cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimal Vaccination Strategies and Rational Behaviour in Seasonal Epidemics
Creators: name: Doutor, Paulo
name: Rodrigues, Paula
name: Soares, Maria do Céu
name: Chalub, Fabio A. C. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 92D30, 91A99, 34A34

description: We consider a SIR model with temporary immunity and time dependent transmission rate. We assume time dependent vaccination which confers the same immunity as natural infection. We study two types of vaccination strategies: i) optimal vaccination, in the sense that it minimizes the effort of vaccination in the set of vaccination strategies for which, for any sufficiently small perturbation of the disease free state, the number of infectious individuals is monotonically decreasing; ii) Nash-equilibria strategies where all individuals simultaneously minimize the joint risk of vaccination versus the risk of the disease. The former case corresponds to an optimal solution for mandatory vaccinations, while the second correspond to the equilibrium to be expected if vaccination is fully voluntary. We are able to show the existence of both an optimal and Nash strategies in a general setting. In general, these strategies will not be functions but Radon measures. For specific forms of the transmission rate, we provide explicit formulas for the optimal and the Nash vaccination strategies.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures
title: RÉCITS DES ORIGINES 10. L’inondation qui a marqué la fin d’une ère
Creators: name: García Hernández, María Angélica
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Mixtèque

description: Une femme de 76 ans (en 2016) habitant la localité de San Pedro Centro (même narratrice que pour le récit 9), a parlé d’un deuxième évènement primordial : une inondation qui a tué les Nti-Xi’ina d’une deuxième ère, celle avant la nôtre.
title: Hypertrophic Olivary Degeneration: Where is the lesion?
Creators: name: González Delgado, Cristina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: •To study the different patterns of hypertrophic olivary degeneration by reviewing the anatomy and pathology of the dentato-rubro-olivary pathway (i.e. the triangle of Guillain and...
Women Farmers in America
Creators: name: Kalbacher, Judith Z.
name: Kalbacher, Judith Z.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Farm Management
Labor and Human Capital

description: Excerpts from the report: Just over 128,000 of the Nation's 2.5 million farms are solely or principally operated by women, or 5 percent of the total, according to the 1978 Census of Agriculture, the first census to publish data on sex of farm operators. Although male operators have historically dominated farming, females not only contribute substantially to some types of agricultural production but their numbers are also growing. U.S. Department of Labor statistics show that the number of women employed solely or principally as farm operators and managers doubled from 1970 to 1980. Because of reporting procedures, the number of female farmers is somewhat understated in the agricultural census. Most farm wives do some farmwork and many share responsibility of running the farm with their husbands, but for census reporting purposes, only one operator per farm may be designated. Operator designation is determined by the individual couple and usually the husband is selected. Females designated as operators most often run the farm enterprise alone or are widows of farmers.
Fixed point problems in Banach spaces
Creators: name: Auwalu, Abba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove strong convergence theorems of some iterative algorithms in a real uniformly smooth Banach space. The results presented extend, generalize and improve the corresponding results recently announced by many authors.
description: 24 pages. http://www.fixedpointtheoryandapplications.com/content/2013/1/202
(101868) William F Taylor
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Good Practice in Orthopantomography
Creators: name: Machado, Ana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Radiographers
subject: Professional issues
subject: Head and neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Orthopantomography is a widespread imagiologic examination in Dentistry, Stomatology, Maxillofacial Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology, among others. It frequently allows alone the diagnosis, planning and monitoring of treatment. An Orthopantomography...
(101863) Betsy Taylor
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Critical properties of the susceptible-exposed-infected model on a square lattice
Creators: name: Wada, Alexander H. O.
name: Tomé, Tânia
name: de Oliveira, Mário J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The critical properties of the stochastic susceptible-exposed-infected model on a square lattice is studied by numerical simulations and by the use of scaling relations. In the presence of an infected individual, a susceptible becomes either infected or exposed. Once infected or exposed, the individual remains forever in this state. The stationary properties are shown to be the same as those of isotropic percolation so that the critical behavior puts the model into the universality class of dynamic percolation.
Higgs Pair Production: Choosing Benchmarks With Cluster Analysis
Creators: name: Carvalho, Alexandra
name: Dall'Osso, Martino
name: Dorigo, Tommaso
name: Goertz, Florian
name: Gottardo, Carlo A.
name: Tosi, Mia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New physics theories often depend on a large number of free parameters. The precise values of those parameters in some cases drastically affect the resulting phenomenology of fundamental physics processes, while in others finite variations can leave it basically invariant at the level of detail experimentally accessible. When designing a strategy for the analysis of experimental data in the search for a signal predicted by a new physics model, it appears advantageous to categorize the parameter space describing the model according to the corresponding kinematical features of the final state. A multi-dimensional test statistic can be used to gauge the degree of similarity in the kinematics of different models; a clustering algorithm using that metric may then allow the division of the space into homogeneous regions, each of which can be successfully represented by a benchmark point. Searches targeting those benchmark points are then guaranteed to be sensitive to a large area of the parameter space. In this document we show a practical implementation of the above strategy for the study of non-resonant production of Higgs boson pairs in the context of extensions of the standard model with anomalous couplings of the Higgs bosons. A non-standard value of those couplings may significantly enhance the Higgs pair production cross section, such that the process could be detectable with the data that the Large Hadron Collider will collect in Run 2.
description: Editorial changes, improvements in figures and changes in the appendix
(101860) Helen Booth Taylor
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Site-Selective Passivation of Defects in NiO Solar Photocathodes by Targeted Atomic Deposition
Creators: name: Li, L.
name: McBride, J.R.
name: Meyer, T.J.
name: Kanai, Y.
name: Mercado, C.C.
name: You, W.
name: Flynn, C.J.
name: Farnum, B.H.
name: Oh, E.
name: Cahoon, J.F.
name: Li, W.
name: McCullough, S.M.
name: Donley, C.L.
name: Nozik, A.J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: For nanomaterials, surface chemistry can dictate fundamental material properties, including charge-carrier lifetimes, doping levels, and electrical mobilities. In devices, surface defects are usually the key limiting factor for performance, particularly in solar-energy applications. Here, we develop a strategy to uniformly and selectively passivate defect sites in semiconductor nanomaterials using a vapor-phase process termed targeted atomic deposition (TAD). Because defects often consist of atomic vacancies and dangling bonds with heightened reactivity, we observe-for the widely used p-type cathode nickel oxide-that a volatile precursor such as trimethylaluminum can undergo a kinetically limited selective reaction with these sites. The TAD process eliminates all measurable defects in NiO, leading to a nearly 3-fold improvement in the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells. Our results suggest that TAD could be implemented with a range of vapor-phase precursors and be developed into a general strategy to passivate defects in zero-, one-, and two-dimensional nanomaterials.
Charge Photogeneration in Organic Photovoltaics: Role of Hot versus Cold Charge-Transfer Excitons
Creators: name: Gautam, B.R.
name: Danilov, E.
name: Li, W.
name: Constantinou, I.
name: Younts, R.
name: Ade, H.
name: So, F.
name: You, W.
name: Gundogdu, K.
name: Klump, E.
name: Yan, L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The role of excess excitation energy on long-range charge separation in organic donor/acceptor bulk heterojunctions (BHJs) continues to be unclear. While ultrafast spectroscopy results argue for efficient charge separation through high-energy charge-transfer (CT) states within the first picosecond (ps) of excitation, charge collection measurements suggest excess photon energy does not increase the current density in BHJ devices. Here, the population dynamics of charge-separated polarons upon excitation of high-energy polymer states and low-energy interfacial CT states in two polymer/fullerene blends from ps to nanosecond time scales are studied. It is observed that the charge-separation dynamics do not show significant dependence on excitation energy. These results confirm that excess exciton energy is not necessary for the effective generation of charges.
Communication: Uncovering correlated vibrational cooling and electron transfer dynamics with multidimensional spectroscopy
Creators: name: Moran, A.M.
name: Guo, Z.
name: Giokas, P.G.
name: Dirkes, D.J.
name: You, W.
name: Williams, O.F.
name: Cheshire, T.P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Analogues of 2D photon echo methods in which two population times are sampled have recently been used to expose heterogeneity in chemical kinetics. In this work, the two population times sampled for a transition metal complex are transformed into a 2D rate spectrum using the maximum entropy method. The 2D rate spectrum suggests heterogeneity in the vibrational cooling (VC) rate within the ensemble. In addition, a cross peak associated with VC and back electron transfer (BET) dynamics reveals correlation between the two processes. We hypothesize that an increase in the strength of solute-solvent interactions, which accelerates VC, drives the system toward the activationless regime of BET.
Ultrafast Spectroscopic Signatures of Coherent Electron-Transfer Mechanisms in a Transition Metal Complex
Creators: name: Giokas, P.G.
name: Cheshire, T.P.
name: Dirkes, D.J.
name: You, W.
name: Guo, Z.
name: Moran, A.M.
name: Williams, O.F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The prevalence of ultrafast electron-transfer processes in light-harvesting materials has motivated a deeper understanding of coherent reaction mechanisms. Kinetic models based on the traditional (equilibrium) form of Fermi's Golden Rule are commonly employed to understand photoinduced electron-transfer dynamics. These models fail in two ways when the electron-transfer process is fast compared to solvation dynamics and vibrational dephasing. First, electron-transfer dynamics may be accelerated if the photoexcited wavepacket traverses the point of degeneracy between donor and acceptor states in the solvent coordinate. Second, traditional kinetic models fail to describe electron-transfer transitions that yield products which undergo coherent nuclear motions. We address the second point in this work. Transient absorption spectroscopy and a numerical model are used to investigate coherent back-electron-transfer mechanisms in a transition metal complex composed of titanium and catechol, [Ti(cat)3]2-. The transient absorption experiments reveal coherent wavepacket motions initiated by the back-electron-transfer process. Model calculations suggest that the vibrationally coherent product states may originate in either vibrational populations or coherences of the reactant. That is, vibrational coherence may be produced even if the reactant does not undergo coherent nuclear motions. The analysis raises a question of broader significance: can a vibrational population-to-coherence transition (i.e., a nonsecular transition) accelerate electron-transfer reactions even when the rate is slower than vibrational dephasing?
Life in an Oil Company Town in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Hashmi, Firas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: water usage
subject: oil
subject: oil company
subject: lifestyle
subject: Americanization
subject: processed food
subject: electrical appliances
subject: autonomy
subject: state ownership
subject: cars
subject: transportation

description: Firas Hashmi interviews Ehab Jaber about his experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia in the 1970s, living on an Aramco compound, and moving to the United States for education. Jaber discusses the differences between the company town, modeled after American neighborhoods, and the rest of Saudi Arabia. He recalls the school system, recreation on the compound, eating mostly imported, pre-packaged foods, and seeing a wide variety of household appliances. Jaber describes the relative autonomy afforded to Aramco employees in the compound, compared to other areas of the country, and describes the oil company's shift from foreign to state ownership. Jaber also discusses the energy demands of water desalination and car ownership.
From pilot knowledge via integrated reservoir characterization to utilization perspectives of deep geothermal reservoirs: the 3D model of Groß Schönebeck (North German Basin)
Creators: name: Norden, Ben
name: Bauer, Klaus
name: Krawczyk, Charlotte M.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 550 Geowissenschaften
subject: Groß Schönebeck
subject: 3D geological modelling
subject: petrophysical parameterization
subject: site development
subject: Permian
subject: Elbe reservoir
subject: Permo-Carboniferous volcanic rocks

description: The Groß Schönebeck site in the North German Basin serves as research platform to study the geothermal potential of deeply buried Permian reservoir rocks and the technical feasibility of heat extraction. The structural setting of the site was investigated in more detail by a newly acquired 3D-seismic survey to improve the former conceptual model that was based on several old 2D seismic lines. The new data allow a revision of the geological interpretation, enabling the setup of a new reservoir model and providing base information for a possible further site development of Permo-Carboniferous targets. The 3D seismic allows for the first time a consistent geological interpretation and model parameterization of the well-studied geothermal site. Main reflector horizons and the corresponding stratigraphic units were mapped and the structural pattern of the subsurface presented in the 8 km × 8 km × 4 km large seismic volume. Attribute analysis revealed some fracture and fault patterns in the upper Zechstein and post-Permian units, while formerly hypothesized large offset faults are not present in the Rotliegend reservoir. However, a well-established graben-like structure at the top of the Zechstein succession is most likely related to broken anhydritic brittle intra-salt layers of some meter of thickness. Most reflectors above the salt show a rather undisturbed pattern. The main reservoir sandstone of the Dethlingen Formation (Rotliegend) was mapped and characterized. The base of the underlying Permo-Carboniferous volcanic rock sequence and hence its thickness could not be depicted reliably from the geophysical data. Based on the seismic data and the available reconnaissance drilling, logging, and laboratory data of the Groß Schönebeck research site, the thickness and distribution of the sedimentary Rotliegend (with emphasis of the sandy reservoir section) and of the volcanic rock sequence was modelled and stochastically parameterized with petrophysical properties guided by seismic facies pattern correlation, providing a more realistic reservoir description. Properties include total and effective porosity, permeability, bulk density, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and specific heat capacity. The data and interpretation constitute the basis for a better understanding of the thermo and hydromechanical processes at the site and for future measures. Further site development could include a deepening of one well to provide evidence on the volcanic rock sequence and consider deviated wells into favourable zones and the design of a fracture-dominated utilization approach.
(101861) William Hindley Taylor
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Valence Band Dependent Charge Transport in Bulk Molecular Electronic Devices Incorporating Highly Conjugated Multi-[(Porphinato)Metal] Oligomers
Creators: name: Wang, R.
name: Bruce, R.C.
name: Therien, M.J.
name: You, W.
name: Rawson, J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Molecular electronics offers the potential to control device functions through the fundamental electronic properties of individual molecules, but realization of such possibilities is typically frustrated when such specialized molecules are integrated into a larger area device. Here we utilize highly conjugated (porphinato)metal-based oligomers (PMn structures) as molecular wire components of nanotransfer printed (nTP) molecular junctions; electrical characterization of these "bulk" nTP devices highlights device resistances that depend on PMn wire length. Device resistance measurements, determined as a function of PMn molecular length, were utilized to evaluate the magnitude of a phenomenological β corresponding to the resistance decay parameter across the barrier; these data show that the magnitude of this β value is modulated via porphyrin macrocycle central metal atom substitution [β(PZnn; 0.065 Å-1) < β(PCun; 0.132 Å-1) < β(PNin; 0.176 Å-1)]. Cyclic voltammetric data, and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopic studies carried out at gold surfaces, demonstrate that these nTP device resistances track with the valence band energy levels of the PMn wire, which were modulated via porphyrin macrocycle central metal atom substitution. This study demonstrates the ability to fabricate "bulk" and scalable electronic devices in which function derives from the electronic properties of discrete single molecules, and underscores how a critical device function - wire resistance - may be straightforwardly engineered by PMn molecular composition.
How LCA contributes to the environmental assessment of higher order effects of ICT application: A review of different approaches
Creators: name: Pohl, Johanna
name: Hilty, Lorenz M.
name: Finkbeiner, Matthias
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 629 Andere Fachrichtungen der Ingenieurwissenschaften
subject: Life Cycle Assessment
subject: LCA
subject: Information and communication technology
subject: ICT
subject: transformative technology
subject: indirect effect
subject: rebound effect
subject: second order effect;

description: Information and communication technology (ICT) is often considered a technology for reducing environmental emissions by increasing energy and resource efficiencies of processes. However, due to other effects of ICT, such as rebound and induction effects, the net benefits of ICT in terms of environmental impact are by no means assured. Even though the relevance of indirect or higher order effects has become a well-known issue in recent years, their environmental assessment remains controversial. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is one of the most established environmental assessment methods for modelling the environmental effects of goods and services throughout their life cycle. Although LCA is traditionally rather product-focused, there exist also LCA-based approaches to assess higher order effects of technology replacement and optimization. This paper examines whether and how LCA case studies on environmental effects of ICT already take into account related higher order effects. A systematic review of scientific literature published since 2005 has been conducted and 25 case studies were analyzed in detail. The following research questions were addressed: i) Which products are assessed? ii) Which higher order effects of ICT are considered; and iii) how is the integration of higher order effects methodically realized? The results show that few case studies were concerned with the environmental effects of the introduction of ICT services in commerce, telework and monitoring and control. Most studies investigated the substitution of certain media with electronic devices or digital services. It was found that technology-based higher order effects, such as optimization and substitution, are usually included in the assessment by choosing comparative study designs, while user-related higher order effects, such as rebound effects and induction effects, are less often considered. For the latter effects, methodological integration was mainly provided by scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis. Overall, most studies chose an attributional LCA approach. It can be concluded from the results that, in particular, user-related effects such as rebound effects have not yet been frequently included in the environmental assessment of ICT. The identified research gaps include in particular interdisciplinary approaches on how changing use patterns can be more strongly observed in LCA.
Investigation of dopamine analogues: Synthesis, mechanistic understanding, and structure-property relationship
Creators: name: Ko, C.-C.
name: Dyke, J.C.
name: Bowman, B.A.
name: You, W.
name: Hu, H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Dopamine, perhaps the simplest molecule that covalently links catechol and amine, together with its derivatives, has shown impressive adhesive and coating properties with its polymers. However, the scope of the molecules is rather limited, and the polymerization mechanisms are still elusive. We designed a general synthetic scheme and successfully synthesized a series of dopamine analogues with different alkyl chain lengths between the catechol and amine. Taking these new dopamine analogues, together with the molecular systems that have separate catechol and alkyl amine, we show that having both catechol and amine in the molecular system, whether covalently linked via an alkyl chain or not, is sufficient to polymerize under a similar reaction condition to that of dopamine polymerization. However, the time-dependent UV-vis characterization of the individual polymerization indicates that the polymerization for individual molecular systems likely proceeds via different reaction intermediates, depending on the length of the alkyl chain and whether there is a covalent linkage. Interestingly, whereas the covalent linkage via an alkyl chain is not necessary for showing the adhesive property, it is required to achieve the impressive coating property. Our results offer new insights into the design and synthesis of dopamine analogues for future applications, as well as a further mechanistic understanding of the polymerization of these dopamine analogues.
Environmental saving potentials of a smart home system from a life cycle perspective: How green is the smart home?
Creators: name: Pohl, Johanna
name: Frick, Vivian
name: Hoefner, Anja
name: Santarius, Tilman
name: Finkbeiner, Matthias
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 629 Andere Fachrichtungen der Ingenieurwissenschaften
subject: Home Energy Management System
subject: HEMS
subject: Smart Home
subject: information and communication technology
subject: ICT
subject: Life cycle assessment
subject: LCA
subject: higher-order effect;
subject: user behaviour

description: By improving energy management, smart home applications may reduce household energy consumption. This study therefore examines environmental saving potentials of a smart home system (SHS) with smart heating in Germany from a life cycle perspective. Research on the energy saving potential of an SHS usually focuses on single applications rather than the entire system and hence misses life cycle impacts of the system itself. To overcome this limitation, this study takes an interdisciplinary user-driven approach. We conduct an LCA of an average SHS in Germany that includes smart heating for five heating energy saving scenarios. The components of a representative SHS were determined by an online survey among users of smart homes with smart heating (N = 375) in Germany. As a precondition, net savings can only be achieved when the environmental effects from savings in household heating energy exceed the effects from producing and operating an SHS. The results of our case study for the impact categories Climate Change (GWP), Primary Energy Demand (PED), Abiotic Depletion (ADP) and Ecotoxicity (Ecotox) are heterogeneous: we show that savings of GWP and PED can be achieved by an SHS that includes smart heating. However, minimum savings of 6% of annual heating energy over 3.1 years for PED and over 2.4 years for GWP need to be realised by an SHS in order to exceed the environmental effects caused by their production and operation. For ADP and Ecotox, the smart home represents a further environmental burden. We show that including both the life cycle perspective and user-driven parameters is crucial when determining the total environmental effects of smart homes. Future research should further explore these links between the user perspective and LCA.
Comparative Photovoltaic Study of Physical Blending of Two Donor-Acceptor Polymers with the Chemical Blending of the Respective Moieties
Creators: name: Zhang, Q.
name: Kelly, M.A.
name: Ade, H.
name: You, W.
name: Hunt, A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: A regularly alternating terpolymer and a random terpolymer were synthesized from the constituent units of two donor-acceptor polymers with complementary absorption. They were then compared to a physical blend of these two donor-acceptor polymers in order to investigate the best means of extending the light absorption range in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. While all three methods broadened the light absorption, the physical blend provided the best improvement in power conversion efficiency (4.10% vs 3.63% and 2.67% for the random and regular terpolymers, respectively). This is due to the increase in aggregation in the physical blend, as demonstrated in the UV-vis spectra, which likely leads to higher local mobility and less recombination. This study shows that in order to effectively increase the light absorption (and therefore performance) of a polymer:fullerene based BHJ solar cell, a terpolymer must retain a structure which allows sufficient aggregation.
title: Modaere Bulaiwa : l’incantation de destruction
Creators: name: Bessis, Sandrine
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Namakura

description: Panita, Tongoa
description: Cette incantation de destruction est chantée par le héros destructeur de Kuwae lors du rituel des six vessies de cochons. L'ensemble de nos informateurs extérieurs à l'île de Tongoa, ont oublié cette chanson. Elle est en revanche très bien connue des habitants de Tongoa, qui l'entonnent chaque année lors du "festival de Kuwae". Le missionaire Graham Miller a tenté de noter les paroles, qui contrairement aux passages chantés des mythes étiologiques tukunu, sont restées fixe. Les chansons disent plus que les mots ne le peuvent, on considère qu'elles sont écrites dans une langue mystérieuse et magique (François & Stern 2013). D'après les informateurs de Tongoa, cette chanson serait en langue tasiko, la langue perdue de Kuwae. Une hypothèse qui rejoint celle de Hoffmann (2006), car le tasiko est effectivement parlé à Epi qui autrefois faisait partie de l'île mythique de Kuwae. D'après l'esquisse grammaticale de cette langue, je propose de la traduite partiellement par les paroles : Il tremble le sol, le vent souffle, l'île est agitée. C'est le Malao qui gratte le sol (pour y enterrer ses œufs).
title: The value of CT-imaging in differentiating seizure from ischemic stroke in patients presenting with acute neurological deficits
Creators: name: Fittschen, Astrid
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Seizure disorders
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT
subject: Vascular
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To give a brief review of the pathophysiology of the brain during seizure, to illustrate typical examples of the resulting changes in computed tomography (CT) and to discuss their clinical significance in differentiating seizure from ischemic stroke...
Pronounced photorefractive effect at wavelength over 1000 nm in monolithic organic materials
Creators: name: You, W.
name: Yu, L.
name: Hou, Z.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Two monolithic organic materials exhibiting high photorefractive (PR) performances at a wavelength of 1064 nm were prepared and characterized. It was found that thiophene-based molecule T6 demonstrated better PR properties than benzene based molecule B6. A net optical gain of 139.1 cm-1 at a low applied field of 43.7 Vμm and a diffraction efficiency of 45.6% at 35.3 Vμm were observed for materials made from T6. Net optical gain at 1300 nm was also observed for T6. The differences in PR behavior between two materials with similar structures were explained based on dipole moment and photoconductivity differences.
(101862) Thomas Taylor
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
REDISCOVERING TIVOLI: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION  INTO WILLIAM R. DAVIE’S PLANTATION HOME
Creators: name: Armstrong, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: When North Carolina legislator and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill founder William R. Davie retired from political life, he chose to retreat to a plantation on the Catawba River in South Carolina called Tivoli. This plantation has been investigated archaeologically three different times, and each time has brought more into question. How long was the site occupied? Do we know the site of the main house? Was there a slave site associated with the property? This thesis serves to answer these questions through an analysis of archaeological evidence from two separate sites on the property: 38CS299 (RLA SoC-636), which has been thought by past investigators to be the main house site and contains significant structural remains including brick footers and two separate hearths, and 38CS301 (RLA SoC-637), which has been deemed as a possible slave quarter site. The analysis uses lines of evidence presented by the features and artifacts present and the property’s history, which begins before Davie’s occupation and ends well after his death in 1820. There is a possibility that 38CS299 is the main house site, though it is also possible the structure was repurposed in Davie’s time. 38CS301 carries some slave quarter site hallmarks, and, when compared to 38CS299, there is distinct possibility that this is where Davie’s slaves resided.
2DEG on a cylindrical shell with a screw dislocation
Creators: name: Filgueiras, Cleverson
name: Silva, Edilberto O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A two dimensional electron gas on a cylindrical surface with a screw dislocation is considered. More precisely, we investigate how both the geometry and the deformed potential due to a lattice distortion affect the Landau levels of such system. The case showing the deformed potential can be thought in the context of 3D common semiconductors where the electrons are confined on a cylindrical shell. We will show that important quantitative differences exist due to this lattice distortion. For instance, the effective cyclotron frequency is diminished by the deformed potential, which in turn enhances the Hall conductivity.
Ebola virus disease
Creators: name: Vega, M.-A.L.
name: Kraft, C.S.
name: Soka, M.J.
name: Crozier, I.
name: Wahl, V.
name: Kuhn, J.H.
name: Griffiths, A.
name: Fischer, W.A., II
name: Hewlett, A.
name: Bollinger, L.
name: Jacob, S.T.
Publisher: name: Nature Research
Year: 2020

description: Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe and frequently lethal disease caused by Ebola virus (EBOV). EVD outbreaks typically start from a single case of probable zoonotic transmission, followed by human-to-human transmission via direct contact or contact with infected bodily fluids or contaminated fomites. EVD has a high case–fatality rate; it is characterized by fever, gastrointestinal signs and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Diagnosis requires a combination of case definition and laboratory tests, typically real-time reverse transcription PCR to detect viral RNA or rapid diagnostic tests based on immunoassays to detect EBOV antigens. Recent advances in medical countermeasure research resulted in the recent approval of an EBOV-targeted vaccine by European and US regulatory agencies. The results of a randomized clinical trial of investigational therapeutics for EVD demonstrated survival benefits from two monoclonal antibody products targeting the EBOV membrane glycoprotein. New observations emerging from the unprecedented 2013–2016 Western African EVD outbreak (the largest in history) and the ongoing EVD outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have substantially improved the understanding of EVD and viral persistence in survivors of EVD, resulting in new strategies toward prevention of infection and optimization of clinical management, acute illness outcomes and attendance to the clinical care needs of patients.
ZMapp reinforces the airway mucosal barrier against ebola virus
Creators: name: Newby, J.M.
name: Zeitlin, L.
name: Kumar, P.A.
name: Lai, S.K.
name: Lee, P.
name: McKinley, S.A.
name: Arora, H.
name: Yang, B.
name: Fischer, W.A.
name: Harit, D.
name: McCallen, J.
name: Schaefer, A.
name: Wang, Y.-Y.
name: Whaley, K.J.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018

description: Filoviruses, including Ebola, have the potential to be transmitted via virus-laden droplets deposited onto mucus membranes. Protecting against such emerging pathogens will require understanding how they may transmit at mucosal surfaces and developing strategies to reinforce the airway mucus barrier. Here, we prepared Ebola pseudovirus (with Zaire strain glycoproteins) and used high-resolution multiple-particle tracking to track the motions of hundreds of individual pseudoviruses in fresh and undiluted human airway mucus isolated from extubated endotracheal tubes. We found that Ebola pseudovirus readily penetrates human airway mucus. Addition of ZMapp, a cocktail of Ebola-binding immunoglobulin G antibodies, effectively reduced mobility of Ebola pseudovirus in the same mucus secretions. Topical delivery of ZMapp to the mouse airways also facilitated rapid elimination of Ebola pseudovirus. Our work demonstrates that antibodies can immobilize virions in airway mucus and reduce access to the airway epithelium, highlighting topical delivery of pathogen-specific antibodies to the lungs as a potential prophylactic or therapeutic approach against emerging viruses or biowarfare agents.
(101864) Elizabeth Jane Taylor
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Roymata, Une version de Poganisu.
Creators: name: Bessis, Sandrine
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Bislama

description: Efate, Poganisu
description: Ce texte présente l'origine des festins natamate des Roymata ainsi que la mise en place des nakainanga. Dans l'histoire orale, on prête au titre Roymata, transmis de l'an 1000 à 1600, une série de hauts-faits dont l'arrêt des guerres tribales et du cannibalisme. La tombe, vraisemblablement du dernier porteur de ce titre, est classée au patrimoine mondiale de l'Unesco. Le dignitaire y repose avec trois cents de ses gens. L'ascendance partiellement polynésienne de certains individus à été génétiquement prouvée lors de fouilles sur le site. (Lipson et al. 2020).
Quantitative and qualitative cohomological properties for non-Kähler manifolds
Creators: name: Angella, Daniele
name: Tardini, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32Q99, 32C35

description: We introduce a "qualitative property" for Bott-Chern cohomology of complex non-Kähler manifolds, which is motivated in view of the study of the algebraic structure of Bott-Chern cohomology. We prove that such a property characterizes the validity of the $\partial\overline\partial$-Lemma. This follows from a quantitative study of Bott-Chern cohomology. In this context, we also prove a new bound on the dimension of the Bott-Chern cohomology in terms of the Hodge numbers. We also give a generalization of this upper bound, with applications to symplectic cohomologies.
title: Diffusion-tensor MRI and fiber tractography in healthy and pathologic human brains
Creators: name: Benítez Rivero, Sonia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Anatomy
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purposes of our educational exhibit are: To describe the basic principles of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and tractography. To present normal DTI and fiber tractographic anatomy in healthy brains. To illustrate with different cases the role of...
Gaps in the clinical management of influenza a century since the 1918 pandemic
Creators: name: Uyeki, T.M.
name: Fowler, R.A.
name: Fischer, W.A., II
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2018

description: This year marks the centennial of the devastating 1918 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. Prevention and control activities were limited in 1918 because global surveillance did not exist, influenza viruses were not yet discovered, and no influenza vaccines had been developed. Diagnostic tests for influenza were unavailable prior to isolation of influenza viruses in the 1930s, so spread of the pandemic virus was tracked by news reports of increased respiratory disease and related deaths. Establishment of the World Health Organization’s Global Influenza Surveillance Network in 1952 has contributed substantially to coordinated surveillance, vaccine development, and influenza vaccine strain selection.
Community detection in multi-relational data with restricted multi-layer stochastic blockmodel
Creators: name: Paul, Subhadeep
name: Chen, Yuguo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years there has been an increased interest in statistical analysis of data with multiple types of relations among a set of entities. Such multi-relational data can be represented as multi-layer graphs where the set of vertices represents the entities and multiple types of edges represent the different relations among them. For community detection in multi-layer graphs, we consider two random graph models, the multi-layer stochastic blockmodel (MLSBM) and a model with a restricted parameter space, the restricted multi-layer stochastic blockmodel (RMLSBM). We derive consistency results for community assignments of the maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) in both models where MLSBM is assumed to be the true model, and either the number of nodes or the number of types of edges or both grow. We compare MLEs in the two models with other baseline approaches, such as separate modeling of layers, aggregating the layers and majority voting. RMLSBM is shown to have advantage over MLSBM when either the growth rate of the number of communities is high or the growth rate of the average degree of the component graphs in the multi-graph is low. We also derive minimax rates of error and sharp thresholds for achieving consistency of community detection in both models, which are then used to compare the multi-layer models with a baseline model, the aggregate stochastic block model. The simulation studies and real data applications confirm the superior performance of the multi-layer approaches in comparison to the baseline procedures.
description: 55 pages, 9 figures
title: Are clinical factors predictive of prostate cancer T stage as assessed by mpMRI? A study on patients addressed to external beam radiation therapy
Creators: name: Zerial, Michele
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Background Prostate-specific antigen (PSA), Gleason score (GS) and clinical T stage (cT) are the benchmarks for risk stratification of patients with prostate cancer (PCa), which in turn is crucial to define most adequate management...