cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin schemes for some first and second-order partial differential equations
Creators: name: Bokanowski, Olivier
name: Simarmata, Giorevinus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Explicit, unconditionally stable, high-order schemes for the approximation of some first- andsecond-order linear, time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) are proposed.The schemes are based on a weak formulation of a semi-Lagrangian scheme using discontinuous Galerkin (DG) elements.It follows the ideas of the recent works of Crouseilles, Mehrenberger and Vecil (2010), Rossmanith and Seal (2011),for first-order equations, based on exact integration, quadrature rules, and splitting techniques for the treatment of two-dimensionalPDEs. For second-order PDEs the idea of the schemeis a blending between weak Taylor approximations and projection on a DG basis.New and sharp error estimates are obtained for the fully discrete schemes and for variable coefficients.In particular we obtain high-order schemes, unconditionally stable and convergent,in the case of linear first-order PDEs, or linear second-order PDEs with constant coefficients.In the case of non-constant coefficients, we construct, in some particular cases,"almost" unconditionally stable second-order schemes and give precise convergence results.The schemes are tested on several academic examples.
Design of a Modular Tactile Sensor and Actuator Based on an Electrorheological Gel
Creators: name: Voyles, Richard M.
name: Fedder, Gary K.
name: Khosla, Pradeep K.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present the design of a modular tactile sensor
and actuator system for observing human demonstrations of
contact tasks. The system consists of three interchangeable
parts: an intrinsic tactile sensor for measuring net force/
torque, an extrinsic tactile sensor for measuring contact distributions,
and a tactile actuator for displaying tactile distributions.
The novel components are the extrinsic sensor
and tactile actuator which are “inside-out symmetric” to
each other and employ an electrorheological gel for actuation.
Additional file 2 of Is Postural Control Affected in People with Patellofemoral Pain and Should it be Part of Rehabilitation? A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Nunes, Guilherme S.
name: Rodrigues, Diênifer Zilmer
name: Hörbe, Luiza
name: Prates, Izabela
name: Tessarin, Bruna M.
name: Serrão, Fábio V.
name: de Noronha, Marcos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2. Excluded studies.
Anti-breast cancer drugs targeting cell-surface glucose-regulated protein 78: a drug repositioning in silico study
Creators: name: Abu-Mahfouz, Alaa
name: Ali, Maha
name: Elfiky, Abdo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Breast cancer (BC) is prevalent worldwide and is a leading cause of death among women. However, cell-surface glucose-regulated protein 78 (cs-GRP78) is overexpressed in several types of cancer and during pathogen infections. This study examines two well-known BC drugs approved by the FDA as BC treatments to GRP78. The first type consists of inhibitors of cyclin-based kinases 4/6, including abemaciclib, palbociclib, ribociclib, and dinaciclib. In addition, tunicamycin, and doxorubicin, which are among the most effective anticancer drugs for early and late-stage BC, are tested against GRP78. As (−)-epiGallocatechin gallate inhibits GRP78, it is also being evaluated (used as positive control). Thus, using molecular dynamics simulation approaches, this study aims to examine the advantages of targeting GRP78, which represents a promising cancer therapy regime. In light of recent advances in computational drug response prediction models, this study aimed to examine the benefits of GRP78 targeting, which represents a promising cancer therapy regime, by utilizing combined molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation approaches. The simulated protein (50 ns) was docked with the drugs, then a second round of dynamics simulation was performed for 100 ns. After that, the binding free energies were calculated from 30 to 100 ns for each complex during the simulation period. These findings demonstrate the efficacy of abemaciclib, ribociclib, and tunicamycin in binding to the nucleotide-binding domain of the GRP78, paving the way for elucidating the mode of interactions between these drugs and cancer (and other stressed) cells that overexpress GRP78. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Single and multiband THz Metamaterial Polarizers
Creators: name: Sangala, Bagvanth Reddy
name: Nagarajan, Arvind
name: Deshmukh, Prathmesh
name: Surdi, Harshad
name: Rana, Goutam
name: Gopal, Achanta Venu
name: Prabhu, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report single and multiband linear polarizers for terahertz (THz) frequencies using cut-wire metamaterials (MM). The MMs are designed by finite element method, fabricated by electron beam lithography, and characterized by THz time-domain spectroscopy. The MM unit cells consist of single or multiple length cut-wire pads of gold on semi-insulating Gallium Arsenide for single or multiple band polarizers. The dependence of the resonance frequency of the single band polarizer on the length of the cut-wires is explained based a transmission line model.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Giacomo Tinelli, L’io di carta. L’autorappresentazione contemporanea: Walter Siti ed Emmanuel Carrère
Creators: name: Marchese, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Between
Year: 2023

description: Recensione del libro di Giacomo Tinelli L’io di carta. L’autorappresentazione contemporanea: Walter Siti ed Emmanuel Carrère.
description: Between, V. 13 N. 25 (2023): La narrativa illustrata fra Ottocento e Novecento
Additional file 3 of Is Postural Control Affected in People with Patellofemoral Pain and Should it be Part of Rehabilitation? A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Nunes, Guilherme S.
name: Rodrigues, Diênifer Zilmer
name: Hörbe, Luiza
name: Prates, Izabela
name: Tessarin, Bruna M.
name: Serrão, Fábio V.
name: de Noronha, Marcos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3. Funnel plots.
Influence of interface potential on the effective mass in Ge nanostructures
Creators: name: Barbagiovanni, E. G.
name: Cosentino, S.
name: Lockwood, D. J.
name: Filho, R. N. Costa
name: Terrasi, A.
name: Mirabella, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of the interface potential on the effective mass of charge carriers is elucidated in this work. We develop a new theoretical formalism using a spatially dependent effective mass that is related to the magnitude of the interface potential. Using this formalism we studied Ge quantum dots (QDs) formed by plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) and co-sputtering (sputter). These samples allowed us to isolate important consequences arising from differences in the interface potential. We found that for a higher interface potential, as in the case of PECVD QDs, there is a larger reduction in the effective mass, which increases the confinement energy with respect to the sputter sample. We further understood the action of O interface states by comparing our results with Ge QDs grown by molecular beam epitaxy. It is found that the O states can suppress the influence of the interface potential. From our theoretical formalism we determine the length scale over which the interface potential influences the effective mass.
An Evaluation of the Climate Change Preparedness of Terrestrial Protected Areas
Creators: name: Panday, Frances Marie
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: climate change
Maryland
protected area
terrestrial
climate velocity
climate change velocity
climate residence time
climate change preparedness
biodiversity
conservation

description: Undergraduate honors thesis as part of the Environmental Science and Policy Honors program. Frances Marie Panday successfully defended her thesis with high honors on April 14, 2022.
description: The rate at which the climate changes and the direction of these shifts is highly variable across the landscape. As proposed by Loarie et al. (2009), the concept of a climate change velocity (CV) adds a spatial component to the rate at which the temperature increases across the landscape. Identifying where regions will experience the most significant changes in climate conditions is highly valuable for the management of areas with high ecological and societal value, such as protected areas (PAs). To examine the relationship between climate velocity and protected areas, Loarie et al. (2009) proposes the concept of a climate residence time (CRT), which estimates the length of time current climate conditions will remain in a given spatial location before shifting. Current infrastructure design managing protected areas is outdated and may be ill-equipped to handle future changes in climate. Current work examining the relationship between protected area and the CV is relatively new, but results are promising. Here, we evaluate the climate-change preparedness of terrestrial protected areas in MD by first, quantifying the magnitude of future changes using the climate residence time, and second, evaluating their capacity to manage changes by qualitatively scoring their associated management plans for climate adaptation and/or mitigation language. This two-fold approach showed that most PAs have climate residence times less than or equal to 1.5 years and had plans with little to no language addressing climate change and its associated impacts. This suggests that PAs in MD are poorly prepared for future changes in climate. Given these results, including CVs and CRTs within PA management plans would improve a park’s adaptive capacity but also signal the need for a cross-coordinated management effort that transcends different management and governance scales.
Development of a Low Cost Multi-Robot Autonomous Marine Surface Platform
Creators: name: Abhinav  Valada
name: Prasanna  Velagapudi
name: Balajee  Kannan
name: Tomaszewski, Christopher
name: Kantor, George
name: Scerri, Paul
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we outline a low cost multi-robot autonomous platform for a broad set of applications including water quality monitoring, ﬂood disaster mitigation and depth buoy verification. By working cooperatively, ﬂeets of vessels can cover large areas that would otherwise be impractical, time consuming and prohibitively expensive to traverse by a single vessel. We describe the hardware design, control infrastructure, and software architecture of the system, while additionally presenting experimental results from several ﬁeld trials. Further, we discuss our initial efforts towards developing our system for water quality monitoring, in which a team of watercraft equipped with specialized sensors autonomously samples the physical quantity being measured and provides online situational awareness to the operator regarding water quality in the observed area. From canals in New York to volcanic lakes in the Philippines, our vessels have been tested in diverse marine environments and the results obtained from initial experiments in these domains are also discussed.
Cylindrical confinement of semiflexible polymers
Creators: name: Vázquez-Montejo, Pablo
name: McDargh, Zachary
name: Deserno, Markus
name: Guven, Jemal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Equilibrium states of a closed semiflexible polymer binding to a cylinder are described. This may be either by confinement or by constriction. Closed completely bound states are labeled by two integers: the number of oscillations, $n$, and the number of times it winds the cylinder, $p$, the latter a topological invariant. We examine the behavior of these states as the length of the loop is increased by evaluating the energy, the conserved axial torque and the contact force. The ground state for a given $p$ is the state with $n=1$; a short loop with $p=1$ is an elliptic deformation of a parallel; as its length increases it elongates along the cylinder axis, with two hairpin ends. Excited states with $n\geq2$ and $p=1$ possess $n$-fold axial symmetry. Short (long) loops possess energies $\approx p E_0$ ($nE_0$), with $E_0$ the energy of a circular loop with same radius as the cylinder; in long loops the axial torque vanishes. Confined bound excited states are initially unstable; however, above a critical length each $n$-fold state becomes stable: the folded hairpin cannot be unfolded. The ground state for each $p$ is also initially unstable with respect to deformations rotating the loop off the surface into the interior. A closed planar elastic curve aligned along the cylinder axis making contact with the cylinder on its two sides is identified as the ground state of a confined loop. Exterior bound states behave very differently, if free to unbind, as signaled by the reversal in the sign of the contact force. If $p=1$, all such states are unstable. If $p \geq 2$, however, a topological obstruction to complete unbinding exists. If the loop is short, the bound state with $p=2$ and $n=1$ provides a stable constriction of the cylinder, partially unbinding as the length is increased. This motif could be relevant to an understanding of the process of membrane fission mediated by dynamin rings.
description: 33 pages, 16 figures
Structural dynamics of chlorpromazine (CPZ) drug with dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) lipid: a potential drug for SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Mishra, Soni
name: Mishra, Abhishek Kumar
name: Sharma, Ramesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: There is an urgent requirement for drug discovery and more importantly drug repositioning due to infectious new Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2. As per the recent report published in the journal L'Encéphale in May 2020, there is a planned ReCoVery Study examining the repurposing the chlorpromazine for the treatment of COVID-19. Here, we apply a combined Raman microspectroscopy and DFT-MD approach to investigate the structural dynamics of the Chlorpromazine (CPZ) drug with dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) lipid bilayer, identifying the specific position of the drug in the DPPC lipid bilayer. The intensity ratios of the Raman peaks I2935/I2880, I1097/I1064 and I1097/I1129 are representative of the interaction of drugs with lipid alkyl chains and furnish conformation of lipid alkyl chains. Raman imaging microscopy for the study of the distribution of CPZ inside the lipid vesicles is reported. We also investigated the influence of order and disorder ratio in the CPZ on the DPPC liposomes prepared on phase transition temperature. HIGHLIGHTSDrug–membrane interactions using micromolar concentrations of both lipid and drugs.Neuroleptic drug and DPPC vesicles composed of DPPC/drug mixtures reveal qualitative differences between the Raman spectraThe temperature-controlled Raman microspectroscopic study has demonstrated that below phase-transition temperature, the fatty acid chains of the phospholipids are stiff and packed in a highly ordered array.DFT and MD simulations to understand molecular interactions, structural dynamics, and Raman spectra.Above phase-transition temperature, the chains are disordered and possess more motional freedom. Drug–membrane interactions using micromolar concentrations of both lipid and drugs. Neuroleptic drug and DPPC vesicles composed of DPPC/drug mixtures reveal qualitative differences between the Raman spectra The temperature-controlled Raman microspectroscopic study has demonstrated that below phase-transition temperature, the fatty acid chains of the phospholipids are stiff and packed in a highly ordered array. DFT and MD simulations to understand molecular interactions, structural dynamics, and Raman spectra. Above phase-transition temperature, the chains are disordered and possess more motional freedom. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Radio thin air : cable TV magazine, art, music, interview
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Homeless persons
Police-community relations
Actors
Theatrical producers and directors

description: With Mitch Corber. Includes interview by Marcia Wilson with Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov from The Living Theatre, and segment on police treatment of the homeless in Tompkins Square Park
New results for the Coupon Collector's problem with swapping and replacement
Creators: name: Braband, Niklas
name: Braband, Sonja
name: Braband, Malte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper focuses on the Coupon Collector's Problem with replacement (limited purchasing of missing stickers) and swapping. We have simulated combined strategies and found new results, which we were able to prove for a particular case. The ratio of the average number of stickers needed to fill the album by the album size (number of different stickers needed) and the number of collectors as well as the ratio of the variance and the album size depend approximately only on the percentage of replacement stickers (the limited number of stickers that can be bought directly from the vendor) and the number of collectors, but not on the total album size. Thus collectors can estimate the average cost of completion of an album and its standard deviation just based on basic calculations and a table lookup. Additionally we could show that asymptotocally the effect of replacement is stronger than swapping. ----- In diesem Artikel wird das Sammelbilderproblem mit Nachkaufen und Tauschen untersucht. Wir haben mit Hilfe von Simulationen neue Ergebnisse gefunden und sie auch in einem Spezialfall bewiesen. Das Verhältnis der mittleren Anzahl zu kaufender Karten pro Sammler als auch das Verhältnis der Varianz zur Albumgröße hängt in sehr guter Näherung nur vom Anteil der nachkaufbaren Karten ab, aber nicht von der Albumgröße. Damit können Sammler anhand des Prozentsatzes der Nachkaufkarten die mittleren Kosten eines Albums sowie deren Standardabweichung nur mit einer Tabelle und Grundrechenarten bestimmen. Ausserdem konnten wir belegen, dass asymptotisch der Effekt des Nachkaufens stärker ist als der des Tauschens.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables, in German
Classical probabilistic realization of "Random Numbers Certified by Bell's Theorem"
Creators: name: Khrennikov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We question the commonly accepted statement that random numbers certified by Bell's theorem carry some special sort of randomness, so to say, quantum randomness or intrinsic randomness. We show that such numbers can be easily generated by classical random generators.
title: Materials fundamental study of the properties and deformation of titanium alloys at room temperature
Creators: name: Nelson, Kayleigh
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020

description: The titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-4V is investigated to increase the current understanding of deformation in this significant alloy at a variety of length-scales. The strain rate sensitivity of titanium alloys is generally consid- ered negligible, however, parallels observed in the rate dependant behaviour have led to a renewed interest in the room temperature deformation. The results of a strain rate jump (SRJ) have been examined using combined high energy x-ray diffraction and microscopy techniques. This deformation is compared to that of constant strain rates where the SRJ is observed to cause texture strengthening and good alignment post jump with the higher constant strain rate for billet Ti-6Al-4V. Microstructural changes have been tracked during deformation via in situ high energy x-ray diffraction in the form of lattice strain evolution. Rolled plate Ti-6Al-4V products (UDR and CR) have been compared with the cross rolled material exhibit- ing the highest strength in the direction of loading. Crystallographic texture has been examined using EBSD analysis. Lattice strain evolution is captured, again using synchrotron high energy XRD. Good macroscopic alignment is observed in the stress-strain response between SRJ and constant strain rate conditions where the timing of the jump does not appear to influence this phenomenon. The strain rate sensitivity can- not be adequately captured macroscopically by a single parameter as lattice strain evolution is dependant on crystallography. An effective moduli dependant on material texture is suggested for Ti-6Al-4V product forms.Computational, CPFE modelling has been performed on various instantiated microstructures to enable the prediction of lattice strain evolution for each of the product forms analysed. The impact of macrozones and texture elements is observed to influence this evolution. The β phase in Ti-6Al-4V is often neglected in analysis due to its low volume fraction, the in situ examination of both Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6.5Al, an alloy designed to replicate the α phase, question the validity of this sim- plification where the omission of the β phase is observed to dampen the strain hardening response compared to Ti-6Al-4V. α-phase Ti-Al alloys of varying aluminium contents have also been examined showing differing hardening responses, strain rate sensitivity and increasing strength with increased aluminium content.
Additional file 4 of Is Postural Control Affected in People with Patellofemoral Pain and Should it be Part of Rehabilitation? A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Nunes, Guilherme S.
name: Rodrigues, Diênifer Zilmer
name: Hörbe, Luiza
name: Prates, Izabela
name: Tessarin, Bruna M.
name: Serrão, Fábio V.
name: de Noronha, Marcos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 4. GRADE description.
Michele Cometa (ed.), Autopatografie. Cura e narrazioni di sé
Creators: name: Spanò, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Between
Year: 2023

description: Recensione del volume Autopatografie. Cura e narrazioni di sé a cura di Michele Cometa.
description: Between, V. 13 N. 25 (2023): La narrativa illustrata fra Ottocento e Novecento
Casimir operator dependences of non-perturbative fermionic QCD amplitudes
Creators: name: Fried, H. M.
name: Grandou, T.
name: Hofmann, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In eikonal and quenched approximation, it is argued that the strong coupling fermionic QCD Green's functions and related amplitudes depart from a sole dependence on the SUc(3) quadratic Casimir operator, C2f, evaluated over the fundamental gauge group representation. Noticed in non-relativistic Quark Models and in a non-perturbative generalization of the Schwinger mechanism, an additional dependence on the cubic Casimir operator shows up, in contradistinction with perturbation theory and other non-perturbative approaches. However, it accounts for the full algebraic content of the rank-2 Lie algebra of SUc(3). Though numerically sub-leading effects, cubic Casimir dependences, here and elsewhere, appear to be a signature of the non-perturbative fermonic sector of QCD.
description: 28 pages, no figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1402.7273
Phytochemicals from African eggplants (Solanum macrocarpon L) and Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L) leaves as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors: an in-silico study
Creators: name: Ogunsuyi, Opeyemi Babatunde
name: Omage, Folorunsho Bright
name: Olagoke, Olawande Chinedu
name: Oboh, Ganiyu
name: Rocha, João Batista Teixeria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) like donepezil are commonly used to treat Alzheimer’s disease. AChEIs have also been considered for other therapeutic uses, such as anti-inflammatory neuroprotective agents. Consequently, the use of natural plant products as potential AChEIs can have therapeutic benefits. We previously reported the anticholinesterase properties of the phenolics and alkaloids found in the leaf extracts of two tropical plants with nutritional and ethnobotanical importance—African eggplant (Solanum macrocarpon L) and Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L). Here, we tested the ability of both extracts to inhibit human erythrocyte AChE (an indirect mediator of pro-inflammatory cytokines production via acetylcholine degradation). We further used molecular docking and MD simulation to identify the potential molecular mechanism(s) of phenolic and alkaloid compounds as human AChEIs. Special focus was given to compounds containing the benzyl group that can establish stacking interactions similar to donepezil (a standard AChEI). Flavone-luteolin rutinosides (LR) were identified as single-binding or dual-binding AChEIs; specifically, we attributed the dual-binding LR4 and LR5 to their linked hexose moiety. This characteristic allows the dual binders to occupy the catalytic triads and the peripheral anionic subsite, while exploring the catalytic gorge. We further delineated the inhibition of human erythrocyte AChE, as the flavone common to both plant extracts—luteolin rutinosides—had positive in silico interactions with AChE. These findings suggest that phytochemicals from S. macrocarpon and S. nigrum with dual binding properties can be potential AChE inhibitors. In fact, compounds such as LR4 and LR5 should be further investigated as potential inhibitors of human AChE and may represent important natural alternatives to donepezil. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
New Extended Radio Sources From the NVSS
Creators: name: Amirkhanyan, V. R.
name: Afanasiev, V. L.
name: Moiseev, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of the spectroscopic observations carried out at the SAO RAS 6-m telescope for the optical components of nine new extended radio sources found in the NVSS catalog. The measured redshifts of the host galaxies are in the range of z=0.1-0.4. The physical sizes of radio sources were calculated within the standard cosmological model. The two most extended objects, 0003+1512 and 0422+0351 reach the sizes of 2.1 Mpc and 4.0 Mpc, respectively. This is close to the maximum size of known radio sources.
description: 5 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Astrophysical Bulletin, v. 70, N1
Isotta Piazza, «Canonici si diventa». Mediazione editoriale e canonizzazione nel e del Novecento
Creators: name: Marsi, Simone
Publisher: name: Between
Year: 2023

description: Recensione a Isotta Piazza, «Canonici si diventa». Mediazione editoriale e canonizzazione nel e del Novecento.
description: Between, V. 13 N. 25 (2023): La narrativa illustrata fra Ottocento e Novecento
"Chiunque io sia non cercare di conoscere il mio nome..."
Creators: name: Bergamo Maria; Monica Centanni
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2006
Subjects: Il rito segreto
Rome
Exhibition

description: Review of the exhibition “Il rito segreto. Misteri in Grecia e a Roma“ hel in Rome (Colosseo, July 22 2005-Jenuary 8 2006) and catalogue edited by Angelo Bottini and publiched by Electa.
A vast documentary apparatus divided into twelve thematic sections (edited by Nunzio Giustozzi) effectively introduces and reports on the history, diffusion and iconography of mystery rites and cults, from the classical age to the end of the ancient world: in the belt outside, between the beautiful parade of arches of the Amphitheater, twelve didactic panels flow, interspersed with projections and sounds that create a suggestive atmosphere and propose an anthropological breakthrough towards the forms of rituals in the modern and contemporary era; between the columns of the internal ambulatory, on the other hand, selected pieces are exhibited, rare and precious, arranged according to the thematic sequence, in correspondence with the panels.
Entanglement thermodynamics for an excited state of Lifshitz system
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Somdeb
name: Dey, Parijat
name: Karar, Sourav
name: Roy, Shibaji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A class of (2+1)-dimensional quantum many body system characterized by an anisotropic scaling symmetry (Lifshitz symmetry) near their quantum critical point can be described by a (3+1)-dimensional dual gravity theory with negative cosmological constant along with a massive vector field, where the scaling symmetry is realized by the metric as an isometry. We calculate the entanglement entropy of an excited state of such a system holographically, i.e., from the asymptotic perturbation of the gravity dual using the prescription of Ryu and Takayanagi, when the subsystem is sufficiently small. With suitable identifications, we show that this entanglement entropy satisfies an energy conservation relation analogous to the first law of thermodynamics. The non-trivial massive vector field here plays a crucial role and contributes to an additional term in the energy relation.
description: 12 pages, no figure; v2: some typos fixed, few references added
Associations between recreational cannabis legalization and cannabis-related emergency department visits by age, gender, and geographic status in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time series study.
Creators: name: Kim, Chungah
name: Chum, Antony
name: Nielsen, Andrew
name: Allin, Sara
name: Penney, Tarra L
name: Rittenbach, Katherine
name: MacMaster, Frank P
name: O'Campo, Patricia
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research Article
Medicine and health sciences
People and places

description: Legalization of recreational cannabis in Ontario included the legalization of flower and herbs (Phase 1, October 2018), and was followed by the deregulation of cannabis retailers and sales of edibles (Phase 2, February 2020). Research on the impact of cannabis legalization on acute care utilization is nascet; no research has investigated potential age, gender, and geographically vulnerable subgroup effects. Residents living in Northern Ontario not only have higher levels of substance use problems, but also have inadequate access to primary healthcare. Our study investigated the impact of Ontario's recreational cannabis policy (including Phase 1 and 2) on cannabis-attributable emergency department (ED) visits, and estimated the impact separately for different age and gender groups, with additional analyses focused on Northern Ontarians. We created a cohort of adults (18 and over) eligible for provincial universal health insurance with continuous coverage from 2015-2021 (n = 14,900,820). An interrupted time series was used to examine the immediate impact and month-to-month changes in cannabis-related ED visits associated with Phase 1 & 2 for each subgroup. While Northern Ontario has higher rates of cannabis-related ED visits, both Northern and Southern Ontario show similar patterns of changes. Phase 1 was associated with significant increases in adults 25-64, with the strongest increases seen in women 45-64. Month-to-month trends were flattened in most groups compared to pre-legalization. Phase 2 was associated with significant immediate increases for adults aged 18-44 in both genders, but the increases were larger in women than men. No significant month-to-month changes were detected in this period. While current preventive efforts are largely focused on reducing cannabis-related harms in youths and younger adults, our results show that adults 25-64, particularly women, have been significantly impacted by cannabis policies. Further research on gender-specific cannabis dosage and targeted interventions for adult women should be investigated. Legalization did not appear to have a differential impact on Northern versus Southern Ontario, but higher rates of ED visits in the North should be addressed.
Pharmacophore-based virtual screening, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics studies for the discovery of novel FLT3 inhibitors
Creators: name: Ouassaf, Mebarka
name: Daoui, Ossama
name: Alam, Sarfaraz
name: Elkhattabi, Souad
name: Belaidi, Salah
name: Chtita, Samir
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: FLT3 is considered a potential target of acute myeloid leukemia therapy. In this study, we applied a computer-aided methodology unifying molecular docking and pharmacophore screening to identify potent inhibitors against FLT3. To investigate the pharmacophore area and binding mechanism of FLT3, the reported co-crystallized Gilteritinib ligand was docked into the active site using Glide XP. Based on the docking results, we identified structure-based pharmacophore characteristics resistant to potent FLT3 inhibitors. The best hypothesis was corroborated using test and decoy sets, and the verified hypo was utilized to screen the chemical database. The hits from the pharmacophore-based screening were then screened again using a structure-based method that included molecular docking at various precisions; the selected molecules were further examined and refined using drug-like filters and ADMET analysis. Finally, two hits were picked out for molecular dynamic simulation. The results showed two hits were expected to have potent inhibitory activity and excellent ADMET characteristics, and they might be used as new leads in the development of FLT3 inhibitors. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Additional file 5 of Is Postural Control Affected in People with Patellofemoral Pain and Should it be Part of Rehabilitation? A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Nunes, Guilherme S.
name: Rodrigues, Diênifer Zilmer
name: Hörbe, Luiza
name: Prates, Izabela
name: Tessarin, Bruna M.
name: Serrão, Fábio V.
name: de Noronha, Marcos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 5. Study characteristics.
Deformable Graph Matching
Creators: name: Zhou, Feng
name: Torre, Fernando De La
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph matching (GM) is a fundamental problem in computer science, and it has been successfully applied to many problems in computer vision. Although widely used, existing GM algorithms cannot incorporate global consistence among nodes, which is a natural constraint in computer vision problems. This paper proposes deformable graph matching (DGM), an extension of GM for matching graphs subject to global rigid and non-rigid geometric constraints. The key idea of this work is a new factorization of the pair-wise affinity matrix. This factorization decouples the affinity matrix into the local structure of each graph and the pair-wise affinity edges. Besides the ability to incorporate global geometric transformations, this factorization offers three more benefits. First, there is no need to compute the costly (in space and time) pair-wise affinity matrix. Second, it provides a unified view of many GM methods and extends the standard iterative closest point algorithm. Third, it allows to use the path-following optimization algorithm that leads to improved optimization strategies and matching performance. Experimental results on synthetic and real databases illustrate how DGM outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms for GM. The code is available at http://humansensing.cs.cmu.edu/fgm
A Rich Spectrum of Neural Field Dynamics in the Presence of Short-Term Synaptic Depression
Creators: name: Wang, He
name: Lam, Kin
name: Fung, C. C. Alan
name: Wong, K. Y. Michael
name: Wu, Si
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In continuous attractor neural networks (CANNs), spatially continuous information such as orientation, head direction, and spatial location is represented by Gaussian-like tuning curves that can be displaced continuously in the space of the preferred stimuli of the neurons. We investigate how short-term synaptic depression (STD) can reshape the intrinsic dynamics of the CANN model and its responses to a single static input. In particular, CANNs with STD can support various complex firing patterns and chaotic behaviors. These chaotic behaviors have the potential to encode various stimuli in the neuronal system.
Daniele Comberiati - Chiara Mengozzi (eds.), Storie condivise nell’Italia contemporanea. Narrazioni e performance transculturali
Creators: name: Bonasia, Mattia
Publisher: name: Between
Year: 2023

description: Recensione del libro Storie condivise nell'Italia contemporanea. Narrazioni e performance transculturali a cura di Daniele Comberiati e Chiara Mengozzi.
description: Between, V. 13 N. 25 (2023): La narrativa illustrata fra Ottocento e Novecento
Negatively Correlated Search
Creators: name: Tang, Ke
name: Yang, Peng
name: Yao, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have been shown to be powerful tools for complex optimization problems, which are ubiquitous in both communication and big data analytics. This paper presents a new EA, namely Negatively Correlated Search (NCS), which maintains multiple individual search processes in parallel and models the search behaviors of individual search processes as probability distributions. NCS explicitly promotes negatively correlated search behaviors by encouraging differences among the probability distributions (search behaviors). By this means, individual search processes share information and cooperate with each other to search diverse regions of a search space, which makes NCS a promising method for non-convex optimization. The cooperation scheme of NCS could also be regarded as a novel diversity preservation scheme that, different from other existing schemes, directly promotes diversity at the level of search behaviors rather than merely trying to maintain diversity among candidate solutions. Empirical studies showed that NCS is competitive to well-established search methods in the sense that NCS achieved the best overall performance on 20 multimodal (non-convex) continuous optimization problems. The advantages of NCS over state-of-the-art approaches are also demonstrated with a case study on the synthesis of unequally spaced linear antenna arrays.
Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, density functional theory study, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of curcumin and alanine-curcumin Schiff base
Creators: name: Layaida, Houdheifa
name: Hellal, Abdelkader
name: Chafai, Nadjib
name: Haddadi, Ines
name: Imene, Kirouani
name: Anis, Bouchama
name: Mouna, ElKolli
name: Bensouici, Chawki
name: Sobhi, Widad
name: Attoui, Ayoub
name: Lilia, Adjissi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In this work, a novel Schiff-base derived from curcumin and L-Alanine was synthesized under microwave conditions in excellent yield. The structural characterization has been carried out from their elemental analyses, FTIR, UV–Vis and 13C-NMR and 1H-NMR spectral techniques. The Schiff base (Cur-Ala) and curcumin (Cur) have been screened for their antimicrobial activity toward some pathogens clinically important microorganisms: Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus, Aspergillus niger and Candida albicans. Result found that the Schiff base was more active than the curcumin. The antibacterial and antifungal activities of Cur-Ala can be attributed to its greatest dipole moment, as shown by theoretical calculations. Also, the antioxidant activity of Schiff base and curcumin were studied by DPPH, cupric ion reducing antioxidant capacity and o-phenanthroline techniques. Results indicate that Cur-Ala and Cur show more antioxidant activities than the standard antioxidants (BHT and BHA). Quantum chemical parameter calculations of Cur-Ala and Cur have been investigated by DFT using B3LYP/6-31G (d,p) basis set method to calculate the optimized structure, atomic charges, MESP, global reactivity descriptors and thermomolecular proprieties of both molecules. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Designing Programming Languages for Manufacturing Cells
Creators: name: Bourne, David Alan
name: Fussell, Paul
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A manufacturing cell is a complex collection of machines and electronics which must be intelligently supervised. It should be flexible enough to readily adapt to different part styles and robust enough to operate
without human assistance for reasonable periods of time. A programming language with a correct choice of
language properties can make meeting these demands and others like them a manageable programming task.
A rule based language in conjunction with a set of grammatical constraints supervises a cell which
manufactures turbine blade pre-forms. The non-procedural nature of the language provides considerable
flexibility in the operation of the cell. The rules are executed in no particular sequence, but rather as the cell
is ready for them. Unfortunately, the non-procedural approach allows for unplanned interactions between
rules. Most of these interactions can be avoided by defining which rules can operate concurrently. The
language is logically linked to the pre-form cell through a simple database management system. The database
system maintains a model of the cell used by the language interpreter to decide which rules to execute. This
database system also protects the cell programmer from the low level programming details (e.g.,
communication protocols).
Coulomb energy of uniformly-charged spheroidal shell systems
Creators: name: Jadhao, Vikram
name: Yao, Zhenwei
name: Thomas, Creighton K.
name: de la Cruz, Monica Olvera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide exact expressions for the electrostatic energy of uniformly-charged prolate and oblate spheroidal shells. We find that uniformly-charged prolate spheroids of eccentricity greater than 0.9 have lower Coulomb energy than a sphere of the same area. For the volume-constrained case, we find that a sphere has the highest Coulomb energy among all spheroidal shells. Further, we derive the change in the Coulomb energy of a uniformly-charged shell due to small, area-conserving perturbations on the spherical shape. Our perturbation calculations show that buckling-type deformations on a sphere can lower the Coulomb energy. Finally, we consider the possibility of counterion condensation on the spheroidal shell surface. We employ a Manning-Oosawa two-state model approximation to evaluate the renormalized charge and analyze the behavior of the equilibrium free energy as a function of the shell's aspect ratio for both area-constrained and volume-constrained cases. Counterion condensation is seen to favor the formation of spheroidal structures over a sphere of equal area for high values of shell volume fractions.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, Accepted in Physical Review E
Loops in SU(2), Riemann Surfaces, and Factorization, I
Creators: name: Basor, Estelle
name: Pickrell, Doug
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E67

description: In previous work we showed that a loop $g\colon S^1 \to {\rm SU}(2)$ has a triangular factorization if and only if the loop $g$ has a root subgroup factorization. In this paper we present generalizations in which the unit disk and its double, the sphere, are replaced by a based compact Riemann surface with boundary, and its double. One ingredient is the theory of generalized Fourier-Laurent expansions developed by Krichever and Novikov. We show that a ${\rm SU}(2)$ valued multiloop having an analogue of a root subgroup factorization satisfies the condition that the multiloop, viewed as a transition function, defines a semistable holomorphic ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb C)$ bundle. Additionally, for such a multiloop, there is a corresponding factorization for determinants associated to the spin Toeplitz operators defined by the multiloop.