cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Geometry and Optimal Packing of Twisted Columns and Filaments
Creators: name: Grason, Gregory M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This review presents recent progress in understanding constraints and consequences of close-packing geometry of filamentous or columnar materials possessing non-trivial textures, focusing in particular on the common motifs of twisted and toroidal structures. The mathematical framework is presented that relates spacing between line-like, filamentous elements to their backbone orientations, highlighting the explicit connection between the inter-filament {\it metric} properties and the geometry of non-Euclidean surfaces. The consequences of the hidden connection between packing in twisted filament bundles and packing on positively curved surfaces, like the Thomson problem, are demonstrated for the defect-riddled ground states of physical models of twisted filament bundles. The connection between the "ideal" geometry of {\it fibrations} of curved three-dimensional space, including the Hopf fibration, and the non-Euclidean constraints of filament packing in twisted and toroidal bundles is presented, with a focus on the broader dependence of metric geometry on the simultaneous twisting and folded of multi-filament bundles.
description: 19 pages; 16 figures; text revisions + additional references
Possible observational windows for quantum effects from black holes
Creators: name: Giddings, Steven B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum information transfer necessary to reconcile black hole evaporation with quantum mechanics, while approximately preserving regular near-horizon geometry, can be simply parameterized in terms of couplings of the black hole internal state to quantum fields of the black hole atmosphere. The necessity of transferring sufficient information for unitarization sets the strengths of these couplings. Such couplings via the stress tensor offer apparently significant advantages, and behave like quantum fluctuations of the effective metric near the horizon. At the requisite strength, these fluctuations, while soft (low energy/momentum), have significant magnitude, and so can deflect near-horizon geodesics that span distances of order the black hole radius. Thus, the presence of such couplings can result in effects that could be detected or constrained by observation: disruption of near-horizon accretion flows, scintillation of light passing close to the black hole, and alteration of gravitational wave emission from inspirals. These effects could in particular distort features of Sgr A* expected to be observed, e.g., by the Event Horizon Telescope, such as the black hole shadow and photon ring.
description: 15 pages of text + refs; harvmac. v2: added refs. and minor rewordings. v3: added comments, including emphasizing role of photon ring; version accepted by PRD
Individual project on theme "Sedum L." (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Radionova Angelina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Данный кейс является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Радионовой Ангелины по теме " Sedum L." в рамках онлайн курса "Компьютерные технологии в биологии" (автор – А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo)
Estimation of drought trends and comparison between SPI and SPEI with prediction using machine learning models in Rangpur, Bangladesh
Creators: name: Akter, Mst. Labony
name: Rahman, Md. Naimur
name: Azim, Syed Anowerul
name: Rony, Md. Rakib Hasan
name: Sohel, Md. Salman
name: Abdo, Hazem Ghassan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: This study investigates drought trends, SPI-SPEI comparisons, and predictions in Rangpur, Bangladesh, from 1979 to 2020. We employed Modified Mann-Kendall for trend analysis, SPI and SPEI for drought assessment, and Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Simple Linear Regression for evaluating SPI and SPEI relationships. Additionally, we utilized ANN, SVM, and RF for prediction. The study revealed notable negative trends in seasonal and annual drought, with the highest z statistics observed for SPI 06 (-2.75), SPI 09 (-4.50), SPI 12 (5.60), SPI 24 (-8.40), SPEI 06 (-5.13), SPEI 09 (-6.82), SPEI 12 (-8.04), and SPEI 24 (-11.20). Strong correlations were identified across all SPI and SPEI indices, with coefficients peaking at 97%, 98%, 98%, and 97% for 06, 09, 12, and 24-month periods, respectively. The comparative assessment favored SPEI over SPI, highlighting its superiority and accuracy. The ANN prediction model showed significant results for short-term and seasonal drought forecasts, projecting SPEI 03 and SPEI 06 increases of 0.02 and 0.24, respectively. However, long-term drought estimation exhibited insignificant performance across all predictive models. This emphasizes the need for developing essential predictive tools for future drought variability.
SSHOC MS 29 Tested connections between partners with live data and researcher projects
Creators: name: Wiltshire, Deborah
name: Voronin, Yevhen
name: Lichtwardt, Beate
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This Milestone assesses the testing of the remote Safe Room connections between the Secure Data Facilities of the GESIS Secure Data Center and the UKDS Secure Lab. These tests were carried out by bona fide researchers who had submitted full research applications to the respective data service and involved the analysis of live data. This report includes a summary of the researcher applications and tests as well as the researcher feedback collected following the test, which will inform further improvements to the service for researchers.
Determining the efficiency of residential electricity consumption
Creators: name: Andor, Mark A.
name: Bernstein, David H.
name: Sommer, Stephan
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: household electricity consumption
subject: technical efficiency
subject: stochastic frontier analysis
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Increasing energy efficiency is a key global policy goal for climate protection. An important step towards an optimal reduction of energy consumption is the identification of energy saving potentials in different sectors and the best strategies for increasing efficiency. This paper analyzes these potentials in the household sector by estimating the degree of inefficiency in the use of electricity and its determinants. Using stochastic frontier analysis and disaggregated household data, we estimate an input requirement function and inefficiency on a sample of 2,000 German households. Our results suggest that the mean inefficiency amounts to around 20%, indicating a notable potential for energy savings. Moreover, we find that the household size and income are among the main determinants of individual inefficiency. This information can be used to increase the cost-efficiency of programs aimed to enhance energy efficiency.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;30/2020
title: Homosexualitäten im Österreichischen Bundesheer
Creators: name: Moosmaier, Silvia
Year: 2021

description: Die vorliegende Abhandlung beschäftigt sich vorrangig mit dem Grad der Inklusion von LGBTIQ+-Bediensteten in der Organisation Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung/Österreichisches Bundesheer (BMLV/ÖBH). Die untersuchungsleitende Forschungsfrage lautet „In welchem Ausmaß gibt es eine Inklusion von LGBTIQ+-Personen im BMLV/ÖBH?“. Zu den weiteren Zielen der Untersuchung zählte die Feststellung der Gründe für Ausgrenzung von LGBTIQ+-Personen und die Generierung einer wissenschaftlichen Basis zur Erklärung des Phänomens sowie schlussendlich die Verwendung dieses Wissens zur Setzung von wirksamen Inklusionsmaßnahmen für LGBTIQ+-Personen im BMLV/ÖBH. Zur Auseinandersetzung mit der Forschungsmaterie wurde ein um-fangreiches Theoriegebäude erarbeitet und analysiert. Relevante Einflüsse in den Bereichen Identitätstheorien, Theorien zur Macht und Herrschaft, Queer-Theorien und Organisationstheorien wurden unter dem Aspekt der Inklusion von Homosexualität in internationalen militärischen Organisationen dargelegt und mit einer umfangreichen historischen Entwicklung der Thematik unterfüttert. Methodisch erfolgte die Datenerhebung mittels problemzentrierten Interviews und einer Erhebungskonzentration auf die beiden Bereiche (1) Struktur- und Rahmenbedingungen und (2) Militärische Subgesellschaft. Nach umfangreicher Analyse der Ergebnisse von 19 Interviews konnte unter Zuhilfenahme und erfolgter Verifizierung von drei Arbeitshypothesen die zentrale Fragestellung folgendermaßen beantwortet werden: Das Ausmaß des Grades der Inklusion von LGBTIQ+-Bediensteten im BMLV/ÖBH muss als defizitär mit einer Wertigkeit von 33% von Hundert festgehalten werden. Die strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen zeigen sich klarer als deren Umsetzung, die insbesondere im täglichen Dienstbetrieb mangelhaft erscheint, was ver-steckter und offener Diskriminierung Vorschub leistet und die schon vorhandene Vulnerabilität der betroffenen Personen deutlich erhöht und erkennbar gesundheitliche Probleme verursacht. Anhand der Inputs der 19 Untersuchungseinheiten wurden kurz-, mittel- und langfristige Maßnahmen zur Erhöhung der Akzeptanz und des Inklusionsgrades in der Organisation Österreichisches Bundesheer/Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung festgehalten.
Additional file 2 of Autism-linked mutations of CTTNBP2 reduce social interaction and impair dendritic spine formation via diverse mechanisms
Creators: name: Pu-Yun Shih
name: Hsieh, Bing-Yuan
name: Ching-Yen Tsai
name: Chiu-An Lo
name: Chen, Brian E.
name: Hsueh, Yi-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1 contains all statistical methods and results, except Fig. 5B.
Vision-Based Dexterous Motion Planning by Dynamic Movement Primitives with Human Hand Demonstration
Creators: name: Chen, Nuo
name: Pan, Ya-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a vision-based framework for a 7-degree-of-freedom robotic manipulator, with the primary objective of facilitating its capacity to acquire information from human hand demonstrations for the execution of dexterous pick-and-place tasks. Most existing works only focus on the position demonstration without considering the orientations. In this paper, by employing a single depth camera, MediaPipe is applied to generate the three-dimensional coordinates of a human hand, thereby comprehensively recording the hand's motion, encompassing the trajectory of the wrist, orientation of the hand, and the grasp motion. A mean filter is applied during data pre-processing to smooth the raw data. The demonstration is designed to pick up an object at a specific angle, navigate around obstacles in its path and subsequently, deposit it within a sloped container. The robotic system demonstrates its learning capabilities, facilitated by the implementation of Dynamic Movement Primitives, enabling the assimilation of user actions into its trajectories with different start and end poi
description: This paper has been published in 2024 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
Application of molecular distillation in the recovery of high-value bioactive compounds present in wastes of vegetable oil processing: effect of esterification
Creators: name: da Silva, Maurício Dalla Costa Rodrigues
name: Maziero, Eluize Vayne
name: Ballus, Cristiano Augusto
name: Tanabe, Eduardo Hiromitsu
name: Bertuol, Daniel Assumpção
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Refining vegetable oils generate residues that can be reused to obtain high-value compounds. Tocopherols, phytosterols, and squalene can be recovered from deodorizer distillates using molecular distillation. However, treatment of the deodorizer distillates is required to obtain better separation results. Thus, this work aimed to evaluate the effect of the esterification of a residue composed of mixtures of different types of deodorizer distillates on the efficiency of phytonutrient recovery by molecular distillation. The results showed the best conditions for the esterification were 74 °C, 214 min, 3% H2SO4, and 2:1 molar methanol/free fatty acids ratio. These reaction conditions maintained 97% of total phytonutrients and reduced 90.5% of free fatty acids. Concentration gains for tocopherols (331%), phytosterols (232%), and squalene (300%) were obtained for the esterified residue. Therefore, this work presents an alternative route to obtaining a phytonutrient concentrate by combining steps of esterification and molecular distillation for mixtures of deodorizer distillates.
Control of coherent information via on chip photonic-phononic emitter-receivers
Creators: name: Shin, Heedeuk
name: Cox, Jonathan A.
name: Jarecki, Robert
name: Starbuck, Andrew
name: Wang, Zheng
name: Rakich, Peter T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rapid progress in silicon photonics has fostered numerous chip-scale sensing, computing, and signal processing technologies. However, many crucial filtering and signal delay operations are difficult to perform with all-optical devices. Unlike photons propagating at luminal speeds, GHz-acoustic phonons with slow velocity allow information to be stored, filtered, and delayed over comparatively smaller length-scales with remarkable fidelity. Hence, controllable and efficient coupling between coherent photons and phonons enables new signal processing technologies that greatly enhance the performance and potential impact of silicon photonics. Here, we demonstrate a novel mechanism for coherent information processing based on traveling-wave photon-phonon transduction, which achieves a phonon emit-and-receive process between distinct nanophotonic waveguides. Using this device physics-which can support 1-20GHz frequencies-we create wavelength-insensitive radio-frequency photonic filters with an unrivaled combination of stopband attenuation, selectivity, linewidth, and power-handling in silicon. More generally, this emit-receive concept is the impetus for numerous powerful new signal processing schemes.
description: Main text (7 pages and 4 figures). Supplementary information (6 pages and 2 figures)
title: 'Please Listen' a drama created by Kibble Education and Care Centre
Creators: name: Sinclair, Gavin
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2014

description: I worked as a drama tutor at Reid Kerr College in Paisley for 14 years. As part of my teaching hours, I would visit Kibble on a Friday morning for three hours to work with kids on pantomimes and fun confidence-building drama classes. I had been doing this for 13 years and very much enjoyed it. In spring 2012 we decided to try something different with a group of kids at Kibble. We created a play about the war in Afghanistan. The kids responded really well to the subject matter and we soon discovered that it was more than just a play about war. The rehearsal process allowed us to reflect on life and things that are important to us. The play was a vehicle to tackle difficult conversations about life in care and opened my eyes to how drama could really help these kids in their struggle to understand why they behaved in certain ways or why they felt certain emotions or feelings, the importance of families and a sense of belonging. The performance was really powerful and very emotional, but for me it wasn’t about the performance, it was about the journey that the kids had made and what they had got out of being involved in the process in a safe and secure environment. It was not long after this I approached Kibble about a full-time position. In June 2012 I was appointed as Arts Development Officer.
Constructor Theory of Life
Creators: name: Marletto, Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory explains how the appearance of purposive design in the sophisticated adaptations of living organisms can have come about without their intentionally being designed. The explanation relies crucially on the possibility of certain physical processes: mainly, gene replication and natural selection. In this paper I show that for those processes to be possible without the design of biological adaptations being encoded in the laws of physics, those laws must have certain other properties. The theory of what these properties are is not part of evolution theory proper, and has not been developed, yet without it the neo-Darwinian theory does not fully achieve its purpose of explaining the appearance of design. To this end I apply Constructor Theory's new mode of explanation to provide an exact formulation of the appearance of design, of no-design laws, and of the logic of self-reproduction and natural selection, within fundamental physics. I conclude that self-reproduction, replication and natural selection are possible under no-design laws, the only non-trivial condition being that they allow digital information to be physically instantiated. This has an exact characterisation in the constructor theory of information. I also show that under no-design laws an accurate replicator requires the existence of a "vehicle" constituting, together with the replicator, a self-reproducer.
Cavity Detection of Gravitational Waves: Where Do We Stand?
Creators: name: Gatti, Claudio
name: Visinelli, Luca
name: Zantedeschi, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) are predicted in various exotic scenarios involving both cosmological and astrophysical sources. These elusive signals have recently sparked the interest of a diverse community of researchers, due to the possibility of HFGW detection in the laboratory through graviton-photon conversion in strong magnetic fields. Notable examples include the redesign of the resonant cavities currently under development to detect the cosmic axion. In this work, we derive the sensitivities of some existing and planned resonant cavities to detect a HFGW background. As a concrete scenario, we consider the collective signals that originate from the merging of compact objects, such as two primordial black holes (PBHs) in the asteroid mass window. Our findings improve over existing work by explicitly discussing and quantifying the loss in the experimental reach due to the actual coherence of the source. We elucidate on the approach we adopt in relation with recent literature on the topic. Most notably, we give a recipe for the estimate of the stochastic background that focuses on the presence of the signal in the cavity at all times and showing that, in the relevant PBH mass region, the signal is dominated by coherent binary mergers.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures; COST actions CA21106 and CA21136
First record of the species Scarus flavipectoralis at the Chesterfield-Bellona reef complex in the Coral Sea Marine Park
Creators: name: Pelletier, Dominique
name: Powell, Abigail
name: Roman, William
name: Carpentier, Liliane
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2021

description: The Chesterfield-Bellona atolls and reefs are a vast reef complex located in the Coral Sea Marine Park, established in 2014 in the New Caledonian Economic Exclusive Zone. In 2013, the New Caledonia government supported the first assessment of fish and benthic habitats conducted over the entire area. The assessment provided a primary knowledge base for establishing the importance of these atolls in terms of biodiversity and fished resources. This comprehensive survey relied on an unbaited underwater video technique that enabled to collect 185 successful camera drops distributed over all shallow habitats in the atolls. Video analysis revealed 18 fish species that had not been previously reported in this area. These included commercially important species: two species of snapper (Lutjanus monostigma and Lutjanus rivulatus) and an emperor (Lethrinus atkinsoni). Most of the new species observed displayed relatively low occurrences (< 5 individuals over 185 camera drops). They were observed in three habitats: i) live coral-dominated; ii) debris-dominated; and iii) sandy bottoms. Reference of the survey: CHESTERFIELD-BELLONA 2013: http://dx.doi.org/10.17600/18002030
Selection of eco-efficient downstream separation configuration for isopropanol–butanol–ethanol purification process
Creators: name: Oksal, Ilayda N.
name: Kaymak, Devrim B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Nowadays, renewable and cleaner biofuel requirements increase with the increase in economic, environmental, and social concerns. Biobutanol is a preferable alternative fuel due to its outstanding properties compared to other alcohol-based biofuels. Two alternative downstream process configurations are designed in this study to obtain high-purity alcohol products from isopropanol–butanol–ethanol (IBE) fermentation broth with the same feed flowrate and compositions. In process configuration 1, the excess amount of water in the fermentation broth is mainly taken away using a preconcentration column. In process configuration 2, an extractor-extractive distillation hybrid system is used to remove the excess amount of water from the system. The results show that the first configuration is superior with a 62% reduction in total annual cost (TAC). Besides economic superiority, process configuration 1 is also quantitatively better than process configuration 2 in terms of gas emissions and energy demand to purify butanol. As a result, process configuration 1 is found as an eco-efficient downstream separation sequence for IBE purification process.
Guidelines for D3.1 - Coastal dataset including exposure and vulnerability layers, Deliverable 3.1 – ECFAS Project (GA 101004211), www.ecfas.eu.
Creators: name: Ieronymidi, E.
name: Grigoriadis, D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ECFAS
Exposure
Vulnerability
Dataset

description: The European Copernicus Coastal Flood Awareness System (ECFAS) project will contribute to the evolution of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (https://emergency.copernicus.eu/) by demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of a European Coastal Flood Awareness System. Specifically, ECFAS will provide a much-needed solution to bolster coastal resilience to climate risk and reduce population and infrastructure exposure by monitoring and supporting disaster preparedness, two factors that are fundamental to damage prevention and recovery if a storm hits. The ECFAS Proof-of-Concept development will run from January 2021-December 2022. The ECFAS project is a collaboration between Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS di Pavia (Italy, ECFAS Coordinator), Mercator Ocean International (France), Planetek Hellas (Greece), Collecte Localisation Satellites (France), Consorzio Futuro in Ricerca (Italy), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), University of the Aegean (Greece), and EurOcean (Portugal), and is funded by the European Commission H2020 Framework Programme within the call LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020 - Copernicus evolution: research activities in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme Description of the containing files. This guidelines of D3.1 accompanies the ECFAS coastal database (D3.1 - Coastal dataset including exposure and vulnerability layers) and provides information on the contents and structure of the coastal database. It also includes the description of the approach used for the preparation of the datasets, as well as an overview of the coastal datasets and their sources. The detailed characteristics, sources and URL links for each coastal dataset are given in the database. Disclaimer: ECFAS partners provide the data "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind. The ECFAS partners shall not be held liable resulting from the use of the information and data provided. This project has received funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101004211
Surface Shubnikov-de Hass oscillations and non-zero Berry phases of the topological hole conduction in Tl$_{1-x}$Bi$_{1+x}$Se$_2$
Creators: name: Eguchi, G.
name: Kuroda, K.
name: Shirai, K.
name: Kimura, A.
name: Shiraishi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the observation of two-dimensional Shubnikov-de Hass (SdH) oscillations in the topological insulator Tl$_{1-x}$Bi$_{1+x}$Se$_2$. Hall effect measurements exhibited electron-hole inversion in samples with bulk insulating properties. The SdH oscillations accompanying the hole conduction yielded a large surface carrier density of $n_{\rm{s}}=5.1 \times10^{12}$/cm$^2$, with the Landau-level fan diagram exhibiting the $π$ Berry phase. These results showed the electron-hole reversibility around the in-gap Dirac point and the hole conduction on the surface Dirac cone without involving the bulk metallic conduction.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Supplement from Epistasis decreases with increasing antibiotic pressure but not temperature
Creators: name: Ghenu, Ana-Hermina
name: Amado, André
name: Gordo, Isabel
name: Bank, Claudia
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Predicting mutational effects is essential for the control of antibiotic resistance (ABR). Predictions are difficult when there are strong genotype-by-environment (G Escherichia coli across environmental gradients. We created intergenic fitness landscapes using gene knock-outs and single-nucleotide ABR mutations previously identified to vary in the extent of G This article is part of the theme issue ‘Predicting evolution’.
Number of bits returned by a quantum estimation
Creators: name: Lu, Xi
name: Górecki, Wojciech
name: Macchiavello, Chiara
name: Maccone, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give two upper bounds to the mutual information in arbitrary quantum estimation strategies. The first is based on some simple Fourier properties of the estimation apparatus. The second is derived using the first but, interestingly, depends only on the Fisher information of the parameter, so it is valid even beyond quantum estimation. We illustrate the usefulness of these bounds by characterizing the quantum phase estimation algorithm in the presence of noise. In addition, for the noiseless case, we extend the analysis beyond applying the bound and we discuss the optimal entangled and adaptive strategies, clarifying inaccuracies appearing on this topic in the literature.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
The role of adsorption of a natural surfactant at oil–water interface in enhanced oil recovery: interfacial rheology, and structural, and emulsifying analyses
Creators: name: Machale, Jinesh
name: Majumder, Subrata Kumar
name: Ghosh, Pallab
name: Sen, Tushar Kanti
name: Saeedi, Ali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method is widely used for recovering residual crude oil after implementing conventional oil recovery techniques. Chemical additives, such as surfactants, are considered beneficial for EOR. Their efficacy is assessed based on their ability to reduce interfacial tension, modify wettability, and establish a stable emulsion system. Understanding the mechanism of surfactant adsorption at the oil–water interface is critical for effectively implementing surfactant flooding. In this work, we have studied the adsorption of a natural surfactant synthesized from Eichhornia crassipes at the oil–water interface using numerous interfacial analyses. The results show substantial adsorption at the oil–water interface, indicated by a 27% increase in zeta potential (i.e. −25.2 to −37.2 mV) and ∼27 times increase in film elasticity (i.e. G′: 0.15–4.12 Pa at 0.01 Hz frequency and 0.01% strain). The synthesized natural surfactant demonstrates a noteworthy improvement in the stability of the oil-in-water emulsion and interfacial rheological properties, indicating its potential application in EOR.
Evidence for a Constant `Edge' in Proton-Proton Scattering at Very High Energies
Creators: name: Block, Martin M.
name: Durand, Loyal
name: Halzen, Francis
name: Stodolsky, Leo
name: Weiler, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate fits to $pp$ and $\bar pp$ cross section data up to Tevatron energies, incorporating the constraints imposed by analyticity and unitarity, successfully predict the results of recent LHC and cosmic ray measurements, and suggest that the cross sections approach a black disc limit asymptotically. The approach to the limit is, however, very slow. We present a simple geometric picture which explains these features in a natural way. A black disc of logarithmically growing radius is supplemented by a soft `edge' whose properties are invariant with energy. The constancy of the edge results in the prediction that the quantity $(σ^{TOT}-2σ^{El})/\surdσ^{TOT}$ approaches a constant at high energy. Using the existing fits, this prediction appears to be verified. The value of the limiting constant allows an estimate of the thickness of the edge, which turns out to be on the order of $1\,{\rm fm}$. One thus arrives at a picture where the proton-proton scattering at lower energies is dominated by what becomes the edge, while at higher energies it is dominated by the disc. The crossover between the two regimes is only at $\surd s\geq $ 10 TeV, accounting for the slow approach to asymptotic behavior. Some questions as to the nature of the edge are discussed.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, Sentence added at end of section 2.2, Two typos corrected
title: Konstanz, Wandel und Spannungen des ÄrztIn-PatientIn-Verhältnisses im Spiegel multidisziplinärer Expertisen
Creators: name: Ronge-Toloraya, Andreas
Year: 2021

description: Die Masterthese beschäftigt sich mit dem Verhältnis von ÄrztInnen und PatientInnen unter Einbezug multidisziplinärer Perspektiven. Ziel der Arbeit ist, die in einer Vielzahl wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen bestehende Perspektivenvielfalt mit Hilfe einer leitfadengestützten ExpertInnen-Befragung sichtbar zu machen. Die ExpertInnen zeichnen sich aus durch hohe Positionierung im Feld und ihre Zugehörigkeit zu verschiedenen medizinischen Disziplinen (Innere Medizin, Psychiatrie, Geriatrie und Labormedizin) und anderer, mit diesen verknüpfter Bereiche (Gesundheitsökonomie, Technik, Pflegewissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Medizingeschichte, Psychologie). Nach Auswertung der empirischen Daten, welche sowohl unter Bezugnahme auf eine inhaltsanalytische Methodologie und mittels Grounded Theory Ansatzes erfolgte, kann die im Literaturteil aufgefundene Gleichzeitigkeit unterschiedlicher Entwicklungen in der Praxis der Krankenbehandlung auch als eigener empirischer Befund beobachtet werden. Die Ergebnisse werden in ihrer Widersprüchlichkeit abgebildet, unter Verwendung des Begriffs der „Spannungslinien“. So wurden die Linien identifiziert als „Talk vs. Action“, „Daten vs. Wissen“, „bewusste Regelbefolgung vs. strategisches Agieren im Feld“, „Spezialisierung vs. (Re-)Integration“, „Teamkultur Health Care Professional vs. Teamkultur ÄrztIn-PatientIn“ und „Paternalismus vs. Partnerschaft“. Die soziologisch-interpretative Rahmung bildet eine durch die Praxeologie Bourdieus inspirierte Analyse, in welcher abschließend vier Typen von PatientInnen vorgestellt werden. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich die organisierte Krankenbehandlung als fragmentiert und unter Beteiligung einer großen Anzahl von AkteurInnen, so dass das Abstellen auf eine dyadische Beziehung zwischen einem Arzt und einem Patienten als für die soziologische Analyse unterkomplex erscheint. Vielmehr handelt es sich um einen arbeitsteiligen Prozess unter Partizipation hoch spezialisierter AkteurInnen, bei welchem auch die PatientInnen als integraler Bestandteil aktiv partizipieren (müssen) und durch welche sie nicht als „passive“ »Objekte«“ geschleust werden können.
Entanglement of a alternating bipartition in spin chains: Relation with classical integrable models
Creators: name: Santos, Raul A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the entanglement properties of a class of ground states defined by matrix product states, which are generalizations of the valence bond solid (VBS) state in one dimension. It is shown that the transfer matrix of these states can be related to representations of the Temperley-Lieb algebra, allowing an exact computation of Renyi entropy. For an alternating bipartition, we find that the Renyi entropy can be mapped to an eight vertex model partition function on a rotated lattice. We also show that for the VBS state, the Renyi entropy of the alternating partition is described by a critical field theory with central charge $c=1$. The generalization to $SU(n)$ VBS and its connection with a dimerization transition in the entanglement Hamiltonian is discussed.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures. Discussion on the SU(N) case added. Published version
Supplementary Document 5: from Molecular basis of conformational changes and mechanics of integrins
Creators: name: gaikwad, Hanmant K.
name: Jaswandkar, Sharad V.
name: Katti, Kalpana S.
name: Haage, Amanda
name: Katti, Dinesh R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mechanics
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 30399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Supplementary document S5: Video S5: The integrin model M3 (liganded integrin with Mn2+ ions) under the torsional deformation: The extended integrin structure from tensile deformation was used for the torsion test. Here, the tail domains βTD and Calf-2 were constrained, and torsion was applied at the head domains βA and β-propeller of the integrin.
Additional file 1 of The impact of achieving a sustained virological response with direct-acting antivirals on serum autotaxin levels in chronic hepatitis C patients
Creators: name: Saleh, Shereen Abou Bakr
name: Abdelwahab, Khaled Mohamed
name: Mady, Asmaa Mady
name: Mohamed, Ghada Abdelrahman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. ROC curve for the detection of grade F3-4 fibrosis at baseline. Figure S2. ROC curve for the detection of grade F3-4 fibrosis at SVR12. Table S1. Patients’ liver stiffness at baseline and SVR12. Table S2. Correlation between ATX and patients’ characteristics at baseline and SVR12.
XXII International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology - Abstracts Book
Creators: name: Nardi, Elena
name: Corazza, Ivan
name: Cercenelli, Laura
name: Rossi, Pier Luca
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2022
Subjects: FIS/03 Fisica della materia
FIS/07 Fisica applicata (a beni culturali, ambientali, biologia e medicina)
ING-IND/34 Bioingegneria industriale
ING-INF/06 Bioingegneria elettronica e informatica
M-EDF/01 Metodi e didattiche delle attività motorie
MED/11 Malattie dell'apparato cardiovascolare

description: This book contain the abstracts presented the XXII ICMMB, held in Bologna in September 2022. The abstracts are divided following the sessions scheduled during the conference.
Additional file 3 of Study protocol: Whole genome sequencing Implementation in standard Diagnostics for Every cancer patient (WIDE)
Creators: name: Samsom, Kris G.
name: Bosch, Linda J. W.
name: Schipper, Luuk J.
name: Roepman, Paul
name: Ewart De Bruijn
name: Hoes, Louisa R.
name: Immy Riethorst
name: Schoenmaker, Lieke
name: Kolk, Lizet E. Van Der
name: Retèl, Valesca P.
name: Frederix, Geert W. J.
name: Buffart, Tineke E.
name: Hoeven, Jacobus J. M. Van Der
name: Voest, Emile E.
name: Cuppen, Edwin
name: Monkhorst, Kim
name: Meijer, Gerrit A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3: Questionnaire at end of study.
Captures et rejets des métiers de pêche français. Résultats des observations à bord des navires de pêche professionnelle en 2019. Obsmer
Creators: name: Cornou, Anne Sophie
name: Scavinner, Marion
name: Sagan, Jonathan
name: Cloatre, Thomas
name: Dubroca, Laurent
name: Billet, Norbert
Publisher: name: Obsmer
Year: 2021

description: This document is a summary of the information collected in 2019 on board professional fishing vessels in the framework of the ObsMer action. This action aims to observe in situ the fishing activity and the entire catch, particularly the part not retained, by identifying the species caught, the tonnages by species and by taking size measurements. This work is part of a partnership between the Fisheries and Aquaculture Directorate (DPMA) of the Ministry of the Sea, the French National Fisheries Committee (CNPMEM) and Ifremer.
description: Ce document est une synthèse des informations collectées en 2019 à bord des navires de pêche professionnelle dans le cadre de l'action ObsMer. Cette action vise à observer in situ l’activité de pêche et l'ensemble de la capture, particulièrement la partie non retenue, en identifiant les espèces capturées, les tonnages par espèce et en prenant des mesures de tailles. Ce travail s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre la Direction des Pêches Maritimes et de l'Aquaculture (DPMA) du Ministère de la Mer, le Comité National des Pêches Maritimes et des Élevages Marins (CNPMEM) et l'Ifremer.
Additional file 3 of Autism-linked mutations of CTTNBP2 reduce social interaction and impair dendritic spine formation via diverse mechanisms
Creators: name: Pu-Yun Shih
name: Hsieh, Bing-Yuan
name: Ching-Yen Tsai
name: Chiu-An Lo
name: Chen, Brian E.
name: Hsueh, Yi-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3: Table S2 contains the statistical results of Fig. 5B.
title: 10,10-Bis(dimethylamino)nonafulvene
Creators: name: Hafner, Klaus
name: Tappe, H.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023

description: Li-, K- and [(CH₃)₄N] cyclononatetraenides (1)[¹] are the only monocyclic derivatives of the hypothetical cyclononatetraene that have been isolated so far[²].
Flat bands in Weaire-Thorpe model and silicene
Creators: name: Hatsugai, Y.
name: Shiraishi, K.
name: Aoki, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to analytically capture and identify peculiarities in the electronic structure of silicene, Weaire-Thorpe(WT) model, a standard model for treating three-dimensional (3D) silicon, is applied to silicene with the buckled 2D structure. In the original WT model for four hybridized $sp^3$ orbitals on each atom along with inter-atom hopping, the band structure can be systematically examined in 3D, where flat (dispersionless) bands exist as well. For examining silicene, here we re-formulate the WT model in terms of the overlapping molecular-orbital (MO) method which enables us to describe flat bands away from the electron-holesymmetric point. The overlapping MO formalism indeed enables us to reveal an important difference: while in 3D the dipersive bands with cones are sandwiched by doubly-degenerate flat bands, in 2D the dipersive bands with cones are sandwiched by triply-degenerate and non-degenerate (nearly) flat bands, which is consistent with the original band calculation by Takeda and Shiraishi. Thus emerges a picture for why the whole band structure of silicene comprises a pair of dispersive bands with Dirac cones with each of the band touching a nearly flat (narrow) band at $Γ$. We can also recognize that, for band engineering, the bonds perpendicular to the atomic plane are crucial, and that a ferromagnetism or structural instabilities are expected if we can shift the chemical potential close to the flat bands.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures (final version) to appear in NJP
INDISCIPLINARY USE OF PRIMARY CLASS STUDENTS TO WORK TRADITIONS PSYCHOLOGICAL PREPARATION CONDITIONS
Creators: name: Aytmuratov, B.T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In the article, in the psychological preparation of elementary school students for work, showing pictures of people's labor heroes in places where it is possible, organizing meetings and discussion nights with them, and holding them, will give a good result to arouse the desire of students to show themselves in work, and also to introduce elementary school students to labor traditions. written on the conditions of psychological preparation for interdisciplinary use.
title: Coblehaugh : an account of the redevelopment of a children's home
Creators: name: Stickle, Wilma
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2014

description: The original building was purpose-built in the 1950s and provided residential care for up to 20 children and young people in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire in north-east Scotland. Over the years as residential care practices developed, this number reduced to a maximum of six young people resident. The decision to re-develop Coblehaugh was made following a best value review of Aberdeenshire Council's Residential Child Care Service in 1999. Informed by this, a report to the Social Work and Housing Committee in 2001 on the provision of residential care for young people concluded that the current buildings, including Coblehaugh, were no longer 'fit for purpose' in terms of size, layout and physical condition for the type of residential care that Aberdeenshire Council wanted to provide.
Higher spin AdS_3 holography with extended supersymmetry
Creators: name: Creutzig, Thomas
name: Hikida, Yasuaki
name: Ronne, Peter B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a holographic duality between a higher spin AdS_3 gravity with so(p) extended supersymmetry and a large N limit of a 2-dimensional Grassmannian-like model with a specific critical level k=N and a non-diagonal modular invariant. As evidence, we show the match of one-loop partition functions. Moreover, we construct symmetry generators of the coset model for low spins which are dual to gauge fields in the supergravity. Further, we discuss a possible relation to superstring theory by noticing an N=3 supersymmetry of critical level model at finite k,N. In particular, we examine BPS states and marginal deformations. Inspired by the supergravity side, we also propose and test another large N CFT dual obtained as a Z_2 automorphism truncation of a similar coset model, but at a non-critical level.
description: 44 pages, published version