cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vac8 determines phagophore assembly site vacuolar localization during nitrogen starvation-induced autophagy
Creators: name: Gatica, Damian
name: Wen, Xin
name: Cheong, Heesun
name: Klionsky, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Macroautophagy/autophagy is a key catabolic process in which different cellular components are sequestered inside double-membrane vesicles called autophagosomes for subsequent degradation. In yeast, autophagosome formation occurs at the phagophore assembly site (PAS), a specific perivacuolar location that works as an organizing center for the recruitment of different autophagy-related (Atg) proteins. How the PAS is localized to the vacuolar periphery is not well understood. Here we show that the vacuolar membrane protein Vac8 is required for correct vacuolar localization of the PAS. We provide evidence that Vac8 anchors the PAS to the vacuolar membrane by binding Atg13 and recruiting the Atg1 initiation complex. VAC8 deletion or mislocalization of the protein reduce autophagy activity, highlighting the importance of both the PAS and the correct vacuolar localization of the Atg1 initiation complex for efficient and robust autophagy. Abbreviations: AID: auxin-inducible degradation; Atg: autophagy-related; Cvt: cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting; DMSO: dimethyl sulfoxide; ER: endoplasmic reticulum; GFP: green fluorescent protein; IAA: 3-indole acetic acid; PAS: phagophore assembly site; RFP: red fluorescent protein
Durvalumab: First Global Approval
Creators: name: Syed, Yahiya Y.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer

description: Compliance with Ethical Standards
Funding: The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
Conflict of interest: Y.Y.Syed is a salaried employee of Adis/Springer SBM, is responsible for the article content and declares no relevant conflicts of interest.
Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here.
Abstract
Intravenous durvalumab (Imfinzi™; AstraZeneca) is a fully human monoclonal antibody that blocks programmed cell death ligand-1 binding to its receptors (PD-1 and CD80), resulting in enhanced T-cell responses against cancer cells. The US FDA has granted durvalumab accelerated approval for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who have disease progression during or following platinum-containing chemotherapy, or within 12 months of neoadjuvant or adjuvant platinum-containing chemotherapy. Durvalumab ± tremelimumab is under phase III clinical trials in urothelial carcinoma, non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer and squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. The drug is also being evaluated in phase I or II clinical trials in a wide range of solid tumours and haematological malignancies. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of durvalumab leading to this first approval for urothelial carcinoma. Access to the full article can be found here.
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Time-dependent scattering theory for Schrödinger operators on scattering manifolds
Creators: name: Ito, Kenichi
name: Nakamura, Shu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J50; 34P25; 81U05

description: We construct a time-dependent scattering theory for Schrödinger operators on a manifold $M$ with asymptotically conic structure. We use the two-space scattering theory formalism, and a reference operator on a space of the form $R\times \partial M$, where $\partial M$ is the boundary of $M$ at infinity. We prove the existence and the completeness of the wave operators, and show that our scattering matrix is equivalent to the absolute scattering matrix, which is defined in terms of the asymptotic expansion of generalized eigenfunctions. Our method is functional analytic, and we use no microlocal analysis in this paper.
description: 24 pages
A statistical mechanical interpretation of algorithmic information theory III: Composite systems and fixed points
Creators: name: Tadaki, Kohtaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The statistical mechanical interpretation of algorithmic information theory (AIT, for short) was introduced and developed by our former works [K. Tadaki, Local Proceedings of CiE 2008, pp.425-434, 2008] and [K. Tadaki, Proceedings of LFCS'09, Springer's LNCS, vol.5407, pp.422-440, 2009], where we introduced the notion of thermodynamic quantities, such as partition function Z(T), free energy F(T), energy E(T), and statistical mechanical entropy S(T), into AIT. We then discovered that, in the interpretation, the temperature T equals to the partial randomness of the values of all these thermodynamic quantities, where the notion of partial randomness is a stronger representation of the compression rate by means of program-size complexity. Furthermore, we showed that this situation holds for the temperature itself as a thermodynamic quantity, namely, for each of all the thermodynamic quantities above, the computability of its value at temperature T gives a sufficient condition for T in (0,1) to be a fixed point on partial randomness. In this paper, we develop the statistical mechanical interpretation of AIT further and pursue its formal correspondence to normal statistical mechanics. The thermodynamic quantities in AIT are defined based on the halting set of an optimal computer, which is a universal decoding algorithm used to define the notion of program-size complexity. We show that there are infinitely many optimal computers which give completely different sufficient conditions in each of the thermodynamic quantities in AIT. We do this by introducing the notion of composition of computers into AIT, which corresponds to the notion of composition of systems in normal statistical mechanics.
description: 5 pages, no figures, final manuscript to appear in the Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, October 11 - 16, 2009
Correlation functions for the three state superintegrable chiral Potts spin chain of finite lengths
Creators: name: Fabricius, Klaus
name: McCoy, Barry M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the correlation functions of the three state superintegrable chiral Potts spin chain for chains of length 3,4,5. From these results we present conjectures for the form of the nearest neighbor correlation function.
description: 10 pages; references updates
Additional file 1 of Association between gestational exposure and risk of orofacial clefts: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Huang, ZhiMeng
name: Wu, JinZhun
name: Qiu, Yue
name: Lin, Jiayan
name: Huang, Wanting
name: Ma, Xiaohui
name: Zhang, Huifen
name: Yang, Xiaoqing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
The HYPERMUCHFUSS Campaign -- an undiscovered high velocity population
Creators: name: Tillich, Alfred
name: Geier, Stephan
name: Heber, Uli
name: Hirsch, Heiko
name: Maxted, Pierre
name: Gaensicke, Boris
name: Marsh, Tom
name: Napiwotzki, Ralf
name: Østensen, Roy
name: Copperwheat, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an overview and a status report of HYPERMUCHFUSS (HYPER velocity or Massive Unseen Companions of Hot Faint Underluminious Stars Survey) aiming at the detection of a population of high velocity subluminous B stars and white dwarfs. The first class of targets consists of hot subdwarf binaries with massive compact companions, which are expected to show huge radial velocity variations. The second class is formed by the recently discovered hyper-velocity stars, which are moving so fast that the dynamical ejection by a supermassive black hole seems to be the only explanation for their origin. Until now only one old hyper-velocity star has been found, but we expect a larger population. We applied an efficient selection technique for hot subdwarfs and white dwarfs with high galactic restframe velocities from the \emph{SDSS} spectral data base, which serve as first epoch observations for our campaign with the ESO VLT and NTT in Chile, the 3.5 m telescope at DSAZ observatory (Calar Alto) in Spain and the WHT on La Palma. The survey is nearing completion and provides us with promising candidates which will be followed up to measure their RV-curves to uncover massive companions or prove their nature as HVS.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the Journal of Physics Conference Proceedings (JPCS) for the 16th European White Dwarf Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, June 30 - July 11, 2008
INFLUENCING FACTOR ANALYSIS ABILITY INTERNAL HEALTH WORKERS DRAFTING HEALTH BUDGET IN BATUBARA, INDONESIA
Creators: name: Johannes Sembiring
name: Rahmadani Sitepu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ability, Preparation, Budget, Health.

description: Abstract

Drafting process budget needed ability power health so you can set health program priorities, as well own ability advocacy to government regions and institutions legislative in effort gain increased political commitment allocation budget. The low cost health in Indonesia namely minimal state finances, finance service health and wellness No enter in priority development, because that needed ability service health so you can set health program priorities, as well own ability advocacy to government regions and institutions legislative in effort gain increased political commitment allocation budget. Study This aim For analyze influencing factors _ ability power health in Preparation Health Budget at the Batu Bara District Health Office in 2017, with type study analytic with cross sectional design. Population in study this whole the staff involved in drafting the budget at the Batu Bara District Health Office is 178 people. The sampling technique used total sampling. Data collection was carried out with interview with use questionnaire. Data analysis was performed by multivariate results with regression logistics double show that ability power health in drafting budget health influenced by training and years of service by 99.9%. For The Head of the Program Sub-Division should carry out empowerment programs for power health in field finance Good through training, workshops and activity other.
Beyond urban conservation in inner city areas
Creators: name: Hogan, M
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The post-war period has seen attitudes towards the future of inner city areas change diametrically. The immediate post-war optimism for a prosperous future which saw some inner city areas being totally redeveloped following a Modernist approach has been replaced by a static notion of urban conservation which is quickly being accepted as conventional wisdom. This project moves towards resolving the conflict between development and conservation in Australian inner city areas by introducing theory which links history, place and culture and through a practical case study of Battery Point in Hobart.
Cusps in eta' --> eta pi pi decays
Creators: name: Schneider, Sebastian P.
name: Kubis, Bastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of the cusp effect in the decay K+ --> pi+ pi0 pi0 has spurred the search for other decay channels, where this phenomenon, which is generated by strong final-state interactions, should also occur. A very promising candidate is eta' --> eta pi0 pi0. The cusp effect offers an excellent opportunity to experimentally extract pi pi S-Wave scattering lengths. We adapt and generalize the non-relativistic effective field theory framework developed for K --> 3 pi decays to eta' --> eta pi pi. The cusp effect is predicted to have an effect of more than 8 % on the decay spectrum below the pi+ pi- threshold. We also show that with our current theoretical information about eta' --> eta pi pi decays, it is not possible to extract pi eta threshold parameters.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings for the 6th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Bern, Switzerland, July 6-10, 2009
Midostaurin: First Global Approval
Creators: name: Kim, Esther S.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer

description: The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding. During the peer review process the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the author on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. E. S. Kim is a salaried employee of Adis, Springer SBM.
Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here.
Abstract
Midostaurin (Rydapt®) is a multikinase inhibitor being developed by Novartis Pharmaceuticals. In April 2017, midostaurin was approved in the USA for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed, FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) mutation-positive acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) [in combination with standard cytarabine and daunorubicin induction, and cytarabine consolidation], or aggressive systemic mastocytosis (ASM), systemic mastocytosis with associated haematological neoplasm (SM-AHN) or mast cell leukaemia (MCL) [collectively known as advanced SM]. The article summarizes the milestones in the development of midostaurin leading to this first global approval.Access to the full article can be found here.
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Neutrino flavour transformation in supernovae
Creators: name: Duan, Huaiyu
name: Kneller, James P
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rapid progress has been made during recent years in the understanding of the flavour oscillations that occur as neutrinos traverse through supernova. The previous paradigm has given way and it is now clear that the neutrino signals we shall receive from future Galactic supernovae will allow us both to peer inside these extraordinary cosmic events and to probe some of the fundamental properties of these elusive particles. In this review we aim to distill the progress that has been made focusing upon the effects of the dynamic density profile and the emergence of collective flavour oscillations due to neutrino self-interactions.
description: 48 pages, 14 figures
Synaphobranchidae
Creators: name: Ho, Hsuan-Ching
name: Smith, David G.
name: Tighe, Kenneth A.
name: Hibino, Yusuke
name: Mccosker, John E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Anguilliformes
Synaphobranchidae

description: Family Synaphobranchidae   Ho et al. (2015c) listed 7 genera and 17 species from Taiwan. In the present study, two of these are described as new, and the presence of Synaphobranchus affinis in Taiwan has become doubtful because of a lack of voucher specimens. Here we add two more new species of Dysomma, bringing the total species of the family to 21 or 22 (the latter including S. affinis). There are still unidentified or undescribed species awaiting further investigation.
description: Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Tighe, Kenneth A., Hibino, Yusuke & Mccosker, John E., 2018, Checklist of eels of Taiwan (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes): An update, pp. 5-17 in Zootaxa 4454 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4454.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1446687
Eicosapentaenoic acid attenuates renal lipotoxicity by restoring autophagic flux
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Takeshi
name: Takabatake, Yoshitsugu
name: Minami, Satoshi
name: Sakai, Shinsuke
name: Fujimura, Ryuta
name: Takahashi, Atsushi
name: Namba-Hamano, Tomoko
name: Matsuda, Jun
name: Kimura, Tomonori
name: Matsui, Isao
name: Kaimori, Jun-ya
name: Takeda, Hiroaki
name: Takahashi, Masatomo
name: Izumi, Yoshihiro
name: Bamba, Takeshi
name: Matsusaka, Taiji
name: Niimura, Fumio
name: Yanagita, Motoko
name: Isaka, Yoshitaka
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Recently, we identified a novel mechanism of lipotoxicity in the kidney proximal tubular cells (PTECs); lipid overload stimulates macroautophagy/autophagy for the renovation of plasma and organelle membranes to maintain the integrity of the PTECs. However, this autophagic activation places a burden on the lysosomal system, leading to a downstream suppression of autophagy, which manifests as phospholipid accumulation and inadequate acidification in lysosomes. Here, we investigated whether pharmacological correction by eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) supplementation could restore autophagic flux and alleviate renal lipotoxicity. EPA supplementation to high-fat diet (HFD)-fed mice reduced several hallmarks of lipotoxicity in the PTECs, such as phospholipid accumulation in the lysosome, mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammation, and fibrosis. In addition to improving the metabolic syndrome, EPA alleviated renal lipotoxicity via several mechanisms. EPA supplementation to HFD-fed mice or the isolated PTECs cultured in palmitic acid (PA) restored lysosomal function with significant improvements in the autophagic flux. The PA-induced redistribution of phospholipids from cellular membranes into lysosomes and the HFD-induced accumulation of SQSTM1/p62 (sequestosome 1), an autophagy substrate, during the temporal and genetic ablation of autophagy were significantly reduced by EPA, indicating that EPA attenuated the HFD-mediated increases in autophagy demand. Moreover, a fatty acid pulse-chase assay revealed that EPA promoted lipid droplet (LD) formation and transfer from LDs to the mitochondria for beta-oxidation. Noteworthy, the efficacy of EPA on lipotoxicity is autophagy-dependent and cell-intrinsic. In conclusion, EPA counteracts lipotoxicity in the proximal tubule by alleviating autophagic numbness, making it potentially suitable as a novel treatment for obesity-related kidney diseases.
Metropolitan planning in the Greater Hobart region : considerations, options and a preferred organisational model
Creators: name: Mackey, Damian
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The greater Hobart metropolitan area is home to almost 200,000 people, constituting the largest urban centre and capital city of the island State of Tasmania, Australia. It is centred on the Derwent River estuary with the built area taking a linear form, extending along both sides of the river, hemmed in by hills and mountains on either side. At present there is no single body responsible for monitoring, planning, directing and controlling growth and development over the entire metropolitan area. The key city-forming and city-serving functions of government are generally divided between Tasmania's State Government and five local Councils at the Local Government level. There are no substantial mechanisms for facilitating cooperation and coordination between and across levels, and no mechanisms whatsoever for undertaking metro-wide strategic planning. Over the last half century several attempts have been made to establish a regional planning body; all have failed. The Hobart metropolitan area lacks an understanding of its place in the greater scheme of things, particularly in the new world economy, and subsequently has no clear vision of its future. At a more mundane - but not unrelated - level there are no metro-wide policies or strategies for the direction of growth and the location of facilities, employment, housing, industrial areas, commercial areas and so on. The provision of infrastructure follows development pressures, rather than leading the way under a coordinated and pre-planned strategy towards some generally agreed vision. There are no mechanisms capable of recognising and dealing with metropolitan issues, whilst decisions made by local Councils and the various State agencies often have effects with metropolitan consequences. This paper attempts to examine the need for metropolitan planning, understand the reasons for the failure of previous attempts, analyse the options suitable in the Hobart context and, finally, to recommend an appropriate model. It is based on the premise that, before metropolitan planning can take place, a robust mechanism with real powers must first be devised and implemented.
Simple reaction-diffusion population model on scale-free networks
Creators: name: Wu, An-Cai
name: Xu, Xin-Jian
name: Mendes, J. F. F.
name: Wang, Ying-Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study a simple reaction-diffusion population model [proposed by A. Windus and H. J. Jensen, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40, 2287 (2007)] on scale-free networks. In the case of fully random diffusion, the network topology cannot affect the critical death rate, whereas the heterogeneous connectivity can cause smaller steady population density and critical population density. In the case of modified diffusion, we obtain a larger critical death rate and steady population density, at the meanwhile, lower critical population density, which is good for the survival of species. The results were obtained using a mean-field-like framework and were confirmed by computer simulations.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Two Types of Magnetohydrodynamic Sheath Jets
Creators: name: Kaburaki, Osamu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations of astrophysical jets emanating from various galactic nuclei strongly suggest that a double layered structure, or a spine-sheath structure, is likely to be their common feature. We propose that such a sheath jet structure can be formed magnetohydrodynamically within a valley of the magnetic pressures, which is formed between the peaks due to the poloidal and toroidal components, with the centrifugal force acting on the rotating sheath plasma is balanced by the hoop stress of the toroidal field. The poloidal field concentrated near the polar axis is maintained by a converging plasma flow toward the jet region, and the toroidal field is developed outside the jet cone owing to the poloidal current circulating through the jet. Under such situations, the set of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations allows two main types of solutions, at least, in the region far from the footpoint. The first type solution describes the jets of marginally bound nature. This type is realized when the jet temperature decreases like viral one, and neither the pressure-gradient nor the MHD forces, which are both determined consistently, cannot completely overcome the gravity even at infinity. The second type is realized under an isothermal situation, and the gravity is cancelled exactly by the pressure-gradient force. Hence, the jets of this type are accelerated purely by the MHD force. It is suggested also that these two types correspond, respectively, to the jets from type I and II radio galaxies in the Fanaroff-Riley classification.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, to appear in PASJ, Vol.61, No.3
Star forming galaxies in the Hercules cluster: Halpha imaging of A2151
Creators: name: Cedres, B.
name: Iglesias-Paramo, J.
name: Vilchez, J. M.
name: Reverte, D.
name: Petropolou, V.
name: Hernandez-Fernandez, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the first results of an Halpha imaging survey of galaxies in the central regions of the A2151 cluster. A total of 50 sources were detected in Halpha. The morphologies of the 43 H$α$ selected galaxies range from grand design spirals and interacting galaxies to blue compacts and tidal dwarfs or isolated extragalactic HII regions, spanning a range of magnitudes of -21 <= MB <= -12.5 mag. A comparison with the clusters Coma and A1367 and a sample of field galaxies has shown the presence of cluster galaxies with L(Halpha) lower than expected for their MB, a consecuence of the cluster environment. This fact results in differences in the L(Halpha) vs. EW(Halpha) and L(Hα) distributions of the clusters with respect to the field, and in cluster to cluster variations of these quantities, which we propose are driven by a global cluster property as the total mass. Overall, we conclude that both, the global cluster environment as well as the cluster merging history play a non negligible role in the integral star formation properties of clusters of galaxies.
description: 38 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal
title: From sea to land: characterization and shoreline analysis of an Arctic paraglacial coastal system undergoing forced regression, Arviat, Nunavut.
Creators: name: Bagnall, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: This study assesses the form, materials, and evolution of a paraglacial Arctic coastline undergoing forced regression. It is based on the analysis of field and remote-sensing data within the municipal boundary of Arviat, Nunavut, western Hudson Bay. Arviat is part of an extensive emergent glacial and marine sedimentary plain. Discrete reaches of the municipal foreshore and backshore are characterized by form and material. Analysis of historical shoreline change confirmed that shoreline advance was more prevalent than retreat within the study area between 1960 and 2011. However, shoreline retreat was also observed despite forced regression conditions, particularly around the east-facing portion of the headland. The principle forcing agent for shoreline change is interpreted as forced regression, but coastal dynamics are also playing a role in shoreline evolution. This study contributes to the understanding of coastal evolution in a forced regression environment and the characterization of an understudied Canadian Arctic coastal environment.
Dynamical phase transition in correlated fermionic lattice systems
Creators: name: Eckstein, Martin
name: Kollar, Marcus
name: Werner, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use non-equilibrium dynamical mean-field theory to demonstrate the existence of a critical interaction in the real-time dynamics of the Hubbard model after an interaction quench. The critical point is characterized by fast thermalization and separates weak-coupling and strong-coupling regimes in which the relaxation is delayed due to prethermalization on intermediate timescales. This dynamical phase transition should be observable in experiments on trapped fermionic atoms.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
A study of the inquest records of Tasmania
Creators: name: Hofto, Shirley A
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The inquest records of Tasmania dating from 1828 are stark revelations of human tragedy. From them it is possible to gain knowledge of the legal processes operating, vivid details of the life and times, and insight into the way in which sudden and accidental deaths were viewed by coroners and others seeking to make life in Tasmania safer for its citizens. This study samples these records, setting them in historical context and highlighting what I consider is the interesting data revealed.
Continuum Mechanics for Quantum Many-Body Systems: The Linear Response Regime
Creators: name: Gao, Xianlong
name: Tao, Jianmin
name: Vignale, G.
name: Tokatly, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a closed equation of motion for the current density of an inhomogeneous quantum many-body system under the assumption that the time-dependent wave function can be described as a geometric deformation of the ground-state wave function. By describing the many-body system in terms of a single collective field we provide an alternative to traditional approaches, which emphasize one-particle orbitals. We refer to our approach as continuum mechanics for quantum many-body systems. In the linear response regime, the equation of motion for the displacement field becomes a linear fourth-order integro-differential equation, whose only inputs are the one-particle density matrix and the pair correlation function of the ground-state. The complexity of this equation remains essentially unchanged as the number of particles increases. We show that our equation of motion is a hermitian eigenvalue problem, which admits a complete set of orthonormal eigenfunctions under a scalar product that involves the ground-state density. Further, we show that the excitation energies derived from this approach satisfy a sum rule which guarantees the exactness of the integrated spectral strength. Our formulation becomes exact for systems consisting of a single particle, and for any many-body system in the high-frequency limit. The theory is illustrated by explicit calculations for simple one- and two-particle systems.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, 6 Appendices This paper is a follow-up to PRL 103, 086401 (2009)
La norma fondamentale. Husserl e la fenomenologia dei valori
Creators: name: Venier, Veniero
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2014
Subjects: Veniero Venier; Husserl; valori; norma essenziale

description: The fundamental norm. husserl and the phenomenology of values
From its very beginnings, Husserl’s philosophical life was characterised by the interweaving between ethical reflection and logical-argumentative rigour. It is not just a matter of the constant efforts concerning a theoretical formulation that was always aimed at constant formal coherence, but also and above all, of the progressive association of a rigorous ethics with the value of the individual- personal dimension. The phenomenological analysis of values – intertwined with those of perceptive-intellective experiences, feeling and volition – gradually finds a common denominator that, somewhere in the ‘20s, progressively takes shape in the ethical-material theme of personal vocation. This is a fundamental result for the phenomenology of values that, from the initial approach in which Husserl had difficulty in finding a possible conjugation between logics and ethics, finally culminates in the ethical theme of vocation as the essential norm one is asked to meet in the fulfilment of one’s best and one’s good.
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 2 (2014): Etica e Passioni
Superdense massive galaxies in the Nearby Universe
Creators: name: Trujillo, Ignacio
name: Cenarro, A. Javier
name: de Lorenzo-Caceres, Adriana
name: Vazdekis, Alexandre
name: de la Rosa, Ignacio G.
name: Cava, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superdense massive galaxies (r_e~1 kpc; M~10^{11} Msun) were common in the early universe (z>1.5). Within some hierarchical merging scenarios, a non-negligible fraction (1-10%) of these galaxies is expected to survive since that epoch retaining their compactness and presenting old stellar populations in the present universe. Using the NYU Value-Added Galaxy Catalog from the SDSS Data Release 6 we find only a tiny fraction of galaxies (~0.03%) with r_e<1.5 kpc and M_*>8x10^{10} Msun in the local Universe (z<0.2). Surprinsingly, they are relatively young (~2 Gyr) and metal-rich ([Z/H]~0.2). The consequences of these findings within the current two competing size evolution scenarios for the most massive galaxies ("dry" mergers vs "puffing up" due to quasar activity) are discussed.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters; 3 figures
APLICACION DE PRUEBAS DE ENSAYOS NO DESTRUCTIVOS EN MATERIALES METAL MECANICOS Y DE LA CONSTRUCCION
Creators: name: CALDERON CASTRO, ARTURO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: classificationCode: 401607
subject: Metals and alloy materials
classificationCode: 401799
subject: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Derivado del
proceso de producción de materiales que utilizan como base elementos de metal,
requieren de tratamientos mecánicos que garanticen una homogeneidad estructural
eficiente con el objetivo primordial que descartar fallas y anomalías, que se traduzcan
en una resistencia mecánica pobre. Esto requiere entonces que el proceso de
soldadura que se seleccione sea el idóneo, reuniendo las condiciones necesarias
de acuerdo a Normas y Estándares.

Es
aquí donde los Ensayos No Destructivos (END) entran en acción, ya que
representan métodos que garantizan la homogeneidad estructural y metalúrgica de
uniones soldadas, además de que son métodos confiables que arrojan resultados
de manera inmediata y sin sin provocar daño sobre las uniones a analizar y de
los materiales empleados.
Two worlds in one : the lived experiences of seven people treated with autologous bone marrow/peripheral blood stem cell transplant
Creators: name: Jones, Catherine Cheryl
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Autologous bone marrow/peripheral blood stem cell transplant is one of the recent treatments to offer hope of a cure or prolonged remission for certain types of cancer. Current literature predominantly has either a biomedical focus or deals with long term survivorship issues. The ways in which this treatment option is perceived by survivors is important in providing nurses with a deeper insight and understanding with which to inform nursing care. Utilising a phenomenological hermeneutic methodology seven people who have survived this treatment, participated in sharing their stories in individual audio-taped interviews. Themes which emerged from the text include: changing concepts of self; the significance of relationships; being different from the past; and temporality.
Verbal operant conditioning as a function of need for social approval and connotative meaning of the stimulus material
Creators: name: Lee, Dong Yul
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: One hundred and forty four college subjects were divided into twelve groups on the basis of the score on a measure of need for social approval (high and low) and a measure of connotative meaning of the concept 'hippie’ (positive, negative, and neutral). By instituting two reinforcement conditions in a Taffel type of verbal conditioning task, these twelve groups of subjects were positively reinforced on a 100% reinforcement schedule, either congruently or lncongruently with their initial meaning of hippie (2 x 2 x 3 factorial design). The reinforcing stimulus was the experimenter's saying "Good" or "Fine" for a negative or positive description of hippie, depending upon the reinforcement conditions. It was hypothesized that subjects with a high need for social approval would show a greater conditioning performance than subjects with a low need for social approval. It was also hypothesized that subjects who received reinforcement congruently with their meaning of hippie would show a greater increase in the conditioning performance than subjects who received reinforcement lncongruently with their meaning of hippie. The data showed that there was no systematic difference in the conditioning performance between subjects with a high and low need for social approval as measured by the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. In addition, the need variable did not significantly interact either with the meaning, the reinforcement condition, or the block level of the conditioning trials. However, subjects who were reinforced congruently with their meaning of hippie showed significantly greater increase in the conditioning performance as compared to those who were reinforced incongruently with their meaning of hippie. In fact, subjects who received incongruent reinforcement failed to demonstrate any consistent changes in the rate of response emission during the conditioning period. Subjects with a neutral meaning of hippie showed a conditioning performance greater than the incongruently reinforced groups, but less than the congruently reinforced groups in both reinforcement conditions. The results were interpreted as indicating the importance of the condition under which subjects receive reinforcement—congruent or incongruent reinforcement—in determining responsivity toward socially reinforcing stimuli.
The Long Now Series of Works
Creators: name: Hope, Cat
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 360302
subject: Music composition and improvisation

description: These are the scores and related to materials for the compositions entitled 'The Long Now", works for solo instruments and sub tone.You will need the Decibel Score Player to read the score for this work, as it has the embedded audio for playback. The score file to use in the player (ending with .dsz) is downloadable hereThe Long Now I (2020).For solo bass trombone and subtone. The work is dedicated to James Littlewood, who performed the premiere in December 2021 and was key in shaping the work.Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of The ANAM Set (2021). It was written for James Littlewood and the world premiere was on 21 September 2021 at the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. The ANAM Set was funded by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative.

Other performances: Elision Ensemble, December 2024.
The Long Now II (2022). For Solo bass Flute and sub tone. Dedicated to Paula Francis, premiered by Elision Ensemble at the Melbourne Recital Centre in May 2022.

Other performances: Ensemble Mania, January 2025. View the performance here.
The Long Now III (2025). For modular synthesiser and sub tone. Dedicated to Juan Parra Cancino.PROGRAM NOTEThis series of works are named after the ‘Long Now’ , a Foundation that aims to provide counterpoint to today's accelerating culture by encouraging long-term thinking, fostering responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. A short piece of text that opens the work, spoken by the composer – is a typical ‘Long Now’ provocation: “How Long is Now?” But this text is inaudible, because the high frequency of the composers human voice is not reproducible in the very low ranges subwoofer speaker it plays through. Music provides complex answers to this question of “How Long is Now?”, and in this work, a slow descent into very low sound, where pitch is either uncontrollable or almost inaudible, reflects the limits of human action in and perception of sound as it passes through time, highlighting that there may be other ways to listen, and other ways to experience our passing through time.PERFORMANCE INSTRUCTIONS
The score is proportional, with the highest point of the screen being the highest pitch reference, the bottom being the lowest pitch reference. Line thickness indicates dynamic (should be very soft as a starting point). The electronic play back is fixed and embedded in the score file. The score should be read in the Decibel ScorePlayer application on an iPad, or as a movie file, available on the composers’ website. The electronic play back should run out of the iPad minijack and into a sub woofer speaker. Do not use full range PA speakers. Full instructions can be found in the instructions file in the score, or attached here.
The Long Now
Creators: name: Hope, Cat
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 360302
subject: Music composition and improvisation

description: This is the score and related to materials for the compositions entitled 'The Long Now", a work for solo bass trombone and sub tone.
You will need the Decibel Score Player to read the score for this work, as it has the embedded audio for playback. The score file to use in the player (ending with .dsz) is downloadable here

The work is dedicated to James Littlewood, who performed the premiere in December 2021 and was key in shaping the work.

PROGRAM NOTE

This piece is named after the ‘Long Now’ , a Foundation that aims to provide counterpoint to today's accelerating culture by encouraging long-term thinking, fostering responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. A short piece of text that opens the work, spoken by the composer – is a typical ‘Long Now’ provocation: “How Long is Now?” But this text is inaudible, because the high frequency of the composers human voice is not reproducible in the very low ranges subwoofer speaker it plays through. Music provides complex answers to this question of “How Long is Now?”, and in this work, a slow descent into very low sound, where pitch is either uncontrollable or almost inaudible, reflects the limits of human action in and perception of sound as it passes through time, highlighting that there may be other ways to listen, and other ways to experience our passing through time.

Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of The ANAM Set (2021). It was written for James Littlewood and the world premiere was on 21 September 2021 at the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. The ANAM Set was funded by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative.
The work is the first in a series of solos for low instrument and subtone, relating to the concept of the Long Now.

PERFORMANCE INSTRUCTIONS

The score is proportional, with the highest point of the screen being the highest pitch reference, the bottom being the lowest pitch reference. Line thickness indicates dynamic (should be very soft as a starting point). The electronic play back is fixed and embedded in the score file. The score should be read in the Decibel ScorePlayer application on an iPad, or as a movie file, available on the composers’ website. The electronic play back should run out of the iPad minijack and into a sub woofer speaker. Do not use full range PA speakers.
Full instructions can be found in the instructions file able.

PERFORMANCES

The premiere performance was made by James Littlewood at the Australian Institute of Music on December 4, 2021.
Soft physics at the LHC
Creators: name: Ryskin, M. G.
name: Martin, A. D.
name: Khoze, V. A.
name: Shuvaev, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recall the main features of the Regge approach used to understand soft interactions at LHC and higher energies. Unitarity tames the power growth of the elastic proton-proton scattering amplitude with energy, and leads to the migration of the secondary particles produced in high-energy proton-proton collisions to larger transverse momenta. We discuss, in qualitative terms, the role of processes containing large rapidity gaps (LRG), and the probability that the gaps survive population by secondaries produced in additional soft interactions. We explain how the Regge diagram corresponding to a LRG event simultaneously describes events with different (single, double, etc.) particle density in the same rapidity interval. We show that the role of these, enhanced, multi-Pomeron diagrams can be studied by measuring multiplicity fluctuations and long-range rapidity correlations between secondaries produced at the Tevatron and the LHC. Finally, we make a list of the characteristic features of the multi-Pomeron description of soft interactions that may be observed at the high energies accessible at the Tevatron and the LHC.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures, Topical Review to be published in J.Phys.G, based on two lectures by Misha Ryskin at the St. Petersburg Winter School, Gatchina, February 2009
L'identità personale in David Hume: dalle passioni all'etica
Creators: name: Greco, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2014
Subjects: Lorenzo Greco; David Hume; personal identity

description: Personal Identity in David Hume: From Passions to Ethics
In this paper I offer a reconstruction of David Hume’s discussion of personal identity. I argue that, notwithstanding Hume’s description of personal identity in Book 1 of A Treatise of Human Nature in terms of a «bundle of perceptions», he is nevertheless in a position to present a unified conception of the self. This becomes apparent when he moves on to Books 2 and 3 of the same Treatise to talk about the passions of pride and humility. I conclude by suggesting that by putting weight on these passions Hume can arrive at a definition of the self that finds its completion in the ethical dimension.
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 2 (2014): Etica e Passioni
Two-photon exclusive production of supersymmetric pairs at the LHC
Creators: name: Piotrzkowski, K.
name: Schul, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-photon exclusive production of charged supersymmetric pairs at the LHC has a clean and unique signature - two very forward scattered protons and two opposite charged leptons produced centraly. For low-mass SUSY scenarios, significant cross-sections are expected and background processes are well controlled. Measurement of the forward proton energies would allow for mass reconstruction of right-handed sleptons and the LSP with a few GeV resolution. Methods to reduce backgrounds at high luminosity resulting from accidental coincidences between events in the central and forward detectors are discussed.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, parallel talk presented at the 17th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY09), Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, 5-10 June 2009