cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ONT-derived virus genomes - map to reference consensus
Creators: name: Bartola, Michele Della
name: Byrne, Stephen
name: Mullins, Ewen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60704 Plant Pathology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 100101 Agricultural Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl. Biosensors)
subject: FOS: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Consensus sequences obtained from ONT reads by map to reference approach

Della Bartola M.; Byrne S.; Mullins E. Characterization of potato virus Y isolates and assessment of Nanopore sequencing to detect and genotype potato viruses. Viruses 2020
CONSTRUCTION, DECONSTRUCTION, REEMPLOI DE LA STRUCTURE : LE NUMERIQUE AU SERVICE DE L’ECONOMIE CIRCULAIRE
Creators: name: BERTIN, Ingrid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120302 Design Innovation
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 120403 Engineering Design Methods
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Que ce soit en tant que citoyen ou en tant que professionnel du bâtiment nous sommes de plus en plus concernés par notre impact environnemental. De plus, l’activité de la construction et du bâtiment est la principale émettrice de GES et consommatrice de matière . Le travail de recherche présenté répond aux problématiques d’économie circulaire . Le gros œuvre et les fondations représentent la majorité de l’énergie grise d’un bâtiment . L’effort de recherche est donc concentré sur les éléments structurels et l’établissement des conditions pour leur réemploi . Le réemploi est ici défini comme la réutilisation d’un élément sans transformation, contrairement au recyclage qui induit un nouveau cycle industriel de transformation de la matière. Il s’agit donc de réduire la consommation de matériaux et d’abaisser les émissions de GES (à la fois en termes industriels mais aussi en termes de mise en œuvre) La méthodologie décrite vise à concevoir les éléments de structure en augmentant les paramètres BIM (6D , ACV), à attacher les informations mécaniques, de durabilité du matériau, de vieillissement, à chaque objet du modèle numérique. Une traçabilité numérique et physique (puces RFID dans la matière) permet de suivre l’évolution de l’élément au cours des années et d’alimenter une base de données en parallèle. En fin de vie la base de données est accessible et consultable pour la conception d’un futur bâtiment. Un développement d’outils et de passerelles permettra alors, depuis un modèle de calcul, d’aller interroger la base de données pour trouver un élément issu de la déconstruction qu’on pourra réutiliser dans la future construction. L’enjeu de ce travail est bien de garantir que l’élément de la base de données possède bien toutes les caractéristiques pour répondre à sa nouvelle fonction structurelle.
A parallel-computing algorithm for high-energy physics particle tracking and decoding using GPU architectures
Creators: name: Declara, Placido Fernandez
name: Pérez, Daniel Hugo Cámpora
name: Garcia-Blas, Javier
name: Bruch, Dorothea vom
name: Garcia, J. Daniel
name: Neufeld, Niko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Real-time data processing is one of the central processes of particle physics experiments which require large computing resources. The LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment will be upgraded to cope with a particle bunch collision rate of 30 million times per second, producing $10^9$ particles/s. 40 Tbits/s need to be processed in real-time to make filtering decisions to store data. This poses a computing challenge that requires exploration of modern hardware and software solutions. We present Compass, a particle tracking algorithm and a parallel raw input decoding optimised for GPUs. It is designed for highly parallel architectures, data-oriented and optimised for fast and localised data access. Our algorithm is configurable, and we explore the trade-off in computing and physics performance of various configurations. A CPU implementation that delivers the same physics performance as our GPU implementation is presented. We discuss the achieved physics performance and validate it with Monte Carlo simulated data. We show a computing performance analysis comparing consumer and server grade GPUs, and a CPU. We show the feasibility of using a full GPU decoding and particle tracking algorithm for high-throughput particle trajectories reconstruction, where our algorithm improves the throughput up to 7.4$\times$ compared to the LHCb baseline.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures
Stratified fibrations and the intersection homology of the regular neighborhoods of bottom strata
Creators: name: Friedman, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55N33, 55R20 (Primary), 57N80, 55T10 (Secondary)

description: In this paper, we develop Leray-Serre-type spectral sequences to compute the intersection homology of the regular neighborhood and deleted regular neighborhood of the bottom stratum of a stratified PL-pseudomanifold. The E^2 terms of the spectral sequences are given by the homology of the bottom stratum with a local coefficient system whose stalks consist of the intersection homology modules of the link of this stratum (or the cone on this link). In the course of this program, we establish the properties of stratified fibrations over unfiltered base spaces and of their mapping cylinders. We also prove a folk theorem concerning the stratum-preserving homotopy invariance of intersection homology.
description: To appear in Topology and Its Applications; see also http://www.math.yale.edu/~friedman/
A model for the coupled eruption of a pseudostreamer and helmet streamer
Creators: name: Wyper, Peter F.
name: Antiochos, Spiro K.
name: DeVore, C. Richard
name: Lynch, Benjamin J.
name: Karpen, Judy T.
name: Kumar, Pankaj
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing Ltd
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
classificationCode: 5101
subject: Astronomical sciences

description: A highly important aspect of solar activity is the coupling between eruptions and the surrounding coronal magnetic field topology, which determines the trajectory and morphology of the event and can even lead to sympathetic eruptions from multiple sources. In this paper, we report on a numerical simulation of a new type of coupled eruption, in which a coronal jet initiated by a large pseudostreamer filament eruption triggers a streamer-blowout coronal mass ejection (CME) from the neighboring helmet streamer. Our configuration has a large opposite-polarity region positioned between the polar coronal hole and a small equatorial coronal hole, forming a pseudostreamer flanked by the coronal holes and the helmet streamer. Further out, the pseudostreamer stalk takes the shape of an extended arc in the heliosphere. We energize the system by applying photospheric shear along a section of the polarity inversion line within the pseudostreamer. The resulting sheared-arcade filament channel develops a flux rope that eventually erupts as a classic coronal-hole-type jet. However, the enhanced breakout reconnection above the channel as the jet is launched progresses into the neighboring helmet streamer, partially launching the jet along closed helmet streamer field lines and blowing out the streamer top to produce a classic bubble-like CME. This CME is strongly deflected from the jet's initial trajectory and contains a mixture of open and closed magnetic field lines. We present the detailed dynamics of this new type of coupled eruption, its underlying mechanisms, and the implications of this work for the interpretation of in situ and remote-sensing observations.
Origins of Slow Magnetic Relaxation in Single-Molecule Magnets
Creators: name: Gu, Lei
name: Wu, Ruqian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exponential and power law temperature dependences are widely used to fit experimental data of magnetic relaxation time in single molecular magnets. We derived a theory to show how these rules arise from the underling relaxation mechanisms and to clarify the conditions for their occurrence. The theory solves the puzzle of lower-than-expected Orbach barriers found in recent experiments, and elucidates it as a result of the Raman process in disguise. Our results highlight the importance of reducing the rate of direct tunneling between the ground state doublet so as to achieve long time coherence in magnetic molecules. To this end, large spin and small transverse magnetic anisotropy can reduce magnitude of the transition operator, and rigid ligands may weaken the spin-phonon coupling in that they raise the energy of vibrational modes and better screen the acoustic phonons.
description: Published version
Commodity Programs and the Internalization of Erosion Costs: Do They Affect Crop Rotation Decisions?
Creators: name: Poe, Gregory L.
name: Klemme, Richard M.
name: McComb, Shawn J.
name: Poe, Gregory L.
name: Klemme, Richard M.
name: McComb, Shawn J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management

description: Using stochastic dominance, this paper investigates the impact of commodity programs and internalization of erosion costs on crop rotation decisions. Commodity programs are found to shift decisions towards more erosive rotations. Internalization of erosion costs affect rotation decisions under historical market conditions but not under conditions of commodity program participation.
General Constraints on Spin Observables, Applications to Antiproton Proton to Antilambda Lambda and to Polarized Quark Distributions
Creators: name: ARTRU, Xavier
name: RICHARD, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the density matrix formalism and the positivity conditions for general multiple spin asymmetries, taking as an example the case antiproton + proton -> antiLambda + Lambda, in which one, two or three spins are analyzed. Some aspects related to quantum information and entangled states are discussed. Some positivity domains for pairs and triplets of spin parameters are displayed, together with the experimental points. The case of inclusive reaction is also treated, taking as an example the spin- and transverse momentum- dependent quark distributions.
description: Minor typos corrected, including normalization factors in Eqs. (2.1-2.2). 10 pages, latex, Invited talk by X. Artru at the Xth Advanced Research Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics (DUBNA-SPIN-03), Sept. 16-20, 2003, Dubna, to appear in the Proceedings
Direct detection of DNA and RNA on carbon fiber microelectrodes using fast-scan cyclic voltammetry
Creators: name: Asrat, Thomas Michael
name: Cho, Whirang
name: Liu, Favian A.
name: Shapiro, Sarah M.
name: Bracht, John
name: Zestos, Alexander
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: DNA and RNA have been measured with many techniques but often with relatively long analysis times. In this study, we utilize fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) for the subsecond codetection of adenine, guanine, and cytosine, first as free nucleosides, and then within custom synthesized oligos, plasmid DNA, and RNA from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Previous studies have shown the detection of adenosine and guanosine with FSCV with high spatiotemporal resolution, while we have extended the assay to include cytidine and adenine, guanine, and cytosine in RNA and single- and double-stranded DNA (ssDNA and dSDNA). We find that FSCV testing has a higher sensitivity and yields higher peak oxidative currents when detecting shorter oligonucleotides and ssDNA samples at equivalent nucleobase concentrations. This is consistent with an electrostatic repulsion from negatively charged oxide groups on the surface of the carbon fiber microelectrode (CFME), the negative holding potential, and the negatively charged phosphate backbone. Moreover, as opposed to dsDNA, ssDNA nucleobases are not hydrogen-bonded to one another and thus are free to adsorb onto the surface of the carbon electrode. We also demonstrate that the simultaneous determination of nucleobases is not masked even in biologically complex serum samples. This is the first report demonstrating that FSCV, when used with CFMEs, is able to codetect nucleobases when polymerized into DNA or RNA and could potentially pave the way for future uses in clinical, diagnostic, or research applications.
title: Jacques Leibowitch, "Gallo contre Nouchi/Montagnier"
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Gallo, Robert C. (1937-....)
subject: Montagnier, Luc (1932-....)

description: Texte sur la controverse entre Robert C. Gallo et Luc Montagnier pour la découverte du Sida. 2 versions.
description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111031798134
description: created: start=1975;end=2018
Bioconjugated oligonucleotides: recent developments and thera-eutic applications
Creators: name: Benizri, Sébastien
name: Gissot, Arnaud
name: Martin, Andrew
name: Vialet, Brune
name: Grinstaff, Mark
name: Barthélémy, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Oligonucleotide-based agents have the potential to treat or cure almost any disease, and are one of the key therapeutic drug classes of the future. Bioconjugated oligonucleotides, a subset of this class, are emerging from basic research and being successfully translated to the clinic. In this review, we first briefly describe two approaches for inhibiting specific genes using oligonucleotides -- antisense DNA (ASO) and RNA interference (RNAi) -- followed by a discussion on delivery to cells. We then summarize and analyze recent developments in bioconjugated oligonucleotides including those possessing GalNAc, cell penetrating peptides, $α$-tocopherol, aptamers, antibodies, cholesterol, squalene, fatty acids, or nucleolipids. These novel conjugates provide a means to enhance tissue targeting, cell internalization, endosomal escape, target binding specificity, resistance to nucleases, and more. We next describe those bioconjugated oligonucleotides approved for patient use or in clinical trials. Finally, we summarize the state of the field, describe current limitations, and discuss future prospects. Biocon-jugation chemistry is at the centerpiece of this therapeutic oligonucleotide revolution, and significant opportunities exist for development of new modification chemistries, for mechanistic studies at the chemical-biology interface, and for translating such agents to the clinic.
The boundary of universal discrete quantum groups, exactness and factoriality
Creators: name: Vaes, Stefaan
name: Vergnioux, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras associated with the universal discrete quantum groups. They give rise to full prime factors and simple exact C*-algebras. The main tool in our work is the study of an amenable boundary action, yielding the Akemann-Ostrand property. Finally, this boundary can be identified with the Martin or the Poisson boundary of a quantum random walk.
description: Correction in postal adress
Direct detection of DNA and RNA on carbon fiber microelectrodes using fast-scan cyclic voltammetry
Creators: name: Asrat, Thomas Michael
name: Cho, Whirang
name: Liu, Favian A.
name: Shapiro, Sarah M.
name: Bracht, John
name: Zestos, Alexander
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: DNA and RNA have been measured with many techniques but often with relatively long analysis times. In this study, we utilize fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) for the subsecond codetection of adenine, guanine, and cytosine, first as free nucleosides, and then within custom synthesized oligos, plasmid DNA, and RNA from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Previous studies have shown the detection of adenosine and guanosine with FSCV with high spatiotemporal resolution, while we have extended the assay to include cytidine and adenine, guanine, and cytosine in RNA and single- and double-stranded DNA (ssDNA and dSDNA). We find that FSCV testing has a higher sensitivity and yields higher peak oxidative currents when detecting shorter oligonucleotides and ssDNA samples at equivalent nucleobase concentrations. This is consistent with an electrostatic repulsion from negatively charged oxide groups on the surface of the carbon fiber microelectrode (CFME), the negative holding potential, and the negatively charged phosphate backbone. Moreover, as opposed to dsDNA, ssDNA nucleobases are not hydrogen-bonded to one another and thus are free to adsorb onto the surface of the carbon electrode. We also demonstrate that the simultaneous determination of nucleobases is not masked even in biologically complex serum samples. This is the first report demonstrating that FSCV, when used with CFMEs, is able to codetect nucleobases when polymerized into DNA or RNA and could potentially pave the way for future uses in clinical, diagnostic, or research applications.
Quantum bit detector
Creators: name: Klembovsky, M. P.
name: Gorodetsky, M. L.
name: Becker, Th.
name: Walther, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and analyze an experimental scheme of quantum nondemolition detection of monophotonic and vacuum states in a superconductive toroidal cavity by means of Rydberg atoms.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Antimicrobial resistance and livestock trade for low and middle income countries : regional analysis of global coordination policies
Creators: name: Avraam, Charalampos
name: Lambrou, Anastasia S.
name: Jiang, Wei
name: Siddiqui, Sauleh
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences

description: Antimicrobial resistance is a threat to global health, aggravated by the use of antimicrobials in livestock production. Mitigating the growing economic costs related to antimicrobial use in livestock production requires strong global coordination, and to that end policy makers can leverage global and national food animal trade policies, such as bans and user fees. Evaluation of such policies requires representing the interactions between competing producers in the global meat market, which is usually out of the scope of statistical models. For that, we developed a game-theoretic food system model of global livestock production and trade between 18 countries and aggregate world regions. The model comprises the largest producing and consuming countries, the explicit interconnections between countries, and the use of antimicrobials in food animal production. Our model allows us to provide policy insights beyond standard literature and assess the trade-off between trade, cost of a policy, and antimicrobials-induced productivity. We studied three scenarios: global increased user fees on antimicrobials, a global ban of meat imports from Brazil, and a decrease in China's meat consumption. We found that a user fee that increases the price of antimicrobials by 50% globally leads to a 33% reduction in global antimicrobial use. However, participation of developing and emerging countries in the coordination scheme is jeopardized, since they become less competitive for meat sales compared to developed countries. When meat imports from Brazil are banned globally, importers of Brazil's meat would turn primarily to the U.S. to supplement their demand. Lastly, meeting China's medium-term lower meat consumption target would not affect global antimicrobial use, but could increase China's antimicrobial use by 11%. We highlighted the importance of trade for the outcome of a policy and concluded that global cooperation is required to align the incentives of all countries toward tackling antimicrobial resistance.
title: Dionysus, Pan and Hermes: Greek Myth and Metaphysics in the Work of D.H. Lawrence
Creators: name: Bridgeman, Pamela Anne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1991

description: This study shows ancient Greek myth and pre-Socratic metaphysics to be deeply embedded in the symbolic language Lawrence used to express what he called the complete imaginative experience of life.

 The Introduction provides on overview of previous studies which have considered various aspects of Greek Influence on Lawrence. Subsequent chapters clarify and expand upon these previous studies by identifying, explicating, and tracing the development of the Greek Influences, as evident in allusions, metaphors and themes in selected novels and stories. Particular attention is paid to the interrelationship between the gods Dionysus, Pan and Hermes in Lawrence's work.

 In Chapter One, an examination of The White Peacock reveals, beneath the profusion of classical allusions, a more serious use of myth linked to a radical vitalism. In Chapters Two and Three, the discussion of the stories "England, My England", "Tickets, Please", "The Blind Man" and "The Ladybird" shows how Lawrence used and developed the traditional oppositions between Dionysus and Apollo, Pan and Christ to express the perpetual dual between darkness and light, mind and body, love and power. Chapter Four discusses Kangaroo and "The Border Line" and traces Lawrence's journey towards an image of Pan deeply influenced by the landscapes of Australia and America, Lawrence develops a fierce, dark, phallic, and ultimately non-human god to illustrate the rise of Hermetic power after the collapse of the love-ideal. Chapter Five looks at St. Mawr and The Plumed Serpent, tracing the spiritual journey from an England where men have lost the power of Pan, into the desert of a primitive, pre-classical New Mexican world, to a new classical age in a Mexico that is the Lawrentian equivalent of ancient Greece. Chapter Six finds the Importance of the ancient Greeks to Lawrence confirmed by his statements in Apocalypse.
THE STRUCTURE AND IMPORTANCE OF INFORMAL FINANCIAL GROUPS IN CAMEROON
Creators: name: Schrieder, Gertrud
name: Cuevas, Carlos E.
name: Schrieder, Gertrud
name: Cuevas, Carlos E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Financial Economics
Industrial Organization

description: Based on a 1988 survey, this paper shows that informal groups in Cameroon are capable of responding to widely different demands for financial services. The striking importance of these informal groups in Cameroon highlights the need to consider the likely effect on these groups of financial policy measures.
MEASURING CREDIT RATIONING IN RURAL FINANCIAL MARKETS: A PORTUGUESE CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Aguilera, Nelson A.
name: Graham, Douglas H.
name: Aguilera, Nelson A.
name: Graham, Douglas H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Financial Economics
International Development

description: This paper analyzes an appropriate methodology for studying discriminatory credit rationing in rural credit programs with fixed interest rates. The paper demonstrates that in order to analyze credit discrimination one should have a well-defined loan demand and supply model. The criteria by which loan applications are accepted or rejected should be explicitly incorporated into the analysis. The paper also de_monstrates that the estimation of the model should consider not only data on loans granted but also on loans rejected. Finally, the empirical analysis implemented in this study shows that this loan demand and supply model is quite adequate for analyzing the discriminatory polkie'> followed for a rural credit program in Portugal after the 1974 Revolution.
Mechanochemical enzymes and protein machines as hydrodynamic force dipoles: The active dimer model
Creators: name: Hosaka, Yuto
name: Komura, Shigeyuki
name: Mikhailov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mechanochemically active enzymes change their shapes within every turnover cycle. Therefore, they induce circulating flows in the solvent around them and behave as oscillating hydrodynamic force dipoles. Because of non-equilibrium fluctuating flows collectively generated by the enzymes, mixing in the solution and diffusion of passive particles within it are expected to get enhanced. Here, we investigate the intensity and statistical properties of such force dipoles in the minimal active dimer model of a mechanochemical enzyme. In the framework of this model, novel estimates for hydrodynamic collective effects in solution and in lipid bilayers under rapid rotational diffusion are derived, and available experimental and computational data is examined.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
title: Three-dimensional Assessment of Facial Asymmetry in Children with Operated Unicoronal Synostosis
Creators: name: Byrne, Emer
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: Objectives: The primary objective was to quantitatively describe soft tissue middle and lower third facial asymmetry and facial rotation in children with Unicoronal synostosis (UCS) who have undergone surgical correction with Fronto-orbital Advancement and Remodelling (FOAR) in infancy using three-dimensional stereophotogrammetric imaging. The secondary objective was to assess if a correlation exists between facial asymmetry and age of imaging or age of surgical intervention. Design/ Setting: A retrospective cross-sectional study undertaken at Alder Hey Craniofacial Unit, Liverpool. Subjects: Children with nonsyndromic UCS who underwent Fronto-orbital Advancement and Remodelling in infancy and had post-operative 3D imaging with the static 3dMD head system. Methods: Participants with nonsyndromic UCS and who underwent FOAR at Alder Hey Craniofacial Unit in infancy were identified. The quality of their static 3dMDhead images were assessed for inclusion in the study. Twenty two anthropometric landmarks were identified (eight mid-facial and seven paired bilateral landmarks) for each participant on the static 3dMDhead images. The landmarks were remarked on a random sample of 24 images to assess intra-rater and inter-rater reliability by two investigators. An asymmetry index (AI) was calculated for each landmark and linear and surface measurements between each of the paired bilateral landmarks and the landmark Nasion were measured. Deviation of the nasal tip and chin were also measured to assess the direction of facial rotation. Results: Thirty six participants were included for analysis. The mean age of FOAR was 1yr 5 months and the average age of 3D imaging was 5yrs 6months. Intra-class correlation coefficients showed excellent agreement (ICC 0.96-0.99) for all landmarks with the exception of Nasion in the x direction which had good agreement (intra-rater ICC 0.66 and inter-rater ICC 0.77). The asymmetry index showed that facial asymmetry was evident in the middle and lower face and increased as you move superiorly to inferiorly away from the cranium. The AI was lowest for the landmark Nasion (0.49mm) and highest for Cheilion (7.11mm). The amount of asymmetry was generally greater in the medio-lateral direction. Average deviation of the nasal tip and Pogonion to the unfused side was 4.4 ± 3.9 degrees and 3.5 ± 2.7 degrees respectively. Significant facial rotation of the middle and lower face towards the unfused side was evident (Chi-square analysis, p < 0.001). Age of imaging and age of surgical intervention did not correlate with facial asymmetry. Conclusions: The findings of this study demonstrate that children with UCS who undergo FOAR in infancy show consistent soft tissue facial asymmetry post-operatively. FOAR does not change the direction of facial growth with continuation of the UCS phenotype of facial rotation towards the unfused side.
Relativistic spectral features from X-ray illuminated spots and the measure of the black hole mass in AGN
Creators: name: Dovciak, M.
name: Bianchi, S.
name: Guainazzi, M.
name: Karas, V.
name: Matt, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Narrow spectral features in the 5--6 keV range were recently discovered in the X-ray spectra of a few active galactic nuclei. We discuss the possibility that these features are due to localized spots which occur on the surface of an accretion disc following its illumination by flares. We present detailed line profiles as a function of orbital phase of the spot and its radial distance from a central black hole. Comparison of these computed profiles with observed features can help to estimate parameters of the system. In principle this method can provide a powerful tool to measure the mass of super-massive black holes in active galactic nuclei. By comparing our simulations with the Chandra and XMM-Newton results, we show, however, that spectra from present generation X-ray satellites are not of good enough quality to fully exploit the method and determine the black hole mass with sufficient accuracy. This task has to be deferred to future missions with high throughput and high energy resolution, such as Constellation-X and Xeus.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Vortex-vacancy interactions in two-dimensional easy-plane magnets
Creators: name: Wysin, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a model with isotropic nearest neighbor exchange combined with easy-plane exchange or single-ion anisotropies, the static effects of a magnetic vacancy site on a nearby magnetic vortex are analyzed on square, hexagonal and triangular lattices. Numerical energy minimization and linear stability analysis using the vortex instability mode are employed. When the vortex is centered on a vacancy, the critical anisotropies where the stable vortex structure switches from out-of-plane to planar form are determined, and the vortex energies and magnetizations are found as functions of anisotropy. Consistent with square lattice calculations by Zaspel et al, the strength of anisotropy needed to stabilize a vortex in the planar form is reduced when the vortex is centered on a vacancy, for all three lattices studied. The vortex-on-vacancy energy is found to be smaller than the typical energy of a vortex centered between lattice sites in a system without vacancies. For a vortex separated from a vacancy, the energy found as a function of separation demonstrates an attractive potential between the two.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures
OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF RECENT STATE INITIATIVES IN PESTICIDE REGULATION FOR THE CONTROL OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION
Creators: name: Wise, Sherry
name: Wise, Sherry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Various states have been active in regulating pesticides to control groundwater contamination, An overview of recent state initiatives in pesticide , regulation is presented. Trends show increased use of regulations that reduce pesticide users' property rights. Tobit analyses show the influence of various economic, political, and physical factors on the legislation.
A Combination Theorem for Relatively Hyperbolic Groups
Creators: name: Alibegovic, Emina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65;57M07

description: In this paper we give new requirements that a tree of $δ$-hyperbolic spaces has to satisfy in order to be $δ$-hyperbolic itself. As an application, we give a simple proof that limit groups are relatively hyperbolic.
Molecular composition of comet 46P/Wirtanen from millimetre-wave spectroscopy
Creators: name: Biver, Nicolas
name: Bockelée-Morvan, Dominique
name: Boissier, Jérémie
name: Moreno, R.
name: Crovisier, Jacques
name: Lis, Darek
name: Colom, Pierre
name: Cordiner, Martin A.
name: Milam, Stefanie N.
name: Roth, Nathan X.
name: Bonev, Boncho
name: Dello Russo, Neil
name: Vervack, Jr., Ronald J.
name: DiSanti, Michael A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: We present the results of a molecular survey of comet 46P/Wirtanen undertaken with the IRAM 30-m and NOEMA radio telescopes in December 2018. Observations at IRAM 30-m during the 12–18 December period comprise a 2 mm spectral survey covering 25 GHz and a 1 mm survey covering 62 GHz. The gas outflow velocity and kinetic temperature have been accurately constrained by the observations. We derive abundances of 11 molecules, some being identified remotely for the first time in a Jupiter-family comet, including complex organic molecules such as formamide, ethylene glycol, acetaldehyde, or ethanol. Sensitive upper limits on the abundances of 24 other molecules are obtained. The comet is found to be relatively rich in methanol (3.4% relative to water), but relatively depleted in CO, CS, HNC, HNCO, and HCOOH.
CP odd weak basis invariants in minimal see-saw model and Leptogenesis
Creators: name: Singh, Madan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we derive the relationship between the weak basis invariants (WB) related to CP violation responsible for leptogenesis and CP violation relevant at low energy. We examine all the experimental viable cases of Frampton-Glashow and Yanagida (FGY) model, in order to construct the WB invariants in terms of left handed Majorana neutrino mass matrix elements, and thus finding the necessary and sufficient condition for CP conservation. Further for all the viable FGY texture zeros, we have shown the explicit dependence of WB invariants on Dirac type and Majorana type CP violating phases. In the end, we discuss the implication of such interrelationships on leptogenesis.
description: 16 pages, 1 Table
A new family of rational surfaces in P^4
Creators: name: Bothmer, Hans-Christian Graf v.
name: Erdenberger, Cord
name: Ludwig, Katharina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J26

description: We describe a new method of constructing rational surfaces with given invariants in P^4 and present a family of degree 11 rational surfaces of sectional genus 11 with 2 six-secants that we found with this method.
description: 10 pages, AMSLateX, 1 figure. Texfile contains additional Macaulay scripts (see also http://www-ifm.math.uni-hannover.de/~bothmer/surface)
Tree rubbing by Asian black bears (Ursus thibetanus) in conifer plantations in Okutama Mountain in Japan
Creators: name: Yoh Ogawa
name: Kahoko Tochigi
name: Naganuma, Tomoko
name: Bainah Sari Dewi
name: Koike, Shinsuke
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Tree rubbing by bears is a well-known behavior, but the behavior has not been investigated systematically in Asian black bears. We installed automatic cameras at trees in planted conifer forests to visually document rubbing behavior and to compare the findings with the results of earlier studies. All trees with bear hair attached had bark damaged from antler sharpening by deer and had secreted resin. Between 2011 and 2015, tree rubbing was observed at five of the 16 trees at which automatic cameras had been installed, with a total of 22 visits by multiple bears. Rubbing was observed from May to October. In the 22 visits, several bears with several attributes (adult male, another male, and mother with cub) visited the same trees to rub them. In our survey, the number of observational confirmations was limited, therefore in order to investigate the factors of Asian black bear's tree-rubbing behavior and determine whether it is the same as in other bears or not, it is desirable to collect further examples of rubbing behavior as well as genetic information of the rubbing individual.
Colletes daviesanus SMITH 1846
Creators: name: Kuhlmann, Michael
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Colletes
Colletes daviesanus

description: Colletes daviesanus SMITH 1846
 Material examined:
(1 ): Umnugovi Aimag: 1 , 65 km SE Nomgon (E105°91' N42°35'), 9.VIII.1967, IK (ZISP).
 Published records:
KUHLMANN & DORN 2002: 93; KUHLMANN 2005: 1373; 2009a: 24; PROSHCHALYKIN & KUHLMANN 2012: 15; PROSHCHALYKIN 2012: 449.
 Distribution in Mongolia:
Uvs Aimag, Zavkhan Aimag, Tuv Aimag, *Umnugovi Aimag (Fig. 3).
 General distribution:
Ireland, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, North-eastern China.
description: Published as part of Kuhlmann, Michael & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2013, The bees of the genus Colletes LATREILLE 1802 of Mongolia (Hymenoptera, Apoidea: Colletidae), pp. 255-269 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 63 (1) on page 260, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.63.2.255-269, http://zenodo.org/record/4753412
Bildersturm und Wiederverwendung am Beispiel der Iuppitersäulen in den germanischen Provinzen des Imperium Romanum
Creators: name: Noelke, Peter
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 87 2006: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
The quantum Neumann model: refined semiclassical results
Creators: name: Bellon, Marc
name: Talon, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the semiclassical study of the Neumann model down to the deep quantum regime. A detailed study of connection formulae at the turning points allows to get good matching with the exact results for the whole range of parameters.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures Minor edits
title: Jacques Leibowitch, "Supplique, en forme de recommandations, d'un sidéologue aux hommes politiques"
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: 2 exemplaires.
description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111031798110
The Impact of Risk on Pest Management Strategies
Creators: name: Regev, Uri
name: Regev, Uri
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The paper analyses the effects of pest related uncertainty on pest control tactics in the short run and the choice of pest management (PM) strategies in the long run. Under quite general formulation of a pest management problem, increasing uncertainty in the initial pest density will not necessarily lead to increased pest control application rate. It will do so, however, when the control is effective, initial pest density is low and future effects of the control are disregarded. When surviving pest population is uncertain, the conditions for a positive effect of increased uncertainty on the level of pesticide application is more likely than the former. When uncertainty is embedded in the kill function or the damage function, the resulting change in pesticides intensity may be in the opposite directions, depending on the effect of uncertainty on the first derivatives of the respective functions. This effect of uncertainty on pesticide use is shown to be determined by whether farmers perceive pesticides as risk reducing or risk enhancing inputs. Analysis oflong run pest management decision shows that pesticides are likely to be conceived by farmers as risk reducing, so that their use is increased with higher uncertainty. However, they may very well be risk increasing in the long run. Even if the risk averse farmer is aware of this seeming contradiction, he does not have economic incentives to change his decisions, since the long run risk increase is the result of the pest management policies undertaken by all the farmers, and his individual long run risk increasing effect is negligible.
Dimmi come scrivi e ti dirò chi sei: la cultura grafica dei mercanti della costa settentrionale del Portogallo (1560-1600)
Creators: name: OLIVEIRA E SILVA, Maria João
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2021

description: This paper focuses on the graphic culture of the merchants living in the towns and villages of the northern coast of Portugal in the second half of the 16th century. It aims to analyze their different levels of graphic competence, and also of their wives, based on their signatures. These signatures appear in several Livros de Notas of the first notarial registry of Vila do Conde (now in the district of Porto). The objective was to find out which merchants, and their wives, were capable of writing and at what level, which was their graphic model, where and in which social and economic context they lived. The analysis of these different aspects made it possible to know this group from the point of view of its cultural and intellectual power, in addition to the already studied social and economic power. Previous researches on cities such as Porto or Vila do Conde in the timeframe considered in this paper allows a better understanding of the different cultural and social dynamics concerning these men and women.
description: Scrineum Rivista, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2020)
Resolution enhancement and realistic speckle recovery with generative adversarial modeling of micro-optical coherence tomography
Creators: name: Liang, Kaicheng
name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Chen, Si
name: Xie, Jun
name: Lee, Wei Qing
name: Liu, Linbo
name: Lee, Hwee Kuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A resolution enhancement technique for optical coherence tomography (OCT), based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), was developed and investigated. GANs have been previously used for resolution enhancement of photography and optical microscopy images. We have adapted and improved this technique for OCT image generation. Conditional GANs (cGANs) were trained on a novel set of ultrahigh resolution spectral domain OCT volumes, termed micro-OCT, as the high-resolution ground truth (~1$μ$m isotropic resolution). The ground truth was paired with a low-resolution image obtained by synthetically degrading resolution 4x in one of (1-D) or both axial and lateral axes (2-D). Cross-sectional image (B-scan) volumes obtained from in vivo imaging of human labial (lip) tissue and mouse skin were used in separate feasibility experiments. Accuracy of resolution enhancement compared to ground truth was quantified with human perceptual accuracy tests performed by an OCT expert. The GAN loss in the optimization objective, noise injection in both the generator and discriminator models, and multi-scale discrimination were found to be important for achieving realistic speckle appearance in the generated OCT images. The utility of high resolution speckle recovery was illustrated by an example of micro-OCT imaging of blood vessels in lip tissue. Qualitative examples applying the models to image data from outside of the training data distribution, namely human retina and mouse bladder, were also demonstrated, suggesting potential for cross-domain transferability. This preliminary study suggests that deep learning generative models trained on OCT images from high-performance prototype systems may have potential in enhancing lower resolution data from mainstream/commercial systems, thereby bringing cutting-edge technology to the masses at low cost.
Molecular composition of comet 46P/Wirtanen from millimetre-wave spectroscopy
Creators: name: Biver, Nicolas
name: Bockelée-Morvan, Dominique
name: Boissier, Jérémie
name: Moreno, R.
name: Crovisier, Jacques
name: Lis, Darek
name: Colom, Pierre
name: Cordiner, Martin A.
name: Milam, Stefanie N.
name: Roth, Nathan X.
name: Bonev, Boncho
name: Dello Russo, Neil
name: Vervack, Jr., Ronald J.
name: DiSanti, Michael A.
Publisher: name: EDP Sciences
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
classificationCode: 5101
subject: Astronomical sciences

description: We present the results of a molecular survey of comet 46P/Wirtanen undertaken with the IRAM 30-m and NOEMA radio telescopes in December 2018. Observations at IRAM 30-m during the 12–18 December period comprise a 2 mm spectral survey covering 25 GHz and a 1 mm survey covering 62 GHz. The gas outflow velocity and kinetic temperature have been accurately constrained by the observations. We derive abundances of 11 molecules, some being identified remotely for the first time in a Jupiter-family comet, including complex organic molecules such as formamide, ethylene glycol, acetaldehyde, or ethanol. Sensitive upper limits on the abundances of 24 other molecules are obtained. The comet is found to be relatively rich in methanol (3.4% relative to water), but relatively depleted in CO, CS, HNC, HNCO, and HCOOH.
On N=1 gauge models from geometric engineering in M-theory
Creators: name: Belhaj, A.
name: Drissi, L. B.
name: Rasmussen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study geometric engineering of four-dimensional N=1 gauge models from M-theory on a seven-dimensional manifold with G_2 holonomy. The manifold is constructed as a K3 fibration over a three-dimensional base space with ADE geometry. The resulting gauge theory is discussed in the realm of (p,q) webs. We discuss how the anomaly cancellation condition translates into a condition on the associated affine ADE Lie algebras.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX
Colletes inexpectatus NOSKIEWICZ 1936
Creators: name: Kuhlmann, Michael
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Colletes
Colletes inexpectatus

description: Colletes inexpectatus NOSKIEWICZ 1936
 Published records:
KUHLMANN & DORN 2002: 94; KUHLMANN 2005: 1373.
 Distribution in Mongolia:
Uvs Aimag (Fig. 2).
 General distribution:
Austria, Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia.
description: Published as part of Kuhlmann, Michael & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2013, The bees of the genus Colletes LATREILLE 1802 of Mongolia (Hymenoptera, Apoidea: Colletidae), pp. 255-269 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 63 (1) on page 260, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.63.2.255-269, http://zenodo.org/record/4753412