cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reminiscences of Kenneth Dale McCormick, 1975
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Publishers and publishing
Editors
Book industries and trade
Authors

description: Childhood, college life; writing, Doubleday bookstores; promotion manager, Garden City; editorial work; World War II, Office of Flying Safety; recollections of authors, literary popularity; scouting authors; nuisance suits; titles, illustrations, jacket design; screenplays; unsolicited manuscripts; Freedom to Read Committee
Radiation hydrodynamics simulations of photoevaporation of protoplanetary disks II: Metallicity dependence of UV and X-ray photoevaporation
Creators: name: Nakatani, Riouhei
name: Hosokawa, Takashi
name: Yoshida, Naoki
name: Nomura, Hideko
name: Kuiper, Rolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a suite of radiation hydrodynamics simulations of photoevaporating disks with varying the metallicity in a wide range of $10^{-3} \, Z_\odot \leq Z \leq 10^{0.5} \, Z_\odot $. We follow the disk evolution for over $\sim 5000$ years by solving hydrodynamics, radiative transfer, and non-equilibrium chemistry. Our chemistry model is updated from the first paper of this series by adding X-ray ionization and heating. We study the metallicity dependence of the disk photoevaporation rate and examine the importance of X-ray radiation. In the fiducial case with solar metallicity, including the X-ray effects does not significantly increase the photoevaporation rate when compared to the case with ultra-violet (UV) radiation only. At sub-solar metallicities in the range of $Z \gtrsim 10^{-1.5} \, Z_\odot $, the photoevaporation rate increases as metallicity decreases owing to the reduced opacity of the disk medium. The result is consistent with the observational trend that disk lifetimes are shorter in low metallicity environments. Contrastingly, the photoevaporation rate decreases at even lower metallicities of $Z \lesssim 10^{-1.5} \, Z_\odot $, because dust-gas collisional cooling remains efficient compared to far UV photoelectric heating whose efficiency depends on metallicity. The net cooling in the interior of the disk suppresses the photoevaporation. However, adding X-ray radiation significantly increases the photoevaporation rate, especially at $Z \sim 10^{-2}\, Z_\odot$. Although the X-ray radiation itself does not drive strong photoevaporative flows, X-rays penetrate deep into the neutral region in the disk, increase the ionization degree there, and reduce positive charges of grains. Consequently, the effect of photoelectric heating by far UV radiation is strengthened by the X-rays and enhances the disk photoevaporation.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 2 of Local adaptive evolution of two distinct clades of Beijing and T families of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Chongqing: a Bayesian population structure and phylogenetic study
Creators: name: Liang, Peng-Kuan
name: Zheng, Chao
name: Xu, Xiao-Fang
name: Zhao, Zhe-Ze
name: Zhao, Chang-Song
name: Li, Chang-He
name: Couvin, David
name: Reynaud, Yann
name: Zozio, Thierry
name: Rastogi, Nalin
name: Sun, Qun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2 : Table S2. The Spoligotype International Type (SIT) information.
Reminiscences of Kenneth Liberman 1988
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Educators
Aboriginal Australians
Students--Political activity

description: Studies at Beverly Hills High School, Pomona College, Old Westbury; political activities, campus politics; membership in California Democratic Council; work in Coalition for an Open Convention Office, 1968; reminiscences of Allard K. Lowenstein: relations with family, organizational skills, changing political philosophy; studies of Aborigines in Australia, lobbying activities with United Nations' committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for Land Rights for Aborigines
REPCCOAI
Creators: name: KOUBBI Philippe
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2017

description: Nous avons effectué des prélèvements annuels en janvier-février à bord du R/V "Marion Dufresne" depuis 2013 pour le mésozooplancton et 2017 pour le macrozooplancton et les poissons. Ces relevés ont eu lieu en conjonction avec le programme d'observation "South Indian Ocean Observation" (OISO PI : Claire Lo Monaco) (https://caraus.ipsl.jussieu.fr/oiso-accueil.html) et THEMISTO (PI : Cédric Cotté) sur l'utilisation de l'acoustique pour déterminer les abondances de poissons et de plancton. Les prélèvements REPCCOAI ont eu lieu en janvier et février de 2017 à 2019. Les prélèvements du programmes MDCPR ont été effectués de 2013 à 2016. La zone d'étude est située dans l'océan Indien subtropical et l'océan Austral. Le réseau d'échantillonnage passe par les archipels de Crozet et de Kerguelen dans l'océan Austral et se termine à proximité des îles de Saint-Paul et de la Nouvelle Amsterdam dans la partie sud de l'océan Indien. Ces missions traversent plusieurs provinces océanographiques et biogéochimiques allant des eaux tropicales de l'océan Indien aux eaux froides de l'océan Austral sachant que la zone d'étude est séparée par différents fronts hydrologiques identifiables par leurs caractéristiques physiques et chimiques. Le mésozooplancton a été collecté (1) en subsurface en continu entre les stations OISO grâce au Continuous Plankton Recorder et (2) à chaque station, en vertical, avec un WP2 (200 µm) (en 2018 et 2019). Le macrozooplancton tels que les euphausiacés et les poissons mésopélagiques ont été échantillonnés à chaque station avec un chalut pélagique Isaacs-Kidd (IKMT). Le filet IKMT possède une aile métallique qui maintient le filet ouvert. Le filet a une longueur totale de 17 m avec un maillage décroissant allant de 4 cm à l'entrée à 0,5 cm avant le collecteur. L'IKMT a été déployé depuis la surface jusqu'à différentes profondeurs, principalement 200 m, 600 m ou 1000-1200 m. Le filet est remorqué à une vitesse du navire comprise entre deux et trois n?uds. Les poissons et le plancton sont traités en laboratoire afin d'étudier leur distribution et de cartographier les patterns de diversité.Au delà des prélèvements réalisés dans le cadre de l'étude de la diversité du krill (échantillonnage en vue du séquençage des transcriptomes), les espèces d'euphausiacés pêchés avec le filet IKMT en quantité suffisante (E. vallentini et E. triacantha) et dans un état compatible avec une expérimentation in vivo ont été maintenus en stabulation en chambre froide environ 24h avant la mise en oeuvre d'un choc thermique en aquarium (CT50) selon le protocole formalisé (voir Cascella et al, 2015) sur les autres espèces déjà expérimentées.
The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale XII. The Discovery of Cepheids and a New Distance to NGC 2541
Creators: name: Ferrarese, Laura
name: Bresolin, Fabio
name: Kennicutt,, Robert C.
name: Saha, Abhijit
name: Stetson, Peter B.
name: Freedman, Wendy L.
name: Mould, Jeremy R.
name: Madore, Barry F.
name: Sakai, Shoko
name: Ford, Holland C.
name: Gibson, Brad K.
name: Graham, John A.
name: Han, Mingsheng
name: Hoessel, John G.
name: Huchra, John
name: Hughes, Shaun M.
name: Illingworth, Garth D.
name: Phelps, Randy
name: Prosser, Charles F.
name: Silbermann, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of Cepheids and a new distance to the spiral galaxy NGC 2541, based on data obtained with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). A total of 25 exposures (divided into 13 epochs) are obtained using the F555W filter (transformed to Johnson V), and nine exposures (divided into five epochs) using the F814W filter (transformed to Cousins I). Photometric reduction of the data is performed using two independent packages, DoPHOT and DAOPHOT II/ALLFRAME, which give very good agreement in the measured magnitudes. A total of 34 bona fide Cepheids, with periods ranging from 12 to over 60 days, are identified based on both sets of photometry. By fitting V and I period-luminosity relations, apparent distance moduli are derived assuming a Large Magellanic Cloud distance modulus and mean color excess of 18.50 +/- 0.10 mag and E(B-V) = 0.10 mag respectively. Adopting A(V)/E(V-I)=2.45, we obtain a true distance modulus to NGC 2541 of 30.47 +/- 0.11 (random) +/- 0.12 (systematic) mag (D = 12.4 +/- 0.6 (random) +/- 0.7 (systematic) Mpc), and a total (Galactic plus internal) mean color excess E(B-V) = 0.08 +/- 0.05 (internal error) mag.
description: 58 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Figures 1, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 11 have been omitted in the astro-ph version
Yang-Mills origin of gravitational symmetries
Creators: name: Anastasiou, Alexandros
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: Tensoring the field content of two super-Yang-Mills theories results in the field content of a certain supergravity theory, a procedure we call squaring. This thesis investigates how both the local and global internal symmetries enjoyed by the supergravity theory are inherited from the super-Yang-Mills factors. This is part of a much larger framework for studying a supergravity theory through its factorisation into simpler theories. The thesis begins by introducing local and global symmetries in the general context of relativistic field theory. The introduction is a short review on spacetime and internal symmetries in both gravitational and non-gravitational theories with particular focus on the supersymmetric regime. This is followed by the squaring idea and its appearance in various different contexts. After providing a unified description of all super-Yang-Mills theories over the four Normed Division Algebras R,C,H,O, the global internal supergravity symmetries are built with the help of the mathematical construction of the magic square, generalised to what we call the magic pyramid of supergravities. A physical interpretation of the formula reveals the Yang-Mills origin of the symmetries and demonstrates how simultaneous supersymmetry transformations on both factors can contribute to bosonic generators. The analysis is then extended to accommodate more exotic squarings by allowing for the coupling of matter multiplets to the super-Yang-Mills factors. Finally, the focus shifts to local internal symmetries whose linear form is derived directly from the corresponding linear factors. After a general treatment of off-shell squaring in various spacetime dimensions, the possibility of extending the construction to non-linear gravity is discussed.
SEDYMAQ
Creators: name: GILLET Hervé
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2008

description: En comparant des mosaïques bathymétriques et/ou sonar latéral (méthode du time laspe survey), l'objectif du programme SEDYMAQ était d'évaluer à l'échelle pluri-annuelle, l'impact de l'hydrodynamisme actuel sur l'évolution (1) de la couverture sédimentaire superficielle du plateau aquitain et (2) de la morphologie de la tête et de la partie proximale du canyon de Capbreton.
Nuclear Flow in Consistent Boltzmann Algorithm Models
Creators: name: Kortemeyer, G.
name: Daffin, F.
name: Bauer, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stochastic Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method (DSMC) for numerically solving the collision-term in heavy-ion transport theories of the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) type. The first major modification we consider is changes in the collision rates due to excluded volume and shadowing/screening effects (Enskog theory). The second effect studied by us is the inclusion of an additional advection term. These modifications ensure a non-vanishing second virial and change the equation of state for the scattering process from that of an ideal gas to that of a hard-sphere gas. We analyse the effect of these modifications on the calculated value of directed nuclear collective flow in heavy ion collisions, and find that the flow slightly increases.
description: 12 pages, REVTeX, figures available in PostScript from the authors upon request
The Impact of Uncle Rewards on Selfish Mining in Ethereum
Creators: name: Ritz, Fabian
name: Zugenmaier, Alf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many of today's crypto currencies use blockchains as decentralized ledgers and secure them with proof of work. In case of a fork of the chain, Bitcoin's rule for achieving consensus is selecting the longest chain and discarding the other chain as stale. It has been demonstrated that this consensus rule has a weakness against selfish mining in which the selfish miner exploits the variance in block generation by partially withholding blocks. In Ethereum, however, under certain conditions stale blocks don't have to be discarded but can be referenced from the main chain as uncle blocks yielding a partial reward. This concept limits the impact of network delays on the expected revenue for miners. But the concept also reduces the risk for a selfish miner to gain no rewards from withholding a freshly minted block. This paper uses a Monte Carlo simulation to quantify the effect of uncle blocks both to the profitability of selfish mining and the blockchain's security in Ethereum (ETH). A brief outlook about a recent Ethereum Classic (ETC) improvement proposal that weighs uncle blocks during the selection of the main chain will be given.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
An automated frequency tracking method for structural health monitoring using vibration data
Creators: name: Jamal Ahmad, Mohammad Hafiz Fazl Elahi
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: The process of extracting modal parameters using vibration response data from aerospace, civil and mechanical structures is well-established and many techniques exist to cater for the availability of spatial and temporal data. These techniques need extensive interaction with an expert user to guide them towards an acceptable set of solutions and are not adequate for structural health monitoring which fundamentally requires an automated process. Research into automated algorithms for the extraction and tracking of modal parameters started to gather momentum recently due to advances in technology and computing. Currently there is a lack of automated procedures due to the difficulty of replacing the interactions of an expert user with software algorithms and those that have been proposed have not yet been widely adopted. In this thesis, we propose a new automated method to track resonant frequencies for the purpose of detecting change. The method uses wavelet decomposition, principal component analysis, spectrum estimation and adaptive filtering. The aim is to identify resonant frequencies and then to monitor their magnitudes and frequencies in an automated fashion without user interaction for the detection of change in performance. The proposed method is validated on several benchmark problems widely studied in the literature, one simulated and four experimental. It is shown that using the new method it is possible to detect all the data cases for these benchmark structures because they produce changes in the resonant frequencies or in their magnitudes. The new method is also compared with an existing automated method called frequency domain decomposition (FDD) and it is shown that for the benchmark problems considered in this thesis the frequency tracking performance of the new method is superior.
Supplemental material to: association of kidney function with NMR-quantified lipids, lipoproteins, and metabolic measures in Mexican adults
Creators: name: Aguilar-Ramirez, Diego Jehu
name: Alegre-Díaz, Jesus
name: Herrington, William G
name: Staplin, Natalie
name: Ramírez-Reyes, Raúl
name: Gnatiuc, Louisa
name: Hill, Michael
name: Romer, Frederik
name: Torres, Jason
name: Trichia, Eirini
name: Wade, Rachel
name: Collins, Rory
name: Emberson, Jonathan R
name: Kuri-Morales, Pablo
name: Tapia-Conyer, Roberto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110312 Nephrology and Urology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110199 Medical Biochemistry and Metabolomics not elsewhere classified
subject: Biomarkers

description: This document is a supplement to the article "Association of kidney function with NMR-quantified lipids, lipoproteins, and metabolic measures in Mexican adults.", submitted for publication to the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Nuclear correlation and finite interaction-range effects in high-energy $(e,e'p)$ nuclear transparency
Creators: name: Seki, Ryoichi
name: Shoppa, T. D.
name: Kohama, Akihisa
name: Yazaki, Koichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear transparency is calculated for high-energy, semi-inclusive $(e,e'p)$ reactions, by accounting for all orders of Glauber multiple-scattering and by using realistic finite-range $p N$ interaction and (dynamically and statistically) correlated nuclear wave functions. The nuclear correlation effect is reduced due to the $p N$ finite-range effect. The net effect is small, and depends sensitively on details of the nuclear correlations in finite nuclei, which are poorly known at present.
description: 12 Page RevTeX document, and two postscript figures
CORALCAL
Creators: name: PAYRI Claude
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2007

description: L'objectif final est d'aborder les questions de distribution et de répartition des espèces à l'échelle de la Nouvelle- Calédonie mais également à l'échelle de l'Indo-Pacifique et d'étudier les affinités biogéographiques de la flore marine et la faune corallienne Calédonienne.Le projet s'échelonne à travers des études phylogénétiques menées à l'échelle des Ordres, Familles et Genres. L'abondant matériel biologique a alimenté et continuera d'alimenter plusieurs thèses et Masters. 41 publications ont vu le jour, et de nombreux résultats sont en cours de rédaction, notamment la description de nouvelles espèces ainsi que des travaux en biogéographie.Le projet de rattachement est Axe thématique 1 de l'UMR ENTROPIE (Analyse de la diversité marie du gêne à l'espèce) et ANR BIOCARRA (Corallinales) et DUNE (Labex-CORAIL ; Udoteaceae).
The minimum and maximum gravitational-wave background from supermassive binary black holes
Creators: name: Zhu, Xing-Jiang
name: Cui, Weiguang
name: Thrane, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gravitational-wave background from supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) has yet to be detected. This has led to speculations as to whether current pulsar timing array limits are in tension with theoretical predictions. In this paper, we use electromagnetic observations to constrain the SMBBH background from above and below. To derive the {\em maximum} amplitude of the background, we suppose that equal-mass SMBBH mergers fully account for the local black hole number density. This yields a maximum characteristic signal amplitude at a period of one year $A_{\rm{yr}}<2.4\times 10^{-15}$, which is comparable to the pulsar timing limits. To derive the {\em minimum} amplitude requires an electromagnetic observation of an SMBBH. While a number of candidates have been put forward, there are no universally-accepted electromagnetic detections in the nanohertz band. We show the candidate 3C 66B implies a lower limit, which is inconsistent with limits from pulsar timing, casting doubt on its binary nature. Alternatively, if the parameters of OJ 287 are known accurately, then $A_{\rm{yr}}> 6.1\times 10^{-17}$ at 95\% confidence level. If one of the current candidates can be established as a bona fide SMBBH, it will immediately imply an astrophysically interesting lower limit.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 9 pages, 7 figures
Mean-field description of ground-state properties of drip-line nuclei: Pairing and continuum effects
Creators: name: Dobaczewski, J.
name: Nazarewicz, W.
name: Werner, T. R.
name: Berger, J. F.
name: Chinn, C. R.
name: Dechargé, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground-state properties of exotic even-even nuclei with extreme neutron-to-proton ratios are described in the framework of the self-consistent mean-field theory with pairing formulated in coordinate space. This theory properly accounts for the influence of the particle continuum, which is particularly important for weakly bound systems. The pairing properties of nuclei far from stability are studied with several interactions emphasizing different aspects, such as the range and density dependence of the effective interaction. Measurable consequences of spatially extended pairing fields are presented, and the sensitivity of the theoretical predictions to model details is discussed.
description: 55 ReVTeX pages, 32 B&W and 1 color uuencoded postscript figures (780kB) available upon request
Targeting the nitric oxide signalling pathway to modulate platelet function
Creators: name: Apostoli, Georgina Lorraine
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Nitric oxide (NO) negatively regulates platelets and impaired NO signalling can lead to arterial thrombosis. The source of platelet-derived NO is unclear with recent proposals of NO synthase (NOS) independent NO sources, such as S-nitrosothiols (RSNOs) and inorganic nitrate/nitrite. Sildenafil citrate, a phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibitor, enhances NO/cGMP signals in cells expressing PDE5 such as platelets. The aims of this study were to investigate the antiplatelet properties of sildenafil, its mechanism of action and to determine the upstream sources of NO affecting platelet function. The functional effect of sildenafil was determined using a range of in vitro and in vivo platelet assays. The mechanism of action of sildenafil and upstream sources of NO/cGMP signals were assessed pharmacologically using established methods of in vitro and in vivo platelet aggregation. Bioconversion of nitrate to nitrite was determined using gas-phase chemiluminescence. The functional significance of NO/cGMP signalling events in platelets were investigated in vivo in W.T and eNOS-/- (a model of vascular dysfunction) mice. Sildenafil exerted an antiplatelet effect by enhancing transient NO/cGMP signals generated by platelets independent of NOS activity in vitro. Inhibition of proposed mechanisms of NO release from RSNOs did not modify the inhibitory effect of sildenafil suggesting that RSNOs did not mediate platelet NO/cGMP signals. Nitrite was able to drive inhibitory cGMP signalling events in platelets in vitro. Furthermore, nitrate inhibited platelet function in eNOS-/- mice in vivo following enhanced bioconversion to nitrite, potentially as a compensatory mechanism due to impaired NO signalling. In conclusion, inorganic nitrate/nitrite may critically regulate platelets following bioconversion to NO and dietary sources of nitrate/nitrite may generate compensatory NO during vascular disease. Furthermore, sildenafil may be beneficial in reducing the risk of platelet-driven cardiovascular disease by enhancing NO/cGMP signalling derived from both enzymic and inorganic sources and restoring impaired NO signalling during endothelial dysfunction.
The New Transatlantic Data Agreement Placed in Context: Decoding the Schrems Saga Within the Digital Economy
Creators: name: Tricco, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Journal of Law, Market & Innovation
Year: 2024

description: Any time we use digital services we create data. That data travels around continents, constituting the fundamentals of the digital economy. Begun in 2015, the Agreements that allowed this kind of free flow of data between the EU and the US have been invalidated – the Safe Harbour and the Privacy Shield – bringing uncertainty in the work of over 5300 companies that based their practices on such frameworks which allowed data to move borderless, as well as, threatening the digital rights of European citizens who do not see their data adequately protected across the Atlantic. Indeed, in Data Protection Commission v. Facebook Ireland – Schrems II – the CJEU claimed that US surveillance law offers inadequate safeguards for EU citizens’ data. In the summer of 2023, the transatlantic actor unlocked the gridlock with the new adequacy decision of the EU based on the new Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework, amid debate on the adequacy offered by it. The question of whether the new pact will ensure long-standing data flow between the two sides of the Atlantic remains open. The question is of extreme importance, such data transfers are fundamental to conducting international trade and commerce in today's globally connected world. Therefore, people and businesses can use crossborder data flows to communicate online, map global supply chains, share research, provide cross-border services, and drive technological innovation. The trade and investment relationships between the US and the EU are broad and highly intertwined. The United States and the European Union have the highest cross-border data flows in the world, valued at $7.1 trillion dollars annually, which are critical to much of the economic interaction between the two countries. The article aims to shed light on the problems experienced with the invalidation of the previous two agreements, with an analysis of American surveillance laws and questioning whether the new agreement could be the base for a stable transatlantic digital economy.
description: Journal of Law, Market & Innovation, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024): 1/2024
Reminiscences of L. Carrington Goodrich, 1959
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sinologists
Chinese literature

description: Early life in China; Peking Union Medical College after World War I; training in sinology, Columbia University; impressions of Paul Pelliot, J.J.L. Duyvendak and others; research problems of THE LITERARY INQUISITION OF CH'IEN-LUNG
Ranunculus nivalis Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus
Ranunculus nivalis

description: Ranunculus nivalis, spec. nov.
 21. Ranunculus calyce hirsuto, caule unifloro, foliis radicalibus palmatis; caulinis multipartitis sessilibus. Fl. lapp. 232. t.3. f.2. Fl. suec. 465. Hall. helv. 326.
 Ranunculus minimus alpinus luteus. Bauh. hist. 3. p. 861. f. interior.
 β. Ranunculus idem pygmaeus. Fl. lapp. 232. t. 3. f. 3.
 Habitat in Alpibus Lapponiae , Helvetiae . ♃
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 page 553, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
The role of flexibility in generation expansion planning of power systems with a high degree of renewables & vehicle electrification
Creators: name: Ramírez Torrealba, Pedro Javier
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Renewable energy is beginning to play a major role in the production of clean and inexhaustible energy to supply electricity demand and to hedge against the price volatility of natural gas and oil. However, renewables are expected to increase existing net-demand variability and unpredictability. This will mean that in order to maintain the balance between demand and supply, flexible generation or demand will have to modify their production or consumption at higher rates and frequencies for larger shares of renewables in order to accommodate such extensive and rapid changes as effectively and economically as possible. This thesis addresses the relevance of generation and demand flexibility for the future expansion of power systems that expect large contributions from renewable resources and high levels of vehicle electrification. A novel fully integrated large-scale mixed-integer linear generation expansion planning model was developed, which incorporates detailed modelling of generation and demand (specifically electric vehicles) flexibility characteristics. Computational tractability and efficiency of the model are achieved by clustering generation and flexible demand resources, which allows using integer instead of binary decision variables. The use of integer variables allows reducing the model size in terms of both decision variables and constraints, and also avoids non-linearities in the model formulation. Case studies on conventional generation flexibility show that total system costs are underestimated by up to 24% with a traditional generation expansion planning model when compared to the results obtained with the proposed model. In addition, the optimal generation mix calculated by the traditional model is not only infeasible in terms of security, but also inefficient for absorbing available renewable energy and much more expensive of operating. The case studies also show that reductions in the minimum stable generation, and improvements in ramping capability, reduce the curtailment of renewable energy by up to 73%, as well as the total system costs by up to 20%. The case studies on EV flexibility and its impact on generation expansion planning, on the other hand, show that if the flexibility potential of flexible EV is not utilized, the installed capacity can increase by up to 50%, the total system costs can rise in by to 18%, the level of renewables curtailment can become up to 69x bigger, and the average energy prices can climb by up to 18%, with respect to the case in which EV flexibility is fully utilized. Finally, the developed model is able to produce useful indicative energy planning results that can help regulators, system planners and analysts to design and assess the proper market conditions, energy policies, and incentives required to deliver secure, affordable, sustainable and less polluting power systems in the future.
Additional file 3 of Local adaptive evolution of two distinct clades of Beijing and T families of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Chongqing: a Bayesian population structure and phylogenetic study
Creators: name: Liang, Peng-Kuan
name: Zheng, Chao
name: Xu, Xiao-Fang
name: Zhao, Zhe-Ze
name: Zhao, Chang-Song
name: Li, Chang-He
name: Couvin, David
name: Reynaud, Yann
name: Zozio, Thierry
name: Rastogi, Nalin
name: Sun, Qun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3 : Table S3. The 24-loci MIRU-VNTR data of 2161 isolates for MST building.
Ranunculus nivalis 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
Magnoliopsida
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus
Ranunculus nivalis

description: Ranunculus nivalis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 553. 1753.
"Habitat in Alpibus Lapponiae, Helvetiae." RCN: 4082.
Lectotype (Benson in Amer. Midl. Naturalist 52: 350. 1954): Herb. Linn. No. 715.38 (LINN).
Current name: Ranunculus nivalis L. (Ranunculaceae).
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 787, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Disputes from Commercial Space Activities: Potentialities and Hurdles of Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Creators: name: Saretto, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Journal of Law, Market & Innovation
Year: 2024

description: Outer space is the “part of the universe which is simultaneously beyond the airspace of planet Earth and accessible to human activity”. The recent decades have seen significant developments in the commercial activities carried out in outer space as well as an increasing diversification in the actors engaging therein. In this context, private investment is on the rise and this trend is expected to continue. With more companies and entrepreneurs exploring opportunities in space exploration, satellite deployment, asteroid mining, space tourism, and other space-related activities, it has become of the utmost importance to establish a consistent legal framework for private actors in outer space. This is even more so considering that their increasing presence in the space industry is likely to result, in the near future, in disputes between said actors and States operating in outer space, the resolution of which needs clarity regarding the applicable mechanisms. Against this backdrop, International Space Law as the “part of existing legal systems on Earth which relates to outer space” does not seem capable of offering, at the state of play, sufficient protection to private investors engaged in space-related activities. On the contrary, International Investment Law has the potential to establish a structured framework for a rule-based system that promotes and maintains private investment flows in outer space. Starting from the above premises, the present work investigates the applicability of International Investment Law to private investments made in the context of commercial space activities and, a fortiori, of Investor State Dispute Settlement, as a dispute settlement mechanism developed within the frame of the above body of law, to conflicts arising in outer space between private investors and States. The purpose is to highlight that not only do investments in outer space fulfil the requirements to be granted international investment protection but also that the rationale behind International Investment Law justifies its extension to encompass such investments.
description: Journal of Law, Market & Innovation, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024): 1/2024
3D Solution of Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Equations for Drip-Line Nuclei
Creators: name: Terasaki, J.
name: Heenen, P. -H.
name: Flocard, H.
name: Bonche, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility of describing triaxial quadrupole deformations for nuclei close to the two-neutron drip line by the Hartree-Fock Bogoliubov method taking into account resonances in the continuum. We use a Skyrme interaction to describe the Hartee-Fock hamiltonian and a density-dependent zero-range interaction to evaluate the pairing field. The mean-field equations are solved in a three-dimensional cubic mesh. We study the stability of the two-neutron separation energies and of the description of the nuclear surface as a function of the number of active mean-field orbitals and of the size of the mesh. The even Ni isotopes are used as a test case and the accuracy as a function of quadrupole deformation is studied by performing constrained calculations. A first application to the study of the two-neutron separation energies in Ni isotopes up to the drip line is presented.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures
The New Frontiers of Trust: Bitcoins and Cryptocurrencies
Creators: name: Napolitano, Elena
Publisher: name: Journal of Law, Market & Innovation
Year: 2024

description: The opportunity offered by digital innovation to create new categories of goods or, at least, to transform what was previously represented by objects into something virtual has inevitably raised the issue of the legal qualification of digital assets, particularly cryptocurrencies. This classification requires a careful delimitation of the phenomenon. First, because not all ‘digital representations of value’ perform the same function and, most importantly, because their legal nature should be harmonised with the need to guarantee exclusive and absolute use by their owner and therefore, with tools that protect the individual’s ownership rights. One fundamental effect of digital assets being qualified as property is that they can be the object of trust. Moreover, it is precisely in this context that, owing to changing economic and social demands, the need to rethink the traditional categories of civil law becomes even more acute.
description: Journal of Law, Market & Innovation, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024): 1/2024
Reminiscences of Kurt A. Adler, 1978
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Psychiatrists
World War, 1939-1945
Psychiatry

description: Childhood; interests of parents Alfred and Raissa Adler in socialist, political, and intellectual affairs; their attitudes towards World War I; United States Army neurologist and psychiatrist, World War II; German prisoner of war patients; Adler Institute and Adler Clinic
Triaxial Halos and Cusps
Creators: name: Sigurdsson, Steinn
name: Mihos, Chris
name: Hernquist, Lars
name: Norman, Colin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present $N$--body models for triaxial elliptical galaxies or halos of galaxies, which are fully self--gravitating, have near constant axis ratio as a function of radius and a $r^{-1}$ central density cusp. Preliminary investigation suggests the model are stable and orbit analysis shows no indication of chaotic orbits. The models provide a starting point for investigations into the evolution of triaxial figures of equilibrium, response of triaxial figures to central black holes, external perturbations and interactions.
description: 3 pages paspconf latex, includes 2 postscript figures
Understanding the Bias Dependence of Low Frequency Noise in Sin-gle Layer Graphene FETs
Creators: name: Mavredakis, Nikolaos
name: Cortadella, Ramon Garcia
name: Calia, Andrea Bonaccini
name: Garrido, Jose A.
name: Jiménez, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This letter investigates the bias-dependent low frequency noise of single layer graphene field-effect transistors. Noise measurements have been conducted with electrolyte-gated graphene transistors covering a wide range of gate and drain bias conditions for different channel lengths. A new analytical model that accounts for the propagation of the local noise sources in the channel to the terminal currents and voltages is proposed in this paper to investigate the noise bias dependence. Carrier number and mobility fluctuations are considered as the main causes of low frequency noise and the way these mechanisms contribute to the bias dependence of the noise is analyzed in this work. Typically, normalized low frequency noise in graphene devices has been usually shown to follow an M-shape dependence versus gate voltage with the minimum near the charge neutrality point (CNP). Our work reveals for the first time the strong correlation between this gate dependence and the residual charge which is relevant in the vicinity of this specific bias point. We discuss how charge inhomogeneity in the graphene channel at higher drain voltages can contribute to low frequency noise; thus, channel regions nearby the source and drain terminals are found to dominate the total noise for gate biases close to the CNP. The excellent agreement between the experimental data and the predictions of the analytical model at all bias conditions confirms that the two fundamental 1/f noise mechanisms, carrier number and mobility fluctuations, must be considered simultaneously to properly understand the low frequency noise in graphene FETs. The proposed analytical compact model can be easily implemented and integrated in circuit simulators, which can be of high importance for graphene based circuits design.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
Blockchain Justice: Exploring Decentralising Dispute Resolution Across Borders
Creators: name: Poncibò, Cristina
name: Gangemi, Andrea
name: Ravot, Giulio Stefano
Publisher: name: Journal of Law, Market & Innovation
Year: 2024

description: It is well known that the raison d'etre of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is to enable peer-to-peer transactions that do not require Trusted Third Parties (TTP). Commercial security is a major concern for users in this new era: intermediaries are increasingly seen as security holes and removed from protocols as a result of a growing desire to maintain control over transactions. The need for independence from TTPs has evolved into a counterculture that moves blockchainers away from central authority, the courts and the world as we know it. To date, all existing online dispute resolution (ODR) processes in DLT and related tools such as smart contracts do not reflect the vision of blockchain as a counterculture. They exclusively use adjudicative methods involving one or more TTPs deciding via on-chain incentivised voting systems. This paper aims to discuss why non-adjudicative methods shall have a cultural priority over adjudicative ones, showing why they might be preferred by blockchainers due to risk management and distrust concerns. Furthermore, we introduce a prototype of a non-adjudicative ODR model (“Aspera”) in which users can have total control
over the outcome of the dispute in a TTP free environment.
description: Journal of Law, Market & Innovation, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024): 1/2024
Additional file 4 of Local adaptive evolution of two distinct clades of Beijing and T families of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Chongqing: a Bayesian population structure and phylogenetic study
Creators: name: Liang, Peng-Kuan
name: Zheng, Chao
name: Xu, Xiao-Fang
name: Zhao, Zhe-Ze
name: Zhao, Chang-Song
name: Li, Chang-He
name: Couvin, David
name: Reynaud, Yann
name: Zozio, Thierry
name: Rastogi, Nalin
name: Sun, Qun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4 : Table S4. Dataset used in the MST of T and Beijing families for the 1742 MTB isolates.
Study of the PPARγ cofactor receptor interacting protein 140 in Alzheimer's disease
Creators: name: Blondrath, Katrin Gisela
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: Activation of nuclear receptor Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor gamma (PPARγ) has been reported to be protective in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) mouse models, by decreasing inflammation and toxic Aβ levels, one of the key features hallmarking the disease. Therefore, the role of PPARγ cofactors will be critical in order to regulate the activity of PPARγ. Our aim was to study the potential role of the PPARγ cofactor Receptor Interacting Protein 140 (RIP140) in AD. Results from our lab showed that RIP140 is reduced in the brain of AD patients. Therefore, we investigated the role of RIP140 on the processing of APP initially in vitro, using a neuroblastoma cell line. Our results suggest that RIP140 over expression reduced Aβ generation and BACE1 protein expression and mRNA levels in a PPARγ activated dependent manner. Conversely, knockdown of RIP140 increased the level of BACE1 protein mRNA and promoter activity. Therefore, RIP140 seems to act as a transcriptional co-activator for PPARγ leading to reductions in BACE1 transcription. Studies performed in animal models, lacking or over expressing RIP140 indicated that many genes involved in the insulin pathway appeared to be modulated by RIP140. In the hippocampus area of mice overexpressing RIP140there was a transcriptional induction of growth factors involved in synaptic plasticity, including growth associated protein 43 (GAP43) and Insulin growth factor2 (IgF2), both being linked to the development of AD but also memory and cognition. In agreement with the in vitro results, the levels of BACE1 were found reduced in the brain of RIP140 transgenic mice, although no alterations on endogenous mouse Aβ levels were detected. Further more, the expression of proteins being involved in the clearance of Aβ plaques, such as ApoE were found increased. RIP140 over expressing mice showed also alteration in genes associated with Tau pathology, such as a reduction of microtubule-associated proteins 1 and 2 and the Tau kinases CDK5 and GSK3. Studies in animals lacking RIP140 showed the opposite effect in most of the above genes and mRNA analysis revealed that BACE1 expression levels were increased in the frontal cortex area, which is in line with our previous results. RIP140 knockout mice showed also increases in the levels of genes involved in Tau pathology, such as GSK3, cdK5 and Mtap2. Interestingly, RIP140 appeared to be involved in the regulation of inflammatory processes in the mouse brain, showing an increase in GFAP staining for astrocytes in RIP140 knockout mice and reductions in the levels of inflammatory cytokines in RIP40 transgenic animals. The results indicate that RIP140 has neuro-protective effects and could serve as therapeutic target for AD, by reducing the levels of BACE1 (the main enzyme involved in Aβ generation), proteins involved in Tau pathology and leading to a decrease of inflammatory processes in the brain.
Calibrated, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with variable IMFs II: Correlations between the IMF and global galaxy properties
Creators: name: Barber, Christopher
name: Schaye, Joop
name: Crain, Robert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The manner in which the stellar initial mass function (IMF) scales with global galaxy properties is under debate. We use two hydrodynamical, cosmological simulations to predict possible trends for two self-consistent variable IMF prescriptions that respectively become locally bottom-heavy or top-heavy in high-pressure environments. Both simulations have been calibrated to reproduce the observed correlation between central stellar velocity dispersion and the excess mass-to-light ratio (MLE) relative to a Salpeter IMF by increasing the mass fraction of, respectively, dwarf stars or stellar remnants. We find trends of MLE with galaxy age, metallicity and [Mg/Fe] that agree qualitatively with observations. Predictions for correlations with luminosity, half-light radius, and black hole mass are presented. The significance of many of these correlations depends sensitively on galaxy selection criteria such as age, luminosity, and morphology. For an IMF with a varying high-mass end, some of these correlations are stronger than the correlation with the birth ISM pressure (the property that governs the form of the IMF), because in this case the MLE has a strong age dependence. Galaxies with large MLE tend to have overmassive central black holes. This indicates that the abnormally high MLE observed in the centres of some high-mass galaxies does not imply that overmassive BHs are merely the result of incorrect IMF assumptions, nor that excess M/L ratios are solely the result of overmassive BHs. Satellite galaxies tend to scatter toward high MLE due to tidal stripping, which may have significant implications for the inferred stellar masses of ultracompact dwarf galaxies.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS