cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Autonomous Needle Navigation in Retinal Microsurgery: Evaluation in ex vivo Porcine Eyes
Creators: name: Zhang, Peiyao
name: Kim, Ji Woong
name: Gehlbach, Peter
name: Iordachita, Iulian
name: Kobilarov, Marin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Important challenges in retinal microsurgery include prolonged operating time, inadequate force feedback, and poor depth perception due to a constrained top-down view of the surgery. The introduction of robot-assisted technology could potentially deal with such challenges and improve the surgeon's performance. Motivated by such challenges, this work develops a strategy for autonomous needle navigation in retinal microsurgery aiming to achieve precise manipulation, reduced end-to-end surgery time, and enhanced safety. This is accomplished through real-time geometry estimation and chance-constrained Model Predictive Control (MPC) resulting in high positional accuracy while keeping scleral forces within a safe level. The robotic system is validated using both open-sky and intact (with lens and partial vitreous removal) ex vivo porcine eyes. The experimental results demonstrate that the generation of safe control trajectories is robust to small motions associated with head drift. The mean navigation time and scleral force for MPC navigation experiments are 7.208 s and 11.97 mN, which can be considered efficient and well within acceptable safe limits. The resulting mean errors along lateral directions of the retina are below 0.06 mm, which is below the typical hand tremor amplitude in retinal microsurgery.
Evaluation of the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short-Form : evidence from a surgical population
Creators: name: Kurzawa, Zuzanna Alicja
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short-Form (ICIQ-UI-SF) is a four-item patient-reported outcome (PRO) measure. Its intended use is screening for incontinence, assessing impact of incontinence on quality of life, and facilitating patient-clinician discussions. Evaluations of this instrument to date have relied on a simple set of analytical tools—limiting user’s confidence of the instrument’s validity and reliability. The purpose of this thesis was to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the ICIQ-UI-SF. The analyses were conducted on 177 completed ICIQ-UI-SF instruments by men with chronic urinary incontinence waitlisted for urological surgery for treatment of their condition. This comprehensive evaluation included application of the following methods: confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), principal component analysis, measures of reliability (classical test theory (CTT) and McDonald’s coefficient), item response theory (IRT), and differential item functioning (DIF). A supplemental investigation examined previously constructed ICIQ-UI-SF severity categories. Specific goals included assessing: instrument characteristics (dimensionality, ceiling effects), reliability, performance of individual items, whether socioeconomic status influences patients’ ICIQ-UI-SF scores, and concordance with other commonly collected PROs (EQ-5D-3L, Visual Analogue Scale). Responses to all items were left skewed and ceiling effects were identified. Model fit could not be assessed through the CFA, however the factor loadings of items one and two differed significantly (p < 0.0002) from item three indicating possible multidimensionality. The PCA contrastingly provided some, albeit limited evidence that the ICIQ-UI-SF is unidimensional. Reliability was low/moderate as measured by Cronbach’s alpha (0.63) and McDonald’s coefficient (0.65). The IRT revealed the third item’s reliability may be improved by collapsing response levels. The instrument does not discriminate between individuals with high incontinence burden. There was no DIF by socioeconomic status. Supplemental investigations demonstrated the ICIQ-UI-SF discriminates between surgical patients with mild/moderate incontinence versus severe/very severe—but not beyond these dichotomies. Directly comparing ICIQ-UI-SF scores of urological surgery patients with high incontinence burden is not recommended. If unchanged, the ICIQ-UI-SF can be used as a complement to other data, such as reporting aggregated surgical outcomes, or as a starting point for patient-clinician discussions when applied to a surgical population. For application to surgical triage, this analysis recommends amendments to the ICIQ-UI-SF.
SceneDreamer: Unbounded 3D Scene Generation from 2D Image Collections
Creators: name: Chen, Zhaoxi
name: Wang, Guangcong
name: Liu, Ziwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we present SceneDreamer, an unconditional generative model for unbounded 3D scenes, which synthesizes large-scale 3D landscapes from random noise. Our framework is learned from in-the-wild 2D image collections only, without any 3D annotations. At the core of SceneDreamer is a principled learning paradigm comprising 1) an efficient yet expressive 3D scene representation, 2) a generative scene parameterization, and 3) an effective renderer that can leverage the knowledge from 2D images. Our approach begins with an efficient bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation generated from simplex noise, which includes a height field for surface elevation and a semantic field for detailed scene semantics. This BEV scene representation enables 1) representing a 3D scene with quadratic complexity, 2) disentangled geometry and semantics, and 3) efficient training. Moreover, we propose a novel generative neural hash grid to parameterize the latent space based on 3D positions and scene semantics, aiming to encode generalizable features across various scenes. Lastly, a neural volumetric renderer, learned from 2D image collections through adversarial training, is employed to produce photorealistic images. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of SceneDreamer and superiority over state-of-the-art methods in generating vivid yet diverse unbounded 3D worlds.
description: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2023; Project Page https://scene-dreamer.github.io/ Code https://github.com/FrozenBurning/SceneDreamer
The targum (1976:Jan. 21 - 1976:Jan. 30)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1976

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Retour sur l'arithmétique des intersections de deux quadriques, avec un appendice par A. Kuznestov
Creators: name: Colliot-Thélène, Jean-Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14G12, 14G05, 14G20, 14G25

description: Lichtenbaum proved that index and period coincide for a curve of genus one over a $p$-adic field. Salberger proved that the Hasse principle holds for a smooth complete intersection of two quadrics $X \subset P^n$ over a number field, if it contains a conic and if $n\geq 5$. Building upon these two results, we extend recent results of Creutz and Viray (2021) on the existence of a quadratic point on intersections of two quadrics over $p$-adic fields and number fields. We then recover Heath-Brown's theorem (2018) that the Hasse principle holds for smooth complete intersections of two quadrics in $P^7$. We also give an alternate proof of a theorem of Iyer and Parimala (2022) on the local-global principle in the case $n=5$.
description: Paper in French, appendix by A. Kuznetsov in English. Version v2 takes into account the remarks of a referee. Final version, to appear in Journal f\"ur die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle)
The targum (1975:Dec. 1 - 1975:Dec. 17)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1975

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
In Vivo Phosphorescence Imaging of pO2 Using Planar Oxygen Sensors
Creators: name: Babilas, Philipp
name: Liebsch, Gregor
name: Schacht, Vivien
name: Klimant, Ingo
name: Wolfbeis, Otto S.
name: Szeimies, Rolf-Markus
name: Abels, Christoph
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: dorsal skinfold chamber; intravital microscopy; microcirculation; oxygen; temperature
subject: 540 Chemie

description: Objective: Oxygen-dependent quenching of luminescence of metal porphyrin complexes has been used to image the pO2 distribution over tumor and normal tissue. Methods: An experimental setup is described using a platinum(II)–octaethyl–porphyrin immobilized in a polystyrene matrix as transparent planar sensor. Results: Sensitivity over a broad range is high at low pO2 values (± 0.2 mm Hg at 0 mm Hg; ± 1.5 mm Hg at 160 mm Hg pO2). Due to intrinsically referencing via lifetime encoding there was no modification of the sensor response in vivo in the dorsal skinfold chamber model with amelanotic melanoma (A-MEL-3) in awake hamsters when compared to the in vitro calibration. pO2 measurements over normal tissue (25.8 ± 5.1 mm Hg) and tumor tissue (9.2 ± 5.1 mm Hg) were in excellent agreement with previous results obtained in this model using a surface multiwire electrode. Conclusions: Using the presented method the surface pO2 distribution can be mapped with a high temporal resolution of approximately 100 ms and a spatial resolution of at least 25 μ m. Moreover, the transparent sensor allows the simultaneous visualization of the underlying microvasculature.
Polyphenolic characteristics, antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of Zingiber neesanum (Graham) Ramamoorthy rhizomes and identification of volatile metabolites by GC-MS analysis
Creators: name: Nair, R. Aswati
name: Ganapathy, G.
name: Harshitha, K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Rhizomes of Zingiber neesanum (Graham) Ramamoorthy, endemic to Western Ghats and subject to few studies, were analysed for bioactivity and phytochemical composition. High total tannin (TT) content in isopropanol extract [55.261 ± 6.623 mg TAE.100 g–1 DW] contributed to antimicrobial activity against gram negative Enterococcus fecalis (21.7 ± 0.6 cm) while high total flavonoid (TF) content in ethyl acetate extract [681.94 ± 33.87 mg CE.100 g−1 DW] accounted for the antifungal activity against Mucor rouxii (9.7 ± 0.6). Isopropanol extracts also showed high anti-oxidant activity as determined by DPPH and FRAP assays. Major bioactive phytochemical constituents in Z. neesanum rhizome identified by GC-MS analysis included 2-Methyl-7-nonadecene (13.99%; antimicrobial), Actinomycin C2 (8.57%; antineoplastic) and Deoxyspergualin (12.55%; immunosuppressive).
The targum (1975:Nov. 3 - 1975:Nov. 25)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1975

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
The targum (1976:Mar. 1 - 1976:Mar. 31)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1976

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
The targum (1976:Feb. 2 - 1976:Feb. 27)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1976

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Monopole Shift in Odd Neutron-Rich F Isotopes: A Shell Model Description
Creators: name: Srivastava, P. C.
name: Mehrotra, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monopole shift in the proton states in odd neutron rich F isotopes has been studied with neutron number changing from N = 10 to 20 for three different interactions. The variation of monopole shift point out towards appearance of shell closure at N = 14 and N = 16 and its disappearance at N = 20. Low lying states of odd F isotopes have also been calculated in the limited configuration space of {\it sd} shells for these interactions.
description: 8pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. E
AdS Solutions in Gauge Supergravities and the Global Anomaly for the Product of Complex Two-Cycles
Creators: name: Bytsenko, A. A.
name: Elizalde, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Cohomological methods are applied for the special set of solutions corresponding to rotating branes in arbitrary dimensions, AdS black holes (which can be embedded in ten or eleven dimensions), and gauge supergravities. A new class of solutions is proposed, the Hilbert modular varieties, which consist of the $2n$-fold product of the two-spaces ${\bf H}^n/Γ$ (where ${\bf H}^n$ denotes the product of $n$ upper half-planes, $H^2$, equipped with the co-compact action of $Γ\subset SL(2, {\mathbb R})^n$) and $({\bf H}^n)^*/Γ$ (where $(H^2)^* = H^2\cup \{{\rm cusp\,\, of}\,\,Γ\}$ and $Γ$ is a congruence subgroup of $SL(2, {\mathbb R})^n$). The cohomology groups of the Hilbert variety, which inherit a Hodge structure (in the sense of Deligne), are analyzed, as well as bifiltered sequences, weight and Hodge filtrations, and it is argued that the torsion part of the cuspidal cohomology is involved in the global anomaly condition. Indeed, in presence of the cuspidal part, all cohomology classes can be mapped to the boundary of the space and the cuspidal contribution can be involved in the global anomaly condition.
description: 13 pages, no figures, version to appear in EPJC
The targum (1976:Nov. 1 - 1976:Nov. 30)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1976

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
The latitude dependence of the rotation measures of NVSS sources
Creators: name: Schnitzeler, D. H. F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter I use the variation of the spread in rotation measure (RM) with Galactic latitude to separate the Galactic from the extragalactic contributions to RM. This is possible since the latter does not depend on Galactic latitude. As input data I use RMs from the catalogue by Taylor, Stil, and Sunstrum, supplemented with published values for the spread in RM (`sigmaRM') in specific regions on the sky. I test 4 models of the free electron column density (which I will abbreviate to `DMinf') of the Milky Way, and the best model builds up DMinf on a characteristic scale of a few kpc from the Sun. sigmaRM correlates well with DMinf. The measured sigmaRM can be modelled as a Galactic contribution, consisting of a term sigmaRM,MW that is amplified at smaller Galactic latitudes as 1/sin|b|, in a similar way to DMinf, and an extragalactic contribution, sigmaRM,EG, that is independent of latitude. This model is sensitive to the relative magnitudes of sigmaRM,MW and sigmaRM,EG, and the best fit is produced by sigmaRM,MW approx. 8 rad/m^2 and sigmaRM,EG approx. 6 rad/m^2. The 4 published values for sigmaRM as a function of latitude suggest an even larger sigmaRM,MW contribution and a smaller sigmaRM,EG. This result from the NVSS RMs and published sigmaRM shows that the Galactic contribution dominates structure in RM on scales between about 1degr -- 10degr on the sky. I work out which factors contribute to the variation of sigmaRM with Galactic latitude, and show that the sigmaRM,EG I derived is an upper limit. Furthermore, to explain the modelled sigmaRM,MW requires that structure in  has a 1-sigma spread
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Published in MNRAS Letters; the definitive version is available at wileyonlinelibrary.com, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00957.x/pdf
The targum (1976:Oct. 1 - 1976:Oct. 29)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1976

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Hydrodynamics and the fluctuation theorem
Creators: name: Belushkin, M.
name: Livi, R.
name: Foffi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fluctuation theorem is a pivotal result of statistical physics. It quantifies the probability of observing fluctuations which are in violation of the second law of thermodynamics. More specifically, it quantifies the ratio of the probabilities of observing entropy-producing and entropy-consuming fluctuations measured over a finite volume and time span in terms of the rate of entropy production in the system, the measurement volume and time. We study the fluctuation theorem in computer simulations of planar shear flow. The simulations are performed employing the method of multiparticle collision dynamics which captures both thermal fluctuations and hydrodynamic interactions. The main outcome of our analysis is that the fluctuation theorem is verified at any averaging time provided that the measurement volume exhibits a specific dependence on a hydrodynamic time scale.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear on Physical Review Letters
The targum (1975:Sept. 4 - 1975:Sept. 30)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1975

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Toxicity of essential oils obtained from Juniperus thurifera var. africana and Mentha suaveolens subsp. timija chemotypes against pre-adult stages of Hyalomma aegyptium tick (Acari: Ixodidae)
Creators: name: El-Mustapha, Laghzaoui
name: Abderrafea, Elbahi
name: Ayoub, Kasrati
name: Abdelaziz, Abbad
name: Hassan, El Mouden El
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: This experiment was undertaken to compare the acaricidal activity of two essential oil chemotypes obtained from Mint Timija (Mentha suaveolens subsp. timija (Briq.) Harley) and Incense Juniper (Juniperus thurifera var. africana Maire) against immature stages of Hyalomma aegyptium ticks. The results showed that both chemotypes obtained from the two species presented interesting acaricidal activity. The pulegone and menthone-rich chemotype of Mint Timija (CM1) presented the highest toxic activity, particularly against eggs (LD50 = 17.931 and LD90 = 36.547 ppm) and larvae (LD50 = 0.03 and LD90 = 2.29 ppm). While the piperitone-rich Mint Timija EO (CM2) presented the weakest activity (LD50 = 51.134 and LD90 = 83.663 ppm for eggs, LD50 = 7.84 and LD90 = 21.03 ppm for larvae). Regarding Incense Juniper, the two chemotypes presented relatively moderate activity, with that of sabinene-rich oil (CJ2) being the most effective against eggs (LD50 = 22.293 and LD90 = 53.112 ppm).
The targum (1976:Sept. 7 - 1976:Sept. 30)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1976

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
The mirage of luminal modified gravitational-wave propagation
Creators: name: Romano, Antonio Enea
name: Sakellariadou, Mairi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using conformal invariance of gravitational waves, we show that for a luminal modified gravity theory, the gravitational-wave propagation and luminosity distance are the same as in general relativity. The relation between the gravitational-wave and electromagnetic-wave luminosity distance gets however modified for electromagnetism minimally coupled to the Jordan frame metric. Using effective field theory we show that the modified relation obtained for luminal theories is also valid for non-luminal theories with Jordan frame matter-gravity coupling.We generalise our analysis to a time-dependent speed of gravitational waves with matter minimally coupled to either the Jordan or Einstein frame metrics.
description: Version accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett
In vivo protection of the marjoram (Origanum majorana Linn.) essential oil in the cutaneous sporotrichosis by Sporothrix brasiliensis
Creators: name: Waller, Stefanie Bressan
name: Cleff, Marlete Brum
name: de Mattos, Caroline Bohnen
name: da Silva, Cristine Cioato
name: Giordani, Cláudia
name: Lana, Daiane Flores Dalla
name: Fuentefria, Alexandre Meneghello
name: Freitag, Rogério Antônio
name: Sallis, Eliza Simone Viegas
name: de Mello, João Roberto Braga
name: de Faria, Renata Osório
name: Meireles, Mário Carlos Araújo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Thirty Wistar rats subcutaneously infected by an itraconazole-resistant Sporothrix brasiliensis received the oral daily treatment (n = 10, each) of control (CTL, saline solution), itraconazole (ITZ, 10 mg/kg) and marjoram essential oil (MRJ, 80 mg/kg) for 30 days. Weekly, the clinical evaluation and euthanasia for histopathology and fungal burden were performed. Only animals from MRJ evolved to the remission of the cutaneous lesion with a mild to absent presence of yeasts in footpad, besides decreased the fungal burden in the systemic organs compared to CTL and ITZ (p
The targum (1975:Oct. 1 - 1975:Oct. 31)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1975

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Korn-Maxwell-Sobolev inequalities for general incompatibilities
Creators: name: Gmeineder, Franz
name: Lewintan, Peter
name: Neff, Patrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A23, 26D10, 35Q74/35Q75, 46E35

description: We establish a family of coercive Korn-type inequalities for generalised incompatible fields in the superlinear growth regime under sharp criteria. This extends and unifies several previously known inequalities that are pivotal to the existence theory for a multitude of models in continuum mechanics in an optimal way. Different from our preceding work (ArXiv 2206.10373), where we focussed on the case $p=1$ and incompatibilities governed by the matrix curl, the case $p>1$ considered in the present paper gives us access to substantially stronger results from harmonic analysis but conversely deals with more general incompatibilities. Especially, we obtain sharp generalisations of recently proved inequalities by the last two authors and Müller (Calc. Var. PDE 60 (2021), 150) in the realm of incompatible Korn-type inequalities with conformally invariant dislocation energy. However, being applicable to higher order scenarios as well, our approach equally gives the first and sharp inequalities involving Kröner's incompability tensor $\mathrm{inc}$.
description: 33 pages, 3 figures
Antifragile Control Systems: The case of mobile robot trajectory tracking in the presence of uncertainty
Creators: name: Axenie, Cristian
name: Saveriano, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Mobile robots are ubiquitous. Such vehicles benefit from well-designed and calibrated control algorithms ensuring their task execution under precise uncertainty bounds. Yet, in tasks involving humans in the loop, such as elderly or mobility impaired, the problem takes a new dimension. In such cases, the system needs not only to compensate for uncertainty and volatility in its operation but at the same time to anticipate and offer responses that go beyond robust. Such robots operate in cluttered, complex environments, akin to human residences, and need to face during their operation sensor and, even, actuator faults, and still operate. This is where our thesis comes into the foreground. We propose a new control design framework based on the principles of antifragility. Such a design is meant to offer a high uncertainty anticipation given previous exposure to failures and faults, and exploit this anticipation capacity to provide performance beyond robust. In the current instantiation of antifragile control applied to mobile robot trajectory tracking, we provide controller design steps, the analysis of performance under parametrizable uncertainty and faults, as well as an extended comparative evaluation against state-of-the-art controllers. We believe in the potential antifragile control has in achieving closed-loop performance in the face of uncertainty and volatility by using its exposures to uncertainty to increase its capacity to anticipate and compensate for such events.
Bacitracin is a non-competitive inhibitor of porcine M1 family neutral and glutamyl aminopeptidases
Creators: name: Arrebola, Yarini
name: Rivera, Laura
name: Pedroso, Alejandro
name: McGuire, Rory
name: Tresanco, Mario E. Valdes
name: Bergado, Gretchen
name: Charli, Jean-Louis
name: Sánchez, Belinda
name: Alonso, Isel Pascual
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Membrane alanyl and glutamyl aminopeptidases (APN and APA, respectively) are established targets for the development of biomedical tools in human pathologies. APN overexpression correlates with the progression of tumours, including melanoma. Bacitracin, widely used as a topical antibiotic, inhibits subtilisin-like serine peptidases and disulphide isomerases. In the present contribution, we demonstrate that bacitracin is a non-competitive α = 1 and α i values in the micromolar range. To test a potential application of this result, we assayed the effect of bacitracin on murine melanoma MB16F10 cell line viability. We demonstrated the cell line expresses an APN-like activity inhibited by bacitracin and bestatin. Additionally, we identified a cytotoxic effect of bacitracin. Further experiments are required to understand in depth the mechanisms of action of bacitracin on melanoma cells. They will clarify the therapeutic potential of bacitracin for melanoma treatment.
A Study of the Properties and Dynamics of the Disk of Satellites in a Milky-Way-like Galaxy System
Creators: name: Zhao, Xinghai
name: Mathews, Grant J.
name: Phillips, Lara Arielle
name: Tang, Guobao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of the satellite systems of Milky-Way-like galaxies offer a useful means by which to study the galaxy formation process in the cosmological context. It has been suggested that the currently observed anisotropic distribution of the satellites in such galaxy systems is inconsistent with the concordance $ΛCDM$ cosmology model on the galactic scale if the observed satellites are random samples of the dark matter (DM) sub-halos that are nearly isotropically distributed around the central galaxy. In this study, we present original high-resolution zoom-in studies of central galaxies and satellite systems based upon initial conditions for the DM distribution from the Aquarius simulations but with substantial high-resolution baryon physics added. We find that the galaxy most like the Milky Way in this study does indeed contain a disk of satellites (DOS). Although one galaxy DOS system does not answer the question of how common such disks are, it does allow the opportunity to explore the properties and dynamics of the DOS system. Our investigation centers on the spatial arrangement (distances, angles, etc.) of satellites in this Milky-Way-like galaxy system with a specific emphasis on identifying and analyzing the disk-like structure along with its dynamical and morphological properties. Among the conclusions from this study, we find that the satellites and DM sub-halos in the galaxy simulations are anisotropically distributed. The dynamical properties of the satellites, however, indicate that the direction of the angular momentum vector of the whole satellite system is different from the normal direction of the fitted DOS and from the normal direction of the velocity dispersion of the system. Hence, the fitted DOS appears to be comprised of infalling sub-halos and is not a rotationally supported system.
description: 22 pages, 14 figures
Lazard-style CAD and Equational Constraints
Creators: name: Davenport, James H.
name: Nair, Akshar S.
name: Sankaran, Gregory K.
name: Uncu, Ali K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.1.2
subject: 68W30

description: McCallum-style Cylindrical Algebra Decomposition (CAD) is a major improvement on the original Collins version, and has had many subsequent advances, notably for total or partial equational constraints. But it suffers from a problem with nullification. The recently-justified Lazard-style CAD does not have this problem. However, transporting the equational constraints work to Lazard-style does reintroduce nullification issues. This paper explains the problem, and the solutions to it, based on the second author's Ph.D. thesis and the Brown--McCallum improvement to Lazard.
 With a single equational constraint, we can gain the same improvements in Lazard-style as in McCallum-style CAD . Moreover, our approach does not fail where McCallum would due to nullification. Unsurprisingly, it does not achieve the same level of improvement as it does in the non-nullified cases. We also consider the case of multiple equational constraints.
description: 9 pages
Chemical composition of Schinus areira essential oil and antimicrobial action against Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Cutro, Andrea C.
name: Castelli, M. Victoria
name: López, Silvia N.
name: Rosales, Manuel A.
name: Hollmann, Axel
name: Rodriguez, Sergio A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The antimicrobial activities of plant extracts have formed the basis of many alternative medicines. In this context, the genus Schinus L. (Anacardiaceae), exhibits many traditional uses in medicine. However, a few studies on the antimicrobial properties of Schinus areira essential oils were conducted. The essential oil from S. areira leaves from Santiago del Estero was obtained by hydrodistillation and twenty-eight compounds were identified using CG-MS-EI spectrometry. The sesquiterpenoid alcohol 1-epi-cadinol was the major compound, followed by δ-cadinene, alloaromadendrene, β-pinene, β-caryophyllene, and γ-cadinene. The essential oil obtained exhibited antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, showing a bacteriostatic activity at 64 µg/mL and bacteriolytic activity at 256 µg/mL; in contrast, non antibacterial effect was observed in Escherichia coli in the assayed conditions. The antibacterial activity was accompanied by significant changes in Zeta potential on the S. aureus surface. The data obtained suggest that the essential oil of S.areira leaves presents potential use in pharmaceutical industries.
Nanometer-thick SPR sensor for gaseous HCl
Creators: name: Samoylov, Anton V.
name: Mirsky, Vladimir M.
name: Hao, Qingli
name: Swart, Claudia
name: Shirshov, Yuri M.
name: Wolfbeis, Otto S.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Gas sensor; HCl sensors; Surface plasmon resonance; Electropolymerization; Poly-(N-methyl-aniline); Fire detector
subject: 540 Chemie

description: The optical properties of electrochemically polymerized N-methylaniline are changed in the presence of gaseous hydrogen chloride. This effect was used for preparation of chemical sensors with transduction based on surface plasmon resonance. The interaction of hydrogen chloride with a two nm layer of poly-(N-methylaniline) on gold leads to the shift of the surface plasmon resonance. The analysis of the resonance spectra demonstrates that the effect is caused by an increase of the imaginary component of the refractive index; a minor contribution is also provided by film condensation leading to an increase of the real component of the refractive index and a decrease in the thickness. The effect is selective and quasi-reversible. The concentration dependence of the gas effect obeys Langmuir's adsorption isotherm with a reciprocal value of the binding constant of 850 ± 160 ppm.
Microstructure evolution during homogenization and its effect on the high temperature deformation behaviour in AA6082 based alloys
Creators: name: Liu, Chenglu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: There is a current trend in increased use of aluminum extrusion alloys in automotive applications. This trend is driven by the need to reduce the vehicle weight, which in turn, is to decrease energy use and/or emissions of the vehicles. In this work, Al-Mg-Si alloys, and especially variants of AA6082 with different Mn and/or Cr additions have been studied. The objectives of the study are to i) experimentally characterize the evolution of the constituent particles (phase, volume fraction and size) and dispersoids (chemistry, crystal structure, size and volume fraction), ii) rationalize the mechanisms of dispersoid evolution and iii) develop a physically based constitutive law for the high temperature flow stress. The characterization of microstructure evolution during homogenization was done using a combination of i) transmission electron microscopy, ii) field emission gun scanning electron microscopy, iii) electron microprobe microanalysis and iv) electrical resistivity measurements. The high temperature flow stress was characterized by uniaxial compression tests. The main results on microstructure evolution during the process of homogenization show that i) there is a transformation of the constituent particles from the β to α phase during homogenization and a concurrent speriodization of the particles, ii) dispersoids with the size range of 20-200 nm and a volume fraction of 0.25 – 1.3 % are initially formed during homogenization but they eventually dissolve as Mn is transported to the constituent particles and iii) a steady-state flow stress of between 20 and 45 MPa was measured for the test temperature between 550 °C and 580 °C with strain rates of 0.1 – 10 s-¹. The evolution of dispersoids during homogenization was rationalized by considering their nucleation, growth and coarsening. It is proposed that dispersoid coarsening initially involves long-range diffusion of Fe from the constituent particles to dispersoids and later Mn and Fe diffuse to the constituent particles. The Kocks-Chen constitutive model was extended to include the role of dispersoids on high temperature flow stress using an Orowan type model for precipitation hardening. This was found to predict the flow stress ± 5 % in ≈ 95 % of the cases that were studied.