cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Disc-halo gas outflows driven by stellar clusters as seen in multiwavelength tracers
Creators: name: Vasiliev, Evgenii O.
name: Drozdov, Sergey A.
name: Nath, Biman B.
name: Dettmar, Ralf-Jürgen
name: Shchekinov, Yuri A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the dynamics of and emission from growing superbubbles in a stratified interstellar gaseous disc driven by energy release from supernovae explosions in stellar clusters with {masses $M_{cl}= 10^5-1.6\times 10^6~M_\odot$}. Supernovae are spread randomly within a sphere of $r_c=60$ pc, and inject energy episodically with a specific rate $1/130~M_\odot^{-1}$ proportional to the star formation rate (SFR) in the cluster. Models are run for several values of SFR in the range $0.01$ to $0.1~M_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$, with the corresponding average surface energy input rate $\sim 0.04-0.4$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. We find that the discrete energy injection by isolated SNe are more efficient in blowing superbubbles: asymptotically they reach heights of up to 3 to 16 kpc for $M_{cl}=10^5-1.6\times 10^5~M_\odot$, correspondingly, and stay filled with a hot and dilute plasma for at least 30 Myr. During this time they emit X-ray, H$α$ and dust infrared emission. X-ray liminosities $L_X\propto {\rm SFR}^{3/5}$ that we derive here are consistent with observations in star-forming galaxies. Even though dust particles of small sizes $a\leq 0.03~μ$m are sputtered in the interior of bubbles, larger grains still contribute considerably ensuring the bubble luminosity $L_{\rm IR}/{\rm SFR}\sim 5\times 10^7 L_\odot M_\odot^{-1} ~{\rm yr}$. It is shown that the origin of the North Polar Spur in the Milky Way can be connected with activity of a cluster with the stellar mass of $\sim 10^5~M_\odot$ and the ${\rm SFR}\sim 0.1~M_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$ some 25--30 Myr ago. Extended luminous haloes observed in edge-on galaxies (NGC 891 as an example) can be maintained by disc spread stellar clusters of smaller masses $M_\ast \simlt 10^5~M_\odot$.
description: 13 pages, 18 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Diffusive Transfer of Polarized 3He Gas through Depolarizing Magnetic Gradients
Creators: name: Maxwell, James D.
name: Epstein, Charles S.
name: Milner, Richard G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transfer of polarized 3He gas across spatially varying magnetic fields will facilitate a new source of polarized 3He ions for particle accelerators. In this context, depolarization of atoms as they pass through regions of significant transverse field gradients is a major concern. To understand these depolarization effects, we have built a system consisting of a Helmholtz coil pair and a solenoid, both with central magnetic fields of order 30 gauss. The atoms are polarized via metastability exchange optical pumping in the Helmholtz coil and are in diffusive contact via a glass tube with a second test cell in the solenoid. We have carried out measurements of the spin relaxation during transfer of polarization in 3He at 1 torr by diffusion. We explore the use of measurements of the loss of polarization taken in one cell to infer the polarization in the other cell.
Lignin Preservation and Microbial Carbohydrate Metabolism in Permafrost Soils
Creators: name: Dao, Thao Thi
name: Mikutta, Robert
name: Sauheitl, Leopold
name: Gentsch, Norman
name: Shibistova, Olga
name: Wild, Birgit
name: Schnecker, Jörg
name: Bárta, Jiří
name: Čapek, Petr
name: Gittel, Antje
name: Lashchinskiy, Nikolay
name: Urich, Tim
name: Šantrůčková, Hana
name: Richter, Andreas
name: Guggenberger, Georg
Publisher: name: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: carbohydrate
subject: density fractionation
subject: lignin
subject: mineral-associated organic matter
subject: permafrost soils
subject: soil organic matter decomposition
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::550 | Geowissenschaften

description: Permafrost-affected soils in the northern circumpolar region store more than 1,000 Pg soil organic carbon (OC), and are strongly vulnerable to climatic warming. However, the extent to which changing soil environmental conditions with permafrost thaw affects different compounds of soil organic matter (OM) is poorly understood. Here, we assessed the fate of lignin and non-cellulosic carbohydrates in density fractionated soils (light fraction, LF vs. heavy fraction, HF) from three permafrost regions with decreasing continentality, expanding from east to west of northern Siberia (Cherskiy, Logata, Tazovskiy, respectively). In soils at the Tazovskiy site with thicker active layers, the LF showed smaller OC-normalized contents of lignin-derived phenols and plant-derived sugars and a decrease of these compounds with soil depth, while a constant or even increasing trend was observed in soils with shallower active layers (Cherskiy and Logata). Also in the HF, soils at the Tazovskiy site had smaller contents of OC-normalized lignin-derived phenols and plant-derived sugars along with more pronounced indicators of oxidative lignin decomposition and production of microbial-derived sugars. Active layer deepening, thus, likely favors the decomposition of lignin and plant-derived sugars, that is, lignocelluloses, by increasing water drainage and aeration. Our study suggests that climate-induced degradation of permafrost soils may promote carbon losses from lignin and associated polysaccharides by abolishing context-specific preservation mechanisms. However, relations of OC-based lignin-derived phenols and sugars in the HF with mineralogical properties suggest that future OM transformation and carbon losses will be modulated in addition by reactive soil minerals.
North Carolina public school teachers’ contact patterns and mask use within and outside of school during the pre-vaccine phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Powers, Kimberly A.
name: Aiello, Allison E.
name: Sullivan, Kristin M.
name: Thompson, Peyton
name: Shook-Sa, Bonnie E.
name: Zadrozny, Sabrina L.
name: Byrnes, Rosemary
name: Lauen, Douglas L.
name: Robinson, Whitney R.
name: Gordon-Larsen, Penny
name: Bogojevich, David A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Background : Teachers are central to school-associated transmission networks, but little is known about their behavioral patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods : We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 700 North Carolina public school teachers in four districts open to in-person learning in November-December 2020 (pre-COVID-19 vaccines). We assessed indoor and outdoor time spent, numbers of people encountered at <6 feet (“close contacts”), and mask use by teachers and those around them at specific locations on the most recent weekday and weekend day. Results : Nearly all respondents reported indoor time at home (98%) and school (94%) on the most recent weekday, while 62% reported indoor time at stores, 18% at someone else's home, and 17% at bars/restaurants. Responses were similar for the most recent weekend day, excepting school (where 5% reported indoor time). Most teachers (>94%) reported wearing masks inside school, stores, and salons; intermediate percentages (∼50%-85%) inside places of worship, bars/restaurants, and recreational settings; and few (<25%) in their or others’ homes. Approximately half reported daily close contact with students. Conclusions : As schools reopened in the COVID-19 pandemic, potential transmission opportunities arose through close contacts within and outside of school, along with suboptimal mask use by teachers and/or those around them. Our granular estimates underscore the importance of multi-layered mitigation strategies and can inform interventions and mathematical models addressing school-associated transmission.
AdS5 solutions from M5-branes on Riemann surface and D6-branes sources
Creators: name: Bah, Ibrahima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the gravity duals of four-dimensional N=1 superconformal field theories obtained by wrapping M5-branes on a punctured Riemann surface. The internal geometry, normal to the AdS5 factor, generically preserves two U(1)s, with generators (J+,J-), that are fibered over the Riemann surface. The metric is governed by a single potential that satisfies a version of the Monge-Ampere equation. The spectrum of N=1 punctures is given by the set of supersymmetric sources of the potential that are localized on the Riemann surface and lead to regular metrics near a puncture. We use this system to study a class of punctures where the geometry near the sources corresponds to M-theory description of D6-branes. These carry a natural (p,q) label associated to the circle dual to the killing vector (p J+ + q J-) which shrinks near the source. In the generic case the world volume of the D6-branes is AdS5 X S^2 and they locally preserve N=2 supersymmetry. When p=-q, the shrinking circle is dual to a flavor U(1). The metric in this case is non-degenerate only when there are co-dimension one sources, M9-branes, obtained by smearing M5-branes that wrap the AdS5 factor and the circle dual the superconformal R-symmetry. In the IIA limit, they can interpreted as D8-branes. The D6-branes are extended along the AdS5 and on cups that end on the co-dimension one branes. In the special case when the shrinking circle is dual to the R-symmetry, the D6-branes are extended along the AdS5 and wrap an auxiliary Riemann surface with an arbitrary genus. When the Riemann surface is compact with constant curvature, the system is governed by a Monge-Ampere equation.
description: 35 pages
title: АЛЛЕРГИЧЕСКИЕ ЗАБОЛЕВАНИЯ: СОВРЕМЕННОЕ СОСТОЯНИЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ
Creators: name: Нора, И.
name: Архипов, Г.
name: Кропачев, И.
name: Никитина, Н.
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Аллергические заболевания – патологические состояния, возникающие при попадании в сенсибилизированный организм специфических антигенов (аллергенов). Некоторые заболевания непосредственно нарушают качество жизни (крапивница, ринит, атопический дерматит). Часть заболеваний является острой социально значимой проблемой (бронхиальная астма, анафилактический шок). В данной статье приводится краткий обзор актуальных научных статей, затрагивающих вопросы этиологии и патогенеза аллергий на генетическом и эпигенетическом уровне.
Sweet cherry flesh cells burst in non-random clusters along minor veins
Creators: name: Brinkmann, Tobias
name: Kuhnke, Felix
name: Grimm, Eckhard
name: Knoche, Moritz
Publisher: name: Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cracking
subject: Osmotic potential
subject: Phloem
subject: Prunus avium
subject: Solute potential
subject: Water uptake
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::580 | Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Main conclusion: Sweet cherry flesh cells burst when exposed to water but they do so in clusters indicating heterogeneity with respect to osmotic concentration, which depends on proximity to a minor vein. Abstract: Water plays a key role in cracking in sweet cherry fruit. Magnetic resonance imaging has previously indicated preferential partitioning of water along veins. A more negative osmotic potential along veins seems the likely explanation. Here we establish if cell bursting in mature sweet cherry fruit is also associated with the veins. Cell bursting was identified by a novel light microscope technique involving exposure of a cut fruit surface to water or to sucrose solutions. Upon exposure to water there was no bursting of skin cells but for cells of the flesh (mesocarp) bursting increased with time. When the cut surface was exposed to sucrose solutions of decreasing osmotic concentrations (increasing water potentials) the incidence of cell bursting increased from hypertonic (no bursting), to isotonic, to hypotonic. Cell bursting in the outer mesocarp occurred primarily in the vicinity of minor veins that in the inner mesocarp was primarily between radial veins. The median distance between a minor vein and a bursting cell (mean diameter 0.129 mm) was about 0.318 mm that between a radial vein and a bursting cell was about 0.497 mm. In contrast, the distance between adjacent minor veins averaged 2.57 mm, that between adjacent radial veins averaged 0.83 mm. Cell bursting tends to occur in clusters. Mapping of cell bursting indicates (1) that a seemingly uniform population of mesocarp cells actually represents a heterogeneous population with regard to their cell osmotic potentials and (2) cell bursting afflicts clusters of neighbouring cells in the vicinities of minor veins.
ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อความล้มเหลวของการศึกษาไทยที่ไม่สามารถพัฒนาผู้เรียนสำหรับทักษะแห่งศตวรรษที่ 21
Creators: name: นิตยา สงวนงาม
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏเชียงใหม่
Year: 2020
Subjects: ความล้มเหลว
ความเชื่อและวัฒนธรรม
ผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน
การศึกษา
Failure
Belief and culture
Learning achievement
Education

description: วารสารวิจัยราชภัฏเชียงใหม่, 21, 2, 1 - 19
Efficient Flow-Guided Multi-frame De-fencing
Creators: name: Tsogkas, Stavros
name: Zhang, Fengjia
name: Jepson, Allan
name: Levinshtein, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Taking photographs ''in-the-wild'' is often hindered by fence obstructions that stand between the camera user and the scene of interest, and which are hard or impossible to avoid. De-fencing is the algorithmic process of automatically removing such obstructions from images, revealing the invisible parts of the scene. While this problem can be formulated as a combination of fence segmentation and image inpainting, this often leads to implausible hallucinations of the occluded regions. Existing multi-frame approaches rely on propagating information to a selected keyframe from its temporal neighbors, but they are often inefficient and struggle with alignment of severely obstructed images. In this work we draw inspiration from the video completion literature and develop a simplified framework for multi-frame de-fencing that computes high quality flow maps directly from obstructed frames and uses them to accurately align frames. Our primary focus is efficiency and practicality in a real-world setting: the input to our algorithm is a short image burst (5 frames) - a data modality commonly available in modern smartphones - and the output is a single reconstructed keyframe, with the fence removed. Our approach leverages simple yet effective CNN modules, trained on carefully generated synthetic data, and outperforms more complicated alternatives real bursts, both quantitatively and qualitatively, while running real-time.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures. Published at the Winter Conference on Application of Computer Vision (WACV) 2023
Additional file 4 of Macrophages coordinate immune response to laser-induced injury via extracellular traps
Creators: name: Conedera, Federica M.
name: Kokona, Despina
name: Zinkernagel, Martin S.
name: Stein, Jens V.
name: Lin, Charles P.
name: Alt, Clemens
name: Enzmann, Volker
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S3. Gene expression of upstream regulators of ET formation. RNA-seq data illustrates the gene expression values of PAD4, ELA2, and MPO, expressed as fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads (FPKM).
title: ПРИМЕНЕНИЕ ПРОТИВОВИРУСНОГО ПРЕПАРАТА В ОЧАГАХ ОРВИ
Creators: name: Позднякова, М.
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Изложена актуальность проблемы острых респираторных вирусных инфекций, путей их распространения. Дана характеристика препаратов, применяемых для профилактики и терапии вирусных инфекций. Показана высокая эффективность препарата Имидазолилэтанамид в эпидемических очагах ОРВИ.
Transparency in Statistical Information for Federal Statistical Agencies
Creators: name: Levenstein, Margaret
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: statistics
transparency
reproducibility

description: The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics tasked the Committee on National Statistics to undertake a consensus panel study to examine the degree of transparency and reproducibility of federal statistics. The principal questions were: what should an agency should do to make available, both internally and externally, archives of the input data sets used to generate sets of official statistics; documentation of the treatments done to the raw data prior to the computation of the final estimates (for treatment of failed edits, nonresponse, etc.); and documentation of what goes into the computation of the final published estimates. Presented at IASSIST Professional Development Webinar..
title:  La lirica dello “Sturm-Kreis” nella Grande Guerra tra ambigue reticenze “in politicis”, “futurologia bellica”, fantasie escapiste e pacifismo
Creators: name: Benedetti  ,  Andrea
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2015

description: L’articolo prende le mosse da una serie di osservazioni preliminari riguardanti il carattere essenzialmente apolitico della rivista di avanguardia Der Sturm, considerando anche le tecniche argomentative del fondatore e principale editore della rivista Herwarth Walden. Il saggio ricostruisce il dibattito culturale e socio-politico della Prima Guerra mondiale, e in particolare le connessioni tra gli sviluppi tecnologici applicati alla guerra e gli approcci conseguenti di un numero di intellettuali di intraprendere una sorta di escapismo letterario. Il saggio indaga infine il rapporto tra parole e immagini nelle poesie pacifiste di due emulatori del poeta tedesco August Stramm (1874-1915), ovvero il giornalista F.R. Behrens e W. Runge.
description: B@belonline vol. 18/19 Gli intellettuali e la guerra
title:  Nemico reale e nemico in figura. Carl Schmitt e la Grande Guerra
Creators: name: Palma ,  Massimo
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2015

description: L’articolo analizza in una doppia prospettiva le determinazioni del concetto di nemico nell’opera di Carl Schmitt. Da un parte intende trovare le radici della sua definizione di guerra indagando la sua relazione con il poeta Theodor Däumler. D’altro lato s’immerge nelle pagine private del diario redatto da Schmitt negli anni della Prima Guerra mondiale. Queste note rivelano un uomo spaventato, in preda all’ansia, che odia la guerra e le sue conseguenze. Queste sensazioni sembrano essere state dimenticate da Schmitt solo alcuni anni dopo, quando, ormai divenuto un affermato giurista, identifica il politico con la distinzione "amico-nemico".
description: B@belonline vol. 18/19 Gli intellettuali e la guerra
Additional file 5 of Macrophages coordinate immune response to laser-induced injury via extracellular traps
Creators: name: Conedera, Federica M.
name: Kokona, Despina
name: Zinkernagel, Martin S.
name: Stein, Jens V.
name: Lin, Charles P.
name: Alt, Clemens
name: Enzmann, Volker
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 5: Fig. S4. Association between the clustering of innate immune cells with neutrophils and T-cells. Spearman's rank-order correlation between the number of macrophages/monocytes (LysMGFP), neutrophils (LysMGFP/Ly6G+), CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells clustering in the injury. Color intensity and the size of the circle are proportional to the correlation coefficients, and a star (*) marks significant correlation.
title: МОЛЕКУЛЯРНАЯ ГЕТЕРОГЕННОСТЬ ВИРУСА ГЕПАТИТА В  И ЕЁ ВЛИЯНИЕ НА ОСТРОЕ И ХРОНИЧЕСКОЕ ТЕЧЕНИЕ HBV-ИНФЕКЦИИ
Creators: name: Прийма, Е.
name: Иванова, Н.
name: Останкова, Ю.
name: Семенов, А.
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Целью исследования явилось провести сравнительный анализ влияния молекулярной гетерогенности вируса гепатита В на острое и хроническое течение HBV-инфекции.
Electrically Tunable Quantum Spin Hall State in Topological Crystalline Insulator Thin films
Creators: name: Liu, Junwei
name: Fu, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a combination of $k \cdot p$ theory, band topology analysis and electronic structure calculations, we predict the (111) thin films of the SnTe class of three-dimensional (3D) topological crystalline insulators realize the quantum spin Hall phase in a wide range of thickness. The nontrivial topology originates from the inter-surface coupling of the topological surface states of TCI in the 3D limit. The inter-surface coupling changes sign and gives rise to topological phase transitions as a function of film thickness. Furthermore, this coupling can be strongly affected by an external electric field, hence the quantum spin Hall phase can be effectively tuned under experimentally accessible the electric field. Our results show that (111) thin films of SnTe-class TCI can be an ideal platform to realize the novel applications of quantum spin Hall insulators.
description: Minor revision with updated references
Biogenesis of spiroketals by submerged cultured basidiomycete Trametes hirsuta
Creators: name: Grosse, Miriam
name: Heuser, Verena
name: Ersoy, Franziska
name: Berger, Ralf G.
name: Krings, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chalcogran
subject: Conophthorin
subject: Polyketide
subject: Spiroketals
subject: Trametes hirsuta
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::580 | Pflanzen (Botanik)
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Volatile spiroketals are well-documented semiochemicals secreted by beetles and wasps for the intra- and interspecies communication. Its use in insect traps and as natural herbicide makes them of commercial interest. Besides insects, fungi are well-known producers, but the fungal biogenesis of spiroketals has remained speculative. Product formation along fatty acid degradation based on non-labeled feeding experiments was assumed. Thus, the observed occurrence of conophthorin and (E)- and (Z)-chalcograns in submerged cultures of the basidiomycete Trametes hirsuta prompted a precursor study aiming at a more detailed insight into their formation. Supplementation of (9Z,12 Z)-octadecadienoic (linoleic) acid resulted in elevated product yields and the identification of a fourth spiroketal, 2,8-dimethyl-1,7-dioxaspiro[5.5]-undecane. However, no intermediates of fatty acid degradation suitable as spiroketal precursors were identified. In addition, the hyphae lacked lipoxygenase activity, which was formerly supposed to be mandatory for spiroketal formation. Supplementation of 1-/2-13C acetate showed incorporation of the label into chalcogran. Therefore, a formation along the polyketide pathway analogous to insects was concluded. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Determination of Illegal Adulterant in Herbal Medicines and Dietary Supplements by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Creators: name: Nitra Nuengchamnong
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2008
Subjects: Illegal adulterant, herbal medicine, Dietary supplement, LC-MS/MS

description: Isan Journal ofPharmaceutical Sciences, 4, 2, 93-103
microRNA pattern in tumoral lung tissues from former- and non-smokers: a possible footprint for environmental and genetic risk factors evaluation.
Creators: name: CORONEL VARGAS, GABRIELA FERNANDA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: For the last decade the interest of microRNA as a possible early biomarker for lung-cancer has increased. Less attention has been focused in using microRNA as a biomarker to study the contribution of environmental exposure to air pollutants in non-smokers lung cancer patients. The aim of this thesis is the identification of environmental related microRNA pattern in collected tissues from a total of 64 formal- and non- smoker patients recruited in a three-year observational study. The identified patterns may be used as early predictors of lung cancer, as well as environmental-related footprints. Through microRNA-chip array analysis of lung tissue, it was studied the expression of 2549 microRNAs. A differential analysis between healthy and tumoral tissue showed the presence of 273 microRNA differentially regulated, 222 were down-regulated and 51 up-regulated. Differential analysis was also applied to identify environmental pollution related microRNAs and finding microRNA deregulation in Passive Smoking at home (n=8), Passive smoking at work (n=1), Vehicle traffic at home (n=53), home distance from Etna Volcano (n=21), and home Type radon risk (n=19) exposures. A second biomarker, Benzo(a)Pyrene-DNA adducts levels in blood, was also studied to understand its correlation to the above-mentioned environmental factors. The specificity of this biomarker was minor than microRNA pattern biomarker, but it was strongly correlated to vehicle traffic pollution. The analysis of the microRNA environmental signatures indicates the contribution of environmental factors to the analysed lung cancers in the following decreasing rank: (a) vehicle traffic, (b) passive smoke, (c) radon, and (d) volcano ashes. These results provide evidence that microRNA analysis can be used to investigate the contribution of environmental factors in human lung cancer occurring in non-smokers
title:  Oltre il dramma della gioventù. La filosofia della storia del giovane Lukács
Creators: name: Dogà  ,  Ulisse
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2015

description: Lukács scrive sia la Teoria del romanzo sia il suo libro incompiuto su Dostoevskij durante la Prima Guerra mondiale, ed entrambi questi testi possono essere considerati come il precipitato del vissuto di quegli anni, ma soprattutto come la manifestazione del rifiuto della guerra e come netta opposizione all’insano entusiasmo per la guerra che aveva contagiato la società guglielmina. Il contributo vuole dimostrare come la prospettiva storico-filosofica evidenziata in questi scritti possa essere interpretata come una critica alla cultura borghese decadente.
description: B@belonline vol. 18/19 Gli intellettuali e la guerra
Large voltage-induced modification of spin-orbit torques in Pt/Co/GdOx
Creators: name: Emori, Satoru
name: Bauer, Uwe
name: Woo, Seonghoon
name: Beach, Geoffrey S. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on large modifications of current-induced spin-orbit torques in a gated Pt/Co/Gd-oxide microstrip due to voltage-driven O$^{2-}$ migration. The Slonczewski-like and field-like torques are quantified using a low-frequency harmonic technique based on the polar magneto-optical Kerr effect. Voltage-induced oxidation of Co enhances the Slonczewski-like torque by as much as an order of magnitude, and simultaneously reduces the anisotropy energy barrier by a factor of ~5. Such magneto-ionic tuning of interfacial spin-orbit effects may significantly enhance the efficiency of magnetization switching and provide additional degrees of freedom in spintronic devices.
Additional file 6 of Macrophages coordinate immune response to laser-induced injury via extracellular traps
Creators: name: Conedera, Federica M.
name: Kokona, Despina
name: Zinkernagel, Martin S.
name: Stein, Jens V.
name: Lin, Charles P.
name: Alt, Clemens
name: Enzmann, Volker
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 6: Fig. S5. Association between the capillary plugs and stalled cells in the capillaries. Spearman correlation between non-flowing capillaries with plugs with the number of cells stalled in the injured area nearby the NFL.
title: The Protection of GIs in EU Bilateral Instruments: Some Reflection in Light of the EU-MERCOSUR Trade Deal
Creators: name: Velli, Federica
name: Pantaleo, Luca
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: EU-MERCOSUR
subject: geographical indications
subject: TRIPS-plus
subject: equal treatment
subject: EU trade agreements
subject: GI lists

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(3), 1471-1487
description: I. Introduction. - II. The legal framework for the protection of GIs in the EU and MERCOSUR. - II.1. European Union. - II.2. MERCOSUR. - III. Relevant rules included in the EU-MERCOSUR Agreement. - IV. Some contentious aspects of the EU-MERCOSUR agreement. - V. Concluding remarks.
description: This Article focuses on the protection of geographical indications (GIs) in the recently signed EU-MERCOSUR free trade agreement. It aims to provide an assessment of the relevant provisions of the agreement and to make some systemic considerations concerning the discipline of GI protection in EU bilateral instruments. The Article deals with some traditionally contentious issues, such as GIs for non-agricultural products and, most importantly, the use of a list of selected "global" GIs as op-posed to a more general system of GI protection akin to the one used to protect other forms of intellectual property. The Article suggests that while the lawfulness of the rules appears difficult to be questioned, it could still be possible to rethink some aspects of the system with a view to generally improving the protection of GIs in EU trade instruments.
Phase-Sensitive Detection in the undergraduate lab using a low-cost microcontroller
Creators: name: Schultz, K. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase-sensitive detection (PSD) is an important experimental technique that allows signals to be extracted from noisy data. PSD is also used in modulation spectroscopy and is used in the stabilization of optical sources. Commercial lock-in amplifiers that use PSD are often expensive and host a bewildering array of controls that may intimidate a novice user. Low-cost microcontrollers such as the Arduino family of devices seem like a good match for learning about PSD; however, making a self-contained device (reference signal, voltage input, mixing, filtering, and display) is difficult, but in the end the project teaches students "tricks" to turn the Arduino into a true scientific instrument.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to American Journal of Physics
Factors Influencing Intention to use the COVID-19 Contact Tracing Application
Creators: name: Nguyen, Vinh T.
name: Nguyen, Chuyen T. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study investigated the effects of variables influencing the intention to use the COVID-19 tracker. Experiment results from 224 individuals revealed that performance expectations, trust, and privacy all have an impact on app usage intention. However, social impact, effort expectation, and facilitating conditions were not shown to be statistically significant. The conceptual model explained 60.07 percent of the amount of variation, suggesting that software developers, service providers, and policymakers should consider performance expectations, trust, and privacy as viable factors to encourage citizens to use the app
Thresholds for correcting errors, erasures, and faulty syndrome measurements in degenerate quantum codes
Creators: name: Dumer, Ilya
name: Kovalev, Alexey A.
name: Pryadko, Leonid P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a technique for constructing lower (existence) bounds for the fault-tolerant threshold to scalable quantum computation applicable to degenerate quantum codes with sublinear distance scaling. We give explicit analytic expressions combining probabilities of erasures, depolarizing errors, and phenomenological syndrome measurement errors for quantum LDPC codes with logarithmic or larger distances. These threshold estimates are parametrically better than the existing analytical bound based on percolation.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
The feedback of quasars on their galactic environment
Creators: name: Ferrara, Andrea
name: Zana, Tommaso
name: Gallerani, Simona
name: Sommovigo, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasar outflows might either quench (negative) or enhance (positive feedback) star formation in galaxies located in the quasar environment. The possible outcome depends on 4 parameters: the quasar ($σ$) and satellite ($σ_*$) halo velocity dispersion, their relative distance, $d$, and satellite disk radius, $r_d$. We find that: (i) small satellites with $σ_* < 164\ σ_{200}^{2/3}\, \rm km\ s^{-1}$ have their star formation quenched; (ii) in larger satellites, star formation, and hence UV/FIR luminosity, is instead boosted by $>80$\% in a burst with a typical duration of $5-10$ Myr, if the following positive feedback criterion is met: ${d}/{r_d} < 15 (Q/η)^{1/2} σ_{200}$, where $Q \approx 1$ is the satellite disk Toomre parameter; the disruption parameter (see eq. 17) must be $η>1$ to prevent complete satellite gas removal. We compare our predictions with ALMA data finding that observed satellites of $z\simeq 6$ QSOs on average form stars at a $3\times$ higher rate with respect to field galaxies at the same redshift. Further tests of the model are suggested.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS
Is nudging effective to reduce meat consumption in food service? A pre-registered protocol of a systematic review and meta-analysis of field intervention studies
Creators: name: Schäufele-Elbers, Isabel
name: Bosnjak, Michael
name: Gastaldello, Giulia
name: Schamel, Günter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Protocol for a meta-analysis, created according to the PRISMA-P guidelines.
title:  Gli intellettuali tedeschi e la guerra
Creators: name: Lukács  ,  György
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2015

description: In questo famoso testo Lukács s’interroga in toni critici sull’euforia per il primo conflitto bellico che ha contagiato le menti migliori tra i suoi compagni di strada, e rappresenta in questo senso un atto di rottura nei confronti di quelli che erano stati finora i suoi amici. La guerra produce un tipo di (anti)eroe che non ha nulla a che spartire con il coraggio individuale e con l’obbedienza, e anzi evidenza una totale perdita di personalità. Il soldato moderno, ben lungi dal darsi come eroe nel senso classico del termine, si riduce a un totale stato di anonimato.
description: B@belonline vol. 18/19 Gli intellettuali e la guerra
Twisting Noncommutative Geometries with Applications to High Energy Physics
Creators: name: SINGH, DEVASHISH
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2020

description: With the bare essentials of noncommutative geometry (defined by a spectral triple), we first describe how it naturally gives rise to gauge theories. Then, we quickly review the notion of twisting (in particular, minimally) noncommutative geometries and how it induces a Wick rotation, that is, a transition of the metric signature from euclidean to Lorentzian. We focus on comparatively more tractable examples of spectral triples; such as the ones corresponding to a closed Riemannian spin manifold, U(1) gauge theory, and electrodynamics. By minimally twisting these examples and computing their associated fermionic actions, we demonstrate how to arrive at physically relevant actions (such as the Weyl and Dirac actions) in Lorentz signature, even though starting from euclidean spectral triples. In the process, not only do we extract a physical interpretation of the twist, but we also capture exactly how the Wick rotation takes place at the level of the fermionic action.
A Survey of Algebraic Actions of the Discrete Heisenberg Group
Creators: name: Lind, Douglas
name: Schmidt, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A35, 37B40, 54H20

description: The study of actions of countable groups by automorphisms of compact abelian groups has recently undergone intensive development, revealing deep connections with operator algebras and other areas. The discrete Heisenberg group is the simplest noncommutative example, where dynamical phenomena related to its noncommutativity already illustrate many of these connections. The explicit structure of this group means that these phenomena have concrete descriptions, which are not only instances of the general theory but are also testing grounds for further work. We survey here what is known about such actions of the discrete Heisenberg group, providing numerous examples and emphasizing many of the open problems that remain.
description: 55 pages with 3 figures
Reconstruction of Fast Neutron Direction in Segmented Organic Detectors using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Bae, Jun Woo
name: Wu, Tingshiuan C.
name: Jovanovic, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for reconstructing the direction of a fast neutron source using a segmented organic scintillator-based detector and deep learning model is proposed and analyzed. The model is based on recurrent neural network, which can be trained by a sequence of data obtained from an event recorded in the detector and suitably pre-processed. The performance of deep learning-based model is compared with the conventional double-scatter detection algorithm in reconstructing the direction of a fast neutron source. With the deep learning model, the uncertainty in source direction of 0.301 rad is achieved with 100 neutron detection events in a segmented cubic organic scintillator detector with a side length of 46 mm. To reconstruct the source direction with the same angular resolution as the double-scatter algorithm, the deep learning method requires 75% fewer events. Application of this method could augment the operation of segmented detectors operated in the neutron scatter camera configuration for applications such as special nuclear material detection.
description: 15 pages. 9 figures. Preprint submitted to Elsevier August 2022
DEMONSTRATING MECHANISMS BY WHICH VITAMIN D REGULATES INFLAMMATION PATHWAYS IN SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
Creators: name: Curry, Ennessa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE, lupus) is a chronic autoimmune disease where healthy tissue is attacked due to a failure to differentiate self from non-self.  While the etiology is unclear, a combination of genetic predispositions and environmental triggers are the likely cause.  Lupus patients are prone to vitamin D deficiency.  This is likely in part due to photosensitivity and, avoidance of the sun, a major source of vitamin D.  Vitamin D supplementation has been explored as an intervention to reduce inflammation in patients but the mechanism of action has not been determined.  Here, I review the current literature to investigate three mechanisms by which vitamin D likely plays a role in lupus etiology: lymphocyte regulation, epigenetic regulation of immune function, and intestinal barrier function.  Providing evidence of the role of vitamin D in these three mechanisms that underlie lupus symptoms will help clarify important concepts in our understanding of disease pathogenesis.
Additional file 2 of Molecular analysis of scats revealed diet and prey choice of grey wolves and Eurasian lynx in the contact zone between the Dinaric Mountains and the Alps
Creators: name: Buzan, Elena
name: Potočnik, Hubert
name: Pokorny, Boštjan
name: Potušek, Sandra
name: Iacolina, Laura
name: Gerič, Urška
name: Urzi, Felicita
name: Kos, Ivan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Boxplots depicting the total number of predator and prey DNA reads for scat samples binned by the perceived degradation of the scat. Figure S2. NMDS plots of presence matrix Bray-Curtis dissimilarity of wolf and lynx scat samples, collected from different locations showing the prey taxa involved in driving distribution patterns. Figure S3. NMDS plots of RRA-based Bray-Curtis dissimilarity of wolf and lynx scat samples, collected from different locations showing the prey taxa involved in driving distribution patterns. Figure S4. Sampling locations in relation to density gradients of three ungulate (main prey) species in Slovenia: A Sus scrofa, B Capreolus capreolus, C Cervus elaphus.
Mini-moons from horseshoes: A physical characterization of 2022 NX1 with OSIRIS at the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias
Creators: name: Marcos, R. de la Fuente
name: de Leon, J.
name: Marcos, C. de la Fuente
name: Licandro, J.
name: Serra-Ricart, M.
name: Cabrera-Lavers, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The near-Earth orbital space is shared by natural objects and space debris that can be temporarily captured in geocentric orbits. Short-term natural satellites are often called mini-moons. Reflectance spectroscopy can determine the true nature of transient satellites because the spectral signatures of spacecraft materials and near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are different. The recently discovered object 2022 NX1 follows an Earth-like orbit that turns it into a recurrent but ephemeral Earth companion. It has been suggested that 2022 NX1 could have an artificial origin or be lunar ejecta. Aims. Here, we use reflectance spectroscopy and N-body simulations to determine the nature and actual origin of 2022 NX1. Methods. We carried out an observational study of 2022 NX1, using the OSIRIS camera spectrograph at the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias, to derive its spectral class. N-body simulations were also performed to investigate how it reached NEA space. Results. The reflectance spectrum of 2022 NX1 is neither compatible with an artificial origin nor lunar ejecta; it is also different from the V type of the only other mini-moon with available spectroscopy, 2020 CD3. The visible spectrum of 2022 NX1 is consistent with that of a K-type asteroid, although it could also be classified as an Xk type. Considering typical values of the similar albedo of both K-type and Xk-type asteroids and its absolute magnitude, 2022 NX1 may have a size range of 5 to 15 m. We confirm that 2022 NX1 inhabits the rim of Earth's co-orbital space, the 1:1 mean-motion resonance, and experiences recurrent co-orbital engagements of the horseshoe-type and mini-moon events. Conclusions. The discovery of 2022 NX1 confirms that mini-moons can be larger than a few meters and also that they belong to a heterogeneous population in terms of surface composition.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, 3 appendixes. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics: Letters
Can Seebeck coefficient identify quantum interference in molecular conduction?
Creators: name: Simine, Lena
name: Chen, Wei Jia
name: Segal, Dvira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We look for manifestations of quantum interference effects in the Seebeck coefficient of a molecular junction, when the electronic conductance exhibits pronounced destructive interference features due to the presence of quasi-degenerate electronic states which differ in their spatial symmetry. We perform our analysis by considering three separate limits for electron transport: coherent, fully dephased, and suffering inelastic scattering with molecular vibrations. We find that while the conductance displays strong signatures of the underling transport mechanisms: destructive quantum interference features in the coherent case and thermal activation characteristics in the inelastic limit, the Seebeck coefficient conceals details of electron dynamics while it robustly reveals information about the energy characteristics of the junction. We provide closed-form expressions for the electronic conductance and the thermopower of our system as a function of temperature, gate voltage and hybridization energy in different transport limits, then exemplify our analysis on a specific conjugated molecule with quasi-degenerate orbitals of different spatial symmetry.
Development of iron based superconducting wires and tapes for high field applications
Creators: name: SYLVA, GIULIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2020

description: Among all the Iron based superconductors (IBS) families the iron chalcogenides FeSexTe1-x, also called 11 phases, are the simplest, and they are quite attractive because of their relatively ease of fabrication and the absence of toxic arsenic. 11 thin films have been successfully grown on single crystalline substrates and on technical metallic templates with a complex architecture which have been developed and are already commercially available for the deposition of YBa2Cu3O7-x. In IBS the exponential decay of Jc across misoriented grain boundaries seems to be less severe than for YBCO. Moreover, 11 thin films are deposited without the presence of oxygen in a temperature range between 230�C and 550�C. These features have a strong impact on the development of a suitable Coated Conductors (CC) technology relaxing significantly the film texture constraint and the role of the buffer layer architecture. Another important aspect, beside the fabrication of a suitable cost-effective conductor that needs to be considered in view of high-field applications, is the effect of irradiation which is necessary to test the suitability of a conductor for operation in a radiation environment, such as fusion or accelerator magnets. We found that the effect of irradiation on superconducting properties of 11 thin films is generally small as compared to the case of other iron-based superconductors and that possible modifications induced by irradiation in the substrate may affect the superconducting properties of the film via lattice strain. In this context the thesis is focused on the development of 11 CC with simpler and cost-effective templates and on the study of the effects of proton irradiation on the 11 thin films. The different CC architecture studied are presented and the properties of the 11 thin films deposited on these substrates will be shown. Moreover, the effects of proton irradiation on films deposited on single crystal substrates are shown, giving a complete overview for the possible applications of the 11 phase at high magnetic field.