cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Metal oxides processing using deep eutectic solvents
Creators: name: Pateli, Ioanna M
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Metal oxides are the form from which most metals are extracted. They are found in natural ores and many industrial residues and end-of-life products, which makes their efficient processing an important topic. The state-of-the art processes for the extraction of metal oxides include either the pyrometallurgy or hydrometallurgy, which both have a significant environmental footprint. The investigation of more efficient alternatives for their extraction is crucial, in order to develop sustainable flowsheets for recycling materials like cathodes from lithium ion batteries.The understanding of the dissolution mechanism of selected metal oxides was attempted using deep eutectic solvents. In general, Pourbaix diagrams have shown that metal oxides can be digested either through protonation, complexation or by redox processes. The two former methods were investigated to determine their effect on solubility, and it was shown that the surface complexation had a greater impact on their solubility compared to the proton activity of the solvent. Speciation is known to be the key to designing selective processes, so the ability to tune the deep eutectic solvents to selectively dissolve some metals over others is a great asset. The selective extraction of Co and Mn over Ni from cathode materials of lithium ion batteries and Y and Eu from spent fluorescent lamp phosphors was demonstrated.Apart from the chemical dissolution, the electrochemical oxidation of metal oxides was also investigated as this was previously shown to be efficient for the dissolution of metal sulfides, tellurides and selenides. It was found that a significant enhancement of the metal oxide dissolution rate could be obtained in solvents that are neither acidic nor consist of complexing agents. Indeed, the rate of dissolution, which was dependent upon the band gap of the metal oxides, was strongly enhanced, sometimes even more than 10000 times.
Assessment of Growth Inhibition of Eugenol-Loaded Nano-Emulsions against Beneficial Bifidobacterium sp. along with Resistant Escherichia coli Using Flow Cytometry
Creators: name: Majeed, Usman
name: Shafi, Afshan
name: Shahbaz, Muhammad
name: Khan, Kashif Ur Rehman
name: Iqbal, Khalid Javed
name: Akram, Kashif
name: Baboo, Irfan
name: Munawar, Shaukat Hussain
name: Munir, Muhammad Mazhar
name: Sultan, Rizwana
name: Majeed, Hamid
name: Cacciotti, Ilaria
name: Esatbeyoglu, Tuba
name: Korma, Sameh A.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Bifidobacterium adolescentis
subject: dietary supplements
subject: encapsulation
subject: nano-emulsion
subject: eugenol
subject: bioavailability
subject: flow cytometry
subject: infrared spectroscopy
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: The intestinal tract microbiota influences many aspects of the dietary components on colon health and during enteric infections, thus, playing a pivotal role in the colon health. Therefore, the eugenol (EU) nano-emulsion effective concentration reported in our previous study against cancer cells should be explored for safety against beneficial microbes. We evaluated the sensitivity of Bifidobacterium breve and B. adolescentis against EU-loaded nano-emulsions at 0, 300, 600 and 900 µm, which were effective against colon and liver cancer cells. Both B. breve and B. adolescentis showed comparable growth ranges to the control group at 300 and 600 µm, as evident from the plate count experimental results. However, at 900 µm, a slight growth variation was revealed with respect to the control group. The real-time inhibition determination through flow cytometry showed B. breve viable, sublethal cells (99.49 and 0.51%) and B. adolescentis (95.59 and 0.15%) at 900 µm, suggesting slight inhibition even at the highest tested concentration. Flow cytometry proved to be a suitable quantitative approach that has revealed separate live, dead, and susceptible cells upon treatment with EU nano-emulsion against Escherichia coli. Similarly, in the case of B. breve and B. adolescentis, the cells showed only live cells that qualitatively suggest EU nano-emulsion safety. To judge the viability of these sublethal populations of B. breve and B. adolescentis, Fourier transforms infrared spectroscopy was carried out, revealing no peak shift for proteins, lipids, DNA and carbohydrates at 900 µm EU nano-emulsion compared to the control. On the other hand, EU-loaded nano-emulsions (900 µm)-treated E. coli showed a clear peak shift for a membrane protein, lipids, DNA and carbohydrates. This study provides insights to utilize plant phenols as safe medicines as well as dietary supplements.
NGC 362: another globular cluster with a split red giant branch
Creators: name: Carretta, E.
name: Bragaglia, A.
name: Gratton, R. G.
name: Lucatello, S.
name: D'Orazi, V.
name: Bellazzini, M.
name: Catanzaro, G.
name: Leone, F.
name: Momany, Y.
name: Sollima, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtained FLAMES GIRAFFE+UVES spectra for both first and second-generation red giant branch (RGB) stars in the globular cluster (GC) NGC 362 and used them to derive abundances of 21 atomic species for a sample of 92 stars. The surveyed elements include proton-capture (O, Na, Mg, Al, Si), alpha-capture (Ca, Ti), Fe-peak (Sc, V, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu), and neutron-capture elements (Y, Zr, Ba, La, Ce, Nd, Eu, Dy). The analysis is fully consistent with that presented for twenty GCs in previous papers of this series. Stars in NGC 362 seem to be clustered into two discrete groups along the Na-O anti-correlation, with a gap at [O/Na] 0 dex. Na-rich, second generation stars show a trend to be more centrally concentrated, although the level of confidence is not very high. When compared to the classical second-parameter twin NGC 288, with similar metallicity, but different horizontal branch type and much lower total mass, the proton-capture processing in stars of NGC 362 seems to be more extreme, confirming previous analysis. We discovered the presence of a secondary RGB sequence, redder than the bulk of the RGB: a preliminary estimate shows that this sequence comprises about 6% of RGB stars. Our spectroscopic data and literature photometry indicate that this sequence is populated almost exclusively by giants rich in Ba, and probably rich in all s-process elements, as found in other clusters. In this regards, NGC 362 joins previously studied GCs like NGC 1851, NGC 6656 (M 22), and NGC 7089 (M 2).
description: 16 pages, 23 figures, 11 tables, accepted for publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics
title: Hermann Kuhn, 18. Juni 1882 - 5. August 1960
title: Hermann Kuhn, 18. Juni 1882- 5. August 1960
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Gedenkfeier anlässlich der Bestattung im Krematorium in Zürich, Dienstag, den 9. August 1960
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Amacher, Paul
Publisher: name: Gedenkschriften-Verlag
Year: 1960
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Kuhn, Hermann
subject: Esslingen am Neckar
subject: Zürich

description: Inhalt: Abdankungsansprache von Pfarrer Paul Amacher, Zürich-Oerlikon
Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base
Creators: name: Lokatis, Sophie
name: Jeschke, Jonathan M.
name: Bernard‐Verdier, Maud
name: Buchholz, Sascha
name: Grossart, Hans‐Peter
name: Havemann, Frank
name: Hölker, Franz
name: Itescu, Yuval
name: Kowarik, Ingo
name: Kramer‐Schadt, Stephanie
name: Mietchen, Daniel
name: Musseau, Camille L.
name: Planillo, Aimara
name: Schittko, Conrad
name: Straka, Tanja M.
name: Heger, Tina
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::577 Ökologie
subject: conceptual network
subject: ecological theory
subject: hypothesis network
subject: knowledge visualisation
subject: map of science
subject: research synthesis
subject: urban biology
subject: Wikidata

description: Urban ecology is a rapidly growing research field that has to keep pace with the pressing need to tackle the sustainability crisis. As an inherently multi-disciplinary field with close ties to practitioners and administrators, research synthesis and knowledge transfer between those different stakeholders is crucial. Knowledge maps can enhance knowledge transfer and provide orientation to researchers as well as practitioners. A promising option for developing such knowledge maps is to create hypothesis networks, which structure existing hypotheses and aggregate them according to topics and research aims. Combining expert knowledge with information from the literature, we here identify 62 research hypotheses used in urban ecology and link them in such a network. Our network clusters hypotheses into four distinct themes: (i) Urban species traits & evolution, (ii) Urban biotic communities, (iii) Urban habitats and (iv) Urban ecosystems. We discuss the potentials and limitations of this approach. All information is openly provided as part of an extendable Wikidata project, and we invite researchers, practitioners and others interested in urban ecology to contribute additional hypotheses, as well as comment and add to the existing ones. The hypothesis network and Wikidata project form a first step towards a knowledge base for urban ecology, which can be expanded and curated to benefit both practitioners and researchers.
Evolving networks in the human epileptic brain
Creators: name: Lehnertz, Klaus
name: Ansmann, Gerrit
name: Bialonski, Stephan
name: Dickten, Henning
name: Geier, Christian
name: Porz, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Network theory provides novel concepts that promise an improved characterization of interacting dynamical systems. Within this framework, evolving networks can be considered as being composed of nodes, representing systems, and of time-varying edges, representing interactions between these systems. This approach is highly attractive to further our understanding of the physiological and pathophysiological dynamics in human brain networks. Indeed, there is growing evidence that the epileptic process can be regarded as a large-scale network phenomenon. We here review methodologies for inferring networks from empirical time series and for a characterization of these evolving networks. We summarize recent findings derived from studies that investigate human epileptic brain networks evolving on timescales ranging from few seconds to weeks. We point to possible pitfalls and open issues, and discuss future perspectives.
description: In press (Physica D)
title: Neuere Ergebnisse der Azulen-Chemie
Creators: name: Hafner, Klaus
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022

description: Über die Entwicklung der Azulen-Chemie bis etwa 1954 wurde bereits von anderer Seite zusammenfassend berichtet. Daran anknüpfend werden neue Ergebnisse und insbesondere neue Synthesewege aus den letzten drei Jahren geschildert. Präparative Arbeitsvorschriften und eine Tabelle neuer Azulene beschließen den Aufsatz.
Failure of motor function—A Developmental Embodiment Research perspective on the systemic effects of stress
Creators: name: Krüger, Melanie
name: Lux, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Frontiers Research Foundation
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: movement coordination
subject: embodied cognition
subject: motor control
subject: dual tasking
subject: stress response
subject: lifespan perspective
subject: psychobiological development
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: Humans are capable to skillfully perform a huge variety of complex movements seemingly effortless and to flexibly adjust movement execution to ever-changing environmental conditions, often without apparent differences in the movement outcome. This impressive ability has sparked scientific interest in the mechanisms underlying movement execution for decades. In this perspective article, we argue that investigating the processes and mechanisms leading to failure of motor functions is a fruitful approach to advance the field of human motor neuroscience and beyond. The study of failure of motor function in specific populations (patient groups, skilled experts) has already provided tremendous insight in the systemic characteristics and multi-level functional dependencies of movement execution. However, particularly the transient failure of function in everyday motor actions remains a blind spot. Coming from the perspective of Developmental Embodiment Research, we argue that the integration of a developmental embodiment and lifespan perspective with existing systemic and multi-level methodological approaches of failure of function analyses provides an integrative, interdisciplinary framework, which will allow us to overcome this shortcoming. We further suggest that stress-induced failure of motor function situations might represent a promising starting point for this endeavor. Identifying the involved cross-level functional dependencies of acute and chronic stress on transient and persistent motor functioning would further advance our knowledge on the mechanisms underlying movement execution, and would allow to identify targets for intervention and prevention across the whole spectrum of motor function and failure.
Impact of Agro-Industrial Side-Streams on Sesquiterpene Production by Submerged Cultured Cerrena unicolor
Creators: name: Püth, Nils
name: Ersoy, Franziska
name: Berger, Ralf G.
name: Krings, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Basidiomycota
subject: Cerrena unicolor
subject: medium supplementation
subject: rapeseed press cake
subject: side-streams
subject: sesquiterpene synthesis
subject: bioeconomy
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::630 | Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::640 | Hauswirtschaft und Familienleben

description: The quality and harvest of essential oils depend on a large number of factors, most of which are hard to control in an open-field environment. Therefore, Basidiomycota have gained attention as a source for biotechnologically produced terpenoids. The basidiomycete Cerrena unicolor (Cun) was cultivated in submerged culture, and the production of sesquiterpenoids was analyzed via stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE), followed by thermo-desorption gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (TDS-GC-MS). Identification of aroma-active sesquiterpenoids was supported by GC, coupled with an olfactory detection port (ODP). Following the ideal of a circular bioeconomy, Cun was submerged (up-scalable) cultivated, and supplemented with a variety of food industrial side-streams. The effects of the different supplementations and of pure fatty acids were evaluated by liquid extraction and analysis of the terpenoids via GC-MS. As sesquiterpenoid production was enhanced by the most by lipid-rich side-streams, a cultivation with 13C-labeled acetate was conducted. Data confirmed that lipid-rich side-streams enhanced the sesquiterpene production through an increased acetyl-CoA pool.
Come Be My Love: The Song of Songs, Paradise Lost, and the Tradition of the Invitation Poem
Creators: name: Gray, Erik I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Poetry
Literature

description: The invitation poem, in which the beloved is urged to come away to an idealized place, is among the most enduring genres of European love poetry. The tradition begins with the biblical Song of Songs, which sets several important precedents: a dialogic framework, a close association of lover and landscape, and a sense of love as exile. Medieval and Renaissance invitation poems follow the Song of Songs but shift its emphases toward monologue, materialism, and importunity. Milton thus inherits a dual tradition of invitational poetry, both aspects of which figure prominently in Paradise Lost. Recognizing the traditional features of the genre therefore illuminates significant moments in the epic, including, notably, Eve’s final speech. The invitational tropes in this passage reveal how Eve reconceives of exile as homecoming and how she reestablishes a sense of radical mutuality with Adam by completing a dialogue that began before the Fall.
One EURO for Uranus: the Elliptical Uranian Relativity Orbiter mission
Creators: name: Iorio, Lorenzo
name: Girija, Athul P.
name: Durante, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent years have seen increasing interest in sending a mission to Uranus, visited so far only by Voyager 2 in 1986. EURO (Elliptical Uranian Relativity Orbiter) is a preliminary mission concept investigating the possibility of dynamically measuring the planet's angular momentum by means of the Lense-Thirring effect affecting a putative Uranian orbiter. It is possible, at least in principle, to separate the relativistic precessions of the orbital inclination to the Celestial Equator and of the longitude of the ascending node of the spacecraft from its classical rates of the pericentre induced by the multipoles of the planet's gravity field by adopting an appropriate orbital configuration. For a wide and elliptical $2\,000\times 100\,000\,\mathrm{km}$ orbit, the gravitomagnetic signatures amount to tens of milliarcseconds per year, while, for a suitable choice of the initial conditions, the peak-to-peak amplitude of the range-rate shift can reach the level of $\simeq 1.5\times 10^{-3}$ millimetre per second in a single pericentre passage of a few hours. By lowering the apocentre height to $10\,000\,\mathrm{km}$, the Lense-Thirring precessions are enhanced to the level of hundreds of milliarcseconds per year. The uncertainties in the orientation of the planetary spin axis and in the inclination are major sources of systematic bias; it turns out that they should be determined with accuracies as good as $\simeq 0.1-1$ and $\simeq 1-10$ milliarcseconds, respectively.
description: LaTex2e, 40 pages, 7 figures, no tables. Minor revisions. Accepted in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Clough and His Discontents: Amours de Voyage and the English Hexameter
Creators: name: Gray, Erik I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: English literature
Poetry

description: Dactylic hexameter, the chief meter of classical poetry, was imitated in English by the Elizabethans, then all but disappeared from English poetry until it enjoyed a sudden reflorescence in the nineteenth century. The Victorian hexameter revival produced, among numerous translations and original poems, at least one acknowledged masterpiece, Arthur Hugh Clough’s Amours de Voyage.2 Clough’s poem takes the form of a series of letters written by English travellers in Italy in 1848; the chief letter-writer is Claude, a dilettantish, rather snobbish young gentleman who falls in with a wealthy but middle-class family named Trevellyn. Claude’s attitude towards the Trevellyns, especially towards the eldest daughter Mary, consists of equal parts attraction and repulsion, and this coexistence of opposing impulses forms a central motif in Amours de Voyage. In the first part of this essay I discuss this motif, and in the second I show how it is reflected in the poem’s chosen meter. Finally I suggest that the dual nature of the English dactylic hexameter, its liability to display two conflicting tendencies at once, is not unique; the same duality in some degree typifies all meter, and it can help us understand the uneasy relationship that always exists between the meter and the meaning of a poem.
title: Créer des Questions à choix multiple (QCM) à partir des analyses des erreurs récoltées lors de Questions à réponses ouvertes courtes (QROC)
title: Mise en oeuvre et pertinence lors de la construction de tests formatifs diagnostiques en physique destinés aux étudiants du secondaire postobligatoire
titleType: Subtitle
title: Créer des Questions à choix multiple (QCM) à partir des analyses des erreurs récoltées lors de Questions à réponses ouvertes courtes (QROC)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Parras, Romain
name: Pedro, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Evaluation
subject: QCM
subject: QROC
subject: test diagnostique
subject: feedback
subject: préconception

description: Ce travail propose une réflexion sur la pertinence du diagnostic délivré par des tests formatifs de type Questionnaire à choix multiple (QCM). L’attention est plus particulièrement portée sur le choix des propositions de réponses aux questions. Si l’enseignant est à même d’anticiper quelques-unes des erreurs les plus fréquentes des étudiants (leurs préconceptions), et donc de leur fournir des retours pertinents qui soutiennent leurs apprentissages, on remarque que d’autres erreurs sont plus difficiles à déceler. Nous nous proposons alors de construire des QCM comptant parmi les propositions de réponses, les erreurs fréquentes des étudiants collectées dans un Questionnaire à réponses ouvertes courtes (QROC). L’analyse des réponses de ce QCM, s’appuyant entre autres sur la corrélation bisériale de point (rpbis), montre globalement que deux effets entrent en jeu : - si les propositions introduites grâce au QROC ne sont pas choisies par des étudiants ayant reçu un enseignement différent, on peut alors parler d’effet enseignant ; - si les propositions introduites grâce au QROC sont dotées d’un rpbis significativement négatif, cela indique qu’elles soulèvent des difficultés chez les étudiants (malentendus, incompréhensions, obstacles d’apprentissage), non anticipées par l’enseignant. Il est alors important de comprendre le raisonnement derrière cette réponse en discutant avec les étudiants. Ce travail montre que la construction de QCM à partir de QROC peut aider l’enseignant à fournir des feedbacks encore plus pertinents. Toutefois, leur réalisation doit pouvoir compter sur la collaboration de plusieurs enseignants. Celle-ci est néanmoins limitée par la diversité des programmes étudiés, puisque le plan d’études en physique dans l’enseignement postobligatoire offre une grande liberté, rendant ainsi plus difficile le respect de l’alignement curriculaire.
Faithful Likenesses: Lists of Similes in Milton, Shelley, and Rossetti
Creators: name: Gray, Erik I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: English literature
Poetry

description: Lists and similes are both archetypal epic devices; Milton not only was the epic poet closest to Shelley and Rossetti, but he also combined the two devices in a way his classical precursors did not. In this essay, I begin by considering lists of similes in general, arguing that their tendency is to test or strain the reader’s faith. I then examine the very different effects of this tendency in Milton and Shelley before returning to Rossetti, for whom the trope represents in some ways a matter of life and death.
“Out of me, out of me!”: Andrea, Ulysses, and Victorian Revisions of Egotistical Lyric
Creators: name: Gray, Erik I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Poetry

description: The Victorian poets registered their discomfort with the Romantic lyric, and especially the “conversational” lyric, in their dramatic monologues, where the profusion of grotesque details and comic allusions ironize the egotistical speaker. I wish to begin with an extended reading of “Andrea del Sarto,” first briefly exploring its self-ironizing allusions to Shakespearean comedy, and then considering its relationship to “The Eolian Harp,” the conversation poem with which I believe it is intended to contrast. I shall then go on to discuss subsequent Victorian responses to the problem of lyric egotism. For the early dramatic monologues of Browning and Tennyson did not of course solve the difficulty, but were themselves subject to revision and ironization as the poets continued to experiment. Most notably, some of Tennyson’s late lyrics combine the intimacy of the conversation poem with the irony and dramatic immediacy of the monologue, and so manage partially to efface their own dependence on a single speaking voice.
Gray molasses cooling of $^{39}$K to a high phase-space density
Creators: name: Salomon, G.
name: Fouché, L.
name: Wang, P.
name: Aspect, A.
name: Bouyer, P.
name: Bourdel, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new techniques in cooling 39K atoms using laser light close to the D1 transition. First, a new compressed-MOT configuration is taking advantage of gray molasses type cooling induced by blue-detuned D1 light. It yields an optimized density of atoms. Then, we use pure D1 gray molasses to further cool the atoms to an ultra-low temperature of 6\,$μ$K. The resulting phase-space density is $2 \times 10^{-4}$ and will ease future experiments with ultracold potassium. As an example, we use it to directly load up to $3\times 10^7$ atoms in a far detuned optical trap, a result that opens the way to the all-optical production of potassium degenerate gases.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Do Shared Barriers When Reporting to Work During an Influenza Pandemic Influence Hospital Workers’ Willingness to Work? A Multilevel Framework
Creators: name: Park, Yoon Soo
name: Behrouz-Ghayebi, Laudan
name: Sury, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Public health
Medical personnel
Emergency management
Hospitals--Emergency services--Planning

description: Objective Characteristics associated with interventions and barriers that influence health care workers’ willingness to report for duty during an influenza pandemic were identified. Additionally, this study examined whether workers who live in proximal geographic regions shared the same barriers and would respond to the same interventions.
Methods Hospital employees (n=2965) recorded changes in willingness to work during an influenza pandemic on the basis of interventions aimed at mitigating barriers. Distance from work, hospital type, job role, and family composition were examined by clustering the effects of barriers from reporting for duty and region of residence.
Results Across all workers, providing protection for the family was the greatest motivator for willingness to work during a pandemic. Respondents who expressed the same barriers and lived nearby shared common responses in their willingness to work. Younger employees and clinical support staff were more receptive to interventions. Increasing distance from home to work was significantly associated with a greater likelihood to report to work for employees who received time off.
Conclusions Hospital administrators should consider the implications of barriers and areas of residence on the disaster response capacity of their workforce. Our findings underscore communication and development of preparedness plans to improve the resilience of hospital workers to mitigate absenteeism (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:175-185).
title: Structure and Aromatic Character of Non-benzenoid Cyclically Conjugated Systems
Creators: name: Hafner, Klaus
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022

description: The chemistry of aromatic compounds was originally confined to benzenoid hydrocarbons and their derivatives but has been enriched in the last decade by the discovery of numerous non-benzenoid, cyclically conjugated systems that are more or less like benzene in their properties. This has necessitated a new conception of “aromatic character”. Theoretical and experimental studies have been applied to this problem. In this connection, several selected representatives of this class of compound are described, mostly from studies by the author's own group, and relationships between structure and “aromatic character” are indicated.
Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index Wave 68
Creators: name: Axios
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Activities in last week (6); work experiences in last few weeks (4); Coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions in public places (2); know someone who has been reinfected with COVID-19 (1); risk of different activities (8); safety procedures when leaving the house (3); knowledge of local COVID-19 trends (3); concern about COVID-19 outbreak (6); returning to pre-COVID life (4); United States handling of the COVID-19 pandemic (1); eradication of the COVID-19 in the United States (2); trust in individuals/groups to provide accurate information about the COVID-19 pandemic (4); actions of others making recovery from the pandemic worse/better (1); media overexaggerating COVID-19 risks (1); COVID-19 vaccination (8); Paxlovid/COVID-19 antiviral pill treatment (2); support/oppose COVID-19 mandates (5); personally know someone who has tested positive for or died from coronavirus (2); has had coronavirus (COVID-19) since March 2020 (12); main news source (1).
FitzGerald and the Rubáiyát, In and Out of Time
Creators: name: Gray, Erik I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Poetry

description: This issue of Victorian Poetry commemorates a double anniversary: March 31, 2009 marks both the bicentennial of the birth of Edward FitzGerald and the sesquicentennial of his Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, which was published (give or take a few days) on the poet's fiftieth birthday. It is quite fitting that we should celebrate this occasion and at the same time quite ironic. FitzGerald’s poem, after all, seeks to do away with commemoration, and even with time itself: it enjoins the reader to think only of today, abjuring all consideration of past and future.
title: Présentation de trois études d’approvisionnementen énergiepour le Mali de 2017 à 2040
Creators: name: Sacko, Bakamba dite Djeneba
name: Kante, Boubacar Sidiki
name: Sidibe, Thierno Madani
name: Sanogo, Souleymane
name: Ba, Abdramane
name: Maiga, Oumar Alassane
Publisher: name: Université Clermont Auvergne
Year: 2020
Subjects: Déforestation, Approvisionnementen énergie, énergie

description: Au  Mali,  les  énergies  issues  des combustibles  ligneux  (78%)  et  des  produits pétroliers importés (17%) couvrent l’essentiel des besoins en énergie pour les ménages, les industries  et  le  secteur  tertiaire.  Le  Mali  est  un  pays  sahélien  et  non  producteur  de  pétrole. L’utilisation de ce type de ressources énergétiques a un impact négatif sur l’économie en raison des importations et de l’utilisation de la couverture végétale comme source de combustible ligneuse.Afin de réduire l’utilisation du bois, et des produits pétroliers dans la consommation d’énergie,  et  ainsi  aider  les  décideurs  Maliens,  nous  présentons  trois  scénarios d’approvisionnement dans ce travail. Le  premier  est  un  scénario  de  base,  qui  présente  la  situation actuelle et sert de référence (scénario 1), le second scénario (scénario 2) postule que  l’utilisation des ressources du bois-énergie (bois et charbon de bois) et des produits pétroliers  dans la production d’électricité est maintenue et le troisième scénario (scénario 3) suppose une  diminution de l’utilisation desproduits pétroliers dans  la production d’électricité tout en maintenant l’utilisation du bois grâce à l’augmentation de l’usage des énergies renouvelables.Dans cet article nous présentons une estimation de la consommation d’énergiefinale de 2017 à  2040  basée  sur  le  taux  de  progression  de  chaque  source d’énergie (bois-énergie,  produits pétroliers et électricité). Les trois scénarios envisagés permettent d’augmenter la production d’électricité  dans  le  bilan  énergétique. Dans  les scénarios  2et  3,  l’augmentation  de  la production de biomasse de type déchets et bioéthanol  permettrait de diminuer la consommation du bois et de charbon de bois comme  source d’énergie et aussi de réduire l’utilisation des produits pétroliers notamment dans la production d’électricité.Ainsi, le développement de ses sources d’énergie permettrait au Mali de mettre en valeur ses ressources énergétiques locales (résidus, biocarburants, déchets, solaire) et d’être de plus en plus indépendant vis-à-vis  des importations de produits pétroliers. Ce développement vertueux permettrait aussi de préserver l’environnement et plus particulièrement la végétation au Mali.
Nebular metallicities in two isolated Local Void dwarf galaxies
Creators: name: Nicholls, David C.
name: Jerjen, Helmut
name: Dopita, Michael A.
name: Basurah, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isolated dwarf galaxies, especially those situated in voids, may provide insight into primordial conditions in the Universe and the physical processes that govern star formation in undisturbed stellar systems. The metallicity of H ii regions in such galaxies is key to investigating this possibility. From the SIGRID sample of isolated dwarf galaxies, we have identified two exceptionally isolated objects, the Local Void galaxy [KK98]246 (ESO 461-G036) and another somewhat larger dwarf irregular on the edge of the Local Void, MCG-01-41-006 (HIPASS J1609- 04). We report our measurements of the nebular metallicities in these objects. The first object has a single low luminosity Hii region, while the second is in a more vigorous star forming phase with several bright H ii regions. We find that the metallicities in both galaxies are typical for galaxies of this size, and do not indicate the presence of any primordial gas, despite (for [KK98]246) the known surrounding large reservoir of neutral Hydrogen.
description: 37 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication is Astrophysical Jornal
Gravitational wave emission from binary supermassive black holes
Creators: name: Sesana, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are unavoidable outcomes of the hierarchical structure formation process, and according to the theory of general relativity are expected to be the loudest gravitational wave (GW) sources in the Universe. In this article I provide a broad overview of MBHBs as GW sources. After reviewing the basics of GW emission from binary systems and of MBHB formation, evolution and dynamics, I describe in some details the connection between binary properties and the emitted gravitational waveform. Direct GW observations will provide an unprecedented wealth of information about the physical nature and the astrophysical properties of these extreme objects, allowing to reconstruct their cosmic history, dynamics and coupling with their dense stellar and gas environment. In this context I describe ongoing and future efforts to make a direct detection with space based interferometry and pulsar timing arrays, highlighting the invaluable scientific payouts of such enterprises.
description: 26 pages, 9 figures, invited article for the focus issue on astrophysical black holes in Classical and Quantum Gravity, guest editors: D. Merritt and L. Rezzolla. Submitted
Global human obesity and global social index: Relationship and clustering
Creators: name: Munir, Mubbasher
name: Zakaria, Zahrahtul Amani
name: Nisar, Haseeb
name: Ahmed, Zahoor
name: Korma, Sameh A.
name: Esatbeyoglu, Tuba
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Frontiers Media
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: globesity
subject: global social index
subject: human development index
subject: clustering
subject: global happiness
subject: globalization
subject: sustainability
subject: political globalization
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::630 | Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin

description: Introduction: Obesity, a complex, multifactorial disease, is considered a global disease burden widely affecting the quality of life across different populations. Factors involved in obesity involve genetics, behavior and socioeconomic and environmental origins, each contributing to the risk of debilitating morbidity and mortality. However, the trends across the world vary due to various globalization parameters. Methods: This article tends to identify the global social indicators, compiled into a global index, and develop a correlation between the global social index created by using the human development index, social and political globalization, the global happiness index, and the quality of infrastructure, institutions, and individuals using the internet factors and its effect on global obesity. Results and Discussion: Our results identified a positive correlation between medium human development levels with obesity compared to low and very high human development levels. Economic stability due to rapid industrialization has increased the buying capacity and changed the global food system, which seems to be the major driver of the rise of global obesity. Conclusion: The results decipher that global social indicators and overall social index have positively affected global obesity, which will help policymakers and governmental organizations monitor the obesity patterns across their regions by a significant contribution from globally influenced social factors.
A Bounded Field: Situating Victorian Poetry in the Literary Landscape
Creators: name: Gray, Erik I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Poetry

description: The greatest development in the field of Victorian poetry studies over the past
fifteen years has been the renewal of interest in women poets, both those who were already familiar but not yet sufficiently acknowledged, like Christina Rossetti, and those who had been all but forgotten by twentieth-century readers. Among the latter perhaps the most intriguing “newcomer” is Michael Field, the pen-name and poetic persona used by Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper. Field had already begun to draw the attention of queer criticism in the 1980s,1 but her life and poetry were brought to the notice of most critics of Victorian poetry only with the publication in 1992 of Angela Leighton’s crucial study Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart.2 I wish to look briefly at the decade of criticism that has followed, which shows trends that are typical of the study both of Victorian women’s poetry and of Victorian poetry as a whole, in order to suggest what direction these studies may take in the future.
Chemical Profiling of Significant Antioxidant and Phytotoxic Microwave-Extracted Essential Oil from Araucaria heterophylla Resin
Creators: name: Abd-ElGawad, Ahmed M.
name: Saleh, Ibrahim
name: El-Razek, Mohamed H. Abd
name: Elkarim, Asmaa S. Abd
name: El-Amier, Yasser A.
name: Mohamed, Tarik A.
name: El Gendy, Abd El-Nasser G.
name: Afifi, Sherif M.
name: Esatbeyoglu, Tuba
name: Elshamy, Abdelsamed I.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Norfolk pine
subject: volatile compounds
subject: free radical scavenging
subject: terpenes
subject: allelopathy
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: Due to the various hazards of using synthetic chemical compounds in pharmaceutics, agriculture, and industry, scientists and researchers do their best to explore and assess new green natural compounds from natural resources with potent activity. The essential oil (EO) from the resin collected from Araucaria heterophylla Salisb. was extracted by the microwave technique and chemically characterized via GC-MS analysis. Furthermore, the extract EO was assessed for its antioxidant and phytotoxic activities. The EO has 33 compounds, mainly terpenes (98.23%), and the major compounds were α-pinene (62.57%), β-pinene (6.60%), germacrene D (5.88%), and β-caryophyllene (3.56%). The extracted EO showed substantial antioxidant activity, where it showed IC50 values of 142.42 and 118.03 mg L−1 for DPPH and ABTS, respectively. On the other hand, the EO revealed considerable phytotoxicity against the weed Chenopodium murale, where the EO showed IC50 values of 304.0, 230.1, and 147.1 mg L−1, for seed germination, seedling shoot growth, and seedling root growth, respectively. Moreover, the EO showed the same pattern of allelopathic inhibition against the weed Sonchus oleraceus, where it showed IC50 values of 295.7, 224.5, and 106.1 mg L−1, for seed germination, seedling shoot growth, and seedling root growth, respectively. The present study showed that the extraction technique affects the constituents of the EO, particularly the quantitative composition. The EO of A. heterophylla resin also revealed considerable antioxidant and phytotoxic activity against weeds. Therefore, it can be considered a promising natural resource that could be integrated into the weed management approach. However, further study is recommended for deep characterization of their authentic compounds and evaluation of their mode of action(s) on a wide spectrum of weeds.
Evolution in Schweizer Lehrplänen
Creators: name: Lanka, Judith
name: Hild, Pitt
name: Milani, Daniele
name: Letouzey-Pasquier, Justine
Publisher: name: Progress in Science Education (PriSE)
Year: 2022

description: Hintergrund: Laut aktuellen Schweizer Lehrplänen sollen Schüler*innen bereits in den ersten beiden Zyklen (Kin-dergarten bis Ende Primarstufe) evolutionsbezogene Konzepte wie bspw. Verwandtschaft und Abstammung, Veränderlichkeit der Lebewesen oder Adaptation im Unterricht aufbauen. Bestimmte Konzepte sollen dann nach einem spiralcurricularen Prinzip im Laufe des dritten Zyklus (Sekundarstufe) von den Lernenden erweitert werden und ein Verständnis des Erkenntnisprinzips Evolution ermöglichen. Es stellt sich die Frage, inwiefern sich die insgesamt drei Schweizer Lehrpläne in Bezug auf die zu unterrichtenden Konzepte im Bereich Evolution unterscheiden. Ziel: In diesem Beitrag wird diskutiert, welches Professionswissen, vor allem welches Fach- und fachdidaktische Wissen, Lehrpersonen der unterschiedlichen Zyklen der obligatorischen Schule zum Unterrichten von evolutionsbezogenen Konzepten brauchen und wie die Kompetenzformulierungen und Hinweise aus den drei Schweizer Lehrplänen sie beim Unterrichten einer evolutiven Grundbildung unterstützen. Rahmen: Die explorative Studie entstand im Rahmen des Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekts On-Evol. Um die inhaltliche Validität eines zur Messung des Professionswissens von Lehrpersonen im Bereich Evolution eingesetzten Onlinefragebogens zu gewährleisten, wurden Schweizer Lehrpläne auf alle evolutionsbezogenen Inhalte analysiert. Keywords: Evolution, Schweizer Lehrplan, evolutive Grundbildung, Professionswissen
description: Progress in Science Education (PriSE), Vol. 6 No. 1 (2023): Special Issue: Proceedings of the 12th DiNat Forum 2022
title: Le décrochage scolaire : l'école sur le banc des accusés ?
title: Le décrochage scolaire : l'école sur le banc des accusés ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Piguet, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Décrochage scolaire
subject: désengagement progressif
subject: multiplicité des parcours scolaires
subject: souffrance
subject: estime de soi
subject: respect

description: Le but principal de ce travail est d’étudier les différents facteurs scolaires pouvant mener au décrochage et de questionner le rôle de l’école comme agent de décrochage. Les facteurs socio-économiques ainsi qu’une déficience parentale sont souvent avancés pour expliciter le décrochage. Or l’école semble aussi jouer un rôle important dans cette problématique et n’est pourtant que très peu étudiée. Pour mener à bien ce travail, j’ai mené des entretiens avec trois jeunes de 18 à 28 ans, tous trois apprentis de deuxième année. A travers un entretien semi-directif, je leur ai demandé de me raconter leur parcours scolaire et me suis concentrée sur les points de rupture. L’analyse qualitative de ces parcours m’a permis d’identifier des éléments se référant tant au climat de classe, à la relation enseignant/élève qu’aux difficultés d’apprentissage. Tous les jeunes ont évoqué des moments de solitude et de souffrance dans leur parcours scolaire, liés à des changements d’école, des redoublements ou des séparations. Cette analyse m’a permis de mettre en lumière des similitudes entre les différents parcours et de mieux comprendre le processus du décrochage comme problématique longitudinale.
Transverse momentum fluctuations and Δη-Δϕcorrelations in p+p interactions at the CERN SPS energies
Creators: name: Czopowicz, Tobiasz
name: Maksiak, Bartosz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. These goals are to be achieved by performing a two dimensional phase diagram (T-μ_B) scan by measurements of hadron production properties in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy and system size. Close to the critical point an increase of fluctuations is predicted. In this contribution preliminary results on transverse momentum fluctuations and two-particle pseudorapidity/azimuthal angle correlations from the NA61/SHINE energy scan of p+p collisions will be presented. These new results will be compared with NA49 data on central Pb+Pb collisions and model predictions.
description: CPOD 2013 proceedings, 5 pages, 12 figures
Hanle rotation signatures in Sr I 4607 Å
Creators: name: Zeuner, Franziska
name: Belluzzi, Luca
name: Guerreiro, Nuno
name: Ramelli, Renzo
name: Bianda, Michele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sun
Polarimetry
Hanle effect
Photosphere

description: Measuring and interpreting small-scale magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere are crucial, yet challenging, tasks. Observations of scattering polarization and the Hanle effect in various spectral lines are increasingly used to complement traditional magnetic field determination techniques. One of the strongest scattering polarization signals in the photosphere is measured in the Sr I line at 4607.3 Å when observed close to the solar limb. Here, we present the first observational evidence of Hanle rotation in the linearly polarized spectrum of this line at several limb distances. To achieve highly precise and unprecedentedly accurate polarization measurements, we combined the fast modulating Zurich IMaging POLarimeter, ZIMPOL, at the IRSOL observatory in Locarno, Switzerland, with a slow modulator installed in front of the telescope. We detect singly peaked linear polarization signals deviating from the expected scattering direction at the limb well above the noise level, while instrumental origin can be excluded. We can also exclude the Zeeman effect as the mechanism responsible for their appearance, since the adjoining Fe I line is free of such signals. However, we find a clear spatial correlation between the circular polarization produced by the Zeeman effect and the linear polarization amplitudes. This suggests that the detected signals are the unambiguous signatures of Hanle rotation caused by a spatially resolved magnetic field.
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