cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lettre de Guillaume-Emmanuel-Joseph de Guilhem de Clermont-Lodève, baron de Sainte-Croix à Jean-François Séguier, 1781-03-16
Creators: name: baron de Sainte-Croix, Guillaume-Emmanuel-Joseph de Guilhem de Clermont-Lodève
name: Guillaume-Emmanuel-Joseph De Guilhem De Clermont-Lodève, Baron De Sainte-Croix
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: Antiquités (général)

description: [transcription] [Sainte Croix]

Je vous dois, Monsieur et respectable ami, depuis longtemps, des remerciements sur toutes les pièces que vous avez bien voulu prendre, relativement aux créanciers de Monsieur de Julien. Je me suis arrangé avec ce dernier. Il retirera les [...] dont je vous ai parlés et il me donnera des livres. c'est toujours la condition des marchés avec les imprimeurs. J'ai tardé de vous répondre, parce que j'ai fait, depuis vos lettres plusieurs [...] consécutives, deux de vos lettres ne nous aiant pas trouvé ici. L'abbé de St Veran me communiqua votre dernière; elle m'apprit des nouvelles de votre santé. Je vous prie de l'en donner vous-même. Vous savez l'intérêt que j'y prends.

Je travaille à différents ouvrages, entre autres à un mémoire pour l'académie sur les travaux maritimes entrepris sous les empereurs en Italie, des ports, des môles furent élevés, des phares construits & c. Si vous pouviez m'indiquer quelques auteurs modernes qui en aient parlé, mais surtout m'indiquer quelques inscriptions relatives à ces travaux, vous me rendriez un service signalé. Cela ajouterait à ma reconnaissance qui ne peut être plus vive et plus sincère, ainsi que le tendre et inviolable attachement avec lequel j'ai l'honneur d'être,

Monsieur,

votre très humble et très obéissant serviteurSainte-Croix

Mormoiron ce 16 mars 1781.
description: [personnes citées] Joseph-Dominique Fabre de Saint-Véran, M. de Julien
description: [lettre editée aussi sur] Maria Stefania Montecalvo (éd.), Guillaume-Emmanuel-Joseph Guilhem de Clermont-Lodève baron de Sainte-Croix (1746-1809). Carteggio e biografia, Florence, Gonnelli, 2014, t. I, p. 110-111.
description: Source: [lieu de Conservation] Nîmes, Bibliothèque Carré d'Art [cote]ms. 141_19, fol. 135
description: Source: ark:/12148/btv1b100152047
Coherent scattering and macroscopic coherence: Implications for neutrino, dark matter and axion detection
Creators: name: Akhmedov, Evgeny
name: Arcadi, Giorgio
name: Lindner, Manfred
name: Vogl, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the question of whether coherent neutrino scattering can occur on macroscopic scales, leading to a significant increase of the detection cross section. We concentrate on radiative neutrino scattering on atomic electrons (or on free electrons in a conductor). Such processes can be coherent provided that the net electron recoil momentum, i.e. the momentum transfer from the neutrino minus the momentum of the emitted photon, is sufficiently small. The radiative processes is an attractive possibility as the energy of the emitted photons can be as large as the momentum transfer to the electron system and therefore the problem of detecting extremely low energy recoils can be avoided. The requirement of macroscopic coherence severely constrains the phase space available for the scattered particle and the emitted photon. We show that in the case of the scattering mediated by the usual weak neutral current and charged current interactions this leads to a strong suppression of the elementary cross sections and therefore the requirement of macroscopic coherence results in a reduction rather than an increase of the total detection cross section. However, for the $νe$ scattering mediated by neutrino magnetic or electric dipole moments coherence effects can actually increase the detection rates. Effects of macroscopic coherence can also allow detection of neutrinos in 100 eV -- a few keV energy range, which is currently not accessible to the experiment. A similar coherent enhancement mechanism can work for relativistic particles in the dark sector, but not for the conventionally considered non-relativistic dark matter.
description: LaTeX, 31 page, 2 figures. v2: a section on coherent axion detection and an appendix added; title modified
Oral history interview with Robert Baer 1975
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Executives
Aeronautics
Containers
Factory management

description: Work for Wright Aeronautical Corporation on B-29 engines; composite can production; canmaker training; wildcat strikes during years as assistant plant manager; handling of union problems as plant manager at Houston; use of female employees; integrating the Houston plant; future of Conoweld; alumium vs. steel cans; Continental Can loyalty.
Singular Vertices and the Triangulation Space of the D-sphere
Creators: name: Catterall, S.
name: Thorleifsson, G.
name: Kogut, J.
name: Renken, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By a sequence of numerical experiments we demonstrate that generic triangulations of the $D-$sphere for $D>3$ contain one {\it singular} $(D-3)-$simplex. The mean number of elementary $D-$simplices sharing this simplex increases with the volume of the triangulation according to a simple power law. The lower dimension subsimplices associated with this $(D-3)-$simplex also show a singular behaviour. Possible consequences for the DT model of four-dimensional quantum gravity are discussed.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
Oxygen-neon rich merger during common envelope evolution
Creators: name: Canals, Pere
name: Torres, Santiago
name: Soker, Noam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conduct a population synthesis study of the common envelope evolution (CEE) of a white dwarf (WD) and an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star and find that the potential number of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the core degenerate (CD) and from the double degenerate (DD) scenarios are of the same order of magnitude. For the CD scenario we consider cases where a carbon oxygen rich (CO) AGB core and a CO WD merge during the CEE and leave a WD remnant with a mass of >1.35Mo, and for the DD scenario we count surviving CO WD binary systems that merge within a time of 10 Gyr. When either the AGB core or the WD are oxygen neon rich (ONe) we assume that the outcome might be a peculiar SN Ia. We find that the number of potential peculiar SNe Ia in the channels we study, that do not include peculiar SNe Ia that involve helium WDs or helium donors, is non-negligible, but less than the number of normal SNe Ia. If a SN Ia or a peculiar SN Ia explosion takes place within about million year after CEE, whether in the CD scenario or in the DD scenario, a massive circumstellar matter is present at explosion time. Our results are compatible with the suggestion that Chandrasekhar-mass SNe Ia mostly come from the CD scenario, and sub-Chandrasekhar SNe Ia mostly come from the DD scenario.
description: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Oral history interview with Robert Belton, 2000
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil rights movements--History--20th century.--United States
Lawyers--History--20th century.--Southern States
Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States
African Americans--Education (Higher)

description: Belton discusses his childhood; his large family; his parents' attitudes towards education; his experience in school; the encouragement he received from his high school teachers; and the various jobs he has held. He describes his time at the University of Connecticut and the trauma of being one of the only Black students on the campus. Belton characterizes his experience with religion; his decision to attend law school; and how he was influenced by growing up in a Southern Black community. He describes his introduction to activism, the demonstrations he participated in, and the formation of an NAACP chapter at the University of Connecticut. Other topics of discussion include: Belton's involvement with New York CORE; his work with the politically active Legal Defense Fund; his experience in jail; the impact of the landmark Supreme Court cases Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and Griggs v. Duke Power Co.; and affirmative action. Additionally, Belton discusses CORE reunions and reflects on the outcomes of the civil rights movement. Belton concludes by talking about his wife and two kids, his decision to join Vanderbilt University's faculty, and his experience with race relations there
A Note on Bimodal Accretion Disks
Creators: name: Dullemond, C. P.
name: Turolla, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of bimodal disks is investigated. Following a simple argument based on energetic considerations we show that stationary, bimodal accretion disk models in which a Shakura--Sunyaev disk (SSD) at large radii matches an advection dominated accretion flow (ADAF) at smaller radii are never possible using the standard slim disk approach, unless some extra energy flux is present. The same argument, however, predicts the possibility of a transition from an outer Shapiro--Lightman--Eardley (SLE) disk to an ADAF, and from a SLE disk to a SSD. Both types of solutions have been found.
description: 9 pages including 9 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Stability of exomoons around the Kepler transiting circumbinary planets
Creators: name: Hamers, Adrian S.
name: Cai, Maxwell X.
name: Roa, Javier
name: Leigh, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kepler mission has detected a number of transiting circumbinary planets (CBPs). Although currently not detected, exomoons could be orbiting some of these CBPs, and they might be suitable for harboring life. A necessary condition for the existence of such exomoons is their long-term dynamical stability. Here, we investigate the stability of exomoons around the Kepler CBPs using numerical $N$-body integrations. We determine regions of stability and obtain stability maps in the (a_m,i_pm) plane, where a_m is the initial exolunar semimajor axis with respect to the CBP, and i_pm is the initial inclination of the orbit of the exomoon around the planet with respect to the orbit of the planet around the stellar binary. Ignoring any dependence on i_pm, for most Kepler CBPs the stability regions are well described by the location of the 1:1 mean motion commensurability of the binary orbit with the orbit of the moon around the CBP. This is related to a destabilizing effect of the binary compared to the case if the binary were replaced by a single body, and which is borne out by corresponding 3-body integrations. For high inclinations, the evolution is dominated by Lidov-Kozai oscillations, which can bring moons in dynamically stable orbits to close proximity within the CBP, triggering strong interactions such as tidal evolution, tidal disruption, or direct collisions. This suggests that there is a dearth of highly-inclined exomoons around the Kepler CBPs, whereas coplanar exomoons are dynamically allowed.
description: Accepted for publication by MNRAS. 12 pages, 7 figures
The endocrine sequelae of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
Creators: name: Martineau, Marcus
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a liver disorder specific to pregnancy characterised by maternal pruritus, elevated maternal bile acids and adverse fetal outcomes. Although understanding of the condition has evolved, much remains unknown emphasising the need for further research. Using different approaches, this thesis will investigate the endocrine sequelae of ICP and its influence on fetal development. Bile acids have been shown to inhibit renal 11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2 (11β-HSD2), a protein responsible for attenuating the effect of cortisol on aldosterone-sensitive tissues. During pregnancy, cortisol levels increase and placental 11β- HSD2 acts to reduce the effect of maternal hypercortisolaemia on the developing fetus. Compromise in this placental barrier is therefore likely to increase fetal exposure to exogenous cortisol and potentially influence growth and development. This is the first study to look at the influence of cholestasis on placental 11β-HSD2 and cortisol metabolism. Through studying changes in gene expression, activity and paired maternal and fetal cord blood samples, ICP was associated with a significant reduction in placental 11β-HSD2 mRNA however fetal cortisol concentrations remain unchanged, suggestive of a concomitant attenuation of fetal adrenal function. Alterations in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism have been described in ICP. Although the aetiology underlying these findings is not yet not fully understood, the bile acid receptors Farnesoid-X receptor (FXR) and TGR5 have been shown to alter blood glucose and lipid concentrations suggesting that aberrant bile acid homeostasis is likely to influence maternal carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Studied both retrospectively and prospectively, ICP is associated with impaired glucose tolerance; in conjunction with alterations in gut hormone signalling as well as a pro-atherogenic lipid profile. Elevated maternal blood glucose and lipids have been shown to promote fetal growth which is associated with an increased risk of maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity; furthermore this may have long term sequelae with regard to the future health of affected offspring.
Born-Infeld Theory and Stringy Causality
Creators: name: Gibbons, G. W.
name: Herdeiro, C. A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fluctuations around a non-trivial solution of Born-Infeld theory have a limiting speed given not by the Einstein metric but the Boillat metric. The Boillat metric is S-duality invariant and conformal to the open string metric. It also governs the propagation of scalars and spinors in Born-Infeld theory. We discuss the potential clash between causality determined by the closed string and open string light cones and find that the latter never lie outside the former. Both cones touch along the principal null directions of the background Born-Infeld field. We consider black hole solutions in situations in which the distinction between bulk and brane is not sharp such as space filling branes and find that the location of the event horizon and the thermodynamic properties do not depend on whether one uses the closed or open string metric. Analogous statements hold in the more general context of non-linear electrodynamics or effective quantum-corrected metrics. We show how Born-Infeld action to second order might be obtained from higher-curvature gravity in Kaluza-Klein theory. Finally we point out some intriguing analogies with Einstein-Schrödinger theory.
description: 31 pages, 4 figures, LaTex; Some comments and references added
A syntactic approach to robot learning of human tasks from demonstrations
Creators: name: Lee, KyuHwa
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: The successful development of general-purpose humanoid robots, in contrast to traditional pre-programmed problem solving machines, has opened a new research area of how a robot could be programmed by an end-user, not engineers, to suit individual needs. In this respect, Robot Learning from Demonstration has been actively studied, aiming to enable robots learn various tasks from human users. Although much effort has been put, there are many challenges still remaining until the goal is realized. One of the important challenges is the automatic learning of task representations and reuse of the learned tasks, where each task can be expressed as a series of primitive action components. To deal with such challenges, syntactic approaches to task learning and related issues are investigated. Firstly, efficient goal-oriented task representation methods using stochastic context-free grammars are studied, which enable robots to understand the human's intended actions even in the presence of both observation errors and human execution errors. By exploiting the task knowledge, it is demonstrated that the robot can correctly identify unexpected, out-of-context actions and perform the intended actions under reasonable amount of noise. Taking a step further, the automatic learning of these task representations from human demonstrations are studied. It is demonstrated throughout the experiments that the robot is able to learn critical task structures and generalize them. This is essential for understanding more complex tasks sharing the same underlying structures. Following these studies, the unsupervised discovery of the optimal number of primitive action detectors required to represent a task is studied. Through a diverse set of real-world and simulated experiments that include learning object-related games, postural sequence tasks of dance and surveillance tasks, this thesis demonstrates the effectiveness of syntactic approaches for robot learning from demonstrations.
Contribution assessment of multiparameter optimization descriptors in CNS penetration
Creators: name: O.A. Raevsky
name: V.Yu. Grigorev
name: D.E. Polianczyk
name: O.E. Raevskaja
name: J.C. Dearden
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Assessment of the influence of six physicochemical properties used in the multiparameter optimization (MPO) approach for chemical penetration of the blood–brain barrier was carried out by means of application of logistic regression and multiple linear regression, using a data set of 578 diverse chemicals. It was found that use of an aggregation MPO-score descriptor did not give satisfactory results with central nervous system (CNS)/non-CNS classification. Thus an application of the MPO approach for CNS penetration is ambiguous. An alternative to the MPO approach in this work contains detailed (quantitative) structure–activity relationship analysis using a number of methods (linear discriminant analysis, random forest, support vector machine, Gaussian process). Three properties (molecular weight, number of H-bond donors and octanol–water partition coefficient) yielded optimal categorical models with modest statistical parameters (accuracy 0.730–0.765 for CNS/non-CNS classification). The poor statistics of regression models for the common data set suggested the presence of subsets with different mechanisms of penetrations. Based on graphic comparison of experimental and calculated Cu,b values, subset clusters have satisfactory statistics. The regression models obtained allowed the estimation of descriptor contributions in log Cu,b. This means that medicinal chemists now have a simple additive scheme for at least preliminary quantitative assessment of this important pharmacokinetic parameter.
Total Synthesis of the Macroline-related Alkaloid (±)-Alstonerine
Creators: name: Pett, Richard
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: This thesis examines the total synthesis of the macroline-related indole alkaloid alstonerine and related compounds. It is divided into three sections: The first section provides a review of the total synthesis efforts reported by Cook, Martin, Kuethe, and Kwon, as well previous work within the Craig group. The second section discusses the results of our investigations. The optimisation of the synthesis of key intermediate α,β-unsaturated lactam alcohol via directed-aziridine ring-opening is presented in detail. Our progress towards the synthesis of macroline-related alkaloids macroline, alstolactone, anhydromacrosalhine-methine and alstonerinal, as well as their N4-tosyl derivatives, from the key intermediate is discussed. The findings from these studies are presented en route to the total synthesis of alstonerine. The third section contains experimental procedures and characterisation data for compounds synthesised.
Continuous doping of a cuprate surface: new insights from in-situ ARPES
Creators: name: Zhong, Y. G.
name: Guan, J. Y.
name: Shi, X.
name: Zhao, J.
name: Rao, Z. C.
name: Tang, C. Y.
name: Liu, H. J.
name: Gu, G. D.
name: Weng, Z. Y.
name: Wang, Z. Q.
name: Qian, T.
name: Sun, Y. J.
name: Ding, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cuprate superconductors distinguish themselves from the conventional superconductors in that a small variation in the carrier doping can significantly change the superconducting transition temperature (T_c), giving rise to a superconducting dome where a pseudogap (ref. 1,2) emerges in the underdoped region and a Fermi liquid appears in the overdoped region. Thus a systematic study of the properties over a wide doping range is critical for understanding the superconducting mechanism. Here, we report a new technique to continuously dope the surface of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x through an ozone/vacuum annealing method. Using in-situ ARPES, we obtain precise quantities of energy gaps and the coherent spectral weight over a wide range of doping. We discover that the d-wave component of the quasiparticle gap is linearly proportional to the Nernst temperature that is the onset of superconducting vortices (ref. 3), strongly suggesting that the emergence of superconducting pairing is concomitant with the onset of free vortices, with direct implications for the onset of superconducting phase coherence at T_c and the nature of the pseudogap phenomena.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, supplementary materials included
Monte Carlo Simulation of the Three Dimensional Thirring Model
Creators: name: Del Debbio, Luigi
name: Hands, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Thirring model in three spacetime dimensions, by means of Monte Carlo simulation on lattice sizes 8^3 and 12^3, for numbers of fermion flavors N_f=2,4,6. For sufficiently strong interaction strength, we find that spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking occurs for N_f=2,4, in accordance with the predictions of the Schwinger-Dyson approach. The phase transitions which occur are continuous and with critical scaling behaviour depending on N_f. For N_f=6 our results are preliminary, and no firm conclusions about the existence or otherwise of chiral symmetry breaking are possible
description: 20 pages plain TeX including 6 figures using psfig.sty
Oral history interview with Robert Briggs Watson, 1968
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Physicians
Malaria--Immunological aspects
Medical education--Developing countries
Public health--Developing countries

description: Family background; education; medical officer, Norris Dam Project, Tennessee Valley Authority; malaria control in Tennessee Valley; malaria control in World War II; use of anti-malarial drugs in Pacific Theater; field staff of Rockefeller Foundation, 1946; travels in Latin America; work with Chinese government on malaria control from 1946; Taiwan, 1948; work in Japan, Korea, Philippines, Macao; medical education in India and public health problems; work in Brazil and South America; fellowships and policy; training teachers for medical schools; role of foundations
Kinematics of the southern galaxy cluster Abell 3733
Creators: name: Solanes, J. M.
name: Stein, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report radial velocities for 99 galaxies with projected positions within 30 arcmin of the center of the cluster A3733 obtained with the MEFOS multifiber spectrograph at the 3.6-m ESO telescope. These measurements are combined with 39 redshifts previously published by Stein (1996) to built a collection of 112 galaxy redshifts in the field of A3733, which is used to examine the kinematics and structure of this cluster. We assign cluster membership to 74 galaxies with heliocentric velocities in the interval 10500-13000 km/s. From this sample of cluster members, we infer a heliocentric systemic velocity for A3733 of 11653{+74}{-76} km/s, which implies a mean cosmological redshift of 0.0380, and a velocity dispersion of 614{+42}{-30} km/s. The application of statistical substructure tests to a magnitude-limited subset of the latter sample reveals evidence of non-Gaussianity in the distribution of ordered velocities in the form of lighter tails and possible multimodality. Spatial substructure tests do not find, however, any significant clumpiness in the plane of the sky, although the existence of subclustering along the line-of-sight cannot be excluded.
description: AA-LaTeX2e style; 10 pages, 2 Postscript figures, Table 1 appended. To be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Also available at ftp://pcess1.am.ub.es/pub/AA/a3733.ps.gz
Lumps in level truncated open string field theory
Creators: name: Koch, Robert de Mello
name: Rodrigues, Joao P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ratios of the masses of D(p-d) branes to the masses of Dp in open bosonic string field theory are computed within the modified level truncation approximation of Moeller, Sen and Zweibach. At the lowest non-trivial truncation requiring the addition of new primary states, we find evidence of rapid convergence to the expected result for 1
description: A coefficient changed, but no conclusions changed
Wavelet regression using a Lévy prior model
Creators: name: Missaoui, Badr
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: This thesis is concerned with nonparametric regression and regularization. In particular, wavelet regression using a Lévy prior model is investigated. The use of this prior is motivated by the statistical properties, such as heavy-tails, common in many datasets of interest, such as those in financial time series. The Lévy process we propose captures the heavy tails of the wavelet coefficients of an unknown function. We study the Besov regularity of the wavelet coefficients and establish the connection between the parameters of the Lévy wavelet prior model and Besov spaces. At first, we gave a necessary and sufficient condition such that the realizations of the prior model fall into a certain class of Besov spaces. We show that the tempered stable distribution preserves its functional form for different time scales. We prove that this scaling behaviour can model the exponential-decay-across-scale property of the wavelet coefficients without imposing any specified structure on the coefficients’ energy. We also introduce a Lévy wavelet mixture model to capture the sparseness of the wavelet coefficients. We show that this sparse model exhibits a thresholding rule. We also study the Lévy tempered stable prior model under a Bayesian framework. For the prior specified, we gave a closed form to the posterior Lévy measure of the wavelet coefficients and estimate the hyperparameters of the prior model in both a simulation study and for the S&P 500 time series. We focus on density estimation using a penalized likelihood approach. Primarily, we study the wavelet Tsallis entropy and Fisher information and give closed-form expressions for these measures when the wavelet coefficients are driven by a tempered stable process. Then, we develop an entropic regularization based on the wavelet Tsallis entropy and show that the penalized maximum likelihood method improves the convergence of the estimates.
Additional file 1 of Association of short-term exposure to sulfur dioxide and hospitalization for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke in Guangzhou, China
Creators: name: Shen, Shuqun
name: Li, Xing
name: Yuan, Chao
name: Huang, Qin
name: Liu, Dongyang
name: Ma, Shuoyi
name: Hui, Jialiang
name: Liu, Ruiyu
name: Wu, Tongwei
name: Chen, Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary Table 1. The distribution of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke events by age. Supplementary Table 2. Correlations between air pollutants and meteorological factors. Supplementary Table 3. The percent change of stroke risk associated with 10 μg/m3 and per IQR increase of SO2 with different df (sensitivity analysis).
An Interpretable Ensemble of Graph and Language Models for Improving Search Relevance in E-Commerce
Creators: name: Choudhary, Nurendra
name: Huang, Edward W
name: Subbian, Karthik
name: Reddy, Chandan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3; I.2.7; J.7

description: The problem of search relevance in the E-commerce domain is a challenging one since it involves understanding the intent of a user's short nuanced query and matching it with the appropriate products in the catalog. This problem has traditionally been addressed using language models (LMs) and graph neural networks (GNNs) to capture semantic and inter-product behavior signals, respectively. However, the rapid development of new architectures has created a gap between research and the practical adoption of these techniques. Evaluating the generalizability of these models for deployment requires extensive experimentation on complex, real-world datasets, which can be non-trivial and expensive. Furthermore, such models often operate on latent space representations that are incomprehensible to humans, making it difficult to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of different models. This lack of interpretability hinders the development and adoption of new techniques in the field. To bridge this gap, we propose Plug and Play Graph LAnguage Model (PP-GLAM), an explainable ensemble of plug and play models. Our approach uses a modular framework with uniform data processing pipelines. It employs additive explanation metrics to independently decide whether to include (i) language model candidates, (ii) GNN model candidates, and (iii) inter-product behavioral signals. For the task of search relevance, we show that PP-GLAM outperforms several state-of-the-art baselines as well as a proprietary model on real-world multilingual, multi-regional e-commerce datasets. To promote better model comprehensibility and adoption, we also provide an analysis of the explainability and computational complexity of our model. We also provide the public codebase and provide a deployment strategy for practical implementation.
description: Accepted to The Web Conference 2024 (Industry)
youth Digital Skills Indicator. Portuguese questionnaire
Creators: name: Ponte, Cristina
name: Batista, Susana
name: Helsper, Ellen J.
name: Schneider, Luc S.
name: van Deursen, Alexander J.A.M.
name: van Laar, Ester
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Digital skills
survey
questionnaire

description: The youth Digital Skills Indicator was developed as part of the ‘Youth Skills (ySKILLS)’ project and added to the ‘From Digital Skills to Tangible Outcomes’ digital skills measurement toolkit. Please read the accompanying document on the underlying rationale for these scales and on how to create and use composite scales in the following document: Helsper, E.J., Schneider, L., van Deursen, A.J.A.M., van Laar, E. (2021). The youth Digital Skills Indicator: Report on the conceptualisation and development of the ySKILLS digital skills measure. KU Leuven, Leuven: ySKILLS. Available at: https://yskills.eu.
Holographic Entanglement Entropy in Boundary Quantum Field Theory
Creators: name: Chang, En-Jui
name: Chou, Chia-Jui
name: Yang, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the holographic entanglement entropy in a (d+1)-dimensional boundary quantum field theory at both the zero and finite temperature. The phase diagrams for the holographic entanglement entropy at various temperatures are obtained by solving the entangled surfaces in the different homology. We also verify the Araki-Lieb inequality and illustrate the entanglement plateau.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures
Design and commissioning of a crude oil fouling facility
Creators: name: Pental, Jerzy Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2011

description: This thesis describes the design, construction and commissioning of a major new facility for the study of the fouling of heated surfaces across which crude oil streams pass. The objective is to simulate the behaviour of surfaces in heat exchangers, typically those in a crude pre-heat train. The thesis presents a review of previous work in this area and discusses the design assumptions for the new facility. Safety has been a prime consideration and the safety philosophy and the main features of the safety systems are described. The thesis continues with a description of the construction of the facility and the installation of the instrumentation systems. The instrumentation is designed to monitor the performance and safety of the facility and to retrieve the data for use in assessing modelling methods. The rig was commissioned using a heat transfer fluid (Paratherm™) as a substitute for the oil and the commissioning tests are described. The rig has both tubular and annulus test sections. Though the tubular section models more closely the normal heat exchanger configurations, the use of the annulus section offers a number of advantages which include more accurate temperature measurement, the ability to remove the test section to examine the fouling layer and the ability to make continuous in situ measurements of fouling layer thickness. Using the annulus test section, however, raises the difficulty of retrieving data for the shear stress exerted by the fluid on the fouling layer on the inner tube of the annulus (this shear stress is recognised as an important parameter in many models) and of estimating the effective roughness of the fouling layer so that its effect on pressure drop in tubular geometries can be calculated. To address these predictions problems, an analytical method has been implemented and CFD studies have been carried out to explore the features of this analytical model. Chemistry aspects of the fouling process are also very important and these are also considered in the thesis. The research facility and additional associated tools and techniques form a unique and potentially extremely valuable asset which has great potential in improving the understanding and interpretation of crude oil fouling phenomena.
A ``Short'' Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud With the Hipparcos Calibrated Red Clump Stars
Creators: name: Stanek, K. Z.
name: Zaritsky, D.
name: Harris, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following an approach developed by Paczyński & Stanek, we derive a distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by comparing red clump stars from the Hipparcos catalog with the red clump stars observed in two fields in the LMC that were selected from the ongoing photometric survey of the Magellanic Clouds to lie in low extinction regions. The use of red clump stars allows a single step determination of the distance modulus to the LMC, $μ_{0,LMC} = 18.065\pm 0.031\pm 0.09 $mag (statistical plus systematic error), and the corresponding distance, $R_{LMC}= 41.02\pm 0.59\pm 1.74 kpc$. This measurement is in excellent agreement with the recent determination by Udalski et al., also based on the red clump stars, but is $\sim 0.4 $mag smaller than the generally accepted value of $μ_{0,LMC} = 18.50\pm 0.15 $mag. We discuss possible reasons for this discrepancy and how it can be resolved.
description: submitted to the ApJ Letters, 10 pages, 3 figures
Protein aggregation behaviour and the second virial coefficient
Creators: name: Quigley, Amanda Leila
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2012

description: One key barrier to the timely and efficient production of biopharmaceuticals is that they are prone to both chemical and physical instability including aggregation. Protein-protein molecular interactions are known to be a factor in protein solution aggregation behaviour; however their practical and elementary importance has not been fully established. The osmotic second virial coefficient (B22) is a fundamental physiochemical property that describes the molecular interactions between proteins in solution which could result in aggregation. This experimental study reports on the B22 of five different proteins (lysozyme, lactoferrin, catalase, concanavalin A and anti-TNFα dAb) using Self-Interaction Chromatography (SIC) over a wide range of solution conditions including the effects of pH, salt concentration, salt type as well as excipient stabilisers. It was established that current practise for SIC peak analysis was inadequate, and an improved method of SIC peak analysis was deployed which provided improved B22 data quality and robustness. Protein aggregation performance was evaluated under identical solution conditions to those used for the B22 determinations using a simple Dynamic Light Scattering based measurement of initial solution aggregate size. This data shows a direct and strong correlation between B22 values and protein aggregation performance for all systems studied here. Specifically, proteins solution systems with B22 values of ~ 1 x 10-4 mL mol g-2 or less, regardless of solution composition, all exhibited aggregation behaviour. This thesis establishes the decisive importance of B22 as a predictor of aggregation performance. Preliminary validation data is presented for a method which allows for B22 estimation from osmotic cross virial coefficients (B23), removing the need for immobilisation of the protein of interest and therefore allowing rapid B22 screening.
Modified gravity one-loop partition function
Creators: name: Shahidi, Shahab
name: Charmchi, Farid
name: Haghani, Zahra
name: Shahkarami, Leila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The one-loop partition function of the $f(R,R_{μν}R^{μν})$ gravity theory is obtained around AdS$_4$ background. After suitable choice of the gauge condition and computation of the ghost determinant, we obtain the one-loop partition function of the theory. The traced heat kernel over the thermal quotient of AdS$_4$ space is also computed and the thermal partition function is obtained for this theory. We have then consider quantum corrections to the thermodynamical quantities in some special cases.
description: 16 pages
Violations of the Law of One Price in Credit and Swap Markets During Market Distress
Creators: name: Menguturk, Murat
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: This thesis is devoted to investigating the dynamic properties of Law of One Price (LOP) violations around periods of market distress. It studies the extent to which these violations are state-dependent and how they are related to different market conditions. The role of monetary policies and hedge funds in contributing to LOP equilibrium are also analysed. First part focuses on the construction of an LOP deviation proxy called Basis(bond), derived from the foreign-currency sovereign bond markets (in USD and Euro) of three main emerging economies (i.e. Brazil, Mexico and Turkey). It is observed that Basis(bond) moves close to zero (supporting LOP condition) during good states of economy (Pre-Crisis), whereas it becomes markedly large, persistent and volatile during bad states of economy (Credit Crisis). Second part delves deeper into why Basis(bond) deviated so markedly from zero during 2008-2009 Credit Crisis. We find strong evidence that rising funding costs, falling bond supply, intensified risk aversion and deteriorated default risk coupled with macroeconomic shocks are responsible in deterring arbitrageurs from exploiting the trading strategy, and inducing relative price divergence. Depending on the geography of bond issuance, there exist cross-sectional idiosyncrasies regarding the sign of deviation. While Turkey tends to pay smaller credit risk premium in Euro compared to USD, the opposite is true for Brazil and Mexico. When investors face discordant default risks across two equivalent securities, the underlying trading strategy is left unexploited. Moreover, there is strong evidence that different sets of monetary policies have different implications in resolving LOP disequilibrium. Third part investigates the impact of arbitrageurs (particularly hedge funds) in supplying liquidity to markets, and thus contributing to correct relative valuation of mispriced securities. It is confirmed that hedge fund withdrawal, due to severe capital reduction, contributes adversely to the growth of LOP deviations in credit and swap markets.
Additional file 5: of Genetic dissection of yield-related traits and mid-parent heterosis for those traits in maize (Zea mays L.)
Creators: name: Yi, Qiang
name: Liu, Yinghong
name: Hou, Xianbin
name: Zhang, Xiangge
name: Li, Hui
name: Zhang, Junjie
name: Liu, Hanmei
name: Hu, Yufeng
name: Yu, Guowu
name: Li, Yangping
name: Wang, Yongbin
name: Huang, Yubi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S3. Pearson’s correlation coefficients among yield-related traits in the RILsa across four environments, the IF2c populations across three environments, and the mid-parent heterosis (MPH) dataset. * Significant at the 0.05 probability level. ** Significant at the 0.01 probability level. The absolute values of Pearson’s correlation coefficients (r2) with bold are equal to or larger than 0.5. EWPE, ear weight per ear; CWPE, cob weight per ear; ED, ear diameter; CD, cob diameter; EL, ear length; RN, row number; KNPR, kernel number per row; KWPE, kernel weight per row; RKP, rate of kernel production. a Pearson’s correlation coefficients (r2) in the first row for each trait are for the RILs. b Pearson’s correlation coefficients (r2) in the second row for each trait are for the IF2 population. c Pearson’s correlation coefficients (r2) in the third row for each trait are for mid-parent heterosis. (DOCX 1433 kb)
Benzofuran–appended 4-aminoquinazoline hybrids as epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors: synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular docking studies
Creators: name: Malose J. Mphahlele
name: Marole M. Maluleka
name: Abimbola Aro
name: McGaw, Lyndy J.
name: Choong, Yee Siew
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A series of 2-arylbenzo[b]furan–appended 4-aminoquinazoline hybrids were prepared and evaluated for cytotoxicity in vitro against the human lung cancer (A549), colorectal adenocarcinoma (Caco-2), hepatocellular carcinoma (C3A) and cervical cancer (HeLa) cell lines. Compounds 10d and 10j exhibited significant cytotoxicity against the C3A and Caco-2 cell lines and induced apoptosis in these cell lines. Likewise, compounds 10d and 10e exhibited significant inhibitory activity towards epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase phosphorylation (IC50 values of 29.3 nM and 31.1 nM, respectively) against Gefitinib (IC50 = 33.1 nM). Molecular docking of compounds 10 into EGFR-TK active site suggests that they bind to the region of EGFR like Gefitinib does.
youth Digital Skills Indicator questionnaire
Creators: name: Helsper, Ellen J.
name: Schneider, Luc S.
name: van Deursen, Alexander J.A.M.
name: van Laar, Ester
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Digital skills
Questionnaire
Survey

description: The youth Digital Skills Indicator was developed as part of the ‘Youth Skills (ySKILLS)’ project and added to the ‘From Digital Skills to Tangible Outcomes’ digital skills measurement toolkit. Please read the accompanying document on the underlying rationale for these scales and on how to create and use composite scales in the following document: Helsper, E.J., Schneider, L., van Deursen, A.J.A.M., van Laar, E. (2021). The youth Digital Skills Indicator: Report on the conceptualisation and development of the ySKILLS digital skills measure. KU Leuven, Leuven: ySKILLS. Available at: https://yskills.eu.
title: ADCO, Abbaye de Cîteaux, 'Transcrits des titres de la layette marquée QQ, 1er cartable, liasses 1, 2 et 3' / Cartulaire d'Ouges (XVIIIe siècle, 2e moitié), Cart. 196 (11 H 938), f. 0030
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP

description: Abbaye de Cîteaux, 'Transcrits des titres de la layette marquée QQ, 1er cartable, liasses 1, 2 et 3' / Cartulaire d'Ouges (XVIIIe siècle, 2e moitié), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 196 (11 H 938), Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Abbaye de Cîteaux, 'Transcrits des titres de la layette marquée QQ, 1er cartable, liasses 1, 2 et 3' / Cartulaire d'Ouges (XVIIIe siècle, 2e moitié), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 196 (11 H 938), f. 0030, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261