cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hyperisus plumbeum
Creators: name: Zahradník, Petr
name: Demetriou, Jakovos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptinidae
Hyperisus
Hyperisus plumbeum

description: Hyperisus plumbeum (Illiger, 1801)
Zahradník 2007a: 352; Zahradník 2016b: 106.
Distribution. P: AR AU BE BH BU BY CR CY CZ DE FR GB GE GG GR HU IN IT MC ME NL PL RO RU SB SK SL SP SY SZ TR UK YU. Central and southern Europe, Caucasus, sporadic in the Near East (Zahradník 2007a, 2016b).
Material examined. Paphos prov., Agios Nikolaos, Kelefos (Tzelefos) Bridge, 10.iv.2000, 3 spec., lgt. S. Kadlec, coll. NMPC (2 spec.), PZPC (1 spec.).
description: Published as part of Zahradník, Petr & Demetriou, Jakovos, 2023, A review of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) of Cyprus, including new faunistic records and the description of a new species, pp. 243-265 in Zootaxa 5306 (2) on page 253, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8061315
Broadband gain induced Raman comb formation in a silica microresonator
Creators: name: Suzuki, Ryo
name: Kubota, Akihiro
name: Hori, Atsuhiro
name: Fujii, Shun
name: Tanabe, Takasumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A high-Q silica whispering-gallery mode microresonator is an attractive platform on which to demonstrate a broad and phase-locked Raman comb in various wavelength regimes. Raman combs can be used for applications such as compact pulse laser sources, sensors, optical clocks, and coherence tomography. However, the formation dynamics of a Raman comb has not been well exploited. Here we study the dynamics of the Raman comb formation in silica rod microresonators, which have cavity free spectral ranges in microwave rates. We generated a Raman comb with a smooth spectral envelope and also observed the transition between two Raman combs located at different center wavelengths. The transition behavior was obtained when we changed the pump detuning and the coupling strength between the microresonator and fiber. We also explain these phenomena by using a simple model based on coupled mode equations.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Thermodynamic Properties of XXZ model in a Transverse Field
Creators: name: Siahatgar, M.
name: Langari, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have numerically studied the thermodynamic properties of the spin 1/2 XXZ chain in the presence of a transverse (non commuting) magnetic field. The thermal, field dependence of specific heat and correlation functions for chains up to 20 sites have been calculated. The area where the specific heat decays exponentially is considered as a measure of the energy gap. We have also obtained the exchange interaction between chains in a bulk material using the random phase approximation and derived the phase diagram of the three dimensional material with this approximation. The behavior of the structure factor at different momenta verifies the antiferromagnetic long range order in y-direction for the three dimensional case. Moreover, we have concluded that the Low Temperature Lanczos results [M. Aichhorn et al., Phys. Rev. B 67, 161103(R) (2003)] are more accurate for low temperatures and closer to the full diagonalization ones than the results of Finite Temperature Lanczos Method [J. Jaklic and P. Prelovsek, Phys. Rev. B 49, 5065 (1994)].
description: 7 pages, 10 eps figures
A monthly night-time light composite dataset of NOAA-20 in China: a multi-scale comparison with S-NPP
Creators: name: Hong, Yuchen
name: Wu, Bin
name: Song, Zhichao
name: Li, Yangguang
name: Wu, Qiusheng
name: Chen, Zuoqi
name: Liu, Shaoyang
name: Yang, Chengshu
name: Wu, Jianping
name: Yu, Bailang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Night-Time light (NTL) data have been widely used for monitoring the dynamics of human activities and socioeconomics. As a new-generation satellite for acquiring NTL data, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-20 (NOAA-20) was successfully launched in November 2017. To support broad-scale environmental applications, it is necessary to generate monthly NTL composites of NOAA-20. Taking China as the study area, we produced NOAA-20 monthly NTL composites from April 2019 to December 2019. First, we performed a series of de-noising steps to eliminate NOAA-20 NTL pixels affected by sunlight, moonlight, high scan angles, clouds and further eliminated NTL outliers in time series by using a modified z-score method. Then, we aggregated daily NOAA-20 NTL data to produce monthly NTL composites to improve data coverage and stability. Subsequently, we examined the consistency of monthly composites between NOAA-20 and S-NPP at multiple scales, including provincial, prefectural, and pixel levels. Our results show that the monthly NTL composites of NOAA-20 are in good agreement with that of S-NPP with an R2 ranging from 0.81 to 0.99. Besides, we found that the spatial variation trends of the NOAA-20 monthly NTL composites are similar to that of S-NPP monthly NTL composites. We believe that the monthly NTL composites of NOAA-20 are very close to that of S-NPP and will open up more opportunities for relevant NTL studies.
Extrinsic Spin Hall Effect Induced by Iridium Impurities in Copper
Creators: name: Niimi, Y.
name: Morota, M.
name: Wei, D. H.
name: Deranlot, C.
name: Basletic, M.
name: Hamzic, A.
name: Fert, A.
name: Otani, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the extrinsic spin Hall effect induced by Ir impurities in Cu by injecting a pure spin current into a CuIr wire from a lateral spin valve structure. While no spin Hall effect is observed without Ir impurity, the spin Hall resistivity of CuIr increases linearly with the impurity concentration. The spin Hall angle of CuIr, $(2.1 \pm 0.6)$% throughout the concentration range between 1% and 12%, is practically independent of temperature. These results represent a clear example of predominant skew scattering extrinsic contribution to the spin Hall effect in a nonmagnetic alloy.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
DISRUPTION OF E-CADHERIN PROMOTES INTESTINAL STEM CELL PROLIFERATION IN COLONOIDS
Creators: name: Arpon, Aaliyah
name: Bell, Michaela
name: Brown, Katie
name: Forsberg, Alisa
name: Krishnan, Ananya
name: Margolis, Ryan
name: Marhefka, Laura
name: Yang, Jerry
name: Yardi, Isha
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gemstone Team MINIGUT

description: Reconstitution of the wounded epithelium is integral to achieve the full healing of the gut mucosa in treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The ability of intestinal stem cells (ISCs) to indefinitely self-renew while generating new functional epithelia makes them a potential therapeutic tool for IBD. Transmembrane protein E-cadherin, a calcium dependent cell-to-cell adhesion protein at adherens junctions, also regulates the Wnt signaling pathway. The canonical Wnt (β-catenin dependent) pathway is vital for the ISC homeostasis and regeneration. However, the role of E-cadherin in ISCs is an important yet notably understudied phenomenon. Disruption of E-cadherin increases unbound cytosolic β-catenin levels, which go to the nucleus and increase transcription of Wnt target genes. We hypothesize that disrupted E-cadherin will increase proliferation of ISCs. In our experiments, we disrupt E-cadherin with different concentrations of EGTA, a calcium chelator, and see the effect it has on colonoid growth and development. Our experiments showed that with EGTA there was greater proliferation; 1 mM EGTA experimental groups had larger colonoids than vehicle control colonoids on day 6 after seeding. This indicates that EGTA treatment may induce proliferation of the organoid with E-cadherin disruption. For future study, we will check and confirm the disruption of E-cadherin/β-catenin complex and Wnt target genes by real-time PCR and immunofluorescence studies. Ultimately our study will open novel therapeutic applications for patients living with IBD and other clinic inflammatory gut disorders.
On the Lagrangian Structure of the Discrete Isospectral and Isomonodromic Transformations
Creators: name: Dzhamay, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 39A10 (Primary) 14H70, 70H06, 34M55 (Secondary)

description: We establish the Lagrangian nature of the discrete isospectral and isomonodromic dynamical systems corresponding to the re-factorization transformations of the rational matrix functions on the Riemann sphere. Specifically, in the isospectral case we generalize the Moser-Veselov approach to integrability of discrete systems via the re-factorization of matrix polynomials to a more general class of matrix rational functions that have a simple divisor and, in the quadratic case, explicitly write the Lagrangian function for such systems. Next we show that if we let certain parameters in this Lagrangian to be time-dependent, the resulting Euler-Lagrange equations describe the isomonodromic transformations of systems of linear difference equations. It is known that in some special cases such equations reduce to the difference Painlevé equation. As an example, we show how to obtain the difference Painlevè V equation in this way, and hence we establish that this equation can be written in the Lagrangian form.
description: 13 pages, no figures; minor typos fixed, journal reference added
Adaptive Kinetic-Fluid Models for Expanding Plasmas
Creators: name: Arslanbekov, Robert R.
name: Kolobov, Vladimir I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe gas dynamic and plasma effects for transient plasma jets under different conditions. Our Unified Flow Solver (UFS) is evaluated for simulations of mixed continuum-rarefied flows, transient gas expansion dynamics and collisionless plasma expansion. We identify further advances that are required for hybrid fluid-kinetic simulations of laser-ablation and EEE-induced plasma jets.
Design Decision Tool für eine nachhaltige Produktentwicklung
Creators: name: Adler, Françoise
name: Schmidt, Lea
name: Weber Marin, Andrea
name: Willi, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Design
Nachhaltigkeit
Produktentwicklung

description: In der Designphase werden zentrale Entscheide im Hinblick auf Nachhaltigkeit von Produkten gefällt. Das vorliegende Tool hilft Designer*innen, informierte Entscheide betreffend Materialressourcen, Materialkombinationen und Verarbeitungstechnologien entlang des gesamten Lebenszyklus von Produkten und darüber hinaus zu treffen. Materialien werden so behandelt, miteinander kombiniert und verbunden, dass sie recyclierbar oder biologisch abbaubar sind. Entlang der einzelnen Punkte des Tools können unterschiedliche Strategieansätze für nachhaltige Produktentwicklungen aufgezeigt werden. So unterstützt das Tool aus der Perspektive des Designs Strategieprozesse in Unternehmen, in der Produktentwicklung und dient als Informationsquelle, indem es Abhängigkeiten und die Komplexität der Thematik greifbar macht.
description: + ID der Publikation: hslu_84165 + Art des Beitrages: Working Paper + Sprache: Deutsch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2021-07-23 13:53:06
Brief von Johann Joachim Bellermann an Leopold Zunz und Moritz Veit, 24.12.1840
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1840
Subjects: subject: 090

description: Dank für Zusendung der Schrift "Das jüdische Schullehrer Seminarium in Berlin" (http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-180011308005)
Differential lateralization interference for interaural time and interaural level differences
Creators: name: Heller, Laurie M.
name: Richards, Virginia M.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Lateralization thresholds were obtained in a 21FC task using 200‐ms noise bands presented with either an interaural time or level difference. The elevation in lateralization threshold (interference) caused by a simultaneously presented noise band was measured. When the ITD was applied to a 50‐Hz‐wide noise band centered at 500 Hz, there was minimal interference from a diotic 400‐Hz‐wide noise band centered at 4000 Hz. When the ITD was applied to the noise band centered at 4000 Hz, there was substantial interference from a diotic band of noise centered at 500 Hz [D. Mcfadden and E. G. Pasanen, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 59, 634–639 (1976)]. In contrast, the interfering effect of a dioticnoise band was greater when the ILD was applied to the 500‐Hz band of noise than when it was applied to the 4000‐Hz band of noise. A similar pattern of results was obtained when the ITD or ILD of the interfering band of noise was randomized from interval to interval, although randomization produced greater interference in all conditions. The complementary pattern of results for time and level differences favors an explanation based on averaging between simultaneous interaural parameters rather than a masking‐based explanation.
Evaluating Physicochemical Properties of Poly-vinyl Pyrrolidone (PVP) Hydrogels for Local Delivery of Lipoproteins in Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)
Creators: name: Liu, Cindy
name: Evensen, Ella
name: Patel, Aashka
name: Thales-Mogo, Nandi
name: Asfaw, Deborah
name: Bui, Julia
name: Deslouches, Jakobi
name: Lee, Isaiah
name: Kapoor, Ria
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gemstone Team NANO

description: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a fast growing, malignant tumor that develops from the glial cells that support the health of the nerve cells that affect the brain and spine. GBM has a low survival rate with minimal drugs/treatment options available. The purpose of our research was to seek potential innovative solutions to the challenges surrounding the treatment of GBM; particularly, we were interested in exploring a novel drug-delivery treatment that could be used in future GBM therapy. Through the use of Poly-vinyl Pyrrolidone (PVP), we aimed to develop a hydrogel with specific biomechanical properties that would contain lipoprotein-encased chemotherapeutic drugs; the idea being that these hydrogels would provide an ideal sustained released over a set amount of time. Using varying polymer concentration, molecular weights, and radiation doses, we tested the physical and chemical properties while simultaneously testing the kinetics of release of lipoproteins in each hydrogel.
Local IL-10 delivery modulates the immune response and enhances repair of volumetric muscle loss muscle injury
Creators: name: Huynh, Tai
name: Reed, Cassandra
name: Blackwell, Zain
name: Phelps, Payton
name: Herrera, Luis C. Pinzon
name: Almodovar, Jorge
name: Zaharoff, David A.
name: Wolchok, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Nature
Year: 2023

description: This study was designed to test the hypothesis that in addition to repairing the architectural and cellular cues via regenerative medicine, the delivery of immune cues (immunotherapy) may be needed to enhance regeneration following volumetric muscle loss (VML) injury. We identified IL-10 signaling as a promising immunotherapeutic target. To explore the impact of targeting IL-10 signaling, tibialis anterior (TA) VML injuries were created and then treated in rats using autologous minced muscle (MM). Animals received either recombinant rat IL-10 or phosphate buffered saline (PBS) controls injections at the site of VML repair beginning 7 days post injury (DPI) and continuing every other day (4 injections total) until 14 DPI. At 56 DPI (study endpoint), significant improvements to TA contractile torque (82% of uninjured values & 170% of PBS values), TA mass, and myofiber size in response to IL-10 treatment were detected. Whole transcriptome analysis at 14 DPI revealed activation of IL-10 signaling, muscle hypertrophy, and lymphocytes signaling pathways. Expression of ST2, a regulatory T (Tᵣₑ₉) cell receptor, was dramatically increased at the VML repair site in response to IL-10 treatment when compared to PBS controls. The findings suggest that the positive effect of delayed IL-10 delivery might be due to immuno-suppressive Tᵣₑ₉ cell recruitment.
Enhanced corrosion protection of AZ31B magnesium alloy by MgAl-LDHs composite coatings double-doped with imidazolium ionic liquid and sodium dodecylbenzenesulphonate
Creators: name: Liu, Yingxue
name: Huangfu, Huijie
name: Gao, Shuai
name: Guo, Xugeng
name: Wang, Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Herein, we prepare two types of MgAl-LDHs coatings single-doped by imidazolium ionic liquid 1-decyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide ([Demim]Br) or sodium dodecylbenzenesulphonate (SDBS) and double-doped by [Demim]Br and SDBS on AZ31B Mg alloy by using an in-situ hydrothermal treatment. Their surface morphology and corrosion resistance immersed in 3.5 wt-% NaCl solution are explored. Our results suggest that the double doping of [Demim]Br and SDBS will change the surface morphology of the coating and a uniform and dense film is observed in the double-doped MgAl-LDHs, which is denser than those of the two single-doped MgAl-LDHs coatings, thus providing a superior corrosion resistance. Such an improvement can be ascribed to the synergetic inhibition effect of [Demim]Br and SDBS against the corrosion of the Mg alloy substrate. More importantly, the charge transfer resistance of the sample coated with the double-doped MgAl-LDHs is still high after 3 d of immersion, benefiting from the excellent self-healing effect.
Clada (Clada) tricostata
Creators: name: Zahradník, Petr
name: Demetriou, Jakovos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anobiidae
Clada
Clada tricostata

description: Clada (Clada) tricostata (Baudi di Selve, 1874)
= obscuricolor Pic, 1909
= quinquecostata Schilsky, 1898
Baudi di Selve 1874: 325; Marseul 1886: 298; Pic 1896: 70; Schilsky 1899: 36R; Reitter 1901: 6; Pic & Pic 1901: 174; Pic 1909: 178; Pic 1912b: 8; Winkler 1927: 798; Zahradník et al. 2000: 309; Zahradník 2007a: 353.
Distribution. P: CY IS LE SY. Sporadic in the East Mediterranean (Zahradník 2007a).
Material examined. Limassol prov., Limassol env., 6.-7.vi.2016, 3 spec., lgt. M. Fiala lgt., coll. PCLB (2 spec.), PZPC (1 spec.); Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area, Akrotiri Forest Nursery env., Acacia saligna and Eucalyptus spp. forest, collected from Eucalyptus spp., 10 m a. s. l., 34 o 37’36’’ N, 32 o 57’5’’ E, 16.vi.2021, 1 spec., lgt. J. Demetriou, coll. PZPC.
description: Published as part of Zahradník, Petr & Demetriou, Jakovos, 2023, A review of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) of Cyprus, including new faunistic records and the description of a new species, pp. 243-265 in Zootaxa 5306 (2) on page 253, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8061315
Moments of traces of circular beta-ensembles
Creators: name: Jiang, Tiefeng
name: Matsumoto, Sho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $θ_1,\ldots,θ_n$ be random variables from Dyson's circular $β$-ensemble with probability density function $\operatorname {Const}\cdot\prod_{1\leq j0$, we obtain some inequalities on $\mathbb{E}[p_μ(Z_n)\bar{p_ν(Z_n)}]$, where $Z_n=(e^{iθ_1},\ldots,e^{iθ_n})$ and $p_μ$ is the power-sum symmetric function for partition $μ$. When $β=2$, our inequalities recover an identity by Diaconis and Evans for Haar-invariant unitary matrices. Further, we have the following: $ \lim_{n\to\infty}\mathbb{E}[p_μ(Z_n)\bar{p_ν(Z_n)}]= δ_{μν}(\frac{2}β)^{l(μ)}z_μ$ for any $β>0$ and partitions $μ,ν$; $\lim_{m\to\infty}\mathbb{E}[|p_m(Z_n)|^2]=n$ for any $β>0$ and $n\geq2$, where $l(μ)$ is the length of $μ$ and $z_μ$ is explicit on $μ$. These results apply to the three important ensembles: COE ($β=1$), CUE ($β=2$) and CSE ($β=4$). We further examine the nonasymptotic behavior of $\mathbb{E}[|p_m(Z_n)|^2]$ for $β=1,4$. The central limit theorems of $\sum_{j=1}^ng(e^{iθ_j})$ are obtained when (i) $g(z)$ is a polynomial and $β>0$ is arbitrary, or (ii) $g(z)$ has a Fourier expansion and $β=1,4$. The main tool is the Jack function.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOP960 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
ORBIT: Orbital Repairs By Innovative Technology
Creators: name: Allee-Press, Lacey
name: Bindra, Navkaran
name: Cha, Leo
name: Dacey, William
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gemstone Team ORBIT

description: The University of Maryland’s Space Systems Laboratory has a long history with multiple design projects for small single-person spacecraft (SPS) intended for extravehicular operations. Since the SPS concept has been criticized as differing from teleoperators, suited-missions, and other space utility vehicle (SUV) models only by the ability of the operator to have direct vision (“eyes-on”) of the worksite, “hands-on” interaction with the worksite, and simultaneous use of robotic arms. Testing will focus on identifying performance differences between the methods. To quantify effectiveness for each option, we performed a Fitts’ Law tapping task in three hands-on environments: shirt-sleeve, space-suit arms, and SPS suit-arms, as well as two robotic control environments: one with direct eyes-on vision, and one using video screens for teleoperation. After each series of tasks, participants completed a short survey including the NASA Task Load Index (TLX) as well as a Cooper Harper rating. We hypothesized that a combination of hands-on control and eyes-on robotic control will be the most suitable design for an SUV. Experimentally, we found that within the hands-on control environments (shirt-sleeve, suit arms, SPS arms), there is not much variation in task difficulty, but that these environments were much easier to control than the robotic control environments. Among the robotic control environments, subjects performed better overall when using direct eyes-on vision, as opposed to teleoperation. Our findings suggest that combining eyes-on and hands-on interaction is both important and significant in SPS design and handleability.
Differential effects of syntactic and semantic processing on the subregions of Broca's area
Creators: name: Newman, Sharlene D.
name: Just, Marcel
name: Keller, Timothy A.
name: Roth, Jennifer
name: Carpenter, Patricia A.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Department of Psychology
Application of Zwitterions in Forward Osmosis: A Short Review
Creators: name: Chiao, Yu-Hsuan
name: Sengupta, Arijit
name: Ang, Micah Belle Marie Yap
name: Chen, Shu-Ting
name: Haan, Teow Yeit
name: Almodovar, Jorge
name: Hung, Wei-Song
name: Wickramasinghe, S. Ranil
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2021

description: Forward osmosis (FO) is an important desalination method to produce potable water. It was also used to treat different wastewater streams, including industrial as well as municipal wastewater. Though FO is environmentally benign, energy intensive, and highly efficient; it still suffers from four types of fouling namely: organic fouling, inorganic scaling, biofouling and colloidal fouling or a combination of these types of fouling. Membrane fouling may require simple shear force and physical cleaning for sufficient recovery of membrane performance. Severe fouling may need chemical cleaning, especially when a slimy biofilm or severe microbial colony is formed. Modification of FO membrane through introducing zwitterionic moieties on the membrane surface has been proven to enhance antifouling property. In addition, it could also significantly improve the separation efficiency and longevity of the membrane. Zwitterion moieties can also incorporate in draw solution as electrolytes in FO process. It could be in a form of a monomer or a polymer. Hence, this review comprehensively discussed several methods of inclusion of zwitterionic moieties in FO membrane. These methods include atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP); second interfacial polymerization (SIP); coating and in situ formation. Furthermore, an attempt was made to understand the mechanism of improvement in FO performance by zwitterionic moieties. Finally, the future prospective of the application of zwitterions in FO has been discussed.
Gradient estimates for oblique derivative problems via the maximum principle
Creators: name: Lieberman, Gary M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J66, 35K61

description: We prove gradient estimates for solutions of the oblique derivative problem for a large class of elliptic and parabolic quasilinear PDEs. In particular, we expand on previous work of the author using a maximum principle argument. In addition, we prove estimates for the parabolic problem of evolution via mean curvature with nonzero Neumann data, which seem to be new.
description: 55 pages
An Investigation of the Effect of Curved Cantilever Geometry on Piezoelectric Power Output
Creators: name: Brady, Ian
name: Esuke, Mikaila
name: McCarthy, Liam
name: Samson, Catherina
name: Sebastian, Rithik
name: Wedzielewski, Mark
name: Yadav, Sanjali
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gemstone Team PISO

description: Team PISO recognizes an urgent need for new niches of environmentally sustainable energy, and believes that piezoelectric materials offer a small part of a solution. With this consideration, Team PISO has focused on the process of optimizing the application of strain on a piezoelectric component by altering the dimensions of a cantilever beam. Future research in this avenue could focus on a computational model based off of the experimental data collected herein, or more focused optimization of a selected cantilever profile. In the long term, PISO’s research could be applied to energy harvesters to reclaim power from vibrations and deformations, such as sounds and footsteps, as a novel source of renewable energy for implementation in public, heavily-traveled areas. This paper investigates the relationship between the geometric shape of a piezoelectric cantilever structure and its power output from discrete impulses. To this end, Team PISO created several curved cantilevers to examine the impact of the geometry of a piezoelectric cantilever on its output. These cantilevers were tested on an apparatus that simulated the movement of a footstep and their power outputs compared. PISO concluded that convex cantilevers were the most effective, with the convex spherical geometry outputting 24% more power than the control rectangular geometry.
Ubiquilin 1 suppresses the cancer stem cell–like traits of non-small cell lung cancer cells by regulating reactive oxygen species homeostasis
Creators: name: Liu, Ting
name: Ma, Qianqian
name: Li, Wenjie
name: Hu, Yan
name: Yang, Jun
name: Yao, Qi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Cancer stem cell (CSC) has been confirmed to trigger tumor occurrence and progression and CSC can develop strategies to maintain a lower reactive oxygen species (ROS) level compared to cancer cells. However, the mechanisms contributing to ROS homeostasis in CSC are still lacking key elements. In the current study, we found that reductive redox states and ROS levels were suppressed in non-adherent spheres formed by non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells, which were confirmed to hold CSC-like traits. However, mitochondria DNA content and cellular oxygen consumption rate analyses revealed fewer numbers of mitochondria in NSCLC spheres. Further exploration attributed this result to decreased mitochondrial biogenesis, likely resulted from the accelerated degradation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1α (PGC1α). Mechanistic studies indicated that Ubiquilin 1 (UBQLN1) increased PGC1α protein stability via reducing the ubiquitination of PGC1α protein. Moreover, UBQLN1 was lowly expressed in NSCLC spheres compared to that in parental NSCLC cells and UBQLN1 overexpression suppressed the CSC-like traits of NSCLC cells, which was characterized as the decrease of ALDH1 activity, sphere-formation ability, and CSC marker expression. Finally, clinical investigations further demonstrated that UBQLN1 level was positively correlated with patient’s survival of lung adenocarcinoma, but not squamous cell carcinoma of lung. Taken together, our results revealed a novel mechanism involving ROS homeostasis and mitochondrial biogenesis in non-small cell lung CSCs, which may provide novel potential targets and methods for NSCLC patients.
The Dynamics of Stellar Coronae Harboring Hot-jupiters II. A Space Weather Event on A Hot-jupiter
Creators: name: Cohen, O.
name: Kashyap, V. L.
name: Drake, J. J.
name: Sokolov, I. V.
name: Gombosi, T. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a numerical simulation depicting the effects of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) event on a close-in giant planet in an extrasolar system. We drive the CME in a similar manner as in simulations of space weather events on Earth. The simulation includes the planetary orbital motion, which leads to the forming of a comet-like planetary magnetotail which is oriented almost perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the CME. The combination of this feature and the fact that the CME does not expand much by the time it reaches the planet leads to a unique CME-magnetosphere interaction, where the CME itself is highly affected by the presence of the planetary magnetosphere. We find that the planet is well-shielded from CME penetration, even for a relatively weak internal magnetic field. The planetary angular momentum loss associated with such an event is negligible compared to the total planetary angular momentum. We also find that the energy which is deposited in the magnetosphere is much higher than in the case of the Earth, and our simulation suggests there is a large-scale change in the orientation of the magnetosphere-ionosphere current system during the CME event.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, accepted to ApJ
Circular Antenna Array Design for Breast Cancer Detection
Creators: name: Ouerghi, Kalthoum
name: Fadlallah, Najib
name: Smida, Amor
name: Ghayoula, Ridha
name: Fattahi, Jaouhar
name: Boulejfen, Noureddine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Microwave imaging for breast cancer detection is based on the contrast in the electrical properties of healthy fatty breast tissues. This paper presents an industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) bands comparative study of five microstrip patch antennas for microwave imaging at a frequency of 2.45 GHz. The choice of one antenna is made for an antenna array composed of 8 antennas for a microwave breast imaging system. Each antenna element is arranged in a circular configuration so that it can be directly faced to the breast phantom for better tumor detection. This choice is made by putting each antenna alone on the Breast skin to study the electric field, magnetic fields and current density in the healthy tissue of the breast phantom designed and simulated in Ansoft High Frequency Simulation Software (HFSS).
МИРОВОЙ ПОРЯДОК, АРАБСКАЯ ВЕСНА И НАСТУПАЮЩИЙ ПЕРИОД ГЛОБАЛЬНОЙ ТУРБУЛЕНТНОСТИ
Creators: name: Grinin, Leonid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200206 Globalisation and Culture
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 149999 Economics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Economics
subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Статья в целом посвящена анализу мирового порядка в прошлом, настоящем и будущем, при этом особое место мы уделяем Арабской весне как началу реконфигурации мирового порядка. Глобализация за последние три-четыре десятилетия существенно повлияла на систему мирового порядка. И сейчас она начала менять баланс экономических сил в мире в пользу развивающихся стран.
Collagen I Fibrous Substrates Modulate the Proliferation and Secretome of Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Tumor Cells in a Hormone-Restricted Microenvironment
Creators: name: Reyes-Ramos, Ana M.
name: Álvarez-García, Yasmín R.
name: Solodin, Natalia
name: Almodovar, Jorge
name: Alarid, Elaine T.
name: Torres-Garcia, Wandaliz
name: Domenech, Maribella
Publisher: name: ACS
Year: 2021

description: The fibril orientation of type I collagen has been shown to contribute to tumor invasion and metabolic changes. Yet, there is limited information about its impact on tumor cells’ behavior in a restrictive growth environment. Restrictive growth environments are generated by the inhibition of a proliferation stimulus during therapy or as an inflammatory response to suppress tumor expansion. In this study, the impact of a type I collagen matrix orientation and fibrous architecture on cell proliferation and response to estrogen receptor (ER) therapy were examined using estrogen-dependent breast tumor cells (MCF-7 and T-47D) cultured in a hormone-restricted environment. The use of hormone-free culture media, as well as pharmacological inhibitors of ER, Tamoxifen, and Fulvestrant, were investigated as hormone restrictive conditions. Examination of cultures at 72 h showed that tumor cell proliferation was significantly stimulated (1.8-fold) in the absence of hormones on collagen fibrous substrates, but not on polycaprolactone fibrous substrates of equivalent orientation. ER inhibitors did not suppress cell proliferation on collagen fibrous substrates. The examination of reporter cells for ER signaling showed a lack of activity, thus confirming a shift toward an ER-independent proliferation mechanism. Examination of two selective inhibitors of α2β1 and α1β1 integrins showed that cell proliferation is suppressed in the presence of the α2β1 integrin inhibitor only, thereby indicating that the observed changes in tumor cell behavior are caused by a combination of integrin signaling and/or an intrinsic structural motif that is uniquely present in the collagen fibrils. Adjacent coculture studies on collagen substrates showed that tumor cells on collagen can stimulate the proliferation of cells on tissue culture plastic through soluble factors. The magnitude of this effect correlated with the increased surface anisotropy of the substrate. This sensing in fibril orientation was further supported by a differential expression pattern of secreted proteins that were identified on random and aligned orientation substrates. Overall, this study shows a new role for electrospun collagen I fibrous substrates by supporting a shift toward an ER-independent tumor cell proliferation mechanism in ER+ breast tumor cells.
Dimer coverings on the Sierpinski gasket with possible vacancies on the outmost vertices
Creators: name: Chang, Shu-Chiuan
name: Chen, Lung-Chi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the number of dimers $N_d(n)$ on the Sierpinski gasket $SG_d(n)$ at stage $n$ with dimension $d$ equal to two, three, four or five, where one of the outmost vertices is not covered when the number of vertices $v(n)$ is an odd number. The entropy of absorption of diatomic molecules per site, defined as $S_{SG_d}=\lim_{n \to \infty} \ln N_d(n)/v(n)$, is calculated to be $\ln(2)/3$ exactly for $SG_2(n)$. The numbers of dimers on the generalized Sierpinski gasket $SG_{d,b}(n)$ with $d=2$ and $b=3,4,5$ are also obtained exactly. Their entropies are equal to $\ln(6)/7$, $\ln(28)/12$, $\ln(200)/18$, respectively. The upper and lower bounds for the entropy are derived in terms of the results at a certain stage for $SG_d(n)$ with $d=3,4,5$. As the difference between these bounds converges quickly to zero as the calculated stage increases, the numerical value of $S_{SG_d}$ with $d=3,4,5$ can be evaluated with more than a hundred significant figures accurate.
description: 35 pages, 20 figures and 1 table
CONTROLLING A NON-INVASIVE UPPER- LIMB PROSTHETIC DEVICE VIA A MACHINE-LEARNING ASSISTED BRAIN- COMPUTER INTERFACE
Creators: name: Fadul, Nora
name: Ghaemi, Seyed Mohammad
name: Gresh, Nicholas
name: Gurwitz, Zachary
name: Liu, Wensen
name: Lopez, Daniel
name: Mittu, Nikhil
name: Patel, Abhay
name: Shah, Khadija
name: Wolcott, Micaela
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gemstone Team BCIPRO

description: The goal of our research was to improve the accessibility of current upper-limb prostheses. We aimed to maintain non-invasive aspects of an Electroencephalography (EEG), use affordable material and resources, and match the accuracy and control of conventional prostheses alongside improved training methods. Our process began with us designing a method of data collection that uses a 3D-printed headset with dry electrodes to record brain signal data through EEG software. We then analyzed the signals, applied preprocessing to reduce noise, and used machine learning (ML) models to classify EEG signals with respect to specific actions such as the opening and closing of a hand. Finally, we constructed a 3D-printed hand that is actuated by servos with Arduino to demonstrate the physical actions interpreted through analysis, and we leveraged novel techniques to build a virtual reality (VR) environment to serve as a tool for prosthetic rehabilitation. We successfully met the goals set for data collection and prosthetic arm actuation. Additionally, we have created a functional algorithm for action prediction but were not able to achieve the desired accuracy. Overall, we achieved our primary goal of collecting brain signal data, analyzing that data through an algorithm, and actuating a prosthetic arm with actions interpreted from the brain signals all in real-time. Moving forward, there is room to increase accessibility and quality of prostheses through further development of non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) based technology for 3D-printed prostheses and VR environment prosthetic models.
On lower bounds for the Ihara constants A(2) and A(3)
Creators: name: Duursma, Iwan
name: Mak, Kit-Ho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G20

description: Let X be a curve over the finite field of q elements and let N(X), g(X) be its number of rational points and genus respectively. The Ihara constant A(q) is defined by the limit superior of N(X)/g(X) as the genus of X goes to infinity. In this paper, we employ a variant of Serre's class field tower method to obtain an improvement of the best known lower bounds on A(2) and A(3).
description: 22 pages; to appear in Compos. Math
Additional file 1 of The small GTPase BcSec4 is involved in conidiophore development, membrane integrity, and autophagy in Botrytis cinerea
Creators: name: Wang, Guanbo
name: Zou, Jian
name: Wang, Yadi
name: Liang, Wenxing
name: Li, Delong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. BcSec4 is indispensable for vegetative growth of B. cinerea. a Colony morphology of B05.10, the ΔBcSEC4 mutants, and complemented strains grown on PDA plates for 4 days. b The ΔBcSEC4 mutant displayed enhanced hyphal branching compared to B05.10 after incubation on PDA plates for 3 days. c Morphology of hyphal tips of B05.10 and the ΔBcSEC4 mutant growing on PDA plates for 3 days. Figure S2. BcSec4 is involved in protein secretion. a The hypersensitive response in Nicotiana benthamiana elicited by the supernatants of B05.10 and the ΔBcSEC4 mutant. The supernatants were collected after incubation in YEPD liquid medium for 24 h. b SDS-PAGE analysis of extracellular proteins produced by B05.10 and the ΔBcSEC4 mutant. c Functional classification of extracellular proteins produced by B05.10 and the ΔBcSEC4 mutant. Figure S3. BcSec4 is required for full virulence of B. cinerea. Tomato (a) and mung bean (b) leaves were inoculated with mycelial plugs at 25 °C in the dark. Figure S4. Disruption of BcSEC4 did not impair infection cushion formation. a Infection cushion formation of B05.10 and the ΔBcSEC4 mutant on a glass surface at 24 hpi. b Quantification of infection cushion formation by B05.10 and the ΔBcSEC4 mutant. Figure S5. The expression levels of JA-related genes determined via RT-qPCR. Levels of transcripts were normalized against that of β-actin. Three biological replicates were performed independently. Data are represented as means ± standard deviations (SDs) from three independent experiments
Singular Curves in the Joint Space and Cusp Points of 3-RPR parallel manipulators
Creators: name: Zein, Mazen
name: Wenger, Philippe
name: Chablat, Damien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the singular curves in the joint space of a family of planar parallel manipulators. It focuses on special points, referred to as cusp points, which may appear on these curves. Cusp points play an important role in the kinematic behavior of parallel manipulators since they make possible a nonsingular change of assembly mode. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it exposes a method to compute joint space singular curves of 3-RPR planar parallel manipulators. Second, it presents an algorithm for detecting and computing all cusp points in the joint space of these same manipulators.
Mechanics of cell crawling by means of force-free cyclic motion
Creators: name: Tarama, Mitsusuke
name: Yamamoto, Ryoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanics of crawling cells on a substrate is investigated by using a minimal model that satisfies the force-free condition. A cell is described by two subcellular elements connected by a linear actuator that changes the length of the cell cyclically in time, together with periodic alternation of adhesive characters at the interface between the cell and the substrate. Here the key model parameters are the phase shifts between the elongation of the actuator and the alternation of the adhesion of the two elements. We emphasize that the phase shifts determine not only the efficiency of the crawling motion but also its direction.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Intervalley splittings of Si quantum wells
Creators: name: Park, S. -H.
name: Lee, Y. Y.
name: Ahn, Doyeol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-valley effective mass theory for silicon quantum well structure is studied taking into account the external fields and the quantum interfaces. It is found that the phenomenological delta function potential, employed to explain the valley splitting caused by the quantum well interface in the previous work [Ref. 10], can be derived self-consistently from the multi-valley effective mass theory. Finite element method is used to solve the multi-valley effective equations. Theoretical predictions are in a reasonably good agreement with the recent experimental observation of valley splitting in a SiO_{2}/Si/SiO_{2} quantum well, which prove the validity of our approach.
description: Major revision including the correction of numerical errors
Entwürfe für Predigten in der Altschule in Prag
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1835
Subjects: subject: 090

description: Entwürfe für Predigten: ohne Titel, 24.9.1835; "Reinigung von Sünde", 3.10.1835; "Unser Wirken ein Göttliches", 24.10.1835; "Gottes Eigenthum", 14.11.1835.
Hedobia pubescens
Creators: name: Zahradník, Petr
name: Demetriou, Jakovos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anobiidae
Hedobia
Hedobia pubescens

description: Hedobia pubescens (Olivier, 1790)
Distribution. P: AB AU CR CZ FR GE GG GR HU IT PL RO RU (ST) SB SK SP TR UK YU. Central and southern Europe, Caucasus (Zahradník 2007a). New species for Cyprus.
Material examined. Larnaca prov., Agios Theodoros, 8.vi.2011, 1 spec., lgt. A. Trmal, coll. PZPC.
description: Published as part of Zahradník, Petr & Demetriou, Jakovos, 2023, A review of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) of Cyprus, including new faunistic records and the description of a new species, pp. 243-265 in Zootaxa 5306 (2) on page 253, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8061315