cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Research on the preparation of cellulose nanocrystals from balsa wood using microwave-assisted synergistic deep eutectic solvent and H2O2 extraction
Creators: name: Yang, Xiaoqin
name: Yin, Lu
name: Liu, Mengzhe
name: Yang, Yang
name: Zhao, Ping
name: Xu, Junming
name: Zheng, Rongbo
name: Qian, Wen
name: Chen, Baosen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Utilizing natural balsa wood as the raw material, cellulose was prepared using microwave-assisted chlorocholine chloride/lactic acid deep eutectic solvents (DES) in synergy with H2O2, followed by further preparation of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) via ultrasound treatment. Initially, the optimal process for balsa wood cellulose preparation was explored through single-factor and response surface experiments involving microwave-assisted DES in synergy with H2O2 treatment. Subsequently, cellulose nanocrystals were prepared using ultrasound, and the resulting materials were characterized and analyzed for their chemical composition, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), nanoparticle size distribution, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis, and thermogravimetric-differential scanning calorimetry (TG-DSC). The results indicate that the yield of cellulose after microwave-assisted DES in synergy with H2O2 treatment can reach 42.96%. Furthermore, the cellulose nanocrystals obtained after ultrasound treatment exhibit a particle size ranging from 10 to 20 nm, with an average length of 515.9 nm, a crystallinity of 86.72%, and demonstrate good dispersion and thermal stability. Microwave-assisted deep eutectic solvent (MaDES) is able to effectively remove lignin and hemicellulose from balsa wood. Determining optimal MaDES treatment conditions through response surface analysis. MaDES cellulose exhibits high cellulose purity with H2O2 treatment. Cellulose nanocrystals prepared from MaDES cellulose purified with H2O2 exhibit high aspect ratio and high crystallinity. Preparation of Cellulose Nanocrystals from Balsa wood Using MaDES with H2O2 treatment produces high-value cellulose nanocrystals while being environmentally friendly and sustainable.
Learning Submodular Objectives for Team Environmental Monitoring
Creators: name: Wilde, Nils
name: Sadeghi, Armin
name: Smith, Stephen L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we study the well-known team orienteering problem where a fleet of robots collects rewards by visiting locations. Usually, the rewards are assumed to be known to the robots; however, in applications such as environmental monitoring or scene reconstruction, the rewards are often subjective and specifying them is challenging. We propose a framework to learn the unknown preferences of the user by presenting alternative solutions to them, and the user provides a ranking on the proposed alternative solutions. We consider the two cases for the user: 1) a deterministic user which provides the optimal ranking for the alternative solutions, and 2) a noisy user which provides the optimal ranking according to an unknown probability distribution. For the deterministic user we propose a framework to minimize a bound on the maximum deviation from the optimal solution, namely regret. We adapt the approach to capture the noisy user and minimize the expected regret. Finally, we demonstrate the importance of learning user preferences and the performance of the proposed methods in an extensive set of experimental results using real world datasets for environmental monitoring problems.
Duality, Quantum Skyrmions and the Stability of an SO(3) Two-Dimensional Quantum Spin-Glass
Creators: name: da Conceicao, C. M. S.
name: Marino, E. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum topological excitations (skyrmions) are analyzed from the point of view of their duality to spin excitations in the different phases of a disordered two-dimensional, short-range interacting, SO(3) quantum magnetic system of Heisenberg type. The phase diagram displays all the phases, which are allowed by the duality relation. We study the large distance behavior of the two-point correlation function of quantum skyrmions in each of these phases and, out of this, extract information about the energy spectrum and non-triviality of these excitations. The skyrmion correlators present a power-law decay in the spin-glass(SG)-phase, indicating that these quantum topological excitations are gapless but nontrivial in this phase. The SG phase is dual to the AF phase, in the sense that topological and spin excitations are respectively gapless in each of them. The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism guarantees the survival of the SG phase at $T \neq 0$, whereas the AF phase is washed out to T=0 by the quantum fluctuations. Our results suggest a new, more symmetric way of characterizing a SG-phase: one for which both the order and disorder parameters vanish, namely $ = 0 $, $ =0 $, where $σ$ is the spin and $μ$ is the topological excitation operators.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Observation of ELVES with Mini-EUSO telescope on board the International Space Station
Creators: name: Marcelli, Laura
name: Arnone, Enrico
name: Barghini, Matteo
name: Battisti, Matteo
name: Belov, Alexander
name: Bertaina, Mario
name: Blaksley, Carl
name: Bolmgren, Karl
name: Cambiè, Giorgio
name: Capel, Francesca
name: Casolino, Marco
name: Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu
name: Fuglesang, Christer
name: Gorodetzki, Philippe
name: Kajino, Fumiyoshi
name: Klimov, Pavel
name: Marszał, Wlodzimierz
name: Mignone, Marco
name: Parizot, Etienne
name: Picozza, Piergiorgio
name: Piotrowski, Lech Wictor
name: Plebaniak, Zbigniew
name: Prévôt, Guilliame
name: Romoli, Giulia
name: Reali, Enzo
name: Ricci, Marco
name: Sakaki, Naoto
name: Shinozaki, Kenji
name: Szabelski, Jacek
name: Takizawa, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mini-EUSO is a detector observing the Earth in the ultraviolet band from the International Space Station through a nadir-facing window, transparent to the UV radiation, in the Russian Zvezda module. Mini-EUSO main detector consists in an optical system with two Fresnel lenses and a focal surface composed of an array of 36 Hamamatsu Multi-Anode Photo-Multiplier tubes, for a total of 2304 pixels, with single photon counting sensitivity. The telescope also contains two ancillary cameras, in the near infrared and visible ranges, to complement measurements in these bandwidths. The instrument has a field of view of 44 degrees, a spatial resolution of about 6.3 km on the Earth surface and of about 4.7 km on the ionosphere. The telescope detects UV emissions of cosmic, atmospheric and terrestrial origin on different time scales, from a few micoseconds upwards. On the fastest timescale of 2.5 microseconds, Mini-EUSO is able to observe atmospheric phenomena as Transient Luminous Events and in particular the ELVES, which take place when an electromagnetic wave generated by intra-cloud lightning interacts with the ionosphere, ionizing it and producing apparently superluminal expanding rings of several 100 km and lasting about 100 microseconds. These highly energetic fast events have been observed to be produced in conjunction also with Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes and therefore a detailed study of their characteristics (speed, radius, energy...) is of crucial importance for the understanding of these phenomena. In this paper we present the observational capabilities of ELVE detection by Mini-EUSO and specifically the reconstruction and study of ELVE characteristics.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)
Variation of microphysics in wind bubbles: an alternative mechanism for explaining the rebrightenings in GRB afterglows
Creators: name: Kong, S. W.
name: Wong, A. Y. L.
name: Huang, Y. F.
name: Cheng, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventionally, long GRBs are thought to be caused by the core collapses of massive stars. During the lifetime of a massive star, a stellar wind bubble environment should be produced. Furthermore, the microphysics shock parameters may vary along with the evolution of the fireball. Here we investigate the variation of the microphysics shock parameters under the condition of wind bubble environment, and allow the microphysics shock parameters to be discontinuous at shocks in the ambient medium. It is found that our model can acceptably reproduce the rebrightenings observed in GRB afterglows, at least in some cases. The effects of various model parameters on rebrightenings are investigated. The rebrightenings observed in both the R-band and X-ray afterglow light curves of GRB 060206, GRB 070311 and GRB 071010A are reproduced in this model.
description: 9 figures, accepted by MNRAS
“Bendig tu…qui fis me fenna”: donne, libri e letteratura nel Medioevo giudeo-provenzale
Creators: name: Baricci, Erica
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2014
Subjects: Letteratura ebraica medievale; Giudeo-provenzale; Romània giudaica; donne ebree medievali

description: In the Medieval Hebrew Literature, we have no evidence about women as authors, except for Dunash ibn Labrat’s wife
(X cent.) and Qasmuna bat Isma’il (XII cent.).
Women were not "silent" at all in the Middle Ages, but the feminine way to compose texts at that time was oral, being made in the native Jewish-Languages,
while Hebrew – known almost only by men - was the language of the written Literature.
In this essay we will deal with the (self-)representation of women in the Judaeo-Provencal medieval literary corpus.
First, we will analyze some texts, explicitly composed for women, in order to understand the feminine perspective
and literary liking as a public.
Second, we will deal with an example of women literary creativeness,
i.e. a particular Jewish blessing, transmitted in three extant Jewish prayerbooks (XV century),
which recites: “Bless you God, for I was born a woman”. This probably refers to a local tradition
of Provencal Jewish women who created it during the Middle Ages.
description: Altre Modernità, 2014: NUMERO SPECIALE Letteratura Ebraica ‘al femminile’
A study of the adenyl cyclase activity in testis of maturing chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Creators: name: Bendix, Marie Elaine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Some properties of the adenyl cyclase activity in the maturing testis of Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (chinook salmon) were characterized. The enzymic reaction was linear at 30° and at 15° for at least 60 min. The divalent cation requirement of the salmon testis enzyme was reexamined (33). The optimal concentration of Mg was about 10 mM and of Mn2+ was 5 mM; Mn2+ concentrations above 15 mM caused a marked decrease in enzyme activity. A higher maximal activity was achieved in the presence of Mn2+ than in the presence of Mg2+. Stimulation of the enzyme with the optimal concentration of F-, 12 mM, resulted in a 7-fold increase in the reaction rate over the basal activity. In efforts to solubilize the enzyme, it was found that Lubrol PX and Triton X-100 destroyed enzymic activity but Nonidet P40 and Tween 80 did not. The adenyl cyclase activity in salmon testis homog-enates was stable for at least 6 hours at 0° to 4° but was very unstable at 24°; storage of the homogenate for 24 hours at either 0° to 4° or 24° resulted in a total loss of activity. Differential centrifugation of salmon testis homog-enates which were prepared in isotonic medium revealed tnat all subcellular fractions contained some adenyl cyclase activity. About 55% of the activity sedimented at 600g while only 10% of the activity was recovered in the 105,000g supernatant. The 6300g sediment had a very high specific activity compared with the specific activity of the other fractions. The ATP analogue, adenylyl imidodipho3phate (AMP-PNP), tritium labeled in adenosine, was synthesized from tri-butylammonium imidodiphosphate and adenosine-5’ phosphor-imidazolate. Salmon testis adenyl cyclase catalyzed the conversion of AMP-PNP to cyclic AMP.
Additional file 2 of High larvicidal efficacy of yeast-encapsulated orange oil against Aedes aegypti strains from Brazil
Creators: name: Gomes, Bruno
name: Ogélio, Huarlen
name: Brant, Fabiane
name: Pereira-Pinto, Camila Jesus
name: Workman, Michael J.
name: Costa, Monique
name: Lima, José Bento Pereira
name: Martins, Ademir Jesus
name: Ramalho-Ortigao, Marcelo
name: Durvasula, Ravi
name: Hurwitz, Ivy
name: David, Mariana Rocha
name: Genta, Fernando Ariel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Text S1. Quality and selection of General linear models to determine lethal concentration.
Nelle stanze della cultura di massa. La ‘Neue Frau’ Vicki Baum tra memoria, assimilazione ed emancipazione
Creators: name: Buglioni, Chiara
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2014
Subjects: Vicki Baum; assimilazione ebraico-tedesca; identità; new-woman; Neue Sachlichkeit; letteratura popolare

description: Following a brief introduction to the existing research on Vicki Baum (1888-1960) and her work, this study examines the importance of assimilation, identity, and self-discovery both in the author’s biography and in her narrative. The analysis of Menschen im Hotel (1929) and Hotel Berlin (1943/44) collocates the fictional conflicts between modernizing inputs and traditional settings, between self-deception and ethical responsibility within the wider field of Baum’s experience as an assimilated Jew first in the Weimar Republic and then, after the so-called voluntary exile, in the U.S. Even though the writer herself was not willing to stress her Jewishness, this article contends that Vicki Baum’s Jewish background and her ability to absorb every cultural ambience are crucial for the understanding of her texts.
description: Altre Modernità, 2014: NUMERO SPECIALE Letteratura Ebraica ‘al femminile’
Sizable CP Violation in the Bosonized Standard Model
Creators: name: Hernandez, Andres
name: Konstandin, Thomas
name: Schmidt, Michael G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the worldline method, we derive an effective action of the bosonic sector of the Standard Model by integrating out the fermionic degrees of freedom. The CP violation stemming from the complex phase in the CKM matrix gives rise to CP-violating operators in the one-loop effective action in the next-to-leading order of a gradient expansion. We calculate the prefactor of the appropriate operators and give general estimates of CP violation in the bosonic sector of the Standard Model. In particular, we show that the effective CP violation for weak gauge fields is not suppressed by the Yukawa couplings of the light quarks and is much larger than the bound given by the Jarlskog determinant.
description: 15 pages, minor changes, published version
Additional file 5 of Hpgd affects the progression of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension by regulating vascular remodeling
Creators: name: He, Meng
name: Tao, Kelong
name: Xiang, Min
name: Sun, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 5
UV irradiation during fluorescence measurements affects the structures and fluorescence properties of isolated lignins in solution
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Keiichiro
name: Suzuki, Shiori
name: Shigetomi, Kengo
name: Uraki, Yasumitsu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: There are no reports on the stability of autofluorescence, although lignins and their solutions are known to exhibit autofluorescence. An aim of this study is to investigate spectral change of lignin autofluorescence under prolonged excitation with ultraviolet (UV). Both fluorescence spectra of softwood milled wood lignin (MWL) and kraft lignin (SKL) in propylene glycol significantly changed upon an UV irradiation at 280 nm under O2 and Ar atmospheres even for 10 min. By the further irradiation, the autofluorescence intensities were remarkably changed together with the emission wavelengths. However, no tendency in the autofluorescence change was observed. The change varied between lignin preparations and gas atmosphere. These phenomena should be caused by autoxidation upon UV irradiation, and the reaction resulted in not only photodegradation but also photopolymerization.
Bipolarons from long range interactions: Singlet and triplet pairs in the screened Hubbard-Froehlich model on the chain
Creators: name: Hague, J. P.
name: Kornilovitch, P. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present details of a continuous-time quantum Monte-Carlo algorithm for the screened Hubbard-Froehlich bipolaron. We simulate the bipolaron in one dimension with arbitrary interaction range in the presence of Coulomb repulsion, computing the effective mass, binding energy, total number of phonons associated with the bipolaron, mass isotope exponent and bipolaron radius in a comprehensive survey of the parameter space. We discuss the role of the range of the electron-phonon interaction, demonstrating the evolution from Holstein to Froehlich bipolarons and we compare the properties of bipolarons with singlet and triplet pairing. Finally, we present simulations of the bipolaron dispersion. The band width of the Froehlich bipolaron is found to be broad, and the decrease in bandwidth as the two polarons bind into a bipolaron is found to be far less rapid than in the case of the Holstein interaction. The properties of bipolarons formed from long range electron-phonon interactions, such as light strongly bound bipolarons and intersite pairing when Coulomb repulsion is large, are found to be robust against screening, with qualitative differences between Holstein and screened Froehlich bipolarons found even for interactions screened within a single lattice site.
description: 20 pages, 17 figures
Species of Rastrelliger in the Java Sea, their taxonomy, morphometry and population dynamics
Creators: name: Sudjastani, Tatang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Rastrelliger is a mackerel genus which inhabits the Indo-Pacific Regions. This genus is characterized by long, numerous and featherlike gill rakers, and anal fin without spines. Two species, Rastrelliger braahysoma and R. kanagurta, are recognized. These are identified by the differences in the ratios of the greatest body depth and the length of intestine to fork length, and the appearance of the cephalic lateral line canal systems. Synonymies, descriptions and morphometric ranges are given. The morphometric characters of the two species exhibit some intraspecific differences due to sexual dimorphism and strong allo-metric growth, R. braahysoma exhibits intraspecific geographical variation in its dorsoventral depth, greatest body depth, and inter-orbital distance; while R. kanagurta exhibits variation only in its dorsoventral depth and head depth. Both species attain their maximum growth increments before they reach sexual maturity. The vital parameters for yield prediction are as follows: the coefficient of growth rate K=0.19, 0.23; the length-weight exponent b=2.88, 3.19; the maximum length L=22.92 cm, 23.89 cm; the natural mortality coefficient M=0.38, 0.37; and the total mortality coefficient Z=0.82, 1.20 for R, braahysoma and R. kanagurta respectively. Rastrelliger fisheries in the Java Sea have not yet reached maximum exploitation which suggests the possibility of increasing production by increasing fishing intensity.
Eager Functions as Processes
Creators: name: Durier, Adrien
name: Hirschkoff, Daniel
name: Sangiorgi, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study Milner's encoding of the call-by-value $λ$-calculus into the $π$-calculus. We show that, by tuning the encoding to two subcalculi of the $π$-calculus (Internal $π$ and Asynchronous Local $π$), the equivalence on $λ$-terms induced by the encoding coincides with Lassen's eager normal-form bisimilarity, extended to handle $η$-equality. As behavioural equivalence in the $π$-calculus we consider contextual equivalence and barbed congruence. We also extend the results to preorders. A crucial technical ingredient in the proofs is the recently-introduced technique of unique solutions of equations, further developed in this paper. In this respect, the paper also intends to be an extended case study on the applicability and expressiveness of the technique.
description: the 33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS), Jul 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom
Imaging Spectroscopy on Preflare Coronal Nonthermal Sources Associated with the 2002 July 23 Flare
Creators: name: Asai, Ayumi
name: Nakajima, Hiroshi
name: Shimojo, Masumi
name: Yokoyama, Takaaki
name: Masuda, Satoshi
name: Krucker, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed examination on the coronal nonthermal emissions during the preflare phase of the X4.8 flare that occurred on 2002 July 23. The microwave (17 GHz and 34 GHz) data obtained with Nobeyama Radioheliograph, at Nobeyama Solar Radio Observatory and the hard X-ray (HXR) data taken with {\it Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager} obviously showed nonthermal sources that are located above the flare loops during the preflare phase. We performed imaging spectroscopic analyses on the nonthermal emission sources both in microwaves and in HXRs, and confirmed that electrons are accelerated from several tens of keV to more than 1 MeV even in this phase. If we assume the thin-target model for the HXR emission source, the derived electron spectral indices ($\sim 4.7$) is the same value as that from microwaves ($\sim 4.7$) within the observational uncertainties, which implies that the distribution of the accelerated electrons follows a single power-law. The number density of the microwave-emitting electrons is, however, larger than that of the HXR-emitting electrons, unless we assume low ambient plasma density of about $1.0 \times 10^9$ cm$^{-3}$ for the HXR-emitting region. If we adopt the thick-target model for the HXR emission source, on the other hand, the electron spectral index ($\sim 6.7$) is much different, while the gap of the number density of the accelerated electrons is somewhat reduced.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted
Fabrizio Lomonaco, New Studies on Lex Regia. Right, Philology and Fides Historica in Holland between the 17th and 18th Centuries, (Studies in Early Modern European Culture 5), Bern, Peter Lang, 2011
Creators: name: Krop, Henri
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2013

description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 16 (2011)
Master's thesis recital (viola)
Creators: name: Flynn, Sean
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonatas (Viola and piano)
Viola and piano music
Viola music

description: Sonata for viola da gamba in D major, BWV 1028 / J.S. Bach -- Viola sonata / Rebecca Clarke -- Après un rêve / Gabriel Fauré -- Viola sonata in E-flat major / Johannes Brahms -- Jamaican rumba / Arthur Benjamin
Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Chagas-Filho, W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Loop Quantum Gravity is a theory that attempts to describe the quantum mechanics of the gravitational field based on the canonical quantization of General Relativity. According to Loop Quantum Gravity, in a gravitational field, geometric quantities such as area and volume are quantized in terms of the Planck lenth. In this paper we present the basic ideas for a future, mathematically more rigorous, attempt to combine black holes and gravitational waves using the quantization of geometric quantities introduced by Loop Quantum Gravity.
description: 16 pages
Additional file 1 of Small molecule inhibitors of α-synuclein oligomers identified by targeting early dopamine-mediated motor impairment in C. elegans
Creators: name: Chen, Kevin S.
name: Menezes, Krystal
name: Rodgers, Jarlath B.
name: O’Hara, Darren M.
name: Tran, Nhat
name: Fujisawa, Kazuko
name: Ishikura, Seiya
name: Khodaei, Shahin
name: Chau, Hien
name: Cranston, Anna
name: Kapadia, Minesh
name: Pawar, Grishma
name: Ping, Susan
name: Krizus, Aldis
name: Lacoste, Alix
name: Spangler, Scott
name: Visanji, Naomi P.
name: Marras, Connie
name: Majbour, Nour K.
name: El-Agnaf, Omar M. A.
name: Lozano, Andres M.
name: Culotti, Joseph
name: Suo, Satoshi
name: Ryu, William S.
name: Kalia, Suneil K.
name: Kalia, Lorraine V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Frequentist comparison of CMB local extrema statistics in the five-year WMAP data with two anisotropic cosmological models
Creators: name: Hou, Zhen
name: Banday, A. J.
name: Gorski, K. M.
name: Groeneboom, N. E.
name: Eriksen, H. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present local extrema studies of two models that introduce a preferred direction into the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature field. In particular, we make a frequentist comparison of the one- and two-point statistics for the dipole modulation and ACW models with data from the five-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). This analysis is motivated by previously revealed anomalies in the WMAP data, and particularly the difference in the statistical nature of the temperature anisotropies when analysed in hemispherical partitions. The analysis of the one-point statistics indicates that the previously determined hemispherical variance difficulties can be apparently overcome by a dipole modulation field, but new inconsistencies arise if the mean and the l-dependence of the statistics are considered. The two-point correlation functions of the local extrema, the temperature pair product and the point-point spatial pair-count, demonstrate that the impact of such a modulation is to over-`asymmetrise' the temperature field on smaller scales than the wave-length of the dipole or quadrupole, and this is disfavored by the observed data.The results from the ACW model predictions, however, are consistent with the standard isotropic hypothesis. The two-point analysis confirms that the impact of this type of violation of isotropy on the temperature extrema statistics is relatively weak. From this work, we conclude that a model with more spatial structure than the dipole modulated or rotational-invariance breaking models are required to fully explain the observed large-scale anomalies in the WMAP data.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Preliminary Notes on the Second Law - 1978 letter to James Serrin
Creators: name: Feinberg, Martin
name: Lavine, Richard B
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1978

description: This is a 1978 letter to James Serrin that contains preliminary notes on the Second Law of Thermodynamics, in particular about how a thermodynamic temperature scale, satisfying the Clausius Inequality for all processes, emerges as a consequence of a standard topogical vector space theorem on separation of disjoint convex sets by a hyperplane. These notes are posted here in connection with a far more recent article on connections between the Second Law and the Hahn-Banach Theorem.
Doctoral thesis recital (piano) chamber
Creators: name: Zadeh, Farshad
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonatas (Violin and piano)
Piano trios
Violin and piano music

description: Romances for violin and piano, op. 22 / Clara Schumann -- Violin sonata no. 1, op. 21 / Nikolai Medtner -- Piano trio / Maurice Ravel
Additional file 1 of Treatment patterns and effectiveness of patients with multiple myeloma initiating Daratumumab across different lines of therapy: a real-world chart review study
Creators: name: ATRASH, Shebli
name: THOMPSON-LEDUC, Philippe
name: TAI, Ming-Hui
name: KAILA, Shuchita
name: GRAY, Kathleen
name: GHELERTER, Isabelle
name: LAFEUILLE, Marie-Hélène
name: LEFEBVRE, Patrick
name: ROSSI, Adriana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Treatment Response on First Daratumumab-Based Regimen among Patients Initiating Daratumumab in 2018 or Later.
Comprehensive study of the vapour-liquid equilibria of the pure two-centre Lennard-Jones plus pointquadrupole fluid
Creators: name: Stoll, J.
name: Vrabec, J.
name: Hasse, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of a systematic investigation of the vapour-liquid equilibria (VLE) of 30 individual two-centre Lennard-Jones plus pointquadrupole model fluids (2CLJQ) are reported over a range of reduced quadrupolar momentum $0 \le Q^{*2} \le 4$ and of reduced elongation $0 \le L^* \le 0.8$. Temperatures investigated are from about 55 % to about 95 % of the critical temperature of each fluid. Uniformly the $NpT$+Test Particle Method based on molecular dynamics simulations is used for the generation of vapour pressures, saturated densities, and saturated enthalpies. Critical temperatures $T^*_{\rm c}$ and densities $ρ^*_{\rm c}$ are obtained from Guggenheim's equations. Empirical correlations for critical data $T^*_{\rm c}$ and $ρ^*_{\rm c}$ as well as for saturated densities $ρ'^*$, $ρ''^*$, and vapour pressures $p^*_σ$ are developed as global functions of the model parameters. In most cases they describe the simulation data within their statistical uncertainties. Critical pressures and acentric factors of the 2CLJQ fluid can be calculated from present correlations. The present simulations are a sound basis for adjustments of the model parameters $Q^{*2}$, $L^*$, $σ$, and $ε$ to experimental VLE data of real fluids.
MagAO observations of the binary microlens OGLE-2014-BLG-1050 prefer the higher-mass solution
Creators: name: Xie, Xiaojia
name: Dong, Subo
name: Zhu, Wei
name: Gould, A.
name: Udalski, A.
name: Beaulieu, J. -P.
name: Close, L. M.
name: Males, J. R.
name: Marquette, J. -B.
name: Morzinski, K. M.
name: Pogge, R. W.
name: Yee, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report adaptive-optics (AO) follow-up imaging of OGLE-2014-BLG-1050, which is the second binary microlensing event with space-based parallax measurements. The degeneracy in microlens parallax pi_E led to two sets of solutions, either a ~(0.9, 0.35) M_Sun binary at ~3.5 kpc, or a ~(0.2, 0.07) M_Sun binary at ~1.1 kpc. We measure the flux blended with the microlensed source by conducting Magellan AO observations, and find that the blending is consistent with the predicted lens flux from the higher-mass solution. From the combination of the AO flux measurement together with previous lensing constraints, it is estimated that} the lens system consists of a $1.05^{+0.08}_{-0.07}$ M_Sun primary and a $0.38^{+0.07}_{-0.06}$ M_Sun secondary at $3.43^{+0.19}_{-0.21}$ kpc.
description: Published in AJ
Empirical Abundance Scaling Laws and Implications for the Gamma-Process in Core-Collapse Supernovae
Creators: name: Hayakawa, Takehito
name: Iwamoto, Nobuyuki
name: Kajino, Toshitaka
name: Shizuma, Toshiyuki
name: Umeda, Hideyuki
name: Nomoto, Ken'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analyzing the solar system abundances, we have found two empirical abundance scaling laws concerning the p- and s-nuclei with the same atomic number. The first scaling is s/p ratios are almost constant over a wide range of the atomic number, where the p-nculei are lighter than the s-nuclei by two or four neutrons. The second scaling is p/p ratios are almost constant, where the second $p$-nuclei are lighter than the first p-nucleus by two neutrons. These scalings are a piece of evidence that most p-nuclei are dominantly synthesized by the gamma-process in supernova explosions. The scalings lead to a novel concept of "universality of gamma-process" that the s/p and p/p ratios of nuclei produced by individual gamma-processes are almost constant, respectively. We have calculated the ratios by gamma-process based on core-collapse supernova explosion models under various astrophysical conditions and found that the scalings hold for materials produced by individual gamma-processes independent of the astrophysical conditions assumed. The universality originates from three mechanisms: the shifts of the gamma-process layers to keep their peak temperature, the weak s-process in pre-supernovae, and the independence of the s/p ratios of the nuclear reactions. The results further suggest an extended universality that the s/p ratios in the gamma-process layers are not only constant but also centered on a specific value of 3. With this specific value and the first scaling, we estimate that the ratios of $s$-process abundance contributions from the AGB stars to the massive stars are almost 6.7 for the $s$-nuclei of A > 90. We find that large enhancements of s/p ratios for Ce, Er, and W are a piece of evidence that the weak s-process actually occurred before SNe.
description: 35 pages, 15 figures
Characterizing microlensing planetary system OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb with adaptive optics imaging
Creators: name: Xie, Xiao-Jia
name: Dong, Subo
name: Shvartzvald, Yossi
name: Gould, Andrew
name: Udalski, Andrzej
name: Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe
name: Beichman, Charles
name: Close, Laird Miller
name: Henderson, Calen B.
name: Males, Jared R.
name: Marquette, Jean-Baptiste
name: Morzinski, Katie M.
name: Gelino, Christopher R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We constrain the host-star flux of the microlensing planet OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb using adaptive optics (AO) images taken by the Magellan and Keck telescopes. We measure the flux of the light blended with the microlensed source to be K = 16.79 +/- 0.04 mag and J = 17.76 +/- 0.03 mag. Assuming that the blend is the lens star, we find that the host is a $0.73_{-0.29}^{+0.14}$ M_Sun star at a distance of $2.67_{-1.41}^{+0.77}$ kpc, where the relatively large uncertainty in angular Einstein radius measurement is the major source of uncertainty. With mass of $M_p = 3.68_{-1.44}^{+0.69}$ M_J, the planet is likely a "super Jupiter" at a projected separation of $r_{\perp} = 4.53_{-2.50}^{+1.49}$ AU, and a degenerate model yields a similar $M_p = 3.73_{-1.47}^{+0.73}$ M_J at a closer separation of $r_{\perp} = 2.56_{-1.41}^{+0.84}$ AU. Our estimates are consistent with the previous Bayesian analysis based on a Galactic model. OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb belongs to a sample of planets discovered in a "second-generation" planetary microlensing survey, and we attempt to systematically constrain host properties of this sample with high-resolution imaging to study the distribution of planets.
description: Published in RAA
A strategy for ambulance system designs : an investigation of the ambulance system in the greater Vancouver regional district
Creators: name: Tan, Eddy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation is a study of the effects of alternative design parameters and control policies in the planning and operation of emergency ambulance systems. The ambulance system is characterized by a sequence of events beginning with the notification of an incident and ending with the delivery of the patient to an emergency medical facility. A computer simulation model was subsequently developed and validated for the G.V.R.D. Experiments are conducted using this Simulation Model and a Local Search Algorithm which determined optimal locations to evaluate the effect of the following on system performance: number of ambulances; dispatching policies; demand rate. Results from the above experiments lead to the following recommendations: Ambulance service should be provided on a regional basis; ambulances should be located strategically to minimize response time; for a given desired level of response time, the number and location of ambulances should be different in different periods of the day; periodic review of the level and spatial distribution of demand should be made and adjustments should be made in the number and locations of ambulances; the determination of the proper response time level should be based in part on an analysis of the tradeoff between cost and response time.
Additional file 2 of The economic impact of two diagnostic strategies in the management of restorations in primary teeth: a health economic analysis plan for a trial-based economic evaluation
Creators: name: Freitas, Raíza Dias
name: Moro, Bruna Lorena Pereira
name: Pontes, Laura Regina Antunes
name: Maia, Haline Cunha Medeiros
name: Passaro, Ana Laura
name: Oliveira, Rodolfo Carvalho
name: Garbim, Jonathan Rafael
name: Vigano, Maria Eduarda Franco
name: Tedesco, Tamara Kerber
name: Deery, Christopher
name: Raggio, Daniela Prócida
name: Cenci, Maximiliano Sergio
name: Mendes, Fausto Medeiros
name: Braga, Mariana Minatel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2:. Supplemental Material 2. Form used for resource measurement and subsequent cost estimation.
Green Infrastructure/Green Roofs (Project Eddie)
Creators: name: Londono, Ana
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: Runoff in urban areas is an increasingly important issue when it comes to water quality. It is a major hydrologic issue in New York City, as urban infrastructure creates excess runoff and impervious surfaces decrease the infiltration rate of land surfaces. This excess runoff, which often times carries with it pollutants and contaminants, has proven to create water quality issues. It has become ever more critical to try to mitigate the influx of runoff into our waterways. Urbanization increases runoff, and in NYC 64% of the area is impervious. In this module students will explore green roofs as a potential solution to the environmental impacts of increased precipitation brought on by climate change. They will evaluate data collected from studies on 15 green roofs from different areas of the US and other countries, as well as historical precipitation data from Central Park in NY to illustrate how precipitation patterns are changing and if we need to use green infrastructure, such as green roofs, to combat the symptoms of climate change. Students will also use Model My Watershed , a watershed-modeling web app, to analyze real land use data, model storm-water runoff and water-quality i
Global stability analysis of birhythmicity in a self-sustained oscillator
Creators: name: Yamapi, R.
name: Filatrella, G.
name: Aziz-Aloui, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze global stability properties of birhythmicity in a self-sustained system with random excitations. The model is a multi-limit cycles variation of the van der Pol oscillatorintroduced to analyze enzymatic substrate reactions in brain waves. We show that the two frequencies are strongly influenced by the nonlinear coefficients $α$ and $β$. With a random excitation, such as a Gaussian white noise, the attractor's global stability is measured by the mean escape time $τ$ from one limit-cycle. An effective activation energy barrier is obtained by the slope of the linear part of the variation of the escape time $τ$ versus the inverse noise-intensity 1/D. We find that the trapping barriers of the two frequencies can be very different, thus leaving the system on the same attractor for an overwhelming time. However, we also find that the system is nearly symmetric in a narrow range of the parameters.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures, to appear on Choas, 2010
Pāṇini 1.4.23: Emendation Proposal
Creators: name: Keidan, Artemij
Publisher: name: Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici
Year: 2007

description: The well known sūtra 1.4.23 of Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī, reading kārake, has been given at least three different interpretations by the commentators: it could be a section heading, a technical term or a semantic condition for the following rules. However, such a threefold interpretation is shown to be hardly acceptable. Therefore, a textual emendation is suggested in order to emend kārake (locative) to kārakam (nominative). Such a textual error is assumed to be the result of the Middle Indian influence on the transmission of the Aṣṭādhyāyī and/or Mahābhāṣya. Such an influence is not to be excluded a priori, and is indeed indirectly proven by the well studied texts of the Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit tradition. In fact, a termination -e for the nominative masculine and neuter is not uncommon in Prakrits. Once entered in the text (directly or through the citation phrasing kāraka iti with the loss of the final -m), the ending would be reinterpreted as a metalinguistic locative; to account for it the ultimate bhāṣya 39 of Mahābhāṣya on sūtra 1.4.23 would be added by an anonymous author predating Kāśikā.
description: Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici, II (2007)
Two Ridges, One Explanation
Creators: name: Moschelli, George
name: Gavin, Sean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We attribute the phenomenon known as "the ridge" to long range initial state correlations from Color Glass Condensate flux tubes and later stage radial flow. We show that this description can explain the amplitude and azimuthal width of the soft ridge and nearly explain that of the hard ridge, suggesting that the two are essentially the same phenomenon.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee
Sound Waves in (2+1) Dimensional Holographic Magnetic Fluids
Creators: name: Buchbinder, Evgeny I.
name: Buchel, Alex
name: Vazquez, Samuel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to study propagation of sound waves in strongly coupled (2+1) dimensional conformal magnetic fluids. Our computation provides a nontrivial consistency check of the viscous magneto-hydrodynamics of Hartnoll-Kovtun-Muller-Sachdev to leading order in the external field. Depending on the behavior of the magnetic field in the hydrodynamic limit, we show that it can lead to further attenuation of sound waves in the (2+1) dimensional conformal plasma, or reduce the speed of sound. We present both field theory and dual supergravity descriptions of these phenomena. While to the leading order in momenta the dispersion of the sound waves obtained from the dual supergravity description agrees with the one predicted from field theory, we find a discrepancy at higher order. This suggests that further corrections to HKMS magneto-hydrodynamics are necessary.
description: 32 pages, LaTeX; minor corrections, references added; an error in the boundary conditions fixed, a slight change in the results
Two Photographs from the Gerini Fund of the University of Naples “l’Orientale”
Creators: name: Quagliotti, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici
Year: 2007

description: There are two photographs in the Fondo Gerini of the University of Naples Oriental Institute, “L’Orientale”, which are of particular interest. The first shows a monk meditating on a skeleton, the second a skeleton surrounded by vultures. These two images present us with meditation on the stages of decomposition of the body, the antecedents of which are to be sought in the Indian world. The originality of these two images, representing a unicum, lies in the fact that we have here two photographs taken in the late 19th-early 20th century by a foreign photographer who had the opportunity to survey the scene, usually reserved to initiates alone.
description: Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici, II (2007)