cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Best Practices on High Frequency Radar Deployment and Operation for Ocean Current Measurement.
Creators: name: Mantovani, Carlo
name: Corgnati, Lorenzo
name: Horstmann, Jochen
name: Rubio, Anna
name: Reyes, Emma
name: Quentin, Céline
name: Cosoli, Simone
name: Asensio, Jose Luis
name: Mader, Julien
name: Griffa, Annalisa
Publisher: name: UNESCO/IOC
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High frequency radar (HFR)
subject: Radar remote sensing
subject: Surface currents
subject: Data management
subject: Quality control
subject: Parameter Discipline::Physical oceanography::Currents
subject: Instrument Type Vocabulary::acoustic backscatter sensors
subject: Data Management Practices::Data quality control
subject: Data Management Practices::Data management planning and strategy development

description: High Frequency Radar (HFR) technology refers to land based remote sensing instruments capable of measuring surface currents and ocean waves at ranges up to 200 km or more. HFR technology is widely acknowledged as a cost-efficient tool to monitor coastal regions and has potential use to monitor coastal regions all over the world. Globally, the number of HFR stations is steadily increasing. Regional networks provide real-time data in support of operational activities such as search and rescue operations, fast response in case of maritime accidents and spill of pollutants, and resource management. Each operator needs a general understanding of the working principles in order to ensure that instruments are managed properly. A set of harmonized quality assurance and quality control procedures is recommended, along with an effective approach to HFR data discovery and dissemination, to provide high quality measurements to the end users. Different documents providing best practices for operation and maintenance have emerged in the past years. They are oriented either to Direction Finding (DF) or Beam Forming (BF) systems, or to specific manufacturer’s radar systems. The main objective of this paper is to offer a comprehensive “Best Practices” document in an effort of ensuring consistency between different deployments and harmonized operations of HFR systems. This, regardless of system manufacturer, antenna design and setup. A homogeneous approach is given when possible, general concepts and definitions are introduced in order to provide a framework for both data processing and management steps. Examples are also given from the European HFR users with focus on Near Real Time data flow suitable for operational services.
MobilePhys: Personalized Mobile Camera-Based Contactless Physiological Sensing
Creators: name: Liu, Xin
name: Wang, Yuntao
name: Xie, Sinan
name: Zhang, Xiaoyu
name: Ma, Zixian
name: McDuff, Daniel
name: Patel, Shwetak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Camera-based contactless photoplethysmography refers to a set of popular techniques for contactless physiological measurement. The current state-of-the-art neural models are typically trained in a supervised manner using videos accompanied by gold standard physiological measurements. However, they often generalize poorly out-of-domain examples (i.e., videos that are unlike those in the training set). Personalizing models can help improve model generalizability, but many personalization techniques still require some gold standard data. To help alleviate this dependency, in this paper, we present a novel mobile sensing system called MobilePhys, the first mobile personalized remote physiological sensing system, that leverages both front and rear cameras on a smartphone to generate high-quality self-supervised labels for training personalized contactless camera-based PPG models. To evaluate the robustness of MobilePhys, we conducted a user study with 39 participants who completed a set of tasks under different mobile devices, lighting conditions/intensities, motion tasks, and skin types. Our results show that MobilePhys significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art on-device supervised training and few-shot adaptation methods. Through extensive user studies, we further examine how does MobilePhys perform in complex real-world settings. We envision that calibrated or personalized camera-based contactless PPG models generated from our proposed dual-camera mobile sensing system will open the door for numerous future applications such as smart mirrors, fitness and mobile health applications.
description: Published paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517225
Antiproliferative activity of Humulus lupulus extracts on human hepatoma (Hep3B), colon (HT-29) cancer cells and proteases, tyrosinase, β-lactamase enzyme inhibition studies
Creators: name: Önder, Ferah Cömert
name: Ay, Mehmet
name: Türkoğlu, Sümeyye Aydoğan
name: Köçkar, Feray Tura
name: Çelik, Ayhan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: The aims of this study were to examine the antiproliferation of Humulus lupulus extracts on human hepatoma carcinoma (Hep3B) and human colon carcinoma (HT-29) cell lines along with enzyme inhibitory effects of the crude extracts. Potential cell cytotoxicity of six different H. lupulus extracts were assayed on various cancer cells using MTT assay at 24, 48 and 72 h intervals. Methanol-1 extract has inhibited the cell proliferation with doses of 0.6–1 mg/mL in a time dependent (48 and 72 hours) manner in Hep3B cells with 70% inhibition, while inhibitory effect was not seen in colon cancer cells. Acetone extract has increased the cell proliferation at low doses of 0.1 mg/mL for 72 h in Hep3B cells and 0.1–0.2 mg/mL for 48 and 72 h in HT29 cells. The inhibitory effects of the extracts were compared by relative maximum activity values (Vmax) using proteases such as α-chymotrypsin, trypsin and papain, tyrosinase and β-lactamase (penicillinase).
IR SED and Dust Masses of Sub-solar Metallicity Galaxies at z~2.3
Creators: name: Shivaei, Irene
name: Popping, Gergö
name: Rieke, George
name: Reddy, Naveen
name: Pope, Alexandra
name: Kennicutt, Robert
name: Mobasher, Bahram
name: Coil, Alison
name: Fudamoto, Yoshinobu
name: Kriek, Mariska
name: Lyu, Jianwei
name: Oesch, Pascal
name: Sanders, Ryan
name: Shapley, Alice
name: Siana, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from ALMA 1.2mm continuum observations of a sample of 27 star-forming galaxies at z=2.1-2.5 from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey. These galaxies have gas-phase metallicity and star-formation rate measurements from Hb, [OIII], Ha, and [NII]. Using stacks of Spitzer, Herschel, and ALMA photometry (rest-frame ~ 8-400$μ$m), we examine the IR SED of high-redshift subsolar metallicity (~0.5 $Z_{\odot}$) LIRGs. We find that the data agree well with an average SED template of higher luminosity local low-metallicity dwarf galaxies (reduced $χ^2$ of 1.8). When compared with the commonly used templates for solar-metallicity local galaxies or high-redshift LIRGs and ULIRGs, even in the most favorable case (with reduced $χ^2$ of 2.8), the templates are rejected at >98% confidence level. The broader and hotter IR SED of both the local dwarfs and high-redshift subsolar metallicity galaxies may result from different grain properties, a clumpy dust geometry, or a harder/more intense ionizing radiation field that heats the dust to higher temperatures. The obscured SFR indicated by the FIR emission of the subsolar metallicity galaxies is only ~ 60% of the total SFR, which is considerably lower than that of the local LIRGs with ~ 96-97% obscured fractions. Due to the evolving IR SED shape, the local LIRG templates fit to mid-IR data can overestimate the Rayleigh-Jeans tail measurements at z~2 by a factor of 2-20, and these templates underestimate IR luminosities if fit to the observed ALMA fluxes by >0.4dex. At a given stellar mass or metallicity, dust masses at z~2.3 are an order of magnitude higher than those at z~0. Given the predicted molecular gas mass fractions, the observed z~2.3 dust-to-stellar mass ratios suggest lower dust-to-molecular gas masses than in local galaxies at the same metallicity.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 29 pages, 2 appendices, 10 figures, 3 tables
Competition of chiral soliton lattice and Abrikosov vortex lattice in QCD with isospin chemical potential
Creators: name: Grønli, Martin Spillum
name: Brauner, Tomáš
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the thermodynamics of two-flavor quark matter in presence of nonzero isospin chemical potential and external magnetic field. It is known that at sufficiently high isospin chemical potential, charged pions undergo Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). The condensate behaves as a superconductor, exhibiting Meissner effect in weak external magnetic fields. Stronger fields stress the superconducting state, turning it first into an Abrikosov lattice of vortices, and eventually destroying the condensate altogether. On the other hand, for sufficiently strong magnetic fields and low-to-moderate isospin chemical potential, the ground state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is expected to be a spatially modulated condensate of neutral pions, induced by the chiral anomaly: the chiral soliton lattice (CSL). We map the phase diagram of QCD as a function of isospin chemical potential and magnetic field in the part of the parameter space accessible to a low-energy effective field theory description of QCD. Our main result is an explicit account of the competition between the CSL and the Abrikosov vortex lattice. This is accomplished by adopting a fast numerical algorithm for finding the vortex lattice solution of the equation of motion and the corresponding Gibbs energy. We find that the Abrikosov vortex lattice phase persists in the phase diagram, separating the uniform charged pion BEC phase from the CSL phase. The precise layout of the phase diagram depends sensitively on the choice of the vacuum pion mass.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Influence of Seasonal Variation of Water Temperature and Dissolved Organic Matter on Ozone and OH Radical Reaction Kinetics During Ozonation of a Lake Water
Creators: name: Jaedon Shin
name: Hidayat, Zahra Ramadhany
name: Yunho Lee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: This study used key description parameters of the ozonation process in lake water samples over a 1-year period to better understand the influence of seasonal variations in water quality such as water temperature and dissolved organic matter on ozone decomposition and OH radical formation and reaction kinetics. The parameters were the initial ozone demand (IOD), ozone decay rate constant after the IOD (ksec), ratio of OH radical exposure to the ozone exposure (RCt), and ratio of ozone consumption to the OH radial exposure multiplied by the second-order rate constant for the reaction of the OH radical with an OH radical probe compound (Ω). The seasonal variations in water quality had the most significant influence on RCt (39–64%), followed by ksec (35–38%), Ω (27–34%), and IOD (11–25%) for the raw lake water and sand-filtered water in which the numbers inside parentheses indicate the percent standard deviation of the measured values for 1 year. For the oligotrophic-type lake water, the seasonal variation in water temperature (6–26 °C) had the most significant influence on the ksec, RCt, and Ω. The Ω was newly found to be inversely related with water temperature, possibly due to the temperature-dependent OH radical yield from ozone decomposition. This implies that the OH radical oxidation capacity during ozonation can be significantly influenced by the temperature due to the varying ozone decomposition rate and the intrinsic OH radical yield. This study also demonstrated the Ω is a useful, alternative parameter to the RCt for describing or predicting OH radical exposure from ozone consumption especially when the ozone decay is rapid or varies over time such as the initial ozonation phase of natural water or wastewater where a considerable OH radical exposure takes place.
Influence of Seasonal Variation of Water Temperature and Dissolved Organic Matter on Ozone and OH Radical Reaction Kinetics During Ozonation of a Lake Water
Creators: name: Jaedon Shin
name: Hidayat, Zahra Ramadhany
name: Yunho Lee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: This study used key description parameters of the ozonation process in lake water samples over a 1-year period to better understand the influence of seasonal variations in water quality such as water temperature and dissolved organic matter on ozone decomposition and OH radical formation and reaction kinetics. The parameters were the initial ozone demand (IOD), ozone decay rate constant after the IOD (ksec), ratio of OH radical exposure to the ozone exposure (RCt), and ratio of ozone consumption to the OH radial exposure multiplied by the second-order rate constant for the reaction of the OH radical with an OH radical probe compound (Ω). The seasonal variations in water quality had the most significant influence on RCt (39–64%), followed by ksec (35–38%), Ω (27–34%), and IOD (11–25%) for the raw lake water and sand-filtered water in which the numbers inside parentheses indicate the percent standard deviation of the measured values for 1 year. For the oligotrophic-type lake water, the seasonal variation in water temperature (6–26 °C) had the most significant influence on the ksec, RCt, and Ω. The Ω was newly found to be inversely related with water temperature, possibly due to the temperature-dependent OH radical yield from ozone decomposition. This implies that the OH radical oxidation capacity during ozonation can be significantly influenced by the temperature due to the varying ozone decomposition rate and the intrinsic OH radical yield. This study also demonstrated the Ω is a useful, alternative parameter to the RCt for describing or predicting OH radical exposure from ozone consumption especially when the ozone decay is rapid or varies over time such as the initial ozonation phase of natural water or wastewater where a considerable OH radical exposure takes place.
Reply
Creators: name: Ding, Peng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: Reply
Quantum walk on the Bloch sphere
Creators: name: Duan, Liwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A scheme for implementing the discrete-time quantum walk on the Bloch sphere is proposed, which is closely related to the SU(2) group. A spin cluster serves as the walker, whereas its location on the Bloch sphere is described by the spin coherent state. An additional spin that interacts with the spin cluster plays the role of a coin, whose state determines the rotation of the spin cluster. The Wigner function is calculated to visualize the movement of the walker on the Bloch sphere, with which the probability distribution and the standard deviation are also achieved. The quadratic enhancement of variance for the quantum walk on the Bloch sphere is confirmed. Compared to the ideal quantum walk on a circle, the walker's states on the Bloch sphere are generally nonorthogonal, whose drawbacks can be eliminated by increasing the number of spins in the spin cluster.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Theory of spin-excitation anisotropy in the nematic phase of FeSe obtained from RIXS measurements
Creators: name: Kreisel, Andreas
name: Hirschfeld, P. J.
name: Andersen, Brian M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments have detected a significant high-energy spin-excitation anisotropy in the nematic phase of the enigmatic iron-based superconductor FeSe, whose origin remains controversial. We apply an itinerant model previously used to describe the spin-excitation anisotropy as measured by neutron scattering measurements, with magnetic fluctuations included within the RPA approximation. The calculated RIXS cross section exhibits overall agreement with the RIXS data, including the high energy spin-excitation anisotropy.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, published version
Utilitarian and modern: clientelism, citizen empowerment, and civic engagement in the Arab world
Creators: name: Ciftci, Sabri
name: Bernick, Ethan M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Cancer
Biological Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Neuroscience

description: In this article, we examine the patterns of civic engagement in non-democratic and democratizing polities of the Arab world. The theoretical argument incorporates two perspectives: modernization theory and utilitarianism. Specifically, we use wasta-seeking behaviour and indicators of human capital and citizen empowerment to explain the micro-level foundations of civic engagement. We build on the implications of these approaches to explain the civic gender gap and women's status in Arab societies. The results of a series of multivariate estimations using the first wave of the Arab Barometer Survey show that clientelistic behaviour along with higher levels of education and employment status explain citizens' involvement in various forms of civic activities. We argue that the former helps sustain traditional authoritarian structures and the latter may help democratization by strengthening civil society. We also detect a civic gender gap and find that citizen empowerment and modernization may narrow this gap in accordance with the democratic norms whereas utilitarian behaviour may generate a similar effect to indirectly undermine the status of women. These findings provide new insights about the complex interdependence of human development, clientelistic networks, women's status, and democratization in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
Transfer Reinforcement Learning for Differing Action Spaces via Q-Network Representations
Creators: name: Beck, Nathan
name: Rajasekharan, Abhiramon
name: Tran, Hieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transfer learning approaches in reinforcement learning aim to assist agents in learning their target domains by leveraging the knowledge learned from other agents that have been trained on similar source domains. For example, recent research focus within this space has been placed on knowledge transfer between tasks that have different transition dynamics and reward functions; however, little focus has been placed on knowledge transfer between tasks that have different action spaces. In this paper, we approach the task of transfer learning between domains that differ in action spaces. We present a reward shaping method based on source embedding similarity that is applicable to domains with both discrete and continuous action spaces. The efficacy of our approach is evaluated on transfer to restricted action spaces in the Acrobot-v1 and Pendulum-v0 domains. A comparison with two baselines shows that our method does not outperform these baselines in these continuous action spaces but does show an improvement in these discrete action spaces. We conclude our analysis with future directions for this work.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Reply
Creators: name: Tarpey, Thaddeus
name: R. Todd Ogden
name: Petkova, Eva
name: Christensen, Ronald
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: Reply
Comparison of Fe/surfactant improved montmorillonite: adsorbing and in situ decomposing methylene blue and recycling use
Creators: name: Xueping Liu
name: Xiaohui Jiang
name: Zhengjun Cheng
name: Limei Zhou
name: Yunwen Liao
name: Duan, Ming
name: Pu, Qiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Montmorillonite (MMt) was intercalated by polymeric Fe, or by N-ethyl dodecyl nicotinate bromide (EDNB), or by both. The improved MMt designated as Fe/MMt, EDNB/MMt, and EDNB/MMt/Fe, respectively. A comparison was performed on the improved MMt in the uptake and in the degradation of methylene blue (MB) as well as in the recycling use. The results showed that EDNB/MMt adsorbed more MB than the other two; however, Fe/MMt and EDNB/MMt/Fe acted faster than the former. The adsorption of MB on the three adsorbents followed Langmuir isotherm and pseudo-second-order kinetics. In addition, MB adsorbing on EDNB/MMt was also well described by intraparticle diffusion model. MB removal by EDNB/MMt experienced an endothermic and entropy driving process, but an exothermic and entropy declining process by the other two. pH of the solution affected MB removal. When pH of the solution is high than 10, MB uptake diminished on Fe/MMt and EDNB/MMt/Fe; however, it slightly increased on EDNB/MMt. MB could be decomposed by Fenton reagent on the improved MMt, and the adsorbents could be reused. By coupling the adsorption and degradation in situ by H2O2/Fe2+ or Fe3+, MB removal by Fe/MMt and EDNB/MMt/Fe was almost maintained in the ten cycles. So, present work deepens the understanding of modified MMt in the application of dye wastewater treatment.
Letter to the Editor
Creators: name: R. Dennis Cook
name: Forzani, Liliana
name: Rothman, Adam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry

description: Letter to the Editor
title: Dagstuhl Reports, Table of Contents, Volume 13, Issue 9, 2023
Creators: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Table of Contents
subject: Frontmatter

description: Dagstuhl Reports, Table of Contents, Volume 13, Issue 9, 2023
description: DagRep, Volume 13, Issue 9, pages i-ii
Cytotoxic constituents of Lasiosphaera fenzlii on different cell lines and the synergistic effects with paclitaxel
Creators: name: J. Gao
name: L. W. Wang
name: H. C. Zheng
name: A. Damirin
name: C. M. Ma
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: The fruit body of Lasiosphaera fenzlii was found to show cytotoxicity on cancer cells during a preliminary screening. Repeated column chromatography of the fungal methanol extract resulted in the isolation of six compounds identified as 5α,8α-epidioxy-ergosta-6,22-dien-3β-ol (1), 5α,8α-epidioxy-ergosta-6,9(11),22-trien-3β-ol (2), 5α-ergosta-7,22-dien-3β-ol (3), 5α-ergosta-7,22-dien-3-one (4), ergosta-7,22-dien-3β,5α,6β-triol (5) and 6-dihydroxy-2,3-dihydro-1H-isoindol-1-one (6). The two peroxide compounds, 1 and 2, showed cytotoxic activity and compound 1 was selectively cytotoxic to cancer cells. Furthermore, compound 1 synergised the cytotoxicity of paclitaxel on Hela cells by increasing intracellular accumulation of paclitaxel in cancer cells but not in normal cells.
Comparison of Fe/surfactant improved montmorillonite: adsorbing and in situ decomposing methylene blue and recycling use
Creators: name: Xueping Liu
name: Xiaohui Jiang
name: Zhengjun Cheng
name: Limei Zhou
name: Yunwen Liao
name: Duan, Ming
name: Pu, Qiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Montmorillonite (MMt) was intercalated by polymeric Fe, or by N-ethyl dodecyl nicotinate bromide (EDNB), or by both. The improved MMt designated as Fe/MMt, EDNB/MMt, and EDNB/MMt/Fe, respectively. A comparison was performed on the improved MMt in the uptake and in the degradation of methylene blue (MB) as well as in the recycling use. The results showed that EDNB/MMt adsorbed more MB than the other two; however, Fe/MMt and EDNB/MMt/Fe acted faster than the former. The adsorption of MB on the three adsorbents followed Langmuir isotherm and pseudo-second-order kinetics. In addition, MB adsorbing on EDNB/MMt was also well described by intraparticle diffusion model. MB removal by EDNB/MMt experienced an endothermic and entropy driving process, but an exothermic and entropy declining process by the other two. pH of the solution affected MB removal. When pH of the solution is high than 10, MB uptake diminished on Fe/MMt and EDNB/MMt/Fe; however, it slightly increased on EDNB/MMt. MB could be decomposed by Fenton reagent on the improved MMt, and the adsorbents could be reused. By coupling the adsorption and degradation in situ by H2O2/Fe2+ or Fe3+, MB removal by Fe/MMt and EDNB/MMt/Fe was almost maintained in the ten cycles. So, present work deepens the understanding of modified MMt in the application of dye wastewater treatment.
Integrating multi-dimensional decision-making and quorum valuation for sustainability assessment of the cruise industry
Creators: name: Ramírez-Trujillo, Ana
name: Peláez-Repiso, Andrea
name: Peláez, José Ignacio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Recently, sustainability has been an essential aspect of the cruise industry, and academics and professionals are evaluating its sustainable development based on environmental, economic, and social dimensions. However, most previous studies have not considered the interactions between the dimensions in the analysis process. To address this gap, this study proposes a model for evaluating the sustainable development of the cruise industry called MDDM-QV. This model integrates the Multidimensional Decision Making (MDDM) method and Quorum Valuation (QV) operator, which improves decision processes by providing measures of majority opinion and consensus. The model has been applied to the cruise industry in Málaga, which is one of the main cruise ports in the Mediterranean. The results show that the MDDM-QV integrated approach can be a robust method to provide strategies for the sustainable development of the cruise industry.
Experimental investigation of quantum uncertainty relations with classical shadows
Creators: name: Liu, Lu
name: Zhang, Ting
name: Yuan, Xiao
name: Lu, He
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum component in uncertainty relation can be naturally characterized by the quantum coherence of a quantum state, which is of paramount importance in quantum information science. Here, we experimentally investigate quantum uncertainty relations construed with relative entropy of coherence, $l_1$ norm of coherence and coherence of formation. In stead of quantum state tomographic technology, we employ the classical shadow algorithm for the detection of lower bounds in quantum uncertainty relations. With an all optical setup, we prepare a family of quantum states whose purity can be fully controlled. We experimentally explore the tightness of various lower bounds in different reference bases on the prepared states. Our results indicate the tightness of quantum coherence lower bounds dependents on the reference bases as well as the purity of quantum state.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
TQC – The Final Revolution in Cryptography, Blockchain, and  Global Digital Infrastructure
Creators: name: LAZAREV, SERGIU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Twin Quantum Computing (TQC) 2. Oscillatory Logic 3. Entangled Computational Cores 4. Ternary Code Architecture 5. Subquantum Information Dynamics

description: Abstract

This paper introduces the logical architecture and code design principles underlying the Twin Quantum Computing (TQC) system, an emergent computation paradigm rooted in New Subquantum Informational Mechanics (NMSI). Unlike classical quantum computing, which relies on discrete qubit states and unitary gates, TQC operates through entangled oscillatory cores (CLOs) that communicate via phase harmonization across parallel subquantum structures.

The TQC code structure is not binary or even probabilistic—it is ternary and oscillatory, defined by the resonance logic between paired computational cores. Each logical unit in the system (CLO) is composed of modular elements arranged in a resonance lattice, allowing information to propagate as a function of synchrony, not signal.

The paper details the encoding protocol, the triadic logic gates, the resonance activation rules, and the overall network behavior that allows TQC to perform computation as emergent logic rather than instruction-based processing. Examples are provided to illustrate how information is dynamically routed and transformed through phase interaction chains, forming a living logic net that adapts its structure in response to internal coherence and environmental constraints.

This foundational description of the TQC code sets the stage for future implementations in both physical and hybrid cybernetic systems, with potential applications ranging from deep-field cosmological modeling to entangled intelligence systems.
Doubly heavy tetraquarks in a chiral-diquark picture
Creators: name: Kim, Yonghee
name: Oka, Makoto
name: Suzuki, Kei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Energy spectrum of doubly heavy tetraquarks, $T_{QQ}$ ($QQ \bar{q} \bar{q}$ with $Q = c, b$ and $q = u, d, s$), is studied in the potential chiral-diquark model. Using the chiral effective theory of diquarks and the quark-diquark-based potential model, the $T_{bb}$, $T_{cc}$, and $T_{cb}$ tetraquarks are described as a three-body system composed of two heavy quarks and an antidiquark. We find several $T_{bb}$ bound states, while no $T_{cc}$ and $T_{cb}$ (deep) bound state is seen. We also study the change of the $T_{QQ}$ tetraquark masses under restoration of chiral symmetry.
description: 16 pages, 14 Figures, 10 Tables
A novel general modeling of the viscoelastic properties of fluids: application to mechanical relaxation and low frequency oscillation measurements of liquid water
Creators: name: Aitken, Frederic
name: Volino, Ferdinand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this paper is to calculate the time dependence of the mean position (and orientation) of a fluid particle when a fluid system at thermodynamic equilibrium is submitted to a mechanical action. The starting point of this novel theoretical approach is the introduction of a mechanical energy functional. Then using the notions of inertial modes and action temperature, and assuming a mechanical energy equipartition principle per mode, the model predict the existence of a dynamic phase transition where the rheological behavior of the medium evolves from a solid-like to a liquid-like regime when the mechanical action is increased. The well-known Newtonian behavior is recovered as limiting case. The present modeling is applied to the analysis of recent liquid water viscoelastic data pointing out a prevalent elastic behavior in confined geometry. It is demonstrated that the model makes it possible to understand these data in a coherent and unified way with the transport properties (viscosity and self-diffusion coefficient). It is concluded that any finite volume of fluid at rest possesses a static shear elasticity and should therefore be considered as a solid-like medium.
description: 43 pages, 24 figures, 2 appendices
Generation and maintenance of the circularized multimeric IS26-associated translocatable unit encoding multidrug resistance
Creators: name: Aihara, Masamune
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310704
subject: Microbial genetics
classificationCode: 310701
subject: Bacteriology

description: Data used in the manuscript entitled ''Generation and maintenance of the circularized multimeric IS26-associated translocatable unit encoding multidrug resistance''.
Direct Measurement of Storage and Loss Behavior in AFM Force-Distance Experiments Using the Modified Fourier Transformation
Creators: name: Uluutku, Berkin
name: McCraw, Marshall Richards
name: Solares, Santiago D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Force-distance curve experiments are commonly performed in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) to obtain the viscoelastic characteristics of materials, such as the storage and loss moduli or compliances. The classic methods used to obtain these characteristics consist of fitting a viscoelastic material model to the experimentally obtained AFM data. Here, we demonstrate a new method that utilizes the modified discrete Fourier transform to approximate the storage and loss behavior of a material directly from the data, without the need for a fit. Additionally, one may still fit a model to the resulting storage and loss behavior if a parameterized description of the material is desired. In contrast to fitting the data to a model chosen a priori, departing from a model-free description of the material's frequency behavior guides the selection of the model, such that the user may choose the one that is most appropriate for the particular material under study. To this end, we also include modified Fourier domain descriptions of commonly used viscoelastic models.
Shakespeare and the English Seneca in Print: Collections, Authorship, Collaboration, and Pedagogies of Play-Reading
Creators: name: Lyons, Tara L.
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2023

description: Despite the abundance of scholarship debating Seneca’s influence on Shakespeare, there is no corresponding research on how Seneca’s print transmission informed Shakespeare’s books in print. This essay begins to address this critical gap by turning to two of the earliest multi-play collections printed in England that were devoted exclusively to English plays: Seneca His Tenne Tragedies (1581) and Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623). Of these two collections, Shakespeare’s has received far more critical attention as a book, but when the volumes are juxtaposed, their affinities are striking. Both play collections share a number of analogous organizational, paratextual, and typographic features that helped coalesce the authorial identities of an “English Seneca” and an original “Shakespeare”, respectively. Both collections bear the traces of their producers’ negotiations over the authenticity of the collected texts, the extent of their collaborative production, and the lessons they claimed to teach to early modern English readers. Although the Tenne Tragedies was not a direct bibliographical source for the First Folio, the English Seneca collection may have paved the way for the invention of Shakespeare as “Author” and the consumption of his now-famous First Folio.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 10 (2023): What's Seneca to Him? Senecan Shakespeare
Guía ética de OMS sobre uso de emergencia de intervenciones no probadas fuera de la investigación (MEURI) [Traducción no oficial, COVID-19]
Creators: name: Organización Mundial De La Salud
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: MEURI
Ética de la investigación
uso "off label"
uso fuera de prospecto
hidroxicloroquina
plasma
BCG
uso compasivo
ética médica
práctica no validada
COVID-19
práctica innovadora
innovación

description: Traducción no oficial al español a cargo de Ignacio Mastroleo y Alahí Bianchini de la Guía 9 de la Organización Mundial de la Salud "Guidance for Managing Ethical Issues in Infectious Disease Outbreaks" del 2016 sobre uso de emergencia de intervenciones no probadas fuera de la investigación (MEURI).
Machine learning flow control with few sensor feedback and measurement noise
Creators: name: Castellanos, R.
name: Maceda, G. Y. Cornejo
name: de la Fuente, I.
name: Noack, B. R.
name: Ianiro, A.
name: Discetti, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A comparative assessment of machine learning (ML) methods for active flow control is performed. The chosen benchmark problem is the drag reduction of a two-dimensional Kármán vortex street past a circular cylinder at a low Reynolds number ($Re=100$). The flow is manipulated with two blowing/suction actuators on the upper and lower side of a cylinder. The feedback employs several velocity sensors. Two probe configurations are evaluated: 5 and 11 velocity probes located at different points around the cylinder and in the wake. The control laws are optimized with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Linear Genetic Programming Control (LGPC). By interacting with the unsteady wake, both methods successfully stabilize the vortex alley and effectively reduce drag while using small mass flow rates for the actuation. DRL has shown higher robustness with respect to variable initial conditions and to noise contamination of the sensor data; on the other hand, LGPC is able to identify compact and interpretable control laws, which only use a subset of sensors, thus allowing reducing the system complexity with reasonably good results. Our study points at directions of future machine learning control combining desirable features of different approaches.
Domesticating Seneca
Creators: name: Orgel, Stephen
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2023

description: From the late seventeenth century, Seneca has had a bad press in England. Heavily rhetorical and declamatory, the plays were repeatedly declared unsuited to the stage. For the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater, however, Seneca was a model for drama, an essential resource. The plays were taught in school, and translations of all ten plays attributed to Seneca appeared between 1560 and 1581. Not only the early Shakespeare, especially Titus Andronicus, but even plays like King Lear and Othello reflect Seneca’s influence. This is largely invisible to us because our way of performing Shakespeare renders soliloquies meditative rather than declamatory, and strives for naturalism rather than stylization.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 10 (2023): What's Seneca to Him? Senecan Shakespeare
Domesticating Seneca
Creators: name: Goy-Blanquet, Dominique
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2023

description: The Roman author of tragedies entered the Italian, French and English stages through the works of jurists. Lawyers, law and judgment played a significant part in his progress through the Middle Ages down to Shakespeare, down to us now through layers of time and critical approaches. How far Seneca influenced the English playwright, from the shrill calls for revenge of the early plays to the later debates on justice, in trial scenes performed before audiences playing judge and jury, that remains the question to be discussed here.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 10 (2023): What's Seneca to Him? Senecan Shakespeare
The Velocity Statistics of Turbulent Clouds in the Presence of Gravity, Magnetic fields, Radiation, and Outflow Feedback
Creators: name: Hu, Yue
name: Federrath, Christoph
name: Xu, Siyao
name: Mathew, Sajay Sunny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction of turbulence, magnetic fields, self-gravity, and stellar feedback within molecular clouds is crucial for understanding star formation. We study the effects of self-gravity and outflow feedback on the properties of the turbulent velocity via the structure function over length scales from $\sim$ 0.01 pc to 2 pc. We analyze a series of three-dimensional, magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of star cluster formation. We find outflow feedback can change the scaling of velocity fluctuations but still roughly being in between Kolmogorov and Burgers turbulence. We observe that self-gravity and protostellar outflows increase the velocity fluctuations over all length scales. Outflows can amplify the velocity fluctuations by up to a factor of $\sim$7 on scales $\sim$ 0.01 - 0.2 pc and drive turbulence up to a scale of $\sim$ 1 pc. The amplified velocity fluctuations provide more support against gravity and enhance fragmentation on small scales. The self-gravity's effect is more significant on smaller dense clumps and it increases the fraction of the compressive velocity component up to a scale of $\sim$ 0.2 pc. However, outflow feedback drives both solenoidal and compressive modes, but it induces a higher fraction of solenoidal modes relative to compressive modes. Thus, with outflows, the dense core ends up with a slightly higher fraction of solenoidal modes. We find that the compressible fraction is fairly constant with about 1/3 on scales $\sim$ 0.1 - 0.2 pc. The combined effect of enhanced velocity dispersion and reduced compressive fraction contributes to a reduction in the star formation rate.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Data-Adaptive Principal Component Analysis: Use of Composite Asymmetric Huber Function
Creators: name: Yaeji Lim
name: Hee-Seok Oh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This article considers a new type of principal component analysis (PCA) that adaptively reflects the information of data. The ordinary PCA is useful for dimension reduction and identifying important features of multivariate data. However, it uses the second moment of data only, and consequently, it is not efficient for analyzing real observations in the case that these are skewed or asymmetric data. To extend the scope of PCA to non-Gaussian distributed data that cannot be well represented by the second moment, a new approach for PCA is proposed. The core of the methodology is to use a composite asymmetric Huber function defined as a weighted linear combination of modified Huber loss functions, which replaces the conventional square loss function. A practical algorithm to implement the data-adaptive PCA is discussed. Results from numerical studies including simulation study and real data analysis demonstrate the promising empirical properties of the proposed approach. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Cytotoxic constituents of Lasiosphaera fenzlii on different cell lines and the synergistic effects with paclitaxel
Creators: name: J. Gao
name: L. W. Wang
name: H. C. Zheng
name: A. Damirin
name: C. M. Ma
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: The fruit body of Lasiosphaera fenzlii was found to show cytotoxicity on cancer cells during a preliminary screening. Repeated column chromatography of the fungal methanol extract resulted in the isolation of six compounds identified as 5α,8α-epidioxy-ergosta-6,22-dien-3β-ol (1), 5α,8α-epidioxy-ergosta-6,9(11),22-trien-3β-ol (2), 5α-ergosta-7,22-dien-3β-ol (3), 5α-ergosta-7,22-dien-3-one (4), ergosta-7,22-dien-3β,5α,6β-triol (5) and 6-dihydroxy-2,3-dihydro-1H-isoindol-1-one (6). The two peroxide compounds, 1 and 2, showed cytotoxic activity and compound 1 was selectively cytotoxic to cancer cells. Furthermore, compound 1 synergised the cytotoxicity of paclitaxel on Hela cells by increasing intracellular accumulation of paclitaxel in cancer cells but not in normal cells.
Guion de Entrevista para Emprendedores Digitales de éxito
Creators: name: Prendes-Espinosa, M. Paz
name: Gutiérrez-Porlán, Isabel
name: Serrano, José Luis
Publisher: name: Universidad de Murcia
Year: 2021

description: En el marco del proyecto EmDigital (financiado por la Fundación Séneca de la Región de Murcia) hemos implementado un método mixto. Las técnicas cualitativas de investigación se han utilizado para el análisis documental, para la búsqueda y análisis de buenas prácticas y para entrevistas a emprendedores digitales de éxito.En el caso de la entrevista, hemos optado por un tipo de entrevista semiestructurada (Denscombe, 2010; Newby, 2014). El procedimiento para la validación de la entrevista ha sido un juicio de expertos (método de agregados individuales).