cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Radiative capture reaction for $^{17}$Ne formation within a full three-body model
Creators: name: Casal, J.
name: Garrido, E.
name: de Diego, R.
name: Arias, J. M.
name: Rodríguez-Gallardo, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: The breakout from the hot Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxigen (CNO) cycles can trigger the rp-process in type I x-ray bursts. In this environment, a competition between $^{15}\text{O}(α,γ){^{19}\text{Ne}}$ and the two-proton capture reaction $^{15}\text{O}(2p,γ){^{17}\text{Ne}}$ is expected. Purpose: Determine the three-body radiative capture reaction rate for ${^{17}\text{Ne}}$ formation including sequential and direct, resonant and non-resonant contributions on an equal footing. Method: Two different discretization methods have been applied to generate $^{17}$Ne states in a full three-body model: the analytical transformed harmonic oscillator method and the hyperspherical adiabatic expansion method. The binary $p$--$^{15}$O interaction has been adjusted to reproduce the known spectrum of the unbound $^{16}$F nucleus. The dominant $E1$ contributions to the $^{15}\text{O}(2p,γ){^{17}\text{Ne}}$ reaction rate have been calculated from the inverse photodissociation process. Results: Three-body calculations provide a reliable description of $^{17}$Ne states. The agreement with the available experimental data on $^{17}$Ne is discussed. It is shown that the $^{15}\text{O}(2p,γ){^{17}\text{Ne}}$ reaction rates computed within the two methods agree in a broad range of temperatures. The present calculations are compared with a previous theoretical estimation of the reaction rate. Conclusions: It is found that the full three-body model provides a reaction rate several orders of magnitude larger than the only previous estimation. The implications for the rp-process in type I x-ray bursts should be investigated.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures. Corrected version
LMNA Co-Regulated Gene Expression as a Suitable Readout after Precise Gene Correction
Creators: name: Wang, Haicui
name: Krause, Anne
name: Escobar, Helena
name: Müthel, Stefanie
name: Metzler, Eric
name: Spuler, Simone
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: laminopathy
subject: muscular dystrophy
subject: LMNA co-regulated genes
subject: near-PAMless cytosine base editor
subject: serum-induced differentiation (SID)
subject: patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: LMNA-related muscular dystrophy is an autosomal-dominant progressive disorder caused by mutations in LMNA. LMNA missense mutations are becoming correctable with CRISPR/Cas9-derived tools. Evaluating the functional recovery of LMNA after gene editing bears challenges as there is no reported direct loss of function of lamin A/C proteins in patient-derived cells. The proteins encoded by LMNA are lamins A/C, important ubiquitous nuclear envelope proteins but absent in pluripotent stem cells. We induced lamin A/C expression in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) of two patients with LMNA-related muscular dystrophy, NM_170707.4 (LMNA): c.1366A > G, p.(Asn456Asp) and c.1494G > T, p.(Trp498Cys), using a short three-day, serum-induced differentiation protocol and analyzed expression profiles of co-regulated genes, examples being COL1A2 and S100A6. We then performed precise gene editing of LMNA c.1366A > G using the near-PAMless (PAM: protospacer-adjacent motif) cytosine base editor. We show that the mutation can be repaired to 100% efficiency in individual iPSC clones. The fast differentiation protocol provided a functional readout and demonstrated increased lamin A/C expression as well as normalized expression of co-regulated genes. Collectively, our findings demonstrate the power of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene correction and effective outcome measures in a disease with, so far, little perspective on therapies.
Gallup Poll # 270
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Would/would not like United States to join League of Nations (1); national sales tax (1); voting for incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 (1); deportation of Harry Bridges (2); law banning Communist party (1); prisoners allowed to enlist (1); national elections this year (3); U.S. Senators coming up for re-election in fall (1); war bonds or stamps (1); Britain, U.S. doing all they can to win World War II (2); civilian defense (1); Japan/Germany number one enemy in war (1); how to treat Hitler and Nazi leaders after war (2); clear idea what war is all about (2); Black and white soldiers serving together (1); amount of money CEOs of large corporations should be able to keep after taxes (1); interest in coming elections (2); vote in 1940 (2); Roosevelt job approval (1); gas rationing (2); own car (1); rationing affecting spending (3); disobeying gas rationing rules (3).
Towards land use planning conflict resolution through spatially consistent participatory scenario modelling
Creators: name: Allan, Ian .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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On plastikstufe, bordered Legendrian open book and overtwisted contact structures
Creators: name: Huang, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we prove the presence of an embedded plastikstufe implies overtwistedness of the contact structure in any dimension. Moreover, we show in dimension 5 that the presence of an embedded bordered Legendrian open book (bLob) also implies overtwistedness. Applications of these criteria to certain (contact) fibered connected sums and open books are discussed.
description: final version; substantial revisions; to appear in the Journal of Topology
Individual changes in stress, depression, anxiety, pathological worry, posttraumatic stress, and health anxiety from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults from Southeastern Germany
Creators: name: Wechsler, Theresa F.
name: Schmidmeier, Melissa
name: Biehl, Stefanie
name: Gerczuk, Jennifer
name: Guerrero-Cerda, Fiorella-Maria
name: Mühlberger, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: COVID-19, Mental health, Stress, Depression, Anxiety, Panic disorder, Generalized anxiety, Health anxiety, Pathological worry, Posttraumatic stress
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Background Many studies have previously compared the prevalence or sample means of distress and mental health problems from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic, while results on changes at the individual-level, and regarding multiple outcome measures are demanded. Methods This online study investigated individual changes in stress and mental health from before the COVID-19 pandemic to the first lockdown in adults from Southeastern Germany. This region was selected as it was where SARS-CoV-2 was first documented in Germany, and also due to the implementation of strict stay-at-home orders and social contact prohibitions. From April 10–27, 2020, we collected state measures and their clinical relevance for the subareas of perceived stress: worries, tension, joy, and demands. We also collected information regarding the following mental health problems: depression, anxiety, pathological worry, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and health anxiety; as well as retrospective measures of how participants felt they have changed in comparison to before the pandemic, ranging from worse to better. Results The analytical sample comprised 396 adult participants. On average, participants experienced increases in worries, tension, and lack of joy, and increases in mental health problems, but a decrease in demands. Perceived increases in symptoms of depression (26.0%) and PTSD (25.5%) were significantly more frequent than in symptoms of anxiety (particularly acute fear and panic) (5.6%), pathological worry (9.8%), and health anxiety (7.3%) (ps<.001). One per 10 participants (10.4%) reported an increase in depressive symptoms, and nearly two per 10 (18.4%) an increase in PTSD symptoms and additionally showed a clinically relevant symptom strain during lockdown. Interestingly, mainly non-specific PTSD symptoms associated with a general stress reaction were experienced to be increased. Conclusion The findings suggest a dissociation of perceived changes in subareas of stress and mental health with a particular experience of increases in depressive and general stress symptoms and a decrease in external demands. This points to a need for a more differentiated view on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress and mental health, and for targeted interventions for mental health problems arising frequently during the pandemic.
Feminine divinity in Christian and Hindu traditions : using the ideas of Luce Irigaray
Creators: name: Wynack, Mary.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Auswendig gelernt Abgefragt Abgehakt?
Creators: name: Müller, Marcel
name: Leiss, Dominik
name: Schukajlow, Stanislaw
name: Blum, Werner
name: Messner, Rudolf
name: Pekrum, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Das von der DFG geförderte Projekt DISUM 1 versucht unter anderem der Frage nachzugehen, durch welche didaktischen Interventionsformen Modellierungskompetenzen langfristig vermittelt werden können. Im Rahmen des Projekts wurden innerhalb einer zehnstündigen Unterrichtseinheit zwei kontrastierende Unterrichtsformen "direktiver" und "operativ-strategischer" Unterricht untersucht. Dabei wurden sowohl Leistungseffekte als auch Unterrichtswahrnehmungen der Schüler hinsichtlich ihrer Nachhaltigkeit erfasst. Es wurde der Versuch unternommen herauszufinden, in welchem Maße die beiden genannten Unterrichtsformen, die im folgenden Abschnitt näher beschrieben werden, Modellierungskompetenzen der Schüler und deren Unterrichtswahrnehmungen beeinflussen. In diesem Beitrag sollen erste vorsichtige Tendenzaussagen hierzu formuliert werden.
MPEC 2023-S158 : 2023 SD4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 SD4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
A mesoscopic approach to subcritical fatigue crack growth
Creators: name: Araújo, Maycon S.
name: Vieira, André P.
name: Andrade, José S.
name: Herrmann, Hans J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a model for fatigue crack growth in which damage accumulation is assumed to follow a power law of the local stress amplitude, a form which can be generically justified on the grounds of the approximately self-similar aspect of microcrack distributions. Our aim is to determine the relation between model ingredients and the Paris exponent governing subcritical crack-growth dynamics at the macroscopic scale, starting from a single small notch propagating along a fixed line. By a series of analytical and numerical calculations, we show that, in the absence of disorder, there is a critical damage-accumulation exponent $γ$, namely $γ_c=2$, separating two distinct regimes of behavior for the Paris exponent $m$. For $γ>γ_c$, the Paris exponent is shown to assume the value $m=γ$, a result which proves robust against the separate introduction of various modifying ingredients. Explicitly, we deal here with (i) the requirement of a minimum stress for damage to occur; (ii) the presence of disorder in local damage thresholds; (iii) the possibility of crack healing. On the other hand, in the regime $γ
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. E
Exponential decay of covariances for the supercritical membrane model
Creators: name: Bolthausen, Erwin
name: Cipriani, Alessandra
name: Kurt, Noemi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the membrane model, that is the centered Gaussian field on $\mathbb Z^d$ whose covariance matrix is given by the inverse of the discrete Bilaplacian. We impose a $δ-$pinning condition, giving a reward of strength $\varepsilon$ for the field to be $0$ at any site of the lattice. In this paper we prove that in dimensions $d\geq 5$ covariances of the pinned field decay at least exponentially, as opposed to the field without pinning, where the decay is polynomial. The proof is based on estimates for certain discrete weighted norms, a percolation argument and on a Bernoulli domination result.
description: 23 pages, 2 figures. Comments are welcome
The Broadband Spectral Variability of Holmberg IX X-1
Creators: name: Walton, D. J.
name: Fuerst, F.
name: Harrison, F. A.
name: Middleton, M. J.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Bachetti, M.
name: Barret, D.
name: Miller, J. M.
name: Ptak, A.
name: Rana, V.
name: Stern, D.
name: Tao, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from four new broadband X-ray observations of the extreme ultraluminous X-ray source Holmberg IX X-1 ($L_{\rm{X}} > 10^{40}$ erg/s), performed by $Suzaku$ and $NuSTAR$ in coordination. Combined with the archival data, we now have broadband observations of this remarkable source from six separate epochs. Two of these new observations probe lower fluxes than seen previously, allowing us to extend our knowledge of the broadband spectral variability exhibited. The spectra are well fit by two thermal blackbody components, which dominate the emission below 10 keV, as well as a steep ($Γ\sim 3.5$) powerlaw tail which dominates above $\sim$15 keV. Remarkably, while the 0.3-10.0 keV flux varies by a factor of $\sim$3 between all these epochs, the 15-40 keV flux varies by only $\sim$20%. Although the spectral variability is strongest in the $\sim$1-10 keV band, both of the thermal components are required to vary when all epochs are considered. We also re-visit the search for iron absorption features, leveraging the high-energy $NuSTAR$ data to improve our sensitivity to extreme velocity outflows in light of the ultra-fast outflow recently detected in NGC 1313 X-1. Iron absorption from a similar outflow along our line of sight can be ruled out in this case. We discuss these results in the context of super-Eddington accretion models that invoke a funnel-like geometry for the inner flow, and propose a scenario in which we have an almost face-on view of a funnel that expands to larger radii with increasing flux, resulting in an increasing degree of geometrical collimation for the emission from intermediate temperature regions.
description: 11 pages, 6 Figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
An innovative approach to Thermal Energy Storage and Self-Sufficiency in Buildings
Creators: name: Caixach, Ariadna
name: Arnau Alarcón
name: Garay, Roberto
name: Cuneo, Alessandra
name: Valentino, Sergio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: energy self-sufficiency
subject: thermal energy storage
subject: sustainable buildings
subject: district heating (DH)
subject: Near Zero Energy Buildings
subject: https://www.chess-setup.net/
subject: http://www.hybuild.eu/
subject: http://www.sunhorizon-project.eu/
subject: http://www.relatedproject.eu/

description: CHESS SETUP 2nd webinar to discuss about Thermal Energy Storage and Self-Sufficiency in Buildings. The Energy Performance Building Directive (EPDV, 2010) states that by 2020 all new buildings should reach “nearly zero-energy” performance levels using innovative and cost optimal technologies with integration of renewable energy. The use of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) in buildings in combination with space heating, domestic hot water and space cooling has recently received much attention. This is the special topic of the webminar with the collaboration from RELaTED, SunHorizon and HYBUILD projects coordinators.
Evolutionary models of scientific theory change
Creators: name: Wilkins, John S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Raman signatures of inversion symmetry breaking and structural phase transition in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2
Creators: name: Zhang, Kenan
name: Bao, Changhua
name: Gu, Qiangqiang
name: Ren, Xiao
name: Zhang, Haoxiong
name: Deng, Ke
name: Wu, Yang
name: Li, Yuan
name: Feng, Ji
name: Zhou, Shuyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transition metal dichalcogenide MoTe$_2$ is an important candidate for realizing the newly predicted type-IIWeyl fermions, for which the breaking of the inversion symmetry is a prerequisite. Here we present direct spectroscopic evidence for the inversion symmetry breaking in the low temperature phase of MoTe$_2$ by systematic Raman experiments and first principles calculations. We identify five lattice vibrational modes which are Raman active only in noncentrosymmetric structure at low temperature. A hysteresis is also observed in the peak intensity of inversion symmetry activated Raman modes, confirming a temperature induced structural phase transition with a concomitant change in the inversion symmetry. Our results provide definitive evidence for the low temperature noncentrosymmetric T$_d$ phase from vibrational spectroscopy, and suggest MoTe$_2$ as an ideal candidate for investigating the temperature induced topological phase transition.
Neural correlates of lateral modulation and perceptual filling-in in center-surround radial sinusoidal gratings: an fMRI study
Creators: name: Lin, Yih-Shiuan
name: Chen, Chien-Chung
name: Greenlee, Mark W.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie

description: We investigated lateral modulation effects with functional magnetic resonance imaging. We presented radial sinusoidal gratings in random sequence: a scotoma grating with two arc-shaped blank regions (scotomata) in the periphery, one in the left and one in the right visual field, a center grating containing pattern only in the scotoma regions, and a full-field grating where the pattern occupied the whole screen. On each trial, one of the three gratings flickered in counterphase for 10 s, followed by a blank period. Observers were instructed to perform a fixation task and report whether filling-in was experienced during the scotoma condition. The results showed that the blood-oxygen-level-dependent signal was reduced in areas corresponding to the scotoma regions in the full-field compared to the center condition in V1 to V3 areas, indicating a lateral inhibition effect when the surround was added to the center pattern. The univariate analysis results showed no difference between the filling-in and no-filling-in trials. However, multivariate pattern analysis results showed that classifiers trained on activation pattern in V1 to V3 could differentiate between filling-in and no-filling-in trials, suggesting that the neural activation pattern in visual cortex correlated with the subjective percept.
Localized Sparsifying Preconditioner for Periodic Indefinite Systems
Creators: name: Liu, Fei
name: Ying, Lexing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper introduces the localized sparsifying preconditioner for the pseudospectral approximations of indefinite systems on periodic structures. The work is built on top of the recently proposed sparsifying preconditioner with two major modifications. First, the local potential information is utilized to improve the accuracy of the preconditioner. Second, an FFT based method to compute the local stencil is proposed to reduce the setup time of the algorithm. Numerical results show that the iteration number of this improved method grows only mildly as the problem size grows, which implies that solving pseudospectral approximation systems is computationally as efficient as solving sparse systems, up to a mildly growing factor.
Subsampled online matrix factorization with convergence guarantees
Creators: name: Mensch, Arthur
name: Mairal, Julien
name: Varoquaux, Gaël
name: Thirion, Bertrand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a matrix factorization algorithm that scales to input matrices that are large in both dimensions (i.e., that contains morethan 1TB of data). The algorithm streams the matrix columns while subsampling them, resulting in low complexity per iteration andreasonable memory footprint. In contrast to previous online matrix factorization methods, our approach relies on low-dimensional statistics from past iterates to control the extra variance introduced by subsampling. We present a convergence analysis that guarantees us to reach a stationary point of the problem. Large speed-ups can be obtained compared to previous online algorithms that do not perform subsampling, thanks to the feature redundancy that often exists in high-dimensional settings.
USIA World Survey 3
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: General opinion and compatibility of France, West Germany, Italy, the United States, Russia, Communist China; interests of France in relation to USSR; prevention of World War III; assessment of the American government's international policies; strongest world power now and twenty five years from now; comparison of space programs of USA and USSR; Western European unity; Common Market problem; population growth problem; evaluation of world leaders; international disarmament policies, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); United Nations; Vietnam war; relationship with Communist powers in Asia; attitude toward Black people in Great Britain, USA, USSR; Communist China nuclear test explosion, US business investments in France.
An examination of some historical and literary influences on the composition, form and publication of the received text of the De viris illustribus of the unknown author
Creators: name: Dolley, R. William .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Australian BioCommons Community Engagement Strategy: Understanding community-scale challenges to inform solution delivery
Creators: name: Nelson, Tiffanie
name: Lonie, Andrew
name: Gustafsson, Johan
name: Christiansen, Jeff
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Community Engagement
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Digital Infrastructure
subject: Knowledge Transfer
subject: Engagement Process
subject: Genome Annotation
subject: Genome Assembly

description: ABSTRACT / INTRODUCTION Background The Australian BioCommons develops digital capacity, training, and bioinformatics infrastructure to support Australia’s life scientists. So how can we identify the greatest needs of many thousands of geographically dispersed researchers, and also deliver useful infrastructure? Strong user engagement is paramount to understand community needs and direct the deployment and resourcing of appropriate infrastructure to ensure maximum impact. Methods We have developed a five-step process of engagement that maximises community interaction, from initiation to deployment. Results 1/ Identify meaningful communities of manageable scope around focus areas with infrastructure challenges, such as genome assembly and annotation of non-model organisms, and microbiome analysis; 2/ Research the community topic area to understand broad needs and challenges to engage members; 3/ Communicate with the broad community, inclusive of everyone from any expertise level or any institution, to identify issues, roadblocks, and solutions/suggestions through electronic surveys, shared discussion boards, and virtual meetings; 4/ Document the challenges and, in discussion with infrastructure specialists, detail conceptual solutions with an endorsement from a subset of practitioners from the community, formalised in an Infrastructure Roadmap, which forms a blueprint for solutions that can be deployed to address the community challenges; and, 5/ Deploy and implement solutions with our infrastructure partners, with testing and feedback from the community. Conclusion Through this engagement process, the Australian BioCommons has identified and then coordinated work to deploy essential infrastructure that was previously lacking to support critical communities (e.g. those undertaking genome annotation). Successful outcomes are measured by positive responses from the community (e.g. turning up in large numbers, actively joining the discussion), and active use by early adopters, and uptake of deployed services that have been identified by various communities The consultation method is now being applied to engage a diverse range of communities.
title: Hepatitis C virus infection
title: Establishment of chronicity and liver disease progression
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kwon, Young-Chan
name: Ray, Ratna B.
name: Ray, Ranjit
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: HCV
subject: DAAs
subject: miRNAs
subject: EMT
subject: fibrosis
subject: TISCs
subject: 610

description: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) often causes persistent infection, and is an important factor in the etiology of fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). There are no preventive or therapeutic vaccines available against HCV. Treatment strategies of HCV infection are likely to improve with recently discovered direct antiviral agents (DAAs). However, a proportion of patients still progress to liver failure and/or HCC despite having been cured of the infection. Thus, there is a need for early diagnosis and therapeutic modalities for HCV relatedend stage liver disease prevention. HCV genome does not integrate into its host genome, and has a predominantly cytoplasmic life cycle. Therefore, HCV mediated liver disease progression appears to involve indirect mechanisms from persistent infection of hepatocytes. Studying the underlying mechanisms of HCV mediated evasion of immune responses and liver disease progression is challenging due to the lack of a naturally susceptible small animal model. We and other investigators have used a number of experimental systems to investigate the mechanisms for establishment of chronic HCV infection and liver disease progression. HCV infection modulates immune systems. Further, HCV infection of primary human hepatocytes promotes growth, induces phenotypic changes, modulates epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) related genes, and generates tumor initiating stem-like cells (TISCs). HCV infection also modulates microRNAs (miRNAs), and influences growth by overriding normal death progression of primary human hepatocytes for disease pathogenesis. Understanding these observations at the molecular level should aid in developing strategies for additional effective therapies against HCV mediated liver disease progression.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
Chern-Simons Theory and Wilson Loops in the Brillouin Zone
Creators: name: Lian, Biao
name: Vafa, Cumrun
name: Vafa, Farzan
name: Zhang, Shou-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Berry connection is conventionally defined as a static gauge field in the Brillouin zone. Here we show that for three-dimensional (3d) time-reversal invariant superconductors, a generalized Berry gauge field behaves as a fluctuating field of a Chern-Simons gauge theory. The gapless nodal lines in the momentum space play the role of Wilson loop observables, while their linking and knot invariants modify the gravitational theta angle. This angle induces a topological gravitomagnetoelectric effect where a temperature gradient induces a rotational energy flow. We also show how topological strings may be realized in the 6 dimensional phase space, where the physical space defects play the role of topological D-branes.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures
The Prices Surveillance Authority versus publishers and authors : an examination of the issues and public debate surrounding the recommendations of the Copyright Law Review Committee and Prices Surveillance Authority to amend the importation provisions of the Copyright Act 1968
Creators: name: Arndell, Kim.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Waveguiding in Surface Plasmon Polariton Band Gap Structures
Creators: name: Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.
name: Erland, John
name: Hvam, Jørn M.
name: Leosson, Kristjan
name: Skovgaard, Peter M. W.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
IFOP Study of Public Opinion
Creators: name: Institut Francais D'Opinion Publique
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Opinion regarding the soundness of various national currencies; Vietnam War; international problems; evaluation of President Georges de Gaulle; political party assessment; de Gaulle's press conference; vote intention; opinion of Great Britain; opinion of the United States; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Atlantic defense; American investments in France; Black people in America; population control.
Triads and their involvement in fraud related offences in New South Wales
Creators: name: Bow, J. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Localization of supersymmetric field theories on non-compact hyperbolic three-manifolds
Creators: name: Assel, Benjamin
name: Martelli, Dario
name: Murthy, Sameer
name: Yokoyama, Daisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study supersymmetric gauge theories with an R-symmetry, defined on non-compact, hyperbolic, Riemannian three-manifolds, focusing on the case of a supersymmetry-preserving quotient of Euclidean AdS$_3$. We compute the exact partition function in these theories, using the method of localization, thus reducing the problem to the computation of one-loop determinants around a supersymmetric locus. We evaluate the one-loop determinants employing three different techniques: an index theorem, the method of pairing of eigenvalues, and the heat kernel method. Along the way, we discuss aspects of supersymmetry in manifolds with a conformal boundary, including supersymmetric actions and boundary conditions.
description: v3:79p, minor clarifications and references added
Exploring Pediatric Healthcare Initiatives of Non-Governmental Organizations in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Creators: name: Taylor, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Pediatrics
Health outcomes
NGOs

description: Objective: To explore and describe how healthcare non-governmental organizations provide and evaluate programs and services that result in positive and sustainable health outcomes in children and adolescents living in low-and middle-income countries and to better understand the role of nursing within these organizations. Scoping Review: A scoping review informed by the Arksey & O’Malley framework was completed to explore the research on the delivery of pediatric health services by non-governmental organizations in low-and middle-income countries. Qualitative Study: Semi-structured interviews were conducted to share the voices and experiences of stakeholders working in the field of NGO practice to provide clarity, further insight and depth to the results from the scoping review and broaden the understanding of the role of nursing on this topic. Conclusions: Despite variability in practice and a multitude of competing priorities, outcome evaluation is growing within the field of pediatric NGO practice, and progress is being made towards evaluation of broader health outcomes besides unidimensional health indicators or outputs. Nurses can play a significant role in improving pediatric NGO program development and evaluation practices and are well positioned to be global health leaders who can influence policy and practice for the achievement of positive and sustainable health outcomes in children and adolescents in low-and middle-income countries.
Female genital mutilation in a multicultural Australia
Creators: name: Williams, Megan Lynne.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Stacking-sequence-independent band structure and shear exfoliation of two-dimensional electride materials
Creators: name: Yi, Seho
name: Choi, Jin-Ho
name: Lee, Kimoon
name: Kim, Sung Wng
name: Park, Chul Hong
name: Cho, Jun-Hyung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic band structure of crystals is generally influenced by the periodic arrangement of their constituent atoms. Specifically, the emerging two-dimensional (2D) layered structures have shown different band structures with respect to their stacking configurations. Here, based on first-principles density-functional theory calculations, we demonstrate that the band structure of the recently synthesized 2D Ca$_2$N electride changes little for the stacking sequence as well as the lateral interlayer shift. This intriguing invariance of band structure with respect to geometrical variations can be attributed to a complete screening of [Ca$_2$N]$^{+}$ cationic layers by anionic excess electrons delocalized between the cationic layers. The resulting weak interactions between 2D dressed cationic layers give rise to not only a shallow potential barrier for bilayer sliding but also an electron-doping facilitated shear exfoliation. Our findings open a route for exploration of the peculiar geometry-insensitive electronic properties in 2D electride materials, which will be useful for future thermally stable electronic applications.
IMPROVING THE PROCESS OF TRAINING AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS BASED ON THE FORMATION OF AN ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Creators: name: Shamsiev, Z. Z.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified
Space, maritime and aviation law

description: Information is provided on the results of research devoted to the improvement and development of the educational process of training aviation dispatchers. The issues of digitalization of educational and methodological support are being updated. The importance of convergence of the volume and composition of knowledge of university graduates in the specialty aviation dispatcher, based on the use of regulatory documents of civil aviation, is substantiated.
Hidden Order Signatures in the Antiferromagnetic Phase of U(Ru$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$)$_2$Si$_2$
Creators: name: Williams, T. J.
name: Wilson, M. N.
name: Aczel, A. A.
name: Stone, M. B.
name: Luke, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive set of elastic and inelastic neutron scattering measurements on a range of Fe-doped samples of U(Ru$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$)$_2$Si$_2$ with 0.01~$\le~x~\le$~0.15. All of the samples measured exhibit long-range antiferromagnetic order, with the size of the magnetic moment quickly increasing to 0.51~$μ_B$ at 2.5\% doping and continuing to increase monotonically with doping, reaching 0.69~$μ_B$ at 15\% doping. Time-of-flight and inelastic triple-axis measurements show the existence of excitations at (1~0~0) and (1.4~0~0) in all samples, which are also observed in the parent compound. While the excitations in the 1\% doping are quantitatively identical to the parent material, the gap and width of the excitations change rapidly at 2.5\% Fe doping and above. The 1\% doped sample shows evidence for a separation in temperature between the hidden order and antiferromagnetic transitions, suggesting that the antiferromagnetic state emerges at very low Fe dopings. The combined neutron scattering data suggests not only discontinuous changes in the magnetic moment and excitations between the hidden order and antiferromagnetic phases, but that these changes continue to evolve up to at least $x$~=~0.15.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Diel, Paolo Fernando: Ein katholisches Volk, aber eine Herde ohne Hirte(n)
Creators: name: Winkler, Gerhard B.
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 20, Heft 1
title: The development of Margery Kempe's 'maner of leuyng' : an interplay of oral and literate practices
Creators: name: Tuck, Lawrence
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines Margery Kempe's construction of her 'maner of leuyng', as it shifts back and forth between oral and literate cultures. Her devotional biography involves seeking advice, inspiration and support from literate men, and enclosed women of religion, both through verbal exchanges, and through listening to sermons, or hearing books read aloud. As a lay secular woman, Margery is dependent on literate men to receive recognition as one of the mulieres sanctae, to provide her with a connection to the literate world, and ultimately to aid in the production of the manuscript now known as The Book of Margery Kempe. Contextual topics include women and literacy, women and books, the education of women in the late medieval period, and especially orality and aurality. Margery's 'maner of leuyng' is shown to be not a random collection of characteristics and beliefs held by other holy men and women, but as a set of carefully selected traits and beliefs authorized and accredited by religious authorities. The relationship between the second amanuensis, or priest-scribe, and Margery is examined, including their individual roles in the production of the Book, as well as possible parallels between the Book and a Book of Hours, a book Margery may have possessed. The significance of codes of behaviour, including examining the relevance of meditatio, discretio spirituum, and tears and compunction, is also discussed.
Disorder effect on the anisotropic resistivity of phosphorene determined by a tight-binding model
Creators: name: Páez, Carlos J.
name: DeLello, Kursti
name: Le, Duy
name: Pereira, Ana L. C.
name: Mucciolo, Eduardo R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we develop a compact multi-orbital tight-binding model for phosphorene that accurately describes states near the main band gap. The model parameters are adjusted using as reference the band structure obtained by a density-functional theory calculation with the hybrid HSE06 functional. We use the optimized tight-binding model to study the effects of disorder on the anisotropic transport properties of phosphorene. In particular, we evaluate how the longitudinal resistivity depends on the lattice orientation for two typical disorder models: dilute scatterers with high potential fluctuation amplitudes, mimicking screened charges in the substrate, and dense scatterers with lower amplitudes, simulating weakly bounded adsorbates. We show that the intrinsic anisotropy associated to the band structure of this material, although sensitive to the type and intensity of the disorder, is robust.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Modernism on the periphery : Indonesian Islamic painting : the art of A.D. Pirous, Syaiful Adnan, Umi Dachlan and Agus Kamal
Creators: name: Raymond, Melanie Ann.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The geometry and origin of ultra-diffuse ghost galaxies
Creators: name: Burkert, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The geometry and intrinsic ellipticity distribution of ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) is determined from the line-of-sight distribution of axial ratios q of a large sample of UDGs, detected by Koda et al. (2015) in the Coma cluster. With high significance the data rules out an oblate, disk-like geometry, characterised by major axi a=b>c. The data is however in good agreement with prolate shapes, corresponding to a=b
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, ApJ, in press
MPEC 2023-S159 : 2023 SE4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 SE4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Gauged twistor spinors and symmetry operators
Creators: name: Ertem, Ümit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider gauged twistor spinors which are supersymmetry generators of supersymmetric and superconformal field theories in curved backgrounds. We show that the spinor bilinears of gauged twistor spinors satify the gauged conformal Killing-Yano equation. We prove that the symmetry operators of the gauged twistor spinor equation can be constructed from ordinary conformal Killing-Yano forms in constant curvature backgrounds. This provides a way to obtain gauged twistor spinors from ordinary twistor spinors.
description: 12 pages, published version
Ensemble Distribution for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media
Creators: name: Savani, Isha
name: Bedeaux, Dick
name: Kjelstrup, Signe
name: Vassvik, Morten
name: Sinha, Santanu
name: Hansen, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct an ensemble distribution to describe steady immiscible two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids in a porous medium. The system is found to be ergodic. The distribution is used to compute macroscopic flow parameters. In particular, we find an expression for the overall mobility of the system from the ensemble distribution. The entropy production at the scale of the porous medium is shown to give the expected product of the average flow and its driving force, obtained from a black-box description. We test numerically some of the central theoretical results.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures
Fully Bayesian Classification with Heavy-tailed Priors for Selection in High-dimensional Features with Grouping Structure
Creators: name: Jiang, Lai
name: Li, Longhai
name: Yao, Weixin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Feature selection is demanded in many modern scientific research problems that use high-dimensional data. A typical example is to find the most useful genes that are related to a certain disease (eg, cancer) from high-dimensional gene expressions. The expressions of genes have grouping structures, for example, a group of co-regulated genes that have similar biological functions tend to have similar expressions. Many statistical methods have been proposed to take the grouping structure into consideration in feature selection, including group LASSO, supervised group LASSO, and regression on group representatives. In this paper, we propose a fully Bayesian Robit regression method with heavy-tailed (sparsity) priors (shortened by FBRHT) for selecting features with grouping structure. The main features of FBRHT include that it discards more aggressively unrelated features than LASSO, and it can make feature selection within groups automatically without a pre-specified grouping structure. In this paper, we use simulated and real datasets to demonstrate that the predictive power of the sparse feature subsets selected by FBRHT are comparable with other much larger feature subsets selected by LASSO, group LASSO, supervised group LASSO, penalized logistic regression and random forest, and that the succinct feature subsets selected by FBRHT have significantly better predictive power than the feature subsets of the same size taken from the top features selected by the aforementioned methods.
description: 31 pages