cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Prime Machine: a user-friendly corpus tool for English language teaching and self-tutoring based on the Lexical Priming theory of language
Creators: name: Jeaco, Stephen Mark
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: This thesis presents the design and evaluation of a new concordancer called The Prime Machine which has been developed as an English language learning and teaching tool. The software has been designed to provide learners with a multitude of examples from corpus texts and additional information about the contextual environment in which words and combinations of words tend to occur. The prevailing view of how language operates has been that grammar and lexis are separate systems and sentences can be constructed merely by choosing any syntactic structure and slotting in vocabulary. Over the last few decades, however, corpus linguistics has presented challenges to this view of language, drawing on evidence which can be found in the patterning of language choices in texts. Nevertheless, despite some reports of success from researchers in this area, only a limited number of teachers and learners of second language seem to make direct use of corpus software tools. The desire to develop a new corpus tool grew out of professional experience as an English language teacher and manager in China. This thesis begins by introducing some background information about the role of English in international higher education and the language learning context in China, and then goes on to describe the software architecture and the process by which corpus texts are transformed from their raw state into rows of data in a sophisticated database to be accessed by the concordancer. It then introduces innovations including several aspects of the search screen interface, the concordance line display and the use of collocation data. The software provides a rich learning platform for language learners to independently look up and compare similar words, different word forms, different collocations and the same words across two corpora. Underpinning the design is a view of language which draws on Michael Hoey's theory of Lexical Priming. The software is designed to make it possible to see tendencies of words and phrases which are not usually apparent in either dictionary examples or the output from other concordancing software. The design features are considered from a pedagogical perspective, focusing on English for Academic Purposes and including important software design principles from Computer Aided Language Learning. Through a small evaluation involving undergraduate students, the software has been shown to have great potential as a tool for the writing process. It is believed that The Prime Machine will be a very useful corpus tool which, while simple to operate, provides a wealth of information for English language teaching and self-tutoring.
Collinear order in a frustrated three-dimensional spin-$\frac12$ antiferromagnet Li$_2$CuW$_2$O$_8$
Creators: name: Ranjith, K. M.
name: Nath, R.
name: Skoulatos, M.
name: Keller, L.
name: Kasinathan, D.
name: Skourski, Y.
name: Tsirlin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic frustration in three dimensions (3D) manifests itself in the spin-$\frac12$ insulator Li$_2$CuW$_2$O$_8$. Density-functional band-structure calculations reveal a peculiar spin lattice built of triangular planes with frustrated interplane couplings. The saturation field of 29 T contrasts with the susceptibility maximum at 8.5 K and a relatively low Néel temperature $T_N\simeq 3.9$ K. Magnetic order below $T_N$ is collinear with the propagation vector $(0,\frac12,0)$ and an ordered moment of 0.65(4) $μ_B$ according to neutron diffraction data. This reduced ordered moment together with the low maximum of the magnetic specific heat ($C^{\max}/R\simeq 0.35$) pinpoint strong magnetic frustration in 3D. Collinear magnetic order suggests that quantum fluctuations play crucial role in this system, where a non-collinear spiral state would be stabilized classically.
description: published version with supplemental material merged into the text
title: Coerced into crime? legal and media representations of co-accused women
Creators: name: Barlow, Charlotte
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: This thesis employs a case study approach to explore the ways in which women who are co-accused with a male partner (or accomplices) of committing a range of crimes are framed by British newspapers and compares such reportage with the record made in the legal proceedings of the same cases.Pseudonyms have been provided for the case studies analysed, due to the terms and conditions of the Privileged Access Agreement granted by Her Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Services, which enabled viewing access to the case file material. The case studies analysed are Jane Turner, Sarah Johnson, Alice Jones and Janet Young. The unique aspect of the case studies is that each of the women, either directly or indirectly, argued that they had been coerced into crime by their male partner/ accomplice. Using a feminist methodological approach, this thesis explores the news media framing of the co-accused women and the case file material is utilised as a comparative tool. The British newspapers selected for analysis are Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Daily Star, The Express, The Mirror, The People, The Sun, The Times (including Sunday published versions). This thesis argues that the co-accused women are framed within a range of stock, gendered motifs and narratives which consequently silences, mutes and distorts their perspectives. Furthermore, the concept of ‘coercion into crime’ is also developed to better understand coercion as a pathway into criminality.
Vorläuferfertigkeiten des Schriftspracherwerbs und ihre Relevanz für die Leseflüssigkeit. Eine empirische Untersuchung zur Bedeutung der phonologischen Bewusstheit und der Benennungsgeschwindigkeit für die Leseflüssigkeit von Kindern mit und ohne Erstsprache Deutsch
Creators: name: Mader, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit
Lesekompetenz
Leseflüssigkeit
1. Klasse

description: Mit dem Beginn der alphabetischen Phase des Schriftspracherwerbs beginnen die Kinder, sich Wissen durch Lesen selbständig anzueignen. Somit wird die Lesekompetenz zu einer Schlüsselqualifikation für den Wissenserwerb. Dabei wird in dieser Arbeit ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die Leseflüssigkeit gelegt. Diese Masterthese untersucht Vorläuferfertigkeiten, welche für den Erwerb des Lesens wichtig sind. Es wurden rund 40 Kinder im ersten Quartal der 1. Klasse auf verschiedene Vorläuferfertigkeiten getestet und ihre Resultate mit einem Leseflüssigkeitstest zu Beginn des vierten Quartals in der 1. Klasse verglichen. Die Ergebnisse der Testung der Vorläuferfertigkeiten im Bereich der phonologischen Bewusstheit korrelieren stark mit den späteren Ergebnissen in den Leseflüssigkeitstests. Zudem wurde untersucht, ob sich die Resultate der Kinder mit Erstsprache Deutsch von jenen mit einer anderen Erstsprache unterscheiden. In der untersuchten Stichprobe schnitt die Gruppe mit einer anderen Erstsprache als Deutsch im Leseflüssigkeitstest "Wörter" leicht, aber statistisch nicht signifikant besser ab.
РАЗРАБОТКА МОДЕЛИ И ИНСТРУМЕНТОВ АНАЛИЗА НАДЕЖНОСТИ СЕТИ В УСЛОВИЯХ ИСПОЛВЗОВАНИЯ НЕЧЕТКИХ ДАННЫХ
Creators: name: В. П. Куянцев
Publisher: name: Проблемы информатики
Year: 2020
Subjects: надежность
сеть
нечеткая логика
нечеткое число
нечеткая надежность

description: В данной статье рассматривается задача определения надежности сети в виде нечеткого числа. Сеть представлена графом с надежными ребрами и ненадежными вершинами. Рассматривается получение исходных нечетких данных о сети. Описывается общий подход к определению надежности при заданных условиях. Приводятся способ вычисления надежности отдельных узлов сети и способ вычисления общей оценки надежности сети. Обосновывается переход от решаемой специфической задачи к более распространенным и хорошо изученным задачам.
Cheeger-Mueller Theorem on manifolds with cusps
Creators: name: Vertman, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove equality between the renormalized Ray-Singer analytic torsion and the intersection R-torsion on a Witt-manifold with cusps, up to an error term determined explicitly by the Betti numbers of the cross section of the cusp and the intersection R-torsion of a model cone. In the first step of the proof we compute explicitly the renormalized Ray-Singer analytic torsion of a model cusp in general dimension and without the Witt-condition. In the second step we establish a gluing formula for renormalized Ray-Singer analytic torsion on a general class of non-compact manifolds in any dimension that includes Witt-manifolds with cusps, but also scattering manifolds with asymptotically conical ends. In the final step, a Cheeger-Mueller theorem on cusps follows by a combination of the previous explicit computation and the gluing formula.
description: 64 pages, 2 figures
ОБЗОР МОДЕЛЕЙ СИСТЕМ ПОЛЛИНГА И ИХ ПРИМЕНЕНИЕ В ТЕЛЕКОММУНИКАЦИОННЫХ СЕТЯХ
Creators: name: Семенова Ольга Валерьевна
name: Вишневский Владимир Миронович
Publisher: name: Проблемы информатики
Year: 2020
Subjects: системы поллинга
порядок опроса
дисциплина обслуживания очереди
метод анализа средних
метод производящих функций
широкополосные беспроводные сети

description: В статье представлен обзор работ по исследованию стохастических систем поллинга, опубликованных в период 2007-2019 гг. Приведена классификация дискретных и непрерывных систем поллинга. Описаны точные и приближенные методы исследования систем поллинга с различными типами входящих потоков (пуассоновские и ВМАР-потоки) и количеством очередей, а также различными дисциплинами обслуживания и порядком опроса очередей. Приводится описание применения моделей поллинга в различных приложениях, в частности, для оценки производительности широкополосных беспроводных сетей с централизованным механизмом управления.
On products of elementarily indivisible structures
Creators: name: Meir, Nadav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03C10, 03C35, 05D10, 05C55

description: We say a structure $M$ in a first-order language is indivisible if for every coloring of its universe in two colors, there is a monochromatic substructure $M'$ of $M$ such that $M'$ is isomorphic to $M$. Additionally, we say that $M$ is symmetrically indivisible if $M'$ can be chosen to be symmetrically embedded in $M$ (that is, every automorphism of $M'$ can be extended to an automorphism of $M$). Similarly, we say that $M$ is elementarily indivisible if $M'$ can be chosen to be an elementary substructure. We define new products of structures in a relational language. We use these products to give recipes for construction of elementarily indivisible structures which are not transitive and elementarily indivisible structures which are not symmetrically indivisible, answering two questions presented by A. Hasson, M. Kojman and A. Onshuus.
description: 21 pages, minor corrections
ВОССТАНОВЛЕНИЕ ГЕОФИЗИЧЕСКИХ МОДЕЛЕЙ УПРУГИХ СРЕД С ПРИМЕНЕНИЕМ НЕЙРОННЫХ СЕТЕЙ
Creators: name: Антон Морозов
name: Якименко Александр Александрович
name: Караваев Дмитрий Алексеевич
name: Хайретдинов Марат Саматович
Publisher: name: Проблемы информатики
Year: 2020
Subjects: параллельный алгоритм
нейронная сеть
LSTM слой
U-Net архитектура
геофизическая среда
восстановление модели

description: В работе представлены результаты исследования по восстановлению модели упругих сред с использованием нейронной сети. Разработаны две нейронные сети для идентификации объекта типа каверна в структуре модели геофизической среды: на основе LSTM-слоя, на основе U-net архитектуры. В качестве каверны рассмотрен объект овальной формы, расположенный в прямоугольной модельной области. Обучение нейронной сети проведено на результатах решения прямой задачи геофизики по расчету волнового поля от точечного источника в изотропной неоднородной среде. Представлено описание реализации нейронных сетей. На тестовых примерах показаны результаты работы обученных сетей по определению формы и положения кавернозного включения, а также сравнение времени обработки на тестовых примерах. Выявлено, что на кавернах произвольной формы нейронная сеть верно определяет местоположение объекта. Форма объекта при этом ошибочно определяется овальной.
Unveiling the mechanism of action of acylated temporin L analogues against multidrug-resistant Candida albicans
Creators: name: Bellavita, Rosa
name: Falanga, Annarita
name: Merlino, Francesco
name: D’Auria, Gabriella
name: Molfetta, Nicola
name: Saviano, Anella
name: Maione, Francesco
name: Galdiero, Umberto
name: Catania, Maria Rosaria
name: Galdiero, Stefania
name: Grieco, Paolo
name: Roscetto, Emanuela
name: Falcigno, Lucia
name: Buommino, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The increasing resistance of fungi to conventional antifungal drugs has prompted worldwide the search for new compounds. In this work, we investigated the antifungal properties of acylated Temporin L derivatives, Pent-1B and Dec-1B, against Candida albicans, including the multidrug-resistant strains. Acylated peptides resulted to be active both on reference and clinical strains with MIC values ranging from 6.5 to 26 µM, and they did not show cytotoxicity on human keratinocytes. In addition, we also observed a synergistic or additive effect with voriconazole for peptides Dec-1B and Pent-1B through the checkerboard assay on voriconazole-resistant Candida strains. Moreover, fluorescence-based assays, NMR spectroscopy, and confocal microscopy elucidated a potential membrane-active mechanism, consisting of an initial electrostatic interaction of acylated peptides with fungal membrane, followed by aggregation and insertion into the lipid bilayer and causing membrane perturbation probably through a carpeting effect.
On the weight of entanglement
Creators: name: Bruschi, David Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a scenario where quantum correlations affect the gravitational field. We show that quantum correlations between particles occupying different positions have an effect on the gravitational field. We find that the small perturbations induced by the entanglement depend on the amount of entanglement and vanish for vanishing quantum correlations. Our results suggest that there is a form of entanglement that has a weight, since it affects the gravitational field. This conclusion may lead towards a new understanding of the role of quantum correlations within the overlap of relativistic and quantum theories.
description: 6 pages, no figures. Updated to match published version
Unveiling the mechanism of action of acylated temporin L analogues against multidrug-resistant Candida albicans
Creators: name: Bellavita, Rosa
name: Annarita, Falanga
name: Merlino, Francesco
name: D’Auria, Gabriella
name: Molfetta, Nicola
name: Saviano, Anella
name: Maione, Francesco
name: Galdiero, Umberto
name: Catania, Maria Rosaria
name: Stefania, Galdiero
name: Grieco, Paolo
name: Roscetto, Emanuela
name: Falcigno, Lucia
name: Elisabetta, Buommino
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The increasing resistance of fungi to conventional antifungal drugs has prompted worldwide the search for new compounds. In this work, we investigated the antifungal properties of acylated Temporin L derivatives, Pent-1B and Dec-1B, against Candida albicans, including the multidrug-resistant strains. Acylated peptides resulted to be active both on reference and clinical strains with MIC values ranging from 6.5 to 26 µM, and they did not show cytotoxicity on human keratinocytes. In addition, we also observed a synergistic or additive effect with voriconazole for peptides Dec-1B and Pent-1B through the checkerboard assay on voriconazole-resistant Candida strains. Moreover, fluorescence-based assays, NMR spectroscopy, and confocal microscopy elucidated a potential membrane-active mechanism, consisting of an initial electrostatic interaction of acylated peptides with fungal membrane, followed by aggregation and insertion into the lipid bilayer and causing membrane perturbation probably through a carpeting effect.
title: Uncovering the emerging risks from climate change scenarios and related climate change risk management in the building sector in the UK
Creators: name: Alzahrani, Abdullah
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Climate Change (CC) is recognised as having a significant impact on human decisions, subsequently affecting human-made networks and social systems. Accordingly, gaining insight into how and when CC-related data is established, distributed and utilised is essential in terms of the design of policies, approaches and systems governing everyday life. Uncovering the impacts and risks associated with CC on building sector assets has been highlighted in other research studies as an area necessitating further work. With this in mind, this study is directed towards considering the risks known to emerge from CC scenarios on UK buildings and real estate, and how buildings may be affected by CC. This study adopted a critical literature review with the goal of establishing the risks seen to emerge from CC. The study has adopted an online survey in order to explore the opinions and views of professionals and practitioners across several organisations, sectors and institutions in the UK in relation to the risks emerging from CCS. In addition, the research assessed the most likely risks emerging from CCS on buildings and real estate, along with the potential timescale of their emergence, as based on the experience of the respondents of the study. Moreover, the survey was designed empirically to identified—as based on the emerging risks—the possible and practical responses that will form the most effective Climate Change Risk Management (CCRM) strategies and tools to be adopted to cope with these emerging risks and accordingly avoid as much impact as is possible in direct consideration of property. The main findings from this study showed that, identifying and assessing the emerging risks from CC—specifically in terms of their damages, impacts and emergence timeframe—are crucial for all stages of the lifecycle of buildings and real estate. In this study, 112 risk factors have been identified and were grouped into seven main clusters; from which the operational emerging risks were the most important risks cluster. On the whole, this study provides a first attempt to uncover the potential emerging risks from CCS on the building sector from different perspectives, using conceptual study and simulation in relation to previous researches, and therefore helps to extend the understanding of the possible risks and impacts emerging from CC. In addition, this study builds knowledge in the building sector by providing the potential emerging risks that need to be integrated within a building’s lifecycle in a systematic manner for mitigating the impact of climate change.
Online Demand Forecasting with Spatial-Temporal Graph Attention Networks: A Proof of Concept
Creators: name: Monica Dominguez
name: Athina Tympakianaki
name: Ferran Torrent
name: Tessa Hayman
name: Josep Perarnau
name: Jordi Casas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Predicting future demand from the current state of the network is an unsolved challenge in dynamic traffic management systems which show the current state of traffic as well as demand and supply forecasts for simulations of response plans. In the context of the TANGENT H2020 project, data-driven methodologies are developed focusing on the real-time demand prediction problem.  This paper presents a spatial-temporal graph attention network (ST-GAT) to model: 1) the geometry of the network including centroids as demand generation points; 2) the temporal resolution of traffic counts.  Preliminary experiments show promising outcomes when quasi-perfect synthetic data is used for training. Yet more research is needed to fully cater for the challenging requirements of the demand prediction task in real-time settings.
Development of Traffic Management By Public Participatory Process: The Case of Traffic in Front of Mueang Phetchabun Schools
Creators: name: Yotsutha Vichaitanapat, Supornchai Utainarumol
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Public participatory process (PPP)
Social inclusion
Safety management
U-turn management
Traffic jams
Increase road safety
Traffic accidents
PPP discussion group
Road safety
Road diet.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15B: 1-11
Efficient Diagnostic Cardiac System using Machine Learning Approach
Creators: name: Mujtaba Ashraf Qureshi, Azad Kumar Shrivastava
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Data mining
neural networks
feature selection
WEKA tool
Cardiovascular disease prediction
Cardiac disease prediction.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15F: 1-8
Dynamical bounds for quasiperiodic Schrödinger operators with rough potentials
Creators: name: Jitomirskaya, Svetlana
name: Mavi, Rajinder
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish localization type dynamical bounds as a corollary of positive Lyapunov exponents for general operators with quasiperiodic potentials defined by piecewise Holder functions.
description: 14 pages. To appear in International Mathematics Research Notices. 2016
UNEMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION QUALITY IN RUSSIA
Creators: name: Osintseva, Marina A.
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education quality
Career-related skills
Unemployment
Labor market
Human capital
Employment
Educational system.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15G: 1-12
title: Seismic properties and processes along the Subduction Plate Interface: the Februrary 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule, Chile Earthquake
Creators: name: Hicks, Stephen
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: The seismogenic zone of subduction margins has the potential to generate some of the world’s largest earthquakes. A detailed study of the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule, Chile rupture has enabled interpretation of the controls that govern subduction zone seismic behaviour across the earthquake cycle. In this thesis, we focus on two aspects of the central Chile margin: (1) imaging physical properties in the forearc and along the plate interface; (2) assessing source complexity of megathrust ruptures. We exploit a dataset of seismic body wave onset times from local aftershocks recorded on a temporary network to derive a 3-D seismic velocity model of the Maule rupture area. We image the main domains of the subduction zone and find a high velocity anomaly located along the plate interface, which we initially interpret as a subducted topographic high. We then develop a second, more accurate velocity model that uses an improved arrival time dataset together with observations from ocean-bottom seismometers. This refined model gives a sharper view of both the plate interface close to the trench, and the marine forearc. We show that ancient blocks of dense mantle in the lower forearc may have decelerated slip during the Maule earthquake and contributed to its nucleation. Furthermore, we infer that fluid saturated sediments inhibited significant slip close to the trench. We study source processes of a large aftershock of the Maule sequence, the 2011 Mw 7.1 Araucania earthquake, by inverting local seismic waveforms for a multiple point-source faulting solution. We find this earthquake constituted rupture on the plate interface followed by almost instantaneous slip along a normal fault in the overriding plate: the first observation of its kind. The second rupture of this closely-spaced doublet was hidden from teleseismic faulting solutions, and may have been dynamically triggered by S-waves from the first event. Overall, our work highlights the role played by the upper plate in subduction zone seismogenesis. We suggest that seismic velocities can help to characterise the behaviour of future large megathrust earthquakes. We show that the potential hazard posed by closely-spaced doublets involving the upper plate should be accounted for in real-time tsunami warning systems by using local waveform analysis.
On nerves of fine coverings of acyclic spaces
Creators: name: Karimov, Umed H.
name: Repovš, Dušan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57N35, 57N60, 54C25, 54C56, 57N75

description: The main results of this paper are: (1) If a space $X$ can be embedded as a cellular subspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$ then $X$ admits arbitrary fine open coverings whose nerves are homeomorphic to the $n$-dimensional cube $\mathbb{D}^n$; (2) Every $n$-dimensional cell-like compactum can be embedded into $(2n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean space as a cellular subset; and (3) There exists a locally compact planar set which is acyclic with respect to Čech homology and whose fine coverings are all nonacyclic.
title: The REST/NRSF pathway as a central mechanism in CNS dysfunction
Creators: name: Warburton, Alix
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Deciphering the complex molecular circuitry of the brain is crucial for understanding how processes such as higher cognitive function and behaviour are disrupted in neurological disease. Thus it is imperative to explore further the regulatory mechanisms centred on key transcription factors that orchestrate such processes including REST/NRSF (restrictive element-1 silencing transcription factor/neuron restrictive silencing factor); NRSF targets over 2,000 human genes and plays a central and dynamic role in a myriad of CNS processes. To address the function of NRSF, I employed several research disciplines including bioinformatics, gene association studies for complex polygenic diseases and model systems for understanding the structure and function of several NRSF directed pathways in the CNS. My data demonstrated that disruption of the normal balance of NRSF within the cell may be a fundamental mechanism across a range of common neuropathologies. These included 1) schizophrenia, where NRSF was shown to be capable of directing allele-specific and stimulus-driven expression of MIR137 through identification of a novel promoter in this key schizophrenia genome wide associated gene; 2) cognitive dysfunction, polymorphisms within NRSF and its gene target BDNF influenced memory performance in patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy; 3) mood disorders, NRSF-signalling was identified as a significant pathway regulating cellular processes relevant to mood modification by pharmaceutical challenge and 4) NRSF-mediated regulation of microRNA-137 (miR-137) expression was demonstrated in vivo using a model of cortical spreading depression, consistent with its involvement in associated neuropathologies including epilepsy and ischemia. The analysis was expanded to a common non-neurological disease, breast cancer, where the previous work of others was extended to demonstrate a link between NRSF and miR-137 through the novel promoter identified in this study. Collectively these findings emphasise NRSF as a major contributor to cell pathogenesis, in part by modulation of miR-137, not only in a neuronal context but also in other systems.
Seismology of Giant Planets
Creators: name: Gaulme, Patrick
name: Mosser, Benoit
name: Schmider, Francois-Xavier
name: Guillot, Tristan
name: Jackiewicz, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Seismology applied to giant planets could drastically change our understanding of their deep interiors, as it has happened with the Earth, the Sun, and many main-sequence and evolved stars. The study of giant planets' composition is important for understanding both the mechanisms enabling their formation and the origins of planetary systems, in particular our own. Unfortunately, its determination is complicated by the fact that their interior is thought not to be homogeneous, so that spectroscopic determinations of atmospheric abundances are probably not representative of the planet as a whole. Instead, the determination of their composition and structure must rely on indirect measurements and interior models. Giant planets are mostly fluid and convective, which makes their seismology much closer to that of solar-like stars than that of terrestrial planets. Hence, helioseismology techniques naturally transfer to giant planets. In addition, two alternative methods can be used: photometry of the solar light reflected by planetary atmospheres, and ring seismology in the specific case of Saturn. The current decade has been promising thanks to the detection of Jupiter's acoustic oscillations with the ground-based imaging-spectrometer SYMPA and indirect detection of Saturn's f-modes in its rings by the NASA Cassini orbiter. This has motivated new projects of ground-based and space-borne instruments that are under development. In this chapter, we review the science that seismology could help understand about the four giant planets, the instrumental and modeling approaches, and the most recent observational results.
description: Chapter 14 of the book Extraterrestrial Seismology - Cambridge University Press - published in 2015
Zeit, Welt und Menschen verstehen als Anliegen und Aufgabe von Theologie und theologischer Bildung
Creators: name: Breuss, Josef
name: Kessler, Hanns
name: Vogt, Theophil
name: Gastgeber, Karl
Publisher: name: Diakonia
Year: 1970

description: Diakonia, Bd. 7 Nr. 1 (1976): Diakonia, Band 7, Heft 1
A generalization of the discrete version of Minkowski's fundamental theorem
Creators: name: Merino, Bernardo González
name: Henze, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: One of the most fruitful results from Minkowski's geometric viewpoint on number theory is his so called 1st Fundamental Theorem. It provides an optimal upper bound for the volume of an o-symmetric convex body whose only interior lattice point is the origin. Minkowski also obtained a discrete analog by proving optimal upper bounds on the number of lattice points in the boundary of such convex bodies. Whereas the volume inequality has been generalized to any number of interior lattice points already by van der Corput in the 1930s, a corresponding result for the discrete case remained to be proven. Our main contribution is a corresponding optimal relation between the number of boundary and interior lattice points of an o-symmetric convex body. The proof relies on a congruence argument and a difference set estimate from additive combinatorics.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
title: Metabolic reprogramming in gastric cancer
Creators: name: Linnane, Emily
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Globally, gastric cancer claims around 800,000 lives per year. As many patients present at an advanced stage of disease, prognosis remains poor for most patients, with five-year survival rates of less than 30%. As many patients show only limited short-term benefits from current therapeutic regimes, there is a clear need for improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms that drive the development and spread of gastric cancer. In this context, the role of the tumour microenvironment in cancer development and the potential for new forms of therapeutic intervention has become a field of increasing interest in many areas of cancer research. It is now well established that the development and progression of gastric tumours is facilitated by reciprocal communication between cancer cells, and cells within the surrounding tissue. In this study we focus our investigation on the mechanisms and consequences of paracrine communication between gastric cancer cells and different populations of stromal myofibroblasts, which are prevalent within the cancer microenvironment and form a significant proportion of many solid tumours. Previous studies show that myofibroblasts derived from gastric tumours (CAMs) have inherently different profiles of gene expression, compared to patient matched adjacent tissue myofibroblasts (ATMs), or normal tissue myofibroblasts (NTMs). Given these differences, we were interested to know if specific myofibroblast populations respond differently to signals from cancer cells; or conversely, if they exhibit differential ability to facilitate pro- tumourogenic changes in gastric cancer cells. Using a combination of bioinformatics and experimental techniques we demonstrate that CAM-conditioned media induces distinct changes in the gene expression profiles and metabolic activity of AGS gastric cancer cells. Significantly, these changes were not observed following exposure to conditioned media derived from either ATM or NTM cells. Conversely, CAM cells were found to have higher levels of GLUT1 and MCT4 expression with a corresponding reduction in mitochondrial activity compared to NTM cell lines. Finally, initial analysis of CAM imposed changes in AGS gene-expression suggests changes may reflect patient prognosis or stage of tumour development, implying future potential for patient stratification. In conclusion, data from this study shows that activated CAMs are robustly programmed by cancer cells to facilitate optimal conditions for tumour growth. Therefore, further analysis of this system may provide much needed options for improved therapeutic intervention and precision medicine.
Indicators of Social Well-Being for U.S. Counties
Creators: name: Ross, Peggy J.
name: Bluestone, Herman
name: Hines, Fred K.
name: Ross, Peggy J.
name: Bluestone, Herman
name: Hines, Fred K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: social well-being
subject: social indicators
subject: socioeconomic status
subject: health status
subject: family status
subject: alienation
subject: counties
subject: regions
subject: metro-nonmetro status
subject: rural-urban orientation

description: Four composite indexes of social well-being for 3,097 U.S. counties were constructed: socioeconomic, health, and family status, and alienation. National patterns of these composites are depicted by U. S. county maps and through mean index scores of counties grouped by metro-nonmetro status and rural-urban orientation. Counties and metro-nonmetro county groups vary, as do geographic regions, in their basic patterns and degrees of well-being, indicating that social and economic development programs should be tailored to the needs of each region or type of county.
title: Clinical and laboratory features of HIV/AIDS in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Bajhmoum, Wail
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: There are insufficient data on the epidemiology and clinical features of HIV in the Middle East. WHO statistics show the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to be one of the least affected countries globally. However, the Saudi National Program for HIV Control reported a 34.6% increase in cases in 2008 from the previous year. Jeddah region has the highest proportion of HIV cases in KSA (40%). Infection risk data are not always complete and coinfection rates have not been studied. The first part of these studies included a retrospective longitudinal case review of all patients attending the Jeddah clinic to obtain a clearer view of clinical and epidemiological features of that population There are few publications about resistance to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the Arabian Peninsula, including KSA, and most are heavily biased towards assessment of patients with sequential treatment failure. Wider access to resistance testing has only become available recently and baseline local resistance patterns are largely unknown. The aim of the second part of the study was to determine patterns of ART resistance in a systematic fashion in treatment-naïve HIV positive Saudi patients and to document the presence and frequency of novel resistance HIV markers in Jeddah. Study Part 1. Clinical features and epidemiology of HIV and coinfection with TB and/or viral hepatitis in a large clinic in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Aims: To describe demographic and clinical features of HIV infection in clinics and hospitals in Jeddah and to document prevalence and risks for coinfections with tuberculosis (TB) and/or hepatitis Methods: Retrospective study including all HIV positive Saudi adults attending the main treatment centre in Jeddah in the 11 years (2000-2010). Data were systematically collected from case files and summarised. Statistical comparisons included univariate analyses with a p value
Impacts of Basic Psychological Needs on Mental Health with Mediating Effect of Psychological Distress in Cardiac Patients
Creators: name: Abdul Sattar Ghaffari, Muhammad Tahir
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Psychological Distress
Mental Health, Competence
Relatedness
Autonomy
Cardiovascular disease (CVD)
Cardiac patient.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15H: 1-12
Recursive Inspection Games
Creators: name: von Stengel, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 91A05

description: We consider a sequential inspection game where an inspector uses a limited number of inspections over a larger number of time periods to detect a violation (an illegal act) of an inspectee. Compared with earlier models, we allow varying rewards to the inspectee for successful violations. As one possible example, the most valuable reward may be the completion of a sequence of thefts of nuclear material needed to build a nuclear bomb. The inspectee can observe the inspector, but the inspector can only determine if a violation happens during a stage where he inspects, which terminates the game; otherwise the game continues. Under reasonable assumptions for the payoffs, the inspector's strategy is independent of the number of successful violations. This allows to apply a recursive description of the game, even though this normally assumes fully informed players after each stage. The resulting recursive equation in three variables for the equilibrium payoff of the game, which generalizes several other known equations of this kind, is solved explicitly in terms of sums of binomial coefficients. We also extend this approach to non-zero-sum games and, similar to Maschler (1966), "inspector leadership" where the inspector commits to (the same) randomized inspection schedule, but the inspectee acts legally (rather than mixes as in the simultaneous game) as long as inspections remain.
description: final version for Mathematics of Operations Research, new Theorem 2
title: A life lived: experiencing an acquired facial ‘disfigurement’ and identity shift
Creators: name: Martindale, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: With the advent of facial transplantation some academic authors have suggested that faces are significant for humans and that identities are located corporeally within faces and therefore transplantable. However, there has been little evidence to support these claims, particularly from a qualitative, theoretically informed social science background. Responding to this hiatus, in this thesis I set two interconnected research objectives: • to examine socio-cultural values associated with human faces in predominantly Western societies using secondary sources; • to explore the relationship between acquired facial ‘disfigurement’ and embodied identity shift using a narrative methodology. The first objective was addressed in full through an analytical review of largely Western secondary sources. It has become clear that faces, as part of bodies, are imbued with a variety of socio-cultural meanings on multiple levels. Individually people experience the world through their body and their face, making it a significant site for perception and sense making. On a societal level, faces and facial appearance have been associated with social reproduction (Giddens, 1991). For example, inaccurate and harmful historical associations between facial appearance and moral character still pervade British society. And, utilising the concept of faciality (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987, p.168) Twine (2002), Dudley (2002) and Benson (2008) have illustrated that the faces of people in sub-sections of society, generally those with very little power, can be conceptualised negatively and used to serve the interests of powerful elites. In terms of the second objective, most facial ‘disfigurement’ research has been completed using quantitative methods, resulting in partial knowledge and the disconnection of persons. Through the use of a phenomenological epistemology, embodiment position and a narrative methodology I have put the experiences of the 13 participants at the heart of the research. The analysis chapters focus on the participants’ embodied identities before, during and after an acquired facial ‘disfigurement’. In terms of conclusions, I have found that faces are important however, identities are not located within them but created and reshaped through embodied life experiences. I have also found that the relationship between embodied identity shift and acquired facial ‘disfigurement’ is one of contested negotiation between wider socio-cultural facial values, transitional/liminal identity states during and after the event(s) and the aim of previous identity restoration.
Talent Management and the Digital Journey: Case Studies on the Apparel SMEs in Malaysia
Creators: name: Joyce F.Y. Leu, Masri Ridzuan
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Omni-channel retailing
Talent management
Malaysia apparel business
Apparel SMEs
Digital business
Dynamic capabilities
Online apparel firm
Digital talent
Business digital infrastructure
Talented employees, Apparel business strategy
ASEAN business.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15I: 1-11
Determination the Quality of Meat, Manufactured Meat, and Meat Products via the Histological Method
Creators: name: Manya Mkrtchyan, Danil Safronov
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Histology
Microstructural analysis
Meat quality control
Beef microstructural
Meat collagen fibers
Autolytic processes
Meat muscle fibers
Sausage inspection
Histological examination
Chicken meat examination, Minced meat, Detection of falsifications of meat
Beef muscle tissue
Defrosted meat examination.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15J: 1-8
Higher rank lattices are not coarse median
Creators: name: Haettel, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 53C35, 51E24, 51F99

description: We show that symmetric spaces and thick affine buildings which are not of spherical type $A_1^r$ have no coarse median in the sense of Bowditch. As a consequence, they are not quasi-isometric to a CAT(0) cube complex, answering a question of Haglund. Another consequence is that any lattice in a simple higher rank group over a local field is not coarse median.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Algebraic & Geometric Topology
Structural Changes in Russian Exports
Creators: name: Berduygina, Oksana N.
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Export potential
Commodity structure
Export diversification
Economic growth
Structural changes
Sustainable development.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15K: 1-11