cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) co-chaperone SIL1 in human sporadic and familial ALS
Creators: name: Yamoah, Alfred
name: Roos, Andreas
name: Dreser, Alice
name: Tripathi, Priyanka
name: Troost, Dirk
name: Weis, Joachim
name: Goswami, Anand
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Abnormal accumulations of misfolded proteins that elicit endoplasmic reticulum(ER) stress are major pathological hallmarks of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Mutation of the ER co-chaperon SIL1 causes Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome, which is characterized by cerebellar degeneration,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Joint-Meeting of the German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy (DGNN) and the Scandinavian Neuropathological Society (SNS)
Starch transformations during freezing and refrigerating storage of hot dog rolls packaged in modified atmosphere
Creators: name: Kwaśniewska-Karolak, Izabella
name: Mostowski, Radosław
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2018

description: Wheat hot dogs are an attractive food product, consumed throughout the world. As bakery products, they are subject to staling process and associated quality decrease, which limit their shelf life. One of the methods designed for bakery products durability prolongation are cooling and freezing processes in combination with the packaging system under modified atmosphere with a high concentration of carbon dioxide. Hence the aim of the study was to assess the rate of retrogradation process and starch structure changes in hot dog rolls packed by modified atmosphere system (MAP) during storage under refrigerated (1°C) and freezing (-18°C) conditions. Changes in moisture content, sensory, crumb hardness via TPA method and basic chemical composition of hot dog roll i.e. protein and lipids were analysed. Starch retrogradation processes were investigated by calorimetric method and spectrophotometrically. Comparative analysis of hot dog rolls storage variants indicated that the lower storage temperature is, the higher the level of maintenance of textural and sensory properties of the product. It has been shown that freezing hot dog rolls storage temperatures limited an increase in resistant starch content. In case of hot dogs storage under deep freeze conditions (-18°C), growth of RS was lowered by 46% compared to the refrigerated conditions. There was a significant increase in rolls hardness, whereby it was almost three times higher when hot dogs were refrigerated. It has been demonstrated that use of deep-freezing in combination with MAP significantly reduces the adverse effects caused by aging processes in hot dog rolls, especially RS formation.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 82 No. 2 (2018): Biotechnology and Food Science
Towards the next generation of high-fidelity simulators for online computing: adaptive modelling through the scales
Creators: name: Kerfriden, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Multiscale Modelling, Model Reduction, Model Adaptivity, Composite Materials, Fracture Mechanics

description: High-fidelity modelling and simulation have profoundly transformed the area of material and structural design. Through advances in computer hardware and software, material failure can be reliably predicted using multiscale high-fidelity models coupled with appropriately designed discretisation strategies. Yet, such heavy numerical tasks are restricted to “one-shot” virtual experiments. Emerging applications such as real-time control or interactive design require performing thousands of repeated analyses, with potentially limited computational facilities. Models used for such applications require extreme robustness and swiftness of execution. To unleash the full potential of high-fidelity computational mechanics, we need to develop a new generation of numerical tools that will bridge the gap between, on the one hand, heavy numerical solvers and, on the other hand, computationally demanding “online” engineering tasks. This thesis introduces and summarises research contributions that aim to help bridge this gap, through the development of robust model reduction approaches to control the cost associated with multiscale and physically detailed numerical simulations, with a particular emphasis on reliability assessment for composite materials and fracture.
Projection algorithm for state preparation on quantum computers
Creators: name: Stetcu, I.
name: Baroni, A.
name: Carlson, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an efficient method to prepare states of a many-body system on quantum hardware, first isolating individual quantum numbers and then using time evolution to isolate the energy. Our method in its simplest form requires only one additional auxiliary qubit. The total time evolved for an accurate solution is proportional to the ratio of the spectrum range of the trial state to the gap to the lowest excited state, and the accuracy increases exponentially with the time evolved. Isolating the quantum numbers is efficient because of the known eigenvalues, and increases the gap thus shortening the propagation time required. The success rate of the algorithm, or the probability of producing the desired state, is a simple function of measurement times and phases and is dominated by the square overlap of the original state to the desired state. We present examples from the nuclear shell model and the Heisenberg model. We compare this algorithm to previous algorithms for short evolution times and discuss potential further improvements.
Cooling the Motion of Diamond Nanocrystals in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap in High Vacuum
Creators: name: Hsu, Jen-Feng
name: Ji, Peng
name: Lewandowski, Charles W.
name: D'Urso, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Levitated diamond nanocrystals with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in high vacuum have been proposed as a unique system for experiments in fundamental quantum mechanics, including the generation of large quantum superposition states and tests of quantum gravity. This system promises extreme isolation from its environment while providing quantum control and sensing through the NV centre spin. While optical trapping has been the most explored method of levitation, recent results indicate that excessive optical heating of the nanodiamonds under vacuum may make the method impractical with currently available materials. Here, we study an alternative magneto-gravitational trap for diamagnetic particles, such as diamond nanocrystals, with stable levitation from atmospheric pressure to high vacuum. Magnetic field gradients from permanent magnets confine the particle in two dimensions, while confinement in the third dimension is gravitational. We demonstrate that feedback cooling of the centre-of-mass motion of a trapped nanodiamond cluster results in cooling of one degree of freedom to less than 1 K.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, and 2 pages of supplementary information. One Reference was added. Typographical errors are corrected. Figure file format was changed for compactness
Integration of Digital Signal Processing Block in SymbiFlow FPGA Toolchain for Artix-7 Devices
Creators: name: Hartnett, Andrew T
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: The open-source community is a valuable resource for many hobbyists and researchers interested in collaborating and contributing towards publicly available tools. In the area of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) this is no exception. Contributors seek to reverse-engineer the functions of large proprietary FPGA devices. An interesting challenge for open-source FPGA engineers has been reverse-engineering the operation and bitstreams of digital signal processing (DSP) blocks located in FPGAs. SymbiFlow is an open-source FPGA toolchain designed as a free alternative to proprietary computer-aided design tools like Xilinx’s Vivado. For SymbiFlow, mapping logical multipliers to DSP blocks and generating DSP block bitstreams has been left unimplemented for the Artix-7 family of FPGAs. This research seeks to rectify this shortcoming by introducing DSP information for the place and route functions into SymbiFlow. By delving into the SymbiFlow architecture definitions and creating functioning FPGA assembly code (FASM) files for Project X-Ray, a bitstream generator for Artix-7, we have been able to determine the desired output of the open-source Versatile Place & Route tool that will generate a working DSP bitstream. We diagnose and implement changes needed throughout the SymbiFlow toolchain, allowing for DSP design bitstreams to be successfully generated with open-source tools.
Bioactive peptides from meat industry by-products as potential antimicrobial agents based on BIOPEP-UWM database
Creators: name: Kęska, Paulina
name: Stadnik, Joanna
name: Kononiuk, Anna
name: Wójciak, Karolina
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2018

description: New peptides with potential antimicrobial activity, encrypted in protein sequences of meat industry by-products were searched with bioinformatics tools using BIOPEP-UWM database. The potential of major proteins as a source of biologically active peptides with antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal activity were considered. As a result, collagen, hemoglobin, fibrinogen and selected meat tissue proteins (creatine kinase, myosin, titin) has been shown to contain short motifs responsible for antibacterial properties. The peptides with antiviral and antifungal properties were not detected.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 82 No. 2 (2018): Biotechnology and Food Science
Borderline Personality Disorder and Learning: The Influences of Emotional State and Social versus Nonsocial Feedback
Creators: name: Waite, Elinor E
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been linked to impulsive behaviors, interpersonal difficulties, and emotional reactivity. Although these impairments imply underlying deficits in decision-making, theory suggests that such deficits may be context dependent. Both emotional state and social context may influence learning in BPD. Reinforcement learning models offer an avenue to parse types of impairments in learning. The current study used reinforcement learning models to examine whether the type of feedback (social vs. nonsocial) moderates the association between BPD and learning under conditions of distress. Adults with BPD (N = 37), subthreshold BPD (N = 29), and without BPD (N = 65) completed a diagnostic interview and a computerized learning task after both neutral and negative emotion inductions. We examined learning outcomes, including accuracy, learning rate, and stochasticity. We used multilevel models to examine the associations between BPD criteria, feedback type, and emotional state on several different learning outcomes. We found that elevated BPD features were associated with greater negative emotion-related increases in the loss learning rate in the training phase and increases in the gain learning rate in the test phase. Further, social feedback was associated with more normalized learning rates for participants with BPD. We discuss possible interpretations of our learning rates, as research is mixed on the implications of higher and lower learning rates. Understanding the decision-making and learning deficits associated with BPD will further explain the impulsive and reckless behaviors associated with the disorder, as well as inform new methods to teach effective skills during treatment.
Josephson $φ_{0}$-junction in nanowire quantum dots
Creators: name: Szombati, D. B.
name: Nadj-Perge, S.
name: Car, D.
name: Plissard, S. R.
name: Bakkers, E. P. A. M.
name: Kouwenhoven, L. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two superconducting leads by a thin barrier [1]. This current is driven by a superconducting phase difference $ϕ$ between the leads. In the presence of chiral and time reversal symmetry of the Cooper pair tunneling process [2] the current is strictly zero when $ϕ$ vanishes. Only if these underlying symmetries are broken the supercurrent for $ϕ=0$ may be finite [3-5]. This corresponds to a ground state of the junction being offset by a phase $ϕ_{0}$, different from 0 or $π$. Here, we report such a Josephson $ϕ_{0}$-junction based on a nanowire quantum dot. We use a quantum interferometer device in order to investigate phase offsets and demonstrate that $ϕ_{0}$ can be controlled by electrostatic gating. Our results have possible far reaching implications for superconducting flux and phase defined quantum bits as well as for exploring topological superconductivity in quantum dot systems.
Additional file 1 of Radical cystectomy or trimodality therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a qualitative study exploring patient priorities and counselling needs when making a treatment choice
Creators: name: Verghote, Flor
name: Van Praet, Charles
name: Berquin, Camille
name: Lumen, Nicolaas
name: Decaestecker, Karel
name: Vanneste, Ben
name: Rammant, Elke
name: Fonteyne, Valérie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary material
Analysis of the selected antioxidant compounds n ice cream supplemented with Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis) extract
Creators: name: Szmejda, Klaudia
name: Duliński, Robert
name: Byczyński, Łukasz
name: Karbowski, Adrian
name: Florczyk, Tomasz
name: Żyła, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2018

description: The research is aimed at evidencing that ice-cream formulations incorporating algae can have health-benefiting effects on human body. The main task of the project is to design ice-cream product line that distinguish itself from regular ice-cream by increased anti-oxidant activity resulted from inclusion of the algae extract. The currently known research evidences that ice-cream can be effective as carriers of health-promoting probiotic bacteria, which in turn encourages also application of other microorganisms in particular algae of specific strains (e.g. Spirulina platensis) as a supplement to ice-cream. In submitted research, the level of polyphenols and antioxidant activity expressed as degree of inhibiting generation of cationo-free radical from DPPH•+ solution were analyzed. Preliminary results based on antioxidative activity tests measured with potential to quench free radicals have shown that ice-cream formulations enriched with algae extract exhibit significantly higher potential achieving inhibition level of 39.7% in the mint ice cream samples as compared to 32.8% inhibition for the control sample without algae. Furthermore, each of the examined samples (dairy, pistachio, mint) ice creams versions supplemented with Spirulina were characterized by enhanced antioxidant activities expressed as potential to quench free radicals and the carotenoids content.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 82 No. 1 (2018): Biotechnology and Food Science
title: Vascular and metabolic changes in canine dorsal root ganglia undergoing nerve root compression
Creators: name: Rosati, Marco
name: Menchetti, Marika
name: Foitzik, Ulrike
name: Gödde, Thomas
name: Blutke, Andreas
name: Steffen, Frank
name: Volk, Holger
name: Flegel, Thomas
name: Cappello, Rodolfo
name: Gandini, Gualtiero
name: Matiasek, Kaspar
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Lumbosacral neuroforaminal stenosis (LNFS) is a common cause of sciatica in people and large breed dogs. Nerve root entrapment goes with significant swelling of the tissue, which winds-up the pressure on the root in a vicious circle. Thereby, compression of small vessels is supposed to increase vascular[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Joint-Meeting of the German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy (DGNN) and the Scandinavian Neuropathological Society (SNS)
Limiting the accretion disk light in two mass transferring hot subdwarf binaries
Creators: name: Deshmukh, Kunal
name: Kupfer, Thomas
name: Hakala, Pasi
name: Bauer, Evan B.
name: Berdyugin, Andrei
name: Bildsten, Lars
name: Marsh, Thomas R.
name: Mereghetti, Sandro
name: Piirola, Vilppu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results from follow-up observations of two Roche-lobe filling hot subdwarf binaries with white dwarf companions predicted to have accretion disks. ZTF J213056.71+442046.5 (ZTF J2130) with a 39-minute period and ZTF J205515.98+465106.5 (ZTF J2055) with a 56-minute period were both discovered as subdwarf binaries with light curves that could only be explained well by including an accretion disk in their models. We performed a detailed high-resolution spectral analysis using Keck/ESI to search for possible accretion features for both objects. We also employed polarimetric analysis using the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) for ZTF J2130. We did not find any signatures of an accretion disk in either object, and placed upper limits on the flux contribution and variation in degree of polarisation due to the disk. Owing to the short 39-minute period and availability of photometric data over six years for ZTF J2130, we conducted an extensive $O - C$ timing analysis in an attempt to look for orbital decay due to gravitational wave radiation. No such decay was detected conclusively, and a few more years of data paired with precise and consistent timing measurements were deemed necessary to constrain $\dot P$ observationally.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
A New Way to Get Groceries? Ride-Hail Services and Navigating Outside of Food Deserts
Creators: name: Reynolds, Kathryn
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Segregation has many negative consequences for marginalized populations, including poor health, increased poverty, low-quality housing, and limited education and employment opportunities. Scholars have recently recognized access to food as another piece of this “advanced marginality.” This study illuminates how lagging food and transportation infrastructures exacerbates these interlocking inequalities and whether new ride-hail technologies' promise that ride-hail services like Uber and Lyft will help affected populations access food stores with lower prices and higher food quality. As a descriptive understanding of the intersection between food, transportation, and racial residential segregation in Chicago, Illinois, this study analyzes two questions: (1) how often are ride-hail trips crossing food desert census tract boundaries; and (2) are ride-hail trips that cross food desert census tract boundaries accessing food stores? Using spatial analyses of the City of Chicago’s ride-hail transportation data, food store location data, American Community Survey data, and USDA food desert classification data, this study finds that ride-hail services are accessing food desert neighborhoods, but they are doing so at a very low rate, and very few ride-hail rides are used to access food stores after departing from food desert neighborhoods.
Using gravitational lensed images to investigate the intrinsic AGN variability
Creators: name: Marti-Vidal, I.
name: Muller, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss about how the relative flux densities among the images of gravitationally-lensed active galactic nuclei, AGN, can be used to study the intrinsic AGN variability with high accuracy. Multi-frequency monitoring observations of resolved gravitational lenses can allow us to detect signals of very weak variability and also provide information about the jet opacity and structure. As an example, we investigate the variability of the flux-density ratio between the two lensed images of the blazar B0218+357, using dual-frequency cm-wave observations. Similar to our previously reported submm-wave observations of the lensed blazar PKS1830-211, we observe a clear chromatic variability, starting short before an increase in the flux-density of the blazar. The evolution of the flux-density ratios between the blazar images shows a more clear and rich structure than that of the mere lightcurves of each individual image. The accuracy in the ratio measurements is allowing us to see variability episodes in the blazar that are weaker than the natural scatter in the absolute flux-density measurements. A simple opacity model in the jet is used to consistently explain the difference between the flux-density-ratio evolution at the two frequencies.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. Final version
The DFT study on the electronic structure of boronic acid derivatives and its esters with fructose
Creators: name: Kur, Katarzyna
name: Kowalska-Baron, Agnieszka
name: Miller, Ewa
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2018

description: Theoretical investigations are carried out to examine the geometrical structure and parameters of electron transitions to the lowest excited states of two boronic acid derivatives: 3-aminophenylboronic acid and 3-(acetamidomethyl)phenyl boronic acid and its cycling esters with fructose, using the DFT based 6-31 G(d,p) method. The most stable ester isomer of each acid has been selected. Predicted excitation wavelength are shorter (less than 0.5 eV) than experimental ones, what is in a good agreement considering limitations of the DFT method. In case of almost every calculated molecule the analysis of electronic transitions shows that transition S0→S1 involves electron transfer mainly from the HOMO to LUMO orbital.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 82 No. 1 (2018): Biotechnology and Food Science
DAGAL: Detailed Anatomy of Galaxies
Creators: name: Knapen, Johan H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The current IAU Symposium is closely connected to the EU-funded network DAGAL (Detailed Anatomy of Galaxies), with the final annual network meeting of DAGAL being at the core of this international symposium. In this short paper, we give an overview of DAGAL, its training activities, and some of the scientific advances that have been made under its umbrella.
description: Proceedings of IAU Symposium 321, "Formation and evolution of galaxy outskirts", Eds. A. Gil de Paz, J. C. Lee & J. H. Knapen, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Minor edits wrt first version. Typo in galaxy name corrected
Post's correspondence problem for hyperbolic and virtually nilpotent groups
Creators: name: Ciobanu, Laura
name: Levine, Alex
name: Logan, Alan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 20-06, 20E05, 20F10, 20M05, 68R15

description: Post's Correspondence Problem (the PCP) is a classical decision problem in theoretical computer science that asks whether for pairs of free monoid morphisms $g, h\colonΣ^*\toΔ^*$ there exists any non-trivial $x\inΣ^*$ such that $g(x)=h(x)$. Post's Correspondence Problem for a group $Γ$ takes pairs of group homomorphisms $g, h\colon F(Σ)\to Γ$ instead, and similarly asks whether there exists an $x$ such that $g(x)=h(x)$ holds for non-elementary reasons. The restrictions imposed on $x$ in order to get non-elementary solutions lead to several interpretations of the problem; we consider the natural restriction asking that $x \notin \ker(g) \cap \ker(h)$ and prove that the resulting interpretation of the PCP is undecidable for arbitrary hyperbolic $Γ$, but decidable when $Γ$ is virtually nilpotent. We also study this problem for group constructions such as subgroups, direct products and finite extensions. This problem is equivalent to an interpretation due to Myasnikov, Nikolev and Ushakov when one map is injective.
description: 20 pages, v2. Final version
Optical properties of (3-(acetamidomethyl)phenyl) boronic acid and its interactions with selected sugars
Creators: name: Kur, Katarzyna
name: Przybyt, Małgorzata
name: Miller, Ewa
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2018

description: (3-(Acetamidomethyl)phenyl)boronic acid (3AAPBA)has at pH 7 absorbance maximum at 270 nm with molar absorbance coefficient 516 M-1cm-1. 3AAPBA exhibits weak fluorescence with maximum at 297 nm and quantum yield 0.062 ± 0.001. Fluorescence decay is monoexponential and the lifetime is 2.05 ± 0.01 ns. Interactions of 3AAPBA with selected sugars were studied by absorbance, steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements. At pH 7 fluorescence of 3AAPBA is quenched only by fructose (with quenching constant 67.9 M-1) and to some extend by galactose. Addition of these two monosaccharides causes also changes of absorbance spectra of 3AAPBA. Acid-base dissociation of free 3AAPBA and its esters with sugars was studied by absorbance and steady-state fluorescence measurements in pH range from 4.5 to 11.00. Esterification of phenylboronic acid derivatives by sugars leads to increased acidity of them. In case of 3AAPBA the obtained values of pK indicate that affinity of studied sugars towards it can be ordered as follows: fructose > galactose > glucose > maltose > lactose > sucrose. At pHs higher than pK the fluorescence decays turn to biexponential with additional shorter component in lifetime which we propose to attribute to anionic form of 3AAPBA or its esters.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 82 No. 1 (2018): Biotechnology and Food Science
Antioxidant Potential and Phytochemical Content of Selected Fruits and Vegetables Consumed in Cyprus
Creators: name: Georgiadou, Egli C
name: Goulas, Vlasios
name: Majak, Iwona
name: Ioannou, Antigoni
name: Leszczyńska, Joanna
name: Fotopoulos, Vasileios
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2018

description: Consuming a diet high in fruits and vegetables can lower the risk of developing numerous chronic diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular disease, due to the presence of multiple antioxidants. Horticultural produce consumed in Cyprus include a large variety of fruits and vegetables, most of which are common components of a Mediterranean-style diet due to the island’s localization. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the antioxidant composition and activity of the edible portion of ten fruits and ten vegetables commonly consumed in Cyprus. Total phenolics, anthocyanins, ascorbic acid and carotenoids contents were determined, while the in vitro antioxidant activity was evaluated by three assays. Antioxidant activity showed great variation, with the highest values found in green olives, capers and red chili peppers and in correlation with total phenolic content. Ascorbic acid was detected in large quantities in parsley, coriander, red guavas and red chili peppers, while red chili peppers, capers and coriander had high levels of carotenoids. Furthermore, sweet cherries, red grapes, and red apples contained significant amounts of anthocyanins. Statistical analysis revealed that phenolic compounds are the most potent antioxidants in fruit and vegetables, while total anthocyanins had a weak contribution to their antioxidant activity. The present study could be a guide for Cypriot as well as Mediterranean diet health-conscious consumers to select specific fruits and vegetables as dietary components. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study thoroughly describing the antioxidant composition and activity of a wide array of important Cypriot horticultural products.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 82 No. 1 (2018): Biotechnology and Food Science
Stable-Set and Coloring bounds based on 0-1 quadratic optimization
Creators: name: Pucher, Dunja
name: Rendl, Franz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C22

description: We consider semidefinite relaxations of Stable-Set and Coloring, which are based on quadratic 0-1 optimization. Information about the stability number and the chromatic number is hidden in the objective function. This leads to simplified relaxations which depend mostly on the number of vertices of the graph. We also propose tightenings of the relaxations which are based on the maximal cliques of the underlying graph. Computational results on graphs from the literature show the strong potential of this new approach.
title: Early remyelination and increased conductance of ion channels do not determine the vulnerability of demyelinated axons in the cuprizone model
Creators: name: Schultz, Verena
name: Paap, Franziska
name: Scheidt, Uta
name: Stadelmann, Christine
name: Brück, Wolfgang
name: Junker, Andreas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Hallmarks of MS lesions are demyelination and axonal pathology, which occurs early after disease onset and is associated with disease progression and persistent disability. Demyelination, which leads to a loss of support by oligodendrocytes, increased energy demand of the axon and/[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Joint-Meeting of the German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy (DGNN) and the Scandinavian Neuropathological Society (SNS)
Determining CaMKII Variant Activities and Their Roles in Human Disease
Creators: name: Dunn, Matthew J
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is involved in Ca2+signaling throughout the body. CaMKII is enriched in the hippocampus and required for learning and memory formation. Four highly conserved genes encode CaMKII in vertebrates: A, B, G, and D. All CaMKII variants are constituted of a kinase domain, regulatory segment, variable linker, and hub domain. These domains comprise an individual subunit which oligomerize together via the hub domain to form multimeric holoenzymes. These four genes are most variable in the linker domain due to extensive alternative splicing. The variable linker significantly impacts the activation of CaMKIIA. Herein, I attempt to develop an in vitro assay which resembles physiological activation of CaMKII via Ca2+ oscillations. I provide preliminary data which indicate that alternative splicing of the variable linker in CaMKIIA modulates the Ca2+ frequency dependent autonomy of these variants. Additionally, neuronal CaMKII variants of CaMKIIA and CaMKIIB decode Ca2+ oscillations into different levels of autonomous activity. Lastly, I assess the impacts of three de novo mutations (Q274P, R275H, and F294S) on Ca2+/CaM sensitivity in CaMKIID by providing data that these 3 mutants increase the sensitivity of CaMKIId to Ca2+/CaM and that Q274P and F294S mutants display Ca2+/CaM independent activity.
J/$ψ$ production at midrapidity in p$-$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 8.16$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production of inclusive, prompt and non-prompt J/$ψ$ was studied for the first time at midrapidity ($ -1.37 < y_{\rm cms} < 0.43$) in p$-$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 8.16$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The inclusive J/$ψ$ mesons were reconstructed in the dielectron decay channel in the transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) interval $0 < p_{\rm T} < 14$ GeV/$c$ and the prompt and non-prompt contributions were separated on a statistical basis for $p_{\rm T} > 2$ GeV/$c$. The study of the J/$ψ$ mesons in the dielectron channel used for the first time in ALICE online single-electron triggers from the Transition Radiation Detector, providing a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $689 \pm 13 μ{\rm b}^{-1}$. The proton$-$proton reference cross section for inclusive J/$ψ$ was obtained based on interpolations of measured data at different centre-of-mass energies and a universal function describing the $p_{\rm T}$-differential J/$ψ$ production cross sections. The $p_{\rm T}$-differential nuclear modification factors $R_{\rm pPb}$ of inclusive, prompt, and non-prompt J/$ψ$ are consistent with unity and described by theoretical models implementing only nuclear shadowing.
description: 31 pages, 9 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 26, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/8659
Distribution of nitrogen compounds in important sections of sugar beets
Creators: name: Bąk, Paulina
name: Antczak-Chrobot, Anet
name: Wojtczak, Maciej
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2015

description: In literature the beet is often described as consisting of the following technologically important sections: crown, root and tail. The aim of the study was to determine the distribution of nitrogen compounds in the technologically important beet sections of untopped sugar beets with particular emphasis on the content of nitrate and nitrite. The Finezja sugar beet variety had been collected from the clamps in one of the Polish sugar factories in October during 2013/2014 campaign. The untopped sugar beets were divided into three sections: crown, root and tail. The content of total amount of nitrogen, proteinaceous nitrogen, α-amino nitrogen, the sum of the amide and ammonia nitrogen, nitrates and nitrite in these sections were determined. Although the crown of the sugar beet represented only 14.7% of it mass, this section contained on average 30% of the total quantity of α-amino acids as well as amide and ammonia nitrogen. This section contained approximately 77% of the total quantity of nitrate and 88% of nitrite. Untopped sugar beets would introduce much higher amounts of nitrogen compounds in comparison to topped raw material.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 79 No. 1 (2015): Biotechnology and Food Science
Long-time asymptotics for coagulation equations with injection that do not have stationary solutions
Creators: name: Cristian, Iulia
name: Ferreira, Marina A.
name: Franco, Eugenia
name: Velázquez, Juan J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study a class of coagulation equations including a source term that injects in the system clusters of size of order one. The coagulation kernel is homogeneous, of homogeneity $γ< 1$, such that $K(x,y)$ is approximately $x^{γ+ λ} y^{-λ}$, when $x$ is larger than $y$. We restrict the analysis to the case $γ+ 2 λ\geq 1 $. In this range of exponents, the transport of mass toward infinity is driven by collisions between particles of different sizes. This is in contrast with the case when $γ+ 2 λ<1$. In that case, the transport of mass toward infinity is due to the collision between particles of comparable sizes. In the case $γ+2λ\geq 1$, the interaction between particles of different sizes leads to an additional transport term in the coagulation equation that approximates the solution of the original coagulation equation with injection for large times. We prove the existence of a class of self-similar solutions for suitable choices of $γ$ and $λ$ for this class of coagulation equations with transport. We prove that for the complementary case such self-similar solutions do not exist.
description: 1 figure
La Circassienne: A Study of the Female Circus Artist in French Literature
Creators: name: Menninga, Crystal
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: This study examines how the female circus artist is represented in twelve pieces of French literature ranging from the late nineteenth century to the modern day.  The books are divided into three categories by author type: first, authors without a circus background; second, male authors involved in the circus world; and third, women involved in the circus world.  Although predicted that the first section would reveal the largest use of stereotypes and misogyny, the second would show the sexist expectations of the circassienne onstage and off, and the third would call out these stereotypes and suggest improvements, there was less variety found than expected.  Only two authors—one from each of the first two categories—used circassienne stereotypes in an extremely negative manner, authors who were unfamiliar with circus but did research as well as the majority of the male authors familiar with circus bluntly stated some of the bias but did not offer solutions, and the majority of the female circus artist authors also stated the bias they faced but were limited in their opportunities to challenge stereotypes. 
Eleven of the books focus on artists from traditional circus, and only Circassienne looks at contemporary circus.  Whereas there is a variety of literature about the contemporary circus scene in Quebec, Circassienne was the only book found to be written by a French circassienne that deals with normalizing the life of a circus artist in who lives in a house, sends their children to school, and creates pieces designed to expose children to contemporary circus as well as pieces with calls for activism.
Overall, it was found that the situation for the female circus artist in traditional circus in France has not greatly changed in the past century.  She is still expected to be feminine, to wear revealing costumes, and to flirt with the audience, often serving as the “female element” in an otherwise male-dominated group of performers.  Reducing sexism in circus and the fight for gender equality remain part of the agenda of circus going forward, and progress is being seen faster in contemporary circus than in its traditional counterpart.
Uniformizations of compact Sasakian manifolds
Creators: name: Kasuya, Hisashi
name: Miyatake, Natsuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a criterion for compact Sasakian manifolds to be deformed to Sasakian manifolds which are locally isomorphic to circle bundles of anti-canonical bundles over Hermitian symmetric spaces as a Sasakian analogue of Simpson's uniformization results related to variations of Hodge structure and Higgs bundles.
description: v2: Section 3.2 and proof of Theorem 4.1 are corrected. v3: Final version. To appear in IMRN. 10 pages. Comments are welcome
$\varepsilon'/\varepsilon$ in 331 Models
Creators: name: Buras, Andrzej J.
name: De Fazio, Fulvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent findings that the ratio $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon$ in the Standard Model (SM) appears to be significantly below the data we investigate whether the necessary enhancement of this ratio can be obtained in 331 models, in which new physics (NP) contributions to $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon$ and other flavour observables are dominated by tree-level exchanges of a $Z^\prime$. NP contributions to $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon$ in these models are governed by the electroweak operator $Q_8$ for which the hadronic matrix element is rather well known so that our analysis of NP contributions is subject to much smaller uncertainties than within the SM. We consider seven 331 models selected in our earlier analysis on the basis of electroweak precision data. Imposing the constraints from $ΔF=2$ transitions we find that only three of these models can provide a significant positive shift in $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon$ up to $6\times 10^{-4}$ for $M_{Z^\prime}=3$ TeV. Two of them allow simultaneously a supression of ${\cal B}(B_{s}\to μ^+μ^-)$ by $20\%$, bringing the theory closer to the data without any significant impact on the Wilson coefficient $C_9$. The third one provides also the shift $ΔC_9=-0.6$, softening the anomalies in $B\to K^*μ^+μ^-$, without any significant impact on $B_{s}\to μ^+μ^-$. NP effects in rare $K$ decays and in $B\to K(K^*)ν\barν$ turn out to be small. The flavour structure of 331 models implies that even for $M_{Z^\prime}=30$ Tev a shift of $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon$ up to $8\times 10^{-4}$ and a significant shift in $\varepsilon_K$ can be obtained, while the effects in other flavour observables are small.
description: LaTeX, 22 pages, 8 figures. Matches version in JHEP
Activity of compounds of natural origin against Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris, a common fruit juices contaminant
Creators: name: Tyfa, Agnieszka
name: Kunicka-Styczyńska, Alina
name: Dąbrowska, Justyna
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2015

description: Fruit product industry struggles with emerging problem of microbial contamination with Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris. This acidothermophilic, soil-borne and sporeforming bacterium posses ability to survive commercial pasteurization and thus may cause fruit juices spoilage. Even modern technologies are not effective enough to eliminate A. acidoterrestris from the industrial environments. The green consumer attitude and safety standards suggest adaptation of natural and safe solutions. This paper summarizes the bioactivity of compounds of natural origin which could serve as anti-alicyclobacilli preservation agents maintaining stability of fruit juices.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 79 No. 1 (2015): Biotechnology and Food Science
title: Schulterhemiarthroplastik bei rheumatoider Arthritis
Creators: name: Heers, Guido
name: Springorum, Hans Robert
name: Fikentscher, Tobias
name: Grifka, Joachim
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rheumatoide Arthritis
subject: Schulter
subject: Hemi-TEP
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Die Tendenz zur inversen Schulterarthroplastik bei Patienten mit rheumatoider Arthritis nimmt stetig zu. Die Hemiarthroplastik ist eine Option bei jüngeren Patienten mit noch suffizienter Knochensubstanz und funktionsfähiger Rotatorenmanschette. Es existieren jedoch bislang [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Kongress für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (DKOU 2016)
Medium Response and Jet-Hadron Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Cao, Shanshan
name: Qin, Guang-You
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-energy heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider have evolved from qualitative understanding into precise extraction of the properties of the Quantum Chromodynamics medium at extremely high temperature. Jet quenching has offered unique insights into the transport properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in these energetic collisions. Apart from medium modification of jets, jet-induced medium excitation constitutes another crucial aspect of jet-QGP interaction, and is indispensable in understanding the soft components of jets. We review recent theoretical and phenomenological developments on medium response to jet energy loss, including an overview of both weakly and strongly coupled approaches for describing the thermalization and propagation of energy deposition from jets, effects of medium response on jet observables, and exploration of its unique signatures in jet-hadron correlations. Jet-induced medium excitation is shown to be an essential component in probing the in-medium dynamics of jets and a critical step towards precise extraction of the QGP properties.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures
Impact of rearing system of Rosa breed laying hens on occurrence and antibiotic resistance hens on occurrence and antibiotic resistance
Creators: name: Galbas, Mariola
name: Selwet, Marek
name: Koczorowski, Michał
name: Porzucek, Filip
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2015

description: Salmonelloses are among the most common animal-borne infections. The most frequent causes of their occurrence are contaminated chicken eggs. For this reason, the control of bacteria from the Salmonella genus living in the cloaca of laying hens can contribute to the reduction of spreading levels of infections with these bacteria. The most popular methods of rearing laying hens in small agricultural farms comprise run and cage keeping. The aim of the performed studies was to determine the impact of rearing and nutritional systems on the occurrence of egg infections with Salmonella spp. bacteria. Detection by PCR method corroborated presence of bacteria from the Salmonella genus on eggs surface from hens kept in litter system. Latex serotyping test confirmed the presence of Salmonella Enteritidis. Salmonella spp. was not detected on eggs surface from hens kept in cage system. Salmonella spp. isolates from the eggs surface of hens reared on litter were characterized by drug resistance to tetracycline. Addition of EM probiotic failed to show reduction in incidence of Salmonella spp. infection.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Vol. 79 No. 1 (2015): Biotechnology and Food Science
Assessing the validity of the zero-velocity update method  for sprinting speeds
Creators: name: Pla, Gerard
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: INTRODUCTION: The zero-velocity update (ZUPT) method has become a popular approach to estimate foot kinematics from foot worn inertial measurement units (IMUs) for walking and running. However, it remains unknown how accurate the ZUPT method is for track sprinting speeds when using sensors with characteristics (i.e., higher ranges and sampling rates) better suited for sprinting.
METHODS: 18 participants performed 70-meter track sprints while wearing a Blue Trident IMeasureU IMU. Two cameras, at 20 and 70 meters from the start, were placed to validate the ZUPT method on a stride-by-stride and on a cumulative distance basis. The validity of the method was assessed on: (1) A single stride attained at the end of the maximal speed phase, i.e., at 70m; (2) On a cumulative distance basis for the maximal speed phase from 20 to 70 meter; and (3) On total distance traveled for a 70-meter track sprint.
RESULTS: Individual stride and cumulative distance errors remained within -8 to 3% and -4 to 2%, respectively.
CONCLUSION: The results of this study demonstrate the ZUPT method is capable of yielding accurate estimates of stride length and cumulative distance traveled for sprinting speeds.