cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Economic Development Assistance to Professional and Technical Services
Creators: name: Hirasuna, Donald P.
name: Hirasuna, Donald P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: A computable general equilibrium model is used to compare the economic impact of subsidies between professional and technical services, high-technology manufacturing and traded services. The results suggest that the largest increase in aggregate real income is a factor tax deduction on capital to high -technology manufacturing. A factor tax deduction for the purchase of labor within professional and technical services industries increases aggregate real income in comparison to the same subsidy awarded to high-technology manufacturing or traded services. However, subsidies to either high-technology manufacturing or traded services result in increased income inequality. Only a subsidy to traded services decreases income inequality.
Phase I/II parallel double-blind randomized controlled clinical trial of perispinal etanercept for chronic stroke: improved mobility and pain alleviation
Creators: name: Ralph, Stephen J.
name: Weissenberger, Andrew
name: Bonev, Ventzislav
name: King, Liam D.
name: Bonham, Mikaela D.
name: Ferguson, Samantha
name: Smith, Ashley D.
name: Goodman-Jones, Adrienne A.
name: Espinet, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Previous open-label studies showed that chronic post-stroke pain could be abated by treatment with perispinal etanercept, although these benefits were questioned. A randomized double-blind placebo controlled clinical trial was conducted to test perispinal etanercept for chronic post-stroke pain. Participants received two treatments, either perispinal etanercept (active) or saline (control). Primary outcomes were the differences in daily pain levels between groups analyzed by SPSS. On the 0–100 points visual analog scale, perispinal etanercept reduced mean levels for worst and average daily pain from baseline after two treatments by 19.5 – 24 points (p < 0.05), and pain alleviation was maintained in the etanercept group, with no significant change in the control group. Thirty percent of etanercept participants had near complete pain abatement after first treatment. Goniometry of the paretic arm showed improved mean shoulder rotation by 55 degrees in active forward flexion for the etanercept group (p = 0.003) only. Perispinal etanercept can provide significant and ongoing benefits for the chronic post-stroke management of pain and greater shoulder flexion by the paretic arm. Effects are rapid and highly significant, supporting direct action on brain function. ACTRN12615001377527 and Universal Trial Number U1111-1174-3242.
Positioning a Metropolitan Area for Global Competition
Creators: name: Maki, Wilbur R.
name: Maki, Wilbur R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Industrial Organization
International Relations/Trade

description: The contribution of this paper is its conceptual models and related data for identifying appropriate performance measures of an area’s infrastructure and using these measures, cognizant of their shortcomings, to estimate the value of this infrastructure in positioning the area for global competition. By focusing on the exports of a metropolitan area’s industries, we identify the sources and facilitators of an area’s economic growth and development. These include the institutions of higher education for sharpening the area’s intellectual resources as inputs for producing the unique outputs of its productive resources, and the air transportation communication facilities and services for moving these outputs to their highest and most worthwhile uses.
MOESM1 of Psychometric properties of the Adelaide Diagnostic Learning Inventory-Brief (ADLIB)
Creators: name: Minas, Harry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Adelaide Diagnostic Learning Inventoryâ€”Brief (ADLIB). Table S2A. Measures included in one or both surveys. Table S2B. Patient Interaction Questionnaire (PIQ). Table S2C. Medical Practices Anxieties Questionnaire (MPAQ). Table S2D. Course Difficulties Inventory (CDI). Table S2E. Brief Measure of English Proficiency (BMEP).
The Effect of Telecommuting on Suburbanization: Empirical Evidence
Creators: name: Seetharam Sridhar, Kala
name: Sridhar, Varadharajan
name: Seetharam Sridhar, Kala
name: Sridhar, Varadharajan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: In the standard urban model, employment is concentrated in the Central Business District (CBD) and the locational choice of households is modeled solely on access to the employment center. Now, technology has facilitated the emergence of new office environments where work is done at unconventional locations that were earlier in the CBD. While the urban density function is not really new, in this study, we look at the effect of telecommuting, made possible by technology, on suburbanization, using data for U.S. metropolitan areas. We use population and household gradients as measures of suburbanization. For telecommuting indicators, we use data from Survey of Income Program and Participation (SIPP). We find support for the natural evolution theory of suburbanization. We find that telecommuting contributes to centralization of cities. We conclude that technology could be a complement, not a substitute for face-to-face interaction.
A Laboratory for Constraining Cosmic Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant: Conjugate 18 cm OH Lines Toward PKS 1413+135 at z=0.2467
Creators: name: Darling, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of the satellite 18 cm OH lines at 1612 and 1720 MHz in the z=0.2467 molecular absorption system toward the radio source PKS 1413+135. The two OH lines are conjugate; the 1612 MHz line is seen in absorption while the 1720 MHz line is seen in weak maser emission of equal, but negative, optical depth. We do not detect the main 18 cm OH lines at 1667 and 1665 MHz down to 1.1 mJy rms in 4.0 km/s channels. The detected and undetected 18 cm OH lines support a scenario of radiatively pumped stimulated absorption and emission with pumping dominated by the intraladder 119 micron line of OH, suggesting a column density N(OH) ~= 10^15 to 10^16 cm^-2. Combined with simultaneous HI 21 cm observations and published CO data, we apply the OH redshifts to measurements of cosmic evolution of the fine structure constant alpha = e^2/(hbar c). We obtain highly significant (~25 sigma) velocity offsets between the OH and HI lines and the OH and CO lines, but measurements of alpha-independent systematics demonstrate that the observed velocity differences are entirely attributable to physical velocity offsets between species rather than a change in alpha. The OH alone, in which conjugate line profiles guarantee that both lines originate in the same molecular gas, provides a weak constraint of Delta alpha/alpha_o = (+0.51 +/- 1.26) x 10^-5 at z=0.2467. Higher frequency OH line detections can provide a larger lever arm on Delta alpha and can increase precision by an order of magnitude. The OH molecule can thus provide precise measurements of the cosmic evolution of alpha that include quantitative constraints on systematic errors. Application of this technique is limited only by the detectability of |tau|~0.01 OH lines toward radio continuum sources and may be possible to z~5.
description: AASTeX, 11 pages, 2 figures, accepted by Astrophysical Journal
Metasurface-Assisted Passive Wireless Communication with Commodity Wi-Fi Signals
Creators: name: Zhao, Hanting
name: Shuang, Ya
name: Wei, Menglin
name: Cui, Tie Jun
name: del Hougne, Philipp
name: Li, Lianlin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wireless communication has become a standard solution to address ever-increasing demands for information transfer in our modern society. Conventional systems work in an active way in the sense that an active carrier signal is mandatorily required to transfer information from Alice to Bob. Especially in the era of 5G6G and with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), an exponential growth of users and connectivity confronts conventional systems with important challenges including limited spectrum resources, information security, energy consumption and cost efficiency. Here, we introduce the fundamentally different concept of passive wireless communication (PWC) which has the potential to resolve the above-mentioned issues. PWC transfers digital information by modulating demodulating already existing omnipresent ambient stray electromagnetic waves using a programmable metasurface. We provide a theoretical framework for encoding decoding and modulating demodulating in PWC and build a proof-of-principle prototype system leveraging existing commodity 2.4GHz Wi-Fi signals. We demonstrate information transfer from Alice to Bob with data rates on the order of hundreds of Kbps using distinguishable information-carrying control coding patterns of metasurface, neither necessitating an active carrier signal and its associated radio-frequency chain nor affecting the background active wireless communication. The presented strategy is particularly appealing for green IoT connectivity. At the same time, the concept is applicable to all types of wave phenomena and provides a fundamentally new perspective on the design of future wireless communication architectures.
description: some major issues in this preprint need to be revised
Non-minimal Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory and the composite Fermion model
Creators: name: Paschoal, Ricardo C.
name: Helayël-Neto, José A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic field redefinition in Jain's composite fermion model for the fractional quantum Hall effect is shown to be effectively described by a mean-field approximation of a model containing a Maxwell-Chern-Simons gauge field non-minimally coupled to matter. Also an explicit non-relativistic limit of the non-minimal (2+1)D Dirac equation is derived.
description: 10 pages, no figures
Meaning and significance of fasting in comparative perspective a study with special reference to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Creators: name: Akram, Muhammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 220402 Comparative Religious Studies
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220403 Islamic Studies
subject: 220404 Jewish Studies
subject: 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History)
subject: 220499 Religion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 220405 Religion and Society
subject: Religious Studies
subject: 220407 Studies in Religious Traditions (excl. Eastern, Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions)

description: Though the ritual of fasting is common to most of the known religious traditions, its practice and symbolic value may vary considerably. This paper aims at a comparative study into meaning and significance of this ritual with special reference to the three Semitic religions namely Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Some interesting similarities and dissimilarities in this connection are noted. It is discerned that quite often fasting is observed in these religions to commemorate certain events of religious significance during specific days of the year. Moreover, feasts and festivals which occur before or after various fasting periods in the selected religious traditions remind us of the social significance of this ritual. However, sometimes fasting also signifies spontaneous individual expression of thankfulness to, or repentance before God. It is observed that fasting in these religions is envisioned to facilitate self-control, invoke mercy and sympathy for others, create the sense of bondage, establish and assert religious identities, and release the negative feelings like guilt consciousness. In the final analysis, it is maintained that as a form of asceticism fasting does not necessarily imply negation of body or society. Rather, by facilitating self-control and freedom from one's inner fears and other emotional weaknesses it can also lead to a deeper affirmation of the self and greater integration into the society.
Epomophorus doriae Matschie 1899
Creators: name: Turni, Hendrik
name: Kock, Dieter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Epomophorus
Epomophorus doriae

description: Epomophorus doriae Matschie, 1899
Matschie, P. (1899): Die Fledermäuse des Berliner Museums für Naturkunde, 1. Megachiroptera. Berlin, 54 [1–107], G. Reimer Verlag.
 Valid name: Epomophorus labiatus (Temminck, 1837)
Holotype: ZMB 5384, skin and ZMB 10079, skull, female, adult; “Bogos”[land] = Country of the Bogos, Keren region, Eritrea; collector unknown; purchased from E. Gerrard.
description: Published as part of Turni, Hendrik & Kock, Dieter, 2008, Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 1869 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5133648
Issues with rounding in the GCC implementation of the ISO 18037:2008 standard fixed-point arithmetic
Creators: name: Mikaitis, Mantas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe various issues caused by the lack of round-to-nearest mode in the \textit{gcc} compiler implementation of the fixed-point arithmetic data types and operations. We demonstrate that round-to-nearest is not performed in the conversion of constants, conversion from one numerical type to a less precise type and results of multiplications. Furthermore, we show that mixed-precision operations in fixed-point arithmetic lose precision on arguments, even before carrying out arithmetic operations. The ISO 18037:2008 standard was created to standardize C language extensions, including fixed-point arithmetic, for embedded systems. Embedded systems are usually based on ARM processors, of which approximately 100 billion have been manufactured by now. Therefore, the observations about numerical issues that we discuss in this paper can be rather dangerous and are important to address, given the wide ranging type of applications that these embedded systems are running.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the 27th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic
Brownian beads
Creators: name: Virag, Balint
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the past and future of half-plane Brownian motion at certain cutpoints are independent of each other after a conformal transformation. Like in Ito's excursion theory, the pieces between cutpoints form a Poisson process with respect to a local time. The size of the path as a function of this local time is a stable subordinator whose index is given by the exponent of the probability that a stretch of the path has no cutpoint. The index is computed and equals 1/2.
description: 24 pages, 1 figure
Vielfältige Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Antriebssystemen in der elektrischen Energietechnik
Creators: name: Wegener, Ralf
Publisher: name: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Year: 2024

description: In den letzten Jahren ist die elektrische Energieversorgung mehr und mehr in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit gerückt, die Nutzung regenerativer Energiequellen ist im Bewusstsein der Allgemeinheit angekommen. Windkraftanlagen sind gerade im Norden Deutschlands ein alltägliches Bild und eine private Photovoltaikanlage gehört schon fast zum Standard eines Einfamilienhauses. Diese aktuelle Entwicklung spiegelt sich auch in den hier zusammengefassten Forschungsarbeiten wieder. Sie lassen sich grob in drei Gebiete der Elektrotechnik gliedern. Das Kapitel Elektrische Maschinen betrachtet weiterführende Anwendungen für einen zylindrischen Linearmotor. Im Kapitel Windkraft wird ein Netzeinspeiseumrichter vorgestellt der dann auch im Kapitel Verkehr für die Einspeisung in ein Oberleitungssystem genutzt wird.
Do Commuters Free-ride? Estimating the Impacts of Interjurisdictional Commuting on Local Public Goods Expenditures
Creators: name: Shields, Martin
name: Shideler, David W.
name: Shields, Martin
name: Shideler, David W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Public Economics

description: In an era of political pressure to reduce taxes while increasing government services, local officials face difficult choices regarding what services to provide and how to finance them. One outcropping of this dilemma is that local citizens are expressing concerns that commuters use local government services but without paying for them. In response, some communities are considering taxing commuters. In this study we develop a basic model of congestion in a two-city model to examine commuters’ effects on the optimal provision of public goods. The theoretical result suggests that taxing commuters at the difference in marginal congestion costs between the two cities can attain market equilibrium. We then specify an empirical model to determine this tax’s size for Pennsylvania municipalities. The econometric results show differences in marginal congestion costs between workplace and resident communities, providing evidence that commuters may free-ride. The difference in marginal congestion costs, however, tends to be small, so we advise policymakers to be hesitant in adopting such a tax.
Are Economic Development Incentives Worth it? A Computable General Equilibirum Analysis of Pueblo, Colorado's Efforts to Attract Business
Creators: name: Goodman, D. Jay
name: Goodman, D. Jay
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The regional impacts of economic development incentives are studied in the context of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The object is to evaluate the effectiveness of several incentives used to attract new businesses in the city of Pueblo, Colorado. The results show that the regional benefits of these incentives are relatively small, and the net benefits to the local population when all impacts are accounted for are likely to be negative. Instead, the benefits are largely transferred to new businesses and employees who migrate to the region in response to the incentives. Contrary to perceptions about the multiplier impacts of economic development, the net impact on the local manufacturing sector is negative as well. The incentives cause a substitution effect, as investment is shifted toward export-oriented manufacturing sectors that are favored for economic development. These results address the seeming paradox that economic development can attract new businesses and jobs, yet be unpopular enough among local residents for them to vote against continuing it.
Local Fiscal Policy and Establishment Growth
Creators: name: Gabe, Todd M.
name: Gabe, Todd M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This applied study examines the effects of local taxes and government spending on the employment growth of 17,172 Maine establishments that were in operation in 1996 and 1999. Empirical results indicate that taxes have a negative effect on an establishment’s three-year employment growth rate, although the tax effects are quite small in magnitude. These results are robust to the omission of establishments located in municipalities that cause group effects in the regression analysis. The negative tax effects are not statistically significant, however, in regressions that correct for sample selection bias related to establishment closures. In general, the empirical findings do not reveal a significant relationship between establishment growth and several types of local government spending.
The Discovery of New Galaxy Members in the NGC 5044 and NGC 1052 Groups
Creators: name: McKay, N. P. F.
name: Mundell, C. G.
name: Brough, S.
name: Forbes, D. A.
name: Barnes, D. G.
name: James, P. A.
name: Goudfrooij, P.
name: Kozhurina-Platais, V.
name: Whitaker, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of neutral hydrogen (HI) observations of the NGC 5044 and NGC 1052 groups, as part of a GEMS (Group Evolution Multiwavelength Study) investigation into the formation and evolution of galaxies in nearby groups. Two new group members have been discovered during a wide-field HI imaging survey conducted using the ATNF Parkes telescope. These results, as well as those from followup HI synthesis and optical imaging, are presented here. J1320-1427, a new member of the NGC 5044 Group, has an HI mass of M_HI=1.05e9Msun and M_HI/L_B=1.65 Msun/Lsun, with a radial velocity of v=2750km/s. The optical galaxy is characterised by two regions of star formation, surrounded by an extended, diffuse halo. J0249-0806, the new member of the NGC 1052 Group, has M_HI=5.4e8Msun, M_HI/L_R=1.13 Msun/Lsun and v=1450km/s. The optical image reveals a low surface brightness galaxy. We interpret both of these galaxies as irregular type, with J0249-0806 possibly undergoing first infall into the NGC 1052 group.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 21 pages, 13 figures. Also available with high-resolution figures at http://www.astro.livjm.ac.uk/~npfm/Papers/mmb04.ps.gz
MOESM9 of The mosquito electrocuting trap as an exposure-free method for measuring human-biting rates by Aedes mosquito vectors
Creators: name: Ortega-López, Leonardo
name: Pondeville, Emilie
name: Kohl, Alain
name: León, Renato
name: Betancourth, Mauro
name: Almire, Floriane
name: Torres-Valencia, Sergio
name: Saldarriaga, Segundo
name: Mirzai, Nosrat
name: Ferguson, Heather
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 9: Figure S8. Visualization of the second PCR products of DENV 1-3 on agarose gels. Expected size of positive fragments: 63 bp. DENV1+: positive control.
Incorporating Physical Constraints in Braneworld Black-String Solutions for a Minkowski Brane in Scalar-Tensor Gravity
Creators: name: Nakas, Theodoros
name: Kanti, Panagiota
name: Pappas, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of a general scalar-tensor theory, where the scalar field is non-minimally coupled to the five-dimensional Ricci scalar curvature, we investigate the emergence of complete brane-world solutions. By assuming a variety of forms for the coupling function, we solve the field equations in the bulk, and determine in an analytic way the form of the gravitational background and scalar field in each case. The solutions are always characterized by a regular scalar field, a finite energy-momentum tensor, and an exponentially decaying warp factor even in the absence of a negative bulk cosmological constant. The space-time on the brane is described by the Schwarzschild solution leading to either a non-homogeneous black-string solution in the bulk, when the mass parameter $M$ is non-zero, or a regular anti-de Sitter space-time, when $M=0$. We construct physically-acceptable solutions by demanding in addition a positive effective gravitational constant on our brane, a positive total energy-density for our brane and the validity of the weak energy condition in the bulk. We find that, although the theory does not allow for all three conditions to be simultaneously satisfied, a plethora of solutions emerge which satisfy the first two, and most fundamental, conditions.
description: 44 pages, 18 figures, typos corrected, detailed references, published in Physical Review D
What is the Scope for Increased Fertilizer Use in Kenya?
Creators: name: Sheahan, Megan
name: Black, Roy
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Sheahan, Megan
name: Black, Roy
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Kenya
subject: Fertilizer
subject: Food Security

description: Despite upward trends in fertilizer application rates on maize fields over the last twenty years, there remains a perception in Kenya that fertilizer use is not expanding quickly enough and that application rates are not high enough to reverse the country’s growing national food deficit. In 2007, this manifested in the creation of a comprehensive multi-million dollar fertilizer and improved seed subsidy and training program, the National Accelerated Agricultural Inputs Access Program (NAAIAP), with the objective of raising food production and farm productivity. However, little nationwide and longer term evidence exists to determine whether higher fertilizer application rates are profitable for farmers and whether they would have an incentive to continue using it on commercial terms after graduating from the subsidy program.
Lattice constant in diluted magnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)As
Creators: name: Masek, J.
name: Kudrnovsky, J.
name: Maca, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the density-functional calculations to investigate the compositional dependence of the lattice constant of (Ga,Mn)As containing various native defects. The lattice constant of perfect mixed crystals does not depend much on the concentration of Mn. The lattice parameter increases if some Mn atoms occupy interstitial positions. The same happens if As antisite defects are present. A quantitative agreement with the observed compositional dependence is obtained for materials close to a complete compensation due to these two donors. The increase of the lattice constant of (Ga,Mn)As is correlated with the degree of compensation: the materials with low compensation should have lattice constants close to the lattice constant of GaAs crystal.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Economic analysis of prescribed burning for wildfire management in Western Australia
Creators: name: Florec, Veronique
name: Pannell, David J.
name: Burton, Michael P.
name: Kelso, Joel
name: Mellor, Drew
name: Milne, George
name: Florec, Veronique
name: Pannell, David J.
name: Burton, Michael P.
name: Kelso, Joel
name: Mellor, Drew
name: Milne, George
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: wildfire
subject: fire management
subject: economic analysis
subject: cost plus net value change.

description: Wildfires can cause significant damage to ecosystems, life and property, and wildfire events that do not involve people and property are becoming rare. With the expansion of the rural–urban interface in Western Australia and elsewhere, objectives of life and property protection become more difficult to achieve. We applied the cost plus net value change (C+NVC) model to a synthetic landscape, representative of the northern jarrah forest of the south west of Western Australia. The most economically efficient level of prescribed burning corresponds to a strategy where 5% of the simulated landscape is prescribed-burned per year. Our results are sensitive to changes in the average cost per hectare of prescribed burning, the probabilities of fire occurrence, urban area values (in average dollars per hectare) and suppression costs.
Orbital Hall Insulating Phase in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers
Creators: name: Canonico, Luis M.
name: Cysne, Tarik P.
name: Molina-Sanchez, Alejandro
name: Muniz, R. B.
name: Rappoport, Tatiana G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that H-phase transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) monolayers such as MoS$_2$ and WSe$_2$, are orbital Hall insulators. They present very large orbital Hall conductivity plateaus in their semiconducting gap, where the spin Hall conductivity vanishes. Our results open the possibility of using TMDs for orbital current injection and orbital torque transfers that surpass their spin-counterparts in spin-orbitronics devices. The orbital Hall effect (OHE) in TMD monolayers occurs even in the absence of spin-orbit coupling. It can be linked to exotic momentum-space Dresselhaus-like orbital textures, analogous to the spin-momentum locking in 2D Dirac fermions that arise from a combination of orbital attributes and lattice symmetry.
description: main text with 6 pages and 3 figures, and a Supplementary material
Profiling of drug crystallization in the skin
Creators: name: Goh, Choon Fu
name: Boyd, Ben J.
name: Craig, Duncan Q. M.
name: Lane, Majella E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Drug crystallization following application of transdermal and topical formulations may potentially compromise the delivery of drugs to the skin. This phenomenon was found to be limited to the superficial layers of the stratum corneum (~7 µm) in our recent reports and tape stripping of the skin samples was necessary. It remains a significant challenge to profile drug crystallization in situ without damaging the skin samples. This work reports the application of an X-ray microbeam via synchrotron SAXS/WAXS analysis to monitor drug crystallization in the skin, especially in the deeper skin layers. Confocal Raman spectroscopy (CRS) was employed to examine drug distribution in the skin to complement the detection of drug crystallization using SAXS/WAXS analysis. Following application of saturated drug solutions (ibuprofen, diclofenac acid, and salts), CRS depth profiles confirmed that the drugs generally were delivered to a depth of ~15 – 20 µm in the skin. This was compared with the WAXS profiles that measured drug crystal diffraction at a depth of up to ~25 µm of the skin. This study demonstrates the potential of synchrotron SAXS/WAXS analysis for profiling of drug crystallization in situ in the deeper skin layers without pre-treatment for the skin samples.
MOESM7 of The mosquito electrocuting trap as an exposure-free method for measuring human-biting rates by Aedes mosquito vectors
Creators: name: Ortega-López, Leonardo
name: Pondeville, Emilie
name: Kohl, Alain
name: León, Renato
name: Betancourth, Mauro
name: Almire, Floriane
name: Torres-Valencia, Sergio
name: Saldarriaga, Segundo
name: Mirzai, Nosrat
name: Ferguson, Heather
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 7: Figure S6. Visualization of the second PCR products of ZIKV on agarose gels. Expected size of positive fragments: 76 bp. ZIKV+: positive control.
MOESM8 of The mosquito electrocuting trap as an exposure-free method for measuring human-biting rates by Aedes mosquito vectors
Creators: name: Ortega-López, Leonardo
name: Pondeville, Emilie
name: Kohl, Alain
name: León, Renato
name: Betancourth, Mauro
name: Almire, Floriane
name: Torres-Valencia, Sergio
name: Saldarriaga, Segundo
name: Mirzai, Nosrat
name: Ferguson, Heather
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S7. Visualization of the second PCR products of DENV 4 on agarose gels. All samples were negative. Expected size of positive fragments: 63 bp. DENV4+: positive control.
On the Jacobi metric for a general Lagrangian system
Creators: name: Maraner, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53B40, 70H03, 83E05

description: An explicit expression for the Jacobi metric for a general Lagrangian system is obtained as a series expansion in the square root of the kinetic energy of the system and the corresponding geodesics are described in terms of an appropriate non-linear connection and the associated curvature. In the limit of low kinetic energies the trajectories of motion of any Lagrangian system are very well approximated by the geodesics of an energy dependent Randers metric or, equivalently, by the paths in configuration space of a representative point subject to electromagnetic- and gravitational-like force fields. For higher kinetic energy values the trajectories of motion are instead the geodesics of a general energy dependent Finsler metric, corresponding also to the paths in configuration space of a representative point subject to a hierarchy of a potentially infinite number of covariant force fields that generalise the electromagnetic and gravitational ones. Some general implications of these findings are discussed.
description: 16 pages, no figures
Entanglement in Fermionic Chains and Bispectrality
Creators: name: Crampé, Nicolas
name: Nepomechie, Rafael I.
name: Vinet, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement in finite and semi-infinite free Fermionic chains is studied. A parallel is drawn with the analysis of time and band limiting in signal processing. It is shown that a tridiagonal matrix commuting with the entanglement Hamiltonian can be found using the algebraic Heun operator construct in instances when there is an underlying bispectral problem. Cases corresponding to the Lie algebras $\mathfrak{su}(2)$ and $\mathfrak{su}(1,1)$ as well as to the q-deformed algebra $\mathfrak{so}_q(3)$ at $q$ a root of unity are presented.
description: 21 pages; invited contribution to the Roman Jackiw 80th Birthday Festschrift (World Scientific, 2020); v2: minor changes
Phytosterol-loaded CD44 receptor-targeted PEGylated nano-hybrid phyto-liposomes for synergistic chemotherapy
Creators: name: Gautam, Milan
name: Thapa, Raj Kumar
name: Biki Gupta
name: Zar Chi Soe
name: Wenquan Ou
name: Kishwor Poudel
name: Jin, Sung Giu
name: Han-Gon Choi
name: Yong, Chul Soon
name: Kim, Jong Oh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Phytosterols significantly reduce the risk of cancer by directly inhibiting tumor growth, inducing apoptosis, and inhibiting tumor metastasis. Stigmasterol (STS), a phytosterol, exhibits anticancer effects against various cancers, including breast cancer. Chemotherapeutics, including doxorubicin (DOX), might act synergistically with phytosterol against the proliferation and metastasis of breast cancer. Although such compounds can show potential anticancer activity, their combined effect with suitable formulation has not investigated yet. Hyaluronic acid (HA)-modified PEGylated DOX-STS loaded phyto-liposome was fabricated via a thin-film hydration method. The prepared phyto-liposome was optimized with regards to its physicochemical and other properties. Further, in vitro and in vivo study was carried out in breast cancer cells expressing a different level of CD44 receptors. The particle size of prepared HA-DOX-STS-lipo was 173.9 ± 2.4 nm, and showed pH-depended DOX release, favoring the effective tumor targetability. The in vitro anticancer activity of HA-DOX-STS-lipo was significantly enhanced in MDA-MB-231, CD44-overexpressing cells relative to MCF-7 cells demonstrating HA-mediated targeting effect. HA-DOX-STS-lipo accumulated more and increased antitumor efficacy in the MDA-MB-231 xenograft tumor model expressing high levels of CD44, suggesting the potential of carrier system toward CD44-overexpressing tumors.
Landau-Zener transitions and Adiabatic impulse approximation in an array of two Rydberg atoms with time-dependent detuning
Creators: name: Niranjan, Ankita
name: Li, Weibin
name: Nath, Rejish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Landau-Zener (LZ) dynamics in a setup of two Rydberg atoms with time-dependent detuning, both linear and periodic, using both the exact numerical calculations as well as the method of adiabatic impulse approximation (AIA). By varying the Rydberg-Rydberg interaction strengths, the system can emulate different three-level LZ models, for instance, bow-tie and triangular LZ models. The LZ dynamics exhibits non-trivial dependence on the initial state, the quench rate, and the interaction strengths. For large interaction strengths, the dynamics is well captured by AIA. In the end, we analyze the periodically driven case, and AIA reveals a rich phase structure involved in the dynamics. The latter may find applications in quantum state preparation, quantum phase gates, and atom interferometry.
description: 16 pages, 21 figures
Rhinolophus blasii Peters 1866
Creators: name: Turni, Hendrik
name: Kock, Dieter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus blasii

description: Rhinolophus blasii Peters, 1866
Peters, W.C.H. (1866) Über einige neue oder weniger bekannte Flederthiere. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1866: 17 [16–25].
 Nomen novum for R. clivosus Blasius 1857, Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere Deutschlands: 33, nec clivosus Cretzschmar.
 Valid name: Rhinolophus blasii Peters, 1866
Syntype: ZMB 557, body in alcohol, skull not extracted, male; Trieste, Istria, Italy; collected and donated by Blasius.
 Comment: Blasius (1857) provided no details on the number of specimens examined. One further syntype specimen from “Mailand” (= Milan, Italy) is deposited in the Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum Braunschweig (N 39345). The type localities were specified by Blasius (1857: 34) in N-Italy, Turin, Milan, Lake Garda, Central Italy, Sicily, Istria, and “Dalmatien” (part of Croatia). Benda et al. (2006: 82, footnote) suggested to restrict the type localities to the origin of the available type material [Milan and Trieste, Italy], although they indicated that in both areas the species seems to be presently extinct.
description: Published as part of Turni, Hendrik & Kock, Dieter, 2008, Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 1869 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5133648
Atomic nuclei from quantum Monte Carlo calculations with chiral EFT interactions
Creators: name: Gandolfi, Stefano
name: Lonardoni, Diego
name: Lovato, Alessandro
name: Piarulli, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum Monte Carlo methods are powerful numerical tools to accurately solve the Schrödinger equation for nuclear systems, a necessary step to describe the structure and reactions of nuclei and nucleonic matter starting from realistic interactions and currents. These ab-initio methods have been used to accurately compute properties of light nuclei -- including their spectra, moments, and transitions -- and the equation of state of neutron and nuclear matter. In this work we review selected results obtained by combining quantum Monte Carlo methods and recent Hamiltonians constructed within chiral effective field theory.
description: 36 pages, 9 figures
The establishment of the Standard Cosmological Model through observations
Creators: name: Génova-Santos, Ricardo T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the last decades, observations with increasing quality have revolutionized our understanding of the general properties of the Universe. Questions posed for millenia by mankind about the origin, evolution and structure of the cosmos have found an answer. This has been possible mainly thanks to observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background, of the large-scale distribution of matter structure in the local Universe, and of type Ia supernovae that have revealed the accelerated expansion of the Universe. All these observations have successfully converged into the so-called "concordance model". In spite of all these observational successes, there are still some important open problems, the most obvious of which are what generated the initial matter inhomogeneities that led to the structure observable in today's Universe, and what is the nature of dark matter, and of the dark energy that drives the accelerated expansion. In this chapter I will expand on the previous aspects. I will present a general description of the Standard Cosmological Model of the Universe, with special emphasis on the most recent observations that have us allowed to consolidate this model. I will also discuss the shortfalls of this model, its most pressing open questions, and will briefly describe the observational programmes that are being planned to tackle these issues.
description: Accepted for publication in the book "Reviews in Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics: From Space Debris to Cosmology" (eds Kabath, Jones and Skarka; publisher Springer Nature) funded by the European Union Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership grant "Per Aspera Ad Astra Simul" 2017-1-CZ01-KA203-035562
MOESM2 of Delineating significant genome-wide associations of variants with antipsychotic and antidepressant treatment response: implications for clinical pharmacogenomics
Creators: name: Koromina, Maria
name: Koutsilieri, Stefania
name: Patrinos, George
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figures S1-S10. showing the odds ratio values split in two categories (between 0-1 and between 1-60) for commonfrequency (MAF > 0.10), intermediate frequency (0.05 <= MAF <= 0.10), low frequency (0.01 <= MAF < 0.05), rare frequency (MAF < 0.01) variants as well as for variants not found in 1000Genomes Project. The PGx variants are colored based on the antipsychotic or antidepressant drug of the association.
MOESM6 of The mosquito electrocuting trap as an exposure-free method for measuring human-biting rates by Aedes mosquito vectors
Creators: name: Ortega-López, Leonardo
name: Pondeville, Emilie
name: Kohl, Alain
name: León, Renato
name: Betancourth, Mauro
name: Almire, Floriane
name: Torres-Valencia, Sergio
name: Saldarriaga, Segundo
name: Mirzai, Nosrat
name: Ferguson, Heather
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Figure S5. Visualization of the first PCR products of DENV 4 on agarose gels. Expected size of positive fragments: 63 bp. DENV4+: positive control.
MOESM1 of Effect of cytoglobin overexpression on extracellular matrix component synthesis in human tenon fibroblasts
Creators: name: Wei, Haiying
name: Lin, Lili
name: Zhang, Xiaomei
name: Feng, Zhuolei
name: Wang, Yeqing
name: You, Yan
name: Wang, Xiaodan
name: Hou, Yongsheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of RT-PCR primers used in this study.
$S_3$-inspired three-Higgs-doublet models: A class with a complex vacuum
Creators: name: Kuncinas, A.
name: Ogreid, O. M.
name: Osland, P.
name: Rebelo, M. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyse in detail an $S_3$-symmetric three-Higgs-doublet model with a specific vacuum configuration. This analysis allows us to illustrate important features of models with several Higgs doublets, such as the possibility of having spontaneous CP violation. We start with a real potential and pick a particularly interesting complex vacuum configuration, which does not violate CP before adding soft breaking terms to the potential. We study the r\^ ole played by different soft symmetry breaking terms. These are essential for our choice of vacuum in order to remove unwanted massless scalars which arise from the spontaneous breaking of an accidental continuous symmetry. We list scalar sector and scalar-gauge sector-couplings for the particular case we consider in detail in this work. Results presented in this paper will be useful for model building, in particular for implementations of models with $S_3$ symmetry and spontaneous CP violation, extensions of the fermionic sector with realistic Yukawa couplings and for Dark Matter studies.
description: 33 pages. v2: PRD version, Minor clarifications. References added. Title compliant with APS style