cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trends and Decomposition of Agricultural Growth and Crop Output in Gujarat: Recent Evidence
Creators: name: Pattnaik, Itishree
name: Shah, Amita
name: Pattnaik, Itishree
name: Shah, Amita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Decomposition of crop output
subject: Price area interaction effect
subject: Yield effect

description: The growth story of Gujarat’s agriculture (with around 10 per cent growth rate in the recent phase) has received considerable attention and is often hailed as a role model for other states to follow. In this context, it is therefore important to examine the major factors contributing to this high growth performance. This paper tries to identify these factors by undertaking a decomposition analysis with reference to price, area, cropping pattern and yield. The decomposition analysis suggests that the individual effect of price alone has increased over time along with a reduction in the yield effect. The price-area interaction effect which was negative during the 1990s turned out to be positive in the recent phase. Similarly, the interaction of yield and price has become positive in the recent phase. This implies most of the crops for which there was substantial price increase show favourable change in yield and area. increase, shows favourable changes in yield and area.
Octupolar order in d-orbital Mott insulators
Creators: name: Paramekanti, Arun
name: Maharaj, Dalini D.
name: Gaulin, Bruce D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by experimental and theoretical interest in realizing multipolar orders in $d$-orbital materials, we discuss the quantum magnetism of $J\!=\!2$ ions which can be realized in spin-orbit coupled oxides with $5d^2$ transition metal ions. Based on the crystal field environment, we argue for a splitting of the $J\!=\!2$ multiplet, leading to a low lying non-Kramers doublet which hosts quadrupolar and octupolar moments. We discuss a microscopic mechanism whereby the combined perturbative effects of orbital repulsion and antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin interactions leads to ferro-octupolar coupling between neighboring sites, and stabilizes ferro-octupolar order for a face-centered cubic lattice. This same mechanism is also shown to disfavor quadrupolar ordering. We show that studying crystal field levels via Raman scattering in a magnetic field provides a probe of octupolar order. We study spin dynamics in the ferro-octupolar state using a slave-boson approach, uncovering a gapped and dispersive magnetic exciton. For sufficiently strong magnetic exchange, the dispersive exciton can condense, leading to conventional type-I antiferromagnetic (AFM) order which can preempt octupolar order. Our proposal for ferrooctupolar order, with specific results in the context of a model Hamiltonian, provides a comprehensive understanding of thermodynamics, $μ$SR, X-ray diffraction, and inelastic neutron scattering measurements on a range of cubic $5d^2$ double perovskite materials including Ba$_2$ZnOsO$_6$, Ba$_2$CaOsO$_6$, and Ba$_2$MgOsO$_6$. Our proposal for exciton condensation leading to type-I AFM order may be relevant to materials such as Sr$_2$MgOsO$_6$.
description: 7 pages, 4 figs, PRB published version. For parallel experimental work see arXiv:1909.03113
Zur Kenntnis der Stechmücken Württembergs (II. Teil)
Creators: name: Vogel, Richard
Publisher: name: - NO PUBLISHER DEFINED -
Year: 1933

description: Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg : zugl. Jahrbuch d. Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde in Stuttgart
description: Bd. 89, 1933
Localization for Discrete One Dimensional Random Word Models
Creators: name: Damanik, David
name: Sims, Robert
name: Stolz, Günter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider Schrödinger operators in $\ell^2(\Z)$ whose potentials are obtained by randomly concatenating words from an underlying set $\mathcal{W}$ according to some probability measure $ν$ on $\mathcal{W}$. Our assumptions allow us to consider models with local correlations, such as the random dimer model or, more generally, random polymer models. We prove spectral localization and, away from a finite set of exceptional energies, dynamical localization for such models. These results are obtained by employing scattering theoretic methods together with Furstenberg's theorem to verify the necessary input to perform a multiscale analysis.
description: 19 pages
Additional file 1 of Biosynthesis and bioactivities of metal nanoparticles mediated by Helichrysum aureonitens
Creators: name: Shelembe, Bongisiwe
name: Mahlangeni, Nomfundo
name: Moodley, Roshila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Information.
Predicting Food Prices using Data from Consumer Surveys and Search
Creators: name: Jo, Jisung
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Jo, Jisung
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: consumer sentiment
subject: Internet search
subject: food prices
subject: forecasting

description: Predicting future food prices is important not only for projecting and adjusting the cost of government programs but also for business and household planning. This study asks whether unconventional consumer-oriented measures might be useful in the predicting Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Food and Beverages Consumer Price Index (CPI). We investigate the ability of Internet search-based index related to food prices (the Google trends index) and survey-based sentiment indices (the index of consumer sentiment) to predict changes in food-related BLS prices from January 2004 to July 2015. We consider several forecasting models and find that a vector autoregression model (VAR) results in the lowest root mean square error and mean absolute percentage error. We also ask whether our model can out predict USDA Economic Research Service food-related CPI forecasts. Rolling window comparison and encompassing tests are conducted, and we find that our new model including consumer-oriented measures outperforms the USDA model in terms of predictive accuracy.
FKIMNet: A Finger Dorsal Image Matching Network Comparing Component (Major, Minor and Nail) Matching with Holistic (Finger Dorsal) Matching
Creators: name: Thapar, Daksh
name: Jaswal, Gaurav
name: Nigam, Aditya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current finger knuckle image recognition systems, often require users to place fingers' major or minor joints flatly towards the capturing sensor. To extend these systems for user non-intrusive application scenarios, such as consumer electronics, forensic, defence etc, we suggest matching the full dorsal fingers, rather than the major/ minor region of interest (ROI) alone. In particular, this paper makes a comprehensive study on the comparisons between full finger and fusion of finger ROI's for finger knuckle image recognition. These experiments suggest that using full-finger, provides a more elegant solution. Addressing the finger matching problem, we propose a CNN (convolutional neural network) which creates a $128$-D feature embedding of an image. It is trained via. triplet loss function, which enforces the L2 distance between the embeddings of the same subject to be approaching zero, whereas the distance between any 2 embeddings of different subjects to be at least a margin. For precise training of the network, we use dynamic adaptive margin, data augmentation, and hard negative mining. In distinguished experiments, the individual performance of finger, as well as weighted sum score level fusion of major knuckle, minor knuckle, and nail modalities have been computed, justifying our assumption to consider full finger as biometrics instead of its counterparts. The proposed method is evaluated using two publicly available finger knuckle image datasets i.e., PolyU FKP dataset and PolyU Contactless FKI Datasets.
description: Accepted in IJCNN 2019
MOESM1 of Efficacy of insecticides used in indoor residual spraying for malaria control: an experimental trial on various surfaces in a “test house”
Creators: name: Corrêa, Ana
name: Galardo, Allan
name: Lima, Luana
name: Câmara, Daniel
name: Müller, Josiane
name: Jéssica Barroso
name: Lapouble, Oscar
name: Cynara Rodovalho
name: Kaio Ribeiro
name: Lima, José
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1: Climate data for each experiment. Phase 1 occurred from October 2014 to April 2015 and phase 2 from May 2015 to March 2016.
Die Fauna von Württemberg. Die Käfer. (Fortsetzung)
Creators: name: Trappen, Arthur von der
Publisher: name: - NO PUBLISHER DEFINED -
Year: 1933

description: Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg : zugl. Jahrbuch d. Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde in Stuttgart
description: Bd. 89, 1933
Additional file 2 of A comparative study of the prevalence of myopia and behavioral changes in primary school students
Creators: name: Xiao, Haishao
name: Jiang, Dandan
name: Wang, Yanhui
name: Sun, Bing
name: Li, Chunchun
name: Lin, Yaoyao
name: Liu, Linjie
name: Huang, Xiaoqiong
name: Vasudevan, Balamurali
name: Chen, Yanyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Hematology

description: Additional file 2: SupplementaryTable 1.Comparison of SER and AL (AL/CR) in myopia or non-myopia between two groups.
MOESM2 of Optimization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae α-galactosidase production and application in the degradation of raffinose family oligosaccharides
Creators: name: María-Efigenia Álvarez-Cao
name: María-Esperanza Cerdán
name: María-Isabel González-Siso
name: Becerra, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. ANOVA of ScAGal expression systems, using YPHSM as the culture medium.
Development of a Tabu Search meta-heuristic for picker routing in U-shaped order picking zones
Creators: name: Häder, Jonas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: U-Form, Kommissionierung, Optimierung, Tabu-Suche, Verbesserung, First-come-first-serve, Sweep, Heuristik, Metaheuristik, Warenhaus, Lagerhaus, Logistik, U-form, order, picking, optimization, Tabu-Search, improvement, heuristic, meta-heuristic, warehouse, logistics

description: Within this seminar paper the Tabu-Search metaheuristic is investigated on the problem of routing within a U-shaped picker zone by developing a problem-specific algorithm with respect to feasibility and efficiency. The parameters of the initial solution with either a First-come-first-serve or a Sweep-heuristic, the distribution of the items as a random distribution and as an ABC-distribution in the warehouse and the size in horizontal length, vertical length and height of the picker zone with respect to the change in path length are investigated. These investigations showed that the Tabu-Search could always find some improvements within a set, which were in the range of 5% to 60% depending on the parameters, but often no improvements were found for singular solutions. These improvements were within the given parameters also mostly consistent, and the Tabu-Search metaheuristic can find application in real warehouses.
Oltremare. Mappare il sacro attraverso la penna del pellegrino medievale
Creators: name: Cuscunà, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pilgrimage literature
Travel routes
Way to Holy Land

description: This contribution explores the development and classification of medieval pilgrimage literature, examining its origins in the classical genres of itineraria and descriptiones. These genres, initially focused on providing practical information about travel routes and detailed descriptions of urban landscapes, gradually evolved to encompass the spiritual and devotional aspects of pilgrimages, particularly to the Holy Land. This article focuses primarily on the 14th and 15th centuries, which are regarded as fully mature periods from a formal standpoint in the development of pilgrimage literature, highlighting the challenges in classifying these works because of their composite nature. Despite their formal similarities to classical odeporic literature, pilgrimage diaries diverge substantially in content and purpose, emphasizing personal experience and spiritual reflection. The study provides an embryonic classification of the materials collected so far, offering a thematic division through literary and philological commentary. The analysis concludes with reflections on how these texts contributed to shaping the perception of the Holy Land in medieval Christian consciousness.
Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light
Creators: name: Budker, D.
name: Kimball, D. F.
name: Yashchuk, V. V.
name: Zolotorev, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A magnetometric technique is demonstrated that may be suitable for precision measurements of fields ranging from the sub-microgauss level to above the Earth field. It is based on resonant nonlinear magneto-optical rotation caused by atoms contained in a vapor cell with anti-relaxation wall coating. Linearly polarized, frequency-modulated laser light is used for optical pumping and probing. If the time-dependent optical rotation is measured at the first harmonic of the modulation frequency, ultra-narrow (~a few Hz) resonances are observed at near-zero magnetic fields, and at fields where the Larmor frequency coincides with half the light modulation frequency. Upon optimization, the sensitivity of the technique is expected to exceed 10^{-11} G/sqrt{Hz}.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Effects of Ringed Structures and Dust Size Growth on Millimeter Observations of Protoplanetary Disks
Creators: name: Li, Ya-Ping
name: Li, Hui
name: Ricci, Luca
name: Li, Shengtai
name: Birnstiel, Tilman
name: Isella, Andrea
name: Ansdell, Megan
name: Yuan, Feng
name: Drazkowska, Joanna
name: Stammler, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The growth of solids from sub-micron to millimeter and centimeter sizes is the early step toward the formation of planets inside protoplanetary disks (PPDs). However, such processes and their potential impact on the later stages of solid growth are still poorly understood. In this work, we test the hypothesis that most disks contain at least one ringed structure with a relative small radius. We have carried out a large family of 1D two-fluid (gas+dust) hydrodynamical simulations by evolving the gas and dust motion self-consistently while allowing dust size to evolve via coagulation and fragmentation. We investigate the joint effects of ringed structures and dust size growth on the overall sub-millimeter and millimeter (mm) flux and spectral index of PPDs. Ringed structures slow down the dust radial drift and speed up the dust growth. In particular, we find that those unresolved disks with a high fragmentation velocity ($\sim10\ {\rm m~s^{-1}}$) and a high dust surface density ($\sim10\ {\rm g\ cm^{-2}}$ in the ring) can have mm spectral indices as low as $\sim2.0$, consistent with mm observations of faint disks in nearby star forming regions. Furthermore, disks with more than one ringed structure can potentially reproduce brighter disks with spectral indices lower than $\sim2.5$. Future multi-wavelength high-resolution observations of these low spectral index sources can be used to test the existence of the ringed structures in the unresolved disks and differentiate the effects of dust size growth from optical depth.
description: 18 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ
MPEC 2025-H125 : 2025 HY2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 HY2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
MOESM1 of Contribuições da vitamina D no tratamento de sintomas depressivos e fatores de risco cardiovascular: protocolo de estudo para um ensaio clínico randomizado, duplo-cego e controlado por placebo
Creators: name: Porto, Catarina
name: Silva, Tatiana Paula Santana Da
name: Everton Sougey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Arquivo adicional 1. Lista de verificação do SPIRIT 2013: itens recomendados para tratar em um protocolo de ensaio clínico e documentos relacionados. (DOC 123 kb)
Explaining Crime and Criminal Careers: the DEA Model of Situational Action Theory
Creators: name: Wikström, Per-Olof H.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Original Article
Crime
Criminal careers
Causes
Causal mechanisms
Situational action theory
The developmental ecological action model

description: Funder: University of Cambridge
description: Abstract: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to outline Situational Action Theory (SAT) and its Developmental Ecological Action Model (DEA model) as applied to the explanation of criminal careers. The DEA model of SAT was first presented by Wikström in 2005, [34]), and subsequently refined in Wikström and Treiber in 2018, [43]), and is further elaborated in this paper. Methods: This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the role of crime causation in the explanation of criminal careers and pathways in crime. The central argument is that if we want to explain stability and change in people’s crime involvement we first have to understand what factors and processes move people to commit acts of crime. Only then can we adequately assess what factors and processes are involved in the explanation of criminal careers and people’s differential pathways (trajectories) in crime. Results: The DEA model of SAT address some of the main limitations of current dominant explanatory approaches in Developmental and Life-Course (DLC) Criminology [39], and champions a general, dynamic and mechanism-based account of the causes of crime [38], and the drivers of criminal careers [47]. It integrates and extends key insights from two great but poorly amalgamated traditions in the study of crime and its causes: the individual/developmental and ecological/environmental traditions. It provides a new approach to the study and explanation of crime and criminal careers with implications for how we approach the problem of crime prevention policy and practise.
Comparative Advantage or Competitive Advantage in Explaining Agricultural Trade?
Creators: name: Moon, Wanki
name: Pino, Gabriel
name: Moon, Wanki
name: Pino, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agricultural Trade
subject: Comparative Advantage
subject: Competitive Advantage
subject: the Role of the State

description: Comparative advantage is perhaps one of the most celebrated concept/theory in the history of economics since its birth in the late 18th century. It has dominated the field of international trade not only in academics but also in economic/development policy circles. International trade in agriculture, however, has been a notable exception. Agricultural protectionism disallowed the theory of comparative advantage to be valid in explaining agricultural trade. This paper attempts to shed light on the role of the state in determining international competitiveness of agricultural commodities. Farmers are neither the ones who make decisions whether or not to enter international markets nor are the ones who invest in R&D and develop new technologies with the goal of enhancing international competitiveness. Liberalizing trade is likely to send signals first to trading corporations, grain handlers, and governments and transmitted to farmers indirectly. Freer trade would initiate the process of specialization of production across the world, generating benefits in terms of greater production and lower prices, but offering little additional incentive for individual farm producers to reduce costs or adopt new technologies for the purpose of enhancing export opportunities (hence, lacking the creative destruction processes like in the manufacturing sector in which firm level strategies would determine international competitiveness). However, states may compete with each other to expand their exports or to decrease their dependence on food imports with strategic investments in agricultural infrastructure. The point is that state level strategies are likely to determine the pattern of agricultural trade in the long run.
Systematics of flux tubes in the dual Ginzburg-Landau theory and Casimir scaling hypothesis: folklore and lattice facts
Creators: name: Koma, Yoshiaki
name: Koma, Miho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ratios between string tensions $σ_D$ of color-electric flux tubes in higher and fundamental SU(3) representations, $d_{D} \equiv σ_{D}/σ_{\bf 3}$, are systematically studied in a Weyl symmetric formulation of the DGL theory. The ratio is found to depend on the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) parameter, $κ\equiv m_χ/m_{B}$, the mass ratio between monopoles ($m_χ$) and dual gauge bosons ($m_{B}$). While the ratios $d_{D}$ follow a simple flux counting rule in the Bogomol'nyi limit, $κ=1.0$, systematic deviations appear with increasing $κ$ due to interactions between fundamental flux inside a higher representation flux tube. We find that in a type-II dual superconducting vacuum near $κ= 3.0$ this leads to a consistent description of the ratios $d_{D}$ observed in lattice QCD simulations.
description: 4 pages, 1 eps figure. Title and contents are modified. The version accepted for publication in Eur.Phys.J.C
MOESM1 of Optimization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae α-galactosidase production and application in the degradation of raffinose family oligosaccharides
Creators: name: María-Efigenia Álvarez-Cao
name: María-Esperanza Cerdán
name: María-Isabel González-Siso
name: Becerra, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Oligonucleotides used in this study.
The essential elements of dust evolution: A viable solution to the interstellar oxygen depletion problem?
Creators: name: Jones, A. P.
name: Ysrad, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There remain many open questions relating to the depletion of elements into dust, e.g., exactly how are C and O incorporated into dust in dense clouds and, in particular, what drives the disappearance of oxygen in the denser interstellar medium? This work is, in part, an attempt to explain the apparently anomalous incorporation of O atoms into dust in dense clouds. We re-visit the question of the depletion of the elements incorporated into the carbonaceous component of interstellar dust, i.e., C, H, O, N and S, in the light of recent analyses of the organics in comets, meteorites and interplanetary dust particles. We find that oxygen could be combined with ~ 10 to 20 % of the carbon in the dust in dense regions in the form of a difficult to observe, organic carbonate, which could explain the unaccounted for 170-255 ppm oxygen depletion. We conclude that, while C, O and N atoms are depleted into an amorphous a-C:H:O:N phase, we posit that a significant fraction of C and O atoms could be sequestered into an organic carbonate, which provides a viable solution to the oxygen depletion problem. Further, the thermal or photolytic decomposition of this carbonate may have a bearing on the formation of CO_2 in the ISM.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
Logarithmic Corrections to Black Hole Entropy and AdS/CFT Correspondence
Creators: name: Mukherji, Sudipta
name: Pal, Shesansu Sekhar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the correction to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula for five dimensional AdS-Schwarzschild black holes due to thermodynamic fluctuations. The result is then compared with the boundary gauge theory entropy corrections via AdS/CFT correspondence. We then further generalise our analysis for the rotating black hole in five dimensional AdS space.
description: 7 pp. Accepted for publication in JHEP
A Message-Passing Interpretation of Adjoint Logic
Creators: name: Pruiksma, Klaas
name: Pfenning, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a system of session types based on adjoint logic which generalize standard binary session types. Our system allows us to uniformly capture several new behaviors in the space of asynchronous message-passing communication, including multicast, where a process sends a single message to multiple clients, replicable services, which have multiple clients and replicate themselves on-demand to handle requests from those clients, and cancellation, where a process discards a channel without communicating along it. We provide session fidelity and deadlock-freedom results for this system, from which we then derive a logically justified form of garbage collection.
description: In Proceedings PLACES 2019, arXiv:1904.00396
Minimising Insecticide Application in the Control of Insect Pests of Cowpea (Vigna Unguiculata (L) WALP) in Delta State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Egho, E. O.
name: Enujeke, E. C.
name: Egho, E. O.
name: Enujeke, E. C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: Many commercial cowpea farmers control insect pests on cowpea with synthetic chemicals and may sometimes spray their farms during the growing season as many as 8 to 10 times. This leads to health hazards and environmental pollution. The present study was conducted to reduce the number of times, cypermethrin (conventional chemical) is applied before harvest and still, produce the expected cowpea grains. The experiments were carried out in two agro-ecological zones - Asaba and Abraka of Delta State during the late cropping season. The experiments consisted of 4 treatments - cowpea plots sprayed 4 times (at 7 days’ intervals), cowpea plots sprayed 5 times (at 10 days’ intervals), cowpea plots whose insect infestation were monitored before chemical application and control plots (without chemical treatment). Each treatment was replicated 3 times. The experiments were organised into a randomised complete block design (RCBD). The results indicated that cypermethrin controlled the major insect pests of cowpea. Second, grain yield was high at both locations; significant differences did not exist (P>0.05) in insect number and grain yield among the treatments. The study provides the evidence that (i) high cowpea grain yield is obtained at reduced number of chemical application of 4 or 5 times during the growing season (ii) Grain yield was significantly (P<0.05) higher at Abraka with1400.60kg ha-1 than Asaba (714.40kg ha-1) during the late cropping season.
Contrasting patterns of longitudinal population dynamics and antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in two priority bacterial pathogens over 7 years in a single center
Creators: name: Ellington, Matthew J.
name: Heinz, Eva
name: Wailan, Alexander M.
name: Dorman, Matthew J.
name: De Goffau, Marcus
name: Cain, Amy K.
name: Henson, Sonal P.
name: Gleadall, Nicholas
name: Boinett, Christine J.
name: Dougan, Gordon
name: Brown, Nicholas M.
name: Woodford, Neil
name: Parkhill, Julian
name: Török, M. Estée
name: Peacock, Sharon J.
name: Thomson, Nicholas R.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Research
Resistance mechanisms
Population dynamics
Intrinsic resistance
Plasmid diversity

description: Abstract: Background: Two of the most important pathogens contributing to the global rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae. Despite this, most of our knowledge about the changing patterns of disease caused by these two pathogens is based on studies with limited timeframes that provide few insights into their population dynamics or the dynamics in AMR elements that they can carry. Results: We investigate the population dynamics of two priority AMR pathogens over 7 years between 2007 and 2012 in a major UK hospital, spanning changes made to UK national antimicrobial prescribing policy in 2007. Between 2006 and 2012, K. pneumoniae showed epidemiological cycles of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) lineages being replaced approximately every 2 years. This contrasted E. cloacae where there was no temporally changing pattern, but a continuous presence of the mixed population. Conclusions: The differing patterns of clonal replacement and acquisition of mobile elements shows that the flux in the K. pneumoniae population was linked to the introduction of globally recognized MDR clones carrying drug resistance markers on mobile elements. However, E. cloacae carries a chromosomally encoded ampC conferring resistance to front-line treatments and shows that MDR plasmid acquisition in E. cloacae was not indicative of success in the hospital. This led to markedly different dynamics in the AMR populations of these two pathogens and shows that the mechanism of the resistance and its location in the genome or mobile elements is crucial to predict population dynamics of opportunistic pathogens in clinical settings.
The Yamada-Watanabe Theorem for mild solutions to stochastic partial differential equations
Creators: name: Tappe, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15, 60H10

description: We prove the Yamada-Watanabe Theorem for semilinear stochastic partial differential equations with path-dependent coefficients. The so-called "method of the moving frame" allows us to reduce the proof to the Yamada-Watanabe Theorem for stochastic differential equations in infinite dimensions.
description: 12 pages
Electrostatic force driven helium insertion into ammonia and water crystals under pressure
Creators: name: Bai, Yihong
name: Liu, Zhen
name: Botana, Jorge
name: Yan, Dadong
name: Lin, Hai-Qing
name: Sun, Jian
name: Pickard, Chris J.
name: Needs, Richard J.
name: Miao, Mao-Sheng
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
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description: Abstract: Helium, ammonia and ice are among the major components of giant gas planets, and predictions of their chemical structures are therefore crucial in predicting planetary dynamics. Here we demonstrate a strong driving force originating from the alternation of the electrostatic interactions for helium to react with crystals of polar molecules such as ammonia and ice. We show that ammonia and helium can form thermodynamically stable compounds above 45 GPa, while ice and helium can form thermodynamically stable compounds above 300 GPa. The changes in the electrostatic interactions provide the driving force for helium insertion under high pressure, but the mechanism is very different to those that occur in ammonia and ice. This work extends the reactivity of helium into new types of compounds and demonstrates the richness of the chemistry of this most stable element in the periodic table.
Towards Practical Private Information Retrieval from MDS Array Codes
Creators: name: Li, Jie
name: Karpuk, David
name: Hollanti, Camilla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of privately retrieving one out of $M$ original files from $N$ severs, i.e., each individual server learns nothing about the file that the user is requesting. Usually, the $M$ files are replicated or encoded by a maximum distance separable (MDS) code and then stored across the $N$ servers. Compared to mere replication, MDS coded servers can significantly reduce the storage overhead. Particularly, PIR from minimum storage regenerating (MSR) coded servers can simultaneously reduce the repair bandwidth when repairing failed servers. Existing PIR schemes from MSR coded servers either require large sub-packetization levels or are not capacity-achieving. In this paper, a PIR protocol from MDS array codes is proposed, subsuming PIR from MSR coded servers as a special case. Particularly, the case of non-colluding, honest-but-curious servers is considered. The retrieval rate of the new PIR protocol achieves the capacity of PIR from MDS/MSR coded servers. By choosing different MDS array codes, the new PIR protocol can have some advantages when compared with existing protocols, e.g., 1) small sub-packetization, 2) (near-) optimal repair bandwidth, 3) implementable over the binary field $\mathbf{F}_2$.
description: Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Communications
Dynamically generated hierarchies in games of competition
Creators: name: Brown, Barton L.
name: Meyer-Ortmanns, Hildegard
name: Pleimling, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Spatial many-species predator-prey systems have been shown to yield very rich space-time patterns. This observation begs the question whether there exist universal mechanisms for generating this type of emerging complex patterns in non-equilibrium systems. In this work we investigate the possibility of dynamically generated hierarchies in predator-prey systems. We analyze a nine-species model with competing interactions and show that the studied situation results in the spontaneous formation of spirals within spirals. The parameter dependence of these intriguing nested spirals is elucidated. This is achieved through the numerical investigation of various quantities (correlation lengths, densities of empty sites, Fourier analysis of species densities, interface fluctuations) that allows to gain a rather complete understanding of the spatial arrangements and the temporal evolution of the system. A possible generalization of the interaction scheme yielding dynamically generated hierarchies is discussed. As cyclic interactions occur spontaneously in systems with competing strategies, the mechanism discussed in this work should contribute to our understanding of various social and biological systems.
description: 28 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in the Physical Review E
Revisiting Legal Capital
Creators: name: Ferran, Eilís
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
Legal capital
Solvency standards
Short termism
Distributions
Financial reporting
Corporate governance

description: Abstract: This paper argues for the UK to revisit the legal capital (maintenance of capital) doctrine. Leaving the EU could present an opportunity but to reform legal capital just because Brexit may make it possible to do so would have little merit. Three more substantial reasons for revisiting legal capital are developed: the evidence against legal capital being an effective bulwark against short termist corporate behaviour has continued to stack up; difficulties associated with applying legal rules on distributions in the context of modern financial reporting requirements have persisted; and we have a clearer sense of how creditors’ interests are affected by moving away from legal capital to solvency standards. The paper locates the need to revisit legal capital within the broader agenda for a system of effective corporate governance and regulation that supports economically worthwhile and sustainable business activity.
Experimental determination of the $6s^2 ^1S_0 -> 5d6s ^3 D_1$ magnetic-dipole transition amplitude in atomic ytterbium
Creators: name: Stalnaker, J. E.
name: Budker, D.
name: DeMille, D. P.
name: Freedman, S. J.
name: Yashchuk, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a measurement of the highly forbidden $6s^2 ^1S_0 \to 5d6s ^3 D_1$ magnetic-dipole transition in atomic ytterbium using the Stark-interference technique. This amplitude is important in interpreting a future parity nonconservation experiment that exploits the same transition. We find $| < 5d6s ^3 D_1 | M1 | 6s^2 ^1S_0 > | ~ = ~ 1.33(6)_{Stat}(20)_β \times 10^{-4} μ_0$, where the larger uncertainty comes from the previously measured vector transition polarizability $β$. The $M1$ amplitude is small and should not limit the precision of the parity nonconservation experiment.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures Paper resubmitted with minor corrections and additions based on comments from referees
Additional file 1: of Baicalein ameliorates pristane-induced lupus nephritis via activating Nrf2/HO-1 in myeloid-derived suppressor cells
Creators: name: Li, Dan
name: Shi, Guoping
name: Wang, Jiali
name: Zhang, Dongya
name: Pan, Yuchen
name: Dou, Huan
name: Hou, Yayi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S1. Baicalein attenuates inflammation of lung and joint in pristane-induced lupus mice. BALB/c WT mice (n = 7/group) were given a single injection of 0.5 ml pristane and kept for 5 months. Then mice were randomly divided into three groups: vehicle, 25 mg/kg baicalein, 100 mg/kg baicalein and kept for another 2 months. (A) Lung sections from each groups showed histologic differences. (B) Representative histological sections of tarsal hind paw joints showing normal appearance and severe inflammatory infiltration and bone loss. Data represent the mean scores ± SEM. *P ≤ 0.05, **P ≤ 0.01, ***P ≤ 0.001. n = 7 animals per group. Figure S2. Baicalein attenuates the serum level of pro-inflammatory cytokines in lupus mice. (A) The level of IFN-γ in serum. (B) The level of IFN-α in serum. (C) The level of IL-17A in serum. (D) The level of IL-6 in serum. Data represent the mean scores ± SEM. *P ≤ 0.05, **P ≤ 0.01, ***P ≤ 0.001. n = 7 animals per group. Figure S3. Baicalein reduces the expansion of inflammatory cell in pristane-induced lupus mice. (A) The percentage of total T cells in spleen. (B) The percentage of activated T cells in spleen. (C) The percentage of activated B cells in spleen. (D) The percentage of macrophage cells in spleen. (E) The percentage of mature dendritic cells in spleen. (F) The percentage of macrophage cells in kidney. Data represent the mean scores ± SEM. *P ≤ 0.05, **P ≤ 0.01, ***P ≤ 0.001. n = 7 animals per group. Figure S4. The effect of baicalein on MDSCs apoptosis. (A) BM cells from 6-8w female mice were cultured for 4 days with GM-CSF (40 ng/ml) and IL-6 (40 ng/ml), the proportions of CD11b+Gr-1+ MDSCs were analyzed by flow cytometry. (B) The statistical results of the frequency of MDSCs. (C) MDSCs were treated with BA (0.01 μM, 0.02 μM, 0.04 μM, 0.06 μM) for 24 h and the apoptosis cells were detected with Annexin V by flow cytometry. (D) The cell viability was determined by a CCK8 assay. (E) The cell cycle was determined by flow cytometry. Data represent the mean scores ± SEM of triplicate experiments. *P ≤ 0.05, **P ≤ 0.01, ***P ≤ 0.001. Table S1. Primers of mouse gene used for real-time RT-PCR. (DOCX 4600 kb)
Physics of radiation mediated shocks and its applications to GRBs, supernovae, and neutron star mergers
Creators: name: Levinson, Amir
name: Nakar, Ehud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first electromagnetic signal observed in different types of cosmic explosions is released upon emergence of a shock created in the explosion from the opaque envelope enshrouding the central source. Notable examples are the early emission from various types of supernovae and low luminosity GRBs, the prompt photospheric emission in long GRBs, and the gamma-ray emission that accompanied the gravitational wave signal in neutron star mergers. In all of these examples, the shock driven by the explosion is mediated by the radiation trapped inside it, and its velocity and structure, that depend on environmental conditions, dictate the characteristics of the observed electromagnetic emission at early times, and potentially also their neutrino emission. Much efforts have been devoted in recent years to develop a detailed theory of radiation mediated shocks in an attempt to predict the properties of the early emission in the aforementioned systems. These efforts are timely in view of the anticipated detection rate of shock breakout candidates by upcoming transient factories, and the potential detection of a gamma-ray flash from shock breakout in neutron star mergers like GW170817. This review aims at providing a comprehensive overview of the theory and applications of radiation mediated shocks, starting from basic principles. The classification of shock solutions, which are governed by the conditions prevailing in each class of objects, and the methods used to solve the shock equations in different regimes will be described, with particular emphasis on the observational diagnostics. The applications to supernovae, low-luminosity GRBs, long GRBs, neutron star mergers, and neutrino emission will be highlighted.
description: Invited review, Physics Reports
Microfluidic-assisted preparation of RGD-decorated nanoparticles: exploring integrin-facilitated uptake in cancer cell lines
Creators: name: Rios De La Rosa, Julio M.
name: Spadea, Alice
name: Donno, Roberto
name: Lallana, Enrique
name: Lu, Yu
name: Puri, Sanyogitta
name: Caswell, Patrick
name: Lawrence, M. Jayne
name: Ashford, Marianne
name: Tirelli, Nicola
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
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description: Funder: AstraZeneca; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004325
description: Funder: University of Manchester; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000770
description: Abstract: This study is about fine tuning the targeting capacity of peptide-decorated nanoparticles to discriminate between cells that express different integrin make-ups. Using microfluidic-assisted nanoprecipitation, we have prepared poly(lactic acid-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanoparticles with a PEGylated surface decorated with two different arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) peptides: one is cyclic (RGDFC) and has specific affinity towards αvβ3 integrin heterodimers; the other is linear (RGDSP) and is reported to bind equally αvβ3 and α5β1. We have then evaluated the nanoparticle internalization in two cell lines with a markedly different integrin fingerprint: ovarian carcinoma A2780 (almost no αvβ3, moderate in α5β1) and glioma U87MG (very high in αvβ3, moderate/high in α5β1). As expected, particles with cyclic RGD were heavily internalized by U87MG (proportional to the peptide content and abrogated by anti-αvβ3) but not by A2780 (same as PEGylated particles). The linear peptide, on the other hand, did not differentiate between the cell lines, and the uptake increase vs. control particles was never higher than 50%, indicating a possible low and unselective affinity for various integrins. The strong preference of U87MG for cyclic (vs. linear) peptide-decorated nanoparticles was shown in 2D culture and further demonstrated in spheroids. Our results demonstrate that targeting specific integrin make-ups is possible and may open the way to more precise treatment, but more efforts need to be devoted to a better understanding of the relation between RGD structure and their integrin-binding capacity.
Bose-Einstein condensation of deconfined spinons in two dimensions
Creators: name: Iaizzi, Adam
name: Scammell, Harley D
name: Sushkov, Oleg P
name: Sandvik, Anders W
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transition between the Néel antiferromagnet and the valence-bond solid state in two dimensions has become a paradigmatic example of deconfined quantum criticality, a non-Landau transition characterized by fractionalized excitations (spinons). We consider an extension of this scenario whereby the deconfined spinons are subject to a magnetic field. The primary purpose is to identify the exotic scenario of a Bose-Einstein condensate of spinons. We employ quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the \mbox{$J$-$Q$} model with a magnetic field and perform a quantum field theoretic analysis of the magnetic field and temperature dependence of thermodynamic quantities. The combined analysis provides compelling evidence for the Bose-Einstein condensation of spinons and also demonstrates an extended temperature regime in which the system is best described as a gas of spinons interacting with an emergent gauge field.
description: Published in Phys. Rev. B March 11, 2020