cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An in-depth spectroscopic examination of molecular bands from 3D hydrodynamical model atmospheres I. Formation of the G-band in metal-poor dwarf stars
Creators: name: Gallagher, A. J.
name: Caffau, E.
name: Bonifacio, P.
name: Ludwig, H. -G.
name: Steffen, M.
name: Spite, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent developments in the three-dimensional (3D) spectral synthesis code Linfor3D have meant that, for the first time, large spectral wavelength regions, such as molecular bands, can be synthesised with it in a short amount of time. A detailed spectral analysis of the synthetic G-band for several dwarf turn-off-type 3D atmospheres (5850 <= T_eff [K] <= 6550, 4.0 <= log g <= 4.5, -3.0 <= [Fe/H] <= -1.0) was conducted, under the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium. We also examine carbon and oxygen molecule formation at various metallicity regimes and discuss the impact it has on the G-band. Using a qualitative approach, we describe the different behaviours between the 3D atmospheres and the traditional one-dimensional (1D) atmospheres and how the different physics involved inevitably leads to abundance corrections, which differ over varying metallicities. Spectra computed in 1D were fit to every 3D spectrum to determine the 3D abundance correction. Early analysis revealed that the CH molecules that make up the G-band exhibited an oxygen abundance dependency; a higher oxygen abundance leads to weaker CH features. Nitrogen abundances showed zero impact to CH formation. The 3D corrections are also stronger at lower metallicity. Analysis of the 3D corrections to the G-band allows us to assign estimations of the 3D abundance correction to most dwarf stars presented in the literature. The 3D corrections suggest that A(C) in CEMP stars with high A(C) would remain unchanged, but would decrease in CEMP stars with lower A(C). It was found that the C/O ratio is an important parameter to the G-band in 3D. Additional testing confirmed that the C/O ratio is an equally important parameter for OH transitions under 3D. This presents a clear interrelation between the carbon and oxygen abundances in 3D atmospheres through their molecular species, which is not seen in 1D.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Convexity and a Stone-type theorem for convex sets in abelian semigroup setting
Creators: name: Jarczyk, Witold
name: Páles, Zsolt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26D15

description: In this paper, two parallel notions of convexity of sets are introduced in the abelian semigroup setting. The connection of these notions to algebraic and to set-theoretic operations is investigated. A formula for the computation of the convex hull is derived. Finally, a Stone-type separation theorem for disjoint convex sets is established.
Narrowing Down the Identity of Extractable Organofluorine in Killer Whale Blubber
Creators: name: Lauria, Mélanie Zoé
name: Haque, Faiz
name: Persson, Cecilia
name: Wang, Thanh
name: Simon, Malene
name: Roos, Anna
name: Plassmann, Merle
name: Jonathan, Benskin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: PFAS
blubber
marine mammals
fluorine mass balance
organofluorine

description: Unlike many other persistent organic pollutants that accumulate in lipid rich tissues, most known per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accumulate in protein rich tissues such as liver and blood. The recent discovery of elevated concentrations of unidentified extractable organofluorine (EOF) in killer whale blubber shows this rule might not be applicable to all PFAS. The aim of this study was to narrow down the possible nature of the unknown lipophilic organofluorine. Analysis of a second Greenlandic killer whale confirmed the original findings from Schultes et al. (2020), which showed >90% of unexplained EOF and very similar target PFAS profiles. Thereafter, extracts were subjected to the total oxidizable precursor assay, which revealed low to negligible perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acid formation, indicating the organofluorine substance(s) were not perfluoroalkyl acids-precursors. Solvent extraction using hexane improved extraction efficiency compared to acetonitrile, suggesting a neutral/non-polar organofluorine substance. This observation was further supported by a lack of sorption to strong anion and cation exchange resins. Overall, these experiments point towards a neutral/non-polar non-PFAA forming organofluorine substance. Efforts to characterize the purified extracts by 19F NMR were unsuccessful, possibly due to the relatively high detection limits of this technique. A negative result might also indicate that the organofluorine is comprised of several neutral substances and not just one or a few substances in high concentration. Finally, a suspect screen for fluorinated liquid crystal monomers (LCMs) was carried out by gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (GC-HRMS). While these substances display physical-chemical properties which align with those of our unidentified organofluorine, no fluorinated LCMs were detected from this analysis. Future work will apply a broader GC-HRMS-based non-targeted screening in an effort to further narrow down the identity of this unknown organofluorine.
The orbital elements and physical properties of the eclipsing binary BD+36 3317, a probable member of $δ$ Lyr cluster
Creators: name: Kıran, E.
name: Harmanec, P.
name: Değirmenci, Ö. L.
name: Wolf, M.
name: Nemravová, J.
name: Šlechta, M.
name: Koubský, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The fact that eclipsing binaries belong to a stellar group is useful, because the former can be used to estimate distance and additional properties of the latter, and vice versa. Aims. Our goal is to analyse new spectroscopic observations of BD$+36^\circ3317$ along with the photometric observations from the literature and, for the first time, to derive all basic physical properties of this binary. We aim to find out whether the binary is indeed a member of the $δ$ Lyr open cluster. Methods. The spectra were reduced using the IRAF program and the radial velocities were measured with the program SPEFO. The line spectra of both components were disentangled with the program KOREL and compared to a grid of synthetic spectra. The final combined radial-velocity and photometric solution was obtained with the program PHOEBE. Results. We obtained the following physical elements of BD$+36^\circ3317$: $M_1 = 2.24\pm0.07 M_{\odot}$, $M_2 = 1.52\pm0.03 M_{\odot}$, $R_1 = 1.76\pm0.01 R_{\odot}$, $R_2 = 1.46\pm0.01 R_{\odot}$, $log L_1 = 1.52\pm0.08 L_{\odot}$, $log L_2 = 0.81\pm0.07 L_{\odot}$. We derived the effective temperatures $T_{eff,1} = 10450 \pm 420$ K, $T_{eff,2} = 7623 \pm 328$ K. Both components are located close to ZAMS in the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram and their masses and radii are consistent with the predictions of stellar evolutionary models. Our results imply the average distance to the system d = $330\pm29$ pc. We re-investigated the membership of BD$+36^\circ3317$ in the $δ$ Lyr cluster and confirmed it. The distance to BD$+36^\circ3317$, given above, therefore represents an accurate estimate of the true distance for $δ$ Lyr cluster. Conclusions. The reality of the $δ$ Lyr cluster and the cluster membership of BD$+36^\circ3317$ have been reinforced.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Somatosensory processing in deaf and deafblind individuals: How does the brain adapt as a function of sensory and linguistic experience? A critical review
Creators: name: Villwock, Agnes
name: Grin, Konstantin
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Somatosensory processing
subject: deafness
subject: deafblindness
subject: signed languages
subject: tactile languages
subject: linguistics
subject: neuroplasticity
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: How do deaf and deafblind individuals process touch? This question offers a unique model to understand the prospects and constraints of neural plasticity. Our brain constantly receives and processes signals from the environment and combines them into the most reliable information content. The nervous system adapts its functional and structural organization according to the input, and perceptual processing develops as a function of individual experience. However, there are still many unresolved questions regarding the deciding factors for these changes in deaf and deafblind individuals, and so far, findings are not consistent. To date, most studies have not taken the sensory and linguistic experiences of the included participants into account. As a result, the impact of sensory deprivation vs. language experience on somatosensory processing remains inconclusive. Even less is known about the impact of deafblindness on brain development. The resulting neural adaptations could be even more substantial, but no clear patterns have yet been identified. How do deafblind individuals process sensory input? Studies on deafblindness have mostly focused on single cases or groups of late-blind individuals. Importantly, the language backgrounds of deafblind communities are highly variable and include the usage of tactile languages. So far, this kind of linguistic experience and its consequences have not been considered in studies on basic perceptual functions. Here, we will provide a critical review of the literature, aiming at identifying determinants for neuroplasticity and gaps in our current knowledge of somatosensory processing in deaf and deafblind individuals.
Existence of Non-singular Stellar Solutions within the context of Electromagnetic Field: A Comparison between Minimal and Non-minimal Gravity Models
Creators: name: Naseer, Tayyab
name: Said, Jackson Levi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we explore the existence of various non-singular compact stellar solutions influenced by the Maxwell field within the matter-geometry coupling based modified gravity. We start this analysis by considering a static spherically symmetric spacetime which is associated with the isotropic matter distribution. We then determine the field equations corresponding to two specific functions of this modified theory. Along with these models, we also adopt different forms of the matter Lagrangian. We observe several unknowns in these equations such as the metric potentials, charge and fluid parameters. Thus, the embedding class-one condition and a particular realistic equation of state is used to construct their corresponding solutions. The former condition provides the metric components possessing three constants, and we calculate them through junction conditions. Further, four developed models are graphically analyzed under different parametric values. Finally, we find all our developed solutions well-agreeing with the physical requirements, offering valuable insights for future explorations of the stellar compositions in this theory.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures
Simethis mattiazzii Sacc.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Xanthorrhoeaceae
Simethis
Simethis mattiazzii

description: Anthericum planifolium Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum Altera: 224. 1771. "Habitat in Lusitania trans Tagum, prope Capo de Spizel, florens Aprili. D. Vandelli." RCN: 2443. Type not designated. Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 432.4 (LINN). Current name:  Simethis mattiazzii (Vand.) Sacc. (Liliaceae / Asphodelaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 300, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Streaming patterns in Faraday waves
Creators: name: Périnet, Nicolas
name: Gutiérrez, Pablo
name: Urra, Héctor
name: Mujica, Nicolás
name: Gordillo, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76T99, 76-05, 37N10, 65Z05

description: Waves patterns in the Faraday instability have been studied for decades. Besides the rich dynamics that can be observed on the waves at the interface, Faraday waves hide beneath them an elusive range of flow patterns --or streaming patterns-- which have not been studied in detail until now. The streaming patterns are responsible for a net circulation in the flow which are reminiscent of convection cells. In this article, we analyse these streaming flows by conducting experiments in a Faraday-wave setup. To visualize the flows, tracers are used to generate both trajectory maps and to probe the streaming velocity field via Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). We identify three types of patterns and experimentally show that identical Faraday waves can mask streaming patterns that are qualitatively very different. Next we propose a three-dimensional model that explains streaming flows in quasi-inviscid fluids. We show that the streaming inside the fluid arises from a complex coupling between the bulk and the boundary layers. This coupling can be taken into account by applying modified boundary conditions in a three-dimensional Navier-Stokes formulation for the streaming in the bulk. Numerical simulations based on this theoretical framework show good qualitative and quantitative agreement with experimental results. They also highlight the relevance of three-dimensional effects in the streaming patterns. Our simulations reveal that the variety of experimental patterns is deeply linked to the boundary condition at the top interface, which may be strongly affected by the presence of contaminants along the surface.
description: 27 pages, 16 figures, submitted to J. Fluid Mech
The good life : responsibility and expertise in Internet-based randomised controlled trials
Creators: name: Advocat., Jenny
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Dipolar fermions in a multilayer geometry
Creators: name: Callegari, M.
name: Parish, M. M.
name: Marchetti, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the behavior of identical dipolar fermions with aligned dipole moments in two-dimensional multilayers at zero temperature. We consider density instabilities that are driven by the attractive part of the dipolar interaction and, for the case of bilayers, we elucidate the properties of the stripe phase recently predicted to exist in this interaction regime. When the number of layers is increased, we find that this "attractive" stripe phase exists for an increasingly larger range of dipole angles, and if the interlayer distance is sufficiently small, the stripe phase eventually spans the full range of angles, including the situation where the dipole moments are aligned perpendicular to the planes. In the limit of an infinite number of layers, we derive an analytic expression for the interlayer effects in the density-density response function and, using this result, we find that the stripe phase is replaced by a collapse of the dipolar system.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Radioactivity and thermalization in the ejecta of compact object mergers and their impact on kilonova light curves
Creators: name: Barnes, Jennifer
name: Kasen, Daniel
name: Wu, Meng-Ru
name: Mart'inez-Pinedo, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most promising electromagnetic signatures of compact object mergers are kilonovae: approximately isotropic radioactively-powered transients that peak days to weeks post-merger. Key uncertainties in modeling kilonovae include the emission profiles of the radioactive decay products---non-thermal beta- and alpha-particles, fission fragments, and gamma-rays---and the efficiency with which they deposit their energy in the ejecta. The total radioactive energy and the efficiency of its thermalization sets the luminosity budget and is therefore necessary for predicting kilonova light curves. We outline the uncertainties in r-process decay, describe the physical processes by which the energy of the decay products is absorbed in the ejecta, and present time-dependent thermalization efficiencies for each particle type. We determine the net heating efficiency and explore its dependence on r-process yields---in particular, the production of translead nuclei that undergo alpha-decay---and on the ejecta's mass, velocity, composition, and magnetic field configuration. We incorporate our results into new time-dependent, multi-wavelength radiation transport simulations, and calculate updated predictions of kilonova light curves. Thermalization has a substantial effect on kilonova photometry, reducing the luminosity by a factor of roughly 2 at peak, and by an order of magnitude or more at later times (15 days or more after explosion). We present simple analytic fits to time-dependent net thermalization efficiencies, which can easily be used to improve light curve models. We briefly revisit the putative kilonova that accompanied gamma ray burst 130603B, and offer new estimates of the mass ejected in that event. We find that later-time kilonova light curves can be significantly impacted by alpha-decay from translead isotopes; data at these times may therefore be diagnostic of ejecta abundances.
description: Submitted to ApJ; comments welcome
Anthericum ramosum Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Anthericum
Anthericum ramosum

description: Anthericum ramosum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 310. 1753. "Habitat in Europae australioris rupibus calcareis." RCN: 2445. Lectotype (Mathew in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 19. 1993): Herb. Linn. No. 432.6 (LINN). Generitype of Anthericum Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 146. 1929). Current name:  Anthericum ramosum L. (Liliaceae / Anthericaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 300, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
‘I’m From The Government and I’m Here To Help You Find A Job’: Assessing the Effectiveness of Increased Ordeals and Incentives on Welfare Receipt in New Zealand
Creators: name: Nazareth, Neville
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Designing a welfare system is by no means an easy task for economists or politicians. There are a host of factors that drive the optimal provision of benefits and these need not be the same for all countries. Most, however, attempt to strike a balance between helping those who have fallen on hard times and encouraging individuals to get back on their feet to help keep costs low. Countries are constantly adapting and reforming their benefit systems as a means to better help relax this trade-off. I examine the effect of two of these reforms, both of which occurred in New Zealand in 2012 and 2014, which attempted to reduce the number of recipients of welfare using a differences-in-differences design with a synthetic control. One rewarded participants if they were to find a job, while the other increased the hassle associated with continued welfare receipt. I find that the incentive-based program was more effective at reducing the number of recipients, using behavioral economics to explain this phenomenon and economic theory to analyze qualitative responses to the reforms.
Bimodal perception of form, color and substance in infancy
Creators: name: Zikman, Sharne A. Rolfe
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Trachyandra revoluta Kunth 1843
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Xanthorrhoeaceae
Trachyandra
Trachyandra revoluta

description: Anthericum revolutum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 310. 1753. "Habitat - - - –” RCN: 2444. Neotype (Obermeyer in Bothalia 7: 737. 1962): South Africa. Cape, Hermanus, Galpin 12898 (PRE). Current name:  Trachyandra revoluta (L.) Kunth (Liliaceae / Asphodelaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 300, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Stability of Blow Up for a 1D model of Axisymmetric 3D Euler Equation
Creators: name: Do, Tam
name: Kiselev, Alexander
name: Xu, Xiaoqian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q35, 35Q31

description: The question of the global regularity vs finite time blow up in solutions of the 3D incompressible Euler equation is a major open problem of modern applied analysis. In this paper, we study a class of one-dimensional models of the axisymmetric hyperbolic boundary blow up scenario for the 3D Euler equation proposed by Hou and Luo based on extensive numerical simulations. These models generalize the 1D Hou-Luo model suggested in Hou & Luo's paper, for which finite time blow up has been established in the paper by Kyudong Choi, Thomas Y. Hou, Alexander Kiselev, Guo Luo, Vladimir Sverak, Yao Yao. The main new aspects of this work are twofold. First, we establish finite time blow up for a model that is a closer approximation of the three dimensional case than the original Hou-Luo model, in the sense that it contains relevant lower order terms in the Biot-Savart law that have been discarded in the paper by Hou & Luo's and the paper by Choi et al.. Secondly, we show that the blow up mechanism is quite robust, by considering a broader family of models with the same main term as in the Hou-Luo model. Such blow up stability result may be useful in further work on understanding the 3D hyperbolic blow up scenario.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure
Causality, Renormalizability and Ultra-High Energy Gravitational Scattering
Creators: name: Hollowood, Timothy J.
name: Shore, Graham M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The amplitude A(s,t) for ultra-high energy scattering can be found in the leading eikonal approximation by considering propagation in an Aichelburg-Sexl gravitational shockwave background. Loop corrections in the QFT describing the scattered particles are encoded for energies below the Planck scale in an effective action which in general exhibits causality violation and Shapiro time advances. In this paper, we use Penrose limit techniques to calculate the full energy dependence of the scattering phase shift Theta_scat(hat_s},, where the single variable hat_s = Gs/m^2 b^(d-2) contains both the CM energy s and impact parameter b, for a range of scalar QFTs in d dimensions with different renormalizability properties. We evaluate the high-energy limit of Theta_scat(hat_s) and show in detail how causality is related to the existence of a well-defined UV completion. Similarities with graviton scattering and the corresponding resolution of causality violation in the effective action by string theory are briefly discussed.
description: 23 pages
title: Institutional 15 years experience in the treatment of incidental aneurysms
Creators: name: Mikloss, Julia
name: Ayyad, Ali
name: Keric, Naureen
name: Renovanz, Mirjam
name: Giese, Alf
name: Kantelhardt, Sven R.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: incidental aneurysm
subject: treatment modality
subject: complication rate
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: The decision whether to treat incidental cerebral aneurysms or not is based on the treatment risk and the natural history. To assess the individual situation it is therefore important to know the efficiency and complication rate of the suggested treatment. We investigated the results of all[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
ProphetFuzz: Fully Automated Prediction and Fuzzing of High-Risk Option Combinations with Only Documentation via Large Language Model
Creators: name: Wang, Dawei
name: Zhou, Geng
name: Chen, Li
name: Li, Dan
name: Miao, Yukai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Vulnerabilities related to option combinations pose a significant challenge in software security testing due to their vast search space. Previous research primarily addressed this challenge through mutation or filtering techniques, which inefficiently treated all option combinations as having equal potential for vulnerabilities, thus wasting considerable time on non-vulnerable targets and resulting in low testing efficiency. In this paper, we utilize carefully designed prompt engineering to drive the large language model (LLM) to predict high-risk option combinations (i.e., more likely to contain vulnerabilities) and perform fuzz testing automatically without human intervention. We developed a tool called ProphetFuzz and evaluated it on a dataset comprising 52 programs collected from three related studies. The entire experiment consumed 10.44 CPU years. ProphetFuzz successfully predicted 1748 high-risk option combinations at an average cost of only \$8.69 per program. Results show that after 72 hours of fuzzing, ProphetFuzz discovered 364 unique vulnerabilities associated with 12.30\% of the predicted high-risk option combinations, which was 32.85\% higher than that found by state-of-the-art in the same timeframe. Additionally, using ProphetFuzz, we conducted persistent fuzzing on the latest versions of these programs, uncovering 140 vulnerabilities, with 93 confirmed by developers and 21 awarded CVE numbers.
description: Preprint
Biased Borate Esterification during Nucleoside Phosphorylase‐Catalyzed Reactions: Apparent Equilibrium Shifts and Kinetic Implications
Creators: name: Kaspar, Felix
name: Brandt, Felix
name: Westarp, Sarah
name: Eilert, Lea
name: Kemper, Sebastian
name: Kurreck, Anke
name: Neubauer, Peter
name: Jacob, Christoph R.
name: Schallmey, Anett
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: biocatalysis
subject: borate ester
subject: equilibrium
subject: nucleoside analogues
subject: phosphorolyase

description: Biocatalytic nucleoside (trans-)glycosylations catalyzed by nucleoside phosphorylases have evolved into a practical and convenient approach to the preparation of modified nucleosides, which are important pharmaceuticals for the treatment of various cancers and viral infections. However, the obtained yields in these reactions are generally determined exclusively by the innate thermodynamic properties of the nucleosides involved, hampering the biocatalytic access to many sought-after target nucleosides. We herein report an additional means for reaction engineering of these systems. We show how apparent equilibrium shifts in phosphorolysis and glycosylation reactions can be effected through entropically driven, biased esterification of nucleosides and ribosyl phosphates with inorganic borate. Our multifaceted analysis further describes the kinetic implications of this in situ reactant esterification for a model phosphorylase.
title: A simple prediction score system for malignant brain edema in middle cerebral artery infarction
Creators: name: Jo, Kwang Wook
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Malignant brain edema (MBE) due to hemispheric infarction can result in brain herniation, poor outcomes, and death; outcome may be improved if certain interventions, such as decompressive craniectomy, are performed early. We sought to generate a prediction score to easily identify those patients[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Robust seismic velocity change estimation using ambient noise recordings
Creators: name: Daskalakis, E.
name: Evangelidis, C. P.
name: Garnier, J.
name: Melis, N. S.
name: Papanicolaou, G.
name: Tsogka, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of seismic velocity change estimation using ambient noise recordings. Motivated by [23] we study how the velocity change estimation is affected by seasonal fluctuations in the noise sources. More precisely, we consider a numerical model and introduce spatio-temporal seasonal fluctuations in the noise sources. We show that indeed, as pointed out in [23], the stretching method is affected by these fluctuations and produces misleading apparent velocity variations which reduce dramatically the signal to noise ratio of the method. We also show that these apparent velocity variations can be eliminated by an adequate normalization of the cross-correlation functions. Theoretically we expect our approach to work as long as the seasonal fluctuations in the noise sources are uniform, an assumption which holds for closely located seismic stations. We illustrate with numerical simulations and real measurements that the proposed normalization significantly improves the accuracy of the velocity change estimation.
Eriospermum spirale Schult
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Eriospermum
Eriospermum spirale

description: Anthericum spirale Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum Altera: 224. 1771. "Habitat sub montis Leonis Capitis b. spei, locis glareosis. Koenig." RCN: 2448. Lectotype (Perry in Contr. Bolus Herb. 17: 74. 1994): König 45 , Herb. Linn. No. 432.10 (LINN). Current name:  Eriospermum spirale K. Bergius ex Schult, f. (Liliaceae / Eriospermaceae). Note: Perry treats Eriospermum spirale K. Bergius ex Schult. f. (1830) and Anthericum spirale L. (1771) as heterotypic, the former preventing the transfer of the latter to Eriospermum.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 300, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Non-topological Vortex Configurations in the ABJM Model
Creators: name: Han, Xiaosen
name: Tarantello, Gabriella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the existence of vortex-type solutions for a system of self-dual equations deduced from the mass-deformed Aharony--Bergman--Jafferis--Maldacena (ABJM) model. The governing equations, derived by Mohammed, Murugan, and Nastse under suitable ansatz involving fuzzy sphere matrices, have the new feature that they can support only non-topological vortex solutions. After transforming the self-dual equations into a nonlinear elliptic $2\times 2$ system we prove first an existence result by means of a perturbation argument based on a new and appropriate scaling for the solutions. Subsequently, we prove a more complete existence result by using a dynamical analysis together with a blow-up argument. In this way we establish that, any positive energy level is attained by a 1-parameter family of vortex solutions which also correspond to (constraint) energy minimizers. In other words, we register the exceptional fact in a BPS-setting that, neither a "quantization" effect nor an energy gap is induced upon the system by the rigid "critical" coupling of the self-dual regime.
description: 41 pages
DocLite: A Docker-Based Lightweight Cloud Benchmarking Tool
Creators: name: Varghese, Blesson
name: Subba, Lawan Thamsuhang
name: Thai, Long
name: Barker, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing benchmarking methods are time consuming processes as they typically benchmark the entire Virtual Machine (VM) in order to generate accurate performance data, making them less suitable for real-time analytics. The research in this paper is aimed to surmount the above challenge by presenting DocLite - Docker Container-based Lightweight benchmarking tool. DocLite explores lightweight cloud benchmarking methods for rapidly executing benchmarks in near real-time. DocLite is built on the Docker container technology, which allows a user-defined memory size and number of CPU cores of the VM to be benchmarked. The tool incorporates two benchmarking methods - the first referred to as the native method employs containers to benchmark a small portion of the VM and generate performance ranks, and the second uses historic benchmark data along with the native method as a hybrid to generate VM ranks. The proposed methods are evaluated on three use-cases and are observed to be up to 91 times faster than benchmarking the entire VM. In both methods, small containers provide the same quality of rankings as a large container. The native method generates ranks with over 90% and 86% accuracy for sequential and parallel execution of an application compared against benchmarking the whole VM. The hybrid method did not improve the quality of the rankings significantly.
description: 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2016, Cartagena, Colombia. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1601.03872
The innervation of the rectococcygeus and anococcygeus muscles of the rabbit
Creators: name: San San Wai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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From neutron stars to quark stars in mimetic gravity
Creators: name: Astashenok, A. V.
name: Odintsov, S. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Realistic models of neutron and quark stars in the framework of mimetic gravity with Lagrange multiplier constraint are presented. We discuss the effect of mimetic scalar aiming to describe dark matter on mass-radius relation and the moment of inertia for slowly rotating relativistic stars. The mass-radius relation and moment of inertia depend on the value of mimetic scalar in the center of star. This fact leads to the ambiguity in the mass-radius relation for a given equation of state. {Such ambiguity allows to explain some observational facts better than in standard General Relativity}. The case of two mimetic potentials namely $V(ϕ)\sim Aϕ^{-2}$ and $V(ϕ)\sim Ae^{Bϕ^{2}}$ is considered in detail. The relative deviation of maximal moment of inertia is approximately twice larger than the relative deviation of maximal stellar mass. We also briefly discuss the mimetic $f(R)$ gravity. In the case of $f(R)=R+aR^2$ mimetic gravity it is expected that increase of maximal mass and maximal moment of inertia due to mimetic scalar becomes much stronger with bigger parameter $a$. The contribution of scalar field in mimetic gravity can lead to possible existence of extreme neutron stars with large masses.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
Spatial Patterns in Urban Systems
Creators: name: Huynh, Hoai Nguyen
name: Makarov, Evgeny
name: Legara, Erika Fille
name: Monterola, Christopher
name: Chew, Lock Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the morphology of an urban system is an important step toward unveiling the dynamical processes of its growth and development. At the foundation of every urban system, transportation system is undeniably a crucial component in powering the life of the entire urban system. In this work, we study the spatial pattern of $73$ cities across the globe by analysing the distribution of public transport points within the cities. The analysis reveals that different spatial distributions of points could be classified into four groups with distinct features, indicating whether the points are clustered, dispersed or regularly distributed. From visual inspection, we observe that the cities with regularly distributed patterns do not have apparent centre in contrast to the other two types in which star-node structure, i.e. monocentric, can be clearly observed. Furthermore, the results provide evidence for the existence of two different types of urban system: well-planned and organically grown. We also study the spatial distribution of another important urban entity, the amenities, and find that it possesses universal properties regardless of the city's spatial pattern type. This result has one important implication that at small scale of locality, the urban dynamics cannot be controlled even though the regulation can be done at large scale of the entire urban system. The relation between the distribution of amenities within the city and its spatial pattern is also discussed.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
title: Ultrasound of the optic nerve sheath diameter before and after microsurgical closure of a dural CSF-fistula as discriminator in spontaneous intracranial hypotension
Creators: name: Fichtner, Jens
name: Ulrich, Christian T.
name: Fung, Christian
name: Gralla, Jan
name: Raabe, Andreas
name: Beck, Jürgen
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: intracranial hypotension
subject: spinal CSF fistula
subject: transorbital ultrasound
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is caused by spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaking. Sonographic, two-fold assessment (supine vs. upright position) of the optic nerve sheath is able to show a collapse of the optic nerve sheath in patients with SIH and orthostatic headaches. We[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
“The Worker Center Movement”: Reimagining Organizing and Policy for Chicago’s Migrant Workers
Creators: name: Natesan, Sanjana
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Migrants represent a growing proportion of workers in the United States. Because they lack legal status, migrant workers are uniquely vulnerable to exploitation. The needs of migrant workers are different from their native-born counterparts and existing labor infrastructure is not well equipped to support them. In the past two decades, non-profit worker centers have sprung up across the country to support migrant workers directly. In this paper, I assess the role of worker centers by examining a notably successful action by El Milagro Tortilla Factory workers, which occurred with the support of the Arise Chicago Worker Center. Over three months, I conducted four interviews with Arise Chicago organizers and five interviews with employees of the El Milagro Tortilla Factory, many of whom are undocumented. My findings illustrate the barriers to organizing migrant workers, how worker centers break down these barriers, and the impact of organizing on empowering migrant workers as rights-holding community members, despite lacking legal status in the U.S. Based on these findings, I provide policy recommendations for the City of Chicago to include worker center organizers in decision-making and protect migrant workers like those at El Milagro. Only by understanding the needs of migrant workers and how they engage with worker centers can the labor movement adapt and protect workers in the new labor landscape.
The demonstration of the amine-containing neuronal systems of the rat brainstem and spinal cord
Creators: name: Singhaniyom, Weerachai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Phaeoceros laevis Prosk.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Anthocerotopsida
Notothyladales
Notothyladaceae
Phaeoceros
Phaeoceros laevis

description: Anthoceros laevis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1139. 1753. "Habitat in Europa & America boreali." RCN: 8154. Lectotype (Proskauer in Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora , ed. 3, 6: 1315. 1958): [icon] " Anthoceros major " in Micheli, Nov. Pl. Gen.: 11, t. 7, f. 1. 1729. Current name:  Phaeoceros laevis (L.) Prosk. (Anthocerotaceae). Note: Proskauer (in Ann. Bot. 12: 259. 1948; Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 78: 343. 1951) initially indicated 1272.2 (LINN) as the type but, recognising that this sheet was a post-1753 addition to the collection, rejected this choice in favour of the Micheli plate. Hässel de Menéndez (in Cryptog. Bryol. Lichénol. 5: 202. 1984) illustrates the Dillenian material extant at OXF.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 300, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
title: Biofilm formation and inflammatory tissue reaction after intraoperative infection of a cranial implant with Staphylococcus aureus in rats
Creators: name: Paret, Silke
name: Glage, Silke
name: Winkel, Andreas
name: Stiesch, Meike
name: Krauss, Joachim K.
name: Schwabe, Kerstin
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: implant infection
subject: animal model
subject: biofilm
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Implant failure is a severe and frequent adverse event in all areas of surgery. It often involves infection with biofilm formation, accompanied by inflammation of surrounding tissue and bone loss. The most common bacteria causing implant failure is Staphylococcus aureus. We here test whether[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
title: Cement salvage of instrumentation-associated vertebral fractures
Creators: name: Xu, Ran
name: Krol, George
name: Yamada, Yoshiya
name: Bilsky, Mark
name: Laufer, Ilya
name: Lis, Eric
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Kyphoplasty
subject: Separation Surgery
subject: Spinal Metastases
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Spinal instrumentation plays a key role in the treatment of spinal instability in patients with metastatic tumors. Poor bone quality, radiation, and diffuse osseous tumor involvement present significant challenges to spinal stabilization with instrumentation and occasionally result in postinstrumentation[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
“Que no Haya Duda”: Language, Documentation Status, and Policing in Elgin, Illinois
Creators: name: Martinez, Tanya
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Following the election of President Trump, federal immigration policy has become increasingly punitive toward Latinx immigrants. Correspondingly, this shift in immigration policy has affected Latinx immigrants’ perception of local police, which they have historically viewed as closely connected to immigration authorities. This paper seeks to better understand the dynamics between local police and immigrant communities. Specifically, this paper analyzes how Latinx immigrants interact with local police through one case study: Elgin, a suburb of Illinois. In addition to my own personal connection, Elgin was chosen as the focus of study due to its shift in demographic composition from a majority white population to a booming Latinx population. This thesis draws on qualitative interviews with local Latinx immigrants and Elgin Police Department members. In particular, immigrant interviewees described their prior encounters with Elgin Police and their Perception of Police using preset scenarios. Guided by these interviews, this paper identifies common perceptions of police held by Latinx immigrants, the relation between Documentation Status and Language in attitudes towards policing. The broad concern of this project is to assess interactions between community members and police officers in order to assert the importance of shifting policing practices as the demographics of a community change. Future policing practices must center community members and their lived experiences. This study finds that trust in the police is key in the reporting of crimes. This paper concludes with a series of policies that can be adopted by the Elgin Police Department in order to improve trust between the police and the community, ultimately allowing for the facilitation of a true community-based policing model.