cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Can a red wood-ant nest be associated with fault-related CH4 micro-seepage?
title: A case study from continuous short-term in-situ sampling
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Berberich, Gabriele M.
name: Ellison, Aaron M.
name: Berberich, Martin B.
name: Grumpe, Arne
name: Becker, Adrian
name: Wöhler, Christian
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Red wood ants
subject: Formica polyctena
subject: CH4; δ 13C-CH4
subject: Fault
subject: Activity pattern
subject: 620

description: We measured methane (CH4) and stable carbon isotope of methane (δ13C-CH4) concentrations in ambient air and within a red wood-ant (RWA; Formica polyctena) nest in the Neuwied Basin (Germany) using high-resolution in-situ sampling to detect microbial, thermogenic, and abiotic fault-related micro-seepage of CH4. Methane degassing from RWA nests was not synchronized with earth tides, nor was it influenced by micro-earthquake degassing or concomitantly measured RWA activity. Two δ13C-CH4 signatures were identified in nest gas: −69‰ and −37‰. The lower peak was attributed to microbial decomposition of organic matter within the RWA nest, in line with previous observations that RWA nests are hot-spots of microbial CH4. The higher peak has not been reported in previous studies. We attribute this peak to fault-related CH4 emissions moving via fault networks into the RWA nest, which could originate either from thermogenic or abiotic CH4 formation. Sources of these micro-seepages could be Devonian schists, iron-bearing “Klerf Schichten”, or overlapping micro-seepage of magmatic CH4 from the Eifel plume. Given the abundance of RWA nests on the landscape, their role as sources of microbial CH4 and biological indicators for abiotically-derived CH4 should be included in estimation of methane emissions that are contributing to climatic change.
description: Animals;Jg.: 8, Heft: 4 | S. 46-1-46-19
Blunted cardiovascular reactivity may serve as an index of psychological task disengagement in the motivated performance situations
Creators: name: Behnke, Maciej
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Challenge and threat models predict that once individuals become engaged with performance, their evaluations and cardiovascular response determine further outcomes. Although the role of challenge and threat in predicting performance has been extensively tested, few studies have focused on task engagement. We aimed to investigate task engagement in performance at the psychological and physiological levels. We accounted for physiological task engagement by examining blunted cardiovascular reactivity, the third possible cardiovascular response to performance, in addition to the challenge/threat responses. We expected that low psychological task engagement would be related to blunted cardiovascular reactivity during the performance. Gamers ( N = 241) completed five matches of the soccer video game FIFA 19. We recorded psychological task engagement, heart rate reactivity, and the difference between goals scored and conceded. Lower psychological task engagement was related to blunted heart rate reactivity during the performance. Furthermore, poorer performance in the previous game was related to increased task engagement in the subsequent match. The findings extend existing literature by providing initial evidence that blunted cardiovascular reactivity may serve as the index of low task engagement.
The Embedding Capacity of Information Flows Under Renewal Traffic
Creators: name: Marano, Stefano
name: Matta, Vincenzo
name: He, Ting
name: Tong, Lang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given two independent point processes and a certain rule for matching points between them, what is the fraction of matched points over infinitely long streams? In many application contexts, e.g., secure networking, a meaningful matching rule is that of a maximum causal delay, and the problem is related to embedding a flow of packets in cover traffic such that no traffic analysis can detect it. We study the best undetectable embedding policy and the corresponding maximum flow rate ---that we call the embedding capacity--- under the assumption that the cover traffic can be modeled as arbitrary renewal processes. We find that computing the embedding capacity requires the inversion of very structured linear systems that, for a broad range of renewal models encountered in practice, admits a fully analytical expression in terms of the renewal function of the processes. Our main theoretical contribution is a simple closed form of such relationship. This result enables us to explore properties of the embedding capacity, obtaining closed-form solutions for selected distribution families and a suite of sufficient conditions on the capacity ordering. We evaluate our solution on real network traces, which shows a noticeable match for tight delay constraints. A gap between the predicted and the actual embedding capacities appears for looser constraints, and further investigation reveals that it is caused by inaccuracy of the renewal traffic model rather than of the solution itself.
description: Sumbitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Theory on March 10, 2011
Time lags in the pass-through of crude-oil prices: Big data evidence from the German gasoline market
Creators: name: Frondel, Manuel
name: Vance, Colin
name: Kihm, Alex
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: retail markets
subject: error-correction model
subject: competition
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: This note investigates the pass-through of global Brent oil notations to fuel prices across the oligopoly of retail majors in Germany. We assemble a high-frequency panel data set that encompasses millions of price observations and allows us to distinguish effects by brand. Upon establishing a cointegrating relationship between fuel and crude-oil prices using daily data, we estimate an error-correction model (ECM) and find that (1) the pass-through of oil prices critically depends on the number of time lags included in the ECM, (2) strict adherence to classical information criteria for determining lag length yields extremely long pass-through durations, and (3) the estimated impulse response functions are virtually identical across brands, irrespective of the lag count, suggesting a high degree of competition among brands.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;24/2015
The Detection of Human Spreadsheet Errors by Humans versus Inspection (Auditing) Software
Creators: name: Aurigemma, Salvatore
name: Panko, Raymond R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Previous spreadsheet inspection experiments have had human subjects look for seeded errors in spreadsheets. In this study, subjects attempted to find errors in human-developed spreadsheets to avoid the potential artifacts created by error seeding. Human subject success rates were compared to the successful rates for error-flagging by spreadsheet static analysis tools (SSATs) applied to the same spreadsheets. The human error detection results were comparable to those of studies using error seeding. However, Excel Error Check and Spreadsheet Professional were almost useless for correctly flagging natural (human) errors in this study.
description: 14 Pages, 4 Figures
Macroscopic Invisibility Cloaking of Visible Light
Creators: name: Chen, Xianzhong
name: Luo, Yu
name: Zhang, Jingjing
name: Jiang, Kyle
name: Pendry, John B.
name: Zhang, Shuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Invisibility cloaks of light, which used to be confined to the imagination, have now been turned into a scientific reality, thanks to the enabling theoretical tools of transformation optics and conformal mapping. Inspired by those theoretical works, the experimental realisation of electromagnetic invisibility cloaks has been reported at various electromagnetic frequencies. All the invisibility cloaks demonstrated thus far, however, have relied on nano- or micro-fabricated artificial composite materials with spatially varying electromagnetic properties, which limit the size of the cloaked region to a few wavelengths. Here we report realisation of a macroscopic volumetric invisibility cloak constructed from natural birefringent crystals. The cloak operates at visible frequencies and is capable of hiding three-dimensional objects of the scale of centimetres and millimetres. Our work opens avenues for future applications with macroscopic cloaking devices.
Locked down. A study of the mental health of French Management School students during the COVID-19 health crisis using the POMS questionnaire
Creators: name: Justeau, Stéphane
name: Musson, Anne
name: Rousselière, Damien
name: Justeau, Stéphane
name: Musson, Anne
name: Rousselière, Damien
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: business school
subject: covid-19
subject: mental health
subject: mental preparation
subject: poms
subject: students

description: The COVID-19 epidemic has caused the closure of French higher education institutions leading to a series of lockdowns that have affected the mental health of students. We use the POMS (Profile of Mood States) questionnaire developed by McNair et al. (1971) to identify the state of the mental health of students in a French Management School (post-high school level, aged 18+). Our results show that a significant proportion of students show altered mental states and generalized fatigue. 41% of the 1,123 respondents had a worrying mental health condition. We highlight the impact of the absence of social ties and of physical and sports activities. Finally, we suggest that techniques to reduce states such as stress and anxiety be introduced into the curriculum.
Validated respiratory drug deposition predictions from 2D and 3D medical images with statistical shape models and convolutional neural networks
Creators: name: Williams, Josh
name: Ahlqvist, Haavard
name: Cunningham, Alexander
name: Kirby, Andrew
name: Katz, Ira
name: Fleming, John
name: Conway, Joy
name: Cunningham, Steve
name: Ozel, Ali
name: Wolfram, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For the one billion sufferers of respiratory disease, managing their disease with inhalers crucially influences their quality of life. Generic treatment plans could be improved with the aid of computational models that account for patient-specific features such as breathing pattern, lung pathology and morphology. Therefore, we aim to develop and validate an automated computational framework for patient-specific deposition modelling. To that end, an image processing approach is proposed that could produce 3D patient respiratory geometries from 2D chest X-rays and 3D CT images. We evaluated the airway and lung morphology produced by our image processing framework, and assessed deposition compared to in vivo data. The 2D-to-3D image processing reproduces airway diameter to 9% median error compared to ground truth segmentations, but is sensitive to outliers of up to 33% due to lung outline noise. Predicted regional deposition gave 5% median error compared to in vivo measurements. The proposed framework is capable of providing patient-specific deposition measurements for varying treatments, to determine which treatment would best satisfy the needs imposed by each patient (such as disease and lung/airway morphology). Integration of patient-specific modelling into clinical practice as an additional decision-making tool could optimise treatment plans and lower the burden of respiratory diseases.
description: 37 pages main text (including frontmatter). 9 figures. Additional supplementary material
Modeling the three-dimensional pair cascade in binaries. Application to LS 5039
Creators: name: Cerutti, Benoît
name: Malzac, Julien
name: Dubus, Guillaume
name: Henri, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: LS 5039 is a Galactic binary system emitting high and very-high energy gamma rays. The gamma-ray flux is modulated on the orbital period and the TeV lightcurve shaped by photon-photon annihilation. The observed very-high energy modulation can be reproduced with a simple leptonic model but fails to explain the flux detected by HESS at superior conjunction, where gamma rays are fully absorbed. The contribution from an electron-positron pair cascade could be strong and prevail over the primary flux at superior conjunction. The created pairs can be isotropized by the magnetic field, resulting in a three-dimensional cascade. The aim of this article is to investigate the gamma ray radiation from this pair cascade in LS 5039. This additional component could account for HESS observations at superior conjunction in the system. A semi-analytical and a Monte Carlo method for computing three-dimensional cascade radiation are presented and applied in the context of binaries. Three-dimensional cascade radiation contributes significantly at every orbital phase in the TeV lightcurve, and dominates close to superior conjunction. The amplitude of the gamma-ray modulation is correctly reproduced for an inclination of the orbit of about 40 degrees. Primary pairs should be injected close to the compact object location, otherwise the shape of the modulation is not explained. In addition, synchrotron emission from the cascade in X-rays constrains the ambient magnetic field to below 10 G. The radiation from a three-dimensional pair cascade can account for the TeV flux detected by HESS at superior conjunction in LS 5039, but the very-high energy spectrum at low fluxes remains difficult to explain in this model.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mapping the Garden of Truth : Buddhist and idiosyncratic elements in the religious space of Shinnyo-en
Creators: name: Collins, Casey Ray
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: New Religious Movements (NRMs) are typically understood by observers as deviant, bizarre—even pathological—forms of religion that are born in times of crisis and joined by people in crisis. This understanding, however, overlooks the similarities and often close connections between new movements and more established “parent” traditions. Shinnyo-en is a Buddhist-derived NRM that began in 1930s Japan. It has strong ties to Shingon Buddhism and is also characterized by idiosyncratic practices and an emphasis on its charismatic founding family. Like other Buddhist-derived NRMs, Shinnyo-en is simultaneously contiguous with a parent tradition and distinguished from it. Abandoning the language of pathology, I suggest that we think of NRMs in the modern period as occupying non-locative conceptual “spaces” similar to those of “established” religions, secular spaces, and other ideologies. The very meaning of the name Shinnyo-en 真如苑—the “Garden of Truth,” literally a “borderless garden” (en 苑) of “thusness” (shinnyo 真如, Skt. tathatā)—evokes the image of an expansive, cultivated space. I argue that the space of Shinnyo-en contains two modalities. In its first modality, practitioners and observers see Shinnyo-en as a modernized form of esoteric Buddhism promulgated by the charismatic founding family, which draws on ritual and doctrine inherited from the Shingon school and from Mahāyāna Buddhism generally. In its second modality, initiated practitioners experience Shinnyo-en’s idiosyncrasy, which is a function of unique practices and beliefs that cannot exist apart from the charismatic founding family. The two modalities of the Shinnyo-en tradition are equally important to members, and must be simultaneously kept in mind to best understand this and other Buddhist-derived NRMs. With this map of the Garden of Truth, Shinnyo-en’s idiosyncrasies that have hindered scholarly and popular understanding become more intelligible, especially the profound emphasis on the founding family and the novel practices and hierarchies they introduced.
Suzaku View of the Swift/Bat Active Galactic Nuclei. IV. Nature of Two Narrow-Line Radio Galaxies (3C 403 and IC 5063)
Creators: name: Tazaki, Fumie
name: Ueda, Yoshihiro
name: Terashima, Yuichi
name: Mushotzky, Richard F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of Suzaku broad band X-ray observations of the two narrow-line radio galaxies (NLRGs), 3C 403 and IC 5063. Combined with the Swift/BAT spectra averaged for 58 months, we are able to accurately constrain their spectral properties over the 0.5--200 keV band. The spectra of both nuclei are well represented with an absorbed cut-off power law, an absorbed reflection component from cold matter with an iron-K emission line, and an unabsorbed soft component, which gives a firm upper limit for the scattered emission. The reflection strength normalized to the averaged BAT flux is R = Ω/2π~ 0.6 in both targets, implying that their tori have a sufficiently large solid angle to produce the reprocessed emission. A numerical torus model with an opening angle of ~ 50 deg well reproduces the observed spectra. We discuss the possibility that the amount of the normal gas responsible for Thomson scattering is systematically smaller in radio galaxies compared with Seyfert galaxies.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 6 of Salicylic acid-primed defence response in octoploid strawberry ‘Benihoppe’ leaves induces resistance against Podosphaera aphanis through enhanced accumulation of proanthocyanidins and upregulation of pathogenesis-related genes
Creators: name: Feng, Jun
name: Zhang, Min
name: Yang, Kang-Ning
name: Zheng, Cai-Xia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6 : Figure S6. Identification of putative genes involved in SA biosynthesis and JA biosynthesis in strawberry leaves infected by P. aphanis. The phylogenetic relationships existing between the strawberry PAL plus ICS (a), EDS1 plus PAD4 (b), JAR1 (c), AOS1 (d), and LOX (e) proteins used in this study (black arrow) with their closest homologues. Numbers at branches indicate posterior probabilities and bootstrap percentages based on 1000 replicates. (f) Changes in relative expression of FaPAL, FaICS2, FaEDS1, FaPAD4, FaJAR, FaAOS and FaLOX genes at 0 dpi and 3 dpi in both groups. The values were normalized against controls and correspond to the mean of three biological replicates ± S.E. Asterisks indicate significant differences (* p < 0.05). PAL, phenylalanine ammonia-lyase; ICS, isochorismate Synthase; EDS2, enhanced disease susceptibility2; PAD4, phytoalexin deficient 4; JAR1, JA-amino acid synthetase1; AOS, allene oxide synthase; LOX, lipoxygenase.
title: Zur Sichtbarkeit der Fachzeitschrift „Empirische Sonderpädagogik“ – Eine bibliometrische Analyse
title: On the visibility of „Empirische Sonderpädagogik“: A bibliometric analysis
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lüke, Timo
name: Wilbert, Jürgen
name: Weichselbaum, Mona
name: Grünke, Matthias
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Sonderpädagogik
subject: wissenschaftliche Publikationen
subject: Bibliometrie
subject: sonderpädagogische Forschung
subject: 370
subject: Sonderpädagogik |
subject: Wissenschaftliche Literatur |
subject: Bibliometrie |
subject: Forschung |

description: Die „Empirische Sonderpädagogik“ (ESP) wird bisher nicht in den kommerziellen Zitationsdatenbanken berücksichtigt. Zur Beurteilung ihrer wissenschaftlichen Relevanz wird daher eine Zitationsanalyse auf Basis der GoogleScholar-Datenbank durchgeführt. Dies ermöglicht den direkten Vergleich der ESP mit anderen Fachzeitschriften des sonderpädagogischen Forschungsfeldes und deckt Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten auf. Gemessen an den relativen Zitationshäufigkeiten ist die ESP absolut konkurrenzfähig: Nur zwei von insgesamt sieben analysierten Fachzeitschriften weisen höhere Zitationen pro Artikel auf. Auch der Anteil nicht-zitierter Artikel liegt bei der ESP niedriger als bei den meisten anderen Fachzeitschriften. Verbesserungsbedarf wurde vor allem bei der suchmaschinenfreundlichen Bereitstellung der Artikel festgestellt: Lediglich vierzig Prozent sind in GoogleScholar indiziert. Diesbezüglich werden Maßnahmen abgeleitet, die zeitnah zur Erhöhung der Sichtbarkeit der ESP-Artikel führen werden.
description: 6;4
Supplementary Materials S1 and S2 - Supplementary Methods and Results from Strong and weak environmental perturbations cause contrasting restructure of ant transportation networks
Creators: name: Piross, Imre Sándor
name: Lecheval, Valentin
name: Powell, Scott
name: Donaldson-Matasci, Matina C.
name: Robinson, Elva J.H
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: S1 - Supplementary Methods: Detailed descriptions of the simulation model, empirical data, model parametrisation, validation procedures, and software/code availability for the study on ant transportation networks under environmental perturbations. S2 - Supplementary Results: Results detailing the impacts of environmental perturbations on ant transportation networks, including network structure, efficiency, robustness, cost metrics, and more.
A Treatise on the Spirituality of Time
Creators: name: Redmond, Gary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other philosophy and religious studies not elsewhere classified

description: Towards a Theory of Everything and the Discovery of Everlasting Life
 For many of us, time is an international convention by which people order their lives and the objects around them. From the moment we get up to the moment we go to sleep, time, through just about every modern-day device you can imagine sets the rhythm of our existence – when to eat, work, play and rest… just about everything. It flows forward in one direction and eventually we will all grow old and fade into history. But is it as simple as that? Is that all we need to know? By blending esoteric and human perspectives, this paper takes us on a journey through Confluent Time Theory, Cosmic Echoes and the Intelligent Universe among others in an attempt to answer these questions.
title: Pinniped diving behaviour in geographic and oceanographic space
Creators: name: Gordine, Samantha Alex
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Southern elephant seals (SES) are far-ranging top predators and sentinels of the Southern Ocean ecosystem status. Their well-being depends on the resources available in different oceanographic habitats. This study presents methods for long-term monitoring of SES movements and body condition within the Atlantic sector. Collecting information on SES, who spend months at sea, is often only possible using telemetry. I thus present a method designed for detecting buoyancy changes from low-resolution dive data. Detected buoyancy changes, which reflect body condition changes (i.e. lipid gain or loss), are examined in relation to when and where they geographically occur. For replenishing resources SES rely on macroscale latitudinal fronts, which provide favourable foraging conditions through aggregating prey and enhancing productivity. Generally, SES associate more frequently with higher latitude fronts/zones. Body condition improvements associated with a given frontal system vary strongly according to year, season and month. The variability in body condition improvements is higher in some frontal systems than in others, likely due to shifts in the Subantarctic and Polar Front. During a migration, some individuals stay within ≤3 frontal systems, whilst others change between several frontal systems and primarily improve their body condition in upper ocean waters. Body condition improvements, related to particular water masses, differ between the sexes and seasons. SES do not trace particular water masses across different frontal systems. Large inter-individual variability exists in how fast, when and where successful resource acquisition occurs. Conclusions drawn from track-based behavioural metrics regarding foraging activity are biased by the influence of currents on the horizontal movements of SES. The presented current-correction methods reveal that movements in geographic and hydrographic space differ. Currents primarily alter the horizontal travel direction, and SES show an ability to compensate for such deflections. However, even after current-correcting trajectories, track-based behavioural metrics fail to reflect body condition improvements, but rather display different foraging strategies. Individuals are flexible in using different foraging and movement strategies, depending on which oceanographic habitat they exploit. They exhibit large plasticity towards spatio-temporal variability. This could indicate resilience against environmental changes. However, long-term monitoring is necessary to fully capture the vulnerability of SES towards climate change.
Action-angle duality between the C(n)-type hyperbolic Sutherland and the rational Ruijsenaars-Schneider-van Diejen models
Creators: name: Pusztai, B. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In a symplectic reduction framework we construct action-angle systems of canonical coordinates for both the hyperbolic Sutherland and the rational Ruijsenaars-Schneider-van Diejen integrable models associated with the C(n) root system. The presented dual reduction picture permits us to establish the action-angle duality between these many-particle systems.
description: 34 pages
UCDs as Probes of the Major and Minor Merger Histories of Galaxies
Creators: name: Norris, Mark A.
name: Kannappan, Sheila J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two competing theories posit that Ultra Compact Dwarfs (UCDs) form either as the stripped nuclei of dwarf galaxies or as giant globular clusters (GGCs) associated with the largest globular cluster (GC) systems. By focussing on the field and group environments where young UCDs may be most common, we have discovered the first UCD that is clearly the result of recent (<4 Gyr ago) stripping of a companion galaxy. However, we have also found a definitive case of a multiple-UCD system created via GC formation processes, which are likely associated with major galaxy mergers. We demonstrate that it is possible to reliably distinguish the two types of UCD, thereby probing both the major and minor merger histories of individual galaxies.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "A Universe of Dwarf Galaxies" (Lyon, June 14-18, 2010)
Strange and charmed baryons using N_f=2 twisted mass QCD
Creators: name: Papinutto, Mauro
name: Carbonell, Jaume
name: Drach, Vincent
name: Alexandrou, Constantia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the mass spectrum for strange/charmed baryons in the partially quenched approach using N_f=2 twisted mass QCD configurations. We investigate two main issues: the size of lattice artefacts using three values of the lattice spacing (the smallest of which is approximately 0.05 fm) and the dependence of baryon masses on meson (or quark) masses. We thus perform a global fit in order to extrapolate simultaneously to the continuum limit and to the physical point. We estimate the masses of Omega_{sss}, Xi_{dss}, Lambda_{uds}, Omega_{ccc}, Xi_{dcc}, Lambda_{udc}.
description: Contribution at the XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Lattice2010, June 14-19, 2010, Villasimius, Italy
Improved determination of inclusive electromagnetic decay ratios of heavy quarkonium from QCD
Creators: name: Kiyo, Yuichiro
name: Pineda, Antonio
name: Signer, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a different power counting in potential NRQCD by incorporating the static potential exactly in the leading order Hamiltonian. We compute the leading relativistic corrections to the inclusive electromagnetic decay ratios in this new scheme. The effect of this new power counting is found to be large (even for top). We produce an updated value for the $η_b$ decay to two photons. This scheme also brings consistency between the weak coupling computation and the experimental value of the charmonium decay ratio.
description: 33 pages, 10 figures
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 04/78
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderung der Studienordnung des Studienfaches Maschinenbau - Studienrichtung Fertigungstechnik - für den Studiengang mit Abschluß Diplom-Ingenieur
description: Änderung der Studienordnung des Studienfaches Mathematik der Universität Dortmund mit dem Abschluß 1. Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Sekundarstufe II
description: Änderung der Studienordnung Diplom-Mathematiker der Abteilung Mathematik
description: Änderung der Studienordnung für die Abteilung Chemietechnik der Universität Dortmund
description: Änderung der Studienordnung für die Fachrichtung Chemie der Universität Dortmund (Diplom-Chemiker)
description: Änderung der Studienordnung für die Fachrichtung Physik der Universität Dortmund (Diplom-Physiker)
description: Änderung der vorläufigen Studienordnung der Abteilung Chemie für die Studiengänge der Lehrämter der Sekundarstufe I und II
description: Änderung der vorläufigen Studienordnung für Informatik
description: Nachtrag zu den Amtlichen Mitteilungen Nr. 66 vom 14. 12. 1976: Anlage zu §11 Abs. 1 Habilitationsordnung
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 4, 1978
Droplet generators for encapsulation of neonatal porcine islets in alginate
Creators: name: Pedroza, Réne G.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: For the treatment of type 1 diabetes, islet transplantation has the potential to control blood glucose levels more effectively than daily insulin injections. However, its widespread application is hindered by the limited supply of transplantable human islets and the side effects of life-long immunosuppression. Microencapsulation of islets in alginate can contribute to overcoming these barriers by facilitating the use of alternative sources of islets, such as neonatal porcine islets (NPI), and by reducing the need for immunosuppressive therapy. This work describes a process for immobilization of NPI in 5% alginate capsules by an emulsification and internal gelation approach utilizing droplet generators fabricated via soft lithography or stereolithography. Alginate capsules produced with microfluidic devices fabricated in PDMS had mean diameters between 300 and 600 µm. Capsules generated with 3D-printed droplet generators fabricated via stereolithography were capable of producing more than 30-times the number of capsules per minute than a microfluidic devices, but with approximately 2-fold greater mean bead diameters. These results suggest that 3D-printed droplet generators are better suited for encapsulating NPI for transplantation applications (e.g., future in vivo studies). Furthermore, encapsulation in 3D-printed droplet generators did not alter cell viability after processing unlike the microfluidic devices where the viability decreased 20%. After encapsulation, three different imaging techniques were explored to aid in the quantification of partially encapsulated islets. Overall, the results of this study should be useful for the improvement of immunoisolation approaches employing alginate immobilization.
title: Το “STRIP” της Λ. Συγγρού, Ταχύτητα, Εικόνα και Κατανάλωση (Μια κριτική ματιά στο σύγχρονο άξονα πολιτισμού της Αθήνας)
title: Syggrou “STRIP” Speed, Image and Consumption
Creators: name: Δεγλερης Ιασων-Αλβερτος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2021

description: Η παρούσα ερευνητική εργασία εξετάζει ως μελέτη περίπτωσης τη δυναμική εξέλιξη της λεωφόρου Συγγρού από το σχεδιασμό, τη χάραξη και τη παράδοση της στην κυκλοφορία μέχρι τη σημερινή μορφή, χρήση και λειτουργίας της
ως σύγχρονου άξονα πολιτισμού της Αθήνας.
Λόγω των μνημειακών γεωμετρικών της χαρακτηριστικών και ως βασική αρτηρία σύνδεσης των νοτίων προαστίων και των ακτών του Σαρωνικού με το κέντρο πόλης σε μια περίοδο κυριαρχίας του αυτοκινήτου, προσέλκυσε σημαντικές έδρες επιχειρήσεων και αποτέλεσε σύμβολο εκσυγχρονισμού.
Στο πλαίσιο του νέου Ρυθμιστικού Σχεδίου της Αθήνας 2021 η Λ. Συγγρού αναγνωρίζεται ως μια ζώνη της πόλης που βρίσκεται ήδη σε τροχιά δυναμικού μετασχηματισμού με έμφαση στους τομείς του πολιτισμού και της επιχειρηματικότητας.
Εντός της μελέτης, διερευνώνται τα συστήματα αντιθέσεων που διαμορφώνουν το σημερινό προφιλ της λεωφόρου και αναζητώνται κάποια πλαίσια, υπό το πρίσμα της Αρχιτεκτονικής της ταχύτητας, απο το οποία μπορεί να προσδιοριστεί η δυναμική του καθημερινού χώρου.
Decay constants and form factors of s-wave and p-wave mesons in the covariant light-front quark model
Creators: name: Verma, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reanalyze the decay constants of s-wave and p-wave mesons and D, B ->M form factors, where M represents a pseudoscalar meson, a vector meson, a scalar meson, or an axial vector meson within a covariant light-front quark model. The parameter βfor wave-functions of most of s-wave mesons and of a few axial-vector mesons are fixed with latest experimental information, wherever available or using the lattice calculations. The treatment of masses and mixing angles for strange axial vector mesons is improved for the purpose. We extend our analysis to determine the form factors appearing in the transition of D_s, B_s->M transitions, and to the isoscalar final state mesons. Numerical results of the form factors for transitions between a heavy pseudoscalar meson and an s-wave or p-wave light meson and their momentum dependence are presented in detail. Further, their sensitivity to uncertainties of beta parameters of the initial as well as the final mesons is investigated. Some experimental measurements of the charmed and bottom meson decays are employed to compare the decay constants and transition form factors obtained in this and other works.
description: 36 pages, 2 figures
Accelerating cycle expansions by dynamical conjugacy
Creators: name: Gao, Ang
name: Xie, Jianbo
name: Lan, Yueheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Periodic orbit theory provides two important functions---the dynamical zeta function and the spectral determinant for the calculation of dynamical averages in a nonlinear system. Their cycle expansions converge rapidly when the system is uniformly hyperbolic but greatly slowed down in the presence of non-hyperbolicity. We find that the slow convergence can be associated with singularities in the natural measure. A properly designed coordinate transformation may remove these singularities and results in a dynamically conjugate system where fast convergence is restored. The technique is successfully demonstrated on several examples of one-dimensional maps and some remaining challenges are discussed.
Teaching Spreadsheets: Curriculum Design Principles
Creators: name: Tort, Francoise
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: EuSpRIG concerns direct researchers to revisit spreadsheet education, taking into account error auditing tools, checklists, and good practices. This paper aims at elaborating principles to design a spreadsheet curriculum. It mainly focuses on two important issues. Firstly, it is necessary to establish the spreadsheet invariants to be taught, especially those concerning errors and good practices. Secondly, it is important to take into account the learners' ICT experience, and to encourage them to attitudes that foster self-learning. We suggest key principles for spreadsheet teaching, and we illustrate them with teaching guidelines.
description: 12 Pages, 10 Figures
Additional file 3: of Immunogenicity of adenovirus-vector vaccine targeting hepatitis B virus: non-clinical safety assessment in non-human primates
Creators: name: Zhang, Xuefeng
name: Wang, Jing
name: Lu, Jing
name: Li, Rongrong
name: Zhao, Shuli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Table S3. Effects of Ad-HBV administration on body temperature. (PDF 173 kb)
A conjecture of Biggs concerning the resistance of a distance-regular graph
Creators: name: Markowsky, Greg
name: Koolen, Jacobus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Previously, Biggs has conjectured that the resistance between any two points on a distance-regular graph of valency greater than 2 is bounded by twice the resistance between adjacent points. We prove this conjecture, give the sharp constant for the inequality, and display the graphs for which the conjecture most nearly fails. Some necessary background material is included, as well as some consequences.
CP Violation and Mixing in Charm Meson Decays from BABAR
Creators: name: Chen, Chunhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mixing and CP violation in charm meson decays provide a unique probe of possible physics beyond the standard model. In this paper, we give a brief review of the current measurements from the BABAR experiment.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm2010), Beijing, China, Oct. 21-24, 2010
Discontinuous information in the worst case and randomized settings
Creators: name: Hinrichs, Aicke
name: Novak, Erich
name: Wozniakowski, Henryk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We believe that discontinuous linear information is never more powerful than continuous linear information for approximating continuous operators. We prove such a result in the worst case setting. In the randomized setting we consider compact linear operators defined between Hilbert spaces. In this case, the use of discontinuous linear information in the randomized setting cannot be much more powerful than continuous linear information in the worst case setting. These results can be applied when function evaluations are used even if function values are defined only almost everywhere.
Additional file 1: of Immunogenicity of adenovirus-vector vaccine targeting hepatitis B virus: non-clinical safety assessment in non-human primates
Creators: name: Zhang, Xuefeng
name: Wang, Jing
name: Lu, Jing
name: Li, Rongrong
name: Zhao, Shuli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Table S1. Effects of Ad-HBV administration on Hematology. (PDF 198 kb)
Additional file 2: of Immunogenicity of adenovirus-vector vaccine targeting hepatitis B virus: non-clinical safety assessment in non-human primates
Creators: name: Zhang, Xuefeng
name: Wang, Jing
name: Lu, Jing
name: Li, Rongrong
name: Zhao, Shuli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Table S2. Effects of Ad-HBV administration on serum chemistry. (PDF 208 kb)
Biochemical and molecular traits underlying hypoxia tolerance in sculpins
Creators: name: Mandic, Milica
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Variation in environmental conditions can sometimes impose severe limitations on organismal survival and reproductive success and organisms that live in variable environments have evolved complex traits to cope with or buffer against the environmental conditions. In my dissertation I examined how adaptive evolution and phenotypic plasticity play a role in the ability of nearshore species of sculpin to tolerate low levels of O₂ or hypoxia. I showed that constitutively expressed biochemical traits in the brain correlated with hypoxia tolerance among the different species independent of phylogenetic relationships, suggesting that these traits may have evolved via natural selection in response to hypoxia. A similar correlation was not seen in either the liver or the white muscle. Next, I showed that transcriptionally mediated phenotypic plasticity is likely associated with the difference in hypoxia tolerance between two species of sculpin. The hypoxia-tolerant tidepool sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus) did not alter gene transcription during the ecologically relevant time-frames of hypoxia exposure (up to 8 hours), in contrast to the hypoxia-intolerant silverspotted sculpin (Blepsias cirrhosus). This suggests that the tolerant species may not rely on phenotypic plasticity during a typical environmental hypoxia exposure and instead may rely on constitutively expressed or fixed traits for survival. Only if hypoxia persists do the hypoxia tolerant tidepool sculpins alter gene transcription, for which a large set of genes showed transcriptional patterns that were divergent to the hypoxia intolerant silverspotted sculpin. Lastly, I examined if similar transcriptional responses occur among three species of sculpin all with the same measured hypoxia tolerance. While a high proportion (65%) of clones showed similar transcription patterns among the species, a majority of genes associated with metabolism and protein production showed differences in both short and long exposures to hypoxia. As metabolism and protein production both play a major role in hypoxic survival, transcriptional differences in genes belonging to these biological processes suggests that the species likely use different mechanism to achieve similar overall hypoxia tolerance phenotype. Combined, this work demonstrates how phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution play a role in the variation of hypoxia tolerance among species of sculpin living in the nearshore environment.
Thresholdless surface solitons
Creators: name: Bludov, Yuliy V.
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Konotop, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the existence of nonlinear surface waves which, on the one hand, do not require the threshold energy flow for their excitation, and, on the other hand, extend into media at both sides of the interface at low powers, i.e. can not be reduced to the conventional Tamm states. Such waves can be excited if the refractive index in at least one of the materials forming the interface is periodically modulated, with properly selected modulation depth and frequency. Thresholdless surface solitons can be stable in the entire existence domain.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Optics Letters
The pedagogy of Balinese vocal technique : developing total perception through embodied practice
Creators: name: Edwardson, Chelsea Dawn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This study examines elements of Balinese vocal pedagogy in order to understand the process of teaching and learning in my lessons with several master singers on the island, focusing on the teachings of Ni Nyoman Candri. Through ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, lessons, and analysis of their content, I will investigate the core concepts that were emphasized throughout my vocal practice. After reviewing the body of literature that has influenced this work, the study will begin by outlining some basic context for how the knowledge is approached: informal methods of mimicking and repetition as well as kinesthetic embodiment of expression. This will serve as the basis for discussing the initial processes of learning vocal technique: the practice of opening the voice (mengeluarkan suara) through improvised sound and movement, as well as how that technique expands into a layered approach to learning melodies. The Balinese concept of ngunda bayu (the process of distributing energy through the body) will also add to the discussion, setting a visual representation for the vertical axis in the body that outlines the physiological process of the breath cycle. By simplifying the process into three elements: energy, breath, and gesture, this study will evolve into a discussion of context, showing how the three work in alignment to manifest a single intention: a confluence of embodied vocal expression and total perception. The work concludes with a discussion of the larger, theoretical context of my previous western classical vocal training, posing some questions about the process and relating it to western scholar Christopher Small’s term musicking. By reviewing and reflecting on the identified elements in Balinese pedagogy, I will give consideration to how this study may be expanded and integrated into other pedagogies and discourses of vocal learning.
Soft QCD at Tevatron
Creators: name: Rangel, Murilo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental studies of soft Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at Tevatron are reported in this note. Results on inclusive inelastic interactions, underlying events, double parton interaction and exclusive diffractive production and their implications to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) physics are discussed.