cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Influenza-Wochenbericht
Creators: name: Koch-Institut, Robert
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Influenza
subject: AGI
subject: Wochenbericht
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Die Aktivität der akuten Atemwegserkrankungen (ARE) ist in der 6. Kalenderwoche (KW) 2020 bundes-weit gestiegen, die Werte des Praxisindex lagen insgesamt im Bereich deutlich erhöhter ARE-Aktivität. Im Nationalen Referenzzentrum (NRZ) für Influenzaviren wurden in der 6. KW 2020 in 138 (66 %) von 210 Sentinelproben respiratorische Viren identifiziert, darunter 32 Proben mit Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09-, 50 Proben mit Influenza A(H3N2)- und zehn Proben mit Influenza B-Viren. Die Influenza-Positivenrate lag bei 43 % (95 %-Konfidenzintervall 36 bis 50 %). Für die 6. Meldewoche (MW) 2020 wurden nach Infektionsschutzgesetz (IfSG) bislang 20.629 labordiagnostisch bestätigte Influenzafälle an das Robert Koch-Institut übermittelt (Datenstand: 11.2.2020). Die Influenza-Aktivität ist im Vergleich zur Vorwoche weiter angestiegen.
Photon BEC with Thermo-Optic Interaction at Dimensional Crossover
Creators: name: Stein, Enrico
name: Pelster, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the advent of experiments with photon Bose-Einstein condensates in dye-filled microcavities in 2010, many investigations have focused upon the emerging effective photon-photon interaction. Despite its smallness, it can be identified to stem from two physically distinct mechanisms. On the one hand, a Kerr nonlinearity of the dye medium yields a photon-photon contact interaction. On the other hand, a heating of the dye medium leads to an additional thermo-optic interaction, which is both delayed and non-local. The latter turns out to represent the leading contribution to the effective interaction for the current 2D experiments. Here we analyse theoretically how the effective photon-photon interaction increases when the system dimension is reduced from 2D to 1D. To this end, we consider an anisotropic harmonic trapping potential and determine via a variational approach how the properties of the photon Bose-Einstein condensate in general, and both aforementioned interaction mechanisms in particular, change with increasing anisotropy. We find that the thermo-optic interaction strength increases at first linearly with the trap aspect ratio and lateron saturates at a certain value of the trap aspect ratio. Furthermore, in the strong 1D limit the roles of both interactions get reversed as the thermo-optic interaction remains saturated and the contact Kerr interaction becomes the leading interaction mechanism. Finally, we discuss how the predicted effects can be measured experimentally.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
CoFe2O4–SiO2–SO3H nanocomposite as a magnetically recoverable catalyst for oxidative bromination of alkynes
Creators: name: Mintu Maan Dutta
name: Rajbongshi, Kamal Krishna
name: Prodeep Phukan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: A hybrid catalyst has been prepared by incorporating sulfonic acid onto cobalt ferrite magnetic nanoparticles. The catalyst was successfully applied for rapid (20 min) synthesis of α,α-dibromoketones directly from alkynes and NBS. The reaction works well in the presence of 10 wt% of the catalyst at room temperature to produce the desired products in high yield. The catalyst could be recovered using an external magnet and reused without appreciable change in activity.
Circularly polarized radio emission from the repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20201124A
Creators: name: Kumar, Pravir
name: Shannon, Ryan M.
name: Lower, Marcus E.
name: Bhandari, Shivani
name: Deller, Adam T.
name: Flynn, Chris
name: Keane, Evan F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism that produces fast radio burst (FRB) emission is poorly understood. Targeted monitoring of repeating FRB sources provides the opportunity to fully characterize the emission properties in a manner impossible with one-off bursts. Here, we report observations of the source of FRB 20201124A, with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the ultra-wideband low (UWL) receiver at the Parkes 64-m radio telescope (Murriyang). The source entered a period of emitting bright bursts during early 2021 April. We have detected 16 bursts from this source. One of the bursts detected with ASKAP is the brightest burst ever observed from a repeating FRB source with an inferred fluence of $640\pm70$ Jy ms. Of the five bursts detected with the Parkes UWL, none display any emission in the range 1.1--4 GHz. All UWL bursts are highly polarized, with their Faraday rotation measures (RMs) showing apparent variations. We obtain an average RM of $-614$ rad m$^{-2}$ for this FRB source with a standard deviation of $16$ rad m$^{-2}$ in the UWL bursts. In one of the UWL bursts, we see evidence of significant circularly polarized emission with a fractional extent of $47\pm1$ per cent. Such a high degree of circular polarization has never been seen before in bursts from repeating FRB sources. We also see evidence for significant variation in the linear polarization position angle in the pulse profile of this UWL repeat burst. Models for repeat burst emission will need to account for the increasing diversity in the burst polarization properties.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Rev. of K.S. Burns / W.S.S. Duffy (eds.), Ancient Women in Modern Media (2015)
Creators: name: Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
Publisher: name: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
Year: 2018

description: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 7 (2018)
Multipartite Mixed Maximally Entangled States: Mixed States with Entanglement 1
Creators: name: Hedemann, Samuel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a full definition of mixed maximally entangled (MME) states for multipartite systems, generalizing their existing definition for bipartite systems by using multipartite Schmidt decomposition. MME states are a special kind of maximally entangled mixed state (MEMS) for which every pure decomposition state in all decompositions is maximally entangled. Thus, MME states have entanglement 1 by all valid unit-normalized entanglement measures, whereas general MEMS can have entanglement less than 1. Multipartite MME states likely have important applications such as remote state preparation, and also set critical performance goals for entanglement measures.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables. v2: fixed small typos in references; added clarification to side note in conclusions explaining why MME states can never be converted to X form in some systems but can be converted to TGX form; main results unchanged
Sailing with the Gods: serious games in an ancient sea
Creators: name: Blakely, Sandra
Publisher: name: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
Year: 2018

description: Maritime safety in the ancient Greek world was created through symbols and social practice as well as the science of seafaring. The human connections forged through ritual, myth and image enabled communication and granted authority to the civic institutions that offered legal and economic benefits. A gaming application offers a route to modelling the triangulation of seascapes, civic institutions, and narratives through which people and goods moved around the ancient Mediterranean. The game was inspired by the promise of maritime safety given to initiates into the mystery cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace, where grants of proxenia and theoria represent the civic counterparts of mystic promises and tales of supernatural intervention. The flexibility that characterizes ancient proxenia recommends the framework of a game; the bridge between imagination and strategic outcomes that characterizes serious games maps onto the ancient realities of the maritime success enabled through ritual
description: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 7 (2018)
title: ADCO, Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0970
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0970, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0970, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Using sEMG for identification of dysphonia (Wang & Yiu, 2024)
Creators: name: Wang, Feifan
name: Yiu, Edwin M.-L.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 470410
subject: Phonetics and speech science

description: Purpose: This study set out to investigate whether individuals with dysphonia, as determined by either self-assessment or clinician-based auditory-perceptual judgment, exhibited differences in perilaryngeal muscle activities using surface electromyography (sEMG) during various phonatory tasks. Additionally, the study aimed to assess the effectiveness of sEMG in identifying dysphonic cases.Method: A total of 77 adults (44 women, 33 men, Mage = 30.4 years) participated in this study, with dysphonic cases identified separately using either a 10-item Voice Handicap Index (VHI-10) or clinician-based auditory-perceptual voice quality (APVQ) evaluation. sEMG activities were measured from the areas of suprahyoid and sternocleidomastoid muscles during prolonged vowel /i/ phonations at different pitch and loudness levels. Normalized root-mean-square value against the maximal voluntary contraction (RMS %MVC) of the sEMG signals was obtained for each phonation and compared between subject groups and across phonatory tasks. Additionally, binary logistic regression analysis was performed to determine how the sEMG measures could predict the VHI-10–based or APVQ-based dysphonic cases.Results: Participants who scored above the criteria on either the VHI-10 (n = 29) or APVQ judgment (n = 17) exhibited significantly higher RMS %MVC in the right suprahyoid muscles compared to the corresponding control groups. Although the RMS %MVC value from the right suprahyoid muscles alone was not a significant predictor of self-evaluated dysphonic cases, a combination of the RMS %MVC values from both the right and left suprahyoid muscles significantly predicted APVQ-based dysphonic cases with a 69.66% fair level.Conclusions: This study found that individuals with dysphonia, as determined by either self-assessment or APVQ judgment, displayed more imbalanced suprahyoid muscle activities in voice production compared to nondysphonic groups. The combination of the sEMG measures from both left and right suprahyoid muscles showed potential as a predictor of dysphonia with a fair level of confidence.Supplemental Material S1. Transcription of the Chinese poem “Jingye Si” (“Quiet Night Thought”).Wang, F., & Yiu, E. M.-L. (2024). Predicting dysphonia by measuring surface electromyographic activity of the supralaryngeal muscles. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(3), 740–752. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00110
Joint models for the longitudinal analysis of measurement scales in the presence of informative dropout
Creators: name: Saulnier, Tiphaine
name: Philipps, Viviane
name: Meissner, Wassilios G
name: Rascol, Olivier
name: Traon, Anne Pavy-Le
name: Foubert-Samier, Alexandra
name: Proust-Lima, Cécile
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In health cohort studies, repeated measures of markers are often used to describe the natural history of a disease. Joint models allow to study their evolution by taking into account the possible informative dropout usually due to clinical events. However, joint modeling developments mostly focused on continuous Gaussian markers while, in an increasing number of studies, the actual quantity of interest is non-directly measurable; it constitutes a latent variable evaluated by a set of observed indicators from questionnaires or measurement scales. Classical examples include anxiety, fatigue, cognition. In this work,we explain how joint models can be extended to the framework of a latent quantity measured over time by indicators of different nature (e.g. continuous, binary, ordinal). The longitudinal submodel describes the evolution over time of the quantity of interest defined as a latent process in a structural mixed model, and links the latent process to each observation of the indicators through appropriate measurement models. Simultaneously, the risk of multi-cause event is modelled via a proportional cause-specific hazard model that includes a function of the mixed model elements as linear predictor to take into account the association between the latent process and the risk of event. Estimation, carried out in the maximum likelihood framework and implemented in the R-package JLPM, has been validated by simulations. The methodology is illustrated in the French cohort on Multiple-System Atrophy (MSA), a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease, with the study of dysphagia progression over time stopped by the occurrence of death.
Axonal autophagosome maturation defect through failure of ATG9A sorting underpins pathology in AP-4 deficiency syndrome.
Creators: name: Ivankovic, Davor
name: Drew, James
name: Lesept, Flavie
name: White, Ian J
name: Doménech, Guillermo López
name: Tooze, Sharon A
name: Kittler, Josef T
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Model organisms
Biochemistry & Proteomics
Imaging
Signalling & Oncogenes
Cell Biology
Chemical Biology & High Throughput

description: Adaptor protein (AP) complexes mediate key sorting decisions in the cell through selective incorporation of transmembrane proteins into vesicles. Little is known of the roles of AP-4, despite its loss of function leading to a severe early onset neurological disorder, AP-4 deficiency syndrome. Here we demonstrate an AP-4 epsilon subunit knockout mouse model that recapitulates characteristic neuroanatomical phenotypes of AP-4 deficiency patients. We show that ATG9A, critical for autophagosome biogenesis, is an AP-4 cargo, which is retained within the trans-Golgi network (TGN) in vivo and in culture when AP-4 function is lost. TGN retention results in depletion of axonal ATG9A, leading to defective autophagosome generation and aberrant expansions of the distal axon. The reduction in the capacity to generate axonal autophagosomes leads to defective axonal extension and de novo generation of distal axonal swellings containing accumulated ER, underlying the impaired axonal integrity in AP-4 deficiency syndrome. Abbreviations: AP: adaptor protein; AP4B1: adaptor-related protein complex AP-4, beta 1; AP4E1: adaptor-related protein complex AP-4, epsilon 1; ATG: autophagy-related; EBSS: Earle's balanced salt solution; ER: endoplasmic reticulum; GFAP: glial fibrillary acidic protein; GOLGA1/Golgin-97/GOLG97: golgi autoantigen, golgin subfamily a, 1; GOLGA2/GM130: golgi autoantigen, golgin subfamily a, 2; HSP: hereditary spastic paraplegia; LC3/MAP1LC3B: microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 beta; MAP2: microtubule-associated protein 2; MAPK8IP1/JIP1: mitogen-acitvated protein kinase 8 interacting protein 1; NEFH/NF200: neurofilament, heavy polypeptide; RBFOX3/NeuN (RNA binding protein, fox-1 homolog [C. elegans] 3); SQSTM1/p62: sequestosome 1; TGN: trans-Golgi network; WIPI2: WD repeat domain, phosphoinositide interacting protein 2.
Metastable dynamics of neural circuits and networks
Creators: name: Brinkman, Braden A. W.
name: Yan, Han
name: Maffei, Arianna
name: Park, Il Memming
name: Fontanini, Alfredo
name: Wang, Jin
name: La Camera, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cortical neurons emit seemingly erratic trains of action potentials or "spikes," and neural network dynamics emerge from the coordinated spiking activity within neural circuits. These rich dynamics manifest themselves in a variety of patterns, which emerge spontaneously or in response to incoming activity produced by sensory inputs. In this Review, we focus on neural dynamics that is best understood as a sequence of repeated activations of a number of discrete hidden states. These transiently occupied states are termed "metastable" and have been linked to important sensory and cognitive functions. In the rodent gustatory cortex, for instance, metastable dynamics have been associated with stimulus coding, with states of expectation, and with decision making. In frontal, parietal, and motor areas of macaques, metastable activity has been related to behavioral performance, choice behavior, task difficulty, and attention. In this article, we review the experimental evidence for neural metastable dynamics together with theoretical approaches to the study of metastable activity in neural circuits. These approaches include (i) a theoretical framework based on non-equilibrium statistical physics for network dynamics; (ii) statistical approaches to extract information about metastable states from a variety of neural signals; and (iii) recent neural network approaches, informed by experimental results, to model the emergence of metastable dynamics. By discussing these topics, we aim to provide a cohesive view of how transitions between different states of activity may provide the neural underpinnings for essential functions such as perception, memory, expectation, or decision making, and more generally, how the study of metastable neural activity may advance our understanding of neural circuit function in health and disease.
Decoding ECoG signal into 3D hand translation using deep learning
Creators: name: Śliwowski, Maciej
name: Martin, Matthieu
name: Souloumiac, Antoine
name: Blanchart, Pierre
name: Aksenova, Tetiana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motor brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are a promising technology that may enable motor-impaired people to interact with their environment. Designing real-time and accurate BCI is crucial to make such devices useful, safe, and easy to use by patients in a real-life environment. Electrocorticography (ECoG)-based BCIs emerge as a good compromise between invasiveness of the recording device and good spatial and temporal resolution of the recorded signal. However, most ECoG signal decoders used to predict continuous hand movements are linear models. These models have a limited representational capacity and may fail to capture the relationship between ECoG signal and continuous hand movements. Deep learning (DL) models, which are state-of-the-art in many problems, could be a solution to better capture this relationship. In this study, we tested several DL-based architectures to predict imagined 3D continuous hand translation using time-frequency features extracted from ECoG signals. The dataset used in the analysis is a part of a long-term clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02550522) and was acquired during a closed-loop experiment with a tetraplegic subject. The proposed architectures include multilayer perceptron (MLP), convolutional neural networks (CNN), and long short-term memory networks (LSTM). The accuracy of the DL-based and multilinear models was compared offline using cosine similarity. Our results show that CNN-based architectures outperform the current state-of-the-art multilinear model. The best architecture exploited the spatial correlation between neighboring electrodes with CNN and benefited from the sequential character of the desired hand trajectory by using LSTMs. Overall, DL increased the average cosine similarity, compared to the multilinear model, by up to 60%, from 0.189 to 0.302 and from 0.157 to 0.249 for the left and right hand, respectively.
Practical Synthesis of Functionalized Terminal Alkynes, 3,3,3-Triethoxypropyne and Ketal Protected Prop-2-ynones
Creators: name: Karanfil, Abdullah
name: Eskici, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Practical and economical synthesis of synthetically valuable 3,3,3-triethoxypropyne, ketal protected phenyl and methyl substituent prop-2-ynones is described. Bromination and subsequent 18-Crown-6 catalyzed elimination of triethylorthoacrylate and ketal protected terminal alkenes with methyl and phenyl substituent which are inturn readily available from triethylorthopropionate, 3-chlorobutan-2-one and propiophenone afforded multigram quantities (>10 grams) of corresponding functionalized terminal alkynes. Exploration of the synthetic utility of these alkynes is also demonstrated by the acetylenic substitution of the phenylalaninol derived 1,2-cyclic sulfamidate to deliver chiral alkynylated amines.
Rev. of J. Solomon, Ben-Hur. The Original Blockbuster (2016)
Creators: name: Matijević, Krešimir
Publisher: name: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
Year: 2018

description: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 7 (2018)
Feminist heroines for our times: Screening the Amazon Warrior in Wonder Woman (1975 – 1979), Xena: Warrior Princess (1995 – 2001) and Wonder Woman (2017)
Creators: name: Potter, Amanda
Publisher: name: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
Year: 2018

description: Wonder Woman (1975 – 1979), Xena: Warrior Princess (1995 – 2001), and Wonder Woman (2017) are films all feature a female action hero alongside Amazon characters based on the Amazons from Greek mythology. This paper discusses the pilot episode of Wonder Woman from 1975, the Xena: Warrior Princess episode ‘Hooves and Harlots’ (1995) and Wonder Woman (2017) in the light of contemporary feminism, to understand how far these popular media texts can be seen to promote feminism through their depictions of all-female Amazon societies, and their Amazonian female protagonists. My analysis is supported by viewer responses obtained from screenings and online questionnaires.
description: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 7 (2018)
Substitutes for industrial trans fats in packaged foods: a scoping review
Creators: name: De Barros, Beatriz Vasconcellos
name: Greyce Luci Bernardo
name: Carvalho, Elisa Milano Peixoto
name: Da Costa Proença, Rossana Pacheco
name: Fernandes, Ana Carolina
name: Uggioni, Paula Lazzarin
name: Chaddad, Maria Cecília Cury
name: Kraemer, Mariana
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Nutrition
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Food Science
subject: Elaidic acid
subject: Food labeling
subject: Food policy
subject: Packaged foods
subject: Public Health Nutrition
subject: Trans fatty acids

description: The objective of this scoping review is to map evidence on substitutes for industrial trans fats in processed foods, discussing their possible designation in the ingredients lists.

The World Health Organization aims to eliminate industrial trans fats globally by 2023. In response, follow-up studies indicate a decrease in their use in packaged foods in several countries. However, no studies were found that mapped the literature aiming for different possibilities and technologies for replacing trans fats in processed foods.

It is necessary to identify and understand what are the substitutes for industrial trans fats in processed foods, as well as their compositions, in order to discuss possible designation in ingredient lists.

For this review, only studies addressing substitutes for industrial trans fats in the context of processed foods intended for human consumption will be considered. The scoping review will be conducted following the recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).
Battling the Gods: An Interview with the Creators of "Apotheon" (2015)
Creators: name: Rollinger, Christian
Publisher: name: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
Year: 2018

description: In 2015, Alientrap Games, a small, independent game studio based in Toronto, released the video game "Apotheo"n for Windows/PC, Mac OS X, Linux, and PlayStation 4. Apotheon is a visually striking side-scrolling action-adventure game, in which the player takes on the role of an ancient Greek hero fighting against Olympian deities. As Nikandreos, his mission is to wrest divine powers from the Gods, in the process becoming a deity himself. "Apotheon"’s striking individuality in visuals and narrative is the result of a close collaboration between the studio and independent agents. This interview with Creative Director Jesse McGibney, classical scholar and mythological consultant Maciej Paprocki, and composer Marios Aristopoulos offers a look behind the scenes of the 2015 sleeper hit.
description: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 7 (2018)
CoFe2O4-SiO2-SO3H nano composite as a magnetically recoverable catalyst for oxidative bromination of alkynes
Creators: name: Mintu Maan Dutta
name: Rajbongshi, Kamal Krishna
name: Prodeep Phukan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology

description: A hybrid catalyst has been prepared by incorporating sulfonic acid onto cobalt ferrite magnetic nanoparticles. The catalyst was successfully applied for rapid (20 min) synthesis of α, α -dibromoketones directly from alkynes and NBS. The reaction works well in the presence of 10 wt% of the catalyst at room temperature to produce the desired products in high yield. The catalyst could be recovered using an external magnet and reused without appreciable change in activity.
Den Helden spielen! - das Projekt Olymp.ja! als theaterpädagogische Auseinandersetzung mit Sport und antiken Mythen
Creators: name: Hedderich, Meike
name: Schwarz, Ariane
Publisher: name: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
Year: 2018

description: In this contribution, we report on the educational theatre production Olymp.ja! at Staatstheater Darmstadt from 2017, which dealt with the connection between the current phenomenon of sport or rather lifestyle and that of ancient myths. Through themes like self-overcoming, crossing borders, the search for glory and honour, solving seemingly unsolvable tasks and so one, in this production, we drew a line between these two ranges of topics. On the one hand, these themes were negotiated on an intellectual level, on the other hand by the physical commitment of the participants. The work created with a group of amateurs showed the complexity of both fields, but also what ancient myths mean today personally to the individual player of this staging.
description: THERSITES. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 7 (2018)
Influence of calcination conditions on structural and solid‐state kinetic properties of iron oxidic species supported on SBA‐15
Creators: name: Genz, Nina Sharmen
name: Ressler, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
subject: FeIII precursors
subject: kinetics
subject: particle size
subject: powder layer thickness
subject: reduction

description: Iron oxidic species supported on silica SBA-15 were synthesized with various iron loadings using two different FeIII precursors. The effect of varying powder layer thickness during calcination on structural and solid-state kinetic properties of FexOy/SBA-15 samples was investigated. Calcination was conducted in thin (0.3 cm) or thick (1.3 cm) powder layer. Structural characterization of resulting FexOy/SBA-15 samples was performed by nitrogen physisorption, X-ray diffraction, and DR-UV/Vis spectroscopy. Thick powder layer during calcination induced an increased species size independent of the precursor. However, a significantly more pronounced influence of calcination mode on species size was observed for the FeIII nitrate precursor compared to the FeIII citrate precursor. Temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) experiments revealed distinct differences in reducibility and reduction mechanism dependent on calcination mode. Thick layer calcination of the samples obtained from FeIII nitrate precursor resulted in more pronounced changes in TPR profiles compared to samples obtained from FeIII citrate precursor. TPR traces were analyzed by model-dependent Coats-Redfern method and model-independent Kissinger method. Differences in solid-state kinetic properties of FexOy/SBA-15 samples dependent on powder layer thickness during calcination correlated with differences in iron oxidic species size.
Inferring age-specific differences in susceptibility to and infectiousness upon SARS-CoV-2 infection based on Belgian social contact data
Creators: name: Franco, Nicolas
name: Coletti, Pietro
name: Willem, Lander
name: Angeli, Leonardo
name: Lajot, Adrien
name: Abrams, Steven
name: Beutels, Philippe
name: Faes, Christel
name: Hens, Niel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 92-08, 92C60, 92D30

description: Several important aspects related to SARS-CoV-2 transmission are not well known due to a lack of appropriate data. However, mathematical and computational tools can be used to extract part of this information from the available data, like some hidden age-related characteristics. In this paper, we present a method to investigate age-specific differences in transmission parameters related to susceptibility to and infectiousness upon contracting SARS-CoV-2 infection. More specifically, we use panel-based social contact data from diary-based surveys conducted in Belgium combined with the next generation principle to infer the relative incidence and we compare this to real-life incidence data. Comparing these two allows for the estimation of age-specific transmission parameters. Our analysis implies the susceptibility in children to be around half of the susceptibility in adults, and even lower for very young children (preschooler). However, the probability of adults and the elderly to contract the infection is decreasing throughout the vaccination campaign, thereby modifying the picture over time.
description: Revised version, 17 pages, supplementary material 15 pages
Cyclophilin 20–3 is positioned as a regulatory hub between light-dependent redox and 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid signaling
Creators: name: Cheong, Hoon
name: Izailda Barbosa Dos Santos
name: Wenshan Liu
name: Gosse, Heather N.
name: Park, Sang-Wook
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The jasmonate family of phytohormones plays central roles in plant development and stress acclimation. However, the regulatory modes of their signaling circuitry remain largely unknown. Here we describe that cyclophilin 20–3 (CYP20-3), a binding protein of (+)-12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (OPDA), crisscrosses stress responses with light-dependent redox reactions, which fine-tunes the activity of key enzymes in the plastid photosynthetic carbon assimilation and sulfur assimilation pathways. Under stressed states, OPDA – accumulated in the chloroplasts – binds and promotes CYP20-3 to transfer electron (e−) from thioredoxins (i.e. type-f2 and -x) to 2-Cys peroxiredoxin B (2-CysPrxB) or serine acetyltransferase 1 (SAT1). Reduction (activation) of 2-CysPrxB then optimizes peroxide detoxification and carbon metabolisms in the photosynthesis, whereas the activation of SAT1 stimulates sulfur assimilation which in turn coordinates redox-resolved nucleus gene expressions in defense responses against biotic and abiotic stresses. Thus, we conclude that CYP20-3 is positioned as a unique metabolic hub in the interface between photosynthesis (light) and OPDA signaling, where controls resource (e−) allocations between plant growth and defense responses.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Saint-Etienne de Dijon (XIIIe siècle), Cart. 34 (G 138), 22 folios, f. 0037
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2009
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de Saint-Etienne de Dijon (XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 34 (G 138), 22 folios, f. 0037, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Saint-Etienne de Dijon (XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 34 (G 138), 22 folios, f. 0037, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Cart. 180 (11 H 755), 83 folios, f. 0110
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 180 (11 H 755), 83 folios, f. 0110, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 180 (11 H 755), 83 folios, f. 0110, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Stereospecific and chemoselective copper-catalyzed deaminative silylation of benzylic ammonium triflates
Creators: name: Scharfbier, Jonas
name: Gross, Benjamin M.
name: Oestreich, Martin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
subject: copper
subject: nucleophilic substitution
subject: silanes
subject: stereospecificity
subject: transmetalation

description: A method for the synthesis of benzylsilanes starting from the corresponding ammonium triflates is reported. Silyl boronic esters are employed as silicon pronucleophiles, and the reaction is catalyzed by copper(I) salts. Enantioenriched benzylic ammonium salts react stereospecifically through an SN2‐type displacement of the ammonium group to afford α‐chiral silanes with inversion of the configuration. A cyclopropyl‐substituted substrate does not undergo ring opening, thus suggesting an ionic reaction mechanism with no benzyl radical intermediate.
Mutual information on metric space - poster pdf
Creators: name: Houghton, Conor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Poster for NCCD2017 based on the paper R. Soc. open sci. 2015 2 140391; DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140391. This paper gives a simple formula for estimating mutual information between random variables on metric spaces.
Lettre de Pierre-Joseph Amoreux à Jean-François Séguier, 1783-08-23
Creators: name: Amoreux, Pierre-Joseph
name: Pierre-Joseph Amoreux
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: Histoire naturelle ; Bibliographie

description: [fol. 129] A Montpellier ce 29 août 1783.

Monsieur,

Je reçus le même jour de l’arrivée de M. Farjon les deux paquets qui lui avaient été confiés. Ils avaient été remis en trop bonne main pour qu’ils ne fussent pas exactement rendus. Je crois inutile de vous en accuser la réception, espérant de vous les renvoyer aussitôt. Etant dans l’usage quand j’emprunte un livre de le dépêcher aussitôt. Aussi, ai-je fini ceux que vous m’avez prêtés et je n’attends qu’une occasion sûre pour pouvoir vous les renvoyer avant que j’aille moi-même à Nîmes, ce qui pourra être si tôt.
Comme je vous réponds tout de suite pour vous tirer de peine, je ne suis point sorti ce matin pour savoir si M. Gouan avait reçu le paquet que vous lui avez adressé.
J’ai pris beaucoup de part à l’incommodité qui vous est survenue à la main droite. A votre écriture, on juge pourtant que cela n’aura pas de suite.
Je suis bien respectueusement

Mon cher Monsieur,
 Votre très humble et très obéissant serviteur.
Amoreux fils méd.
description: Source: [établissement de conservation] Nîmes, Bibliothèque Carré d'Art [cote] ms. 136, fol. 129
Singularity resolution in gravitational collapse
Creators: name: Mosani, Karim
name: Dey, Dipanjan
name: Bhattacharya, Kaushik
name: Joshi, Pankaj S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the unhindered gravitational collapse of a homogeneous scalar field with nonzero potential, a two-dimensional analog of the Mexican hat-shaped Higgs field potential. The collapsing scalar field is surrounded by an exterior retarded (outgoing) generalized Vaidya spacetime. We prove that the density dependence on the scale factor cannot be expressed as an algebraic function in such a scenario. For a certain transcendental expression of the density of such field as a function of scale factor, we then show that the collapse evolves to a singularity at an infinite comoving time, which is equivalent to saying that the singularity is avoided altogether. An ultra high density region of the order of Planck length can, however, be reached in a finite comoving time. The absence of the formation of trapped surfaces makes this ultra high density region globally visible.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
A Simple Nickel Catalyst Enabling an E‐Selective Alkyne Semihydrogenation
Creators: name: Thiel, Niklas Olof
name: Kaewmee, Benyapa
name: Tran Ngoc, Trung
name: Teichert, Johannes F.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
subject: 660 Chemische Verfahrenstechnik
subject: nickel
subject: hydrogenation
subject: alkyne
subject: stereoselectivity
subject: catalysis

description: Stereoselective alkyne semihydrogenations are attractive approaches to alkenes, which are key building blocks for synthesis. With regards to the most atom economic reducing agent dihydrogen (H 2 ), only few catalysts for the challenging E ‐selective alkyne semihydrogenation have been disclosed, each with a unique substrate scope profile. Here, we show that a commercially available nickel catalyst facilitates the E ‐selective alkyne semihydrogenation of a wide variety of substituted internal alkynes. This results in a simple and broadly applicable overall protocol to stereoselectively access E ‐alkenes employing H 2 which could serve as a general method for synthesis.
Beyond Food: Placing Animals in the Framework of Social Change in Post-Roman England
Creators: name: Holmes, Matilda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Zooarchaeological evidence is combined with anthropological, artistic and historical sources to investigate the role of human-animal interactions during periods of social change in post-Roman England. Data from nearly 500 assemblages covering 1500 years in southern England provide a unique basis to investigate the use of non-livestock animals in diverse areas from cosmology to commodities, companions to status. Results showcase the potential for integrated studies to provide insights into the changing perceptions of animals from creatures that play a role in the afterlife, to those that are earthbound and soulless, to express status and power, to reveal a demand for spectacle and education and to reflect contrasting functions of economy alongside an increasing sentimentality for pets.
title: Managing health care market in developing countries : a case-study of selective contracting for hospital services in South Africa
Creators: name: Broomberg, J
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 1997

description: This thesis examines the prospects for market type reforms within the public health systems of developing countries, through a study of the impact of contracting out of the provision of rural district hospital services in South Africa. The research objectives were to assess the impact of these contracts on hospital and local health system efficiency, to analyse the determinants of efficiency, and to determine the necessary conditions for efficiency gains from contracting out. Three contracted out hospitals, under contract to a single for-profit contractor, were each matched with a public and a private for-profit hospital, and the relative efficiency of these hospitals was assessed using step down unit cost analysis, data envelopment analysis, and a multi-dimensional assessment of quality of care. The structure of the contracts and the contracting process, organisational management structures and systems, and the extent of competition for the contracts, were also evaluated. These analyses demonstrate that the contracted out hospitals are able to produce most outputs of comparable quality at lower cost, primarily due to more efficient utilisation of staff resources, and to superior management structures and systems. However, when the government’s total costs are taken into account, including contract prices and transactions costs, contracted out services appear more costly than those produced in public hospitals, indicating that the contractor is able to capture most of its superior production efficiency in profits, and that these contracts result in some efficiency losses. Poor contract design is also shown to result in some systemic efficiency problems. These results are shown to be attributable to the government’s poor ability to design, negotiate and monitor contracts, as well as to the absence of competition or contestability. These findings suggest that contracting out has the potential to generate significant efficiency gains, but only where certain critical conditions are in place, including government capacity to design, negotiate and monitor contracts, and some level of contestability or competition for the contracts. Where these conditions are absent, contracting out of hospital services is unlikely to generate efficiency gains, and may result in efficiency losses.
On-demand large-conductance in trivial zero-bias tunneling peaks in Majorana nanowires
Creators: name: Pan, Haining
name: Sarma, Sankar Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent experiments that report the almost-generic large-conductance peaks without very extensive fine-tuning, we propose an alternative mechanism through direct theoretical simulations that can explain the large zero-bias conductance peaks being generated on-demand in the nontopological regime in Majorana nanowires by satisfying the following three sufficient conditions: (i) strong potential disorder in the bulk of the nanowire, suppressing the topological regime; (ii) strong suppression of the disorder near the nanowire ends connecting to the tunneling leads, perhaps because of screening by the metallic leads and gates; and (iii) low tunnel barrier strength leading to large tunneling amplitude. The third condition is typically achieved experimentally by fine-tuning the tunnel barrier and the first condition is generic in all existing nanowires by virtue of considerable sample disorder induced by unintentional random quenched charged impurities. The second condition is likely to apply to many samples since the disorder potential would be typically screened more strongly at the wire ends because of the large metallic tunnel pads used experimentally. We show that the resultant tunneling conductance manifests large trivial zero-bias peaks almost on demand, and such peaks could be $\sim 2e^2/h$, when appropriately fine-tuned by the tunnel barrier strength and the temperature, as reported experimentally. Our work not only solves the mystery in recent experiments that the observations of the large zero-bias conductance peaks are generic by proposing a theoretically possible mechanism but also explains why these hypothesized conditions are naturally satisfied in experiments.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures