cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Antibiotic-loaded hydrogel coating of internal osteosynthesis to prevent surgical site infections. A randomized, controlled, prospective, multicenter study
Creators: name: Romano, Carlo Luca
name: Logoluso, Nicola
name: Malizos, Konstantinos
name: Capuano, Nicola
name: Mezzoprete, Riccardo
name: Blauth, Michael
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Fracture
subject: Infection
subject: Osteosynthesis
subject: Coating
subject: Antibacterial
subject: Hydrogel
subject: DAC.
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives: Infection is among the first reasons for failure of orthopedic implants. Various antibacterial coatings have been proposed or are under investigation, in order to prevent bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation and thus avoiding implant-related infections; however, very few of them are [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Kongress für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (DKOU 2016)
Ozonation – an alternative decontamination method for raw plant materials
Creators: name: Brodowska, Agnieszka.J.
name: Śmiegielski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2013

description: Raw plant materials are vital to our health and well-being because they are furnished with essential vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other health-promoting phytochemicals. Its increasing consumption forces food manufacturers to assure consumers of a proper microbiological purity of their products. Thus, microbiological purity is an important factor during assessing their suitability in the production process. The sources of raw plant material contamination are particularly soil particles which are brought during harvest, transport and storage and also microorganisms (bacteria, moulds and yeasts), which are associated with their living environment. The decontamination methods which have been used so far, cause a significant reduction of infective microflora, though it is observed a change or loss their valuable components such as: essential oils and biologically active substances. Thus, the aim of this paper is to propose an alternative method of decontamination such as ozonation. Microbial status of samples of Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton (cardamom) seeds, Juniperus communis (L.) (juniper) berries, Piper nigrum (white pepper) drupes, dried Ribes nigrum (L.) (blackcurrant) berries, and dried Allium cepa (L.) (onion) flakes was determined before as well as after ozonation. The conducted study shows that ozone causes a significant reduction of contaminating microflora. However, the ozone effectiveness depends on the microflora of plant material and its various vulnerability to ozone.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 77 No. 1 (2013): Biotechnology and Food Science
title: Aneurysmale Knochenzysten: Klinik, Therapie und Ergebnisse
Creators: name: Grahneis, Ferdinand
name: Klein, Alexander
name: Baur-Melnyk, Andrea
name: Knösel, Thomas
name: Jansson, Volkmar
name: Dürr, Hans Roland
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Aneurysmale Knochenzyste
subject: Knochentumor
subject: Therapie
subject: Prognose
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Trotz des benignen Charakters sind primäre Aneurysmale Knochenzysten oft aggressive und schwer zu therapierende Läsionen. Nach neuerer Literatur können sie den neoplastischen Prozessen zugeordnet werden, auch wenn sie bisher als "tumorähnliche" Läsionen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Kongress für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (DKOU 2016)
Pinning down neutrino oscillation parameters in the 2-3 sector with a mgnetised atmospheric neutrino detector: a new study
Creators: name: Mohan, Lakshmi S.
name: Indumathi, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the sensitivity to neutrino oscillation parameters from a study of atmospheric neutrinos in a magnetised detector such as the ICAL at the proposed India-based Neutrino Observatory. In such a detector that can {\em separately} count $ν_μ$ and $\overlineν_μ$-induced events, the relatively smaller (about 5\%) uncertainties on the neutrino--anti-neutrino flux ratios translate to a constraint in the $χ^2$ analysis that results in a significant improvement in the precision with which neutrino oscillation parameters such as $\sin^2θ_{23}$ can be determined. Such an effect is unique to all magnetisable detectors and constitutes a great advantage in determining neutrino oscillation parameters using such detectors. Such a study has been performed for the first time here. Along with an increase in the kinematic range compared to earlier analyses, this results in sensitivities to oscillation parameters in the 2--3 sector that are comparable to or better than those from accelerator experiments where the fluxes are significantly higher. For example, the $1σ$ precisions on $\sin^2θ_{23}$ and $|Δ{m^2_{32(31)}}|$ achievable for 500 kTon yr exposure of ICAL are $\sim9\%$ and $\sim2.5\%$ respectively for both normal and inverted hierarchies. The mass hierarchy sensitivity achievable with this combination when the true hierarchy is normal (inverted) for the same exposure is $Δχ^2\approx8.5$ ($Δχ^2\approx9.5$).
Naringenin complexes with copper ions: potentiometric studies
Creators: name: Brodowska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2013

description: Flavanones belong to the group of active flavonoid compounds, rarely occurring in the plant kingdom and are found in many foodstuffs (naringenin and derivatives) and medicinal plant materials. Many studies have demonstrated a relationship between dietary intake of phenolic compounds and reduced risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Accordingly, during over several years, flavonoids have gained increasing interest and numerous studies have shown that they possess beneficial properties having a great influence on human health. Acid dissociation constants are believed to be the most useful physico-chemical parameters which describe the extent of ionization of functional groups as a function of pH. It is very important in research areas such as pharmaceutical drug discovery and development due to vital role in understanding the pharmacodynamic properties of new drug substances. Flavonoids are characterized by insolubility in water while they are soluble in organic solvents. Exploiting mixed solvents, especially organic solvent – water mixtures, enables a good alternative for researching on compounds which are inconspicuously soluble or insoluble in water. In this study the dissociation constant of naringenin and its complex with Cu(II) have been determined in aqueous – DMSO solvent mixtures to examine the dependence of their acid-base equilibria on number of substrates.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 77 No. 1 (2013): Biotechnology and Food Science
Effects of target anisotropy on harmonic measure and mean first-passage time
Creators: name: Chaigneau, Adrien
name: Grebenkov, Denis S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 92C05, 92C40, 60G40

description: In this paper, we investigate the influence of target anisotropy on two characteristics of diffusion-controlled reactions: harmonic measure density and mean first-passage time. First, we compute the volume-averaged harmonic measure density on prolate and oblate spheroidal targets inside a confining domain in three dimensions. This allows us to quantify the uniformity of this density in the small target limit. Second, we derive an explicit expression of the mean first-passage time to such targets and analyze the effect of anisotropy. In particular, we illustrate the accuracy of the capacitance approximation for small targets.
Perception and Value Assessment of Ecosystem Services in Rural and Urban Regions in Ecuador
Creators: name: Navarrete Arias, Roberto S.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Land use/land cover (LULC) plays a vital role in the provision of ecosystem services. Changing natural vegetation to agricultural or urban uses affectss the socio-economic dynamics of the surrounding populations. Changing land use may also result in the impairment of ecosystem services. Rural and urban communities have different realities and perceptions on the importance of ecosystem services, which tend to vary by economic, generational, social, and cultural factors. This study assesses the subjective value of people in urban and rural communities on provisioning, regulating, and cultural ecosystem services. A quantitative and qualitative survey using interviews and spatial analysis with GIS is used to study ecosystem services. The survey evaluates the values, perceptions, and benefits of ecosystems in urban and rural regions. Environmental conservation plans that have been implemented on a national level and the traditional ecological activities that local communities play a crucial role in the governance of
ecosystem services. There is a need to understand the effectiveness and awareness o actions resulting from governance regimes to be both applicable and useful in protecting ecosystem services in fragile and diverse ecosystems such as Ecuador.
title: WP2 Manchester Local Area Energy Strategy: Local Area Energy Strategy - Bury Evidence Base Report
Creators: name: Energy Systems Catapult
Publisher: name: ETI
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Smart Systems and Heat
subject: ENERGY EFFICIENCY (Residential and commercial)
subject: OTHER CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES or RESEARCH (Energy system analysis)
subject: OTHER CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES or RESEARCH (Other Supporting Data)

description: The Spatial Energy Plan for Greater Manchester Combined Authority project was commissioned as part of the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) Smart Systems and Heat Programme and undertaken through collaboration between the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the Energy Systems Catapult.The study has consolidated the significant data and existing evidence relating to the local energy system to provide a platform for future energy planning in the region and the development of suitable policies within the emerging spatial planning framework for Greater Manchester.

This document sets out the evidence base in support of a local energy strategy for Bury.

Key conclusionsBy 2050 Bury can reduce its building emissions by 98% from 1990 levels. A 95% reduction could be achieved by 2040.These carbon savings would not come easily.There are limited windows of opportunity to replace domestic heating systems.If Greater Manchester and Bury aim for a more ambitious carbon target of nearly zero carbon by 2050Then low carbon heating needs to accelerate. Heating systems need to become low carbon at the earliest opportunityFor some areas and homes in Bury, if lower carbon gas is not available it is clear that electric heating is a cost effective way to decarboniseFor other areas there is the potential to have a lower cost solution using district heating networks.There is significant uncertainty today in the future costs of both electric heating systems including heat pumps and heat networks.Decarbonising non-domestic buildings is necessary.Some non-domestics are modelled to use heat industrially and so are difficult to switch to a low carbon source.Local renewable energy generation can play an important role.Meeting carbon targets will come at a cost.Most consumers are not currently familiar with the transitional technologies discussed in this report.Many consumers will value the sunk cost of their current heating system that is not at end of life – even if a new system would save them money overall.Even familiar technologies cannot be assumed to be easy to implement.Transitional technologies could help to tackle some of these consumer issues.The relative future costs of fuels, heating systems and fabric retrofit options closely influence which options are likely to be preferable.The level and cost of network new build and reinforcement and the opportunities for solar PV and battery storage are projected to be different depending on location, demonstrating why local area energy planning is needed to manage the process.Consideration will need to be given to how heat network costs are socialised across the local area.
Instability of nonminimally coupled scalar fields in the spacetime of thin charged shells
Creators: name: Santiago, Jessica
name: Landulfo, Andre G. S.
name: Lima, William C. C.
name: Matsas, George E. A.
name: Mendes, Raissa F. P.
name: Vanzella, Daniel A. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stability of a free scalar field nonminimally coupled to gravity under linear perturbations in the spacetime of a charged spherical shell. Our analysis is performed in the context of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. This paper completes previous analyses which considered the exponential enhancement of vacuum fluctuations in the spacetime of massive shells.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes to match the published version
Gradient-Based Geometry Learning for Fan-Beam CT Reconstruction
Creators: name: Thies, Mareike
name: Wagner, Fabian
name: Maul, Noah
name: Folle, Lukas
name: Meier, Manuela
name: Rohleder, Maximilian
name: Schneider, Linda-Sophie
name: Pfaff, Laura
name: Gu, Mingxuan
name: Utz, Jonas
name: Denzinger, Felix
name: Manhart, Michael
name: Maier, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Incorporating computed tomography (CT) reconstruction operators into differentiable pipelines has proven beneficial in many applications. Such approaches usually focus on the projection data and keep the acquisition geometry fixed. However, precise knowledge of the acquisition geometry is essential for high quality reconstruction results. In this paper, the differentiable formulation of fan-beam CT reconstruction is extended to the acquisition geometry. This allows to propagate gradient information from a loss function on the reconstructed image into the geometry parameters. As a proof-of-concept experiment, this idea is applied to rigid motion compensation. The cost function is parameterized by a trained neural network which regresses an image quality metric from the motion affected reconstruction alone. Using the proposed method, we are the first to optimize such an autofocus-inspired algorithm based on analytical gradients. The algorithm achieves a reduction in MSE by 35.5 % and an improvement in SSIM by 12.6 % over the motion affected reconstruction. Next to motion compensation, we see further use cases of our differentiable method for scanner calibration or hybrid techniques employing deep models.
Measurement of the production of (anti)nuclei in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 8.16$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of (anti)proton, (anti)deuteron, and (anti)$^3$He production in the rapidity range $-1
description: 27 pages, 4 captioned figures, 3 tables, authors from page 22, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/8796
Manufacturing Land to Grab It: Land Reclamation, Dispossession, and Resistance  in Bali, Indonesia
Creators: name: Lange, Kirk
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: This thesis examines land reclamation as an increasingly significant form of land grabbing and control. Its focus is coastal reclamation in south Bali, Indonesia, particularly in and near the culturally, economically, and ecologically important Benoa Bay. Like elsewhere in Asia and around the world, the remaking of landscapes and seascapes in Indonesia through reclamation has numerous, interconnected material, ecological, and social impacts. In south Bali, coral, mangrove, and seagrass meadows have been degraded, fishers’ livelihoods decimated, and communities’ spiritual and other connections to place disrupted. Benoa is a particularly productive case to analyze, as there have been instances of both historical and recent reclamation projects, as well as a proposed mega-project that has successfully been resisted for nearly a decade. The thesis seeks to make multiple contributions in analyzing reclamation, primarily in Bali and elsewhere in Indonesia. First, despite its quickening pace and widening extent, there is a need for greater empirical attention to reclamation’s spatiality and its entwined social, ecological, and material effects. This case study is attentive to the historical and conjunctural specificities of Bali (including the tourist-centric economy that provides capital with unique imaginaries and circulations for a spatial fix and the Balinese-Hinduism that subtends legal pluralism), but also attempts to trace trends and dynamics of reclamation more widely. Second, examining reclamation as an assemblage enables us to better understand its political economy, by identifying the many financial, technological, legal, discursive and other elements that must be made to cohere. Analyzing cases of resistance, or other failures to cohere, reveal potential weak seams and chokepoints in reclamation’s assemblage. Third, analysis of reclamation enables us to see reclaimed land as “manufactured,” and different not just theoretically from emplaced land, but distinct in its behaviors. Manufactured land behaves like a true (not pseudo) commodity. Seeing land in a commodity chain further reveals its political economy as well as opportunities to disrupt its manufacture.
title: Stage-specific microRNAs in chondrocyte maturation and osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Gabler, Jessica
name: Rütze, Martin
name: Kynast, Katharina
name: Grossner, Tobias
name: Diederichs, Solvig
name: Richter, Wiltrud
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: mesenchymal stromal cells
subject: chondrogenesis
subject: microRNAs
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives: In vitro chondrogenesis of human mesenchymal stromal cells (hMSC) provides an effective model to recapitulate successive phases of embryonic chondrocyte maturation from progenitor cells to hypertrophic chondrocytes. Unfortunately, chondrogenesis of hMSC is still insufficiently understood,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Kongress für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (DKOU 2016)
Entanglement and coherence in quantum state merging
Creators: name: Streltsov, A.
name: Chitambar, E.
name: Rana, S.
name: Bera, M. N.
name: Winter, A.
name: Lewenstein, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the resource consumption in distributed scenarios is one of the main goals of quantum information theory. A prominent example for such a scenario is the task of quantum state merging where two parties aim to merge their parts of a tripartite quantum state. In standard quantum state merging, entanglement is considered as an expensive resource, while local quantum operations can be performed at no additional cost. However, recent developments show that some local operations could be more expensive than others: it is reasonable to distinguish between local incoherent operations and local operations which can create coherence. This idea leads us to the task of incoherent quantum state merging, where one of the parties has free access to local incoherent operations only. In this case the resources of the process are quantified by pairs of entanglement and coherence. Here, we develop tools for studying this process, and apply them to several relevant scenarios. While quantum state merging can lead to a gain of entanglement, our results imply that no merging procedure can gain entanglement and coherence at the same time. We also provide a general lower bound on the entanglement-coherence sum, and show that the bound is tight for all pure states. Our results also lead to an incoherent version of Schumacher compression: in this case the compression rate is equal to the von Neumann entropy of the diagonal elements of the corresponding quantum state.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure. Lemma 5 in Appendix D of the previous version was not correct. This did not affect the results of the main text
Monogamy relation of multi-qubit systems for squared Tsallis-\emph{q} entanglement
Creators: name: Yuan, Guang-Ming
name: Song, Wei
name: Yang, Ming
name: Li, Da-Chuang
name: Zhao, Jun-Long
name: Cao, Zhuo-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tsallis-$q$ entanglement is a bipartite entanglement measure which is the generalization of entanglement of formation for $q$ tending to 1. We first expand the range of $q$ for the analytic formula of Tsallis-\emph{q} entanglement. For $\frac{5-\sqrt{13}}{2} \leq \emph{q} \leq \frac{5+\sqrt{13}}{2}$, we prove the monogamy relation in terms of the squared Tsallis-$q$ entanglement for an arbitrary multi-qubit systems. It is shown that the multipartite entanglement indicator based on squared Tsallis-$q$ entanglement still works well even when the indicator based on the squared concurrence loses its efficacy. We also show that the $μ$-th power of Tsallis-\emph{q} entanglement satisfies the monogamy or polygamy inequalities for any three-qubit state.
description: This paper was submitted on 27th March
Incorporating Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption into Accelerometer Energy Expenditure Estimation Algorithms
Creators: name: Remillard, Nicholas
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Accelerometers are objective monitors of physical activity (PA) that can be used to estimate energy expenditure (EE). Most accelerometer EE estimation equations are based on steady-state data and do not consider excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) after exercise. PURPOSE: To quantify the error in accelerometer EE estimates due to EPOC after varying durations of high-intensity treadmill running. METHODS: Nine young, healthy, recreationally active males participated in three study visits. Visit 1 included a treadmill VO2 peak test to determine the treadmill speed correlating to 80% VO2 peak for visits 2 and 3. Visit 2 included a seated 20-min baseline and three short (30s, 60s, 120s) vigorous treadmill running bouts each followed by 20 minutes of seated rest. Visit 3 included a supine 60-min baseline and a 30-min treadmill running bout followed by 3 hours of supine rest. Twelve EE estimation equations each using either a non-dominant wrist or right hip ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometer were compared to the true EE measured by the Parvomedics TrueOne 2400 indirect calorimeter. RESULTS: The Freedson 1998 EE estimation equation overestimated EE during the 20min post-exercise period after each exercise bout (mean kCals [95% CIs]; 30s: 19.3 [11.4, 27.2], 60s: 16.6 [8.5, 24.7], 120s: 13.4 [5.74, 21.1], 30min: 15.1 [6.69, 23.5]). The Crouter 2009 branching algorithm underestimated EE during the 20min post-exercise period after each exercise bout (mean kCals [95% CIs]; 30s: -8.59 [-10.6, -6.62], 60s: -11.6 [-13.7, -9.38], 120s: -15.0 [-18.1, -11.8], 30min: -11.0 [-14.3, -7.77]), but was partially corrected by adding in the measured EPOC. CONCLUSION: Estimated EE during lying or seated rest from linear accelerometer equations was heavily dependent on the y-intercept of the equation, which represents the estimated resting EE of the wearer, with the Crouter calibration study being the only one to directly measure resting EE. More sophisticated approaches, like the Crouter 2009 and newer machine learning algorithms, have better potential to more accurately estimate EE across various activity types. New accelerometer EE estimations should include resting in their calibration protocols in order to more accurately estimate EE during rest.
Interference-Normalised Least Mean Square Algorithm
Creators: name: Valin, Jean-Marc
name: Collings, Iain B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An interference-normalised least mean square (INLMS) algorithm for robust adaptive filtering is proposed. The INLMS algorithm extends the gradient-adaptive learning rate approach to the case where the signals are non-stationary. In particular, we show that the INLMS algorithm can work even for highly non-stationary interference signals, where previous gradient-adaptive learning rate algorithms fail.
description: 4 pages
Twisted Harnack inequality and approximation of variational problems with a convexity constraint by singular Abreu equations
Creators: name: Le, Nam Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show in all dimensions that minimizers of variational problems with a convexity constraint, which arise from the Rochet-Choné model with a quadratic cost in the monopolist's problem in economics, can be approximated in the uniform norm by solutions of singular Abreu equations. The difficulty of our Abreu equations consists of having singularities that occur only in a proper subdomain and they cannot be completely removed by any transformations. To solve them, we rely on a new tool which we establish here: a Harnack inequality for singular linearized Monge-Ampère type equations that satisfy certain twisted conditions.
description: v2: final version published in Adv. Math
Collective dynamics of polarized spin-half fermions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Singh, Rajeev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relativistic hydrodynamics has been quite successful in describing the properties of strongly-interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collision experiments. Recently, there has been a significant advancement in this field to explain the spin polarization of hadrons emitted in these processes. Although current models have successfully explained some of the experimental data based on spin-vorticity coupling, they still lack a clear understanding of differential measurements. This is an indication that the spin needs to be treated as an independent degree of freedom whose dynamics is not entirely bound to flow circulation. In particular, if the spin is a macroscopic property of the system, in equilibrium its dynamics should follow hydrodynamic laws. In this thesis, we develop a framework of relativistic perfect-fluid hydrodynamics which includes spin degrees of freedom from kinetic theory, and use it for modeling the dynamics of matter produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Following experimental observations, we assume that the polarization effects are small and derive conservation laws for net-baryon current, energy-momentum tensor, and spin tensor based on the de Groot-van Leeuwen-van Weert pseudogauge. Subsequently, we present various properties of the spin polarization tensor and its components, analyze the propagation properties of the spin polarization components, and derive the spin-wave velocity for arbitrary statistics. We find that only the transverse spin components propagate, analogously to the EM waves. Finally, we study the spacetime evolution of spin polarization for the systems respecting certain spacetime symmetries and calculate the mean spin polarization per particle, which can be compared to the experimental data. We find that, for some observables, our spin polarization results agree qualitatively with the experimental findings and other model calculations.
description: IJMPA version
Effect of nitrogen sources on fermentation process and formation of hydrogen sulfide and ethyl carbamate by wine yeast
Creators: name: Nowak, Agnieszka
name: Koch-Wilk, Magdalena
name: Pogorzelski, Eugeniusz
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2013

description: The addition of nitrogen compounds during winemaking is required for the fermentation process to be conducted properly. These compounds are known to be essential to the vinification process, not only because they influence yeast growth but also because they affect the formation of main and by-products. The effect of nitrogen source on in vitro and in situ formation of hydrogen sulfide and ethyl carbamate was studied. Research material comprised two strains of wine yeast: Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In vitro model was carried out in a synthetic defined medium. In situ fermentations were carried out in musts prepared from apple concentration. The process of hydrogen sulfide formation was intensified in nitrogen deficiency. The presence of amino acids in a model substrate resulted in significant changes in the efficiency of formation of both compounds. Yeasts produced more H2S in the presence of Cys, Phe, Gly, Glu, Ile, Thr, Pro, Leu, Trp, Val and less in the presence Ala, Arg, Asp, His, Ser, Met. The formation of ethyl carbamate was limited by the amino acids, except Arg, Asp and Lys, which during fermentation with Syrena yeasts caused an increase in the efficiency of formation of this compound. The Fermivit V preparation stimulated yeasts to form H2S. In the presence of this preparation the Syrena yeasts formed more ethyl carbamate while Hefix yeasts formed about 3-fold less of this compound then in the presence diamonium phosphate.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 77 No. 1 (2013): Biotechnology and Food Science
Revealing a detailed mass distribution of a high-density core MC27/L1521F in Taurus with ALMA
Creators: name: Tokuda, Kazuki
name: Onishi, Toshikazu
name: Matsumoto, Tomoaki
name: Saigo, Kazuya
name: Kawamura, Akiko
name: Fukui, Yasuo
name: Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro
name: Machida, Masahiro N.
name: Tomida, Kengo
name: Tachihara, Kengo
name: André, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of ALMA observations of dust continuum emission and molecular rotational lines toward a dense core MC27 (aka L1521F) in Taurus, which is considered to be at a very early stage of star formation. The detailed column density distribution on size scales from a few tens AU to ~10,000 AU scale are revealed by combining the ALMA (12 m array + 7 m array) data with the published/unpublished single-dish data. The high angular resolution observations at 0.87 mm with a synthesized beam size of ~0."74 x 0."32 reveal that a protostellar source, MMS-1, is not spatially resolved and lacks associated gas emission, while a starless high-density core, MMS-2, has substructures both in dust and molecular emission. The averaged radial column density distribution of the inner part of MC27/L1521F (r $\lesssim$ 3000 AU) is N(H2) ~r$^{-0.4}$, clearly flatter than that of the outer part, ~r$^{-1.0}$. The complex velocity/spatial structure obtained with previous ALMA observations is located inside the inner flatter region, which may reflect the dynamical status of the dense core.
description: 30 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Contamination of breakfast cereal products by fungi and mycotoxins – a potential risk for consumer’s health
Creators: name: Piotrowska, Małgorzata
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2013

description: The aim of research was assessment of breakfast cereal snacks available in trade for their contamination with fungi and selected mycotoxins in related to potential risk of consumers’ health. The contamination with fungi ranged from 1.3´101 cfu g-1 to 9.0´102 cfu g-1. The most contaminated was muesli, that apart from cereal components comprised also dried fruit, nuts and coconut flakes. Species belonging to Aspergillus, Penicillium, Cladosporium, Rhizopus, Mucor, Chaetomium, Trichoderma, Eurotium and Fusarium genera were isolated as dominant. The isolated species included Aspergillus ochraceus, A. flavus, A. versicolor, A. sydowii, Penicillium verrucosum and Fusarium graminearum, which are well known as mycotoxin producers. None of the products was contaminated with aflatoxin B1. The presence of ochratoxin A exceeding of 3 ng g-1 was discovered in 30% of samples. The contamination with deoxynivalenol equalled 587 ng g-1 on average. This result indicates that the cereals products may form a serious sourceof exposure to mycotoxins, particularly for most vulnerable group, i.e. children.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 77 No. 1 (2013): Biotechnology and Food Science
Chemosensory Receptors in Berghia stephanieae: Bioinformatics and Localization
Creators: name: Watkins, Kelsi L.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Chemosensation is achieved through the binding of chemical signals to chemoreceptor proteins embedded in the membranes of sensory neurons. The molecular identity of these receptors, as well as the downstream processing of chemosensory signals, has been well studied in arthropods and vertebrates. However, very little is known about molluscan chemosensation. The identity of chemoreceptor proteins in the nudibranch mollusc Berghia stephanieae are unknown. Data from other protostome and molluscan studies suggest Berghia may use ionotropic receptors for some forms of chemoreception. This study used a bioinformatics approach to identify potential chemosensory ionotropic receptors in the transcriptome of Berghia. A hidden Markov model program was used to generate molecular profiles of previously identified chemosensory receptors in other animals. A Berghia transcriptome was then searched for likely homologous sequences. Candidate sequences were investigated using protein prediction tools and molecular phylogenies. Fourteen ionotropic glutamate receptors (likely synaptic) and five divergent ionotropic receptors were identified. One of these divergent ionotropic receptor sequences, IR-D, may encode a chemosensory receptor and was therefore selected to determine its cellular expression in sensory and brain tissue using in situ hybridization chain reaction. Expression was seen in the rhinophores and oral tentacles of Berghia, as well as in the rhinophore ganglion, cerebral-pleural ganglion, and pedal ganglion. Similar expression patterns were obtained with tissue-specific transcriptomic data. This was the first study to investigate IR-D as a potential chemosensory receptor in molluscs, and thus has helped identify a new family of possible ionotropic chemoreceptor proteins in molluscs. These results have laid the groundwork for continued investigation of Berghia’s chemosensory system.
title: Evaluation of the anabolic and catabolic metabolism during fracture healing in an osteoporotic sheep model
Creators: name: Rosch, Sebastian
name: Schäfer, Annemarie Barbara
name: Weisweiler, David
name: Böcker, Wolfgang
name: Lips, Katrin Susanne
name: Heiss, Christian
name: Malhan, Deeksha
name: El Khassawna, Thaqif
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Osteoporose
subject: Frakturheilung
subject: Schafmodel
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives: Osteoporosis is one of the main diseases that burdens industrial societies in its socio-economic impact in both preventive and fracture healing stages. Therefore, a better understanding of cellular and extracellular mechanisms of osteoporotic fracture healing is the key to their treatment[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Kongress für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (DKOU 2016)
U2Net: A General Framework with Spatial-Spectral-Integrated Double U-Net for Image Fusion
Creators: name: Peng, Siran
name: Guo, Chenhao
name: Wu, Xiao
name: Deng, Liang-Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In image fusion tasks, images obtained from different sources exhibit distinct properties. Consequently, treating them uniformly with a single-branch network can lead to inadequate feature extraction. Additionally, numerous works have demonstrated that multi-scaled networks capture information more sufficiently than single-scaled models in pixel-level computer vision problems. Considering these factors, we propose U2Net, a spatial-spectral-integrated double U-shape network for image fusion. The U2Net utilizes a spatial U-Net and a spectral U-Net to extract spatial details and spectral characteristics, which allows for the discriminative and hierarchical learning of features from diverse images. In contrast to most previous works that merely employ concatenation to merge spatial and spectral information, this paper introduces a novel spatial-spectral integration structure called S2Block, which combines feature maps from different sources in a logical and effective way. We conduct a series of experiments on two image fusion tasks, including remote sensing pansharpening and hyperspectral image super-resolution (HISR). The U2Net outperforms representative state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations, demonstrating the superiority of our method. The code is available at https://github.com/PSRben/U2Net.
description: Accepted by the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM '23)
Gauge dependence in QED amplitudes in expanding de Sitter space
Creators: name: Nicolaevici, Nistor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider first order transition amplitudes in external fields in QED in the expanding de Sitter space and point out that they are gauge dependent quantities. We examine the gauge variations of the amplitudes assuming a decoupling of the interaction at large times, which allows to conclude that the source of the problem lies in the fact that the frequencies of the modes in the infinite future become independent of the comoving momenta. We show that a possibility to assure the gauge invariance of the external field amplitudes is to restrict to potentials which vanish sufficiently fast at infinite times, and briefly discuss a number of options in the face of the possible gauge invariance violation in the full interacting theory.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure
title: Pilotierung einer komplexen Intervention zur Verbesserung von sozialer Teilhabe und Lebensqualität von Pflegeheimbewohnern mit Gelenkkontrakturen (JointConImprove): Konzept der Prozessevaluation
Creators: name: Klingshirn, H.
name: Saal, S.
name: Beutner, K.
name: Hirt, J.
name: Strobl, R.
name: Grill, E.
name: Meyer, G.
name: Müller, M.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Gelenkkontrakturen sind ein häufiges Phänomen bei Pflegeheimbewohnern und führen zu erheblichen Einschränkungen der Lebensqualität und der Möglichkeit zur sozialen Teilhabe. Um diesem Problem entgegenzuwirken wurde im Rahmen eines BMBF-geförderten Projekts[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 15. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung
Resilient Terrain Navigation with a 5 DOF Metal Detector Drone
Creators: name: Pfreundschuh, Patrick
name: Bähnemann, Rik
name: Kazik, Tim
name: Mantel, Thomas
name: Siegwart, Roland
name: Andersson, Olov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) hold the potential for performing autonomous and contactless land surveys for the detection of landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW). Metal detectors are the standard detection tool but must be operated close to and parallel to the terrain. A successful combination of MAVs with metal detectors has not been presented yet, as it requires advanced flight capabilities. To this end, we present an autonomous system to survey challenging undulated terrain using a metal detector mounted on a 5 degrees of freedom (DOF) MAV. Based on an online estimate of the terrain, our receding-horizon planner efficiently covers the area, aligning the detector to the surface while considering the kinematic and visibility constraints of the platform. As the survey requires resilient and accurate localization in diverse terrain, we also propose a factor graph-based online fusion of GNSS, IMU, and LiDAR measurements. We validate the robustness of the solution to individual sensor degeneracy by flying under the canopy of trees and over featureless fields. A simulated ablation study shows that the proposed planner reduces coverage duration and improves trajectory smoothness. Real-world flight experiments showcase autonomous mapping of buried metallic objects in undulated and obstructed terrain.
description: Accepted to the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)
Second Language Competence and Translation Ability: An Investigation of English-native Speakers Learning Chinese as a Second Language
Creators: name: Pan, Chensimeng
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Translation is an important language skill in multilingual societies and the globalized world. Some scholars even claim that translation skill should be the fifth language skill in addition to the conventional four basic skills of second language competence - listening, speaking, reading, and writing (Newmark, 1991; Naimushin, 2002; Leonardi, 2011). However, the current mainstream communicative teaching approach tries to avoid the use of translation in language classrooms, mainly because of the possible negative transfer of the first language and low priority given to writing. This study aims to identify the pedagogical role of translation in language teaching through the exploration of the relationships between learners’ second language competence and translation ability, in the hope of providing empirical evidence to support the application of translation in language teaching.
A total of 48 participants learning Chinese as a second language participated in this study. The participants’ translation ability was measured by a translation task and their language competence was measured by the course final oral and written test. We found that translation can expose learners to their weaknesses in the following aspects including word order, word choice, omission, and featured grammar structures like descriptive complements. The expanding gap between Chinese to English and English to Chinese translation, as well as the gap between accuracy and expression, show that learners’ translation ability cannot be developed in a balanced way without interruption.
In addition, we found that participants’ translation ability is positively correlated with their second language competence, which shows that students’ translation ability potentially has a positive effect on second language competence. Moreover, we observed a strong correlation between translation and speaking at the intermediate level, which supports that utilizing translation in second language teaching could be beneficial to second language competence, especially for speaking competence. Moreover, a relatively loose correlation between translation ability and reading and writing competence shows that we cannot expect a person who can read and write to be a natural translator. Therefore, proper training in translation is necessary if we believe translation is an important skill that students need to acquire.
title: WP3 Case Study Development Hybrid Heat Pumps: ICT Architectural Considerations for Future Energy Systems.
Creators: name: Brookes, P.
name: Mee, D.
Publisher: name: ETI
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Smart Systems and Heat
subject: ENERGY EFFICIENCY (Residential and commercial)
subject: ENERGY EFFICIENCY (Other)
subject: OTHER CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES or RESEARCH (Other Supporting Data)

description: The Case Study Development project was commissioned by the ETI in Nov 2015 as part of Work Package 3 (WP3) of the Smart Systems and Heat Phase 1 programme.The project was intended to develop Market, Business and ICT Integrated Solutions through system architectures to provide evidence and guidance for business strategy and policy to enable the UK low carbon heat transition. This was achieved through understanding the inter-relationships between market frameworks, business process, asset management and ICT solutions. Primary focus was on the implementation at the local level, but in the context of a national energy system transition.

This report describes the specific considerations and approaches taken for developing ICT slices (bounded areas of functionality that can be specified, designed and implemented in manageable stages) through the architecture. This report is basedon the exemplar Energy System Architecture is as described in the “Energy Systems Architecture Methodology: Enabling Multi-Vector Market Design,” paper.
Deeg, Alexander / Homolka, Walter / Schüttler, Heinz-Günther (Hrsg.), Preaching in Judaism and Christianity: Encounters and Developments from Biblical Times to Modernity
Creators: name: Stadelmann, Helge
Publisher: name: Jahrbuch für evangelikale Theologie
Year: 2025

description: 1823350895
description: Jahrbuch für evangelikale Theologie, V. 23 (2009): Jahrbuch für evangelikale Theologie, Band 23
Actualización en prevención de infecciones asociadas al cuidado del paciente
Creators: name: Tarazona, Augusto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: IAAS
Nosocomiales
Intrahospitalarias
Infecciones

description: Revisión y actualización sobre estrategias de prevención de infecciones asociadas al cuidado del paciente
Comments on twisted indices in 3d supersymmetric gauge theories
Creators: name: Closset, Cyril
name: Kim, Heeyeon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study three-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on ${Σ_g \times S^1}$ with a topological twist along $Σ_g$, a genus-$g$ Riemann surface. The twisted supersymmetric index at genus $g$ and the correlation functions of half-BPS loop operators on $S^1$ can be computed exactly by supersymmetric localization. For $g=1$, this gives a simple UV computation of the 3d Witten index. Twisted indices provide us with a clean derivation of the quantum algebra of supersymmetric Wilson loops, for any Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons-matter theory, in terms of the associated Bethe equations for the theory on ${\mathbb R}^2 \times S^1$. This also provides a powerful and simple tool to study 3d ${\mathcal N}=2$ Seiberg dualities. Finally, we study A- and B-twisted indices for ${\mathcal N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories, which turns out to be very useful for quantitative studies of three-dimensional mirror symmetry. We also briefly comment on a relation between the $S^2 \times S^1$ twisted indices and the Hilbert series of ${\mathcal N}=4$ moduli spaces.
description: 66 pages plus appendix; v2: corrected typos and added references