cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identifying Interaction Segments between Two Cytoskeletal Proteins via Firth Logistic Regression
Creators: name: Xue, Zeyun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Microtubules (MTs) are cytoskeletal polymers responsible for multiple cytoplasmic activities, such as enabling intracellular transport, stabilizing the cell’s shape, and forming mitotic spindles to separate chromosomes during mitosis. MT-associated proteins (MAPs) localize to the MT where they modulate MT dynamics through molecular and structural changes to the MT. One protein family of MAPs, Protein A, accelerates MT assembly and promotes MT growth. Protein A is consisted of multiple domains that share similar structures. We hypothesized that the C-terminal domain of Protein A (termed Protein A-1) also contains a region with similar structures of the other known domains. Previous studies have also shown that Protein B, a MT plus end tracking protein, localizes to the MT plus end via its C terminal. Thus, we hypothesized that the N-terminal region of Protein B interacts with Protein A-1. Using Firth logistic regression, we found that the N terminal of Protein B interacts with Protein A-1. Protein B 1-49 is the shortest Protein B construct that interacts with Protein A-1 with similar strength as the N terminal of Protein B.
Quasinormal frequencies of self-dual black holes
Creators: name: Santos, Victor
name: Maluf, R. V.
name: Almeida, C. A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One simplified black hole model constructed from a semiclassical analysis of loop quantum gravity (LQG) is called self-dual black hole. This black hole solution depends on a free dimensionless parameter P known as the polymeric parameter and also on the $a_{0}$ area related to the minimum area gap of LQG. In the limit of P and $a_{0}$ going to zero, the usual Schwarzschild-solution is recovered. Here we investigate the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of massless scalar perturbations in the self-dual black hole background. We compute the QN frequencies using the sixth order WKB approximation method and compare them with numerical solutions of the Regge-Wheeler equation. Our results show that as the parameter P grows, the real part of the QN frequencies suffers an initial increase and then starts to decrease while the magnitude of the imaginary one decreases for fixed area gap $a_{0}$. This particular feature means that the damping of scalar perturbations in the self-dual black hole spacetimes are slower, and their oscillations are faster or slower according to the value of P.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures. Some improvements with respect to the previous version. Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Euthanasia, one’s final human right? : the case of euthanasia for children
Creators: name: Heirwegh, Tess
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: children
Convention on the Rights of the Child
euthanasia
Belgium
The Netherlands
human rights

description: Second semester University: Uppsala University
description: This thesis deals with the case of euthanasia for children. In the context of my research, euthanasia refers to the situation in which a physician ends the life (euthanasia in the strict sense) or helps ending the life without undertaking the lethal action (physician-assisted suicide) of a person who is suffering in an unbearable way, whether physically or mentally due to an accident or disease, without prospect of improvement, at the latter’s explicit request. First, this thesis uncovers possible signs indicating that the existence of a human right to euthanasia could be derived on the ground of other rights. Hereby, I focus on the human rights systems as established at the level of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. I argue that there are clear indications towards acceptance of a right to passive euthanasia. Also for active euthanasia, I detect some interesting grounds and developments. However, the latter still remains very controversial in the eyes of human rights courts and bodies. Therefore, it seems highly unlikely that a human right to active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide will be established soon. Answering whether a universal human right to euthanasia would be desirable, I argue that the worldwide insufficient access to health care is an important obstacle. Furthermore, this thesis deals with the question how a possible human right to euthanasia would apply to minors. I argue that totally excluding minors from the scope of this law is a violation of the principle of non-discrimination. Nevertheless, as children are a vulnerable group, they should be granted additional protection when exercising their right to euthanasia. In this context, it seems essential to find the balance between protection and participation. Last, I conduct a comparative law analysis on the implementation of children’s human rights regarding the legal systems on euthanasia for minors in the Netherlands and Belgium. Here, I argue that both countries have clearly positive and clearly negative points towards finding the balance between protection and participation on this issue.
A hermeneutic of intellectual property rights: theory, law, and economy : defending the essence and dignity of human rights
Creators: name: Bonadiman, Luca
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: intellectual property

description: Second semester University: University of Helsinki.
description: There are two opposed directions, namely the nature of the object and the ontology of law, that meet in the moment of reality of law. Intellectual Property is a particular type of object, the nature of which is difficult to adequately inquire; the inquiry is crucial for the adherence of law to the reality given as such, as well as for the socio-historical context that defines the political understanding of the object given in the form of law. Law has become incapable of thinking itself exhaustively; there are no efforts in measuring the degree of legitimacy of its assumptions. Therefore, law is the equivalent of an order issued through formally correct procedures and having the force of obliging people to its respect. Yet, the legislator shall not impose impossible commands that follow an ideal order detached from the given one. Intellectual Property does not genuinely constitute an element that its same genetic naturalness would permit to translate into juridical categories. Law is incapable to absorb Intellectual Property and the same credibility of law is at risk: it is all about force/violence of the system to impose effectiveness. The reading of the complex phenomenology of Intellectual Property Rights permits their own hermeneutic.
title: Forager-mediated cascading effects on food resource species diversity
Creators: name: Mendes Ferreira, Clara
name: Dammhahn, Melanie
name: Eccard, Jana A.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Perceived predation risk varies in space and time. Foraging in this landscape of fear alters forager-resource interactions via cascading nonconsumptive effects. Estimating these indirect effects is difficult in natural systems. Here, we applied a novel measure to quantify the diversity at giving-up density that allows to test how spatial variation in perceived predation risk modifies the diversity of multispecies resources at local and regional spatial levels. Furthermore, we evaluated whether the nonconsumptive effects on resource species diversity can be explained by the preferences of foragers for specific functional traits and by the forager species richness. We exposed rodents of a natural community to artificial food patches, each containing an initial multispecies resource community of eight species (10 items each) mixed in sand. We sampled 35 landscapes, each containing seven patches in a spatial array, to disentangle effects at local (patch) and landscape levels. We used vegetation height as a proxy for perceived predation risk. After a period of three nights, we counted how many and which resource species were left in each patch to measure giving-up density and resource diversity at the local level (alpha diversity) and the regional level (gamma diversity and beta diversity). Furthermore, we used wildlife cameras to identify foragers and assess their species richness. With increasing vegetation height, i.e., decreasing perceived predation risk, giving-up density, and local alpha and regional gamma diversity decreased, and patches became less similar within a landscape (beta diversity increased). Foragers consumed more of the bigger and most caloric resources. The higher the forager species richness, the lower the giving-up density, and alpha and gamma diversity. Overall, spatial variation of perceived predation risk of foragers had measurable cascading effects on local and regional resource species biodiversity, independent of the forager species. Thus, nonconsumptive predation effects modify forager-resource interactions and might act as an equalizing mechanism for species coexistence.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1312
Synchronization Phenomena in Oscillator Networks: From Kuramoto and Chua to Chemical Oscillators
Creators: name: Feketa, Petro
name: Schaum, Alexander
name: Meurer, Thomas
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 4611
subject: Machine learning

description: AbstractThis chapter addresses the problems of synchronization analysis in various types of oscillator networks. In particular, we derive sufficient conditions for emergence of multi-cluster formations in Kuramoto networks with dynamic coupling, prove the output-feedback synchronization of chaotic behavior in networks of Chua oscillators with nonlinear static coupling, and study the synchronization of complex spatiotemporal patterns in coupled infinite-dimensional reaction-diffusion models of chemical oscillators. The obtained results contribute towards a deeper understanding of the internal organization of oscillator networks, explain the prerequisites for the emergence of patterns of synchrony and justify their stability properties in terms of the dynamical characteristics of oscillators, parameters of couplings, and the interconnection topology of the network. The interplay of these three ingredients is required for the complex and dynamically rich behavior of the network. Theoretical results of the chapter are supplemented with numerical case studies.
Polybotrya aequatoriana R. C. Moran, Bull.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polybotrya
Polybotrya aequatoriana

description: Polybotrya aequatoriana R.C.Moran, Bull. Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv. 34: 94, f. 43, map 15. 1987.
 Range: — Ecuador, Bolivia (LP).
 Ecology: —Local and uncommon; hemiepiphytic in humid forests; 2100–2400 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Design and testing of a thermoelectrically cooled portable vaccine cooler
Creators: name: Barkes, Jared
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Improper handling and the failure to maintain vaccines in a safe temperature range results in significant losses of vaccines in the rural developing world. This issue has reduced the success of immunization programs in the developing world, and consequently confidence in vaccinations. For vaccine refrigeration and delivery at the end stage of the cold chain, active thermoelectric cooling is a potentially viable alternative because the coolers are small and require few or no moving parts. A vaccine cooling system was constructed employing a Peltier-based thermoelectric chip (TEC) affixed to an aluminium block that holds the vaccine vials; a movable copper plate was interposed between the block and the TEC, acting as a thermal diode to prevent backflow of heat from the TEC into the vaccine holder. Heat was transported away from the hot side of the TEC to a remote heat exchanger. The aluminium block was contained in a heavily insulated plexiglass box equipped with a port on the top for transient removal of vaccine vials. With this cooler, vaccines can be maintained in the required temperature ranges of 4-8˚C for a conservatively estimated 10 hours at 37˚C on less than one full battery charge, while requiring less space than a common beach cooler.  Since many parts of the rural developing world have sunny climates, the potential of the cooler’s power requirement to be partially supplied via solar panels was also evaluated.
Amplified and directional spontaneous emission from arbitrary composite bodies: self-consistent treatment of Purcell effect below threshold
Creators: name: Jin, Weiliang
name: Khandekar, Chinmay
name: Pick, Adi
name: Polimeridis, Athanasios G.
name: Rodriguez, Alejandro W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) from wavelength-scale composite bodies--complicated arrangements of active and passive media--demonstrating highly directional and tunable radiation patterns, depending strongly on pump conditions, materials, and object shapes. For instance, we show that under large enough gain, $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric dielectric spheres radiate mostly along either active or passive regions, depending on the gain distribution. Our predictions are based on a recently proposed fluctuating volume--current (FVC) formulation of electromagnetic radiation that can handle inhomogeneities in the dielectric and fluctuation statistics of active media, e.g. arising from the presence of non-uniform pump or material properties, which we exploit to demonstrate an approach to modelling ASE in regimes where Purcell effect (PE) has a significant impact on the gain, leading to spatial dispersion and/or changes in power requirements. The nonlinear feedback of PE on the active medium, captured by the Maxwell--Bloch equations but often ignored in linear formulations of ASE, is introduced into our linear framework by a self-consistent renormalization of the (dressed) gain parameters, requiring the solution of a large system of nonlinear equations involving many linear scattering calculations.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Silent minorities : children’s right to be heard
Creators: name: Genís Pellejà, Quim
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: children rights
Convention on the Rights of the Child
participation
legal proceedings
children

description: Second semester University: New University of Lisbon
description: The new conception of children’s rights brought empowerment and protection but, at the same time, uncertainties and inconsistencies. International law, in an attempt to assess the real needs of the child, treated children for the first time as subjects of law. The Right of the Child to be Heard, is a unique provision enshrined in Article 12 of the Convention, which not only protect children as vulnerable individual, but also empower them as an active member of the society. However, the recognition that every child has an inherent right to say, is widely disrespected by the States parties. Indeed, the lack of listening by the decision makers is greatly represented when States parties implement the Convention in the field of legal proceedings. In these cases, the law has serious problems to balance the right of the child to be heard and, at the same time, decide for their best interest. The worldwide situation leaves certain doubts of the success of the Convention. Despite the fact that many efforts have been done, and many legal literature has been drafted regarding the improvement of children justice, the rhetoric’s usually differ from the reality.
Detention of irregular migrants prior to removal in the EU Mediterranean members states : adjusting the focus: alternatives to detention
Creators: name: Gomez Moradillo, Silvia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: detention
European Union
Mediterranean countries
irregular migrations

description: Second semester University: University of Graz.
description: The continuously denounced inhumane conditions of detention centres for irregular migrants prior to removal in the EU Mediterranean member states should be a primary matter of concern both for the states involved and for the EU itself, and efforts should be made trying to find the most effective methods of addressing them. In an attempt to make a practical contribution on the issue, this thesis, after assessing the fundamental human rights standards applicable to the administrate detention of irregular migrants during procedures with a view to their removal, develops the hypothesis that the most effective way to improve conditions in detention centres while respecting the human rights of irregular migrants is to place the focus on a primary human rights standard: the use of detention as an exceptional measure of last resort and the comprehensive provision for alternatives to detention. Instances of automatic detention and of inhuman conditions of detention have been systematically observed in the practices of Spain, Malta, Italy, Greece and Cyprus, as demonstrated in this thesis. Moreover, alternatives to detention are neither used nor provided for by the domestic legislation of these states. In light of the hypothesis elaborated throughout this thesis, EU Mediterranean member states urgently need to place the focus on using alternatives to the detention of irregular migrants in the context of removal procedures. Furthermore, as the issue clearly remains an EU one, the EU itself must play a greater role in helping them to properly implement alternatives to detention, an idea further developed in the last part of this thesis matched with a proposed solution using the Return Directive as the fundamental tool.
Flow cytometric quantification of RASA3 and CalDAG-GEFI to determine platelet reactivity in health and disease
Creators: name: Rao, Adarsh
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Platelets play a critical role in the body’s response to vascular injury (hemostasis), but they also contribute significantly to blood coagulation (thrombosis) associated with cardiovascular disease. The small GTPase RAP1 in platelets is an essential component of the thrombotic pathway as it controls the adhesive state of platelets in circulation and at sites of vascular injury. The guanine nucleotide exchange factor, CalDAG-GEFI, and the GTPase-activating protein, RASA3, are key regulators of RAP1 and balance its activation state. Mice that are deficient in CalDAG-GEFI exhibit abnormal bleeding due to impaired platelet activation and adhesion. Mice lacking RASA3 are thrombocytopenic (low platelet count) due to premature platelet activation and clearance. We hypothesize that interindividual variability in the antagonistic balance between CalDAG-GEFI and RASA3 predicts the risk for thrombosis or thrombocytopenia-induced bleeding. This study aims to establish an assay for the rapid quantification of CalDAG-GEFI and RASA3 expression in platelets. We performed flow cytometric quantification of intracellular immunofluorescence signals to measure CalDAG-GEFI and RASA3 expression in mouse platelets that were wild-type, heterozygous, or null for RASA3 or CalDAG-GEFI. In parallel, we quantified CalDAG-GEFI and RASA3 expression in these platelets by Western blotting, which can be used to assay protein levels as well but is time-consuming and not currently viable as a clinical test. Our results validate flow cytometry as a powerful technique to quantify RASA3 and CalDAG-GEFI expression in mouse platelets, as results obtained by flow cytometry strongly correlated with those obtained by Western blotting. These results indicate the potential viability of flow cytometry as a rapid clinical tool to identify the biochemical basis of platelet-mediated bleeding disorders.
Intergenerational justice : an evaluation of our moral and legal obligations towards future generations
Creators: name: Levin, Lise Romina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: international obligations
justice
moral and ethical aspects

description: Second semester University: University College Dublin. National University of Ireland.
description: This thesis firstly discusses our moral obligations towards future generations. The thesis will demonstrate that future people have interests that can be affected by the actions or inactions of present generations. It will be argued that future people have a right to have their interests protected, which, subsequently, founds duties on present generations. Three different theoretical approaches to what this should entail will be investigated: a Rawlsian egalitarian, a libertarian and a sufficientarian approach to intergenerational justice. This study will defend the sufficientarian approach, as it will be shown that this approach is best able to cope with the metaphysical and practical challenges to intergenerational justice. It will furthermore be argued that intergenerational sufficientarianism should be formulated within a human rights framework, because human rights specify minimum moral thresholds. The thesis will then go on to assess whether the current international and national legislation adequately reflects our obligations towards future generations. A concern for future generations has been expressed in several international conventions and declarations as well as in a number of national constitutions. It will be argued, however, that these pronouncements are too imprecise to provide sufficient protection for future generations. This study, as a result, will highlight the changes that could be made to existing legal documents to render them useful for the protection of future generations. A number of other suggestions to further the protection of future generations will also be described and assessed.
Polybotrya alfredii Brade, Bradea
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polybotrya
Polybotrya alfredii

description: Polybotrya alfredii Brade, Bradea 1(1): 12, t. 1, f. 2. 1969.
 Range: — Costa Rica and Panama, Andes from Ecuador to Bolivia (LP).
 Ecology: —Rare; hemiepiphytic, often terrestrial, in humid forests; 700–1900 m.
 Notes: —In the field, recognized by thick, translucent mucilage on the rhizome apices and lower 5–15 cm of the petioles. This mucilage is lost on dried specimens.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Head Start Connects: Individualizing and Connecting Families to Comprehensive Family Support Services -- Case Studies
Creators: name: Maier, Michelle
name: Choi, Jane
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The Head Start Connects case studies will build knowledge about how Head Start programs coordinate family support services for parents/guardians and the processes or practices used to ensure that service coordination is aligned with individual family needs and fosters family well-being.
D10.2. Action Plan for Repository Sustainability
Creators: name: Caputo, Francesca Pia
name: Tumminello, Lorenzo
name: Aghakhanyan, Gayane
name: Cioni, Dania
name: Neri, Emanuele
name: Martínez, Ricard
name: Barquin, Clara
name: Suarez, Amelia
name: Sanchez, Ana Blanco
name: Blanco, Ana Miguel
name: Marti-Bonmati, Luis
name: Blanquer, Ignacio
name: Seymour, Karine
name: Krischak Katharina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The Deliverable D10.2 is part of WP10 “CHAIMELEON Repository Sustainability after project end”, framed under T10.1 “Actions to ensure CHAIMELEON repository Sustainability”. The deliverable has the aim to design the CHAIMELEON repository sustainability plan during and beyond the duration of the project while providing a governance structure to pursue this goal. The sustainability plan can be thought of as made of two different sets of actions that together can guarantee the CHAIMELEON sustainability: the short-term actions and long-term actions. The short-term actions and promotional actions (paragraph 3) consists of including CHAIMELEON metadata in the EIBIR Imaging Biobank Catalogue (paragraph 3.1) and in the creation of specific “Open Challenges “ and/or “Open Competitions” to promote and incentivise the use and popularity of the repository (paragraph 3.2). In the paragraph 3.3, the importance of the legal framework and the design of the European Union’s digital transformations policies are stressed out for the CHAIMELEON sustainability. The long-term sustainability plan can provide a long-term existence of the repository: this goal can be achieved in the context of the EHDS (paragraph 4.1) and thanks to the EUCAIM project (paragraph 4.2). The importance of the inclusion of the CHAIMELEON repository in the EUCAIM framework is presented together with the needed steps to take for the integration process (paragraph 4.3). Legal and ethical issues of the integration are reported in paragraph 4.4. The Governance structure is defined in paragraph 5.1, while the access model (to define the access roles and the responsibilities related to the access itself) and the definitive version of the DSA are presented in paragraph 5.2 and 5.3, respectively. A summary of the cost and revenues is made in the next paragraph, 6. Briefly, the conclusions for the deliverable D 10.2 are drawn in paragraph 7.
MS Gr. class. c. 7 1664
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 118 fr. 1-7. Philodemus, De Epicuro
Drawing by Luigi Corazza
How actors involved in organized crime can teach the European police office about cross cultural cooperation
Creators: name: Kumar, Anita
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: cooperation
crime
cross cultural studies
organized crime
police

description: Second semester University: University of Nottingham.
description: This study aims to answer two questions: (1) What cross cultural cooperation mechanisms are used by organized criminal gangs? (2) How can Europol utilize these mechanisms? In order to identify cross cultural cooperation mechanisms, it is first necessary to define cross cultural cooperation. Once a definition of the term cross cultural cooperation has been identified, this study examines the Ndrangheta’s activities in Australia in order to determine said mechanisms used by this organized criminal gang. Two cross cultural cooperation mechanisms are identified (1) Colonization (2) Multifacetism. Colonization is a mechanism used by the Ndrangheta to move and embed their cultural identity in new environments. Europol can employ colonization to increase criminal intelligence information sharing among Member States of the European Union. Multifacetism is a mechanism used by the Ndrangheta to retain the ability to respond to actors and elements of organized crime in the context that they present themselves. This mechanism is contrasted by the approach Europol currently adopts in branding and self recognition. These cross cultural cooperation mechanisms employed by actors involved in organized crime may likely assist Europol in sharing criminal intelligence with Member States; therefore it is probable that it will also assist in combatting organized crime.
A comprehensive investigation on the slowing down of cosmic acceleration
Creators: name: Wang, Shuang
name: Hu, Yazhou
name: Li, Miao
name: Li, Nan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shafieloo ea al. firstly proposed the possibility that the current cosmic acceleration (CA) is slowing down. However, this is rather counterintuitive because a slowing down CA cannot be accommodated in most mainstream cosmological models. In this work, by exploring the evolutionary trajectories of dark energy equation of state $w(z)$ and deceleration parameter $q(z)$, we present a comprehensive investigation on the slowing down of CA from both the theoretical and the observational sides. For the theoretical side, we study the impact of different $w(z)$ by using six parametrization models, and then discuss the effects of spatial curvature. For the observational side, we investigate the effects of different type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), different baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO), and different cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, respectively. We find that (1) The evolution of CA are insensitive to the specific form of $w(z)$; in contrast, a non-flat Universe more favors a slowing down CA than a flat Universe. (2) SNLS3 SNe Ia datasets favor a slowing down CA at 1$σ$ confidence level, while JLA SNe Ia samples prefer an eternal CA; in contrast, the effects of different BAO data are negligible. (3) Compared with CMB distance prior data, full CMB data more favor a slowing down CA. (4) Due to the low significance, the slowing down of CA is still a theoretical possibility that cannot be confirmed by the current observations.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Osmolyte effect on enzymatic stability and reaction equilibrium of formate dehydrogenase
Creators: name: Gajardo-Parra, Nicolás F.
name: Akrofi-Mantey, Harold
name: Ascani, Moreno
name: Cea-Klapp, Esteban
name: Matias Garrido, José
name: Sadowski, Gabriele
name: Held, Christoph
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 660
subject: Formiate
subject: Dehydrogenasen
subject: Candida boidinii
subject: Betaine
subject: Glycerin
subject: Trehalose
subject: Trimethylaminoxid
subject: Enzymkinetik
subject: Temperaturbeständigkeit
subject: Molekulardynamik

description: Osmolytes are well-known biocatalyst stabilisers as they promote the folded state of proteins, and a stabilised biocatalyst might also improve reaction kinetics. In this work, the influence of four osmolytes (betaine, glycerol, trehalose, and trimethylamine N-oxide) on the activity and stability of Candida bondinii formate dehydrogenase cbFDH was studied experimentally and theoretically. Scanning differential fluorimetric studies were performed to assess the thermal stability of cbFDH, while UV detection was used to reveal changes in cbFDH activity and reaction equilibrium at osmolyte concentrations between 0.25 and 1 mol kg−1. The thermodynamic model ePC-SAFT advanced allowed predicting the effects of osmolyte on the reaction equilibrium by accounting for interactions involving osmolyte, products, substrates, and water. The results show that osmolytes at low concentrations were beneficial for both, thermal stability and cbFDH activity, while keeping the equilibrium yield at high level. Molecular dynamics simulations were used to describe the solvation around the cbFDH surface and the volume exclusion effect, proofing the beneficial effect of the osmolytes on cbFDH activity, especially at low concentrations of trimethylamine N-oxide and betaine. Different mechanisms of stabilisation (dependent on the osmolyte) show the importance of studying solvent–protein dynamics towards the design of optimised biocatalytic processes.
description: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.;24(45)
Radio Emission from the Be/Black Hole Binary MWC 656
Creators: name: Dzib, S. A.
name: Massi, M.
name: Jaron, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. MWC 656 is the recently discovered first binary system case composed of a Be-type star and an accreting black hole. Its low X-ray luminosity indicates that the system is in a quiescent X-ray state. Aims. The aim of our investigation is to establish if the MWC 656 system has detectable radio emission and if the radio characteristics are consistent with those of quiescent black hole systems. Methods. We used three archived VLA data sets, one hour each, at 3 GHz and seven new VLA observations, two hours each, at 10 GHz to produce very high sensitivity images, down to $\sim$1$\,μ$Jy. Results. We detected the source twice in the new observations: in the first VLA run, at periastron passage, with a flux density of 14.2$\,\pm\,$2.9 $μ$Jy and by combining all together the other six VLA runs, with a flux density of $3.7 \pm 1.4$ $μ$Jy. The resulting combined map of the archived observations has the sensitivity of $1 σ= 6.6\, μJy$ but no radio emission is there detected. Conclusions. The radio and X-ray luminosities agree with the behaviour of accreting binary black holes in the hard and quiescent state. In particular, MWC 656 in the $L_X$, $L_R$ plane occupies the same region as A0620$-$00 and XTE J1118+480, the faintest known black holes up to now.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted in the Astronomy & Astrophysics letters. This new version contains language editor corrections and periastron phase updated
The internal development and external factor : consideration for the development of democracy in a Western Balkan country as Albania
Creators: name: Balla, Blerina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: democracy
Albania
democratisation

description: Second semester University: University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen.
description: The literature over democracy has shift more and more towards studying the type of democracy developed in the post-communist countries. Some of these countries like the Western Balkan ones still have not a full fledge democratic system. Nevertheless, in the recent years, many scholars and different reports remark on their democratic development. Hereby, this paper selects the case of Albania and it tries to assess the development of democracy in this country by looking at the internal development and the external factors influencing this process. Therefore, this paper will be composed by two main parts: internal development and the external factor analysis. In the first part will illustrate the vulnerability of the democratic system by examining the dimensions of democracy and second part will show the ways how the external factor influence democracy by representing both the positive and negative aspect. At the end of this paper will conclude that despite the progress of democracy in Albania,the process show many persistent problems both in relation with the internal development and external factors. According to these persistent problems it could conclude that Albania’s democracy has recorded little progress in the last 10 years.
How cocaine impairs flexible behavior: A neuroscience perspective
Creators: name: Ortega, Heather
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The inability to change behavior represents a loss of behavior flexibility. One way of testing this behavioral shift is using an animal model of reinforcer devaluation. A history of cocaine use makes rats unable to modify their behavior following the devaluation of the reward after several weeks of abstinence (i.e., behavior is inflexible or more “habitual”). This demonstrates long-term impairment in behavioral flexibility in cocaine-treated rats compared to control rats. Importantly, this is not due to a deficit in the ability of the rats to respond to the original conditioned stimulus to receive the reward. Rather, it impaired the ability of the rats to integrate the conditioned response with the new value of the reward impairing their ability to flexibly change their behavior post-devaluation (i.e., rats are responding using an inflexible, habitual strategy). One brain region that is critical for flexible behavior in this task is the prelimbic cortex (PrL). Therefore, we hypothesized that cocaine induced impairments may be due to alterations in the PrL. Here, we used in vivo electrophysiological methods to record from neurons in the prelimbic cortex to determine how a history of cocaine changes neural firing while animals are learning cue-outcome associations (Pavlovian conditioning) and during flexible behavior as measured by a devaluation task in both males and females. Since females self-administer more cocaine than males, this was a timely investigation to determine if a history of cocaine differently affects behavioral flexibility across sexes.  We confirm previous work that females self-administer more cocaine than males, however, we found no differences in measures of behavioral flexibility between sexes.
Quenched crystal field disorder and magnetic liquid ground states in Tb2Sn2-xTixO7
Creators: name: Gaulin, B. D.
name: Kermarrec, E.
name: Dahlberg, M. L.
name: Matthews, M. J.
name: Bert, F.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Mendels, P.
name: Fritsch, K.
name: Granroth, G. E.
name: Jiramongkolchai, P.
name: Amato, A.
name: Baines, C.
name: Cava, R. J.
name: Schiffer, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solid-solutions of the "soft" quantum spin ice pyrochlore magnets Tb2B2O7 with B=Ti and Sn display a novel magnetic ground state in the presence of strong B-site disorder, characterized by a low susceptibility and strong spin fluctuations to temperatures below 0.1 K. These materials have been studied using ac-susceptibility and muSR techniques to very low temperatures, and time-of-flight inelastic neutron scattering techniques to 1.5 K. Remarkably, neutron spectroscopy of the Tb3+ crystal field levels appropriate to at high B-site mixing (0.5 < x < 1.5 in Tb2Sn2-xTixO7) reveal that the doublet ground and first excited states present as continua in energy, while transitions to singlet excited states at higher energies simply interpolate between those of the end members of the solid solution. The resulting ground state suggests an extreme version of a random-anisotropy magnet, with many local moments and anisotropies, depending on the precise local configuration of the six B sites neighboring each magnetic Tb3+ ion.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
"Follow me without noise, and be of strong heart": Understanding the Truth of War Through The Combat Medical Narrative
Creators: name: Howell, John Dennis, Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Introduction: “open, doors of time! open, hospital doors!”: The Combat Medical Narrative
When writing about war, authors often seek to clarify complex issues through a particular perspective. A survey of selected war literature from the late nineteenth century to the present illustrates some of the techniques seen in different works on similar themes. Because war is so intimately connected with the issues of life and death, an effective method for demonstrating its consequences is the combat medical narrative. Works of literature inspired by and in response to war trauma offer a way of understanding the complex issue of human conflict. Authors of such medical narratives invite their readers to follow them through the hospital doors or walk out onto the battlefields to hold the bandages and listen to the screams of wounded soldiers. Stories about the wounded and those who care for them provide insight like no other war narrative by confronting death—the most devastating effect of combat.
While scholarship on the literature of war is extensive—some of which I will cite in the following essay—the analysis I offer of the combat medical narrative is fairly unknown. The recent academic interest in the field of medical humanities represents an exciting moment for researchers to explore an emerging field and connect the humanities with real world social concerns in a practical way. The goal of this interdisciplinary field is to re-humanize the medical profession by studying the ways in which literature and narrative forms can encourage positive communication between patient and provider. I view the combat medical narrative as a subgenre of war literature, deserving of its own scholarship and analysis on the basis of the potential benefits that further research can offer to the field of medical humanities.
What is so scary about gender equality education in France? : analysing a French education program to promote equality and its consequences
Creators: name: Zaldívar Sereno, Inés
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: education
equality
France
gender discrimination

description: Second semester University: Lund University.
description: This thesis analyse a French education program, which aims to further equality between girls and boys, to fight against sexist stereotypes and to promote at school critical thought concerning gender issues. The program started to be implemented as a pilot project in 2013 and it faced protests against it. Some conservative groups of people opposed it and tried to boycott it. Nonetheless, the program continues. I asses why the program is necessary, from an International Human Rights and a sociological and interdisciplinary point of view, as I explain, among other things, why sexist stereotypes are negative and reinforce inequality. In addition, I analyse what are the reasons behind the protests. I found that some of the people might not have enough information about the program; there was a communication problem from part of the Government. However, there are also very conservative views were present in France. Those views could be influenced by religion in some cases, but this does not constitute the entire explanation.
MS Gr. class. c. 7 1665
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 118 fr. 8-13. Philodemus, De Epicuro
Drawing by Luigi Corazza
Impact of Warped Extra Dimensions on the Dipole Coefficients in $\boldsymbol{b\to sγ}$ Transitions
Creators: name: Malm, Raoul
name: Neubert, Matthias
name: Schmell, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the electro- and chromomagnetic dipole coefficients $C_{7γ,8g}$ and $\tilde C_{7γ,8g}$ in the context of the minimal Randall-Sundrum (RS) model with a Higgs sector localized on the IR brane using the five-dimensional (5D) approach, where the coefficients are expressed in terms of integrals over 5D propagators. Since we keep the full dependence on the Yukawa matrices, the integral expressions are formally valid to all orders in $v^2/M_{\rm KK}^2$. In addition we relate our results to the expressions obtained in the Kaluza-Klein (KK) decomposed theory and show the consistency in both pictures analytically and numerically, which presents a non-trivial cross-check. In Feynman-'t Hooft gauge, the dominant corrections from virtual KK modes arise from the scalar parts of the $W^\pm$-boson penguin diagrams, including the contributions from the scalar component of the 5D gauge-boson field and from the charged Goldstone bosons in the Higgs sector. The size of the KK corrections depends on the parameter $y_\ast$, which sets the upper bound for the anarchic 5D Yukawa matrices. We find that for $y_\ast\gtrsim1$ the dominant KK corrections are proportional to $y_\ast^2$. We discuss the phenomenological implications of our results for the branching ratio ${\rm Br}(\bar B\to X_sγ)$, the time-dependent CP asymmetry $S_{K^*γ}$, the direct CP asymmetry $A_{\rm CP}^{b\to sγ}$ and the CP asymmetry difference $ΔA_{\rm CP}^{b\to sγ}$. We can derive a lower bound on the first KK gluon resonance of $3.8\,$TeV for $y_\ast=3$, requiring that at least $10\%$ of the RS parameter space covers the experimental $2σ$ error margins. We further discuss the branching ratio ${\rm Br}(\bar B\to X_sl^+l^-)$ and compare our predictions for $C_{7γ,9,10}$ and $\tilde C_{7γ,9,10}$ with phenomenological results derived from model-independent analyses.
description: 44 pages plus appendix, 10 figures, added equations (58) and (61)
It takes more than condoms: the rights-based approach to prevention of HIV/AIDS in female sex workers in Thailand and Colombia
Creators: name: Navia Henao, Ximena
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: prostitution
Colombia
Thailand
AIDS

description: Second semester University: Utrecht University.
description: AIDS has become a human rights and a social problem that thrives on inequalities and deepens the vulnerability of certain population groups. In countries like Thailand and Colombia, female sex workers are at the heart of the epidemic. Cumulative factors of vulnerability such as risky sexual healthy behaviours, stigmatisation, criminalisation and poverty makes them at risk of HIV/AIDS. Taking into account the role of the State as the primary duty bearer under international law, this paper explores the inherent right of sex workers to have access to HIV prevention services and evaluates the initiatives taken by Thailand and Colombia to respond to their legal obligations. Considering both the positive steps and the gaps in HIV prevention programmes in the two countries, this paper will demonstrate the added value of human rights-based strategies to HIV prevention in female sex workers.