cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nonlinear Interactions in Planar Jet Flow with High Frequency Excitation
Creators: name: Kreutzfeldt, Timothy
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Aerospace engineering
subject: closure
subject: flow control
subject: high frequency
subject: jet
subject: nonlinear
subject: turbulence

description: An experimental active flow control study was conducted involving excitation of a tabletop planar turbulent jet with a high frequency piezoelectric actuator. The excitation frequencies considered corresponded to the dissipative subrange of turbulent kinetic energy and were orders of magnitude greater than classical shear layer instability modes. Single-wire and dual-wire hot wire probes were used to determine how excitation induces alterations to bulk flow quantities as well as nonlinear interactions. Differences in flow receptivity to high frequency excitation were investigated by varying the development length of the turbulent jet at a Reynolds number of 8,700 and Strouhal number of 21.3. Excitation of developed turbulent flow yielded larger increases in the energy dissipation rate and higher magnitude velocity power spectrum peaks at the forcing frequency than undeveloped turbulent flow. Further tests with excitation of reduced mean velocity flow at a Reynolds number of 6,600 and a Strouhal number of 27.8 demonstrated that high frequency forcing resulted in transfer of energy from large to small scales in the turbulent kinetic energy spectrum. This phenomenon appeared to support past literature that indicated that the mechanics of high frequency forcing are fundamentally different from conventional instability-based forcing.

	Theoretical arguments are presented to support these experimental observations where it is shown that coupling between the applied forcing and background turbulent fluctuations is enhanced.  An eddy viscosity model first proposed under the assumption of instability-based forcing was shown to be an effective approximation for the experimental measurements presented here in which the flow was forced directly at turbulence scales. Dimensional analysis of the coupling between the induced oscillations and the turbulent fluctuations supported experimental findings that receptivity to excitation was increased for forced flow with higher turbulent kinetic energy, higher excitation amplitude, and lower energy dissipation rate. This study is the first to present such results which validate a model that offers theoretical insight into flow control mechanics when directly forcing small scale turbulent fluctuations.
Impacts of highly pathogenic avian influenza on seabird populations in the North Sea are detectable in sea-watchers’ migration counts
Creators: name: Macgregor, Callum J.
name: Gillings, Simon
name: Balmer, Dawn E.
name: Boersch-Supan, Philipp H.
name: Harris, Sarah J.
name: Hereward, Hannah F.R.
name: Humphreys, Elizabeth M.
name: Pearce-Higgins, James W.
name: Taylor, Rachel C.
name: Troost, Gerard
name: Atkinson, Philip W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Sea-watching counts provided evidence of declines in abundance of four seabird species during autumn migration, which were consistent with the timing of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks at colonies and associated large-scale mortality events. To test whether the abundance of 24 species of UK-breeding seabirds during autumn migration changed since the beginning of the current HPAI epizootic. Using semi-structured sea-watch data submitted to Trektellen, we used a generalized linear mixed-effects modelling approach to test for differences in migration counts before and after the onset of HPAI mortality in each species. We found evidence for changes in migration counts of four species with known HPAI mortality: Great Skua Stercorarius skua, Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis, Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus and Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii. Ten other species with known HPAI mortality showed no difference in migration counts. Of another ten species with no known HPAI in the UK, we found evidence of declines coincidental with the timing of HPAI in two: Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo and Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis. Sea-watch data can contribute to monitoring the ongoing impacts of HPAI on seabirds. Further investigation and vigilance for future infection is key, particularly as we demonstrated declines in species that had been thought to be unaffected.
Figure_S1_-_CONSORT_v1.4 – Supplemental material for Standardized algorithm for muscle selection and dosing of botulinum toxin for Parkinson tremor using kinematic analysis
Creators: name: Samotus, Olivia
name: Lee, Jack
name: Mandar Jog
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Figure_S1_-_CONSORT_v1.4 for Standardized algorithm for muscle selection and dosing of botulinum toxin for Parkinson tremor using kinematic analysis by Olivia Samotus, Jack Lee and Mandar Jog in Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
An improved correction of radial-velocity systematic for the SOPHIE spectrograph
Creators: name: Grouffal, S.
name: Santerne, A.
name: Hara, N. C.
name: Boisse, I.
name: Coez, S.
name: Heidari, N.
name: Sulis, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High precision spectrographs might exhibit temporal variations of their reference velocity or nightly zero point (NZP). One way to monitor the NZP is to measure bright stars, which are assumed to have an intrinsic radial velocity variation much smaller than the instrument's precision. While this method is effective in most cases, it does not fully propagate the uncertainty arising from NZP variations. We present a new method to correct for NZP variations in radial-velocity time series. This method uses Gaussian Processes based on ancillary information to model these systematic effects. It enables us to propagate the uncertainties of this correction into the overall error budget. Another advantage of this approach is that it relies on ancillary data collected simultaneously with the spectra rather than solely on dedicated observations of constant stars. We applied this method to the SOPHIE spectrograph at the Haute-Provence Observatory using a few instrument's housekeeping data, such as the internal pressure and temperature variations. Our results demonstrate that this method effectively models the red noise of constant stars, even with a limited amount of housekeeping data, while preserving the signals of exoplanets. Using both simulations with mock planets and real data, we found that this method improves the false-alarm probability of detections by several orders of magnitude. By simulating numerous planetary signals, we were able to detect up to 10 percent more planets with small amplitude radial velocity signals. We used this new correction to reanalysed the planetary system around HD158259 and improved the detection of the outermost planets. We also suggest decreasing the observing cadence of the constant stars to optimise telescope time for scientific targets.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 1 of Increasing the psychosocial focus in child developmental assessments: a qualitative study
Creators: name: de Voss, Sarah
name: Wilson, Philip
name: Saxild, Sofie
name: Overbeck, Gritt
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1.
Archives of Photographic PLates for Astronomical USE (APPLAUSE) Digitisation of astronomical plates and their integration into the International Virtual Observatory
Creators: name: Enke, Harry
name: Tuvikene, Taavi
name: Groote, Detlef
name: Edelmann, Heinz
name: Heber, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Archives of Photographic PLates for Astronomical USE (APPLAUSE) project is aimed at digitising astronomical photographic plates from three major German plate collections, making them accessible through integration into the International Virtual Observatory (IVO). Photographic plates and related materials (logbooks, envelopes, etc.) were scanned with commercial flatbed scanners. Astrometric and photometric calibrations were carried out with the developed PyPlate software, using Gaia EDR3 data as a reference. The APPLAUSE data publication complies with IVO standards. The latest data release contains images and metadata from 27 plate collections from the partner institutes in Hamburg, Bamberg, and Potsdam, along with digitised archives provided by Tautenburg, Tartu, and Vatican observatories. Altogether, over two billion calibrated measurements extracted from about 70,000 direct photographic plates can readily be used to create long-term light curves. For instance, we constructed the historic light curve of the enigmatic dipping star KIC 8462852. We found no evidence of previously assumed variations on timescales of decades in our light curve. Potential uses of APPLAUSE images for transient sources can be appreciated by following the development of the nova shell of GK Per (1901) over time and the change in brightness of two extragalactic supernovae. The database holds about 10,000 spectral plates. We made use of objective prism plates to follow the temporal changes of Nova DN Gem through 1912 and 1913, highlighting an outburst in early 1913.
description: 19 pages,2 Tables, 19 figures, A&A accepted
Figure_S4_LOE_Criteria_for_CDTEI_2020_NTACT-2 – Supplemental material for Updating the Secondary Transition Research Base: Evidence- and Research-Based Practices in Functional Skills
Creators: name: Rowe, Dawn A.
name: Mazzotti, Valerie L.
name: Fowler, Catherine H.
name: Test, David W.
name: Mitchell, Vickie J.
name: Clark, Kelly A.
name: Holzberg, Debra
name: Owens, Tosha L.
name: Rusher, Dana
name: Seaman-Tullis, Rachel L.
name: Gushanas, Christina M.
name: Castle, Hannah
name: Wen-Hsuan Chang
name: Voggt, Ashley
name: Kwiatek, Stephen
name: Catie Dean
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, Figure_S4_LOE_Criteria_for_CDTEI_2020_NTACT-2 for Updating the Secondary Transition Research Base: Evidence- and Research-Based Practices in Functional Skills by Dawn A. Rowe, Valerie L. Mazzotti, Catherine H. Fowler, David W. Test, Vickie J. Mitchell, Kelly A. Clark, Debra Holzberg, Tosha L. Owens, Dana Rusher, Rachel L. Seaman-Tullis, Christina M. Gushanas, Hannah Castle, Wen-Hsuan Chang, Ashley Voggt, Stephen Kwiatek and Catie Dean in Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals
Visual Notes from the MIT Industrial Liaison Program, 2023
Creators: name: Cooked Illustrations Ltd.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: mit
subject: artificial intelligence
subject: future of work
subject: methane
subject: electric vehicles
subject: industrial strategy
subject: visual notes
subject: science communication
subject: Nuclear fission

description: Visual notes from the MIT Industrial Liaison Program Conference 2023

“The parade of excellence on display is astounding. Every single one of the students we see at MIT would be an anomaly in other universities.” - Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT

This is a visual summary of some of the many, many talks witnessed during the Nov. 2023 ILP Conference in Boston, USA.

Included in this, are articles based on the conversations and conference talks delivered convering subjects such as:

expertise in the workplace

artifical intelligence

methane extraction

how to electrify existing cars

new flying vehicles

nuclear fission power

And much more.

Develeoped by Cooked Illustrations Ltd.

Find us socially: https://linktr.ee/cookedillustrations

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Additional file 1 of Iron supplementation and deworming during pregnancy reduces the risk of anemia and stunting in infants less than 2 years of age: a study from Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Traore, Stanislav Seydou
name: Bo, Yacong
name: Kou, Guangning
name: Lyu, Quanjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the number of participants (mother and infant pairs) included in the study.
Seabird and sea duck mortalities were lower during the second breeding season in eastern Canada following the introduction of highly pathogenic avian influenza A H5Nx viruses
Creators: name: Cormier, Tabatha L.
name: Barychka, Tatsiana
name: Beaumont, Matthieu
name: Burt, Tori V.
name: English, Matthew D.
name: Giacinti, Jolene A.
name: Giroux, Jean-François
name: Guillemette, Magella
name: Hargan, Kathryn E.
name: Jones, Megan
name: Lair, Stéphane
name: Lang, Andrew S.
name: Lepage, Christine
name: Montevecchi, William A.
name: Rahman, Ishraq
name: Rail, Jean-François
name: Robertson, Gregory J.
name: Ronconi, Robert A.
name: Seyer, Yannick
name: Taylor, Liam U.
name: Ward, Christopher R. E.
name: Wight, Jordan
name: Wilhelm, Sabina I.
name: Avery-Gomm, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b viruses have caused significant mortality events in various wild bird species across Europe, North America, South America, and Africa. In North America, the largest impacts on wild birds have been in eastern Canada, where at least 40,391 wild birds were reported to have died from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) between April and September 2022. To apply previously established methods to collect and quantify the total reported wild bird mortality in eastern Canada from October 2022 to September 2023. We documented the spatial, temporal, and taxonomic patterns of wild bird mortality in the 12 months that followed a mass mortality event in the summer of 2022, and then quantified the observed differences in mortality across the spring and summer (April to September) of 2022 and 2023. In eastern Canada, there was high uncertainty about whether 2023 would bring another year of devastating HPAI-linked mortalities. Mortalities in the spring and summer of 2023 were 93% lower than in 2022, but encompassed a wider diversity of species. Mortalities in the fall/autumn and winter (non-breeding season) were dominated by waterfowl, while mortalities during the spring and summer (breeding season) were dominated by seabirds. Due to a low prevalence of HPAI among a subset of tested birds, we cannot broadly attribute the reported mortalities in 2023 to HPAI. However, our analysis did identify three notable mortality events linked to HPAI, involving at least 1646 Greater Snow Geese Anser caerulescens atlanticus, 232 Canada Geese Branta canadensis, and 212 Northern Gannets Morus bassanus. The latter reflected the continuation of a mortality event from the Northern Gannet’s 2022 breeding season. This study emphasizes the ongoing need for H5Nx surveillance and mortality assessments as the patterns of mortality in wild populations continue to change.
title: A model of porcine polymicrobial septic shock
Creators: name: Zurek-Leffers, Finnja Marie
name: Lehmann, Florian Michael
name: Brabenec, Laura
name: Kintrup, Sebastian
name: Hellenthal, Katharina Emily Marie
name: Mersjann, Kira
name: Kneifel, Felicia
name: Heßler, Michael
name: Arnemann, Philip-Helge
name: Kampmeier, Tim-Gerald
name: Ertmer, Christian
name: Kellner, Patrick
name: Wagner, Nana-Maria
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Background: Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Mortality of patients with sepsis is high and largely unchanged throughout the past decades. Animal models have been widely used for the study of sepsis and septic shock, but translation into effective treatment regimes in the clinic have mostly failed. Pigs are considered as suitable research models for human diseases due to their high comparability and similarity to human anatomy, genetics, and the immune system. We here evaluated the previously reported models of septic shock in pigs and established a novel model of polymicrobial sepsis that meets the clinical criteria of septic shock in pigs.
Materials and methods: The literature search was performed using the keywords “pig”, “sepsis” and “septic shock”. For the establishment of septic shock in n = 10 German landrace pigs, mechanical ventilation was initiated, central venous and arterial lines and invasive hemodynamic monitoring via pulse contour cardiac output measurement (PiCCO) established. Peritoneal polymicrobial faecal sepsis was induced by application of 3 g/kg body weight faeces into the abdominal cavity. Septic shock was defined according to the third international consensus definitions (Sepsis-3). Upon shock, pigs underwent the 1-h bundle for the treatment of human sepsis. Cytokine levels were measured by ELISA.
Results: Published porcine sepsis models exhibited high methodological variability and did not meet the clinical criteria of septic shock. In our model, septic shock developed after an average of 4.8 ± 0.29 h and was associated with a reproducible drop in blood pressure (mean arterial pressure 54 ± 1 mmHg) and significant hyperlactatemia (3.76 ± 0.65 mmol/L). Septic shock was associated with elevated levels of interleukin-6 (IL6) and initial cardiac depression followed by a hyperdynamic phase with significant loss of systemic vascular resistance index after initial resuscitation. In addition, organ dysfunction (acute kidney injury) occurred. Conclusions: We here established a model of septic shock in pigs that meets the clinical criteria of septic shock utilized in human patients. Our model may thus serve as a reference for clinically relevant sepsis research in pigs.
description: Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley, Springer oder Elsevier 2019–2023.
Forming off-center massive black hole binaries in dwarf galaxies through Jacobi capture
Creators: name: François, Thibaut L.
name: Boily, Christian M.
name: Freundlich, Jonathan
name: Rozier, Simon
name: Voggel, Karina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well established that black holes reside in the central regions of virtually all types of known galaxies. Recent observational and numerical studies however challenge this picture, suggesting that intermediate-mass black holes in dwarf galaxies may be found on orbits far from the center. In particular, constant-density cores minimize orbital energy losses due to dynamical friction, and allow black holes to settle on stable off-center orbits. Using controlled simulations, we study the dynamics of off-center black holes in dwarf galaxies with such cores. We propose a new scenario to describe off-center mergers of massive black holes, starting with a Jacobi capture. We focus on initially circular and co-planar black hole orbits and explore a large parameter space of black hole masses and orbital parameters. We find that Jacobi captures are a complex and chaotic phenomenon that occurs in about 13% of cases in this simplified setup, and we quantify how the likelihood of capture depends on the simulation parameters. We note that this percentage is likely an upper limit of the general case. Nevertheless, we show that Jacobi captures in cored dwarf galaxies can facilitate the formation of off-center black hole binaries, and that this process is sufficiently common to have a substantial effect on black hole growth. While our setup only allows for temporary captures, we expect dissipative forces from baryons and post-Newtonian corrections to maintain the captures over time and to lead to the formation of stable binary systems. This motivates future studies of the effectiveness of such dissipative forces, within stripped nuclei or globular clusters, in forming stable bound systems.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 1 of ER stress induced immunopathology involving complement in CADASIL: implications for therapeutics
Creators: name: Panahi, Mahmod
name: Hase, Yoshiki
name: Gallart-Palau, Xavier
name: Mitra, Sumonto
name: Watanabe, Atsushi
name: Low, Roger C
name: Yamamoto, Yumi
name: Sepulveda-Falla, Diego
name: Hainsworth, Atticus H
name: Ihara, Masafumi
name: Sze, Siu Kwan
name: Viitanen, Matti
name: Behbahani, Homira
name: Kalaria, Raj N
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022
Creators: name: Tremlett, Constance J.
name: Cleasby, Ian R.
name: Bolton, Mark
name: Wilson, Linda J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: UK breeding populations of Great Skua Stercorarius skua, Northern Gannet Morus bassanus, Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis and Common Tern Sterna hirundo decreased substantially between the most recent national seabird census (2015–2021 Seabirds Count, hereafter SC) and 2023. The outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 is the likely primary driver of these declines. To produce UK and regional estimates of breeding population change for seabird species of conservation concern since SC, following the 2021–2022 HPAI outbreak, and to determine the extent of colony-level declines during the outbreak in relation to background population trends. Colony counts from 2023 for 12 seabird species were obtained from the Seabird Monitoring Programme, while pre-HPAI counts were collated from SC. We modelled 2023 counts using generalized additive models to predict counts for 2023 at sites that were not surveyed. We collated time-series of counts at individual colonies, which were modelled using a Bayesian state-space model for population counts to produce estimates of population size and growth rate, and probability of decline, for the periods 2015–2021 and 2021–2023. Populations of Great Skua, Northern Gannet, Sandwich Tern and Common Tern decreased between SC and 2023, while Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii numbers showed no change. Great Skua suffered the worst UK decline, decreasing by 73% to an estimated 2,909 apparently occupied territories in 2023. For all remaining species, estimates of 2023 UK breeding populations were highly uncertain, with heterogeneous colony-level population trends during 2015–2021 and 2021–2023, making it difficult to determine the impact of HPAI. Breeding numbers of multiple seabird species of conservation concern suffered large declines following the 2021–2022 HPAI outbreak. Many UK seabird species then suffered further major losses in 2023. Ongoing monitoring effort is imperative to understand if and how these species recover.
Increasing the Shelf Life of Cow Milk in India: Techniques, Innovations, and Practical Insights
Creators: name: Dr Ajay Sharma
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: India is the world’s largest producer of milk, and cow milk plays a vital role in Indian diets. Despite the significance of cow milk in India, it has a limited shelf life, often leading to high wastage and economic loss, especially in rural areas with limited refrigeration. Extending the shelf life of cow milk can reduce waste, improve income for dairy farmers, and ensure high-quality milk supply for consumers. This article explores practical, low-cost, and innovative methods for enhancing the shelf life of cow milk, considering India’s unique climate and infrastructure challenges.
Supplemental_Table_1-4 – Supplemental material for Different risk factors are associated with vascular access patency after construction and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in patients starting hemodialysis
Creators: name: Mahoko Yoshida
name: Doi, Shigehiro
name: Nakashima, Ayumu
name: Kyuden, Yasufumi
name: Kawai, Toru
name: Kawaoka, Koichiro
name: Takahashi, Shunsuke
name: Ueno, Toshinori
name: Nishizawa, Yoshiko
name: Masaki, Takao
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Table_1-4 for Different risk factors are associated with vascular access patency after construction and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in patients starting hemodialysis by Mahoko Yoshida, Shigehiro Doi, Ayumu Nakashima, Yasufumi Kyuden, Toru Kawai, Koichiro Kawaoka, Shunsuke Takahashi, Toshinori Ueno, Yoshiko Nishizawa and Takao Masaki in The Journal of Vascular Access
Extinction and AGN over host galaxy contrast effects on the optical spectroscopic classification of AGN
Creators: name: Barquín-González, L.
name: Mateos, S.
name: Carrera, F. J.
name: Ordovás-Pascual, I.
name: Alonso-Herrero, A.
name: Caccianiga, A.
name: Cardiel, N.
name: Corral, A.
name: Domínguez, R. M.
name: García-Bernete, I.
name: Mountrichas, G.
name: Severgnini, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical spectroscopic classification of active galactic nuclei (AGN) into type 1 and type 2 can be understood in the frame of the AGN unification models. However, it remains unclear which physical properties are driving the classification into intermediate sub-types (1.0,1.2,1.5,1.8,1.9). To shed light on this issue, we present an analysis of the effect of extinction and AGN and host galaxy luminosities on sub-type determination for a sample of 159 X-ray selected AGN with a complete and robust optical spectroscopic classification. The sample spans a rest-frame 2 - 10 keV X-ray luminosity range of $10^{42}-10^{46}$ erg s$^{-1}$ and redshifts between 0.05 and 0.75. From the fitting of their UV-to-mid-infrared spectral energy distributions, we extracted the observed AGN over total AGN+galaxy contrast, optical/UV line-of-sight extinction as well as host galaxy and AGN luminosities. The observed contrast exhibits a clear decline with sub-type, distinguishing two main groups: 1.0-5 and 1.8-9/2. This difference is partly driven by an increase in extinction following the same trend. Nevertheless, 50% of 1.9s and 2s lack sufficient extinction to explain the lack of detection of broad emission lines, unveiling the necessity of an additional effect. Our findings show that 1.8-9/2s preferentially live in host galaxies with higher luminosities while displaying similar intrinsic AGN luminosities to 1.0-5s. Consequently, the AGN to host galaxy luminosity ratio diminishes, hindering the detection of the emission of the broad emission lines, resulting in the 1.8-9/2 classification of those with insufficient extinction. Thus, the combination of increasing extinction and decreasing AGN/galaxy luminosity ratio, mainly driven by an increasing host galaxy luminosity, constitutes the main reasons behind the sub-type classification into 1.0-5 and 1.8-9/2.
description: Accepted to Astronomy & Astrophysics. 15 pages, 21 figures
sj-pdf-1-tps-10.1177_1363461520953342 - Supplemental material for To raise a child with autism spectrum disorder: A qualitative, comparative study of parental experiences in the United States and Senegal
Creators: name: Cardon, Adair
name: Marshall, Tara
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-tps-10.1177_1363461520953342 for To raise a child with autism spectrum disorder: A qualitative, comparative study of parental experiences in the United States and Senegal by Adair Cardon and Tara Marshall in Transcultural Psychiatry
Quantum Cloud Computing: Trends and Challenges
Creators: name: Golec, Muhammed
name: Hatay, Emir Sahin
name: Golec, Mustafa
name: Uyar, Murat
name: Golec, Merve
name: Gill, Sukhpal Singh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum computing (QC) is a new paradigm that will revolutionize various areas of computing, especially cloud computing. QC, still in its infancy, is a costly technology capable of operating in highly isolated environments due to its rapid response to environmental factors. For this reason, it is still a challenging technology for researchers to reach. Integrating QC into an isolated remote server, like a cloud, and making it available to users can overcome these problems. Furthermore, experts predict that QC, with its ability to swiftly resolve complex and computationally intensive operations, will offer significant benefits in systems that process large amounts of data, like cloud computing. This article presents the vision and challenges for the quantum cloud computing (QCC) paradigm that will emerge with the integration of quantum and cloud computing. Next, we present the advantages of QC over classical computing applications. We analyze the effects of QC on cloud systems, such as cost, security, and scalability. Besides all of these advantages, we highlight research gaps in QCC, such as qubit stability and efficient resource allocation. This article identifies QCC's advantages and challenges for future research, highlighting research gaps.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
OCCASO V. Chemical-abundance trends with Galactocentric distance and age
Creators: name: Carbajo-Hijarrubia, J.
name: Casamiquela, L.
name: Carrera, R.
name: Balaguer-Núñez, L.
name: Jordi, C.
name: Anders, F.
name: Gallart, C.
name: Pancino, E.
name: Drazdauskas, A.
name: Stonkute, E.
name: Tautvaišiene, G.
name: Carrasco, J. M.
name: Masana, E.
name: Cantat-Gaudin, T.
name: Blanco-Cuaresma, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Open clusters provide valuable information on stellar nucleosynthesis and the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc, as their age and distances can be measured more precisely with photometry than for field stars. Aims. Our aim is to study the chemical distribution of the Galactic disc using open clusters by analysing the existence of gradients with Galactocentric distance, azimuth or height from the plane and dependency with age. Methods. High-resolution spectra (R>60 000) of 194 stars belonging to 36 open clusters are used to determine atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances with two independent methods: equivalent widths and spectral synthesis. The sample has been complemented with 63 clusters with high-resolution spectroscopy from literature. Results. We measure local thermodynamic equilibrium abundances for 21 elements: α (Mg, Si, Ca, and Ti), odd-Z (Na and Al), Fe-peak (Fe, Sc, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn), and neutron-capture (Sr, Y, Zr, Ba, Ce, and Nd). We also provide non-local thermodynamic equilibrium abundances for elements when corrections are available. We find inner disc young clusters enhanced in [Mg/Fe] and [Si/Fe] compared to other clusters of their age. For [Ba/Fe] we report an age trend flattening for older clusters (age<2.5 Ga). The studied elements follow the expected radial gradients as a function of their nucleosynthesis groups, which are significantly steeper for the oldest systems. For the first time, we investigate the existence of an azimuthal gradient, finding some hints of its existence among the old clusters (age>2 Ga).
How Can I Improve? Using GPT to Highlight the Desired and Undesired Parts of Open-ended Responses
Creators: name: Lin, Jionghao
name: Chen, Eason
name: Han, Zeifei
name: Gurung, Ashish
name: Thomas, Danielle R.
name: Tan, Wei
name: Nguyen, Ngoc Dang
name: Koedinger, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated explanatory feedback systems play a crucial role in facilitating learning for a large cohort of learners by offering feedback that incorporates explanations, significantly enhancing the learning process. However, delivering such explanatory feedback in real-time poses challenges, particularly when high classification accuracy for domain-specific, nuanced responses is essential. Our study leverages the capabilities of large language models, specifically Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPT), to explore a sequence labeling approach focused on identifying components of desired and less desired praise for providing explanatory feedback within a tutor training dataset. Our aim is to equip tutors with actionable, explanatory feedback during online training lessons. To investigate the potential of GPT models for providing the explanatory feedback, we employed two commonly-used approaches: prompting and fine-tuning. To quantify the quality of highlighted praise components identified by GPT models, we introduced a Modified Intersection over Union (M-IoU) score. Our findings demonstrate that: (1) the M-IoU score effectively correlates with human judgment in evaluating sequence quality; (2) using two-shot prompting on GPT-3.5 resulted in decent performance in recognizing effort-based (M-IoU of 0.46) and outcome-based praise (M-IoU of 0.68); and (3) our optimally fine-tuned GPT-3.5 model achieved M-IoU scores of 0.64 for effort-based praise and 0.84 for outcome-based praise, aligning with the satisfaction levels evaluated by human coders. Our results show promise for using GPT models to provide feedback that focuses on specific elements in their open-ended responses that are desirable or could use improvement.
description: 11 pages, full research paper, EDM 2024
Sim-Grasp: Learning 6-DOF Grasp Policies for Cluttered Environments Using a Synthetic Benchmark
Creators: name: Li, Juncheng
name: Cappelleri, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present Sim-Grasp, a robust 6-DOF two-finger grasping system that integrates advanced language models for enhanced object manipulation in cluttered environments. We introduce the Sim-Grasp-Dataset, which includes 1,550 objects across 500 scenarios with 7.9 million annotated labels, and develop Sim-GraspNet to generate grasp poses from point clouds. The Sim-Grasp-Polices achieve grasping success rates of 97.14% for single objects and 87.43% and 83.33% for mixed clutter scenarios of Levels 1-2 and Levels 3-4 objects, respectively. By incorporating language models for target identification through text and box prompts, Sim-Grasp enables both object-agnostic and target picking, pushing the boundaries of intelligent robotic systems.
Additional file 1 of The identification, characterization, and management of Rotylenchulus reniformis on Cucumis melo in China
Creators: name: Shi, Qianqian
name: Cai, Xinyue
name: Zhang, Ziqi
name: Song, Wenwen
name: Liang, Chen
name: Duan, Fangmeng
name: Zhao, Honghai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The symptoms of R. reniformis infected C. melo in the greenhouse of Jimo (Qingdao, China). Irregular stunted C. melo plants were detected in the sampling greenhouse. Figure S2. Evidence of the infection of R. reniformis in C. melo roots. Roots of C. melo plants were stained using acid fuchsin and observed under a stereoscope. Images were taken at a 4, b 7, c 10, and d 15 days post-inoculation (dpi). Scale bars = 50 μm. Figure S3. Analysis of alpha diversity and beta diversity of microbiota in the rhizosphere soil of C. melo.
A Method for Measurement of Spatially Resolved Radiation Intensity and Radiative Fraction of Laminar Flames of Gaseous and Solid Fuels
Creators: name: Hamel, Catherine Marie
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering
subject: Laminar diffusion flame
subject: Optical methods
subject: Polymer
subject: Radiation
subject: Radiation intensity
subject: Radiative fraction

description: This work introduces a new method for determination of the radiation intensity and radiative fraction for axisymmetric laminar diffusion flames for both solid and gaseous fuels by using a modified DSL-R camera employed to collect monochromatic (900 nm) images and a Schmidt-Boelter heat flux gauge. The high spatial resolution provided by the images of the camera allows for a multi-emitter treatment of the 2-6 cm flames. The flame’s radius and intensity are extracted from the images and presented as two curves that are functions of the flame-axis position. Each point on the flame sheet is discretized at pixel-level resolution and treated as a differential emitting surface. Radiation transport equations are formulated and solved numerically to compute a function that relates the camera’s readings to the total radiation heat flux detected by the gauge. The calculation yields spatially resolved radiation intensity information. Integration of this intensity over the flame surface divided by the total heat release rate yields the global radiative fraction. In this work, polyethylene (solid fuel) is studied and three gaseous fuels (methane, propane and acetylene) are studied to validate the methodology
Fabrics for Dirty Jobs
Creators: Davies, Nicola
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2020

Emergency room workers, sanitation workers, road construction crews, and plumbers—all these “dirty” jobs now have improved protective clothing to keep workers safe from hazards such as blood, oil, gas, and petrochemicals, among others. The fabrics used for protective clothing and personal protective equipment (PPE) have evolved and become more efficient over time. The technological boom that began in the nineties helped

expand the range of protective textiles available, and this expansion continues today.
Supplement_4 – Supplemental material for The Effect of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation on Poststroke Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Lieshout, Eline C. C. Van
name: Hooijdonk, Roel F. Van
name: Dijkhuizen, Rick M.
name: J. M. Anne Visser-Meily
name: Nijboer, Tanja C. W.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, Supplement_4 for The Effect of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation on Poststroke Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review by Eline C. C. van Lieshout, Roel F. van Hooijdonk, Rick M. Dijkhuizen, J. M. Anne Visser-Meily and Tanja C. W. Nijboer in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
title: „Die Geschichte meiner Familie ist eng und auf meist leidvolle Weise mit der Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus verbunden.“
title: biografische Skizze des Sammlers Wolfgang Haney und seiner Familie
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hölzer, Wiebke
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::900 Geschichte::900 Geschichte und Geografie
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: Wolfgang Haney
subject: Privatsammlungen
subject: visueller Antisemitismus
subject: Holocaust
subject: Verfolgungsgeschichte

description: Wolfgang Haney (1924‒2017) baute in fast 30 Jahren eine Privatsammlung mit rund 15.000 Objekten auf. Die Sammlungsschwerpunkte liegen vor allem auf der Geschichte des Antisemitismus in Deutschland und Europa, der Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung und des Holocausts, der Erinnerungskultur sowie dem Rechtsradikalismus nach 1945. Die Sammlung umfasst Objektgruppen von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart und ihre Heterogenität spiegelt auch Haneys breites Sammlungsinteressen wider. Das Bedürfnis, über Antisemitismus und Nationalsozialismus aufzuklären, verspürte Wolfgang Haney aufgrund seiner Familienbiografie: Wegen der jüdischen Herkunft seiner Mutter Erna wurde er früh als sogenannter Mischling 1. Grades ausgeschlossen. Dennoch konnte er eine Lehre und später ein Studium absolvieren. Erna Haney musste in der Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt in Berlin arbeiten und überlebte das Ende der NS-Zeit in einem Versteck. Wolfgang Haneys Vater Gottfried wurde als Musiker aus der Reichskulturkammer ausgeschlossen und war 1944 Zwangsarbeiter bei der Organisation Todt. Kurt und Friederike Friedlaender, Wolfgang Haneys Onkel und Tante, wurden in der Shoah ermordet.
description: In almost 30 years, Wolfgang Haney (1924-2017) built a private collection comprising approximately 15,000 objects. The collection’s focus lies primarily on the history of anti-Semitism in Germany and Europe, the history of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust, commemorative culture, as well as on right-wing radicalism after 1945. It incorporates groups of objects from the mid-19th century to the present. Its heterogeneity also reflects Haney's broad collecting interests. Wolfgang Haney felt the need to educate about anti-Semitism and National Socialism because of his family's biography: Due to his mother Erna’s Jewish origin he was early expelled as a “Mischling 1. Grades”. Nevertheless, he was able to complete an apprenticeship and later on academic studies. Erna Haney had to work in the "Blindenwerkstatt" Otto Weidt in Berlin and survived the end of the Nazi era in hiding. Wolfgang Haney's father Gottfried was expelled from the "Reichskulturkammer" as a musician and was a forced laborer for the "Organisation Todt" in 1944. Kurt and Friederike Friedlaender, Wolfgang Haney's uncle and aunt, were murdered in the Shoah.
THE PROATHEROGENIC ROLE OF THE TRPV4 CALCIUM-PERMEABLE CHANNEL IN MACROPHAGES
Creators: name: Merth, Michael
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nutrition
subject: Molecular biology
subject: Atherosclerosis
subject: Macrophage
subject: TRPV4

description: Atherosclerosis is a multi-faceted chronic disease and one of the leading causes of cardiovascular diseases which attribute to 28.2% of all-cause mortality worldwide. Central tenets of atherogenesis are macrophage passage and transformation to foam cells. It is known that numerous macrophage membrane proteins regulate this process by controlling properties such as migration and binding and uptake of oxidized lipids. The focus of this study is to identify mechanisms by which the transient receptor potential (TRP) channel of the vanilloid subfamily, TRPV4, a calcium-permeable channel, regulates proatherogenic macrophage functions. The findings show TRPV4 is expressed and functional in macrophages, TRPV4 modulates macrophage migratory characteristics, oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) uptake and

foam cell formation is reliant on TRPV4-elicited Ca2+ influx, and the physiological inflammatory stimulus of lipopolysaccharide can mediate TRPV4 function. These results identified previously unknown components to macrophage migration and foam cell development. Collectively, these discoveries associate the TRPV4 channel with atherogenesis by identifying new regulators for macrophage phagocytosis and migration that are essential to atherosclerosis development.
Secular Structure of 1:2 and 1:3 Resonances with Neptune
Creators: name: Li, Hailiang
name: Zhou, Li-Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 1:N mean motion resonances with Neptune are of particular interest because they have two asymmetric resonance islands, where the distribution of trapped objects may bear important clues to the history of the Solar System. To explore the dynamics of these resonances and to investigate whether the imprints left by the early stage evolution can be preserved in the resonances, we conduct a comprehensive analyses on the 1:2 and 1:3 resonances. Adopt mainly the frequency analysis method, we calculate the proper frequencies of the motion of objects in the resonances, with which the secular mechanisms that influence the dynamics are determined. Use the spectral number as an indicator of orbital regularity, we construct dynamical maps on representative planes. By comparing the structures in the maps with the locations of the secular mechanisms, we find that the von-Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai mechanism and the $g=2s$ mechanism destabilize the influenced orbits and portray the overall structure of the 1:2 and 1:3 resonances. The secular resonance $2g-s=s_8$ opens a channel for objects to switch between the leading and trailing resonance islands, which can alter the population ratio between these two islands. The secondary resonances associated with the quasi 2:1 resonance between Uranus and Neptune are also detected, and they introduce more chaos to the motion. The fine dynamical structures of the 1:2 and 1:3 resonances revealed in this paper, combined with knowledge of resonant capture, provide a compelling explanation for the eccentricity distribution of observed Twotinos. And we anticipate a more complete understanding of the history of planetary migration in the Solar System can be achieved by comparing the results in this paper with the populations in the 1:N resonances in future when further observations bring us more objects.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, accepted by A&A