cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Per mari e per terre. Viaggi, spazi, immaginari. Editoriale di Engramma 218
Creators: name: Bergamo, Maria;De Angelis, Mario;Lollini, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2024
Subjects: Travel literature
Pilgrimage
Odeporic art
Maritime cultural heritage
Grand tour
Marco Polo

description: Awareness of ‘distance’, in a broad sense, and specifically of geographical remoteness, is moreover a variable of the cultural context to which the perceiver belongs. Many contemporary concepts, from the theories on the relativity of time to that of the visual and experiential unity of non-places, now take this for granted. Historiography on travel, and on land and sea circulations, does not always take this into due account, even in the field of art history. This issue of Engramma therefore wants to be an exercise in understanding different odeporic systems, voyages, spaces, imaginaries “over lands and seas”. It therefore wants to talk about voyages and dislocations of people and objects - by seas and by lands - but also about how the objective reality of this experience intersects with expectations, conventions, and modes of fruition that in some cases break down the real kilometres (or sea miles), towards an idea, exaggeratedly, of a single widespread place, or a series of places, in a sort of global experience (pilgrimages, geographical discoveries, the Grand Tour, Universal Expositions). Sometimes, on the other hand, the object, literary or artistic, acts as an access point for a journey more performed in time than in its physical distance.
Bacterial genome-wide association study of hyper-virulent pneumococcal serotype 1 identifies genetic variation associated with neurotropism
Creators: name: Chaguza, Chrispin
name: Yang, Marie
name: Cornick, Jennifer E.
name: Du Plessis, Mignon
name: Gladstone, Rebecca A.
name: Kwambana-Adams, Brenda A.
name: Lo, Stephanie W.
name: Ebruke, Chinelo
name: Tonkin-Hill, Gerry
name: Peno, Chikondi
name: Senghore, Madikay
name: Obaro, Stephen K.
name: Ousmane, Sani
name: Pluschke, Gerd
name: Collard, Jean-Marc
name: Sigaùque, Betuel
name: French, Neil
name: Klugman, Keith P.
name: Heyderman, Robert S.
name: McGee, Lesley
name: Antonio, Martin
name: Breiman, Robert F.
name: Von Gottberg, Anne
name: Everett, Dean B.
name: Kadioglu, Aras
name: Bentley, Stephen D.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/326/41/2529
/631/181/457/649
/631/208/205/2138
/631/208/212/748
/631/326/41/2530
/45
/45/43
/45/23
article

description: Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
description: Abstract: Hyper-virulent Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1 strains are endemic in Sub-Saharan Africa and frequently cause lethal meningitis outbreaks. It remains unknown whether genetic variation in serotype 1 strains modulates tropism into cerebrospinal fluid to cause central nervous system (CNS) infections, particularly meningitis. Here, we address this question through a large-scale linear mixed model genome-wide association study of 909 African pneumococcal serotype 1 isolates collected from CNS and non-CNS human samples. By controlling for host age, geography, and strain population structure, we identify genome-wide statistically significant genotype-phenotype associations in surface-exposed choline-binding (P = 5.00 × 10−08) and helicase proteins (P = 1.32 × 10−06) important for invasion, immune evasion and pneumococcal tropism to CNS. The small effect sizes and negligible heritability indicated that causation of CNS infection requires multiple genetic and other factors reflecting a complex and polygenic aetiology. Our findings suggest that certain pathogen genetic variation modulate pneumococcal survival and tropism to CNS tissue, and therefore, virulence for meningitis.
title: Dynamical Neurofeedback® NeurOptimal®: a new approach to improve the perception of Tinnitus through cerebral self-regulation.
title: Audiologia e Foniatria
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Aldo Messina
name: Giorgio Raponi
name: Michela Di Nardo
name: Alessandro Corvaia
name: Francesco Ciodaro
Publisher: name: Padova University Press
Year: 2024
Subjects: tinnitus; THI; DASS-21; Penn State Worry Questionnaire; self-regulation; neuromodulation; brain; electrical activity; psychophysical symptoms; Non-Linear Dynamical Neurofeedback; self-assessment questionnaires

description:
Abstract: We provide results of our multi-center research Palermo-Milan which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of NeurOptimal®, a new therapeutic tool useful for patients suffering from tinnitus. We hypothesize the use of NeurOptimal® can improve perception of tinnitus and psychophysical symptoms related to it. NeurOptimal® is a form of training that allows the brain to self-regulate its activity by optimizing it. To evaluate its effectiveness, we are subjecting voluntary patients, diagnosed with tinnitus, to a series of Non-Linear NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback Sessions, collecting data from audiometric measurements and self-assessment questionnaires concerning the handicap caused by tinnitus, and the level of pathological worry, depression, anxiety and stress. The results that we illustrate, although they need to be verified on a larger sample, are promising and seem to confirm the peculiar characteristic of this unique technique, which is based on the cardinal principles of cerebral activity, self-regulation, neuroplasticity, and learning.
Resonance energy transfer sensitises and monitors in situ switching of LOV2-based optogenetic actuators
Creators: name: Li, Li-Li
name: Klein, Florence M.
name: Li Greci, Lorenzo
name: Popinigis, Arkadiusz
name: Freudenberg, Florian
name: Courtney, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/1647/2253
/631/61/338/469
/631/92/552
/14
/96/33
/96/95
/96/35
/96/10
/14/63
/13/95
article

description: Funder: Magnus Ehrnroothin Säätiö (Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation); doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004155
description: Funder: 7th Framework Programme Initial Training Networks FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN Project Number 608346 Project ‘Brain Imaging Return To Health’ r’Birth
description: Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI)
description: Funder: EC | Erasmus+; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100010790
description: Abstract: Engineered light-dependent switches provide uniquely powerful opportunities to investigate and control cell regulatory mechanisms. Existing tools offer high spatiotemporal resolution, reversibility and repeatability. Cellular optogenetics applications remain limited with diffusible targets as the response of the actuator is difficult to independently validate. Blue light levels commonly needed for actuation can be cytotoxic, precluding long-term experiments. We describe a simple approach overcoming these obstacles. Resonance energy transfer can be used to constitutively or dynamically modulate actuation sensitivity. This simultaneously offers on-line monitoring of light-dependent switching and precise quantification of activation-relaxation properties in intact living cells. Applying this approach to different LOV2-based switches reveals that flanking sequences can lead to relaxation times up to 11-fold faster than anticipated. In situ–measured parameter values guide the design of target-inhibiting actuation trains with minimal blue-light exposure, and context-based optimisation can increase sensitivity and experimental throughput a further 10-fold without loss of temporal precision.
Gap-Measure Tests with Applications to Data Integrity Verification
Creators: name: Le, Truc
name: Uhlmann, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose and examine gap statistics for assessing uniform distribution hypotheses. We provide examples relevant to data integrity testing for which max-gap statistics provide greater sensitivity than chi-square ($χ^2$), thus allowing the new test to be used in place of or as a complement to $χ^2$ testing for purposes of distinguishing a larger class of deviations from uniformity. We establish that the proposed max-gap test has the same sequential and parallel computational complexity as $χ^2$ and thus is applicable for Big Data analytics and integrity verification.
Landauer transport as a quasisteady state on finite chains under unitary quantum dynamics
Creators: name: Pires, J. P. Santos
name: Amorim, B.
name: Lopes, J. M. Viana Parente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the emergence of a Landauer transport regime from the quantum-mechanical dynamics of free electrons in a disordered tight-binding chain, which is coupled to finite leads with open boundaries. Both partitioned and partition-free initial conditions are analyzed and seen to give rise, for large enough leads, to the same spatially uniform quasi-steady-state current, which agrees with the Landauer value. The quasi-steady-state regime is preceded by a transient regime, which last for a time proportional to the length of the disordered sample, and followed by recursions, after a time that is proportional to the lead size. These theoretical predictions may be of interest to future experiments on transport of fermionic ultra-cold atoms across optical lattices. We also observe finite-size current oscillations, superimposed on the quasi-steady-state, whose behavior depends crucially on the conditions initially imposed on the system. Finally, we show how a time-resolved Kubo formula is able to reproduce this Landauer transport regime, as the leads grow bigger.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures
Antarctobius Fairmaire 1885
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Antarctobius

description: Antarctobius Fairmaire, 1885
 Antarctobius Fairmaire, 1885: 58 (type species: A. lacunosus Fairmaire, 1885, subsequent designation by Morrone, 1992a: 4); Enderlein, 1907: 38 (= Listroderes); Champion, 1918b: 53 (reinstated); Kuschel, 1950: 14 (subgenus of Listroderes); Kuschel, 1986: 112 (= Listroderes); Morrone, 1992a: 4 (reinstated, revision).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Testing the homogeneity of risk differences with sparse count data
Creators: name: Junyong Park
name: Gauran, Iris Ivy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we consider testing the homogeneity of risk differences in independent binomial distributions especially when data are sparse. We point out some drawback of existing tests in either controlling a nominal size or obtaining powers through theoretical and numerical studies. The proposed test is designed to avoid the drawbacks of existing tests. We present the asymptotic null distribution and asymptotic power function for the proposed test. We also provide numerical studies including simulations and real data examples showing the proposed test has reliable results compared to existing testing procedures.
Supplementary document for Electric field-induced assembly of Au-Ag alloy nanoparticles into nano-reticulation for ultrasensitive SERS - 6450300.pdf
Creators: name: Dong, Jun
name: ren, yuchong
name: zhao, kangzhe
name: Yuan, Jiaxin
name: Han, Qingyan
name: gao, wei
name: liu, jihong
name: Zhu, Lipeng
name: Zhang, zhiyu
name: Qi, Jianxia
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: SUPPORTING INFORMATION
Additional file 1 of Barriers to the provision of non-communicable disease care in Zimbabwe: a qualitative study of primary health care nurses
Creators: name: Kamvura, Tiny Tinashe
name: Dambi, Jermaine M.
name: Chiriseri, Ephraim
name: Turner, Jean
name: Verhey, Ruth
name: Chibanda, Dixon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Semi Structured Interview Guide for Nurses.
Integrating Genetics and the Plasma Proteome to Predict the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Creators: name: Zanini, Julia Carrasco
name: Pietzner, Maik
name: Langenberg, Claudia
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics (AP Morris, Section Editor)
subject: Topical Collection on Genetics
subject: Plasma proteome
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Type 2 diabetes
subject: Prediction
subject: Causal risk factors

description: Funder: University of Cambridge
description: Abstract: Purpose of the Review: Proteins are the central layer of information transfer from genome to phenome and represent the largest class of drug targets. We review recent advances in high-throughput technologies that provide comprehensive, scalable profiling of the plasma proteome with the potential to improve prediction and mechanistic understanding of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Recent Findings: Technological and analytical advancements have enabled identification of novel protein biomarkers and signatures that help to address challenges of existing approaches to predict and screen for T2D. Genetic studies have so far revealed putative causal roles for only few of the proteins that have been linked to T2D, but ongoing large-scale genetic studies of the plasma proteome will help to address this and increase our understanding of aetiological pathways and mechanisms leading to diabetes. Summary: Studies of the human plasma proteome have started to elucidate its potential for T2D prediction and biomarker discovery. Future studies integrating genomic and proteomic data will provide opportunities to prioritise drug targets and identify pathways linking genetic predisposition to T2D development.
Exploring the Economics of Agritourists: Customizing Travel Cost Methods to Evaluate Differences Across the Western US
Creators: name: Van Sandt, Anders
name: Thilmany, Dawn
name: Van Sandt, Anders
name: Thilmany, Dawn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: travel cost
subject: agritourism
subject: multidestination
subject: tourism
subject: rural economics
subject: regional
subject: american west
subject: truncated negative binomial

description: American agriculture and the rural communities that principally rely on that industry have undergone a major shift in recent decades. This shift in rural economies across the U.S. has motivated some farms and ranches to diversify their agricultural business so over the past decade, agritourism has grown over 60% in the U.S. A common approach to examine the economics of tourism related to natural resources has been travel cost model, and this study advances the literature by accounting for the potential bias from multi-destination trips, potential differences arising from the type of agritourism activity and overall trip characteristics, and general preferences of the agritourists. Preliminary results from a truncated negative binomial model imply that the demand for agritourism may differ significantly depending on the agritourism zone as well as on the type of agritourism activity.
description: This research considers and attempts to correct for multi-destination bias and activities across a heterogeneous space in a travel cost model of agritourism in the American West.
Additional file 1 of Microbial succession and exploration of higher alcohols-producing core bacteria in northern Huangjiu fermentation
Creators: name: Yan, Yi
name: Sun, Leping
name: Xing, Xuan
name: Wu, Huijun
name: Lu, Xin
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Xu, Jialiang
name: Ren, Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The fungal community diversity of the samples using alpha-diversity index. Figure S2. The bacterial community diversity of the samples using alpha-diversity index. Table S1. The changes of alcohol, reducing sugar and acid during fermentation in northern Huangjiu. Table S2. The high-throughput sequencing of fungal diversity during the fermentation process in northern Huangjiu. Table S3. The high-throughput sequencing of bacterial diversity during the fermentation process in northern Huangjiu. Table S4. Correlation between HA and microorganisms on genus level. Table S5. Significant microbiota for HA-producing. Table S6. Correlation between HA and significant microbiota on genus level.
Antarctobius abditus
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Antarctobius
Antarctobius abditus

description: Antarctobius abditus (Enderlein, 1907)
 Listroderes abditus Enderlein, 1907: 57 (type locality: Argentina: Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fox Bay; type material: S: NHRS).
 Antarctobius abditus; Morrone, 1992a: 12.
 Immature stages. Larva (Marvaldi, 1998).
 Host plants. Senecio candidans DC (Asteraceae) (Marvaldi, 1998).
 Distribution. Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (Morrone, 1992a; Posadas, 2008).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Neutron Star Merger Remnants: Braking Indices, Gravitational Waves, and the Equation Of State
Creators: name: Lasky, Paul D.
name: Sarin, Nikhil
name: Ashton, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The binary neutron star merger GW170817/GRB170817A confirmed that at least some neutron star mergers are the progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts. Many short gamma-ray bursts have long-term x-ray afterglows that have been interpreted in terms of post-merger millisecond magnetars---rapidly rotating, highly magnetised, massive neutron stars. We review our current understanding of millisecond magnetars born in short gamma-ray bursts, focusing particularly three main topics. First, whether millisecond magnetars really do provide the most plausible explain for the x-ray plateau. Second, determining and observing the gravitational-wave emission from these remnants. Third, determining the equation of state of nuclear matter from current and future x-ray and gravitational-wave measurements.
description: Conference Proceedings of the Xiamen-CUSTIPEN Workshop on the EOS of Dense Neutron-Rich Matter in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy (January 3 - 7, 2019, Xiamen, China)
Chromosomal phylogeny and comparative chromosome painting among Neacomys species (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from eastern Amazonia
Creators: name: Oliveira Da Silva, Willam
name: Pieczarka, Julio Cesar
name: Rodrigues Da Costa, Marlyson Jeremias
name: Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm Andrew
name: O’Brien, Patricia Caroline Mary
name: Mendes-Oliveira, Ana Cristina
name: Rossi, Rogério Vieira
name: Nagamachi, Cleusa Yoshiko
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Research Article
Speciation and evolutionary genetics
Karyotypic diversity
ZOO-FISH
Akodontini
Oryzomyini
Amazon biodiversity

description: Abstract: Background: The Neacomys genus is predominantly found in the Amazon region, and belongs to the most diverse tribe of the Sigmodontinae subfamily (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Oryzomyini). The systematics of this genus and questions about its diversity and range have been investigated by morphological, molecular (Cytb and COI sequences) and karyotype analysis (classic cytogenetics and chromosome painting), which have revealed candidate species and new distribution areas. Here we analyzed four species of Neacomys by chromosome painting with Hylaeamys megacephalus (HME) whole-chromosome probes, and compared the results with two previously studied Neacomys species and with other taxa from Oryzomyini and Akodontini tribes that have been hybridized with HME probes. Maximum Parsimony (MP) analyses were performed with the PAUP and T.N.T. software packages, using a non-additive (unordered) multi-state character matrix, based on chromosomal morphology, number and syntenic blocks. We also compared the chromosomal phylogeny obtained in this study with molecular topologies (Cytb and COI) that included eastern Amazonian species of Neacomys, to define the phylogenetic relationships of these taxa. Results: The comparative chromosome painting analysis of the seven karyotypes of the six species of Neacomys shows that their diversity is due to 17 fusion/fission events and one translocation, pericentric inversions in four syntenic blocks, and constitutive heterochromatin (CH) amplification/deletion of six syntenic autosomal blocks plus the X chromosome. The chromosomal phylogeny is consistent with the molecular relationships of species of Neacomys. We describe new karyotypes and expand the distribution area for species from eastern Amazonia and detect complex rearrangements by chromosome painting among the karyotypes. Conclusions: Our phylogeny reflects the molecular relationships of the Akodontini and Oryzomyini taxa and supports the monophyly of Neacomys. This work presents new insights about the chromosomal evolution of this group, and we conclude that the karyotypic divergence is in accord with phylogenetic relationships.
Electrostatic interactions at the interface of two enzymes are essential for two-step alkane biosynthesis in cyanobacteria
Creators: name: Chang, Mari
name: Shimba, Keigo
name: Hayashi, Yuuki
name: Arai, Munehito
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Cyanobacterial alkane biosynthesis is catalyzed by acyl-(acyl carrier protein (ACP)) reductase (AAR) and aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase (ADO) in a two-step reaction. AAR reduces acyl-ACPs to fatty aldehydes, which are then converted by ADO to alkanes, the main components of diesel fuel. Interaction between AAR and ADO allows AAR to efficiently deliver the aldehyde to ADO. However, this interaction is poorly understood. Here, using analytical size-exclusion chromatography (SEC), we show that electrostatic interactions play an important role in the binding of the two enzymes. Alanine-scanning mutagenesis at charged residues around the substrate entry site of ADO revealed that E201A mutation greatly reduced hydrocarbon production. SEC measurement of the mutant demonstrated that E201 of ADO is essential for the AAR–ADO interaction. Our results suggest that AAR binds to the substrate entrance gate of ADO and thereby facilitates the insertion of the reactive and relatively insoluble aldehyde into the hydrophobic channel of ADO. Abbreviations: AAR: acyl-ACP reductase; ACP: acyl carrier protein; ADO: aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase; ASA: solvent accessible surface area; BSA: bovine serum albumin; CD: circular dichroism; DMSO: dimethyl sulfoxide; DTT: dithiothreitol; GC-MS: gas chromatography-mass spectrometer; HPLC: high-performance liquid chromatography; IPTG: isopropyl-β-D-thiogalactoside; MRE: mean residue ellipticity; NpAAR: AAR from Nostoc punctiforme PCC 73102; NpADO: ADO from Nostoc punctiforme PCC 73102; PmADO: ADO from Prochlorococcus marinus MIT 9313; SDS-PAGE: sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; SeAAR: AAR from Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942; SeADO: ADO from Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942; SEC: size-exclusion chromatography; TeAAR: AAR from Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1; TeADO: ADO from Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1; UV: ultraviolet Electrostatic interactions are essential for AAR–ADO interaction, enabling efficient delivery of aldehydes to ADO in cyanobacterial alkane synthesis.
EyeDE: Gaze-enhanced Software Development Environments
Creators: name: Glücker, Hartmut
name: Raab, Felix
name: Echtler, Florian
name: Wolff, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 050 Zeitschriften, fortlaufende Sammelwerke

description: This paper introduces EyeDE, a prototypical system enabling gaze interaction for assistance in integrated development environments (IDE). By utilizing an eye tracking device, we have enhanced an IDE prototype with gaze-controlled interaction methods for source code navigation. A qualitative evaluation shows that users welcome the ability to quickly look up documentation or to jump to method declarations just by looking at triggers placed in the code. Although inaccuracies inherent in eye tracking technology and discomforting sitting positions for users impede successful implementation of more advanced IDE features, the interaction paradigm appears to be acceptable within the software development context and seems promising as eye tracking technology is being further improved.
Cosmological Perturbations in Brane World - Brane view v.s. Bulk view -
Creators: name: Soda, Jiro
name: Koyama, Kazuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First, we will study the cosmological perturbations from the brane point of view. It turns out that two types of the extra data are necessary to know the evolution of the system. To fix these data, the analysis of the bulk is needed. So, we have solved equations of motion for the bulk gravity and determined the extra data. We would like to stress that, both analysis take complementary roles to achieve this goal.
description: 9 pages in LaTeX with the PTP style. No figure. To be published in the proceedings of the workshop "Braneworld -- Dynamics of spacetime with boundary --, minor typos corrected
Informationsverhalten als Forschungsgegenstand
Creators: name: Elsweiler, David
name: Hammwöhner, Rainer
name: Wolff, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: In diesem Beitrag wird die Beobachtung des Informationsverhaltens als zentraler methodischer Ansatz der informationswissenschaftlicher Forschung identifiziert, der auch unter Anerkennung terminologischer, evtl. sogar ontologischer Grundannahmen eine Kooperation über die Grenzen etablierter Paradigmata hinaus erlaubt.
Electroweak symmetry breaking from dimensional deconstruction
Creators: name: Arkani-Hamed, Nima
name: Cohen, Andrew G.
name: Georgi, Howard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new class of four-dimensional theories for natural electroweak symmetry breaking, relying neither on supersymmetry nor on strong dynamics at the TeV scale. The new TeV physics is perturbative, and radiative corrections to the Higgs mass are finite. The softening of this mass occurs because the Higgs is an extended object in theory space, resulting in an accidental symmetry. A novel Higgs potential emerges naturally, requiring a second light SU(2) doublet scalar.
description: 11 pages. Additional references and further clarifying remarks to agree with version to appear in PLB
gas1 mutation extends chronological lifespan via Pmk1 and Sty1 MAPKs in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Creators: name: Imai, Yuki
name: Shimasaki, Takafumi
name: Enokimura, Chihiro
name: Ohtsuka, Hokuto
name: Tsubouchi, Satoshi
name: Ihara, Kunio
name: Aiba, Hirofumi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: In the longevity research by using yeasts, chronological lifespan is defined as the survival time after entry into stationary phase. Previously, screening for long lived mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe was performed to identify the novel factors involved in longevity. From this screening, one long lived mutant called as No.36 was obtained. In this study, we identified the mutation caused in gas1+, which encodes glucanosyltransferase (gas1-287 mutation) is responsible for the longevity of No.36 mutant. Through the analysis of this mutant, we found that cell wall perturbing agent micafungin also extends chronological lifespan in fission yeast. This lifespan extension depended on both Pmk1 and Sty1 MAP kinases, and longevity caused by the gas1-287 mutation also depended on these kinases. In summary, we propose that the gas1-287 mutation causes longevity as the similar mechanism as cell wall stress depending on Pmk1 and Sty1 MAPK pathways. The possible scheme of lifespan extension by gas1-287 mutation. gas1-287 mutation extends chronological lifespan via Pmk1 and Sty1 MAPKs.
Indoor air quality and energy-saving potential improvement of a range-hood-integrated air cleaner
Creators: name: Hou, Yumei
name: Xu, Yukun
name: Liu, Zhi
name: Lin, Ziyin
name: Xie, Wuhao
name: Cao, Changsheng
name: Zheng, Zhiwei
name: Gao, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Local exhaust systems based on range hoods are widely used to reduce cooking oil fumes (COF) of kitchen spaces. This work proposes a range-hood-integrated air cleaner to improve air distribution in residential kitchens and reduce individual inhalation exposure to COF. Effects of hood exhaust rates, cooking–heating intensities, and airflow parameters of the air cleaner on the volume-averaged concentration (VAC) of kitchen space and the intake fraction (IF) are discussed through orthogonal experimental design, and significant factors are the hood exhaust rate, the air supply velocity, and angle of the air cleaner by evaluating significance levels. Optimal airflow parameters of the air cleaner are obtained through single-factor analysis, and VAC is reduced by approximately 90% compared with the single range-hood exhaust system. The energy-saving potential of the air cleaner is identified and evaluated using the concept of the equivalent exhaust rate. The air cleaner is more conducive to creating a comfortable kitchen environment and reducing heat transfer load. This work provides a new solution for optimizing air distribution in highly polluted kitchen environments.
Citations Driven by Social Connections? A Multi-Layer Representation of Coauthorship Networks
Creators: name: Zingg, Christian
name: Nanumyan, Vahan
name: Schweitzer, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To what extent is the citation rate of new papers influenced by the past social relations of their authors? To answer this question, we present a data-driven analysis of nine different physics journals. Our analysis is based on a two-layer network representation constructed from two large-scale data sets, INSPIREHEP and APS. The social layer contains authors as nodes and coauthorship relations as links. This allows us to quantify the social relations of each author, prior to the publication of a new paper. The publication layer contains papers as nodes and citations between papers as links. This layer allows us to quantify scientific attention as measured by the change of the citation rate over time. We particularly study how this change depends on the social relations of their authors, prior to publication. We find that on average the maximum value of the citation rate is reached sooner for authors who either published more papers, or who had more coauthors in previous papers. We also find that for these authors the decay in the citation rate is faster, meaning that their papers are forgotten sooner.
Simulating microbial dynamics in electro-magnetized Carreau blood enhanced with trihybrid nanoparticles in a constricted or dilated artery using artificial neural networks
Creators: name: Das, Subhendu
name: Das, Sanatan
name: Shah, Nehad Ali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biophysics
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology

description: The goal of this research under consideration is to explore the dynamics of gyrotactic microbes in a reactive Carreau blood enhanced with a mix of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and spherical-shaped nanoparticles (gold and titania) within a constricting or dilating arterial channel under electroosmosis and electro-magnetohydrodynamics. The computation of flow equations is accomplished by harnessing the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg (RKF45) shooting scheme via the bvp4c solver in Mathematica. Detailed graphs and tables are used to analyze the physical sequels of crucial factors on flow dynamics and physical quantities. The magnetic parameter acts as an inhibitory factor, reducing blood fluidity, while blood temperature displays a contrary trend. Elevated electroosmosis parameter results in a higher wall shear stress. A higher activation energy parameter correlates with more mass concentration, but gyrotactic microbes’ density emaciates with higher Lewis numbers. Interestingly, the Nusselt number (NN) is lower in Newtonian blood compared to non-Newtonian Carreau blood. Additionally, this study also appends an artificial neural network (ANN) model to accurately predict skin friction coefficient (SFC), Nusselt number (NN), Sherwood number (SN), and microbes’ density number (MDN). This ANN model demonstrates predictive capabilities for SFC, NN, SN, and MDN, with remarkably low error rates of 0.03%, 0.05%, and 0.004%, respectively.
Firm Employment Growth, R&D Expenditures and Exports
Creators: name: Marco Di Cintio, Marco Di Cintio
name: Sucharita Ghosh, Sucharita Ghosh
name: Emanuele Grassi, Emanuele Grassi
name: Marco Di Cintio, Marco Di Cintio
name: Sucharita Ghosh, Sucharita Ghosh
name: Emanuele Grassi, Emanuele Grassi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Exports
subject: R&D
subject: Firm Growth
subject: Quantile Regression

description: This paper studies firms’ decisions to export and invest in R&D and their effects on employment growth and labor flows for a sample of Italian SMEs operating in the manufacturing industry. After accounting for the under-reporting of R&D in SMEs, our quantile regressions reveal that (i) R&D is associated with higher employment growth rates, higher hiring rates and lower separation rates; (ii) R&D-induced exports are negatively related to employment growth and accessions and positively related to separations; and (iii) pure exports are not a driver of employment growth and labor flows.
Informationswissenschaft und Digital Humanities
Creators: name: Burghardt, Manuel
name: Wolff, Christian
name: Womser-Hacker, Christa
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Informationswissenschaft, Digital Humanities, Geisteswissenschaften, Digital
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Dieser Beitrag beschreibt das Verhältnis zwischen Informationswissenschaft und Digital Humanities und zeigt dabei viele Anknüpfungspunkte und Parallelen zwischen den beiden Disziplinen auf. Weiterhin wird am Beispiel ausgewählter Forschungsthemen und ‐methoden der Informationswissenschaft aufgezeigt, wo das Fach Angebote an die Geisteswissenschaft machen kann, um innovative Digital Humanities-Projekte zu befördern.
Enhanced Detectability of Spinning Primordial Black Holes
Creators: name: Kuhnel, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial black holes which are produced during an epoch of matter domination are expected to spin rapidly. It is shown that this leads to an enhancement of the detectability of the stochastic gravitational-wave background from their mergers. For a specific model, we explicitly demonstrate that this yields a $50\,\%$ increase of the gravitational-wave amplitude as compared to the non-spinning case.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor changes to match published version
Quantifying a multitrophic community response to multispecies invasion in a Dry Forest ecosystem
Creators: name: Reeve, Sarah Louise
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 50104 Landscape Ecology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 50103 Invasive Species Ecology
subject: 60504 Microbial Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Ongoing plant invasions have altered the local biodiversity of forests, but the compound impacts of invasion on these ecosystems remain poorly understood. This research examined the responses of forest plant and soil bacterial and fungal communities to multispecies invasion. Rare and common species, and natives and aliens, responded differently to environmental conditions, as did common bacteria and fungi, highlighting the complexity of responses to invasion. The level of plant invasion altered the taxonomic and functional bacterial community composition as predicted by species trait-based theory. This work demonstrates the value of a unified approach to advancing higher taxon and microbial community ecology.
Synchronization of Network-Coupled Oscillators with Uncertain Dynamics
Creators: name: Skardal, Per Sebastian
name: Taylor, Dane
name: Sun, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synchronization of network-coupled dynamical units is important to a variety of natural and engineered processes including circadian rhythms, cardiac function, neural processing, and power grids. Despite this ubiquity, it remains poorly understood how complex network structures and heterogeneous local dynamics combine to either promote or inhibit synchronization. Moreover, for most real-world applications it is impossible to obtain the exact specifications of the system, and there is a lack of theory for how uncertainty affects synchronization. We address this open problem by studying the Synchrony Alignment Function (SAF), which is an objective measure for the synchronization properties of a network of heterogeneous oscillators with given natural frequencies. We extend the SAF framework to analyze network-coupled oscillators with heterogeneous natural frequencies that are drawn as a multivariate random vector. Using probability theory for quadratic forms, we obtain expressions for the expectation and variance of the SAF for given network structures. We conclude with numerical experiments that illustrate how the incorporation of uncertainty yields a more robust theoretical framework for enhancing synchronization, and we provide new perspectives for why synchronization is generically promoted by network properties including degree-frequency correlations, link directedness, and link weight delocalization.
Promoting Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Africa: A Framework to Evaluate Employment Generation and Cost-effectiveness
Creators: name: Cantore, Nicola
name: Nussbaumer, Patrick
name: Wei, Max
name: Kammen, Daniel
name: Cantore, Nicola
name: Nussbaumer, Patrick
name: Wei, Max
name: Kammen, Daniel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Renewable Energy
subject: Employment
subject: Energy Efficiency
subject: Africa

description: The ongoing debate over the cost-effectiveness of renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) deployment often hinges on the current cost of incumbent fossil-fuel technologies versus the long-term benefit of clean energy alternatives. This debate is often focused on mature or ‘industrialized’ economies and externalities such as job creation. In many ways, however, the situation in developing economies is at least as or even more interesting due to the generally faster current rate of economic growth and of infrastructure deployment. On the one hand, RE and EE could help decarbonize economies in developing countries, but on the other hand, higher upfront costs of RE and EE could hamper short-term growth. The methodology developed in this paper confirms the existence of this trade-off for some scenarios, yet at the same time provides considerable evidence about the positive impact of EE and RE from a job creation and employment perspective. By extending and adopting a methodology for Africa designed to calculate employment from electricity generation in the U.S., this study finds that energy savings and the conversion of the electricity supply mix to renewable energy generates employment compared to a reference scenario. It also concludes that the costs per additional job created tend to decrease with increasing levels of both EE adoption and RE shares.
Zentren für Digital Humanities in Deutschland
Creators: name: Burghardt, Manuel
name: Wolff, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geisteswissenschaften, Digital, Bedarf, Infrastruktur, Fachinformation, Deutschland
subject: 004 Informatik
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Dieser Artikel thematisiert den Bedarf für und die Anforderungen an Informationsinfrastrukturen für die Geisteswissenschaften. Im Vorfeld wurden die Verantwortlichen dreier etablierter Digital Humanities-Zentren (Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Cologne Center for eHumanities, Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities) in Deutschland gebeten, insgesamt 16 Fragen zu wesentlichen Charakteristika und Funktionen zu beantworten, und so einen kurzen Steckbrief der jeweiligen Institution zu erstellen. Auf Basis dieser Steckbriefe erfolgt ein Überblick zu Digital Humanities-Zentren in Deutschland, der im Wesentlichen die Bereiche (1) Struktur und Genese, (2) Profil, Aufgaben und Dienste, (3) Nutzer, Vernetzung und Projekte und schließlich (4) Ausblick und Strategie näher betrachtet. Der Artikel schließt mit einem Fazit zur aktuellen Situation der Informationsinfrastruktur in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften und stellt darüber hinaus einige Betrachtungen zur künftigen Weiterentwicklung des Themas an. This article takes into account the need for information infrastructure in the digital humanities and discusses requirements for such infrastructure. Previously, we asked three existing centers for digital humanities in Germany (Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Cologne Center for eHumanities, Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities) to answer a set of 16 questions about the specific characteristics and functions of their institution. This information was used to create an overview of digital humanities centers in Germany that addresses the following areas: (1) Structure and development, (2) profile, functions and services, (3) users, networks and projects, and (4) future perspectives and strategy. At the end of the article we provide a conclusion and discuss the future prospects for digital humanities centers.
Quota in Agricultural Positive Mathematical Programming Models
Creators: name: Buysse, Jeroen
name: Fernagut, Bruno
name: Harmignie, Olivier
name: Henry De Frahan, Bruno
name: Lauwers, Ludwig
name: Polomé, Philippe
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Van Meensel, Jef
name: Buysse, Jeroen
name: Fernagut, Bruno
name: Harmignie, Olivier
name: Henry De Frahan, Bruno
name: Lauwers, Ludwig
name: Polomé, Philippe
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Van Meensel, Jef
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Quota
subject: Sugar Reform
subject: Positive mathematical programming.

description: In Belgium, an agricultural sector model for ex ante policy analysis is developed. The model, called SEPALE, uses an adapted version of Positive Mathematical Programming allowing for simultaneous modelling of individual farms. SEPALE applies farm level calibrated cost functions to the sample of the Farm Accountancy Data Network to account for the large variability among farms. Due to the recent discussion on the Sugar Common Market Organization (CMO) reform, the need raises for an appropriate methodology to cope with quota in positive programming models. Modelling quota at farm level implies three important challenges: i) estimation of the marginal cost or the quota rent, ii) simulating over- or undersupply and iii) quota exchange. Present paper describes a methodology dealing with the three quota issues. Simulations of sugar beet policy options draw on the proposed approach. The paper also demonstrates that other types of quota could benefit as well.
The Dirac equation vs. the Dirac type tensor equation
Creators: name: Marchuk, N. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53Z05

description: We discuss a connection between the Dirac equation for an electron and the Dirac type tensor equation with ${\rm U}(1)$ gauge symmetry.
Weighted Linear Bandits for Non-Stationary Environments
Creators: name: Russac, Yoan
name: Vernade, Claire
name: Cappé, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider a stochastic linear bandit model in which the available actions correspond to arbitrary context vectors whose associated rewards follow a non-stationary linear regression model. In this setting, the unknown regression parameter is allowed to vary in time. To address this problem, we propose D-LinUCB, a novel optimistic algorithm based on discounted linear regression, where exponential weights are used to smoothly forget the past. This involves studying the deviations of the sequential weighted least-squares estimator under generic assumptions. As a by-product, we obtain novel deviation results that can be used beyond non-stationary environments. We provide theoretical guarantees on the behavior of D-LinUCB in both slowly-varying and abruptly-changing environments. We obtain an upper bound on the dynamic regret that is of order d^{2/3} B\_T^{1/3}T^{2/3}, where B\_T is a measure of non-stationarity (d and T being, respectively, dimension and horizon). This rate is known to be optimal. We also illustrate the empirical performance of D-LinUCB and compare it with recently proposed alternatives in simulated environments.