cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Light-activated Superhydrophobicity of Sustainable Micro-structured Spent Coffee Grounds-Based Interfaces via Fatty Acids Modulatio
Creators: name: Zargarian, Seyed Shahrooz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: spent coffee grounds
subject: Electrospraying
subject: Superhydrophobicity
subject: Fatty Acids
subject: solar simulator
subject: Sustainability sciences
subject: Organic waste
subject: Coffee
subject: superhydrophobic
subject: Micro-structured surface
subject: Light-activated surface modification
subject: Sustainable Superhydrophobic Interfaces

description: The global consumption of coffee results in the disposal of vast amounts of spent coffee grounds (SCG), posing significant environmental challenges. Herein, we address this issue by developing an innovative, eco-friendly method to achieve superhydrophobicity using SCG. Repurposing this abundant biowaste, we developed a sustainable approach that avoids the use of harsh chemicals and energy-intensive processes typically associated with conventional methods. Our procedure involves wet ball milling of SCG in ethanol to produce microparticles, followed by electrospraying to create a micro-structured interface. A mild annealing treatment at 90°C successfully transformed the SCG interface from hydrophilic to superhydrophobic, reaching a contact angle of approximately 151° and a rolling-off angle of 8°. The resultant interface exhibited remarkable self-cleaning properties, effectively repelling various liquids. XPS analysis revealed that the migration of fatty acids to the surface during annealing played a crucial role in lowering surface energy, thereby driving the hydrophilic-to-superhydrophobic transition. Furthermore, we demonstrated that solar-induced heating can effectively activate the same superhydrophobic properties, providing a practical and energy-efficient alternative to traditional thermal treatments. This method illustrates the role of light-activated fatty acid modulation in achieving superhydrophobicity and highlights the potential of SCG biowaste as a valuable resource for sustainable material applications.
Carbon star populations in systems with different metallicities: statistics in Local Group galaxies
Creators: name: Mouhcine, M.
name: Lancon, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present evolutionary population synthesis models for the study of the cool and luminous intermediate age stellar populations in resolved galaxies with particular emphasis on carbon star populations. We study the effects of the star formation history, the age and the metallicity on the populations of intermediate mass stars. In the case of instantaneous bursts, we confirm that lower metallicity results in higher contribution of carbon stars to the total star number, and in higher number ratios of carbon stars to late-type M stars. Chemically consistent models are used to study the effect of the star formation history on the relations between carbon star population properties and global parameters of the parent galaxy (age, metallicity). Our models are able to account, for the first time, for those correlations, as observed in the galaxies of the Local Group. For stellar populations older than 1 Gyr, the properties of carbon star populations are linked to the current metallicity in a way that is quite independent of the star formation scenario. The number of carbon stars to late-type M stars forms a metallicity sequence along which stellar populations with very different star formation histories are found (Abridged).
description: 16 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Link prediction in dynamic networks using random dot product graphs
Creators: name: Passino, Francesco Sanna
name: Bertiger, Anna S.
name: Neil, Joshua C.
name: Heard, Nicholas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of predicting links in large networks is an important task in a variety of practical applications, including social sciences, biology and computer security. In this paper, statistical techniques for link prediction based on the popular random dot product graph model are carefully presented, analysed and extended to dynamic settings. Motivated by a practical application in cyber-security, this paper demonstrates that random dot product graphs not only represent a powerful tool for inferring differences between multiple networks, but are also efficient for prediction purposes and for understanding the temporal evolution of the network. The probabilities of links are obtained by fusing information at two stages: spectral methods provide estimates of latent positions for each node, and time series models are used to capture temporal dynamics. In this way, traditional link prediction methods, usually based on decompositions of the entire network adjacency matrix, are extended using temporal information. The methods presented in this article are applied to a number of simulated and real-world graphs, showing promising results.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-11)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-12)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-13)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Quantum and classical localisation, the spin quantum Hall effect and generalisations
Creators: name: Beamond, E. J.
name: Cardy, John
name: Chalker, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider network models for localisation problems belonging to symmetry class C. This symmetry class arises in a description of the dynamics of quasiparticles for disordered spin-singlet superconductors which have a Bogoliubov - de Gennes Hamiltonian that is invariant under spin rotations but not under time-reversal. Our models include but also generalise the one studied previously in the context of the spin quantum Hall effect. For these systems we express the disorder-averaged conductance and density of states in terms of sums over certain classical random walks, which are self-avoiding and have attractive interactions. A transition between localised and extended phases of the quantum system maps in this way to a similar transition for the classical walks. In the case of the spin quantum Hall effect, the classical walks are the hulls of percolation clusters, and our approach provides an alternative derivation of a mapping first established by Gruzberg, Read and Ludwig, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4254 (1999).
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Dilatonic Interpretation of the Quintessence?
Creators: name: Gasperini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the possibility that "quintessential effects", recently displayed by large scale observations, may be consistently described in the context of the low-energy string effective action, and we suggest a possible approach to the problem of the cosmic coincidence based on the link between the strength of the dilaton couplings and the cosmological state of our Universe.
description: 6 pages, Revtex, four figures included using epsfig. To appear in Phys. Rev. D
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-14)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-15)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Ubiquitination and Ubiquitin-Like Modifications in Multiple Myeloma: Biology and Therapy
Creators: name: Wirth, Matthias
name: Schick, Markus
name: Keller, Ulrich
name: Krönke, Jan
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: multiple myeloma
subject: SUMO
subject: NEDD
subject: ubiquitin
subject: PROTAC
subject: proteasome
subject: IMiD
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Multiple myeloma is a genetically heterogeneous plasma cell malignancy characterized by organ damage and a massive production of (in-)complete monoclonal antibodies. Coping with protein homeostasis and post-translational regulation is therefore essential for multiple myeloma cells to survive. Furthermore, post-translational modifications such as ubiquitination and SUMOylation play key roles in essential pathways in multiple myeloma, including NFκB signaling, epigenetic regulation, as well as DNA damage repair. Drugs modulating the ubiquitin-proteasome system, such as proteasome inhibitors and thalidomide analogs, are approved and highly effective drugs in multiple myeloma. In this review, we focus on ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifications in the biology and current developments of new treatments for multiple myeloma.
Calibration of White Dwarf cooling sequences: theoretical uncertainty
Creators: name: Moroni, P. G. Prada
name: Straniero, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: White Dwarf luminosities are powerful age indicators, whose calibration should be based on reliable models. We discuss the uncertainty of some chemical and physical parameters and their influence on the age estimated by means of white dwarf cooling sequences. Models at the beginning of the white dwarf sequence have been obtained on the base of progenitor evolutionary tracks computed starting from the zero age horizontal branch and for a typical halo chemical composition (Z=0.0001, Y=0.23). The uncertainties due to nuclear reaction rates, convection, mass loss and initial chemical composition are discussed. Then, various cooling sequences for a typical white dwarf mass (M=0.6 Mo) have been calculated under different assumptions on some input physics, namely: conductive opacity, contribution of the ion-electron interaction to the free energy and microscopic diffusion. Finally we present the evolution of white dwarfs having mass ranging between 0.5 and 0.9 Mo. Much effort has been spent to extend the equation of state down to the low temperature and high density regime. An analysis of the latest improvement in the physics of white dwarf interiors is presented. We conclude that at the faint end of the cooling sequence (log L/Lo=-5.5) the present overall uncertainty on the age is of the order of 20%, which correspond to about 3 Gyr. We suggest that this uncertainty could be substantially reduced by improving our knowledge of the conductive opacity (especially in the partially degenerate regime) and by fixing the internal stratification of C and O.
description: 14 figures, accepted by ApJ
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-16)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Farm performance and support in Central and Western Europe: A comparison of Hungary and France
Creators: name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Fogarasi, Jozsef
name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Fogarasi, Jozsef
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: technology gap
subject: technical efficiency
subject: Malmquist indices
subject: subsidies
subject: farms

description: The paper investigates the difference in technical efficiency and in productivity change, and the technology gaps, between French and Hungarian farms in the dairy and cereal, oilseeds and proteinseeds (COP) sectors during the period 2001-2004. The analyses are performed with national FADN data and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach under each country’s respective frontier and under a metafrontier. Results revealed that in both the dairy and the COP sectors, Hungarian farms’ technology was the more productive, despite a technological deterioration. This suggests technological advantages for large-scale (Hungarian) over small-scale (French) farming in these two sectors. These findings may also be explained by the higher policy support in France. Subsidies received by farms have indeed a stronger negative impact on technical efficiency for French farms than for Hungarian farms, and a negative impact on the ability to lead the technology only for French farms.
Treatment of Anti-HLA Donor-Specific Antibodies Results in Increased Infectious Complications and Impairs Survival after Liver Transplantation
Creators: name: Ünlü, Sinem
name: Lachmann, Nils
name: Jara, Maximilian
name: Ritschl, Paul Viktor
name: Wiering, Leke
name: Eurich, Dennis
name: Denecke, Christian
name: Biebl, Matthias
name: Chopra, Sascha
name: Gül-Klein, Safak
name: Schöning, Wenzel
name: Schmelzle, Moritz
name: Reinke, Petra
name: Tacke, Frank
name: Pratschke, Johann
name: Öllinger, Robert
name: Dziodzio, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: DSA
subject: survival analysis
subject: sepsis
subject: rejection treatment
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Donor-specific anti-human leukocyte antigen antibodies (DSA) are controversially discussed in the context of liver transplantation (LT). We investigated the relationship between the presence of DSA and the outcome after LT. All the LTs performed at our center between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2015 were examined. Recipients < 18 years, living donor-, combined, high-urgency-, and re-transplantations were excluded. Out of 510 LTs, 113 DSA-positive cases were propensity score-matched with DSA-negative cases based on the components of the Balance of Risk score. One-, three-, and five-year survival after LT were 74.3% in DSA-positive vs. 84.8% (p = 0.053) in DSA-negative recipients, 71.8% vs. 71.5% (p = 0.821), and 69.3% vs. 64.9% (p = 0.818), respectively. Rejection therapy was more often applied to DSA-positive recipients (n = 77 (68.1%) vs. 37 (32.7%) in the control group, p < 0.001). At one year after LT, 9.7% of DSA-positive patients died due to sepsis compared to 1.8% in the DSA-negative group (p = 0.046). The remaining causes of death were comparable in both groups (cardiovascular 6.2% vs. 8.0%; p = 0.692; hepatic 3.5% vs. 2.7%, p = 0.788; malignancy 3.5% vs. 2.7%, p = 0.788). DSA seem to have an indirect effect on the outcome of adult LTs, impacting decision-making in post-transplant immunosuppression and rejection therapies and ultimately increasing mortality due to infectious complications.
Does aversion to the sucker's payoff matter in public goods games?
Creators: name: Bougherara, Douadia
name: Costa, Sandrine
name: Grolleau, Gilles
name: Ibanez, Lisette
name: Bougherara, Douadia
name: Costa, Sandrine
name: Grolleau, Gilles
name: Ibanez, Lisette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: experiments
subject: public good
subject: sucker’s payoff
subject: assurance

description: A usual explanation to low levels of contribution to public goods is the fear of getting the sucker’s payoff (cooperation by the participant and defection by the other players). In order to disentangle the effect of this fear from other motives, we design a public good game where people have an assurance against getting the sucker’s payoff. We show that contributions to the public good under this ‘protective’ design are significantly higher and interact with expectations on other individuals' contribution to the public good. Some policy implications and extensions are suggested.
Some remarks on Bell's Inequality tests
Creators: name: Feoli, A.
name: Rampone, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We emphasize the difficulties of an experiment that can definitely discriminate between local realistic hidden variables theories and quantum mechanics using the Bell CHSH inequalities and a real measurement apparatus. In particular we analyze some examples in which the noise in real instruments can alter the experimental results, and the nontrivial problem to find a real "fair sample" of particles to test the inequalities.
description: 12 pages, Latex, 2 figures, to be published in Europhysics Letters
Double-graded quantum superplane
Creators: name: Bruce, Andrew James
name: Duplij, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 16W55, 46L87, 58A50, 81R60

description: A $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$-graded generalisation of the quantum superplane is proposed and studied. We construct a bicovariant calculus on what we shall refer to as the \emph{double-graded quantum superplane}. The commutation rules between the coordinates, their differentials and partial derivatives are explicitly given. Furthermore, we show that an extended version of the double-graded quantum superplane admits a natural Hopf $\mathbb{Z}_2^2$-algebra structure.
description: 20 pages, amslatex, romp.sty, version 3: final journal version, to appear in "Reports on Mathematical Physics"
From integrability to conductance, impurity systems
Creators: name: Castro-Alvaredo, Olalla
name: Fring, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the DC conductance with two different methods, which both exploit the integrability of the theories under consideration. On one hand we determine the conductance through a defect by means of the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz and standard relativistic potential scattering theory based on a Landauer transport theory picture. On the other hand, we propose a Kubo formula for a defect system and evaluate the current-current two-point correlation function it involves with the help of a form factor expansion. For a variety of defects in a fermionic system we find excellent agreement between the two different theoretical descriptions.
description: 42 pages Latex, 5 figures
Indirect current detection method for active switch control in a low-power Flyback converter
Creators: name: Potocny, Miroslav
name: Kovac, Martin
name: Arbet, Daniel
name: Stopjakova, Viera
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper proposes an indirect method for the detection of secondary winding current in a low-power flyback converter, based on the sensing of the output capacitor voltage ripple. The main goal of this method is to improve the overall conversion efficiency of the flyback converter by enabling the use of an active secondary switching device, while providing a solution that could be easily implemented in the form of an ASIC circuit targeting a standard low-voltage CMOS technology node.
General relativistic analysis of peculiar velocities
Creators: name: Ellis, George F R
name: van Elst, Henk
name: Maartens, Roy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a careful general relativistic and (1+3)-covariant analysis of cosmological peculiar velocities induced by matter density perturbations in the presence of a cosmological constant. In our quasi-Newtonian approach, constraint equations arise to maintain zero shear of the non-comoving fundamental worldlines which define a Newtonian-like frame, and these lead to the (1+3)-covariant dynamical equations, including a generalized Poisson-type equation. We investigate the relation between peculiar velocity and peculiar acceleration, finding the conditions under which they are aligned. In this case we find (1+3)-covariant relativistic generalizations of well-known Newtonian results.
description: 8 pages, LaTeX2e (iopart); minor changes, matches version accepted for publication by Classical and Quantum Gravity
Sex-Associated Differences in Cytomegalovirus Prevention: Prophylactic Strategy is Potentially Associated With a Strong Kidney Function Impairment in Female Renal Transplant Patients
Creators: name: Blazquez-Navarro, Arturo
name: Dang-Heine, Chantip
name: Bauer, Chris
name: Wittenbrink, Nicole
name: Wolk, Kerstin
name: Sabat, Robert
name: Witzke, Oliver
name: Westhoff, Timm H.
name: Sawitzki, Birgit
name: Reinke, Petra
name: Thomusch, Oliver
name: Hugo, Christian
name: Babel, Nina
name: Or-Guil, Michal
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cytomegalovirus
subject: gender
subject: graft function
subject: prevention
subject: valganciclovir
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Post-transplantation cytomegalovirus (CMV) syndrome can be prevented using the antiviral drug (val)ganciclovir. (Val)ganciclovir is typically administered following a prophylactic or a pre-emptive strategy. The prophylactic strategy entails early universal administration, the pre-emptive strategy, early treatment in case of infection. However, it is not clear which strategy is superior with respect to transplantation outcome; sex-specific effects of these prevention strategies are not known. We have retrospectively analyzed 540 patients from the multi-centre Harmony study along eight pre-defined visits: 308 were treated according to a prophylactic, 232 according to a pre-emptive strategy. As expected, we observed an association of prophylactic strategy with lower incidence of CMV syndrome, delayed onset and lower viral loads compared to the pre-emptive strategy. However, in female patients, the prophylactic strategy was associated with a strong impairment of glomerular filtration rate one year post-transplant (difference: -11.8 ± 4.3 ml min-1·1.73 m-2, p = 0.006). Additionally, we observed a tendency of higher incidence of acute rejection and severe BK virus reactivation in the prophylactic strategy group. While the prophylactic strategy was more effective for preventing CMV syndrome, our results suggest for the first time that the prophylactic strategy might lead to inferior transplantation outcomes in female patients, providing evidence for a strong association with sex. Further randomized controlled studies are necessary to confirm this potential negative effect.
Freytagolidia Nielson 2011, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Nielson, M. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Freytagolidia

description: Freytagolidia gen. nov.
 Type species. Freytagolidia ligula sp. nov.
 External morphology. General color dark, golden brown to black with yellow transverse band on pronotum and crown. Head narrower than pronotum, anterior margin obtusely angulate; crown broad, equal to width of eyes, produced distally beyond anterior margin of eyes for about 1/3 of entire median length; eyes semiglobular; pronotum shorter than median length of crown; mesonotum large, twice as long as median length of pronotum; forewings long, broad; clypeus long, narrow, median longitudinal carina prominent; clypellus short, less than 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow basally, inflated medio-basally, apex expanded laterally.
 Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view broad, with prominent, setaceous caudodorsal lobe projecting ventrally, long, robust caudoventral process reaching to lobe (Fig.1); subgenital plate in ventral view very long, broad in basal half, ligulate in distal half, setaceous (Fig. 2); connective broadly Y-shaped, stem short, membranous medially (Fig. 7); style short, not as long as aedeagus, apophysis narrow, attenuated distally (Figs. 3, 4); aedeagus short, tubular, shaft setaceous, gonopore sub-basal and exiting laterally in ventral view (Fig. 6) and curved laterally, with attached dorsal connective lying ventrally in lateral view (Fig. 5); dorsal connective (Figs. 5, 6, 8) nearly as long as aedeagus, bifurcate basally and with membranous flange on each side in ventral view.
 Etymology. The generic name is a patronym, named for Dr. Paul H. Freytag who has a distinguished record of fine contributions in leafhopper taxonomy.
 Remarks. The type species is large and robust, similar in general habitus to Korsigianus Nielson, 1979 and Licontinia Nielson. The male genitalia are distinctive. The genus has a unique subgenital plate in which the distal half is a long, ligulate process (Fig. 2). The flanged dorsal connective is also distinctive (Figs. 5, 8). These features will separate Freytagolidia from all other known genera in the tribe. The genus is monobasic, known only from 1 species presented below.
description: Published as part of Nielson, M. W., 2011, Tribe Teruliini: new genera and new species of Neotropical leafhoppers with a revised key to genera and species, new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 2795 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2952.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10095398
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-17)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Agglomeration externalities and technical efficiency in French pig production
Creators: name: Larue, Solène
name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Larue, Solène
name: Latruffe, Laure
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: technical efficiency
subject: Data Envelopment Analysis
subject: agglomeration
subject: environmental regulation
subject: hog production
subject: France

description: The objective of the paper is to assess the effects of spatial agglomeration on the technical efficiency of French pig farms. We use a two-stage method with the first stage consisting of calculating the efficiency scores of pig activity with the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, and the second stage being a regression of these scores on agglomeration variables. Data consist of 936 French pig producers in 2004. Results suggest that these farms were as much affected by positive agglomeration externalities (in the form of knowledge spillovers due to the density of farms, and arising from their closeness to downstream markets) as any other businesses. Our analysis also sheds light on the specificity of the sector, namely that environment pressures can force pig farmers to be more efficient, an effect that may be counteracted when legal dispositions relating to manure spreading are too stringent.
Surface Brightness Profiles and Structural Parameters for 10 Rich Stellar Clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Mackey, A. D.
name: Gilmore, G. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a follow up to our recent study of a large sample of LMC clusters (astro-ph/0209031), we have conducted a similar study of the structures of ten SMC clusters, using archival Hubble Space Telescope snapshot data. We present surface brightness profiles for each cluster, and derive structural parameters, including core radii and luminosity and mass estimates, using exactly the same procedure as for the LMC sample. Because of the small sample size, the SMC results are not as detailed as for the larger LMC sample. We do not observe any post core-collapse clusters (although we did not expect to), and there is little evidence for any double clusters in our sample. Nonetheless, despite the small sample size, we show for the first time that the SMC clusters follow almost exactly the trend in core radius with age observed for the LMC system, including the apparent bifurcation at several hundred Myr. This further strengthens our argument that this relationship represents true physical evolution in these clusters, with some developing significantly expanded cores due to an as yet unidentified physical process. Additional data, both observational and from N-body simulations, is still required to clarify many issues.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 11 pages, 4 figures. We recommend that the interested reader visit http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/STELLARPOPS/SMC_clusters/ for on-line data and the full resolution paper
Quantum flips I: local model
Creators: name: Lee, Yuan-Pin
name: Lin, Hui-Wen
name: Wang, Chin-Lung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14N35, 14E30

description: We study analytic continuations of quantum cohomology under simple flips $f: X \dashrightarrow X'$ along the extremal ray quantum variable $q^\ell$. The inverse correspondence $Ψ= [Γ_f]^*$ by the graph closure gives an embedding of Chow motives $[\hat{X}'] \hookrightarrow [\hat{X}]$ which preserves the Poincaré pairing. We construct a deformation $\widehatΨ$ of $Ψ= [Γ_f]^*$ which induces a non-linear embedding $$QH(X') \hookrightarrow QH(X)$$ in the category of $F$-manifolds into the regular integrable loci of $QH(X)$ near $q^\ell = \infty$. This provides examples of functoriality of quantum cohomology beyond $K$-equivalent transformations. In this paper, we focus on the case when $X$ and $X'$ are (projective) local models.
description: 50 pages; v2: typos fixed
Imaging of Joints and Bones in Autoinflammation
Creators: name: Ziegeler, Katharina
name: Eshed, Iris
name: Diekhoff, Torsten
name: Hermann, Kay Geert
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: imaging
subject: autoinflammation
subject: arthritis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Autoinflammatory disorders are commonly characterized by seemingly unprovoked systemic inflammation mainly driven by cells and cytokines of the innate immune system. In many disorders on this spectrum, joint and bone involvement may be observed and imaging of these manifestations can provide essential diagnostic information. This review aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of the imaging characteristics for major diseases and disease groups on the autoinflammatory spectrum, including familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), Behcet disease (BD), crystal deposition diseases (including gout), adult-onset Still's disease (AoSD), and syndromatic synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis (SAPHO)/chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO). Herein, we discuss common and distinguishing imaging characteristics, phenotypical overlaps with related diseases, and promising fields of future research.
Entanglement swapping for Bell states and Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states in qubit systems
Creators: name: Ji, Zhaoxu
name: Fan, Peiru
name: Zhang, Huanguo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a class of two-level multi-particle Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states, and study entanglement swapping between two systems for Bell states and the class of GHZ states in qubit systems, respectively. We give the formulas for the entanglement swapping of Bell states and GHZ states in any number of qubit systems. We further consider entanglement swapping between any number of Bell states and between any number of the introduced GHZ states, and propose a series of entanglement swapping schemes in a detailed way. We illustrate the applications of such schemes in quantum information processing by proposing quantum protocols for quantum key distribution, quantum secret sharing and quantum private comparison.
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1940-10-18)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1940
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Bidentate N-heterocyclic carbenes as efficient ligands for Ullmann-type couplings
Creators: name: Richards, Ethan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Diaryl ethers are important motifs present in pharmaceuticals and natural products. However, well established methods for their preparation often make use of expensive and toxic transition metal catalysts or suffer from poor catalytic efficiency and substrate scope; often requiring the use of harsh and environmentally impactful reaction conditions. This thesis details the development of a new bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand intended to address these significant issues in copper-catalysed Ullmann-type phenol arylation. To begin with, Section 2 describes the synthesis of a library of NHC ligands bearing a second, heteroatomic coordinating site. The ligand structure-activity-relationship is investigated and the reaction conditions optimised, resulting in a highly efficient system using low catalyst loadings (0.1 0.5 mol %) in greatly reduced solvent volume and using only 1.1 equiv of Cs2CO3 as base. This system is then applied to challenging substrates in Section 2.7 including heteroaromatic examples, those bearing ortho-substituents, electron poor phenols and electron rich aryl bromides. Following this, Section 3 details the evaluation of the functional group tolerance of the newly developed system, which was carried out through a Glorius robustness screen. The majority of additives were well tolerated under the reaction conditions with minimal impact upon diaryl ether yield. Section 3 culminates with the parallel array synthesis of functionalised diaryl ethers, possessing desirable drug- and lead-like physical properties. The preparation of well-defined copper-NHC complexes is then discussed in Section 4. A series of key mono- and bis-NHC copper complexes featuring the newly developed ligands were isolated and characterised, with the coordination of the bidentate ligand revealed in their crystal structures. These copper catalysts were found to perform to the same level as the in situ generated, implying that they bear a close resemblance to the active species. Efforts were also made to isolate a copper(I)-phenolate complex. Finally, details of kinetic studies are discussed in Section 5, which revealed the important role of the bidentate ligand in preventing catalyst deactivation, as well as a first order rate dependence in the concentration of catalyst and phenol. The order in base was found to be negligible and no effect on reaction rate was observed by mass transfer.
Simple and robust speckle detection method for fire and heat detection in harsh environments
Creators: name: Christensen, Charles N.
name: Zainchkovskyy, Yevgen
name: Barrera-Figueroa, Salvador
name: Torras-Rosell, Antoni
name: Marinelli, Giorgio
name: Sommerlund-Thorsen, Kim
name: Kleven, Jan
name: Kleven, Kristian
name: Voll, Erlend
name: Petersen, Jan C.
name: Lassen, Mikael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standard laser based fire detection systems are often based on measuring variation of optical signal amplitude. However, mechanical noise interference and loss from dust and steam can obscure the detection signal, resulting in faulty results or inability to detect a potential fire. The presented fire detection technology will allow the detection of fire in harsh and dusty areas, which are prone to fires, where current systems show limited performance or are unable to operate. It is not the amount of light nor its wavelength that is used for detecting fire, but how the refractive index randomly fluctuates due to the heat convection from the fire. In practical terms this means that light obstruction from ambient dust particles will not be a problem as long as a small fraction of the light is detected and that fires without visible flames can still be detected. The standalone laser system consists of a Linux-based Red Pitaya system, a cheap 650 nm laser diode, and a PIN photo-detector. Laser light propagates through the monitored area and reflects off a retroreflector generating a speckle pattern. Every 3 seconds time traces and frequency noise spectra are measured and 8 descriptors are deduced to identify a potential fire. Both laboratory and factory acceptance tests have been performed with success.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
The Conal representation of Quantum States and Non Trace-Preserving Quantum Operations
Creators: name: Arrighi, Pablo
name: Patricot, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We represent generalized density matrices of a $d$-complex dimensional quantum system as a subcone of a real pointed cone of revolution in $\mathbb{R}^{d^2}$, or indeed a Minkowskian cone in $\mathbb{E}^{1,d^2-1}$. Generalized pure states correspond to certain future-directed light-like vectors of $\mathbb{E}^{1,d^2-1}$. This extension of the Generalized Bloch Sphere enables us to cater for non-trace-preserving quantum operations, and in particluar to view the per-outcome effects of generalized measurements. We show that these consist of the product of an orthogonal transform about the axis of the cone of revolution and a positive real linear transform. We give detailed formulae for the one qubit case and express the post-measurement states in terms of the initial state vectors and measurement vectors. We apply these results in order to find the information gain versus disturbance tradeoff in the case of two equiprobable pure states. Thus we recover Fuchs and Peres' formula in an elegant manner.
description: 11 pages, revtex, v3: some typos corrected
Neodocalidia connectiva Nielson 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Nielson, M. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Neodocalidia
Neodocalidia connectiva

description: Neodocalidia connectiva sp. nov.    ( Plate 1B; Figures 9–16)
 Length. Male 7.50 mm. Female unknown.
Characters of external morphology, color and male genitalia as in description of genus (Plate 1B; Figures 9– 16).
 Material examined. Holotype male. COLOMBIA: Vaupés, R.N. Mosiro-Itajura (Capari), Centro Ambiental, 1º4’S – 69º3’W, 60 m., Red 1/20/03–2/1/03, M. Sharkey y D. Arias, Leg., M. 3387 (IAHC).
 Etymology. The name is descriptive for the unusual configuration of the connective.
 Remarks. This species unique and has no known relatives.
description: Published as part of Nielson, M. W., 2011, Tribe Teruliini: new genera and new species of Neotropical leafhoppers with a revised key to genera and species, new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 2795 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2952.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10095398
The development of a peptide probe for the MyosinA : Myosin A tailing interacting protein (MTIP) found in Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Saunders, Charlie
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Malaria remains an endemic tropical disease and the emergence of Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant to current gold-standard medicines means that new therapeutic targets are required. Two separate approaches to discover new therapies and targets are discussed in this thesis. The first approach explores the potential druggability of an essential protein-protein interaction of the invasion machinery, found in the glideosome of the Plasmodium parasite. The Myosin A (MyoA): Myosin A tail interacting protein (MTIP) interaction is thought to provide the motive force required for the invasion of a host cell. This chapter details the design and development of peptide-based probes for the anchor point of this key protein-protein interaction. The peptides displayed low nanomolar binding affinity and were successfully modified to enhance cell penetration. Competitive target engagement with native PfMTIP was demonstrated through a combination of western blot and chemical proteomics. These results provide new insights into the potential druggability of the PfMyoA/PfMTIPinteraction. The second approach builds upon the results of a high-throughput screen which discovered a novel family of compounds with potent activity against Plasmodium male gametocytes. This chapter details the design of photoreactive/clickable analogues of the most potent hit, in order facilitate target-ID experiments. A range of photoreactive moieties were considered, efforts to synthesise the first-choice diazirine bearing molecules proved unsuccessful. A synthetic route to produce a molecule incorporating alkyne and aryl azide moieties was subsequently developed. The molecule was synthesised, shown to retain low micromolar potency (IC50 = 4.59 mM) against Plasmodium male gametocytes and used in preliminary protein labelling experiments.