cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Search for unbound 15Be states in the 3n+12Be channel
Creators: name: Kuchera, A. N.
name: Spyrou, A.
name: Smith, J. K.
name: Baumann, T.
name: Christian, G.
name: DeYoung, P. A.
name: Finck, J. E.
name: Frank, N.
name: Jones, M. D.
name: Kohley, Z.
name: Mosby, S.
name: Peters, W. A.
name: Thoennessen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 15Be is expected to have low-lying 3/2+ and 5/2+ states. A first search did not observe the 3/2+ [A. Spyrou et al., Phys. Rev. C 84, 044309 (2011)], however, a resonance in 15Be was populated in a second attempt and determined to be unbound with respect to 14Be by 1.8(1) MeV with a tentative spin-parity assignment of 5/2+ [J. Snyder et al., Phys. Rev. C 88, 031303(R) (2013)]. Search for the predicted 15Be 3/2+ state in the three-neutron decay channel. A two-proton removal reaction from a 55 MeV/u 17C beam was used to populate neutron-unbound states in 15Be. The two-, three-, and four-body decay energies of the 12Be + neutron(s) detected in coincidence were reconstructed using invariant mass spectroscopy. Monte Carlo simulations were performed to extract the resonance and decay properties from the observed spectra. The low-energy regions of the decay energy spectra can be described with the first excited unbound state of 14Be (E_x=1.54 MeV, E_r=0.28 MeV). Including a state in 15Be that decays through the first excited 14Be state slightly improves the fit at higher energies though the cross section is small. A 15Be component is not needed to describe the data. If the 3/2+ state in 15Be is populated, the decay by three-neutron emission through 14Be is weak, less than or equal to 11% up to 4 MeV. In the best fit, 15Be is unbound with respect to 12Be by 1.4 MeV (unbound with respect to $14Be by 2.66 MeV) with a strength of 7%.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted in Physical Review C
The environmental dependence of the structure of galactic discs in STAGES S0 galaxies: implications for S0 formation
Creators: name: Maltby, David T.
name: Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso
name: Gray, Meghan E.
name: Hoyos, Carlos
name: Wolf, Christian
name: Jogee, Shardha
name: Boehm, Asmus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of V-band radial surface brightness μ(r) profiles for S0s in different environments using HST/ACS imaging and data from the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES). Using a sample of ~280 field and cluster S0s, we find that in both environments, ~25 per cent have a pure exponential disc (Type I) and ~50 per cent exhibit an up-bending disc break (antitruncation, Type III). However, we find hardly any (< 5 per cent) down-bending disc breaks (truncations, Type II) in our S0s and many cases (~20 per cent) where no exponential component was observed. We also find no evidence for an environmental dependence on the disc scalelength or break strength (outer-to-inner scalelength ratio), implying that the galaxy environment does not affect the stellar distribution in S0 stellar discs. Comparing disc structure between these S0s and the spirals from our previous studies, we find: i) no evidence for the Type I scalelength being dependent on morphology; and ii) some evidence suggesting the Type II/III break strength is smaller (weaker) in S0s compared to spirals. Taken together, these results suggest that the stellar distribution in S0s is not drastically affected by the galaxy environment. However, some process inherent to the morphological transformation of spirals into S0s does affect the stellar disc causing a weakening of μ(r) breaks and may even eliminate truncations from S0s. In further tests, we perform analytical bulge-disc decompositions on our S0s and compare the results to those for spirals from our previous studies. For Type III galaxies, we find that bulge light can account for the excess light at large radii in up to ~50 per cent of S0s but in only ~15 per cent of spirals. We propose that this result is consistent with a fading stellar disc (evolving bulge-to-disc ratio) being an inherent process in the transformation of spirals into S0s.
description: 27 pages, 16 figures, accepted to MNRAS. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1108.6206
Exploring Thread Coarsening on FPGA
Creators: name: Zarch, Mostafa Eghbali
name: Neff, Reece
name: Becchi, Michela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Over the past few years, there has been an increased interest in including FPGAs in data centers and high-performance computing clusters along with GPUs and other accelerators. As a result, it has become increasingly important to have a unified, high-level programming interface for CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs. This has led to the development of compiler toolchains to deploy OpenCL code on FPGA. However, the fundamental architectural differences between GPUs and FPGAs have led to performance portability issues: it has been shown that OpenCL code optimized for GPU does not necessarily map well to FPGA, often requiring manual optimizations to improve performance. In this paper, we explore the use of thread coarsening - a compiler technique that consolidates the work of multiple threads into a single thread - on OpenCL code running on FPGA. While this optimization has been explored on CPU and GPU, the architectural features of FPGAs and the nature of the parallelism they offer lead to different performance considerations, making an analysis of thread coarsening on FPGA worthwhile. Our evaluation, performed on our microbenchmarks and on a set of applications from open-source benchmark suites, shows that thread coarsening can yield performance benefits (up to 3-4x speedups) to OpenCL code running on FPGA at a limited resource utilization cost.
Additional file 9: of Genomic analyses of unique carbohydrate and phytohormone metabolism in the macroalga Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis (Rhodophyta)
Creators: name: Sun, Xue
name: Wu, Jun
name: Guangce Wang
name: Kang, Yani
name: Ooi, Hong
name: Tingting Shen
name: Fangjun Wang
name: Yang, Rui
name: Nianjun Xu
name: Xiaodong Zhao
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Table S8. The enzymes related to salicylic acid signaling in Gp. lemaneiformis. (DOCX 25 kb)
On some mean value results for the zeta-function and a divisor problem II
Creators: name: Ivić, Aleksandar
name: Zhai, Wenguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M06, 11N37

description: Let $d(n)$ be the number of divisors of $n$, let $γ$ denote Euler's constant and $$ Δ(x) := \sum_{n\le x}d(n) - x(\log x + 2γ-1) $$ denote the error term in the classical Dirichlet divisor problem, and let $ζ(s)$ denote the Riemann zeta-function. It is shown that $$ \int_0^TΔ(t)|ζ(1/2+it)|^2\,dt \ll T(\log T)^{4}. $$ Further, if $2\le k\le 8$ is a fixed integer, then we prove the asymptotic formula $$ \int_1^{T}Δ^{k}(t)|ζ(1/2+it)|^2\,dt=c_1(k)T^{1+\frac k4}\log T+ c_2(k)T^{1+\frac k4}+O_\varepsilon(T^{1+\frac k4-η_k+\varepsilon}), $$ where $c_1(k)$ and $c_2(k)$ are explicit constants, and where $$η_2= 3/20, η_3= η_4=1/10,\ η_5=3/80,\ η_6=35/4742,\ η_7=17/6312,\ η_8=8/9433.$$ The results depend on the power moments of $Δ(t)$ and $E(T)$, the classical error term in the asymptotic formula for the mean square of $|ζ(1/2+it)|$.
description: 31 pages
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 2 (146)]
Creators: name: Ofredus De Camoxonibus
name: Iunta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1240
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Die Brüder Ofredus de Camoxonibus und Iunta versichern Guischardus de Giroldis, keinen Schaden an dem Besitz, gelegen in Burgo Merello, zu verursachen, den sie an diesen abgetreten haben.
METAIS PESADOS NA ÁGUA
Creators: name: Jesus, João
name: Santos, Sara
name: Rodrigues, Ana Lúcia
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2011

description: O presente artigo pretende descrever os métodos de determinação dos metais pesados em amostras de água, assim como a ocorrência e toxicidade de compostos metálicos como o chumbo (Pb), arsénio (As) e mercúrio (Hg).
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 4 (2011)
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 2 (147)]
Creators: name: , Johannes
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1242
Subjects: subject: Sonstige geistliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Johannes, praepositus der Kirche St. Cataldi [in Cremona], belehnt Lazarus de Laudis aus der Nachbarschaft St. Luce mit Land, gelegen in Breyda longa an einem Ort, genannt Campus Crucis.
LIPOPEROXIDAÇÃO DOS ÓLEOS ALIMENTARES
Creators: name: Ricardo, Felisberto
name: Lamas, Luís
name: Lopes, Márcio
name: Sousa, Pedro
name: Rodrigues, Ana Lúcia
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2011

description: Este trabalho tem por objectivo fazer uma revisão de alguns conceitos sobre a lipoperoxidação dos óleos e gorduras alimentares no uso quotidiano, bem como as implicações envolvidas nos processos de aquecimento durante a fritura e reutilização.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 4 (2011)
On Vaughan Pratt's crossword problem
Creators: name: Bergman, George M.
name: Nielsen, Pace P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 08A99, 68R15 (Primary), 03E10, 03G10, 06A11, 06D05, 54A05, 68Q65 (Secondary)

description: Vaughan Pratt has introduced objects consisting of pairs $(A,W)$ where $A$ is a set and $W$ a set of subsets of $A,$ such that (i) $W$ contains $\emptyset$ and $A,$ (ii) if $C$ is a subset of $A\times A$ such that for every $a\in A,$ both $\{b\mid (a,b)\in C\}$ and $\{b\mid (b,a)\in C\}$ are members of $W$ (a "crossword" with all "rows" and "columns" in $W),$ then $\{b\mid (b,b)\in C\}$ (the "diagonal word") also belongs to $W,$ and (iii) for all distinct $a,b\in A,$ the set $W$ has an element which contains $a$ but not $b.$ He has asked whether for every $A,$ the only such $W$ is the set of all subsets of $A.$ We answer that question in the negative. We also obtain several positive results, in particular, a positive answer to the above question if $W$ is closed under complementation. We obtain partial results on whether there can exist counterexamples to Pratt's question with $W$ countable.
description: 17 pages. Final version; we have made various minor changes in wording etc
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 2 (148)]
Creators: name: , Robertus
name: Clera
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1240
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Der magister Robertus und seine Frau Clera sichern Gaspardus Auogarius, stellvertretend für Balduinus Mussus, und Albertus de Seruzola, stellvertretend für den Bischof von Novara, zu, zur Beilegung eines Konflikts einen Geldbetrag zu bezahlen.
Quantifying effects of inhomogeneities and curvature on gravitational wave standard siren measurements of $H(z)$
Creators: name: Koksbang, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a flat $Λ$CDM universe, the dipole of the luminosity distance can be utilized to measure the Hubble parameter. It is here shown that this is not the case in more general settings where curvature and cosmic backreaction is permitted. This implies that a discordance between $H(z)$ measurements obtained using such dipole luminosity distance data and "true"/actual $H(z)$ data obtained from e.g. cosmic chronometers is a signal of curvature and/or cosmic backreaction. \newline\indent By considering mock future gravitational wave measurements of the Hubble parameter obtained through the dipole luminosity distance, it is shown that already a $1\%$ curvature could in principle just barely show up in the determination. However, for realistic mock data generation using models with as much as 5 \% curvature, parameter estimates do not yield reliable measures of inconsistency between the false $H(z)$ measurements and true measurements of $H(z)$. At the same time, cosmic backreaction is hard to detect even if it makes up $10\%$ of the "energy budget" in the current universe, even when considering a highly idealized situation with low errors. The results concerning backreaction are based on specific "scaling solutions" to the backreaction problem and the study shows that the possibility of detecting a signal of backreaction through the dipole of the luminosity distance depends strongly on the particular backreaction model.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in PRD. v2: Updated reference list and fixed minor typos in text. No changes to results or conclusions
Table containing death-related cases presented in the manuscript from Social relationships and death-related behaviour in aquatic mammals: a systematic review
Creators: name: Reggente, Melissa A. L. V.
name: Papale, Elena
name: McGinty, Niall
name: Eddy, Lavinia
name: Lucia, Giuseppe Andrea De
name: Bertulli, Chiara Giulia
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary material S1. Cases describing death-related behaviours including participant characteristics.
3-D selection of 167 sub-stellar companions to nearby stars
Creators: name: Feng, Fabo
name: Butler, R. Paul
name: Vogt, Steven S.
name: Clement, Matthew S.
name: Tinney, C. G.
name: Cui, Kaiming
name: Aizawa, Masataka
name: Jones, Hugh R. A.
name: Bailey, J.
name: Burt, Jennifer
name: Carter, B. D.
name: Crane, Jeffrey D.
name: Dotti, Francesco Flammini
name: Holden, Bradford
name: Ma, Bo
name: Ogihara, Masahiro
name: Oppenheimer, Rebecca
name: O'Toole, S. J.
name: Shectman, Stephen A.
name: Wittenmyer, Robert A.
name: Wang, Sharon X.
name: Wright, D. J.
name: Xuan, Yifan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze 5108 AFGKM stars with at least five high precision radial velocity points as well as Gaia and Hipparcos astrometric data utilizing a novel pipeline developed in previous work. We find 914 radial velocity signals with periods longer than 1000\,d. Around these signals, 167 cold giants and 68 other types of companions are identified by combined analyses of radial velocity, astrometry, and imaging data. Without correcting for detection bias, we estimate the minimum occurrence rate of the wide-orbit brown dwarfs to be 1.3\%, and find a significant brown dwarf valley around 40 $M_{\rm Jup}$. We also find a power-law distribution in the host binary fraction beyond 3 au similar to that found for single stars, indicating no preference of multiplicity for brown dwarfs. Our work also reveals nine sub-stellar systems (GJ 234 B, GJ 494 B, HD 13724 b, HD 182488 b, HD 39060 b and c, HD 4113 C, HD 42581 d, HD 7449 B, and HD 984 b) that have previously been directly imaged, and many others that are observable at existing facilities. Depending on their ages we estimate that an additional 10-57 sub-stellar objects within our sample can be detected with current imaging facilities, extending the imaged cold (or old) giants by an order of magnitude.
description: 39 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables, published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 2 (149)]
Creators: name: Guiscardus
name: , Antonius
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1240
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Guiscardus de Ghyroldis und sein Sohn Antonius bestätigen Gulielmus, Sohn des verstorbenen Martinus aus Persico, die Mitgift der Byatrix, Frau des Antonius, erhalten zu haben.
Effects of advance care planning in care dependent community-dwelling older persons (STADPLAN) : a cluster-randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Falk
name: Schnakenberg, Rieke
name: Silies, Katharina
name: Berg, Almuth
name: Kirchner, Änne
name: Jaschke, Julia
name: Haastert, Burkhard
name: Wiese, Birgitt
name: Köberlein-Neu, Juliane
name: Meyer, Gabriele
name: Köpke, Sascha
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Background:Most randomised controlled trials on advance care planning were conducted in people with advanced, life-limiting illnesses or in institutional settings. There are few studies on its effect in older people living in the community. Aim:To determine the effects of advance care planning in older community dwelling people. Design:The STADPLAN study was a cluster-randomised trial with 12 months follow-up. The complex intervention comprised a 2-days training for nurse facilitators that delivered a formal advance care planning counselling and a written information brochure. Patients in the control group received optimised usual care, that is, provision of a short information brochure. Setting/participants:Home care services in three regions of Germany were randomised using concealed allocation. Care dependent clients of participating home care services, aged 60 years or older, and rated to have a life-expectancy of at least 4 weeks were included. Primary outcome was active participation in care at 12 months, assessed by blinded investigators using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13). Results:Twenty-seven home care services and 380 patients took part. Three hundred seventy-three patients were included in the primary analysis (n = 206 in the intervention and n = 167 in the control group). There was no statistically significant difference between the intervention and control group with regard to the PAM-13 after 12 months (75.7 vs 78.4; p = 0.13). No differences in quality of life, anxiety and depression, advance care planning engagement, and in proportion of participants with advance directives were found between groups. Conclusions:The intervention showed no relevant effects on patient activation or quality of life in community dwelling older persons, possibly indicating the need for more tailored interventions. However, results are limited by a lack of statistical power.
DNA DAMAGE IN CANINE TRANSMISSIBLE VENEREAL TUMOR CELLS
Creators: name: Amaral, Anne Santos Do
name: Ferreira, Isabelle Ferreira
name: Colodel, Marcia Moleta
name: Salvadore, Dayse Maria Fávero
name: Rocha, Noeme Sousa
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2011

description: The Transmissible Venereal Tumor (TVT) has been classified according to the predominant cell type as follows: lymphocytoid, plasmocytoid, and mixed. Various degrees of aggressiveness with large array of biological behaviour have been described according to the TVT cell lineages, the present study was designed to investigate the level of DNA damage in the three TVT cell types aiming a better understanding of mechanisms related to the aggressiveness of this neoplasia. A total of 35 dogs were evaluated, with no restriction regarding sex, age or breed, and with clinical and cytological diagnoses for TVT. Cell samples from the 35 tumoral neoplasmas were obtained by fine needle aspiration and taken to cytology and DNA damage analysis by the comet assay. From the 35 TVT cases, 12 (34.3%) were plasmocytoid, 11 (31.4%) lymphocytoid, and 12 (34.3%) mixed. Statistically significant (p<0.05) higher level of DNA damage was detected in lymphocytoid TVT cells when compared to the other two types.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 4 (2011)
MOCABA: a general Monte Carlo-Bayes procedure for improved predictions of integral functions of nuclear data
Creators: name: Hoefer, Axel
name: Buss, Oliver
name: Hennebach, Maik
name: Schmid, Michael
name: Porsch, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MOCABA is a combination of Monte Carlo sampling and Bayesian updating algorithms for the prediction of integral functions of nuclear data, such as reactor power distributions or neutron multiplication factors. Similarly to the established Generalized Linear Least Squares (GLLS) methodology, MOCABA offers the capability to utilize integral experimental data to reduce the prior uncertainty of integral observables. The MOCABA approach, however, does not involve any series expansions and, therefore, does not suffer from the breakdown of first-order perturbation theory for large nuclear data uncertainties. This is related to the fact that, in contrast to the GLLS method, the updating mechanism within MOCABA is applied directly to the integral observables without having to "adjust" any nuclear data. A central part of MOCABA is the nuclear data Monte Carlo program NUDUNA, which performs random sampling of nuclear data evaluations according to their covariance information and converts them into libraries for transport code systems like MCNP or SCALE. What is special about MOCABA is that it can be applied to any integral function of nuclear data, and any integral measurement can be taken into account to improve the prediction of an integral observable of interest. In this paper we present two example applications of the MOCABA framework: the prediction of the neutron multiplication factor of a water-moderated PWR fuel assembly based on 21 criticality safety benchmark experiments and the prediction of the power distribution within a toy model reactor containing 100 fuel assemblies.
description: 10 pages, Preprint submitted to Annals of Nuclear Energy
Structural Dynamics of Polymer:Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cell Blends: A Neutron Spectroscopy Perspective
Creators: name: Zbiri, Mohamed
name: Gilhooly-Finn, Peter A.
name: Fouquet, Peter
name: Nielsen, Christian B.
name: Guilbert, Anne A. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Organic solar cells (OSCs) based on ADA-type (acceptor-donor-acceptor) non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) exhibit improved power conversion efficiency (PCE) compared to the conventional fullerene-based analogues. The optoelectronic properties of OSC active layer blends are correlated to their underlying structural dynamics and therefore influence the device performance. Using synergistically different neutron spectroscopy techniques, we studied the dynamics of binary and ternary blends made of the NFAs O-IDTBR and O-IDFBR and the regioregular donor polymer P3HT. Deuteration was considered for a contrast variation purpose. In addition to shedding light on the miscibilty and alloying characters of the blends, a main outcome of this work is the evidenced similar dynamical response of the blend components. This finding is in contrast with our previous neutron spectroscopy and molecular dynamics studies of the fullerene-based blend P3HT:PCBM, where we highlighted distinct behaviors of P3HT and PCBM in terms of the vitrification/frustration of P3HT and the plasticization of PCBM by P3HT upon blending. Alike P3HT vitrification is not presently observed. The absence or the weak vitrification evidenced here is in line with recent reports and is likely related to the improved PCE exhibited by the ADA-type NFA-based OSCs.
LINFOMA DE CÉLULAS B LOCALIZADO NA CAVIDADE ORAL NUM FELÍDEO – CASO CLÍNICO
Creators: name: Mestrinho, Lisa A
name: Alves, A C
name: Parreira, P
name: Onça, R J
name: Sousa, M J
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2010

description: Um felídeo de 14 anos europeu comum foi apresentado à consulta com história clínica de 1 mês de diminuição de apetite, halitose e deformação facial. O seu estado imunitário foi negativo para FIV e FELV. Os resultados hematológicos e bioquímicos revelaram apenas um aumento de globulinas séricas e a punção aspirativa de agulha fina revelou linfoma localizado sem sinais de envolvimento sistémico nos exames complementares. A cirurgia foi recomendada e consistiu em maxilectomia rostral unilateral, excisão labial, enxerto labial de avanço e colocação de tubo esofágico. O resultado histopatológico revelou linfoma de baixo índice mitótico e os exames imunohistoquímicos revelaram positividade ao marcador CD79a, um marcador de células B. O tumor foi classificado em Estádio I pelo sistema de estadiamento de linfoma felino. Apesar dos resultados histopatológicos sugerirem uma resposta pobre à quimioterapia, iniciou-se um protocolo terapêutico com ciclofosfamida, vincristina e prednisolona. Dois meses após o diagnóstico e seis semanas após início de quimioterapia o animal revelou anorexia e no exame ecográfico de controlo foram detectadas metástases. O gato foi hospitalizado e morreu uma semana depois. O prognóstico de linfoma localizado no gato é desconhecido devido à sua rara ocorrência. Está recomendado o controlo local do tumor com cirurgia ou radioterapia combinadas ou não com quimioterapia. Apesar da sobrevivência do animal ter sido breve após o tratamento cirúrgico os proprietários ficaram satisfeitos com o aumento de qualidade de vida após cirurgia.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 1 (2007)
Modeling and Active Learning for Experiments with Quantitative-Sequence Factors
Creators: name: Xiao, Qian
name: Wang, Yaping
name: Mandal, Abhyuday
name: Deng, Xinwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new type of experiment that aims to determine the optimal quantities of a sequence of factors is eliciting considerable attention in medical science, bioengineering, and many other disciplines. Such studies require the simultaneous optimization of both quantities and the sequence orders of several components which are called quantitative-sequence (QS) factors. Given the large and semi-discrete solution spaces in such experiments, efficiently identifying optimal or near-optimal solutions by using a small number of experimental trials is a nontrivial task. To address this challenge, we propose a novel active learning approach, called QS-learning, to enable effective modeling and efficient optimization for experiments with QS factors. QS-learning consists of three parts: a novel mapping-based additive Gaussian process (MaGP) model, an efficient global optimization scheme (QS-EGO), and a new class of optimal designs (QS-design). The theoretical properties of the proposed method are investigated, and optimization techniques using analytical gradients are developed. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated via a real drug experiment on lymphoma treatment and several simulation studies.
description: Accepted by Journal of the American Statistical Association
On $α$-embedded subsets of products
Creators: name: Karlova, Olena
name: Mykhaylyuk, Volodymyr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54B10, 54C45, 54C20, 54H05

description: We prove that every continuous function $f:E\to Y$ depends on countably many coordinates, if $E$ is an $(\aleph_1,\aleph_0)$-invariant pseudo-$\aleph_1$-compact subspace of a product of topological spaces and $Y$ is a space with a regular $G_δ$-diagonal. Using this fact for any $α
Global transcriptome profiling reveals root- and leaf-specific responses of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) to H2O2
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Sabarna
name: Giridhar, Maya
name: Meier, Bastian
name: Peiter, Edgar
name: Vothknecht, Ute C.
name: Chigri, Fatima
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 580

description: In cereal crops, such as barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), the ability to appropriately respond to environmental cues is an important factor for yield stability and thus for agricultural production. Reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), are key components of signal transduction cascades involved in plant adaptation to changing environmental conditions. H2O2-mediated stress responses include the modulation of expression of stress-responsive genes required to cope with different abiotic and biotic stresses. Despite its importance, knowledge of the effects of H2O2 on the barley transcriptome is still scarce. In this study, we identified global transcriptomic changes induced after application of 10 mM H2O2 to five-day-old barley plants. In total, 1883 and 1001 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in roots and leaves, respectively. Most of these DEGs were organ-specific, with only 209 DEGs commonly regulated and 37 counter-regulated between both plant parts. A GO term analysis further confirmed that different processes were affected in roots and leaves. It revealed that DEGs in leaves mostly comprised genes associated with hormone signaling, response to H2O2 and abiotic stresses. This includes many transcriptions factors and small heat shock proteins. DEGs in roots mostly comprised genes linked to crucial aspects of H2O2 catabolism and oxidant detoxification, glutathione metabolism, as well as cell wall modulation. These categories include many peroxidases and glutathione transferases. As with leaves, the H2O2 response category in roots contains small heat shock proteins, however, mostly different members of this family were affected and they were all regulated in the opposite direction in the two plant parts. Validation of the expression of the selected commonly regulated DEGs by qRT-PCR was consistent with the RNA-seq data. The data obtained in this study provide an insight into the molecular mechanisms of oxidative stress responses in barley, which might also play a role upon other stresses that induce oxidative bursts.
D3.8 Fellowship programme, governance structure and business model for SWForum.eu – v3
Creators: name: Di Nitto, Elisabetta
name: Novakova Nedeltscheva, Galia
name: Alonso, Juncal
name: Favaro, John
name: Miller, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fellowship programme
organization of the Forum
governance structure

description: This deliverable is the third of a set of deliverables presenting the results of task “T3.3 - Definition and creation of a Governance structure and business model”. The deliverable provides an overview of the concrete steps conducted by the SWForum project to develop a long-lasting organization focusing on software engineering and acting as collector and amplifier of the ideas and initiatives emerging from the European software engineering community. Moreover, it presents the plan for the future steps aiming at consolidating the community and finalizing its structure and governance mechanisms (including decision mechanisms, conflict resolution, and membership types). This third release includes also the exploitation plan of SWForum.eu.
Curvature of the critical line on the plane of quark chemical potential and pseudo scalar meson mass for three-flavor QCD
Creators: name: Jin, Xiao-Yong
name: Kuramashi, Yoshinobu
name: Nakamura, Yoshifumi
name: Takeda, Shinji
name: Ukawa, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the phase structure of three-flavor QCD in the presence of finite quark chemical potential $μ/T\lesssim1.2$ by using the non-perturbatively $O(a)$ improved Wilson fermion action on lattices with a fixed temporal extent $N_{\rm t}=6$ and varied spatial linear extents $N_{\rm s}=8,10,12$. Especially, we focus on locating the critical end point that characterizes the phase structure, and extracting the curvature of the critical line on the $μ$-$m_π$ plane. For Wilson-type fermions, the correspondence between bare parameters and physical parameters is indirect. Hence we present a strategy to transfer the bare parameter phase structure to the physical one, in order to obtain the curvature. Our conclusion is that the curvature is positive. This implies that, if one starts from a quark mass in the region of crossover at zero chemical potential, one would encounter a first-order phase transition when one raises the chemical potential.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
Fast Convex Visual Foothold Adaptation for Quadrupedal Locomotion
Creators: name: Omar, Shafeef
name: Amatucci, Lorenzo
name: Turrisi, Giulio
name: Barasuol, Victor
name: Semini, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This extended abstract provides a short introduction on our recently developed perception-based controller for quadrupedal locomotion. Compared to our previous approach based on Visual Foothold Adaptation (VFA) and Model Predictive Control (MPC), our new framework combines a fast approximation of the safe foothold regions based on Neural Network regression, followed by a convex decomposition routine in order to generate safe landing areas where the controller can freely optimize the footholds location. The aforementioned framework, which combines prediction, convex decomposition, and MPC solution, is tested in simulation on our 140kg hydraulic quadruped robot (HyQReal).
Catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline medium: Configuring a cooperative mechanism at the Ag-Ag$_2$S-MoS$_2$ interface
Creators: name: Bar-Hen, Avraham
name: Hettler, Simon
name: Ramasubramaniam, Ashwin
name: Arenal, Raul
name: Ziv, Ronen Bar
name: Sadan, Maya Bar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Designing electrocatalysts for HER in alkaline conditions to overcome the sluggish kinetics associated with the additional water dissociation step is a recognized challenge in promoting the hydrogen economy. To this end, delicately tuning the atomic-scale structure and surface composition of nanoparticles is a common strategy and, specifically, making use of hybrid structures, can produce synergistic effects that lead to highly active catalysts. Here, we present a core-shell catalyst of Ag@MoS$_2$ that shows promising results towards the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in both 0.5 M H2SO4 and 0.5 M KOH. In this hybrid structure, the MoS$_2$ shell is strained and defective, and charge transfer occurs between the conductive core and the shell, contributing to the electrocatalytic activity. The shelling process results in a large fraction of Ag$_2$S in the cores, and adjusting the relative fractions of Ag, Ag$_2$S, and MoS$_2$ leads to improved catalytic activity and fast charge-transfer kinetics. We suggest that the enhancement of alkaline HER is associated with a cooperative effect of the interfaces, where the Ag(I) sites in Ag$_2$S drive the water dissociation step, and the formed hydrogen subsequently recombines on the defective MoS$_2$ shell. This study demonstrates the benefits of hybrid structures as functional nanomaterials and provides a scheme to activate MoS$_2$ for HER in alkaline conditions.
Thermodynamics of the six-vertex model in an L-shaped domain
Creators: name: Colomo, Filippo
name: Pronko, Andrei G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the six-vertex model in an L-shaped domain of the square lattice, with domain wall boundary conditions. For free-fermion vertex weights the partition function can be expressed in terms of some Hankel determinant, or equivalently as a Coulomb gas with discrete measure and a non-polynomial potential with two hard walls. We use Coulomb gas methods to study the partition function in the thermodynamic limit. We obtain the free energy of the six-vertex model as a function of the parameters describing the geometry of the scaled L-shaped domain. Under variations of these parameters the system undergoes a third-order phase transition. The result can also be considered in the context of dimer models, for the perfect matchings of the Aztec diamond graph with a cut-off corner.
description: 28 pages, 5 figures
Potential Energy Landscape of the Two-Dimensional XY Model: Higher-Index Stationary Points
Creators: name: Mehta, Dhagash
name: Hughes, Ciaran
name: Kastner, Michael
name: Wales, David J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The application of numerical techniques to the study of energy landscapes of large systems relies on sufficient sampling of the stationary points. Since the number of stationary points is believed to grow exponentially with system size, we can only sample a small fraction. We investigate the interplay between this restricted sample size and the physical features of the potential energy landscape for the two-dimensional $XY$ model in the absence of disorder with up to $N=100$ spins. Using an eigenvector-following technique, we numerically compute stationary points with a given Hessian index $I$ for all possible values of $I$. We investigate the number of stationary points, their energy and index distributions, and other related quantities, with particular focus on the scaling with $N$. The results are used to test a number of conjectures and approximate analytic results for the general properties of energy landscapes.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures. Published in Journal of Chemical Physics
Symbolic Knowledge Extraction from Opaque Predictors Applied to Cosmic-Ray Data Gathered with LISA Pathfinder
Creators: name: Sabbatini, Federico
name: Grimani, Catia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine learning models are nowadays ubiquitous in space missions, performing a wide variety of tasks ranging from the prediction of multivariate time series through the detection of specific patterns in the input data. Adopted models are usually deep neural networks or other complex machine learning algorithms providing predictions that are opaque, i.e., human users are not allowed to understand the rationale behind the provided predictions. Several techniques exist in the literature to combine the impressive predictive performance of opaque machine learning models with human-intelligible prediction explanations, as for instance the application of symbolic knowledge extraction procedures. In this paper are reported the results of different knowledge extractors applied to an ensemble predictor capable of reproducing cosmic-ray data gathered on board the LISA Pathfinder space mission. A discussion about the readability/fidelity trade-off of the extracted knowledge is also presented.
PROVENTRICULAR INTUSSUSCEPTION IN A YELLOW ROSELLA (PLATYCERCUS FLAVEOLUS)
Creators: name: Neves, Luís Carlos
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2010

description: An intussusception is a situation in which a part of the gastrointestinal tract has prolapsed into another section of intestine, similar to the way in which the parts of a collapsible telescope slide into one another. The part which prolapses into the other is called the intussusceptum, and the part which receives it is called the intussuscipiens. This type of pathology is usually associated to the intestine tract of mammalian species. The author witnessed an unusual case of intussusception, affecting the proventriculus and ventriculus of a Yellow Rosella (Platycercus flaveolus) presented in advanced stage of disease. Although the diagnosis was made post-mortem, the bird was in a too severely debilitated status to have survived surgery, the only effective resolution for these cases. The following article gives a description of the case.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 1 (2007)
Quadratic first integrals of constrained autonomous conservative dynamical systems with fixed energy
Creators: name: Mitsopoulos, Antonios
name: Tsamparlis, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider autonomous conservative dynamical systems which are constrained with the condition that the total energy of the system has a specified value. We prove a theorem which provides the quadratic first integrals (QFIs), time-dependent and autonomous, of these systems in terms of the symmetries (conformal Killing vectors and conformal Killing tensors) of the kinetic metric. It is proved that there are three types of QFIs and for each type we give explicit formulae for their computation. It is also shown that when the autonomous QFIs are considered, then we recover the known results of previous works. For zero potential function, we have the case of constrained geodesics and obtain formulae to compute their QFIs. The theorem is applied in two cases. In the first case, we determine potentials which admit the second of the three types of QFIs. We recover a superintegrable potential of the Ermakov type and a new integrable potential whose trajectories for zero energy and zero QFI are circles. In the second case, we integrate the constrained geodesic equations for a family of two-dimensional conformally flat metrics.
description: 25 pages
Electromagnetic Illusion in Smart Environments
Creators: name: Taghvaee, Hamidreza
name: Lodro, Mir
name: Mohammed, Neekar M
name: Terranova, Sergio
name: Phang, Sendy
name: Richter, Martin
name: Gradoni, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metasurfaces can be designed to achieve prescribed functionality. Careful meta-atom design and arrangement achieve homogeneous and inhomogeneous layouts that can enable exceptional capabilities to manipulate incident waves. Inherently, the control of scattering waves is crucial in wireless communications and stealth technologies. Low-profile and light-weight coatings that offer comprehensive manipulation are highly desirable for applications including camouflaging, deceptive sensing, radar cognition control, and defense security. Here, we propose a method that achieves electromagnetic illusion without altering the object. A proof of principle is proposed and practiced for one-dimensional media. The idea is to engineer the environment instead of the object coating. This work paves the way for versatile designs that will improve electromagnetic security applications with the aid of smart environments.
MATERNAL RECOGNITION OF PREGNANCY IN THE MARE – A MINI REVIEW
Creators: name: Maria, Gaivão
name: Stout, Tom A E
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2010

description: A number of features of early embryonic development in equids are unusual or unique; these appear to include the critical but poorly understood mechanism(s) responsible for the ‘maternal recognition of pregnancy’. Maternal recognition of pregnancy is the physiological process by which a developing conceptus signals it presence to the maternal organism to prolong the lifespan of the primary corpus luteum (CL) and thereby ensure the continued supply of progesterone that is essential for embryonic survival and development. However, it is not yet clear what the primary conceptus signal to ensure CL prolongation in the horse is, and while a number of potential contributors to maternal recognition and the establishment of pregnancy have been proposed, none have been able to satisfactorily fulfill the criteria required of an intrauterine luteostatic or antiluteolytic factor. On the other hand, it is generally accepted that maternal recognition of pregnancy is of critical importance and that failure to either send or receive the signal appropriately is likely to lead to early embryonic death. Indeed, pregnancy loss at or soon after the expected time of maternal pregnancy recognition (days 10-16 of gestation) is a common, but unpredictable (and therefore difficult to prevent), occurrence in clinical practice and a considerable source of financial loss to the breeding industry.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 1 (2007)
A Semantic Tableau Method for Argument Construction
Creators: name: Roos, Nico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.4
subject: 03F03

description: A semantic tableau method, called an argumentation tableau, that enables the derivation of arguments, is proposed. First, the derivation of arguments for standard propositional and predicate logic is addressed. Next, an extension that enables reasoning with defeasible rules is presented. Finally, reasoning by cases using an argumentation tableau is discussed.
description: Post proceedings of the BNAIC 2020
Spectral Energy Distributions and Masses of 304 M31 Old Star Clusters
Creators: name: Ma, Jun
name: Wang, Song
name: Wu, Zhenyu
name: Zhang, Tianmeng
name: Zou, Hu
name: Nie, Jundan
name: Zhou, Zhiming
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Wu, Jianghua
name: Du, Cuihua
name: Yuan, Qirong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents CCD multicolor photometry for 304 old star clusters in the nearby spiral galaxy M31. Of which photometry of 55 star clusters is first obtained. The observations were carried out as a part of the Beijing--Arizona--Taiwan--Connecticut (BATC) Multicolor Sky Survey from 1995 February to 2008 March, using 15 intermediate-band filters covering 3000--10000 Å. Detailed comparisons show that our photometry is in agreement with previous measurements. Based on the ages and metallicities from Caldwell et al. and the photometric measurements here, we estimated the clusters' masses by comparing their multicolor photometry with stellar population synthesis models. The results show that the sample clusters have masses between $\sim 3\times10^4 M_\odot$ and $\sim 10^7 M_\odot$ with the peak of $\sim 4\times10^5 M_\odot$. The masses here are in good agreement with those in previous studies. Combined with the masses of young star clusters of M31 from Wang et al., we find that the peak of mass of old clusters is ten times that of young clusters.
description: Accepted for Publication in AJ, 19 pages, 15 figures and 2 tables