cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development and biomedical application of fluorescence lifetime imaging endoscopes
Creators: name: Sparks, Hugh
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: A flexible wide-field fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) endoscope is developed for clinical applications. For remote imaging, a coherent fibre optic bundle was used which required techniques and protocols to be developed to minimise artefacts associated with dispersion and recover accurate lifetime estimates. Potentially gain switched pulsed laser diodes are better suited for the clinic than light sources used conventionally for FLIM endoscopy because they are more compact and lower in cost. By imaging ex vivo human tissue samples, it was demonstrated that gain-switched pulsed laser diodes are a viable alternative excitation light source. The system was able to acquire ∼mm-scale spatial FLIM images from fresh ex vivo diseased human larynx biopsies. For wide-field FLIM with the fastest update rates, gated optical intensifiers (GOIs) are used as detectors. This thesis documents the characterisation of next generation GOI technology that can achieve larger than existing standard GOI standard gate-widths for improved light efficiency and that use a magnetic field to enhance spatial resolution beyond that of proximity focusing alone. For intra vital microscopy, access to tissue surfaces deep inside hollow or solid organs is challenging for microscopes. This thesis applies a commercially available confocal laser scanning endomicroscope (CLSE) adapted for time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) FLIM to study protein interactions using based on Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) between fluorescent proteins. Protocols to minimise artefacts associated with dispersion in the CLSE’s fibre probe to recover accurate lifetime estimates are presented. To validate the design, the CLSE was used for a time-lapse study of live cancer cells in vitro to monitor their response to an inhibitor of the ERK intracellular signalling pathway by FLIM FRET of an extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) biosensor.
Alain J. Stoclet, Du Champ de Mars mérovingien au Champ de Mai carolingien. Éclairages sur un objet fugace et une réforme de Pépin, dit »le Bref«, Turnhout (Brepols) 2020
Creators: name: Bachrach, David S.
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2021

description: Alain J. Stoclet, Du Champ de Mars mérovingien au Champ de Mai carolingien. Éclairages sur un objet fugace et une réforme de Pépin, dit »le Bref«, Turnhout (Brepols) 2020, 448 p., 17 b/w tabl. (Haut Moyen Âge, 41), ISBN 978-2-503-58693-9, EUR 85,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2021/2
`THz Torch' technology: secure thermal infrared wireless communications using engineered blackbody radiation
Creators: name: Hu, Fangjing
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: The thermal (emitted) infrared frequency bands, from 20 to 40 THz and 60 to 100 THz, are best known for applications in thermography. This underused and unregulated part of the spectral range offers opportunities for the development of secure communications. The `THz Torch' concept, operating between the THz and mid-infrared ranges, was recently introduced. This technology fundamentally exploits engineered blackbody radiation, by partitioning thermally-generated spectral power into pre-defined frequency channels; the energy in each channel is then independently pulsed modulated to create a robust form of short-range secure communications in the far/mid-infrared. In the thesis, the development of `THz Torch' wireless communications systems will first be introduced. State-of-the-art THz technologies, infrared sources and detectors, as well as near-infrared and visible light communications technologies, will be reviewed in Chapter 2. Basic single-channel architecture of the `THz Torch' technology will be presented in Chapter 3. Fundamental limits for the first single-channel proof-of-concept demonstrator will be discussed, and possible engineering solutions will be proposed and verified experimentally. With such improvements, to date, octave bandwidth (25 to 50 THz) single-channel wireless links have been demonstrated with >2 kbit/s data rate and >10 cm transmission distance. To further increase the overall end-to-end data rate and/or the level of security, multiplexing schemes for `THz Torch' technologies are proposed in Chapter 4. Both frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and frequency-hopping spread-spectrum (FHSS) working demonstrators, operating between 10 and 100 THz spectral range, will be implemented. With such 4-channel multiplexing schemes, measured bit error rates (BERs) of <10−6 have been achieved over a transmission distance of 2.5 cm. Moreover, the integrity of such 4-channel multiplexing system is evaluated by introducing four jamming, interception and channel crosstalk experiments. Chapter 5 gives a detailed power link budget analysis for the 4-channel multiplexing system. The design, simulation and measurement of scalable THz metal mesh filters, which have potential applications for multi-channel `THz Torch' technology, will be presented in Chapter 6. The conclusions and further work are summarised in the last chapter. It is expected that this thermodynamics-based approach represents a new paradigm in the sense that 19th century physics can be exploited with 20th century multiplexing concepts for low cost 21st century ubiquitous security and defence applications in the thermal infrared range.
Rhododendron dauricum Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Rhododendron
Rhododendron dauricum

description: Rhododendron dauricum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 392. 1753.
"Habitat in Dauria." RCN: 3088.
Lectotype (Chamberlain in Cafferty & Jarvis in Taxon 51: 753. 2003 [2002]): [icon] " Chamaerhododendros folio glabro, majusculo, amplo, flore roseo " in Amman, Stirp. Rar. Ruth.: 181, t. 27. 1739.
Current name: Rhododendron dauricum L. (Ericaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), pp. 785-805 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 794, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Reminiscences of Orval Faubus 1971
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Governors--United States
African Americans--Segregation
African Americans--Education
School integration--Arkansas

description: Detailed history of the integration of Little Rock High School; integration of institutions of higher education in the South; National Guard; meeting with President Eisenhower in Newport; federal troops; Arkansas elections of 1958; attitude of the press toward Faubus and the school crisis. Impressions of Dwight Eisenhower, Virgil Blossom, Brooks Hays, Dale Alford
Additional file 3: of Genome-wide diversity in temporal and regional populations of the betabaculovirus Erinnyis ello granulovirus (ErelGV)
Creators: name: A. Brito
name: F. Melo
name: D. Ardisson-Araújo
name: W. Sihler
name: M. Souza
name: B. Ribeiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Showing the crrelations between non-synonymous substitutions and gene lengths. In these plots, each dot represents a gene depicted in the Fig. 3 of the main manuscript. A) Intra-isolate diversity of ErelGV-86 genes. B) ErelGV-94. C) ErelGV-98. D) ErelGV-99. E) ErelGV-00. F) ErelGV-AC. G) ErelGV-PA. As shown, the number of NSS per base pair (× 10− 3) and gene length (bp) have low to moderate correlation. The grey area corresponds to the 95% confidence interval, with highly conserved/diverse genes shown as outliers. (PDF 612 kb)
On the Evidence for Extreme Gravity Effects in MCG-6-30-15
Creators: name: Weaver, Kimberly A.
name: Yaqoob, Tahir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the unusual Fe-Kalpha line profile in MCG-6-30-15 observed by ASCA during a deep minimum in the source intensity. The intense red wing and depressed blue wing of the line have been interpreted as evidence for extreme gravitational redshifts in terms of emission from within six gravitational radii of a black hole. We find that the data do not uniquely support this interpretation and can be equally well explained by occultation of the continuum source and the putative line-emitting accretion disk, which we offer as an alternative hypothesis. Two problems with previous modeling were that the equivalent width of the line during the deep minimum was required to be unusually large (> 1 keV) and the line intensity was thought to increase as the source became dim. The occultation model does not suffer from these problems. Our results serve to highlight the hazards of over-interpreting observational results which have low statistical significance, to the extent that theoretical implications can become generally accepted when the data do not provide a strong case for them.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Latex and 5 postscript figures; 13 pages including figures
Low-carrier density and fragile magnetism in a Kondo lattice system
Creators: name: Rai, Binod K.
name: Oswald, Iain W. H.
name: Ban, Wenjing
name: Huang, C. -L.
name: Loganathan, V.
name: Hallas, A. M.
name: Wilson, M. N.
name: Luke, G. M.
name: Harriger, L.
name: Huang, Q.
name: Li, Y.
name: Dzsaber, Sami
name: Chan, Julia Y.
name: Wang, N. L.
name: Paschen, Silke
name: Lynn, J. W.
name: Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.
name: Dai, P.
name: Si, Q.
name: Morosan, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kondo-based semimetals and semiconductors are of extensive current interest as a viable platform for strongly correlated states. It is thus important to understand the routes towards such dilute-carrier correlated states. One established pathway is through Kondo effect in metallic non-magnetic analogues. Here we advance a new mechanism, through which Kondo-based semimetals develop out of conduction electrons with a low carrier-density in the presence of an even number of rare-earth sites. We demonstrate this effect by studying the Kondo material Yb3Ir4Ge13 along with its closed-f-shell counterpart, Lu3Ir4Ge13. Through magnetotransport, optical conductivity and thermodynamic measurements, we establish that the correlated semimetallic state of Yb3Ir4Ge13 below its Kondo temperature originates from the Kondo effect of a low carrier conduction-electron background. In addition, it displays fragile magnetism at very low temperatures, which, in turn, can be tuned to a non Fermi liquid regime through Lu-for-Yb substitution. These findings are connected with recent theoretical studies in simplified models. Our results open an entirely new venue to explore the strong correlation physics in a semimetallic environment.
High repetition rate temperature and velocity Imaging in turbulent flows using thermographic phosphors
Creators: name: Abram, Christopher
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Turbulent flows involving heat transfer and chemical reactions are prevalent in a huge range of applications such as combustors and engines, boilers, and heating and cooling devices. Directly measuring important variables using laser-based techniques has significantly contributed to our understanding of the underlying flow physics. However, many flows of interest exhibit infrequent or oscillatory behaviour, such as flame extinction or instabilities in thermal boundary layers. Capturing the flow dynamics requires simultaneous, two-dimensional temperature and velocity measurements at sampling rates commensurate with turbulent timescales. Typically this means measuring many thousands of temperature and velocity fields per second, yet there are no high repetition rate diagnostics for temperature imaging in practical, oxygen-containing systems, with the essential capability of simultaneous velocity measurements. This thesis presents a novel laser-based imaging technique based on thermographic phosphor particles. There are a huge variety of thermographic phosphors, which are solid materials with luminescence properties that can be exploited for remote thermometry. Here, phosphor particles are seeded into the flow as a tracer. An appropriate phosphor must be selected, and the particle size chosen so that the particle temperature and velocity rapidly assume that of the surrounding fluid. The particles are probed using high-speed lasers and their luminescence and scattering signals are detected using high-speed cameras to measure the flow temperature and velocity at kHz repetition rates. The development of this method is described in detail. Using the thermographic phosphor BAM:Eu, examples of simultaneous time-resolved measurements are presented in turbulent air flows between 300 and 500 K, consisting of a heated jet (Re = 10,000) and also a flow behind a heated cylinder (Re = 700). The technique permits kHz-rate temperature imaging in oxygen-containing environments. These combined diagnostics currently provide a unique capability for the investigation of transient, coupled heat and mass transfer phenomena in turbulent flows of practical engineering importance. A second objective of this work is to improve the precision of the temperature measurement. The characterisation of a different thermographic phosphor with a high temperature sensitivity, zinc oxide (ZnO), is also reported. Temperature imaging using these tracer particles is demonstrated in a jet (Re = 2,000) heated to 363 K, with a temperature precision of 1%. This extends the capabilities of this versatile technique toward the study of flows with small temperature variations. Also, unlike the majority of phosphors previously investigated for thermometry, this phosphor is a semiconductor. Exploiting the temperature-dependent luminescence of this class of materials presents interesting new opportunities for remote temperature sensing.
Forming and structural integrity of lightweight materials for transport applications
Creators: name: Chen, Shouhua
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: The research described in this PhD dissertation covers two aspects of lightweight materials for transport applications. One aspect is manufacturing process for lightweight metallic alloys and the other is structural integrity assessment for composite materials. In both cases, there was industrial interest in the research from aerospace, marine and automotive manufacturers. The first study relates to forming of lightweight metallic alloys. A new forming technique was developed to form lightweight turbine blade preforms. The second study relates to structural integrity of composite sandwich structures. The resistance of sandwich composite structures to high rate loading conditions from an air blast was investigated. In the first study, a novel electrical upsetting process, Gleeble Electrical Upsetting (GEU), was developed and conducted in a Gleeble 3800 Thermomechanical Simulator. By means of a resistance heating system in the Gleeble, a sharp decreasing temperature gradient and localized high upsetting ratio of an Aluminium Alloy (AA2011) round bar could be achieved. The forming results showed that three key forming parameters played important roles in the electrical upsetting process. The three parameters were heating rate, forming temperature and forming speed. A processing window was assessed to determine the optimum forming process for the GEU technique. In the second study, the air blast resistance of full scale GFRP and CFRP-skinned sandwich composite panels has been researched. Explosive charges of 38 - 100 kg TNT equivalent were employed in these studies to achieve high rate air blast loading. High-speed photography and DIC system were employed during the air-blast loading to monitor the deformation of these structures under shock loading. Failure mechanisms have been revealed using DIC and confirmed in post-test sectioning. Full-scale experimental results presented in this thesis were compared with FEA simulations. The two research studies performed in this PhD thesis emphasise the importance of manufacture process control and structural integrity assessment. In both cases, the materials studied are to be employed in transport applications. The Lee Family PhD Scholarship along with provision of testing materials from aerospace, marine and automotive manufacturers has provided for an interesting PhD study.
title: Brigitte Autran
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques (1942-2020)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Pièce jointe : Article de Ahmad R. Sedaghat, Darius A. Rastegar, Karen A. O’Connell, Jason B. Dinoso, Claus O. Wilke and Joel N. Blankson "T Cell Dynamics and the Response to HAART in a Cohort of HIV-1–Infected Elite Suppressors" extrait de "Clinical Infectious Diseases", 2009. 1 fichier (5 pages).
Reminiscences of Oscar Clemen Stine, 1952
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Economists
New Deal, 1933-1939
Agriculture--United States

description: Family and early life; Ohio University; teaching in Ohio; Henry C. Taylor and the University of Wisconsin; Department of Agriculture, World War I; preparing data for national policy in price determination; extension of wheat production; Congressional inquiry into farm situation; Bureau of Agricultural Economics; outlook work and price forecasting; farm organizations and agricultural problems in the 1920s; National Agricultural Conference, 1922; International Institute of Agriculture; foreign travel; Department of Commerce and farm marketing problems; McNary-Haugen Bill; Farm Board; Russia, 1934; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Agricultural Act of 1948
H_0 and Odds on Cosmology
Creators: name: Jaffe, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of Cepheids in the Virgo cluster imply a Hubble Constant $H_0=80\pm17$\ km/sec/Mpc. We attempt to clarify some issues of interpretation of these results for determining the global cosmological parameters $Ω$ and $Λ$. Using the formalism of Bayesian model comparison, the data suggest a universe with a nonzero cosmological constant $Λ>0$, but vanishing curvature: $Ω+Λ=1$.
description: 8 Pages, uuencoded postscript. Submitted to ApJLett. Also available at file://ftp.cita.utoronto.ca/cita/andrew/papers/odds.ps
Rhododendron ferrugineum Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Rhododendron
Rhododendron ferrugineum

description: Rhododendron ferrugineum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 392. 1753.
"Habitat in Alpibus Helveticis, Allobrogicis, Pyrenaeis." RCN: 3087.
Lectotype (Chamberlain in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 81. 1993): Herb. Linn. No. 562.1 (LINN).
Generitype of Rhododendron Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 153. 1929).
Current name: Rhododendron ferrugineum L. (Ericaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), pp. 785-805 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 794, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
title: Resonant Embodiments: Listening to the Transcultural Body
Creators: name: Lewis-King, Michelle
Publisher: name: Live Interfaces Journal
Year: 2023

description: ‘Qicapes 氣穴音景 (2022-) and Pulse Project (2011-2017) are cross-disciplinary research series exploring sound, embodiment, medicine, and cross-cultural science. These projects reimagine East Asian medicine in digital performance, crafting immersive audio environments connecting bodies and surroundings. Qiscapes investigate qi 氣 within the body using the ‘acupunctosonocope’, amplifying acupuncture and detecting ‘qi’ flow. It evidences qi, which is thought not to exist. Pulse Project creates sonic interfaces, translating Chinese pulse diagnosis and acupuncture point location practices into immersive ‘qi’ soundscapes, revealing the Chinese medicine body in all. These interfaces are developed to measure quantum entanglements in individuals and their environments. Through traversing art and medicine, these projects present a cosmological model of body-lifeworld relationship beyond the biomedical model.’
description: Live Interfaces Journal, v. 1 n. 1 (2023): Live Interfaces Journal
Additional file 7 of Th17 cell differentiation induced by cytopathogenic biotype BVDV-2 in bovine PBLCs
Creators: name: Li, Yanping
name: Liu, Tingli
name: Chen, Guoliang
name: Wang, Liqun
name: Guo, Aimin
name: Li, Zhi
name: Pan, Li
name: Mao, Li
name: Luo, Xuenong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 7: Figure S2. Overexpression of IL17A inhibited the replication of GS2018. The Expression of IL17A and BVDV-2 E2 were detected by western blot in PBLCs at 24 h, 48 h and 72 h after GS2018 infection, respectively. The band of IL17A (a), BVDV-2 E2 (b, c) and GAPDH (d) protein were cropped horizontally from the same membrane before hybridized with the antibody, the image below shows the marker lanes as well as the complete and clearly visible edge of the gels. For BVDV-2 E2 (42 kda), GAPDH (37 kda) and pEGFP-N1-IL17A, membranes were cropped at 36 kda, 40 kda and 60 kda. Thereafter each membrane was processed for respective antibody incubation and repeated exposures by using ultra-sensitive ECL luminescence reagent.
Reminiscences of Osmond Kessler Fraenkel, 1974
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Lawyers
subject: Practice of law
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Law--Political aspects
subject: Communism--United States

description: Harvard, 1904-08; Columbia Law School; early law practice; Soviet cases; Norris, Patterson, Trop, and Leyra cases; American Civil Liberties Union, National Lawyer's Guild; obscenity, civil liberties, equal rights, communism in Unites States; publications; impressions of Arthur Garfield Hays, Morris Ernst, Alger Hiss, United States Supreme Court Justices
Correlation of mechanical stresses with arterial disease frequency in animal models
Creators: name: Rowland, Ethan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: Atherosclerosis is a complex inflammatory disease which may be triggered by an elevated transport of lipid-carrying macromolecules from the blood into the arterial wall. Its non-uniform distribution has been attributed to local variations in wall shear stress. Intramural stresses and strains are regularly overlooked, despite their heterogeneous distribution and direct effect on vascular cell morphology and function. Stenotic flow models of atherosclerosis inadvertently alter both fluid and solid stresses. Using a tapered flow modifying cuff, wall uptake of plasma macromolecules was investigated in the murine carotid artery. The greatest uptake occurred just upstream, the site which has previously been observed to later develop vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques. Uptake was also elevated, but to a significantly lesser extent, just downstream. Flow simulations and the effects of reversing cuff orientation on wall permeability, indicated a role for solid, as well as fluid stresses. Structural simulations revealed that steep spatial and cyclic stress/strain gradients occur at the cuff margins. When fluid-structure interaction effects are included, transmural pressure and circumferential stress and strain are reduced downstream. Arterial branch sites exhibit large variations in biomechanical factors and a predilection for atherosclerotic lesions. Motivated by the need to accurately map strains around branch openings, a novel method was developed to determine in vivo strain in animal models using vascular corrosion casts. A study focused on the descending thoracic rabbit aorta demonstrated its efficacy. Assessing the anatomical correlation of atherosclerosis with biomechanical localising factors is hindered by spatial autocorrelation, which tends to exaggerate significance, and by the use of aggregate data, which artificially inflates correlation coefficients. A comparison of four statistical tests for assessing spatial correlations highlighted substantial differences in obtained significance when applied to maps of wall shear stress and three putatively related arterial properties. A fifth test specific to aggregate data was proposed and applied. Appropriate application of these techniques will help to establish the relative importance of fluid and solid mechanics in atherogenesis.
Additional file 3: of Correlates of the Womenâ s Development Army strategy implementation strength with household reproductive, maternal, newborn and child healthcare practices: a cross-sectional study in four regions of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Zufan Damtew
name: Karim, Ali
name: Chala Chekagn
name: Nebreed Fesseha Zemichael
name: Bantalem Yihun
name: Willey, Barbara
name: Wuleta Betemariam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S2. L10Â K survey domain and strategy. A map showing woredas implementing the various program strategies. (PDF 541 kb)
Reminiscences of Oscar D. Ratnoff, 1989
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medical scientists
Physicians
Hematology
Hemophilia
Blood--Coagulation
Immunological deficiency syndromes

description: Personal background; childhood in Brooklyn; college and medical school; early professional influences; military service; discovery of and research on Hageman factor; research in clotting; involvement with American Society of Hematology; recollections of colleagues and professional collaborations; hemophilia research; medical and ethical philosophy; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and azidothymidine (AZT) research
title: Synthetic Images: Data-based Aesthetics
Creators: name: Lee, Rosemary
Publisher: name: Live Interfaces Journal
Year: 2023

description: This essay examines how data-based practices contribute to new perspectives on the empirical value of images. Recent methods employing machine learning enable visualisations to be produced based on the large-scale analysis of data but that are detached from direct sensorial observation, subverting the forms of visual objectivity traditionally associated with technical and scientific methods of image-making. This research aims to develop insights into the forms of visual knowledge that these methods may give rise to, as well as facilitating critical discourse on the grounding of visual practices in relation to technical and scientific methods.
description: Live Interfaces Journal, v. 1 n. 1 (2023): Live Interfaces Journal
Computational studies of high power nanosecond laser propagation in magnetised plasmas
Creators: name: Read, Martin
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: The effects of magnetic fields on long-pulse (nanosecond) laser-plasma interactions have been a subject of research interest in recent years. Applied fields have been used for the formation and control of plasma waveguides (Froula 2009), for improving energy coupling under conditions relevant to indirect-drive ICF (Montgomery 2015) and have been observed to arise naturally in the gas-fill of hohlraums due to field generation by the Biermann battery mechanism at the wall (Li 2009). These systems are complicated by the range of coupled magnetised electron transport phenomena which can occur. For example, heat-flow across field lines is suppressed in a magnetised plasma and magnetic fields can rapidly advect along temperature gradients due to Nernst advection, an effect which is predominant at moderate magnetisations (wt ~ 1). This thesis addresses the question of how these phenomena, coupled with inverse bremsstrahlung heating, affect the hydrodynamic evolution of the plasma and in turn change laser self-focusing. This problem is investigated by means of theoretical and computational modelling. A paraxial wave solver has been developed and used in conjunction with the existing 2D plasma codes, CTC, an MHD code including a detailed model of Braginskii electron transport, and IMPACT, a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck code with fully implicit magnetic fields. Simulations of moderate intensity (~ 10^14 W/cm^2), 10 micron width infrared laser pulses propagating through under-dense (ne = 10^18 - 10^19 cm^-3) plasmas in the presence of 0 - 12 T applied fields demonstrate an inhibition to beam self-focusing and thermal pressure driven density channel formation resulting from Nernst advection over time-scales greater than ~ 200 ps. VFP simulations accounting for non-locality indicate that heat-flow and Nernst advection can be over-estimated however and result in a re-emergence of channeling phenomena under these conditions. Finally, the magnetothermal instability - the result of feedback between the Nernst effect and Righi-Leduc heat-flow - frequently arises, affecting temperature and field profiles and is considered in the context of such conditions.
Jason T. Roche, The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany. Warfare and Diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146–1148, Turnhout (Brepols) 2021
Creators: name: Balard, Michel
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2021

description: Jason T. Roche, The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany. Warfare and Diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146–1148, Turnhout (Brepols) 2021, 365 p., 3 ill. en n/b (Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 13), ISBN 978-2-503-53038-3, EUR 94,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2021/2
title: ADCO, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0310v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: cartulaire
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, C
art. 186 (11 H 71). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la
 Côte-d'Or, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0310v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-
project.eu/
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
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
The role of activated microglia in multiple sclerosis and clinically isolated syndromes: neuroimaging studies
Creators: name: Giannetti, Paolo
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: Background. Multiple sclerosis (MS) has been traditionally described as an autoimmune disease of adaptive immunity affecting the white matter (WM) of central nervous system. Recent scientific interest has focused on the role of the innate immunity and structures including the normal-appearing WM (NAWM), grey matter (GM) and black holes (BH). PET imaging using [11C]-PK11195 (PK), allows the in vivo visualization of activated microglia. Aims. This project aims to study in vivo the role of microglia activation in three specific structures, BH, GM and NAWM and, in a wide range of patients, from clinically isolated syndromes (CIS) to the later stages of progressive course. This study also aims to identify prognostic factors which could be useful as indicators for early treatment and in later stages for disability progression. Methods. Subjects: twenty MS, 18 CIS and 8 healthy controls (HC). Procedures: clinical history, neurological examination, PK-PET and MRI scans. MS subjects have been followed up only clinically, while CIS also with repeated MRI, yearly, for 2 years. The PK binding potential is referred to the non-displaceable radioligand (PKBPND). Results. In progressive patients BH PKBPND correlated with disability and represented a significant predictor of disability. In NAWM the PKBPND was increased in patients compared with HC and within the MS subgroups it increased with the stage. In CIS subjects PKBPND was predictive of MS diagnosis at 2 years and in progressive patients of worse clinical outcome. GM central structures (CS) showed increased PKBPND in CIS vs HC. A prognostic value for the cortex is reported in progressive patients. Discussion: PK-PET imaging has shown new insights into BH, NAWM and GM structures that are relevant for the understanding of MS pathology. This includes the relevance of activated microglia in BH, in CIS NAWM and CS, in MS cortical GM as a predictor for clinical progression.
Yann Potin, Trésor, écrits, pouvoirs. Archives et bibliothèques d’État en France à la fin du Moyen Âge. Préface de Patrick Boucheron, Paris (CNRS Éditions) 2020
Creators: name: Löffler, Annette
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2021

description: Yann Potin, Trésor, écrits, pouvoirs. Archives et bibliothèques d’État en France à la fin du Moyen Âge. Préface de Patrick Boucheron, Paris (CNRS Éditions) 2020, 272 p., ISBN 978-2-271-13239-0, EUR 25,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2021/2
A Criterion for Photoionization of Pregalactic Clouds Exposed to Diffuse Ultraviolet Background Radiation
Creators: name: Tajiri, Yukiko
name: Umemura, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To elucidate the permeation of cosmic ultraviolet (UV) background radiation into a pregalactic cloud and subsequent ionization, the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation is solved, coupled with the ionization process. A spherical top-hat cloud which is composed of pure hydrogen is assumed. As a result, it is shown that the self-shielding, although it is often disregarded in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, could start to emerge shortly after the maximum expansion stages of density fluctuations. The present analysis reveals that the Stro"mgren approximation leads to overestimation of the photoionization effects. Also, the self-shielded neutral core is no longer sharply separated from surrounding ionized regions; a low but noticeable degree of ionization is caused by high energy photons even in the self-shielded core. The present results may be substantial on considering the biasing by photoionization against low-mass galaxy formation.
description: 12 pages, Latex, 3 figures, To appear in ApJ, July 20, 1998 issue, email: umemura@rccp.tsukuba.ac.jp
title: Creating Music Scores Live Through Interacting with a Character-level Text Generator
Creators: name: Drymonitis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: Live Interfaces Journal
Year: 2023

description: LiveLily is a live sequencing and live scoring system through live coding with a subset of the Lilypond language, a textual language for Western music engraving. Being a simple yet versatile language, Lilypond provides a high level of expressiveness in the resulting music score. LiveLily can either be used as a live scoring system with acoustic instruments, or a live sequencer to control audio software. The expressiveness provided by the Lilypond language contain information on notation, dynamics, articulation, and arbitrary text. By using a textual language for the score or the sequencer, it is possible to use a character-level AI text generator to produce melodic lines based on a corpus containing LiveLily sessions. During a live coding session, the text generator is seeded with input by the live coder and sends melodic patterns for the music ensemble it is trained on. The live coder can decide whether they will use these suggestions intact, edit them, or discard them.
description: Live Interfaces Journal, v. 1 n. 1 (2023): Live Interfaces Journal
Angular Diameter Distances in Clumpy Friedmann Universes
Creators: name: Tomita, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solving null-geodesic equations, behavior of angular diameter distances is studied in inhomogeneous cosmological models, which are given by performing N-body simulations with the CDM spectrum. The distances depend on the separation angle of ray pairs, the mass and the radius of particles cosisting of galaxies and dark matter balls, and cosmological model parameters. The calculated distances are compared with the Dyer- Roeder distance, and after many ray-shooting, the average, dispersion and distribution of the clumpiness parameter are derived.
description: 12 pages, 18 Postscript figures
Reminiscences of Otto Klineberg, 1984
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Psychologists
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social psychology
subject: Ethnopsychology

description: Early education; growth in interest in social psychology; PhD in psychology, Columbia University, 1927; cultural influences on psychology, intelligence tests; work concerning racial differences, IQ test performance in Black Americans; UNESCO 1948-49, World Federation for Mental Health; work at University of Sao Paolo, Sorbonne; recollections of various psychologists and anthropologists, including Jean Piaget and Margaret Mead
Kinetics of Conversion of Air Bubbles to Air-Hydrate Crystals in Antarctic Ice
Creators: name: Price, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The depth-dependence of bubble concentration at pressures above the transition to the air hydrate phase and the optical scattering length due to bubbles in deep ice at the South Pole are modeled using diffusion-growth data from the laboratory, taking into account the dependence of age and temperature on depth in the ice. The model fits the available data on bubbles in cores from Vostok and Byrd and on scattering length in deep ice at the South Pole. It explains why bubbles and air hydrate crystals co-exist in deep ice over a range of depths as great as 800 m and predicts that at depths below $\rm \sim$ 1400 m the AMANDA neutrino observatory at the South Pole will operate unimpaired by light scattering from bubbles.
description: Replacement fixes figures. Submitted to Science. 7 pages LaTeX plus 2 PostScript figures (compressed, tarred, uuencoded)
MERLIN observations of GRS 1915+105 : a progress report
Creators: name: Fender, R. P.
name: Garrington, S. T.
name: McKay, D. J.
name: Muxlow, T. W. B.
name: Pooley, G. G.
name: Spencer, R. E.
name: Stirling, A. M.
name: Waltman, E. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a progress report on MERLIN radio imaging of a radio outburst from GRS 1915+105. The major ejection occurred at the end of an approximately 20-day `plateau' state, characterised by low/hard X-ray fluxes and a relatively strong flat-spectrum radio component. Apparent superluminal motions have been mapped with unprecedented resolution, and imply higher velocities in the jet than previously derived.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. To be published in New Astronomy Reviews, as part of proceedings of 2nd workshop on Galactic sources with relativistic jets
Structural optimization of numerical programs for high-level synthesis
Creators: name: Gao, Xitong
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: This thesis introduces a new technique, and its associated tool SOAP, to automatically perform source-to-source optimization of numerical programs, specifically targeting the trade-off among numerical accuracy, latency, and resource usage as a high-level synthesis flow for FPGA implementations. A new intermediate representation, MIR, is introduced to carry out the abstraction and optimization of numerical programs. Equivalent structures in MIRs are efficiently discovered using methods based on formal semantics by taking into account axiomatic rules from real arithmetic, such as associativity, distributivity and others, in tandem with program equivalence rules that enable control-flow restructuring and eliminate redundant array accesses. For the first time, we bring rigorous approaches from software static analysis, specifically formal semantics and abstract interpretation, to bear on program transformation for high-level synthesis. New abstract semantics are developed to generate a computable subset of equivalent MIRs from an original MIR. Using formal semantics, three objectives are calculated for each MIR representing a pipelined numerical program: the accuracy of computation and an estimate of resource utilization in FPGA and the latency of program execution. The optimization of these objectives produces a Pareto frontier consisting of a set of equivalent MIRs. We thus go beyond existing literature by not only optimizing the precision requirements of an implementation, but changing the structure of the implementation itself. Using SOAP to optimize the structure of a variety of real world and artificially generated arithmetic expressions in single precision, we improve either their accuracy or the resource utilization by up to 60%. When applied to a suite of computational intensive numerical programs from PolyBench and Livermore Loops benchmarks, SOAP has generated circuits that enjoy up to a 12x speedup, with a simultaneous 7x increase in accuracy, at a cost of up to 4x more LUTs.
Theta-regularity and log-canonical threshold
Creators: name: Oygarden, Morten
name: Tirabassi, Sofia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14K12

description: We show that an inequality, proven by Küronya-Pintye, which governs the behavior of the log-canonical threshold of an ideal over $\mathbb{P}^n$ and that of its Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity, can be applied to the setting of principally polarized abelian varieties by substituting the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity with $Θ$-regularity of Pareschi-Popa.
description: 8 pages, a minor mistake appearing in the previous version corrected
Systems analysis of gaze stabilization behaviour and imaging of motor systems in the blowfly calliphora
Creators: name: Schwyn, Daniel Andreas
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2012

description: A fast and powerful gaze stabilization reflex supports self-motion es- timation and flight control in flies. Changes in body posture are conveyed by a variety of sensory modalities and compensated for by fast and accurate head movements. This thesis aims to further our understanding of the behavioural basis of compensatory head move- ments, and presents a first foray into the in vivo imaging of the motor systems that actuate these control reflexes. Major sensors that contribute to gaze stabilisation are the visual ocelli and compound eyes on the head, and the mechanosensory halteres on the thorax. The integration of visual feedback and mechanosensory feedforward control gives rise to a two-degree-of-freedom controller, a design which is extensively used in engineering applications. I per- formed a linear systems analysis of compensatory head roll in response to forced thorax oscillations in the fly. The feedforward pathway ex- hibited a high bandwidth and constant gain and reduced the response delay of the reflex. Large stability margins in the feedback pathway supplied by the compound eyes guaranteed stable behaviour in the face of response variability. The occlusion of the ocelli did not change the gain of the feedback pathway, but significantly reduced the la- tency. I investigated the use of iodine-enhanced computed x-ray microto- mography (microCT) to perform fast three-dimensional imaging of the neck and flight motor systems. Virtual dissections of major func- tional units illustrate the possibilities and limitations of microCT. To observe the configuration of motor systems in behaving flies I per- formed gated microtomography using hard x-rays at the TOMCAT beamline of the Swiss Light Source, a third generation synchrotron. While 3D tomograms of the neck motor system proved elusive, this thesis presents the first in vivo tomograms of the flight motor and wing hinge during tethered flight.
OMEGA AND BIASING FROM OPTICAL GALAXIES VERSUS POTENT MASS
Creators: name: Hudson, M. J.
name: Dekel, A.
name: Courteau, S.
name: Faber, S. M.
name: Willick, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass density field in the local universe, recovered by the POTENT method from peculiar velocities of $\sim$3000 galaxies, is compared with the density field of optically-selected galaxies. Both density fields are smoothed with a Gaussian filter of radius 12 $h^{-1}$ Mpc. Under the assumptions of gravitational instability and a linear biasing parameter $b\sbo$ between optical galaxies and mass, we obtain $β\sbo \equiv \om^{0.6}/b\sbo = 0.74 \pm 0.13$. This result is obtained from a regression of POTENT mass density on optical density after correcting the mass density field for systematic biases in the velocity data and POTENT method. The error quoted is just the $1σ$ formal error estimated from the observed scatter in the density--density scatterplot; it does not include the uncertainty due to cosmic scatter in the mean density or in the biasing relation. We do not attempt a formal analysis of the goodness of fit, but the scatter about the fit is consistent with our estimates of the uncertainties.
description: Final revised version (minor typos corrected). 13 pages, gzipped tar file containing LaTeX and figures. The Postscript file is available at ftp://dust0.dur.ac.uk/pub/mjh/potopt/potopt.ps.Z or (gzipped) at ftp://xxx.lanl.gov/astro-ph/ps/9501/9501074.ps.gz or via WWW at http://xxx.lanl.gov/ps/astro-ph/9501074 or as separate LaTeX text and encapsulated Postscript figures in a compressed tar'd file at ftp://dust0.dur.ac.uk/pub/mjh/potopt/latex/potopt.tar.Z
Additional file 2: of A mixed methods feasibility study of the Kusamala Program at a nutritional rehabilitation unit in Malawi
Creators: name: Daniel, Allison
name: Heuvel, Meta Van Den
name: Gladstone, Melissa
name: Bwanali, Mike
name: Voskuijl, Wieger
name: Celine Bourdon
name: Potani, Isabel
name: Fernandes, Sara
name: Jenala Njirammadzi
name: Bandsma, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Moyo NRU daily schedule and timing of the Kusamala Program. (DOCX 14 kb)