cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors Affecting Image Quality in Near-field Ultra-wideband Radar Imaging for Biomedical Applications
Creators: name: Curtis, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: RADAR
subject: breast cancer
subject: Imaging
subject: Ultra-Wideband
subject: Algorithms

description: Near-field ultra-wideband radar imaging has potential as a new breast imaging modality. While a number of reconstruction algorithms have been published with the goal of reducing undesired responses or clutter, an in-depth analysis of the dominant sources of clutter has not been conducted. In this thesis, time domain radar image reconstruction is demonstrated to be equivalent to frequency domain synthetic aperture radar. This reveals several assumptions inherent to the reconstruction algorithm related to radial spreading, point source antennas, and the independent summation of point scatterers. Each of these assumptions is examined in turn to determine which has the greatest impact on the resulting image quality and interpretation. In addition, issues related to heterogeneous and dispersive media are addressed. Variations in imaging parameters are tested by observing their influence on the system point spread function. Results are then confirmed by testing on simple and detailed simulation models, followed by data acquired from human volunteers. Recommended parameters are combined into a new imaging operator that is demonstrated to generate results comparable to a more accurate signal model, but with a 50 fold improvement in computational efficiency. Finally, the most significant factor affecting image quality is determined to be the estimate of tissue properties used to form the image.
Physiological responses associated with aquatic hypercarbia in the CO₂-tolerant white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus
Creators: name: Baker, Daniel William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Through investigations conducted at the organismal, tissue and cellular levels, this thesis provides clear evidence that the white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, is among the most CO₂ tolerant of all fishes investigated to date. During moderate increases in water CO₂ tension (PCO₂) (≤ 15 mm Hg PCO₂, hypercarbia), white sturgeon exhibited changes in gill morphology and restored blood pH (pHe) through net HCO₃⁻/Cl⁻, a process observed in most fishes (Chapter 3). At CO₂ tensions lethal to other fishes (≥ 22.5 mm Hg PCO₂), white sturgeon completely protected intracellular pH (pHi) of the heart, liver, brain and white muscle (termed preferential pHi regulation), despite a large reduction in pHe (up to 1 pH unit) (Chapter 3, 4). Tissue pHi regulation was activated in heart within minutes of the onset of hypercarbia (measured via NMR, Chapter 5), and completely protected pHi in this tissue even during exposure to potentially lethal CO₂ levels (i.e., 90 mm Hg PCO₂). In hearts examined in situ, maximum cardiac performance was well defended and associated with partial pHi compensation in ventricles (which exhibited only ~40% of predicted acidosis). Preferential pHi regulation was not associated with large increases in metabolic costs, as during exposure to severe hypercarbia (~45 mm Hg PCO₂), heart [ATP] and [CrP] had recovered to pre-exposure levels within 90 min, and whole animal was decreased (30%) when pHi was completely protected. Preferential pHi regulation of this magnitude and rapidity has not been documented before in any vertebrate in response to hypercarbia and represents a novel pattern of acid-base regulation among fishes. White sturgeon represent the first exclusively water-breathing fish to exhibit preferential pHi regulation during hypercarbia. Furthermore, white sturgeon are the most basal vertebrate to demonstrate complete pHi protection during severe pHe depression. As sturgeon may retain ancestral characteristics, I propose that preferential pHi regulation is the basis for enhanced CO₂ tolerance in other tolerant Osteichthyan fishes, and first arose in association with ionoregulatory and respiratory challenges experienced during freshwater invasion in the vertebrate lineage.
Additional file 2 of Transition to practice curriculum for general internal medicine physicians: scoping review and Canadian national survey
Creators: name: Thomson, Benjamin
name: O’Halloran, Heather
name: Wu, Luke
name: Gauthier, Stephen
name: Taylor, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Superradiance and Quantum Electrodynamics in the Presence of Surface Plasmons
Creators: name: Choquette, Jeremie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physics
subject: Surface
subject: Plasmon
subject: Superradiance
subject: Quantum
subject: Electrodynamics

description: Surface plasmon polaritons are charge density waves of electrons in a metal, which are coupled to an electromagnetic field at a metal-dielectric interface. The electro- magnetic field associated with surface plasmons is confined, resulting in increased field intensities near the interface. Optical emitters placed near a metal film interact strongly with the surface plasmon modes present, not only modifying the radiation rates, but also the radiation profile. These emitters may be used to store and process information, and understanding their behaviour in the presence of a lossy metal film is important in determining the advantages and limitations of using surface plasmons. In this thesis, we wish to understand how we can optically control atoms by exploring two physical phenomena: first, the influence of surface plasmons on collective effects in an ensemble of emitters. Secondly, the single photon excitation of an emitter near a metal film. In the first case, we analyze the collective radiative behaviour of multiple classical emitters near a metal film that radiatively couple to the far-field through surface plasmon modes. We demonstrate that the contributions of dipolar image charges within the metal film significantly affect the cooperative emission of nearby sources, generating sub- and super-radiant emission that can be controlled with a suitably detuned external driving field. In the second case, we determine the excitation probability of an atom near a metal film by a single photon pulse that is time reversed. Using a quantum electro- dynamic description of absorbing dielectrics, we show that non-radiative decay will limit the excitation probability to about half of the maximum that could be achieved in the absence of losses.
On the absorption of microwaves by the one-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg-Ising magnet
Creators: name: Brockmann, M.
name: Göhmann, F.
name: Karbach, M.
name: Klümper, A.
name: Weiße, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the absorption of microwaves by the Heisenberg-Ising chain combining exact calculations, based on the integrability of the model, with numerical calculations. Within linear response theory the absorbed intensity is determined by the imaginary part of the dynamical susceptibility. The moments of the normalized intensity can be used to define the shift of the resonance frequency induced by the interactions and the line width independently of the shape of the spectral line. These moments can be calculated exactly as functions of temperature and strength of an external magnetic field, as long as the field is directed along the symmetry axis of the chain. This allows us to discuss the line width and the resonance shift for a given magnetic field in the full range of possible anisotropy parameters. For the interpretation of these data we need a qualitative knowledge of the line shape which we obtain from fully numerical calculations for finite chains. Exact analytical results on the line shape are out of reach of current theories. From our numerical work we could extract, however, an empirical parameter-free model of the line shape at high temperatures which is extremely accurate over a wide range of anisotropy parameters and is exact at the free fermion point and at the isotropic point. Another prediction of the line shape can be made in the zero-temperature and zero magnetic field limit, where the sufficiently anisotropic model shows strong absorption. For anisotropy parameters in the massive phase we derive the exact two-spinon contribution to the spectral line. From the intensity sum rule it can be estimated that this contribution accounts for more than 80% of the spectral weight if the anisotropy parameter is moderately above its value at the isotropic point.
description: 23 pages, revtex4-1, 11 figures
Synthesis dependent characteristics of Sr1-xMnxTiO3 (x=0.03, 0.05, 0.07 and 0.09)
Creators: name: Meher, K. R. S. Preethi
name: Bogicevic, C.
name: Janolin, Pierre-Eymeric
name: Varma, K. B. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sr1-xMnxTiO3 (where x = 0.03, 0.05, 0.07 and 0.09) was synthesized via different routes that include solid-state, oxalate precipitation and freeze drying. In oxalate precipitation technique, compositions corresponding to 3 and 5 mol % doping of Mn were monophasic whereas the higher compositions revealed the presence of the secondary phases such as MnO, Mn3O4 etc., as confirmed by high resolution X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies. The decomposition behavior of the precursors prepared using oxalate precipitation method corresponding to the above mentioned compositions was studied. Nanopowders of compositions pertaining to 5 to 9 mol % of Mn doping were obtained using freeze-drying technique. The average crystallite size of these nanopowders was found to be in the 35 to 65 nm range. The microstructural studies carried out on the sintered ceramics, fabricated using powders synthesized by different routes established the fine grained nature (< 1 microm) of the one obtained by freeze drying method. Raman scattering studies were carried out in order to complement the observations made from XRD regarding the phase purity. The dielectric properties of the ceramics obtained by different synthesis routes were studied in the 80 - 300 K temperature range at 100 kHz and the effect of grain size has been discussed.
description: 38 pages, 4 tables, 13 figures
Spectral Properties of Correlated Materials: Local Vertex and Non-Local Two-Particle Correlations from Combined GW and Dynamical Mean Field Theory
Creators: name: Ayral, Thomas
name: Werner, Philipp
name: Biermann, Silke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a fully self-consistent combined GW and dynamical mean field (GW+DMFT) study of the spectral properties of the extended two-dimensional Hubbard model. The inclusion of the local dynamical vertex stemming from the DMFT self-energy and polarization is shown to cure the problems of self-consistent GW in the description of spectral properties. We calculate the momentum-resolved spectral functions, the two-particle polarization and electron loss spectra, and show that the inclusion of GW in extended DMFT leads to a narrowing of the quasi-particle width and more pronounced Hubbard bands in the metallic regime as one approaches the charge-ordering transition. Finally, the momentum-dependence introduced by GW into the extended DMFT description of collective modes is found to affect their shape, giving rise to dispersive plasmon-like long-wavelength and stripe modes.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 6 of Pharmacy-based screening to detect persons at elevated risk of type 2 diabetes: a cost-utility analysis
Creators: name: Jalkanen, Kari
name: Aarnio, Emma
name: Lavikainen, Piia
name: Lindström, Jaana
name: Peltonen, Markku
name: Laatikainen, Tiina
name: Martikainen, Janne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Coefficients of the Weibull regression for incidence of T2D-related complications. Table showing the coefficients of the Weibull regression for incidence of T2D-related complications.
Additional file 7 of Pharmacy-based screening to detect persons at elevated risk of type 2 diabetes: a cost-utility analysis
Creators: name: Jalkanen, Kari
name: Aarnio, Emma
name: Lavikainen, Piia
name: Lindström, Jaana
name: Peltonen, Markku
name: Laatikainen, Tiina
name: Martikainen, Janne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. Age and gender- specific all-cause mortality data in Finland. Table showing the all-cause mortality data according to Statistics Finland.
Morphology and Dental Function in a BMP7 Rodent Knockout Model and Implications for Mammalian Tooth Evolution
Creators: name: Zurowski, Chelsey
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biology
subject: Anatomy
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Zoology
subject: Paleontology
subject: Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7
subject: Tooth Evolution
subject: Mammal Evolution
subject: Tooth Development
subject: BMP7
subject: Tooth Wear
subject: Dental Adaptation

description: Tooth morphology is the result of tissue interactions, many of which involve families of regulatory genes that pattern development. Determining and quantifying the effect of regulatory genes has implications for understanding the mechanisms driving the degree of diversity observed in mammalian dentition. Bone morphogenetic protein 7 (BMP7) is one regulatory gene that is active in the developing tooth. I characterized the morphology and assessed the function of the dentition in BMP7 conditional knockout mice. Mutant molars had short, broad cusps, and extra cusps on the M1 and m1. Wear facets in the mutant mice were different in shape and in the direction that they faced on the tooth. This shows that changes in the expression of BMP7 lead to changes in the morphology and function of the dentition, suggesting that BMP7 could have acted in structuring the amount of dental diversity that is apparent in extinct and extant mammals.
On profinite spaces of orderings
Creators: name: Gladki, Pawel
name: Jacob, Bill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11E10, 12D15

description: In this paper we present the following two results: we give an explicit description of the space of orderings of the field Q(x) as an inverse limit of finite spaces of orderings and we provide a new, simple proof of the fact that the class of spaces of orderings for which the pp conjecture holds true is closed under inverse limits. We discuss how these theorems interact with each other, and explain our motivation to look into these problems.
The Sodium Pump Regulates Sperm and Sertoli Cell Function
Creators: name: Rajamanickam, Gayathri Devi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: Animal Physiology
Biology--Cell
Veterinary Science

description: Abnormalities in sperm function at the submicroscopic level (not detectable during routine semen evaluation) influence bull fertility and therefore the efficiency of cattle production. New knowledge regarding the molecular basis of spermatogenesis and sperm function will enable us to develop evidence-based approaches for improving fertility. The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate role of Na/K-ATPase (the sodium pump) isoforms in sperm function, Sertoli cell function and male fertility. In fresh bovine sperm, I identified two distinct pools (raft and non-raft) of the testis-specific isoform of Na/K-ATPase (ATP1A4) in the plasma membrane. The raft pool of ATP1A4 interacted with caveolin-1 and EGFR, whereas the non-raft pool of ATP1A4 interacted with EGFR, Src and ERK1/2 in capacitated sperm. In addition, a comprehensive analysis revealed that the ATP1A4 interactome differed between raft and non-raft fractions of capacitated sperm. Specifically, ATP1A4 interacted and co-localised with plakoglobin (member of β-catenin family of proteins involved in cell adhesion) in the equatorial segment of capacitated sperm; this suggests a potential role for these proteins in sperm-oolemma fusion. During investigation of ATP1A4 involvement in lipid rafts, I determined that ATP1A4 content and activity were increased during capacitation, perhaps due to translation of ATP1A4 mRNA in mitochondrial or mitochondrial-type ribosomes. In frozen-thawed sperm, content and activity of ATP1A4 was greater in high- versus low-fertility bulls and significantly correlated with fertility. Additionally, ATP1A4-induced ROS, calcium, actin polymerization and tyrosine phosphorylation were also involved in regulating post-thaw sperm function in these bulls. My results also demonstrated that prepubertal rat Sertoli cells expressed ATP1A1 (the ubiquitous isoform of Na/K-ATPase) and that ATP1A1-ouabain interaction regulated formation (modulation of claudin 11 and connexin 43 expression) and function (transepithelial electric resistance) of Sertoli cell junctional complexes through Src-EGFR-ERK1/2- CREB pathway in a dose-dependent manner. Overall, results demonstrated that isoforms of Na/K-ATPase have unique roles in controlling several aspects of sperm and Sertoli cell physiology, acting through its well-established enzyme activity and signaling functions. Consequently, isoforms of Na/K-ATPase are potential candidates for reversible male contraception and a biomarker for male fertility.
El desplazamiento conceptual de la moral como fuente de derechos naturales en la Modernidad
Creators: name: Simon, Wendy R.
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: El objetivo de este artículo es analizar cómo el proceso jurídico-político moderno de positivización de derechos naturales en apariencia revolucionario por su forma es, en realidad y paradójicamente, revolucionario por su contenido. ¿De qué manera exactamente resulta más novedoso reafirmar la existencia de unos derechos naturales, que el hecho de redactar y protegerlos por ley por vez primera en la historia? La concepción moderna de quienes defienden los derechos naturales ha de diferir substancialmente de la concepción tradicional de raíz aristotélica-tomista, para poder soportar, sin hundirse, todo el peso del edificio que la Modernidad le construye encima. Este análisis pretende arrojar una luz sobre este hecho para terminar por cuestionarse, con la perspectiva que nos dan 300 años y nuestra difícil situación actual, si realmente no se estará hundiendo este edificio. No ya solamente desde el punto de vista de las dificultades teóricas, políticas y sociales por mantener en vigor este difícil equilibrio de derechos, como veremos que lo es, sino teniendo en cuenta que el cuestionamiento de la legitimación moderna de estos derechos está llevando, desde hace tiempo ya, al cuestionamiento de la propia existencia de estos derechos.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 3
Additional file 1 of Association of physical activity and air pollution exposure with the risk of type 2 diabetes: a large population-based prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Li, Zhi-Hao
name: Zhong, Wen-Fang
name: Zhang, Xi-Ru
name: Chung, Vincent CH
name: Song, Wei-Qi
name: Chen, Qing
name: Wang, Xiao-Meng
name: Huang, Qing-Mei
name: Shen, Dong
name: Zhang, Pei-Dong
name: Liu, Dan
name: Zhang, Yu-Jie
name: Chen, Pei-Liang
name: Cheng, Xin
name: Yang, Hai-Lian
name: Cai, Miao-Chun
name: Gao, Xiang
name: Kraus, Virginia Byers
name: Mao, Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biophysics
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table 1S. Distribution of population characteristics in included individuals and the total population of UK Biobank. Table 2S. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms used to build the genetic risk score for type 2 diabetes. Table 3S. The coding of the variables under assessment of the covariates in the UK Biobank study. Table 4S. Pearson correlation coefficients among the five air pollutants. Table 5S. Risk of incident type 2 diabetes according to air pollution within each of physical activity category. Table 6S. Association of air pollution with risk of incident type 2 diabetes according to WHO air quality guidelines. Table 7S. Hazard ratios for type 2 diabetes across tertiles categories of type 2 diabetes genetic risk score. Figure 1S. Flow chart of participants enrolment. Figure 2S. Distribution of the polygenic risk score for type 2 diabetes. Figure 3S. Joint associations of physical activity and air pollutants with incidence of type 2 diabetes after excluding participants with type 2 diabetes within 2 years of baseline. Figure 4S. Joint associations of physical activity and air pollutants with incidence of type 2 diabetes after excluding participants with missing data for covariates.Figure 5S. Joint associations of physical activity and air pollutants with incidence of type 2 diabetes after excluding participants who had type 2 diabetes related diseases. Figure 6S. Joint associations of physical activity and air pollutants with incidence of type 2 diabetes after adjusting the employment status. Figure 7S. Joint associations of physical activity or air pollution and genetic risk with the incidence of type 2 diabetes after excluding participants of non-European ancestry.
Einstein Branes
Creators: name: Chemissany, Wissam
name: Janssen, Bert
name: Van Riet, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalise the standard, flat p-brane solutions sourced by a dilaton and a form field, by taking the worldvolume to be a curved Einstein space, such as (anti-)de Sitter space. Our method is based on reducing the p-branes to domain walls and then allowing these domain walls to be curved. For de Sitter worldvolumes this extends some recently constructed warped de Sitter non-compactifications. We restrict our analysis to solutions that possess scaling behavior and demonstrate that these scaling solutions are near-horizon limits of a more general solution. Finally, our framework can equally be used for spacelike branes and the uplift of the domain wall/cosmology correspondence becomes in this context a more general timelike/spacelike brane correspondence.
description: typos corrected, 16 pages, 1 figure, to appear in JHEP
Jiménez Robles, Juan Manuel. Perdón político y reconciliación para la reconstrucción de la paz. Una aproximación desde la filosofía para la paz. Editorial Académica Española, Berlín, 2017
Creators: name: Garí De Barbarà, Xavier
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 3
« Pays Basque (Traditions du pain au). », in J.-P. de Tonnac (dir.), Dictionnaire universel du pain, Paris, Robert Laffont, 2010, pp. 844-846.
Creators: name: Duhart, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Anthropology of Food
History of Food
Basqueland
Bread, Pan, Ogi, Pain
Bakery

description: Breve texto sobre el pan en las siete provincias de Euskal Herria

Les manifestations de l'appartenance à la civilisation du pain des populations installées sur le territoire formé par les sept provinces basques sont sensiblement les mêmes que celles qui peuvent s'observer dans le reste de l'Europe méridionale. Croyances et rituels entourant la manipulation de cet aliment devenu très chrétien ne manquaient pas dans cette région. Dans de très nombreux villages, par exemple, il était d'usage de tracer une croix sur la face supérieure des miches avant de les entamer. En revanche, il ne fallait jamais piquer le pain avec une fourchette ou la pointe d'un couteau ni le poser à l'envers, car de tels gestes auraient fait souffrir le Christ, la Vierge ou les âmes du purgatoire. Dans la croyance populaire, en effet, le pain pouvait constituer beaucoup plus qu'un aliment liturgique et devenir le représentant symbolique du Divin. Aliment prestigieux dont il fallait mériter la consommation par son travail (divers proverbes dialectaux rappellent qu'il n'y a pas de pain sans peine ou que la sueur d'aujourd'hui fait le pain de demain), le pain était aussi une nourriture sacrée qu'il fallait être capable de partager de bon cœur avec les déshérités. Aussi, les habitants de certaines localités se sentaient-ils obligé de baiser le pain qu'ils offraient aux mendiants pour signifier un don sincère. Des contes se chargeaient par ailleurs de rappeler que celui qui refusait de partager ainsi son pain avec quelque pauvre honteux verrait sa pingrerie châtiée.

Dans les villes basques, le pain de froment s'imposa fort précocement. A la fin du XVIIIe siècle, par exemple, tous les pains vendus par les boulangers bayonnais étaient réalisés avec de la farine issue de ce grain. Le meilleur d'entre eux était le pain blanc ; venait ensuite le pain bis obtenu à partir d'une farine plus grossière puis le pain raizé, fabriqué avec une mouture riche en petit son. En revanche, une grande partie de la population paysanne ne put durablement se permettre qu'une consommation limitée de pain de froment. Des farines de méteil voire de seigle purent être utilisées dans certains secteurs, néanmoins les véritables concurrents du pain de froment en terre basque furent des préparations à base de farine de maïs, une céréale dont l'introduction débuta dans cette région à la charnière des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Trichrysis cyanea
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Trichrysis
Trichrysis cyanea

description: 67. Trichrysis cyanea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sphex cyanea Linnaeus 1758: 572. Lectotype ♂ (designated by Morgan 1984: 10); Europe (LSL).
Chrysis cyanea: Linnaeus 1761: 414, Linnaeus 1771: 88, Julin 1792: 126, Dahlbom 1829: 12, Dahlbom 1831: 31, Dahlbom 1837: 268, Thomson 1862: 296, Kawall 1864: 303, Kawall 1866b: 161, Thomson 1870: 107, Siebke 1880: 74, Borries 1891: 95, Nerén 1892: 116, Westerlund 1893: 30, Strand 1898: 97, Sahlberg 1910: 97, Aurivillius 1911: 11, Hellén 1920: 210, Lundblad 1924: 24, Bischoff 1925: 306, Trautmann 1927: 136, Gaunitz 1929: 200, Jansson 1934: 287, Hellén 1935: 8, Tjeder 1948: 219, Benno 1950: 40, Balthasar 1954: 195, Fahlander 1954: 254, Haupt 1957: 83, Valkeila 1962: 64, Valkeila et al. 1963: 40, Tumšs & Maršakovs 1970: 92, Erlandsson 1971: 90, Janzon 1983: 171, Abenius 2004 a, Hallin 2006: 11, Kalniņš et al. 2007: 142, Sörensson 2008a: 80, Hallin 2009: 10, Allearter.dk 2010, Sörensson 2010: 68.
Hedychrum cyaneum: Billberg 1820: 104.
Chrysis cyanea ab. virescens Hellén 1920: 210, invalid name.
Trichrysis cyanea: Jansson 1922: 34, Nilsson 1986: 86, Vikberg 1986b: 68, Doronin 1996: 18, Nilsson 1991: 82, Hellqvist 1994: 33, Söderman & Vikberg 2003: 45, Bergsten et al. 2004: 7, Soon 2004: 24–25, 46, Abenius & Larsson 2005, Hallin 2005, Bergsten et al. 2005: 14, Abenius & Hellqvist 2007: 66, Abenius & Larsson 2007, Hallin 2007: 21, Salminen 2007: 146, Valtonen 2007: 20, 46, Humala & Polevoi 2008: 131, Karlsson 2008, Abenius 2009: 59, Franzén & Norén 2009: 40, Johansson 2009, Artsdatabanken 2010, Fritz & Larsson 2010: 151, Johansson 2010: 118, Nolbrant et al. 2010: 59, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 152, Smissen 2010b: 192, Smissen 2010d: 393, Johansson 2011: 35, Sjödin 2011, Ødegaard et al. 2011: 64, Hallin 2012, Ranta 2012: 33, Rosa & Soon 2012, Dyntaxa 2013, Johansson 2013a: 81.
Distribution. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Russian Fennoscandia.—Transpalearctic: from Europe and North Africa to central Asia, Siberia, Korea and Japan (Linsenmaier 1999, Kurzenko & Lelej 2007).
Remarks. The species is common and widespread in all the Nordic and Baltic countries.
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
Characterization of Neutralizing and Non-neutralizing Epitopes of Porcine Circovirus 2 Capsid Protein
Creators: name: Nourozieh, Narges
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Veterinary Science
subject: Virology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2)
subject: Conformational epitope
subject: Neutralizing antibody

description: Vaccination is the most efficacious way to prevent Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2)-associated diseases. In experimental pig studies, vaccine-induced neutralizing antibodies (NAs) appear to play a major role in protection from PCV2 infection. The immune response to PCV2 vaccination of farmed pigs has not been studied in detail. I hypothesize that NAs target conformational epitope(s) present on the surface of PCV2 particles. Highly purified PCV2 particles were found to expose only conformational but not linear epitopes on their surface. The screening 160 sera from farmed pigs showed that reactivity of sera with PCV2 particles correlated positively with the level of NA titer, suggesting that NAs recognize surface-exposed conformational epitope(s). This finding was supported by depleting antibodies reacting with linear epitopes of PCV2. No significant change was observed in the level of NA titer after antibody depletion. Altogether, these data suggest that NAs target conformational epitope(s) on the surface of PCV2 particles.
Abundance analysis of the outer halo globular cluster Palomar 14
Creators: name: Caliskan, S.
name: Christlieb, N.
name: Grebel, K. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the elemental abundances of nine red giant stars belonging to Palomar 14 (Pal 14). Pal 14 is an outer halo globular cluster (GC) at a distance of \sim 70 kpc. Our abundance analysis is based on high-resolution spectra and one-dimensional stellar model atmospheres.We derived the abundances for the iron peak elements Sc, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, the α-elements O, Mg, Si, Ca, Ti, the light odd element Na, and the neutron-capture elements Y, Zr, Ba, La, Ce, Nd, Eu, Dy, and Cu. Our data do not permit us to investigate light element (i.e., O to Mg) abundance variations. The neutron-capture elements show an r-process signature. We compare our measurements with the abundance ratios of inner and other outer halo GCs, halo field stars, GCs of recognized extragalactic origin, and stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). The abundance pattern of Pal 14 is almost identical to those of Pal 3 and Pal 4, the next distant members of the outer halo GC population after Pal 14. The abundance pattern of Pal 14 is also similar to those of the inner halo GCs, halo field stars, and GCs of recognized extragalactic origin, but differs from what is customarily found in dSphs field stars. The abundance properties of Pal 14 as well as those of the other outer halo GCs are thus compatible with an accretion origin from dSphs. Whether or not GC accretion played a role, it seems that the formation conditions of outer halo GCs and GCs in dSphs were similar.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures. Accepted by A&A
Additional file 8 of Pharmacy-based screening to detect persons at elevated risk of type 2 diabetes: a cost-utility analysis
Creators: name: Jalkanen, Kari
name: Aarnio, Emma
name: Lavikainen, Piia
name: Lindström, Jaana
name: Peltonen, Markku
name: Laatikainen, Tiina
name: Martikainen, Janne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 8. Baseline characteristics of the cohorts used in the Markov model. Table showing the characteristics of the population cohorts by gender.
Molecular imaging of mesothelin expressing cancers
Creators: name: Misri, Ripen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Mesothelin is a cell surface glycoprotein highly expressed in mesothelioma, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer and some other malignancies. It is a promising candidate for tumour specific therapy and diagnosis, given its limited expression in normal tissues. The purpose of the work presented in this dissertation is to develop and characterize a molecular imaging bioprobe that targets mesothelin. We radiolabelled fab and f(ab´)₂ fragments of the anti-mesothelin antibody mAbK1 with ⁹⁹mTc- tricarbonyl core using a histidine-modified tridentate ligand, while whole mAbK1 was radiolabelled with ⁹⁹mTc using a direct labelling approach. In vivo evaluation of these ⁹⁹mTc labelled radioimmunoconjugates in mesothelin expressing NCI-H226 tumour model, revealed low mesothelin specific tumour uptake. These findings were attributed to low expression of mesothelin on NCI-H226 cells as well as to the low affinity of mAbK1. An anti-mesothelin antibody mAbMB, with higher mesothelin affinity than mAbK1 was labelled with ¹¹¹In and evaluated in A431K5 tumour model which expresses clinically relevant levels of mesothelin. Biodistribution studies and SPECT imaging revealed specific localization of ¹¹¹In-mAbMB in mesothelin expressing A431K5 tumours. An interesting finding with ¹¹¹In-mAbMB was its preferential localization in spleen, which suggests a role of circulating mesothelin antigen in forming immune complexes with ¹¹¹In-mAbMB. In comparison, control studies with ¹¹¹In-mAbK1 revealed low specific uptake into A431K5 tumours. These studies provided evidence that ¹¹¹In-mAbMB is a better choice than ¹¹¹In-mAbK1 for imaging mesothelin expression in tumours. A dual-modality SPECT/MR imaging bioprobe was further developed by conjugating ¹¹¹In-mAbMB with SPIONs (superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles) which demonstrated specific targeting and MR imaging capability in A431K5 tumour bearing mice. The work in this dissertation for the first time demonstrates successful SPECT imaging of mesothelin expressing cancers using radiolabelled antibodies. The radiopharmaceutical ¹¹¹In-mAbMB developed in this work holds promise for clinical use as a radioactive imaging bioprobe. Additionally, bioconjugates of ¹¹¹In-mAbMB and SPIONs are promising as dual-modality SPECT/MRI imaging bioprobes, which may be beneficial in improving the imaging outcomes of these difficult to treat tumours. In conclusion, our studies demonstrate that molecular imaging agents targeting mesothelin have a role to play for the detection and monitoring of mesothelin expressing cancers.
Macdonald polynomials in superspace: conjectural definition and positivity conjectures
Creators: name: Blondeau-Fournier, O.
name: Desrosiers, P.
name: Lapointe, L.
name: Mathieu, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a conjectural construction for an extension to superspace of the Macdonald polynomials. The construction, which depends on certain orthogonality and triangularity relations, is tested for high degrees. We conjecture a simple form for the norm of the Macdonald polynomials in superspace, and a rather non-trivial expression for their evaluation. We study the limiting cases q=0 and q=\infty, which lead to two families of Hall-Littlewood polynomials in superspace. We also find that the Macdonald polynomials in superspace evaluated at q=t=0 or q=t=\infty seem to generalize naturally the Schur functions. In particular, their expansion coefficients in the corresponding Hall-Littlewood bases appear to be polynomials in t with nonnegative integer coefficients. More strikingly, we formulate a generalization of the Macdonald positivity conjecture to superspace: the expansion coefficients of the Macdonald superpolynomials expanded into a modified version of the Schur superpolynomial basis (the q=t=0 family) are polynomials in q and t with nonnegative integer coefficients.
description: 18 pages
Three Dimensional Stochastic Computer Model of the Skeletal Muscle Half Sarcomere: changes in calcium diffusion caused by the myofilament lattice
Creators: name: Holash, Robert John
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computer Science
subject: Sarcomere
subject: Stochastic
subject: Calcium
subject: Diffusion
subject: Computer-model
subject: 3-Dimensional

description: In this thesis a 3-dimensional model of the skeletal muscle myoﬁbril is developed. This model uses a Monte-Carlo based algorithm to simulate diﬀusion and binding of individual calcium ions (Ca2+) through the skeletal muscle myoﬁbrillar 1/2 sarcomere. This Ca2+ diﬀusion model is a departure from recent Ca2+ models, which use a series of ordinary diﬀerential equations to compute diﬀusion and binding. The thesis begins with an overview of current understanding of muscle structure and activation. Emphasising the structure of the myoﬁlament lattice (MFL), and our current ability to understand Ca2+ handling within the sarcomere. We build virtual models of the MFL at lengths of 1.8, 2.3, and 2.8 µm, then demonstrate that changes in MFL spacing associated with changes in sarcomere length (SL), aﬀect myosin and actin interaction. Using MCell™ software that incorporates the MFL, we reproduce the experimental and previous simulation results for an averaged calcium transient during a single activation. In addition, our simulation provided data which demonstrate how the MFL aﬀects the diﬀusion and binding of Ca2+. This simulation model yielded advanced visualizations of this process; two simulation movies of excitation-contraction coupling. Modelling SLs of 1.8 and 2.8 µm we explore how changes in SL can inﬂuence the diﬀusion of Ca2+ following a simulated activation. At the shorter length of 1.8 µm, the greater ﬁlament overlap and larger interﬁlament spacing result in more even diﬀusion of Ca2+. Conversely, at 2.8 µm there was an anisotropic distribution of Ca2+ with higher [Ca2+] and greater Ca2+ binding to TnC observed closest to the Z-disk. Finally, the position of the triad on the surface of the sarcomere model was altered to replicate amphibian muscle. Moving the triad to the amphibian muscle position increased the [Ca2+] transient by 56 % when compared with the mammalian placement. This change increases [Ca2+] in the centre of the sarcomere model with fewer Ca2+ able to bind TnC.
Che cosa significa dire che la famiglia è un ‘bene relazionale’?
Creators: name: Donati, Pierpaolo
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Lo scopo di questo articolo è manifestare la necessità, in un contesto sociale morfogenetico come quello contemporaneo, di una lettura relazionale della famiglia e, in particolare, di attivare la riflessività relazionale che è la riflessività applicata alla relazione fra identità individuale e sociale. Secondo il paradigma relazionale proposto, la famiglia è una relazione sociale sui generis che emerge da un suo genoma sociale costitutivo, struttura circonflessa fra quattro elementi: la motivazione del dono, la regola della reciprocità, la sessualità di coppia e la generatività. Si apportano referenze a molteplici ricerche empiriche che sostengono che la famiglia normo-costituita è e rimane la risorsa primaria di quelle società che sono più portatrici di futuro perché è dalla famiglia che proviene il capitale sociale primario della società. Infine si tracciano alcune linee di politica famigliare.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 2
Les idees de Vauban en el regne d’Espanya en el segle XVIII
Creators: name: Santonja Alarcón, Ramón
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: En el següent article s’intenta abordar des de distintes perspectives el que va suposar el revolucionari de l’art i la ciència unit en l’avanç del baluard des d’un punt de vista militar, científic, simbòlic, polític, estratègic, econòmic fins a arribar a la seua perfecció absoluta amb Vauban per finalitzar en la discussió sobre el seu significat històric i la seua decadència en els segles XVIII-XIX. Per això es vol analitzar la influència de les idees de caire militar de Vauban, en el regne d’Espanya principalment ho fem, a través del seu ensenyament en una nova institució per a la formació dels oficials, com és l’Acadèmia de Matemàtiques de Barcelona, i més concretament en la tasca desenvolupada per l’enginyer italià Mateo Calabro en aquest procés. Tanmateix, volem analitzar la introducció, i la seua aplicació, o almenys l’intent, de les idees de Vauban en matèria fiscal, i la seua possible influència en el sistema impositiu espanyol del segle XVIII. Primer, en els territoris de l’antiga Corona d’Aragó després l’aplicació els decrets de Nova Planta i, després, els intents fallits d’aplicar-la a la resta del territori a mitjan segle, per part del marqués d’Ensenada.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 2
Additional file 9 of Pharmacy-based screening to detect persons at elevated risk of type 2 diabetes: a cost-utility analysis
Creators: name: Jalkanen, Kari
name: Aarnio, Emma
name: Lavikainen, Piia
name: Lindström, Jaana
name: Peltonen, Markku
name: Laatikainen, Tiina
name: Martikainen, Janne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 9. The correlations between the Weibull regression coefficients. Table showing the correlations between the coefficients for the Weibull to estimate the risk of T2D and the rate of complications.
B-Spline Based 3D Model Reconstruction and Finite Element Analysis of Human Knee Joint
Creators: name: Zhu, Di
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: human knee joint
subject: finite element analysis
subject: B-Spline surface reconstruction
subject: contact surface refinement

description: Knee joint is the largest diarthrodial joint in the human body, and the normal joint mechanics is essential for our daily life. Finite element analysis provides an efficient tool for studying knee joint mechanical behaviour under different conditions. Due to the complex shapes of the knee joint, it is important to obtain accurate models with realistic geometries prior to FE simulation. A semi-automatic 3D point cloud fitting procedure in MATLAB based on B-Splines that accounts for contact geometries and CAD compatibility was developed in this thesis. The reconstructed model was then used for nonlinear stress-relaxation simulations under ramp compressions, where pore pressure, contact pressure and reaction forces were investigated. The reconstruction procedure has successfully reduced overclosures at contact surfaces, promoted faster convergence and enhanced simulation performances. This study helps further build the bridge between 2D medical images and FE simulations.
Spin splitting in graphene studied by means of tilted magnetic-field experiments
Creators: name: Kurganova, E. V.
name: van Elferen, H. J.
name: McCollam, A.
name: Ponomarenko, L. A.
name: Novoselov, K. S.
name: Veligura, A.
name: van Wees, B. J.
name: Maan, J. C.
name: Zeitler, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the spin splitting in single-layer and bilayer graphene by means of tilted magnetic field experiments. Applying the Lifshitz-Kosevich formula for the spin-induced decrease of the Shubnikov de Haas amplitudes with increasing tilt angle we directly determine the product between the carrier cyclotron mass m* and the effective g-factor g* as a function of the charge carrier concentration. Using the cyclotron mass for a single-layer and a bilayer graphene we find an enhanced g-factor g* = 2.7 \pm 0.2 for both systems.
Correlated photon emission from multi--atom Rydberg dark states
Creators: name: Pritchard, J. D.
name: Adams, C. S.
name: Mølmer, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider three level atoms driven by two resonant light fields in a ladder scheme where the upper level is a highly excited Rydberg state. We show that the dipole--dipole interactions between Rydberg excited atoms prevents the formation of single particle dark states and leads to strongly correlated photon emission from atoms separated by distances large compared to the emission wavelength. For two atoms, correlated photon pairs are emitted with an angular distribution given by a coherent sum of the independent dipolar fields.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Mesospheric dynamics and ground-layer optical turbulence studies for the performance of ground-based telescopes
Creators: name: Pfrommer, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Modern astronomical instrumentation employs adaptive optics (AO) systems that correct for atmospheric distortion in real time in order to produce sharper images. The design and performance of these systems relies on the knowledge of the atmosphere both at low and high altitude. This thesis investigates the first kilometer of the atmosphere, the ground layer (GL), as well as the sodium layer at ~92 km. Newly-designed lunar scintillometers provide turbulence profiles of the GL, and high spatio-temporally resolved sodium profiles are obtained using a newly-designed lidar system for UBC's 6-m liquid-mirror. For ground layer adaptive optics systems, knowledge of the local height- and time-resolved GL turbulence is crucial to link local topography to optical turbulence and has been obtained with the help of three lunar scintillometers deployed in Chile, Hawaii and in the Canadian High Arctic. Results from measurements inside the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) dome indicate severe degradation of image quality due to a poorly vented dome and thus provide input for dome modifications. The outside median GL seeing was determined to be 0.48±0.01". Initial results from the Arctic show exceptional GL seeing conditions, better than have been found anywhere on Earth although data quantity is limited. Extremely large telescopes must correct not only for GL turbulence, but also higher atmospheric disturbances in the troposphere. The use of laser guide stars (LGS) increases sky coverage and the field of view, but relies on resonantly excited sodium atoms in the mesosphere. Upper atmospheric dynamics causes varying sodium density, which produces focus-induced wavefront errors in LGS AO systems. The UBC lidar system was built, and its high-resolution data reveal large spatial variability, strong nightly variations and meteor spikes in sodium density on sub-second time scales. The mean altitude power spectrum has been extended to scales approaching the dissipation limit, and its spectral index of -1.95±0.12 and normalization of 30±20 m²/Hz determines AO system wavefront errors of 4 nm for a 30 m, and 8 nm for a 42 m telescope per meter mean-altitude variation. Derived mean altitudes, separated by one arcmin, showed rms fluctuations of order 30 m and could cause AO performance degradation.