cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Generic Smooth Connection Functions - A New Analytic Approach to Interpolation
Creators: name: Alon, Alex
name: Bergmann, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a generic solution to the fundamental problem of how to connect two points in a plane by a smooth curve that goes through these points with a given slope. The smoothness of any curve depends both on its curvature and its length. The smoothest curves correspond to a particular compromise between minimal curvature and minimal length. They can be described by a class of functions that satisfy certain boundary conditions and minimize a weight functional. The value of this functional is given essentially by the average of the curvature raised to some power νtimes the length of the curve. The parameter νdetermines the importance of minimal curvature with respect to minimal length. In order to find the functions that obtain the minimal weight, we use extensively notions that are well-known in classical mechanics. The minimization of the weight functional via the Euler-Lagrange formalism leads to a highly non-trivial differential equation. Using the symmetries of the problem it is possible to find conserved quantities, that help to simplify the problem to a level where the solution functions can be written in a closed form for any given ν. Applying the appropriate coordinate transformation to these solutions allows to adjust them to all possible boundary conditions.
description: This article applies fundamental notions of analytical mechanics to a simple and intuitive problem; the solution is non-trivial and relevant both practically and educationally. Latex, 24 pages, 5 figures
title: Laser‐Writing of Fluorescent Copolymers in Mesoporous Silica Thin Films
Creators: name: Richter, Dominik
name: Andrieu‐Brunsen, Annette
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2025

description: Local polymer grafting, as well as automated direct laser writing (DLW) of polymers in mesoporous films, is demonstrated. Especially when low polymer amounts are grafted at a very small scale, analysis of polymer functionalization is a challenge. DLW of fluorescent copolymer is presented in mesoporous silica with 12 nm mesopore diameter by a surface‐initiated photo electron/energy transfer‐reversible addition‐fragmentation chain‐transfer (PET‐RAFT) polymerization using a 405 nm laser of a commercially available microscope. By the copolymerization of fluorescent comonomers during DLW, fluorescent microscale patterns of copolymer of sulfopropyl acrylate (SPA) and fluorescein methacrylate (FLMA) are obtained. The polymer spot sizes, as well as the polymer amount, are precisely manipulated by adjusting the irradiation time or power. A method for the analysis of confocal fluorescence image data is introduced, allowing quantitative comparison of relative polymer amounts by the correlation of fluorescence intensities and polymer specific IR absorption intensities. In addition, profiles of spatial polymer distribution on the micrometer scale are deduced from fluorescence image data and investigated. The polymer spot analysis shows that polymer amount gradients within each micrometer sized polymer spot are precisely tuned using irradiation time and laser power.
Additional file 1 of Postoperative respiratory depression in patients on sublingual buprenorphine: a retrospective cohort study for comparison between postoperative continuation and discontinuation of buprenorphine
Creators: name: Komatsu, Ryu
name: Singleton, Michael D.
name: Peperzak, Katherin A.
name: Wu, Jiang
name: Dinges, Emily M.
name: Bollag, Laurent A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Description of individual components of postoperative respiratory complications.
The gravitomagnetic clock effect and its possible observation
Creators: name: Lichtenegger, Herbert I. M.
name: Iorio, Lorenzo
name: Mashhoon, Bahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The general relativistic gravitomagnetic clock effect involves a coupling between the orbital motion of a test particle and the rotation of the central mass and results in a difference in the proper periods of two counter-revolving satellites. It is shown that at O(c^-2) this effect has a simple analogue in the electromagnetic case. Moreover, in view of a possible measurement of the clock effect in the gravitational field of the Earth, we investigate the influence of some classical perturbing forces of the terrestrial space environment on the orbital motion of test bodies along opposite trajectories.
description: LaTex2e, 9 pages, no tables, 2 figures, 18 references. Paper presented at COSPAR 2002 assembly held in Houston, Texas, 10 October 2002-19 October 2002. Expanded version published in Annalen der Physik
Universality of BSW mechanism for spinning particles
Creators: name: Jiang, Jie
name: Gao, Sijie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bañados $et\, al.$ (BSW) found that Kerr black holes can act as particle accelerators with collisions at arbitrarily high center-of-mass energies. Recently, collisions of particles with spin around some rotating black holes have been discussed. In this paper, we study the BSW mechanism for spinning particles by using a metric ansatz which describes a general rotating black hole. We notice that there are two inequivalent definitions of center-of-mass (CM) energy for spinning particles. We mainly discuss the CM energy defined in terms of the worldline of the particle. We show that there exists an energy-angular momentum relation $e = Ω_h j$ that causes collisions with arbitrarily high energy near-extremal black holes. We also provide a simple but rigorous proof that the BSW mechanism breaks down for nonextremal black holes. For the alternative definition of the CM energy, some authors find a new critical spin relation that also causes the divergence of the CM mass. However, by checking the timelike constraint, we show that particles with this critical spin cannot reach the horizon of the black hole. Further numerical calculation suggests that such particles cannot exist anywhere outside the horizon. Our results are universal, independent of the underlying theories of gravity.
description: 8 pages, 1 figures
Additional file 5 of Multi-omics examination of Q fever fatigue syndrome identifies similarities with chronic fatigue syndrome
Creators: name: Raijmakers, Ruud P. H.
name: Roerink, Megan E.
name: Jansen, Anne F. M.
name: Keijmel, Stephan P.
name: Gacesa, Ranko
name: Li, Yang
name: Joosten, Leo A. B.
name: van der Meer, Jos W. M.
name: Netea, Mihai G.
name: Bleeker-Rovers, Chantal P.
name: Xu, Cheng-Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Overlap of in- and decreased circulating inflammatory proteins, circulating metabolites, and taxonomic differences in gut microbiome composition when comparing QFS to HC, CFS to HC, and QFS to CFS. Venn diagrams showing overlap in in- and decreased circulating inflammatory proteins (A), circulating metabolites (B), and taxonomic differences in gut microbiome composition (C) when comparing QFS to HC, CFS to HC, and QFS to CFS. Venn diagrams were made at https://jvenn.toulouse.inra.fr/app/example.html [65]. QFS Q fever fatigue syndrome, CFS chronic fatigue syndrome.
The time delay of the quadruple quasar RX J0911.4+0551
Creators: name: Hjorth, Jens
name: Burud, Ingunn
name: Jaunsen, Andreas O.
name: Schechter, Paul L.
name: Kneib, Jean-Paul
name: Andersen, Michael I.
name: Korhonen, Heidi
name: Clasen, Jacob W.
name: Kaas, A. Amanda
name: Østensen, Roy
name: Pelt, Jaan
name: Pijpers, Frank P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical lightcurves of the gravitationally lensed components A (=A1+A2+A3) and B of the quadruple quasar RX J0911.4+0551 (z = 2.80). The observations were primarily obtained at the Nordic Optical Telescope between 1997 March and 2001 April and consist of 74 I-band data points for each component. The data allow the measurement of a time delay of 146 +- 8 days (2 sigma) between A and B, with B as the leading component. This value is significantly shorter than that predicted from simple models and indicates a very large external shear. Mass models including the main lens galaxy and the surrounding massive cluster of galaxies at z = 0.77, responsible for the external shear, yield H_0 = 71 +- 4 (random, 2 sigma) +- 8 (systematic) km/s/Mpc. The systematic model uncertainty is governed by the surface-mass density (convergence) at the location of the multiple images.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, ApJL, in press (June 20, 2002)
Theoretical evidence for the sensitivity of charge-rearrangement-enhanced x-ray ionization to molecular size
Creators: name: Hao, Yajiang
name: Inhester, Ludger
name: Son, Sang-Kil
name: Santra, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently discovered that molecular ionization at high x-ray intensity is enhanced, in comparison with that of isolated atoms, through a phenomenon called CREXIM (charge-rearrangement-enhanced x-ray ionization of molecules). X-ray absorption selectively ionizes heavy atoms within molecules, triggering electron transfer from neighboring atoms to the heavy atom sites and enabling further ionization there. The present theoretical study demonstrates that the CREXIM effect increases with the size of the molecule, as a consequence of increased intramolecular electron transfer from the larger molecular constituents attached to the heavy atoms. We compare x-ray multiphoton ionization dynamics of xenon, iodomethane, and iodobenzene after interacting with an intense x-ray pulse. Although their photoionization cross sections are similar, iodomethane and iodobenzene molecules are more ionized than xenon atoms. Moreover, we predict that the average total charge of iodobenzene is much larger than that of iodomethane, because of the large number of electrons in the benzene ring. The positive charges transferred from the iodine site to the benzene ring are redistributed such that the higher carbon charges are formed at the far end from the iodine site. Our first-principles calculations provide fundamental insights into the interaction of molecules with x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) pulses. These insights need to be taken into account for interpreting and designing future XFEL experiments.
description: 22 pages; 4 figures in the main text and 4 figures in the appendix
Cosmological Deformation of Lorentzian Spin Foam Models
Creators: name: Noui, Karim
name: Roche, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum deformation of the Barrett-Crane Lorentzian spin foam model which is conjectured to be the discretization of Lorentzian Plebanski model with positive cosmological constant and includes therefore as a particular sector quantum gravity in de-Sitter space. This spin foam model is constructed using harmonic analysis on the quantum Lorentz group. The evaluation of simple spin networks are shown to be non commutative integrals over the quantum hyperboloid defined as a pile of fuzzy spheres. We show that the introduction of the cosmological constant removes all the infrared divergences: for any fixed triangulation, the integration over the area variables is finite for a large class of normalization of the amplitude of the edges and of the faces.
description: 37 pages, 7 figures included
Reducing inpatient falls, in a Dublin hospice, while maintaining human rights
Creators: name: O’Leary, Sheila
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 420317
subject: Patient safety
classificationCode: 350715
subject: Quality management
classificationCode: 350505
subject: Occupational and workplace health and safety

description: A paper presented at the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Research Symposium, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, 3 March 2025
title: Solid‐State NMR of Heterogeneous Catalysts
Creators: name: Haro Mares, Nadia
name: Logrado, Millena
name: Kergassner, Jan
name: Zhang, Bingyu
name: Gutmann, Torsten
name: Buntkowsky, Gerd
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2025

description: Recent advances in solid‐state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, combined with dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), quantum chemical DFT calculations, and gas‐phase NMR spectroscopy investigating the structure and reactivity of heterogeneous catalysts are reviewed. The investigated catalysts range from classical mononuclear catalysts, like immobilized derivates of Wilkinson's catalysts over binuclear catalysts such as the dirhodium paddlewheel catalyst to catalytic nanoparticles, employing various support materials, such as mesoporous silica gels, coordination polymers, and biomaterials such as cellulose.
Additional file 2 of Multi-omics examination of Q fever fatigue syndrome identifies similarities with chronic fatigue syndrome
Creators: name: Raijmakers, Ruud P. H.
name: Roerink, Megan E.
name: Jansen, Anne F. M.
name: Keijmel, Stephan P.
name: Gacesa, Ranko
name: Li, Yang
name: Joosten, Leo A. B.
name: van der Meer, Jos W. M.
name: Netea, Mihai G.
name: Bleeker-Rovers, Chantal P.
name: Xu, Cheng-Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Frequency of selection of 65 Proteins by Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) with 1000-time repeated cross-validation when comparing QFS to HC, CFS to HC, and QFS to CFS. Graphs showing frequency of selection by Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) of circulating inflammatory markers when comparing (A) QFS to HC; 4E-BP1, CD40, AXIN1, CCL11, CD244, IL-8, OPG, CCL4, TRAIL, and CD8A, (B) CFS to HC; 4E-BP1, CDCP1, AXIN1, MMP-10, CSF-1, TNFB, NT-3, FGF-23, IL-12B, and IL-8, and (C) QFS and CFS to HC; 4E-BP1, AXIN1, CD40, CDCP1, CSF-1, IL-8, FGF-23, CCL4, ADA, and MMP-10. QFS Q fever fatigue syndrome, HC healthy controls, CFS chronic fatigue syndrome.
Active Transfer Learning Network: A Unified Deep Joint Spectral-Spatial Feature Learning Model For Hyperspectral Image Classification
Creators: name: Deng, Cheng
name: Xue, Yumeng
name: Liu, Xianglong
name: Li, Chao
name: Tao, Dacheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning has recently attracted significant attention in the field of hyperspectral images (HSIs) classification. However, the construction of an efficient deep neural network (DNN) mostly relies on a large number of labeled samples being available. To address this problem, this paper proposes a unified deep network, combined with active transfer learning that can be well-trained for HSIs classification using only minimally labeled training data. More specifically, deep joint spectral-spatial feature is first extracted through hierarchical stacked sparse autoencoder (SSAE) networks. Active transfer learning is then exploited to transfer the pre-trained SSAE network and the limited training samples from the source domain to the target domain, where the SSAE network is subsequently fine-tuned using the limited labeled samples selected from both source and target domain by corresponding active learning strategies. The advantages of our proposed method are threefold: 1) the network can be effectively trained using only limited labeled samples with the help of novel active learning strategies; 2) the network is flexible and scalable enough to function across various transfer situations, including cross-dataset and intra-image; 3) the learned deep joint spectral-spatial feature representation is more generic and robust than many joint spectral-spatial feature representation. Extensive comparative evaluations demonstrate that our proposed method significantly outperforms many state-of-the-art approaches, including both traditional and deep network-based methods, on three popular datasets.
Thesis -
Creators: name: Rasia-Filho, Alberto A.
name: Fogazzi, Débora V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Related to the Original Research:  Conscious and unconscious emotional processing induce selective prefrontal activation with sex and hemispheric differences evidenced by NIRS and ECG recordings  Débora V. Fogazzi1, J. Patrick Neary2*, Anelise Sonza3, Caroline T. Reppold4, Vanessa Kaiser4, Catharina M. Scassola5, Karina R. Casali5, Alberto A. Rasia-Filho1,6* 
Practical quantum key distribution with non-phase-randomized coherent states
Creators: name: Liu, Li
name: Wang, Yukun
name: Lavie, Emilien
name: Ricou, Arno
name: Wang, Chao
name: Guo, Fen Zhuo
name: Lim, Charles Ci Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum key distribution (QKD) based on coherent states is well known for its implementation simplicity, but it suffers from loss-dependent attacks based on optimal unambiguous state discrimination. Crucially, previous research has suggested that coherent-state QKD is limited to short distances, typically below 100 km assuming standard optical fiber loss and system parameters. In this work, we propose a six-coherent-state phase-encoding QKD protocol that is able to tolerate the total loss of up to 38 dB assuming realistic system parameters, and up to 56 dB loss assuming zero noise. The security of the protocol is calculated using a recently developed security proof technique based on semi-definite programming, which assumes only the inner-product information of the encoded coherent states, the expected statistics, and that the measurement is basis-independent. Our results thus suggest that coherent-state QKD could be a promising candidate for high-speed provably-secure QKD.
description: 8 pages; 6 figures
Uncertainty of risk estimates from clinical prediction models: rationale, challenges, and approaches
Creators: name: Riley, Richard D
name: Collins, Gary S
name: Kirton, Laura
name: Snell, Kym IE
name: Ensor, Joie
name: Whittle, Rebecca
name: Dhiman, Paula
name: van Smeden, Maarten
name: Liu, Xiaoxuan
name: Alderman, Joseph
name: Nirantharakumar, Krishnarajah
name: Manson-Whitton, Jay
name: Westwood, Andrew J
name: Cazier, Jean-Baptiste
name: Moons, Karel GM
name: Martin, Glen P
name: Sperrin, Matthew
name: Denniston, Alastair K
name: Harrell, Frank E
name: Archer, Lucinda
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: Tumour Biology
subject: Tumour Biology
classificationCode: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
subject: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
classificationCode: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Genetics & Genomics
classificationCode: Computational & Systems Biology
subject: Computational & Systems Biology
classificationCode: Genome Integrity & Repair
subject: Genome Integrity & Repair

description: No description supplied
Star formation thresholds and galaxy edges: why and where
Creators: name: Schaye, Joop
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study global star formation thresholds in the outer parts of galaxies by investigating the stability of disk galaxies embedded in dark halos. The disks are self-gravitating, contain metals and dust, and are exposed to UV radiation. We find that the critical surface density for the existence of a cold interstellar phase depends only weakly on the parameters of the model and coincides with the empirically derived surface density threshold for star formation. Furthermore, it is shown that the drop in the thermal velocity dispersion associated with the transition from the warm to the cold gas phase triggers gravitational instability on a wide range of scales. The presence of strong turbulence does not undermine this conclusion if the disk is self-gravitating. Models based on the hypothesis that the onset of thermal instability determines the star formation threshold in the outer parts of galaxies can reproduce many observations, including the threshold radii, column densities, and the sizes of stellar disks as a function of disk scale length and mass. Finally, prescriptions are given for implementing star formation thresholds in (semi-)analytic models and three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Version 2: text significantly revised (major improvements), physics unchanged. Version 3: minor corrections
The effects of marital status on outcome of heart failure population: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jakrin Kewcharoen
name: Sittinun Thangjui
name: Chanavuth Kanitsoraphan
name: Techorueangwiwat, Chol
name: Poemlarp Mekraksakit
name: Wasawat Vutthikraivit
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Traditional risk factors for worse outcome in heart failure (HF) are well-established. However, there are still many unknown risk factors for worse outcome in this population. Several studies have shown that unmarried status is associated with an increased risk of rehospitalization and mortality in HF patients. However, there is no systematic review or meta-analysis to confirm this association. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to explore the effect of marital status on outcome regarding mortality and rehospitalization in HF population. We searched the databases of MEDLINE and EMBASE from inception to July 2019. Included studies were published cohort studies or randomised controlled trials reporting rates of mortality and/or rehospitalization in HF patients, married and unmarried. Data from each study were combined using the random-effects model. Ten studies were included in our meta-analysis. We found that unmarried status is associated with increased risk of mortality (pooled OR = 1.52, 95%CI = 1.30–1.78, p p = .007), and increased risk of combined endpoint of mortality and rehospitalization (pooled OR = 1.72, 95%CI = 1.36–2.17, p Our meta-analysis demonstrated that being unmarried, divorced, and widowed is associated with a worse outcome in HF population regarding mortality and rehospitalization rate.
On the Eccentricity Distribution of Coalescing Black Hole Binaries Driven by the Kozai Mechanism in Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Wen, Linqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a globular cluster, hierarchical triple black hole systems can be produced through binary-binary interaction. It has been proposed recently that the Kozai mechanism could drive the inner binary of the triple system to merge before it is interrupted by interactions with other field stars. We investigate qualitatively and numerically the evolution of the eccentricities in these binaries under gravitational radiation (GR) reaction. We predict that ~ 30 % of the systems will possess eccentricities >0.1 when their emitted gravitational waves pass through 10 Hz frequency. The implications for gravitational wave detection, especially the relevance to data analyses for broad-band laser-interferometer gravitational wave detectors, are discussed.
description: 33 pages, including 10 figures and 1 table, submitted to ApJ
title: The physician-patient relationship in the management of chronic health conditions
Creators: name: Arentz, Jessica Ashleigh
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: chronic health conditions
subject: physician-patient relationship

description: The current thesis aims to understand the role of the physician–patient relationship in the treatment of chronic health conditions, paying particular attention to patient perspectives. Although stronger physician–patient relationships have been consistently linked to improved patient outcomes such as adherence to treatment and satisfaction with care (Farin et al., 2013; Kersting, 2019; Orom et al., 2018), a clear conceptualisation of the physician–patient relationship is lacking as is the identification of the specific behavioural skills needed to build a physician–patient relationship (McCabe et al., 2018; Nowak, 2011). Additionally, the psychological mechanisms that underpin the connection between the physician–patient relationship and patient outcomes remain unclear. Lastly, much of the information known about forming strong physician–patient relationships is informed by researcher and practitioner perspectives and not those of patients themselves. [...]
Gallium nanoparticles grow where light is
Creators: name: MacDonald, K. F.
name: Brocklesby, W. S.
name: Emelyanov, V. I.
name: Fedotov, V. A.
name: Pochon, S.
name: Ross, K. J.
name: Stevens, G.
name: Zheludev, N. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of metallic nanoparticles has a long tradition in linear and nonlinear optics [1], with current emphasis on the ultrafast dynamics, size, shape and collective effects in their optical response [2-6]. Nanoparticles also represent the ultimate confined geometry:high surface-to-volume ratios lead to local field enhancements and a range of dramatic modifications of the material's properties and phase diagram [7-9]. Confined gallium has become a subject of special interest as the light-induced structural phase transition recently observed in gallium films [10, 11] has allowed for the demonstration of all-optical switching devices that operate at low laser power [12]. Spontaneous self-assembly has been the main approach to the preparation of nanoparticles (for a review see 13). Here we report that light can dramatically influence the nanoparticle self-assembly process: illumination of a substrate exposed to a beam of gallium atoms results in the formation of nanoparticles with a relatively narrow size distribution. Very low light intensities, below the threshold for thermally-induced evaporation, exert considerable control over nanoparticle formation through non-thermal atomic desorption induced by electronic excitation.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Criticality of measures on 2-d Ising configurations: from square to hexagonal graphs
Creators: name: Apollonio, Valentina
name: D'Autilia, Roberto
name: Scoppola, Benedetto
name: Scoppola, Elisabetta
name: Troiani, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: On the space of Ising configurations on the 2-d square lattice, we consider a family of non Gibbsian measures introduced by using a pair Hamiltonian, depending on an additional inertial parameter $q$. These measures are related to the usual Gibbs measure on $\Z^2$ and turn out to be the marginal of the Gibbs measure of a suitable Ising model on the hexagonal lattice. The inertial parameter $q$ tunes the geometry of the system. The critical behaviour and the decay of correlation functions of these measures are studied thanks to relation with the Random Cluster model.
title: Extrem neutronenreicher Sauerstoffkern: Erstmalige Erzeugung von ²⁸O
Creators: name: Aumann, Thomas
name: Schwenk, Achim
Publisher: name: Wiley‐VCH
Year: 2025

description: Einem internationalen Forschungsteam ist es gelungen, den neutronenreichsten Sauerstoff Kern ²⁸O mit 20 Neutronen an der Forschungsanlage RIKEN in Japan zu erzeugen. Dies gibt entscheidende Einblicke in die starke Wechselwirkung unter den neutronenreichsten Bedingungen, die im Labor erreicht werden können. Diese wichtigen Tests der starken Wechselwirkung erlauben es, verlässliche Vorhersagen für neutronenreiche Materie in Neutronensternen zu entwickeln.
Synthesis, Antimicrobial Activity and Molecular Docking of Pyrazole Bearing the Benzodiazepine Moiety
Creators: name: Nisheeth. C. Desai
name: Surbhi B. Joshi
name: Khedkar, Vijay M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A convenient one-pot synthesis of pyrazole bearing benzodiazepine derivatives (2a-t) is described with the use of simple chemicals. Structures of the synthesized compounds are characterized by spectral techniques like IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, and ESI-MS. Synthesized compounds were studied for their antimicrobial activity against strains of bacteria (E. coli, P. aeruginosa and S. aureus, S. pyogenes) and fungi (C. albicans, A. niger, and A. clavatus) using serial dilution method. In the present study, derivatives 2b and 2e, furnished excellent antibacterial activity while 2i and 2k, showed potential antifungal activity. Molecular docking against critical microbial target DNA gyrase could provide insights into binding modes of molecules and the thermodynamic interactions influencing the binding affinity.
Electronic supplementary material (ESM) from Reversible plasticity in brain size, behaviour and physiology characterizes caste transitions in a socially flexible ant (Harpegnathos saltator)
Creators: name: Penick, Clint A.
name: Ghaninia, Majid
name: Haight, Kevin L.
name: Opachaloemphan, Comzit
name: Yan, Hua
name: Reinberg, Danny
name: Liebig, Jürgen
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021

description: Supplementary methods, tables, and figures
Structure fusion based on graph convolutional networks for semi-supervised classification
Creators: name: Lin, Guangfeng
name: Wang, Jing
name: Liao, Kaiyang
name: Zhao, Fan
name: Chen, Wanjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Suffering from the multi-view data diversity and complexity for semi-supervised classification, most of existing graph convolutional networks focus on the networks architecture construction or the salient graph structure preservation, and ignore the the complete graph structure for semi-supervised classification contribution. To mine the more complete distribution structure from multi-view data with the consideration of the specificity and the commonality, we propose structure fusion based on graph convolutional networks (SF-GCN) for improving the performance of semi-supervised classification. SF-GCN can not only retain the special characteristic of each view data by spectral embedding, but also capture the common style of multi-view data by distance metric between multi-graph structures. Suppose the linear relationship between multi-graph structures, we can construct the optimization function of structure fusion model by balancing the specificity loss and the commonality loss. By solving this function, we can simultaneously obtain the fusion spectral embedding from the multi-view data and the fusion structure as adjacent matrix to input graph convolutional networks for semi-supervised classification. Experiments demonstrate that the performance of SF-GCN outperforms that of the state of the arts on three challenging datasets, which are Cora,Citeseer and Pubmed in citation networks.
Thesis: Developing Knowledge-based systems for the automation of SDLC tasks
Creators: name: Kapur, Ritu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: Abstract: The cost of a skilled and competent software engineer is high, and it is desirable to minimize dependency on such costly human resources. One of the ways to reduce such costs is via automation of various software development tasks.
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the availability of a large volume of knowledge bearing data at various software development related venues present a ripe opportunity for developing tools that can automate software development tasks. For instance, there is significant latent knowledge present in raw or unstructured data associated with Version Control Systems (VCS) artifacts such as source files, code commit logs, and defect reports, available in the Open Source Software (OSS) repositories.
We have leveraged such knowledge-bearing data, the latest advances in AI and hardware, to create knowledge warehouses and expert systems for the software development domain. Such tools can help develop applications for performing various software development tasks such as defect prediction, effort estimation, and code review.
Contributions: We have proposed novel approaches and tools to address the following software development tasks:
1) Automating the Software Development Effort Estimation (SDEE)
2) Detecting source code defectiveness
3) Detecting irrelevant libraries in a software distributable
4) Automation of source code review
title: Modeling Phase Separation in Grain‐Fluid Mixture Flows by a Depth‐Averaged Approach With Dilatancy Effects
Creators: name: Sun, Weihang
name: Wang, Yongqi
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2025

description: In this work, we propose a comprehensive two‐layer depth‐averaged model to study the dynamic behavior of grain‐fluid mixtures, which considers the granular dilatancy effects and the different frictional rheologies of grains in different states. Unlike single‐phase flows, not only the interaction between granular and fluid phases significantly influence the dynamics of mixtures, but also the phase separation, so that different flow regimes can occur. These include five different possible regimes: two‐layer regimes of (a) under‐saturated mixture and (b) over‐saturated mixture as well as single‐layer regimes of (c) saturated mixture, (d) pure grains and (e) pure fluid. Most depth‐averaged models in previous studies have considered only one of these flow regimes. The present model is an improved and integrated version of these depth‐averaged models. Taking into account that the pure grains and pure fluid in the upper layer, which occur in the regimes of the under‐saturated and over‐saturated grain‐fluid mixtures, respectively, exhibit different flow features than in the lower layer of the saturated mixture, we use a two‐phase two‐layer depth‐averaged model to describe these regimes. This proposed model is possibly the first to employ a two‐layer structure to describe all possible different flow regimes simultaneously. The proposed model is then solved numerically using a high‐resolution central‐upwind scheme and shows its ability to handle different flow regimes. To demonstrate the robustness of the numerical implementation and to evaluate the performance of the model, the numerical results are compared with several experiments reported in the literature, showing a certain qualitative agreement.
Application of Multivariate Equations for Solvents to Interpret the Effects of Solvent on the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrum of Alpha (2-Hydroxy-1-Phenyl) Nitron Compounds
Creators: name: Taqa, Amer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 30101 Analytical Spectrometry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Application of Multivariate Equations for Solvents to Interpret the Effects of Solvent on the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrum of Alpha (2-Hydroxy-1-Phenyl) Nitron Compounds
Distribution of laser shot noise energy delivered to a levitated nanoparticle
Creators: name: Seberson, T.
name: Robicheaux, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper quantifies the rate at which laser shot noise energy is delivered to a nanoparticle for the various scenarios commonly encountered in levitated optomechanics. While previous articles have the same form and dependencies, the proportionality constants often differ in the literature. This paper resolves these discrepancies. The rate at which energy is delivered to an optically trapped particle's respective degrees of freedom depends on the radiation pattern of scattered light as well as the direction of laser propagation. For a traveling plane wave with linearly polarized light, in the Rayleigh regime this leads the translational shot noise heating rate to be proportional to $1/10$ of the total rate in the laser polarization direction, $7/10$ in the laser propagation direction, and $2/10$ in the direction perpendicular to both. Analytical expressions for the shot noise heating rate are provided in the Rayleigh limit as well as numerical calculations for particles in the Mie regime for silica and diamond. For completeness, numerical calculations of the shot noise heating for silica Mie particles at the focus of a strongly focused laser beam are calculated for varying numerical aperture and common laser wavelengths. Both numerical calculations show that the Rayleigh expression generally gives an overestimate of the shot noise heating especially for larger radii, but is still a good approximation even for incident focal fields. The exception to the relative decrease is when a Mie resonance is reached which was found for diamond. Lastly, Rayleigh expressions for the rotational shot noise heating for a symmetric top-like particle for linear, elliptically, and unpolarized light are also provided.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Effects of additives in colloidal silica based inorganic-hybrid binder for mineral wool insulation boards
Creators: name: Hyunseok Ko
name: Lee, Hee-Seon
name: Lim, Hyung Mi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: In the mineral insulation board industry, it has been a challenge to replace the current organic binder to eco-friendly inorganic binder to enhance the fire-resistance, and reduce toxicity. Inorganic and hybrid (organic-inorganic) type materials are often used, but the effects of these binders on the properties of the insulation board are little understood when applied to ceramic wool. In this study, silica-sol base binders with additives such as fumed silica, silicates, methyltrimethoxy silane, or polysiloxane are utilized. The inorganic-hybrid binders are used to understand how they change the microstructure, and how these changes in microstructure influence the insulation board properties. The effects of (i) the morphology of silica, (ii) adding alkali-silicates, and (iii) adding network modifiers are investigated for silica-sol type binders by assessing properties of fabricated boards, such as thermal conductivity, compressive strength, and water absorption rate. In particular, for a binder of colloidal silica with silicate and polysiloxane, we found that this binder forms clot-like hubs at junctions while embedding fibers. Thus, this structure allows the insulation board to withstand higher compression stress while having equivalent thermal insulation and waterproof performance as a phenolic binder.
The afterglow and complex environment of the optically dim burst GRB 980613
Creators: name: Hjorth, Jens
name: Thomsen, Bjarne
name: Nielsen, Svend R.
name: Andersen, Michael I.
name: Holland, Stephen T.
name: Fynbo, Johan U.
name: Pedersen, Holger
name: Jaunsen, Andreas O.
name: Halpern, Jules P.
name: Fesen, Robert
name: Gorosabel, Javier
name: Castro-Tirado, Alberto
name: McMahon, Richard G.
name: Hoenig, Michael D.
name: Björnsson, Gunnlaugur
name: Amati, Lorenzo
name: Tanvir, Nial R.
name: Natarajan, Priyamvada
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the identification of the optical afterglow of GRB 980613 in R- and I-band images obtained between 16 and 48 hours after the gamma-ray burst. Early near-infrared (NIR) H and K' observations are also reported. The afterglow was optically faint (R ~ 23) at discovery but did not exhibit an unusually rapid decay (power-law decay slope alpha < 1.8 at 2 sigma). The optical/NIR spectral index (beta_RH < 1.1) was consistent with the optical-to-X-ray spectral index (beta_RX ~ 0.6), indicating a maximal reddening of the afterglow of ~0.45 mag in R. Hence the dimness of the optical afterglow was mainly due to the fairly flat spectral shape rather than internal reddening in the host galaxy. We also present late-time HST/STIS images of the field in which GRB 980613 occurred, obtained 799 days after the burst. These images show that GRB 980613 was located close to a very compact, blue V = 26.1 object inside a complex region consisting of star-forming knots and/or interacting galaxy fragments. Therefore, GRB 980613 constitutes a strong case for the association of cosmological gamma-ray bursts with star-forming regions.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures, ApJ, in press
Useful Statistical Methods for Human Factors Research in Software Engineering: A Discussion on Validation with Quantitative Data
Creators: name: Gren, Lucas
name: Goldman, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we describe the usefulness of statistical validation techniques for human factors survey research. We need to investigate a diversity of validity aspects when creating metrics in human factors research, and we argue that the statistical tests used in other fields to get support for reliability and construct validity in surveys, should also be applied to human factors research in software engineering more often. We also show briefly how such methods can be applied (Test-Retest, Cronbach's α, and Exploratory Factor Analysis).
InTheMED D7.1b Communication and Dissemination Plan. Version 2.0
Creators: name: Lino Pereira, João
name: Azevedo, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Communication and Dissemination Plan
CDP
Innovative Communication
Innovative Dissemination
Mediterranean

description: The Communication and Dissemination Plan is the deliverable number D7.1b of the “Innovative and Sustainable Groundwater Management in the Mediterranean” Grant Agreement Number 1923 project. This document aims to consolidate the communication and dissemination strategy of the InTheMED project, identify the most efficient means to communicate with partners and stakeholders and to disseminate, exploit and communicate the results. To this end, the current communication and dissemination plan (CDP) sets out the objectives, tools, materials, and channels to be exploited to effectively spread InTheMED activities, achievements and tangible results to targeted audiences and relevant stakeholder. This document is the second version of the Communication and Dissemination Plan and depending on the efficiency of the communication and dissemination strategy, there could be more deliverable versions at project’s mid-term.
description: This project is part of the PRIMA Programme supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 1923.
title: Discovery and Development of Anti-Infective Natural Products and Derivatives from Eremophila Plants
Creators: name: Zhang, Chen
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: phytochemistry
subject: eremophila
subject: semi-synthetic
subject: natural products

description: The use of natural products has been a successful strategy for the discovery of new medicines for the past two centuries. As Newman et al. reported in their recent 2020 review, up to 23.5% of the 1881 drugs approved during 1981-2019 were natural products or their derivatives. Natural products, with their vast array of unique structures and unusual functional groups, have inspired the creation of new chemical entities through synthetic and medicinal chemistry. They have a proven track record in drug discovery and have been successfully used as lead or drug candidates for complex biological targets. Natural products can be derived from plants, microorganisms, and animals inhabiting terrestrial or marine ecosystems. Among the various sources of natural products, plants have been the predominant source of traditional medicines for centuries in many countries. In Australia, the endemic plant genus Eremophila has been widely used in Aboriginal tribal life for ceremonial rites and medical applications. With advances in scientific innovation and research methods, the ethnopharmacological knowledge of Eremophila plants has been transformed into the realm of modern drug discovery. Chemical investigations have revealed that Eremophila holds immense potential as a source of new chemistry and unique molecular scaffolds, with a variety of structural classes such as terpenoids, flavonoids, sterols, lignans, and fatty acids. While several terpenoid subclasses have been reported from this genus, the major subclass is the diterpenoid serrulatanes. Additionally, Eremophila-derived extracts or specialized metabolites have been found to exhibit a wide range of promising biological activities, including antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antimalarial activity. However, many of the 287 species in this genus have yet to be chemically investigated. This under-exploration presents a promising avenue for new discoveries and underscores the need for further chemical research in this area. The potential impact of new natural products and semisynthetic analogues on biodiscovery and pharmacological research is significant, and this is the driving force behind our exploration of the chemistry of plants that belong to the endemic Australian genus, Eremophila. [...]