cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamic Density Functional theory for steady currents: Application to colloidal particles in narrow channels
Creators: name: Penna, F.
name: Tarazona, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the theoretical analysis of the steady state currents and density distributions of particles moving with Langevin dynamics, under the effects of an external potential displaced at constant rate. The Dynamic Density Functional (DDF) formalism is used to introduce the effects of the molecular interactions, from the equilibrium Helmholtz free energy density functional. We analyzed the generic form of the DDF for one-dimensional external potentials and the limits of strong and weak potential barriers. The ideal gas case is solved in a closed form for generic potentials and compared with the numerical results for hard-rods, with the exact equilibrium free energy. The results may be of relevance for microfluidic devices, with colloidal particles moving along narrow channels, if external driving forces have to compete with the brownian fluctuations and the interaction forces of the particles.
title: Relationship between Accuracy and Speed in the Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices test: normative data for Italian children aged 5-6 years
Creators: name: Scalisi, Teresa Gloria
name: Cannoni, Eleonora
name: Traversari, Lena
Publisher: name: Psychology Hub
Year: 2020
Subjects: preschool children; Raven’s Coloured Matrices; accuracy; speed; normative data

description: The Raven’s Coloured Matrices (CPM) is one of the most used tests for assessing fluid intelligence in children. Although the speed factor is considered important for the measurement of this construct, normative data for speed are not available for the CPM test, and the speed contribution on the test performance is not known in the literature. To help fill these gaps, we provide the CPM Accuracy and Speed norms, and data on the relationship between the two measures, concerning a sample of 468 Italian children aged 5-6 years. A negative correlation emerged between accuracy and speed for the Ab and B Sets of the test, which include the most complex problems. The association in Set B (the most difficult) between a decrease in accuracy and an increase in speed suggests the prevalence of random responses, advising the exclusion of this Set from the computation of the total score in the considered ages. Comparisons between three groups of children (inaccurate and fast; inaccurate and slow; accurate and slow) indicate that the poor accuracy of fast children may be due to an impulsive approach to the task. This pattern of results calls into question the practice of evaluating the test performance taking into account only the accuracy factor.
description: Psychology Hub, V. 37, N. 2 (2020)
Implementierung eines ganzheitlichen Nachhaltigkeitskonzeptes – „Von der Unternehmensstrategie zur Operationalisierung auf Quartiersebene“
Creators: name: Ebrecht, Florian
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Wohnungswirtschaft
subject: DNK
subject: BSC
subject: Strategie
subject: Unternehmenssteuerung
subject: 710
subject: Spar- und Bauverein eG Dortmund
subject: Unternehmensplanung
subject: Wohnungswirtschaft
subject: Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitskodex
subject: Nachhaltigkeit

description: Das Streben nach Nachhaltigkeit ist seit einigen Jahren auch im Bereich der Wohnungswirtschaft angekommen. Bei der Durchsicht publizierter Nachhaltigkeitsberichte wird deutlich, dass jeder Nachhaltigkeitsbericht einer eigenen Definition von Nachhaltigkeit folgt, scheinbar kein einheitlicher Standard vorliegt und daher auch kein Benchmarking der einzelnen Unternehmen möglich ist. Ebenso ist fragwürdig, ob und wie der Strategietransfer „von der Strategie bis ins Quartier“ gewährleistet werden kann. Diese Ausarbeitung zeigt auf, wie die Integration eines ganzheitlichen Nachhaltigkeitskonzepts in der Wohnungswirtschaft gelingen kann. Dabei wird ein strukturierter Handlungsleitfaden, ein mögliches Reporting sowie Kennzahlen aufgezeigt, die ein Branchen-Benchmarking ermöglichen. Als Musterbeispiel wird die theoretische Abhandlung am Beispiel der Spar- und Bauverein eG Dortmund praxisnah illustriert.
Global Asymptotic Controllability Implies Input to State Stabilization
Creators: name: Malisoff, Michael
name: Rifford, Ludovic
name: Sontag, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93B52, 93D15, 93D20

description: We study nonlinear systems with observation errors. The main problem addressed in this paper is the design of feedbacks for globally asymptotically controllable (GAC) control affine systems that render the closed loop systems input to state stable with respect to actuator errors. Extensions for fully nonlinear GAC systems with actuator errors are also discussed.
description: 15 pages, 0 figures, conference version submitted in February 2003, journal version submitted in January 2003. Revised and accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization in August 2003
MOESM4 of Development of elastin-like polypeptide for targeted specific gene delivery in vivo
Creators: name: Aena Yi
name: Dahye Sim
name: Lee, Young-Jin
name: Sarangthem, Vijaya
name: Rang-Woon Park
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Cellular uptakes of ELP variants. MDA MB231 cells were incubated with Alexa Fluor 488 labeled ELPs for 1 h at 37 °C. After staining nuclei and membranes with Hoechst 33342 or WGA-Alexa 594, cellular uptakes of ELPs were determined by confocal microscopy. Scale bar, 20 µm.
Control of a spin qubit in a lateral GaAs quantum dot based on symmetry of gating potential
Creators: name: Stipsić, Pavle
name: Milivojević, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the influence of quantum dot symmetry on the Rabi frequency and phonon induced spin relaxation rate in a single electron GaAs spin qubit. We find that anisotropic dependence on the magnetic field direction is independent of the choice of the gating potential. Also, we discover that relative orientation of the quantum dot, with respect to the crystallographic frame, is relevant in systems with ${\bf C}_{1{\rm v}}$, ${\bf C}_{2{\rm v}}$, or ${\bf C}_{n}$ ($n\neq4r$) symmetry. To demonstrate the important impact of the gating potential shape on the spin qubit lifetime, we compare the effects of an equilateral triangle, square, and rectangular confinement with the known results for the harmonic potential. In the studied cases, enhanced spin qubit lifetime is revealed, reaching almost six orders of magnitude increase for the equilateral triangle gating.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
title: Tree Species Effects on Soil C Dynamics in Temperate Forests
Creators: name: Medina-Barcenas, Eduardo
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: Terrestrial ecosystems account for two-fifths of the total exchange of CO2 between the earth and the atmosphere, with forests contributing 80% of that exchange. Forest biomass and forest soils are particularly important carbon (C) sinks, however forest soil C stocks can vary widely, depending on the dominant tree species. Species specific differences in the quality and quantity of plant litter inputs can influence soil C dynamics and storage because they control decomposition processes, altering soil respiration and soil properties. However, our knowledge of how tree species identity influences the interactions between decomposition processes, soil C dynamics and soil C storage is still deficient. Resolving this knowledge gap is important to determine how tree species selection for afforestation might help us increase soil C sequestration and mitigate the effects of climate change. Using microcosm experiments and in situ mesocosms, I studied interactions between litter quality and soil properties for different temperate tree species in the UK. I measured key litter properties, and quantified the effect of litter quality and quantity on soil CO2 efflux and soil properties. My results show that litter quality, represented by nitrogen and lignin content, plays a major role in regulating soil C dynamics via litter decomposition. Litter quality also modified changes in soil CO2 efflux in response to altered litter inputs but the effect varied strongly by species. Using reciprocal transplant experiments in single species stands of alder, oak, and pine, I demonstrate variable influences of litter quality and the ‘home field advantage’ on decomposition and soil CO2 efflux. The present work provides an insight into the linkages between litter quality, decomposition and soil respiration in temperate forests. My results represent an important first step in identifying the future role of different tree species on soil C dynamics under climate change, which could inform forestry rotation and reforestation practices.
Quantum phase transitions
Creators: name: Vojta, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, quantum phase transitions have attracted the interest of both theorists and experimentalists in condensed matter physics. These transitions, which are accessed at zero temperature by variation of a non-thermal control parameter, can influence the behavior of electronic systems over a wide range of the phase diagram. Quantum phase transitions occur as a result of competing ground state phases. The cuprate superconductors which can be tuned from a Mott insulating to a d-wave superconducting phase by carrier doping are a paradigmatic example. This review introduces important concepts of phase transitions and discusses the interplay of quantum and classical fluctuations near criticality. The main part of the article is devoted to bulk quantum phase transitions in condensed matter systems. Several classes of transitions will be briefly reviewed, pointing out, e.g., conceptual differences between ordering transitions in metallic and insulating systems. An interesting separate class of transitions are boundary phase transitions where only degrees of freedom of a subsystem become critical; this will be illustrated in a few examples. The article is aimed on bridging the gap between high-level theoretical presentations and research papers specialized in certain classes of materials. It will give an overview over a variety of different quantum transitions, critically discuss open theoretical questions, and frequently make contact with recent experiments in condensed matter physics.
description: 50 pages, 7 figs; (v2) final version as published
MOESM2 of Experiences and perceptions of youth living with HIV in Western Uganda on school attendance: barriers and facilitators
Creators: name: Kimera, Emmanuel
name: Vindevogel, Sofie
name: Mugenyi Kintu
name: Rubaihayo, John
name: Maeyer, Jessica De
name: Reynaert, Didier
name: Anne-Mie Engelen
name: Nuwaha, Fred
name: Bilsen, Johan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Themes and main themes derived from thematic analysis
Search for Small-Mass Black Hole Dark Matter with Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Creators: name: Seto, Naoki
name: Cooray, Asantha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The high sensitivity of upcoming space-based gravitational wave detectors suggests the possibility that if halo dark matter were composed of primordial black holes (PBHs) with mass between $10^{16}$ g and 10$^{20}$ g, the gravitational interaction with detector test masses will lead to a detectable pulse-like signal during the fly-by. For an improved version of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna with a reduced acceleration noise at the low-end of its frequency spectrum, we find an event rate, with signal-to-noise ratios greater than 5, of $\sim$ a few per decade involving black holes of mass $\sim$ 10$^{17}$ g. The detection rate improves significantly for second generation space based interferometers that are currently envisioned, though these events must be distinguished from those involving perturbations due to near-Earth asteroids. While the presence of primordial black holes below a mass of $\sim$ 10$^{16}$ g is now constrained based on the radiation released during their evaporation, the gravitational wave detectors will extend the study of PBHs to a several orders of magnitude higher masses.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
title: Exploring Picture Books and Primary School Children’s Spirituality
Creators: name: Jones, Darren Thomas
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Primary schools are required to promote children’s spirituality, and this is regulated by the schools’ inspectorate Ofsted (DfE, 2019). Yet, the conceptualisation of spirituality and how to recognise and nurture it receives little attention; challenges exist between policy expectations and practice. In addition, whilst other empirical studies of spirituality have used story as a context, none have sought deliberately to explore its potential as a conduit to allow children to bring their innate spirituality into the open. In response, this thesis, theoretically framed by reader response theory, explored the use of picture books as a way of fostering children’s expressions of spirituality. It also examined how picture books themselves with their dual sign-systems and the teacher’s pedagogic use of them, offer support for children to express their spirituality. Underpinned by an interpretive hermeneutic phenomenological approach, a case study of three children aged 10 and 11 years was undertaken to capture the children’s expressions of spirituality whilst they were engaged in responding to three picture fiction texts in their classroom. Findings reveal that when studying picture fiction, the children articulated their spirituality through empathy and concern for the human condition, by adopting a worldview, through meaning making and ordering experience, and by grappling with existential themes. Findings from the study reflected that the teacher’s aesthetic reading of stories and the value they afforded to children’s authentic responses, allowed the picture books to facilitate abstract thinking and the cultivation of affective responses. Classroom dialogue along with the discussion of both word and image also supported children in nurturing their spirituality. Consequently, the thesis argues for greater emphasis to be placed on the position of picture books in the primary classroom in order that, combined with a personal growth model of teaching and a situated literature spiritual pedagogy, pupils are offered the space to explore and express their spirituality.
Magnetic Field Induced Density of States in Superconducting MgB$_{2}$: Measurement of Conduction Electron Spin-Susceptibility
Creators: name: Simon, F.
name: Janossy, A.
name: Feher, T.
name: Muranyi, F.
name: Garaj, S.
name: Forro, L.
name: Petrovic, C.
name: Bud'ko, S.
name: Ribeiro, R. A.
name: Canfield, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic field dependence of the spin-susceptibility, $χ_{s}$ was measured in the superconducting state of high purity MgB$_{2}$ fine powders below 1.3 T. $χ_{s}$ was determined from the intensity of the conduction electron spin resonance spectra at 3.8, 9.4, and 35 GHz. At the lowest magnetic fields (0.14 T), a gap opens in the density of states at the Fermi energy and, accordingly, $χ_{s}(T)$ is small at low temperatures. Fields above 0.2 T (about 15 % of $H^{c}_{c2}$, the minimum upper critical field), destroy the gap. The field induced $χ_{s}$ is much larger than expected from current superconductor models of MgB$_{2}$.
Optimal design of shell-graded-infill structures by a hybrid MMC-MMV approach
Creators: name: Liu, Chang
name: Du, Zongliang
name: Zhu, Yichao
name: Zhang, Weisheng
name: Zhang, Xiaoyu
name: Guo, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the present work, a hybrid MMC-MMV approach is developed for designing additive manufacturing-oriented shell-graded-infill structures. The key idea is to describe the geometry of a shell-graded-infill structure explicitly using some geometry parameters. To this end, a set of morphable voids is adopted to describe the boundary of the coating shell, while a set of morphable components combing with a coordinate perturbation technique are introduced to represent the graded infill distribution. Under such treatment, both the crisp boundary of the coating shell and the graded infill can be optimized simultaneously, with a small number of design variables. Numerical examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Dietary calamondin supplementation slows the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in C57BL/6 mice fed a high-fat diet
Creators: name: Shimizu, Kahori
name: Egusa, Yuka
name: Syogo Nishimuta
name: Fukumura, Yuri
name: Yoshimura, Misato
name: Inomoto, Tomoya
name: Terada, Tomoyuki
name: Tomita, Koji
name: Nishinaka, Toru
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Obesity is associated with an increased risk of metabolic abnormalities. The citrus fruit calamondin contains nobiletin and hesperidin, which are involved in lipid metabolism, and vitamin C, which is an antioxidant. We investigated the metabolic profiles of C57BL/6 mice fed a normal diet, high-fat diet (HFD), HFD + 1% (w/w) calamondin puree (HFD + CL1), or HFD + 5% (w/w) calamondin puree (HFD + CL5). Glucose tolerance was significantly higher in HFD + CL than in HFD-fed mice. Histological analysis revealed less lipid accumulation in the livers of HFD + CL-fed mice than in those of HFD-fed control mice. Hepatocyte ballooning and large lipid droplets – key non-alcoholic fatty liver disease characteristics – were observed in HFD-fed mice after 4 weeks; however, they were nearly absent in HFD + CL-fed mice. The serum expression level of inflammation-associated Ccl2 was lower in HFD + CL-fed mice than in HFD-fed mice. Thus, calamondin may ameliorate HFD-induced metabolic disturbances, including the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
title: Development of a "Pro-Matrix" Advanced Cell Scaffold Biomaterial to Support Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy
Creators: name: Inverarity, Catriona
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Cell therapies are typically limited by the rapid dispersal of cells on delivery. Scaffolds offer an approach of enhancing therapeutic efficiency and efficacy as a delivery vehicle and implantable niche. This project aimed to combine the bio-intelligent properties of fibrin-based scaffolds with the potential of MSC cell therapies for activating healing in chronic wounds.

 A highly porous fibrin-based biomaterial scaffold was developed using an optimised emulsion templating technique. Templating enables reproducible manufacture of materials with a regular, highly porous structure with a high degree of pore interconnectivity and consistent pore size distribution. The method was optimised to generate a range of pore diameters suitable for skin tissue engineering, but it could be adjusted for other purposes. What differentiates this method is that the emulsion is amenable to incorporation of protein monomers without causing any denaturation, which allows the creation of a native-like structure during fibrin formation. The initial structure is then stabilised by glutaraldehyde cross-linking. The resulting scaffold is suited to cell ingress and supporting angiogenesis and allows fluid and nutrient exchange between the scaffold and the wound environment.

 The experimental work undertaken to design a suitable emulsion produced results which, to the authors’ knowledge, have not been reported elsewhere. The two distinct patterns of behaviour identified suggest specific surfactant traits that make certain kinds of surfactants extremely useful in supporting high internal phase emulsions. The reason(s) for this are unclear, but the overall trend has potential utility in emulsion formulation. ‘Oil carrying capacity’ (OCC) is proposed as an index for ranking surfactants by the oil fraction (in an oil-in-water emulsion) for which stability is greatest.

 This project is divided into two main sections: emulsion formulation and using the optimised emulsion to template a scaffold that was then refined to produce a material with appropriate structural, mechanical, and biochemical properties for skin tissue engineering. Emulsion design encompassed degradation kinetics and achieving appropriate internal phase droplet size, packing and size distribution for cell and blood vessel ingress. Successful emulsions were then tested for protein compatibility and used to template various fibrin-based scaffolds. By iterative redesign, refined and reproducible scaffolds were produced that were characterised by various means to assess their suitability as skin tissue engineering scaffolds.

 This work describes a novel biocompatible fibrin scaffold with optimised microstructure for cell ingress and angiogenesis, excellent handling capabilities in both freeze-dried and rehydrated forms and biocompatibility as demonstrated by in vitro assays.
title: DNA Repair and Response to Therapy: Exploring their Relation in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Models
Creators: name: Guffanti, Federica
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is often characterized by defects in DNA repair pathways, which partially explain its sensitivity to platinum compounds and to poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi). However, EOC almost invariably relapses with a drug resistant, incurable disease. Biomarkers able to predict the response to therapy could ameliorate the management of EOC patients.

 The studies herein reported aimed to elucidate the role of different DNA repair pathways as possible determinants of cisplatin (DDP) and olaparib (a PARPi) response in a collection of patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) characterized for their response to both drugs. We analysed the expression of 35 different DNA repair genes involved in DDP and olaparib response, and found CDK12, XPF, PALB2, USP28, ARTEMIS, ARID1A and MDR1 associated with DDP response. In particular, CDK12 expression was significantly higher in DDP resistant PDXs and associated with higher recurrence rate in EOC patients with low residual tumour. We analysed the basal level of RAD51 foci in proliferating cells of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded PDX tumours, as possible readout of homologous recombination pathway, and found that the percentage of RAD51 foci-positive cells predicted olaparib, but not DDP response. As DDP adducts can be repaired by multiple pathways including nucleotide excision repair (NER) and base excision repair (BER), we studied POLB, ERCC1, XPF and ERCC1/XPF complex as read out of NER and BER activity, but no correlation with DDP response was found.

 These findings support the role of CDK12 and RAD51 foci expressed in untreated tumours in the response to DDP and olaparib, respectively, in our EOC PDX models and warrant the setup of DNA repair functional assays able to capture the complexity of factors determining DDP and PARPi response, that could be easily translated in the clinical practice to prioritize treatment choice in EOC patients.
MOESM1 of Experiences and perceptions of youth living with HIV in Western Uganda on school attendance: barriers and facilitators
Creators: name: Kimera, Emmanuel
name: Vindevogel, Sofie
name: Mugenyi Kintu
name: Rubaihayo, John
name: Maeyer, Jessica De
name: Reynaert, Didier
name: Anne-Mie Engelen
name: Nuwaha, Fred
name: Bilsen, Johan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of study participants (n = 35)
Supplemental Data for "A virtual experiment improved students' understanding of physiological experimental processes ahead of a live inquiry-based practical class"
Creators: name: Quiroga, Maria del Mar
name: Choate, Julia K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: These surveys were designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a virtual experiment (accessible at https://ilearn.med.monash.edu.au/physiology/gastro-smooth-muscle/) in improving students' understanding of physiological experimental processes.
Re-entrant localization of single particle transport in disordered Andreev wires
Creators: name: Kopnin, N. B.
name: Mel'nikov, A. S.
name: Vinokur, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study effects of disorder on the low energy single particle transport in a normal wire surrounded by a superconductor. We show that the heat conductance includes the Andreev diffusion decreasing with increase in the mean free path $\ell $ and the diffusive drift produced by a small particle-hole asymmetry, which increases with increasing $\ell$. The conductance thus has a minimum as a function of $\ell$ which leads to a peculiar re-entrant localization as a function of the mean free path.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Quantifying Suspiciousness Within Correlated Data Sets
Creators: name: Lemos, Pablo
name: Köhlinger, Fabian
name: Handley, Will
name: Joachimi, Benjamin
name: Whiteway, Lorne
name: Lahav, Ofer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a principled Bayesian method for quantifying tension between correlated datasets with wide uninformative parameter priors. This is achieved by extending the Suspiciousness statistic, which is insensitive to priors. Our method uses global summary statistics, and as such it can be used as a diagnostic for internal consistency. We show how our approach can be combined with methods that use parameter space and data space to identify the existing internal discrepancies. As an example, we use it to test the internal consistency of the KiDS-450 data in 4 photometric redshift bins, and to recover controlled internal discrepancies in simulated KiDS data. We propose this as a diagnostic of internal consistency for present and future cosmological surveys, and as a tension metric for data sets that have non-negligible correlation, such as LSST and Euclid.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Palaealeurodicus antidesmae Martin 2008, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Palaealeurodicus
Palaealeurodicus antidesmae

description: Palaealeurodicus antidesmae (Corbett) comb. nov.
(Fig. 76)
 Aleurodicus antidesmae Corbett, 1926: 267. Holotype puparium, Sri Lanka [presumed lost].
DISTRIBUTION. Oriental Region – Sri Lanka.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. 1 first-instar nymph, Ceylon, Pundaluoya, on Antidesma bunius (Euphorbiaceae) (E. E. Green) (BMNH).
 COMMENTS. This species was described from a solitary specimen but this holotype, collected by E. E. Green and illustrated by Corbett (Fig. 76), has not been present in the BMNH collection for at least 30 years (author’s personal observation). An examination of residual leaf material from the original sample, in the BMNH dry collection, resulted in the discovery of a first-instar crawler which almost certainly belongs to the same species and is now the sole known specimen. As described, with only four abdominal pairs of compound pores, puparia of P. antidesmae should be immediately recognisable if collected again.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2008, A revision of Aleurodicus Douglas (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae), with two new genera proposed for palaeotropical natives and an identification guide to world genera of Aleurodicinae, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 1835 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1835.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5127230
Quantum error correction for continuously detected errors with any number of error channels per qubit
Creators: name: Ahn, Charlene
name: Wiseman, H. M.
name: Jacobs, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was shown by Ahn, Wiseman, and Milburn [PRA {\bf 67}, 052310 (2003)] that feedback control could be used as a quantum error correction process for errors induced by weak continuous measurement, given one perfectly measured error channel per qubit. Here we point out that this method can be easily extended to an arbitrary number of error channels per qubit. We show that the feedback protocols generated by our method encode $n-2$ logical qubits in $n$ physical qubits, thus requiring just one more physical qubit than in the previous case.
description: 4 pages
title: 01_1336
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
MOESM3 of Development of elastin-like polypeptide for targeted specific gene delivery in vivo
Creators: name: Aena Yi
name: Dahye Sim
name: Lee, Young-Jin
name: Sarangthem, Vijaya
name: Rang-Woon Park
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Cell binding of ELP variants. MDA MB231 cells were incubated with Alexa Fluor 488 labeled ELPs for 1 h at 4 °C. After staining nuclei and membranes with Hoechst 33342 or WGA-Alexa 594, cell binding activities were determined by confocal microscopy. Scale bar, 20 µm.
title: Dissecting the Role of ISWI Chromatin Remodellers in Inflammatory Gene Expression
Creators: name: Alomà, Júlia Melià
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2023

description: The inflammatory response is driven by a highly accurate and kinetically complex transcriptional program that is controlled by the stimulus-regulated usage of thousands of cis-regulatory elements (i.e. enhancers and promoters). Stimulus-activated transcription factors (TFs) involved in this response, as well as their interplay with lineage-determining TFs, have been extensively characterised. However, the role of different families of coregulators that are recruited by those TFs in most cases remains to be elucidated. In light of this, I set out to dissect the role of a specific family of co-regulators, namely the ISWI family of ATP-dependent chromatin remodellers, in modulating the transcriptional response to inflammatory stimuli such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in bone marrow-derived mouse macrophages. By combining transcriptomic and other genomic experiments and analyses, I have found that ISWI complexes present in innate immune cells are involved in the regulation of different components of the transcriptional program of murine macrophages. On one hand, I found that ISWI complexes are strongly associated with the regulation of the interferon response. By ChIP-seq analysis, I show that distinct ISWI subunits are recruited to regulatory regions bound by Interferon Regulatory Factors (IRFs), where they control the epigenomic landscape and thus regulate the interferon gene expression program. On the other hand, by ATAC-seq analysis I also identified a large set of genomic regions which are maintained in a repressed state in the presence of the ISWI catalytic subunit SMARCA5. However, these regions are not occupied by SMARCA5, indicating that in this case it is not the direct action of the ATPase which controls the chromatin state.
Clusters in Separated Tubes of Tilted Dipoles
Creators: name: Armstrong, Jeremy R.
name: Jensen, Aksel S.
name: Volosniev, Artem G.
name: Zinner, Nikolaj T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A few-body cluster is a building block of a many-body system in a gas phase provided the temperature at most is of the order of the binding energy of this cluster. Here we illustrate this statement by considering a system of tubes filled with dipolar distinguishable particles. We calculate the partition function, which determines the probability to find a few-body cluster at a given temperature. The input for our calculations -- the energies of few-body clusters -- is estimated using the harmonic approximation. We first describe and demonstrate the validity of our numerical procedure. Then we discuss the results featuring melting of the zero-temperature many-body state into a gas of free particles and few-body clusters. For temperature higher than its binding energy threshold, the dimers overwhelmingly dominate the ensemble, where the remaining probability is in free particles. At very high temperatures free (harmonic oscillator trap-bound) particle dominance is eventually reached. This structure evolution appears both for one and two particles in each layer providing crucial information about the behavior of ultracold dipolar gases. The investigation addresses the transition region between few and many-body physics as a function of temperature using a system of ten dipoles in five tubes.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures, invited article to special issue of "Mathematics: Various Routes towards Few-Body Physics"
title: Novel Developments in Scientific EMCCDs
Creators: name: Dunford, Alice Georgina Fleur
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis presents a complete characterisation and an assessment of the technology readiness of a new Electron Multiplying Charge Coupled Devices (EMCCD) technology. Several factors of interest are studied here including, charge transfer efficiency, gain ageing and radiation effects from protons. Many light-starved and high-speed image applications (e.g. observation from space and automated visual inspection) can benefit from Time Delay Integration (\acrshort{tdi}) as it allows photoelectrons from multiple exposures to be summed in the charge domain with no added noise. Electron multiplication (EM) can be used to further increase the signal to noise ratio for extremely faint light signals. There is a growing demand for Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (\acrshort{cmos}) sensors with the same or greater functionality and even better performance. The research presented here analyses the functionality of a recently designed EMCCD in a CMOS process. This device (EMTC1) incorporates two novel EM pixel structures which enable high gain at relatively low voltages. The theory and architecture of Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) and EMCCDs are discussed, providing a technical background for the results. Furthermore, the practical methods, including experimental techniques developed for this device's testing, are presented here. Ageing within the device is a primary focus within this thesis, as is the effect of proton irradiation. The effects of the radiation damage on parameters such as dark current and Charge Transfer Inefficiency (CTI) have been documented along with its effect on EM gain. These results have been corroborated with simulations of device operation in TCAD.
Palaealeurodicus cinnamomi Martin 2008, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Palaealeurodicus
Palaealeurodicus cinnamomi

description: Palaealeurodicus cinnamomi (Takahashi) comb. nov.
(Fig. 77)
 Aleurodicus cinnamomi Takahashi, 1951: 1. Lectotype here designated, West Malaysia (BMNH).
DISTRIBUTION. Austro-oriental Region – Singapore, West Malaysia.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. Lectotype puparium (female), West Malaysia, Cameron Highlands, on Machilus sp. (Lauraceae), 01.x.1944 (R. Takahashi) (BMNH, Brit. Mus. 1955-799); paralectotypes, 27 puparia (female), 5 puparia (male), 5 dissected pre-emergence adult females, 3 dissected pre-emergence adult males, same data as lectotype (BMNH, USNM). Other material: 4 parasitised puparia (formerly syntypes), Singapore [“Malaya, Shonan”], no host data, 21.xii.1942 (R. Takahashi) (BMNH, Brit. Mus. 1955-799); 15 puparia, Singapore, Bukit Timah Forest Reserve, on Nothaphoebe umbelliflora (Lauraceae), 13.v.2000 (Martin) (BMNH).
COMMENTS. Takahashi (1951) specified both Singapore and Malaya as original localities for his syntype series, but two slides in BMNH (presented by the Director of the then Selangor Museum) are both labelled “Malaya”. However, one also has the collecting locality “Shonan”, which is the name which the Japanese (who were occupiers of the region from 1942-1945) bestowed upon Singapore: the material was collected in 1942. Singapore / Shonan was regarded as part of Malaya at that time. The Singapore slide is a cavity slide containing four parasitised puparia only, with the parasitoid pupae having been removed from three of the whitefly puparia and mounted separately under the same coverslip: this slide has not warranted remounting.
 The second syntypic slide in BMNH contained over 30 specimens (detailed above), which had received little preparation prior to mounting. As part of this study, this material has been macerated, de-waxed, stained and remounted onto seven new slides, one slide bearing the original labels. The determination “ Aleurodicus cinnamomi Takahashi ” over-lay an earlier label “ Aleurodicus machili Takahashi ”, which has now been left exposed for historical reasons – Takahashi had apparently initially thought it to be A. machili which he himself had described in 1931. The remainder of the data from this second original slide are “ Machilus, Cameron Highlands, 1.x.1944, R. Takahashi, Brit. Mus. 1955-799”. The lectotype is one of four female puparia on the slide bearing the original labels, and is clearly indicated; one of the new paralectotype slide preparations has been presented to USNM.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2008, A revision of Aleurodicus Douglas (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae), with two new genera proposed for palaeotropical natives and an identification guide to world genera of Aleurodicinae, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 1835 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1835.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5127230
Shot noise in tunneling transport through molecules and quantum dots
Creators: name: Thielmann, Axel
name: Hettler, Matthias H.
name: König, Jürgen
name: Schön, Gerd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider electrical transport through single molecules coupled to metal electrodes via tunneling barriers. Approximating the molecule by the Anderson impurity model as the simplest model which includes Coulomb charging effects, we extend the ``orthodox'' theory to expand current and shot noise systematically order by order in the tunnel couplings. In particular, we show that a combined measurement of current and shot noise reveals detailed information of the system even in the weak-coupling limit, such as the ratio of the tunnel-coupling strengths of the molecule to the left and right electrode, and the presence of the Coulomb charging energy. Our analysis holds for single-level quantum dots as well.
description: 8 pages
MOESM2 of Development of elastin-like polypeptide for targeted specific gene delivery in vivo
Creators: name: Aena Yi
name: Dahye Sim
name: Lee, Young-Jin
name: Sarangthem, Vijaya
name: Rang-Woon Park
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Characterization of purified ELP variants. The purities and molecular weights of purified proteins were determined by SDS-PAGE. Expected molecular weights of ELPs are follows, E28 (12.18 KDa), Tat-E28 (13.19 KDa), Tat-A1E28 (15.00 KDa), and Tat-A4V48 (26.81 KDa) (from right).
Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization
Creators: name: Barzilay, Regina
name: Lee, Lillian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: We consider the problem of modeling the content structure of texts within a specific domain, in terms of the topics the texts address and the order in which these topics appear. We first present an effective knowledge-lean method for learning content models from un-annotated documents, utilizing a novel adaptation of algorithms for Hidden Markov Models. We then apply our method to two complementary tasks: information ordering and extractive summarization. Our experiments show that incorporating content models in these applications yields substantial improvement over previously-proposed methods.
description: Best paper award
title: A Case Study Exploring Freelance English Language Teachers’ Engagement With And Informal Learning Through Open Educational Practices In Switzerland
Creators: name: Daniels, Patricia
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Freelance English language teachers in Switzerland teach mainly outside of mainstream education where precarious working conditions can impact on opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD). Research has shown that engagement with open educational practices (OEP) can lead to skills and knowledge development. In this enquiry, OEP include open educational resource (OER) based practices and the use of open technologies. Research to date has prioritised language teachers in higher education who have received training and support. This qualitative case study, framed within an interpretive paradigm, addresses a research gap by exploring freelancers’ engagement with and informal learning through OEP in their teaching contexts. Informal learning and CPD are used as lenses to theoretically frame this enquiry which is underpinned by a sociocultural perspective. An online survey and semi-structured interviews were used for data generation, and explored freelancers’ engagement with OEP, their underlying motivations, and how and what they learn and develop through OEP. Fifteen survey respondents were recruited for semi-structured interviews via criterion-based purposive sampling. Data were analysed via reflexive thematic analysis. Findings show that freelancers’ engagement with OEP is influenced by various contextual issues, both structural and agential. Reflection, learning by doing and benchmarking were identified as ways in which freelancers learn informally through OEP. The evidence suggests that engagement with OEP improved freelancers’ pedagogical and content knowledge and digital literacy skills, raised their critical awareness of aspects of OER, and led to changes in their teaching practices. Freelancers reported that these transformations impacted positively on student motivation and learning. Findings and recommendations from this enquiry have a broad applicability and can aid diverse stakeholders develop a deeper understanding of factors that shape freelancers’ learning, and what support and infrastructure they need to engage in OEP.