cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Binding Effect of Proteins on Medications and Its Impact on Electrochemical Sensing: Antipsychotic Clozapine as a Case Study
Creators: name: Banis, George E.
name: Winkler, Thomas
name: Barton, Patricia
name: Chocron, Sheryl E.
name: Kim, Eunkyoung
name: Kelly, Deanna L.
name: Payne, Gregory F.
name: Ben-Yoav, Hadar
name: Ghodssi, Reza
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2017
Subjects: electrochemistry
clozapine
albumin
alpha-1 acid-glycoprotein
ultrafiltration

description: Clozapine (CLZ), a dibenzodiazepine, is demonstrated as the optimal antipsychotic for patients suffering from treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Like many other drugs, understanding the concentration of CLZ in a patient’s blood is critical for managing the patients’ symptoms, side effects, and overall treatment efficacy. To that end, various electrochemical techniques have been adapted due to their capabilities in concentration-dependent sensing. An open question associated with electrochemical CLZ monitoring is whether drug–protein complexes (i.e., CLZ bound to native blood proteins, such as serum albumin (SA) or alpha-1 acid-glycoprotein (AAG)) contribute to electrochemical redox signals. Here, we investigate CLZ-sensing performance using fundamental electrochemical methods with respect to the impact of protein binding. Specifically, we test the activity of bound and free fractions of a mixture of CLZ and either bovine SA or human AAG. Results suggest that bound complexes do not significantly contribute to the electrochemical signal for mixtures of CLZ with AAG or SA. Moreover, the fraction of CLZ bound to protein is relatively constant at 31% (AAG) and 73% (SA) in isolation with varying concentrations of CLZ. Thus, electrochemical sensing can enable direct monitoring of only the unbound CLZ, previously only accessible via equilibrium dialysis. The methods utilized in this work offer potential as a blueprint in developing electrochemical sensors for application to other redox-active medications with high protein binding more generally. This demonstrates that electrochemical sensing can be a new tool in accessing information not easily available previously, useful toward optimizing treatment regimens.
The relevance of polarized bZ production at LHC
Creators: name: Beccaria, M.
name: Orlando, N.
name: Panizzo, G.
name: Renard, F. M.
name: Verzegnassi, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Z polarization asymmetry A_Z=(sigma(Z_R)-sigma(Z_L))/(sigma(Z_R)+sigma(Z_L)) in the process of associated bZ production at the LHC. We show that in the Standard Model (SM) this quantity is essentially given by its Born approximation, remaining almost unaffected by QCD scales and parton distribution functions variations as well as by electroweak corrections. The theoretical quantity that appears in A_Z is the same that provides the LEP1 Z -> b bbar forward-backward asymmetry, the only measured observable still in some contradiction with the SM prediction. In this sense, A_Z would provide the possibility of an independent verification of the possible SM discrepancy, which could reach, if consistency with LEP1 measurements is imposed, values of the relative ten percent size.
description: 10 pages, 5 eps figures
History is a spider's web: the weaving of trojan women
Creators: name: Thomas, Melissa
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Theater
subject: Trojan Women

description: This Artist’s Statement is an examination of the creative process that resulted in the staging of Gwendolyn MacEwen’s adaptation of Euripides’ Trojan Women at the University of Calgary. The production ran from February 14th to February 25th, 2012. Chapter One begins with an explanation of interest in Trojan Women and a brief description of artistic goals. Chapter Two traces the historical context surrounding both Euripides and MacEwen. Chapter Three outlines the textual analysis and changes made to the text for the production. Chapter Four details the physical theatre research and its incorporation into the text. Chapter Five documents the development and discussion of the design elements. Chapter Six reflects the rehearsal process, outlining the development of the production from casting to opening. Chapter Seven serves as a retrospective, focusing on the director’s impression of the project’s successes and opportunities.
Additional file 2 of Up-regulation of apoptotic- and cell survival-related gene pathways following exposures of western corn rootworm to B. thuringiensis crystalline pesticidal proteins in transgenic maize roots
Creators: name: Coates, Brad S.
name: Deleury, Emeline
name: Gassmann, Aaron J.
name: Hibbard, Bruce E.
name: Meinke, Lance J.
name: Miller, Nicholas J.
name: Petzold-Maxwell, Jennifer
name: French, B. Wade
name: Sappington, Thomas W.
name: Siegfried, Blair D.
name: Guillemaud, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Fig. S1. Putative orthology of assembled transcripts in the Diabrotica virgifera virgifera reference transcriptome. Results based on BLASTx hits to protein models from Drosophila melanogaster (Dm), Tribolium castaneum (Tc), Dendroctonus ponderosae (Dp), and Anaplophora glabripennis (Ag). Number of unique D. v. virgifera derived proteins with shared evidence across all comparisons (n = 12,474) and all coleopteran species (n = 3883) are highlighted. A total of 34,684 assembled D. v. virgifera transcripts had ≥ 1 hit across all sets of reference protein models.
Extra-Dimensional “Metamaterials”: A Model of Inflation Due to a Metric Signature Transition
Creators: name: Smolyaninov, Igor I.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2017
Subjects: metamaterial
inflation

description: Lattices of topological defects, such as Abrikosov lattices and domain wall lattices, often arise as metastable ground states in higher-dimensional field theoretical models. We demonstrate that such lattice states may be described as extra-dimensional “metamaterials” via higher-dimensional effective medium theory. A 4 + 1 dimensional extension of Maxwell electrodynamics with a compactified time-like dimension is considered as an example. It is demonstrated that from the point of view of macroscopic electrodynamics an Abrikosov lattice state in such a 4 + 1 dimensional spacetime may be described as a uniaxial hyperbolic medium. Extraordinary photons perceive this medium as a 3 + 1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime in which one of the original spatial dimensions plays the role of a new time-like coordinate. Since the metric signature of this effective spacetime depends on the Abrikosov lattice periodicity, the described model may be useful in studying metric signature transitions.
Plant Thermomorphogenesis: Identifying Plant Thermosensors
Creators: name: Ko, Chung-Wing
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ambient temperature
plant thermomorphogenesis
thermosensors

description: Plants are subjugated to fluctuations in temperature over daily and seasonal temporal scales. Because of their sessile nature, plants have evolved necessary physiological response pathways to temperature fluctuations in order to adapt to their environments. There is an abundance of research covering temperature stress response, but plant response to non-stressful temperature fluctuations has closer applications to fields such as climate change, due to the incremental shifts in temperature caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases. Temperature shifts due to global warming and normal seasonal variations have important effects on the distribution of plant species and the effect on crop plant supply. Due to this significance, this review will highlight current understandings of the mechanisms that control plant thermomorphogenesis, present novel findings in plant thermosensors, as well as investigate other areas of research that are necessary to further understand the mechanisms of plant adaptation to ambient temperatures. For literature outside the scope of this review, readers are referred to.
Application of Dynamic Upscaling for Thermal Reservoir Simulation
Creators: name: Picone, Matteo M.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage
subject: SAGD
subject: Numerical Modelling
subject: Reservoir Simulation
subject: Filtering Large Datasets (Realizations)

description: Reservoir simulation is inherently an imperfect tool for forecasting. However, given sufficient analysis and post-processing, the areas of uncertainty can be quantified and effort can be made to mitigate their impact and improve the confidence in the prediction. The focus of the research documented here is to analyze the extent to which grid size definition and the location and quantity of reservoir heterogeneities impact the performance of a simulation-based recovery process. In analysing two different sets of models (binary and facies-based), a new methodology was developed and applied to mitigate the observed difference in the forecasted result. When the observations are coupled, it suggests that an increase in near wellbore reservoir heterogeneity, as indicated by a reduction in gridblock connectivity, has an increased impact upon the simulation results when compared to the impact of strictly length scale definition of heterogeneity. Additionally, the impact of length scales can be normalized when the focus is upon connectivity within the reservoir model.
Giant number fluctuations in microbial ecologies
Creators: name: Das, Dipjyoti
name: Das, Dibyendu
name: Prasad, Ashok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Statistical fluctuations in population sizes of microbes may be quite large depending on the nature of their underlying stochastic dynamics. For example, the variance of the population size of a microbe undergoing a pure birth process with unlimited resources is proportional to the square of its mean. We refer to such large fluctuations, with the variance growing as square of the mean, as Giant Number Fluctuations (GNF). Luria and Delbruck showed that spontaneous mutation processes in microbial populations exhibit GNF. We explore whether GNF can arise in other microbial ecologies. We study certain simple ecological models evolving via stochastic processes: (i) bi-directional mutation, (ii) lysis-lysogeny of bacteria by bacteriophage, and (iii) horizontal gene transfer (HGT). For the case of bi-directional mutation process, we show analytically exactly that the GNF relationship holds at large times. For the ecological model of bacteria undergoing lysis or lysogeny under viral infection, we show that if the viral population can be experimentally manipulated to stay quasi-stationary, the process of lysogeny maps essentially to one-way mutation process and hence the GNF property of the lysogens follows. Finally, we show that even the process of HGT may map to the mutation process at large times, and thereby exhibits GNF.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Overlap-ADAPT-VQE: Practical Quantum Chemistry on Quantum Computers via Overlap-Guided Compact Ansätze
Creators: name: Feniou, César
name: Hassan, Muhammad
name: Traoré, Diata
name: Giner, Emmanuel
name: Maday, Yvon
name: Piquemal, Jean-Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ADAPT-VQE is a robust algorithm for hybrid quantum-classical simulations of quantum chemical systems on near-term quantum computers. While its iterative process systematically reaches the ground state energy, ADAPT-VQE is sensitive to local energy minima, leading to over-parameterized ansätze. We introduce the Overlap-ADAPT-VQE to grow wave-functions by maximizing their overlap with any intermediate target wave-function that already captures some electronic correlation. By avoiding building the ansatz in the energy landscape strewn with local minima, the Overlap-ADAPT-VQE produces ultra-compact ansätze suitable for high-accuracy initializations of a new ADAPT procedure. Spectacular advantages over ADAPT-VQE are observed for strongly correlated systems including massive savings in circuit depth. Since this compression strategy can also be initialized with accurate Selected-Configuration Interaction (SCI) classical target wave-functions, it paves the way for chemically accurate simulations of larger systems, and strengthens the promise of decisively surpassing classical quantum chemistry through the power of quantum computing.
Catechol-Based Hydrogel for Chemical Information Processing
Creators: name: Kim, Eunkyoung
name: Liu, Zhengchun
name: Liu, Yi
name: Bentley, William E.
name: Payne, Gregory F.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2017
Subjects: catechol
chitosan
hydrogel
information processing
redox-capacitor
electrochemistry

description: Catechols offer diverse properties and are used in biology to perform various functions that range from adhesion (e.g., mussel proteins) to neurotransmission (e.g., dopamine), and mimicking the capabilities of biological catechols have yielded important new materials (e.g., polydopamine). It is well known that catechols are also redox-active and we have observed that biomimetic catechol-modified chitosan films are redox-active and possess interesting molecular electronic properties. In particular, these films can accept, store and donate electrons, and thus offer redox-capacitor capabilities. We are enlisting these capabilities to bridge communication between biology and electronics. Specifically, we are investigating an interactive redox-probing approach to access redox-based chemical information and convert this information into an electrical modality that facilitates analysis by methods from signal processing. In this review, we describe the broad vision and then cite recent examples in which the catechol–chitosan redox-capacitor can assist in accessing and understanding chemical information. Further, this redox-capacitor can be coupled with synthetic biology to enhance the power of chemical information processing. Potentially, the progress with this biomimetic catechol–chitosan film may even help in understanding how biology uses the redox properties of catechols for redox signaling.
Secure synchronization of artificial neural networks used to correct errors in quantum cryptography
Creators: name: Niemiec, Marcin
name: Widlarz, Tymoteusz
name: Mehic, Miralem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum cryptography can provide a very high level of data security. However, a big challenge of this technique is errors in quantum channels. Therefore, error correction methods must be applied in real implementations. An example is error correction based on artificial neural networks. This paper considers the practical aspects of this recently proposed method and analyzes elements which influence security and efficiency. The synchronization process based on mutual learning processes is analyzed in detail. The results allowed us to determine the impact of various parameters. Additionally, the paper describes the recommended number of iterations for different structures of artificial neural networks and various error rates. All this aims to support users in choosing a suitable configuration of neural networks used to correct errors in a secure and efficient way.
description: The paper submitted to IEEE ICC 2023 conference
A costume design for The Learned Ladies
Creators: name: Alatorre, Carmen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this thesis is to document and describe the costume design project behind the University of British Columbia (UBC) production of The Learned Ladies. This comedy, written by seventeenth century French playwright Molière (Jean Baptiste de Poquelin) in 1672, is a five -act play composed in verse. Our Production ran from February 7-16, 2008 in the Frederic Wood Theatre and was performed by students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting Program. MFA candidate Patrick Gauthier directed the production and the creative team included Stephania Schwartz (Set Designer), Kristin Robinson (Lighting Designer). The construction of the costumes by a team of undergraduate costume design students, was supervised by Jean Driscoll-Bell (Head of Wardrobe) and her assistant Charlotte Burke. My own assistants were BFA students Chantelle Balfour, Jessica Jeffrey and Elena Dubova. Alison Green served as my thesis advisor. The paper starts with a brief synopsis of the play and its significance at the time it was performed in Europe, followed by a description of the creative process and the production concept. The following chapters explain in detail the costume design concept and its elements character by character as well as the technicalities of the costume production.
Robustness of different indicators of quantumness in the presence of dissipation
Creators: name: Giorgi, Gian Luca
name: Galve, Fernando
name: Zambrini, Roberta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of a pair of coupled harmonic oscillators in separate or common thermal environments is studied, focusing on different indicators of quantumness, such as entanglement, twin oscillators correlations and quantum discord. We compare their decay under the effect of dissipation and show, through a phase diagram, that entanglement is more likely to survive asymptotically than twin oscillators correlations.
A tape-peeling model for spatiotemporal pattern formation by deformed adhesives
Creators: name: Taga, Keisuke
name: Yamazaki, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new model for pattern formation in peeling of an adhesive tape based on the equation of motion for the displacement of deformed adhesives in the peel front. The spatiotemporal patterns obtained from the model are consistent with those from previous models and experiments. Moreover, dynamical and statistical properties of the patterns are investigated.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Exploring how Homeless Youth Perceive the Working Alliance between Themselves and Youth Workers: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Creators: name: Gilroy, Jan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Youth
subject: Homeless
subject: Working Alliance

description: Youth homelessness continues to be a concern across Canada. Previous research has demonstrated that the working alliance between youth who are homeless and youth workers is an important factor in breaking the cycle of homelessness. The purpose of this research was to explore the working alliance from the perspective of the youth. Individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine youth (ages 16 and 17) who were recruited from overnight shelters in Calgary, Alberta. Smith, Flowers, and Larkin’s (2009) Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyse the data collected from the interviews. From the data the Working Alliance Stage model was developed. This model consists of a pre-stage: entering and five stages: the friendly foundation, the right environment, they “got my back,” the working part of the working alliance, and the outcome. While this model was developed for youth who are homeless the generic outline may be applicable for other youth populations.
A Cryptographic Moving-Knife Cake-Cutting Protocol
Creators: name: Manabe, Yoshifumi
name: Okamoto, Tatsuaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.1; E.3

description: This paper proposes a cake-cutting protocol using cryptography when the cake is a heterogeneous good that is represented by an interval on a real line. Although the Dubins-Spanier moving-knife protocol with one knife achieves simple fairness, all players must execute the protocol synchronously. Thus, the protocol cannot be executed on asynchronous networks such as the Internet. We show that the moving-knife protocol can be executed asynchronously by a discrete protocol using a secure auction protocol. The number of cuts is n-1 where n is the number of players, which is the minimum.
description: In Proceedings IWIGP 2012, arXiv:1202.4229
Additional file 3 of Up-regulation of apoptotic- and cell survival-related gene pathways following exposures of western corn rootworm to B. thuringiensis crystalline pesticidal proteins in transgenic maize roots
Creators: name: Coates, Brad S.
name: Deleury, Emeline
name: Gassmann, Aaron J.
name: Hibbard, Bruce E.
name: Meinke, Lance J.
name: Miller, Nicholas J.
name: Petzold-Maxwell, Jennifer
name: French, B. Wade
name: Sappington, Thomas W.
name: Siegfried, Blair D.
name: Guillemaud, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table S2. Number of trimmed Illumina single-end (SE) and paired-end (PE) reads that aligned to the Diabrotica virgifera virgifera reference transcriptome across replicates of each RNA-seq library. 1X = reads that aligned uniquely; > 1X = reads that aligned to greater than once location.
Investigating the Influence of Information on Memorable Tourism Experiences
Creators: name: Tung, Vincent Wing Sun
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Business Administration--Management
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: experience
subject: Tourism
subject: Marketing
subject: consumer
subject: Memory
subject: destination
subject: Experiment
subject: scale

description: This thesis examined the influence of information via top-down and bottom-up processes on the evaluation of memorable experiences (MEs) in tourism. The first portion of the thesis contributed to the theoretical concept of MEs from an autobiographical memory perspective, and developed a theoretical scale to identify and measure elements of autobiographical memory formation and recollection in tourism experiences. The findings showed a four-factor ME model: Affect, Personal Growth, Bonding, and Reflection. The second portion of the thesis examined the influence of information on the evaluation of MEs using the ME scale developed. The findings showed that a tourist’s ME evaluation was only affected when information about the destination was presented before the experience. When information was presented after the experience, tourists appeared to let their experiences dictate their final ME evaluations and did not reinterpret their experiences to align with the information presented about the destination. Together, these findings suggested that information could influence the formation, rather than the retrospective evaluation of tourism experiences. Finally, the last portion of the thesis presented theoretical and managerial implications as well as limitations and areas for future research.
Convergent flows and low-velocity shocks in DR21(OH)
Creators: name: Csengeri, T.
name: Bontemps, S.
name: Schneider, N.
name: Motte, F.
name: Gueth, F.
name: Hora, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: DR21(OH) is a pc-scale massive, 7000 Msun clump hosting three massive dense cores (MDCs) at an early stage of their evolution. We present a high angular-resolution mosaic, covering 70" by 100", with the IRAM PdBI at 3 mm to trace the dust continuum emission and the N2H+ (J=1-0) and CH3CN (J=5-4) molecular emission. The cold, dense gas traced by the compact emission in N2H+ is associated with the three MDCs and shows several velocity components towards each MDC. These velocity components reveal local shears in the velocity fields which are best interpreted as convergent flows. Moreover, we report the detection of weak extended emission from CH3CN at the position of the N2H+ velocity shears. We propose that this extended CH3CN emission is tracing warm gas associated with the low-velocity shocks expected at the location of convergence of the flows where velocity shears are observed. This is the first detection of low-velocity shocks associated with small (sub-parsec) scale convergent flows which are proposed to be at the origin of the densest structures and of the formation of (high-mass) stars. In addition, we propose that MDCs may be active sites of star-formation for more than a crossing time as they continuously receive material from larger scale flows as suggested by the global picture of dynamical, gravity driven evolution of massive clumps which is favored by the present observations.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Evaluation framework user manual
Creators: name: Costa, Vítor
name: Esgalhado, Graça
name: Cunha, Ana Isabel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: deradicalization
exit programmes
evaluation framework
user manual

description: This deliverable presents and evaluation framework user manual. Following the previous work that was developed, namely the literature review on exit strategies (D3.1) and the evaluation framework report (D3.2), it provides project readers with a framework to implement the evaluation of identified exit programmes. Moreover, it guides readers on the analysis of data collected from both the online questionnaires and the interviews phases.
Comparison of Metabolic Syndrome Indicators in Two Samples of Central and South Americans Living in the Washington, D.C. Area in 1993–1994 and 2008–2009: Secular Changes in Metabolic Syndrome in Hispanics
Creators: name: Gill, Regina
name: Jackson, Robert T.
name: Duane, Marguerite
name: Miner, Allison
name: Khan, Saira A.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2017
Subjects: central and South Americans adults
understudied groups
metabolic syndrome
obesity
heart disease
diabetes
epidemiology

description: The Central and South American populations are growing rapidly in the US; however, there is a paucity of information about their health status. Objectives: we estimated the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its individual components from two cohorts of Central and South Americans. Methods: This cross-sectional, medical record extraction survey sampled 1641 adults from a Washington, D.C clinic. A questionnaire was used to collect socio-demographic, medical history, anthropometric, biochemical, and clinical data. Results: among the 1993–1994 cohort, the MetS prevalence was 19.7%. The most prevalent MetS components were low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (40.4% men and 51.3% women), elevated triglycerides (40.9% men and 33.1% women), and high body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25 kg/m2 (27.6% men and 36.6% women). The overall prevalence of MetS in the 2008–2009 cohort was 28%. The most common abnormal metabolic indicator was an elevated BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 (75.6%). 43.2% of men and 50.7% of women had HDL levels below normal, while the prevalence of hypertriglyceridemia was 46.5% and 32.5% for men and women, respectively. Conclusion: the prevalence of MetS was significantly greater in 2008–2009 compared with 1993–1994 (p ≤ 0.05). Dyslipidemia and high BMI have increased. Although similar components were identified in both the 1993–1994 and 2008–2009 study populations, the risks of MetS have increased over time.
Pietas: Gods, Family, Homeland, Empire
Creators: name: Natali, Bryan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: History--Ancient
subject: Classics
subject: History
subject: Literature

description: This dissertation explores the Roman idea of pietas in the late 1st century BC. It concentrates on the development of the idea from a marker of familial and religious responsibilities to its usage as a political tool of the late Roman Republic. The work examines the philosophical writings and letters of Cicero, the histories of Appian and Cassius Dio, and the Latin poetry of the late Republic and early principate. I will argue that pietas functions on a basis of gratitude which prompts obligation and reciprocal duty. These characteristics will be shown to be the basis of Roman familial and political relationships. Cicero’s philosophical writings on the term will be compared to his personal letters to show the distinction between the ideal of pietas and its actual, pragmatic usage at the end of the Roman Republic. In turn, pietas will then be shown to be a tool used by those who had a hand in the reordering of the Roman state. Those who sought to advance their own claims to power utilized pietas as an articulation of the mutual debts shared between leaders and subordinates. This was done within the framework of traditional Roman views of the obligations and duties inherent in their relationships. This language of mutual responsibility characterizes the Roman understanding of pietas. This ancillary language of debt and reciprocity, obligation and responsibility signifies expressions of pietas. Both the Latin and Greek terms associated with pietas show that it maintained a fixed set of principles but nevertheless came to be used to a variety of ends. Finally, I will turn to the poets of the end of the 1st century BC to show the use of pietas as an expression of a complicated set of principles important to the Augustans. Pietas was used to define a justification for the new principate after the civil wars. This principate was represented by these poets as underpinned by a traditional relationship among the gods, family and the state. These relationships, despite their new political context, were still governed by traditional Roman religious and familial notions of mutual obligation and pietas.
Computation of generalized inverses using Php/MySql environment
Creators: name: Tasić, Milan B.
name: Stanimirović, Predrag S.
name: Pepić, Selver H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A09, 68P15, 68N15

description: The main aim of this paper is to develop a client/server-based model for computing the weighted Moore-Penrose inverse using the partitioning method as well as for storage of generated results. The web application is developed in the PHP/MySQL environment. The source code is open and free for testing by using a web browser. Influence of different matrix representations and storage systems on the computational time is investigated. The CPU time for searching the previously stored pseudo-inverses is compared with the CPU time spent for new computation of the same inverses.
description: International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Volume 88, Issue 11, 2011
Expansion of Industrial Plantations Continues to Threaten Malayan Tiger Habitat
Creators: name: Shevade, Varada S.
name: Potapov, Peter V.
name: Harris, Nancy L.
name: Loboda, Tatiana V.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2017
Subjects: Peninsular Malaysia
tiger habitat
forest loss
plantations
oil palm
rubber

description: Southeast Asia has some of the highest deforestation rates globally, with Malaysia being identified as a deforestation hotspot. The Malayan tiger, a critically endangered subspecies of the tiger endemic to Peninsular Malaysia, is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation. In this study, we estimate the natural forest loss and conversion to plantations in Peninsular Malaysia and specifically in its tiger habitat between 1988 and 2012 using the Landsat data archive. We estimate a total loss of 1.35 Mha of natural forest area within Peninsular Malaysia over the entire study period, with 0.83 Mha lost within the tiger habitat. Nearly half (48%) of the natural forest loss area represents conversion to tree plantations. The annual area of new plantation establishment from natural forest conversion increased from 20 thousand ha year−1 during 1988–2000 to 34 thousand ha year−1 during 2001–2012. Large-scale industrial plantations, primarily those of oil palm, as well as recently cleared land, constitute 80% of forest converted to plantations since 1988. We conclude that industrial plantation expansion has been a persistent threat to natural forests within the Malayan tiger habitat. Expanding oil palm plantations dominate forest conversions while those for rubber are an emerging threat.
An optimal anisotropic Poincaré inequality for convex domains
Creators: name: Wang, Guofang
name: Xia, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we prove a sharp lower bound of the first (nonzero) eigenvalue of Finsler-Laplacian with the Neumann boundary condition. Equivalently, we prove an optimal anisotropic Poincaré inequality for convex domains, which generalizes the result of Payne-Weinberger. A lower bound of the first (nonzero) eigenvalue of Finsler-Laplacian with the Dirichlet boundary condition is also proved.
description: 18 pages
Wightman fields for two-dimensional conformal field theories with pointed representation category
Creators: name: Adamo, Maria Stella
name: Giorgetti, Luca
name: Tanimoto, Yoh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81T05, 81T40, 46L60

description: Two-dimensional full conformal field theories have been studied in various mathematical frameworks, from algebraic, operator-algebraic to categorical. In this work, we focus our attention on theories with chiral components having pointed braided tensor representation subcategories, namely having automorphisms whose equivalence classes necessarily form an abelian group. For such theories, we exhibit the explicit Hilbert space structure and construct primary fields as Wightman fields for the two-dimensional full theory. Given a finite collection of chiral components with automorphism categories with trivial total braiding, we also construct a local extension of their tensor product as a chiral component. We clarify the relations with the Longo-Rehren construction, and illustrate these results with concrete examples including the U(1)-current.
description: 48 pages, 3 TikZ figures
Study of couplings effect on the performance of a spin-current diode: Nonequilibrium Green's function based model
Creators: name: Tagani, M. Bagheri
name: Soleimani, H. Rahimpour
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, spin-dependent transport through a spin diode composed of a quantum dot coupled to a normal metal and a ferromagnetic lead is studied. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are analyzed using the equations of motion method within the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. We present a suitable method for computing Green's function without carrying out any self-consistent calculation. The influence of coupling strength and magnetic field on the spin current is studied and observed that this device cannot work as a spin diode under certain conditions.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Antibiotic Concentrations Decrease during Wastewater Treatment but Persist at Low Levels in Reclaimed Water
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Prachi
name: Olson, Nathan D.
name: Raspanti, Greg A.
name: Rosenberg Goldstein, Rachel E.
name: Gibbs, Shawn G.
name: Sapkota, Amir
name: Sapkota, Amy R.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2017
Subjects: antibiotics
reclaimed water
wastewater treatment
liquid-chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
public health

description: Reclaimed water has emerged as a potential irrigation solution to freshwater shortages. However, limited data exist on the persistence of antibiotics in reclaimed water used for irrigation. Therefore, we examined the fate of nine commonly-used antibiotics (ampicillin, azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, linezolid, oxacillin, oxolinic acid, penicillin G, pipemidic acid, and tetracycline) in differentially treated wastewater and reclaimed water from two U.S. regions. We collected 72 samples from two Mid-Atlantic and two Midwest treatment plants, as well as one Mid-Atlantic spray irrigation site. Antibiotic concentrations were measured using liquid-chromatography- tandem mass spectrometry. Data were analyzed using Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon tests and Kruskal Wallis tests. Overall, antibiotic concentrations in effluent samples were lower than that of influent samples. Mid-Atlantic plants had similar influent but lower effluent antibiotic concentrations compared to Midwest plants. Azithromycin was detected at the highest concentrations (of all antibiotics) in influent and effluent samples from both regions. For most antibiotics, transport from the treatment plant to the irrigation site resulted in no changes in antibiotic concentrations, and UV treatment at the irrigation site had no effect on antibiotic concentrations in reclaimed water. Our findings show that low-level antibiotic concentrations persist in reclaimed water used for irrigation; however, the public health implications are unclear at this time.
Refined reconstruction and calibration of the missing transverse energy in the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: Testa, Marianna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement of the missing transverse energy Etmiss is fundamental for many analyses at LHC. Good Etmiss resolution and calibration are essential for searches of new physics as well as precise measurements. We describe a refined reconstruction and calibration of Etmiss developed by ATLAS and its performances on events containing Z and W bosons. The data sample was collected in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of about 36 pb-1. The determination of the absolute scale of the Etmiss, fundamental for determining systematic uncertainties in all analysis involving Etmiss measurements, is also presented.
description: Presented at the 2011 Hadron Collider Physics symposium (HCP-2011), Paris, France, November 14-18 2011, 3 pages, 6 figure
Automated Quantification of Surface Water Inundation in Wetlands Using Optical Satellite Imagery
Creators: name: DeVries, Ben
name: Huang, Chengquan
name: Lang, Megan W.
name: Jones, John W.
name: Huang, Wenli
name: Creed, Irena F.
name: Carroll, Mark L.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2017
Subjects: wetland
inundation
Landsat
sub-pixel water fraction

description: We present a fully automated and scalable algorithm for quantifying surface water inundation in wetlands. Requiring no external training data, our algorithm estimates sub-pixel water fraction (SWF) over large areas and long time periods using Landsat data. We tested our SWF algorithm over three wetland sites across North America, including the Prairie Pothole Region, the Delmarva Peninsula and the Everglades, representing a gradient of inundation and vegetation conditions. We estimated SWF at 30-m resolution with accuracies ranging from a normalized root-mean-square-error of 0.11 to 0.19 when compared with various high-resolution ground and airborne datasets. SWF estimates were more sensitive to subtle inundated features compared to previously published surface water datasets, accurately depicting water bodies, large heterogeneously inundated surfaces, narrow water courses and canopy-covered water features. Despite this enhanced sensitivity, several sources of errors affected SWF estimates, including emergent or floating vegetation and forest canopies, shadows from topographic features, urban structures and unmasked clouds. The automated algorithm described in this article allows for the production of high temporal resolution wetland inundation data products to support a broad range of applications.
Additional file 8 of Up-regulation of apoptotic- and cell survival-related gene pathways following exposures of western corn rootworm to B. thuringiensis crystalline pesticidal proteins in transgenic maize roots
Creators: name: Coates, Brad S.
name: Deleury, Emeline
name: Gassmann, Aaron J.
name: Hibbard, Bruce E.
name: Meinke, Lance J.
name: Miller, Nicholas J.
name: Petzold-Maxwell, Jennifer
name: French, B. Wade
name: Sappington, Thomas W.
name: Siegfried, Blair D.
name: Guillemaud, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Supplementary Fig. S2. Dispersion of raw and DESeq2 adjusted read counts about empirical mean for comparisons of triplicate RNA-seq data within A) control maize (Cn; Treatment T7) and Cry3Bb1 maize (VT3; T8), and C) control maize (Cn; T7) and Gpp34/Tpp35Ab1 maize (Hx; T5). MA-plots of Log2 transformed fold-change estimates and normalized mean read count are shown for B) control maize (Cn; Treatment T7) and Cry3Bb1 maize (VT3; T8), and D) control maize (Cn; T7) and Gpp34/Tpp35Ab1 maize (Hx; T5), with datapoints (change in transcript read counts) surpassing a Benjamini and Hochberg (1995) adjusted false discovery rate (FDR) of ≤0.05 shown in red.
Loop Representation of Wigner’s Little Groups
Creators: name: Başkal, Sibel
name: Kim, Young S.
name: Noz, Marilyn E.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2017
Subjects: Wigner's little groups
Lorentz group
unified picture of massive and massless particles
two-by-two representations
graphical approach to internal space-time symmetries

description: Wigner’s little groups are the subgroups of the Lorentz group whose transformations leave the momentum of a given particle invariant. They thus define the internal space-time symmetries of relativistic particles. These symmetries take different mathematical forms for massive and for massless particles. However, it is shown possible to construct one unified representation using a graphical description. This graphical approach allows us to describe vividly parity, time reversal, and charge conjugation of the internal symmetry groups. As for the language of group theory, the two-by-two representation is used throughout the paper. While this two-by-two representation is for spin-1/2 particles, it is shown possible to construct the representations for spin-0 particles, spin-1 particles, as well as for higher-spin particles, for both massive and massless cases. It is shown also that the four-by-four Dirac matrices constitute a two-by-two representation of Wigner’s little group.
Photoabsorption of attosecond XUV light pulses by two strongly laser-coupled autoionizing states
Creators: name: Chu, Wei-Chun
name: Lin, C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the photoabsorption spectra of an attosecond XUV pulse by a laserdressed atomic system. A weak XUV excites an autoionizing state which is strongly coupled to another autoionizing state by a laser. The theory was applied to explain two recent experiments [Loh, Greene, and Leone, Chem. Phys. 350, 7 (2008); Wang, Chini, Chen, Zhang, Cheng, He, Cheng, Wu, Thumm, and Chang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 143002 (2010)] where the absorption spectra of the XUV lights were measured against the time delay between the laser and the XUV. In another example, we study an attosecond pulse exciting the 2s2p(1P) resonance of helium which is resonantly coupled to the 2s2(1S) resonance by a moderately intense 540 nm laser. The relation between the photoabsorption spectra and the photoelectron spectra and the modification of the transmitted lights in such an experiment are analyzed. The role of Rabi flopping between the two autoionizing states within their lifetimes is investigated with respect to the laser intensity and detuning.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Identifying Flakiness in Quantum Programs
Creators: name: Zhang, Lei
name: Radnejad, Mahsa
name: Miranskyy, Andriy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, software engineers have explored ways to assist quantum software programmers. Our goal in this paper is to continue this exploration and see if quantum software programmers deal with some problems plaguing classical programs. Specifically, we examine whether intermittently failing tests, i.e., flaky tests, affect quantum software development. To explore flakiness, we conduct a preliminary analysis of 14 quantum software repositories. Then, we identify flaky tests and categorize their causes and methods of fixing them. We find flaky tests in 12 out of 14 quantum software repositories. In these 12 repositories, the lower boundary of the percentage of issues related to flaky tests ranges between 0.26% and 1.85% per repository. We identify 46 distinct flaky test reports with 8 groups of causes and 7 common solutions. Further, we notice that quantum programmers are not using some of the recent flaky test countermeasures developed by software engineers. This work may interest practitioners, as it provides useful insight into the resolution of flaky tests in quantum programs. Researchers may also find the paper helpful as it offers quantitative data on flaky tests in quantum software and points to new research opportunities.
description: 7 pages, 16 listings, 2 tables, accepted at ESEM 2023: The 17th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Coherence effects and broadening in medium-induced QCD radiation off a massive $q {\bar q}$ antenna
Creators: name: Armesto, Néstor
name: Ma, Hao
name: Mehtar-Tani, Yacine
name: Salgado, Carlos A.
name: Tywoniuk, Konrad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studies of medium-induced QCD radiation usually rely on the calculation of single-gluon radiation spectrum off an energetic parton traversing an extended colored medium. Recently, the importance of interference effects between emitters in the medium has been explored. In this work we extend previous studies by calculating the single-gluon coherent spectrum off an antenna consisting of a massive quark-antiquark pair. Interferences dominate the spectrum of soft gluons, which are mainly emitted outside of the cone made by the antenna opening angle, while the antenna results in a superposition of independent emitters above a critical gluon energy scale. We study the interplay between the dead-cone effect and medium-induced jet broadening in both cases of soft and hard gluons and present results on energy loss distributions.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of Cost-effectiveness of MRI targeted biopsy strategies for diagnosing prostate cancer in Singapore
Creators: name: Cheng, Li-Jen
name: Soon, Swee Sung
name: Tan, Teck Wei
name: Tan, Cher Heng
name: Lim, Terence Sey Kiat
name: Tay, Kae Jack
name: Loke, Wei Tim
name: Ang, Bertrand
name: Chiong, Edmund
name: Ng, Kwong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Distribution of care strategies for localized prostate cancer of various risks.