cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thermodynamic Origin of Life
Creators: name: Michaelian, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Understanding the thermodynamic function of life may shed light on its origin. Life, as are all irreversible processes, is contingent on entropy production. Entropy production is a measure of the rate of the tendency of Nature to explore available microstates. The most important irreversible process generating entropy in the biosphere, and thus facilitating this exploration, is the absorption and transformation of sunlight into heat. Here we hypothesize that life began, and persists today, as a catalyst for the absorption and dissipation of sunlight at the surface of shallow seas. The resulting heat is then efficiently harvested by other irreversible processes such as the water cycle, hurricanes, and ocean and wind currents. RNA and DNA are the most efficient of all known molecules for absorbing the intense ultraviolet light that could have penetrated the dense early atmosphere, and are remarkably rapid in transforming this light into heat in the presence of liquid water. From this perspective, the origin and evolution of life, inseparable from water and the water cycle, can be understood as resulting from the natural thermodynamic imperative of increasing the entropy production of the Earth in its interaction with its solar environment. A mechanism is proposed for the reproduction of RNA and DNA without the need for enzymes, promoted instead through UV light dissipation and the ambient conditions of prebiotic Earth.
description: 15 pages, no figures, new section comparing new theory with traditional theories, new evidence, new references
Work extraction from unknown quantum sources
Creators: name: Šafránek, Dominik
name: Rosa, Dario
name: Binder, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Energy extraction is a central task in thermodynamics. In quantum physics, ergotropy measures the amount of work extractable under cyclic Hamiltonian control. As its full extraction requires perfect knowledge of the initial state, however, it does not characterize the work value of unknown or untrusted quantum sources. Fully characterizing such sources would require quantum tomography, which is prohibitively costly in experiments due to the exponential growth of required measurements and operational limitations. Here, we therefore derive a new notion of ergotropy applicable when nothing is known about the quantum states produced by the source, apart from what can be learned by performing only a single type of coarse-grained measurement. We find that in this case the extracted work is defined by the Boltzmann and observational entropy, in cases where the measurement outcomes are, or are not, used in the work extraction, respectively. This notion of ergotropy represents a realistic measure of extractable work, which can be used as the relevant figure of merit to characterize a quantum battery.
description: 5+1(Appendix)+7(Supplemental) pages, 4 figures. Comments and questions welcome. v2: changed the interpretation of the coarse-grained extraction operations (former eq (6), now eq (7)). Appendix with examples added. Results unchanged. v3: technical details moved into a short appendix. Added explanatory figure for the extraction operations. Added extra proof in the Supplemental Material
Optimal culvert size selection
Creators: name: Neudorf, Patrick Alexander
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The hydraulic design criteria for culvert size selection currently employed by most highways departments, including British Columbia's, can lead to economically non-optimal culvert size choices. This thesis describes a method of economic analysis to determine the optimum sized culvert for any culvert site, taking into direct account the uncertainty of the data. The method is applied to a hypothetical culvert site, assuming different hydro-logic and economic situations. The uncertainty in evaluating flood flows is taken into account, and methods of calculating the value of better information are presented. The hydrologic, hydraulic, and economic aspects of culvert selection and the problems and uncertainties in collecting data and making assumptions in each of these areas are discussed before the results are presented.
PhasAGE Expert Seminar- Dissecting the contribution of motor-cargo adaptors to microtubule-based transport in neurons
Creators: name: Gassmann, Reto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: PhasAGE Expert Seminar Series
Endosomes
Lysosomes
Neurological disease
Protein Interaction

description: The PhasAGE Expert Seminars consist of a series of talks with speakers from PhasAGE partner’s institutions to promote a successful transfer of knowledge about PhasAGE topics – biomolecular phase separation, aging and age-related diseases.
Fast and slow edges in bilayer graphene nanoribbons: Tuning the transition from band- to Mott-insulator
Creators: name: Cortijo, Alberto
name: Oroszlany, Laszlo
name: Schomerus, Henning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that gated bilayer graphene zigzag ribbons possess a fast and a slow edge, characterized by edge state velocities that differ due to non-negligible next-nearest-neighbor hopping elements. By applying bosonization and renormalization group methods, we find that the slow edge can acquire a sizable interaction-induced gap, which is tunable via an external gate voltage V_{g}. In contrast to the gate-induced gap in the bulk, the interaction-induced gap depends non-monotonously on the on-site potential V.
description: 5 pages, 8 figures. Version accepted for publication in PRB
A bicomplex of Khovanov homology for colored Jones polynomial
Creators: name: Ito, Noboru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27

description: We construct a bicomplex for the categorification of the colored Jones polynomial. This work is motivated by the problem suggested by Anna Beliakova and Stephan Wehrli who discussed the categorification of the colored Jones polynomial in their paper.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Figure 2 and the references were revised; Added a reference and explanation. Corrected a typo, Revised some presentation; version 4, removed some needles parts from section 2: version 5, revised proof and some presentation, version 6, revised proof and some presentation, added important remark, version 7, Revised Section 2
Brane cosmology in the Horava-Witten heterotic M-Theory on $S^{1}/Z_{2}$
Creators: name: Wu, Qiang
name: Gong, Yungui
name: Wang, Anzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the radion stability and radion mass in the framework of the Horava-Witten (HW) heterotic M-Theory on $S^{1}/Z_{2}$, and find that the radion is stable and its mass can be of the order of GeV. The gravity is localized on the visible brane, and the spectrum of the gravitational Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes is discrete and can have a mass gap of TeV. The corrections to the 4D Newtonian potential from the higher order gravitational KK modes are exponentially suppressed. Applying such a setup to cosmology, we find the generalized Friedmann-like equations on each of the two orbifold branes.
description: Version published in JCAP, 06 (2009) 015
TNFRSF13B Genetic variability an anthropological - evolutionary approach to Biomedical Research
Creators: name: Sazzini, Marco <1980>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009
Subjects: BIO/08 Antropologia

description: In the recent years TNFRSF13B coding variants have been implicated by clinical genetics studies in Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID), the most common clinically relevant primary immunodeficiency in individuals of European ancestry, but their functional effects in relation to the development of the disease have not been entirely established. To examine the potential contribution of such variants to CVID, the more comprehensive perspective of an evolutionary approach was applied in this study, underling the belief that evolutionary genetics methods can play a role in dissecting the origin, causes and diffusion of human diseases, representing a powerful tool also in human health research. For this purpose, TNFRSF13B coding region was sequenced in 451 healthy individuals belonging to 26 worldwide populations, in addition to 96 control, 77 CVID and 38 Selective IgA Deficiency (IgAD) individuals from Italy, leading to the first achievement of a global picture of TNFRSF13B nucleotide diversity and haplotype structure and making suggestion of its evolutionary history possible. A slow rate of evolution, within our species and when compared to the chimpanzee, low levels of genetic diversity geographical structure and the absence of recent population specific selective pressures were observed for the examined genomic region, suggesting that geographical distribution of its variability is more plausibly related to its involvement also in innate immunity rather than in adaptive immunity only. This, together with the extremely subtle disease/healthy samples differences observed, suggests that CVID might be more likely related to still unknown environmental and genetic factors, rather than to the nature of TNFRSF13B variants only.
Conductance oscillation in surface junctions of Weyl semimetals
Creators: name: Chen, Xi-Rong
name: Chen, Guangze
name: Zheng, Yue
name: Chen, Wei
name: Xing, D. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fermi arc surface states, the manifestation of the bulk-edge correspondence in Weyl semimetals, have attracted much research interest. In contrast to the conventional Fermi loop, the disconnected Fermi arcs provide an exotic 2D system for exploration of novel physical effects on the surface of Weyl semimetals. Here, we propose that visible conductance oscillation can be achieved in the planar junctions fabricated on the surface of Weyl semimetal with a pair of Fermi arcs. It is shown that Fabry-Pérot-type interference inside the 2D junction can generate conductance oscillation with its visibility strongly relying on the shape of the Fermi arcs and their orientation relative to the strip electrodes, the latter clearly revealing the anisotropy of the Fermi arcs. Moreover, we show that the visibility of the oscillating pattern can be significantly enhanced by a magnetic field perpendicular to the surface taking advantage of the bulk-surface connected Weyl orbits. Our work offers an effective way for the identification of Fermi arc surface states through transport measurement and predicts the surface of Weyl semimetal as a novel platform for the implementation of 2D conductance oscillation.
Studio degli aplogruppi mitocondriali nei pazienti con narcocataplessia
Creators: name: Bellan, Marzio <1971>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: MED/26 Neurologia

description: La narcolessia è un disturbo del sonno disabilitante caratterizzato da eccessiva sonnolenza diurna associata a disturbi del sonno REM che si manifestano con cataplessia (improvvisa perdita del tono muscolare scatenata da forti emozioni), paralisi del sonno (all’addormentamento o al risveglio) e allucinazioni ipnagogiche.
Al momento attuale sono in corso studi di genome-wide solo sul genoma nucleare, l'unico ulteriore materiale genetico non indagato finora per una eventuale predisposizione genetica multifattoriale alla narcolessia è il genoma mitocondriale, che, a causa della sua variabilità, possiede un potenziale ruolo protettivo/predisponente nell’ambito di diverse malattie neurodegenerative, metaboliche ed infettive. Come obiettivo della tesi si propone la ricerca di eventuali polimorfismi sul DNA mitocondriale in grado di agire come fattori di suscettibilità/protezione nei confronti della narcolessia e di confermare quindi l’importante legame tra metabolismo bioenergetico, beta ossidazione e narcolessia. In particolare, vista la già nota capacità degli aplogruppi mitocondriali di modulare l’espressione di diverse malattie neurodegenerative, sono stati identificati i principali aplogruppi mitocondriali in un campione di pazienti con narcolessia successivamente confrontati con una popolazione di controllo per cercare eventuali differenze di distribuzione statisticamente significative tra le due popolazioni.
I risultati presentati in questo studio completano con l’analisi del DNA mitocondriale i precedenti studi “genome wide”. L’assenza di associazione statisticamente significativa tra aplogruppi mitocondriali e narcolessia non esclude ancora il ruolo che la variabilità genetica del DNA mitocondriale può giocare nella patogenesi della narcolessia. La definitiva esclusione può essere conclusa solo espandendo la coorte dei pazienti studiati e considerando possibilmente origini etnico-geografiche diverse.
Clues from nearby galaxies to a better theory of cosmic evolution
Creators: name: Peebles, P. J. E.
name: Nusser, Adi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The great advances in the network of cosmological tests show that the relativistic Big Bang theory is a good description of our expanding universe. But the properties of nearby galaxies that can be observed in greatest detail suggest a still better theory would more rapidly gather matter into galaxies and groups of galaxies. This happens in theoretical ideas now under discussion.
description: published in Nature
Non-Gaussian entanglement in gravitating masses: the role of cumulants
Creators: name: Miki, Daisuke
name: Matsumura, Akira
name: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an entanglement criterion with third- and fourth-order cumulants to detect the entanglement of non-Gaussian states. The efficiency of the entanglement criterion is investigated for gravitating mirrors in optomechanical systems. We show that the entangled regime of the mirrors is enlarged by the third- and fourth-order cumulants. We also discuss the limitations of the entanglement criterion for mirrors in a highly non-Gaussian state.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Rimorso
Creators: name: De Roberto, Federico
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: de roberto
verismo
manoscritto
unict

description: Manoscritto derobertiano conservato presso la biblioteca della società di storia patria per la sicilia orientale;
description: la.mu.s.a. - ex facoltà di lettere e filosofia - università degli studi di catania - società di storia patria per la sicilia orientale; busta 23
Quaternionic contact manifolds with a closed fundamental 4-form
Creators: name: Ivanov, Stefan
name: Vassilev, Dimiter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the fundamental 4-form on a quaternionic contact manifold of dimension at least eleven is closed if and only if the torsion endomorphism of the Biquard connection vanishes. This condition characterizes quaternionic contact structures which are locally qc homothetic to 3-Sasakian structures.
description: LaTeX 2e, 9 pages, no figures, final version to appear in Bull. London Math. Soc
The Gaussian free field and SLE(4) on doubly connected domains
Creators: name: Hagendorf, Christian
name: Bernard, Denis
name: Bauer, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The level lines of the Gaussian free field are known to be related to SLE(4). It is shown how this relation allows to define chordal SLE(4) processes on doubly connected domains, describing traces that are anchored on one of the two boundary components. The precise nature of the processes depends on the conformally invariant boundary conditions imposed on the second boundary component. Extensions of Schramm's formula to doubly connected domains are given for the standard Dirichlet and Neumann conditions and a relation to first-exit problems for Brownian bridges is established. For the free field compactified at the self-dual radius, the extended symmetry leads to a class of conformally invariant boundary conditions parametrised by elements of SU(2). It is shown how to extend SLE(4) to this setting. This allows for a derivation of new passage probabilities a la Schramm that interpolate continuously from Dirichlet to Neumann conditions.
description: 31 pages, 7 figures, TikZ; v2: typos corrected, discussion on compactified field extended
Advanced CMOS Interfaces for Bio-Nanosensors
Creators: name: Crescentini, Marco <1984>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: The improvement of devices provided by Nanotechnology has put forward new classes of sensors, called bio-nanosensors, which are very promising for the detection of biochemical molecules in a large variety of applications. Their use in lab-on-a-chip could gives rise to new opportunities in many fields, from health-care and bio-warfare to environmental and high-throughput screening for pharmaceutical industry. Bio-nanosensors have great advantages in terms of cost, performance, and parallelization. Indeed, they require very low quantities of reagents and improve the overall signal-to-noise-ratio due to increase of binding signal variations vs. area and reduction of stray capacitances. Additionally, they give rise to new challenges, such as the need to design high-performance low-noise integrated electronic interfaces. 
This thesis is related to the design of high-performance advanced CMOS interfaces for electrochemical bio-nanosensors. The main focus of the thesis is: 1) critical analysis of noise in sensing interfaces, 2) devising new techniques for noise reduction in discrete-time approaches, 3) developing new architectures for low-noise, low-power sensing interfaces. The manuscript reports a multi-project activity focusing on low-noise design and presents two developed integrated circuits (ICs) as examples of advanced CMOS interfaces for bio-nanosensors. 
The first project concerns low-noise current-sensing interface for DC and transient measurements of electrophysiological signals. The focus of this research activity is on the noise optimization of the electronic interface. A new noise reduction technique has been developed so as to realize an integrated CMOS interfaces with performance comparable with state-of-the-art instrumentations. 
The second project intends to realize a stand-alone, high-accuracy electrochemical impedance spectroscopy interface. The system is tailored for conductivity-temperature-depth sensors in environmental applications, as well as for bio-nanosensors. It is based on a band-pass delta-sigma technique and combines low-noise performance with low-power requirements.
Mitochondrial inheritance and germ line determination in a bivalve species with Doubly Uniparental Inheritance (DUI)
Creators: name: Milani, Liliana <1976>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: BIO/05 Zoologia

description: Mitochondria are inherited maternally in most metazoans. However, in some bivalves, two mitochondrial lineages are present: one transmitted through eggs (F), the other through sperm (M). This is called Doubly Uniparental Inheritance (DUI). During male embryo development, spermatozoon mitochondria aggregate and end up in the primordial germ cells, while they are dispersed in female embryos. The molecular mechanisms of segregation patterns are still unknown.
In the DUI species Ruditapes philippinarum, I examined sperm mitochondria distribution by MitoTracker, microtubule staining and TEM, and I localized germ line determinants with immunocytochemical analysis. I also analyzed the gonad transcriptome, searching for genes involved in reproduction and sex determination. Moreover, I analyzed an M-type specific open reading frame that could be responsible for maintenance/degradation of M mitochondria during embryo development. These transcripts were also localized in tissues using in situ hybridization.
As in Mytilus, two distribution patterns of M mitochondria were detected in R. philippinarum, supporting that they are related to DUI. Moreover, the first division midbody concurs in positioning aggregated M mitochondria on the animal-vegetal axis of the male embryo: in organisms with spiral segmentation this zone is not involved in further cleavages, so aggregation is maintained. Moreover, sperm mitochondria reach the same embryonic area where germ plasm is transferred, suggesting their contribution in male germ line formation. The finding of reproduction and ubiquitination transcripts led to formulate a model in which ubiquitination genes stored in female oocytes during gametogenesis would activate sex-gene expression in the early embryonic developmental stages (preformation). Only gametogenetic cells were labeled by in situ hybridization, proving their specific transcription in developing gametes. Other than having a role in sex determination, some ubiquination factors could also be involved in mitochondrial inheritance, and their differential expression could be responsible for the different fate of sperm mitochondria in the two sexes.
Evolution of electronic structure of Ru-doped single-crystal iridiates, Sr$_2$Ir$_{1-x}$Ru$_x$O$_4$
Creators: name: Lee, Seokbae
name: Seo, Yu-Seong
name: Jung, Eilho
name: Roh, Seulki
name: Lee, Myounghoon
name: Choi, Hwan Young
name: Kim, Jong Hyuk
name: Lee, Nara
name: Choi, Young Jai
name: Hwang, Jungseek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated Ru-doped single-crystal 5$d$ iridiates, Sr$_2$Ir$_{1-x}$Ru$_x$O$_{4}$, at three different doping concentrations ($x =$ 0.01, 0.07 and 0.10) using optical spectroscopy. The undoped pristine compound (Sr$_2$IrO$_{4}$) is known as a novel $J_{eff}$ = 1/2 Mott insulator. Remarkably, the optical conductivity spectra of all three samples exhibited the insulating behavior, although we observed weak Drude components in the optical conductivity spectra down to the lowest temperature of 30 K. The charge-carrier densities of the Ru-doped iridiates estimated from the Drude components are significantly smaller than the expected values estimated from the nominal Ru-doping concentrations. Herein, we provide temperature- and doping-dependent electronic structure evolution of Ru-doped iridiates. We expect that our results will be useful for understanding the intriguing Ru-doping-dependent properties of 5$d$ iridiate Sr$_2$IrO$_{4}$.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay November 2007
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Cellphone usage; computer usage; internet connection; recent loans taken out; justification of workers' strikes; economic stituation of the country; future financial expectations; voting in primary elections; moving abroad for work; likability of politicians and presidential candidates; future measures implemented by the government; general management of government in different areas; approval of President Tabaré Vázquez; relations with Botnia (Finnish investment company) and Argentina; public vs. private workers; legalizing abortion; economic situation of your family; past voting history; potential future voting choices. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
High-capacity and high-power collective charging with spin chargers
Creators: name: Huangfu, Yong
name: Jing, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum battery works as a micro- or nano-device to store and redistribute energy at the quantum level. Here we propose a spin-charger protocol, in which the battery cells are charged by a finite number of spins through a general Heisenberg XY interaction. Under the isotropic interaction, the spin-charger protocol is endowed with a higher capacity in terms of the maximum stored energy than the conventional protocols, where the battery is charged by a continuous-variable system, e.g., a cavity mode. By tuning the charger size, a trade-off between the maximum stored energy and the average charging power is found in comparison to the cavity-charger protocol in the Tavis-Cummings model. Quantum advantage of our protocol is manifested by the scaling behavior of the optimal average power with respect to the battery size, in comparing the collective charging scheme to its parallel counterpart. We also discuss the detrimental effect on the charging performance from the anisotropic interaction between the battery and the charger, the non-ideal initial states for both of them, and the crosstalk among the charger spins. A strong charger-charger interaction can be used to decouple the battery and the charger. Our findings about the advantages of the spin-charger protocol over the conventional cavity-charger protocols, including the high capacity of energy storage and the superior power-law in the collective charging, provide an insight to exploit an efficient quantum battery based on the spin-spin-environment model.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Men's Preferences Among Selected Clothing Items
Creators: name: Bureau Of Agricultural Economics
name: Bureau Of Agricultural Economics
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1949
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report Introduction: This is the second preferences study directed to the problem of the competitive position of various fibers in selected articles of clothing. Information about consumer preferences is helpful not only to those who are concerned with the problems of marketing the finished clothing products, but also to those who are concerned with the technical problems of improving fibers used in clothing, or with the design, manufacture, and fabrication of clothing. To a considerable extent, these preferences determine the final choice of the consumers, and consequently the ultimate use made of various farm products in these particular articles of clothing. To obtain a picture of the preferences of men 16 years old and over in some of their most important clothing purchases, this survey was conducted to represent all men in the United States in this age group, excluding transients, those in institutions, and those in the armed services. The findings reveal the relative preference that male consumers express for the competing fibers—cotton, wool, rayon, nylon, and their mixtures—in certain selected articles of clothing. Also shown are the beliefs men say they have regarding the advantages and disadvantages of each of the competing fibers in these garments. These beliefs, at times factually correct and at times incorrect, show the desirable and undesirable features consumers believe these fibers have for use in each of the selected items.
Trichoplusia McDunnough 1944
Creators: name: Aistleitner, Eyjolf
name: Behounek, Gottfried
name: Hoppe, Henri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Trichoplusia

description: Trichoplusia ni (HÜBNER, [1803])
M a t e r i a l u n t e r s u c h t: Brava, Nova Sintra, Santana, 490 m, 01.01, 17.02.2004, 27.12.2004, 11.01.2005, 6 ex., Sal, Espargos, 3 km N, 28.11.2000, 1 ex., Mte. Grande, 50-170m, 30.11.2000, 1 ex., São Vicente, Mte. Verde, 400-700 m, 14.12.2000, 1 ex.
V e r b r e i t u n g: geopolitisch-subtropisch (Palaearctis, Aethiopis, Madagassis, Orientalis, Australis, Nearctis, Neotropis).
description: Published as part of Aistleitner, Eyjolf, Behounek, Gottfried & Hoppe, Henri, 2023, Ergänzende Daten zur Noctuiden-Fauna der Kapverden (Cabo Verde) (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Erebidae, Noctuidae), pp. 475-506 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 54 (2) on page 483, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10414294
Problems in nonlinear analysis of movements in soils
Creators: name: Wedge, Neil Edward
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The problems associated with nonlinear analysis of the load-deformation response of soils and soil structures are investigated. Methods of incremental nonlinear analysis are reviewed and their relative advantages and disadvantages discussed. Stress-strain relations commonly used for soils are critically examined and their limitations discussed. These stress-strain relations are based on the assumption that soils are isotropic, incrementally elastic materials. Evidence reported by other authors and reviewed in this study shows that the stress-strain relations commonly used for soils have two major sources of error, the anisotropy of soils and the effects of stress-path are neglected. The representation of soil stress-strain behaviour after yield is discussed. Although soils act as plastic materials after yield, it is common practice to represent post-yield behaviour by models of elastic materials. Many researchers use a constant value of Poisson's ratio and merely reduce the value of Young's modulus at yield. It is shown, with numerical examples, that this practice results in yielded soil elements being unrealistically compressible after yield. It is shown, with further numerical examples, that the predicted behaviour of yielded soil elements is more realistic if the value of the shear modulus is reduced at yield and the bulk modulus is not reduced.
Ctenoplusia limbirena
Creators: name: Aistleitner, Eyjolf
name: Behounek, Gottfried
name: Hoppe, Henri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Ctenoplusia
Ctenoplusia limbirena

description: Ctenoplusia limbirena (GUENÉE, 1852)
M a t e r i a l u n t e r s u c h t: Brava, Nova Sintra, Lem/Covada, 420-450 m, 30.11.- 10.12.2002, 30.01.+ 27.02.2003, Sorno, 50 m, 04.12.2002, Cova Rodela, 650 m, 12.01.2003, Santana, 490 m, im Beobachtungszeitraum vom 01.01. bis 28.02.2004 und vom 02.11.2004 bis 20.02.2005 wurde insgesamt 129 ex. belegt, Sal, Espargos, 3 km N, 28.11.2000, 1 ex.
V e r b r e i t u n g: palaeo-/afrotropisch-subtropisch(Aethiopis,Orientalis).
description: Published as part of Aistleitner, Eyjolf, Behounek, Gottfried & Hoppe, Henri, 2023, Ergänzende Daten zur Noctuiden-Fauna der Kapverden (Cabo Verde) (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Erebidae, Noctuidae), pp. 475-506 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 54 (2) on page 483, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10414294
Additional file 10 of DNA methylation and its effects on gene expression during primary to secondary growth in poplar stems
Creators: name: Zhang, Yang
name: Liu, Cong
name: Cheng, He
name: Tian, Shuanghui
name: Liu, Yingying
name: Wang, Shuang
name: Zhang, Huaxin
name: Saqib, Muhammad
name: Wei, Hairong
name: Wei, Zhigang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10. Relationship between gene methylation (5-methylcytosines) and gene expression. (A), (B), and (C) Expression profiles of methylated genes compared with unmethylated genes in CG, CHG, and CHH contexts in primary stems (PS), respectively. (D), (E), and (F) Expression profiles of methylated genes compared with unmethylated genes in CG, CHG, and CHH contexts in transitional stems (TS), respectively. (G), (H), and (I) Expression profiles of methylated genes compared with unmethylated genes in CG, CHG, and CHH contexts in secondary stems (SS), respectively. The y-axis indicates the methylation levels. None represents the unmethylated group. Low represents the bottom third of the methylation group. Moderate represents the middle third of the methylation group. High represents the top third of the methylation group.
Additional file 3 of Serum iron status and the risk of breast cancer in the European population: a two-sample Mendelian randomisation study
Creators: name: Hou, Chenyang
name: Hou, Qingzhi
name: Xie, Xing
name: Wang, Huifeng
name: Chen, Yueliang
name: Lu, Tingxi
name: Wu, Qunying
name: Liang, Yongcong
name: Hu, Yanling
name: Mao, Yuang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Fig. 3. The SNP effects on iron status biomarkers and ER-negative breast cancer for Scatterplot. iron (a), transferrin (b), ferritin (c), and transferrin saturation (d). MR Egger, Mendelian randomization–Egger regression method; ER, estrogen receptor.
Modal finite element method for the navier-stokes equations
Creators: name: Savor, Zlatko
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: A modal finite element method is presented for the steady state and transient analyses of the plane flow of incompressible Newtonian fluid. The governing restricted functional is discretized with a high precision triangular stream function finite element. Eigenvalue analysis is carried out on the resulting discretized problem, under the assumption that the nonlinear convective term is equal to zero. After truncating at various levels of approximation to obtain a reduced number of modes, the transformation to the new vector space, spanned by these modes is performed. Advantage is taken of the ..symmetric and the antisymmetric properties of the modes in order to simplify the calculations. The Lagrange multipliers technique is employed to {incorporate the nonhomo-geneous boundary conditions. The steady state analysis is carried out by utilizing the Newton-Raphson iterative procedure. The algorithm for transient analysis is based upon backward finite differences in time. Numerical results are presented for the fully developed plane Poiseuille flow, the flow in a square cavity, and the flow over a circular cylinder problems. These resultscfor the steady state are compared with the results obtained by direct finite element approach on the same grids and the results obtained by finite differences technique. It is concluded that the number of modes, which are to be retained in the analysis in order to achieve reasonable results, increases with the refinement of the finite element grid. Furthermore, the choice of modes to be used depends on the problem. Finally it is established, that this new modal method yields good results in the range of moderate Reynolds numbers with about 50% or less of the modes of the problem. This, in turn, means that the time integrations can be performed on a greatly reduced number of equations and hence potential savings in computer time are significant.
Understanding The Physiological, Biochemical, and
Molecular Mechanisms of Salinity Tolerance in
Strawberry Cultivars and in HvTPK1-Overexpressed Barley
Creators: name: Alnayef, Mohammad <1980>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: AGR/04 Orticoltura e floricoltura

description: The research was carried out to investigate of main elements of salt stress response
in two strawberry cultivars, Elsanta and Elsinore. Plants were grown under 0, 10, 20 and
40 mM NaCl for 80 days. Salinity dramatically affected growth in both cultivars, although
Elsinore appeared to be more impaired than Elsanta. Moreover a significant reduction of
leaf photosynthesis, evaporation, and stomatal conductance was recorded 24 hrs after the
stress was applied in both cultivars, whereas physiological functions were differentially
restored after acclimation. However, cv. Elsanta had more efficient leaf gas exchange and
water status than cv. Elsinore. In general, Fruit yield reduced upon salinization, wheares
fruit quality concerning fruit taste, aroma, appearance, total soluble solids and titratable
acidity, did not change but rather was enhanced under moderate salinity. On the other hand
fruit quality was impaired at severe salt stress. Fruit antioxidant content and antioxidant
capacity were enhanced significantly by increasing salt concentration in both cultivars. The
oxidative effects of the stress were defined by the measures of some enzymatic activities
and lipid peroxidation. Consistently, an increase in superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase
(CAT), peroxide dismutase (POD) enzymes and higher content of proline and soluble
proteins were observed in cv. Elsinore than in cv. Elsanta. The increase coincided with a
decrease in lipid peroxidation. The research confirmed that although strawberry cultivars
were sensitive to salinity, difference between cultivars exist; The experiment revealed that
cv. Elsanta could stand severe salt stress, which was lethal to cv. Elsinore. The parameters
measured in the previous experiment were proposed as early screening tools for the salt
stress response in nine strawberry genotypes. The results showed that, wheares Elsanta and
Elsinore cultivars had a lower dry weight reduction at 40 mM NaCl among cultivars,
Naiad, Kamila, and Camarosa were the least salt-sensitive cultivars among the screened.
Ctenoplusia vittata
Creators: name: Aistleitner, Eyjolf
name: Behounek, Gottfried
name: Hoppe, Henri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Ctenoplusia
Ctenoplusia vittata

description: Ctenoplusia vittata (WALLENGREN, 1856)
M a t e r i a l u n t e r s u c h t: Brava, Nova Sintra, Santana, 490 m, 08.12.2004, 1 ex.
V e r b r e i t u n g: afrotropisch-subtropisch(Aethiopis, Madagassis).
description: Published as part of Aistleitner, Eyjolf, Behounek, Gottfried & Hoppe, Henri, 2023, Ergänzende Daten zur Noctuiden-Fauna der Kapverden (Cabo Verde) (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Erebidae, Noctuidae), pp. 475-506 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 54 (2) on page 483, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10414294
title: Effects of plyometric jump training on vertical jump height of volleyball players: a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trial
Creators: name: Ramirez-Campillo, Rodrigo
name: Andrade, David C.
name: Nikolaidis, Pantelis T.
name: Moran, Jason
name: Clemente, Filipe Manuel
name: Chaabene, Helmi
name: Comfort, Paul
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: This meta-analysis aimed to assess the effects of plyometric jump training (PJT) on volleyball players’ vertical jump height (VJH), comparing changes with those observed in a matched control group. A literature search in the databases of PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and SCOPUS was conducted. Only randomized-controlled trials and studies that included a pre-to-post intervention assessment of VJH were included. They involved only healthy volleyball players with no restrictions on age or sex. Data were independently extracted from the included studies by two authors. The Physiotherapy Evidence Database scale was used to assess the risk of bias, and methodological quality, of eligible studies included in the review. From 7,081 records, 14 studies were meta-analysed. A moderate Cohen’s d effect size (ES = 0.82, p <0.001) was observed for VJH, with moderate heterogeneity (I2 = 34.4%, p = 0.09) and no publication bias (Egger’s test, p = 0.59). Analyses of moderator variables revealed no significant differences for PJT program duration (≤8 vs. >8 weeks, ES = 0.79 vs. 0.87, respectively), frequency (≤2 vs. >2 sessions/week, ES = 0.83 vs. 0.78, respectively), total number of sessions (≤16 vs. >16 sessions, ES = 0.73 vs. 0.92, respectively), sex (female vs. male, ES = 1.3 vs. 0.5, respectively), age (≥19 vs. <19 years of age, ES = 0.89 vs. 0.70, respectively), and volume (>2,000 vs. <2,000 jumps, ES = 0.76 vs. 0.79, respectively). In conclusion, PJT appears to be effective in inducing improvements in volleyball players’ VJH. Improvements in VJH may be achieved by both male and female volleyball players, in different age groups, with programs of relatively low volume and frequency. Though PJT seems to be safe for volleyball players, it is recommended that an individualized approach, according to player position, is adopted with some players (e.g. libero) less prepared to sustain PJT loads.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 729
Slightly Non-Minimal Dark Matter in PAMELA and ATIC
Creators: name: Nelson, Ann E.
name: Spitzer, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple model in which dark matter couples to the standard model through a light scalar intermediary that is itself unstable. We find this model has several notable features, and allows a natural explanation for a surplus of positrons, but no surplus of anti-protons, as has been suggested by early data from PAMELA and ATIC. Moreover, this model yields a very small nucleon coupling, well below the direct detection limits. In this paper we explore the effect of this model in both the early universe and in the galaxy.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, v3: updated for new data, added discussion of Fermi
Analytic approach to axion-like-particle emission in core-collapse supernovae
Creators: name: Foguel, Ana Luisa
name: Fraga, Eduardo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the impact of a presumed axion-like-particle (ALP) emission in a core-collapse supernova explosion on neutrino luminosities and mean energies employing a relatively simple analytic description. We compute the nuclear Bremsstrahlung and Primakoff axion luminosities as functions of the protoneutron star (PNS) parameters and discuss how the ALP luminosities compete with the neutrino emission, modifying the total PNS thermal energy dissipation. Our results are publicly available in the python package ARtiSANS, which can be used to compute the neutrino and axion observables for different choices of parameters.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures; ARtiSANS code available at https://github.com/anafoguel/ARtiSANS ; v2: new section discussing the validity of the analytic approximation; matches version published at Astropart. Phys
Adaptation and validation of FFT methods for homogenization of lattice based materials
Creators: name: Lucarini, S.
name: Cobian, L.
name: Voitus, A.
name: Segurado, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An FFT framework which preserves a good numerical performance in the case of domains with large regions of empty space is proposed and analyzed for its application to lattice based materials. Two spectral solvers specially suited to resolve problem containing phases with zero stiffness are considered (1) a Galerkin approach combined with the MINRES linear solver and a discrete differentiation rule and (2) a modification of a displacement FFT solver which penalizes the indetermination of strains in the empty regions, leading to a fully determined equation. The solvers are combined with several approaches to smooth out the lattice surface, based on modifying the actual stiffness of the voxels not fully embedded in the lattice or empty space. The accuracy of the resulting approaches is assessed for an octet-lattice by comparison with FEM solutions for different relative densities and discretization levels. It is shown that the adapted Galerkin approach combined with a Voigt surface smoothening was the best FFT framework considering accuracy, numerical efficiency and h-convergence. With respect to numerical efficiency it was observed that FFT becomes competitive compared to FEM for cells with relative densities above 7%. Finally, to show the real potential of the approaches presented, the FFT frameworks are used to simulate the behavior of a printed lattice by using direct 3D tomographic data as input. The approaches proposed include explicitly in the simulation the actual surface roughness and internal porosity resulting from the fabrication process. The simulations allowed to quantify the reduction of the lattice stiffness \rev{as well as to resolve the stress localization of 50% near large pores.
description: Accepted in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Deformations of Dolbeault cohomology classes for Lie algebra with complex structures
Creators: name: Xia, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32G05, 57T15, 53C15, 17B56

description: In this paper, we study deformations of complex structures on Lie algebras and its associated deformations of Dolbeault cohomology classes. A complete deformation of complex structures is constructed in a way similar to the Kuranishi family. The extension isomorphism is shown to be valid in this case. As an application, we prove that given a family of left invariant deformations $\{M_t\}_{t\in B}$ of a compact complex manifold $M=(Γ\setminus G, J)$ where $G$ is a Lie group, $Γ$ a sublattice and $J$ a left invariant complex structure, the set of all $t\in B$ such that the Dolbeault cohomology on $M_t$ may be computed by left invariant tensor fields is an analytic open subset of $B$.