Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Biomolecule-Based Optical Metamaterials: Design and Applications

Metamaterials are broadly defined as artificial, electromagnetically homogeneous structures that exhibit unusual physical properties that are not present in nature. They possess extraordinary capabilities to bend electromagnetic waves. Their size, shape and composition can be engineered to modify their characteristics, such as iridescence, color shift, absorbance at different wavelengths, etc., and harness them as biosensors. Metamaterial construction from biological sources such as carbohydrates, proteins and nucleic acids represents a low-cost alternative, rendering high quantities and yields. In addition, the malleability of these biomaterials makes it possible to fabricate an endless number of structured materials such as composited nanoparticles, biofilms, nanofibers, quantum dots, and many others, with very specific, invaluable and tremendously useful optical characteristics. The intrinsic characteristics observed in biomaterials make them suitable for biomedical applications. This review addresses the optical characteristics of metamaterials obtained from the major macromolecules found in nature: carbohydrates, proteins and DNA, highlighting their biosensor field use, and pointing out their physical properties and production paths.
Heine-Stieltjes correspondence and the polynomial approach to the standard pairing problem

A new approach for solving the Bethe ansatz (Gaudin-Richardson) equations of the standard pairing problem is established based on the Heine-Stieltjes correspondence. For k pairs of valence nucleons on n different single-particle levels, it is found that solutions of the Bethe ansatz equations can be obtained from one (k + 1) ×(k + 1) and one (n 1)×(k + 1) matrices, which are associated with the extended Heine-Stieltjes and Van Vleck polynomials, respectively. Since the coefficients in these polynomials are free from divergence with variations in contrast to the original Bethe ansatz equations, the approach thus provides with a new efficient andsystematic way to solve the problem, which, by extension, can also be used to solve a large class of Gaudin-type quantum many-body problems and to establish a new efficient angular momentum projection method for multi-particle systems.
Anti-ischemic effect of Tamarindus indica L. seed extract against myocardial hypoxic injury

Background: Ischemic heart disease is a leading cause of death in patients with cardiovascular disease. Natural products containing high antioxidant activity have been used as an alternative therapy to improve the living conditions of patients. In this study, we examine the protective effect of tamarind seed (TS) on myocardial hypoxic injury. Methods: The hypoxia model was mimicked by mineral oil overlayed on H9c2 cardiomyoblasts for 4 h. TS extract was pretreated and administered during the hypoxic condition. Radical scavenging activity of TS extract was measured and exhibited very potent antioxidant activities on 2,2-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2,2′-Azino-bis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid (ABTS) assays. Results: TS extract at a concentration of 10 µg/ml significantly reversed the effect of hypoxia-induced cell death and intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. We also observed hypoxia-induced over-expression of both inflammatory cytokine mRNA and activation of cellular apoptosis. Pretreatment of TS extract significantly reduced hypoxia-induced HIF-1α and pro-inflammatory cytokine production, IL-1β and IL-6. The Western blot analysis for apoptotic regulatory molecules, caspase 3, caspase 8 and Bax proteins, also showed hypoxic injury reversal by TS extract treatment. Conclusions: The results suggest that the anti-ischemic effect of TS extract protects against hypoxia-induced injury and has potential to be an effective alternative therapy for ischemic heart disease and oxidative-damage related disease.
A lattice model for resonance in open periodic waveguides

We present a discrete model of resonant scattering of waves by an open periodic waveguide. The model elucidates a phenomenon common in electromagnetics, in which the interaction of plane waves with embedded guided modes of the waveguide causes sharp transmission anomalies and field amplification. The ambient space is modeled by a planar lattice and the waveguide by a linear periodic lattice coupled to the planar one along a line. We show the existence of standing and traveling guided modes and analyze a tangent bifurcation, in which resonance is initiated at a critical coupling strength where a guided mode appears, beginning with a single standing wave and splitting into a pair of waves traveling in opposing directions. Complex perturbation analysis of the scattering problem in the complex frequency and wavenumber domain reveals the complex structure of the transmission coefficient at resonance.
Positive Predictive Factors for Urogenital Injuries in Severely Injured Patients with Pelvic and Spinal Fractures: Introducing the UPPS Scoring System

Background and Objectives: Although urogenital injuries are common in severely injured patients, their diagnosis is often delayed. Predicting genitourinary injuries (GUI), especially in the immediate stages post injury, remains a challenge. This study aims to evaluate and determine positive predictive factors for the presence of GUI in polytrauma patients. Subsequently, these factors shall be used to develop an easy-to-use scoring system, deployable directly in the emergency setting. Materials and Methods: This study evaluates all severely injured patients with an Injury Severity Score (ISS) ≥ 16 admitted to the emergency departments of two German university hospitals between 2016 and 2020. These patients were retrospectively scanned for injuries of the thoracic and/or lumbar spine and/or the pelvic girdle. Demographic data was analyzed alongside trauma mechanism, type of injuries, mortality, length of hospital stays, surgeries, laboratory results, and urological treatment. Subgroup analysis was performed to compare patients with and without GUIs using t-tests. Conducting a binary logistic regression model, the significant factors were combined to create a scoring system, which was further analyzed for accuracy. Results: In total, 413 patients with an average ISS of 33.8 ± 15.0 were identified, and 47 patients (11.4%) sustained urogenital injuries with an average Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score of 2.3 ± 1.1 (range: 1–5). The severity of the pelvic girdle injury correlated with the presence of urogenital injuries (p = 0.002), while there was no correlation with spinal injuries. Moreover, most GUIs resulted from motorcycle accidents (p < 0.001) and 87.2% of these patients were male. Patients with GUI were significantly more likely to show macrohematuria (p < 0.001) on admission and were more severely injured overall (ISS > 34). There was no significant difference in the length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay, the days until discharge, or death rates. Conclusions: Factors or circumstances which reliably predict the presence of GUI were found to include the male sex, a motorcycle accident, high severity of pelvic girdle fractures, macrohematuria on admission to the emergency department, and an ISS > 34. With these findings, we introduce the ‘Urotrauma in Polytrauma patients with Pelvic and/or Spinal injuries’ (UPPS) score for easier prediction of GUI in the emergency setting.
Marine surf to freshwater: a molecular phylogeny of Donacidae (Bivalvia: Heterodonta)

ABSTRACT Donacidae is a commercially important family of heterodont bivalves and one of the few bivalve lineages that has successfully colonised brackish and fresh waters. However, to date, no phylogenetic hypothesis exists for this widely distributed group. Here we turn to molecular data from the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes and combine these with the extensive fossil record of donacids to propose an evolutionary hypothesis for the family. Our analyses strongly support the monophyly of Donacidae, including Galatea, Iphigenia and ‘Plebidonax’ deltoides, but render Donax paraphyletic. The subgenus Latona is therefore elevated to genus to accommodate a clade of Indo-Pacific species, while retaining Donax for a clade of mostly Atlantic and American Pacific species, and a few Indo-Pacific species. This latter clade is sister group to Galatea + Iphigenia. The diversification of Donacidae seems to be tightly connected to the opening of the North and South Atlantic Oceans in the Cretaceous, and to the closing of the Tethys Ocean during the Oligocene. Taxonomic actions: Latona columbella (Lamarck, 1818) comb. nov., L. deltoides (Lamarck, 1818) comb. nov., L. dysoni (Reeve, 1854) comb. nov., L. madagascariensis (W. Wood, 1828) comb. nov., L. semisulcata semigranosa (Dunker, 1877) comb. nov., L. spinosa (Gmelin, 1791) comb. nov., L. sordida (Hanley, 1845) comb. nov., L. siliqua (Römer, 1870) comb. nov., L. trifasciata (Linnaeus, 1758) comb. nov. and L. victoris (Fischer-Piette, 1942) comb. nov.
A topological characterization for non-wandering surface flows

Let $v$ be a continuous flow with arbitrary singularities on a compact surface. Then we show that if $v$ is non-wandering then $v$ is topologically equivalent to a $C^{\infty}$ flow such that there are no exceptional orbits and $\mathrm{P} \sqcup \mathop{\mathrm{Sing}}(v) = \{ x \in M \mid \omega(x) \cup \alpha(x) \subseteq \mathop{\mathrm{Sing}}(v) \}$, where $\mathrm{P}$ is the union of non-closed proper orbits and $\sqcup$ is the disjoint union symbol. Moreover, $v$ is non-wandering if and only if $\overline{\mathrm{LD}\sqcup \mathop{\mathrm{Per}}(v)} \supseteq M - \mathop{\mathrm{Sing}}(v)$, where $\mathrm{LD}$ is the union of locally dense orbits and $\overline{A}$ is the closure of a subset $A \subseteq M$. On the other hand, $v$ is topologically transitive if and only if $v$ is non-wandering such that $ \mathop{\mathrm{int}}(\mathop{\mathrm{Per}}(v) \sqcup \mathop{\mathrm{Sing}}(v)) = \emptyset$ and $M - (\mathrm{P} \sqcup \mathop{\mathrm{Sing}}(v))$ is connected, where $\mathrm{int} {A}$ is the interior of a subset $A \subseteq M$. In addition, we construct a smooth flow on $\mathbb{T}^2$ with $\overline{\mathrm{P}} = \overline{\mathrm{LD}} =\mathbb{T}^2$.
On volumes determined by subsets of Euclidean space

Given $E \subset {\Bbb R}^d$, define the \emph{volume set} of $E$, ${\mathcal V}(E)= \{det(x^1, x^2, . x^d): x^j \in E\}$. In $\R^3$, we prove that ${\mathcal V}(E)$ has positive Lebesgue measure if either the Hausdorff dimension of $E\subset \Bbb R^3$ is greater than 13/5, or $E$ is a product set of the form $E=B_1\times B_2\times B_3$ with $B_j\subset\R,\, dim_{\mathcal H}(B_j)>2/3,\, j=1,2,3$. We show that the same conclusion holds for $\V(E)$ of Salem subsets $E\subset\R^d$ with $\hde>d-1$, and give applications to discrete combinatorial geometry.
Associations among Maturity, Accumulated Workload, Physiological, and Body Composition Factors in Youth Soccer Players: A Comparison between Playing Positions

Simple Summary Considering the importance of the biological statuses of young soccer players, maturity offset could be essential for better physiological and body composition characterization of young athletes, and consequently, better load adjustment. Moreover, the knowledge about playing position differences and maturity statuses would increase the knowledge available to prescribe the proper intensity in training. Therefore, the present study examined the relationship among maturation variables such as peak height velocity, maturity offset, body composition, sprint ability, heart rate, and maximal oxygen consumption measures with variations in accumulated training loads in elite young soccer players. The main findings revealed that playing position did not influence any body composition measures, but there were differences in sprinting where central midfielders showed higher abilities. In addition, the maturity statuses and maximal oxygen consumptions were not positively associated with accumulated loads across the season. In opposition to previous research, the present study did not confirm the expected results, which suggests that the research could be influenced by the characteristics and environments of the soccer teams. Abstract The purposes of this study were: (i) to analyze the correlation between accumulated workload (AW)—based on season periods—with maturity, linear sprints, maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max), maximum heart rate, and body composition; and (ii) to compare the playing positions based on the mentioned parameters. Twenty-one elite soccer players under the age of 14 participated in the study. They were divided into five groups based on playing positions. The in-season weekly AW was recorded for 26 weeks into two separated periods of 13 weeks (AW-1 and AW-2). Similarly, the following parameters were assessed: body mass, standing and sitting height, body mass index, body fat percentage, maturity offset, age at peak height velocity (PHV), sprinting ability (10 m and 30 m), and VO2max. The main significant differences between playing positions were found for weight, height, sitting height, and sprinting at 10 m and 30 m. No correlation was observed between AW (based on periods) and maturity or between VO2max and AW-2. AW-1 denoted a large positive correlation with AW-2. AW-1 had a moderate negative correlation with VO2max, whereas PHV and maturity presented a strong negative correlation. Young soccer players’ maturity statuses and fitness levels do not imply differences between AW-1 and AW-2. However, the higher the AW in the first half of the season, the higher the AW in the second half. The absence of significant differences between player positions could be associated with the similar training regardless of the playing position. Moreover, soccer positively influences performance in short sprints (10 m), midfielders being the fastest.
Limitations for nonlinear stabilization over uncertain channels

We study the problem of mean-square exponential incremental stabilization of nonlinear systems over uncertain communication channels. We show the ability to stabilize a system over such channels is fundamentally limited and the channel uncertainty must provide a minimal Quality of Service (QoS) to support stabilization. The smallest QoS necessary for stabilization is shown as a function of the positive Lyapunov exponents of uncontrolled nonlinear systems. The positive Lyapunov exponent is a measure of dynamical complexity and captures the rate of exponential divergence of nearby system trajectories. One of the main highlights of our results is the role played by nonequilibrium dynamics to determine the limitation for incremental stabilization over networks with uncertainty.
Numerical Investigation on The Effect of Grille Blockage Ratio on Air Flow Characteristics of Air Vents

Vents with louvers are an important component in the indoor heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system in providing a degree of freedom to the occupants to direct the air flow and prevent foreign objects from entering or exiting the air ducts. As a result, whether designing air ventilation or any duct design that involves louvers, the influence of louver design cannot be ignored. For vent design, aside from louver angle, blockage ratio is an important factor in air distribution due to its effect on pressure drop and flow distribution to indoor space. The blockage ratio is often described as the ratio of the projected area of the structure in flow direction to the cross sectional area of the domain around the structure. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of varying blockage ratios on the air flow characteristics of air vents including velocity and pressure drop. The chosen air vent model for this study is the Proton Wira air vent. Results are obtained using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and by utilizing the free and easily available open source software via Code-Saturne. The parameters were set according to available literature. The study finds that the pressure drop increases with the increasing blockage ratio. The velocity drops almost 7% for blockage ratio greater than 3 and the pressure drop increases more than 4%.
Distribution of the trace of Frobenius on average for rank 2 Drinfeld modules

Let $q$ be an odd prime power, $a \in \mathbb{F}_q[T]$ and $u \in \mathbb{F}_q^*$. Provided $q \geq 17$, we compute the average number of primes $p$ for which the characteristic polynomial of the Frobenius at $p$ is $X^2 - aX + up$ over a family of rank 2 Drinfeld $ \mathbb{F}_q[T]$-modules. Our results give asymptotic formulas in the $x$-limit.
A Novel Linear Precoder Design for Reliable UL/DL Detection in TDD Cellular Networks

The ever-growing demands on wireless connectivity, especially with the emergence of various data-intensive low-latency applications, require novel multiplexing solutions capable of reliably supporting high rates at low latency. Non-orthogonal time division duplex (TDD) coupled with multiuser detection can meet these emerging needs, provided that accurate channel state information is available. This paper proposes a new pilot-free TDD frame structure that allows designing highly effective multiuser decoders and precoders for uplink and downlink multicell systems, in an unsupervised manner. The key idea is that each user repeats and permutes its uplink data using a pre-assigned permutation code. Invoking canonical correlation analysis (CCA) at the serving BS on the two deinterleaved uplink blocks yields high quality CCA-based beamformers capable of both recovering the uplink and precoding the downlink user signals in a way that effectively mitigates interference. The paper includes a pilotless synchronization framework that leverages CCA to recover the timing and frequency offsets in an asynchronous multiuser MIMO setup, without using pilots. Simulations are used to study the performance of the proposed approach on a large-scale network with multiple users and cells, while laboratory experiments with a small-scale network of software radios are used to demonstrate that the approach works well in practice under common hardware imperfections.
Reconstruction of a time-dependent potential from wave measurements

We add a time-dependent potential to the inhomogeneous wave equation and consider the task of reconstructing this potential from measurements of the wave field. This dynamic inverse problem becomes more involved compared to static parameters, as, e.g. the dimensions of the parameter space do considerably increase. We give a specifically tailored existence and uniqueness result for the wave equation and compute the Fréchet derivative of the solution operator, for which also show the tangential cone condition. These results motivate the numerical reconstruction of the potential via successive linearization and regularized Newton-like methods. We present several numerical examples showing feasibility, reconstruction quality, and time efficiency of the resulting algorithm.
On a logarithmic version of the derived McKay correspondence

We globalize the derived version of the McKay correspondence of Bridgeland, King and Reid, proven by Kawamata in the case of abelian quotient singularities, to certain logarithmic algebraic stacks with locally free log structure. The two sides of the correspondence are given respectively by the infinite root stack and by a certain version of the valuativization (the projective limit of every possible logarithmic blow-up). Our results imply, in particular, that in good cases the category of coherent parabolic sheaves with rational weights is invariant under logarithmic blow-up, up to Morita equivalence.
Foliations on unitary Shimura varieties in positive characteristic

When $p$ is inert in the quadratic imaginary field $E$ and $m<n$ , unitary Shimura varieties of signature $(n,m)$ and a hyperspecial level subgroup at $p$ , carry a natural foliation of height 1 and rank $m^{2}$ in the tangent bundle of their special fiber $S$ . We study this foliation and show that it acquires singularities at deep Ekedahl–Oort strata, but that these singularities are resolved if we pass to a natural smooth moduli problem $S^{\sharp }$ , a successive blow-up of $S$ . Over the ( $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$ -)ordinary locus we relate the foliation to Moonen’s generalized Serre–Tate coordinates. We study the quotient of $S^{\sharp }$ by the foliation, and identify it as the Zariski closure of the ordinary-étale locus in the special fiber $S_{0}(p)$ of a certain Shimura variety with parahoric level structure at $p$ . As a result, we get that this ‘horizontal component’ of $S_{0}(p)$ , as well as its multiplicative counterpart, are non-singular (formerly they were only known to be normal and Cohen–Macaulay). We study two kinds of integral manifolds of the foliation: unitary Shimura subvarieties of signature $(m,m)$ , and a certain Ekedahl–Oort stratum that we denote $S_{\text{fol}}$ . We conjecture that these are the only integral submanifolds.
PKULAST-An Extendable Model for Land Surface Temperature Retrieval From Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing Data

Land surface temperature (LST) is one of important parameter in the earth energy and water budget. Recently, open-source modules or packages are emerging as all-in-one solutions to speed up the rapid development and critical application of LST from thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing data. In this article, we developed a python package, dubbed Peking University land surface temperature (PKULAST) model to address the retrieval of LST from TIR remote sensing data with different LST retrieval algorithms, such as single channel algorithm, split window algorithm, and the temperature and emissivity separation algorithm. extendable data structures in the model covers common conceptual models used in LST algorithms implementation, such as spectral response functions, surface spectral libraries (ASTER, ECOSTRESS etc.), atmospheric profiles (NCEP, ERA5, MERRA-2, etc.), making it a convenience to construct the processing chain of developing new LST retrieval algorithms and generating LST products. The ASTER imageries are tested to assess the performance of the PKULAST to derive accurate LST. The LST result is then evaluated using long-term ground-based longwave radiation observations collected at seven sites from 2000 to 2021 under cloud-free scenes, and the result shows that the PKULAST model can obtain LST with an uncertainty of 2.7 K in bias, and 4.4 K in root-mean-square error. With the help of predefined extendable data structures and workflows for different sensors, atmospheric profile libraries and surface spectral libraries, new algorithms for retrieving LST can be developed easily. The PKULAST promises to be a tool that seamlessly interoperates with developing LST retrieval algorithms and generating LST scientific products. The code will be released at https://github.com/tirzhu/pkulast.
Quantum-Corrected Einstein Equations for a Noncommutative Spacetime of Lie-Algebraic Type

A general formula for the curvature of a central metric, w.r. t a noncommutative spacetime of general Lie-algebraic type is calculated by using the generalized braiding formalism. Furthermore, we calculate geometric quantities such as the Riemann tensor and the Ricci tensor and scalar in order to produce quantum corrections to the Einstein field equations.
Sensing-Communication Bandwidth Allocation in Vehicular Links Based on Reinforcement Learning

Influenced by the randomnesses in the realistic vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) scenarios, traditional deterministic optimization algorithms cannot be adopted directly to promote sensing-communication performance. In this letter, we consider a vehicle served by several base stations (BSs), model the integrated performance based on information theory, and formulate an optimization problem to enlarge the total information amount. A reinforcement-learning-based algorithm of jointly optimizing the bandwidth allocation and BS selection is proposed, where a double deep Q-network agent is adopted. Simulation results verify the system performance, which shows performing better than baselines.