cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Implementation of asthma clinical practice guidelines in primary care: A cross-sectional study based on the Knowledge-to-Action Cycle
Creators: name: Gagné, Myriam E.
name: Louis-Philippe Boulet
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: Based on the Knowledge-to-Action Cycle, we assessed the self-reported implementation and perception of asthma clinical practice guideline (CPG) recommendations in primary care physicians (PCPs), along with the barriers and facilitators to CPG use in primary care. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study. Using the extended Asthma Physicians' Practice Assessment Questionnaire©, PCPs self-reported the following: their knowledge of 15 key asthma CPG recommendations, the perceived usefulness of each of these recommendations, their motivation to apply these recommendations, and their agreement with the content of these recommendations. Participants also reported the barriers and facilitators to CPG use in primary care. Results: Out of the 46 potential participants, 43 physicians completed the questionnaire (response rate: 93%). Results underlined care gaps regarding the provision of asthma education and written action plans, inhaler technique demonstrations, and assessment of patients' concerns. Results showed that the majority of physicians knew the key asthma CPG recommendations, but their motivation to implement them and the perceived usefulness of these recommendations varied from one proposal to another. Main barriers to the implementation of these recommendations were related to time and resources. PCPs stressed the importance of teamwork for enhancing the use of asthma CPGs in primary care. Conclusions: Our results suggest that the implementation of asthma CPGs remains suboptimal in primary care. Interventions addressing the identified barriers and providing facilitators to asthma CPG implementation, such as continuing education, could be implemented and evaluated to sustain asthma CPG use in primary care settings.
Electron-phonon coupling in the charge density wave state of CsV$_3$Sb$_5$
Creators: name: Xie, Yaofeng
name: Li, Yongkai
name: Bourges, Philippe
name: Ivanov, Alexandre
name: Ye, Zijin
name: Yin, Jia-Xin
name: Hasan, M Zahid
name: Luo, Aiyun
name: Yao, Yugui
name: Wang, Zhiwei
name: Xu, Gang
name: Dai, Pengcheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metallic materials with kagome lattice structure are interesting because their electronic structures can host flat bands, Dirac cones, and van Hove singularities, resulting in strong electron correlations, nontrivial band topology, charge density wave (CDW), and unconventional superconductivity. Recently, kagome lattice compounds AV$_3$Sb$_5$ (A = K, Rb, Cs) are found to have intertwined CDW order and superconductivity. The origin of the CDW has been suggested to be purely electronic, arising from Fermi-surface instabilities of van Hove singularity (saddle point) near the M points. Here we use neutron scattering experiments to demonstrate that the CDW order in CsV$_3$Sb$_5$ is associated with static lattice distortion and a sudden hardening of the B3u longitudinal optical phonon mode, thus establishing that electron-phonon coupling must also play an important role in the CDW order of AV$_3$Sb$_5$.
Dynamics of position disordered Ising spins with a soft-core potential
Creators: name: Tan, Canzhu
name: Lin, Xiaodong
name: Zhou, Yabing
name: Jiang, Y. H.
name: Weidemüller, Matthias
name: Zhu, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study magnetization relaxation of Ising spins distributed randomly in a $d$-dimension homogeneous and Gaussian profile under a soft-core two-body interaction potential $\propto1/[1+(r/R_c)^α]$ ($α\ge d$), where $r$ is the inter-spin distance and $R_c$ is the soft-core radius. The dynamics starts with all spins polarized in the transverse direction. In the homogeneous case, an analytic expression is derived at the thermodynamic limit, which starts as $\propto\exp(-t^2)$ and follows a stretched-exponential law asymptotically at long time with an exponent $β=d/α$. In between an oscillating behaviour is observed with a damping amplitude. For Gaussian samples, the degree of disorder in the system can be controlled by the ratio $l_ρ/R_c$ with $l_ρ$ the mean inter-spin distance and the magnetization dynamics is investigated numerically. In the limit of $l_ρ/R_c\ll1$, a coherent many-body dynamics is recovered for the total magnetization despite of the position disorder of spins. In the opposite limit of $l_ρ/R_c\gg1$, a similar dynamics as that in the homogeneous case emerges at later time after a initial fast decay of the magnetization. We obtain a stretched exponent of $β\approx0.18$ for the asymptotic evolution with $d=3, α=6$, which is different from that in the homogeneous case ($β=0.5$).
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, comments welcome
Utilization of a patient-centered asthma passport tool in a subspecialty clinic
Creators: name: Greenberg, Jonathan
name: Prushinskaya, Olga
name: Harris, Joshua D.
name: Guidetti-Myers, Gillian
name: Steiding, Jacqueline
name: Sawicki, Gregory S.
name: Gaffin, Jonathan M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Introduction: Despite available and effective tools for asthma self-assessment (Asthma Control Test, ACT) and self-management (Asthma Action Plan, AAP), they are underutilized in outpatient specialty clinics. We evaluated the impact of a patient-centered checklist, the Asthma Passport, on improving ACT and AAP utilization in clinic. Methods: This was a randomized, interventional quality-improvement project in which the Asthma Passport was distributed to 120 pediatric asthma patients over the duration of 16 weeks. The passport's checklist consisted of tasks to be completed by the patient/family, including completion of the ACT and AAP. We compared rates of completion of the ACT and AAP for those who received the passport versus the control group, and assessed patient/caregiver and provider satisfaction. Results: Based on electronic medical record data from 222 participants, the ACT completion rate was not significantly different between the passport and control groups, however, the AAP completion rate was significantly greater than control (30.0% vs. 17.7%, p = 0.04). When per-protocol analysis was limited to groups who completed and returned their passports, ACT and AAP completion rates were significantly greater than control (73.8% vs. 44.1% (p = 0.002) and 35.7% vs. 17.7% (p = 0.04), respectively). Nearly all participants reported high satisfaction with care, and surveyed providers viewed the passport favorably. Conclusions: A patient-centered checklist significantly improved the completion rate of the AAP. For patient's who completed and returned the asthma passport, the ACT completion rate was also improved. Participants and providers reported high satisfaction with the checklist, suggesting that it can effectively promote asthma self-management and self-assessment without burdening clinicians or clinic workflow.
Proton-neutron pairing and binding energies of nuclei close to N=Z line
Creators: name: Negrea, D.
name: Sandulescu, N.
name: Gambacurta, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the contribution of isovector and isoscalar proton-neutron pairing to the binding energies of even-even nuclei with $N-Z=0,2,4$ and atomic mass $20 < A <100$. The binding energies are calculated in the mean-field approach by coupling a Skyrme-type functional to an isovector-isoscalar pairing force of zero range. The latter is treated in the framework of quartet condensation model (QCM), which conserves exactly the particle number and the isospin. The interdependence of pairing and deformation is taken into account by performing self-consistent Skyrme-HF+QCM calculations in the intrinsic system. It is shown that the binding energies are not changing much when the isoscalar pairing is switched on. This fact is related to the off-diagonal matrix elements of the pairing force, which is less attractive for the isoscalar force, and to the competition between the isoscalar and isovector pairing channels.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Geriatric risk and protective factors for serious COVID-19 outcomes among older adults in Shanghai Omicron wave
Creators: name: Lu, Guanzhu
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Zhang, Haocheng
name: Ai, Jingwen
name: He, Liu
name: Yuan, Xiaoling
name: Bao, Suxia
name: Chen, Xiaohua
name: Wang, Hongyu
name: Cai, Jianpeng
name: Wang, Sen
name: Zhang, Wenhong
name: Xu, Jie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Shanghai has been experiencing the Omicron wave since March 2022. Though several studies have evaluated the risk factors of severe infections, the analyses of BA.2 infection risk and protective factors among geriatric people were much limited. This multicentre cohort study described clinical characteristics, and assessed risk and protective factors for geriatric Omicron severe infections. A total of 1377 patients older than 60 were enrolled, with 75.96% having comorbidities. The median viral shedding time and hospitalization time were nine and eight days, respectively. Severe and critical were associated with longer virus clearance time (aOR [95%CI]:0.706 (0.533–0.935), P = .015), while fully vaccinated/booster and paxlovid use shortened viral shedding time (1.229 [1.076–1.402], P = .002; 1.140 [0.019–1.274], P = .022, respectively). Older age (>80), cerebrovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease were risk factors of severe/critical. Fully vaccination was a significant protective factor against severe infections (0.237 [0.071–0.793], P = .019). We found patients with more than two comorbidities were more likely to get serious outcomes. These findings demonstrated that in the elderly older than 60 years old, older age (aged over 80), cerebrovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease were risk factors for severe infection. Patients with more than two comorbidities were more likely to get serious outcomes. Fully vaccinated/booster patients were less likely to be severe and vaccinations could shorten viral shedding time. The limitation of lacking an overall spectrum of COVID-19 infections among elders could be compensated in other larger-scale studies in the future.
Geriatric risk and protective factors for serious COVID-19 outcomes among older adults in Shanghai Omicron wave
Creators: name: Lu, Guanzhu
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Zhang, Haocheng
name: Ai, Jingwen
name: He, Liu
name: Yuan, Xiaoling
name: Bao, Suxia
name: Chen, Xiaohua
name: Wang, Hongyu
name: Cai, Jianpeng
name: Wang, Sen
name: Zhang, Wenhong
name: Xu, Jie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Omicron variant was featured with high transmissibility and striking antibody evasion. Shanghai has been experiencing Omicron wave since March 2022. Though several studies have evaluated the risk factors of severe infections, the analyses of BA.2 infection risk and protective factors among geriatric people was much limited. This multicenter cohort study described clinical characteristics of geriatric Omicron infections (aged more than 60), and assessed risk and protective factors for severe infections. A total of 1377 patients older than 60 were enrolled, with 75.96% had comorbidities. The median viral shedding time and hospitalization time was 9 and 8 days, respectively. Severe/critical were associated with longer virus clearance time (aOR [95%CI]:0.706(0.533-0.935), P=0.015)), while fully vaccinated/booster and paxlovid use shortened viral shedding time (1.229 [1.076-1.402], P=0.002; 1.140 [.019-1.274], P=0.022, respectively). Older age (>80), cerebrovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease were risk factors of progressing to severe/critical. Fully vaccination was a significant protective factor of severe infections (0.237[0.071-0.793], P=0.019). Further, we found patients with more than two comorbidities were more likely to get serious outcome in all age groups. These findings demonstrated that in the elderly older than 60 years old, older age (aged over 80), cerebrovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease were risk factors of severe infection. Patients with more than two comorbidities were more likely to get serious outcome. Fully vaccinated/booster patients were less likely to be severe and vaccinations could shorten viral shedding time. The limitation of lacking overall spectrum of COVID-19 infections among elders could be compensated in other larger scale studies in the future.
Two new pyrone derivatives from the mangrove-derived endophytic fungus Aspergillus sydowii #2B
Creators: name: Wang, Yuhui
name: Zhong, Zhiwei
name: Zhao, Fei
name: Zheng, Junxia
name: Zheng, Xi
name: Zhang, Kun
name: Huang, Huarong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Two new pyrone derivatives, 2-(12S-hydroxypropyl)-3-hydroxy-methyl-6-hydroxy-7-methoxychromone (1), and (±)-pyrenocine S (5), together with five known compounds xanthoradone A (2), (+)-3,3′,7,7′,8,8′-hexahydroxy-5,5′-dimethyl-bianthra-quinone (3), butyrolactone-I (4), pyrenocine A (6), and (±)-pyrenocine E (7) were obtained from the mangrove endophytic fungus Aspergillus sydowii #2B. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic methods, single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis and comparison data with of literatures. Compounds 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 showed cytotoxicities against prostate cancer VCaP cells with IC50 values of 4.19 ± 1.02, 33.36 ± 1.42, 1.92 ± 0.82, 20.06 ± 2.01, 7.92 ± 0.86, and 10.13 ± 0.88 μM respectively, while compound 1 showed no cytotoxic activity. Compounds 1, 3, 6, and 7 exhibited weak inhibition effects against the production of nitric oxide (NO) in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced RAW 246.7 cells with IC50 values of 40.15, 28.69, 25.25 and 43.08 μM respectively.
Electromagnetic response in dipole superfluids: vortex lattices and singular domain walls
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Kazuki
name: Kawakami, Takuto
name: Koshino, Mikito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the most significant macroscopic quantum phenomena in condensed matter physics is the Meissner effect observed in superconductivity, which arises from the unique interaction between superfluids of charged particles and electromagnetic fields. However, superfluids can also emerge from particles possessing distinct electromagnetic properties. In particular, there has been growing interest in superfluids composed of charge-neutral particles with magnetic or electric dipole moments, such as Bose-Einstein condensates of magnons or excitons. Despite this interest, the electromagnetic response of dipole superfluids, including potential analogs or contrasts to the Meissner effect, remains poorly understood. In this work, we develop a Ginzburg-Landau phenomenological theory to describe magnetic and electric dipole superfluids subjected to pseudo-magnetic fields induced by geometric phases. For magnetic dipole superfluids interacting with the Aharonov-Casher (AC) phase, we find that they form vortex lattices with sharply localized pseudo-magnetic fields along hexagonal domain walls, leading to singular and discontinuous change of physical variables at these boundaries. For electric dipole superfluids influenced by the He-McKellar-Wilkens (HMW) phase, in contrast, we identify vortex lattices where the pseudo-magnetic field and supercurrent are concentrated at vortex cores, resembling superconductors. These results reveal strikingly different electromagnetic responses in dipole superfluids, opening new directions for exploring superfluid systems with unconventional electromagnetic responses.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
Association analysis of biotic and abiotic stresses resistance in chickpea (Cicer spp.) using AFLP markers
Creators: name: Saeed, Ali
name: Darvishzadeh, Reza
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Chickpea suffers from different biotic and abiotic stresses, which has led to considerable decreases in seed yield. Since the economic value of a cultivar is determined by its phenotypic characteristics, good knowledge of the genetic structure and identification of genomic loci associated with desired traits will facilitate crop breeding. Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers associated with different agro-morphological characteristics, cold and drought tolerance as well as Ascochyta blight resistance were identified in chickpea by using 44 genotypes comprising cultigens, landraces, internationally developed improved lines and wild relatives, evaluated in a randomized complete block design with three replications at the Urmia rainfed research station. Using six AFLP primer combinations, 64 clear and reproducible markers were developed. The polymorphism information content values calculated for each primer pair ranged from 0.155 (EcoR1-ACC/Mse1-CAG) to 0.270 (EcoR1-ACC/ Mse1-CTG) with an average of 0.237. Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) revealed that 90% of the total variance was due to differences within populations and 10% due to differences among populations. Using a general linear model and applying multiple testing corrections, 24 AFLP markers associated with genes controlling the studied traits were identified. Some identified markers were associated with more than one trait. The identified markers could be of interest in marker-assisted selection in chickpea breeding programmes.
Characterization of Time Delay Interferometry combinations for the LISA instrument noise
Creators: name: Hartwig, Olaf
name: Muratore, Martina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time delay interferometry (TDI) is a post-processing technique used in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to reduce laser frequency noise by building an equal-arm interferometer via combining time-shifted raw phase measurements. The set of so-called 2nd generation TDI variables which sufficiently suppress laser frequency noise considering realistic LISA orbital dynamics has recently been expanded by a large number of additional solutions. In this paper, we characterize these new TDI channels by relating them to the well-known 1st generation variables $α$, $β$, $γ$, and $ζ$. We compute explicitly how each 2nd generation variable can be approximated as a linear combination of these four 1st generation variables, and show numerically that these approximations are accurate enough to model the noises not suppressed by TDI. We use these results to discuss how the newly found channels might be advantageous to use for the LISA data analysis. In addition, we demonstrate that newly found variants of the variable $ζ$ significantly out-perform the ones previously known from the literature.
Spectroscopic comparison of water- and methanol-soluble brown carbon particulate matter
Creators: name: Phillips, Sabrina M.
name: Smith, Geoffrey D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: It is now recognized that some organic components of ambient aerosols absorb light with a spectrum distinct from that of other absorbers such as black carbon and mineral components. The most common method for isolating this light-absorbing organic fraction, or “brown carbon,” is to collect particulate matter on filters and extract in a solvent, usually water or methanol. Here, we compare the absorption spectra of water-soluble (WS) and methanol-soluble (MS) extracts from ambient samples collected in Athens, Georgia. We find that despite syringe filtering the MS extracts, extinction by suspended particles is evident in the spectra leading to an overestimation of absorption by a factor of two on average. No such particle extinction is evident in the WS extracts. We demonstrate that it is possible to subtract the extinction contribution in the MS extracts by fitting the spectrum to the sum of two power-law functions, one describing the absorption spectrum and the other describing the extinction spectrum. With extinction thus removed, we find that integrated absorption (300–800 nm) by the MS brown carbon extract is highly correlated with the WS extract and is on average 1.55× larger. The wavelength dependence of the WS and MS spectra are also correlated and very similar with average absorption Ångström exponents of 6.1 (±0.7) and 6.7 (±1.1), respectively. This study demonstrates that for the samples collected: (1) brown carbon absorption can be overestimated if scattering in MS spectra is not accounted for, (2) there is no spectral evidence that the WS and MS chromophores are different, and (3) it may be possible to use WS spectra to represent total brown carbon absorption using a simple scaling factor. These findings may differ for other types of aerosol samples and analytical methods. © 2017 American Association for Aerosol Research
The Scale Invariant Scotogenic Model: Dark Matter and the Scalar Sector
Creators: name: Soualah, Rachik
name: Ahriche, Amine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the mutual impact between the dark matter (DM) requirements and the scalar sector in the scale invariant (SI) scotogenic model. The model is motivated by the neutrino mass and DM within a classically SI framework. It is a SI generalization of the scotogenic model, where the standard model (SM) is extended by a real singlet, an inert scalar doublet and three Majorana singlet fermions, where the lightest one ($N_{1}$) could play the DM candidate role. In addition to the annihilation channels $N_{1}N_{1}\rightarrow\ell_α\ell_β,ν_α\barν_β$, the DM can be annihilated via few s-channel processes into SM particles, that are mediated by the Higgs/dilaton. This allows the new Yukawa interactions, that are responsible for neutrino mass generation, to take small values and therefore avoid the mass degeneracy between the CP-even and CP-odd inert scalars unlike the case of the minimal scotogenic model. In contrast to many Majorana DM models, the DM in the SI-scotogenic model couples to the quarks at tree-level, and hence the constraint from the direct detection experiments is very important on the space parameter. The aim of this work is to investigate the correlation between the DM requirements and the scalar sector in this model.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures and 1 table
Sabotaging the harvesting of correlations from quantum fields
Creators: name: Sahu, Abhisek
name: Melgarejo-Lermas, Irene
name: Martín-Martínez, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-perturbative harvesting of classical and quantum correlations between two parties coupled to a quantum field. First, we consider a scenario with an arbitrary number of two-level systems that couple to a quantum field locally in time. Then, we study the impact of the presence of additional detectors (interlopers) on the ability for two target detectors (Alice and Bob) to acquire correlations through their interaction with the field. We analyze the harvesting of different correlation measures in this non-perturbative regime and we demonstrate that even a single interloper can completely sabotage all correlation harvesting between Alice and Bob by acting on the causal past of one of them. Specifically, we show that the interloper is able to interact with the field so that the field itself `floods' one of the parties with entropy. This prevents Alice and Bob from acquiring any correlations. Furthermore, we show that this kind of attack cannot be defended against.
description: 30 pages, 6 Figures + 3 Figures in Appendices. RevTeX 4.2
Supercurrent Diode Effect, Spin Torques, and Robust Zero-Energy Peak in Planar Half-Metallic Trilayers
Creators: name: Halterman, Klaus
name: Alidoust, Mohammad
name: Smith, Ross
name: Starr, Spencer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Josephson junction with ${\rm F_1 F_2 F_3}$ ferromagnetic trilayers in the ballistic regime, where the magnetization in each ferromagnet ${\rm F}_i (i=1,2,3)$, can have arbitrary orientations and magnetization strengths. The trilayers are sandwiched between two $s$-wave superconductors with a macroscopic phase difference $Δφ$. A broad range of magnetization strengths of the central $\rm F_2$ layer are considered, from an unpolarized normal metal (N) to a half-metallic phase, supporting only one spin species. Our results reveal that when the magnetization configuration in ${\rm F_1 F_2 F_3}$ has three orthogonal components, a supercurrent can flow at $Δφ=0$, and a strong second harmonic in the current-phase relation appears. Upon increasing the magnetization strength in the central ferromagnet layer up to the half-metallic limit, the self-biased current and second harmonic component become dramatically enhanced, and the critical supercurrent reaches its maximum value. The higher harmonics in the current-phase relations can be controlled by the relative magnetization orientations, with negligible current damping compared to the corresponding ${\rm F_1 N F_3}$ counterparts. For a broad range of exchange field strengths in the central ferromagnet ${\rm F}_2$, the ground state of the system can be tuned to an arbitrary phase difference $φ_0$ by rotating the magnetization in the outer ferromagnet $\rm F_3$. For intermediate exchange field strengths in ${\rm F}_2$, a $φ_0$ state can arise that creates a superconducting diode effect, whereby $Δφ$ can be tuned to create a one-way dissipationless current flow. The density of states demonstrates the emergence of zero energy peaks for the mutually orthogonal magnetization configurations, which is strongest in the half-metallic phase.
From quartic anharmonic oscillator to double well potential
Creators: name: Turbiner, Alexander V.
name: del Valle, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is already known that the quantum quartic single-well anharmonic oscillator $V_{ao}(x)=x^2+g^2 x^4$ and double-well anharmonic oscillator $V_{dw}(x)= x^2(1 - gx)^2$ are essentially one-parametric, their eigenstates depend on a combination $(g^2 \hbar)$. Hence, these problems are reduced to study the potentials $V_{ao}=u^2+u^4$ and $V_{dw}=u^2(1-u)^2$, respectively. It is shown that by taking uniformly-accurate approximation for anharmonic oscillator eigenfunction $Ψ_{ao}(u)$, obtained recently, see JPA 54 (2021) 295204 [1] and Arxiv 2102.04623 [2], and then forming the function $Ψ_{dw}(u)=Ψ_{ao}(u) \pm Ψ_{ao}(u-1)$ allows to get the highly accurate approximation for both the eigenfunctions of the double-well potential and its eigenvalues.
description: 7 pages, extended, two figures added, to be published at Acta Polytechnica
Two manganese(II) coordination polymers driven by (iso)nicotinoyl-hydrazone blocks and pseudohalide ancillary ligands: syntheses, structural features, and magnetic properties
Creators: name: Ghodrat Mahmoudi
name: Habibar Chowdhury
name: Lofland, Samuel E.
name: Barindra Kumar Ghosh
name: Kirillov, Alexander M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Two coordination polymers, [Mn2(μ-L1)2(μ-N3)2]n (1) and [Mn(μ-HL2)(SCN)2]n (2), were assembled in a single-pot from MnCl2·4H2O, HL1 (2-acetylpyridine isonicotinoylhydrazone) or HL2 (2-acetylpyridine nicotinoylhydrazone) and ancillary ligand sources (NaN3 or NH4NCS). The products were fully characterized, including by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, which revealed a 2-D metal–organic layer in 1 and a 1-D zigzag coordination chain in 2. Both 1 and 2 are constructed from six-coordinate Mn(II) nodes that adopt distorted octahedral (MnN5O) environments; the adjacent nodes are driven by the μ-L1 and μ-N3 linkers in 1 or μ-HL2 linkers in 2 to form different metal–organic networks. Their topological classification was performed, disclosing the hcb and 2C1 topology in 1 and 2, respectively. Different weak non-covalent interactions promote dimensionality extension. Variable-temperature magnetic susceptibility measurements were carried out, revealing weak ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions in 1 and 2, respectively.
New Periodograms Separating Orbital Radial Velocities and Spectral Shape Variation
Creators: name: Binnenfeld, Avraham
name: Shahaf, Sahar
name: Anderson, Richard I.
name: Zucker, Shay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new periodograms that are effective in distinguishing Doppler shift from spectral shape variability in astronomical spectra. These periodograms, building upon the concept of partial distance correlation, separate the periodic radial velocity modulation induced by orbital motion from that induced by stellar activity. These tools can be used to explore large spectroscopic databases in search of targets in which spectral shape variations obscure the orbital motion; such systems include active planet-hosting stars or binary systems with an intrinsically variable component. We provide a detailed prescription for calculating the periodograms, demonstrate their performance via simulations and real-life case studies, and provide a public Python implementation.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. A&A accepted
Comparing asthma control assessment using the Asthma Control Test and the Asthma APGAR in African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx populations
Creators: name: Yawn, Barbara P.
name: Ericson, Brianna
name: Cui, Jing
name: Israel, Elliot
name: Maher, Nancy
name: Pace, Wilson
name: Fuhlbrigge, Anne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The objective of this analysis was to compare the Asthma Control Test (ACT) and the Asthma APGAR asthma control assessment tools in African-Ancestry/Black (AA/B) and Hispanic/Latinx (H/L) adults with moderate to severe asthma. This pre-planned sub-study of the PREPARE clinical trial compares the baseline ACT and Asthma APGAR scores for the PREPARE populations using correlation coefficients, generalized linear modeling and receiver operating curve (ROC) analyses. Correlations were also assessed for both control tests and the Asthma Symptom Utility Index (ASUI). Among the 1201 adults (603 AA/B and 598 H/L) with moderate to severe asthma, most had uncontrolled asthma by both the ACT and the Asthma APGAR. Correlation coefficients between the ACT, Asthma APGAR and ASUI were strong and did not differ significantly by race/ethnicity. The ACT consistently assessed more patients as uncontrolled compared with the Asthma APGAR. The differences in ACT and Asthma APGAR scores did not differ by age, gender, race/ethnicity, self-reported health literacy or medication adherence but did differ by education level. Both the ACT and Asthma APGAR had similar ROCs for predicting an asthma exacerbation in the next 3 months. Both the ACT and the Asthma APGAR can be used for asthma control assessment in AA/B and H/L populations with moderate to severe asthma, providing comparable rates of uncontrolled asthma and similar limited ability to predict exacerbations. Further work is required to better understand the basis and clinical implications of the higher rates of uncontrolled asthma identified using the ACT.
Gradient-enhanced physics-informed neural networks for forward and inverse PDE problems
Creators: name: Yu, Jeremy
name: Lu, Lu
name: Meng, Xuhui
name: Karniadakis, George Em
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deep learning has been shown to be an effective tool in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) through physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). PINNs embed the PDE residual into the loss function of the neural network, and have been successfully employed to solve diverse forward and inverse PDE problems. However, one disadvantage of the first generation of PINNs is that they usually have limited accuracy even with many training points. Here, we propose a new method, gradient-enhanced physics-informed neural networks (gPINNs), for improving the accuracy and training efficiency of PINNs. gPINNs leverage gradient information of the PDE residual and embed the gradient into the loss function. We tested gPINNs extensively and demonstrated the effectiveness of gPINNs in both forward and inverse PDE problems. Our numerical results show that gPINN performs better than PINN with fewer training points. Furthermore, we combined gPINN with the method of residual-based adaptive refinement (RAR), a method for improving the distribution of training points adaptively during training, to further improve the performance of gPINN, especially in PDEs with solutions that have steep gradients.
Overweight, obesity and height as risk factors for meningioma, glioma, pituitary adenoma and nerve sheath tumor: a large population-based prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Wiedmann, Markus K. H.
name: Brunborg, Cathrine
name: Ieva, Antonio Di
name: Lindemann, Kristina
name: Johannesen, Tom B.
name: Vatten, Lars
name: Helseth, Eirik
name: Zwart, John A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Background: In 2016, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has announced that avoiding body fatness (i.e. overweight and obesity) contributes to prevent meningioma occurrence, but considered the available evidence for glioma inadequate. The association of body fatness with other CNS tumor subgroups is largely unknown. Objectives: To assess whether body fatness or body height are associated with risk for meningioma, glioma, pituitary adenoma (PA) or nerve sheath tumor (NST) in a large population-based Norwegian cohort. Methods: In this prospective cohort study of 1.8 million Norwegian residents, weight and height were measured at baseline and incident intracranial tumors were subsequently identified by linkage to the Cancer Registry of Norway. Cox regression analyses were performed to estimate risk for each tumor subgroup in relation to anthropometric measures, stratified by sex and in different age groups. Results: During 54 million person-years of follow-up 3335 meningiomas, 4382 gliomas, 1071 PAs and 759 NSTs were diagnosed. Obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) was not associated with risk for meningioma or glioma, but was significantly associated with risk for PA (HR 1.43; 95% CI 1.09–1.88) compared with the reference group (BMI 20–24.9 kg/m2). For intracranial NSTs, obesity was associated with reduced tumor risk (HR 0.68; 95% CI 0.46–0.99). Body height was associated with increased risk for all four tumor subgroups. Conclusions: This study does not confirm overweight or obesity as risk factors for meningioma. Additionally, overweight and obesity can be quite confidently excluded as risk factors for glioma. However, this study indicates that body fatness increases the risk for PA, while it reduces the risk for NST.
Combining integral equation closures with force density functional theory for the study of inhomogeneous fluids
Creators: name: Tschopp, S. M.
name: Vahid, H.
name: Sharma, A.
name: Brader, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful framework to study inhomogeneous fluids. Its standard form is based on the knowledge of a generating free energy functional. If this is known exactly, then the results obtained by using standard DFT or its alternative, recently developed version, force-DFT, are the same. If the free energy functional is known only approximately then these two routes produce different outcomes. However, as we show in this work, force-DFT has the advantage that it is also implementable without knowledge of the free energy functional, by using instead liquid-state integral equation closures. This broadens the range of systems that can be explored, since free energy functionals are generally difficult to approximate. In this paper we investigate the utility of using inhomogeneous integral equation closures within force-DFT thus demonstrating the versatility and accuracy of this approach.
Multi-breather solutions to the Sasa-Satsuma equation
Creators: name: Wu, Chengfa
name: Wei, Bo
name: Shi, Changyan
name: Feng, Bao-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35C08, 35Q55

description: General breather solution to the Sasa-Satsuma (SS) equation is systematically investigated in this paper. We firstly transform the SS equation into a set of three Hirota bilinear equations under proper plane wave background. Starting from a specially arranged tau-function of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchy and a set of eleven bilinear equations satisfied, we implement a series steps of reduction procedure, i.e., C-type reduction, dimension reduction and complex conjugate reduction, and reduce these eleven equations to three bilinear equations for the SS equation. Meanwhile, general breather solution to the SS equation is found in determinant of even order. The one- and two-breather solutions are calculated and analyzed in details.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures
Das Lateinlehrbuch der Zukunft?!
Creators: name: Beyer, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Latin textbook
Lateinlehrbuch
Lehrbuchtheorie
Digitalisierung
Latin language acquisition

description: This lecture and presentation are part of the disputation that concluded the doctoral thesis on the theory of Latin textbooks. The 20-minute lecture shows how and why Latin textbooks could and should be designed in the age of digitalization.
Dynamics of the $O(4)$ critical point in QCD
Creators: name: Florio, Adrien
name: Grossi, Eduardo
name: Soloviev, Alexander
name: Teaney, Derek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a real-time simulation of the $O(4)$ critical point of QCD, which lies in the dynamic universality class of Model G. The axial charge and the order parameter $ϕ_a =(σ, \vecπ)$ exhibit a rich dynamical interplay, which reflects the qualitative differences in the hydrodynamic effective theories above and below $T_c$. From the axial charge correlators on the critical line we extract a dynamical critical exponent of $ζ=1.47 \pm 0.01 ({\rm stat})$, which is compatible with the theoretical expectation of $ζ= d/2$ (with $d=3$) when systematic errors are taken into account. At low temperatures, we quantitatively match the $O(4)$ simulations to the superfluid effective theory of soft pions.
description: 33 pages, 13 figures
Outsourcing and scheduling for a two-machine flow shop with release times
Creators: name: Fardin Ahmadizar
name: Amiri, Zeinab
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This article addresses a two-machine flow shop scheduling problem where jobs are released intermittently and outsourcing is allowed. The first operations of outsourced jobs are processed by the first subcontractor, they are transported in batches to the second subcontractor for processing their second operations, and finally they are transported back to the manufacturer. The objective is to select a subset of jobs to be outsourced, to schedule both the in-house and the outsourced jobs, and to determine a transportation plan for the outsourced jobs so as to minimize the sum of the makespan and the outsourcing and transportation costs. Two mathematical models of the problem and several necessary optimality conditions are presented. A solution approach is then proposed by incorporating the dominance properties with an ant colony algorithm. Finally, computational experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the models and solution approach.
Valley-resolved Fano resonance in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides nanoribbons with attached stubs
Creators: name: Mu, Hui-Ying
name: Wang, Nie-Wei
name: Du, Ying-Na
name: An, Xing-Tao
name: Liu, Jian-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Valley degree of freedom besides spin is a promising candidate as a carrier of information. Spintronics has come a long way and spin modulation can be realized by quantum interference and spin-orbit coupling effect. However, the control of valley degree of freedom using quantum interference is still a problem to be explored. Here we discover a mechanism of producing valley polarization in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides nanoribbon with attached stubs, in which valley-resolved Fano resonance are formed due to the quantum interference of intervalley backscattering. When the quantum interference occurs between the localized states at the edge of the stubs and the continuous channels in the nanoribbon, the transmission dips of Fano effect is valley-polarized. As the number of stubs increases, the valley-polarized transmission dips will split and valley-resolved minigaps are formed by Fano resonance with intervalley backscattering in stub superlattice. When the electron incident energy is in these valley-resolved gaps of the superlattice, even with several stubs, the transmission can have a significant valley polarization. Our finding points to an opportunity to realize valley functionalities by quantum interference.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Topological d-wave superconductivity in two dimensions
Creators: name: Yanase, Youichi
name: Daido, Akito
name: Takasan, Kazuaki
name: Yoshida, Tsuneya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite intensive searches for topological superconductors, the realization of topological superconductivity remains under debate. Previous proposals for the topological $s$-wave, $p$-wave, and chiral $d$-wave superconductivity have both advantages and disadvantages. In this review, we discuss two-dimensional topological superconductivity based on the non-chiral $d$-wave superconductors. It is shown that the noncentrosymmetric $d$-wave superconductors become topological superconductors under an infinitesimal Zeeman field without fine-tuning of parameters. Floquet engineering for introducing the Zeeman field in a controllable way is also proposed. When the two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric superconductors are stacked to recover the global inversion symmetry, the field-induced parity transition may occur, and the high-field odd-parity superconducting state realizes various topological phases depending on the stacking structures. Two-dimensional heterostructures of strongly correlated electron systems, which have been developed by recent experiments, are proposed as a platform of the high-temperature topological superconductivity and the interplay of topology and strong correlations in superconductors.
description: 31 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to Physica E as an invited review paper