cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gene transfer to the neonatal CNS
Creators: name: Karda, Rajvinder
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: A novel technology for the generation of light emitting somatic transgenic animals has been developed using lentiviral vectors where luciferase expression is transcriptionally regulated by tandem, synthetic, transcription factor binding elements. This allows signalling pathways in diseased organs to be monitored continually and consciously and in a non-invasive manner. I was able to confirm my hypothesis that long term somatic transgenesis could be achieved within the CNS after a single neonatal intracranial injection of the biosensors. No signs of activated microglia or astrogliosis from the injection or the vector expression was observed. I generated several lentiviral biosensors and this included an astrocyte specific biosensor GFAP. I established and validated a Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy mouse model in outbred CD1 mice. I applied somatic transgenic technology to the HIE mouse model to investigate whether it was possible to predict the severity of the disease in live mice. Unexpectedly, the luciferase expression from the four biosensors failed to correlate with the extent of brain infarct or the weight of the mice. To investigate this surprising results, I challenged the underlying assumption that GP64 enveloped lentiviral vectors target GFAP positive astrocytes. Interestingly very few astrocyte positive cells were being targeted by the GP64 pseudotyped lentiviral vectors. As GFP expression from lentiviral vectors was limited and mainly situated around the injection site, I investigated the use of AAV delivery to the CNS. AAV8 vector generated strong and homogenous GFP expression. An AAV8 NFκB biosensor was made and injected intracranially to new-born mice. This showed substantially more stable luciferase expression compared with lentivirus vectors.
Additional file 4: of Targeted gluteal exercise versus sham exercise on self-reported physical function for people with hip osteoarthritis (the GHOst trial â Gluteal exercise for Hip Osteoarthritis): a protocol for a randomised clinical trial
Creators: name: Semciw, Adam
name: Pizzari, Tania
name: Woodley, Stephanie
name: Zacharias, Anita
name: Kingsley, Michael
name: Green, Rod
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Example of the participant information and consent form. Bendigo site. (PDF 184 kb)
The One Who Wants It
Creators: name: Das Neves, Sérgio
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: The poet Manuel António Pina was a close reader of Nietzsche, incorporating some of his philosophical ideas in his own poetry. The objective of this article is to reflect on Pina’s poetical opus Aquele que quer morrer (1978) through the presence of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical literature The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 1882-87). Furthermore, this presence allows us to recognise the porous border shared by philosophy and poetry, where these two authors encounter one another. The article concludes that Nietzsche’s philosophical discourse is contaminated by the poetic one and that Pina’s poetic discourse allows itself to be contaminated by Nietzschean philosophy. Metaphor, allegory, irony and self-reflexivity are the most shared operative tools by these authors.
description: Rassegna iberistica
The structure of detonation waves in supernovae revisited
Creators: name: Kushnir, Doron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of a thermonuclear detonation wave can be solved accurately and, thus, may serve as a test bed for studying different approximations that are included in multidimensional hydrodynamical simulations of supernova. We present the structure of thermonuclear detonations for the equal mass fraction of $^{12}$C and $^{16}$O (CO) and for pure $^{4}$He (He) over a wide range of upstream plasma conditions. The lists of isotopes we constructed allow us to determine the detonation speeds, as well as the final states for these detonations, with an uncertainty of the percent level (obtained here for the first time). We provide our results with a numerical accuracy of $\sim0.1\%$, which provides an efficient benchmark for future studies. We further show that CO detonations are pathological for all upstream density values, which differs from previous studies, which concluded that for low upstream densities CO detonations are of the Chapman-Jouget (CJ) type. We provide an approximate condition, independent of reaction rates, that allows to estimate whether arbitrary upstream values will support a detonation wave of the CJ type. Using this argument, we are able to show that CO detonations are pathological and to verify that He detonations are of the CJ type, as was previously claimed for He. Our analysis of the reactions that control the approach to nuclear statistical equilibrium, which determines the length-scale of this stage, reveals that at high densities, the reactions $^{11}$B$+p\leftrightarrow3^{4}$He plays a significant role, which was previously unknown.
description: 33 pages, 27 figures, 14 tables. Revised following a referee report
Detecting Exomoons Via Doppler Monitoring of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
Creators: name: Vanderburg, Andrew
name: Rappaport, Saul A.
name: Mayo, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Teachey, Kipping, and Schmitt (2018) reported the detection of a candidate exomoon, tentatively designated Kepler-1625b I, around a giant planet in the Kepler field. The candidate exomoon would be about the size and mass of Neptune, considerably larger than any moon in our Solar System, and if confirmed, would be the first in a new class of giant moons or binary planets. Motivated by the large mass ratio in the Kepler-1625b planet and satellite system, we investigate the detectability of similarly massive exomoons around directly imaged exoplanets via Doppler spectroscopy. The candidate moon around Kepler-1625b would induce a radial velocity signal of about 200 m/s on its host planet, large enough that similar moons around directly imaged planets orbiting bright, nearby stars might be detected with current or next generation instrumentation. In addition to searching for exomoons, a radial velocity survey of directly imaged planets could reveal the orientations of the planets' spin axes, making it possible to identify Uranus analogs.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in AJ
Additional file 1 of Long-term outcome of renal cell carcinoma in patients with HIV who undergo surgery
Creators: name: Chen, Liang
name: Wu, Menghua
name: Zheng, Xin
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Zhao, Jimao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Fig S1. The sample size calculation through PASS 21.
Applications of memristors in conventional analogue electronics
Creators: name: Berdan, Radu
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation presents the steps employed to activate and utilise analogue memristive devices in conventional analogue circuits and beyond. TiO2 memristors are mainly utilised in this study, and their large variability in operation in between similar devices is identified. A specialised memristor characterisation instrument is designed and built to mitigate this issue and to allow access to large numbers of devices at a time. Its performance is quantified against linear resistors, crossbars of linear resistors, stand-alone memristive elements and crossbars of memristors. This platform allows for a wide range of different pulsing algorithms to be applied on individual devices, or on crossbars of memristive elements, and is used throughout this dissertation. Different ways of achieving analogue resistive switching from any device state are presented. Results of these are used to devise a state-of-art biasing parameter finder which automatically extracts pulsing parameters that induce repeatable analogue resistive switching. IV measurements taken during analogue resistive switching are then utilised to model the internal atomic structure of two devices, via fittings by the Simmons tunnelling barrier model. These reveal that voltage pulses modulate a nano-tunnelling gap along a conical shape. Further retention measurements are performed which reveal that under certain conditions, TiO2 memristors become volatile at short time scales. This volatile behaviour is then implemented into a novel SPICE volatile memristor model. These characterisation methods of solid-state devices allowed for inclusion of TiO2 memristors in practical electronic circuits. Firstly, in the context of large analogue resistive crossbars, a crosspoint reading method is analysed and improved via a 3-step technique. Its scaling performance is then quantified via SPICE simulations. Next, the observed volatile dynamics of memristors are exploited in two separate sequence detectors, with applications in neuromorphic engineering. Finally, the memristor as a programmable resistive weight is exploited to synthesise a memristive programmable gain amplifier and a practical memristive automatic gain control circuit.
Neutrino spin-flips in curved space-time
Creators: name: Bruggen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The general relativistic effects on spin-flavor oscillations above the core of type II supernovae are investigated. The evolution equation is derived and the relative magnitudes of the terms in the Hamiltonian, which arise from the weak, electromagnetic and gravitational interaction, are compared. The effects on the resonance position and the adiabaticity are studied. Explicit calculations are presented for non-rotating and slowly rotating stars.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure, accepted by Phys. Rev. D
High harmonic generation in periodic systems
Creators: name: Hawkins, Peter
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: In this thesis theoretical models for describing ultrafast dynamics and High Harmonic Generation (HHG) in bulk periodic systems are developed. HHG in bulk solid state systems has been achieved by several groups over the last few years. In this thesis a review of recent results is presented, with attention paid to the development of theoretical models for the HHG process in periodic solids. A closed form expression for a Landau-Dykhne type sub-cycle transition rate between bands of nearest-neighbour tight-binding structures is derived. This rate is used to construct a semi-classical model for HHG in solids. The sub-cycle nature of the transition rate is shown to lead to destructive interference of currents in the conduction band. The time dependent Schödinger equation is employed in the accelerated Bloch basis to study the effect of multiple bands on the HHG process. For mid-IR fields transitions between bands can be sufficiently strong that transitions between the conduction bands suppress the Bragg reflection process. It is shown that such transitions can form an effective nearly parabolic conduction band, and lead to a large reduction in harmonic intensity compared to single conduction band models. The prediction of destructive interference of current in the conduction band of periodic solids is studied in ZnO, using a non-local empirical pseudopotential band structure and matrix elements, in the density matrix formalism, with the inclusion of dephasing effects. It is shown that the quantum destructive interference is present in the density matrix calculation, closely matching semi-classical predictions. The effect of multiple bands of the structure, and variation in the dephasing timescale of the system is also considered.
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Certificado de seguro Aon Gil y Cardaval
Creators: name: Neus, Moyano
name: Moyano, Neus
name: Gil Y Cardaval, Aon
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: Exposición "Julio Cortázar, Viajes, imágenes y otros territorios"

description: Certificado de seguro por el préstamo del documento "Carta de J. Cortázar a S. Yurkievich pidiéndole que sea su albacea literario" al Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona por la exposición titulada "Julio Cortázar, Viajes, imágenes y otros territorios" por el periodo del 19/07/2004 al 15/12/2004.
description: Destinatario: Yurkievich, Saúl
description: Notas: El conjunto consta de una carta con membrete del CCCB y de un certificado de seguro con membrete de la Correduría de Seguros Aon Gil y Carvajal – Sociedad Unipersonal.
description: Source: Num.Ref. : JC-DY-CAR-04.017
description: Source: Localización del archivo: Centre de Recherches Latino-Américaines (CRLA–Archivos, ITEM UMR8132). MSHS - Bât. A5, 1er étage 5 rue Théodore Lefebvre - TSA21103. 86073 Poitiers cedex 9.
The cosmological constant in Supergravity
Creators: name: Antoniadis, Ignatios
name: Chatrabhuti, Auttakit
name: Isono, Hiroshi
name: Knoops, Rob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a supersymmetrisation of the cosmological constant in ordinary $N=1$ supergravity that breaks supersymmetry spontaneously by a constant Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) term associated to a $U(1)$ symmetry. This term is a variation of a new gauge invariant FI term proposed recently, which is invariant under Kähler transformations and can be written even for a gauged R-symmetry on top of the standard FI contribution. The two terms are the same in the absence of matter but differ in its presence. The proposed term is reduced to a constant FI-term up to fermion interactions that disappear in the unitary gauge in the absence of any F-term supersymmetry breaking. The constant FI term leads to a positive cosmological constant, uplifting the vacuum energy from the usual anti-de Sitter supergravity to any higher value.
description: 12 pages, v2: published version
Entretien de Yassin al-Rawad auprès de Ali Jadaan Khalaf al-Aqaylah à propos de l'inondation de Ma'an en 1966
Creators: name: al-Aqaylah, Ali Jadaan Khalaf
name: Yassin Al-Rawad (Enquêteur)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/FileId-3139
description: Coverage: Ma'an, Jordanie
Ruppia maritima Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Ruppiaceae
Ruppia
Ruppia maritima

description: Ruppia maritima, spec. nov.
 1. Ruppia. Hort. cliff. 436. It. wgoth. 186. Guett. stamp. 2. p.416.
 Buccaferrea maritima, foliis acutissimis. Mich. gen. 72. t.35.
 Potamogeton maritimum, gramineis longioribus foliis, fructu fere umbellato. Raj. angl. 3. p.134. t.6. f.1.
 Fucus folliculaceus, foeniculi folio longiore. Bauh. pin. 365.
 Habitat in Europae maritimis. ☉
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on pages 127-128, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
List of Books from the Port of Piraeus
Creators: name: Dardano, Valentina
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: The inscription, carrying part of a list of books, was found in the surroundings of the port of Piraeus. Some scholars think that it belongs to a library’s catalogue; according to others, it might record a donation offered to a gymnasium’s library. The inscription is of great interest as both a historical and paraliterary document. On the one hand, it is an asset for the study of book circulation and the emergence of public libraries in the Hellenistic age. On the other hand, it provides useful data about otherwise unknown or highly fragmentary texts, and it is a key witness in the history of tradition of all the books mentioned.
description: Axon
Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics in Astrophysics: Algorithm and Tests for Multi-Dimensional Flow
Creators: name: Ryu, Dongsu
name: Jones, T. W.
name: Frank, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present for astrophysical use a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference method on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme, which is a second-order-accurate extension of the Roe-type upwind scheme. Multiple spatial dimensions are treated through a Strang-type operator splitting. The constraint of a divergence-free field is enforced exactly by calculating a correction via a gauge transformation in each time step. Results from two-dimensional shock tube tests show that the code captures correctly discontinuities in all three MHD waves families as well as contact discontinuities. The numerical viscosities and resistivity in the code, which are useful in order to understand simulations involving turbulent flows, are estimated through the decay of two-dimensional linear waves. Finally, the robustness of the code in two-dimensions is demonstrated through calculations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and the Orszag-Tang vortex.
description: ApJ accepted, 20 pages, uuencoded, compressed postscript file, 8 figures available by anonymous ftp at ftp://sirius.chungnam.ac.kr/pub/mhd2d/ or available upon request to ryu@sirius.chungnam.ac.kr
Analysis of visual responses in the mouse early visual pathway
Creators: name: Ardila Jimenez, Silvia
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: Many animals, including humans, rely on visual input to guide their behaviour and interact with their environment. The study of the visual system is prevalent in neuroscience, however, given the highly complex nature of the brain, we are yet to understand the full functionality of the system. In this study, we set out to explore different aspects of visual processing in the mouse early visual pathway, and how they compare to those in other mammals. In this thesis, we study two major brain structures in the early visual pathway, the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) in the thalamus, and the primary visual area (V1 or area 17) in the cortex. We aim to explore 3 different aspects of visual information processing in these areas. Firstly, the functional response characteristics of single neurons in the visual thalamus. Secondly, whether additional communication channels are used in thalamo-cortical interactions in the mouse. And lastly, the correlation of behaviour within neuronal population activity in visual cortex. We use data from two different experimental paradigms. One involves an anaesthetised preparation, recording extracellular potentials from the visual thalamus in isolation, or from the visual thalamus and the primary visual cortex simultaneously. The second involves an awake preparation in which animals were trained on a `Go'/`NoGo' discrimination task and extracellular potentials were recorded from the primary visual cortex during behaviour. This project combines time-series analysis and information theoretical methods to analyse high dimensional multi-electrode array recordings. In addition to the analysis of experimental data, we also explore the practical and methodological implications of measuring communication through cross-frequency coupling and propose an alternative method to measure this phenomenon.
Notes on Musical Imagery in the Poetry of Jāmi
Creators: name: Dal Bianco, Alessia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The poet Nur-al-Din ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān Jāmi (1414-92) is known to have been proficient in music theory; he also wrote a Resāla-ye musiqi (Treatise on Music Theory). In his poems he displayed an extensive and precise use of musical terms. To probe further into the elements of musical imagery, I scanned through his maṯnavis Haft awrang (The Seven Thrones) in search of lines dedicated to musical modes, instruments, and performers. Considering that musical imagery had a long-established tradition before his time, I pursued a comparative investigation and commented on some lines by way of examples. Finally, I argue that literary conventions shaped Jāmi’s poetry more than his expertise in music theory did.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
The Polarisation Signatures of Microlensing
Creators: name: Newsam, A. M.
name: Simmons, J. F. L.
name: Hendry, M. A.
name: Coleman, I. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has already been shown that microlensing can give rise to a non-zero variable polarisation signal. Here we use realistic simulations to demonstrate the additional information that can be gained from polarimetric observations of lensing events.
description: 4 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures from 6 postscript files. Uses elsart.sty, graphicx.sty and harvard.sty. To appear in New Astronomy Reviews - proceedings of the Oxford Workshop `Gravitational Lensing: Nature's Own Weighing Scales'
Crime and Violence in the Fiction of Caterina Albert / Víctor Català
Creators: name: Julià Capdevila, Lluïsa
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: After classifying the fictional genres that are to be found in the seven volumes of short stories by Caterina Albert / Víctor Català that were published between 1902 and 1951, this article studies the ways in which the corrosive sense and presence of violence and crime are used against the patriarchal system in her work. The new line of research presented here, comparing Víctor Català’s short stories with crime fiction, is still in its early stages. The analysis of some specific stories also considers the technical evolution and introduction of cinematographic forms. Finally, it is noted how Víctor Català is a precursor of women writers of today’s increasingly popular crime fiction.
description: Rassegna iberistica
Dimensional crossover for the beyond-mean-field correction in Bose gases
Creators: name: Ilg, Tobias
name: Kumlin, Jan
name: Santos, Luis
name: Petrov, Dmitry S.
name: Büchler, Hans Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed beyond-mean-field analysis of a weakly interacting Bose gas in the crossover from three to low dimensions. We find an analytical solution for the energy and provide a clear qualitative picture of the crossover in the case of a box potential with periodic boundary conditions. We show that the leading contribution of the confinement-induced resonance is of beyond-mean-field order and calculate the leading corrections in the three- and low-dimensional limits. We also characterize the crossover for harmonic potentials in a model system with particularly chosen short- and long-range interactions and show the limitations of the local-density approximation. Our analysis is applicable to Bose-Bose mixtures and gives a starting point for developing the beyond-mean-field theory in inhomogeneous systems with long-range interactions such as dipolar particles or Rydberg-dressed atoms.
description: 5 pages and supplemental material, revised treatment of the harmonic confinement
Ruppia maritima Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Ruppiaceae
Ruppia
Ruppia maritima

description: Ruppia maritima Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 127. 1753.
"Habitat in Europae maritimis." RCN: 1046.
Lectotype (Setchell in Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser 4, 25: 470. 1946): [icon] "Buccaferrea maritima, foliis minus acutis" in Micheli, Nov. Pl. Gen.: 72, t. 35. 1729.
Generitype of Ruppia Linnaeus.
Current name: Ruppia maritima L. (Ruppiaceae).
Note: Setchell illustrates (pl. 47, 48) two sheets in LINN, one of which (sheet 176.1) has been accepted as the type by some later authors (e.g. Obermeyer in Leistner, Fl. Southern Africa 1: 71. 1966). However, Setchell’s choice has priority.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), pp. 785-805 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 805, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Additional file 3 of Long-term outcome of renal cell carcinoma in patients with HIV who undergo surgery
Creators: name: Chen, Liang
name: Wu, Menghua
name: Zheng, Xin
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Zhao, Jimao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Fig S3. Bivariate analysis to present relationship between CD4+/CD8+ ratio and overall survival for PLWH.
Discretization on the cosmic scale inspired from the Old Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Agnese, A. G.
name: Festa, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Old Quantum Mechanics actions discretization rules for periodic motions on the atomic scale (Bohr-Sommerfeld) have been suitably modified in order to account the gravitational field instead of the electrostatic one. The new rules are used to calculate a few mechanical quantities pertinent to the periodic motions of celestial bodies. Several values have been obtained which result in reasonable agreement with the corresponding experimental data. A gravitational dimensionless structure constant has been determined, using the data relative to the solar sistem, which allows to quantitatively account for phenomena on a much wider scale. In particular, some information is acquired about the recently discovered extrasolar planetary systems and about the general empirical law which connects the spin of a celestial body with the square of its mass.
description: 17 pages, LaTex, 2 Postscript figures
Star Formation in Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence
Creators: name: Kennicutt,, Robert C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of star formation rates (SFRs) in galaxies provide vital clues to the physical nature of the Hubble sequence, and are key probes of the evolutionary properties of galaxies. The focus of this review is on the broad patterns in the star formation properties of galaxies along the Hubble sequence, and their implications for understanding galaxy evolution and the physical processes that drive the evolution. Star formation in the disks and nuclear regions of galaxies are reviewed separately, then discussed within a common interpretive framework. The diagnostic methods used to measure SFRs are also reviewed, and a self-consistent set of SFR calibrations is presented as an aid to workers in the field.
description: 41 pages, with 9 figures. To appear in Volume 36 of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Letter of Quintus Oppius Proconsul to Aphrodisias
Creators: name: Ferraioli, Ferdinando
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: The inscription contains a letter sent by the Roman proconsul Oppius to the magistrates, the Council and the demos of the polis of Aphrodisias. In the letter, Oppius affirms that he has met the envoys of Aphrodisias in Kos and has received from them a decree of congratulations for his release. He also testifies to the help obtained by Aphrodisias when he was besieged at Laodicea by the troops of Mithridates and promises to help the city ​​as far as possible. Finally, he agrees to become the patron of the city; it is one of the oldest attestation of the request for patronage made by a city of the Greek world to a Roman magistrate.
description: Axon
Additional file 3: of Targeted gluteal exercise versus sham exercise on self-reported physical function for people with hip osteoarthritis (the GHOst trial – Gluteal exercise for Hip Osteoarthritis): a protocol for a randomised clinical trial
Creators: name: Semciw, Adam
name: Pizzari, Tania
name: Woodley, Stephanie
name: Zacharias, Anita
name: Kingsley, Michael
name: Green, Rod
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Flow diagram illustrating screening for lumbar pathology as the source of hip pain. Abbreviations: pSLR passive straight leg raise, performed to 45° of hip flexion. (DOCX 25 kb)
Monumental Entrance to Gandharan Buddhist Architecture
Creators: name: Olivieri, Luca Maria
name: Iori, Elisa
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The article presents a series of pieces excavated by the ISMEO Italian Archaeological Mission in two Buddhist sacred areas in Swat (Pakistan). The pieces are chosen for their connection to the theme of monumental entrances of cultic buildings. In the first case (Gumbat), the building is a shrine. In the second, (Amluk-dara) it is a Main Stupa. The pieces belong to three different entrance parts: lower sides of the stairs, decorated steps or stair-riser friezes, and decorated frames of doors. Pieces like these, which belong to specific architecture, can be hypothetically positioned in their places, allowing thus a more vivid reconstruction of the original appearance of the monuments. The decorative apparatus of the entrances to Buddhist monuments, although apparently extraneous to the religious language, is not less rich than the Buddhist iconographic programme illustrated on the stupas or inside the shrines. The second part of the article deals with the interpretation of the language of the entrance as ‘symbolic capital’ of the political élites, who were the donors of the great Buddhist architecture in Swat.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Ruscus aculeatus Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Ruscus
Ruscus aculeatus

description: Ruscus aculeatus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1041. 1753.
"Habitat in Galliae, Italiae nemorosis asperis." RCN: 7524.
Lectotype (Yeo & Mathew in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 83. 1993): Herb. Burser XXIV: 91 (UPS).
Generitype of Ruscus Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 192. 1929).
Current name: Ruscus aculeatus L. (Liliaceae / Ruscaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), pp. 785-805 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 805, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Prolegomena to the Bon Religion and to the Soteriological Principles of Maternal Tantra (Ma rgyud) in the Bonpo Tradition Through the Work of Yongdzin Tendzin Namdak
Creators: name: Maniscalco, Francesco
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The soteriological principles of the Mother tantra (Ma rgyud) in the religious tradition of the Tibetan bon are founded on a different basis from that of the other tantras and consequently are considered inherent to the metaphysical matrix and the eschatology of the philosophical doctrines of Total Perfection (rDzogs chen). Lopon Tendzin Namdak (1926-), the highest spiritual authority of the current bon, illustrates the precepts of the Mother tantra explaining the analogy with those of Total Perfection in the Commentary and Notes to the Essence of the Wisdom of the Mother Tantra (Ma rgyud ye shes thig le’i mchan ’grel), which is part of the vast corpus, still almost unpublished of his vast exegetical production, and of which we intend to present an introduction based on the translation of relevant sections. This is preceded by a general synthesis on bon and the most salient hypotheses on its mysterious origin, identity and formation.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Water resource impact under climate change for the Isle of Wight
Creators: name: Simpson, James Michael
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: The Isle of Wight is a small island off the south coast of England. As with much of the developed world the island’s water supply is effectively universal, and is secure against all but the worst droughts. However, the frequency and magnitude of future droughts are anticipated to be worse than those on historic record due to the influence of climate change. While preparations against future water shortage are important, such measures must be efficient in terms of cost and abstractions due to pressure to keep costs to consumers low and minimize the impact on the environment. The development of a representation of future climate change which balances precision with the need to fully represent uncertainty is fundamental to water planning where such efficiency is required. In this, the Isle of Wight can also represent a useful case study for climate change forecasting methodology applicable to the wider UK and beyond. A second challenge is presented by the geological and hydrological complexity of the island. Erosional and tectonic forces have altered the island’s geology and, as an island, a dense network of small catchments determines drainage to sea. This Thesis presents a complete modelling process for the assessment of changing water resource availability in such a case of high heterogeneity in which few assumptions can be made regarding hydrological processes. Empirical techniques are employed to determine functional groundwater units and detect correlations between river flows and groundwater elevations. Projections of climate change are reconciled against the distribution of historic observations. Finally, a modified drought index is introduced, allowing the impact of changed drought distributions on multiple water sources to be compared with historic events.
Semele androgyna Kunth
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Semele
Semele androgyna

description: Ruscus androgynus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1041. 1753.
"Habitat in Canards." RCN: 7527.
Type not designated.
Original material: Herb. Clifford: 466, Ruscus 4 (BM); [icon] in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 332, t. 250, f. 322. 1732.
Current name: Semele androgyna (L.) Kunth (Liliaceae / Ruscaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), pp. 785-805 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 805, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Propagation of surface initiated rolling contact fatigue cracks in bearing steel
Creators: name: Rycerz, Pawel
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: The useful life of mechanical components which experience highly stressed rolling/sliding contacts, such as rolling element bearings or gears, is limited by rolling contact fatigue (RCF). Surface initiated pitting is a mode of RCF which has in recent years received particular attention from industry due to its frequent occurrence in service. This work focuses on the growth behaviour of RCF cracks before they develop into surface pits. A three-contact disc machine was used to perform pitting experiments on bearing steel samples. Preliminary tests showed that surface initiated cracks could be reproduced under high contact pressure and mixed lubrication regime. However, it was not possible to detect them using the vibration monitoring system installed on the test rig. This led to the development of a high sensitivity crack detection system which employs the principle of magnetic flux leakage (MFL). The existing test rig was modified to accommodate an inductive sensor and required signal acquisition electronics. In addition, a signal processing procedure was developed to enable analysis in real time. It was shown that the MFL technique is significantly more sensitive than commonly used alternatives. The system is capable of automatically finding cracks down to about 100 μm in length. In addition, results have shown a linear relationship between defect size and signal amplitude which enables in-situ sizing of cracks. Using the crack detector, a procedure to generate cracks and extract their growth rates was established. Crack growth was first studied under high contact pressure. It was found that initiation occurred very early in total life, which was attributed to high asperity stresses due to mixed lubrication regime. Total life to pitting was dominated by crack propagation, the speed of which was shown to depend on crack size. Small cracks grew at a steady and slightly decreasing rate until a critical size is reached at which propagation speed rapidly increases, shortly followed by pitting. Further study at lower loads confirmed that contact pressure is the main parameter controlling propagation speed. In order to identify a suitable crack propagation law, the measured crack growth rates were plotted against a stress intensity parameter expressed in terms of maximum contact pressure and crack size. The results suggest that after reaching certain length, rolling contact fatigue cracks grow according to a Paris‟ type power law, where the exponent of stress intensity parameter, and therefore contact pressure, was found to be approximately 7.5.
Proskynema of the Achaean Theodotos for Ptolemy XII
Creators: name: Rossini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: A proskynema by an Achaian, at Philae, for Ptolemy XII and his children, is usually dated to the king’s widowhood. The death of Cleopatra Tryphaena, Ptolemy XII’s only known official wife, has been placed in 69-68 BC, while his youngest child was born in 59 to an unknown woman. Ptolemy died in 51. The inscription was dated 59/58-52/51. But traces of the reappearance of Tryphaena during the kings’s exile (58-55) – together with Berenice, the only legitimate daughter – implies that Tryphaena was deposed and subjected to abolitio memoriae, and that Ptolemy got involved in relationships illegitimate to Greek eyes. The absence of any queen in the proskynema could derive from their unimportance from a Greek point of view, and the epigraph could be, at least, ten years older.
description: Axon
Sociolinguistics of Hindī
Creators: name: Ferro, Giulia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This paper analyses varieties of Hindī language differentiated on the social ground, namely standard Hindī (the sanskritized language) and non-standard Hindī. The latter, which includes different varieties of spoken Hindī, was studied listening to two TV programs: Delhi Crime and Satyamev Jayate. Several features were observed on every level, but here the focus is on syntax (Hindī word order) and lexicon (code-switching). Information structure theory and pragmatics are used to analyse TV-mediated spoken Hindī word order. The comprehension of these special features can be helpful to predict the changes towards which Hindī tends to move and to give examples of the spoken language.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Influences of the environment on the development of neonatal allergic airways disease
Creators: name: Vasiliou, Jessica Ellen
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disease and both environmental and genetic factors contribute to disease onset. As asthma predominantly develops during childhood it is important to investigate asthma pathogenesis in the context of the maturing immune system and developing lung. A neonatal house dust mite (HDM)-induced model of allergic airways disease (AAD) was used to assess the impact of age, diet, pollution and maternal allergy on the development of neonatal AAD. To investigate the effect of age, age at first allergen challenge was altered. Allergen exposure during the first week of life caused robust AAD, but exposure between 14-21 days resulted in a hyporesponsiveness phenotype. This period corresponded to a nadir in pulmonary interleukin (IL)-13 producing T cells and innate lymphoid type 2 (ILC2) cells. Maternal asthma is a risk factor for the development of childhood asthma. HDM exposed offspring born to allergic mothers had reduced airway compliance 8 weeks of age and mounted a faster IgE response than offspring from non-allergic mothers. Serum vitamin D levels have been correlated with asthma control in adults and children. Vitamin D insufficiency in utero resulted in pulmonary Th2-skewing and a decrease in T regulatory cells irrespective of HDM or PBS exposure. Restoration of vitamin D reduced eosinophilia and IgE levels in HDM exposed mice. Increased air pollution has been correlated with asthma exacerbations. Exposure of pregnant female mice to diesel exhaust particles resulted in increased inflammation in the lungs of offspring, but did not exacerbate AAD. The data presented in this thesis strongly support a case for in utero and early life exposures as a crucial determinant in immune programming in early life, with likely additional influences on lung development.
Search for heavy resonances decaying to a photon and a hadronically decaying $Z/W/H$ boson in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ $\mathrm{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many extensions of the Standard Model predict new resonances decaying to a $Z$, $W$, or Higgs boson and a photon. This paper presents a search for such resonances produced in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ $\mathrm{TeV}$ using a dataset with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The $Z/W/H$ bosons are identified through their decays to hadrons. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model expectation in the entire investigated mass range. Upper limits are set on the production cross section times branching fraction for resonance decays to $Z/W+γ$ in the mass range from 1.0 to 6.8 $\mathrm{TeV}$, and for the first time into $H+γ$ in the mass range from 1.0 to 3.0 $\mathrm{TeV}$.
description: 44 pages in total, author list starting page 28, 10 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2016-30/
Additional file 1: of Frailty trajectories to identify end of life: a longitudinal population-based study
Creators: name: Stow, Daniel
name: Matthews, Fiona
name: Hanratty, Barbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S1. Model development latent growth curve model fit and parameters to determine model shape*. Table S2. Model description and goodness-of-fit statistics for latent growth curves including age and sex*. Table S3. Full description of latent growth mixture parameter characteristics and model fits*. (DOCX 41 kb)
The Reception of Las madres no by Katixa Agirre
Creators: name: Pérez Isasi, Santiago
name: Sampedro, Aiora
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: This article analyses the positive reception of Katixa Agirre’s novel Las madres no. In order to contextualise these considerations, we will briefly present the writer’s career up to this point, and we will offer a brief narrative analysis of the novel. Finally, we will trace some possible explanations for the favourable reception of the book Las madres no among Spanish-speaking readers and critics: the originality of the text and the chosen subgenre (the crime thriller); the recent boom of publications on the topic of motherhood in Spanish and Latin-American recent literatures; and also the role played by the publishing house, Tránsito Libros, an independent and fairly young company with a strong presence in social networks which has attracted some enthusiastic followers within the Spanish readership. The combination of these different elements may explain why Las madres no has received more attention than other works by the same author, and by other Basque writers who have been translated into Spanish.
description: Rassegna iberistica
Additional file 4 of Morphological characteristics and transcriptome analysis at different anther development stages of the male sterile mutant MS7–2 in Wucai (Brassica campestris L.)
Creators: name: Wang, Jian
name: Yang, Yitao
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Wang, Shaoxing
name: Yuan, Lingyun
name: Chen, Guohu
name: Tang, Xiaoyan
name: Hou, Jinfeng
name: Zhu, Shidong
name: Wang, Chenggang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S4. Heatmap analysis of oxidative phosphorylation-related genes.
First results from a hidden photon dark matter search in the meV sector using a plane-parabolic mirror system
Creators: name: Knirck, Stefan
name: Yamazaki, Takayuki
name: Okesaku, Yoshiki
name: Asai, Shoji
name: Idehara, Toshitaka
name: Inada, Toshiaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first results from a new dish antenna search for hidden photon dark matter (HPDM) in the meV mass region. A double mirror system composed of a plane and a parabolic mirror is designed to convert HPDMs into photons focused on a receiver. In this phase 1 experiment we obtain an upper limit on the photon-HP kinetic mixing $χ\lesssim 10^{-8}$ for the mass range of $0.67-0.92\,{\rm meV}$ using conventional mm-wave technology with a room-temperature receiver and a small-sized mirror system.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures