cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Glycogen synthase kinase 3 inhibition controls Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
Creators: name: Peña-Díaz, Sandra
name: Chao, Joseph D.
name: Rens, Celine
name: Haghdadi, Hasti
name: Zheng, Xingji
name: Flanagan, Keegan
name: Ko, Mary
name: Shapira, Tirosh
name: Richter, Adrian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 615

description: Compounds targeting host control of infectious diseases provide an attractive alternative to antimicrobials. A phenotypic screen of a kinase library identified compounds targeting glycogen synthase kinase 3 as potent inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) intracellular growth in the human THP-1 cell line and primary human monocytes-derived macrophages (hMDM). CRISPR knockouts and siRNA silencing showed that GSK3 isoforms are needed for the growth of Mtb and that a selected compound, P-4423632 targets GSK3β. GSK3 inhibition was associated with macrophage apoptosis governed by the Mtb secreted protein tyrosine phosphatase A (PtpA). Phospho-proteome analysis of macrophages response to infection revealed a wide array of host signaling and apoptosis pathways controlled by GSK3 and targeted by P-4423632. P-4423632 was additionally found to be active against other intracellular pathogens. Our findings strengthen the notion that targeting host signaling to promote the infected cell’s innate antimicrobial capacity is a feasible and attractive host-directed therapy approach.
Semiclassical quantization of the mixed-flux AdS$_3$ giant magnon
Creators: name: Varga, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain explicit formulas for the eight bosonic and eight fermionic fluctuations around the mixed-flux generalization of the Hofman-Maldacena giant magnon on AdS$_3 \times$S$^3 \times$T$^4$ and AdS$_3 \times$S$^3 \times$S$^3 \times$S$^1$. As a check of our results, we confirm that the semiclassical quantization of these fluctuations leads to a vanishing one-loop correction to the magnon energy, as expected from symmetry based arguments.
description: 38 pages; minor changes and references added to introduction and conclusions
Sialic acids and viruses
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Virus
Influenza
Sialic acids
NANA
Sars-Cov-2
ACE2
Integrin
Virion
Plasma membranes
Spike proteins
Hemagglutinin
Neuraminidase
Human Coronaviruses
HCoV-229E
HCoV-OC43
HCoV-HKU1
HCoV-NL63
NeuAc
9-O-Ac-NeuAc
NeuGc
hemmaglutinin esterase
Influenza A
Heparan sulfate
Influenza C

description: Let us study viruses and the role of sialic acids in their first step of reproduction, the attachment to cells. We begin our study with the help of the "Earth's virology course", created by Vincent Racaniello, with David Tuller and Gertrud U. Rey. The first virus that we will study is that of influenza A. Actually, "Earth's virology course" is a proper starting point for learning the mechanisms the virus uses to attach and enter the host cells. In the case of the influenza virus, its spike protein is used to attach the virion to sialic acid receptors of the host cells. Then, we will consider coronaviruses, with the help of literature about the role of sialic acids in their attachment by means of spike proteins. In fact, there are seven human coronavirus and they use sialic acid or angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) or other receptors or a combination of them. Let us review the literature to understand if Sars-Cov-2 virus can use sialic acid for the attachment to cells or not. Its main target is considered the ACE2 receptor. We will see that a study exists which detected that Sars-Cov-2 protein molecules can bind to heparan sulfate glycans in a sulfation-dependent manner.
description: About the role of sialic acids in Sars-Cov-2 attachment: a) the study in 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00855 used a glyco-nanoparticle platform, discovering that N-acetyl neuraminic acid has affinity toward the SARS-COV-2 spike glycoprotein, that is a glycan-binding function. b) a recent study, 10.1016/j.scib.2021.01.010, which has investigated the binding of the spikes of the virus by means of micro-arrays, tells that no binding with sialic acid residues was detected. All the tested protein molecules can bind to heparan sulfate glycans (as in 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.033) in a sulfation-dependent manner. c) A preprint published on March 8, 2021, entitled "Sialic acid-Dependent Binding and Viral Entry of SARS-CoV-2". bioRxiv 2021.03.08.434228; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.08.434228, gives different results,
Late time dynamics of $f(R, T, R_{μν}T^{μν})$ gravity
Creators: name: Abchouyeh, Maryam Aghaei
name: Mirza, Behrouz
name: Shahidi, Parisa
name: Oboudiat, Fatemeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical behavior and future singularities of $f(R, T,R_{μν}T^{μν})$ gravitational theory are investigated. This gravitational model is a more complete form of the $f(R,T)$ gravity which can offer new dynamics for the universe. We investigate this gravitational theory for the case $f = R + αR_{μν}T^{μν}$ using the method of autonomous dynamical systems and by assuming an interaction between matter and dark energy. The fixed points are identified and the results are consistent with standard cosmology and show that for small $α$, the radiation dominated era is an unstable fixed point of the theory and the universe will continue its procedure toward matter era which is a saddle point of the theory and allows the evolution to dark energy dominated universe. Finally the dark energy dominated epoch is a stable fixed point and will be the late time attractor for the universe. We also consider future singularities for the two $f = R + αR_{μν}T^{μν}$ and $f = R +αRR_{μν}T^{μν}$ cases and for $w = 0,\dfrac{1}{3},1$ and $-1$. Our results show that for the case of $f = R + αR_{μν}T^{μν}$, the future singularities of the universe will happen in the same condition as do for the Einstein-Hilbert FRW universe. However, a new type of singularity is obtained for $f = R +αRR_{μν}T^{μν}$ that is captured by $t\rightarrow t_s;\ a \rightarrow a_s;\ ρ\rightarrow \infty;$ and $\ |p| \rightarrow 0$.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
Technical Versus Institutional Innovation in Andalusian Olive Tree Orchards: An Adoption Modelling Analysis
Creators: name: Calatrava-Requena, Javier
name: Gonzalez-Roa, Maria Del Carmen
name: Calatrava-Requena, Javier
name: Gonzalez-Roa, Maria Del Carmen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Innovation adoption
subject: institutional and technological innovations
subject: olive tree growers

description: A survey carried out among olive tree growers in different districts of southern Spain allows the identification and analysis of factors related with adoption of several technical and institutional innovations. At that respect, a composite numerical index has been performed including all innovations considered, among then the following: changes in orchard structure, non or reduced tillage, use of tree vibrators for harvesting, non conventional methods for fighting pests and diseases, keeping an accounting systems, annual farm planning, level of information and awareness of the European CMO in relation to olive oils, etc. Structural and managerial variables of the orchard and personal characteristics of the grower, related to the composite innovation index, have been identified. In a second step, two similar separate analysis have been made for both technical and institutional innovations, and several conclusions have, finally, been drawn concerning factors that should enhance both types of innovations adoption in Spanish olive orchards.
CO2 emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in Tunisia
Creators: name: Chebbi, Houssem Eddine
name: Boujelbene, Y.
name: Chebbi, Houssem Eddine
name: Boujelbene, Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: CO2 emissions
subject: Energy Consumption
subject: Economic Growth
subject: Tunisia

description: The aim of this country specific study is to understand long and short-run linkages between economic growth, energy consumption and CO2 emission using Tunisian data over the period 1971-2004. Statistical findings indicate that economic growth, energy consumption and CO2 emission are related in the long-run and provide some evidence of inefficient use of energy in Tunisia, since environmental pressure tends to rise faster than economic growth. In the short run, results support the argument that economic growth exerts a positive “causal” influence on energy consumption growth. In addition, results from impulse response do not confirm the hypothesis that an increase in pollution level induces economic expansion. Although Tunisia has no commitment to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions, energy efficiency investments and emission reduction policies will not hurt economic activities and can be a feasible policy tool for Tunisia.
Re-staging the past : moral inquiries in Sharon Pollock’s memory plays
Creators: name: Belliveau, George Andre
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Sharon Pollock's plays have made a significant contribution to Canadian drama over the last three decades; however, the majority of scholarly research on her work has concentrated on one particular play-Blood Relations-and for the most part these studies focus on feminism and metadrama. My thesis examines Pollock's use of the memory play and how within this genre the playwright metaphorically places one (or more) of her characters under investigation. The notion of memory is present in practically all of her plays, but to focus my argument I select dramatic works where a rememberer distinctly guides the audience from the play's present into the past. Because several of her memory plays are based on historical events I use an historiographical approach to illuminate her texts. In the six Pollock works that I examine a crime or social wrongdoing has taken place in the past, and one of the central characters needs to revisit the injustice from the play's present. Through memory, the past is restaged and the character who experiences the inquiry tries to understand, justify, and/or defend his or her position in the events. Instead of determining if the characters are legally responsible for the crime or wrongdoing, my investigation focuses on their level of moral responsibility in the social injustice. I propose to examine the moral inquiries within Pollock's work in the context of three types of memory plays, and these form the basis of my three main chapters: third-person memory (Walsh, The Komagata Mam Incident), first-person memory (One Tiger to a Hill, Moving Pictures), and multi-person memory (Doc, Fair Liberty's Calf).
Supernova Remnants in the Magellanic Clouds. V. The Complex Interior Structure of the N206 SNR
Creators: name: Williams, R. M.
name: Chu, Y. -H.
name: Dickel, J. R.
name: Gruendl, R. A.
name: Seward, F. D.
name: Guerrero, M. A.
name: Hobbs, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The N206 supernova remnant (SNR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has long been considered a prototypical "mixed morphology" SNR. Recent observations, however, have added a new twist to this familiar plot: an elongated, radially-oriented radio feature seen in projection against the SNR face. Utilizing the high resolution and sensitivity available with the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra, and XMM-Newton, we have obtained optical emission-line images and spatially resolved X-ray spectral maps for this intriguing SNR. Our findings present the SNR itself as a remnant in the mid to late stages of its evolution. X-ray emission associated with the radio "linear feature" strongly suggests it to be a pulsar-wind nebula (PWN). A small X-ray knot is discovered at the outer tip of this feature. The feature's elongated morphology and the surrounding wedge-shaped X-ray enhancement strongly suggest a bow-shock PWN structure.
description: 41 pages including 7 figures, accepted for publication by the Astrophysical Journal
On the prospects of imaging Sagittarius A* from space
Creators: name: Roelofs, Freek
name: Falcke, Heino
name: Brinkerink, Christiaan
name: Moscibrodzka, Monika
name: Gurvits, Leonid I.
name: Martin-Neira, Manuel
name: Kudriashov, Volodymyr
name: Klein-Wolt, Marc
name: Tilanus, Remo
name: Kramer, Michael
name: Rezzolla, Luciano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) at sub-millimeter waves has the potential to image the shadow of the black hole in the Galactic Center, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), and thereby test basic predictions of the theory of general relativity. We investigate the imaging prospects of a new Space VLBI mission concept. The setup consists of two satellites in polar or equatorial circular Medium-Earth Orbits with slightly different radii, resulting in a dense spiral-shaped uv-coverage with long baselines, allowing for extremely high-resolution and high-fidelity imaging of radio sources. We simulate observations of a general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics model of Sgr A* for this configuration with noise calculated from model system parameters. After gridding the $uv$-plane and averaging visibilities accumulated over multiple months of integration, images of Sgr A* with a resolution of up to 4 $μ$as could be reconstructed, allowing for stronger tests of general relativity and accretion models than with ground-based VLBI.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, published in Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 342, 2018
Effects of the decoupling of the subsidies on agricultural water productivity
Creators: name: Lorite, I.J.
name: Arriaza Balmón, Manuel
name: Lorite, I.J.
name: Arriaza Balmón, Manuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: CAP Subsidies
subject: Irrigation
subject: Arable Crops
subject: Spain

description: In this work several performance indicators such as the Annual Relative Irrigation Supply (ARIS) and the Irrigation Water Productivity (IWP), have been considered to evaluate the changes in the cotton irrigation management due to the decoupling of the European Union Subsidies. For this purpose, a modern irrigation scheme, the Genil–Cabra Irrigation Scheme (GCIS) located in Southern Spain, has been selected. The total irrigated area is 6,900 ha with wheat, olive and cotton as the main crops. The irrigation season 2004/05 was the period when the crop pattern and water management trend changed dramatically. From this year to the present the area cultivated with crops with high water requirements like cotton, sugar beet and maize has been reduced almost by half, while the area with low irrigation requirement crops (winter cereals, sunflower or olive) has increased of 37%. After the decoupling of the EU cotton subsidies in 2006, the cotton agricultural practices have changed toward a less intensive production system, including both, lower water application (ARIS for cotton decreased from values higher than 0.8 to 0.5 in the irrigation season 2006/07) and less agrochemical usage. In terms of sustainability, the reform has increased the cotton irrigation efficiency (IWP for cotton increased from around 0.7 €/m3 to 1.0 €/m3 in the irrigation season 2006/07) and has reduced its environmental impact.
Greek cotton farmers' supply response to partial decoupling of subsidies
Creators: name: Rozakis, Stelios
name: Tsiboukas, Kostas
name: Petsakos, Athanasios
name: Rozakis, Stelios
name: Tsiboukas, Kostas
name: Petsakos, Athanasios
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Cotton
subject: C.A.P
subject: decoupling
subject: mathematical programming

description: A mathematical programming model based on a countrywide sample of farms is used to assess the impacts of the new C.A.P on the supply of the cotton sector in Greece. Results show a decrease in cotton cultivated area along with the introduction of a new production system called "semi-abandonment cotton". Farm income is practically unchanged, largely due to the decoupled payments. When these payments are not considered, farm income turns negative in some cases, thus leading towards abandonment of activities.
Between markets and policy: farm household's reaction to decoupling
Creators: name: Gomez Y Paloma, Sergio
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Gomez Y Paloma, Sergio
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Viaggi, Davide
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Investment
subject: Common Agricultural policy
subject: public payments

description: The main objective of this paper is to evaluate ex post the effects of 2003 decoupling, with a specific focus on farm investment behaviour. In the past years a number of studies have addressed the issue of the impact of EU policy reforms. However, long term effects of policy changes and related impacts on structural and investment behaviour received relatively little attention in modelling exercises concerning CAP reform up to now. This study is based on a survey about 250 farm households in Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, Greece, The Netherlands, France and Hungary. In the majority of cases, farmers stated they were indifferent to decoupling. Where any change occurred, the impact of decoupling was highly differentiated. Differences in reaction are better explained by different individual household/farm characteristics, rather than by association with a specific agricultural system.
Ultrathin perpendicular free layers for lowering the switching current in STT-MRAM
Creators: name: Santos, Tiffany S.
name: Mihajlovic, Goran
name: Smith, Neil
name: Li, J. -L.
name: Carey, Matthew
name: Katine, Jordan A.
name: Terris, Bruce D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The critical current density $J_{c0}$ required for switching the magnetization of the free layer (FL) in a spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) cell is proportional to the product of the damping parameter, saturation magnetization and thickness of the free layer, $αM_S t_F$. Conventional FLs have the structure CoFeB/nonmagnetic spacer/CoFeB. By reducing the spacer thickness, W in our case, and also splitting the single W layer into two layers of sub-monolayer thickness, we have reduced $t_F$ while minimizing $α$ and maximizing $M_S$, ultimately leading to lower $J_{c0}$ while maintaining high thermal stability. Bottom-pinned MRAM cells with device diameter in the range of 55-130 nm were fabricated, and $J_{c0}$ is lowest for the thinnest (1.2 nm) FLs, down to 4 MA/cm$^2$ for 65 nm devices, $\sim$30% lower than 1.7 nm FLs. The thermal stability factor $Δ_{\mathrm{dw}}$, as high as 150 for the smallest device size, was determined using a domain wall reversal model from field switching probability measurements. With high $Δ_{\mathrm{dw}}$ and lowest $J_{c0}$, the thinnest FLs have the highest spin-transfer torque efficiency.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Impact of CAP reform on agricultural production in the German federal state Baden-Wurttemberg: Scenario calculations with the regional model ACRE
Creators: name: Henseler, Martin
name: Krimly, Tatjana
name: Dabbert, Stephan
name: Henseler, Martin
name: Krimly, Tatjana
name: Dabbert, Stephan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Regional model
subject: agricultural production
subject: CAP reform scenario

description: ACRE is an Agro-eConomic model for agricultural pRoduction at rEgional level. Based on an extension of Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) this model was developed as a decision tool for politics with respect to questions of global change- and political scenarios. ACRE was applied in two interdisciplinary projects for simulation of agricultural production in two German river basins. Currently, the model was extended to calculate agricultural production for the federal state Baden-Württemberg in South West Germany. This paper introduces the results of CAP scenario calculations with the regional model ACRE for Baden-Württemberg.
On Explicit Milstein-type Scheme for Mckean-Vlasov Stochastic Differential Equations with Super-linear Drift Coefficient
Creators: name: Kumar, Chaman
name: Neelima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65C05, 65C30, 65C35, 60H35

description: We develop an explicit Milstein-type scheme for McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations using the notion of derivative with respect to measure introduced by Lions and discussed in \cite{cardaliaguet2013}. The drift coefficient is allowed to grow super-linearly in the space variable. Further, both drift and diffusion coefficients are assumed to be only once differentiable in variables corresponding to space and measure. The rate of strong convergence is shown to be equal to $1.0$ without using Itô's formula for functions depending on measure. The challenges arising due to the dependence of coefficients on measure are tackled and our findings are consistent with the analogous results for stochastic differential equations.
description: 35 pages
Interfacial dynamics and metastatic cancer
Creators: name: Highmore, Roger
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biophysics
subject: 60103 Cell Development, Proliferation and Death
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 29903 Medical Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20406 Surfaces and Structural Properties of Condensed Matter

description: We consider dynamics of interfaces that separate primary tumours from surrounding, healthy tissue. Translation of such interfaces can influence growth (and maybe shrinkage) of primary tumours. Deformation of interfaces can promote escape of metastatic clusters from primary tumours. Growth of primary tumours is easiest when broad, uniform, stable interfaces move unimpeded through homogeneous tissue. Spawning of metastatic clusters is easiest when unstable interfaces are deformed by inhomogeneities. Optimal distributions of inhomogeneities will minimise both growth of primary tumours and escape of metastatic clusters.
Molitor, Joseph: Monumenta iberica antiquiora
Creators: name: T̕arxnišvili, Mik̕el
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 42 (1958): Oriens christianus, Band 42
Cross Compliance of CAP First Pillar Measures: A Transaction Costs Assessment
Creators: name: Ridier, Aude
name: Kephaliacos, Charilaos
name: Carpy-Goulard, Francoise
name: Ridier, Aude
name: Kephaliacos, Charilaos
name: Carpy-Goulard, Francoise
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Cross compliance
subject: Transaction costs
subject: CAP

description: The 2003 review of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has introduced several new policy tools, among which cross-compliance. The introduction of this new policy entails production costs, along with other types of costs arising at the farm level: administrative, information, organisational costs, called transaction costs. The purpose of this paper is to determine the nature of transaction costs and to assess them. The literature on transaction costs in agriculture has, until now, mainly been devoted to the voluntary measures implemented within the framework of the European agri-environmental policy. The first part of the paper intends to use this literature to apply the private transaction costs analysis to the issue of cross compliance. The second part attempts to assess these costs. On the basis of a survey conducted in 2006 among a sample of 39 farmers from the Midi Pyrenees French region, a descriptive statistical analysis (Multiple Classification Analysis - MCA) permits to associate farmer profiles with different levels of incurred transaction costs. These profiles reveal the impact which the farmers’ responsibilities (professional networks) and the role of voluntary commitments previously undertaken may have on the nature and importance of transaction costs. This paper opens up new perspectives on the adoption criteria that should be taken into account in the evolution of agri-environmental regulations. It appears that growing administrative requirements could prompt farmers to outsource tasks which most of them carry out on their own today.
Large N vector quantum mechanics and bubbling supertube solutions
Creators: name: Imamura, Yosuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a large N vector quantum mechanics as the theory describing a D-particle probe in bubbling supertube solutions. We compute the effective action of this quantum mechanics and show that it coincides with the D-particle action in a certain decoupling limit, up to quadratic order in the velocity. The angular momentum of the D-particle, including the contribution of the Poynting vector, is reproduced as the vacuum expectation value of the SU(2)_R current.
description: 17pages, PTPTeX; v2: added references; v3: changed TeX style, added references; v4: minor corrections, added reference
Podocinum bengalensis Bhattacharyya 1968
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum bengalensis

description: 12. Podocinum bengalensis Bhattacharyya, 1968
 Podocinum bengalensis Bhattacharyya, 1968: 528.
 Podocinum [jamaicense] bengalensis.— Hurlbutt, 1971: 298.
 Podocinum bengalensis.— Yan et al., 2012: 45; Santos et al., 2017: 445.
 Type depository. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India.
 Type locality and habitat. India, Botanical Garden, Shibpur, Howrah district, West Bengal, 24 December 1964, in soil under bamboo grove.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
The Only Way is Dickens: Representations of Cockney Speech and Cockney Characters in the Works of Charles Dickens
Creators: name: Turner, Alice
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines Dickens’s representation of cockney dialect and cockney speakers, as well as representations of upwardly mobile Londoners and their speech. It identifies the linguistic features that Dickens draws upon to construct his character speech and explores the attitudes conveyed through language choice. It investigates how Dickens’s representations were shaped by wider attitudes towards language, particularly towards non-standard speech, in Victorian society. It investigates Dickens’s role in popularising cockney dialect in nineteenth-century culture, going against the tide of language prescriptivism that had started in the late eighteenth century. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining literary criticism of Dickens’s works with aspects of historical linguistics. It explores Dickens’s work both chronologically and thematically also taking into account adaptations and plagiarisms. The first three chapters focus on Dickens’s early works, firstly, his compiled work, Sketches by Boz (1833-1836), then the first two novels, The Pickwick Papers (1836-1837), followed by Oliver Twist (1837-1839), drawing on other novels in each chapter to make comparisons. The final chapter analyses a selection of his novels over his writing career, including Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39), David Copperfield (1849-1850), Bleak House (1852-1853) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). This thesis argues that Dickens is influential in promoting certain ideas about cockney speech, but there are complexities in his depictions.
The final phase of inspiral of neutron stars: realistic equations of state
Creators: name: Gondek-Rosinska, Dorota
name: Bejger, Michal
name: Bulik, Tomek
name: Gourgoulhon, Eric
name: Haensel, Pawel
name: Limousin, Francois
name: Taniguchi, Keisuke
name: Zdunik, Leszek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coalescing compact star binaries are expected to be among the strongest sources of gravitational radiation to be seen by laser interferometers. We present calculations of the final phase of inspiral of equal mass irrotational neutron star binaries and strange quark star binaries. Six types of equations of state at zero temperature are used - three realistic nuclear equations of state of various softness and three different MIT bag models of strange quark matter. We study the precoalescing stage within the Isenberg-Wilson-Mathews approximation of general relativity using a multidomain spectral method. The gravitational-radiation driven evolution of the binary system is approximated by a sequence of quasi-equilibrium configurations at fixed baryon number and decreasing separation. We find that the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) is given by an orbital instability for binary strange quark stars and by the mass-shedding limit for neutron star binaries. The gravitational wave frequency at the ISCO, which marks the end of the inspiral phase, is found to be around 1100-1460 Hz for two 1.35 solar masses irrotational strange stars described by the MIT bag model and between 800 Hz and 1230 Hz for neutron stars.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, Advances in Space Research, in press,doi:10.1016/j.asr.2006.09.021, available online www.sciencedirect.com, paper updated according to the reviewer's suggestions (conclusions unchanged)
Precision radial velocity measurements by the forward-modeling technique in the near-infrared
Creators: name: Hirano, Teruyuki
name: Kuzuhara, Masayuki
name: Kotani, Takayuki
name: Omiya, Masashi
name: Kudo, Tomoyuki
name: Harakawa, Hiroki
name: Vievard, Sébastien
name: Kurokawa, Takashi
name: Nishikawa, Jun
name: Tamura, Motohide
name: Hodapp, Klaus
name: Ishizuka, Masato
name: Jacobson, Shane
name: Konishi, Mihoko
name: Serizawa, Takuma
name: Ueda, Akitoshi
name: Gaidos, Eric
name: Sato, Bun'ei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precision radial velocity (RV) measurements in the near-infrared are a powerful tool to detect and characterize exoplanets around low-mass stars or young stars with higher magnetic activity. However, the presence of strong telluric absorption lines and emission lines in the near infrared that significantly vary in time can prevent extraction of RV information from these spectra by classical techniques, which ignore or mask the telluric lines. We present a methodology and pipeline to derive precision RVs from near-infrared spectra using a forward-modeling technique. We applied this to spectra with a wide wavelength coverage (Y, J, and H bands, simultaneously), taken by the InfraRed Doppler (IRD) spectrograph on the Subaru 8.2-m telescope. Our pipeline extracts the instantaneous instrumental profile of the spectrograph for each spectral segment, based on a reference spectrum of the laser-frequency comb that is injected into the spectrograph simultaneously with the stellar light. These profiles are used to derive the intrinsic stellar template spectrum, which is free from instrumental broadening and telluric features, as well as model and fit individual observed spectra in the RV analysis. Implementing a series of numerical simulations using theoretical spectra that mimic IRD data, we test the pipeline and show that IRD can achieve $<2$ m s$^{-1}$ precision for slowly rotating mid-to-late M dwarfs with a signal-to-noise ratio $> 100$ per pixel at 1000 nm. Dependences of RV precision on various stellar parameters (e.g., $T_{\rm eff}$, $v\sin i$, [Fe/H]) and the impact of telluric-line blendings on the RV accuracy are discussed through the mock spectra analyses. We also apply the RV-analysis pipeline to the observed spectra of GJ 699 and TRAPPIST-1, demonstrating that the spectrograph and the pipeline are capable of an RV accuracy of $<3$ m s$^{-1}$ at least on a time scale of a few months.
description: 21 pages, 20 figures; accepted for publication in PASJ; typos corrected
An assessment of the impact of possible CAP reform scenarios on Romanian agriculture
Creators: name: Alexandri, Cecilia
name: Luca, Lucian
name: Alexandri, Cecilia
name: Luca, Lucian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: CAP reform
subject: Romania
subject: welfare effects

description: Using a simplified model, with key-variable the prices of two different possible scenarios of CAP reform after 2013 (moderate and radical), this paper present a comparison between the price effects of implementation of each reform scenario at 2015 horizon on Romanian agriculture. This short analysis shows that, under the presented hypotheses, the net welfare effect, due to the price changes, for the selected products, is positive in both reform scenarios, yet greater in the case of the radical reform. Integrated in the large context of Romanian development, it seems that the influence of CAP reform upon agriculture and rural areas will be most likely a gradual one: an interpenetration between the two scenarios is foreseeable, starting with the moderate reform that will dominate the period around 2013, the reform measures acquiring a more radical character afterwards.
ULF Wave Eigenfrequencies in the Earth's Magnetosphere
Creators: name: Wharton, Samuel J.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis studies standing ultralow frequency (ULF) waves in the Earth's magnetosphere. In particular, it looks at how to automate the measurement of the resonant frequencies of geomagnetic field lines and how we can use this information to understand the driving processes. The first of the three studies presented in this thesis develops the automated cross-phase algorithm that measures the eigenfrequencies. It was applied to a month of magnetometer data to understand the diurnal and latitudinal variations in eigenfrequency. The algorithm is capable of detecting the higher harmonics of the field line and by solving the magnetohydrodynamic wave equation, it was possible to determine that only the odd harmonics were present. Knowing several harmonic frequencies enabled the estimation of the quantity and distribution of plasma mass density along the field line. The next study modifies the technique for application to SuperDARN radar data. Several techniques were employed to deal with the inconsistent sampling rate. Artificial backscatter was used for testing to remove the uncertainty in the backscatter origin. These techniques made it possible to measure eigenfrequencies with SuperDARN and the results are consistent with those from ground magnetometers. The energy source of the resonant signature was also investigated and found to be broadband in nature. The last study uses the algorithm to understand which sources drive the field line excitation. A 10-year survey of magnetometer data was performed and the results correlated with solar wind data. It was found that the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and dynamic pressure pulses were responsible for lower frequencies and occur during more disturbed conditions, whereas the ion-cyclotron instability excites higher frequencies during quieter intervals. An enhanced ring current was also found to decrease the eigenfrequencies because of the lower magnetic field strength.
Electrically-driven Acousto-optics and Broadband Non-reciprocity in Silicon Photonics
Creators: name: Kittlaus, Eric A.
name: Jones, William M.
name: Rakich, Peter T.
name: Otterstrom, Nils T.
name: Muller, Richard E.
name: Rais-Zadeh, Mina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emerging technologies based on tailorable interactions between photons and phonons promise new capabilities ranging from high-fidelity microwave signal processing to non-reciprocal optics and quantum state control. While such light-sound couplings have been studied in a variety of physical systems, many implementations rely on non-standard materials and fabrication schemes that are challenging to co-implement with standard integrated photonic circuitry. Notably, despite significant advances in integrated electro-optic modulators, related acousto-optic modulator concepts have remained relatively unexplored in silicon photonics. In this article, we demonstrate direct acousto-optic modulation within silicon waveguides using electrically-driven surface acoustic waves (SAWs). By co-integrating SAW transducers in piezoelectric AlN with a standard silicon-on-insulator photonic platform, we harness silicon's strong elasto-optic effect to mediate linear light-sound coupling. Through lithographic design, acousto-optic phase and single-sideband amplitude modulators in the range of 1-5 GHz are fabricated, exhibiting index modulation strengths comparable to existing electro-optic technologies. Extending this traveling-wave, acousto-optic interaction to cm-scales, we create electrically-driven non-reciprocal modulators in silicon. Non-reciprocal operation bandwidths of >100 GHz and insertion losses <0.6 dB are achieved. Building on these results, we show that unity-efficiency non-reciprocal modulation, necessary for a robust acousto-optic isolator, is within reach. The acousto-optic modulator design is compatible with both CMOS fabrication and existing silicon photonic device technologies. These results represent a promising new approach to implement compact and scalable acousto-optic modulators, frequency-shifters, and non-magnetic optical isolators and circulators in integrated photonic circuits.
Constraining non-standard interactions in nu_e e or bar{nu}_e e scattering
Creators: name: Barranco, J.
name: Miranda, O. G.
name: Moura, C. A.
name: Valle, J. W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new analysis of non-universal and flavor changing non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) in ν_e e or \barν_e e scattering. Our global analysis of these process includes all relevant experiments, such as the most recent MUNU measurement from reactor neutrinos, both in the context of the Standard Model as well as extensions where NSI are present. We also compare our constraints on non-universal and flavor changing NSI with results from previous analyses. We stress the importance of combining neutrino and anti-neutrino data in the resulting constraints on electroweak paramaters, and the important role that future low energy solar neutrino experiments can play in improving existing sensitivities.
description: 15 pages. Discussion and figures improved. Typos corrected. Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Quantum Kinetic Theory of BEC Lattice Gas:Boltzmann Equations from 2PI-CTP Effective Action
Creators: name: Rey, Ana Maria
name: Hu, B. L.
name: Calzetta, Esteban
name: Clark, Charles W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue our earlier work [Ana Maria Rey, B. L. Hu, Esteban Calzetta, Albert Roura and Charles W. Clark, Phys. Rev. A 69, 033610 (2004)] on the nonequilibrium dynamics of a Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) selectively loaded into every third site of a one-dimensional optical lattice. From the two-particle irreducible (2PI) closed-time-path (CTP) effective action for the Bose- Hubbard Hamiltonian, we show how to obtain the Kadanoff-Baym equations of quantum kinetic theory. Using the quasiparticle approximation, we show that the local equilibrium solutions of these equations reproduce the second- order corrections to the self-energy originally derived by Beliaev. This work paves the way for the use of effective action methods in the derivation of quantum kinetic theory of many atom systems.
description: 21 pages, 0 figures, minor editorial changes were made
Podocinum catenulum De Leon 1964
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum catenulum

description: 13. Podocinum catenulum De Leon, 1964
 Podocinum catenulum De Leon, 1964: 39.
 Podocinum catenulum.— Ho et al., 2009: 91; Yan et al., 2012: 46.
 Type depository. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Type locality and habitat. USA, Erwin, Unicoi, Tennessee, 27 August 1962, on decaying apples on ground.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
Gradings of non-graded Hamiltonian Lie algebras
Creators: name: Caranti, Andrea
name: Mattarei, Sandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B50; 17B70, 17B56, 17B65

description: A thin Lie algebra is a Lie algebra graded over the positive integers satisfying a certain narrowness condition. We describe several cyclic grading of the modular Hamiltonian Lie algebras $H(2\colon\n;ω_2)$ (of dimension one less than a power of $p$) from which we construct infinite-dimensional thin Lie algebras. In the process we provide an explicit identification of $H(2\colon\n;ω_2)$ with a Block algebra. We also compute its second cohomology group and its derivation algebra (in arbitrary prime characteristic).
description: 36 pages, to be published in J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. A
Solar Neutrino Scattering with Electron into Massive Sterile Neutrino
Creators: name: Ge, Shao-Feng
name: Pasquini, Pedro
name: Sheng, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent Xenon1T excess can be explained by solar neutrino scattering with electron via a light mediator, either scalar or vector, in addition to many other explanations from the dark sector. Since only the recoil electron is observable, a keV sterile neutrino instead of an active neutrino can appear in the final state. The sterile neutrino allows pseudoscalar mediator to explain the Xenon1T excess which was thought impossible. In addition, nonzero recoil energy lower bound arises from the sterile neutrino mass, which can be used to testify if the sterile neutrino is massive or not. We also briefly discuss the case of a sterile neutrino final state with light $Z'$ mediator.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Modulation of Direct Payments: A crossed analysis of incremental schemes
Creators: name: Boulanger, Pierre
name: Boulanger, Pierre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: direct payments
subject: rural development
subject: European budget

description: The progressive attempt and implementation of direct payment limitations since the 1992 CAP reform has developed a “modulation mechanism” aiming to transfer funds from market support and direct payment schemes (CAP first pillar) towards rural development measures (CAP second pillar). Under the 2007-2013 European financial perspectives, the annual 5% rate of modulation is expected to increase. The paper focuses on the financial impacts of four scenarios together with corresponding political and institutional feasibilities. The paper imposes on itself three sound constraints: (i) expanding modulation should not jeopardise the future in-depth reform of the direct payment regime, (ii) modulation should be compulsory and consistent with rural development financial needs, and (iii) present direct payment per farm should not be capped or subject to complex and differentiated reduction rates. Then, the paper suggests adopting a dynamic and uniform modulation rate to be increased by 1 percent per year from 2009 and then by 2 percent during the final step reaching 10 percent in 2012 (2013 financial year). It would deliver certainty to farmers and contribute to an efficient use in European spending, with no need for a controversial equity instrument. Direct payment reductions raise subsidiarity and budgetary issues which should be discussed within the European budget review. Considering the modulation mechanism as a related past-policy tool, renewed European decision making process and actors should outline from 2009 a new paradigm in direct payment regime. Since farmers are increasingly becoming entrepreneurs, the sooner an agreement on the CAP beyond 2013 is reached, the better.
FORENSIC ACCOUNTING AND FRAUD EXAMINER – AN INQUIRY
Creators: name: Narayanan, Hariharan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150101 Accounting Theory and Standards
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified
subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: 150201 Finance
subject: 150103 Financial Accounting
subject: 150203 Financial Institutions (incl. Banking)
subject: 150107 Taxation Accounting

description: Forensic accounting is also known as forensic accountancy or financial forensic which is defined as that part of accounting that recount every engagement that results from an anticipated or actual litigation. Financial accounting fraud has come into limelight due to the increase in White Collar Crimes witnessed in the competitive economic scenario. This study will present an outline of the concept of Forensic accounting, its evolution, the top service agencies in Forensic accounting, the professional bodies which certify FAs and the top companies which have a separate Forensic Department and the various emanation of risks.