cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Using Rare Decays to Probe the Standard Model at LHCb
Creators: name: Sepp, Indrek
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: The Large Hadron Collider beauty Experiment (LHCb) detector is one of the four main particle detectors on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is dedicated to the study of physics processes involving b quarks. This thesis presents three analyses of data collected by LHCb. The first measures the photoelectron yield of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector (RICH) detector subsystem, which distinguishes between pions, kaons and protons. The yield is seen to be 15%(19%) less than that in the simulation for the C4 F10 (CF4) radiator medium. The result is a Particle Identification (PID) performance which is sufficient for the physics goals of LHCb, albeit slightly less than expected from simulation. No evidence is found for the deterioration of the Hybrid Photon Detector (HPD) quantum efficiency, mirror reflectivity or RICH medium transparency over the course of 2011 and 2012 data collection. The second analysis measures the dependence of the b → Λb to b → Bd hadronisation ratio on the pT and η of the Λb and Bd. An exponential function with a plateau provides the best fit for the pT dependence. A linear dependence of the ratio to η is also observed. These observations are substantial improvements on previous measurements of the dependencies that can aid the development of QCD models and simulation frameworks that describe b quark hadronisation. The third analysis presents the world’s first search for the decays Bs → μ+ μ− μ+μ− and Bd → μ+ μ− μ+ μ− . Upper limits are set on the branching fractions of both decays that are ∼ 2 orders of magnitude above Standard Model (SM) expectations. These limits begin to exclude the phase-space of supersymmetric models where the decays are mediated by S and P sgoldstinos.
title: Hydroelektrische Projektionen. Imaginationen der Wasserkraft im Industriefilm
Creators: name: Zimmer, Fabian
Publisher: name: ZZF - Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung: Visual History
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk

description: Die Wasserkraft ist umstritten. Aktuelle Proteste zeigen das Konfliktpotential von geplanten wie von bereits gebauten Wasserkraftwerken. Die Bauten bedeuten empfindliche Eingriffe in Landschaften und Lebensweisen. Entsprechend haben Konflikte zwischen Wasserkraftunternehmen und ihren Unterstützern auf der einen und betroffenen Anrainern und Natur- und Heimatschützern auf der anderen Seite eine lange Geschichte. Mein Dissertationsprojekt rückt die 1950er-Jahre in den Mittelpunkt. In diesem Jahrzehnt trafen drei Entwicklungen zusammen: Einerseits boomte der Bau von Staudämmen und Wasserkraftwerken in ganz Europa mit dem wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung und der zunehmenden Verfügbarkeit von Ressourcen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, noch bevor die Energiegewinnung aus Öl und später die Atomenergie den europäischen Elektrizitätsmarkt und die imaginierten Technikzukünfte dominieren sollten. Andererseits kam in diesem Jahrzehnt auch erstmals ein durchsetzungsfähiger Protest gegen den Bau von Wasserkraftwerken auf. In diesem Spannungsfeld schließlich ließen Wasserkraftunternehmen unzählige Filme produzieren.
Sintor ochraceus Frieser 2000
Creators: name: Trýzna, Miloš
name: Baňař, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Sintor
Sintor ochraceus

description: Sintor ochraceus Frieser, 2000
(Fig. 69)
Sintor ochraceus Frieser, 2000: 26
Type locality. Eastern Madagascar, Antsahatsaka env.
Type material. Holotype ♂: ‘ Madagascar / Tomasina distr. / Antsahatsaka env. / 9.–11.XII.1997, J. Stolarczyk leg. [p] // HOLOTYPE [red card, p] // Sintor / ochraceus sp.n. / Holotypus ♂ [h] / det. R. Frieser [p] 2000 [h]’ (ZSMC). Allotype ♀: ‘ Madagascar / Tamatave prov. / Moramanga env. / 27.–30.xii.1996 / I. Jeniš leg.’ (ZSMC). Paratypes (2 ♂♂, 1 ♀): 1 ♂: ‘ Madagascar C. / Moramanga env. / 10.–18.xii.1997 / P. Pacholátko leg.’ (MTDC); 1 ♂: ‘ Madagascar / Moramanga / 22.–29.ii.1995 / Jiří Moravec leg.’ (MTDC); 1 ♀: ‘ Madagascar / Tamatave distr. / Moramanga env. / 14.–18.xii.1995 / Ivo Jeniš leg.’ (MTDC).
Other material examined. 1 ♂: Madagascar, Tamatave prov., Moramanga env., 21.–24.xii.1996, Ivo Jeniš leg. (MTDC); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: E Madagascar, Mantadia Nat. Park, circuit Tsakoka, 946 m, S 18°47’28”, E 48°25’29”, 26.–30.xii.2016, M. Trýzna leg. (MTDC, ♂ in Fig. 69); 1 ♂: E Madagascar, Andasibe Nat. Park, Analamazaotra, circuit Aventure, 1020 m, S 18°57’07”, E 48°25’51”, 23.–31.xii.2016, M. Trýzna leg. (MTDC).
Distribution. Central: Antsahatsaka, Moramanga; East: Analamazaotra, Mantadia.
description: Published as part of Trýzna, Miloš & Baňař, Petr, 2025, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Malagasy species of Anhelita Jordan, Lemurisintor Frieser and Sintor Schoenherr (Anthribidae: Coleoptera), pp. 301-325 in Zootaxa 5621 (3) on page 312, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5621.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15262745
Gauge Invariant Geometric Variables For Yang-Mills Theory
Creators: name: Haagensen, Peter E.
name: Johnson, Kenneth
name: Lam, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous publication [1], local gauge invariant geometric variables were introduced to describe the physical Hilbert space of Yang-Mills theory. In these variables, the electric energy involves the inverse of an operator which can generically have zero modes, and thus its calculation is subtle. In the present work, we resolve these subtleties by considering a small deformation in the definition of these variables, which in the end is removed. The case of spherical configurations of the gauge invariant variables is treated in detail, as well as the inclusion of infinitely heavy point color sources, and the expression for the associated electric field is found explicitly. These spherical geometries are seen to correspond to the spatial components of instanton configurations. The related geometries corresponding to Wu-Yang monopoles and merons are also identified.
description: 21 pp. in plain TeX. Uses harvmac.tex
Tracking the Iron K$α$ line and the Ultra Fast Outflow in NGC 2992 at different accretion states
Creators: name: Marinucci, A.
name: Bianchi, S.
name: Braito, V.
name: Matt, G.
name: Nardini, E.
name: Reeves, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 2992 has been monitored eight times by XMM-Newton in 2010 and then observed again in 2013, while in 2015 it was simultaneously targeted by Swift and NuSTAR. XMM-Newton always caught the source in a faint state (2-10 keV fluxes ranging from 0.3 to 1.6$\times10^{-11}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$) but NuSTAR showed an increase in the 2-10 keV flux up to 6$\times10^{-11}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. We find possible evidence of an Ultra Fast Outflow with velocity $v_1=0.21\pm0.01c$ (detected at about 99% confidence level) in such a flux state. The UFO in NGC 2992 is consistent with being ejected at a few tens of gravitational radii only at accretion rates greater than 2% of the Eddington luminosity. The analysis of the low flux 2010/2013 XMM data allowed us to determine that the Iron K$α$ emission line complex in this object is likely the sum of three distinct components: a constant, narrow one due to reflection from cold, distant material (likely the molecular torus); a narrow, but variable one which is more intense in brighter observations and a broad relativistic one emitted in the innermost regions of the accretion disk, which has been detected only in the 2003 XMM observation.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Contribution of White Dwarfs to Cluster Masses
Creators: name: von Hippel, Ted
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present a literature search through 31 July 1997 of white dwarfs (WDs) in open and globular clusters. There are 36 single WDs and 5 WDs in binaries known among 13 open clusters, and 340 single WDs and 11 WDs in binaries known among 11 globular clusters. From these data I have calculated WD mass fractions for four open clusters (the Pleiades, NGC 2168, NGC 3532, and the Hyades) and one globular cluster (NGC 6121). I develop a simple model of cluster evolution that incorporates stellar evolution but not dynamical evolution to interpret the WD mass fractions. I augment the results of my simple model with N-body simulations incorporating stellar evolution (Terlevich 1987; de la Feunte Marcos 1996; Vesperini & Heggie 1997). I find that even though these clusters undergo moderate to strong kinematical evolution the WD mass fraction is relatively insensitive to kinematical evolution. By comparing the cluster mass functions to that of the Galactic disk, and incorporating plausibility arguments for the mass function of the Galactic halo, I estimate the WD mass fraction in these two populations. I assume the Galactic disk is ~10 Gyrs old (Winget et al. 1987; Liebert, Dahn, & Monet 1988; Oswalt et al. 1996) and that the Galactic halo is ~12 Gyrs old (Reid 1997b; Gratton et al. 1997; Chaboyer et al. 1998), although the WD mass fraction is insensitive to age in this range. I find that the Galactic halo should contain 8 to 9% (alpha = -2.35) or perhaps as much as 15 to 17% (alpha = -2.0) of its stellar mass in the form of WDs. The Galactic disk WD mass fraction should be 6 to 7% (alpha = -2.35), consistent with the empirical estimates of 3 to 7% (Liebert, Dahn, & Monet 1988; Oswalt et al. 1996). (abridged)
description: 20 pages, uuencoded gunzip'ed latex + 3 postscrip figures, to be published in AJ, April, 1998
Tenthredo lutea Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tenthredinidae
Tenthredo
Tenthredo lutea

description: Tenthredo lutea [spec. nov.]
T. antennis clavatis luteis, abdominis segmentis plerisque flavis. Fn. svec. 923.
Habitat in Salice, Alno, Betula.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 555, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
A No-go Theorem for a Gauge Vector as a Space-time Goldstone
Creators: name: Klein, Remko
name: Malek, Emanuel
name: Roest, Diederik
name: Stefanyszyn, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scalars and fermions can arise as Goldstone modes of non-linearly realised extensions of the Poincare group (with important implications for the soft limits of such theories): the Dirac-Born-Infeld scalar realises a higher-dimensional Poincare symmetry, while the Volkov-Akulov fermion corresponds to super-Poincare. In this paper we classify extensions of the Poincare group which give rise to a vector Goldstone mode instead. Our main result is that there are no healthy interacting $U(1)$ gauge theories that non-linearly realise space-time symmetries beyond gauge transformations. This implies that the special soft limits of e.g. the Born-Infeld vector cannot be explained by space-time symmetries.
description: 6 pages; v2: minor changes
Cumulative Learning in the Lambda Calculus
Creators: name: Henderson, Robert John
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: I design a machine learning system capable of ‘cumulative learning’, which means that it automatically acquires the knowledge necessary for solving harder problems through experience of solving easier ones. Working within the learning framework of inductive programming, I propose that the technique of abstraction, familiar from software engineering, is a suitable mechanism for accumulating knowledge. In abstraction, syntactic patterns in solutions to past problems are isolated as re-usable units and added to background knowledge. For the system’s knowledge representation language, I argue that lambda calculus is a more suitable choice than first-order logic because lambda calculus supports abstraction readily. However, more mature and theoretically well-founded base inference techniques are available within first-order Inductive Logic Programming (ILP). Therefore, my approach is to adapt ILP inference techniques to lambda calculus. Central to ILP is the idea of ‘generality’, and I show that a suitable concept of generality in lambda calculus arises from its standard denotational semantics. Consequently, notions of entailment, subsumption, refinement, and inverse deduction have direct analogues in the lambda calculus setting. I argue that the conventional ‘compression’ measure used in ILP is inflexible in capturing prior assumptions, particularly in the context of an expanding background knowledge. Instead I introduce a non-parametric Bayesian prior over hypotheses and background knowledge. I then design an inductive inference algorithm for the lambda calculus setting based on refinement and proof-directed search. I give a formal proof of correctness of this algorithm. To enable automatic invention of abstractions, I design two algorithms. The first is a heuristic search that uses anti-unification to discovering opportunities for abstraction within a corpus of knowledge. I give a formal characterisation of its search space. The second algorithm performs inverse deduction in order to refactor knowledge in terms of an abstraction. I prove that this refactoring process is semantics-preserving.
Irreducible subgroups of exceptional algebraic groups
Creators: name: Thomas, Adam Robert
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Let $G$ be a semisimple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field $K$, of characteristic $p \geq 0$. A closed subgroup of $G$ is said to be irreducible if it does not lie in any proper parabolic subgroup of $G$. In this thesis we address the following problem: classify the connected irreducible subgroups of $G$, up to conjugacy, where $G$ is of exceptional type. Work of Liebeck and Seitz classifies the conjugacy classes of simple, connected irreducible subgroups of rank at least 2, with a restriction on the characteristic of the underlying field ($p > 7$ is sufficient). When $G$ is of type $F_4$, Stewart has classified the conjugacy classes of simple, connected irreducible subgroups of rank at least 2 in all characteristics. We classify the conjugacy classes of simple, connected irreducible subgroups, of rank at least 2 for $E_6$, $E_7$ and $E_8$. Our approach works in all characteristics, rather than starting from the characteristics excluded in the result of Liebeck and Seitz. We use these classifications to prove corollaries concerning the representation theory of such irreducible subgroups. For example, with one exception, two simple irreducible connected subgroups of rank at least 2 are $G$-conjugate if and only if they have the same composition factors on the adjoint module of $G$. We also consider connected subgroups of rank 1. Work of Lawther and Testerman classifies conjugacy classes of rank 1 connected irreducible subgroups, with a restriction on $p$ ($p>7$ is sufficient). The connected irreducible subgroups of rank 1 were found, in arbitrary characteristic, by Amende for all but $E_8$. We give a new proof of this, finding a set of conjugacy class representatives without repetition. We prove corollaries on the overgroups of irreducible $A_1$ subgroups. For example, we prove that if $p=2$ or $3$ then any irreducible $A_1$ subgroup of $E_7$ is contained in $A_1 D_6$. Finally, consider the semisimple, non-simple connected irreducible subgroups. We classify these, up to conjugacy, for $G_2$, $F_4$ and $E_6$. So in conclusion, we classify conjugacy classes of connected irreducible subgroups of $G_2$, $F_4$ and $E_6$, all simple, connected irreducible subgroups of $E_7$ and all simple, connected irreducible subgroups of $E_8$ of rank at least 2.
title: ADCO, Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503) (11 H 1173), f. 00730
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: comptes

description: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173), f. 00730, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Identification of KSR1 as a novel target and decoding tyrosine kinase proteome in breast cancer
Creators: name: Zhang, Hua
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Kinase suppressor of Ras-1 (KSR1), originally identified as a novel protein kinase in the Ras-Raf cascade, plays a role in activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs). Although efforts have been devoted to study the role of KSR1 in certain tumour types, its biological functions in breast cancer have remained largely undefined. A SILAC-based proteomic analysis was conducted to identify the KSR1-regulated phosphoproteins in breast cancer. Our results revealed that KSR1 overexpression decreases deleted in breast cancer 1 (DBC1) phosphorylation. We then demonstrated that KSR1 decreases transcriptional activity of p53 by reducing phosphorylation of DBC1, which leads to a reduced interaction of DBC1 with sirtuin 1 (SIRT1); this in turn enables SIRT1 to deacetylate p53. We further examined the correlation between KSR1 expression and clinical outcome in breast cancer. Our results showed that patients with breast cancer with high KSR1 in our cohort (n>1000) had better disease free- and overall survival. Moreover, in KSR1-transfected stable cells, fewer and smaller size colonies were formed in comparison to parental cells, while an in vivo study demonstrated that the growth of xenograft tumours overexpressing KSR1 was inhibited. Mechanistically, the tumour suppressive action of KSR1 is BRCA1 dependent, which was shown by in vitro 3D matrigel and soft agar assays. KSR1 regulates BRCA1 ubiquitination through elevated BRCA1-associated RING domain 1 (BARD1) expression and increased BRCA1-BARD1 interaction. Deregulation of tyrosine kinases (TKs) signalling can contribute to tumourigenesis. A combined approach of RNAi and SILAC-based quantitative proteomics was employed to decode the TKs-regulated proteomes upon silencing individually each 65 validated TKs in MCF7 breast cancer cells. Bioinformatics analysis identified 10 new distinctive clusters based on similarity in the TKs-regulated proteomes. The biological relevance of our proteomic study in interpreting the TKs-regulated proteomes supports the essential role of TKs in regulating all aspects of cellular activities.
Additional file 1: of Neurological signs as early determinants of dementia and predictors of mortality among older adults in Latin America: a 10/66 study using the NEUROEX assessment
Creators: name: Pasquini, Lorenzo
name: Guerra, Jorge Llibre
name: Prince, Martin
name: Kia-Chong Chua
name: A. Prina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplement. (DOCX 60 kb)
The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign. II. New quasar lenses from double component fitting
Creators: name: Anguita, T.
name: Schechter, P. L.
name: Kuropatkin, N.
name: Morgan, N. D.
name: Ostrovski, F.
name: Abramson, L. E.
name: Agnello, A.
name: Apostolovski, Y.
name: Fassnacht, C. D.
name: Hsueh, J. W.
name: Motta, V.
name: Rojas, K.
name: Rusu, C. E.
name: Treu, T.
name: Williams, P.
name: Auger, M.
name: Buckley-Geer, E.
name: Lin, H.
name: McMahon, R.
name: Abbott, T. M. C.
name: Allam, S.
name: Annis, J.
name: Bernstein, R. A.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Brooks, D.
name: Burke, D. L.
name: Rosell, A. Carnero
name: Kind, M. Carrasco
name: Carretero, J.
name: Cunha, C. E.
name: D'Andrea, C. B.
name: De Vicente, J.
name: DePoy, D. L.
name: Desai, S.
name: Diehl, H. T.
name: Doel, P.
name: Flaugher, B.
name: García-Bellido, J.
name: Gerdes, D. W.
name: Gruen, D.
name: Gruendl, R. A.
name: Gschwend, J.
name: Hartley, W. G.
name: Hollowood, D. L.
name: Honscheid, K.
name: James, D. J.
name: Kuehn, K.
name: Lima, M.
name: Maia, M. A. G.
name: Miquel, R.
name: Plazas, A. A.
name: Sanchez, E.
name: Scarpine, V.
name: Smith, M.
name: Soares-Santos, M.
name: Sobreira, F.
name: Suchyta, E.
name: Tarle, G.
name: Walker, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report upon the follow up of 34 candidate lensed quasars found in the Dark Energy Survey using NTT-EFOSC, Magellan-IMACS, KECK-ESI and SOAR-SAMI. These candidates were selected by a combination of double component fitting, morphological assessment and color analysis. Most systems followed up are indeed composed of at least one quasar image and 13 with two or more quasar images: two lenses, four projected binaries and seven Nearly Identical Quasar Pairs (NIQs). The two systems confirmed as genuine gravitationally lensed quasars are one quadruple at $z_s=1.713$ and one double at $z_s=1.515$. Lens modeling of these two systems reveals that both systems require very little contribution from the environment to reproduce the image configuration. Nevertheless, small flux anomalies can be observed in one of the images of the quad. Further observations of 9 inconclusive systems (including 7 NIQs) will allow to confirm (or not) their gravitational lens nature.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures. MNRAS submitted (05/24). Approved by the DES Collaboration Wide Review
Additional file 1 of Hugan Qingzhi tablets attenuates endoplasmic reticulum stress in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease rats by regulating PERK and ATF6 pathways
Creators: name: Yang, Miaoting
name: Yao, Xiaorui
name: Xia, Fan
name: Xiang, Shijian
name: Tang, Waijiao
name: Zhou, Benjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Tenthredo amerinae Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tenthredinidae
Tenthredo
Tenthredo amerinae

description: Tenthredo amerinae [spec. nov.]
T. antennis clavatis, pedibus abdomineque subtus ferrugineis, corpore cinereo.
Roes. ins. 2. vesp. t. 1.
Habitat in Salice.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 555, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Nielsen-Olesen Vortices in Noncommutative Abelian Higgs Model
Creators: name: Jatkar, Dileep P.
name: Mandal, Gautam
name: Wadia, Spenta R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution in the noncommutative abelian Higgs model. We derive the quantized topological flux of the vortex solution. We find that the flux is integral by explicit computation in the large $θ$ limit as well as in the small $θ$ limit. In the context of a tachyon vortex on the brane-antibrane system we demonstrate that it is this topological charge that gives rise to the RR charge of the resulting BPS D-brane. We also consider the left-right-symmetric gauge theory which does not have a commutative limit and construct an exact vortex solution in it.
description: 24 pages, (v2) clarifying comments added regarding topological index using coherent states; n-vortex solution added; version to appear in JHEP
Additional file 3: of Cost analysis of implementing mHealth intervention for maternal, newborn & child health care through community health workers: assessment of ReMIND program in Uttar Pradesh, India
Creators: name: Prinja, Shankar
name: Gupta, Aditi
name: Bahuguna, Pankaj
name: Nimesh, Ruby
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Scale up costs for implementation of mobile health in the entire state of Uttar Pradesh in two case scenarios. The table shows the scale up cost of implementing the ReMiND program in state of Uttar Pradesh under two case scenarios. First, if the scale up is undertaken utilizing the existing human resource. Second, if additional staff is recruited for monitoring & supervisory activities at block level. (DOCX 46 kb)
An investigation of genetic and epigenetic factors in the regulation of gene expression in schizophrenia: insights into pathways involved in pathogenesis
Creators: name: Perez-Becerril, Cristina Margarita
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2011

description: Schizophrenia is a common psychiatric disorder with a complex aetiology that has a strong genetic component as well as a major contribution from non-genetic factors. Whilst GWAS studies have not yielded substantial evidence of DNA variants linked to schizophrenia, microarray expression studies, which reflect both genetic and environmental factors, have provided evidence of candidate genes whose expression changes significantly in schizophrenia. The present thesis is based on a prospective microarray study carried out on two brain regions implicated in schizophrenia: frontal cortex and superior temporal cortex (Maycox et al., 2009; Barnes et al., 2011). SNP variants in six of these genes were genotyped and allele, genotype and haplotype analysis carried out initially to investigate associations with levels of expression found in these microarray studies. Subsequently SNP associations with disease were investigated in an extended case-control cohort from the East UK region. The selected candidates genes, highlighted from microarray studies, reflected two main functional categories: synaptic plasticity and the Wnt signalling pathway. Initial ANOVA revealed a significant interaction of disease status with genotype/haplotype in ZnT3 with respect to levels of expression. Significant effects of specific genotypes and haplotypes in CACNA1E and FRZB on expression were also observed. Furthermore, ZnT3 was the gene for which the strongest evidence of association with schizophrenia was obtained in the East UK cohort, with four SNPs associated at the allelic and genotypic level. Significant associations of a number of haplotypes of ZnT3 with disease status were also identified. In addition, modest evidence of statistical epistasis between genes within both functional groups was identified. Finally, a method for analysis of CpG island methylation was developed based on bisulphite sequencing and methylation specific PCR (MSP) using previously validated primers for DKK3 (Yue et al., 2008). Although DKK3 showed a low density of methylation, the application of this method may prove useful for other candidate genes.
title: “Always Already Technological”: New Views of Music and the Human in Musicology and the Cognitive Sciences
Creators: name: Deirdre Loughridge
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newofundland
Year: 2021

description: The relationship between nature and culture has been a traditional battleground for the humanities and the sciences. Now, however, new compatibilities and tensions are emerging between the fields of musicology and music psychology, neuroscience, and cognition, spurred by the incorporation of “technology” into conceptions of “the human.” This essay aims to surface and compare changing assumptions about technology in relation to music and the human across these fields. It surveys musicological attention to technology and how this attention has segued into posthumanist paradigms, and it charts the rise of biotechnological conceptions of human nature in music cognition and neuroscience. It finds that while posthumanist and biotechnological frameworks share the premise of an “always already technological” human, and with that an interest in how biology and culture work together, the fields have drawn different implications from this new vision. Musicology and music sciences may both benefit by taking stock of the shifts in conceptualizing the human in each discipline, reflecting on what discrepancies between them reveal about the benefits and limitations of each perspective, and considering anew the possibilities for dialogue and collaboration.

How to cite this article: Loughridge, Deirdre. 2021. “‘Always Already Technological’: New Views of Music and the Human in Musicology and the Cognitive Sciences.” Music Research Annual 2: 1–22. https://doi.org/10.48336/r142-pw54

About the author: Deirdre Loughridge is an Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Northeastern University. Her research centers on the history of music, science, and technology, and currently revolves around questions of music’s roles in conceptions of “human” and “machine.” Her first book, Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism, deals with the rise of optical technologies in scientific and popular culture and their impact on musical discourses and practices; it won the Kenshur Prize for outstanding monograph in eighteenth-century studies. In 2019, Loughridge was awarded a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, to work on her new book about music in understandings of human-machine relations in the eighteenth century as well as more recently. Her research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Musicology, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Keyboard Perspectives, and in the edited volumes Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789–1851 (2017), The Oxford Handbook of Timbre (2018), and Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination (2019). She is co-curator, with Thomas Patteson, of the online Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments. With Elizabeth Margulis and Psyche Loui, she is currently co-editing a volume titled The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future.
String Physics and Black Holes
Creators: name: Susskind, Leonard
name: Uglum, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In these lectures we review the quantum physics of large Schwarzschild black holes. Hawking's information paradox, the theory of the stretched horizon and the principle of black hole complementarity are covered. We then discuss how the ideas of black hole complementarity may be realized in string theory. Finally, arguments are given that the world may be a hologram. Lectures delivered at ICTP Spring School on String Theory, Gauge Theory, and Quantum Gravity, 1995.
description: 20 pages, Latex (needs espcrc2.sty), 6 figures
Fully Convolutional Networks and Generative Adversarial Networks Applied to Sclera Segmentation
Creators: name: Lucio, Diego R.
name: Laroca, Rayson
name: Severo, Evair
name: Britto, Alceu S.
name: Menotti, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the world's demand for security systems, biometrics can be seen as an important topic of research in computer vision. One of the biometric forms that has been gaining attention is the recognition based on sclera. The initial and paramount step for performing this type of recognition is the segmentation of the region of interest, i.e. the sclera. In this context, two approaches for such task based on the Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) and on Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) are introduced in this work. FCN is similar to a common convolution neural network, however the fully connected layers (i.e., the classification layers) are removed from the end of the network and the output is generated by combining the output of pooling layers from different convolutional ones. The GAN is based on the game theory, where we have two networks competing with each other to generate the best segmentation. In order to perform fair comparison with baselines and quantitative and objective evaluations of the proposed approaches, we provide to the scientific community new 1,300 manually segmented images from two databases. The experiments are performed on the UBIRIS.v2 and MICHE databases and the best performing configurations of our propositions achieved F-score's measures of 87.48% and 88.32%, respectively.
description: Accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS) 2018
V0 production ratios at LHCb and the alignment of its RICH detectors
Creators: name: Blanks, Christopher George
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2011

description: The strangeness production ratios [bar wedge]/∧ and [bar wedge]/K0S are measured by the LHCb detector from 0.3 nb-1 of proton-proton collisions delivered by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN with centre-of-mass energy √s = 0.9TeV and 1.8 nb-1 at √s = 7TeV. Both ratios are presented as a function of transverse momentum, pT, and rapidity, y, in the ranges 0.15 < pT < 2.50 GeV/c and 2.0 < y < 4.5. The ratios measured at the two energies are in good agreement in an overlapping region of rapidity loss, Δ y = ybeam - y, and are consistent with previous measurements. A review of the Standard Model is presented with emphasis on the diffculties in its application for predictions of physics at the LHC. Phenomenological models are introduced as the current state of the art for such predictions. Accurate models are required as an essential benchmark for future discoveries of physics beyond the Standard Model. LHCb's results represent a powerful test for these models in the soft QCD regime for processes including hadronisation. The ratio [bar wedge]/∧, measuring the transport of baryon number from the collision into the detector, is smaller in data than predicted, particularly at high rapidity. The ratio [bar wedge]/K0 S, measuring the baryon-to-meson suppression in strange quark hadronisation, is significantly larger than expected. The LHCb experiment is introduced, with particular focus on its Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors. The development and successful implementation of a method to align those RICH detectors is presented, using proton-proton collision data from the early running period of the Large Hadron Collider, which began in November 2009. The performance of the RICH detectors is investigated with preliminary analysis of the Cherenkov photon yield. The RICH mirror positions are monitored using an automated software control system, which has been running successfully since October 2008.
Evidence for an Optical Low-frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillation in the Kepler Light Curve of an Active Galaxy
Creators: name: Smith, Krista Lynne
name: Mushotzky, Richard F.
name: Boyd, Patricia T.
name: Wagoner, Robert V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report evidence for a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the optical light curve of KIC 9650712, a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy in the original Kepler field. After the development and application of a pipeline for Kepler data specific to active galactic nuclei (AGN), one of our sample of 21 AGN selected by infrared photometry and X-ray flux demonstrates a peak in the power spectrum at log $ν$ = -6.58 Hz, corresponding to a temporal period of t=44 days. We note that although the power spectrum is well-fit by a model consisting of a Lorentzian and a single power law, alternative continuum models cannot be ruled out. From optical spectroscopy, we measure the black hole mass of this AGN as log $M_{\mathrm{BH}} / M_\odot$ = 8.17. We find that this frequency lies along a correlation between low-frequency QPOs and black hole mass from stellar and intermediate mass black holes to AGN, similar to the known correlation in high-frequency QPOs.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for Publication in ApJ Letters
Additional file 3: of Oxygen versus air-driven nebulisers for exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Bardsley, George
name: Pilcher, Janine
name: McKinstry, Steven
name: Shirtcliffe, Philippa
name: Berry, James
name: Fingleton, James
name: Weatherall, Mark
name: Beasley, Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Online supplement - Table S1. PtCO2 change â Ľ4Â mmHg according to randomised treatment. Table S2. SpO2 mixed linear model comparisons: Oxygen minus Air. Table S3. Heart Rate mixed linear model comparisons: Oxygen minus Air. (DOC 80 kb)
Lattice dynamics of the cluster chain compounds M2Mo6Se6
Creators: name: Gannon, Liam
name: Boeri, Lilia
name: Howard, Christopher A.
name: Gougeon, Patrick
name: Gall, Philippe
name: Potel, Michel
name: Salloum, Diala
name: Petrović, Alexander P.
name: Hoesch, Moritz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lattice dynamics of members of the M2Mo6Se6 family of materials with guest ions M = K, Rb, Cs, In, and Tl has been studied using inelastic x-ray scattering and Raman spectroscopy at room temperature, as well as by ab-initio calculations. We find a good match between calculations and experiment, both for structure factors (Eigenvectors) and for the calculated phonon frequencies. The observed lattice dynamics for Tl2Mo6Se6 show no signs of anharmonicity or absence of avoided dispersion crossings, thus ruling out previously hypothesised rattling phonon modes. The reduced mode energies for In2Mo6Se6 are identified as only partially responsible for the lower superconducting transition temperature Tc in this material when compared to Tl2Mo6Se6.
description: 10 pages including appendix with raw data plots etc
Gamma-Ray Burst and Relativistic Shells: The Surface Filling Factor
Creators: name: Fenimore, E. E.
name: Cooper, C.
name: Ramirez-Ruiz, E.
name: Sumner, M. C.
name: Yoshida, A.
name: Namiki, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The variability observed in many complex gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is inconsistent with causally connected variations in a single, symmetric, relativistic shell interacting with the ambient material ("external shocks"). Rather, the symmetry of the shell must be broken on an angular scale much smaller than Gamma^{-1} where Gamma is the bulk Lorentz factor for the shell. The observed variability in the external shock models arises from the number of causally connected regions that (randomly) become active. We define the "surface filling factor" to be the ratio of the area of causally connected regions that become active to the observable area of the shell. From the observed variability in 52 BATSE bursts, we estimate the surface filling factor to be typically 0.005 although some values are near unity. We find that the surface filling factor is about 0.1 Delta T/T in both the constant Gamma phase (which probably produces the GRB) and the deaccelerating phase (which probably produces the x-ray afterglows). Here, ΔT is a typical time scale of variability and T is the time since the initial signal. We analyze the 2 hr flare seen by ASCA 36 hr after the GRB and conclude that the surface filling factor must be small (0.001) in the x-ray afterglow phase as well. Explanations for low surface filling factor can either require more or less energy (by a factor of about 1000) compared to that expected for a symmetric shell.
description: 26 pages, 5 embedded figures, Latex, revised version as in press, ApJ, added figure to show the possible expanding shell geometries that can give low filling factor
Oral history interview with Myrna Loy, 1959
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Actresses
Motion picture acting
Motion pictures--Production and direction
Silent films
Communism and motion pictures

description: Career in silent films, "Don Juan," 1926; transition to sound, "Desert Song," 1929; typecast as Oriental villainess, late 1920s and early 1930s; "The Thin Man," 1934: effect on career; suspension from Metro-Goldwyn, Mayer, effect of publicity; Red Cross World War II; "Best Years of Our Lives," 1946; UNESCO, 1945-59; political climate of Hollywood 1940s and 1950s and its effects; impressions of John Barrymore, Frank Capra, W.S. Van Dyke, Louis B. Mayer, others. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
Towards Robustness Analysis of E-Commerce Ranking System
Creators: name: Wang, Ningfei
name: Huang, Yupin
name: Cheng, Han
name: Gesi, Jiri
name: Wang, Xiaojie
name: Mittal, Vivek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information retrieval (IR) is a pivotal component in various applications. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have enabled the integration of ML algorithms into IR, particularly in ranking systems. While there is a plethora of research on the robustness of ML-based ranking systems, these studies largely neglect commercial e-commerce systems and fail to establish a connection between real-world and manipulated query relevance. In this paper, we present the first systematic measurement study on the robustness of e-commerce ranking systems. We define robustness as the consistency of ranking outcomes for semantically identical queries. To quantitatively analyze robustness, we propose a novel metric that considers both ranking position and item-specific information that are absent in existing metrics. Our large-scale measurement study with real-world data from e-commerce retailers reveals an open opportunity to measure and improve robustness since semantically identical queries often yield inconsistent ranking results. Based on our observations, we propose several solution directions to enhance robustness, such as the use of Large Language Models. Note that the issue of robustness discussed herein does not constitute an error or oversight. Rather, in scenarios where there exists a vast array of choices, it is feasible to present a multitude of products in various permutations, all of which could be equally appealing. However, this extensive selection may lead to customer confusion. As e-commerce retailers use various techniques to improve the quality of search results, we hope that this research offers valuable guidance for measuring the robustness of the ranking systems.
Charge Generation in Organic Solar Cells
Creators: name: Jamieson, Fiona
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2012

description: Organic photovoltaic devices are receiving extensive interest, with device efficiencies now exceeding 8%. There is increasing evidence that the efficiency of dissociation of excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) into free charge carriers is a key factor determining device performance. Dissociation of these excitons occurs at the interface between donor and acceptor molecules in the photoactive layer of the device and is driven by a favourable difference in electronic energy levels between the two materials. Several factors can potentially determine the efficiency of this process, including interfacial energetic energies, molecular structure, film microstructure and device electric fields. This thesis employs optical spectroscopic techniques, including photoluminescence quenching and transient absorption spectroscopy to assay the efficiency of charge separation for a range of donor / acceptor blend films and devices, thereby providing new insights into the factors determining the efficiency of this process. The first results chapter focuses on the experimental technique, transient absorption spectroscopy, and how this can be employed to determine the yield of dissociated charges in donor / acceptor blend films. Three materials systems are studied, firstly looking at the effects of structure of the donor material, followed by a study into the effects of the temperature on charge generation and recombination. The following two chapters investigate the effects of film morphology on charge generation, specifically focusing upon the fullerene acceptor. Aggregation of phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) is shown to be a key factor in the generation of free charges in the blend film, leading to proposal of a model regarding the role of this aggregation in charge generation. This study has then been extended by using additives to modify the concentration threshold for PCBM aggregation by preventing the intercalation of the PCBM between the polymer side chains, and hence inducing PCBM aggregation at a lower concentration. In the final chapter, the effects of an externally applied electric field on charge generation in devices have been studied. Such electric fields have been proposed to reduce geminate recombination losses, thereby increasing the dissociation of free charges, and thus leading to an increase in the device photocurrent. Polymer and small molecule blend systems have been studied and shown to exhibit different dependences of charge generation upon applied bias depending on the donor molecule and the morphology of the blend.
Additional file 1 of The immune checkpoint TIGIT/CD155 promotes the exhaustion of CD8 + T cells in TNBC through glucose metabolic reprogramming mediated by PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling
Creators: name: Huang, Mingyao
name: Yu, Xiaoqin
name: Wang, Qing
name: Jiang, Zirong
name: Li, Xiaofen
name: Chen, Wei
name: Song, Chuangui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Full uncropped gels and blots.