cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development and characterisation of tube-lens designs for remote-refocusing microscopy and high-speed adaptive light-sheet fluorescence microscopy with a deformable mirror
Creators: name: Hong, Wenzhi
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Optical microscopy of bioprocesses aims at acquiring comprehensive spatiotemporal information while minimising adverse effects on the sample. Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy achieves optically sectioned imaging with relatively low photobleaching and phototoxicity. To achieve high-speed volumetric imaging without sample perturbation, employing some form of remote refocusing in the detection path is necessary. A practical approach without using active optical elements is to use a relay-lens setup with specified magnification settings. However, this requires specific tube lens focal lengths that are not always available from stock optics. Hence, two software packages were developed to automatically design microscope tube lenses from pairs of stock achromatic doublets. Tube lens models based on matrix optics theory were also explored for remote-refocusing microscopy with interchangeable objectives, and designs for practical three-doublet configurations were developed. To help obtain the best performance in remote-refocusing systems, a folded remote-refocusing system was developed. The mean FWHMxy of 100 nm fluorescent beads, normalised bead integrated energy, and system distortions were mapped over a remote-refocusing range and as a function of lateral image position. This allowed the estimation of the volume where diffraction-limited performance was achieved for the first time and provided insights into its variation with the system alignment. Using the relay-lens setup still requires mechanical translation of a lens or mirror, which limits the refocusing range and/or frequency. To simultaneously achieve high-speed remote refocusing, correct system aberrations, and enhance optical throughput, a deformable mirror was employed in an adaptive LSFM system to provide higher-order defocus and aberration correction with a detection NA of 0.72-0.75. Through optimisations with continuous mirror oscillation, an estimated maximum Strehl ratio above the diffraction limit was achieved across a remote-refocusing range of 60 μm. The system capabilities were demonstrated by observing pollen grains and electrically paced cardiomyocytes at 26.3 volumes per second with 35 usable frames per volume.
Critical oil Politics : Governing oil in left turn Latin America.
Creators: name: Morreo Boada, Carlos
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: Governing oil has been key to the emergence of particular sociotechnical realities throughout the last century and a half. A time-span of the modern/colonial which has been conceptualised by competing social science discourses as 'capitalism' and 'democracy'. A hydrocarbon centred era throughout which the political substance of oil in the form of fuel and energy, as infrastructure or as commodity has shaped the ecology of our politics. An epoch of 'petrocapitalism' and 'carbon democracy' we may refer to as 'oil modernity'. Recently, 'oil assemblages' have emerged in the capitalist periphery that have challenged the political economy of oil modernity. Thus, a particular category of oil politics has been made possible through the novel practices, technopolitics, expertise and governing oil at play in these sites. Such a 'critical oil politics' will be of greater significance within the epoch of transitions the contemporary world has now entered and as we begin to address the breaching of ecological frontiers. The research project offers an analysis of contemporary instances of critical oil politics taken from Latin America and the Caribbean. The research focuses primarily on two oil assemblages and the forms of 'political oil' they put forward. It takes as its cases Venezuela's Petrocaribe - an oil and energy cooperation program established by the Bolivarian revolutionary government in 2005 - and its form of 'socialist oil', together with Ecuador's oil-based and environmentally informed Yasuni-ITT Initiative (2007-2013) and its promise of an 'oil that stays in the ground', an 'ecological oil'. Both Petrocaribe and the Yasuni-ITT Initiative put forward novel understandings of economy and particular oil objects that go beyond the oil commodity as they shaped Latin America's left turn. The research details both left turn oil assemblages in order to approach the forms of political oil they develop while seeking to comprehend their possibilities and limitations as critical oil politics. To do this the project focuses on particular practices and knowledges linked to the forms of political oil, which may be seen as constituting a novel governing of oil. The project engages with postcolonial and assemblage approaches to politics and economy, but also builds on Latin American texts on oil. These approaches stand in tension with mainstream Anglophone political science approaches to the politics of oil, international relations and political economy. The project is in dialogue with and contributes to research within the social sciences seeking to incorporate and underscore the role of practices, materiality, and human/nonhuman relations into the study of politics, development, and international political economy.
Internal shocks in microquasar jets with a continuous Lorentz factor modulation
Creators: name: Pjanka, Patryk
name: Stone, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of internal shocks formed in microquasar jets by continuous variation of the bulk Lorentz factor, in order to investigate the internal shock model. We consider one-, two-, and flicker noise 20-mode variability. We observe emergence of a forward-reverse shock structure for each peak of the Lorentz factor modulation. The high pressure in the shocked layer launches powerful outflows perpendicular to the jet beam into the ambient medium. These outflows dominate the details of the jet's kinetic energy thermalization. They are responsible for mixing between the jet and surrounding medium and generate powerful shocks in the latter. These results do not concur with the popular picture of well-defined internal shells depositing energy as they collide within the confines of the jet, in fact collisions between internal shells themselves are quite rare in our continuous formulation of the problem. For each of our simulations, we calculate the internal energy deposited in the system, the "efficiency" of this deposition (defined as the ratio of internal to total flow energy), and the maximum temperature reached in order to make connections to emission mechanisms. We probe the dependence of these diagnostics on the Lorentz factor variation amplitudes, modulation frequencies, as well as the initial density ratio between the jet and the ambient medium.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Tactics for Becoming Visible: South Asian Minorities in the Times of Communicative Capitalism
Creators: name: Schaflechner, Jürgen
name: Kramer, Max
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Visibility
subject: Activism
subject: South Asia
subject: Minorities
subject: Frames
subject: Limits
subject: Thresholds
subject: Capture
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: We explore the tactics of becoming visible and their relationship to alleviating or exacerbating precarious forms of life for minorities in South Asia. These tactics emerge from and respond to three interdependent moments: The frames that define how minorities can become visible, the interplay between limits and thresholds of visibility, and how capture fragments articulations and makes them easy to appropriate.
Supplementary information from Abandoning the ship using sex, dispersal or dormancy: multiple escape routes from challenging conditions
Creators: name: Gerber, Nina
name: Kokko, Hanna
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Natural populations often experience environments that vary across space and over time, leading to spatio-temporal variation of the fitness of a genotype. If local conditions are poor, organisms can disperse in space (physical movement) or time (dormancy, diapause). Facultatively sexual organisms can switch between asexual and sexual reproduction, and thus have a third option available to deal with maladaptedness: They can engage in sexual reproduction in unfavourable conditions (an ‘abandon-ship’ response). Sexual reproduction in facultatively sexual organisms is often coupled with dispersal and/or dormancy, while bet-hedging theory at first sight predicts sex, dispersal and dormancy to covary negatively, as they represent different escape mechanisms that could substitute for each other. Here we briefly review the observed links between sex, dormancy and dispersal, and model the expected covariation patterns of dispersal, dormancy and the reproductive mode in the context of local adaptation to spatio-temporally fluctuating environments. The correlations between sex, dormancy and dispersal evolve differently within-species versus across species. Various risk-spreading strategies are not completely interchangeable, as each has dynamic consequences that can feed back into the profitability of others. Our results shed light on the discrepancy between previous theoretical predictions on covarying risk-spreading traits and help explain why sex often associates with other means of escaping unfavourable situations.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Linking local adaptation with the evolution of sex differences’.
Chemistry of a newly detected circumbinary disk in Ophiuchus
Creators: name: de la Villarmois, E. Artur
name: Kristensen, L. E.
name: Jørgensen, J. K.
name: Bergin, E. A.
name: Brinch, C.
name: Frimann, S.
name: Harsono, D.
name: Sakai, N.
name: Yamamoto, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) Astronomers recently started discovering exoplanets around binary systems. Therefore, understanding the formation and evolution of circumbinary disks is crucial for a complete scenario of planet formation. The aim of this paper is to present the detection of a circumbinary disk around Oph-IRS67 and analyse its structure. We present high-angular-resolution (0.4", 60 AU) observations of C17O, H13CO+ , C34S, SO2, C2H and c-C3H2 molecular transitions with ALMA at 0.8 mm. The spectrally and spatially resolved maps reveal the kinematics of the circumbinary disk as well as its chemistry. Molecular abundances are estimated using RADEX. The continuum emission reveals the presence of a circumbinary disk around the two sources. This disk has a diameter of ~620 AU and is well traced by C17O and H13CO+ emission. C2H and c-C3H2 trace a higher-density region which is spatially offset from the sources (~430 AU). Finally, SO2 shows compact emission around one of the sources, Oph-IRS67 B. The molecular transitions which trace the circumbinary disk are consistent with a Keplerian profile on disk scales (< 200 AU) and an infalling profile for envelope scales (> 200 AU). The Keplerian fit leads to a mass of 2.2 Msun. Inferred CO abundances w.r.t. H2 are comparable to the canonical ISM value of 2.7e-4. This study proves the first detection of the circumbinary disk associated with Oph-IRS67. The disk is chemically differentiated from the nearby high-density region. The lack of methanol emission suggests the extended disk dominates the mass budget in the inner- most regions of the protostellar envelope, generating a flat density profile where less material is exposed to high temperatures. Thus, complex organic molecules would be associated with lower column densities. Finally, Oph-IRS67 is a promising candidate for the detection of both circumstellar disks with higher-angular-resolution observations.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables
Supplementary Figures from Local adaptation and the evolution of inversions on sex chromosomes and autosomes
Creators: name: Connallon, Tim
name: Olito, Colin
name: Dutoit, Ludovic
name: Papoli, Homa
name: Ruzicka, Filip
name: Lengxob Yong
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Spatially varying selection with gene flow can favour the evolution of inversions that bind locally adapted alleles together, facilitate local adaptation and ultimately drive genomic divergence between species. Several studies have shown that the rates of spread and establishment of new inversions capturing locally adaptive alleles depend on a suite of evolutionary factors, including the strength of selection for local adaptation, rates of gene flow and recombination, and the deleterious mutation load carried by inversions. Because the balance of these factors is expected to differ between X (or Z) chromosomes and autosomes, opportunities for inversion evolution are likely to systematically differ between these genomic regions, though such scenarios have not been formally modelled. Here, we consider the evolutionary dynamics of X-linked and autosomal inversions in populations evolving at a balance between migration and local selection. We identify three factors that lead to asymmetric rates of X-linked and autosome inversion establishment: (1) sex-biased migration, (2) dominance of locally adapted alleles and (3) chromosome-specific deleterious mutation loads. This theory predicts an elevated rate of fixation, and depressed opportunities for polymorphism, for X-linked inversions. Our survey of data on the genomic distribution of polymorphic and fixed inversions supports both theoretical predictions.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Linking local adaptation with the evolution of sex differences'.
Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic in England: context, acute symptomatology, and post-acute complications of COVID-19
Creators: name: Whitaker, Matthew
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has represented an unprecedented global health challenge. The Imperial REACT-1 and REACT-2 programmes formed a part of the research response in England, analysing community prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and antibodies through a series of large cross-sectional samples. The introductory chapter of this thesis presents a detailed overview of the epidemiological aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, summarising key research papers and milestones as well as describing the public health response and the development of treatments. The literature on the symptomatology of COVID-19, and of post-COVID syndrome, is reviewed in depth, and the REACT-1 and REACT-2 studies are introduced. Chapter two presents an algorithmic interrogation of the full corpus of COVID-19 literature published between 2020 and 2022, with description of research trends and analysis of different metrics of impact contextualised within all non-COVID-19 literature that has been published since 2019. Chapters three and four use data from the REACT-1 and REACT-2 programmes to investigate (i) the symptomatology of COVID-19 in the acute phase of this disease and how this has changed over time with different variants and varying levels of population immunity, and (ii) the characteristics, risk factors and sub-types of post-COVID syndrome, where symptoms persist beyond 12 weeks after initial infection. The thesis concludes with general remarks contextualising the findings and discussing potential and actual extensions of the research.
How Efficient Is The Langacker-Pi Mechanism of Monopole Annihilation?
Creators: name: Holman, R.
name: Kibble, T. W. B.
name: Rey, Soo-Jong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of monopole annihilation by the Langacker-Pi mechanism. We find taht considerations of causality, flux-tube energetics and the friction from Aharonov-Bohm scatteering suggest that the monopole annihilation is most efficient if electromagnetism is spontaneously broken at the lowest temperature ($T_{em} \approx 10^6 GeV$) consistent with not having the monopoles dominate the energy density of the universe.
description: 10 pages
Anisotropic Reversible-Jump McMC Shear-Velocity Tomography of the Eastern Alpine Crust
Creators: name: Kästle, Emanuel D.
name: Tilmann, Frederik
name: AlpArray And Swath-D Working Groups
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: azimuthal anisotropy
subject: Bayesian tomography
subject: AlpArray
subject: ambient noise
subject: surface-wave tomography
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: The eastern Alpine crust has been shaped by the continental collision of the European and Adriatic plates beginning at 35 Ma and was affected by a major reorganization after 20 Ma. To better understand how the eastern Alpine surface structures link with deep seated processes, we analyze the depth-dependent seismic anisotropy based on Rayleigh wave propagation. Ambient noise recordings are evaluated to extract Rayleigh wave phase dispersion measurements. These are inverted in a two step approach for the azimuthally anisotropic shear velocity structure. Both steps are performed with a reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (rj-McMC) approach that estimates data errors and propagates the modeled uncertainties from the phase velocity maps into the depth inversion. A two layer structure of azimuthal anisotropy is imaged in the Alpine crust, with an orogen-parallel upper crust and approximately orogen-perpendicular layer in the lower crust and the uppermost mantle. In the upper layer, the anisotropy tends to follow major fault lines and may thus be an apparent, structurally driven anisotropy. The main foliation and fold axis orientations might contribute to the anisotropy. In the lower crust, the N-S orientation of the fast axis is mostly confined to regions north of the Periadriatic Fault and may be related to European subduction. Outside the orogen, no clearly layered structure is identified. The anisotropy pattern in the northern Alpine foreland is found to be similar compared to SKS studies which is an indication of very homogeneous fast axis directions throughout the crust and the upper mantle.
A position-dependent mass harmonic oscillator and deformed space
Creators: name: da Costa, Bruno G.
name: Borges, Ernesto P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider canonically conjugated generalized space and linear momentum operators $\hat{x}_q$ and $ \hat{p}_q$ in quantum mechanics, associated to a generalized translation operator which produces infinitesimal deformed displacements controlled by a deformation parameter $q$. A canonical transformation $(\hat{x}, \hat{p}) \rightarrow (\hat{x}_q, \hat{p}_q)$ leads the Hamiltonian of a position-dependent mass particle in usual space to another Hamiltonian of a particle with constant mass in a conservative force field of the deformed space. The equation of motion for the classical phase space $(x, p)$ may be expressed in terms of the deformed (dual) $q$-derivative. We revisit the problem of a $q$-deformed oscillator in both classical and quantum formalisms. Particularly, this canonical transformation leads a particle with position-dependent mass in a harmonic potential to a particle with constant mass in a Morse potential. The trajectories in phase spaces $(x,p)$ and $(x_q, p_q)$ are analyzed for different values of the deformation parameter. Lastly, we compare the results of the problem in classical and quantum formalisms through the principle of correspondence and the WKB approximation.
Bifurcations and Spatial Chaos in an Open Flow Model
Creators: name: Willeboordse, Frederick H.
name: Kaneko, Kunihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a coupled map model for open flow may exhibit spatial chaos and spatial quasiperiodicity with temporal periodicity. The locations of these patterns, which cover a substantial part of parameter space, are indicated in a comprehensive phase diagram. In order to analyze the encountered phenomena, a novel class of spatial maps is introduced which is very efficient in accurately reproducing the original spatial patterns. It is found that temporally period one spatial chaos is convectively unstable, and that it is possible to predict an essential aspect of the bifurcation behavior of the coupled system solely by considering its corresponding spatial map.
description: 4 pages; single compressed and uuencoded Postscript file which includes the 5 figures
Supplementary Tables from Local adaptation and the evolution of inversions on sex chromosomes and autosomes
Creators: name: Connallon, Tim
name: Olito, Colin
name: Dutoit, Ludovic
name: Papoli, Homa
name: Ruzicka, Filip
name: Lengxob Yong
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Spatially varying selection with gene flow can favour the evolution of inversions that bind locally adapted alleles together, facilitate local adaptation and ultimately drive genomic divergence between species. Several studies have shown that the rates of spread and establishment of new inversions capturing locally adaptive alleles depend on a suite of evolutionary factors, including the strength of selection for local adaptation, rates of gene flow and recombination, and the deleterious mutation load carried by inversions. Because the balance of these factors is expected to differ between X (or Z) chromosomes and autosomes, opportunities for inversion evolution are likely to systematically differ between these genomic regions, though such scenarios have not been formally modelled. Here, we consider the evolutionary dynamics of X-linked and autosomal inversions in populations evolving at a balance between migration and local selection. We identify three factors that lead to asymmetric rates of X-linked and autosome inversion establishment: (1) sex-biased migration, (2) dominance of locally adapted alleles and (3) chromosome-specific deleterious mutation loads. This theory predicts an elevated rate of fixation, and depressed opportunities for polymorphism, for X-linked inversions. Our survey of data on the genomic distribution of polymorphic and fixed inversions supports both theoretical predictions.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Linking local adaptation with the evolution of sex differences'.
A novel approach for characterising broadband radio spectral energy distributions
Creators: name: Harvey, V. M.
name: Franzen, T.
name: Morgan, J.
name: Seymour, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new broadband radio frequency catalogue across 0.12 GHz $\le ν\le$ 20 GHz created by combining data from the Murchison Widefield Array Commissioning Survey, the Australia Telescope 20 Gigahertz survey, and the literature. Our catalogue consists of 1285 sources limited by $S_{20\,\rm{GHz}} >$ 40 mJy at $5σ$, and contains flux density measurements (or estimates) and uncertainties at 0.074, 0.080, 0.119, 0.150, 0.180, 0.408, 0.843, 1.4, 4.8, 8.6, and 20 GHz. We fit a second-order polynomial in log-log space to the spectral energy distributions of all these sources in order to characterise their broadband emission. For the 994 sources which are well-described by a linear or quadratic model we present a new diagnostic plot arranging sources by the linear and curvature terms. We demonstrate the advantages of such a plot over the traditional radio colour-colour diagram. We also present astrophysical descriptions of the sources found in each segment of this new parameter space and discuss the utility of these plots in the upcoming era of large area, deep, broadband radio surveys.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables, with ancillary data. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0050
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0050, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0050, 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
The Temporal Development of Dust Formation and Destruction in Nova Sagittarii 2015#2 (V5668 Sgr): A Panchromatic Study
Creators: name: Gehrz, R. D.
name: Evans, A.
name: Woodward, C. E.
name: Helton, L. A.
name: Banerjee, D. P. K.
name: Srivastava, M. K.
name: Ashok, N. M.
name: Joshi, V.
name: Eyres, S. P. S.
name: Krautter, Joachim
name: Kuin, N. P. M.
name: Page, K. L.
name: Osborne, J. P.
name: Schwarz, G. J.
name: Shenoy, D. P.
name: Shore, S. N.
name: Starrfield, S. G.
name: Wagner, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 5-28 micron SOFIA FORECAST spectroscopy complemented by panchromatic X-ray through infrared observations of the CO nova V5668 Sgr documenting the formation and destruction of dust during 500 days following outburst. Dust condensation commenced by 82 days after outburst at a temperature of 1090 K. The condensation temperature indicates that the condensate was amorphous carbon. There was a gradual decrease of the grain size and dust mass during the recovery phase. Absolute parameter values given here are for an assumed distance of 1.2 kpc. We conclude that the maximum mass of dust produced was 1.2 x 10-7 solar masses if the dust was amorphous carbon. The average grain radius grew to a maximum of 2.9 microns at a temperature of 720 K around day 113 when the shell visual optical depth was Tau = 5.4. Maximum grain growth was followed by followed by a period of grain destruction. X-rays were detected with Swift from day 95 to beyond day 500. The Swift X-ray count rate due to the hot white dwarf peaked around day 220, when its spectrum was that of a kT = 35 eV blackbody. The temperature, together with the super-soft X-ray turn-on and turn-off times, suggests a WD mass of 1.1 solar masses. We show that the X-ray fluence was sufficient to destroy the dust. Our data show that the post-dust event X-ray brightening is not due to dust destruction, which certainly occurred, as the dust is optically thin to X-rays.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. This is the final version after correction of the proofs
User Behaviour with Unguided Touchless Gestural Interfaces
Creators: name: Henschke, Martin
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: Touchless gestural interfaces provide users with the ability to use body movements and language gestures as a modality of input. Unlike other input modes, gestures must be interpreted by a recognition system, providing users with a degree of flexibility in how they are performed. Such interfaces are often suggested as a 'natural interface' alternative, allowing the utilisation of pre-learned communication skills for interaction. However, touchless interfaces are still governed by constraints, which can be opaque to users due to the complexity of the recognition system involved. This thesis explores the intuitive behaviour users exhibit when using touchless gestural interfaces. It describes four separate studies where users specified the constraints of the touchless interfaces, to allow the system to respond to their intuitive method of gesturing. The studies provided users with a series of tasks they performed with either deictic (pointing) gestures or dynamic free-hand gestures. I recorded variations between user performances and classified individual gestures to determine if similarities existed between the way users approached such systems. A considerable degree of variation was observed between the way users approached defining their gestures initially. Individual actions often had many possible definitions, with no significant inclination towards a common definition from the tested sample. Over time, participants typically did not make significant changes to their gesture performances, but when they did it was in response to recognition errors, fatigue, or curiosity and enjoyment. The studies also found that certain elements of the user performance could be manipulated by changing factors in the environment, such as providing a differently shaped device for performing deictic gestures. The findings suggest that there is no pattern of common behaviour that users exhibit when trying to use a touchless interface. Additionally, there are many different potential interpretations of how such systems work, and this interpretation can significantly impact the way users perform gestures. Guiding this interpretation could be a powerful tool to interaction designers to produce intuitive behaviours conducive to a positive user experience.
Proclamation. No. 11, A. D., 1861. By His Excellency James Douglas, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Columbia and its Dependencies, Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c. Whereas, under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament held in the 21st and 22nd years of Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "Ac Act to provide for the Government of British Columbia," ...
Creators: name: Douglas, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Royal coat of arms A] R. PROCLAMATION. NO.11, A.D., 1861. BY HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES DOUGLAS, COMPANION OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, &C., &C. ... {L.S.} ISSUED UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE SAID COLONY, AT VICTORIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND, THIS TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF OCTOBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE, AND IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF HER MAJESTY'S REIGN, BY ME, JAMES DOUGLAS. BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND, WILLIAM A.G. YOUNG. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Collagen-Specific Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Prostate Cancer
Creators: name: Kader, Avan
name: Kaufmann, Jan O.
name: Mangarova, Dilyana B.
name: Moeckel, Jana
name: Adams, Lisa C.
name: Brangsch, Julia
name: Heyl, Jennifer L.
name: Zhao, Jing
name: Verlemann, Christine
name: Karst, Uwe
name: Collettini, Federico
name: Auer, Timo A.
name: Hamm, Bernd
name: Makowski, Marcus R.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: molecular imaging
subject: magnetic resonance imaging
subject: prostate cancer
subject: collagen
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Constant interactions between tumor cells and the extracellular matrix (ECM) influence the progression of prostate cancer (PCa). One of the key components of the ECM are collagen fibers, since they are responsible for the tissue stiffness, growth, adhesion, proliferation, migration, invasion/metastasis, cell signaling, and immune recruitment of tumor cells. To explore this molecular marker in the content of PCa, we investigated two different tumor volumes (500 mm(3) and 1000 mm(3)) of a xenograft mouse model of PCa with molecular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using a collagen-specific probe. For in vivo MRI evaluation, T1-weighted sequences before and after probe administration were analyzed. No significant signal difference between the two tumor volumes could be found. However, we detected a significant difference between the signal intensity of the peripheral tumor area and the central area of the tumor, at both 500 mm(3) (p < 0.01, n = 16) and at 1000 mm(3) (p < 0.01, n = 16). The results of our histologic analyses confirmed the in vivo studies: There was no significant difference in the amount of collagen between the two tumor volumes (p > 0.05), but within the tumor, higher collagen expression was observed in the peripheral area compared with the central area of the tumor. Laser ablation with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry further confirmed these results. The 1000 mm(3) tumors contained 2.8 +/- 1.0% collagen and the 500 mm(3) tumors contained 3.2 +/- 1.2% (n = 16). There was a strong correlation between the in vivo MRI data and the ex vivo histological data (y = -0.068x + 1.1; R-2 = 0.74) (n = 16). The results of elemental analysis by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry supported the MRI data (y = 3.82x + 0.56; R-2 = 0.79; n = 7). MRI with the collagen-specific probe in PCa enables differentiation between different tumor areas. This may help to differentiate tumor from healthy tissue, potentially identifying tumor areas with a specific tumor biology.
Mathematical Appendices from Local adaptation and the evolution of inversions on sex chromosomes and autosomes
Creators: name: Connallon, Tim
name: Olito, Colin
name: Dutoit, Ludovic
name: Papoli, Homa
name: Ruzicka, Filip
name: Lengxob Yong
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Spatially varying selection with gene flow can favour the evolution of inversions that bind locally adapted alleles together, facilitate local adaptation and ultimately drive genomic divergence between species. Several studies have shown that the rates of spread and establishment of new inversions capturing locally adaptive alleles depend on a suite of evolutionary factors, including the strength of selection for local adaptation, rates of gene flow and recombination, and the deleterious mutation load carried by inversions. Because the balance of these factors is expected to differ between X (or Z) chromosomes and autosomes, opportunities for inversion evolution are likely to systematically differ between these genomic regions, though such scenarios have not been formally modelled. Here, we consider the evolutionary dynamics of X-linked and autosomal inversions in populations evolving at a balance between migration and local selection. We identify three factors that lead to asymmetric rates of X-linked and autosome inversion establishment: (1) sex-biased migration, (2) dominance of locally adapted alleles and (3) chromosome-specific deleterious mutation loads. This theory predicts an elevated rate of fixation, and depressed opportunities for polymorphism, for X-linked inversions. Our survey of data on the genomic distribution of polymorphic and fixed inversions supports both theoretical predictions.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Linking local adaptation with the evolution of sex differences'.
title: 01_0487
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/
An Act to enable Aliens to hold and transmit Real Estate. Whereas, it is expedient to enable Aliens to hold and transmit Real Estate in Vancouver Island and its Dependencies: Be it enacted by the Governor on behalf of Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and ...
Creators: name: Douglas, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: (Small coat of arms] AN ACT TO ENABLE ALIENS TO HOLD AND TRANSMIT REAL ESTATE. ... RECEIVED MY ASSENT THE 28TH DAY OF OCTOBER, A.D. 1861. JAMES DOUGLAS.
Agreement Without Implementation: Military Bases and Alliance Tensions in Japan
Creators: name: Ng, Kerri Jinzhi
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: Why are some international agreements implemented while others fail? Why do some pass easily whereas others progress only slowly or cause great turmoil? In 2006, Tokyo and Washington signed an agreement to consolidate and realign US military facilities across Japan, with a major goal being to reduce alliance tensions in base-hosting communities in Japan. More than a decade later, efforts to implement this and related agreements have led to contrasting and, in some cases, quite unsatisfactory results. In Okinawa Prefecture, for example, tensions remain high and the agreement only partially implemented despite some successful land returns and unit transfers. By contrast, tensions rose briefly before falling again in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, which has seen an increase in the number of fighter aircraft at the facility it hosts. To explain such differing outcomes, this dissertation shifts attention away from the agreements in question--the focus of much of the scholarly literature--and instead examines how alliance managers undertook the task of carrying them out. It focuses especially on how sub-national actors and their preferences have shaped the dynamics of implementation and so might account for this variation in outcomes. Using as a framework the concept of "preference incorporation," the core argument is that the manner in which alliance managers engaged with sub-national actors and incorporated or otherwise addressed their preferences is crucial to understanding why and how tensions rise and fall. Furthermore, it identifies positive and negative feedback loops as the key mechanism through which this occurs. By making this case, the dissertation not only contributes to a better understanding of the turbulent history of basing politics in Japan but also broadens our knowledge of how sub-national actors shape not only agreements the states make but also how such agreements are then actually implemented.
Blood-based assessment of oxidative stress, inflammation, endocrine and metabolic adaptations in eventing horses accounting for plasma volume shift after exercise
Creators: name: Giers, Johanna
name: Bartel, Alexander
name: Kirsch, Katharina
name: Müller, Simon Franz
name: Horstmann, Stephanie
name: Gehlen, Heidrun
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: cross-country
subject: eventing
subject: oxidative stress
subject: performance diagnostics
subject: serum amyloid
subject: sport horses
subject: superoxide-dismutase
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Background After submaximal exercise, blood values of eventing horses show physiological reactions. Objectives This prospective longitudinal study investigated blood parameters in 20 elite eventing horses before and after two–four-star cross-country rides. Methods Using a mixed model adjusting for plasma volume shift, we assessed exercise-dependent parameters and compared blood values with reference ranges for healthy horses at rest. Results Following exercise, cortisol, triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) showed short-term increases, and superoxide-dismutase showed a small short-term increase. Hepatic values showed short-term (haemoglobin [HGB], globulins) or sustained increases (bilirubin, glutamate dehydrogenase, alanine aminotransferase). Digestion-related parameters showed small short-term increases (α-amylase, triglycerides) or decreases (cholesterol, DGGR-lipase), apparent through plasma shift adjustment. Zinc decreased in the short term, and iron showed a delayed decrease. White blood cell count increased persistently after training, whereas serum amyloid A remained unchanged. Conclusions Exercised eventing horses had consistently elevated HGB and cortisol levels 10 and 30 min after submaximal exercise, exceeding the reference ranges for healthy horses at rest. Exercise activates the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical and hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axes. Antioxidant activity was observed. Increased energy requirements led to the mobilization of energy reserves, and a sustained increase in liver enzymes indicated hepatocellular injury. Mild haemolysis suggested increased muscle metabolism, whereas signs of inflammation were subtle. Further research is needed to identify which horses deviate from mean values.
An Act to authorize the Continuation of certain Streets in Victoria, Vancouver Island. Whereas, by an Act made and passed on the 28th of August, 1860, entitled an Act to Improve the Streets of the town of Victoria, and to authorize the collection of a Tax to be called the Victoria Street Fund, ...
Creators: name: Douglas, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: [Small coat of arms] AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CONTINUATION OF CERTAIN STREETS IN VICTORIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND. ... RECEIVED MY ASSENT THE 20m DAY OF OCTOBER, A.D. JAMES DOUGLAS.

Supplementary Street Act 1861.
title: Abschätzung und Berücksichtigung der zukünftigen Schmutzfrachten aus dem Zentralen Speicherkanal der Stadt Graz bei der Erweiterung der Kläranlage Graz
Creators: name: Gruber, Günter
name: Hofer, Thomas
name: Messerschmied, Stefan
name: Beutle, Kajetan
Publisher: name: TU, Institut für Wassergüte und Ressourcenmanagement
Year: 2020
Subjects: Kläranlagen
Kläranlagenerweiterung
Mischwasser
Speicherkanal
Online-Monitoring
Schmutzfracht
Schmutzfrachtdynamik

description: Durch den Zentralen Speicherkanal (ZSK)ist es in Graz zukünftig möglich, die Entlastungsfrachten von 21 der insgesamt 35 Mischwasserüberläufe entlang der Mur temporär zuspeichern und nach den Regenereignissen einer ordnungsgemäßenReinigung auf der Kläranlage Graz zuzuführen. Durch ein im Kläranlagen-Zulauf installiertes Online-Monitoring-System ist es möglich, die dabei auftretendeStofffrachtdynamik getrennt für Trockenwetter-und für Regen-wetterbedingungen messtechnisch mit hoher zeitlicherAuflösung zu erfassen. Darauf basierend ist es auch möglich, die Entleerungsfrachten des im ZSK zwischengespeicherten Volumens zur Kläranlage Graz abzuschätzen und damit auch den dadurch erzielbaren Stoffrückhalt von der Mur für jedes Mischwasser-ereignis zu quantifizieren. Bisherige Auswertungen von 15 Entleerungsereignissen im Zeitraum von November 2016 bis Juni 2017 mit einem durchschnittlichen Speichervolumen von 16.580m³ im ZSK ergaben auf Basis des chemischen Sauerstoffbedarfs CSB einen mittleren Stoffrückhalt von rund 5,4t bei einer Bandbreite von 3,2t und 8,5t je Entleerungsereignis. Hochgerechnet auf den in Umsetzung befindlichen Vollausbau des ZSK mit einem aktivierbaren zukünftigen Gesamtspeichervolumen von 106.000m³ kann auf Basis der 15Entleerungsereignisse von einem mittleren CSB-Stoffrückhalt von 59%bei einer Bandbreite von 47% bis 72% bezogen jeweils auf die mittleren, aktuellenCSB-Frachtenim Zulauf zur Kläranlage bei Trockenwetterbedingungen ausge-gangen werden.Diese im ZSK zukünftig zurückgehaltenen Stofffrachten müssen jetzt allerdings bei der geplanten Erweiterung der Kläranlage Graz mitberück-sichtigt werden. In welcher Form dies geschehen ist, sowie der aktuelle Stand der Planungsphase für die Erweiterung der Kläranlage Graz bildeneinen weiteren Schwerpunkt dieses Beitrages.
Proclamation. No. 12, A. D., 1861. By His Excellency James Douglas, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Columbia and its Dependencies, Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c. Whereas, under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament held in the 21st and 22nd years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to provide for the Government of British Columbia," ...
Creators: name: Douglas, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Royal coat of arms A] R. PROCLAMATION. NO.12, A.D., 1861. BY HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES DOUGLAS, COMPANION OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, &C., &C. ... {L.S.} ISSUED UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE SAID COLONY, AT VICTORIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND, THIS TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF OCTOBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE, AND IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF HER MAJESTY'S REIGN, BY ME, JAMES DOUGLAS. BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND, WILLIAM AG. YOUNG. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.