cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
3D simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor mixing in core-collapse SNe with CASTRO
Creators: name: Joggerst, C. C.
name: Almgren, A.
name: Woosley, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present multidimensional simulations of the post-explosion hydrodynamics in three different 15 solar mass supernova models with zero, 10^{-4} solar metallicity, and solar metallicities. We follow the growth of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability that mixes together the stellar layers in the wake of the explosion. Models are initialized with spherically symmetric explosions and perturbations are seeded by the grid. Calculations are performed in two-dimensional axisymmetric and three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates using the new Eulerian hydrodynamics code, CASTRO. We find as in previous work, that Rayleigh-Taylor perturbations initially grow faster in 3D than in 2D. As the Rayleigh-Taylor fingers interact with one another, mixing proceeds to a greater degree in 3D than in 2D, reducing the local Atwood number and slowing the growth rate of the instability in 3D relative to 2D. By the time mixing has stopped, the width of the mixed region is similar in 2D and 3D simulations provided the Rayleigh-Taylor fingers show significant interaction. Our results imply that 2D simulations of light curves and nucleosynthesis in supernovae (SNe) that die as red giants may capture the features of an initially spherically symmetric explosion in far less computational time than required by a full 3D simulation. However, capturing large departures from spherical symmetry requires a significantly perturbed explosion. Large scale asymmetries cannot develop through an inverse cascade of merging Rayleigh-Taylor structures; they must arise from asymmetries in the initial explosion.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, ApJ accepted
Additional file 4 of CDC42-mediated Wnt signaling facilitates odontogenic differentiation of DPCs during tooth root elongation
Creators: name: Zhou, Tao
name: Chen, Guoqing
name: Xu, Yuchan
name: Zhang, Shuning
name: Tang, Huilin
name: Qiu, Tao
name: Guo, Weihua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Original blot images of Figure S4C and Figure S4D.
A biologically-active pest deterrent: what is the mode-of-action and how
      does this affect pest behaviour?
Creators: name: Mansfield, Faye
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2019

description: The application of chemical pesticides to protect crops is standard
      practice worldwide, however, the detrimental repercussions of excessive
      use on human health and environmental degradation are becoming more
      evident. Integrated pest management strategies, providing non-chemical
      alternatives to pest control, have been prioritized by stakeholders in the
      United Kingdom and overseas. Grazers Ltd has set out to produce an
      environmentally sustainable feeding deterring product, which can be
      applied in a similar fashion as chemical pesticides, but without the
      harmful side effects.

      The Grazers Ltd G3 product has a simple formulation, with calcium chloride
      acting as the active component. Before the product can be registered and
      utilized commercially in agriculture, the mode-of-action which alters the
      feeding behaviour of pests must be determined. Laboratory bioassays were
      performed to determine the insecticidal and antifeedant properties of the
      product on Spodoptera littoralis, when presented with treated
      semi-artificial wheatgerm-based diet cubes, Triticum aestivum leaves, and
      Brassica napus ssp. Pabularia leaves. Additionally, the ability of the
      Ca2+ ion from the active component to penetrate through the adaxial leaf
      surface was also tested. The product was analysed as a complete
      formulation (‘Old’), with a new source of calcium chloride (‘New’), and
      when broken down into each individual component.

      The complete formulations exhibited a deterrent effect when applied to
      plants but not diet, indicating a plant-mediated effect in a two-choice
      setting. The ‘Old’ formulation appeared to alter oviposition behaviour
      significantly while the ‘New’ formulation did not. Furthermore, the
      individual components did not show significant antifeedant abilities.

      Despite a lack of research into calcium chloride as a feeding or
      oviposition deterrent, these findings suggest that the calcium
      chloride-based product exhibits a plant-mediated deterring effect on the
      phytophagous pest.
Refinement of tracer dilution methods for discharge measurements in steep mountain streams
Creators: name: Richardson, Mark E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Tracer dilution methods using salt and Rhodamine WT (RWT) are commonly used to measure discharge in steep mountain streams. This research addressed knowledge gaps associated with dilution methods using original ﬁeld data collected on nine streams in southwest British Columbia and discharge measurements conducted by Northwest Hydraulic Consultants. Laboratory experiments were conducted to evaluate the uncertainties associated with different procedures for calibrating the relation between salt concentration and electrical conductivity (EC) for dry salt injection, and to evaluate the effects of RWT decay due to sorption and photolysis. For salt dilution, calibration should be conducted at the in-situ stream temperature for greatest accuracy. The calibration factor varied linearly with background EC for water samples with EC less than 1000 µS/cm. For higher background EC, factors plotted below the ﬁtted relation, likely due to differences in the relative ionic abundances. Minimum mixing lengths ranged between 6.5 and 24.5 stream wetted widths, but determining the mixing length can be confounded by surface-subsurface water ﬂuxes. Probes need to be placed on opposite sides of the stream to verify adequate mixing, because probes located at different locations on the same of the stream sometimes suggested complete mixing had occurred when it in fact had not. For probes located downstream of complete mixing, breakthrough curves (BTCs) for probes located in the main current differed signiﬁcantly from probes in zones with recirculating ﬂow, even though they yielded discharge values within ± 10%. The peak of the BTC is a function of the mass of tracer injected, reach length, channel cross-sectional area, and the integral of a non-dimensional BTC, A*. The distribution of A* derived from analysis of 175 BTCs can be used, in conjunction with estimates of channel geometry and desired increases in EC, to estimate dosing requirements to avoid under- or over-dosing a stream reach. The calibration factor for RWT varied with turbidity, indicating that calibration is essential for each discharge measurement. Laboratory and ﬁeld experiments focused on RWT decay were confounded by other factors, so no ﬁrm conclusions could be drawn.
Molecular dynamics simulation of polymer crystallization process
Creators: name: Triandafilidi, Vasilii
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Large scale molecular dynamics simulations were carried out to study the kinetics of polymer melt crystallization. A coarse-grained model CG-PVA developed by Meyer and Muller-Plathe is applied. A new algorithm for analyzing crystallization is proposed. It is based on the alignment of individual chains which speeds up previous similar calculation by a factor of ten. Moreover, it is found to be more suitable for investigating chain crystallinity in polydisperse systems. Different thermodynamic protocols of polymer crystallization were studied: deep quench, shallow quench and cooling with various rates, as well as polymer pre-stretching and consequent cooling and quenching. Cooling with the slowest rate was shown to generate the highest terminal crystallinity values. Resulting curves were fitted using the Avrami equation that showed good agreement at the early stages of crystallization. As a result shorter chains were found to exhibit higher terminal crystallinity value than the longer ones. Pre-stretching and subsequent quenching was found to have a minor effect on thefinal crystallinity, whereas pre-stretching followed by an intermediate rate cooling was found to increase the terminal crystallinity. The effect of polydispersity was modeled via two bidisperse melts comprising of different proportion of short and long chains. Due to the presence of two relaxation times in the melt, initial stages of bidisperse polymers crystallization were found to be dominated by the short chains, whereas the final stages were dominated by the long ones. Further investigation concluded that the behavior of bidisperse melts is governed by the proportion of short and long chains in the melt. When a critical fraction of the long chains was reached, they appeared to act as baby nuclei for the short chains to attach themselves onto resulting in bundle-like fringed micelle structures. Otherwise, they acted as "molecular traps" hindering crystallization of the short chains. When a critical fraction of the short chains was reached, they were found to assist crystallization of the long chains at the initial stages of crystallization but impede crystallization dynamics at the final stages.
SOARES, Kevin Carreira; CABRAL, Beatriz Rodrigues – O Bom Jesus de Porto de Mós, Convento dos Agostinhos Descalços, 1673-1834. Leiria: Textiverso Lda; Fábrica da Igreja Paroquial de São Pedro de Porto de Mós, 2017. 237 p. ISBN 978-989-8812-71-1
Creators: name: Pacheco, Ana Assis
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
REMA, Henrique Pinto, OFM; com a colaboração de SANTOS, José da Costa, OFM – A Fraternidade da Ordem Terceira de São Francisco da cidade de Lisboa e suas obras sociais - 400 anos da sua fundação e história. Cascais: Lucerna, 2016, 200 p.
Creators: name: Costa, Isabel Teixeira
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
CRAVEIRO, Maria de Lurdes; GONÇALVES, Carla Alexandra; ANTUNES, Joana (coord.) – Equipamentos monásticos e prática espiritual. Lisboa: Secretariado Nacional para os Bens Culturais da Igreja, 2017. 367 p. ISBN 978-989-99967-0-0
Creators: name: Pacheco, Ana Assis
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
Annular heating probes in oil fouling : effects of wall shear stress
Creators: name: Feiz, Ghazal
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Fouling, as the deposition of undesired material on a surface, is a common reason for energy loss in oil refineries, particularly in the preheat train section, where the surface of heat exchangers become fouled. Some of the major issues associated with fouling are the increase in pressure drop and thermal resistance. Fouling rates are known to be a function of oil properties, temperature, and fluid flow properties. There is not yet an agreement among researchers on the determining flow property (Reynolds number, velocity, and inner wall shear stress) of the oil fouling process. The present work focuses on annular flow, which is commonly used for fouling studies, and discusses the effect of inner wall shear stress on fouling rate. An experimental study was undertaken in which an asphaltene containing oil blend (ATB) was recirculated in a flow loop equipped with an annular heat transfer test section. The change in overall heat transfer coefficient was monitored at different flow conditions to calculate the fouling resistance and rate. First, a series of asphaltene precipitation tests was carried out to identify a preferred diluent to be used with the highly viscous ATB. The existing flow loop was modified to accommodate a new pump, and a new data acquisition system was installed. A new 82 cm long annular fouling probe system was devised based on a commercially available 11 cm long 1000 W electrical heater equipped with a central core thermocouple. With Probe #1, fouling was not detected in a series of runs with power up to 412 W. Surface temperatures were determined to be low by Wilson-plot calibration and heat conduction calculations. Probe #2, with an improved design, showed lower internal thermal resistance, and hence higher surface temperature at a given power. As fouling was detected in one experiment, this probe design appears promising for future fouling studies. The literature on inner wall shear stress calculation for concentric annuli was reviewed, and appropriate equations selected. Inner wall shear stress was calculated for four various fouling studies carried out at UBC. Fouling rate dependencies on velocity, Reynolds number, and wall shear stress were compared.
Additional file 1 of Psychological wellbeing of Australian community health service staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal cohort study
Creators: name: Holton, Sara
name: Wynter, Karen
name: Peeters, Anna
name: Georgalas, Alexandra
name: Yeomanson, Ann
name: Rasmussen, Bodil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
The relationship between cognition, aging, cerebrovascular health, and brain network integrity in UK Biobank
Creators: name: Veldsman, Michele
name: Tai, Xin-You
name: Nichols, Thomas E
name: Manohar, Sanjay
name: Husain, Masud
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: OHBM 2019 abstract
Software Engineering Meets Network Engineering: Conceptual Model for Events Monitoring and Logging
Creators: name: Al-Fedaghi, Sabah
name: Behbehani, Bader
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstraction applied in computer networking hides network details behind a well-defined representation by building a model that captures an essential aspect of the network system. Two current methods of representation are available, one based on graph theory, where a network node is reduced to a point in a graph, and the other the use of non-methodological iconic depictions such as human heads, walls, towers or computer racks. In this paper, we adopt an abstract representation methodology, the thinging machine (TM), proposed in software engineering to model computer networks. TM defines a single coherent network architecture and topology that is constituted from only five generic actions with two types of arrows. Without loss of generality, this paper applies TM to model the area of network monitoring in packet-mode transmission. Complex network documents are difficult to maintain and are not guaranteed to mirror actual situations. Network monitoring is constant monitoring for and alerting of malfunctions, failures, stoppages or suspicious activities in a network system. Current monitoring systems are built on ad hoc descriptions that lack systemization. The TM model of monitoring presents a theoretical foundation integrated with events and behavior descriptions. To investigate TM modeling s feasibility, we apply it to an existing computer network in a Kuwaiti enterprise to create an integrated network system that includes hardware, software and communication facilities. The final specifications point to TM modeling s viability in the computer networking field.
description: 12 pages,15 figures
Similarity Solutions of a Class of Perturbative Fokker-Planck Equation
Creators: name: Lin, Wen-Tsan
name: Ho, Choon-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous work, a perturbative approach to a class of Fokker-Planck equations, which have constant diffusion coefficients and small time-dependent drift coefficients, was developed by exploiting the close connection between the Fokker-Planck equations and the Schrodinger equations. In this work, we further explore the possibility of similarity solutions of such a class of Fokker-Planck equations. These solutions possess definite scaling behaviors, and are obtained by means of the so-called similarity method.
Zombification versus reification at the end of the world : exploring the limits of the human via the posthuman zombie in contemporary horror film
Creators: name: Doyle, Kelly Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The zombie figure is ubiquitous in contemporary horror film—particularly in the United States—and has prompted me to explore why zombie films have regained popularity post-9/11, why the zombie has become a figure in flux, evolving from slow to fast, from un-dead to living, and from decaying to mutating body, and finally, to explore the practical use of an allegory of the zombie at the end of the world. My fascination with horror film has bloomed into an analysis of the ways in which the zombie figure in film troubles and in part reifies the human figure delineated by classical humanism and anthropocentrism; how posthumanism serves as a critical lens through which the zombie figure not only threatens ontology, but also the ideological constructs of speciesism, racism, and sexism that depend upon the fantasy figure of the human to justify dehumanization and atrocities. Zombie films’ apocalyptic narratives warn of ecological crisis, of over-consumption, of ends that are always near yet always deferred. They are intertextual, historically and politically resonant, and draw particularly though not singularly on America-centric fear and trauma. It is particularly significant as a genre when one considers the 9/11 attacks as a benchmark. Extant criticism has focused on examining the political and cultural critiques of American society in George A. Romero’s canonical films, and others, to conclude that “they” are “us”. Moreover, it often suggests that zombies provide a background against which humans reach their full potential—re-endorsing humanism and anthropocentrism—or alternatively, they highlight essential flaws and the aggressive, ‘animalistic’ nature of humans. By contrast, I argue that these films do more than mediate terror; they profoundly affect political life since 9/11 by insisting that posthumanism must be addressed if we are to understand the ways in which the human subject is mapped and remapped by such events.
Additional file 2 of Psychological wellbeing of Australian community health service staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal cohort study
Creators: name: Holton, Sara
name: Wynter, Karen
name: Peeters, Anna
name: Georgalas, Alexandra
name: Yeomanson, Ann
name: Rasmussen, Bodil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
FONTES, João Luís; ANDRADE, Maria Filomena; MARQUES, Tiago Pires (coord.) – Género e interioridade na vida religiosa. Conceitos, contextos e práticas. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 2017. 242 p. ISBN 978-972-8361-77-8
Creators: name: Cova, Anne
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
On the dynamics of HIV and malaria infection : insights from mathematical models
Creators: name: Konrad, Bernhard Paul
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: We develop and apply mathematical models to obtain insights into the dynamics of HIV and malaria infection. We consider three case studies. 1. The duration of the time between exposure and detectability of HIV infection is difficult to estimate because precise dates of exposure are rarely known. Therefore, the reliability of clinical HIV testing during the first few weeks of infections is unknown, creating anxiety among HIV-exposed individuals and their physicians. We address this knowledge gap by fitting stochastic models of early HIV infection to detailed viral load time-courses, taken shortly after exposure, from 78 plasma donors. Since every plasma donor in our data eventually becomes infected, we condition our model to reflect this bias before fitting to the data. Our model prediction for the mean eclipse period is 8-10 days. We further quantify the reliability of a negative test t days after potential exposure to inform physicians about the value of initial and follow-up testing. 2. The recently launched Get Checked Online (GCO) program aims at increasing the HIV testing rate in the Vancouver men who have sex with men population by facilitating test taking and result delivery. We develop mathematical models and extract parameter values from surveys and interviews to quantify GCO's population-level impact. Our models predict that the epidemic is growing overall, that its severeness is increased by the presence of a high-risk group and that, even at modest effectiveness, GCO might avert 34-66 new infections in the next five years. 3. Metarhizium anisopliae is a naturally occurring fungal pathogen of mosquitoes that has been engineered to act against malaria by effectively blocking onward transmission from the mosquito vector. We develop and analyse two mathematical models to examine the efficacy of this fungal pathogen. We find that, in many plausible scenarios, the best effects are achieved with a reduced or minimal pathogen virulence, even if the likelihood of resistance to the fungus is negligible. The results depend on the interplay between two main effects: the ability of the fungus to reduce the mosquito population, and the ability of fungus-infected mosquitoes to compete for resources with non-fungus-infected mosquitoes.
Energy-Efficient Techniques for UAVs in Communication-based Applications
Creators: name: Osman, Anas
name: Alijani, Morteza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which are at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, have unmatched potential for pioneering applications in a wide range of disciplines. In particular, in the field of cognitive radio (CR), which is a key aspect in the implementation of the new 5G telecommunication technology. The integration between the drone and CR consolidates the drone's capabilities at the heart of the remarkably promising Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology supported by CR. The highly dynamic network topologies, weakly networked communication links, reliable line-of-sight (LOS) communication links, and orbital or flight paths are characteristic features of UAV communication compared to terrestrial wireless networks. Nevertheless, the implementation of this system is constrained by several severe challenges, such as energy efficiency, battery power limitation, spectrum handover, propagation channel modeling, routing protocols, security policy, and delay setbacks. In this paper, we consider the impact of energy scarcity faced by the UAV in various CR applications. We also analyze the impact of energy scarcity on communication-based applications and present the general problem of battery limitation. Finally, we give an overview and comparison between recent solutions proposed by researchers both in the field of communication and based on batteries and consider possible future directions according to the state of the art, such as novel Graph Signal Processing (GSP) and machine learning (ML).
Genomics of sunflower improvement : from wild relatives to a global oil seed
Creators: name: Baute, Gregory Joseph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Genetic diversity is a critical component of global food security. We depend on crop wild relatives as a genetic resource for the continued improvement and diversification of many crops. In this dissertation, I use population genomic approaches to investigate aspects of crop evolution in sunflower, which is a widely grown hybrid oilseed. In Chapter 1, the relevant aspects of crop improvement are reviewed, the sunflower system is introduced, and the research chapters are briefly described. In Chapter 2, I used transcriptome sequencing data to scan the genomes of a panel of cultivated and wild sunflowers and identified genes involved in domestication and improvement. Using data from additional wild sunflower species, I also identified widespread introgression of wild alleles into the modern crop gene pool. Chapter 3 describes a genomic survey of a diverse set of about 300 wild sunflower samples using genotyping by sequencing (GBS). The GBS data allowed me to determine evolutionary relationships and detect gene flow among taxa in the sunflower genus. I selected a subset of these wild samples to develop pre-bred lines, which I describe in Chapter 4. Pre-bred lines act as a bridge through which wild alleles may be introduced into breeding programs. Each of the circa 400 pre-bred lines I generated contain different components of their wild parent’s genome which were identified using GBS. Evaluation of these lines in Uganda revealed they could be excellent sources of alleles for disease resistance and drought tolerance. In Chapter 5, I examined relationships among cultivated lines, specifically the two heterotic groups that have been developed for hybrid crop production. Using whole genome sequencing data, I found many genomic regions were targets of selection during the development of these populations, and that patterns of diversity do not support an overdominance model of heterosis. Surprisingly, only two regions, which correspond to introduced wild alleles, are highly differentiated between these two populations. As I conclude in Chapter 6, the history of the use of wild relatives in sunflower breeding is found in the genomes of these plants, and permeates and defines modern lines.
Dynamic Knowledge Capitalization through Annotation among Economic Intelligence Actors in a Collaborative Environment
Creators: name: Okunoye, Olusoji
name: Oladejo, Bolanle
name: Odumuyiwa, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The shift from industrial economy to knowledge economy in today's world has revolutionalized strategic planning in organizations as well as their problem solving approaches. The point of focus today is knowledge and service production with more emphasis been laid on knowledge capital. Many organizations are investing on tools that facilitate knowledge sharing among their employees and they are as well promoting and encouraging collaboration among their staff in order to build the organization's knowledge capital with the ultimate goal of creating a lasting competitive advantage for their organizations. One of the current leading approaches used for solving organization's decision problem is the Economic Intelligence (EI) approach which involves interactions among various actors called EI actors. These actors collaborate to ensure the overall success of the decision problem solving process. In the course of the collaboration, the actors express knowledge which could be capitalized for future reuse. In this paper, we propose in the first place, an annotation model for knowledge elicitation among EI actors. Because of the need to build a knowledge capital, we also propose a dynamic knowledge capitalisation approach for managing knowledge produced by the actors. Finally, the need to manage the interactions and the interdependencies among collaborating EI actors, led to our third proposition which constitute an awareness mechanism for group work management.
The Impact of Window to Wall Ratio (WWR) and Glazing Type on Energy Consumption in Air-Conditioned Office Buildings
Creators: name: Al-Ashwal, Najib T.
Publisher: name: TUENGR Group
Year: 2017
Subjects: Daylighting
Energy efficiency
indoor environment
energy saving .

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 8, 3, 197-207
The complex relationship between omega-3 fatty acids and early neurodevelopment
Creators: name: Mulder, Kelly Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6ω-3) is an omega-3 fatty acid that is an important component of neural lipids accumulating in neural tissue during development. Decreased brain DHA is accompanied by increased 22:4ω-6 and 22:5ω-6, which has been shown to lead to deficits in neural function. However, dietary and other variables may impact DHA status and the potential for early deficiency to have lasting adverse effects on neurodevelopment remains unclear. Therefore, the effect of prenatal DHA and children’s DHA intake and status on neurodevelopment was examined. Pregnant women, n=271, were enrolled at 16 wk gestation and randomized to 400 mg/day DHA or placebo until delivery. Infant neurodevelopment was assessed at multiple time-points until 18 mo. Children returned for follow-up between 5-6 y (n=98). An additional group of 187 children (5-6 y) was enrolled at the same time to increase the sample size. Venous blood was collected, diet was assessed by food frequency questionnaire, and neurodevelopment was assessed. Infants from the placebo group were less likely to achieve high neurodevelopmental test scores up to 18 mo than infants from the DHA group (OR=2.23-3.22, P<0.05), suggesting that fetal DHA inadequacy occurred in our population. No differences were detected in children (5-6 y, n=98) from the placebo and DHA groups achieving a high neurodevelopment test score (P>0.05). However, child DHA intake and status (n=98) were related to the mother’s intake and status during pregnancy. For all children (n=285), DHA intake was positively associated with erythrocyte DHA. Child DHA status was associated with neurodevelopment test scores, but only short-term memory was associated with dietary DHA. These results suggest that DHA low enough to constrain infant neurodevelopment to 18 mo does occur among pregnant women in Vancouver, but the long-term effects remain unclear. We also provide evidence that DHA status is related to cognitive performance in young children. However, the association of maternal and child DHA intake and status limits the interpretation of whether DHA before or after birth is important. Finally, the variability in erythrocyte DHA was high, raising questions about the relationship between DHA intake and other fatty acids, DHA status, and neural function.
AZEVEDO, Carlos A. Moreira – Fátima: da visão dos pastorinhos à visão cristã. Lisboa: A Esfera dos Livros, 2017. 216 p. ISBN 978-989-626-809-1
Creators: name: Mendes, Inês Patrício
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
TRIGO, Jerónimo; FONTES, José (coord.) – Educação e cidadania. Em Memória do Padre Joaquim António de Aguiar, CMF. Coimbra: Edições Almedina, 2017. 445 p. ISBN 978-972-40-6991-3
Creators: name: Leal, Luís
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
On the apparently fixed dispersion of size distributions
Creators: name: Vongehr, Sascha
name: Tang, Shaochun
name: Meng, Xiangkang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Probability density functions (PDF) of statistical distributions of cluster sizes N, where N is the number of particles in the cluster, often seem to have less freedom than expected from considering the number of degrees of freedom at the clusters' source. The full width at half maximum appears to be comparable to the average . Such a hidden symmetry is intriguing theoretically and practically impairs size selection towards narrow distributions. However, reviewing the example of Helium cluster beams demonstrates that the origin of the apparent fixing is the assumption that the distributions should be log-normal or exponential and the subsequent use of these functions to fit the data in n = ln(N) log-space. This demands more care when using parametric statistics. Alternatives to the traditionally employed fitting functions are discussed.
description: 15 pages, preprint, to appear in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience
CARDOSO, Arnaldo Pinto – Homem de Deus para a Humanidade: Padre Joaquim Alves Brás, 1899-1966, Lisboa: Alêtheia, 2017. 537 p. ISBN 978-989-622-981-8
Creators: name: Rei, Pedro J. Silva
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
Additional file 1 of Melatonin increases growth and salt tolerance of Limonium bicolor by improving photosynthetic and antioxidant capacity
Creators: name: Li, Junpeng
name: Liu, Yun
name: Zhang, Mingjing
name: Xu, Hualing
name: Ning, Kai
name: Wang, Baoshan
name: Chen, Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The primers for genes used in real-time qPCR analysis.
ANICETO, Ricardo (coord.) – Cartas Pastorais dos Patriarcas de Lisboa, 2 vols. Lisboa: Nova Terra, 2017. 887 p. (volume I) e 814 p. (volume II) ISBN (volume I): 978-972-99735-6-7; ISBN (volume II): 978-972-99735-7-4
Creators: name: Pinto, Sérgio Ribeiro
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
The similarity index of scientific publications with equations and formulas, identification of self-plagiarism, and testing of the iThenticate system
Creators: name: Polyanin, Andrei D.
name: Shingareva, Inna K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problems of estimating the similarity index of mathematical and other scientific publications containing equations and formulas are discussed for the first time. It is shown that the presence of equations and formulas (as well as figures, drawings, and tables) is a complicating factor that significantly complicates the study of such texts. It is shown that the method for determining the similarity index of publications, based on taking into account individual mathematical symbols and parts of equations and formulas, is ineffective and can lead to erroneous and even completely absurd conclusions. The possibilities of the most popular software system iThenticate, currently used in scientific journals, are investigated for detecting plagiarism and self-plagiarism. The results of processing by the iThenticate system of specific examples and special test problems containing equations (PDEs and ODEs), exact solutions, and some formulas are presented. It has been established that this software system when analyzing inhomogeneous texts, is often unable to distinguish self-plagiarism from pseudo-self-plagiarism (false self-plagiarism). A model complex situation is considered, in which the identification of self-plagiarism requires the involvement of highly qualified specialists of a narrow profile. Various ways to improve the work of software systems for comparing inhomogeneous texts are proposed. This article will be useful to researchers and university teachers in mathematics, physics, and engineering sciences, programmers dealing with problems in image recognition and research topics of digital image processing, as well as a wide range of readers who are interested in issues of plagiarism and self-plagiarism.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures, 2 photos
Synthesis of autophagy inhibiting virantmycin analogs
Creators: name: Zhang, Lingzhi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: (–)-Virantmycin (1.12), first isolated from Streptomyces nitrosporeus in 1981, was found to be a potent inhibitor of autophagy with an IC₅₀ of 0.5 μM against rapamycin-induced autophagy in MCF-7 cells. Recent studies showed that autophagy inhibition considerably reduced the growth of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) in mouse models. Therefore, virantmycin’s sub- μM potency as an early stage autophagy inhibitor makes it an interesting “lead compound” for the development of a treatment for PDAC. Previous attempts failed to make the benzoic acid from aryl iodide, using Kogen’s method. The current method for synthetic access to virantmycin analogs employs microwave irradiation to generate aryl nitriles, such as 2.144, for further installation of the carboxyl group at the aryl ring. Analogs 2.108 and 2.152 show the most potent autophagy inhibiting activity among the synthetic analogues prepared to date. The construction of simplified pharmacophore analogs 2.108 and 2.152 allows for scalable synthesis to provide quantities for animal testing.
การศึกษาภาพยนตร์ดิสโทเปียกับการผสมผสานระหว่างตระกูลภาพยนตร์
Creators: name: ชีวสิทธิ วีระเมธีกุล
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2564
Subjects: ดิสโทเปีย
ภาพยนตร์ดิสโทเปีย
ตระกูลภาพยนตร์วิทยาศาสตร์
ตระกูลย่อยภาพยนตร์คัลท์

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 41, 3, 1-11
An Intergenerational Issue: The Equity Issues due to Public-Private Partnerships. The Critical Aspect of the Social Discount Rate Choice for Future Generations
Creators: name: Yaqoobi, Abeer Al
name: Ausloos, Marcel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper investigates the impact of Social Discount Rate (SDR) choice on intergenerational equity issues caused by Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) projects. Indeed, more PPPs mean more debt being accumulated for future generations leading to a fiscal deficit crisis. The paper draws on how the SDR level taken today distributes societies on the Social Welfare Function (SWF). This is done by answering two sub-questions: (i) What is the risk of PPPs debts being off-balance sheet? (ii) How do public policies, based on the envisaged SDR, position society within different ethical perspectives? The answers are obtained from a discussion of the different SDRs (applied in the UK for examples) according to the merits of the pertinent ethical theories, namely libertarian, egalitarian, utilitarian and Rawlsian. We find that public policymakers can manipulate the SDR to make PPPs looking like a better option than the traditional financing form. However, this antagonises the Value for Money principle. We also point out that public policy is not harmonised with ethical theories. We find that at present (in the UK), the SDR is somewhere between weighted utilitarian and Rawlsian societies in the trade-off curve. Alas, our study finds no evidence that the (UK) government is using a sophisticated system to keep pace with the accumulated off-balance sheet debts. Thus, the exact prediction of the final state is hardly made because of the uncertainty factor. We conclude that our study hopefully provides a good analytical framework for policymakers in order to draw on the merits of ethical theories before initiating public policies like PPPs.
description: 27 pages, 1 figure, 98 references
ประสบการณ์นาฏกรรมในประเทศอังกฤษของรัชกาลที่ 6
Creators: name: รัชดา โชติพานิช
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2564
Subjects: นาฏกรรม
ประเทศอังกฤษ
รัชกาลที่ 6

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 41, 3, 12-24
Additional file 1 of Improving measurement-based care implementation in adult ambulatory psychiatry: a virtual focus group interview with multidisciplinary healthcare professionals
Creators: name: Ko, Hayoung
name: Gatto, Alyssa J.
name: Jones, Sydney B.
name: O’Brien, Virginia C.
name: McNamara, Robert S.
name: Tenzer, Martha M.
name: Sharp, Hunter D.
name: Kablinger, Anita S.
name: Cooper, Lee D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
AZEVEDO, Carlos A. Moreira – Ministros do Diabo: os seis sermões de autos da fé (1586-1595) de Afonso de Castelo Branco, bispo de Coimbra, Lisboa: Temas e Debates; Círculo de Leitores, 2018. 369 p. ISBN 9789896445195
Creators: name: Giebels, Daniel Norte
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
A physics-based model for wrinkling skin
Creators: name: Harrison, Darcy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Wrinkling of human skin significantly affects the realism of computer generated characters. Wrinkles convey emotion and expression, provide clues of age and health, and indicate interaction between the skin and external objects. Wrinkling is caused by compression: an elastic material buckles out-of-plane in order to preserve length and volume. Human skin buckles in a distinctive pattern, characterized by sharp valleys with rounded peaks. Many techniques used in visual effects require artists to directly produce wrinkles through sculpting or painted displacement maps, while automated techniques are generally designed for adding detail to coarse, cloth-like simulations which are usually not consistent with human skin. The layered structure of skin, and the properties of each layer are critical to producing the buckling patterns observed in real life. In this work a simulation of wrinkling skin is developed that is physically based, while also simple enough for use in computer graphics. A novel constitutive model suitable for large compressive strain is derived and applied to a three-layered model of skin, with a thin shell outermost layer (stratum corneum), and volumetric dermis and hypodermis layers. Finally, we present a modified Newton scheme and linear finite elements for simulating equilibrium configurations of skin under compressive strain.
การพัฒนารูปลักษณ์วัสดุเพื่องานเครื่องประดับสานต่อความพอเพียง
Creators: name: อรอุมา วิชัยกุล
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2564
Subjects: วัสดุจากธรรมชาติ
เครื่องประดับ
โครงการอันเนื่องมาจากพระราชดำริฯ

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 41, 3, 25-36
แนวทางพัฒนาความรู้บัญชีครัวเรือนเพื่อการท่องเที่ยวโดยชุมชนอย่างพอเพียง กรณีศึกษา ชุมชนบ้านไม้ขาว จังหวัดภูเก็ต
Creators: name: กมลวรรณ กิตติอุดมรัตน์
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2564
Subjects: การพัฒนา
บัญชีครัวเรือน
การท่องเที่ยวโดยชุมชน
ปรัชญาเศรษฐกิจพอเพียง

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 41, 3, 37-49
Design and synthesis of new ceria-based materials for low-temperature methane oxidation
Creators: name: Vickers, Susan Michaela
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The main goal of this research is the development of new mesoporous materials for low-temperature methane oxidation that could be used in catalytic convertors of natural gas powered vehicles. Natural gas is a more environmentally friendly fuel than gasoline or diesel and is seen as a stepping-stone to renewable energy sources. The synthesis and characterization of novel ceria-based materials is reported. Modification of synthetic routes reported in the literature produced several new doped and undoped ceria samples, which were tested for catalytic activity for low-temperature methane oxidation. These tests showed that the presence of a second, redox active metal oxide results in materials with higher catalytic activity than those with only ceria. In addition, several new routes to ceria-based materials with various morphologies, including nanorods and hollow, mesoporous nanospheres, were developed. The nanospheres were successfully doped with lanthanum, giving rise to the first non-hydrothermal route to hollow, mesoporous nanospheres of both doped and undoped ceria. Further examination of materials containing two redox active metal oxides generated mesoporous cobalt oxide with doped and undoped ceria in the pores. Cobalt oxide was templated with KIT-6 silica to produce a material with highly ordered mesopores. The ceria/cobalt oxide materials have remarkably high activity for low-temperature methane oxidation given that they contain no noble metals. However, surprisingly, the mesoporous cobalt oxide on its own exhibited the highest catalytic activity with 50% complete methane conversion to carbon dioxide and water below 400 ˚C. Cerium-based precursors were also used as a starting material to synthesize Pd/ceria materials via a new method termed surface-assisted reduction. Surface-assisted reduction produces ceria with PdO highly dispersed on the surface. These materials showed exceptionally high activity for methane oxidation, with the best materials exhibiting 50% methane conversion below 300 ˚C. Exploration of the scope of surface-assisted reduction successfully produced ceria materials with gold or silver deposited on their surface.
Crucial experiment to resolve Abraham-Minkowski Controversy
Creators: name: Wang, Z. Y.
name: Wang, P. Y.
name: Xu, Y. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abraham-Minkowski dilemma concerning the momentum of light within dielectric materials has persisted over 100 years[1]-[2] and conflicting experiments were reported until recently[3]-[4]. We perform a reversed Fizeau experiment to test the composition law of light speeds in media and the result accords with extended Lorentz transformations where the light speed c is changed to c/n. This is a crucial evidence that Minkowski's formulation p=nE/c should be correct although the momentum is not measured directly. By the way, the energy velocity of an electromagnetic field transferred along good conductors may be much faster than c and people have broken the light barrier for a very long time.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Optik
Eigenvalue and Entropy Statistics for Products of Conjugate Random Quantum Channels
Creators: name: Collins, Benoit
name: Nechita, Ion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using the graphical calculus and integration techniques introduced by the authors, we study the statistical properties of outputs of products of random quantum channels for entangled inputs. In particular, we revisit and generalize models of relevance for the recent counterexamples to the minimum output entropy additivity problems. Our main result is a classification of regimes for which the von Neumann entropy is lower on average than the elementary bounds that can be obtained with linear algebra techniques.
SOROMENHO, Miguel – O Convento dos Agostinhos de Vila Viçosa, panteão dos duques de Bragança, Vila Viçosa: Fundação da Casa de Bragança, 2017. 117 p. ISBN 978-972-9195-46-4
Creators: name: Pacheco, Ana Assis
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação