cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Magnifications of paired micro-images emerging from a micro-lensing critical curve
Creators: name: Weisenbach, Luke
name: Schechter, Paul
name: Wambsganss, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studies of the inner regions of micro-lensed AGN during caustic crossing events have often relied upon the approximation that the magnification near a fold caustic is inversely proportional to the square root of the source-caustic distance. We examine here the behavior of the individual micro-images (one a micro-minimum, the other a micro-saddle) that emerge as a point source crosses a micro-fold caustic. We provide a variety of statistics on both the behavior of the two newly created micro-images, and some parameters which appear in higher order approximations for the magnification. We compare the predictions of these higher order approximations to the actual image magnifications of our simulations.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables. Submitted to MNRAS
Multiple Scattering Expansion of the Self-Energy at Finite Temperature
Creators: name: Jeon, Sangyong
name: Ellis, Paul J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An often used rule that the thermal correction to the self-energy is the thermal phase-space times the forward scattering amplitude from target particles is shown to be the leading term in an exact multiple scattering expansion. Starting from imaginary-time finite-temperature field theory, a rigorous expansion for the retarded self-energy is derived. The relationship to the thermodynamic potential is briefly discussed.
description: 33 pages. Uses ReVTeX and epsf. 8 figures
Artifact: Automatic Detection of Performance Bugs in Database Systems using Equivalent Queries
Creators: name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Zhou, Qi
name: Arulraj, Joy
name: Orso, Alessandro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 461299
subject: Software engineering not elsewhere classified

description: In the paper Automatic Detection of Performance Bugs in Database Systems using Equivalent Queries, we present AMOEBA, a technique and tool for automatically detecting performance bugs in DBMSs. The artifact consists of five main components:
1. An implementation of `AMOEBA` to find all performance bugs reported in the paper.
2. A docker image for executing `AMOEBA` and inspecting its codebase.
3. A spreadsheet named `bugs-found` contains a list of bugs that we reported and additional meta information.
4. A spreadsheet named `mutation-rules` contains a list of mutation rules that `AMOEBA` uses.
5. A spreadsheet named `SQL-features` lists SQL features that `AMOEBA` covers.
title: Is Small Beautiful? The Microfinance Movement Challenge
Creators: name: Baldridge, William
name: Starnes, Monica
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Microlending

description: This paper seeks to assess the scope and economic impact of the microlending phenomenon and its long term economic viability. While millions of individuals have benefited from microloans, it does not appear that the numbers of individuals served are sufficient to register measureable economic improvements on the scale of an improved national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or increased income per capita measurements. For this reason, the importance of microfinance to economic growth in developing nations hinges both on its sustainability and the ability of microfinance to grow and serve a significantly larger percentage of the populations in those economies.
Revisiting global trends in freshwater insect biodiversity: A reply
Creators: name: Van Klink, Roel
name: Bowler, Diana E.
name: Gongalsky, Konstantin B.
name: Chase, Jonathan M.
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Jähnig et al. make some useful points regarding the conclusions that can be drawn from our meta‐analysis; however, some issues require clarification. First, we never suggested that there was a globally increasing trend of freshwater insect abundances, but only spoke of an average increasing trend in the available data. We also did not suggest that freshwater quality has improved globally, but rather that documented improvements in water quality can explain at least some of the trends we observed. Second, as we acknowledged, our data are not a representative set of freshwater ecosystems around the world, but they are what is currently accessible. Third, there is indeed no doubt that changes in abundance or biomass need not correlate with changes in other aspects of biodiversity, such as species richness or functional composition. Our analysis was specifically focused on trends in community abundance/biomass because it has been the subject of recent study and speculation, and is a widely available metric in long‐term studies. To better understand the recent changes in freshwater insect assemblages, we encourage freshwater ecologists to further open their troves of data from countless long‐term monitoring schemes so that larger and more comprehensive syntheses can be undertaken. This article is categorized under: Water and Life > Conservation, Management, and Awareness
description: Biodiversity synthesis is always limited by the available data, but still moves our understanding beyond case studies. Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay.com. image
description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
description: Russian Foundation for Basic Research http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002261
Growth response of calcifying marine epibionts to biogenic pH fluctuations and global ocean acidification scenarios
Creators: name: Johnson, Mildred Jessica
name: Hennigs, Laura Margarethe
name: Sawall, Yvonne
name: Pansch, Christian
name: Wall, Marlene
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 2020

description: In coastal marine environments, physical and biological forces can cause dynamic pH fluctuations from microscale (diffusive boundary layer [DBL]) up to ecosystem‐scale (benthic boundary layer [BBL]). In the face of ocean acidification (OA), such natural pH variations may modulate an organism's response to OA by providing temporal refugia. We investigated the effect of pH fluctuations, generated by the brown alga Fucus serratus' biological activity, on the calcifying epibionts Balanus improvisus and Electra pilosa under OA. For this, both epibionts were grown on inactive and biologically active surfaces and exposed to (1) constant pH scenarios under ambient (pH 8.1) or OA conditions (pH 7.7), or (2) oscillating pH scenarios mimicking BBL conditions at ambient (pH 7.7–8.6) or OA scenarios (pH 7.4–8.2). Furthermore, all treatment combinations were tested at 10°C and 15°C. Against our expectations, OA treatments did not affect epibiont growth under constant or fluctuating (BBL) pH conditions, indicating rather high robustness against predicted OA scenarios. Furthermore, epibiont growth was hampered and not fostered on active surfaces (fluctuating DBL conditions), indicating that fluctuating pH conditions of the DBL with elevated daytime pH do not necessarily provide temporal refugia from OA. In contrast, results indicate that factors other than pH may play larger roles for epibiont growth on macrophytes (e.g., surface characteristics, macrophyte antifouling defense, or dynamics of oxygen and nutrient concentrations). Warming enhanced epibiont growth rates significantly, independently of OA, indicating no synergistic effects of pH treatments and temperature within their natural temperature range.
description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
Anomalous Features in Surface Impedance of Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films: Dependence on Frequency, RF and DC Fields
Creators: name: Velichko, Anton V.
name: Porch, Adrian
name: Humphreys, Richard G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two high-quality Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films on MgO substrates have been investigated using the coplanar resonator technique at 8 and 16 GHz. Both films exhibit an anomalous decrease in their surface impedance, Zs as a function of microwave field, Hrf. In zero dc field, Hrf-dependences of Rs and Xs for both the samples are uncorrelated, and only one of the quantities, Rs or Xs, displays anomalous behavior. Here, application of relatively weak (~5 mT) dc magnetic fields, Hdc can produce a correlated decrease of Rs(Hrf) and Xs(Hrf). The dependences of Zs on Hdc in both low and high microwave power regimes were found to be non-monotonic. The frequency dependence of Rs ~ fn, 1.7
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to ASC'2000 Conference Proceedings
A new simple PDF parametrization: improved description of the HERA data
Creators: name: Bonvini, Marco
name: Giuli, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new parametrization for the parton distribution functions (PDFs) designed to be flexible in the small-x region. We implement it in the xFitter open-source PDF fitting tool, and compare it to the default xFitter parametrization, widely used for many PDF studies, and notably for the HERAPDF determination. We find that we can describe the combined inclusive HERA I+II data using NNLO theory with a significantly higher quality than HERAPDF2.0: the $χ^2$ is reduced by more than 60 units, having used only four more parameters. Our result highlights a significant parametrization bias in the default xFitter parametrization at small x, which would lead to even more dramatic effects when used for higher energy colliders, where the small-x region is more relevant. We also find that the inclusion of small-x resummation, that was shown in previous studies to lead to similar improvements in the fit quality, further reduces the $χ^2$ by approximately 30 extra units.
description: 26 pages, 8 figures. Final version published in EPJ plus
Atomization chill-down demonstrator for the next generation cryogenic rocket engines: experiments and first results
Creators: name: DURI, Davide
name: KREIT, Patrick
name: BOZET, Jean-Luc
name: LE MARTELOT, Sebastien
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the 8th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences. Madrid, Spain, 1-4 july 2019
Year: 2019
Subjects: CRYOGENIC PROPULSION
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
HEAT TRANSFER
LIQUID ROCKET ENGINES
SPRAYS

description: This paper describes the results of the cryogenic demonstration of an innovative technique to chill-down the turbopumps of a rocket engine as part of an endeavour to optimize the performance of the thermal conditioning phase as long as contributing to the launcher propellant load management in order to increase the payload capacity. By combining the state-of-the-art ALM metal powder printing for rapid prototyping with the highest heat transfer rates achievable from the boiling impinging two-phase spray cooling, we developed, manufactured and tested a fully integrated demonstrator simulating a cryogenic turbopump housing. This demonstrator was used to validate experimentally the performance of the novel chill-down method under representative thermal conditions for the next generation cryogenic rocket engines.
MOESM10 of Effect of tetracycline treatment regimens on antibiotic resistance gene selection over time in nursery pigs
Creators: name: Græsbøll, Kaare
name: Larsen, Inge
name: Clasen, Julie
name: Birkegård, Anna
name: Nielsen, Jens
name: Christiansen, Lasse
name: Olsen, John
name: Angen, Øystein
name: Folkesson, Anders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Figure S10. Relative quantities of tetM at times T1, T2 and T3. Stratified by treatment and farm.
Long‐term stable water isotope and runoff data for the investigation of deforestation effects on the hydrological system of the Wüstebach catchment, Germany
Creators: name: Bogena, Heye R.
name: Stockinger, Michael P.
name: Lücke, Andreas
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 2020

description: The Wüstebach catchment belongs to the German TERENO (Terrestrial Environmental Observatories) network and was partially deforested (~21%) by the Eifel National Park in 2013. In this data paper, we provide 11‐year precipitation and stream water isotope data and the corresponding runoff discharge rates recorded in the Wüstebach catchment (from 2009 to 2019). In addition, we provide an overview of available datasets and access information for environmental data of the Wüstebach catchment that are discoverable with associated metadata at the Web‐based TERENO data portal. We anticipate that this comprehensive data set will give new insights in how deforestation influences the hydrological system, for exampole, in terms of transit time distribution, fraction of young water and water flow paths at the catchment scale.
description: Helmholtz‐Gemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001656
description: Agrosphere Institute of the Forschungszentrum Jülich
Where is 99% of the condensation energy of Tl_2Ba_2CuO_y coming from?
Creators: name: Hirsch, J. E.
name: Marsiglio, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anderson's interlayer tunneling model can account for up to 1% of the condensation energy of Tl_2Ba_2CuO_y. Here we account for the remaining 99%. We predict an in-plane kinetic energy gain of 1 to 3 meV per planar oxygen in the optimally doped material when it goes superconducting. It is suggested that the effect may be most easily detected in underdoped dirty samples.
title: Policy Watch: Help from Syria and Iran?
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.)
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International affairs
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2010

description: © 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Deposited with permission from UPI.com.
description: One idea being floated for resolving the conflict in Iraq is for the United States to get help in doing this from Iran and Syria -- two governments that Washington has long had hostile relations with. It is highly doubtful this will work. Everyone knows, including Tehran and Damascus, that America's military effort in Iraq is floundering. Indeed, part of the reason it is doing so is that Tehran and Damascus are aiding (or allowing aid to flow to) various Iraqi insurgent groups. Iran and Syria could indeed cut back on this and take other steps to relieve America's burden in Iraq. Both, though, will demand a high price for helping America.
A Non-linear Sigma-model for Partially Polarized QH-states
Creators: name: Hansson, T. H.
name: Karlhede, A.
name: Leinaas, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-component quantum Hall system within a Landau-Ginzburg theory with two Chern-Simons gauge fields. From this theory we derive a sigma model covariantly coupled to one Chern-Simons field and find mean field solutions that could describe partially polarized quantum Hall states. The quasiparticles in the original model, which have quantized charge and spin, are described in the covariant sigma model by topological excitations, with the correct quantum numbers. They have finite energy due to the presence of the Chern-Simons field, and closely resemble the skyrmions in the usual non-linear sigma model. For the fully polarized states the spin is no longer quantized, but determined by Coulomb and Zeeman interactions.
description: 12 pages, RevTeX
Characterizing hydrological processes within kettle holes using stable water isotopes in the Uckermark of northern Brandenburg, Germany
Creators: name: Vyse, Stuart Andrew
name: Taie Semiromi, Majid
name: Lischeid, Gunnar
name: Merz, Christoph
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Understanding the hydrologic connectivity between kettle holes and shallow groundwater, particularly in reaction to the highly variable local meteorological conditions, is of paramount importance for tracing water in a hydro(geo)logically complex landscape and thus for integrated water resource management. This article is aimed at identifying the dominant hydrological processes affecting the kettle holes' water balance and their interactions with the shallow groundwater domain in the Uckermark region, located in the north‐east of Germany. For this reason, based on the stable isotopes of oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen (δ2H), an isotopic mass balance model was employed to compute the evaporative loss of water from the kettle holes from February to August 2017. Results demonstrated that shallow groundwater inflow may play the pivotal role in the processes taking part in the hydrology of the kettle holes in the Uckermark region. Based on the calculated evaporation/inflow (E/I) ratios, most of the kettle holes (86.7%) were ascertained to have a partially open, flow‐through‐dominated system. Moreover, we identified an inverse correlation between E/I ratios and the altitudes of the kettle holes. The same holds for electrical conductivity (EC) and the altitudes of the kettle holes. In accordance with the findings obtained from this study, a conceptual model explaining the interaction between the shallow groundwater and the kettle holes of Uckermark was developed. The model exhibited that across the highest altitudes, the recharge kettle holes are dominant, where a lower ratio of E/I and a lower EC was detected. By contrast, the lowest topographical depressions represent the discharge kettle holes, where a higher ratio of E/I and EC could be identified. The kettle holes existing in between were categorized as flow‐through kettle holes through which the recharge takes place from one side and discharge from the other side.
description: The prevailing hydrological processes influencing the kettle holes in the Uckermark region in the north‐east of Germany were investigated using the stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen. The possible contribution of the groundwater inflow into the kettle holes was characterized via evaporation/inflow (E/I) ratios. A conceptual model portraying hydrologic connectivity between different types of kettle holes and in relation their adjacent shallow groundwater domain was provided. image
An elementary introduction to the geometry of quantum states with pictures
Creators: name: Avron, Joseph
name: Kenneth, Oded
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is a review of the geometry of quantum states using elementary methods and pictures. Quantum states are represented by a convex body, often in high dimensions. In the case of n-qubits, the dimension is exponentially large in n. The space of states can be visualized, to some extent, by its simple cross sections: Regular simplexes, balls and hyper-octahedra. When the dimension gets large there is a precise sense in which the space of states resembles, almost in every direction, a ball. The ball turns out to be a ball of rather low purity states. We also address some of the corresponding, but harder, geometric properties of separable and entangled states and entanglement witnesses.
description: 35 pages, 16 figures, ref and typo corrected
MOESM1 of Is deliberate hypotension a safe technique for orthopedic surgery?: a systematic review and meta-analysis of parallel randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Jiang, Jia
name: Zhou, Ran
name: Li, Bo
name: Xue, Fushan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: Additional file 1: The search strategy of four electronic databases.
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 95 - MLA, AHA, and Aaron Swartz
Creators: name: Roy Rosenzweig Center For History And New Media, /
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Conferences
subject: Copyright
subject: Digital humanities
subject: Intellectual property
subject: Journals
subject: JSTOR
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Libraries
subject: Open access

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
description: One episode closer to the century mark, Amanda, Dan, Mills, and Tom welcome Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Tim Carmody for a debriefing on digital developments at the annual meetings of the MLA and AHA and a discussion of the tragic suicide of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Seine (XIIIe siècle), Cart. 165 (10 H 6, ms. 139), 354 pages, f. 0293
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2009
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Seine (XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 165 (10 H 6, ms. 139), 354 pages, f. 0293, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Seine (XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 165 (10 H 6, ms. 139), 354 pages, f. 0293, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Saint-Seine
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2820709
title: Advertisement: Anonymous, "Why Not Shop For Spring Looks Where You Can See How Spring Looks," Undated
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: Advertisement; 13.625” x 9.625” (34.6 cm x 24.4 cm)
description: Anonymous, undated advertisement for Reston Town Center. This advertisement suggests that Reston Town Center is the place to shop in the spring. Also mentioned are the shops and restaurants available at Reston Town Center. Directions to the Town Center are given. Planned Community Archives Collection, 475.01
MOESM11 of Effect of tetracycline treatment regimens on antibiotic resistance gene selection over time in nursery pigs
Creators: name: Græsbøll, Kaare
name: Larsen, Inge
name: Clasen, Julie
name: Birkegård, Anna
name: Nielsen, Jens
name: Christiansen, Lasse
name: Olsen, John
name: Angen, Øystein
name: Folkesson, Anders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 11: Figure S11. Relative quantities of tet(O) at times T1, T2 and T3. Stratified by treatment and farm.
Angular ordering and structure functions at small x
Creators: name: Bottazzi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the effect of using an angular ordered evolution equation for the unintegrated gluon distribution at small x.
description: 8 pages,4 figures
Linear Theory of Electron-Plasma Waves at Arbitrary Collisionality
Creators: name: Jorge, R.
name: Ricci, P.
name: Brunner, S.
name: Gamba, S.
name: Konovets, V.
name: Loureiro, N. F.
name: Perrone, L. M.
name: Teixeira, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of electron-plasma waves are described at arbitrary collisionality by considering the full Coulomb collision operator. The description is based on a Hermite-Laguerre decomposition of the velocity dependence of the electron distribution function. The damping rate, frequency, and eigenmode spectrum of electron-plasma waves are found as functions of the collision frequency and wavelength. A comparison is made between the collisionless Landau damping limit, the Lenard-Bernstein and Dougherty collision operators, and the electron-ion collision operator, finding large deviations in the damping rates and eigenmode spectra. A purely damped entropy mode, characteristic of a plasma where pitch-angle scattering effects are dominant with respect to collisionless effects, is shown to emerge numerically, and its dispersion relation is analytically derived. It is shown that such a mode is absent when simplified collision operators are used, and that like-particle collisions strongly influence the damping rate of the entropy mode.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication on Journal of Plasma Physics
title: The Optimization of a Cost-Effective Lentiviral Vector Production Protocol for Animal Gene Therapy Trials
Creators: name: Hetrick, Brian
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Viral gene therapy
subject: Lentivirus
subject: HIV
subject: Transfection

description: This thesis describes a cost effective method for the mass production of lentiviral vector particles for the use in animal gene therapy trails. Viral gene therapy is the process by which genes can be introduced, integrated, or up regulated within the genetic messages of viral particles. Due to their relatively small genomes and there affinity for particular cell surface receptors, viral vectors can easily be manipulated to carry genes to a particular cell type. This potentially makes viral vectors a favorable new method to fight diseases. In order to produce replication deficient lentiviral particles safely in a laboratory, the genome, the envelope, and accessory proteins are split into multiple plasmids. Only those cells that have received all the necessary plasmids with all the required genes will form functioning viral particles. Transfections are a tedious and costly procedure that if not standardized will lead to varying results each time virus is produced. To find the most cost effective and efficient way to produce lentiviral particles, multiple transfections were preformed using three common chemical transfection reagents, LipofectamineTM 2000, calcium phosphate, and polyethylenime (PEI). The costs of the procedures and efficiency of the transfections were assed. It was found that the latter of the three methods was the most cost-efficient. In addition to reducing the cost of transfections, anion exchange and size exclusion will be used to amplify the titer and purity of the viral particles produced from these transfections will greatly reduce the need of multiple injections and larger volume of viral particles in animal trials.
When is a hydrological model sufficiently calibrated to depict flow preferences of riverine species?
Creators: name: Kiesel, Jens
name: Kakouei, Karan
name: Guse, Björn
name: Fohrer, Nicola
name: Jähnig, Sonja C.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2020

description: Riverine species have adapted to their environment, particularly to the hydrological regime. Hydrological models and the knowledge of species preferences are used to predict the impact of hydrological changes on species. Inevitably, hydrological model performance impacts how species are simulated. From the example of macroinvertebrates in a lowland and a mountainous catchment, we investigate the impact of hydrological model performance and the choice of the objective function based on a set of 36 performance metrics for predicting species occurrences. Besides species abundance, we use the simulated community structure for an ecological assessment as applied for the Water Framework Directive. We investigate when a hydrological model is sufficiently calibrated to depict species abundance. For this, we postulate that performance is not sufficient when ecological assessments based on the simulated hydrology are significantly different (analysis of variance, p < .05) from the ecological assessments based on observations. The investigated range of hydrological model performance leads to considerable variability in species abundance in the two catchments. In the mountainous catchment, links between objective functions and the ecological assessment reveal a stronger dependency of the species on the discharge regime. In the lowland catchment, multiple stressors seem to mask the dependence of the species on discharge. The most suitable objective functions to calibrate the model for species assessments are the ones that incorporate hydrological indicators used for the species prediction.
description: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
description: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010661
On the Regge Slopes Intramultiplet Relation
Creators: name: Burakovsky, L.
name: Goldman, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that only additivity of inverse Regge slopes is consistent with both the formal chiral limit m(n)\to 0 and the heavy quark limit M(Q)>>M(n), where n=u,d, and m,M are current and constituent quark masses, respectively.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX
Multimessenger Implications of AT2018cow: High-Energy Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Emissions from Magnetar-Powered Super-Luminous Transients
Creators: name: Fang, Ke
name: Metzger, Brian D.
name: Murase, Kohta
name: Bartos, Imre
name: Kotera, Kumiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Newly-born, rapidly-spinning magnetars have been invoked as the power sources of super-luminous transients, including the class of "fast-luminous optical transients" (FBOTs). The extensive multi-wavelength analysis of AT2018cow, the first FBOT discovered in real time, is consistent with the magnetar scenario and offers an unprecedented opportunity to comprehend the nature of these sources and assess their broader implications. Using AT2018cow as a prototype, we investigate high-energy neutrino and cosmic ray production from FBOTs and the more general class of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe). By calculating the interaction of cosmic rays and the time-evolving radiation field and baryon background, we find that particles accelerated in the magnetar wind may escape the ejecta at ultrahigh energies (UHE). The predicted high-energy neutrino fluence from AT2018cow is below the sensitivity of the IceCube Observatory, and estimates of the cosmically-integrated neutrino flux from FBOTs are consistent with the extreme-high-energy upper limits posed by IceCube. High-energy $γ$ rays exceeding GeV energies are obscured for the first months to years by thermal photons in the magnetar nebula, but are potentially observable at later times. Given also their potentially higher volumetric rate compared to other engine-powered transients (e.g. SLSNe and gamma-ray bursts), we conclude that FBOTs are favorable targets for current and next-generation multi-messenger observatories.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted to ApJ
The behavioral turn in flood risk management, its assumptions and potential implications
Creators: name: Kuhlicke, Christian
name: Seebauer, Sebastian
name: Hudson, Paul
name: Begg, Chloe
name: Bubeck, Philip
name: Dittmer, Cordula
name: Grothmann, Torsten
name: Heidenreich, Anna
name: Kreibich, Heidi
name: Lorenz, Daniel F.
name: Masson, Torsten
name: Reiter, Jessica
name: Thaler, Thomas
name: Thieken, Annegret H.
name: Bamberg, Sebastian
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Recent policy changes highlight the need for citizens to take adaptive actions to reduce flood‐related impacts. Here, we argue that these changes represent a wider behavioral turn in flood risk management (FRM). The behavioral turn is based on three fundamental assumptions: first, that the motivations of citizens to take adaptive actions can be well understood so that these motivations can be targeted in the practice of FRM; second, that private adaptive measures and actions are effective in reducing flood risk; and third, that individuals have the capacities to implement such measures. We assess the extent to which the assumptions can be supported by empirical evidence. We do this by engaging with three intellectual catchments. We turn to research by psychologists and other behavioral scientists which focus on the sociopsychological factors which influence individual motivations (Assumption 1). We engage with economists, engineers, and quantitative risk analysts who explore the extent to which individuals can reduce flood related impacts by quantifying the effectiveness and efficiency of household‐level adaptive measures (Assumption 2). We converse with human geographers and sociologists who explore the types of capacities households require to adapt to and cope with threatening events (Assumption 3). We believe that an investigation of the behavioral turn is important because if the outlined assumptions do not hold, there is a risk of creating and strengthening inequalities in FRM. Therefore, we outline the current intellectual and empirical knowledge as well as future research needs. Generally, we argue that more collaboration across intellectual catchments is needed, that future research should be more theoretically grounded and become methodologically more rigorous and at the same time focus more explicitly on the normative underpinnings of the behavioral turn. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Water Governance Science of Water > Water Extremes
description: The work carried out by Sebastian Seebauer was supported by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund and was carried out within the Austrian Climate Research Program;
description: Austrian Climate and Energy Fund
Voltage-biased I-V characteristics in the multi-Josephson junction model of high T$_c$ superconductor
Creators: name: Sakamoto, S.
name: Matsumoto, H.
name: Koyama, T.
name: Machida, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By use of the multi-Josephson junction model, we investigate voltage-biased I-V characteristics. Differently from the case of the single junction, I-V characteristics show a complicated behavior due to inter-layer couplings among superconducting phase differences mediated by the charging effect. We show that there exist three characteristic regions, which are identified by jumps and cusps in the I-V curve. In the low voltage region, the total current is periodic with trigonometric functional increases and rapid drops. Then a kind of chaotic region is followed. Above certain voltage, the total current behaves with a simple harmonic oscillation and the I-V characteristics form a multi-branch structure as in the current-biased case. The above behavior is the result of the inter-layer coupling, and may be used to confirm the inter-layer coupling mechanism of the formation of hysteresis branches.
description: 12 pages, Latex, 4 figures
D3.4 Data products validation report
Creators: name: Tekes, Stavros
name: Gasteratos, Petros
name: Giorgos Letsos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This deliverable is the validation report of the Earth Observation (EO) data products developed during the ENVISION project. The produced EO services are tailored to monitor agricultural malpractices and the environmental impacts.
 In this document there is the description of every product and service that was developed in ENVISION. More specifically, for every business case the pilot, the data collection, the validation results, the limitations and the next steps are described.
 This work package aims at designing and developing the EO data products of the ENVISION platform, which will address all the potential customers’ specific needs. The described results are the initial ones, based on historical data, and it is just the first attempt of developing the ENVISION products/ services. Further development, calibration and validation will be performed during the lifetime and will be presented in the forthcoming deliverables.
 An update of this deliverable will be provided in M34 in the D3.6 Data product validation report (final version).
MOESM2 of Is deliberate hypotension a safe technique for orthopedic surgery?: a systematic review and meta-analysis of parallel randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Jiang, Jia
name: Zhou, Ran
name: Li, Bo
name: Xue, Fushan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Definition of outcomes. Table S2. Data collection form. Table S3. Risk of bias assessment of 31 included RCTs. Table S4. The GRADE for all outcomes.
title: Diagnostische Wertigkeit der Thermographie bei Carpitis: Renaissance der Thermographie? Erste Ergebnisse einer explorativen retrospektiven Studie
Creators: name: Clasen, Marina
name: Triantafyllias, Konstantinos
name: De Blasi, Michele
name: Nikolodimos, Eleftherios
name: Schwarting, Andreas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die Erfassung von entzündlichen Veränderungen im Rahmen von systemisch-entzündlichen rheumatischen Erkrankungen ist sehr wichtig, um eine optimale Behandlung zu gewährleisten. Das Ziel dieser Forschungsarbeit ist es, den potentiell nützlichen Einsatz einer Infrarot-Kamera[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 33. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), 29. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
title: The use of histology, molecular techniques, and ex situ feeding experiments to investigate the feeding behavior of the coral reef predator Hermodice carunculata, the bearded fireworm
Creators: name: Lewis, Staci A.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Corallivore
subject: Hermodice carunculata
subject: Coral disease
subject: Histology
subject: Feeding behavior
subject: Fireworm

description: Three studies on the invertebrate corallivore Hermodice carunculata, commonly known as the bearded fireworm, were conducted to provide baseline information on the general anatomical features, nutritional requirements, feeding behavior, and growth rates of this poorly documented reef inhabitant. Through histological techniques, the species’ feeding mechanisms, digestive system, and sensory structures were studied to understand its ability to adapt to a changing reef habitat. Several previously unreported features were observed including a simple layer of cells on the outer cuticle resembling, and the size of, bacteria, a specialized tissue in the foregut, and pigment granules penetrating the ventral cuticle at the nerve cord connection. This study also documented the appearance of gut content in the digestive tract and the presence of secretory cells on the proboscis. These observations provide insight into the feeding behavior of H. carunculata. Ex situ feeding experiments were conducted in Barbados to monitor organisms’ weight change in different coral reef feeding regimes as an indication of nutritional value of coral species. During the experiments, H. carunculata specimens experienced a Millepora complanata feeding regime and a short time period in a Montastraea annularis feeding regime. In both experiments, the average weight change was not statistically significant, which indicates the H. carunculata specimens did not gain weight in the presence of M. complanata. These results suggest H. carunculata may supplement their diet with other food sources to meet nutritional requirements. Finally, during an outbreak of an unknown white syndrome on coral colonies in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, field samples, including H. carunculata specimens associated with the coral tissue loss margins, were collected to test the use of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and DNA fingerprinting to identify H. carunculata associated with tissue loss lesions. Specific H. carunculata primers were designed to amplify H. carunculata DNA in the samples. The H. carunculata tissue samples (positive controls) were the only samples amplified during the PCR tests. These results suggest H. carunculata organisms do not leave detectable amounts of DNA at foraging sites. However, future molecular tests should be conducted using other target sequences for amplification and take into considerations the sensitivity of conditions including the number of PCR cycles.
title: Creating Guidelines for Effective Weather Communication: A Qualitative Analysis of Message Strategies Through the Lens of Meteorologists
Creators: name: Hubbard, Jessica N
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Meteorology
subject: Science communication
subject: Risk communication
subject: Weather communication
subject: Messages
subject: Checklist

description: From agriculture to economics, aviation to daily commutes, the role of meteorologists can be felt within the life of every individual. Therefore, it is important that meteorologists communicate forecast information effectively and in a way lay audiences can understand. This thesis explores the literature on weather, science, and risk communication, presenting four main goals of effective communication: message understandability, memorability, sharability, and actionability. The barriers and solutions to these objectives were analyzed through the context of meteorology, with strategies presented and qualitatively analyzed through semi-structured interviews with meteorologists who use social media. In result, this thesis produced and revised a checklist product and informational booklet to be used by meteorologists to better meet their communication goals on social media.
NOON state generation with phonons in acoustic wave resonators assisted by a nitrogen-vacancy-center ensemble
Creators: name: Li, Jiu-Ming
name: Hua, Ming
name: Yan, Xue-Qun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the quality factor of an acoustic wave resonator (AWR) reached $10^{11}$, AWRs have been regarded as a good carrier of quantum information. In this paper, we propose a scheme to construct a NOON state with two AWRs assisted by a nitrogen-vacancy-center ensemble (NVE). The two AWRs cross each other vertically, and the NVE is located at the center of the crossing. By considering the decoherence of the system and using resonant interactions between the AWRs and the NVE, and the single-qubit operation of the NVE, a NOON state can be achieved with a fidelity higher than $98.8\%$ when the number of phonons in the AWR is $N \le 3$.
title: Master's Thesis: "A Table of Steady-State Transforms," August 20, 1953
Creators: name: Warfield, John
name: Waidelich, D. L.
Publisher: name: University of Missouri
Year: 1953
Subjects: subject: Warfield, John N.
subject: Thesis
subject: University of Missouri

description: Booklet: color (green) cover illustration and attached typescript pages with hand-drawn tables and figures. A typescript signed letter is inserted before page 1 of the report. 18 pgs. total. 8.5" x 11" (21.6 cm x 29.7 cm)
description: Published version of John N. Warfield's thesis for his Master's degree under Dr. D.L. Waidelich, at the University of Missouri. Originally written in 1948, it was published as a 16-page report in a 1953 University of Missouri Engineering Research Reports Bulletin. Inside the front cover of the paper is a letter from Dr. Waidelich informing Warfield that his paper was to be published. John N. Warfield Collection 6.24
title: Optisch-spektrale Transmissionsbildgebung (HandScan) und Arthrosonographie vor und nach Kortisonstoßtherapie bei Patienten mit aktiver Arthritis: Erste Daten zur Wertigkeit des HandScans bei Verlaufskontrollen
Creators: name: Triantafyllias, Konstantinos
name: Heller, Caroline
name: De Blasi, Michele
name: Schwarting, Andreas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Das neue Hemics-HandScan (Optisch-spektrale-Transmissionsbildgebung bzw. OST) verspricht eine valide Quantifizierung der entzündlichen Veränderungen bei Patienten mit rheumatoider Arthritis (RA). Unsere Arbeitsgruppe konnte in der Vergangenheit zeigen, dass OST-Scores mit verschiedenen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 33. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), 29. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)