cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Checkpoint signals in grasshopper meiosis are sensitive to microtubule attachment, but tension is still essential
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: The spindle checkpoint detects errors in kinetochore attachment to microtubules and delays anaphase if attachment is improper. The checkpoint is activated by attachment-sensitive components including Mad2 and certain phosphorylated proteins detected by the 3F3/2 antibody. We have studied Mad2 and 3F3/2 immunofluorescence in grasshopper spermatocytes. As in other cells, unattached kinetochores are loaded with Mad2 and are highly phosphorylated, whereas after proper attachment, Mad2 is lost and kinetochores are dephosphorylated. What is it about proper attachment that produces these changes – is it microtubule attachment itself or is it the tension from mitotic forces that follows proper attachment? Using micromanipulation, we created an intermediate state, weak attachment, that provides an answer. Weakly attached kinetochores are not under tension and have few kinetochore microtubules. Despite the absence of tension, many weakly attached kinetochores lose their Mad2 and become dephosphorylated. Therefore we conclude that microtubule attachment determines both Mad2 binding and phosphorylation. Nevertheless, tension plays an absolutely essential role. Tension elevates the number of kinetochore microtubules to the level necessary for the complete loss of Mad2 and dephosphorylation from all kinetochores. This gives a reliable ‘all clear’ signal to the checkpoint, allowing the cell to progress to anaphase.
On the Decomposition of Forces
Creators: name: Chang, Dong Eui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We show that any continuously differentiable force is decomposed into the sum of a Rayleigh force and a gyroscopic force. We also extend this result to piecewise continuously differentiable forces. Our result improves the result on the decomposition of forces in a book by David Merkin and further extends it to piecewise continuously differentiable forces.
title: Adaptive Mobile Indoor Route Guidance, The Next Big Step
Creators: name: De Cock, Laura
name: van de Weghe, Nico
name: Ooms, Kristien
name: de Maeyer, Philippe
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2021
Subjects: adaptive mobile route guidance
route instruction
space syntax
eye tracking

description: Published in “Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2021)”, edited by Anahid Basiri, Georg Gartner and Haosheng Huang, LBS 2021, 24-25 November 2021, Glasgow, UK/online.
description: Not all those who wander are lost… but when you are lost, there is a high chance that you are inside a building as we spend 90% of our time indoors. As opposed to outdoors, mobile indoor route guidance is not yet common practice, while the indoor environment can be far more complex than the outdoor one. As indoor navigation can be very challenging, we need supportive navigation systems that can ease the process. To this end, adaptive mobile indoor route guidance systems are being developed, which adapt the type of route instruction to the building configuration. This way, the right amount of information is provided at the right time and place. This work studies this type of smart route communication, and more specifically, its influence on the user. An online survey, a field experiment and a VR experiment were conducted to find out how building configuration can be quantified by the space syntax theory, which route instruction types should be used at which decision points and how this affects the performance, cognitive map, cognitive load and perception of the users. Prototypes were developed and eye tracking and position tracking were used to build the bridge between indoor route guidance technologies in smart buildings on the one hand, and the users of those smart buildings on the other hand. The results of this research can be translated into practical guidelines or implications for the design of adaptive mobile indoor route guidance systems, because this work has shown this is the way to go.
Apterolarnaca (Bianigryllacris) trigonistis Zhang & Pang & Bian 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zhang, Qianwen
name: Pang, Siyu
name: Bian, Xun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Gryllacrididae
Apterolarnaca
Apterolarnaca trigonistis

description: Apterolarnaca (Bianigryllacris) trigonistis sp. nov.   ssṱoûãșŝ
Figure 1
 Description. Female. Body medium. Face ovoid, with impressed scattered dots; fastigium verticis about 2 times as wide as scape; fastigium frontis separated from fastigium verticis by a very fine suture (Fig. 1A). Ocelli indistinct (Fig. 1A).
Anterior margin of pronotum projected in middle, posterior margin faintly concave (Fig. 1B); lateral lobes longer than high, anterior angle widely rounded, posterior angle arched (Fig. 1C).
 Fore coxae with 1 spine on each side. Fore tibiae with 4 pairs of ventral spurs and 1 pair of ventro-apical spurs; middle tibiae with 1 dorso-apical spine, 3 pairs of ventral spurs and 1 pair of ventro-apical spurs. Hind femora with 7 – 8 internal and 3 – 6 external spines on ventral surface; tibiae with 4 pairs of fine spines on dorsal surface, apices with 1 pair of dorsal spurs and 2 pairs of ventral spurs.
Second and third abdominal tergites with few, very minute stridulatory pegs (Fig. 1D). Seventh abdominal sternite longer than proceeding sterna. Subgenital plate with straight basal margin, lateral margins faintly curved ventrad and narrowing to apex, apex acute (Fig. 1G). Ovipositor short and strongly curved upwards, with dorsal and ventral margins smooth, its apices narrowly rounded (Fig. 1F); with a pair of triangular, lateral lobes at base of ventral valvulae (Fig. 1G).
 Male. Unknown.
 Coloration. Body yellow-brown. Face with 1 longitudinal black stripe. Front-clypeal sulcus black with 1 pair of black spots (Fig. 1A). Fastigium verticis with narrow transverse black stripe. Internal margins of antennal cavities black (Fig. 1A). Antennae with black rings on each segment. Dorsal surface of head with semicircular black stripe. Dorsal surface of body with narrow longitudinal black band. Pronotum with black margins. Lateral margins of mesonotum and metanotum black.
 Measurements (mm). Female: BL 22.53, PL 5.04, HFL10.03, OvL 8.11.
 Material examined. Holotype: female, Kengdi, Shouning, Fujian, July 17, 2023, coll. by Fanduo Cai.
 Discussion. The new species differs from Apterolarnaca (Bianigryllacris) sicula Zhang & Bian, 2023 by dorsal surface of body with narrow black band along the midline; female subgenital plate with lateral margins curved ventrad and terminating, posterior margin acute; basal area of ovipositor with a triangular lobe on each side (Fig. 1G).
 Etymology. The new species is named for the basal area of ovipositor bearing 1 pair of triangular lateral lobes; from Latin trigon.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Qianwen, Pang, Siyu & Bian, Xun, 2023, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Gryllacrididae (Orthoptera) XXI: New reports from Fujian Province, pp. 60-66 in Zootaxa 5353 (1) on pages 60-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/8426977
Lepton anomalous magnetic moments - a theory update
Creators: name: Czarnecki, Andrzej
name: Marciano, William J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standard Model contributions to the electron, muon, and tau lepton anomalous magnetic moments, a_l=(g_l-2)/2, are reviewed and updated. The fine structure constant is obtained from the electron g_e-2 and used to refine the QED contribution to the muon g_mu-2. Recent advances in electroweak and hadronic effects on g_mu-2 are summarized. Examples of ``New Physics'' probed by the a_mu Brookhaven experiment E821 are outlined. The prediction for a_tau is also given.
description: 8 pages; invited talk at the 5th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (Tau'98), September 1998, Santander, Spain
Adaptive coordinate, real-space electronic structure calculations on parallel computers
Creators: name: Zumbach, Gil
name: Modine, N. A.
name: Kaxiras, Efthimios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for electronic structure calculations that retains all of the advantages of real space and addresses the inherent inefficiency of a regular grid, which has equal precision everywhere. The computations are carried out on a {\em regular} mesh in {\em curvilinear space}, which allows natural and efficient decomposition on parallel computers, and effective use of iterative numerical methods. A novel feature is the use of error analysis to optimize the curvilinear grid for highly inhomogeneous electronic distributions. We report accurate all-electron calculations for H$_2$, O, and O$_{2}$.
description: 4 pages, 2 Postscript figures
FIGQY phosphorylation defines discrete populations of L1 cell adhesion molecules at sites of cell-cell contact and in migrating neurons
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Phosphorylation of neurofascin, a member of the L1 family of cell adhesion molecules (L1 CAMs), at the conserved FIGQY-tyrosine abolishes the ankyrin-neurofascin interaction. This study provides the first evidence, in Drosophila melanogaster and vertebrates, for the physiological occurrence of FIGQY phosphorylation in L1 family members. FIGQY tyrosine phosphorylation is localized at specialized cell junctions, including paranodes of sciatic nerve, neuromuscular junctions of adult rats and Drosophila embryos, epidermal muscle attachment sites of Drosophila, and adherens junctions of developing epithelial cells of rat and Drosophila. In addition, FIGQY-phosphorylated L1 CAMs are abundantly expressed in regions of neuronal migration and axon extension, including the embryonic cortex, the neonatal cerebellum and the rostral migratory stream, a region of continued neurogenesis and migration throughout adulthood in the rat. Based on our results, physiological FIGQY-tyrosine phosphorylation of the L1 family likely regulates adhesion molecule-ankyrin interactions establishing ankyrin-free and ankyrin-containing microdomains and participates in an ankyrin-independent intracellular signaling pathway at specialized sites of intercellular contact in epithelial and nervous tissue.
Reconciling the Diversity and Uniformity of Galactic Rotation Curves with Self-Interacting Dark Matter
Creators: name: Ren, Tao
name: Kwa, Anna
name: Kaplinghat, Manoj
name: Yu, Hai-Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galactic rotation curves exhibit diverse behavior in the inner regions, while obeying an organizing principle, i.e., they can be approximately described by a radial acceleration relation or the Modified Newtonian Dynamics phenomenology. We analyze the rotation curve data from the SPARC sample, and explicitly demonstrate that both the diversity and uniformity are naturally reproduced in a hierarchical structure formation model with the addition of dark matter self-interactions. The required concentrations of the dark matter halos are fully consistent with the concentration-mass relation predicted by the Planck cosmological model. The inferred stellar mass-to-light ($3.6 μm$) ratios scatter around $0.5 M_\odot/L_\odot$, as expected from population synthesis models, leading to a tight radial acceleration relation and baryonic Tully-Fisher relation. The inferred stellar-halo mass relation is consistent with the expectations from abundance matching. These results indicate that the inner dark matter halos of galaxies are thermalized due to the self-interactions of dark matter particles.
description: Main text: 10 pages and 3 figures. Supplementary Materials: 47 pages, 2 tables and 5 figures including detailed fits to 135 galaxies
Matter effects in long baseline experiments, the flavor content of the heaviest (or lightest) neutrino and the sign of Delta m^2
Creators: name: Lipari, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutrinos of long baseline beams travel inside the Earth's crust where the density is approximately rho = 2.8 g cm^-3. If electron neutrinos participate in the oscillations, matter effects will modify the oscillation probabilities with respect to the vacuum case. Depending on the sign of Delta m^2 an MSW resonance will exist for neutrinos or anti-neutrinos with energy approximately E_nu(res) = 4.7 |Δm^2|/(10^-3 eV^2) GeV. For Delta m^2 in the interval indicated by the Super-Kamiokande experiment this energy range is important for the proposed long baseline experiments. For positive Delta m^2 the most important effects of matter are a 9% (25%) enhancement of the transition probability P(nu_mu -> nu_e) for the KEK to Kamioka (Fermilab to Minos and CERN to Gran Sasso) beam(s) in the energy region where the probability has its first maximum, and an approximately equal suppression of P(antinu_mu -> antinu_e). For negative Delta m^2 the effects for neutrinos and anti-neutrinos are interchanged. Producing beams of neutrinos and antineutrinos and measuring the oscillation probabilities for both (nu_mu -> nu_e) and (antinu_mu -> antinu_e) transitions can solve the sign ambiguity in the determination of Delta m^2.
description: Latex, 28 pages, 12 postscript figures
title: On the Effect of Incorporating Expressed Emotions in News Articles on Diversity within Recommendation Models
Creators: name: Sertkan, Mete
name: Neidhardt, Julia
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: recommender systems
news recommendation
emotion analysis
emotional diversity
topical diversity

description: Despite news articles being highly edited and trimmed to maintain a neutral and objective tone, there are still stylistic residues of authors like expressed emotions, which impact the decision-making of users whether or not to consume the recommended articles. In this study, we delve into the effects of incorporating emotional signals within the 𝐸𝑚𝑜𝑅𝑒𝑐 model on both emotional and topical diversity in news recommendations. Our findings show a nuanced alignment with users’ preferences, leading to less diversity and potential creation of an “emotion chamber.” However, it is crucial to model these emotional dimensions explicitly rather than implicitly as contemporary deep-learning models do. This approach offers the opportunity to communicate and raise awareness about the reduction in diversity, allowing for interventions if necessary. We further explore the complex distinction between intra-list and user-centric diversity, sparking a critical debate on guiding user choices. Overall, our work emphasizes the importance of a balanced, ethically-grounded approach, paving the way for more informed and diverse news consumption.
Interactions of a hemidesmosome component and actinin family members
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Hemidesmosomes are multimeric protein complexes that attach epithelial cells to their underlying matrix and serve as cell surface anchorage sites for the keratin cytoskeleton. Two hemidesmosome components, the alpha6beta4 integrin heterodimer and a human autoantigen termed BP180, are transmembrane proteins that link the extracellular matrix to the keratin network in cells. Here, we report that actinin-4, an actin-bundling protein, is a potential binding partner for BP180. Using yeast two-hybrid, we have mapped the binding site for BP180 to the C-terminal region of actinin-4. This site contains two EF-hand, Ca2+ regulation domains and shares 87% sequence homology with the same region in actinin-1. Consistent with this, BP180 can bind actinin-1 in both the yeast two-hybrid assay and in immunoprecipitation assays. To determine whether the EF-hand domain is a consensus binding sequence for BP180, we tested whether other proteins with this domain bind BP180. None of the proteins tested including calmodulin, with 4 EF-hand domains, and myosin regulatory light chain, with 1 EF-hand domain, interacts with BP180 in yeast two-hybrid system and immunoprecipitation studies, suggesting that the interaction between BP180 and actinin family members is specific. We have compared the distribution of actinin-1 and actinin-4 with that of BP180 in MCF-10A and pp126 cells. Surprisingly, BP180 localizes not only to sites of cell-substratum interaction, but is also present at sites of cell-cell contacts where it co-distributes with both actinin-1 and actinin-4 as well as other adherens junction proteins. In oral tissues, BP180 is present along the basement membrane and at cell-cell contact sites in basal epithelial cells where it co-distributes with adherens junction proteins. Since BP180 antibodies inhibit association of junction proteins at sites of cell-cell contact in oral keratinocytes, these results suggest that BP180 may play a role in establishing cell-cell interactions. We discuss a role for BP180 in crosstalk between cell-matrix and cell-cell junctions.
Instanton classical solutions of SU(3) fixed point actions on open lattices
Creators: name: Farchioni, F.
name: Papa, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct instanton-like classical solutions of the fixed point action of a suitable renormalization group transformation for the SU(3) lattice gauge theory. The problem of the non-existence of one-instantons on a lattice with periodic boundary conditions is circumvented by working on open lattices. We consider instanton solutions for values of the size (0.6-1.9 in lattice units) which are relevant when studying the SU(3) topology on coarse lattices using fixed point actions. We show how these instanton configurations on open lattices can be taken into account when determining a few-couplings parametrization of the fixed point action.
description: 23 pages, LaTeX, 4 eps figures, epsfig.sty; some comments added
Program for the Models of Linked Employer-Employee Data Conference 2019
Creators: name: Vilhuber, Lars
name: Schmutte, Ian
name: Card, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: linked data
employer-employee matched data
high-dimensional effects
person and firm effects

description: In 1999, John Abowd, Francis Kramarz, and David Margolis published "High Wage Workers and High Wage Firms." Their model and econometric techniques were pioneering in the analysis of labor markets, and many other markets with high-dimensional interactions between two sides. The conference celebrated the continuing influence of the AKM (1999) model and its foundational role in the analysis of labor markets using linked employer-employee data. The conference highlighted the range of new questions for which the AKM decomposition provides an effective way to understand data. The conference focused attention on key econometric and modeling issues that are common to applications of AKM. The conference was organized in sequential, themed, sessions over the span of two days. The Journal of Econometrics will publish a special issue of selected papers from the conference, with a submission deadline of April 30, 2020.
description: Conference Organizers: David Card (Berkeley), Ian M. Schmutte (University of Georgia), Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University). Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Grant G-2019-12486), the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics Chair at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Georgia, the Pierce Memorial Fund at the Cornell ILR School, the Kenneth F. Kahn '69 Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and the Labor Dynamics Institute at Cornell University. Local organization by the Labor Dynamics Institute and the ILR New York City Conference Center at Cornell University.
pp60(c-src) and related tyrosine kinases: a role in the assembly and reorganization of matrix adhesions.
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Activation of tyrosine kinases during integrin-mediated cell-matrix adhesion is involved both in the regulation of focal contact assembly and in the initiation of signaling processes at the cell-matrix adhesive interface. In order to determine the role of pp60(c-src) and related kinases in these processes, we have compared the dynamic reorganization of phosphotyrosine, vinculin, focal adhesion kinase and tensin in cells with altered expression of Src-family kinases. Both null cells for pp60(c-src) and triple knockout cells for pp60(c-src), pp59(fyn), and pp62(c-yes) exhibited decreased phosphotyrosine levels in focal contacts when compared with wild-type cells. pp60(c-src)-null cells also exhibited faster assembly of cell-matrix adhesions and a more exuberant recruitment of FAK to these sites. Tensin, which normally segregates into fibrillar adhesions was localized in large focal contacts in the two mutant cell lines, suggesting involvement of pp60(c-src) in the segregation of focal contacts and fibrillar adhesions. Moreover, treatment of wild-type cells with tyrphostin AG1007, which inhibits both pp60(c-src) and FAK activity, induced accumulation of tensin in peripheral focal adhesions. These findings demonstrate that Src family kinases, and pp60(c-src) in particular, have a central role in regulating protein dynamics at cell-matrix interfaces, both during early stages of interaction and in mature focal contacts.
Jitter-compensated VHT and its application to WSN clock synchronization
Creators: name: Terraneo, Federico
name: Riccardi, Fabiano
name: Leva, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate and energy-efficient clock synchronization is an enabler for many applications of Wireless Sensor Networks. A fine-grained synchronization is beneficial both at the system level, for example to favor deterministic radio protocols, and at the application level, when network-wide event timestamping is required. However, there is a tradeoff between the resolution of a WSN node's timekeeping device and its energy consumption. The Virtual High-resolution Timer (VHT) is an innovative solution, that was proposed to overcome this tradeoff. It combines a high-resolution oscillator to a low-power one, turning off the former when not needed. In this paper we improve VHT by first identifying the jitter of the low-power oscillator as the current limit to the technique, and then proposing an enhanced solution that synchronizes the fast and the slow clock, rejecting the said jitter. The improved VHT is also less demanding than the original technique in terms of hardware resources. Experimental results show the achieved advantages in terms of accuracy.
PDE-constrained LDDMM via geodesic shooting and inexact Gauss-Newton-Krylov optimization using the incremental adjoint Jacobi equations
Creators: name: Hernandez, Monica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The class of non-rigid registration methods proposed in the framework of PDE-constrained Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping is a particularly interesting family of physically meaningful diffeomorphic registration methods. Inexact Newton-Krylov optimization has shown an excellent numerical accuracy and an extraordinarily fast convergence rate in this framework. However, the Galerkin representation of the non-stationary velocity fields does not provide proper geodesic paths. In this work, we propose a method for PDE-constrained LDDMM parameterized in the space of initial velocity fields under the EPDiff equation. The derivation of the gradient and the Hessian-vector products are performed on the final velocity field and transported backward using the adjoint and the incremental adjoint Jacobi equations. This way, we avoid the complex dependence on the initial velocity field in the derivations and the computation of the adjoint equation and its incremental counterpart. The proposed method provides geodesics in the framework of PDE-constrained LDDMM, and it shows performance competitive to benchmark PDE-constrained LDDMM and EPDiff-LDDMM methods.
Chest injuries of elderly postmortem human surrogates (PMHSs) under seat belt and airbag loading in frontal sled impacts: Comparison to matching THOR tests
Creators: name: Lopez-Valdes, Francisco J.
name: Krystoffer Mroz
name: Eggers, Andre
name: Pipkorn, Bengt
name: Muehlbauer, Julia
name: Schick, Sylvia
name: Peldschus, Steffen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
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: Science Policy

description: Objective: The goal of the study was to develop experimental chest loading conditions that would cause up to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 2 chest injuries in elderly occupants in moderate-speed frontal crashes. The new set of experimental data was also intended to be used in the benchmark of existing thoracic injury criteria in lower-speed collision conditions. Methods: Six male elderly (age >63) postmortem human subjects (PMHS) were exposed to a 35 km/h (nominal) frontal sled impact. The test fixture consisted of a rigid seat, rigid footrest, and cable seat back. Two restraint conditions (A and B) were compared. Occupants were restrained by a force-limited (2.5 kN [A] and 2 kN [B]) seat belt and a preinflated (16 kPa [A] and 11 kPa [B]; airbag). Condition B also incorporated increased seat friction. Matching sled tests were carried out with the THOR-M dummy. Infra-red telescoping rod for the assessment of chest compression (IRTRACC) readings were used to compute chest injury risk. PMHSs were exposed to a posttest injury assessment. Tests were carried out in 2 stages, using the outcome of the first one combined with a parametric study using the THUMS model to adjust the test conditions in the second. All procedures were approved by the relevant ethics board. Results: Restraint condition A resulted in an unexpected high number of rib fractures (fx; 10, 14, 15 fx). Under condition B, the adjustment of the relative airbag/occupant position combined with a lower airbag pressure and lower seat belt load limit resulted in a reduced pelvic excursion (85 vs. 110 mm), increased torso pitch and a substantially lower number of rib fractures (1, 0, 4 fx) as intended. Conclusions: The predicted risk of rib fractures provided by the THOR dummy using the Cmax and PC Score injury criteria were lower than the actual injuries observed in the PMHS tests (especially in restraint condition A). However, the THOR dummy was capable of discriminating between the 2 restraint scenarios. Similar results were obtained in the parametric study with the THUMS model.
Universal Finite-Size Scaling Function of the Ferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain in a Magnetic Field. II
Creators: name: Nakamura, Hiroaki
name: Hatano, Naomichi
name: Takahashi, Minoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The finite-size scaling function of the nonlinear susceptibility of the ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain is given explicitly. It is conjectured that the scaling function is universal for any values of $S$. The conjecture is based on the exact solution of the nonlinear susceptibility for $S=\infty$, and numerical calculations for $S=1/2$ and $S=1$.
description: 27 pages and 8 Postscript figures
Rapid dynamics of the microtubule binding of ensconsin in vivo
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) are proteins that reversibly bind to and regulate microtubule dynamics and functions in vivo. We examined the dynamics of binding of a MAP called ensconsin (E-MAP-115) to microtubules in vivo. We used 5xGFP-EMTB, a construct in which the microtubule-binding domain of ensconsin (EMTB) is fused to five copies of green fluorescent protein (GFP), as a reporter molecule amenable to the use of fluorescent speckle microscopy. Fluorescent speckle microscopy (FSM) sequences and kymograph analyses showed rapid dynamics of speckles comprised of 5xGFP-EMTB in untreated cells. By contrast, in detergent-lysed cytoskeletons, speckles were not dynamic. Since detergent-lysed cytoskeletons differ from living cells in that they lack both ATP and dynamic microtubules, we used azide treatment to substantially reduce the level of ATP in living cells and we used Taxol to halt microtubule dynamics. Both treatments slowed the dynamics of 5xGFP-EMTB speckles observed by FSM. We also used fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) to quantify the half-time of binding and dissociation of the 5xGFP-EMTB chimera and to compare this half-time to that of the full-length MAP molecule. In untreated cells, the t(g) of either 5xGFP-EMTB or full-length GFP-ensconsin was similarly rapid (approximately 4 seconds), while in ATP-reduced and Taxol-treated cells, t(g) was increased to 210 seconds and 40 seconds, respectively. In detergent-extracted cells no recovery was seen. Consistent with the rapid dynamics of 5xGFP-EMTB measured with fluorescent speckle microscopy and FRAP, we estimated that the affinity of the MAP for microtubules is approximately 40 microM in untreated living cells, compared with approximately 1 microM in vitro. However, K(D,app) was not significantly changed in the presence of azide and was increased to 110 microM in the presence of Taxol. To test whether changes in the phosphorylation state of cellular proteins might be responsible for altering the dynamics of ensconsin binding, we used FSM to monitor staurosporine-treated cells. Staurosporine treatment substantially halted dynamics of 5xGFP-EMTB speckles along MTs. Our results show that ensconsin is highly dynamic in its association with microtubules, and its microtubule association can be altered by in vivo phosphorylation events.
Phenomenology of Radion in Randall-Sundrum Scenario
Creators: name: Cheung, Kingman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The success of the Randall-Sundrum scenario relies on stabilization of the modulus field or the radion, which is the scalar field about the background geometry. The stabilization mechanism proposed by Goldberger and Wise has the consequence that this radion is lighter than the graviton Kaluza-Klein states so that the first particle to be discovered is the radion. In this work, we study in details the decay, production, and detection of the radion at hadronic, $e^+ e^-$, and $γγ$ colliders.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures. Added the dijet analysis for the LHC, and a couple of new references
title: Impact of the Source Selection and Scheduling Optimization on the Estimation of UT1-UTC in VLBI Intensive Sessions
Creators: name: Kern, Lisa Maria
name: Schartner, Matthias
name: Böhm, Johannes
name: Böhm, Sigrid
name: Nothnagel, Axel Gerhard
name: Soja, Benedikt
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: VLBI
Intensives
simulation
UT1-UTC

description: With the help of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), it is possible to determine a large number of parameters, including station and source coordinates as well as the Earth orientation parameters (EOP). Due to the limitation of observations of one hour single baseline sessions, so-called Intensive sessions, only a few parameters such as clock offsets and zenith wet delays per station can be estimated in addition to the parameter of primary interest, which is the difference between UT1 (Universal Time 1) and UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). Thus, the remaining parameters, including station and source coordinates, as well as EOP, are fixed to their a priori values, making the precision of the UT1-UTC estimate dependent on the accuracy of the a priori values used in the estimation process. Additionally, due to the daily rotation of the Earth and the revolution around the Sun, the source visibility and selection changes continuously, resulting in variations of the estimates of interest over time. Furthermore, the scheduling optimization process itself also has an impact on the results obtained by real observations or simulations. In this study, we show the variations of UT1-UTC estimates due to varying source selection and scheduling optimization strategies throughout the investigation period of one year using the simulation results of Kern et al. (2022).
WelDX – data and quality standards for welding research
Creators: name: Fabry, Cagtay
name: Pittner, Andreas
name: Rethmeier, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Welding

description: Scientific welding data covers a wide range of physical domains and timescales and are measured using various sensors. Complex and highly specialized experimental setups at different welding institutes complicate the exchange of welding research data further.
 The WelDX research project aims to foster the exchange of scientific data inside the welding community by developing and establishing a new open source file format suitable for documentation of experimental welding data and upholding associated quality standards. In addition to fostering scientific collaboration inside the national and international welding community an associated advisory committee will be established to oversee the future development of the file format. The proposed file format will be developed with regards to current needs of the community regarding interoperability, data quality and performance and will be published under an appropriate open source license. By using the file format objectivity, comparability and reproducibility across different experimental setups can be improved. To make the file format accessible and easy to integrate into scientific workflows, a corresponding Python API will be developed throughout the project. The API will be based on established scientific open source libraries and will also be made available under open source licensing. This research is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany under project number 16QK12.
title: On the Expressive Power of Ontology-Mediated Queries: Capturing coNP
Creators: name: Lukumbuzya, Sanja
name: Ortiz de la Fuente, Maria Magdalena
name: Simkus, Mantas
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: Description Logics
Ontology-mediated Query Answering
Expressive Power
Descriptive Complexity

description: The complexity and relative expressiveness of Ontology-mediated Queries (OMQs) is quite well understood now. In this paper we study the absolute expressive power of OMQs, where the central question is to understand if a given OMQ language is expressive enough to capture all queries that can be computed within some bound on time or space. We consider this problem, and show that the OMQ language that pairs instance queries with an ontology in the very expressive DL ALCHOIF with closed predicates, despite being coNP-complete in data complexity, cannot capture all Boolean queries computable in coNP. Then we identify an extension of this DL that increases its expressive power sufficiently to capture all Boolean queries computable in coNP. The extension involves path expressions and nominal schemata, which are restricted in a way that they can be carefully incorporated into the existing mosaic technique for ALCHOIF with closed predicates without affecting the coNP upper bound in data complexity. As a consequence we get an OMQ language that captures precisely all Boolean queries computable in coNP.
Metriogryllacris (Metriogryllacris) obscurata Zhang, Pang & Bian 2022
Creators: name: Zhang, Qianwen
name: Pang, Siyu
name: Bian, Xun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Gryllacrididae
Metriogryllacris
Metriogryllacris obscurata

description: Metriogryllacris (Metriogryllacris) obscurata Zhang, Pang & Bian, 2022 ĸüạșŝ
Figure 4
 Female (first description). Wings reaching the posterior margin of fifth abdominal tergite. Fore and middle tibiae with 4 pairs of spurs and 1 pair of apical spurs on ventral surfaces; middle tibiae with 1 internal spine on dorsal surface. Hind femora with 14 internal and 6 external spines on ventral surface; tibiae with 5 – 6 internal and 6 external spines on dorsal surface, apices with 1 pair of dorsal spurs and 2 pairs of ventral spurs, subapical area with 1 pair of ventral spurs.
 Second and third abdominal tergites with few, very minute stridulatory pegs (Fig. 4E). Seventh abdominal sternite longer than wide, posterior margin widely rounded; ventral surface concave following with one sclerotized transverse fold (Fig. 4G). Subgenital plate transverse, lateral margins convexly approaching, posterior margin arched, ventral surface with 1 pair of conical processes (Fig. 4G). Ovipositor short, apart from subbasal gradually and obliquely curved upward, apical area slightly curved dorsad, apices obtuse; basal area of ventral valvulae wide and then terminating into 1 pair of long spines, its apices directing backward (Fig. 4F, H). Other characters (including coloration) as the male’s description (Zhang et al., 2022).
 Measurements (mm). Female: BL 23.07, PL 4.66, HLF 10.75, TL12.13, OvL 7.43.
 Material examined. 1 female, Kengdi, Shouning, Fujian, July 17, 2023, coll. by Fanduo Cai.
 Discussion. The female sex of the species differs from that of Metriogryllacris (Metriogryllacris) bimacula Yu, Liu & Bian, 2022 by subgenital plate bearing 1 pair of conical processes on ventral surface (Fig. 4G); basal area of ventral valvulae prolonged into 1 pair of long spines.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Qianwen, Pang, Siyu & Bian, Xun, 2023, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Gryllacrididae (Orthoptera) XXI: New reports from Fujian Province, pp. 60-66 in Zootaxa 5353 (1) on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/8426977
The Role of Quantum Decoherence in FRET
Creators: name: Nelson, Philip C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonance energy transfer has become an indispensable experimental tool for single-molecule and single-cell biophysics. Its physical underpinnings, however, are subtle: It involves a discrete jump of excitation from one molecule to another, and so we regard it as a strongly quantum-mechanical process. And yet, its kinetics differ from what many of us were taught about two-state quantum systems; quantum superpositions of the states do not seem to arise; and so on. Although J. R. Oppenheimer and T. Förster navigated these subtleties successfully, it remains hard to find an elementary derivation in modern language. The key step involves acknowledging quantum decoherence. Appreciating that aspect can be helpful when we attempt to extend our understanding to situations where Förster's original analysis is not applicable.
Applications of the Reduction of Couplings
Creators: name: Kubo, Jisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Applications of the principle of reduction of couplings to the standard model and supersymmetric grand unified theories are reviewed. Phenomenological applications of renormalization group invariant sum rules for soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters are also reviewed.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures
Passenger head kinematics in abrupt braking and lane change events
Creators: name: Reed, Matthew P.
name: Ebert, Sheila M.
name: Jones, Monica L. H.
name: B.-K. Daniel Park
name: Hallman, Jason J.
name: Sherony, Rini
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: A test track study was conducted to quantify patterns of adult front seat passenger head motion during abrupt vehicle maneuvers. Method: Eighty-seven men and women with a wide range of body sizes and ages participated in data collection on a closed test track in a passenger sedan under manual control by a test driver. Because a primary goal of the study was to gather “unaware” data, the participants were instructed that the study was concerned with vehicle dynamics and they were required to read from a questionnaire taped to the top of their thighs as the drive began. The first event was a hard brake (approximately 1 g) to a stop from 35 mph (56 kph). Within the space of approximately 5 min the participants also experienced an aggressive lane change, a sharp right turn with simultaneous hard braking, and a second hard braking event. A Microsoft Kinect v2 sensor was positioned to view the area around the front passenger seat. Head location was tracked using the Kinect data with a novel methodology that fit 3D head scan data to the depth data acquired in the vehicle. Result: The mean (standard deviation) forward excursion of the estimated head center of gravity (CG) location in the first braking event was 135 (62) mm. The forward head CG excursion in the second braking event of 115 (51) mm was significantly less than that in the first, but the difference was small relative to the within-condition variance. Head excursion on the second braking trial was less than that on the first trial for 69% of participants. The mean maximum inboard head excursion in lane-change maneuvers was 118 (40) mm. Forward head excursions in braking were significantly smaller for older passengers and those with higher body mass index, but the combined factors accounted for less than 25% of the variance. Inboard head excursion in the lane-change event was significantly related to stature, but only about 7% of variance was related to body size. Head excursions for men and women did not differ significantly after accounting for body size. Discussion: This is the first quantitative occupant dynamics study to use a large, diverse sample of passengers, enabling the exploration of the effects of covariates such as age and body size. Conclusions: The data demonstrate that a relatively large range of head positions can be expected to result from abrupt vehicle maneuvers. The data do not support simple scaling of excursions based on body size.
Lattice study of $B\to π$ semileptonic decay using nonrelativistic lattice QCD
Creators: name: Hashimoto, S.
name: Ishikawa, K-I.
name: Matsufuru, H.
name: Onogi, T.
name: Yamada, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an exploratory lattice study of $B\toπ$ semileptonic decay form factors using the nonrelativistic lattice QCD for heavy quark with Wilson light quark on a $16^3 \times 32$ quenched lattice at $β=5.8$. The matrix elements are calculated at eight values of heavy quark mass in a range of $1.5-8$ GeV and with three values of light quark mass. The $1/m_B$ corrections to the matrix elements are found to be fairly small except for the spatial component proportional to the $B$ meson momentum. We find that the $q^2$ dependence of the form factor $f^+(q^2)$ near $q_{max}^2$ becomes much stronger for larger heavy quark mass, which may suggest the increase of a pole contribution. We perform a model independent fit of the form factors and study whether the $q^2$ dependence is consistent with the pole contribution. Although the soft pion theorem predicts $f^0(q_{max}^2)=f_B/f_π$ in the chiral limit, we observe a significant violation of this relation.
description: 42 pages, Revised March 1998, REVTeX, 30 eps figures, uses psfig.sty
title: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Location Based Services
Creators: name: Huang, Haosheng
name: van de Weghe, Nico
name: Gartner, Georg
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: Location-based Services

description: This document contains the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2023), held in Ghent, Belgium on November 20–22, 2023.
Non-Perturbative Couplings and Color Superconductivity
Creators: name: Evans, Nick
name: Hsu, Stephen
name: Schwetz, Myckola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quark matter at sufficiently high density exhibits color superconductivity, due to attractive gluonic interactions. At lower densities of order $Λ_{QCD}^3$, it has been proposed that instanton generated vertices may play an important role in the Cooper pair formation. We study the renormalization group flow to the Fermi surface of the full set of couplings generated by gluonic and instanton interactions. In earlier work we showed that if the gluonic interactions dominate at the matching scale, their running determines the scale of the Cooper pair formation Delta. Here we consider all possibilities, including the one in which the instanton interactions dominate all others at the matching scale. In the latter case we find that a number of additional induced couplings (including the gluonic ones) reach their Landau poles almost simultaneously with the instanton vertex. Presumably all contribute to the Cooper pair formation. The most important consequence of including all the couplings is a large increase in the gap size Delta.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX, 4 eps files, extra discussion
Is there evidence for dimension-two corrections in QCD two-point functions?
Creators: name: Dominguez, C. A.
name: Schilcher, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ALEPH data on the (non-strange) vector and axial-vector spectral functions, extracted from tau-lepton decays, is used in order to search for evidence for a dimension-two contribution, $C_{2 V,A}$, to the Operator Product Expansion (other than $d=2$ quark mass terms). This is done by means of a dimension-two Finite Energy Sum Rule, which relates QCD to the experimental hadronic information. The average $C_{2} \equiv (C_{2V} + C_{2A})/2$ is remarkably stable against variations in the continuum threshold, but depends rather strongly on $Λ_{QCD}$. Given the current wide spread in the values of $Λ_{QCD}$, as extracted from different experiments, we would conservatively conclude from our analysis that $C_{2}$ is consistent with zero.
description: A misprint in Eq. (14) has been corrected. No other changes. Paper to appear in Phys. Rev. D