cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Intracluster Planetary Nebulae in the Virgo Cluster I. Initial Results
Creators: name: Feldmeier, John
name: Ciardullo, Robin
name: Jacoby, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the initial results of a survey for intracluster planetary nebulae in the Virgo Cluster. In two 16' x 16' fields, we identify 69 and 16 intracluster planetary nebula candidates, respectively. In a third 16' x 16' field near the central elliptical galaxy M87, we detect 75 planetary nebula candidates, of which a substantial fraction are intracluster in nature. By examining the number of the planetaries detected in each field and the shape of the planetary nebula luminosity function, we show that 1) the intracluster starlight of Virgo is distributed non-uniformly, and varies between subclumps A and B, 2) the Virgo Cluster core extends ~3 Mpc in front of M87, and thus is elongated along the line-of-sight, and 3) a minimum of 22% of Virgo's stellar luminosity resides between the galaxies in our fields, and that the true number may be considerably larger. We also use our planetary nebula data to argue that the intracluster stars in Virgo are likely derived from a population that is of moderate age and metallicity.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Paper is also available at http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/johnf/Text/research.html
The rLVS ΔcapB/iglABC vaccine provides potent protection in Fischer rats against inhalational tularemia caused by various virulent Francisella tularensis strains
Creators: name: Mlynek, Kevin D.
name: Cline, Curtis R.
name: Biryukov, Sergei S.
name: Toothman, Ronald G.
name: Bachert, Beth A.
name: Klimko, Christopher P.
name: Shoe, Jennifer L.
name: Hunter, Melissa
name: Hedrick, Zander M.
name: Dankmeyer, Jennifer L.
name: Mou, Sherry
name: Fetterer, David P.
name: Qiu, Ju
name: Lee, Eric D.
name: Cote, Christopher K.
name: Jia, Qingmei
name: Horwitz, Marcus A.
name: Bozue, Joel A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Francisella tularensis is one of the several biothreat agents for which a licensed vaccine is needed. To ensure vaccine protection is achieved across a range of virulent F. tularensis strains, we assembled and characterized a panel of F. tularensis isolates to be utilized as challenge strains. A promising tularemia vaccine candidate is rLVS ΔcapB/iglABC (rLVS), in which the vector is the LVS strain with a deletion in the capB gene and which additionally expresses a fusion protein comprising immunodominant epitopes of proteins IglA, IglB, and IglC. Fischer rats were immunized subcutaneously 1–3 times at 3-week intervals with rLVS at various doses. The rats were exposed to a high dose of aerosolized Type A strain Schu S4 (FRAN244), a Type B strain (FRAN255), or a tick derived Type A strain (FRAN254) and monitored for survival. All rLVS vaccination regimens including a single dose of 107 CFU rLVS provided 100% protection against both Type A strains. Against the Type B strain, two doses of 107 CFU rLVS provided 100% protection, and a single dose of 107 CFU provided 87.5% protection. In contrast, all unvaccinated rats succumbed to aerosol challenge with all of the F. tularensis strains. A robust Th1-biased antibody response was induced in all vaccinated rats against all F. tularensis strains. These results demonstrate that rLVS ΔcapB/iglABC provides potent protection against inhalational challenge with either Type A or Type B F. tularensis strains and should be considered for further analysis as a future tularemia vaccine.
Implementing Norm-Governed Multi-Agent Systems
Creators: name: Bennett, Robin Catherine
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: The actions and interactions of independently acting agents in a multi-agent system must be managed if the agents are to function effectively in their shared environment. Norms, which define the obligatory, prohibited and permitted actions for an agent to perform, have been suggested as a possible method for regulating the actions of agents. Norms are local rules designed to govern the actions of individual agents whilst also allowing the agents to achieve a coherent global behaviour. However, there appear to be very few instances of norm-governed multi-agent systems beyond theoretical examples. We describe an implementation strategy for allowing autonomous agents to take a set of norms into account when determining their actions. These norms are implemented using directives, which are local rules specifying actions for an agent to perform depending on its current state. Agents using directives are implemented in a simulation test bed, called Sinatra. Using Sinatra, we investigate the ability of directives to manage agent actions. We begin with directives to manage agent interactions. We find that when agents rely on only local rules they will encounter situations where the local rules are unable to achieve the desired global behaviour. We show how a centralised control mechanism can be used to manage agent interactions that are not successfully handled by directives. Controllers, with a global view of the interaction, instruct the individual agents how to act. We also investigate the use of an existing planning tool to implement the resolution mechanism of a controller. We investigate the ability of directives to coordinate the actions of agents in order to achieve a global objective more effectively. Finally, we present a case study of how directives can be used to determine the actions of autonomous mobile robots.
Oral history interview with Wilbur K. Neuman 1975
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Executives
Containers
Sales management
Manufacturing processes
International business enterprises

description: Education; Continental Can's customer research organization; work with Quartermaster Corps on dehydrated food packaging, packaging for Soviets; sales manager on coffee, shortening markets; pressure vs. vacuum pack, cone top vs. flat top cans; tin plate quality; expanding soft drink, beer can business; litter problems, recycling cans; drawn cans, EZ can openings; union problems, violence in Southern Division; geographical vs. market organization; international operations planning, Europemballage; mass production, distribution techniques; growth of professional managers.
Oral history interview with Wilbur Cohen 1985
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019

description: Education: University of Wisconson, Madison, Economics, 1933; Great Depression; Social Security Act, 1935; committee on economic security; work for Social Security Board; first professional employee, 1935; states' rights versus federal government; World War II, social change; 1962 amendments to Social Security; welfare: stigma, failed welfare reforms, valid and invalid cases, slow process of welfare change
Incompressive Energy Transfer in the Earth's Magnetosheath: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi
name: Chasapis, A.
name: Chhiber, R.
name: Parashar, T. N.
name: Matthaeus, W. H.
name: Shay, M. A.
name: Maruca, B. A.
name: Burch, J. L.
name: Moore, T. E.
name: Pollock, C. J.
name: Giles, B. L.
name: Paterson, W. R.
name: Dorelli, J.
name: Gershman, D. J.
name: Torbert, R. B.
name: Russell, C. T.
name: Strangeway, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using observational data from the \emph{Magnetospheric Multiscale} (MMS) Mission in the Earth's magnetosheath, we estimate the energy cascade rate using different techniques within the framework of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. At the energy containing scale, the energy budget is controlled by the von Kármán decay law. Inertial range cascade is estimated by fitting a linear scaling to the mixed third-order structure function. Finally, we use a multi-spacecraft technique to estimate the Kolmogorov-Yaglom-like cascade rate in the kinetic range, well below the ion inertial length scale. We find that the inertial range cascade rate is almost equal to the one predicted by the von Kármán law at the energy containing scale, while the cascade rate evaluated at the kinetic scale is somewhat lower, as anticipated in theory~\citep{Yang2017PoP}. Further, in agreement with a recent study~\citep{Hadid2018PRL}, we find that the incompressive cascade rate in the Earth's magnetosheath is about $1000$ times larger than the cascade rate in the pristine solar wind.
description: Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Monte Carlo Study of 8-State Potts Model on 2D Random Lattices
Creators: name: Janke, Wolfhard
name: Villanova, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of quenched coordination-number disorder of random lattices on the nature of the phase transition in the two-dimensional eight-state Potts model, which is of first order on regular lattices. We consider Poissonian random lattices of toroidal topology constructed according to the Voronoi/Delaunay prescription. Monte Carlo simulations yield strong evidence that the phase transition remains first order.
description: 4 pages, PostScript, contribution to LATTICE95. See also http://www.cond-mat.physik.uni-mainz.de/~janke/doc/home_janke.html
Oral history interview with Will Anderson 2004
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Animal industry--Moral and ethical aspects
Animal rights
Animal rights movement
Animal rights activists

description: In this two session interview, Will Anderson reflects on his development as an activist for the environment and animals. Among issues examined are his decision to become a vegetarian and the impact of personal diet choices on the environment. Anderson talks about his education, decisions about college, his work with the Peace Corps, service in the United states Armed Forces (USAF), and his honorable discharge after becoming a conscientious objector. Additionally, he explains the connection between the yearlong travel to Europe and India and his worldview, the development of his sensitivity to animals, and his activist spirit. Anderson discusses his work with Greenpeace, Native American communities, involvement in protest activity and subsequent arrests, and founding of Ecology House and the Marine Animal Coalition (MAC). He also discusses his battle with cancer and experiences as a gay man. There is also one box of attachments, mostly related to Anderson's work with the Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), including documentation of the opposition to the Makah whaling activities and protection of orcas. There are two videocassettes in the attachments: Meet the Gray Whales and Omak Suicide Race: "The Race of Disgrace."
Finite-size scaling at first-order quantum transitions when boundary conditions favor one of the two phases
Creators: name: Pelissetto, Andrea
name: Rossini, Davide
name: Vicari, Ettore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate scaling phenomena at first-order quantum transitions, when the boundary conditions favor one of the two phases. We show that the corresponding finite-size scaling behavior, arising from the interplay between the driving parameter and the finite size of the system, is more complex than that emerging when boundary conditions do not favor any phase. We discuss this issue in the framework of the paradigmatic one-dimensional quantum Ising model, along its first-order quantum transition line driven by an external longitudinal field.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, extended text
New Physics with Cold Molecules : Precise Microwave Spectroscopy of CH and the Development of a Microwave Trap
Creators: name: Truppe, Stefan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Cold polar molecules provide unique opportunities to test fundamental physics and chemistry. Their permanent electric dipole moments and rich internal structure arising from their vibrational and rotational motion, makes them sensitive probes for new physics. These features also make them ideal for studying ultracold chemistry, for simulating the behaviour of strongly interacting many-body quantum systems, and for quantum information science. This thesis describes a number of advances in cold molecule physics. The optimum method for producing an intense, pulsed, supersonic beam of cold CH molecules is investigated, resulting in a beam with 3.5x10^9 ground state CH molecules per steradian per shot. The beam has a translational temperature of 400 mK and a velocity that is tuneable between 400 and 1800 m/s. The lowest-lying Λ-doublet transitions of ground state CH, at 3.3 GHz and 0.7 GHz, are exceptionally sensitive to variations in the fine-structure constant α and the electron-to-proton mass ratio μ. Many modern theories predict that these constants may depend on time, position, or local matter density. Using a novel spectroscopic method, the frequencies of these microwave transitions are measured with accuracy down to 3 Hz. By comparing to radio-astronomical observations, the hypothesis that fundamental constants may differ between the high and low density environments of the Earth and the interstellar medium of the Milky Way is tested. These measurements find no variation and set upper limits of |Δα/α| < 2.1x10^-7 and |Δμ/μ| < 4.3x10^-7. The frequency of the lowest millimetre-wave transition of CH, near 533 GHz, is also measured with an accuracy of 0.6 kHz. The development of a novel type of trap for ground state polar molecules is presented. Trapping polar molecules is a necessary condition to cool them to ultracold temperatures of 1 μK and below. The trap uses a high intensity microwave field in a Fabry-Pérot resonator. Experimental and theoretical investigations are presented that explore the modes of the cavity, how to obtain the highest possible quality factor, and how to optimally couple the microwave power into the cavity. Finally, a cold supersonic beam of BH molecules is developed. This molecule appears to be particularly well-suited to direct laser cooling due to its favourable rotational structure and Franck-Condon factors. The laser cooling concept is described, and a first spectroscopic investigation of the relevant molecular structure is presented.
A proposed framework for characterising uncertainty and variability in rock mechanics and rock engineering
Creators: name: Bedi, Anmol
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: This thesis develops a novel understanding of the fundamental issues in characterising and propagating unpredictability in rock engineering design. This unpredictability stems from the inherent complexity and heterogeneity of fractured rock masses as engineering media. It establishes the importance of: a) recognising that unpredictability results from epistemic uncertainty (i.e. resulting from a lack of knowledge) and aleatory variability (i.e. due to inherent randomness), and; b) the means by which uncertainty and variability associated with the parameters that characterise fractured rock masses are propagated through the modelling and design process. Through a critical review of the literature, this thesis shows that in geotechnical engineering – rock mechanics and rock engineering in particular – there is a lack of recognition in the existence of epistemic uncertainty and aleatory variability, and hence inappropriate design methods are often used. To overcome this, a novel taxonomy is developed and presented that facilitates characterisation of epistemic uncertainty and aleatory variability in the context of rock mechanics and rock engineering. Using this taxonomy, a new framework is developed that gives a protocol for correctly propagating uncertainty and variability through engineering calculations. The effectiveness of the taxonomy and the framework are demonstrated through their application to simple challenge problems commonly found in rock engineering. This new taxonomy and framework will provide engineers engaged in preparing rock engineering designs an objective means of characterising unpredictability in parameters commonly used to define properties of fractured rock masses. These new tools will also provide engineers with a means of clearly understanding the true nature of unpredictability inherent in rock mechanics and rock engineering, and thus direct selection of an appropriate unpredictability model to propagate unpredictability faithfully through engineering calculations. Thus, the taxonomy and framework developed in this thesis provide practical tools to improve the safety of rock engineering designs through an improved understanding of the unpredictability concepts.
Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 and the CoronaVac vaccines and boosters in healthcare workers
Creators: name: Çulpan, Hazal Cansu
name: Aydın, Sümeyye Nur
name: Uygur, Abdulkerim
name: Sayılı, Uğurcan
name: Şeker, Erkam
name: Balkan, İ̇lker İnanç
name: Karaali, Rıdvan
name: Budak, Beyhan
name: Keskindemirci, Yılmaz
name: Saltoğlu, Neşe
name: Can, Günay
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The evidence on the waning protection of COVID-19 vaccines has been reviewed by the World Health Organization and has led to consideration of the need for booster doses. This study aimed to evaluate vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19, and the COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers who received various types (inactive or m-RNA) and doses (2 to 4 doses) of the COVID-19 vaccine. The study was conducted with a total of 3,009 healthcare workers between August 1 and November 30, 2021 at a university hospital. Six different vaccination statuses were evaluated in the study. The effectiveness for COVID-19 infection, after adjusting for age, sex, and position, was highest in those who received two doses of CoronaVac and two doses of BNT162b2 (89.3%, 95% CI 72.2–95.9%) and was lowest in those who received two doses of CoronaVac (29%, 95% CI − 8–53%). The adjusted effectiveness of two doses of CoronaVac for COVID-19 infection was not significant (21.0%, 95% CI − 20.7–48.3%) but increased significantly with a booster dose of CoronaVac or BNT162b2. One or two doses of the BNT162b2 booster demonstrated higher effectiveness in comparison to a single dose of the CoronaVac booster. These results indicate the need for a booster dose, and heterologous boosting with BNT162b2 may be a better option for higher effectiveness for those who received two doses of CoronaVac. Future studies should evaluate the need for further booster doses and their long-term effects.
IL-17 Modulation of Rhinovirus-Induced Allergic Airways Disease
Creators: name: Peel, Tamlyn Jolyon Robert
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways, resulting in significant morbidity and premature deaths. Rhinoviruses, agents of the common cold, have been identified as the most frequent viruses inducing asthma exacerbations. However the mechanisms involved in this process, especially in moderate-to-severe asthmatics, are not clear. IL-17, a protein secreted by Th17 and IL-17+γδ T cells, is found to be up-regulated in asthmatics and correlates with severity of disease. Observations from a clinical study of rhinovirus infection showed increased induction of IL-17 in nasal lavage fluid from asthmatics following experimental rhinovirus infection compared to healthy controls. Using mouse models, this thesis addresses the interactions of rhinovirus with IL-17 in the context of allergic airways disease. Primary infection of C57BL/6 mice did not induce IL-17 responses as seen in human subjects; this may be explained by the apparent lack of induction of IL-23 following primary infection in mice. Supplementation of rhinovirus infection with recombinant IL-17 showed significant, selective increases in neutrophil chemokines with subsequent increases in both neutrophil recruitment and activation, as defined by myeloperoxidase activity. In an existing Th2-driven model of allergic airways disease, rhinovirus was seen to selectively expand Th2 responses while not increasing allergen-induced Th17, IL-17+γδ T cells or IL-17. However, rhinovirus infection in a Th17-driven model of allergic airways disease showed a significant increase of neutrophil numbers with a concomitant increase in airway hyperresponsiveness. This work augments existing knowledge on rhinovirus exacerbation of Th2-mediated asthma with the interactions between Th17 and rhinovirus, which may play a significant role in moderate-to-severe asthma exacerbations. This supports current research on therapeutic targeting of the IL-17 pathway in asthmatics.
Oral history interview with Willard Earl Givens, 1968
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Executives
School administrators
Education--Societies, etc
Educational law and legislation
Teachers--Political activity

description: Early life and education, Columbia, 1915, Union Theological Seminary, 1915; teaching experiences in Hawaii; Superintendent of Schools, Oakland, California, 1925-27; National Education Association, Executive Secretary, 1935-52. Impressions of Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henry Sloane Coffin
title: ADCO, Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00270
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00270, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00270, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Oral history interview with Will Winton Alexander, 1952
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Educators
Agriculturists
Agriculture--United States
Education
New Deal, 1933-1939

description: Childhood and education; Vanderbilt University; ministry, Methodist Church South, 1901-1917; World War I; race riots; beginning work in race relations, Commission in Interracial Cooperation, 1919-1930; lynching; Ku Klux Klan; Atlanta University merger; Dillard University, Acting President, 1931-1935; Resettlement Administration, 1935-1936; Greenbelt towns; Great Plains; subsistence homesteads; Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, Farm Security Administration, 1937; Julius Rosenwald Fund; Fair Employment Practices Committee; organizing the American Council on Race Relations; impressions of C.B. Baldwin, John Fischer, Sidney Hillman, President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald, Frank Tannenbaum, Mr. and Mrs. Rexford G. Tugwell, Henry Wallace and others.
Analysis of global research hotspots and trends in immune cells in intervertebral disc degeneration: A bibliometric study
Creators: name: Wang, Nan
name: Mi, Zehua
name: Chen, Shuang
name: Fang, Xiaoyang
name: Xi, Zhipeng
name: Xu, Wenqiang
name: Xie, Lin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Intervertebral disc degeneration is an important pathological basis for spinal degenerative diseases. The imbalance of the immune microenvironment and the involvement of immune cells has been shown to lead to nucleus pulposus cells death. This article presents a bibliometric analysis of studies on immune cells in IDD in order to clarify the current status and hotspots. We searched the WOSCC, Scopus and PubMed databases from 01/01/2001 to 08/03/2023. We analyzed and visualized the content using software such as Citespace, Vosviewer and the bibliometrix. This study found that the number of annual publications is increasing year on year. The journal study found that Spine had the highest number of articles and citations. The country/regions analysis showed that China had the highest number of publications, the USA had the highest number of citations and total link strength. The institutional analysis found that Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Huazhong University of Science Technology had the highest number of publications, Tokai University had the highest citations, and the University of Bern had the highest total link strength. Sakai D and Risbud MV had the highest number of publications. Sakai D had the highest total link strength, and Risbud MV had the highest number of citations. The results of the keyword analysis suggested that the current research hotspots and future directions continue to be the study of the mechanisms of immune cells in IDD, the therapeutic role of immune cells in IDD and the role of immune cells in tissue engineering for IDD.
Deliverable 2.4: Techno-economic feasibility case study across service life cycle
Creators: name: Engie
name: GridAbility
name: FFS, FORUM PER LA FINANZA SOSTENIBILE
name: APPA, Asociación de Empresas de Energías Renovables
name: IMP, Institut Mihajlo Pupin
name: R2M Energy
name: GFM Fotovoltaica
name: Albedo
name: AXPO, ENERGY SOLUTIONS ITALIASOCIETA PER AZIONI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Deliverable 2.4 Techno-economic feasibility case study aims at defining the NEON methodology for feasibility assessment and to adapting the methodology for the fourth Citizen Energy Communities under consideration in the NEON project. The results of the work done in the first reporting period are summarized within this document.
A Structural Approach to Pricing Credit Derivatives with Counterparty Adjustments
Creators: name: Savescu, Ioana-Alexandra
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: This thesis studies the problem of computing adjustments for bilateral counterparty risk for a standard Credit Default Swap (CDS) in a three-factor first passage time default risk model. Extending the existing literature that gives analytical expression for the transition probability density function for two-dimensional Brownian motions absorbed at the boundaries in the positive quadrant, a method to obtain a semi-analytical expression for the transition probability density function of a three-dimensional Brownian motion absorbed at first exit time from the positive octant is developed. This is done by separating the problem into a radial and an angular part, of which the latter depends only on the correlation matrix. The solution to the angular part is obtained through the finite element method. These mathematical results are then used to provide semi-analytical expressions for bilateral Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) and Debit Value Adjustments (DVA) of a credit default swap. An example of market data is analysed in detail and it is shown that these value adjustments can be non-negligible. An approximation commonly used by practitioners for the computation of bilateral value adjustments is to use the sum of the unilateral ones as a proxy. The framework developed here allows for an analysis on the precision of this approximation to be performed in the case of the credit default swap, when wrong-way risk is present. Finally, the problem of valuing partially collateralised CDSs is studied and analytical or semi-analytical solutions are developed for computing the potential shortfall caused by the risky nature of the collateral.
Impact of age at vaccination and cervical HPV infection status on binding and neutralizing antibody titers at 10 years after receiving single or higher doses of quadrivalent HPV vaccine
Creators: name: Bhatla, Neerja
name: Muwonge, Richard
name: Malvi, Sylla G.
name: Joshi, Smita
name: Poli, Usha Rani Reddy
name: Lucas, Eric
name: Esmy, Pulikkottil O.
name: Verma, Yogesh
name: Shah, Anand
name: Zomawia, Eric
name: Pimple, Sharmila
name: Jayant, Kasturi
name: Hingmire, Sanjay
name: Chiwate, Aruna
name: Vashist, Shachi
name: Mishra, Gauravi
name: Jadhav, Radhika
name: Siddiqi, Maqsood
name: Anantharaman, Devasena
name: Panicker, Gitika
name: Butt, Julia
name: Sankaran, Subha
name: Kannan, Thiraviam Pillai Rameshwari Ammal
name: Varghese, Rintu
name: Kartha, Purnima
name: Pillai, M. Radhakrishna
name: Waterboer, Tim
name: Müller, Martin
name: Sehr, Peter
name: Unger, Elizabeth R.
name: Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy
name: Basu, Partha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Long-term follow-up of a cohort of unmarried girls who received one, two, or three doses of quadrivalent HPV vaccine, between 10 and 18 years of age, in an Indian multi-centric study allowed us to compare antibody responses between the younger and older age cohorts at 10-years post-vaccination, and study the impact of initiation of sexual activity and cervical HPV infections on antibody levels. Among the younger (10–14 years) recipients of a single dose, 97.7% and 98.2% had detectable binding antibody titers against HPV 16 and HPV 18 respectively at ten years post-vaccination. The proportions among those receiving a single dose at age 15–18 years were 92.3% and 94.2% against HPV 16 and HPV 18 respectively. Mean HPV 16 binding antibody titers were 2.1 folds (95%CI 1.4 to 3.3) higher in those vaccinated at ages 10–14 years, and 1.9 folds (95%CI 1.2 to 3.0) higher in those vaccinated at 15–18 years compared to mean titers seen in the unvaccinated women. Compared to previous timepoints of 36 or 48 months, binding antibodies against HPV 16 and neutralizing antibodies against both HPV 16 and HPV 18 were significantly higher at 10 years. This rise was more pronounced in participants vaccinated at 15–18 years. No association of marital status or cervical HPV infections was observed with the rise in titer. Durability of antibody response in single dose recipients correlated well with the high efficacy of a single dose against persistent HPV 16/18 infections irrespective of age at vaccination, as we reported earlier.
Additional file 12: of Genomes from uncultivated prokaryotes: a comparison of metagenome-assembled and single-amplified genomes
Creators: name: Alneberg, Johannes
name: Karlsson, Christofer
name: Anna-Maria Divne
name: Bergin, Claudia
name: Homa, Felix
name: Lindh, Markus
name: Hugerth, Luisa
name: Ettema, Thijs
name: Bertilsson, Stefan
name: Andersson, Anders
name: Jarone Pinhassi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S9. Tetranucleotide frequency plots of SAG BS0038A11 in BACL22. Other figure legend information same as in AdditionalÂ fileÂ 6: Figure S3. (PDF 141 kb)
Joule heating and the thermal evolution of old neutron stars
Creators: name: Miralles, Juan A.
name: Urpin, Vadim
name: Konenkov, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider Joule heating caused by dissipation of the magnetic field in the neutron star crust. This mechanism may be efficient in maintaining a relatively high surface temperature in very old neutron stars. Calculations of the thermal evolution show that, at the late evolutionary stage ($t \geq 10$ Myr), the luminosity of the neutron star is approximately equal to the energy released due to the field dissipation and is practically independent of the atmosphere models. At this stage, the surface temperature can be of the order of $3 \times 10^{4} - 10^{5}$K. Joule heating can maintain this high temperature during extremely long time ($\geq 100$ Myr), comparable with the decay time of the magnetic field.
description: 13 pages (5 figures in the text). Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Investigation of microbubble behaviour under ultrasound for molecular imaging
Creators: name: Loughran, Jonathan David
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Modern advances in ultrasound imaging technology have led to the development of targeted microbubble contrast agents; micrometer sized encapsulated bubbles coated with binding agents. Their gas core gives them high echogenicity, scattering incident ultrasound and allowing them to oscillate to producing a detectible sound of their own. The binding agent allows them to be used for molecular imaging. The work in this thesis aims to provide a better understanding of the behaviour of microbubble contrast agents, but with a focus on their use as molecular imaging agents. The thesis starts with an introduction to microbubble contrast agents, stating their current clinical usage both as a normal contrast agent and for molecular imaging and highlighting their strengths and limitations. In the following chapter, the theory behind the modelling of microbubble motions is introduced, discussing modelling bubble oscillations using the Rayleigh-Plesset equation, and the translation of a bubble in an acoustic field through Bjerknes forces. The first piece of novel work to be presented in this thesis is in the form of a model for non-spherical oscillations in microbubble contrast agents, with the application of modelling the destruction of microbubble contrast agents. A Boussinesq-Scriven approach was taken, to adapt a pre-existing model for shell free bubbles by taking into account the viscoelastic effect of the shell. Results calculated using the developed model showed a significant difference in destruction threshold between the shelled and shell-free bubbles. The second piece of work focuses on the effects of an ultrasound field on adherent microbubbles including their detachment and deflation. Analysis of experimental results on targeted microbubbles adherent to a micro-tube with flow shows that the effects of ultrasound are significant even at relatively low acoustic pressure. As acoustic pressure is increased, the percentage of detached and/or deflated microbubbles does also. Four forces are identified which could be responsible for detachment, namely, shear, primary and secondary Bjerknes, and oscillations and their relative significance is investigated. The results from this work are then used to make suggestions about the clinical imaging for targeted contrast agents. The final novel piece of work presented is a dual transducer arrangement as a potential method of increasing targeted microbubble binding efficiency through the creation of a simple one-dimensional acoustic manipulator, capable of being implemented in any clinical ultrasound scanner with a phased array. Simulations and experimental investigations were carried out on the system in order to demonstrate the feasibility of such an acoustic manipulator and to gain understanding of its practicalities.
The Renormalized Trajectory of the O(N) Non-linear Sigma Model
Creators: name: Bock, Wolfgang
name: Kuti, Julius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The renormalized trajectory (RT) is determined from two different Monte Carlo renormalization group techniques with $δ$-function block spin transformation in the multi-dimensional coupling parameter space of the two-dimensional non-linear sigma model with O(3) symmetry. At a correlation length $ξ\approx 3$-$5$, the RT is shown to break away from the straight line of the fixed point trajectory (FPT) which is orthogonal to the critical surface and originates from the ultraviolet fixed point (UVFP). The large $N$ calculation of the RT is also presented in the coupling parameter space of the most general bilinear Hamiltonian. The RT in the large $N$ approximation exhibits a similar shape with the sharp break occurring at a somewhat smaller correlation length.
description: 4 pages, uuencoded-compressed PostScript file, contribution to the conference Lattice'95
A study of the quark-gluon vertex
Creators: name: Skullerud, Jon Ivar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results from a study of the quark--gluon vertex function in the Landau gauge. The results are obtained for quenched QCD with an O(a)-improved Wilson fermion action, at beta=6.0. We discuss plans for further study, including extraction of a renormalised QCD coupling from the momentum dependence of the vertex.
description: 4 pages uuencoded compressed postscript, contribution to Lattice 95
Additional file 11: of Genomes from uncultivated prokaryotes: a comparison of metagenome-assembled and single-amplified genomes
Creators: name: Alneberg, Johannes
name: Karlsson, Christofer
name: Anna-Maria Divne
name: Bergin, Claudia
name: Homa, Felix
name: Lindh, Markus
name: Hugerth, Luisa
name: Ettema, Thijs
name: Bertilsson, Stefan
name: Andersson, Anders
name: Jarone Pinhassi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S8. Tetranucleotide frequency plots of SAG BS0038D11 in BACL21. Other figure legend information same as in AdditionalÂ fileÂ 6: Figure S3. (PDF 87 kb)
Revising and Extending the Linear Response Theory for Statistical Mechanical Systems: Evaluating Observables as Predictors and Predictands
Creators: name: Lucarini, Valerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Linear response theory has developed into a formidable set of tools for studying the forced behaviour of a large variety of systems - including out of equilibrium ones. In this paper we provide a new angle on the problem, by studying under which conditions it is possible to perform predictions on the response of a given observable of a system to perturbations, using one or more other observables of the same system as predictors, and thus bypassing the need to know all the details of the acting forcing. Thus, we break the rigid separation between forcing and response, which is key in linear response theory, and revisit the concept of causality. As a result, the surrogate Green functions one constructs for predicting the response of the observable of interest may have support that is not necessarily limited to the nonnegative time axis. This implies that not all observables are equally good as predictands when a given forcing is applied, as result of the properties of their corresponding susceptibility. In particular, problems emerge from the presence of complex zeros. We derive general explicit formulas that, in absence of such pathologies, allow one to reconstruct the response of an observable of interest to N independent forcings by using as predictors N other observables. We provide a thorough test of the theory and of the possible pathologies by using numerical simulations of the paradigmatic Lorenz '96 model. Our results are potentially relevant for problems like the reconstruction of data from proxy signals, like in the case of paleoclimate, and, in general, the analysis of signals and feedbacks in complex systems where our knowledge on the system is limited, as in neurosciences. Our technique might also be useful for reconstructing the response to forcings of a spatially extended system in a given location by looking at the response in a separate location.
description: 26 pages, 7 Figures; Revised Version
Predicting X-ray emission from wind-blown bubbles - Limitations of fits to ROSAT spectra
Creators: name: Strickland, David K.
name: Stevens, Ian R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wind-blown bubbles, from those around massive O and Wolf-Rayet stars, to superbubbles around OB associations and galactic winds in starburst galaxies, have a dominant role in determining the structure of the Interstellar Medium. X-ray observations of these bubbles are particularly important as most of their volume is taken up with hot gas, 1E5 < T (K) < 1E8. However, it is difficult to compare X-ray observations, usually analysed in terms of single or two temperature spectral model fits, with theoretical models, as real bubbles do not have such simple temperature distributions. In this introduction to a series of papers detailing the observable X-ray properties of wind-blown bubbles, we describe our method with which we aim to solve this problem, analysing a simulation of a wind-blown bubble around a massive star. We model a wind of constant mass and energy injection rate, blowing into a uniform ISM, from which we calculate X-ray spectra as would be seen by the ROSAT PSPC. We compare the properties of the bubble as would be inferred from the ROSAT data with the true properties of the bubble in the simulation. We find standard spectral models yield inferred properties that deviate significantly from the true properties, even though the spectral fits are statistically acceptable, and give no indication that they do not represent to true spectral distribution. Our results suggest that in any case where the true source spectrum does not come from a simple single or two temperature distribution the "observed" X-ray properties cannot naively be used to infer the true properties.
description: 14 pages, LaTeX with 13 eps figures, condensed abstract. MNRAS in press
Rolling Skyrmions and the Nuclear Spin-Orbit Force
Creators: name: Harland, Derek
name: Manton, Nicholas S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70S20, 81V35

description: We compute the nuclear spin-orbit coupling from the Skyrme model. Previous attempts to do this were based on the product ansatz, and as such were limited to a system of two well-separated nuclei. Our calculation utilises a new method, and is applicable to the phenomenologically important situation of a single nucleon orbiting a large nucleus. We find that, to second order in perturbation theory, the coefficient of the spin-orbit coupling induced by pion field interactions has the wrong sign, but as the strength of the pion-nucleon interactions increases the correct sign is recovered non-perturbatively.
description: 37 pages, 5 figures. v2: discussion of the literature improved, and other minor changes
Oral history interview with William Allin 1975
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Executives
Paper bags
Paper industry
Sales management

description: Employment with Advance Bag and Paper Company; paper sales business in the South in the 1930s; move to Boston; considerations in company expansion; diversification in bag industry; importance of efficient sales organization; Southern Advance merger with Gair, then Continental Can; integrating Hodge, Port Wentworth and Hopewell operations; responsibilities as group vice president; refurbishing Hodge operation.
Competition May Increase Social Happiness in Bipartite Matching Problem
Creators: name: Kong, Yi-Xiu
name: Yuan, Guang-Hui
name: Zhou, Lei
name: Wu, Rui-Jie
name: Shi, Gui-Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bipartite matching problem is to study two disjoint groups of agents who need to be matched pairwise. It can be applied to many real-world scenarios and explain many social phenomena. In this article, we study the effect of competition on bipartite matching problem by introducing correlated wish list. The results show that proper competition can improve the overall happiness of society and also reduce the instability of the matching result of unequal sized bipartite matching.