cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enhancing LGBT + primary healthcare in Slovenia: A national qualitative study of experiences and expectations of LGBT + people and family doctors
Creators: name: Jerala, Nina
name: Petek, Davorina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Despite growing acceptance of LGBT + individuals, an underlying stigma persists even in healthcare, resulting in substandard care and worse healthcare outcomes for LGBT + individuals. To examine and compare the experiences and expectations regarding primary healthcare among LGBT + individuals and general practitioners (GPs) in Slovenia. We conducted an online national qualitative study using open-ended questions. To reach LGBT + population snowball method of recruitment was employed by sharing the questionnaire through LGBT + organisations, while GPs were invited by email of Association of family doctors in Slovenia. Anonymous data was collected from October to December 2021 and the questionnaires of 25 GPs and 90 LGBT + individuals of various ages, backgrounds, gender identities and sexual orientations were reviewed using thematic analysis. Both LGBT + participants and GPs expressed a desire for equal treatment. However, while all GPs claimed to treat all patients equally, LGBT + participants reported more varied experiences. Specific knowledge, especially on LGBT + terminology and healthcare, was perceived as lacking among GPs, leading LGBT + individuals to seek advice from specialists or community counselling. Systemic barriers, including societal stigmatisation and limited formal education on LGBT + issues, were identified, highlighting the need for designated safe spaces and improved GP training. Safety emerged as a central theme, crucial for fostering trust and disclosure between patients and healthcare providers. The study underscores the significance of a sense of safety in the patient-doctor relationship and highlights the need for improved training and attitudes to provide inclusive and affirming healthcare for LGBT + individuals. Primary care settings must prioritise creating safe and non-judgmental environments for better LGBT + healthcare. Addressing formal GP education on LGBT + terminology, identities, and healthcare needs is crucial to provide inclusive care. Overcoming systemic barriers, such as societal prejudice and homophobia, requires creating visible safe space signals in primary care settings.
Screening tools assessing mental illness in primary care: A systematic review
Creators: name: Neulinger, Bernadette
name: Ebert, Christopher
name: Lochbühler, Kirsten
name: Bergmann, Antje
name: Gensichen, Jochen
name: Lukaschek, Karoline
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: To better manage patients with a wide range of mental health problems, general practitioners would benefit from diagnostically accurate and time-efficient screening tools that comprehensively assess mental illness. Therefore, the aim of this systematic review was to identify screening tools that either take a multiple-mental disorder or a transdiagnostic approach. As primary and secondary outcomes, diagnostic accuracy and time efficiency were investigated. The data bases MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library, Psyndex and PsycINFO were searched. Studies reporting on multiple-mental disorder or transdiagnostic screening tools used in primary care with adult patients were included. Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value served as measures of diagnostic accuracy. Time efficiency was evaluated by the number of items of a screening tool and the time required for its completion and evaluation. Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria. The majority of screening tools assessed multiple mental disorders separately. A sub-group of screening tools took a transdiagnostic approach by examining the spectrum of mood, anxiety and stress-related disorders. One screening tool used internalised, cognitive/somatic and externalised dysfunction as transdiagnostic domains of mental illness. Mostly, a sufficient sensitivity and specificity was reported. All screening tools were found to be time efficient. The eleven identified screening tools can support general practitioners to identify patients with mental health problems. However, there was great heterogeneity concerning their diagnostic scope of psychopathology. Further screening tools for primary care are needed that target broad constructs of mental illness, such as transdiagnostic factors or personality dysfunction. Eleven screening tools assessing multiple mental health disorders or taking a transdiagnostic approach in primary care were identified. The tools were time efficient, and offer a satisfactory diagnostic accuracy. Future research should focus on screening tools that target transdiagnostic factors or maladaptive personality traits as informative constructs.
Time-odd mean fields in covariant density functional theory I. Non-rotating systems
Creators: name: Afanasjev, A. V.
name: Abusara, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-odd mean fields (nuclear magnetism) are analyzed in the framework of covariant density functional theory (CDFT). It is shown that they always provide additional binding to the binding energies of odd-mass nuclei. This additional binding only weakly depends on the RMF parametrization reflecting good localization of the properties of time-odd mean fields in CDFT. The underlying microscopic mechanism is discussed in detail. Time-odd mean fields affect odd-even mass differences. However, our analysis suggests that the modifications of the strength of pairing correlations required to compensate for their effects are modest. In contrast, time-odd mean fields have profound effect on the properties of odd-proton nuclei in the vicinity of proton-drip line. Their presence can modify the half-lives of proton-emitters (by many orders of magnitude in light nuclei) and affect considerably the possibilities of their experimental observation.
description: 20 pages, 19 figures
Fate of non-Fermi liquid behavior in QED$_{3}$ at finite chemical potential
Creators: name: Wang, Jing-Rong
name: Liu, Guo-Zhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The damping rate of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions exhibit non-Fermi liquid behavior, $\propto ε^{1/2}$, due to gauge field at zero temperature and zero chemical potential. We study the fate of this behavior at finite chemical potential. We fist calculate explicitly the temporal and spatial components of vacuum polarization functions. The analytical expressions imply that the temporal component of gauge field develops a static screening length at finite chemical potential while the transverse component remains long-ranged owing to gauge invariance. We then calculate the fermion damping rate and show that the temporal gauge field leads to normal Fermi liquid behavior but the transverse gauge field leads to non-Fermi liquid behavior $\propto ε^{2/3}$ at zero temperature. This energy-dependence is more regular than $\propto ε^{1/2}$ and does not change as chemical potential varies.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Primary healthcare professionals’ perceptions, attitudes and ideas regarding asthma management in Greece: A mixed-method study
Creators: name: Bouloukaki, Izolde
name: Spanias, Christos
name: Ierodiakonou, Despo
name: Tzanakis, Nikolaos
name: Williams, Siân
name: Tsiligianni, Ioanna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Implementing asthma guideline recommendations is challenging and there is variation between countries, and different healthcare professionals (HCPs). The International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) has introduced the Asthma Right Care (ARC) programme implemented in 24 low, middle, and high countries, including Greece. It offers a promising approach drawn from social movements for health to improve asthma care by engaging HCPs in implementing guideline-based asthma care. To explore HCPs’ perspectives on current provision of asthma care and their willingness to improve implementation of recommended guidelines using ARC programme tools in Greece. A mixed methods study conducted from September 2020 to April 2021. A convenience sample of 30 pharmacists, and 10 General Practitioners (GPs), responded to a questionnaire investigating perceptions, and attitudes, towards implementation of asthma guidelines. Then, a qualitative survey followed with semi-structured interviews to evaluate the feedback obtained from HCPs to assess the content, and applicability of the ARC tools. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. A range of practical challenges in implementing guideline-recommended interventions, improving asthma control and management were described by all HCPs, including lack of time and education, high workload, patients’ perceptions, and poor communication contributing to poor management and inadequate follow-up of people with asthma. However, most HCPs were willing to use ARC interventions to improve guideline implementation. HCPs in Greece encounter challenges in implementing asthma guidelines; however, they can overcome these challenges by using ARC interventions and engagement tools to address barriers and implement efficient asthma management strategies. There are data indicating unwarranted variation in asthma guideline implementation between healthcare professionals (HCPs) leading to avoidable harm. Understanding HCPs’ and patients’ perspectives of asthma control is essential to asthma management. HCPs can change their behaviour and improve clinical outcomes by utilising IPCRG Asthma Right Care interventions and engagement tools.
The volume operator in covariant quantum gravity
Creators: name: Ding, You
name: Rovelli, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A covariant spin-foam formulation of quantum gravity has been recently developed, characterized by a kinematics which appears to match well the one of canonical loop quantum gravity. In particular, the geometrical observable giving the area of a surface has been shown to be the same as the one in loop quantum gravity. Here we discuss the volume observable. We derive the volume operator in the covariant theory, and show that it matches the one of loop quantum gravity, as does the area. We also reconsider the implementation of the constraints that defines the model: we derive in a simple way the boundary Hilbert space of the theory from a suitable form of the classical constraints, and show directly that all constraints vanish weakly on this space.
description: 10 pages. Version 2: proof extended to gamma > 1.
How to measure redshift-space distortions without sample variance
Creators: name: McDonald, Patrick
name: Seljak, Uros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how to use multiple tracers of large-scale density with different biases to measure the redshift-space distortion parameter beta=f/b=(dlnD/dlna)/b (where D is the growth rate and a the expansion factor), to a much better precision than one could achieve with a single tracer, to an arbitrary precision in the low noise limit. In combination with the power spectrum of the tracers this allows a much more precise measurement of the bias-free velocity divergence power spectrum, f^2 P_m - in fact, in the low noise limit f^2 P_m can be measured as well as would be possible if velocity divergence was observed directly, with rms improvement factor ~[5.2(beta^2+2 beta+2)/beta^2]^0.5 (e.g., ~10 times better than a single tracer for beta=0.4). This would allow a high precision determination of f D as a function of redshift with an error as low as 0.1%. We find up to two orders of magnitude improvement in Figure of Merit for the Dark Energy equation of state relative to Stage II, a factor of several better than other proposed Stage IV Dark Energy surveys. The ratio b_2/b_1 will be determined with an even greater precision than beta, producing, when measured as a function of scale, an exquisitely sensitive probe of the onset of non-linear bias. We also extend in more detail previous work on the use of the same technique to measure non-Gaussianity. Currently planned redshift surveys are typically designed with signal to noise of unity on scales of interest, and are not optimized for this technique. Our results suggest that this strategy may need to be revisited as there are large gains to be achieved from surveys with higher number densities of galaxies.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures
Lepton flavor violation in type I + III seesaw
Creators: name: Kamenik, Jernej F.
name: Nemevsek, Miha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the presence of a low scale seesaw of type I + III, flavor violating effects in the leptonic sector are expected. Their presence in the charged sector is due to the mixing of the fermionic vector-like weak triplets with the chiral doublets, which cause non-universality of the tree-level Z coupling. We investigate the bounds on the Yukawa couplings which are responsible for the mixing and present the results for two minimal cases, a fermionic triplet with a singlet or two fermionic triplets. Different channels for these processes are considered and their current and future potential to probe these couplings is discussed.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures; corrected misprints, conclusions unchanged
How will changes in Title II of the 2018 Farm Bill affect CRP Acreage?
Creators: name: Cornish, Brian
name: Miao, Ruiqing
name: Khanna, Madhu
name: Cornish, Brian
name: Miao, Ruiqing
name: Khanna, Madhu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Resource/Energy Economics and Policy

description: Presentation18187
Electronic transport through bilayer graphene flakes
Creators: name: Gonzalez, J. W.
name: Santos, H.
name: Pacheco, M.
name: Chico, L.
name: Brey, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the electronic transport properties of a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons. Such a finite-size bilayer flake can be built by overlapping two semiinfinite ribbons or by depositing a monolayer flake onto an infinite nanoribbon. These two structures have a complementary behavior, that we study and analyze by means of a tight-binding method and a continuum Dirac model. We have found that for certain energy ranges and geometries, the conductance of these systems oscillates markedly between zero and the maximum value of the conductance, allowing for the design of electromechanical switches. Our understanding of the electronic transmission through bilayer flakes may provide a way to measure the interlayer hopping in bilayer graphene.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Bioenergetics of the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) and the kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka) populations of Marion Lake, British Columbia
Creators: name: Sandercock, Frederick Keith
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The annual energy budget was determined for the rainbow trout and kokanee populations of a small (13.3 ha) British Columbia lake. Population size of the rainbow trout aged 1⁺ and older was 4000 based on a 55 catch-day Schnabel estimate. Number of kokanee present in the lake (9000) was based on the ratio of occurrence of kokanee to rainbow trout (2.25:1) in catch. Monthly instantaneous growth and mortality rates were applied to each age group. Seasonal change in gonad weight as a percentage of body weight was similar in both species (ovaries 0.5%-13%, testes 0.5%-4%). Sex ratios were generally even in kokanee but there was a higher percentage of females (57.7%) in the rainbow trout. The relationship between egg number per female (F) and fork length (L) was calculated (rainbow trout, F = 18.7 L•⁹⁵⁹; kokanee, , F = 2.84 L¹•⁴¹⁴). The percent volume of each major food item was determined by stomach analysis. In only one month (May) was the food item of highest % volume the same in both species. Seasonal change in energy content of the food was estimated. Calculation of daily ration (as a percentage of body weight) was based on turnover rates (y) of food consumed at different temperatures (y = .545 e•º⁹¹x, where x is in °C). Feeding experiments using natural foods indicated assimilation efficiencies of 85.5%. Continuous (20 hr) measurement of routine metabolism of individual fish was made with a respirometer situated in Marion Lake, between, August 1967 and October 1968. Rate of oxygen uptake (Q) in ml/hr, at 15 °C was plotted against weight (W) in kg (Q = 62.6 W•⁷⁶). To determine the amount of energy trapped within the two populations, sample fish were dried (gonads separately) and burned in a calorimeter. The percent moisture of the fish was 74-78% during the year with marked increases at spawning time (rainbow 82%, kokanee 88%). The seasonal changes in energy content of immature fish were small (rainbow trout 6050-6200 cal/ash-free g; kokanee 6150-6300 cal/ash-free g). However mature fish underwent sharp reductions in energy content prior to spawning (rainbow trout 6100 to 5500 cal/ash-free g; kokanee 6100 to 5^00 cal/ash-free g). The pattern of seasonal change in energy content of the gonads was similar to that of the body. Average biomass present in the lake was 1.53 x 10⁴ Kcal/ha (12.3 kg/ha) for the rainbow trout, and 2.23 x 10⁴ Kcal/ha (16.6 kg/ha) for the kokanee. Annual production for the two populations was 2.81 x 10⁴ Kcal/ha. The ratio of production to biomass for rainbow trout was 0.80, and for kokanee was 0.71.
Normal geodesics connecting two non-necessarily spacelike submanifolds in a stationary spacetime
Creators: name: Bartolo, Rossella
name: Candela, Anna Maria
name: Caponio, Erasmo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C50, 53C22, 58E10, 53C60

description: In this paper we obtain an existence theorem for normal geodesics joining two given submanifolds in a globally hyperbolic stationary spacetime. The proof is based on both variational and geometric arguments involving the causal structure of the spacetime, the completeness of suitable Finsler metrics associated to it and some basic properties of a submersion. By this interaction, unlike previous results on the topic, also non--spacelike submanifolds can be handled.
description: Minor revision; 16 pages
Does Importance Determine Beliefs in Organic Food Attributes?
Creators: name: Britwum, Kofi
name: Bernard, John C.
name: Albrecht, Sara
name: Britwum, Kofi
name: Bernard, John C.
name: Albrecht, Sara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/Statistical Methods
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: Presentation18195
Optimal co-adapted coupling for a random walk on the hyper-complete-graph
Creators: name: Connor, Stephen B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93E20, 60J27

description: The problem of constructing an optimal co-adapted coupling for a pair of symmetric random walks on $Z_2^d$ was considered by Connor and Jacka (2008), and the existence of a coupling which is stochastically fastest in the class of all such co-adapted couplings was demonstrated. In this paper we show how to generalise this construction to an optimal co-adapted coupling for the continuous-time symmetric random walk on $K_n^d$, where $K_n$ is the complete graph with $n$ vertices. Moreover, we show that although this coupling is not maximal for any $n$ (i.e. it does not achieve equality in the coupling inequality), it does tend to a maximal coupling as $n\to\infty$.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure
Facing Fungicide Resistance in Grape Production: A Game Theoretic Approach
Creators: name: Pardini, Chelsea A.
name: Espinola-Arredondo, Ana
name: Pardini, Chelsea A.
name: Espinola-Arredondo, Ana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Resource/Energy Economics and Policy
Agricultural and Food Policy
Production Economics

description: Presentation18200
Chiral fermions and torsion in the early Universe
Creators: name: Dolan, Brian P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Torsion arising from fermionic matter in the Einstein-Cartan formulation of general relativity is considered in the context of Robertson-Walker geometries and the early Universe. An ambiguity in the way torsion arising from hot fermionic matter in chiral models should be implemented is highlighted and discussed. In one interpretation, chemical potentials in chiral models can contribute to the Friedmann equation and give a negative contribution to the energy density.
description: 5 pages revtex4; error in v1 corrected.
How Does the Spillover Effect Affect Companies Food Safety Risk Management? New Orientation of Food Safety Management
Creators: name: Xue, Yang-Chen
name: Geng, Xian-Hui
name: Kiprop, Emmanuel
name: Hong, Miao
name: Xue, Yang-Chen
name: Geng, Xian-Hui
name: Kiprop, Emmanuel
name: Hong, Miao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Risk and Uncertainty
Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: Presentation18205
Overcoming quality uncertainty of hybrid maize seeds: An individually-randomized trial of labeling information in Chiapas, Mexico
Creators: name: Guevara Alvarez, Gloria
name: Guevara Alvarez, Gloria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/Statistical Methods
subject: International Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Presentation18216
Closing the gap in the solutions of the strong explosion problem: An expansion of the family of second-type self-similar solutions
Creators: name: Kushnir, Doron
name: Waxman, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shock waves driven by the release of energy at the center of a cold ideal gas sphere of initial density rho\propto r^{-omega} approach a self-similar (SLS) behavior, with velocity \dot{R}\propto R^delta, as R->\infty. For omega>3 the solutions are of the second-type, i.e., delta is determined by the requirement that the flow should include a sonic point. No solution satisfying this requirement exists, however, in the 3\leq omega\leq omega_{g}(gamma) ``gap'' (ω_{g}=3.26 for adiabatic index gamma=5/3). We argue that second-type solutions should not be required in general to include a sonic point. Rather, it is sufficient to require the existence of a characteristic line r_c(t), such that the energy in the region r_c(t)\infty, and an asymptotic solution given by the SLS solution at r_c(t)omega_g and the latter identifies delta=0 solutions as the asymptotic solutions for 3\leq omega\leq omega_{g} (as suggested by Gruzinov03). In these solutions, r_c is a C_0 characteristic. It is difficult to check, using numerical solutions of the hydrodynamic equations, whether the flow indeed approaches a delta=0 SLS behavior as R->\infty, due to the slow convergence to SLS for omega~3. We show that in this case the flow may be described by a modified SLS solution, d\ln\dot{R}/d\ln R=delta with slowly varying delta(R), eta\equiv d delta/d\ln R<<1, and spatial profiles given by a sum of the SLS solution corresponding to the instantaneous value of delta and a SLS correction linear in eta. The modified SLS solutions provide an excellent approximation to numerical solutions obtained for omega~3 at large R, with delta->0 (and eta\neq0) for 3\leq omega\leq omega_{g}. (abridged)
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, somewhat revised, version accepted to ApJ
Additional file 1 of Prognostic landscape of mitochondrial genome in myelodysplastic syndrome after stem-cell transplantation
Creators: name: Dong, Jing
name: Buradagunta, Christopher Staffi
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Spellman, Stephen
name: Bolon, Yung-Tsi
name: DeZern, Amy E.
name: Gadalla, Shahinaz M.
name: Deeg, H. Joachim
name: Nazha, Aziz
name: Cutler, Corey
name: Cheng, Chao
name: Urrutia, Raul
name: Auer, Paul
name: Saber, Wael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Figures.
title: Influence of polypropylene-fiber on the mechanical properties of self-compacting-concrete with recycled aggregates
Creators: name: Hashemi, Seyed Amir Hossein
name: Kalbasi Anaraki, Keyvan
name: Hashemi, Elahesadat
name: Hajmohammadian Baghban, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Magazine of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020
Subjects: self-compacting concrete
compressive strength
flexural strength
impact resistance
recycled aggregates
polypropylene fiber

description: In this study, the properties of self-compacting concrete (SCC) produced with different percentages of recycled aggregates (RAs) and polypropylene fibers is investigated in comparison with natural aggregates. The effect of using different percentages of 0 %, 25 %, 50 %, 75 % and 100 % RAs instead of natural aggregates (NAs) and polypropylene fibers of 0.1 %, 0.2 % and 0.3 % by volume of concrete in a fresh and hard state, consisting of a total 20 mixture composition, was investigated in SCC. SCC tests in the fresh state, including Slump Flow, J Ring, V Funnel, and L Box and hard concrete tests include compressive, tensile, and flexural and impact tests performed at the age of 28 days. Increasing the use of RAs does not significantly reduce the SCC tests in the fresh state while increasing the fibers causes a significant decrease in tests. In hardened concrete tests, with the increasing use of RAs of concrete, decreasing in compressive strength, tensile strength, flexural strength, and impact resistance were observed. While increasing the percentage of polypropylene fibers in recycled concrete, there was an increase in impact resistance and tensile strength and more energy absorption in the flexural test.
description: In this study, the properties of self-compacting concrete (SCC) produced with different percentages of recycled aggregates (RAs) and polypropylene fibers is investigated in comparison with natural aggregates. The effect of using different percentages of 0 %, 25 %, 50 %, 75 % and 100 % RAs instead of natural aggregates (NAs) and polypropylene fibers of 0.1 %, 0.2 % and 0.3 % by volume of concrete in a fresh and hard state, consisting of a total 20 mixture composition, was investigated in SCC. SCC tests in the fresh state, including Slump Flow, J Ring, V Funnel, and L Box and hard concrete tests include compressive, tensile, and flexural and impact tests performed at the age of 28 days. Increasing the use of RAs does not significantly reduce the SCC tests in the fresh state while increasing the fibers causes a significant decrease in tests. In hardened concrete tests, with the increasing use of RAs of concrete, decreasing in compressive strength, tensile strength, flexural strength, and impact resistance were observed. While increasing the percentage of polypropylene fibers in recycled concrete, there was an increase in impact resistance and tensile strength and more energy absorption in the flexural test.
Additional file 6 of The clinical impact of IKZF1 mutation in acute myeloid leukemia
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiang
name: Huang, Aijie
name: Liu, Lixia
name: Qin, Jiayue
name: Wang, Chengcheng
name: Yang, Min
name: Lou, Yinjun
name: Wang, Lei
name: Ni, Xiong
name: Hu, Xiaoxia
name: Tang, Gusheng
name: Zhang, Mengmeng
name: Cao, Shanbo
name: Mao, Liping
name: Qian, Jiejin
name: Xu, Weilai
name: Wei, Juying
name: Xu, Gaixiang
name: Meng, Haitao
name: Mai, Wenyuan
name: Yang, Chunmei
name: Zhu, Honghu
name: Tong, Hongyan
name: Yang, Jianmin
name: Yu, Wenjuan
name: Wang, Jianmin
name: Jin, Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 6: Table S3. Univariate and multivariate analysis for overall survival duration.
Monotonicity and logarithmic convexity relating to the volume of the unit ball
Creators: name: Qi, Feng
name: Guo, Bai-Ni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33B15, 26D07

description: Let $Ω_n$ stand for the volume of the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n\in\mathbb{N}$. In the present paper, we prove that the sequence $Ω_{n}^{1/(n\ln n)}$ is logarithmically convex and that the sequence $\frac{Ω_{n}^{1/(n\ln n)}}{Ω_{n+1}^{1/[(n+1)\ln(n+1)]}}$ is strictly decreasing for $n\ge2$. In addition, some monotonic and concave properties of several functions relating to $Ω_{n}$ are extended and generalized.
description: 12 pages
The Evolution of Subject Approaches to Innovation Measurement, and Implications for New Innovation Indicators
Creators: name: O'Brien, Kieran
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023
Subjects: Innovation management

description: This thesis addresses a need for further evaluation of existing and new innovation survey indicators, which now provide an important evidence base informing better policy approaches. The research focus is on indicators produced from large scale, economy-wide innovation surveys, which collect firm-level data, and move beyond traditional R&D, patent, and bibliometric approaches by providing a direct, „subject‟ approach to measurement. Such surveys are conducted in approximately 80 countries, producing numerous indicators, though many portray counterintuitive results, and are subject to various shortcomings. Consequently, this study seeks to explore how new indicators can improve understanding of innovation. Three indicator categories are assessed, using microdata from two iterations of a large regional innovation survey, the Tasmanian Innovation Census (TIC). Results examine three degrees of innovation novelty, and show that R&D activity and intensity provide good measures of innovation capability. Complex „mode‟ indicators reveal the distribution of innovation characteristics at a „system‟ level, across sectors, and for firms of different sizes, with linear, chain-link and systems theories all underpinning selected indicators. Using panel data, „output‟ mode indicators reveal specific movement of both innovative and non-innovative firms between four innovation modes, providing a dynamic understanding of capability development and erosion over time, and suggesting that innovation capability for the most part develops cumulatively. Innovation based on diffusion is shown as most common in services. Composite indicator results provide a simple, visual picture of sectoral innovation performance, demonstrating usefulness beyond the typical macro-level of analysis. Results and discussion expose issues around theory, policy and practice with implications for related future research, including a need for further work to standardise different indicators for degrees of novelty and capability, and for research to understand the links between innovation modes and economic outcomes.
The dependence structure between yields and prices: A copula-based model of French farm income
Creators: name: Bousebata, Meryem
name: Enjolras, Geoffroy
name: Girard, Stéphane
name: Bousebata, Meryem
name: Enjolras, Geoffroy
name: Girard, Stéphane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty
Research Methods/Statistical Methods
Agricultural Finance

description: Presentation18229
On Volume and Surface Area of Parallel Sets
Creators: name: Rataj, Jan
name: Winter, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A75, 52A20, 60D05

description: The r-parallel set to a set A in a Euclidean space consists of all points with distance at most r from A. We clarify the relation between the volume and the surface area of parallel sets and study the asymptotic behaviour of both quantities as r tends to 0. We show, for instance, that in general, the existence of a (suitably rescaled) limit of the surface area implies the existence of the corresponding limit for the volume, known as the Minkowski content. A full characterisation is obtained for the case of self-similar fractal sets. Applications to stationary random sets are discussed as well, in particular, to the trajectory of the Brownian motion.
description: 19 pages
Moving to Opportunity: The Effects of the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Relocation Program in China
Creators: name: Zhang, Li
name: Xie, Lunyu
name: Zheng, Xinye
name: Zhang, Li
name: Xie, Lunyu
name: Zheng, Xinye
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Presentation18255
Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for High Zinc and Low Milled Rice in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Herrington, Caitlin L.
name: Taleon, Victor
name: Sarkar, Abdur Rouf
name: Rahaman, Shajedur
name: Birol, Ekin
name: Maredia, Mywish K.
name: Ortega, David L.
name: Herrington, Caitlin L.
name: Taleon, Victor
name: Sarkar, Abdur Rouf
name: Rahaman, Shajedur
name: Birol, Ekin
name: Maredia, Mywish K.
name: Ortega, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Methods/Statistical Methods
International Development
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Presentation18264
Pricing Open Bagged Rice in Nigeria: A Hedonic price model approach
Creators: name: Peterson-Wilhelm, Bailey
name: Nalley, Lawton L.
name: Durand-Morat, Alvaro
name: Peterson-Wilhelm, Bailey
name: Nalley, Lawton L.
name: Durand-Morat, Alvaro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: Presentation18278
Perfect transmission and highly asymmetric light localization in photonic multilayers
Creators: name: Zhukovsky, Sergei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: General principles for the existence of perfect transmission resonances in photonic multilayer structures are formulated in terms of light interference described by recurrent Airy formulas. Mirror symmetry in the multilayer is shown to be a sufficient but not necessary condition for perfect transmission resonances. Asymmetric structures displaying perfect transmission in accordance with the proposed principles are demonstrated. A hybrid Fabry-Perot/photonic-crystal structure of the type (BA)^k(AB)^k(AABB)^m is proposed, combining perfect transmission and highly asymmetric electric field localization. Strength and asymmetry of localization can be controlled independently, to be of use in tailoring non-reciprocal behavior of nonlinear all-optical diodes.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, to appear in PRA
How Scale and Scope of Ecosystem Markets Impact Permit Trading: Evidence from Partial Equilibrium Modeling in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Creators: name: Loduca, Natalie R
name: Haqiqi, Iman
name: Liu, Jing
name: Reeling, Carson
name: Loduca, Natalie R
name: Haqiqi, Iman
name: Liu, Jing
name: Reeling, Carson
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Resource/Energy Economics and Policy

description: Presentation18279
Comparison of numerical and analytical approximations of the early exercise boundary of the American put option
Creators: name: Lauko, Martin
name: Sevcovic, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper we present qualitative and quantitative comparison of various analytical and numerical approximation methods for calculating a position of the early exercise boundary of the American put option paying zero dividends. First we analyze their asymptotic behavior close to expiration. In the second part of the paper, we introduce a new numerical scheme for computing the entire early exercise boundary. The local iterative numerical scheme is based on a solution to a nonlinear integral equation. We compare numerical results obtained by the new method to those of the projected successive over relaxation method and the analytical approximation formula recently derived by Zhu.
Determinants of the consumption expenditure of cereals and its products in Malawi
Creators: name: Familusi, Linda C.
name: Oranu, Chizoba Obianuju
name: Familusi, Linda C.
name: Oranu, Chizoba Obianuju
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Labor and Human Capital
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Presentation18288
Modeling Spatial Price Linkages Using a Regime‐Switching Copula Model
Creators: name: Meng, Shu
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Meng, Shu
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/Statistical Methods

description: Presentation18289
Return probabilities and hitting times of random walks on sparse Erdos-Renyi graphs
Creators: name: Martin, O. C.
name: Sulc, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider random walks on random graphs, focusing on return probabilities and hitting times for sparse Erdos-Renyi graphs. Using the tree approach which is expected to be exact in the large graph limit, we show how to solve for the distribution of these quantities and we find that these distributions exhibit a form of self-similarity.
description: changes in text, new figures
Basis Risk Associated with the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance Program: Evidence from California
Creators: name: Keeler, James B.
name: Saitone, Tina L.
name: Keeler, James B.
name: Saitone, Tina L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty
Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: Presentation18290
Nonequilibrium magnetic and superconducting phases in the two-dimensional Hubbard model coupled to electrodes
Creators: name: Oka, Takashi
name: Aoki, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theory is presented for a nonequilibrium phase transition in the two-dimensional Hubbard model coupled to electrodes. Nonequilibrium magnetic and superconducting phase diagram is determined by the Keldysh method, where the electron correlation is treated in the fluctuation exchange approximation. The nonequilibrium distribution function in the presence of electron correlation is evoked to capture a general feature in the phase diagram.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
A Giambelli formula for classical $G/P$ spaces
Creators: name: Tamvakis, Harry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M15, 05E15, 14M17, 14N15, 05E05

description: Let $G$ be a classical complex Lie group, $P$ any parabolic subgroup of $G$, and $G/P$ the corresponding partial flag variety. We prove an explicit combinatorial Giambelli formula which expresses an arbitrary Schubert class in the cohomology ring of $G/P$ as a polynomial in certain special Schubert class generators. Our formula extends to one that applies to the torus-equivariant cohomology ring of $G/P$ and to the setting of symplectic and orthogonal degeneracy loci.
description: 26 pages; new title. This final version corrects two minor errors, on pages 10 and 22, which appear in the journal reference
Assessing an on-farm storage intervention for maize farmers in Kenya
Creators: name: Ness-Edelstein, Betsy
name: Price, Cristofer
name: Geyer, Judy
name: Narayan, Tulika
name: Ness-Edelstein, Betsy
name: Price, Cristofer
name: Geyer, Judy
name: Narayan, Tulika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: International Development
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Agricultural Finance

description: Presentation18295
Metal-insulator transition in graphene induced by circularly polarized photons
Creators: name: Kibis, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exact stationary solutions of the electron-photon Dirac equation are obtained to describe the strong interaction between massless Dirac fermions in graphene and circularly polarized photons. It follows from them that this interaction forms bound electron-photon states which should be considered as a kind of charged quasiparticles. The energy spectrum of the quasiparticles is of dielectric type and characterized by an energy gap between the valence and conductivity bands. Therefore the electron-photon interaction results in metal-insulator transition in graphene. The stationary energy gap, induced by photons, and concomitant effects can be observed for graphene exposed to a laser-generated circularly polarized electromagnetic wave.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure; published version
Sustainable Pest Management Under Uncertainty: A Dynamic Bioeconomic Analysis of Lowbush Blueberry Production
Creators: name: Yeh, D. Adeline
name: Gomez, Miguel I.
name: Lin Lawell, C.-Y. Cynthia
name: Yeh, D. Adeline
name: Gomez, Miguel I.
name: Lin Lawell, C.-Y. Cynthia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Production Economics
Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Presentation18300
Additional file 3 of Prognostic landscape of mitochondrial genome in myelodysplastic syndrome after stem-cell transplantation
Creators: name: Dong, Jing
name: Buradagunta, Christopher Staffi
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Spellman, Stephen
name: Bolon, Yung-Tsi
name: DeZern, Amy E.
name: Gadalla, Shahinaz M.
name: Deeg, H. Joachim
name: Nazha, Aziz
name: Cutler, Corey
name: Cheng, Chao
name: Urrutia, Raul
name: Auer, Paul
name: Saber, Wael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 3. Supplementary Methods.
The plane mixing region between parallel streams
Creators: name: Pui, Nam Kiong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: An experimental study of a mixing layer between two uniform parallel streams is undertaken for three velocity ratios: 0.81, 0.75 and 0.65. It is found that the mixing layer grows linearly with streamwise distance in each case, as anticipated. Except in the very intermittent region, the mean velocity profiles agree with Görtler's theoretical prediction based on the assumption that the eddy viscosity is constant across the flow. The measurement of turbulent intensities and shear stress provide evidence that the flow becomes self preserving. The non-dimensional longitudinal intensity is symmetrical about the average velocity point, and is independent of the velocity ratio; although other non-dimensional Reynolds stress distributions are roughly independent of velocity ratio, they are not symmetrical. The shear stress calculated from the two dimensional mean equation of motion agrees well with measured values.
Large-N phase transitions in the spectrum of products of complex matrices
Creators: name: Lohmayer, Robert
name: Neuberger, Herbert
name: Wettig, Tilo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the simplest multiplicative random complex matrix model generalizes the large-N phase structure found in the unitary case: A perturbative regime is joined to a nonperturbative regime at a point of nonanalyticity.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, The XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14-19 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Consumer Willingness to pay for Organic and Animal Welfare Product Attributes: Do Experimental Results Align with Market Data?
Creators: name: Lai, Yufeng
name: Yue, Chengyan
name: Lai, Yufeng
name: Yue, Chengyan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Agribusiness
Demand and Price Analysis
Research Methods/Statistical Methods

description: Presentation18309
Discrete automorphism groups of convex cones of finite type
Creators: name: Looijenga, Eduard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C07, 20H05

description: We investigate subgroups of SL (n,Z) which preserve an open nondegenerate convex cone in real n-space and admit in that cone as fundamental domain a polyhedral cone of which some faces are allowed to lie on the boundary. Examples are arithmetic groups acting on selfdual cones, Weyl groups of certain Kac-Moody algebras and do occur in algebraic geometry as the automorphism groups of projective manifolds acting on their ample cones.
description: 30 pages, to appear in Compositio Math
Payment versus Charitable Donations to Attract Producer Survey Participation
Creators: name: Penn, Jerrod
name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Alfaro-Inocente, Adriana
name: Bastola, Sapana
name: Penn, Jerrod
name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Alfaro-Inocente, Adriana
name: Bastola, Sapana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Agricultural and Food Policy
Production Economics

description: Presentation18311
Two interacting atoms in a cavity: exact solutions, entanglement and decoherence
Creators: name: Torres, J. M.
name: Sadurní, E.
name: Seligman, T. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the problem of two interacting atoms of different species inside a cavity and find the explicit solutions of the corresponding eigenvalues and eigenfunctions using a new invariant. This model encompasses various commonly used models. By way of example we obtain closed expressions for concurrence and purity as a function of time for the case where the cavity is prepared in a number state. We discuss the behaviour of these quantities and and their relative behaviour in the concurrence-purity plane.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures