cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Age-related macular degeneration associated polymorphism rs10490924 in ARMS2 results in deficiency of a complement activator
Creators: name: Micklisch, Sven
name: Lin, Yuchen
name: Jacob, Saskia
name: Karlstetter, Marcus
name: Dannhausen, Katharina
name: Dasari, Prasad
name: von der Heide, Monika
name: Dahse, Hans-Martin
name: Schmölz, Lisa
name: Grassmann, Felix
name: Alene, Medhanie
name: Fauser, Sascha
name: Neumann, Harald
name: Lorkowski, Stefan
name: Pauly, Diana
name: Weber, Bernhard H. F.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: APOPTOTIC CELLS; PROPERDIN BINDS; MESSENGER-RNA; HIGH-RISK; VARIANT; RARE; EXPRESSION; REGULATORS; DISEASE; CONFERS;
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in developed countries. The polymorphism rs10490924 in the ARMS2 gene is highly associated with AMD and linked to an indel mutation (del443ins54), the latter inducing mRNA instability. At present, the function of the ARMS2 protein, the exact cellular sources in the retina and the biological consequences of the rs10490924 polymorphism are unclear. Methods: Recombinant ARMS2 was expressed in Pichia pastoris, and protein functions were studied regarding cell surface binding and complement activation in human serum using fluoresence-activated cell sorting (FACS) as well as laser scanning microscopy (LSM). Biolayer interferometry defined protein interactions. Furthermore, endogenous ARMS2 gene expression was studied in human blood derived monocytes and in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia (iPSdM) by PCR and LSM. The ARMS2 protein was localized in human genotyped retinal sections and in purified monocytes derived from AMD patients without the ARMS2 risk variant by LSM. ARMS2 expression in monocytes under oxidative stress was determined by Western blot analysis. Results: Here, we demonstrate for the first time that ARMS2 functions as surface complement regulator. Recombinant ARMS2 binds to human apoptotic and necrotic cells and initiates complement activation by recruiting the complement activator properdin. ARMS2-properdin complexes augment C3b surface opsonization for phagocytosis. We also demonstrate for the first time expression of ARMS2 in human monocytes especially under oxidative stress and in microglia cells of the human retina. The ARMS2 protein is absent in monocytes and also in microglia cells, derived from patients homozygous for the ARMS2 AMD risk variant (rs10490924). Conclusions: ARMS2 is likely involved in complement-mediated clearance of cellular debris. As AMD patients present with accumulated proteins and lipids on Bruch's membrane, ARMS2 protein deficiency due to the genetic risk variant might be involved in drusen formation.
Hydrodynamical simulations for the common-envelope wind model for Type Ia supernovae
Creators: name: Cui, Yingzhen
name: Meng, Xiangcun
name: Podsiadlowski, Philipp
name: Song, Ren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The single-degenerate (SD) model is one of the leading models for the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Recently, a new version of the SD model, the common-envelope wind (CEW) model, has been proposed, which, in principle, has the potential to resolve most of the difficulties encountered by previous SD models. This model is still being developed and a number of open issues remain, such as the details of the mass-loss mechanism from the surface of the common envelope (CE), the main observational properties, and the spiral-in timescale of the binary inside the envelope. In this article, we aim to address these issues by considering hydrodynamical effects on the CE. Using the stellar evolution code MESA, we carried out a series of 1D hydrodynamical simulations of an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star undergoing a common-envelope phase with different envelope masses (0.0007-0.06 solar mass). We found that the envelopes are always dynamically unstable, leading to regular mass ejection events if the envelope is more massive than the critical value of ~ 0.003 solar mass. The kappa mechanism can naturally explain this phenomenon. We also found that, due to the low mass of the CE, the estimated frictional luminosity caused by the spiral-in of the immersed binary is much less than the nuclear luminosity, and therefore will not affect the structure of the CE significantly. Our results imply that the CE in the CEW model cannot be very massive. We also present a rough estimate for the spiral-in timescale based on a simplified model. We found that, for reasonable assumptions, the timescale may be longer than a few 100,000 yr; therefore, the white dwarf may have enough time to increase its mass toward the Chandrasekhar mass, avoiding a merger with the companion.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
The identification of mean quantum potential with Fisher information leads to a strong uncertainty relation
Creators: name: Bloch, Yakov
name: Cohen, Eliahu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cramer-Rao bound, satisfied by classical Fisher information, a key quantity in information theory, has been shown in different contexts to give rise to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we show that the identification of the mean quantum potential, an important notion in Bohmian mechanics, with the Fisher information, leads, through the Cramer-Rao bound, to an uncertainty principle which is stronger, in general, than both Heisenberg and Robertson-Schrodinger uncertainty relations, allowing to experimentally test the validity of such an identification.
description: 7 pages, accepted to Foundations of Physics as part of a special issue on "Pilot-wave and beyond: Louis de Broglie and David Bohm's quest for a quantum ontology" edited by Aurelien Drezet
D10.1 Periodic Technical Report
Creators: name: Anta, Jose
name: Ciambra, Andrea
name: Tait, Simon
name: Moreno, Antonio
name: Rieckermann, Jörg
name: Brüggeemann, Thomas
name: Bertrand-Krajewski, Jean-Luc
name: Nielsen, Jesper E.
name: Brelot, Elodie
name: Hayaoui, Marion
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Co-UDlabs

description: This document is Deliverable 10.1, “Periodic Technical Report”, of the Co-UDlabs project, funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and under Grant Agreement No 101008626. The Deliverable is drafted within the tasks of Work Package 10, “Management and Coordination”. The lead beneficiary of the Work Package is the University of A Coruña (Universidade da Coruña, UDC).
Absorption and emission spectroscopic investigation of thermal dynamics and photo-dynamics of the rhodopsin domain of the rhodopsin-guanylyl cyclase from the aquatic fungus Blastocladiella emersonii
Creators: name: Penzkofer, Alfons
name: Scheib, Ulrike
name: Hegemann, Peter
name: Stehfest, Katja
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: rhodopsin domain; rhodopsin-guanylyl cyclase; Blastocladiella emersonii; retinal Schiff base
subject: 530 Physik

description: A new class of rhodopsins covalently linked to an enzymatic domain was discovered recently. A member of this class of enzymerhodopsins, the rhodopsin-guanylyl cyclase (RhGC) was identified in the aquatic fungus Blastocladiella emersonii (BE). Characterization of RhGC showed that the second-messenger molecule cGMP (cyclic guanylyl monophosphate) is produced upon green light illumination. Here, the rhodopsin domain Rh (BE) of the rhodopsin-guanylyl cyclase RhGC was studied by absorption and emission spectroscopic methods. It was found that fresh thawed Rh (BE) was composed of a mixture of retinal – protein conformations. These retinal conformations are likely all-trans protonated retinal Schiff base (Ret_1), 13-cis protonated retinal Schiff base with repositioned counter ion (Ret_2), all-trans protonated retinal Schiff base with repositioned counter ion (Ret_3), and deprotonated all-trans retinal Schiff base (Ret_4). The Rh (BE) thermal denaturing was studied: An apparent protein melting temperature of m ≈ 49 °C was determined; the apparent protein melting time at room temperature (≈ 21.9 °C) was tm ≈ 1.45 h. Thermal retinal conformation restructuring with irreversible conversion likely to deprotonated 13-cis retinal Schiff base (Ret_4’) was observed. The photo-excitation of all-trans protonated retinal Schiff base (Ret_1) caused a primary photo-cycle dynamics involving excited-state picosecond all-trans – 13-cis isomerization (13-cis protonated retinal Schiff base Ret_5 formation) followed by ground-state sub-second intermediate retinal Schiff base formations (Ret_2, Ret_3, Ret_4) and sub-second to second recovery to the initial all-trans protonated retinal Schiff base (Ret_1). Long-time all-trans protonated retinal Schiff base photo-excitation caused irreversible (likely 13-cis) retinal Schiff base (Ret_4’) formation.
D10.1 Periodic Technical Report
Creators: name: Anta, Jose
name: Ciambra, Andrea
name: Tait, Simon
name: Moreno, Antonio
name: Rieckermann, Jörg
name: Brüggeemann, Thomas
name: Bertrand-Krajewski, Jean-Luc
name: Nielsen, Jesper E.
name: Brelot, Elodie
name: Hayaoui, Marion
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Co-UDlabs

description: This document is Deliverable 10.1, “Periodic Technical Report”, of the Co-UDlabs project, funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and under Grant Agreement No 101008626. The Deliverable is drafted within the tasks of Work Package 10, “Management and Coordination”. The lead beneficiary of the Work Package is the University of A Coruña (Universidade da Coruña, UDC).
Potential Conflicts with Offshore Wind Projects, Briefing Paper
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2005

description: This briefing paper, prepared by New Jersey DEP and the Blue Ribbon Panel on Development of Wind Turbine Facilities in Coastal Waters, identifies potential conflicts between offshore wind facilities and other ocean uses and resources. These possible conflicts fall into seven general categories: commercial fishing, navigation, aviation/defense, tourism, cultural and natural environment, sand borrow sites and equitable siting.
Anasimyia contracta Clausen & Torp 1980
Creators: name: MAZáNEK, Libor
name: VONIČKA, Pavel
name: PREISLER, JiřÍ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Anasimyia
Anasimyia contracta

description: Anasimyia contracta Clausen & Torp, 1980 ČS: VU VzÁcný mokřadnÍ druh, který se vyskytuje lokÁlně po celé Evropě v okolÍ orobincem (Typha spp.) zarostlých vodnÍch ploch a starých rybnÍků. SaprofÁgně akvatické larvy se vyvÍjejÍ v ponořené odumřelé hmotě orobincových porostů. Malá Strana PR [21]: 9.-23.VII.2003, 1 ♂ (YPT). Meandry Smědé PR [22b]: 19.-31.V.2005, 2 ♂♂ (YPT); 31.V.-22.VI.2005, 7 ♂♂ (YPT).
description: Published as part of MAZáNEK, Libor, VONIČKA, Pavel & PREISLER, JiřÍ, 2009, Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), pp. 3-46 in Sborník Severočeského Muzea 27 on page 29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7153554
Holographic probes of collapsing black holes
Creators: name: Hubeny, Veronika E.
name: Maxfield, Henry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue the programme of exploring the means of holographically decoding the geometry of spacetime inside a black hole using the gauge/gravity correspondence. To this end, we study the behaviour of certain extremal surfaces (focusing on those relevant for equal-time correlators and entanglement entropy in the dual CFT) in a dynamically evolving asymptotically AdS spacetime, specifically examining how deep such probes reach. To highlight the novel effects of putting the system far out of equilibrium and at finite volume, we consider spherically symmetric Vaidya-AdS, describing black hole formation by gravitational collapse of a null shell, which provides a convenient toy model of a quantum quench in the field theory. Extremal surfaces anchored on the boundary exhibit rather rich behaviour, whose features depend on dimension of both the spacetime and the surface, as well as on the anchoring region. The main common feature is that they reach inside the horizon even in the post-collapse part of the geometry. In 3-dimensional spacetime, we find that for sub-AdS-sized black holes, the entire spacetime is accessible by the restricted class of geodesics whereas in larger black holes a small region near the imploding shell cannot be reached by any boundary-anchored geodesic. In higher dimensions, the deepest reach is attained by geodesics which (despite being asymmetric) connect equal time and antipodal boundary points soon after the collapse; these can attain spacetime regions of arbitrarily high curvature and simultaneously have smallest length. Higher-dimensional surfaces can penetrate the horizon while anchored on the boundary at arbitrarily late times, but are bounded away from the singularity. We also study the details of length or area growth during thermalization. While the area of extremal surfaces increases monotonically, geodesic length is neither monotonic nor continuous.
description: 44 pages + appendices, 21 figures; v2: references added, improved Discussion; v3: minor typos corrected, matches the published version
Free-space quantum key distribution by rotation-invariant twisted photons
Creators: name: Vallone, Giuseppe
name: D'Ambrosio, Vincenzo
name: Sponselli, Anna
name: Slussarenko, Sergei
name: Marrucci, Lorenzo
name: Sciarrino, Fabio
name: Villoresi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Twisted photons are photons carrying a well-defined nonzero value of orbital angular momentum (OAM). The associated optical wave exhibits a helical shape of the wavefront (hence the name) and an optical vortex at the beam axis. The OAM of light is attracting a growing interest for its potential in photonic applications ranging from particle manipulation, microscopy and nanotechnologies, to fundamental tests of quantum mechanics, classical data multiplexing and quantum communication. Hitherto, however, all results obtained with optical OAM were limited to laboratory scale. Here we report the experimental demonstration of a link for free-space quantum communication with OAM operating over a distance of 210 meters. Our method exploits OAM in combination with optical polarization to encode the information in rotation-invariant photonic states, so as to guarantee full independence of the communication from the local reference frames of the transmitting and receiving units. In particular, we implement quantum key distribution (QKD), a protocol exploiting the features of quantum mechanics to guarantee unconditional security in cryptographic communication, demonstrating error-rate performances that are fully compatible with real-world application requirements. Our results extend previous achievements of OAM-based quantum communication by over two orders of magnitudes in the link scale, providing an important step forward in achieving the vision of a worldwide quantum network.
Gate-tunable quantum pathways of high harmonic generation in graphene
Creators: name: Cha, Soonyoung
name: Kim, Minjeong
name: Kim, Youngjae
name: Choi, Shinyoung
name: Kang, Sejong
name: Kim, Hoon
name: Yoon, Sangho
name: Moon, Gunho
name: Kim, Taeho
name: Lee, Ye Won
name: Cho, Gil Young
name: Park, Moon Jeong
name: Kim, Cheol-Joo
name: Kim, B. J.
name: Lee, JaeDong
name: Jo, Moon-Ho
name: Kim, Jonghwan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under strong laser fields, electrons in solids radiate high-harmonic fields by travelling through quantum pathways in Bloch bands in the sub-laser-cycle timescales. Understanding these pathways in the momentum space through the high-harmonic radiation can enable an all-optical ultrafast probe to observe coherent lightwave-driven processes and measure electronic structures as recently demonstrated for semiconductors. However, such demonstration has been largely limited for semimetals because the absence of the bandgap hinders an experimental characterization of the exact pathways. In this study, by combining electrostatic control of chemical potentials with HHG measurement, we resolve quantum pathways of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under strong laser fields. Electrical modulation of HHG reveals quantum interference between the multi-photon interband excitation channels. As the light-matter interaction deviates beyond the perturbative regime, elliptically polarized laser fields efficiently drive massless Dirac fermions via an intricate coupling between the interband and intraband transitions, which is corroborated by our theoretical calculations. Our findings pave the way for strong-laser-field tomography of Dirac electrons in various quantum semimetals and their ultrafast electronics with a gate control.
description: 33 pages, 4 figures, Soonyoung Cha and Minjeong Kim contributed equally to this work, To whom correspondence should be addressed: jonghwankim@postech
Quantum magnetism of bosons with synthetic gauge fields in one-dimensional optical lattices: a Density Matrix Renormalization Group study
Creators: name: Piraud, Marie
name: Cai, Zi
name: McCulloch, Ian P.
name: Schollwöck, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we provide a comprehensive study of the quantum magnetism in the Mott insulating phases of the 1D Bose-Hubbard model with abelian or non-abelian synthetic gauge fields, using the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) method. We focus on the interplay between the synthetic gauge field and the asymmetry of the interactions, which give rise to a very general effective magnetic model: a XYZ model with various Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions. The properties of the different quantum magnetic phases and phases transitions of this model are investigated.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
MPEC 2023-P34 : DELETION OF 2015 LA65
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Heating Mechanisms for Intermittent Loops in Active Region Cores from AIA/SDO EUV Observations
Creators: name: Cadavid, A. C.
name: Lawrence, J. K.
name: Christian, D. J.
name: Jess, D. B.
name: Nigro, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate intensity variations and energy deposition in five coronal loops in active region cores. These were selected for their strong variability in the AIA/SDO 94 Å intensity channel. We isolate the hot Fe XVIII and Fe XXI components of the 94 Å and 131 Å by modeling and subtracting the "warm" contributions to the emission. HMI/SDO data allow us to concentrate on "inter-moss" regions in the loops. The detailed evolution of the inter-moss intensity time series reveals loops that are impulsively heated in a mode compatible with a nanoflare storm, with a spike in the hot 131 Å signals leading and the other five EUV emission channels following in progressive cooling order. A sharp increase in electron temperature tends to follow closely after the hot 131 Å signal confirming the impulsive nature of the process. A cooler process of growing emission measure follows more slowly. The Fourier power spectra of the hot 131 Å signals, when averaged over the five loops, present three scaling regimes with break frequencies at (0.1/min) and (0.7/min). The low frequency regime corresponds to 1/f noise; the intermediate indicates a persistent scaling process and the high frequencies show white noise. Very similar results are found for the energy dissipation in a 2-D "hybrid" shell model of loop magneto-turbulence, based on reduced magnetohydrodynamics, which is compatible with nanoflare statistics. We suggest that such turbulent dissipation is the energy source for our loops.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures
GIS Update #34 (Spring 1998)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Geographic Information and Analysis
Year: 1998

description: A newsletter about the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP), Bureau of Geographic Information and Analysis (BGIA). The newsletter covers GIS-related news items, projects, initiatives, conference reports, data reports, GIS events and BGIA staff news. The audience includes NJDEP staff and the New Jersey GIS community, and the public. This is Issue #34 Spring 1998, with articles about 1:24000 DEM models, UpClose, Extensions, and more.
Nonperturbative phase diagram of interacting disordered Majorana nanowires
Creators: name: Crépin, Francois
name: Zaránd, Gergely
name: Simon, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a Gaussian variational approach in replica space to investigate the phase diagram of a one-dimensional interacting disordered topological superconducting wire in the strong coupling regime. This method allows for a non-perturbative treatment in the disorder strength, electron- electron interactions and the superconducting pairing amplitude. We find only two stable phases: a topological superconducting phase, and a glassy, non-topological localized phase, characterized by replica symmetry breaking.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
Two Modes of LyC Escape From Bursty Star Formation: Implications for [C II] Deficits and the Sources of Reionization
Creators: name: Katz, Harley
name: Saxena, Aayush
name: Rosdahl, Joki
name: Kimm, Taysun
name: Blaizot, Jeremy
name: Garel, Thibault
name: Michel-Dansac, Leo
name: Haehnelt, Martin
name: Ellis, Richard S.
name: Penterrici, Laura
name: Devriendt, Julien
name: Slyz, Adrianne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the SPHINX$^{20}$ cosmological radiation hydrodynamics simulation to study how Lyman Continuum (LyC) photons escape from galaxies and the observational signatures of this escape. We define two classes of LyC leaker: Bursty Leakers and Remnant Leakers, based on their star formation rates (SFRs) that are averaged over 10 Myr (SFR$_{10}$) or 100 Myr (SFR$_{100}$). Both have $f_{\rm esc}>20\%$ and experienced an extreme burst of star formation, but Bursty Leakers have ${\rm SFR_{10}>SFR_{100}}$, while Remnant Leakers have ${\rm SFR_{10}20\%$ dominate the ionizing photon budget at $z\gtrsim7.5$ but the contribution from galaxies with $f_{\rm esc}<5\%$ becomes significant at the tail-end of reionization.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Formation, tidal evolution and habitability of the Kepler-186 system
Creators: name: Bolmont, Emeline
name: Raymond, Sean N.
name: von Paris, Philip
name: Selsis, Franck
name: Hersant, Franck
name: Quintana, Elisa V.
name: Barclay, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kepler-186 system consists of five planets orbiting an early-M dwarf. The planets have physical radii of 1.0-1.50 R$_\oplus$ and orbital periods of 4 to 130 days. The $1.1~$R$_\oplus$ Kepler-186f with a period of 130 days is of particular interest. Its insolation of roughly $0.32~S_\odot$places it within the liquid water habitable zone. We present a multi-faceted study of the Kepler-186 system. First, we show that the distribution of planet masses can be roughly reproduced if the planets accreted from a high-surface density disk presumably sculpted by an earlier phase of migration. However, our simulations predict the existence of 1-2 undetected planets between planets e and f. Next, we present a dynamical analysis of the system including the effect of tides. The timescale for tidal evolution is short enough that the four inner planets must have small obliquities and near-synchronous rotation rates. Tidal evolution of Kepler-186f is slow enough that its current spin state depends on a combination of its dissipation rate and the stellar age. Finally, we study the habitability of Kepler-186f with a 1-D climate model. The planet's surface temperature can be raised above 273 K with 0.5-5 bars of CO$_2$, depending on the amount of N$_2$ present. Kepler-186f represents a case study of an Earth-sized planet in the cooler regions of the habitable zone of a cool star.
description: Paper accepted in ApJ
The Azimuthal $B \to D^{*} τ^{-} \bar{ν_τ}$ Angular Distribution with Tensor Operators
Creators: name: Duraisamy, Murugeswaran
name: Sharma, Preet
name: Datta, Alakabha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper we performed a comprehensive study of the impact of new-physics operators with different Lorentz structures on $\BDstarellnu$ decays, $\ell = e^-, μ^-, τ^- $, involving the $b \to c l ν_\ell$ transition. In this work we extend the previous calculation by including tensor operators. In the case of $\BDstartaunu $, we present the full three angle and $q^2$ angular distribution with tensor new physics operators with complex couplings. The impact of the tensor operators on various observables in the angular distribution, specially the azimuthal observables including the CP violating triple product asymmetries are discussed. It is shown that these azimuthal observables are very useful in discriminating different new physics operators. Finally we consider new physics leptoquark models with tensor interactions and show how the presence of additional scalar operators modify the predictions of the tensor operators.
description: 20 pages, 22 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1302.7031; and overlap with arXiv:1309.0301 by other authors
Strong-Field QED Experiments using the BELLA PW Laser Dual Beamlines
Creators: name: Turner, M.
name: Bulanov, S. S.
name: Benedetti, C.
name: Gonsalves, A. J.
name: Leemans, W. P.
name: Nakamura, K.
name: van Tilborg, J.
name: Schroeder, C. B.
name: Geddes, C. G. R.
name: Esarey, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Petawatt (PW) laser facility of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center has recently commissioned its second laser pulse transport line. This new beamline can be operated in parallel with the first beamline and enables strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SF-QED) experiments at BELLA. In this paper, we present an overview of the upgraded BELLA PW facility with a SF-QED experimental layout in which intense laser pulses collide with GeV-class laser-wakefield-accelerated electron beams. We present simulation results showing that experiments will allow the study of laser-particle interactions from the classical to the SF-QED regime with a nonlinear quantum parameter of up to $χ\sim$2. In addition, we show that experiments will enable the study and production of GeV-class, mrad-divergence positron beams via the Breit-Wheeler process.
description: 5 figures
Anasimyia interpuncta
Creators: name: MAZáNEK, Libor
name: VONIČKA, Pavel
name: PREISLER, JiřÍ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Anasimyia
Anasimyia interpuncta

description: Anasimyia interpuncta (Harris, 1776) Druh rozšÍřený v severnÍ a mÍrné Evropě, nejčastějšÍ z rodu. Vyskytuje se v okolÍ různých zarůstajÍcÍch vodnÍch ploch. Meandry Smědé PR [22a]: 31.V.-22.VI.2005, 1 ♀ (MT); [22b]: 4.-19.V.2005, 1 ♂ (MT), 1 ♀ (YPT); 31.V.-22. VI.2005, 2 ♀♀ (YPT); [22c]: 14.VI.-1.VII.2007, 1 ♂ (MT).
description: Published as part of MAZáNEK, Libor, VONIČKA, Pavel & PREISLER, JiřÍ, 2009, Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), pp. 3-46 in Sborník Severočeského Muzea 27 on page 30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7153554
Transverse momentum dependent gluon density from DIS precision data
Creators: name: Hautmann, F.
name: Jung, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The combined measurements of proton's structure functions in deeply inelastic scattering at the HERA collider provide high-precision data capable of constraining parton density functions over a wide range of the kinematic variables. We perform fits to these data using transverse momentum dependent QCD factorization and CCFM evolution. The results of the fits to precision measurements are used to make a determination of the nonperturbative transverse momentum dependent gluon density function, including experimental and theoretical uncertainties. We present an application of this density function to vector boson + jet production processes at the LHC.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures. v2: added comments, corrected typos; results unchanged
Finite element modelling of human lung parenchyma in healthy and pathological states
Creators: name: Campbell, James
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A finite element, porous hyperelastic computational model was developed for the purpose of modelling the pressure-volume relationship in lung parenchyma (the smallest part of the respiratory tree where gaseous exchange occurs, responsible for the vast majority of its volume). The anatomical structure selected for this purpose was the pulmonary acinus: the part of the respiratory tree arising for the end of the conducting airway down to its daughter alveoli. In COMSOL Multiphysics, this was constructed as a perfectly spherical geometry scaled proportionally to represent a 215 segment of lung tissue (∼100 mm3 volume) with a central Dirichlet boundary core used to specify the given fluid (air) pressure into and out of the structure as a time-dependent function. Using adapted reference tracheal pressure values, the key material parameters for a healthy pulmonary acinus were found to be K = 5 kPa and κ0 = 5×10-5 m2. This model was subjected to simulations of tidal and ‘forced’ breathing, with the latter driving the anticipated proportional volumetric deformation seen in medical literature. Pathological lung tissue changes were attempted via an increase in elasticity (for restrictive disease) and an upscaling of the geometry twinned with a tailoring of permeability (for obstructive disease). The 2D-axisymmetric incarnation of this model was then built as a fully 3D geometry, demonstrating an agreement between the results of both, and upscaled versions of the model were built to include multiple ‘bronchioles’ to compare the pressure-volume responses thereof and attempt the inclusion of a lung-cancer-type ‘tumour’ into the geometry.
Replication of Experiment 5 of Byrne et al. (2000)
Creators: name: Chandrashekar, Subramanya Prasad
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The Project´s main aim is to test the prediction of the temporal order effect, which states that counterfactual thinking tends to focus on the most recent event in an independent sequence of events.
2000 Environmental Quality Incentives Program: New Jersey Summary
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Year: 2001

description: This document is a summary of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) in New Jersey for the fiscal year (FY) 2000. Interest among the farm community in the EQIP remains high and FY 2000 was the second year that NRCS leveraged state funding through EQIP. With State funding from the Conservation Cost Share Program (CCSP), more New Jersey producers have been able to implement conservation practices than in past years. Four educational assistance plans have been approved for FY 2000 relating to transition to irrigation water management, animal waste management, and integrated crop management. The summary consists of a program overview, the accomplishments, an outlook, and a map of the New Jersey EQIP Priority Areas Within Congressional Districts.
Concordance group and stable commutator length in braid groups
Creators: name: Brandenbursky, Michael
name: Kędra, Jarek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We define a quasihomomorphism from braid groups to the concordance group of knots and examine its properties and consequences of its existence. In particular, we provide a relation between the stable four ball genus in the concordance group and the stable commutator length in braid groups, and produce examples of infinite families of concordance classes of knots with uniformly bounded four ball genus. We also provide applications to the geometry of the infinite braid group. In particular, we show that its commutator subgroup admits a stably unbounded conjugation invariant norm. This answers an open problem posed by Burago, Ivanov and Polterovich.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
Infrared variability of young solar analogs in the Lagoon Nebula
Creators: name: Ordenes-Huanca, C.
name: Zoccali, M.
name: Bayo, A.
name: Cuadra, J.
name: Ramos, R. Contreras
name: Hillenbrand, L. A.
name: Lacerna, I.
name: Abarzua, S.
name: Avendaño, C.
name: Diaz, P.
name: Fernandez, I.
name: Lara, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: T Tauri stars are low-mass pre-main sequence stars that are intrinsically variable. Due to the intense magnetic fields they possess, they develop dark spots on their surface that, because of rotation, introduce a periodic variation of brightness.In addition, the presence of surrounding disks could generate flux variations by variable extinction or accretion. Both can lead to a brightness decrease or increase, respectively. Here, we have compiled a catalog of light curves for 379 T Tauri stars in the Lagoon Nebula (M8) region, using VVVX survey data in the Ks-band. All these stars were already classified as pre-MS stars based on other indicators. The data presented here are spread over a period of about eight years, which gives us a unique follow-up time for these sources at this wavelength. The light curves were classified according to their degree of periodicity and asymmetry, to constrain the physical processes responsible for their variation. Periods were compared with the ones found in literature, on a much shorter baseline. This allowed us to prove that for 126 stars, the magnetically active regions remain stable for several years. Besides, our near-IR data were compared with the optical Kepler/K2 light curves, when available, giving us a better understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the brightness variations observed and how they manifest at different bands. We found that the periodicity in both bands is in fairly good agreement, but the asymmetry will depend on the amplitude of the bursts or dips events and the observation cadence.
description: 15 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Antithymocyte Globulin Induces a Tolerogenic Phenotype in Human Dendritic Cells
Creators: name: Roider, Tobias
name: Katzfuss, Michael
name: Matos, Carina
name: Singer, Katrin
name: Renner, Kathrin
name: Oefner, Peter
name: Dettmer-Wilde, Katja
name: Herr, Wolfgang
name: Holler, Ernst
name: Kreutz, Marina
name: Peter, Katrin
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: REGULATORY T-CELLS; ARYL-HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; INDOLEAMINE 2,3-DIOXYGENASE; TRYPTOPHAN CATABOLISM; IN-VITRO; EXPRESSION; TRANSPLANTATION; ACTIVATION; MECHANISMS; MONOCYTES; allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; dendritic cell; antithymocyte globulin; Grafalon; tolerogenic; indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase; immunosuppressive
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Antithymocyte globulin (ATG) is used in the prevention of graft-versus-host disease during allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. It is generally accepted that ATG mediates its immunosuppressive effect primarily via depletion of T cells. Here, we analyzed the impact of ATG-Fresenius (now Grafalon (R)) on human monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DC). ATG induced a semi-mature phenotype in DC with significantly reduced expression of CD14, increased expression of HLA-DR, and intermediate expression of CD54, CD80, CD83, and CD86. ATG-DC showed an increase in IL-10 secretion but no IL-12 production. In line with this tolerogenic phenotype, ATG caused a significant induction of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase expression and a concomitant increase in levels of tryptophan metabolites in the supernatants of DC. Further, ATG-DC did not induce the proliferation of allogeneic T cells in a mixed lymphocyte reaction but actively suppressed the T cell proliferation induced by mature DC. These data suggest that besides its well-known effect on T cells, ATG modulates the phenotype of DC in a tolerogenic way, which might constitute an essential part of its immunosuppressive action in vivo.
AXBOROT TEXNOLOGIYALARI RIVOJLANISHINING O'ZBEKISTON RESPUBLIKASI TARAQQIYOTIDAGI O'RNI
Creators: name: Aytuganov, Odilbek
name: Malikov, No'monjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Hozirgi kunda nafaqat O'zbekiston Respublikasida, balki butun dunyo mehnat bozorida IT mutaxassislariga bo'lgan ehtiyoj tobora oshmoqda. Ushbu maqolada  yurtimizda axborot texnologiyalarini rivojlantirish uchun olib borilayotgan  sa'y harakatlar, hamda bu sohaning xalqimizga keltirgan foydasi haqida batafsil yoritiladi.
2005-2006 Health Advisories: Chemicals in Sportfish and Game
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New York State Department of Health (DOH), Division of Environmental Health Assessment
Year: 2005

description: The New York State Department of Health (DOH) issues advisories on eating sportfish and game because some of these foods contain chemicals at levels that may be harmful to your health. These advisories are for sportfish and game that people take and are not for fish and game sold in markets. While this document refers to waters in New York state, waters near or adjacent to New Jersey include Arthur Kill, Kill Van Kull, Hudson River, Harlem River, Newark Bay, and New York Harbor. The health advisories, which are updated yearly, are: (1) general advice on sportfish taken from waters in New York State; (2) advice on sportfish caught in specific New York State waterbodies; and (3) advice on eating New York State game. The advisory tells you how to minimize your exposure to contaminants in sportfish and game and reduce whatever health risks are associated with them.
Conserve Wildlife: Newsletter of the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife's Endangered and Nongame Species Program, Fall 2003
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Fish and Wildlife, the Endangered and Nongame Species Program
Year: 2003

description: This newsletter is intended to inform interested individuals and organizations about the activities and events of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Division of Fish and Wildlife's Endangered and Nongame Species Program, as well as provide general information about New Jersey wildlife.  This issue contains an article about stronger protections for endangered species, news on Delaware Bay shorebirds and on peregrine falcons, and Conserve Wildlife Foundation News.
The Chinese Room Argument
Creators: name: Tibrewal, Vansh
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2026
Subjects: subject: Hixon Writing Center
subject: Alexander P. and Adelaide F. Hixon Prize for Writing
subject: Hixon Prize for Writing
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Introduction: The question of what constitutes understanding is often discussed without considering the more fundamental question of what the human mind is. Searle’s Chinese Room Argument attempts to challenge those who believe in strong AI and functionalism by proposing an example that meets their requirements for understanding yet intuitively seems to lack understanding. In the process, Searle makes claims about what AI functionalists believe about the nature of the human mind as well as how he differs from them. This essay will discuss the views of Searle and his detractors, and attempt to extend those views and dissect how they interact with each other.
Reappraisal of Shellfish Growing Area SE-7: Sunset Lake to Cape May Harbor, 1996 - 2000
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Land Use Management, Water Monitoring and Standards
Year: 2005

description: The water quality data presented in this Reappraisal of Shellfish Growing Area SE-7; Sunset Lake to Cape May Harbor, were collected between October 1996 and September 2000, using the Systematic Random Sampling (SRS) strategy. However, additional sampling runs are recommended for the sampling stations that need 30 sets of data for the Systematic Random Sampling Strategy. The water quality of this shellfish growing area was good, and the Special Restricted and Prohibited classification of this shellfish growing area meets the water quality standards as specified by the National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP) concerning water quality and shellfish growing water classification criteria (USPHS, 1999 Revision). No classification changes are recommended for this shellfish growing area.
Delaware River Basin Commission Annual Report 1997
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Delaware River Basin Commission
Year: 1998

description: The Delaware River Basin Compact, between the federal government and the four signatory states (Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania) ensures that water resource decisions are based on a majority vote among the five signatory parties. The instrument through which the Compact's terms are implemented is the Delaware River Basin Commission. The Commission addresses plans, projects, and policies dealing with water supply, pollution control, flood protection, conservation, watershed management, recreation, and, on a rare occasion, hydroelectric power. This 1997 annual report discusses changes in the Commission's membership, regulations and monitoring of water in the Delaware River, public educational information, and a financial summary for the Commission.
The optically elusive, changing-look active nucleus in NGC 4156
Creators: name: Tozzi, Giulia
name: Lusso, Elisabeta
name: Casetti, Lapo
name: Romoli, Marco
name: Andreuzzi, Gloria
name: A., Isabel Montoya
name: Nardini, Emanuele
name: Cresci, Giovanni
name: Middei, Riccardo
name: Bertolini, Silvia
name: Calabretto, Paolo
name: Cammelli, Vieri
name: Cuadra, Francisco
name: Ragione, Marco Dalla
name: Marconcini, Cosimo
name: Miceli, Adriano
name: Mini, Irene
name: Palazzini, Martina
name: Rotellini, Giorgio
name: Saccardi, Andrea
name: Samà, Lavinia
name: Sangalli, Mattia
name: Serafini, Lorenzo
name: Spaccino, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the changing-look nature of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) in the galaxy NGC 4156, as serendipitously discovered thanks to data acquired in 2019 at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) during a students' observing programme. Previous optical spectra had never shown any signatures of broad-line emission, and evidence of the AGN had come only from X-ray observations, being the optical narrow-line flux ratios unable to unambiguously denote this galaxy as a Seyfert. Our 2019 TNG data unexpectedly revealed the appearance of broad-line components in both the H$α$ and H$β$ profiles, along with a rise of the continuum, thus implying a changing-look AGN transitioning from a type 2 (no broad-line emission) towards a (nearly) type 1. The broad-line emission has then been confirmed by our 2022 follow-up observations, whereas the rising continuum has no longer been detected, which hints at a further evolution backwards to a (nearly) type 2. The presence of broad-line components also allowed us to obtain the first single-epoch estimate of the black hole mass (log(MBH/Msun) $\sim$ 8.1) in this source. The observed spectral variability might be the result of a change in the accretion activity of NGC 4156, although variable absorption cannot be completely excluded.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A Letters
Anasimyia lineata
Creators: name: MAZáNEK, Libor
name: VONIČKA, Pavel
name: PREISLER, JiřÍ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Anasimyia
Anasimyia lineata

description: Anasimyia lineata (Fabricius, 1787) ČS: VU Transpalearktický druh mÍrného pÁsma.VzÁcný mokřadnÍ druh vÁzaný na okolÍ zarůstajÍcÍch vodnÍch ploch slunných mokřadů a rybnÍků, kde se v ponořeném tlejÍcÍm rostlinném materiÁlu vyvÍjejÍ jeho saprofÁgně akvatické larvy. Malá Strana PR [21]: 16.-29.V.2003, 1 ♀ (YPT); 4.VI.2008, 1 ♂ (SW). Meandry Smědé PR [22a]: 17.VI.2007, 1 ♂; [22b]: 4.-19.V.2005, 4 ♂♂ (YPT); 19.-31.V.2005, 1 ♂ (MT), 4 ♂♂, 1 ♀ (YPT).
description: Published as part of MAZáNEK, Libor, VONIČKA, Pavel & PREISLER, JiřÍ, 2009, Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic), pp. 3-46 in Sborník Severočeského Muzea 27 on page 30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7153554