cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Biomechanics and osteoarthritis: a novel rat model
Creators: name: Britzman, David
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: This thesis has made a number of significant contributions to the evaluation of rodent joint biomechanics, and the relationship between these biomechanics and osteoarthritic pathology. It has presented the first use of static optimization based techniques to evaluate in vivo muscle and joint contact forces in the rat, with model outputs comparing well to experimentally collected kinematics and joint kinetics. The sensitivity of the model to errors in marker placement, muscle geometry and segmental properties was evaluated using elementary effects methods. It was found that errors in marker placement had the largest effect on most model outputs, with the exception of muscle forces, which showed far greater sensitivity to changes in muscle geometry. After validating the model ouputs and their sensitivity to potential sources of experimental error, the effect of inclination and speed on joint kinetics and kinematics was investigated. This was undertaken both to predict the potential of the techniques to differentiate pathologically different gait and to evaluate whether variations in speed and/or inclination could increase medial joint loading to provide a non-invasive method to accelerate osteoarthritic progression in future disease models. It was found that increasing inclination increased the total knee joint contact forces, whereas increasing speed preferentially increased medial side loading. Finally a novel surgical model of malalignment induced osteoarthritis in rats was developed via a high tibial osteotomy (HTO). Biomarkers of cartilage turnover as well as tibial compressive loading in the medial knee compartment measured via musculoskeletal modelling were shown to be significantly higher in HTO operated animals and correlated well with histological grading. This model demonstrates the fact that increasing medial joint loading alone is enough to induce the development of OA and future work will hope to develop the idea of malalignment induced osteoarthritis as a distinct disease phenotype.
The effective modelling of wave-in-deck loads
Creators: name: Ma, Li
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: The present study addresses the effective prediction of wave-in-deck (WID) loads. This is of increasing concern for the design of offshore structures, particularly for existing structures that require re-assessment against changes in 'design' conditions. To begin, the short-term crest-height statistics over a finite plan area (appropriate to WID loading) were investigated experimentally. When compared to measurements taken at a single point, large increases in the incident crest elevations were observed. These increases, caused by nonlinear amplification and nonlinear wave evolution, show clearly defined departures from 2nd-order theoretical predictions. A new experimental study has been conducted to investigate the underlying physics of WID loading. A wide range of incident wave properties (including variations in crest elevation, spectral peak period, directionality and spectral bandwidth) have been considered, together with the location and direction of the WID loading. This new data confirmed that the characteristics of the loading is fundamentally determined by a combination of the incident wave shape and the associated underlying water particle kinematics; their relative importance governed by the occurrence of wave breaking. Furthermore, a wide range of topside structure configurations have also been considered. In particular, these confirmed the critical influence of the porosity of the deck structure. Based on the improved physical understanding, a new WID load model was developed. This adopts an improved momentum-flux formulation. The model does not instantaneously dissipated all of the incident wave momentum, and allows water to exit the deck structure with un-dissipated momentum. When coupled with a fully-nonlinear wave solution, the new load model accurately predicts both the magnitude and time-history of global WID loads. Finally, the new load model was incorporated within a Monte-Carlo simulation to predict the short-term distribution of WID loads. The incident wave profiles arising within a random sea-state and the associated water particle kinematics were first predicted using a linear solution. These results were then corrected for nonlinear effects. This approach provides descriptions that are both accurate and computationally efficient, and therefore appropriate for use in a Monte-Carlo simulation. The predicted short-term load statistics were shown to be in very good agreement with experimental measurements.
Impact of higher capital requirements on bank funding costs: Australian evidence
Creators: name: Nguyen, Linh
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In response to the experience of the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, capital requirements have been raised for banks across many jurisdictions. With the highly concentrated nature of the Australian banking sector and the implementation of an imputation tax system, an ideal natural experimental environment is available to empirically examine the impact of higher capital requirements on bank funding costs in a small open economy that is heavily reliant on banks for funding economic growth. This study examines the extent to which the risk premium on bank equity decreases as more equity is added to a bank's capital structure, as predicted by the Modigliani-Miller (M-M) theorem. The results suggest that the M-M offset effct on equity risk is realised to around 25% to 30% of the extent it would be if the M-M theorem held exactly. A reduction in the equity risk premium helps cushion the impact of higher equity capital requirements on bank funding costs. Therefore, a doubling in bank market capital from 10% to 20% of total assets would have a relatively mild impact on bank funding costs in the long-run, ranging from 18 basis points (bps) to 55 bps for small banks and from 36 bps to 94 bps for large banks. The cost to banks of maintaining higher risk-based regulatory capital ratios is further reduced when the risk weightings on bank assets are less than one and the bank equity trades at market-to-book ratios greater than one.
Additional file 12: Figure S5. of Whole genome sequencing of the monomorphic pathogen Mycobacterium bovis reveals local differentiation of cattle clinical isolates
Creators: name: Lasserre, Moira
name: Fresia, Pablo
name: Greif, Gonzalo
name: Iraola, Gregorio
name: Castro-Ramos, Miguel
name: Juambeltz, Arturo
name: Nuñez, Álvaro
name: Naya, Hugo
name: Robello, Carlos
name: Berná, Luisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Bar plots displaying the number of genes affected per strain that are associated to the GO terms carbohydrate metabolic process and peptidoglycan-based cell wall biogenesis. (PDF 1342 kb)
Query data inconsistency for business processes
Creators: name: Tang, Yongping
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Business processes are designed to achieve business goals under procedural rules by orchestrating tasks, information and documents. Managing data inconsistency in business processes is a challenging task. If not managed properly, business will face negative financial consequences. For instance, in a typical service business process, dispatching invoice depends on service being ready. When starting to dispatch invoice, if the service is not yet deployed, the invoice will be wrong and there may be financial damage to the business. From literatures, some work provides modelling for business process execution with notations of activities, events and flows and deals with inconsistency problem by patterns; some work analyses data generated in business process and investigates the reachability between data points. Although substantial works have been done, the data inconsistency problem has not been properly resolved. In particular, it is still lacking of modelling language and resolution for inconsistency caused by multiple starting points of business processes and dynamics of business processes execution. This thesis provides data consistency solution in three aspects: a business process modelling in enriched business workflow notation with data states and temporal properties, a classification of data consistency categories, and a workflow query algorithm to discovery data inconsistency issue.
Coherent Optomechanical State Transfer between Disparate Mechanical Resonators
Creators: name: Weaver, Matthew J.
name: Buters, Frank M.
name: Luna, Fernando
name: Eerkens, Hedwig J.
name: Heeck, Kier
name: de Man, Sven
name: Bouwmeester, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hybrid quantum systems have been developed with various mechanical, optical and microwave harmonic oscillators. The coupling produces a rich library of interactions including two mode squeezing, swapping interactions, back-action evasion and thermal control. In a multimode mechanical system, coupling resonators of different scales (both in frequency and mass) leverages the advantages of each resonance. For example: a high frequency, easily manipulated resonator could be entangled with a low frequency massive object for tests of gravitational decoherence. Here we demonstrate coherent optomechanical state swapping between two spatially and frequency separated resonators with a mass ratio of 4. We find that, by using two laser beams far detuned from an optical cavity resonance, efficient state transfer is possible through a process very similar to STIRAP (Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage) in atomic physics. Although the demonstration is classical, the same technique can be used to generate entanglement between oscillators in the quantum regime.
Optical properties of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides enhanced by plasmonic nanostructures
Creators: name: Wang, Zhuo
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: As a typical two dimensional (2D) materials system, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) such as tungsten diselenide (WSe2) and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) have been demonstrated to be potentially useful building blocks for optoelectronic integrated circuits. However, being atomically thin limits light-matter interaction, resulting in low light-to-light or light-to-electron conversion efficiency. Hence, enhancing their light emission or photoelectron extraction efficiency are critical for integrating these materials in devices. The first part of this thesis focuses on enhancing the linear light absorption and emission of WSe2 by placement on sub-20-nm-wide gold trenches. We report a giant photoluminescence (PL) with an enhancement factor of 20,000 from monolayer WSe2 over the trenches, due to enhanced absorption and Purcell factor by lateral gap plasmons confined in the trenches. This work paves a way towards plasmon-enhanced nonlinear optical properties, photodetectors and sensors of TMDCs. The second part reports enhanced second harmonic generation (SHG) at 400 nm from monolayer WSe2 over the trenches, owing to the intensification of local fields at the excitation wavelength induced by gap plasmons in the trenches. Furthermore, the trenches aligned in a single direction allows for dynamic tuning of the SHG amplitude from WSe2 by selective excitation of the gap plasmon. This work demonstrates a practical approach for optimizing the nonlinear optical properties of TMDCs, which can be utilized to configure a tunable nonlinear light emitter. Chapter 5 investigates the hot-carrier relaxation and extraction mechanisms in MoS2, revealing the photo-electron conversion processes. We report a slower hot-carrier cooling for C-excitons in MoS2 owing to favorable band alignment and transient excited-state Coulomb environment and demonstrate a high hot-carrier extraction efficiency (80%) in MoS2 monolayer/graphene heterostructures. This work provides experimental and theoretical physics insights for the photo-electron conversion process in TMDCs.
The chemical enrichment of long-GRB nurseries up to z=2
Creators: name: Vergani, S. D.
name: Palmerio, J.
name: Salvaterra, R.
name: Japelj, J.
name: Mannucci, F.
name: Perley, D. A.
name: D'Avanzo, P.
name: Krühler, T.
name: Puech, M.
name: Boissier, S.
name: Campana, S.
name: Covino, S.
name: Hunt, L. K.
name: Petitjean, P.
name: Tagliaferri, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the existence of a metallicity threshold for the production of long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs). We used the host galaxies of the Swift/BAT6 sample of LGRBs. We considered the stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), and metallicity determined from the host galaxy photometry and spectroscopy up to z = 2 and used them to compare the distribution of host galaxies to that of field galaxies in the mass-metallicity and fundamental metallicity relation plane. We find that although LGRBs also form in galaxies with relatively large stellar masses, the large majority of host galaxies have metallicities below log(O=H)~8.6. The extension to z = 2 results in a good sampling of stellar masses also above Log(Mstar/Msun)~9.5 and provides evidence that LGRB host galaxies do not follow the fundamental metallicity relation. As shown by the comparison with dedicated numerical simulations of LGRB host galaxy population, these results are naturally explained by the existence of a mild (~0.7 Zsun) threshold for the LGRB formation. The present statistics does not allow us to discriminate between different shapes of the metallicity cutoff, but the relatively high metallicity threshold found in this work is somewhat in disagreement to most of the standard single-star models for LGRB progenitors.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in A&A on 27/12/2016
Investigating the activation mechanism of discoidin domain receptor 1 using advanced microscopy techniques
Creators: name: Corcoran, David Stephen
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: The discoidin domain receptors (DDR1 and DDR2) are unusual receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) that function as collagen receptors and regulate cell migration, adhesion, and differentiation. Ligand binding to the extracellular region of RTKs results in kinase activity and autophosphorylation of tyrosine residues on the intracellular side. For most RTKs, the molecular mechanism of receptor activation involves ligand-induced dimerisation. However, the DDRs exist as constitutive dimers in the absence of collagen. In addition, it is thought ligand-induced conformational changes within the DDR dimer cannot be transferred to the intracellular side. The DDRs also activate very slowly, over hours rather than seconds to minutes as is typical for other RTKs. As such, the DDRs employ a unique activation mechanism that is currently poorly understood. In this thesis, I investigate the activation mechanism of DDR1 using various microscopy techniques. DDR1 was found to be distributed on the cell surface in distinct puncta that are dependent on specific transmembrane interactions. Collagen is known to bind to a binding trench on the extracellular discoidin domain of DDR1, and here the data show collagen binding requires another site, the conserved “signalling patch” residues, which may be a secondary collagen binding site or a site for DDR1-protein interactions essential for collagen binding. Within 5 minutes of collagen binding, DDR1 redistributes on the cell surface, and over 60 minutes of stimulation DDR1 increasingly aggregates. DDR1 phosphorylation correlates with the increasing aggregation. In addition, the aggregation results in DDR1 molecules moving within 10 nm of each other, and preliminary experiments suggest this occurs between DDR1 dimers. Ligand-independent aggregation of DDR1, through incubation with a pentameric IgM antibody, also results in DDR1 phosphorylation. This thesis supports an activation mechanism where collagen binding promotes DDR1 aggregation between DDR1 dimers, which may be required for phosphorylation to occur.
Annihilation of Domain Walls in a Ferromagnetic Wire
Creators: name: Ghosh, Anirban
name: Huang, Kevin S.
name: Tchernyshyov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the annihilation of topological solitons in the simplest setting: a one-dimensional ferromagnet with an easy axis. We develop an effective theory of the annihilation process in terms of four collective coordinates: two zero modes of the translational and rotational symmetries $Z$ and $Φ$, representing the average position and azimuthal angle of the two solitons, and two conserved momenta $ζ$ and $φ$, representing the relative distance and twist. Comparison with micromagnetic simulations shows that our approach captures well the essential physics of the process.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 2: Table S1. of SNPs related to vitamin D and breast cancer risk: a case-control study
Creators: name: Huss, Linnea
name: Butt, Salma
name: Almgren, Peter
name: Borgquist, Signe
name: Brandt, Jasmine
name: FĂśrsti, Asta
name: Melander, Olle
name: Manjer, Jonas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology

description: Baseline characteristics of control subjects and subjects with and without data on SNPs/vitamin D. (DOCX 24 kb)
Fantastic PIDs and Where NOT to Find Them
Creators: name: Ioannidis, Alex
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: One would have thought we’re probably not that far away from completing the Catalogue of Life, this vast encyclopedia of all animal and plant species, right? Not even close! Even though bio-taxonomists have tried for centuries to systematically document life, they couldn’t even imagine the complications these dark ages of digital information brought to their noble cause. Apparently, chameleons, spiders, and big cats don’t only hide in nature, but also behind pay-walled publications and badly scanned 18th-century manuscripts. Millions of figures, taxonomic descriptions, and collected materials end up lost, destroyed, and undiscoverable to the research community.

 This is a story of how Plazi, a non-profit association for bio-taxonomic literature, took up the task to liberate life from these PDF cages, give it a FAIR chance, and with the help of Zenodo put a PID on it and provide a safe and sustainable home. It is also a story on how, similar to wildlife, even data can disguise itself inside papers but eventually using the power of PIDs join the tree of life and make it bloom. We’ll explore what these fantastic PIDs look like, and how we make it possible for anybody to find them even in the darkest corners of tropical rainforests and harsh deserts.
Higher-twist B-meson Distribution Amplitudes in HQET
Creators: name: Braun, V. M.
name: Ji, Yao
name: Manashov, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic study of higher-twist distribution amplitudes (DAs) of the B-meson which give rise to power-suppressed $1/m_B$ contributions to B-decays in final states with energetic light particles in the framework of QCD factorization. As the main result, we find that the renormalization group equations for the three-particle distributions are completely integrable in the large $N_c$ limit and can be solved exactly. General properties of the solutions are studied. We propose simple models for higher-twist DAs which satify all existing constraints and can be used in phenomenological studies.
description: 42 pages, 4 figures
A macro investigation into the evidence for circular economy initiatives in India: national policy, key indicators and future implications
Creators: name: Talwar, Simran
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The idea that a circular economy (CE) signifies an inevitable transition to a sustainable future, where the often divergent goals of economic growth and ecological conservation harmoniously function in tandem, is gaining prominence in both academia and industry. This study reviews the present policy structure, significant indicators and future outlook of CE underpinnings within the Indian context. India’s burgeoning economy and rapidly expanding manufacturing pursuits have placed enormous burden on its resource security and already substantial dependence on coal as a source of energy. The nation’s thrust on renewables envisages optimistic prospects of attaining the targeted GDP growth while decoupling the impact on domestic material and energy sources. In the midst of immense international scrutiny and quantified targets for reduction of emissions and energy intensity, this study offers an extensive review of India’s accomplishments in decoupling resource use from economic growth and related policy framework. Evidence of CE implementation is established through the case of a steel manufacturer. While CE presents a national socio-economic growth strategy for China, India is yet to develop a comprehensive CE plan. The results of the review suggest substantial gaps in current action vis-à-vis targeted long-term ecological goals. This initial examination has facilitated a deeper understanding of the present and future drivers of circular economic action in India, and how these compare with the still-evolving worldwide CE agenda. Caution is critical in assessing the application of alternative economic models to the developing world, since their economic-environmental-social foundations and goals differ from those of the developed world. Future research into field-level data collection and assessment will build upon the present findings and enable a more complete evaluation of India’s path to CE accomplishment.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IV, Cart. 188 (11 H 73), f. 0073v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IV, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 188 (11 H 73), f. 0073v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IV, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 188 (11 H 73), f. 0073v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Units of skew monoidal categories and skew monoidales in Span
Creators: name: Andrianopoulos, Jim
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis is about skew monoidal categories and consists of two relatively independent chapters, the first of which shows that the units of a skew monoidal category are unique up to a unique isomorphism, and internalises this fact to skew monoidales. Some benefits of certain extra structure on the unit maps are also discussed. We include some remarks on the unit conditions for a monoidal functor between skew monoidal categories that generalises the earlier uniqueness result. In the second, an interesting characterisation of a skew monoidale in the monoidal bicategory Span is given, generalising the case where the unit of the skew monoidale is of a certain restricted form, along with an example. Finally in an appendix, we show that the five axioms of a skew monoidal category are independent.
Hyperbolic rank rigidity for manifolds of $\frac14$-pinched negative curvature
Creators: name: Connell, Chris
name: Nguyen, Thang
name: Spatzier, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C24, 53C20, 37D40

description: A Riemannian manifold $M$ has higher hyperbolic rank if every geodesic has a perpendicular Jacobi field making sectional curvature -1 with the geodesic. If in addition, the sectional curvatures of $M$ lie in the interval $[-1,-\frac14]$, and $M$ is closed, we show that $M$ is a locally symmetric space of rank one. This partially extends work by Constantine using completely different methods. It is also a partial converse to Hamenstädt's hyperbolic rank rigidity result for sectional curvatures $\leq -1$, and complements well-known results on Euclidean and spherical rank rigidity.
description: 20 pages
Plasmoid drift and first wall heat deposition during ITER H-mode dual-SPIs in JOREK simulations
Creators: name: Hu, D.
name: Artola, F. J.
name: Nardon, E.
name: Lehnen, M.
name: Kong, M.
name: Bonfiglio, D.
name: Hoelzl, M.
name: Huijsmans, G. T. A.
name: Team, JOREK
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The heat flux mitigation during the Thermal Quench (TQ) by the Shattered Pellet Injection (SPI) is one of the major elements of disruption mitigation strategy for ITER. It's efficiency greatly depends on the SPI and the target plasma, and is ultimately checked by the heat deposition on to the PFCs. To investigate this, JOREK simulations of neon-mixed dual-SPIs into ITER baseline H-mode and a "degraded H-mode" with and without good injector synchronization are performed with focus on the first wall heat flux and its energy impact. It is found that low neon fraction SPIs into the baseline H-mode plasmas exhibit strong major radial plasmoid drift as the fragments arrive at the pedestal, accompanied by edge stochasticity. Significant density expulsion and outgoing heat flux occurs as a result, reducing the mitigation efficiency. Such drift motion could be mitigated by injecting higher neon fraction pellets', or by considering the pre-disruption confinement degradation, thus improving the radiation fraction. The radiation heat flux is found to peak in the vicinity of the fragment injection location in the early injection phase, while it relaxes later on due to parallel impurity transport. The overall radiation asymmetry could be significantly mitigated by good synchronization. Time integration of the local heat flux is carried out to provide its energy impact for wall heat damage assessment. For the baseline H-mode case with full pellet injection, melting of the stainless steel of the diagnostic port could occur near the injection port, which is acceptable, without any melting of the first wall tungsten tiles. For the degraded H-mode cases with quarter-pellet SPIs, which have 1/4 total volume of a full pellet, the maximum energy impact approaches the tolerable limit of the stainless steel with un-synchronized SPIs, and stays well below such limit for the perfectly synchronized ones.
Additional file 1: Figure S6. of Improving zebrafish embryo xenotransplantation conditions by increasing incubation temperature and establishing a proliferation index with ZFtool
Creators: name: Cabezas-Sainz, Pablo
name: Guerra-Varela, Jorge
name: Carreira, María
name: Mariscal, Javier
name: Roel, María
name: Rubiolo, Juan
name: Sciara, Andrés
name: Abal, Miguel
name: Botana, Luis
name: López, Rafael
name: Sánchez, Laura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Revision of parameters regarding xenotransplantation conditions. (PDF 296 kb)
Nambu identity and collective modes in superconductors and superfluid $^3$He
Creators: name: Shchedrin, Gavriil
name: Lee, David M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collective modes manifest themselves in a variety of different physical systems ranging from superconductors to superfluid $^{3}$He. The collective modes are generated via the Higgs-Anderson mechanism that is based on the symmetry breaking double well potential. Recently collective modes were explored in superconducting NbN and InO in the presence of a strong terahertz laser field. In both cases a single collective mode that oscillates with twice the frequency of the superconducting energy gap $Δ$ was discovered. Superfluid $^{3}$He is the host for a whole variety of collective modes. In particular, in the superfluid $^{3}$He B-phase, two massive collective modes were found with masses $\sqrt{{8}/{5}}Δ$ and $\sqrt{{12}/{5}}Δ$. We show that for both cases of the superconducting films and for the superfluid $^{3}$He B-phase, the collective modes satisfy the Nambu identity that relates the masses of different collective modes to the energy gap parameter $Δ$.
Term structure modeling, forecasting and implications for monetary policy
Creators: name: Marknual, Chamadanai
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the macro-finance-fiscal term structure model to incorporate fiscal instability variables and the term spread to understand the impact of the sovereign debt crisis on the evolution of the yield curve. My findings reveal financial instability increases the term spread associated with the expectation of higher sovereign default risk and consequently signals economic agents to reduce their spending, and thus worsens economic activity. Secondly, I also investigate whether the dynamic factor model with nonparametric factor loadings is more accurate relative to other term structure models by employing the dynamic semi-parametric factor model (DSFM). The empirical results indicate that a better in-sample fit is provided by the dynamic semiparametric factor model. However, the overall forecasting results are not encouraging. The dynamic semiparametric factor model provides accurate results in forecasting a persistent trend while the dynamic Nelson-Siegel model is more suitable to fit more volatile series. Thirdly,I use a Sheen-Trueck-Wang business conditions index for term structure modeling and forecasting. I find the cross-sectional yield provides guidance to anchor the yield in the next period. The prediction performance of the model is enhancedby using the index since it includes information on frequently released or more recent available data. The index is significantly related to the slope factor, which suggests the forward-looking information from the index inuences the adjustmentthe in the yield slope. Lastly, I examine the effectiveness of the US quantitative easing (QE) policy with a Bayesian structural vector auto regressive (B-SVAR)model with sign restrictions. I find the transmission mechanism of the Federal Reserve asset purchase effectively expands output and avert deflation through a compression in the yield spread.
Gilbert damping of magnetostatic modes in a yttrium iron garnet sphere
Creators: name: Klingler, Stefan
name: Maier-Flaig, Hannes
name: Dubs, Carsten
name: Surzhenko, Oleskii
name: Gross, Rudolf
name: Huebl, Hans
name: Goennenwein, Sebastian T. B.
name: Weiler, Mathias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetostatic mode (MSM) spectrum of a 300$μ$m diameter single crystalline sphere of yttrium iron garnet is investigated using broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR). The individual MSMs are identified via their characteristic dispersion relations and the corresponding mode number tuples $(nmr)$ are assigned. Taking FMR data over a broad frequency and magnetic field range allows to analyze both the Gilbert damping parameter~$α$ and the inhomogeneous line broadening contribution to the total linewidth of the MSMs separately. The linewidth analysis shows that all MSMs share the same Gilbert damping parameter $α=2.7(5) \times 10^{-5}$ irrespective of their mode index. In contrast, the inhomogeneous line broadening shows a pronounced mode dependence. This observation is modeled in terms of two-magnon scattering processes of the MSMs into the spin-wave manifold, mediated by surface and volume defects.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Image Processing Based Forest Fire Detection
Creators: name: V, Vipin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A novel approach for forest fire detection using image processing technique is proposed. A rule-based color model for fire pixel classification is used. The proposed algorithm uses RGB and YCbCr color space. The advantage of using YCbCr color space is that it can separate the luminance from the chrominance more effectively than RGB color space. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested on two sets of images, one of which contains fire; the other contains fire-like regions. Standard methods are used for calculating the performance of the algorithm. The proposed method has both higher detection rate and lower false alarm rate. Since the algorithm is cheap in computation, it can be used for real-time forest fire detection.
description: 9 pages
Additional file 2: of Genetic variation associated with healthy traits and environmental conditions in Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Creators: name: Zobayer Alam
name: Roncal, Julissa
name: PeĂąa-Castillo, Lourdes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60506 Virology

description: PCoA plots. (PDF 104 kb)
Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology Share - Neurophysiology, Neuroimaging, System Perturbation
Creators: name: Kikuchi, Yukiko
name: Balezeau, Fabien
name: Caffaratti, Hugo
name: Calmus, Ryan Michael
name: Rocchi, Francesca
name: Oya, Hiroyuki
name: Petkov, Chris
name: Wikman, Patrik
name: Kocsis, Zsuzsanna
name: Slater, Ben
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2020
Subjects: Auditory
Cognition
Electrophysiology
Human
Intracranial
Multisensory
Neuroimaging
Neuron
Neurophysiology
Primate
Systems Neuroscience
Transcranial ultrasound
Ultrasound
inTUS Resource

description: Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology Share
title: ADCO, Troisième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVIe), Cart. 23 (G 127), 310 folios, f. 00264
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2011
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Troisième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVIe), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 23 (G 127), 310 folios, f. 00264, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Troisième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVIe), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 23 (G 127), 310 folios, f. 00264, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Spanish version of the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ-S)
Creators: name: Campos, Alfredo
name: Marks, David Francis
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2024
Subjects: Individual differences
Mental imagery
Self-report measures
VMIQ
VVIQ
VVIQ-2
VVIQ-C
VVIQ-F
VVIQ-J
VVIQ-O
VVIQ-P
Vividness

description: A Spanish version of the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ-S)
Additional file 2: Figure S2. of Comparative genome and phenotypic analysis of three Clostridioides difficile strains isolated from a single patient provide insight into multiple infection of C. difficile
Creators: name: Groß, Uwe
name: Elzbieta Brzuszkiewicz
name: Gunka, Katrin
name: Starke, Jessica
name: Riedel, Thomas
name: Boyke Bunk
name: Spröer, Cathrin
name: Wetzel, Daniela
name: Poehlein, Anja
name: Chibani, Cynthia
name: Bohne, Wolfgang
name: Overmann, Jörg
name: Zimmermann, Ortrud
name: Daniel, Rolf
name: Liesegang, Heiko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Sporulation assay of DSM 27638, DSM 27639 and DSM 27640 on ChromID plates after 5 days incubation on BHIS. All three isolates show a comparable count of spores that germinated on the plate. (DOCX 275 kb)
Response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the innate immune system-derived oxidants hypochlorous acid and hypothiocyanous acid
Creators: name: Farrant, Katie Victoria
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: P. aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that causes infections in immunocompromised hosts including chronic infections in the lungs of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients, which are ineffectively cleared by the host immune response and associated with a poor prognosis. The host’s innate immune cells produce reactive species to target the bacteria, including the neutrophil-derived oxidant hypochlorous acid (HOCl) and the epithelial cell-derived oxidant hypothiocyanous acid (HOSCN). Both systems are implicated in CF due to the proposed ion transport roles of the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) channel, which is mutated in CF. CFTR is proposed to transport chloride ions into the phagosome, where they are required for HOCl production and to transport thiocyanate ions into the airway surface liquid where they form HOSCN. Little is known about how P. aeruginosa responds to and avoids being killed by these oxidants, therefore my thesis aimed to address this. A screening approach to determine PA14 transposon mutants with altered HOCl susceptibility was performed to reveal regulators involved in bacterial protection from HOCl. This identified regulators involved in methionine biosynthesis, catabolite repression, and antibiotic resistance, and demonstrated a role for the novel regulator HcsR, a homolog of the E. coli HOCl-sensor RclR, in HOCl protection. Characterisation of this regulator found that it binds to the promoter region of hcsA and responds specifically to HOCl and HOSCN stress, perhaps via oxidation of its redox-active residues; this results in its activation and expression of hcsA encoding a putative peroxiredoxin required for HOCl protection. Investigation of the HcsR regulon revealed that HcsR predominately regulates hcsA expression in response to HOCl. However it positively regulates 132 genes and negatively regulates 213 genes in response to HOSCN, including activation of pyocyanin and denitrification genes and repression of heat shock and Type III secretion system (T3SS) genes. Transcriptome profiling of P. aeruginosa following HOCl or HOSCN exposure revealed significant overlap in the bacterial response to these oxidants, including expression of T3SS, taurine transport systems, the MexEF-OprN multidrug efflux pump, and non-coding RNAs. These data indicate that the bacterial response to HOCl and HOSCN is multifaceted, with HcsR playing an essential role, and additionally involves various mechanisms involved in virulence factor production, metabolism, antibiotic resistance and repairing oxidised macromolecules. This work forms the foundation from which the importance of these mechanisms in protecting P. aeruginosa against these oxidants in the context of CF infection can be further explored.
Analyzing the Correlation Between Thermal and Kinematic Parameters in Various Multiplicity Classes within 7 and 13 TeV pp Collisions
Creators: name: Waqas, Muhammad
name: Bietenholz, Wolfgang
name: Bouzidi, Mohamed
name: Ajaz, Muhammad
name: Ismail, Abd Al Karim Haj
name: Saidani, Taoufik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the transverse momentum spectra of identified particles at 7 TeV and 13 TeV in pp collisions in the framework of the blast wave model with Tsallis statistics (TBW). Based on experimental data by ALICE Collaboration, we observe that the model describes the $p_T$ spectra well with the common Tsallis temperature (T) and flow velocity (β_T) but separate non-extensive parameters (q) for baryons and mesons. The parameter dependence on multiplicity as well as on collision energy is investigated, and a strong dependence on the former while a weak dependence on the latter is reported. The extracted parameters in this work consist of the initial temperature (T_i), the average transverse momentum (), the T, β_T, and the q. These parameters are found to increase a little with increasing energy, however, they (except the parameter q) decrease significantly with decreasing multiplicity. We observe that $β_T$ drops to zero after the multiplicity class VII, while, $T$ and $q$ do not change their behavior. Furthermore, our analysis explore the correlations among different parameters, including associations with the charged particle multiplicity per unit pseudorapidity (dN_{ch}/dη). The correlation between T and beta_T, T and dN_{ch}/dη, β_T and dN_{ch}/dη, T_i and and T_i and dN_{ch}/dηdemonstrates a positive relationship, while, the correlation between T and q-1, and q-1 and dN_{ch}/dηis negative. Finally, we implement an extra flow correction on the T parameter. Our findings reveal that the Doppler-corrected temperature parameter aligns closely with the T in scenarios with lower multiplicities. However, as the multiplicity increases, a noticeable divergence emerges between these parameters, indicating a widening separation between them.
description: 28 pages, 10 figures
Investigating carotenoid and α-tocopherol levels in preclinical Alzheimer's disease
Creators: name: Saks, Danit Gila
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Oxidative stress, a well-documented contributor to neurodegeneration, has been shown to be an early feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and may have preclinical significance. Carotenoids and vitamins have been proposed to have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-amyloidogenic potentials, which interrupts the oxidative stress pathway, protecting against neurodegeneration. The protective effect of these biomolecules has been reported in cognitive decline and AD progression, however, it has not yet been investigated in cognitively normal individuals at higher risk for AD, in relation to amyloid-β. This study investigates whether there is an association between plasma carotenoids and α-tocopherol levels, and neocortical amyloid-β load (NAL) prior to the onset of clinical AD.
Large $N$ correlation functions in $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quivers
Creators: name: Pini, Alessandro
name: Rodriguez-Gomez, Diego
name: Russo, Jorge G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using supersymmetric localization, we consider four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver gauge theories obtained from $\mathbb{Z}_n$ orbifolds of $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory in the large $N$ limit at weak coupling. In particular, we show that: 1) The partition function for arbitrary couplings can be constructed in terms of universal building blocks. 2) It can be computed in perturbation series, which converges uniformly for $|λ_I|
Molecular rotors as novel probes of protein aggregation
Creators: name: Kubankova, Marketa
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Molecular rotors are a class of fluorophores that display environmentally-sensitive photophysics. The fluorescence intensities and lifetimes of these molecules strongly depend upon the viscosity of their immediate surroundings, the surrounding “microviscosity”. In this work, molecular rotors are employed to investigate protein aggregation, the assembly of proteins into amyloid. Amyloid materials are a hallmark of several serious human diseases, yet they are also known to have important functional roles in organisms. The physicochemical conditions that lead to protein aggregation are still poorly understood and characterisation of the pathways of assembly is an important goal amongst researchers. It is equally important to study the effects of protein aggregation on living cells, both intrinsic and extrinsic, mediated through interactions with the membrane. In this work, the aggregation of various proteins in vitro and in the cellular environment was studied by measuring fluorescence decays of molecular rotors using time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy. The experimental results revealed mechanistic details of aggregation that were not observed previously with alternative techniques. Moreover, the data provided quantitative measurements of the changes of mechanical properties (i.e. microrheology) of living cells as a result of protein aggregation. As such, the results demonstrate that molecular rotors are a powerful tool for investigating protein aggregation and the supramolecular assembly of proteins in general.
Application of risk-based fuzzy decision support systems in new product development: An R-VIKOR approach
Creators: name: Mousavi, Seyedeh Anahita
name: Seiti, Hamidreza
name: Hafezalkotob, Ashkan
name: Asian, Sobhan
name: Mobarra, Rouhollah
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4605
subject: Data management and data science
classificationCode: 4609
subject: Information systems

description: No description supplied
Application of risk-based fuzzy decision support systems in new product development: An R-VIKOR approach
Creators: name: Seyedeh Anahita Mousavi
name: Hamidreza Seiti
name: Ashkan Hafezalkotob
name: Sobhan Asian
name: Rouhollah Mobarra
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description supplied