cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Radiative transfer approach using Monte Carlo Method for actinometry in complex geometry and its application to Reinecke salt photodissociation within innovative pilot-scale photo(bio)reactors
Creators: name: Rochatte, Vincent
name: Dahi, Ghiles
name: Eskandari, Azin
name: Dauchet, Jérémi
name: Gros, Fabrice
name: Roudet, Mathieu
name: Cornet, Jean-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, a complete radiative transfer approach for estimating incident photon flux density by actinometry is presented that opens the door to investigation of large-scale intensified photoreactors. The approach is based on an original concept: the analysis of the probability that a photon entering the reaction volume is absorbed by the actinometer. Whereas this probability is assumed to be equal to one in classical actinometry, this assumption can no longer be satisfied in many practical situations in which optical thicknesses are low. Here we remove this restriction by using most recent advances in the field of radiative transfer Monte Carlo, in order to rigorously evaluate the instantaneous absorption-probability as a function of conversion. Implementation is performed in EDStar, an open-source development environment that enables straightforward simulation of reactors with any geometry (directly provided by their CAD-file), with the very same Monte Carlo algorithm. Experimental investigations are focused on Reinecke salt photodissociation in two reactors designed for the study of natural and artificial photosynthesis. The first reactor investigated serves as reference configuration: its simple torus geometry allows to compare flux densities measured with quantum sensors and actinometry. Validations and analysis are carried out on this reactor. Then, the approach is implemented on a 25 L photobioreactor with complex geometry corresponding to one thousand light-diffusing optical fibers distributing incident photons within the reaction volume. Results show that classical actinometry neglecting radiative transfer can lead to 50 percent error when measuring incident flux density for such reactors. Finally, we show how this radiative transfer approach paves the way for analyzing high conversion as a mean to investigate angular distribution of incident photons.
Explainable AI for Interpretable Credit Scoring
Creators: name: Demajo, Lara Marie
name: Vella, Vince
name: Dingli, Alexiei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the ever-growing achievements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the recent boosted enthusiasm in Financial Technology (FinTech), applications such as credit scoring have gained substantial academic interest. Credit scoring helps financial experts make better decisions regarding whether or not to accept a loan application, such that loans with a high probability of default are not accepted. Apart from the noisy and highly imbalanced data challenges faced by such credit scoring models, recent regulations such as the `right to explanation' introduced by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) have added the need for model interpretability to ensure that algorithmic decisions are understandable and coherent. An interesting concept that has been recently introduced is eXplainable AI (XAI), which focuses on making black-box models more interpretable. In this work, we present a credit scoring model that is both accurate and interpretable. For classification, state-of-the-art performance on the Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) and Lending Club (LC) Datasets is achieved using the Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model. The model is then further enhanced with a 360-degree explanation framework, which provides different explanations (i.e. global, local feature-based and local instance-based) that are required by different people in different situations. Evaluation through the use of functionallygrounded, application-grounded and human-grounded analysis show that the explanations provided are simple, consistent as well as satisfy the six predetermined hypotheses testing for correctness, effectiveness, easy understanding, detail sufficiency and trustworthiness.
description: 19 pages, David C. Wyld et al. (Eds): ACITY, DPPR, VLSI, WeST, DSA, CNDC, IoTE, AIAA, NLPTA - 2020
DeepDISC-photoz: Deep Learning-Based Photometric Redshift Estimation for Rubin LSST
Creators: name: Merz, Grant
name: Liu, Xin
name: Schmidt, Samuel
name: Malz, Alex I.
name: Zhang, Tianqing
name: Branton, Doug
name: Burke, Colin J.
name: Delucchi, Melissa
name: Ejjagiri, Yaswant Sai
name: Kubica, Jeremy
name: Liu, Yichen
name: Lynn, Olivia
name: Oldag, Drew
name: Collaboration, The LSST Dark Energy Science
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photometric redshifts will be a key data product for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) as well as for future ground and space-based surveys. The need for photometric redshifts, or photo-zs, arises from sparse spectroscopic coverage of observed galaxies. LSST is expected to observe billions of objects, making it crucial to have a photo-z estimator that is accurate and efficient. To that end, we present DeepDISC photo-z, a photo-z estimator that is an extension of the DeepDISC framework. The base DeepDISC network simultaneously detects, segments, and classifies objects in multi-band coadded images. We introduce photo-z capabilities to DeepDISC by adding a redshift estimation Region of Interest head, which produces a photo-z probability distribution function for each detected object. On simulated LSST images, DeepDISC photo-z outperforms traditional catalog-based estimators, in both point estimate and probabilistic metrics. We validate DeepDISC by examining dependencies on systematics including galactic extinction, blending and PSF effects. We also examine the impact of the data quality and the size of the training set and model. We find that the biggest factor in DeepDISC photo-z quality is the signal-to-noise of the imaging data, and see a reduction in photo-z scatter approximately proportional to the image data signal-to-noise. Our code is fully public and integrated in the RAIL photo-z package for ease of use and comparison to other codes at https://github.com/LSSTDESC/rail_deepdisc
description: 20 pages, 18 figures; Added discussion in Section 5 on sample selection bias, weak lensing, and model limitations; Added context for our model and data preprocessing in Section 3; Added discussion of BPZ code methodology in Section 3; Revised some analysis in Section 4.1;
Cheilotrichia (Empeda) appressa Alexander 1970
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Cheilotrichia
Cheilotrichia appressa

description: Cheilotrichia (Empeda) appressa Alexander, 1970
Original Genus: Cheilotrichia; Holotype: male; Type Locality: Panama, Chiriqui Province, El Volcán; Description: Alexander, 1970c; Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: none; Panamanian Provinces: Chiriquí; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
title: Trends der Prävalenz diagnostizierter chronischer Nierenkrankheiten und  der Inanspruchnahme der Dialyse  in der vertragsärztlichen Versorgung
Creators: name: Holstiege, Jakob
name: Kohring, Claudia
name: Dammertz, Lotte
name: Samson-Himmelsstjerna, Friedrich A. v.
name: Akmatov, Manas K.
name: Müller, Doreen
name: Stillfried, Dominik
Publisher: name: Zentralinstitut für die Kassenärztliche Versorgung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gx8zb05
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Die chronische Nierenkrankheit ist ein bedeutender und häufig in der Bevölkerung auftretender Risikofaktor für kardiovaskuläre Ereignisse und vorzeitiges Versterben. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie war die Deskription aktueller zeitlicher Trends der Prävalenz diagnostizierter chronischer Nierenkrankheiten in Deutschland.
Methoden: Die Datengrundlage bildeten bundesweite pseudonymisierte krankenkassenübergreifende vertragsärztliche Abrechnungsdaten gemäß § 295 SGB V. Die Prävalenz diagnostizierter Nierenkrankheiten wurde pro Berichtsjahr (2013 bis 2022) als prozentualer Anteil Erkrankter an der Gesamtpopulation vertragsärztlicher Patientinnen und Patienten ab 40 Jahren im Bund nach Alter und Geschlecht sowie in den Bereichen der Kassenärztlichen Vereinigungen (KV) und auf Kreisebene ermittelt. Eine Deskription der jährlichen Inanspruchnahme der Dialyse erfolgte anhand des prozentualen Anteils Betroffener an der Gesamtpopulation vertragsärztlicher Patientinnen und Patienten ab 40 Jahren nach Alter und Geschlecht und für die KV-Bereiche. Ergebnisse: Zwischen den Jahren 2013 und 2022 zeigte die Prävalenz diagnostizierter chronischer Nierenkrankheiten unter vertragsärztlichen Patientinnen und Patienten ab 40 Jahren einen kontinuierlichen Anstieg von 4,43 % auf 7,07 %, was einer relativen Zunahme von 60 % entsprach. Zunahmen konnten bei beiden Geschlechtern, wenn auch ausgeprägter bei Frauen, und in allen KV-Bereichen beobachtet werden. Zeitgleich wies die Prävalenz der Dialyseinanspruchnahme einen stagnierenden Trend auf. Im Vergleich zwischen 2013 und 2022 erhöhte sich der Patientenanteil mit verschlüsseltem Erkrankungsstadium von 54 % auf 76 %. Regional konnte in Ostdeutschland eine erhöhte Prävalenz diagnostizierter Erkrankungen beobachtet werden.
Real-time static potential in hot QCD
Creators: name: Laine, M.
name: Philipsen, O.
name: Romatschke, P.
name: Tassler, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a static potential for a heavy quark-antiquark pair propagating in Minkowski time at finite temperature, by defining a suitable gauge-invariant Green's function and computing it to first non-trivial order in Hard Thermal Loop resummed perturbation theory. The resulting Debye-screened potential could be used in models that attempt to describe the ``melting'' of heavy quarkonium at high temperatures. We show, in particular, that the potential develops an imaginary part, implying that thermal effects generate a finite width for the quarkonium peak in the dilepton production rate. For quarkonium with a very heavy constituent mass M, the width can be ignored for T \lsim g^2 M/12π, where g^2 is the strong gauge coupling; for a physical case like bottomonium, it could become important at temperatures as low as 250 MeV. Finally, we point out that the physics related to the finite width originates from the Landau-damping of low-frequency gauge fields, and could be studied non-perturbatively by making use of the classical approximation.
description: 20 pages. v2: a number of clarifications and a few references added; published version
Supersymmetry Approach to Almost Diagonal Random Matrices
Creators: name: Yevtushenko, Oleg
name: Ossipov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a supersymmetric field theoretical description of the Gaussian ensemble of the almost diagonal Hermitian Random Matrices. The matrices have independent random entries H_{ij} with parametrically small off-diagonal elements H_{ij}/H_{ii} ~ B << 1. We derive a regular virial expansion of correlation functions in the number of ``interacting'' supermatrices associated with different sites in the real space and demonstrate that the perturbation theory constructed in this way is controlled by a small parameter B. General form of the integral expression for the m-th virial coefficient governed by the ``interaction'' of m supermatrices is presented and calculated explicitly in the cases of 2- and 3-matrix ``interaction''. The suggested technique allows us to calculate both the spectral correlations and the correlations of the eigenfunctions taken at different energies and in different space points.
description: 34 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected
Hadron Spectroscopy in 2006
Creators: name: Rosner, Jonathan L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New results on hadron spectra have been appearing in abundance in the past few years as a result of improved experimental techniques. These include information on states made of both light quarks (u, d, and s) and with one or more heavy quarks (c, b). The present review, dedicated to the memory of R. H. Dalitz, treats light-quark states, glueballs, hybrids, charmed and beauty particles, charmonium, and $b \bar b$ states. Some future directions are mentioned.
description: 21 pages, 16 figures, presented at the 2006 Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2006), Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, May 30 - June 3, 2006. One reference clarified
Atarba (Ischnothrix) patens
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Atarba
Atarba patens

description: Atarba (Ischnothrix) patens (Alexander, 1940)
Original Genus: Ischnothrix; Holotype: female; Type Locality: Panama, Chiriqui Province, Potrerillos; Description: (Alexander, 1940l); Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: none; Panamanian Provinces: Chiriquí; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
Πράσινη οικονομία: διέξοδος από τη συστημική κρίση με βάση τα συγκριτικά πλεονεκτήματα του Νότου:
Creators: name: Σδρόλια, Ευαγγελία Θωμά
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2012
Subjects: Πράσινη οικονομία
Νότια Ευρώπη
Ανταγωνιστικό πλεονέκτημα
Green economy
Southern Europe
Competitive advantage

description: Βασικός σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας, είναι να διερευνηθεί αν η υιοθέτηση περιβαλλοντικών πρακτικών, μέσα από τη μεταστροφή των χωρών σε «πράσινες οικονομίες», θα μπορούσε να συμβάλλει στη διέξοδο από την υφιστάμενη συστημική κρίση που βιώνουν οι ανεπτυγμένες καπιταλιστικές οικονομίες. Εξαιτίας, μάλιστα, της σφοδρότητας με την οποία επλήγησαν οι χώρες της νότιας Ευρώπης από την κρίση χρέους, αλλά και των ιδιαίτερων συγκριτικών τους πλεονεκτημάτων (που παρουσιάζουν και θα μπορούσαν να εκμεταλλευτούν), θα επικεντρωθούμε σε αυτές. Η εμπειρική έρευνα πραγματοποιήθηκε τόσο σε μικροοικονομικό επίπεδο – με μελέτες περίπτωσης πολυεθνικών επιχειρήσεων – όσο και σε μακροοικονομικό επίπεδο – μέσα από την οικονομετρική ανάλυση των επιπτώσεων των περιβαλλοντικών πρακτικών στις εμπορικές σχέσεις των νότιων και βόρειων χωρών της Ευρώπης. Και στις δύο περιπτώσεις, καταλήξαμε στο συμπέρασμα ότι η υιοθέτηση περιβαλλοντικών πολιτικών και πρακτικών δε φαίνεται να επιβαρύνει τις επιχειρήσεις και τα κράτη, λειτουργώντας ως ένα επιπρόσθετο κόστος σύμφωνα με την παραδοσιακή νεοκλασική σχολή. Ωστόσο δεν καταλήξαμε ξεκάθαρα σε θετική μεταξύ της οικονομικής λειτουργίας και της ανταγωνιστικότητας των επιχειρήσεων και των κρατών αντίστοιχα, όπως ισχυρίζεται η «υπόθεση Porter», αλλά μόνο σε ενδείξεις για την ύπαρξη αυτής.
description: The main purpose of the present thesis is to investigate whether the adoption of environmental practices, through the transformation of countries into ‘green economies’, could be the way - out of the current systemic crisis, encountered by the developed capitalist economies. Taking into consideration the severity of the debt crisis hitting the south European countries and their potential competitive advantages, we choose to focus on them. The empirical research was conducted both at microeconomic level – by investigating case studies of multinational companies – and at macroeconomic level – through the econometric analysis of the impact of environmental practices on trade relations between southern and northern European countries. In both cases, we found that the adoption of environmental policies and practices does not seem to burden businesses and governments with an additional cost, as stated by the traditional neoclassical school. However, we did not find a positive relation between the economic operation and the competitiveness of firms and states, in accordance with the ‘Porter Hypothesis’, but only evidence of it.
ERICC Working Paper _ From evidence to practice: The state of the evidence of education in an emergency context – Cox’s Bazar
Creators: name: ERICC Consortium
name: Saha, Proma
name: Haque, Ashraf
name: Hasan, Galib
name: Abedin, Mohosin
name: Dow, Jeffrey
name: Zaw, Htet Thiha
name: Diazgranados Ferrans, Silvia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390201
subject: Education policy
classificationCode: 390407
subject: Inclusive education

description: Access to high-quality and continuous education is a fundamental right for all children, including those affected by conflict and protracted crises. Yet despite ongoing efforts, significant barriers to access, quality and continuity of education remain. In this paper, we apply a conceptual framework recently developed as part of the Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crises (ERICC) project to carry out a systematic review of evidence about the state of education in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where education delivery to conflict-affected Rohingya communities remains particularly challenging. Following an ERICC-informed analysis of 127 studies, we identify critical knowledge gaps in existing evidence: there is little to no evidence for what works; data on access, and on the quality and continuity of education are lacking; and few studies provide analysis at policy systems level. This is a significant concern since these gaps limit the ability of existing evidence to ensure that the new policy shift to the Myanmar curriculum delivers high-quality education in Cox’s Bazar. The implications of these findings provide national stakeholders, development agencies, and their partners with a comprehensive understanding of the analytical work taking place on the ground.
title: Part 1, The balance of where we are : a theory of poetic composition in relation to cognitive poetics ; Part 2, The secret uncles : poems
Creators: name: Manalo, Paolo Marko
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2011

description: Part 1 of the thesis, ‘The Balance of Where We Are: A Theory of Composition in Relation to Cognitive Poetics’, considers a compositional theory of poetry, with particular attention to the creative process, the poetic line, and trope. Drawing on from the disciplines of creative writing and cognitive poetics, this thesis asserts basic and important considerations for writing poetry. Chapter One seeks a model for the creative process that will aid in sustaining poetic composition but without dictating a specific method of writing. In presenting several theories of creativity it discusses ways of understanding these mental processes in preparation for the actual poem. It suggests an approach to poetry that will keep the writer focussed and aware of his or her limitations. Chapter Two establishes what it means to be writing poetry in an ‘age of cognitive science’ where some literary scholars have made a ‘cognitive turn’, by explaining the field of cognitive poetics. It considers specifically the cognitive poetics of Reuven Tsur as an important theory to enhance poetic composition. It connects some of Tsur’s discussions on poetic elements to enhance the craft-oriented approach to poetry. Chapter Three examines the poetic line as the basic unit of a poem which any compositional theory must consider. It reiterates the neural theory of the line as a ‘carrier wave’ of conceptual information that is both pleasing to the ear and the mind. It then re- evaluates specific poetic experiments concerning the line, and suggests a method of scanning to help the contemporary reader’s awareness of poetic rhythms. Chapter Four examines trope, specifically poetic metaphor in relation to the assumption of conceptual metaphor theory that poetic metaphors are extensions of everyday metaphors. It welcomes an alternative cognitive-literary explanation by re-iterating metaphor theories from Reuven Tsur and Don Paterson. Finally, it argues that the practitioner is always writing the variation of the ‘one’ poem that he or she has discovered. Part 2 of the thesis, ‘The Secret Uncles: Poems’, consists of my own poems.
Atarba (Atarba) subpatens Alexander 1969
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Atarba
Atarba subpatens

description: Atarba (Atarba) subpatens Alexander, 1969
Original Genus: Atarba; Holotype: male; Type Locality: Panama, Chiriqui Province, El Volcán; Description: Alexander, 1969n; Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: Alexander, 1969n; Panamanian Provinces: Chiriquí; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
Modeling All Exceedances Above a Threshold Using an Extremal Dependence Structure: Inferences on Several Flood Characteristics
Creators: name: Ribatet, Mathieu
name: Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.
name: Sauquet, Eric
name: Grésillon, Jean-Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Flood quantile estimation is of great importance for many engineering studies and policy decisions. However, practitioners must often deal with small data available. Thus, the information must be used optimally. In the last decades, to reduce the waste of data, inferential methodology has evolved from annual maxima modeling to peaks over a threshold one. To mitigate the lack of data, peaks over a threshold are sometimes combined with additional information - mostly regional and historical information. However, whatever the extra information is, the most precious information for the practitioner is found at the target site. In this study, a model that allows inferences on the whole time series is introduced. In particular, the proposed model takes into account the dependence between successive extreme observations using an appropriate extremal dependence structure. Results show that this model leads to more accurate flood peak quantile estimates than conventional estimators. In addition, as the time dependence is taken into account, inferences on other flood characteristics can be performed. An illustration is given on flood duration. Our analysis shows that the accuracy of the proposed models to estimate the flood duration is related to specific catchment characteristics. Some suggestions to increase the flood duration predictions are introduced.
Dipole-induced vortex ratchets in superconducting films with arrays of micromagnets
Creators: name: Silva, C. C. de Souza
name: Silhanek, A. V.
name: Van de Vondel, J.
name: Gillijns, W.
name: Metlushko, V.
name: Ilic, B.
name: Moshchalkov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the transport properties of superconducting films with periodic arrays of in-plane magnetized micromagnets. Two different magnetic textures are studied: a square array of magnetic bars and a close-packed array of triangular microrings. As confirmed by MFM imaging, the magnetic state of both systems can be adjusted to produce arrays of almost point-like magnetic dipoles. By carrying out transport measurements with ac drive, we observed experimentally a recently predicted ratchet effect induced by the interaction between superconducting vortices and the magnetic dipoles. Moreover, we find that these magnetic textures produce vortex-antivortex patterns, which have a crucial role on the transport properties of this hybrid system.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Extracellular vesicles from fungal infection in humans: a key player in immunological responses
Creators: name: Rezende, Caroline
name: W.S.dos Santos, Patrick
name: Piraine, Renan
name: Silvestrini, Virgínia
name: Barbosa, Julio
name: C. P. Valera, Fabiana
name: Tamashiro, Edwin
name: Podolsky-Gondim, Guilherme G.
name: Quintana, Silvana
name: Calado, Rodrigo
name: Martinez, Roberto
name: Fill, Taicia Pacheco
name: L. Rodrigues, Márcio
name: Almeida, Fausto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320211
subject: Infectious diseases
classificationCode: 310705
subject: Mycology
classificationCode: 320404
subject: Cellular immunology
classificationCode: 340106
subject: Metabolomic chemistry
classificationCode: 320599
subject: Medical biochemistry and metabolomics not elsewhere classified

description: Candida spp., Cryptococcus spp., and Paracoccidioides spp. are the main pathogenic fungi responsible for nearly four million deaths annually. Diagnosing and treating fungal infections is difficult due to limited access to diagnostic tests and rising antifungal resistance. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) facilitate interactions between fungal cells and hosts, significantly influencing the pathogen–host relationship. Owing to the complexity of fungal EVs and the lack of clinical studies on their roles in human infections, we analyzed EVs from serum and urine samples of patients with infections caused by Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Paracoccidioides brasiliensis to determine their roles. Using mass spectrometry, we identified sterols, sphingolipids, and fatty acids as key metabolites in the EVs. We quantified cholesterol and ergosterol, confirming the presence of both host and fungal EVs in clinical samples from patients with candidiasis, cryptococcosis, and paracoccidioidomycosis. Our research investigated whether these EVs could modulate the host immune response. We observed a proinflammatory response in murine and human macrophages, characterized by increased cytokines, such as the tumor necrosis factor-α, interferon-γ, and interleukin-6, and elevated expression of the inducible nitric oxide synthase gene, a marker of M1 macrophage response. Thus, circulating EVs in patients with fungal infections likely play a role in disease pathophysiology. These findings enhance our understanding of EVs in fungal infections, suggesting potential therapeutic targets for systemic mycoses.
Spectral radiative analysis of bio-inspired H2 production in a benchmark photoreactor: a first investigation using spatial photonic balance
Creators: name: Supplis, Caroline
name: Gros, Fabrice
name: Dahi, Ghiles
name: Dauchet, Jérémi
name: Roudet, Matthieu
name: Gloaguen, Frédéric
name: Cornet, Jean-françois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The iron thiolate complex is a simplified model of the active site of diiron hydrogenase enzymes. Here, we describe the implementation of this noble metal free catalyst in aqueous solutions using eosin Y as photosensitizer and triethylamine as an electron donor in an experimental bench specially designed for the study of H2 photoproduction. The bench is composed of an adjustable visible light source, a fully equipped flat torus photoreactor and analytical devices. Rates of H2 production under varied experimental conditions were obtained from an accurate measurement of pressure increase. A spectral radiative analysis involving blue photons of the source primarily absorbed has been carried out. Results have proven the rate of H2 production is proportional to the mean volumetric rate of radiant light absorbed demonstrating a linear thermokinetic coupling. The bio-inspired catalyst has proven non-limiting and reveals interesting capabilities for future large scale H2 production.
Atarba (Atarba) serena Alexander 1969
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Atarba
Atarba serena

description: Atarba (Atarba) serena Alexander, 1969
Original Genus: Atarba; Holotype: male; Type Locality: Panama, Chiriqui Province, El Volcán; Description: Alexander, 1969n; Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: Alexander, 1969n; Panamanian Provinces: Chiriquí; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
Atarba (Atarba) pustulata Alexander 1969
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Atarba
Atarba pustulata

description: Atarba (Atarba) pustulata Alexander, 1969
Original Genus: Atarba; Holotype: male; Type Locality: Panama, Chiriqui Province, El Volcán; Description: Alexander, 1969n; Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: Alexander, 1969n; Panamanian Provinces: Chiriquí; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
Rényi complexity in mean-field disordered systems
Creators: name: Javerzat, Nina
name: Bertin, Eric
name: Ozawa, Misaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Configurational entropy, or complexity, plays a critical role in characterizing disordered systems such as glasses, yet its measurement often requires significant computational resources. Recently, Rényi entropy, a one-parameter generalization of Shannon entropy, has gained attention across various fields of physics due to its simpler functional form, making it more practical for measurements. In this paper, we compute the Rényi version of complexity for prototypical mean-field disordered models, including the random energy model, its generalization, referred to as the random free energy model, and the $p$-spin spherical model. We first demonstrate that the Rényi complexity with index $m$ is related to the free energy difference for a generalized annealed Franz-Parisi potential with $m$ clones. Detailed calculations show that for models having one-step replica symmetry breaking (RSB), the Rényi complexity vanishes at the Kauzmann transition temperature $T_K$, irrespective of $m>1$, while RSB solutions are required even in the liquid phase. This study strengthens the link between Rényi entropy and the physics of disordered systems and provides theoretical insights for its practical measurements.
Orelabrutinib: First Approval
Creators: name: Sohita Dhillon
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Declarations Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
 Authorship and Conflict of interest During the peer review process the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the authors on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. Sohita Dhillon is a contracted employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to the review and are responsible for the article content. Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent to publish, Availability of data and material, Code availability Not applicable.
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AbstractDysregulation of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) signalling has been linked to various B cell malignancies and autoimmune diseases. Orelabrutinib (宜诺凯®) is an orally administered, potent, irreversible and highly selective BTK-inhibitor being developed by InnoCare Pharma for the treatment of B cell malignancies and autoimmune diseases. In December 2020, orelabrutinib received its first approval in China for the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) or chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), who have received at least one treatment in the past. Clinical development of orelabrutinib for various indications is underway in the USA and China. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of orelabrutinib leading to this first approval.
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Atarba (Atarba) panamensis Alexander 1969
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Atarba
Atarba panamensis

description: Atarba (Atarba) panamensis Alexander, 1969
Original Genus: Atarba; Holotype: male; Type Locality: Panama, Coclé Province, El Valle de Anton; Description: Alexander, 1969e; Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: none; Panamanian Provinces: Coclé; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
Atarba (Atarba) fieldiana Alexander 1969
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Atarba
Atarba fieldiana

description: Atarba (Atarba) fieldiana Alexander, 1969
Original Genus: Atarba; Holotype: male; Type Locality: Panama, Coclé Province; Description: Alexander, 1969e; Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: none; Panamanian Provinces: Coclé; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
Atarba (Atarba) distispina Alexander 1969
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Atarba
Atarba distispina

description: Atarba (Atarba) distispina Alexander, 1969
Original Genus: Atarba; Holotype: male; Type Locality: Panama, Chiriqui Province, El Volcán; Description: Alexander, 1969n; Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: Alexander, 1969n; Panamanian Provinces: Chiriquí; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
How 'pairons' are revealed in the electronic specific heat of cuprates
Creators: name: Noat, Yves
name: Mauger, Alain
name: Nohara, Minoru
name: Eisaki, Hiroshi
name: Sacks, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the thermodynamic properties of high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductors is a key step to establish a satisfactory theory of these materials. The electronic specific heat is highly unconventional, distinctly non-BCS, with remarkable doping-dependent features extending well beyond $T_c$. The pairon concept, bound holes in their local antiferromagnetic environment, has successfully described the tunneling and photoemission spectra. In this article, we show that the model explains the distinctive features of the entropy and specific heat throughout the temperature-doping phase diagram. Their interpretation connects unambiguously the pseudogap, existing up to $T^*$, to the superconducting state below $T_c$. In the underdoped case, the specific heat is dominated by pairon excitations, following Bose statistics, while with increasing doping, both bosonic excitations and fermionic quasiparticles coexist.
Atarba (Atarba) apicispinosa Alexander 1934
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Atarba
Atarba apicispinosa

description: Atarba (Atarba) apicispinosa Alexander, 1934
Original Genus: Atarba; Holotype: male; Type Locality: Panama, Chiriqui Province, Finca Lerida, nr Boquete; Description: Alexander, 1934d; Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: none; Panamanian Provinces: Chiriquí; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
Possible evidence for electromagnons in multiferroic manganites
Creators: name: Pimenov, A.
name: Mukhin, A. A.
name: Ivanov, V. Yu.
name: Travkin, V. D.
name: Balbashov, A. M.
name: Loidl, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetodielectric materials are characterized by a strong coupling of magnetic and dielectric properties and in rare cases simultaneously exhibit both, magnetic and polar order. Among other multiferroics, TbMnO3 and GdMnO3 reveal a strong magneto-dielectric (ME) coupling and as a consequence fundamentally new spin excitations exist: Electro-active magnons, or electromagnons, i. e. spin waves which can be excited by ac electric fields. Here we show that these excitations appear in the phase with an incommensurate (IC) magnetic structure of the manganese spins. In external magnetic fields this IC structure can be suppressed and the electromagnons are wiped out, thereby inducing considerable changes in the index of refraction from dc up to THz frequencies. Hence, besides adding a new creature to the zoo of fundamental excitations, the refraction index can be tuned by moderate magnetic fields, which allows the design of a new generation of optical switches and optoelectronic devices.
description: 4 Pages, 2 figures
Gonomyia (Gonomyia) sejuncta Alexander 1970
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Gonomyia
Gonomyia sejuncta

description: Gonomyia (Gonomyia) sejuncta Alexander, 1970
Original Genus: Gonomyia; Holotype: male; Type Locality: Panama, Chiriqui Province, El Volcán; Description: Alexander, 1970c; Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: none; Panamanian Provinces: Chiriquí; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
Psychologiczne koncepcje stresu i radzenia sobie
Creators: name: Falewicz, Adam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Clinical Psychology

description: Current paper provides a review of the psychological theories of stress and coping. The first part describes the classic concepts of stress and coping. According to the traditional approach in psychology stress is seen as a stimulus, a person’s reaction to a threatening factor, or as a result of interaction of both. The second part introduces an alternative concept, called – the proactive coping. This approach provides understanding of the stress situation in terms of challange. It stands in an opposition to classical (reactive) concepts in which stress is a synonym of danger. Following part gives a description of tool that measures the dimensions of proactive coping – the Proactive Coping Inventory (PCI).
Bending of Light and Inhomogeneous Picard-Fuchs Equation
Creators: name: Sasaki, Tadashi
name: Suzuki, Hisao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bending of light rays by gravitational sources is one of the first evidences of the general relativity. When the gravitational souce is a stationary massive object such as a black hole, the bending angle has an integral representation, from which various series expansions in terms of the parameters of orbit and the background spacetime has been derived. However, it is not clear that it has any analytic expansion. In this paper, we show that such an analytic expansion can be obtained for the case of a Schwarzschild black hole by solving an inhomogeneous Picard-Fuchs equation, which has been applied to compute effective superpotentials on D-branes in the Calabi-Yau manifolds. From the analytic expression of the bending angle, both weak and strong deflection expansions are explicitly obtained. We show that the result can be obtained by the direct integration approach. We also discuss how the charge of the gravitational source affects the bending angle and show that a similar analytic expression can be obtained for the extremal Reissner-Nordstroem spacetime.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
On the geometry of Hamiltonian chaos
Creators: name: Horwitz, Lawrence
name: Levitan, Jacob
name: Lewkowicz, Meir
name: Schiffer, Marcelo
name: Zion, Yossi Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that Gutzwiller's characterization of chaotic Hamiltonian systems in terms of the curvature associated with a Riemannian metric tensor in the structure of the Hamiltonian can be extended to a wide class of potential models of standard form through definition of a conformal metric. The geodesic equations reproduce the Hamilton equations of the original potential model when a transition is made to the dual manifold, and the geodesics in the dual space coincide with the orbits of the Hamiltonian potential model. We therefore find a direct geometrical description of the time development of a Hamiltonian potential model. The second covariant derivative of the geodesic deviation in this dual manifold generates a dynamical curvature, resulting in (energy dependent) criteria for unstable behavior different from the usual Lyapunov criteria. We discuss some examples of unstable Hamiltonian systems in two dimensions giving, in particular, detailed results for a potential obtained from a fifth order expansion of a Toda lattice Hamiltonian.
description: 7 pages TeX, Figure captions, 4 figures (eps). Some clarifications, added references
Gonomyia (Gonomyia) parvistyla Alexander 1979
Creators: name: Armitage, Brian J.
name: Ríos González, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Gonomyia
Gonomyia parvistyla

description: Gonomyia (Gonomyia) parvistyla Alexander, 1979
Original Genus: Gonomyia; Holotype: male; Type Locality: Panama, Chiriqui Province, Fortuna Dam Site; Description: Alexander, 1979a; Wing Reference: none; Hypopygium Reference: Alexander, 1979a; Panamanian Provinces: Chiriquí; Regional Distribution: Panama.
description: Published as part of Armitage, Brian J. & Ríos González, Tomás A., 2019, The Diptera of Panama. I. Annotated catalog of the Tipulomorpha of Panama, pp. 1-30 in Insecta Mundi 712 on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3727017
Ανάπτυξη πληροφοριακού συστήματος για τη σύνταξη μελετών περιβαλλοντικών επιπτώσεων
Creators: name: Μανδάνα, Βασιλική Απόστολου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2012
Subjects: Visual Basic
Νομοθεσία
Περιβαλλοντικές Μελέτες
Legislation
Environmental study

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας μεταπτυχιακής εργασίας είναι ανάπτυξη ενός αυτόνομου λογισμικού, το οποίο δέχεται δεδομένα από τον χρήστη και υπολογίζει αυτόματα τα αποτελέσματα. Τα αποτελέσματα αφορούν α) στην κατάταξη δημόσιων και ιδιωτικών έργων και δραστηριοτήτων σε κατηγορίες και υποκατηγορίες σύμφωνα με το άρθρο 1 παράγραφος 4 και το άρθρο 20 παράγραφος 10 του Ν. 4014/21-09-2011 (ΦΕΚ Α’ 209/2011) και το Παράρτημα VII : Ομάδα 7η «Πτηνοκτηνοτροφικές εγκαταστάσεις» και την Υ.Α. 1958/13-01-2012 (ΦΕΚ Β’ 21/2012) και β) στην καθοδήγηση του χρήστη – μελετητή, κατά το στάδιο της σύνταξης της περιβαλλοντικής μελέτης, δίνοντας σε αυτόν τη δυνατότητα να εκτύπωση το αναλυτικό διάγραμμα ύλης σύνταξης της αντίστοιχης μελέτης. Το πρόγραμμα έχει υλοποιηθεί μέσα από το Visual Studio 6 με τη γλώσσα προγραμματισμού Visual Basic. Η εφαρμογή μπορεί να χωριστεί σε δύο τμήματα. Στο πρώτο τμήμα, λαμβάνει μέρος ο χρήστης, δίνοντας πληροφορίες και απαντώντας σε ερωτήσεις, σχετικά με τo είδος του έργου. Κάνει επίσης επιλογές σχετικά με τον αριθμό των ζώων ή των πτηνών και την περιοχή ενδιαφέροντος. Χρησιμοποιώντας τα δεδομένα αυτά, γίνονται όλοι οι απαραίτητοι υπολογισμοί, ώστε να μπορεί να γίνει η κατάταξη του έργου σε μία από τις κατηγορίες (Α1, Α2 ΚΑΙ Β). Στο δεύτερο τμήμα της εφαρμογής, παρουσιάζονται αναλυτικά όλες οι πληροφορίες που δόθηκαν από τον χρήστη, τα οποία συνοδεύονται με το διάγραμμα της ύλης της Περιβαλλοντικής Μελέτης με δυνατότητα εκτύπωσης.
description: The purpose of the thesis is the development of an autonomous software which accepts data from the user and automatically calculates the results. The results pertain to: a) the classification of public and private projects and activities into categories and subcategories according to Article 1 paragraph 4 and Article 20, paragraph 10 of the Law 4014/21-09-2011 (Official Gazette A 209/2011) and Annex VII: 7th Group "poultry and livestock facilities" and the MD 1958/13-01-2012 (FEK B '21/2012) and b) the guidance of the user - scholar, while drawing the environmental study, enabling them to print the whole chart of guidelines on how to draw the respective study. The program has been relived through Visual Studio 6 using the Visual Basic language. The application can be divided into two sections. In the first section, it is the user who participates giving information and answering questions recording the kind of project. He also makes choices concerning the number of animals or poultry and the area of interest. Using these above data, the necessary calculations are being made in order for the project to be classified into one of the categories (A1, A2 and B). In the second section of the application all information provided by the user is presented extensively accompanied with the chart of guideline on the environmental study with a printing option.