cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lobbying in a multidimensional policy space with salient issues
Creators: name: Roberti, Paolo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2014
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: We present a citizen-candidate model on a multidimensional policy space with lobbying, where citizens regard some issues more salient than others. We find that special interest groups that lobby on less salient topics move the implemented policy closer to their preferred policy, compared to the ones that lobby on more salient issues. When we introduce two types of citizens, who differ with respect to the salience of issues, we find pooling equilibria where voters are not able to offset the effect of lobbying on the implemented policy. This result is in sharp contrast with previous work on unidimensional citizen-candidate models that predict the irrelevance of lobbying on the implemented policy. In an extension of the model we provide citizens with the possibility of giving monetary contributions to lobbies in order to increase their power. With more than one lobby per dimension we have two findings. First, under some conditions only the most extreme lobbies receive contributions. Second, the effectiveness of a lobby is maximized when the salience of an issue is low in the population and high for a small group of citizens.
A new approach to the vacuum of inflationary models
Creators: name: Chen, Shih-Hung
name: Dent, James B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new approach is given for the implementation of boundary conditions used in solving the Mukhanov-Sasaki equation in the context of inflation. The familiar quantization procedure is reviewed, along with a discussion of where one might expect deviations from the standard approach to arise. The proposed method introduces a (model dependent) fitting function for the z"/z and a"/a terms in the Mukhanov-Sasaki equation for scalar and tensor modes, as well as imposes the boundary conditions at a finite conformal time. As an example, we employ a fitting function, and compute the spectral index, along with its running, for a specific inflationary model which possesses background equations that are analytically solvable. The observational upper bound on the tensor to scalar ratio is used to constrain the parameters of the boundary conditions in the tensor sector as well. An overview on the generalization of this method is also discussed.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Metabolic characteristics and prognostic differentiation of aggressive lymphoma using one-month post-CAR-T FDG PET/CT
Creators: name: Breen, William G.
name: Hathcock, Matthew A.
name: Young, Jason R.
name: Kowalchuk, Roman O.
name: Bansal, Radhika
name: Khurana, Arushi
name: Bennani, N. Nora
name: Paludo, Jonas
name: Villasboas Bisneto, Jose C.
name: Wang, Yucai
name: Ansell, Stephen M.
name: Peterson, Jennifer L.
name: Johnston, Patrick B.
name: Lester, Scott C.
name: Lin, Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Cancer
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Tables. Supplemental Table 1: Patient and Treatment Characteristics. Supplemental Table 2: Risk of Progressive Disease According to One Month Post-CAR-T Infusion PET/CT Characteristics for All Patients. Supplemental Table 3: One-Month Post-CAR-T Infusion PET/CT Characteristics and Risk of Death. Supplemental Table 4: Association between PET/CT Characteristics and Death in Patients with PR or SD One-Month after CAR-T.
Quasars as high-redshift standard candles
Creators: name: Risaliti, Guido
name: Lusso, Elisabeta
name: Nardini, Emanuele
name: Bargiacchi, Giada
name: Bisogni, Susanna
name: Sacchi, Andrea
name: Signorini, Matilde
name: Trefoloni, Bartolomeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the past few years, we built a Hubble diagram of quasars up to redshift z$\sim$7, based on the nonlinear relation between quasars' x-ray and UV luminosities. Such a Hubble diagram shows a >4$σ$ deviation from the standard flat $Λ$CDM model at z>1.5. Given the important consequences of this result, it is fundamental to rule out any systematic effect in the selection of the sample and/or in the flux measurements, and to investigate possible redshift dependences of the relation, that would invalidate the use of quasars as standard candles. Here we review all the observational results supporting our method: the match of the Hubble diagram of quasars with that of supernovae in the common redshift range, the constant slope of the relation at all redshifts, the redshift non-evolution of the spectral properties of our sources both in the x-rays and in the UV. An independent test of our results requires the observation of other standard candles at high redshift. In particular, we expect that future observations of supernovas at z>2 will confirm the deviation from the concordance model found with the Hubble diagram of quasars.
Independent nonclassical tests for states and measurements in the same experiment
Creators: name: Luis, Alfredo
name: Rivas, Ángel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that one single experiment can test simultaneously and independently both the nonclassicality of states and measurements by the violation or fulfillment of classical bounds on the statistics. Nonideal measurements affected by imperfections can be characterized by two bounds depending on whether we test the ideal measurement or the real one.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of 17th CEWQO 2010
Viscosity of secondary organic material and related atmospheric implications
Creators: name: Grayson, James W.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Aerosols are ubiquitous throughout the Earth’s atmosphere, and secondary organic material (SOM), which is produced from the oxidation of volatile organic compounds, is estimated to constitute a significant fraction of atmospheric aerosol mass. Furthermore, particles containing SOM can cause negative health outcomes, and affect Earth’s climate, both directly by scattering solar radiation, and indirectly by acting as nuclei for cloud droplets. Despite the importance of particles containing SOM, their physical properties, such as viscosity, are poorly constrained. To address this knowledge deficit, a technique to measure the viscosity of small samples of material, similar to that produced in environmental simulation chambers, was developed and validated. This technique was then used to measure the viscosity of SOM produced via the ozonolysis of α-pinene in an environmental simulation chamber. The viscosity of this material was found to depend strongly on the relative humidity (RH) used when measuring viscosity and the concentration of SOM mass at which the SOM was produced. A difference between the viscosity of the water-soluble component of SOM and the total SOM (water-soluble and water-insoluble components) was also observed. The viscosity of saccharides and a tetraol were subsequently measured, with these compounds serving as proxies of highly oxidized components of SOM found in the atmosphere. For saccharides, viscosity was determined to increase by at least four orders of magnitude as molar mass doubled. In addition, the tetraol was determined to have a viscosity at least two orders of magnitude lower than that of SOM produced via the oxidation of isoprene, in which the tetraol has been identified. Finally, literature viscosity data for organic compounds was used to demonstrate that saturation vapour concentration, the mass based equivalent of saturation vapour pressure, is a useful parameter for predicting viscosity, and better than elemental oxygen-to-carbon ratio or molar mass, at least for organic compounds containing only one or two functional groups. The results presented in this dissertation increase our knowledge of the viscosity of SOM, and its dependence on RH, the SOM mass concentration at which the SOM is produced, number of hydroxyl functional groups in the organic molecule, and molar mass.
Landscape Study of Target Space Duality of (0,2) Heterotic String Models
Creators: name: Blumenhagen, Ralph
name: Rahn, Thorsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the framework of (0,2) gauged linear sigma models, we systematically generate sets of perturbatively dual heterotic string compactifications. This target space duality is first derived in non-geometric phases and then translated to the level of GLSMs and its geometric phases. In a landscape analysis, we compare the massless chiral spectra and the dimensions of the moduli spaces. Our study includes geometries given by complete intersections of hypersurfaces in toric varieties equipped with SU(n) vector bundles defined via the monad construction.
description: 40 pages, 6 figures
Debris Rings from Extrasolar Irregular Satellites
Creators: name: Hayakawa, Kevin T.
name: Hansen, Bradley M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Irregular satellites are the minor bodies found orbiting all four Solar System giant planets, with large semi-major axes, eccentricities, and inclinations. Previous studies have determined that the Solar System's irregular satellites are extremely collisionally evolved populations today, having lost $\sim$99 per cent of their initial mass over the course of hundreds of Myr. Such an evolution implies that the irregular satellites must have produced a population of dusty collisional debris in the past, which is potentially observable due to the resulting reprocessing of stellar light. In this paper we examine the signatures of the debris discs produced by extrasolar analogues of this process. Radiation pressure, quantified by the parameter $β$, is the driving force behind the liberation of dust grains from the planetary Hill sphere, and results in the formation of circumstellar dust rings, even in the absence of an underlying belt of asteroids in the system. Our simulated discs reproduce many of the same features seen in some classes of observed debris discs, such as thin ring morphology, a large blowout size, and azimuthal symmetry. We compare our simulated discs' radial profiles to those of the narrow dust rings observed around Fomalhaut and HR 4796A, and show that they can broadly reproduce the observed radial distribution of dust.
description: 19 pages, 17 figures
Uniqueness transition in noisy phase retrieval
Creators: name: Elser, Veit
name: Eisebitt, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Previous criteria for the feasibility of reconstructing phase information from intensity measurements, both in x-ray crystallography and more recently in coherent x-ray imaging, have been based on the Maxwell constraint counting principle. We propose a new criterion, based on Shannon's mutual information, that is better suited for noisy data or contrast that has strong priors not well modeled by continuous variables. A natural application is magnetic domain imaging, where the criterion for uniqueness in the reconstruction takes the form that the number of photons, per pixel of contrast in the image, exceeds a certain minimum. Detailed studies of a simple model show that the uniqueness transition is of the type exhibited by spin glasses.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
Toeplitz condition numbers as an $H^{\infty}$ interpolation problem
Creators: name: Zarouf, Rachid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The condition numbers $CN(T)==||T|| .||T^{-1}|| $ of Toeplitz and analytic $n\times n$ matrices $T$ are studied. It is shown that the supremum of $CN(T)$ over all such matrices with $||T|| \leq1$ and the given minimum of eigenvalues $r=min_{i=1..n}|λ_{i}|>0$ behaves as the corresponding supremum over all $n\times n$ matrices (i.e., as $\frac{1}{r{}^{n}}$ (Kronecker)), and this equivalence is uniform in $n$ and $r$. The proof is based on a use of the Sarason-Sz.Nagy-Foias commutant lifting theorem.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-related Pulmonary Lymphoma
Creators: name: Sousa, Marta
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: AIDS
subject: Lymphoma

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 66 years
description: Clinical History: A 66-year-old man with no significant past medical history presented with a two-month duration of asthenia and unquantified weight loss. During hospitalization, he complained of progressive dyspnea, which was not associated with fever or cough.When ... Final Diagnosis: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-related Pulmonary Lymphoma
Stability analysis of a tidally excited internal gravity wave near the centre of a solar-type star
Creators: name: Barker, Adrian
name: Ogilvie, Gordon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a stability analysis of a tidally excited nonlinear internal gravity wave near the centre of a solar-type star in two-dimensions. The motivation is to understand the tidal interaction between short-period planets and their solar-type host stars, which involves the launching of gravity waves at the top of the radiation zone that propagate towards the stellar centre. Studying the instabilities of these waves near the centre, where nonlinearities are most important, is essential, since it may have implications for the survival of these planets. When the waves have sufficient amplitude to overturn the stratification, they break and form a critical layer, which efficiently absorbs subsequent ingoing wave angular momentum, and can result in the planet spiralling into the star. However, previous simulations do not find the waves to undergo instability for smaller amplitudes. This work has two aims: to determine any instabilities that set in for small-amplitude waves, and to further understand the breaking of large-amplitude waves. Our main result is that the waves undergo parametric instabilities for any amplitude. However, because the nonlinearity is spatially localised in the innermost wavelengths, their growth rates are sufficiently small that they do not result in astrophysically important tidal dissipation. The resulting modified tidal quality factors are estimated to be Q'_star>10^7, and possibly much greater, so the dissipation is much weaker than that which results from critical-layer absorption. These results support our explanation for the survival of all currently observed short-period planets around solar-type main-sequence stars: that planets unable to cause wave breaking at the centre of their host stars are likely to survive against tidal decay. This hypothesis will be tested by ongoing and future observations of transiting planets, such as WASP and Kepler.
description: 18 pages 15 figures 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS (abstract shortened)
Additional file 1 of Designing next generation recombinant protein expression platforms by modulating the cellular stress response in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Guleria, Richa
name: Jain, Priyanka
name: Verma, Madhulika
name: Mukherjee, Krishna J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Log2 fold change in expression levels of genes belonging to different functional categories in control and double knockout (DKO) strains. Table S2. Log2 fold change in expression levels of proteins (4 h versus 10 h post induction) belonging to different functional categories in control and double knockout (DKO) strains. Table S3:. Statistical analysis of protein expression data for control and double knockout (DKO) strains. Figure S4. (A) Growth profile of E. coli BW25113 strain growing in TB media containing no glycerol, 0.2% and 0.4% (v/v) glycerol. (B) Glycerol consumption profiles of control and DKO strain growing in TB media containing 0.2% (v/v) glycerol. Figure S5. Confirmation of preserved functionality of L-asparaginase by estimating its specific activity. Figure S6. Cloning of Rubella E1 glycoprotein (target gene) and sfGFP into the pBAD24 expression vector in E. coli DH5α strain using the principle of homologous recombination. Figure S7. (A & B) Pictorial representation of construction of expression vector pPROLAR.A122glpDK (5.9 kb). (C) Gel picture showing amplification of glpD gene, Ara promoter, glpK gene and vector backbone (D) PCR confirmation of glpD-araProm-glpK insert. Method S8. RNA-seq analysis procedure. Figure S9. Correlation plot between log CPM values of two biological replicates of control strain (6 h post induction) expressing L-asparaginase. Method S10. qRT-PCR protocol. Table S11. List of primers used for qRT-PCR. Figure S12. Correlation analysis of log2 fold change values obtained from RNA-Seq and qRT-PCR. Method S13. Label free LC MS/MS protein quantification. Table S14. Statistical analysis of gene expression data obtained from RNA seq analysis for control and double knockout (DKO) strains.
Software Sustainability Institute - Fellowship Programme 2022 - Launch Webinar
Creators: name: Ainsworth, Rachael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Software Sustainability Institute

description: The Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme funds researchers, software engineers and advocates who want to improve computational practice in their areas of work. The Launch Webinar is an opportunity to present more about the Institute, the programme and the application process, and hear from our existing Fellows about their experiences. You can watch the webinar on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/sNcvkVnFMhY These slides have been adapted from Ainsworth, Rachael. (2021, January 14). Software Sustainability Institute - Fellowship Programme 2021 - Launch Webinar. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4432059 which was shared under a CC BY 4.0 license. The Software Sustainability Institute has been supported by EPSRC through grant EP/H043160/1; EPSRC, BBSRC and ESRC through grant EP/N006410/1; and EPSRC, BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, AHRC, STFC and MRC through grant EP/S021779/1.
On the sign of the dilaton in the soft wall models
Creators: name: Karch, Andreas
name: Katz, Emanuel
name: Son, Dam T.
name: Stephanov, Mikhail A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elaborate on the existence of a spurious massless scalar mode in the vector channel of soft-wall models with incorrectly chosen sign of the exponential profile defining the wall. We re-iterate the point made in our earlier paper and demonstrate that the presence of the mode is robust, depending only on the infra-red asymptotics of the wall. We also re-emphasize that desired confinement properties can be realized with the correct sign choice.
description: 10 pages
The scale-free texture of the fast solar wind
Creators: name: Hnat, B.
name: Chapman, S. C.
name: Gogoberidze, G.
name: Wicks, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The higher order statistics of magnetic field magnitude fluctuations in the fast quiet solar wind are quantified systematically scale-by-scale for the first time. We find a single global non-Gaussian scale free behaviour from minutes to over 5 hours. This spans the signature of an inertial range of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and a ~1/f range in magnetic field components. This global scaling in field magnitude fluctuations is an intrinsic component of the underlying texture of the solar wind and it suggests a single stochastic process for magnetic field magnitude fluctuations operating across the full range of MHD time scales supported by the solar wind. Intriguingly, the magnetic field and velocity components show scale dependent dynamic alignment outside of the inertial range.
Numerical simulation of corrosion-fatigue in offshore wind turbine sub-structures
Creators: name: Sofiani, Farid Mehri
name: Elahi, Seyed Ahmad
name: Somsubhro Chaudhuri
name: De Waele, Wim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: wind
wind power
wind turbines
floating wind
offshore wind

description: This presentation was part of the EERA JP Wind WORKSHOP on Ongoing research in offshore wind structures (September 16 & 17, 2021, hybrid event in Amsterdam and online).
Introduzione
Creators: name: Santoianni, Flavia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2014
Subjects: Scienze bioeducative; BES; Ricerca pedagogica

description: Alla fine del secolo scorso, nel 1999, nascevano le scienze bioeducative – una idea inedita nella pedagogia italiana, anche se riprende alcune tracce epistemologiche dai percorsi di Dewey, De Bartolomeis, Visalberghi e Laporta. Sulla scia della francese biopédagogie, le bes scelgono invece un rapporto diretto con le scienze biologiche e le neuroscienze, mediato da un approccio critico e riflessivo. Quindici anni più tardi, la sezione Evolving Education di questa rivista nasce con l'intento di dedicare uno spazio editoriale costantemente aggiornato alle scienze bioeducative e alle loro possibili interconnessioni con le scienze umane, in particolar modo con la filosofia.At the end of the last century, in 1999, bioeducational sciences were born - a novel idea in Italian Pedagogy, even if it takes a few tracks from the epistemological paths of Dewey, De Bartolomeis, Visalberghi and Laporta. In the wake of the French biopédagogie, the BES choose instead a direct relationship with the biological sciences and neuroscience, mediated by a critical and reflective approach. Fifteen years later, the Evolving Education section of this magazine was created with the intent to dedicate a constantly updated editorial to bioeducational sciences and their possible connections with the Humanities, especially Philosophy.

description: RESEARCH TRENDS IN HUMANITIES Education & Philosophy, Vol 1, N° 1 (2014): RTH - Opening New Horizons in Education & Philosophy
Building an Optimal Census of the Solar Neighborhood with Pan-STARRS Data
Creators: name: Beaumont, Christopher N.
name: Magnier, Eugene A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the fidelity of solar neighborhood (D < 100 pc) catalogs soon to be derived from Pan-STARRS astrometric data. We explore two quantities used to measure catalog quality: completeness, the fraction of desired sources included in a catalog; and reliability, the fraction of entries corresponding to desired sources. We show that the main challenge in identifying nearby objects with Pan-STARRS will be reliably distinguishing these objects from distant stars, which are vastly more numerous. We explore how joint cuts on proper motion and parallax will impact catalog reliability and completeness. Using synthesized astrometry catalogs, we derive optimum parallax and proper motion cuts to build a census of the solar neighborhood with the Pan-STARRS 3 Pi Survey. Depending on the Galactic latitude, a parallax cut pi / sigma pi > 5 combined with a proper motion cut ranging from mu / sigma mu > 1-8 achieves 99% reliability and 60% completeness.
description: 7 Pages, 4 Figures, 3 Tables. PASP in press
Parent Stars of Extrasolar Planets. XII. Additional evidence for trends with vsini, condensation temperature, and chromospheric activity
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Guillermo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several recent studies have reported differences in vsini, abundance-condensation temperature trends, and chromospheric activity between samples of stars with and without Doppler-detected planets. These findings have been disputed, and the status of these results remains uncertain. We evaluate these claims using additional published data and find support for all three.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS as a Letter
L’avventura nell’altrove: prassi d’orientamento e processi d’apprendimento in una società del cambiamento
Creators: name: La Rosa, Viviana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2014
Subjects: Donata Fabbri; Alberto Munari; cambiamento; disorientamento; complessità

description: The article explores the crucial role played by the orientation/learning connection in an ever-changing society. The subject should be able to acquire awareness according to the instruments of knowledge, his own ways of reading the world, tastes, preferences, deepest and most intimate aspects that build his identity, so that he can explore new areas, the elsewhere, without being profoundly confused. The pedagogical task that derives from this principle is to build an educational proposal designed around the needs of the subject who knows, and focusing the growth path on his own cognitive styles, as well as on his experience. Donata Fabbri and Alberto Munari' s proposal of cultural psychology and operating epistemology and the Raffaele Laporta' s notion of learning are valuable in an attempt to translate this theoretical perspective into action. In response to this perspective, the student is called to be an aware interpreter of cognitive and ethical choices compared to what he studies, and to decline and negotiate continually the plan of his motivations depending on the context and encounters of life experiences. The subject, aware of the extraordinary story that lies behind every experience of knowing, and always in singular way, is placed in a position to express a willingness to learn, between motivation and choice (a dynamic described skilfully by Laporta). He seems to turn and refer to the notion of orientation naturally. In this way it seems possible to reintegrate the student in the function of "cultural maker", often betrayed by misguided training actions, as well as appreciate the discovery (even destabilising) of the new and unexpected, that is a propellant moment in view of the exploration of new forms of knowledge.
description: RESEARCH TRENDS IN HUMANITIES Education & Philosophy, Vol 1, N° 1 (2014): RTH - Opening New Horizons in Education & Philosophy
Additional file 1 of Storage and handling of pretreated lignocellulose affects the redox chemistry during subsequent enzymatic saccharification
Creators: name: Ausra Peciulyte
name: Xafenias, Nikolaos
name: Galbe, Mats
name: Scott, Brian R.
name: Olsson, Lisbeth
name: Johansen, Katja S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional Tables and Figures.
Partial Hamiltonian reduction of relativistic extended objects in light-cone gauge
Creators: name: de Woul, Jonas
name: Hoppe, Jens
name: Lundholm, Douglas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The elimination of the non-transversal field in the standard light-cone formulation of higher-dimensional extended objects is formulated as a Hamiltonian reduction.
description: 11 pages
Bambini immigrati e mediazione linguistica: il fenomeno del Child Language Brokering
Creators: name: Cavaliere, Flavia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2014
Subjects: Immigrants, children, translation, language brokering, community integration

description: International migration forces everyday more and more families to cope with a host of complex challenges as they must adapt to the demands of life in a new environment. Since children acquire language proficiency and adhere to new cultural norms at a more rapid pace than their parents, they often become the intermediaries between the cultural and linguistic divides that separate their families from the host culture. Such children, referred to as language brokers (LBers) in literature, translate the new language and interpret cultural practices for their parents, or assist them not only in daily crosscultural transactions (such as arranging medical appointments, filling out job applications, disputing phone bills and credit card charges, and dealing with schools and the legal system) but often in very critical situations as conveying medical diagnoses, or making decisions that may affect their entire family. Research demonstrates that about 90 percent of children from language minority families serve as LBers. However, data on the psychological and socioemotional outcomes of Language Brokering (LBing) – where the LBer is asked to negotiate between two adult parties in sensitive conditions – are very controversial. The present study accounts for some aspects of the relationships between family environments, emotional and behavioral adjustment in children and parents which favor or disfavor LBing. These cognitively demanding experiences may result in positive outcomes including the development of strong metalinguistic and interpersonal skills, academic self-efficacy and pride at being able to help out their families. In contrast, other studies have shown that LBing can have negative consequences in terms of stress and academic functioning, obligation, and socioemotional health, since it requires children to take on powerful adult-like roles, which can negatively affect identity development for them and disrupt parenting practices. As children become increasingly influential cultural agents on behalf of their families, parents may find themselves less authoritative and self-confident, family relations become strained due to role reversals between adults and children: this can lead to parental disempowerment, and, reversely, to children ‘parentification’.
description: RESEARCH TRENDS IN HUMANITIES Education & Philosophy, Vol 1, N° 1 (2014): RTH - Opening New Horizons in Education & Philosophy
The influence of Orthodox Christianity on cosmological ideas in Ukraine
Creators: name: Koltachykhina, Oksana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the first time in detail the influence of Orthodox Christianity on the development of cosmological ideas in Ukraine. The evolution of existing models of the birth and structure of the universe at that time was investigated. The connection between Orthodox ideas and cosmological notions in Ukraine is shown. The little-known works of the first teachers of Ukrainian academies on the studied topics are analyzed. It was established that all the models of the universe were known in Ukraine, but the texts of Orthodox theologians had great authority and influence on the development of cosmological ideas.
description: in Ukrainian
Introduzione
Creators: name: Cacciatore, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2014
Subjects: Multiculturalismo; Interculturalità; Filosofia interculturale

description: Negli ultimi decenni il processo di globalizzazione planetaria e lo sviluppo della rete hanno modificato in maniera rivoluzionaria la vita delle comunità e dei singoli, e le continue innovazioni tecnologiche ancora continuano a modificarla in maniera incisiva. Grazie al potenziamento delle comunicazioni e dei trasporti, le persone sembrano essere oggi più vicine. Ma lo sono anche per effetto delle migrazioni, che rendono sempre più contigui soggetti appartenenti a culture e religioni diverse. Alla riflessione filosofica compete lo sforzo di elaborare categorie nuove (o attualizzarne più antiche ma ancora efficaci) adeguate a fornire una lettura convincente delle mutate condizioni storiche e delle dimensioni dell’umano che in esse abitano. La filosofia interculturale è una delle risposte possibili.
description: RESEARCH TRENDS IN HUMANITIES Education & Philosophy, Vol 1, N° 1 (2014): RTH - Opening New Horizons in Education & Philosophy
Radiative transfer effects in primordial hydrogen recombination
Creators: name: Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine
name: Grin, Daniel
name: Hirata, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The calculation of a highly accurate cosmological recombination history has been the object of particular attention recently, as it constitutes the major theoretical uncertainty when predicting the angular power spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies. Lyman transitions, in particular the Lyman-alpha line, have long been recognized as one of the bottlenecks of recombination, due to their very low escape probabilities. The Sobolev approximation does not describe radiative transfer in the vicinity of Lyman lines to a sufficient degree of accuracy, and several corrections have already been computed in other works. In this paper, the impact of some previously ignored radiative transfer effects is calculated. First, the effect of Thomson scattering in the vicinity of the Lyman-alpha line is evaluated, using a full redistribution kernel incorporated into a radiative transfer code. The effect of feedback of distortions generated by the optically thick deuterium Lyman-alpha line blueward of the hydrogen line is investigated with an analytic approximation. It is shown that both effects are negligible during cosmological hydrogen recombination. Secondly, the importance of high-lying, non overlapping Lyman transitions is assessed. It is shown that escape from lines above Ly-gamma and frequency diffusion in Ly-beta and higher lines can be neglected without loss of accuracy. Thirdly, a formalism generalizing the Sobolev approximation is developed to account for the overlap of the high-lying Lyman lines, which is shown to lead to negligible changes to the recombination history. Finally, the possibility of a cosmological hydrogen recombination maser is investigated. It is shown that there is no such maser in the purely radiative treatment presented here.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures, to be submitted to PRD
Additional file 3 of Multi-method genome- and epigenome-wide studies of inflammatory protein levels in healthy older adults
Creators: name: Hillary, Robert F.
name: Trejo-Banos, Daniel
name: Kousathanas, Athanasios
name: McCartney, Daniel L.
name: Harris, Sarah E.
name: Stevenson, Anna J.
name: Patxot, Marion
name: Ojavee, Sven Erik
name: Zhang, Qian
name: Liewald, David C.
name: Ritchie, Craig W.
name: Evans, Kathryn L.
name: Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.
name: Wray, Naomi R.
name: McRae, Allan F.
name: Visscher, Peter M.
name: Deary, Ian J.
name: Robinson, Matthew R.
name: Marioni, Riccardo E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Details of Supplementary Methods. Contains information for the following data: Conditional and joint analysis from ordinary least squares GWAS on protein levels; Sherlock: identifying genes whose expression associates with inflammatory biomarkers; GWAS and EWAS of CCL11 levels – incorporating smoking status as a covariate; Replication of previous pQTLs and protein associated-CpG sites; BayesR+ combined analysis – GWAS and EWAS modelled together; Evaluating causal associations between blood inflammatory proteins and Alzheimer’s risk.
Inclusion of $K\Lambda$ electroproduction data in a coupled channel analysis
Creators: name: Mai, M.
name: Hergenrather, J.
name: Döring, M.
name: Mart, T.
name: Meissner, Ulf-G.
name: Rönchen, Deborah
name: Workman, R.
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: Exclusive electroproduction reactions provide an access to the structure of excited baryons. To extract electroproduction multipoles encoding this information, the Jülich-Bonn-Washington (JBW) analysis framework is extended to the analysis of differential cross sections in $K\Lambda$ electroproduction. This update enlarges the scope of previous coupled-channel analyses of pions and eta mesons, with photoproduction reactions as boundary condition in all analyzed electroproduction reactions. Polarization observables are predicted and compared to recent CLAS data. The comparison shows the relevance of these data to pin down baryon properties.
Temperature dependence of core loss in cobalt substituted Ni-Zn-Cu ferrites
Creators: name: Mazaleyrat, Frederic
name: Lebourgeois, Richard
name: Labouré, Eric
name: Lucas, Antony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature dependence of core loss in cobalt substituted Ni-Zn-Cu ferrites was investigated. Co2+ ions are known to lead to a compensation of the magneto-crystalline anisotropy in Ni-Zn ferrites, at a temperature depending on the cobalt content and the Ni/Zn ratio. We observed similar behaviour in Ni-Zn-Cu and it was found that the core loss goes through a minimum around this magneto-crystalline anisotropy compensation. Moreover, the anisotropy induced by the cobalt allowed a strong decrease of core loss, a ferrite having a core loss of 350 mW/cm3 at 80 ^\circ C was then developed (measured at 1.5 MHz and 25 mT). This result represents an improvement of a factor 4 compared to the state of art Ni-Zn ferrites.
A statistical study of the luminosity gap in galaxy groups
Creators: name: Tavasoli, Saeed
name: Khosroshahi, Habib G.
name: Koohpaee, Ali
name: Rahmani, Hadi
name: Ghanbari, Jamshid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The luminosity gap between the two brightest members of galaxy groups and clusters is thought to offer a strong test for the models of galaxy formation and evolution. This study focuses on the statistics of the luminosity gap in galaxy groups, in particular fossil groups, e.g. large luminosity gap, in an analogy with the same in a cosmological simulation. We use spectroscopic legacy data of seventh data release (DR7) of SDSS, to extract a volume limited sample of galaxy groups utilizing modified friends-of-friends (mFoF) algorithm. Attention is paid to galaxy groups with the brightest group galaxy (BGG) more luminous than \Mr = -22. An initial sample of 620 groups in which 109 optical fossil groups, where the luminosity gap exceeds 2 magnitude, were identified. We compare the statistics of the luminosity gap in galaxy groups at low mass range from the SDSS with the same in the Millennium simulations where galaxies are modeled semi-analytically. We show that the BGGs residing in galaxy groups with large luminosity gap, i.e. fossil groups, are on average brighter and live in lower mass halos with respect to their counter parts in non-fossil systems. Although low mass galaxy groups are thought to have recently formed, we show that in galaxy groups with 15 galaxies brighter than $M_r\ge -19.5$, evolutionary process are most likely to be responsible for the large luminosity gap. We also examine a new probe of finding fossil group. In addition we extend the recently introduced observational probe based on the luminosity gap, the butterfly diagram, to galaxy groups and study the probe as a function of halo mass. This probe can, in conjunction with the luminosity function, help to fine tune the semi-analytic models of galaxies employed in the cosmological simulations.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted to PASP journal
Developing decision support models for partnership evaluation in the forest products supply chain
Creators: name: Piltan, Mehdi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The forest sector in Canada has been losing its competitiveness due to globalization and rapid change in technology. Partnership is one of the strategies that could help companies remain competitive; however, partnership is costly and has a high failure rate, according to the literature. Therefore, it is essential to monitor the performance of a partnership and evaluate the factors that affect its performance. Previous studies reveal that the performance of an ongoing partnership is influenced directly by a number of components, which are joint decision-making, information sharing, risk/reward sharing and relationship-specific assets. However, there is a gap for a comprehensive study that investigates partnerships and their components in the forest industry. In this study, first a survey is conducted from the forest companies in British Columbia, Canada, to investigate existing and potential partnerships and the factors that influence the performance of existing ones. The respondents are asked to subjectively evaluate partnership performance and the influencing factors using the Likert scale. The results of regression analysis indicate the degree of joint decision-making, relationship-specific assets, and risk/reward sharing as the best predictors of the performance of the surveyed companies. Then, two multi-criteria decision support models are developed to evaluate partnership performance and components quantitatively. Multiple quantitative criteria are used in the models. Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and Analytic Network Process (ANP) are used in order to address the interdependency and the importance of criteria, respectively. Fuzzy Logic (FL) is used to capture the uncertainty in the criteria for evaluating partnership performance. The outputs of these two models are the importance of the criteria and two single numbers for the overall partnership performance and components in each period, named as Partnership Performance Index (PPI) and Partnership Component Index (PCI). The proposed models are applied to a partnership between a logging company and a sawmill in Canada, to find PPIs and PCIs in three different periods. The rankings of the criteria from the models are compared to the ones estimated by the managers, and the results show the rankings are compatible. The results are assessed by sensitivity analysis and validated by the managers.
Dead zones in protostellar discs: the case of Jet Emitting Discs
Creators: name: Combet, Céline
name: Ferreira, Jonathan
name: Casse, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planet formation and migration in accretion discs is a very active topic. Among the many aspects related to that question, dead zones are of particular importance as they can influence both the formation and the migration of planetary embryos. The ionisation level in the disc is the key element in determining the existence and the location of the dead zone. This has been studied either within the Standard Accretion Disc (SAD) framework or using parametric discs. In this paper, we extend this study to the case of Jet Emitting Discs (JED), the structure of which strongly differ from SADs because of the new energy balance and angular momentum extraction imposed by the jets. We make use of the (r,z) density distributions provided by self-similar accretion-ejection models, along with the JED thermal structure derived in a previous paper, to create maps of the ionisation structure of JEDs. We compare the ionisation rates we obtain to the critical value required to trigger the magneto-rotational instability. It is found that JEDs have a much higher ionisation degree than SADs which renders very unlikely the presence of a dead zone in these discs. As JEDs are believed to occupy the inner regions of accretion discs, the extension of the dead zones published in the literature should be re-considered for systems in which a jet is present. Moreover, since JEDs require large scale magnetic fields close to equipartition, our findings raise again the question of magnetic field advection in circumstellar accretion discs.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Eternal inflation predicts that time will end
Creators: name: Bousso, Raphael
name: Freivogel, Ben
name: Leichenauer, Stefan
name: Rosenhaus, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Present treatments of eternal inflation regulate infinities by imposing a geometric cutoff. We point out that some matter systems reach the cutoff in finite time. This implies a nonzero probability for a novel type of catastrophe. According to the most successful measure proposals, our galaxy is likely to encounter the cutoff within the next 5 billion years.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 2 of Efficacy of chloroquine versus lopinavir/ritonavir in mild/general COVID-19 infection: a prospective, open-label, multicenter, randomized controlled clinical study
Creators: name: Liu, Xi
name: Chen, Huili
name: Shang, Yuqi
name: Zhu, Hongqiong
name: Chen, Gongqi
name: Chen, Yuanli
name: Liu, Shaoxuan
name: Zhou, Yaoyong
name: Huang, Mingxing
name: Hong, Zhongsi
name: Xia, Jinyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) 2013 Checklist: recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents.