cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A STUDY ON THE SPEAKER RECOGNITION ALGORITHM BASED ON BAYESIAN COMPRESSED SENSING THEORY
Creators: name: Yang, Yan
name: Zhao, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: classificationCode: 350302
subject: Business information management (incl. records, knowledge and intelligence)

description: Speaker
recognition technology is widely used in the Internet and communication filed.
In recent years, compressed sensing theory attracted wide attention in and
abroad. Having broken through the limitations of the Nyquist sampling rate, it
can sampled compressible signals while compressing them at the same time.As a
new theory, compressed sensing theory was brought into the filed of speaker
recognition technology where huge breakthrough is in great demand to bring hope
to enhance the performance of speaker recognition system. Aiming at the text
independent speaker recognition technology, this paper made a profound study on
the Bayesian compressed sensing algorithm. According to the characteristics of
the sparse coefficient in the algorithm, a Gaussian prior assumption is
introduced. And then a speaker recognition algorithm based on Bayesian
compressed sensing is proposed.
Drivers of farmers' up-take of ecological approaches – a conceptual framework with a behavioural focus
Creators: name: Hansson, Helena
name: Thompson, Bethan
name: Manevska-Tasevska, Gordana
name: Toma, Luiza
name: Leduc, Gaelle
name: Vranken, Liesbet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This deliverable D2.1 of the LIFT project presents the conceptual framework on farmers’ up-take of ecological approaches across the supply chain. The framework combines behavioural theories on individual decision-making with drivers and methodological considerations related to economic decision-making. Furthermore, deliverable D2.1 presents a systematic map of previous literature related to farmers’ up-take of ecological approaches. The purpose of D2.1 is to guide data collection through the LIFT survey to farmers and interview studies in WP (workpackage) 2 of LIFT. The theoretical part of the framework departs from the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) for understanding individual decision-making, extended by integrating the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Furthermore, the framework distinguishes between endogenous, as well as exogenous factors such as: (i) motivational factors; (ii) farmers’ self-identity; (iii) farm characteristics; (iv) supply-chain characteristics; (v) institutional conditions (including policy framework); and (vi) consumers’ preferences and demands. Factors serve to identify the main drivers of farmers’ up-take of ecological approaches, and to enable comparison of different dimensions of up-take across territories. The decision to implement the up-take of ecological approaches is approached across four different dimensions, according to their: (i) timing; (ii) intensity/extensity; (iii) size of change, and (iv) type of practices adopted. These dimensions are important since the factors that affect the decision to adopt have been found to differ across them. The deliverable continues by presenting a systematic map of previous literature related to farmers’ up-take of ecological approaches. Two methodological approaches for understanding the drivers of farmers’ up-take of ecological approaches are suggested: psychometric methodology and qualitative interviews, using the means-end chain and laddering approach. The deliverable ends by concluding on implications for the LIFT farmers’ survey.
What is data science? A closer look at science's latest priority dispute
Creators: name: Auerbach, Jonathan
name: Kepplinger, David
name: Rios, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Real World Data Science
Year: 2024

description: Is data science a new and exciting set of skills, necessary for analyzing 21st century data? Or is it (as some have claimed) a rebranding of statistics, which has carefully developed time-honored methods for data analysis over the past century? Two popular data science algorithms — naïve Bayes and eigen centrality — are used to examine the difference between data scientists, statisticians, and other occupations. Published online at https://realworlddatascience.net/ideas/posts/2024/02/19/what-is-data-science.html
Oral history interview with Melvyn Douglas, 1958
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Actors
Motion picture industry

description: Arrival in Hollywood, 1931; motion picture acting vs. stage acting; commercialism, censorship, blacklisting in Hollywood; Hollywood Democratic Committee, Anti-Nazi Committee; impressions of Greta Garbo, Ernst Lubitsch. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
A Generalization of the Bargmann-Fock Representation to Supersymmetry by Holomorphic Differential Geometry
Creators: name: Thienel, Hans-Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Bargmann-Fock representation the coordinates $z^i$ act as bosonic creation operators while the partial derivatives $\partial_{z^j}$ act as annihilation operators on holomorphic $0$-forms as states of a $D$-dimensional bosonic oscillator. Considering also $p$-forms and further geometrical objects as the exterior derivative and Lie derivatives on a holomorphic ${\bf C}^D$, we end up with an analogous representation for the $D$-dimensional supersymmetric oscillator. In particular, the supersymmetry multiplet structure of the Hilbert space corresponds to the cohomology of the exterior derivative. In addition, a 1-complex parameter group emerges naturally and contains both time evolution and a homotopy related to cohomology. Emphasis is on calculus.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX
Stationary Solutions from the Large D Membrane Paradigm
Creators: name: Mandlik, Mangesh
name: Thakur, Somyadip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been shown that the dynamics of black holes in large number of dimensions D can be recast as the dynamics of a probe membrane propagating in the background spacetime which solves Einstein equations without matter. The equations of motion of this membrane are simply the statement of conservation of the stress tensor and charge current defined on this membrane. In this paper we obtain the effective equations of motion for stationary membranes in any empty background both in presence and absence of charge. It turns out that the thermodynamic quantities associated with the stationary membranes that satisfy these effective equations also satisfy the first law of black hole thermodynamics. These stationary membrane equations have some interesting solutions such as charged rotating black holes in flat and AdS backgrounds as well as black ring solutions in large D.
description: 48 pages(9 pages appendix), 5 figures, 2 tables, includes additional references
SpyCEP interferes with the neutrophil response against Group A Streptococcus
Creators: name: Lawrenson, Richard
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: This study examined how SpyCEP impaired the neutrophil response to Group A Streptococcus (GAS). It was known prior to this study that SpyCEP cleaved some of the neutrophil specific chemokines (Kurupati, et al. 2010, Zinkernagel, et al. 2008). These chemokines are known to have a variety of effects on neutrophil function, and the impact of SpyCEP on two specific effects, neutrophil homing to infection foci and NETosis, has been reported (Edwards, et al. 2005, Zinkernagel, et al. 2008). This study identified that the substrate range of SpyCEP included all known neutrophil specific chemokines. No other substrates were found. Furthermore, the relative cleavage rate of these chemokines by SpyCEP was determined, with the most potent, CXCL8, being the optimum substrate (Mukaida, et al. 1998). It was hypothesised that other effects of chemokines on neutrophils, not just neutrophil homing and NETosis, would also be ablated. Neutrophil release from the bone marrow stores is potentiated by chemokines. It was found that neutrophil release from the bone marrow was lower when mice were infected with SpyCEP-positive compared to SpyCEP-negative bacteria. Furthermore, lower levels of circulating chemokines were also found in mice infected with SpyCEP-positive GAS. Chemokines also play a role in the activation of neutrophils, and the upregulation of receptors involved in this process (Detmers, et al. 1990). This study identified that neutrophil phagocytosis of SpyCEP-positive bacteria was impaired compared to SpyCEP-negative bacteria. The neutrophils incubated with SpyCEP-positive bacteria were found to have less chemokine at their surface, and lower surface expression of a phagocytosis receptor, CR3. This receptor is known to be important for GAS phagocytosis (DeMaster, et al. 2002) providing a mechanism for this effect. This work has found several novel effects of SpyCEP on neutrophil function. These impairments take place throughout the neutrophil response to GAS infection.
Optimization based control of nonlinear constrained systems
Creators: name: Boccia, Andrea
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: This thesis is in the field of Optimal Control. It addresses research questions concerning both the properties of optimal controls and also schemes for control system stabilization based on the solution of optimal control problems. The first part is concerned with the derivation of necessary conditions of optimality for two classes of optimal control problems not covered by earlier theory. The first is the class of optimal control problems with a combination of mixed control-state constraints and pure state constraints in which the dynamics are described by a differential inclusion under weaker hypotheses than have previously been considered. The second is the class of optimal control problems in which the dynamics take the form of a non-smooth differential equation with delays, and where the end-time is included in the decision variables. We shall demonstrate that these new optimality conditions lead to algorithms for solution of certain optimal control problems not amenable to earlier theory. Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an approach to control system design based on solving, at each control update time, an optimal control problem. This is the subject matter of the second part of the thesis. We derive new MPC algorithms for constrained linear and nonlinear systems which, in certain significant respect, are simpler to implement than standard schemes, and which achieve performance specification under more general conditions than has previously been demonstrated. These include stability and feasibility.
Phalaena leporina Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Phalaena
Phalaena leporina

description: Phalaena leporina [spec. nov.]
P. Noctua seticornis laevis, alis deflexis albis: punctis nigris ramosis.
De Geer. ins. 1. t. 12. f. 10, 11, 17.
Habitat in Alno, Salice.
Similis Ph. lubricipedae, sed alae paucioribus punctis adspersae & corpus album, nec flavum, nec Abdomen nigro punctatum.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on pages 510-511, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Logarithmic operators in the SL(2,R) WZNW model
Creators: name: Nichols, A.
name: Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find some exact solutions of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation for the four point correlation functions that occur in the SL(2,R) WZNW model. They exhibit logarithmic behaviour in both the Kac-Moody and Virasoro parts. We discuss their implication for the operator product expansion. We also observe the appearance of several symmetries of the correlation functions.
description: 23 pages, LATEX, Revised Version. More references added
Phalaena trapezina Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Phalaena
Phalaena trapezina

description: Phalaena trapezina [spec. nov.]
P. Noctua spirilinguis laevis, alis depressis pallidis fascia latissima saturatiore puncto nigro margineque punctato.
Mer. europ. t. 11.
Habitat in Europa.
Alarum fascia trapeziformis est cum puncto nigro in medio; margo posticus supra punctorum nigrorum serie notatus.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 510, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Analysis of azimuthal phase mask coronagraphs
Creators: name: Henault, Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper is presented an analytical study of the azimuthal phase-mask coronagraph currently envisioned for detecting and characterizing extra-solar planets. Special emphasis is put on the physical and geometrical interpretation of the mathematical development. Two necessary conditions are defined for achieving full extinction in the pupil plane of the coronagraph, stating that the complex amplitude generated by the phase mask should have zero average, on the one hand, and its Fourier coefficients should only be even, on the other hand. Examples of such phase functions are reviewed, including optical vortices, four-quadrant phase masks, and azimuthal cosine phase functions. Hints for building more sophisticated functions are also given. Finally, a simplified expression of light leaks due to mask imperfection is proposed
Young Galactic Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Bergh, Sidney van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nine presently known "young" Galactic globular clusters, which have ages / 3 Gyr smaller than the oldest clusters of similar metallicity, all have RGC > 15 kpc. Furthermore these young globulars are found to have below-average luminosities. These results suggest that (1) globular cluster formation extended over a considerable period of time in the outermost part of the Galactic halo, and (2) that typical luminosities (masses) of such outer halo clusters decreased with time.
description: 3 pages, HTML file + one figure
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IX, Cart. 193 (11 H 78), f. 0033r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IX, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 193 (11 H 78), f. 0033r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IX, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 193 (11 H 78), f. 0033r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
Investigations into elasticity in cloud computing
Creators: name: Han, Rui
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: The pay-as-you-go model supported by existing cloud infrastructure providers is appealing to most application service providers to deliver their applications in the cloud. Within this context, elasticity of applications has become one of the most important features in cloud computing. This elasticity enables real-time acquisition/release of compute resources to meet application performance demands. In this thesis we investigate the problem of delivering cost-effective elasticity services for cloud applications. Traditionally, the application level elasticity addresses the question of how to scale applications up and down to meet their performance requirements, but does not adequately address issues relating to minimising the costs of using the service. With this current limitation in mind, we propose a scaling approach that makes use of cost-aware criteria to detect the bottlenecks within multi-tier cloud applications, and scale these applications only at bottleneck tiers to reduce the costs incurred by consuming cloud infrastructure resources. Our approach is generic for a wide class of multi-tier applications, and we demonstrate its effectiveness by studying the behaviour of an example electronic commerce site application. Furthermore, we consider the characteristics of the algorithm for implementing the business logic of cloud applications, and investigate the elasticity at the algorithm level: when dealing with large-scale data under resource and time constraints, the algorithm’s output should be elastic with respect to the resource consumed. We propose a novel framework to guide the development of elastic algorithms that adapt to the available budget while guaranteeing the quality of output result, e.g. prediction accuracy for classification tasks, improves monotonically with the used budget. We demonstrate the application of the framework by developing two elastic data mining algorithms as examples. Experimental evaluations have been performed using prediction accuracy as the quality measure on real datasets. The results show that both algorithms indeed exhibit consistent increase in quality.
Phonon Boost Effect on the $S^{\pm}$-wave Superconductor with Incipient Band
Creators: name: Bang, Yunkyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We showed that the all phonons -- not only forward-scattering phonon but also local (all-momentum-scattering) phonon -- contribute to boosting $T_c$ of the $s^{\pm}$-wave pairing state in the incipient band model. In particular, when the incipient band sinks deeper, the phonon boost effect of the local phonon increases and becomes as effective as the one of the forward-scattering phonon. Our finding implies that all interface phonons -- not only the 90 $meV$ Fuchs-Kliewer (F-K) phonon but also the 60 $meV$ F-K phonon -- from the SrTiO$_3$ substrate and all intrinsic phonons of the FeSe monolayer itself should contribute to increase $T_c$ of the FeSe/STO monolayer system.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
BigDataStack - D6.1 Use case description and implementation
Creators: name: Megliola, Maurizio
name: Plitsos, Stathis
name: Rousia, Konstantina
name: Bernat Quesada Navidad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: BigDataStack delivers a complete high-performance stack of technologies addressing the needs of data operations and applications.
Synthetic photometry of globular clusters: Uncertainties on synthetic colors
Creators: name: Martins, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synthetic photometry is a great tool for studying globular clusters, especially for understanding the nature of their multiple populations. Our goal is to quantify the errors on synthetic photometry that are caused by uncertainties on stellar and observational/calibration parameters. These errors can be taken into account when building synthetic color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) that are to be compared to observed CMDs. We have computed atmosphere models and synthetic spectra for two stars, Pollux and Procyon, that have stellar parameters typical of turn-off and bottom red giant branch stars in globular clusters. We then varied the effective temperature, surface gravity, microturbulence, the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen abundances, and [Fe/H]. We quantified the effect on synthetic photometry in the following filters: Johnson UBVRI and HST F275W, F336W, F410M, F438W, F555W, F606W, and F814W. We estimated the effects of extinction, atmospheric correction, and of the Vega reference spectrum on the resulting photometry. We tested the ability of our models to reproduce the observed spectral energy distribution and observed photometry of the two stars. We show that variations are generally stronger in blue filters. Dispersions on synthetic colors due to uncertainties on stellar parameters vary between less than 0.01 and to 0.04 magnitude, depending on the choice of filters. Uncertainties on the zero points, the extinction law, or the atmospheric correction affect the resulting colors at a level of a few 0.01 magnitudes in a systematic way. The models reproduce the flux-calibrated spectral energy distribution of both stars well. Comparison between synthetic and observed UBVRI photometry shows a variable degree of (dis)agreement. The observed differences likely indicate that different calibration processes are performed to obtain respectively observed and synthetic photometry.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures. Accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0097r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0097r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0097r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Scattering of relativistic particles with Aharonov-Bohm-Coulomb interaction in two dimensions
Creators: name: Lin, Qiong-gui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Aharonov-Bohm-Coulomb potentials in two dimensions may describe the interaction between two particles carrying electric charge and magnetic flux, say, Chern--Simons solitons, or so called anyons. The scattering problem for such two-body systems is extended to the relativistic case, and the scattering amplitude is obtained as a partial wave series. The electric charge and magnetic flux is ($-q$, $-ϕ/Z$) for one particle and ($Zq$, $ϕ$) for the other. When $(Zq^2/\hbar c)^2\ll 1$, and $qϕ/2π\hbar c$ takes on integer or half integer values, the partial wave series is summed up approximately to give a closed form. The results exhibit some nonperturbative features and cannot be obtained from perturbative quantum electrodynamics at the tree level.
description: revtex, 11 pages, no figure
THE GEOMETRY OF THE INFRARED AND X-RAY OBSCURER IN A DUSTY HYPERLUMINOUS QUASAR
Creators: name: Farrah, Duncan
name: BalokoviĆ, Mislav
name: Stern, Daniel
name: Harris, Kathryn
name: Paine, Jennie
name: Et Al
Publisher: name: AAS
Year: 2016

description: Duncan Farrah, Mislav BalokoviĆ, Daniel Stern, Kathryn Harris, Michelle Kunimoto, Dominic J. Walton, David M. Alexander, Patricia Arévalo, David R. Ballantyne, Franz E. Bauer, Steven Boggs, William N. Brandt, Murray Brightman, Finn Christensen, David L. Clements, William Craig, Andrew Fabian, Charles Hailey, Fiona Harrison, Michael Koss, George B. Lansbury, Bin Luo, Jennie Paine, Sara Petty, Kate Pitchford, Claudio Ricci, William Zhan
description: We study the geometry of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) obscurer in IRAS 09104+4109, an IR-luminous, radio-intermediate FR-I source at z = 0.442, using infrared data from Spitzer and Herschel, X-ray data from NuSTAR, Swift, Suzaku, and Chandra, and an optical spectrum from Palomar. The infrared data imply a total rest-frame 1–1000 μm luminosity of 5.5 × 10⁴⁶ erg s⁻¹ and require both an AGN torus and a starburst model. The AGN torus has an anisotropy-corrected IR luminosity of 4.9 × 10⁴⁶ erg s⁻¹ and a viewing angle and half-opening angle both of approximately 36° from pole-on. The starburst has a star formation rate of (110 ± 34) M⊙ yr⁻¹ and an age of <50 Myr. These results are consistent with two epochs of luminous activity in IRAS 09104+4109: one approximately 150 Myr ago, and one ongoing. The X-ray data suggest a photon index of Γ ≃ 1.8 and a line-of-sight column density of Nₕ ≃ 5 × 10²³ cm⁻². This argues against a reflection-dominated hard X-ray spectrum, which would have implied a much higher Nₕ and luminosity. The X-ray and infrared data are consistent with a bolometric AGN luminosity of L₆ₒₗ ∼ (0.5–2.5) × 10⁴⁷ erg s⁻¹. The X-ray and infrared data are further consistent with coaligned AGN obscurers in which the line of sight "skims" the torus. This is also consistent with the optical spectra, which show both coronal iron lines and broad lines in polarized but not direct light. Combining constraints from the X-ray, optical, and infrared data suggest that the AGN obscurer is within a vertical height of 20 pc, and a radius of 125 pc, of the nucleus.
Relation between Worldline Green Functions for Scalar Two-Loop Diagrams
Creators: name: Sato, H-T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a relation between two-loop bosonic worldline Green functions which are obtained by Schmidt and Schubert in two different parametrizations of a two-loop worldline. These Green functions are transformed into each other by some transformation rules based on reparametrizations of the proper time and worldline modular parameters.
description: 9 pages, Latex, one reference added, few minor corrections made, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Metabonomic investigations of the mammalian host-gut microbiome interactions in obesity and metabolic diseases
Creators: name: Boulange, Claire
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Obesity is known to contribute to the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus, non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases, cancer, osteoarthritis and cardiovascular diseases. Obesity results from an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure but its aetiology is complex and not completely understood. Genetic and environmental factors, (high calorie diet, lack of physical activity) strongly influence the onset of obesity and metabolic diseases. Modifications of gut microbial–host metabolic interactions by dietary interventions also contribute to obesity and are associated with metabolic disturbances. Noticeably, some obese individuals seem protected from the development of metabolic diseases which highlight individual predispositions to obesity associated metabolic disturbances. It is therefore important to underpin the molecular mechanisms linked to obesity and the role of gut microbiota in the degradation of a healthy phenotype in an appropriate biological model. 1H nuclear magnetic spectroscopy and mass spectrometry analysis were employed to measure the abundant metabolites in C57BL/6 mouse urine, feces, and plasma. Metabolic profiles of mice subjected to dietary interventions were compared using multivariate statistics. Alterations of gut microbial ecosystem by dietary interventions were also assessed by 16s rRNA pyrosequencing of mouse fecal microbiota. When given a high fat diet, the obesity prone and obesity resistant mice showed differences in leucine catabolism and tricarboxylic cycle. This may indicate specific regulations of mitochondrial oxidative pathways during diet induced obesity (DIO), influencing obesity development and metabolic disturbances. Possible roles of gut microbiota in the regulation of mitochondrial oxidative pathways were also envisaged. Gut microbial remodelling by the supplementation of different prebiotic blends (galactosyl-oligosaccharides, fructosyl-oligosaccharides and inulin or galactosyl-oligosaccharides and cow milk oligosaccharides) during a high fat challenge also decreased obesity and low grade inflammation and affect mouse metabolism. Decreased gut bacterial amino acids fermentation by prebiotic supplementation may contribute to the improvement of mouse physiology during DIO.
Screening criteria of mRNA indicators for wound age estimation
Creators: name: Du, Qiuxiang
name: Dong, Tana
name: Liu, Yuanxin
name: Zhu, Xiyan
name: Li, Na
name: Dang, Lihong
name: Cao, Jie
name: Jin, Qianqian
name: Sun, Junhong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Wound age estimation is a crucial and challenging problem in forensic pathology. Although mRNA is the most commonly used indicator for wound age estimation, screening criteria are lacking. In the present study, the feasibility of screening criteria using mRNA to determine injury time based on the adenylate-uridylate-rich element (ARE) structure and gene ontology (GO) categories were evaluated. A total of 78 Sprague-Dawley male rats were contused and sampled at 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, and 48 h after inflicting injury. The candidate mRNAs were classified based on with or without ARE structure and GO category function. The mRNA expression levels were detected using qRT-PCR. In addition, the standard deviation (STD), mean deviation (MD), relative average deviation (d%), and coefficient of variation (CV) were calculated based on mRNA expression levels. The CV score (CVs) and the CV of CV (CV’CV) were calculated to measure heterogeneity. Finally, based on classic principles, the accuracy of combination of candidate mRNAs was assessed using discriminant analysis to construct a multivariate model for inferring wound age. The results of homogeneity evaluation of each group based on CVs were consistent with the MD, STD, d%, and CV results, indicating the credibility of the evaluation results based on CVs. The candidate mRNAs without ARE structure and classified as cellular component (CC) GO category (ARE–CC) had the highest CVs, showing the mRNAs with these characteristics are the most homogenous mRNAs and best suited for wound age estimation. The highest accuracy was 91.0% when the mRNAs without ARE structure were used to infer the wound age based on the discrimination model. The accuracy of mRNAs classified into CC or multiple function (MF) GO category was higher than mRNAs in the biological process (BP) category. In all subgroups, the accuracy of the composite identification model of mRNA composition without ARE structure and classified as CC was higher than other subgroups. The mRNAs without ARE structure and belonging to the CC GO category were more homogenous, showed higher accuracy for estimating wound age, and were appropriate for rat skeletal muscle wound age estimation. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/20961790.2021.1986770 .
Understanding and designing pleasant experiences with products
Creators: name: Ortiz Nicolas, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: This thesis reports an investigation to develop new understanding of pleasant experiences resulting from human-product interaction, which is then used to inform the development of a process and tools to support designers. The key argument of this research is that pleasant experiences can be designed. The thesis starts by providing a foundation of user experience. A new framework of user experience is proposed based on the analysis and synthesis of previous literature (Chapter 1). The interest then shifts from user experience to characterising pleasant experiences. Four empirical studies are presented focusing on aspects such as experiences with great products and the role of positive emotions in those experiences. The first study, investigating how users experience great products, identifies and characterises pragmatic and significant experiences (Chapter 2). Great products were studied as people understood and experienced them. In the second study, a set of twenty-five positive emotions are ranked by users and designers to understand what emotions they prefer to experience and elicit through their designs (Chapter 3). Highly-preferred emotions by users were: satisfaction, inspiration, confidence, joy, amusement and relaxed. Highly-preferred emotions by designers were: curiosity, joy, surprise, confidence, inspiration, fascination, satisfaction, and pride. In the third study, the twenty-five positive emotions are researched to understand their differences in pleasantness and arousal (Chapter 4). Three levels of arousal and pleasantness of emotions were identified and these are: exciting, neutral and calm emotions, and pleasant, quite pleasant, and very pleasant emotions. In the fourth study, anticipation, confidence, inspiration, and sympathy are investigated in depth to create rich profiles of the emotions (Chapter 5). The profiles focus on the triggers, appraisal structures, thought-action tendencies, and thematic appraisals of the emotions. Building on the understanding of pleasant experiences emerged from the re- search above, the thesis then presents evaluative research. In the fifth study, a design process and tools to support designers in the elicitation of pleasant experiences are proposed and tested. The process shows how emotional profiles can be used by designers as a means to create pleasant experiences through emotions (Chapter 6).
Integrated information in the thermodynamic limit
Creators: name: Aguilera, Miguel
name: Di Paolo, Ezequiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The capacity to integrate information is a prominent feature of biological and cognitive systems. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) provides a mathematical approach to quantify the level of integration in a system, yet its computational cost generally precludes its applications beyond relatively small models. In consequence, it is not yet well understood how integration scales up with the size of a system or with different temporal scales of activity, nor how a system maintains its integration as its interacts with its environment. Here, we show for the first time how measures of information integration scale when systems become very large. Using kinetic Ising models and mean-field approximations from statistical mechanics, we show that information integration diverges in the thermodynamic limit at certain critical points. Moreover, by comparing different divergent tendencies of blocks of a system at these critical points, we delimit the boundary between an integrated unit and its environment. Finally, we present a model that adaptively maintains its integration despite changes in its environment by generating a critical surface where its integrity is preserved. We argue that the exploration of integrated information for these limit cases helps in addressing a variety of poorly understood questions about the organization of biological, neural, and cognitive systems.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1805.00393
Tailored pore structure of ZIF-8/chitosan-derived carbonaceous adsorbent by introducing mesoporous silica nanoparticles for superior CO2 uptake
Creators: name: Yin, Li
name: Li, Dongfeng
name: Li, Shun
name: Gai, Fangyuan
name: Zhang, Tiexin
name: Liu, Yunling
name: Zhao, Xiaogang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Pharmacology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: The shaped hierarchical porous carbon derived from ZIF-8, MSNs (mesoporous silica nanoparticles) and CS (chitosan) has been prepared by in situ assembly and post-annealing process. By tunning carbonization temperatures (from 450 to 650 °C), a series of CS/ZIF-8/MSNs carbonaceous millimetre-sized spheres with honeycomb internal structures and hierarchical pores have been developed for CO2 uptake. CS/ZIF-8/MSNs-525 (the sample treated at 525 °C) exhibited a higher CO2 capacity (1.32 mmol/g, 1 atm) than that of other samples due to its appropriate mesopores (∼11 nm), micropores (∼0.73 nm) and BET surface area (∼459.2 m2g−1). The XRD pattern of CS/ZIF-8/MSNs-525 suggested that MSNs would not affect sample structure, which performed largely maintained ZIF-8 diffraction. The SEM/EDS image of CS/ZIF-8/MSNs-525 showed that MSNs (∼50 nm) has been well decorated onto the surface of ZIF-8 by in situ assembly and carbonization, thus indicating a hierarchical structure formed. In addition, the TG-MS technology has been also utilized to clarify that MSNs assembly would not affect the carbonization process during the formation of CS/ZIF-8/MSNs-525. Moreover, the addition of MSNs facilitated a proper pore structure and higher CO2 capacity of CS/ZIF-8/MSNs-525 compared with that of CS/ZIF-8 carbon spheres (0.9 mmol/g, 1 atm). Particularly, the CS/ZIF-8/MSNs-525 exhibited excellent stability and recyclable performance after CO2 adsorption in 10 adsorption-desorption cycles. This MSNs assembly strategy could induce a simple way for obtaining novel shaped carbonaceous adsorbent for superior CO2 uptake in industrial fields.
Phalaena maura Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Phalaena
Phalaena maura

description: Phalaena maura [spec. nov.]
P. Noctua spirilinguis cristata, alis depressis dentatis: fasciis duabus nigris; inferioribus nigris fascia alba.
Habitat in Mauritania. E. Brander.
Alae postice dentatae; superiores luridae, fasciatae.
Alae inferiores & superiores subtus fascia transversa angusta pallida; praeterea margo posticus subtus fascia albida.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 512, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
The Gaia–WISE Extragalactic Astrometric Catalog
Creators: name: Paine, Jennie
name: Darling, Jeremy
name: Truebenbach, Alexandra
Publisher: name: AAS
Year: 2018

description: The Gaia mission has detected a large number of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and galaxies, but these objects must be identified among the thousandfold more numerous stars. Extant astrometric AGN catalogs do not have the uniform sky coverage required to detect and characterize the all-sky, low-multipole proper motion signals produced by the barycenter motion, gravitational waves, and cosmological effects. To remedy this, we present an all-sky sample of 567,721 AGNs in Gaia Data Release 1, selected using WISE two-color criteria. The catalog has fairly uniform sky coverage beyond the Galactic plane, with a mean density of 12.8 AGNs per square degree. The objects have magnitudes ranging from G = 8.8 down to Gaia's magnitude limit, G = 20.7. The catalog is approximately 50% complete but suffers from low stellar contamination, roughly 0.2%. We predict that the end-of-mission Gaia proper motions for this catalog will enable detection of the secular aberration drift to high significance (23σ) and will place an upper limit on the anisotropy of the Hubble expansion of about 2%.
Additional file 2: of The rare orange-red colored Euphorbia pulcherrima cultivar ‘Harvest Orange’ shows a nonsense mutation in a flavonoid 3’-hydroxylase allele expressed in the bracts
Creators: name: Nitarska, Daria
name: Stefanini, Carmen
name: Haselmair-Gosch, Christian
name: Miosic, Silvija
name: Walliser, Benjamin
name: Mikulic-Petkovsek, Maja
name: Regos, Ionela
name: Slatnar, Ana
name: Debener, Thomas
name: Diro Terefe-Ayana
name: Vilperte, Vinicius
name: Hadersdorfer, Johannes
name: Stich, Karl
name: Halbwirth, Heidi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S2. Identification of anthocyanins in poinsettia flowers by using their HPLC–DAD, LC–MS and LC–MS/MS data in the positive ion mode. (DOCX 16 kb)
Uncovering Disease Associations via Integration of Biological Networks
Creators: name: Sun, Kai
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Current understanding of how diseases are associated with each other is mainly based on the similarity of clinical phenotypes. However, without considering the underlying biological mechanisms of diseases, such knowledge is limited and can even be misleading. With a growing body of transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic and genomic data describing diseases, we proposed to gain insights into diseases and their relationships in the light of large-scale biological data. We modelled these data as networks of inter-connected elements, and developed computational methods for their analysis. We exploited systematic measures based on graphlets to uncover biological knowledge from network topology. Since recently some doubt had arisen concerning the applicability of graphlet-based measures to low edge density networks, we first evaluated the use of graphlet-based measures and demonstrated their suitability for biological network comparison. We also validated the use of graphlet-based measures for finding well-fitting random models for protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks, and demonstrated that five viral PPI networks are well fit by several theoretical models not previously tested. To gain novel insights into diseases and their relationships, we integrated different types of biological data and developed computational approaches to compare diseases based on their underlying mechanisms. We applied several similarity measures including standard methods and two novel network-based measures to estimate disease association scores. We showed that disease associations predicted by our measures are correlated with associations derived from standard disease classification systems, comorbidity data, genome-wide association studies and literature co-occurrence data significantly higher than expected at random, demonstrating the ability of our measures to recover known disease associations. Furthermore, we presented case studies to validate the use of our measures in identifying previously undiscovered disease associations. We believe novel associations uncovered in our studies can enhance our knowledge of disease relationships, and may further lead to improvements in disease diagnosis and treatment.
D3.5 Role Model Regeneration Enhancement Report
Creators: name: Lopez, Javier
name: Elisa Conticelli,
name: Claudia De Luca,
name: Angela Santangelo,
name: Simona Tondelli,
name: Elisabet Åberg, I
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The RURITAGE Role Models represent thirteen tremendously diverse rural areas across Europe and beyond. By working on the 6 identified Systemic Innovation Areas (SIAs) – Pilgrimage, Local Food, Migration, Art&Festival, Resilience, Landscape – Role Models (RMs) have been selected as good practices in heritage-led rural regeneration and have been studied in WP1 to extract the so called ‘Role Model Actions’ (Del 1.1) and ‘Lessons Learned’ (Del 1.2). While the knowledge generated has been used by Replicators in the development of their own heritage-led regeneration strategies (Del 3.4) and is now in the phase of being summarized in the RURITAGE Decision Support System and Replication Toolbox in WP5, from M24 Role Models have been working on the codevelopment of their enhancement plans. The assumption behind this work is that sustainable growth isn’t a final state but a process, and represents a continuous tension towards the further regeneration of the local territories. As Replicators, RMs established their RHH at the beginning of the project identifying a physical place and working on reinforcing the local community of stakeholders active of heritage-led regeneration (Del 3.1). This work started with the implementation of the so-called practices repository that have been implemented within WP1 and have been by RMs to discuss and validate the practices that have been identified in their territories in Task 1.1. The establishment of Rural Heritage Hub in RMs facilitated the discussion with their stakeholders that, thanks to the multilevel and multidirectional knowledge exchange implemented in WP2, and using the RURITAGE workshop (Task 2.1) and tools(WP5), have been asked to work on the reinforcement of their heritage-led strategies, towards the enhancement of their own model actions and SIAs or through the development of new actions, touching upon other SIAs. From the beginning of the project, RMs have had the possibility of fostering the knowledge on their own territory and learning from the knowledge of the other RURITAGE partners. The Enhancement plans have been co-developed by RMs together with their stakeholders from M24 (May 2020) to M36 (May 2021). The co-development phase foresaw the implementation of various workshops within the RHHs following a simplified version of the process described in the Community-based Heritage Management and Planning (CHMP) (Del 2.1). During the co-development phase, RMs are benefitting from other RMs, Rs and KFPs knowledge through the learning and mentoring visits (WP2), the Digital Rural Heritage Hub (WP2), the RURITAGE webinars (WP2) and through the Systemic Innovation Board and other project meetings (WP8).