cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurQ 5 : Breviarium ordinis Praedicatorum
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: This extensive breviary, with rubrics in German, was produced around 1300 for a convent of Dominican nuns. Over the next two centuries, various hands added new rhymed offices to the end, most of them to Dominican saints. In the 17th century, the breviary was the property of Wurmsbach Abbey, a convent of Cistercian nuns on Lake Zurich.
description: Online Since: 2020-06-18
Hummingbird maneuvering performance : aerodynamic mechanisms and physiological constraints
Creators: name: Segre, Paolo S.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The ability of a bird to maneuver in flight can determine its success at avoiding predators, catching prey, and other critical behaviors. Highly maneuverable animals, such as hummingbirds, are capable of diverse behaviors but it is unknown how their maneuvering is constrained by wing motion, wing morphology, and muscle capacity. The purpose of this dissertation was to determine: 1) if hummingbird wings create independent wakes; 2) if independent wingbeat kinematics are used to control maneuvers; and 3) how maneuverability is limited by intrinsic features, such as wing morphology, body mass, and physical properties of the air, versus facultative capacity, such as muscle power. The goal of chapter two was to determine if hummingbirds produce single or bilateral vortex wakes using flow visualization. The goal of chapter three was to determine if sustained maneuvers can be controlled by orienting the wings independently of the body. I tested this hypothesis by filming the three dimensional kinematics of a hummingbird feeding from a translating feeder. The goal of chapter four was to determine if the ability to perform voluntary maneuvers was associated with intrinsic or facultative features. I addressed this question using a tracking system to record a large data set of voluntary flight trajectories, with independent measurements of individual morphology and maximum muscle capacity. The goal of chapter five was to determine if maneuvering performance declines with increasing elevation and, if so, whether changes in oxygen availability or air density are most responsible. I addressed these questions by measuring maneuvering performance across elevation and in an airtight chamber with gas manipulations. Collectively, my results indicate that hummingbirds have wings that operate with a high degree of independence and that this feature influences their precision and control. Voluntary maneuvers at low elevation are primarily influenced by facultative capacity, specifically burst power, and to a lesser extent by intrinsic limits, specifically wing aspect ratio. At higher elevations, maneuvering performance declines due to decreases in air density. This research demonstrates that the remarkable maneuverability of hummingbirds derives from their ability to control their wings independently and from high muscle power reserves for generating aerodynamic force.
Two new 2,5-diketopiperazine derivatives from mangrove-derived endophytic fungus Nigrospora camelliae-sinensis S30
Creators: name: Huang, Dan-Yu
name: Nong, Xu-Hua
name: Zhang, Yu-Qin
name: Xu, Wei
name: Sun, Long-Yu
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Chen, Guang-Ying
name: Han, Chang-Ri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: Two new 2,5-diketopiperazines derivatives (1-2), together with eight known analogs (3-10), were isolated from a culture broth of an endophytic fungus Nigrospora camelliae-sinensis S30, derived from mangrove Lumnitzera littorea. Their complete structures were determined by a detailed analysis of spectroscopic data and ECD calculations. The antimicrobial activity and neuroprotective activity of these isolated compounds were also evaluated.
Semi-classical dynamics of nano-electromechanical systems
Creators: name: Hussein, R.
name: Metelmann, A.
name: Zedler, P.
name: Brandes, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of a single phonon (oscillator) mode linearly coupled to an electronic few-level system in contact with external particle reservoirs (leads). A stationary electronic current through the system generates non-trivial dynamical behaviour of the oscillator. Using Feynman-Vernon influence functional theory, we derive a Langevin equation for the oscillator trajectory that is non-perturbative in the system-leads coupling and from which we extract effective oscillator potentials and friction coefficients. For the two simplest cases of a single and two coupled electronic levels, we discuss various regimes of the oscillator dynamics.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Tuned Two-Higgs-Doublet Model
Creators: name: Grzadkowski, Bohdan
name: Osland, Per
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM) constrained by the condition that assures cancellation of quadratic divergences up to the leading two-loop order. Regions in the parameter space consistent with existing experimental constraints and with the cancellation condition are determined. The possibility for CP violation in the scalar potential is discussed and regions of \tan_β-M_{H^\pm} with substantial amount of CP violation are found. The model allows to ameliorate the little hierarchy problem by lifting the minimal scalar Higgs boson mass and by suppressing the quadratic corrections to scalar masses. The cutoff originating from the naturality arguments is therefore lifted from ~0.6 TeV in the Standard Model to ~2.5 TeV in the 2HDM, depending on the mass of the lightest scalar.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, presented at PASCOS 2010, the 16th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Assessing the Impact of Urban Encroachment on Agricultural Land in Kafr El-sheikh Governorate using GIS and Remotely Sensed Data
Creators: name: Zaky, Mariam
Publisher: name: King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Year: 2019
Subjects: Land cover change, urban encroachment, remote sensing, GIS

description: Current Applied Science and Technology, 19, 1, 57-65
Bin Fronts for Potato Storage
Creators: name: Orr, Paul H.
name: Yaeger, Earl C.
name: Orr, Paul H.
name: Yaeger, Earl C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: The fall crop areas produce approximately 200 million hundredweights (cwt.) of potatoes annually. Almost all of this volume is stored before marketing. One of the primary concerns of the storage operator is providing easier methods of moving these large volumes of potatoes into storage as rapidly as possible during the harvest period and removing them from storage as easily as possible during the marketing period. "Bin fronts," the set of removable access panels to the storage bins used for both filling and emptying, can be a key in providing easy accessibility to the storage. This study was undertaken as an auxiliary part of a USDA project aimed at providing improved storage designs for the potato industry. Initial experimental work for this part of the project began with the installation of glued-tee and slotted bin fronts at the Potato Research Center in 1964. The objectives of the study were threefold: (1) To determine the economics involved in fronting bins, (2) to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the various types of bin fronts, and (3) to design long-span bin fronts within the following criteria: (a) adequate strength, (b) reasonable weight, (c) reasonable cost, and (d) convenient stacking capability for storing.
Magnetism in Closed-shell Quantum Dots: Emergence of Magnetic Bipolarons
Creators: name: Oszwałdowski, R.
name: Žutić, I.
name: Petukhov, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Similar to atoms and nuclei, semiconductor quantum dots exhibit formation of shells. Predictions of magnetic behavior of the dots are often based on the shell occupancies. Thus, closed-shell quantum dots are assumed to be inherently nonmagnetic. Here, we propose a possibility of magnetism in such dots doped with magnetic impurities. On the example of the system of two interacting fermions, the simplest embodiment of the closed-shell structure, we demonstrate the emergence of a novel broken-symmetry ground state that is neither spin-singlet nor spin-triplet. We propose experimental tests of our predictions and the magnetic-dot structures to perform them.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures; http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.177201; minor changes
BFKL pomeron propagator in the external field of the nucleus
Creators: name: Braun, M. A.
name: Tarasov, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown by numerical calculations that the convoluted QCD pomeron propagator in the external field created by a solution of the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation in the nuclear matter vanishes at high rapidities. This may open a possibility to apply the perturbative approach for the calculation of pomeron loops.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures
Dynamical density functional theory for colloidal particles with arbitrary shape
Creators: name: Wittkowski, Raphael
name: Löwen, Hartmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the many-particle Smoluchowski equation, we derive dynamical density functional theory for Brownian particles with an arbitrary shape. Both passive and active (self-propelled) particles are considered. The resulting theory constitutes a microscopic framework to explore the collective dynamical behavior of biaxial particles in nonequilibrium. For spherical and uniaxial particles, earlier derived dynamical density functional theories are recovered as special cases. Our study is motivated by recent experimental progress in preparing colloidal particles with many different biaxial shapes.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
Injectable calcium phosphate scaffold with iron oxide nanoparticles to enhance osteogenesis via dental pulp stem cells
Creators: name: Xia, Yang
name: Chen, Huimin
name: Zhang, Feimin
name: Wang, Lin
name: Chen, Bo
name: Reynolds, Mark A.
name: Ma, Junqing
name: Schneider, Abraham
name: Gu, Ning
name: Xu, Hockin H. K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Literature search revealed no systematic report on iron oxide nanoparticle-incorporating calcium phosphate cement scaffolds (IONP-CPC). The objectives of this study were to: (1) use γFe2O3 nanoparticles (γIONPs) and αFe2O3 nanoparticles (αIONPs) to develop novel IONP-CPC scaffolds, and (2) investigate human dental pulp stem cells (hDPSCs) seeding on IONP-CPC for bone tissue engineering for the first time. IONP-CPC scaffolds were fabricated. Physiochemical properties of IONP-CPC scaffolds were characterized. hDPSC seeding on scaffolds, cell proliferation, osteogenic differentiation and bone matrix mineral synthesis by cells were measured. Our data demonstrated that the osteogenic differentiation of hDPSCs was markedly enhanced via IONP incorporation into CPC. Substantial increases (about three folds) in ALP activity and osteogenic gene expressions were achieved over those without IONPs. Bone matrix mineral synthesis by the cells was increased by two- to three folds over that without IONPs. The enhanced cellular osteogenesis was attributed to: (1) the surface nanotopography of IONP-CPC scaffold, and (2) the cell internalization of IONPs released from IONP-CPC scaffold. Our results demonstrate that the novel CPC functionalized with IONPs is promising to promote osteoinduction and bone regeneration. In conclusion, it is highly promising to incorporate γIONPs and αIONPs into CPC scaffold for bone tissue engineering, yielding substantially better stem cell attachment, spreading and osteogenic differentiation, and much greater bone mineral synthesis by the seeded cells. Therefore, novel CPC scaffolds containing γIONPs and αIONPs are promising for dental, craniofacial and orthopaedic applications to substantially enhance bone regeneration.
Physical boundary Hilbert space and volume operator in the Lorentzian new spin-foam theory
Creators: name: Ding, You
name: Rovelli, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A covariant spin-foam formulation of quantum gravity has been recently developed, characterized by a kinematics which appears to match well the one of canonical loop quantum gravity. In this paper we reconsider the implementation of the constraints that defines the model. We define in a simple way the boundary Hilbert space of the theory, introducing a slight modification of the embedding of the SU(2) representations into the SL(2,C) ones. We then show directly that all constraints vanish on this space in a weak sense. The vanishing is exact (and not just in the large quantum number limit.) We also generalize the definition of the volume operator in the spinfoam model to the Lorentzian signature, and show that it matches the one of loop quantum gravity, as does in the Euclidean case.
description: 11 pages
Divide and conquer sequential Monte Carlo for phylogenetics
Creators: name: Jewell, Sean William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Recently reconstructing evolutionary histories has become a computational issue due to the increased availability of genetic sequencing data and relaxations of classical modelling assumptions. This thesis specializes a Divide & conquer sequential Monte Carlo (DCSMC) inference algorithm to phylogenetics to address these challenges. In phylogenetics, the tree structure used to represent evolutionary histories provides a model decomposition used for DCSMC. In particular, speciation events are used to recursively decompose the model into subproblems. Each subproblem is approximated by an independent population of weighted particles, which are merged and propagated to create an ancestral population. This approach provides the flexibility to relax classical assumptions on large trees by parallelizing these recursions.
Additional file 1 of A newly identified Hippo homologue from the oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense is involved in the antimicrobial immune response
Creators: name: Huang, Ying
name: Ren, Qian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of MnHippo-a from M.. nipponense. The red letters indicate the start codon (ATG) and the stop codon (TAG). The S_TKc domain is underlined, and the italic letters indicate the Mst1_SARAH domain. Compared with MnHippo-a, MnHippo-b lacks the sequence marked in blue, and MnHippo-c lacks the sequence marked in green.
Accelerated discovery of high-performance Al-Si-Mg-Sc casting alloys by integrating active learning with high-throughput CALPHAD calculations
Creators: name: Gao, Jianbao
name: Zhong, Jing
name: Liu, Guangchen
name: Zhang, Shaoji
name: Zhang, Jiali
name: Liu, Zuming
name: Song, Bo
name: Zhang, Lijun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Hematology

description: Scandium is the best alloying element to improve the mechanical properties of industrial Al-Si-Mg casting alloys. Most literature reports devote to exploring/designing optimal Sc additions in different commercial Al-Si-Mg casting alloys with well-defined compositions. However, no attempt to optimize the contents of Si, Mg, and Sc has been made due to the great challenge of simultaneous screening in high-dimensional composition space with limited experimental data. In this paper, a novel alloy design strategy was proposed and successfully applied to accelerate the discovery of hypoeutectic Al-Si-Mg-Sc casting alloys over high-dimensional composition space. Firstly, high-throughput CALculation of PHAse Diagrams (CALPHAD) solidification simulations of ocean of hypoeutectic Al-Si-Mg-Sc casting alloys over a wide composition range were performed to establish the quantitative relation ‘composition-process-microstructure’. Secondly, the relation ‘microstructure-mechanical properties’ of Al-Si-Mg-Sc hypoeutectic casting alloys was acquired using the active learning technique supported by key experiments designed by CALPHAD and Bayesian optimization samplings. After a benchmark in A356-xSc alloys, such a strategy was utilized to design the high-performance hypoeutectic Al-xSi-yMg alloys with optimal Sc additions that were later experimentally validated. Finally, the present strategy was successfully extended to screen the optimal contents of Si, Mg, and Sc over high-dimensional hypoeutectic Al-xSi-yMg-zSc composition space. It is anticipated that the proposed strategy integrating active learning with high-throughput CALPHAD simulations and key experiments should be generally applicable to the efficient design of high-performance multi-component materials over high-dimensional composition space.
Observed Polarization of Brown Dwarfs Suggests Low Surface Gravity
Creators: name: Sengupta, Sujan
name: Marley, Mark S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light scattering by atmospheric dust particles is responsible for the polarization observed in some L dwarfs. Whether this polarization arises from an inhomogeneous distribution of dust across the disk or an oblate shape induced by rotation remains unclear. Here we argue that the latter case is plausible and, for many L dwarfs, the more likely one. Furthermore evolutionary models of mature field L dwarfs predict surface gravities ranging from about 200 to 2500 m/s^2 (corresponding to masses of about 15 to 70 times of Jupiter mass). Yet comparison of observed spectra to available synthetic spectra often does not permit more precise determination of the surface gravity of individual field L dwarfs, leading to important uncertainties in their properties. Since rotationally-induced non-sphericity, which gives rise to non-zero disk-integrated polarization, is more pronounced at lower gravities, polarization is a promising low gravity indicator. Here we combine a rigorous multiple scattering analysis with a self-consistent cloudy atmospheric model and observationally inferred rotational velocities and find that the observed optical polarization can be explained if the surface gravity of the polarized objects is about 300 m/s^2 or less, potentially providing a new method for constraining L dwarf masses.
description: 14 pages (AASTEX) including 3 eps figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
A Comparative Study of Confined and Eruptive Flares in NOAA AR 10720
Creators: name: Cheng, X.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Ding, M. D.
name: Guo, Y.
name: Su, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the distinct properties of two types of flares: eruptive flares associated with CMEs and confined flares without CMEs. Our sample of study includes nine M and X-class flares, all from the same active region (AR), six of which are confined and three others are eruptive. The confined flares tend to be more impulsive in the soft X-ray time profiles and show more slender shapes in the EIT 195 A images, while the eruptive ones are of long-duration events and show much more extended brightening regions. The location of the confined flares are closer to the center of the AR, while the eruptive flares are at the outskirts. This difference is quantified by the displacement parameter, the distance between the AR center and the flare location: the average displacement of the six confined flares is 16 Mm, while that of eruptive ones is as large as 39 Mm. Further, through nonlinear force-free field extrapolation, we find that the decay index of the transverse magnetic field in the low corona (~10 Mm) have a larger value for eruptive flares than that for confined one. In addition, the strength of the transverse magnetic field over the eruptive flare sites is weaker than that over the confined ones. These results demonstrate that the strength and the decay index of background magnetic field may determine whether or not a flare be eruptive or confined. The implication of these results on CME models is discussed in the context of torus instability of flux rope.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, ApJ in press
MOESM5 of Understanding the functions of endogenous DOF transcript factor in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Creators: name: Jia, Bin
name: Xie, Xinfeng
name: Wu, Min
name: Lin, Zijie
name: Yin, Jianbo
name: lou, Sulin
name: Huang, Ying
name: Hu, Zhangli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Table S2. The GenBank accession number of sequences used in Phylogenetic analysis.
THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER ON BRAND ATTITUDE AND PURCHASE INTENTON: INCOME LEVEL AND AGE AS MODERATING VARIABLE IN HEALTHY FOOD INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Davina Vania Mardhiah
name: Teguh Widodo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Perceived Credibility, Trust, Perceived Behavior Control, Subjective Norms, Perceived Expertise, Perceived Congruence, Attitude Toward The Influencer, Attitude Toward The Brand, Purchase Intention.

description: Abstract
This study aims to examine the effect of credibility, trust, behavioral control, subjective norms, expertise, conformity to attitudes on influencers. In addition, the effect of attitudes towards influencers and attitudes towards brands on buying interest is also investigated. The study findings show that perceived credibility and trust have a positive effect on attitudes towards influencers. However, perceived behavioral control does not make a positive contribution to this attitude. Subjective Norms and Perceived Expertise play a positive role in shaping attitudes towards influencers. Likewise, Perceived Congruence affects the increase in attitudes towards influencers. This study also reveals a significant positive correlation between attitude toward influencers and attitudes toward brands, both of which influence purchase intention. Income level does not moderate the relationship between attitude toward influencers and purchase intention,but moderates the relationship between attitude toward brand and purchase intention. whereas age does not moderate the relationship between attitude toward influencer and attitude toward brand towards purchase intention.
Multidimensi Pada Data Warehouse Dengan Menggunakan Rumus Kombinasi
Creators: name: Warnars, H. L. H Spits
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.2.7

description: Multidimensional in data warehouse is a compulsion and become the most important for information delivery, without multidimensional data warehouse is incomplete. Multidimensional give the able to analyze business measurement in many different ways. Multidimensional is also synonymous with online analytical processing (OLAP).
description: 6 pages
Correlation between trans rectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy and radical prostatectomy specimen and risk factors for upgraded Gleason score in prostate cancer
Creators: name: Aekgarin Palakho
name: Apirak Santi-Ngamkun
name: Julin Opanuraks
name: Kavirach Tantiwongse
name: Supoj Ratchanon
name: Kamol Panumatrassamee
Publisher: name: Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Prostate cancer, Gleason score, upgraded, radical prostatectomy

description: Chulalongkorn Medical Journal, 63, 3, 137-142
Freezing Injury to Bell Peppers
Creators: name: Parsons, C. S.
name: Day, R. H.
name: Parsons, C. S.
name: Day, R. H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: Fresh fruits and vegetables that have been injured by freezing are usually more susceptible to decay, inferior in quality, and poorer in appearance than those that have not been frozen. However, when the frozen produce is handled properly, the damage and loss by freezing can often be partly or entirely eliminated. Understanding the nature of freezing and prompt and accurate identification of freezing injury are essential before proper handling practices can be employed. The purpose of this study is to identify, describe, and illustrate the symptoms of freezing injury in bell peppers and to determine the effects of rapid and slow freezing and thawing on the overall quality of peppers.
The orientation of elliptical galaxies
Creators: name: Chakraborty, D. K.
name: Diwakar, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the orientations of the light distribution of individual elliptical galaxies by combining the profiles of photometric data from the literature with triaxial models. The orientation is given by a Bayesian probability distribution. The likelihood of obtaining the data from a model is a function of the parameters describing the intrinsic shape and the orientation. Integrating the likelihood over the shape parameters, we obtain the estimates of the orientation. We find that the position angle difference between the two suitably chosen points from the profiles of the photometric data plays a key role in constraining the orientation of the galaxy. We apply the methodology to a sample of ten galaxies. The alignment of the intrinsic principle axes of the NGC 3379, 4486 and NGC 5638 are studied.
description: accepted in Astrophysics and Space Science
Additional file 1 of Incidence and risk factors of congenital heart disease in Qingdao: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Jin, Xiao
name: Ni, Wei
name: Wang, Guolan
name: Wu, Qin
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Li, Guoju
name: Jiao, Na
name: Chen, Wenjing
name: Liu, Qing
name: Gao, Li
name: Xing, Quansheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire.
INVESTIGATIONS ON THE EFFECTS OF EFFLUX PUMP INHIBITORS ON ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE, BIOFILM FORMATION AND LIPID BIOSYNTHESIS IN MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS
Creators: name: Faboro, Timilehin David
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical microbiology

description: Mycobacterium abscessus (Mab) is a non-tuberculous mycobacterium that is highly resistant to many antibiotics. Mab causes pulmonary infections in immunocompromised individuals. The presence of efflux pumps to pump out antibiotics and its ability to form biofilms makes Mab a virulent pathogen. Studies have been done on Mab antibiotic tolerance but there are still a lot of gaps in knowledge about the effects of efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs) on antibiotic resistance and lipid biosynthesis in this bacterium during biofilm formation. In this study, we investigated the effects of the EPIs chlorpromazine (CPZ), 1-(1-naphthylmethyl)-piperazine (NMP), thioridazine (TRZ), Phenylalanine-arginine β-naphthylamide (PBN) and plumbagin (PLU) on antibiotic resistance, efflux, biofilm formation and lipid biosynthesis associated with log-phase growth and biofilm formation in Mab. We used the resazurin assay to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the EPIs. We investigated the effects of the EPIs during biofilm-forming growth conditions on the MICs of antibiotics such as clarithromycin, amikacin, cefoxitin, ciprofloxacin which are the frontline antibiotics used to treat non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections. We also assessed the effects of the EPIs on the accumulation and efflux activities of the Mab cells through ethidium bromide (EtBr) assay. Furthermore, we evaluated the effects of the EPIs at sub-MIC concentrations on Mab biofilm formation under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. We utilized metabolic radiolabeling methods using 14C-palmitic acid and 14C- acetic acid which are precursors of lipid biosynthesis and analyzed lipids by silica-thin layer chromatography and autoradiography. We observed that Mab cells developed higher tolerance to the EPIs in a biofilm-stimulating medium. Furthermore, a decrease in the MICs of antibiotics was observed in the presence of the EPIs. Also, in the presence of the EPIs, there was less efflux activity within the Mab cells. In addition, EPIs inhibited biofilm formation significantly. We also noticed that NMP and PBN inhibited 14C-palmitic acid and 14C- acetic acid incorporation into polar lipids such as glycopeptidolipids, trehalose monomycolate, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol/cardiolipin, phosphatidylinositol mannosides at specific tested conditions. Our findings suggest that the EPIs inhibited the activities of the efflux pumps associated with the efflux of the antibiotics and lipid biosynthesis involved in biofilm formation. In conclusion, the results from this study gives insights on possible therapeutic opportunities.
Keck Observations of the Young Metal-Poor Host Galaxy of the Super-Chandrasekhar-Mass Type Ia Supernova SN 2007if
Creators: name: Childress, M.
name: Aldering, G.
name: Aragon, C.
name: Antilogus, P.
name: Bailey, S.
name: Baltay, C.
name: Bongard, S.
name: Buton, C.
name: Canto, A.
name: Chotard, N.
name: Copin, Y.
name: Fakhouri, H. K.
name: Gangler, E.
name: Kerschhaggl, M.
name: Kowalski, M.
name: Hsiao, E. Y.
name: Loken, S.
name: Nugent, P.
name: Paech, K.
name: Pain, R.
name: Pecontal, E.
name: Pereira, R.
name: Perlmutter, S.
name: Rabinowitz, D.
name: Runge, K.
name: Scalzo, R.
name: Thomas, R. C.
name: Smadja, G.
name: Tao, C.
name: Weaver, B. A.
name: Wu, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Keck LRIS spectroscopy and $g$-band photometry of the metal-poor, low-luminosity host galaxy of the super-Chandrasekhar mass Type Ia supernova SN 2007if. Deep imaging of the host reveals its apparent magnitude to be $m_g=23.15\pm0.06$, which at the spectroscopically-measured redshift of $z_{helio}=0.07450\pm0.00015$ corresponds to an absolute magnitude of $M_g=-14.45\pm0.06$. Galaxy $g-r$ color constrains the mass-to-light ratio, giving a host stellar mass estimate of $\log(M_*/M_\odot)=7.32\pm0.17$. Balmer absorption in the stellar continuum, along with the strength of the 4000Å break, constrain the age of the dominant starburst in the galaxy to be $t_\mathrm{burst}=123^{+165}_{-77}$ Myr, corresponding to a main-sequence turn-off mass of $M/M_\odot=4.6^{+2.6}_{-1.4}$. Using the R$_{23}$ method of calculating metallicity from the fluxes of strong emission lines, we determine the host oxygen abundance to be $12+\log(O/H)_\mathrm{KK04}=8.01\pm0.09$, significantly lower than any previously reported spectroscopically-measured Type Ia supernova host galaxy metallicity. Our data show that SN 2007if is very likely to have originated from a young, metal-poor progenitor.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
Environmental monitoring and restoration following the prototype decommissioning
Creators: name: Giulio, Brizzi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: The Blue Growth Farm
Offshore aquaculture
European Commission
Horizon 2020
Environmental monitoring plan EMP
MPP
BGF
Platform decommissioning

description: This paper describes the procedures to be undertaken under Italian and EU legislation to estabilsh a valid Enviromnetal Monitoring Plan (EMP) and to execute it. Th most likely impacts due to the installation, operation and decommissioning of the BGF platform close to Reggio Calabria coast at NOEL laboratory has been previously assessed, and the monitoring plan has been tuned on that. the leagl framework connected to monitoring has been analysed.
Biphenyl Absorption of Citrus Fruits: The Effect of Variety, Color Class, and Injury by Freezing, Peeling, and Lack of Oxygen
Creators: name: Norman, Shirley
name: Craft, C. C.
name: Fouse, D. C.
name: Norman, Shirley
name: Craft, C. C.
name: Fouse, D. C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: Biphenyl has been used as a fungistatic agent in the control of citrus fruit decay since Tomkins first reported its effectiveness in 1935. In commercial practice, pads of kraft paper treated with biphenyl are placed inside cartons of citrus fruit during packaging. The biphenyl volatilizes from the pads into the atmosphere of the carton. The biphenyl vapor controls decay in citrus fruit through inhibition of fungal vegetative growth and normal spore formation. At the same time, however, biphenyl is absorbed by the citrus fruit in the carton. The accumulation of biphenyl in the fruit must be kept below the legal tolerance of 110 p. p.m. for the United States and 70 p. p.m. for the European Economic Community (EEC). Some biological and environmental factors affecting biphenyl absorption were investigated to determine to what extent biphenyl residues could be controlled during storage and shipping. Tests were undertaken to determine the effect of (1) color class, (2) 2-chloroethane phosphonic acid (Ethrel), (3) oxygen-free atmospheres, and (4) mechanical and freezing injury on biphenyl absorption by citrus fruits. In addition, the daily and weekly accumulation of biphenyl by oranges and lemons was followed in a near-saturated atmosphere of biphenyl to determine how much biphenyl would be absorbed by citrus fruits.
Cognitive Binary Logic - The Natural Unified Formal Theory of Propositional Binary Logic
Creators: name: Popescu-Bodorin, Nicolaie
name: State, Luminita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.4.1
subject: 03B70, 97E30, 03F03

description: This paper presents a formal theory which describes propositional binary logic as a semantically closed formal language, and allows for syntactically and semantically well-formed formulae, formal proofs (demonstrability in Hilbertian acception), deduction (Gentzen's view of demonstrability), CNF-ization, and deconstruction to be expressed and tested in the same (computational) formal language, using the same data structure. It is also shown here that Cognitive Binary Logic is a self-described theory in which the Liar Paradox is deconstructed.
Flavor physics within and beyond the Standard Model
Creators: name: Nierste, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review recent progress in theoretical calculations related to the CKM unitarity triangle. After briefly discussing hints for new physics in B_d-B_d-bar mixing and B_s-B_s-bar mixing I present three topics of MSSM flavor physics: First I discuss new tan-beta-enhanced radiative corrections to flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) amplitudes which go beyond the familiar Higgs-mediated FCNC diagrams and may enhance the mixing-induced CP asymmetry in B_d -> phi K_S. The second topic is a reappraisal of the idea that flavor violation originates from the soft supersymmetry-breaking terms. Finally I discuss how mu -> e gamma can be used to constrain the flavor structure of the dimension-5 Yukawa interactions which appear in realistic grand unified theories.
description: 10 pages, talk at "Rencontres de Physique de la Vall\'ee d'Aoste", La Thuile, Italy, Feb 28 -- Mar 6, 2010
Spin relaxation and spin dynamics in semiconductors
Creators: name: Fabian, J.
name: Wu, M. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A chapter contribution to book: "Handbook of Spin Transport and Magnetism", ed. by Evegeny Y. Tsymbal and Igor Zutic (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2011) http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439803776 .
description: 42 pages
Men don't care for caring : fundamental goals and men's interest in HEED roles.
Creators: name: Block, Katharina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Whereas women are increasingly moving into the workforce in general, and formerly male-dominated careers in specific, men continue to be underrepresented in the fields of healthcare, early education and the domestic sphere (HEED; Croft, Schmader, & Block, 2015). The current work sought to understand why men continue to show little interest in HEED careers and don’t perceive them as broadly valuable to the same extent women do. Previous research suggested that men and women show differing interest in Science and Technology careers to the extent that women are more communally oriented than men (Diekman et al., 2011). In three studies, the current research tested the hypothesis that men see HEED careers as less interesting and valuable than do women to the extent that men hold less communal (vs. agentic and competitive) goals than women. Study 1 and 2 show that gender differences in interest in and value assigned to HEED roles were indeed mediated by men’s relatively lower communal goals. In addition, study 2 suggested that competitiveness may play a special role in explaining why men, more so than women, tend to expect a breadwinner rather than a primary caregiver role in their future. Study 3 provided first experimental evidence that activating men’s communal goals can increase their interest in HEED occupations.
A Two-Component Power Law Covering Nearly Four Orders of Magnitude in the Power Spectrum of Spitzer Far-Infrared Emission from the Large Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Block, D. L.
name: Puerari, I.
name: Elmegreen, B. G.
name: Bournaud, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Power spectra of Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) emission at 24, 70 and 160 microns observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope have a two-component power-law structure with a shallow slope of -1.6 at low wavenumber, k, and a steep slope of -2.9 at high k. The break occurs at 1/k ~ 100-200 pc, which is interpreted as the line-of-sight thickness of the LMC disk. The slopes are slightly steeper for longer wavelengths, suggesting the cooler dust emission is smoother than the hot emission. The power spectrum covers ~ 3.5 orders of magnitude and the break in the slope is in the middle of this range on a logarithmic scale. Large-scale driving from galactic and extragalactic processes, including disk self-gravity, spiral waves and bars, presumably cause the low-k structure in what is effectively a two-dimensional geometry. Small-scale driving from stellar processes and shocks cause the high-k structure in a 3D geometry. This transition in dimensionality corresponds to the observed change in power spectrum slope. A companion paper models the observed power-law with a self-gravitating hydrodynamics simulation of a galaxy like the LMC.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Amorphous electrocatalysts formed by near-infrared-driven decomposition
Creators: name: Salvatore, Danielle Aline
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen is widely viewed as the most sustainable option for storing energy produced by intermittent renewable energy sources such as solar or wind. Economically feasible large-scale deployment of this type of system requires the discovery of efficient electrocatalysts, particularly for the kinetically slow oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Transition metal oxides are the most durable and active water oxidation catalysts, and there is a growing body of evidence showing amorphous metal oxide films mediate the OER more efficiently than the crystalline phases of the same compositions. Notwithstanding, there is a limited set of fabrication methods available for making amorphous films, particularly in the absence of a conducting substrate. I introduce herein a scalable preparative method for accessing oxidized and reduced phases of amorphous films that involves the efficient decomposition of molecular precursors, including simple metal salts, by exposure to near-infrared (NIR) radiation. The NIR-driven decomposition process provides sufficient localized heating to trigger the liberation of the ligand from solution-deposited precursors on substrates, but insufficient thermal energy to form crystalline phases. This method provides access to state-of-the-art electrocatalyst films, as demonstrated herein for the electrolysis of water, and extends the scope of usable substrates to include non-conducting and temperature-sensitive platforms. Because crystalline ruthenium oxide is one of the most efficient electrocatalysts in acidic media, it would be highly advantageous to be able to readily access the amorphous phase of the material. I also document two facile preparation techniques for accessing amorphous ruthenium oxide, a state-of-the-art electrocatalyst. The formation of amorphous ruthenium oxide films is triggered by the decomposition of a film of spin-cast molecular ruthenium precursors on conducting glass by either ultraviolet (UV) and near infrared (NIR) light.
Cytotoxicity and apoptotic mechanisms of different solvent extracts from Ipomoea pes-caprae on human nasopharyngeal cells
Creators: name: Chantarawan Saengkhae
name: Napaporn Uawongyart
name: Sunantha Osiri
Publisher: name: Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ipomoea pes-caprae, apoptosis, caspase-3, KB cells

description: Chulalongkorn Medical Journal, 63, 3, 143-151
Correlation functions of twist fields from Ward identities in the massive Dirac theory
Creators: name: Doyon, Benjamin
name: Silk, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive non-linear differential equations for correlation functions of U(1) twist fields in the two-dimensional massive Dirac theory. Primary U(1) twist fields correspond to exponential fields in the sine-Gordon model at the free-fermion point, and it is well-known that their vacuum two-point functions are determined by integrable differential equations. We extend part of this result to more general quantum states (pure or mixed) and to certain descendents, showing that some two-point functions are determined by the sinh-Gordon differential equations whenever there is translation and parity invariance, and the density matrix is the exponential of a bilinear expression in fermions. We use methods involving Ward identities associated to the copy-rotation symmetry in a model with two independent, anti-commuting copies. Such methods were used in the context of the thermally perturbed Ising quantum field theory model. We show that they are applicable to the Dirac theory as well, and we suggest that they are likely to have a much wider applicability to free fermion models in general. Finally, we note that our form-factor study of descendents twist fields combined with a CFT analysis provides a new way of evaluating vacuum expectation values of primary U(1) twist fields: by deriving and solving a recursion relation.
description: 31 pages
Wilson Fermion Determinant in Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Nagata, Keitaro
name: Nakamura, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a formula for reducing the rank of Wilson fermions from $4 N_c N_x N_y N_z N_t$ to $4 N_c N_x N_y N_z$ keeping the value of its determinant. We analyse eigenvalues of a reduced matrix and coefficients $C_n$ in the fugacity expansion of the fermion determinant $\sum_n C_n (\exp(μ/T))^n$, which play an important role in the canonical formulation, using lattice QCD configurations on a $4^4$ lattice. Numerically, $\log |C_n|$ varies as $N_x N_y N_z$, and goes easily over the standard numerical range; We give a simple cure for that. The phase of $C_n$ correlates with the distribution of the Polyakov loop in the complex plain. These results lay the groundwork for future finite density calculations in lattice QCD.
description: 20 pages, 2 tables, 32 figures