cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Killing Horizons Decohere Quantum Superpositions
Creators: name: Danielson, Daine L.
name: Satishchandran, Gautam
name: Wald, Robert M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recently showed that if a massive (or charged) body is put in a quantum spatial superposition, the mere presence of a black hole in its vicinity will eventually decohere the superposition. In this paper we show that, more generally, decoherence of stationary superpositions will occur in any spacetime with a Killing horizon. This occurs because, in effect, the long-range field of the body is registered on the Killing horizon which, we show, necessitates a flux of "soft horizon gravitons/photons" through the horizon. The Killing horizon thereby harvests "which path" information of quantum superpositions and will decohere any quantum superposition in a finite time. It is particularly instructive to analyze the case of a uniformly accelerating body in a quantum superposition in flat spacetime. As we show, from the Rindler perspective the superposition is decohered by "soft gravitons/photons" that propagate through the Rindler horizon with negligible (Rindler) energy. We show that this decoherence effect is distinct from--and larger than--the decoherence resulting from the presence of Unruh radiation. We further show that from the inertial perspective, the decoherence is due to the radiation of high frequency (inertial) gravitons/photons to null infinity. (The notion of gravitons/photons that propagate through the Rindler horizon is the same notion as that of gravitons/photons that propagate to null infinity.) We also analyze the decoherence of a spatial superposition due to the presence of a cosmological horizon in de Sitter spacetime. We provide estimates of the decoherence time for such quantum superpositions in both the Rindler and cosmological cases. Although we explicitly treat the case of spacetime dimension $d=4$, our analysis applies to any dimension $d \geq 4$.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D. v2: Added clarifying remarks and a figure, and pointed out that the effect arises for any d>=4; corrected equation (3.18)
A study of natural regeneration of major woody species from a native woodland community onto agricultural land in the south-east Mornington Peninsula
Creators: name: Atkinson, Andrew.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Assessment of Budget Preparation and Utilization: the Case of Addis Ababa City Administration Health Bureau
Creators: name: Muluneh, Ketema
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: This study was conducted on assessment of budget preparation and utilization in the case of Addis Ababa City Administration Health Bureau. To the best of the researcher's knowledge, there is no document that reports a study on the probable causes that may hinder the preparation and utilization of budgeting in the City Administration of Health Bureau. This is a major motivation to carry out this study. Thus, the general objective of the paper is to assess the budget preparation and utilization of the City Administration Health Bureau. Five out of seventeen budget holders were taken and ten key informants were selected from each budget holders with a total of 50 respondents. In addition, five budget experts were included in collecting primary data through structured questionnaire and three more BOFED budget experts involved. More of the qualitative analyses demonstrate that there was no accountability in budget utilization, there is no market oriented cost estimation practice. Lack of adequate and experienced budget experts is other issue that contributes to worsen the problems and also there is no evidence based evaluation mechanisms in the budget utilization at each level of the Health Bureau. Therefore, in order to improve budget preparation and utilization in Addis Ababa City Administration Health Bureau, it calls for taking any possible and remedial actions in the subsequent years
Nonlinear Non-Hermitian Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana interferometry
Creators: name: Wang, Xin
name: Liu, H. D.
name: Fu, L. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we have studied the non-Hermitian nonlinear LZSM interferometry in a non-Hermitian N-body interacting boson system in which the non-Hermicity is from the nonreciprocal tunnelings between the bosons. By using the mean-field approximation and projective Hilbert space, the effect of nonreciprocity and nonlinearity on the energy spectrum, the dynamics, and the formation of the interference fringes have been studied. The different symmetries and the impact of the two different types of reciprocity, i.e. the in-phase tunneling and anti-phase tunneling, on the energy spectrum and the phase transition between the Josephson oscillation and the self-trapping have been investigated. For the LZSM interferometry, the strength of the nonreciprocity is found to take an essential role in the population of the projective state and the strengths of the interference patterns in the projective space. While the conditions of destructive and constructive interference under the weak-coupling approximation still only depend on the strength of nonlinearity. Our result provides an application of the nonlinear non-Hermitian LZSM interferometry in studying the parameters of a non-Hermitian nonlinear two-level system which related to the nonlinearity and the non-Hermicity.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, and comments are welcome
Detecting Dark Compact Objects in Gaia DR4: A Data Analysis Pipeline for Transient Astrometric Lensing Searches
Creators: name: Chen, I-Kai
name: Kongsore, Marius
name: Van Tilburg, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Gaia satellite is cataloging the astrometric properties of an unprecedented number of stars in the Milky Way with extraordinary precision. This provides a gateway for conducting extensive surveys of transient astrometric lensing events caused by dark compact objects. In this work, we establish a data analysis pipeline capable of searching for such events in the upcoming Gaia Data Release 4 (DR4). We use Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) and current dark matter and astrophysical black hole population models to create mock DR4 catalogs containing stellar trajectories perturbed by lensing. Our analysis of these mock catalogs suggests that Gaia DR4 will contain about 4 astrometric lensing events from astrophysical black holes at a $5σ$ significance level. Furthermore, we project that our data analysis pipeline applied to Gaia DR4 will result in leading constraints on compact dark matter in the mass range $1$-$10^3~M_\odot$ down to a dark matter fraction of about one percent.
description: 43 pages, 20 figures
Anti-apolipoprotein A-I antibodies and paraoxonase 1 activity in systemic lupus erythematosus
Creators: name: Ahmed, Mohammed Mahmoud
name: Elserougy, Eman Mahmoud
name: Al-Gazzar, Iman Ibrahim
name: Fikry, Iman Mohamed
name: Habib, Dawoud Fakhry
name: Younes, Khaled Mohamed
name: Salem, Neveen Abd El-Hameed
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: SLE
subject: anti - apolipoprotein A-I antibodies
subject: paraoxonase 1
subject: 610

description: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients have an increased risk of atherosclerosis. Identification of at-risk patients and the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in SLE remain elusive. Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) and anti-apolipoprotein A-I antibody (anti-Apo A-I) appear to have a potential role in premature atherosclerosis in SLE. The aim of this work was to study PON1 activity and anti-Apo A-I antibody in SLE female patients and to demonstrate their relations to disease activity as well as disease related damage. Forty SLE female patients and 40 apparently healthy volunteers were included. Anti-Apo A-I antibodies levels and PON1 activity levels were assessed. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (SLEDAI) and systemic Lupus International Collaboration Clinics (SLICC)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) damage index were preformed in all patients. Compared with controls, SLE patients showed significantly lower PON1 activity and significantly higher titers of anti-Apo A-I. Anti-Apo A-I antibody titers correlated inversely with PON1 activity. Elevated titers of anti-Apo A-I antibody and reduced PON activity were related to increased SLEDAI and (SLICC/ACR) damage index scores. We concluded that there is decreased PON1 activity and formation of anti-Apo A-I antibodies in female patients with SLE. SLE-disease activity assessed by SLEDAI and SLE disease related organ damage assessed by SLICC/ACR damage index are negatively correlated with PON1 activity and positively correlated with anti-Apo A-I antibodies. PON1 activity and anti-Apo A-I antibodies might be involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in SLE patients.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Life cycle assessment : its role in environmental product design
Creators: name: Lewis, Helen.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Ιερά Μονή Παναγίας Περιβλέπτου Πολιτικών Ευβοίας. Ιστορία – Αρχιτεκτονική - Ζωγραφική
Creators: name: Χρήστου, Αθανάσιος
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Ιστορία
subject: Μοναστήρι
subject: Αρχιτεκτονική
subject: History
subject: Monastery
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Η Εύβοια αποτελεί σημαντικό κέντρο του Χριστιανισμού με μεγάλο αριθμό Βυζαντινών μνημείων διεσπαρμένων σε όλη την έκτασή της. Ανάμεσα σε αυτά ξεχωριστή θέση κατέχει η Ιερά Μονή Παναγίας Περιβλέπτου που βρίσκεται στο χωριό Πολιτικά του Δήμου Διρφύων-Μεσσαπίων, η οποία δεν έχει τύχει, κατά τη γνώμη μας, της ανάδειξης που της αρμόζει. Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι, μέσα από τη σφαιρική παρουσίαση της Μονής (ιστορία, αρχιτεκτονική, ζωγραφικός διάκοσμος), να προβάλλουμε την αξία της τόσο ως ιστορικού μνημείου όσο και ως σημαντικού θρησκευτικού προσκυνήματος. Η μέθοδος εργασίας που ακολουθήσαμε είναι η βιβλιογραφική επισκόπηση, από την οποία προκύπτουν «ανοικτά» ερωτήματα για περαιτέρω διερεύνηση. Στο τέλος προβαίνουμε σε συγκεκριμένες προτάσεις για την αξιοποίηση του μνημείου αυτού τόσο στα πλαίσια εναλλακτικών μορφών τουρισμού (πολιτιστικού και θρησκευτικού) όσο και της τυπικής σχολικής εκπαίδευσης αλλά και των Κατηχητικών Σχολείων.
description: Evia is an important center of Christianity, with a large number of Byzantine monuments scattered throughout its territory. Among these, the Holy Monastery of Panagia Perivleptos, located in the village of Politika in the Municipality of Dirfys-Messapia, holds a special place. In our opinion, however, it has not received the recognition it truly deserves. The purpose of this study is to showcase the significance of the Monastery, both as a historical monument and as an important religious pilgrimage site, through a comprehensive presentation of its history, architecture, and painted decoration. The methodology employed in this work is a bibliographic review, which has revealed “open” questions that warrant further investigation. In the conclusion, we present specific proposals for the promotion and utilization of this monument. These proposals focus on its integration into alternative forms of tourism (cultural and religious), as well as its potential use in formal school education and Catechetical Schools.
description: Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας και Θρησκειολογίας ΕΚΠΑ
Observation of magnetic state dependent thermoelectricity in superconducting spin valves
Creators: name: González-Ruano, César
name: Caso, Diego
name: Ouassou, Jabir Ali
name: Tiusan, Coriolan
name: Lu, Yuan
name: Linder, Jacob
name: Aliev, Farkhad G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductor-ferromagnet tunnel junctions demonstrate giant thermoelectric effects which are being exploited to engineer ultra-sensitive terahertz radiation detectors. Here, we experimentally observe the recently predicted complete magnetic control over thermoelectric effects in a superconducting spin valve, including the dependence of its sign on the magnetic state of the spin valve. The description of the experimental results is improved by the introduction of an interfacial domain wall in the spin filter layer interfacing the superconductor. Surprisingly, the application of high in-plane magnetic fields induces a double sign inversion of the thermoelectric effect, which exhibits large values even at applied fields twice the superconducting critical field.
Biochemical aspirin resistance in stroke patients - a cross-sectional single centre study
Creators: name: Azmin, Shahrul
name: Sahathevan, Ramesh
name: Rabani, Remli
name: Nafisah, Wan Y.
name: Tan, Hui J.
name: Raymond, Azman A.
name: Hamidon, Basri B
name: Shamsu, Azhar S
name: Norlinah, Mohamed Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: ischaemic stroke
subject: aspirin resistance
subject: antiplatelet therapy
subject: Asia
subject: developing countries
subject: risk factors
subject: aspirin
subject: 610

description: Aspirin use is known to reduce the recurrence of stroke. However, the clinical response to aspirin has been mixed. The rate of stroke recurrence whilst on aspirin treatment is still unacceptably high. A plausible explanation for this may be resistance to the effects of aspirin. The causes of aspirin resistance are manifold and multi-factorial. We conducted a study to investigate the prevalence rate of biochemical aspirin resistance in a cohort of aspirin-naïve stroke patients. We also sought to determine the inherent factors that may predispose towards the development of aspirin resistance. Method: This was a cross-sectional, observational study conducted on patients admitted to our centre with an acute stroke who were aspirin-naïve. The diagnosis of an acute stroke was confirmed by clinical history and brain imaging. Fifty consecutive patients were prospectively enrolled. Socio-demographic data were collected and baseline blood investigations were performed. Patients were tested for biochemical aspirin resistance using Multiplate® platelet analyser (Dynabyte, Munich, Germany) after 5 doses of aspirin, corresponding to a total dose of 900 mg. Results: The median age of patients was 65.5 years and 54 % of patients were female. There were 11 smokers; of these 10 were male. Twenty-six (52 %) patients were Chinese, 21 (41 %) were Malay and 3 (6.0 %) were Indian. Aspirin resistance was present in 14 % of our patients. There was an inverse relationship between the presence of aspirin resistance and plasma HDL levels (r = -0.394; p = 0.005). There was no relationship observed between aspirin resistance and total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL, HbA1c, ALT, ALP, urea and creatinine levels. There were no significant differences in demographic profiles or smoking status between the aspirin resistant and non-aspirin resistant groups. We did not find any link between ethnicity and aspirin resistance. Conclusions: Our results indicate that a lower HDL level is associated with biochemical aspirin resistance. This may increase platelet aggregation and consequently increase the risk of a recurrent stroke. The clinical implications for aspirin resistance are far reaching. Any evidence that correctable factors may negatively influence the action of aspirin warrants further investigation. The prevalence rate of biochemical aspirin resistance in our study is comparable to the findings in other studies performed in an Asian population. Further research is required to determine how our findings translate into clinical aspirin resistance and stroke recurrence.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
The Nordic diet and the risk of non-communicable chronic disease and mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies
Creators: name: Jalilpiran, Yahya
name: Jayedi, Ahmad
name: Djafarian, Kurosh
name: Shab-Bidar, Sakineh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: We aimed to investigate the association between adherence to the Nordic diet (ND) and the risk of chronic disease. PubMed, Scopus, and ISI Web of Science were searched to February 2020 to find prospective cohort studies. The relative risks (RRs) were calculated using a fixed-effects/random-effects model. The certainty of evidence was rated using the GRADE approach. Thirteen prospective cohort studies with 930,153 participants were included. The RRs for the highest compared to the lowest category of adherence to the ND were 0.78 (95%CI: 0.69, 0.87; I2 = 51%, n = 6) for all-cause mortality, 0.78 (95%CI: 0.74, 0.83; I2 = 70%, n = 4) for cardiovascular mortality, 0.86 (95%CI: 0.80, 0.93; I2 = 83%, n = 4) for cancer mortality, 0.88 (95%CI: 0.79, 0.98; I2 = 3%, n = 3) for stroke, 0.80 (95%CI: 0.68, 0.95; I2 = 47%, n = 3) for myocardial infarction, and 0.90 (95%CI: 0.82, 0.99; I2 = 33%, n = 4) for type 2 diabetes. There was an inverse linear association between the ND score and the risk of mortality, and an inverse monotonic association for type 2 diabetes. The certainty in the estimates ranged from very low to low.
Assessment of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and its Implementation: the Case of Ministry of Science and Technology of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tsegaye, Hewan
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Assessment of the formulation and implementation of science, technology and innovation policy help to identify the effectiveness of STI policy and its Implementation . The scope of the research study was restricted to see only the policy formulation and implementation process in the MoST and the institutions or organizations that are accountable to MoST .To carry out the assessment study , extensive literature review was carried out which formed the background knowledge to the study as well as provided the necessary input to the discussion of the findings from the study . The instrument for data collection was an interview and a structured questionnaire that was designed on a 5-p0int Likert scale to be able to collect quantitative data. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 20. The reliability was determined 0.774 with Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Four dimensions, namely STI policy formulation process, STI policy content, STI policy monitoring and evaluation and overall effectiveness of STI policy formulation and implementation have been established. The finding of the study indicated that the science technology and innovation policy making process/formulation/ was effective where as its implementation was found ineffective. The study recommended that the development of STI Policy implementation strategy , good coordination mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms should be implemented
A unipolar quantum dot diode structure for advanced quantum light sources
Creators: name: Strobel, T.
name: Weber, J. H.
name: Schmidt, M.
name: Wagner, L.
name: Engel, L.
name: Jetter, M.
name: Wieck, A. D.
name: Portalupi, S. L.
name: Ludwig, A.
name: Michler, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Triggered, indistinguishable, single photons play a central role in various quantum photonic implementations. Here, we realize a novel n$^+-$i$-$n$^{++}$ diode structure embedding semiconductor quantum dots: the gated device enables spectral tuning of the transitions and deterministic control of the observed charged states. Blinking-free single-photon emission and high two-photon indistinguishability is observed. The linewidth's temporal evolution is investigated for timescales spanning more than $6$ orders of magnitude, combining photon-correlation Fourier spectroscopy, high-resolution photoluminescence spectroscopy, and two-photon interference (visibility of $V_{\text{TPI, 2ns}}=\left(85.5\pm2.2\right){\%}$ and $V_{\text{TPI, 9ns}}=\left(78.3\pm3.0\right){\%}$). No spectral diffusion or decoherence on timescales above $\sim 9\,\text{ns}$ is observed for most of the dots, and the emitted photons' linewidth $\left(\left(420\pm30\right)\text{MHz}\right)$ deviates from the Fourier-transform limit only by a factor of $1.68$. Thus, for remote TPI experiments, visibilities above $74\%$ are anticipated. The presence of n-doping only signifies higher available carrier mobility, making the presented device highly attractive for future development of high-speed tunable, high-performance quantum light sources.
Machine learning approaches for discerning intercorrelation of hematological parameters and glucose level for identification of diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Worachartcheewan, Apilak
name: Nantasenamat, Chanin
name: Prasertsrithong, Pisit
name: Amranan, Jakraphob
name: Monnor, Teerawat
name: Chaisatit, Tassaneya
name: Nuchpramool, Wilairat
name: Prachayasittikul, Virapong
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Diabetes mellitus
subject: glucose
subject: hematologic parameters
subject: quantitative population- health relationship
subject: QPHR
subject: data mining
subject: 610

description: The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between hematological parameters and glycemic status in the establishment of quantitative population-health relationship (QPHR) model for identifying individuals with or without diabetes mellitus (DM). Methods: A cross-sectional investigation of 190 participants residing in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand in January-March, 2013 was used in this study. Individuals were classified into 3 groups based on their blood glucose levels (normal, Pre-DM and DM). Hematological (white blood cell (WBC), red blood cell (RBC), hemoglobin (Hb) and hematocrite (Hct)) and glucose parameters were used as input variables while the glycemic status was used as output variable. Support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural network (ANN) are machine learning approaches that were employed for identifying the glycemic status while association analysis (AA) was utilized in discovery of health parameters that frequently occur together. Results: Relationship amongst hematological parameters and glucose level indicated that the glycemic status (normal, Pre-DM and DM) was well correlated with WBC, RBC, Hb and Hct. SVM and ANN achieved accuracy of more than 98 % in classifying the glycemic status. Furthermore, AA analysis provided association rules for defining individuals with or without DM. Interestingly, rules for the Pre-DM group are associated with high levels of WBC, RBC,Hb and Hct. Conclusion: This study presents the utilization of machine learning approaches for identification of DM status as well as in the discovery of frequently occurring parameters. Such predictive models provided high classification accuracy as well as pertinent rules in defining DM.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Environmental education in Victorian secondary schools : constraints and possibilities
Creators: name: Araos, Ariel Claudio.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Generalized Metastable Switch Memristor Model
Creators: name: Molter, Timothy W.
name: Nugent, M. Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Memristor device modeling is currently a heavily researched topic and is becoming ever more important as memristor devices make their way into CMOS circuit designs, necessitating accurate and efficient memristor circuit simulations. In this paper, the Generalized Metastable Switch (MSS) memristor model is presented. The Generalized MSS model consists of a voltage-dependent stochastic component and a voltage-dependent exponential diode current component and is designed to be easy to implement, computationally efficient, and amenable to modeling a wide range of different memristor devices.
title: Friedrich Nietzsche and the will to meaning
Creators: name: Tracey, David Leo
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2022

description: Friedrich Nietzsche argues that human beings are characterized by a need to believe that their lives are meaningful. This need explains our vast human history of religious theodicies and asceticism. Certain commentators (Danto, Casey) hold that, according to Nietzsche, this will to meaning is a purely harmful disposition of the human being. Others (Leiter, Gardner) hold that the will to meaning is only valuable because it eliminates meaningless suffering. In contrast to both readings, I propose that Nietzsche rediscovers the value of the will to meaning for human life. I argue that, for Nietzsche, the will to meaning is life’s own solution to the threat of nihilism. To be alive, for Nietzsche, is to be subject to the conditions of conflict and ephemerality. Under these conditions, one can lose faith in their values and fall victim to nihilism: the mentality for which life is not worth living. In the absence of foundational grounding values, the will to meaning encourages us to commit to some principle with which to ground the meaning of life. The will to meaning, however, can be expressed in many forms, and some of these, e.g., the ascetic ideal in its Christian form, can themselves perpetuate nihilism. But not all expressions of the will to meaning perpetuate nihilism, and to argue that Nietzsche condemns the will to meaning in its entirety is to overlook the possibility of its healthy and vitalizing expressions. I argue that Nietzsche presents us with at least three images of such vitalizing expressions of the will to meaning. These are the alternative form of theodicy that he identifies in Ancient Greece, the use made of the ascetic ideal by the philosopher, and the productive tension that belongs to modern humanity as a bridge to the Übermensch. In each case, the will to meaning guides the individual to structure their life as a quest in a way that is enhancing by Nietzschean standards.
Zinc supplementation and immune factors in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
Creators: name: Jafari, Alireza
name: Noormohammadi, Zeinab
name: Askari, Mohammadreza
name: Daneshzad, Elnaz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to investigate the effect of zinc supplementation on immune factors in randomized controlled trials. A comprehensive search was done in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane databases up to December 2020. We used standard and weighted mean differences and 95% confidence intervals for net changes in selected parameters of immune responses. Subgroup analysis was used to find heterogeneity. Overall, 35 RCTs comprising 1995 participants were eligible for this meta-analysis. There was a significant reduction of circulating CRP (WMD: −32.4; 95% CI: −44.45 to −19.62, p < 0.001), hs-CRP (WMD: −0.95; 95% CI: −1.01 to −0.89, p < 0.001), Neutrophil levels (SMD: −0.46; 95% CI: −0.90 to −0.01, p = 0.043), following zinc supplementation. CD4 level also increased significantly, (WMD: 1.79; 95% CI: 0.57 to 3, p = 0.004). Zinc supplementation had no significant effect on WBC (SMD: −0.66; 95% CI: −1.67 to 0.36, p = 0.204), lymphocyte (WMD: 1.86; 95% CI: −0.86 to 4.58, p = 0.181), monocyte levels (SMD: −0.16; 95% CI: −0.07 to 0.39, p = 0.167), CD3 (SMD: 0.37; 95% CI: −0.49 to 1.22, p = 0.399). Zinc supplementation decreased the CRP, hs-CRP and TNF-α, IL-6, neutrophil and increased CD3 and CD4 level significantly.
Particle manipulation beyond the diffraction limit using structured super-oscillating light beams
Creators: name: Singh, Brijesh Kumar
name: Nagar, Harel
name: Roichman, Yael
name: Arie, Ady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diffraction limited resolution of light focused by a lens was derived in 1873 by Ernst Abbe. Later in 1952, a method to reach sub-diffraction light spots was proposed by modulating the wavefront of the focused beam. In a related development, super-oscillating functions, i.e. band limited functions that locally oscillate faster than their highest Fourier component, were introduced and experimentally applied for super-resolution microscopy. Up till now, only simple Gaussian-like sub-diffraction spots were used. Here we show that the amplitude and phase profile of these sub-diffraction spots can be arbitrarily controlled. In particular we utilize Hermite-Gauss, Laguerre-Gauss and Airy functions to structure super-oscillating beams with sub-diffraction lobes. These structured beams are then used for high resolution trapping and manipulation of nanometer-sized particles. The trapping potential provides unprecedented localization accuracy and stiffness, significantly exceeding those provided by standard diffraction limited beams.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to Journal
Adiabatic light propagation in nonlinear waveguide couplers with longitudinally varying detunings via resonance-locked inverse engineering
Creators: name: Dou, Fu-Quan
name: Wei, Ya-Ting
name: Yan, Zhi-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the adiabatic evolution of light in nonlinear waveguide couplers via resonance-locked inverse engineering based on stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP). The longitudinal varying detunings of the propagation coefficients are designed to eliminate dynamically the nonlinear effect, which induce the non-adiabatic oscillations. We show that different light evolutions such as complete light transfer, light split and light return can be realized adiabatically with appropriate choices of the detunings even in the nonlinear regime. The features open new opportunities for the realization of all-optical nonlinear devices with high fidelity in integrated optics.
description: 8 pages,6 figures
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ruhr Nr. 20
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Pädagogische Hochschule Ruhr
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Wahlbekanntmachung für die Wahlen zu den Fachbereichsversammlungen der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ruhr
description: Wahlbekanntmachung zur Wahl des Rektors
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ruhr ; 20
Algebraic formulas for the coefficients of mock theta functions and Weyl vectors of Borcherds products
Creators: name: Bruinier, Jan Hendrik
name: Schwagenscheidt, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F37, 11F27, 11G16

description: We present some applications of the Kudla-Millson and the Millson theta lift. The two lifts map weakly holomorphic modular functions to vector valued harmonic Maass forms of weight $3/2$ and $1/2$, respectively. We give finite algebraic formulas for the coefficients of Ramanujan's mock theta functions $f(q)$ and $ω(q)$ in terms of traces of CM-values of a weakly holomorphic modular function. Further, we construct vector valued harmonic Maass forms whose shadows are unary theta functions, and whose holomorphic parts have rational coefficients. This yields a rationality result for the coefficients of mock theta functions, i.e., harmonic Maass forms whose shadows lie in the space of unary theta functions. Moreover, the harmonic Maass forms we construct can be used to evaluate the Petersson inner products of unary theta functions with harmonic Maass forms, giving formulas and rationality results for the Weyl vectors of Borcherds products.
description: 16 pages
Curtailing smartphone use: a field experiment evaluating two interventions
Creators: name: Ochs, Carli
name: Sauer, Juergen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This field experiment aimed to address the issue of problematic smartphone usage (PSU) by examining the effectiveness of two frequently advised techniques to deal with PSU: moving problematic applications to a different page of the phone and changing the phone into greyscale. For one week, 97 student participants used their smartphone under one of the following three conditions: move app, greyscale, or control condition. Compared to the week before the intervention, participants significantly reduced their objective smartphone usage, but their self-reported PSU increased. These effects also emerged in the control group, which might have been due to heightened awareness of the participants of their smartphone usage. A major implication of the study is the need of using multiple outcome measures to understand the complex relationship between perceptions and behaviour. This study could be used as a blueprint for future research examining the effectiveness of interventions in the field of PSU.
Multi-class classification of Fermi-LAT sources with hierarchical class definition
Creators: name: Malyshev, Dmitry V.
name: Bhat, Aakash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the paper we develop multi-class classification of Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sources using machine learning with hierarchical determination of classes. One of the main challenges in the multi-class classification of the Fermi-LAT sources is that the size of some of the classes is relatively small, for example with less than 10 associated sources belonging to a class. In the paper we propose a hierarchical structure for the determination of the classes. This enables us to have control over the size of classes and to compare the performance of the classification for different numbers of classes. In particular, the class probabilities in the two-class case can be computed either directly by the two-class classification or by summing probabilities of children classes in multi-class classification. We find that the classifications with few large classes have comparable performance with classifications with many smaller classes. Thus, on the one hand, the few-class classification can be recovered by summing probabilities of classification with more classes while, on the other hand, the classification with many classes gives a more detailed information about the physical nature of the sources. As a result of this work, we construct three probabilistic catalogs. Two catalogs are based on Gaussian mixture model for the determination of the groups of classes: one with the requirement for the minimal number of sources in a group to be larger than 100, which results in six final groups of physical classes, while the other one has the requirement that the minimal number of sources in a group is larger than 15, which results in nine groups of physical classes. The third catalog is based on a random forest determination of the groups of classes with the requirement that the minimal number of sources in a group is larger than 100, which results in six groups of classes. (abridged)
description: 16 pages, 18 figures, results are available online at https://zenodo.org/record/7538664, v2: minor changes to Figure 1 and related discussion
Environmentally protective innovation in industry : who will do it?
Creators: name: Luders, Brian.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Effects of Leadership Style on Employees" Organizational Commitment: the case of Ministry of Public Service and Human Resource Development
Creators: name: Masho, Zinabu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of leadership styles on employees" organizational commitment in the ministry of public service and human resource development. Thus, attempts were made to provide answers to the research questions. The study employed both primary and secondary sources. For the purpose of gathering the data for this study, the simple random sampling technique was used to select participants for the questionnaire of the study. In order to collect qualitative data semi structured interviews employed through purposive sampling technique employed to select directors in managerial position. Two separate instruments, namely the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ), were used to measure leadership styles and employees" organizational commitment respectively. The findings revealed that although transformational leadership was the dominant one, the most dominant dimension of organizational commitment in the MOPSAHRD was affective commitment. The finding also shows that transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles have positive and statistically significant relationship with dimensions of organizational commitment. From the findings, it was concluded transformational and laissez-faire leadership behaviors play a more important role in developing and improving affective, continuance and normative commitment than the transactional leadership style. Finally, it was recommended that Ministry of Public Service and Human Resource Development should capable in inspiring and motivating employees towards organizational goal, participate employees in decision making process and provide employees rewarded for their achievement. Furthermore, the ministry must assign managerial positions based on merit, rather through succession or political affiliation.
MHD simulations of formation, sustainment and loss of Quiescent H-mode in the all-tungsten ASDEX Upgrade
Creators: name: Meier, Lorenz
name: Hoelzl, Matthias
name: Cathey, Andres
name: Huijsmans, Guido
name: Viezzer, Eleonora
name: Dunne, Mike
name: van Dijk, Jan
name: Zabala, Diego José Cruz
name: Lackner, Karl
name: Günter, Sibylle
name: Team, ASDEX Upgrade
name: Team, EUROfusion MST1
name: Team, JOREK
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Periodic edge localized modes (ELMs) are the non-linear consequences of pressure-gradient-driven ballooning modes and current-driven peeling modes becoming unstable in the pedestal region of high confinement fusion plasmas. In future tokamaks like ITER, large ELMs are foreseen to severely affect the lifetime of wall components as they transiently deposit large amounts of heat onto a narrow region at the divertor targets. Several strategies exist for avoidance, suppression, or mitigation of these instabilities, such as the naturally ELM-free quiescent H-mode (QH-mode). In the present article, an ASDEX Upgrade equilibrium that features a QH-mode is investigated through non-linear extended MHD simulations covering the dynamics over tens of milliseconds. The equilibrium is close to the ideal peeling limit and non-linearly develops saturated modes at the edge of the plasma. A dominant toroidal mode number of $n=1$ is found, for which the characteristic features of the edge harmonic oscillation are recovered. The saturated modes contribute to heat and particle transport preventing pedestal build-up to the ELM triggering threshold. The non-linear dynamics of the mode, in particular its interaction with the evolution of the edge safety factor is studied, which suggest a possible new saturation mechanism for the QH-mode. The simulations show good qualitative and quantitative agreement to experiments in AUG. In particular, the processes leading to the termination of QH-mode above a density threshold is studied, which results in the transition into an ELM regime. In the vicinity of this threshold, limit cycle oscillations are observed.
description: Revised version with modifications from review process included
D.1.4 Mapping & Impact Assessment Report
Creators: name: Bilgen, Semih
name: Cabeza, Nadja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: urban mobility, simulation-based assessment, environmental impact, passenger transport, effectiveness

description: Definitions of Lighthouse and Follower cities, and pertinent characteristics of replication use cases are presented in this deliverable, together with various earlier European efforts for smart and clean mobility and impact assessment, including Tide, Flow, Trilater and SHOW impact assessment approaches. The CIVITAS initiative has provided a fundamental framework for the RECIPROCITY project, and it has been adopted as the source of the guiding principles for impact assessment.
 The report presents a summary of the preliminary work on simulation-based assessment of the environmental impact and passenger transport effectiveness performed on two mobility use-cases: ‘’32. Intelligent BRT’’ (Istanbul, TR) and ‘’6. SOftly MObile Tourism Mobility’’ (Alpine Pearls/Werfenweng, AT). The PTV Vissim tool1 was used for simulation. Specifically, CO2 emission and passenger experience parameters of two lines (Avcılar – Zincirlikuyu, Zincirlikuyu – Söğütlüçeşme) of the Istanbul Metropolitan BRT system and three lines of the Werfenweng W3 Shuttle (Werfenweng-Pfarrwerfen-Bischofshofen, Werfenweng-Pfarrwerfen-Werfen and Tenneck-Werfen) were evaluated under various scenarios. For the Intelligent BRT use-case, it is shown that autonomous platooning significantly enhances transport effectiveness, decreasing passenger delays while reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by up to 21%.
 For the SOftly Mobile Tourism Mobility use case, it is shown that e-cars and e-bikes improve passenger experience, in terms of reduced waiting times, while also significantly reducing local emissions. An important issue, however, is that indirect emissions from e-vehicles, that is greenhouse gases generated in energy production plants, can reach significant levels, even though not local.
Spin resonance peak in Fe-based superconductors with unequal gaps
Creators: name: Korshunov, M. M.
name: Shestakov, V. A.
name: Togushova, Yu. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spin resonance in superconducting state of iron-based materials within multiband models with two unequal gaps, $Δ_L$ and $Δ_S$, on different Fermi surface pockets. We show that due to the indirect nature of the gap entering the spin susceptibility at the nesting wave vector $\mathbf{Q}$ the total gap $\tildeΔ$ in the bare susceptibility is determined by the sum of gaps on two different Fermi surface sheets connected by $\mathbf{Q}$. For the Fermi surface geometry characteristic to the most of iron pnictides and chalcogenides, the indirect gap is either $\tildeΔ= Δ_L + Δ_S$ or $\tildeΔ= 2Δ_L$. In the $s_{++}$ state, spin excitations below $\tildeΔ$ are absent unless additional scattering mechanisms are assumed. The spin resonance appears in the $s_\pm$ superconducting state at frequency $ω_R \leq \tildeΔ$. Comparison with available inelastic neutron scattering data confirms that what is seen is the true spin resonance and not a peak inherent to the $s_{++}$ state.
description: Published version, 6 pages, 3 figures, includes Supplemental material (4 pages) after the main text
Environmental auditing in Victoria : private enterprise and public sector examples
Creators: name: Geldard, Ruth.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The effect of dietary (poly)phenols on exercise-induced physiological adaptations: A systematic review and meta-analysis of human intervention trials
Creators: name: Martinez-Negrin, Guille
name: Acton, Jarred P.
name: Cocksedge, Stuart P.
name: Bailey, Stephen J.
name: Clifford, Tom
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine whether (poly)phenol supplementation augments the physiological adaptations to exercise training. Eligible studies administered a (poly)phenol supplement alongside ≥2 weeks of supervised exercise in adult humans. After screening, 22 studies were included in the analysis. Isoflavones and green tea (poly)phenols were administered most frequently. Quality assessments suggested most studies were free from bias. (Poly)phenols had no effect on training-induced adaptations in muscle strength, peak power output, and V̇O2max, but enhanced exercise capacity (SMD: 0.67, 95% CI: 0.25 to 1.09, p < 0.01). (Poly)phenols had no overall effect on fat loss (SMD: 0.10, 95% CI: −0.10 to 0.29; p = 0.97) or lean mass gains (SMD: 0.06, 95% CI: −0.18 to 0.30, p = 0.62) but sub-analysis suggested that isoflavones increased lean mass (SMD: 0.25, 95 CI%: −0.00 to 0.50, p = 0.05). Resveratrol impaired adaptations in two studies, although this was a non-statistically significant finding (SMD: −0.54, 95% CI: −1.15 to 0.07, p = 0.08). Our results suggest that isoflavones may augment aspects of the adaptive response to exercise training, while resveratrol may compromise training adaptations. More high-quality research is needed to resolve the effects of (poly)phenols on exercise training adaptations.