cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 5 of Diagnosis of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis using loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) protocols: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Erber, Astrid Christine
name: Sandler, Peter Julian
name: de Avelar, Daniel Moreira
name: Swoboda, Ines
name: Cota, Gláucia
name: Walochnik, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S2. Forest plots for sensitivity and specificity for all identified datasets.
The jet of the BL Lacertae object PKS 2201+044: MAD near-IR adaptive optics observations and comparison with optical, radio and X-ray data
Creators: name: Liuzzo, E.
name: Falomo, R.
name: Treves, A.
name: Donato, D.
name: Sambruna, M.
name: Arcidiacono, C.
name: Giovannini, G.
name: Farinato, J.
name: Moretti, A.
name: Ragazzoni, R.
name: Diolaiti, E.
name: Lombini, M.
name: Brast, R.
name: Donaldson, R.
name: Kolb, J.
name: Marchetti, E.
name: Tordo, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relativistic jets are a common feature of radio loud active galactic nuclei. Multifrequency observations are a unique tool to constrain their physics. We report on a detailed study of the properties of the jet of the nearby BL Lac object PKS 2201+044, one of the rare cases where the jet is detected from radio to X-rays. We use new adaptive optics near-IR observations of the source, obtained with the ESO multi-conjugated adaptive optics demonstrator (MAD) at the Very Large Telescope. These observations acquired in Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics mode are combined with images previously achieved by HST, VLA and Chandra to perform a morphological and photometric study of the jet. We find a noticeable similarity in the morphology of the jet at radio, near-IR and optical wavelengths. We construct the spectral shape of the main knot of jet that appears dominated by synchrotron radiation. On the basis of the jet morphology and the weak lines spectrum we suggest that PKS 2201+044 belongs to the class of radio sources intermediate between FRIs and FRIIs.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for pubblication in A&A
A gradient boosting tree approach for SPEI classification and prediction in Turkey
Creators: name: Mehr, Ali Danandeh
name: Attar, Nasrin Fathollahzadeh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A gradient boosting regression tree (GBT) approach is introduced for 1- and 3-month-ahead standardized precipitation–evapotranspiration index (SPEI) classification for Antalya and Ankara in Turkey. First, the numerical target series of SPEI-6 was converted into the categorical vectors of extreme wet, wet, near normal, dry, and extremely dry labels. Then, a GBT model was trained and validated using the lagged SPEI-6 series of four global grid points closest to each city. The model efficiency was surveyed in terms of kappa, overall accuracy, misclassification rate, class recall, class precision, and F1 score. The GBT was also compared with the traditional decision tree and state-of-the-art random forest models developed as the benchmarks. Despite facing the unbalanced label vectors, the GBT approach showed promising processing performance with an overall accuracy of 77% (83%) and 74% (72%) in Antalya (Ankara) at 1- and 3-month-ahead prediction scenarios, respectively.
Higher-dimensional violations of the holographic entropy bound
Creators: name: Hod, Shahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The holographic bound, $S<=A/4{\ell^2_P}$, asserts that the entropy $S$ of a system is bounded from above by a quarter of the area $A$ of a circumscribing surface measured in Planck areas. This bound is widely regarded as part of the elusive fundamental theory of nature. In fact, the bound is known to be valid for generic weakly gravitating isolated systems in {\it three} spatial dimensions. Nevertheless, the entropy content of a physical system is expected to be an increasing function of the number of spatial dimensions (the more the dimensions, the more ways there are to split up a given amount of energy). Thus, one may expect the challenge to the holographic entropy bound to become more and more serious as the number of spatial dimensions increases. In this paper we explicitly show that thermal radiation in $D$ flat spatial dimensions with $D\gtrsim 10^2$ may indeed violate the holographic entropy bound.
description: 5 pages
Haptic teleoperation with impedance control based on learned inverse dynamics with application in homecare robotics
Creators: name: Tufail, Muhammad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Bilateral teleoperation allows a human operator to interact with a remote environment using the superior actuation and sensing skills of a robot and the unmatched cognitive skills of a human operator. It has shown promising results in applications such as telemedicine, telesurgery, and access to hazardous or remote environments. In all of these applications, the robot has to co-exist with humans and other delicate objects in the environment and therefore has to behave in a compliant (“soft”) manner. Moreover, in order to improve the task performance, the interaction force must be fed back to the operator to feel. In this backdrop, the present thesis focuses on the application of bilateral teleoperation in a homecare environment. In view of the underlying challenges involved with bilateral teleoperation, this dissertation focuses on the development of a complete teleoperation system that can effectively perform in real-time. A primary objective here is to use the impedance control approach to design local controllers for master and slave manipulators where the dynamic relationship between the applied forces and the resulting positions of the manipulators during interaction, is controlled. Impedance control requires the identification of the robot inverse dynamic model that can be computed in real-time and can adapt to changes in the actual dynamics of the robot. A complete data-driven learning-based technique called Locally Weighted Projection Regression (LWPR) is therefore used, which does not assume any a-priori knowledge of the inertial parameters of the robot. Performance of the system is improved by using online estimation of impedance of the unknown environment with which the slave manipulator interacts. A method of admittance control is designed. This method overcomes the shortcomings of the standard impedance control, as observed during experimentation. In the end, a method is developed to improve the transparency and position synchronization of the popular approach of wave-variables, which ensures stability under time delay that is induced by the communication channel during the exchange of information between the master and the slave ends. The effectiveness of the present developments is validated in an environment of homecare robotics, through simulation and experimentation, and the results are discussed.
HISTÓRIA Religiosa de Portugal. Dir. de Carlos Moreira Azevedo. Vol. 2: Humanismos e reformas. Coord. de João Francisco Marques; António Camões Gouveia. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores, 2001. 700 p.
Creators: name: Cardim, Pedro
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2003

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 15 (2003): Poder, Sociedade e Religião na Época Moderna
Aqueous microwave assisted novel synthesis of isothiocyanates by amine catalyzed thionation of isocyanides with Lawesson's reagent
Creators: name: Salami, Sodeeq Aderotimi
name: Smith, Vincent J.
name: Krause, Rui W. M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A green and sustainable chemistry approach for organic synthesis is described here, which involves microwave exposure of reactants in the presence of water. A general, practical, and highly efficient protocol for the preparation of a broad range of functionalized isothiocyanates has been developed from their corresponding isocyanides using Lawesson's reagent and catalytic amount of amine bases, particularly triethylamine under microwave irradiation conditions. As opposed to established approaches that employ toxic or volatile electrophilic liquids (thiophosgene, its derivatives, or CS2). In addition, these compounds were synthesized also by conventional heating procedures for comparison. Comparison between conventional and microwave-assisted synthesis was carried out by comparing total reaction time and percentage yield. The results suggest that microwave-assisted syntheses lead to higher yields within very short reaction times. From isocyanides to isothiocyanates using Lawesson’s reagent in the presence of triethylamine under conventional and microwave heating conditions.
Additional file 1 of Over-dispersed Trypanosoma cruzi parasite load in sylvatic and domestic mammals and humans from northeastern Argentina
Creators: name: Enriquez, Gustavo Fabián
name: Bua, Jacqueline
name: Orozco, María Marcela
name: Macchiaverna, Natalia Paula
name: Otegui, Julián Antonio Alvarado
name: Argibay, Hernán Darío
name: Fernández, María del Pilar
name: Gürtler, Ricardo Esteban
name: Cardinal, Marta Victoria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Profile of examined hosts according to species.
Representation justice as a research agenda for socio-hydrology and water governance
Creators: name: Haeffner, Melissa
name: Hellman, Dana
name: Cantor, Alida
name: Ajibade, Idowu
name: Oyanedel-Craver, Vinka
name: Kelly, Maura
name: Schifman, Laura
name: Weasel, Lisa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: We propose representation justice as a theoretical lens for socio-hydrology and water governance studies. An exploratory survey of 496 water sector employees in the United States revealed that self-identifying females felt more strongly discriminated against due to their gender and other social factors, compared to self-identifying males. Responses unveiled how macro- and microaggressions impede career pathways to leadership positions and, therefore, representation. We identify ways in which socio-hydrology can benefit from a representation justice lens by considering the following: (1) how power and politics shape the composition of the water sector and decision-making processes; (2) how available quantitative data do not account for lived experiences of individuals in the water sector; and (3) how intersectionality cannot easily be accounted for in current socio-hydrological models. We offer a representation justice research and water management agenda that goes beyond quota filling to include meaningful engagement with diverse groups, lenses, and knowledge.
Role of class 5 semaphorins in LTD-mediated synapse elimination
Creators: name: Gomm, Rachel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The semaphorins are a large protein family, highly conserved across diverse phyla. They are expressed throughout the body, with a diversity of functions including axon guidance, synapse development and plasticity, cell proliferation and migration, dendritic arborization, and neuronal polarization. Class 5 semaphorins, Sema5A and Sema5B, are highly similar transmembrane proteins, functioning in developmental axon guidance and synapse plasticity. Sema5A is genetically-linked to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and its expression is decreased in people with ASD. However, its function in synapse plasticity is poorly understood. Our study examines the role of Sema5A in synapse elimination and the regulation of class 5 semaphorins by neural activity, specifically long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD). We demonstrate that Sema5A, like Sema5B mediates synapse elimination of hippocampal neurons. Furthermore, we show that the expression of both class 5 semaphorins is up-regulated by LTD and that LTD enhances the membrane localization of Sema5A. As LTD and Sema5A were independently found to mediate synapse elimination and as we determined that Sema5A is up-regulated by LTD, we tested the hypothesis that LTD-mediates synapse elimination through Sema5A up-regulation. However, we discovered that Sema5A is not required for LTD-mediated synapse elimination and therefore likely functions to eliminate synapses through a separate pathway.
2023 JDS Suppl.docx
Creators: name: Belanche, Alejandro
name: Arturo-Schaan, Marisela
name: Leboeuf, Lara
name: R. Yáñez-Ruiz, David
name: Ignacio Martín-García, A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Animal nutrition
Animal growth and development

description: Early life supplementation with a natural blend containing turmeric, thymol and yeast cell wall components to optimize rumen anatomical and microbiological development and productivity in dairy goats
A full Eulerian finite difference approach for solving fluid-structure coupling problems
Creators: name: Sugiyama, Kazuyasu
name: Ii, Satoshi
name: Takeuchi, Shintaro
name: Takagi, Shu
name: Matsumoto, Yoichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new simulation method for solving fluid-structure coupling problems has been developed. All the basic equations are numerically solved on a fixed Cartesian grid using a finite difference scheme. A volume-of-fluid formulation (Hirt and Nichols (1981, J. Comput. Phys., 39, 201)), which has been widely used for multiphase flow simulations, is applied to describing the multi-component geometry. The temporal change in the solid deformation is described in the Eulerian frame by updating a left Cauchy-Green deformation tensor, which is used to express constitutive equations for nonlinear Mooney-Rivlin materials. In this paper, various verifications and validations of the present full Eulerian method, which solves the fluid and solid motions on a fixed grid, are demonstrated, and the numerical accuracy involved in the fluid-structure coupling problems is examined.
description: 38 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication in J. Comput. Phys
On the applicability of several tests to models with not identically distributed random effects
Creators: name: Gaigall, Daniel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We consider Kolmogorov–Smirnov and Cramér–von-Mises type tests for testing central symmetry, exchangeability, and independence. In the standard case, the tests are intended for the application to independent and identically distributed data with unknown distribution. The tests are available for multivariate data and bootstrap procedures are suitable to obtain critical values. We discuss the applicability of the tests to random effects models, where the random effects are independent but not necessarily identically distributed and with possibly unknown distributions. Theoretical results show the adequacy of the tests in this situation. The quality of the tests in models with random effects is investigated by simulations. Empirical results obtained confirm the theoretical findings. A real data example illustrates the application.
Additional file 1 of Sequential azacitidine and carboplatin induces immune activation in platinum-resistant high-grade serous ovarian cancer cell lines and primes for checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy
Creators: name: Wong-Brown, Michelle W.
name: van der Westhuizen, Andre
name: Bowden, Nikola A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1: Suggested processing definitions using the Incucyte® Zoom.
Attaining Customer Satisfaction! The Role of Customer Value and Relation Base Marketing A Study of Policy Holders of Peshawar Pakistan
Creators: name: IJMVSC
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Consumer satisfaction is always a question mark in minds of sellers as it is very difficult to find that whatexactly consumer want from the seller. For the very same reason this research is conducted that howcustomer satisfaction can be gained with the help of customer value and relation base marketing. Customersatisfaction is one of the most important issues in marketing field from beginning and its play a crucial rolein firm profit maximization. Study collect data from 150 policy holders of different insurance companies ofPeshawar Pakistan on systematic random sampling method. A structured questionnaire used to collect datafrom the respondents. Study shows that value added services and conflict handling are the major reason forthe customer satisfaction. Managers can use this study and can implement these findings in their businessfor their customer satisfaction and more money earnings
Composition of Management System for Smart Homes
Creators: name: Levin, Mark Sh.
name: Andrushevich, Aliaksei
name: Klapproth, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper addresses modular hierarchical design (composition) of a management system for smart homes. The management system consists of security subsystem (access control, alarm control), comfort subsystem (temperature, etc.), intelligence subsystem (multimedia, houseware). The design solving process is based on Hierarchical Morphological Multicriteria Design (HMMD) approach: (1) design of a tree-like system model, (2) generation of design alternatives for leaf nodes of the system model, (3) Bottom-Up process: (i) multicriteria selection of design alternatives for system parts/components and (ii) composing the selected alternatives into a resultant combination (while taking into account ordinal quality of the alternatives above and their compatibility). A realistic numerical example illustrates the design process of a management system for smart homes.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Coupled states of electromagnetic fields with magnetic-dipolar-mode vortices: MDM-vortex polaritons
Creators: name: Kamenetskii, E. O.
name: Joffe, R.
name: Shavit, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under the influence of the material environment, electromagnetic fields in the near-field regime exhibit quite different nature from those in the far-field free space. A coupled state of an electromagnetic field with an electric or magnetic dipole-carrying excitation is well known as a polariton. Such a state is the result of the mixing of a photon with an excitation of a material. The most discussed types of polaritons are phonon-polaritons, exciton-polaritons, and surface plasmon-polaritons. Recently, it was shown that in microwaves strong magnon-photon coupling can be achieved due to magnetic-dipolar-mode (MDM) vortices in small thin-film ferrite disks. These coupled states can be specified as MDM-vortex polaritons. In this paper we study properties of MDM-vortex polaritons. We show that MDM-vortex polaritons are characterized by helicity behaviors. For the observed frequency splits of MDM resonances there are different-type helicities. In the split-resonance states one has or localization, or cloaking of electromagnetic fields. We analyze numerically a variety of the field topological structures of MDM-vortex polaritons and give theoretical insights into the possible origin of such topologically distinctive states. The shown properties of MDM-vortex polaritons can be useful for realization of novel microwave metamaterial structures and near-field sensing applications.
Cadmium exposure and DNA damage (genotoxicity): a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Nagaraju, Raju
name: Kalahasthi, Ravibabu
name: Balachandar, Rakesh
name: Bagepally, Bhavani Shankara
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Existing literature suggests an association between chronic cadmium (Cd) exposure and the induction of DNA damage and genotoxicity. However, observations from individual studies are inconsistent and conflicting. Therefore current systematic review aimed to pool evidence from existing literature to synthesize quantitative and qualitative corroboration on the association between markers of genotoxicity and occupational Cd exposed population. Studies that evaluated markers of DNA damage among occupationally Cd-exposed and unexposed workers were selected after a systematic literature search. The DNA damage markers included were chromosomal aberrations (chromosomal, chromatid, sister chromatid exchange), Micronucleus (MN) frequency in mono and binucleated cells (MN with condensed chromatin, lobed nucleus, nuclear buds, mitotic index, nucleoplasmatic bridges, pyknosis, and karyorrhexis), comet assay (tail intensity, tail length, tail moment, and olive tail moment), and oxidative DNA damage (8-hydroxy-deoxyguanosine). Mean differences or standardized mean differences were pooled using a random-effects model. The Cochran-Q test and I2 statistic were used to monitor heterogeneity among included studies. Twenty-nine studies with 3080 occupationally Cd-exposed and 1807 unexposed workers were included in the review. Cd among the exposed group was higher in blood [4.77 μg/L (−4.94–14.48)] and urine samples [standardized mean difference 0.47 (0.10–0.85)] than in the exposed group. The Cd exposure is positively associated with higher levels of DNA damage characterized by increased frequency of MN [7.35 (−0.32–15.02)], sister chromatid exchange [20.30 (4.34–36.26)], chromosomal aberrations, and oxidative DNA damage (comet assay and 8OHdG [0.41 (0.20–0.63)]) compared to the unexposed. However, with considerable between-study heterogeneity. Chronic Cd exposure is associated with augmented DNA damage. However, more extensive longitudinal studies with adequate sample sizes are necessary to assist the current observations and promote comprehension of the Cd’s role in inducing DNA damage. Prospero Registration ID: CRD42022348874.
Course on System Design (structural approach)
Creators: name: Levin, Mark Sh.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The article describes a course on system design (structural approach) which involves the following: issues of systems engineering; structural models; basic technological problems (structural system modeling, modular design, evaluation/comparison, revelation of bottlenecks, improvement/upgrade, multistage design, modeling of system evolution); solving methods (optimization, combinatorial optimization, multicriteria decision making); design frameworks; and applications. The course contains lectures and a set of special laboratory works. The laboratory works consist in designing and implementing a set of programs to solve multicriteria problems (ranking/selection, multiple choice problem, clustering, assignment). The programs above are used to solve some standard problems (e.g., hierarchical design of a student plan, design of a marketing strategy). Concurrently, each student can examine a unique applied problem from his/her applied domain(s) (e.g., telemetric system, GSM network, integrated security system, testing of microprocessor systems, wireless sensor, corporative communication network, network topology). Mainly, the course is targeted to developing the student skills in modular analysis and design of various multidisciplinary composite systems (e.g., software, electronic devices, information, computers, communications). The course was implemented in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University).
description: 22 pages, 14 figures
Additional file 1 of HbA1c variability predicts cardiovascular complications in type 2 diabetes regardless of being at glycemic target
Creators: name: Ceriello, Antonio
name: Lucisano, Giuseppe
name: Prattichizzo, Francesco
name: La Grotta, Rosalba
name: Franzén, Stefan
name: Svensson, Ann-Marie
name: Eliasson, Björn
name: Nicolucci, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures and tables.
Oral health care related perceptions and experiences of homeless adults in Vancouver's downtown east-side
Creators: name: Mago, Anjali
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Background: Oral health problems are particularly prevalent among homeless adults in Vancouver. The extensive unmet oral health care needs (both clinically evaluated and self-reported) indicate the importance to understand homeless adults’ perceptions and attitudes towards use of oral health care to improve their oral health. The purpose of this research was to explore homeless adults’ perspectives on oral health and oral health care services through their experiences with the access to and use of oral health care services. Methods: A qualitative approach was taken and 25 semi-structured interviews were conducted with homeless adults in Vancouver in regards to their self-perceived oral health status and to their experiences of access to and use of oral health care services. Results: For the majority of the homeless participants, maintaining good oral health was important while they perceived their oral health to be poor. Participants reported a high need in oral health care and that many past experiences with oral health services were disappointing. As such, they described their unwillingness to visit dentists regularly because they feared that they would not receive appropriate oral health care services. In addition to the cost of care and lack of adequate public oral health services, the main concern of homeless adults’ were the indifferent attitude by dentists, and lack of information about the available oral health care resources. Conclusion: The study participants ranked oral health as important and perceived high need of oral health care services. The past experiences with dentists influence the participants’ behavior towards future use of oral health services. The study results suggest that the current state of affairs between oral health service providers and homeless adults is a divisive one filled with distrust, disrespect, and at times professional irresponsibility.
« Saincte et précieuse difformité » – Laideur et esthétique chrétienne dans la littérature française de la première Renaissance (1500 -1558)
Creators: name: Dembruk, Sofina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ugliness; Marguerite de Navarre; Clément Marot; Joachim Du Bellay; Christianity; Poetics

description: This work wants to investigate the meaning of ugliness in a religious aesthetic perspective. It focuses on French authors of the first half of the 16th century who belong to the group of the so-called "évangéliques", a humanist Christian current that focuses on the principles of the Gospel and is also influenced by the writings of the Church Fathers, especially those of Augustine and the pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. Even if these Christian intertexts are not primarily aesthetic in nature, there are statements about aesthetics that can be derived from them. Our investigations are thus located at the interface between aesthetics and theology and want to question how, from a Christian perspective, the meaning of ugliness can change in a literary discourse. These theological imprints are not only reflected in sacred literature, but also permeate profane works. In our text corpus we consider the collection of novellas by Margaret of Navarre, namely The Heptameron (1559), and selected poems by Clément Marot (1496-1544). We would like to show how these two authors integrate Christian aesthetic principles into their works and how this can lead to an appreciation of the ugly in a Christian perspective. We finally contrast our evangelical authors with the works of Joachim Du Bellay in order to show how ugliness remains a subject of predilection for poetic experimentation. Keywords : Ugliness; Christian Esthetics; Neoplatonic Theories; Marsilio Ficino; the “Évangéliques”; Renaissance; Silenus; Erasmus; Clément Marot; Marguerite de Navarre; Joachim Du Bellay; Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite; Augustin
Giant impacts in the Saturnian System: a possible origin of diversity in the inner mid-sized satellites
Creators: name: Sekine, Yasuhito
name: Genda, Hidenori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is widely accepted that Titan and the mid-sized regular satellites around Saturn were formed in the circum-Saturn disk. Thus, if these mid-sized satellites were simply accreted by collisions of similar ice-rock satellitesimals in the disk, the observed wide diversity in density (i.e., the rock fraction) of the Saturnian mid-sized satellites is enigmatic. A recent circumplanetary disk model suggests satellite growth in an actively supplied circumplanetary disk, in which Titan-sized satellites migrate inward by interaction with the gas and are eventually lost to the gas planet. Here we report numerical simulations of giant impacts between Titan-sized migrating satellites and smaller satellites in the inner region of the Saturnian disk. Our results suggest that in a giant impact with impact velocity > 1.4 times the escape velocity and impact angle of ~45 degree, a smaller satellite is destroyed, forming multiple mid-sized satellites with a very wide diversity in satellite density (the rock fraction = 0-92 wt%). Our results of the relationship between the mass and rock fraction of the satellites resulting from giant impacts reproduce the observations of the Saturnian mid-sized satellites. Giant impacts also lead to internal melting of the formed mid-sized satellites, which would initiate strong tidal dissipation and geological activity, such as those observed on Enceladus today and Tethys in the past. Our findings also imply that giant impacts might have affected the fundamental physical property of the Saturnian mid-sized satellites as well as those of the terrestrial planets in the solar system and beyond.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, Planetary and Space Science, in press
Contribution of whey protein denaturation to the in vitro digestibility, biological activity and peptide profile of milk protein concentrate
Creators: name: Khalesi, Mohammadreza
name: Cermenó, Maria
name: FITZGERALD, RICHARD
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The impact of whey protein (WP) denaturation on the in vitro digestibility and biological activity of milk protein concentrate-85 (MPC85) was investigated. MPC85S1 and MPC85S2 having undenatured WP levels equal to 16.6 and 6.0 g/100 g overall protein, respectively, had similar in vitro protein digestibility corrected amino acid scores equal to 1.14. The samples were subjected to in vitro simulated gastrointestinal digestion while sampling was performed every 30 min during gastric (GD) followed by intestinal (GID) digestion. Liquid chromatography–mass spectroscopy showed that MPC85S1-GD, MPC85S2-GD, MPC85S1-GID and MPC85S2-GID had 50, 38, 47 and 66 unique peptides, respectively. The degree of hydrolysis, molecular mass distribution, dipeptidyl peptidase-IV inhibition, oxygen radical absorbance capacity and 2,2′ -azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) radical scavenging activity of the digests were compared. Overall, the results showed higher digestibility and bioactivities for low-denatured MPC85 compared to high-denatured MPC85 upon GD, however, following GID, both samples were digested to a similar extent.
La Crisis del Mantenimiento de la Paz
Creators: name: Autesserre, Severine
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Peacekeeping forces
Peace-building
Peace--International cooperation

description: La estrategia de la comunidad internacional para afrontar los conflictos no funciona. Sin embargo, para que haya más posibilidades de lograr una paz duradera, la comunidad internacional debe contar más con las personas a las que se intenta proteger.
The Chemical Evolution of the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Creators: name: Cohen, Judith G.
name: Huang, Wenjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an abundance analysis based on high resolution spectra of 10 stars selected to span the full range in metallicity in the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy. We find [Fe/H] for the sample stars ranges from -1.35 to -3.10 dex and establish the trends of the abundance ratios [X/Fe]. In key cases, particularly for the alpha-elements, these resemble those for stars in the outer part of the Galactic halo, especially at the lowest metallicities probed. The n-capture elements show a r-process distribution over the full range of Fe-metallicity. This suggests that the duration of star formation in the UMi dSph was shorter than in other dSph galaxies. The derived ages for a larger sample of UMi stars with more uncertain metallicities also suggest a population dominated by uniformly old (~13 Gyr) stars, with a hint of an age-metallicity relationship. In comparing our results for UMi, our earlier work in Draco, and published studies of more metal-rich dSph Galactic satellites, there appears to be a pattern of moving from a chemical inventory for dSph giants with [Fe/H] < -2 dex which is very similar to that of stars in the outer part of the Galactic halo (enhanced alpha/Fe relative to the Sun, coupled with subsolar [X/Fe] for the heavy neutron capture elements and r-process domination), switching to subsolar alpha-elements and super-solar s-process dominated neutron capture elements for the highest [Fe/H] dSph stars. The combination of low star formation rates over a varying and sometimes extended duration that produced the stellar populations in the local dSph galaxies with [Fe/H] > -1.5 dex leads to a chemical inventory wildly discrepant from that of any component of the Milky Way.
description: Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal. 22 pages of text, total length 68 pages includes 11 page table 3 to be published in full in electronic form only
Colóquio «75 anos da Restauração da Província Portuguesa da Ordem Hospitaleira de S. João de Deus em Portugal»
Creators: name: Fontes, João Luís Inglês
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2003

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 15 (2003): Poder, Sociedade e Religião na Época Moderna
Changes in clinical outcomes following completion of an interdisciplinary chronic pain management program and the impact of increased pain knowledge : a chart review
Creators: name: White, Lynita Dawn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Chronic non-cancer pain is widespread and has no standard treatment. Interdisciplinary pain management has demonstrated favourable outcomes for chronic pain patients, but essential program components are not known, and the evidence is limited by lack of standardization in the literature. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the 6-week, outpatient Interdisciplinary Pain Management Program at OrionHealth Vancouver on four primary outcomes. Two other aims were to determine whether increased pain knowledge predicts clinical outcomes, and to collect participant feedback on two 90-minute pain neurophysiology education sessions in the program and to identify barriers to the uptake of information from those sessions. To accomplish this, a single group pre-test/post-test anonymous chart review was conducted and five t-tests, three hierarchical multiple regressions, and one content analysis were carried out. One hundred and thirty three clients provided data for the study, and 102 completed the program. Program completers significantly improved their scores on pain knowledge, pain interference, pain severity, depression, and opioid intake between assessment and discharge from the program, although only pain knowledge, depression, and opioid intake saw substantial increases. Pain knowledge did not significantly predict any clinical outcomes (depression, pain intensity, pain severity). The most common barriers to knowledge intake were pain intensity, pain medication, language/content of the education sessions, and the amount of information presented. The majority of participants found the information provided in the education sessions valuable, and qualitatively reported positive feedback for the education sessions. This study provides further support for interdisciplinary pain management using internationally recommended outcome measures, especially on cognitive and behavioural variables. In addition, pain knowledge was concluded not to be a candidate for predicting clinical success. However, pain neurophysiology education may be beneficial for chronic pain sufferers due to deep learning or nonspecific factors.
Information capacity and transmission are maximized in balanced cortical networks with neuronal avalanches
Creators: name: Shew, Woodrow L.
name: Yang, Hongdian
name: Yu, Shan
name: Roy, Rajarshi
name: Plenz, Dietmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The repertoire of neural activity patterns that a cortical network can produce constrains the network's ability to transfer and process information. Here, we measured activity patterns obtained from multi-site local field potential (LFP) recordings in cortex cultures, urethane anesthetized rats, and awake macaque monkeys. First, we quantified the information capacity of the pattern repertoire of ongoing and stimulus-evoked activity using Shannon entropy. Next, we quantified the efficacy of information transmission between stimulus and response using mutual information. By systematically changing the ratio of excitation/inhibition (E/I) in vitro and in a network model, we discovered that both information capacity and information transmission are maximized at a particular intermediate E/I, at which ongoing activity emerges as neuronal avalanches. Next, we used our in vitro and model results to correctly predict in vivo information capacity and interactions between neuronal groups during ongoing activity. Close agreement between our experiments and model suggest that neuronal avalanches and peak information capacity arise due to criticality and are general properties of cortical networks with balanced E/I.
Some theoretical results on semiconductor spherical quantum dots
Creators: name: Billaud, Baptiste
name: Truong, T. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use an improved version of the standard effective mass approximation model to describe quantum effects in nanometric semiconductor Quantum Dots (QDs). This allows analytic computation of relevant quantities to a very large extent. We obtain, as a function of the QD radius, in precise domains of validity, the QD excitonic ground state energy and its Stark and Lamb shifts. Finally, the Purcell effect in QDs is shown to lead to potential QD-LASER emitting in the range of visible light.
Non-thermal radio emission from O-type stars. IV. Cyg OB2 No. 8A
Creators: name: Blomme, R.
name: De Becker, M.
name: Volpi, D.
name: Rauw, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-thermal radio emission of the binary Cyg OB2 No. 8A, to see if it is variable and if that variability is locked to the orbital phase. We investigate if the synchrotron emission generated in the colliding-wind region of this binary can explain the observations and we verify that our proposed model is compatible with the X-ray data. We use both new and archive radio data from the Very Large Array (VLA) to construct a light curve as a function of orbital phase. We also present new X-ray data that allow us to improve the X-ray light curve. We develop a numerical model for the colliding-wind region and the synchrotron emission it generates. The model also includes free-free absorption and emission due to the stellar winds of both stars. In this way we construct artificial radio light curves and compare them with the observed one. The observed radio fluxes show phase-locked variability. Our model can explain this variability because the synchrotron emitting region is not completely hidden by the free-free absorption. In order to obtain a better agreement for the phases of minimum and maximum flux we need to use stellar wind parameters for the binary components which are somewhat different from typical values for single stars. We verify that the change in stellar parameters does not influence the interpretation of the X-ray light curve. Our model has trouble explaining the observed radio spectral index. This could indicate the presence of clumping or porosity in the stellar wind, which - through its influence on both the Razin effect and the free-free absorption - can considerably influence the spectral index. Non-thermal radio emitters could therefore open a valuable pathway to investigate the difficult issue of clumping in stellar winds.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, accepted by A&A
title: Sociolinguistic variation in the Paris suburbs
Creators: name: Jamin, Mikael Jan
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: This thesis investigates linguistic variation, diffusion and change in two suburban towns of Paris (La Courneuve and Fontenay-sous-Bois), using quantitative methods to analyse innovative accent forms presently developing. After an introductory chapter which sets out the origins and objectives of the study, Chapter 2 gives the background to the Paris banlieues as well as a description of the research sites. Banlieues are ideal places of investigation for the linguist interested in sociolectal variation in that they accommodate a population which is relatively isolated from the linguistic norm of the dominant society. As a result of this isolation, a recognisable localised vernacular has emerged. This is in itself unsurprising, as similar phenomena have been observed elsewhere in low-contact contexts. What is particularly interesting here is that this vernacular has emerged in an urban context, generally characteristised by a relatively high degree of sociolectal contact, especially with prestigious varieties. Chapter 3 aims at showing how previous research has tackled the study of sociolinguistic variation in urban contexts. We then discuss the sociolinguistic literature more specifically focused on banlieues. From this, three linguistic variables thought to be potentially interesting are selected. In Chapter 4, the methodology used to obtain the linguistic data is discussed and the social characteristics of the sample are described. We then proceed to analyse the linguistic data collected. Chapter 5 focuses on the sociolinguistic distribution of palatalisation in the corpus. Chapter 6 investigates Ir/-realisation and Chapter 7 variation between Ia! and Ia!. Generally, the same social group seems to lead the adoption of non-standard variants for most variables: working-class youngsters from immigrant backgrounds. Interestingly, the adoption seems to be spreading to other social and ethnic groups, especially amongst the younger age group of the sample. This diffusion is quantitatively explained in terms of integration and identification with the street-culture which has developed in the banlieues and of the nature of social network ties that the street creates. What is also interesting is that for all age groups and for all the linguistic variables concerned, a generational increase is observed. This in tum suggests that this possible diffusion of non-standard forms in the banlieues might be introducing a change in progress in contemporary metropolitan French.
Itinerant ferromagnetism in a two-dimensional atomic gas
Creators: name: Conduit, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the first experimental evidence of ferromagnetic behavior in a three-dimensional ultracold atomic gas, we explore the possibility of itinerant ferromagnetism in a trapped two-dimensional atomic gas. Firstly, we develop a formalism that demonstrates how quantum fluctuations drive the ferromagnetic reconstruction first order, and consider the consequences of an imposed population imbalance. Secondly, we adapt this formalism to elucidate the key experimental signatures of ferromagnetism in a realistic trapped geometry.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A