cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Are plastocyanin and ferredoxin specific electron carriers or generic redox capacitors? Classical and murburn perspectives on two photosynthetic proteins
Creators: name: Gideon, Daniel Andrew
name: Nirusimhan, Vijay
name: Manoj, Kelath Murali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
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: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: In the light reaction of oxygenic photosynthesis, plastocyanin (PC) and ferredoxins (Fd) are small/diffusible redox-active proteins playing key roles in electron transfer/transport phenomena. In the Z-scheme mechanistic purview, they are considered as specific affinity binding-based electron-relay agents, linking the functions of Cytochrome b6f (Cyt. b6f), Photosystem I (PS I) and Fd:NADPH oxidoreductase (FNR). The murburn explanation for photolytic photophosphorylation deems PC/Fd as generic ‘redox capacitors’, temporally accepting and releasing one-electron equivalents in reaction milieu. Herein, we explore the two theories with respect to structural, distributional and functional aspects of PC/Fd. Amino acid residues located on the surface loci of key patches of PC/Fd vary in electrostatic/contour (topography) signatures. Crystal structures of four different complexes each of Cyt.f-PC and Fd-FNR show little conservation in the contact-surfaces, thereby discrediting ‘affinity binding-based electron transfers (ET)’ as an evolutionary logic. Further, thermodynamic and kinetic data of wildtype and mutant proteins interactions do not align with Z-scheme. Furthermore, micromolar physiological concentrations of PC and the non-conducive architecture of chloroplasts render the classical model untenable. In the murburn model, as PC is optional, the observation that plants lacking PC survive and grow is justified. Further, the low physiological concentration/distribution of PC in chloroplast lumen/stroma is supported by murburn equilibriums, as higher concentrations would limit electron transfers. Thus, structural evidence, interactive dynamics with redox partners and physiological distribution/role of PC/Fd support the murburn perspective that these proteins serve as generic redox-capacitors in chloroplasts. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Staying Ahead of the Future: Developing Your Library's Collection Philosophy and Policy (handout)
Creators: name: Kubilius, Ramune
name: Lawrence, Janna C.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: collection development policies
subject: collection development philosophies
subject: Libraries, Medical
subject: Libraries, Hospital
subject: Library Collection Development
subject: Collection development (Libraries)--Policy statements

description: Handout prepared for use in an on-site Medical Library Association session held May 5, 2022 in New Orleans, LA. The session, planned and convened by the handout authors, was one in a series of six that were part of:  "The Big-Not-So-Easy: 21st Century Health Sciences Collection Development & Resource Sharing Symposium". This session included on-site speaker, Montie' L. Dobbins and recorded film clips by: Karen H. Gau, Karen Hanus, and Susan K. Kendall. Highlights from participant discussions were summarized in the handout update after the session.
description: presentation_location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
A comparative study of the values of freshmen and seniors by degree major in a university setting
Creators: name: Papineau, Robert F.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the instrumental and terminal values, as assessed through the Rokeach Value Survey, Form D, of a sample of freshmen and senior university students, and to ascertain differences, if any, between the two samples when students were classified by degree major (social science, business, fine and applied arts, engineering), and to draw implications from the findings regarding the influence of the curriculum on student values. The study hypothesized that the ordering of instrumental and terminal values of the study sample of freshmen would differ significantly from those of the study sample of seniors when students were classified by degree major. Data were collected from a convenience sample of 396 freshmen and 404 seniors from The American University, Washington, D.C., The University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, and The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Data were gathered in-class using two survey instruments, the Personal Data Inventory and the Rokeach Value Survey, Form D. The latter asks respondents to prioritize 18 terminal values (end-states of existence) and 18 instrumental values (preferred modes of conduct). The Personal Data Inventory elicits information on seven variables: university of attendance, university class, degree major, gender, age, marital status, and immediate plans following graduation. Differences were tested using the chi-square test with the.05 level as the standard for significance. Differences were found for 11 of 36 values. Freshmen respondents assigned greater priority than did senior respondents to the terminal values "freedom," "true friendship," and "a world at peace." Freshmen assigned more importance than did seniors to the instrumental values "loyal" and "logical." In contrast, seniors assigned greater importance than did freshmen to the terminal values "a sense of accomplishment," "salvation," and "self-respect." Seniors assigned more importance than did freshmen to the instrumental values "capable," "obedient," and "courageous.". In general, it was found that the values of students in the four degree majors considered in this research remained reasonably stable over the four undergraduate years. This seems to warrant the conclusion that the college/university curriculum had minimal impact on the values of undergraduate students in this sample.
title: Investigating Heavy-Ion Internuclear Potentials Using Inversion And Other Methods
Creators: name: Russell, Michael Anthony
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2001

description: The interaction of heavy-ion nuclei via the strong nuclear force can be usefully approximated by a mean-held local potential. Such potentials contain much information concerning nuclear structure and the relative importance and radial dependence of the various reaction channels involved in the interaction. Existing methods of fitting optical potentials to scattering cross-sections, both model-dependent and -independent, have various problems. Phenomenology based on S-matrix fitting followed by iterative-perturbative (IP) inversion enables us to obtain fits to the cross-section with X2/N ~ 1. The calculations in this thesis represent an exploration of the viability of the IP method applied to heavy-ion scattering.

 There are two parts to the thesis. The first uses the IP method to investigate the heavy-ion phenomenological potential, in particular 16O+12C at Elab — 608 MeV and 12C+12C from Elab = 159 to 2400 MeV. The second uses the IP method in conjunction with coupled reaction channels calculations to examine the dynamic polarization potentials which represent the contribution of specific reaction channels to the heavy-ion interaction. This is applied to the case of 16O+62Ni near the Coulomb threshold, specifically to investigate the quadrupole Coulomb DPP, and the fusion cross-section and spin distribution. Both parts of the thesis are therefore linked by a common thread—the use of the IP inversion methodology to understand the heavy-ion interaction at low and intermediate energies.
Integration and qualification of the Mini-EUSO telescope on board the ISS
Creators: name: Cambié, G.
name: Belov, A.
name: Capel, F.
name: Casolino, M.
name: Franceschi, A.
name: Klimov, P.
name: Marcelli, L.
name: Napolitano, T.
name: Picozza, P.
name: Piotrowski, L. W.
name: Reali, E.
name: Ricci, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mini-EUSO is a compact telescope ($37 \times 37 \times 62$~cm$^3$) currently hosted on board the International Space Station. Mini-EUSO is devoted primarily to study Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) above $10^{21}$~eV but also to search for trange Quark Matter (SQM), to observe Transient Luminous Event (TLE) in upper atmosphere, meteoroids, sea bioluminescence and space debris tracking. Mini-EUSO consist of a main optical system, the Photo Detector Module (PDM), sensitive to UV spectrum ($300\div400$~nm) and several ancillary sensors comprising a visible ($400\div780$~nm) and NIR ($1500\div1600$~nm) cameras and a $8 \times 8$ channels Multi-Pixel Photon Counter Silicon PhotoMultiplier (MPPC SiPM) array which will increase the Tecnological Readyness Level of this ultrafast imaging sensor. Mini-EUSO belongs to a novel set of missions committed to evaluate, for the first time, the capability of observing Cosmic Rays from a space-based. The instrumentation, space-qualified tests will be shown.
Molecular networking based dereplication of AChE inhibitory compounds from the medicinal plant Vincetoxicum funebre (Boiss. & Kotschy)
Creators: name: Abbas-Mohammadi, Mahdi
name: Farimani, Mahdi Moridi
name: Salehi, Peyman
name: Ebrahimi, Samad Nejad
name: Sonboli, Ali
name: Kelso, Celine
name: Skropeta, Danielle
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease affecting 47 million people worldwide. While acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors such as donepezil and galantamine are leading drugs in the symptomatic treatment of AD, new AChE inhibitors continue to be explored for improved potency and selectivity. Herein, a molecular networking approach using high resolution (HR-MS) and tandem mass spectrometry (MS2) has been used for rapid chemical profiling of an extract of the medicinal plant Vincetoxicum funebre Boiss. & Kotschy (Apocynaceae family) that was active against AChE. A total of 44 compounds were identified by combining the MN with traditional natural product methods, including the isolation and identification of five known compounds (13, 41-44) and a novel C13-norisoprenoid (40). In addition, the potential inhibitory activity of all 44 compounds was evaluated against the AChE enzyme via molecular docking to provide further support to the proposed structures. The glycosylated flavonoid querciturone (31) exhibited the highest affinity with a docking score value of −13.43 kJ/mol. Another five compounds showed stronger docking scores against AChE than the clinically used donepezil including the most active isolated compound daucosterol (44), with a binding affinity of −10.11 kJ/mol towards AChE. These findings broaden our understanding of Vincetoxicum metabolites and highlight the potential of glycosylated flavonoids as AChE inhibitors. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
A comparative study of the values of freshmen and seniors by degree major in a university setting
Creators: name: Papineau, Robert F.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the instrumental and terminal values, as assessed through the Rokeach Value Survey, Form D, of a sample of freshmen and senior university students, and to ascertain differences, if any, between the two samples when students were classified by degree major (social science, business, fine and applied arts, engineering), and to draw implications from the findings regarding the influence of the curriculum on student values. The study hypothesized that the ordering of instrumental and terminal values of the study sample of freshmen would differ significantly from those of the study sample of seniors when students were classified by degree major. Data were collected from a convenience sample of 396 freshmen and 404 seniors from The American University, Washington, D.C., The University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, and The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Data were gathered in-class using two survey instruments, the Personal Data Inventory and the Rokeach Value Survey, Form D. The latter asks respondents to prioritize 18 terminal values (end-states of existence) and 18 instrumental values (preferred modes of conduct). The Personal Data Inventory elicits information on seven variables: university of attendance, university class, degree major, gender, age, marital status, and immediate plans following graduation. Differences were tested using the chi-square test with the.05 level as the standard for significance. Differences were found for 11 of 36 values. Freshmen respondents assigned greater priority than did senior respondents to the terminal values "freedom," "true friendship," and "a world at peace." Freshmen assigned more importance than did seniors to the instrumental values "loyal" and "logical." In contrast, seniors assigned greater importance than did freshmen to the terminal values "a sense of accomplishment," "salvation," and "self-respect." Seniors assigned more importance than did freshmen to the instrumental values "capable," "obedient," and "courageous.". In general, it was found that the values of students in the four degree majors considered in this research remained reasonably stable over the four undergraduate years. This seems to warrant the conclusion that the college/university curriculum had minimal impact on the values of undergraduate students in this sample.
Uncaria tomentosa (cat’s claw): a promising herbal medicine against SARS-CoV-2/ACE-2 junction and SARS-CoV-2 spike protein based on molecular modeling
Creators: name: Yepes-Pérez, Andres F.
name: Herrera-Calderon, Oscar
name: Quintero-Saumeth, Jorge
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: COVID-19 is a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Currently, there is no effective treatment and vaccines seem to be the solution in the future. Virtual screening of potential drugs against the S protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has provided small molecular compounds with a high binding affinity. Unfortunately, most of these drugs do not attach with the binding interface of the receptor-binding domain (RBD)–angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE-2) complex in host cells. Molecular modeling was carried out to evaluate the potential antiviral properties of the components of the medicinal herb Uncaria tomentosa (cat’s claw) focusing on the binding interface of the RBD–ACE-2 and the viral spike protein. The in silico approach starts with protein–ligand docking of 26 Cat’s claw key components followed by molecular dynamics simulations and re-docked calculations. Finally, we carried out drug-likeness calculations for the most qualified cat’s claw components. The structural bioinformatics approaches led to the identification of several bioactive compounds of U. tomentosa with potential therapeutic effect by dual strong interaction with interface of the RBD–ACE-2 and the ACE-2 binding site on SARS-CoV-2 RBD viral spike. In addition, in silico drug-likeness indices for these components were calculated and showed good predicted therapeutic profiles of these phytochemicals found in U. tomentosa (cat’s claw). Our findings suggest the potential effectiveness of cat’s claw as complementary and/or alternative medicine for COVID-19 treatment. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Binding mechanism and structural insights into the identified protein target of COVID-19 and importin-α with in-vitro effective drug ivermectin
Creators: name: Gupta, Parth Sarthi Sen
name: Biswal, Satyaranjan
name: Panda, Saroj Kumar
name: Ray, Abhik Kumar
name: Rana, Malay Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: While an FDA approved drug Ivermectin was reported to dramatically reduce the cell line of SARS-CoV-2 by ∼5000 folds within 48 h, the precise mechanism of action and the COVID-19 molecular target involved in interaction with this in-vitro effective drug are unknown yet. Among 12 different COVID-19 targets along with Importin-α studied here, the RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) with RNA and Helicase NCB site show the strongest affinity to Ivermectin amounting −10.4 kcal/mol and −9.6 kcal/mol, respectively, followed by Importin-α with −9.0 kcal/mol. Molecular dynamics of corresponding protein-drug complexes reveals that the drug bound state of RdRp with RNA has better structural stability than the Helicase NCB site and Importin-α, with MM/PBSA free energy of −187.3 kJ/mol, almost twice that of Helicase (−94.6 kJ/mol) and even lower than that of Importin-α (−156.7 kJ/mol). The selectivity of Ivermectin to RdRp is triggered by a cooperative interaction of RNA-RdRp by ternary complex formation. Identification of the target and its interaction profile with Ivermectin can lead to more powerful drug designs for COVID-19 and experimental exploration. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
On becoming a global citizen: Praxis in identity politics. A participatory development education project
Creators: name: Pignone, Mary Margaret
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: "Think globally, act locally," is a popular call to action that entails overcoming the central problems of social theory, namely: the micro/macro, agent/structure, public/private, and state/civil society dichotomies. To meet this challenge, this thesis integrates theory, method and practice within a social constructivist framework, understanding social theory to be a relation of theories of agency, order and change. The study is organized in two parts: theory and praxis. Identity theory is incorporated into social interaction theory. The thesis emphasizes that "multiple identities comprise the self" and proposes that the "ordering processes" entailed in multiple and over-lapping role-identities provide a dynamic for change in social interaction. It draws on the concept of "representations" as the outcome of reflexive processes which sustain or change social institutions now. Order is understood as the management of self-authorizing identity groups. The relationship of state and civil society are reshaped into concepts of non-sovereign states and civil society as the locus for citizenship within multiple policy arenas. Social movements are seen as constitutive of order that is "structured" but not "contained". This approach was applied to a project of development education which established (via interactive telecommunications) a "discursive community" of persons across four countries engaged in joint analysis of development policy and of their action strategies as change agents. Q-Methodology was used to enable participants to define for themselves their own understandings of development and their understandings of the role-identities citizen and global citizen. The Q-Study revealed a striking coherence of views among the participants, the deep alienation of most participants from the development policies of their respective governments and that the participants maintained both local and global identifications. The value of Q-Method as a tool for critical theory and as an instrument for measuring and communicating role-identities was demonstrated. The dialogic process strengthened participants' identifications and enhanced their appreciation for the possibilities of global/local citizenship. The transnational dialogue confirmed theory expectations while surfacing needed modifications in the project process. Suggestions for research and practice flow from this praxis.
Spontaneous Vectorization in the Einstein-Maxwell-Vector Model
Creators: name: Ye, Guang-Zai
name: Chen, Chong-Ye
name: Fu, GuoYang
name: Niu, Chao
name: Zhang, Cheng-Yong
name: Liu, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate spontaneous vectorization in the Einstein-Maxwell-Vector (EMV) model, introducing a novel mechanism driven by the interplay between electromagnetic and vector fields. A key innovation in our work is the resolution of an apparent divergence in the vector field near the event horizon, achieved by employing a generalized coordinate transformation. This not only extends the domain of existence for vectorized Reissner-Nordström black holes (VRNBHs), but also refines the theoretical understanding of such solutions. We introduce a new concept of combined charge $\sqrt{\tilde{Q}^2 + \tilde{P}^2}$, which better captures the underlying physics of these black holes and provides a unified framework for analyzing thermodynamics and observable phenomena such as light ring structures. Our findings suggest that VRNBHs exhibit enhanced thermodynamic preference and distinctive light ring properties compared to Reissner-Nordström solutions. Moreover, we demonstrate how this combined charge approach reveals connections to two-charge black hole solutions, offering promising avenues for observational verification within the context of effective field theories.
description: 31 pages, 11 figures Corrected typos. Revised the wording of the article, but the result unchanged
Instanton effects and linear-chiral duality
Creators: name: Giedt, Joel
name: Nelson, Brent D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss duality between the linear and chiral dilaton formulations, in the presence of super-Yang-Mills instanton corrections to the effective action. In contrast to previous work on the subject, our approach appeals directly to explicit instanton calculations and does not rely on the introduction of an auxiliary Veneziano-Yankielowicz superfield. We discuss duality in the case of an axion that has a periodic scalar potential, and find that the bosonic fields of the dual linear multiplet have a modified interpretation. We note that symmetries of the axion potential manifest themselves as symmetries of the equations of motion for the linear multiplet. We also make some brief remarks regarding dilaton stabilization. We point out that corrections recently studied by Dijkgraaf and Vafa can be used to stabilize the axion in the case of a single super-Yang-Mills condensate.
description: 1+18 pages, 1 figure, comments and references added
The mechanisms of T-cell co-stimulation by antigen presenting cells
Creators: name: VOO, VERONICA TSIN FONG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320404
subject: Cellular immunology

description: This thesis examines immune checkpoints using engineered biologics and mouse cancer models. It deepens our understanding on how our immune system targets and eliminates cancer cells and prevents autoimmunity.
Additional file 12 of Neuron ID dataset facilitates neuronal annotation for whole-brain activity imaging of C. elegans
Creators: name: Toyoshima, Yu
name: Wu, Stephen
name: Kanamori, Manami
name: Sato, Hirofumi
name: Jang, Moon Sun
name: Suzu Oe
name: Murakami, Yuko
name: Teramoto, Takayuki
name: Chanhyun Park
name: Yuishi Iwasaki
name: Ishihara, Takeshi
name: Yoshida, Ryo
name: Iino, Yuichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 12: Figure S8. Stability and sparseness of expression pattern. (A) Number of positive cells and stability of expression of the cell-specific promoters. Same as Fig. 3a but fully labeled. (B) Number of positive cells and sparseness of expression pattern of the cell-specific promoters. Same as Fig. 3b but fully labeled.
Embodied Hands: Modeling and Capturing Hands and Bodies Together
Creators: name: Romero, Javier
name: Tzionas, Dimitrios
name: Black, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Humans move their hands and bodies together to communicate and solve tasks. Capturing and replicating such coordinated activity is critical for virtual characters that behave realistically. Surprisingly, most methods treat the 3D modeling and tracking of bodies and hands separately. Here we formulate a model of hands and bodies interacting together and fit it to full-body 4D sequences. When scanning or capturing the full body in 3D, hands are small and often partially occluded, making their shape and pose hard to recover. To cope with low-resolution, occlusion, and noise, we develop a new model called MANO (hand Model with Articulated and Non-rigid defOrmations). MANO is learned from around 1000 high-resolution 3D scans of hands of 31 subjects in a wide variety of hand poses. The model is realistic, low-dimensional, captures non-rigid shape changes with pose, is compatible with standard graphics packages, and can fit any human hand. MANO provides a compact mapping from hand poses to pose blend shape corrections and a linear manifold of pose synergies. We attach MANO to a standard parameterized 3D body shape model (SMPL), resulting in a fully articulated body and hand model (SMPL+H). We illustrate SMPL+H by fitting complex, natural, activities of subjects captured with a 4D scanner. The fitting is fully automatic and results in full body models that move naturally with detailed hand motions and a realism not seen before in full body performance capture. The models and data are freely available for research purposes in our website (http://mano.is.tue.mpg.de).
description: SIGGRAPH ASIA 2017
Menu of the dinner given by the American members of the World's Columbian Dental Congress for their friends from abroad.
Creators: name: World's Columbian Dental Congress (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1893
Subjects: Dinner Menu

description: The dinner was held on August 18, 1893, at the Chicago Beach Hotel. The menu was autographed by some of the attendees, including Dr. Black.
Tailored optical potentials for Cs atoms above waveguides with focusing dielectric nano-antenna
Creators: name: Ang, Angeleene S.
name: Shalin, Alexander S.
name: Karabchevsky, Alina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tuning the near-field using all-dielectric nano-antennae offers a promising approach for trapping atoms, which could enable strong single-atom/photon coupling. Here we report the simulation results of an optical trapping concept, in which a silicon nano-antenna produces a trapping potential for atoms in a chip-scale configuration. Using counter-propagating incident fields, bichromatically detuned from the atomic cesium D-lines, we numerically investigate the dependence of the optical potential on the nano-antenna geometry. We tailor the near-field potential landscape by tuning the evanescent field of the waveguide using a toroidal nano-antenna, a configuration that enables trapping of ultracold Cs atoms.
On becoming a global citizen: Praxis in identity politics. A participatory development education project
Creators: name: Pignone, Mary Margaret
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: "Think globally, act locally," is a popular call to action that entails overcoming the central problems of social theory, namely: the micro/macro, agent/structure, public/private, and state/civil society dichotomies. To meet this challenge, this thesis integrates theory, method and practice within a social constructivist framework, understanding social theory to be a relation of theories of agency, order and change. The study is organized in two parts: theory and praxis. Identity theory is incorporated into social interaction theory. The thesis emphasizes that "multiple identities comprise the self" and proposes that the "ordering processes" entailed in multiple and over-lapping role-identities provide a dynamic for change in social interaction. It draws on the concept of "representations" as the outcome of reflexive processes which sustain or change social institutions now. Order is understood as the management of self-authorizing identity groups. The relationship of state and civil society are reshaped into concepts of non-sovereign states and civil society as the locus for citizenship within multiple policy arenas. Social movements are seen as constitutive of order that is "structured" but not "contained". This approach was applied to a project of development education which established (via interactive telecommunications) a "discursive community" of persons across four countries engaged in joint analysis of development policy and of their action strategies as change agents. Q-Methodology was used to enable participants to define for themselves their own understandings of development and their understandings of the role-identities citizen and global citizen. The Q-Study revealed a striking coherence of views among the participants, the deep alienation of most participants from the development policies of their respective governments and that the participants maintained both local and global identifications. The value of Q-Method as a tool for critical theory and as an instrument for measuring and communicating role-identities was demonstrated. The dialogic process strengthened participants' identifications and enhanced their appreciation for the possibilities of global/local citizenship. The transnational dialogue confirmed theory expectations while surfacing needed modifications in the project process. Suggestions for research and practice flow from this praxis.
A Measurement of the Exclusive 3He(e,e'p) Reaction Below the Quasi-Elastic Peak
Creators: name: Kozlov, A.
name: Sarty, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New, high-precision measurements of the 3He(e,e'p) reaction using the A1 collaboration spectrometers at the Mainz microtron MAMI are presented. These were performed in antiparallel kinematics at energy transfers below the quasi-elastic peak, and at a central momentum transfer of 685 MeV/c. Cross sections and distorted momentum distributions were extracted and compared to theoretical predictions and existing data. The longitudinal and transverse behavior of the cross section was also studied. Sizable differences in the cross-section behavior from theoretical predictions based on Plane Wave Impulse Approximation were observed in both the two- and three-body breakup channels. Full Faddeev-type calculations account for some of the observed excess cross section, but significant differences remain.
description: 5 pages,3 figures
Sesamales Bercht. & J.Presl.
Creators: name: Reveal, James L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Sesamales

description: Sesamales
 Bercht. & J.Presl, P ř ir. Rostlin: 246. January–April 1820 (Sesamoideae)—Sesamaceae Horan. (1834).
description: Published as part of Reveal, James L., 2011, New ordinal names established by changes to the botanical code, pp. 42-44 in Phytotaxa 30 on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.30.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4894455
Geometric phase for an adiabatically evolving open quantum system
Creators: name: Kamleitner, Ingo
name: Cresser, James D.
name: Sanders, Barry C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an elegant solution for a two-level system evolving adiabatically under the influence of a driving field with a time-dependent phase, which includes open system effects such as dephasing and spontaneous emission. This solution, which is obtained by working in the representation corresponding to the eigenstates of the time-dependent Hermitian Hamiltonian, enables the dynamic and geometric phases of the evolving density matrix to be separated and relatively easily calculated.
description: 10 pages, 0 figures
The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: Its influence on the national legislation and administrative practices of its member-states
Creators: name: Platt, Jody Rose
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the possibility that the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms influences the national legislation and administrative practices of its Member-States. The Convention, overseen by the Council of Europe, guarantees to the citizens of its Member-States certain human rights and the right to appeal for redress from a Member-State that violates these rights. The European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights administer the Convention. The author contends that the Commission's and the Court's findings influence the national legislation and administrative practices of the state found in violation. The research showed that frequently national legislation or administrative practices were altered or initiated as a result of a finding against a Member-State. A number of cases were examined in which the government found to be in violation of the Convention--and sometimes governments that were not even before the Strasbourg organs--declared that domestic law or procedure would be revised to reflect the Convention spirit. Some changes resulted from a finding in Strasbourg as well as societal pressures within the state involved in the proceedings. The Convention's strength and influence is illustrated by such cases. The results lead to the conclusion that the European Convention on Human Rights does influence its Member-States' national legislation and administrative practices when necessary to uphold their obligation to the Convention. In addition, as states respond to the Convention's findings, human rights legislation amoung the Member-States becomes more uniform, helping in some measure to unify Europe--which is one of the goals of the Council of Europe.
Additional file 1 of In vitro and in silico antioxidant and antiproliferative activity of rhizospheric fungus Talaromyces purpureogenus isolate-ABRF2
Creators: name: Sahu, Mahendra Kumar
name: Komal Kaushik
name: Das, Amitava
name: Harit Jha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Methods, data on identification and biological activity profile of fungi and isolated active secondary metabolite.
Special Orders No. 59, US Typhus Commission
Creators: name: Macfarlane, Frank Noel Mason Sir.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: Memos
subject: World War II
subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: Typhus Commission
subject: Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne
subject: Conner, James A. (James Augustus), 1903-2001
subject: Campobasso (Italy)
subject: Bari (Italy)

description: Order of James A. Conner to complete typhus-control related mission on temporary duty in Campobasso and Bari, Italy.
Swieteniales Bercht. & J.Presl.
Creators: name: Reveal, James L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Swieteniales

description: Swieteniales
 Bercht. & J.Presl, P ř ir. Rostlin: 219. January–April 1820 (Swieteniae)—Swieteniaceae E.D.M.Kirchn. (1831).
description: Published as part of Reveal, James L., 2011, New ordinal names established by changes to the botanical code, pp. 42-44 in Phytotaxa 30 on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.30.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4894455
The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: Its influence on the national legislation and administrative practices of its member-states
Creators: name: Platt, Jody Rose
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This study examines the possibility that the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms influences the national legislation and administrative practices of its Member-States. The Convention, overseen by the Council of Europe, guarantees to the citizens of its Member-States certain human rights and the right to appeal for redress from a Member-State that violates these rights. The European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights administer the Convention. The author contends that the Commission's and the Court's findings influence the national legislation and administrative practices of the state found in violation. The research showed that frequently national legislation or administrative practices were altered or initiated as a result of a finding against a Member-State. A number of cases were examined in which the government found to be in violation of the Convention--and sometimes governments that were not even before the Strasbourg organs--declared that domestic law or procedure would be revised to reflect the Convention spirit. Some changes resulted from a finding in Strasbourg as well as societal pressures within the state involved in the proceedings. The Convention's strength and influence is illustrated by such cases. The results lead to the conclusion that the European Convention on Human Rights does influence its Member-States' national legislation and administrative practices when necessary to uphold their obligation to the Convention. In addition, as states respond to the Convention's findings, human rights legislation amoung the Member-States becomes more uniform, helping in some measure to unify Europe--which is one of the goals of the Council of Europe.
Localized modes in nonlinear fractional systems with deep lattices
Creators: name: Liu, Xiuye
name: Malomed, Boris A.
name: Zeng, Jianhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solitons in the fractional space, supported by lattice potentials, have recently attracted much interest. We consider the limit of deep one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) lattices in this system, featuring finite bandgaps separated by nearly flat Bloch bands. Such spectra are also a subject of great interest in current studies. The existence, shapes, and stability of various localized modes, including fundamental gap and vortex solitons, are investigated by means of numerical methods; some results are also obtained with the help of analytical approximations. In particular, the 1D and 2D gap solitons, belonging to the first and second finite bandgaps, are tightly confined around a single cell of the deep lattice. Vortex gap solitons are constructed as four-peak \textquotedblleft squares" and \textquotedblleft rhombuses" with imprinted winding number $S=1$. Stability of the solitons is explored by means of the linearization and verified by direct simulations.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, Advanced Theory and Simulations (In Press)
Additional file 10 of Neuron ID dataset facilitates neuronal annotation for whole-brain activity imaging of C. elegans
Creators: name: Toyoshima, Yu
name: Wu, Stephen
name: Kanamori, Manami
name: Sato, Hirofumi
name: Jang, Moon Sun
name: Suzu Oe
name: Murakami, Yuko
name: Teramoto, Takayuki
name: Chanhyun Park
name: Yuishi Iwasaki
name: Ishihara, Takeshi
name: Yoshida, Ryo
name: Iino, Yuichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 10: Figure S7. Position of posterior pharyngeal bulb affects cell positions. (A-C) A/P (A), D/V (B) and L/R (C) positions of dye positive cells plotted against relative A/P positions of pharynx. The relative A/P positions of pharynx were calculated from the mean difference of positions of pharyngeal cells from reference. Blue crosses indicate the cell positions in respective animals. The red lines and the red dotted lines indicate regression lines and 95% confidence bounds, respectively. The summary statistics are in Additional file 11: Table S4.
Women, political activism and housing: The case of women's struggle for housing in Costa Rica
Creators: name: Sagot, Montserrat
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines the political participation of women in the struggle for housing in Costa Rica. The causes, consequences, and implications of that participation are analyzed at four different levels: the women's personal and family lives; the social movement organization in which they participate; the layout and structure of social relations of the new communities that have been built; and the government's housing policy. The methodological strategy to accomplish this research was based on the main postulates of the feminist and qualitative approach to social research. Thus, it included a purposive non-probability sampling method and a qualitative method of data collection whose main components were participant observation, in-depth interviewing, group interviewing, and analysis of documents. This study shows how the social relations of reproduction, centered on the home, and poor women's struggle for survival created the foundations for the development of the Costa Rican housing movement. As part of the new social movements that emerged in Latin America during the 1970's and 1980's, the housing movement was born as a response by the social actors, primarily poor women, to the lack of political effectiveness demonstrated by traditional organizations to address and struggle for issues of daily subsistence and collective consumption. The housing movement in turn became an important builder of women as new political subjects with new social identities, goals, and aspirations. The movement has also served as an effective means for women to connect their everyday problems with politics and State policy. That is, by consciously engaging in collective action aimed at improving their everyday life, the women constituents of the housing movement "politicized" the private domain and made their needs heard in the public sphere. Thus, the movement has had a strong impact on the country's social struggles by incorporating new social subjects into the political arena, on the government's housing policy, and on the women constituents, who have been radically changed by their political involvement.
Atmospheric Neutrinos as a Probe of CPT Violation
Creators: name: Datta, Anindya
name: Gandhi, Raj
name: Mehta, Poonam
name: Sankar, S Uma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that atmospheric neutrinos can provide a sensitive and robust probe of CPT violation (CPTV). We perform realistic event-rate calculations and study the variations of the ratio of total muon to antimuon survival rates with $L/E$ and $L$ ($L$ $\equiv$ baseline length, $E$ $\equiv$ neutrino energy) in a detector capable of identifying the muon charge. We demonstrate that measurements of these ratios when coupled with the significant $L$ and $E$ range which characterizes the atmospheric neutrino spectrum provides a method of both detecting the presence of such violations and putting bounds on them which compare very favourably with those possible from a future neutrino factory.
description: 8 pages, 2 eps figures, modified version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Additional file 3 of The association of the anesthesiologist’s academic and educational status with self-confidence, self-rated knowledge and objective knowledge in rational antibiotic application
Creators: name: Schneider, Frederick
name: Schulz, Christian M.
name: May, Matthias
name: Schneider, Gerhard
name: Ernst, Christian
name: Jacob, Matthias
name: Zacharowski, Kai
name: Hachenberg, Thomas
name: Schmidt, Maren
name: Kretzschmar, Moritz
name: Graf, Bernhard
name: Kees, Martin G.
name: Pawlik, Michael
name: Sander, Michael
name: Koch, Christian
name: Zoller, Michael
name: Heim, Markus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Associations of the MR2’s items on objective knowledge with certification in Intensive care, senior consultant status, and ratio of occupation on ICU. This table presents the results of the respective single-item statistical analysis of the MR2’s items on objective knowledge and their association with certification in Intensive care, senior consultant status, and ratio of occupation on ICU.