cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Global well-posedness of the 2D Boussinesq equations with fractional Laplacian dissipation
Creators: name: Ye, Zhuan
name: Xu, Xiaojing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q35, 35B65, 76D03

description: As a continuation of the previous work [40], in this paper we focus on the Cauchy problem of the two-dimensional (2D) incompressible Boussinesq equations with fractional Laplacian dissipation. We give an elementary proof of the global regularity of the smooth solutions of the 2D Boussinesq equations with a new range of fractional powers of the Laplacian. The argument is based on the nonlinear lower bounds for the fractional Laplacian established in [12]. Consequently, this result significantly improves the recent works [12, 38, 40].
description: This version fix several typos of the previous one. 25 pages
Facebook as a Finite Province of Meaning?
Creators: name: Tagliani, Valentina
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2015
Subjects: Facebook; finite province of meaning; understanding

description: Facebook today represents one of the main avenues that people use to create and develop relationships. Indeed, in the 10 years since its birth, Facebook has changed the concept of community, given new meaning to the sense of belonging and even produced a new language. However, what is its meaning? What is the real reason for its spread, which obviously goes beyond superficial and simplistic explanations? This article proposes a reading of Facebook using classical concepts of sociology such as the concepts of sense, action and meaning. Particular attention will be given to the phenomenology of Alfred Schutz and to his idea of finite provinces of meaning in order to discover whether it is a construct applicable to Facebook. To achieve this, we propose a phenomenology of Facebook to understand what kind of reality it represents and what similarities and differences are encountered in the prominent world of everyday life.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 5, No 1 (2015)
Time and Social Identity
Creators: name: Bellini, Pier Paolo
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2015
Subjects: identity; social time; self-realization,

description: The paper aims to emphazise the close relations between identity, construction processes and temporal dimension. Analyzing the central concepts of "action", "continuity" and "shared time", we illustrate their radical changes caused by modernity and postmodernity. The phenomena of "discontinuous identity", "life project crisis" and "situationalism" are identified as outcomes of these sudden changes. We conclude that human reflexivity may represent a barrier to instrumental reduction of social relations, strengthen the interpersonal credibility, reconstitute subjective identity continuity.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 5, No 1 (2015)
25 March 1789: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MA IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Creators: name: Gizachew Desalegn Lencho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: A study was conducted to determine factors affecting organizational commitment at Buna International Bank Share Company and to identify the factors that influencing the organizational commitment of Employees, the researcher had distributed questionnaire for 187 respondents. The instruments used for data collection were Meyer, Allen, and Smith (1996) 20 item organizational commitment questionnaire (Johnston, Parasuraman, Futrell, and Black, 1990; Mathieu, Bruvold and Ritchey, 2000; Boles, Madupalli, Rutherford and Wood, 2007)31 item survey(JSS)tool. Spearman’s Rank Correlation Statistical tool and multiple regressions were used to test the hypotheses the finding revealed that there was low level of organizational commitment. According factors affecting organizational commitment(Compensation and Incentive, Training and Learning Opportunity, Career Management, Supervisor support and Promotions Fairness level of BIB employees were low except Supervisor support and Career management factors And correlation analysis and linier regression shows that significant positive relationship was found between Organizational Commitment and the stated affecting factors. However multiple regressions analysis result was describe that the only two of factors were significant, (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01) in influencing organizational commitment. The significant variables were Supervisor Support, (B=0.337, p < 0.01)and Compensation and Incentive (B=0.242, p < 0.01) but the other three factors, Training and Learning Opportunity, Career Management and Promotion fairness found to be not significant in influencing organizational commitment in this research. And Supervisor Support and Organizational Commitment contributed 35.8% and 30.1% to organizational commitment respectively. And the adjusted R² is 0.403. Thus, by taking the adjusted R² can be said the predictors i.e., Compensation and Incentive, Training and Learning Opportunity, Career Management, Super Visor Support and Promotion Fairness account for 40.3% variation of employee’s organizational commitment. And the remaining 59.7% depend on other factors. The result of the study also revealed that from the five selected factors major predictors of organizational commitment were Supervisor Support and Compensation and Incentive.
The Legacy of Foundlings in the Countryside Surrounding Italian Cities
Creators: name: Nicolini, Luciano
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2015
Subjects: foundlings; countryside; Italy

description: Abandonment of unwanted infants was a mass phenomenon throughout recent centuries of European history, and in Italy it is estimated to have applied to around 3% of 19th century births. The children were handed over to care establishments using an instrument known as the “ruota” (wheel), or directly, especially when the mother was guaranteed anonymity. The establishments then took care of their upbringing, entrusting them to wet nurses who first breast-fed them and then in many cases brought them up with their own children. The present study highlights through the analysis of surnames that in many municipalities even today there still exists the genetic inheritance left by foundlings, first entrusted to the care of rural families and who then became integrated in the host populations through marriage.

The abandonment of unwanted infants certainly caused a direct gene flow from the town centres to the adjacent hilly and low mountain areas. In general, however, the flow does not appear to have been so high as to change remarkably the genetic structure of the populations involved in the reception of the infants, regardless that not all the foundlings were born in the cities, as is well-known; a percentage of them were taken to the foundling hospitals from the countryside. In addition, many of those effectively born in the cities were children of people whose genetic pool did not differ substantially from that of the residents of the surrounding countryside.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 5, No 1 (2015)
27 January 1789: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
Classical Mechanics of Collinear Positron-Hydrogen Scattering
Creators: name: Lee, Min-Ho
name: Byun, Chang Woo
name: Moon, Jin-Sung
name: Choi, Nark Nyul
name: Kim, Dae-Soung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the classical dynamics of the collinear positron-hydrogen scattering system below the three-body breakup threshold. Observing the chaotic behavior of scattering time signals, we in- troduce a code system appropriate to a coarse grained description of the dynamics. And, for the purpose of systematic analysis of the phase space structure, a surface of section is introduced being chosen to match the code system. Partition of the surface of section leads us to a surprising conjec- ture that the topological structure of the phase space of the system is invariant under exchange of the dynamical variables of proton with those of positron. It is also found that there is a finite set of forbidden patterns of symbol sequences. And the shortest periodic orbit is found to be stable, around which invariant tori form an island of stability in the chaotic sea. Finally we discuss a possible quantum manifestation of the classical phase space structure relevant to resonances in scattering cross sections.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
The second-hand market: the practice of reusing goods in cultures dominated by the new
Creators: name: Marzella, Fabio
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2015
Subjects: used goods; sociology of consumption; vintage

description: This article offers a literary review with the intention of analysing the studies conducted on the topic of used goods. The need for reviewing the existing considerations and research on the subject lies in the necessity to examine this topic in an organic manner, since so far it has only been examined by social sciences and particularly by the sociology of consumption in a marginal fashion. The research presented thus far ranges from studies concerning the field of cultural geography to those about economics and marketing focusing on reasons for purchase and the geography of purchases. Used goods have also been the topic of cultural anthropology studies, which focus on the subject of consumption by contemporary societies in a variety of cultural contexts, and which have examined the different contexts, systems and rituals associated with this specific exchange practice. One specific element that emerged from anthropology studies on fashion is the vintage phenomenon, which has elevated used goods in this realm. The analysis of this research suggests that the study on used goods should be carried out from a material culture perspective, so that the human relationships mediated by (used) goods can be taken into account.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 5, No 1 (2015)
Innovatiocaris, a complete radiodont from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte and its implications for the phylogeny of Radiodonta
Creators: name: Zeng, Han
name: Zhao, Fangchen
name: Zhu, Maoyan
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Character list for phylogenetic analysis.
Observations of radio-quiet quasars at 10mas resolution by use of gravitational lensing
Creators: name: Jackson, Neal
name: Tagore, Amitpal S.
name: Roberts, Carl
name: Sluse, Dominique
name: Stacey, Hannah
name: Vives-Arias, Hector
name: Wucknitz, Olaf
name: Volino, Filomena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present VLA detections of radio emission in four four-image gravitational lens systems with quasar sources: HS0810+2554, RXJ0911+0511, HE0435$-$1223 and SDSSJ0924+0219, and e-MERLIN observations of two of the systems. The first three are detected at a high level of significance, and SDSS J0924+0219 is detected. HS0810+2554 is resolved, allowing us for the first time to achieve 10-mas resolution of the source frame in the structure of a radio quiet quasar. The others are unresolved or marginally resolved. All four objects are among the faintest radio sources yet detected, with intrinsic flux densities in the range 1-5$μ$Jy; such radio objects, if unlensed, will only be observable routinely with the Square Kilometre Array. The observations of HS0810+2554, which is also detected with e-MERLIN, strongly suggest the presence of a mini-AGN, with a radio core and milliarcsecond scale jet. The flux densities of the lensed images in all but HE0435-1223 are consistent with smooth galaxy lens models without the requirement for smaller-scale substructure in the model, although some interesting anomalies are seen between optical and radio flux densities. These are probably due to microlensing effects in the optical.
description: Accepted by MNRAS
Presence of understory dwarf bamboo determines ecosystem fine root production in a cool-temperate forest in northern Japan
Creators: name: Yanagawa, Sanae
name: Fukuzawa, Karibu
name: Takagi, Kentaro
name: Shibata, Hideaki
name: Satoh, Fuyuki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Fine root biomass (FRB) and production (FRP) are crucial in forest carbon and nutrient cycling, but the factors controlling FRB and FRP are not well understood. Here, we examined FRB, FRP, aboveground environmental and stand factors, and soil environmental factors in four stands in a forest covered with dense understory vegetation of dwarf bamboo, Sasa senanensis (hereafter, Sasa). The four stands had different tree species composition and included a primary forest (PF), secondary forest (SF), conifer plantation (CP), and Sasa area (SA). We quantified the FRB and FRP of trees and Sasa separately using the ingrowth core method. Total FRP was higher in stands with substantial presence of Sasa (99–130 g m−2 yr−1) than in CP with scarce Sasa (69 g m−2 yr−1). Despite being occupied by Sasa alone, SA had high FRP, suggesting that the presence of Sasa regardless of trees is a key determinant of ecosystem FRP. Tree FRB increased with increasing tree aboveground biomass, tree density, or basal area at breast height, but Sasa FRB and total FRB decreased. Total FRP was also lower at higher values of these aboveground stand factors. In Sasa, specific root length was significantly higher, and root tissue density was significantly lower, than in trees, indicating the capacity of Sasa for explosive growth. Positive correlations between Sasa FRB or FRP and soil inorganic N or ammonium contents (i.e. N availability) were detected. We conclude that Sasa is important in determining FRB and FRP in this northern forest with understory vegetation.
01 September 1789: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: Penelope believes Charlotte�s illness is the result of her being pregnant. PLAIN TEXT TRANSCRIPTION: 1 September 1789 I cannot express my thanks to my dear Mrs W. for Her sweet & welcome letter (date 22d. Augt.) according to her Kind desire I dispatch an Avant-Courier to a longer letter, Which I hope to send her after her return from Ripley, just To assure her of my health, which thro� extraordinary mercy Has held good this Summer, and that of my dr Nuns, excepting a Pain in the Side of the youngest, which occurs so frequent & Violent as to give me much uneasiness; nor does she look Well, tho� she mentions no other Complaint. I sometimes hope It may be rheumatic, as it does not always keep to the same Spot. I intend writing the case to the Docr. at B: and wish My next may enable me to give you a better account. She Joins with Vesta in Love, compl[imen]ts. & every best wish. I am sorry you are not well, my dear freind, but I am Suspicious it may be from a Cause that may end well. However this is, I sincerely hope your little Jant [jaunt] to the Country may conduce to your being better. I have a thousand things to say in answer to your Charming letter, but want of time, and situation, restrains my Pen at present, It Can only assure you with the utmost sincerity,/ that so far from any apologies due for Speaking of yourself & your Concerns to me particularly, you never can indulge [next page] Me so truly, nor can you exceed on these points, even if you Told me the minutias of your little pritty dwelling � may Health & truest Happiness attend you in it & your aimable Partner � Who I beg will accept of my compliments, and Both be assur�d that I long to merit the kind partiallity you are so good to entertain for My dearest Mrs West, Your affectionate Freind &c L�Abbesse Your Military Freind set forth Yesterday in a chaise with the Curate of this Place, for a Week�s Shooting at Hatfield � N:B: your Seal was on yr Number of yr Lodging, but I think it Seems to have been 1. [Transcription by Charlotte Kinnear, Cristina Erquiaga, and Christopher Hollings for Bodleian Student Editions] Transcribed by students on the Bodleian Student Editions programme.
Innovatiocaris, a complete radiodont from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte and its implications for the phylogeny of Radiodonta
Creators: name: Zeng, Han
name: Zhao, Fangchen
name: Zhu, Maoyan
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Supplementary figures S1–S8.
COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN INTERPRETING
Creators: name: Shermatov, Farrux
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article explores the cognitive processes involved in interpreting, focusing on the mental mechanisms and strategies employed by interpreters to effectively convey meaning across languages. The findings highlight the importance of cognitive flexibility, attention management, and the utilization of various strategies to handle the cognitive demands of interpreting. The article concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for interpreter training and future research directions.
Reduction of thermal conductance by coherent phonon scattering in two-dimensional phononic crystals of different lattice types
Creators: name: Anufriev, Roman
name: Nomura, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of lattice type, period, porosity and thickness of two-dimensional silicon phononic crystals on the reduction of thermal conductance by coherent modification of phonon dispersion is investigated using the theory of elasticity and finite element method. Increase in the period and porosity of the phononic crystal affects the group velocity and phonon density of states and, as a consequence, reduces the in-plane thermal conductance of the structure as compared to unpatterned membrane. This reduction does not depend significantly on the lattice type and thickness of phononic crystals. Moreover, the reduction is strongly temperature dependent and strengthens as the temperature is increased.
General KAM theorems and their applications to invariant tori with prescribed frequencies
Creators: name: Xu, Junxiang
name: Lu, Xuezhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we develop some new KAM-technique to prove two general KAM theorems for nearly integrable hamiltonian systems without assuming any non-degeneracy condition. Many of KAM-type results (including the classical KAM theorem) are special cases of our theorems under some non-degeneracy condition and some smoothness condition. Moreover, we can obtain some interesting results about KAM tori with prescribed frequencies.
Special issue on “Ultrasound-assisted engineering of materials for biomedical uses”
Creators: name: Besford, Quinn A.
name: Cavalieri, Francesca
Publisher: name: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: biomedical engineering
subject: biomedicine
subject: cell death
subject: cytotoxicity
subject: Editorial
subject: gene silencing
subject: high frequency ultrasound
subject: human
subject: nebulization
subject: photoacoustics
subject: rosette formation
subject: sonodynamic therapy
subject: THP-1 cell line
subject: ultrasonic drug delivery
subject: ultrasound
subject: ultrasound assisted extraction
subject: engineering
subject: 540

description: [no abstract available]
08 September 1787: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
Summary report on opinion surveys targeting end users (Deliverable 8.5)
Creators: name: Pileidis Filoklis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Antimicrobial Resistance
animal health
animal welfare

description: Antibiotics are essential medicines for the treatment of bacterial diseases in people and animals. However, every use of antibiotics carries the risk of selecting bacteria that are resistant against the used medicine. A possible way of mitigating this risk of antibiotics becoming ineffective is replacing them with alternative interventions. In the AVANT project, different types of potential alternative interventions are developed and tested to replace antibiotics in pig production. A survey was conducted to understand the level of acceptance of each type of intervention by different target groups (producers, veterinarians and consumers). Questionnaire & Methodology The survey was conducted by 15 minutes phone interviews using a questionnaire that was structured in three parts (participant’s profile, awareness of the risks associated with antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance, and acceptance of alternative interventions). The questionnaire was created by P+M, the subcontractor responsible for the execution of the survey and re-worked by the University of Copenhagen (project coordinator of AVANT) in close co-operation with the project consortium. The master questionnaire for the survey was in English and afterwards translated into the respective local languages.
Former Training Relieves the Later Development of Behavioral Inflexibility in an Animal Model Overexpressing the Dopamine Transporter
Creators: name: Edemann-Callesen, Henriette
name: Glienke, Maximilian
name: Akinola, Esther Olubukola
name: Lieser, Maike Kristin
name: Habelt, Bettina
name: Hadar, Ravit
name: Bernhardt, Nadine
name: Winter, Christine
Publisher: name: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Animal model
subject: Cognitive deficits
subject: Dopamine irregularities
subject: 610
subject: 570

description: A range of dopamine-dominating neuropsychiatric disorders present with cognitive deficits. In accordance, the dopamine transporter overexpressing rat model (DAT-tg rat) displays cognitive deficits by means of behavioral inflexibility and learning disabilities. It remains to be investigated when cognitive deficits emerge, due to the inherent DA irregularities, during the life course of the DAT-tg rat and what may relieve symptoms. The Morris water maze (MWM) was used to assess cognitive abilities in three cohorts of DAT-tg rats. In the first cohort, the development of cognitive deficits was assessed by repeatedly testing animals in the MWM at postnatal day (PND) 35, 60, and 90. In the second and third cohort, pharmacological interventions and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) were tested in adult animals to understand what drives, and thus relieves, the deficits. Minor differences were observed between DAT-tg rats and control rats at PND 35 and 60, whereas cognitive deficits fully emerged at PND 90. A high dosage of methylphenidate diminished both behavioral inflexibility and improved learning abilities in adult rats. Interestingly, rats subjected early in life to the MWM also displayed improved behavioral flexibility as compared to rats naïve to the paradigm. Cognitive deficits gradually develop over time and fully emerge in adulthood. Pharmacological modulation of the ubiquitous DAT overexpression overall improves deficits in adult rats, whereas early training decreases later development of behavioral inflexibility. Thus, former training may constitute a preventive avenue that alters some aspects of cognitive deficits resulting from inherent DA abnormalities.
Innovating the software engineering class through multi-team development
Creators: name: Brockenbrough, Allan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Often software engineering classes have the student concentrate on designing and planning the project but stop short of actual student team development of code. This leads to criticism by employers of new graduates that they are missing skills in working in teams and coordinating multiple overlapping changes to a code base. Additionally, students that are not actively experiencing team development are unprepared to understand and modify existing legacy-code bases written by others. This paper presents a new approach to teaching undergraduate software engineering that emphasizes not only software engineering methodology but also experiencing development as a member of a team and modifying a legacy code base. Our innovative software engineering course begins with learning the fundamentals of software engineering, followed by examining an existing framework of a social media application. The students are then grouped into multiple software teams, each focusing on a different aspect of the app. The separate teams must define requirements, design, and provide documentation on the services. Using an Agile development approach, the teams incrementally add to the code base and demonstrate features as the application evolves. Subsequent iterations of the class pick up the prior students code base, providing experience working with a legacy code base. Preliminary results of using this approach at the university are presented in this paper including quantitative analysis. Analysis of student software submissions to the cloud-based code repository shows student engagement and contributions over the span of the course. Positive student evaluations show the effectiveness of applying the principles of software engineering to the development of a complex solution in a team environment. Keywords: Software engineering, teaching, college computer science, innovative methods, agile.
description: 6 pages
20 December 1789: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
Spiropyran/Merocyanine Amphiphile in Various Solvents: A Joint Experimental–Theoretical Approach to Photophysical Properties and Self-Assembly
Creators: name: Savchenko, Vladyslav
name: Lomadze, Nino
name: Santer, Svetlana
name: Guskova, Olga
Publisher: name: Basel : Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: molecular modeling
subject: negative photochromism
subject: spiropyran/merocyanine isomerization
subject: time-resolved UV-vis measurements
subject: 570
subject: 540

description: This joint experimental-theoretical work focuses on molecular and photophysical properties of the spiropyran-containing amphiphilic molecule in organic and aqueous solutions. Being dissolved in tested organic solvents, the system demonstrates positive photochromism, i.e., upon UV stimulus the colorless spiropyran form is transformed into colorful merocyanine isomer. However, the aqueous solution of the amphiphile possesses a negative photochromism: the orange-red merocyanine form becomes thermodynamically more stable in water, and both UV and vis stimuli lead to the partial or complete photobleaching of the solution. The explanation of this phenomenon is given on the basis of density functional theory calculations and classical modeling including thermodynamic integration. The simulations reveal that stabilization of merocyanine in water proceeds with the energy of ca. 70 kJ mol−1, and that the Helmholtz free energy of hydration of merocyanine form is 100 kJ mol−1 lower as compared to the behavior of SP isomer in water. The explanation of such a difference lies in the molecular properties of the merocyanine: after ring-opening reaction this molecule transforms into a zwitterionic form, as evidenced by the electrostatic potential plotted around the opened form. The presence of three charged groups on the periphery of a flat conjugated backbone stimulates the self-assembly of merocyanine molecules in water, ending up with the formation of elongated associates with stack-like building blocks, as shown in molecular dynamics simulations of the aqueous solution with the concentration above critical micelle concentration. Our quantitative evaluation of the hydrophilicity switching in spiropyran/merocyanine containing surfactants may prompt the search for new systems, including colloidal and polymeric ones, aiming at remote tuning of their morphology, which could give new promising shapes and patterns for the needs of modern nanotechnology.
06 October 1789: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
A NuSTAR Observation of the Gamma-Ray-Emitting X-ray Binary and Transitional Millisecond Pulsar Candidate 1RXS J154439.4-112820
Creators: name: Bogdanov, Slavko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present a 40 kilosecond Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observation of the recently identified low-luminosity X-ray binary and transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP) candidate 1RXS J154439.4-112820, which is associated with the high-energy gamma-ray source 3FGL J1544.6--1125. The system is detected up to ~30 keV with an extension of the same power-law spectrum and rapid large-amplitude variability between two flux levels observed in soft X-rays. These findings provide further evidence that 1RXS J154439.4-112820 belongs to the same class of objects as the nearby bona fide tMSPs PSR J1023+0038 and XSS J12270-4859 and therefore almost certainly hosts a millisecond pulsar accreting at low luminosities. I also examine the long-term accretion history of 1RXS J154439.4-112820 based on archival optical, ultraviolet, X-ray, and $γ$-ray light curves covering the past $\sim$decade. Throughout this period, the source has maintained similar flux levels at all wavelengths, which is an indication that it has not experienced prolonged episodes of a non-accreting radio pulsar state but may spontaneously undergo such a state transformation in the future.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters
THE EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Qosimova, Nodira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article examines the evolution of English language education in Uzbekistan since the country's independence in 1991. Despite progress, challenges such as a shortage of qualified teachers, limited resources, and varying English proficiency levels among learners persist. The article concludes with recommendations for further enhancing English language education in Uzbekistan through teacher training, curriculum development, and increased investment in educational resources and infrastructure.
title: Posterior foraminotomy versus anterior decompression and fusion in patients with cervical degenerative disc disease with radiculopathy ‒ 5-year outcome from the National Swedish Spine Register
Creators: name: MacDowall, Anna
name: Heary, Robert F.
name: Holy, Marek
name: Olerud, Claes
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: The long-term efficacy of posterior foraminotomy compared with anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) for the treatment of degenerative disc disease with radiculopathy has not been previously investigated in a population-based setting. Methods: Observational study of a cohort[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 70. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), Joint Meeting mit der Skandinavischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie
title: Lumbar microdiscectomy for sciatica in adolescents – a multicentre observational registry-based study
Creators: name: Gulati, Sasha
name: Madsbu, Mattis A.
name: Solberg, Tore K.
name: Sørlie, Andreas
name: Giannadakis, Charalampis
name: Skram, Marius K.
name: Nygaard, Øystein P.
name: Jakola, Asgeir S.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is rare in the adolescent population. Factors predisposing to LDH in adolescents differ from adults with more cases being related to trauma or structural malformations. Further, there are limited data on patient-reported outcomes after lumbar microdiscectomy in[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 70. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), Joint Meeting mit der Skandinavischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie
Ground-state multiquantum vortices in rotating two-species superfluids
Creators: name: Kuopanportti, Pekko
name: Orlova, Natalia V.
name: Milošević, Milorad V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show numerically that a rotating, harmonically trapped mixture of two Bose-Einstein-condensed superfluids can, contrary to its single-species counterpart, contain a multiply quantized vortex in the ground state of the system. This giant vortex can occur without any accompanying single-quantum vortices, may either be coreless or have an empty core, and can be realized in a $^{87}$Rb-$^{41}$K Bose-Einstein condensate. Our results not only provide a rare example of a stable, solitary multiquantum vortex but also reveal exotic physics stemming from the coexistence of multiple, compositionally distinct condensates in one system.
description: 6 pages, 4 color figures; identical in content to the published article
Type II InAs/GaAsSb Quantum Dots: Highly Tunable Exciton Geometry and Topology
Creators: name: Llorens, José M.
name: Wewior, Lukasz
name: de Oliveira, Edson R. Cardozo
name: Ulloa, José M.
name: Utrilla, Antonio D.
name: Guzmán, Álvaro
name: Hierro, Adrián
name: Alén, Benito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: External control over the electron and hole wavefunctions geometry and topology is investigated in a p-i-n diode embedding a dot-in-a-well InAs/GaAsSb quantum structure with type II band alignment. We find highly tunable exciton dipole moments and largely decoupled exciton recombination and ionization dynamics. We also predicted a bias regime where the hole wavefunction topology changes continuously from quantum dot-like to quantum ring-like as a function of the external bias. All these properties have great potential in advanced electro-optical applications and in the investigation of fundamental spin-orbit phenomena.
description: 4 pages and 4 figures
Planets in multiple stellar systems: measuring stellar system architecture with global astrometry
Creators: name: Verrier, Gabriel
name: De Rosa, Robert J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Planetary systems dynamics
Hierarchical star systems
Global astrometry
Bayesian inference

description: Understanding the effects of stellar companions on the formation and evolution of planetary systems is important given that stars are most commonly found in multiple stellar systems. The presence of an exterior stellar companion can either suppress or enhance the efficiency of the planet formation process, depending on the exact orbital configuration, and can play a significant role in the dynamical evolution of the system by inducing orbital migration, or even scattering planets out of the system entirely. This class of hierarchical systems form a distinct subset of the triple and higher-order systems being discussed at this workshop, but can be studied using the same combination of observational techniques and numerical methods to constrain orbital architectures and assess dynamical stability. We will present an extension to an orbit fitting code that can combine relative astrometry and radial velocities with absolute astrometry from the Hipparcos and (soon) Gaia satellites. The combination of techniques allows us to measure the architectures of hierarchical systems, and place initial constraints on the orbits of long-period companions. We will present initial results on a selection of planetary systems, and we will discuss how this framework can be used to investigate other classes of hierarchical systems.
24 March 1793: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR TESOL PRACTITIONERS IN UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Qosimova, Nodira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article explores the current landscape for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in Uzbekistan. Opportunities for growth and improvement are also discussed, such as government initiatives to promote English language learning, increasing demand for English skills, and potential for professional development and international collaboration. Interviews with TESOL professionals in Uzbekistan provide first-hand insights.
title: Surgery for lumbar disc herniation in individuals aged 65 and older – a multicentre observational study
Creators: name: Madsbu, Mattis A.
name: Solberg, Tore K.
name: Salvesen, Øyvind
name: Nygaard, Øystein P.
name: Gulati, Sasha
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is a common cause of lower back and radiating leg pain.1 In most patients the natural course is favorable, and the international consensus is that surgical treatment is offered if the radiating pain persists despite a period of conservative treatment.2 Still, [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 70. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), Joint Meeting mit der Skandinavischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT ON TEAM STRENGTHENING TO IMPROVE PRACTICE USING TEAMSTEPPS® PROTOCOL
Creators: name: DeGraffenreid, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety is a powerful,      evidence-based teamwork and communication building tool. The aim of this pilot quality      improvement project was to implement this powerful tool to positively impact teamwork and      communication practice among direct support personnel. The implementation site was an      intellectual and developmental disability (I/DD) community-based day support program. A      review of the literature note, while direct support workforces provide much of the supportive      care I/DD clients receive in community-based settings, care delivery is suboptimal. This care gap      negatively affects I/DD clients’ desired goals and outcomes. Further, the literature notes direct      support workforces report job dissatisfaction. Project methods include pre and post self-report      survey questionnaires. A non-parametric test, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, was used to analyze      median ranks. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used because there was no normal distribution      of pre-intervention and post-intervention data. Findings showed DSPs were resistant to change,      buy in, and high staff turnover likely had a negative impact. There was no significant      improvement in DSP perceptions of teamwork, and communication practices. Future      implications show a worksite training intervention such as Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance      Performance and Patient Safety is beneficial. However, longer implementation periods with      midpoint intervention applications are warranted. This could aid I/DD administrators in training       iv      solutions to improve their DSP workforce service quality and job satisfaction.      Keywords: TeamSTEPPS, intellectual and developmental disabilities, education, nursing,      communication, job satisfaction, staff training
Suzaku Observations of the Galaxy Cluster 1RXS J0603.3+4214: Implications of Particle Acceleration Processes in "Toothbrush" Radio Relic
Creators: name: Itahana, Madoka
name: Takizawa, Motokazu
name: Akamatsu, Hiroki
name: Ohashi, Takaya
name: Ishisaki, Yoshitaka
name: Kawahara, Hajime
name: van Weeren, Reinout J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of Suzaku observations of the galaxy cluster 1RXS J0603.3+4214 with "toothbrush" radio relic. Although a shock with Mach number $M \simeq 4$ is expected at the outer edge of the relic from the radio observation, our temperature measurements of the intracluster medium indicate a weaker temperature difference than what is expected. The Mach number estimated from the temperature difference at the outer edge of the relic is $M \simeq 1.5$, which is significantly lower than the value estimated from the radio data even considering both statistical and systematic errors. This suggests that a diffusive shock acceleration theory in the linear test particle regime, which is commonly used to link the radio spectral index to the Mach number, is invalid for this relic. We also measured the temperature difference across the western part of the relic, where a shock with $M \simeq 1.6$ is suggested from the X-ray surface brightness analysis of the XMM-Newton data, and obtained consistent results in an independent way. We searched for the non-thermal inverse Compton component in the relic region and the resultant upper limit on the flux is $2.4 \times 10^{-13}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ in the 0.3-10 keV band. The lower limit of the magnetic field strength becomes 1.6 $μ$G, which means that magnetic energy density could be more than a few $\% $ of the thermal energy.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ
Plattformisierung, Zentralisierung und Kollaboration. Chancen und Herausforderungen für scholar-led Open Access
Creators: name: Dalkilic, Evin
name: Finger, Juliane
name: Kunz, Raffaela
name: Wrzesinski, Marcel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: scholar-led Open Access; Open Access Infrastrukturen

description: Vortrag bei den Open-Access-Tagen 2022
20 February 1791: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: Maitland mentions meeting at Barnett Assembly. She encourages Charlotte West to read James Hervey's 'Meditations on a flower garden', which is believed to be a reference to 'Reflections on a flower-garden' in James Hervey's 'Meditations and Contemplations' (1746�7; rev. edn., 1748). Maitland mentions also a hurricane which caused a woman and man to suffer physical ailments; comments on the hostilities occurring between the Times and the Argus newspapers. Lastly, she mentions a recipe for ginger wine, which she recommends as a summer drink. [Eileen Jakeway and Peri Sipahi] Transcribed by students on the Bodleian Student Editions programme.
title: Implementing principles of Choosing wisely
Creators: name: Mjaset, Christer
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Although doctors rely on standards and recommendations in medicine on all levels, variation in the use of diagnostic tools and treatments is a widespread phenomenon worldwide. To address this issue, the American campaign Choosing wisely was launched in 2012 seeking to advance a national dialogue[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 70. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), Joint Meeting mit der Skandinavischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie
Kooperation zur Open Access Transformation von Fachzeitschriften. Subscribe-to-Open: Umsetzung am Beispiel der Kooperation zwischen ZBW, Fachverlagen sowie Herausgebenden
Creators: name: Finger, Juliane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Subscribe to Open; Diamond Open Access

description: Vortrag im Workshop: "Jenseits von DEAL. Kooperative Ansätze für die Open-Access-Transformation in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften", bei den Open-Access-Tagen 2022.
02 April 1795: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.