cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Depositional architecture and processes of sediment gravity flows: a 3D seismic case study from offshore Angola
Creators: name: Olafiranye, Kehinde
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Deepwater environments are characterised by the deposits of mass flows (e.g. debrites, slumps, slides), sediment density flows (turbidites), and background hemipelagic and pelagic suspension fallout. ‘Mass transport’ is a general term used for the failure and downslope movement of sediment under the influence of gravity in both subaerial and subaqueous environments, the products of which are called Mass Transport Deposits (MTDs). The aims of this study are: (i) to investigate the temporal and spatial development of sediment gravity flows, particularly the coupling of MTDs, turbidites and hemipelagites (ii) to characterise and interpret the seismic facies present within a well-imaged deep-water succession, offshore Angola, with particular focus on the external morphology and distribution of MTDs and associated sediment gravity flows; (iii) to document the geometry, scale, distribution and kinematic importance of structures within the MTDs and relate these to the emplacement of these deposits, in order to understand the impact of seafloor bathymetry on the distribution of the deep-water deposits; and (iv) to characterise and classify the development of pockmarks that are formed contemporaneously or successive to the emplacement of the MTDs. Key results of this study are that: (1) the grade of the submarine slope is a primary intra-basinal control on the emplacement and depositional patterns of MTDs and associated sediment gravity flows, (2) the emplacement of MTDs in upper slope environments promotes the capturing and trapping of sediments, (3) strain indicators genetically linked to MTDs record kinematic information related to the initiation, translation and ultimate deposition of the MTDs, (4) pockmarks may develop from the dewatering of MTDs due to their rapid transportation and consequent entrapment of fluid, and (5) the distribution of pockmarks in slope sediments may be haphazard, but pockmarks may also form preferentially along fault traces and along the evacuation planes of MTDs.
Time-Delay at Higher Genus in High-Energy Open String Scattering
Creators: name: Kuroki, Tsunehide
name: Rey, Soo-Jong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore some aspects of causal time-delay in open string scattering studied recently by Seiberg, Susskind and Toumbas. By examining high-energy scattering amplitudes at higher order in perturbation theory, we argue that causal time-delay at G-th order is 1/(G+1) times smaller than the time-delay at tree level. We propose a space-time interpretation of the result by utilizing the picture of the high-energy open string scattering put forward by Gross and Manes. We argue that the phenomenon of reduced time-delay is attributed to the universal feature of the space-time string trajectory in high-energy scattering that string shape at higher order remains the same as that at tree level but overall scale is reduced. We also discuss implications to the space-time uncertainty principle and make brief comments on causal time-delay behavior in space/time noncommutative field theory.
description: v1. 15 pages, 1 eps figure, v2. typos, v3. typos/references added, v4. version in Phys. Lett. B
Dilatonic p-brane solitons
Creators: name: Lu, H.
name: Pope, C. N.
name: Sezgin, E.
name: Stelle, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find new 4-brane and 5-brane solitons in massive gauged $D=6$, $N=2$ and $D=7$, $N=1$ supergravities. In each case, the solutions preserve half of the original supersymmetry. These solutions make use of the metric and dilaton fields only. We also present more general dilatonic $(D-2)$-branes in $D$ dimensions.
description: 9 pages, Latex, no figures
MOESM1 of Derivation of the economic value of R0 for macroparasitic diseases and application to sea lice in salmon
Creators: name: Janssen, Kasper
name: Komen, Hans
name: Saatkamp, Helmut
name: Jong, Mart
name: Bijma, Piter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig.Â S1. Frequency of treatments (a) and the mean number of parasites per host (b) when the level of expenditures is optimized for the value of R0 in the numerical example. When the level of expenditures is optimized for the value of R0 in the numerical example, the frequency of treatments and the mean number of parasites per host both decrease at an increasing rate as R0 decreases. As a result, E and L both decrease at an increasing rate as R0 decreases, hence the economic value increases as R0 decreases.
Confinement and the Short Type I' Flux Tube
Creators: name: Chaudhuri, Shyamoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the recent world-sheet analysis of the quantum fluctuations of a short flux tube in type II string theory leads to a simple and precise description of a pair of stuck D0branes in an orientifold compactification of the type I' string theory. The existence of a stable type I' flux tube of sub-string-scale length is a consequence of the confinement of quantized flux associated with the scalar dualized ten-form background field strength *F_{10}, evidence for a -2brane in the BPS spectrum of M theory. Using heterotic-type I duality, we infer the existence of an M2brane of finite width O(\sqrt{α'}) in M-theory, the strong coupling resolution of a spacetime singularity in the D=9 twisted and toroidally compactified E_8 x E_8 heterotic string. This phenomenon has a bosonic string analog in the existence of a stable short electric flux tube arising from the confinement of photons due to tachyon field dynamics. The appendix clarifies the appearance of nonperturbative states and enhanced gauge symmetry in toroidal compactifications of the type I' string. We account for all of the known disconnected components of the moduli space of theories with sixteen supercharges, in striking confirmation of heterotic-type I duality.
description: Extended discussion on pgs.11,17. Footnote 5 and references 6,7,19 are changed. Mis-spelled author names corrected, acknowledgments added. Latex, 20 pages
Characterisation and purification of an aggrecanase made by injured synovium
Creators: name: Rana, Faisal
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Freshly dissected porcine synovial tissue in culture produces an enzymatic activity that cleaves cartilage aggrecan generating ARGS- and AGEG- bearing neo-epitope fragments. The aggrecanolytic activity was abolished when synovial tissue was cultured in the presence of cycloheximide. The enzyme(s) were sensitive to N-terminal inhibitory domain of tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase (N-TIMP-3) and general matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor (GM6001) suggesting they may belong to a disintegrin and metalloproteinase (ADAM) or ADAM with thrombospondin motifs (ADAMTS) family of enzymes. Cation exchange chromatography was used to partially purify aggrecanase(s) from synovial tissue culture medium (SYCM). Two active species have been separated from the partially purified material using size-exclusion chromatography. The smaller species had a molecular weight of 35-40 kDa while the larger enzyme had an apparent molecular weight greater than 2000 kDa. Low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP1) didn’t appear to be involved in the formation of higher molecular weight complex. The smaller species was further chromatographed on a SMART mono Q column. The sequential chromatography gave approximately 400-fold enrichment of the enzyme. The concentration of the enzyme was estimated by titration with recombinant N-TIMP-3, which was expressed and purified from E.coli. The N-TIMP-3 was electrostatically coupled to Ni2+ agarose beads. The beads were then used to affinity purify the enzyme from mono Q fractions. The affinity-purified material was electrophoresed and protein bands were selected for mass spectrometry. No ADAMTS enzyme was identified in the candidate bands. Further improvements will be made to the purification procedure to identify the synovial aggrecanase.
Ephemera Linnaeus, 1758, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Ephemeroptera
Ephemeridae
Ephemera

description: Ephemera [gen. nov.]
Os edentulum absque palpis.
Alae erectae: posticis minimis.
Cauda saepius setosa.
* Cauda triseta.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 546, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Oral history interview with Mimi, 1981
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Drug addicts--United States
Imprisonment--United States
Drug traffic--History--20th century.--United States
Drug abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Heroin abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Methadone maintenance--History--20th century.--United States
Prostitution--History--20th century.--United States

description: In this interview, Mimi discusses her life with special attention towards her drug use. She describes her various jobs including housekeeper, babysitter, farmer, cook, professional dancer, bartender, waitress, hospital attendant, sex worker, and inspector in a defense plant. She describes how she began using heroin in 1950 after marrying her second husband who was a heroin addict. She discusses the fluctuations in the price of heroin over the 1950s and 1960s, and the transition from caps to bags of heroin in the late 1950s. She describes in detail her experience engaging in sex work including her typical day, her clientele, and her earnings. She explains her various attempts to detox, both independently, using Dolophines, and in Manhattan General Hospital. Mimi discusses her arrest history and the time she spent incarcerated at the Women's House of Detention. She discusses joining the methadone program, and how the program has changed over time
Inference on P(Y < X) Based on Ranked Set Sample for Generalized Pareto Distribution
Creators: name: Chacko, Manoj
name: Mathew, Shiny
Publisher: name: Statistica
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, the problem of estimation of R = P(Y < X) based on ranked set sampling, when (X,Y) follows generalised Pareto distribution (GPD) is considered. The maximum likelihood (ML) estimators and Bayes estimators of R are obtained. A Monte Carlo simulation is also performed to study the behaviour of different estimators.
description: Statistica, Vol. 81 No. 4 (2021)
Black Hole Condensation and the Web of Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Creators: name: Chiang, Ti-ming
name: Greene, Brian R.
name: Gross, Mark
name: Kanter, Yakov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent work concerning topology changing phase transitions through black hole condensation in Type II string theory. We then also briefly describe a present study aimed at extending the known web of interconnections between Calabi-Yau manifolds. We show, for instance, that all 7555 Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in weighted projective four space are mathematically connected by extremal transitions.
description: 23 pages, 3 postscript figures, uses vanilla.sty, harvmac
Computing Representatives of Persistent Homology Generators with a Double Twist
Creators: name: Pham, Tuyen
name: Wagner, Hubert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the growing availability of efficient tools, persistent homology is becoming a useful methodology in a variety of applications. Significant work has been devoted to implementing tools for persistent homology diagrams; however, computing representative cycles corresponding to each point in the diagram can still be inefficient. To circumvent this problem, we extend the twist algorithm of Chen and Kerber. Our extension is based on a new technique we call saving, which supplements their existing killing technique. The resulting two-pass strategy can be realized using an existing matrix reduction implementation as a black-box and improves the efficiency of computing representatives of persistent homology generators. We prove the correctness of the new approach and experimentally show its performance.
Anthribidae
Creators: name: Trýzna, Miloš
name: Baňař, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae

description: The previously confused genera Anhelita, Lemurisintor and Sintor can be distinguished using the morphological characters given in the following key:
1 Rostrum at least as long as wide, but usually much longer than wide, lateral margins of rostrum expanded apically........ 2
- Rostrum approximately twice as wide as long, lateral margins of rostrum almost parallel, widest in midline of rostrum, then slightly narrowed apically (Figs 72–83)......................................................... Lemurisintor
2 Tarsomere 1 conspicuously long, as long as length of other tarsomeres combined. Claws without teeth. Antennae of males shorter, not extending beyond posterior margin of pronotum. Pronotum as wide as long or only slightly transverse, posterior margin of pronotum more or less as wide as anterior margin (Figs 1–28).................................. Anhelita
- Tarsomere 1 shorter than length of other tarsomeres combined. Claws with teeth. Antennae of males longer, extending well beyond posterior margin of pronotum. Pronotum distinctly transverse, posterior margin of pronotum at least 1.3x as wide as anterior margin (Figs 29–71)....................................................................... Sintor
description: Published as part of Trýzna, Miloš & Baňař, Petr, 2025, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Malagasy species of Anhelita Jordan, Lemurisintor Frieser and Sintor Schoenherr (Anthribidae: Coleoptera), pp. 301-325 in Zootaxa 5621 (3) on page 302, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5621.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15262745
CYRENE Policy Brief No 1
Creators: name: CYRENE Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Supply Chain Services, SCS, security, assessment, certification, ENISA, Security Management System, conformity, EUSCS, EUCC, European Digital Single Market

description: This Policy Brief is addressed to Policy makers working in Supply Chain Services (SCS) security issues including privacy, accountability, resilience, cybersecurity certification, conformity assessment and cyber risk assessment. Key insights that are elaborated in the document are the following: In the literature the definition of Supply Chain Services (SCS) is not clear. The security of Supply Chain Services is most important for the trustworthiness of the European Digital Single Market (DSM). Certifying the security of SCS is an important mitigation measure for bringing confidence to global digital markets EUCC scheme (Common Criteria based European candidate cybersecurity certification scheme) proposed by ENISA was used by CYRENE to propose the EUSCS (Common Criteria based cybersecurity certification scheme for the Supply Chain Services) A collaborative online Security Management System for the SCS (SCS-ISMS) can serve as an accelerator in the SCS risk and conformity assessment processes, necessary in the certification.
description: {"references": ["ENISA, \"Cybersecurity Certification EUCC, a candidate cybersecurity certification scheme to serve as a successor to the existing SOG-IS\", v1.1.1, May 2021, Online available: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/cybersecurity-certification-eucc-candidate-scheme-v1-1.1, accessed on May 27 2021", "ENISA, \"EUCS \u2013 Cloud Service Scheme: a candidate cybersecurity certification scheme for cloud services\". Online available: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/eucs-cloud-service-scheme, accessed on April 29 2021", "Supply chain attacks (ENISA 2021), Online Available: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa-news/understanding-the-increase-in-supply-chain-security-attacks"]}
Quantum dynamics of N=1, D=4 supergravity chiral compensator
Creators: name: Buchbinder, I. L.
name: Petrov, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new four-dimensional $N=1$ superfield model is suggested. The model is induced by supertrace anomaly of matter superfields in curved superspace and leads to effective theory of supergravity chiral compensator. A renormalization structure of this model is studied, one-loop counterterms are calculated and renormalization group equations are investigated. It is shown that the theory under consideration is infrared free.
Additional file 1: of Exclusivity offers a sound yet practical species criterion for bacteria despite abundant gene flow
Creators: name: Wright, Erik
name: Baum, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental Figures S1-S5. (PDF 143 kb)
Environmental Impact Assessment and Optimization of Urban Energy Systems
Creators: name: Papaioannou, Nicole
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Over the last century, the world has witnessed rapidly increasing urbanization trends. Consequently, the urban governments of this époque require the measure and monitoring of their cities’ expansion, as well as the impacts that this development has on the environment, the economy and the society. The energy sector in particular, plays a determining role in maintaining acceptable conditions in all these domains. The concept of sustainable development appears to combine a number of disciplines, which assess it in different manners. This research attempts to show how a combination of methods can provide further insight to a city’s energy system. More specifically, the concepts of life cycle assessment and mixed-integer optimization are brought together and applied to a hypothetical urban energy systems case study looking at three different environmental impacts: global warming potential, resource depletion and air quality. The model chooses the types of energy technologies that are most suitable when aiming to minimize each environmental impact, showing that a carefully selected energy systems design can perhaps achieve lower overall environmental impact within an urban area. Life cycle assessment, material flow analysis and ecological footprint methodologies are further performed on two case studies: a UK eco-town and the city of Toronto. Five energy technology scenarios are compared based on these environmental impact assessment methodologies and conclusions drawn as to which scenario achieves the lowest values. Attention is drawn to stakeholder involvement and how interpretation of environmental impact is “vulnerable” depending to which priorities are set.
The Hubble Space Telescope Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project. X. The Cepheid Distance to NGC 7331
Creators: name: Project, H0 Key
name: :
name: Hughes, Shaun M. G.
name: Han, Mingsheng
name: Hoessel, John
name: Freedman, Wendy L.
name: Kennicutt, Robert C.
name: Mould, Jeremy. R.
name: Saha, Abi
name: Stetson, Peter B.
name: Madore, Barry F.
name: Silbermann, Nancy A.
name: Harding, Paul
name: Ferrarese, Laura
name: Ford, Holland
name: Gibson, Brad K.
name: Graham, John A.
name: Hill, Robert
name: Huchra, John
name: Illingworth, Garth D.
name: Phelps, Randy
name: Sakai, Shoko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distance to NGC 7331 has been derived from Cepheid variables observed with HST/WFPC2, as part of the Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project. Multi-epoch exposures in F555W (V) and F814W (I), with photometry derived independently from DoPHOT and DAOPHOT/ALLFRAME programs, were used to detect a total of 13 reliable Cepheids, with periods between 11 and 42 days. The relative distance moduli between NGC 7331 and the LMC, imply an extinction to NGC 7331 of A_V = 0.47+-0.15 mag, and an extinction-corrected distance modulus to NGC 7331 of 30.89+-0.14(random) mag, equivalent to a distance of 15.1 Mpc. There are additional systematic uncertainties in the distance modulus of +-0.12 mag due to the calibration of the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation, and a systematic offset of +0.05+-0.04 mag if we applied the metallicity correction inferred from the M101 results of Kennicutt et al 1998.
description: To be published in The Astrophysical Journal, 1998 July 1, v501 note: Figs 1 and 2 (JPEG files) and Fig 7 (multipage .eps file) need to be viewed/printed separately
Asymptotic Properties of the Semi-Parametric Estimators of the Conditional Density for Functional Data in the Single Index Model with Missing Data at Random
Creators: name: Rabhi, Abbes
name: Kadiri, Nadia
name: Mekki, Sanaà Dounya
Publisher: name: Statistica
Year: 2022

description: The main objective of this work is to estimate, semi-parametrically, the mode of a conditional density when the response is a real valued random variable subject to censored phenomenon and the predictor takes values in a semi-metric space. We assume that the explanatory and the response variables are linked through a single-index structure. First, we introduce a type of kernel estimator of the conditional density function when the data are supposed to be selected from an underlying stationary and ergodic process with missing at random (MAR). Under some general conditions, both the uniform almost-complete consistencies with convergence rates of the model are established. Further, the asymptotic normality of the considered model is given. As an application, the asymptotic (1−α) confidence interval of the conditional density function and the conditional mode are also presented for 0 < α < 1.
description: Statistica, Vol. 81 No. 4 (2021)
Evolution of convective characteristics during tropical cyclogenesis
Creators: name: Kilroy, Gerard
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Year: 2021

description: Four idealized, high‐resolution (500 m horizontal grid spacing), numerical simulations are used to investigate the evolution of convective structures during tropical cyclogenesis. The simulations all begin with a weak initial axisymmetric cloud‐free vortex in a quiescent environment, but differ in the moisture level of the initial sounding and whether or not ice microphysical processes are considered. Irrespective of experimental setup, there is only a short period where shallow or congestus clouds dominate. The shallow cloud phase is slightly extended with the drier initial environmental sounding. The composite structure of the convective elements sampled changes markedly throughout the genesis period. For much of the genesis phase, vertical profiles of the mean convective cell show significant amounts of anticyclonic vorticity produced in cells in the inner core. Towards the end of the genesis phase, there is a large increase in the production of cyclonic vertical vorticity in inner‐core convection, and cyclonic vorticity becomes dominant at low‐mid levels. The evolution from roughly equal strength vertical profiles of cyclonic/anticyclonic vorticity at low‐mid levels to profiles where cyclonic vorticity dominates occurs at relatively low system wind speeds (Vmax less than 10 m·s−1). This finding indicates a change in the structure of vortical convection prior to rapid intensification. In outer‐core convection, there are roughly equal strength vertical vorticity dipoles produced throughout the genesis period.
description: Four idealized, high‐resolution (500 m horizontal grid spacing), numerical simulations are used to investigate the evolution of convective structures during tropical cyclogenesis. The composite structure of the average convective element sampled changes markedly throughout the genesis period, and towards the end of the genesis phase there is a large increase in the production of cyclonic vertical vorticity in inner‐core convection, which becomes dominant at low‐mid levels. Irrespective of microphysical scheme and environmental sounding used, there is a short period where cumulus congestus clouds dominate, that is, when the mean cloud top is between 5 and 9 km height, a finding which is at odds with a prior theory claiming that tropical cyclogenesis can be viewed as a two‐stage process in which congestus clouds have a large dynamical and thermodynamical contribution at early stages.
description: German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
Extreme precipitation events over northern Italy. Part II: Dynamical precursors
Creators: name: Grazzini, Federico
name: Fragkoulidis, Georgios
name: Teubler, Franziska
name: Wirth, Volkmar
name: Craig, George C.
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year: 2021

description: The connection between weather extremes and Rossby wave packets (RWP) has been increasingly documented in recent years. RWP propagation and characteristics can modulate the midlatitude weather, setting the scene for temperature and precipitation extremes and controlling the geographical area affected. Several studies on extreme precipitation events (EPEs) in the Alpine area reported, as the main triggering factor, a meridionally elongated upper‐level trough as part of an incoming Rossby wave packet. In this work, we investigate a wide number of EPEs occurring between 1979 and 2015 in northern‐central Italy. The EPEs are subdivided into three categories (Cat1, Cat2, Cat3) according to thermodynamic conditions over the affected region. It is found that the three categories differ not only in terms of the local meteorological conditions, but also in terms of the evolution and properties of precursor RWPs. These differences cannot be solely explained by the apparent seasonality of the flow; therefore, the relevant physical processes in the RWP propagation of each case are further investigated. In particular, we show that RWPs associated with the strongest EPEs, namely the ones falling in Cat2, undergo a substantial amplification over the western North Atlantic due to anomalous ridge‐building 2 days before the event; arguably due to diabatic heating sources. This type of development induces a downstream trough which is highly effective in focusing water vapour transport toward the main orographic barriers of northern‐central Italy and favouring the occurrence of EPEs.
description: The EPEs are subdivided into three categories (Cat1, Cat2, Cat3) according to thermodynamic conditions over the affected region. The three categories not only differ locally but also in the evolution of precursor RWPs as visible in the composite Hovmöller plots. RWPs associated with the strongest EPEs, the ones falling in Cat2, undergo a substantial amplification over the west North Atlantic due to anomalous ridge‐building 2 days before the event. This type of development induces a downstream trough which is highly effective in focusing water vapour transport toward the Apennines and the Alps.
description: Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100005722
description: German Research Foundation (DFG)
description: Transregional Collaborative Research Centre
Investigation of the effects of high pressure pulses on biological samples
Creators: name: Bo, Chiara
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: The increase in survivability in modern conflict has been accompanied by an increase in casualties with multiple and complex blast injuries which are associated with long term complications such as heterotopic ossification. Improving treatments for these complications requires the development of a cellular and molecular understanding of the effects of blast on live biological samples which in the past has been limited by the lack of experimental capabilities. This thesis describes the development and characterisation of experimental platforms to study the effects of high intensity pressure waves on cells and tissues. A confined Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) system has been developed, allowing cells in suspension or in a monolayer to be subjected to pressure waves in the order of tens of MPa and duration of hundreds of microseconds. The confinement chamber has been designed to enable recovery of the biological samples for cellular and molecular analysis, such as cell survivability, viability, metabolic activity and morphological changes post compression. The SHPB platform, coupled with quasi-static experiments, has also been used to determine stress-strain curves of porcine skin tissue samples under uniaxial compression at low, medium and high strain rates. Three phenomenological models have been used to fit the experimental data at different strain rates and the results compared. The recovered samples have been examined using histological techniques to study morphological changes induced by uniaxial compression. Finally, a shock tube-bio set up has been developed and characterised to replicate primary blast damage on cell monolayers by generating single air blast in the order of kPa and few milliseconds duration. This platform permits investigation of a different pressure-time regime compared to the SHPB system and to analyse post-traumatic changes induced in biological samples. To conclude, different experimental platforms have been successfully developed to study the effects of pressure pulses on biological samples.
Ephemera vulgata Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Ephemeroptera
Ephemeridae
Ephemera
Ephemera vulgata

description: Ephemera vulgata [spec. nov.]
E. cauda triseta, alis nebuloso-maculatis. Faun. svec. 750.
Habitat in Europae aquis.
Ephemerae Larvae natant in Aquis; volatiles factae brevissimo fruuntur gaudio, sub quo copulentur & pariant.
* * Cauda biseta.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on pages 546-547, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Investigating the mechanisms of influenza polymerase host adaptation
Creators: name: Cauldwell, Anna
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: An avian virus can become adapted to humans by mutating or recombining with currently circulating human viruses. These viruses have the potential to cause pandemics in an immunologically naïve human population. Host restriction involves multiple determinants, however, influenza polymerase is considered to play an important role. The heterotrimeric polymerase complex (PA, PB1 and PB2) associates with viral RNA and nucleoprotein (NP) to form a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex responsible for viral replication and transcription. Host specific genetic signatures have been identified on all of the polymerase subunits and on NP, but the PB2 protein arguably carries the dominant determinants of host range. Avian-origin influenza polymerase activity can be dramatically increased in human cells with the PB2 E627K substitution. This has been suggested to stabilise the interaction between the NP and PB2 components of the vRNP complex in the nuclei of infected cells. However, we demonstrate that a variety of adaptive PB2 substitutions including E627K did not enhance the stability of the vRNP in human cells, but rather increased the amount of replicated RNA, and that resulted in more PB2-NP co-precipitation. The introduction of many adaptive PB2 mutations enhances avian influenza polymerase activity in an in vitro reconstituted polymerase assay. However, only some of these mutations have been detected in viruses that are found circulating in nature. We explored whether the polymerase assay truly predicts viral growth and investigated viral selection pressures that might favour some adaptive mutations over others. We used reverse genetics to create a series of viral variants carrying mutations in the PB2 gene and carried out virological assays and also analysed the effects of the mutations in vivo. Some mutations that increased in vitro polymerase activity led to attenuated virus replication and resulted in an increase in interferon activation. These data increase our understanding of the host range barrier and why certain adaptive mutations may or may not have emerged.
Quartzite procurement in conglomerates and deposits: Geoarchaeological characterization of potential catchment areas in the central part of the Cantabrian Region, Spain
Creators: name: Prieto, Alejandro
name: Yusta, Iñaki
name: García‐Rojas, Maite
name: Arrizabalaga, Alvaro
name: Baena Preysler, Javier
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2021

description: Raw material characterization in Paleolithic archaeology has widened our knowledge of Middle Paleolithic societies. Procurement of raw material, specifically flint, has allowed the tracing of the mobility of both stones and people, as well as selective processes to obtain specific types or even extraction activities. The analysis of quartzite has also developed in recent years, providing an opportunity to better understand prehistoric societies. This study characterizes the procurement strategies implemented by Middle Paleolithic people in the mountainous region of the Picos de Europa. To this end, we present a comprehensive characterization of potential catchment areas: massive outcrops, conglomerates, and river deposits. The exploitation of quartzite at the sites of El Habario and El Arteu allows us to understand the territorial management of this mountainous area through the combination of selective processes and mobility mechanisms in lower and middle altitudes. These perspectives enable us to view the mountainous region not as a barrier but as an environmental mosaic managed by Middle Paleolithic groups. This study shows strategies that bring together direct and embedded procurement based on both intensive and extensive searches. These discourses are more closely related to the daily life of people than those only considering the mobility of people and objects.
description: A comprehensive geoarchaeological research project based on the integration of a geographic information system, field survey, stereomicroscopy, and thin‐section petrography, is presented to characterize potential procurement areas of quartzite. The application of this methodology in the Deva, Cares, and Güeña valleys and in three different geological contexts; massive outcrops, conglomerates, and secondary deposits, suggest potential acquisition processes of lithic resources. The analysis of the quartzite assemblages of El Habario and El Arteu unveils complex management of terrain based on a mobility mechanism that connects middle altitude plateaus with open and lower river valleys, as well as intensive and extensive procurement mechanisms of raw material.
description: Education Department of the Government of the Basque Country
description: The Spanish Ministry of Science Project
description: The Consolidated Research Group in Prehistory of the Basque Country University
Additional file 1 of Retrospective database analysis for clinical diagnoses commonly associated with pneumococcal diseases in the Malaysian healthcare system over a 3-year period (2013–2015)
Creators: name: Sundaramurthy, Saravanan S. R.
name: Allen, Kristen E.
name: Fletcher, Mark A.
name: Liew, Kok Fui
name: Borhanuddin, Boekhtiar
name: Ali, Mohammad
name: Morales, Graciela
name: Gessner, Bradford
name: Naidoo, Jerusha
name: Southern, Jo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Crude incidence rates of pneumococcal meningitis1, pneumococcal pneumonia2, and non-meningitis non-pneumonia pneumococcal disease3 per 100,000 (95% CI) by geographic region, Malaysia 2013-2015. Table S2. Crude mortality rates of pneumococcal meningitis1, pneumococcal pneumonia2, and non-meningitis non-pneumonia pneumococcal disease3 per 100,000 (95% CI) by geographic region and age group, Malaysia 2013-2015.
Oral history interview with Miriam Cohen Glickman, 2002
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Civil rights movements--History--20th century.--United States
Civil rights workers--History--20th century.--Mississippi
African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi

description: Glickman describes her family history, high school experiences, and early interaction with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Glickman recalls growing up in a deeply segregated area of Indianapolis. She describes the hierarchy of her high school and founding a Human Relations Council. After graduating in 1959, Glickman attended Brandeis College. As a senior there, she met Chuck McDew and distributed a petition against the imprisonment of Clyde Kennard. Glickman left Brandeis for Albany, Georgia with Charles Sherrod in 1963. Glickman participated in the Albany Movement, a campaign that challenged all forms of segregation and discrimination in Albany. Glickman describes her experience in the Morgan County Jail. She also recounts the beating of male demonstrators, including C.B. King and Ralph David Abernathy, and sharing a cell with Cathy Cade. Glickman's father came to Albany for the trial and helped break the story in The New York Times. Glickman travelled to Mississippi in the fall of 1963. She describes participating in CORE's Meridian "mock vote" project there. In fall of 1964, Glickman worked at the SNCC offices in Washington, DC under Jack Minnis. Glickman discusses the resistance against the Freedom Summer Program within SNCC and the leadership of Bob Moses. In the summer of 1964, Glickman returned to teach adult literacy. Glickman describes the challenges of returning to Indianapolis. She also describes travelling back to the South, where she met writers Harry Golden and Ralph McMillan. The final portion of the interview is spent discussing the inner workings of SNCC including FBI surveillance, generational tension, and her relationship with Doug (Douglass) Green. Also discussed is her relationships with and opinions of Bob Moses, Stokely Carmichael in Mississippi, and Ruby Doris Smith. This interview is audio-only; it was not transcribed due to issues with audio quality
On Quantum Cohomology Rings for Hypersurfaces in $CP^{N-1}$
Creators: name: Jinzenji, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the torus action method, we construct one variable polynomial representation of quantum cohomology ring for degree $k$ hypersurface in $CP^{N-1}$ . The results interpolate the well-known result of $CP^{N-2}$ model and the one of Calabi-Yau hypersuface in $CP^{N-1}$. We find in $k\leq N-2$ case, principal relation of this ring have very simple form compatible with toric compactification of moduli space of holomorphic maps from $CP^{1}$ to $CP^{N-1}$.
description: 32 pages, Revised version
Conformal superfields and BPS states in AdS_4/7 geometries
Creators: name: Ferrara, Sergio
name: Sokatchev, Emery
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a general analysis of the representations of the superconformal algebras OSp(8/4,R) and OSp(8*/2N) in terms of harmonic superspace. We present a construction of their highest-weight UIR's by multiplication of the different types of massless conformal superfields ("supersingletons"). Particular attention is paid to the so-called "short multiplets". Representations undergoing shortening have "protected dimension" and may correspond to BPS states in the dual supergravity theory in anti-de Sitter space. These results are relevant for the classification of multitrace operators in boundary conformally invariant theories as well as for the classification of AdS black holes preserving different fractions of supersymmetry.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the Euroconference ``Noncommutative geometry and Hopf algebras in field theory and particle physics", Torino, Villa Gualino (Italy), September 20-30, 1999
A Direct Integration Approach to Drive-by Damage Monitoring of Railway Tracks
Creators: name: Keenahan, Jennifer
name: OBrien, Eugene
name: Yifei Ren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Railway tracks can be monitored by visual inspection or, more recently, indirectly using inertial sensors installedin a passing vehicle. Defects in the track such as depressions in the profile or points of low stiffness (e.g. hanging sleepers) interactdynamically with passing vehicles and can be detected with accelerometers and gyrometers. This can be achieved using specialpurpose track recording vehicles or through instrumentation of regular trains in service. It has been shown in previous researchthat an optimisation procedure can be applied to back-calculate track profiles from vehicle-mounted sensor data. This involves finding the profile that gives a best fit to the measured data. In this paper, a new direct integration approach is introduced to find the same track profile in a fraction of the computing time. The Newmark-Beta method is used. Compared with the profile calculated using the optimisation algorithm, the results are similar. However, direct integration is much more efficient than optimisation and allows the calculation to be completed in a fraction of the time. The calculated track profile can be used to estimate points of low stiffness.
Sintorini Lacordaire 1865
Creators: name: Trýzna, Miloš
name: Baňař, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae

description: Tribe Sintorini Lacordaire, 1865
The tribe Sintorini contains ten genera worldwide (Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 1999, Rheinheimer 2004). Two of them occur in Madagascar: Anhelita Jordan, 1895 and Sintor Schoenherr, 1839.
description: Published as part of Trýzna, Miloš & Baňař, Petr, 2025, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Malagasy species of Anhelita Jordan, Lemurisintor Frieser and Sintor Schoenherr (Anthribidae: Coleoptera), pp. 301-325 in Zootaxa 5621 (3) on page 302, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5621.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15262745
On a Class of Time Series Model with Double Lindley Distribution as Marginals
Creators: name: Nitha, Kunnathully Unnikrishnan
name: Krishnarani, Sreekrishnanilayam Devakiamma
Publisher: name: Statistica
Year: 2022

description: An autoregressive process of order one with double Lindley distribution as marginal is introduced. A mixture distribution is obtained for the innovation process. Analytical properties of the process are discussed. The parameters of the process are estimated and simulation studies are done. Practical application of the process is discussed with the help of a real data set.
description: Statistica, Vol. 81 No. 4 (2021)
Additional file 4: of Sickle cell disease, sickle trait and the risk for venous thromboembolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Noubiap, Jean
name: Mazou Temgoua
name: Tankeu, Ronni
name: Tochie, Joel
name: Wonkam, Ambroise
name: Bigna, Jean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Figure S3. Risk of DVT in individuals with sickle cell trait vs controls (PDF 5 kb)
Ultrafast measurements in condensed matter
Creators: name: Okell, William
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: In this thesis I describe the development of an apparatus for performing attosecond photoelectron measurements in condensed matter, and the completion of attosecond streaking measurements on metal films using the apparatus. A commercial Ti:sapphire chirped pulse amplification laser system was used to generate 28fs, 2.5mJ pulses with a central wavelength of 790nm and a 1kHz repetition rate. These pulses were post-compressed using a hollow fibre system. The resulting few-cycle pulses had sub-4fs duration, and 0.4mJ energy. Diagnostics performed on the hollow fibre system revealed ionisation induced carrier-envelope phase fluctuations at input pulse energies in excess of 1mJ. These fluctuations were avoided for attosecond experiments by careful choice of the experimental parameters. The few-cycle pulses were used to generate isolated attosecond pulses through high-harmonic generation, in an amplitude-gating scheme. An ultra-high vacuum compatible two-part extreme-ultraviolet multilayer mirror setup was developed for attosecond streaking measurements on surfaces. The base pressure in the experimental chamber is 3 × 10^−9 mbar. Attosecond streaking measurements were performed on amorphous WO3 and polycrystalline Au, without any prior surface cleaning. The results indicate the applicability of attosecond streaking to a very general class of solid state samples. In WO3 the 4f photoemission precedes the valence photoemission by 140 ± 190as. In gold, possible signatures of plasmon dynamics were detected.
Adsorptive Heat Transformation Calculation Scripts
Creators: name: Velte-Schäfer, Andreas
name: Teicht, Christian
name: Stahlhut, Maximilian
name: May, Thomas
name: Herrmann, Ralph
name: Urbaneck, Thorsten
name: Füldner, Gerrit
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: adsorption chiller
subject: heat transformation
subject: numerical model
subject: DDC::600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften

description: Scripts for calculating adsorption chillers and adsorptive heat transformers with basic adsorption heat exchanger theory equations including examples. Scripts may be used with R 4.3.0 https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ in combination with RStudio https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/