cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The vertex corrections due to the triangle singularity mechanism in the light axial vector meson couplings to $K^*\bar{K}+c.c.$
Creators: name: Du, Mengchuan
name: Cheng, Yin
name: Zhao, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The light axial vector mesons can couple to $K^*\bar{K}+c.c.$ in an $S$ wave at the tree level. Due to the near-threshold $S$-wave interactions the couplings can be affected by the final state interactions. It is of peculiar interest that the pion exchange between $K^*\bar{K}+c.c.$ can go through a triangle diagram which is within the kinematics of the triangle singularity (TS). This mechanism will introduce energy dependence and a $D$-wave amplitude to the vertex couplings. Hence, it should be necessary to investigate the role played by the $K^*\bar{K}+c.c.$ threshold in order to have a better understanding of the light axial vector spectrum.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
On BMS Invariance of Gravitational Scattering
Creators: name: Strominger, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: BMS+ transformations act nontrivially on outgoing gravitational scattering data while preserving intrinsic structure at future null infinity (I+). BMS- transformations similarly act on ingoing data at past null infinity (I-). In this paper we apply - within a suitable finite neighborhood of the Minkowski vacuum - results of Christodoulou and Klainerman to link I+ to I- and thereby identify "diagonal" elements BMS0 of (BMS+)X(BMS-). We argue that BMS0 is a nontrivial infinite-dimensional symmetry of both classical gravitational scattering and the quantum gravity S-matrix. It implies the conservation of net accumulated energy flux at every angle on the conformal S2 at I+. The associated Ward identity is shown to relate S-matrix elements with and without soft gravitons. Finally, BMS0 is recast as a U(1) Kac-Moody symmetry and an expression for the Kac-Moody current is given in terms of a certain soft graviton operator on the boundary of null infinity.
description: 24 pages, 1 figure, minor edits in v2
Relevant Perturbation of Entanglement Entropy and Stationarity
Creators: name: Nishioka, Tatsuma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A relevant perturbation of the entanglement entropy of a sphere is examined holographically near the UV fixed point. Varying the conformal dimension of the relevant operator, we obtain three different sectors: 1) the entanglement entropy is stationary and the perturbative expansion is well-defined with respect to the relevant coupling, 2) the entropy is stationary, but the perturbation fails, 3) the entropy is neither stationary nor perturbative. We compare our holographic results with the numerical calculation for a free massive scalar field in three-dimensions, and find a qualitative agreement between them. We speculate that these statements hold for any relevant perturbation in any quantum field theory invariant under the Poincare symmetry.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures: v2: minor changes, a reference added
Essays on finitely repeated games
Creators: name: Demeze-Jouatsa, Ghislain-Herman
Publisher: name: Universität Bielefeld
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 330

description: The theory of repeated games gives insights to understand and explain how the behavior of agents who have engaged in a long-run relationship differs from those of agents who interact only once. The main message of this theory is that repetition facilitates cooperation. Current models of repeated games assume that at each point in time, each participant predetermines either her action for the next period, or the probability distribution her action will be issued from. This assumption is in contrast with the incomplete and non biding agreements, where participants agree on a collusive path to follow and are silent about the enforcing mechanism. This thesis uses a new model of finitely repeated games with objective ambiguity to show that incomplete contracts are stable. In the considered model, at each point in time of the repeated game, and given the observed history, each player has three kind of possible actions for the next period: pure, mixed or ambiguous. An ambiguous action of a player is a set of lotteries over her set of pure actions in the stage-game. A player can for instance decide to remain silent during some periods of the game, which is equivalent to choosing the whole set of lotteries. I find that remaining silent is an optimal punishment strategy. This implies for instance that at a Nash equilibrium of the finitely repeated game, there is no need to specify the enforcing mechanism. Only the target path matters. Another finding is that adding an infinitesimal level of ambiguity to the classic model of finitely repeated games allows to explain the emergence of cooperation. From a theoretical point of view, this thesis studies a model of finitely repeated game that allows to explain the emergence of cooperation without relaxing the assumptions on the information structure available to players (see Kreps et al. (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982)), on the perfectness of the monitoring technology (see Abreu et al. (1990), Aumann et al. (1995)), and on players' rationality (see Neyman (1985), Aumann and Sorin (1989)). Another contribution is the complete folk theorem. It is a full characterization of the limit set of the set of payoffs that are approachable by means of pure strategy subgame perfect Nash equilibria of finite repetitions of an arbitrary normal form game. In contrast with the classic folk theorem, which provides necessary and sucient conditions on the stage-game which ensure that each feasible and individually rational payoff vector of the stage-game is approachable by means of subgame perfect Nash equilibria of the finitely repeated game, the complete folk theorem applies to any compact normal form game, and provides a full characterization of the whole set of payoffs achievable by means of equilibrium strategies of the finitely repeated game.
Análise de processos jurídicos: Caso 10 - Ação Trabalhista - Rito Ordinário 1000707-84.2017.5.02.0062; PIC-MP No 5000510-52.2021.4.03.6181
Creators: name: BRASIL. Ministério Da Justiça
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Análise de processos jurídicos: Caso 10 - Ação Trabalhista - Rito Ordinário 1000707-84.2017.5.02.0062; PIC-MP No 5000510-52.2021.4.03.6181
title: Education as risk factor of mild cognitive impairment: the link to the gut microbiome
Creators: name: Matthias Klee
name: Velma Aho
name: Patrick May
name: Anna Buschart
name: Zied Landoulsi
name: Sonja R. Jónsdóttir
name: Claire Pauly
name: Lukas Pavelka
name: Lea Delacour
name: Anne Kaysen
name: Rejko Krüger
name: Paul Wilmes
name: Anja K. Leist
Publisher: name: LCSB
Year: 2023

description: Background: With differences apparent in the gut microbiome in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, and risk factors of dementia linked to alterations of the gut microbiome, the question remains if gut microbiome characteristics may mediate associations of education with MCI.
Objectives: We sought to examine potential mediation of the association of education and MCI by gut microbiome diversity or composition.
Design: Cross-sectional study
Setting: Luxembourg, the Greater Region (surrounding areas in Belgium, France, Germany)
Participants: Control participants of the Luxembourg Parkinson’s Study
Measurements: Gut microbiome composition, ascertained with 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Differential abundance, assessed across education groups (0-10, 11-16, 16+ years of education). Alpha diversity (Chao1, Shannon and inverse Simpson indices). Mediation analysis with effect decomposition was conducted with education as exposure, MCI as outcome and gut microbiome metrics as mediators.
Results: After exclusion of participants below 50, or with missing data, n=256 participants (n=58 MCI) were included (M [SD] Age=64.7 [8.3] years). Higher education (16+ years) was associated with MCI (Odds ratio natural direct effect=0.38 [95% CI 0.16-0.87]. Streptococcus and Lachnospiraceae-UCG-001 genera were more abundant in higher education.
Conclusions: Education is associated with gut microbiome composition and MCI risk without clear evidence for mediation. However, our results suggest signatures of the gut microbiome that have been identified previously in AD and MCI to be reflected in lower education, and suggest education as important covariate in microbiome studies.
Keywords: dementia, mild cognitive impairment, gut microbiome, education, mediation
Additional file 1 of Do descriptive norms messaging interventions backfire? Protocol for a systematic review of the boomerang effect
Creators: name: Kuang, Jinyi
name: Delea, Maryann G.
name: Thulin, Erik
name: Bicchieri, Cristina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1:. PRISMA-P checklist.
SophiA - Nachhaltige Energieversorgungslösungen für Gesundheitseinrichtungen im ländlichen Afrika
Creators: name: Dudita-Kauffeld, Mihaela
name: Zenhäusern, Daniel
name: Omlin, Lukas
name: Philippen, Daniel
name: Reber, Andreas
name: Voirol, Alexandre
name: Kälin, Kilian
name: Bohara, Kanchan
name: Leuthold, Tobias
name: Biba, Christof
name: Kauffeld, Michael
name: Schmid, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: SophiA4Africa, Eu funded project, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi, Uganda, South Africa, refrigeration, water treatment, hospitals, Africa, demo sites, rural, remote

description: This presentation contains a general descripion of the EU funded project SophiA and of the design of the power supply of the refrigeration and water SophiA systems. These systems are build in South Africa. The SophiA Systems will be tested and demonstrated at four rural hospitals in remote regions throughout the African continent covering the major geographical regions and different climatic conditions in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi and Uganda.
Additional file 1 of Diversity of entomopathogenic fungi associated with Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae)) in Moroccan Argan forests and nearby area: impact of soil factors on their distribution
Creators: name: Hallouti, Ayoub
name: Hamza, Mohamed Ait
name: Abdelaziz Zahidi
name: Hammou, Rachid Ait
name: Bouharroud, Rachid
name: Aoumar, Abdellah Ait Ben
name: Boubaker, Hassan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures.
Radiative Neutrino Mass Model at the $e^{-}e^{+}$ Linear Collider
Creators: name: Ahriche, Amine
name: Nasri, Salah
name: Soualah, Rachik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phenomenology of a Standard Model (SM) extension with two charged singlet scalars and three right handed (RH) neutrinos at an electron-positron collider. In this model, the neutrino mass is generated radiatively at three-loop, the lightest RH neutrino is a good dark matter candidate; and the electroweak phase transition strongly first order as required for baryogenesis. We focus on the process $e^{+}+e^{-}\rightarrow e^{-}μ^{+}+E_{miss}$, where the model contains new lepton flavor violating interactions that contribute to the missing energy. We investigate the feasibility of detecting this process at future $e^{-}e^{+}$ linear colliders at different center of mass energies: $E_{CM}$=250, 350, 500 GeV and 1 TeV.
description: 7 pages, 4 tables and 4 figures, accepted for publication in PRD
Bulge formation inside quiescent lopsided stellar disks: connecting accretion, star formation and morphological transformation in a z ~ 3 galaxy group
Creators: name: Kalita, Boris S.
name: Daddi, Emanuele
name: Bournaud, Frederic
name: Rich, R. Michael
name: Valentino, Francesco
name: Gómez-Guijarro, Carlos
name: Codis, Sandrine
name: Delvecchio, Ivan
name: Elbaz, David
name: Strazzullo, Veronica
name: Magalhaes, Victor de Sousa
name: Pety, Jérôme
name: Tan, Qinghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present well-resolved near-IR and sub-mm analysis of the three highly star-forming massive ($>10^{11}\,\rm M_{\odot}$) galaxies within the core of the RO-1001 galaxy group at $\rm z=2.91$. Each of them displays kpc-scale compact star-bursting cores with properties consistent with forming galaxy bulges, embedded at the center of extended, massive stellar disks. Surprisingly, the stellar disks are unambiguously both quiescent, and severely lopsided. Therefore, `outside-in' quenching is ongoing in the three group galaxies. We propose an overall scenario in which the strong mass lopsidedness in the disks (ranging from factors of 1.6 to $>$3), likely generated under the effects of accreted gas and clumps, is responsible for their star-formation suppression, while funnelling gas into the nuclei and thus creating the central starbursts. The lopsided side of the disks marks the location of accretion streams impact, with additional matter components (dust and stars) detected in their close proximity directly tracing the inflow direction. The interaction with the accreted clumps, which can be regarded as minor-mergers, leads the major axes of the three galaxies to be closely aligned with the outer Lyman-$α$-emitting feeding filaments. These results provide the first observational evidence of the impact of cold accretion streams on the formation and evolution of the galaxies they feed. In the current phase, this is taking the form of the rapid buildup of bulges under the effects of accretion, while still preserving massive quiescent and lopsided stellar disks at least until encountering a violent major-merger.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Higgs amplitude mode in the vicinity of a $(2+1)$-dimensional quantum critical point
Creators: name: Rancon, A.
name: Dupuis, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the "Higgs" amplitude mode in the relativistic quantum O($N$) model in two space dimensions. Using the nonperturbative renormalization group we compute the O($N$)-invariant scalar susceptibility in the vicinity of the zero-temperature quantum critical point. In the zero-temperature ordered phase, we find a well defined Higgs resonance for $N=2$ with universal properties in agreement with quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The resonance persists at finite temperature below the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature. In the zero-temperature disordered phase, we find a maximum in the spectral function which is however not related to a putative Higgs resonance. Furthermore we show that the resonance is strongly suppressed for $N\geq 3$.
description: v2) 5+3 pages
Olfactory bulb slices as a model of pre-motor Parkinson's Disease
Creators: name: Bagnoli, Enrico
name: Trotier, Alexandre
name: McMahon, Jill
name: FitzGerald, Una
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, affecting more than 10 million people worldwide. In order to achieve a better understanding of the disease and to develop new effective therapeutics, an important step is the creation of a reliable model of the disease.

In this sense, organotypic brain slices can be a useful tool combining the main advantages of in vivo studies with the excellent experimental accessibility of in vitro models. In particular olfactory bulb slices can enable researchers to understand the early stage of the pathology, before the disease affects other regions of the brain.

The overarching goal of the project is to induce α-synuclein aggregation using DOPAL in olfactory bulb slices to mimic pre-motor PD and to study the effect of iron on the slices.

Slices have been successfully obtained and kept alive for more than 3 weeks and culture conditions have been optimised. Preliminary studies suggest that DOPAL incubation impairs viability and structural integrity of the slices in a dose dependent way and an increase in the nitrite content of the media is associated with increasing doses of DOPAL. Olfactory bulb slices show great promise as an easy, accessible and simple platform for new PD’s treatment development.
Eichler-Selberg Type Identities for Mixed Mock Modular Forms
Creators: name: Mertens, Michael H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F30, 11F37, 11F12

description: Using holomorphic projection, we work out a parametrization for all relations of products (resp. Rankin-Cohen brackets) of weight $\tfrac 32$ mock modular forms with holomorphic shadow and weight $\tfrac 12$ modular forms in the spirit of the Kronecker-Hurwitz class number relations. In particular we obtain new proofs for several class number relations among which some are classical, others are relatively new. We also obtain similar results for the mock theta functions.
description: 28 pages, [v2] some typos corrected, some calculations shortened
Análise de processos jurídicos: Caso 15 - Ação Trabalhista - Rito Ordinário 1001213-81.2016.5.02.0713; Processo: 1001213-81.2016.5.02.0713. Notícia de Fato: 38.0004.0001948/2019-6; JF/SP-5001986-96.2019.4.03.6181
Creators: name: BRASIL. Ministério Da Justiça
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ação Trabalhista - Rito Ordinário 1001213-81.2016.5.02.0713 PROCESSO: 1001213-81.2016.5.02.0713 |. Notícia de Fato: 38.0004.0001948/2019-6 | JF/SP-5001986-96.2019.4.03.6181-PICMP - Eletrônico Notícia de Fato instaurada a partir de ofício do Juízo da 13a Vara do Trabalho de São Paulo, segundo o qual a testemunha M.C.P. teria mentido em seu depoimento, o que configuraria, em tese, o crime previsto no art. 342 do CP. Manifestação do MPF pelo arquivamento do feito, ressaltando que, mesmo sem o depoimento prestado por M., ora investigada, o pedido da reclamante seria julgado da mesma forma, pois o magistrado desconsiderou totalmente seu relato no momento da prolação da sentença. Consignou que o suposto delito de falso testemunho não apresentou nenhuma potencialidade lesiva para influenciar a decisão pelo juízo do trabalho e, por conseguinte, violar o bem jurídico tutelado pelo tipo penal. Discordância do Juízo da 9a Vara Federal Criminal de São Paulo. iro. Aplicação do art. 28 do CPP c/c art. 62, inc. IV, da LC no 75/93. Como bem pontuado pelo Procurador oficiante nos autos do Procedimento no 5024411-59.2018.4.04.7108, oriundo do Juízo da 5a Vara Federal de Novo Hamburgo/RS, ¿nas reclamatórias trabalhistas sempre haverá divergências entre as partes, tal fato é inerente ao processo, cabendo ao julgador da origem, que é quem colheu a prova testemunhal, avaliar e valorar as informações prestadas, aplicando, no que couber, os mecanismos que dispõe para coibir tal conduta (art. 5o e art. 77, I, do CPC)¿. No presente caso, não há que se falar na configuração do crime de falso testemunho se o depoimento não teve nenhuma relevância para o desfecho da causa. Mostra-se indispensável que haja potencialidade de dano ao bem jurídico. Se o falso em nada influiu na decisão, como na hipótese, não poderá haver falso testemunho, pela simples razão de não ter aptidão de nela influí-la. O certo é que o magistrado trabalhista desconsiderou totalmente o relato da testemunha ora investigada no momento de prolação da sentença. Má-fé ou vontade livre e consciente de ludibriar o Juízo não evidenciada. Atipicidade da conduta. Precedentes da 2a CCR: NF no 1.29.000.000247/2019-71 e NF no 1.29.000.004723/2018-41, 734a Sessão de Revisão, de 11/02/2019. Falta de justa causa para prosseguir na persecução penal. Insistência no arquivamento.
Dynamical spontaneous scalarization in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models in anti-de Sitter spacetime
Creators: name: Luo, Wen-Kun
name: Zhang, Cheng-Yong
name: Liu, Peng
name: Niu, Chao
name: Wang, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phenomenon of spontaneous scalarization of charged black holes has attracted a lot of attention. In this work, we study the dynamical process of the spontaneous scalarization of charged black hole in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models. Including various non-minimal couplings between the scalar field and Maxwell field, we observe that an initial scalar-free configuration suffers tachyonic instability and both the scalar field and the black hole irreducible mass grow exponentially at early times and saturate exponentially at late times. For fractional couplings, we find that though there is negative energy distribution near the black hole horizon, the black hole horizon area never decreases. But when the parameters are large, the evolution endpoints of linearly unstable bald black holes will be spacetimes with naked singularity and the cosmic censorship is violated. The effects of the black hole charge, cosmological constant and coupling strength on the dynamical scalarization process are studied in detail. We find that large enough cosmological constant can prevent the spontaneous scalarization.
description: 20pages,8figures
Science through Machine Learning: Quantification of Poststorm Thermospheric Cooling
Creators: name: Licata, Richard J.
name: Mehta, Piyush M.
name: Weimer, Daniel R.
name: Drob, Douglas P.
name: Tobiska, W. Kent
name: Yoshii, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine learning (ML) is often viewed as a black-box regression technique that is unable to provide considerable scientific insight. ML models are universal function approximators and - if used correctly - can provide scientific information related to the ground-truth dataset used for fitting. A benefit to ML over parametric models is that there are no predefined basis functions limiting the phenomena that can be modeled. In this work, we develop ML models on three datasets: the Space Environment Technologies (SET) High Accuracy Satellite Drag Model (HASDM) density database, a spatiotemporally matched dataset of outputs from the Jacchia-Bowman 2008 Empirical Thermospheric Density Model (JB2008), and an accelerometer-derived density dataset from CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP). These ML models are compared to the Naval Research Laboratory Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter radar (NRLMSIS 2.0) model to study the presence of post-storm cooling in the middle-thermosphere. We find that both NRLMSIS 2.0 and JB2008-ML do not account for post-storm cooling and consequently perform poorly in periods following strong geomagnetic storms (e.g. the 2003 Halloween storms). Conversely, HASDM-ML and CHAMP-ML do show evidence of post-storm cooling indicating that this phenomenon is present in the original datasets. Results show that density reductions up to 40% can occur 1--3 days post-storm depending on location and the strength of the storm.
Did BICEP2 see vector modes? First B-mode constraints on cosmic defects
Creators: name: Moss, Adam
name: Pogosian, Levon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scaling networks of cosmic defects, such as strings and textures, actively generate scalar, vector and tensor metric perturbations throughout the history of the universe. In particular, {\em vector} modes sourced by defects are an efficient source of the CMB B-mode polarization. We use the recently released BICEP2 and POLARBEAR B-mode polarization spectra to constrain properties of a wide range of different types of cosmic strings networks. We find that in order for strings to provide a satisfactory fit on their own, the effective inter-string distance needs to be extremely large -- spectra that fit the data best are more representative of global strings and textures. When a local string contribution is considered together with the inflationary B-mode spectrum, the fit is improved. We discuss implications of these results for theories that predict cosmic defects.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; a reference added; matches the version published in Phys Rev Lett
Cross-breeding of Tenebrio molitor strains from a large-scale perspective
Creators: name: Adamaki-Sotiraki, C.
name: Deruytter, D.
name: Rumbos, C.I.
name: Athanassiou, C.G.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 309999
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: To meet the increased future needs in insect Processed Animal Proteins PAPs insect sector has to optimize the mass rearing of insects. That being the case, a means to tackle this growing demand for insects is to invest in breeding strategies aiming for the production of hybrids with improved economically and biologically valuable traits. In this framework, the objective of the present study was to evaluate the mating compatibility among four strains of the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor, from different geographic origins (Greece, Belgium, Italy and USA) and to assess and compare the performance of the produced inbred and partially outbred lines. All trials were performed in crates of the size (40 × 60 cm) typically used in industrial rearing of mealworm. Adults of T. molitor were placed in the crates and were left to mate and oviposit. To assess mating compatibility of the amount of oviposited eggs (g) as well as the larval hatching rate were recorded. For the assessment of larval performance of inbred and partially outbred lines, two to three weeks old larvae were placed in crates together with Insectus as feeding substrate. The results, showed that all crossed lines demonstrated compatibility, and certain combinations outperformed others as suggested by the high cumulative number of eggs and the larval hatch rates for both inbred and partially outbred lines produced. For hatched larvae, there were significant differences among the inbred and partially outbred lines. The highest hatch rates recorded for the Italian-Italian, Belgian-Italian, and Belgian-USA lines. Concerning offspring performance, all crosses followed a similar pattern in terms of final larval weight. The present study aims to draw the attention of the scientific community and insect producing companies to cross-breeding practices to start unfolding its potential for the genetical improvement of commercially farmed insects.
Crilin: A CRystal calorImeter with Longitudinal InformatioN for a future Muon Collider
Creators: name: Ceravolo, S.
name: Colao, F.
name: Curatolo, C.
name: Di Meco, E.
name: Diociaiuti, E.
name: Lucchesi, D.
name: Paesani, D.
name: Pastrone, N.
name: Saputi, A.
name: Sarra, I.
name: Sestini, L.
name: Tagnani, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement of physics processes at new energy frontier experiments requires excellent spatial, time, and energy resolutions to resolve the structure of collimated high-energy jets. In a future Muon Collider, the beam-induced backgrounds (BIB) represent the main challenge in the design of the detectors and of the event reconstruction algorithms. The technology and the design of the calorimeters should be chosen to reduce the effect of the BIB, while keeping good physics performance. Several requirements can be inferred: i) high granularity to reduce the overlap of BIB particles in the same calorimeter cell; ii) excellent timing (of the order of 100 ps) to reduce the out-of-time component of the BIB; iii) longitudinal segmentation to distinguish the signal showers from the fake showers produced by the BIB; iv) good energy resolution (less than 10%/sqrt(E)) to obtain good physics performance, as has been already demonstrated for conceptual particle flow calorimeters. Our proposal consists of a semi-homogeneous electromagnetic calorimeter based on Lead Fluoride Crystals (PbF2) readout by surface-mount UV-extended Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs): the Crilin calorimeter. In this paper, the performances of the Crilin calorimeter in the Muon Collider framework for hadron jets reconstruction have been analyzed. We report the single components characterizations together with the development of a small-scale prototype, consisting of 2 layers of 3x3 crystals each.
Axial-vector $f_1(1285)-f_1(1420)$ mixing and $B_s \to J/ψ(f_1(1285), f_1(1420))$ decays
Creators: name: Liu, Xin
name: Xiao, Zhen-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by the very recent LHCb measurements of $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1285)$ and the good agreement between the perturbative QCD predictions and the data for many $B \to J/ψV$ decays, we here investigate the $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1285)$ and $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1420)$ decays for the first time by employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD) approach, in which the $1^3P_1$ states $f_1(1285)$ and $f_1(1420)$ are believed to be the mixture of flavor singlet $f_1$ and octet $f_8$ or of quark-flavor states $f_{1q}$ and $f_{1s}$. We show that the pQCD predictions for the branching ratio of $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1285)$ agree well with the data within errors for the mixing angle $θ_{^3P_1} \approx 20^\circ (ϕ_{^3P_1} \approx 15^\circ)$ between $f_1 (f_{1q})$ and $f_8 (f_{1s})$ states. Furthermore, the branching ratio of $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1420)$ and the large transverse polarization fractions in these two considered channels are also predicted and will be tested by the LHC and the forthcoming Super-B factory experiments. Based on the decay rates of $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1285)$ and $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1420)$ decay modes predicted in the pQCD approach, the extracted mixing angle between $f_1(1285)$ and $f_1(1420)$ is basically consistent with currently available experimental measurements and lattice QCD analysis within still large theoretical errors.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; Contents improved and references added; Accepted for publication as a Brief Report in Physical Review D
Carnot-Carathéodory Metrics in Unbounded Subdomains of $\mathbb{C}^2$
Creators: name: Peterson, Aaron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a new class of unbounded model subdomains of $\mathbb{C}^2$ for the $\Box_b$ problem. Unlike previous finite type models, these domains need not be bounded by algebraic varieties. In this paper we obtain precise global estimates for the Carnot-Carathéodory metric induced on the boundary of such domains by the real and imaginary parts of the CR vector field.
Additional file 1 of CloneSifter: enrichment of rare clones from heterogeneous cell populations
Creators: name: Feldman, David
name: FuNien Tsai
name: Garrity, Anthony J.
name: O’Rourke, Ryan
name: Brenan, Lisa
name: Ho, Patricia
name: Gonzalez, Elizabeth
name: Konermann, Silvana
name: Johannessen, Cory M.
name: Beroukhim, Rameen
name: Pratiti Bandopadhayay
name: Blainey, Paul C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. sgRNA-barcode library representation, GC bias, and human genome off-targets. Fig. S2. Transcriptional activation-based retrieval reporter. Fig. S3. Negative-control groups showed minimal GFP+/mCherry- fraction. Fig. S4. Performance of TMv2-H2K performance in a pooled population. Fig. S5. Characterization of retrieved clones. Fig. S6. Retrieval vector optimization and retrieval of targeted clones from D458 cells. Fig. S7. Gating strategy for analysis of cells with activated frameshift reporter. Table S1. Table of the clonal barcode candidates, multi-target barcodes and non-targeting barcodes in Fig. 3d, Fig. 4 and Fig. S3. Table S2. Enrichment levels of barcodes that are retrieved with a 4-multiplex TMv2-Zeo or a 2-multiplex TMv2-Zeo. Table S3. Table of primer sequences used for amplifying 2 kb-lentiviral transgene and for Sanger sequencing.
The Miscible-Immiscible Quantum Phase Transition in Coupled Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates in 1D Optical Lattices
Creators: name: Zhan, Fei
name: Sabbatini, Jacopo
name: Davis, Matthew J.
name: McCulloch, Ian P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using numerical techniques, we study the miscible-immiscible quantum phase transition in a linearly coupled binary Bose-Hubbard model Hamiltonian that can describe low-energy properties of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in optical lattices. With the quantum many-body ground state obtained from density matrix renormalization group algorithm, we calculate the characteristic physical quantities of the phase transition controlled by the linear coupling between two components. Furthermore we calculate the Binder cumulant to determine the critical point and draw the phase diagram. The strong-coupling expansion shows that in the Mott insulator regime the model Hamiltonian can be mapped to a spin 1/2 XXZ model with a transverse magnetic field.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A
Additional file 3 of Do descriptive norms messaging interventions backfire? Protocol for a systematic review of the boomerang effect
Creators: name: Kuang, Jinyi
name: Delea, Maryann G.
name: Thulin, Erik
name: Bicchieri, Cristina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3:. Data to be extracted.
NOVEL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR IN-FIELD PURIFICATION, AMPLIFICATION, AND DETECTION OF DNA FROM MYCOTOXIN-PRODUCING FUNGI
Creators: name: Reynolds, Cole Benjamin
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Mycotoxins are toxic molecules produced by fungi and are harmful to human health when ingested. Mycotoxins produced by fungi that infect food crops can enter the food stream directly in manufactured produces (foods like bread) or indirectly through animal feed. Detection of mycotoxins is commonly performed after harvesting and processing of the crops because mycotoxins can increase in concentration during these steps. However, if farmers could detect the toxin-forming fungi prior to harvesting, growers can reduce cross-contamination, save wasted resources used in harvesting and processing of infected crops, and increase food safety and security. Fusarium graminearum is a fungal species that infects cereal crops and produces deoxynivalenol (DON), a harmful mycotoxin called vomitoxin. Because Fusarium graminearum has a large economic impact in the United States and globally on wheat and barley markets, it was selected as a proof-of-concept for the detection assay. For detection of fungus to be useful in determining infected areas of fields, the device must be inexpensive and portable. A low-cost, portable microfluidic device was designed to both extract the fungal DNA from wheat samples and perform a fluorescence-based loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay to detect the fungal DNA. Contaminated wheat samples were used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the device. The device was able to detect Fusarium graminearum in the wheat samples at concentrations relevant to DON concentration limits set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Detection of multiple mycotoxin-producing fungal species is possible through the addition of more LAMP assays for multiplexing specific target genes.
Quantum control methods for robust entanglement of trapped ions
Creators: name: Valahu, Christophe H.
name: Apostolatos, Iason
name: Weidt, Sebastian
name: Hensinger, Winfried K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A major obstacle in the way of practical quantum computing is achieving scalable and robust high-fidelity entangling gates. To this end, quantum control has become an essential tool, as it can make the entangling interaction resilient to sources of noise. Nevertheless, it may be difficult to identify an appropriate quantum control technique for a particular need given the breadth of work pertaining to robust entanglement. To this end, we attempt to consolidate the literature by providing a non-exhaustive summary and critical analysis. The quantum control methods are separated into two categories: schemes which extend the robustness to (i) spin or (ii) motional decoherence. We choose to focus on extensions of the $σ_x\otimesσ_x$ Molmer-Sorensen interaction using microwaves and a static magnetic field gradient. Nevertheless, some of the techniques discussed here can be relevant to other trapped ion architectures or physical qubit implementations. Finally, we experimentally realize a proof-of-concept interaction with simultaneous robustness to spin and motional decoherence by combining several quantum control methods presented in this manuscript.
description: 29 pages, 23 figures
Quantitative structure-property relationship modelling for predicting retention indices of essential oils based on an improved horse herd optimization algorithm
Creators: name: Alharthi, A.M.
name: Kadir, D.H.
name: Al-Fakih, A.M.
name: Algamal, Z.Y.
name: Al-Thanoon, N.A.
name: Qasim, M.K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The horse herd optimization algorithm (HOA), one of the more contemporary metaheuristic algorithms, has demonstrated superior performance in a number of challenging optimization tasks. In the present work, the descriptor selection issue is resolved by classifying different essential oil retention indices using the binary form, BHOA. Based on internal and external prediction criteria, Z-shape transfer functions (ZTF) were tested to verify their efficiency in improving BHOA performance in QSPR modelling for predicting retention indices of essential oils. The evaluation criteria involved the mean-squared error of the training and testing datasets (MSE), and leave-one-out internal and external validation (Q2). The degree of convergence of the proposed Z-shaped transfer functions was compared. In addition, K-fold cross validation with k = 5 was applied. The results show that ZTF, especially ZTF1, greatly improves the performance of the original BHOA. Comparatively speaking, ZTF, especially ZTF1, exhibits the fastest convergence behaviour of the binary algorithms. It chooses the fewest descriptors and requires the fewest iterations to achieve excellent prediction performance.
Nontrivial gapless electronic states at the stacking faults of weak topological insulators
Creators: name: Naselli, Gabriele
name: Könye, Viktor
name: Das, Sanjib Kumar
name: Angilella, G. G. N.
name: Isaeva, Anna
name: Brink, Jeroen van den
name: Fulga, Cosma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice defects such as stacking faults may obscure electronic topological features of real materials. In fact, defects are a source of disorder that can enhance the density of states and conductivity of the bulk of the system and they break crystal symmetries that can protect the topological states. On the other hand, in recent years it has been shown that lattice defects can act as a source of nontrivial topology. Motivated by recent experiments on three-dimensional (3D) topological systems such as Bi$_2$TeI and Bi$_{14}$Rh$_3$I$_9$, we examine the effect of stacking faults on the electronic properties of weak topological insulators (WTIs). Working with a simple model consisting of a 3D WTI formed by weakly-coupled two-dimensional (2D) topological layers separated by trivial spacers, we find that 2D stacking faults can carry their own, topologically nontrivial gapless states. Depending on the WTI properties, as well as the way in which the stacking fault is realized, the latter can form a topologically protected 2D semimetal, but also a 2D topological insulator which is embedded in the higher-dimensional WTI bulk. This suggests the possibility of using stacking faults in real materials as a source of topologically nontrivial, symmetry-protected conducting states.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
title: The concise measurement of clinical communication skills: Validation of a short scale
Creators: name: Maaß, Ulrike
name: Kühne, Franziska
name: Heinze, Peter Eric
name: Ay-Bryson, Destina Sevde
name: Weck, Florian
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: There is a lack of brief rating scales for the reliable assessment of psychotherapeutic skills, which do not require intensive rater training and/or a high level of expertise. Thus, the objective is to validate a 14-item version of the Clinical Communication Skills Scale (CCSS-S). Methods: Using a sample of N = 690 video-based ratings of role-plays with simulated patients, we calculated a confirmatory factor analysis and an exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), assessed convergent validities, determined inter-rater reliabilities and compared these with those who were either psychology students, advanced psychotherapy trainees, or experts. Results: Correlations with other competence rating scales were high (rs > 0.86–0.89). The intraclass correlations ranged between moderate and good [ICC(2,2) = 0.65–0.80], with student raters yielding the lowest scores. The one-factor model only marginally replicated the data, but the internal consistencies were excellent (α = 0.91–95). The ESEM yielded a two-factor solution (Collaboration and Structuring and Exploration Skills). Conclusion: The CCSS-S is a brief and valid rating scale that reliably assesses basic communication skills, which is particularly useful for psychotherapy training using standardized role-plays. To ensure good inter-rater reliabilities, it is still advisable to employ raters with at least some clinical experience. Future studies should further investigate the one- or two-factor structure of the instrument.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 820
Energy loss in low energy nuclear recoils in dark matter detector materials
Creators: name: Sassi, Sebastian
name: Heikinheimo, Matti
name: Tuominen, Kimmo
name: Kuronen, Antti
name: Byggmästar, Jesper
name: Nordlund, Kai
name: Mirabolfathi, Nader
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress in phonon-mediated detectors with eV-scale nuclear recoil energy sensitivity requires an understanding of the effect of the crystalline defects on the energy spectrum expected from dark matter or neutrino coherent scattering. We have performed molecular dynamics simulations to determine the amount of energy stored in the lattice defects as a function of the recoil direction and energy. This energy can not be observed in the phonon measurement, thus affecting the observed energy spectrum compared to the underlying true recoil energy spectrum. We describe this effect for multiple commonly used detector materials and demonstrate how the predicted energy spectrum from dark matter scattering is modified.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, one table. The MD simulation data can be obtained from https://github.com/sebsassi/elosssim ; v2 matches the published version
Assessing structural insights into in-house arylsulfonyl L-(+) glutamine MMP-2 inhibitors as promising anticancer agents through structure-based computational modelling approaches
Creators: name: Baidya, S.K.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Ghosh, B.
name: Jha, T.
name: Adhikari, N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Hematology

description: MMP-2 is potentially contributing to several cancer progressions including leukaemias. Therefore, considering MMP-2 as a promising target, novel anticancer compounds may be designed. Here, 32 in-house arylsulfonyl L-(+) glutamines were subjected to various structure-based computational modelling approaches to recognize crucial structural attributes along with the spatial orientation for higher MMP-2 inhibition. Again, the docking-based 2D-QSAR study revealed that the Coulomb energy conferred by Tyr142 and total interaction energy conferred by Ala84 was crucial for MMP-2 inhibition. Importantly, the docking-dependent CoMFA and CoMSIA study revealed the importance of favourable steric, electrostatic, and hydrophobic substituents at the terminal phenyl ring. The MD simulation study revealed a lower fluctuation in the RMSD, RMSF, and Rg values indicating stable binding interactions of MMP-2 and these molecules. Moreover, the residual hydrogen bond and their interaction analysis disclosed crucial amino acid residues responsible for forming potential hydrogen bonding for higher MMP-2 inhibition. The results can effectively aid in the design and discovery of promising small-molecule drug-like MMP-2 inhibitors with greater anticancer potential in the future.
Never bet against Einstein
Creators: name: De Paolis, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the geniuses of mankind, Einstein was probably one of those who made more erroneous claims, and often changed his opinion during the years on important scientific subjects. However, it is important to bear in mind that his mistakes were always due to a misinterpretation of the results obtained from his equations, since he was often biased by his own view of the universe. Einstein's equations have always given the correct answer and, till now, there is no evidence that they might not be correct.
description: 19 pages; in press on IJMPD. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1602.04674 by other author