cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Polydisperse polymer brushes: internal structure, critical behavior, and interaction with flow
Creators: name: Qi, Shuanhu
name: Klushin, Leonid I.
name: Skvortsov, Alexander M.
name: Schmid, Friederike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of polydispersity on the structure of polymer brushes by analytical theory, a numerical self-consistent field approach, and Monte Carlo simulations. The polydispersity is represented by the Schulz-Zimm chain-length distribution. We specifically focus on three different polydispersities representing sharp, moderate and extremely wide chain length distributions and derive explicit analytical expressions for the chain end distributions in these brushes. The results are in very good agreement with numerical data obtained with self-consistent field calculations and Monte Carlo simulations. With increasing polydispersity, the brush density profile changes from convex to concave, and for given average chain length $N_n$ and grafting density $σ$, the brush height $H$ is found to scale as $(H/H_{\mathrm{mono}}-1)\propto(N_w/N_n-1)^{1/2}$ over a wide range of polydispersity indices $N_w/N_n$ (here $H_{\mathrm{mono}}$ is the height of the corresponding monodisperse brush. Chain end fluctuations are found to be strongly suppressed already at very small polydispersity. Based on this observation, we introduce the concept of the brush as a near-critical system with two parameters (scaling variables), $(N_{n}σ^{2/3})^{-1}$ and $(N_w/N_n-1)^{1/2}$, controlling the distance from the critical point. This approach provides a good description of the simulation data. Finally we study the hydrodynamic penetration length $l_\mathrm{p}$ for brush-coated surfaces in flow. We find that it generally increases with polydispersity. The scaling behavior crosses over from $l_\mathrm{p}\sim N_\mathrm{n}^{1/2}σ^{-1/6}$ for monodisperse and weakly polydisperse brushes to $l_\mathrm{p}\sim N_{n}^{2/3}$ for strongly polydisperse brushes.
description: 21pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Macromolecues
Low-acceleration dwarf galaxies as tests of quantised inertia
Creators: name: McCulloch, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way appear to be gravitationally bound, but their stars' orbital motion seems too fast to allow this given their visible mass. This is akin to the larger-scale galaxy rotation problem. In this paper, a modification of inertia called quantised inertia or MiHsC (Modified inertia due to a Hubble-scale Casimir effect) which correctly predicts larger galaxy rotations without dark matter is tested on eleven dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, for which mass and velocity data are available. Quantised inertia slightly outperforms MoND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) in predicting the velocity dispersion of these systems, and has the fundamental advantage over MoND that it does not need an adjustable parameter.
description: 9 pages, 2 tables, 1 figure
MOESM2 of Screening for functional IRESes using α-complementation system of β-galactosidase in Pichia pastoris
Creators: name: Huang, Yide
name: Zhang, Yafei
name: Li, Suhuan
name: Lin, Ting
name: Wu, Jingwen
name: Lin, Yao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Additional Table and Figure.
Silk fibroin porous scaffolds by N2O foaming
Creators: name: Devid Maniglio
name: Bonani, Walter
name: Migliaresi, Claudio
name: Motta, Antonella
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Silk fibroin has acquired increasing interest for biomedical applications, and namely for the fabrication of scaffolds for tissue engineering, because of its highly positive biological interaction and the possibility to adapt the material to several application requirements by adopting different fabrication methods, in order to make films, sponges, fibers, nets or gels with predictable degradation times. For tissue engineering, in most cases porous scaffolds are required, in some cases possibly in situ forming and therefore fabricated in mild body-compatible conditions. In this work, we present a novel one-step method for the preparation of silk fibroin foams starting from water solutions and using low-pressure nitrous oxide gas as foaming agent. This foaming technique allows preparing fibroin porous scaffolds with easily tunable porosity, in mild processing conditions with the use of a relatively inert foaming agent saturating a fibroin water solution, that could be occasionally injected through a thin needle in the implantation site where expansion and foaming would occur. Optimal foaming processing conditions have been investigated, and the prepared foams have been characterized with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) compressive mechanical and rheological properties measurements, and by scanning electron microscopy and microCT.
Understanding In-line Probing Experiments by Modeling Cleavage of Non-reactive RNA Nucleotides
Creators: name: Mlýnský, Vojtěch
name: Bussi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is involved in many regulatory and catalytic processes in the cell. The function of any RNA molecule is intimately related with its structure. In-line probing experiments provide valuable structural datasets for a variety of RNAs and are used to characterize conformational changes in riboswitches. However, the structural determinants that lead to differential reactivities in unpaired nucleotides have not been investigated yet. In this work we used a combination of theoretical approaches, i.e., classical molecular dynamics simulations, multiscale quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations, and enhanced sampling techniques in order to compute and interpret the differential reactivity of individual residues in several RNA motifs including members of the most important GNRA and UNCG tetraloop families. Simulations on the multi ns timescale are required to converge the related free-energy landscapes. The results for uGAAAg and cUUCGg tetraloops and double helices are compared with available data from in-line probing experiments and show that the introduced technique is able to distinguish between nucleotides of the uGAAAg tetraloop based on their structural predispositions towards phosphodiester backbone cleavage. For the cUUCGg tetraloop, more advanced ab initio calculations would be required. This study is the first attempt to computationally classify chemical probing experiments and paves the way for an identification of tertiary structures based on the measured reactivity of non-reactive nucleotides.
The role of defect and splitting in finite generation of extensions of associated graded rings along a valuation
Creators: name: Cutkosky, Steven Dale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14B05, 14E22, 13B10, 11S15

description: Suppose that $R$ is a 2 dimensional excellent local domain with quotient field $K$, $K^*$ is a finite separable extension of $K$ and $S$ is a 2 dimensional local domain with quotient field $K^*$ such that $S$ dominates $R$. Suppose that $ν^*$ is a valuation of $K^*$ such that $ν^*$ dominates $S$. Let $ν$ be the restriction of $ν^*$ to $K$. The associated graded ring ${\rm gr}_ν(R)$ was introduced by Bernard Teissier. It plays an important role in local uniformization. We show that the extension $(K,ν)\rightarrow (K^*,ν^*)$ of valued fields is without defect if and only if there exist regular local rings $R_1$ and $S_1$ such that $R_1$ is a local ring of a blow up of $R$, $S_1$ is a local ring of a blowup of $S$, $ν^*$ dominates $S_1$, $S_1$ dominates $R_1$ and the associated graded ring ${\rm gr}_{ν^*}(S_1)$ is a finitely generated ${\rm gr}_ν(R_1)$-algebra. We also investigate the role of splitting of the valuation $ν$ in $K^*$ in finite generation of the extensions of associated graded rings along the valuation. We will say that $ν$ does not split in $S$ if $ν^*$ is the unique extension of $ν$ to $K^*$ which dominates $S$. We show that if $R$ and $S$ are regular local rings, $ν^*$ has rational rank 1 and is not discrete and ${\rm gr}_{ν^*}(S)$ is a finitely generated ${\rm gr}_ν(R)$-algebra, then $ν$ does not split in $S$. We give examples showing that such a strong statement is not true when $ν$ does not satisfy these assumptions. We deduce that if $ν$ has rational rank 1 and is not discrete and if $R\rightarrow R'$ is a nontrivial sequence of quadratic transforms along $ν$, then ${\rm gr}_ν(R')$ is not a finitely generated ${\rm gr}_ν(R)$-algebra.
description: 22 pages
Optimization for the extraction of polyphenols from Inonotus obliquus and its antioxidation activity
Creators: name: Wang, Yu
name: Ouyang, Fengju
name: Teng, Chunying
name: Qu, Juanjuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Plant Biology

description: In order to study the extraction process and antioxidative activity of Inonotus obliquus polyphenols (IOP), the optimal extraction process was determined by orthogonal experiment optimization. The clearance rate of DPPH and hydroxyl radicals were used as indicators to evaluate the antioxidant activity of IOP. The results showed that the optimum extraction conditions were as follows: ethanol concentration of 50%, solid–liquid ratio of 1:20, temperature of 60 °C, and 90 min. Under these conditions, the extraction yield of IOP was 2.84%. The antioxidant capacity of extracts appeared to be IOP dose-dependent, while it also presented stronger ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP). High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC-MS) analysis indicated that the major identified polyphenol compounds extracted at the optimal conditions were ten compounds (procyanidin, caffeic acid, p-coumaric acid, isorhamnetin-3-O-glucoside, astilbin, tangeretin, gallic acid, kaempferol, quercetin, and catechin 7-xyloside). These findings indicate that I. obliquus polyphenols have the potential to be developed as a natural antioxidant and have a good application prospect.
Identification and characterization of chitinolytic bacteria isolated from a freshwater lake
Creators: name: Tran, Dinh Minh
name: Hayuki Sugimoto
name: Dzung Anh Nguyen
name: Watanabe, Takeshi
name: Suzuki, Kazushi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To develop a novel type of biocontrol agent, we focus on bacteria that are characterized by both chitinase activity and biofilm development. Chitinolytic bacteria were isolated from sediments and chitin flakes immersed in the water of a sand dune lake, Sakata, in Niigata, Japan. Thirty-one isolates from more than 5100 isolated strains were examined chitinase activity and biofilm formation. Phylogenetic analysis of these isolates based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that most isolates belonged to the family Aeromonadaceae, followed by Paenibacillaceae, Enterobacteriaceae, and Neisseriaceae. The specific activity of chitinase of four selected strains was higher than that of a reference strain. The molecular size of one chitinase produced by Andreprevotia was greater than that of typical bacterial chitinases. The dialyzed culture supernatant containing chitinases of the four strains suppressed hyphal growth of Trichoderma reesei. These results indicate that these four strains are good candidates for biocontrol agents. The dialyzed culture supernatant containing chitinases of the four isolated strains suppressed hyphal growth of Trichoderma reesei.
A Versatile, Sound Tool for Simplifying Definitions
Creators: name: Coglio, Alessandro
name: Kaufmann, Matt
name: Smith, Eric W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a tool, simplify-defun, that transforms the definition of a given function into a simplified definition of a new function, providing a proof checked by ACL2 that the old and new functions are equivalent. When appropriate it also generates termination and guard proofs for the new function. We explain how the tool is engineered so that these proofs will succeed. Examples illustrate its utility, in particular for program transformation in synthesis and verification.
description: In Proceedings ACL2Workshop 2017, arXiv:1705.00766
FROM MONEY ILLUSIONS TO FINANCIAL INCLUSION: A SOCIAL ISSUE IN FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: AKBAR MANDELA A. YUNUS
name: ANAS ISWANTO ANWAR
name: SYAHRINULLAH
name: AYU LATIFAH ALFISYAHRIN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Money illusion, Financial Inclusion, Demand for Money, Social Students.

description: Abstract

This research is intended to know how large the contribution of income, the number of books purchased, transportation costs, the scholarship recipients and non-recipients, food costs, immigrant and non-immigrants, the changes in tuition, renting a boarding house and living in own home, the initial semester and final year students, bankable and non-bankable students, the distance of ATM and bank, the final purchase price of the book, the student’s age, the student gender and the levels of education (Graduated, Postgraduate, and Doctoral Program) in the money demand. The data used is primary data obtained from questionnaires distributed at Hasanuddin University, especially among social students. The unit of analysis in this study consisted of students (graduate, postgraduate, and doctoral program) in the social studies field in four faculties (Economics, Law, Social and Politic, and Cultural Studies). The method of analysis is the estimation of regression by the method of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS). The research findings show that the positive and significant effect of the variable income, length of study, and the last book purchase, and then the negative and significant effect of the student's gender through the demand for money. The amount of the purchase of books, transportation costs, scholarships, food expenses, domicile, the amount of tuition, residence, bankable and non-bankable, distance atm/bank, age, and education level has no significant effect on the demand for money in social students.
Evidence of shallow mitochondrial divergence in the slender armorhead, Pentaceros wheeleri (Pisces, Pentacerotidae) from the Emperor Seamount Chain
Creators: name: Bae, Seung Eun
name: Kim, Hanna
name: Seok-Gwan Choi
name: Jin-Koo Kim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Competitive overexploitation of the slender armorhead, Pentaceros wheeleri, a deep-sea fish inhabiting the Emperor Seamount Chain caused a serious population decline. Therefore, it is urgently necessary to clarify its genetic diversity and connectivity among populations of P. wheeleri for appropriate stock management. For this, we compared 677 base pairs (bp) of mitochondrial (mt) DNA control region (CR) sequences of 80 individuals from three seamounts (the Milwaukee, Kinmei, and Koko Seamounts) in the southern part of the Emperor Seamount Chain. Contrary to our expectation, the three seamount populations showed high genetic diversity, not yet reflecting effects from the recent population decline or due to mixed two clades. Analysis of molecular variance indicated no significant genetic differentiation between seamount populations, however, the neighbour-joining tree and minimum spanning network showed significant separation into two clades (K2P distance= 1.2–3.2%, ϕst = 0.5739, p Pentaceros spp. might have resulted in the initiation of divergence between these clades.
title: ADCO, Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 827
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi

description: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 827, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 827, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Dirac and Weyl fermions: from Gor'kov equations to Standard Model (in memory of Lev Petrovich Gorkov)
Creators: name: Volovik, G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gor'kov theory of superconductivity opened the application of the methods of quantum field theory to condensed matter physics. Later the results became relevant to relativistic quantum fields.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, devoted to memory of Lev Petrovich Gorkov, draft of paper under preparation for JETP Letters
MOESM1 of Deletion of low-density lipoprotein-related receptor 5 inhibits liver Cancer cell proliferation via destabilizing Nucleoporin 37
Creators: name: Chen, Jinxiao
name: Wo, Da
name: Ma, En
name: Yan, Hongwei
name: Peng, Jun
name: Zhu, Weidong
name: Fang, Yong
name: Ren, Dan-ni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1 : Figure S1. TOPflash assay showing the basal level of Wnt/β-catenin pathway activation between HCC cell line HepG2 cells and a non cancer cell line HEK293 cells. n = 3. Figure S2. Tumor formation assay following injection of HepG2 cells in SCID/bg mice after transient transfection with control, LRP5/6, or β-catenin siRNAs. n = 4. * p < 0.05, n.s. no significance, compared to si-Ctr. Figure S3. TOPflash assay showing the individual roles of LRP5 and LRP6 in regulating Wnt/β-catenin pathway. n = 3. Figure S4. Western blots showing the knockdown efficiency of all three LRP5 siRNAs, as well as LRP6 and β-catenin siRNAs. n = 3. GAPDH, loading control. Figure S5. Knockdown efficiency of all three NUP37 siRNAs as verified using real-time PCR assay (A), as well as western blot assay (B). n = 3. GAPDH, loading control. *** p < 0.001, compared to si-Ctr. Figure S6. MTT assay (A) and Photoimages (B) of Huh7 cell proliferation following knockdown of NUP37 or LRP5. n = 3. *** p < 0.001, compared to si-Ctr. Figure S7. Photoimages and quantification of HEK-293 cell proliferation following knockdown of NUP37. n = 3. ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001, compared to si-Ctr. Figure S8. MTT assay showing the decrease in cell proliferation following treatment with YAP inhibitor CA3(CIL56) in NUP37 knocked-down HepG2 cells. n = 3. ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001, compared to si-Ctr. Figure 9. Western blots showing the subcellular localization of LRP5 and NUP37. n = 3.
Spectroscopy and spin dynamics for strongly interacting few spinor bosons in one-dimensional traps
Creators: name: Liu, Yanxia
name: Chen, Shu
name: Zhang, Yunbo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a one-dimensional trapped gas of strongly interacting few spin-1 atoms which can be described by an effective spin chain Hamiltonian. Away from the SU(3) integrable point, where the energy spectrum is highly degenerate, the rules of ordering and crossing of the energy levels and the symmetry of the eigenstates in the regime of large but finite repulsion have been elucidated. We study the spin-mixing dynamics which is shown to be very sensitive to the ratio between the two channel interactions g0/g2 and the effective spin chain transfers the quantum states more perfectly than the Heisenberg bilinear-biquadratic spin chain.
description: 6 figures, 8 pages, to appear in PRA
Decrease in MAP3Ks expression enhances the cell death caused by hyperthermia
Creators: name: Enomoto, Atsushi
name: Fukasawa, Takemichi
name: Terunuma, Hiroshi
name: Nakagawa, Keiichi
name: Yoshizaki, Ayumi
name: Sato, Shinichi
name: Miyagawa, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Hyperthermia is a promising anticancer treatment modality. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the thermal sensitivity of tumor cells is largely unknown. The aim of this study was to clarify how biochemical changes triggered by heat stimulate antitumor activity. The expression levels of various MAPK members in HeLa cells with or without hyperthermia were evaluated by western blotting and RT-PCR. The intracellular Ca2+ concentration [Ca2+]i was monitored by digital imaging using CaTM-2 AM. An in vitro cleavage assay was used to determine whether calcium-dependent protease calpain cleaves MAPK components. Cell proliferation and clonogenicity were assessed in the absence or presence of siRNAs targeting MAPK members. Hyperthermia decreased the levels of MAP3K TAK1, RAF1 and MEKK2 but not of the downstream MAP2K and MAPK members. The hyperthermia-induced degradation of TAK1 and MEKK2 was rescued by either the proteasome inhibitor MG132 or the calpain inhibitor ALLN; however, RAF1 was not affected by the inhibitors. Heat induced down regulation of RAF1. Hyperthermia increased [Ca2+]i and calpain I expression. The calcium ionophore A23187 decreased TAK1 and MEKK2 levels. An in vitro cleavage assay demonstrated that TAK1 and MEKK2 are calpain I substrates. Knockdown of TAK1, RAF1 and MEKK2 suppressed cell proliferation and clonogenicity. Hyperthermia decreased the levels of MAP3K TAK1, RAF1 and MEKK2, without reduction of the downstream components in the MAP3K-MAP2K-MAPK cascade, by a calpain-dependent degradation pathway or transcriptional regulation. TAK1, RAF1 and/or MEKK2 play crucial roles in cell proliferation and clonogenicity and are potential molecular targets for hyperthermia.
Deterministic Distributed Construction of $T$-Dominating Sets in Time $T$
Creators: name: Miller, Avery
name: Pelc, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A $k$-dominating set is a set $D$ of nodes of a graph such that, for each node $v$, there exists a node $w \in D$ at distance at most $k$ from $v$. Our aim is the deterministic distributed construction of small $T$-dominating sets in time $T$ in networks modeled as undirected $n$-node graphs and under the $\cal{LOCAL}$ communication model. For any positive integer $T$, if $b$ is the size of a pairwise disjoint collection of balls of radii at least $T$ in a graph, then $b$ is an obvious lower bound on the size of a $T$-dominating set. Our first result shows that, even on rings, it is impossible to construct a $T$-dominating set of size $s$ asymptotically $b$ (i.e., such that $s/b \rightarrow 1$) in time $T$. In the range of time $T \in Θ(\log^* n)$, the size of a $T$-dominating set turns out to be very sensitive to multiplicative constants in running time. Indeed, it follows from \cite{KP}, that for time $T=γ\log^* n$ with large constant $γ$, it is possible to construct a $T$-dominating set whose size is a small fraction of $n$. By contrast, we show that, for time $T=α\log^* n $ for small constant $α$, the size of a $T$-dominating set must be a large fraction of $n$. Finally, when $T \in o (\log^* n)$, the above lower bound implies that, for any constant $x<1$, it is impossible to construct a $T$-dominating set of size smaller than $xn$, even on rings. On the positive side, we provide an algorithm that constructs a $T$-dominating set of size $n- Θ(T)$ on all graphs.
description: 13 pages
A new application for the quantification of apoplastic redox radicals of plant roots using pre-fluorescent probe
Creators: name: Ito, Yosuke
name: Yazawa, Masamichi
name: Syunsuke Kikuchi
name: Abo, Mitsuru
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: New application of fluorescence probe to detect apoplastic redox radicals from plant roots were sought. This probe can detect radicals selectively. Calibration curve for radicals was obtained using nitrogen monoxide as radical standard produced by NOC7. Apoplastic radicals released constitutively were quantified and the release rate was 60 μmol L−1 h−1. Oxidative burst triggered by chitin was distinguished from constitutive radical release.
Risk factors influencing cure of ultrasound-guided microwave ablation for primary hyperparathyroidism
Creators: name: Liu, Fangyi
name: Zang, Li
name: Liu, Yang
name: Yu, Xiaoling
name: Cheng, Zhigang
name: Han, Zhiyu
name: Yu, Jie
name: Liang, Ping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To evaluate the potential risk factors influencing cure rate of ultrasound-guided microwave ablation (MWA) for primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). Seventy five patients (25 males and 50 females; mean age, 56.80 ± 12.34; age range, 26–85) with PHPT undergoing MWA under ultrasound guidance were enrolled between May 2017 and December 2020. The cure rate and complications were evaluated after treatment. The potential factors influencing cure rate of ultrasound-guided MWA for PHPT were analyzed by univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression. Fifty six of 75 patients had normal PTH and serum calcium levels after at least 6 months after one session MWA, and the cure rate was 74.7% (56/75). 6 uncured patients received the second session MWA during follow-up, and the cure rate achieved 81.3% (61/75) after the second session MWA. Voice changes occurred in 4 patients (5.33%) and recovered within 3 months after ablation without special treatment. Nodule volume was the independent risk factor associated with cure in PHPT patients undergoing MWA, whether after one session (p = 0.0224; odds ratio, 0.67) or the second session MWA (p = 0.0408; odds ratio, 0.74). The cutoff value for nodule volume in predicting the cure was 0.96 cm3 (one session: sensitivity, 76.8%; specificity, 73.7%; the second session: sensitivity, 72.1%; specificity, 71.4%). In conclusion, parathyroid nodule volume was the independent risk factor associated with cure in PHPT patients undergoing MWA.
Broken-Symmetry Quantum Hall States in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Creators: name: Kim, Youngwook
name: Park, Jaesung
name: Song, Intek
name: Ok, Jong Mok
name: Jo, Younjung
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Choi, Hee Cheul
name: Lee, Dong Su
name: Jung, Suyong
name: Kim, Jun Sung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Twisted bilayer graphene offers a unique bilayer two-dimensional-electron system where the layer separation is only in sub-nanometer scale. Unlike Bernal-stacked bilayer, the layer degree of freedom is disentangled from spin and valley, providing eight-fold degeneracy in the low energy states. We have investigated broken-symmetry quantum Hall (QH) states and their transitions due to the interplay of the relative strength of valley, spin and layer polarizations in twisted bilayer graphene. The energy gaps of the broken-symmetry QH states show an electron-hole asymmetric behaviour, and their dependence on the induced displacement field are opposite between even and odd filling factor states. These results strongly suggest that the QH states with broken valley and spin symmetries for individual layer become hybridized via interlayer tunnelling, and the hierarchy of the QH states is sensitive to both magnetic field and displacement field due to charge imbalance between layers.
Identification of 2-phenylethanol with a rose-like odor from anal sac secretions of the small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus)
Creators: name: Tamako Miyazaki
name: Nakata, Katsushi
name: Nishimura, Takashi
name: Abe, Shintaro
name: Yamashita, Tetsuro
name: Miyazaki, Masao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) is an invasive species in Okinawa and Amami-Oshima, Japan. Major strategies for their eradication have been the use of baited traps, which suffer from decreasing efficiency with declining populations and the bycatch of native animals. To address these concerns, mongoose-specific lures are required. In this study, we aimed to identify species- and/or sex-specific compounds from anal sac secretions of small Indian mongooses. Volatile compounds emitted from male and female mongoose anal sac secretions were analyzed by thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. In addition to several fatty acids, 2-phenylethanol was identified as a minor compound, which is uncommon in mammalian secretions but a dominant odorant in roses. Female samples emitted higher levels of 2-phenylethanol than male samples did. These findings indicate that 2-phenylethanol is a female-specific volatile compound of anal sac secretions in small Indian mongooses, and it may be useful as an ingredient of mongoose-specific scent lures. 2-Phenylethanol is an indicator of female anal sac secretions in small Indian mongooses.
Size Dependence of Nanoscale Wear of Silicon Carbide
Creators: name: Tangpatjaroen, Chaiyapat
name: Grierson, David
name: Shannon, Steve
name: Jakes, Joseph E.
name: Szlufarska, Izabela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanoscale, single-asperity wear of single-crystal silicon carbide (sc-SiC) and nanocrystalline silicon carbide (nc-SiC) is investigated using single-crystal diamond nanoindenter tips and nanocrystalline diamond atomic force microscopy (AFM) tips under dry conditions, and the wear behavior is compared to that of single-crystal silicon with both thin and thick native oxide layers. We discovered a transition in the relative wear resistance of the SiC samples compared to that of Si as a function of contact size. With larger nanoindenter tips (tip radius around 370 nm), the wear resistances of both sc-SiC and nc-SiC are higher than that of Si. This result is expected from the Archard's equation because SiC is harder than Si. However, with the smaller AFM tips (tip radius around 20 nm), the wear resistances of sc-SiC and nc-SiC are lower than that of Si, despite the fact that the contact pressures are comparable to those applied with the nanoindenter tips, and the plastic zones are well-developed in both sets of wear experiments. We attribute the decrease in the relative wear resistance of SiC compared to that of Si to a transition from a wear regime dominated by the materials' resistance to plastic deformation (i.e., hardness) to a regime dominated by the materials' resistance to interfacial shear. This conclusion is supported by our AFM studies of wearless friction, which reveal that the interfacial shear strength of SiC is higher than that of Si. The contributions of surface roughness and surface chemistry to differences in interfacial shear strength are also discussed.
Additional file 1: of UBL4A inhibits autophagy-mediated proliferation and metastasis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma via targeting LAMP1
Creators: name: Chen, Hongze
name: Li, Le
name: Hu, Jisheng
name: Zhao, Zhongjie
name: Ji, Liang
name: Cheng, Chundong
name: Zhang, Guangquan
name: zhang, Tao
name: Li, Yilong
name: Chen, Hua
name: Pan, Shangha
name: Sun, Bei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Virology

description: Table S1. The target sequences of lentiviruses and siRNAs used in transfection. (DOCX 14 kb)
The SEM Reliability Paradox in a Bayesian Framework
Creators: name: Konold, Timothy R.
name: Sanders, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Within the frequentist structural equation modeling (SEM) framework, adjudicating model quality through measures of fit has been an active area of methodological research. Complicating this conversation is research revealing that a higher quality measurement portion of a SEM can result in poorer estimates of overall model fit than lower quality measurement models, given the same structural misspecifications. Through population analysis and Monte Carlo simulation, we extend the earlier research to recently developed Bayesian SEM measures of fit to evaluate whether these indices are susceptible to the same reliability paradox, in the context of using both uninformative and informative priors. Our results show that the reliability paradox occurs for RMSEA, and to some extent, gamma-hat and PPP (measures of absolute fit); but not CFI or TLI (measures of relative fit), across Bayesian (MCMC) and frequentist (maximum likelihood) SEM frameworks alike. Taken together, these findings indicate that the behavior of these newly adapted Bayesian fit indices map closely to their frequentist analogs. Implications for their utility in identifying incorrectly specified models are discussed.
title: ADCO, Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491) (11 H 1179), f. 00514
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1179). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1179), f. 00514, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Complex Networks Unveiling Spatial Patterns in Turbulence
Creators: name: Scarsoglio, Stefania
name: Iacobello, Giovanni
name: Ridolfi, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical and experimental turbulence simulations are nowadays reaching the size of the so-called big data, thus requiring refined investigative tools for appropriate statistical analyses and data mining. We present a new approach based on the complex network theory, offering a powerful framework to explore complex systems with a huge number of interacting elements. Although interest on complex networks has been increasing in the last years, few recent studies have been applied to turbulence. We propose an investigation starting from a two-point correlation for the kinetic energy of a forced isotropic field numerically solved. Among all the metrics analyzed, the degree centrality is the most significant, suggesting the formation of spatial patterns which coherently move with similar vorticity over the large eddy turnover time scale. Pattern size can be quantified through a newly-introduced parameter (i.e., average physical distance) and varies from small to intermediate scales. The network analysis allows a systematic identification of different spatial regions, providing new insights into the spatial characterization of turbulent flows. Based on present findings, the application to highly inhomogeneous flows seems promising and deserves additional future investigation.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
Temporal Misalignment in Intensive Longitudinal Data: Consequences and Solutions Based on Dynamic Structural Equation Models
Creators: name: Luo, Xiaohui
name: Hu, Yueqin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Intensive longitudinal data has been widely used to examine reciprocal or causal relations between variables. However, these variables may not be temporally aligned. This study examined the consequences and solutions of the problem of temporal misalignment in intensive longitudinal data based on dynamic structural equation models. First the impact of temporal misalignment on parameter estimation were investigated in a simulation study, which showed that temporal misalignment led to incomparable cross-lagged effects between variables. Then, two solutions, model adjustment and data interpolation, were proposed, and their performance was compared with those of the naive estimation which blindly treating temporally misaligned data as aligned. The simulation results supported the effectiveness of the model adjustment method over the other two methods. Finally, all three methods were applied to two empirical data collected by daily diaries and empirical sampling method, and recommendations were made for collecting and analyzing intensive longitudinal data.
How do colors convey political information and affect individual attitudes?
Creators: name: Roberts, Damon C.
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Colors are important to politics as a form of political information. Building upon existing theories of political information processing, attitude formation, and affect in neuroscience, I present a snap-judgment model of political information processing. In this model, colors provide automatic information about a politically-relevant object that may shape subsequent processing of more complex information. The model has important implications for how we consider the role that visual information has on political information processing and attitude formation. The model additionally provides clarity on motivations behind party branding and the ways in which information may activate partisan biases pre-consciously. I test this model using a survey experiment tracking participants' mouse movements to view different parts of yard signs that vary the use of partisan and non-partisan colors. I additionally leverage congressional redistricting to examine changes in color use for political yard signs as a strategic choice for attracting voters by communicating partisanship.
Revisiting Savalei’s (2011) Research on Remediating Zero-Frequency Cells in Estimating Polychoric Correlations: A Data Distribution Perspective
Creators: name: Yang, Tong-Rong
name: Weng, Li-Jen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: In Savalei’s (2011) simulation that evaluated the performance of polychoric correlation estimates in small samples, two methods for treating zero-frequency cells, adding 0.5 (ADD) and doing nothing (NONE), were compared. Savalei tentatively suggested using ADD for binary data and NONE for data with three or more categories. Yet, Savalei’s suggestion could be explained by the skewness of the data distribution being severe for binary data and slight for three-category data. To rule out this alternative explanation, we extended Savalei’s design by incorporating the degree of skewness into our simulation. With slightly skewed data, NONE is recommended due to its high-quality estimates. With severely skewed data, only ADD is recommended for binary data when the skewness of two variables is the same-signed and the underlying correlation is expected to be strong. Methods for improving the polychoric correlation estimates with severely skewed data merit further study.
Proof Reduction of Fair Stuttering Refinement of Asynchronous Systems and Applications
Creators: name: Sumners, Rob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a series of definitions and theorems demonstrating how to reduce the requirements for proving system refinements ensuring containment of fair stuttering runs. A primary result of the work is the ability to reduce the requisite proofs on runs of a system of interacting state machines to a set of definitions and checks on single steps of a small number of state machines corresponding to the intuitive notions of freedom from starvation and deadlock. We further refine the definitions to afford an efficient explicit-state checking procedure in certain finite state cases. We demonstrate the proof reduction on versions of the Bakery Algorithm.
description: In Proceedings ACL2Workshop 2017, arXiv:1705.00766
Inflationary $α$-attractors from $F(R)$ Gravity
Creators: name: Odintsov, S. D.
name: Oikonomou, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study some classes of $α$-attractors models in the Jordan frame and we find the corresponding $F(R)$ gravity theory. We study analytically the problem at leading order and we investigate whether the attractor picture persists in the $F(R)$ gravity equivalent theory. As we show, if the slow-roll conditions are assumed in the Jordan frame, the spectral index of primordial curvature perturbations and the scalar-to-tensor ratio are identical to the corresponding observational indices of the $R^2$ model, a result which indicates that the attractor property is also found in the corresponding $F(R)$ gravity theories of the $α$-attractors models. Moreover, implicit and approximate forms of the $F(R)$ gravity inflationary attractors are found.
description: PRD accepted