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MORPHOLOGICAL FORMATION OF BIOLOGICAL TERMS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Creators: name: Nabijonova, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Biology encompasses a vast array of terms that describe the structures, functions, and processes of living organisms. Understanding the morphological components of these terms can aid in deciphering their meanings. This article provides a comprehensive overview of commonly used biology terms, accompanied by their morphological annotations. By breaking down these terms into their constituent parts, readers can gain a deeper understanding of biological concepts and enhance their scientific literacy.
Nanophage for selective killing of multi-drug resistant bacteria
Creators: name: Rezvi, Farzana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: In light of concerns in recent years of the emergence of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria, this project involves developing a novel kind of nanoparticle for targeting and killing multi drug resistant E. coli. In this approach, we combine the essence of two well researched fields – nanoparticle and bacteriophage therapy to develop a novel nanoparticle. The protein that helps the bacteriophage M13 infect E. coli is identified, isolated, and conjugated on the surface of a mesoporous silica nanoparticle bearing a magnetic core. The mesoporous silica shell can be packed with ROS generators like porphyrin; and the resulting nanoparticle (aptly termed ‘NanoPhage’ has the ability to selectively target and kill E. coli when subjected to magnetic hyperthermia and photodynamic therapy. Multiple drug resistant Escherichia coli BL21DE3 are treated with NanoPhage and the temperature is raised to 42 °C and 48 °C (individually) to show significant bacterial killing efficiency. The bacteria survival rate after 24 hours can be down to as low as 10% after simultaneous therapy of hyperthermia and photodynamic therapy after 30 minutes of treatment, owing to denaturation of proteins in the cell body and the cell membrane of E. coli, and ROS generation by porphyrin – that oxidizes the membrane-associated complexes of bacteria. These results indicate that NanoPhage-based physical treatment can be an alternative strategy to kill bacteria without acquiring antibiotic resistance and can be used for many purposes - thus inspiring therapeutic and environmental applications.
Toward connecting core-collapse supernova theory with observations: I. Shock revival in a 15 Msun blue supergiant progenitor with SN 1987A energetics
Creators: name: Handy, Timothy
name: Plewa, Tomasz
name: Odrzywolek, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evolution of the collapsing core of a 15 Msun blue supergiant supernova progenitor from the core bounce until 1.5 seconds later. We present a sample of hydrodynamic models parameterized to match the explosion energetics of SN 1987A. We find the spatial model dimensionality to be an important contributing factor in the explosion process. Compared to two-dimensional simulations, our three-dimensional models require lower neutrino luminosities to produce equally energetic explosions. We estimate that the convective engine in our models is 4% more efficient in three dimensions than in two dimensions. We propose that the greater efficiency of the convective engine found in three-dimensional simulations might be due to the larger surface-to-volume ratio of convective plumes, which aids in distributing energy deposited by neutrinos. We do not find evidence of the standing accretion shock instability nor turbulence being a key factor in powering the explosion in our models. Instead, the analysis of the energy transport in the post-shock region reveals characteristics of penetrative convection. The explosion energy decreases dramatically once the resolution is inadequate to capture the morphology of convection on large scales. This shows that the role of dimensionality is secondary to correctly accounting for the basic physics of the explosion. We also analyze information provided by particle tracers embedded in the flow, and find that the unbound material has relatively long residency times in two-dimensional models, while in three dimensions a significant fraction of the explosion energy is carried by particles with relatively short residency times.
description: accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Topology and Broken Symmetry in Floquet Systems
Creators: name: Harper, Fenner
name: Roy, Rahul
name: Rudner, Mark S.
name: Sondhi, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Floquet systems are governed by periodic, time-dependent, Hamiltonians. Prima facie they should absorb energy from the external drives involved in modulating their couplings and heat up to infinite temperature. However this unhappy state of affairs can be avoided in many ways. Instead, as has become clear from much recent work, they can exhibit a variety of nontrivial behavior---some of it impossible in undriven systems. In this review we describe the main ideas and themes of this work: novel Floquet drives which exhibit nontrivial topology in single-particle systems, the existence and classification of exotic Floquet drives in interacting systems, and the attendant notion of many-body Floquet phases and arguments for their stability to heating.
description: Commissioned by Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics; 16 pages, 5 figures. v2: updated references
Optimisation of hybrid off-grid energy systems by linear programming
Creators: name: Huneke, Fabian
name: Henkel, Johannes
name: González, Jairo Alberto Benavides
name: Erdmann, Georg
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 333 Boden- und Energiewirtschaft
subject: energy system
subject: GAMS
subject: hybrid
subject: linear programming
subject: off-grid
subject: optimisation

description: Background: In this study, a general model of a hybrid off-grid energy system is developed, which can be adjusted to reflect real conditions in order to achieve economical and ecological optimisation of off-grid energy systems. Methods: Using linear programming methods in the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) environment, the optimal configuration of the electrical power supply system following characteristic restrictions as well as hourly weather and demand data is found. From this model, the optimal mix of solar- and wind-based power generators combined with storage devices and a diesel generator set is formed. Results: The operation of this model was tested in two real off-grid energy systems, a cluster of villages in India and Titumate in Colombia. Both optimisation processes resulted in hybrid energy systems, utilising photovoltaics (PV), lead-acid batteries and a diesel generator as a load-balancing facility. Conclusions: With respect to small off-grid energy systems, it was found that renewable energy in combination with electrical storage devices help to reduce the cost of energy compared to stand-alone diesel generator sets. The optimal solutions strongly depend on the particular load demand curve. As both PV and wind energy benefit from energy storage, the costs of the battery can be shared and the two technologies complement each other. Finally, although the optimised capacity of the diesel generator remains nearly constant, its contribution to the total power generation is being substituted by renewable energy sources, which serve as fuel-saving technologies.
Algebraic curves admitting the same Galois closure for two projections
Creators: name: Fukasawa, Satoru
name: Higashine, Kazuki
name: Takahashi, Takeshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H05, 14H37, 14H50

description: A criterion for the existence of a plane model of an algebraic curve such that the Galois closures of projections from two points are the same is presented. As an application, it is proved that the Hermitian curve in positive characteristic coincides with the Galois closures of projections of some plane curve from some two non-uniform points.
description: 6 pages
Privately Solving Linear Programs
Creators: name: Hsu, Justin
name: Roth, Aaron
name: Roughgarden, Tim
name: Ullman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we initiate the systematic study of solving linear programs under differential privacy. The first step is simply to define the problem: to this end, we introduce several natural classes of private linear programs that capture different ways sensitive data can be incorporated into a linear program. For each class of linear programs we give an efficient, differentially private solver based on the multiplicative weights framework, or we give an impossibility result.
Managing Enterprise Clinical Trial listings with OnCore SIP
Creators: name: Joe Stokes, Harshita koranne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: SIP
Web presence
clinicaltrials.gov
WordPress
OnCore

description: The UF Health Cancer Center uses OnCore Study Information Portal (SIP) functionality to manage the publication of their active clinical trials on its public-facing website and its mobile applications. We will address how the University of Florida managed the adaptation of this program to accommodate the needs of their enterprise expansion. This discussion will include a discussion of the operational challenges that were encountered as well as details of the technical methods that were used to achieve a comprehensive and sustainable approach.
Killing scalar of non-linear sigma models on G/H realizing the classical exchange algebra
Creators: name: Aoyama, Shogo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Poisson brackets for non-linear sigma models on G/H are set up on the light-like plane. A quantity which transforms irreducibly by the Killing vectors, called Killing scalar, is constructed in an arbitrary representation of G. It is shown to satisfy the classical exchange algebra.
description: 11 pages, v2: version shortened removing the review part
SAGER checklist for “Evidence for Underprescription of and Non-Adherence to Guideline-Recommended Cardiovascular Medications in Adults with Peripheral Artery Disease, Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”
Creators: name: de Launay, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
Surgery

description: SAGER checklist for “Evidence for Underprescription of and Non-Adherence to Guideline-Recommended Cardiovascular Medications in Adults with Peripheral Artery Disease, Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”
Position-dependent power spectrum of the large-scale structure: a novel method to measure the squeezed-limit bispectrum
Creators: name: Chiang, Chi-Ting
name: Wagner, Christian
name: Schmidt, Fabian
name: Komatsu, Eiichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of large-scale density fluctuations on structure formation on small scales is described by the three-point correlation function (bispectrum) in the so-called "squeezed configurations," in which one wavenumber, say $k_3$, is much smaller than the other two, i.e., $k_3\ll k_1\approx k_2$. This bispectrum is generated by non-linear gravitational evolution and possibly also by inflationary physics. In this paper, we use this fact to show that the bispectrum in the squeezed configurations can be measured without employing three-point function estimators. Specifically, we use the "position-dependent power spectrum," i.e., the power spectrum measured in smaller subvolumes of the survey (or simulation box), and correlate it with the mean overdensity of the corresponding subvolume. This correlation directly measures an integral of the bispectrum dominated by the squeezed configurations. Measuring this correlation is only slightly more complex than measuring the power spectrum itself, and sidesteps the considerable complexity of the full bispectrum estimation. We use cosmological $N$-body simulations of collisionless particles with Gaussian initial conditions to show that the measured correlation between the position-dependent power spectrum and the long-wavelength overdensity agrees with the theoretical expectation. The position-dependent power spectrum thus provides a new, efficient, and promising way to measure the squeezed-limit bispectrum from large-scale structure observations such as galaxy redshift surveys.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures; dependence on cosmological parameters added; JCAP accepted
Discrete Time Crystals
Creators: name: Else, Dominic V.
name: Monroe, Christopher
name: Nayak, Chetan
name: Yao, Norman Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental advances have allowed for the exploration of nearly isolated quantum many-body systems whose coupling to an external bath is very weak. A particularly interesting class of such systems is those which do not thermalize under their own isolated quantum dynamics. In this review, we highlight the possibility for such systems to exhibit new non-equilibrium phases of matter. In particular, we focus on "discrete time crystals", which are many-body phases of matter characterized by a spontaneously broken discrete time translation symmetry. We give a definition of discrete time crystals from several points of view, emphasizing that they are a non-equilibrium phenomenon, which is stabilized by many-body interactions, with no analog in non-interacting systems. We explain the theory behind several proposed models of discrete time crystals, and compare a number of recent realizations, in different experimental contexts.
description: 42 pages (double-spaced) + 3 pages appendices. Submitted to Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics
Ab initio quantum transport through armchair graphene nanoribbons: Streamlines in the current density
Creators: name: Wilhelm, Jan
name: Walz, Michael
name: Evers, Ferdinand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the local current density in pristine armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with varying width, $N_\mathrm{C}$, employing a density-functional-theory-based ab initio transport formalism. We observe very pronounced current patterns (streamlines) with threefold periodicity in $N_\mathrm{C}$. They arise as a consequence of quantum confinement in the transverse flow direction. Neighboring streamlines are separated by stripes of almost vanishing flow. As a consequence, the response of the current to functionalizing adsorbates is very sensitive to their placement: adsorbates located within the current filaments lead to strong backscattering, while adsorbates placed in other regions have almost no impact at all.
description: 7 pages, 11 figures
On the spine-layer scenario for the very high-energy emission of NGC 1275
Creators: name: Tavecchio, F.
name: Ghisellini, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the $γ$-ray emission of the radiogalaxy NGC 1275 (the central galaxy of the Perseus Cluster), detected by Fermi-LAT and MAGIC, in the framework of the "spine-layer" scenario, in which the jet is assumed to be characterized by a velocity structure, with a fast spine surrounded by a slower layer. The existence of such a structure in the parsec scale jet of NGC 1275 has been recently proved through VLBI observations. We discuss the constraints that the observed spectral energy distribution imposes to the parameters and we present three alternative models, corresponding to three different choices of the angles between the jet and the line of sight ($θ_{\rm v}=6^{\circ}, 18^{\circ}$ and 25$^{\circ}$). While for the the case with $θ_{\rm v}=6^{\circ}$ we obtain an excellent fit, we consider this solution unlikely, since such small angles seems to be excluded by radio observations of the large-scale jet. For $θ_{\rm v}=25^{\circ}$ the required large intrinsic luminosity of the soft (IR--optical) component of the spine determines a large optical depth for $γ$-rays through the pair production scattering $γγ\rightarrow e^+ e^-$, implying a narrow cut--off at $\sim50$~GeV. We conclude that intermediate angles are required. In this case the low frequency and the high--energy emissions are produced by two separate regions and, in principle, a full variety of correlations is expected. The correlation observed between the optical and the $γ$-ray flux, close to linearity, is likely linked to variations of the emissivity of the spine.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, improved version accepted for publication by MNRAS
On the Double Copy for Spinning Matter
Creators: name: Bautista, Yilber Fabian
name: Guevara, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore various tree-level double copy constructions for amplitudes including massive particles with spin. By working in general dimensions, we use that particles with spins $s\leq 2$ are fundamental to argue that the corresponding double copy relations partially follow from compactification of their massless counterparts. This massless origin fixes the coupling of gluons, dilatons and axions to matter in a characteristic way (for instance fixing the gyromagnetic ratio), whereas the graviton couples universally reflecting the equivalence principle. For spin-1 matter we conjecture all-order Lagrangians reproducing the interactions with up to two massive lines and we test them in a classical setup, where the massive lines represent spinning compact objects such as black holes. We also test the amplitudes via CHY formulae for both bosonic and fermionic integrands. At five points, we show that by applying generalized gauge transformations one can obtain a smooth transition from quantum to classical BCJ double copy relations for radiation, thereby providing a QFT derivation for the latter. As an application, we show how the theory arising in the classical double copy of Goldberger and Ridgway can be naturally identified with a certain compactification of $\mathcal{N}=4$ Supergravity.
description: 42 + 14 pages v2: Journal version, clarifications added in Lagrangian discussion
Light sterile neutrinos after BICEP-2
Creators: name: Archidiacono, Maria
name: Fornengo, Nicolao
name: Gariazzo, Stefano
name: Giunti, Carlo
name: Hannestad, Steen
name: Laveder, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent discovery of B-modes in the polarization pattern of the Cosmic Microwave Background by the BICEP2 experiment has important implications for neutrino physics. We revisit cosmological bounds on light sterile neutrinos and show that they are compatible with all current cosmological data provided that the mass is relatively low. Using CMB data, including BICEP-2, we find an upper bound of $m_s < 0.85$ eV ($2σ$ Confidence Level). This bound is strengthened to 0.48 eV when HST measurements of $H_0$ are included. However, the inclusion of SZ cluster data from the Planck mission and weak gravitational measurements from the CFHTLenS project favours a non-zero sterile neutrino mass of $0.44^{+0.11}_{-0.16}$ eV. Short baseline neutrino oscillations, on the other hand, indicate a new mass state around 1.2 eV. This mass is highly incompatible with cosmological data if the sterile neutrino is fully thermalised ($Δχ^2>10$). However, if the sterile neutrino only partly thermalises it can be compatible with all current data, both cosmological and terrestrial.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures. Version published on JCAP
Toward an ultimate normative theory
Creators: name: Robinson, Pamela
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: In this dissertation I take up two challenges for any final or ultimate normative theory: that of explaining the apparent conflict between different normative domains, and that of accommodating all subjective normative facts.  I propose a framework for a normative theory that explains how conflict between normative domains could be consistent, and I describe a way to build all-things-considered normative concepts that take all domains into consideration.  However, I argue that the second challenge is more serious: that no normative theory could accommodate all subjective normative facts.  If I’m right, where does this leave us?  I propose a way to extend the solution to the first challenge to accommodate a very large number of subjective normative facts, and I suggest that we think of this theory as an ‘open-ended’ one that’s meant to be extended indefinitely.
Quantum probes of timelike naked singularities in the weak field regime of $f(R)$ global monopole spacetime
Creators: name: Gurtug, O.
name: Halilsoy, M.
name: Mazharimousavi, S. Habib
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of a naked singularity in $f(R)$ global monopole spacetime is considered in view of quantum mechanics. Quantum test fields obeying the Klein$-$Gordon, Dirac and Maxwell equations are used to probe the classical timelike naked singularity developed at $r=0$. We prove that the spatial derivative operator of the fields fails to be essentially self-adjoint. As a result, the classical timelike naked singularity formed in $f(R)$ global monopole spacetime remains quantum mechanically singular when it is probed with quantum fields having different spin structures. Pitelli and Letelier (Phys. Rev. D 80, 104035, 2009) had shown that for quantum scalar ($spin$ $0$% ) probes the general relativistic global monopole singularity remains intact. For specific modes electromagnetic ($spin$ $1$) and Dirac field ($% spin$ $1/2$) probes, however, we show that the global monopole spacetime behaves quantum mechanically regular. The admissibility of this singularity is also incorporated within the Gubser's singularity conjecture.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in JHEP. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1205.5125
A Trade They Can’t Refuse: Wie Mafia, Unternehmen und Staat im illegalen Abfallhandel in Italien kooperieren
Creators: name: Bublak, Felix
Publisher: name: Student Series of Criminology
Year: 2022

description: In Italien stellen der illegale Handel und die illegale Entsorgung von (gefährlichen) Abfällen ein großes Problem für Mensch und Umwelt insbesondere im Süden des Landes dar. An den Aktivitäten beteiligt sind sowohl alle drei großen italienischen Mafia-Organisationen, abfallproduzierende Industrien, Abfallwirtschaftsunternehmen sowie Staat und (lokale) Politiker. Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, wie die beteiligten Akteure in diesem Sektor kooperieren und voneinander profitieren. Um dies zu beantworten, werden hierfür Ruggieros dirty economies und Passas‘ symbiotische Beziehungen als Kooperationskonzepte zwischen legalen und illegalen Akteuren sowie das Konzept des state-corporate crime herangezogen. Die bekannten Vorgehensweisen im illegalen Abfallhandel werden dann mithilfe der Konzepte aus kriminologischer Sicht interpretiert. Im Anschluss wird sich zeigen, dass die etablierten Konzepte – jedenfalls für die Kooperation zwischen Staat und Organisierter Kriminalität – nur teilweise ausreichen, um die Phänomene vollständig zu erfassen.
description: Student Series of Criminology, Alle Artikel
Arguments for Nested Patterns in Neural Ensembles
Creators: name: Greer, Kieran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper describes a relatively simple way of allowing a brain model to self-organise its concept patterns through nested structures. Time is a key element and a simulator would be able to show how patterns may form and then fire in sequence, as part of a search or thought process. It uses a very simple equation to show how the inhibitors in particular, can switch off certain areas, to allow other areas to become the prominent ones and thereby define the current brain state. This allows for a small amount of control over what appears to be a chaotic structure inside of the brain. It is attractive because it is still mostly mechanical and therefore can be added as an automatic process, or the modelling of that. The paper also describes how the nested pattern structure can be used as a basic counting mechanism.
description: Preprint
E-cadherin regulates epithelial tissue structure and function by controlling β-actin monomer synthesis sites
Creators: name: Cruz, Lissette A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Adherens junctions support strong cell-cell adhesions to create tissues. The core of the adherens junction protein complex consists of three parts: 1) an adhesion transmembrane receptor called E-cadherin, 2) the plaque proteins: p120-catenin, β-catenin and α-catenin, 3) and actin, to anchor these adhesive components (e.g. E-cadherin and plaque proteins). The E-cadherin ectodomain binds to an identical molecule on the surface of an adjacent cell. The E-cadherin cytoplasmic domain is required for the plaque proteins to bind, which in turn bind the adhesion complex to the actin cytoskeleton. The events induced by E-cadherin binding leads to the development of tissue with well-defined apical, lateral and basal cell zones. Previously, it was demonstrated E-cadherin overexpression rescues permeability barrier in tissues assembled from MDCK cells where β-actin monomer synthesis is partially delocalized. β-actin mRNA contains a nucleotide sequence in its 3’UTR region called the zipcode; and the translational regulator zipcode binding protein-1, ZBP1, recognizes this sequence. Both the zipcode sequence and ZBP1 are essential for targeting and translational regulation of the β-actin transcript. Additionally, a wide range of tyrosine kinases are present at cell-cell contact zones. E-cadherin homophilic binding leads to Src activation, a non-receptor tyrosine kinase, at cell-cell contact zones. Active Src is known to phosphorylate ZBP1 which is bound to the β-actin mRNA zipcode nucleotide sequence, initiating β-actin monomer synthesis. In this investigation using Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cells, I demonstrate E-cadherin overexpression in cells partially delocalizing β-actin monomer synthesis rescues adherens junction assembly. I also show E-cadherin homophilic binding and protein expression regulates the spatial localization of β-actin monomer synthesis at cell-cell contact zones during de novo adherens junction formation. Furthermore, inhibiting E-cadherin function or protein expression decreases cell-cell contact localized active Src. Interestingly, inhibiting E-cadherin endocytosis in MDCK cells with partial β-actin monomer synthesis delocalization during de novo cell-cell contact rescues tissue permeability barrier and adherens junction assembly; both of these rescues are prevented when the β-actin mRNA zipcode is masked using antisense oligonucleotides. Taken together, these data reveal the relationship between E-cadherin, active Src and β-actin monomer synthesis at cell-cell contact during de novo adherens junction assembly. Also, these data support a model where E-cadherin mediates spatially regulated β-actin protein expression during de novo adherens junction assembly through the mRNA zipcode/ZBP1 pathway.
Zwischen legitimem Lobbyismus und illegitimen Beeinflussungsmethoden
Creators: name: Schmidt, Laura
Publisher: name: Student Series of Criminology
Year: 2022

description: Der politische Prozess wird von Interessenvertretern beeinflusst. Hierbei ist Lobbying ein Mittel, um legislative Entscheidungen zu lenken. Das Beispiel des Glyphosatzulassungsverfahrens in Mexiko zeigt jedoch, welche negativen Konsequenzen von politischen Beeinflussungen durch gewinnorientiertes Handeln von Unternehmen oder Regierungsvertretern verursacht werden können. Die Akteure agieren in einem vielschichtigen strukturellen Gefüge und die Einflussnahme ist von Intransparenz geprägt. Ein zentraler Aspekt dieser Arbeit ist es daher, die Unterschiede zwischen notwendigem Lobbyismus und illegitimen Beeinflussungsmethoden aufzuzeigen. Hierzu dient die Theorie von state crime als ein Oberbegriff, unter den state-corporate-crime, Korruption, das Phänomen der revolving doors und Lobbyismus untergeordnet werden. Mithilfe dieser theoretischen Ansätze können die komplexen Interaktionen der Akteure aufgegliedert und anschließend anhand des Beispiels fallorientiert analysiert werden. Die Glyphosatzulassungsverfahren zeigen, dass weiterer Handlungsbedarf für die Regulation von illegitimen Beeinflussungsweisen besteht.
description: Student Series of Criminology, Alle Artikel
Die Akteure der Coltanausbeutung in der demokratischen Republik Kongo am Beispiel der deutschen Bergbauunternehmen Masingiro GmbH/KHA International AG und H. C. Starck
Creators: name: Knabe, Max
Publisher: name: Student Series of Criminology
Year: 2022

description: Mit der zunehmenden Technisierung der Welt wächst die Nachfrage nach industriellen Rohstoffen stetig. Oftmals ist jedoch der Abbau dieser Rohstoffe keineswegs unproblematisch, da es im Zuge dessen zur Ausbeutung von Arbeitskräften, der Belastung der Umwelt und weitreichenderen Schadenspotentialen kommen kann. Wir wollen uns daher in dieser Arbeit mit dem Abbau des Minerals Coltan beschäftigen, das in der kriminologischen Forschung bisher nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit erhalten hat. Dabei führen wir verschiedene theoretische Konzepte zusammen, um die Akteure des Abbaus, insbesondere in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, zu beleuchten und Beziehungen, vordergründig mit den beiden deutschen Unternehmen H. C. Starck und Masingiro GmbH, aufzuzeigen. Diese Fallbetrachtung bringt uns im Ergebnis auf ein neues Konzept zur Beschreibung und Deutung von komplexen Interaktionen transnationaler Akteure, das eine bessere Erfassung und Bekämpfung von Wirtschaftskriminalität im Allgemeinen verspricht.
description: Student Series of Criminology, Alle Artikel
Tree-based Intelligent Intrusion Detection System in Internet of Vehicles
Creators: name: Yang, Li
name: Moubayed, Abdallah
name: Hamieh, Ismail
name: Shami, Abdallah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; C.2.0
subject: 68T01

description: The use of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is a promising technology in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) to improve safety and driving efficiency. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology enables communication among vehicles and other infrastructures. However, AVs and Internet of Vehicles (IoV) are vulnerable to different types of cyber-attacks such as denial of service, spoofing, and sniffing attacks. In this paper, an intelligent intrusion detection system (IDS) is proposed based on tree-structure machine learning models. The results from the implementation of the proposed intrusion detection system on standard data sets indicate that the system has the ability to identify various cyber-attacks in the AV networks. Furthermore, the proposed ensemble learning and feature selection approaches enable the proposed system to achieve high detection rate and low computational cost simultaneously.
description: Published in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2019; Code is available at Github link: https://github.com/Western-OC2-Lab/Intrusion-Detection-System-Using-Machine-Learning
Heckler & Koch in Mexiko
Creators: name: Von Baeckmann, Yara
Publisher: name: Student Series of Criminology
Year: 2022

description: Zwischen 2006 und 2009 exportierte der Waffenhersteller Heckler & Koch entgegen behördlicher Auflagen Waffen nach Mexiko, welche unter anderem zu Menschenrechtsverletzungen und Angriffen auf die zivile Bevölkerung genutzt wurden. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht anhand von Aussagen, die Gerichtsprotokollen entnommenen wurden, welche Selbstrechtfertigungen und -erklärungen bei den beteiligten Mitarbeitern bezüglich der illegalen Handlungen und ihrer Auswirkungen wirksam geworden sind. Grundlage für diese Analyse stellt dabei das Konzept der fünf Neutralisierungstechniken nach Sykes und Matza dar. Hierfür wird nach kurzer Darstellung der jeweiligen Technik untersucht, ob und in welcher Gestalt sie sich in Aussagen der Betroffenen wiederfindet.
description: Student Series of Criminology, Alle Artikel
title: The Functions of Law and Their Challenges
title: The Differentiated Functionality of International Law
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Burchardt, Dana
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: This paper illustrates the functional and conceptual variances of law in different contexts. Whereas legal actors on the international level might normatively aim for law to have a similar effect to that of domestic law, the way in which international and supranational law can fulfil these potential functions is different. Accordingly, this paper argues that an awareness with regard to the particularities and challenges that the potential functions of law encounter in the international and supranational context is needed. Moreover, it suggests an analytical lens to conceptually frame and locate current developments, offering a broader perspective on, or even an element of explication for, the apparent crisis that law is currently facing on the international and supranational scale. After describing the potential functions of law on an abstract scale and grouping them into analytical categories, the paper uses these categories as a lens in order to assess in which way international law can fulfil these potential functions, where priorities regarding certain functions might differ and where some aspects of these functions are challenged when law is made and applied in the international and supranational sphere.
description: KFG Working Paper Series, 17
Συζευγμένες τεχνικές στην ανάλυση μικρών μορίων σε βιολογικά υποστρώματα και τρόφιμα
Creators: name: Διαμαντίδου, Δήμητρα Π.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Νανοπλαστικά
Υγρή Χρωματογραφία – Φασματομετρία Μάζας
Ανάπτυξη μεθόδου
Μεταβολομική
Nanoplastics
Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry
Method development
Metabolomics

description: Στόχος της παρούσας διατριβής είναι η ανάπτυξη και η εφαρμογή αναλυτικών μεθόδων LC-MS στον προσδιορισμό μικρών ενδογενών και εξωγενών μορίων (<1000 Da) σε τρόφιμα και βιολογικά υποστρώματα. Σε όλη την έκτασή της περιγράφονται καινοτόμες αναλυτικές μεθοδολογίες που έλειπαν μέχρι πρότινος από την παγκόσμια βιβλιογραφία (π.χ. ποσοτικός προσδιορισμός των κυκλικών ολιγομερών στο αίμα και του γαλακτικού οξέος με τη μέθοδο ανεστραμμένης καμπύλης), και οι εφαρμογές τους με σκοπό τη διερεύνηση σύγχρονων ερωτημάτων που αφορούν την ανθρώπινη υγεία. Εκτός από τις στοχευμένες μεθόδους, γίνεται και εφαρμογή μη στοχευμένων μεθόδων μεταβολομικής ανάλυσης για την ολιστική προσέγγιση βιολογικών ερωτημάτων, όπως η επίδραση της άσκησης στον οργανισμό.
description: The aim of this thesis is the development and application of LC-MS analytical methods in the determination of small endogenous and exogenous molecules (<1000 Da) in food and biological matrices. Throughout its scope, innovative analytical methodologies (e.g. quantification of cyclic oligomers in blood and lactic acid by the inverted curve method), and their applications are described in order to investigate human health. In addition to the targeted methods, non-targeted methods of metabolomic analysis are applied to address biological questions holistically, such as the effect of exercise on the body. Furthermore, a performance comparison of five different chromatographic columns to evaluate their sufficiency of analysis for a large analyte library is described.
Scalar elliptic equations with a singular drift
Creators: name: Chernobai, Misha
name: Shilkin, Timofey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J25

description: We investigate the weak solvability and properties of weak solutions to the Dirichlet problem for a scalar elliptic equation $-Δu + b^{(α)}\cdot \nabla u= f$ in a bounded domain $Ω\subset {\mathbb R^2}$ containing the origin, where $f \in W^{-1}_q(Ω) $ with $q>2$ and $b^{(α)}:=b-α\frac{x}{|x|^2}$, $b$ is a divergence-free vector field and $α\in {\mathbb R}$ is a parameter.
Wer sind die Opfer des illegalen Waffenexportes und wie lassen sich Opfergruppen erkennen?
Creators: name: Neser, Anna-Lena
Publisher: name: Student Series of Criminology
Year: 2022

description: Obwohl das gewinnorientierte Handeln von Unternehmen drastische Folgen für die Bevölkerung hat und die Firmen damit die verschiedensten Personengruppen auf unterschiedlichste Weise zu Opfern ihres Verhaltens machen, wird diesen oftmals nicht die nötige Aufmerksamkeit und der Respekt gewährt, den man Opfern der klassischen Kriminalität zukommen lässt. Auch bei den illegalen Waffenexporten der Firmen Heckler & Koch sowie Sig Sauer nach Mexiko und Kolumbien ist die fehlende Opfersichtbarkeit ein Problem, welches die Auswirkungen dieses Agierens nicht in ihrer Fatalität, wie z.B. Tod und Krankheit zeigt. In dieser Arbeit werden anhand von diversen viktimologischen Theorien und Typologien die Schwierigkeiten von Kindern, Frauen, Studierende sowie deren Angehörigen in Mexiko, die auf unterschiedlichste Art und Weise durch HK Waffen geschädigt wurden, aufgezeigt, indem anhand einzelner Fallbeispiele analysiert wird, warum und auf welchen Wegen die jeweilige Gruppe zum Opfer wurde. Letztendlich wird deutlich, dass Gewalt, ermöglicht durch unternehmerisches Gewinnstreben in Zukunft mehr Beachtung in Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft bedarf und die herausgearbeiteten Opfergruppen mehr Sichtbarkeit verdienen, auch wenn sie keine Opfer im klassischen Sinne sein mögen.
description: Student Series of Criminology, Alle Artikel
State-Corporate Crime in der deutschen Kriminologie
Creators: name: Holzer, Johanna Maria
Publisher: name: Student Series of Criminology
Year: 2022

description: Folgende Arbeit setzt sich mit dem Konzept state-corporate crime, dessen Ursprüngen und Bedeutung in der deutschsprachigen Kriminologie auseinander. Darüber hinaus bietet dieser Beitrag eine Erläuterung des integrated theoretical framework, sowie der Entwicklung von Definitionen und Terminologie. Dabei liegt ein Schwerpunkt auf der Darstellung einer terminologischen Lücke innerhalb der deutschen Kriminologie, welche diese Arbeit zu schließen versucht, indem unter Einbeziehung von exemplarisch zusammengefassten Fällen eigenhändig deutsche Definitionen und Begrifflichkeiten entwickelt werden. Abschließend zeigt diese Arbeit die Anwendung des integrated theoretical framework anhand der Fallanalyse des Sachverhalts FinFisher/Fin Spy im Zusammenhang mit der adalet-Bewegung.
description: Student Series of Criminology, Alle Artikel
EXPLORING THE HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION OF UZBEK AND ENGLISH
Creators: name: Nabijonova, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In the realm of language learning and translation, understanding and interpreting vocabulary annotations is crucial. This article delves into the rich history and nuanced interpretation of Uzbek and English vocabulary annotation keywords. By examining the evolution of vocabulary annotation systems in both languages, we shed light on the cultural, historical, and linguistic factors that have shaped these lexical tools. Additionally, we explore the challenges and approaches to interpreting vocabulary annotation keywords in Uzbek and English, highlighting their significance in language acquisition and cross-cultural communication.
title: Fake News and International Law
Creators: name: Baade, Björnstjern
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: In light of current efforts at addressing the dangers of fake news, this article will revisit the international law relevant to the phenomenon, in particular the prohibition of intervention, the 1936 International Convention on the Use of Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace, and the 1953 Convention on the International Right of Correction. It will be argued that important lessons can be learned from the League of Nations’ (LON) efforts in the interwar period and the UN’s activities in the immediate post-WWII era, while taking into account the new challenges that arise from modern communication technology.

Taking up the LON’s and UN’s distinction between false and distorted news, the international legal framework will be tested, in particular, against the coverage of the 2016 ‘Lisa case’ by Russian Government-funded media. This coverage is widely considered to be fake news aimed at destabilizing Germany’s society and institutions.

The article argues that false news can be subject to repressive regulation in a sensible manner. Distorted news, however, will have to be tolerated legally, since prohibitions in this regard would be too prone to abuse. A free and pluralist media, complemented by an appropriate governmental information policy, remains the best answer to fake news in all its forms. Due diligence obligations to fact-check, transparency, and remedies that are effective despite difficulties in attribution, and despite a lack of universal acceptance, could likewise be conducive.
description: KFG Working Paper Series, 18
title: Dose-response relationship of core-specific
sensorimotor interventions in healthy, welltrained
participants
title: study protocol for a (MiSpEx) randomized controlled trial
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Mueller, Juliane
name: Stoll, Josefine
name: Mueller, Steffen
name: Mayer, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: Background: Core-specific sensorimotor exercises are proven to enhance neuromuscular activity of the trunk, improve athletic performance and prevent back pain. However, the dose-response relationship and, therefore, the dose required to improve trunk function is still under debate. The purpose of the present trial will be to compare four different intervention strategies of sensorimotor exercises that will result in improved trunk function.

Methods/design: A single-blind, four-armed, randomized controlled trial with a 3-week (home-based) intervention phase and two measurement days pre and post intervention (M1/M2) is designed. Experimental procedures on both measurement days will include evaluation of maximum isokinetic and isometric trunk strength (extension/flexion, rotation) including perturbations, as well as neuromuscular trunk activity while performing strength testing. The primary outcome is trunk strength (peak torque). Neuromuscular activity (amplitude, latencies as a response to perturbation) serves as secondary outcome. The control group will perform a standardized exercise program of four sensorimotor exercises (three sets of 10 repetitions) in each of six training sessions (30 min duration) over 3 weeks. The intervention groups’ programs differ in the number of exercises, sets per exercise and, therefore, overall training amount (group I: six sessions, three exercises, two sets; group II: six sessions, two exercises, two sets; group III: six sessions, one exercise, three sets). The intervention programs of groups I, II and III include additional perturbations for all exercises to increase both the difficulty and the efficacy of the exercises performed. Statistical analysis will be performed after examining the underlying assumptions for parametric and non-parametric testing.

Discussion: The results of the study will be clinically relevant, not only for researchers but also for (sports) therapists, physicians, coaches, athletes and the general population who have the aim of improving trunk function.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 499
Does Innovation Capacity Building Help Regional Development? Policy Expert Narrations on Development in China’s “West”
Creators: name: Heindl, Anna-Barbara
Publisher: name: Hamburg : German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), GIGA Institute for Asian Studies
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: China
subject: innovation
subject: narrative patterns
subject: regional development
subject: the “West”
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::900 | Geschichte und Geografie::910 | Geografie, Reisen
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::320 | Politik
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::310 | Statistik

description: To avoid the middle-income trap, China’s leaders call for innovation to accelerate development in China. However, since it is not clear how innovation and (regional) development reinforce each other, there is no blueprint strategy for successful innovation capacity building throughout China. Due to resource scarcity in its “Western” regions, it is thus far from certain that innovation capacity building will support regional development. Departing from sociology of knowledge, narrations are constitutive of policy practice. This article analyses narrative patterns of policy experts to understand how innovation capacity building and regional development are negotiated in China’s lagging “West.” The comparison of Yunnan and Chongqing cases demonstrates that innovation capacity building is primarily infused with theoretical expectations: resource scarcity does not allow for grounding innovation as a strategy of regional development in the local context. This leads to narrations of “local” alternatives to innovation capacity building in centralist China.
Conformally de Sitter space from anisotropic SD3-brane of type IIB string theory
Creators: name: Roy, Shibaji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a four dimensional de Sitter space upto a conformal transformation by compactifying the anisotropic SD3-brane solution of type IIB string theory on a six dimensional product space of the form $H_5 \times S^1$, where $H_5$ is a five dimensional hyperbolic space and $S^1$ is a circle. The radius of the hyperbolic space is chosen to be constant. The radius of the circle and the dilaton in four dimensions are time dependent and not constant in general. By different choices of parameters characterizing the SD3-brane solution either the dilaton or the radius of the circle can be made constant but not both. The form-field is also non-vanishing in general, but it can be made to vanish without affecting the solution. This construction might be useful for a better understanding of dS/CFT correspondence as well as for cosmology.
description: 8 pages, no figures, v2: one para added for more clarification, 2 refs added, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D