cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bohmian picture of Rydberg atoms
Creators: name: Ghose, Partha
name: Samal, Manoj K.
name: Datta, Animesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unlike the previous theoretical results based on standard quantum mechanics that has established the nearly elliptical shapes for the centre-of-mass motion using numerical simulations, we show analytically that the Bohmian trajectories in Rydberg atoms are nearly elliptical.
description: 3 pages revtex, Comments welcome
Combined treatment of hidradenitis suppurativa with Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) and Radiofrequency (RF)
Creators: name: Wilden, Sophia
name: Friis, Marina
name: Tuettenberg, Andrea
name: Staubach-Renz, Petra
name: Wegner, Joanna
name: Grabbe, Stephan
name: Stebut, Esther Von
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background. Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic inflammatory disease with high burden. Treatment options are often unsatisfactory. We assessed the effect of a combination therapy of intense pulsed light (IPL) and radiofrequency (RF). Methods. The explorative study included 47 patients and was performed as a prospective, monocentric, randomized, three arm parallel group design trial with a prior 12 weeks observation period. Treatment arms were IPL and RF monotherapies or IPL + RF combination therapy. After 12 weeks, all patients received IPL + RF for additional 12 weeks (cross-over). Primary endpoint was the change in active lesion numbers, secondary endpoint the change in Dermatology Quality of Life Index (DLQI). Results. After 12 weeks, active lesion counts of the IPL + RF group decreased more than in the IPL group (p = 0.044); the decrease in DLQI was significantly higher in the IPL + RF and RF groups compared to IPL. Prolonged 24 week treatment with IPL + RF obtained better results as 12 weeks. Overall, disease burden after 24 weeks of treatment compared to disease fluctuation during the observation period was significantly lower (change in active lesions -3.6, p = 0.001; in DLQI -5.2, p = 0.003). Conclusion. IPL + RF treatment appears to represent a promising therapeutic option that leads to reduction of disease activity without severe side effects.
Destabilizing Effects of Exchange-Rate Escape Clauses
Creators: name: Obstfeld, Maurice
name: Obstfeld, Maurice
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: realignment
subject: escape clause
subject: credibility
subject: speculative attack
subject: European Monetary System

description: This paper studies policy rules with escape clauses, analyzing as an example fixed exchange rate systems that allow member countries the freedom to realign in periods of stress. While well-designed escape-clause rules can raise society's welfare in principle, limited credibility makes it difficult to implement such rules in practice. An EMS-type institution that imposes political costs on policymakers who realign may raise welfare, but can also produce equilibria far inferior to an irrevocably fixed exchange rate. Switches between multiple equilibria may have the character of sudden speculative attacks.
AVFI: Fault Injection for Autonomous Vehicles
Creators: name: Jha, Saurabh
name: Banerjee, Subho S.
name: Cyriac, James
name: Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew T.
name: Iyer, Ravishankar K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is rapidly becoming a reality on U.S. roads, offering the promise of improvements in traffic management, safety, and the comfort and efficiency of vehicular travel. With this increasing popularity and ubiquitous deployment, resilience has become a critical requirement for public acceptance and adoption. Recent studies into the resilience of AVs have shown that though the AV systems are improving over time, they have not reached human levels of automation. Prior work in this area has studied the safety and resilience of individual components of the AV system (e.g., testing of neural networks powering the perception function). However, methods for holistic end-to-end resilience assessment of AV systems are still non-existent.
description: Published in: 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W)
Stress-related upper gastrointestinal bleeding in adult neurocritical care patients: a Chinese multicenter, retrospective study
Creators: name: Wei, Junji
name: Jiang, Rongcai
name: Li, Lihong
name: Kang, Dezhi
name: Gao, Guodong
name: You, Chao
name: Zhang, Jianmin
name: Gao, Liang
name: Huang, Qibing
name: Luo, Duanwu
name: Zhao, Gang
name: Zhang, Hongyi
name: Wang, Shuo
name: Wang, Renzhi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objective: China has limited data on stress-related gastrointestinal ulcers in patients admitted for neurosurgical care. This study evaluated the incidence of upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) and use of stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP) in Chinese neurocritical care patients (Glasgow Coma Scale [GCS] score ≤10). Methods: This multicenter, retrospective study was performed from January 2015 to July 2015. Medical records of 1468 patients hospitalized during 2014 were reviewed. An estimated UGIB incidence rate of 4.4% was considered for precision of 1.3% for estimation of UGIB. The primary endpoint was evaluation of overall incidence of any overt UGIB in ≤14 days after cerebral lesion. Secondary endpoints included incidence of UGIB with or and without clinically significant complications, time to UGIB, associated risk factors and SUP used. Results: We analyzed 1416 patients (mean age: 53.7 ± 14.00 years; males: 62.4%) with cerebral lesions. Overall incidence rate of UGIB ≤14 days was 12.9% (95% CI: 11.2%–14.7%), 0.76% with and 12.1% without significant clinical complications. Average time and duration of bleeding were 2.9 ± 3.37 days and 4.2 ± 8.4 days, respectively. The most significant risk factors for UGIB were mechanical ventilation for >48 hours (p < .0001), UGIB history (p = .0026) and use of anticoagulants (p < .0001). Acid-suppression drugs were administered for SUP in 79.0% of the patients, whereas 40.5% received hemostatic drugs. Conclusions: The rate of UGIB incidence was higher than the estimated rate in neurocritical care patients in China, suggesting the need for better management and treatment for stress-related mucosal disease in China. History of UGIB, mechanical ventilation and/or anticoagulants significantly affected UGIB. ClinicalTrials registry number: NCT02316990.
Barkhausen Noise in a Relaxor Ferroelectric
Creators: name: Colla, Eugene V.
name: Chao, Lambert K.
name: Weissman, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Barkhausen noise, including both periodic and aperiodic components, is found in and near the relaxor regime of a familiar relaxor ferroelectric, PbMg$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3}$O$_3$, driven by a periodic electric field. The temperature dependences of both the amplitude and spectral form show that the size of the coherent dipole moment changes shrink as the relaxor regime is entered, contrary to expectations based on some simple models.
description: 4 pages RevTeX4, 5 figures; submitted to Phys Rev Lett
Additive Fertigung, Laserdirektstrukturierung und chemische Metallisierung von Duroplasten: Material- und Prozessentwicklung
Creators: name: Pfeifer, Christoph
name: Vieten, Tobias,
name: Jung, Judith
name: Gläser, Kerstin
name: Hanemann, Thomas
Publisher: name: VDE Verlag
Year: 2021

description: Die Produktion von Komponenten mittels additiver Fertigung erlangt im Rahmen der zunehmenden Individualisierung von Produkten immer größere Bedeutung.[1] Im Gegensatz zu konventionellen Herstellungsprozessen ist die additive Fertigung als werkzeugloses Verfahren auch bei kleinen Stückzahlen bis hin zur Losgröße eins wirtschaftlich, [2] da der Initialaufwand sehr gering und die Designflexibilität sehr hoch ist. In diesem Projekt soll für die additive Fertigung mittels Stereolithographie ein laseraktivierbares Material entwickelt und Verfahren zum Aufbau, zur Laseraktivierung und se-lektiven Metallisierung additiv gefertigter 3D-Kunststoffbauteile untersucht werden. Die Kombination von additiver Fer-tigung des 3D-Kunststoffbauteils und laserbasierter Strukturierung ermöglicht eine komplett werkzeuglose Fertigung mit auf der Oberfläche aufgebrachten Leiterbahnstrukturen für kunststoffbasierte mechatronische oder mikrosystemtechni-sche Baugruppen. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt hierbei auch auf der Herstellung von Polymer-Keramik-Kompositen mit hoher Wärmeleitfähigkeit ≥ 1 W/(mK). Diese garantiert den raschen Abtransport der Abwärme von elektrischen Bautei-len und ermöglicht im Verbund mit der hohen mechanischen und chemischen Stabilität von Duroplasten den Einsatz in technisch anspruchsvollen Umgebungen.
Rhotana cribraria Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Rhotana
Rhotana cribraria

description: Rhotana cribraria Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Figs. 69, 70, 242)
 Description. Forewings 1.7 times longer than wide, length: male 3.6–4.1 mm (mean = 3.8, n= 3), female about 3.9 mm. Colour stramineous to light brown; a mark at junction of frons and clypeus, middle of pronotum, some parts of the thoracic pleura, and fore tibiae faintly tinted with orange; mesonotum dark brown, but scutellum stramineous; abdomen light brown, genital styles tinted with orange. Forewings light brown, interrupted by many, well defined lighter areas; a dark brown mark around last subcostal sector; veins stramineous but second and fourth subcostal sector, most of Sc, R, and M, and apical parts of median sectors orange-red. Hindwings with apical third infuscated, interrupted by lighter areas; middle of hindwings faintly infuscated; veins stramineous to light brown. Facial carinae contiguous up to lower margin of eyes; rostrum just reaching hind coxae; subantennal processes and lateral carinae of pronotum poorly developed. Forewings with apical part of Sc sinuate, Sc+R fork well before middle of wing; Ms1 branched just before its middle, Ms1b merging with apical part of Cu1 for a short section, a small triangle at base of Ms1. Pygofer of male genitalia with short, lateral projections. Genital styles widening towards end; proximal dorsal process small, distal dorsal process elongated, a small hump between both. Aedeagus with apical portion large, bearing a prominent, pointed process on the right side, slightly curved to the right.
 Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (cribrarius, -a, -um = sieve-like).
 Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.9 mm, body 3.0 mm), MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO; labels: 1) BRITISH N. BORNEO / Tawau, Quoin Hill / 3–7.VII.1962 2) In jungle 3) H. Holtmann / Light Trap / BISHOP (BPBM). Paratypes. NORTH BORNEO: Tawau, Quoin Hill, Cocoa Res. Stat., 4.IX.1962, 1 ♂ (fw. 4.0), Y. Hirashima, light trap (BPBM); Sandakan, 1 ♀ (fw. 3.9), Baker (BPBM); SARAWAK: Foot of Mt. Dulit, junction of rivers Tinjar & Lejok, 8.IX.1982, sex unknown (fw. 4.1), Oxford Univ. Exp., B.M. Hobby & A.W. Moore, light trap; BRUNEI: Labi, 26.VIII.79, 1 ♂ (fw. 3.6), Sutton Coll. RTU 146, light trap 1/ 75m. above ground (all BMNH).
 Distribution. North Borneo.
 Diagnosis. Rhotana cribraria is similar to R. torrevillasi sp. nov. from the Philippines. However all veins of the hindwings are stramineous to light brown, and the infuscation in the apical third of the hindwings is interrupted. The males can be easily recognized by the prominent, pointed process on the apical part of the aedeagus.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 98-99
A new flavone glucoside together with known ellagitannins and flavones with anti-diabetic and anti-obesity activities from the flowers of pomegranate (Punica granatum)
Creators: name: Wu, Sheng
name: Tian, Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: A new flavone glucoside tricetin 4′-O-β-glucopyranoside (1) and four known ellagitannins and flavones tricetin (2), luteolin (3), ellagic acid (4), and granatin B (5) were isolated from the flowers of Punica granatum L. (Lythraceae). Their structures were established by 1D and 2D NMR as well as mass spectrometry analyses. Among all tested compounds, tricetin (2) exhibited the strongest α-glucosidase inhibitory activity that was comparable to the anti-diabetic drug acarbose. Comparative structure-function analysis of tri-, tetra-, and pentahydroxy flavones [apigenin, luteolin (3), and tricetin (2), respectively] suggested that a greater number of hydroxyl groups on the flavone molecule enhanced its suppression of α-glucosidase, α-amylase, and lipase activities.
Backward-Looking Contracts, Credibility and Inflation Convergence
Creators: name: Ghezzi, Piero
name: Ghezzi, Piero
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: indexation
subject: inflation convergence
subject: credibility

description: In this paper, we build a model that incorporates a backward-looking component to the exclusively forward-looking staggered prices model of Calvo (1983). The objective of this formulation is to include the effect of the history of high inflation on the price formation, reflected in the existence of widespread backward-looking indexation (-de facto or de jure-). Thus, the model is able to isolate the effects of history in price setting from the genuinely forward-looking lack of credibility arising from the intertemporal inconsistency between fiscal and monetary policy. One remarkable feature of the model is that it remains analytically tractable despite its enhanced dynamics. When used to simulate, the model replicates inflation persistence and real appreciation. Immediate inflation convergence is not achievable even if the economy's fundamentals would say so.
Edge states of a three dimensional kicked rotor
Creators: name: Bakman, Alexandra
name: Veksler, Hagar
name: Fishman, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Edge localization is a fascinating quantum phenomenon. In this paper, the underlying mechanism generating it is presented analytically and verified numerically for a weakly kicked three-dimensional rotor. Analogy to tight binding model in solid state physics is used. The edge states result of the edge at zero angular momentum of the three-dimensional kicked rotor.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Radiative Corrections to Polarized Inelastic Scattering in Coincidence
Creators: name: Afanas'ev, A. V.
name: Akushevich, I.
name: Gakh, G. I.
name: Merenkov, N. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coplete analysis of the model-independent leading radiative corrections to cross-section and polarization observables in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic electron-nucleus scattering with detection of a proton and scattered electron in coincidence has been performed. The basis of the calculations consists of the Drell-Yan like representation in electrodynamics for both spin-independent and spin-dependent parts of the cross-section in terms of the electron structure functions. The applications to the polarization transfer effect from longitudinally polarized electron beam to detected proton as well as to scattering by the polarized target are considered.
description: 18p, to be published in JETP
Dihedral Invariant Polynomials in the effective Lagrangian of QED
Creators: name: Huet, Idrish
name: de Traubenberg, Michel Rausch
name: Schubert, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T18, 16W22

description: We present a new group-theoretical technique to calculate weak field expansions for some Feynman diagrams using invariant polynomials of the dihedral group. In particular we show results obtained for the first coefficients of the three loop effective lagrangian of 1+1 QED in an external constant field, where the dihedral symmetry appears. Our results suggest that a closed form involving rational numbers and the Riemann zeta function might exist for these coefficients.
description: Proceedings of the 32nd International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics
Empirical models to predict the effect of sterilisation and storage on bisphenols migration from metallic can coatings into food simulants
Creators: name: Moussawi, Sara Noureddine El
name: Cladière, Mathieu
name: Chébib, Hanna
name: Ouaini, Rosette
name: Camel, Valérie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Based on response surface methodology, empirical models were built to predict the influence of can processing (heat treatment) and storage conditions (time and temperature) on the migration of bisphenol compounds from the inner lacquer of tinplate cans (4 brands) into several food simulants. Analysis using liquid chromatography revealed the presence of BADGE.2H2O and BPA in all samples. Models were significant in fitting the levels of these two bisphenols in food simulants depending on the input variables, with excellent adjusted coefficients of determination. Their prediction performance was validated through running new data sets. Further comparison of predicted values with bisphenols levels measured in canned vegetables revealed that the proposed models are conservative. By the desirability of the response output, the models are capable of proposing the range of can processing and storage conditions that limit migration for further compliance with the regulation. The proposed approach could be a convenient tool for the industries to control processing conditions in order to ensure the conformity of canned foods.
Global Analysis of Dark Matter Simplified Models with Leptophobic Spin-One Mediators using MasterCode
Creators: name: Bagnaschi, E.
name: Costa, J. C.
name: Sakurai, K.
name: Borsato, M.
name: Buchmueller, O.
name: De Roeck, A.
name: Dolan, M. J.
name: Ellis, J. R.
name: Flächer, H.
name: Hahn, K.
name: Heinemeyer, S.
name: Lucio, M.
name: Santos, D. Martínez
name: Olive, K. A.
name: Trifa, S.
name: Weiglein, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a global analysis of dark matter simplified models (DMSMs) with leptophobic mediator particles of spin one, considering the cases of both vector and axial-vector interactions with dark matter (DM) particles and quarks. We require the DMSMs to provide all the cosmological DM density indicated by Planck and other observations, and we impose the upper limits on spin-independent and -dependent scattering from direct DM search experiments. We also impose all relevant LHC constraints from searches for monojet events and measurements of the dijet mass spectrum. We model the likelihood functions for all the constraints and combine them within the MasterCode framework, and probe the full DMSM parameter spaces by scanning over the mediator and DM masses and couplings, not fixing any of the model parameters. We find, in general, two allowed regions of the parameter spaces: one in which the mediator couplings to Standard Model (SM) and DM particles may be comparable to those in the SM and the cosmological DM density is reached via resonant annihilation, and one in which the mediator couplings to quarks are $\lesssim 10^{-3}$ and DM annihilation is non-resonant. We find that the DM and mediator masses may well lie within the ranges accessible to LHC experiments. We also present predictions for spin-independent and -dependent DM scattering, and present specific results for ranges of the DM couplings that may be favoured in ultraviolet completions of the DMSMs.
description: 24 pages, 16 figures
The United States, the ITO, and the WTO: Exit Options, Agent Slack, and Presidential Leadership
Creators: name: Eichengreen, Barry
name: Odell, John
name: Eichengreen, Barry
name: Odell, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: World Trade Organization
subject: International Trade Organization

description: A central issue facing the newly-created World Trade Organization is "the U.S. question." That is, to what extent will the United States abide by the spirit as well as the letter of the WTO's rules rather than going its own way de facto if not de jure? And what will shape the extent of U.S. compliance? In this paper we attempt to identify the distinctive features of the historical context that will shape the outcome. We do so by comparing the debate over the WTO with that surrounding the International Trade Organization. In analyzing the two episodes, we distinguish three stages in the process of reaching an international agreement: negotiation, ratification, and compliance. Our analysis of U.S. behavior in these stages emphasizes three factors: exit options (the value of the best alternative to ratifying an agreement), the slack between U.S. principals and their negotiating agents, and the presidential effort spent to build domestic support.
Rhotana dohertyi Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Rhotana
Rhotana dohertyi

description: Rhotana dohertyi Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Figs. 71, 243)
 Description. Forewings 1.8 times longer than wide, length in male 5.9–6.2 mm (mean = 6.0, n= 3). Colour stramineous to light brown. Forewings lightly and uniformly infuscated, darker marks between middle sections of Cu1 and Ms1b (sometimes faint), and along anterior apical crossveins; veins orange to red, but claval veins stramineous. Hindwings very faintly infuscated; veins light orange, bases and claval veins stramineous. Facial carinae contiguous up to lower level of eyes; rostrum reaching hind coxae; subantennal processes well -, lateral carinae of pronotum poorly developed. Forewings with apical part of Sc slightly sinuate; Sc+R fork well before middle of wing; Ms1 branching near its base. Pygofer of male genitalia with prominent lateral projections; anal segment with short lateral processes. Genital styles nearly rhomboid; proximal dorsal process short and slender, distal dorsal process long; a small hump between both processes. Apical part of aedeagus short and wide near junction with stem, near apex flat, extending into a short, pointed tip.
 Etymology. The species is named for the collector and ' dohertyi ' is a latinized noun used in the genitive case.
 Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 6.2 mm), INDIA: ASSAM; labels: 1) Ind. Mus./ Margherita/ Assam/ W. Doherty 2) From Ind. Mus./ Distant Coll./ B.M. 1911-383 (BMNH). Paratypes. Khasis, IV.1894, 1 ♂ (fw. 5.9),Nat. Coll. (MMBC); INDIA: Eastern Himalayas, Kurseong, 4700–5000 ft., Annandale, 20. VI. 10, 1 ♂ (fw. 5.9) (BMNH).
 Distribution. Assam, India.
 Diagnosis. Rhotana dohertyi resembles R. miles sp. nov. from Borneo and the Philippines. However, it is larger, lighter, and has additional forewing marks between Cu1 and Ms1b, as well as along the apical crossveins. The male aedeagus lacks slender pointed processes at the tip and prominent projections on the stem.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on page 99
Gorilla in our midst: An online behavioral experiment builder
Creators: name: Anwyl-Irvine, Alexander L.
name: Massonnié, Jessica
name: Flitton, Adam
name: Kirkham, Natasha
name: Evershed, Jo K.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
Online methods
Remote testing
Browser timing
Attentional control
Online research
Timing accuracy

description: Abstract: Behavioral researchers are increasingly conducting their studies online, to gain access to large and diverse samples that would be difficult to get in a laboratory environment. However, there are technical access barriers to building experiments online, and web browsers can present problems for consistent timing—an important issue with reaction-time-sensitive measures. For example, to ensure accuracy and test–retest reliability in presentation and response recording, experimenters need a working knowledge of programming languages such as JavaScript. We review some of the previous and current tools for online behavioral research, as well as how well they address the issues of usability and timing. We then present the Gorilla Experiment Builder (gorilla.sc), a fully tooled experiment authoring and deployment platform, designed to resolve many timing issues and make reliable online experimentation open and accessible to a wider range of technical abilities. To demonstrate the platform’s aptitude for accessible, reliable, and scalable research, we administered a task with a range of participant groups (primary school children and adults), settings (without supervision, at home, and under supervision, in both schools and public engagement events), equipment (participant’s own computer, computer supplied by the researcher), and connection types (personal internet connection, mobile phone 3G/4G). We used a simplified flanker task taken from the attentional network task (Rueda, Posner, & Rothbart, 2004). We replicated the “conflict network” effect in all these populations, demonstrating the platform’s capability to run reaction-time-sensitive experiments. Unresolved limitations of running experiments online are then discussed, along with potential solutions and some future features of the platform.
Poultry Processing Created More Rural Jobs than Red-Meat Packing During the 1980's
Creators: name: Brown, Dennis
name: Brown, Dennis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Labor and Human Capital
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Red-meat packing and poultry processing were among very few food processing industries to experience employment growth in rural counties during the 1980's. Red-meat packing expanded mainly in the Plains and Com Belt, and poultry processing expanded in the Delmarva Peninsula and other pockets of the South. Input-output analysis shows that an increase in consumer demand for poultry adds more processing jobs than an equivalent increase in demand for red meat because poultry processing is more labor intensive.
Supplementary Information from Force chains in cell–cell mechanical communication
Creators: name: Amots Mann
name: Sopher, Ran S.
name: Goren, Shahar
name: Ortal Shelah
name: Tchaicheeyan, Oren
name: Lesman, Ayelet
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Part 1: Comparison between 'compressive FC network’ in granular material and ‘tensile FCs’ in cross-linked fibrous material; Part 2: Supplementary figures; Part 3: Supplementary Theoretical analysis; Part 4: Supplementary Points for Discussion; Part 5: References for Supplementary Materials section
Stem cell_SI_Final.docx from Decoding the mechanisms underlying cell-fate decision-making during stem cell differentiation by random circuit perturbation
Creators: name: Huang, Bin
name: Lu, Mingyang
name: Galbraith, Madeline
name: Levine, Herbert
name: Onuchic, Jose N.
name: Jia, Dongya
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020

description: Stem cells can precisely and robustly undergo cellular differentiation and lineage commitment, referred to as stemness. However, how the gene network underlying stemness regulation reliably specifies cell fates is not well understood. To address this question, we applied a recently developed computational method, random circuit perturbation (RACIPE), to a nine-component gene regulatory network (GRN) governing stemness, from which we identified robust gene states. Among them, four out of the five most probable gene states exhibit gene expression patterns observed in single mouse embryonic cells at 32-cell and 64-cell stages. These gene states can be robustly predicted by the stemness GRN but not by randomized versions of the stemness GRN. Strikingly, we found a hierarchical structure of the GRN with the Oct4/Cdx2 motif functioning as the first decision-making module followed by Gata6/Nanog. We propose that stem cell populations, instead of being viewed as all having a specific cellular state, can be regarded as a heterogeneous mixture including cells in various states. Upon perturbations by external signals, stem cells lose the capacity to access certain cellular states, thereby becoming differentiated. The new gene states and key parameters regulating transitions among gene states proposed by RACIPE can be used to guide experimental strategies to better understand differentiation and design reprogramming. The findings demonstrate that the functions of the stemness GRN is mainly determined by its well-evolved network topology rather than by detailed kinetic parameters.
Extrastriatal 123 I-FP-CIT SPECT impairment in Parkinson’s disease – the PPMI cohort
Creators: name: Nicastro, Nicolas
name: Garibotto, Valentina
name: Burkhard, Pierre R.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Movement disorders
Parkinson’s disease
Dopamine
Serotonin
SPECT

description: Abstract: Background: Neuropathological data and nuclear medicine imaging show extensive serotonergic impairment in Parkinson’s disease (PD). We undertook a case-controlled analysis of 123I-FP-CIT SPECT images to measure extrastriatal serotonergic transporters (SERT) in PD using the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) cohort. Methods: We included all PD (n = 154) and Control subjects (n = 62) with available 123I-FP-CIT SPECT imaging and high-resolution T1-weighted MRI for coregistration (PD: mean age 61.6 years, 62% male, disease duration 26 months, MDS-UPDRS III score 22). 123I-FP-CIT SPECT images were processed with PETPVE12 using an exploratory voxel-wise analysis including partial-volume effect correction. Linear regressions were performed in the PD group to assess correlations between region of interest 123I-FP-CIT uptake and clinical motor and non-motor impairment. Results: Compared to Controls, PD exhibited an uptake reduction in bilateral caudate nucleus, putamen, insula, amygdala and right pallidum (family-wise error (FWE)-corrected p < 0.05). While lower putaminal uptake on the contralateral side to clinically more affected side was associated with higher MDS-UPDRS III score (p = 0.022), we found a trend association between higher geriatric depression scale and lower pallidum uptake (p = 0.09). Higher SCOPA-AUT gastrointestinal subscore was associated with lower uptake in mean putamen and caudate nucleus (p = 0.01 to 0.03), whereas urological subscore was inversely correlated with mean caudate nucleus, putamen, and pallidum uptake (p = 0.002 to 0.03). REM sleep behaviour disorder screening questionnaire was associated with lower 123I-FP-CIT binding in caudate nucleus, putamen and pallidum (all p < 0.05). No significant association was found for Montreal Cognitive Assessment (all p > 0.45) or excessive daytime sleepiness (all p > 0.29). Conclusions: In addition to the well-established striatal deficit, this study provides evidence of a major extrastriatal 123I-FP-CIT impairment, and therefore of an altered serotonergic transmission in early PD.
Rhotana magna Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Rhotana
Rhotana magna

description: Rhotana magna Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Fig. 245)
 Description. Forewings elongated, 2.3 times longer than wide, length 6.5–6.8 mm. Colour white to stramineous, mesonotum light brown, scutellum powdered; femora and tibiae of fore legs tinted with brown and red. Forewings with two prominent black marks around apical cross-veins connecting Sc, R and M; two additional smaller and lighter marks around first cross-veins between Sc, R and M; faintly infuscated along anterior and apical margins, along remaining apical cross-veins, and near claval tip; veins light brown, tip of Sc, its last sector, and adjacent margin orange-red. Hindwings colourless. Facial carinae not contiguous, slightly separated at base; rostrum reaching post trochanter; subantennal processes and lateral carinae of pronotum well developed. Forewings with Sc+R fork well before middle of wing; basal median cell narrow, M leaves Sc+R at base of that cell; Ms1 branched at apex of basal median cell, base of Ms1a angulated and connected to M by a cross-vein, forming a trapezoid cell. Pygofer of male genitalia with rounded, lateral projections; genital styles elongated, slightly truncated at end, proximal dorsal process short, distal dorsal elongated, a small hump between both. Apical part of aedeagus with a round, flat lobe attached to its right side; end with a flat process on the right side and a sharp, pointed process on the left side, curving down and to the left.
 Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (magnus, -a, -um = large).
 Type material. Holotype ♀ (forewing 6.8 mm), MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO; labels: 1) At / light 2) SABAH: Mt. Kinabalu / Mesilau / 3.II.1964 J. Smart. / Royal Soc. Exped. / B.M.1964-250 (BMNH). Paratypes. SABAH, Mt. Kinabalu, Mesilau Camp, 5,000 ft, 4.IV.1964, ♀ (fw. 6.6), S. Kueh, Royal Soc. Exp.; Mesilau Cave, 6,175 ft, 24. III.1964, 1 ♂ (fw. 6.5), S. Kueh, Royal Soc. Exp. (all BMNH).
 Distribution. North Borneo.
 Diagnosis. In forewing venation and coloration Rhotana magna resembles R. ornata Zelazny from the Philippines, as well as R. pacata sp. nov., R. fera sp. nov. and R. tridentata sp. nov., all three also from Borneo, and R. ramosa sp. nov. from Sumatra. It can be easily separated from these by the two dark marks around the anterior apical crossveins of the forewings, by its large size and the elongated forewings.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 100-101
SuPer: A Surgical Perception Framework for Endoscopic Tissue Manipulation with Surgical Robotics
Creators: name: Li, Yang
name: Richter, Florian
name: Lu, Jingpei
name: Funk, Emily K.
name: Orosco, Ryan K.
name: Zhu, Jianke
name: Yip, Michael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Traditional control and task automation have been successfully demonstrated in a variety of structured, controlled environments through the use of highly specialized modeled robotic systems in conjunction with multiple sensors. However, the application of autonomy in endoscopic surgery is very challenging, particularly in soft tissue work, due to the lack of high-quality images and the unpredictable, constantly deforming environment. In this work, we propose a novel surgical perception framework, SuPer, for surgical robotic control. This framework continuously collects 3D geometric information that allows for mapping a deformable surgical field while tracking rigid instruments within the field. To achieve this, a model-based tracker is employed to localize the surgical tool with a kinematic prior in conjunction with a model-free tracker to reconstruct the deformable environment and provide an estimated point cloud as a mapping of the environment. The proposed framework was implemented on the da Vinci Surgical System in real-time with an end-effector controller where the target configurations are set and regulated through the framework. Our proposed framework successfully completed soft tissue manipulation tasks with high accuracy. The demonstration of this novel framework is promising for the future of surgical autonomy. In addition, we provide our dataset for further surgical research.
description: The first two authors made equal contribution on this paper
Expert curation of the human and mouse olfactory receptor gene repertoires identifies conserved coding regions split across two exons
Creators: name: Barnes, If H. A.
name: Ibarra-Soria, Ximena
name: Fitzgerald, Stephen
name: Gonzalez, Jose M.
name: Davidson, Claire
name: Hardy, Matthew P.
name: Manthravadi, Deepa
name: Van Gerven, Laura
name: Jorissen, Mark
name: Zeng, Zhen
name: Khan, Mona
name: Mombaerts, Peter
name: Harrow, Jennifer
name: Logan, Darren W.
name: Frankish, Adam
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Human and rodent genomics
Olfactory receptor gene
Annotation
Curation
Mouse
Human

description: Abstract: Background: Olfactory receptor (OR) genes are the largest multi-gene family in the mammalian genome, with 874 in human and 1483 loci in mouse (including pseudogenes). The expansion of the OR gene repertoire has occurred through numerous duplication events followed by diversification, resulting in a large number of highly similar paralogous genes. These characteristics have made the annotation of the complete OR gene repertoire a complex task. Most OR genes have been predicted in silico and are typically annotated as intronless coding sequences. Results: Here we have developed an expert curation pipeline to analyse and annotate every OR gene in the human and mouse reference genomes. By combining evidence from structural features, evolutionary conservation and experimental data, we have unified the annotation of these gene families, and have systematically determined the protein-coding potential of each locus. We have defined the non-coding regions of many OR genes, enabling us to generate full-length transcript models. We found that 13 human and 41 mouse OR loci have coding sequences that are split across two exons. These split OR genes are conserved across mammals, and are expressed at the same level as protein-coding OR genes with an intronless coding region. Our findings challenge the long-standing and widespread notion that the coding region of a vertebrate OR gene is contained within a single exon. Conclusions: This work provides the most comprehensive curation effort of the human and mouse OR gene repertoires to date. The complete annotation has been integrated into the GENCODE reference gene set, for immediate availability to the research community.
Coherence length in superconductors from weak to strong coupling
Creators: name: Benfatto, L.
name: Toschi, A.
name: Caprara, S.
name: Castellani, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evolution of the superconducting coherence length $ξ_0$ from weak to strong coupling, both within a s-wave and a d-wave lattice model. We show that the identification of $ξ_0$ with the Cooper-pair size $ξ_{pair}$ in the weak-coupling regime is meaningful only for a fully-gapped (e.g., s-wave) superconductor. Instead in the d-wave superconductor, where $ξ_{pair}$ diverges, we show that $ξ_0$ is properly defined as the characteristic length scale for the correlation function of the modulus of the superconducting order parameter. The strong-coupling regime is quite intriguing, since the interplay between particle-particle and particle-hole channel is no more negligible. In the case of s-wave pairing, which allows for an analytical treatment, we show that $ξ_0$ is of order of the lattice spacing at finite densities. In the diluted regime $ξ_0$ diverges, recovering the behavior of the coherence length of a weakly interacting effective bosonic system. Similar results are expected to hold for d-wave superconductors.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures. Two appendices and new references added
Magnon-phonon interactions in magnetic insulators
Creators: name: Streib, Simon
name: Vidal-Silva, Nicolas
name: Shen, Ka
name: Bauer, Gerrit E. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the theory of magnon-phonon interactions and compute the corresponding quasi-particle and transport lifetimes in magnetic insulators with focus on yttrium iron garnet at intermediate temperatures from anisotropy- and exchange-mediated magnon-phonon interactions, the latter being derived from the volume dependence of the Curie temperature. We find in general weak effects of phonon scattering on magnon transport and the Gilbert damping of the macrospin Kittel mode. The magnon transport lifetime differs from the quasi-particle lifetime at shorter wavelengths.
description: 15 pages, 16 figures
Studies on the correlation between physicochemical properties of fly ash and its sorption of gas-phase arsenic
Creators: name: Zhang, Kaihua
name: Wang, Peng
name: Zhang, Dongxue
name: Zhang, Kai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This study investigated the adsorption behaviors of gas-phase arsenic on four kinds of fly ashes through using a fixed-bed reactor, and analyzed the correlation between sorption of gas-phase arsenic and physicochemical properties of fly ashes at different adsorption temperatures. The results showed that different fly ashes all had an adsorption effect on arsenic. The carbon content and specific surface area had a promoting effect on arsenic adsorption at the low temperature of 400℃, but there was no obvious correlation between arsenic adsorption and the contents of Fe2O3 and CaO. However, it was exactly the opposite at the high temperature of 600℃. So the correlation between physicochemical properties of fly ash and its sorption of arsenic was proved to vary with temperature. It was further revealed that the physical adsorption predominated in temperatures ranging between 200℃ and 400℃, while the chemical adsorption predominated at further higher temperatures. The optimal temperature to maintain a high arsenic capture efficiency should be around 600℃.
title: Intraspecific differences in the metabolic response of amphipods to elevated CO2 and hypoxia
Creators: name: Zandt, Emma Ingrid
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ocean acidification
subject: Hypoxia
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Metabolic rate
subject: Population comparison
subject: ResM

description: Periodic episodes of low oxygen (hypoxia) and elevated CO2 (hypercapnia) accompanied by low pH occur naturally in Norwegian fjord systems. Under the influence of climate change, the geographic range and intensity of hypoxia and hypercapnia are predicted to increase, especially considering the phenomenon of Arctic amplification. To examine the metabolic variability and physiological capabilities of amphipods to these stressors, a series of physiological measurements were performed on latitudinal subpopulations (60° and 69°) of the amphipod Echinogammarus marinus, acclimated to different natural thermal regimes. The effects of elevated pCO2 and hypoxia, separate and together, on thermal sensitivity (Q10), metabolic rate, activation energy (Ea), aerobic threshold and aerobic scope were evaluated by determining whole-animal rates of oxygen uptake (MO2). Our results showed no metabolic cold adaptation in the colder-water, high-latitude population (69°). While MO2, aerobic threshold and scope were reduced compared to the more temperate population (60°), there was no difference in resting metabolic rate. After acclimatisation to a common temperature, the populations at 60° showed significantly greater metabolic flexibility by upregulating nearly all measured parameters. The effect of hypoxia, hypercapnia, and their combined effect significantly reduced the MO2, Q10, Ea, aerobic threshold and aerobic scope of the 60° population. At the same time, no changes were observed in the high-latitude population. However, mortality within this population when exposed to the stressors, separately and combined, increased. Amphipods near the northern limit of their distribution show different metabolic responses, with increased sensitivity to elevated pCO2 and hypoxia, than those in the south. Living on the edge of their thermal tolerance range, the scope of these populations to adapt their metabolic activities to compensate for the influence of environmental stressors is severely limited. Considering the phenomenon of Arctic amplification of climate change impacts, these populations are under considerable threat.