cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modeling a Cache Coherence Protocol with the Guarded Action Language
Creators: name: Meunier, Quentin L.
name: Thierry-Mieg, Yann
name: Encrenaz, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a formal model built for verification of the hardware Tera-Scale ARchitecture (TSAR), focusing on its Distributed Hybrid Cache Coherence Protocol (DHCCP). This protocol is by nature asynchronous, concurrent and distributed, which makes classical validation of the design (e.g. through testing) difficult. We therefore applied formal methods to prove essential properties of the protocol, such as absence of deadlocks, eventual consensus, and fairness.
description: In Proceedings MARS/VPT 2018, arXiv:1803.08668
Ten Diverse Formal Models for a CBTC Automatic Train Supervision System
Creators: name: Mazzanti, Franco
name: Ferrari, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Communications-based Train Control (CBTC) systems are metro signalling platforms, which coordinate and protect the movements of trains within the tracks of a station, and between different stations. In CBTC platforms, a prominent role is played by the Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) system, which automatically dispatches and routes trains within the metro network. Among the various functions, an ATS needs to avoid deadlock situations, i.e., cases in which a group of trains block each other. In the context of a technology transfer study, we designed an algorithm for deadlock avoidance in train scheduling. In this paper, we present a case study in which the algorithm has been applied. The case study has been encoded using ten different formal verification environments, namely UMC, SPIN, NuSMV/nuXmv, mCRL2, CPN Tools, FDR4, CADP, TLA+, UPPAAL and ProB. Based on our experience, we observe commonalities and differences among the modelling languages considered, and we highlight the impact of the specific characteristics of each language on the presented models.
description: In Proceedings MARS/VPT 2018, arXiv:1803.08668
Motif-based communities in complex networks
Creators: name: Arenas, Alex
name: Fernandez, Alberto
name: Fortunato, Santo
name: Gomez, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Community definitions usually focus on edges, inside and between the communities. However, the high density of edges within a community determines correlations between nodes going beyond nearest-neighbours, and which are indicated by the presence of motifs. We show how motifs can be used to define general classes of nodes, including communities, by extending the mathematical expression of Newman-Girvan modularity. We construct then a general framework and apply it to some synthetic and real networks.
Potential for biocontrol of Silybum marianum (variegated thistle): 1. Survey of natural enemies in New Zealand
Creators: name: Cripps, Mike
name: Mills, Jonty
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 410202
subject: Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology

description: Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertner (variegated thistle, milk thistle) is one of the worst weeds of hill country pasture in the east coast regions of New Zealand. As part of an initial investigation into the potential for biocontrol, a survey of the phytophagous insects associated with S. marianum in New Zealand was carried out at 16 populations from 29 November to 16 December 2021. Phytophagous associations were determined by collecting insects on the plant and by seedhead dissections. The species collected were grouped into three categories: ‘specialists’, ‘generalists’, and ‘tourists’ that comprised 27.4%, 66.3%, and 6.3% of the total number of specimens collected, respectively. The specialist group was almost entirely comprised of the seedhead weevil, Rhinocyllus conicus (Frölich). While adults of R. conicus were commonly collected on variegated thistle, only 6.5% of seedheads contained larvae of the weevil, indicating that S. marianum is not a common developmental host. Generalist species commonly collected on S. marianum included: Nysius caledoniae Distant, Rhypodes clavicornis (F.), Closterotomus norwegicus (Gmelin) and Nezara virdula (L.). Overall, the field surveys document low levels of attack from generalist herbivores and minimal attack by the specialist weevil, R. conicus. Vacant niches are present on the weed in New Zealand, providing a strong case for introducing specialised biocontrol agents.
High-brilliance, high-flux compact inverse Compton light source
Creators: name: Deitrick, K. E.
name: Krafft, G. A.
name: Terzić, B.
name: Delayen, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A compact Inverse Compton Light Source (ICLS) design is presented, with flux and brilliance orders of magnitude beyond conventional laboratory-scale sources and other compact ICLS designs. This design utilizes the physics of inverse Compton scattering of an extremely low emittance electron beam by a laser pulse of rms length of approximately two-thirds of a picosecond (2/3 ps). The accelerator is composed of a superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) reentrant gun followed by four double-spoke SRF cavities. After the linac are three quadrupole magnets to focus the electron beam to the interaction point (IP). The distance from cathode surface to IP is less than 6 meters, with the cathode producing electron bunches with a bunch charge of 10 pC and a few picoseconds in length. The incident laser has 1 MW circulating power, a 1 micron wavelength, and a spot size of 3.2 microns at the IP. The repetition rate of this source is 100 MHz, in order to achieve a high flux despite the low bunch charge. The anticipated X-ray source parameters include an energy of 12 keV, with a total flux of $1.4\times10^{14}$ ph/s, the flux into a 0.1% bandwidth of $2.1\times10^{11}$ ph/(s-0.1%BW), and the average brilliance of $2.2\times10^{15}$ ph/(s-mm$^2$-mrad$^2$-0.1%BW).
description: 19 pages, 18 figures; Submitted to Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams
Polyphase alternating codes
Creators: name: Markkanen, Markku
name: Vierinen, Juha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work introduces a method for constructing polyphase alternating codes in which the length of a code transmission cycle can be $p^m$ or $p-1$, where $p$ is a prime number and $m$ is a positive integer. The relevant properties leading to the construction alternating codes and the algorithm for generating alternating codes is described. Examples of all practical and some not that practical polyphase code lengths are given.
description: Submitted to Annales Geophysicae
Galectin-3, advanced glycated end-products serum levels, endothelial function and cardiac hemo­dynamics in post infarction heart failure patients with reduced and preserved ejection fraction
Creators: name: Kuryata, O.
name: Zabida, A.
name: Sirenko, O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biomarkers
subject: 110303 Clinical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Diseases
subject: 110202 Haematology

description: Epidemiological studies have reported that the rate of signs and symptoms of heart failure after myocardial infarction is approximately 25%. In addition, approximately 40% of myocardial infarctions are accompanied by left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Aim.. Aim of the study is to evaluate serum levels of galactin-3, AGEs and endothelial function, cardiac hemodynamics in post infarction chronic heart failure patients with different ejection fraction. Materials and methods. All patients are divided into two main groups according to ejection fraction:1st group-20 patients with chronic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, 2nd group-15 patients with chronic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction. Standard laboratory blood tests for erythrocyte sedimentation rate, haematological parameters, lipid profile, glucose, renal function, echocardiographic examination, endothelial function determine were performed for all patients. AGEs and galectin-3 serum levels were determined. Results. Patients with chronic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction and myocardial infarction in anamnesis had significantly increased left ventricle diastolic volume, left ventricle systolic volume,left ventricle diastolic dimension and left ventricle systolic dimension (p<0.05).AGEs serum level mildly increased in both groups.Galectin-3 level was significantly higher in pts with chronic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction(p < 0.05)and was correlated with age(R=0.74, p<0.05), left ventricle end diastolic volume (R=0.57, p<0.05), left ventricle end diastolic dimension (R=0.48, p<0.05), triglycerides level (R=0.45, p < 0.05). Most of the patients with chronic heart failure with myocardial infarction in anamnesis had endothelial dysfunction, the FMD% level was significantly higher in patients with preserved ejection fraction(p<0.05). Conclusions. Patients with chronic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction are characterized by significantly higher levels of galectin-3, endothelial dysfunction frequency, cardiac hemodynamics abnormalities.
An Experiment in Ping-Pong Protocol Verification by Nondeterministic Pushdown Automata
Creators: name: Glück, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1; D.3.4; F.1.1; F.1.2

description: An experiment is described that confirms the security of a well-studied class of cryptographic protocols (Dolev-Yao intruder model) can be verified by two-way nondeterministic pushdown automata (2NPDA). A nondeterministic pushdown program checks whether the intersection of a regular language (the protocol to verify) and a given Dyck language containing all canceling words is empty. If it is not, an intruder can reveal secret messages sent between trusted users. The verification is guaranteed to terminate in cubic time at most on a 2NPDA-simulator. The interpretive approach used in this experiment simplifies the verification, by separating the nondeterministic pushdown logic and program control, and makes it more predictable. We describe the interpretive approach and the known transformational solutions, and show they share interesting features. Also noteworthy is how abstract results from automata theory can solve practical problems by programming language means.
description: In Proceedings MARS/VPT 2018, arXiv:1803.08668
title: Ανάπτυξη εφαρμογής για χαμένα κατοικίδια με χρήση του MVC Pattern και ενσωμάτωση των τεχνολογιών SignalR, email και Nominatim API
title: Development of a lost pets application using the MVC Pattern and Integration of SignalR, email, and Nominatim API technologies
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Γρηγοριάδου, Σεβαστή
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Χαμένα κατοικίδια
subject: Γεωγραφικές συντεταγμένες
subject: Επικοινωνία χρηστών
subject: Κτηνιατρικές κλινικές
subject: Τεχνολογία
subject: Συστήματα πληροφορικής
subject: Επανασύνδεση κατοικίδιων
subject: C#
subject: SignalR
subject: API
subject: CSS
subject: HTML

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εστιάζει στην ανάπτυξη ενός καινοτόμου συστήματος για την παρακολούθηση και διαχείριση χαμένων κατοικιδίων. Η ανάγκη για την υλοποίηση αυτού προκύπτει από την αύξηση των περιπτώσεων χαμένων ζώων και την επιθυμία των ιδιοκτητών να επανασυνδεθούν με τα κατοικίδιά τους. Η εργασία αναπτύσσει μια ολοκληρωμένη πλατφόρμα που διευκολύνει την επικοινωνία μεταξύ των χρηστών και προσφέρει χρήσιμες υπηρεσίες, όπως η καταγραφή πληροφοριών για χαμένα ζώα και η αναζήτηση κοντινών κτηνιατρικών κλινικών. Η πλατφόρμα προσφέρει μια σειρά από δυνατότητες, περιλαμβάνοντας τη δυνατότητα αναφοράς χαμένων κατοικιδίων, επικοινωνίας μέσω μηνυμάτων, και την αλληλεπίδραση μέσω χαρτών για την αποστολή τοποθεσιών. Η λειτουργικότητα του συστήματος στηρίζεται σε σύγχρονες τεχνολογίες, όπως η γεωγραφική πληροφορία (GIS) και οι υπηρεσίες εντοπισμού, που επιτρέπουν στους χρήστες να εντοπίζουν κοντινές κτηνιατρικές κλινικές με βάση τις γεωγραφικές τους συντεταγμένες. Η υλοποίηση της πλατφόρμας βασίζεται σε σύγχρονες τεχνολογίες που διασφαλίζουν την αποτελεσματικότητα και την ευχρηστία της. Η γλώσσα προγραμματισμού C# χρησιμοποιείται για την ανάπτυξη του back-end, προσφέροντας υψηλή απόδοση και ασφάλεια στη διαχείριση των δεδομένων. Στον τομέα του front-end, οι τεχνολογίες HTML, CSS και JavaScript συνδυάζονται για τη δημιουργία μιας φιλικής προς τον χρήστη διεπαφής, διασφαλίζοντας την εύκολη πλοήγηση και την αλληλεπίδραση του χρήστη με την εφαρμογή. Για την αποθήκευση και διαχείριση των δεδομένων χρηστών και πληροφοριών κατοικιδίων, αξιοποιείται ο SQL Server, προσφέροντας αξιόπιστες και αποτελεσματικές λύσεις αποθήκευσης. Η χρήση APIs επιτρέπει την ενσωμάτωση υπηρεσιών γεωγραφικών δεδομένων και αποστολής email, διευκολύνοντας την επικοινωνία και την αναζήτηση. Επιπλέον, η τεχνολογία SignalR ενσωματώνεται στην εφαρμογή για την υποστήριξη αμφίδρομης επικοινωνίας σε πραγματικό χρόνο, διευκολύνοντας τις αλληλεπιδράσεις και τις ειδοποιήσεις μεταξύ των χρηστών και του συστήματος, προσφέροντας μια ακόμα πιο δυναμική εμπειρία. Μέσω αυτών των τεχνολογιών, η πλατφόρμα προάγει την ευκολία και την αποτελεσματικότητα στην αναζήτηση και την παρακολούθηση των χαμένων κατοικίδιων. Η παρούσα εργασία συμβάλλει στη δημιουργία ενός ασφαλούς και αποδοτικού περιβάλλοντος για την παρακολούθηση χαμένων κατοικίδιων και αναδεικνύει τη σημασία της επικοινωνίας και της συνεργασίας για την ευημερία των ζώων.
Distinctive Picosecond Spin Polarization Dynamics in Bulk Half-Metals
Creators: name: Battiato, M.
name: Minar, J.
name: Wang, W.
name: Ndiaye, W.
name: Richter, M. C.
name: Heckmann, O.
name: Mariot, J. -M.
name: Parmigiani, F.
name: Hricovini, K.
name: Cacho, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Femtosecond laser excitations in half-metal (HM) compounds are theoretically predicted to induce an exotic picosecond spin dynamics. In particular, conversely to what is observed in conventional metals and semiconductors, the thermalization process in HMs leads to a long living partially thermalized configuration characterized by three Fermi--Dirac distributions for the minority, majority conduction and majority valence electrons respectively. Remarkably, these distributions have the same temperature but different chemical potentials. This unusual thermodynamics state causes a persistent non-equilibrium spin polarization only well above the Fermi energy. Femtosecond spin dynamics experiments performed on Fe$_3$O$_4$ by time-, spin-, and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy confirm our model. Furthermore, the spin polarization response proves to be very robust and it can be adopted to selectively test the bulk HM character in a wide range of compounds.
Features of the myocardial infarction course in patients with a permanent atrial fibrillation
Creators: name: Yalovenko, M.I.
name: Khaniukov, O.O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biomarkers
subject: 110303 Clinical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Diseases
subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: 110299 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology not elsewhere classified

description: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmias in the population. Nowadays, AF is regarded as potentially lethal arrhythmia, considering the broad range of its negative consequences, not only due to significant deterioration in the quality of the patients’ life, but also due to related significant increase in the incidence of serious complications and death. The presence of permanent AF is associated with a twofold increase in the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) development. The purpose of the research is to study the features of the MI course, the condition of intracardiac hemodynamics, the volume of the cardiac muscle injury in patients with a permanent AF. It was done a retrospective study of 1145 patients’ case histories who were undergoing in-patient treatment for the acute MI on the basis of the CI "Dnipropetrovsk Clinical Association of Emergency Medical Aid". The first group included 134 patients with acute MI without concomitant heart rhythm disorders. The second group consisted of 102 patients with acute MI which arose on the background of a permanent form of AF. The groups were comparable in age and gender. The presence of permanent AF was associated with prognosis deterioration, early hospital mortality in patients with acute MI due to progression of heart failure, development of acute left ventricular insufficiency. A larger amount of myocardial necrosis was observed in patients with permanent AF compared to those with sinus rhythm. Conclusion: the presence of permanent AF impairs the course of acute MI, increases the risk of early hospital mortality, which requires a personalized approach to the management of patients with a permanent AF for preventing the risk of MI developing and thromboembolic complications.
Thermal History Constraints on the Isocurvature Baryon Model
Creators: name: Hu, Wayne
name: Sugiyama, Naoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a thorough and detailed investigation of baryon isocurvature models including realistic thermal histories, \ie, late or partial reionization of the universe and compact object formation after standard recombination. Constraints on these models are imposed from spectral distortion in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), number fluctuations in galaxy counts $σ_8$, and recent CMB anisotropy observations. Since the status of degree scale anisotropies is as yet unclear, the lack of spectral distortions is the most serious constraint on the spectral index of initial fluctuations: $-1.2 \simlt n \simlt -0.5$ in partially ionized models and $-1.2 \simlt n \simlt -0.9$ in compact object dominated universes in order to avoid significant bias in galaxy formation. Full ionization of the universe before $z = 300$ is also forbidden by this constraint. Intermediate scale CMB fluctuations which are significantly larger than standard CDM is a {\it robust} prediction of these models. Many models are consequently in conflict with the recent degree scale detections by Python, ARGO, and MSAM, \eg, compact object dominated models with $Ω_0 \simlt 0.2$. Moreover, {\it all} models will be ruled out if the low CMB fluctuations on degree scales as detected by the SP91 13 point scan are confirmed. On the other hand, most models fare well compared with the high Tenerife and MAX detections.
description: 18pgs, uuencoded tarred postscript, CfPA-TH-94-16, UTAP-178
A Cosmological Constant Limits the Size of Black Holes
Creators: name: Hayward, Sean A.
name: Shiromizu, Tetsuya
name: Nakao, Ken-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a space-time with cosmological constant $Λ>0$ and matter satisfying the dominant energy condition, the area of a black or white hole cannot exceed $4π/Λ$. This applies to event horizons where defined, i.e. in an asymptotically deSitter space-time, and to outer trapping horizons (cf. apparent horizons) in any space-time. The bound is attained if and only if the horizon is identical to that of the degenerate `Schwarzschild-deSitter' solution. This yields a topological restriction on the event horizon, namely that components whose total area exceeds $4π/Λ$ cannot merge. We discuss the conjectured isoperimetric inequality and implications for the cosmic censorship conjecture.
description: 10 pages
Equatorially Trapped Convection in a Rapidly Rotating Shallow Shell
Creators: name: Benjamin, Miquel
name: Jin-Han, Xie
name: Nicholas, Featherstone
name: Keith, Julien
name: Edgar, Knobloch
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent discovery of subsurface oceans on planetary moons and the interest they have generated, we explore convective flows in shallow spherical shells of dimensionless gap width $\varepsilon^2\ll 1$ in the rapid rotation limit $\mathrm{E}\ll1$, where $\mathrm{E}$ is the Ekman number. We employ direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the Boussinesq equations to compute the local heat flux $\mathrm{Nu}(λ)$ as a function of the latitude $λ$ and use the results to characterize the trapping of convection at low latitudes, around the equator. We show that these results are quantitatively reproduced by an asymptotically exact nonhydrostatic equatorial $β$-plane convection model at a much more modest computational cost than DNS. We identify the trapping parameter $β=\varepsilon \mathrm{E}^{-1}$ as the key parameter that controls the vigor and latitudinal extent of convection for moderate thermal forcing when $\mathrm{E}\sim\varepsilon$ and $\varepsilon\downarrow 0$. This model provides a new theoretical paradigm for nonlinear investigations.
description: 26 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0321
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0321, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0321, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Proving Equivalence Between Imperative and MapReduce Implementations Using Program Transformations
Creators: name: Beckert, Bernhard
name: Bingmann, Timo
name: Kiefer, Moritz
name: Sanders, Peter
name: Ulbrich, Mattias
name: Weigl, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distributed programs are often formulated in popular functional frameworks like MapReduce, Spark and Thrill, but writing efficient algorithms for such frameworks is usually a non-trivial task. As the costs of running faulty algorithms at scale can be severe, it is highly desirable to verify their correctness. We propose to employ existing imperative reference implementations as specifications for MapReduce implementations. To this end, we present a novel verification approach in which equivalence between an imperative and a MapReduce implementation is established by a series of program transformations. In this paper, we present how the equivalence framework can be used to prove equivalence between an imperative implementation of the PageRank algorithm and its MapReduce variant. The eight individual transformation steps are individually presented and explained.
description: In Proceedings MARS/VPT 2018, arXiv:1803.08668
Role of biomarkers in diagnostics, stratification of risk and prognosis of heart failure
Creators: name: Khanyukov О.О.
name: Sapozhnychenko, L.V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biomarkers
subject: 110299 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: Diseases
subject: 110202 Haematology
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases

description: Heart failure occupies one of the leading places in the structure of the causes of adult mortality in the world. The issues of timely diagnosis and prognosis of the outcomes of this disease do not lose their relevance due to the high heterogeneity of clinical manifestations and absence of absolutely pathognomonic symptoms. The development of the multimarker diagnostic strategy for management of patients with heart failure is a progressive approach .The review focuses on the synthesis of known evidence data on the role of biomarkers in diagnostics and risk stratification.
Second Order Power Corrections in the Heavy Quark Effective Theory I. Formalism and Meson Form Factors
Creators: name: Falk, Adam F.
name: Neubert, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the heavy quark effective theory, hadronic matrix elements of currents between two hadrons containing a heavy quark are expanded in inverse powers of the heavy quark masses, with coefficients that are functions of the kinematic variable $v\cdot v'$. For the ground state pseudoscalar and vector mesons, this expansion is constructed at order $1/m_Q^2$. A minimal set of universal form factors is defined in terms of matrix elements of higher dimension operators in the effective theory. The zero recoil normalization conditions following from vector current conservation are derived. Several phenomenological applications of the general results are discussed in detail. It is argued that at zero recoil the semileptonic decay rates for $B\to D\,\ell\,ν$ and $B\to D^*\ell\,ν$ receive only small second order corrections, which are unlikely to exceed the level of a few percent. This supports the usefulness of the heavy quark expansion for a reliable determination of $V_{cb}$.
description: (34 pages, REVTEX, two postscript figures available upon request), SLAC-PUB-5897
Higher Order Normalizations in the Generalized Photogravitational Restricted Three Body Problem with Poynting-Robertson Drag
Creators: name: Kushvah, B. S.
name: Sharma, J. P.
name: Ishwar, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70F07;70F15

description: Higher order normalizations are performed in the generalized photogravitational restricted three body problem with Poynting-Robertson drag. In this problem we have taken bigger primary as a source of radiation and smaller primary as an oblate spheroid. Whittaker method is used to transform the second order part of the Hamiltonian into the normal form. We have also performed Birkhoff's normalization of the Hamiltonian. For this we have tilized Henrard's method and expanded the coordinates of the infinitesimal body in double D'Alembert series. We have found the values of first and second order components. They are affected by radiation pressure, oblateness and P-R drag. Finally we obtained the third order part of the Hamiltonian zero. Keywords:Higher Order Normalization, Generalized Photogravitational, RTBP,P-R drag
description: Latex2e paper,. BASI, 2007(Accepted)
Limb and gravity-darkening coefficients for the TESS satellite at several metallicities, surface gravities, and microturbulent velocities
Creators: name: Claret, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new gravity and limb-darkening coefficients for a wide range of effective temperatures, gravities, metallicities, and microturbulent velocities. These coefficients can be used in many different fields of stellar physics as synthetic light curves of eclipsing binaries and planetary transits, stellar diameters, line profiles in rotating stars, and others. The limb-darkening coefficients were computed specifically for the photometric system of the space mission TESS and were performed by adopting the least-square method. In addition, the linear and bi-parametric coefficients, by adopting the flux conservation method, are also available. On the other hand, to take into account the effects of tidal and rotational distortions, we computed the passband gravity-darkening coefficients $y(λ)$ using a general differential equation in which we consider the effects of convection and of the partial derivative $\left(\partial{\ln I(λ)}/{\partial{\ln g}}\right)_{T_{\rm eff}}$. To generate the limb-darkening coefficients we adopt two stellar atmosphere models: ATLAS (plane-parallel) and PHOENIX (spherical, quasi-spherical, and $r$-method). The specific intensity distribution was fitted using five approaches: linear, quadratic, square root, logarithmic, and a more general one with four terms. These grids cover together 19 metallicities ranging from 10$^{-5}$ up to 10$^{+1}$ solar abundances, 0 $\leq$ log g $\leq$ 6.0 and 1500 K $\leq$ T$_{\rm eff}$ $\leq$ 50000 K. The calculations of the gravity-darkening coefficients were performed for all plane-parallel ATLAS models.
Additional file 1 of A novel multimodal needs assessment to inform the longitudinal education program for an international interprofessional critical care team
Creators: name: Li, Heyi
name: Sun, Yuqiang
name: Barwise, Amelia
name: Cui, Wenjuan
name: Dong, Yue
name: Tekin, Aysun
name: Yuan, Qingzhong
name: Qiao, Lujun
name: Gajic, Ognjen
name: Niven, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Johari window: different states of learning needs. Supplemental Table 2. Examples of learning needs assessment tools. Supplemental Fig. 1. Q survey, a ranking activity to express learning priorities. Supplemental Table 3. Patient baseline information on the day of admission.
Changes in the Ultrastructural Features of Estrogen Deficient Ovine Bone
Creators: name: Mauer, Peter
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Osteoporosis is “a skeletal disorder characterised by compromised bone strength predis- posing to an increased risk of fracture” (NIH, 2001). Every second woman and every fifth man will suffer an osteoporotic fracture (Kanis et al., 2000). Of all people that suffer an age-related fracture, the current gold standard of osteoporosis diagnosis, DEXA scanning, misclassifies 80% of them to be non-osteoporotic (Sanders et al., 2006). Bone quantity is easily measured, however, bone strength is an interplay of bone quantity and quality — and the latter is hard to determine. More reliable clinical methods to diagnose osteoporosis are needed as well as widening of our understanding of the underlying mechanisms and of treatment options. Exploring these were the goals of this thesis. This work used cortical bones from an ovariectomized (OVX) sheep model to study the effects of estrogen depletion and zoledronic acid (ZOL) on bone quality. The usability of Magnet Resonance Imaging (MRI) with novel contrast agents and submillimeter Reference Point Indentation (RPI) to determine parameters of bone quality were explored. Observation of microcrack propagation showed decreased strength and resistance to frac- ture of OVX bone. The mechanical properties of individual OVX osteons in respect to their age were not different from CON tissue. Novel MRI contrast agents labelled outer and inner surfaces of bone — but microcracks were not detected with the limited reso- lution. OVX periosteal bone showed increased brittleness and easier crack propagation with RPI, while ZOL reversed properties towards control. Improvements were addressed to increase the clinical applicability. In conclusion, this work illustrates the importance of microstructure in the strength of cor- tical bone as well as the use of clinically applicable submillimeter techniques.
Temperature measurement of sub-micrometric ICs by scanning thermal microscopy
Creators: name: Gomès, S.
name: Chapuis, Po
name: Nepveu, F.
name: Trannoy, N.
name: Volz, S.
name: Charlot, B.
name: Tessier, Gilles
name: Dilhaire, S.
name: Cretin, Bernard
name: Vairac, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface temperature measurements were performed with a Scanning Thermal Microscope mounted with a thermoresistive wire probe of micrometrSurface temperature measurements were performed with a Scanning Thermal Microscope mounted with a thermoresistive wire probe of micrometric size. A CMOS device was designed with arrays of resistive lines 0.35$μ$m in width. The array periods are 0.8micron and 10micron to study the spatial resolution of the SThM. Integrated Circuits with passivation layers of micrometric and nanometric thicknesses were tested. To enhance signal-to-noise ratio, the resistive lines were heated with an AC current. The passivation layer of nanometric thickness allows us to distinguish the lines when the array period is 10micron. The results raise the difficulties of the SThM measurement due to the design and the topography of ICs on one hand and the size of the thermal probe on the other hand.ic size. A CMOS device was designed with arrays of resistive lines 0.35$μ$m in width. The array periods are 0.8micron and 10micron to study the spatial resolution of the SThM. Integrated Circuits with passivation layers of micrometric and nanometric thicknesses were tested. To enhance signal-to-noise ratio, the resistive lines were heated with an AC current. The passivation layer of nanometric thickness allows us to distinguish the lines when the array period is 10micron. The results raise the difficulties of the SThM measurement due to the design and the topography of ICs on one hand and the size of the thermal probe on the other hand.
International students experience of a western medical school. A mixed methods study, exploring the impact of the clinical years of the programme in the context of adjustment to the Irish health care system.
Creators: name: Karivelil, Deepak
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Due to improvements in technology, transportation, and ease of access, we live in an era of unprecedented globalization and ever-increasing diversity in tertiary institutions. Internationality and multiculturalism confer numerous benefits for students, institutions, and nations. Nevertheless, it is reported that international students face challenges when adjusting to a new culture. These acculturative challenges could drastically add to the numerous challenges that students in medical school already face. This study aims to address two questions:  How do cultural backgrounds impact the challenges and coping mechanisms faced by sojourning medical students in their clinical years and how do these differ from that of the host medical students in the same year? How, and to what extent, do sojourning medical students in their clinical years adjust to the new environment? The study was carried out in the medical school of The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Students were grouped into five regions based on their country of origin: Ireland, North America, Far East, Middle East, and Others. A mixed methods sequential study was carried out to answer the research questions. This entailed interviews with key informants, and peer interviews and a focus group discussion with final year medical students. Following thematic analysis of the interviews and the focus group discussion, items were developed and combined with validated tools in a questionnaire which was piloted and then published to final year medical students. The response rate was 50.3% (144/286). Data analysis revealed that students from Ireland (host students) were the most socially adjusted followed by students from North America and the Far East. Students from the Middle East were the least socially adjusted. Factors that affected adjustment were challenges with communication and language, consumption of alcohol at social events, befriending members of the opposite sex, cultural pressures from students belonging to the same culture, and discrimination. Based on these findings, recommendations are made in order to enhance support structures throughout the clinical years for international students studying in a western medical school.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0240v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0240v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0240v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
A Relativistic Approch to Gravitational Instability in the Expanding Universe: Second Order Lagrangian Solutions
Creators: name: Matarrese, S.
name: Pantano, O.
name: Saez, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Lagrangian relativistic approach to the non--linear dynamics of cosmological perturbations of an irrotational collisionless fluid is considered. Solutions are given at second order in perturbation theory for the relevant fluid and geometric quantities and compared with the corresponding ones in the Newtonian approximation. Specifically, we compute the density, the volume expansion scalar, the shear, the ``electric" part, or tide, and the ``magnetic" part of the Weyl tensor. The evolution of the shear and the tide beyond the linear regime strongly depends on the ratio of the characteristic size of the perturbation to the cosmological horizon distance. For perturbations on sub--horizon scales the usual Newtonian approximation applies, at least at the considered perturbative order; on super--horizon scales, instead, a new picture emerges, which we call ``silent universe", as each fluid element evolves independently of the environment, being unable to exchange signals with the surrounding matter through either sound waves or gravitational radiation. For perturbations inside the Hubble radius particular attention is paid in singling out non--local effects during the non--linear evolution of fluid elements. These non--local effects are shown to be carried by a traceless and divergenceless tensor, contained in the magnetic part of the Weyl tensor, which is dynamically generated as soon as the system evolves away from the linear regime.
description: 14 pages, latex, figure upon request, DFPD 94/A/18
The use of trypsin-like blood activity as a marker of pulmonary fibrosis severity
Creators: name: Rodionova, V.V.
name: Karaseva, O.V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biomarkers
subject: Diseases
subject: 110202 Haematology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases

description: Purpose – to determine changes in the trypsin-like blood activity and its relationship with acute phase indices of inflammation in patients with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) as a marker of course severity and prognosis of the disease. Materials and Methods: The study included 18 patients: 15 (83%) women and 3 (17%) men, mean age 53±2.5 years. The control group included 15 practically healthy persons. All the examined patients (n=18) were divided into two groups: with mild or moderately severe PF – 8 (44.4%) patients (group I), severe PF – 10 (55.6%) of patients (group II). Duration of the disease - from 1 month. up to 4 years. Patients underwent clinic-laboratory and anthropometric studies, a mMRC questionnaire was used, blood saturation was measured, lung radiography in 2 projections, echocardiography, and if necessary a high-resolution computer tomography etc were performed. Results and discussion: More than half of the patients were overweight (44,4%) or had obesity of І-ІІІ st. (27.8%). The severity of dyspnea according to mMRC scale was 3.0 (3.0-4.0) points in patients of group II and 2.5 (2.0-3.0) points in patients of group I. There was a decrease in C-reactive protein (CRP) in group I and a tendency to increase in patients of group II. When analyzing the indicator of trypsin-like blood activity (TLA), it was found that the median TLA at the beginning of the observation was twice as high as in healthy individuals, direct correlation was established between the level of TLA and the severity of the disease course. After treatment the level of TLA decreased in group I patients. In the severe course of PF, the average TLA level remained high. The progredient course of LF is characterized by severe clinical symptoms, a significant increase in TLA, CRP, reduced O2 saturation, a lack of response to treatment and an unfavorable prognosis. The TLA index can be used as a biochemical marker of the severity of PF along with the CRPindex, O2 saturation and the degree of dyspnoea.
Gender Bias in Sharenting: Both Men and Women Mention Sons More Often Than Daughters on Social Media
Creators: name: Sivak, Elizaveta
name: Smirnov, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gender inequality starts before birth. Parents tend to prefer boys over girls, which is manifested in reproductive behavior, marital life, and parents' pastimes and investments in their children. While social media and sharing information about children (so-called "sharenting") have become an integral part of parenthood, it is not well-known if and how gender preference shapes online behavior of users. In this paper, we investigate public mentions of daughters and sons on social media. We use data from a popular social networking site on public posts from 635,665 users. We find that both men and women mention sons more often than daughters in their posts. We also find that posts featuring sons get more "likes" on average. Our results indicate that girls are underrepresented in parents' digital narratives about their children. This gender imbalance may send a message that girls are less important than boys, or that they deserve less attention, thus reinforcing gender inequality.
Wigner function and quantum kinetic theory in curved space-time and external fields
Creators: name: Fonarev, Oleg A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new definition of the Wigner function for quantum fields coupled to curved space--time and an external Yang--Mills field is studied on the example of a scalar and a Dirac fields. The definition uses the formalism of the tangent bundles and is explicitly covariant and gauge invariant. Derivation of collisionless quantum kinetic equations is carried out for both quantum fields by using the first order formalism of Duffin and Kemmer. The evolution of the Wigner function is governed by the quantum corrected Liouville--Vlasov equation supplemented by the generalized mass--shell constraint. The structure of the quantum corrections is perturbatively found in all adiabatic orders. The lowest order quantum--curvature corrections coincide with the ones found by Winter.
description: 41 pages
Relaxation Behavior by Time-Salt and Time-Temperature Superpositions of Polyelectrolyte Complexes from Coacervate to Precipitate
Creators: name: Ali, Samim
name: Prabhu, Vivek M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complexation between anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes results in solid-like precipitates or liquid-like coacervate depending on the added salt in the aqueous medium. However, the boundary between these polymer-rich phases is quite broad and the associated changes in the polymer relaxation in the complexes across the transition regime are poorly understood. In this work, the relaxation dynamics of complexes across this transition is probed over a wide timescale by measuring viscoelastic spectra and zero-shear viscosities at varying temperatures and salt concentrations for two different salt types. We find that the complexes exhibit time-temperature superposition (TTS) at all salt concentrations, while the range of overlapped-frequencies for time-temperature-salt superposition (TTSS) strongly depends on the salt concentration (Cs) and gradually shifts to higher frequencies as Cs is decreased. The sticky-Rouse model describes the relaxation behavior at all Cs. However, collective relaxation of polyelectrolyte complexes gradually approaches a rubbery regime and eventually exhibits a gel-like response as Cs is decreased and limits the validity of TTSS.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, Follow Gels journal link for latest version
Companion table to Figure 1 from The many functions of vocal learning
Creators: name: Carouso-Peck, Samantha
name: Goldstein, Michael H.
name: Fitch, W. Tecumseh
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: All species included in Figure 1 and associated references
Additional file 1 of Comparative analysis of aneurysm subtypes associated genes based on protein–protein interaction network
Creators: name: Sun, Ruya
name: Zhou, Yuan
name: Cui, Qinghua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary tables.