cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lower Redshift Analogues of the Sources of Reionization
Creators: name: Rauch, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Known populations of QSOs appear to fall short of producing the ionizing flux required for re-ionizing the universe. The alternative, galaxies as sources of ionizing photons, suffers from the problem that known types of galaxies are almost completely opaque to ionizing photons. For reionization to happen, either large numbers of (largely undiscovered) sources are required, or the known populations of galaxies need to have had a much larger escape fraction for ionizing radiation in the past. We discuss recent discoveries of faint z~3 Lyman alpha emitters with asymmetric, extended Lyman alpha emission regions, which apparently are related to interacting galaxies. The unusually shaped line profiles and the underlying stellar populations of these objects suggest the presence of damaged gaseous halos, infall of gas, tidal or stripped stellar features and young populations of hot stars, that would all be conducive to the release of ionizing radiation. As galaxy interactions and mergers increase with redshift, these effects can only become more important at earlier times, and so these interacting z~3 objects may be late, lower redshift analogues of the sources of reionization.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; contribution to the meeting First Stars IV, Kyoto, May 21-25, 2012
Social Hydrological Urban Spaces: Integrative Ecological Design Demonstration at the Neighbourhood Scale
Creators: name: Weststrate, Benjamin J.
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Design and Decorative Arts
subject: Landscape Architecture
subject: urban ecological design practice
subject: social ecological integration
subject: social hydrological design precedents
subject: design demonstration

description: The goal of this thesis was to advance the understanding of the tools and methods of urban ecological design practice to support the spatial and functional integration of social and hydrological processes at a neighbourhood scale. Fifty six urban social hydrological design precedents from Europe and North America were identified and reviewed, producing five integrative ecological design themes. These themes were then used to generate nine principles for social hydrological design, which formed the basis of a design demonstration proposal for redevelopment of the West Annex neighbourhood in Toronto, Canada. The West Annex application site results have confirmed the value of design demonstration as an urban ecological research method effective in advancing our understanding of social-ecological and spatial relationships as well as physically demonstrating this theory-practice nexus. The findings have also illustrated opportunities and barriers to the continued emergence of ecological design practice in urban redevelopment at a neighbourhood scale.
CMSSM with Yukawa Quasi-Unification Revisited
Creators: name: Karagiannakis, N.
name: Lazarides, G.
name: Pallis, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model with mu>0 supplemented by an `asymptotic' Yukawa coupling quasi-unification condition, which allows an acceptable b-quark mass, is reinvestigated. Imposing updated constraints from the cold dark matter abundance in the universe, B physics, the muon anomalous magnetic moment, and the mass mh of the lightest neutral CP-even Higgs boson, we find that the allowed parameter space is quite limited but not unnaturally small with the cold dark matter abundance suppressed only via neutralino-stau coannihilations. The lightest neutralino with mass in the range (341-677) GeV is possibly detectable in the future direct cold dark matter searches via its spin-independent cross section with nucleon. In the allowed parameter space of the model, we obtain mh=(117-122.2) GeV.
Programa de intervención en Salud Mental Perinatal. Hospital Germans Trias y Pujol
Creators: name: Giralt, M
name: Lorente, B
name: Canal, M
name: Gilberte, E
name: Cazorla, J
name: Esteban, D
name: Vicen, M
name: De Pablo, J
name: Comas, C
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 9 (2019): abril-mayo-junio
Proper Motions and Internal Dynamics in the Core of the Globular Cluster M71
Creators: name: Samra, Raminder Singh
name: Richer, Harvey B.
name: Heyl, Jeremy S.
name: Goldsbury, Ryan
name: Thanjavur, Karun G.
name: Walker, Gordon A.
name: Woodley, Kristin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used Gemini North together with the NIRI-ALTAIR adaptive optics imager in the H and K bands to explore the core of the Galactic globular cluster M71 (NGC 6838). We obtained proper motions for 217 stars and have resolved its internal proper motion dispersion. Using a 3.8 year baseline, the proper motion dispersion in the core is found to be 179 +/- 17 microarcsec/yr. We find no evidence of anisotropy in the motions and no radial variation in the proper motions with respect to distance from the cluster center. We also set an upper limit on any central black hole to be ~150 Msun at 90% confidence level.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Bose analogs of MIT bag model of hadrons in coherent precession
Creators: name: Autti, S.
name: Eltsov, V. B.
name: Volovik, G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it was demonstrated that magnon condensation in the trap exhibits the phenomenon of self-localization. When the number of magnons in the textural trap increases, they drastically modify the profile of the gap and highly increase its size. The trap gradually transforms from the initial harmonic one to the box with walls almost impenetrable for magnons. The resulting texture-free "cavity" filled by the magnon condensate wave function becomes the bosonic analog of the MIT bag, in which hadron is seen as a cavity surrounded by the QCD vacuum, in which the free quarks are confined in the ground or excited state. Here we consider the bosonic analog of the MIT bag with quarks on the ground and excited levels.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, version to appear in JETP Letters
Breisacher Münster - Künstlerische Sicht von
Creators: name: Dubois, Rémy
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster
The Imperatives of Health and Weight in Primary Care Clinics: Current and Envisioned Practices
Creators: name: Thille, Patricia
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education--Health
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Weight Bias
subject: Weight
subject: primary care
subject: Continuing education
subject: stigma
subject: Ethnography

description: Biopower imperatives about body weight, eating, and exercise are embedded in primary care practice. The dominant discourses about body weight frame the body as notably malleable, a direct reflection of eating and exercise behaviours, to the exclusion of other influences. In this dissertation, I aim to open dialogue on the question of how to care well for patients in a time when talking about weight, eating, and exercise is both expected and potentially stigmatizing and/or contributing to health disparities. I observed primary care appointments in three Alberta clinics, and a Canadian Obesity Network 5As of Obesity Management™ continuing professional development workshop. I interviewed the observed primary care clinicians, and key informants in the Canadian Obesity Network. Using analytic insights from discourse analysis, actor-network theory, and visual studies, I analysed both clinical practice and the workshop through the theoretical lenses of governmentality and Mol's logics of choice and care. In the clinic, weight-related talk elicited face-saving and confessional talk from most patients (that is, across body sizes), an indication of the strength of dominant discourses that assume malleability of bodies and behaviours, interpret fatness as failure, and reinforce individual responsibility for health. Clinicians’ responses to patients’ face-saving talk, and the ways in which clinicians used epidemiological knowledge to guide action varied. In the continuing professional development workshop, the Network’s vision moved obesity management closer to the logic of care, in part translating some obesities into a chronic disease frame through the folding in of a physiological theory to re-interpret epidemiological studies and clinical trials. This dissertation adds to conversations about anti-fat stigma and discrimination in health care, making visible some modes by which patients, clinicians, and knowledge brokers use and/or attempt to disrupt individualistic, blame-oriented discourses about fatness. The dissertation foregrounds a range of potential mediators that may influence translation of less-stigmatizing clinical practices into primary care clinics.
A MOOC in Nuclear- and Radio-Chemistry: from the design to the feedback
Creators: name: Negrin, Maddalena
name: Macerata, Elena
name: Concia, Francesca
name: Mariani, Mario
name: Mossini, Eros
name: Das, Sudeep
name: Airaksinen, Anu J.
name: Štrok, Marko
name: Pottgießer, Vivien
name: Walther, Clemens
name: Distler, Petr
name: John, Jan
name: Nemec, Mojmir
name: Retegan, Teodora
Publisher: name: Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distance learning
subject: Massive Open Online Course
subject: MOOC
subject: Nuclear chemistry
subject: Open Education
subject: Radiochemistry
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: Recently, the loss of expertise in the nuclear- and radio-chemistry (NRC) is becoming an issue of concern, because of few engaging curricula and career prospects. To counteract this trend, the Massive Open Online Course “Essential Radiochemistry for Society” has been developed with the intent of letting young students in scientific matters discover all the benefits of NRC to society and improving their awareness of these disciplines. The MOOC development process as well as the feedbacks collected in the first MOOC editions are analyzed by highlighting strong points and weakness of the followed strategy.
Additional file 2 of Are anti-PD-1-associated immune related adverse events a harbinger of favorable clinical prognosis in patients with gastric cancer?
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaoyun
name: Xu, Shuo
name: Wang, Jiaqi
name: Lv, Yalei
name: Wang, Na
name: Lai, Ruixue
name: Sha, Ziyue
name: Zhao, Qun
name: Guo, Zhanjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Clinical information of 24 patients in irAE group.
Catalytic Bitumen Partial Upgrading using Methane
Creators: name: Luan, Yingqi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: catalytic bitumen upgrading

description: It is highly desired to partially upgrade viscous heavy oil, to be transportable by pipeline. Conventionally, this is achieved by expensive catalytic hydrogenation under a hydrogen pressure of 15–20 MPa. In this thesis, it is reported that by using zinc and silver cation-modified HZSM-5 as the catalyst, methane can be activated at a relatively low temperature of 380 °C and a pressure of 5 MPa to efficiently upgrade heavy oil. The product is a partially upgraded crude oil which is more desirable for pipeline transportation and downstream refining. Before the evaluation of different catalysts, the reaction conditions optimization and better support identification is carried out. The catalyst with the best upgrading performance among all developed candidates comparison was 1 wt% Ag–10 wt% Zn/HZSM-5. This study opens a door for upgrading heavy oil with natural gas.
Common facultative endosymbionts do not influence sensitivity of cereal aphids to pyrethroids
Creators: name: Leybourne, Daniel J.
name: Melloh, Petra
name: Martin, Emily A.
Publisher: name: Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dose response
subject: Endosymbionts
subject: Insecticide tolerance
subject: Pest management
subject: Pyrethroid
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::590 | Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Cereal aphids, including the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi, and the grain aphid, Sitobion avenae, can transmit viruses that significantly reduce crop yields. To mitigate against yield losses, insecticides are routinely used to manage aphid populations. Aphids can form relationships with endosymbionts that confer fitness benefits or consequences to the aphid. Recent artificial inoculation experiments indicate that endosymbionts could increase aphid susceptibility to insecticides, but this has not been explored using aphid populations naturally infected with endosymbionts. Here, we sampled aphids from an important cereal production region in Lower Saxony, Germany. We characterized the endosymbiont profile of these aphid populations and conducted pyrethroid dose–response assays to test the hypothesis that facultative endosymbionts increase aphid susceptibility to insecticides. We find that the level of insecticide susceptibility is highly variable in S. avenae and we identify populations that are sensitive and tolerant to pyrethroids, including populations collected from the same field. For R. padi, we find evidence for decreased sensitivity to pyrethroids, representing the first report of reduced sensitivity to pyrethroids in R. padi sampled from Central Europe. We detected high endosymbiont infection frequencies in the aphid populations. 84% of aphids carry one facultative endosymbiont and 9% of aphids carry two facultative endosymbionts. We detected associations with Regiella insecticola, Fukatsia symbiotica, and Hamiltonella defensa. However, we do not identify a link between endosymbiont infection and insecticide susceptibility, indicating that other factors may govern the development of insecticide resistance and the need for alternative management strategies.
Complicaciones obstétricas en el trastorno bipolar: el rol de la salud mental en el riesgo de cesárea.
Creators: name: Solé, E
name: Roca, A
name: Torres, A
name: Fernández, N
name: Vieta, E
name: Garcia-Esteve, Ll
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 9 (2019): abril-mayo-junio
Der II. Weltkrieg in den Gemeinden der Seelsorgeeinheit Breisach-Merdingen
Creators: name: Brauchle, Josef
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster
Unser St. Stephansmünster – Symbol der Kriegsleiden Breisachs am Rhein
Creators: name: Grom, Erwin
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster
Mapping the extended TeV source HESS J1857+026 down to Fermi-LAT energies with the MAGIC telescopes
Creators: name: Klepser, S.
name: Krause, J.
name: Doro, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HESS J1857+026 is an extended TeV gamma-ray source discovered by H.E.S.S. very close to the Galactic plane. Located in the vicinity of the pulsar PSR J1856+0245, the source represents a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) candidate. In Fermi-LAT data, 7 photons above 100GeV were associated to it as VHE J1857+0252 by Neronov and Semikoz (2010), while in the previous MeV-GeV catalogs no associated source was reported yet. MAGIC was upgraded to a stereoscopic Cherenkov telescope system in 2009, which substantially improved its performance with respect to extended objects. We observed HESS J1857+026 in 2010 and analysed 29 hours of good quality stereoscopic data, yielding a highly significant detection. We present an energy spectrum from 100GeV to 10TeV and skymaps for two different energy regimes. The spectrum does not show any indication for an inverse Compton turnover, while we find an intrinsic extension of 0.22 \pm 0.02stat \pm 0.02sys in the energy range of 200 - 1000 GeV. We discuss the possible PWN nature of the source and the performance of MAGIC with respect to extended sources.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the 32nd ICRC, Beijing, China, August 2011
Journey Metaphors in Bank Merger Discourse: Cultural Identity Construction of TMBThanachart Bank Public Company Limited
Creators: name: Melada Sudajit-Apa
Publisher: name: Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Conceptual Metaphor Theory
merger and acquisition discourse
journey metaphor
corporate identity
bank merger

description: Journal of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University, 15, 1, ID: 266442, PP.1-39
Stability of Multi-Wythe Historic Stone Masonry Walls
Creators: name: Isfeld, Andrea
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Materials Science
subject: Masonry
subject: Heritage Structures
subject: Discrete Element Modelling
subject: Finite Element Modelling
subject: Structures

description: The Prince of Wales Fort was constructed in the 18th century in Churchill, Manitoba, in the Vauban style, being the most northerly construction of its kind, and intended to secure the fur trade in northern Canada for the British. The perimeter walls consist of two wythes of cut ashlars and a rubble core. Annual maintenance has become necessary to maintain this fort as a heritage structure with the rate of deterioration accelerating in the last decade, requiring the initiation of a large restoration project. This project involves rebuilding of damaged wall sections. During the course of the work, sections of wall thought to be in good condition were found to be undergoing significant displacements and were added to the project scope. Subsequently a more thorough understanding of the causes of failure was desired so work could be done to prevent further problem areas. To test the hypothesis that failure was initiated by degradation of the mortar within the walls, micro-modelling using both the Discrete (DEM) Finite Element (FEM) and Random Finite Element (RFEM) methods was implemented. The micro-modelling approach used in the DEM involved simplified geometry; the model was used to determine if a transition could be made from instability to stability for a given section by increasing the bond alone. The FEM used a detailed micro modelling approach, modelling both the units and mortar using continuum elements and modelling the unit mortar interface with a defined contact. Using the FE method a parametric analysis of both material strength and bond strength of the mortar within the wall sections was completed. The RFEM was used to randomize the material properties, which had been parametrically evaluated through the FEM. The research identifies a new general mechanism of failure for multi-wythe masonry walls, and their susceptibility to environmental conditions. The numerical results predicted that the stone-grout bond was the most critical parameter in the proposed intervention, and that in the grouted wall sections, collapse would be avoided and lateral displacements stabilized with the proposed treatment.
Optical and Infrared Analysis of Type II SN 2006BC
Creators: name: Gallagher, Joseph S.
name: Sugerman, B. E. K.
name: Clayton, Geoffrey C.
name: Andrews, J. E.
name: Clem, J.
name: Barlow, M. J.
name: Ercolano, B.
name: Fabbri, J.
name: Otsuka, M.
name: Wesson, R.
name: Meixner, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present nebular phase optical imaging and spectroscopy and near/mid-IR imaging of the Type II SN 2006bc. Observations reveal the central wavelength of the symmetric H$α$ line profile to be red-shifted with respect to the host galaxy H$α$ emission by day 325. Such an phenomenon has been argued to result from an asymmetric explosion in the iron-peak elements resulting in a larger mass of $^{56}$Ni and higher excitation of hydrogen on the far side of the SN explosion. We also observe a gradual blue-shifting of this H$α$ peak which is indicative of dust formation in the ejecta. Although showing a normal peak brightness, V $\sim$ -17.2, for a core-collapse SN, 2006bc fades by $\sim$6 mag during the first 400 days suggesting either a relatively low $^{56}$Ni yield, an increase in extinction due to new dust, or both. A short duration flattening of the light curve is observed from day 416 to day 541 suggesting an optical light echo. Based on the narrow time window of this echo, we discuss implications on the location and geometry of the reflecting ISM. With our radiative transfer models, we find an upper limit of 2 x 10$^{-3}$ M$_{\odot}$ of dust around SN 2006bc. In the event that all of this dust were formed during the SN explosion, this quantity of dust is still several orders of magnitude lower than that needed to explain the large quantities of dust observed in the early universe.
description: 6 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Resumen de la XXXIV Jornada de Terapia del Comportamiento y Medicina Conductual en la Práctica Clínica.
Creators: name: Agulló-Barbé, Miquel
name: Palazón-Llecha, Alba
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 9 (2019): abril-mayo-junio
Stadtpatrozinium im Zeichen der Pandemie
Creators: name: Hau, Martin
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster
Conceptual Metaphors and Metonymies in Chinese American Literary Works
Creators: name: Rungpat Roengpitya
Publisher: name: Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Chinese American
metaphor
metonymy
literary works

description: Journal of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University, 15, 1, ID: 267003, pp.1-33
Elemental Abundance Ratios in Stars of the Outer Galactic Disk. IV. A New Sample of Open Clusters
Creators: name: Yong, David
name: Carney, Bruce W.
name: Friel, Eileen D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present radial velocities and chemical abundances for nine stars in the old, distant open clusters Be 18, Be 21, Be 22, Be 32, and PWM 4. For Be 18 and PWM 4, these are the first chemical abundance measurements. Combining our data with literature results produces a compilation of some 68 chemical abundance measurements in 49 unique clusters. For this combined sample, we study the chemical abundances of open clusters as a function of distance, age, and metallicity. We confirm that the metallicity gradient in the outer disk is flatter than the gradient in the vicinity of the solar neighborhood. We also confirm that the open clusters in the outer disk are metal-poor with enhancements in the ratios [alpha/Fe] and perhaps [Eu/Fe]. All elements show negligible or small trends between [X/Fe] and distance (< 0.02 dex/kpc), but for some elements, there is a hint that the local (RGC < 13 kpc) and distant (RGC > 13 kpc) samples may have different trends with distance. There is no evidence for significant abundance trends versus age (< 0.04 dex/Gyr). We measure the linear relation between [X/Fe] and metallicity, [Fe/H], and find that the scatter about the mean trend is comparable to the measurement uncertainties. Comparison with solar neighborhood field giants shows that the open clusters share similar abundance ratios [X/Fe] at a given metallicity. While the flattening of the metallicity gradient and enhanced [alpha/Fe] ratios in the outer disk suggest a different chemical enrichment history to the solar neighborhood, we echo the sentiments expressed by Friel et al. that definitive conclusions await homogeneous analyses of larger samples of stars in larger numbers of clusters. Arguably, our understanding of the evolution of the outer disk from open clusters is currently limited by systematic abundance differences between various studies.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ
T-type channel interactions with calcium activated potassium channels
Creators: name: Rehak, Renata
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Neuroscience
subject: t-type channels
subject: Potassium channels
subject: calcium

description: In this thesis we investigate the relationship between calcium activated potassium channels (KCa1.1, KCa3.1) and low voltage activated calcium channels (Cav3). KCa1.1 are known to participate in neuronal excitability through their contribution to action potential repolarization and generation of fast afterhyperpolarizing potentials (AHPs) whereas KCa3.1 channels contribute to slow AHPs. Although both KCa channel isoforms have previously been shown to be activated by calcium influx through high voltage activated calcium channels their association with Cav3 channels is unknown. First, we show that Cav3 channels are able to activate KCa1.1 channels in medial vestibular neurons and this activation takes on the voltage profile of Cav3 channels, generating KCa1.1 currents at much lower voltages than previously described for the KCa1.1-HVA complex. Using tsA-201 cells, we further characterize this relationship and show that calcium influx through Cav3.2 greatly potentiates KCa1.1 current and shifts KCa1.1 activation to hyperpolarized potentials. We also find that this complex functions in a microdomain even though the two channels are able to co-immunoprecipitate. We narrowed down the site of interaction for Cav3.2 channels on KCa1.1 as transmembrane segment S0 which has previously been shown to be involved in the binding of the KCa1.1 auxiliary β4 subunit. Surprisingly, further investigation revealed that β4 subunit is also able to bind to Cav3.2 channels and functionally decreases Cav3 current density as well as shift its activation to more positive potentials. Also, when β4 is in a complex with KCa1.1 and Cav3.2, it negates the shift in KCa1.1 activation by Cav3.2. Finally, we show that the KCa3.1 channels which previously were not thought to participate in regulating the excitability of neurons in the CNS are present in Purkinje cells and contribute to the AHP in these cells. Furthermore, we show that Cav3 channels are able to activate these KCa3.1 channels and confer a voltage dependence to their activation based on the amount of calcium influx through Cav3.We further show that these two channels physically bind through multiple sites of interaction. This work generates a new role for the activation of KCa1.1 and KCa3.1 by Cav3.
Predigt anlässlich des Patroziniums St. Stephanus 26. Dezember 2019 in Breisach
Creators: name: Burger, Stephan
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster
Table S1. ;Table S2. ;Table S3. ;Table S4. from Exogenous testosterone increases the audience effect in healthy males: evidence for the social status hypothesis
Creators: name: Wu, Yin
name: Zhang, Yinhua
name: Ou, Jianxin
name: Hu, Yang
name: Zilioli, Samuele
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020

description: Table S1. Results of mixed-effect logistic regressions predicting donation decision with the following predictors (i.e. Cost, Benefit, Treatment) and their interaction terms.;Table S2. Results of mixed-effect logistic regressions predicting donation decision with personality traits included as covariates. ;Table S3. Results of mixed-effect logistic regressions predicting donation decision with interaction by personality traits.;Table S4. Results of mixed-effect logistic regressions predicting for choice latency.
Glockenstuhlsanierung im Nordturm
Creators: name: Hau, Martin
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster
Zum Tod von Pfarrer Franz-Josef Ehrath
Creators: name: Schmitt, Manuela
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster
Chiral superconductivity from repulsive interactions in doped graphene
Creators: name: Nandkishore, Rahul
name: Levitov, Leonid
name: Chubukov, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify graphene as a system where chiral superconductivity can be realized. Chiral superconductivity involves a pairing gap that winds in phase around the Fermi surface, breaking time reversal symmetry. We consider a unique situation arising in graphene at a specific level of doping, where the density of states is singular, strongly enhancing the critical temperature T_c. At this doping level, the Fermi surface is nested, allowing superconductivity to emerge from repulsive electron-electron interactions. We show using a renormalization group method that superconductivity dominates over all competing orders for any choice of weak repulsive interactions. Superconductivity develops in a doubly degenerate, spin singlet channel, and a mean field calculation indicates that the superconductivity is of a chiral d+id type. We therefore predict that doped graphene can provide experimental realization of spin-singlet chiral superconductivity.
Essays in International Trade and the Environment
Creators: name: Cherniwchan, Jevan Michael
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: NAFTA
subject: Trade Liberalization
subject: Pollution Emissions
subject: Protection
subject: Trade Restrictiveness
subject: Trade Policy History
subject: Environment
subject: Economic Growth
subject: Industrialization

description: This thesis is a collection of three essays on international trade and environmental economics. Chapter 1 examines the effect of trade policy on pollution. Using a novel dataset, I examine how trade liberalization following the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) affected the pollution emitted by manufacturing plants in the United States. My empirical approach exploits variation in protection across time, industries and geographic locations to isolate the causal effect of trade liberalization. I find that NAFTA led to significant reductions in the emissions of three common pollutants from affected plants. These changes are primarily due to reductions in emission intensity, as opposed to changes in the scale of plant output. My findings suggest a new channel through which trade affects the environment. Chapter 2 analyzes the relationship between international trade, economic growth and the environment. In this chapter, I argue the compositional shift from agricultural to industrial production – industrialization – is a central determinant of changes in environmental quality as economies develop. I develop a simple two-sector model of neoclassical growth and the environment in a small open economy to examine how industrialization affects the environment. The model is estimated using sulfur emissions data for 157 countries over the period 1970-2000. The results show the process of industrialization is a significant determinant of observed changes in emissions: a 1% increase in industry’s share of total output is associated with an 11.8% increase in the level of emissions per capita. Chapter 3, coauthored with Eugene Beaulieu, examines Canada’s trade policy at the end of the 19th century. Canada’s trade policy at this time is commonly viewed as protectionist and extremely costly. We employ the Anderson-Neary Trade Restrictiveness Index to reexamine this view. Based on product level customs data, we show that Canadian trade policy between 1870 and 1910 was more restrictive than previously understood, but created smaller welfare losses than previously believed. These results are primarily driven by high tariffs on inelastic, non-competing import goods. Although Canada’s tariff structure becomes more restrictive over the period, our findings indicate it was not as protectionist or as costly as once thought.
The α-Decay Chains of the $^{287, 288}115$ Isotopes using Relativistic Mean Field Theory
Creators: name: Sahu, B. K.
name: Bhuyan, M.
name: Mahapatro, S.
name: Patra, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the binding energy, root-mean-square radius and quadrupole deformation parameter for the synthesized superheavy element Z = 115, within the formalism of relativistic mean field theory. The calculation is dones for various isotopes of Z = 115 element, starting from A = 272 to A = 292. A systematic comparison between the binding energies and experimental data is made.The calculated binding energies are in good agreement with experimental result. The results show the prolate deformation for the ground state of these nuclei. The most stable isotope is found to be 282115 nucleus (N = 167) in the isotopic chain. We have also studied Qα and Tα for the α-decay chains of $^{287, 288}$115.
description: 12 Pages 6 Figures 3 Tables
The role of integrin alphavbeta6 in impaired wound healing and hair follicle regeneration
Creators: name: Xie, Yanshuang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Integrin αvβ6 is an epithelial-specific receptor that is absent from the healthy epidermis but synthesized de novo during wound repair. However, its function in wound repair is unknown. Integrin-mediated activation of transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) is the main activation mechanism of this key cytokine in vivo. It has been previously reported that chronic human wounds continue to express αvβ6 integrin and transgenic mice over-expressing αvβ6 integrin produce chronic hypertrophic wounds that contain high levels of TGF-β1. Therefore, we hypothesize that αvβ6 integrin-mediated regulation of TGF-β1 activity may play a role in the impaired wound healing process. To this end, a well-established dexamethasone-induced mouse impaired wound model was used in β6 integrin-deficient (β6-/-) and WT mice. The dexamethasone-treated β6-/- mice demonstrated an accelerated wound repair and enhanced keratinocyte proliferation in wound epithelium and particularly in the hair follicles, while the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and TGF-β1 activation were reduced compared to the treated WT controls. TGF-β1 has been implicated as an endogenous inducer of hair follicle regression. Since hair follicles constitutively express αvβ6 integrin, we tested whether αvβ6 integrin-mediated TGF-β1 signaling regulates hair regeneration and hair follicle involution process. Using a depilation-induced mouse hair cycling model we showed that hair regeneration was accelerated and hair follicle regression retarded in the β6-/- mice compared to WT controls. These changes were associated with enhanced keratinocyte proliferation in both hair follicles and interfollicular epidermis (IFE). Additionally, the levels of TGF-β1 and Smad2 phosphorylation were significantly reduced in β6-/- follicles during early anagen and anagen-catagen transition. Our study also demonstrated that the expression of integrin αvβ6 was strongly upregulated and specifically enhanced in the bulge stem cell niche during early hair regeneration. In summary, the results indicate that αvβ6 integrin plays an important inhibitory role in keratinocyte proliferation in both the IFE and hair follicles after wounding. The downregulated TGF-β1 signaling in β6-/- mice may impact epidermal stem cell behavior via modulating the microenvironment of the bulge stem cell niche after injury, which suggests a possible manipulation target in the functions of epidermal stem cells in the future.
Low-Cost Sensors-Based Attitude Estimation for Pedestrian Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments
Creators: name: Ali, Abdelrahman
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Electronics and Electrical
subject: Geotechnology
subject: Pedestrian
subject: Magnetometer Calibration
subject: Indoor Navigation
subject: Heading Estimation

description: Pedestrian navigation has received significant attention in the last few years due to potential development in the smartphones’ technologies. Todays, most smartphones, tablets, and other handheld devices are fully packed with the required sensors that can provide navigation information such as Global Positioning System (GPS), triad gyroscope, triad accelerometer, triad magnetometer, and pressure sensors. The pedestrian dead-reckoning (PDR) technique requires traveled distance and direction in order to estimate the user position. Total distance can be determined using the step counting and step length estimation techniques using accelerometer data while, the relative attitude information can be estimated using gyroscope and accelerometer data. However, absolute heading information is required which can be provided using GPS or magnetometer. In GPS-denied environments, a magnetometer is used as the main source of heading update. However, the EMF is experienced to severe degradation in such environments which affects the overall performance of the magnetometer. Different techniques are proposed to overcome the deficiency due to the distortion in the sensed magnetic field to improve the overall performance of the magnetometer in the cluttered environments. For that end, this research is targeted towards improving the attitude estimation for pedestrian navigation in the harsh environments by developing sensor fusion technique to utilize the gyroscope rate in complementary with accelerometer and magnetometer data. Also, several contributions for step detection and step length estimation techniques are achieved to improve the overall performance and accuracy of the Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) algorithm.
Conception d'un cours universitaire en situation de crise sanitaire. La plus-value de la double « casquette » enseignant-chercheur…au service de l'aide à la réussite !
Creators: name: Boumazguida, Karim
name: De Lièvre, Bruno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Coronavirus
Aide à la réussite
Pédagogie universitaire
Communication

description: Communication orale présentée à la 10eme édition des journées internationales TICE d'Oujda (Maroc).
Oka's lemma, convexity, and intermediate positivity conditions
Creators: name: Herbig, A. -K.
name: McNeal, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32T27, 32T35, 32F17

description: A new proof of Oka's lemma is given for smoothly bounded, pseudoconvex domains $D\subset\mathbb{C}^n$. The method of proof is then also applied to other convexity-like hypotheses on the boundary of $D$.
Minimum Profile Hellinger Distance Estimation for Two-Sample Location Models
Creators: name: Yang, Jian
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Minimum Hellinger distance (MHDE) estimation is obtained by minimizing the Hellinger distance between an assumed parametric model and a nonparametric estimation of the model. This estimation receives increasing attention over the past decades due to its asymptotic efficiency and excellent robustness against small deviations from assumed model. Minimum profile Hellinger dis- tance (MPHDE) estimation, proposed by Wu and Karunamuni (2015), is an extension of MHDE particularly for semiparametric models. In this thesis, we investigate two-sample symmetric loca- tion models and propose to use MPHDE to estimate the unknown location parameters. Asymptotic normality and robustness properties of the estimation are discussed and a comparison with LSE and MLE is carried out through Monte Carlo simulation studies. The results show that MPHDE is very competitive with LSE and MLE in terms of efficiency , while it appears to be much more robust than LSE and MLE against outlying observations. We also demonstrate the application of the estimation to a breast cancer data.
Der Münsterbauverein Breisach am Rhein wird wieder gegründet
Creators: name: Braun, Willi
name: Wiedensohler, Peter
name: Grom, Erwin
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster
Exploring Metacognition and Higher Order Thinking Through Digital Video Creation: A Multiple Case Study
Creators: name: Bene, Rose Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Technology
subject: Metacognition, Higher Order Thinking
subject: Digital Video and Technology
subject: Teaching and Learning Strategies

description: Metacognition is the ability to think about and modify or regulate one’s thinking or learning. Since the 1970’s, many studies have investigated the impact of applying metacognitive knowledge, strategies, and self-regulating skills to learning tasks in various disciplines and educational contexts. More often than not, these interventions have resulted in learning gains for the students involved. On a different front, the proliferation of new technologies in the classroom has opened the door for students to discover new ways of acquiring and constructing knowledge, and representing their thinking. The purpose of this qualitative research study was to bring these seemingly divergent research strands together by exploring students’ thinking while they are involved in digital video creation. A multiple case study examining ten high school students’ thinking as they created digital videos was undertaken. The study was informed by a number of theoretical models on metacognition and self-regulated learning as well as literature on constructivist learning, visual research methods, collaborative learning, and the use of digital video in the classroom. A conceptual framework of metacognition was developed from existing models in the literature. Constructs within this framework were used as macro-level coding categories in the data analysis. Both deductive and inductive methods were used to examine the data. Findings revealed many occurrences of high school students’ implicit metacognitive thinking and skills during the process of video creation. When questioned by the researcher, all students were able to explicitly voice their thoughts and explanations about their thinking, feelings, and actions. Students treated DV technology as a full intellectual partner for scaffolding their learning and representations of knowledge. In addition, the collaborative learning involved in video creation became the impetus for shared metacognitions. These findings hold much promise for using DV creation as a tool for stimulating or eliciting metacognitive thinking and skills. As well, the conceptual framework may be useful as an analytical tool in future studies or as the basis for examining the many interrelationships among the different variables that influence metacognition.
Co-regulation of catechins biosynthesis responses to temperature changes by shoot growth and catechin related gene expression in tea plants (Camellia sinensis L.)
Creators: name: Xiang, Ping
name: Wilson, Iain W.
name: Huang, Jiaxin
name: Zhu, Qiufang
name: Tan, Meng
name: Lu, Jing
name: Liu, Jianghong
name: Gao, Shuilian
name: Zheng, Shizhong
name: Lin, Dongyi
name: Zhang, Yue
name: Lin, Jinke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Catechins are the major compounds in tea (Camellia sinenesis L.) and are responsible for its sensory qualities and health benefits. The study investigated the response of catechins biosynthesis to temperature changes in the controlled conditions and the possible mechanisms. The low-temperature treatment inhibited the growth of young shoots, suppressed the expression of catechins biosynthesis-related genes (except CsCHS3, CsDFR2, CsLAR2), and decreased the content of total esterified catechins but increased the content of total non-esterified catechins in tea plants. When the temperature increased from 15°C to 30°C, the young shoots grew faster, and the contents of total catechins, total esterified catechins and epigallocatechin gallate in tea plants increased by 87.7%, 92.5% and 53.6%, respectively. Meanwhile, the expression of growth-related genes was upregulated in the higher temperature treatment and was consistent with the response of catechins biosynthesis-related genes to temperature. The positive correlation and the cubic function (R2 > 90%) were noted between the growth of young shoots and catechins content. In brief, the response of catechins biosynthesis to temperature changes coordinately regulated by shoot growth and catechins genes expression of tea plants. Our findings provide the reference for improving tea quality by increasing its catechin contents.
Vor 30 Jahren - UNSER MÜNSTER erscheint erstmals
Creators: name: Grom, Erwin
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster
Some sharp inequalities involving Seiffert and other means and their concise proofs
Creators: name: Jiang, Wei-Dong
name: Qi, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26E60 (Primary) 11H60, 26A48, 26D05, 33B10 (Secondary)

description: In the paper, by establishing the monotonicity of some functions involving the sine and cosine functions, the authors provide concise proofs of some known inequalities and find some new sharp inequalities involving the Seiffert, contra-harmonic, centroidal, arithmetic, geometric, harmonic, and root-square means of two positive real numbers $a$ and $b$ with $a\ne b$.
description: 10 pages
Grusswort
Creators: name: Rein, Oliver
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster
Eberhard Wittekind: Architekt am Breisacher Münster
Creators: name: Grom, Erwin
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2020

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 57 (2020): Unser Münster: 30 Jahre Unser Münster