cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
AUTONOMOUS ESTIMATION AND GUIDANCE OF AN AMPHIBIOUS QUADROTOR FOR BISTATIC UNDERWATER LASER IMAGING
Creators: name: Toombs, Nathan
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Aerospace engineering
subject: Robotics
subject: Naval engineering
subject: Bistatic Laser Imaging
subject: EKF
subject: Estimation and Control
subject: ROV
subject: Spatial Gradient
subject: UAV

description: Underwater object classification by unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) is a critical task that is made difficult in shallow waters with concentrated particulate matter. Bistatic laser imaging is a current area of research that is more effective than traditional optical methods, but it requires separation of the laser receiver from the UUV-mounted laser emitter. This work explores the prospect of performing bistatic laser imaging with the receiver mounted to a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). To facilitate the imaging application, estimation and guidance algorithms are developed to autonomously locate and track a UUV-mounted laser with an amphibious UAV. The UAV is equipped to carry a receiver payload in safe above-water flight and water landings. To represent the received laser measurements, laser intensity models are developed based on the distributions of the decollimated lasers used in the imaging application. The UAV autonomy is validated both in a reduced-order simulation environment and with the hardware testbed.
Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The Cancer Genome Atlas profiled 279 head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) to provide a comprehensive landscape of somatic genomic alterations. We find that human papillomavirus-associated (HPV) tumors are dominated by helicase domain mutations of the oncogene PIK3CA, novel alterations involving loss of TRAF3, and amplification of the cell cycle gene E2F1. Smoking-related HNSCCs demonstrate near universal loss of TP53 mutations and CDKN2A with frequent copy number alterations including a novel amplification of 11q22. A subgroup of oral cavity tumors with favorable clinical outcomes displayed infrequent CNAs in conjunction with activating mutations of HRAS or PIK3CA, coupled with inactivating mutations of CASP8, NOTCH1 and wild-type TP53. Other distinct subgroups harbored novel loss of function alterations of the chromatin modifier NSD1, Wnt pathway genes AJUBA and FAT1, and activation of oxidative stress factor NFE2L2, mainly in laryngeal tumors. Therapeutic candidate alterations were identified in the majority of HNSCC's.
Photographs, Water Tower Demolition, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Creators: name: Ray, George
Publisher: name: TASC Photo Facility
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Quadrangle
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83313/quadrangle
subject: JBSA-Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82532/jbsa-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Water-Related
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/365/water-related
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Water Tower
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/60991/water-tower
subject: Demolition
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/85108/demolition
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: Colored photographs capturing the deconstruction and demolition of two old water towers in the Quadrangle at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Finite Temperature Effect on Wilson Loop Mechanism
Creators: name: Shiraishi, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the energy splitting of vacua appearing in the gauge theory in the space $M_4\times S^N/Z_2$ ($N=2,3,4,5,6$ and $7$). One-loop quantum effects which come from scalar and gauge fields are considered. We calculate them at zero temperature as well as in high-temperature limit. We find that in these situations there is no breakdown of the gauge symmetry.
description: 7 pages, no figure. Erratum can be found at Prog. Theoretical Physics 81, No. 1 (1989) pp. 248--248 (Erratum)
MPEC 2023-R37 : 2023 RQ
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 RQ

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Comprehensive genomic profiles of small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Menon, Roopika
name: Korbel, Jan O.
name: Chun, Sung-Min
name: Park, Kwon-Sik
name: Yang, Dian
name: Jahchan, Nadine S.
name: Wilkerson, Matt
name: Müller, Christian
name: Karnezis, Anthony N.
name: Cun, Yupeng
name: Michels, Sebastian
name: Dahmen, Ilona
name: Kim, Deokhoon
name: Vlasic, Ignacija
name: Hayes, Neil
name: George, Julie
name: Pützer, Brigitte
name: Wang, Maia Segura
name: Pinther, Berit
name: Fernández-Cuesta, Lynnette
name: Leenders, Frauke
name: Vaka, Dedeepya
name: Engelmann, David
name: Ozretić, Luka
name: Kong, Gu
name: Torres, Angela
name: Jang, Se Jin
name: Seidel, Danila
name: Lu, Xin
name: Bosco, Graziella
name: Lim, Jing Shan
name: Bos, Marc
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We have sequenced the genomes of 110 small cell lung cancers (SCLC), one of the deadliest human cancers. In nearly all the tumours analysed we found bi-allelic inactivation of TP53 and RB1, sometimes by complex genomic rearrangements. Two tumours with wild-type RB1 had evidence of chromothripsis leading to overexpression of cyclin D1 (encoded by the CCND1 gene), revealing an alternative mechanism of Rb1 deregulation. Thus, loss of the tumour suppressors TP53 and RB1 is obligatory in SCLC. We discovered somatic genomic rearrangements of TP73 that create an oncogenic version of this gene, TP73Δex2/3. In rare cases, SCLC tumours exhibited kinase gene mutations, providing a possible therapeutic opportunity for individual patients. Finally, we observed inactivating mutations in NOTCH family genes in 25% of human SCLC. Accordingly, activation of Notch signalling in a pre-clinical SCLC mouse model strikingly reduced the number of tumours and extended the survival of the mutant mice. Furthermore, neuroendocrine gene expression was abrogated by Notch activity in SCLC cells. This first comprehensive study of somatic genome alterations in SCLC uncovers several key biological processes and identifies candidate therapeutic targets in this highly lethal form of cancer.
Response from Stanley Graves to John Brenneman, Rehabilitation and Adaptive Use of Building 143 Troop Barracks Building, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Creators: name: Graves, Stanley O.
name: Fleming, Sharon E.
Publisher: name: Texas Historical Commission
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: JBSA-Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82532/jbsa-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Military Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/322/military-structure
subject: Building 143
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146295/building-143
subject: Troop Barracks
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/156854/troop-barracks
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: The Texas Historical Commission has received and reviewed the plans for the renovation of Building 143 at Fort Sam Houston. The Commission concurs with the determination of "no adverse effect" on the historic structure. Copied to this correspondence is Mike Hilger, Historical Architect, Fort Sam Houston.
Examination of a Highly Porous Gel Polymer Interlayer for Interfacial Improvement in Solid State Lithium Batteries
Creators: name: Rae, Tyler Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Energy
subject: Gel polymers
subject: Lithium batteries
subject: Solid-state electrolytes

description: Solid-state lithium garnet (LLZT) electrolytes display relatively high ionic conductivity, thermal stability, and compatibility with lithium metal, which makes them encouraging for the future of lithium-ion batteries. As with many other solid electrolytes, their main weakness is poor contact and high interfacial resistance with electrodes. The use of polymer gels as interlayers has been demonstrated to reduce this interface, improving cell stability and lifespan. In this study, immersion precipitation has been explored as a preparation method to create poly(vinylidene fluoride)-co-hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP) polymer membranes. The resultant microstructure is highly porous and can uptake nearly 600% its weight in liquid electrolyte when forming a gel. Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and lithium fluoride (LiF) are incorporated into the membranes and evaluated for their contributions to mechanical and electrochemical properties. Membranes containing LiF showed high stability up to 4.5 V vs Li/Li+ and were analyzed in cells of composition NMC/PVDF-HFP/LLZT/Li. Specific discharge capacities up to 174 mAh/g were achieved during early cycling and showed promise for future exploration and application in quasi-solid-state lithium-ion batteries.
Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations
Creators: name: Corre, Tanguy
name: Jackson, Anne U.
name: Smith, Albert V.
name: Okada, Yukinori
name: O'Connel, Jeffrey R.
name: Eklund, Niina
name: Vitart, Veronique
name: Zhang, Weihua
name: Chasman, Daniel I.
name: Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni
name: Guo, Xiuqing
name: Nongmaithem, Suraj S.
name: Trompet, Stella
name: Stančáková, Alena
name: Schurmann, Claudia
name: Chen, Yuning
name: Joshi, Peter K.
name: Enroth, Stefan
name: Franceschini, Nora
name: Bartz, Traci M.
name: Zhao, Wei
name: Esko, Tonu
name: Ruggiero, Daniela
name: Concas, Maria Pina
name: Mattsson, Hannele
name: Nutile, Teresa
name: Kacprowski, Tim
name: Mangino, Massimo
name: Bjonnes, Andrew
name: Gandin, Ilaria
name: Faul, Jessica D.
name: Traglia, Michela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Homozygosity has long been associated with rare, often devastating, Mendelian disorders1 and Darwin was one of the first to recognise that inbreeding reduces evolutionary fitness2. However, the effect of the more distant parental relatedness common in modern human populations is less well understood. Genomic data now allow us to investigate the effects of homozygosity on traits of public health importance by observing contiguous homozygous segments (runs of homozygosity, ROH), which are inferred to be homozygous along their complete length. Given the low levels of genome-wide homozygosity prevalent in most human populations, information is required on very large numbers of people to provide sufficient power3,4. Here we use ROH to study 16 health-related quantitative traits in 354,224 individuals from 102 cohorts and find statistically significant associations between summed runs of homozygosity (SROH) and four complex traits: height, forced expiratory lung volume in 1 second (FEV1), general cognitive ability (g) and educational attainment (nominal p<1 × 10−300, 2.1 × 10−6, 2.5 × 10−10, 1.8 × 10−10). In each case increased homozygosity was associated with decreased trait value, equivalent to the offspring of first cousins being 1.2 cm shorter and having 10 months less education. Similar effect sizes were found across four continental groups and populations with different degrees of genome-wide homozygosity, providing convincing evidence for the first time that homozygosity, rather than confounding, directly contributes to phenotypic variance. Contrary to earlier reports in substantially smaller samples5,6, no evidence was seen of an influence of genome-wide homozygosity on blood pressure and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, or ten other cardio-metabolic traits. Since directional dominance is predicted for traits under directional evolutionary selection7, this study provides evidence that increased stature and cognitive function have been positively selected in human evolution, whereas many important risk factors for late-onset complex diseases may not have been.
Momonides Lundblad 1941
Creators: name: Smit, Harry
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Momoniidae
Momonides

description: Genus Momonides Lundblad, 1941
The genus is known from two species from Java (one of which occurs also on Borneo, Wiles 1999), one from Europe and one from Ghana (Smit 2012c).
description: Published as part of Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2014, Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3876 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287281
Letter from Scott Shepherd to Joseph Logan, Historic Windows Buildings 901 and 399, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
Creators: name: Shepherd, Scott B.
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Randolph Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/78971/randolph-air-force-base
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Building 901
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146466/building-901
subject: Building 399
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/158537/building-399
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: Correspondence in planning to have Tom Clark visit Randolph Air Force base and survey the historic windows at Building 901 and Building 399.
(:unas) unassigned
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2024

description: In quest’articolo si intende presentare il caso di rifunzionalizzazione che subiscono le poesie della raccolta Nelle mani la luna di Younis Tawfik nel loro passaggio a intermezzi lirici del saggio L’Iraq di Saddam. Attraverso un apparato genetico che registrerà le varianti d’autore tra gli stessi componimenti inseriti nelle due opere, questo contributo si interrogherà sulle ragioni di tali mutamenti. Inoltre, sottolineerà la funzione narrativa, linguistica e tematica che le varianti svolgono nell’economia delle diverse opere in cui sono presenti.
description: In this article I will present the case of re-functionalization that the poems of the collection Nelle mani la luna by Younis Tawfik undergo in their transition to lyrical interludes of the essay L’Iraq di Saddam. Through a genetic apparatus that will register the variations between the same compositions inserted in the two works, I will investigate the reasons for these changes. I will underline the narrative, linguistic and thematic function that these variants play out in the different works in which they are present.
Differential subordinations and superordinations for generalized Bessel functions
Creators: name: Al-Kharsani, Huda A.
name: Baricz, Árpád
name: Nisar, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C10, 30C45

description: Differential subordination and superordination preserving properties for univalent functions in the open unit disk with an operator involving generalized Bessel functions are derived. Some particular cases involving trigonometric functions of our main results are also pointed out.
description: 8 pages
การศึกษาแหล่งเรียนรู้ท้องถิ่นในอำเภอหัวหิน เพื่อใช้ในการจัดการเรียนรู้วิชาสังคมศึกษาของโรงเรียนวังไกลกังวล ในพระบรมราชูปถัมภ์ จังหวัดประจวบคีรีขันธ์
Creators: name: อาทิตย์ ชัยเทพา
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยกาฬสินธุ์
Year: 2023
Subjects: แหล่งเรียนรู้ท้องถิ่นในอำเภอหัวหิน
การจัดการเรียนรู้วิชาสังคมศึกษา
การจัดการเรียนรู้โดยใช้แหล่งเรียนรู้ในท้องถิ่น

description: วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์ สังคมศาสตร์ และนวัตกรรม มหาวิทยาลัยกาฬสินธุ์, 2, 1, 51-63
Exome sequencing identifies rare LDLR and APOA5 alleles conferring risk for myocardial infarction
Creators: name: Kiezun, Adam
name: Erdmann, Jeanette
name: Auer, Paul L.
name: Roberts, Robert
name: Danesh, John
name: Farlow, Deborah N.
name: Stitziel, Nathan O.
name: Lange, Leslie A.
name: Goel, Anuj
name: Shah, Svati H.
name: Zuk, Or
name: Samani, Nilesh J.
name: DePristo, Mark A.
name: Angelica Merlini, Pier
name: Saleheen, Danish
name: Stewart, Alexander F. R.
name: Won, Hong-Hee
name: Duga, Stefano
name: Farrall, Martin
name: Girelli, Domenico
name: Kraus, William E.
name: Martinelli, Nicola
name: Epstein, Stephen E.
name: Asselta, Rosanna
name: Guella, Illaria
name: Peloso, Gina M.
name: Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh
name: Kastelein, John J.
name: Kees Hovingh, G.
name: Jørgensen, Anders Berg
name: Schunkert, Heribert
name: Do, Ron
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Myocardial infarction (MI), a leading cause of death around the world, displays a complex pattern of inheritance1,2. When MI occurs early in life, the role of inheritance is substantially greater1. Previously, rare mutations in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) genes have been shown to contribute to MI risk in individual families3–8 whereas common variants at more than 45 loci have been associated with MI risk in the population9–15. Here, we evaluate the contribution of rare mutations to MI risk in the population. We sequenced the protein-coding regions of 9,793 genomes from patients with MI at an early age (≤50 years in males and ≤60 years in females) along with MI-free controls. We identified two genes where rare coding-sequence mutations were more frequent in cases versus controls at exome-wide significance. At low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR), carriers of rare, damaging mutations (3.1% of cases versus 1.3% of controls) were at 2.4-fold increased risk for MI; carriers of null alleles at LDLR were at even higher risk (13-fold difference). This sequence-based estimate of the proportion of early MI cases due to LDLR mutations is remarkably similar to an estimate made more than 40 years ago using total cholesterol16. At apolipoprotein A-V (APOA5), carriers of rare nonsynonymous mutations (1.4% of cases versus 0.6% of controls) were at 2.2-fold increased risk for MI. When compared with non-carriers, LDLR mutation carriers had higher plasma LDL cholesterol whereas APOA5 mutation carriers had higher plasma triglycerides. Recent evidence has connected MI risk with coding sequence mutations at two genes functionally related to APOA5, namely lipoprotein lipase15,17 and apolipoprotein C318,19. When combined, these observations suggest that, beyond LDL cholesterol, disordered metabolism of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins contributes to MI risk.
Formation of granular structures in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates under oscillatory excitations
Creators: name: Yukalov, V. I.
name: Novikov, A. N.
name: Bagnato, V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present experimental observations and numerical simulations of nonequilibrium spatial structures in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate subject to oscillatory perturbations. In experiment, first, there appear collective excitations, followed by quantum vortices. Increasing the amount of the injected energy leads to the formation of vortex tangles representing quantum turbulence. We study what happens after the regime of quantum turbulence, with increasing further the amount of injected energy. In such a strongly nonequilibrium Bose-condensed system of trapped atoms, vortices become destroyed and there develops a new kind of spatial structure exhibiting essentially heterogeneous spatial density. The structure reminds fog consisting of high-density droplets, or grains, surrounded by the regions of low density. The grains are randomly distributed in space, where they move. They live sufficiently long time to be treated as a type of metastable objects. Such structures have been observed in nonequilibrium trapped Bose gases of $^{87}$Rb, subject to the action of alternating fields. Here we present experimental results and support them by numerical simulations. The granular, or fog structure is essentially different from the state of wave turbulence that develops after increasing further the amount of injected energy.
description: Latex file, 14 pages, 5 figures
Letter from Scott Shepherd to Virgil McGee, Section 106 Review of Elevator Project Building 661, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
Creators: name: Shepherd, Scott B.
Publisher: name: Department of the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Randolph Field Historic Landmark District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83364/randolph-field-historic-landmark-district
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Randolph Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/78971/randolph-air-force-base
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Elevator
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146800/elevator
subject: Building 661
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146442/building-661
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: Randolph Air Force Base conducted a review on Building 661. It was determined that this property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and that the proposed project will have no adverse effect on the structure or its landmark district.
Bar development and tension lap splice of high-strength reinforcing steel
Creators: name: Espanol, Cheska
name: 0000-0002-2104-6820
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bar development
Lap splice
High-strength steel
Reinforced concrete
Design

description: High-strength reinforcing steel with yield strengths up to 100 ksi have been implemented in design code, but it is not common in practical bridge design. High-strength reinforcement bears opportunities for higher load-carrying capacity, reduced congestion, cost savings, and corrosion-resistance in bridge components. However, the serviceability and the validity of current code provisions shall be further investigated for state departments of transportation to apply this material in practice. In particular, bar development and tension lap splice provisions of high-strength reinforcement should be studied, and the serviceability performance in terms of crack control must be evaluated. There is limited data on the serviceability performance of beams with high-strength rebar using larger bar sizes. Therefore, the research team at the University of Texas aims to expand the database of beam-splice tests by conducting four-point bending tests on four specimens containing No. 11 bars for longitudinal reinforcement either in ASTM A615 Grade 60 or Grade 100 steel. Through the results, the effects of steel grade and the presence of a lap splice on strength and serviceability performance can be evaluated. Furthermore, design recommendations and conclusions on the applicability of current design code development length and lap splice provisions using high-strength reinforcing steel are drawn.
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Creators: name: Zhao, Wei
name: Faul, Jessica D.
name: Hua Zhao, Jing
name: Absher, Devin
name: Yang, Jian
name: Locke, Adam E.
name: Chen, Jin
name: Vedantam, Sailaja
name: Kahali, Bratati
name: Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie
name: Day, Felix R.
name: Kutalik, Zoltán
name: Fehrmann, Rudolf
name: Berndt, Sonja I.
name: Karjalainen, Juha
name: Luan, Jian’an
name: Croteau-Chonka, Damien C.
name: Ferreira, Teresa
name: Smith, Jennifer A.
name: Powell, Corey
name: Mägi, Reedik
name: Randall, Joshua C.
name: Esko, Tonu
name: Fall, Tove
name: Justice, Anne E.
name: Wood, Andrew R.
name: Winkler, Thomas W.
name: Pers, Tune H.
name: Gustafsson, Stefan
name: Hedman, Åsa K.
name: Buchkovich, Martin L.
name: Schmidt, Ellen M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals. This analysis identifies 97 BMI-associated loci (P < 5 × 10−8), 56 of which are novel. Five loci demonstrate clear evidence of several independent association signals, and many loci have significant effects on other metabolic phenotypes. The 97 loci account for ~2.7% of BMI variation, and genome-wide estimates suggest that common variation accounts for >20% of BMI variation. Pathway analyses provide strong support for a role of the central nervous system in obesity susceptibility and implicate new genes and pathways, including those related to synaptic function, glutamate signalling, insulin secretion/action, energy metabolism, lipid biology and adipogenesis.
Optical Properties of Marine and Picocyanobacteria-derived Dissolved Organic Matter in the Atlantic, Pacific and during Long-term Incubation Experiments
Creators: name: Lahm, Madeline Amelia
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical oceanography
subject: Carbon
subject: CDOM
subject: Dissolved Organic Matter
subject: FDOM
subject: optical properties
subject: Picocyanobacteria

description: Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a large, dynamic, and complex pool of carbon, comparable in size to the carbon dioxide pool in the atmosphere, yet it is arguably the least understood component of the global carbon cycle. DOM deriving from picocyanobacterial cells via situationally unique mechanisms, such as viral lysis and metazoan grazing, complicate the picture as the resident pool present reflects sequestration processes that occur at time scales ranging from days to hundreds of thousands of years. Recently virus induced cell lysis released from the globally distributed picocyanobacteria, such as Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus, have been shown to release optically active DOM known as Chromophoric DOM (CDOM) that closely matches the “humic-like” appearance of marine CDOM raising questions about our understanding of this carbon pool given the reliance on spectral measures to assess its composition. Hence, this thesis is seeking to understand CDOM released by lysed picocyanobacteria and to investigate the molecular chemical composition of picocyanobacteria-derived DOM in general. A special focus will be to confirm the refractory nature of chromophores released by lysed picocyanobacteria (Synechococcus) given the reliance on optical properties of recalcitrant DOM being used in the investigation of timescales of carbon storage and biological processing of carbon. As we consider the outcomes of the current global carbon inventory with a sizable error in flux, linking products of microbial processes to chromophore structures and spectrometry is a capstone in understanding the global carbon cycle for decades of research. This study offers a direct comparison of fluorescence signatures from the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series (BATS) and the Hawai'i Ocean Time-series (HOT), observes optical and nutrient profiles tracking long-term incubation experiments of oligotrophic microbial communities amended with Synechococcus-derived DOM, and explores new techniques in DOM solid-phase extraction (SPE). This work is part of a National Science Foundation project - The Fate of Lysis Products of Picocyanobacteria Contributes to Marine Humic-like Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter – linking the accumulating evidence of picocyanobacterial-derived DOM to our understanding of marine organic carbon. Furthermore, we seek to understand how picocyanobacteria-derived DOM is degraded and what role changing heterotrophic microbial communities plays. This research is important to the concept of a microbial carbon pump that supplies a constrained and constant source of DOM which has important implications for the marine carbon cycle and its role in global climate.
Hemichordate genomes and deuterostome origins
Creators: name: Kanda, Miyuki
name: Yamasaki, Shinichi
name: Fujie, Manabu
name: Levine, Judith
name: Sasaki, Akane
name: Dinh, Huyen H.
name: Cameron, Christopher
name: Pani, Ariel M.
name: Freeman, Robert M.
name: Cree, Andrew
name: Hisata, Kanako
name: Simakov, Oleg
name: Sato, Atsuko
name: Gyoja, Fuki
name: Goto, Hiroki
name: Gonzalez, Paul
name: Hikosaka-Katayama, Tomoe
name: Shoguchi, Eiichi
name: Qu, Jiaxin
name: Dugan, Shannon
name: Mitros, Therese
name: Chen, Yi-Chih
name: Marlétaz, Ferdinand
name: Baughman, Kenneth W.
name: Jenkins, Jerry
name: Fritzenwanker, Jens H.
name: Bredeson, Jessen
name: Kawashima, Takeshi
name: Yue, Jia-Xing
name: Ding, Yan
name: Arakaki, Nana
name: Koyanagi, Ryo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Acorn worms, also known as enteropneust (literally, ‘gut-breathing’) hemichordates, are marine invertebrates that share features with echinoderms and chordates. Together, these three phyla comprise the deuterostomes. Here we report the draft genome sequences of two acorn worms, Saccoglossus kowalevskii and Ptychodera flava. By comparing them with diverse bilaterian genomes, we identify shared traits that were probably inherited from the last common deuterostome ancestor, and then explore evolutionary trajectories leading from this ancestor to hemichordates, echinoderms and chordates. The hemichordate genomes exhibit extensive conserved synteny with amphioxus and other bilaterians, and deeply conserved non-coding sequences that are candidates for conserved gene-regulatory elements. Notably, hemichordates possess a deuterostome-specific genomic cluster of four ordered transcription factor genes, the expression of which is associated with the development of pharyngeal ‘gill’ slits, the foremost morphological innovation of early deuterostomes, and is probably central to their filter-feeding lifestyle. Comparative analysis reveals numerous deuterostome-specific gene novelties, including genes found in deuterostomes and marine microbes, but not other animals. The putative functions of these genes can be linked to physiological, metabolic and developmental specializations of the filter-feeding ancestor.
Wilson loops and minimal area surfaces in hyperbolic space
Creators: name: Kruczenski, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The AdS/CFT correspondence relates Wilson loops in $N$=4 SYM theory to minimal area surfaces in AdS space. If the loop is a plane curve the minimal surface lives in hyperbolic space $H_3$ (or equivalently Euclidean AdS$_3$ space). We argue that finding the area of such extremal surface can be easily done if we solve the following problem: given two real periodic functions $V_{0,1}(s)$, $V_{0,1}(s+2π)=V_{0,1}(s)$, a third periodic function $V_2(s)$ is to be found such that all solutions to the equation $- ϕ"(s) + \big[V_0+{1\over 2} (λ+{1 \over λ}) V_1 + {i\over 2} (λ-{1 \over λ}) V_2\big] ϕ(s)=0$ are anti-periodic in $s\in[0,2π]$ for any value of $λ$. This problem is equivalent to the statement that the monodromy matrix is trivial. It can be restated as that of finding a one complex parameter family of curves $X(λ,s)$ where $X(λ=1,s)$ is the given shape of the Wilson loop and such that the Schwarzian derivative $\{X(λ,s),s\}$ is meromorphic in $λ$ with only two simple poles. We present a formula for the area in terms of the functions $V_{0,1,2}$ and discuss solutions to these equivalent problems in terms of theta functions. Finally, we also consider the near circular Wilson loop clarifying its integrability properties and rederiving its area using the methods described in this paper.
description: LateX, 39 pages, 1 figure
title: “Eros” e “Techne”. “Nella mano che trattiene/Una mano assente”
Creators: name: Calderone , Rosaria
Publisher: name: Roma Tre-Press
Year: 2011

description: L'articolo mette in luce l'aporia del tatto. La mano si assenta proprio mentre trattiene, generando una doppia possibilità o doppio contenuto del trattenere (qualcosa o niente). Nel trattenere intenzionale della mano, nel contatto di cui questa mano è capace, e cioè nell'atto del suo toccare, si mantiene tutta l'esperienza di un non toccare niente, perché all'altro estremo del contatto, la mano che si vuol toccare, la mano dell'altro, è assente.

description: B@belonline vol. 10/11 Pensare con Jean-Luc Nancy
Historic Preservation Coordination Analysis at Fort Sam Houston, Bexar County, Texas
Creators: name: Peter, Duane E.
Publisher: name: Geo-Marine, Inc.
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: JBSA-Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82532/jbsa-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/348/texas-state-territory
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: Duane Peter, Senior Archeologist of Geo-Marine, Inc., conducted an historic preservation coordination analysis for the Fort Worth District Corps of Engineers at Fort Sam Houston, Bexar County, Texas between October 1988 and April 1989. The analysis of the historic preservation coordination process revealed that the Section 106 review process at Fort Sam Houston has been seriously flawed, especially in relation to coordination with the Advisory Council of Historic Preservation (ACHP).
Letter from Richard Strimel to Stan Graves, Building 4015 Handicap Ramp, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Creators: name: Strimel, Richard W.
Publisher: name: Environmental and Natural Resources Division
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: JBSA-Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82532/jbsa-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Fort Sam Houston National Historic Landmark District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82955/fort-sam-houston-national-historic-landmark-district
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Building 4015
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146639/building-4015
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: This correspondence was written to confirm verbal understanding reached between Mrs. Teresa Kinsay of the Texas Historical Commission and Mr. Ken Moore of Fort Sam Houston's Environmental and Natural Resources Division concerning the proposal to construct a concrete handicap ramp to the south entrance porch platform of building 4015 in the National Historic Landmark District.
New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution
Creators: name: Fehrmann, Rudolf
name: Song, Ci
name: Chen, Jin
name: Mägi, Reedik
name: Shungin, Dmitry
name: Drong, Alexander W.
name: Fischer, Krista
name: Luan, Jian’an
name: Vedantam, Sailaja
name: Pers, Tune H.
name: Heard-Costa, Nancy L.
name: Locke, Adam E.
name: Day, Felix R.
name: Fall, Tove
name: Scherag, André
name: Strawbridge, Rona J.
name: Croteau-Chonka, Damien C.
name: Randall, Joshua C.
name: Kahali, Bratati
name: Justice, Anne E.
name: Gustafsson, Stefan
name: Wu, Joseph M. W.
name: Winkler, Thomas W.
name: Esko, Tonu
name: Buchkovich, Martin L.
name: Karjalainen, Juha
name: Liu, Ching-Ti
name: Roman, Tamara S.
name: Ferreira, Teresa
name: Wood, Andrew R.
name: Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie
name: Kutalik, Zoltán
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distribution and its molecular links to cardiometabolic traits, we conducted genome-wide association meta-analyses of waist and hip circumference-related traits in up to 224,459 individuals. We identified 49 loci (33 new) associated with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index (WHRadjBMI) and an additional 19 loci newly associated with related waist and hip circumference measures (P<5×10−8). Twenty of the 49 WHRadjBMI loci showed significant sexual dimorphism, 19 of which displayed a stronger effect in women. The identified loci were enriched for genes expressed in adipose tissue and for putative regulatory elements in adipocytes. Pathway analyses implicated adipogenesis, angiogenesis, transcriptional regulation, and insulin resistance as processes affecting fat distribution, providing insight into potential pathophysiological mechanisms.
Progesterone receptor modulates ERα action in breast cancer
Creators: name: Hadfield, James
name: D’Santos, Clive
name: Mohammed, Hisham
name: Menon, Suraj
name: Carroll, Jason S.
name: Russell, I. Alasdair
name: Brown, Gordon D.
name: Saadi, Amel
name: Raj, Ganesh V.
name: Robinson, Jessica L. L.
name: Tarulli, Gerard A.
name: Pugh, Michelle
name: Launchbury, Rosalind
name: Silva, Grace
name: Hickey, Theresa E.
name: Caldas, Carlos
name: Stark, Rory
name: Perou, Charles M.
name: Serandour, Aurelien A.
name: Stingl, John
name: Birrell, Stephen N.
name: Bruna, Alejandra
name: Tilley, Wayne D.
name: Rueda, Oscar M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Progesterone receptor (PR) expression is employed as a biomarker of estrogen receptor-α (ERα) function and breast cancer prognosis. We now show that PR is not merely an ERα-induced gene target, but is also an ERα-associated protein that modulates its behaviour. In the presence of agonist ligands, PR associates with ERα to direct ERα chromatin binding events within breast cancer cells, resulting in a unique gene expression programme that is associated with good clinical outcome. Progesterone inhibited estrogen-mediated growth of ERα+ cell line xenografts and primary ERα+ breast tumour explants and had increased anti-proliferative effects when coupled with an ERα antagonist. Copy number loss of PgR is a common feature in ERα+ breast cancers, explaining lower PR levels in a subset of cases. Our findings indicate that PR functions as a molecular rheostat to control ERα chromatin binding and transcriptional activity, which has important implications for prognosis and therapeutic interventions.
Reducing the energy cost of human walking using an unpowered exoskeleton
Creators: name: Wiggin, M. Bruce
name: Collins, Steven H.
name: Sawicki, Gregory S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Walking is the most commonplace of activities, yet we know remarkably little about it and no robot has yet reproduced the grace and poise of a human walk. Steven Collins et al. now show that the attachment of a simple mechanical exoskeleton to the foot and ankle results in a 7 reduction of the metabolic energy expended in walking. This work shows that net energy input is not a fundamental requirement for reducing the metabolic cost of human walking, and that reducing calf muscle forces while also fulfilling normal ankle functions and minimizing penalties associated with added mass or restricted motions can be beneficial.
A genetic approach to inactivating chemokine receptors using a modified viral protein
Creators: name: Coffield, V McNeil
name: Su, Lishan
name: Jiang, Qi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: We have developed a genetic system, called degrakine, that specifically and stably inactivates chemokine receptors (CKR) by redirecting the ability of the HIV-1 protein, Vpu, to degrade CD4 in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via the host proteasome machinery. To harness Vpu’s proteolytic targeting capability to degrade new receptors, we fused a chemokine with the C terminal region of Vpu. The fusion protein, or degrakine, accumulates in the ER, trapping and functionally inactivating its target CKR. We have demonstrated that degrakines based on SDF-1 (CXCL12), MDC (CCL22) and RANTES (CCL5) specifically inactivate their respective receptor functions. Using a retroviral vector expressing the SDF-1 degrakine, we have established that CXCR4 is required for the homing of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPC) to the bone marrow immediately after transplantation. Thus the degrakine provides an effective genetic tool to dissect receptor functions in a number of biological systems in vitro and in vivo.
OAHP Inventory, Building 2428 Gas Station, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Creators: name: Walter, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Fort Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83681/fort-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Gas Station
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/42766/gas-station
subject: OAHP
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/138292/oahp
subject: Building 2428
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146581/building-2428
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: An inventory form by the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation for Building 2428 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The structure was built in 1937 as a gas station.
Electromagnetic partner of the gravitational signal during accretion onto black holes
Creators: name: Degollado, Juan Carlos
name: Gualajara, Victor
name: Moreno, Claudia
name: Núñez, Darío
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the generation of electromagnetic and gravitational radiation in the vicinity of a perturbed Schwarzschild black hole. The gravitational perturbations and the electromagnetic field are studied by solving the Teukolsky master equation with sources, which we take to be locally charged, radially infalling, matter. Our results show that, in addition to the gravitational wave generated as the matter falls into the black hole, there is also a burst of electromagnetic radiation. This electromagnetic field has a characteristic set of quasinormal frequencies, and the gravitational radiation has the quasinormal frequencies of a Schwarzschild black hole. This scenario allows us to compare the gravitational and electromagnetic signals that are generated by a common source.
description: 12 pages, six figures