cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of In Vitro Models of Bone-Cartilage Crosstalk
Creators: name: Hinton, Paige
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 100404 Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering)
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology

description: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common musculoskeletal disease in the western world and treatment options are currently limited. Post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) is a common subtype of the broader age-related/idiopathic OA, and results from acute injury such as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture in the knee. Joint disease has traditionally been linked exclusively with cartilage, however joint degeneration is now thought to involve other joint tissues, in particular subchondral bone. Bone-cartilage crosstalk is the interaction between cartilage and subchondral bone is thought to be a central feature of this process. Moreover, the level of communication between these tissues appears to change with the course of disease. However, the fundamental mechanisms by which changes in subchondral bone might influence changes in cartilage are not known. Thus, we sought to build an understanding of the mechanisms that maintain bone and cartilage homeostasis via communication between the two and changes in that relationship that occur during disease progression. The overall objective of the research presented in this thesis was to determine the role of subchondral bone damage in PTOA following joint injury with the development of novel in vitro bone-cartilage crosstalk model systems.
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 03
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 6-8: Chapter 6: An old-fashioned card party; The clergyman's verses; The story of the convict's return Chapter 7: How Mr. Winkle, instead of shooting at the pigeon and killing the crow, shot at the crow and wounded the pigeon; how the Dingley Dell Cricket Club played at Muggleton, and how all Muggleton dined at the Dingley Dell expense; with other interesting and instructive matters Chapter 8: Strongly illustrative of the position, that the course of true love is not a railway
Spin pumping between noncollinear ferromagnetic insulators through thin superconductors
Creators: name: Simensen, Haakon T.
name: Johnsen, Lina G.
name: Linder, Jacob
name: Brataas, Arne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical magnets can pump spin currents into superconductors. To understand such a phenomenon, we develop a method utilizing the generalized Usadel equation to describe time-dependent situations in superconductors in contact with dynamical ferromagnets. Our proof-of-concept theory is valid when there is sufficient dephasing at finite temperatures, and when the ferromagnetic insulators are weakly polarized. We derive the effective equation of motion for the Keldysh Green's function focusing on a thin film superconductor sandwiched between two noncollinear ferromagnetic insulators of which one is dynamical. In turn, we compute the spin currents in the system as a function of the temperature and the magnetizations' relative orientations. When the induced Zeeman splitting is weak, we find that the spin accumulation in the superconducting state is smaller than in the normal states due to the lack of quasiparticle states inside the gap. This feature gives a lower backflow spin current from the superconductor as compared to a normal metal. Furthermore, in superconductors, we find that the ratio between the backflow spin current in the parallel and anti-parallel magnetization configuration depends strongly on temperature, in contrast to the constant ratio in normal metals.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Some cardiovascular consequences of anaesthesia :
Creators: name: Story., Margot Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Dynamics of wide binary stars: A case study for testing Newtonian dynamics in the low acceleration regime
Creators: name: Scarpa, Riccardo
name: Ottolina, Riccardo
name: Falomo, Renato
name: Treves, Aldo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extremely wide binary stars represent ideal systems to probe Newtonian dynamics in the low acceleration regimes (<10e-10 m/s/s) typical of the external regions of galaxies. Here we present a study of 60 alleged wide binary stars with projected separation ranging from 0.004 to 1 pc, probing gravitational accelerations well below the limit were dark matter or modified dynamics theories set in. Radial velocities with accuracy ~100 m/s were obtained for each star, in order to constrain their orbital velocity, that, together with proper motion data, can distinguish bound from unbound systems. It was found that about half of the observed pairs do have velocity in the expected range for bound systems, out to the largest separations probed here. In particular, we identified five pairs with projected separation >0.15 pc that are useful for the proposed test. While it would be premature to draw any conclusion about the validity of Newtonian dynamics at these low accelerations, our main result is that very wide binary stars seem to exist in the harsh environment of the solar neighborhood. This could provide a tool to test Newtonian dynamics versus modified dynamics theories in the low acceleration conditions typical of galaxies. In the near future the GAIA satellite will provide data to increase significantly the number of wide pairs that, with the appropriate follow up spectroscopic observations, will allow the implementation of this experiment with unprecedented accuracy.
description: Accepted for publication on International Journal of Modern Physics D
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 15
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 40-42: Chapter 40: What befell Mr. Pickwick when he got into the Fleet; what debtors he saw there; and how he passed the night Chapter 41: Illustrative, like the preceding one, of the old proverb, that adversity brings a man acquainted with strange bed-fellows. Likewise containing Mr. Pickwick's extraordinary and startling announcement to Mr. Samuel Weller Chapter 42: Showing how Mr. Samuel Weller got into difficulties
$ρ$ exchange contribution to neutrinoless double beta decay
Creators: name: Mahajan, Namit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider $ρ$ meson contributions to neutrinoless double beta decay amplitude stemming from the hadronization of the short distance quark-electron currents. These contributions are evaluated within vacuum dominance approximation. The one and two $ρ$ exchange contributions affect the Fermi transition nuclear matrix element in a way that lead to near cancellations in the same chirality, left-left and right-right, short range amplitudes when these new contributions are combined with the conventional short range amplitudes, while the left-right amplitude almost triples. This then necessitates the inclusion of $ρ$ exchange amplitudes in any phenomenological study, like in left-right theories.
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 04
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 9-11: Chapter 9: A discovery and a chase Chapter 10: Clearing up all doubts (if any existed) of the disinterestedness of Mr. Jingle's character Chapter 11: Involving another journey, and an antiquarian discovery; recording Mr. Pickwick's determination to be present at an election; and containing a manuscript of the old clergyman's
Sexually Transmitted Diseases with Emphasis on Syphilis among Pregnant Women in Ketchene Awraja, Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Mossisa, Daba
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 1993

description: The research des ign was a community based crosssectional studYi it was conducted among second and third trimester pregnant women by random sampling in Ketchene area (previously called Ketchene Awraja) which is part of Addis Ababa city. The obj ecti ve was to determine the prevalence rate of syphilis and to assess knowledge of pregnant women regarding sexually transmitted diseases with emphasis on syphilis. A total of 410 pregnant women in the second and third trimester from 16 kebeles of the district were included in the study. They underwent a physical examination, laboratory examinations were done and pretested questionnaires were administered in the order mentioned. The study showed that 11% of second and third trimester women were positive by RPR - blood examination test for treponema palladium syphilis and 7.1% were positive by TPHA confirmatory-test for treponema palladium syphilis. Knowledge regarding the existence of STDs was generally high: the percentages who mentioned various STDs when asked to list those they knew were HIVjAIDS (90.2%), syphilis (89.3%), Gonorrhoea (86.8%), chancroid (40%) and LGV (20%) respectively. Knowledge regarding the ix , I causes of STDs is inadequate, particularly with regard to causes of gonorrhoea, but knowledge regarding treatment and prevention is fair . The frequency of asymptomatic syphilis was high; more than half of the 29 TPHA confirmed syphilis cases had no symptoms; likewise, the signs/symptoms had a low positive predictive value, that is very few of those with positive signs/symptoms of syphilis were actually positive by the TPHA-test. This may be because they had other STDs (LGV, Chancroid, Herpes genitalis) which have also similar clinical manifestations. In this study there was no association between women's knowledge regarding STDs and their syphilis status as measured by the TPHA test. It is recommended to do vaginal examination and swabs for gram stain and wet-mount routinely during antenatal and family planning sessions. Screening for syphilis using at least RPR test should be a routine procedure in pregnant women.
Microwave spectroscopy and radio-astronomy of biologically interesting molecules
Creators: name: Storey., John W. V.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
D6.1_Coevolvers_Strategy and plan for Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication
Creators: name: Bánsági, Éva
name: Kovács, Mariann
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nature-based solutions
NBS

description: The COEVOLVERS project communication and dissemination strategy is a tool for helping consortium partners achieve the project’s general goal: “to contribute to the societal change urgently needed to address the ongoing biodiversity and climate crises and to develop a sense of belonging and committed action for nature.” A further aim is “to engage & motivate decision- and policymakers to ensure their contribution to transformational impacts at a local, national and EU level”.
Impulse-induced generation of stationary and moving discrete breathers in nonlinear oscillator networks
Creators: name: Cuevas-Maraver, J.
name: Chacón, R.
name: Palmero, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study discrete breathers in prototypical nonlinear oscillator networks subjected to non-harmonic zero-mean periodic excitations. We show how the generation of stationary and moving discrete breathers are optimally controlled by solely varying the impulse transmitted by the periodic excitations, while keeping constant the excitation's amplitude and period. Our theoretical and numerical results show that the enhancer effect of increasing values of the excitation's impulse, in the sense of facilitating the generation of stationary and moving breathers, is due to a correlative increase of the breather's action and energy.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 08
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 21-23: Chapter 21: In which the old man launches forth into his favourite theme, and relates a story about a queer client Chapter 22: Mr. Pickwick journeys to Ipswich, and meets with a romantic adventure with a middle-aged lady in yellow curl papers Chapter 23: In which Mr. Samuel Weller begins to devote his energies to the return match between himself and Mr. Trotter
Η άρση του απορρήτου των επικοινωνιών ως ειδική ανακριτική πράξη και τα αποδεικτικά προβλήματα που σχετίζονται με αυτή
Creators: name: Καρανικόλα, Μαρία-Παρασκευή Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Άρση απορρήτου επικοινωνιών
Ειδική ανακριτική πράξη
Αποδεικτικά προβλήματα
Removal of the confidentiality of communications
Special investigative act
Evidentiary problems

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αποσκοπεί στη διερεύνηση, μελέτη και κατανόηση του νομικού ζητήματος της άρσης του απορρήτου των επικοινωνιών ως ειδικής ανακριτικής πράξης καθώς και των αποδεικτικών προβλημάτων που ανακύπτουν από την εφαρμογή της, μέσα από τη νομοθεσία και τη νομολογία. Αναλυτικότερα, αποτελεί μια βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση του δικαιώματος στην ελεύθερη επικοινωνία και συγκεκριμένα στον απόρρητο χαρακτήρα αυτής αλλά και της επιτακτικής ανάγκης για άρση της προστασίας του εν λόγω δικαιώματος στα πλαίσια των ειδικών ανακριτικών πράξεων με σκοπό τη διακρίβωση ιδιαίτερα σοβαρών εγκλημάτων. Παράλληλα, γίνεται αναφορά στις ειδικότερες περιπτώσεις παραβίασης του δικαιώματος του απορρήτου της επικοινωνίας που προκαλούνται από την επίμαχη άρση καθώς και στο θεσμό των αποδεικτικών απαγορεύσεων που αποκλείουν τη χρήση παράνομων αποδεικτικών μέσων στην ποινική δίκη αποτελώντας το αντίδοτο στις παραβιάσεις αυτές. Για τους ανωτέρω λόγους, κρίνεται απαραίτητη η απρόσκοπτη τήρηση των αυστηρών προϋποθέσεων που διέπουν την άρση του απορρήτου και ο σεβασμός στους περιορισμούς των περιορισμών του εν λόγω συνταγματικά προστατευόμενου δικαιώματος.
description: This project aims to explore, study and understand the specific legal issue of the removal of the confidentiality of communications as a special investigative act, as well as, the evidenciary problems that arise from its application through legislation and common law. More precisely, it constitutes a literature review concerning the right to free communication and in particular its confidential nature but also the imperative need to remove the protection of this right in the framework of special investigative acts in order to identify particularly serious crimes. Furthermore, there is a reference to the specific cases of violation of the right to confidentiality of communication caused by the removal in question as well as to the institution of evidentiary prohibitions that exclude the use of illegal means of proof in criminal procedure, in the form of an antidote to such violations. For the above reasons, it is necessary to ensure the compliance with the strict conditions that govern the removal of the confidentiality of communications but also the respect for the limitations of the restrictions of this constitutionally protected right.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Νομικής (Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης)
Το ζήτημα της ευθανασίας: Ηθικές προεκτάσεις, νομική θεμελίωση
Creators: name: Κακοπούλου, Παρασκευή Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ευθανασία
Νομική θεμελίωση
Ηθικές προεκτάσεις
Euthanasia
Legal Basis
Ethical Implications

description: Το εν χείρας πόνημα ευελπιστεί να παρουσιάσει μια ανασκόπηση των σύγχρονων απόψεων και των ερευνητικών δεδομένων γύρω από το ζήτημα της ευθανασίας, έτσι όπως αυτό εμφανίζεται στην ελληνική και στην ξένη βιβλιογραφία, θέλοντας να ενσπείρει στον αναγνώστη, αν μη τι άλλο, την διάθεση κριτικής εξέτασης του στην κατ΄ανάγκη περιορισμένη έκταση του. Ακριβώς λόγω του περιορισμένου της έκτασης του έργου είναι ανέφικτος ο ενδελεχής και διεξοδικός φωτισμός όλων των παραμέτρων του ζητήματος. Στη συζήτηση της παρούσας εργασίας σκιαγραφούνται ορισμένες από τις βασικές προϋποθέσεις για μια επιστημονική προσέγγιση του θέματος της ευθανασίας μέσα από την διερεύνηση των κοινωνικών, ηθικών, νομικών, ψυχολογικών παραμέτρων του προβλήματος.
description: The present paper hopes to present a review of current views and research data on the issue of euthanasia, as it appears in the Greek and foreign literature, wanting to instill in the reader, if nothing else, the mood for critical examination. to its necessarily limited extent. Precisely due to the limited scope of the project, a thorough and thorough lighting of all the parameters of the issue is impossible. The discussion of this paper outlines some of the basic conditions for a scientific approach to the issue of euthanasia through the investigation of the social, moral, legal, psychological parameters of the problem.
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 06
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 15-17: Chapter 15: In which is given a faithful portraiture of two distinguished persons; and an accurate description of a public breakfast in their house and grounds; which public breakfast leads to the recognition of an old acquaintance, and the commencement of another chapter Chapter 16: Too full of adventure to be briefly described Chapter 17: Showing that an attack of rheumatism, in some cases, acts as a quickener to inventive genius
Personal history, adventures, experience, & observation of David Copperfield, the younger, no. 04
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Issued monthly from May, 1849 to November 1850 in blue paper wrappers. Chapters 10-12: Chapter 10. I become neglected, and am provided for -- Chapter 11. I begin life on my own account, and don't like it -- Chapter 12. Liking life on my own account no better, I form a great resolution
Conjectures on Convergence and Scalar Curvature
Creators: name: Sormani, Christina
name: Curvature, Participants at the IAS Emerging Topics Workshop on Scalar
name: Convergence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we survey the compactness and geometric stability conjectures formulated by the participants at the 2018 IAS Emerging Topics Workshop on {\em Scalar Curvature and Convergence}. We have tried to survey all the progress towards these conjectures as well as related examples, although it is impossible to cover everything. We focus primarily on sequences of compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and their limit spaces. Christina Sormani is grateful to have had the opportunity to write up our ideas and has done her best to credit everyone involved within the paper even though she is the only author listed above. In truth we are a team of over thirty people working together and apart on these deep questions and we welcome everyone who is interested in these conjectures to join us.
description: Please email us any comments or corrections. 57 pages, 20 figures, IAS Emerging Topics on Scalar Curvature and Convergence
Identifying Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Accelerators with Future Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrino Detectors
Creators: name: Fang, Ke
name: Kotera, Kumiko
name: Miller, M. Coleman
name: Murase, Kohta
name: Oikonomou, Foteini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrino sources would contribute significantly to solving the decades-old mystery of the origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays. We investigate the ability of a future UHE neutrino detector to identify the brightest neutrino point sources, by exploring the parameter space of the total number of observed events and the angular resolution of the detector. The favored parameter region can be translated to requirements for the effective area, sky coverage and angular resolution of future detectors, for a given source number density and evolution history. Moreover, by studying the typical distance to sources that are expected to emit more than one event for a given diffuse neutrino flux, we find that a significant fraction of the identifiable UHE neutrino sources may be located in the nearby Universe if the source number density is above $\sim10^{-6}\,\rm Mpc^{-3}$. If sources are powerful and rare enough, as predicted in blazar scenarios, they can first be detected at distant locations. Our result also suggests that if UHE cosmic-ray accelerators are neither beamed nor transients, it will be possible to associate the detected UHE neutrino sources with nearby UHE cosmic-ray and gamma-ray sources, and that they may also be observed using other messengers, including ones with limited horizons such as TeV gamma rays, UHE gamma rays and cosmic rays. We find that for a $\gtrsim5σ$ detection of UHE neutrino sources with a uniform density, $n_s\sim{10}^{-7}-{10}^{-5}~{\rm Mpc}^{-3}$, at least $\sim100-1000$ events and sub-degree angular resolution are needed, and the results depend on the source evolution model.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, minor revision, accepted for publication in JCAP
W2WNet: a two-module probabilistic Convolutional Neural Network with embedded data cleansing functionality
Creators: name: Ponzio, Francesco
name: Macii, Enrico
name: Ficarra, Elisa
name: Di Cataldo, Santa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are supposed to be fed with only high-quality annotated datasets. Nonetheless, in many real-world scenarios, such high quality is very hard to obtain, and datasets may be affected by any sort of image degradation and mislabelling issues. This negatively impacts the performance of standard CNNs, both during the training and the inference phase. To address this issue we propose Wise2WipedNet (W2WNet), a new two-module Convolutional Neural Network, where a Wise module exploits Bayesian inference to identify and discard spurious images during the training, and a Wiped module takes care of the final classification while broadcasting information on the prediction confidence at inference time. The goodness of our solution is demonstrated on a number of public benchmarks addressing different image classification tasks, as well as on a real-world case study on histological image analysis. Overall, our experiments demonstrate that W2WNet is able to identify image degradation and mislabelling issues both at training and at inference time, with a positive impact on the final classification accuracy.
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 13
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 34-36: Chapter 34: In which Mr. Pickwick thinks he had better go to Bath; and goes accordingly Chapter 35: The chief feature of which will be found to be an authentic version of the legend of Prince Bladud, and a most extraordinary calamity that befell Mt. Winkle Chapter 36: Honourably accounts for Mr. Weller's absence, by describing a soiree to which he was invited and went -- also relates how he was entrusted by Mr. Pickwick with a private mission of delicacy and importance.
Διερεύνηση του φαινομένου ηθικής παρενόχλησης και εκφοβισμού στις μονάδες υγείας: βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση
Creators: name: Βαξεβάνη, Βαλεντίνα Παναγιώτη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ηθική παρενόχληση
Ψυχολογική βία
Μονάδες υγείας
Moral harassment / mobbing
Psychological violence
Health care services

description: Το mobbing περιλαμβάνει στοιχεία και ενέργειες ψυχολογικής βίας, που ασκούνται σε ένα ή περισσότερα πρόσωπα, από ένα πρόσωπο ή ομάδα προσώπων που εργάζονται στον ίδιο χώρο. Η άσκηση αυτή πραγματοποιείται με συστηματικό τρόπο και παρουσιάζει διάρκεια αλλά και πρόθεση. Οι συγκεκριμένες ενέργειες ψυχολογικής βίας, έχουν αρνητικό αντίκτυπο στον δέκτη τους, ο οποίος τοποθετείται σε μειονεκτική θέση και αισθάνεται απροστάτευτος σε σύγκριση με τον θύτη. Οι συνέπειες της τακτικής αυτής είναι αρνητικές, όχι μόνο για τον αποδέκτη του mobbing - ο οποίος βιώνει τον κοινωνικό αποκλεισμό και ενδέχεται να παρουσιάσει και σωματικά και ψυχολογικά συμπτώματα – αλλά και για την μονάδα που τον απασχολεί. Το mobbing αποτελεί ένα φαινόμενο που παρατηρείται έντονα και στις μονάδες υγείας και ταλαιπωρεί τους επαγγελματίες υγείας, τόσο το ιατρικό όσο και το νοσηλευτικό προσωπικό. Στην εργασία αυτή εξετάζεται το mobbing στις μονάδες υγείας στο εξωτερικό και στην Ελλάδα, μέσα από την ανασκόπηση παρελθοντικών σχετικών ερευνών. Αυτό που διαπιστώνεται, είναι ότι το mobbing παρατηρείται σε μεγαλύτερη συχνότητα σε ορισμένες κλινικές και σε ορισμένες ειδικότητες, ενώ οι συνέπειές του είναι το ίδιο δυσμενείς για όλα τα θύματά του. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό, προτείνεται η υιοθέτηση πρακτικών και πολιτικών πρόληψης στις μονάδες υγείας, για τον περιορισμό των φαινομένων mobbing και την ορθή διαχείριση αυτών, όταν ανακύπτουν.
description: Mobbing involves elements and acts of psychological violence, inflicted on one or more persons by a person or group of persons working in the same environment. This form of violence is applied in a systematic way and is characterized by duration and intention. These actions of psychological violence have a negative impact on their recipient, who is placed at a disadvantaged place and feels unprotected compared to the perpetrator. The consequences of this tactic are negative, not only for the recipient of mobbing - who experiences social exclusion and may also experience physical and psychological symptoms - but also for the unit in which he is employed. Mobbing is a phenomenon that is strongly observed in health and medical services, in what concerns medical and nursing staff. In the present master thesis, previous researches over mobbing in health units abroad and in Greece are examined. What is found is that mobbing is observed more frequently in some clinics and specialties, while its consequences are equally unfavorable for all its victims. In this context, it is proposed to adopt prevention practices and policies in health clinics to reduce mobbing phenomena and introduce their proper management, when those incidents arise.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Κοινωνικής Διοίκησης και Πολιτικής Επιστήμης (Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης)
Treatment initiation and Compliance among TB patients in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Tadesse, Michael
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 1997

description: A hospital based descriptive and longitudinal study with internal comparIson was carried out to describe the treatment initiation pattern and compliance rate among tuberculosis patients . All government health center providing tuberculosis treatment were part of the study, patients were interviewed by nurses in health center. The study was carried out in Addis Ababa between May 9 1997 to September 25 1997. A total of 765 newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients were enrolled in the study. The median time from the onset of the illness until the initial medical consultation was 2 months (patient's delay). This delay was longer in uneducated patients. Fifty percent of patients were put on treatment with correct diagnosis within 10 days of first consultation (doctor's delay). Almost all patients had at least one symptom suggestive of tuberculosis at presentation and mean number of consultations before diagnosis was two . Patients who first visited private clinic had shorter doctor's delay than those who first saw government health institutions. The median total delay was three months at the time of treatment initiation. Overall patients compliance during the intensive phase of DOTS was 97 %. The study concluded that the public should be educated about the early symptoms of tuberculosis and the need to seek early medical attention particularly, those with little or no formal education.
Wilson, Shaun (2004): The Struggle Over Work. Employment Alternatives in Postindustrial Societies. Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, London/New York, ISBN: 0415305500, 256 Seiten, 115,11 Euro
Creators: name: Ebert, Norbert
Publisher: name: Lucius & Lucius Verlagsgesellschaft
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 650

description: Arbeit
Finite phylogenetic complexity and combinatorics of tables
Creators: name: Michałek, Mateusz
name: Ventura, Emanuele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52B20 (Primary), 14M25, 13P25 (Secondary)

description: We prove that the phylogenetic complexity -- an invariant introduced by Sturmfels and Sullivant -- of any finite abelian group is finite.
description: Improved exposition
A test for second-order stationarity of time series based on unsystematic sub-samples
Creators: name: Cho, Haeran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce a new method for testing the stationarity of time series, where the test statistic is obtained from measuring and maximising the difference in the second-order structure over pairs of randomly drawn intervals. The asymptotic normality of the test statistic is established for both Gaussian and a range of non-Gaussian time series, and a bootstrap procedure is proposed for estimating the variance of the main statistics. Further, we show the consistency of our test under local alternatives. Due to the flexibility inherent in the random, unsystematic sub-samples used for test statistic construction, the proposed method is able to identify the intervals of significant departure from the stationarity without any dyadic constraints, which is an advantage over other tests employing systematic designs. We demonstrate its good finite sample performance on both simulated and real data, particularly in detecting localised departure from the stationarity.
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 09
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 24-26: Chapter 24: Wherein Mr. Peter Magnus grows jealous, and the middle-aged lady apprehensive, which brings the Pickwickians within the grasp of the law Chapter 25: Showing, among a variety of pleasant matters, how majestic and impartial Mr. Nupkins was; and how Mr. Weller returned Mr. Job Trotter's shuttlecock, as heavily as it came; with another matter, which will be found in its place Chapter 26: Which contains a brief account of the progress of the action of Bardell against Pickwick
Studies on the effect of phosphorus loading of streams on the susceptibility of algal biofilms to UVB radiation
Creators: name: Stojkovic., Slobodanka S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Η επίδραση των γνωσιακών παραγόντων στη δικαστική απόφαση
Creators: name: Τσίτσιος, Ηλίας Ευαγγέλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Λήψη δικαστικής απόφασης
Γνωσιακοί παράγοντες
Δικαστική προκατάληψη
Judicial decision making
Cognitive factors
Judicial bias

description: Παρόλη τη συμβολή της νόησης (cognition) στη λήψη αποφάσεων, οι έρευνες που εξέτασαν την επίδραση των γνωσιακών παραγόντων (γνωσιακών προκαταλήψεων, αθέλητων λογικών πλανών) στη δικαστική απόφαση παραμένουν ιδιαίτερα περιορισμένες, ενώ προέρχονται αποκλειστικά από το εξωτερικό. Κρίνοντας από τα μέχρι τώρα αποτελέσματα, οι δικαστές ανεξαρτήτως του είδους δικαστηρίου στο οποίο υπηρετούν, είναι σε γενικές γραμμές ευάλωτοι στην επίδραση γνωσιακών παραγόντων. Αποτέλεσμα αυτής της επίδρασης είναι η λήψη ενστικτωδών αποφάσεων που αποκλίνουν από την ορθολογικότητα. Η ανάλυση των απαντήσεων που έδωσαν Έλληνες δικαστές Μονομελών Πρωτοδικείων της Χώρας στις δύο εκδόσεις του Τεστ Γνωσιακής Αντανάκλασης (Cognitive Reflection Test-CRT), επιβεβαίωσε ότι οι τελευταίοι είναι εξίσου ευάλωτοι στη λήψη ενστικτωδών αποφάσεων, αν και απάντησαν πολύ καλύτερα συγκρινόμενοι με δικαστές του εξωτερικού. Επιπλέον, η περαιτέρω εξέταση τεσσάρων αντιπροσωπευτικών γνωσιακών παραγόντων (ευρετική της αγκύρωσης, ευρετική της αντιπροσωπευτικότητας, φαινόμενο της αντίθεσης, αντίστροφη λογική πλάνη) μέσω ισάριθμων πειραμάτων (Vignette Survey Experiments) ανέδειξε σε γενικές γραμμές ότι οι εν λόγω γνωσιακοί παράγοντες, με εξαίρεση την αντίστροφη λογική πλάνη, είναι σε θέση να επηρεάσουν τις αποφάσεις των Ελλήνων πρωτοδικών δικαστών.
description: Despite cognition’s contribution to decision making, research on the impact οf cognitive factors (cognitive biases, unintentional logical fallacies) in judicial decision making is still modest, while originating exclusively from abroad. Judging from the accumulated empirical evidence, judges are in broad terms vulnerable to the influence of cognitive factors, irrespective of the court they serve in. The aforementioned influence results in intuitive decision making which deviates from rationality. The analysis of the answers given by judges serving in Greece’s Single-judge Courts of First Instance to the two versions of the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) that were used, confirmed that the judges are indeed vulnerable to intuitive decisions, although they scored better than any other judge in the past. In addition, the further experimental examination of four representative cognitive factors (the anchoring heuristic, the representativeness heuristic, the contrast effect, and inverse fallacy) in four distinct vignette survey experiments, demonstrated that all cognitive factors examined (aside from inverse fallacy) are in broad terms capable of influencing Greek Single-judge Courts of First Instance judges’ decisions.
Multilayer coating for higher accelerating fields in superconducting radio-frequency cavities: a review of theoretical aspects
Creators: name: Kubo, Takayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theory of the superconductor-insulator-superconductor (S-I-S) multilayer structure in superconducting accelerating cavity application is reviewed. The theoretical field limit, optimum layer thicknesses and material combination, and surface resistance are discussed. Those for the S-S bilayer structure are also reviewed.
description: 38 pages, 21 figures
Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) Compiled Body of Works in Field Epidemiology
Creators: name: Tarekegn, Nigatu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Background: About 75% of Ethiopia's landmass is potentially malarious and about two thirds of the population is at risk of infection. Malaria transmission varies widely with the country's diverse topography and associated rainfall pattern. In January 2013, Gamo-Gofa Zone Health Department reported unusual increase in malaria cases. We investigated to identify risk factors for the outbreak and recommend control measures. Method: Unmatched case control study was employed. Malaria case was defined as any person present to Chano-mile health post between Epi week 1-7, 2013 and confirmed by RDT, and one control was enrolled for each case from the closest household. Structured questionnaire was used to identify exposure to possible risk factors, and data was analyzed using Epi Info. Result: The median age of cases was 15 years ranges from one to 67 years; and median age of the controls was 21 ranges from 2 to 52 years. People living within 1km radius of a breeding site (OR= 5.5, 95% CI: 2.30-13.15) and using worn out LLITNs (OR: 5.2, 95% CI: 2.28-11.82) were at increased risk for acquiring malaria. Conclusion: The investigation suggested that living near to mosquitoes breeding sites within 1km radius and using a worn out LLITNs were the risk factors for malaria infection. We recommend strict environmental management of breeding sites and replacing worn out mosquito nets. Key words: Malaria, Outbreak, Malaria investigation, Southern Ethiopia.
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 07
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 18-20: Chapter 18: Briefly illustrative of two points, first, the power of hysterics, and secondly, the force of circumstances Chapter 19: A pleasant day, with an unpleasant termination Chapter 20: Showing how Dodson and Fogg were men of business, and their clerks men of pleasure; and how an affecting interview took place between Mr. Weller and his long-lost parent; showing also, what choice spirits assembled at the Magpie and Stump, and what a capital chapter the next one will be
Racah algebras, the centralizer $Z_n(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ and its Hilbert-Poincaré series
Creators: name: Crampe, Nicolas
name: Gaboriaud, Julien
name: d'Andecy, Loïc Poulain
name: Vinet, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The higher rank Racah algebra $R(n)$ introduced recently is recalled. A quotient of this algebra by central elements, which we call the special Racah algebra $sR(n)$, is then introduced. Using results from classical invariant theory, this $sR(n)$ algebra is shown to be isomorphic to the centralizer $Z_{n}(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ of the diagonal embedding of $U(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ in $U(\mathfrak{sl}_2)^{\otimes n}$. This leads to a first and novel presentation of the centralizer $Z_{n}(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ in terms of generators and defining relations. An explicit formula of its Hilbert-Poincaré series is also obtained and studied. The extension of the results to the study of the special Askey-Wilson algebra and its higher rank generalizations is discussed.
Η επίπτωση των lockdown στην κατανάλωση snacks, fast food, αλκοόλ και καπνίσματος
Creators: name: Τσακνάκης, Κωνσταντίνος Ηλία
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Εγκλεισμός
Αλκοόλ
Κάπνισμα
Lockdown
Fast food
Snacks

description: Η πανδημία του κορονοιού καθώς και τα μέτρα που πάρθηκαν για την καταπολέμησή του από τις διάφορες κυβερνήσεις στον κόσμο επηρέασαν αρνητικά τη ζωή των ανθρώπων ανά τον πλανήτη. Σε αυτήν την εργασία στόχος ήταν η μελέτη της επίπτωσης των δύο Lockdown στην κατανάλωση snacks, fast food, αλκοόλ και στην καπνιστική συνήθεια μέρος πληθυσμού μέσα από ερωτηματολόγιο. Έγινε επίσης έρευνα σε άρθρα ανά τον πλανήτη σε ιστοσελίδες όπως Scopus, Pubmed και Lancet και επιλέχθηκαν άρθρα για σύγκριση με την δική μας μελέτη. Επίσης, τέθηκαν ερωτήσεις στο κοινό για παράγοντες που θα μπορούσαν να επηρεάσουν την κατανάλωση αυτών των παραγόντων όπως αλλαγή στο οικογενειακό εισόδημα, νόσηση από κορονοιό κτλ. Κατά το πρώτο lockdown οι συνήθειες αυτές βρέθηκαν για το μεγαλύτερο μέρος του πληθυσμού ανεπηρέαστες ενώ στο δεύτερο lockdown οριακά φαίνεται να πήραν προβάδισμα έναντι των υγειών. Η κατανάλωση αλκοόλ φαίνεται πως παρέμεινε ίδια και στις δύο περιόδους. Παρόλα αυτά στοιχεία από το ΚΕΘΕΑ ενημερώνουν ότι η χρήση ουσιών κατά την περίοδο της πανδημίας παρουσίασε αύξηση. Η ανοδική τάση των καταναλωτικών αυτών συνηθειών θα πρέπει να μας ανησυχεί για το μέλλον σε περίπτωση που χρειαστεί να ξανατεθεί lockdown καθώς θα έχει σημαντική επίπτωση στην υγεία των καταναλωτών.
description: The corona virus pandemic as well as the measures induced to comfort it by the various governments in the world influenced negatively the life of people around the globe. In this review our aim was the impact of the two lockdowns on snacking and fast food behaviors, alcohol consumption and smoking by part of the population through a questionnaire. There was also a systematic review of articles around the world in web pages such as Scopus, Pubmed and Lancet and articles were selected to compare with our results. There were also questions about factors that could influence the consumption of our objects such as family income, corona virus sickness etc. During the first lockdown those behaviors were found stable for the majority of our population whereas during the second lockdown the <> ones were found increased. Alcohol consumption was not increased on both lockdowns. However, data from KETHEA inform about an increase in illegal substances during the pandemic. This tendency of those behaviors should concern us about the future in case of repeated lockdowns as this might have significant outcomes on the health of the people.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Ιατρικής (Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης), Πολιτικών Μηχανικών T.E. (Αλεξάνδρειο Τ.Ε.Ι. Θεσσαλονίκης)
Entanglement of Free Fermions on Johnson Graphs
Creators: name: Bernard, Pierre-Antoine
name: Crampe, Nicolas
name: Vinet, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Free fermions on Johnson graphs $J(n,k)$ are considered and the entanglement entropy of sets of neighborhoods is computed. For a subsystem composed of a single neighborhood, an analytical expression is provided by the decomposition in irreducible submodules of the Terwilliger algebra of $J(n,k)$ embedded in two copies of $\mathfrak{su}(2)$. For a subsytem composed of multiple neighborhoods, the construction of a block-tridiagonal operator which commutes with the entanglement Hamiltonian is presented, its usefulness in computing the entropy is stressed and the area law pre-factor is discussed.
description: 24 pages