cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Do active faults' clay mineral compositions affect whether earthquake ruptures they host will displace the surface?
Creators: name: Fenske, Selina S.
name: Toy, Virginia G.
name: Schuck, Bernhard
name: Schleicher, Anja M.
name: Reicherter, Klaus
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2021

description: Abstracts & presentations / EGU General Assembly 2021 EGU General Assembly 2021, EGU21, online, 19 Apr 2021 - 30 Apr 2021; Göttingen : Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH EGU21-8627, 1 Seite (2021). doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-8627
description: Published by Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH, Göttingen
Socio-economic Factors Influencing Adoption of Fertilizer for Maize Production in Nepal: A Cast Study of Chitwan District
Creators: name: Paudel, Pashupati
name: Shrestha, Arjun Kumar
name: Matsuoka, Atsushi
name: Paudel, Pashupati
name: Shrestha, Arjun Kumar
name: Matsuoka, Atsushi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Maize
subject: Soil fertility
subject: Food security
subject: Tobit model

description: Soil fertility is considered as the most important constraint to increase maize production in Nepal. Although farmers generally apply farmyard manure available on their farms, there is increasing trend towards the use of fertilizers that is likely to augment maize production in Nepal. This study was carried out to identify the influence of socio-economic factors of the improved maize adopters on the decision to adopt fertilizers in the Chitwan district of Nepal, using the survey data collected from 117 farm households in May-June 2005. The impact of age, education, family size, farm size, extension service, credit use, manure application, off-farm income and timely irrigation availability on the adoption of fertilizers were analyzed using the Tobit regression model. The major factors having positive influence on use of fertilizer in maize production were found to be family size, farm size, credit use, off-farm income and irrigation availability. There is need of adequate irrigation facility and assured credit availability to the farmers in the study area. Further, creation of off-farm activities is crucial to obtain additional household income to fulfill cash requirements required for investment in improved technologies. The present study emphasize the provision of technical support via training, seminars, field demonstrations to increase the adoption of fertilizers to improve maize productivity and consequent food security in Nepal.
The $N_\ell$ of gravitational wave background experiments
Creators: name: Alonso, David
name: Contaldi, Carlo R.
name: Cusin, Giulia
name: Ferreira, Pedro G.
name: Renzini, Arianna I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a model for the angular power spectrum of the instrumental noise in interferometer networks mapping gravitational wave backgrounds (GWBs) as a function of detector noise properties, network configuration and scan strategy. We use the model to calculate the noise power spectrum for current and future ground-based experiments, as well as for planned space missions. We present our results in a language similar to that used in cosmic microwave background and intensity mapping experiments, and connect the formalism with the sensitivity curves that are common lore in GWB analyses. Our formalism is implemented in a lightweight python module that we make publicly available at https://github.com/damonge/schNell.
description: Comments welcome. Code available at https://github.com/damonge/schNell
Millennial seismicity of the Upper Rhine Graben
Creators: name: Kazmer, Miklos
name: Reicherter, Klaus
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2021

description: Abstracts & presentations / EGU General Assembly 2021 EGU General Assembly 2021, EGU21, online, 19 Apr 2021 - 30 Apr 2021; Göttingen : Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH EGU21-1806, 1 Seite (2021). doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1806
description: Published by Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH, Göttingen
A Co-Design Framework of Neural Networks and Quantum Circuits Towards Quantum Advantage
Creators: name: Jiang, Weiwen
name: Xiong, Jinjun
name: Shi, Yiyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite the pursuit of quantum advantages in various applications, the power of quantum computers in neural network computations has mostly remained unknown, primarily due to a missing link that effectively designs a neural network model suitable for quantum circuit implementation. In this article, we present the co-design framework, namely QuantumFlow, to provide such a missing link. QuantumFlow consists of novel quantum-friendly neural networks (QF-Nets), a mapping tool (QF-Map) to generate the quantum circuit (QF-Circ) for QF-Nets, and an execution engine (QF-FB). We discover that, in order to make full use of the strength of quantum representation, it is best to represent data in a neural network as either random variables or numbers in unitary matrices, such that they can be directly operated by the basic quantum logical gates. Based on these data representations, we propose two quantum friendly neural networks, QF-pNet and QF-hNet in QuantumFlow. QF-pNet using random variables has better flexibility, and can seamlessly connect two layers without measurement with more qbits and logical gates than QF-hNet. On the other hand, QF-hNet with unitary matrices can encode 2^k data into k qbits, and a novel algorithm can guarantee the cost complexity to be O(k^2). Compared to the cost of O(2^k)in classical computing, QF-hNet demonstrates the quantum advantages. Evaluation results show that QF-pNet and QF-hNet can achieve 97.10% and 98.27% accuracy, respectively. Results further show that for input sizes of neural computation grow from 16 to 2,048, the cost reduction of QuantumFlow increased from 2.4x to 64x. Furthermore, on MNIST dataset, QF-hNet can achieve accuracy of 94.09%, while the cost reduction against the classical computer reaches 10.85x. To the best of our knowledge, QuantumFlow is the first work to demonstrate the potential quantum advantage on neural network computation.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
Differentially scaffolded instruction for aboriginal and non-aboriginal students during writing in the elementary years
Creators: name: Calder, Kim J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study examines how teachers differentially support the needs of their Aboriginal minority students and non-Aboriginal students during writing instruction. Two grade 4/5 teachers and their students participated over a four month period in classroom observations, interviews, and artifact collection. Findings were that these teachers tended to informally assess the needs of their students, and did not always strategically plan instruction or provide differentially scaffolded support based on identified needs. Various factors impeded the teachers' abilities to incorporate empirically validated methods into their practice. Implications for pre-service and in-service professional development are discussed. Also highlighted is the need for further research into the appropriateness of recommended approaches to writing instruction for Aboriginal students.
Exploring the Basics of Decision Trees: A Comparative Analysis with Linear Regression
Creators: name: Dr.Shashank Singh,Irfan Abbas, Mohd.kaif, Saurabh Kumar, Khushi Pal, Ranjeet Kumar, Amit Yadav, Sanjeev Maurya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In the vast realm of machine learning, foundational algorithms like Decision Trees and Linear Regressionserve as vital entry points for newcomers. This paper undertakes a comparative study of these twoalgorithms using the Boston Housing dataset. While Decision Trees are lauded for their visual clarity andinterpretability, Linear Regression offers a slight edge in performance, as indicated by metrics such asMean Absolute Error (MAE) and the R^2 score. The choice between the two algorithms, therefore, hingeson the task's specific needs and objectives. This research aims to offer a clear perspective to beginners,emphasizing the significance and applicability of each algorithm in real-world scenarios.
Conductance Phases in Aharonov-Bohm Ring Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Yahalom, A.
name: Englman, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The regimes of growing phases (for electron numbers N~0-8) that pass into regions of self-returning phases (for N>8), found recently in quantum dot conductances by the Weizmann group are accounted for by an elementary Green function formalism, appropriate to an equi-spaced ladder structure (with at least three rungs) of electronic levels in the quantum dot. The key features of the theory are physically a dissipation rate that increases linearly with the level number (and tentatively linked to coupling to longitudinal optical phonons) and a set of Fano-like meta-stable levels, which disturb the unitarity, and mathematically the change over of the position of the complex transmission amplitude-zeros from the upper-half in the complex gap-voltage plane to the lower half of that plane. The two regimes are identified with (respectively) the Blaschke-term and the Kramers-Kronig integral term in the theory of complex variables.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures
Suitable geochemical markers to determine tsunami impact : an approach on coastal areas in Northern Japan
Creators: name: Frenken, Mike
name: Bellanova, Piero
name: Nishimura, Yuichi
name: Reicherter, Klaus
name: Schwarzbauer, Jan
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2021

description: Abstracts & presentations / EGU General Assembly 2021 EGU General Assembly 2021, EGU21, online, 19 Apr 2021 - 30 Apr 2021; Göttingen : Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH EGU21-1985, 1 Seite (2021). doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1985
description: Published by Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH, Göttingen
Impacts of pre-initial conditions on anisotropic separate universe simulations: a boosted tidal response in the epoch of reionization
Creators: name: Masaki, Shogo
name: Nishimichi, Takahiro
name: Takada, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To generate initial conditions for cosmological $N$-body simulations, one needs to prepare a uniform distribution of simulation particles, so-called the pre-initial condition (pre-IC). The standard method to construct the pre-IC is to place the particles on the lattice grids evenly spaced in the three-dimensional spatial coordinates. However, even after the initial displacement of each particle according to cosmological perturbations, the particle distribution remains to display an artificial anisotropy. Such an artifact causes systematic effects in simulations at later time until the evolved particle distribution sufficiently erases the initial anisotropy. In this paper, we study the impacts of the pre-IC on the anisotropic separate universe simulation, where the effect of large-scale tidal field on structure formation is taken into account using the anisotropic expansion in a local background (simulation volume). To quantify the impacts, we compare the simulations employing the standard grid pre-IC and the glass one, where the latter is supposed to suppress the initial anisotropy. We show that the artificial features in the grid pre-IC simulations are seen until $z\sim 9$, while the glass pre-IC simulations appear to be stable and accurate over the range of scales we study. From these results we find that a coupling of the large-scale tidal field with matter clustering is enhanced compared to the leading-order prediction of perturbation theory in the quasi non-linear regime in the redshift range $5\lesssim z\lesssim 15$, indicating the importance of tidal field on structure formation at such high redshifts, e.g. during the epoch of reionization.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS, added a subsection and Appendix
Volar plating in DRF with an intact volar cortex
Creators: name: A. Fernández
name: J. Jupiter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: distal radius
distal radius fracture
osteosynthesis
VAP
volar plating
volar cortex
stable fixation
intra-articular fracture
impacted fracture
displaced fracture

description: Can you do an adequate stable fixation of a dorsally displaced intra-articular impacted fracture with an intact or non-displaced volar cortex?
Role of the d-f Coulomb interaction in intermediate valence and Kondo systems: a numerical renormalization group study
Creators: name: Zhuravlev, A. K.
name: Irkhin, V. Yu.
name: Katsnelson, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using numerical renormalization group method the temperature dependences of the magnetic susceptibility $χ(T)$ and specific heat $C(T)$ are obtained in the single-impurity Anderson model with inclusion of the $d-f$ Coulomb interaction. It is shown that the exciton effects owing to this interaction can change considerably the dependence $C(T)$ in comparison with the standard Anderson model at not too low temperatures, whereas the dependence $χ(T)$ remains universal. The renormalization of the effective hybridization parameter and $f$-level position, which is connected with the $d-f$ interaction, is calculated, a satisfactory agreement with the Hartree-Fock approximation being derived.
Invisible tsunami deposits : the Misawa example, Japan
Creators: name: Bellanova, Piero
name: Frenken, Mike
name: Nishimura, Yuchi
name: Schwarzbauer, Jan
name: Reicherter, Klaus
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2021

description: Abstracts & presentations / EGU General Assembly 2021 EGU General Assembly 2021, EGU21, online, 19 Apr 2021 - 30 Apr 2021; Göttingen : Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH EGU21-6682, 1 Seite (2021). doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6682
description: Published by Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH, Göttingen
The Milky Way's Shell Structure Reveals the Time of a Radial Collision
Creators: name: Donlon, Thomas
name: Newberg, Heidi Jo
name: Sanderson, Robyn
name: Widrow, Lawrence M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify shell structures in the Milky Way for the first time. We find 2 shells in the Virgo Overdensity (VOD) region and 2 shells in the Hercules Aquila Cloud (HAC) region using Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Gaia, and LAMOST data. These shell stars are a subset of the substructure previously identified as the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM). Timing arguments for these shells indicate that their progenitor dwarf galaxy passed through the Galactic center 2.7 +/- 0.2 Gyr ago. Based on the time of collision, it is also possible that the VRM is related to the phenomenon that created phase-space spirals in the vertical motion of the disk and/or the Splash, and could have caused a burst of star formation in the inner disk. We analyze phase mixing in a collection of radial merger N-body simulations, and find that shell structure similar to that observed in Milky Way data disappears by 5 Gyr after collision with the Galactic center. The method used to calculate the merger time of the VRM was able to reliably recover the correct merger times for these simulations. Previous work supports the idea that the VRM and the Gaia Sausage/Gaia-Enceladus Merger are the same. However, the Gaia Sausage is widely believed to be 8--11 Gyr old. The disparate ages could be reconciled if the larger age is associated with an infall time when the progenitor crossed the virial radius; we do not constrain the time at which the progenitor became bound to the Milky Way. Alternatively, the Gaia Sausage could be younger than previously thought.
Above potential barrier diffusion
Creators: name: Bernardini, A. E.
name: De Leo, S.
name: Rotelli, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stationary phase method is applied to diffusion by a potential barrier for an incoming wave packet with energies greater then the barrier height. It is observed that a direct application leads to paradoxical results. The correct solution, confirmed by numerical calculations is the creation of multiple peaks as a consequence of multiple reflections. Lessons concerning the use of the stationary phase method are drawn.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
Saxe, Max de / Graffin R. / Nau, F., Patrologia Orientalis, V-VI
Creators: name: Ehrhard, A.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 9 (1911): Oriens christianus, Band 9
Experimental witnessing of the quantum channel capacity in the presence of correlated noise
Creators: name: Cimini, Valeria
name: Gianani, Ilaria
name: Sacchi, Massimiliano F.
name: Macchiavello, Chiara
name: Barbieri, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental method to detect lower bounds to the quantum capacity of two-qubit communication channels. We consider an implementation with polarisation degrees of freedom of two photons and report on the efficiency of such a method in the presence of correlated noise for varying values of the correlation strength. The procedure is based on the generation of separable states of two qubits and local measurements at the output. We also compare the performance of the correlated two-qubit channel with the single-qubit channels corresponding to the partial trace on each of the subsystems, thus showing the beneficial effect of properly taking into account correlations to achieve a larger quantum capacity.
Site effect analysis to support the future seismic microzonation of Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Creators: name: Hakimov, Farkhod
name: Domej, Gisela
name: Ischuk, Anatoly
name: Reicherter, Klaus
name: Cauchie, Léna
name: Havenith, Hans-Balder
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2021

description: Abstracts & presentations / EGU General Assembly 2021 EGU General Assembly 2021, EGU21, online, 19 Apr 2021 - 30 Apr 2021; Göttingen : Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH EGU21-16521, 1 Seite (2021). doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-16521
description: Published by Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH, Göttingen
Probing SO(10) symmetry breaking patterns through sfermion mass relations
Creators: name: Ananthanarayan, B.
name: Pandita, P. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider supersymmetric SO(10) grand unification where the unified gauge group can break to the Standard Model gauge group through different chains. The breaking of SO(10) necessarily involves the reduction of the rank, and consequent generation of non-universal supersymmetry breaking scalar mass terms. We derive squark and slepton mass relations, taking into account these non-universal contributions to the sfermion masses, which can help distinguish between the different chains through which the SO(10) gauge group breaks to the Standard Model gauge group. We then study some implications of these non-universal supersymmetry breaking scalar masses for the low energy phenomenology.
description: 13 pages, latex using revtex4, contains 2 figures, replaced with version accepted for publication
’White’ ’racial’ identity development : a content analysis of semi-structured interviews
Creators: name: Manery, Glen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this research was to gain a better understanding of the experience of being 'White' in British Columbia. 'White' 'racial' identity development (WRID) theory proposes that 'White' people may develop a positive 'racial' identity that is non-racist. Research has linked the multicultural counselling competencies of a counsellor to her positive 'racial' identity. The American Counselling Association has made it ethically incumbent upon 'White' counsellors to develop a positive, non-racist 'White' 'racial' identity. However, the relationship between 'racial' identity and psychological health is inconclusive and the use of 'race' as a construct in the social sciences is controversial and confounding. WRID research has occurred exclusively in the United States and has only been concerned with attitudes towards 'Blacks.' A qualitative methodology, semi-structured interviews and content analysis were used to explore the nature and existence of WRID in British Columbia. Participants who considered themselves to be 'White' and who have lived or worked in aboriginal communities were recruited. Two computerized programs were used to help in the analysis of the content of the interviews. Participants provided descriptions of "White" culture yet their 'White' 'racial' identities were tenuous. No definitive support was found for the existence of WRID in British Columbia, however support was 'found for parts of theories found in the "racial" identity literature. This information may help counsellors and educators engaged in cross-cultural work.
Additional file 1 of Acute sleep deprivation enhances susceptibility to the migraine substrate cortical spreading depolarization
Creators: name: Negro, Andrea
name: Seidel, Jessica L.
name: Houben, Thijs
name: Yu, Esther S.
name: Rosen, Ike
name: Arreguin, Andrea J.
name: Nilufer Yalcin
name: Shorser-Gentile, Lea
name: Pearlman, Lea
name: Sadhegian, Homa
name: Vetrivelan, Ramalingam
name: Chamberlin, Nancy L.
name: Ayata, Cenk
name: Martelletti, Paolo
name: Moskowitz, Michael A.
name: Eikermann-Haerter, Katharina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 : Figure 1. Acute sleep deprivation: Duration of first CSD. Duration of the first CSD was not reduced after 12 h or 6 h of sleep deprivation. Each circle represents the results of an individual rat. All controls (6 h controls and 12 h controls) were pooled for statistical analysis, as no significant difference was found between the two control groups. Figure 2. Acute sleep deprivation: Cumulative duration of CSDs. Cumulative duration of CSDs was not reduced after 12 h or 6 h of sleep deprivation. Each circle represents the results of an individual rat. All controls (6 h controls and 12 h controls) were pooled for statistical analysis, as no significant difference was found between the two control groups. Figure 3. Duration of first CSD and cumulative duration of CSDs in VLPO-lesioned rats. Duration of first CSD (A) and cumulative duration of CSDs upon topical continuous KCl (B) were not altered in rats after chronic sleep deprivation, 6 or 12 weeks after lesioning of the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus. The x-axis indicates the number of intact VLPO neurons after the lesioning procedure. Each circle represents the results of an individual rat. The number of VLPO neurons for sham animals was set to 800.
Sensitivity and Dimensionality of Atomic Environment Representations used for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
Creators: name: Onat, Berk
name: Ortner, Christoph
name: Kermode, James R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Faithfully representing chemical environments is essential for describing materials and molecules with machine learning approaches. Here, we present a systematic classification of these representations and then investigate: (i) the sensitivity to perturbations and (ii) the effective dimensionality of a variety of atomic environment representations, and over a range of material datasets. Representations investigated include Atom Centred Symmetry Functions, Chebyshev Polynomial Symmetry Functions (CHSF), Smooth Overlap of Atomic Positions, Many-body Tensor Representation and Atomic Cluster Expansion. In area (i), we show that none of the atomic environment representations are linearly stable under tangential perturbations, and that for CHSF there are instabilities for particular choices of perturbation, which we show can be removed with a slight redefinition of the representation. In area (ii), we find that most representations can be compressed significantly without loss of precision, and further that selecting optimal subsets of a representation method improves the accuracy of regression models built for a given dataset.
Photon-assisted resonant Andreev reflections: Yu-Shiba-Rusinov and Majorana states
Creators: name: Acero González, Sergio
name: Melischek, Larissa
name: Peters, Olof
name: Flensberg, Karsten
name: Franke, Katharina
name: Oppen, Felix Von
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Andreev reflection
subject: Impurities in superconductors
subject: Josephson effect
subject: Superconductivity
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::539 Moderne Physik

description: Photon-assisted tunneling frequently provides detailed information on the underlying charge-transfer process. In particular, the Tien-Gordon approach and its extensions predict that the sideband spacing in bias voltage is a direct fingerprint of the number of electrons transferred in a single tunneling event. Here, we analyze photon-assisted tunneling into subgap states in superconductors in the limit of small temperatures and bias voltages where tunneling is dominated by resonant Andreev processes and does not conform to the predictions of simple Tien-Gordon theory. Our analysis is based on a systematic Keldysh calculation of the subgap conductance and provides a detailed analytical understanding of photon-assisted tunneling into subgap states, in excellent agreement with a recent experiment. We focus on tunneling from superconducting electrodes and into Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states associated with magnetic impurities or adatoms, but we also explicitly extend our results to include normal-metal electrodes or other types of subgap states in superconductors. In particular, we argue that photon-assisted Andreev reflections provide a high-accuracy method to measure small but nonzero energies of subgap states which can be important for distinguishing conventional subgap states from Majorana bound states.
An Evaluation of Mobile Blood Donation Campaigns Organized by District General Hospital – Kegalle Blood Bank
Creators: name: Siraj Mohamed Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In Sri Lanka, voluntary non-remunerated blood donors donate blood for all patients. This significant achievement isdue to the effort of the National Blood Transfusion Service. The NBTS comprises 106 hospital-based blood banks and twostandalone blood centres affiliated with 24 cluster centres based on their geographic location island-wide. The blood is collectedby in-house bleeding and mobile blood donation campaigns, contributing around 93 per cent of the total collection. The MobileBlood Donation Campaign Organizers are individuals and organisations who organise and gather suitable donors in thecommunity or workplace to donate blood. The Public Health Inspector attached to the blood bank plays a significant role inarranging the campaigns by coordinating with the organisers. The collected blood is separated into several components based onthe collection method. This evaluation has three objectives: to assess the interval between consecutive mobile blood donationcampaigns, to evaluate the efficiency of human resources in managing the blood donation campaigns, and to assess theeffectiveness of the blood donation campaigns conducted by the blood bank, District General Hospital Kegalle. This evaluationused quantitative and qualitative methods to collect data from the records and stakeholders. The quantitative method includessecondary data collected from the registers and reports. Key informant interviews and focus group discussion were conductedfor qualitative data. The data were analysed with SPSS version 21. The findings show that the interval between campaigns isranging from 0 to 17 days. The mean value is 4.6 days, and the median and mode are four and seven days. Most campaigns(87%) were arranged between two to seven days intervals. More than 53% of the campaigns were organised in less than fiveday intervals. Only 10% (20 out of 194) of them were arranged on every 5th day. No PHI is attached to this blood bank, and theMOIC involves organising and coordinating the campaigns in addition to the routine activities. This blood bank has beenupgraded as a cluster centre since January 2019. It should have at least one PHI to coordinate organising the MBDC. In 2017and 2018, total blood collection was less than the blood units issued to the patients in the hospital, which means the blood bankdepended on other blood banks for blood supply for survival. In 2019, up to June, the total collection of blood units was morethan the issues and expiry.
Dynamical scaling and intermittency in shell models of turbulence
Creators: name: Benzi, R.
name: Biferale, L.
name: Sbragaglia, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a model for the turbulent energy cascade aimed at studying the effect of dynamical scaling on intermittency. In particular, we show that by slowing down the energy transfer mechanism for fixed energy flux, intermittency decreases and eventually disappears. This result supports the conjecture that intermittency can be observed only if energy is flowing towards faster and faster scales of motion.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Long-distance coherence of Majorana wires
Creators: name: Shi, Zheng
name: Brouwer, Piet W.
name: Flensberg, Karsten
name: Glazman, Leonid I.
name: Oppen, Felix Von
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Aharonov-Bohm effect
subject: Majorana bound states
subject: PlasmonsQuantum teleportation
subject: Josephson junctions
subject: Nonequilibrium Green's function
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::539 Moderne Physik

description: Theoretically, a pair of Majorana bound states in a topological superconductor forms a single fermionic level even at large separations, implying that the parity information is stored nonlocally. The nonlocality leads to a long-distance coherence for electrons tunneling through a Coulomb-blockaded Majorana wire [L. Fu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 056402 (2010)], an effect that can be observed, e.g., in an interferometer. Here, we examine theoretically the coherent electron transfer, taking into account that tunneling implies the long-distance transfer of charge, which is carried by one-dimensional plasmons. We show that the charge dynamics does not affect the coherence of the electron tunneling process in a topological superconductor consisting of a semiconductor wire proximitized by a single bulk superconductor. The coherence may be strongly suppressed, however, if the topological superconductivity derives from a semiconductor wire proximitized by a granular superconductor.
Additional file 1 of Physical activity and the risk of sudden cardiac death: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies
Creators: name: Aune, Dagfinn
name: Schlesinger, Sabrina
name: Hamer, Mark
name: Norat, Teresa
name: Riboli, Elio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Webappendix_Physical activity and SCE_09.04.2020_r2. Contains: Search strategy, list of excluded studies, supplementary tables of results from nonlinear dose-response analyses, study quality assessment, supplementary figures with influence analyses and sensitivity analyses.
Rayleigh--Taylor turbulence in two dimensions
Creators: name: Celani, Antonio
name: Mazzino, Andrea
name: Vozella, Lara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first consistent phenomenological theory for two and three dimensional Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) turbulence has recently been presented by Chertkov [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 91} 115001 (2003)]. By means of direct numerical simulations we confirm the spatio/temporal prediction of the theory in two dimensions and explore the breakdown of the phenomenological description due to intermittency effects. We show that small-scale statistics of velocity and temperature follow Bolgiano-Obukhov scaling. At the level of global observables we show that the time-dependent Nusselt and Reynolds numbers scale as the square root of the Rayleigh number. These results point to the conclusion that Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence in two and three dimensions, thanks to the absence of boundaries, provides a natural physical realization of the Kraichnan scaling regime hitherto associated with the elusive ``ultimate state of thermal convection''.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Chabot, J.-B. / Guidi, I. et al., Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 9 (1911): Oriens christianus, Band 9
Jet Propagation in Expanding Medium for Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Hamidani, Hamid
name: Ioka, Kunihito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The binary neutron star (BNS) merger event GW170817 clearly shows that a BNS merger launches a short Gamma-Ray Burst (sGRB) jet. Unlike collapsars, where the ambient medium is static, in BNS mergers the jet propagates through the merger ejecta that is expanding outward at substantial velocities ($\sim 0.2c$). Here, we present semi-analytic and analytic models to solve the propagation of GRB jets through their surrounding media. These models improve our previous model by including the jet collimation by the cocoon self-consistently. We also perform a series of 2D numerical simulations of jet propagation in BNS mergers and in collapsars to test our models. Our models are consistent with numerical simulations in every aspect (the jet head radius, the cocoon's lateral width, the jet opening angle including collimation, the cocoon pressure, and the jet-cocoon morphology). The energy composition of the cocoon is found to be different depending on whether the ambient medium is expanding or not; in the case of BNS merger jets, the cocoon energy is dominated by kinetic energy, while it is dominated by internal energy in collapsars. Our model will be useful for estimating electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, and 2 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Writing about women in ghost stories: subversive representations of ideal femininity in “Nie Xiaoqian” and “Luella Miller”
Creators: name: Zheng, Yi
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ideals of femininity
subject: Ghost stories
subject: Pu Songling
subject: “Nie Xiaoqian”
subject: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
subject: “Luella Miller”
subject: 800 Literatur::800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft::802 Verschiedenes

description: On the one hand, because of the double historical prejudices from literary criticism against ghost stories and women’s writing, little attention has been paid to investigate the ideals of femininity in women’s ghost stories in nineteenth-century America. This article examines “Luella Miller,” a short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, who indirectly but sharply criticized the ideal of femininity in her time by creating an exaggerated example of the cult of feminine fragility. On the other hand, although extensive research has been done on Chinese ghost stories, especially on the ghost heroines in Pu Songling’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, there are few studies comparing the Chinese and the American ones. By comparing “Luella Miller” and Pu’s “Nie Xiaoqian,” this article does not primarily aim to list the similarities and differences between the Chinese and the American ideals of femininity, but to provide fresh insights into how both Freeman and Pu capitalized on the literary possibilities of the supernatural, because only in ghost stories they could write about women in ways impossible in “high literature.”
Reheating-Induced Axion Dark Matter After Low Scale Inflation
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Takeshi
name: Ubaldi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A kinetic mixing between the axion and the inflaton allows for a production of axion dark matter even if the inflationary Hubble scale is smaller than the zero-temperature axion mass. We analyze the axion dynamics in this recently discovered "inflaxion" framework, and present a new cosmological scenario where the axion drifts away from its vacuum during the reheating epoch, giving rise to the observed dark matter abundance. We discuss the implications for both the QCD axion and axion-like particles.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures, matches published version
Synthesis of pH-degradable polyglycerol-based nanogels by iEDDA-mediated crosslinking for encapsulation of asparaginase using inverse nanoprecipitation
Creators: name: Oehrl, Alexander
name: Schötz, Sebastian
name: Haag, Rainer
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: iEDDA
subject: Nanogels
subject: Inverse nanoprecipitation
subject: pH degradability
subject: Protein encapsulation
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Biocompatible, environmentally responsive, and scalable nanocarriers are needed for targeted and triggered delivery of therapeutic proteins. Suitable polymers, preparation methods, and crosslinking chemistries must be considered for nanogel formation. Biocompatible dendritic polyglycerol (dPG) is used in the mild, surfactant-free inverse nanoprecipitation method for nanogel preparation. The biocompatible, fast, and bioorthogonal inverse electron demand Diels-Alder (iEDDA) crosslinking chemistry is used. In this work, the synthesis of pH-degradable nanogels, based on tetrazine, norbonene, and bicyclo[6.1.0]nonyne (BCN) functionalized macromonomers, is reported. The macromonomers are non-toxic up to 2.5 mg mL−1 in three different cell lines. Nanogels are obtained in the size range of 47 to 200 nm and can be degraded within 48 h at pH 4.5 (BA-gels), and pH 3 (THP-gels), respectively. Encapsulation of asparaginase (32 kDa) yield encapsulation efficiencies of up to 93% at 5 wt.% feed. Overall, iEDDA-crosslinked pH-degradable dPG-nanogels from inverse nanoprecipitation are promising candidates for biomedical applications.
The indirect costs of vaccine-preventable cancer mortality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Creators: name: Bencina, Goran
name: Ugrekhelidze, Dzhumber
name: Shoel, Hayley
name: Oliver, Edward
name: Meiwald, Anne
name: Hughes, Robert
name: Eiden, Amanda
name: Weston, Georgie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Infections are responsible for ∼13% of cancer cases worldwide, with human papillomavirus (HPV) and hepatitis B (HBV) among the infections associated with cancer for which vaccines are available. The aim of this study was to estimate the indirect cost of premature mortality related to cancers caused by HPV and HBV in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. The number of deaths and years of life lost (YLL) in 2019 from four HPV-related cancers: cervical cancer, oral cavity cancer, laryngeal cancer, and oropharynx cancer, as well as HBV-related liver cancer were sourced from the Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation (IHME) Global Burden of Disease database. HPV-attributable fractions were applied to deaths and YLL. The human capital approach was used to measure productivity loss, through value of YLL (VYLL), and estimated using gross domestic product per capita (World Bank; in USD). Seventeen countries in the MENA region were included. Four countries in the region were not included due to data availability. In 2019, there were 11,645 potentially vaccine-preventable cancer-related deaths across the MENA region. This resulted in an indirect cost of $1,688,821,605, with 76.1% of this accrued in the Middle East ($1,284,923,633). The number of deaths in the Middle East (5,986) were similar to Northern Africa (5,659) but YLL were higher in Northern Africa (179,425) compared to the Middle East (169,207). The highest indirect cost per death occurred in Qatar ($1,378,991), compared to $14,962 in Sudan. Oral cavity cancer had the highest VYLL per death ($186,084). There is a high burden of premature mortality and indirect costs of potentially vaccine-preventable cancer-related deaths in the MENA region. Improved vaccination program implementation, increased vaccine coverage of HPV and HBV vaccinations, and continued prioritization of public health measures, such as screening, could effectively reduce premature mortality and associated costs.
Additional file 3 of Inhibition of multiple defense responsive pathways by CaWRKY70 transcription factor promotes susceptibility in chickpea under Fusarium oxysporum stress condition
Creators: name: Joydeep Chakraborty
name: Senjuti Sen
name: Prithwi Ghosh
name: Akansha Jain
name: Das, Sampa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3 Table S2. List of primers used in this study.
Scattering of a Klein-Gordon particle by a smooth barrier
Creators: name: López, Eduardo
name: Rojas, Clara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the study of the one-dimensional Klein-Gordon equation by a smooth barrier. The scattering solutions are given in terms of the Whittaker $M_{κ,μ}(x)$ function. The reflection and transmission coefficients are calculated in terms of the energy, the height and the smoothness of the potential barrier. For any value of the smoothness parameter we observed transmission resonances.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures. Accepted in Can. J. Phys
Spectroscopy of clusters in the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS)
Creators: name: Halliday, C.
name: Milvang-Jensen, B.
name: Poirier, S.
name: Poggianti, B. M.
name: Jablonka, P.
name: Aragon-Salamanca, A.
name: Saglia, R. P.
name: De Lucia, G.
name: Pello, R.
name: Simard, L.
name: Clowe, D. I.
name: Rudnick, G.
name: Dalcanton, J. J.
name: White, S. D. M.
name: Zaritsky, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectroscopic observations of galaxies in 4 clusters at z = 0.7-0.8 and in one cluster at z~0.5 obtained with the FORS2 spectrograph on the VLT as part of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS), a photometric and spectroscopic survey of 20 intermediate to high redshift clusters. We describe our target selection, mask design, observation and data reduction procedures, using these first 5 clusters to demonstrate how our strategies maximise the number of cluster members for which we obtain spectroscopy. We present catalogues containing positions, I-band magnitudes and spectroscopic redshifts for galaxies in the fields of our 5 clusters. These contain 236 cluster members, with the number of members per cluster ranging from 30 to 67. Our spectroscopic success rate, i.e. the fraction of spectroscopic targets which are cluster members, averages 50% and ranges from 30% to 75%. We use a robust biweight estimator to measure cluster velocity dispersions from our spectroscopic redshift samples. We also make a first assessment of substructure within our clusters. The velocity dispersions range from 400 to 1100 km s-1. Some of the redshift distributions are significantly non-Gaussian and we find evidence for significant substructure in two clusters, one at z~0.79 and the other at z~0.54. Both have velocity dispersions exceeding 1000 km s-1 but are clearly not fully virialised; their velocity dispersions may thus be a poor indicator of their masses. The properties of these first 5 EDisCS clusters span a wide range in redshift, velocity dispersion, richness and substructure, but are representative of the sample as a whole. Spectroscopy for the full dataset will allow a comprehensive study of galaxy evolution as a function of cluster environment and redshift.
description: 18 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication in A&A, Table 4 is available ahead of journal publication by downloading the source files for this astro-ph submission or from first author on request (halliday@pd.astro.it)
Assessing the Value of Coordinated Sire Genetics in a Synchronized AI Program
Creators: name: Parcell, Joseph L.
name: Schaefer, Daniel
name: Patterson, David J.
name: John, Mike
name: Kerley, Monty S.
name: Haden, Kent
name: Parcell, Joseph L.
name: Schaefer, Daniel
name: Patterson, David J.
name: John, Mike
name: Kerley, Monty S.
name: Haden, Kent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: artificial insemination
subject: beef
subject: cow
subject: carcass
subject: feed-out
subject: genetics
subject: pre-conditioning
subject: sire synchronization.

description: Synchronized artificial insemination was used to inseminate cows using different types of sire genetics, including low-accuracy, calving-ease, and high-accuracy. These three calf sire groups were compared to calves born to cows bred using natural service. We found substantial production efficiency grains, carcass merit improvement, and economic value to calves born to cows following a synchronized artificial insemination program with high-accuracy semen included. The economic advantage to the high-accuracy calf sire group was computed to be in the neighborhood of $40 to $80/head, relative to the natural service calf sire group.