cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Turbulence Hierarchy and Multifractality in the Integer Quantum Hall Transition
Creators: name: Barbosa, Anderson L. R.
name: de Lima, Tiago H. V.
name: Gonzalez, Ivan R. R.
name: Pessoa, Nathan L.
name: Macedo, Antonio M. S.
name: Vasconcelos, Giovani L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We offer a new perspective to the problem of characterizing mesoscopic fluctuations in the inter-plateau region of the integer quantum Hall transition. We found that longitudinal and transverse conductance fluctuations, generated by varying the external magnetic field within a microscopic model, are multifractal and lead to distributions of conductance increments (magnetoconductance) with heavy tails (intermittency) and signatures of a hierarchical structure (a cascade) in the corresponding stochastic process, akin to Kolmogorov's theory of fluid turbulence. We confirm this picture by interpreting the stochastic process of the conductance increments in the framework of H-theory, which is a continuous-time stochastic approach that incorporates the basic features of Kolmogorov's theory. The multifractal analysis of the conductance "time series," combined with the H-theory formalism provides, strong support for the overall characterization of mesoscopic fluctuations in the quantum Hall transition as a multifractal stochastic phenomenon with multiscale hierarchy, intermittency, and cascade effects.
Kontinuierliche Ethoxylierung
Creators: name: Zogg, Andreas
name: Zahnd, This
name: Brönnimann, Benedikt
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Process safety
subject: Ethoxylation
subject: Continuous
subject: Reaction calorimetry
subject: Process simulation
subject: Miniplant
subject: 500 - Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik

description: Modellbasiertes Sicherheitskonzept für die Entwicklung einer kontinuierlichen Ethoxylierung. Modellvalidierung mittels kontinuierlichem Kalorimeter innerhalb einer Glove-Box.
THE ROLE OF HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS IN ENHANCING DECISION-MAKING: A STUDY ON ITS IMPACT AND APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: LAKSHMI RAJ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This research examines the effect of healthcare analytics on clinical decision making in five important variables: Real-time Data, Data Quality, Patient Outcome, Data Interoperability, and Health Disparities. Data were examined through multiple linear regression to investigate the connection between the independent variables and clinical decision making. The regression model was statistically significant and accounted for 55.1% of the variance in clinical decision making (R² = 0.551). Real-time Data, Data Quality, Patient Outcome, and Health Disparities were revealed to have substantial impacts on clinical decision making. Interestingly, Real-time Data contributed most strongly positively, while Patient Outcome contributed significantly but negatively. Data Interoperability did not reveal a statistically significant effect. Key outcomes of the work highlight the vital importance of using real-time, high-quality data to inform clinical decisions and incorporating equity considerations within healthcare analytics. The negative direction of the observed relationship with patient outcomes indicates an imperative to drill further into whether and how the data on patient outcomes are currently being used within practice. With a small sample size, a convenience sampling process, and utilizing self-reported information, the current study is bounded by limitations around generalizability. The study adds to what is known regarding the impact that certain elements of healthcare analytics have on clinical decision making and presents actionable, strategic, and policy-level recommendations for improving data-informed healthcare provision.
Supporting Information from Optimal health and economic impact of non-pharmaceutical intervention measures prior and post vaccination in England: a mathematical modelling study
Creators: name: Tildesley, Michael J.
name: Vassall, Anna
name: Riley, Steven
name: Jit, Mark
name: Sandmann, Frank
name: Hill, Edward M.
name: Thompson, Robin N.
name: Atkins, Benjamin D.
name: Edmunds, John
name: Dyson, Louise
name: Keeling, Matt J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Background: Even with good progress on vaccination, SARS-CoV-2 infections in the UK may continue to impose a high burden of disease and therefore pose substantial challenges for health policy decision makers. Stringent government-mandated physical distancing measures (lockdown) have been demonstrated to be epidemiologically effective, but can have both positive and negative economic consequences. The duration and frequency of any intervention policy could, in theory, could be optimized to maximize economic benefits while achieving substantial reductions in disease.Methods: Here, we use a pre-existing SARS-CoV-2 transmission model to assess the health and economic implications of different strengths of control through time in order to identify optimal approaches to non-pharmaceutical intervention stringency in the UK, considering the role of vaccination in reducing the need for future physical distancing measures. The model is calibrated to the COVID-19 epidemic in England and we carry out retrospective analysis of the optimal timing of precautionary breaks in 2020 and the optimal relaxation policy from the January 2021 lockdown, considering the willingness to pay (WTP) for health improvement.Results: We find that the precise timing and intensity of interventions is highly dependent upon the objective of control. As intervention measures are relaxed, we predict a resurgence in cases, but the optimal intervention policy can be established dependent upon the WTP per quality adjusted life year loss avoided. Our results show that establishing an optimal level of control can result in a reduction in net monetary loss of billions of pounds, dependent upon the precise WTP value.Conclusion: It is vital, as the UK emerges from lockdown, but continues to face an on-going pandemic, to accurately establish the overall health and economic costs when making policy decisions. We demonstrate how some of these can be quantified, employing mechanistic infectious disease transmission models to establish optimal levels of control for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Time and Quantum Clocks: a review of recent developments
Creators: name: Altaie, M. Basil
name: Hodgson, Daniel
name: Beige, Almut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this review we present the problem of time in quantum physics, including a short history of the problem and the known objections about considering time a quantum observable. The need to deal with time as an observable is elaborated through some unresolved problems. The lack of a consistent theory of time is currently hindering the formulation of a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity. It is argued that the proposal set forth by several authors of considering an intrinsic measurement of quantum time, besides having the conventional external time, is compelling. Recently several suggestions have been put forward to revive the proposal of Page and Wootters (1983), elaborating and resolving some of the main ambiguities of the original proposal and opening new scope for understanding its content. The approach followed in these new contributions exposes the need to go beyond the limitations enforced by the conventional approach of quantum physics. The attitude of covariant loop quantum gravity, in which it is called to completely ignore time, is also discussed. This review could be a step forward in an endeavour to reform our outlook of the unification of the theory of relativity and quantum physics by furnishing the conceptual ground needed for this goal. Intentionally, some technical details are avoided since we aim to present the approaches to resolve the problem in a simple way with the clearest possible outlook. These can be looked up in the original references provided.
description: 39 pages, 3 figures, comments welcome, typos corrected, discussion extended, in press
Additional file 1 of Psychological distress in Nepalese residents during COVID-19 pandemic: a community level survey
Creators: name: Shrestha, Dhan Bahadur
name: Thapa, Bikash Bikram
name: Nagendra Katuwal
name: Bikal Shrestha
name: Chiranjibi Pant
name: Basnet, Bina
name: Mandal, Pankaj
name: Amol Gurung
name: Ankita Agrawal
name: Ramhari Rouniyar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Online questionnaire.
Mechanically Tunable Radiative Cooling for Adaptive Thermal Control
Creators: name: Butler, Andrew
name: Argyropoulos, Christos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Passive radiative cooling is currently the frontier technology in renewable-energy research. In terms of extraterrestrial applications, radiative cooling is a critical component to the thermal management system of a spacecraft, where the extreme environment of space can cause large temperature variations that can break and damage equipment. For terrestrial applications, nocturnal or daytime radiative cooling is expected to lead to cost-effective passive heat management without the need of inefficient and costly artificial refrigeration technologies. However, most currently available radiative cooling systems cannot be changed dynamically and radiate a constant static amount of thermal power. Dynamically tunable adaptive radiative cooling systems will be a critical development to prolong the lifetime of spacecraft or improve the efficiency of terrestrial cooling systems. Here we propose stretchable radiative cooling designs that can be substantially tuned by using the simple physical mechanism of mechanical strain. When their structure is stretched, the radiated power is significantly reduced. We develop a modeling method that can simulate mechanical stretching combined with electromagnetic response to compute the tunable thermal emission of these new adaptive radiative cooling systems. The presented photonically engineered structures can be used as coatings to achieve efficient adaptive thermal control of various objects in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way. The proposed designs are much simpler to be realized than others found in the literature and the best design achieves a high thermal emission power with a tunable range on the order of 132 W/m2.
Additional file 1 of The association between animal flesh foods consumption and semen parameters among infertile Iranian men: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Ghiasvand, Reza
name: Marvast, Laleh Dehghan
name: Seyyed Payam Shariatpanahi
name: Makan Pourmasoumi
name: Clark, Cain C. T.
name: Haeri, Farahnaz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Figure 1. Flow Chart of the patient recruitment.
Type IIA embeddings of $D=5$ minimal gauged supergravity via Non-Abelian T-duality
Creators: name: Cheung, K. C. Matthew
name: Leung, Rahim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note, we construct explicit Type IIA uplifts of $D=5$ minimal gauged supergravity, by T-dualising known Type IIB uplifts on $N_5 = S^5$, $T^{1,1}$ and $Y^{p,q}$ along their $SU(2)$ isometries. When the $D=5$ gauge field is set to zero, our uplifts recover precisely the known non-Abelian T-duals of the $AdS_5\times N_5$ solutions. As an application, we obtain new supersymmetric $AdS_3\timesΣ\times M_5$ solutions in Type IIA, where $Σ= \mathbb{WCP}^1_{[n_-,n_+]}$ is a weighted projective space. Existing holographic results of T-dualised AdS solutions suggest that our solutions capture features of $d = 2$ SCFTs with $\mathcal{N}=(0, 2)$ supersymmetry.
description: 41 pages, 1 figure
Does Date Label Matter for Aquacultural Food Product Waste? Evidence from a Best-Worst Discrete Choice Experiment
Creators: name: Nian, Yefan
name: Nian, Yefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Presentation 24470
Germaine Braneyre, Alexine Gans, R. Gans et Pierre Garabos
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2022

Abstract
Water Erosion between the Vulnerability of Environmental Balances and Prospects for Sustainability: The Case of El Abed and Tlagh Watersheds (North-Eastern Morocco)
Creators: name: SBAI, Abdellkader
name: MOUADILI, Omar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Geography

description: Water erosion is one of the serious threats to the physical environment and human stability. The watersheds of Wadi El Abed and Wadi Tlagh (Morocco) have been factors to this phenomenon for a long time. Thus, the problem of this study focuses on erosion and its evaluation in these two basins. So, we have analyzed the data available and carried out measurements in the field by simulating rain. Soil loss was estimated using the Universal Soil Loss Equation. The inventory of the various manifestations and forms of water erosion clearly shows that it is a strong morphodynamic activity characterized by diffuse and concentrated runoff, gullies and side extensions of the valleys. After calculating the various USLE factors, it was found that 4% of the surface of El Abed watershed and 13% of Tlagh watershed would be heavily eroded. The average specific degradation was estimated at 38.71 t/ha/year. Rain simulation measurements showed clear differences between land uses. Indeed, the runoff coefficients are low in the plots covered with vegetation and those cultivated parallel to the contour lines. On the other hand, on bare ground and steep slopes, this coefficient is high. The quantities of detached soil vary from 0.01 t/ha for the covered plots to 29.05 t/ha for those bare and with a steep slope, with an average of 3 t/ha.
Additional file 1 of RNA-Seq and differential gene expression analysis in Temora stylifera copepod females with contrasting non-feeding nauplii survival rates: an environmental transcriptomics study
Creators: name: Russo, Ennio
name: Lauritano, Chiara
name: D’Ippolito, Giuliana
name: Fontana, Angelo
name: Sarno, Diana
name: Elert, Eric Von
name: Ianora, Adrianna
name: Carotenuto, Ylenia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Table S1: De novo transcriptome assembly of Temora stylifera. Number of reads counted in the forward and the reverse filament are shown along with the number of assembled transcripts and Trinity predicted genes (unigenes), transcripts with unique TR#_c#_g# identifiers. The latter list includes singletons as well as the longest isoform of each predicted gene. Average transcript length, median and N50 are also indicated.
Biomechanical Lower Limb Model to Predict Patellar Position Alteration after Medial Open Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy
Creators: name: Elyasi, Elaheh
name: Perrier, Antoine
name: Bailet, Mathieu
name: Payan, Yohan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy is a surgical treatment for patients with a varus deformity and early-stage medial knee osteoarthritis. Observations suggest that this surgery can negatively affect the patellofemoral joint and change the patellofemoral kinematics. However, what causes these effects and how the correction angle can change the surgery's impact on the patellofemoral joint has not been investigated before. The objective of this study was to develop a biomechanical model that can predict the surgery's impact on the patellar position and find the correlation between the opening angles and the patellar position after the surgery. A combined finite element and multibody model of the lower limb was developed. The model's capabilities for predicting the patellofemoral kinematics were evaluated by performing a passive deep flexion simulation of the native knee and comparing the outcomes with magnetic resonance images of the study subject at various flexion angles. The model at a fixed knee flexion angle was then used to simulate the high tibial osteotomy surgery virtually. The results showed a correlation between the wedge opening angles and the patellar position in various degrees of freedom. These results indicate that larger wedge openings result in increased values of patellar distalization, lateral patellar shift, patellar rotation, and patellar internal tilt. The developed model in this study can be used in future studies to monitor the stress distribution on the patellar cartilage and connecting tissues to investigate their relationship with observations of pain and cartilage injury due to post-operative altered patellar kinematics.
Simulation of coarsening in two-phase systems with dissimilar mobilities
Creators: name: Andrews, W. Beck
name: Voorhees, Peter W.
name: Thornton, Katsuyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we apply phase field simulations to examine the coarsening behavior of morphologically complex two-phase microstructures in which the phases have highly dissimilar mobilities, a condition approaching that found in experimental solid-liquid systems. Specifically, we consider a two-phase system at the critical composition ($50\%$ volume fraction) in which the mobilities of the two phases differ by a factor of 100. This system is simulated in two and three dimensions using the Cahn-Hilliard model with a concentration-dependent mobility, and results are compared to simulations with a constant mobility. A morphological transition occurs during coarsening of the two-dimensional system (corresponding to a thin film geometry) with dissimilar mobilities, resulting in a system of nearly-circular particles of high-mobility phase embedded in a low-mobility matrix. This morphological transition causes the coarsening rate constant to decrease over time, which explains why a previous study found lack of agreement with the theoretical $t^{1/3}$ power law. Three-dimensional systems with dissimilar mobilities resulted in bicontinuous microstructures that evolve self-similarly, as determined by quantitative analysis of the interfacial shape distribution. Coarsening kinetics in three dimensions agreed closely with the $t^{1/3}$ power law after the initial transient stage. A model is derived to explain a nearly-linear relationship between the coarsening rate constant and the variance of scaled mean curvature that is observed during this transient stage.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures
High-bandwidth CMOS-voltage-level electro-optic modulation of 780 nm light in thin-film lithium niobate
Creators: name: Celik, Oguz Tolga
name: Sarabalis, Christopher J.
name: Mayor, Felix M.
name: Stokowski, Hubert S.
name: Herrmann, Jason F.
name: McKenna, Timothy P.
name: Lee, Nathan R. A.
name: Jiang, Wentao
name: Multani, Kevin K. S.
name: Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Integrated photonics operating at visible-near-infrared (VNIR) wavelengths offer scalable platforms for advancing optical systems for addressing atomic clocks, sensors, and quantum computers. The complexity of free-space control optics causes limited addressability of atoms and ions, and this remains an impediment on scalability and cost. Networks of Mach-Zehnder interferometers can overcome challenges in addressing atoms by providing high-bandwidth electro-optic control of multiple output beams. Here, we demonstrate a VNIR Mach-Zehnder interferometer on lithium niobate on sapphire with a CMOS voltage-level compatible full-swing voltage of 4.2 V and an electro-optic bandwidth of 2.7 GHz occupying only 0.35 mm$^2$. Our waveguides exhibit 1.6 dB/cm propagation loss and our microring resonators have intrinsic quality factors of 4.4 $\times$ 10$^5$. This specialized platform for VNIR integrated photonics can open new avenues for addressing large arrays of qubits with high precision and negligible cross-talk.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Baltoscandian Ordovician and Silurian brachiopod carbon and oxygen stable isotope trends: Implications for palaeoenvironmental and palaeotemperature changes
Creators: name: Gul, Bilal
Publisher: name: University of Tartu
Year: 2022
Subjects: Carbon and Oxygen

description: Oxygen isotope paleotemperature studies of the Palaeozoic carbonates are based mainly on brachiopod shell material which is resistant to diagenesis and generally precipitated in oxygen isotopic equilibrium with ambient seawater. Here we present brachiopod and bulk rock C and O stable isotopic data from the Baltoscandian Ordovician-Silurian succession, for evaluating the palaeotemperature and palaeoenvironmental variability in the Estonian Shelf facies. As the region has not been influenced significantly by tectonic events or deep burial diagenesis, the studied carbonate rocks and fossils are well preserved in most of the locations. δ18O and δ13C values for the Ordovician and Silurian carbonates and brachiopods range between ca -7‰ to 0‰ and -2.6‰ to +7.3‰ respectively. High δ18O values, sometimes accompanied also with higher δ13C values, correspond to cooling if the isotope signal reflects the original oxygen isotopic composition in seawater and vice versa. Several Ordovician-Silurian δ13Cbrac excursions identified in the Estonian Shelf reflect global palaeoenvironmental history and events, being synchronous with the previously documented excursions in the bulk carbonate stable isotopic curves. Combining the published and new δ13Cbrac and δ18Obrac data allow us to address chemostratigraphic correlation of the interval from Lower Ordovician (Floian) up to the topmost Silurian (Přidoli). The δ18Obrac data confirm warmer temperatures during early Ordovician (Floian-Dapingian) and a cooling trend into the Mid-Ordovician documented by previous studies in different palaeobasins. The Hirnantian glaciation HICE episode reveals the minimum temperature in this interval and the post-HICE data suggest a rising temperature trend. Another temperature minimum is evident in the strata reflecting the Ireviken Event (Sheinwoodian). Our study shows that δ18O values from the brachiopod Ordovician-Silurian carbonates could tentatively be interpreted as reflecting the major temperature trends.
Economic Opportunities in Food Entrepreneurship: Survey of Food Businesses Operating in Shared-Use Commercial Kitchens
Creators: name: Edmondson, Hailey
name: Edmondson, Hailey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Presentation 24484
Additional file 2 of RNA-Seq and differential gene expression analysis in Temora stylifera copepod females with contrasting non-feeding nauplii survival rates: an environmental transcriptomics study
Creators: name: Russo, Ennio
name: Lauritano, Chiara
name: D’Ippolito, Giuliana
name: Fontana, Angelo
name: Sarno, Diana
name: Elert, Eric Von
name: Ianora, Adrianna
name: Carotenuto, Ylenia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2 Figure S1: Blast2Go statistics output for Temora stylifera de novo reference transcriptome assembly (unigenes). Percentage distribution of E-value (0
title: Eight-Year Regeneration Response to Gap-Based Irregular Shelterwood Practices in Oak Dominated Stands Near Berea, Kentucky
Creators: name: Gauthier, Brooke Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: This research examined regeneration dynamics following gap-based irregular shelterwood practices in intermediate productivity oak (Quercus)-dominated stands located in Berea College Forest, Berea, KY, USA. Established in 2012, the study includes 12 experiment units comprising a circular harvest gap (30 m radius) and a matrix zone delineated around the circumference of the gap, which extended 30 m from the gap edge into the adjacent forest. A midstory removal treatment was performed within six of the experiment units’ matrices, while six matrices were left untreated (control). Belt transects extending 60 m from gap center to the end of the matrix zone were established within each experimental unit to quantify oak regeneration dynamics. Nested regeneration surveys (radius: 1.13 and 1.7 m) were established every 10 m along each transect, along with one plot at the center of the gap to quantify regeneration dynamics of woody competitors. Eight-year height growth and total heights of oaks were greatest within the gap decreasing towards the gap edge and plateauing in the adjacent forest matrix. Within the gap and at gap edge, woody non-oak stems were taller than oak reproduction, providing evidence that gap edge was not successful in enhancing the competitive ability of oak. Tree density had few statistically significant differences among species when compared across location-treatments, distance categories and years. The midstory removal matrix treatment did not show an enhanced effect on oak height or density in comparison to the untreated matrix.
description: © 2022 Brooke Elizabeth Gauthier
The Uhlenbeck-Ford model: Exact virial coefficients and application as a reference system in fluid-phase free-energy calculations
Creators: name: Leite, Rodolfo Paula
name: Freitas, Rodrigo
name: Azevedo, Rodolfo
name: de Koning, Maurice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Uhlenbeck-Ford (UF) model was originally proposed for the theoretical study of imperfect gases, given that all its virial coefficients can be evaluated exactly, in principle. Here, in addition to computing the previously unknown coefficients B11 through B13, we assess its applicability as a reference system in fluid-phase free-energy calculations using molecular simulation techniques. Our results demonstrate that, although the UF model itself is too soft, appropriately scaled Uhlenbeck- Ford (sUF) models provide robust reference systems that allow accurate fluid-phase free-energy calculations without the need for an intermediate reference model. Indeed, in addition to the accuracy with which their free energies are known and their convenient scaling properties, the fluid is the only thermodynamically stable phase for a wide range of sUF models. This set of favorable properties may potentially put the sUF fluid-phase reference systems on par with the standard role that harmonic and Einstein solids play as reference systems for solid-phase free-energy calculations.
Additional file 3 of RNA-Seq and differential gene expression analysis in Temora stylifera copepod females with contrasting non-feeding nauplii survival rates: an environmental transcriptomics study
Creators: name: Russo, Ennio
name: Lauritano, Chiara
name: D’Ippolito, Giuliana
name: Fontana, Angelo
name: Sarno, Diana
name: Elert, Eric Von
name: Ianora, Adrianna
name: Carotenuto, Ylenia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3 Table S2: Temora stylifera differentially expressed isoforms that received functional annotation in Blast2Go. Trinity ID number with predicted gene and isoform identifiers, length (bp), log2-Fold-Change (log2-FC), adjusted p-value (p-adj) of statistical analysis (FDR) for each predicted genes, sequence description and functional annotation as provided by Blast2Go are shown. Sequences are ordered by p-adj values within each down-regulated (negative log2-FC) and up-regulated (positive log2-FC) isoforms.
Consumption of Low-Intensity and High-Intensity Sweeteners in the United States: Structure, Drivers, and Policy Implications
Creators: name: Hovhannisyan, Vardges
name: Hovhannisyan, Vardges
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Presentation 24500
Benchmarking an improved statistical adiabatic channel model for competing inelastic and reactive processes
Creators: name: Konings, Maarten
name: Desrousseaux, Benjamin
name: Lique, François
name: Loreau, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inelastic collisions and elementary chemical reactions proceeding through the formation and subsequent decay of an intermediate collision complex, with an associated deep well on the potential energy surface, pose a challenge for accurate fully quantum mechanical approaches, such as the close-coupling method. In this study, we report on the theoretical prediction of temperature-dependent state-to-state rate coefficients for these complex-mode processes, using a statistical quantum method. This statistical adiabatic channel model is benchmarked by a direct comparison using accurate rate coefficients from the literature for a number of systems (H2 + H+, HD + H+, SH+ + H, and CH+ + H) of interest in astrochemistry and astrophysics. For all of the systems considered, an error of less than factor 2 was found, at least for the dominant transitions and at low temperatures, which is sufficiently accurate for applications in the above mentioned disciplines.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
title: The effect of cattle cleanliness scores on bacterial contamination of carcasses
Creators: name: Torres, Gregorio
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Animal sciences, food science.

description: The control of inadvertent microbiological contamination of red meat carcasses has emerged in the last decade as the most important aspect of meat inspection and meat hygiene. The hide is recognised as the main sources of human pathogen contamination such as Campylobacter spp. or Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis. Introducing only clean cattle to the slaughter line partially minimises the potential for meat-borne zoonoses. Following the outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157 infection in Scotland in 1996, British abattoirs have imposed a scoring system called the Clean Livestock Policy (CLP), to assess the cleanliness of animals submitted for slaughter. The policy provides categories of a range of scores of dirtiness from 1 to 5. In this study, 93 over thirty month (OTM) cattle classified in all 5 different CLP categories, were assessed. Swab samples were taken from the flank of the carcass and using the wet and dry method as advised by the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS), the Total Viable Count (TVC), and Enterobacteriaceae count were determined. This study showed that the level of contamination on carcasses increased with an increase in the CLP score. Dirty carcasses with CLP score 3, 4 and 5, as defined by MHS, were found to carry up to 30,000 times more micro-organisms, defined by TVC, than clean carcasses with CLP sore 1 and 2. Different ante-mortem features of cattle were also studied and coat length, coat moisture, type of contamination, and site of contamination was shown to influence carcass contamination. The classification of dirty or clean cattle during the ante-mortem inspection in an abattoir lairage sometimes creates difficulties for the Official Veterinary Surgeon (OVS), as the MHS CLP score provides only descriptive details and pictures of cattle in the five different categories. In this study, three different decision trees were designed; two for each of the outcome variables, TVC and Enterobacteriaceae, and a third one for the CLP, with the goal to minimize subjective decisions. The association between carcass contamination and prevalence of potential zoonotic pathogens isolated from the cattle such as Campylobacter spp. and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis was studied. Different culture methods for isolation of Campylobacter spp. were employed. No colonies of Campylobacter spp. were found on direct swab samples from carcasses however Campylobacter spp. were isolated in faeces from 5 cattle using the combination Skirrow and Bluster medium. Of the 93 cattle sampled, eight cattle were found to carry Mycobacterium avium subsp. Paratuberculosis (MAP) by direct smear using the Ziehl Neelsen staining method, hi five cattle MAP were isolated from faeces, in one cattle from the lymph node and in two cattle MAP was isolated from both the lymph node and from faeces.
One-step Method for Material Quantitation using In-line Tomography with Single Scanning
Creators: name: Liao, Suyu
name: Deng, Shiwo
name: Zhu, Yining
name: Zhang, Huitao
name: Zhu, Peiping
name: Zhang, Kai
name: Zhao, Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Objective: Quantitative technique based on In-line phase-contrast computed tomography with single scanning attracts more attention in application due to the flexibility of the implementation. However, the quantitative results usually suffer from artifacts and noise, since the phase retrieval and reconstruction are independent ("two-steps") without feedback from the original data. Our goal is to develop a method for material quantitative imaging based on a priori information specifically for the single-scanning data. Method: An iterative method that directly reconstructs the refractive index decrement delta and imaginary beta of the object from observed data ("one-step") within single object-to-detector distance (ODD) scanning. Simultaneously, high-quality quantitative reconstruction results are obtained by using a linear approximation that achieves material decomposition in the iterative process. Results: By comparing the equivalent atomic number of the material decomposition results in experiments, the accuracy of the proposed method is greater than 97.2%. Conclusion: The quantitative reconstruction and decomposition results are effectively improved, and there are feedback and corrections during the iteration, which effectively reduce the impact of noise and errors. Significance: This algorithm has the potential for quantitative imaging research, especially for imaging live samples and human breast preclinical studies.
ANTI-BACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF ZnO NANOPARTICLES DERIVED FROM AYURVEDA ORAL HEALTH FORMULATION AGAINST PATHOGENS CAUSING DENTAL CARIES
Creators: name: Viishaal Srikanth Srivatsa
name: Sangeetha S
name: Taniya M
name: M Sundaram K
name: Lavanya Prathap
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Dental Caries, Biofilm, Nanoparticles, Pathogens, Antimicrobial Efficacy.

description: Abstract

Dental caries remains a prevalent oral health concern, often attributed to bacterial colonization and biofilm formation by pathogens such as Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus species. In recent years, nanotechnology has emerged as a promising avenue for developing novel antimicrobial agents. This study investigates the anti-bacterial activity of ZnO nanoparticles derived from an Ayurveda oral health formulation against pathogens causing dental caries. The nanoparticles were characterized using techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Antimicrobial efficacy was assessed through agar diffusion assays and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) determination. Results demonstrate significant inhibition of bacterial growth, highlighting the potential of these nanoparticles as a natural and effective strategy for combating dental caries-causing pathogens. Further exploration of their mechanism of action and biocompatibility is warranted to validate their clinical application in oral healthcare.
Aufblühender Wandel: Ein neuer transaktionsanalytischer Rahmen für einen effektiven Dialog am Arbeitsplatz
Creators: name: Laugeri, Madeleine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Transaktionsanalyse
Führung
Kooperation
Organisationsentwicklung
Streichelökonomie
kollektive Intelligenz
menschliche Beziehungen
Kollegialität
Stressmanagement

description: In diesem Artikel wird ein Modell namens "Aufblühender Wandel" vorgestellt, das zur Optimierung der Streichelökonomie (Zuwendung) in Arbeits- und Bildungsumgebungen beiträgt. Es bietet eine globale Vision der Dynamik menschlicher Systeme zur Entwicklung optimaler Kommunikations- und Lernbedingungen in einer Gruppe, um deren Leistung zu steigern. Das Modell sieht drei Ebenen von Verträgen vor: den Visionsvertrag, den Missionsvertrag und den Kooperationsvertrag. Jeder dieser Verträge bezieht sich auf eine bestimmte Art von Dialog, der über die drei organisatorischen Grenzen einer komplexen Gruppe hinweg stattfindet: externe, interne Haupt- und Nebengrenzen. Die Arbeit mit diesen Verträgen trägt dazu bei, die Gruppenmitglieder und die Führung in eine OK/OK-Partnerschaft zu positionieren. In einer Zeit, in der Manager sich um die Entwicklung der organisatorischen Leistung bemühen und Mitarbeiter nach einem Sinn in ihrer Arbeit suchen, fördert das entstehende Veränderungsmodell die zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen und führt so zu einer Steigerung der kollektiven Leistung durch mehr Zusammenarbeit, Autonomie und emotionales Wohlbefinden. Français – English, accepted version (soon) – English, published version (closed)
Additional file 4 of RNA-Seq and differential gene expression analysis in Temora stylifera copepod females with contrasting non-feeding nauplii survival rates: an environmental transcriptomics study
Creators: name: Russo, Ennio
name: Lauritano, Chiara
name: D’Ippolito, Giuliana
name: Fontana, Angelo
name: Sarno, Diana
name: Elert, Eric Von
name: Ianora, Adrianna
name: Carotenuto, Ylenia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4 Table S3: List of Reference Genes (RGs) tested in Temora stylifera. Protein name, function, amplicon length (AL) in base pairs (bp), primer sequence and amplification efficiencies (%E) are shown.
Le Changement Émergent : Un nouveau modèle d'Analyse Transactionnelle pour un dialogue efficace au travail
Creators: name: Laugeri, Madeleine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: analyse transactionnelle
leadership
coopération
développement organisationnel
économie des signes de reconnaissance
intelligence collective
relations humaines
collégialité
gestion du stress

description: Cet article présente un modèle intitulé Changement Émergent, qui permet d'optimiser l'économie des Signes de Reconnaissance dans les environnements de travail et de formation. Il offre une vision globale de la dynamique des systèmes humains pour créer des conditions de communication et d'apprentissage optimales au sein d'un groupe en vue d'améliorer sa performance. Le modèle propose des contrats à trois niveaux : le Contrat de Vision, le Contrat de Mission et le Contrat de Coopération. Chacun fait référence à un type de dialogue spécifique à travers les trois frontières organisationnelles d'un groupe complexe : externe, majeure interne et mineure. Ces contrats permettent de positionner les membres du groupe et le leadership dans un partenariat OK/OK. Dans un contexte où les managers s'efforcent de développer la performance organisationnelle et où les employés cherchent à donner du sens à leur travail, le modèle de Changement Émergent favorise les relations humaines pour améliorer la performance collective par le biais d'une meilleure collaboration, d'une autonomie accrue et d'un réel confort émotionnel. Deutsch – English, accepted version (soon) – English, published version (closed)
Additional file 1 of Sporting participation following the operative management of chondral defects of the knee at mid-term follow up: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Robinson, P. G.
name: T. Williamson
name: I. R. Murray
name: K. Al-Hourani
name: T. O. White
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
A low-eccentricity migration pathway for a 13-h-period Earth analogue in a four-planet system
Creators: name: Serrano, Luisa Maria
name: Gandolfi, Davide
name: Mustill, Alexander J.
name: Barragán, Oscar
name: Korth, Judith
name: Dai, Fei
name: Redfield, Seth
name: Fridlund, Malcolm
name: Lam, Kristine W. F.
name: Díaz, Matías R.
name: Grziwa, Sascha
name: Collins, Karen A.
name: Livingston, John H.
name: Cochran, William D.
name: Hellier, Coel
name: Bellomo, Salvatore E.
name: Trifonov, Trifon
name: Rodler, Florian
name: Alarcon, Javier
name: Jenkins, Jon M.
name: Latham, David W.
name: Ricker, George
name: Seager, Sara
name: Vanderspeck, Roland
name: Winn, Joshua N.
name: Albrecht, Simon
name: Collins, Kevin I.
name: Csizmadia, Szilárd
name: Daylan, Tansu
name: Deeg, Hans J.
name: Esposito, Massimiliano
name: Fausnaugh, Michael
name: Georgieva, Iskra
name: Goffo, Elisa
name: Guenther, Eike
name: Hatzes, Artie P.
name: Howell, Steve B.
name: Jensen, Eric L. N.
name: Luque, Rafael
name: Mann, Andrew W.
name: Murgas, Felipe
name: Osborne, Hannah L. M.
name: Palle, Enric
name: Persson, Carina M.
name: Rowden, Pam
name: Rudat, Alexander
name: Smith, Alexis M. S.
name: Twicken, Joseph D.
name: Van Eylen, Vincent
name: Ziegler, Carl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is commonly accepted that exoplanets with orbital periods shorter than 1 day, also known as ultra-short period (USP) planets, formed further out within their natal protoplanetary disk, before migrating to their current-day orbits via dynamical interactions. One of the most accepted theories suggests a violent scenario involving high-eccentricity migration followed by tidal circularization. Here, we present the discovery of a four planet system orbiting the bright (V=10.5) K6 dwarf star TOI-500. The innermost planet is a transiting, Earth-sized USP planet with an orbital period of $\sim$ 13 hours, a mass of 1.42 $\pm$ 0.18 M$_{\oplus}$, a radius of $1.166^{0.061}_{-0.058}$ R$_{\oplus}$, and a mean density of 4.89$^{+1.03}_{-0.88}$ gcm$^{-3}$. Via Doppler spectroscopy, we discovered that the system hosts three outer planets on nearly circular orbits with periods of 6.6, 26.2, and 61.3d and minimum masses of 5.03 $\pm$ 0.41 M$_{\oplus}$, 33.12 $\pm$ 0.88 M$_{\oplus}$ and 15.05$^{+1.12}_{-1.11}$ M$_{\oplus}$, respectively. The presence of both a USP planet and a low-mass object on a 6.6-day orbit indicates that the architecture of this system can be explained via a scenario in which the planets started on low-eccentricity orbits, then moved inwards through a quasi-static secular migration. Our numerical simulations show that this migration channel can bring TOI-500 b to its current location in 2 Gyrs, starting from an initial orbit of 0.02au. TOI-500 is the first four planet system known to host a USP Earth analog whose current architecture can be explained via a non-violent migration scenario.
description: Published on Nature Astronomy (April 28th, 2022)
Rotating Hybrid Stars with Color-Flavor-Locked Quark Matter
Creators: name: Sen, Debashree
name: Chaudhuri, Gargi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work we have achieved phase transition from $β$ stable hadronic matter to color-flavor locked (CFL) quark matter with Maxwell construction. The hybrid equation of state (EoS), obtained for different values of bag pressure $B$ and gap parameter $Δ$, have been used to compute the speed of sound in hybrid star (HS) matter. The structural properties of the HSs in both static and rotating conditions have been calculated in the light of various constraints from different astrophysical and empirical perspectives. The effects of $B$ and $Δ$ on the EoS and structural properties have been investigated. At a certain density, shortly after phase transition, the HSs become unstable. In static conditions, the mass-radius solutions satisfy the constraints from GW190425, NICER experiment for PSR J0030+0451 and PSR J0740+6620 and from massive pulsars like PSR J0348+0432 and PSR J0740+6620. In rapidly rotating conditions at Kepler frequency, the constraints on maximum mass from the secondary component of GW190814 and that on rotational frequency from fast pulsars like PSR B1937+21 and PSR J1748-2446ad are all satisfied. In slowly rotating conditions, the universality relations in terms of normalized moment of inertia also hold quite well for most of our HS configurations.
description: 15 Pages, 7 figures - Accepted (In Press) in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics