extent to which these challenge stereotypical regimes of representation. All of the texts possess non-fictional characteristics. However, more importantly, they were chosen as research corpus due to the fact that all of them, with the exception of two films, in one way or another manage to give voice to the waste-pickers they represent. In this regard, the texts are ground-breaking, given that waste-pickers form one of the most overlooked groups in South American societies, being stigmatised and consequently marginalised, due to the abject nature of their occupation. Moreover, representations of waste-pickers have been overwhelmingly characterised by an exaggeration of their abjection or a silencing of their voice, which precludes an unbiased reflection of their real situation. Drawing on the theory of representation, this dissertation analyses not only how depictions of the waste-picker in the chosen texts challenge stereotypical regimes of representation, allowing the reader to see beyond rubbish, but also the extent to which such depictions are examples of self-representation, and thus permit the waste-pickers to exert their onscreen or intext agency.
Eulichas pacholatkoi
Creators: name: Hájek, Ji Ř Í
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Eulichadidae
Eulichas
Eulichas pacholatkoi

description: The Eulichas pacholatkoi species complex
The species complex contains three species of different habitus from Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. They are characterised by the parameres widened behind the middle, and the reduced subapical parameral hook. The pronotum is largely transverse with sides rounded, and the last antennomere is widened. The median lobe of the aedeagus is very slender and subparallel.
description: Published as part of Hájek, Ji Ř Í, 2007, Revision of the genus Eulichas Jacobson, 1913 (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) I. Introduction, morphology of adults, key to subgenera and species groups, and taxonomy of E. funebris species group, pp. 1-35 in Zootaxa 1620 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179178
Effects of interactions on periodically driven dynamically localized systems
Creators: name: Agarwala, Adhip
name: Sen, Diptiman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that there are lattice models in which non-interacting particles get dynamically localized when periodic $δ$-function kicks are applied with a particular strength. We use both numerical and analytical methods to study the effects of interactions in three different models in one dimension. The systems we have considered include spinless fermions with interactions between nearest-neighbor sites, the Hubbard model of spin-1/2 fermions, and the Bose Hubbard model with on-site interactions. We derive effective Floquet Hamiltonians up to second order in the time period of kicking. Using these we show that interactions can give rise to a variety of interesting results such as two-body bound states in all three models and dispersionless many-body bound states for spinless fermions and bosons. We substantiate these results by exact diagonalization and stroboscopic time evolution of systems with a finite number of particles. We derive a low-energy pseudo-spin-1/2 limit of the Bose Hubbard system in the thermodynamic limit and show that a special case of this has an exponentially large number of ground states. Finally we study the effect of changing the strength of the $δ$-function kicks slightly away from perfect dynamical localization; we find that a single particle remains dynamically localized for a long time after which it moves ballistically.
description: 52 pages, single-column, 9 figures; this is the published version
EXPLORING THE NEXUS BETWEEN AUDIT FEES AND AUDIT QUALITY: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF LOCAL ACCOUNTING FIRMS IN GHANA
Creators: name: Solberg, Horve Mishiwo
Publisher: name: ZAP Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Audit fees, Audit quality, Probit regression, Nonparametric correlation

description: Although a number of variables, including audit committee size, gender diversity, and leverage, have been found to have some correlation with audit quality in a variety of industries, including the banking and manufacturing sectors in general, not much research of this kind has been done in relation to local accounting firms in Ghana. As a result, this study attempts to close the gap by examining, among other things, how audit fees charged by local accounting firms in Ghana affect audit quality while controlling for audit committee size, firm leverage, and audit committee gender diversity. The cross-sectional data included in this study's analysis came from the 2023 World Bank Group Country Survey. The nonparametric correlation with Kendall Tau-b revealed that audit fees demonstrated a significant and weak negative correlation with audit committee gender diversity, suggesting that the higher the audit fees, the lower the audit committee gender diversity. The fitted probit regression indicates that audit fees have a significant positive impact on audit quality, suggesting that higher audit fees produce better audit quality. Therefore, as the sole regulator of accounting practices in Ghana, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG) should establish fair and reasonable audit fees guidelines to improve audit quality. These fees guidelines should also impose severe penalties, such as a license loss for the accounting firms, if they fail to comply with the regulated price. Furthermore, ICAG should consider other factors other than revenue of local accounting firms in the determination of appropriate audit fees
New Insight into Enhanced Superconductivity in Metals near the Metal-Insulator Transition
Creators: name: Claassen, J. H.
name: Kim, H.
name: Osofsky, M. S.
name: Soulen, R. J.
name: Trotter, G.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
On the Runtime of Universal Coating for Programmable Matter
Creators: name: Daymude, Joshua J.
name: Derakhshandeh, Zahra
name: Gmyr, Robert
name: Porter, Alexandra
name: Richa, Andréa W.
name: Scheideler, Christian
name: Strothmann, Thim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Imagine coating buildings and bridges with smart particles (also coined smart paint) that monitor structural integrity and sense and report on traffic and wind loads, leading to technology that could do such inspection jobs faster and cheaper and increase safety at the same time. In this paper, we study the problem of uniformly coating objects of arbitrary shape in the context of self-organizing programmable matter, i.e., programmable matter which consists of simple computational elements called particles that can establish and release bonds and can actively move in a self-organized way. Particles are anonymous, have constant-size memory, and utilize only local interactions in order to coat an object. We continue the study of our Universal Coating algorithm by focusing on its runtime analysis, showing that our algorithm terminates within a linear number of rounds with high probability. We also present a matching linear lower bound that holds with high probability. We use this lower bound to show a linear lower bound on the competitive gap between fully local coating algorithms and coating algorithms that rely on global information, which implies that our algorithm is also optimal in a competitive sense. Simulation results show that the competitive ratio of our algorithm may be better than linear in practice.
description: Accepted to and awaiting publication in the DNA Computing and Molecular Programming - 22nd International Conference (DNA22) Special Issue of the Journal of Natural Computing
Status of air-shower measurements with sparse radio arrays (ARENA 2016)
Creators: name: Schröder, Frank G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This proceeding gives a summary of the current status and open questions of the radio technique for cosmic-ray air showers, assuming that the reader is already familiar with the principles. It includes recent results of selected experiments not present at this conference, e.g., LOPES and TREND. Current radio arrays like AERA or Tunka-Rex have demonstrated that areas of several km^2 can be instrumented for reasonable costs with antenna spacings of the order of 200 m. For the energy of the primary particle such sparse antenna arrays can already compete in absolute accuracy with other precise techniques, like the detection of air-fluorescence or air-Cherenkov light. With further improvements in the antenna calibration, the radio detection might become even more accurate. For the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum, Xmax, currently only the dense array LOFAR features a precision similar to the fluorescence technique, but analysis methods for the radio measurement of Xmax are still under development. Moreover, the combination of radio and muon measurements is expected to increase the accuracy of the mass composition, and this around-the-clock recording is not limited to clear nights as are the light-detection methods. Consequently, radio antennas will be a valuable add-on for any air shower array targeting the energy range above 100 PeV.
description: Proceedings of ARENA 2016
(200786) John Sperling George Hanson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Visualising Parkour
Creators: name: Pavlotski, Alex
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (by research and dissertation in the discipline of Anthropology) for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences College of Art, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Victoria.

This thesis is a visual ethnography of the international parkour subculture. It is based on five years of multi-fielded ethnographic research. Participant observation, interviews, Internet correspondence and secondary materials are drawn on to describe parkour communities across eighteen international fields. Data is drawn from a number of field sites across Australia, America, Canada, Denmark, England, France, The Ukraine and Russia. Utilizing ethnographic description and the work of Bourdieu, as well as a number of interdisciplinary sources, this thesis provides an overview of the similarities and differences in parkour communities and ideologies. It offers a model of common parkour community dynamics and looks at the local, national and international forces that contribute to differences in parkour communities and practice in specific localities. Visual materials like photos and illustrated comics are utilised to deliver ethnographic materials. This thesis contributes to understandings of the development of new international movement subcultures and lifestyle sports, as well as the interaction of local and global forces in the ways that these subcultural practices manifest and develop.
(200787) Thomas Hanson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Longitudinal Electroproduction of Charged Pions from 1H, 2H, and 3He
Creators: name: Ahmidouch, A.
name: Ambrozewicz, P.
name: Anklin, H.
name: Arrington, J.
name: Gaskell, D.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
On the collapsibility of measures of effect in the counterfactual causal framework
Creators: name: Huitfeldt, Anders
name: Stensrud, Mats Julius
name: Suzuki, Etsuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A measure of association is said to be collapsible over a set of baseline covariates if the marginal value of the measure of association is equal to a weighted average of the stratum-specific measures of association. In this paper, we consider two subtly different definitions of collapsibility, and show that by considering causal measures of effect based on counterfactual variables it is possible to separate out the component of non-collapsibility which is due to the mathematical properties of the effect measure. We provide weights such that the causal risk difference and the causal risk ratio are collapsible over arbitrary baseline covariates, and demonstrate that such general weights do not exist for the odds ratio.
description: Minor updates
A multimodal multidimensional investigation of the horizontal-vertical illusion
Creators: name: Howell, Jacqui
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Current theories that attempt to explain the horizontal-vertical illusion (HVI) are inconsistent with all empirical evidence, largely due to the remaining gaps in our knowledge. This thesis expands our understanding of the HVI by addressing two main research issues – whether the HVI works in a similar manner across the spatial senses, and the effect of embedding single lines into two-dimensional shapes. The first research issue was addressed by presenting single lines sequentially to visual, haptic and auditory senses allowing a fair comparison by providing each modality the availability of equal information. In Experiment 1 participants used vision, haptics, audition, and a combination of the three senses to estimate lengths presented in the x-, y- and z-axes. No significant difference in length estimations was found between the modality conditions. A strong correlation was observed between the length estimations for each pair of senses. In Experiment 2 auditory lengths were presented using different sound to that used in Experiment 1 (i.e., white noise instead a buzzer sound) and a reverse HVI was found. Despite this, the findings show that length perception operates in a similar manner across the modalities. The second main research issue was broken into two parts. The first part (Experiments 3 and 4) assessed whether the HVI existed in the creation of squares, and the second (Experiment 5) compared the degree of illusion in traditional HVI figures with that of single lines. In Experiment 3 participants altered the dimensions of overlapping L-shaped cut-outs so the inner segment formed a square. As the sides of the squares were frequently made shorter than the bases (and/or the base longer than the side) it was found that the HVI does influence the creation of squares. In Experiment 4 participants were asked to construct squares using a cardboard cut out. The creation of squares demonstrated the error of the standard with changes to the side resulting in a greater degree of illusion. In the final experiment, Experiment 5, in which participants used vision and haptics to make length estimates of lines presented separately or as part of an L or inverted-T figure, it was found that the latter produced the greatest degree of illusion where the side was overestimated compared to the base, and the strength of illusion produced from L figures and single lines was relatively similar. All three stimulus types produced a significant illusion in that vertical lines were, on average, judged to be longer than horizontal lines of the same size. The findings reported here point towards a more appropriate explanation for the illusory distortion. It is likely that the HVI is the result of flawed spatial cognition that impacts all modalities; however it remains unclear why this phenomenon occurs.