cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Terahertz sensing with spoof plasmon surfaces
Creators: name: Ng, Binghao
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Terahertz (THz) radiation (≈ 0.1−10×10^12 Hz) is non-ionizing and its photon energies correspond to the rotational and vibrational modes of many complex molecules. Hence many substances of interest for biological and security applications can be detected using THz light; making THz spectroscopy an ideal tool for bio- and security sensing. However, a size mismatch between the photon wavelength and the size of many commonly sensed targets, and a lack of powerful sources hamper the progress of THz technology towards more widespread real-world applications. The focus of this thesis is to use novel concepts in the field of metamaterials to overcome or side step some of these challenges. In particular, the use of confined electromagnetic surface modes, such as lattice resonances and spoof plasmons, on metamaterial surfaces to conduct THz sensing is investigated. Different ways in which sensing information can be extracted from these specially structured metamaterial surfaces are explored so as to demonstrate the feasibility and versatility of metamaterial surfaces in THz sensing applications. The application of lattice resonances to detect refractive index changes caused by various fluids on an array of metallic rods is first reported in this thesis. This can be seen as a prelude to the work presented in later chapters where strongly confined spoof plasmons are employed for THz sensing. A metamaterial surface supporting spoof plasmons (simply termed as a Spoof Plasmon Surface (SPS)), consisting of a linear array of metallised sub-wavelength grooves, is filled with various fluids and shown to be capable of high performance refractive index sensing in an Otto prism setup. Sharp phase changes, readily available from THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS), associated with the coupling of THz radiation to spoof plasmons are used as the readout response in this case to indicate changes in the refractive indices of the fluids filling the grooves. Building upon the initial work on spoof plasmon sensing, further investigations demonstrate the feasibility of SPSs as a versatile platform on which various forms of sensing information can be extracted by using THz radiation that is coupled in and out of spoof plasmons via the scattering edge coupling scheme. The time-domain signal from the SPS is analysed using a short- time Fourier transform (STFT), enabling the extraction of the broadband spoof plasmon dispersion with a single measurement as well as the attenuation coefficient with a minimum of two measurements. Broadband sensing is demonstrated, again by filling the grooves with various fluids, which results in changes in the spoof plasmon dispersion and attenuation coefficients. In addition, the observation of the absorption peak of α-lactose monohydrate at 1.37 THz due to the enhanced light- matter interactions on an SPS is demonstrated and opens the door towards a more spectroscopic approach to THz sensing using SPSs.
Stellar and Planetary Characterization of the Ross 128 Exoplanetary System from APOGEE Spectra
Creators: name: Souto, Diogo
name: Unterborn, Cayman T.
name: Smith, Verne V.
name: Cunha, Katia
name: Teske, Johanna
name: Covey, Kevin
name: Rojas-Ayala, Barbara
name: Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.
name: Stassun, Keivan
name: Zamora, Olga
name: Masseron, Thomas
name: Johnson, J. A.
name: Majewski, Steven R.
name: Jonsson, Henrik
name: Gilhool, Steven
name: Blake, Cullen
name: Santana, Felipe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first detailed chemical abundance analysis of the M dwarf (M4.0) exoplanet-hosting star Ross 128 is presented here, based upon near-infrared (1.5--1.7 \micron) high-resolution ($R$$\sim$22,500) spectra from the SDSS-APOGEE survey. We determined precise atmospheric parameters $T_{\rm eff}$=3231$\pm$100K, log$g$=4.96$\pm$0.11 dex and chemical abundances of eight elements (C, O, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti, and Fe), finding Ross 128 to have near solar metallicity ([Fe/H] = +0.03$\pm$0.09 dex). The derived results were obtained via spectral synthesis (1-D LTE) adopting both MARCS and PHOENIX model atmospheres; stellar parameters and chemical abundances derived from the different adopted models do not show significant offsets. Mass-radius modeling of Ross 128b indicate that it lies below the pure rock composition curve, suggesting that it contains a mixture of rock and iron, with the relative amounts of each set by the ratio of Fe/Mg. If Ross 128b formed with a sub-solar Si/Mg ratio, and assuming the planet's composition matches that of the host-star, it likely has a larger core size relative to the Earth. The derived planetary parameters -- insolation flux (S$_{\rm Earth}$=1.79$\pm$0.26) and equilibrium temperature ($T_{\rm eq}$=294$\pm$10K) -- support previous findings that Ross 128b is a temperate exoplanet in the inner edge of the habitable zone.
description: Accepted in ApJLetters, 3 figures, 2 tables, 12 pages
Aranea palustris Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Araneidae
Aranea
Aranea palustris

description: Aranea palustris [spec. nov.]
A. abdomine oblongo nebuloso: lineis lateralibus albis. Fn. svec. 1219.
Habitat in paludibus caespitosis exsiccatis.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 623, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour le prieuré de Gilly : rachat de la rente due à Saint-Germain-des-Prés (c. 1501), Cart. 194 (11 H 636), 64 folios, f. 0053
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour le prieuré de Gilly : rachat de la rente due à Saint-Germain-des-Prés (c. 1501), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 194 (11 H 636), 64 folios, f. 0053, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour le prieuré de Gilly : rachat de la rente due à Saint-Germain-des-Prés (c. 1501), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 194 (11 H 636), 64 folios, f. 0053, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Dynamical analysis and cosmological viability of varying $G$ and $Λ$ cosmology
Creators: name: Paliathanasis, Andronikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmological viability of varying $G\left( t\right) $ and $Λ\left( t\right) $ cosmology is discussed by determining the cosmological eras provided by the theory. Such a study is performed with the determination of the critical points while stability analysis is performed. The application of Renormalization group in the ADM formalism of General Relativity provides a modified second-order theory of gravity where varying $G\left( t\right) $ plays the role of a minimally coupled field, different from that of Scalar-tensor theories, while $Λ\left( t\right) =Λ\left( G\left( t\right) \right) $ is a potential term. We find that the theory provides two de Sitter phases and a tracking solution. In the presence of matter source, two new critical points are introduced, where the matter source contributes to the universe. One of those points describes the $Λ$CDM cosmology and in order for the solution at the point to be cosmologically viable, it has to be unstable. Moreover, the second point, where matter exists, describes a universe where the dark energy parameter for the equation of state has a different value from that of the cosmological constant.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, discussion improved, to appear in EPJC
MOESM4 of Integrated transcriptome and miRNA analysis uncovers molecular regulators of aerial stem-to-rhizome transition in the medical herb Gynostemma pentaphyllum
Creators: name: Yang, Qi
name: Liu, Shibiao
name: Han, Xiaoning
name: Ma, Jingyi
name: Deng, Wenhong
name: Wang, Xiaodong
name: Guo, Huihong
name: Xia, Xinli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Gene Ontology (GO) functional classification of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) for the aerial stem-to-rhizome transition in Gynostemma pentaphyllum. (a, d) All DEGs for stage 1 vs stage 2, stage 2 vs stage 3, respectively. (b, e) Up-regulated DEGs for stage 1 vs stage 2, stage 2 vs stage 3, respectively. (c, f) Down-regulated DEGs for stage 1 vs stage 2, stage 2 vs stage 3, respectively.
Aranea viatica Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Araneidae
Aranea
Aranea viatica

description: Aranea viatica [spec. nov.]
A. abdomine subrotundo plano obtuso, pedibus quatuor posticis brevissimis. Fn. svec. 1218.
Frisch. ins. 7. t. 5.
Clerck. aran. 128. t. 6. f. 5.
Habitat in arboribus, lignis, ovis incubans.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on pages 623-624, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Theory of Ultrafast Interatomic (Intermolecular) Electronic Decay Processes in Polyatomic Clusters
Creators: name: Bahmanpour, Laila
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: This thesis is devoted to the study of the non-radiative process of Interatomic (Intermolecular) Coulombic Decay (ICD) in clusters. The aims of this thesis are two-fold: firstly we study ICD in the inner-valence-ionised endohedral fullerene complexes, such as (2s^1)Ne^+@C_60, where it is ultrafast due to the many available decay channels. We investigate the open question of the dependence of the ICD rate on the location of the endohedrally confined ion. Qualitative analysis shows that once the symmetry of the endohedral system is lowered by the departure of a rare gas atom from its equilibrium position in the centre of the cage, multipole plasmon resonances can be excited by energy transfer from the inner-valence-ionised ion to the cage. Nevertheless, our quantitative analytical and ab initio numerical studies lead to the conclusion that the total ICD width is remarkably stable across broad range of geometries. It turns out that the multipole plasmon excitation is negligible and the well-known dipole fullerene plasmon is the one defining the ICD time scale. Secondly we focus our attention onto inner-valence vacancies that are not energetic enough to decay via ICD. We propose that under such conditions, an ICD-like electronic process may still be induced by an incident photon. We call the new process single photon laser-enabled ICD (spLEICD). We for the first time investigate spLEICD in a series of van der Waals and hydrogen-bonded clusters. Our results demonstrate that the spLEICD cross-sections in hydrogen-bonded systems are larger than in van der Waals ones, whereas polyatomic van der Waals clusters lead to a more efficient spLEICD process than the van der Waals diatoms. We analyse the dependence of the spLEICD cross-section on the inter-atomic distance in a cluster showing analytically that it obeys the 1/R^6 law at large distances. This analysis is confirmed by our \textit{ab initio} numerical calculations. This strong distance-dependence may allow spLEICD to be used as a novel spectroscopic technique for the study of processes which occur in different spatial regions of molecules or clusters.
D-brane Solitons in Supersymmetric Sigma-Models
Creators: name: Gauntlett, Jerome P.
name: Portugues, Rubén
name: Tong, David
name: Townsend, Paul K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Massive D=4 N=2 supersymmetric sigma models typically admit domain wall (Q-kink) solutions and string (Q-lump) solutions, both preserving 1/2 supersymmetry. We exhibit a new static 1/4 supersymmetric `kink-lump' solution in which a string ends on a wall, and show that it has an effective realization as a BIon of the D=4 super DBI-action. It is also shown to have a time-dependent Q-kink-lump generalization which reduces to the Q-lump in a limit corresponding to infinite BI magnetic field. All these 1/4 supersymmetric sigma-model solitons are shown to be realized in M-theory as calibrated, or `Q-calibrated', M5-branes in an M-monopole background.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, Latex
Additional file 1 of Reablement professionals’ perspectives on client characteristics and factors associated with successful home-based reablement: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Stausholm, Mads Nibe
name: Pape-Haugaard, Louise
name: Hejlesen, Ole Kristian
name: Secher, Pernille Heyckendorff
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. The interview guide.
Um olhar evolucionista sobre a introversão como dimensão da personalidade
Creators: name: Gomes, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
subject: Applied Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60399 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 170109 Personality, Abilities and Assessment

description: A Teoria Evolucionista da Personalidade (TEP), que considera a variação da personalidade entre os indivíduos como resultado de adaptações frentes aos desafios impostos pelo ambiente ancestral, no decorrer dos muitos anos da evolução, aos imperativos biológicos de sobrevivência e reprodução. Nesse modelo, a introversão, enquanto o oposto do traço de surgência, poderia ser caracterizada como uma tendência à evitação de contatos sociais, a um rebaixamento de autoconfiança e uma maior vulnerabilidade a estados emocionais negativos. Embora seja intuitivo pensar que a extroversão favoreça comportamentos mais vantajosos do ponto de vista evolutivo, a TEP considera que a presença constante de indivíduos introvertidos na população pode ser explicada por fatores ambientais. Nesse sentido, tanto a introversão quanto a extroversão compõem um espectro que foi naturalmente selecionado não apenas em nossa espécie, mas em diversas outras, por ser vantajoso para a espécie como um todo.
Monte Carlo Study of the Yukawa Coupled Two Spin Ising Model
Creators: name: Brower, R.
name: Orginos, K.
name: Shen, Y.
name: Tan, C-I
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a particular 4 state spin system composed of two Ising spins (~$s_x, \; σ_x$~) with independent hopping parameters $κ_1, κ_2$, coupled by a bilinear Yukawa term, $y s_x σ_x$. The Yukawa term is solely responsible for breaking the global $ Z_2 \times Z_2$ symmetry down to $Z_2$. This model is intended as an illustration of general coupled Higgs system where scalars can arise both as composite and elementary excitations. For the Ising example in 2d, we give convincing numerical evidence of the universality of the two spin system with the one spin Ising model, by Monte Carlo simulations and finite scaling analysis . We also show that as we approach the phase transition, universality arises by a separation of low mass spin waves from an extra set of spin waves with an energy gap that diverges as the correlations length diverges
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Effect of exogenous melatonin on salt stress in cucumber: alleviating effect and molecular basis
Creators: name: Liu, Tingting
name: Xing, Guoming
name: Chen, Zhifeng
name: Zhai, Xijiao
name: Wei, Xuyang
name: Wang, Chen
name: Li, Tianmeng
name: Zheng, Shaowen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is sensitive to the salinization of environment. Soil salinization in facility environment affects the yield and quality of cucumber. Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is an effective free radical scavenger in plants and could effectively alleviate the abiotic stress injury of plants. In this study, we investigated the effect of different concentrations of exogenous melatonin in mitigating salt stress in cucumber and some underlying molecular mechanisms. The results indicated that 100 μmol/L melatonin-treated plants increased significantly the content of the content of ascorbic acid (ASA), proline, glutathione (GSH), polyphenol and flavonoid, and superoxide dismutase (SOD) and peroxidase (POD) activity, soluble protein and sugars. We utilized RNA-seq technology to analyse the transcriptome profile of leaf tissues under M0 and M2 treatments. The analysis identified 699 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) with 506 up-regulated and 193 down-regulated genes. Most of the transcription factors identified were also involved in plant stress defense. Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analysis of the DEGs showed significant enrichment of 328 GO terms (p ≤ 0.05). Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analysis showed that the DEGs were significantly enriched in 63 KEGG pathways (p ≤ 0.05). Taken together, these results provided a valuable reference for exploring the mechanism of action of exogenous melatonin in cucumber in saline environment.
High frequency homogenisation for structured interfaces
Creators: name: Joseph, Lina
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: High frequency homogenisation is applied to develop asymptotics for waves propagating along interfaces or structured surfaces. The asymptotic method is a two-scale approach fashioned to encapsulate the microstructural information in an effective homogenised macro- scale model. These macroscale continuum representations are constructed to give solutions near standing wave frequencies and are valid even at high frequencies. The asymptotic the- ory is adapted to model dynamic phenomena in functionally graded waveguides and in periodic media, revealing their similarities. Demonstrating the potential of high frequency homogenisation, the theory is extended for treating localisation phenomena in discrete peri- odic media containing localised defects, and for identifying Rayleigh-Bloch waves. In each of the studies presented here the asymptotics are complemented by analytical or numerical solutions, or both.
title: Геохимия и геофизика биосферы
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Гусев А.И.
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2019

description: Учебное пособие показывает важную роль геохимических циклов кислорода, углерода, фосфора и других элементов в жизнедеятельности планеты. Рассмотрены понятия биосферы и вопросы геохимии и геофизики биосферы, важнейшие геофизические параметры биосферы, геофизические поля, обеспечивающие её целостность и единство. Подготовлено в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом высшего образования. Учебное пособие предназначено для учащихся направлений подготовки 44.03.01 «Педагогическое образование» (профиль «География»), 44.03.05 «Педагогическое образование» (профили «География» и «Биология»), 06.03.01 «Биоэкология», а также будет полезно для школьников и студентов очного и заочного отделений естественно-географических факультетов педагогических вузов.
Some notes on the robustness of k-coherence and k-entanglement
Creators: name: Johnston, Nathaniel
name: Li, Chi-Kwong
name: Plosker, Sarah
name: Poon, Yiu-Tung
name: Regula, Bartosz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that two related measures of k-coherence, called the standard and generalized robustness of k-coherence, are equal to each other when restricted to pure states. As a direct application of the result, we establish an equivalence between two analogous measures of Schmidt rank k-entanglement for all pure states. This answers conjectures raised in the literature regarding the evaluation of the quantifiers, and facilitates an efficient quantification of pure-state resources by introducing computable closed-form expressions for the two measures.
description: 8 pages
The Effect of Cooling on the Density Profile of Hot Gas in Clusters of Galaxies: Is Additional Physics Needed?
Creators: name: Suginohara, Tatsushi
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the density profile of hot gas in clusters of galaxies, adopting a variant of cold dark matter cosmologies and employing a cosmological N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics code to follow the evolution of dark matter and gas. In addition to gravitational interactions, gas pressure, and shock heating, we include bremsstrahlung cooling in the computation. Dynamical time, two-body relaxation time, and cooling time in the simulations are examined to demonstrate that the results are free from artificial relaxation effects and that the time step is short enough to accurately follow the evolution of the system. In the simulation with nominal resolution of 66h^{-1} kpc the computed cluster appears normal, but in a higher (by a factor 2) resolution run, cooling is so efficient that the final gas density profile shows a steep rise toward the cluster center that is not observed in real clusters. Also, the X-ray luminosity of 7\times10^{45} ergs s^{-1} far exceeds that for any cluster of the computed temperature. The most reasonable explanation for this discrepancy is that there are some physical processes still missing in the simulations that actually mitigate the cooling effect and play a crucial role in the thermal and dynamical evolution of the gas near the center. Among the promising candidate processes are heat conduction and heat input from supernovae. We discuss the extent to which these processes can alter the evolution of gas.
description: 19 pages, 5 postscript figures included; uses aaspp4.sty (AASTeX v4.0); title changed; final version published in The Astrophysical Journal
Droplet preferential concentration in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence
Creators: name: Lian, Huan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: In particle-laden turbulent flow, it has been found both experimentally and numerically that when the particle response time is similar to a turbulent characteristic timescale, particles tend to preferentially concentrate and form clusters. This phenomenon of non-uniform particle dispersion has been referred as preferential concentration. The thesis studies experimentally the preferential concentration of poly-dispersed droplets in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence generated in the facility referred to as the `box of turbulence' and includes comparisons with Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS). It discusses the effect of poly-dispersion on droplet preferential concentration, temporal evolution of droplet clustering and the turbulent mechanisms (i.e. topological turbulent flow patterns) that may be responsible for the droplet clustering dynamics. The thesis is structured into six chapters. Motivations, theoretical background and related literature of this work are discussed in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 describes the experimental setup and the applied laser diagnostic techniques. Chapter 3 focuses on the effect of poly-dispersion on droplet preferential concentration. The techniques used in quantifying the preferential concentration are the Radial Distribution Function (RDF) and Voronoï analysis. An image processing method for locating droplets from droplet Mie-scattering images has been proposed and evaluated. Chapter 4 reports the time-resolved dispersion measurements of poly-dispersed droplets. The fine scale topological turbulent patterns (i.e. zero velocity/acceleration) are extracted from the fluid flow velocity measurements, considering the effect of experimental noise, and are observed to follow a non-uniform spatial distribution and form clusters. The clustering of zero velocity/acceleration points are quantified by RDF and Voronoï analysis and compared with the dispersed droplet clusters. A cluster identification method based on the mean shift pattern space analysis and the Voronoï tessellation has been proposed and applied to all the temporally resolved images to obtain cluster time scale and length scale statistics. Chapter 5 compares the results from experiments and corresponding DNS calculations using the same data processing methods. The clustering of experimentally and numerically acquired zero velocity/acceleration points and dispersed droplets are quantified and compared. Chapter 6 is the conclusion of the thesis and possible directions of future work.
Outcome measures for cystic fibrosis gene therapy clinical trials
Creators: name: Davies, Gwyneth
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-shortening, chronic respiratory disease caused by mutations in the CFTR gene. Novel therapeutic agents such as gene therapy aim to correct CFTR and to demonstrate evidence of molecular, functional and (ultimately) clinical efficacy. It was hypothesised that currently used methods to detect these changes may be optimised to enhance sensitivity and allow quantification, and facilitate an understanding of geographical effects within the airway. Methods: Outcome measures were investigated within two UK CF Gene Therapy Consortium studies; a longitudinal observational study (‘Run-In’), and a single dose gene therapy study (‘Pilot’) which investigated safety and functional efficacy. Measurement of airway function with spirometry and lung clearance index in the Run-In study allowed investigation of variability and change over time and comparison with other outcomes. Development of methodology and data analysis from measurements of potential difference (PD) in the nose and lung in the Pilot study allowed investigation of these as measures of functional efficacy. Results: In the Run-In study, the choice of external reference source was crucial for interpretation of spirometry outcomes. Airway physiology outcomes correlated with structural changes on chest CT however were limited in their ability to detect site of airway abnormality. There was some evidence that disease severity was associated with intra-subject variability and affected rate of change over time. In the Pilot study, airway PD was shown to change post gene therapy within individuals but the responses were not universal and depended on the definitions used. A novel method of nasal PD quantification did not improve an ability to quantify change. Conclusions: There is no single universal outcome measure in CF, but it is important to take account of the patient population in terms of disease severity. Whilst it would be inappropriate to relate PD outcomes with clinical outcomes in the Pilot study; this will be an important relationship to understand in the future in order to allow rational design of CF gene therapy clinical trials.
Additional file 2: of Cathepsin L activated by mutant p53 and Egr-1 promotes ionizing radiation-induced EMT in human NSCLC
Creators: name: Wang, Wenjuan
name: Xiong, Yajie
name: Ding, Xinyuan
name: Wang, Long
name: Zhao, Yifan
name: Fei, Yao
name: Zhu, Ying
name: Shen, Xiao
name: Tan, Caihong
name: Liang, Zhongqin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Table S2. Primers for p53 (DOCX 13 kb)
Investigating genetic factors associated with complications of pregnancy
Creators: name: Demetriou, Charalambos
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: This PhD project sets out to investigate the role of genetic factors associated with fetal growth restriction and recurrent miscarriage (RM), two of the most common complications of pregnancy. This work studied large cohorts of patients collected from specialist clinics in West London with the aim of better understanding their underlying molecular aetiology. The first part of this project focused on the paternally expressed, maternally imprinted gene, IGF2, which is a key growth hormone critical for in utero growth in mice. Its role in human fetal growth has remained ambiguous, as it has only been studied in term tissues. mRNA expression levels of IGF2 and other genes were investigated in 260 chorionic villus samples collected at 11-13 weeks’ gestation. Transcript levels of IGF2 revealed a significant positive correlation with birth weight (P=0.009). Critically, small for gestational age neonates had significantly lower IGF2 levels than appropriate for gestational age neonates (P=3.6x10-7). Next a study was undertaken to investigate a potential role for disturbed imprinting in products of conception (POC). This work first involved a detailed analysis of the POC DNA to establish levels of maternal cell contamination. POCs could then be more accurately evaluated to investigate the status of known imprinted genes. Interestingly, in a number of POCs, known maternally expressed genes were found to be paternally expressed and vice versa. This suggested that some miscarriages might be associated with or even caused by abnormal imprinting. Two approaches were then used to study genetic factors associated with RM. The first involved a genetic association study with a placental anti-coagulant protein Annexin A5 that contains four nucleotide substitutions (M2 haplotype) in its promoter. Patient and control haplotypes were determined and compared in 500 White European pairs that had RMs and 250 control trios. Carriers of the M2 haplotype were found to exhibit higher RM risk than non-carriers, which was in agreement with previous studies. However, this is only true for the patients who suffered with early miscarriages. The second study involved analysis of a single family where the patient had experienced a total of 29 miscarriages but had no successful pregnancies. Next-generation exome sequencing was carried on family members to search for a potential rare genetic variant gene causative of the RM phenotype. Two candidate genes with potentially damaging mutations were investigated in more depth by sequencing them in cohorts of Asian RM patients (n=100) and White European RM patients (n=120). In one of the genes, three novel variants and one very rare SNP, which were all predicted to be damaging by different prediction programs, were identified in a total of four Asian patients. Future studies to further investigate these potential mutations, involves functional analysis of each variant such as site-directed mutagenesis and protein-protein interactions.
Additional file 2 of Reablement professionals’ perspectives on client characteristics and factors associated with successful home-based reablement: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Stausholm, Mads Nibe
name: Pape-Haugaard, Louise
name: Hejlesen, Ole Kristian
name: Secher, Pernille Heyckendorff
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. The COREQ checklist.
Functional Relation of interquark potential with interquark distance
Creators: name: Park, D. K.
name: Müller-Kirsten, H. J. W.
name: Shurgaia, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The functional relation between interquark potential and interquark distance is explicitly derived by considering the Nambu--Goto action in the $AdS_5 \times S^5$ background. It is also shown that a similar relation holds in a general background. The implications of this relation for confinement are briefly discussed.
description: 11pages, 2 figures, reference added
Reconstructing G-inflation: From the attractors $n_S(N)$ and $r(N)$
Creators: name: Herrera, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reconstruction of an inflationary universe in the context of the Galileon model or G-model, considering as attractors the scalar spectral index $n_S(N)$ and the tensor to scalar ratio $r(N)$ as a function of the number of e-folding $N$ is studied. By assuming a coupling of the form $G(ϕ,X)=g(ϕ)\,X$, we obtain the effective potential $V$ and the coupling parameter $g$ in terms of the cosmological parameters $n_S$ and $r$ under the slow roll approximation. From some examples for $n_S(N)$ and $r(N)$, different results for the effective potential $V(ϕ)$ and the coupling parameter $g(ϕ)$ are found.
description: 18 pages and 1 figure. References added and with minor change
MOESM5 of Integrated transcriptome and miRNA analysis uncovers molecular regulators of aerial stem-to-rhizome transition in the medical herb Gynostemma pentaphyllum
Creators: name: Yang, Qi
name: Liu, Shibiao
name: Han, Xiaoning
name: Ma, Jingyi
name: Deng, Wenhong
name: Wang, Xiaodong
name: Guo, Huihong
name: Xia, Xinli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) functional enrichment of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) for the aerial stem-to-rhizome transition in Gynostemma pentaphyllum. (a, d) All DEGs for stage 1 vs stage 2, stage 2 vs stage 3, respectively. (b, e) Up-regulated DEGs for stage 1 vs stage 2, stage 2 vs stage 3, respectively (c, f) Down-regulated DEGs for stage 1 vs stage 2, stage 2 vs stage 3, respectively.
Government of India. The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 (24 of 1958) as amended by The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2010 (10 of 2010).
Creators: name: Government of India
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Government of India. The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 (24 of 1958) as amended by The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2010 (10 of 2010).
Gravitational Lensing of High Redshift Type Ia Supernova: A Probe of Medium Scale Structure
Creators: name: Metcalf, R Benton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dispersion in the peak luminosities of high redshift type Ia supernovae will change with redshift due to gravitational lensing. This lensing is investigated with an emphasis on the prospects of measuring it and separating it from other possible sources of redshift dependent dispersion. Measuring the lensing induced dispersion would directly constrain the power spectrum of density fluctuations on smaller length scales than are easily probed in any other way. The skew of the magnification distribution is related to the bispectrum of density fluctuations. Using cold dark matter models it is found that the amount and quality of data needed is attainable in a few years. A parameterization of the signal as a power law of the angular size distance to the supernovae is motivated by these models. This information can be used in detecting lensing, detecting other systematic changes in supernovae and calculating the uncertainties in cosmological parameter estimates.
description: 12 pages, AASTeX, 4 figures
Natural ventilation in multi-storey buildings: a preliminary design approach
Creators: name: Acred, Andrew
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Natural ventilation is a low-energy design strategy that has the potential both to significantly reduce energy usage in buildings and to provide a healthy and comfortable indoor environment. It has particular potential for use in tall, multi-storey buildings. However, the integration of natural ventilation into these large building designs has seen mixed success. Furthermore, there is a gap between simple 'rule-of-thumb' design guidance and detailed, computational design tools. This research attempts to bridge the gap between the simple and detailed with the broad aim of providing rapid and intuitive guidance for use in preliminary design. We use a simple mathematical approach to develop a coherent and easy-to-use framework for modelling ventilating flows, which quantifies the interactions between a core set of design variables. We focus in particular on buoyancy-driven ventilation in buildings with atria, ventilation stacks and/or similar vertical spaces that span multiple floors. Simple methods centred around hand calculations and design charts are developed to inform the sizing of vents in an 'ideal design' scenario, in which the desired ventilation flow rates and air temperatures are delivered to all occupants within a building. We define a measure of the ventilation performance of an atrium and use this to provide an indication of when an atrium is beneficial to a ventilation system design and when it is detrimental. We also use a transient flow analysis to consider 'off-design' scenarios, in which undesirable flow regimes may occur, and to place design tolerances on the building envelope. It is hoped that this work will form a point of reference for further research and for future revisions of design guidance literature.
Oral history interview with Susan Wells Slater, 2000
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil rights movements--History--20th century.--United States
Civil rights demonstrations--New York

description: Slater describes her upbringing in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, focusing on her early life in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. Born in 1942 to a fireman and a secretary, Slater characterizes her parents' politics, and recalls following the Brown v. Board of Education trial and reading "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." She describes how moving from Flatbush to a more affluent section of Jamaica, Queens influenced her understanding of class and its impact on the education system. She recounts her early experiences with anti-Semitism and later experiences with sexism at Baruch College. Slater discusses getting involved in New York CORE in 1961, the dynamics and activities of the organization, and Gladys Harrington's leadership. Slater mentions protests at Howard Johnson's, Jones Beach, and the New York Board of Education, among others. She remembers the fragmentation of New York CORE and the formation of the East Harlem branch, the CORE National Convention in Washington, DC, and her relationship with an undercover police officer. Slater describes her transition from activism to a career in computer consulting after the civil rights movement. She discusses working for Computer Associates, an American software corporation, specifically mentioning her experience as an early female employee and her upward mobility within the company. She explains her life in Synanon, a sober community in California and her husband, John. Finally, Slater recalls her relationship with Roy Wilkins, describes the conservatism of Roy Innis, and reflects on her feminism and financial security
Additional file 1 of Aeromagnetic survey in Kusatsu-Shirane volcano, central Japan, by using an unmanned helicopter
Creators: name: Koyama, Takao
name: Kanda, Wataru
name: Utsugi, Mitsuru
name: Kaneko, Takayuki
name: Ohminato, Takao
name: Watanabe, Atsushi
name: Tsuji, Hiroshi
name: Nishimoto, Taro
name: Kuvshinov, Alexey
name: Honda, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Deviation of model parameters of magnetization intensity model in Fig. 3, which is represented by a square root of each diagonal element of the estimated model covariance matrix by the ABIC minimization.
title: Науки о Земле
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Гусев А.И.
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2019

description: Учебное пособие раскрывает понятия о целостности наук о Земле и охватывает основные разделы геологии, почвоведения и географической оболочки. Показана важная роль земных циклов в развитии литосферы, почв и географической оболочки. Рассмотрены важнейшие параметры Земли как планеты и биосферы, обеспечивающие их целостность и единство. Подготовлено в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом высшего образования. Учебное пособие предназначено для учащихся направлений подготовки 44.03.01 «Педагогическое образование» (профиль «География»); 44.03.02 «Педагогическое образование» (профили «География» и «Биология»); 06.03.01 «Биоэкология», а также будет полезно для школьников и студентов очного и заочного отделений естественно-географических факультетов педагогических вузов.
Aranea levipes Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Araneidae
Aranea
Aranea levipes

description: Aranea levipes [spec. nov.]
A. abdomine rhombeo depresso, pedibus transversaliter extensis variegatis. Fn. svec. 1217.
Habitat in truncis, parietibus.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 624, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Super-Instantons, Perfect Actions, Finite Size Scaling and the Continuum Limit
Creators: name: Patrascioiu, A.
name: Seiler, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss some aspects of the continuum limit of some lattice models, in particular the $2D$ $O(N)$ models. The continuum limit is taken either in an infinite volume or in a box whose size is a fixed fraction of the infinite volume correlation length. We point out that in this limit the fluctuations of the lattice variables must be $O(1)$ and thus restore the symmetry which may have been broken by the boundary conditions (b.c.). This is true in particular for the so-called super-instanton b.c. introduced earlier by us. This observation leads to a criterion to assess how close a certain lattice simulation is to the continuum limit and can be applied to uncover the true lattice artefacts, present even in the so-called 'perfect actions'. It also shows that David's recent claim that super-instanton b.c. require a different renormalization must either be incorrect or an artefact of perturbation theory.
description: 14 pages, latex, no figures
Soft Charges and Electric-Magnetic Duality
Creators: name: Hosseinzadeh, V.
name: Seraj, A.
name: Sheikh-Jabbari, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main focus of this work is to study magnetic soft charges of the four dimensional Maxwell theory. Imposing appropriate asymptotic falloff conditions, we compute the electric and magnetic soft charges and their algebra both at spatial and at null infinity. While the commutator of two electric or two magnetic soft charges vanish, the electric and magnetic soft charges satisfy a complex $U(1)$ current algebra. This current algebra through Sugawara construction yields two $U(1)$ Kac-Moody algebras. We repeat the charge analysis in the electric-magnetic duality-symmetric Maxwell theory and construct the duality-symmetric phase space where the electric and magnetic soft charges generate the respective boundary gauge transformations. We show that the generator of the electric-magnetic duality and the electric and magnetic soft charges form infinite copies of $iso(2)$ algebra. Moreover, we study the algebra of charges associated with the global Poincaré symmetry of the background Minkowski spacetime and the soft charges. We discuss physical meaning and implication of our charges and their algebra.
description: 41 pages, 4 figures; published version in JHEP
Conjoining uncooperative societies facilitates evolution of cooperation
Creators: name: Fotouhi, Babak
name: Momeni, Naghmeh
name: Allen, Benjamin
name: Nowak, Martin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Social structure affects the emergence and maintenance of cooperation. Here we study the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation in fragmented societies, and show that conjoining segregated cooperation-inhibiting groups, if done properly, rescues the fate of collective cooperation. We highlight the essential role of inter-group ties, that sew the patches of the social network together and facilitate cooperation. We point out several examples of this phenomenon in actual settings. We explore random and non-random graphs, as well as empirical networks. In many cases we find a marked reduction of the critical benefit-to-cost ratio needed for sustaining cooperation. Our finding gives hope that the increasing worldwide connectivity, if managed properly, can promote global cooperation.