cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Polymerizing activity and regulation of group B Streptococcus pilus 2a sortase C1
Creators: name: Zerbini, Francesca <1982>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2014
Subjects: BIO/11 Biologia molecolare

description: Group B Streptococcus [GBS; Streptococcus agalactiae] is the leading cause of life-threatening diseases in newborn and is also becoming a common cause of invasive diseases in non-pregnant, elderly and immune-compromised adults. Pili, long filamentous fibers protruding from the bacterial surface, have been discovered in GBS, as important virulence factors and vaccine candidates. Gram-positive bacteria build pili on their cell surface via a class C sortase-catalyzed transpeptidation mechanism from pilin protein substrates. Despite the availability of several crystal structures, pilus-related C sortases remain poorly characterized to date and their mechanisms of transpeptidation and regulation need to be further investigated. The available three-dimensional structures of these enzymes reveal a typical sortase fold except for the presence of a unique feature represented by an N-terminal highly flexible loop, known as the “lid”. This region interacts with the residues composing the catalytic triad and covers the active site, thus maintaining the enzyme in an auto-inhibited state and preventing the accessibility to the substrate. It is believed that enzyme activation may occur only after lid displacement from the catalytic domain. In this work we provide the first direct evidence of the regulatory role of the lid, demonstrating that it is possible to obtain in vitro an efficient polymerization of pilin subunits using an active C sortase lid mutant carrying a single residue mutation in the lid region. Moreover, biochemical analyses of this recombinant mutant reveal that the lid confers thermodynamic and proteolytic stability to the enzyme. A further characterization of this sortase active mutant showed promiscuity in the substrate recognition, as it is able to polymerize different LPXTG-proteins in vitro.
NOTCH1 mediates a switch between two distinct secretomes during senescence
Creators: name: Hoare, Matthew
name: Ito, Y
name: Kang, T-W
name: Weekes, Michael
name: Matheson, Nicholas
name: Patten, DA
name: Shetty, S
name: Parry, Aled
name: Menon, S
name: Salama, R
name: Antrobus, R
name: Tomimatsu, K
name: Howat, W
name: Lehner, Paul
name: Zender, L
name: Narita, Masashi
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2016
Subjects: animals
cell aging
cell cycle checkpoints
cell line, tumor
humans
mice, transgenic
receptor, notch1
transforming growth factor beta

description: Senescence, a persistent form of cell-cycle arrest, is often associated with a diverse secretome, which provides complex functionality for senescent cells within the tissue microenvironment. We show that oncogene-induced senescence is accompanied by a dynamic fluctuation of NOTCH1 activity, which drives a TGF-β-rich secretome, while suppressing the senescence-associated pro-inflammatory secretome through inhibition of C/EBPβ. NOTCH1 and NOTCH1-driven TGF-β contribute to 'lateral induction of senescence' through a juxtacrine NOTCH-JAG1 pathway. In addition, NOTCH1 inhibition during senescence facilitates upregulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines, promoting lymphocyte recruitment and senescence surveillance in vivo. As enforced activation of NOTCH1 signalling confers a near mutually exclusive secretory profile compared with typical senescence, our data collectively indicate that the dynamic alteration of NOTCH1 activity during senescence dictates a functional balance between these two distinct secretomes: one representing TGF-β and the other pro-inflammatory cytokines, highlighting that NOTCH1 is a temporospatial controller of secretome composition.
description: This work was supported by the University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK and Hutchison Whampoa. The M.N. laboratory is supported by Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Core Grant (C14303/A17197). M.H. was supported by CRUK Translational Medicine Research Fellowship and CRUK Clinician Scientist Fellowship (C52489/A19924). This work was also supported by a Wellcome Trust PRF (WT101835) to P.J.L., a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship to M.P.W. (108070/Z/15/Z), a Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship to N.J.M. (093964/Z/10/Z), and a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship (097162/Z/11/Z) to S.S. L.Z. was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG; grants FOR2314 and SFB685), the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Program, the European Research Council (projects ‘CholangioConcept’), the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) (eMed-Multiscale HCC), the German Universities Excellence Initiative (third funding line: ‘future concept’), the German Center for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK) and the German–Israeli Cooperation in Cancer Research (DKFZ–MOST).
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Papadopoulos, Alessandro V.
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Computer systems organization → Embedded and cyber-physical systems
subject: Computer systems organization → Real-time systems
subject: Software and its engineering → Real-time systems software
subject: Software and its engineering → Real-time schedulability

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 262, 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023), pages 0:i-0:xvi
Hot DQ White Dwarfs: Something Different
Creators: name: Dufour, P.
name: Fontaine, G.
name: Liebert, J.
name: Schmidt, G. D.
name: Behara, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of all the known Hot DQ white dwarfs in the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) recently found to have carbon dominated atmospheres. Our spectroscopic and photometric analysis reveals that these objects all have effective temperatures between ~18,000 and 24,000 K. The surface composition is found to be completely dominated by carbon, as revealed by the absence of Hbeta and HeI 4471 lines (or determination of trace amount in a few cases). We find that the surface gravity of all objects but one seems to be ''normal'' and around log g = 8.0 while one is likely near log g = 9.0. The presence of a weak magnetic field is directly detected by spectropolarimetry in one object and is suspected in two others. We propose that these strange stars could be cooled down versions of the weird PG1159 star H1504+65 and form a new family of hydrogen and helium deficient objects following the post-AGB phase. Finally, we present the results of full nonadiabatic calculations dedicated specifically to each of the Hot DQ that show that only SDSS J142625.70+575218.4 is expected to exhibit luminosity variations. This result is in excellent agreement with recent observations by Montgomery et al. who find that J142625.70+575218.4 is the only pulsator among 6 Hot DQ white dwarfs surveyed in February 2008.
description: 33 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Efficient quantum key distribution over a collective noise channel
Creators: name: Li, Xi-Han
name: Deng, Fu-Guo
name: Zhou, Hong-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present two efficient quantum key distribution schemes over two different collective-noise channels. The accepted hypothesis of collective noise is that photons travel inside a time window small compared to the variation of noise. Noiseless subspaces are made up of two Bell states and the spatial degree of freedom is introduced to form two nonorthogonal bases. Although these protocols resort to entangled states for encoding the key bit, the receiver is only required to perform single-particle product measurements and there is no basis mismatch. Moreover, the detection is passive as the receiver does not switch his measurements between two conjugate measurement bases to get the key.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure; the revised version of the paper published in Phys. Rev. A 78, 022321 (2008). Some negligible errors on the error rates of eavesdropping check are corrected
Entanglement Spectrum as a Generalization of Entanglement Entropy: Identification of Topological Order in Non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall Effect States
Creators: name: Li, Hui
name: Haldane, F. D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the "entanglement spectrum" (a presentation of the Schmidt decomposition analogous to a set of "energy levels") of a many-body state, and compare the Moore-Read model wavefunction for the $ν$ = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state with a generic 5/2 state obtained by finite-size diagonalization of the second-Landau-level-projected Coulomb interactions. Their spectra share a common "gapless" structure, related to conformal field theory. In the model state, these are the \textit{only} levels, while in the "generic" case, they are separated from the rest of the spectrum by a clear "entanglement gap", which appears to remain finite in the thermodynamic limit. We propose that the low-lying entanglement spectrum can be used as a "fingerprint" to identify topological order.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Specimens of settler colonialism : collecting and displaying natural history at the University of St Andrews, 1838-1917
Creators: name: Treen, Conall Petroc
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2025
Subjects: History of science
Natural history
Imperialism
Settler colonialism
Indigenous histories
Australia
Collecting
Museums
University of St Andrews
Aotearoa New Zealand

description: This thesis investigates the history of the natural science collection of the University of St Andrews to examine the relationship between natural history and empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the foundation of the collection, during the years of the Literary and Philosophical Society of St Andrews (1838-1917), this thesis analyses the acquisition and movement of human and non-human remains from colonial Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to the imperial rhetoric of display and education in Scotland. Natural science collections can provide insights into how the natural world was interwoven with imperial ideologies and the settler-colonial processes of violence, displacement, dispossession, and assimilation that irreparably harmed Indigenous communities. In recovering the histories of extant and non-extant objects, this examination highlights the contributions and experiences of naturalists, settlers, and Indigenous peoples in the history of science. By centring Indigenous agency, survival, and autonomy within moments of cross-cultural exchange, this thesis argues that collections have the potential to reconstruct invisible Indigenous histories that continue to be absent from museum displays. Employing a critical lens to the methodological approach of ‘object biographies’, this study illustrates the advantages and limitations of recovering Indigenous and colonial histories through objects and archival sources. Divided into two, the first part of this thesis examines the practices of naturalists in nineteenth-century colonial Australia, charting their reliance upon systems of power, colonial infrastructures, and the labour and knowledge of Aboriginal Australian peoples. The second part of this thesis explores the ‘afterlives’ of objects, both human and non-human remains, once they entered the museums at St Andrews, examining their changing roles in displays, scientific theories, and university education. This thesis provokes future discussions about the imperial and colonial legacies within university collections and offers new approaches for museum professionals and historians to examine natural science collections.
Communication patterns in families with a chronically ill child
Creators: name: Canam, Connie J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This exploratory study was designed to elicit information on how parents communicate about their child's chronic illness within the family and the guidance they have received from health professionals in communicating about the illness. The study was conducted with a convenience sample of 13 parents from 11 families of children with cystic fibrosis. A semi-structured interview schedule was used with each family The data collected were summarized into categories and descrip tive statistics were utilized. All 11 families described difficulties in one or more areas of communicating about the illness. Only one parent had received specific guidance from health professionals on communicating about cystic fibrosis. The results of this study suggest that most parents do not give their children sufficient information about cystic fibrosis to enable them to cope effectively with the illness. Also, parents do not discuss their own feelings about living with a chronically ill child nor do they encourage their children to talk about their feelings. This lack of communication about the facts and feelings of living with cystic fibrosis appears to be related to two factors. One factor is that parents do not know how to communicate about the illness and its effects on the family. They need guidance in providing children with adequate and age-appropriate information, in checking children's understanding of the illness and in encouraging children to express their feelings. The other factor is that parents do not perceive the importance to their children of having a thorough understanding of cystic fibrosis, nor the importance to them of having opportunities to express their feelings. Further research is required to identify the knowledge, feelings, and perceptions of chronically ill children and their siblings.
title: Rinderpest: national vaccination achievements in control programmes
Creators: name: Gauldie, Andrew Lyon
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Annexe MSc Digitisation Project 2022 Block 48
subject: Rinderpest
subject: Vaccination
subject: Control
subject: Herd
subject: Eradication

description: The theory of rinderpest control was investigated. Mass vaccination will control the disease but, once a national herd has a large vaccinal coverage, it is important to maintain this position by vaccinating the calf crop annually, or even more frequently in problem areas. The number of animals that require vaccination must be known for vaccine production and distribution purposes. Herd structures in relevant loci were investigated to find what percentage of any herd is composed of calves, and thus how much vaccinal coverage would be required to ensure control of rinderpest, in that area. Nations that have reported rinderpest in the last twenty years were investigated in an attempt to discover whether their approach has been, or is, pragmatic. The success of their control policies was investigated, with special attention given to the number of animals that were vaccinated annually as a percentage of the national herd. It was found that in some areas the disease had lingered on for many years, and the national control programme was not likely to control rinderpest. The many reasons for this type of problem are discussed. The future of rinderpest control is addressed. It is thought that total commitment to aid programmes by the affected nations, together with increased political stability and infrastructures, is necessary to achieve eradication. In the mean time disease containment measures are called for.
title: Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test (I.F.A.T.) to detect IgG specific to Toxoplasma in thoracic fluids from aborted lambs
title: A study of the Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test (I.F.A.T.) to detect IgG specific to Toxoplasma in thoracic fluids from aborted lambs
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Arthur, M. J.
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Annexe MSc Digitisation Project 2022 Block 47
subject: Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test (I.F.A.T.)
subject: IgG
subject: Toxoplasma gondii
subject: Thoracic fluids
subject: Aborted lambs

description: 171 thoracic fluids from aborted lambs selected from the routine submission to Reading V.I. Centre during 1981 and 1982 and representing 55 flocks, were tested by the I.F.A.T. for levels of 1g G specific to Toxoplasma gondii. The range of titres obtained showed a bimodal distribution, indicating a threshold of significance of 1/256. Titres to the I.F.A.T. were higher than to the indirect haemagglutination test in the 40 fluids in which the two tests were compared, and were less affected by deterioration of the sample. A high sensitivity and specificity for the I.F.A.T. was indicated by correlations with routine test results in the individual foetuses and dams as well as flocks of origin. The range of crown-rump length in foetuses with I.F.A.T. titres greater than 1/256 was consistent with recorded observations for gestation stage at which abortion occurs in toxoplasmosis.
Wave propagation in the magnetic sun
Creators: name: Hartlep, T.
name: Miesch, M. S.
name: Mansour, N. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports on efforts to simulate wave propagation in the solar interior. Presented is work on extending a numerical code for constant entropy acoustic waves in the absence of magnetic fields to the case where magnetic fields are present. A set of linearized magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) perturbation equations has been derived and implemented.
description: 6 pages
Optimal dataset combining in f_nl constraints from large scale structure in an idealised case
Creators: name: Slosar, Anze
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of optimal weighting of tracers of structure for the purpose of constraining the non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL. We work within the Fisher matrix formalism expanded around fiducial model with f_NL=0 and make several simplifying assumptions. By slicing a general sample into infinitely many samples with different biases, we derive the analytic expression for the relevant Fisher matrix element. We next consider weighting schemes that construct two effective samples from a single sample of tracers with a continuously varying bias. We show that a particularly simple ansatz for weighting functions can recover all information about f_NL in the initial sample that is recoverable using a given bias observable and that simple division into two equal samples is considerably suboptimal when sampling of modes is good, but only marginally suboptimal in the limit where Poisson errors dominate.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures; v2: comment on weighting for PS determination, fixed a couple of typos; v3: revised, matches version accepted by JCAP
Resistance Quenching in Graphene Interconnects
Creators: name: Shao, Q.
name: Liu, G.
name: Teweldebrhan, D.
name: Balandin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated experimentally the high-temperature electrical resistance of graphene interconnects. The test structures were fabricated using the focused ion beam from the single and bi-layer graphene produced by mechanical exfoliation. It was found that as temperature increases from 300 to 500K the resistance of the single- and bi-layer graphene interconnects drops down by 30% and 70%, respectively. The quenching and temperature dependence of the resistance were explained by the thermal generation of the electron-hole pairs and acoustic phonon scattering. The obtained results are important for the proposed applications of graphene as interconnects in integrated circuits.
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Ali, Karim
name: Salvaneschi, Guido
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Software and its engineering

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 263, 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023), pages 0:i-0:xx
A Robust Deep Ensemble Classifier for Figurative Language Detection
Creators: name: Potamias, Rolandos Alexandros
name: Siolas, Georgios
name: Stafylopatis, Andreas - Georgios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recognition and classification of Figurative Language (FL) is an open problem of Sentiment Analysis in the broader field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) due to the contradictory meaning contained in phrases with metaphorical content. The problem itself contains three interrelated FL recognition tasks: sarcasm, irony and metaphor which, in the present paper, are dealt with advanced Deep Learning (DL) techniques. First, we introduce a data prepossessing framework towards efficient data representation formats so that to optimize the respective inputs to the DL models. In addition, special features are extracted in order to characterize the syntactic, expressive, emotional and temper content reflected in the respective social media text references. These features aim to capture aspects of the social network user's writing method. Finally, features are fed to a robust, Deep Ensemble Soft Classifier (DESC) which is based on the combination of different DL techniques. Using three different benchmark datasets (one of them containing various FL forms) we conclude that the DESC model achieves a very good performance, worthy of comparison with relevant methodologies and state-of-the-art technologies in the challenging field of FL recognition.
description: Published in Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN)-2019
Sesiini
Creators: name: Pohl, Greg
name: Anweiler, Gary
name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Kondla, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Sesiidae

description: Sesiini 372 R Sesia tibiale (Harris, 1839) Jul – E Aug M B – Cottonwood Crown Borer T: Eichlin and Duckworth (1988) L: Eichlin and Duckworth (1988) C: CNC, NFRC, OLDS, UASM 373 * R Sesia spartani Eichlin and Taft, 1988 Jul – Aug – B g T: Eichlin and Taft (1988), Bennett et al. (2000) L: None C: UASM
description: Published as part of Pohl, Greg, Anweiler, Gary, Schmidt, Christian & Kondla, Norbert, 2010, An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada, pp. 1-549 in ZooKeys 38 (38) on pages 91-92, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383, http://zenodo.org/record/576629
description: {"references": ["Eichlin TD, Duckworth WD (1988) Sesioidea: Sessiidae. Fasc. 5.1. In: Dominick RB, Ferguson DC, Franclemont JG, Hodges RW, Munroe EG (Eds) The moths of America north of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Washington, D. C., 176 pp.", "Eichlin TD, Taft WH (1988) A new Sesia clearwing moth from Michigan (Sesiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 42: 231 - 235.", "Bennett RG, Rocchini LA, Eichlin TD, Lindgren BS (2000) Sesia spartani in British Columbia: a new clearwing moth record for Canada with notes on its response to pheromones (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 76: 129 - 131."]}
Logarithmic corrections to entropy for black holes with hyperbolic horizon
Creators: name: Myung, Yun Soo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute logarithmic corrections to entropy for black holes with hyperbolic horizon. For this purpose, we introduce the topological black hole and MTZ black holes in four dimensions, while in five dimensions, the topological black holes and Gauss-Bonnet black hole with negative coupling are considered. As they stand, logarithmic corrections are problematic because small black holes with positive heat capacity have negative energies. However, introducing the background state of extremal black hole, the logarithmic corrections are performed for black hole with hyperbolic horizon.
description: 15 pages, version to appear in CQG
Where Does the Energy Loss Lose Strength?
Creators: name: Barnafoldi, G. G.
name: Fai, G.
name: Levai, P.
name: Papp, G.
name: Cole, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear modification factors for pion production in AuAu and CuCu collisions are analyzed at very high transverse momenta. At p_T > 10 GeV/c, the R_{AA}(p_T) is determined mostly by the initial state nuclear modifications (e.g. EMC effect) and the non-Abelian jet-energy loss in the final state. At high momenta these effects together are strong enough to suppress R_{AA}(p_T) to below 1 at RHIC energies. We display results using HKN shadowing in our pQCD improved parton model. Result of a similar calculation at LHC energies for PbPb collisions are also displayed. Based on dN/dy estimates, a larger opacity value, L/λ_g = 10 +/- 2, is used for the produced partonic matter in central collisions at the LHC.
description: QM 2008, Submitted to Jour. Phys. G, 4 pages and 4 figures
Supplementary Files from The utilization of micro-mesoporous carbon-based filler in the P84 hollow fibre membrane for gas separation
Creators: name: Gunawan, Triyanda
name: Widiastuti, Nurul
name: Hamzah Fansuri
name: Salleh, Wan Norharyati Wan
name: Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi
name: Rijia Lin
name: Juliuz Motuzas
name: Smart, Simon
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30699 Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Photograph of MMMs, Neat (bottom) and P84/ZTC 1.0 (top), Mixed gas performance of the MMMs. Number in parentheses corresponds to the performance increase (+) or decrease (-) in percent as compared to the Uncoated PDMS membrane
Representations of Lie Superalgebras in Prime Characteristic I
Creators: name: Wang, Weiqiang
name: Zhao, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We initiate the representation theory of restricted Lie superalgebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p>2. A superalgebra generalization of the celebrated Kac-Weisfeiler Conjecture is formulated, which exhibits a mixture of p-power and 2-power divisibilities of dimensions of modules. We establish the Conjecture for basic classical Lie superalgebras.
description: v2, mild correction of typos, Proc. London Math. Soc. (to appear)
Pennisetiini Naumann 1971
Creators: name: Pohl, Greg
name: Anweiler, Gary
name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Kondla, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Sesiidae

description: Pennisetiini 367 R Pennisetia marginatum (Harris, 1839) Jul – Aug M B g Raspberry Crown Borer T: Eichlin and Duckworth (1988) L: Bowman (1951) C: NFRC, OLDS, UASM
description: Published as part of Pohl, Greg, Anweiler, Gary, Schmidt, Christian & Kondla, Norbert, 2010, An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada, pp. 1-549 in ZooKeys 38 (38) on page 91, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383, http://zenodo.org/record/576629
description: {"references": ["Eichlin TD, Duckworth WD (1988) Sesioidea: Sessiidae. Fasc. 5.1. In: Dominick RB, Ferguson DC, Franclemont JG, Hodges RW, Munroe EG (Eds) The moths of America north of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Washington, D. C., 176 pp.", "Bowman K (1951) An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Zoology 29: 121 - 165."]}
Religion, solitude, and nature in the poetry of the zen monk Ryōkan
Creators: name: Yavorsky, Gregory Paul
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The Zen monk Ryokan (1758-1831), who referred to himself by the self-depracating term taigu or Great Fool, is widely known in Japan through folktales which stress the eccentricities of his character. His extremely individualistic calligraphy, with its spidery unrestrained lines, is most highly valued, and new forgeries still appear frequently. He is less famous for his poetry of which there remain extant some 1,400 waka or Japanese poems and approximately 450 kanshi or Chinese poems. Although Ryokan's name has become known in the West through the Zen boom of the past twenty-five years, very little concrete work has been produced in either translation or criticism. It is my intent in this thesis to examine the concepts of religion, solitude, and nature, through a study of Ryokan's Chinese poems. I feel that these three elements are central to an understanding of Ryokan's life and poetry. As for religion, Ryokan was a Soto monk who studied under the Zen Master Kokusen of Entsu-ji in Bitchu in what is today Okayama Prefecture. After gaining enlightenment and receiving inka, the formal recognition of his spiritual attainment, he wandered for five years before returning to his native province where he eventually settled in a hermitage on Mt. Kugami. Unlike the majority of monks of his day, he continually maintained himself by means of takuhatsu or mendicancy. This aligns him with his poetic model Han-shan (Cold Mountain) and other illustrious Zen monks such as Shuho Myocho who lived under the Gojo bridge for twenty years before founding Daitoku-ji. Ryokan writes in one of his poems, "living in tranquility that is being a monk." The theme of solitude works in harmony with rather than in opposition to the idea of society in these poems. The religious seeker is trained by the sangha or community of monks, and supported by alms from the lay community, but the Zen Way relies most heavily on individual devotion, strength of discipline and self-power (jiriki). Nature is the unifying element of the poems for it represents to the poet, spontaneous existence, before contrivances and dualities: Mother Nature as a mirror for self-Nature. In addition to the study of these major thematic elements, this thesis includes some forty-five poems, the majority of which have not previously been translated.
Finite temperature Casimir effect in piston geometry and its classical limit
Creators: name: Lim, S. C.
name: Teo, L. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Casimir force acting on a $d$-dimensional rectangular piston due to massless scalar field with periodic, Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions and electromagnetic field with perfect electric conductor and perfect magnetic conductor boundary conditions. It is verified analytically that at any temperature, the Casimir force acting on the piston is always an attractive force pulling the piston towards the interior region, and the magnitude of the force gets larger as the separation $a$ gets smaller. Explicit exact expressions for the Casimir force for small and large plate separations and for low and high temperatures are computed. The limits of the Casimir force acting on the piston when some pairs of transversal plates are large are also derived. An interesting result regarding the influence of temperature is that in contrast to the conventional result that the leading term of the Casimir force acting on a wall of a rectangular cavity at high temperature is the Stefan--Boltzmann (or black body radiation) term which is of order $T^{d+1}$, it is found that the contributions of this term from the interior and exterior regions cancel with each other in the case of piston. The high temperature leading order term of the Casimir force acting on the piston is of order $T$, which shows that the Casimir force has a nontrivial classical $\hbar\to 0$ limit.
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association
Creators: name: Graneng, Kristine
name: Rye, Lise
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Perceptions of the ‘wriggle room’ within the framework of European integration might have significant implications for both public opinion and policy choices, as exemplified by the Brexit process. Examining how ideas of a wriggle room are presented to the public is therefore important, and even more so for arrangements of external differentiated integration, where formal access to EU decision-making is restricted. Through examining how Norwegian politicians have presented the wriggle room within the EEA association in the period 1987–2022, the article shows how such presentations vary. It is argued that these are not only dependent on the legal-institutional framework of the agreement, but that the parties’ positions on the EEA association and on European integration in general condition their presentations.
External differentiation as a strategy of system maintenance: EU enlargement towards the Western Balkans
Creators: name: Viceré, Maria Giulia Amadio
name: Bonomi, Matteo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Virology

description: Despite the stalling of enlargement countries’ accession to the EU, these countries have been recurrently involved in EU policies. There is, however, little knowledge about their participation in EU policies short of membership. This article conceptualises such participation as a manifestation of external differentiated cooperation. It offers a theoretical approach accounting for the unfolding of external differentiated cooperation in EU interactions with enlargement countries as a strategy of system maintenance. External differentiated cooperation, the article argues, serves as a strategy for the EU to address increased mutual dependences with enlargement countries triggered by crises-induced shocks to the EU system of regional integration. By examining EU-Western Balkans’ interactions from 2014 to 2023, the article shows that the EU and its relevant actors have resorted to external differentiated cooperation to ensure the functioning of the EU system of regional integration against the backdrop of member states’ reluctance towards EU enlargement.
Paranthrenini Niculescu 1964
Creators: name: Pohl, Greg
name: Anweiler, Gary
name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Kondla, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Sesiidae

description: Paranthrenini 368 R Paranthrene robiniae (Edwards, 1880) Jun m B g T: Eichlin and Duckworth (1988) L: [Bowman (1951)],? Eichlin and Duckworth (1988), Pohl et al. (2005) C: CNC, NFRC, OLDS, UASM 369 * U H Paranthrene tabaniformis (Rottemburg, 1775) L May – Aug – b g T: Eichlin and Duckworth (1988) L: Engelhardt (1946),? Eichlin and Duckworth (1988) C: Unknown 370 R Albuna pyramidalis (Walker, 1856) Jun – Jul M B G T: Eichlin and Duckworth (1988) L: Bowman (1951), Eichlin and Duckworth (1988) C: CNC, NFRC, OLDS, UASM 371 R Euhagena nebraskae Edwards, 1881 Sep – Oct – – G T: Eichlin and Duckworth (1988) L: Eichlin and Duckworth (1988) C: CNC, OLDS, UASM
description: Published as part of Pohl, Greg, Anweiler, Gary, Schmidt, Christian & Kondla, Norbert, 2010, An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada, pp. 1-549 in ZooKeys 38 (38) on page 91, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383, http://zenodo.org/record/576629
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EU trade agreements and external differentiation: a large language model approach
Creators: name: Dür, Andreas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The EU’s trade agreements with third countries exhibit varying degrees of alignment with intra-EU rules. What factors explain this external differentiation? This article answers this question by relying on a large language model to measure the alignment of 62 EU trade agreements with intra-EU rules at the level of individual topics, such as trade in goods, intellectual property rights, or sustainable development. The results indicate that this alignment is higher for third countries (1) with large trade flows with the EU; (2) with an EU membership perspective; and (3) with a medium level of regulatory capacity. These associations are particularly pronounced for provisions tackling behind-the-border trade barriers. These findings contribute to the literature on external differentiation and advance our understanding of EU trade policy and preferential trade agreements.
A Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning Method for Solving Urban Route Planning Problems under Large-scale Customers and Real-time Traffic Conditions
Creators: name: Li, Yuanyuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370402
subject: Earth and space science informatics

description: As urbanization and economic growth advance, large-scale customers and real-time traffic conditions have become crucial factors in urban route planning. Deep reinforcement learning is considered the most effective method for solving urban route planning problems involving large-scale customers and real-time traffic conditions. Due to memory usage limitations, existing deep reinforcement learning methods cannot identify candidate customers or determine optimal travel routes in large-scale and real-time environments. To tackle these problems, this study introduces a hierarchical deep reinforcement learning method utilizing an improved transformer model (HDRLITF) based on the divide-and-conquer concept. Graph attention networks and gate mechanisms are integrated into the transformer model to capture dynamic features and improve the model's performance. A two-stage training method, based on the actor-critic algorithm, is proposed to determine the optimal policy function. To evaluate the HDRLITF method, experiments were conducted using datasets from the cities of Shenzhen and Chengdu in China. The experimental results suggest that the HDRLITF method can interact with the traffic environment in real time and obtain high-quality solutions, compared to other deep reinforcement learning methods. The robustness and reliability of HDRLITF were further validated across multiple traffic scenarios and indicators.
3D PRINTING OF STEM CELLS IN LIQUID-LIKE SOLIDS FOR HUMAN NEURAL TISSUE FABRICATION
Creators: name: Kajtez, Janko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: As the human population is getting older, neurodegenerative diseases are becoming an increasing threat to human health and a growing burden in terms of economic cost. For decades, these diseases have been studied using animal models and simple cell culture systems. However, both approaches have limitations: the translation of animal experiments to humans frequently fails and simple monolayer cultures are inherently unable to serve as adequate models for live tissues. Three-dimensional (3D) human in vitromodels are promising candidates to overcome these limitations because they can be engineered to architecturally and functionally mimic live tissue. The main challenges in creating such models are obtaining high resolution and systematically fine-tuning the cellular microenvironment. It is particularly challenging to fabricate nervous tissue because it is one of the softest tissues  (200-1000 Pa). Constructing highly defined structures with such soft materials is extremely demanding, due to post-fabrication deformations from material sag and interfacial tension. We utilized 3D bioprinting in liquid-like solids (LLS), a technology only recently developed, to overcome these challenges. Human neural stem cells (hNSCs) embedded in a hydrogel were printed inside a custom-made LLS support. The results show that we can print highly defined cell-laden structures (resolution below 50 µm) that retain their shape for more than a week. Such long-lasting architectural integrity of soft hydrogels is not achievable with conventional bioprinting methods. Printing two different populations of cells was also accomplished, an important step towards mimicking different parts of the brain in one structure. Furthermore, we are developing poly(ethylene glycol)-based (PEG) hydrogels with tunable physical and chemical properties in order to enhance the differentiation of  hNSCs into desired types of neurons. We aim to combine these advanced PEG-based hydrogels with our approach of bioprinting in LLS support in order to create an advanced 3D model of the brain with physical and chemical resemblance of brain tissue.  Lastly, extending this method to human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) would allow us to model Parkinson’s disease and even make the approach patient specific.
SPH Simulations of Direct Impact Accretion in the Ultracompact AM CVn Binaries
Creators: name: Dolence, Joshua
name: Wood, Matt A.
name: Silver, Isaac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ultracompact binary systems V407 Vul (RX J1914.4+2456) and HM Cnc (RX J0806.3+1527) - a two-member subclass of the AM CVn stars - continue to pique interest because they defy unambiguous classification. Three proposed models remain viable at this time, but none of the three is significantly more compelling than the remaining two, and all three can satisfy the observational constraints if parameters in the models are tuned. One of the three proposed models is the direct impact model of Marsh & Steeghs (2002), in which the accretion stream impacts the surface of a rapidly-rotating primary white dwarf directly but at a near-glancing angle. One requirement of this model is that the accretion stream have a high enough density to advect its specific kinetic energy below the photosphere for progressively more-thermalized emission downstream, a constraint that requires an accretion spot size of roughly 1.2x10^5 km^2 or smaller. Having at hand a smoothed particle hydrodynamics code optimized for cataclysmic variable accretion disk simulations, it was relatively straightforward for us to adapt it to calculate the footprint of the accretion stream at the nominal radius of the primary white dwarf, and thus to test this constraint of the direct impact model. We find that the mass flux at the impact spot can be approximated by a bivariate Gaussian with standard deviation σ_ϕ = 164 km in the orbital plane and σ_θ = 23 km in the perpendicular direction. The area of the the 2σellipse into which 86% of the mass flux occurs is roughly 47,400 km^2, or roughly half the size estimated by Marsh & Steeghs (2002). We discuss the necessary parameters of a simple model of the luminosity distribution in the post-impact emission region.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Metastable Innershell Molecular State (MIMS)
Creators: name: Bae, Young K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that the existence of Metastable Innershell Molecular State (MIMS) was experimentally discovered by Bae et al. in hypervelocity (v>100km/s) impact of nanoparticles. The decay of MIMS resulted in the observed intense soft x-rays in the range of 75 - 100 eV in agreement with Winterberg's recent prediction.
description: Submitted to Physics Letters A
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Ta-Shma, Amnon
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Theory of computation

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 264, 38th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2023), pages 0:i-0:xiv
Lymphocyte-to-C-reactive protein ratio predicts prognosis in unresectable locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients
Creators: name: Xu, Yingying
name: Li, Jinping
name: Ji, Xiang
name: Chen, Qingqing
name: Liu, Zhengcao
name: Ji, Shengjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: The lymphocyte-to-C-reactive protein ratio (LCR) is a promising inflammation-based tool for assessing the status of patients with malignant tumours. This study evaluated the ability of LCR to predict the prognosis of patients with unresectable locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC) after chemoradiotherapy. We retrospectively investigated 206 consecutive patients with unresectable LA-NSCLC who underwent chemoradiotherapy between January 2016 and November 2019. The LCR was calculated from the differential count by dividing the absolute lymphocyte count by the C-reactive protein level. The optimal cut-off value of LCR was determined using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, and the enrolled patients were divided into two groups for further analysis according to LCR. Overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) were assessed using univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses. In patients with unresectable LA-NSCLC, the level of LCR was significantly associated with pathology (p = 0.042) and TNM stage (p = 0.002). High LCR and low LCR patients had different distinct outcomes (median OS: 36 vs. 34 months, p < 0.0001) and recurrence risk (median DFS: 31 vs. 23 months, p < 0.001). Univariate analysis indicated that Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status, TNM stage, CEA level, response, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), systemic immune inflammation index (SII), and LCR were predictors of OS and DFS. Multivariate analysis showed that a high LCR was an independent prognostic factor for OS (hazard ratio [HR], 0.526; 95% CI, 0.364-0.762; p = 0.001) and DFS (HR, 0.390; 95% CI, 0.275-0.554; p < 0.001) LCR is a promising prognostic index in patients with LA-NSCLC undergoing chemoradiotherapy, and an increase in the LCR level contributes to better outcomes.