cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Xanthones from Securidaca inappendiculata antagonized the antirheumatic effects of methotrexate in vivo by promoting its secretion into urine.
Creators: name: Wang, Dan-Dan
name: Li, Yan
name: Wu, Yi-Jin
name: Wu, Yi-Lai
name: Han, Jun
name: Olatunji, Opeyemi Joshua
name: Wang, Li
name: Zuo, Jian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: This study was designed to characterize the interaction between Securidaca inappendiculata Hassk. derived xanthones and methotrexate (MTX). Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) was induced in rats, which were treated with MTX, a xanthone-rich fraction (XRF), or MTX+XRF by gavage for 30 days. Clinical efficacy was assessed based on arthritis scores, serological analysis, and histological examination. Protein expression was investigated by either immunohistochemical or immunoblotting methods. MTX concentrations were determined by HPLC or LC-MS methods. Obtained results were further validated by in vitro assays using 1,7-dihydroxy-3,4-dimethoxyxanthone and HEK 293 T cells. XRF antagonized the antirheumatic effects of MTX in vivo, suggested by higher levels of proinflammatory cytokines, and severer swelling and deformation of joints in CIA rats in the MTX+XRF group compared with MTX monotherapy. XRF reduced MTX concentration in plasma and promoted its excretion into urine. As a result, XRF attenuated MTX-induced edema of the proximal tubule. Furthermore, XRF restored the decreased expression of organic anion transporter three (OAT3), which accounts for MTX secretion in the kidney. Consistently, 1,7-dihydroxy-3,4-dimethoxyxanthone promoted the cellular intake of MTX by increasing OTA3 expression. It is suggested that the combined use of S. inappendulata with MTX should be optimized to avoid the antagonistic effects and improve the safety of the MTX regimen.
Turbulence transmission in parallel modified shocks using ray tracing
Creators: name: Tammi, Joni
name: Vainio, Rami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a semi-classical approach of handling waves as quasiparticle gas in a slowly varying flow -- analogous to ray tracing -- to calculate the Alfven wave transmission parameters, the resulting cross-helicity of the waves and the scattering-centre compression ratio, for cases where the shock thickness is large enough for the turbulent waves in the plasma to see the transition of the background flow parameters as smooth and slowly varying. For nonrelativistic shocks the wave transmission produces similar effects on the downstream turbulence and the scattering-centre compression ratio as does the transmission through a step shock: the downstream Alfven waves propagate predominantly towards the shock in the local plasma frame and, thus, the scattering-centre compression ratio is larger than the gas compression ratio. For thick relativistic shocks, however, we find qualitative differences with respect to the step-shock case: for low-Alfvenic-Mach-number shocks the downstream waves propagate predominantly away from the shock, and the scattering-centre compression ratio is lower than that of the gas. Thus, when taken into account, the Alfven wave transmission can decrease the efficiency of the first-order Fermi acceleration in a thick relativistic shock.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted to A&A
Η Δωρεά οργάνων και η αρνητική στάση του δυνητικού δότη”
Creators: name: Ζαχαρούδη, Δήμητρα Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2020
Subjects: Δωρεά οργάνων
Μεταμοσχεύσεις
Άρνηση συγγενών στη δωρεά οργάνων
Organ donation
Transplants
Refusal of relatives to donate organs

description: H Δωρεά οργάνων ως απαραίτητη προϋπόθεση για την πραγματοποίηση των μεταμοσχεύσεων, αποτελεί ύψιστη προσφορά στον συνάνθρωπο που υποφέρει. Αποτελεί την εν ζωή συναίνεση ενός ατόμου ή των συγγενών αυτού στη χειρουργική αφαίρεση ενός ή περισσότερων οργάνων του, μετά τον θάνατό του, με σκοπό τη μεταμόσχευσή τους σε άλλους πάσχοντες. Η μεταμόσχευση θεωρείται ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα επιτεύγματα της ιατρικής επιστήμης, που προσφέρει ελπίδα ζωής σε πάσχοντες από σοβαρά χρόνια νοσήματα. Όμως διαπιστώνεται σημαντική έλλειψη διαθέσιμων οργάνων και αυτό διότι η επιτυχημένη πορεία των μεταμοσχεύσεων σε μια χώρα, δεν εξαρτάται μόνο από την επιστημονική πρόοδο, αλλά κυρίως από το μέγεθος και το βάθος της κοινωνικής στήριξης στην Ιδέα της Δωρεάς. Οι αυξανόμενες ανάγκες που εμφανίζονται στον τομέα των μεταμοσχεύσεων τα τελευταία χρόνια, σε συνάρτηση με τον περιοριστικό παράγοντα της ανεπάρκειας διαθέσιμων οργάνων, έχει επιφέρει σοβαρές επιπτώσεις τόσο στο επίπεδο υγείας συγκεκριμένων ομάδων του πληθυσμού όσο και σε κοινωνικό αλλά και οικονομικό επίπεδο. Στην εργασία αυτή, γίνεται αναφορά στη Δωρεά και Μεταμόσχευση οργάνων μόνο από αποβιώσαντα δότη και εξετάζονται οι παράγοντες και τα διλήμματα που επιδρούν καθοριστικά στην απόφαση του ατόμου για τη δωρεά οργάνων, είτε του ίδιου, είτε του συγγενικού περιβάλλοντος έτσι όπως παρουσιάζονται θεωρητικά στην βιβλιογραφία, αλλά και όπως αναδείχτηκαν μέσα από τα στοιχεία του Εθνικού Οργανισμού Μεταμοσχεύσεων (Ε.Ο.Μ).
description: Organ donation as a necessary condition for the transplantation procedure, is the highest offer to the suffering fellow human being. It is the living consent of a person or his relatives to the surgical removal of one or more of his organs, after his death, for the purpose of transplanting them to other patients. Organ transplantation is considered one of the greatest achievements of medical science, offering life expectancy to those suffering from serious chronic diseases. However, there is a significant lack of available organs because the successful course of transplants in a country depends not only on scientific progress, but mainly on the size and depth of social support for the Idea of Donation. During the recent years, the growing need for transplants, combined with the lack of available organs, has had a serious impact on the level of health of certain groups of the population, in financial and social terms. In our study, reference is made to organ donation and transplantation only from deceased donors. We investigated the factors and dilemmas that have a decisive influence on the individual's decision to donate organs, either of himself or of the relative environment as theoretically presented in the literature, but and as were concluded through the data of the National Transplant Organization.
Young Stars in the Camelopardalis Dust and Molecular Clouds. I. The Cam OB1 Association
Creators: name: Straizys, V.
name: Laugalys, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distribution of dust and molecular clouds in the direction of Galactic longitudes 132--158 deg and latitudes pm 12 deg is investigated. The maps of dust distribution in the area were plotted from the following surveys: the star counts in the DSS I database by Dobashi et al. (2005), the survey of the average infrared color excesses by Froebrich et al. (2007) and the thermal dust emission survey at 100 micrometers by Schlegel et al. (1998). The distribution of molecular clouds was taken from the whole sky CO survey by Dame et al. (2001). All these surveys show very similar cloud patterns in the area. Using the radial velocities of CO, the distances to separate clouds are estimated. A revised list of the Cam OB1 association members contains 43 stars and the open cluster NGC 1502. 18 young irregular variable and H alpha emission stars are identified in the area. All this proves that the star forming process in the Camelopardalis clouds is still in progress.
TTP: Tool for Tumor Progression
Creators: name: Reiter, Johannes
name: Bozic, Ivana
name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
name: Nowak, Martin
Publisher: name: IST Austria
Year: 2013
Subjects: 000 Computer science, knowledge & general works

description: In this work we present a flexible tool for tumor progression, which simulates the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. Tumor progression implements a multi-type branching process where the key parameters are the fitness landscape, the mutation rate, and the average time of cell division. The fitness of a cancer cell depends on the mutations it has accumulated. The input to our tool could be any fitness landscape, mutation rate, and cell division time, and the tool produces the growth dynamics and all relevant statistics.
Additional file 14 of Breeding history and candidate genes responsible for black skin of Xichuan black-bone chicken
Creators: name: Li, Donghua
name: Sun, Guirong
name: Zhang, Meng
name: Cao, Yanfang
name: Zhang, Chenxi
name: Fu, Yawei
name: Li, Fang
name: Li, Guoxi
name: Jiang, Ruirui
name: Han, Ruili
name: Li, Zhuanjian
name: Wang, Yanbin
name: Tian, Yadong
name: Liu, Xiaojun
name: Li, Wenting
name: Kang, Xiangtao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 14: Supplementary Table S10. Bioinformatics analysis of TCONS_00054154
What is decidable about partially observable Markov decision processes with ω-regular objectives
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
name: Chmelik, Martin
name: Tracol, Mathieu
Publisher: name: IST Austria
Year: 2013
Subjects: 000 Computer science, knowledge & general works

description: We consider partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) with ω-regular conditions specified as parity objectives. The class of ω-regular languages extends regular languages to infinite strings and provides a robust specification language to express all properties used in verification, and parity objectives are canonical forms to express ω-regular conditions. The qualitative analysis problem given a POMDP and a parity objective asks whether there is a strategy to ensure that the objective is satis- fied with probability 1 (resp. positive probability). While the qualitative analysis problems are known to be undecidable even for very special cases of parity objectives, we establish decidability (with optimal complexity) of the qualitative analysis problems for POMDPs with all parity objectives under finite- memory strategies. We establish asymptotically optimal (exponential) memory bounds and EXPTIME- completeness of the qualitative analysis problems under finite-memory strategies for POMDPs with parity objectives.
Μηχανική αναγνώριση συναισθημάτων από ηχητικά σήματα με χρήση τεχνικών ψηφιακής επεξεργασίας σήματος και μηχανική μάθηση
Creators: name: Βαλσαμάρα, Ιωάννα Δρόσου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2020
Subjects: Μηχανική μάθηση
Επεξεργασία Σήματος
Αναγνώριση Συναισθήματος
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
Emotion Recognition

description: Οι άνθρωποι χρησιμοποιούν ως βασικό τρόπο επικοινωνίας την ομιλία, μέσω της οποίας εκφράζεται η συναισθηματική κατάσταση στην οποία βρίσκονται. Η αυτόματη αναγνώριση συναισθημάτων από την ανθρώπινη ομιλία παραμένει ένα ενδιαφέρον και δύσκολο πρόβλημα. Η ανάγκη για αξιόπιστη αναγνώριση συναισθημάτων από ηχητικά αρχεία είναι επιτακτική, για τη σύγχρονη καθημερινότητα και διεπαφή ανθρώπου με υπολογιστή αλλά και με τις μηχανές γενικότερα. Στα πλαίσια της παρούσας εργασίας, σχεδιάστηκε και εκπαιδεύτηκε ένα deep learning μοντέλο για αναγνώριση των βασικών συναισθηματικών καταστάσεων από ηχητικά σήματα. Η εκπαίδευση και η αξιολόγηση του μοντέλου έγινε με τις βάσεις δεδομένων: Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song ή RAVDESS, Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture ή IEMOCAP και τον συνδυασμό τους. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, ως μέθοδος ταξινόμησης επιλέχθηκαν τα Συνελικτικά Νευρωνικά Δίκτυά. Η πειραματική διαδικασία περιλαμβάνει διαφορετικές τεχνικές πειραμάτων όπως Leave One Subject Out ή Fine Tuning, που περιγράφονται αναλυτικά παρακάτω. Από τις αξιολογήσεις των μοντέλων παρατηρείται ότι η μέθοδος παράγει αποτελέσματα που συναγωνίζονται το state of the art.
description: Human uses speech as a basic mean of communication. Through speech emotions are expressed. Automatic Recognition of human emotion is a fascinating and a challenging task. The need for a reliable speech emotion recognition is imperative for our everyday life and the human computer interaction. In present master’s thesis, a deep learning model is built for speech emotion recognition. The databases that are used for the training and the evaluation of the models are: the Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song or RAVDESS, the Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture or IEMOCAP and a combination of them. Convolutional neural networks are chosen as the classification method. From the evaluation of the models, it’s clear that the results are comparable with the state of the art.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Λογιστικής και Χρηματοοικονομικής (Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας)
Nigel Atter, In the Shadow of Bois Hugo: The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos
Creators: name: Lloyd, Nick
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2019

description: Nigel Atter, In the Shadow of Bois Hugo: The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos. Helion & Co., 2017. 144pp. ISBN: 9781911512776 (paperback). Price £16.95.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol 5 No 1 (2019)
Επίδραση της θεραπείας με ινφλιξιμάμπη στην έκφραση του Bdnf στον υποθάλαμο και τον προμετωπιαίο φλοιό επιμυών σε μοντέλο κολλαγονοεπαγόμενης αρθρίτιδας
Creators: name: Βαλιώκη, Βασιλική-Βανέσσα Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ρευματοειδής αρθρίτιδα
Νευροτροφίνη
Ινφλιξιμάμπη
Rheumatoid arthritis
Brain derived neurotrophic factor
Infliximab

description: Ο τρόπος με τον οποίο σχετίζεται η έκφραση του BDNF με τη φλεγμονή έχει μελετηθεί σε μεγάλο αριθμό επιστημονικών ερευνών, όπως προκύπτει από τις δημοσιεύσεις σε πολλά επιστημονικά περιοδικά. Ο στόχος της συγκεκριμένης μελέτης είναι να διερευνηθεί κατά πόσο η έκφραση του BDNF επηρεάζεται σε συγκεκριμένες περιοχές του εγκεφάλου, μετά από χορήγηση αντιρευματικών φαρμάκων, σε επίμυες που είναι υγιείς ή τους έχει προκληθεί κολλαγονοεπαγόμενη αρθρίτιδα. Μια ενδεχόμενη συσχέτιση με συγκεκριμένες περιοχές του εγκεφάλου, πιθανότατα θα επιβεβαιώσει ή θα καταρρίψει και την επίδραση της συγκεκριμένης ομάδας φαρμάκων σε εκδηλώσεις του κεντρικού νευρικού συστήματος όπως η κατάθλιψη, το χρόνιο στρες, οι μαθησιακές διαδικασίες κ.α. Για το σκοπό αυτό χρησιμοποιήθηκε πειραματικό μοντέλο κολλαγονοεπαγόμενης αρθρίτιδας σε επίμυες, στους οποίους χορηγήθηκε αντιρευματική αγωγή αποτελούμενη από Μεθοτρεξάτη, Ινφλιξιμάμπη και συνδυασμό τους σε κατάλληλη δοσολογία. Η ομάδα των ρευματοπαθών ζώων, μελετήθηκε σε σύγκριση με ομάδα υγιών ζώων στα οποία χορηγήθηκε η ίδια αγωγή. Μετά το πέρας της φαρμακοθεραπείας, τα ζώα θανατώθηκαν και απομονώθηκαν με κατάλληλη διαδικασία τα δείγματα των ιστών του εγκεφάλου προς διερεύνηση. Η επίδραση στην έκφραση του BDNF μελετήθηκε σε επίπεδο μεταγραφής του γονιδίου, δηλαδή προσδιορίστηκε ποσοτικά το μεταγραφόμενο mRNA με τη μέθοδο qPCR.
description: The way in which BDNF expression is associated with inflammation has been studied in a large number of scientific studies, as evidenced by publications in many scientific journals. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the expression of BDNF is affected in specific areas of the brain following antirheumatic drug administration in healthy rats and rats with collagen induced arthritis. A possible association with specific areas of the brain will likely confirm or disprove the effect of this group of drugs on central nervous system manifestations such as depression, chronic stress, learning processes e.t.c. For this purpose, in the experimental model of collagen-induced arthritis in rats, antirheumatic treatment consisting of Methotrexate, Infliximab and a combination of them was administered at an appropriate dosage. The group of rheumatic animals was studied in comparison with a group of healthy animals treated with the same treatment. At the end of the pharmacotherapy, the animals were sacrificed and brain tissue samples were appropriately isolated for investigation. The effect on expression of BDNF was studied at the level of gene transcription, meaning that the mRNA transcripts were quantified by the qPCR method.
Additional file 7 of Breeding history and candidate genes responsible for black skin of Xichuan black-bone chicken
Creators: name: Li, Donghua
name: Sun, Guirong
name: Zhang, Meng
name: Cao, Yanfang
name: Zhang, Chenxi
name: Fu, Yawei
name: Li, Fang
name: Li, Guoxi
name: Jiang, Ruirui
name: Han, Ruili
name: Li, Zhuanjian
name: Wang, Yanbin
name: Tian, Yadong
name: Liu, Xiaojun
name: Li, Wenting
name: Kang, Xiangtao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Supplementary Table S3. Primers used for qRT-PCR in this study.
Single parameter quasi-particle model for QGP
Creators: name: Bannur, Vishnu M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a new single parameter quasi-particle model and study the thermodynamics of (2+1)-flavor quark gluon plasma (QGP). Our model with a single parameter explains remarkably well the lattice simulation results of Fodor et. al. Phys. Lett. B568, 73 (2003).
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, article
Robert A. Geake with Lorin M. Spears, From Slaves to Soldiers: the 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution
Creators: name: Nash, Gary
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2019

description: Robert A. Geake with Lorin M. Spears, From Slaves to Soldiers: the 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2016. 184pp. ISBN 97-8159-4162-688 (hardback). £19.99.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol 5 No 1 (2019)
Probing jets from young embedded sources: clues from HST near-IR [Fe II] images
Creators: name: Erkal, Jessica
name: Nisini, Brunella
name: Coffey, Deirdre
name: Bacciotti, Francesca
name: Hartigan, Patrick
name: Antoniucci, Simone
name: Giannini, Teresa
name: Eislöffel, Jochen
name: Manara, Carlo Felice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present near-infrared [Fe II] images of four Class 0/I jets (HH 1/2, HH 34, HH 111, HH 46/47) observed with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3. The unprecedented angular resolution allows us to measure proper motions, jet widths and trajectories, and extinction along the jets. In all cases, we detect the counter-jet which was barely visible or invisible at shorter wavelengths. We measure tangential velocities of a few hundred km/s, consistent with previous HST measurements over 10 years ago. We measure the jet width as close as a few tens of au from the star, revealing high collimations of about 2 degrees for HH 1, HH 34, HH 111 and about 8 degrees for HH 46, all of which are preserved up to large distances. For HH 34, we find evidence of a larger initial opening angle of about 7 degrees. Measurement of knot positions reveals deviations in trajectory of both the jet and counter-jet of all sources. Analysis of asymmetries in the inner knot positions for HH 111 suggests the presence of a low mass stellar companion at separation 20-30 au. Finally, we find extinction values of 15-20 mag near the source which gradually decreases moving downstream along the jet. These observations have allowed us to study the counter-jet at unprecedented high angular resolution, and will be a valuable reference for planning future JWST mid-infrared observations which will peer even closer into the jet engine.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ - 26 pages, 22 figures, 9 tables
Comment on: ``Solving the riddle of the bright mismatches: Labeling and effective binding in oligonucleotide arrays"
Creators: name: Carlon, E.
name: Heim, T.
name: Wolterink, J. Klein
name: Barkema, G. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. E 68, 011906 (2003)], Naef and Magnasco suggested that the "bright" mismatches observed in Affymetrix microarray experiments are caused by the fluorescent molecules used to label RNA target sequences, which would impede target-probe hybridization. Their conclusion is based on the observation of "unexpected" asymmetries in the affinities obtained by fitting microarray data from publicly available experiments. We point out here that the observed asymmetry is due to the inequivalence of RNA and DNA, and that the reported affinities are consistent with stacking free energies obtained from melting experiments of unlabeled nucleic acids in solution. The conclusion of Naef and Magnasco is therefore based on an unjustified assumption.
description: 2 pages
Arran Johnston, On Gladsmuir Shall the Battle Be! The Battle of Prestonpans 1745
Creators: name: Pittock, Murray
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2019

description: Arran Johnston, On Gladsmuir Shall the Battle Be! The Battle of Prestonpans 1745. Solihull: Helion & Company Ltd, 2017. Xviii+226pp. ISBN 978-1-911512-83-7 (hardback). Price £25.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol 5 No 1 (2019)
Physical Difference between the short and long GRBs
Creators: name: Balazs, L. G.
name: Bagoly, Z.
name: Horvath, I.
name: Meszaros, A.
name: Meszaros, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provided separate bivariate log-normal distribution fits to the BATSE short and long burst samples using the durations and fluences. We show that these fits present an evidence for a power-law dependence between the fluence and the duration, with a statistically significant different index for the long and short groups. We argue that the effect is probably real, and the two subgroups are different physical phenomena. This may provide a potentially useful constraint for models of long and short bursts.
description: 2 figures
Mark Edele, Stalin’s Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler’s Collaborators, 1941-1945
Creators: name: Whitewood, Peter
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2019

description: Mark Edele, Stalin’s Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler’s Collaborators, 1941-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0198798156 (hardback). 224pp. Price £60.00.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol 5 No 1 (2019)
Free Energy and Equation of State of Ising-like Magnet Near the Critical Point
Creators: name: Kozlovskii, M. P.
name: Pylyuk, I. V.
name: Prytula, O. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The description of a three-dimensional Ising-like magnet in the presence of an external field in the vicinity of the critical point by the collective variables method is proposed. Using the renormalization group transformations, the scaling region size is defined as a function of temperature and field. The obtained expressions for the free energy, equation of state and susceptibility allow one to analyse their dependence on microscopic parameters of the system. The critical exponents of the correlation length and order parameter are calculated as well. The results agree qualitatively with ones obtained within the framework of the parametric representation of the equation of state and Monte-Carlo simulations. The calculations do not involve any parametrization, phenomenological assumptions and adjustable parameters. The approach can be extended to models with a multicomponent order parameter.
description: 9 pages 2 figures in journal Nuclear physics B (in press but with ref. v.753, pages 242-251)
Editorial
Creators: name: Grayson, Richard S
name: Wald, Erica
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2019

description: Editorial article from the two new Co-editors on: the editorial team being based at Goldsmiths; thanking the Founding Editor (Dr Matthew Ford); and expanding the Editorial Advisory Board.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol 5 No 1 (2019)
Neural network determination of the non-singlet quark distribution
Creators: name: Piccione, Andrea
name: Rojo, Joan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize the main features of our approach to parton fitting, and we show a preliminary result for the non-singlet structure function. When comparing our result to other PDF sets, we find a better description of large x data and larger error bands in the extrapolation regions.
description: 4 pages, 1 eps figure. Presented at the XIV International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2006), Tsukuba, Japan, 20-24 April 2006
Antigone: dal mito al teatro, dal teatro al mito
Creators: name: Giovannelli, Maddalena
Publisher: name: Dike
Year: 2015

description: The success of Sophocles’ Antigone has been such that it has set a thorough standard for reception: in order to fully grasp the significance of the reception process and to appreciate the influence of Antigone on the whole of Western culture, we must follow the character’s journey from its beginning, through the first stagings to its reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The present essay follows Antigone’s long itinerary in the attempt to identify the landmarks in the reception of the myth, the breaks that have changed the lines of the character, as well as its contemporary outputs. A myth made into drama, Antigone has become a real critical myth.
La fortuna dell’Antigone di Sofocle è stata tale da diventare un vero e proprio paradigma di ricezione: per comprendere appieno la portata del processo e l’influenza di Antigone per l’intera cultura occidentale, occorre seguire il percorso del personaggio fin dagli albori, attraverso l’approdo sulla scena e poi nella ricezione otto-novecentesca. Il contributo ripercorre il lungo viaggio di Antigone cercando di individuare, senza pretesa di esaustività, gli snodi fondamentali nella ricezione del mito, le cesure che hanno cambiato irreversibilmente la connotazione del personaggio e gli esiti contemporanei di tale lungo percorso. Un percorso che parte dal mito e arriva al teatro, per poi diventare vero e proprio mito critico.
description: Dike, Vol 17 (2014)
Dualità nomiche
Creators: name: Stolfi, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Dike
Year: 2015

description: This article examines some juridical and political aspects of Sofokles’ Antigone, and especially the opposition between the ágrapta nómima called into play by Antigone and the kérygma issued by Creontes. The author analyzes the real meaning of this contrast in the Sofokles’ age and in the structure of his tragedy, because many interpretations by the different scholars (ius versus lex; nómos versus tyrannical order; natural law versus positive law etc.) seem anachronistic or not very plausible. We can find an explanation not only in the rich semantic field of the word nómos (still) in the V century B.C., but also in the various dualities typical of the Antigone.
Quest’articolo esamina alcuni aspetti giuridici e politici dell’Antigone di Sofocle, e in particolare l’opposizione tra gli ágrapta nómima chiamati in causa da Antigone e il kérygma disposto da Creonte. L’autore analizza il reale significato di questo contrasto nell’età di Sofocle e nella struttura della sua tragedia, dal momento che molte interpretazioni degli studiosi (ius versus lex; nómos versus ordine di un tiranno; diritto naturale versus diritto positivo etc.) appaiono anacronistiche o poco plausibili. Possiamo trovare una spiegazione non solo nel ricco campo semantico del termine nómos (ancora) nel V secolo a.C., ma anche nelle varie dualità che sono caratteristiche dell’Antigone.
description: Dike, Vol 17 (2014)
La sorella e lo zio materno di Polinice: l’invito di Antigone a Creonte (Soph. Ant. 523)
Creators: name: Arrigoni, Giampiera
Publisher: name: Dike
Year: 2015

description: Aim of this essay is to stress the importance of being maternal uncle and sister of Polyneices for the interpretation of Sophocles’ Antigone 523 (including a discussion on Greek philanthropia), 902-914, 921-928. Particular attention is devoted to the myths of the “mourning sisters”, to the historical examples, to the myrologia and paramythia of sister’s love for dead brother in the oral tradition of Mani, in order to demonstrate the originality of the Sophoclean solution.
Questo lavoro si propone di  enfatizzare l’importanza di essere zio materno e sorella di Polinice per l’interpretazione dei vv. 523 (con inclusa la discussione del concetto di philanthropia), 902-914, 921-928 dell’Antigone di Sofocle. Vengono individuati esempi di amore di sorella per il fratello defunto nel mito (mourning sisters), nella realtà storica, nei myrologia e paramythia del Mani, al fine di mettere in evidenza la novità dell’amor di sorella nella tragedia sofoclea.
description: Dike, Vol 17 (2014)
A mechanism for evolution of the physical concepts network
Creators: name: Palchykov, V.
name: Krasnytska, M.
name: Mryglod, O.
name: Holovatch, Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest an underlying mechanism that governs the growth of a network of concepts, a complex network that reflects the connections between different scientific concepts based on their co-occurrences in publications. To this end, we perform empirical analysis of a network of concepts based on the preprints in physics submitted to the arXiv.org. We calculate the network characteristics and show that they cannot follow as a result of several simple commonly used network growth models. In turn, we suggest that a simultaneous account of two factors, i.e., growth by blocks and preferential selection, gives an explanation of empirically observed properties of the concepts network. Moreover, the observed structure emerges as a synergistic effect of these both factors: each of them alone does not lead to a satisfactory picture.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Il nomotropismo di Antigone
Creators: name: Di Lucia, Paolo
Publisher: name: Dike
Year: 2015

description: In the paper Il nomotropismo di Antigone Antigone’s behavior is looked from the perspective of nomotropism or acting with reference to rules (the word ‘nomotropism’ is a neologism coined by Amedeo Giovanni Conte). In particular, the first part of the paper explores in the perspective of nomotropism the meaning of verses 902-912 of Sophocles’s Antigone. The second part of the paper deals with the paradoxical aspect of Antigone’s nomotropism.
Nel saggio Il nomotropismo di Antigone, il comportamento di Antigone è interpretato alla luce del concetto di nomotropismo o agire in relazione a norme (il termine ‘nomotropismo’ è stato coniato da Amedeo Giovanni Conte).  In particolare, la prima parte del saggio indaga alla luce del fenomeno del nomotropismo i versi 902-912 dell’Antigone di Sofocle. La seconda parte del saggio ha per oggetto il carattere paradossale del comportamento nomotropico di Antigone.
description: Dike, Vol 17 (2014)
Assessing the transition of COVID-19 burden towards the young population while vaccines are rolled out in China*
Creators: name: Cai, Jun
name: Yang, Juan
name: Deng, Xiaowei
name: Peng, Cheng
name: Chen, Xinhua
name: Wu, Qianhui
name: Liu, Hengcong
name: Zhang, Juanjuan
name: Zheng, Wen
name: Zou, Junyi
name: Zhao, Zeyao
name: Ajelli, Marco
name: Yu, Hongjie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: SARS-CoV-2 infection causes most cases of severe illness and fatality in older age groups. Over 92% of the Chinese population aged ≥12 years has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (albeit with vaccines developed against historical lineages). At the end of October 2021, the vaccination programme has been extended to children aged 3–11 years. Here, we aim to assess whether, in this vaccination landscape, the importation of Delta variant infections could shift COVID-19 burden from adults to children. We developed an age-structured susceptible-infectious-removed model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to simulate epidemics triggered by the importation of Delta variant infections and project the age-specific incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections, cases, hospitalizations, intensive care unit admissions, and deaths. In the context of the vaccination programme targeting individuals aged ≥12 years, and in the absence of non-pharmaceutical interventions, the importation of Delta variant infections could have led to widespread transmission and substantial disease burden in mainland China, even with vaccination coverage as high as 89% across the eligible age groups. Extending the vaccination roll-out to include children aged 3–11 years (as it was the case since the end of October 2021) is estimated to dramatically decrease the burden of symptomatic infections and hospitalizations within this age group (39% and 68%, respectively, when considering a vaccination coverage of 87%), but would have a low impact on protecting infants. Our findings highlight the importance of including children among the target population and the need to strengthen vaccination efforts by increasing vaccine effectiveness.
Gefahrenanalyse Sturzprozesse - Bericht Nr. 2319157.2
Creators: name: Nagelisen, Jan
name: Gemeinde Regensberg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Schneggi
Gefahrenanalyse
Felssturz
Blocksteinschlag
Parkhaus
Regensberg

description: Regensberg, Breistelweg, Parkplatz Schneggi, Gefahrenanalyse Sturzprozesse
description: Gefahrenanalyse und Massnahmenkatalog im Auftrag der Gemeinde Regensberg
Open string radiation from decaying FZZT branes
Creators: name: Konechny, Anatoly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we continue studying the decay of unstable FZZT branes initiated in [1],[2]. The mass of tachyonic mode in this model can be chosen arbitrarily small and we use it as a perturbative parameter. In [2] a time-dependent boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) describing the decay process was studied and it was shown that in a certain sense this BCFT interpolates between two stationary BCFT's corresponding to the UV and IR fixed points of the associated RG flow. In the present work we find in the leading order vertex operators of the time-dependent BCFT. We identify the "in" and "out" vertex operators assigned to the UV and IR fixed points and compute the related Bogolyubov coefficients. We show that there is a codimension one subspace of the out-going states for which pair creation amplitudes are independent of the initial wave function of the tachyonic mode. We demonstrate that such amplitudes can be computed within the framework of first quantized open string theory via suitably defined string two-point functions. We also evaluate a three point function which we interpret as an amplitude for string triplet creation due to interaction. Some peculiarities of scattering amplitudes in the presence of tachyonic modes in the far past are discussed.
description: 1+39 pages, Latex; v.2: minor improvements all over the text
Χωροθέτηση πάρκου ηλιακής ενέργειας στα νησιά και στη θαλάσσια περιοχή του Αιγαίου
Creators: name: Τζεκάκης, Γεώργιος Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ηλιακά πάρκα ΑΠΕ σε νησιά
Ηλιακά πάρκα ΑΠΕ στη θάλασσα
Ανανεώσιμες πηγές ενέργειας
Solar parks in islands
Offshore solar parks
Renewable energy sources

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματεύεται την εύρεση της βέλτιστης τοποθεσίας χωροθέτησης πάρκου ηλιακής ενέργειας τόσο στα νησιά όσο και στη θαλάσσια περιοχή του Αιγαίου. Αρχικά παρουσιάζονται κάποιες πληροφορίες που αφορούν τις ανανεώσιμες πηγές ενέργειας και στη συνέχεια αναλύεται σε βάθος η ηλιακή ενέργεια και τα συστήματα της και πως θα μπορούσαν αυτά να τοποθετηθούν σε θαλάσσιο περιβάλλον. Έπειτα ορίζεται και αναλύεται με ακρίβεια η περιοχή μελέτης. Στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο περιγράφονται τα επιστημονικά εργαλεία που θα χρησιμοποιηθούν για την εξαγωγή των αποτελεσμάτων με βάση τα στοιχεία που υπάρχουν, αυτά είναι τα Γεωγραφικά Συστήματα Πληροφοριών και η Πολυκριτηριακή Μέθοδος Λήψης Αποφάσεων. Στη συνέχεια, ακολουθήθηκε μια παράλληλη διαδικασία τόσο για τις θαλάσσιες περιοχές όσο και για τις ηπειρωτικές ώστε να βρεθεί η βέλτιστη τοποθεσία εγκατάστασης τόσο για την ξηρά όσο και για τη θάλασσα. Στο πρώτο στάδιο της διαδικασίας περιγράφονται και απεικονίζονται στο χώρο με τη βοήθεια των ΓΣΠ τα κριτήρια αποκλεισμού και προκύπτουν οι επιλέξιμες τοποθεσίες χωροθέτησης του έργου ΑΠΕ. Στο επόμενο στάδιο περιγράφονται και απεικονίζονται στο χώρο τα κριτήρια αξιολόγησης που επιλέχθηκαν καθώς και οι τιμές που λαμβάνουν στις επιλέξιμες τοποθεσίες. Στο τελευταίο στάδιο, μέσω της εφαρμογής της Αναλυτικής Ιεραρχικής Διαδικασίας προκύπτει η βέλτιστη τοποθεσία χωροθέτησης και περιγράφονται τα χαρακτηριστικά της. Τέλος η εργασία κλείνει παραθέτοντας κάποια συμπεράσματα τα οποία εξήχθησαν από τα αποτελέσματα της.
description: This dissertation investigates the optimal site selection to install a solar energy park both on the islands and in the Aegean Sea area. Initially, some information are presented regarding the renewable energy sources, following the solar energy and its systems are analyzed and how they could be placed in a marine environment. At the fourth chapter the scientific tools (Geographic Information System and a Multi Criteria Decision Analysis) that will be used to extract the results based on data availability are described. At the fifth and sixth chapters a parallel process was followed for both the sea and the mainland to find the optimal location. In the first stage of the process, the exclusion criteria are described and the eligible sites for the RES in the study area are identified with the use of GIS. In the next stage, the evaluation criteria are selected and the values they receive in the eligible locations are described and displayed on thematic maps. At the final stage, through the application of the Analytical Hierarchical Process the optimal site is selected and its characteristics are presented. Finally, the paper concludes by quoting a few conclusions drawn from its results.
Rassegna critica
Creators: name: Rizzi, Mariagrazia
Publisher: name: Dike
Year: 2015

description: L. Capdetrey – C. Hasenohr (a cura di), Agoranomes et édiles. Institutions des marchés antiques, Ausonius, Bordeaux 2012, p. 1-314.
description: Dike, Vol 17 (2014)
Entropy production and entropy extraction rates for a Brownian particle that walks in underdamped medium
Creators: name: Taye, Mesfin Asfaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The expressions for entropy production, free energy, and entropy extraction rates are derived for a Brownian particle that walks in an underdamped medium. Our analysis indicates that as long as the system is driven out of equilibrium, it constantly produces entropy at the same time it extracts entropy out of the system. At steady state, the rate of entropy production ${\dot e}_{p}$ balances the rate of entropy extraction ${\dot h}_{d}$. At equilibrium both entropy production and extraction rates become zero. The entropy production and entropy extraction rates are also sensitive to time. As time progresses, both entropy production and extraction rates increase in time and saturate to constant values. Moreover employing microscopic stochastic approach, several thermodynamic relations for different model systems are explored analytically and via numerical simulations by considering a Brownian particle that moves in overdamped medium. Our analysis indicates that the results obtained for underdamped cases quantitatively agree with overdamped cases at steady state. The fluctuation theorem is also discussed in detailed.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, published in Phys. Rev. E. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1606.08346
Effective exploitation of a geyser bubble-chamber equipment as a background-free fast neutron detector
Creators: name: Bertoni, R.
name: Bruno, G.
name: Burgio, N.
name: Corcione, M.
name: Cretara, L.
name: Frullini, M.
name: Fulgione, W.
name: Palmerini, G.
name: Quintino, A.
name: Redaelli, N.
name: Santagata, A.
name: Sorrenti, D.
name: Zanotti, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MOSCAB equipment, a geyser-concept bubble-chamber originally thought for the search of dark matter in the form of WIMPs, is employed for the detection of fast neutrons. Once the background-free operating conditions are determined such that the detector is sensitive only to neutrons, which occurs when the neutron energy threshold required for nucleation is higher than approximately 2.5 MeV, the detector response to fast neutrons is investigated using an AmBe neutron source. Sets of detection efficiency functions are then produced via Monte Carlo simulations and post-processing, their validation being performed experimentally and discussed. Finally, the use of the detector to measure the fast neutron activity of very weak n-sources in clean environments, as well as to monitor the cosmic ray variations through the neutron component of the Extensive Air Showers, is considered.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, submitted to EPJ C
Rassegna critica
Creators: name: Maffi, Alberto
Publisher: name: Dike
Year: 2015

description: Pascal Payen et Evelyne Scheid-Tissinier (éd.), Anthropologie de l’Antiquité. Anciens Objets, nouvelles approches, Brepols, Turnhout 2012, p. 441.
Uri Yiftach-Firanko (ed.), The Letter. Law, State, Society and the Epistolary Format in the Ancient World. Proceedings of a Colloquium held at the American Academy in Rome 28-30.9.2008, Philippika. Marburger altertumskundliche Abhandlungen 33,1, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, p. 306 + 4 figure.
Cinzia Bearzot ed Emmanuele Vimercati (a cura di), La giustizia dei Greci tra riflessione filosofica e prassi giudiziaria, Vita & Pensiero, Milano 2013, p. 170.
«Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales», 69.3, 2014. Politique en Grèce ancienne.
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu – Thomas Kruse (hrsg.), Sport und Recht in der Antike, Wiener Kolloquien zur Antiken Rechtsgeschichte 2, Holzhausen, Wien 2014, p. XII + 405.
U. Wulf-Rheidt, „Den Sternen und dem Himmel würdig“. Kaiserliche Palastbauten in Rom und Trier, Trierer Winckelmannsprogramm 24, 2012, p. VII + 33 (8 Tafel).
Eberhard Ruschenbusch, Kleine Schriften zur Alten Geschichte (hrsg. J. Kobes), Philippika – Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 65, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, XI+ 464 p.
Diamantis Panagiotopoulos u. Maren Schentuleit (ed.), Macht und Ohnmacht. Religiöse, soziale und ökonomische Spannungsfelder in frühen Gesellschaften, Philippika – Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Contributions to the study of Ancient World Cultures 75, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, p. 162.
Paulin Ismard, La démocratie contre les experts. Les esclaves publics en Grèce ancienne, Paris, Seuil, 2015, p. 270.
Aristotele, Retorica. Introduzione, traduzione e commento di Silvia Gastaldi, Carocci editore, Roma 2014, p. 637.
Michaela Rücker, “Pharmakeia und crimen magiae”. Frauen und Magie in der griechisch-römischen Antike, Philippika. Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Contributions to the study of Ancient World Cultures 78, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, p. VII + 256.
description: Dike, Vol 17 (2014)
The Fragmenting Superbubble Associated with the HII Region W4
Creators: name: West, Jennifer L.
name: English, Jayanne
name: Normandeau, Magdalen
name: Landecker, T. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New observations at high latitudes above the HII region W4 show that the structure formerly identified as a chimney candidate, an opening to the Galactic halo, is instead a superbubble in the process of fragmenting and possibly evolving into a chimney. Data at high Galactic latitudes (b > 5 degrees) above the W3/W4 star forming region at 1420 and 408 MHz Stokes I (total power) and 1420 MHz Stokes Q and U (linear polarization) reveal an egg-shaped structure with morphological correlations between our data and the H-alpha data of Dennison, Topasna, & Simonetti. Polarized intensity images show depolarization extending from W4 up the walls of the superbubble, providing strong evidence that the radio continuum is generated by thermal emission coincident with the H-alpha emission regions. We conclude that the parts of the HII region hitherto known as W4 and the newly revealed thermal emission are all ionized by the open cluster OCl 352. Assuming a distance of 2.35 kpc, the ovoid structure is 164 pc wide and extends 246 pc above the mid-plane of the Galaxy. The shell's emission decreases in total-intensity and polarized intensity in various locations, appearing to have a break at its top and another on one side. Using a geometric analysis of the depolarization in the shell's walls, we estimate that a magnetic field line-of-sight component of 3 to 5 uG exists in the shell. We explore the connection between W4 and the Galactic halo, considering whether sufficient radiation can escape from the fragmenting superbubble to ionize the kpc-scale H-alpha loop discovered by Reynolds, Sterling & Haffner.
description: 42 pages, 14 figures; Accepted for publication in ApJ