cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Research on simulation in radiography education: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Vestbøstad, Mona
name: Karlgren, Klas
name: Olsen, Nina Rydland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Full electronic search in one database
MANAS: Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Neural Architecture Search for Low-Dose CT Denoising
Creators: name: Lu, Zexin
name: Xia, Wenjun
name: Huang, Yongqiang
name: Shan, Hongming
name: Chen, Hu
name: Zhou, Jiliu
name: Zhang, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lowering the radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) can greatly reduce the potential risk to public health. However, the reconstructed images from the dose-reduced CT or low-dose CT (LDCT) suffer from severe noise, compromising the subsequent diagnosis and analysis. Recently, convolutional neural networks have achieved promising results in removing noise from LDCT images; the network architectures used are either handcrafted or built on top of conventional networks such as ResNet and U-Net. Recent advance on neural network architecture search (NAS) has proved that the network architecture has a dramatic effect on the model performance, which indicates that current network architectures for LDCT may be sub-optimal. Therefore, in this paper, we make the first attempt to apply NAS to LDCT and propose a multi-scale and multi-level NAS for LDCT denoising, termed MANAS. On the one hand, the proposed MANAS fuses features extracted by different scale cells to capture multi-scale image structural details. On the other hand, the proposed MANAS can search a hybrid cell- and network-level structure for better performance. Extensively experimental results on three different dose levels demonstrate that the proposed MANAS can achieve better performance in terms of preserving image structural details than several state-of-the-art methods. In addition, we also validate the effectiveness of the multi-scale and multi-level architecture for LDCT denoising.
Minimization of multi-penalty functionals by alternating iterative thresholding and optimal parameter choices
Creators: name: Naumova, Valeriya
name: Peter, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Inspired by several recent developments in regularization theory, optimization, and signal processing, we present and analyze a numerical approach to multi-penalty regularization in spaces of sparsely represented functions. The sparsity prior is motivated by the largely expected geometrical/structured features of high-dimensional data, which may not be well-represented in the framework of typically more isotropic Hilbert spaces. In this paper, we are particularly interested in regularizers which are able to correctly model and separate the multiple components of additively mixed signals. This situation is rather common as pure signals may be corrupted by additive noise. To this end, we consider a regularization functional composed by a data-fidelity term, where signal and noise are additively mixed, a non-smooth and non-convex sparsity promoting term, and a penalty term to model the noise. We propose and analyze the convergence of an iterative alternating algorithm based on simple iterative thresholding steps to perform the minimization of the functional. By means of this algorithm, we explore the effect of choosing different regularization parameters and penalization norms in terms of the quality of recovering the pure signal and separating it from additive noise. For a given fixed noise level numerical experiments confirm a significant improvement in performance compared to standard one-parameter regularization methods. By using high-dimensional data analysis methods such as Principal Component Analysis, we are able to show the correct geometrical clustering of regularized solutions around the expected solution. Eventually, for the compressive sensing problems considered in our experiments we provide a guideline for a choice of regularization norms and parameters.
description: 32 pages
Additional file 1 of Wide-awake local anaesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) vs regional or general anaesthesia for flexor tendon repair in adults: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Nolan, Grant S.
name: Kiely, Ailbhe L.
name: Madura, Tomas
name: Karantana, Alexia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P 2015 Checklist.
Updated properties of the old open cluster Melotte 66: Searching for multiple stellar populations
Creators: name: Carraro, Giovanni
name: de Silva, Gayandhi
name: Monaco, Lorenzo
name: Milone, Antonino
name: Mateluna, Renee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiple generations of stars are routinely encountered in globular clusters but no convincing evidence has been found in Galactic open clusters to date. In this paper we use new photometric and spectroscopic data to search for multiple stellar population signatures in the old, massive open cluster, Melotte~66. The cluster is known to have a red giant branch wide in color, which could be an indication of metallicity spread. Also the main sequence is wider than what is expected from photometric errors only. This evidence might be associated with either differential reddening or binaries. Both hypothesis have, however, to be evaluated in detail before recurring to the presence of multiple stellar populations. New, high-quality, CCD UBVI photometry have been acquired to this aim with high-resolution spectroscopy of seven clump stars, that are complemented with literature data. Our photometric study confirms that the width of the main sequence close to the turn off point is entirely accounted for by binary stars and differential reddening, with no need to advocate more sofisticated scenarios, such as metallicity spread or multiple main sequences. By constructing synthetic color-magnitude diagrams, we infer that the binary fraction has to be as large as 30$%$ and their mass ratio in the range 0.6-1.0. As a by-product of our simulations, we provide new estimates of the cluster fundamental parameters. We measure a reddening E(B-V)=0.15$\pm$0.02, and confirm the presence of a marginal differential reddening. The distance to the cluster is $4.7^{+0.2}_{-0.1} $kpc and the age is 3.4$\pm$0.3 Gyr, which is somewhat younger and better constrained than previous estimates. Our detailed abundance analysis reveals that, overall, Melotte~66 looks like a typical object of the old thin disk population.
description: 14 pages, 18 eps figure, in press in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Abstract shortened to fit arXiv constraints
At the end of the word
Creators: name: Iozzia, Alberto
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: In my dissertation, titled “At the End of the Word. Crisis and Language in Italian Post-Apocalyptic Fiction,” I aim to redefine the transnational genre of post-apocalyptic fiction by reading it through the lens of Italian narrative. My work includes chapters on texts as seemingly disparate as Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century Decameron and Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man and Massimo Bontempelli’s novella Cataclisma, Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Il deserto rosso and Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer prize-winning book The Road. I demonstrate how Italian narrative has played and still plays an important role in post-apocalyptic fiction, a genre that is deemed almost exclusively Anglo-American but one that actually owes some of its thematic and aesthetic elements to its Italian representatives. By analyzing both Italian and Anglophone texts, I show that a seemingly unlikely detour, such as the one running from the late Middle Ages through early 20th-century Italian Futurism, to the newest, zombie-packed, American TV shows, reveals not only something new about the Italian production of post-apocalyptic fiction, but also about the genre itself.
Agrypnus argentosquamus Vats and Kashyap 1992
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Agrypnus
Agrypnus argentosquamus

description: Agrypnus argentosquamus Vats and Kashyap, 1992
Agrypnus argentosquamus Vats and Kashyap, 1992: 102.
Type depository. Holotype (NPC-IARI).
Type locality. Uttarakhand (Boom Range).
Distribution. India: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh. Elsewhere: Pakistan (Platia, 2015).
Literature. Vats and Kashyap (1992: 102): original description; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2000: 77): catalogue.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
Thermodynamics predicts a stable microdroplet phase in polymer-gel mixtures undergoing elastic phase separation
Creators: name: Biswas, Subhadip
name: Mukherjee, Biswaroop
name: Chakrabarti, Buddhapriya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the thermodynamics of binary mixtures with the volume fraction of the minority component less than the amount required to form a flat interface and show that the surface tension dominated equilibrium phase of the mixture forms a single macroscopic droplet. Elastic interactions in gel-polymer mixtures stabilize a phase with multiple droplets. Using a mean-field free energy we compute the droplet size as a function of the interfacial tension, Flory parameter, and elastic moduli of the gel. Our results illustrate the role of elastic interactions in dictating the phase behavior of biopolymers undergoing liquid-liquid phase separation.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Capturing the Stars: Early 20th Century Astronomical Photography and the Material Legacy of Yerkes Observatory
Creators: name: Babnigg, Daniel
name: Escapa, Isaiah
name: Glusman, Rowen
name: Sait, Aafia
name: Kovach-Fuentes, Rachel
name: Kron, Richard G.
name: Palmieri, Kristine
name: Twiss-Brooks, Andrea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Yerkes Observatory
subject: Astronomy
subject: Astrophysics
subject: History of Astronomy
subject: Women in Science
subject: Material culture
subject: History of Science

description: Presented at the 2022 History of Science Society conference, the poster features the labor being done at Yerkes Observatory in the early 20th century. It features the specific tasks of observing and astronomy, focusing on the women of Yerkes, and the ongoing research into this topic.
DYNAMO II: Coupled Stellar and Ionized Gas Kinematics in Two Low Redshift Clumpy Disks
Creators: name: Bassett, Robert
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Fisher, David B.
name: Green, Andrew W.
name: Wisnioski, Emily
name: Obreschkow, Danail
name: Cooper, Erin Mentuch
name: Abraham, Roberto G.
name: Damjanov, Ivana
name: McGregor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spatially resolved stellar kinematics of two star-forming galaxies at z = 0.1 from the larger DYnamics of Newly Assembled Massive Objects (DYNAMO) sample. These galaxies, which have been characterized by high levels of star formation and large ionized gas velocity dispersions, are considered possible analogs to high-redshift clumpy disks. They were observed using the GMOS instrument in integral field spectroscopy (IFS) mode at the Gemini Observatory with high spectral resolution (R=5400, equivalent to 24 km/s at the observed wavelengths) and 6 hour exposure times in order to measure the resolved stellar kinematics via absorption lines. We also obtain higher-quality emission line kinematics than previous observations. The spatial resolution (1.2 kpc) is sufficient to show that the ionized gas in these galaxies (as traced by H-beta emission) is morphologically irregular, forming multiple giant clumps while stellar continuum light is smooth and well described by an exponential profile. Clumpy gas morphologies observed in IFS data are confirmed by complementary narrow band H-alpha imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope. Morphological differences between the stars and ionized gas are not reflected dynamically as stellar kinematics are found the be closely coupled to the kinematics of the ionized gas: both components are smoothly rotating with large velocity dispersions (~40 km/s) suggesting that the high gas dispersions are not primarily driven by star-formation feedback. In addition, the stellar population ages of these galaxies are estimated to be quite young (60-500 Myr). The large velocity dispersions measured for these young stars suggest that we are seeing the formation of thick disks and/or stellar bulges in support of recent models which produce these from clumpy galaxies at high redshift.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication, MNRAS
Optimal lattice depth on lifetime of D-band ultracold atoms in a triangular optical lattice
Creators: name: Shui, Hongmian
name: Lai, Chi-Kin
name: Yu, Zhongcheng
name: Tian, Jinyuan
name: Wu, Chengyang
name: Chen, Xuzong
name: Zhou, Xiaoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultracold atoms in optical lattices are a flexible and effective platform for quantum precision measurement, and the lifetime of high-band atoms is an essential parameter for the performance of quantum sensors. In this work, we investigate the relationship between the lattice depth and the lifetime of D-band atoms in a triangular optical lattice and show that there is an optimal lattice depth for the maximum lifetime. After loading the Bose Einstein condensate into D-band of optical lattice by shortcut method, we observe the atomic distribution in quasi-momentum space for the different evolution time, and measure the atomic lifetime at D-band with different lattice depths. The lifetime is maximized at an optimal lattice depth, where the overlaps between the wave function of D-band and other bands (mainly S-band) are minimized. Additionally, we discuss the influence of atomic temperature on lifetime. These experimental results are in agreement with our numerical simulations. This work paves the way to improve coherence properties of optical lattices, and contributes to the implications for the development of quantum precision measurement, quantum communication, and quantum computing.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables
Additional file 1 of Celebrating 20 years of open access publishing at BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Creators: name: Ciarán Martin Fitzpatrick
name: Athwal, Amanpreet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gq36uhr2jg .
Additional file 2 of Wide-awake local anaesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) vs regional or general anaesthesia for flexor tendon repair in adults: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Nolan, Grant S.
name: Kiely, Ailbhe L.
name: Madura, Tomas
name: Karantana, Alexia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2. Search strategy for MEDLINE (Ovid).
Models of DNA denaturation dynamics: universal properties
Creators: name: Baiesi, Marco
name: Carlon, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We briefly review some of the models used to describe DNA denaturation dynamics, focusing on the value of the dynamical exponent $z$, which governs the scaling of the characteristic time $τ\sim L^z$ as a function of the sequence length $L$. The models contain different degrees of simplifications, in particular sometimes they do not include a description for helical entanglement: we discuss how this aspect influences the value of $z$, which ranges from $z=0$ to $z \approx 3.3$. Connections with experiments are also mentioned.
Linear-sized independent sets in random cographs and increasing subsequences in separable permutations
Creators: name: Bassino, Frédérique
name: Bouvel, Mathilde
name: Drmota, Michael
name: Féray, Valentin
name: Gerin, Lucas
name: Maazoun, Mickaël
name: Pierrot, Adeline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60C05, 05A05

description: This paper is interested in independent sets (or equivalently, cliques) in uniform random cographs. We also study their permutation analogs, namely, increasing subsequences in uniform random separable permutations. First, we prove that, with high probability as $n$ gets large, the largest independent set in a uniform random cograph with $n$ vertices has size $o(n)$. This answers a question of Kang, McDiarmid, Reed and Scott. Using the connection between graphs and permutations via inversion graphs, we also give a similar result for the longest increasing subsequence in separable permutations. These results are proved using the self-similarity of the Brownian limits of random cographs and random separable permutations, and actually apply more generally to all families of graphs and permutations with the same limit. Second, and unexpectedly given the above results, we show that for $β>0$ sufficiently small, the expected number of independent sets of size $βn$ in a uniform random cograph with $n$ vertices grows exponentially fast with $n$. We also prove a permutation analog of this result. This time the proofs rely on singularity analysis of the associated bivariate generating functions.
description: 35 pages, 3 figures, attached python worksheet for the singularity analysis computation. v3: presentation improved, following referee's suggestions, use of journal layout
Corrections to the thermodynamic quantities of Bose system by the generalized uncertainty principle
Creators: name: Li, Jun-Xian
name: Zhang, Jing-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigated the Bose system in a spherical shell close to the black hole horizon. Several thermodynamic quantities of the Bose system are derived, which are different from those in the flat spacetime, by introducing the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) into the grand partition function of statistical mechanics. The internal energy and the pressure of the Bose system appear to have a correction term of $T^6$, while the entropy has a $T^5$ correction term where both the coefficients are functions of the spacetime component $g_{00}$ and the brick-wall model parameter $ε$. Taking the Schwarzschild black hole as an example, the physical quantities of the shell such as temperature, pressure and entropy are calculated for the final stage of black hole radiation.
Virtual amplitudes and threshold behaviour of hadronic top-quark pair-production cross sections
Creators: name: Baernreuther, P.
name: Czakon, M.
name: Fiedler, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the two-loop virtual amplitudes for the production of a top-quark pair in gluon fusion. The evaluation method is based on a numerical solution of differential equations for master integrals in function of the quark velocity and scattering angle starting from a boundary at high-energy. The results are given for the renormalized infrared finite remainders on a large grid and have recently been used in the calculation of the total cross sections at the next-to-next-to-leading order. For convenience, we also give the known results for the quark annihilation case on the same grid. Outside of the kinematical range covered by the grid, we provide threshold and high-energy expansions. From expansions of the two-loop virtual amplitudes, we determine the threshold behavior of the total cross sections at next-to-next-to-leading order for the quark annihilation and gluon fusion channels including previously unknown constant terms. In our analysis of the quark annihilation channel, we uncover the presence of a velocity enhanced logarithm of Coulombic origin, which was missed in a previous study.
description: 28 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables, results for the virtual amplitudes attached in Mathematica format
Phonological agreement by headed feature correspondence
Creators: name: Iacoponi, Luca
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: In the dissertation, I propose a theory of phonological agreement called φ-Correspondence that is a formal extension of Correspondence Theory (McCarthy & Prince 1995). The theory is distinguished from Agreement By Correspondence (ABC, Rose & Walker 2004, Hansson 2001/2010, Bennett 2013/2015) in that it satisfies the following two assumptions. Hypothesis I (correspondence relation): I/O-Correspondence and φ-Correspondence relations are the same kind of formal relations.Hypothesis II (Constraints): I/O-Correspondence and φ-Correspondence constraints have the same definitions.By analyzing three case studies in Chumash, Kalabari, and Basque, I show that φ-Correspondence solves several empirical and theoretical problems that have been recently pointed out in the literature on harmony, such as the problem of directionality (Bennett 2013/2015), Overlapping harmony (Walker 2016), and Agreement By Proxy (Hansson and McMullin 2016). Counterfeeding opacity is also correctly predicted to arise from the interaction between markedness and faithfulness constraints on heads (Falk 2014).In the dissertation, I also formulate a generalization on the directionality of dominant-regressive consonant harmonies (Baković 2000, Hansson 2001/2010) and show that in φ-Correspondence it can be analyzed as an effect of the Preservation of the Marked (de Lacy 2002/2006).Finally, the theory establishes a parallel between feature heads and prosodic heads by showing that they adhere to the same axioms, that they tend to be aligned to right morpho-phonological edges and that they are a target of positional faithfulness constraints.
Procesamiento topo-geométrico de imágenes neuronales
Creators: name: Romero, Ana
name: Heras, Jónathan
name: Mata, Gadea
name: Rubio, Miguel Morales y Julio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fruit of the relationship of our research group with the team coordinated by the biologist Miguel Morales (http://spineup.es), we have applied different topo-geometric techniques for neuronal image processing. The images, captured with a powerful confocal microscope, allow to study the evolution of synaptic density under the influence of various substances, with the aim of studying neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer. In the paper we make a brief review of the techniques that appear in our bioinformatic problems, including the calculation of ordinary and persistent homology (for which one can use the program Kenzo for symbolic computation in algebraic topology ) and classical problems of digital topology as skeleton location and path tracking. We focus on some particular cases of recent application, with which we will illustrate the previous techniques.
Coordination and uncertainty
Creators: name: Jens, Dean
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Even when economic agents have common interests, it can be difficult for them to coordinate on a commonly-accepted outcome.I use both human subject experimentation and theory to shed light on how coordination takes place and where and why it might be prone to fail.In a human subject experiment, I find that the coordination problem leads to inertia in groups --- once coordination has taken place, agents avoid trying to change the outcome --- and that, with exogenous uncertainty and differing risk preferences, the less risk-averse agent tends to defer to the more risk-averse agent, though in a state of potential loss, conflicting notions of risk-aversion can make coordination even more difficult.In the second chapter, I construct a theoretical model of storable consumption goods, in which markets for goods with high income-elasticity are shown to be prone to ``runs'' in which consumers, in the face of otherwise adequate supply, store up for a shortage, thereby creating the very shortage they feared; it would be in everybody's interest to avoid this outcome, and yet avoiding it requires a great deal of mutual trust and coordination.In the final chapter, an information-theoretic elaboration of this idea is presented, in which agents form robust but diffuse beliefs about what other agents believe other agents believe, and I note that cutting off the chain of reasoning at the second level favors ``risk-dominant'' equilibria over ``risk-dominated'' equilibria, but can also favor non-equilibrium outcomes in situations in which equilibrium strategies are only best-responses to fairly precise actions by other agents.
Deflection of light due to spheroidal oblate static objects
Creators: name: Brahma, Ranchhaigiri
name: Sen, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deflection of light due to massive objects was predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. This deflection of light has been calculated by many researchers in past, for spherically symmetric objects. But, in reality, most of these gravitating objects are not spherical instead they are ellipsoidal ( oblate) in shape. The objective of the present work is to study theoretically the effect of this ellipticity on the trajectory of a light ray. Here, we obtain a converging series expression for the deflection of a light ray due to an ellipsoidal gravitating object, characterised by an ellipticity parameter. As a boundary condition, by setting the ellipticity parameter to be equal to zero, we get back the same expression for deflection as due to Schwarzschild object. It is also found that the additional contribution in deflection angle due to this ellipticity though small, but could be typically higher than the similar contribution caused by the rotation of a celestial object. Therefore for a precise estimate of the deflection due to a celestial object, the calculations presented here would be useful.
Spin-dependent $γ$ softness or triaxiality in even-even $^{132-138}$Nd nuclei
Creators: name: Chai, Qing-Zhen
name: Wang, Hua-Lei
name: Yang, Qiong
name: Liu, Min-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of $γ$ instability in rapidly rotating even-even $^{132-138}$Nd isotopes have been investigated using the pairing-deformation self-consistent total-Routhian-surface calculations in a deformation space of ($β_2, γ, β_4$). It is found that even-even $^{134-138}$Nd nuclei exhibit the triaxiality in both ground and excited states, even up to high-spin ones. The lightest isotope possesses a well-deformed prolate shape without $γ$ deformation component. The current numerical results are compared with previous calculations and available observables, showing basically a general agreement with the observed trend of $γ$ correlations. The existing differences between theory and experiment are analyzed and discussed briefly.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to "Chinese Physics C"
Prokaryotic diversity, physiology and function at Tor Caldara, a shallow-water gas vent in the Tyrrhenian Sea
Creators: name: Patwardhan, Sushmita S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Despite being ubiquitous, shallow-water marine geothermal environments are under-studied compared to their deep-sea counterparts. In this study, I investigated the geochemistry and the composition, physiology and function of microbial communities at Tor Caldara, a shallow-water gas vent in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The four microbial habitats sampled included: crusts originated from compacted sediments, venting sandy sediments, control sediments and substrate-attached filamentous bacteria (young as well as established). At Tor Caldara, the venting gases are mainly composed of CO2 and H2S, with trace amounts of CH4, and a thermal anomaly could not be detected. The crust community is very unique, comprising phylotypes associated with sulfate reducing bacteria belonging to Deltaproteobacteria that are usually found in syntrophic association with anaerobic methane oxidizers at hydrocarbon seeps. The venting sediment community is dominated by sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophic and heterotrophic bacterial groups belonging to Alpha-, Gamma-, and Epsilonproteobacteria, while that of the non-venting sediment is dominated by phototrophic members belonging to Cyanobacteria. The established and young microbial filaments are dominated by chemoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing members of Gammaproteobacteria and Epsilonproteobacteria, respectively. Integrating geochemical measurements, microbial diversity surveys and physiological characterization of laboratory strains, I demonstrated that there is a temporal succession between the two filamentous microbial communities in response to age and possibly sulfide concentrations. Metagenomic and metaproteomic results showed presence of genes and proteins involved in nitrate reduction, denitrification, nitrogen fixation, sulfur oxidation/reduction, oxygen respiration, heavy metal detoxification and two carbon fixation pathways. Temporal succession between the young and established filamentous communities at a functional level was confirmed by differential abundance of key proteins involved in the carbon, sulfur and nitrogen cycles. Three metagenome-assembled genome (MAGs) representative of the filament community were also recovered. Based on taxonomic and functional diversity, chemoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing members of Epsilonproteobacteria dominated the young microbial filaments while the established microbial filaments are dominated by Gammaproteobacteria, demonstrating a shift in community over time. In addition to diversity and functional surveys, I isolated several bacterial strains and characterized a novel alphaproteobacterial genus with high metabolic versatility and sequenced its genome. Broadly, this study shows that Tor Caldara hosts very diverse and niche-specific microbial communities consisting of numerous previously uncharacterized bacterial and archaeal groups.
Prof. Dr. August Gessner-Siegfried, 10. März 1864 - 26 November 1941
Creators: name: Müri, Jakob
name: Hafter, Eugen
Publisher: name: Brodbeck-Frehner
Year: 1941
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Gessner, Jakob August
subject: Zürich
subject: Aarau

description: Inhalt: Ansprache von Herrn Pfarrer Jakob Müri, Zürich ; Nachruf der Aargauischen Kantonsschule / Tr. ; Abschiedsworte eines Freundes von Dr. Eugen Hafter ; sowie drei Nachrufe
The roles of postsynaptic density-95 interactors in dendrite development and recovery after traumatic brain injury
Creators: name: Patel, Mihir V.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Postsynaptic density 95 (PSD-95) is the major scaffolding protein at excitatory synapses, and it plays a major role in synaptic plasticity. Furthermore, PSD-95 and its interactor, cytosolic PSD-95 interactor (cypin), regulate dendrite branching by altering microtubule dynamics. Additionally, other PSD-95 binding proteins, end-binding protein 3 (EB3) and adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), promote microtubule bundling and stabilization. Thus, PSD-95 and binding partners may regulate the dendritic arbor during development and after injury. I first addressed the role of cypin in the brain in vivo. While generating cypin knockout mice, I identified a novel short isoform of cypin, termed cypinS, which also binds to PSD-95 and regulates dendrite branching, although an increase in dendrites occur more distal from the soma when cypinS is overexpressed compared to when cypin is overexpressed. In addition, unlike cypin, cypinS does not have guanine deaminase activity. Overexpression of cypin, but not cypinS, decreases spine density, suggestingiv that the regulation of spine density but not dendrite branching by cypin is dependent on guanine deaminase activity. Furthermore, I have uncovered novel presynaptic roles for both isoforms as overexpression of either isoform leads to increases in miniature excitatory postsynaptic current (mEPSC) frequency. Thus, cypin and cypinS, play distinct roles in neuronal development. I then chose to study the roles of PSD-95 and interactors in recovery after traumatic brain injury (TBI). We previously identified cypin as a novel target for TBI, and thus, here I studied the role of PSD-95 and its interaction with APC or EB3 in after injury induced by in vitro and in vivo models of TBI. I show that our in vitro model of mechanical stretch injury mimics moderate injury induced by controlled cortical impact (CCI) in mice. During the early stage (1-7 days) post-moderate CCI, the interaction of PSD-95 with APC and EB3 increases. Furthermore, downregulation of PSD-95 prevents stretch-injury mediated decreases in secondary dendrite number and total dendrite length, suggesting a required role of PSD-95 in injury-mediated insults to dendrites. Thus, PSD-95 may sequester APC and EB3 from microtubules to cause decreases in dendrite branching after TBI, and PSD-95 can be targeted as a novel approach for the treatment of patients with TBI.
Understanding the Migration History of Hot Jupiters
Creators: name: Schulte, Jack
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, over 550 hot Jupiters (HJs) have been confirmed. These discoveries were made by a wide variety of ground-based and space-based surveys using many different, independent, analysis techniques. While this has been useful for confirming the validity of the discovered HJs, it has produced a sample that is plagued by unquantifiable selection biases, differing assumptions, and a lack of self-consistency. To address these issues, we aim to discover and characterize all remaining detectable HJs orbiting bright (G < 12.5 mag) FGK stars using TESS and homogeneous analysis techniques. This large-scale, collaborative, discovery effort will be combined with smaller-scale characterizations of benchmark systems that show signs of youth, planetary engulfment, and other features associated with dynamical instability. Armed with a complete, self-consistent, magnitude-limited sample of HJs and several critical benchmark systems, we will be able to comprehensively address the question of how HJs form and evolve. I will present the detailed characterization of the first dozen discoveries from the MEEP survey, and provide an early glimpse into the current population of hot Jupiters from TESS.
Optimal Adaptive Strategies for Sequential Quantum Hypothesis Testing
Creators: name: Li, Yonglong
name: Tan, Vincent Y. F.
name: Tomamichel, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider sequential hypothesis testing between two quantum states using adaptive and non-adaptive strategies. In this setting, samples of an unknown state are requested sequentially and a decision to either continue or to accept one of the two hypotheses is made after each test. Under the constraint that the number of samples is bounded, either in expectation or with high probability, we exhibit adaptive strategies that minimize both types of misidentification errors. Namely, we show that these errors decrease exponentially (in the stopping time) with decay rates given by the measured relative entropies between the two states. Moreover, if we allow joint measurements on multiple samples, the rates are increased to the respective quantum relative entropies. We also fully characterize the achievable error exponents for non-adaptive strategies and provide numerical evidence showing that adaptive measurements are necessary to achieve our bounds under some additional assumptions.
description: 31 pages, 4 figures
Effect of Pb addition on microstructure, transport properties and the critical current density in a polycrystalline FeSe0.5Te0.5
Creators: name: Singh, Shiv J.
name: Diduszko, Ryszard
name: Iwanowski, Przemysław
name: Cetner, Tomasz
name: Wisniewski, Andrzej
name: Morawski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the effects of lead (Pb) additions (x) up to 40 wt.% (x = 0-0.4) on the structure, electrical properties, and magnetic properties of FeSe0.5Te0.5 superconductor. The samples were prepared by the solid-state reaction method and characterized by various techniques. The parent compound (x = 0) showed the onset temperature Tc onset of 15 K, and zero-resistance temperature, Tc offset of 12 K. The addition of Pb enhances the metallic characteristics of FeSe0.5Te0.5, but both Tc onset and Tc offset are decreased to the lower temperature with the broadened transition width. The Tc onset is nearly the same (10.3 K) at higher additions, such as x = 0.3 and 0.4, but zero resistivity is not observed up to 7 K. Microstructural analysis and transport studies suggest that for x > 0.05, Pb additions weakened the coupling between grains and suppressed the superconducting percolation, leading to a broad transition. More importantly, the inclusion of a relatively small amount of Pb (x = 0.05) increased the critical current density, Jc, in the entire magnetic field, which might be attributable to better phase uniformity as well as good grain connectivity.
10 Inventions on Command Buttons in a Graphical User Interface
Creators: name: Mishra, Umakant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A command button may contain a textual label or a graphic image or both. It may be static or animated. There can be many different features to make a command button attractive and effective. As command button is a typical GUI element, most improvement on GUI in general will also be applicable to command buttons. Besides, there are also inventions to improve various aspects of command buttons in specific. This article illustrates 10 selected inventions from US patent database. Each invention is followed by a TRIZ based analysis in brief.
description: 12 pages
Trust-Aware Planning: Modeling Trust Evolution in Iterated Human-Robot Interaction
Creators: name: Zahedi, Zahra
name: Verma, Mudit
name: Sreedharan, Sarath
name: Kambhampati, Subbarao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Trust between team members is an essential requirement for any successful cooperation. Thus, engendering and maintaining the fellow team members' trust becomes a central responsibility for any member trying to not only successfully participate in the task but to ensure the team achieves its goals. The problem of trust management is particularly challenging in mixed human-robot teams where the human and the robot may have different models about the task at hand and thus may have different expectations regarding the current course of action, thereby forcing the robot to focus on the costly explicable behavior. We propose a computational model for capturing and modulating trust in such iterated human-robot interaction settings, where the human adopts a supervisory role. In our model, the robot integrates human's trust and their expectations about the robot into its planning process to build and maintain trust over the interaction horizon. By establishing the required level of trust, the robot can focus on maximizing the team goal by eschewing explicit explanatory or explicable behavior without worrying about the human supervisor monitoring and intervening to stop behaviors they may not necessarily understand. We model this reasoning about trust levels as a meta reasoning process over individual planning tasks. We additionally validate our model through a human subject experiment.
description: 9 pages, in proceeding of 2023 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Kerler-Lyubashenko Functors on 4-Dimensional 2-Handlebodies
Creators: name: Beliakova, Anna
name: De Renzi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct a braided monoidal functor $J_4$ from Bobtcheva and Piergallini's category $4\mathrm{HB}$ of connected 4-dimensional 2-handlebodies (up to 2-deformations) to an arbitrary unimodular ribbon category $\mathcal{C}$, which is not required to be semisimple. The main example of target category is provided by $H$-mod, the category of left modules over a unimodular ribbon Hopf algebra $H$. The source category $4\mathrm{HB}$ is freely generated, as a braided monoidal category, by a BPH algebra (short for Bobtcheva-Piergallini Hopf algebra), and this is sent by the Kerler-Lyubashenko functor $J_4$ to the end $\int_{X \in \mathcal{C}} X \otimes X^*$ in $\mathcal{C}$, which is given by the adjoint representation in the case of $H$-mod. When $\mathcal{C}$ is factorizable, we show that the construction only depends on the boundary and signature of handlebodies, and thus projects to a functor $J_3^σ$ defined on Kerler's category $3\mathrm{Cob}^σ$ of connected framed 3-dimensional cobordisms. When $H^*$ is not semisimple and $H$ is not factorizable, our functor $J_4$ has the potential of detecting diffeomorphisms that are not 2-deformations.
description: 55 pages. Version 3: some terminology was changed (4-modular algebras are now called Bobtcheva-Piergallini Hopf algebras), and a sign mistake was fixed in Lemma 9.1
T-systems and the pentagram map
Creators: name: Kedem, Rinat
name: Vichitkunakorn, Panupong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: These notes summarize two different connections between two discrete integrable systems, the $A_d$ $T$-system and its infinite-rank analog, the octahedron relation, and the pentagram map and its various generalizations.
description: 21 pages, contribution to FDIS13, July 2013
Additional file 1 of Assessing suitability for long-term colorectal cancer shared care: a scenario-based qualitative study
Creators: name: Vuong, Kylie
name: Uebel, Kerry
name: Agaliotis, Maria
name: Jun, Stella
name: Taggart, Jane
name: Suchy, Sue
name: Liauw, Winston
name: Chin, Melvin
name: Webber, Kate
name: Harris, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary 1. Patient scenarios. Supplementary 2. Questionnaire.
Negative Index Materials: The Key to "White" Multilayer Fabry-Perot
Creators: name: Lequime, Michel
name: Gralak, Boris
name: Guenneau, Sebastien
name: Zerrad, Myriam
name: Amra, Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of negative index materials is highly efficient for tayloring the spectral dispersion properties of a quarter-wavelength Bragg mirror and for obtaining a resonant behavior of a multilayer Fabry-Perot cavity over a very large spectral range. An optimization method is proposed and validated on some first promising devices.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Bounds for the sum of distances of spherical sets of small size
Creators: name: Barg, Alexander
name: Boyvalenkov, Peter
name: Stoyanova, Maya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We derive upper and lower bounds on the sum of distances of a spherical code of size $N$ in $n$ dimensions when $N\sim n^α, 0<α\le 2.$ The bounds are derived by specializing recent general, universal bounds on energy of spherical sets. We discuss asymptotic behavior of our bounds along with several examples of codes whose sum of distances closely follows the upper bound.
description: 21 pp
Photoactive Gold Nanoparticle Soft-oxometalates (SOM) using a Keplerate for Synthesis of Polystyrene Latex Microspheres by Photo-polymerization
Creators: name: Sahasrabudhe, Atharva
name: Roy, Soumyajit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A green and facile synthetic protocol for the preparation of photoactive gold nanoparticle-soft oxometalates (AuNP-SOM) using a unique Keplarate type oxomolybdate cluster viz. {Mo$_{132}$}, is reported. The as synthesized AuNP-SOMs are fully characterized by Electronic absorption spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM). We further demonstrate that by merely tuning the ratio of the precursors in solution it is possible to control the morphology of AuNP-SOM nanostructures. Moreover, these photoactive AuNP-SOMs are employed as photocatalysts for the photopolymerization of styrene to generate colloidal monodisperse polystyrene microspheres in a controllable way in the absence of any external co-initiator or inert atmosphere. Effect of styrene concentration on the size of microspheres is studied using DLS and optical microscopy. Finally, the role of AuNP-SOMs as efficient photocatalyst is established through several control experiments and a reaction pathway is proposed.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures. Journal of Molecular and Engineering Materials, 2014, Soft-oxometalate Special Issue