cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of i-PRF in regenerative endodontics therapy for mature permanent teeth with pulp necrosis: study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Liang, Yuee
name: Ma, Rongyang
name: Chen, Lijuan
name: Dai, Xingzhu
name: Zuo, Shiya
name: Jiang, Weiyi
name: Hu, Naiming
name: Deng, Zilong
name: Zhao, Wanghong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents.
Thermodynamics and phase behavior of the lamellar Zwanzig model
Creators: name: Harnau, L.
name: Rowan, D. G.
name: Hansen, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binary mixtures of lamellar colloids represented by hard platelets are studied within a generalization of the Zwanzig model for rods, whereby the square cuboids can take only three orientations along the $x$, $y$ or $z$ axes. The free energy is calculated within Rosenfeld's ''Fundamental Measure Theory'' (FMT) adapted to the present model. In the one-component limit, the model exhibits the expected isotropic to nematic phase transition, which narrows as the aspect ratio $ζ=L/D$ ($D$ is the width and $L$ the thickness of the platelets) increases. In the binary case the competition between nematic ordering and depletion-induced segregation leads to rich phase behaviour.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Basidiobolus Eidam, Beitrage
Creators: name: Yang, Erfu
name: Tibpromma, Saowaluck
name: Dai, Dongqin
name: Promputtha, Itthayakorn
name: Mortimer, Peter E.
name: Karunarathna, Samantha C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Zygomycota
Basidiobolales
Basidiobolaceae
Basidiobolus

description: Basidiobolus Eidam, Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 4: 194 (1886)
Index Fungorum number: IF 20068
 Type species: Basidiobolus ranarum Eidam, Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen4: 194 (1886).
 Notes: Basidiobolus was introduced by Eidam, with B. ranarum as the type species (Eidam 1886). The zygospores are characterized as smooth and thick-walled, globose to subglose, with distinct conjugation beak (Burkitt 1964). Basidiobolus spp. and Conidiobolus spp. have been reported as human pathogens in the order Entomophthorales, and their zygospores differ by the presence or absence of conjugation beaks (Ribes et al. 2000, Yang et al. 2021). Basidiobolus ranarum can cause Zygomycosis to humans, and clinic symptoms include forming the firm and painless subcutaneous swellings on the trunk and extremities (Vilela & Mendoza 2018). In addition, Basidiobolus spp. have also caused diseases in horses and dogs (Owens et al. 1985, Greene et al. 2002). Moreover, B. ranarum as a saprotrophic fungus is commonly present in soil, decaying vegetables, gastrointestinal tracts of amphibians (frogs, and toads), reptiles (house geckoes, lizards, and chameleons), fish and bats (Van Overeem 1925, Burkitt et al. 1964, Gugnani & Okafor 1980, Mugerwa 1984, Okafor et al. 1984, Gugnani 1999).
description: Published as part of Yang, Erfu, Tibpromma, Saowaluck, Dai, Dongqin, Promputtha, Itthayakorn, Mortimer, Peter E. & Karunarathna, Samantha C., 2022, Three interesting fungal species associated with the Asian House Gecko in Kunming, China, pp. 37-56 in Phytotaxa 545 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.545.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6520349
XSPEC model for testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis using the continuum-fitting method
Creators: name: Zhou, Menglei
name: Abdikamalov, Askar B.
name: Ayzenberg, Dimitry
name: Bambi, Cosimo
name: Liu, Honghui
name: Nampalliwar, Sourabh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present NKBB, an XSPEC model for the thermal spectrum of thin accretion disks in parametric black hole spacetimes. We employ the Novikov-Thorne model for the description of the accretion disk and the formalism of the transfer function proposed by Cunningham for storing all the relativistic effects of the spacetime metric. The current version of the model assumes the Johannsen metric, but it can be easily extended to any stationary, axisymmetric, and asymptotically-flat spacetime without pathological properties. The model can be used within the XSPEC package to test the Kerr nature of astrophysical black holes with the continuum-fitting method.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures. v2: refereed version
Naming, Framing, and Claiming the Gap: Black Parent Perspectives on Achievement in Saint Paul Public Schools
Creators: Walker-Davis, Michelle Joy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Educational leadership
Education and state
School management and organization
Academic achievement
Educational equalization
African Americans--Education

description: This study broadly examines how Black parents in Minnesota’s Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) make sense of and respond to the achievement gap. Using a qualitative research design, I interviewed 21 SPPS Black parents, of diverse backgrounds, and seven district administrators to gather their perspectives on how the phenomenon known as the achievement gap is “named,” “framed,” and “claimed” within the mainstream educational community and through the unique experiences of Black parents in SPPS. Specifically, I asked: (1) to what extent are Black parents in SPPS aware of the race-based achievement gap, and how do they interpret or make sense of it; (2) how does knowledge of the gap influence the attitudes and interactions of Black parents in SPPS toward and with the school system; and (3) how do Black parents in SPPS engage in, or react to, the district’s efforts to develop and/or implement programs, policies, and practices designed to address the achievement gap? I found that the Black parents I interviewed have strong opinions about, and reactions to, academic outcomes and disparities. They are aware of disparities in education but don’t think or talk about the achievement gap in the same way as is dominant in public discourse. The parents acknowledge many reasons why children don’t do well and have something to say about what should done and by whom. Their engagement in their children’s schooling experience, whether visible or not (especially if not), is a form of resistance and advocacy, and they want and need to be part of a larger movement to amplify their collective voice. This study is intended to provide guidance to leaders and decision-makers in SPPS as the district develops, implements, or redesigns programs, policies, and practices aimed at eliminating racial disparities in student achievement. In particular, I recommend that careful and ongoing exploration of Black parent perspectives and behaviors would be useful to the district’s efforts to address the achievement gap.
Enhancing anomia assessment (Fergadiotis et al., 2019)
Creators: name: Fergadiotis, Gerasimos
name: Hula, William D.
name: Swiderski, Alexander M.
name: Chia-Ming Lei
name: Kellough, Stacey
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Language
subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Purpose: In this study, we investigated the agreement between the 175-item Philadelphia Naming Test (PNT; Roach, Schwartz, Martin, Grewal, & Brecher, 1996) and a 30-item computer adaptive PNT (PNT-CAT; Fergadiotis, Kellough, & Hula, 2015; Hula, Kellough, & Fergadiotis, 2015) created using item response theory (IRT) methods.Method: The full PNT and the PNT-CAT were administered to 47 participants with aphasia in counterbalanced order. Latent trait-naming ability estimates for the 2 PNT versions were analyzed in a Bayesian framework, and the agreement between them was evaluated using correlation and measures of constant, variable, and total error. We also evaluated the extent to which individual pairwise differences were credibly greater than 0 and whether the IRT measurement model provided an adequate indication of the precision of individual score estimates.Results: The agreement between the PNT and the PNTCAT was strong, as indicated by high correlation (r = .95, 95% CI [.92, .97]), negligible bias, and low variable and total error. The number of statistically robust pairwise score differences did not credibly exceed the Type I error rate, and the precision of individual score estimates was reasonably well predicted by the IRT model.Discussion: The strong agreement between the full PNT and the PNT-CAT suggests that the latter is a suitable measurement of anomia in group studies. The relatively robust estimates of score precision also suggest that the PNT-CAT can be useful for the clinical assessment of anomia in individual cases. Finally, the IRT methods used to construct the PNT-CAT provide a framework for additional development to further reduce measurement error.
Supplemental Material S1. Stan code.
Supplemental Material S2. Traceplots and autocorrelation plots.
Fergadiotis, G., Hula, W. D., Swiderski, A. M., Lei, C.-M., & Kellough, S. (2019). Enhancing the efficiency of confrontation naming assessment for aphasia using computer adaptive testing. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 1724–1738. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-18-0344
Classical solutions in five dimensional induced matter theory and its relation to an imperfect fluid
Creators: name: Socorro, J.
name: Villanueva, V. M.
name: Pimentel, Luis O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study five dimensional cosmological models with four dimensional hypersufaces of the Bianchi type I and V. In this way the five dimensional vacuum field equations $\rm G_{AB} = 0$, led us to four dimensional matter equations $\rm G_{μν}=T_{μν}$ and the matter is interpreted as a purely geometrical property of a fifth dimension. Also, we find that the energy-momentum tensor induced from the fifth dimension has the structure of an imperfect fluid that has dissipative terms.
description: 16 pages, latex, no figures
Shock waves in one-dimensional Heisenberg ferromagnets
Creators: name: Konotop, V. V.
name: Salerno, M.
name: Takeno, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use SU(2) coherent state path integral formulation with the stationary phase approximation to investigate, both analytically and numerically, the existence of shock waves in the one- dimensional Heisenberg ferromagnets with anisotropic exchange interaction. As a result we show the existence of shock waves of two types,"bright" and "dark", which can be interpreted as moving magnetic domains.
description: 10 pages, with 3 ps figures
Second Order Perturbation Theory in General Relativity: Taub Charges as Integral Constraints
Creators: name: Altas, Emel
name: Tekin, Bayram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a nonlinear theory, such as General Relativity, linearized field equations around an exact solution are necessary but not sufficient conditions for linearized solutions. Therefore, the linearized field equations can have some solutions which do not come from the linearization of possible exact solutions. This fact can make the perturbation theory ill-defined, which would be a problem both at the classical and semiclassical quantization level. Here we study the first and second order perturbation theory in cosmological Einstein gravity and give the explicit form of the integral constraint, which is called the Taub charge, on the first order solutions for spacetimes with a Killing symmetry and a compact hypersurface without a boundary.
description: 15 pages, typos fixed, version to appear in PRD
Policy Briefing: Hot Property in New Zealand: Housing bubbles in the metropolitan centres
Creators: name: Greenaway-McGrevy, Ryan
name: Woodward, Suzanne
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120503 Housing Markets, Development, Management
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Housing has become prohibitively expensive in many regions of New Zealand, putting home ownership beyond the reach of a growing number of New Zealand households, particularly those without wider sources of family financial support. When measured relative to household income, house prices in Auckland are among the most expensive in the world, and now exceed those of London and San Francisco. The expensive nature of New Zealand real estate is due, at least in part, to the sustained market exuberance that has produced a broad-based bubble in house prices.
Additional file 2 of Virtual reconstruction of midfacial bone defect based on generative adversarial network
Creators: name: Xiong, Yu-Tao
name: Zeng, Wei
name: Xu, Lei
name: Guo, Ji-Xiang
name: Liu, Chang
name: Chen, Jun-Tian
name: Du, Xin-Ya
name: Tang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. (PDF 873 kb)
Nanolithographic Control of Double-Stranded DNA at the Single-Molecule Level
Creators: Fazio, Teresa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Materials science
Nanolithography
Nanobiotechnology
DNA--Analysis
Nanostructured materials

description: This thesis describes methods for constructing nanopatterned surfaces to array DNA. These surfaces enable direct observation of heretofore-unseen single-molecule reactions, eliminating bulk effects and enabling scientists to examine DNA mismatch repair and replication, including the first direct visualization of proteins binding to a target mismatch. This also facilitates directed self-organization of nanoscale features on a patterned substrate using DNA as an assembly tool.
      To make techniques for single-molecule visualization of biological processes more accessible, we have developed a novel technology called "DNA curtains," in which a combination of fluid lipid bilayers, nanofabricated barriers to lipid diffusion, and hydrodynamic flow can organize lipid-tethered DNA molecules into dened patterns on the surface of a microfluidic sample chamber.
      Using DNA curtains, aligned DNA molecules can be visualized by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, allowing simultaneous observation of hundreds of individual molecules within a field-of-view. Ultimately, this results in a 100X improvement in experimental throughput, and a corresponding increase in statistically signicant amounts of data.
      We also demonstrate site-specific labeling of DNA using DNA analogues, such as peptide nucleic acid (PNA), locked nucleic acid (LNA), and techniques such as nick-translation. Through PNA invasion, labeled DNA was self-assembled in arrays on surfaces and tagged with gold nanoparticles. In this work, DNA formed a template to self-assemble a nanoparticle in between nanoimprinted AuPd dots. Surface-based self-assembly methods offer potential for DNA employment in bottom-up construction of nanoscale arrays. This offers further proof that DNA can be useful in directed self-assembly of nanoscale architectures.
Stability radius and internal versus external stability in Banach spaces: an evolution semigroup approach
Creators: name: Clark, Stephen
name: Latushkin, Yuri
name: Montgomery-Smith, Stephen J.
name: Randolph, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47D06, 34G10, 93C25, 93D09, 93D25

description: In this paper the theory of evolution semigroups is developed and used to provide a framework to study the stability of general linear control systems. These include time-varying systems modeled with unbounded state-space operators acting on Banach spaces. This approach allows one to apply the classical theory of strongly continuous semigroups to time-varying systems. In particular, the complex stability radius may be expressed explicitly in terms of the generator of a (evolution) semigroup. Examples are given to show that classical formulas for the stability radius of an autonomous Hilbert-space system fail in more general settings. Upper and lower bounds on the stability radius are provided for these general systems. In addition, it is shown that the theory of evolution semigroups allows for a straightforward operator-theoretic analysis of internal stability as determined by classical frequency-domain and input-output operators, even for nonautonomous Banach-space systems
description: Also at http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/preprints
Nanomaterials from Nanocomponents: Synthesis and Properties of Hybrid Nanomaterials
Creators: Akey, Austin Joseph
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Materials science
Physics

description: This thesis consists of two series of investigations into two different classes of hybrid nanomaterials, their formation and properties. In the first part of this thesis, hybrid nanomaterials composed of cadmium selenide nanoparticles and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are discussed; a novel synthetic method for these hybrids is presented, and an anomalous photoluminescence behavior is examined. Our experiments show that SWNTs can be decorated with CdSe nanoparticles at high loading densities, following the removal of the nanoparticle surface ligands and replacement with pyridine. The resulting hybrids are thermally stable up to 350ºC and mechanically stable against sonication. The photoluminescence Stokes shift in the bound nanoparticles is shown to be reduced relative to that of unbound nanoparticles. This difference is attributed to Forster resonance energy transfer from the nanoparticles to the nanotube, leading to hot luminescence in the nanoparticles. The second part of this thesis focuses on formation strategies and mechanisms for nanoparticle superlattices. Supercrystals, as they are called, are formed using lithographically-patterned reservoirs and capillary channels, giving control over both supercrystal dimensions and placement; these supercrystals form within a few hours, much faster than those previously reported. These results are extended to the formation of large-area (> 10 µm lateral dimension) thick (> 1 µm) supercrystals on substrates, and the formation mechanism probed by in situ small-angle x-ray scattering. Both monocomponent and binary supercrystals are examined.
Chichester and the Westhampnett Poor Law Union
Creators: name: Fletcher, Barry
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 134, 185-196
description: This article examines the relationship between the city of Chichester and the Westhampnett Poor Law Union between 1835 and 1930 and discusses the reasons why a poor-law union based on Chichester and the surrounding rural parishes was never formed.
A discussion of some aspects of copper loading and stream flow below the abandoned copper mine on Mount Washington, British Columbia
Creators: name: Birtwistle, Jamie
name: Campbell, Sean
name: Carleton, Laura
name: Fodor, Simon
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This paper is an excerpt from the report “Loading and Stream Flow Below the Abandoned Mount Washington Copper Mine, British Columbia”, written in the Spring (2005) and submitted as part of a sustainability project in Camosun College, Victoria, BC. In the 1980s, studies attributed a decline in salmon populations in the Tsolum river to poor water quality caused by acid mine drainage and high copper concentrations in the creeks flowing off the Mount Washington mine site. Various remediation projects were initiated, with studies conducted to measure their effectiveness. The subject of this paper is the relationship between flow and copper loadings. The study uses historical data and the results of sampling, and analysis in 2005. The results show a clear relationship between flow and copper loadings at most times of year. When discharge is low to moderate, the supply of soluble, weathered copper on the mine site is ample, and the loading-discharge relationship is discharge-dependent and linear. However, through the high discharge of the late spring freshet and winter rains, the supply of soluble, weathered copper appears to become depleted. At such times, the relationship between loading and flow is apparently non-linear.
Binary Darboux-Backlund Transformations for the Manin-Radul Super KdV Hierarchy
Creators: name: Shaw, Jiin-Chang
name: Tu, Ming-Hsien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the supersymmetric extensions of the Darboux-Backlund transformations (DBTs) for the Manin-Radul super KdV hierarchy using the super-pseudo-differential operators. The elementary DBTs are triggered by the gauge operators constructed from the wave functions and adjoint wave functions of the hierarchy. Iterating these elementary DBTs, we obtain not only Wronskian type but also binary type superdeterminant representations of the solutions.
description: 14 pages, Revtex, no figures, some typos corrected, two references added
Modelling and analysis of fractional-order regulated systems in the state space
Creators: name: Dorcak, L.
name: Petras, I.
name: Kostial, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A33 (Primary), 9305 (Secondary)

description: In this paper we present the mathematical description and analysis of a fractional-order regulated system in the state space. A little historical background of our results in the analysis and synthesis of the fractional-order dynamical regulated systems is given. The methods and results of simulations of the fractional-order system described by a state space equation equivalent to three-member fractional-order differential equation with a fractional-order $PD^δ$ regulator are then presented. The possibility of investigating the stability of such systems is also considered.
description: LaTeX v.2.09, 4 pages, 3 figures
Nanophotonics for Optoelectronic Devices: Extrinsic Silicon Photonic Receivers and Organic Photovoltaics
Creators: Grote, Richard
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Electrical engineering
Electromagnetism
Optics

description: The demand for high data rate communications and renewable energy sources has led to new materials and platforms for optoelectronic devices, which require nanometer scale feature sizes.  Devices that operate in the visible and near-infrared commonly have active areas with dimensions on the order of the diffraction limit λ/2^n, where λ is the free space wavelength and n is the index of refraction, for which the ray optics modeling techniques and bulk focusing optics traditionally used in optoelectronic device design are no longer applicable.  In this subwavelength regime, nanophotonic light-trapping strategies are required to localize electromagnetic fields in the active area.
      This dissertation details the application of nanophotonics to two optoelectronic systems: extrinsic photodetectors for silicon photonics and light-trapping in organic photovoltaics.  Error-free reception of 10 Gb/s data at λ = 1.55 μm is demonstrated with a Si⁺ ion-implanted silicon waveguide photodiode.  To mitigate the relatively small absorption coefficient of ion-implanted silicon, resonant cavity enhancement using in-line Fabry-Pérot and 1D photonic crystal cavities, as well as slow light enhancement using a coupled resonator optical waveguide are discussed.  The extension of these photodiodes to the mid-infrared is demonstrated using Zn⁺ implantation to detect over a range of λ = 2.2-2.4 μm, and a new method for modulation and switching in integrated optics by using interference in a resonant cavity, termed coherent perfect loss (CPL), is presented.  Finally, the upper limit of nanophotonic light trapping is derived for organic photovoltaics with material anisotropy included.
Housing the Agricultural Worker in Nineteenth Century Sussex: A Case Study
Creators: name: Sheppard, June A
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 131, 185-192
description: Using tithe and census evidence, all dwellings occupied by working-class families in the parish of Chiddingly in 1821, 1841, 1851and1861 have been identified. These are then analysed by building type, exlent of crowding and continuity of occupancy by the same family. Jn 1821 and 1841, sub-divided old farmhouses, small old houses and purpose-built cottages formed roughly equal proportions of the housing stock occupied; subsequently purpose-built cottages became the major type. There was some overcrowding during the first two decades but it became less common later. Many families remained in the same dwelling for long periods.
Generating Compact Geometric Track-Maps for Train Positioning Applications
Creators: name: Winter, Hanno
name: Luthardt, Stefan
name: Willert, Volker
name: Adamy, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present a method to generate compact geometric track-maps for train-borne localization applications. Therefore, we first give a brief overview on the purpose of track maps in train-positioning applications. It becomes apparent that there are hardly any adequate methods to generate suitable geometric track-maps. This is why we present a novel map generation procedure. It uses an optimization formulation to find the continuous sequence of track geometries that fits the available measurement data best. The optimization is initialized with the results from a localization filter developed in our previous work. The localization filter also provides the required information for shape identification and measurement association. The presented approach will be evaluated on simulated data as well as on real measurements.
Nanoporous Gold: Mechanics of Fabrication and Actuation
Creators: Okman, Oya
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nanotechnology
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology
subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Materials science

description: This thesis investigates fabrication methods for Nanoporous Gold (NPG), the complex nature of the film stress evolution in thin films during their fabrication and during surface charging. Fabrication of microstructures comprised of NPG requires a precise control over selective corrosion of the precursor alloy. In many designs, the precursor alloy is constrained to a substrate, and complex surface reconstruction during dealloying potentially leads to a high overall stress in the newly forming NPG. Hence, constrained NPG thin films or suspended NPG structures often develop cracks in fabrication. Similarly, nanovoids in thin film precursor alloys or low Au content in the precursor alloys may lead to fractures in the NPG thin films, which compromise integrity and functionality of the resulting architecture. Recently developed scalable electrochemical methods, for which the rate of removal of the less noble elements in the precursor alloy can be precisely controlled, produce crack-free blanket films constrained to a substrate. In this study, conventional as well as newly developed NPG fabrication techniques are assessed from a microscale fabrication perspective, with regard to the NPG product quality, means of tailoring the final porous structure and their compatibility with the standard microdevice fabrication techniques. A galvanostatic dealloying method is introduced, and shown to be effective in fabrication of constrained, crack-free, blanket NPG films on stiff substrates. Surface stress evolution during NPG fabrication is investigated using an optical multi-beam stress sensor (MOSS). The characteristic stress variation, range of the film stress, and effects of fabrication parameters are presented. The findings suggest that the film stress increases fast in the earlier stages of dealloying, proportional to the Ag dissolution rate. Film stress relief dominates during fabrication, with enhanced Au diffusion rate and increase of surface area. Upon surface charging NPG can expand significantly due to the capillary forces created at the double layer interface. A NPG based actuation device is designed to demonstrate its mechanical response with regard to surface charging. The performance of NPG proves to be sufficient for use in MEMS actuators.
Beauveria Vuill.
Creators: name: Yang, Erfu
name: Tibpromma, Saowaluck
name: Dai, Dongqin
name: Promputtha, Itthayakorn
name: Mortimer, Peter E.
name: Karunarathna, Samantha C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Hypocreales
Cordycipitaceae
Beauveria

description: Beauveria Vuill., Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 59: 40 (1912)
Index Fungorum number: IF 7346
 Type species: Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill., Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 59: 40 (1912)
 Notes: Beauveria was first described by Balsamo-Crivelli (1835) as Botrytis bassiana, but later the name was changed to Beauveria bassiana, and it was assigned as the type species of new independent genus Beauveria in Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreales (Paul Vuillemin 1912). This genus was characterized asexually by having globose bases and extended denticulate rachis, unicellular, ball-like, holoblastic conidia (<3.5 μm diam) formed on globose to flaskshaped phialide conidiogenous cells (Costa et al. 2011, Chen et al. 2013), whereas the sexual morphs produce solitary, paired or gregarious stromata, cylindrical to clavate, yellowish to orange, cylindrical and filiform ascospores (Kepler et al. 2017). Beauveria bassiana has been reported as a pathogen of silkworms as early as 900 AD in Japan, and it was documented that the pathogen resulted in serious silkworm disease in Italy and France around 1800 (Samson et al. 2013). However, some Beauveria spp. also were reported as endophytes or saprobes associated with various plants (Vega et al. 2008, Moonjely et al. 2016, Imoulana et al. 2017, Chen et al. 2018, Khonsanit et al. 2020). Beauveria is a widespread anamorphic genus of entomopathogenic fungi, which includes ecologically and economically important species, for example, B. bassiana is widely utilized as a biological pest control agent in agriculture (Zimmermann 2007, Khonsanit et al. 2020).
description: Published as part of Yang, Erfu, Tibpromma, Saowaluck, Dai, Dongqin, Promputtha, Itthayakorn, Mortimer, Peter E. & Karunarathna, Samantha C., 2022, Three interesting fungal species associated with the Asian House Gecko in Kunming, China, pp. 37-56 in Phytotaxa 545 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.545.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6520349
Green Product Consumers Segmentation Using Self- Organizing Maps in Iran
Creators: name: Delafrooz, Narges
name: Moghaddam, Sina Siavash
name: Delafrooz, Narges
name: Moghaddam, Sina Siavash
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: green product
subject: Green Consumer Behavior
subject: market segmentation
subject: self-organizing maps

description: This study aims to segment the market based on demographical, psychological, and behavioral variables, and seeks to investigate their relationship with green consumer behavior. In this research, self-organizing maps are used to segment and to determine the features of green consumer behavior. This was a survey type of research study in which eight variables were selected from the demographical, psychological, and behavioral dimensions. Data were gathered through researcher-made questionnaire and distributed it among the statistical population (supermarket chains in Rasht city). The sample size was 392. The result showed that among the demographical variables, age, sex, and education had a direct contribution with green consumer behavior, whereas income had an adverse relationship with that. Psychological and behavioral variables including personal values, religiosity, environmental knowledge and attitudes, and personal habits are key predictors of green consumer behavior. The results identified four segments, which were called intense greens, potential greens, selfish darks, and intense darks. Green product marketers and producers can determine the target market using the results and employ an appropriate combined marketing strategy for consumers' based on their respective features.
Factors Affecting Revenue Share of Iranian Tomato Paste Exporting Companies
Creators: name: Zohoori, S. Ehsan
name: Mohamadi-Nejad, Amir
name: Moghaddasi, Reza
name: Zohoori, S. Ehsan
name: Mohamadi-Nejad, Amir
name: Moghaddasi, Reza
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: fractional values
subject: gravity model
subject: tomato-paste export

description: This study aimed to investigate factors affecting the revenue share of Iranian tomato paste exporting companies. Flexible estimation method was used on a twodimensional panel data set including 224 observations from 14 tomato paste manufacturing and exporting companies and 16 importing countries during 2005-12. Results showed that value added per employee in manufacturing or exporting companies, and dummy variables (common border, religion and number of documents needed to import) had positive effect on the revenue share of a given company. The import tariff rates of selected countries and distance had a negative effect on the export revenue share of all companies. Accordingly, programmers and policy makers should provide background information about the productivity of labor force in these companies via researching, developing, and promoting production technologies, which will increase the exporting revenue share of this product. Furthermore, by making bilateral and multilateral contracts and agreements, the tariff rates can be reduced to increase the revenue share of the tomato paste export.
Short Wavelength Cutoff Effects in the AC Fluctuation Conductivity of Superconductors
Creators: name: Peligrad, D. -N.
name: Dulcic, A.
name: Mehring, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The short wavelength cutoff has been introduced in the calculation of ac fluctuation conductivity of superconductors. It is shown that a finite cutoff leads to a breakdown of the scaling property in frequency and temperature. Also, it increases the phase phi of the complex conductivity (tan(phi)=sigma_2/sigma_1) beyond pi/4 at T_c. Detailed expressions containing all essential parameters are derived for 3D isotropic and anisotropic fluctuation conductivity. In the 2D case we obtain individual expressions for the fluctuation conductivity for each term in the sum over discrete wavevectors perpendicular to the film plane.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Geometrical Hyperbolic Systems for General Relativity and Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Abrahams, A.
name: Anderson, A.
name: Choquet-Bruhat, Y.
name: York, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution equations of Einstein's theory and of Maxwell's theory---the latter used as a simple model to illustrate the former--- are written in gauge covariant first order symmetric hyperbolic form with only physically natural characteristic directions and speeds for the dynamical variables. Quantities representing gauge degrees of freedom [the spatial shift vector $β^{i}(t,x^{j})$ and the spatial scalar potential $ϕ(t,x^{j})$, respectively] are not among the dynamical variables: the gauge and the physical quantities in the evolution equations are effectively decoupled. For example, the gauge quantities could be obtained as functions of $(t,x^{j})$ from subsidiary equations that are not part of the evolution equations. Propagation of certain (``radiative'') dynamical variables along the physical light cone is gauge invariant while the remaining dynamical variables are dragged along the axes orthogonal to the spacelike time slices by the propagating variables. We obtain these results by $(1)$ taking a further time derivative of the equation of motion of the canonical momentum, and $(2)$ adding a covariant spatial derivative of the momentum constraints of general relativity (Lagrange multiplier $β^{i}$) or of the Gauss's law constraint of electromagnetism (Lagrange multiplier $ϕ$). General relativity also requires a harmonic time slicing condition or a specific generalization of it that brings in the Hamiltonian constraint when we pass to first order symmetric form. The dynamically propagating gravity fields straightforwardly determine the ``electric'' or ``tidal'' parts of the Riemann tensor.
description: 24 pages, latex, no figures
Stellar content, planetary nebulae, and globular clusters of [KKS2000]04 (NGC1052-DF2)
Creators: name: Ruiz-Lara, T.
name: Trujillo, I.
name: Beasley, M. A.
name: Falcón-Barroso, J.
name: Vazdekis, A.
name: Filho, M.
name: Monelli, M.
name: Román, J.
name: Almeida, J. Sánchez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [KKS2000]04 (NGC1052-DF2) has become a controversial and well-studied galaxy after the claims suggesting a lack of dark matter and the presence of an anomalously bright globular cluster (GC) system around it. A precise determination of its overall star formation history (SFH) as well as a better characterisation of its GC or planetary nebulae (PN) systems are crucial aspects to: i) understand its real nature, in particular placing it within the family of ultra diffuse galaxies; ii) shed light on its possible formation, evolution, and survival in the absence of dark matter. With this purpose we expand on the knowledge of [KKS2000]04 from the analysis of OSIRIS@GTC spectroscopic data. On the one hand, we claim the possible detection of two new PNe and confirm membership of 5 GCs. On the other hand, we find that the stars shaping [KKS2000]04 are intermediate-age to old (90\% of its stellar mass older than 5 Gyr, average age of 8.7 $\pm$ 0.7 Gyr) and metal-poor ([M/H] $\sim$ -1.18 $\pm$ 0.05), in general agreement with previous results. We do not find any clear hints of significant changes in its stellar content with radius. In addition, the possibility of [KKS2000]04 being a tidal dwarf galaxy with no dark matter is highly disfavoured.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Structure-guided engineering of a flavin-containing monooxygenase for the efficient production of indirubin
Creators: name: Sun, Bing-Yao
name: Sui, Hua-Lu
name: Liu, Zi-Wei
name: Tao, Xin-Yi
name: Gao, Bei
name: Zhao, Ming
name: Ma, Yu-Shu
name: Zhao, Jian
name: Liu, Min
name: Wang, Feng-Qing
name: Wei, Dong-Zhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Experimental details Tables S1−2; The ratio of indirubin and indigo in the mutants (Table S3); Steady-state kinetic parameters of bFMO and the mutants toward NADPH (Table S4); Comparing the crystal structures of 2XVE and 2XVJ (Fig. S1); The 96-well-plants for screening the mutants (Fig. S2); The characterizations of the mutants (Figs. S3−S6).
Relative entropy for coherent states in chiral CFT
Creators: name: Hollands, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the relative entropy between the vacuum state and a state obtained by applying an exponentiated stress tensor to the vacuum of a chiral conformal field theory on the lightray. The smearing function of the stress tensor can be viewed as a vector field on the real line generating a diffeomorphism. We show that the relative entropy is equal to $c$ times the so-called Schwarzian action of the diffeomorphism. As an application of this result, we obtain a formula for the relative entropy between the vacuum and a solitonic state.
description: v2: 19pp, no figures. Extended more detailed version of v1, stronger results, refs. edited, minor presentation changes
Nanostructured Platforms for Biological Study
Creators: Hu, Junqiang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nanostructures
subject: Nanocomposites (Materials)
subject: Nanotechnology
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology
subject: Biomedical materials--Mechanical properties
subject: Immunology--Equipment and supplies
subject: Nanostructured materials
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biology

description: This thesis focuses on the study of nanotechnology and its applications in immunology and mechanosensing using micro- and nano-scale topographies, such as gratings, grids, and pillar substrates. In the past five years, we have developed three types of platforms and explored the influence of nano-patterned substrates on cell morphology, proliferation, protein secretion, and mechanosensing.
      I will introduce the three generations of Integrated Mechanobiology Platform (IMP) for T cell study, including the fabrication process of each generation of IMP, their advantages and disadvantages, and the comparison with existing High Throughput Screening System (HTSS). For the applications of IMP, I will focus on grating and grid topographies with IMP generation 3 format, and study how these nano-patterned substrates affect T cell morphology, expansion, cytokine secretion, drug-topography combination effects on T cells and long-term expansion for adoptive immunotherapy. I will demonstrate how IMP enables such studies in a high throughput manner.
      I also will discuss how Multiple Stiffness Pillar Platform (MSPP) facilitates the study of mechanosensing in cells spanning across different rigidities. First, I will talk about how MSPP is different from existing dual stiffness platforms. Differences include flexibility in distribution of different rigidities, consistency in pillar dimensions and ease of controlling the stiffness fold increase. In the sections of MSPP fabrication and characterization, I will focus on measurements of stiffness change and surface chemistry uniformity. I will then discuss the Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast (MEF) mechanosensing study on dual stiffness pillar substrates, including the preferential localization of rigidity sensing associated proteins (myosin IIA, phosph-myosin, paxillin, and p130CAS), MEFs actomyosin network building, and adhesion formation. These studies revealed previously undiscovered results in MEF mechanosensing, and demonstrate the great potential of MSPP in this research discipline.
      In the last part of this thesis, I will present on the mass production of thermoplastic nanopatterned molds. The demonstrated technology can produce large batches of nanostructured molds with decreased fabrication time and expense. In this chapter, I will discuss the necessity of developing such a technology and platform, as well as the design, fabrication, and characterization of the thermoplastic nano-patterned molds.
Binding free energy calculations for protein-ligand systems
Creators: name: Gapsys, Vytautas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Binding free energy
Non-equilibrium processes
Gromacs
pmx
FEP+
Protein-ligand systems
OFFwebinar

description: Vytautas Gapsys (de Groot lab) was hosted by the Mobley lab at UC Irvine on Aug 21, 2019, where he presented his work on calculations of relative ligand-protein affinities using Gromacs+pmx approach. His talk also covered a free energy scan based on the non-equilibrium protocol covering ~500 ligand modifications across 13 protein-ligand systems, and provided comparison of the obtained results to FEP+ calculations. The uploaded material contains presenation slides and video.
Detection and identification of single ribonucleotide monophosphates using a dual in-plane nanopore sensor made in a thermoplastic via replication
Creators: name: Choi, Junseo
name: Childers, Katie
name: Soper, Steven A.
name: McKinney, Collin
name: Verber, Matthew
name: Chibuike, Maximillian
name: Akabirov, Khurshed
name: Rathnayaka, Chathurika
name: Chandrosoma, Indu A.
name: Hall, Adam R.
name: Shiri, Farhad
name: Lee, Maxwell
name: Park, Sunggook
Publisher: name: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Year: 2024

description: We report the generation of ∼8 nm dual in-plane pores fabricated in a thermoplastic via nanoimprint lithography (NIL). These pores were connected in series with nanochannels, one of which served as a flight tube to allow the identification of single molecules based on their molecular-dependent apparent mobilities (i.e., dual in-plane nanopore sensor). Two different thermoplastics were investigated including poly(methyl methacrylate), PMMA, and cyclic olefin polymer, COP, as the substrate for the sensor both of which were sealed using a low glass transition cover plate (cyclic olefin co-polymer, COC) that could be thermally fusion bonded to the PMMA or COP substrate at a temperature minimizing nanostructure deformation. Unique to these dual in-plane nanopore sensors was two pores flanking each side of the nanometer flight tube (50 × 50 nm, width × depth) that was 10 μm in length. The utility of this dual in-plane nanopore sensor was evaluated to not only detect, but also identify single ribonucleotide monophosphates (rNMPs) by using the travel time (time-of-flight, ToF), the resistive pulse event amplitude, and the dwell time. In spite of the relatively large size of these in-plane pores (∼8 nm effective diameter), we could detect via resistive pulse sensing (RPS) single rNMP molecules at a mass load of 3.9 fg, which was ascribed to the unique structural features of the nanofluidic network and the use of a thermoplastic with low relative dielectric constants, which resulted in a low RMS noise level in the open pore current. Our data indicated that the identification accuracy of individual rNMPs was high, which was ascribed to an improved chromatographic contribution to the nano-electrophoresis apparent mobility. With the ToF data only, the identification accuracy was 98.3%. However, when incorporating the resistive pulse sensing event amplitude and dwell time in conjunction with the ToF and analyzed via principal component analysis (PCA), the identification accuracy reached 100%. These findings pave the way for the realization of a novel chip-based single-molecule RNA sequencing technology.