cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Layer-specific connectivity revealed by diffusion-weighted functional MRI in the rat thalamocortical pathway
Creators: name: Nunes, Daniel
name: Ianus, Andrada
name: Shemesh, Noam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Investigating neural activity from a global brain perspective in-vivo has been in the domain of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) over the past few decades. The intricate neurovascular couplings that govern fMRI's blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) functional contrast are invaluable in mapping active brain regions, but they also entail significant limitations, such as non-specificity of the signal to active foci. Diffusion-weighted functional MRI (dfMRI) with relatively high diffusion-weighting strives to ameliorate this shortcoming as it offers functional contrasts more intimately linked with the underlying activity. Insofar, apart from somewhat smaller activation foci, dfMRI's contrasts have not been convincingly shown to offer significant advantages over BOLD, and its contrasts relied on significant modelling. Here, we study whether dfMRI could offer a better representation of neural activity in the thalamocortical pathway compared to its (spin-echo (SE)) BOLD counterpart. Using high-end forepaw stimulation experiments in the rat at 9.4 T, and with significant sensitivity enhancements due to the use of cryocoils, we show for the first time that dfMRI signals exhibit layer specificity, and, additionally, display signals in areas devoid of SE-BOLD responses. We find that dfMRI signals in the thalamocortical pathway cohere with each other, namely, dfMRI signals in the ventral posterolateral (VPL) thalamic nucleus cohere specifically with layers IV and V in the somatosensory cortex. These activity patterns are much better correlated (compared with SE-BOLD signals) with literature-based electrophysiological recordings in the cortex as well as thalamus. All these findings suggest that dfMRI signals better represent the underlying neural activity in the pathway. In turn, this may entail significant implications towards a much more specific and accurate (...)
Plant functional traits reveal strong effects of anoxia and nutrient limitation on species pool filtering in a riverine rich fen system
Creators: name: Goldstein, Klara
name: Łukasz Kozub
name: Wyszomirski, Tomasz
name: Wilk, Mateusz
name: Brzezińska, Kamila
name: Jarzombkowski, Filip
name: Jabłońska, Ewa
name: Bartoszuk, Helena
name: Kotowski, Wiktor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Background: In fens, plant species composition is predominantly controlled by two environmental factors: root anoxia and low nutrient availability. Aims: We asked how these filters were reflected to the functional structure of plant communities in natural and drained rich fens. Methods: We analysed traits related to species response to anoxia and nutrient availability, using single-trait and multi-trait approaches in fens of a river valley (Biebrza, Poland). We evaluated results concerning multi-trait indices using a null model consisting of simulated communities. Results: Mycorrhizal status and specific leaf area (SLA) clearly distinguished the communities with different levels of anoxia and nutrient deficiency. Mean values, ranges and variance of canopy height showed the differences in the distribution of plant heights among analysed communities. Conclusions: Functional traits distinguish plant communities of the most endangered mesotrophic fens from eutrophic and drained fens. We highlight the role of nutrient and oxygen deficiency in the assembly of fen vegetation and show the impact of the altered environment on the composition of communities in degraded habitats. We demonstrate that single-trait indices are suitable for identifying of environmental filtering in different types of fen communities. We suggest that caution is justified when using multi-trait indices to assess vegetation patterns.
Neosaproecius trituberculatus
Creators: name: Cambefort, Yves
name: Bordat, Patrice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Neosaproecius
Neosaproecius trituberculatus

description: Neosaproecius trituberculatus (Frey, 1958)
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — ‘‘ Nimba: forest, 600 m, fish trap, IX.1979 ’’ (I. Hanski). Périphérie du Nimba: forêt de Tiapleu près Danané, XII.1958 (B. Faye & RR).
DISTRIBUTION. — Espèce forestière rare, à biologie inconnue, signalée du Liberia à l’ex-Zaïre.
description: Published as part of Cambefort, Yves & Bordat, Patrice, 2003, Coléoptères Scarabaeidae s. str., Aphodiidae et Ceratocanthidae du mont Nimba et des régions limitrophes, pp. 551-580 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 on page 561
Nearly quantized conductance plateau of vortex zero mode in an iron-based superconductor
Creators: name: Zhu, Shiyu
name: Kong, Lingyuan
name: Cao, Lu
name: Chen, Hui
name: Papaj, Michal
name: Du, Shixuan
name: Xing, Yuqing
name: Liu, Wenyao
name: Wang, Dongfei
name: Shen, Chengmin
name: Yang, Fazhi
name: Schneeloch, John
name: Zhong, Ruidan
name: Gu, Genda
name: Fu, Liang
name: Zhang, Yu-Yang
name: Ding, Hong
name: Gao, Hong-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Majorana zero-modes (MZMs) are spatially-localized zero-energy fractional quasiparticles with non-Abelian braiding statistics that hold a great promise for topological quantum computing. Due to its particle-antiparticle equivalence, an MZM exhibits robust resonant Andreev reflection and 2e2/h quantized conductance at low temperature. By utilizing variable-tunnel-coupled scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we study tunneling conductance of vortex bound states on FeTe0.55Se0.45 superconductors. We report observations of conductance plateaus as a function of tunnel coupling for zero-energy vortex bound states with values close to or even reaching the 2e2/h quantum conductance. In contrast, no such plateau behaviors were observed on either finite energy Caroli-de Genne-Matricon bound states or in the continuum of electronic states outside the superconducting gap. This unique behavior of the zero-mode conductance reaching a plateau strongly supports the existence of MZMs in this iron-based superconductor, which serves as a promising single-material platform for Majorana braiding at a relatively high temperature.
CD8+ T cell response in QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus testing was associated with tuberculosis recurrence: a 2-year prospective study
Creators: name: Xin, Henan
name: Cao, Xuefang
name: Feng, Boxuan
name: He, YiJun
name: Guo, Tonglei
name: Du, Jiang
name: Shen, Lingyu
name: Di, Yuanzhi
name: Liu, Zisen
name: Wang, Dakuan
name: Zhang, Bin
name: Zhang, Zhanjiang
name: Guan, Xueling
name: Shen, Fei
name: Guan, Ling
name: Pan, Shougao
name: Duan, Weitao
name: Jin, Qi
name: Gao, Lei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Recurrence posed an important challenge to pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) control in China. The prospective study aimed to identify potential risk factors and to explore the value of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) in identifying at-risk individuals with treated prior PTB history. All eligible individuals aged ≥18 years who had been diagnosed with PTB before 2016 in Zhongmu County, where with an average level of TB prevalence in China, were included and received baseline survey including chest radiography, QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) and QFT-Plus, then PTB recurrence was tracked through a 2-year follow-up. Half of 1068 (52.34%, 559/1068) included eligible participants were QFT-Plus positive at baseline and 21 of them recurred active TB in 2-year follow-up. Individuals aged ≥ 60 years, who had a recent history of TB and smokers were associated with increased risk of TB recurrence with an adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of 3.97 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.29–12.24), 7.71 (95% CI: 1.74–34.25) and 4.56 (95% CI: 1.62–12.83), respectively. Compared to QFT-Plus negatives, those who were TB2+/TB1- (aOR = 15.34) exhibited stronger association with the risk of TB recurrence than those who were TB1+/TB2+ (aOR = 6.06). A dose response relationship was also found between the risk of TB recurrence with the baseline level of TB2-TB1 (p for trend < 0.001). High burden of TB infection and high risk of PTB recurrence were observed in the study population. Those with recent onset of prior TB, elderly smokers and QFT-Plus positives especially with TB2 single positive deserved further attention in active TB surveillance.
Effect of incoherent pump on two-mode entanglement in optical parametric generation
Creators: name: Vintskevich, S. V.
name: Grigoriev, D. A.
name: Filippov, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pumping a nonlinear crystal by an intense radiation results in the optical parametric generation of photons in two modes (the signal and the idler). The quantized electromagnetic field in these modes is described by a continuous-variable quantum state, which is entangled if the pump is a coherent state produced by a laser. The signal and the idler modes remain populated by photons even if the pump becomes incoherent (dephased by a medium, superposed with a thermal state, or produced by an alternative source such as the superluminescent diode). However, the incoherent pump does effect the entanglement and purity of the signal and the idler modes, which is of vital importance for quantum information applications and interferometry. Here we develop an approach to infer the signal-idler entanglement and purity for a general quantum incoherent pump with the given Glauber-Sudarshan function. We show that the signal-idler entanglement is extremely sensitive to the phase distribution of the pump and illustrate our findings by physically relevant examples of the incoherent pump: the noisy coherent state, slightly dephased and phase-averaged coherent states, the thermal state, and states modulated by the Kerr medium. The effect of an incoherent pump on the combined quadratures is discussed as well.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Link invariants from $N$-state vertex models: an alternative construction independent of statistical models
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Plaza, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reproduce the hierarchy of link invariants associated to the series of $N$-state vertex models with a method different from the original construction due to Akutsu, Deguchi and Wadati. The alternative method substitutes the `crossing symmetry' property exhibited by the Boltzmann weights of the vertex models by a similar property which, for the purpose of constructing link invariants, encodes the same information but requires only the limit of the Boltzmann weights when the spectral parameter is sent to infinity.
description: 20 pages, LaTeX, uses epsf.sty. To appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Additional file 1: of CellTag Indexing: genetic barcode-based sample multiplexing for single-cell genomics
Creators: name: Guo, Chuner
name: Kong, Wenjun
name: Kamimoto, Kenji
name: Rivera-Gonzalez, Guillermo
name: Yang, Xue
name: Kirita, Yuhei
name: Morris, Samantha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Figure S1 and S2 (PDF 18535 kb)
Onthophagus atridorsis d'Orbigny 1902
Creators: name: Cambefort, Yves
name: Bordat, Patrice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus atridorsis

description: Onthophagus atridorsis d’Orbigny, 1902
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Camp Gouan, 1150 m, IV.1992; Mifergui, lisière, IV.1992; savane de Bakoré, IV.1992; entre Bakoré et Cavally, V.1992; savane du Cavally, V.1992; savane de Bakoré, V.1993.
DISTRIBUTION. — Espèce de savanes subhumides et humides, signalée de Guinée, Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire et Malawi. Peut-être y aurait-il lieu de séparer les exemplaires du Malawi dans une sous-espèce, voire une espèce particulière.
description: Published as part of Cambefort, Yves & Bordat, Patrice, 2003, Coléoptères Scarabaeidae s. str., Aphodiidae et Ceratocanthidae du mont Nimba et des régions limitrophes, pp. 551-580 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 on page 561
Almost non-negatively curved 4-manifolds with torus symmetry
Creators: name: Harvey, John
name: Searle, Catherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C23, 51K10, 53C20

description: We prove that if a closed, smooth, simply-connected 4-manifold with a circle action admits an almost non-negatively curved sequence of invariant Riemannian metrics, then it also admits a non-negatively curved Riemannian metric invariant with respect to the same action. The same is shown for torus actions of higher rank, giving a classification of closed, smooth, simply-connected 4-manifolds of almost non-negative curvature under the assumption of torus symmetry.
description: 15 pages. As suggested by a referee for Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., the result is expanded in this version to include all torus actions, with the title changing accordingly
Phenotype of histologically suspected drug-induced colitis; results of a comparative, retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Brechmann, Thorsten
name: Günther, Katharina
name: Neid, Matthias
name: Tannapfel, Andrea
name: Schmiegel, Wolff
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Background/aims: Drug-induced colitis (DiC) is a rarely reported form of colonopathy and data about the clinical and endoscopic characteristics are scarce. The aim was to investigate the phenotype of DiC. Methods: Patients in a retrospective case control study were assigned to either DiC or one of two age- and gender-matched control groups (non-inflammatory controls and inflammatory colitis from other causes) based on histopathological findings. Patients’ basic characteristics, symptoms, biochemical results and endoscopic appearance were collected. Statistical analysis included ANOVA, the chi-squared test and two-tailed t-test. Results: A total of 211 patients with DiC were included (97 males, age 62.1 ± 16.1 years, BMI 25.9 ± 6.1 kg m−2). In comparison to both control groups, DiC patients presented higher ASA and ECOG-scores and more particularly atherosclerotic comorbidities. The most abundant symptoms were abdominal pain (51.8%), diarrhoea (50.7%) and haematochezia (24.3%). The red blood cell count demarcated anaemia (12.7 ± 2.3 mg/dl) and C-reactive protein was slightly elevated (2.7 ± 5.2 mg/dl). The endoscopic features included erythema (46.9%), oedema (29.9%), erosions (29.9%) and ulcers (14.7%). The inflammation affected the rectum rarely (2.4%) but affected the rest of the colon without predilection in a segmental manner (p Conclusions: The phenotype of DiC differs slightly from that of colitis from other causes. Taking the clinical features into account might help to confirm drug-induced aetiology once the pathologist has raised the suspicion.
Classical Poetics in Modern China
Creators: Estep, Chloe
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Oriental literature
Chinese poetry
Classical poetry
Arts, Chinese
Comparative literature
Twentieth century
Nationalism

description: The question of the relationship between modernity and poetic classicism has typically been investigated through the lens of classical-style poetry, which is to say, by examining poetry written in the modern period which adheres to existing poetic forms and eschews the European influences and free-verse style of New Poetry (xin shi). But as premodern poetry existed within a classical media ecology alongside calligraphy and painting, to understand the ways conventional poetry confronted modernity, this dissertation argues, we must also understand the way this media ecology was transformed, as well as how this constellation of modes shifted from a literati practice during imperial China to a modern, even revolutionary practice in the twentieth century. I argue that changing conceptions of the zi, or character, were central to this transformation, and to the production of poetic classicism in the modern period. I understand the zi as a material, visual, and theoretical site at which the temporal, political, and aesthetic properties of poetry are articulated, a site which transgresses the boundaries between calligraphic inscription, pictorial representation, and poetic utterance. Covering a wide variety of media, including underground literary journals, political cartoons, paintings, typography, and theatre, this study investigates the ways changing conceptions of the zi allowed writers, artists, poets, and politicians to adapt classical poetics to contemporary political concerns. At stake is more than an expanded--or even revisionist--history of twentieth-century Chinese poetry. Rather, by tracing processes of canon formation, dissolution, and rearticulation in a way that reveals the role of literature in crafting political sentiment, this project shows how so-called traditional culture has been leveraged in support—and critique—of Chinese nationalism today.
Classification of Spoken Discourse in Teaching the Construction of Mathematical Proof
Creators: Reich, Heidi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Mathematics--Study and teaching

description: The purpose of this study is to analyze the patterns of classroom discourse when high school students move from performing prescribed algorithms in order to solve problems for which the process and solution are well-defined to spoken proof, in which ideas are discussed and arguments are formulated and formalized.
      The study uses a modified version of discourse analysis developed by Arno Bellack and refined for usage in a mathematics classroom by James T. Fey.  The analysis framework is supplemented by codes borrowed from Maria Blanton, Despina Stylianou, and M. Manuela David (2009), which is in turn a modified version of a coding system developed by Kruger (1993) and Goos, Galbraith and Renshaw (2002).
      Twelve mathematics lessons involving two mathematics teachers were recorded, transcribed and coded.  Eight of the lessons were classified as “proof-related” and four were designated “non-proof-related.”  A lesson designated “proof-related” contained more than half activity that was actively concerned with the construction of proof; whereas a lesson in which no proofs were formulated was designated “non-proof.”   Using the codes described above and a variety of qualitative and quantitative measures, the transcripts were examined for constructivist behavior on the part of the teachers and modes of participation on the students’ part.
      The findings suggest a relationship between a teacher’s beliefs in constructivist principles and the way in which that teacher instructs proof vs. non-proof.  More specifically, a teacher who views her/himself as informed by constructivist pedagogical principles may not evince a sharp distinction between her/his teaching of proof vs. non-proof; but a teacher who does not attempt to incorporate constructivist principles on a daily basis may exhibit more constructivist tendencies when teaching proof.
The influence of initial impurities and irradiation conditions on defect production and annealing in silicon for particle detectors
Creators: name: Lazanu, Ionel
name: Lazanu, Sorina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Silicon detectors in particle physics experiments at the new accelerators or in space missions for physics goals will be exposed to extreme radiation conditions. The principal obstacles to long-term operation in these environments are the changes in detector parameters, consequence of the modifications in material properties after irradiation. The phenomenological model developed in the present paper is able to explain quantitatively, without free parameters, the production of primary defects in silicon after particle irradiation and their evolution toward equilibrium, for a large range of generation rates of primary defects. Vacancy-interstitial annihilation, interstitial migration to sinks, divacancy and vacancy-impurity complex (VP, VO, V2O, CiOi and CiCs) formation are taken into account. The effects of different initial impurity concentrations of phosphorus, oxygen and carbon, as well as of irradiation conditions are systematically studied. The correlation between the rate of defect production, the temperature and the time evolution of defect concentrations is also investigated.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. B
On the existence of deformed Lie-Poisson structures for quantized groups
Creators: name: Lyakhovsky, V. D.
name: Mirolubov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The geometrical description of deformation quantization based on quantum duality principle makes it possible to introduce deformed Lie-Poisson structure. It serves as a natural analogue of classical Lie bialgebra for the case when the initial object is a quantized group. The explicit realization of the deformed Lie-Poisson structure is a difficult problem. We study the special class of such constructions characterized by quite a simple form of tanjent vector fields. It is proved that in such a case it is sufficient to find four Lie compositions that form two deformations of the first order and four Lie bialgebras. This garantees the existence of two families of deformed Lie-Poisson structures due to the intrinsic symmetry of the initial compositions. The explicit example is presented.
description: 15 pages, LATEX
Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
Creators: Berzon, Todd Stephen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Religion
History
History, Ancient

description: This dissertation analyzes the paradigms Christian writers (150-500 C.E.) used to array, historicize, and polemicize ethnographic data. A study of late antique heresiological literature (orthodox treatises about heretics) demonstrates how the religious practices, doctrinal beliefs, and historical origins of heretics served to define Christian schematizations of the world. In studying heretics, Christian authors defined and ordered the bounds of Christian knowledge and the process by which that knowledge was transmitted.
Yutang fugui 玉堂富貴 Q00419_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Additional file 1 of Increased METTL3 expression and m6A RNA methylation may contribute to the development of dry eye in primary Sjögren’s syndrome
Creators: name: Ma, Jun
name: Wang, Xiaotang
name: Yang, Xue
name: Wang, Xi
name: Tan, Tongshan
name: Fang, Hongping
name: Zhong, Yu
name: Zhang, Qi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. 1. The correlation analyses of m6A RNA level with the METTL3 mRNA level in the PBMCs of health controls. Fig. 2. Representative raw images showing METTL3 and YTHDF1 expression in the different group
Probing Dark Energy with Supernovae: Exploiting Complementarity with the Cosmic Microwave Background
Creators: name: Frieman, Joshua A.
name: Huterer, Dragan
name: Linder, Eric V.
name: Turner, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A primary goal for cosmology and particle physics over the coming decade will be to unravel the nature of the dark energy that drives the accelerated expansion of the Universe. In particular, determination of the equation-of-state of dark energy, w equivalent p/rho, and its time variation, dw/dz, will be critical for developing theoretical understanding of the new physics behind this phenomenon. Type Ia supernovae (SNe) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy are each sensitive to the dark energy equation-of-state. SNe alone can determine w(z) with some precision, while CMB anisotropy alone cannot because of a strong degeneracy between the matter density Omega_M and w. However, we show that the Planck CMB mission can significantly improve the power of a deep SNe survey to probe w and especially dw/dz. Because CMB constraints are nearly orthogonal to SNe constraints in the Omega_M-w plane, for constraining w(z) Planck is more useful than precise determination of Omega_M. We discuss how the CMB/SNe complementarity impacts strategies for the redshift distribution of a supernova survey to determine w(z) and conclude that a well-designed sample should include a substantial number of supernovae out to redshifts z ~ 2.
description: More discussion of CMB systematics and many new references added. Matches the PRD version
What methods are used in research of firsthand experiences with online self-harming and suicidal behavior? A scoping review
Creators: name: Holm, Malene Eiberg
name: Østergaard, Louise Dorner
name: Aamund, Kate
name: Jørgensen, Kim
name: Midtgaard, Julie
name: Vinberg, Maj
name: Nordentoft, Merete
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Online self-harming and suicidal behavior is a novel and rapidly increasing phenomenon warranting comprehensive mapping of used research methods. To identify and map how knowledge on online self-harming and suicidal behavior is gathered, including how data are collected e.g. questionnaires and interviews. The review follows the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Scoping Reviews in tandem with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. A keyword search of three electronic databases was conducted on two occasions, yielding 5422 records. Following duplicate removal, the records were screened based on the following inclusion criterions; (1) in English or Nordic language and published between 2011–2022, (2) presenting results for self-harming and/or suicidal behavior on social media and (3) using tools for either interview or questionnaire aiming at assessment of the experience of online self-harming and suicidal behavior from the perspective of the person who engages in the behavior. A total of 64 articles were included. 45 used questionnaires, 17 used interviews, and two studies mixed the two approaches. 17% of the studies had made some effort to ensure validity within the questionnaires and 15.8% gave full access to the interview guide. Research into online self-harming and suicidal behavior is characterized by a lack of validated measurements and methodological transparency. The results emphasize a need for further development, testing, and validation of questionnaires and greater openness and reflexivity in qualitative methodology to enable cross-study comparison and advance knowledge of this complex phenomenon.
Onthophagus bartosi Balthasar 1966
Creators: name: Cambefort, Yves
name: Bordat, Patrice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus bartosi

description: Onthophagus bartosi Balthasar, 1966
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Périphérie du Nimba: forêt de Tiapleu près Danané, XII.1958 (B. Faye & RR).
DISTRIBUTION. — Espèce nécrophage, spécialiste des cadavres d’iules, endémique des forêts d’Afrique occidentale.
description: Published as part of Cambefort, Yves & Bordat, Patrice, 2003, Coléoptères Scarabaeidae s. str., Aphodiidae et Ceratocanthidae du mont Nimba et des régions limitrophes, pp. 551-580 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 on page 562
title: Those who knock on Europe’s door must repent?
title: Bilateral border disputes and EU enlargement
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Geddes, Andrew
name: Taylor, Andrew
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: 1\. Introduction 5 2\. Borders and European Integration 6 3\. Italy - Slovenia 7 4\. Croatia - Slovenia 10 5\. FYROM - Greece 12 6\. Conclusion 16 References 18
description: This paper explores a neglected aspect of the wider debate about EU enlargement; namely bilateral disputes between a Member State and an applicant, where the former uses, or threatens to use, its membership to block membership to resolve a dispute. As we show through analysis of three cases - Italy and Slovenia, Slovenia and Croatia, and Greece and Macedonia - the EU’s transformative power does not always flow ‘outwards’ towards the state seeking membership. This raises interesting questions about enlargement as international bargaining between sovereign states filtered via a supranational entity formally responsible for the negotiations. Our cases suggest limits to the EU’s transformative power in the context of disputes that are linked to the meaning and significance of borders. When enlargement intersects with identity politics, the result can be potentially destabilizing in ways that can lead to a decline in the EU’s legitimacy. It is not surprising that the Commission prefers disputes to be resolved bilaterally or via a third-party.
Method of integral transforms for few-body reactions
Creators: name: Efros, V. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The method of integral transforms is reviewed. In the framework of this method reaction observables are obtained with the bound--state calculation techniques. New developments are reported.
description: 18 pages, Latex, 2 Postscript figures, to appear in Phys. At. Nucl., replacement: additional references to the literature and other small modifications
A Human-AI Comparative Analysis of Prompt Sensitivity in LLM-Based Relevance Judgment
Creators: name: Arabzadeh, Negar
name: Clarke, Charles L. A .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate relevance judgments for information retrieval (IR) tasks, often demonstrating agreement with human labels that approaches inter-human agreement. To assess the robustness and reliability of LLM-based relevance judgments, we systematically investigate impact of prompt sensitivity on the task. We collected prompts for relevance assessment from 15 human experts and 15 LLMs across three tasks~ -- ~binary, graded, and pairwise~ -- ~yielding 90 prompts in total. After filtering out unusable prompts from three humans and three LLMs, we employed the remaining 72 prompts with three different LLMs as judges to label document/query pairs from two TREC Deep Learning Datasets (2020 and 2021). We compare LLM-generated labels with TREC official human labels using Cohen's $κ$ and pairwise agreement measures. In addition to investigating the impact of prompt variations on agreement with human labels, we compare human- and LLM-generated prompts and analyze differences among different LLMs as judges. We also compare human- and LLM-generated prompts with the standard UMBRELA prompt used for relevance assessment by Bing and TREC 2024 Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Track. To support future research in LLM-based evaluation, we release all data and prompts at https://github.com/Narabzad/prompt-sensitivity-relevance-judgements/.
A quantum-classical duality and emergent space-time
Creators: name: Vanchurin, Vitaly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the quantum partition function for a system of quantum spinors and then derive an equivalent (or dual) classical partition function for some scalar degrees of freedom. The coupling between scalars is non-trivial (e.g. a model on 2-sphere configuration space), but the locality structure of the dual system is preserved, in contrast to the imaginary time formalism. We also show that the measure of integration in the classical partition function can be formally expressed through relativistic Green's functions which suggests a possible mechanism for the emergence of a classical space-time from anti-commutativity of quantum operators.
description: 17 pages, typos corrected
Extent of N-terminus exposure of monomeric alpha-synuclein determines its aggregation propensity
Creators: name: Stephens, Amberley D.
name: Zacharopoulou, Maria
name: Moons, Rani
name: Fusco, Giuliana
name: Seetaloo, Neeleema
name: Chiki, Anass
name: Woodhams, Philippa J.
name: Mela, Ioanna
name: Lashuel, Hilal A.
name: Phillips, Jonathan J.
name: De Simone, Alfonso
name: Sobott, Frank
name: Schierle, Gabriele S. Kaminski
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
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article

description: Abstract: As an intrinsically disordered protein, monomeric alpha-synuclein (aSyn) occupies a large conformational space. Certain conformations lead to aggregation prone and non-aggregation prone intermediates, but identifying these within the dynamic ensemble of monomeric conformations is difficult. Herein, we used the biologically relevant calcium ion to investigate the conformation of monomeric aSyn in relation to its aggregation propensity. We observe that the more exposed the N-terminus and the beginning of the NAC region of aSyn are, the more aggregation prone monomeric aSyn conformations become. Solvent exposure of the N-terminus of aSyn occurs upon release of C-terminus interactions when calcium binds, but the level of exposure and aSyn’s aggregation propensity is sequence and post translational modification dependent. Identifying aggregation prone conformations of monomeric aSyn and the environmental conditions they form under will allow us to design new therapeutics targeted to the monomeric protein.
Irreducible Representations of Jordanian Quantum Algebra ${\cal U}_h(sl(2))$ Via a Nonlinear Map
Creators: name: Abdesselam, B.
name: Chakrabarti, A.
name: Chakrabarti, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The generators of the Jordanian quantum algebra ${\cal U}_h(sl(2))$ are expressed as nonlinear invertible functions of the classical $sl(2)$ generators. This permits immediate explicit construction of the finite dimensional irreducible representations of the algebra ${\cal U}_h(sl(2))$. Using this construction, new finite dimensional solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation may be obtained.
description: 10 pages, latex-file, references and some comments are added, version to be published in Mod. Phys. Lett
Asymptotic security analysis of discrete-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution
Creators: name: Lin, Jie
name: Upadhyaya, Twesh
name: Lütkenhaus, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV QKD) protocols with discrete modulation are interesting due to their experimental simplicity and their great potential for massive deployment in the quantum-secured networks, but their security analysis is less advanced than that of Gaussian modulation schemes. In this work, we apply a numerical method to analyze the security of discrete-modulation protocols against collective attacks in the asymptotic limit, paving the way for a full security proof with finite-size effects. While our method is general for discrete-modulation schemes, we focus on two variants of the CV QKD protocol with quaternary modulation. Interestingly, thanks to the tightness of our proof method, we show that this protocol is capable of achieving much higher key rates over significantly longer distances with experimentally feasible parameters compared with previous security proofs of binary and ternary modulation schemes and also yielding key rates comparable to Gaussian modulation schemes. Furthermore, as our security analysis method is versatile, it allows us to evaluate variations of the discrete-modulated protocols, including direct and reverse reconciliation, and postselection strategies. In particular, we demonstrate that postselection of data in combination with reverse reconciliation can improve the key rates.
description: v1: 15+6 pages, 12 figures, data files uploaded; v2: 23 pages, published version
Magnetic Properties of Scalar Particles --The Scalar Aharonov-Casher Effect and Supersymmetry
Creators: name: He, Xiao-Gang
name: McKellar, Bruce H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The original topological Aharonov-Casher (AC) effect is due to the interaction of the anomalous magnetic dipole moment (MDM) with certain configurations of electric field. Naively one would not expect an AC effect for a scalar particle for which no anomalous MDM can be defined in the usual sense. In this letter we study the AC effect in supersymmetric systems. In this framework there is the possibility of deducing the AC effect of a scalar particle from the corresponding effect for a spinor particle. In 3+1 dimensions such a connection is not possible because the anomalous MDM is zero if supersymmetry is an exact symmetry. However, in 2+1 dimensions it is possible to have an anomalous MDM even with exact supersymmetry. Having demonstrated the relationship between the spinor and the scalar MDM, we proceed to show that the scalar AC effect is uniquely defined. We then compute the anomalous MDM at the one loop level, showing how the scalar form arises in 2+1 dimensions from the coupling of the scalar to spinors. This model shows how an AC effect for a scalar can be generated for non-supersymmetric theories, and we construct such a model to illustrate the mechanism.
description: RevTex 13 pages including one Figure. New Discussions added
Real-time dynamics of axion particle production due to spontaneous decay of a coherent axion field
Creators: name: Huang, Xu-Guang
name: Kharzeev, Dmitri E.
name: Taya, Hidetoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the coherent axion field spontaneously decays by emitting axion particles via quantum tunneling if axion potential has more than one minimum. By employing the $\hbar$-expansion and mean field approximation, we develop a formalism to trace the real-time dynamics of the axion particle production including its backreaction to the coherent axion field. We also present numerical results for the time evolution of various physical quantities including the strength of the coherent axion field, phase-space density of produced axion particles, energy density, and pressure. Phenomenological implications of our results are also discussed.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures; v2: more explanations on the validity of the formulation are added, typos are corrected, to be published in PRD
title: Tears Falling on Goosebumps
title: Co-occurrence of Emotional Lacrimation and Emotional Piloerection Indicates a Psychophysiological Climax in Emotional Arousal
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wassiliwizky, Eugen
name: Jacobsen, Thomas
name: Heinrich, Jan
name: Schneiderbauer, Manuel
name: Menninghaus, Winfried
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: emotional tears
subject: piloerection
subject: being moved
subject: psychophysiology
subject: film
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: This psychophysiological study is the first to examine the relationship between emotional tears and emotional piloerection (i.e., goosebumps). Although both phenomena have been related to peak states of being moved, details about their temporal occurrence and the associated levels of physiological arousal have remained unknown. In our study, we used emotionally powerful film scenes that were self-selected by participants. Our findings show that even within peak moments of emotional arousal, a gradation of intensity is possible. The overlap of tears and goosebumps signifies a maximal climax within peak moments. On the side of the stimulus, we found that displays of prosocial behavior play a crucial role in the elicitation of tears and goosebumps. Finally, based on the results of a formal film analysis of the tears-eliciting clips provided by our participants, as compared to randomly extracted, equally long control clips from the same films, we show how the technical and artistic making of the clips was optimized for the display of social interaction and emotional expressions.
Supplementary methods, tables and figures from Behaviour, life history and persistence in novel environments
Creators: name: Maspons, Joan
name: Molowny-Horas, Roberto
name: Sol, Daniel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary description of the model, table S1 and figures S1-S3
MOESM2 of H/ACA box small nucleolar RNA 7B acts as an oncogene and a potential prognostic biomarker in breast cancer
Creators: name: Sun, Yihan
name: Chen, Endong
name: Li, Yuefeng
name: Ye, Danrong
name: Cai, Yefeng
name: Wang, Qingxuan
name: Li, Quan
name: Zhang, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary figure and legends: the RNA expression level of RPL32P3.
Onthophagus bidens
Creators: name: Cambefort, Yves
name: Bordat, Patrice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus bidens

description: Onthophagus bidens (Olivier, 1789)
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Entre Nzo et Bié, excr. de chien et divers, VIII-IX.1951 (ML & RR); Bossou, brousse secondaire, IX, XI.1951 (id.); route de Gbakoré, V.1991 (C. Girard); savane de Kéoulenta, V.1992; mare d’hivernage, 1600 m, V.1992.
DISTRIBUTION. — Savanes de toute l’Afrique intertropicale, souvent dans les faciès dégradés et arides.
description: Published as part of Cambefort, Yves & Bordat, Patrice, 2003, Coléoptères Scarabaeidae s. str., Aphodiidae et Ceratocanthidae du mont Nimba et des régions limitrophes, pp. 551-580 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 on page 562
Power Weakly Mixing Infinite Transformations
Creators: name: Day, Sarah L.
name: Grivna, Brian R.
name: McCartney, Earle P.
name: Silva, Cesar E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28D

description: We construct a rank one infinite measure preserving transformation $T$ such that for all sequences of nonzero integers $\{k_{1},..., k_{r}\}$, $T^{k_{1}}\times...\times T^{k_{r}}$ is ergodic.
Shanling chaohu 山靈朝扈 Q00320_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Modulating Surrogates for Bayesian Optimization
Creators: name: Bodin, Erik
name: Kaiser, Markus
name: Kazlauskaite, Ieva
name: Dai, Zhenwen
name: Campbell, Neill D. F.
name: Ek, Carl Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bayesian optimization (BO) methods often rely on the assumption that the objective function is well-behaved, but in practice, this is seldom true for real-world objectives even if noise-free observations can be collected. Common approaches, which try to model the objective as precisely as possible, often fail to make progress by spending too many evaluations modeling irrelevant details. We address this issue by proposing surrogate models that focus on the well-behaved structure in the objective function, which is informative for search, while ignoring detrimental structure that is challenging to model from few observations. First, we demonstrate that surrogate models with appropriate noise distributions can absorb challenging structures in the objective function by treating them as irreducible uncertainty. Secondly, we show that a latent Gaussian process is an excellent surrogate for this purpose, comparing with Gaussian processes with standard noise distributions. We perform numerous experiments on a range of BO benchmarks and find that our approach improves reliability and performance when faced with challenging objective functions.