cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chemical profile and in vivo anti-hyperlipidaemic activity of chloroform fraction of Zygophyllum indicum in Triton X-100 induced hyperlipidaemic rats
Creators: name: Rehman, Atiq-ur-
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Anti-hyperlipidaemic effect of chloroform fraction of aerial parts of Zygophyllum indicum (Fagonia indica Burm.f.) was studied in rats. Adult Wistar albino rats were distributed into five groups. Rats of all groups except group I were given an intraperitoneal injection (Triton X-100) to induce hyperlipidaemia. Groups (I and II) served as normal and hyperlipidaemic control groups respectively. Group III and group IV were administered with 250 and 500 mg/kg chloroform fraction of the plant respectively after 18 h of inducing hyperlipidaemia. Group V was given 10 mg/kg of the standard atorvastatin. Chloroform fraction had significant (p < 0.05) hypolipidaemic effects on lipid profile and biochemical parameters with a protective effect on the liver in comparison to group II. F. indica with hypolipidaemic effect is useful in the management of hyperlipidaemia. Chloroform fraction with its constituents can be used as an antihyperlipidaemic supplement in developing countries for the development of novel therapeutic agents.
Comment on 'Temperature range of superconducting fluctuations above $T_c$ in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ single crystals'
Creators: name: Sóñora, D.
name: Mosqueira, J.
name: Vidal, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contrary to the starting assumption of Grbić et al. (Phys. Rev. B 83, 144508 (2011)), here we will first argue that a 16 T magnetic field is not enough to quench all superconducting fluctuations above Tc in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$. We then conclude that through their measurements of microwave absorption these authors actually determine the ac-fluctuation magnetoconductivity at 16 T, instead of the zero-field ac paraconductivity as they pretend. So, the temperature proposed by Grbić et al. for the onset of the superconducting fluctuations, T', will correspond to the one at which the finite-field effects at 16 T become measurable in their experiments, and the actual fluctuations onset will be located well above T'. These conclusions, which also concern influential recent publications on that issue, are then confirmed by analyzing some of the Grbić et al., data on the grounds of the Gaussian Ginzburg-Landau (GGL) approach for the finite-field (or Prange) fluctuation regime.
description: Version as published in Phys. Rev. B, but now including an Appendix with a reply to the authors' published Reply. 6 pages, 3 figures. Compared to v2 this version presents a small improvement in the figure of the Appendix
Experimental tests of curvature couplings of Fermions in General Relativity
Creators: name: Mohanty, S.
name: Mukhopadhyay, B.
name: Prasanna, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin 1/2 particles in geodesic trajectories experience no gravitational potential but they still have non-zero couplings to the curvature tensor. The effect of space time curvature on fermions can be parameterized by a vector and a pseudo-vector potential. These apparent CPT violating terms can be measured with satellite based spin-polarized torsion balance and clock comparison experiments. The Earth's curvature effect is of the order of 10^{-37} Gev which is not far from the present bounds of ~10^{-29} Gev on such CPT violating couplings.
description: Latex file 9 pages. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
title: Lettre de Jacques Leibowitch à Luc Bondy
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111132541141
On a q-difference Painlevé III equation: II. Rational solutions
Creators: name: Kajiwara, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rational solutions for a $q$-difference analogue of the Painlevé III equation are considered. A Determinant formula of Jacobi-Trudi type for the solutions is constructed.
description: Archive version is already official. Published by JNMP at http://www.sm.luth.se/math/JNMP/
Visible actions and criteria for multiplicity-freeness of representations of Heisenberg groups
Creators: name: Baklouti, Ali
name: Sasaki, Atsumu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E25, 22E27

description: A visible action on a complex manifold is a holomorphic action that admits a $J$-transversal totally real submanifold $S$. It is said to be strongly visible if there exists an orbit-preserving anti-holomorphic diffeomorphism $σ$ such that $σ|_S = \operatorname{id}_S$. Let $G$ be the Heisenberg group and $H$ a non-trivial connected closed subgroup of $G$. We prove that any complex homogeneous space $D = G^{\mathbb{C}}/H^{\mathbb{C}}$ admits a strongly visible $L$-action, where $L$ stands for a connected closed subgroup of $G$ explicitly constructed through a co-exponential basis of $H$ in $G$. This leads in turn that $G$ itself acts strongly visibly on $D$. The proof is carried out by finding explicitly an orbit-preserving anti-holomorphic diffeomorphism and a totally real submanifold $S$, for which the dimension depends upon the dimensions of $G$ and $H$. As a direct application, our geometric results provide a proof of various multiplicity-free theorems on continuous representations on the space of holomorphic sections on $D$. Moreover, we also generate as a consequence, a geometric criterion for a quasi-regular representation of $G$ to be multiplicity-free.
description: 36 pages
The Construction of Cold-Chain Logistics Park of Agricultural Products in Sanshui from Two-stage Perspective
Creators: name: HUANG, Jianhui
name: WANG, Wei
name: LI, Quan
name: HUANG, Jianhui
name: WANG, Wei
name: LI, Quan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cold-chain logistics
subject: Logistics park
subject: Agricultural products

description: This paper firstly analyzed the operation model, market positioning, market demand forecast as well as market competition and challenges, park site selection, and transportation conditions for construction of the Cold-Chain Logistics Park of Agricultural Products in Sanshui. Then, it presented the overall planning scheme for construction of the Cold-Chain Logistics Park of Agricultural Products from a progressive two-stage perspective of overall planning and stage-by-stage implementation. The first stage mainly performs the function as a transaction platform of agricultural products and meanwhile provides customers with agricultural products storage and inspection services. The second stage adds value-added services such as distribution processing, modified atmosphere storage, freezing and refrigeration, market price information distribution, E-commerce of agricultural products and personalized services. It is expected to provide references and suggestions for the construction of the Cold-Chain Logistics Park of Agricultural Products.
Supplementary Fig. 2. An alternative biostratigraphic age model for the NKK-1 borehole (age model 'Option-1').The Eocene–Oligocene Transition in Nanggulan, Java: lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and foraminiferal stable isotopes
Creators: name: Coxall, Helen K.
name: Jones, Tom Dunkley
name: Jones, Amy P.
name: Lunt, Peter
name: MacMillan, Ian
name: Marliyani, Gayatri I.
name: Nicholas, Christopher J.
name: O'Halloran, Aoife
name: Piga, Emanuela
name: Prihardjo Sanyoto
name: Wartono Rahardjo
name: Pearson, Paul N.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Supplementary Fig. 2. An alternative biostratigraphic age model for the NKK-1 borehole (age model 'Option-1'). Age-depth tie points are plotted as event mid-points (see Table 3) with associated depth error ranges shown. T = top, B = base. Planktonic foraminifera biozones are shown against the age scale. See Fig. 6 for nannofossil zone distribution. Grey circles identify the calibrated datum events used to constrain the numerical age model. Other planktonic foraminiferal events used in to construct the biozonation are also named. Dashed biozone separators indicate low certainty bioevent positions in the core. HCO = highest common occurrence, and is an alternative interpretation of the Psuedohastigerina naguewichiensis range data, using the HCO of this species as the calibrated age-depth tie-point rather than the last rare occurrence above the sandstone/basalt (Option - 2).
Analysis on Structure of Flower Market in Beijing
Creators: name: SUN, Xi
name: ZHANG, Yingying
name: SUN, Xi
name: ZHANG, Yingying
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Flower in Beijing
subject: Flower market
subject: Solutions

description: With the socio-economic development and people’s living condition improvement, the requirement for environment is higher and higher and the mental demand is also more and more. For this, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry listed survey programs of consumption demands of flower market in Beijing in 2014, and provided several recommendations in line with current situations, problems and environment of the flower industry, for future reference of flower decision making of Beijing. In March 2014, the authors carried out survey in flower market of Beijing and participated in survey of management of flower industry. In May of the same year, combining this study, they visited ten districts (counties), including Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chaoyang, Fengtai, Shijingshan, and Daxing, together with relevant flower researchers, and carried out in-depth survey in several districts (counties) with better foundation of flower industry. Besides, with reference to China Flower & Gardening News and China Flowers & Horticulture, and relevant literature, it summarized and sorted out many years of various materials and statistical data of flower industry in Beijing. On the basis of surveying different flower markets and production areas and analyzing relevant data, the authors visited famous flower enterprises and large flower production and sales households in Beijing, elaborated current situations of Beijing flower industry in industrial foundation, development environment, industrial distribution, product type, and circulation field, and pointed out major problems in product type, market structure, production cost, service system, and logistics channels. Finally, it came up with practical and feasible solutions, hoping to provide certain reference for excellent development of flower industry in Beijing.
title: Novel in vitro models to investigate pharmacological targets in genital resistance vasculature
Creators: name: Morton, Jude S
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Sexual dysfunctions, treatment, pharmacology.

description: Male and female sexual dysfunctions are prevalent, multifactorial disorders, which significantly impact on the quality of life of sufferers. The development of treatments for male sexual dysfunction has been based on an understanding of the function of the genital tissues. However, much of this knowledge has been gained using techniques to investigate responses of penile and vaginal tissue strips to exogenous agonists and antagonists. In the few studies that have considered the function of isolated male penile arteries it has been demonstrated that vascular responses may differ from those of penile tissues. A fuller understanding of the function of isolated penile arteries will provide a more sophisticated approach to novel pharmacological therapies for male sexual dysfunction. In addition, very little research has been carried out into the physiology of female genital tissues and no studies have considered the function of isolated female genital arteries. Treatments for sexual dysfunction in the female sex have largely been based on successes in the male field with mixed results. A fuller understanding of the function of female vaginal arteries may provide a more coherent basis for the development of novel pharmacological therapies for female sexual dysfunction. The present study utilised the method of small vessel wire myography to perform a detailed pharmacological investigation into the vascular function of isolated genital arteries from male and female New Zealand White rabbits. The arteries chosen for study were the male dorsal and cavernous arteries and the female vaginal artery, divided into two preparations, upstream 'extra-vaginal' artery (EVA) and downstream 'intra-vaginal' artery (IVA). Mechanisms of vasoconstriction and vasodilation were examined and related to current published knowledge. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.).
The Impact of Climate Change on Maize Yield and Farmers' Adaptation Options: Evidence from Three Provinces of China
Creators: name: MA, Jiliang
name: KONG, Weisheng
name: MA, Jiliang
name: KONG, Weisheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Maize yield
subject: Climate change
subject: Adaptation
subject: China

description: This paper tries to answer the question that whether farmers can adjust better to climate change in the short-term than in long-term by using panel data models and long difference models respectively. We find that short term weather shocks are less detrimental to maize yield than the long-term climate changes, which can be seen as the evidences of adaptations. For adaptation options, we find farmers choose to decrease maize planting area or enlarge the irrigation inputs to cope with the increase of extreme heat days; when there are more precipitations, farmers will increase the input of fertilizer or labor.
Potential anti-inflammatory biomarkers from Myrtaceae essential oils revealed by untargeted metabolomics
Creators: name: Maiolini, Tatiane Cristina Silva
name: de Jesus Nicácio, Karen
name: Rosa, Welton
name: de Oliveira Miranda, Daniel
name: Santos, Mario Ferreira Conceição
name: Bueno, Paula Carolina Pires
name: Lago, João Henrique Ghilardi
name: Sartorelli, Patricia
name: Dias, Danielle Ferreira
name: de Paula, Daniela Aparecida Chagas
name: Soares, Marisi Gomes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Many species from Myrtaceae have traditionally been used in traditional medicine as anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antidiarrheal, antioxidant and antirheumatic, besides in blood cholesterol reduction. In the present work, the anti-inflammatory activity of essential oils from eighteen Myrtaceae spp. were evaluated according to their ex-vivo anti-inflammatory activity in human blood, and the corresponding biomarkers were determined using untargeted metabolomics data and multivariate data analysis. From these studied species, six displayed anti-inflammatory activity with percentage rates of inhibition of PGE2 release above 70%. Caryophyllene oxide (1), humulene epoxide II (2), β-selinene (3), α-amorphene (4), α-selinene (5), germacrene A (6), β-bisabolene (7), α-muurolene (8), α-humulene (9), β-gurjunene (10), myrcene (11), β-elemene (12), α-cadinol (13), α-copaene (14), E-nerolidol (15) and ledol (16) were annotated as potential anti-inflammatory biomarkers. The results obtained in this study point to essential oils from species of the Myrtaceae family as a rich source of anti-inflammatory agents.
SUGAR: An improved empirical model of Type Ia Supernovae based on spectral features
Creators: name: Léget, P. -F.
name: Gangler, E.
name: Mondon, F.
name: Aldering, G.
name: Antilogus, P.
name: Aragon, C.
name: Bailey, S.
name: Baltay, C.
name: Barbary, K.
name: Bongard, S.
name: Boone, K.
name: Buton, C.
name: Chotard, N.
name: Copin, Y.
name: Dixon, S.
name: Fagrelius, P.
name: Feindt, U.
name: Fouchez, D.
name: Hayden, B.
name: Hillebrandt, W.
name: Kim, A.
name: Kowalski, M.
name: Kuesters, D.
name: Lombardo, S.
name: Lin, Q.
name: Nordin, J.
name: Pain, R.
name: Pecontal, E.
name: Pereira, R.
name: Perlmutter, S.
name: Pruzhinskaya, M. V.
name: Rabinowitz, D.
name: Rigault, M.
name: Runge, K.
name: Rubin, D.
name: Saunders, C.
name: Says, L. -P.
name: Smadja, G.
name: Sofiatti, C.
name: Suzuki, N.
name: Taubenberger, S.
name: Tao, C.
name: Thomas, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are widely used to measure the expansion of the Universe. Improving distance measurements of SNe Ia is one technique to better constrain the acceleration of expansion and determine its physical nature. This document develops a new SNe Ia spectral energy distribution (SED) model, called the SUpernova Generator And Reconstructor (SUGAR), which improves the spectral description of SNe Ia, and consequently could improve the distance measurements. This model is constructed from SNe Ia spectral properties and spectrophotometric data from The Nearby Supernova Factory collaboration. In a first step, a PCA-like method is used on spectral features measured at maximum light, which allows us to extract the intrinsic properties of SNe Ia. Next, the intrinsic properties are used to extract the average extinction curve. Third, an interpolation using Gaussian Processes facilitates using data taken at different epochs during the lifetime of a SN Ia and then projecting the data on a fixed time grid. Finally, the three steps are combined to build the SED model as a function of time and wavelength. This is the SUGAR model. The main advancement in SUGAR is the addition of two additional parameters to characterize SNe Ia variability. The first is tied to the properties of SNe Ia ejecta velocity, the second is correlated with their calcium lines. The addition of these parameters, as well as the high quality the Nearby Supernova Factory data, makes SUGAR an accurate and efficient model for describing the spectra of normal SNe Ia as they brighten and fade. The performance of this model makes it an excellent SED model for experiments like ZTF, LSST or WFIRST.
description: 25 pages, 27 figures
Current Situation and Development of Technology Extension System for Suburban Agriculture: A Case Study of Hanjiang District of Yangzhou City
Creators: name: GUO, Jing
name: SHA, Zhengqin
name: JI, Luying
name: GE, Sheng
name: YANG, Wuguang
name: GUO, Jing
name: SHA, Zhengqin
name: JI, Luying
name: GE, Sheng
name: YANG, Wuguang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Hanjiang District
subject: Agricultural technology extension
subject: Agricultural Technology Extension Law
subject: Agricultural modernization
subject: Sustainable development

description: Through the survey on agricultural technology extension system in Hanjiang District of Yangzhou City, this paper analyzed possible problems in the agricultural technology extension system. Combining with newly revised Agricultural Technology Extension Law and modern agricultural extension theory, it discussed the new development direction. Finally, it came up with approaches and measures for establishing the agricultural technology extension system in Hanjiang District.
Fair Division of Mixed Divisible and Indivisible Goods
Creators: name: Bei, Xiaohui
name: Li, Zihao
name: Liu, Jinyan
name: Liu, Shengxin
name: Lu, Xinhang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the problem of fair division when the resources contain both divisible and indivisible goods. Classic fairness notions such as envy-freeness (EF) and envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) cannot be directly applied to the mixed goods setting. In this work, we propose a new fairness notion envy-freeness for mixed goods (EFM), which is a direct generalization of both EF and EF1 to the mixed goods setting. We prove that an EFM allocation always exists for any number of agents. We also propose efficient algorithms to compute an EFM allocation for two agents and for $n$ agents with piecewise linear valuations over the divisible goods. Finally, we relax the envy-free requirement, instead asking for $ε$-envy-freeness for mixed goods ($ε$-EFM), and present an algorithm that finds an $ε$-EFM allocation in time polynomial in the number of agents, the number of indivisible goods, and $1/ε$.
description: Appears in the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
Collisional Effects in Isovector Response Function of Nuclear Matter at Finite Temperature
Creators: name: Ayik, S.
name: Gokalp, A.
name: Yilmaz, O.
name: Bozkurt, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dipole response function of nuclear matter at zero and finite temperatures is investigated by employing the linearized version of the extended TDHF theory with a non-Markovian binary collision term. Calculations are carried out for nuclear dipole vibrations by employing the Steinwedel-Jensen model and compared with experimental results for $^{120}Sn$ and $^{208}Pb$.
description: 14 pages, RevTex, 3 PS figures
What can Machine Learning tell us about the background expansion of the Universe?
Creators: name: Arjona, Rubén
name: Nesseris, Savvas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Machine learning (ML) algorithms have revolutionized the way we interpret data in astronomy, particle physics, biology and even economics, since they can remove biases due to a priori chosen models. Here we apply a particular ML method, the genetic algorithms (GA), to cosmological data that describes the background expansion of the Universe, namely the Pantheon Type Ia supernovae and the Hubble expansion history $H(z)$ datasets. We obtain model independent and nonparametric reconstructions of the luminosity distance $d_L(z)$ and Hubble parameter $H(z)$ without assuming any dark energy model or a flat Universe. We then estimate the deceleration parameter $q(z)$, a measure of the acceleration of the Universe, and we make a $\sim4.5σ$ model independent detection of the accelerated expansion, but we also place constraints on the transition redshift of the acceleration phase $(z_{\textrm{tr}}=0.662\pm0.027)$. We also find a deviation from $Λ$CDM at high redshifts, albeit within the errors, hinting toward the recently alleged tension between the SnIa/quasar data and the cosmological constant $Λ$CDM model at high redshifts $(z\gtrsim1.5)$. Finally, we show the GA can be used in complementary null tests of the $Λ$CDM via reconstructions of the Hubble parameter and the luminosity distance.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, comments welcome. Changes match published version
Trans*Frauen in deutschen Männerstrafvollzügen : Eine Untersuchung der Transfeindlichkeit im Gefängnissystem als Dispositiv der Macht.
Creators: name: Wiener, Alice
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Rolle des Gefängnis
subject: deutsches Strafsystem
subject: Abolitionismus
subject: deutsches Patriarchat
subject: 365

description: In der Arbeit ist die Rolle des Gefängnisses im aktuellen System von Bedeutung. Hierfür ist Forschung zum deutschen Strafsystem, zur Gefängniskritik und zum Abolitionismus sowie zum deutschen Patriarchat und Kapitalismus ausschlaggebend.
Evaluation of the Development of Circular Agriculture in Sichuan Province Based on the Coefficient of Variation
Creators: name: ZHOU, Fangying
name: SUN, Shunqiang
name: Joseph J., Molnar
name: ZHOU, Fangying
name: SUN, Shunqiang
name: Joseph J., Molnar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Sichuan Province
subject: Circular agriculture
subject: Comprehensive evaluation
subject: Obstacle analysis

description: Circular agriculture helps to solve the drawbacks of traditional agricultural production and achieve unified economic and ecological benefits, consistent with the concept of sustainable development. Based on the theoretical perspective of circular agriculture, this paper builds the evaluation indicator system for circular agriculture in Sichuan Province, and uses the coefficient of variation to evaluate the current situation of development of circular agriculture in Sichuan Province from 2000 to 2012. Then it analyzes the obstacles to the development of circular agriculture in Sichuan Province in 2012, and sets forth the targeted recommendations.
of The minimal kinome of Giardia lamblia illuminates early kinase evolution and unique parasite biology
Creators: name: Manning, Gerard
name: Reiner, David
name: Lauwaet, Tineke
name: Dacre, Michael
name: Alias Smith
name: Yufeng Zhai
name: Svard, Staffan
name: Gillin, Frances
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: of The minimal kinome of Giardia lamblia illuminates early kinase evolution and unique parasite biology
In vitro effect of alpha-bisabolol and its synthetic derivatives on macrophages, promastigotes, and amastigotes of Leishmania amazonensis and Leishmania infantum
Creators: name: Perin, Livia Reisen
name: Parreira, Luciana Alves
name: Barcelos, Estevão Carlos Silva
name: Santos, Mario Ferreira Conceição
name: Menini, Luciano
name: de Oliveira Gomes, Daniel
name: de Paula Careta, Francisco
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis are public health problems in Africa, Asia, Europe, and America. The treatment has a high cost and toxicity. Thus, this work aims to evaluate the leishmanicidal activity of alpha-bisabolol and its three synthetic derivatives, P1, P2, and P3, on the promastigotes and amastigotes Leishmania infantum and L. amazonensis forms. Alpha-bisabolol showed the lowest IC50 with 3.43 for L. amazonensis promastigotes, while P1 was the most toxic for L. infantum with an IC50 of 9.10. The derivative P3 was better for the amastigote form, with an IC50 of 3.39 for L. amazonensis. All the compounds effectively decreased the intracellular load of amastigote and its ability to turn promastigote again. Thus, alpha-bisabolol and its three synthetic derivatives were effective in their leishmanicidal activity. Therefore, it can be an option for developing new treatments against leishmaniasis.
MOESM10 of The minimal kinome of Giardia lamblia illuminates early kinase evolution and unique parasite biology
Creators: name: Manning, Gerard
name: Reiner, David
name: Lauwaet, Tineke
name: Dacre, Michael
name: Alias Smith
name: Yufeng Zhai
name: Svard, Staffan
name: Gillin, Frances
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Authorsâ original file for figure 1
Ten Low Mass Companions from the Keck Precision Velocity Survey
Creators: name: Vogt, Steven S.
name: Butler, R. Paul
name: Marcy, Geoffrey W.
name: Fischer, Debra A.
name: Pourbaix, Dimitri
name: Apps, Kevin
name: Laughlin, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ten new low mass companions have emerged from the Keck precision Doppler velocity survey, with minimum (msini) masses ranging from 0.8 mjup to 0.34 msun. Five of these are planet candidates with msini < 12 mjup, two are brown dwarf candidates with msini ~30 mjup, and three are low mass stellar companions. Hipparcos astrometry reveals the orbital inclinations and masses for three of the (more massive) companions, and it provides upper limits to the masses for the rest. A new class of extrasolar planet is emerging, characterized by nearly circular orbits and orbital radii greater than 1 AU. The planet HD 4208b appears to be a member of this new class. The mass distribution of extrasolar planets continues to exhibit a rapid rise from 10 mjup toward the lowest detectable masses near 1 msat.
description: 26 pages, TeX, plus 13 postscript figures
Prozessoffene Arbeit mit Kindern und Jugendlichen im Kontext kultureller Teilhabe im „Raum für kulturelle Teilhabe – greater form“
Creators: name: Wild, Carolin
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: kulturelle Teilhabe
subject: prozessoffene Arbeit
subject: Partizipation fördern
subject: DDC::3** Sozialwissenschaften::30* Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::304 Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren

description: Das Ziel der Arbeit lag darin, Aspekte herauszustellen, die darauf hinweisen, dass prozessoffene Arbeit im Kontext Kultureller Teilhabe Partizipation fördert – als Teilhabe- und Beteiligungsakt an und mithilfe von Gemeinschaft, Kunst und Kultur. Im Mittelpunkt stand dabei die Arbeit mit sozialökonomisch benachteiligten Kindern und Jugendlichen. Die theoretische Betrachtung ergab negative Auswirkungen auf das Selbstbild und geringere Erfahrungsmöglichkeiten für Kinder und Jugendliche. Die Prozessoffene Arbeit im Kontext kultureller Teilhabe wurde anhand der Arbeit im „Raum für kulturelle Teilhabe – greater form“ aus Grünau-Leipzig anhand ihres Aufbaus und Inhalten auf die Gewährleistung und Umsetzung von Kultureller Teilhabe und Partizipation untersucht. Die Untersuchung ergab, dass prozessoffene Arbeit im Kontext kultureller Teilhabe auf Anerkennung gegenüber Kindern und Jugendlichen basiert. Dabei ermöglicht die prozessoffene Arbeit Lern- und Erfahrungsmöglichkeiten, bestärkt in der Findung des Selbstkonzepts und bietet ein demokratisches Lernfeld mithilfe von Gruppenprozessen. Das Interview wurde mithilfe der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet.
Q-BERT: Hessian Based Ultra Low Precision Quantization of BERT
Creators: name: Shen, Sheng
name: Dong, Zhen
name: Ye, Jiayu
name: Ma, Linjian
name: Yao, Zhewei
name: Gholami, Amir
name: Mahoney, Michael W.
name: Keutzer, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transformer based architectures have become de-facto models used for a range of Natural Language Processing tasks. In particular, the BERT based models achieved significant accuracy gain for GLUE tasks, CoNLL-03 and SQuAD. However, BERT based models have a prohibitive memory footprint and latency. As a result, deploying BERT based models in resource constrained environments has become a challenging task. In this work, we perform an extensive analysis of fine-tuned BERT models using second order Hessian information, and we use our results to propose a novel method for quantizing BERT models to ultra low precision. In particular, we propose a new group-wise quantization scheme, and we use a Hessian based mix-precision method to compress the model further. We extensively test our proposed method on BERT downstream tasks of SST-2, MNLI, CoNLL-03, and SQuAD. We can achieve comparable performance to baseline with at most $2.3\%$ performance degradation, even with ultra-low precision quantization down to 2 bits, corresponding up to $13\times$ compression of the model parameters, and up to $4\times$ compression of the embedding table as well as activations. Among all tasks, we observed the highest performance loss for BERT fine-tuned on SQuAD. By probing into the Hessian based analysis as well as visualization, we show that this is related to the fact that current training/fine-tuning strategy of BERT does not converge for SQuAD.
An Arrayed Complex Model of Microalgal Growth in a PBR as a Decision Support Tool - open version
Creators: name: Flynn, Kevin J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Microalgae model Decision Support Tool

description: Powersim Studio 10 model to support Chapter 10 of "Enhancing Microalgal Production - constructing decision support tools using system dynamics modelling" KJ Flynn
description: Requires Powersim Studio 10 to open; https://www.powersim.no/ Funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Interreg Atlantic Area programme, EnhanceMicroAlgae (EAPA_338/2016; "High added-value industrial opportunities for microalgae in the Atlantic Area").
Instability of rational and polynomial convexity
Creators: name: Nemirovski, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is shown that rational and polynomial convexity of totally real submanifolds is in general unstable under perturbations that are $C^α$-small for any Hölder exponent $α<1$. This complements the result of Løw and Wold that these properties are $C^1$-stable.
description: V.1 - 4 pages, 1 figure; V.2 - details and comments added, 5 pages, 2 figures; V.3 - minor edits
An Empirical Study of Economic Growth, Human Capital and Financial Development in Qingdao City
Creators: name: KE, Liping
name: KE, Liping
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial development
subject: Human capital
subject: Granger test
subject: Cointegration test
subject: Coordination degree
subject: Entropy method

description: Human capital and finance can boost economic growth, and this paper performs an empirical test of economic growth, human capital and financial level, and finds that there is a long-term stable dynamic equilibrium relationship between the three. Results show that the finance and human capital in Qingdao City go through six stages ("imbalance—on the verge of imbalance—narrow coordination—primary coordination—intermediate coordination—well coordination"), and during the coordination process, human capital significantly lags behind. Therefore, it is necessary to increase human capital, accelerate the coordination between finance and human capital, and further promote the development of economic level.
Significantly super-Chandrasekhar mass-limit of white dwarfs in noncommutative geometry
Creators: name: Kalita, Surajit
name: Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
name: Govindarajan, T. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chandrasekhar made the startling discovery about nine decades back that the mass of compact object white dwarf has a limiting value, once nuclear fusion reactions stop therein. This is the Chandrasekhar mass-limit, which is $\sim1.4M_\odot$ for a non-rotating non-magnetized white dwarf. On approaching this limiting mass, a white dwarf is believed to spark off with an explosion called type Ia supernova, which is considered to be a standard candle. However, observations of several over-luminous, peculiar type Ia supernovae indicate that the Chandrasekhar mass-limit to be significantly larger. By considering noncommutativity among the components of position and momentum variables, hence uncertainty in their measurements, at the quantum scales, we show that the mass of white dwarfs could be significantly super-Chandrasekhar and thereby arrive at a new mass-limit $\sim 2.6M_\odot$, explaining a possible origin of over-luminous peculiar type Ia supernovae. The idea of noncommutativity, apart from the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, is there for quite sometime, without any observational proof however. Our finding offers a plausible astrophysical evidence of noncommutativity, arguing for a possible second standard candle, which has many far-reaching implications.
description: 19 pages including 1 figure; text is modified and references are updated: Accepted for publication in IJMPD
Stilbenes, phenanthrenes and antiproliferative activity of Cattleya intermedia
Creators: name: Ghiraldi, Denise M. B.
name: Perin, Paula C.
name: Lucca, Diego L.
name: Pilau, Eduardo J.
name: de Oliveira, Silvana M.
name: Diniz, Beatriz V.
name: Negri, Melyssa F. N.
name: Milaneze-Gutierre, Maria A.
name: Martinelli, Fabiana T. R.
name: Berlinck, Roberto G. S.
name: Pomini, Armando M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The phytochemical study of Cattleya intermedia (Orchidaceae) led to the isolation of two new stilbenoids and one new 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene, 4′,5-dihydroxy-2′,3-dimethoxy-dihydrostilbene (1), 3,6′-dihydroxy-4′-methoxy-dihydrostilbene (2) and 1,2,6-trihydroxy-3,8-dimethoxy-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene (3), named cattleymediol, cattleyol and phenanmediol, respectively, in addition to other five known compounds (4–8). The structural elucidations of the isolated compounds were carried out through the analyses of the one-dimensional 1H,1³C and NOE NMR spectra, and the 2D HSQC, HMBC, COSY and NOESY spectra, besides high-resolution mass spectrometry. In addition to this, the crude extract and its main fractions were analysed by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-QTOF-MS/MS), leading to the putative identification of several other compounds, including flavonoids and organic acids derivatives. Finally, the main fractions of the crude extract, and the pure compounds cattleymediol (1) and lusiantridine (7), had their antiproliferative activities evaluated against human cancerous HeLa and non-cancerous VERO cells.
Die sexuelle Lust heterosexueller Paare zwischen 50 und 70 Jahren in langjährigen Beziehungen : Wirkfaktoren, welche zur Erhaltung der sexuellen Lust von Frauen und Männern beitragen, unter Einbezug körperlicher Veränderungen im Alter - aufgezeigt anhand von Studien, Befragungen und drei sexualtherapeutischen Ansätzen
Creators: name: Brunner, Marianne
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: sexuelle Lust im Alter
subject: körperliche Veränderungen
subject: langjährige Beziehungen
subject: DDC::6** Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::61* Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: In der vorliegenden Masterarbeit wird untersucht, welche Wirkfaktoren zur Erhaltung der sexuellen Lust von Frauen und Männern in langjährigen Beziehungen unter Einbezug altersbedingter körperlicher Veränderungen beitragen. Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage wird in einem ersten Teil eine systematische Literaturrecherche vorgenommen, welche sich der Definition von sexueller Lust, den Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden der sexuellen Lust von Frauen und Männern, den Entwicklungen der sexuellen Lust in langjährigen Beziehungen und den körperlichen Veränderungen bei Frauen und Männern im Alter von 50 bis 70 Jahren widmet. Es zeigt sich, dass für den Erhalt der sexuellen Lust im Alter das Vorhandensein eines Partners, bzw. einer Partnerin, die gesundheitliche Verfassung und ein aktiver Lebensstil, die sexuelle Sozialisation in jungen Jahren, die sexuelle Zufrieden-heit sowie der Stellenwert der Sexualität im Verlaufe des Lebens ausschlaggebend sind. Weiter werden aufgrund von Studienergebnissen die Wirkfaktoren «Verbundenheit und Selbstöffnung», «Erotik» und «Lusterleben» dargestellt, welche wesentlich zum Erhalt der sexuellen Lust in einer langjährigen Beziehung beitragen. Diese werden ergänzt mit praxisnahen Beiträgen von den drei körperorientierten sexualtherapeutischen Ansätzen «Sexual crucible» nach Schnarch, «Sexocorporel» nach Desjardins und «Sensate Focus» nach dem Hamburger Modell. Dadurch wird ersichtlich, welchen Beitrag eine Sexual-beratung zur Erhaltung der sexuellen Lust leisten kann. In zwei exemplarischen Leitfaden-interviews mit sexuell aktiven Paaren in einer langjährigen Beziehung und im Alter von rund 70 Jahren werden die gleichen Themenbereiche erforscht und die Ergebnisse mit den Erkenntnissen aus der Literatur und den sexualtherapeutischen Ansätzen verglichen. Daraus werden konkrete Empfehlungen für die Sexualberatung abgeleitet.
Recommendations for Sustainable Development of Ankang Tobacco Growing Area
Creators: name: YANG, Hatao
name: SUN, Ke
name: ZHU, Feng
name: YANG, Hatao
name: SUN, Ke
name: ZHU, Feng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Ankang tobacco growing area
subject: Sustainable development
subject: Cause analysis
subject: Recommendations

description: Sustainable development of high quality characteristic tobacco is the only path for future development of China’s tobacco industry. In combination with realities of tobacco development in Ankang tobacco growing area, this paper made analysis on factors restricting sustainable development of Ankang tobacco growing area. On the basis of actual situations, it came up with recommendations including establishing scientific basic tobacco field protection system, gradually cultivating professional tobacco farmers and strengthening tobacco technician team construction, improving scientific and technological innovation, implementing standardized technologies, improving tobacco production organization mode, and improving tobacco production security mechanism.
Operation Modes for Land Consolidation in Central Anhui Based on Beautiful Countryside Construction
Creators: name: WANG, Lan
name: YU, Zhongxiang
name: WANG, Lan
name: YU, Zhongxiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Beautiful countryside construction
subject: Central Anhui
subject: Land consolidation
subject: Operation modes

description: Firstly, the background of beautiful countryside construction was elaborated. The operation modes for land consolidation in central Anhui were divided into five areas: northern Anhui, central Anhui, area along Yangtze River, western Anhui, and southern Anhui. Through empirical analysis of land consolidation in Changfeng County, it came up with recommendations with reference to practice in Changfeng County and discussed the beautiful countryside construction in central Anhui.
Null string evolution in black hole and cosmological spacetimes
Creators: name: Dabrowski, Mariusz P.
name: Prochnicka, Izabela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the problem of the motion of classical strings in some black hole and cosmological spacetimes. In particular, the null string limit (zero tension) of tensile strings is considered. We present some new exact string solutions in Reissner-Nordström black hole background as well as in the Einstein Static Universe and in the Einstein-Schwarzschild (a black hole in the Einstein Static Universe) spacetime. These solutions can give some insight into a general nature of propagation of strings (cosmic and fundamental) in curved backgrounds.
description: version accepted to Phys. Rev. D, 12 pages, 2 postscript figures, REVTEX 4
title: The reception and adaptation of oriental ceramics in Britain, with particular reference to imperial Chinese copper-red wares
Creators: name: Maxwell, Mandy Jill
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Art history, ceramics, manufacture, style, collecting.

description: This thesis analyses the assimilation of the copper-red glaze into British ceramics throughout the 20th century. The theme of assimilation is approached from different angles; technological, historical and cultural. Major themes are Manufacturing, Style, Taste and Collecting. Rich documentary and material sources are taken from museums in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Staffordshire. These are supplemented with interviews, contemporary transactions and periodicals. The study reveals that objects - in this case copper-red ceramics - however replicated, undergo significant shifts in meaning to be reinterpreted with new sets of values corresponding to the age in which they are produced. In certain contexts, consumers appear less concerned with authenticity and seem even to prefer objects that represent the stylistic bricolage that has come to represent much contemporary British design. In turn, shifts in value and taste have contributed to the democratisation of collecting and the 'collectable'. Manufacturing has responded to recent interest in collecting with items 'made to collect', promoting the notion of 'instant' antiques. Derivations of the rouge flambe glaze have been subject to the manufacturing culture of limited editions. The groups and individuals behind these forces have been discussed throughout.
What Can We Learn about Shale Gas Development from Land Values? Opportunities, Challenges, and Evidence from Texas and Pennsylvania
Creators: name: Weber, Jeremy G.
name: Hitaj, Claudia
name: Weber, Jeremy G.
name: Hitaj, Claudia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: land values
subject: oil and gas rights
subject: shale

description: We study farm real estate values in the Barnett shale (Texas) and the northeastern part of the Marcellus shale (Pennsylvania and New York). We find that shale gas development caused appreciation in real estate values in both areas but the effect was much larger for the Marcellus, suggesting broader ownership of oil and gas rights by surface owners. In both regions, the greatest appreciation occurred when land was leased for drilling, not when drilling and production boomed. We find evidence that effects vary by farm type, which may reflect correlation between farm type and ownership of oil and gas rights.