cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sound Absorption by Subwavelength Membrane Structures: A Generalized Perspective
Creators: name: Yang, Min
name: Li, Yong
name: Meng, Chong
name: Fu, Caixing
name: Mei, Jun
name: Yang, Zhiyu
name: Sheng, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Decorated membrane, comprising a thin layer of elastic film with small rigid platelets fixed on top, has been found to be an efficient absorber of low frequency sound. In this work we consider the problem of sound absorption from a perspective aimed at deriving upper bounds under different scenarios, i.e., whether the sound is incident from one side only or from both sides, and whether there is a reflecting surface on the back side of the membrane. By considering the negligible thickness of the membrane, usually on the order of a fraction of one millimeter, we derive a relation showing that the sum of the incoming sound waves' (complex) pressure amplitudes, averaged over the area of the membrane, must be equal to that of the outgoing waves. By using this relation, and without going to any details of the wave solutions, it is shown that the maximum absorption achievable from one-side incident is 50%, while the maximum absorption with a back reflecting surface can reach 100%. The latter was attained by the hybridized resonances. All the results are shown to be in excellent agreement with the experiments. This generalized perspective, when used together with the Green function formalism, can be useful in gaining insights and delineating the constraints on what are achievable in scatterings and absorption by thin film structures.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Direct control of the small-scale energy balance in 2D fluid dynamics
Creators: name: Frank, Jason
name: Leimkuhler, Benedict
name: Myerscough, Keith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the direct modification of the pseudo-spectral truncation of 2D, incompressible fluid dynamics to maintain a prescribed kinetic energy spectrum. The method provides a means of simulating fluid states with defined spectral properties, for the purpose of matching simulation statistics to given information, arising from observations, theoretical prediction or high fidelity simulation. In the scheme outlined here, Nosé-Hoover thermostats, commonly used in molecular dynamics, are introduced as feedback controls applied to energy shells of the Fourier-discretized Navier-Stokes equations. As we demonstrate in numerical experiments, the dynamical properties (quantified using autocorrelation functions) are only modestly perturbed by our device, while ensemble dispersion is significantly enhanced in comparison with simulations of a corresponding truncation incorporating hyperviscosity.
Protocol of the systematic review on tilting table tests of masonry assemblies
Creators: name: Alejandro, Jiménez Rios
name: Lara, Smit
name: Claire, Ristow
name: Onni, Heino
name: Quentin, Pierson
name: Kathy, Chhean
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Systematic Literature Review
Tilting Table
Masonry

description: This document presents the protocol adopted to perform a systematic review for the "Tilting Table Tests of Masonry Assemblies" European Project Semester [1] following the checklist provided by PRISMA [2] and guidelines of the PRISMA-P Explanation and Elaboration [3].
1 http://europeanprojectsemester.eu/
2 Page, M.J., et al., The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews. BMJ, 2021. 372: p. n71 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n71.
3 Page, M.J., et al., PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration: updated guidance and exemplars for reporting systematic reviews. BMJ, 2021. 372: p. n160 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n160.
Robust Transformer with Locality Inductive Bias and Feature Normalization
Creators: name: Manzari, Omid Nejati
name: Kashiani, Hossein
name: Dehkordi, Hojat Asgarian
name: Shokouhi, Shahriar Baradaran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Vision transformers have been demonstrated to yield state-of-the-art results on a variety of computer vision tasks using attention-based networks. However, research works in transformers mostly do not investigate robustness/accuracy trade-off, and they still struggle to handle adversarial perturbations. In this paper, we explore the robustness of vision transformers against adversarial perturbations and try to enhance their robustness/accuracy trade-off in white box attack settings. To this end, we propose Locality iN Locality (LNL) transformer model. We prove that the locality introduction to LNL contributes to the robustness performance since it aggregates local information such as lines, edges, shapes, and even objects. In addition, to further improve the robustness performance, we encourage LNL to extract training signal from the moments (a.k.a., mean and standard deviation) and the normalized features. We validate the effectiveness and generality of LNL by achieving state-of-the-art results in terms of accuracy and robustness metrics on German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark (GTSRB) and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR-10). More specifically, for traffic sign classification, the proposed LNL yields gains of 1.1% and ~35% in terms of clean and robustness accuracy compared to the state-of-the-art studies.
description: 9 pages, 3 Figures, 6 Tables
Additional file 4 of B-1 derived anti-Thy-1 B cells in old aged mice develop lymphoma/leukemia with high expression of CD11b and Hamp2 that different from TCL1 transgenic mice
Creators: name: Hayakawa, Kyoko
name: Zhou, Yan
name: Shinton, Susan A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 4.
AADOCR: Science First and Collective, Joyful Effervescence
Creators: name: Weintraub, J.A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Esteemed leaders, distinguished guests, members, and friends. Welcome and thank you, both to those who are here in Atlanta, Georgia, and those joining us online for our first hybrid annual AADOCR meeting. I am joyful as we celebrate Esteemed leaders, distinguished guests, members, and friends. Welcome and thank you, both to those who are here in Atlanta, Georgia, and those joining us online for our first hybrid annual AADOCR meeting. I am joyful as we celebrate coming together to share our science.
An Introduction to Open Science for Researchers of Migration and Ethnicity Studies. Resources, Tools and Opportunities for Engagement
Creators: name: Morales, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Research Data Alliance
EOSC
Migration Studies
Ethnicity Studies

description: The presentation slides for a webinar talk on June 26, 2023, hosted by the ECPR SG on Migration and Ethnicity.
Management scenarios of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and their impacts under recent and future climates
Creators: name: Liersch, Stefan
name: Koch, Hagen
name: Hattermann, Fred Fokko
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Water resources management
subject: Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
subject: Blue Nile
subject: reservoir operation scenarios
subject: climate change
subject: 550

description: Close to the border with Sudan, Ethiopia is currently building the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa with a storage volume corresponding to approximately 1.5 years of the mean discharges of the Blue Nile. This endeavor is controversially debated in the public and the scientific literature. Contributing to this discussion, by shading some light on climate change issues, an eco-hydrological model, equipped with a reservoir module, was applied to investigate downstream hydrological impacts during filling and regular operation, the latter considering climate change projected by an ensemble of 10 global and regional climate models. Our results show that at the earliest after 20 months, the dam could produce hydroelectric power. Full supply level may be reached after four years or not at all, depending on filling policies and assumptions of seepage rates. Under recent hydro-climatic conditions, the dam may produce 13 TWh −a , which is below the envisaged target of 15.7 TWh −a . The ensemble mean suggests slightly increasing hydropower production in the future. Almost independently of the operation rules, the highly variable discharge regime will be significantly altered to a regime with almost equal flows each month. Achieving a win-win situation for all riparian countries requires a high level of cooperation in managing the Eastern Nile water resources.
Growing black holes and galaxies: black hole accretion versus star formation rate
Creators: name: Volonteri, Marta
name: Capelo, Pedro R.
name: Netzer, Hagai
name: Bellovary, Jillian
name: Dotti, Massimo
name: Governato, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new suite of hydrodynamical simulations and use it to study, in detail, black hole and galaxy properties. The high time, spatial and mass resolution, and realistic orbits and mass ratios, down to 1:6 and 1:10, enable us to meaningfully compare star formation rate (SFR) and BH accretion rate (BHAR) timescales, temporal behaviour and relative magnitude. We find that (i) BHAR and galaxy-wide SFR are typically temporally uncorrelated, and have different variability timescales, except during the merger proper, lasting ~0.2-0.3 Gyr. BHAR and nuclear (<100 pc) SFR are better correlated, and their variability are similar. Averaging over time, the merger phase leads typically to an increase by a factor of a few in the BHAR/SFR ratio. (ii) BHAR and nuclear SFR are intrinsically proportional, but the correlation lessens if the long-term SFR is measured. (iii) Galaxies in the remnant phase are the ones most likely to be selected as systems dominated by an active galactic nucleus (AGN), because of the long time spent in this phase. (iv) The timescale over which a given diagnostic probes the SFR has a profound impact on the recovered correlations with BHAR, and on the interpretation of observational data.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Renovation of Seoul Radio Astronomy Observatory and Its First Millimeter VLBI Observations
Creators: name: Shin, Naeun
name: Park, Yong-Sun
name: Byun, Do-Young
name: Seo, Jinguk
name: Kim, Dongkok
name: Min, Cheulhong
name: Kang, Hyunwoo
name: Asada, Keiichi
name: Lo, Wen-Ping
name: Trippe, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Seoul Radio Astronomy Observatory (SRAO) operates a 6.1-meter radio telescope on the Gwanak campus of Seoul National University. We present the efforts to reform SRAO to a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) station, motivated by recent achievements by millimeter interferometer networks such as Event Horizon Telescope, East Asia VLBI Network, and Korean VLBI Network (KVN). For this goal, we installed a receiver that had been used in the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy and a digital backend, including an H-maser clock. The existing hardware and software were also revised, which had been dedicated only to single-dish operations. After several years of preparations and test observations in 1 and 3-millimeter bands, a fringe was successfully detected toward 3C 84 in 86 GHz in June 2022 for a baseline between SRAO and KVN Ulsan station separated by 300 km. Thanks to the dual frequency operation of the receiver, the VLBI observations will soon be extended to the 1 mm band and verify the frequency phase referencing technique between 1 and 3-millimeter bands.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Published in JKAS (received: 2022 Oct 16; accepted: 2022 Nov 22)
Acute pouchitis: the condition that time forgot about
Creators: name: Barnes, E.
name: Segal, J.P.
name: Ardalan, Z.
name: Kayal, M.
name: Garg, M.
name: Sparrow, M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: The ileoanal pouch offers patients with medically refractory ulcerative colitis the opportunity to avoid a permanent ostomy and utilize their own bowel as a reservoir allowing a more ‘natural defaecation’. However, medical complications from inflammatory (pouchitis, pre-pouch ileitis and cuffitis) and non-inflammatory (irritable pouch syndrome) are common and negatively impact the quality of life (QoL).
title: Socio-ecological determinants of movement behaviour in red-tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti)
Creators: name: McLester, E
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2020

description: In group-living primates, costs and benefits of sociality are reflected in movement behaviour: where groups move in their environment, and how individuals maintain cohesive groups while moving. Establishing environmental and social determinants of movement behaviour reveals adaptive responses that characterise primate sociality. For primates in different habitats, intra-specific behavioural variation provides insight into ecological pressures that drive habitat-specific adaptive responses. I investigated how group ranging and two individual behaviours that mediate intra-group cohesion – spatial positioning and contact calling – relate to food availability, weather, and social contexts in red-tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius), a forest guenon that also lives in forest scarce savanna-woodland environments. I predicted food availability and weather would have stronger effects on ranging in more seasonal savanna mosaics than forests, and individuals would 1) adjust inter-individual distances in response to increased feeding competition, and 2) adjust contact call acoustic structure to maximise propagation when neighbours were further away. I collected behavioural and ecological data at Ngogo, Uganda, a predominantly forested habitat with small patches of secondary forest, and Issa, Tanzania, a woodland-dominated mosaic with thin strips of riparian forest. Larger home ranges sizes and longer travel distances at Issa reflected lower food availability and hotter temperatures than at Ngogo. Behavioural responses to thermal conditions in secondary forest and woodland suggested comparable environmental heterogeneity across sites at fine spatial scales. Ngogo monkeys increased inter-individual distances where food availability was low and when travelling slower. Individual cohesion indicates trade-offs between reducing feeding competition and social foraging. Ngogo monkeys also adjusted call structures to match expected propagation to conspecifics depending if neighbours produced preceding grunts (i.e. antiphony). Environmental and social drivers of intra-specific movement behaviour reveal adaptive behavioural responses through which primates maintain sociality. Habitat-specific behaviour in red-tailed monkeys also improves our understanding of adaptations in hominins distributed across similar vegetation gradients.
Philip Zimmermann, Armut und Bischofsherrschaft. Bischöfliche Fürsorge in der Merowingerzeit, Ostfildern (Jan Thorbecke Verlag) 2022
Creators: name: Stüber, Till
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Philip Zimmermann, Armut und Bischofsherrschaft. Bischöfliche Fürsorge in der Merowingerzeit, Ostfildern (Jan Thorbecke Verlag) 2022, 266 S. (Vorträge und Forschungen. Sonderband, 63), ISBN 978-3-7995-6773-2, EUR 38,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/1
The Dark Side of Electroweak Naturalness Beyond the MSSM
Creators: name: Belanger, Genevieve
name: Delaunay, Cedric
name: Goudelis, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weak scale supersymmetry (SUSY) remains a prime explanation for the radiative stability of the Higgs field. A natural account of the Higgs boson mass, however, strongly favors extensions of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). A plausible option is to introduce a new supersymmetric sector coupled to the MSSM Higgs fields, whose associated states resolve the little hierarchy problem between the third generation squark masses and the weak scale. SUSY also accomodates a weakly interacting cold dark matter (DM) candidate in the form of a stable neutralino. In minimal realizations, the thus-far null results of direct DM searches, along with the DM relic abundance constraint, introduce a level of fine-tuning as severe as the one due to the SUSY little hierarchy problem. We analyse the generic implications of new SUSY sectors parametrically heavier than the minimal SUSY spectrum, devised to increase the Higgs boson mass, on this little neutralino DM problem. We focus on the SUSY operator of smallest scaling dimension in an effective field theory description, which modifies the Higgs and DM sectors in a correlated manner. Within this framework, we show that recent null results from the LUX experiment imply a tree-level fine-tuning for gaugino DM which is parametrically at least a few times larger than that of the MSSM. Higgsino DM whose relic abundance is generated through a thermal freeze-out mechanism remains also severely fine-tuned, unless the DM lies below the weak boson pair-production threshold. As in the MSSM, well-tempered gaugino-Higgsino DM is strongly disfavored by present direct detection results.
description: 41 pages, 8 figures, references added
Bi-phasic nanostructures for functional applications
Creators: name: Veith, Michael
name: Lee, Juseok
name: Miro, Marina Martinez
name: Akkan, C. Kaan
name: Dufloux, Cecile
name: Aktas, O. Cenk
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Biphasic solid state composites of the type metal/metal oxide or element/element oxide can be synthesized in one pot chemical reactions using so called molecular "single source precursors". Due to their singular genesis these composites show peculiar hetero-structures based on core-shell hierarchies such as superlattices and composite nanospheres or nanowires. They exhibit superior or new functional properties compared to their individual constituent compounds. In the current work, we review in particular the synthetical and mechanistical approach of bi-phasic (Al/Al2O3) nanostructures such as nanospheres, nanowires and nanoloops using a single source precursor. Other bi-phasic materials of the general formula M/MOx (for example M = Ge, Sn, Pb) are addressed for comparison. The impact of different synthetical conditions as well as of modification of surfaces by laser techniques and their technological relevance are presented briefly. Additionally, functional applications of the prepared surfaces are explained with some outstanding case studies. These case studies are primarily concerned with their use as biomaterials and their application in medicine as well as with their use as thin films for optics and functional surfaces.
Poster for IMISCOE 2023 - Open Science ambassadorship
Creators: name: Morales, Laura
name: Singer, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Research Data Alliance
EOSC
Migration Studies

description: A2 promotional material of the Open Science meeting point at the 2023 IMISCOE conference at the University of Warsaw on 3-5 July.
Additional file 2 of The novel molecular mechanism of pulmonary fibrosis: insight into lipid metabolism from reanalysis of single-cell RNA-seq databases
Creators: name: Shi, Xiangguang
name: Chen, Yahui
name: Shi, Mengkun
name: Gao, Fei
name: Huang, Lihao
name: Wang, Wei
name: Wei, Dong
name: Shi, Chenyi
name: Yu, Yuexin
name: Xia, Xueyi
name: Song, Nana
name: Chen, Xiaofeng
name: Distler, Jörg H. W.
name: Lu, Chenqi
name: Chen, Jingyu
name: Wang, Jiucun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary material 2.
Isospin coupling-channel decomposition of nuclear symmetry energy in covariant density functional theory
Creators: name: Zhao, Qian
name: Sun, Bao Yuan
name: Long, Wen Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The isospin coupling-channel decomposition of the potential energy density functional is carried out within the covariant density functional theory, and their isospin and density dependence in particular the influence on the symmetry energy is studied. It is found that both isospin-singlet and isospin-triplet components of the potential energy play the dominant role in deciding the symmetry energy, especially when the Fock diagram is introduced. The results illustrate a quite different mechanism to the origin of the symmetry energy from the microscopic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory, and demonstrate the importance of the Fork diagram in the CDF theory, especially from the isoscalar mesons, in the isospin properties of the in-medium nuclear force at high density.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables
Adapting Elements of Cleft Care Protocols in Low- and Middle-income Countries During and After COVID-19: A Process-driven Review With Recommendations
Creators: name: Eshete, M.
name: Goldschmied, K.
name: Almas, C.F.
name: Sell, D.
name: Nawej, C.T.
name: Jayanth, B.S.
name: Hussain, A.
name: Galiwango, G.W.
name: Goldwasser, M.
name: Lo, L.-J.
name: Hollier, L.H., Jr.
name: Fell, M.
name: Daftari, N.
name: Brewster, H.
name: Zuker, R.M.
name: Tafase, A.
name: Salins, P.
name: Winer, R.
name: Pereira, R.M.R.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Objective A consortium of global cleft professionals, predominantly from low- and middle-income countries, identified adaptations to cleft care protocols during and after COVID-19 as a priority learning area of need. Design A multidisciplinary international working group met on a videoconferencing platform in a multi-staged process to make consensus recommendations for adaptations to cleft protocols within resource-constrained settings. Feedback was sought from a roundtable discussion forum and global organizations involved in comprehensive cleft care. Results Foundational principles were agreed to enable recommendations to be globally relevant and two areas of focus within the specified topic were identified. First the safety aspects of cleft surgery protocols were scrutinized and COVID-19 adaptations, specifically in the pre- and perioperative periods, were highlighted. Second, surgical procedures and cleft care services were prioritized according to their relationship to functional outcomes and time-sensitivity. The surgical procedures assigned the highest priority were emergent interventions for breathing and nutritional requirements and primary palatoplasty. The cleft care services assigned the highest priority were new-born assessments, pediatric support for children with syndromes, management of acute dental or auditory infections and speech pathology intervention. Conclusions A collaborative, interdisciplinary and international working group delivered consensus recommendations to assist with the provision of cleft care in low- and middle-income countries. At a time of global cleft care delays due to COVID-19, a united approach amongst global cleft care providers will be advantageous to advocate for children born with cleft lip and palate in resource-constrained settings.
Cécile Voyer, Vinni Lucherini, Le livre enluminé médiéval instrument politique, Roma (Viella) 2021
Creators: name: Demes, Raphaël
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Cécile Voyer, Vinni Lucherini, Le livre enluminé médiéval instrument politique, Roma (Viella) 2021, 406 p. (Quaderni Napoletani di Storia dell’Arte Medievale, 6), ISBN 978-88-331-3700-1, EUR 58,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/1
A Green(er) World for A.I
Creators: name: Zhao, Dan
name: Frey, Nathan C.
name: McDonald, Joseph
name: Hubbell, Matthew
name: Bestor, David
name: Jones, Michael
name: Prout, Andrew
name: Gadepally, Vijay
name: Samsi, Siddharth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As research and practice in artificial intelligence (A.I.) grow in leaps and bounds, the resources necessary to sustain and support their operations also grow at an increasing pace. While innovations and applications from A.I. have brought significant advances, from applications to vision and natural language to improvements to fields like medical imaging and materials engineering, their costs should not be neglected. As we embrace a world with ever-increasing amounts of data as well as research and development of A.I. applications, we are sure to face an ever-mounting energy footprint to sustain these computational budgets, data storage needs, and more. But, is this sustainable and, more importantly, what kind of setting is best positioned to nurture such sustainable A.I. in both research and practice? In this paper, we outline our outlook for Green A.I. -- a more sustainable, energy-efficient and energy-aware ecosystem for developing A.I. across the research, computing, and practitioner communities alike -- and the steps required to arrive there. We present a bird's eye view of various areas for potential changes and improvements from the ground floor of AI's operational and hardware optimizations for datacenters/HPCs to the current incentive structures in the world of A.I. research and practice, and more. We hope these points will spur further discussion, and action, on some of these issues and their potential solutions.
description: 8 pages, published in 2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW)
A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON THE COMBINATION THERAPY OF SYNTHETIC ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUGS WITH NATURAL BIOACTIVES
Creators: name: Ritik Raj
name: Rupa Mazumder
name: Rakhi Mishra
name: Rajat Singh Raghav
name: Gaurav Saini
name: Rashmi Mishra
name: Dileep Singh Baghel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Abstract
This review aims to examine the interactions between antihypertensive drugs and herbal medicine. Herbal medicine is widely utilized for treatment, especially among older individuals who also take antihypertensive medication. An overview of the five most widely used antihypertensive drugs will be provided, including beta-blockers, diuretics, calcium channel blockers, and ACE inhibitors. Herbal medicines have the potential to mimic, enhance, or counteract the effects of antihypertensive drugs. Existing literature on the topic is limited, consisting of both pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic interactions. Natural substances such as garlic, ginkgo, rose, guggul, piperine, capsicum, St. John's Wort, and grapefruit juice may alter the bioavailability, Cmax, tmax, and AUC of antihypertensive drugs by affecting CYP 3A4 metabolism. Pharmacodynamic interactions have also been observed, such as the antagonistic effect between Spironolactone and Liquorice or the synergistic effect between Captopril and Garlic. Thus, caution is warranted to educate patients about the potential risks associated with combining herbal remedies and pharmaceutical drugs.
Creation of high mobility two-dimensional electron gases via strain induced polarization at an otherwise nonpolar complex oxide interface
Creators: name: Chen, Yunzhong
name: Trier, Felix
name: Kasama, Takeshi
name: Christensen, Dennis V.
name: Bovet, Nicolas
name: Li, Han
name: Balogh, Zoltan I.
name: Thydén, Karl T. S.
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Yazdi, Sadegh
name: Norby, Poul
name: Pryds, Nini
name: Linderoth, Søren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) in SrTiO3-based heterostructures provides new opportunities for nanoelectronics. Herein, we create a new type of oxide 2DEG by the epitaxial-strain-induced polarization at an otherwise nonpolar perovskite-type interface of CaZrO3/SrTiO3. Remarkably, this heterointerface is atomically sharp, and exhibits a high electron mobility exceeding 60,000 cm2V-1s-1 at low temperatures. The 2DEG carrier density exhibits a critical dependence on the film thickness, in good agreement with the polarization induced 2DEG scheme.
description: 19 pages, 4 figs; Nano Letters,2015, published online
Ring current effects: Factors affecting the NMR chemical shift of molecules adsorbed on porous carbons
Creators: name: Forse, Alexander C.
name: Griffin, John M.
name: Presser, Volker
name: Gogotsi, Yury
name: Grey, Clare P.
Publisher: name: Washington D.C. : American Chemical Society
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is increasingly being used to study the adsorption of molecules in porous carbons, a process which underpins applications ranging from electrochemical energy storage to water purification. Here we present density functional theory (DFT) calculations of the nucleus-independent chemical shift (NICS) near various sp2-hybridized carbon fragments to explore the structural factors that may affect the resonance frequencies observed for adsorbed species. The domain size of the delocalized electron system affects the calculated NICSs, with larger domains giving rise to larger chemical shieldings. In slit pores, overlap of the ring current effects from the pore walls is shown to increase the chemical shielding. Finally, curvature in the carbon sheets is shown to have a significant effect on the NICS. The trends observed are consistent with existing NMR results as well as new spectra presented for an electrolyte adsorbed on carbide-derived carbons prepared at different temperatures.
Facile, fast, and inexpensive synthesis of monodisperse amorphous Nickel-Phosphide nanoparticles of predefined size
Creators: name: Arzt, Eduard
name: Moh, Karsten
name: Cavelius, Christian
name: Mandel, Karl
name: Dillon, Frank
name: Koos, Antal A.
name: Aslam, Zabeada
name: Jurkschat, Kerstin
name: Cullen, Frank
name: Crossley, Alison
name: Bishop, Hugh
name: Grobert, Nicole
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Monodisperse, size-controlled Ni–P nanoparticles were synthesised in a single step process using triphenyl-phosphane (TPP), oleylamine (OA), and Ni(II)acetyl-acetonate. The nanoparticles were amorphous, contained 30 at% P and their size was controlled between 7–21 nm simply by varying the amount of TPP. They are catalytically active for tailored carbon nanotube growth.
Prediction of AC line current harmonics for non-classical thyristor-controlled loads
Creators: name: Sood, Pradeep K.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91399 Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Prediction of AC line current harmonics for non-classical thyristor-controlled loads
Adolescents Are Less Physically Active Than Adults After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Creators: name: Wilcox, L.
name: Baez, S.
name: Collins, K.
name: Triplett, A.
name: Norte, G.
name: Kuenze, C.
name: Harkey, M.
name: Bell, D.
name: Lisee, C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Background: Sources of physical activity (PA) and motivation for return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) differ between adolescents and adults. It is unclear whether these differences influence participation in PA during the first year after ACLR when individuals are transitioning from rehabilitative care to unrestricted activity.Purpose:To compare device-assessed measures of PA between adolescents and adults at 6 to 12 months after ACLR. Study Design: Cross-sectional study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: Included were 22 adolescents (age, 15.9 ± 1.2 years; time since surgery = 8.0 ± 2.1 months) and 23 adults (age, 22.5 ± 5.0 years; time since surgery = 8.2 ± 2.1 months) who were cleared for unrestricted PA after primary unilateral ACLR. Participants were considered physically active if they met their age-specific United States Department of Health and Human Services PA guidelines. Participants wore an accelerometer-based PA monitor for at least 7 days. Daily minutes of moderate to vigorous-PA (MVPA) and daily step counts were reported and compared between age groups using analysis of covariance, with monitor wear time and sex included as covariates. The association between age group and meeting age-specific PA guidelines was assessed using binary logistic regression and reported as an odds ratio. Results: Adults with ACLR participated in 16 minutes more MVPA per day (49 ± 22 vs 33 ± 16 minutes per day; P < .001) and took 2212 more steps per day (8365 ± 2294 vs 6153 ± 1765 steps per day; P < .001) when compared with adolescent participants. In addition, 83% of adults were physically active, compared with 9% of adolescents (odds ratio = 60.2; 95% CI, 7.6-493.4). Conclusion: Adolescents with ACLR were less physically active than adults with ACLR, and only 9% of adolescents met aerobic PA guidelines. This is concerning because PA patterns adopted early in life are predictive of PA patterns in adulthood. Our findings indicate a need to better understand underlying causes of reduced PA among adolescents with ACLR and to develop intervention strategies that promote engagement in adequate PA after rehabilitation.
Semi-automated Senarmont Method for Measurement of Small Retardation
Creators: name: Mori, Atsushi
name: Tomita, Ryosuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In usual measurement with the Senarmont method using a conventional polarization microscope, the azimuth angle of the analyzer at extinction of the emerging light is detected by naked eyes. If the intensity of light is measured as a function of the azimuth angle of the analyzer, one can find the direction at which the intensity is minimized more accurately by fitting. However, this procedure requires much numbers of operations as compared to the usual method, and thus is time-consuming. To circumvent this problem a setting with which the intensity is measured as a function of the azimuth angle of the analyzer is constructed with rotation of the analyzer through a computer control. As a result, the time required for the measurement has been greatly decreased.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures; Instrumentation Science & Technology, accepted
Pierre-Louis Viollet, Histoire de l’énergie hydraulique. Moulins, pompes, roues et turbines de l’Antiquité au XXe siècle, Paris (Presses de l’École nationale des ponts et chaussées) 2022
Creators: name: Lohrmann, Dietrich
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Pierre-Louis Viollet, Histoire de l’énergie hydraulique. Moulins, pompes, roues et turbines de l’Antiquité au XXe siècle, Paris (Presses de l’École nationale des ponts et chaussées) 2022, 236 p., ISBN 2-85978-414-4, EUR 44,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/1
Frequency Distributions Based on Lamb and Stock Sheep Losses: Western United States, 1974
Creators: name: Gee, C. Kerry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: This report presents detailed statistical distributions of lamb and sheep losses. Summaries of selected distributions have already been published. These, along with other unpublished distributions are presented here using 1.0 percent loss intervals for those researchers who wish to make different groupings than those already published. These statistical distributions must be used cautiously - preferably grouped, because of low frequency of observations in many loss intervals. Distributions are shown for different sizes of commercial sheep operations (those with 50 sheep or more) and for important producing subregions of the west. In the distributions, data are presented on total losses to all causes and on losses to coyotes, the principle cause. Also distributions are shown for lamb losses before and after docking, lamb losses after docking, and stock sheep losses.
Matching of Everyday Power Supply and Demand with Dynamic Pricing: Problem Formalisation and Conceptual Analysis
Creators: name: Théate, Thibaut
name: Sutera, Antonio
name: Ernst, Damien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The energy transition is expected to significantly increase the share of renewable energy sources whose production is intermittent in the electricity mix. Apart from key benefits, this development has the major drawback of generating a mismatch between power supply and demand. The innovative dynamic pricing approach may significantly contribute to mitigating that critical problem by taking advantage of the flexibility offered by the demand side. At its core, this idea consists in providing the consumer with a price signal which is evolving over time, in order to influence its consumption. This novel approach involves a challenging decision-making problem that can be summarised as follows: how to determine a price signal maximising the synchronisation between power supply and demand under the constraints of maintaining the producer/retailer's profitability and benefiting the final consumer at the same time? As a contribution, this research work presents a detailed formalisation of this particular decision-making problem. Moreover, the paper discusses the diverse algorithmic components required to efficiently design a dynamic pricing policy: different forecasting models together with an accurate statistical modelling of the demand response to dynamic prices.
description: Research paper accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Reports edited by Elsevier
Nanosized Vertical Organic Spin-Valves
Creators: name: Göckeritz, R.
name: Homonnay, N.
name: Müller, A.
name: Richter, T.
name: Fuhrmann, B.
name: Schmidt, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fabrication process for vertical organic spin-valve devices has been developed which offers the possibility to achieve active device areas of less than 500x500 nm^2 and is flexible in terms of material choice for the active layers. Characterization of the resulting devices shows a large magnetoresistance of sometimes more than 100%, however with equally large variation from device to device. Comparison with large-area spin-valves indicates that the magnetoresistance of both, large and small devices most likely originates from tunneling through pinholes and tunneling magnetoresistance.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Adversarial Learning for Implicit Semantic-Aware Communications
Creators: name: Lu, Zhimin
name: Xiao, Yong
name: Sun, Zijian
name: Li, Yingyu
name: Shi, Guangming
name: Chen, Xianfu
name: Bennis, Mehdi
name: Poor, H. Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on recognizing and delivering the desired meaning of messages to the destination users. Most existing works in this area focus on delivering explicit semantics, labels or signal features that can be directly identified from the source signals. In this paper, we consider the implicit semantic communication problem in which hidden relations and closely related semantic terms that cannot be recognized from the source signals need to also be delivered to the destination user. We develop a novel adversarial learning-based implicit semantic-aware communication (iSAC) architecture in which the source user, instead of maximizing the total amount of information transmitted to the channel, aims to help the recipient learn an inference rule that can automatically generate implicit semantics based on limited clue information. We prove that by applying iSAC, the destination user can always learn an inference rule that matches the true inference rule of the source messages. Experimental results show that the proposed iSAC can offer up to a 19.69 dB improvement over existing non-inferential communication solutions, in terms of symbol error rate at the destination user.
Emmanuelle Vagnon, Sandrine Victor (dir.), La »Mappa Mundi« d’Albi. Culture géographique et représentation du monde au haut Moyen Âge, Paris (Éditions de la Sorbonne) 2022
Creators: name: Brunnlechner, Gerda
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Emmanuelle Vagnon, Sandrine Victor (dir.), La »Mappa Mundi« d’Albi. Culture géographique et représentation du monde au haut Moyen Âge, Paris (Éditions de la Sorbonne) 2022, 280 p., 39 ill. (Histoire ancienne et médiévale, 180), ISBN 979-10-351-0786-4, EUR 30,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/1
title: Образ общества потребления в философии постмодернизма
Creators: name: Боровой, Евгений
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Современная реальность обнаруживает социальные проблемы, которые еще десять лет назад не были столь заметны и не являлись предметом пристального научного внимания. В статье осуществлена попытка краткого анализа феномена потребления в условиях развития современной капиталистической экономики в ракурсе
философских взглядов постмодернизма. Рассмотрение предпосылок развития общества потребления и его особенностей осуществлено с учётом вектора российского экономического развития. Сегодняшний характер поглощения материальных благ направлен не только на увеличение потребления как такового, но также обуславливает формирование новых желаний. Проблема феномена потребления в обществе представляет собой одну из актуальных научных задач, исследуемой в рамках социальной философии и сегодня.
Additional file 1 of Evolutionary genetics of pulmonary anatomical adaptations in deep-diving cetaceans
Creators: name: Guo, Boxiong
name: Sun, Yixuan
name: Wang, Yuehua
name: Zhang, Ya
name: Zheng, Yu
name: Xu, Shixia
name: Yang, Guang
name: Ren, Wenhua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology

description: Supplementary Material 1
An archive of good roads and racial capitalism in North Carolina
Creators: name: Hall, A.R.
name: Kirsch, S.
name: Gerstner, N.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: “Good Roads, leading to Winston-Salem, N.C.,” a postcard produced by the national retailer S.H. Kress & Co. to sell in its North Carolina five-and-dime stores, pulls us in different directions at once (Figure 1). The road, well-graded, neatly surfaced, and bright, is the dominant element of the frame, winding gently away from the viewer over the piedmont to the landscape’s vanishing point. In the foreground, an open-topped automobile, seemingly in motion, is about to zoom past, an ambiguous chauffeur at the wheel driving a finely dressed White lady, who appears elegant and composed in the back seat. The dark figures of what appear to be mules stand yoked to the right of the roadbed, while three tiny human figures can be discerned down the road beyond them, perhaps watching the second car go by. The lines of the road, suggesting mobility and flow, contrast with relative stasis of the forests and fields that the road bisects. In the face of this paradox, the image evokes a neat sense of order and harmony, a timelessness that, like more classical forms of landscape (Cosgrove, 1990), tends to erase the conditions of its production.
Community-based Immunization Strategies for Epidemic Control
Creators: name: Gupta, Naveen
name: Singh, Anurag
name: Cherifi, Hocine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the epidemic dynamics, and finding out efficient techniques to control it, is a challenging issue. A lot of research has been done on targeted immunization strategies, exploiting various global network topological properties. However, in practice, information about the global structure of the contact network may not be available. Therefore, immunization strategies that can deal with a limited knowledge of the network structure are required. In this paper, we propose targeted immunization strategies that require information only at the community level. Results of our investigations on the SIR epidemiological model, using a realistic synthetic benchmark with controlled community structure, show that the community structure plays an important role in the epidemic dynamics. An extensive comparative evaluation demonstrates that the proposed strategies are as efficient as the most influential global centrality based immunization strategies, despite the fact that they use a limited amount of information. Furthermore, they outperform alternative local strategies, which are agnostic about the network structure, and make decisions based on random walks.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Analysis of survival data with cure fraction and variable selection: A pseudo-observations approach
Creators: name: Chiou, S.H.
name: Su, C.-L.
name: Platt, R.W.
name: Lin, F.-C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: In biomedical studies, survival data with a cure fraction (the proportion of subjects cured of disease) are commonly encountered. The mixture cure and bounded cumulative hazard models are two main types of cure fraction models when analyzing survival data with long-term survivors. In this article, in the framework of the Cox proportional hazards mixture cure model and bounded cumulative hazard model, we propose several estimators utilizing pseudo-observations to assess the effects of covariates on the cure rate and the risk of having the event of interest for survival data with a cure fraction. A variable selection procedure is also presented based on the pseudo-observations using penalized generalized estimating equations for proportional hazards mixture cure and bounded cumulative hazard models. Extensive simulation studies are conducted to examine the proposed methods. The proposed technique is demonstrated through applications to a melanoma study and a dental data set with high-dimensional covariates.
Paisaje lingüístico del IES Capellanía. Curso 2022-23
Creators: name: Ojeda, Eugenia Núñez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: paisaje lingüístico
ies capellanía
inglés como lengua extranjera
maes

description: El paisaje lingüístico refleja la diversidad y distribución lingüística del IES Capellanía (Alhaurín de la Torre). Incluye los signos lingüístico y no lingüísticos del centro y los categoriza. Entre estos signos, encontramos carteles, letreros, señales y escritos en diferentes lenguas. Este documento se utiliza como una herramienta para analizar y preservar las lenguas minoritarias, promover el plurilingüismo y fomentar la inclusión lingüística en el contexto de un instituto de nivel medio-alto.