cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Minimal Model of the Hydrodynamical Coupling of Flagella on a Spherical Body with application to Volvox
Creators: name: Mannan, Forest
name: Jarvela, Miika
name: Leriderman, Karin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flagella are hair-like appendages attached to microorganisms that allow the organisms to traverse their fluid environment. The algae Volvox are spherical swimmers with thousands of individual flagella on their surface and their coordination is not fully understood. In this work, a previously developed minimal model of flagella synchronization is extended to the outer surface of a sphere submerged in a fluid. Each beating flagellum tip is modelled as a small sphere, elastically bound to a circular orbit just above the spherical surface and a regularized image system for Stokes flow outside of a sphere is used to enforce the no-slip condition. Biologically relevant distributions of rotors results in a rapidly developing and robust symplectic metachronal wave traveling from the anterior to the posterior of the spherical Volvox body.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
A quantum reference frame size-accuracy trade-off for quantum channels
Creators: name: Miyadera, Takayuki
name: Loveridge, Leon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The imposition of symmetry upon the nature and structure of quantum observables has recently been extensively studied, with quantum reference frames playing a crucial role. In this paper, we extend this work to quantum transformations, giving quantitative results showing, in direct analogy to the case of observables, that a "large" reference frame is required for non-covariant channels to be well approximated by covariant ones. We apply our findings to the concrete setting of SU(2) symmetry.
Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal regulation in rats prenatally exposed to ethanol
Creators: name: Glavas, Maria Matilda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Rats prenatally exposed to ethanol (E) exhibit a hyperresponsive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, demonstrated by increased and/or prolonged elevations of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and/or corticosterone (CORT) following stress; however, basal levels are normal. The major objective of this thesis was to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of HPA hyperresponsiveness in E rats. We hypothesized that HPA hyperresponsiveness in E rats is mediated, in part, by enhanced HPA drive and/or by alterations in CORT feedback regulation. In all studies, male and female Sprague-Dawley offspring from E, pair-fed (PF) and control (C) groups were tested in adulthood at 90-120 d of age. The mechanisms mediating HPA hyperresponsiveness in E rats and the role of CORT in mediating any alterations were investigated using several manipulations: adrenalectomy (ADX) with or without CORT replacement, CORT receptor blockade and restraint stress. ADX revealed that E males exhibit enhanced biosynthesis of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and elevated plasma ACTH levels independent of CORT alterations, indicating that HPA hyperresponsiveness in E animals is not due solely to altered CORT feedback. Enhanced CRH synthesis also occurred in sham-operated E females. Measures of CRH Type 1 receptor and pro-opiomelanocortin mRNA suggested that hyperresponsiveness in E animals is likely not mediated by enhanced pituitary sensitivity to CRH. CORT receptor (mineralocorticoid receptors, MRs, and glucocorticoid receptors, GRs) mRNA levels in the hippocampus indicated that E males may have a decreased sensitivity to CORT feedback regulation of these genes in response to ADX with CORT replacement. As well, in response to MR or GR blockade, E females exhibited greater HPA activity compared to controls, indicative of enhanced HPA drive. Taken together, these studies indicate that prenatal ethanol exposure permanently reprograms the HPA axis of the rat such that HPA drive is enhanced into adulthood. Although some compensatory mechanisms appear to be in place to maintain normal basal ACTH and CORT levels, in response to challenge these mechanisms break down and alterations are revealed. HPA dysregulation in E rats appears to be mainly suprapituitary, mediated by enhanced drive to the hypothalamus as reflected by increased CRH biosynthesis.
The Star-Formation Properties of the Observed and Simulated AGN Universe: BAT vs EAGLE
Creators: name: Jackson, Thomas M.
name: Rosario, D. J.
name: Alexander, D. M.
name: Scholtz, J.
name: McAlpine, Stuart
name: Bower, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present data from 72 low redshift, hard X-ray selected AGN taken from the {\it Swift}-BAT 58 month catalogue. We utilise spectral energy distribution fitting to the optical to IR photometry in order to estimate host galaxy properties. We compare this observational sample to a volume and flux matched sample of AGN from the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations in order to verify how accurately the simulations can reproduce observed AGN host galaxy properties. After correcting for the known +0.2 dex offset in the SFRs between EAGLE and previous observations, we find agreement in the SFR and X-ray luminosity distributions; however we find that the stellar masses in EAGLE are $0.2 - 0.4$ dex greater than the observational sample, which consequently leads to lower sSFRs. We compare these results to our previous study at high redshift, finding agreement in both the observations and simulations, whereby the widths of sSFR distributions are similar ($\sim0.4-0.6$ dex) and the median of the SFR distributions lie below the star forming main sequence by $\sim0.3-0.5$ dex across all samples. We also use EAGLE to select a sample of AGN host galaxies at high and low redshift and follow their characteristic evolution from $z=8$ to $z=0$. We find similar behaviour between these two samples, whereby star formation is quenched when the black hole goes through its phase of most rapid growth. Utilising EAGLE we find that 23\% of AGN selected at $z\sim0$ are also AGN at high redshift, and that their host galaxies are among the most massive objects in the simulation. Overall we find EAGLE reproduces the observations well, with some minor inconsistencies ($\sim$ 0.2 dex in stellar masses and $\sim$ 0.4 dex in sSFRs).
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Frauen in der Informatik: Können sie mehr als sie denken? Eine Analyse geschlechtsspezifischer Erfolgserwartungen unter Informatikstudierenden
Creators: name: Förtsch, Silvia
name: Schmid, Ute
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Bildungssystem
subject: Geschlecht
subject: Informatik
subject: Intrinsische Motivation
subject: MINT
subject: Schule
subject: Schulische Leistungen
subject: Studienerfolg
subject: ddc:370

description: Obwohl ein Anstieg des Frauenanteils in den Informatikstudiengängen zu verzeichnen ist, gilt die IT-Branche nach wie vor als Männerdomäne. Der weibliche Anteil in deutschen IT-Abteilungen beträgt knapp 10 Prozent (Weitzel et al. 2017). Ein Grund für die mangelnde Präsenz der Frauen im IT-Bereich könnte die geringere Erfolgserwartung der Studentinnen im Studium sein. In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, ob vorangegangene Schulleistungen sowie intrinsische Motivation für die Studiengangswahl, nämlich Begabung und Interesse für das Fach, die subjektive Einschätzung des Studienerfolgs von Informatikstudierenden beeinflussen. Obwohl Studentinnen sich im Vergleich zu ihren Kommilitonen in ihren durchschnittlichen Mathematikleistungen nicht signifikant unterscheiden und sie im Durchschnitt die bessere Abiturabschlussnote erzielen, unterschätzen sie sich in ihrem persönlichen Studienerfolg signifikant, insbesondere in stark techniklastigen Informatikstudiengängen. Ebenso können Studentinnen von einer hohen intrinsischen Motivation, hinsichtlich ihrer Erfolgseinschätzungen im Studium nicht profitieren. Die durchgeführte Analyse bezieht sich auf das Datenmaterial aus dem ESF-Forschungsprojekt „Alumnae Tracking“.
Protocol - Effect of whitening toothpaste on surface roughness and micro hardness of human teeth - A systematic review and meta analysis
Creators: name: Jamwal, Navodita
name: Rao, Ashwini
name: Shenoy, Ramya
name: Pai, Mithun
name: KS, Aparna
name: BR, Avinash
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Protocol
title: Zeit-Nischen oder Familienzeit? Väter und der Umgang mit den Widersprüchen flexibler Arbeitsformen
Creators: name: Liebig, Brigitte
name: Peitz, Martina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Arbeitsorganisation
subject: Care
subject: Flexible Arbeitsmodelle
subject: Sorgearbeit
subject: Vaterschaft
subject: Vereinbarkeit
subject: Zeitnormen
subject: ddc:300

description: Flexible Arbeitsmodelle gewinnen heute an Bedeutung – ebenso wie die Vorstellung einer „involvierten“ Vaterschaft. Hinsichtlich der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie erweisen sich flexible Formen der Arbeit für Väter jedoch als ambivalent: Einerseits bieten sie Vätern neue Spielräume, andererseits stehen sie für problematische Trends der Arbeitsverdichtung, denen insbesondere Männer aufgrund traditioneller Arbeitsnormen ausgeliefert sind. Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie Väter die Widersprüche flexibler Arbeitsmodelle im Kontext von Vereinbarkeitsansprüchen handhaben. Empirische Grundlage bilden problemzentrierte Interviews mit 32 Vätern aus familienfreundlichen Unternehmen und Verwaltungen der Schweiz. Die Resultate zeigen, dass flexible Arbeitsmodelle Vaterschaftspraxen nur auf symbolischer Ebene verändern, wenn sie von traditionellen Vorstellungen von Männlichkeit und Familie begleitet sind. Erst verknüpft mit partnerschaftlich-egalitären Vorstellungen und unterstützt von einer Arbeitskultur, welche der Sorgeverantwortung von Vätern ausdrücklich Rechnung trägt, können flexible Arbeitsformen auch bei Vätern zu einem Mehr an Familienzeit im Sinne einer gleichberechtigt(er)en Teilhabe an der Kindererziehung führen.
Cat states in a driven superfluid: role of signal shape and switching protocol
Creators: name: Mateos, Jesús
name: Pieplow, Gregor
name: Creffield, Charles
name: Sols, Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the behavior of a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model whose kinetic energy is made to oscillate with zero time-average. The effective dynamics is governed by an atypical many-body Hamiltonian where only even-order hopping processes are allowed. At a critical value of the driving, the system passes from a Mott insulator to a superfluid formed by a cat-like superposition of two quasi-condensates with opposite non-zero momenta. We analyze the robustness of this unconventional ground state against variations of a number of system parameters. In particular we study the effect of the waveform and the switching protocol of the driving signal. Knowledge of the sensitivity of the system to these parameter variations allows us to gauge the robustness of the exotic physical behavior.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
The effects of massive neutrinos on the linear point of the correlation function
Creators: name: Parimbelli, G.
name: Anselmi, S.
name: Viel, M.
name: Carbone, C.
name: Villaescusa-Navarro, F.
name: Corasaniti, P. S.
name: Rasera, Y.
name: Sheth, R.
name: Starkman, G. D.
name: Zehavi, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The linear point (LP), defined as the mid-point between the dip and the peak of the two-point clustering correlation function (TPCF), has been shown to be an excellent standard ruler for cosmology. In fact, it is nearly redshift-independent, being weakly sensitive to non-linearities, scale-dependent halo bias and redshift-space distortions. So far, these findings were tested assuming that neutrinos are massless; in this paper we extend the analysis to massive-neutrino cosmologies. In particular, we examine if the scale-dependent growth induced by neutrinos affects the LP position and if it is possible to detect the neutrino masses using the shift of the LP compared to the massless-neutrino case. For our purposes, we employ two sets of state-of-the-art $N$-body simulations with massive neutrinos. For each of them we measure the TPCF of cold dark matter (CDM) and halos and, to estimate the LP, fit the TPCF with a model-independent parametric fit in the range of scales of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). Overall, we find that the LP retains its features as a standard ruler even when neutrinos are massive. The cosmic distances measured with the LP can therefore be employed to constrain the neutrino mass.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
AI-Enhanced Project Management Systems for Optimizing Resource Allocation and Risk Mitigation
Creators: name: Zahaib Nabeel, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into project management systems represents a significant evolution in optimizing resource allocation, risk mitigation, and decision-making processes within complex project environments. This paper investigates the role of AI-enhanced systems, focusing on leveraging big data analytics to predict project outcomes, track real-time performance, and automate decision-making in large-scale projects. The complexity of modern projects, characterized by dynamic, data-driven environments and multifaceted interdependencies, demands a more sophisticated approach to managing resources and mitigating risks. Traditional project management methodologies, often reliant on manual processes and linear models, are increasingly inadequate to handle the vast volume of data and the speed at which decisions must be made in contemporary project settings. This paper explores how AI, specifically through the use of machine learning algorithms, neural networks, and natural language processing, can significantly improve the efficiency, accuracy, and responsiveness of project management systems.  One key focus of this research is on the optimization of resource allocation, a critical factor in ensuring the timely and cost-effective completion of projects. AI systems can analyze historical project data and real-time inputs to identify patterns and predict future resource needs with greater precision than traditional methods. By continuously learning from new data, AI models can dynamically adjust resource allocations to respond to changing project conditions, thereby minimizing delays, cost overruns, and resource bottlenecks. Furthermore, AI-enhanced systems facilitate scenario analysis and simulation, allowing project managers to evaluate multiple strategies for resource allocation and select the optimal approach based on data-driven insights.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSONALITY IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT RELATIONS
Creators: name: Rahmonov, Jaloliddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The development of the Institute of International Legal Personality in International Investment Relations has been a significant topic of discussion among legal scholars and policymakers in recent years. This abstract explores the evolution of international legal personality in the context of cross-border investments, examining its role in shaping the rights and obligations of states and investors. It analyzes the key legal principles governing international legal personality in investment law, including the concept of state responsibility, the nationality principle, and the principle of sovereign immunity. Additionally, the abstract discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by the evolving nature of international investment relations, such as the rise of transnational corporations, the increasing role of international arbitration, and the impact of globalization on the concept of international legal personality.
Demand Projections for Foodgrains in India
Creators: name: Kumar, Praduman
name: Joshi, P.K.
name: Birthal, Pratap Singh
name: Kumar, Praduman
name: Joshi, P.K.
name: Birthal, Pratap Singh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Demand for foodgrains has been estimated for India for the years 2011-12, 2016-17 and 2021-22, by accounting for the factors like urbanization, regional variations in consumption pattern, shifts in dietary pattern and income distribution, limit on energy requirement and changes in tastes and preferences of consumers for food varieties. Indirect demand including ‘home away demand’ has also been considered in working out these food demand projections. Policy scenario has been presented and yield targets for the years 2011-12, 2016-17 and 2021-22 have been projected to meet the demand of foodgrams in these years.
Additional file 5 of An alternative for proteinase K-heat-sensitive protease from fungus Onygena corvina for biotechnology: cloning, engineering, expression, characterization and special application for protein sequencing
Creators: name: Skowron, Piotr M.
name: Krefft, Daria
name: Brodzik, Robert
name: Kasperkiewicz, Paulina
name: Drag, Marcin
name: Klaus-Peter Koller
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. pPink-HC-NHSSP plasmid construct map and features. Secretion peptide native—marked in green, propeptide—marked in yellow, His6-tag—marked in red.
BRANDING REGIONAL IDENTITY AS A DRIVER FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Messely, Lies
name: Dessein, Joost
name: Lauwers, Ludwig H.
name: Messely, Lies
name: Dessein, Joost
name: Lauwers, Ludwig H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: Identity
subject: Region formation
subject: Regional branding
subject: Rural development

description: Within the globalizing world, regions and their identities are subjected to great pressure. At present, places are engaged in a process of “territorial competition” in an integrated world economy. The identity of the region can be used as a starting point to brand a region and differentiate it from others. In the regional branding process, the region as a whole becomes a product or brand and offers a “basket” of regional products and services. This paper discusses the possibility of regional identity as a mobilizing force for rural development, by studying best practice examples of regional branding. Using the grounded theory approach, we conducted interviews in three case regions: West Cork (Ireland), Groene Woud (the Netherlands) and Pajottenland (Belgium). The study of these cases led to the formulation of critical success factors on the organization of regional branding.
Formal Milk Processing Sector in Assam: Lessons to be Learnt from Institutional Failure
Creators: name: Sirohi, Smita
name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Staal, Steven J.
name: Sirohi, Smita
name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Staal, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Assam initiated organised development of milk processing way back in the mid 1960s. The total installed capacity of pasteurisation and chilling plants in the State is 159 thousand and 28.5 thousand litres per day, respectively. The current scenario of the formal milk processing segment in the state is however, grim. The created infrastructure is either largely defunct or grossly under-utilized. The functional plants are operating at very low level of their installed capacity, have limited product profile, high returns of marketed milk, substantial handling and curdling losses, low productivity of capital and labour and huge operational losses. The poor performance of the plants has been attributed to the establishment of milk processing units without an appropriate assessment of output demand and input supply and ascertainment of economic viability of the plants. In addition, the supporting institutional and infrastructural mechanism has not been put in place and a systematic business and management plan to run the system has not been formulated. Drawing lessons from the institutional failure, the study has suggested some possible interventions and policy initiatives for strengthening the dairy processing activities in the state of Assam.
HUMAN CAPITAL AND FAMILY FARM IN THE OLIVE GROWING SYSTEM OF THE CALABRIA REGION
Creators: name: Nicolosi, Agata
name: Cambareri, Domenico
name: Strazzulla, Marco
name: Nicolosi, Agata
name: Cambareri, Domenico
name: Strazzulla, Marco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Human capital
subject: Family farm
subject: Agricultural labour

description: This research aims at pointing out those constrains and incentives conditioning family farm choices about investments, technical and managerial knowledge and expertness. The planned target has to be achieved through the attainment of three stages. Family farm involves a lot of people by different kind of employee relations, based mostly on a temporary work, that are often within the limits of the work rules. The organization solutions adopted by family farm produce several effects: among which investments and human capital allotment stand out. This research analyses family farm characteristics in a local rural system of the Calabria Region, as the result of the various European Community and domestic interventions and the specific physical, social and economic features in the considered territory; the attention is focused on the olive growing family farm. The survey is made through interviews carried out by qualified operators using questionnaires organized on different modules.
Agricultural Land Market Transactions in Chhattisgarh : A Case Study
Creators: name: Patil, K.M.
name: Marothia, Dinesh K.
name: Patil, K.M.
name: Marothia, Dinesh K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: In the newly born state of Chhattisgarh a large number of land buyers have become actively engaged in the villages located along the national highway and at the periphery of Raipur city, the capital of Chhattisgarh to purchase prime agricultural land. In view of the fast emerging land markets after the formation of the state, it is imperative to understand the role of market and non-market forces in transaction of prime agricultural land for non-agricultural uses and transactions within the agriculture sector. This study is an attempt in this direction. The study has been conducted in the Jora, Labhandi, Serikhedi and Dharampura villages of Dharsiwa block in Raipur district of Chhattisgarh state. These villages are located on both sides of Mumbai-Raipur-Kolkatta National Highway No.6 and are in the close periphery of the Raipur city. Two-stage least square technique of simultaneous equation system has been used to estimate demand and supply relationship in land market. Total owned land of seller and the price of land have been reported as the two important determinants of supply relations in land sale market. Similarly, the ownership of total owned land of buyers and non-farm income of buyer are major determinants of demand for agriculture land. Also, distances from National Highway, revenue grades and land sold under distress have been found important factors. The linear trends in land sale and land prices have indicated that area of the land for sale has increased year after year. Prices of land have also increased year after year. The most important factors which have forced the farmers to sell out their lands have been identified as functioning of aggressive land market forces, extremely poor capital base of the farmers, desire to construct their houses, increasing addiction to alcohol and inclination towards starting non-agricultural enterprises or professions, landhunger tendency of urban businessmen and colonizers. The study has suggested that certain effective legislations and institutional measures will have to be introduced and enforced for non-transfer of agricultural land.
Health Risk Perceptions, Awareness and Handling Behaviour of Pesticides by Farm Workers
Creators: name: Devi, P. Indira
name: Devi, P. Indira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The level of awareness regarding pesticide use/ handling has been reported in the farms of Kerala and the same has been compared with the adoption pattern and experiences of health risk episodes, in a society with high level of literacy. The understanding on various aspects of pesticide-use has revealed better awareness in certain aspects and poor understanding in certain others. The workers have not been given adequate training to understand the toxicity level by looking at the colour code on the packet, though they have been found aware about the different options available in the market. Often their perceptions of toxicity level of chemicals they handle are not in conformity with the actual situation; they have been found handling toxic chemicals considering them to be safe ones. Despite a high literacy level, most of them do not care to read the instructions and follow them. The study has found that a majority of the respondents are of satisfactory health status by the body mass index values. The short-term health risk upon occupational exposure has been reported very common; its frequency increases as one gets more years of experience in the work. It has been attributed to their inadequate understanding of the toxicity levels, unscientific handling practices and poor personal protective mechanism. The study has highlighted the need for targeted trainings to farm labourers besides farmers on the scientific management of pesticides and undertaking of massive awareness generation programmes.
Additional file 2 of An alternative for proteinase K-heat-sensitive protease from fungus Onygena corvina for biotechnology: cloning, engineering, expression, characterization and special application for protein sequencing
Creators: name: Skowron, Piotr M.
name: Krefft, Daria
name: Brodzik, Robert
name: Kasperkiewicz, Paulina
name: Drag, Marcin
name: Klaus-Peter Koller
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Synthetic DNA fragment map and features, comprising optimized full length SP-PRO-NHSSP-His6 gene. Secretion peptide native—marked in green, propeptide—marked in yellow, His6-tag—marked in red.
Additional file 3 of An alternative for proteinase K-heat-sensitive protease from fungus Onygena corvina for biotechnology: cloning, engineering, expression, characterization and special application for protein sequencing
Creators: name: Skowron, Piotr M.
name: Krefft, Daria
name: Brodzik, Robert
name: Kasperkiewicz, Paulina
name: Drag, Marcin
name: Klaus-Peter Koller
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Synthetic DNA fragment sequence, translation and features, comprising optimized full length SP-PRO-NHSSP-His6 gene. Secretion peptide native—marked in green, propeptide—marked in yellow, His6-tag—marked in red.
A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF NONVERBAL GREETINGS IN ENGLISH COMMUNICATION
Creators: name: Mirzayeva, Zarnigor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores the significance of nonverbal greetings in English communication, focusing on their pragmatic functions and cultural implications. Nonverbal communication, encompassing facial expressions, gestures, and physical proximity, plays a crucial role in initiating and maintaining interpersonal relationships. This research examines how nonverbal greetings convey meanings that transcend verbal language, influencing the dynamics of social interactions.
Class Preserving Automorphisms of Finite p-groups
Creators: name: Yadav, Manoj K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20D15, 20D45

description: We classify all finite $p$-groups $G$ for which |$Aut_{c}(G)$| attains its maximum value, where $Aut_{c}(G)$ denotes the group of all class preserving automorphisms of $G$ .
description: 19 pages
Factors Influencing Economic Viability of Marginal and Small Farmers in Punjab
Creators: name: Singh, Mandeep
name: Bhullar, A.S.
name: Joshi, A.S.
name: Singh, Mandeep
name: Bhullar, A.S.
name: Joshi, A.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: It has been noticed in Punjab that living in nearly the same socio-economic environment, some of the marginal and small farmers are financially viable, which means that they are able to earn enough income to meet their farm as well as household expenditure, while others fail to do so. There are multiple factors responsible for this viability. Broadly these factors are: farm size, off-farm income, income from dairy, rational domestic expenditure, and productivity of crops. This paper has examined the contribution of these factors towards the viability of marginal and small farmers by collecting data from three districts (Ropar, Ludhiana and Bathinda) of the state. The rationalizations of household expenditure and farm investment are also a source of enhancing the possibilities of financial viability of both the categories of farming families. Therefore, on the policy front, all efforts should be made to create off-farm employment opportunities for these farmers. The public investments should be made to remove the regional productivity gaps, as it will enhance income of these farmers. Assuring remunerative prices and up-scaling of the marketing and input supply facilities are the need of the hour to promote dairying and other allied activities among these farmers. All these measures will go a long way in easing the financial stress on marginal and small farmers of the area. In the prevailing economic scenario, it is difficult to pull out or push out these farmers out of agriculture in a short-run and hence the solution lies in making them part-time farmers having access to diversified sources of income as has happened in some of the South-East Asian countries.
The role of CD30 in the regulation of T cell function
Creators: name: Boyle, Julia Katrina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: CD30 is a member of the TNFR superfamily that was initially identified on Reed-Sternberg cells of Hodgkin's disease and is widely expressed in other lymphomas as well as in a number of autoimmune diseases. On normal cells, CD30 is expressed primarily on activated CD8⁺ T cells and is induced by two distinct pathways, an IL-4 dependent pathway and an IL-4-independent pathway via CD28. The precise role of CD30 has been controversial, but it has been implicated in a number of T cell functions, including costimulation, cytokine production, cell survival and cytotoxicity, although much of the published work to date has been carried out in cell lines. In an attempt to elucidate the role of CD30 in normal T cells, the function of primary lymphocytes derived from CD30-deficient mice was studied. In the absence of CD30, proliferation and activation were normal, with CD30[sup -/-] cells exhibiting levels of proliferation and expression of activation markers comparable to that of wild type cells. As well, among those cytokines examined, production by activated CD30-deficient cells was normal, although production of IL-4 was reduced compared to wild type. 2C-transgenic CD30-deficient cells were unable to kill specific target cells to the same extent as wild type effectors, although expression of effector molecules including perforin, granzyme B and FasL was normal, as was killing of targets when the requirement for TCR recognition was bypassed. Finally, although the reduction of effector function suggested that memory development may also be effected, 2C/CD30[sup -/-] effectors were able to develop into memory-like cells to the same extent as wild type cells. Although the deletion of CD30 has little effect on a number of T cell functions, particularly activation and proliferation, it appears that CD30 does play a role in the regulation of later events such as cytotoxic effector function and the maintenance of IL-4 production.
The effective theory of nuclear scattering for a WIMP of arbitrary spin
Creators: name: Gondolo, Paolo
name: Kang, Sunghyun
name: Scopel, Stefano
name: Tomar, Gaurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a systematic approach to characterize the most general non-relativistic WIMP-nucleus interaction allowed by Galilean invariance for a WIMP of arbitrary spin $j_χ$ in the approximation of one-nucleon currents. Five nucleon currents arise from the nonrelativistic limit of the free nucleon Dirac bilinears. Our procedure consists in (1) organizing the WIMP currents according to the rank of the $2 j_χ+1$ irreducible operator products of up to $2 j_χ$ WIMP spin vectors, and (2) coupling each of the WIMP currents to each of the five nucleon currents. The transferred momentum $q$ appears to a power fixed by rotational invariance. For a WIMP of spin $j_χ$ we find a basis of 4+20$j_χ$ independent operators that exhaust all the possible operators that drive elastic WIMP-nucleus scattering in the approximation of one-nucleon currents. By comparing our operator basis, which is complete, to the operators already introduced in the literature we show that some of the latter for $j_χ=1$ were not independent and some were missing. We provide explicit formulas for the squared scattering amplitudes in terms of the nuclear response functions, which are available in the literature for most of the targets used in WIMP direct detection experiments.
description: 47 pages, 4 figures, 8 tables
Twisted valence quarks and hadron interactions on the lattice
Creators: name: Bedaque, Paulo F.
name: Chen, Jiunn-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider QCD with valence and sea quarks obeying different boundary conditions. We point out that the energy of low lying two hadron states do not depend on the boundary condition of the sea quarks (up to exponentially small corrections). Thus, the advantages in using twisted boundary conditions on the lattice QCD extraction of nucleon-nucleon phase shifts can be gained without the need of new gauge configurations, even in fully unquenched calculations.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Climate change and Australia’s comparative advantage in wheat
Creators: name: Sanderson, Todd
name: Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z.
name: Sanderson, Todd
name: Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Australia has long been a major exporter of wheat, a commodity well suited to the economic and climatic conditions of Australia. According to the conventional wisdom, Australia holds a comparative advantage in wheat. However, the future validity of this proposition is sensitive to the proposed impacts of climate change. This paper develops a framework with which to examine the future patterns of comparative advantage in wheat given the projections of several global climate models. We find support for the conventional wisdom, and identify the presence of substantial resilience in Australia’s comparative advantage to adverse yield change.
Decomposing the social discount rate
Creators: name: Scarborough, Helen
name: Scarborough, Helen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Intergenerational equity
subject: Social discount rate

description: Recent modelling of the costs and benefits of climate change has renewed debate surrounding assumptions regarding the social discount rate in analysing the impacts of environmental change. Previous literature segments the social discount rate into being influenced by two key factors; the rate of pure time preference and the elasticity of marginal utility of future consumption. These components of the social discount rate reinforce the linkages between the choice of social discount rate and intergenerational distribution. In an extension of previous work by the author on intergenerational distributional preferences, this paper discusses the relationship between intergenerational equity and the social discount rate. The work has significant policy implications given the sensitivity of Cost Benefit Analysis outcomes to assumptions regarding the social discount rate.
Lepton polarization asymmetries for $B \to K^* \ell^+ \ell^-$: A Model Independent approach
Creators: name: Cornell, A. S.
name: Gaur, Naveen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we shall derive expressions for the single and double lepton polarization asymmetries for the exclusive decay $B \to K^* \ell^+ \ell^-$, using the most general model independent effective Hamiltonian. We have conducted this study with this particular channel as it has the highest branching ratio among the various purely leptonic and semi-leptonic decay modes, making this mode particularly useful for studying physics beyond the SM. We have also analyzed the effects on these polarization asymmetries, and hence the physics underlying it, when complex phases are included in some of the Wilson coefficients.
description: version accepted in JHEP, formating changed to JHEP style, LaTeX file 23 pages including 15 eps figures
Additional file 18 of An alternative for proteinase K-heat-sensitive protease from fungus Onygena corvina for biotechnology: cloning, engineering, expression, characterization and special application for protein sequencing
Creators: name: Skowron, Piotr M.
name: Krefft, Daria
name: Brodzik, Robert
name: Kasperkiewicz, Paulina
name: Drag, Marcin
name: Klaus-Peter Koller
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 18. MASCOT Search Results of NHSSP-cleaved monoclonal mAb light chain.
Video Semantic Segmentation with Distortion-Aware Feature Correction
Creators: name: Zhuang, Jiafan
name: Wang, Zilei
name: Wang, Bingke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Video semantic segmentation is active in recent years benefited from the great progress of image semantic segmentation. For such a task, the per-frame image segmentation is generally unacceptable in practice due to high computation cost. To tackle this issue, many works use the flow-based feature propagation to reuse the features of previous frames. However, the optical flow estimation inevitably suffers inaccuracy and then causes the propagated features distorted. In this paper, we propose distortion-aware feature correction to alleviate the issue, which improves video segmentation performance by correcting distorted propagated features. To be specific, we firstly propose to transfer distortion patterns from feature into image space and conduct effective distortion map prediction. Benefited from the guidance of distortion maps, we proposed Feature Correction Module (FCM) to rectify propagated features in the distorted areas. Our proposed method can significantly boost the accuracy of video semantic segmentation at a low price. The extensive experimental results on Cityscapes and CamVid show that our method outperforms the recent state-of-the-art methods.
description: 12 pages, 16 figures. The paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology(TCSVT) 2020
NSW Great Artesian Basin water market assessment pre and post auction
Creators: name: Schalk, Tara
name: Hill, Christine M.
name: Flavel, Noel J.
name: Schalk, Tara
name: Hill, Christine M.
name: Flavel, Noel J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: water auction
subject: economics
subject: Great Artesian Basin
subject: groundwater
subject: Cap & Pipe the Bores
subject: Water Sharing Plan.

description: The NSW Cap & Pipe the Bores Program is a jointly funded Commonwealth and State initiative that operates within the Australian Government's Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative framework. Under the Water Sharing Plan for the NSW Great Artesian Basin Groundwater Sources 2008, 70 per cent of the water savings made since 1999 shall be retained in the aquifers of the Basin to improve pressures and provide for groundwater dependent ecosystems. The remaining 30 per cent of the water savings may be released to extractive users over the term of the Water Sharing Plan to facilitate the continued economic and social welfare of regional western NSW. As the first step in this water release, part of the water savings from the Cap & Pipe the Bores program were auctioned in July 2009 in the western NSW town of Walgett. All lots offered at auction were sold. The study reviews the pre auction analysis of demand, and outlines the auction process and outcomes as well as the implications for future water sales. The outcomes of the auction will inform ongoing water allocation policy.
Creating ultra-compact binaries in globular clusters through stable mass transfer
Creators: name: van der Sluys, M. V.
name: Verbunt, F.
name: Pols, O. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A binary in which a slightly evolved star starts mass transfer to a neutron star can evolve towards ultra-short orbital periods under the influence of magnetic braking. This is called magnetic capture. We investigate in detail for which initial orbital periods and initial donor masses binaries evolve to periods less than 30-40 minutes within the Hubble time. We show that only small ranges of initial periods and masses lead to ultra-short periods, and that for those only a small time interval is spent at ultra-short periods. Consequently, only a very small fraction of any population of X-ray binaries is expected to be observed at ultra-short period at any time. If 2 to 6 of the 13 bright X-ray sources in globular clusters have an ultra-short period, as suggested by recent observations, their formation cannot be explained by the magnetic capture model.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A. See http://www.astro.uu.nl/~sluys/PhD/
Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector in Run-2
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The performance of the ATLAS Inner Detector alignment has been studied using $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 (2015 to 2018) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The goal of the detector alignment is to determine the detector geometry as accurately as possible and correct for time-dependent movements. The Inner Detector alignment is based on the minimization of track-hit residuals in a sequence of hierarchical levels, from global mechanical assembly structures to local sensors. Subsequent levels have increasing numbers of degrees of freedom; in total there are almost 750000. The alignment determines detector geometry on both short and long timescales, where short timescales describe movements within an LHC fill. The performance and possible track parameter biases originating from systematic detector deformations are evaluated. Momentum biases are studied using resonances decaying to muons or to electrons. The residual sagitta bias and momentum scale bias after alignment are reduced to less than $\sim$0.1 TeV$^{-1}$ and 0.9$\times10^{-3}$, respectively. Impact parameter biases are also evaluated using tracks within jets.
description: 61 pages in total, author list starting page 45, 26 figures, 4 tables, published in EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/IDTR-2019-05
Additional file 19 of An alternative for proteinase K-heat-sensitive protease from fungus Onygena corvina for biotechnology: cloning, engineering, expression, characterization and special application for protein sequencing
Creators: name: Skowron, Piotr M.
name: Krefft, Daria
name: Brodzik, Robert
name: Kasperkiewicz, Paulina
name: Drag, Marcin
name: Klaus-Peter Koller
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 19. HPLC elution profiles of NHSSP-cleaved BLG.