cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Microneedles assisted controlled and improved transdermal delivery of high molecular drugs via in situ forming depot thermoresponsive poloxamers gels in skin microchannels
Creators: name: Khan, Samiullah
name: Minhas, Muhammad Usman
name: Thakur, Raghu Raj Singh
name: Aqeel, Muhammad Tahir
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Skin is considered as an attractive route for variety of drug molecule administration. However, it is proved to be the main physical barrier for drug flux owing to their poor permeability and low bioavailability across stratum corneum layer. In the current study, novel approach has been used to enhance transdermal delivery via microporation through combination of poloxamers gels and microneedles (MNs) arrays. The phase transition of poloxamers at various concentrations from sol–gel was evaluated using AR2000 rheometer to confirm MNs-assisted in situ forming depots. Temperature test confirmed gelation between 32 and 37 °C. Curcumin was loaded in poloxamer formulations at variable concentrations and its effect showed reduction in critical gelation temperature (CGT) owing to its hydrophobic nature. Microneedle arrays (600 µm) prepared from Gantrez S-97, PEG10000 and gelatin B using (19 × 19) laser-engineered silicone micromoulds showed high mechanical stability investigated via Texture analyzer. From in situ dissolution profile, gelatin 15% w/w based MNs displayed quicker dissolution rate in comparison to PG10000. VivoSight® OCT scanner and dye tracking confirmed that PG10000 MNs arrays pierced SC layer, infiltrate the epidermis and goes to dermis layer. From in vitro permeation, it was concluded that 20% w/w PF127® gel formulations containing (0.1% and 0.3%) curcumin displayed high curcumin permeation for comparatively longer time through microporated skin samples in comparison to non-microporated skin. The curcumin distribution in skin tissues with higher florescence intensity was noted in MNs treated skin samples by confocal microscopy. FTIR confirmed the structure formation of fabricated MNs, while TGA showed dry, brittle and rigid nature of gelatin MNs.
The Effect of Text in Storyboards for Video Navigation
Creators: name: Christel, Michael G
name: Warmack, Adrienne
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A storyboard is a presentation scheme for abstracting
information in a digital video clip based on imagery. This
paper describes a series of storyboard interfaces with added
transcript text features. These interfaces are used in a
controlled experiment focusing on the utility of transcript
text in storyboards for news video navigation. We wished
to explore whether such text resulted in improvements in
video navigation, and, if so, whether the amount of text and
its synchronization with video imagery affected the
navigation task. The text-augmented storyboards
performed significantly better than storyboards with no text.
Full transcript text produced benefits when presented as a
block, whereas reduced contextual text descriptions
produced benefits when aligned with storyboard image
rows.
ADVANCING MULTIPHASE COMBUSTION DIAGNOSTICS TOWARDS FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENTS
Creators: name: Gomez, Mateo
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 401799
subject: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Multiphase flow dynamics are integral to many propulsion, sprays, energetics, and industrial processes. Practical systems, especially in combustion, typically involve multidimensional spatial structures and complex and coupled physics interactions. At some operating conditions, flow mixing, combustion chemical reactions, and flow residence time scales are relatively similar and therefore coupled (i.e., each affects the other). For example, the combustion and atomization of liquid fuel govern the performance of combustors. In addition to spray-air interactions, injection strategies may rely on spray-wall interactions to achieve improved mixing and performance. Understanding and predicting these flows requires advanced experimental diagnostics that provide information on local state variables with high spatiotemporal resolution. However, multiphase flow dynamics integral to these combustion systems may not be fully resolved with conventional one or two-dimensional diagnostics. Tomographic reconstructions yield 3D spatial information and may provide high-fidelity data to fill the technology gap. Performing these 3D diagnostics with adequate time-resolution is necessary to capture the full dynamics of high-speed flows. This work focuses on developing, applying, and evaluating non-intrusive 4D (x,y,z,t) volumetric imaging in challenging combustion environments. Each optical diagnostic approach probes a different phase of combustion experiments in a non-instructive manner. For example, Schlieren imaging visualizes the index of refraction gradients corresponding to density changes in the gas phase. This work uses various optical approaches (e.g., scattering, Schlieren, or fluorescence) with 4D imaging to provide quantitative measurements of different combustion phenomena. Parallel ray-tracing simulations are utilized to guide diagnostic development and quantify measurement capabilities. This work presents significant high-speed diagnostic improvements for combustion applications relevant to defense, energy generation, and propulsion.
Expression of interleukin-37 (IL37) and the genetic variations of IL37 in relation to chronic periodontitis
Creators: name: Zhang, Shaoping
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: Objectives: To study the transcription of IL37 in gingival biopsies and the association between transcription of IL1B, IL6 and IL37 and genotypes at the rs3811046 and rs3811047 IL37 loci. Materials and Methods: Gingival biopsies were collected from chronic periodontitis patients and control subjects. Pyrosequencing was applied for genotyping. Real-time PCR was used to examine the transcription of genes from biopsies and cell culture models. Results: Transcription of IL6 was significantly higher in periodontitis samples. Transcription of IL37 was induced in oral epithelial and THP.1 cells by LPS. The presence of a minor allele at both loci in IL37 was significantly related to a reduced IL6 transcription in Caucasians, while the major allele was associated with a higher transcription of IL6 in African Americans. Conclusion: Gingival epithelium and monocytic cells are the major source for IL-37. The genetic variants of IL37 related to the altered transcription of IL6 are race specific.
The D/H Ratio of Water Ice at Low Temperatures
Creators: name: Lee, Jeong-Eun
name: Bergin, Edwin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the modeling results of deuterium fractionation of water ice, H2, and the primary deuterium isotopologues of H3+ adopting physical conditions associated with the star and planet formation process. We calculated the deuterium chemistry for a range of gas temperatures (T_gas ~ 10 - 30 K), molecular hydrogen density (n(H2)~ 10^4 - 10^7), and ortho/para ratio (opr) of H2 based on state-to-state reaction rates and explore the resulting fractionation including the formation of a water ice mantle coating grain surfaces. We find that the deuterium fractionation exhibits the expected temperature dependence of large enrichments at low gas temperature. More significantly the inclusion of water ice formation leads to large D/H ratios in water ice (>= 10^-2 at 10 K) but also alters the overall deuterium chemistry. For T < 20 K the implantation of deuterium into ices lowers the overall abundance of HD which reduces the efficiency of deuterium fractionation at high density. In agreement with an earlier study, under these conditions HD may not be the primary deuterium reservoir in the cold dense interstellar medium and H3+ will be the main charge carrier in the dense centers of pre-stellar cores and the protoplanetary disk midplane.
description: 31 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
China's Second White Paper on Foreign Aid
Creators: name: Zhang, Denghua
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2014

description: On 10 July 2014, China’s Information Office of the State Council released its second White Paper on Foreign Aid. China’s first white paper, released in April 2011, offers an overview of Chinese foreign aid from 1950 to 2009. The new white paper provides an update of Chinese aid for the period 2010–2012. In this In Brief I compare Chinese aid data across the two white papers.
Banach spaces of continuous functions without norming Markushevich bases
Creators: name: Russo, Tommaso
name: Somaglia, Jacopo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the question whether a scattered compact topological space $K$ such that $C(K)$ has a norming Markushevich basis (M-basis, for short) must be Eberlein. This question originates from the recent solution, due to Hájek, Todorčević, and the authors, to an open problem from the Nineties, due to Godefroy. Our prime tool consists in proving that $C([0,ω_1])$ does not embed in a Banach space with a norming M-basis, thereby generalising a result due to Alexandrov and Plichko. Subsequently, we give sufficient conditions on a compact $K$ for $C(K)$ not to embed in a Banach space with a norming M-basis. Examples of such conditions are that $K$ is a $0$-dimensional compact space with a P-point, or a compact tree of height at least $ω_1 +1$. In particular, this allows us to answer the said question in the case when $K$ is a tree and to obtain a rather general result for Valdivia compacta. Finally, we give some structural results for scattered compact trees; in particular, we prove that scattered trees of height less than $ω_2$ are Valdivia.
Abstractive Text Summarization Using the BRIO Training Paradigm
Creators: name: Lam, Khang Nhut
name: Doan, Thieu Gia
name: Pham, Khang Thua
name: Kalita, Jugal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Summary sentences produced by abstractive summarization models may be coherent and comprehensive, but they lack control and rely heavily on reference summaries. The BRIO training paradigm assumes a non-deterministic distribution to reduce the model's dependence on reference summaries, and improve model performance during inference. This paper presents a straightforward but effective technique to improve abstractive summaries by fine-tuning pre-trained language models, and training them with the BRIO paradigm. We build a text summarization dataset for Vietnamese, called VieSum. We perform experiments with abstractive summarization models trained with the BRIO paradigm on the CNNDM and the VieSum datasets. The results show that the models, trained on basic hardware, outperform all existing abstractive summarization models, especially for Vietnamese.
description: 6 pages, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
VOLUNTARY BINGE-LIKE ETHANOL CONSUMPTION SITE-SPECIFICALLY INCREASES C-FOS IMMUNOEXPRESSION IN MALE C57BL6/J MICE.
Creators: name: Burnham, Nathan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Forced-ethanol exposure, via intraperitoneal injection (i.p.) or gavage, is commonly used in combination with c-Fos quantification to assess binge-like neuronal activity. Voluntary binge-like ethanol consumption-induced neuronal activity is less understood. Using the “drinking-in-the-dark” (DID) paradigm, we assessed the effects of binge-like ethanol consumption on c-Fos immunoreactivity (IR) in brain regions implicated in ethanol intake and compared this to i.p. ethanol-induced c-Fos. To this end, male C57BL/6J mice were divided into four groups: DID-EtOH (20% v/v), DID-water, i.p.-EtOH (1.5 g/kg), or i.p.-saline (15 mL/kg) and experienced one 4-day DID cycle or a single i.p. injection, respectively, prior to sacrifice. Relative to controls, EtOH groups significantly increased c-Fos IR in several brain regions implicated in neurobiological responses to ethanol. Differences in DID-EtOH and i.p.-EtOH c-Fos were not observed across brain regions examined. These results provide insight into the brain regions that modulate binge-like ethanol intake stemming from DID procedures.
Fake Money, Bougainville Politics and International Scammers
Creators: name: Cox, John
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2014

description: On Saturday 16 February 2014, Barry Webb, an American citizen, was detained as he entered Port Moresby from the Philippines. He was travelling to Bougainville to deliver a briefcase full of newly minted 'Bougainville kina' or 'BVK'. This pseudocurrency is not legal tender in Bougainville (or anywhere else). Rather, the Bougainville kina is the creation of the U-Vistract scam, an elaborate Ponzi scheme (Cox 2013). When questioned by Papua New Guinea authorities, Webb claimed to represent the 'International Organisation for Economic Development' ('IOED'), a fictitious organisation with a name clearly intended to recall the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). Webb produced a letter from the founder of U-Vistract, Noah Musingku, who now represents himself as 'King David Pei II' of the 'Royal Kingdom of Papala', a pseudo-state based in south Bougainville. According to the letter, Webb had been appointed as the Kingdom of Papala's 'Minister for International Monetary Relations' (Post-Courier 2014).
Additional file 3 of Improving breastfeeding support through the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital and Community Initiatives: a scoping review
Creators: name: Walsh, Aisling
name: Pieterse, Pieternella
name: Mishra, Nita
name: Chirwa, Ellen
name: Chikalipo, Maria
name: Msowoya, Chimwemwe
name: Keating, Ciara
name: Matthews, Anne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) Checklist.
Innovation in Papua New Guinea's Village Courts: Exceeding Jurisdiction or Meeting Local Needs? Legal Innovation: Part 1
Creators: name: Demian, Melissa
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2014

description: In 2013, I witnessed a sitting of Hanuabada Village Court in Port Moresby as a guest of the Village Courts Secretariat of Papua New Guinea. Hanuabada was a showcase for an initiative of the secretariat in collaboration with the Australiafunded Law and Justice Partnership to train and appoint more women as Village Court magistrates. This particular court sitting also afforded an opportunity to observe a large urban Village Court in operation, as its style of conducting proceedings stood in stark distinction to the rural Village Courts in which I have previously conducted research (Demian 2003). Hanuabada Village Court hewed closely to the formalities of the District and National Courts, the magistrates' handbook was consulted frequently, and the court appeared in every way to operate as the state apparatus it is meant to be. In contrast, I once recorded a rural Village Court magistrate from Milne Bay Province telling his court in 1999, 'There is no government here: we are the government'.
Hilbert schemes of points of $\mathcal O_{\mathbb P^1}(-n)$ as quiver varieties
Creators: name: Bartocci, Claudio
name: Bruzzo, Ugo
name: Lanza, Valeriano
name: Rava, Claudio L. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D20, 14D21, 14J60, 16G20

description: In a previous paper, a realization of the moduli space of framed torsion-free sheaves on Hirzebruch surfaces in terms of monads was given. We build upon that result to construct ADHM data for the Hilbert scheme of points of the total space of the line bundles $\mathcal O(-n)$ on $\mathbb P^1$, for $n \ge 1$, i.e., the resolutions of the singularities of type $\frac1n(1,1)$. Basically by implementing a version of the special McKay correspondence, this ADHM description is in turn used to realize these Hilbert schemes as irreducible connected components of quiver varieties. We obtain in this way new examples of quiver varieties which are not of the Nakajima type.
description: 19 pages. The first part is a condensed version of arXiv:1403.0460. The second part about quiver varieties is new. v2: typos corrected. v3: Expository changes. New title. v4: Final version to appear in J. Pure Appl. Algebra
Capture strategy of spiders
Creators: name: Joel, Anna-Christin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: cribellate
spider
prey
van der Waals forces
calamistrum
nanofiber

description: In relation to the project "BioCombs4Nanofibers" the prey capture strategy of cribellate spiders is described. This includes a short introduction into the production of their special nanofibrous capture threads as well as their special capture thread and its production and its adhesive mechanism. A short introduction into van der Waals forces is given. According literature hints for further information can be found at the end of the document.
Localization spectrum of a bath-coupled generalized Aubry-André model in the presence of interactions
Creators: name: Tu, Yi-Ting
name: Vu, DinhDuy
name: Sarma, Sankar Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A generalization of the Aubry-André model, the non-interacting GPD model introduced in S. Ganeshan et al.,[ Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 146601 (2015)], is known analytically to possess a mobility edge, allowing both extended and localized eigenstates to coexist. This mobility edge has been hypothesized to survive in closed many-body interacting systems, giving rise to a new non-ergodic metallic phase. In this work, coupling the interacting GPD model to a thermal bath, we provide direct numerical evidence for multiple qualitative behaviors in the parameter space of disorder strength and energy level. In particular, we look at the bath-induced saturation of entanglement entropy to classify three behaviors: thermalized, non-ergodic extended, and localized. We also extract the localization length in the localized phase using the long-time dynamics of the entanglement entropy and the spin imbalance. Our work demonstrates the rich localization landscape of generalized Aubry-André models containing mobility edges in contrast to the simple Aubry-André model with no mobility edge.
description: 9 pages + 6 figures
The etree library : a system for manipulating large octrees on disk
Creators: name: Tiankai  Tu
name: O'Hallaron, David Richard.
name: Lo╠üpez, Julio C.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "This report describes a library, called the etree library, that allows C programmers to manipulate large octrees stored on disk. Octrees are stored as a sequence of fixed sized octant records sorted by a locational code order that is equivalent to a preorder traversal of the tree and a Z-order traversal through the domain. The sorted records are indexed by a conventional file-resident B-tree index and queried using fixed-length locational code keys. A schema can be defined to make an etree portable across different platforms. The etree library provides functions for creating, modifying, and searching octrees, including efficient mechanisms for appending octants and iterating over octants in Z-order. The library is the foundation for a larger research effort aimed at enabling scientists and engineers to solve large physical simulations on their desktop systems by recasting the simulation process to work directly on large etrees stored on disk."
Analysis of linear and nonlinear conductivity of plasma-like systems on the basis of the Fokker-Planck equation
Creators: name: Trigger, S. A.
name: Ebeling, W.
name: van Heijst, G. J. F.
name: Litinski, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problems of high linear conductivity in an electric field, as well as nonlinear conductivity, are considered for plasma-like systems. First, we recall several observations of nonlinear fast charge transport in dusty plasma, molecular chains, lattices, conducting polymers and semiconductor layers. Exploring the role of noise we introduce the generalized Fokker-Planck equation. Second, one-dimensional models are considered on the basis of the Fokker-Planck equation with active and passive velocity-dependent friction including an external electrical field. On this basis it is possible to find the linear and nonlinear conductivities for electrons and other charged particles in a homogeneous external field. It is shown that the velocity dependence of the friction coefficient can lead to an essential increase of the electron average velocity and the corresponding conductivity in comparison with the usual model of constant friction, which is described by the Drude-type conductivity. Applications including novel forms of controlled charge transfer and non-Ohmic conductance are discussed.
description: 14 pages with 6 figures
Jokowi in Papua: Powerless or duplicitous?
Creators: name: Munro, Jenny
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: This In Brief considers Indonesian President Joko Widodo's policy actions in Papua. It demonstrates that over the past few months of the new presidency, the rhetoric on Papua has not matched the reality of policy changes and political moves taking place. It concludes that whether the president is deliberately misleading Papuans or powerless to implement progressive changes, he is contributing to tensions amid a military build-up that could spell disaster.
Land Politics under Timor-Leste's New Government
Creators: name: Cryan, Meabh
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: Earlier this year, Xanana Gusmão stepped down as prime minster of Timor-Leste, appointing Dr Rui Araújo, a well-respected member of the opposition, to replace him. The long-awaited change in Timor- Leste’s political leadership is underpinned by the reconciliation between Gusmão and opposition leader, Mari Alkatiri, who have both agreed to step aside into new roles. These enticing new roles ensure their respective control over the country’s two largest economic development projects (the Oecusse Special Economic Zone and the Tasi Mane South Coast Petroleum Development Project). This In Brief examines how the change in government and the role of these two powerful figures in state-driven economic development might affect political will to legislate on land issues. It argues that the legislative lethargy of the past few years is a result of significant political economy factors.
Additional file 11 of Temporal tracking of microglial and monocyte single-cell transcriptomics in lethal flavivirus infection
Creators: name: Spiteri, Alanna G.
name: Wishart, Claire L.
name: Ni, Duan
name: Viengkhou, Barney
name: Macia, Laurence
name: Hofer, Markus J.
name: King, Nicholas J. C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 11. PLX5622 treatment does not affect peripheral T cell proliferation. a–f Number (a–c) and frequency (d–f) of BrdU+ proliferating T cells in mock-infected vs WNV dpi 7 mice (a, d), mock-infected, Ctrl vs PLX mice (b, e) and WNV dpi 7, Ctrl vs PLX mice (c, f).  Mice were fed PLX5622 for 21 days prior to infection and until dpi 7. Data is presented as mean ± SEM from one or two independent experiments with at least 5 mice per group.
Explaining Large Electromagnetic Logarithms from Loops of Inflationary Gravitons
Creators: name: Glavan, D.
name: Miao, S. P.
name: Prokopec, T.
name: Woodard, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress on nonlinear sigma models on de Sitter background has permitted the resummation of large inflationary logarithms by combining a variant of Starobinsky's stochastic formalism with a variant of the renormalization group. We reconsider single graviton loop corrections to the photon wave function, and to the Coulomb potential, in light of these developments. Neither of the two 1-loop results have a stochastic explanation, however, the flow of a curvature-dependent field strength renormalization explains their factors of $\ln(a)$. We speculate that the factor of $\ln(Hr)$ in the Coulomb potential should not be considered as a leading logarithm effect.
description: 22 pages, uses LaTeX2e, slightly revised for publication
Wheeler-DeWitt quantization and singularities
Creators: name: Falciano, Felipe Tovar
name: Pinto-Neto, Nelson
name: Struyve, Ward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Bohmian approach to the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker model and investigate the question whether or not there are singularities, in the sense that the universe reaches zero volume. We find that for generic wave functions (i.e., non-classical wave functions), there is a non-zero probability for a trajectory to be non-singular. This should be contrasted to the consistent histories approach for which it was recently shown by Craig and Singh that there is always a singularity. This result illustrates that the question of singularities depends much on which version of quantum theory one adopts. This was already pointed out by Pinto-Neto et al., albeit with a different Bohmian approach. Our current Bohmian approach agrees with the consistent histories approach by Craig and Singh for single-time histories, unlike the one studied earlier by Pinto-Neto et al. Although the trajectories are usually different in the two Bohmian approach, their qualitative behavior is the same for generic wave functions.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, PDFLaTeX, revtex4
Political Settlements and Effective Democratic Governance Programming in Melanesia: Political Settlement: Part 2
Creators: name: Barbara, Julien
name: Connell, Warwick
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2014

description: Important questions have been raised about the conceptual and policy utility of the concept of political settlements (Dressel and Dinnen 2014). This In Brief considers how a political settlement view could usefully inform more effective approaches to democratic governance programming in Melanesia (specifically in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands where democracy programming has been most significant), by supporting a more sophisticated understanding of politics and democracy which opens up alternative entry points for donor engagement.
$(s,t)$-cores: a weighted version of Armstrong's conjecture
Creators: name: Fayers, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A17, 05E10, 05E18

description: The study of core partitions has been very active in recent years, with the study of $(s,t)$-cores - partitions which are both $s$- and $t$-cores - playing a prominent role. A conjecture of Armstrong, proved recently by Johnson, says that the average size of an $(s,t)$-core, when $s$ and $t$ are coprime positive integers, is $\frac1{24}(s-1)(t-1)(s+t-1)$. Armstrong also conjectured that the same formula gives the average size of a self-conjugate $(s,t)$-core; this was proved by Chen, Huang and Wang. In the present paper, we develop the ideas from the author's paper [J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 118 (2011) 1525-1539] studying actions of affine symmetric groups on the set of $s$-cores in order to give variants of Armstrong's conjectures in which each $(s,t)$-core is weighted by the reciprocal of the order of its stabiliser under a certain group action. Informally, this weighted average gives the expected size of the $t$-core of a random $s$-core.
Additional file 4 of A beginner’s guide on the use of brain organoids for neuroscientists: a systematic review
Creators: name: Mulder, Lance A.
name: Depla, Josse A.
name: Sridhar, Adithya
name: Wolthers, Katja
name: Pajkrt, Dasja
name: Vieira de Sá, Renata
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: The reference list of the articles described in Additional files 1–3.
Presidential Elections in Papua: A Battle Between 'New' and 'Old'?
Creators: name: Munro, Jenny
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2014

description: Presidential elections will be held in Indonesia on 9 July 2014. The two candidates seem to offer a choice that Papuans have not previously encountered in an election: between the old military guard and a new face of populist leadership. Following Richard Chauvel (2011, 106), Papua has become a battle ground in a struggle between a 'new' and an 'old' Indonesia. The 'old' Indonesia considers that its soldiers' torturing fellow Indonesian citizens in a most barbaric manner is an 'incident'. The 'new' Indonesia aspires to the ideals of its original founders in becoming a progressive outward looking cosmopolitan, multi ethnic and multi faith society. The influence of 'old' Indonesia has made Papua the exception to many of the nationwide processes of democratisation. This In Brief describes some of the forces at play in the presidential election in Papua, including various calls for a boycott by separatist/nationalist organisations that want Papuans to agitate for selfdetermination rather than legitimise a colonial state, as well as student groups and districtlevel officials who have grievances regarding the legislative elections that took place in April 2014. It suggests that the contest between 'new' and 'old' can be seen not so much in the choice between two very different candidates but rather in the choice by government officials to support a militarised electoral process rather than a civilian effort to manage the election and promote voting.
Floquetifying the Colour Code
Creators: name: Townsend-Teague, Alex
name: de la Fuente, Julio Magdalena
name: Kesselring, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Floquet codes are a recently discovered type of quantum error correction code. They can be thought of as generalising stabilizer codes and subsystem codes, by allowing the logical Pauli operators of the code to vary dynamically over time. In this work, we use the ZX-calculus to create new Floquet codes that are in a definable sense equivalent to known stabilizer codes. In particular, we find a Floquet code that is equivalent to the colour code, but has the advantage that all measurements required to implement it are of weight one or two. Notably, the qubits can even be laid out on a square lattice. This circumvents current difficulties with implementing the colour code fault-tolerantly, while preserving its advantages over other well-studied codes, and could furthermore allow one to benefit from extra features exclusive to Floquet codes. On a higher level, as in arXiv:2303.08829, this work shines a light on the relationship between 'static' stabilizer and subsystem codes and 'dynamic' Floquet codes; at first glance the latter seems a significant generalisation of the former, but in the case of the codes that we find here, the difference is essentially just a few basic ZX-diagram deformations.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2023, arXiv:2308.15489
Quantum phases of the frustrated XY models on the honeycomb lattice
Creators: name: Zhu, Zhenyue
name: White, Steven R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Searching for spin liquid states has long been attracting both experimentalists and theorists. In this article, we review recent density matrix renormalization group studies of the spin-1/2 XY model on the honeycomb lattice, with first-neighbor ($J_1 = 1$) and frustrating second-neighbor ($J_2>0$) interactions. For the intermediate frustration regime $0.22\lesssim J_2\lesssim0.36$, there exists a surprising antiferromagnetic Ising phase, with ordered moments pointing along the $z$ axis, despite the absence of any $S_z S_z$ interactions in the Hamiltonian. Surrounding this phase as a function of $J_2$ are antiferromagnetic phases with the moments pointing in the $\textit{x-y}$ plane for small $J_2$ and a close competition between an $\textit{x-y}$ plane magnetic collinear phase and a dimer phase for large values of $J_2$. No spin-liquid phases was found in the XY model even with the third neighbor ($J_3>0$) interactions.
description: Invited review paper for modern physics letter B, including 22 pages, 10 figures
'There Is Relief That It Seems to Be Working': BP's Integrated Community-Based Security Strategy in West Papua
Creators: name: McKenna, Kylie
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: This In Brief discusses what is considered one of the first applications of the VPs: BP’s Integrated Community Based Security (ICBS) strategy in West Papua. Specifically, it draws on interviews conducted as part of a major study on corporate social responsibility and natural resource conflict that describes how this model was formulated by BP Indonesia executives (McKenna in press).
Additional file 3 of Systematic review of overlapping microRNA patterns in COVID-19 and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Creators: name: Guiot, Julien
name: Henket, Monique
name: Remacle, Claire
name: Cambier, Maureen
name: Struman, Ingrid
name: Winandy, Marie
name: Moermans, Catherine
name: Louis, Edouard
name: Malaise, Michel
name: Ribbens, Clio
name: Louis, Renaud
name: Njock, Makon-Sébastien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. miRNA patterns in IPF
The politics of space: student communes, political counterculture, and the Columbia University protest of 1968
Creators: name: Slonecker, Blake
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: This thesis examines the Columbia University protest of April 1968 through the lens of space. It concludes that the student communes established in occupied campus buildings were free spaces that facilitated the protestors' reconciliation of political and social difference, and introduced Columbia students to the practical possibilities of democratic participation and student autonomy. This thesis begins by analyzing the roots of the disparate organizations and issues involved in the protest, including SDS, SAS, and the Columbia School of Architecture. Next it argues that the practice of participatory democracy and maintenance of student autonomy within the political counterculture of the communes awakened new political sensibilities among Columbia students. Finally, this thesis illustrates the simultaneous growth and factionalization of the protest community following the police raid on the communes and argues that these developments support the overall claim that the free space of the communes was of fundamental importance to the protest.
Rigidity for group actions on homogeneous spaces by affine transformations
Creators: name: Bouljihad, Mohamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a criterion for the rigidity of actions on homogeneous spaces. Let $G$ be a real Lie group, $Λ$ a lattice in $G$, and $Γ$ a subgroup of the affine group Aff$(G)$ stabilizing $Λ$. Then the action of $Γ$ on $G/Λ$ has the rigidity property in the sense of S. Popa, if and only if the induced action of $Γ$ on $\mathbb{P}(\frak{g})$ admits no $Γ$-invariant probability measure, where $\frak{g}$ is the Lie algebra of $G$. This generalizes results of M. Burger, and A. Ioana and Y. Shalom. As an application, we establish rigidity for the action of a class of groups acting by automorphisms on nilmanifolds associated to step 2 nilpotent Lie groups.
Timor-Leste's Revolving Door Parliament
Creators: name: Ingram, Sue
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2014

description: Western Melanesian parliaments2 are routinely characterised as revolving door, with roughly half (and sometimes more) of the sitting members losing their seats at each election, so that at any one time a large proportion of members are first-termers. This phenomenon is generally attributed to weak political party organisation, the contest between large numbers of candidates for local constituencies, electoral systems that deliver local victories with a minority of votes, and unachievable compacts between constituents and elected members for direct benefits in return for electoral support (Fraenkel 2005; Morgan 2005; Woods 2014). These factors are not at work in Timor-Leste, yet the turnover of members after each election is even higher: 79.5 per cent in 2007 and 61.5 per cent in 2012. The analysis developed in this In Brief identifies several contributory factors, and reflects on the implications of the high turnover for parliamentary effectiveness.
Wood and Energy in Vermont
Creators: name: Bailey, Mark R.
name: Wheeling, Paul R.
name: Bailey, Mark R.
name: Wheeling, Paul R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Vermont
subject: wood energy
subject: residential energy demand
subject: wood-burning stoves
subject: cordwood
subject: fuelwood
subject: renewable energy
subject: energy substitution
subject: New England

description: Telephone surveys of Vermont households conducted in 1979 and 1980 indicate a transition to wood heating in response to a series of conventional energy price increases and uncertainty in conventional energy supplies. Vermont households consumed 313,000 cords of wood in the winter of 1978-79; 389,000 cords were burnt during the next winter. The airtight wood stove has become the most commonly used wood-burning apparatus. Survey data of residential wood cutting, purchasing, and burning were analyzed by household tenure, wood-burning apparatus, and county. Residential use of wood for energy constitutes a new demand on the forest resource, increases local income and employment, displaces fuel oil and electricity, and may compromise household safety.
Markovianizing Cost of Tripartite Quantum States
Creators: name: Wakakuwa, Eyuri
name: Soeda, Akihito
name: Murao, Mio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce and analyze a task that we call Markovianization, in which a tripartite quantum state is transformed to a quantum Markov chain by a randomizing operation on one of the three subsystems. We consider cases where the initial state is the tensor product of $n$ copies of a tripartite state $ρ^{ABC}$, and is transformed to a quantum Markov chain conditioned by $B^n$ with a small error, using a random unitary operation on $A^n$. In an asymptotic limit of infinite copies and vanishingly small error, we analyze the Markovianizing cost, that is, the minimum cost of randomness per copy required for Markovianization. For tripartite pure states, we derive a single-letter formula for the Markovianizing costs. Counterintuitively, the Markovianizing cost is not a continuous function of states, and can be arbitrarily large even if the state is close to a quantum Markov chain. Our results have an application in analyzing the cost of resources for simulating a bipartite unitary gate by local operations and classical communication.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures. Definition 6 is added; the statements of Theorem 1, Theorem 7, Lemma 11, Lemma 12, and Remark in the end of Section II are modified; and the proofs in Appendix B-C and B-D are modified. The main results are unchanged
Do Aerobic Exercise and Mindfulness Act Synergistically to Mitigate Psychological Distress in College Students Experiencing High Levels of Stress?
Creators: name: Zieff, Gabriel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: To assess whether there is a synergistic beneficial effect of aerobic exercise (AE) and mindfulness meditation (MM), compared to effects of MM alone, on stress and related variables in high-stress young adults. Methods: 32 high-stress young adults were randomized to a four-week MM, AE+MM, or control intervention. Perceived stress (PSSQ), and anxiety/depression (DASSQ) were assessed at baseline, and after weeks 1 and 4. A randomized sub-sample from each group underwent physiological testing at baseline and post-intervention. Results: No significant interactions were found (PSS: p=0.12; DASS: p=0.21; heart rate: p=0.50; systolic blood pressure: p=0.90; diastolic blood pressure: p=0.16; arterial stiffness: p=0.90; heart rate variability: p=0.53). PSS and DASS decreased from baseline to post in MM (PSS: ↓27%; DASS: ↓43%) and AE+MM (PSS: ↓34%; DASS: ↓40%). Little change occurred in Control (PSS: ↓8%; DASS: ↓ 4%). Conclusion: MM may be as effective as AE+MM in combatting psychological distress in young adults.
Physico-chemical properties of capture wool and its interaction with the calamistrum of cribellate spiders
Creators: name: Joel, Anna-Christin
name: Meyer, Marco
name: Weißbach, Margret
name: Baumgart, Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: cribellate
nanofiber
amino acids
elasticity
calamistrum
cuticular hydrocarbons

description: This report describes insights into the functionality of the calamistrum of four different cribellate species. The setup for calamistrum removal is described as well as the results of this manipulation onto the antiadhesion towards cribellate nanofibers. We present our results of thread mechanics in relation to ambient humidity and temperature as well as after an interaction with the cuticular hydrocarbons of cowpea weevils. Additionally, first results of the amino acid composition of a cribellate thread in comparison to dragline silk are presented. Some of the results were previously published. See literature hints at the end of the document.
Alternative Development Paradigms in Vanuatu and Beyond
Creators: name: Forsyth, Miranda
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2014

description: Vanuatu held a week-long public forum in June 2014 as a step towards creating its National Sustainable Development Plan 2016–2030 (NSPD). The development of the NSPD reflects a shift in development thinking away from the heavy emphasis on economic growth that dominates the current development framework — the Priorities and Action Agenda 2006–2015 (PAA). The PAA in turn follows the spirit of the economic restructuring initiated by the Asian Development Bank–sponsored Comprehensive Reform Program (CRP) of the late 1990s (Gay 2004). This In Brief discusses the ongoing development of the NSPD and positions it within a number of similar regional and global developments. It suggests that a number of Pacific islands seem poised to engage in some bold new experiments in building home-grown development frameworks rooted in their own unique cultural values and geographical context. This in turn should signal to development partners a real need to engage in conversations about alternative development pathways in the Pacific islands and take seriously the emerging critiques of the problems occasioned by a previous narrow neoliberal economic focus.
The meta-generalized delta rule : a new algorithm for learning in connectionist networks
Creators: name: Pomerleau, Dean A.
name: Artificial Intelligence And Psychology Project.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "Currently the most popular learning algorithm for connectionist networks is the generalized delta rule (GDR) developed by Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams (1986). The GDR learns by performing gradient descent on the error surface in weight space whose height at any point is equal to a measure of the network's error. The GDR is plagued by two major problems. First, the progress towards a solution using the GDR is often quite slow. Second, networks employing the GDR frequently become trapped in local minima on the error surface and hence do not reach good solutions. To solve the problems of the GDR, a new connectionist architecture and learning algorithm is developed in this thesis.The new architectural components are called meta-connections, which are connections from a unit to the connection between two other units. Meta-connections are able to temporarily alter the weight of the connection to which they are connected. In doing this, meta-connections are able to tailor the weights of individual connections for particular input/output patterns. The new learning algorithm, called the meta-generalized delta rule (MGDR), is an extension of the GDR to provide for learning the proper weights for meta-connections. Empirical tests show that the tailoring of weights using meta-connections allows the MGDR to develop solutions more quickly and reliably than the GDR in a wide range of problems."