cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Human-mimetic binaural ear design and sound source direction estimation for task realization of musculoskeletal humanoids
Creators: name: Omura, Yusuke
name: Kawaharazuka, Kento
name: Nagamatsu, Yuya
name: Koga, Yuya
name: Nishiura, Manabu
name: Toshimitsu, Yasunori
name: Asano, Yuki
name: Okada, Kei
name: Kawasaki, Koji
name: Inaba, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Human-like environment recognition by musculoskeletal humanoids is important for task realization in real complex environments and for use as dummies for test subjects. Humans integrate various sensory information to perceive their surroundings, and hearing is particularly useful for recognizing objects out of view or out of touch. In this research, we aim to realize human-like auditory environmental recognition and task realization for musculoskeletal humanoids by equipping them with a human-like auditory processing system. Humans realize sound-based environmental recognition by estimating directions of the sound sources and detecting environmental sounds based on changes in the time and frequency domain of incoming sounds and the integration of auditory information in the central nervous system. We propose a human mimetic auditory information processing system, which consists of three components: the human mimetic binaural ear unit, which mimics human ear structure and characteristics, the sound source direction estimation system, and the environmental sound detection system, which mimics processing in the central nervous system. We apply it to Musashi, a human mimetic musculoskeletal humanoid, and have it perform tasks that require sound information outside of view in real noisy environments to confirm the usefulness of the proposed methods.
description: Accepted at ROBOMECH Journal
(500840) Elizabeth Pontifex
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Pharmacological Properties of Seaweeds against Progressive Lifestyle Diseases
Creators: name: Antony, Tima
name: Chakraborty, Kajal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Seaweeds are consumed as staple food items in the cuisines of many Asian countries and are considered as essential components of a healthy diet. The pharmacological potential of ethyl acetate-methanol (EtOAc-MeOH) extract of 10 species of seaweeds belonging to the subclasses Dictyotophycidae, Rhodymeniophycidae, and Corallinophycidae against progressive lifestyle diseases was determined by various in vitro models. Among the studied species, the organic extracts of Gracilaria salicornia and Padina tetrastromatica exhibited potential dipeptidyl-peptidase-4 inhibiting activity (IC50 ~ 0.03 mg mL−1) and angiotensin converting enzyme-I inhibitory property (ACE-I) (IC50 0.12 mg mL−1) compared to those displayed by other studied species. The organic extracts of G. salicornia and P. tetrastromatica also displayed significantly greater attenuation properties against pro-inflammatory cyclooxygenase-2 and 5-lipoxygenase (IC50 0.98–1.34 mg mL−1, P < .05) compared to those derived from other species (IC50 1.99–5.02 mg mL−1). The nuclear magnetic resonance-guided dereplication of organic extracts of the studied seaweed species recognized the co-linearity between the bioactive potential and downfield electronegative functionalities. These results recognized the significance of the organic extracts of G. salicornia and P. tetrastromatica to isolate compounds for functional food applications against oxidative stress and induced diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and inflammation.
Large dynamic light-matter entanglement from driving neither too fast nor too slow
Creators: name: Acevedo, O. L.
name: Quiroga, L.
name: Rodríguez, F. J.
name: Johnson, N. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A significant problem facing next-generation quantum technologies is how to generate and manipulate macroscopic entanglement in light and matter systems. Here we report a new regime of dynamical light-matter behavior in which a giant, system-wide entanglement is generated by varying the light-matter coupling at \emph{intermediate} velocities. This enhancement is far larger and broader-ranged than that occurring near the quantum phase transition of the same model under adiabatic conditions. By appropriate choices of the coupling within this intermediate regime, the enhanced entanglement can be made to spread system-wide or to reside in each subsystem separately.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
(500842) Elizabeth Brown
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Online Stakeholder Consultation - results from the survey of non-academic employers of PhD holders
Creators: name: Boman, Julia
name: Rusitoru, Mihaela
name: Barrioluengo, Mabel S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This report presents the results of the online stakeholder questionnaire conducted by the European Science Foundation within the DocEnhance project[1] in November 2021. As part of the project, online and face to face regional workshops with non-academic stakeholders were organised by four of the participating universities from the project consortium to explore the needs of PhD employers and their views on the skills and value-added of the doctorate degree[2]. The online questionnaire aims to complement this work, by reaching out to more potential PhD employers outside academia to better discern any gaps in the transferable skills needed for PhDs in the non-academic labour market. Additionally, during the first year of the DocEnhance project, a career-tracking survey was carried out with 2000+ recent PhD graduates from nine participating European universities from the project consortium and beyond (Maastricht University, Technical University of Munich, Arctic University of Norway, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, NOVA University Lisbon, Matej Bel University, University of Alcala, University of Sassari and University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague)[3]. The stakeholder questionnaire complements the views of PhD holders with the views of non-academic employers. The attention is particularly paid to a comparison between the skills acquired by doctorate holders at the completion of their doctorate and the importance given to these skills by non-academic employers. [1] For more information about the DocEnhance project, see: https://docenhance.eu [2] Findings were published in Internal Deliverable 1.3 Minutes from stakeholder workshops DocEnhance EU-funded project. [3] Boman, J., Beeson, H., Sanchez Barrioluengo, M., and Rusitoru, M. (2021). What comes after a PhD? Findings from the DocEnhance survey of doctorate holders on their employment situation, skills match, and the value of the doctorate. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation (ESF). Available at: https://docenhance.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DocEnhance-D1.2_Report-on-career-tracking-of-PhD-graduates.pdf
(500835) Alfred Edmund Todd
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Bound on Thermoelectric Power in a Magnetic Field within Linear Response
Creators: name: Brandner, Kay
name: Seifert, Udo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For thermoelectric power generation in a multi-terminal geometry, strong numerical evidence for a universal bound as a function of the magnetic-field induced asymmetry of the non-diagonal Onsager coefficients is presented. This bound implies, inter alia, that the power vanishes at least linearly when the maximal efficiency is approached. In particular, this result rules out that Carnot efficiency can be reached at finite power, which an analysis based on the second law only, would, in principle, allow.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, Phys. Rev. E, in press
The Effect of Recency to Human Mobility
Creators: name: Barbosa, Hugo
name: Neto, Fernando Buarque de Lima
name: Evsukoff, Alexandre
name: Menezes, Ronaldo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, we have seen scientists attempt to model and explain human dynamics and, in particular, human movement. Many aspects of our complex life are affected by human movements such as disease spread and epidemics modeling, city planning, wireless network development, and disaster relief, to name a few. Given the myriad of applications it is clear that a complete understanding of how people move in space can lead to huge benefits to our society. In most of the recent works, scientists have focused on the idea that people movements are biased towards frequently-visited locations. According to them, human movement is based on an exploration/exploitation dichotomy in which individuals choose new locations (exploration) or return to frequently-visited locations (exploitation). In this work, we focus on the concept of recency. We propose a model in which exploitation in human movement also considers recently-visited locations and not solely frequently-visited locations. We test our hypothesis against different empirical data of human mobility and show that our proposed model is able to better explain the human trajectories in these datasets.
Comprehensive Analysis of the Immunogenomics of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Brain Metastases From LCCC1419
Creators: name: Hoyle, Alan P.
name: Carey, Lisa A.
name: Van Swearingen, Amanda E. D.
name: Chai, Shengjie
name: Routh, Eric D.
name: Vensko, Steven
name: McClure, Marni B.
name: Wheless, Amy
name: Cuaboy, Luz A.
name: Garrett, Amy
name: Anders, Carey K.
name: Vincent, Benjamin G.
name: Parker, Joel S.
name: Woodcock, Mark G.
name: Sambade, Maria J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: BackgroundTriple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive variant of breast cancer that lacks the expression of estrogen and progesterone receptors (ER and PR) and HER2. Nearly 50% of patients with advanced TNBC will develop brain metastases (BrM), commonly with progressive extracranial disease. Immunotherapy has shown promise in the treatment of advanced TNBC; however, the immune contexture of BrM remains largely unknown. We conducted a comprehensive analysis of TNBC BrM and matched primary tumors to characterize the genomic and immune landscape of TNBC BrM to inform the development of immunotherapy strategies in this aggressive disease.MethodsWhole-exome sequencing (WES) and RNA sequencing were conducted on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples of BrM and primary tumors of patients with clinical TNBC (n = 25, n = 9 matched pairs) from the LCCC1419 biobank at UNC—Chapel Hill. Matched blood was analyzed by DNA sequencing as a comparison for tumor WES for the identification of somatic variants. A comprehensive genomics assessment, including mutational and copy number alteration analyses, neoantigen prediction, and transcriptomic analysis of the tumor immune microenvironment were performed.ResultsPrimary and BrM tissues were confirmed as TNBC (23/25 primaries, 16/17 BrM) by immunohistochemistry and of the basal intrinsic subtype (13/15 primaries and 16/19 BrM) by PAM50. Compared to primary tumors, BrM demonstrated a higher tumor mutational burden. TP53 was the most frequently mutated gene and was altered in 50% of the samples. Neoantigen prediction showed elevated cancer testis antigen- and endogenous retrovirus-derived MHC class I-binding peptides in both primary tumors and BrM and predicted that single-nucleotide variant (SNV)-derived peptides were significantly higher in BrM. BrM demonstrated a reduced immune gene signature expression, although a signature associated with fibroblast-associated wound healing was elevated in BrM. Metrics of T and B cell receptor diversity were also reduced in BrM.ConclusionsBrM harbored higher mutational burden and SNV-derived neoantigen expression along with reduced immune gene signature expression relative to primary TNBC. Immune signatures correlated with improved survival, including T cell signatures. Further research will expand these findings to other breast cancer subtypes in the same biobank. Exploration of immunomodulatory approaches including vaccine applications and immune checkpoint inhibition to enhance anti-tumor immunity in TNBC BrM is warranted.
Method for an unbinned measurement of the $q^2$ dependent decay amplitudes of $\bar{B}^{0}\to \bar{K}^{*0}μ^+μ^-$ decays
Creators: name: Egede, Ulrik
name: Patel, Mitesh
name: Petridis, Konstantinos A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for determining the $q^2$ dependent $\bar{K}^{*0}$ spin amplitudes of $\bar{B}^{0}\to \bar{K}^{*0}μ^+μ^-$ decays through a maximum likelihood fit to data is presented. While current experimental techniques extract a limited set of observables in bins of $q^2$, our approach allows for the determination of all observable quantities as continuous distributions in $q^2$. By doing this, the method eliminates the need to correct theory predictions of these observables for $q^2$ averaging effects, thus increasing the sensitivity to the effects of physics beyond the Standard Model. Accounting for the symmetries of the angular distribution and using a three parameter ansatz for the $q^2$ dependence of the amplitudes, the precision of the angular observables and the sensitivity to new physics is estimated using simulated events. These studies are based on the sample sizes collected by the LHCb experiment during Run-I and expected for Run-II.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
Nucleus-nucleus potential with shell-correction contribution
Creators: name: Denisov, V. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The full relaxed-density potential between spherical nuclei is considered as a sum of the macroscopic and shell-correction contributions. The macroscopic part of the potential is related to a nucleus-nucleus potential obtained in the framework of the extended Thomas-Fermi approach with the Skyrme and Coulomb forces and the relaxed-density ansatz for evaluation of proton and neutron densities of interacting nuclei. A simple prescription for the shell-correction part of the total potential is discussed. The parameters of the shell-correction and macroscopic parts of the relaxed-density potential are found by fitting the empirical barrier heights of the 89 nucleus-nucleus systems as well as macroscopic potentials evaluated for 1485 nucleus-nucleus systems at 12 distances around touching points.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Analysis of a thermodynamically consistent Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard model
Creators: name: Lasarzik, Robert
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Weak-strong uniqueness
subject: phase transition
subject: Navier--Stokes
subject: Cahn--Hilliard
subject: existence
subject: thermodynamical consistent
subject: dissipative solutions
subject: relative energy
subject: 35Q35
subject: 35D99
subject: 76D05

description: In this paper, existence of generalized solutions to a thermodynamically consistent Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard model introduced in [19] is proven in any space dimension. The generalized solvability concepts are measure-valued and dissipative solutions. The measure-valued formulation incorporates an entropy inequality and an energy inequality instead of an energy balance in a nowadays standard way, the Gradient flow of the internal variable is fulfilled in a weak and the momentum balance in a measure-valued sense. In the dissipative formulation, the distributional relations of the momentum balance and the energy as well as entropy inequality are replaced by a relative energy inequality. Additionally, we prove the weak-strong uniqueness of the proposed solution concepts and that all generalized solutions with additional regularity are indeed strong solutions.
Microenvironmental Factors that Shape Bacterial Metabolites in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Creators: name: Arthur, Janelle C.
name: Ahn, Ju-Hyun
name: Alves, Tomaz
name: Lopez, Lacey R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a significant global health problem that involves chronic intestinal inflammation and can involve severe comorbidities, including intestinal fibrosis and inflammation-associated colorectal cancer (CRC). Disease-associated alterations to the intestinal microbiota often include fecal enrichment of Enterobacteriaceae, which are strongly implicated in IBD development. This dysbiosis of intestinal flora accompanies changes in microbial metabolites, shaping host:microbe interactions and disease risk. While there have been numerous studies linking specific bacterial taxa with IBD development, our understanding of microbial function in the context of IBD is limited. Several classes of microbial metabolites have been directly implicated in IBD disease progression, including bacterial siderophores and genotoxins. Yet, our microbiota still harbors thousands of uncharacterized microbial products. In-depth discovery and characterization of disease-associated microbial metabolites is necessary to target these products in IBD treatment strategies. Towards improving our understanding of microbiota metabolites in IBD, it is important to recognize how host relevant factors influence microbiota function. For example, changes in host inflammation status, metal availability, interbacterial community structure, and xenobiotics all play an important role in shaping gut microbial ecology. In this minireview, we outline how each of these factors influences gut microbial function, with a specific focus on IBD-associated Enterobacteriaceae metabolites. Importantly, we discuss how altering the intestinal microenvironment could improve the treatment of intestinal inflammation and associated disorders, like intestinal fibrosis and CRC.
Accelerated Expansion of the universe based on Particle Creation-Destruction Processes and Dark Energy in FLRW universes
Creators: name: Balfagon, Alberto C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83F05

description: Particle creation has been considered as a possible justification for the accelerated expansion of the universe, obeying the second law of thermodynamics, together with the possible existence of Dark Energy. This paper introduces the possibility that the destruction of baryonic and/or dark matter particles also verifies the second law of thermodynamics thanks to a particle exchange with dark energy. General equations for the variation of the number of particles in accelerated universes have been obtained. Finally, a new model of the universe has been developed which predicts dark energy properties as well as particle exchange processes between dark energy and baryonic and/or dark matter.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Blind source separation in 3rd generation gravitational-wave detectors
Creators: name: Badaracco, Francesca
name: Banerjee, Biswajit
name: Branchesi, Marica
name: Chincarini, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Third generation and future upgrades of current gravitational-wave detectors will present exquisite sensitivities which will allow to detect a plethora of gravitational wave signals. Hence, a new problem to be solved arises: the detection and parameter estimation of overlapped signals. The problem of separating and identifying two signals that overlap in time, space or frequency is something well known in other fields (e.g. medicine and telecommunication). Blind source separation techniques are all those methods that aim at separating two or more unknown signals. This article provides a methodological review of the most common blind source separation techniques and it analyses whether they can be successfully applied to overlapped gravitational wave signals or not, while comparing the limits and advantages of each method.
(500837) Mary Croucher
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Editorial: Omics Research for Pediatric Dentistry in Health and Disease
Creators: name: Portela, Maristela Barbosa
name: Ribeiro, Apoena de Aguiar
name: Jones, Robert S.
name: Modesto Vieira, Adriana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Multi-omics research holds great promise to fill our understanding of pediatric oral health and disease in a concerted manner, ranging from the provision of diagnosis, monitoring, and personalized medicine to the identification of prognostic biomarkers and novel therapeutic targets. This Research Topic aimed to employ multi-omics research to highlight the current understanding of the relationship between the oral microbiome composition, activity and interactions, and children’s oral and systemic health. This knowledge, combining human genome analysis, oral microbiota omics investigation and conditions in health and disease, will provide valuable information on the functional and metabolic changes in diverse pathological states, as well as the identification of molecular signatures, which could lead to precise therapies considering person-centered care in dentistry and medicine. The articles included in this collection show evidence of the potential predictive relationship between the oralmicrobiota, biofilmand childhood
diseases, suggesting that the oralmicrobiome can be used as a target for disease diagnosis and novel approaches to maintain children’s health.
Proteomic Profiling of Plasma Biomarkers Associated With Return to Sport Following Concussion: Findings From the NCAA and Department of Defense CARE Consortium
Creators: name: Lai, Chen
name: Broglio, Steven P.
name: Brooks, Alison
name: McCrea, Michael A.
name: McGinty, Gerald
name: Mithani, Sara
name: Yun, Sijung
name: Meier, Timothy B.
name: McAllister, Thomas W.
name: Gill, Jessica M.
name: Pasquina, Paul
name: Duma, Stefan
name: Nelson, Lindsay D.
name: Guskiewicz, Kevin M.
name: Jackson, Jonathan
name: Devoto, Christina
name: Mihalik, Jason P.
name: Vorn, Rany
name: Kim, Hyung-Suk
name: CARE Consortium Investigators
name: Harezlak, Jaroslaw
name: Giza, Christopher C.
name: Huber, Daniel
name: Cameron, Kenneth L.
name: Rowson, Steven
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: ObjectiveTo investigate the plasma proteomic profiling in identifying biomarkers related to return to sport (RTS) following a sport-related concussion (SRC).MethodsThis multicenter, prospective, case-control study was part of a larger cohort study conducted by the NCAA-DoD Concussion Assessment, Research, and Education (CARE) Consortium, athletes (n = 140) with blood collected within 48 h of injury and reported day to asymptomatic were included in this study, divided into two groups: (1) recovery <14-days (n = 99) and (2) recovery ≥14-days (n = 41). We applied a highly multiplexed proteomic technique that uses DNA aptamers assay to target 1,305 proteins in plasma samples from concussed athletes with <14-days and ≥14-days.ResultsWe identified 87 plasma proteins significantly dysregulated (32 upregulated and 55 downregulated) in concussed athletes with recovery ≥14-days relative to recovery <14-days groups. The significantly dysregulated proteins were uploaded to Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) software for analysis. Pathway analysis showed that significantly dysregulated proteins were associated with STAT3 pathway, regulation of the epithelial mesenchymal transition by growth factors pathway, and acute phase response signaling.ConclusionOur data showed the feasibility of large-scale plasma proteomic profiling in concussed athletes with a <14-days and ≥ 14-days recovery. These findings provide a possible understanding of the pathophysiological mechanism in neurobiological recovery. Further study is required to determine whether these proteins can aid clinicians in RTS decisions.
MPEC 2023-U05 : 2023 TN15
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 TN15

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Potential Opportunities and Challenges of Deploying Next Generation Sequencing and CRISPR-Cas Systems to Support Diagnostics and Surveillance Towards Malaria Control and Elimination in Africa
Creators: name: Lyimo, Beatus M.
name: Madebe, Rashid A.
name: Juliano, Jonathan J.
name: Cunningham, Jane A.
name: Ishengoma, Deus S.
name: Mohamed, Ally
name: Bailey, Jeffrey A.
name: Lazaro, Samwel
name: Mbwambo, Ruth B.
name: Seth, Misago D.
name: Njau, Ritha
name: MacInnis, Bronwyn
name: Garimo, Issa
name: Aaron, Sijenunu
name: Chacky, Frank
name: Popkin-Hall, Zachary R.
name: Mandara, Celine I.
name: Bakari, Catherine
name: Molteni, Fabrizio
name: Giesbrecht, David J.
name: Lusasi, Abdallah
name: Pereus, Dativa
name: Ngamba, Ramadhan M.
name: Mbwambo, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Recent developments in molecular biology and genomics have revolutionized biology and medicine mainly in the developed world. The application of next generation sequencing (NGS) and CRISPR-Cas tools is now poised to support endemic countries in the detection, monitoring and control of endemic diseases and future epidemics, as well as with emerging and re-emerging pathogens. Most low and middle income countries (LMICs) with the highest burden of infectious diseases still largely lack the capacity to generate and perform bioinformatic analysis of genomic data. These countries have also not deployed tools based on CRISPR-Cas technologies. For LMICs including Tanzania, it is critical to focus not only on the process of generation and analysis of data generated using such tools, but also on the utilization of the findings for policy and decision making. Here we discuss the promise and challenges of NGS and CRISPR-Cas in the context of malaria as Africa moves towards malaria elimination. These innovative tools are urgently needed to strengthen the current diagnostic and surveillance systems. We discuss ongoing efforts to deploy these tools for malaria detection and molecular surveillance highlighting potential opportunities presented by these innovative technologies as well as challenges in adopting them. Their deployment will also offer an opportunity to broadly build in-country capacity in pathogen genomics and bioinformatics, and to effectively engage with multiple stakeholders as well as policy makers, overcoming current workforce and infrastructure challenges. Overall, these ongoing initiatives will build the malaria molecular surveillance capacity of African researchers and their institutions, and allow them to generate genomics data and perform bioinformatics analysis in-country in order to provide critical information that will be used for real-time policy and decision-making to support malaria elimination on the continent.
Phonon heat capacity and self-heating normal domains in NbTiN nanostrips
Creators: name: Sidorova, Mariia
name: Semenov, Alexej D.
name: Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm
name: Gyger, S.
name: Steinhauer, S.
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: superconducting nanostrips
subject: granular films
subject: phonon heat capacity
subject: self-heating process
subject: 530 Physik

description: Self-heating normal domains in thin superconducting NbTiN nanostrips with the granular structure were characterized via steady-state hysteretic current–voltage characteristics measured at different substrate temperatures. The temperature dependence and the magnitude of the current, which sustains a domain in equilibrium at different voltages, can only be explained with a phonon heat capacity noticeably less than expected for 3D Debye phonons. This reduced heat capacity coincides with the value obtained earlier from magnetoconductance and photoresponse studies of the same films. The rate of heat flow from electrons at a temperature Te to phonons in the substrate at a temperature TB is proportional to (Tep−TBp) with the exponent p ≈ 3, which differs from the exponents for heat flows mediated by the electron–phonon interaction or by escaping of 3D Debye phonons via the film/substrate interface. We attribute both findings to the effect of grains on the phonon spectrum of thin NbTiN films. Our findings are significant for understanding the thermal transport in superconducting devices exploiting thin granular films.
(500833) Agnes K[atherine] W[estmacott] Todd
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Special Considerations in the Care of Women With Advanced Heart Failure
Creators: name: Munagala, Mrudala R.
name: Randhawa, Varinder K.
name: Gidea, Claudia G.
name: Ebong, Imo A.
name: Hackmann, Amy E.
name: DeMarco, Teresa
name: Hall, Shelley A.
name: Hsich, Eileen M.
name: Kassi, Mahwash
name: Hamad, Eman A.
name: Rao, Roopa A.
name: Billia, Filio
name: Bhardwaj, Anju
name: Byku, Mirnela
name: DeFilippis, Ersilia M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Advanced heart failure (AHF) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, and greater healthcare utilization. Recognition requires a thorough clinical assessment and appropriate risk stratification. There are persisting inequities in the allocation of AHF therapies. Women are less likely to be referred for evaluation of candidacy for heart transplantation or left ventricular assist device despite facing a higher risk of AHF-related mortality. Sex-specific risk factors influence progression to advanced disease and should be considered when evaluating women for advanced therapies. The purpose of this review is to discuss the role of sex hormones on the pathophysiology of AHF, describe the clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation and definitive therapies of AHF in women with special attention to pregnancy, lactation, contraception and menopause. Future studies are needed to address areas of equipoise in the care of women with AHF.
Knee Movement Characteristics of Basketball Players in Landing Tasks Before Onset of Patellar Tendinopathy: A Prospective Study
Creators: name: Yu, Bing
name: Best, Thomas M.
name: Wang, Lin
name: Feng, Ru
name: Liu, Hui
name: Gao, Weiwei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Background Patellar tendinopathy is one of the most common injuries for basketball players. Jumping and landing movement patterns are potential risk factors for patellar tendinopathy. Hypothesis Male college basketball players who developed patellar tendinopathy would demonstrate greater peak vertical ground reaction force and knee flexion angular velocity, and smaller knee flexion range of motion and knee flexion angles at initial contact compared to players who did not develop the injury when performing a stop-jump task within a year prior to the onset of the injury. Study Design Prospective study. Methods Freshmen college basketball male players (n = 181) were recruited for three consecutive years and followed to the end of the third year of the study. Three-dimensional kinematic and kinetic data during a stop-jump task were collected for all participants at the beginning of each school year. Peak vertical ground reaction force, knee flexion angle at initial foot contact with the ground, range of motion for knee flexion and maximal knee flexion angular velocity during the landing phases of the stop-jump task were collected and calculated. Development of patellar tendinopathy was monitored in follow-up. Independent t-tests and Cohen's d effect sizes (ES) were used to compare movement patterns between injury and no injury groups for each school year. Results A total of 60 knees developed patellar tendinopathy. The injury groups had a significantly greater peak vertical ground reaction force in freshmen and junior years (P = 0.020, ES = 0.13; P = 0.046, ES = 0.17), smaller knee flexion ROM in freshmen year (P = 0.002, ES = 0.10), and greater maximum knee flexion angular velocity in freshmen and junior year (P = 0.012, ES = 0.10; P = 0.001, ES = 0.35) during the horizontal landing phase before the takeoff of the jump compared to the no injury groups. The injury groups also had a significantly smaller knee flexion angle at initial contact during vertical landing phase after the takeoff of the jump in freshmen and junior years (P = 0.001, ES = 0.36; P = 0.001; ES = 0.37) during vertical landing phase. Conclusion Peak vertical ground reaction force, knee flexion angle at initial foot contact, knee flexion range of motion, and maximum knee flexion angular velocity are associated with patellar tendinopathy among male college basketball players in different school years.
title: [Neue Nr. 6807] Emmersweiler / Geologische Karte
title: Geologische Karte 1:25000
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: [Sheet No 6807]; Emmersweiler; geological map
Creators: name: Weiss, Ernst
Publisher: name: Kraatz, Berlin
Year: 1875

description: Geologische Karte 1: 25 000 mit Erläuterungen. Digitalisat des FID GEO (Fachinformationsdienst Geowissenschaften), erstellt durch das GDZ (Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum), Karte aus dem Bestand der SUB Göttingen. Koordinaten Vorlage: Nullmeridian Ferro E 024 30 - E 024 40 / N 049 12 - N 049 06
description: map
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
On the irreversible dynamics emerging from quantum resonances
Creators: name: Könenberg, Martin
name: Merkli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82C10, 81S22

description: We consider the dynamics of quantum systems which possess stationary states as well as slowly decaying, metastable states arising from the perturbation of bound states. We give a decomposition of the propagator into a sum of a stationary part, one exponentially decaying in time and a polynomially decaying remainder. The exponential decay rates and the directions of decay in Hilbert space are determined, respectively, by complex resonance energies and by projections onto resonance states. Our approach is based on an elementary application of the Feshbach map. It is applicable to open quantum systems and to situations where spectral deformation theory fails. We derive a detailed description of the dynamics of the spin-boson model at arbitrary coupling strength.
description: updated version
(500836) George Wheble
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Free subgroups of finitely generated free profinite groups
Creators: name: Shusterman, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E18

description: We give new and improved results on the freeness of subgroups of free profinite groups: A subgroup containing the normal closure of a finite word in the elements of a basis is free; Every infinite index subgroup of a finitely generated nonabelian free profinite group is contained in an infinitely generated free profinite subgroup. These results are combined with the twisted wreath product approach of Haran, an observation on the action of compact groups, and a rank counting argument to prove a conjecture of Bary-Soroker, Fehm, and Wiese, thus providing a quite general sufficient condition for subgroups to be free profinite. As a result of our work, we are able to address a conjecture of Jarden on the Hilbertianity of fields generated by torsion points of abelian varieties.
MPEC 2023-U06 : 2023 TO15
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 TO15

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Effect of oblateness, radiation and a circular cluster of material points on the stability of equilibrium points in the restricted four-body problem
Creators: name: Falaye, Babatunde J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of restricted four-body problem, we study the motion of an infinitesimal mass by assuming that the primaries of the system are radiating-oblate spheroids surrounded by a circular cluster of material points. In our model, we assume that the two masses of the primaries $m_2$ and $m_3$ are equal to $μ$ and the mass $m_1$ is $1-2μ$. By using numerical approach, we have obtained the equilibrium points and examined their linear stability. The effect of potential created by the circular cluster and oblateness coefficients for the more massive primary and the less massive primary, on the existence and linear stability of the libration point have been critically examine via numerical computation. The stability of these points examined shows that the collinear and the non-collinear equilibrium points are unstable. The result presented in this paper have practical application in astrophysics.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
D6.4 Novel methodologies for damage detection and assessment along the CH assets and the surrounding disaster affected area
Creators: name: V. Karathanassi
name: A. Georgopoulos
name: P. Kolokoussis
name: M. Skamantzari
name: Kl. Karamvassis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The deliverable 6.4 focuses on the description of the novel methodologies for damage detection and assessment along the CH assets and the surrounding disaster affected area. The developed methodologies were evaluated on areas where natural disasters have occurred. The methodologies are applied according to a flowchart that provides the step-by-step approach for damage assessment in the broader area and the CH asset as well. Three flowcharts have been defined for three different disaster scenarios: flood, landslide and earthquake (chapter 2). In chapter 3, the developed methodologies are described. The flood detection methodology is based on the detection of changes due to flood events exploiting the backscattering change between the pre-flood images and the flood image. The method consists of four main steps: a) data procurement b) pre-processing c) time series analysis and d) classification. The landslide detection methodology is based on ESA SNAP polarimetric functionalities for the delineation of a landslide. Entropy (H), Alpha (a) and Anisotropy (A) decompositions are calculated. An RGB composite based on the multitemporal ratio (before and after the event) is calculated. The delineation of the landslide is based on visual interpretation of the RGB composite. The adopted technique for earthquake induced deformation is based on ESA SNAP functionalities for the detection of millimeter co-seismic surface displacements. Upon estimating the co-seismic ground deformation from ascending and descending geometries, a clear signal is identified and ground deformation is locally estimated. Finally in chapter 4, the sensor strategies for damage assessment along the CH assets after disasters are discussed. Damage assessment includes the estimation of structural deformation as well as the detection of acute material deterioration. Τhe consequences of limited sensor payload of currently available drones suitable for mobile deployment, and ways to balance information needs against abilities of different drone types and regulatory limitations are discussed in this chapter.
Plaquette chirality patterns for robust zero-gap states in $α$-type organic conductor
Creators: name: Piéchon, Frédéric
name: Suzumura, Yoshikazu
name: Morinari, Takao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dirac electrons with a zero-gap state (ZGS) in organic conductor $α$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ result from a fine tuning of the seven nearest neighbors transfer integrals ($a_1, a_2, a_3, b_1, b_2, b_3, b_4$) between the four molecules of the unit cell. In this work we show that for given moduli $|a_1|,...|b_4|$, the possibility of having Dirac electron with a ZGS at $3/4$ (or $1/4$) filling strongly depends on the specific configurations of signs of the seven transfer integral. More precisely it is possible to classify the sign configurations into essentially four classes determined by $χ_{a}={\rm sign} (a_2a_3)$ and $χ_b={\rm sign} (b_1b_2b_3b_4)$. Using extended numerics, we show that for both weak and large inhomogeneity in the moduli, the class $(χ_a,χ_b)=(-,-)$ is the most favorable to find Dirac electrons with ZGS at $3/4$ (or $1/4$) filling. For the class $(χ_a,χ_b)=(+,+)$ in the opposite case, we never found any ZGS at either $1/4$ or $3/4$ filling. The last two classes \suzum{given by} $(χ_a,χ_b)=(+,-)$ and $(χ_a,χ_b)=(-,+)$ corresponding to an intermediate situation; they allow for ZGS at $3/4$ (resp. $1/4$) filling but are much less favorable than class $(χ_a,χ_b)=(-,-)$. As a matter of fact, all previous numerical studies of Dirac electrons and ZGS in $α$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ correspond to class $(χ_a,χ_b)=(-,+)$.
description: 14 pages, 9 figs., Proceedings of the International Workshop on Dirac Electrons in Solids 2015