cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Outpatient antibiotic use in acute respiratory infections in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Creators: name: Ngo, Ngoc Quang Minh
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: Acute respiratory infections (ART) are among the most frequent infectious diseases in children worldwide, particularly in developing countries. Antibiotics are very often prescribed or purchased without prescription for the treatment of ARl, although viruses are recognised as the predominant pathogens [1-7].

The aim of the work presented in this thesis was to quantify antibiotic use in outpatients with ARI in Children's Hospital 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to identify the viral and bacterial respiratory aetiologic agents and to assess the impact of antibiotic use on the selection of resistant bacteria in the intestinal flora.

Two prospective descriptive studies were conducted in the outpatient clinic: one in ARl patients and the other in healthy children. The epidemiology, presentation and treatment characteristics of children with ARI in the outpatient clinic were described. Antibiotics were prescribed in 99.6% of 563 patients while respiratory viruses were detected in 72.5% among these patients with the use of multiplex PCR in respiratory specimens. Antibiotic use was considered inappropriate in 67.7% of cases, according to evidence-based guidelines and detected pathogens. Besides antibiotics, other treatments such as oral bronchodilators, oral corticosteroids, antihistamines, and mucolytic agents were commonly used at the rates of 57.6%, 10.3%, 11 % and 11 %, respectively, and in most of the cases, were not in accordance with the current guidelines. We observed a short-term selection of resistant Enterobacteriaceae in patients' intestinal flora resistant not only to the antibiotic class the patients received but also co-selection of resistance to other rarely used antibiotics. HPLC assays were developed with high sensitivity and specificity to determine the presence of 6 beta- lactam antibiotics in the urine antibiotic use before presentation as determined by HPLC (32%) was significantly higher than that reported by parent interviews (21 %). Antibiotic use in Vietnam is largely unrestricted leading to overuse and overprescription for uncomplicated ARI.
Additional file 7 of Gene expression profiling identifies pathways involved in seed maturation of Jatropha curcas
Creators: name: Maghuly, Fatemeh
name: Deák, Tamás
name: Vierlinger, Klemens
name: Pabinger, Stephan
name: Tafer, Hakim
name: Laimer, Margit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S7. Overview of significantly enriched and over-represented pathways and enzymes related to lipid metabolism identified in different clusters. Figures generated by the pathview package to paint the gene of interests into KEGG pathways.
An analysis of carrier dynamics in methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite solar cells using cross-correlation noise spectroscopy
Creators: name: Davenport, Kevin
name: Zhang, Fei
name: Hayward, Mark
name: Draper, Logan
name: Zhu, Kai
name: Rogachev, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using cross-correlation current noise spectroscopy, we have investigated carrier dynamics in methylammonium lead triiodide solar cells. This method provides a space selectivity for devices with planar multi-layered structure, effectively amplifying current noise contributions coming from the most resistive element of the stack. In the studied solar cells, we observe near full-scale shot noise, indicating the dominance of noise generation by a single source, likely the interface between the perovskite and the spiro-OMeTAD hole-transport layer. We argue that the strong 1/f noise term has contributions both from the perovskite layer and interfaces. It displays non-ideal dependence on photocurrent, $S \propto I^{1.4}$ (instead of usual $S \propto I^2$ ), which is likely due to current-induced halide migration. Finally, we observe generation-recombination noise. The relaxation time of this process grows linearly with photocurrent, which allows to attribute this contribution to bimolecular recombination in the perovskite bulk absorption layer. Extrapolating our results, we estimate that at the standard 1 sun illumination the electron-hole recombination time is 5 microseconds.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Interacting many-body systems in quantum wells: Evidence for exciton-trion-electron correlations
Creators: name: Portella-Oberli, M. T.
name: Ciulin, V.
name: Berney, J. H.
name: Deveaud, B.
name: Kutrowski, M.
name: Wojtowicz, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the nonlinear optical dynamical properties of excitonic complexes in CdTe modulation-doped quantum wells, due to many-body interactions among excitons, trions and electrons. These were studied by time and spectrally resolved pump-probe experiments. The results reveal that the nonlinearities induced by trions differ from those induced by excitons, and in addition they are mutually correlated. We propose that the main source of these subtle differences comes from the Pauli exclusion-principle through phase-space filling and short-range fermion exchange.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. accepted for publications in Phys. Rev. B
Price competition and the fallacy of composition in developing country exports of manufactures : estimates of short-run growth effects
Creators: name: Blecker, Robert
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This paper studies whether intra-developing country price competition has significant effects on the short-run growth rates of developing countries that are specialized in manufactured exports. Regression estimates using the generalized method of moments (GMM) applied to annual panel data for 17 developing countries in 1983-2004 show that these countries exhibit a “fallacy of composition,” in the sense that a real depreciation relative to competing developing country exporters increases the home country’s growth rate in the short run. The results also suggest that real depreciations for these
Additional file 8 of Gene expression profiling identifies pathways involved in seed maturation of Jatropha curcas
Creators: name: Maghuly, Fatemeh
name: Deák, Tamás
name: Vierlinger, Klemens
name: Pabinger, Stephan
name: Tafer, Hakim
name: Laimer, Margit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S8. Overview of significantly enriched and over-represented phenylpropanoid biosynthesis biosynthesis pathways and related enzymes identified in different clusters. Figures generated pathview package to paint the gene of interests into KEGG pathways.
Apophylia beeneni Bezdek 2003
Creators: name: Bezdek, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Apophylia
Apophylia beeneni

description: Apophylia beeneni Bezdek ˇ, 2003
  Material examined. –  (13). 6 males, N. China, Harbin district, 22 Jun.1952 (BMNH); 1 male, 1 female, China, Chekiang, Aug.1931 (ISNB); 1 male, 1 female, China, Fukien, Kien Tchen, 14 May.1933 (ISNB); 1 male, 2 females, Vietnam, Cho-Ganh (BMNH).
  Remarks.  A recently described species, previously often misidentified as A. flavovirens (Fairmaire in Deyrolle & Fairmaire, 1878). Distribution: China, Korea, Vietnam (Bezdek ˇ, 2003c).
description: Published as part of Bezdek, Jan, 2005, New And Interesting Apophylia Species From South-East Asia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), pp. 35-45 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619027
Linearizing N = 1 nonlinear supersymmetry with higher derivative terms of a Nambu-Goldstone fermion
Creators: name: Shima, Kazunari
name: Tsuda, Motomu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate for N = 1 supersymmetry (SUSY) the relation between a scalar supermultiplet of linear SUSY and a nonlinear (NL) SUSY model including apparently pathological higher derivaive terms of a Nambu-Goldstone (N-G) fermion besides the Volkov-Akulov (V-A) action. SUSY invariant relations with higher derivative terms of the N-G fermion, which connect the linear and NL SUSY models, are constructed at leading orders by heuristic arguments. We discuss a higher derivative action of the N-G fermion in the NL SUSY model, which apparently includes a (Weyl) ghost field. By using this relation, we also explicitly prove an equivalence between the standard NL SUSY V-A model and our NL SUSY model with the pathological higher derivatives as an example with respect to the universality of NL SUSY actions with the N-G fermion.
description: 8 pages, Latex, some more discussions added and some typos corrected
Additional file 9 of Gene expression profiling identifies pathways involved in seed maturation of Jatropha curcas
Creators: name: Maghuly, Fatemeh
name: Deák, Tamás
name: Vierlinger, Klemens
name: Pabinger, Stephan
name: Tafer, Hakim
name: Laimer, Margit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Figure S9. Overview of significantly enriched and over-represented flavonoid, flavone and flavonol biosynthesis and isoflavonoid biosynthesis pathways and related enzymes identified in different clusters. Figures generated by the pathview package to paint the gene of interests into KEGG pathways.
CryoEM analysis of small plant biocatalysts at sub-2 Å resolution
Creators: name: Dimos, Nicole
name: Helmer, Carl P. O.
name: Cha´Nique, Andrea M.
name: Wahl, Markus C.
name: Kourist, Robert
name: Hilal, Tarek
name: Loll, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cryo-electron microscopy
subject: camphor
subject: terpenes
subject: borneol dehydrogenases
subject: high resolution
subject: green chemistry
subject: plant biocatalysts
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Enzyme catalysis has emerged as a key technology for developing efficient, sustainable processes in the chemical, biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries. Plants provide large and diverse pools of biosynthetic enzymes that facilitate complex reactions, such as the formation of intricate terpene carbon skeletons, with exquisite specificity. High-resolution structural analysis of these enzymes is crucial in order to understand their mechanisms and modulate their properties by targeted engineering. Although cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) has revolutionized structural biology, its applicability to high-resolution structural analysis of comparatively small enzymes has so far been largely unexplored. Here, it is shown that cryoEM can reveal the structures of plant borneol dehydrogenases of ∼120 kDa at or below 2 Å resolution, paving the way for the rapid development of new biocatalysts that can provide access to bioactive terpenes and terpenoids.
Price competition and the fallacy of composition in developing country exports of manufactures : estimates of short-run growth effects
Creators: name: Blecker, Robert
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper studies whether intra-developing country price competition has significant effects on the short-run growth rates of developing countries that are specialized in manufactured exports. Regression estimates using the generalized method of moments (GMM) applied to annual panel data for 17 developing countries in 1983-2004 show that these countries exhibit a “fallacy of composition,” in the sense that a real depreciation relative to competing developing country exporters increases the home country’s growth rate in the short run. The results also suggest that real depreciations for these
Asymptotic solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for dissipative systems
Creators: name: Ernst, M. H.
name: Brito, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analytic solutions $F(v,t)$ of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation in $d$-dimensions are studied for a new class of dissipative models, called inelastic repulsive scatterers, interacting through pseudo-power law repulsions, characterized by a strength parameter $ν$, and embedding inelastic hard spheres ($ν=1$) and inelastic Maxwell models ($ν=0$). The systems are either freely cooling without energy input or driven by thermostats, e.g. white noise, and approach stable nonequilibrium steady states, or marginally stable homogeneous cooling states, where the data, $v^d_0(t) F(v,t)$ plotted versus $c=v/v_0(t)$, collapse on a scaling or similarity solution $f(c)$, where $v_0(t)$ is the r.m.s. velocity. The dissipative interactions generate overpopulated high energy tails, described generically by stretched Gaussians, $f(c) \sim \exp[-βc^b]$ with $0 < b < 2$, where $b=ν$ with $ν>0$ in free cooling, and $b=1+{1/2} ν$ with $ν\geq 0$ when driven by white noise. Power law tails, $f(c) \sim 1/c^{a+d}$, are only found in marginal cases, where the exponent $a$ is the root of a transcendental equation. The stability threshold depend on the type of thermostat, and is for the case of free cooling located at $ν=0$. Moreover we analyze an inelastic BGK-type kinetic equation with an energy dependent collision frequency coupled to a thermostat, that captures all qualitative properties of the velocity distribution function in Maxwell models, as predicted by the full nonlinear Boltzmann equation, but fails for harder interactions with $ν>0$.
description: Submitted to: "Granular Gas Dynamics", T. Poeschel, N. Brilliantov (eds.), Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. LNP 624, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2003
Magnetized Plasma Sheath in the Presence of Negative Ions
Creators: name: Paul, R.
name: Adhikari, S.
name: Moulick, R.
name: Kausik, S. S.
name: Saikia, B. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: G.1.7
subject: 76X05, 76W05, 82D10, 76T15

description: The sheath formation in a weakly magnetized collisionless electronegative plasma consisting of electrons, negative and positive ions has been numerically investigated using the hydrodynamic equations. The electrons and negative ions are assumed to follow Boltzmann relation. A sheath formation criterion has been analytically derived. The paper focuses on studying the sheath structure by varying the electronegativity. It has been observed that the presence of negative ions has a substantial effect on the sheath structure. The observations made in the present work have profound significance on processing plasmas, especially in the semiconductor industry as well as in fusion studies.
Bathippus rectus Zhang & Song & Li 2003, new species
Creators: name: Zhang, J. X.
name: Song, D. X.
name: Li, Daiqin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Bathippus
Bathippus rectus

description: Bathippus rectus, new species
(Figs. 4 A-D)
 Material examined. – Holotype – male (ZRC.ARA.52), Bukit Timah Nat. Res., Singapore, coll. D. Li, 24 Aug.1999.
Paratype – 1 male (ZRC.ARA.53), Bukit Timah Nat. Res., Singapore, coll. D. H. Murphy, 8 Jun.1967.
 Diagnosis. – The arrangement of cheliceral teeth of the new species is similar to that of Bathippus shelfordii Peckham & Peckham, 1907 (Peckham & Peckham, 1907: 620; Zabka, 1988: 431, f. 22-28), but differs from the latter in the structure of palpal organ; the palpal organ of the new species resembles that of Bathippus molossus (Thorell, 1881) (Plexippus molossus Thorell, 1881: 553, 708; Bathippus molossus - Prószynski théfrom, 1984: 8), but differs the latter in embolus relatively longer, coiled in more than one circle and tibial apophysis not hook-like.
  Description. – Males . Total length 6.75 (paratype)-8.45. Length of holotype 8.45: cephalothorax 3.42 long, 2.79 wide; abdomen 5.09 long, 2.03 wide. Carapace (Fig. 4A) dark brown, the PME and PLE surrounded by black circle. Eye sizes: AME 0.87, ALE 0.49, PME 0.09, PLE 0.46. Anterior eye row 2.48 wide, posterior row 2.25 wide, eye area 1.62 long. Chelicera (Fig. 4B) long, orange yellow, with 3 promarginal teeth and 1 retromarginal tooth. Endite and labium orange yellow, sternum yellow. Legs: femora I, II and patellae I, II dark red, other segments orange yellow. Femur I dorsally and patella I dorsally and ventrally with dense scopulae. Tibiae I, II and metatarsi I, II each with 4 pairs of ventral spines. Leg measurements: I 13.28 (3.87+5.22+ 3.06+1.13); II 10.36 (3.20+3.69+2.34+1.13); I I I 1 5. 0 4 (5. 0 9 + 4. 9 1 + 4. 1 4 + 0. 9 0); I V 1 0. 0 9 (2.93+3.15+3.20+0.81). Leg formula: 3124. Dorsum of abdomen grayish brown (yellow in paratype), centrally with 2 pairs of small brown spots; venter grayish brown, with 4 rows of light yellow, longitudinal markings. Embolus of palpal organ (Figs. 4C, D) slender, coiled into more than one circle, its basal part swollen as a bulb; tibial apophysis finger-like, not curved.
 Etymology. – The specific name refers to the straight apophysis of palpal tibia.
description: Published as part of Zhang, J. X., Song, D. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2003, Six New And One Newly Recorded Species Of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) From Singapore And Malaysia, pp. 187-195 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2) on pages 191-192, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618788
Stolper-Samuelson revisited : trade and distribution with oligopolistic profits
Creators: name: Blecker, Robert
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper investigates the distributional impact of international trade when goods markets are oligopolistic and firms partially pass-through changes in tariffs into prices and factor costs for differentiated products. Trade liberalization raises mark-ups and profit shares in the export industry and lowers them in the import-competing industry, while Stolper-Samuelson effects on real prices of primary factors are attenuated or possibly reversed. An extended model shows how “offshoring” (trade in intermediate goods) can potentially increase mark-ups for oligopolistic producers of final goods. The analysis illuminates why business interests generally support trade liberalization policies today, regardless of their countries’ factor abundance.
Apophylia dilaticornis
Creators: name: Bezdek, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Apophylia
Apophylia dilaticornis

description: Apophylia dilaticornis (Jacoby, 1894)
  Material examined. –  (6). 3 males, 3 females, Indonesia, Timor, Gunung Leo, coll. Doherty (BMNH).
  Remarks.  Endemic to Timor Island.
description: Published as part of Bezdek, Jan, 2005, New And Interesting Apophylia Species From South-East Asia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), pp. 35-45 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619027
Apophylia frischi Bezdek
Creators: name: Bezdek, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Apophylia
Apophylia frischi

description: Apophylia frischi Bezdek ˇ, 2003
  Material examined. –  (2). 1 male, 1 female, India, Nilgiri hills, coll. A. K. Weld Downing (BMNH)
  Remarks.  Known only from India (Bezdek ˇ, 2003c).
description: Published as part of Bezdek, Jan, 2005, New And Interesting Apophylia Species From South-East Asia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), pp. 35-45 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619027
Efficient Circuits for Exact-Universal Computations with Qudits
Creators: name: Brennen, Gavin K.
name: Bullock, Stephen S.
name: O'Leary, Dianne P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper concerns the efficient implementation of quantum circuits for qudits. We show that controlled two-qudit gates can be implemented without ancillas and prove that the gate library containing arbitrary local unitaries and one two-qudit gate, CINC, is exact-universal. A recent paper (PRL 94 230502) describes quantum circuits for qudits which require O(d^n) two-qudit gates for state synthesis and O(d^{2n}) two-qudit gates for unitary synthesis, matching the respective lower bound complexities. In this work, we present the state synthesis circuit in much greater detail and prove that it is correct. Also, the (n-2)/(d-2) ancillas required in the original algorithm may be removed without changing the asymptotics. Further, we present a new algorithm for unitary synthesis, inspired by the QR matrix decomposition, which is also asymptotically optimal.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Apophylia lebongana Maulik 1936
Creators: name: Bezdek, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Apophylia
Apophylia lebongana

description: Apophylia lebongana Maulik, 1936
  Material examined. –  (1). 1 female, India, West Bengal, Raman, Rimbick, coll. H. Takizawa, 10 Oct.1990 (HTHJ).
 Comments. Distributed in India, Nepal, Bhutan and China (Bezdek ˇ, 2003b).
description: Published as part of Bezdek, Jan, 2005, New And Interesting Apophylia Species From South-East Asia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), pp. 35-45 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619027
Additional file 5 of Gene expression profiling identifies pathways involved in seed maturation of Jatropha curcas
Creators: name: Maghuly, Fatemeh
name: Deák, Tamás
name: Vierlinger, Klemens
name: Pabinger, Stephan
name: Tafer, Hakim
name: Laimer, Margit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. TreeMap view in REVIGO of the enriched BP of the six different seed maturation stages of all DESs. All terms are adjusted P-value cutoff at 0.05 from the enrichment analysis.
Stolper-Samuelson revisited : trade and distribution with oligopolistic profits
Creators: name: Blecker, Robert
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This paper investigates the distributional impact of international trade when goods markets are oligopolistic and firms partially pass-through changes in tariffs into prices and factor costs for differentiated products. Trade liberalization raises mark-ups and profit shares in the export industry and lowers them in the import-competing industry, while Stolper-Samuelson effects on real prices of primary factors are attenuated or possibly reversed. An extended model shows how “offshoring” (trade in intermediate goods) can potentially increase mark-ups for oligopolistic producers of final goods. The analysis illuminates why business interests generally support trade liberalization policies today, regardless of their countries’ factor abundance.
Additional file 6 of Gene expression profiling identifies pathways involved in seed maturation of Jatropha curcas
Creators: name: Maghuly, Fatemeh
name: Deák, Tamás
name: Vierlinger, Klemens
name: Pabinger, Stephan
name: Tafer, Hakim
name: Laimer, Margit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S6. Plot of the top 15 significantly enriched categories of KEGG pathways in the 10 identified clusters (Fig. 2). The turquoise bars show over-represented pathways and the magenta bars show under-represented pathways. The x-axis indicates the statistical significance of the enrichment.
Two-body polyelectrolyte mediated bridging interactions
Creators: name: Podgornik, Rudi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate theoretically polyelectrolyte bridging interactions on the two-body level. The model system is composed of two macroions with two oppositely charged flexible chains. The electrostatic interactions are treated on the Debye - H\" uckel level. The formal level of the theory is provided by the Feynman-Kleinert variational method generalized to include also self-interactions between polyelectrolyte segments. The variational equations are shown to exhibit two solution branches corresponding to {\sl strong} and {\sl weak} coupling, whereas conformations of the chain can be described as {\sl weakly} or {\sl strongly paired}. We investigate the effective pair interaction between the macroions in the parameter space and comment on the relevance of the calculation for bridging interactions in experimental context.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures
Finslerian representation of the Maxwell equations
Creators: name: Kulyabov, Dmitry S.
name: Korolkova, Anna V.
name: Velieva, Tatyana R.
name: Demidova, Anastasia V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When the Maxwell equations are geometrized, the Maxwell Lagrangian is usually reduced to the Yang-Mills Lagrangian. In this case, the effective quadratic metric, usually corresponding to the Riemannian metric of our space, is considered. However, it is more reasonable to use Finsler approach to Maxwell's equations. In the paper the Finsler representation of the geometrized Maxwell equations is considered. The comparison with the Riemannian approach also is made.
description: in English; in Russian
Apophylia miyamotoi Kimoto 1969
Creators: name: Bezdek, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Apophylia
Apophylia miyamotoi

description: Apophylia miyamotoi Kimoto, 1969
  Material examined. –  (8). 2 females, Taiwan, Wukongshan, Liukuei, Kaohsiung, coll. H. Takizawa, 2 May.1996 (HTHJ); 1 male, Taiwan, Wukongshan, Liukuei, Kaohsiung, coll. S. Tsuyuki, 13 May.1996 (JBCB); 1 female, Taiwan, Lienhuachih, Nantou, coll. H. Takizawa, 5 May.1996 (HTHJ); 2 males, 1 female, Taiwan, Kaoshan, Liukuei, coll. H. Takizawa, 25 Mar.1995 (HTHJ); 1 male, Taiwan, Paolai, Taoyuan, Kaohsiung, coll. H. Takizawa, 3 May.1996 (HTHJ).
  Remarks.  Endemic to Taiwan.
description: Published as part of Bezdek, Jan, 2005, New And Interesting Apophylia Species From South-East Asia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), pp. 35-45 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619027
title: Masculinity, modernist form and the ends of Empire in Virginia's Woolf's fiction
Creators: name: McDonald, Jeremy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: The study traces the development of Woolf's methods for fictional representation of masculinity; it argues that chief among her narrative strategies for defamiliarising the public world of men and for bringing male characters into critical perspective is her use of autoethnography (Pratt 1992). The most explicit statement of Woolf's construction of masculinity is in the polemical, pacifist essay Three Guineas (1938), which makes direct connections between masculinity, war and the rise of Fascism in Europe, and between masculine dominance in the domestic sphere and tyrannical dictatorship in the international sphere of imperial rivalry and war. The study explores connections between the work of Bourdieu, especially his analysis in Masculine Domination (2001) of the persistence in the present of archaic gender divisions and relations of dominance and subordination between men and women, and Woolf's analysis and representation of relations of gender and power in the modern, early twentieth-century world. A reading of the novels shows how Woolf's outside perspective on men and masculinity shapes her thematic focus and formal style, and the development of the autoethnographic method is traced from its early manifestations to a more systematic deployment in the later work. The sequence of novels depicts the slow demise of a Victorian/Edwardian hegemonic model of colonial/imperial masculinity reflecting British imperial decline and the catastrophiC impact of the First World War upon the old order; in the later novels an uncertain new gender order is glimpsed as Woolf demonstrates both continuity and change in the acquisition of gender identities. The study also reviews recent developments in the continuing evolution of Woolf's literary and political reputation with an account of her steadily emerging reputation as a public intellectual.
Long-term spin state storage using ancilla charge memories
Creators: name: Jayakumar, Harishankar
name: Lozovoi, Artur
name: Daw, Damon
name: Meriles, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We articulate confocal microscopy and electron spin resonance to implement spin-to-charge conversion in a small ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in bulk diamond, and demonstrate charge conversion of neighboring defects conditional on the NV spin state. We build on this observation to show time-resolved NV spin manipulation and ancilla-charge-aided NV spin state detection via integrated measurements. Our results hint at intriguing opportunities in the search for enhanced forms of color-center-based metrology and information processing down to the limit of individual point defects.
Additional file 4 of Gene expression profiling identifies pathways involved in seed maturation of Jatropha curcas
Creators: name: Maghuly, Fatemeh
name: Deák, Tamás
name: Vierlinger, Klemens
name: Pabinger, Stephan
name: Tafer, Hakim
name: Laimer, Margit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. The expression profiles of each microarray probe during seed developmental stages. The x-axis represents different developmental stages, and the y-axis represents the log2 intensity values.
Efectos y Operación de las Escuelas Contratadas en Colombia. Policy Brief
Creators: name: Diaz-Rios, Claudia
name: Urbano-Canal, Nathalia
name: Ortegón-Penagos, María N
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: public-private partnerships
Privatization
Education

description: El policy brief sintetiza los hallazgos y recomendaciones derivadas del proyecto de investigación 'Efectos y Operación de las Escuelas Contratadas en Colombia'. El documento muestra que estas escuelas exhiben resultados académicos más bajos en sus estudiantes en comparación con las escuelas públicas tradicionales. Adicionalmente, el policy brief explica cómo la falta de coordinación entre entidades nacionales y subnacionales no permite una adecuada selección y monitoreo de las escuelas contratadas, lo que puede explicar sus resultados.
title: Privacy scan - template
title: Privacy review
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Romero Pastrana, Francisco
Publisher: name: Utrecht University
Year: 2024

description: This upload contains a template for the privacy scan as used in the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University.

The Privacy Scan (formerly known as Privacy Review) is a tool developed at the Geosciences Faculty designed to facilitate the process of evaluating and documenting a project’s GDPR compliance.

All projects in the Geosciences faculty that process personal data need to undergo a Privacy Scan.

The privacy scan of a project needs to be started at the same time the project is being designed, in order to implement the Data Protection by Design and by Default principles of the GDPR. 

The privacy scan is 'living document': it is meant to be continuously edited and updated alongside the project life cycle, to always provide up-to-date documentation of the project’s compliance.

For as long as personal data is processed (and storage is a type of processing), there should be a privacy scan that documents where data is being stored/processed, who is responsible for the project (and how can they be contacted), and when data will be completely deleted/anonymized – all details that demonstrate why this personal data processing is compliant with the GDPR.

The responsibility to start and maintain a privacy scan rests with the individual(s) in charge of the project. 

For more information about the privacy scan in the Geosciences faculty, please refer to the Geo data support site. For more general information on how to handle personal data in research at Utrecht University, see the Data Privacy Handbook.
Conformational selection of α‑Synuclein tetramers at biological interfaces
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Shayon
name: Xu, Liang
name: Arrué, Lily
name: Bartels, Tim
name: Thompson, Damien
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling the polymorphic assemblies of α-synuclein (αS) oligomers is crucial to reroute toxic protein aggregation implicated in Parkinson’s disease (PD). One potential mediator is the interaction of αS tetramers with cell membranes, which may regulate the dynamic balance between aggregation-prone disordered monomers and aggregation-resistant helical tetramers. Here, we model diverse tetramer−cell interactions and compare the structure−function relations at the supramolecular−biological interface with available experimental data. The models predict preferential interaction of compact αS tetramers with highly charged membrane surfaces, which may further stabilize this aggregation-resistant conformer. On moderately charged membranes, extended structures are preferred. In addition to surface charge, curvature influences tetramer thermodynamic stability and aggregation, with potential for selective isolation of tetramers via regio-specific interactions with strongly negatively charged micelles that screen further aggregation. Our modeling data set highlights diverse beneficial nano−bio interactions to redirect biomolecule assembly, supporting new therapeutic approaches for PD based on lipid-mediated conformational selection and inhibition
title: Managerial engagement with climate change in small and medium-sized enterprises
Creators: name: Williams, Sarah
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: If the response to climate change is to include a transition to a low carbon economy, then the role of small businesses will be vital. As employers, innovators, polluters and carbon users, small businesses have significant combined impacts and opportunities. Within the framework of ecological modernisation, government policy has taken a largely voluntary approach to engaging small businesses with pro-environmental behaviour. Research has consistently found small businesses to be resistant to business greening and taken a predominantly positivist approach to identifying the barriers and drivers to behaviour and to measuring the effectiveness of different policy measures. In this study, the Schwartz Value System (SVS) is used within a qualitative research design to contribute new insight into how managers make sense of climate change. The thesis demonstrates the role of values in sensemaking and the need to engage with individuals within small businesses through the value-based frames they hold. In particular, this research shows that the win-win approach aimed at encouraging SMEs to save money, save the planet through voluntary engagement strategies over-simplifies managerial motivation. The managers in this study drawing on the self-enhancing value of Power most clearly reflected win-win ideas, except that they encapsulated the save money but not the save the planet message. Environmental protection, found within Universalism values, was only demonstrated by managers drawing on Achievement. In making sense of climate change, managers constructed their ideas using a mix of self enhancing, self-transcending, open and conservation values. To fully engage SME managers with climate change, policy makers need to take a more sophisticated approach to explicitly engaging individual with values.
SOS: Online probability estimation and generation of T and B cell receptors
Creators: name: Isacchini, Giulio
name: Olivares, Carlos
name: Nourmohammad, Armita
name: Walczak, Aleksandra M.
name: Mora, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Recent advances in modelling VDJ recombination and subsequent selection of T and B cell receptors provide useful tools to analyze and compare immune repertoires across time, individuals, and tissues. A suite of tools--IGoR [1], OLGA [2] and SONIA [3]--have been publicly released to the community that allow for the inference of generative and selection models from high-throughput sequencing data. However using these tools requires some scripting or command-line skills and familiarity with complex datasets. As a result the application of the above models has not been available to a broad audience. In this application note we fill this gap by presenting Simple OLGA & SONIA (SOS), a web-based interface where users with no coding skills can compute the generation and post-selection probabilities of their sequences, as well as generate batches of synthetic sequences. The application also functions on mobile phones.
Additional file 2 of Gene expression profiling identifies pathways involved in seed maturation of Jatropha curcas
Creators: name: Maghuly, Fatemeh
name: Deák, Tamás
name: Vierlinger, Klemens
name: Pabinger, Stephan
name: Tafer, Hakim
name: Laimer, Margit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. GO annotation classification of whole seed transcript sequencing data. Results are summarized for three main GO categories (BP, MF, and CC). The x-axis indicates the most abundant GO terms, and y-axis represents the number of each GO term.
Additional file 3 of Gene expression profiling identifies pathways involved in seed maturation of Jatropha curcas
Creators: name: Maghuly, Fatemeh
name: Deák, Tamás
name: Vierlinger, Klemens
name: Pabinger, Stephan
name: Tafer, Hakim
name: Laimer, Margit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. PCA analysis explains the variance in gene expression of the six different seed maturation stages (I-VI) with their biological replications.
Discrimination of POVMs with rank-one effects
Creators: name: Krawiec, Aleksandra
name: Pawela, Łukasz
name: Puchała, Zbigniew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main goal of this work is to provide an insight into the problem of discrimination of positive operator valued measures with rank-one effects. It is our intention to study multiple shot discrimination of such measurements, that is the case when we are able to use to unknown measurement a given number of times. Furthermore, we are interested in comparing two possible discrimination schemes: the parallel and adaptive ones. To this end we construct a pair of symmetric, information complete positive operator valued measures which can be perfectly discriminated in a two-shot adaptive scheme. On top of this we provide an explicit algorithm which allows us to find this adaptive scheme.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Paths Towards a Just, Sustainable and Food Secure UBC Food System: 2004 Food System Project Report
Creators: name: Richer, Liska
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Apophylia purpurea
Creators: name: Bezdek, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Apophylia
Apophylia purpurea

description: Apophylia purpurea (Allard, 1888)
  Material examined. –  (11). 7 females, Thailand, Nakorn Nayok, Ban Na, coll. S. Ohmomo, 27 Jul.1997 (HTHJ); 1 male, Thailand, Rachaburi, coll. S. Ohmomo, 15 Aug.1997 (JBCB); 3 females, Laos, Xieng Khouang, coll. R. V. de Salvaza, 12 May.1919 (BMNH).
  Remarks.  Distributed in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia (Bezdek ˇ, 2003a).
description: Published as part of Bezdek, Jan, 2005, New And Interesting Apophylia Species From South-East Asia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), pp. 35-45 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619027
The effect of aging on network structure
Creators: name: Zhu, Han
name: Wang, Xin-Ran
name: Zhu, Jian-Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In network evolution, the effect of aging is universal: in scientific collaboration network, scientists have a finite time span of being active; in movie actors network, once popular stars are retiring from stage; devices on the Internet may become outmoded with techniques developing so rapidly. Here we find in citation networks that this effect can be represented by an exponential decay factor, $e^{-βτ}$, where $τ$ is the node age, while other evolving networks (the Internet for instance) may have different types of aging, for example, a power-law decay factor, which is also studied and compared. It has been found that as soon as such a factor is introduced to the Barabasi-Albert Scale-Free model, the network will be significantly transformed. The network will be clustered even with infinitely large size, and the clustering coefficient varies greatly with the intensity of the aging effect, i.e. it increases linearly with $β$ for small values of $β$ and decays exponentially for large values of $β$. At the same time, the aging effect may also result in a hierarchical structure and a disassortative degree-degree correlation. Generally the aging effect will increase the average distance between nodes, but the result depends on the type of the decay factor. The network appears like a one-dimensional chain when exponential decay is chosen, but with power-law decay, a transformation process is observed, i.e., from a small-world network to a hypercubic lattice, and to a one-dimensional chain finally. The disparities observed for different choices of the decay factor, in clustering, average node distance and probably other aspects not yet identified, are believed to bear significant meaning on empirical data acquisition.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures,V2, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
Controlling T$_c$ through band structure and correlation engineering in collapsed and uncollapsed phases of iron arsenides
Creators: name: Acharya, Swagata
name: Pashov, Dimitar
name: Jamet, Francois
name: van Schilfgaarde, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations of selective emergence (suppression) of superconductivity in the uncollapsed (collapsed) tetragonal phase of LaFe$_2$As$_2$ has rekindled interest in understanding what features of the band structure control the superconducting T$_c$. We show that the proximity of the narrow Fe-d$_{xy}$ state to the Fermi energy emerges as the primary factor. In the uncollapsed phase this state is at the Fermi energy, and is most strongly correlated and source of enhanced scattering in both single and two particle channels. The resulting intense and broad low energy spin fluctuations suppress magnetic ordering and simultaneously provide glue for Cooper pair formation. In the collapsed tetragonal phase, the d$_{xy}$ state is driven far below the Fermi energy, which suppresses the low-energy scattering and blocks superconductivity. A similar source of broad spin excitation appears in uncollapsed and collapsed phases of CaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$. This suggests controlling coherence provides a way to engineer T$_c$ in unconventional superconductors primarily mediated through spin fluctuations.
Field emission in ultrathin PdSe2 back-gated transistors
Creators: name: Di Bartolomeo, A.
name: Pelella, A.
name: Urban, F.
name: Grillo, A.
name: Iemmo, L.
name: Passacantando, M.
name: Liu, X.
name: Giubileo, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the electrical transport in back-gate field-effect transistors with ultrathin palladium diselenide (PdSe2) channel. The devices are normally-on and exhibit dominant n-type conduction at low pressure. The electron conduction, combined with the sharp edge and the workfunction decreasing with the number of layers, opens the way to applications of PdSe2 nanosheets in vacuum electronics. In this work, we demonstrate field emission from few-layer PdSe2 nanosheets with current up to the uA and turn-on field below 100 V/um, thus extending the plethora of applications of this recently isolated pentagonal layered material.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Locking entanglement measures with a single qubit
Creators: name: Horodecki, Karol
name: Horodecki, Michal
name: Horodecki, Pawel
name: Oppenheim, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the loss of entanglement of bipartite state subjected to discarding or measurement of one qubit. Examining the behavior of different entanglement measures, we find that entanglement of formation, entanglement cost, and logarithmic negativity are lockable measures in that it can decrease arbitrarily after measuring one qubit. We prove that any convex and asymptotically non-continuous measure is lockable. As a consequence, all the convex roof measures can be locked. Relative entropy of entanglement is shown to be a non-lockable measure.
description: 5 pages, RevTex4