cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
HerMES: Disentangling active galactic nuclei and star formation in the radio source population
Creators: name: Rawlings, J. I.
name: Page, M. J.
name: Symeonidis, M.
name: Bock, J.
name: Cooray, A.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Guo, K.
name: Hatziminaoglou, E.
name: Ibar, E.
name: Oliver, S. J.
name: Roseboom, I. G.
name: Scott, Douglas
name: Seymour, N.
name: Vaccari, M.
name: Wardlow, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We separate the extragalactic radio source population above ~50 uJy into active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star-forming sources. The primary method of our approach is to fit the infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs), constructed using Spitzer/IRAC and MIPS and Herschel/SPIRE photometry, of 380 radio sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South. From the fitted SEDs, we determine the relative AGN and star-forming contributions to their infrared emission. With the inclusion of other AGN diagnostics such as X-ray luminosity, Spitzer/IRAC colours, radio spectral index and the ratio of star-forming total infrared flux to k-corrected 1.4 GHz flux density, qIR, we determine whether the radio emission in these sources is powered by star formation or by an AGN. The majority of these radio sources (60 per cent) show the signature of an AGN at some wavelength. Of the sources with AGN signatures, 58 per cent are hybrid systems for which the radio emission is being powered by star formation. This implies that radio sources which have likely been selected on their star formation have a high AGN fraction. Below a 1.4 GHz flux density of 1 mJy, along with finding a strong contribution to the source counts from pure star-forming sources, we find that hybrid sources constitute 20-65 per cent of the sources. This result suggests that hybrid sources have a significant contribution, along with sources that do not host a detectable AGN, to the observed flattening of the source counts at ~1mJy for the extragalactic radio source population.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures
Description and details of the Users Collaborative Platform
Creators: name: Cantaluppi, Davide
name: Corti, Simone
name: Micotti, Marco
name: Weber, Enrico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Project Ô
water circular economy
water reuse
EU
funded
project
user collaborative platform

description: This document provides description and details of the User Collaborative Platform (UCP), one of the software tools developed within Project Ô: the UCP is mainly business-facing, and targeted to promote circularity and to create new local water loops. The aim of this platform is to support the planning decision-making process, to evaluate different scenarios of water-reuse, to consider not only traditional sources of water to supply different water users: drinking water, irrigation, and industrial consumption. The UCP is a multi-user web application, based on an intuitive interface, and role-based: each role has dedicated functionalities and specific views on data, created using preferences and privileges associated with their personal or company profile. On the basis of the users' interaction and the help of specific algorithms, the platform supports procedures to define new water loops, providing the best match among water demands, water streams, and treatment technologies, exploiting information and data collected. The main objective of the Project Ô is to demonstrate innovative approaches and technologies to support the circular economy, addressing the technical, economic, environmental, and social aspects so as to redefine some water value chains.
Gauge theory approach to branes and spontaneous symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Zheltukhin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gauge theory approach to consideration of the Nambu-Goldstone bosons as gauge and vector fields represented by the Cartan forms of spontaneously broken symmetries, is discussed. The approach is generalized to describe the fundamental branes in terms of $(p+1)$-dimensional worldvolume gauge and massless tensor fields consisting of the Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with the spontaneously broken Poincare symmetry of the $D$-dimensional Minkowski space.
description: 32 pages, v.5: version published in Rev. Math. Phys. with minor proofs, corrected typos, references presented in the journal pattern
A non-linear theory for the bubble regime of plasma wake fields in tailored plasma channels
Creators: name: Thomas, Johannes
name: Kostyukov, Igor Yu.
name: Pronold, Jari
name: Golovanov, Anton
name: Pukhov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a first full analytical bubble and blow-out model for a radially inhomogeneous plasma in a quasi-static approximation. For both cases we calculate the accelerating and the focusing fields. In our model we also assume a thin electron layer that surrounds the wake field and calculate the field configuration within. Our theory holds for arbitrary radial density profiles and reduces to known models in the limit of a homogeneous plasma. From a previous study of hollow plasma channels with smooth boundaries for laser-driven electron acceleration in the bubble regime we know that pancake-like laser pulses lead to highest electron energies [Pukhov et al, PRL 113, 245003 (2014)]. As it was shown, the bubble fields can be adjusted to balance the laser depletion and dephasing lengths by varying the plasma density profile inside a deep channel. Now we show why the radial fields in the vacuum part of a channel become defocussing.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Bax Forms a Membrane Surface Protein-Lipid Complex as it Initiates Apoptosis
Creators: name: Clifton, Luke A.
name: Wacklin-Knecht, Hanna
name: Ådén, Jörgen
name: Ul Mushtaq, Ameeq
name: Sparrman, Tobias
name: Gröbner, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: neutron reflectometry, apoptosis, BCL2 associated protein X, supported lipid bilayers

description: Reduced neutron reflectometry data from silicon surfaces containing supporting lipid bilayer models of the mitochodrial membrane before and after the interaction of BCL2-associated protein X (Bax). The custom fitting scripts used to analyse this data in the RasCal 2019 software are also given. This data is presneted in the article "Bax Forms a Membrane Surface Protein-Lipid Complex as it Initiates Apoptosis".
Returning Service Members to Duty Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Exploring the Use of Dual-Task and Multitask Assessment Methods
Creators: name: McCulloch, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Within the last decade, more than 220,000 service members have sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI) in support of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mild TBI may result in subtle cognitive and sensorimotor deficits that adversely affect warfighter performance, creating significant challenges for service members, commanders, and clinicians. In recent conflicts, physical therapists and occupational therapists have played an important role in evaluating service member readiness to return to duty (RTD), incorporating research and best practices from the sports concussion literature. Because premorbid (baseline) performance metrics are not typically available for deployed service members as for athletes, clinicians commonly determine duty readiness based upon the absence of postconcussive symptoms and return to “normal” performance on clinical assessments not yet validated in the military population. Although practices described in the sports concussion literature guide “return-to-play” determinations, resolution of symptoms or improvement of isolated impairments may be inadequate to predict readiness in a military operational environment. Existing clinical metrics informing RTD decision making are limited because they fail to emphasize functional, warrior task demands and they lack versatility to assess the effects of comorbid deficits. Recently, a number of complex task-oriented RTD approaches have emerged from Department of Defense laboratory and clinical settings to address this gap. Immersive virtual reality environments, field-based scenario-driven assessment programs, and militarized dual-task and multitask-based approaches have all been proposed for the evaluation of sensorimotor and cognitive function following TBI. There remains a need for clinically feasible assessment methods that can be used to verify functional performance and operational competence in a variety of practice settings. Complex and ecologically valid assessment techniques incorporating dual-task and multitask methods may prove useful in validating return-to-activity requirements in civilian and military populations.
Quantum stochastic equations for an opto-mechanical oscillator with radiation pressure interaction and non-Markovian effects
Creators: name: Barchielli, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81S25

description: The quantum stochastic Schroedinger equation or Hudson-Parthasareathy (HP) equation is a powerful tool to construct unitary dilations of quantum dynamical semigroups and to develop the theory of measurements in continuous time via the construction of output fields. An important feature of such an equation is that it allows to treat not only absorption and emission of quanta, but also scattering processes, which however had very few applications in physical modelling. Moreover, recent developments have shown that also some non-Markovian dynamics can be generated by suitable choices of the state of the quantum noises involved in the HP-equation. This paper is devoted to an application involving these two features, non-Markovianity and scattering process. We consider a micro-mirror mounted on a vibrating structure and reflecting a laser beam, a process giving rise to a radiation-pressure force on the mirror. We show that this process needs the scattering part of the HP-equation to be described. On the other side, non-Markovianity is introduced by the dissipation due to the interaction with some thermal environment which we represent by a phonon field, with a nearly arbitrary excitation spectrum, and by the introduction of phase noise in the laser beam. Finally, we study the full power spectrum of the reflected light and we show how the laser beam can be used as a temperature probe.
description: 17 pages
Users collaborative platform. Platform's requirements and specifications
Creators: name: Exergy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Project Ô
water circular economy
EU
funded
project
user collaborative platform

description: This report describes the preliminary requirements to implement a common front end that allows the user interaction with different microservices, an integrated marketplace for water resources and related services, and communication tools for the key actors involved. The stakeholder platform would allow the different actors of the value chain to share information (e.g. water
 and resources streams, resource characteristics, use patterns, etc) and services through a unified web
 frontend. The platform will implement strategies to foster the circularity by promoting local closed loops. The main objective of Project Ô is to demonstrate approaches and technologies to drive an integrated and
 symbiotic use of water contributing to the transition towards a circular economy, addressing technical,
 economic, environmental and social aspects to redefine value chains.
Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Autonomic Dysfunction in Critical Illness: A Rapid Review
Creators: name: Rees, Isabella
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Alternative and Complementary Medicine
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Therapeutics
subject: Diseases
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Physiological Processes
subject: Critical Care
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: adjunct therapies
subject: ANSD
subject: autonomic nervous system dysfunction
subject: complementary therapies
subject: critical care
subject: critical illness
subject: heart rate variability
subject: HRV
subject: ICU
subject: intensive care
subject: non-pharmaceutical intervention
subject: non-pharmacological intervention
subject: parasympathetic tone
subject: vagal tone

description: In the intensive care unit (ICU), critically ill patients are faced with overwhelming physiologic and psychological stressors, triggering a sustained stress response. Prolonged activation of the sympathetic nervous system results in decreased parasympathetic tone, and is possibly associated with autonomic nervous system dysfunction (ANSD) in prolonged critical illness. ANSD compromises multiple body systems, and is a strong predictor for death in critically ill patients. Many non-pharmacological interventions (NPI) have been explored with regard to their effect on decreasing stress and stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system. This review will systematically examine the potential effects of NPI on the regulation of autonomic function in the ICU, and anticipates identifying gaps in the literature, as well as methodological considerations for future studies. A rapid review will be conducted via MEDLINE, CINAHL, TRIP, Embase and Cochrane Library searches to identify interventional studies exploring the effect of NPI on ANSD, based on predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Screening of the literature will be completed by two independent reviewers, and quality of studies will be critically appraised by the Cochrane Collaboration tool for risk of bias. Data will be extracted based on a predetermined extraction table, results will be critically synthesized, and potential clinical implications will be discussed.
Bax Forms a Membrane Surface Protein-Lipid Complex as it Initiates Apoptosis
Creators: name: Clifton, Luke A.
name: Wacklin-Knecht, Hanna
name: Ådén, Jörgen
name: Ul Mushtaq, Ameeq
name: Sparrman, Tobias
name: Gröbner, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: neutron reflectometry, apoptosis, BCL2 associated protein X, supported lipid bilayers

description: Reduced neutron reflectometry data from silicon surfaces containing supporting lipid bilayer models of the mitochodrial membrane before and after the interaction of BCL2-associated protein X (Bax). The custom fitting scripts used to analyse this data in the RasCal 2019 software are also given. This data is presneted in the article "Bax Forms a Membrane Surface Protein-Lipid Complex as it Initiates Apoptosis".
description: Attenuated Total Reflectance Infrared Spectrometry Data added 28/3/2023
Crystallisation of a dilute atomic dipolar condensate
Creators: name: Bisset, R. N.
name: Blakie, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory that explains the experimentally observed crystallisation of a dilute dysprosium condensate into a lattice of droplets. The key ingredient of our theory is a conservative three-body interaction which stabilises the droplets against collapse to high density spikes. Our theory reproduces the experimental observations, and provides insight into the manybody properties of this new phase of matter. Notably, we show that it is unlikely that a supersolid was obtained in experiments, however our results suggest a strategy to realize this phase.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Development of a Measure to Inform Return-to-Duty Decision Making After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Creators: name: McCulloch, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), a principal injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, can result in significant morbidity. To make accurate return-to-duty decisions for soldiers with mTBI, military medical personnel require sensitive, objective, and duty-relevant data to characterize subtle cognitive and sensorimotor injury sequelae. A military-civilian research team reviewed existing literature and obtained input from stakeholders, end users, and experts to specify the concept and develop a preliminary assessment protocol to address this need. Results of the literature review suggested the potential utility of a test based on dual-task and multitask assessment methods. Thirty-three individuals representing a variety of military and civilian stakeholders/experts participated in interviews. Interview data suggested that reliability/validity, clinical feasibility, usability across treatment facilities, military face validity, and capacity to challenge mission-critical mTBI vulnerabilities were important to ultimate adoption. The research team developed the Assessment of Military Multitasking Performance, a tool composed of eight dual and multitasking test-tasks. A concept test session with 10 subjects indicated preliminary face validity and informed modifications to scoring and design. Further validation is needed. The Assessment of Military Multitasking Performance may fill a gap identified by stakeholders for complex cognitive/motor testing to assist return-to-duty decisions for service members with mTBI.
The Necessity for Effective Interaction between Basic Scientists and Rehabilitation Clinicians
Creators: name: McCulloch, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Important basic science research is being conducted that has direct implications for the rehabilitation of patients, but the translation of this research to change clinical practice does not occur automatically. Advisory panels to the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research acknowledge a need for basic and applied research related to the factors underlying coordinated movements, such as the interactions of the neuromuscular and musculoskeletal systems. In this paper, we briefly describe recent studies that have examined the preceding interaction and discuss some basic issues related to the translation of these experiments to the clinic. More importantly, the main purpose of this paper is to discuss models/ways to translate basic science to clinical practice in a two-way and informed interaction between basic scientists and clinicians.
Enabling the Next Generation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Based Therapies
Creators: name: Wong, Casey
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stem cell agonist cocktail
Small molecule
Human induced pluripotent stem cell
Hematopoietic stem progenitor cell
Multipotent progenitor cell
Expansion
StemRegenin 1
UM171
Valproic acid
AA2P

description: Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) represent a scalable cell source for the generation of hematopoietic progenitor cells (iHPCs); however, a lack of efficient iHPC expansion in vitro currently limits translational applications. To address this translational bottleneck, we assessed a panel of stem cell agonist cocktails (SCACs), originally developed to enhance cord-blood derived HSPC (CB-HSPC) expansion, on iHPC expansion. Three SCACs and GAS6 (X2A, X2A+GAS6, SM6, or SMA) were supplemented during iHPC differentiation and subsequent expansion using the STEMdiff™ Hematopoietic Kit. This monolayer differentiation strategy yielded a population of CD34⁺CD43⁺ and CD45⁺CD34⁺ iHPC. SCAC supplementation during iHPC differentiation yielded up to 2.5-fold higher frequency of CD34⁺CD43⁺ hematopoietic progenitors and up to 2.9-fold higher frequency of CD45⁺CD34⁺CD45RA⁻CD90⁺ HSC-like cells compared to non-treated controls. Subsequent SCAC supplementation during 2 weeks of expansion culture also significantly increased iHPC expansion (X2A+GAS6: 3.8-fold, X2A: 3.5-fold, SM6: 2.8-fold, SMA: 2.0-fold). The expanded iHPCs retained high levels of CD34⁺CD43⁺ expression but we observed an increase in the expansion of HSC-like cell fraction. The collective expansion observed with the SCACs was 1.5- to 2.8-fold higher than UM171 treatment alone. Furthermore, all SCAC-supplemented iHPCs retained multilineage potency, producing erythroid and granulocyte-macrophage progenitors in CFU assays. However, prolonged expansion, beyond 7 days, reduced multilineage potential, indicating a limited expansion window. Although optimal timing and composition of SCAC supplementation remains to be refined, these results highlight that exploiting the additive and synergistic effects of multiple small molecules represents a promising approach for enhancing iHPC expansion yields and biomanufacturing.
The Effect of an Exercise-Based Balance Intervention on Physical and Cognitive Performance for Older Adults: A Pilot Study
Creators: name: McCulloch, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Background: Several exercise-based falls prevention interventions produced significant long-term reductions in fall rate, but few demonstrate long-term improvements in falls risk factors. A strong body of evidence supports a protective effect of aerobic or strength-training exercise on cognition. Individuals participating in an exercise-based balance improvement program may also experience this protective effect. This may contribute to the decreased rate of falls reported in the literature.

Purpose: To determine if individuals participating in an evidence-based exercise program to reduce falls would demonstrate improvements in both physical and cognitive performance.
Accelerating oscillatory fronts in a nonlinear sonic vacuum with strong non-local effects
Creators: name: Gendelman, O. V.
name: Zolotarevskiy, V.
name: Savin, A. V.
name: Bergman, L. A.
name: Vakakis, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter we describe a novel class of dynamical excitations -- accelerating oscillatory fronts in a new genre of nonlinear sonic vacua with strongly non-local effects. Indeed, it is surprising that such models naturally arise in dynamics of common and popular lattices. In this study, we address a chain of particles oscillating in the plane and coupled by linear springs, with fixed ends. When one end of this system is harmonically excited in the transverse direction, one observes accelerated propagation of the excitation front, accompanied by an almost monochromatic oscillatory tail. The front propagation obeys the scaling law $l \sim t^{4/3}$. The frequency of the oscillatory tail remains constant, and the wavelength scales as $λ\sim t^{1/3}$. These scaling laws result from the nonlocal effects; we derive them analytically (including the scaling coefficients) from a continuum approximation. Moreover, a certain threshold excitation amplitude is required in order to initiate the front propagation. The initiation threshold is rationalized on the basis of a simplified discrete model. This model is further reduced to a new completely integrable nonlinear system. The Letter introduces a new and yet unexplored class of nonlinear sonic vacua and explores the effects of strong non-locality on the initiation and propagation of oscillating fronts in these media. Given their simplicity, nonlinear sonic vacua of the type considered herein should be common in periodic lattices.
Modulating mutational outcomes and improving precise gene editing at CRISPR-Cas9-induced breaks by chemical inhibition of end-joining pathways.
Creators: name: Schimmel, Joost
name: Muñoz-Subirana, Núria
name: Kool, Hanneke
name: van Schendel, Robin
name: van der Vlies, Sven
name: Kamp, Juliette A
name: de Vrij, Femke
name: Kushner, Steven A
name: Smith, Graeme CM
name: Boulton, Simon J
name: Tijsterman, Marcel
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biochemistry & Proteomics
Cell Biology
Cell Cycle & Chromosomes
Genetics & Genomics
Genome Integrity & Repair
Model organisms

description: Gene editing through repair of CRISPR-Cas9-induced chromosomal breaks offers a means to correct a wide range of genetic defects. Directing repair to produce desirable outcomes by modulating DNA repair pathways holds considerable promise to increase the efficiency of genome engineering. Here, we show that inhibition of non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) or polymerase theta-mediated end joining (TMEJ) can be exploited to alter the mutational outcomes of CRISPR-Cas9. We show robust inhibition of TMEJ activity at CRISPR-Cas9-induced double-strand breaks (DSBs) using ART558, a potent polymerase theta (Polϴ) inhibitor. Using targeted sequencing, we show that ART558 suppresses the formation of microhomology-driven deletions in favor of NHEJ-specific outcomes. Conversely, NHEJ deficiency triggers the formation of large kb-sized deletions, which we show are the products of mutagenic TMEJ. Finally, we show that combined chemical inhibition of TMEJ and NHEJ increases the efficiency of homology-driven repair (HDR)-mediated precise gene editing. Our work reports a robust strategy to improve the fidelity and safety of genome engineering.
Analysis of Twitter Usage by Governmental Actors in North Carolina Florence Recovery
Creators: name: Handa, Sakshi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Recently, damaging natural disasters have led to prolonged recovery efforts in the United States. Governmental agencies play a role in disseminating information about all phases of a disaster, including the recovery process. Governmental actors are more frequently utilizing social media as part of their communication toolkit to spread information and interact with the public online. This information can be used towards planning better community recovery, disaster mitigation and preparedness for future disasters. This master’s paper looks at Twitter usage related to Hurricane Florence recovery by governmental actors in North Carolina. The paper analyses Twitter posts from official federal, state, county and municipal level government accounts based on the intention and subject of the messages. Content analysis shows that governments mainly use the platform to push information out to the public, sharing updates and available resources. The majority of social media interactions regarding the disaster occurred in the months immediately following an event. However, there are limitations to analyzing social media data, as many local governments did not have official Twitter accounts at the time of study, and many did not use Twitter to share information about Florence recovery. The comparison of different levels of governmental tweets during Florence recovery may be used to provide recommendations of how these agencies can improve communications and planning for future events.
Selection toolbox design and development strategy; description of selection toolbox functionalities
Creators: name: Gejam, Emad
name: Sanahuja, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Project Ô
water circular economy
EU
funded
project
technology selection toolbox

description: This deliverable presents the first functional version of the Technology Selection Toolbox, which builds upon the current state-of-the-art technologies for Used water treatments and foresees the integration of the innovative technologies in Project Ô portfolio. The toolbox will evolve towards a more technology-oriented tool along with the development of the project and will rely on the technical and economic information that is being developed by consortium partners. This first functional version is coded in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and includes a simple user interface. Project Ô, and specifically Work Package 7, has the aim of assessing the economic and operational
 sustainability of water circular use, within specific water regulatory conditions, and how it interfaces with a
 circular economy business model, more business driven and where water is one of the resources to be shared. A key output of WP7 is the Design of a Technology Selection Toolbox for water treatment technologies. It is
 meant to be a single dynamic online platform which will be used by water treatment facilities and water
 system managers for the identification of the best technology solution and/or system of solutions to treat a
 specific water stream.
The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning
Creators: name: Lovelace, Robin
name: Goodman, Anna
name: Aldred, Rachel
name: Berkoff, Nikolai
name: Abbas, Ali
name: Woodcock, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Getting people cycling is an increasingly common objective in transport planning institutions worldwide. A growing evidence base indicates that high quality infrastructure can boost local cycling rates. Yet for infrastructure and other cycling measures to be effective, it is important to intervene in the right places, such as along 'desire lines' of high latent demand. This creates the need for tools and methods to help answer the question 'where to build?'. Following a brief review of the policy and research context related to this question, this paper describes the design, features and potential applications of such a tool. The Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) is an online, interactive planning support system which was initially developed to explore and map cycling potential across England (see www.pct.bike). Based on origin-destination data, it models and visualises cycling levels at area, desire line, route and route network levels, for current levels of cycling, and for scenario-based 'cycling futures'. Four scenarios are presented, including 'Go Dutch' and 'Ebikes', which explore what would happen if English people cycled as much as Dutch people and the potential impact of electric cycles on cycling uptake. The cost effectiveness of investment depends not only on the number of additional trips cycled, but on wider impacts such as health and carbon benefits. The PCT reports these at area, desire line, and route level for each scenario. The PCT is open source, facilitating the creation of additional scenarios and its deployment in new contexts. We conclude that the PCT illustrates the potential of online tools to inform transport decisions and raises the wider issue of how models should be used in transport planning.
description: Paper submitted for peer review. 9 figures
Physical Therapy Recommendations for Service Members With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Creators: name: McCulloch, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBIs) are of increasing concern in both the military and civilian populations as the potential long-term effects and costs of such injuries are being further recognized. Injuries from conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have increased public awareness and concern for TBI. The Proponency Office for Rehabilitation and Reintegration, Office of the Surgeon General, US Army tasked a team of physical and occupational therapists to assemble evidence-informed guidelines for assessment and intervention specific to MTBI. Given the paucity of specific guidelines for physical therapy related to MTBI, we focused on literature that dealt with the specific problem area or complaint of the Service member following MTBI. Recommendations, characterized as practice standards or practice options based on strength of evidence, are provided relative to patient/client education, activity intolerance, vestibular dysfunction, high-level balance dysfunction, posttraumatic headache, temporomandibular disorder, attention and dual-task performance deficits, and participation in exercise. While highlighting the need for additional research, this work can be considered a starting point and impetus for the development of evidence-based practice in physical therapy for our deserving Service members.
Realization of near-deterministic arithmetic operations and quantum state engineering
Creators: name: Um, Mark
name: Zhang, Junhua
name: Lv, Dingshun
name: Lu, Yao
name: An, Shuoming
name: Zhang, Jing-Ning
name: Nha, Hyunchul
name: Kim, M. S.
name: Kim, Kihwan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum theory is based on a mathematical structure totally different from conventional arithmetic. Due to the symmetric nature of bosonic particles, annihilation or creation of single particles translates a quantum state depending on how many bosons are already in the given quantum system. This proportionality results in a variety of non-classical features of quantum mechanics including the bosonic commutation relation. The annihilation and creation operations have recently been implemented in photonic systems. However, this feature of quantum mechanics does not preclude the possibility of realizing conventional arithmetic in quantum systems. We implement conventional addition and subtraction of single phonons for a trapped \Yb ion in a harmonic potential. In order to realize such operations, we apply the transitionless adiabatic passage scheme on the anti-Jaynes-Cummings coupling between the internal energy states and external motion states of the ion. By performing the operations on superpositions of Fock states, we realize the hybrid computation of classical arithmetic in quantum parallelism, and show that our operations are useful to engineer quantum states. Our single-phonon operations are nearly deterministic and robust against parameter changes, enabling handy repetition of the operations independently from the initial state of the atomic motion. We demonstrate the transform of a classical state to a nonclassical one of highly sub-Poissonian phonon statistics and a Gaussian state to a non-Gaussian state, by applying a sequence of the operations. The operations implemented here are the Susskind-Glogower phase operators, whose non-commutativity is also demonstrated.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
On the spectral set of a solvable Lie algebra of operators
Creators: name: Boasso, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 47A13, Secondary 17B30

description: Given $L$ a complex solvable finite dimensional Lie Algebra of operators acting on a Banach space $E$ and $\{ x_i\}_{1\le i\le n}$ a Jordan-Hölder basis of $ L$, we study the relation between $Sp(L,E)$ and $ΠSp(x_i)$.
description: 8 pages, original research article
Urban and rural sanitation in the Solomon Islands: How resilient are these to extreme weather events?
Creators: name: Thakkar, Mamita Bora
name: Howard, Guy
name: Kelly, Emma R.
name: Shields, Katherina F.
name: Bartram, Jamie
name: Tikoisuva, Waqairapoa M.
name: Fleming, Lisa
name: Anthonj, Carmen
name: Manga, Musa
name: Overmars, Marc
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The Solomon Islands, like other small island developing states in the Pacific, face significant challenges from a changing climate, and from increasing extreme weather events, while also lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) services. In order to support planning for the implementation of national WaSH strategies and policies, this study contextualizes  representative urban and rural baselines for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6  (“by 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation”). We highlight specific threats to the current sanitation services under extreme weather events such as flooding and drought, both of which are commonly observed in the country, and provide suggestions for structural improvements to sanitation facilities to increase resiliency. As the first detailed nationally representative cross-sectional sanitation study in urban and rural areas in the Solomon Islands, the results of this paper inform national WaSH policy, strategic planning and programming by the Solomon Islands Government and stakeholders.
Establishing electroporation thresholds for targeted cell specific cardiac ablation in a 2D culture model
Creators: name: Avazzadeh, Sahar
name: Dehkordi, Mahshid H.
name: Owens, Peter
name: Jalali, Amirhossein
name: Brien, Barry O'
name: Coffey, Ken
name: O’Halloran, Martin
name: Fernhead, Howard O.
name: Keane, David
name: Quinlan, Leo R.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical sciences
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Irreversible electroporation has emerged as a new modality to overcome issues associated with other energy sources for cardiac ablation. Strong evidence on the optimal, effective, and selective voltage threshold is lacking for both in vitro and preclinical in vivo studies. The aim of this study is to examine the optimal threshold for selective cell ablation on cardiac associated cell types. Methods: Conventional monophasic and biphasic pulses of different field strength were delivered in a monolayer culture system of cardiomyocytes, neurons, and adipocytes. The dynamics of cell death mechanisms were examined at different time points. Results: Neurons exhibit higher susceptibility to electroporation and cell death at higher field strength of 1250 V/cm in comparison to cardiomyocytes. Cardiac adipocytes showed lower susceptibility to electroporation in comparison to other cell types. A significant proportion of cardiomyocytes recovered after 24 h postelectroporation, while neuronal cell death remained consistent but with a significant delayed cell death at a higher voltage threshold. Caspase 3/7 activity was observed in both cardiomyocytes and neurons, with a higher level of activity in cardiomyocytes in response to electroporation. Biphasic and monophasic pulses showed no significant difference in both cell types, and significantly lower cell death in neurons when inter pulse interval was reduced. Conclusions: This study presents important findings on the differences in the susceptibility of neurons and cardiomyocytes to irreversible electroporation. Cell type alone yielded selective and different dynamics in terms of the evolution and signaling mechanism of cell death in response to electroporation.
Commutation and normal ordering for operators on symmetric functions
Creators: name: Briand, Emmanuel
name: McNamara, Peter R. W.
name: Orellana, Rosa
name: Rosas, Mercedes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05 (Primary), 05E10, 20Cxx, 47L80 (Seconary)

description: We study the commutation relations and normal ordering between families of operators on symmetric functions. These operators can be naturally defined by the operations of multiplication, Kronecker product, and their adjoints. As applications we give a new proof of the skew Littlewood-Richardson rule and prove an identity about the Kronecker product with a skew Schur function.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures. Comments welcome. Dedicated to Ira Gessel on the occasion of his retirement. This new version includes some new results, some additional explanations, and fixes a few typos
Training Methodologies in the Sport of Surfing for Professional and Amateur Surfers: a Scoping Review
Creators: name: Scantlebury, Malcolm
name: Furness, James
name: Climstein, Mike
name: Donaldson, Terry
name: Eriksson, Frida
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This protocol was developed using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) Extension for Scoping Reviews: Checklist and Explanation http://www.prisma-statement.org/Extensions/ScopingReviews. The objectives of this scoping review were to (1) identify training methodologies available to professional and recreational surfers in both the peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed literature (websites), (2) synthesize the findings (3) highlight any limitations and potential areas for future research. The specific research questions are: 1. What training methodologies exists in relation to amateurs and professional surfers? 2. How effective are the training methodologies? 3. What are the limitations in the current literature specific to training methodologies for surfers?
Bandgap narrowing in Mn doped GaAs probed by room-temperature photoluminescence
Creators: name: Prucnal, S.
name: Gao, K.
name: Skorupa, I.
name: Rebohle, L.
name: Vines, L.
name: Schmidt, H.
name: Khalid, M.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Weschke, E.
name: Skorupa, W.
name: Grenzer, J.
name: Huebner, R.
name: Helm, M.
name: Zhou, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic band structure of the (Ga,Mn)As system has been one of the most intriguing problems in solid state physics over the past two decades. Determination of the band structure evolution with increasing Mn concentration is a key issue to understand the origin of ferromagnetism. Here we present room temperature photoluminescence and ellipsometry measurements of Ga_{100%-x}Mn_{x}As alloy. The up-shift of the valence-band is proven by the red shift of the room temperature near band gap emission from the Ga_{100%-x}Mn_{x}As alloy with increasing Mn content. It is shown that even a doping by 0.02 at.% of Mn affects the valence-band edge and it merges with the impurity band for a Mn concentration as low as 0.6 at.%. Both X-ray diffraction pattern and high resolution cross-sectional TEM images confirmed full recrystallization of the implanted layer and GaMnAs alloy formation.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures, accepted at Phys. Rev. B 2015
title: Technical-physiological interaction in the electrode-skin interface of a whole-body non-invasive neuromodulation device
Creators: name: Mitteregger, Lukas
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Electrical Stimulation
subject: Neuromodulation
subject: noninvasive

description: Arbeit an der Bibliothek noch nicht eingelangt - Daten nicht geprueft - gesperrte Arbeit (bis 2026-03-22+01:00)
description: Abweichender Titel nach Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des Verfassers
Questionnaire of the PALOMERA Survey on Open Access Book Policies
Creators: name: Dreyer, Malte
name: Stone, Graham
name: Tummes, Jan-Philip
name: Pogačnik, Aleš
name: Varachkina, Hanna
name: Bandura Morgan, Laura
name: Păltineanu, Sînziana
name: Proudman, Vanessa
name: Redhead, Claire
name: Manista, Gabriela
name: Laakso, Mikael
name: Frances, Pinter
name: Gaillard, Vinciane
name: Maryl, Maciej
name: Saenen, Bregt
name: Kingsley, Danny
name: Silva Ferreira, Nelson Henrique
name: Stern, Niels
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Open Access
Survey
Open Access for Books
Policy Research
PALOMERA

description: This questionnaire was created as part of the PALOMERA survey on open access policies for books in the European research area (focusing on the needs, obstacles and challenges of policy-making for open access books). 

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
Referral trajectories in patients with vertigo, dizziness and balance disorders (VDB) and their impact on mobility, social participation and health-related quality of life – Results from the longitudinal multicenter study MobilE-TRA
Creators: name: Katzenberger, Benedict
name: Grill, Eva
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: care pathway
subject: dizziness
subject: health-related quality of life
subject: MobilE-Net
subject: MobilE-TRA
subject: patient trajectories
subject: vertigo

description: Our study, in an explorative and quantitative approach, will aim at extracting existent referral trajectories of visited physicians in an outpatient setting as well as existent clusters of similar referral trajectories in Germany. We will then examine, which patient characteristics do predict the membership of a certain cluster before we finally will analyze the potential influence of cluster membership on the patient’s mobility, social participation and health-related quality of life.
Актуальные вопросы современной экономики,Выпуск АВСЭ (1-23) 2023
Creators: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Publisher: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Year: 2023

description: Актуальные вопросы современной экономики,Выпуск АВСЭ (1-23) 2023
Rigorous Bound on Energy Absorption and Generic Relaxation in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Mori, Takashi
name: Kuwahara, Tomotaka
name: Saito, Keiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the universal nature of relaxation in isolated many-body quantum systems subjected to global and strong periodic driving. Our rigorous Floquet analysis shows that the energy of the system remains almost constant up to an exponentially long time in frequency for arbitrary initial states and that an effective Hamiltonian obtained by a truncation of the Floquet-Magnus expansion is a quasi-conserved quantity for long time scale. These two general properties lead to intriguing classification on the initial stage of relaxation, one of which is similar to the prethermalization phenomenon in quasi-integrable systems.
description: 5+6 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected
The Theater or the Schoolhouse? The Social Center, the Model Picture Show, and the Logic of Counterattractions
Creators: name: Martin L. Johnson
Publisher: name: Indiana University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: nontheatrical, reform, Progressive Era, educational film, exhibition, Boston

description: Prior scholarship on nontheatrical film exhibition in the 1910s has suggested that such efforts were fledgling, disorganized, and ultimately unsuccessful. In this article, I propose a different narrative, namely that Progressive-Era reformers working in school- based community centers were able to establish viable nontheatrical spaces for cinema before the First World War, despite legal, financial, and logistical challenges. Their efforts only faltered when these spaces, and the networks that supported them, were repurposed for wartime use in 1917. After the war, exhibitor organizations took a strong stance against loaning reels to community groups, and reformers redoubled their efforts to change the commercial cinema rather than supporting an alternative.
ASHVIN Marketing One-Pager
Creators: name: MARILL, Mona
name: Cediel, Natalia
name: De Keyzer, Dorothée
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital Twin
Construction 4.0
IoT Protocols
Data visualisation
Data Analysis

description: This flyer targets the stakeholders in the construction sector, especially construction site managers, interested in the digital transformation of the construction sites and the usage of digital tools supporting their working process.