cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stephanoprora conciliata
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
name: Gardner, Scott L.
name: Jiménez, F. Agustín
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Echinostomatidae
Stephanoprora
Stephanoprora conciliata

description: Stephanoprora conciliata (Dietz, 1909) Localities: Bryan Utility Lake, Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, U.S.A., 30° 24' N latitude, 96° 13' W longitude; Galveston Bay, Galveston County, Texas, U.S.A., 29 Ο 18' N latitude, 94 Ο 48' W longitude. Site of infection: Intestine. Deposited specimens: Voucher specimens (4 specimens) HWML 48506. Prevalence: 4 of 4 birds, 100%. Mean intensity: 35 individuals/infected bird. Basic comparative description: Based on 10 adult specimens. Body elongate, spinose, 2,420 (2,150 – 2,725) long by 295 (200–375) wide with reniform head collar bearing a single dorsally interrupted row of 22 spines, 48 (46–50) long. Forebody 495 (460–550) long. Oral sucker 88 (79–95) by 80 (70–90); prepharynx 30 (26–35) long; pharynx 82 (60–90) by 77 (70–90); esophagus 215 (180–270) long; ceca long, terminating near posterior extremity. Acetabulum 180 (160–190) by 186 (170–210). Testes in middle third of body, contiguous; anterior testis 205 (200–220) by 230 (210–260); posterior testis 240 (230–250) by 216 (180–260). Genital pore immediately posterior to cecal bifurcations near midline of body, cirrus sac extending to level of posterior margin of acetabulum, 185 (170–200) by 89 (80–99). Ovary immediately pretesticular on midline of body, 90 (80–100) by 85 (70–105). Vitelline follicles distributed from level of posterior testis to posterior end. Eggs large, 70 (60–75) by 40 (35–50). Excretory pore terminal. Remarks. This species has previously been reported from Sterna sp. in Brazil (Yamaguti 1971), but it is a new host record for S. maxima from Texas, U.S.A.
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O., Blend, Charles K., Gardner, Scott L. & Jiménez, F. Agustín, 2007, Stictodora cablei n. sp. (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from the royal tern, Sterna maxima (Laridae: Sterninae) from Puerto Rico and the Brazos County area of the Texas Gulf coast, U. S. A., with a list of other endohelminths recovered in Texas, pp. 35-56 in Zootaxa 1432 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1432.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5077195
description: {"references": ["Yamaguti, S. (1971) Synopsis of Digenetic Trematodes of Vertebrates, Keigaku Publishing Company, Tokyo, Japan, 1,074 + 349 pp."]}
Oral history interview with William A. Sullivan, 1966
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Veterans
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American
Salvage
Maritime law
Amphibious warfare

description: Education, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; naval construction; Annapolis; navy yards in United States; Philippines; Shanghai, 1934-37; Trans-Siberian Railroad; Model Basin, Washington Naval Gun Factory; salvage and admiralty law; diving; Merritt, Chapman & Scott; San Diego salvage depot; equipment and personnel, procurement problems; Assistant Naval Attache, London; British World War II salvage operations: training personnel, blocking channels, enemy interference, financial aspects of salvage and marine insurance, rescue tugs; Bureau of Ships, 1941, salvage branch, training personnel; Pearl Harbor: communications problems, Naval districts; cont. salvage off United States and Canadian coasts; clearing Cape Cod Canal; Chief of Navy Salvage, World War II; NORMANDIE fire and sinking; salvage training exercises and school; divers; civilian training; development of equipment; salvage award claims; clearing Casablanca harbor after North African landings; salvage problems in Mediterranean Theater: Bizerte Channel, Ferryville, Tunis; Operation Husky; landings in Sicily, Salerno, Naples; plans for landing at Kwajalein; London, preparations for D-Day; Normandy landings: demolition teams, artificial harbors, mine-sweeping; operations at LeHavre, Marseilles; clearing Manila Harbor; impressions of Admirals Alan Kirk, John Hall, Ernest King, Benjamin Manseau, and Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur, and many others
The internal rotation of globular clusters revealed by Gaia DR2
Creators: name: Bianchini, P.
name: van der Marel, R. P.
name: del Pino, A.
name: Watkins, L. L.
name: Bellini, A.
name: Fardal, M. A.
name: Libralato, M.
name: Sills, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Line-of-sight kinematic studies indicate that many Galactic globular clusters have a significant degree of internal rotation. However, three-dimensional kinematics from a combination of proper motions and line-of-sight velocities are needed to unveil the role of angular momentum in the formation and evolution of these old stellar systems. Here we present the first quantitative study of internal rotation on the plane-of-the-sky for a large sample of globular clusters using proper motions from Gaia DR2. We detect signatures of rotation in the tangential component of proper motions for 11 out of 51 clusters at a $>$3-sigma confidence level, confirming the detection reported in Gaia collaboration et al. (2018) for 8 clusters, and additionally identify 11 GCs with a 2-sigma rotation detection. For the clusters with a detected global rotation, we construct the two-dimensional rotation maps and proper motion rotation curves, and we assess the relevance of rotation with respect to random motions ($V/σ\sim0.08-0.51$). We find evidence of a correlation between the degree of internal rotation and relaxation time, highlighting the importance of long-term dynamical evolution in shaping the clusters current properties. This is a strong indication that angular momentum must have played a fundamental role in the earliest phases of cluster formation. Finally, exploiting the spatial information of the rotation maps and a comparison with line-of-sight data, we provide an estimate of the inclination of the rotation axis for a subset of 8 clusters. Our work demonstrates the potential of Gaia data for internal kinematic studies of globular clusters and provides the first step to reconstruct their intrinsic three-dimensional structure.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 10: of Genomes from uncultivated prokaryotes: a comparison of metagenome-assembled and single-amplified genomes
Creators: name: Alneberg, Johannes
name: Karlsson, Christofer
name: Anna-Maria Divne
name: Bergin, Claudia
name: Homa, Felix
name: Lindh, Markus
name: Hugerth, Luisa
name: Ettema, Thijs
name: Bertilsson, Stefan
name: Andersson, Anders
name: Jarone Pinhassi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S7. Tetranucleotide frequency plots of SAG BS0038D2 in BACL21. Other figure legend information same as in AdditionalÂ fileÂ 6: Figure S3. (PDF 158 kb)
Additional file 1 of Visceral fat area is the measure of obesity best associated with mobility disability in community dwelling oldest-old Chinese adults
Creators: name: Chua, Kevin Yiqiang
name: Lin, Xinyi
name: Wang, Yeli
name: Chong, Yap-Seng
name: Lim, Wee-Shiong
name: Koh, Woon-Puay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Cross-validated performance of the four obesity measures in discriminating between oldest-old adults with/without mobility disability, adjusted for sex. Five-fold cross-validated performance of the four measures of obesity (modelled both linearly and with restricted cubic splines) in discriminating between oldest-old adults with and without disability after adjustment for sex. Supplementary Figure S1. Flowchart of the Singapore Chinese Health Study and the SG90 sub-cohort. Flowchart detailing the Singapore Chinese Health Study, its three follow-up interviews, as well as the SG90 sub-cohort.
The scalar glueball from a tadpole-improved action
Creators: name: Morningstar, Colin
name: Peardon, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scalar glueball mass and the string tension are computed in lattice SU(3) gauge theory with the aim of establishing the effectiveness of the improved action approach in removing finite-spacing artifacts.
description: 4 pages, LaTeX. 3 figures in uuencoded compressed tar file. Contribution to Lattice 95
Space and time as a consequence of GRW quantum jumps
Creators: name: Singh, Tejinder P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber (GRW) theory of spontaneous collapse offers a possible resolution of the quantum measurement problem. In this theory, the wave function of a particle spontaneously and repeatedly localises to one or the other random position in space, as a consequence of the hypothesised quantum jumps. In between jumps the wave function undergoes the usual Schrödinger evolution. In the present paper we suggest that these jumps take place in Hilbert space, with no reference to physical space, and physical three-dimensional space arises as a consequence of localisation of macroscopic objects in the universe. That is, collapse of the wave-function is responsible for the origin of space. We then suggest that similar jumps take place for a hypothetical time operator in Hilbert space, and classical time as we know it emerges from localisation of this time operator for macroscopic objects. More generally, the jumps are suggested to take place in an operator space-time in Hilbert space, leading to an emergent classical space-time.
description: v1: 7 pages; v2: 7 pages, references added; v3: 11 pages, significantly expanded: remarks (i)-(x) added, including a new explanation for the quantum non-locality puzzle, and `quantum interference in time' as possible evidence for operator time, references added; v4: references updated, to appear in Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung A as a Rapid Communication
A study of MHC class I binding viral and host derived peptides and natural killer cell function
Creators: name: Cheent, Kuldeep
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Natural killer (NK) cells are a key component of innate immunity and have been implicated in determining the outcome of HCV infection in both genetic and functional studies. The last two decades have seen significant advances in the understanding of NK cell regulation with the discovery of a multitude of activating and inhibitory receptors. CD94:NKG2A operates in tandem with the polymorphic killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) and Ly49 systems to inhibit NK cells, however it is not clear as to the benefits of having two distinct inhibitory receptor:ligand systems. Down regulation or modification of MHC class I expression is a key feature of NK cell recognition of virus infected cells. However, viruses can subvert this mechanism of NK cell surveillance by encoding peptides that can bind to MHC class I. The aim of this thesis is to further our understanding of the interaction between viral and host derived MHC class I binding peptides and their effect on NK cell inhibition. By using an MHC deficient cell line, we have shown that HCV core35-44 peptide is capable of enhancing cell surface expression of MHC class I (HLA-C and HLA-E). Although this peptide stabilises HLA-E, the HLA-E:HCV core35-44 complex alone is insufficient to inhibit at NKG2A positive NK cells. However, in the presence of HLA-E binding MHC class I signal peptides, HCV core35-44 has a synergistic effect in suppressing the NKG2A+ NK cell population. Peptides derived from other viruses such as EBV and HIV, and the stress related peptide derived from heat shock protein 60 also augment inhibition of NKG2A+ NK cells, but only when in the presence of MHC class I signal peptides. This augmentation is caused by recruitment of the non-signalling CD94 molecule to the immune synapse in the absence of its inhibitory signalling partner NKG2A. Thus CD94 can function independently as an enhancer of inhibition. The augmentation of inhibition of CD94:NKG2A by non-inhibitory peptides, contrasts with antagonism of inhibition of KIR by low affinity peptide:MHC complexes. We also show that KIR+ and NKG2A+ NK cells respond with differing stoichiometries to MHC class I down-regulation. Thus peptide selectivity and MHC class I sensitivity of natural killer cell receptors provides a rationale for the evolution of two distinct inhibitory systems for MHC class I.
The APOGEE-2 Survey of the Orion Star Forming Complex II: Six-dimensional structure
Creators: name: Kounkel, Marina
name: Covey, Kevin
name: Suárez, Genaro
name: Román-Zúñiga, Carlos
name: Hernandez, Jesus
name: Stassun, Keivan
name: Jaehnig, Karl O
name: Feigelson, Eric D.
name: Ramírez, Karla Peña
name: Roman-Lopes, Alexandre
name: Da Rio, Nicola
name: Stringfellow, Guy S.
name: Kim, J. Serena
name: Borissova, Jura
name: Fernández-Trincado, José G.
name: Burgasser, Adam
name: García-Hernández, D. A.
name: Zamora, Olga
name: Pan, Kaike
name: Nitschelm, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of spectrosopic and astrometric data from APOGEE-2 and Gaia DR2 to identify structures towards the Orion Complex. By applying a hierarchical clustering algorithm to the 6-dimensional stellar data, we identify spatially and/or kinematically distinct groups of young stellar objects with ages ranging from 1 to 12 Myr. We also investigate the star forming history within the Orion Complex, and identify peculiar sub-clusters. With this method we reconstruct the older populations in the regions that are presently largely devoid of molecular gas, such as Orion C (which includes the $σ$ Ori cluster), and Orion D (the population that traces Ori OB1a, OB1b, and Orion X). We report on the distances, kinematics, and ages of the groups within the Complex. The Orion D groups is in the process of expanding. On the other hand, Orion B is still in the process of contraction. In $λ$ Ori the proper motions are consistent with a radial expansion due to an explosion from a supernova; the traceback age from the expansion exceeds the age of the youngest stars formed near the outer edges of the region, and their formation would have been triggered when they were half-way from the cluster center to their current positions. We also present a comparison between the parallax and proper motion solutions obtained by Gaia DR2, and those obtained towards star-forming regions by Very Long Baseline Array.
description: Accepted to AJ. Interactive figure 10 will be in the online version of the journal and is currently available at http://mkounkel.com/ori3d/
Screening of oscillating external electric field in atoms
Creators: name: Dzuba, V. A.
name: Berengut, J. C.
name: Ginges, J. S. M.
name: Flambaum, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the screening of a homogeneous oscillating external electric field $E_0$ in noble-gas atoms using atomic many-body calculations. At zero frequency of the oscillations ($ω=0$) the screened field $E(r)$ vanishes at the nucleus, $E(0)=0$. However, the profile of the field $E(r)$ is complicated, with the magnitude of the field exceeding the external field $E_0$ at certain points. For $ω>0$ the field $E(r,ω)$ strongly depends on $ω$ and at some points may exceed the external field $E_0$ many times. The field at the nucleus is not totally screened and grows with $ω$ faster than $ω^2$. It can even be enhanced when $ω$ comes close to resonance with a frequency of an atomic transition. This field interacts with CP-violating nuclear electric dipole moments creating new opportunities for studying them. The screening of the external field by atomic electrons may strongly suppress (or enhance near an atomic resonance) the low energy nuclear electric dipole transitions.
description: Extended version, 5 pages, 4 Figures, 1 Table
Magnetic torques between accretion discs and stars
Creators: name: Torkelsson, Ulf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I show in this paper that two types of magnetic torques can appear in the interaction between an accretion disc and a magnetic accretor. There is the well-known torque resulting from the difference in angular velocity between the accretion disc and the star, but in addition there is a torque coming from the interaction between the stellar magnetic field and the disc's own magnetic field. The latter form of magnetic torque decreases in strength more slowly with increasing radius, and will therefore dominate at large radii. The direction of the disc field is not determined by the difference in angular velocity between the star and the disc as in the Ghosh & Lamb model, but is rather a free parameter. The magnetic torque may therefore either spin up or spin down the star, and the torque changes sign if the magnetic field in the disc reverses. I suggest that this mechanism can explain the torque reversals that have been observed in some disc-fed X-ray pulsars.
description: 5 pages, MN LaTeX-style, submitted to MNRAS
Additional file 1: of Manipulating plant RNA-silencing pathways to improve the gene editing efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9 systems
Creators: name: Yanfei Mao
name: Xiaoxuan Yang
name: Yiting Zhou
name: Zhengjing Zhang
name: Botella, Jose
name: Zhu, Jian-Kang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Figure S1. A schematics showing the sequences of the sgRNA targeting site and FP1 in GUUS reporter gene. Figure S2. Phenotypes of the pOE-p19 T2 lines in CT-#4 of mutant backgrounds. Figure S3. Segregation of pOE-p19 transgenic plants in T2 generation. Table S1. Primers used in this study. Note S. Sequences of the TBSV p19-2A, pRNAi-Cas9 cassettes, the pIUC-p19 cassettes, and the GUUS cassette. (PDF 570 kb)
The critical factors for COVID-19 vaccination uptake are perceived ‎vaccine effectiveness and the desire to protect others
Creators: name: Valinsky, Danna
name: Heymann, Anthony D.
name: Albukrek, Dov
name: Tsamir, Judith
name: Zacay, Galia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The proportion of the population vaccinated in Israel against COVID-19 in 2021 was significantly higher than that of the annual uptake rates of the influenza vaccine over time. Understanding the reasons behind the high vaccination rate may facilitate maintaining these rates if annual COVID-19 vaccination is required. Using a mixed-methods design, we characterized the individuals who were vaccinated and studied their attitudes toward vaccines and motivators for the COVID-19 vaccine. The first part was a cross-sectional study of adults aged 65 and over who were vaccinated against COVID-19. We stratified them according to their annual influenza vaccination patterns, and compared variables such as age, gender, health status, and timing of COVID-19 vaccination. The second part consisted of a questionnaire administered to a subsample of the above population, inquiring about vaccine hesitancy, motivators for vaccination, and intention to be vaccinated in the future. We found that motivating factors for COVID-19 vaccination are similar between those who regularly vaccinate against influenza and those who don’t. Internal motivators such as perceived vaccine effectiveness and the desire to protect others were stronger than external rewards or sanctions. High adherence to annual influenza vaccine recommendations was associated with earlier COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Respondents with lower adherence to influenza vaccines were more likely to demonstrate higher levels of vaccine hesitancy. These factors should be addressed in future vaccination campaigns.
Multi-parametric programming and explicit model predictive control of hybrid systems
Creators: name: Rivotti, Pedro
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: This thesis is concerned with different topics in multi-parametric programming and explicit model predictive control, with particular emphasis on hybrid systems. The main goal is to extend the applicability of these concepts to a wider range of problems of practical interest, and to propose algorithmic solutions to challenging problems such as constrained dynamic programming of hybrid linear systems and nonlinear explicit model predictive control. The concepts of multi-parametric programming and explicit model predictive control are presented in detail, and it is shown how the solution to explicit model predictive control may be efficiently computed using a combination of multi-parametric programming and dynamic programming. A novel algorithm for constrained dynamic programming of mixed-integer linear problems is proposed and illustrated with a numerical example that arises in the context of inventory scheduling. Based on the developments on constrained dynamic programming of mixed-integer linear problems, an algorithm for explicit model predictive control of hybrid systems with linear cost function is presented. This method is further extended to the design of robust explicit controllers for hybrid linear systems for the case when uncertainty is present in the model. The final part of the thesis is concerned with developments in nonlinear explicit model predictive control. By using suitable model reduction techniques, the model captures the essential nonlinear dynamics of the system, while the achieved reduction in dimensionality allows the use of nonlinear multi-parametric programming methods.
ТОШКЕНТ ШАҲРИДА ЯШОВЧИ 3 ЁШДАН 7 ЁШГАЧА БЎЛГАН БОЛАЛАРДА ЖИСМОНИЙ РИВОЖЛАНИШИНИНГ "САЛОМАТЛИК ЙЎЛАГИ"
Creators: name: Миршарапов, Уткур
name: Шерманов, Абдували
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Тадқиқотимизда Тошкент шаҳрида яшовчи мактабгача таълим муассасаларидаги 3 ёшдан 7 ёшгача бўлган болаларнинг жисмоний ривожланишини антропометрик кўрсаткичлари асосида сентил усули билан “саломатлик йўлаги”ни яратдик. Кузатилган антропометрик кўрсаткичларнинг  қиймати, агар у 25-75 сентил оралиғида бўлса, меъёрий кўрсаткич  деб баҳоланди.
Analysis of cryogenic calorimeters with light and heat read-out for double beta decay searches
Creators: name: Azzolini, O.
name: Barrera, M. T.
name: Beeman, J. W.
name: Bellini, F.
name: Beretta, M.
name: Biassoni, M.
name: Bossio, E.
name: Brofferio, C.
name: Bucci, C.
name: Canonica, L.
name: Capelli, S.
name: Cardani, L.
name: Carniti, P.
name: Casalia, N.
name: Cassina, L.
name: Clemenza, M.
name: Cremonesi, O.
name: Cruciani, A.
name: D'Addabbo, A.
name: Dafinei, I.
name: Di Domizio, S.
name: Ferroni, F.
name: Gironi, L.
name: Giuliani, A.
name: Gorla, P.
name: Gotti, C.
name: Keppel, G.
name: Martinez, M.
name: Morganti, S.
name: Nagorny, S.
name: Nastasi, M.
name: Nisi, S.
name: Nones, C.
name: Orlandi, D.
name: Pagnanini, L.
name: Pallavicini, M.
name: Palmieri, V.
name: Pattavina, L.
name: Pavan, M.
name: Pessina, G.
name: Pettinacci, V.
name: Pirro, S.
name: Pozzi, S.
name: Previtali, E.
name: Puiu, A.
name: Rusconi, C.
name: Schäffner, K.
name: Tomei, C.
name: Vignati, M.
name: Zolotarova, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The suppression of spurious events in the region of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay will play a major role in next generation experiments. The background of detectors based on the technology of cryogenic calorimeters is expected to be dominated by α particles, that could be disentangled from double beta decay signals by exploiting the difference in the emission of the scintillation light. CUPID-0, an array of enriched Zn$^{82}$Se scintillating calorimeters, is the first large mass demonstrator of this technology. The detector started data-taking in 2017 at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso with the aim of proving that dual read-out of light and heat allows for an efficient suppression of the α background. In this paper we describe the software tools we developed for the analysis of scintillating calorimeters and we demonstrate that this technology allows to reach an unprecedented background for cryogenic calorimeters.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Study of Cullum's and Willoughby's Lanczos method for Wilson fermions
Creators: name: Kalkreuter, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lanczos method of Cullum and Willoughby is studied for euclidean Wilson fermions in quenched and unquenched SU(2) gauge fields on lattices of volume ranging from $4^4$ to $16^4$. The method is reliable even on larger lattices, but its cost for the computation of a given fraction of the spectrum grows (approximately) with the square of the lattice volume. We investigate the convergence behaviour and show that it is closely linked with the local spectral density. Complete spectra are determined on lattices up to $8^3 \cdot 12$. For configurations where all eigenvalues are computed, we give numerical values for the fermionic determinants and results for spectral densities. Determinants are also given for staggered fermions whose quenched and unquenched spectra were studied in a previous publication.
description: 25 pages, uuencoded tar-compressed .ps-file
Parorchis acanthus
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
name: Gardner, Scott L.
name: Jiménez, F. Agustín
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Philophthalmidae
Parorchis
Parorchis acanthus

description: Parorchis acanthus (Nicoll, 1906) Locality: Bryan Utility Lake, Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, U.S.A., 30° 24' N latitude, 96° 13' W longitude. Site of infection: Cloaca. Deposited specimens: Voucher specimens (1 specimens) HWML 48503. Prevalence: 1of 4 birds, 25%. Mean intensity: 3 individuals/infected bird. Basic comparative description: Based on 2 adult specimens. Body oval, spinose, 3,125 (3,000 –3,250) long by 1,825 (1,745 –1,905) wide with head collar bearing a single row of spines; forebody 725 (630–820) by 1,100 (1,050 –1,150). Mouth subterminal; oral sucker 280 (240–320) by 370 (315–425); prepharynx absent; pharynx longer than wide, 200 (190–210) by 150 (125–175); esophagus 320 (295–345); ceca long, terminating near posterior extremity. Acetabulum large, 720 (695–745) by 800 (755–845). Testes side by side, deeply lobed, near posterior extremity; left testis 410 (345–475) by 350 (310–390); right testis 450 (425–475) by 320 (290–350). Genital pore immediately anterior to acetabulum near midline of body; cirrus sac relatively short, external seminal vesicle sac overreaching the acetabulum posteriorly, extending some distance into hindbody. Ovary oval to round, situated immediately anterior to intertesticular space near midline of body, 280 (245– 315) by 240 (220–260). Eggs operculate, 60 (56–68) by 31 (30–35). Excretory pore terminal. Remarks. Parorchis acanthus is a relatively common fluke found in the cloaca of aquatic birds in North America and elsewhere in the world. Although it has been raised experimentally in S. maxima by Williams (1969), this is the first report of a naturally infected royal tern.
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O., Blend, Charles K., Gardner, Scott L. & Jiménez, F. Agustín, 2007, Stictodora cablei n. sp. (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from the royal tern, Sterna maxima (Laridae: Sterninae) from Puerto Rico and the Brazos County area of the Texas Gulf coast, U. S. A., with a list of other endohelminths recovered in Texas, pp. 35-56 in Zootaxa 1432 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1432.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5077195
description: {"references": ["Williams, M. O. (1969) Cercaria Parorchis acanthi in marine mollusks from Sierra Leone with notes on survival of the cercaria and development of the metacercaria in a definitive host. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 79,265 - 272."]}
Metal oxide semiconductors employed as photocatalysts during water splitting
Creators: name: Pesci, Federico M
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Photocatalytic water splitting has attracted significant interest in recent decades as it offers a clean and environmentally friendly route for the production of hydrogen. A key challenge remains the development of systems that employ abundant, non-toxic and inexpensive materials to dissociate water efficiently using sunlight. Titanium dioxide (TiO2), tungsten trioxide (WO3) and hematite (α-Fe2O3) are among the most studied photoanodes employed during water splitting because of the position of their valence band which is suitable for oxidising water to oxygen, and their low costs. However reported efficiencies for these materials are below the reported theoretical maximum values. A good understanding of the factors that are limiting the efficiency of these photoanodes is therefore desirable if improvements in the photocatalytic activity are to be achieved. This thesis is divided in four main sections. Chapters 3 and 4 describe transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) studies in the microsecond-second timescales carried out on WO3 photoelectrodes and TiO2 nanowires respectively. TAS has been employed to follow the charge carriers dynamics in WO3 highlighting the presence of relatively long-lived holes (30 ms), which have been described as a requirement for the water oxidation reaction to take place. The electrons also appear to be long-lived (0.1 s), and this has been proposed to be due to slow electron transport through the film. TAS measurements have also been carried out on oxygen-deficient hydrogen-treated TiO2 nanowires, highlighting a more efficient suppression of the electron/hole recombination process in comparison with conventional anatase TiO2 photoanodes. Chapter 5 describes TAS and sum frequency generation (SFG) studies on TiO2 films which are designed to investigate the surface mechanisms of water oxidation. The dependence of the hole lifetime on the pH of the electrolytes employed has been examined by TAS and substantially faster decay rates have been found in highly alkaline solutions suggesting a change in the mechanism of water oxidation. Consequently, SFG has been employed in order to detect any possible intermediate at the interface TiO2/water. Initial measurements have provided the evidence of physisorbed and chemisorbed methanol (model probe) on the TiO2 surface and further studies at the TiO2/water interface have been carried out. Chapter 6 describes the development of a hybrid solar fuel reactor coupling a α-Fe2O3 based photoelecrochemical cell with luminescent solar concentrator plates. Initial tests have been carried out on a proof of principle prototype providing encouraging results.
Additional file 1 of Impact of the N501Y substitution of SARS-CoV-2 Spike on neutralizing monoclonal antibodies targeting diverse epitopes
Creators: name: Cheng, Lin
name: Song, Shuo
name: Zhou, Bing
name: Ge, Xiangyang
name: Yu, Jiazhen
name: Zhang, Mingxia
name: Ju, Bin
name: Zhang, Zheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1. Structural depiction of ACE2 (6M0J) and a representative nAb from each class binding to the RBD. Class 1: P2C-1F11, Class 2: P2B-2F6, Class 3: S309, Class 4: EY6A. Figure S2. The neutralizations of the nAb panel against the wild type and N501Y mutant SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus. The neutralizing curves were shown from two independent experiments with similar results. Figure S3. The binding affinities of the nAb panel to the wild type and N501Y mutant RBD proteins of SARS-CoV-2 by SPR. (A) The curves were shown from one out of three independent experiments. (B) The data was summarized and shown as mean ± SD (n = 3).
Mining real-world networks in systems biology and economics
Creators: name: Janjic, Vuk
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Recent advances in biotechnology have yielded an explosion of data describing biological systems, creating rich opportunities for new insights into cellular inner-workings and therapeutic discoveries. To keep up with this rapid growth and increase in data complexity, we need novel static, integrative, and dynamic methodologies to continue mining these networked systems. In this thesis we introduce new static, integrative, and dynamic computational frameworks for network analysis, and combine existing ones in new ways, to elucidate the biotechnological biases and functional principles governing molecular interactions and their implications in disease. We focus on mining new knowledge from the yeast and human interactomes, since these are currently the most complete data in biology. We perform three lines of experimental work: 1) the macro-scale study, where we model the yeast and human interactomes and show that their interactome data are growing in structurally and functionally principled ways, characterised by a non-random dual topological nature; 2) the micro-scale study, where we zoom into the specifics of wiring patterns around individual genes and uncover a unique core sub-structure within the human interactome, which contains driver genes dubbed to be the main triggers for disease onset; and 3) the data integration study, where we introduce a new computational framework for fusing multiple types of molecular interaction data and use it to construct the first unified model of the cell’s functional organisation and cross-communication lines. Similarly, a new field of systems economics has gained recent attention, with more financial and economic network data emerging at an increasing pace. Hence, we introduce a new computational methodology for tracking network dynamics and use it to quantify the micro- and macro-scale topological changes in the world trade network over the past 50 years, and to demonstrate the fundamental relationship between topological perturbations and indicators of countries’ political and economic stabilities.
Lattice Perturbation Theory
Creators: name: Morningstar, Colin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sources of uncertainties in perturbative calculations, tadpole improvement and its role in lattice perturbation theory, and six recent calculations are discussed.
description: 8 pages of LATEX (uses espcrc2.sty) and 1 uuencoded ps figure. (Plenary talk at Lattice 95, Melbourne)
Development of strain monitoring techniques for power plant component lifetime assessment
Creators: name: Narayanan, Aditya
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: This body of research is comprised of two main threads: determining the material properties of materials integral to the future of the power generation industry, and developing di erent techniques to measure creep strain for use within the laboratory as well as in an industrial setting. The research focusses primarily on the materials austenitic stainless steel 316H and nickel superalloy Inconel 617, although some experiments on ferritic steels have also been performed. Tests were performed to characterise the behaviour of Inconel Alloy 617 at 700 C, and tensile and creep properties have been determined and used in analyses. The validity and accuracy of a novel Alternating Current Potential Drop (ACPD) sensor has been evaluated for di erent materials. It has been shown to be able to detect the strain to within 1 x 10-3 of more widely used strain measurement techniques. Furthermore, it has shown promise in detecting tertiary creep initiation in advance of other methods, even under multiaxial stress states. The application of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) at elevated temperatures has been demonstrated to measure creep strain, and used to visualise the strain eld caused to elicit a better understanding of how a multiaxial stress state a ects deformation on a local level. Results for notched specimens of 316H have been compared to nite element (FE) simulations of creep using the Cocks-Ashby void growth model, with suggestions made to improve the existing model by making considerations for plastic damage.
What can neutralizing antibodies tell us about the quality of immunity in COVID-19 convalescents and vaccinees?
Creators: name: Ravlić, Sanda
name: Kurtović, Tihana
name: Krajinović, Lidija Cvetko
name: Hećimović, Ana
name: Miloš, Marija
name: Lukačević, Sanja Mateljak
name: Markotić, Alemka
name: Halassy, Beata
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the lack of standardized measurements of the immune response after vaccination or recovery from COVID-19 resulted in incomparable results and hindered correlation establishment. Prioritizing reliable and standardized methods to monitor pathogen-specific immunity is crucial, not only during the COVID-19 pandemic but also for future outbreaks. During our study of the humoral immune response, we used a SARS-CoV-2 wild-type neutralization assay, ensuring the measurement of the immune response directed to all SARS-CoV-2 antigens in their proper conformation. A head-to-head comparison of the neutralizing antibody (NAb) responses elicited by four vaccines used in Europe during 2021 (BNT162b2, mRNA-1273, ChAdOx nCoV-19, and Ad26.COV2.S) and their comparison to NAb responses in convalescents showed that while the amount was comparable, NAbs induced by natural infection were of higher quality. Namely, NAbs produced by disease were better activators of the complement system than NAbs induced by vaccination. Furthermore, the contribution of spike protein-specific IgGs to the SARS-CoV-2 neutralization was lower in convalescents compared to vaccinees, indicating that those who recovered from COVID-19 were armed with antibodies of additional specificities and/or classes that contributed to virus neutralization. These findings suggest that a higher stringency of public policy measures targeting individuals who have recovered from COVID-19, in comparison to those who have been vaccinated, may not have been fully justified.
Οπιούχα: φαρμακολογία, τοξικότητα, μεταθανάτια ανακατανομή και μέθοδοι προσδιορισμού σε βιολογικά υλικά
Creators: name: Αναστασιάδης, Γρηγόριος Παναγιώτης Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Οπιούχα
Μέθοδοι προσδιορισμού σε βιολογικά υλικά
Τοξικότητα
Opiates
Determination in biological samples
Toxicity

description: Η ακόλουθη διπλωματική εργασία αποτελεί μια ανασκόπηση της υπάρχουσας βιβλιογραφίας όσον αφορά τα οπιούχα και την επικράτηση τους σε δηλητηριάσεις θανατηφόρες ή μη σχετιζόμενες με τη χρήση ψυχοτρόπων ουσιών. Συγκεκριμένα, περιγράφονται αναλυτικά οι φαρμακολογικές δράσεις των οπιούχων στον ανθρώπινο οργανισμό. Ακόμη, γίνεται αναφορά στους οδούς χορήγησης, την απορρόφηση και την τοξικοκινητική τους. Επίσης, αναφέρονται οι μέθοδοι ανάλυσης για τον προσδιορισμό των οπιούχων στα διάφορα βιολογικά υλικά καθώς και οι τρόποι αντιμετώπισης των τοξικών τους επιδράσεων στον άνθρωπο. Τέλος, εξετάζεται η μεταθανάτια κατανομή των οπιούχων
description: The following thesis is a review of the existing literature on opioids and their prevalence in fatal and non-psychotropic poisonings. In particular, the pharmacological actions of opioids on the human body are described in detail. Furthermore, reference is made to their routes of administration, absorption and toxicokinetics. The methods of analysis for the determination of opioids in various biological materials and the ways of dealing with their toxic effects on humans are also mentioned. Finally, the post-mortem distribution of opioids is discussed
The in silico identification and analysis of ancient and recent endogenous retroviruses in mammalian genomes
Creators: name: Lee, Adam
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies have led to a vast plethora of vertebrate genomes being made available for bioinformatic analysis and investigation. This has presented retrovirologists with many new opportunities to study endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) – selfish genetic element (SGEs) endogenised within the genomic DNA of their hosts. Many of these ERVs exist as molecular fossils of past germline infections by their exogenous counterparts, representing approximately 8-10% of mammalian genomes. While the majority are thought to be inactive today, one particular retroviral group – HERV-K(HML-2) – has been implicated in recent activity. In this thesis, efficient, synergistic in silico techniques have been implemented, with which intensive, genome-wide retroviral screens were performed. This has culminated in the identification of 11 novel, insertionally polymorphic human ERVs (HERVs), belonging to the HERV-K(HML-2) lineage, in two high- coverage archaic hominid genomes. This thesis also identifies the oldest ERV described to date – orthologous across all placental mammals – estimated to have endogenised in the germline of an ancestral mammal, 128-140 million years ago. Three SGEs, found to be endogenised within this ancient ERV, have also been described and assigned a minimum age of 104 million years, making these the oldest, definitively dated SGEs. This thesis also presents a computer program for renaming all identified ERVs in vertebrate genomes, according to a newly designed nomenclature standard to be implemented globally, that aims to unambiguously catalogue all the ERVs identified, to date.
Avances en Tecnología de Seguridad Infantil
Creators: name: Menencio, Luis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461010
subject: Social and community informatics

description: Este artículo presenta los avances en la tecnología de seguridad infantil, centrándose en la "Pulsera GPS de Seguridad para Infantes". La pulsera, equipada con un GPS de alta precisión, permite a los padres monitorear la ubicación exacta de sus hijos en tiempo real a través de una aplicación móvil. Además, ofrece características innovadoras como la delimitación de zonas seguras, un diseño atractivo para los niños, un botón de emergencia y una interfaz de usuario adaptada a su comprensión. Estas características no solo mejoran la seguridad y tranquilidad de los padres, sino que también fomentan la independencia de los niños. La combinación de tecnología avanzada y accesibilidad hace de esta pulsera una herramienta eficaz para proteger a los infantes en su exploración del mundo que les rodea.
Additional file 1: of Ankyrin domain encoding genes from an ancient horizontal transfer are functionally integrated into Nasonia developmental gene regulatory networks
Creators: name: Pers, Daniel
name: Lynch, Jeremy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S1. Reference sequences and names corresponding to each novel ankyrin-repeat containing Nasonia transcripts. Table S2. CLANK ortholog candidate sequences in Melittobia. Table S3. Nasonia off-target hits from Melittobia CLANK ortholog BLAST. Table S4. Melittobia primer sequences for in situ hybridization probes. Figure S1. Phylogenetic analysis of Nasonia DV-regulated CLANK protein family. Figure S2. CLANKs lacking differential expression patterns. Figure S3. Distribution of pRNAi survival rate for each CLANK of interest. Figure S4. Relative embryonic expression of CLANK transcripts over time following pRNAi. Figure S5. Effects of reducing CLANKs on Nv-zen expression. Figure S6. Effects of reducing CLANKs on Nv-twi expression. Figure S7. Melittobia CLANK candidates lacking differential expression patterns. (PDF 11494Â kb)
Additional file 1 of Role of LncRNA score and PVT1 in primary hyperparathyroidism-- a preliminary study
Creators: name: Zhang, Dongxue
name: Wei, Bojun
name: Li, Long
name: Jiang, Tao
name: Yao, Xiaoai
name: Liu, Xin
name: Sun, Yuyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table s1 mRNAs in patients with parathyroid cancer (PC) compared with adenoma (PA) in microarray.
Thermodynamics of regular black holes with cosmic strings
Creators: name: Bayraktar, Ceren H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, the thermodynamics of regular black holes with a cosmic string passing through it is studied. We will observe that the string has no effect on the temperature as well as the relation between entropy S and horizon area A.
description: Accepted for publication in EPJ Plus, 6 pages