cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Simulations of protostellar collapse using multigroup radiation hydrodynamics. I. The first collapse
Creators: name: Vaytet, Neil
name: Audit, Edouard
name: Chabrier, Gilles
name: Commercon, Benoit
name: Masson, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiative transfer plays a major role in the process of star formation. Many simulations of gravitational collapse of a cold gas cloud followed by the formation of a protostellar core use a grey treatment of radiative transfer coupled to the hydrodynamics. However, dust opacities which dominate extinction show large variations as a function of frequency. In this paper, we used frequency-dependent radiative transfer to investigate the influence of the opacity variations on the properties of Larson's first core. We used a multigroup M1 moment model in a 1D radiation hydrodynamics code to simulate the spherically symmetric collapse of a 1 solar mass cloud core. Monochromatic dust opacities for five different temperature ranges were used to compute Planck and Rosseland means inside each frequency group. The results are very consistent with previous studies and only small differences were observed between the grey and multigroup simulations. For a same central density, the multigroup simulations tend to produce first cores with a slightly higher radius and central temperature. We also performed simulations of the collapse of a 10 and 0.1 solar mass cloud, which showed the properties of the first core to be independent of the initial cloud mass, with again no major differences between grey and multigroup models. For Larson's first collapse, where temperatures remain below 2000 K, the vast majority of the radiation energy lies in the IR regime and the system is optically thick. In this regime, the grey approximation does a good job reproducing the correct opacities, as long as there are no large opacity variations on scales much smaller than the width of the Planck function. The multigroup method is however expected to yield more important differences in the later stages of the collapse when high energy (UV and X-ray) radiation is present and matter and radiation are strongly decoupled.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Feedback-driven object detection and iterative model improvement
Creators: name: Tenckhoff, Sönke
name: Koddenbrock, Mario
name: Rodner, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated object detection has become increasingly valuable across diverse applications, yet efficient, high-quality annotation remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present the development and evaluation of a platform designed to interactively improve object detection models. The platform allows uploading and annotating images as well as fine-tuning object detection models. Users can then manually review and refine annotations, further creating improved snapshots that are used for automatic object detection on subsequent image uploads - a process we refer to as semi-automatic annotation resulting in a significant gain in annotation efficiency.
 Whereas iterative refinement of model results to speed up annotation has become common practice, we are the first to quantitatively evaluate its benefits with respect to time, effort, and interaction savings. Our experimental results show clear evidence for a significant time reduction of up to 53% for semi-automatic compared to manual annotation. Importantly, these efficiency gains did not compromise annotation quality, while matching or occasionally even exceeding the accuracy of manual annotations. These findings demonstrate the potential of our lightweight annotation platform for creating high-quality object detection datasets and provide best practices to guide future development of annotation platforms.
 The platform is open-source, with the frontend and backend repositories available on GitHub. To support the understanding of our labeling process, we have created an explanatory video demonstrating the methodology using microscopy images of E. coli bacteria as an example.
description: Code: https://github.com/ml-lab-htw/iterative-annotate Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM9uhE8NN5E
Structure of Cell Networks Critically Determines Oscillation Regularity
Creators: name: Kori, Hiroshi
name: Kawamura, Yoji
name: Masuda, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Biological rhythms are generated by pacemaker organs, such as the heart pacemaker organ (the sinoatrial node) and the master clock of the circadian rhythms (the suprachiasmatic nucleus), which are composed of a network of autonomously oscillatory cells. Such biological rhythms have notable periodicity despite the internal and external noise present in each cell. Previous experimental studies indicate that the regularity of oscillatory dynamics is enhanced when noisy oscillators interact and become synchronized. This effect, called the collective enhancement of temporal precision, has been studied theoretically using particular assumptions. In this study, we propose a general theoretical framework that enables us to understand the dependence of temporal precision on network parameters including size, connectivity, and coupling intensity; this effect has been poorly understood to date. Our framework is based on a phase oscillator model that is applicable to general oscillator networks with any coupling mechanism if coupling and noise are sufficiently weak. In particular, we can manage general directed and weighted networks. We quantify the precision of the activity of a single cell and the mean activity of an arbitrary subset of cells. We find that, in general undirected networks, the standard deviation of cycle-to-cycle periods scales with the system size $N$ as $1/\sqrt{N}$, but only up to a certain system size $N^*$ that depends on network parameters. Enhancement of temporal precision is ineffective when $N>N^*$. We also reveal the advantage of long-range interactions among cells to temporal precision.
Modulation of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines Expression of the Biofield Energy (The Trivedi Effect®) Based Herbomineral Formulation in Mouse Splenocytes
Creators: name: Ansari, Sakina Aleemah
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2019
Subjects: Natural Sciences

description: With the increasing popularity of herbomineral preparations in healthcare, a new proprietary herbomineral formulation was formulated with ashwagandha root extract and three minerals viz. zinc, magnesium, and selenium. The aim of the study was to evaluate the immunomodulatory potential of Biofield Energy Healing (The Trivedi Effect®) on the herbomineral formulation using murine splenocyte cells. The test formulation was divided into two parts. One was the control without the Biofield Energy Treatment. The other part was labelled the Biofield Energy Treated sample, which received the Biofield Energy Healing Treatment remotely by twenty renowned Biofield Energy Healers. Through MTT assay, all the test formulation concentrations from 0.00001053 to 10.53 µg/mL were found to be safe with cell viability ranging from 102.61% to 194.57% using splenocyte cells. The Biofield Treated test formulation showed a significant (p≤0.01) inhibition of TNF-α expression by 15.87%, 20.64%, 18.65%, and 20.34% at 0.00001053, 0.0001053, 0.01053, and 0.1053, µg/mL, respectively as compared to the vehicle control (VC) group. The level of TNF-α was reduced by 8.73%, 19.54%, and 14.19% at 0.001053, 0.01053, and 0.1053 µg/mL, respectively in the Biofield Treated test formulation compared to the untreated test formulation. The expression of IL-1β reduced by 22.08%, 23.69%, 23.00%, 16.33%, 25.76%, 16.10%, and 23.69% at 0.00001053, 0.0001053, 0.001053, 0.01053, 0.1053, 1.053 and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively compared to the VC. Additionally, the expression of MIP-1α significantly (p≤0.001) reduced by 13.35%, 22.96%, 25.11%, 22.71%, and 21.83% at 0.00001053, 0.0001053, 0.01053, 1.053, and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively in the Biofield Treated test formulation compared to the VC. The Biofield Treated test formulation significantly down-regulated the MIP-1α expression by 10.75%, 9.53%, 9.57%, and 10.87% at 0.00001053, 0.01053, 0.1053 and 1.053 µg/mL, respectively compared to the untreated test formulation. The results showed the IFN-γ expression was also significantly (p≤0.001) reduced by 39.16%, 40.34%, 27.57%, 26.06%, 42.53%, and 48.91% at 0.0001053, 0.001053, 0.01053, 0.1053, 1.053, and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively in the Biofield Treated test formulation compared to the VC. The Biofield Treated test formulation showed better suppression of IFN-γ expression by 15.46%, 13.78%, 17.14%, and 13.11% at concentrations 0.001053, 0.01053, 0.1053, and 10.53 µg/mL, respectively compared to the untreated test formulation. Overall, the results demonstrated that The Trivedi Effect®- Biofield Energy Healing (TEBEH) has the capacity to potentiate the immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory activity of the test formulation. Biofield Energy may also be useful in organ transplants, anti-aging, and stress management by improving overall health and quality of life.
Topological Transitions in Metamaterials
Creators: name: Krishnamoorthy, Harish N. S.
name: Jacob, Zubin
name: Narimanov, Evgenii
name: Kretzschmar, Ilona
name: Menon, Vinod M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ideas of mathematical topology play an important role in many aspects of modern physics - from phase transitions to field theory to nonlinear dynamics (Nakahara M (2003) in Geometry, Topology and Physics, ed Brewer DF (IOP Publishing Ltd, Bristol and Philadelphia), Monastryskiy M (1987) in Riemann Topology and Physics, (Birkhauser Verlag AG)). An important example of this is the Lifshitz transition (Lifshitz IM (1960) Anomalies of electron characteristics of a metal in the high-pressure region, Sov Phys JETP 11: 1130-1135), where the transformation of the Fermi surface of a metal from a closed to an open geometry (due to e.g. external pressure) leads to a dramatic effect on the electron magneto-transport (Kosevich AM (2004) Topology and solid-state physics. Low Temp Phys 30: 97-118). Here, we present the optical equivalent of the Lifshitz transition in strongly anisotropic metamaterials. When one of the components of the dielectric permittivity tensor of such a composite changes sign, the corresponding iso-frequency surface transforms from an ellipsoid to a hyperboloid. Since the photonic density of states can be related to the volume enclosed by the iso-frequency surface, such a topological transition in a metamaterial leads to a dramatic change in the photonic density of states, with a resulting effect on every single physical parameter related to the metamaterial - from thermodynamic quantities such as its equilibrium electromagnetic energy to the nonlinear optical response to quantum-electrodynamic effects such as spontaneous emission. In the present paper, we demonstrate the modification of spontaneous light emission from quantum dots placed near the surface of the metamaterial undergoing the topological Lifshitz transition, and present the theoretical description of the effect.
Modular Development of Gray Matter in Childhood and Adolescence
Creators: name: Krongold, Mark
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Human Development
subject: Development
subject: Cerebral Cortex
subject: Childhood
subject: Neuroscience
subject: MRI
subject: Neuronal Networks
subject: Neuroimaging

description: The brain is becoming increasingly understood by its networks rather than regional architecture. Understanding the development of networks in the healthy human brain during childhood and adolescence is an important foundational step in determining what may go wrong in neurodevelopmental disorders. Moreover, it has been hypothesized that networks of functionally coupled regions may develop in parallel. In this thesis regions of the cerebral cortex undergoing synchronized development in anatomical structure were found and described. The findings indicated that cortical thickness, surface area, and volume underwent different developmental trajectories and showed differential synchronized developmental patterns. Cortical thickness based modules were distributed while surface area and volume based modules showed anterior to posterior organization. Additionally, comparisons between developmental modules and well-established functional networks in the brain found only partial overlap. This suggests that neuronal networks do not singularly arise from similar development of cortical regions.
Planetary nebula kinematics in NGC 1316: a young Sombrero
Creators: name: McNeil-Moylan, Emily K.
name: Freeman, Kenneth C.
name: Arnaboldi, Magda
name: Gerhard, Ortwin E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We present positions and velocities for 796 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the Fornax Brightest Cluster Galaxy NGC 1316 (Fornax A). The planetary nebulae and existing kinematics are used to explore the rotation of this merger remnant and constrain dynamical models. Methods. Using FORS2 on the VLT, the PN velocities were measured using a counter-dispersed slitless-spectroscopy technique that produced the largest-to-date sample outside of the Local Group. Spherical, non-rotating, constant-anisotropy Jeans models were con- strained by observations of the planetary nebulae and existing integrated light spectra. Results. The two-dimensional velocity field indicates dynamically-important rotation that rises in the outer parts, possibly due to the outward transfer of angular momentum during the merger. The modeling indicates a high dark matter content, particularly in the outer parts, that is consistent with previous estimates from dynamical models, lensing and stellar population models. Conclusions. The exceptionally large sample of PN velocities makes it possible to explore the kinematics of NGC 1316 in detail. Comparing the results to other early-type galaxies like NGC 1399 and NGC 4594 (M104, Sombrero), NGC 1316 represents a transi- tion phase from a major-merger event to a bulge-dominated galaxy like NGC 4594.
Design rules for antibody delivery by self-assembled block-copolyelectrolyte nanocapsules
Creators: name: Javan Nikkah, Sousa
name: Cazade, Pierre
name: McManus, Jennifer J.
name: THOMPSON, DAMIEN
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are proven biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of chronic illnesses, including cancer, autoimmune, neurodegenerative, and infectious diseases. A fundamental challenge for implementing mAbs in immunotherapy is protecting the protein structure against damage and prolonging its circulation time, which can be achieved using bespoke mAb delivery systems. One promising class of protein carriers is block-copolyelectrolytes (BCPEs, one natural polyelectrolyte grafted to one neutral hydrophilic polymer block) which self-assemble into stable micelles with a compact core of proteins and charged blocks surrounded by a corona of neutral blocks. The simple, biocompatible nanocapsule separates the protein from the outer medium. Here, we design a delivery system for Trastuzumab, an immunoglobulin used to treat breast and stomach cancer. Our proposed mixture of block-copolyanions and block-copolycations naturally promotes encapsulation through balanced physicochemical interactions in water and is readily tailorable via molecular engineering of the block-copolyelectrolytes. By developing an integrated coarse-grained model to screen different copolyelectrolyte carriers for the specific antibody, we map the carrier assembly and encapsulation mechanism of Trastuzumab in water. Our model identifies the parameters that control encapsulation and forecasts the expected final morphology based on computed phase diagrams of the material over a range of conditions. Specifically for Trastuzumab, we predict that increasing polymer concentration, chain length, and solvent selectivity while decreasing block length ratio will provide more effective BCPE-based mAb delivery. Our efficient computational model can guide future experiments in optimizing copolyelectrolyte-based carrier systems for biopharmaceuticals.
Understanding the Random Displacement Model: From Ground-State Properties to Localization
Creators: name: Klopp, Frédéric
name: Loss, Michael
name: Nakamura, Shu
name: Stolz, Günter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82B44

description: We give a detailed survey of results obtained in the most recent half decade which led to a deeper understanding of the random displacement model, a model of a random Schrödinger operator which describes the quantum mechanics of an electron in a structurally disordered medium. These results started by identifying configurations which characterize minimal energy, then led to Lifshitz tail bounds on the integrated density of states as well as a Wegner estimate near the spectral minimum, which ultimately resulted in a proof of spectral and dynamical localization at low energy for the multi-dimensional random displacement model.
description: 31 pages, 7 figures, final version, to appear in Proceedings of "Spectral Days 2010", Santiago, Chile, September 20-24, 2010
Fuzzy Logic Controller for a Hydro Pumped Storage Plant to Provide Frequency Regulation in an Isolated Hybrid Micro-Grid
Creators: name: Imperato, Alberto
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Energy
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Fuzzy Logic
subject: Hydro Pumped Storage
subject: Micro-Grid
subject: Frequency Regulation

description: The operation of isolated micro-grids requires that such systems must be able to regulate the system frequency also in addition to voltage. The combined operation of a reversible hydro pumped storage unit, a wind generator, a diesel generator and a dump load is analyzed in this study. The main balancing mechanism of the micro-grid is the hydro pumped storage facility. A fuzzy inference system is used to control this primary component to provide frequency regulation. Also, a supervisory controller is implemented to select the operation of other balancing mechanisms in order to support the operation of the hydro pumped storage. Model of the proposed isolated hybrid micro-grid is developed and the designed controllers are tested in this thesis. By monitoring the system frequency and active power of various components, it is concluded that the proposed frequency control scheme provides a reliable frequency regulation while reducing the frequency deviation during disturbances.
Data Management Plan
Creators: name: ARDUINI, FABIANA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Deliverable 6.1

This document provides the data management plan (DMP) for the PHOENIX-OoC project including

detailed descriptions of data for each WP, outlining the specific tasks and responsibilities assigned

to each partner for delivering an effective plan. The document explains the data repository and

management, defining a secure store with two-factor authentication to protect sensitive

information. The open access repository for information to be shared is selected, aligning with the

EC Open Science policies. The FAIR Data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)

will be respected, ensuring the high quality and utility of the data produced for an effective sharing

and re-use of data between the scientific community and other stakeholders. Additionally, the risk

management strategies are reported, identifying potential risks and proposing mitigation

measures to adopt for helping in managing risks that could impact the project. Within the DMP,

the coordinator formulated and distributed a questionnaire to each WP Leader to receive

information regarding data management, such as the re-use and generation of the expected data

in terms of origin, type, size, and format of the data.
Cross Helicity and the Helium Abundance as an in situ Metric of Solar Wind Acceleration
Creators: name: Alterman, B. L.
name: D'Amicis, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-state solar wind paradigm is based on observations showing that slow and fast solar wind have distinct properties like helium abundances, kinetic signatures, elemental composition, and charge-state ratios. Nominally, the fast wind originates from solar sources that are continuously magnetically open to the heliosphere like coronal holes while the slow wind is from solar sources that are only intermittently open to the heliosphere like helmet streamers and pseudostreamers. The Alfvénic slow wind is an emerging 3rd class of solar wind that challenges the two-state fast/slow paradigm. It has slow wind speeds but is highly Alfvénic, i.e. has a high correlation between velocity and magnetic field fluctuations along with low compressibility typical of Alfvén waves, which is typically observed in fast wind. Its other properties are also more similar to the fast than slow wind. From 28 years of Wind observations at 1 AU, we derive the solar wind helium abundance ($A_\mathrm{He}$), Alfvénicity ($\left|σ_c\right|$), and solar wind speed ($v_\mathrm{sw}$). Characterizing vsw as a function of $\left|σ_c\right|$ and $A_\mathrm{He}$, we show that the maximum solar wind speed for plasma accelerated in source regions that are intermittently open is faster than the minimum solar wind speed for plasma accelerated in continuously open regions. We infer that the Alfvénic slow wind is likely solar wind originating from open-field regions with speeds below the maximum solar wind speed for plasma from intermittently open regions. We then discuss possible implications for solar wind acceleration. Finally, we utilize the combination of helium abundance and normalized cross helicity to present a novel solar wind categorization scheme that illustrates the transition in observations of solar wind at 1 AU from magnetically closed to magnetically open sources.
Magic Sets for Disjunctive Datalog Programs
Creators: name: Alviano, Mario
name: Faber, Wolfgang
name: Greco, Gianluigi
name: Leone, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.1
subject: 68T27

description: In this paper, a new technique for the optimization of (partially) bound queries over disjunctive Datalog programs with stratified negation is presented. The technique exploits the propagation of query bindings and extends the Magic Set (MS) optimization technique. An important feature of disjunctive Datalog is nonmonotonicity, which calls for nondeterministic implementations, such as backtracking search. A distinguishing characteristic of the new method is that the optimization can be exploited also during the nondeterministic phase. In particular, after some assumptions have been made during the computation, parts of the program may become irrelevant to a query under these assumptions. This allows for dynamic pruning of the search space. In contrast, the effect of the previously defined MS methods for disjunctive Datalog is limited to the deterministic portion of the process. In this way, the potential performance gain by using the proposed method can be exponential, as could be observed empirically. The correctness of MS is established thanks to a strong relationship between MS and unfounded sets that has not been studied in the literature before. This knowledge allows for extending the method also to programs with stratified negation in a natural way. The proposed method has been implemented in DLV and various experiments have been conducted. Experimental results on synthetic data confirm the utility of MS for disjunctive Datalog, and they highlight the computational gain that may be obtained by the new method w.r.t. the previously proposed MS methods for disjunctive Datalog programs. Further experiments on real-world data show the benefits of MS within an application scenario that has received considerable attention in recent years, the problem of answering user queries over possibly inconsistent databases originating from integration of autonomous sources of information.
description: 67 pages, 19 figures, preprint submitted to Artificial Intelligence
Aqueous suspension plasma spraying of yttria stabilized zirconia solid oxide fuel cell electrolytes
Creators: name: Waldbillig, David
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In order to meet increasing world energy demand in a sustainable manner, clean and efficient new energy technologies need to be developed. Fuel cells have been proposed as a potential energy conversion technology to help facilitate this transition to cleaner energy. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) in particular are thought to be a practical, near term clean energy technology; however, current state-of-the-art wet ceramic fabrication techniques make SOFC manufacturing labour-intensive, fairly expensive and difficult to automate, and the high firing temperatures required limit the usable materials sets and increase production times. Plasma spraying (PS) is a potential next generation SOFC fabrication process that can rapidly produce fully sintered ceramic layers without the need for post deposition heat treatments; however, it is difficult to produce the thin, fully dense layers required for SOFC electrolytes using conventional plasma spray techniques, as the carrier gas based feeding configurations typically require large feedstock powders. Suspension plasma spraying (SPS) is a modification of conventional PS processes that uses micron or sub-micron sized feedstock powders suspended in a carrier liquid. SPS has the potential to significantly improve coating quality and microstructural control. Thus plasma spray manufacturing methods may have the ability to both reduce cell fabrication and material costs and improve cell performance, making them an important step toward successful SOFC commercialization. This project investigated the properties of metal supported aqueous SPS yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) layers that could be used as SOFC electrolytes and developed a thorough understanding of the relationships between the base layers (substrate and cathode), suspension and plasma spraying parameters and the resulting coating properties. Using this understanding, plasma sprayed full cells (cathode, electrolyte and anode) with optimized electrolyte microstructures with 96% density were produced and electrochemically tested. The measured open circuit voltage values were approximately 90% of the Nernst voltages, and electrolyte area specific resistances below 0.1 Ω cm² were obtained at 750⁰C for electrolyte thicknesses below 20 μm. Least-squares fitting was used to estimate the contributions of the YSZ bulk material, its microstructure, and the contact resistance to the measured series resistance values.
Diel oxygen cycles in the Bow River: Relationships to Calgary's urban nutrient footprint and periphyton and macrophyte biomass
Creators: name: Chung, Cecilia Wei Ying
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Limnology
subject: Nutrients
subject: dissolved oxygen
subject: periphyton
subject: macrophyte
subject: Bow River
subject: Wastewater

description: The City of Calgary discharges wastewater effluent from three wastewater treatment plants. Although nutrient inputs from effluent increase fish growth, increased productivity may be detrimental to fish populations by increasing primary producer biomass, which subsequently affects the magnitude of diel oxygen (O2) concentrations through photosynthesis and respiration. Overnight depressed O2 concentrations can negatively impact local fish populations. Changes in nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations, periphyton and macrophyte biomass, δ15N isotopes and diel O2 cycles were measured along the Bow River during summer months when primary producer metabolism and water temperatures are highest. A strong urban footprint associated with wastewater effluent inputs was detected. Primary producer biomass is dominated by periphyton upstream, while macrophytes dominate the river beginning downstream of Calgary’s first effluent input. The transition from periphyton to macrophyte dominated communities leads to larger amplitude diel O2 cycles, suggesting macrophytes are the primary driver of larger diel O2 cycles.
Mechanics of Amphibian Skeletal Muscle at Long Lengths
Creators: name: Hisey, Brandon
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Engineering--Biomedical

description: Little is known about the mechanical behavior of skeletal muscle at long lengths, or how these behaviors scale to different hierarchical levels. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the mechanical behavior of skeletal muscle leading up to, and at the point of failure. Failure was defined as a compromise in the muscles’ ability to produce force, as indicated by a decrease in force, during a steady stretch. Stretches were performed in active (i.e. contracting) and passive muscles in three different preparations from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog Rana pipiens – myofibrils, permeabilized fibres, and whole muscles. Stress in active myofibrils was significantly greater than in passive ones with the progression of stretch to failure, and was persistent despite being stretched to lengths beyond overlap of actin and myosin filaments (who’s interactions are responsible for the production of contractile force). This divergence in stress was reduced at the cellular level, and was abolished in whole muscles. It is suggested that higher active compared to passive stress is a result of an increased contribution by the large molecular spring, titin. As higher hierarchical levels are examined, the introduction of other passive elements and connections may break during stretch and mask the divergent behavior observed in myofibrils. Histology and electron microscopy showed complete loss of regular striation patterns in both active and passive fibres stretched to sarcomere lengths of approximately 5 um. Whole muscles showed indicators of damage as well, but to a much lesser extent, and with active muscles showing more evidence of damage. Mechanical data and histology suggest that failure in whole muscles occurs outside of the cell, perhaps in the extracellular matrix or at the myotendinous junction. Finally, it was demonstrated that whole muscles possessing a low passive compliance (in this case, the tibialis anterior from R. pipiens) were more prone to failure at short lengths than muscles having a higher compliance (i.e. semitendinosus). It is suggested that differing muscle compliances represent adaptive strategies to prevent damage according to functional demands of the specific muscle.
MRV Readiness
Creators: name: Honegger, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: MRV Methodologies and Accounting Issues

description: Overarching issue profile for MRV related non-technical aspects Other issues this affects CCS+
 EU CCS Directive (MRV)
 MRV Methodologies
 Leakage penalties
 CRCF
Trisunius cultellatus ASSING 2011
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Trisunius
Trisunius cultellatus

description: Trisunius cultellatus ASSING 2011 M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: China:Y u n n a n:1, Dali Bai Aut. Pref., foothill of Diancang Shan, 1 km W Dali, 25°42'N, 100°08'E, 2170 m, 3.IX.2003, leg. Smetana (cSme); 1, Yunnan, Dali Bai Aut. Pref., Diancang Shan, 3 km W Dali, 25°41'N, 100°07'E, 2650-2750 m, 29.VIII.2003, leg. Smetana (cSme); 1, Diqing Tibet. Aut. Pref., Deqin Co., 33 km WNW Zhongdian, gully W Jinsha Jiang river, 27°57'N, 99°25'E, 2300 m, 4.VI.2005, leg. Smetana (cAss). C o m m e n t Trisunius cultellatus is the most widespread representative of the genus in China. The currently known distribution comprises numerous localities in Yunnan and Shaanxi. It is mapped in ASSING (2013).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2014, A revision of Trisunius IV. Two new species and additional records from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 443-448 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 444, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305013
description: {"references": ["ASSING V. (2011): Trisunius gen. nov. from the southern East Palaearctic and the Oriental regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Medonina). - Linzer Biologische Beitrage 43 (1): 195 - 220.", "ASSING V. (2013): A revision of Trisunius III. Three new species from North India and Nepal, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). - Linzer Biologische Beitrage 45 (2): 1531 - 1540."]}
Unravelling video game UGC policies: is copyright the answer?
Creators: name: Syahmi Zawawi, Nadhirah
Publisher: name: CREATe
Year: 2023

description: This thesis concerns the gap in the law within the copyright legal framework when concerned with user generated content (UGC). In order to illustrate this, this thesis first sets out academic discourse on the categorization and criteria of UGC followed by existing legal instruments attempting to regulate UGC. This thesis then identifies the gaps that have yet to be regulated within the law. Notably, this thesis identifies that there are no legislative instruments that concern the recognition and ownership of UGC, nor are there any legislative instruments regarding the rights conferred, if any, to the owner of UGC. 
This is followed by examples of in game creation (IGC), a subset of UGC, within contemporary video games. This stands as the primary subject matter of this thesis. Having identified and provided examples of in game creations, this thesis then determines the owners of said IGC by delving into the video games' UGC policies, which can be found in their EULA and User Account Agreement. We find through this analysis that there are instances where the IGC is owned by the user, but this is consequently licensed back to the developer. 
This thesis then identifies issues with current commercial practice of game publishers in their UGC policies including the presumptuous treatment of UGC as property, as evidenced by licensing clauses, and the presumptive categorization of creations as UGC, which this thesis will elaborate, is a predetermination that results in creations not being able to justify copyrightability. 
The penultimate chapter of this thesis will then answer the question of whether copyright might be the solution to the issues raised in the previous chapter, especially the tension between user and game publisher, and proposing alternative suggestions that may be worth further analysis in the future, including a potential neighbouring rights regime to address the status of UGC. 
This working paper is a part of the "Outstanding LLM Dissertations 2023".
THE INFLUENCE OF PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP AND PRINCIPAL PROFESSIONALISM ON THE PERFORMANCE OF STATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN TANGERANG REGENCY
Creators: name: SUTARMAN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Principal Leadership, Professionalism, Teacher Performance.

description: This research aims to analyze the influence of the Principal's leadership on teacher performance, the influence of the Principal's professionalism on teacher performance and the influence of leadership and professionalism together on teacher performance. This research uses a statistical quantitative approach. The population of all SD Negeri 4 teachers is 246 people, with a sample size of 142 people. Data collection techniques through questionnaires. Analysis of the results used statistics, simple regression and multiple regression and used SPSS Windows Version 14. The research results showed that the leadership of the principal at SD Negeri 4 was in the good category with a score of 58.8030, professionalism in the good category. Professional category 58.0915, good teacher performance 61.4155. Simple regression analysis shows a positive and significant influence of principal leadership on public elementary school teacher performance of 25.0%, professionalism has a positive and significant influence on teacher performance with a coefficient of determination of 39.5%. The results of multiple regression analysis show a positive and significant influence simultaneously between the leadership and professionalism of school principals towards teachers on the performance of state elementary school teachers with a coefficient of determination of 45.0%.
Chiral Zeromodes on Vortex-type Intersecting Heterotic Five-branes
Creators: name: Yata, Masaya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the gaugino Dirac equation on a smeared intersecting five-brane solution in E_8\times E_8 heterotic string theory to search for localized chiral zeromodes on the intersection. The background is chosen to depend on the full two-dimensional overall transverse coordinates to the branes. Under some appropriate boundary conditions, we compute the complete spectrum of zeromodes to find that, among infinite towers of Fourier modes, there exist only three localized normalizable zeromodes, one of which has opposite chirality to the other two. This agrees with the result previously obtained in the domain-wall type solution, supporting the claim that there exists one net chiral zeromode localized on the heterotic five-brane system.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
ГОРМОНАЛЬНАЯ РЕГУЛЯЦИЯ
Creators: name: PhD. Негматова Гулзода Шухратовна
name: студенты 428 группы лечебного факультета Зубайдов Мирзо Уктамжонович Хамраев Темур Зокиржон угли Саидмуродов Махмудали Суратзода
name: Научный руководитель: Сабирова Дилноза Шухратовна
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Все биологически активные соединения и субстраты, участвующие в регуляции биохимических процессов и функций, особую роль играют гормоны. Гормоны - это органические вещества, которые образуются в тканях одного типа (эндокринных железах, или эндокринных железах), поступают в кровь, транспортируются по кровотоку к тканям другого типа (тканям-мишеням), где оказывают свое биологическое действие (регулируют обмен веществ, поведение и физиологические функции организма, а также рост, деление и дифференцировку).Гормональная регуляция - это общий термин для обозначения регулирующего влияния различных гормонов на функции организма. Гормональная регуляция возникла на определенном этапе эволюции, раньше, чем нейромодуляция, и служит связующим звеном между центральной нервной системой и тканями организма. Гормональная регуляция играет важную роль в

поддержании гомеостаза и в адаптации организма к изменениям внешней и внутренней среды.

Ключевые слова: гормоны, гормональная регуляция, пептиды, стероиды, эйкозаноиды, метаболические, кинетические, корректирующие, морфогенетические
Filth, ruin, and the colonial picturesque : James Baillie Fraser's representations of Calcutta and the Black Hole monument
Creators: name: Sciampacone, Amanda Christina Hui
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In the early nineteenth century, British consumers increasingly demanded representations of foreign areas newly opened up by British imperial expansion. This thesis considers a series of twenty-four aquatints by British artist James Baillie Fraser, published between 1824 and 1826 as Views of Calcutta and its Environs. Fraser’s images at first glance appear to support the views held by European medical men and tourists of the period, who represented Calcutta as a city built in a pestilential environment, and divided between a seemingly tainted, Bengali “black town” and a pristine, European “white town.” The white town was framed as a city of orderly neoclassical palaces, wide boulevards, and salubrious squares, whereas the black town was marked out as a chaotic space of disease and filth. By marshalling the tropes of the picturesque, an aesthetic mode that had long been associated with landscape and travel, and by advertising the series as following in the tradition of earlier representations of India ––– such as the late eighteenth-century prints of Thomas and William Daniell that celebrated Britain’s success in bringing progress and civilization to Bengal ––– Fraser’s Views of Calcutta offered viewers important vistas that marked Britain’s presence in the city. However, while much of the scholarship has interpreted Fraser’s images as seamless depictions of British hegemony, these readings obscure the slippages, tensions, and ambiguities that take form in his prints. My thesis focuses on four of Fraser’s aquatints that picture key sites in Calcutta, including the British buildings in Tank Square, the monument to the Black Hole incident, the Hindu temple known as the “Black Pagoda,” and the native bazaar on Chitpore Road. I argue that rather than portraying British hegemony and a clear division between the white and black towns of Calcutta, Fraser’s images distinguish themselves from earlier representations by paradoxically revealing the fluidity of these boundaries. As a result, Fraser’s collection registers the tenuousness of British power over the perceived dangers of both the tropical environment and the native population, while also asserting the need to constantly maintain sanitary order by removing what was perceived as matter out of place.
A Hidden Local Symmetry Approach to Rho Meson Photoproduction
Creators: name: Kaneko, Hiromi
name: Hosaka, Atsushi
name: Scholten, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study photoproduction of rho mesons in a model of hidden local symmetry. The rho meson is introduced as a hidden gauge boson and a phenomenological rho meson-nucleon Lagrangian is constructed respecting chiral symmetry. It is shown that the sigma exchange interaction is needed for neutral rho meson photoproduction to reproduce the experimental cross sections. For charged rho meson photoproduction, the model takes into account the rho meson magnetic moments from the three-point vertex in the kinetic terms. We show that the magnetic moment of the charged rho meson has a significant effect on the total cross sections through the rho meson exchange process, which is proportional to the energy of the photon. The t-channel dominance may be used for the study of structures of various unstable particles.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Fame, Artistry and the Law: A Dual Jurisdiction Evaluation of Publicity Rights in Video Games
Creators: name: Alcaraz Martinez, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: CREATe
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation takes a deep dive into the intriguing connections between trademark law, image rights, and the ever-changing video game world. The video game industry has come a long way from simple graphics to immersive virtual experiences, with trademarks playing a key role in safeguarding brand identity. The use of celebrity images adds a touch of realism to games, and in the US, there are strong laws protecting against their unauthorised use. Examining this legal structure reveals that the interaction among trademarks, the protection of celebrity rights, and the cultivation of artistic expression holds significant significance. Innovations like the Rogers and transformative-use tests offer valuable perspectives on achieving this intricate equilibrium. This paper shifts its focus to the UK, where it explores how image rights are protected and how passing off plays a crucial role when specific publicity rights are lacking. This sets the stage for a comparison with the US approach, where it delves into the complexities of UK image rights protection. Additionally, this dissertation also demonstrates that privacy regulations and acts pertaining to data protection have augmented the rights of individuals within this domain.
Finally, this paper brings together the pieces of the puzzle and proposes the need for a new publicity right tort in the UK. This becomes especially important as advanced video games become more prominent, raising questions about how identity rights are respected. Drawing inspiration from the US and innovative legal tests, it explores how a new tort could balance the freedom of expression with image rights.
It also peeks into the future, analysing current challenges like user-generated avatars and AI-generated content, which could make unauthorised likeness usage a concern. This study emphasises the pressing need to modernise the UK's strategy concerning image rights through a more profound comprehension of the intricate connections between trademark law, image rights, celebrity likenesses, and the realm of video games.
This working paper is a part of the "Outstanding LLM Dissertations 2023".
Callinectes danae Smith 1869
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Callinectes
Callinectes danae

description: Callinectes danae Smith, 1869
Material examined (N=423). 2f, 19/IX/2000, 13°52’99”S / 38°59’59”W (MZUESC #61).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil (from Pará to Rio Grande do Sul) (Melo 1996; Barros et al. 1997a).
Ecological notes. Occurs in brackish to high-salinity waters, in mangroves, and muddy estuaries. Also in sandy beaches and the open sea. Intertidal to 75 m (Melo 1996).
Previous records in Bahia. Smith (1869), Moreira (1901), Rathbun (1930), Williams (1974), Melo (1985), Almeida et al. (2006).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
High-fidelity multipartite entanglement creation in non-Hermitian qubits
Creators: name: Liu, C. -Y.
name: Feyisa, C. G.
name: Hasan, Muhammad S.
name: Jen, H. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Hermitian quantum systems showcase many distinct and intriguing features with no Hermitian counterparts. One of them is the exceptional point which marks the PT (parity and time) symmetry phase transition, where an enhanced spectral sensitivity arises and leads to novel quantum engineering. Here we theoretically study the multipartite entanglement properties in non-Hermitian superconducting qubits, where high-fidelity entangled states can be created under strong driving fields or strong couplings among the qubits. Under an interplay between driving fields, couplings, and non-Hermiticity, we focus on generations of GHZ states or GHZ classes in three and four qubits with all-to-all couplings, which allows a fidelity approaching unity when relatively low non-Hermitian decay rates are considered. This presents an ultimate capability of non-Hermitian qubits to host a genuine and maximal multipartite entanglement. Our results can shed light on novel quantum engineering of multipartite entanglement generations in non-Hermitian qubit systems.
description: 4 figures