cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Consequences of adjusting cell density and feed frequency on serum-free expansion of thymic regulatory T cells
Creators: name: MacDonald, Katherine N.
name: Hall, Michael G.
name: Ivison, Sabine
name: Gandhi, Sanjiv
name: Klein Geltink, Ramon I.
name: Piret, James
name: Levings, Megan K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Given the promising results from phase I/II clinical trials of regulatory T cell (Treg) therapy it is critical to develop Treg manufacturing methods that use well-defined reagents. Seeking to maximize expansion of human thymic Tregs activated with anti-CD3/CD28-antibody coated beads and cultured in serum-free medium, we found that levels of expansion and viability varied with the cell density on the day of restimulation. Tregs restimulated at low cell densities (1x105 cells/cm2 ) initially had high growth rates, viability, and FOXP3 expression, but these parameters decreased with time and were less stable than in cultures of Tregs restimulated at high cell densities (5x105 cells/cm2 ), which had slower growth rates. High density expansion was associated with expression of inhibitory molecules, lower intracellular oxygen and extracellular nutrient concentrations, and extracellular lactate accumulation. Experiments to test the effect of low oxygen revealed that transient exposures to low oxygen levels had little impact on expansion, viability, or phenotype. Similarly, blockade of inhibitory molecules had little effect. In contrast, replenishing nutrients by increasing the feeding frequency between 2 and 4 days after restimulation increased FOXP3, viability and expansion in high density cultures. These data show the previously undescribed consequences of adjusting cell density on Treg expansion and establish a good manufacturing practice-relevant protocol using non-cell-based activation reagents and serum-free media that supports sustained expansion without loss of viability or phenotype.
Value of Optimal Trip and Charging Scheduling of Commercial Electric Vehicle Fleets with Vehicle-to-Grid in Future Low Inertia Systems
Creators: name: Blatiak, Alicia
name: Bellizio, Federica
name: Badesa, Luis
name: Strbac, Goran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The electrification of transport is seen as an important step in the global decarbonisation agenda. With such a large expected load on the power system from electric vehicles (EVs), it is important to coordinate charging in order to balance the supply and demand for electricity. Bidirectional charging, enabled through Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology, will unlock significant storage capacity from stationary EVs that are plugged in. To take this concept a step further, this paper quantifies the potential revenues to be gained by a commercial EV fleet operator from simultaneously scheduling its trips on a day-ahead basis, as well as its charging. This allows the fleet to complete its trips (with user defined trip length and distance), while taking advantage of fluctuating energy and ancillary services prices. A mathematical framework for optimal trip scheduling is proposed, formulated as a mixed-integer linear program, and is applied to several relevant scenarios of the present and future British electricity system. It is demonstrated that an optimal journey start time can increase the revenue of commercial fleets by up to 38% in summer and 12% in winter. This means a single EV from the maintenance fleet can make additional annual revenue of up to £729. Flexible trip schedules are more valuable in the summer because keeping EVs plugged in during peak solar output will benefit the grid and the fleet operators the most. It was also found that a fleet of 5,000 EVs would result in the equivalent $\textrm{CO}_2$ of removing one Combined Cycle Gas Turbine from the system. This significant increase in revenue and carbon savings show this approach is worth investigating for potential future application.
description: Published in Sustainable Energy Grids and Networks
title: Studien zur Acidität und katalytischen Aktivität ungewöhnlicher LEWIS-Säuren
title: Studies on Acidities and Catalytic Activities of Unusual LEWIS Acids
Creators: name: Nödling, Alexander Roland
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2016
Subjects: Chemistry and allied sciences
Chemie
Lewis-Säure
QSAR , Kinetik
Katalyse
Lewis acidity
NMR-Spektroskopie
Lewis-Acidität

description: In dieser Arbeit wurde die
      Möglichkeit untersucht, die Acidität verschiedener
      Lewis-Säuren durch NMR-spektroskopische Methoden zu
      bestimmen. Carbokationen, Silyliumionen, Thioharnstoffe und
      Lewis-Säure aktivierte Lewis-Säuren waren die hauptsächlich
      untersuchten Klassen. Weiterhin wurde der Zusammenhang der
      ermittelten Aciditäten mit den katalytischen Aktivitäten der
      Lewis-Säuren in einfachen Diels-Alder-Reaktionen untersucht.
      Neben einer beobachteten Acidität-Aktivitäts-Beziehung wurden
      spezifische Fragestellungen der einzelnen Klassen
      beantwortet.
description: The aim of this thesis was to
      probe the possibility to quantify the acidity of various
      classes of Lewis acids by NMR spectroscopic methods.
      Carbocations, silyliumions, thioureas, as well as Lewis acid
      assisted Lewis acids were among the investigated classes.
      Furthermore, a relationship between the experimentally
      quantified acidities and the catalytic activities of the
      Lewis acids in simple Diels-Alder reactions was investigated.
      Thereby, acidity-activity relationships were found and class
      specific questions could be answered.
Stenomacrus Forster 1869
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Stenomacrus

description: 16.5 Genus Stenomacrus Förster, 1869
Stenomacrus Förster, 1869: 160.
Type species Orthocentrus silvaticus Holmgren, 1858, by subsequent designation by Viereck (1912b: 177).
Comments. Porter (1998) mentions unidentified species occurring from the Región del Maule (Curicó) to Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Pearl Ing
Creators: Wei, S. Louisa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai—the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking. Ing’s original name was Shangxian. Like most children born into upper-middle class families, she also had another name, Longguan. Later, she adopted the name “Pearl” in English, or “Mingzhu” in Chinese (J. Chen 59). Her father died when she was a child, but left her and her mother a lottery ticket that won the grand prize. This windfall allowed Pearl’s mother to move the family to Shanghai, where she went to the prestigious McTyeire School for Girls. As a top student there, Ing learned new ideas and manners. She was good at dancing, swimming, singing, bicycling, driving, and horseback riding (Zheng 15).
Second Thoughts: On Malaysia, Globalisation, Society And Self
Creators: name: Lee, Julian
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440199
subject: Anthropology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 470202
subject: Asian cultural studies
classificationCode: 470210
subject: Globalisation and culture

description: BACKGROUND: This work may be considered to be a contribution to the field of 'public anthropology' (e.g. www.publicanthropology.org). It contributes to scholarly debates about ways in which societies experience and engage with globalisation. Subjective engagements with globalisation are explored in academic publications with major authors including Manfred Steger, Roland Robertson, and Paul James. Key recent texts include 'Levels of Subjective Globalization' (Steger and James, 2013); 'Three Levels of subjective globalization' (Steger and James, 2011) and 'Narratives of Globalization (Lee, 2016).
CONTRIBUTION: Second Thoughts explores diverse ways in which quotidian experiences can illuminate the global condition of everyday life in Malaysia, and demonstrate how the global is made manifest in the local Malaysian context, by drawing on anthropological perspectives to do so. The research question beneath the work is 'What do prosaic aspects of Malaysian life say about Malaysia's engagement with globalisation?' This work is clearly a legitimate approach to addressing the question through its mosaic of academically informed explorations into diverse aspects of Malaysian life, with clear arguments drawing on scholarship. Public anthropology is a field that is being promoted by anthropology bodies (see above) and this work is an exemplar text of how such it may be conducted.
SIGNIFICANCE: The benefits of this work extend into the non-academic community. It has been reviewed at least numerous non-academic outlets, including The Star - Malaysia's biggest English newspaper. It has also been reviewed in The Penang Monthly and CriticsRepublic. It has been requested by the journal 'Anthropological Forum' for review. The publisher of the book is a ground-breaking publisher in Malaysia, which provides an outlet for publically engaged academic writing, by significant academics including Azmi Sharom, Yeoh Seng Guan and Meredith Weiss. The work was not funded.
PolyLoss: A Polynomial Expansion Perspective of Classification Loss Functions
Creators: name: Leng, Zhaoqi
name: Tan, Mingxing
name: Liu, Chenxi
name: Cubuk, Ekin Dogus
name: Shi, Xiaojie
name: Cheng, Shuyang
name: Anguelov, Dragomir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cross-entropy loss and focal loss are the most common choices when training deep neural networks for classification problems. Generally speaking, however, a good loss function can take on much more flexible forms, and should be tailored for different tasks and datasets. Motivated by how functions can be approximated via Taylor expansion, we propose a simple framework, named PolyLoss, to view and design loss functions as a linear combination of polynomial functions. Our PolyLoss allows the importance of different polynomial bases to be easily adjusted depending on the targeting tasks and datasets, while naturally subsuming the aforementioned cross-entropy loss and focal loss as special cases. Extensive experimental results show that the optimal choice within the PolyLoss is indeed dependent on the task and dataset. Simply by introducing one extra hyperparameter and adding one line of code, our Poly-1 formulation outperforms the cross-entropy loss and focal loss on 2D image classification, instance segmentation, object detection, and 3D object detection tasks, sometimes by a large margin.
description: Add ablation studies on COCO detection using RetinaNet (Section 8)
Symplecis Forster 1869
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Symplecis

description: 16.6 Genus Symplecis Förster, 1869
Symplecis Förster, 1869: 151.
Type species Symplecis alpicola Förster, 1871, by subsequent designation by Viereck (1914: 140).
Comments. Porter (1998) mentions undescribed species spread from the Región de Ñuble to Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
The eclipsing binary systems with $δ$ Scuti component -- II. AB Cas
Creators: name: Miszuda, A.
name: Kołaczek-Szymański, P. A.
name: Szewczuk, W.
name: Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a complex study of the eclipsing binary system, AB Cas. The analysis of the whole TESS light curve, corrected for the binary effects, reveals 112 significant frequency peaks with 17 independent signals. The dominant frequency $f_1 = $17.1564 d$^{-1}$ is a radial fundamental mode. The $O-C$ analysis of the times of light minima from over 92 years leads to a conclusion that due to the ongoing mass transfer the system exhibits a change of the orbital period at a rate of 0.03 s per year. In order to find evolutionary models describing the current stage of AB Cas, we perform binary evolution computations. Our results show the AB Cas system as a product of the rapid non-conservative mass transfer with about 5-26 % of transferred mass lost from the system. This process heavily affected the orbital characteristics of this binary and its components in the past. In fact, this system closely resembles the formation scenarios of EL CVn type binaries. For the first time, we demonstrate the effect of binary evolution on radial pulsations and determine the lines of constant frequency on the HR diagram. From the binary and seismic modelling, we obtain constraints on various parameters. In particular, we constrain the overshooting parameter, $f_{\rm ov}\in [0.010,~0.018]$, the mixing-length parameter, $α_{\rm MLT}\in[1.2,~1.5]$ and the age, $t \in [2.3,~3.4]$ Gyr.
description: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal
The young Galactic cluster NGC 225: binary stars content and total mass estimate
Creators: name: Yalyalieva, L.
name: Carraro, G.
name: Glushkova, E.
name: Munari, U.
name: Ochner, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galactic star clusters are known to harbour a significant amount of binary stars, yet their role in the dynamical evolution of the cluster as a whole is not comprehensively understood. We investigated the influence of binary stars on the total mass estimate for the case of the moderately populated Galactic star cluster NGC 225. The analysis of multi-epoch radial velocities of the 29 brightest cluster members, obtained over two observational campaigns, in 1990-1991 and in 2019-2020, yields a value of binary fraction of $α=0.52$ (15 stars out of 29). Using theoretical isochrones and Monte Carlo simulations we found that the cluster mass increases at least 1.23 times when binaries are properly taken into account. By combining Gaia EDR3 photometric data with our spectroscopic observations, we derived estimates of NGC 225 fundamental parameters as follows: mean radial velocity $ = -9.8 \pm 0.7$ km s$^{-1}$, $\log(τ)$=8.0-8.2 dex, distance $ D = 676 \pm 22$ pc, and colour excess $E(B-V) = 0.29 \pm 0.01$ mag.
Guideline Prevention of food waste in the catering sector
Creators: name: Fink, Leonie
name: Roehl, Rainer
name: Strassner, Carola
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nahrungsmittelabfall
subject: Nahrungsmittelverschwendung
subject: Gastronomie
subject: food waste
subject: catering
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Foods carry a significant ecological backpack. Their production requires land area, consumes water and generates greenhouse gas emissions. Sadly, private households in Germany alone incur some 6.7 million tonnes of food waste every year. About one third of all the food eaten away from home ends up being discarded. This guide gives practical, easy-to-follow advice on how to avoid food waste in the catering industry – whether at conferences and trade fairs, private parties or company anniversaries.
McBride Charles Ryan: Metaphors of Knowledge
Creators: name: Phillips, Christine
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design
classificationCode: 330104
subject: Architectural history, theory and criticism

description: BACKGROUND 'McBride Charles Ryan: Metaphors of Knowledge' is a reflective discussion about the contribution this practice has made to education architecture and how their work reflects a nation wide shift towards innovative design within education architecture. The review taps into a long history of architectural critique where figures like Ada Louise Huxley, the well-known architecture critic and writer, awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, brought architecture into the public realm through writing. This also aligns with a current questioning about the role of architecture within the contemporary climate where the nature of procurement and construction is changing. Of note, the research and writing of Professor Leon van Schaik has been of great importance within this area such as his book 'Procuring Innovative Architecture' (2010). Published within Australia's popular industry magazine, the authors' article continues within this tradition. SIGNIFICANCE 'McBride Charles Ryan: Metaphors of Knowledge' was published within Architecture Australia', one of Australia's leading magazines about architecture. The magazine has been in print in various forms and under various names for over a 100 years. It was first published in 1905 and is now an important part of design discourse. As Professor Philip Goad points out, "after one hundred years, 'Architecture Australia' still remains the focus of the Australian architecture profession's dialogue with its members and its public." CONTRIBUTION In line with contemporary theorists and academics like Jeremy Till and Jane Rendell, this article aligns with the notion of writing as an expanded form of practice beyond the built form and into the realm of ideas, ethics and reflection. This debate stems from a current questioning of the role of architecture within the contemporary climate that has inspired architects to experiment in non-traditional methods of practice.
Evaluation of CMIP5 and CMIP6 global climate models in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, atmosphere and surface ocean
Creators: name: Agosta, Cécile
name: Davrinche, Cécile
name: Kittel, Christoph
name: Amory, Charles
name: Edwards, Tamsin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Large efforts are engaged to model climate-ice sheet interactions in order to estimate the contribution of Antarctica and Greenland to sea level in the next decades to centuries. Here we present a first-order evaluation of CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate models over both polar regions. We focus on large-scale atmospheric fields and surface ocean variables only. Our goal is to provide a first overview of climate model biases in polar regions, in order to use their outputs on an informed basis. We particularly target climate model outputs relevant for driving ice-sheet models and regional climate models.

We consider 9 (non-independent) variables : 850 hPa and 700 hPa annual and summer temperature, annual integrated water vapor, annual sea level pressure, annual 500hPa geopotential height, summer sea surface temperature, and winter sea ice concentration; over the Arctic (> 50°N) and the Antarctic (<40°S) regions. We use the ERA5 reanalysis as a reference, but we also consider 5 other reanalyses in the intercomparison to account for observational uncertainty. We define two sets of metrics. The first set of metrics, called “scaled rmse”, is the spatial root mean square error (RMSE) of time-mean variables for each region, that we divide by the median RMSE among all CMIP models. The second set of metrics, called “implausible fraction”, is the portion of the region where the difference between time-mean CMIP model and time-mean ERA5 is greater than three times the local interannual standard deviation. We find a strong relationship between the two sets of metrics. In addition, using the implausible fraction, we find that CMIP variables are significantly more implausible in the Antarctic than in the Arctic. It might be because of badly resolved processes or because of higher decadal variability in the South. Further work should include estimates of decadal variability in the implausibility computation.
Pedunculus Townes 1969
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Pedunculus

description: 17.1 Genus Pedunculus Townes, 1969 *
Pedunculus Townes, 1969: 203.
Type species Pedunculus major Townes, 1969, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Caught Unawares
Creators: name: Blythe, Richard
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design

description: BACKGROUND: This essay is a critical review of the architectural project 'Caught Unawares' by Minifie van Schaik - an unbuilt re-conception of the Sydney Opera House that was selected for exhibition at 'Augmented Australia' the Australian Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. CONTRIBUTION: The essay contextualised the project within innovative architectural practices based around experimental processes that speculate about ideas, forms, processes and effects. It described Minifie van Schaik's project as 'metaphorical and radical translation' from medicine and mathematics into architectural language. The essay contributes a critical understanding of Minifie van Schaik's project within the context of a new kind of architecture. SIGNIFICANCE: The significance of the essay is demonstrated by its selection for inclusion in the Biennale's Augmented Australia 136-page exhibition catalogue, published by the Australian Institute of Architects. It is archived in the National Library of Australia. The Venice Biennale is the world's premier architecture exhibition and the 'Augmented' show was supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Architecture Media and major industry partners. The catalogue was accompanied by a downloadable app, with trigger images and video commentaries that could be activated.
SXP 15.6 -- an accreting pulsar close to spin equilibrium?
Creators: name: Coe, M. J.
name: Monageng, I. M.
name: Kennea, J. A.
name: Buckley, D. A. H.
name: Evans, P. A.
name: Udalski, A.
name: Groot, Paul
name: Bloemen, Steven
name: Vreeswijk, Paul
name: McBride, Vanessa
name: Klein-Wolt, Marc
name: Woudt, Patrick
name: Körding, Elmar
name: Poole, Rudolf Le
name: Pieterse, Danielle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SXP 15.6 is a recently established Be star X-ray binary system (BeXRB) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Like many such systems the variable X-ray emission is driven by the underlying behaviour of the mass donor Be star. It is shown here that the neutron star in this system is exceptionally close to spin equilibrium averaged over several years, with the angular momentum gain from mass transfer being almost exactly balanced by radiative losses. This makes SXP 15.6 exceptional compared to all other known members of its class in the SMC, all of whom exhibit much higher spin period changes. In this paper we report on X-ray observations of the brightest known outburst from this system. These observations are supported by contemporaneous optical and radio observations, as well as several years of historical data.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Development of the Brazilian Version of a Pan-Canadian Behavior Change Program and Its Health and Fitness Outcomes
Creators: name: Schwartz, Juliano
name: Oh, Paul
name: Bredin, Shannon S. D.
name: Rhodes, Ryan E.
name: Perotto, Maira B.
name: Gaytán-González, Alejandro
name: Warburton, Darren E. R.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Chronic diseases are a major health problem worldwide, especially in lower-income jurisdictions. Considering this scenario, the World Health Organization has recently established, as a research priority, preventive interventions for populations from lower-income countries, such as the middle-income country of Brazil. The purpose of this article is to describe the components of a pan-Canadian lifestyle program adapted to Brazilians and to report its health and fitness outcomes. A 12-week program called ACCELERATION was translated and culturally adapted to Brazilians. A quasi-randomized controlled trial was designed, consisting of weekly emails and educational videos addressing risk factors for chronic disease. Health and fitness measures included body composition, cardiovascular variables, aerobic fitness, and muscular strength. The Brazilian experimental group showed maintenance in heart rate, blood pressure, and VO2max values while presenting an improvement of 3.3% in body fat percentage (p = 0.040, d = −0.325) and 5.1% in muscular strength (p = 0.039, d = 0.328). Overall, these results were similar to the Canadian intervention. Based on these findings, the Brazilian version of the program has the potential to contribute to the fight against chronic diseases in Brazil.
Pedunculus major Townes 1969
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Pedunculus
Pedunculus major

description: 17.1.1 Pedunculus major Townes, 1969 *
Distribution. Chile: Región de Los Lagos (Townes 1969; Lanfranco 1974b).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
SpeX near-infrared spectroscopic extinction curves in the Milky Way
Creators: name: Decleir, Marjorie
name: Gordon, Karl D.
name: Andrews, Jennifer E.
name: Clayton, Geoffrey C.
name: Cushing, Michael C.
name: Misselt, Karl A.
name: Pendleton, Yvonne
name: Rayner, John
name: Vacca, William D.
name: Whittet, D. C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interstellar dust extinction curves provide valuable information about dust properties, including the composition and size of the dust grains, and are essential to correct observations for the effects of interstellar dust. In this work, we measure a representative sample of near-infrared (NIR; 0.8-5.5 $μ$m) spectroscopic extinction curves for the first time, enabling us to investigate the extinction at wavelengths where it is usually only measured in broad photometric bands. We use IRTF/SpeX spectra of a sample of reddened and comparison stars to measure 15 extinction curves with the pair method. Our sample spans A(V) values from 0.78 to 5.65 and R(V) values from 2.43 to 5.33. We confirm that the NIR extinction curves are well fit by a power law, with indices and amplitudes differing from sight line to sight line. Our average diffuse NIR extinction curve can be represented by a single power law with index $α= 1.7$, but because of the sight line-to-sight line variations, the shape of any average curve will depend on the parental sample. We find that most of the variation in our sample can be linked to the ratio of total-to-selective extinction R(V), a rough measurement of the average dust grain size. Two sight lines in our sample clearly show the ice extinction feature at 3 $μ$m, which can be fitted by a modified Drude profile. We find tentative ice detections with slightly over 3$σ$ significance in two other sight lines. In our average diffuse extinction curve, we measure a 3$σ$ upper limit of A(ice)/A(V) = 0.0021 for this ice feature.
description: 27 pages, 15 figures, 5 tables, published as Decleir et al. 2022, ApJ, 930, 15
BILP-Q: Quantum Coalition Structure Generation
Creators: name: Venkatesh, Supreeth Mysore
name: Macaluso, Antonio
name: Klusch, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.11; F.1.0

description: Quantum AI is an emerging field that uses quantum computing to solve typical complex problems in AI. In this work, we propose BILP-Q, the first-ever general quantum approach for solving the Coalition Structure Generation problem (CSGP), which is notably NP-hard. In particular, we reformulate the CSGP in terms of a Quadratic Binary Combinatorial Optimization (QUBO) problem to leverage existing quantum algorithms (e.g., QAOA) to obtain the best coalition structure. Thus, we perform a comparative analysis in terms of time complexity between the proposed quantum approach and the most popular classical baselines. Furthermore, we consider standard benchmark distributions for coalition values to test the BILP-Q on small-scale experiments using the IBM Qiskit environment. Finally, since QUBO problems can be solved operating with quantum annealing, we run BILP-Q on medium-size problems using a real quantum annealer (D-Wave).
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Acidnus Townes 1970
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Acidnus

description: 18.1 Genus Acidnus Townes, 1970 *
Acidnus Townes, 1970a: 35.
Type species Acidnus ensifer Townes, 1970, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
An Optimization Framework for Silicon Photonic Evanescent-Field Biosensors Using Sub-Wavelength Gratings
Creators: name: Puumala, Lauren S.
name: Grist, Samantha M.
name: Wickremasinghe, Kithmin
name: Al-Qadasi, Mohammed A.
name: Chowdhury, Sheri Jahan
name: Liu, Yifei
name: Mitchell, Matthew
name: Chrostowski, Lukas
name: Shekhar, Sudip
name: Cheung, Karen C.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Silicon photonic (SiP) evanescent-field biosensors aim to combine the information-rich readouts offered by lab-scale diagnostics, at a significantly lower cost, and with the portability and rapid time to result offered by paper-based assays. While SiP biosensors fabricated with conventional strip waveguides can offer good sensitivity for label-free detection in some applications, there is still opportunity for improvement. Efforts have been made to design higher-sensitivity SiP sensors with alternative waveguide geometries, including sub-wavelength gratings (SWGs). However, SWG-based devices are fragile and prone to damage, limiting their suitability for scalable and portable sensing. Here, we investigate SiP microring resonator sensors designed with SWG waveguides that contain a “fishbone” and highlight the improved robustness offered by this design. We present a framework for optimizing fishbone-style SWG waveguide geometries based on numerical simulations, then experimentally measure the performance of ring resonator sensors fabricated with the optimized waveguides, targeting operation in the O-band and C-band. For the O-band and C-band devices, we report bulk sensitivities up to 349 nm/RIU and 438 nm/RIU, respectively, and intrinsic limits of detection as low as 5.1 × 10−⁴ RIU and 7.1 × 10−⁴ RIU, respectively. This performance is comparable to the state of the art in SWG-based sensors, positioning fishbone SWG resonators as an attractive, more robust, alternative to conventional SWG designs.
Evaluation of platelet rich plasma (PRP) workflow for clinical improvement
Creators: name: Farrell, Connor
name: DeStefano, Sherilyn
name: Novak, Melissa
name: Petering, Ryan
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Patient Satisfaction
Workflow
Sports Medicine
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Platelet-Rich Plasma

description: The scientific evidence regarding the efficacy of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) as a treatment for certain musculoskeletal conditions is in its infancy. This project aims to evaluate patient satisfaction of the Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU) Sports Medicine PRP Workflow with the goal to establish the foundation for which this process may be improved. The purpose of this project is to obtain a baseline level of patient satisfaction and improve current systems workflow which may affect patient decisions to pursue future PRP treatments.
Acidnus ensifer Townes 1970
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Acidnus
Acidnus ensifer

description: 18.1.1 Acidnus ensifer Townes, 1970 *
Distribution. Chile: Región Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (Townes 1970a).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Variational Methods for Atoms and the Virial Theorem
Creators: name: Fischer, Charlotte Froese
name: Godefroid, Michel
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2025

description: In the case of the one-electron Dirac equation with a point nucleus, the virial theorem (VT) states that the ratio of the kinetic energy to potential energy is exactly −1, a ratio that can be an independent test of the accuracy of a computed solution. This paper studies the virial theorem for subshells of equivalent electrons and their interactions in many-electron atoms. This shows that the linear scaling of the dilation is achieved through the balancing of the contributions to the potential of an electron from inner and outer regions that some Slater integrals impose conditions on a single subshell, but others impose conditions between subshells. The latter slows the rate of convergence of the self-consistent field process in which radial functions are updated one at a time. Several cases are considered. Results are also extended to the nonrelativistic case.
title: Preporki otnosno procedurite za septifikazija i obucenie za alterativni chladilni agenti sglasno Reglament (EU) No. 517/2014
title: Препоръки относно обучението за естествените хладилни агенти
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Papst, Irene
name: Gschrey, Barbara
name: Zeiger, Bastian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Kühlmittel
subject: alternative refrigerants
subject: natural refrigerants
subject: refrigerant
subject: Climate | Energy
subject: Economy | Consumption
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cooling technologies based on natural refrigerants with negligible or insignificant effect on the environment and climate have experienced a renaissance in recent years. A variety of highly efficient applications has been developed and has now reached a technical level that makes their use economically viable. Because natural refrigerants require careful handling, particular attention has to be paid to adequate qualification of servicing personnel. This guidance document presents recommendations for the implementation of relevant EU legislation, which have been derived from experiences made in the training and certification system in Germany.
Aclastus Forster 1869
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Aclastus

description: 18.2 Genus Aclastus Förster, 1869
Aclastus Förster, 1869: 165.
Type species Aclastus rufipes Ashmead, 1902, by subsequent designation by Viereck (1914: 3).
Comments. Porter (1998) mentions the occurrence of this genus in Chile, but does not provide any comment on its distribution.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
A Babcock-Leighton-type Solar Dynamo Operating in the Bulk of the Convection Zone
Creators: name: Zhang, Zebin
name: Jiang, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The toroidal magnetic field is assumed to be generated in the tachocline in most Babcock-Leighton (BL)-type solar dynamo models, in which the poloidal field is produced by the emergence and subsequent dispersal of sunspot groups. However, magnetic activity of fully convective stars and MHD simulations of global stellar convection have recently raised serious doubts regarding the importance of the tachocline in the generation of the toroidal field. In this study, we aim to develop a new BL-type dynamo model, in which the dynamo operates mainly within the bulk of the convection zone. Our 2D model includes the effect of solar-like differential rotation, one-cell meridional flow, near-surface radial pumping, strong turbulent diffusion, BL-type poloidal source, and nonlinear back-reaction of the magnetic field on its source with a vertical outer boundary condition. The model leads to a simple dipolar configuration of the poloidal field that has the dominant latitudinal component, which is wound up by the latitudinal shear within the bulk of the convection zone to generate the toroidal flux. As a result, the tachocline plays a negligible role in the model. The model reproduces the basic properties of the solar cycle, including (a) approximately 11 yr cycle period and 18 yr extended cycle period; (b) equatorward propagation of the antisymmetric toroidal field starting from high latitudes; and (c) polar field evolution that is consistent with observations. Our model opens the possibility for a paradigm shift in understanding the solar cycle to transition from the classical flux transport dynamo.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
High Permittivity Polymer Composites on the Basis of Long Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: The Role of the Nanotube Length
Creators: name: Galyaltdinov, Shamil
name: Lounev, Ivan
name: Khamidullin, Timur
name: Hashemi, Seyyed Alireza
name: Nasibulin, Albert
name: Dimiev, Ayrat M.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Controlling the permittivity of dielectric composites is critical for numerous applications dealing with matter/electromagnetic radiation interaction. In this study, we have prepared polymer composites, based on a silicone elastomer matrix and Tuball carbon nanotubes (CNT) via a simple preparation procedure. The as-prepared composites demonstrated record-high dielectric permittivity both in the low-frequency range (10²–10⁷ Hz) and in the X-band (8.2–12.4 GHz), significantly exceeding the literature data for such types of composite materials at similar CNT content. Thus, with the 2 wt% filler loading, the permittivity values reach 360 at 106 Hz and >2⁶ in the entire X-band. In similar literature, even the use of conductive polymer hosts and various highly conductive additives had not resulted in such high permittivity values. We attribute this phenomenon to specific structural features of the used Tuball nanotubes, namely their length and ability to form in the polymer matrix percolating network in the form of neuron-shaped clusters. The low cost and large production volumes of Tuball nanotubes, as well as the ease of the composite preparation procedure open the doors for production of cost-efficient, low weight and flexible composites with superior high permittivity.
Atractodes Gravenhorst 1829
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Atractodes

description: 18.3 Genus Atractodes Gravenhorst, 1829
Atractodes Gravenhorst, 1829c: 789.
Type species Atractodes bicolor Gravenhorst, 1829, by subsequent designation by Westwood (1840: 60).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Textual Stylistic Variation: Choices, Genres and Individuals
Creators: name: Karlgren, Jussi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This chapter argues for more informed target metrics for the statistical processing of stylistic variation in text collections. Much as operationalised relevance proved a useful goal to strive for in information retrieval, research in textual stylistics, whether application oriented or philologically inclined, needs goals formulated in terms of pertinence, relevance, and utility - notions that agree with reader experience of text. Differences readers are aware of are mostly based on utility - not on textual characteristics per se. Mostly, readers report stylistic differences in terms of genres. Genres, while vague and undefined, are well-established and talked about: very early on, readers learn to distinguish genres. This chapter discusses variation given by genre, and contrasts it to variation occasioned by individual choice.
Enhanced Seebeck coefficient through the magnetic fluctuations in Sr$_2$Ru$_{1-x}M_x$O$_4$ ($M = $ Co, Mn)
Creators: name: Yamanaka, Takayoshi
name: Okazaki, Ryuji
name: Yaguchi, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The layered perovskite Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is a most intensively studied superconductor, but its pairing mechanism, which is often coupled intimately with magnetic fluctuations in correlated materials, is still an open question. Here we present a systematic evolution of the Seebeck coefficient in Co- and Mn-substituted Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ single crystals, in which ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic glassy states respectively emerge in proximity to the superconducting phase of the parent compound. We find that the Seebeck coefficient $S$ divided by temperature $T$, $S/T$, shows a maximum near characteristic temperatures seen in the irreversible magnetization $M_{\rm ir}$ in both of the Co- and Mn-substituted crystals, demonstrating both of the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic fluctuations to enhance the Seebeck coefficient. Interestingly, $S/T$ increases with lowering temperature in the parent compound, reminiscent of non-Fermi-liquid behavior, indicating an essential role of coexisting ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic fluctuations for the itinerant electrons in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Atractodes colchaguensis Bordera, Mazon & Saaksjarvi 2016
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Atractodes
Atractodes colchaguensis

description: 18.3.1 Atractodes colchaguensis Bordera, Mazon & Sääksjärvi, 2016 *
Distribution. Chile: Región del Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins (Bordera et al. 2016b).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Supplementary document for On-chip asymmetric beam-steering for broadband visible light - 5542071.pdf
Creators: name: Shi, Yangyang
name: Yang, Rui
name: Dai, Chenjie
name: wan, chengwei
name: Li, Zhongyang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Surface Processes

description: Supplementary materials
Quantum secure dialogue with quantum encryption
Creators: name: Ye, Tian-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How to solve the information leakage problem has become the research focus of quantum dialogue. In this paper, in order to overcome the information leakage problem in quantum dialogue, a novel approach for sharing the initial quantum state privately between communicators, i.e., quantum encryption sharing, is proposed by utilizing the idea of quantum encryption. The proposed protocol uses EPR pairs as the private quantum key to encrypt and decrypt the traveling photons, which can be repeatedly used after rotation. Due to quantum encryption sharing, the public announcement on the state of the initial quantum state is omitted, thus the information leakage problem is overcome. The information-theoretical efficiency of the proposed protocol is nearly 100%, much higher than previous information leakage resistant quantum dialogue protocols. Moreover, the proposed protocol only needs single-photon measurements and nearly uses single photons as quantum resource so that it is convenient to implement in practice.
description: 6 pages, 1 table