cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the assembly history of massive galaxies. A pilot project with VEGAS deep imaging and M3G integral field spectroscopy
Creators: name: Spavone, Marilena
name: Krajnović, Davor
name: Emsellem, Eric
name: Iodice, Enrichetta
name: Brok, Mark den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present the new deep images from the VEGAS survey of three massive ($M_{*} \simeq 10^{12}$~M$_\odot$) galaxies from the MUSE Most Massive Galaxies (M3G) project, with distances in the range $151\leq D \leq 183$ Mpc: PGC007748, PGC015524 and PGC049940. The long integration time and the wide field of view of OmegaCam@VST allowed us to map the light and color distributions down to $μ_g\simeq30$~mag/arcsec$^2$ and out to $\sim 2R_e$. The deep data are crucial to estimate the contribution of the different galaxy's components, in particular the accreted fraction in the stellar halo. The available integral-field observations with MUSE cover a limited portion of each galaxy (out to $\sim 1R_e$), but, from the imaging analysis we find that they map the kinematics and stellar population beyond the first transition radius, where the contribution of the accreted component starts to dominate. The main goal of this work is to correlate the scales of the different components derived from the image analysis with the kinematics and stellar population profiles from the MUSE data. Results were used to address the assembly history of the three galaxies with the help of the theoretical predictions. Our results suggest that PGC049940 has the lowest accreted mass fraction of 77%. The higher accreted mass fraction estimated for PGC007748 and PGC015524 (86% and 89%, respectively), combined with the flat $λ_R$ profiles suggest that a great majority of the mass has been acquired through major mergers, which have also shaped the shallower metallicity profiles observed at larger radii.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 12 pages, 7 figures
New Enhanced Chaotic Number Generators
Creators: name: Lozi, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65C10;65P20;37E05

description: We introduce new families of enhanced chaotic number generators in order to compute very fast long series of pseudorandom numbers. The key feature of these generators being the use of chaotic numbers themselves for sampling chaotic subsequence of chaotic numbers in order to hide the generating function. We explore numerically the properties of these new families and underline their very high qualities and usefulness as CPRNG when series are computed up to 10 trillions iterations.
description: 42 pages, 17 figures, to be published in Proceeding 8th International Conference of Indian Soc. of Indust. and Appl. Math., Jammu,India, 31st March - 3rd April 2007, Invited conference
The Impact of Cardiac Rehabilitation on Cardiovascular Function: Potential Role of Racial Disparities
Creators: name: Alshammari, Saleh
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death globally. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an effective treatment for CVD. Minority groups, especially African Americans (AAs), are more vulnerable to CVD. However, the impact of CR on cardiac and vascular function outcomes and the influence of race are not yet clear.
Aims: To investigate (1) the impact of CR on cardiac and vascular function, (2) the role of race in influencing improvements in cardiac and vascular function, and (3) the role of cardiac and vascular functions in predicting exercise capacity using the six-minute walk test (6MWT).
Methods: We recruited 17 participants (non-AA n = 9, AA n = 8) and measured cardiac and vascular outcomes at baseline, week 4, and post-CR. Cardiac systolic functions (stroke volume [SV], cardiac output [CO], ejection fraction [EF]) and diastolic function (E/A ratio) were assessed. Vascular function was evaluated using brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV). Regression analysis was utilized to predict 6MWT from cardiovascular outcomes.
Results: CR improved cardiac systolic function, with SV increasing from 79.90±6.41 at baseline to 88.66±5.11 post-CR (p = 0.05), CO from 5.120±0.30 to 5.891±0.29 (p = 0.03), and EF from 40.50±1.93 to 44.30±1.67 (p = 0.01). Diastolic function (Mitral E/A) showed no significant change, but AA participants consistently had lower Mitral E/A ratios compared to non-AA participants at baseline (0.961±0.014 vs. 1.030±0.014, p = 0.002), week 4 (0.976±0.016 vs. 1.046±0.015, p = 0.004), and post-CR (0.957±0.018 vs. 1.034±0.015, p = 0.005). CR significantly improved brachial artery FMD from 2.933±0.32 to 3.969±0.28 (p = 0.02) but had no significant effect on cf-PWV (baseline: 11.716±0.59; post-CR: 10.921±0.53, p = 0.33). AA participants had consistently higher central systolic blood pressure (cSBP) and cf-PWV at all time points. Regression analysis indicated that cardiac diastolic function (Mitral E/A ratio) and arterial stiffness (cf-PWV) were significant predictors of 6MWT (R² = 0.30, p = 0.003).
Conclusion: CR significantly improved cardiac systolic function and peripheral vascular function (brachial artery FMD), but had limited impact on diastolic function and central vascular function (cf-PWV). Diastolic function and arterial stiffness significantly predicted 6MWT performance. Racial differences in response to CR were evident, with AA participants showing lower improvements compared to non-AA participants.
Blockchain-Based Decentralized Energy Management Platform for Residential Distributed Energy Resources in A Virtual Power Plant
Creators: name: Yang, Qing
name: Wang, Hao
name: Wang, Taotao
name: Zhang, Shengli
name: Wu, Xiaoxiao
name: Wang, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The advent of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as distributed renewables, energy storage, electric vehicles, and controllable loads, \rv{brings} a significantly disruptive and transformational impact on the centralized power system. It is widely accepted that a paradigm shift to a decentralized power system with bidirectional power flow is necessary to the integration of DERs. The virtual power plant (VPP) emerges as a promising paradigm for managing DERs to participate in the power system. In this paper, we develop a blockchain-based VPP energy management platform to facilitate a rich set of transactive energy activities among residential users with renewables, energy storage, and flexible loads in a VPP. Specifically, users can interact with each other to trade energy for mutual benefits and provide network services, such as feed-in energy, reserve, and demand response, through the VPP. To respect the users' independence and preserve their privacy, we design a decentralized optimization algorithm to optimize the users' energy scheduling, energy trading, and network services. Then we develop a prototype blockchain network for VPP energy management and implement the proposed algorithm on the blockchain network. By experiments using real-world data-trace, we validated the feasibility and effectiveness of our algorithm and the blockchain system. The simulation results demonstrate that our blockchain-based VPP energy management platform reduces the users' cost by up to 38.6% and reduces the overall system cost by 11.2%.
Suppression of cytotoxic T lymphocyte activation by L-ornithine
Creators: name: Dröge, W.
name: Männel, D. N.
name: Falk, Werner
name: Lehmann, V.
name: Schmidt, H.
name: Nick, S.
name: Häcker-Shahin, B.
name: Jänicke, R.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin
subject: Animals
subject: Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/drug effects
subject: DNA/biosynthesis
subject: Immunosuppressive Agents/pharmacology
subject: Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
subject: Interleukin-2/biosynthesis
subject: Lymphocyte Activation/drug effects
subject: Mice
subject: Mice, Inbred C3H
subject: Mice, Inbred C57BL
subject: Ornithine/pharmacology
subject: T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/metabolism

description: The effect of L-ornithine on several types of immune reactions was analyzed. L-ornithine was found to suppress the activation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in vivo and in vitro. This suppressive effect was not observed with the structural analogues D-ornithine, L-lysine, or putrescine or with the amino acids L-histidine or L-alanine. The concentration of 9 X 10(-3) M L-ornithine was found to mediate a practically complete suppression of the cytotoxic response in vitro if applied on day 0 or day 1 of the culture, but a comparably weak suppression if applied on day 3. The same concentration of L-ornithine had no effect on the production of the lymphokines interleukin 2 (IL 2) and gamma-interferon (IFN-gamma). This concentration of ornithine had also no substantial effect on several types of proliferative responses, including the allogeneic mixed lymphocyte reaction, the concanavalin A-activated IL 2-dependent proliferation of thymocytes, and IL 2-dependent proliferation of the T cell clone W-2. These observations suggest that L-ornithine inhibits selectively the differentiation of CTL effector cells. By the criteria tested, the immunosuppressive effect of L-ornithine is more selective than that of cyclosporine A, which was previously found to suppress not only the activation of cytotoxic activity but also proliferative responses and the production of the lymphokines IL 2 and IFN-gamma.
Impact of Urban Segregation and Development on Mortgage Lending, Home Ownership, and Population Health
Creators: name: Naing, Khatija Wutyi
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: Summary
Housing has long been recognized as an important social determinant of health, and many studies have shown the effects of housing availability, quality, and placement on physical and mental health outcomes (Forchuk et al., 2016; Sandel et al., 2018; Taylor, 2018). In this dissertation, I examine the intricate dynamics between historical and current discriminatory mortgage lending, segregation, development, and health care utilization and outcomes. My first paper examines the relationship between historical redlining and current discriminatory lending practices in Chicago. I find that Black and Hispanic applicants consistently face higher denial rates compared to Whites across all tracts, with these disparities notably intensified in historically redlined areas. In the second paper, I examine the ways in which census tract-level structural racism moderates the relationship between race, ethnicity, wealth, and mortgage loan denial rates. Here, I find that in regions burdened by higher levels of structural racism, both Black and, to a lesser extent, Hispanic applicants experience higher denial rates than their White counterparts. The third paper examines the impact of exposure to gentrification in Chicago on breast cancer care utilization and mortality. I find no association between gentrification status as defined in my paper and either the initiation of breast cancer treatment or mortality rates. This finding prompts further investigation into whether the operational definition of gentrification adequately captures all dimensions typically associated with the term. Collectively, these studies demonstrate that Black homebuyers frequently encounter significant disadvantages in areas burdened by historical neglect and structural racism, which restricts their access to the necessary capital to enhance their communities and/or relocate from these neighborhoods. It would be intriguing to investigate how gentrification interacts with the legacy of historical redlining in shaping the current socioeconomic progression of these neighborhoods.
Relativistic Multiple Scattering Theory and the Relativistic Impulse Approximation
Creators: name: Maung, Khin Maung
name: Norbury, John W.
name: Coleman, Trina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a relativistic multiple scattering theory for hadron-nucleus scattering can be consistently formulated in four-dimensions in the context of meson exchange. We give a multiple scattering series for the optical potential and discuss the differences between the relativistic and non-relativistic versions. We develop the relativistic multiple scattering series by separating out the one boson exchange term from the rest of the Feynman series. However this particular separation is not absolutely necessary and we discuss how to include other terms. We then show how to make a three-dimensional reduction for hadron-nucleus scattering calculations and we find that the relative energy prescription used in the elastic scattering equation should be consistent with the one used in the free two-body t-matrix involved in the optical potential. We also discuss what assumptions are involved in making a Dirac Relativistic Impulse Approximation (RIA).
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OF SOME FOREIGN COUNTRIES IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC CIVIL SERVICE FOR THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION CRIMES
Creators: name: Bahodirov, Avazbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article examines the practical experience of foreign countries in preventing corruption crimes through the establishment of strong and effective public civil services. It discusses successful strategies implemented by countries such as Singapore, New Zealand, and Denmark, which emphasize transparency, accountability, and ethical behavior among public officials. The article provides valuable insights for other countries seeking to prevent corruption and promote good governance.
Utilizing Teledentistry to Deliver Pediatric Oral Health Education to Caregivers
Creators: name: Behrens, Imani
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: Purpose: This randomized controlled trial assessed the effect of motivational interviewing (MI) using teledentistry on nighttime oral health behaviors in children under three years old. The study hypothesized the intervention would improve oral health behaviors more effectively than written educational materials alone.
Methods: Sixty-four participants were recruited from a hospital-based pediatric medical clinic between August-October 2023. Inclusion criteria were English-speaking caregivers of healthy children aged 6-35 months without prior dental treatment. Caregivers completed a baseline questionnaire then received oral hygiene products and a printed oral health education pamphlet during their child's primary care visit. After simple randomization, the intervention participants completed a 15-minute teledentistry session 30-45 days after enrollment. Both intervention and control groups completed a follow-up questionnaire 60-75 days after enrollment, focusing on primary outcomes: toothbrushing/cleaning frequency, fluoride toothpaste usage, and bottle use. Descriptive and bivariate analyses were performed with statistical significance set at α<0.05.
Results: Caregivers were 94% mothers, mean age 29.1 years (SD=5.6), 56% Black, 19% White, and 25% “Other” race with 36% identifying as Hispanic ethnicity. Children were 55% female, mean age 15.1 months (SD=7.5), and 81% Medicaid-enrolled. There were no significant baseline differences between the intervention and control groups’ demographics or oral health behaviors. There was a 41% loss to follow-up equally distributed between both groups; 38 participants (N=19 control, N=19 intervention) were included in intention-to-treat analysis. Both the intervention (P=.04) and control (P=.008) groups showed improvement in toothbrushing/cleaning frequency. The MI intervention decreased nighttime bottle usage (P=.01) and increased fluoride toothpaste use (P=.003), whereas the verbal/written education showed no significant effects on oral health behaviors in the control group.
Conclusions: While verbal/written educational materials can improve children's oral health behaviors, MI teledentistry interactions offer effective and accessible education to caregivers from low socioeconomic primary care settings.
Blackbody radiation in κ-Minkowski spacetime
Creators: name: Kim, Hyeong-Chan
name: Rim, Chaiho
name: Yee, Jae Hyung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have computed the black body radiation spectra in $κ-$Minkowski space-time, using the quantum mechanical picture of massless scalar particles as well as effective quantum field theory picture. The black body radiation depends on how the field theory (and thus how the $κ-$Poincaré algebra) handles the ordering effect of the noncommutative space-time. In addition, there exists a natural momentum cut-off of the order $κ$, beyond which a new real mode takes its shape from a complex mode and the old real mode flows out to be a new complex mode. However, the new high momentum real mode should not be physical since its contributions to the black-body radiation spoils the commutative limit.
description: 22pages, No figure, some corrections, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
title: Towards Light-induced Capture of RNA by Clickable Peptide Nucleic Acids
Creators: name: Krall, Stephanie
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Peptide nucleic acid sensors
subject: Photoclick chemistry

description: Arbeit an der Bibliothek noch nicht eingelangt - Daten nicht geprueft - gesperrte Arbeit (bis 2026-09-30+02:00)
description: Abweichender Titel nach Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des Verfassers
Quantum $\frak {gl}_\infty$, infinite $q$-Schur algebras and their representations
Creators: name: Du, Jie
name: Fu, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we investigate the structure and representations of the quantum group ${\mathbf{U}(\infty)}=\mathbf U_\upsilon(\frak{gl}_\infty)$. We will present a realization for $\mathbf{U}(\infty)$, following Beilinson--Lusztig--MacPherson (BLM) \cite{BLM}, and show that the natural algebra homomorphism $ζ_r$ from $\mathbf{U}(\infty)$ to the infinite $q$-Schur algebra ${\boldsymbol{\mathcal S}}(\infty,r)$ is not surjective for any $r\geq 1$. We will give a BLM type realization for the image $\mathbf{U}(\infty,r):=ζ_r(\mathbf{U}(\infty))$ and discuss its presentation in terms of generators and relations. We further construct a certain completion algebra $\hat{\boldsymbol{\mathcal K}}^\dagger(\infty)$ so that $ζ_r$ can be extended to an algebra epimorphism $\tildeζ_r:\hat{\boldsymbol{\mathcal K}}^\dagger(\infty)\to{\boldsymbol{\mathcal S}}(\infty,r)$. Finally we will investigate the representation theory of ${\bf U}(\infty)$, especially the polynomial representations of ${\bf U}(\infty)$.
Distributed Energy Trading Management for Renewable Prosumers with HVAC and Energy Storage
Creators: name: Yang, Qing
name: Wang, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems consume a large amount of energy in residential houses and buildings. Effective energy management of HVAC is a cost-effective way to improve energy efficiency and reduce the energy cost of residential users. This work develops a novel distributed method for the residential transactive energy system that enables multiple users to interactively optimize their energy management of HVAC systems and behind-the-meter batteries. Specifically, this method effectively reduces the cost of smart homes by employing energy trading among users to leverage their power usage flexibility without compromising the users' privacy. To achieve this goal, we design a distributed optimization algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to automatically operate the HVAC system and batteries, which minimizes the energy costs of users. Specifically, we decouple the optimization problem into a primal subproblem and a dual subproblem. The primal subproblem is solved by the users, and the dual subproblem is solved by the grid operator. Unlike the existing centralized method, our approach only uses the users' private information locally for solving the primal subproblem hence preserves the users' privacy. Using real-world data, we validate our proposed algorithm through extensive simulations in Matlab. The results demonstrate that our method effectively incentivizes the energy trading among the users to reduce users' peak load and reduce the overall energy cost of the system by 23% on average.
From 'Renaissance' to 'Baroque'. Patterns and principles behind the typographical evolution of books published at the Officina Plantiniana in Antwerp, 1555-1670
Creators: name: Proot, Goran
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Book History
Typography
Book Design
Baroque
Renaissance
Officina Plantiniana

description: Essay about the typographical evolution of publications by the Antwerp Officina Plantiniana between 1555 and 1670.
Le roman comique de Paul Scarron : les techniques comiques et leur fonction satirique
Creators: name: De Bruyn, Sally Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Le Roman comique de Paul Scarron a paru à l'apogée de la popularité des romans comiques au dix-septième siècle. Ce mémoire a pour but une analyse des deux premières parties du Roman comique (un roman inachevé) a la lumière des éléments comiques parsèmes tout le long du roman. On trouve que l'aspect parodique apporte par le burlesque joue un rôle important dans le type de satire—la satire ménippée—que Ton voit dans Le Roman comique.
Resolving the Hot Dust Disk of ESO323-G77
Creators: name: Leftley, James H.
name: Tristram, Konrad R. W.
name: Hönig, Sebastian F.
name: Asmus, Daniel
name: Kishimoto, Makoto
name: Gandhi, Poshak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Infrared interferometry has fuelled a paradigm shift in our understanding of the dusty structure in the central parsecs of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). The dust is now thought to comprise of a hot ($\sim1000\,$K) equatorial disk, some of which is blown into a cooler ($\sim300\,$K) polar dusty wind by radiation pressure. In this paper, we utilise the new near-IR interferometer GRAVITY on the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) to study a Type 1.2 AGN hosted in the nearby Seyfert galaxy ESO323-G77. By modelling the squared visibility and closure phase, we find that the hot dust is equatorially extended, consistent with the idea of a disk, and shows signs of asymmetry in the same direction. Furthermore, the data is fully consistent with the hot dust size determined by K band reverberation mapping as well as the predicted size from a CAT3D-WIND model created in previous work using the SED of ESO323-G77 and observations in the mid-IR from VLTI/MIDI.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, and 5 tables in main text. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Measurement of Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries for Di-Jet Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV
Creators: name: STAR Collaboration
name: Abelev, B. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first measurement of the opening angle distribution between pairs of jets produced in high-energy collisions of transversely polarized protons. The measurement probes (Sivers) correlations between the transverse spin orientation of a proton and the transverse momentum directions of its partons. With both beams polarized, the wide pseudorapidity ($-1 \leq η\leq +2$) coverage for jets permits separation of Sivers functions for the valence and sea regions. The resulting asymmetries are all consistent with zero and considerably smaller than Sivers effects observed in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS). We discuss theoretical attempts to reconcile the new results with the sizable transverse spin effects seen in SIDIS and forward hadron production in pp collisions.
description: 6 pages total, 1 Latex file, 3 PS files with figures
Comic Book Education and Functional Oral Health Literacy
Creators: name: Thomas, Subeena
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this randomized control study was to compare the effectiveness of comic book instruction on oral health literacy for children and their caregivers in Chicago, IL. Children, 7 - 12 years old, due for a cleaning and exam were recruited. Children and caregivers were randomly assigned to a control group (verbal instruction only) or intervention (use of comic book). Plaque disclosing solution was completed to identify plaque levels. Following a pre-test survey, the parent and participant read the comic book together. Following the cleaning, the parent and participant took a post-test survey. At 6 month follow-up, plaque levels will be re-evaluated. Primary outcomes were O’Leary’s plaque disclosing and survey responses. The survey aimed to evaluate the oral health belief and literacy of both the child and parent. Responses from both groups were assessed and compared. Sixty one children (average age of 9.66 years) (Male =59%) were enrolled and randomized. Thirty subjects and caregivers were assigned to intervention and thirty one subjects and caregivers were assigned to control. For all questionnaire responses, p-values were not statistically significant between survey responses of control and intervention groups (p > 0.05). These findings suggest intervention did not lead to statistically significant changes in the measured parameters at visit. Final data is pending. The guidance provided through comic book instructions demonstrated greater effectiveness in enhancing the oral health beliefs of subjects. At 6 month follow-up, plaque levels will be re-evaluated to assess long-term change in oral health beliefs.
D3.2 Inventory of interoperability testing facilities
Creators: name: Strasser, Thomas
name: Widl, Edmund
Publisher: name: The int:net Consortium
Year: 2025
Subjects: Energy Domain
Interoperability
Testing Facilities
Inventory
Testing Approaches and Tools
Test Cases and Profiles
Deliverable
European Union (EU)
HORIZON
Europe
Project
int:net
GA 101070086

description: This work addresses the need for a comprehensive overview of interoperability testing capabilities within the energy sector across Europe. Despite the existence of numerous facilities, a detailed inventory of their interoperability testing capabilities is lacking. This report fills that gap by analysing existing testing facilities, including both virtual/digital and physical setups, to assess their interoperability testing capabilities.

The inventory provides valuable insights into the interoperability testing possibilities available within these facilities. It includes detailed information on facility names, organisations in charge, locations, years established, legal statuses, fields of expertise, offered services, types of facilities, and whether or not they perform interoperability tests. Additionally, it provides details on the testing approaches used and includes website links as well as comments for further information. This inventory serves as a valuable resource for researchers, developers, and companies involved in the European energy sector, offering a clear overview of the available interoperability testing facilities and their capabilities.

The methodology employed in this work involves a four-step approach: data collection through a detailed survey, analysis and categorisation of the collected data, development and provision of additional testing tools, and the creation of a blueprint for new interoperability testing facilities. The survey results, which form the basis of the inventory, provide a comprehensive overview of the current landscape of interoperability testing facilities in Europe.
title: STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NUTRIENT MEDIUM  FOR IDENTIFICATION OF THE CHOLERA VIBRIO  “ARGININE-IRON-SUCROSE AGAR” DURING ITS CLINICAL TRIALS
Creators: name: Mazrukho, Aleksey B.
name: Kaminskiy, Denis I.
name: Sokov, Dmitriy V.
name: Ovsova, Lyudmila M.
name: Sokirkina, Olga G.
name: Kruglikov, Vladimir D.
name: Arkhangelskaya, Irina V.
name: Levchenko, Darya A.
name: Ezhova, Mariya I.
Publisher: name: Astrakhan State Medical University
Year: 2021

description: Poly-carbohydrate culture media used at the IV-V stages of laboratory diagnostics of cholera do not allow differ-entiating the selected colonies of Vibrio cholerae from closely related microorganisms, primarily aeromonads. This in-creases the amount of research in the subsequent VI stage. The proposed “Arginine-iron-sucrose agar” nutrient medium is devoid of these disadvantages. The purpose of the study is to conduct clinical trials and evaluate the effectiveness of the designed “Arginine-iron-sucrose agar” culture medium within the framework of the state registration procedure for the specified medical device. Materials and methods. The study used 20 strains of V. cholerae, 4 strains of Aeromo-nas, one strain of E. coli and P. vulgaris each. The biological parameters “differentiating properties” and “stability of strain properties” were determined on the proposed and control media. In addition, 350 samples of material from people and from environmental objects contaminated with target analyte strains were examined. Results and discussion. In the course of clinical trials, the high efficiency of the proposed nutrient medium for the primary identification of Vibrio cholerae and its differentiation from Aeromonas, Escherichia coli and proteus was confirmed. Conclusions. 1. For the first time, a nutrient medium has been developed that makes it possible to differentiate Vibrio cholerae from other mi-croorganisms by three characteristics at once – the presence of the ability to ferment sucrose, the absence of arginine dehydrolase, and the absence of the ability to form hydrogen sulfide. 2. The developed “Arginine-iron-sucrose agar” nutrient medium is the only one used in practice for the selection of suspicious colonies, which makes it possible to differentiate between Vibrio cholerae and aeromonads. 3. The developed nutrient medium is effective in the study of both clinical material and material from environmental objects. 4. The use of this medium at the IV and V stages of laboratory diagnosis of cholera can significantly reduce the amount of research at subsequent stages.
Key words: cholera vibrion, nutrient media, identification media, clinical trials.
A comparative study of neural network techniques for automatic software vulnerability detection
Creators: name: Tang, Gaigai
name: Meng, Lianxiao
name: Ren, Shuangyin
name: Cao, Weipeng
name: Wang, Qiang
name: Yang, Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software vulnerabilities are usually caused by design flaws or implementation errors, which could be exploited to cause damage to the security of the system. At present, the most commonly used method for detecting software vulnerabilities is static analysis. Most of the related technologies work based on rules or code similarity (source code level) and rely on manually defined vulnerability features. However, these rules and vulnerability features are difficult to be defined and designed accurately, which makes static analysis face many challenges in practical applications. To alleviate this problem, some researchers have proposed to use neural networks that have the ability of automatic feature extraction to improve the intelligence of detection. However, there are many types of neural networks, and different data preprocessing methods will have a significant impact on model performance. It is a great challenge for engineers and researchers to choose a proper neural network and data preprocessing method for a given problem. To solve this problem, we have conducted extensive experiments to test the performance of the two most typical neural networks (i.e., Bi-LSTM and RVFL) with the two most classical data preprocessing methods (i.e., the vector representation and the program symbolization methods) on software vulnerability detection problems and obtained a series of interesting research conclusions, which can provide valuable guidelines for researchers and engineers. Specifically, we found that 1) the training speed of RVFL is always faster than BiLSTM, but the prediction accuracy of Bi-LSTM model is higher than RVFL; 2) using doc2vec for vector representation can make the model have faster training speed and generalization ability than using word2vec; and 3) multi-level symbolization is helpful to improve the precision of neural network models.
description: This paper has been published at April 28,2021. However, there are some experimental data issues in the published manuscript, which are caused by the calculation error of indicators. This paper is a revised version
Zone and double zone diagrams in abstract spaces
Creators: name: Reem, Daniel
name: Reich, Simeon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 06B23, 47H10, 51K99, 54E35

description: A zone diagram is a relatively new concept which was first defined and studied by T. Asano, J. Matousek and T. Tokuyama. It can be interpreted as a state of equilibrium between several mutually hostile kingdoms. Formally, it is a fixed point of a certain mapping. These authors considered the Euclidean plane and proved the existence and uniqueness of zone diagrams there. In the present paper we generalize this concept in various ways. We consider general sites in m-spaces (a simple generalization of metric spaces) and prove several existence and (non)uniqueness results in this setting. In contrast to previous works, our (rather simple) proofs are based on purely order theoretic arguments. Many explicit examples are given, and some of them illustrate new phenomena which occur in the general case. We also re-interpret zone diagrams as a stable configuration in a certain combinatorial game, and provide an algorithm for finding this configuration in a particular case.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures; slight modifications and additions (including thanks); Theorem 5.5 was slightly improved. This version is essentially from the beginning of 2009 and it does not take into account several developments which have occurred since then
Regulation of ELAVL RNA binding proteins promotes neuronal diversity in the neocortex
Creators: name: Popovitchenko, Tatiana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: The diversity of neurons in the neocortex endows that structure with its wide range of abilities. It is likely the interplay of proteins on extracellular, transcriptional, and post-transcriptional levels that determines cell type diversity in the neocortex. Of these, post-transcriptional processes are especially important for the time sensitive steps of neuronal development. This thesis explores the mechanisms by which two RNA Binding Proteins (RBPs), in the Embryonic Lethal and Abnormal Vision Like (Elavl) protein family, promote diversity of neurons during neocorticogenesis.ELAVL1, also known as Hu antigen R (HuR), is a ubiquitously expressed RBP. We found that HuR binds over 7,000 targets during neocortical development. Specifically, it discriminates between Foxp1 and Foxp2 mRNA targets to define the respective identities of those two subpopulations of neocortical pyramidal neurons. Additionally, I discovered that phosphorylation sites throughout mouse HuR/ELAVL1 likely regulate target discrimination. In addition to phosphorylation sites on RBPs, alternative 3’ and 5’ untranslated regions (UTRs) can allow for target discrimination by RBPs. Within the embryonic mouse neocortex, we found a wide-spread pattern of repression and derepression of mRNA translation. I found that specific isoforms of the Hu antigen D (HuD/ELAVL4) RBP are repressed by the CUG-binding protein 1/CUG-BP-Elav like family 1 (CUGBP1/CELF1) RBP up to embryonic day 16. CUGBP1/CELF1 is able to discriminate amongst HuD/ELAVL4 isoforms through its alternative 5’UTRs.In sum, the ability to differentiate among RNA transcripts directly leads to an RBP’s role in determining cellular diversity through subpopulation identity. Regulation of RBPs, at the post-translational level through phosphorylation and at the post-transcriptional level through alternative 5’utrs, promotes neocortical cell type diversity.
MPEC 2024-T35 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 October 2)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Farmers' Guide to Trading Agricultural Commodity Options
Creators: name: Kenyon, David E.
name: Kenyon, David E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Excerpt from the report Preface: Trading in agricultural commodity options is expected to resume in 1984 after a nearly 50-year suspension. Options, like futures, can be used by farmers to manage their risks to make them less vulnerable to unexpected price shifts. This manual explains the concept of options, the terminology of option contracts, and the factors influencing option prices. It includes examples to show the comparative advantages, disadvantages, and profitability of options versus futures and how farmers' expectations of crop yields will affect their hedging strategies
Y a-t-il élimination d'Eupelmus orientalis Crawford par Eupelmus vuilleti Crawford (Hymenoptera : Eupelmidae) des systèmes de stockage du niébé (Vigna unguiculata Walp) ?
Creators: name: Ndoutoume-Ndong, Auguste
name: Rojas-Rousse, Danielle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Niébé is a food leguminous plant cultivated in tropical Africa for its seeds rich in proteins. The main problem setted by its production is the conservation of harvests. In the fields as in the stocks, the seeds are destroyed by pests (bruchids). These bruchids are always associated with several entomophagous species of hymenoptera. Four entomophagous species were listed : an egg parasitoid (U lariophaga Stephan), and three solitary larval and pupal ectoparasitoids (D. Basalis Rondoni, Pteromalidae; E. vuilleti Crawford and E. orientalis Crawford, Eupelmidae). The survey of the populations shows that at the beginning of storage, E orientalis is the most abundant specie (72 %) whereas E. vuilleti and D. Basalis respectively represent 12 % and 16 % of the hymenoptera. During storage, the E orientalis population decreases gradually and it disappears completely in less than two months after the beginning of storage. E. Vuilleti population becomes gradually more important than D. basalis population which regress until less than 10 % of the emerging parasitoids. E vuilleti adopts ovicide and larvicide behaviour against D. Basalis. This behaviour explains its population regression inside granaries. If the aggressive behaviour of this Eupelmidae is a constant, that could also explain the disappearance of E orientalis. However if this species is maintained in stocks, it would be an effective control agent of bruchids according to their parasitic capacities. This study shows that ovicide and larvicide behaviour of E vuilleti is not expressed against E orientalis. When the females have exclusively the hosts already parasitized by E orientalis, they do not lay eggs. The disappearance of E orientalis could not thus be explained by the presence of E. vuilleti.
Sustainability, Solidarity, Resistance: Anti-Racist Student Organizing at a Minority-Serving Institution
Creators: name: Daviera, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: University students are increasingly coming together to take action for racial justice and equity. Anti-racist student organizing includes how students collectively work to address racism and oppression at their institutions or beyond through sociopolitical engagement and action (e.g., protests, political education). Minority-serving institutions (MSIs) are in a unique position to support anti-racist student organizing because of their service to students and communities of Color. Yet, research also finds that student organizers can face threats to their psychological well-being and receive little institutional support, resulting in burnout and racial battle fatigue. Given these conditions, there is a limited understanding of how students practice anti-racist organizing, are able to sustain their labor, build solidarity, or engage in resistance. To address these limitations, this study used power mapping workshops to identify the practices of anti-racist student organizing, and how it builds power, at an MSI located in a large, Midwestern city. The study recruited 5 anti-racist student organizing collectives (a total of 20 students) to participate in two-hour power mapping workshops, where anti-racist student organizers worked with each other within their own specific organization to create a power map and then discussed how to build power, specifically in terms of sustainability (i.e., maintaining their organization, gaining momentum for their campaigns), solidarity (building relationships and collaborations), and resistance (fighting oppression and handling challenges). The study applied reflexive thematic analysis (TA) to produce 30 unique tactics on how anti-racist student groups carry out organizing, including 14 themes describing the patterns of how those tactics build power, and 4 overarching themes that prescribe important lessons for anti-racist student organizing. The results of this study address critical limitations in existing literature, specifically detailing how to build power for anti-racist student organizing.
Constraining the state of the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization using MWA 21-cm signal observations
Creators: name: Ghara, Raghunath
name: Giri, Sambit K.
name: Ciardi, Benedetta
name: Mellema, Garrelt
name: Zaroubi, Saleem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) team has derived new upper limits on the spherically averaged power spectrum of the 21-cm signal at six redshifts in the range $z \approx 6.5-8.7$. We use these upper limits and a Bayesian inference framework to derive constraints on the ionization and thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) as well as on the strength of a possible additional radio background. We do not find any constraints on the state of the IGM for $z\gtrsim 7.8$ if no additional radio background is present. In the presence of such a radio background, the 95 per cent credible intervals of the disfavoured models at redshift $\gtrsim 6.5 $ correspond to an IGM with a volume averaged fraction of ionized regions below 0.6 and an average gas temperature $\lesssim 10^3$ K. In these models, the heated regions are characterised by a temperature larger than that of the radio background, and by a distribution with characteristic size $\lesssim 10$ $h^{-1}$ Mpc and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of $\lesssim 30$ $h^{-1}$ Mpc. Within the same credible interval limits, we exclude an additional radio background of at least $0.008\%$ of the CMB at 1.42 GHz.
description: 13 Pages, 6 Figures, 5 Tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Mach-Zehnder Interferometry at the Heisenberg Limit with coherent and squeezed-vacuum light
Creators: name: Pezze', L.
name: Smerzi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the phase sensitivity $Δθ$ of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a coherent state in one input port and squeezed-vacuum in the other one is i) independent from the true value of the phase shift and ii) can reach the Heisenberg limit $Δθ\sim 1/N_T$, where $N_T$ is the average number of particles of the input states. We also show that the Cramer-Rao lower bound, $Δθ\propto 1/ \sqrt{|α|^2 e^{2r} + \sinh^2r}$, can be saturated for arbitrary values of the squeezing parameter $r$ and the amplitude of the coherent mode $|α|$ by a Bayesian phase inference protocol.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Dark matter in Actor-Network Theory context (La materia oscura en el contexto de la teoría del actor-red)
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Facundo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this work is to use some categories of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) developed by Bruno Latour in the book Reassembling the Social -- An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory to analyze a current controversy that occurs in the area of cosmology: the dark matter existence and its characteristics. The central idea of this article is to try to decipher which type of agent is the dark matter and open the discussion about this topic from a sociological perspective.
description: in Spanish
Unplugging the Universe: the neglected electromagnetic consequence of decoupling
Creators: name: Diver, Declan A.
name: Teodoro, Luis F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This letter concentrates on the non-equilibrium evolution of magnetic field structures at the onset of recombination, when the charged particle current densities decay as neutrals are formed. We consider the effect that a decaying magnetic flux has on the acceleration of particles via the transient induced electric field. Since the residual charged-particle number density is small as a result of decoupling, we shall consider the magnetic and electric fields essentially to be imposed, neglecting the feedback from any minority accelerated population. We find that the electromagnetic treatment of this phase transition can produce energetic electrons scattered throughout the Universe. Such particles could have a significant effect on cosmic evolution in several ways: (i) their presence could delay the effective end of the recombination era; (ii) they could give rise to plasma concentrations that could enhance early gravitational collapse of matter by opposing cosmic expansion to a greater degree than neutral matter could; (iii) they could continue to be accelerated, and become the seed for reionisation at the later epoch $z \approx 10$.
description: 4 pages, no figures