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Crisis pressures and European integration
Creators: name: Ferrara, Federico Maria
name: Kriesi, Hanspeter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Previous studies have applied theories of European integration to interpret crisis-led policymaking processes and integration outcomes in the EU. However, there has been little attempt to appraise the analytical leverage offered by major integration theories as a function of different crisis pressures. We theorize that diverse combinations of crisis pressures generate four decision-making scenarios in the EU, each of which can be ascribed to different combinations of analytical insights from neofunctionalism, intergovernmentalism, postfunctionalism, and federalism. We illustrate the value of our framework in relation to four EU crises concerning the euro area, refugees, Brexit and Covid-19. Overall, the paper makes a theoretical contribution to advance the debate on crisis-led integration in the EU.
Table and solo work song genres from Kartli-Kakheti, Eastern Georgia : context of performance, musical style, and culture contact
Creators: name: Tsitsishvili, Nino.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Nuclear Physics Around the Unitarity Limit
Creators: name: König, Sebastian
name: Grießhammer, Harald W.
name: Hammer, H. -W.
name: van Kolck, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that many features of the structure of nuclei emerge from a strictly perturbative expansion around the unitarity limit, where the two-nucleon S waves have bound states at zero energy. In this limit, the gross features of states in the nuclear chart are correlated to only one dimensionful parameter, which is related to the breaking of scale invariance to a discrete scaling symmetry and set by the triton binding energy. Observables are moved to their physical values by small, perturbative corrections, much like in descriptions of the fine structure of atomic spectra. We provide evidence in favor of the conjecture that light, and possibly heavier, nuclei are bound weakly enough to be insensitive to the details of the interactions but strongly enough to be insensitive to the exact size of the two-nucleon system.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, published version, rewritten for clarity
Epigenetics in diagnosis, prognostic assessment and treatment of cancer: an update
Creators: name: Hatzimichael, Eleftheria
name: Lagos, Konstantinos
name: Sim, Van Ren
name: Briasoulis, Evangelos
name: Crook, Tim
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: epigenetics
subject: methylation
subject: acetylation
subject: diagnosis
subject: treatment
subject: cancer
subject: hematological malignancies
subject: hypomethylating agents
subject: 610

description: Cancer cells contain multiple genetic and epigenetic changes. The relative specificity of many epigenetic changes for neoplastic cells has allowed the identification of diagnostic, prognostic and predictive biomarkers for a number of solid tumors and hematological malignancies. Moreover, epigenetically-acting drugs are already in routine use for cancer and numerous additional agents are in clinical trials. Here, we review recent progress in the development and application of epigenetic strategies for the diagnosis, risk stratification and treatment of cancer.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
A Projector Quantum Monte Carlo Method for non-linear wavefunctions
Creators: name: Schwarz, Lauretta R.
name: Alavi, A.
name: Booth, George H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reformulate the projected imaginary-time evolution of Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo in terms of a Lagrangian minimization. This naturally leads to the admission of polynomial complex wavefunction parameterizations, circumventing the exponential scaling of the approach. While previously these functions have traditionally inhabited the domain of Variational Monte Carlo, we consider recently developments for the identification of deep-learning neural networks to optimize this Lagrangian, which can be written as a modification of the propagator for the wavefunction dynamics. We demonstrate this approach with a form of Tensor Network State, and use it to find solutions to the strongly-correlated Hubbard model, as well as its application to a fully periodic ab-initio Graphene sheet. The number of variables which can be simultaneously optimized greatly exceeds alternative formulations of Variational Monte Carlo, allowing for systematic improvability of the wavefunction flexibility towards exactness for a number of different forms, whilst blurring the line between traditional Variational and Projector quantum Monte Carlo approaches.
title: Inhibitors of pancreatic lipase
title: State of the art and clinical perspectives
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lunagariya, Nitin A.
name: Patel, Neeraj K.
name: Jagtap, Sneha C.
name: Bhutani, Kamlesh K.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: pancreatic lipase
subject: orlistat
subject: obesity
subject: natural products
subject: clinical perspectives
subject: lipid metabolism
subject: 610

description: Obesity is a disorder of lipid metabolism and continues to be a global problem, ranking fifth for deaths worldwide. It also leads to diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, musculoskeletal disorders and some types of cancer. Obesity is regarded as the output of a long-term imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure. Digestion and absorption of dietary lipids by pancreatic lipase, a major source of excess calorie intake, can be targeted for development of anti-obesity agents. Being the major factor of concern, food materials and edible plants are most widely studied for the anti-obesity activity, so that they can be incorporated in the routine diet. In this review, an attempt was made to present a current scenario of the bioactive compounds from plant and microbial origin that have been investigated for their pancreatic lipase inhibition. Compounds belonging to various classes of natural products such as alkaloids, carotenoids, glycosides, polyphenols, polysaccharides, saponins and terpenoids are well studied while lipophilic compounds from microbial sources are the most active against the pancreatic lipase. Few studies on the synthetic analogues, structurally similar to the triglycerides have been described in the review. Despite of tremendous research on the finding of potential pancreatic lipase inhibitor, very few compounds have entered the clinical studies and no new molecule after orlistat has been marketed. Along with HTS based screening, detailed structure-activity relationship studies on semi-synthetic and synthetic derivatives might also provide a direction for the development of potential lead(s) or pharmacophore for pancreatic lipase inhibition in order to treat and/or prevent obesity and related disorders.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
The illumination of Shakespeare's texts and textual issues : from performance evidence : the case of Dennis Bartholomeusz as scholar-director
Creators: name: Borg, Judith.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Six-dimensional regularization of chiral gauge theories
Creators: name: Fukaya, Hidenori
name: Onogi, Tetsuya
name: Yamamoto, Shota
name: Yamamura, Ryo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a regularization of four dimensional chiral gauge theories using six-dimensional Dirac fermions. In our formulation, we consider two different mass terms having domain-wall profiles in the fifth and the sixth directions, respectively. A Weyl fermion appears as a localized mode at the junction of two different domain-walls. One domain-wall naturally exhibits the Stora-Zumino chain of the anomaly descent equations, starting from the axial U(1) anomaly in six-dimensions to the gauge anomaly in four-dimensions. Another domain-wall implies a similar inflow of the global anomalies. The anomaly free condition is equivalent to requiring that the axial U(1) anomaly and the parity anomaly are canceled among the six-dimensional Dirac fermions. Since our formulation is based on a massive vector-like fermion determinant, a non-perturbative regularization will be possible on a lattice. Putting the gauge field at the four-dimensional junction and extending it to the bulk using the Yang-Mills gradient flow, as recently proposed by Grabowska and Kaplan, we define the four-dimensional path integral of the target chiral gauge theory.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures. references added, version accepted to PTEP
Place and the idea of civil society : a role for political geography
Creators: name: Smith, Marcus J. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Leaders and followers: Quantifying consistency in spatio-temporal propagation patterns
Creators: name: Kreuz, Thomas
name: Satuvuori, Eero
name: Pofahl, Martin
name: Mulansky, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Repetitive spatio-temporal propagation patterns are encountered in fields as wide-ranging as climatology, social communication and network science. In neuroscience, perfectly consistent repetitions of the same global propagation pattern are called a synfire pattern. For any recording of sequences of discrete events (in neuroscience terminology: sets of spike trains) the questions arise how closely it resembles such a synfire pattern and which are the spike trains that lead/follow. Here we address these questions and introduce an algorithm built on two new indicators, termed SPIKE-Order and Spike Train Order, that define the Synfire Indicator value, which allows to sort multiple spike trains from leader to follower and to quantify the consistency of the temporal leader-follower relationships for both the original and the optimized sorting. We demonstrate our new approach using artificially generated datasets before we apply it to analyze the consistency of propagation patterns in two real datasets from neuroscience (Giant Depolarized Potentials in mice slices) and climatology (El Ni~no sea surface temperature recordings). The new algorithm is distinguished by conceptual and practical simplicity, low computational cost, as well as flexibility and universality.
description: 18 pages; 18 figures; revised version
Modelling resonances and orbital chaos in disk galaxies. Application to a Milky Way spiral model
Creators: name: Michtchenko, Tatiana A.
name: Vieira, Ronaldo S. S.
name: Barros, Douglas A.
name: Lépine, Jacques R. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Resonances in the stellar orbital motion under perturbations from spiral arms structure play an important role in the evolution of the disks of spiral galaxies. The epicyclic approximation allows the determination of the corresponding resonant radii on the equatorial plane (for nearly circular orbits), but is not suitable in general. Aims: We expand the study of resonant orbits by analysing stellar motions perturbed by spiral arms with Gaussian-shaped profiles without any restriction on the stellar orbital configurations, and we expand the concept of Lindblad (epicyclic) resonances for orbits with large radial excursions. Methods: We define a representative plane of initial conditions, which covers the whole phase space of the system. Dynamical maps on representative planes are constructed numerically, in order to characterize the phase-space structure and identify the precise location of resonances. The study is complemented by the construction of dynamical power spectra, which provide the identification of fundamental oscillatory patterns in the stellar motion. Results: Our approach allows a precise description of the resonance chains in the whole phase space, giving a broader view of the dynamics of the system when compared to the classical epicyclic approach, even for objects in retrograde motion. The analysis of the solar neighbourhood shows that, depending on the current azimuthal phase of the Sun with respect to the spiral arms, a star with solar kinematic parameters may evolve either inside the stable co-rotation resonance or in a chaotic zone. Conclusions: Our approach contributes to quantifying the domains of resonant orbits and the degree of chaos in the whole Galactic phase-space structure. It may serve as a starting point to apply these techniques to the investigation of clumps in the distribution of stars in the Galaxy, such as kinematic moving groups.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures. Matches accepted version in A&A
Measurement of the top quark mass in topologies enhanced with single top quarks produced in the t-channel using flavour tagging and a neural network with ATLAS data at √s = 8TeV
Creators: name: Esch, Hendrik
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: ATLAS
subject: CERN
subject: LHC
subject: B-tagging
subject: Particle physics
subject: Top quark
subject: Top quark mass
subject: Flavour tagging
subject: Neural network
subject: Single top quark production
subject: T-channel
subject: 530
subject: ATLAS
subject: LHC
subject: t-Quark
subject: Luminosität
subject: Zerfall
subject: Lepton

description: In this thesis a measurement of the top quark mass in topologies that have been enhanced with single-top quark decays in the t-channel produced via weak interactions is presented. The dataset consists of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC with a total integrated luminosity of L = 20.3 1/fb. Selected events contain exactly one charged lepton - which can be either an electron or a muon -, missing transverse energy and two jets with exactly one of the two being b-tagged. The techniques of b-tagging used to identify jets induced by heavy quarks is explained further. In addition, the signal is enhanced using a neural network based discriminant that combines the ability to discriminate between signal and background of several correlated variables. To determine the mass of the top quark a template method is used in combination with the mass sensitive variable, m(l b), which is the invariant mass of the lepton and the b-tagged jet. The top quark mass is measured as m(top) = [172.2 +/- 0.7 (stat.) +/- 1.9 (syst.)] GeV.
title: Examination of a Theoretical Model for Drainage of Foams Prepared from Licorice Root Extract Solution
Creators: name: Ahmadi Tighchi, Hashem
name: Kayhani, Mohammad Hasan
name: Faezian, Ali
name: Yeganehzad, Samira
name: Miller, Reinhard
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: The root of the licorice plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra) is rich in natural surfactants, called saponins. The beneficial properties of this plant have led to different applications, including its use as a foaming agent. In this research, a theoretical model and its validity are discussed for the liquid drainage of foams made from licorice root extract solutions. After stating the important characteristics in the free drainage of foam, a relationship of the drained liquid volume based on effective parameters was obtained via a simplification of the governing equation. The theoretical model is applied to experimental foam drainage data measured at different concentrations of licorice root extract solutions. A comparison of theoretical and experimental results shows good agreement for the volume of drained liquid as a function of time. The characteristics obtained from the combination of effective parameters allows for a quantification of the drainage rate. In addition, the drainage rate at the beginning of the foam decay process, as a measure of stability, can be estimated using measurable properties.
Search for anomalous electroweak production of $WW/WZ$ in association with a high-mass dijet system in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search is presented for anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings in vector-boson scattering. The data for the analysis correspond to $20.2$ fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV $pp$ collisions, and were collected in 2012 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The search looks for the production of $WW$ or $WZ$ boson pairs accompanied by a high-mass dijet system, with one $W$ decaying leptonically, and a $W$ or $Z$ decaying hadronically. The hadronically decaying $W/Z$ is reconstructed as either two small-radius jets or one large-radius jet using jet substructure techniques. Constraints on the anomalous quartic gauge boson coupling parameters $α_4$ and $α_5$ are set by fitting the transverse mass of the diboson system, and the resulting 95% confidence intervals are $-0.024
description: 38 pages in total, author list starting page 22, 5 figures, 2 tables, published in Phys. Rev. D. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2015-09/
Devolutions of power in "The dynasts" and other works of Thomas Hardy
Creators: name: Robin, Isobel.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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$ε$-Expansion in Critical $ϕ^3$-Theory on Real Projective Space from Conformal Field Theory
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Chika
name: Nakayama, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a compatibility between the conformal symmetry and the equations of motion to solve the one-point function in the critical $ϕ^3$-theory (a.k.a the critical Lee-Yang model) on the $d = 6 - ε$ dimensional real projective space to the first non-trivial order in the $ε$-expansion. It reproduces the conventional perturbation theory and agrees with the numerical conformal bootstrap result.
description: 6 pages, v2: some references added
Probing Impulsive Strain Propagation with X-Ray Pulses
Creators: name: Bucksbaum, P. H.
name: Clarke, R.
name: DeCamp, M. F.
name: Dufresne, E.
name: Reis, D. A.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Six Sigma application in an Irish meat processing plant to improve process yields
Creators: name: Gilligan, Rebecca
name: Moran, Rachel
name: McDermott, Olivia
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: Purpose – This study aims to utilise Six Sigma in an Irish-based red meat processor to reduce process variability and improve yields. Design/methodology/approach – This is a case study within an Irish meat processor where the structured Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control (DMAIC) methodology was utilised along with statistical analysis to highlight areas of the meat boning process to improve. Findings –The project led to using Six Sigma to identify and measure areas of process variation. This resulted in eliminating over-trimming of meat cuts, improving process capabilities, increasing revenue and reducing meat wastage. In addition, key performance indicators and control charts, meat-cutting templates and smart cutting lasers were implemented. Research limitations/implications – The study is one of Irish meat processors’ first Six Sigma applications. The wider food and meat processing industries can leverage the learnings to understand, measure and minimise variation to enhance revenue. Practical implications – Organisations can use this study to understand the benefits of adopting Six Sigma, particularly in the food industry and how measuring process variation can affect quality. Originality/value – This is the first practical case study on Six sigma deployment in an Irish meat processor, and the study can be used to benchmark how Six Sigma tools can aid in understanding variation, thus benefiting key performance metrics.
The impact of climate change on plant health: a nematology perspective
Creators: name: Sirca, Sasa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Euphresco, plant health, risk assessment, biology, diagnostics, modelling, nematology, Meloidogyne, root-knot nematode, tropical

description: Success story of the Euphresco project 2016-A-199 'Global warming and distribution of root-knot nematode species of the tropical group (MeloTrop)'
description: Project funded through the Euphresco network
The functioning dynamics of the state socialist system and some of its associated spatial manifestations in Hungary
Creators: name: Losonski, Frank.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Surface Transformation and Photoinduced Recovery in CdSe Nanocrystals
Creators: name: Davis, R. C.
name: Hess, B. C.
name: Okhrimenko, I. G.
name: Schulzke, Q. A.
name: Stevens, B. C.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
"Der Psalter Davids Latein und Deutsch" von Jaspar Gennep (1562)
Creators: name: Risse, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (2003): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 19, Heft 1
Quantitatives Portfoliomanagement - neue Ansätze in Portfoliooptimierung und Risikosteuerung
Creators: name: Berens, Tobias
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Portfoliooptimierung
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: 330

description: Die vorliegende kumulative Dissertation umfasst fünf in sich abgeschlossene Beiträge zu neuen Ansätzen in der Portfoliooptimierung und der Risikosteuerung. Der erste Beitrag der vorliegenden Arbeit befasst sich grundlegend mit den Einsatzmöglichkeiten von statistischen Tests auf eine konstante Kovarianzmatrix sowie auf konstante Varianzen und paarweise Korrelationen im Rahmen der Minimum-Varianz-Portfoliooptimierung. Es werden Problemfelder bei der Anwendung der Tests herausgearbeitet und diskutiert. Zudem wird evaluiert, ob der Einsatz der Tests zu verbesserten Risiko-Rendite-Verhältnissen führt. Der darauf folgende Beitrag baut auf diesen Erkenntnissen auf und erarbeitet Lösungsansätze für die zuvor dargelegten Herausforderungen beim Einsatz von Strukturbruchtests in der Portfoliooptimierung. In diesem Rahmen wird eine automatisierte Anlagestrategie erarbeitet und deren Leistungsfähigkeit analysiert. Der dritte Beitrag befasst mit der Diskussion der gewünschten Eigenschaften von Value-at-Risk-Überschreitungen. Dies führt zu der Entwicklung neuer statistischer Tests, die sehr intuitiv, einfach zu implementieren und sehr häufig eine überlegene Testgüte im Vergleich zu den bislang existierenden Ansätzen besitzen. Im folgenden Beitrag werden unterschiedliche Modelle zur Schätzung von Value-at-Risk- und Expected Shortfall-Prognosen untersucht. Der Fokus dieser Analyse liegt dabei auf der Anwendung unterschiedlicher Strategien zur Bestimmung der Länge einer für die Parametrisierung erforderlichen Datenhistorie. Dabei kommen einfache Ansätze, wie beispielsweise rollierende Datenhistorien mit unterschiedlichen Längen, aber auch komplexere Methoden, wie Strukturbrüche und Strategie-Kombinationen zum Einsatz. Der abschließende Beitrag setzt sich ebenfalls mit unterschiedlichen Ansätzen zur Schätzung von Value-at-Risk- und Expected Shortfall-Prognosen auseinander. Der thematische Schwerpunkt liegt hier auf der multivariaten Portfoliosicht mit statischen und dynamischen Korrelationsmodellen. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob sich die Präzision der Modelle erhöht, wenn die Schätzung der Korrelationsmodelle auf einer durch verschiedene Strukturbruchtests definierten Datenhistorie beruht.
R-modes and neutron star recycling scenario
Creators: name: Chugunov, Andrey I.
name: Gusakov, Mikhail E.
name: Kantor, Elena M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To put new constraints on the r-mode instability window, we analyse the formation of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) within the recycling scenario, making use of three sets of observations: (a) X-ray observations of neutron stars (NSs) in low-mass X-ray binaries; (b) timing of millisecond pulsars; and (c) X-ray and UV observations of MSPs. As shown in previous works, r-mode dissipation by shear viscosity is not sufficient to explain observational set (a), and enhanced r-mode dissipation at the red-shifted internal temperatures $T^\infty\sim 10^8$ K is required to stabilize the observed NSs. Here, we argue that models with enhanced bulk viscosity can hardly lead to a self-consistent explanation of observational set (a) due to strong neutrino emission, which is typical for these models (unrealistically powerful energy source is required to keep NSs at the observed temperatures). We also demonstrate that the observational set (b), combined with the theory of internal heating and NS cooling, provides evidence of enhanced r-mode dissipation at low temperatures, $T^\infty\sim 2\times 10^7$ K. Observational set (c) allows us to set an upper limit on the internal temperatures of MSPs, $T^\infty<2\times 10^7$ K (assuming a canonical NS with the accreted crust). Recycling scenario can produce MSPs at these temperatures only if r-mode instability is suppressed in the whole MSP spin frequency range ($ν\lesssim 750$ Hz) at temperatures $2\times 10^7\lesssim T^\infty\lesssim 3 \times 10^7$ K, providing thus a new constraint on the r-mode instability window. These observational constraints are analysed in more details in application to the resonance uplift scenario of Gusakov et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett., 112 (2014), 151101].
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Nick Enright : the making of Good works
Creators: name: Cataldo, Raffaella.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Enzymatic and spectroscopic properties of a thermostable [NiFe]‑hydrogenase performing H2-driven NAD+-reduction in the presence of O2
Creators: name: Preissler, Janina
name: Wahlefeld, Stefan
name: Lorent, Christian
name: Teutloff, Christian
name: Horch, Marius
name: Lauterbach, Lars
name: Cramer, Stephen P.
name: Zebger, Ingo
name: Lenz, Oliver
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: hydrogenase
subject: oxyhydrogen reaction
subject: respiratory complex I
subject: iron‑sulfur cluster
subject: pyridine nucleotide
subject: enzyme kinetics
subject: cofactor recycling
subject: hydrogen
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::572 Biochemie

description: Biocatalysts that mediate the H2-dependent reduction of NAD+ to NADH are attractive from both a fundamental and applied perspective. Here we present the first biochemical and spectroscopic characterization of an NAD+-reducing [NiFe]‑hydrogenase that sustains catalytic activity at high temperatures and in the presence of O2, which usually acts as an inhibitor. We isolated and sequenced the four structural genes, hoxFUYH, encoding the soluble NAD+-reducing [NiFe]‑hydrogenase (SH) from the thermophilic betaproteobacterium, Hydrogenophilus thermoluteolus TH-1T (Ht). The HtSH was recombinantly overproduced in a hydrogenase-free mutant of the well-studied, H2-oxidizing betaproteobacterium Ralstonia eutropha H16 (Re). The enzyme was purified and characterized with various biochemical and spectroscopic techniques. Highest H2-mediated NAD+ reduction activity was observed at 80 °C and pH 6.5, and catalytic activity was found to be sustained at low O2 concentrations. Infrared spectroscopic analyses revealed a spectral pattern for as-isolated HtSH that is remarkably different from those of the closely related ReSH and other [NiFe]‑hydrogenases. This indicates an unusual configuration of the oxidized catalytic center in HtSH. Complementary electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic analyses revealed spectral signatures similar to related NAD+-reducing [NiFe]‑hydrogenases. This study lays the groundwork for structural and functional analyses of the HtSH as well as application of this enzyme for H2-driven cofactor recycling under oxic conditions at elevated temperatures.
Further XRD profile fits and tables of refinement results. from Defect rocksalt structures in the La-Na-N system
Creators: name: Yuan, Yao
name: Kloß, Simon D.
name: Attfield, J. Paul
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 30399
subject: Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Sodium azide (NaN3) is a versatile nitrogen source that can be used for the synthesis of new nitrides under high-pressure and temperature conditions. Reactions between lanthanum nitride (LaN) and sodium azide (NaN3) at 800°C under 8 GPa pressure have led to the discovery of two defect rocksalt phases which are the first reported ternaries in the La-Na-N system. Preliminary structure assignments have been made based on fits to powder X-ray diffraction profiles. One phase is La1−xNa3xN with vacancies at octahedral La sites and interstitial tetrahedral Na cations. This phase has a tetragonally distorted rocksalt structure (space group I4/mmm, a = 3.8704(2) and c = 5.2098(3) Å for nominal x = 0.10) and the distortion decreases with increasing Na content (space group I4/mmm, a = 3.8060(2) Å, c = 5.2470(3) Å for nominal x = 0.14), further giving a cubic phase (a = 5.3055(2) Å) for nominal x = 0.25. This coexists with another cubic Fm3m phase (a = 5.1561 (5) Å), tentatively identified as rocksalt ‘NaN1/3’ stabilized by a small amount of La; NaLayN(1+3y)/3 with y ≈ 1%. These initial investigations reveal that the high-pressure La-Na-N phase diagram may be rich in defect rocksalt-type materials although further work using neutron diffraction will be needed to confirm the structures.This article is part of the theme issue 'Exploring the length scales, timescales and Fm3m chemistry of challenging, modern materials (Part 1)'.
title: Asymmetrische Evolutionsstrategien
title: Asymmetrical Evolution Strategies
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hildebrand, Lars
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Evolutionäre Algorithmen
subject: Evolutionsstrategien
subject: Gerichtete Mutation
subject: Asymmetrische Verteilungsfunktion
subject: Zufallszahlengenerator
subject: evolutionary algorithms
subject: evolution strategies
subject: directed mutation
subject: asymmetrical distribution function
subject: random number generator
subject: 004

description: In dieser Arbeit wird eine neue Evolutionsstrategie entwickelt, die im Gegensatz zu allen bekannten Evolutionsstrategien einen gerichteten Mutationsoperator einsetzt. Die gerichtete Mutation wird durch Verwendung einer asymmetrischen Verteilungsfunktion realisiert. Eine asymmetrische Verteilungsfunktion, die die Randbedingungen der Evolutionsstrategien erfüllt existierte nicht und wird in dieser Arbeit hergeleitet. Neben der Herleitung der Verteilungsfunktion werden alle stochastisch interessanten Eigenschaften dieser Verteilungsfunktion hergeleitet. Dazu zählen Momente, Verteilungs- und Dichtefunktion und die zugehörigen inversen Funktionen. Die hier entwickelte asymmetrische Verteilungsfunktion ist dabei so allgemein gehalten, dass sie, für spezielle Belegungen der Parameter, auch symmetrische Verteilungen und insbesondere auch die Normalverteilung realisieren kann. Aufbauend auf diese Verteilungsfunktion und den zugehörigen Zufallszahlengenerator wird die asymmetrische Evolutionsstrategie entwickelt. Die Leistungsfähigkeit der die asymmetrische Evolutionsstrategie wird durch Benchmark-Test und reale Anwendungen gezeigt. Zum Vergleich werden alle Test mit anderen Varianten der Evolutionsstrategien verglichen.
description: Topic of this work is the development of a new evolution strategy. In contrast to all other evolution strategies the asymmetrical one uses a directed mutation operator. The directed mutation is based on an asymmetrical distribution function. A asymmetrical distribution function which fulfils all ancillary conditions of the evolution strategies did not exist and was developed in this work. Besides the development of the cumulative distribution function all interesting properties have been deduced. These properties are the moments, cumulative and probability distribution function and the associated inverse functions. The developed distribution function, developed in this work, is on a general level, that allows the modelling of symmetrical distributions and in particular the modeeling of the normal distribution. Based on the asymmetrical distribution function and its random number generator, the asymmetrical evolution strategy is developed. The performance is demonstrated with the use of benchmark-test and real-world problems. All test were carried out with other variants of the evolution strategies to give a comparable grading of the performance.
Trunk-Branch Ensemble Convolutional Neural Networks for Video-based Face Recognition
Creators: name: Ding, Changxing
name: Tao, Dacheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human faces in surveillance videos often suffer from severe image blur, dramatic pose variations, and occlusion. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive framework based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to overcome challenges in video-based face recognition (VFR). First, to learn blur-robust face representations, we artificially blur training data composed of clear still images to account for a shortfall in real-world video training data. Using training data composed of both still images and artificially blurred data, CNN is encouraged to learn blur-insensitive features automatically. Second, to enhance robustness of CNN features to pose variations and occlusion, we propose a Trunk-Branch Ensemble CNN model (TBE-CNN), which extracts complementary information from holistic face images and patches cropped around facial components. TBE-CNN is an end-to-end model that extracts features efficiently by sharing the low- and middle-level convolutional layers between the trunk and branch networks. Third, to further promote the discriminative power of the representations learnt by TBE-CNN, we propose an improved triplet loss function. Systematic experiments justify the effectiveness of the proposed techniques. Most impressively, TBE-CNN achieves state-of-the-art performance on three popular video face databases: PaSC, COX Face, and YouTube Faces. With the proposed techniques, we also obtain the first place in the BTAS 2016 Video Person Recognition Evaluation.
description: Accepted Version to IEEE T-PAMI
Maximum Matchings in Geometric Intersection Graphs
Creators: name: Bonnet, Edouard
name: Cabello, Sergio
name: Mulzer, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: computational geometry
subject: geometric intersection graph
subject: maximum matching
subject: disk graph
subject: unit-disk graph
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::510 Mathematik::510 Mathematik

description: Let G be an intersection graph of n geometric objects in the plane. We show that a maximum matching in G can be found in O(ρ^{3ω/2}n^{ω/2}) time with high probability, where ρ is the density of the geometric objects and ω>2 is a constant such that n × n matrices can be multiplied in O(n^ω) time. The same result holds for any subgraph of G, as long as a geometric representation is at hand. For this, we combine algebraic methods, namely computing the rank of a matrix via Gaussian elimination, with the fact that geometric intersection graphs have small separators. We also show that in many interesting cases, the maximum matching problem in a general geometric intersection graph can be reduced to the case of bounded density. In particular, a maximum matching in the intersection graph of any family of translates of a convex object in the plane can be found in O(n^{ω/2}) time with high probability, and a maximum matching in the intersection graph of a family of planar disks with radii in [1, Ψ] can be found in O(Ψ⁶log^11 n + Ψ^{12 ω} n^{ω/2}) time with high probability.
Impact of Bed Form Celerity on Oxygen Dynamics in the Hyporheic Zone
Creators: name: Wolke, Philipp
name: Teitelbaum, Yoni
name: Deng, Chao
name: Lewandowski, Jörg
name: Arnon, Shai
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hyporheic exchange
subject: bed form migration
subject: moving streambed
subject: ripples
subject: planar optodes
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: Oxygen distribution and uptake in the hyporheic zone regulate various redox-sensitive reactions and influence habitat conditions. Despite the fact that fine-grain sediments in streams and rivers are commonly in motion, most studies on biogeochemistry have focused on stagnant sediments. In order to evaluate the effect of bed form celerity on oxygen dynamics and uptake in sandy beds, we conducted experiments in a recirculating indoor flume. Oxygen distribution in the bed was measured under various celerities using 2D planar optodes. Bed morphodynamics were measured by a surface elevation sensor and time-lapse photography. Oxygenated zones in stationary beds had a conchoidal shape due to influx through the stoss side of the bed form, and upwelling anoxic water at the lee side. Increasing bed celerity resulted in the gradual disappearance of the upwelling anoxic zone and flattening of the interface between the oxic (moving fraction of the bed) and the anoxic zone (stationary fraction of the bed), as well as in a reduction of the volumetric oxygen uptake rates due shortened residence times in the hyporheic zone. These results suggest that including processes related to bed form migration are important for understanding the biogeochemistry of hyporheic zones. View Full-Text
Magnetorotational Turbulence and Dynamo in a Collisionless Plasma
Creators: name: Kunz, Matthew W.
name: Stone, James M.
name: Quataert, Eliot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from the first 3D kinetic numerical simulation of magnetorotational turbulence and dynamo, using the local shearing-box model of a collisionless accretion disc. The kinetic magnetorotational instability grows from a subthermal magnetic field having zero net flux over the computational domain to generate self-sustained turbulence and outward angular-momentum transport. Significant Maxwell and Reynolds stresses are accompanied by comparable viscous stresses produced by field-aligned ion pressure anisotropy, which is regulated primarily by the mirror and ion-cyclotron instabilities through particle trapping and pitch-angle scattering. The latter endow the plasma with an effective viscosity that is biased with respect to the magnetic-field direction and spatio-temporally variable. Energy spectra suggest an Alfvén-wave cascade at large scales and a kinetic-Alfvén-wave cascade at small scales, with strong small-scale density fluctuations and weak non-axisymmetric density waves. Ions undergo non-thermal particle acceleration, their distribution accurately described by a kappa distribution. These results have implications for the properties of low-collisionality accretion flows, such as that near the black hole at the Galactic center.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
A review on biological and chemical diversity in Berberis (Berberidaceae)
Creators: name: Srivastava, Sharad
name: Srivastava, Manjoosha
name: Misra, Ankita
name: Pandey, Garima
name: Rawat, AKS
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Berberis
subject: berberine
subject: pharmacology
subject: ethno botany
subject: 610

description: Berberis is an important genus and well known in the Indian as well as European systems of traditional medicine. It is used since ancient times for curing eye disease, fever, jaundice, rheumatism, vomiting during pregnancy, kidney and gall balder stones and various other ailments due to the presence of biologically active alkaloid berberine. Action of the root extracts of few species are believed to be as powerful as quinine in the treatment of malarial fever. A plethora of literature pertaining to the taxonomy, biology, chemistry, traditional and ethnic uses of Berberis in different countries and indigenous cultures was collected by both offline (library, journals, textbooks etc.) and online mode (electronic search of available databases). In addition to this, books on traditional medicine and ethno pharmacological knowledge were also referred to extract ancient uses of Berberis in different traditional medicine systems. Most of the folklore, traditional and ethno botanical claims about Berberis species were validated by broad spectrum in vitro and vivo pharmacological studies. The present article summarizes its usage in eye and liver disorder, fever, kidney and gall stones along with anticancer activity. This comprehensive review will not only help researchers for further evaluation but also provide substantial information for future exploitation of species to develop novel herbal formulations.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 14, 2015
Chapter F of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants as approved by the 11th International Mycological Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 2018
Creators: name: May, Tom W.
name: Redhead, Scott A.
name: Bensch, Konstanze
name: Hawksworth, David L.
name: Lendemer, James
name: Lombard, Lorenzo
name: Turland, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Editorial Committee for Fungi
subject: Governance
subject: Identifiers
subject: Repositories
subject: Sanctioning
subject: San Juan Chapter F
subject: Shenzhen Code
subject: Taxonomy
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::579 Mikroorganismen, Pilze, Algen

description: A revised version of Chapter F of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants is presented, incorporating amendments approved by the Fungal Nomenclature Session of the 11th International Mycological Congress held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in July 2018. The process leading to the amendments is outlined. Key changes in the San Juan Chapter F are (1) removal of option to use a colon to indicate the sanctioned status of a name, (2) introduction of correctability for incorrectly cited identifiers of names and typifications, and (3) introduction of option to use name identifiers in place of author citations. Examples have been added to aid the interpretation of new Articles and Recommendations, and Examples have also been added to the existing Art. F.3.7 concerning the protection extended to new combinations based on sanctioned names or basionyms of sanctioned names (which has been re-worded), and to Art. F.3.9 concerning typification of names accepted in the sanctioning works.
Pikobodies: What does it take to bioengineer NLR immune receptor-nanobody fusions
Creators: name: Kourelis, Jiorgos
name: Marchal, Clemence
name: Posbeyikian, Andres
name: Harant, Adeline
name: Kamoun, Sophien
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bioengineering
NLR-ID
Molecular plant microbe interactions

description: Recurrent epidemics caused by plant pathogens pose a significant threat to global food security. Modifying natural components has been the only approach to retooling the plant immune system, but these approaches can be rapidly rendered ineffective by the emergence of new pathogen strains. Made-to-order synthetic plant immune receptors, however, offer a promising solution for tailored resistance to pathogen genotypes present in the field. Here we define four technical and conceptual advances which enabled successful engineering of NLR immune receptor-nanobody fusions, termed Pikobodies, for this purpose. These advances include 1) evolutionary analysis to identify domain boundaries, 2) structural modelling to predict integration boundaries, 3) rapid screening assays using transient immune and disease assays, and 4) further engineering to abolish autoactivity triggered by some nanobody integrations. We show that plant immune receptors can serve as effective scaffolds for nanobody fusions that bind fluorescent proteins (FPs), triggering immune responses and conferring resistance against plant viruses expressing FPs. Since nanobodies can be raised against most molecules, immune receptor-nanobody fusions have the potential to generate resistance against most plant pathogens and pests delivering effectors inside host cells.