cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary Information from ‘Sneezing’ plants: pathogen transport via jumping-droplet condensation.
Creators: name: Saurabh Nath
name: S. Farzad Ahmadi
name: Gruszewski, Hope A.
name: Stuti Budhiraja
name: E. Bisbano
name: Sunghwan Jung
name: Schmale, David G.
name: Boreyko, Jonathan B.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We show that condensation growing on wheat leaves infected with the leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticina is capable of spontaneously launching urediniospores off the plant. This surprising liberation mechanism is enabled by the superhydrophobicity of wheat leaves, which promotes a jumping-droplet mode of condensation powered by the surface energy released from coalescence events. We found that urediniospores often adhere to the self-propelled condensate, resulting in liberation rates of approximately 10 cm−2 h−1 for leaves infected with rust. Urediniospores were catapulted up to 5 mm from the leaf’s surface, a distance sufficient to clear the laminar boundary layer for subsequent dispersal even in gentle winds.
Closing the pseudogap quietly
Creators: name: Storey, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physical properties of hole-doped cuprate high-temperature superconductors are heavily influenced by an energy gap known as the pseudogap whose origin remains a mystery second only to that of superconductivity itself. A key question is whether the pseudogap closes at a temperature T*. The absence of a specific heat anomaly, together with persistent entropy losses up to 300K, have long suggested that the pseudogap does not vanish at T*. However, amid a growing body of evidence from other techniques pointing to the contrary we revisit this question. Here we investigate if, by adding a temperature dependence to the pseudogap energy and quasiparticle lifetime in the resonating-valence-bond spin-liquid model of Yang Rice and Zhang, we can close the pseudogap quietly in the specific heat.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Supplementary Information / Tables / Figures from Tool use and social homophily among male bottlenose dolphins
Creators: name: M. R. Bizzozzero
name: S. J. Allen
name: L. Gerber
name: S. Wild
name: S. L. King
name: R. C. Connor
name: W. R. Friedman
name: S. Wittwer
name: M. Krützen
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Content: 1. Data Restrictions / 2. Ethogramm / 3. Activity Budget / 4. Social Network Structure / 5. MRQAP-DSP including all males / 6. Definition of alliances / 7. Laboratory procedures and genetic data analysis
UNMASKING CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING: EDUCATION, IDENTIFICATION, AND SCREENING FOR CALIFORNIA SCHOOL NURSES
Creators: name: Emma Birur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: School Nurse
human trafficking
child sex trafficking
commercial exploitation of children
child sexual abuse
Socio-Ecological Model
California School Nurses Organization
screening tool
school nurse education

description: California has the highest rate of human trafficking (HT) in the United States (Human Rights Center, 2024). HT includes Child Sex Trafficking (CST) and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC), in which victims are typically between 11-14 years old and attend school. School nurses (SN) are morally and legally bound to intervene but often lack HT knowledge and resources, such as a screening tool. Guided by the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM), this descriptive mixed methods project surveyed active SNs from the California School Nurses Organization (CSNO). SN participants’ awareness of CSEC/CST was measured through pre-and post-surveys. A HT educational module was created, informed by the literature and gaps in knowledge identified by pre-survey results. The post-survey requested feedback on a recommended CST screening tool. Significant findings were an increase in almost all Likert scale categories. Notably, participants indicated increased awareness of sex trafficking (100%) and knowledge of CSEC terminology (83%). They indicated more confidence in their ability to identify at-risk students (151%), coercion methods (146%), as well as high-risk situations & red flags (99%). Lastly, 92% of post-survey participants agreed that the recommended screening tool was appropriate, thus paving the way for future work on a screening tool tailored to SNs. The findings highlight the effectiveness of educational interventions but also emphasize the need for sustained education and a screening tool to address the hidden nature of HT.
Theory of second optimization for scan experiment
Creators: name: Mo, X. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In many high energy experiments, the physics quantities are obtained by measuring the cross sections at a few energy points over an energy region. This was referred to as scan experiment. The optimal design of the scan experiment (how many energy points, what the energies are, and what is the luminosity at each energy point) is of great significance both for scientific research and from economical viewpoint. Two approaches, one has recourse to the sampling technique and the other resorts to the analytical proof, are adopted to figure out the optimized scan scheme for the relevant parameters. The final results indicate that for $n$ parameters scan experiment, $n$ energy points are necessary and sufficient for optimal determination of these $n$ parameters; each optimal position can be acquired by single parameter scan (sampling method), or by analysis of auxiliary function (analytic method); the luminosity allocation among the points can be determined analytically with respect to the relative importance between parameters. By virtue of the second optimization theory established in this paper, it is feasible to accommodate the perfectly optimal scheme for any scan experiment.
description: 33pages, 7 figures
(1220) Catherine Ratcliffe
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Biomimetic Algorithms for Coordinated Motion: Theory and Implementation
Creators: name: Halder, Udit
name: Dey, Biswadip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.2.9; I.2.11
subject: 68T40, 93C85

description: Drawing inspiration from flight behavior in biological settings (e.g. territorial battles in dragonflies, and flocking in starlings), this paper demonstrates two strategies for coverage and flocking. Using earlier theoretical studies on mutual motion camouflage, an appropriate steering control law for area coverage has been implemented in a laboratory test-bed equipped with wheeled mobile robots and a Vicon high speed motion capture system. The same test-bed is also used to demonstrate another strategy (based on local information), termed topological velocity alignment, which serves to make agents move in the same direction. The present work illustrates the applicability of biological inspiration in the design of multi-agent robotic collectives.
Supplementary Information from ‘Sneezing’ plants: pathogen transport via jumping-droplet condensation
Creators: name: Saurabh Nath
name: S. Farzad Ahmadi
name: Gruszewski, Hope A.
name: Stuti Budhiraja
name: E. Bisbano
name: Sunghwan Jung
name: Schmale, David G.
name: Boreyko, Jonathan B.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We show that condensation growing on wheat leaves infected with P. triticina is capable of spontaneously launching urediniospores off the plant. This surprising liberation mechanism is enabled by the superhydrophobicity of wheat leaves, which promotes a jumping-droplet mode of condensation powered by the surface energy released from coalescence events. We found that urediniospores often adhere to the self-propelled condensate, resulting in liberation rates approximately 10 cm−2 h−1 for leaves infected with rust. Urediniospores were catapulted up to 5 mm from the leaf’s surface, a distance sufficient to clear the laminar boundary layer for subsequent dispersal even in gentle winds.
Storie di Linceo
Creators: name: Fermi, Damiano
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The article reviews the testimonies on Lynceus, son of Aphareus, a ‘minor’ Greek hero, renowned in Antiquity for his extraordinarily penetrating gaze. I focus on the characteristics attributed to this superpower (vision from afar and through solid surfaces) and the areas in which it operates (heroic combat, navigation, art of discovering veins of ore). Through the analysis of the texts, I try to bring out some important cultural models, connected in the mythical narrative with the ὀξυδερκία: since this topic is widespread in the international oral tradition, I found it useful to compare literary data with folklore parallels. In order to grasp further facets of this phenomenon, the case of Lynceus is considered against the background of other characters with extraordinarily sharp eyesight (be it gods, heroes or animals), to finally trace in the Grimm’s fairy tale nr. 71 a significant moment of the motif’s fortune outside classical Greece.

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Localization, delocalization, and topological phase transitions in the one-dimensional split-step quantum walk
Creators: name: Rakovszky, Tibor
name: Asboth, Janos K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum walks are promising for information processing tasks because on regular graphs they spread quadratically faster than random walks. Static disorder, however, can turn the tables: unlike random walks, quantum walks can suffer Anderson localization, whereby the spread of the walker stays within a finite region even in the infinite time limit. It is therefore important to understand when we can expect a quantum walk to be Anderson localized and when we can expect it to spread to infinity even in the presence of disorder. In this work we analyze the response of a generic one-dimensional quantum walk -- the split-step walk -- to different forms of static disorder. We find that introducing static, symmetry-preserving disorder in the parameters of the walk leads to Anderson localization. In the completely disordered limit, however, a delocalization sets in, and the walk spreads subdiffusively. Using an efficient numerical algorithm, we calculate the bulk topological invariants of the disordered walk, and interpret the disorder-induced Anderson localization and delocalization transitions using these invariants.
description: version 2, submitted to Phys. Rev. A
An Educated Warm Start For Deep Image Prior-Based Micro CT Reconstruction
Creators: name: Barbano, Riccardo
name: Leuschner, Johannes
name: Schmidt, Maximilian
name: Denker, Alexander
name: Hauptmann, Andreas
name: Maaß, Peter
name: Jin, Bangti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
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: Deep image prior (DIP) was recently introduced as an effective unsupervised approach for image restoration tasks. DIP represents the image to be recovered as the output of a deep convolutional neural network, and learns the network's parameters such that the output matches the corrupted observation. Despite its impressive reconstructive properties, the approach is slow when compared to supervisedly learned, or traditional reconstruction techniques. To address the computational challenge, we bestow DIP with a two-stage learning paradigm: (i) perform a supervised pretraining of the network on a simulated dataset; (ii) fine-tune the network's parameters to adapt to the target reconstruction task. We provide a thorough empirical analysis to shed insights into the impacts of pretraining in the context of image reconstruction. We showcase that pretraining considerably speeds up and stabilizes the subsequent reconstruction task from real-measured 2D and 3D micro computed tomography data of biological specimens. The code and additional experimental materials are available at https://educateddip.github.io/docs.educated_deep_image_prior/.
Pharmacogenetics of Nicotine Metabolism in Twins: Methods and Procedures
Creators: name: Krasnow, Ruth E.
name: Jacob III, Peyton
name: Swan, Gary E.
name: McElroy, Mary R.
name: Lessov, Christina N.
name: Wilhelmsen, Kirk
name: Benowitz, Neal L.
name: Moore, Sharyn E.
name: Tyndale, Rachel F.
name: Wambach, Michelle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: This article describes a pharmacogenetic investigation of nicotine metabolism in twins. One hundred and thirty-nine twin pairs (110 monozygotic and 29 dizygotic) were recruited and assessed for smoking status, zygosity, and health conditions known or suspected to affect drug metabolism. Participants underwent a 30-minute infusion of stable isotope-labeled nicotine and its major metabolite, cotinine, followed by an 8-hour in-hospital stay. Blood and urine samples were taken at regular intervals for analysis of nicotine, cotinine, and metabolites by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry or liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and subsequent characterization of pharmacokinetic phenotypes. DNA was genotyped to confirm zygosity and for variation in the primary gene involved in nicotine metabolism, CYP2A6. Univariate and multivariate biometric analyses planned for the future will determine genetic and environmental influences on each pharmacokinetic measure individually and in combination with each other, and in the presence and absence of covariates, including measured genotype. When the analyses are completed, this study will result in a more complete characterization of the impact of genetic and environmental influences on nicotine and cotinine metabolic pathways than has heretofore been reported. The approach taken, with its use of a quantitative model of nicotine metabolism, highly refined metabolic phenotypes, measured genotype, and advanced tools for biometric genetic analysis, provides a model for the use of twins in next-generation studies of complex drug-metabolism phenotypes.
Supplementary Information from Frequency dependence of surface acoustic wave swimming.
Creators: name: C. Pouya
name: K. Hoggard
name: S. H. Gossage
name: H. R. Peter
name: T. Poole
name: G. R. Nash
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 30402 Biomolecular Modelling and Design
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Figure S1 (The peak axial velocity), Figure S2 (The effect of input power on SAW force), Figure S3 (Changing the source dimension and its effect on axial force) and Table S1 (Jet lengths until 1% power):
Eating Disorders: From Twin Studies to Candidate Genes and Beyond
Creators: name: Bartels, Meike
name: Meulenbelt, Ingrid
name: Van Furth, Eric F.
name: Slagboom, P. Eline
name: Slof-Op't Landt, Margarita C.T.
name: Bulik, Cynthia M.
name: Boomsma, Dorret I.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Abstract Substantial effort has been put into the exploration of the biological background of eating disorders, through family, twin and molecular genetic studies. Family studies have shown that anorexia (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) are strongly familial, and that familial etiologic factors appear to be shared by both disorders. Twin studies often focus on broader phenotypes or subthreshold eating disorders. These studies consistently yielded moderate to substantial heritabilities. In addition, there has been a proliferation of molecular genetic studies that focused on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) AN and BN. Seven linkage regions have been identified in genome-wide screens. Many genetic association studies have been performed, but no consistent association between a candidate gene and AN or BN has been reported. Larger genetic association studies and collaborations are needed to examine the involvement of several candidate genes and biological pathways in eating disorders. In addition, twin studies should be designed to assist the molecular work by further exploring genetic determinants of endophenotypes, evaluating the magnitude of contribution to liability of measured genotypes as well as environmental risk factors related to eating disorders. In this manner twin and molecular studies can move the field forward in a mutually informative way.
title: Investigating the presence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Holding, Maya
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Louping ill virus (LIV), a member of the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) serocomplex, had been the only known zoonotic tick-borne flavivirus endemic to the UK. LIV is closely related to and serologically reacts with TBEV, which is much more pathogenic to humans; causing around 3,000 cases in the European region annually. TBEV is endemic across much of Europe, where it is increasing in range, but was thought to be absent from the UK. It is important to understand the potential for TBEV to be emerging in the UK undetected. A large-scale sentinel deer serosurveillance study was conducted to identify regions of exposure to TBEV-serocomplex pathogens. Serum samples were tested for specific antibodies to TBEV as a measure to indicate exposure. In addition, submitted tick samples removed from deer, close to an ELISA positive sample, were tested for TBEV and LIV RNA by RT-PCR. Overall, 4% of samples were ELISA-positive for the TBEV serocomplex. The Thetford Forest area in England had both the highest proportion (47.7%) of seropositive samples, and importantly no previous reports of LIV infection in livestock which could cross-react with the TBEV serology assays. Of 2,041 tested ticks from areas near seropositive deer, five were positive by TBEV/LIV RT-PCR, all within the Thetford Forest area. From 1 tick, a full-length genomic sequence of TBEV-Eu was identified. A two-year extensive ecological study collecting questing ticks was conducted in sites associated with high rates of exposure to TBEV-serocomplex virus. A total of 7,085 questing ticks were collected in Thetford Forest, with TBEV being detected in 6 sites out of 24 sites surveyed over 2018 and 2019. In addition, 3,205 questing ticks were collected and tested from 7 sites in the New Forest and bordering areas, resulting in the detection of TBEV in one site on the Hampshire/Dorset border. These results demonstrate that TBEV has been detected in the UK for the first time - in two geographically distinct locations 200 miles apart. High seropositivity and presence in questing ticks suggests it is being maintained in enzootic cycles in these areas. This finding is of public health significance and requires rapid dissemination of findings to health professionals in the UK.
Theoretical model for the description of a single quantum dot using geometry
Creators: name: de Lira, Francisco A. G.
name: Silva, Edilberto O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An alternative model to describe the electronic and thermal properties of quantum dot based on triangle geometry is proposed. The model predicts characteristics and limitations of the system by controlling the magnetic field and temperature, and the other parameters involved.
description: 5 pages, 8 figures
La lunga vita di un ειδωλον
Creators: name: Padovani, Francesco
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The essay reconsiders the well-known problem of the platonic interpretations of Od. 11.601-603, concerning Heracles’ εἴδωλον. Starting with a detailed description of the interpretive problems traditionally raised by the Homeric passage, the article provides an accurate analysis of Plutarch’s and Plotin’s different approaches to Heracles’ myth and to the eschatological concepts involved. The common rationalising surface hides deep conflicts inside the Platonic tradition. The cultural appropriation of the Homeric texts depends therefore to a large extent on the deliberate manipulation and misunderstanding of its original meaning.

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Liouville integrability: an effective Morales-Ramis-Simó theorem
Creators: name: Aparicio-Monforte, Ainhoa
name: Dreyfus, Thomas
name: Weil, Jacques-Arthur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J30, 34A05, 68W30, 34M03, 34M15, 34M25, 17B45

description: Consider a complex Hamiltonian system and an integral curve. In this paper, we give an effective and efficient procedure to put the variational equation of any order along the integral curve in reduced form provided that the previous one is in reduced form with an abelian Lie algebra. Thus, we obtain an effective way to check the Morales-Ramis-Simó criterion for testing meromorphic Liouville integrability of Hamiltonian systems.
description: 29 pages
Hom. Od. 12.42-43: una proposta di interpretazione
Creators: name: Deriu, Morena
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The aim of this paper is to analyse Hom. Od. 12.42-43 to show how Circe’s description of the danger posed by the Sirens can be related to Odysseus’ return to Ithaca. In fact, a literary and textual analysis, which also concerns the presence of similar motifs in the Iliad, will show how the unnamed νοστήσας, γυνή, and τέκνα alluded to by Circe can be typically associated to the characters of Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus such as they are portrayed when the hero returns to Ithaca.

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Association Between Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Cannabinoid Receptor Gene (CNR1) and Impulsivity in Southwest California Indians
Creators: name: Wilhelmsen, K. C.
name: Ehlers, Cindy L.
name: Slutske, Wendy S.
name: Lind, Penelope A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Abstract Impulsivity is a personality trait characterized by acting suddenly in an unplanned manner in order to satisfy a desire without consideration for the consequences of such behavior. There are several psychiatric disorders that include the term impulsivity as a criterion and, therefore, it has been suggested that impulsivity may be an important phenotype that may link a number of different behavioral disorders, including substance abuse. This study's aims were to determine if a significant association could be detected between the (AAT)n triplet repeat polymorphism as well as 5 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in or near the CNR1 receptor gene and impulsivity in Southwest California ‘Mission’ Indians (SWC). Impulsivity was assessed using a scale derived from the Maudsley personality inventory, and blood samples were collected for DNA analyses from 251 individuals recruited from local Indian reservations. The estimated heritability (h 2 ) for the impulsivity phenotype was 0.20 + 0.12 ( p < .004). Impulsivity was significantly associated with the 6-repeat allele of the triplet repeat polymorphism (AATn/A6; p < .0001), as well as four SNPs in or near the CNR1 receptor gene: rs1535255 ( p = .001), rs2023239 ( p = .004), rs1049353 ( p < .001) and rs806368 ( p < .0006). These studies provide data to suggest that the CNR1 receptor gene may be significantly associated with impulsivity in SWC Indians.
Aeschylus’ Satyr-Play Heralds
Creators: name: Poli Palladini, Letizia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

This paper attempts a reconstruction of Aeschylus’ satyr-play Heralds. As the myth of Erginus’ heralds and their mutilation by Heracles is shown to be unconvincing on many grounds, it explores the possibility that the satyrs turned up or out as ‘heralds’, i.e. ‘sacrifice attendants’, in the Eleusinian preliminary sacrifice, sought by Heracles (polluted by the slaughter of the Centaurs) before his descent to Hades. To complete this conjectural picture, the potential topicality of such a plot is emphasised in relation to the genos of Ceryces and of Callias (II), who in the 480s was able to avoid ostracism. Moreover, a tragic trilogy is conjecturally set out as revolving around Ixion’s marriage, crime, purification, sacrilege, and around his son Pirithous (stepbrother to the Centaurs) joining the Calydonian boar hunt and thus having to do with Meleager (a figure linked, in many ways, to Heracles). As to topicality, it is suggested that the trilogy would thus cast a negative light on Thessaly. Finally, Aristophanes’ Clouds may contain allusions to this (hypothetical) tetralogy, and the so-called Dike-fragment may belong to Heralds.

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Identifying a Criminal's Network of Trust
Creators: name: Magalingam, Pritheega
name: Rao, Asha
name: Davis, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tracing criminal ties and mining evidence from a large network to begin a crime case analysis has been difficult for criminal investigators due to large numbers of nodes and their complex relationships. In this paper, trust networks using blind carbon copy (BCC) emails were formed. We show that our new shortest paths network search algorithm combining shortest paths and network centrality measures can isolate and identify criminals' connections within a trust network. A group of BCC emails out of 1,887,305 Enron email transactions were isolated for this purpose. The algorithm uses two central nodes, most influential and middle man, to extract a shortest paths trust network.
description: 2014 Tenth International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (Presented at Third International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications,SITIS 2014, Marrakesh, Morocco, 23-27, November 2014)
PARC Task 9.1. Questionnaire to expand and consolidate the European network of HBM laboratories
Creators: name: Esteban Lopez, Marta
name: Dominguez Morueco, Noelia
name: Esteban García-Navas, Sara
name: Ramos, Juan José
name: Cañas, Ana
name: Virgolino, Ana Patrícia Lopes
name: Pedraza-Díaz, Susana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: PARC
laboratory
network
Human biomonitoring
chemical analysis

description: The Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) is a European project that involves close to 200 institutions from 28 countries, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Environment Agency (EEA). PARC aims to develop next-generation chemical risk assessment to protect human health and the environment. It supports the European Union's Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and the European Green Deal's “Zero pollution” ambition with new data, knowledge, methods and tools, expertise, and networks. In PARC, WP9 “Building infrastructural and human capacities” focuses on promoting of the development of existing and new infrastructural and human capacities related to laboratory networks. Under task 9.1, we are working to expand and consolidate the European Network of HBM laboratories created in HBM4EU, and for that we have prepared this questionnaire.
Chiral excitonic order from twofold van Hove singularities in kagome metals
Creators: name: Scammell, Harley D.
name: Ingham, Julian
name: Li, Tommy
name: Sushkov, Oleg P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments on kagome metals AV$_3$Sb$_5$ (A=K,Rb,Cs) [M. Kang et al., Nat. Phys. 18, 301-308 (2022)] identify twofold van Hove singularities (TvHS) with opposite concavity near the Fermi energy, generating two approximately hexagonal Fermi surfaces -- one electron-like and the other hole-like. Here we propose that a TvHS generates a novel time-reversal symmetry breaking excitonic order -- arising due to bound pairs of electrons and holes located at opposite concavity van Hove singularities. We introduce a minimal model for the TvHS and investigate interaction induced many-body instabilities via the perturbative renormalisation group technique and a free energy analysis. Specialising to parameters appropriate for the kagome metals AV$_3$Sb$_5$, we construct a phase diagram comprising chiral excitons, charge density wave and a region of coexistence. We propose this as an explanation of a diverse range of experimental observations in AV$_3$Sb$_5$. Notably, the chiral excitonic state gives rise to a quantum anomalous Hall conductance, providing an appealing interpretation of the observed anomalous Hall effect in kagome metals. Possible alternative realisations of the TvHS mechanism in bilayer materials are also discussed. We suggest that TvHS open up interesting possibilities for correlated phases, enriching the set of competing ground states to include excitonic order.
Supplementary Information from Frequency dependence of surface acoustic wave swimming
Creators: name: C. Pouya
name: K. Hoggard
name: S. H. Gossage
name: H. R. Peter
name: T. Poole
name: G. R. Nash
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 30402 Biomolecular Modelling and Design
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Figure S1 (The peak axial velocity), Figure S2 (The effect of input power on SAW force), Figure S3 (Changing the source dimension and its effect on axial force) and Table S1 (Jet lengths until 1% power):
La tradizione indiretta dei frammenti 390 e 391 R. dei Manteis di Sofocle da Alessandria a Bisanzio (con un sondaggio sul cod. Lips. gr. 2)
Creators: name: Carrara, Laura
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

This article sets out to reconstruct the long and intricate road which has brought down to us two Sophoclean trimeters containing the proper name Πολύϊδος and once featuring in this poet’s now lost play Manteis (frr. 390 and 391 in Radt’s edition). Its main contention is that the two lines were selected for quotation – and thus saved from oblivion – by the grammarian Aelius Herodianus (2nd c. AD); he included them in his discussion of the correct spelling of Πολύϊδος (with ι, not with ει) in his lost work Orthography. It is argued that Herodianus’ entry on Πολύϊδος built on previous Alexandrian scholarship (now largely lost) on the seer’s name and that it was, in its turn, used as a source, direct and/or indirect, by the Byzantine testimonies of the Sophoclean fragments. While trying to demonstrate this, the article revives R. Reitzenstein’s old hypothesis that portions of Herodian’s Orthography are reflected in the orthographic palimpsest known as Lips. 2.

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(1216) Alice Tate
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Digitalizace a zpřístupnění osobního archivu Hanse Freisinga
Creators: name: Pavloň, Tomáš
name: Koudelka, Vojtěch
name: Sáňková, Helena Anežka
name: Filip, Milan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: History of archaeology

description: Hans Freising, významný meziválečný archeolog, působil na Moravě a ve Slezsku nejprve na Mikulovsku a Znojemsku, a posléze ve funkci vedoucího pravěkého oddělení Slezského zemského muzea v Opavě, a angažoval se například i v terénních výzkumech doprovázejících výstavbu říšské dálnice Vídeň - Vratislav v oblasti Boskovické brázdy a Malé Hané.

Jeho osobní archiv, který se nachází v archivu Archeologického ústavu AV ČR, Brno, v. v. i. obsahuje systematicky, podle dobových katastrů, rozdělené výpisy z literatury, novinové výstřižky, rukopisné poznámky, terénní kresebnou dokumentaci, fotografie, dokumentaci nálezů a další typy dokumentů, které byly digitalizovány, opatřeny metadatovým popisem a připraveny k importu do Digitálního archivu AMČR, kde budou volně dostupné nejširší badatelské veřejnosti.

Tato dokumentace byla doposud badateli vytěžena jen zlomkovitě. To je dáno malou informovaností širší badatelské veřejnosti, jazykovou bariérou, která je u vybraných dokumentů umocněna užitým písmem v podobě novogotické kurzívy. Jejich přečtení vyžadovalo potřebné dovednosti nebo specializovaný software, který je ale v poslední době stále dostupnější, a překážky pro badatelské vytěžení tohoto archivního fondu jsou tedy postupně odstraňovány. 

Cílem tohoto posteru je upozornit badatele na digitální zpřístupnění tohoto fondu a pozvat je k jeho užívání.
Supplementary Methods S1 from Do metrics of sexual selection conform to Bateman's principles in a wind-pollinated plant?.
Creators: name: Tonnabel, Jeanne
name: David, Patrice
name: Pannell, John R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Bateman's principles posit that male fitness varies more, and relies more on mate acquisition, than female fitness. While Bateman's principles should apply to any organism producing gametes of variable sizes, their application to plants is potentially complicated by the high levels of polyandry suspected for plants, and by variation in the spatial distribution of prospective mates. Here we quantify the intensity of sexual selection by classical Bateman metrics using two common gardens of the wind-pollinated dioecious, Mercurialis annua. Consistent with Bateman's principles, males displayed significantly positive Bateman gradients (a regression of fitness on mate number), whereas the reproductive success of females was independent of their ability to access mates. A large part of male fitness was explained by their mate number, which in turn was associated with males' abilities to disperse pollen. Our results suggest that sexual selection can act in plant species in much the same way as in many animals, increasing the number of mates through traits that promote pollen dispersal.
Genetic and Phenotypic Stability of Measures of Neuroticism Over 22 Years
Creators: name: Birley, Andrew J.
name: Sullivan, Patrick F.
name: Martin, Nicholas G.
name: Visscher, Peter M.
name: Wray, Naomi R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Abstract People meeting diagnostic criteria for anxiety or depressive disorders tend to score high on the personality scale of neuroticism. Studying this dimension of personality can therefore give insights into the etiology of important psychiatric disorders. Neuroticism can be assessed easily via self-report questionnaires in large population samples. We have examined the genetic and phenotypic stability of neuroticism, measured up to 4 times over 22 years, on different scales, on a data set of 4999 families with over 20,000 individuals completing at least 1 neuroticism questionnaire. The neuroticism scales used were the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire revised (EPQ-R), the EPQ-R shortened form, and the NEO 5 factor inventory personality questionnaire. The estimates of heritability of the individual measures ranged from .26 ± .04 to .36 ± .03. Genetic, environmental, and phenotypic correlations averaged .91, .42, and .57 respectively. Despite the range in heritabilities, a more parsimonious ‘repeatability model’ of equal additive genetic variances and genetic correlations of unity could not be rejected. Use of multiple measures increases the effective heritability from .33 for a single measure to .43 for mean score because of the reduction in the estimate of the environmental variance, and this will increase power in genetic linkage or association studies of neuroticism.
Helping Relationships and Genetic Propensities: A Combinatoric Study of DRD2, Mentoring, and Educational Continuation
Creators: name: Erickson, Lance D.
name: Smolen, Andrew
name: Shanahan, Michael J.
name: Vaisey, Stephen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Abstract From conception to death, helping relationships promote positive development and enable people to surmount challenges in their lives. Is it the case that the negative consequences of a genetic propensity for risky behaviors can be attenuated by helping relationships (a G × E)? But is it also the case that people with such a genetic propensity are less likely to have helping relationships compared to people without such a propensity (a rGE)? We illustrate this complex pattern of gene–environment interplay by drawing on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and a combinatoric analytic strategy. We focus on a gene associated with dopamine receptor type 2 (DRD2 TaqIA), student–mentor relationships, and educational continuation beyond secondary school. Results reveal that, for both white and black males, DRD2 A1+ (A1A1 and A1A2 genotypes) is associated with a decreased likelihood of school continuation compared to their counterparts with DRD2 A1–; mentors who are teachers compensate for this negative association (a G × E); and youth with DRD2 A1+ are less likely to have a mentor who is a teacher than their counterparts with DRD2 A1– (a rGE).
Trattato di alleanza tra Atene e Caristo
Creators: name: Occhipinti, Egidia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

Il presente lavoro offre una nuova edizione del trattato di alleanza tra Atene e Caristo del 357 a.C. che comprende una proposta di integrazione delle linee 2-3 e 4-6 ed una rilettura del contesto storico in cui l'iscrizione si inserisce. Attraverso un confronto del contenuto dell'iscrizione con la documentazione letteraria (Eschine, Demostene e Diodoro) il contributo esamina la storia della città euboica e delle sue relazioni con Atene negli anni '70 e '50 del quarto secolo a.C. e fissa un intervallo cronologico circa la data dell'ingresso di Caristo nella Seconda lega ateniese. This paper offers a new critical edition of the alliance treaty between Athens and Carystus of 357 BC and proposes a new supplement for lines 2-3 and 4-6. Moreover, a fresh discussion of the historical background which the decree refers to is given. Thanks to literary documentation (Aeschines, Demosthenes, Diodorus) the paper examines the history of Carystus, her relationships with Athens in the 470s and 450s BC, and establishes a time frame to date Carystus’ entry into the Second Athenian League.

description: Axon
Did Gorgias Coin Rhetorike?
Creators: name: Luzzatto, Maria Tanja
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

Thirty years after E. Schiappa’s self-styled ‘coining-of-rhetorike thesis’, the assumption that rhetorike was invented by Plato in Gorgias (448d) is meeting with increasing consensus; yet the foundations of the ‘revised’ approach, besides contrasting with Aristotle’s narrative and all our ancient sources, have never been examined in detail. Indeed, Plato’s Gorgias is our main evidence to the contrary, since an unbiased reading of the dialogue very clearly points to the sophist from Leontini as the teacher who first ‘disciplined’ rhetoric and coined rhetorike. It is my aim to put Gorgias in context, and to reconsider in a different light both his relationship with the earlier logon techne and his statements about speech in Helen. The new discipline’s powerful impact on contemporary politics seriously alarmed Plato, fuelling his attack against the sophist’s school. Once we put Gorgias back in place, the absence of rhetorike in fifth-century texts is no longer an anomaly, and the missing word is readily found where it might be expected to appear.

description: Lexis
Deterministic three-photon down-conversion by a passive ultrastrong cavity-QED system
Creators: name: Koshino, Kazuki
name: Shitara, Tomohiro
name: Ao, Ziqiao
name: Semba, Kouichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In ultra- and deep-strong cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) systems, many intriguing phenomena that do not conserve the excitation number are expected to occur. In this study, we theoretically analyze the optical response of an ultrastrong cavity-QED system in which an atom is coupled to the fundamental and third harmonic modes of a cavity, and report the possibility of deterministic three-photon down-conversion of itinerant photons upon reflection at the cavity. In the conventional parametric down-conversion, a strong input field is needed because of the smallness of the transition matrix elements of the higher order processes. However, if we use an atom-cavity system in an unprecedentedly strong-coupling region, even a weak field in the linear-response regime is sufficient to cause this rare event involving the fourth order transitions.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures
Unifying the electroweak and B-L interactions
Creators: name: Dong, P. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the gauge symmetry which includes SU(3)_L as a higher weak-isospin symmetry is manifestly given by SU(3)_C\otimes SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_X\otimes U(1)_N, where the last two factors determine the electric charge and B-L, respectively. This theory not only provides a consistent unification of the electroweak and B-L interactions, but also gives insights in dark matter, neutrino masses, and inflation. The dark matter belongs to a class of new particles that have wrong B-L numbers, and is stabilized due to a newly-realized W-parity as residual gauge symmetry. The B-L breaking field is important to define the W-parity, seesaw scales, and inflaton. Furthermore, the number of fermion generations and the electric charge quantization are explained naturally. We also show that the previous 3-3-1 models are only an effective theory as the B-L charge and the unitarity argument are violated. This work substantially generalizes our recently-proposed 3-3-1-1 model.
description: 25 pages, 2 figures; matches published version in PRD
(1217) William Smith
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Atomic mass, Bjorken variable and scale dependence of quark transport coefficient in Drell-Yan process for proton incident on nucleus
Creators: name: Xu, Wei-Jie
name: Bai, Tian-Xing
name: Duan, Chun-Gui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of the nuclear parton distributions determined without the fixed-target Drell-Yan experimental data and the analytic expression of quenching weight based on BDMPS formalism, a next-to-leading order analyses are performed on the Drell-Yan differential cross section ratios from Fermilab E906 and E866 Collaborations. It is found that the calculated results with only the nuclear effects of parton distribution are not in agreement with the E866 and E906 experimental data. The incoming parton energy loss effect can not be ignored in the nuclear Drell-Yan reactions. The predicted results indicate that with the quark transport coefficient as a constant, the suppression due to the target nuclear geometry effect is approximately 19.24% for the quark transport coefficient. It is shown that we should consider the target nuclear geometry effect in studying the Drell-Yan reaction on nuclear targets. On the basis of Bjorken variable and scale dependence of the quark transport coefficient, the atomic mass dependence is incorporated. The quark transport coefficient is determined as a function of the atomic mass, Bjorken variable $x_2$ and scale $Q^2$ by the global fit of the experimental data. The determined constant factor $\hat{q}_0$ of the quark transport coefficient is $0.061\pm0.004 {\rm GeV^2/fm}$. It is found that the atomic mass dependence has a remarkable impact on the constant factor $\hat{q}_0$ in the quark transport coefficient in cold nuclear matter.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2012.03167