cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Experience of Psychology Paraprofessionals: Views of Peer Counselors and Peer Educators
Creators: name: Edgel, Heather L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: This study was conducted to examine the experience of students as paraprofessionals in psychology. 102 peer counselors/educators from 10 universities across America were sampled. The research data generated was descriptive in nature. Paraprofessionals rated experience satisfaction and expressed opinions regarding their involvement in peer counseling and peer educating programs.
Morphological and biochemical classification of Iranian Mango germplasm collection by multivariate analysis: Implications for breeding
Creators: name: Samsampour, Davood
name: Kazemzadeh-Beneh, Hashem
name: Damizadeh, Gholam-Reza
name: Mirzaei, Zahra
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2020

description: This study was conducted at southern Iran with the aim to evaluate the phenotypic diversity of 84 mango cultivars by using morphological and biochemical traits. Two other industrial cultivars ‘Longra’ and ‘Senderi’ used as control of the study. Descriptive results indicated that the value of both quantitative and qualitative variables all the cultivars were lower than the ‘Senderi’. The variability among cultivars was highly signiﬁcant in the measured traits. The fruit weight, fruit length, stone weight, stone length, fruit beak, dry matter, and petiole length showed highly discriminating power. Pearson’s correlation analysis revealed high variability due to the existence of signiﬁcant positive and negative correlations among traits. Agglomerative hierarchical clustering conﬁrmed remarkable variation in the studied germplasm and identiﬁed three major clusters with several sub­clusters. The 80.20, 70.11, and 100% of the quantitative variability was explained by principal component analysis (PCA), factor analysis (FA), and liner discriminant function (LDF) where fruit descriptors contributed most of the total variation, respectively. However, multivariate analysis proved that fruit related characters were most powerful to diﬀerentiate cultivars. The cultivars displayed distinct grouping by FA and LDF compared to PCA. The results revealed that the Iranian mango germplasm has a high potential for speciﬁc breeding project regarding fruit size and quality that should be further completed by a molecular marker analysis.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 34 No. 4 (2020): Advances in Horticultural Science
title: Music and War Throughout the Ages
Creators: name: Yorgason, Brent Thomas
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: War has always had a powerful influence on music. At times it has the ability to motivate composers even more than love, religious belief, or money. Throughout the ages, both war and music about war have changed dramatically. The destructive power of war has reached its ultimate capabilities -- the potential to eliminate all life. As war has become more and more horrible, and has caused unprecedented amounts of needless deaths, the world's view of war has changed completely. This change in attitude toward war is evident also in the development of war music.
Heavy quarks in deep-inelastic scattering
Creators: name: Forte, Stefano
name: Laenen, Eric
name: Nason, Paolo
name: Rojo, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a general framework for the inclusion of heavy quark mass contributions to deep-inelastic structure functions and their perturbative matching to structure functions computed in variable-mass schemes. Our approach is based on the so-called FONLL method, previously introduced and applied to heavy quark hadroproduction and photoproduction. We define our framework, provide expressions up to second order in the strong coupling, and use them to construct matched expressions for structure functions up to NNLO. After checking explicitly the consistency of our results, we perform a study of the phenomenological impact of heavy quark terms, and compare results obtained at various perturbative orders, and with various prescriptions for the treatment of subleading terms, specifically those related to threshold behaviour. We also consider the heavy quark structure function F2c and discuss issues related to the presence of mass singularities in their coefficient functions.
description: 51 pages, 25 figures. Final version, to be published in Nucl. Phys. B. References 19, 20, 24, 36 added; footnote 2 added; comparison to refs.18, 14 added in sect 2.1 and to ref 19 in sect 3.2. Discussion of fig.10 clarified.
Spatial Distribution of Metal Emissions in SNR 3C 397 Viewed with Chandra and XMM
Creators: name: Jiang, Bing
name: Chen, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present X-ray equivalent width imaging of the supernova remnant (SNR) 3C 397 for Mg Heα, Si Heα, S Heα, and Fe Kαcomplex lines with the Chandra and XMM-Newton observations. The images reveal that the heavier the element is, the smaller the extent of the element distribution is. The Mg emission is evidently enhanced in the southeastern blow-out region, well along the radio boundary there, and appears to partially envelope the eastern Fe knot. Two bilateral hat-like Si line-emitting structures are along the northern and southern borders, roughly symmetric with respect to the southeast-northwest elongation axis. An S line-emitting shell is located just inner to the northern radio and IR shell, indicating of a layer of reversely shocked sulphur in the ejecta. A few enhanced Fe features are basically aligned along the diagonal of the rectangular shape of the SNR, which implicates an early asymmetric SN explosion.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, appears in Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2010, 53 (Suppl.1), 267-270
Additional file 2 of Grb7, Grb10 and Grb14, encoding the growth factor receptor-bound 7 family of signalling adaptor proteins have overlapping functions in the regulation of fetal growth and post-natal glucose metabolism
Creators: name: Moorwood, Kim
name: Smith, Florentia M.
name: Garfield, Alastair S.
name: Cowley, Michael
name: Holt, Lowenna J.
name: Daly, Roger J.
name: Ward, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2.
Management of root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne sp.) and enhancing growth yield of greenhouse produced tomatoes by using fresh plant derived soil amendments
Creators: name: Otieno, Peter Caleb
name: Mulwa, R.M.S.
name: Otieno Ogweno, J.
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2020

description: Abstract: Production of greenhouse tomato is hampered by myriad of challenges emanating from growth medium in the sub­Saharan Africa (SSA), which has led to instability in the production trend. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to study the eﬀect of soil amendment with fresh plant biomass from Lippia kituensis Vatke and Ocimum gratissimum L. aimed at managing root knot nematodes (RKN) and enhancing tomatoes yield. The amendments were applied at 0 (soil negative control), Lippia and Ocimum, each at 200 g, 400 g % and 800 g in 10 kg potted soil mixes, singly and in all possible combinations. Azadirachtin (0.3 w/w) was also used as a positive control. The mixtures were treated inoculums carrying 1000 second instar Meloidogyne sp. juveniles. An unbalanced factorial in a Randomized Complete Block Design with 3 replications was used. The parameters measured were nematode populations, root gall numbers, galling index, tomato growth, development and yield. Results indicated that interactive eﬀect of soil amendment at 800 g of both Lippia and Ocimum, signiﬁcantly (p<0.05) reduced the RKN population by 82.1% compared to the non­amended soil. At same rates, galls were reduced by 95.5% while galling index by 83.3%, compared to non­amended treatment. In plant development same amendment rates demonstrated higher vegetative growth. For fruit number and marketable yield, 76.7% and 82.2% more fruits per plant were recorded from 800 g LK+ OG at 800 g and Azadirachtin respectively, compared to non­amended soil. Based on the results, Lippia and Ocimum may be potential sources for nematicidal plant products for greenhouse tomato production.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 34 No. 4 (2020): Advances in Horticultural Science
DFT Study of adsorption and diffusion of CO2 on bimetallic surfaces
Creators: name: Khodabandeh, Hamideh
name: Pour, Ali Nakhaei
name: Mohammadi, Ali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: In this work, adsorption and diffusion of CO2 on the Cu (111) surface, and Cu (111) surface modified by tungsten (W) and platinum (Pt) were studied and their electronic properties were examined using Density-functional theory (DFT) simulations. To specify the most favourable adsorption sites, the adsorption energies and distances of CO2 on various surface sites including on top, hexagonal close-packed (HCP), and bridge were calculated. The crystal orbital overlap population analysis was employed to investigate the properties and characteristics of chemical bonding. The computed Bader atomic charges of CO2 molecules on different catalyst surfaces indicated that the Cu-W alloy surface had a higher net charge transfer than other surfaces. This result suggests that the adsorption of CO2 on the Cu-W alloy surface is more powerful than on other surfaces. The outcomes indicated that the CO2 adsorption on the surfaces follows the order of Cu-W alloy > Cu-Pt alloy > Cu. Also, the diffusion on the alloy surfaces was faster than on the Cu surface, which confirms the adsorption energy.
title: The Influence of Fluorescent Light on the Development of in vitro Fertilized Bovine Oocytes
Creators: name: Bunch, Jared
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: Advances in in vitro fertilization and in vitro culture techniques have allowed considerable progress in identifying physiological requirements of mammalian embryos. Parrish et al. (11) reported a major breakthrough on in vitro fertilization when his group identified heparin as an important factor for the capacitation of spermatozoa. Capacitation is necessary for fertilization of matured oocytes. During the precoculture era of embryos (prior to 1980), the development of early preirnplantation embryos was vary limited regardless of medium, medium supplement, gas atmosphere, osmolarity or pH used (7). Coculture techniques of fertilized oocytes using somatic cells during in vitro production, particularly of bovine embryos, has resulted in a tremendous resurgence of embryo culture research (1,2,4-6,8,9,13,15-17, 19). The most often used coculture system is oviductal epithelium (4,9,19), and it is also the most efficient system compared to others (16). Within recent years efforts by many have been undertaken to develop defined medium for oocytes/embryos. Although progress has been made in this area with laboratory animals, defined media for livestock species have thus far proven inadequate for supporting normal development of fertilized eggs to the blastocyst stage of embryonic development (3,12)
In vitro fertilization and in vitro culture of embryos is usually performed in laboratories under the presence of fluorescent lights. Oocytes/embryos may be exposed to fluorescent lights ranging from a few minutes to as long as 1/2 hour. Light in the range of fluorescent illumination causes the formation of free radicals in medium which is thought to have deleterious effects on embryo development (18). Although many researchers consider fluorescent lighting to be detrimental to embryo development, there are no documented studies to demonstrate a causal effect in livestock (20). Therefore, this study was designed to identify the effects of fluorescent light on the early stage bovine embryo under conditions that are commonly used in in vitro fertilization laboratories.
The Energy Problem
Creators: name: Giacomelli, Giorgio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A brief general picture of the world, european and italian energy situations is made, analyzing several different energy sources and paying attention to the relations energy-quality of life, energy-environment and energy-health. Then will be discussed fossil fuels, renewable energies, the role of electric energy, nuclear energy, energy savings, the greenhouse effect, a possible sustainable development, the hydrogen economy and the risk and its perception. Then follow the conclusions and perspectives.
description: 10 pages, 14 EPS figures. Special general lecture given at the 24th ICNTS Conference, 1-5 September 2008, Bologna, Italy. Changed refs
A molecular dynamic simulation-based study on nanoscale friction stir welding between copper and aluminium
Creators: name: Jha, Roshan Kumar
name: Reddy, K. Vijay
name: Pal, Snehanshu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The primary aim of this study is to enhance our understanding of friction stir welding (FSW) at the atomic level. To accomplish this, we utilised molecular dynamics simulations to examine the nanoscale fusion welding of dissimilar metals, i.e. aluminium and copper, through the FSW method. Our particular focus was on how the rotation speed of the tool affects structural changes and defect evolution during the nanoscale FSW process. Our research findings revealed that the region subjected to frictional stirring undergoes a phase change as a result of extensive plastic deformation during the FSW operation. Notably, stacking faults and similar defects were predominantly observed on the advancing side as the tool rotated and moved into the friction stir zone. Further, investigation of atomic shear strain snapshots indicated that higher rotational speeds resulted in a broader and more scattered friction stir zone, requiring a longer recovery time compared to slower rotational speeds. Additionally, the changes in atomic concentration during FSW have been studied using displacement vectors, concentration profiles and diffusion coefficient parameters. We also conducted simulation-based tensile and shear deformation tests, which revealed that higher tool rotational speeds led to enhanced material interlocking, consequently improving the mechanical strength of the FSW joints.
The search for happiness and fulfilment in the fiction of Henry James : women, men and the artist
Creators: name: Lukes, Kathryn Margaret
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: James's profound pessimism about the lives of the vast majority of the characters whom he chooses to portray in his fiction has been somewhat under emphasized by the critics. James considers a life successful only when the individual in question realizes his inner potential and thus achieves a sense of self-fulfilment. Yet the reader's cumulative impression of James's fiction is that his characters almost invariably fail to achieve this desirable state, and that they are doomed to disappointment and heartache. This unhappiness almost invariably arises from the relation between the sexes. James considers several major categories of people, but all but one group, the artists, fall short of the objective. For example, James's young female characters (whether European, English, or American), are under constant pressure to "marry well"—to seize the nearest man and the largest fortune. Yet James portrays marriage as the most inhumane of institutions; as one in which women immure themselves and sacrifice all their individuality. Similarly, James's male characters are never happy or fulfilled either in marriage or in business, for in marriage they tend to be brutal or insensitive, while in business they subjugate their moral and aesthetic senses to acquisitive ones. Such debased values are detrimental to the man himself and to all those with whom he lives. Nor are the rare sensitive men in James's fiction successful in life, for they tend to base their own happiness on the actions of other people—a precarious foundation. James believes only one sort of happiness is worthwhile and lasting, and that possession of it constitutes success in life. Only the artist can achieve this perfect happiness but he can enjoy it only on the most difficult terms: he must commit himself absolutely to his art. The artist must be a man or woman unlike others, sacrificing all earthly vanities to his one ideal vision. He cannot permit himself to be overwhelmed by the ordinary concerns of daily life. He must remove himself as much as possible from the world of getting and spending, loving and marrying. Only by making this absolute commitment can he achieve the happiness which consists of knowing that he has done the best work that is in him. This sense of consummate achievement constitutes happiness for James's artist characters. They consider it worth the price they pay.
Computational and in vitro targeting of HUVECs by ARA-Linker-TGFαL3 through VEGFR2
Creators: name: Ghadaksaz, Abdolamir
name: Fooladi, Abbas Ali Imani
name: Hosseini, Hamideh Mahmoodzadeh
name: Amin, Mohsen
name: Ghamsari, Fatemeh Adami
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Angiogenesis blockade represents a therapeutic strategy to inhibit the growth of the tumour and its progression and metastasis. Targeting the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) is among the approaches approved as anti-cancer drugs. In this study, we examined ARA-linker-TGFαL3 and TGFαL3 binding affinity to VEGFR2. Next, the cytotoxicity effect of ARA-linker-TGFαL3 on human umbilical vein endothelial cells was evaluated. The 100 ns molecular dynamic simulation was employed to estimate the stability of the ligand–receptor interaction and the free energy decomposition was performed by molecular mechanics generalised Born surface area method. The MTT test evaluated the proliferation inhibition of ARA-linker-TGFαL3 and arazyme on HUVECs cells. Also, the change in VEGFR2 gene expression was investigated after treatment with recombinant proteins. Analysis of the trajectory using the root-mean-square deviation and fluctuation, radius of gyration, H-bond calculation, and binding free energy showed that ARA-linker-TGFαL3 formed the more stable complex with the D2 and D3 domains of VEGFR2 than TGFαL3. Meanwhile, ARA-linker-TGFαL3 revealed higher cytotoxicity and inhibition of VEGFR2 expression than arazyme. The results of the current study suggest the anti-angiogenesis effects of ARA-linker-TGFαL3 that can be useful in cancer therapy.
title: El poder de lo simple
Creators: name: Arias González, Mercedes
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Management

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
Determinar el impacto asistencial que ocasiona la no asistencia de un paciente a una cita de RM programada Instaurar medidas que lo...
Milky Way total Mass derived by Rotation Curve and Globular Cluster kinematics from Gaia EDR3
Creators: name: Wang, Jianling
name: Hammer, Francois
name: Yang, Yanbin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using action-based distribution function for the dynamical model of the Milky Way we have estimated its total mass and its density profile. Constraints are coming from the globular cluster proper motions from Gaia EDR3, from the rotation curve based on Gaia DR2 data, and from the vertical force data. We use Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method to explore the parameters, for which the globular cluster distribution function and the Galactic potential are fully constrained. Numerical simulations are used to study the uncertainties on the potential constraint if considering a possible massive Large Magellanic Could (LMC). We found that a massive LMC (1.5$\times10^{11}$ M$_{\odot}$) will affect the MW mass measurement at large radius, which includes both the Milky Way and the LMC. We also use the FIRE2 Latte cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to make mock data set from a Milky-Way like galaxy that includes many unrelaxed substructures. We test the effect of these unrelaxed substructures on the final results, and found that the measured rotation curve fluctuated around input value within 5 percent. By keeping a large freedom in choosing a priori mass profile for both baryonic and dark matter leads a total mass of the MW that ranges from $5.36_{-0.68}^{+0.81}\times10^{11}$ M$_{\odot}$ to $7.84_{-1.97}^{+3.08} \times 10^{11}$ M$\odot$. This includes the contribution of a putative massive LMC and significantly narrows the MW total mass range published earlier. Such total mass leads to dark matter density at solar position of $0.34_{-0.02}^{+0.02}$ GeV cm$^{-3}$.
description: 21 pages, 18 Figures, 2 Tables, proof-corrected version, to be published in MNRAS
Towards the equation of state in 2+1 flavor QCD with improved Wilson quarks in the fixed scale approach
Creators: name: Kanaya, K.
name: Aoki, S.
name: Ohno, H.
name: Umeda, T.
name: Ejiri, S.
name: Hatsuda, T.
name: Ishii, N.
name: Maezawa, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the status of our study towards the equation of state in 2+1 flavor QCD with improved Wilson quarks. To reduce the computational cost which is quite demanding for Wilson-type quarks, we adopt the fixed scale approach, i.e. the temperature T is varied by N_t at fixed lattice spacing. Since the conventional integral method to obtain the pressure is inapplicable at a fixed scale, we adopt the "T-integral method", to calculate the pressure non-perturbatively. Reduction of the computational cost of T=0 simulations thus achieved is indispensable to study EOS in QCD with dynamical quarks.
description: 8 pages, poster presented at The XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2009), July 26-31 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China
Mechanical rubbing of tomato internode influence stem growth, improve tensile strength but negatively impact flavonoid levels
Creators: name: Sabina, S.
name: Jithesh, Mundaya Narayanan
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2020

description: Agricultural crops are exposed to different environmental stress factors on a daily basis. Mechanical induced stress (MIS) caused due to contact rubbing, bending, transplantation and spraying of water results in altered growth in plants (Thigmomorphogenesis). The present study was conducted by inducing mechanical stress (gentle rubbing) on the third internode of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) by pressing with thumb and index finger (30 sec) for 14 consecutive days. At the end of the stress period, marked morphological differences included significant reduction in plant height and decreased internodal length of the rubbed third internode as well as the neighboring fourth internode. Histochemical staining of the stem cross section of stressed plants showed intense color indicating lignin deposition. Study of biochemical response post internode stress showed an increase in total phenol content but lower flavonoid contents. Stress induction also resulted in modification of biomechanical characteristics like tensile strength, elastic modulus and breaking force. Studies on the effect of mechanical perturbations in plants has gained attention because of its implication in fundamental processes of organogenesis/morphogenesis and their potential as an innovative means of controlling plant growth.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 34 No. 4 (2020): Advances in Horticultural Science
title: Hueso temporal. Anatomía normal y hallazgos patológicos en conducto auditivo externo y punta del peñasco
Creators: name: Montesinos Garcia, Pau
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Inflammation
subject: Demineralisation-Bone
subject: eLearning
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: MR
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Conocer las enfermedades que afectan al conducto auditivo externo y al ápex petroso (punta del peñasco) Reconocer los hallazgos semiológicos claves en TC y RM,
que nos permita orientar y/o establecer el diagnóstico...
title: Going Back, to Begin
Creators: name: Coulbrooke, Ilena Starsun
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: This thesis project explores. in poetry, the effects of atomic testing and unrestrained pesticide use on the people who lived in or near Utah in the fifties and sixties.
Nuclear testing began in Nevada in 1951, the year I was born in south-east Idaho, where my family lived under radiation tainted clouds for a decade along with the Utah downwinders. My father died of lung cancer caused from breathing pesticide-laden air in 1962, the year Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring. These two dates stand out in my mind as important markers in my quest to discover why I think and act the way I do now.
I was taught to respect and never question authority. I found in my research that this unquestioning obedience to the rules of church and government has always been prevalent in Utah society. It seems that women are most oppressed because their behavior is strictly enforced by the men who dominate their lives.
I go back in my writing to the fifties, when fear of foreign powers was intense. and our trust was misplaced. I go back to the sixties, when trust and fear took on new dimensions. And I come out in the nineties, in a new world that is not so new, but is one that I understand better for having gone back and answered the questions I should have asked years ago.
I begin my poetry selections with "Cooked," which sets the scene for the atomic age of unwarranted trust. "Wild Turkeys" is next. and brings us up to date on the old pesticide story. "Examinations. Human Kind," explores the question of human survival from the standpoint of a leftover down winder, and "Rock Chucks, Birds, and Lizards" takes a more universal view. this time of chemical effects on other creatures in the environment. "The Cellar" is a saga that goes back to what some congressmen have recently been calling "the good old days of family values." and "Caesarean" encompasses the modern view of the old issues that are still affecting our lives today.
Seep-bubble characteristics and gas flow rates from a shallow-water, high-density seep field on the shelf-to-slope transition of the Hikurangi subduction margin
Creators: name: Higgs, B
name: Mountjoy, JJ
name: Crutchley, GJ
name: Townend, John
name: Ladroit, Y
name: Greinert, J
name: McGovern, C
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We analyse an area of high density submarine methane gas seeps situated on the shelf to slope transition (130–420 m water depth) on the northern region of New Zealand's Hikurangi margin, off Poverty Bay. Multibeam and singlebeam echo sounder data collected in 2014 and 2015 revealed >600 seeps, at much greater density than any previously mapped areas of seepage on the Hikurangi margin. To broadly constrain the output of methane from these seeps, we have estimated the flow of methane at individual seeps, utilising perspective-measurements applied to still frames from a deep towed camera system to measure the dimensions of rising bubbles. We combine bubble size and rise-rate distributions with singlebeam acoustic data to estimate gas flow rates at six selected seeps sites. Our results predict a wide range (3.0–2249 mL/min) of methane release into the water column. If we assume that the six seeps we analysed are representative of the entire seep population, and that gas flow is constant, we can extrapolate across the seep field and infer a gas release of 30 to 2415 t of methane per year into the ocean.
Demystifying Ten Big Ideas and Rules Every Fire Scientist & Engineer Should Know About Blackbox, Whitebox & Causal Artificial Intelligence
Creators: name: Naser, M. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial intelligence (AI) is paving the way towards the fourth industrial revolution with the fire domain (Fire 4.0). As a matter of fact, the next few years will be elemental to how this technology will shape our academia, practice, and entrepreneurship. Despite the growing interest between fire research groups, AI remains absent of our curriculum, and we continue to lack a methodical framework to adopt, apply and create AI solutions suitable for our problems. The above is also true for parallel engineering domains (i.e., civil/mechanical engineering), and in order to negate the notion of history repeats itself (e.g., look at the continued debate with regard to modernizing standardized fire testing, etc.), it is the motivation behind this letter to the Editor to demystify some of the big ideas behind AI to jump-start prolific and strategic discussions on the front of AI & Fire. In addition, this letter intends to explain some of the most fundamental concepts and clear common misconceptions specific to the adoption of AI in fire engineering. This short letter is a companion to the Smart Systems in Fire Engineering special issue sponsored by Fire Technology. An in-depth review of AI algorithms [1] and success stories to the proper implementations of such algorithms can be found in the aforenoted special issue and collection of papers. This letter comprises two sections. The first section outlines big ideas pertaining to AI, and answers some of the burning questions with regard to the merit of adopting AI in our domain. The second section presents a set of rules or technical recommendations an AI user may deem helpful to practice whenever AI is used as an investigation methodology. The presented set of rules are complementary to the big ideas.
Additional file 2 of Quantitative assessment of coronary plaque volume change related to triglyceride glucose index: The Progression of AtheRosclerotic PlAque DetermIned by Computed TomoGraphic Angiography IMaging (PARADIGM) registry
Creators: name: Won, Ki-Bum
name: Lee, Byoung Kwon
name: Park, Hyung-Bok
name: Heo, Ran
name: Lee, Sang-Eun
name: Rizvi, Asim
name: Lin, Fay Y.
name: Kumar, Amit
name: Hadamitzky, Martin
name: Kim, Yong-Jin
name: Sung, Ji Min
name: Conte, Edoardo
name: Andreini, Daniele
name: Pontone, Gianluca
name: Budoff, Matthew J.
name: Gottlieb, Ilan
name: Chun, Eun Ju
name: Cademartiri, Filippo
name: Maffei, Erica
name: Marques, Hugo
name: de Araújo Gonçalves, Pedro
name: Leipsic, Jonathon A.
name: Shin, Sanghoon
name: Choi, Jung Hyun
name: Virmani, Renu
name: Samady, Habib
name: Chinnaiyan, Kavitha
name: Raff, Gilbert L.
name: Stone, Peter H.
name: Berman, Daniel S.
name: Narula, Jagat
name: Shaw, Leslee J.
name: Bax, Jeroen J.
name: Min, James K.
name: Chang, Hyuk-Jae
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Multivariate logistic regression analysis for the association of clinical variables with coronary plaque progression.
Dynamics of braided coronal loops - I. Onset of magnetic reconnection
Creators: name: Wilmot-Smith, A. L.
name: Pontin, D. I.
name: Hornig, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The response of the solar coronal magnetic field to small-scale photospheric boundary motions including the possible formation of current sheets via the Parker scenario is one of open questions of solar physics. Here we address the problem via a numerical simulation. The three-dimensional evolution of a braided magnetic field which is initially close to a force-free state is followed using a resistive MHD code. A long-wavelength instability takes place and leads to the formation of two thin current layers. Magnetic reconnection occurs across the current sheets with three-dimensional features shown, including an elliptic magnetic field structure about the reconnection site, and results in an untwisting of the global field structure.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures
Il principio di proporzionalità nella disciplina del mandato d'arresto europeo
The proportionality principle in the European Arrest Warrant
Creators: name: Marletta, Angelo <1983>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: IUS/16 Diritto processuale penale

description: Il presente lavoro affronta un tema di particolare attualità nella applicazione del mandato d’arresto europeo. Pensate per il contrasto alle forme più gravi di criminalità, le procedure di consegna hanno trovato sempre più spesso applicazione per vicende criminose di scarsa offensività, determinando conseguenze gravi sui diritti fondamentali degli individui coinvolti e mettendo a rischio la reciproca fiducia tra gli Stati membri nello spazio di libertà, sicurezza e giustizia. Ciò ha imposto alle istituzioni europee di richiamare gli Stati membri al rispetto del principio di proporzionalità, quale principio generale del diritto europeo. Il presente studio analizza i presupposti e le modalità di applicazione di tale principio, alla luce del nuovo assetto impresso all’Unione dal Trattato di Lisbona e nella prospettiva dei diritti fondamentali. In particolare, esso si sofferma sul ruolo da attribuire, rispetto allo specifico tema, alla Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione ed all’art. 52 par. 1 in essa previsto, ove emerge la valenza costituzionale del principio di proporzionalità.
description: This thesis deals with a current issue in the enforcement of the European Arrest Warrant. Surrender procedures were originally «designed with major criminals in mind», but in an increasing number of cases they involved minor offences and “trivial cases”. This has caused a great concern about keeping the mutual trust in the Area of freedom, security and justice. In 2011 a Report of the European Commission stressed the importance of the respect of proportionality principle in this highly sensitive field of EU law. This essay analizes the possibility of applying the proportionality check to the European Arrest Warrant in a fundamental rights perspective. Specific attention is paid to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and to the Art. 52 par. 1, as a binding constitutional norm establishing the proportionality principle for the whole EU legal order.
Triple Hill's Vortex Synthetic Eddy Method
Creators: name: Haywood, John
name: Sescu, Adrian
name: Bhushan, Shanti
name: Kees, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76F65, 35Q30,

description: The generation of initial or inflow synthetic turbulent velocity or scalar fields reproducing statistical characteristics of realistic turbulence is still a challenge. The synthetic eddy method, previously introduced in the context of inflow conditions for large eddy simulations, is based on the assumption that turbulence can be regarded as a superposition of coherent structures. In this paper, a new type of synthetic eddy method is proposed, where the fundamental eddy is constructed by superposing three Hill's vortices, with their axes orthogonal to each other. A distribution of Hill's vortices is used to synthesize an anisotropic turbulent velocity field that satisfies the incompressibility condition and match a given Reynolds stress tensor. The amplitudes of the three vortices that form the fundamental eddy are calculated from known Reynolds stress profiles through a transformation from the physical reference frame to the principal-axis reference frame. In this way, divergence-free anisotropic turbulent velocity fields are obtained that can reproduce a given Reynolds stress tensor. The model was tested on both isotropic and anisotropic turbulent velocity fields, in the framework of grid turbulence decay and turbulent channel flow, respectively. The transition from artificial to realistic turbulence in the proximity to the inflow boundary was found to be small in all test cases that were considered.
description: 30 pages. Flow Turbulence Combust (2021)
title: Papel de la ecografía con contraste en el estudio de las lesiones quísticas complejas y tumorales renales.
Creators: name: López-Vidaur, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cysts
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Staging
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Kidney
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
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description: Objetivo docente:
Revisión de los quistes complejos renales según la clasificación de Bosniak mediante la ecografía con contraste. Mostrar los hallazgos ecográficos habituales de estas entidades,
así como su correlación con otras técnicas de imagen. Plantear...
title: Presentación radiológica de los uroteliomas de pelvis renal.
Creators: name: Silla, Gerardo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Pyelography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Kidney
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
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description: Objetivo docente:
- Ilustración de las modalidades de presentación de los tumores de células transicionales de pelvis renal (TCTPR) en las distintas técnicas de imagen,
especialmente en las distintas fases de la tomografía computarizada (TC) con el uso de...
title: Ventajas del análisis bicompartimental de la difusión (IVIM) en la detección del cáncer de próstata.
Creators: name: Martín Noguerol, Teodoro
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Oncology
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Observer performance
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Neoplasia

description: Objetivos
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description: Objetivos:
OBJETIVOS: Analizar la capacidad de los parámetros derivados del modelo IVIM para la detectar el cáncer de próstata y diferenciarlo del tejido normal. INTRODUCCIÓN AL TEMA: En los países desarrollados,
el cáncer de próstata asciende hasta en...
A First-Principles Study of Zinc Oxide Honeycomb Structures
Creators: name: Topsakal, M.
name: Cahangirov, S.
name: Bekaroglu, E.
name: Ciraci, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a first-principles study of the atomic, electronic, and magnetic properties of two-dimensional (2D), single and bilayer ZnO in honeycomb structure and its armchair and zigzag nanoribbons. In order to reveal the dimensionality effects, our study includes also bulk ZnO in wurtzite, zincblende, and hexagonal structures. The stability of 2D ZnO, its nanoribbons and flakes are analyzed by phonon frequency, as well as by finite temperature ab initio molecular-dynamics calculations. 2D ZnO in honeycomb structure and its armchair nanoribbons are nonmagnetic semiconductors but acquire net magnetic moment upon the creation of zinc-vacancy defect. Zigzag ZnO nanoribbons are ferromagnetic metals with spins localized at the oxygen atoms at the edges and have high spin polarization at the Fermi level. However, they change to nonmagnetic metal upon termination of their edges with hydrogen atoms. From the phonon calculations, the fourth acoustical mode specified as twisting mode is also revealed for armchair nanoribbon. Under tensile stress the nanoribbons are deformed elastically maintaining honeycomblike structure but yield at high strains. Beyond yielding point honeycomblike structure undergo a structural change and deform plastically by forming large polygons. The variation in the electronic and magnetic properties of these nanoribbons have been examined under strain. It appears that plastically deformed nanoribbons may offer a new class of materials with diverse properties.
description: http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v80/i23/e235119
title: Online, on Trial: Pornography, the Constitution and the Communications Decency Act of 1996
Creators: name: Bowcut, Brian E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: Cyberspace, in its present condition has a lot in common with the 19th Century West. It is vast, unmapped, culturally and legally ambiguous ... hard to get around in, and up for grabs. ...It is, of course, a perfect breeding ground for both outlaws and new ideas about liberty...1
So assesses Grateful Dead lyricist-turned-cyberguru John Perry Barlow the new frontier, that vast expanse of computer networks known as the Internet. Yet, in recent months, the law has come to this chaotic domain, where anything goes and nothing remains unsaid. With the passage of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA), Congress has given the federal government the task of civilizing the Net. In the Department of Justice's sights are a particular brand of outlaw: those who peddle smut to minors, and those who allow it to happen.
Pairing effects in nuclear pasta phase within the relativistic Thomas-Fermi formalism
Creators: name: Furtado, U. J.
name: Avancini, S. S.
name: Marinelli, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pairing effects in non-uniform nuclear matter, surrounded by electrons, are studied in the protoneutron star early stage and in other conditions. The so-called nuclear pasta phases at subsaturation densities are solved in a Wigner-Seitz cell, within the Thomas-Fermi approximation. The solution of this problem is important for the understanding of the physics of a newly born neutron star after a supernova explosion. It is shown that the pasta phase is more stable than uniform nuclear matter on some conditions and the pairing force relevance is studied in the determination of these stable phases.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in J. of Physics G: Nucl. and Part. Physics
title: Disección de troncos supraaórticos. Estudio por Angio-TC y correlación con angiografia convencional.
Creators: name: Staitie Gali, Ana Miriam
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dissection
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Angioplasty
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Vascular
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivo docente
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description: Objetivo docente:
1.Describir la fisiopatología de las disecciones cráneo cervicales,
su epidemiología y factores predisponentes. 2.Revisar las técnicas radiológicas que permiten el diagnóstico de las disecciones cráneo cervicales. 3.Analizar la técnica de la...
Effects of Spatially Nonuniform Gain on Lasing Modes in Weakly Scattering Random Systems
Creators: name: Andreasen, Jonathan
name: Vanneste, Christian
name: Ge, Li
name: Cao, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study on the effects of optical gain nonuniformly distributed in one-dimensional random systems is presented. It is demonstrated numerically that even without gain saturation and mode competition, the spatial nonuniformity of gain can cause dramatic and complicated changes to lasing modes. Lasing modes are decomposed in terms of the quasi modes of the passive system to monitor the changes. As the gain distribution changes gradually from uniform to nonuniform, the amount of mode mixing increases. Furthermore, we investigate new lasing modes created by nonuniform gain distributions. We find that new lasing modes may disappear together with existing lasing modes, thereby causing fluctuations in the local density of lasing states.
description: 26 pages, 10 figures (quality reduced for arXiv)
A re-evaluation of the life and works of Wei Ying-Wu (c.737 - ?)
Creators: name: Lim, Chooi Kwa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Traditionally, when critics mention Wei Ying-wu, they like to quote the T'ang dynasty scholar, Li Chao's praise of Wei from the T'ang Kuo-shih Pu. Li describes Wei as having lofty and pure character, a meagre diet and few desires, he also says that Wei burned incense and swept the floor wherever he lived. Wei is usually praised merely for the style of his five-character verse which is described as calm, lucid and leisurely. In addition to discussing the traditional criticism of Wei's character and poetry, this dissertation emphasizes the phases of his personal and literary development that are often overlooked by scholars. My intention is to present a true picture of Wei's personality and also give a fair and just appraisal of his poetry. This dissertation should make it clear that Wei was not a man who spent his entire life merely burning incense, sweeping the floor and turning his back on reality to live in peace. The fact that his life was much more varied than it is usually portrayed is probably the reason he became such a versatile poet. Although many people have written biographies of Wei, it is difficult to find one without errors. Therefore in chapter one I have compared the biographical research of different scholars in order to determine the facts of Wei's life. However, there are still some errors common to all his biographers. In these cases I have given my own suppositions together with the evidence to support my views. In chapter two, I have paid more attention to the literary achievements which others have overlooked rather than to traditional criticism of Wei's poetry. Nevertheless, I have also endeavoured to give examples to support those instances of traditional criticism that, in my opinion, are accurate. In chapter three, after discussing Wei Ying-wu's personality, I have analysed Wei's political opinions. This had never been done by previous scholars. Furthermore, I have analysed his attitudes towards society. Only by examining such a broad range of Wei Ying-wu's life and thought can one hope to adequately understand the poet's literary significance.
title: Divertículo de Meckel: formas de presentación clínica y hallazgos por imagen.
Creators: name: Afonso Centeno, Ana María
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Diverticula
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: SPECT
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
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description: Objetivo docente:
Familiarizarnos con el amplio espectro radiológico en las diferentes técnicas de imagen del divertículo de Meckel y de sus posibles...