cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Using Error Decay Prediction to Overcome Practical Issues of Deep Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition
Creators: name: Chang, Haw-Shiuan
name: Vembu, Shankar
name: Mohan, Sunil
name: Uppaal, Rheeya
name: McCallum, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing deep active learning algorithms achieve impressive sampling efficiency on natural language processing tasks. However, they exhibit several weaknesses in practice, including (a) inability to use uncertainty sampling with black-box models, (b) lack of robustness to labeling noise, and (c) lack of transparency. In response, we propose a transparent batch active sampling framework by estimating the error decay curves of multiple feature-defined subsets of the data. Experiments on four named entity recognition (NER) tasks demonstrate that the proposed methods significantly outperform diversification-based methods for black-box NER taggers, and can make the sampling process more robust to labeling noise when combined with uncertainty-based methods. Furthermore, the analysis of experimental results sheds light on the weaknesses of different active sampling strategies, and when traditional uncertainty-based or diversification-based methods can be expected to work well.
description: This is a pre-print of an article published in Springer Machine Learning journal. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-020-05897-1
Plasmonic Sensing via Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopies
Creators: name: Carnegie, Cloudy
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: plasmonics
sensing
nanoparticle

description: The research reported in this thesis focuses on the high field localisation formed in the nanometric gaps between gold nanoparticles. Sub-wavelength sized nanoparticles irradiated with light support electron oscillations known as plasmons, and coupling of plasmons between adjacent nanoparticles leads to hot-spots of high field enhancements in the gaps between them. The scattering processes of molecules placed in these gaps is drastically enhanced by the hot-spot, a technique utilised in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). This thesis focuses on the optimisation of the SERS signals from these gaps. What is the limiting volume we can observe and what does this tell us about molecular interactions on the single-atom scale? Two types of nanostructure are utilised in this thesis for formation of nanometric gaps: long chain nano-aggregates and single junction nanoparticle-on-mirror structures. The first part of this thesis explores the use of nano-aggregates for plasmonic sensing via SERS. A key parameter to control is the gap distance between adjacent nanoparticles. Here the barrel-shaped cucubit[n]uril macromolecules are utilised. I show how nano-aggregates formed with CB[n] spacer molecules can be used for robust drug sensing of synthetic cannabi- noids down to the nanomolar regime through use of reliable gap distances in conjunction with principal component analysis (PCA) algorithms. I also show how depositing aggregates onto a substrate can effect both the inelastic and elastic scattering, through mapping the signals across a 12 × 12 μm area, demonstrating that although placing aggregates on a gold substrate can enhance the recorded signals, it is the inter-nanoparticle hotspots which dominate the signal. In the second part of this thesis I look at the subtleties of metal-molecule dynamics at single junctions formed in the nanoparticle-on-mirror (NPoM) construct. The nanoparticle- on-mirror construct comprises of a single nanoparticle spaced above a flat gold film by a molecular spacer layer. Here the spacer layers are self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) which form a robust coverage of the metal film. I show that ‘picocavities (atomic protrusions from the gold surface) can be observed and studied at room temperature. A key finding is the discovery and characterisation of new ‘flare modes’ which are millisecond increases in light intensity, shown to likely come from regions of reduced local plasma frequency, indicative of a nanoparticle grain boundary.
MOESM1 of Maternal exposure to farming environment protects offspring against allergic diseases by modulating the neonatal TLR-Tregs-Th axis
Creators: name: Yu, Jinyan
name: Liu, Xiaoqiu
name: Li, Yanlei
name: Meng, Shanshan
name: Wu, Fei
name: Yan, Bingdi
name: Xue, Yanjun
name: Ma, Tiangang
name: Yang, Junling
name: Liu, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supporting information.
Analytical description of quantum emission in optical analogues to gravity
Creators: name: Jacquet, Maxime J
name: Koenig, Friedrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a moving refractive index perturbation in an optical medium as an optical analogue to waves under the influence of gravity. We describe the dielectric medium by the Lagrangian of the Hopfield model. We supplement the field theory in curved spacetime for this model to solve the scattering problem for all modes and frequencies analytically. Because of dispersion, the kinematic scenario of the field modes may contain optical event horizons for some frequencies. We calculate the spectra of spontaneous emission in the frame co-moving with the perturbation and in the laboratory frame. We also calculate the spectrally-resolved photon number correlations in either frame. The emitted multimode field comes in different types depending on the presence of horizons. We show that these types are robust against changes in the system parameters and thus are genuine features of optical and non-optical analogues. These methods and findings pave the way to new observations of analogue gravity in dispersive systems.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, comments are welcome! Accepted for publication at Physical Review A. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1709.03100
Effect of Naturally Occurring DNA Modifications on DNA Structure and Packaging
Creators: name: LI, ZHE
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: nucleosome
DNA Modifications
DNA Structure
DNA Packaging

description: In eukaryotes, the genomic double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) coils around histones to form nucleosomes. Arrays of these nucleosomes bundle together to generate chromatin. Most DNA-related processes require interactions between chromatin-protected DNA and cellular machinery. Access of cell machinery to genomic DNA is partially regulated by the position and stability of nucleosomes, which may be influenced by changes in nucleosomal DNA. DNA is composed of adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), thymine (T) nucleotides and their derivatives. It has been shown that some C derivatives participate in directing multiple biological processes, and aberrant modification patterns are often linked to diseases. It has been proposed that T derivatives exhibit similar effects. This thesis focuses on elucidating the effect of naturally occurring DNA modifications on the properties of dsDNA and nucleosomes. dsDNA sequences systematically modified with various T derivatives were characterized using classical biophysical techniques to assess the effect of these DNA modifications. The results indicate that in the sequence context studied, 5-hydroxymethyluracil modifications destabilize dsDNA, while dense symmetrical 5-formyluracil (fU) modifications alter the dsDNA structure. These effects may provide clues to the differential protein recruitment observed in previous research. In vitro studies on nucleosome occupancy and stability revealed that 5-formylcytosine (fC) modifications have positive effects on nucleosome formation and stability compared to the unmodified counterpart by influencing the intrinsic biochemical and biophysical properties of the nucleosomes. These results provide casual links for the observation in vivo between fC and the increased nucleosome occupancy and positioning. In order to further understand the positional effect of fC on the nucleosomes, a method was developed for quick and reliable incorporation of C derivatives into dsDNA at desired positions. The positive effect of fC modifications on nucleosome occupancy and stability observed here has necessitated further studies to gain deeper insights into the biological functions of fC in the nucleosome context. Cryo-EM can be used to elucidate the structural foundation for the changes fC posts to nucleosome, and protein interacting assays will identify the cellular machineries specifically recruited/repulsed by fC-modified nucleosomes. The effect of DNA modifications elucidated by the above studies advances our understanding on the role that DNA modifications play in regulating cellular processes.
description: Chemicals were covered by Wellcome Trust (grant no. 099232/z/12/z) and the core funding from Cancer Research UK (C14303/A17197). Z.Li was also supported by a studentship from A*STAR (Singapore).
From Lab to Market: Early-Stage Business Models for the Commercialisation of University Technology in the Cleantech Industry
Creators: name: Moktar, Zurina
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: business model
technology commercialisation
university spin-off

description: Over the years, scholarly interest in the role of business models to unlock the value of latent technology has increased. It is argued that the commercialisation of new technology requires business models that respond to a myriad of challenges and market needs. However, limited attention has been paid to understand how early-stage business models are developed to commercialise new university technology. Specifically, there are limited studies scrutinising the early-stage business models developed by University Spin-Offs (USOs), despite the fact that these are breeding grounds for new technology with commercial potential. Therefore, this thesis examines how USOs develop early-stage business models to commercialise new technology for the cleantech industry. To achieve this, an in-depth case study of four cleantech USOs at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom was performed. Sixty interviews with multiple stakeholders were conducted, and effectual logic and the concept of opportunity creation were adopted to inform the investigation. The findings, presented in a conceptual framework, suggest that USOs develop early-stage business models through three interlocking mechanisms. First, value is created through flow-field control, which is achieved by taking active control over a firm’s resources and capabilities. Second, value is captured through pragmatic kinesis, defined as being sensible when moving towards profit. Third, value network is managed through deliberate temperament, which is used to align stakeholders’ expectations. Along with these findings, the thesis also advances COPE principles (i.e. take control, create opportunities, forge partnerships and embrace contingencies) as parameters for the development of early-stage business models. The empirical evidence offers a critical logical shift in our understanding of early-stage business models development for commercialising university technology in the cleantech industry. The conceptual framework responds to scholarly inquiries to improve the theoretical grounding and construct clarity of business models. The thesis also informs policymakers about the pitfalls and opportunities associated with new technology commercialisation in the cleantech industry, where uncertainties are ubiquitous.
description: The Government of Malaysia
Operationalizing the Ecosystem Approach to Small-Scale Fisheries Management in the Philippines: The Iligan Bay Alliance of Misamis Occidental
Creators: name: Garces, Len R.
name: Perez, Maripaz L.
name: Alolod, Angelito C.
name: Buendia, Idohna Leah J.
name: Callanta, Leslie S.
name: Santos, Lope B.
name: Ramirez, Paul Joseph B.
name: Pido, Michael D.
name: Garces, Len R.
name: Perez, Maripaz L.
name: Alolod, Angelito C.
name: Buendia, Idohna Leah J.
name: Callanta, Leslie S.
name: Santos, Lope B.
name: Ramirez, Paul Joseph B.
name: Pido, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: small-scale fisheries management
subject: governance
subject: Iligan Bay Alliance for Misamis Occidental
subject: rapid appraisal and participatory diagnosis

description: This paper describes the application of the participatory diagnosis and adaptive management (PDAM) framework to analyze the governance of small-scale fisheries and the potential for adopting the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) in Misamis Occidental, Philippines. Using the Rapid Appraisal of a Fisheries Management System (RAFMS) as a complementary methodology, the paper provides key information on stakeholders’ perception on scaling-up of fisheries management. More specifically, the paper focuses on the strengthening of the Iligan Bay Alliance for Misamis Occidental (IBAMO), a multi-stakeholder body to provide a governance framework for inter-LGU collaboration. Stakeholder participation during the diagnostic phase is also described as well as potential areas for capacity building in addition to information and education activities that are needed to promote EAF in this important fisheries area.
Assessment of a Farmer Base Network in Promoting an Integrated Farming System at the Mekong Delta in Vietnam
Creators: name: Vo, Ha Van
name: Dang, Nhan Kieu
name: Le, Thach Ngoc
name: Tran, Be Thanh
name: Vo, Ha Van
name: Dang, Nhan Kieu
name: Le, Thach Ngoc
name: Tran, Be Thanh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: farmer networks
subject: integrated farming system
subject: benefits

description: This study analyzed forces driving the emergence of farmer networks in Vietnam and quantified the benefits of an integrated farming system (IFS) and the role of a farmer network in promoting IFS in the Mekong Delta. This case study applied a combination of literature review, participatory community assessment, and household survey approaches. The case study was undertaken in the My An commune, Cho Moi districtW of An Giang province. Findings from the study show that both networking and non-networking household groups recognize the important advantages of farmer networks, and that practicing IFS gives farming households economic, environmental, and social benefits and food security. Networking and practicing IFS are synergistic. By networking, farmers can gain better access to agricultural extension and credit services as well as improve their social networking, and hence adopt and practice IFS efficiently and contribute to rural poverty reduction. These benefits of networking and IFS practices should be considered at the community and regional levels rather than only at the level of individual households. Positive linkages and synergism should go beyond network or farm boundary (i.e., between specific networks or farms). Further development of farmer networks and IFS needs more effective policies and support from the government.
The CORALIE survey for southern extra-solar planets IX. A 1.3-day period brown dwarf disguised as a planet
Creators: name: Santos, N. C.
name: Mayor, M.
name: Naef, D.
name: Pepe, F.
name: Queloz, D.
name: Udry, S.
name: Burnet, M.
name: Clausen, J. V.
name: Helt, B. E.
name: Olsen, E. H.
name: Pritchard, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we present the case of HD 41004 AB, a system composed of a K0V star and a 3.7-magnitude fainter M-dwarf companion separated by only 0.5 arcsec. An analysis of CORALIE radial-velocity measurements has revealed a variation with an amplitude of about 50m/s and a periodicity of 1.3days. This radial-velocity signal is consistent with the expected variation induced by the presence a very low mass giant planetary companion to HD 41004 A, whose light dominates the spectra. The radial-velocity measurements were then complemented with a photometric campaign and with the analysis of the bisector of the CORALIE Cross-Correlation Function (CCF). While the former revealed no significant variations within the observational precision of 0.003-0.004 mag (except for an observed flare event), the bisector analysis showed that the line profiles are varying in phase with the radial-velocity. This latter result, complemented with a series of simulations, has shown that we can explain the observations by considering that HD 41004 B has a brown-dwarf companion orbiting with the observed 1.3-day period. If confirmed, this detection represents the first discovery of a brown dwarf in a very short period (1.3-day) orbit around an M dwarf. Finally, this case should be taken as a serious warning about the importance of analyzing the bisector when looking for planets using radial-velocity techniques.
description: 16 pages, 17 eps figures, A&A in press (Figure 11 not as in original version due to size)
Push and Pull Factors in Rural Filipino Youth’s Outmigration from Agricultural Communities
Creators: name: Manalo, Jaime A.
name: Van De Fliert, Elske
name: Manalo, Jaime A.
name: Van De Fliert, Elske
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: youth
subject: outmigration
subject: education
subject: return
subject: leavers

description: Rural youth outmigration is a phenomenon that can change the agricultural landscape of farming communities. The Philippines has witnessed an unprecedented youth exodus from rural to urban areas in past decades. This paper explored this issue in rice farming communities in two Philippine provinces, Aurora and Albay. Sixty-eight farmers’ children aged 13–21 years old participated in this research. This paper analyzed the level of youth involvement in farm work and their perceptions on farming, which can ultimately inform their decision to migrate or continue farming. Parental discourses influencing youth decisions to migrate were then investigated. This research used mobility maps, time transects, photovoice outputs, in-depth and key informant interviews, and group discussions. While intentions to migrate were high, young individuals had a strong desire to remain connected to their family’s farms. Hence, policymakers would do well to assist those who leave the rural areas and return after some time. Equal attention should be given to those who may not return to rural areas but are willing to invest in farming to employ their poor relatives. Migrants can often raise the resources needed to finance the input-intensive rice farming operations.
CCD Observations of the RR Lyrae Variables in the Globular Cluster NGC 5897
Creators: name: Clement, Christine M.
name: Rowe, Jason F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CCD observations for 10 (6 previously known and 4 newly discovered) of the 11 RR Lyrae variables in NGC 5897 have been analysed. The period-luminosity and period-amplitude plots indicate that the population of RR Lyrae variables in NGC 5897 includes 3 fundamental mode, 4 first-overtone and 4 second-overtone variables with mean periods 0.828, 0.459 and 0.343 days respectively. The variables have properties that are similar to some of the Oosterhoff type II variables in Omega Centauri. Two of the new variables (V11 and V13) were previously considered to be possible non-variables that lie within or near the instability strip on the horizontal branch; both have V amplitudes less than 0.2 mag. There is a chance that one or two of the variables (V10 and possibly V3) might be anomalous Cepheids and not RR Lyrae stars.
description: 12 pages, including 4 postscript figs. Accepted for publication in AJ
DeerLandscapeDisease.zip
Creators: name: Kjær, Lene Jung
name: Schauber, Eric M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60201 Behavioural Ecology
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: 60502 Infectious Agents
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60207 Population Ecology
subject: 60809 Vertebrate Biology
subject: 60208 Terrestrial Ecology
subject: Zoology

description: This zip file contains the full model code as well as javadocs of the agent-based model DeerLandscapeDisease presented in the paper "The effect of landscape and movement on disease transmission: simulating the transmission of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations using a spatially explicit agent-based model" (currently under submission in Ecological Modelling).
The model has been created in the open source agent-based modeling and simulation platform Repast Simphony 1.2.0 (https://repast.github.io/). For Repast Simphony license, see https://repast.github.io/license.html Reference: North, MJ, NT Collier, J Ozik, E Tatara, M Altaweel, CM Macal, M Bragen, and P Sydelko, "Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling with Repast Simphony", Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, Springer, Heidelberg, FRG (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/2194-3206-1-3
Inflation, Higher Spins and the Swampland
Creators: name: Scalisi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the implications on inflation of an infinite tower of higher-spin states with masses falling exponentially at large field distances, as dictated by the Swampland Distance Conjecture. We show that the Higuchi lower bound on the mass of the tower automatically translates into an upper bound on the inflaton excursion. Strikingly, the mere existence of all spins in the tower forbids any scalar displacement whatsoever, at arbitrarily small Hubble scales, and it turns out therefore incompatible with inflation. A certain field excursion is allowed only if the tower has a cut-off in spin. Finally, we show that this issue is circumvented in the case of a tower of string excitations precisely because of the existence of such a cut-off, which decreases fast enough in field space.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures. v2: minor clarifications and refs added. PLB version
Nonextensive information entropy for stochastic networks
Creators: name: Wilk, G.
name: Wlodarczyk, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nature is full of random networks of complex topology describing such apparently disparate systems as biological, economical or informatical ones. Their most characteristic feature is the apparent scale-free character of interconnections between nodes. Using an information theory approach, we show that maximalization of information entropy leads to a wide spectrum of possible types of distributions including, in the case of nonextensive information entropy, the power-like scale-free distributions characteristic of complex systems.
description: Final version, to be published in Acta Phys. Polon. B35 (2004)
Dartington Hall and social reform in interwar Britain
Creators: name: Neima, Charlotte Anna
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Utopia
British cultural history
Communitarianism
Liberalism
Internationalism
Rabindranath Tagore
Social reform
Interwar idealism
Modernism
Progressive education
Social planning

description: In the wake of the First World War, reformers across the Western world questioned laissez-faire liberalism, the self-oriented and market-driven ruling doctrine of the nineteenth century. This philosophy was blamed, variously, for the war, for industrialisation and for urbanisation; for a way of life shorn of any meaning beyond getting and keeping; for the too great faith in materialism and in science; and for the loss of a higher, transcendent meaning that gave a unifying altruistic or spiritual purpose to individual existence and to society as a whole. For many, the cure to these ills lay in reforming the liberal social framework in ways that made it more fulfilling to the whole person and that strengthened ties between individuals. Dartington Hall was an outstanding practical example of this impulse to promote holistic, integrated living. It was a well-financed, internationally-minded social and cultural experiment set up on an estate in South Devon in 1925 by American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst (née Whitney) and her second husband, Leonard, son of a Yorkshire squire-parson. The Elmhirsts’ project for redressing the effects of laissez-faire liberalism had two components. Instead of being treated as atomised individuals in the capitalist market, participants at Dartington were to achieve full self-realisation through a ‘life in its completeness’ that incorporated the arts, education and spirituality. In addition, through their active participation in running the community, they were to demonstrate how integrated democracy could bring about the perfection of individuals and the progress of society as a whole. The Elmhirsts hoped that Dartington would provide a globally applicable model for a better way of life. This thesis is a close study of Dartington’s interlinked constellation of experiments in education, the arts, agriculture and social organisation – experiments that can only be understood by tracing them back to their shared roots in the idea of ‘life in its completeness’. At the same time, it explores how Dartington’s philosophy and trajectory illuminate the wider reform landscape. The Elmhirsts’ community echoed and cross-pollinated with other schemes for social improvement in Britain, Europe, America and India, as well as feeding into the broad social democratic project in Britain. Dartington’s evolution from an independent, elite-led reform project to one split between state-led and communitarian reform matched the trajectory of other such enterprises begun in interwar Britain, making it a bellwether of changes in reformist thinking across the century.
description: My PhD was funded by Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership AHRC-Selwyn Studentship.
Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope: A Parallax of the Fundamental Distance Calibrator delta Cephei
Creators: name: Benedict, G. Fritz
name: McArthur, B. E.
name: Fredrick, L. W.
name: Harrison, T. E.
name: Slesnick, C. L.
name: Rhee, J.
name: Patterson, R. J.
name: Skrutskie, M. F.
name: Franz, O. G.
name: Wasserman, L. H.
name: Jefferys, W. H.
name: Nelan, E.
name: van Altena, W.
name: Shelus, P. J.
name: Hemenway, P. D.
name: Duncombe, R. L.
name: Story, D.
name: Whipple, A. L.
name: Bradley, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an absolute parallax and relative proper motion for the fundamental distance scale calibrator, delta Cep. We obtain these with astrometric data from FGS 3, a white-light interferometer on HST. Utilizing spectrophotometric estimates of the absolute parallaxes of our astrometric reference stars and constraining delta Cep and reference star HD 213307 to belong to the same association (Cep OB6, de Zeeuw et al. 1999), we find pi_{abs} = 3.66 +/- 0.15 mas. The larger than typical astrometric residuals for the nearby astrometric reference star HD 213307 are found to satisfy Keplerian motion with P = 1.07 +/- 0.02 years, a perturbation and period that could be due to a F0V companion ~7 mas distant from and ~4 magnitudes fainter than the primary. Spectral classifications and VRIJHKT$_2$M and DDO51 photometry of the astrometric reference frame surrounding delta Cep indicate that field extinction is high and variable along this line of sight. However the extinction suffered by the reference star nearest (in angular separation and distance) to delta Cep, HD 213307, is lower and nearly the same as for delta Cep. Correcting for color differences, we find = 0.23 +/- 0.03 for delta Cep, hence, an absolute magnitude M_V = -3.47 +/- 0.10. Adopting an average V magnitude, = 15.03 +/- 0.03, for Cepheids with log P = 0.73 in the LMC from Udalski et al. (1999), we find a V-band distance modulus for the LMC, m-M = 18.50 +/- 0.13 or, 18.58 +/- 0.15, where the latter value results from a highly uncertain metallicity correction (Freedman et al. 2001). These agree with our previous RR Lyr HST parallax-based determination of the distance modulus of the LMC.
description: To appear in The Astronoomical Journal, September 2002
Materials, Device, and System Integration of Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor TFTs
Creators: name: Yao, Guangyu
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: TFT
AOS
Circuit
Fabrication

description: Amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) thin-film transistors (TFTs) have great potential for use in the next-generation of electronics. AOS TFTs can be used to fabricate circuits and sensors on various substrates, due to unique properties, including high mobility, excellent uniformity, and it requiring a low-temperature process. Currently, indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) is the predominant AOS used in the display industry as a TFT semiconductor. Although the IGZO technology is very mature, the development of AOS continues. Additional AOSs are being investigated to reduce cost and improve stability. Considering availability and the potential of materials, indium silicon oxide (ISO) was selected for this project. ISO uses silicon to suppress the instability originating from the oxygen vacancy. The silicon-oxygen bond has a higher dissociation energy, which improves retention of oxygen atoms in the film, and thus, increases the transistor’s stability. This detailed study follows a bottom-up approach. It starts with the fabrication and characterisation of materials. Basic material properties of the ISO film are discussed within, including amorphicity, bandgap, stoichiometry, and Hall-effect parameters. Based on the characterisation results, different deposition recipes for the TFT were developed and tested. The interface quality and etching selectivity were investigated. Uniformity and stability data were extracted from a TFT array using the developed photo-lithography process, which was used to verify and quantitate the capability of the process in system integration and circuit design. A Monte-Carlo simulation environment was established based on the extracted data. The two urgent challenges in all-TFT analogue circuit design, the lack of proper active load and the large parasitic capacitance, were investigated. In-depth analysis on these two issues and applicable solutions were presented. Investigation on system integration of TFT circuits and sensors were conducted, since the device demonstrated the required performance and uniformity. An all-TFT differential-input amplifier was designed and verified, as the first mixed signal all-TFT circuit.
description: China Scholarship Council Cambridge Trust
Ancylomenes adularans Okuno & Bruce 2010, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Okuno, J.
name: Bruce, A. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Ancylomenes
Ancylomenes adularans

description: Ancylomenes adularans (Bruce, 2003) comb. nov.
Restricted synonymy:
 Periclimenes adularans Bruce, 2003: 116–117, fig. 2. — Okuno 2005: 592–597, figs. 1–3.
 Type data. Ovigerous female holotype, QM W26554; a male and an ovigerous female paratypes, QM W26555 and 26556.
 Distribution. Type locality: Cape Flattery Service Jetty, Northern Queensland, Australia. Also known from Taiwan and southern Japan (Okuno 2005).
 Bathymetric range. Sublittoral zone, to 28.5 m. Found on silty mud substrate.
 Host. In association with actiniarian, Megalactis hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1834, and ceriantharian, Cerianthus filiformis Carlgren, 1922. Also known as a fish cleaner.
description: Published as part of Okuno, J. & Bruce, A. J., 2010, Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the ' Periclimenes aesopius species group' (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species *, pp. 85-105 in Zootaxa 2372 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/5305841
Sowing the Seeds of Soviet Decline: Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Carter Administration: 1977-1981
Creators: name: Keville, Stephen
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Brzezinski
Carter
Cold War
United States
The Soviet Union

description: This dissertation endeavours to demonstrate that Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Carter administration in which he served helped to end the Cold War. It examines Brzezinski’s career prior to the Carter years and looks at the formation of his strategy for dismantling the Soviet bloc. It then examines his role as National Security Adviser from 1977 to 1981 and how he implemented the ideas he formulated in his early years and the impact these would have upon the course of the Cold War. Specifically, it looks at the issues of human rights and soft power in Eastern Europe, the normalization of relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, and the Soviet-Afghan War. These three issues involve the three central strategic fronts of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, on which Brzezinski and Carter sought to curtail Soviet influence. The thesis aims to accredit Brzezinski with a key role in ending the Cold War due to his efforts on these three fronts, with a particular emphasis upon his role in instigating the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which was a key factor in the breakdown of the Soviet Union. The thesis connects the previously unrelated facts of the cumulative impact of Carter’s policies and their impact upon the outcome of the Cold War and comes to the conclusion that the Carter administration was anything but weak in the area of foreign affairs but did in fact significantly contribute to the U.S. achieving victory in 1991. The dissertation therefore contributes to historical scholarship through giving Brzezinski and the Carter administration the credit they deserve for their role in helping to bring about the end of the Cold War and fills a gap in a literature which has thus far underappreciated their significant and overlooked contribution to defeating the Soviet Union.
Chimera States and Seizures in a Mouse Neuronal Model
Creators: name: Mitchell, Henry M.
name: Dodds, Peter Sheridan
name: Mahoney, J. Matthew
name: Danforth, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chimera states---the coexistence of synchrony and asynchrony in a nonlocally-coupled network of identical oscillators---are often used as a model framework for epileptic seizures. Here, we explore the dynamics of chimera states in a network of modified Hindmarsh-Rose neurons, configured to reflect the graph of the mesoscale mouse connectome. Our model produces superficially epileptiform activity converging on persistent chimera states in a large region of a two-parameter space governing connections (a) between subcortices within a cortex and (b) between cortices. Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature suggesting mathematical models can qualitatively reproduce epileptic seizure dynamics.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures
Additional file 1 of Development and preliminary psychometric investigation of the German Satisfaction with Comprehensive Cancer Care (SCCC) Questionnaire
Creators: name: Esser, Peter
name: Sautier, Leon
name: Sarkar, Susanne
name: Schilling, Georgia
name: Bokemeyer, Carsten
name: Koch, Uwe
name: Friedrich, Michael
name: Defossez, Gautier
name: Mehnert-Theuerkauf, Anja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. The German Satisfaction with Comprehensive Cancer Care (SCCC) questionnaire.
The role of Arid1a and Tet1 in ductal cell-driven liver regeneration
Creators: name: Mckie, Mikel Alexander
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Liver Regeneration
Organoids
Epigenetics

description: Title: The role of Arid1a and Tet1 in ductal cell-driven regeneration Author: Mikel Alexander Mckie The liver has several robust and potent mechanisms of repair after damage despite slow homeostatic turnover. In cases of extreme toxic damage, where the hepatocyte compartment is severely compromised and unable to proliferate, a bi-potent ductal population arises that is able to expand and differentiate into both hepatocytes and ductal cells. The regulation of the activation of this ductal progenitor population is poorly understood. We have taken advantage of 3D organoid cultures that model the activation of bi-potent ductal progenitors to identify potential candidates involved in organoid establishment and maintenance. Using knock down experiments, we identified the epigenetic modifiers Arid1a and Tet1 as important candidates for ductal progenitor maintenance and establishment, respectively, in vitro. Further in vitro analysis of several genetic models of Arid1a showed that reduction but not ablation of Arid1a results in enhanced proliferation and survival of organoid culture. In addition, Arid1a defective organoids lacked the ability to differentiate into functional hepatocytes in vitro. Therefore, Arid1a is important for regulating the differentiation and proliferative nature of ductal progenitors in vitro. On the other hand, we found that reduction or loss of Tet1 resulted in abolished establishment and maintenance of organoid culture, suggesting an important role of Tet1 in the activation of the progenitor state from a mature ductal cell. In line with this, we found that a hypomorphic mouse model of Tet1 showed a significantly reduced ductal regenerative response when challenged with acute liver damage. Furthermore, chronically damaged hypomorphic mice maintained significant fibrosis over WT mice. Finally, ductal specific genetic ablation of Tet1 coupled with lineage tracing showed that Tet1 mutant ductal cells formed significantly smaller regenerative hepatocyte clusters. As a result, Tet1 is crucial for the activation and function of ductal bi-potent progenitors both in vivo and in vitro. Taken together, the role of Arid1a and Tet1 in organoid culture and liver regeneration suggests that regulation of the epigenetic landscape is crucial to determine cell fate decisions during the damage-regeneration response.
description: MRC doctoral training grant (grant no. MR/K50127X/1)
Thesis: Curriculum recontextualization for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
Creators: name: Sharina Klaasens
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description:  An exploration into the ways in which teachers in special schools make judgements concerning curriculum recontextualization
Additional file 1 of Sexual and physical abuse and depressive symptoms in the UK Biobank
Creators: name: Chaplin, Anna B.
name: Jones, Peter B.
name: Golam M. Khandaker
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Table S1. Corrected P-values for association between childhood sexual/physical abuse and adult depressive outcomes using the Holm-Bonferroni Method.
Ancylomenes aesopius Okuno & Bruce 2010, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Okuno, J.
name: Bruce, A. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Ancylomenes
Ancylomenes aesopius

description: Ancylomenes aesopius (Bate, 1863) comb. nov.
Restricted synonymy:
 Anchistia aesopia Bate, 1863: 502–503; pl. 41, fig. 5.
 Periclimenes aesopius. — Kemp 1922: 142–143, fig. 15. — Bruce 1977: 217–230, figs. 1–30.
 Type data. Two syntypes, BMNH 68-81.
 Distribution. Type locality: Gulf of St. Vincent, South Australia. Known only from South Australian and Western Australian temperate waters.
 Bathymetric range. Sublittoral zone.
 Host. Not determined.
 Remarks. This species was fully redescribed by Bruce (1977).
description: Published as part of Okuno, J. & Bruce, A. J., 2010, Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the ' Periclimenes aesopius species group' (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species *, pp. 85-105 in Zootaxa 2372 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/5305841
Additional file 10: of Effects of perioperative goal-directed fluid therapy combined with the application of alpha-1 adrenergic agonists on postoperative outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Feng, Shuai
name: Yang, Shuyi
name: Xiao, Wei
name: Wang, Xue
name: Yang, Kun
name: Wang, Tianlong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Forest plot comparing overall complication rates for patients receiving GDFT combined with alpha-1 adrenergic agonists versus control, divided by (a) age of patients: patients aged < 65 years and patients aged ≥65 years and (b) type of alpha-1 adrenergic agonists: norepinephrine, phenylephrine, norepinephrine combined with phenylephrine, or metaraminol. (PDF 8281 kb)
Ancylomenes amirantei Okuno & Bruce 2010, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Okuno, J.
name: Bruce, A. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Ancylomenes
Ancylomenes amirantei

description: Ancylomenes amirantei (Bruce, 2007) comb. nov.
Restricted synonymy:
 Periclimenes amirantei Bruce, 2007e: 52–57, figs. 1–4.
 Type data. Ovigerous female holotype, ZMC I.9600.1 (in part); a male and three ovigerous female paratypes, ZMC I.9600.1 (in part) and ZMC I.9600.2.
 Distribution. Type locality: Amirante Island, western Indian Ocean. Also known from North Malé Atoll, Maldive Islands, central Indian Ocean.
 Bathymetric range. Certainly known from 70 m.
 Host. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Okuno, J. & Bruce, A. J., 2010, Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the ' Periclimenes aesopius species group' (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species *, pp. 85-105 in Zootaxa 2372 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/5305841
title: Evaluation projet MOBJILE 2014
Creators: name: LabexMed
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Évaluation du projet MOBJILE, réalisée en 2014.
Accessible coherence in open quantum system dynamics
Creators: name: Díaz, María García
name: Desef, Benjamin
name: Rosati, Matteo
name: Egloff, Dario
name: Calsamiglia, John
name: Smirne, Andrea
name: Skotiniotis, Michaelis
name: Huelga, Susana F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81P40

description: Quantum coherence generated in a physical process can only be cast as a potentially useful resource if its effects can be detected at a later time. Recently, the notion of non-coherence-generating-and-detecting (NCGD) dynamics has been introduced and related to the classicality of the statistics associated with sequential measurements at different times. However, in order for a dynamics to be NCGD, its propagators need to satisfy a given set of conditions for all triples of consecutive times. We reduce this to a finite set of $d(d-1)$ conditions, where $d$ is the dimension of the quantum system, provided that the generator is time-independent. Further conditions are derived for the more general time-dependent case. The application of this result to the case of a qubit dynamics allows us to elucidate which kind of noise gives rise to non-coherence-generation-and-detection.
description: 6+4 pages, 2 figures, comments welcome, accepted for publication in Quantum
Renormalization group approach to soft gluon resummation
Creators: name: Forte, Stefano
name: Ridolfi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple proof of the all-order exponentiation of soft logarithmic corrections to hard processes in perturbative QCD. Our argument is based on proving that all large logs in the soft limit can be expressed in terms of a single dimensionful variable, and then using the renormalization group to resum them. Beyond the next-to-leading log level, our result is somewhat less predictive than previous all-order resummation formulae, but it does not rely on non-standard factorization, and it is thus possibly more general. We use our result to settle issues of convergence of the resummed series, we discuss scheme dependence at the resummed level, and we provide explicit resummed expressions in various factorization schemes.
description: 37 pages, LaTeX