cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Social skill deficit profiles in ADHD and comorbid disorders
Creators: name: Miller, Caroline Elise
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Most children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) demonstrate impairment in social functioning, especially in their social skills. However, internalizing (e.g., anxiety or depression) and externalizing (e.g., oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder) conditions both commonly co-occur with ADHD, and may complicate the social functioning profiles of these children. The present study sought to characterize unique social skill deficit profiles associated with the presence of internalizing comorbidity, externalizing comorbidity, and both comorbidities (internalizing + externalizing) in children with ADHD by taking a nuanced approach that considered both global social skills and specific subdomains of skills. Through pooling eight datasets from investigators across the United States and Canada, I tested these questions in a carefully phenotyped sample of n = 1400 children with ADHD, all of whom had parent and teacher ratings of social skills on a consistent measure. Regarding parent ratings of social skills, results indicated both significant main and interaction effects of each comorbidity on lower social skill performance in a varied pattern across global versus specific skills. For teacher ratings of social skills, externalizing comorbidity was consistently associated with poorer social skills across global and specific measures. In conclusion, social skill performance in children with ADHD does vary as a function of comorbidity status. These findings could help inform more personalized or individualized social skill interventions.
Cosmological information in Gaussianised weak lensing signals
Creators: name: Joachimi, B.
name: Taylor, A. N.
name: Kiessling, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the information on cosmology contained in Gaussianised weak gravitational lensing convergence fields. Employing Box-Cox transformations to determine optimal transformations to Gaussianity, we develop analytical models for the transformed power spectrum, including effects of noise and smoothing. We find that optimised Box-Cox transformations perform substantially better than an offset logarithmic transformation in Gaussianising the convergence, but both yield very similar results for the signal-to-noise and parameter constraints. None of the transformations is capable of eliminating correlations of the power spectra between different angular frequencies, which we demonstrate to have a significant impact on the errors on cosmology. Analytic models of the Gaussianised power spectrum yield good fits to the simulations and produce unbiased parameter estimates in the majority of cases, where the exceptions can be traced back to the limitations in modelling the higher-order correlations of the original convergence. In the idealistic case, without galaxy shape noise, we find an increase in cumulative signal-to-noise by a factor of 2.6 for angular frequencies up to 1500, and a decrease in the area of the confidence region in the Omega_m-sigma_8 plane by a factor of 4.4 in terms of q-values for the best-performing transformation. When adding a realistic level of shape noise, all transformations perform poorly with little decorrelation of angular frequencies, a maximum increase in signal-to-noise of 34%, and even marginally degraded errors on cosmological parameters. We argue that, to find Gaussianising transformations of practical use, one will need to go beyond transformations of the one-point distribution of the convergence, extend the analysis deeper into the non-linear regime, and resort to an exploration of parameter space via simulations. (abridged)
description: 27 pages, 15 figures; extended and improved modelling, main conclusions unchanged, otherwise minor changes to match accepted version; accepted by MNRAS
The Metric Anomaly of Analytic Torsion at the Boundary of an Even Dimensional Cone
Creators: name: Vertman, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J52

description: The formula for analytic torsion of a cone in even dimensions is comprised of three terms. The first two terms are well understood and given by an algebraic combination of the Betti numbers and the analytic torsion of the cone base. The third "singular" contribution is an intricate spectral invariant of the cone base. We identify the third term as the metric anomaly of the analytic torsion coming from the non-product structure of the cone at its regular boundary. Hereby we filter out the actual contribution of the conical singularity and identify the analytic torsion of an even-dimensional cone purely in terms of the Betti numbers and the analytic torsion of the cone base.
description: 33 pages, 2 figures, completely revised. Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
Additional file 1 of Modified silicone stent for the treatment of post-surgical bronchopleural fistula: a clinical observation of 17 cases
Creators: name: Junli Zeng
name: Xuemei Wu
name: Zhide Chen
name: Meihua Zhang
name: Ke, Mingyao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. The procedure of modifying and placing the silicone stent.
NAZIONE IN PATRIA. GLI EBREI ITALIANI E LA SFIDA DELL'IDENTIT� (1918-1938)
Creators: name: AIROLDI, SARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: The dissertation deals with the confrontation of Italian Zionism with the question of identity between 1918 and 1938. During that period the semantics of the Italian nation narrowed for Italian Jews as consequence of the raise and the consolidation of the fascist regime, while, on the other hand, the semantics of the Jewish nation enlarged, mainly as a result of the growth and the internal differentiation of the Zionist movement. In the dissertation light is shed on the effort made by Zionism to redefine and to rejuvinate the Jewish identity through a form of nationalism which acted in two complementary directions: reinforcing the Jewish belonging and confirming the patriotism of Italian Jews. The work couples two methodological approaches: a general one, with an overview on the Zionist debate on the meaning of Jewish identity, and a particular one, focusing on thepolitical reflection and the historical experience of two prominent Zionist thinkers, Enzo Sereni and Alfonso Pacifici, who resolved their anxieties by emigration in the Land of Israel.
Non-equilibrium transport through quantum dots with Dzyaloshinsky--Moriya--Kondo interaction
Creators: name: Pletyukhov, Mikhail
name: Schuricht, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study non-equilibrium transport through a single-orbital Anderson model in a magnetic field with spin-dependent hopping amplitudes. In the cotunneling regime it is described by an effective spin-1/2 dot with a Dzyaloshinsky--Moriya--Kondo (DMK) interaction between the spin on the dot and the electron spins in the leads. Using a real-time renormalization group technique we show that at low temperatures (i) the DMK interaction is strongly renormalized, (ii) the renormalized magnetic field acquires a linear voltage dependence, and (iii) the differential conductance exhibits a voltage asymmetry which is strongly enhanced by logarithmic corrections. We propose transport measurements in which these signatures can be observed.
I POTERI E LE RESPONSABILIT� DEI CREDITORI TITOLARI DI STRUMENTI FINANZIARI PARTECIPATIVI NELL�AMBITO DELLE PROCEDURE STRAGIUDIZIALI DI RISOLUZIONE DELLA CRISI DI IMPRESA
Creators: name: GALEOTTI, EDOARDO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: The dissertation deals with the powers and the responsibility of the banks which hold financial instruments referred to in article 2346, sixth paragraph of the Italian Civil Code within the framework of the out-of-court procedures of the resolution of the companies crisis. The first chapter aims to investigate the economic and legal reasons that encourage the use of the financial instruments within the abovementioned framework and the powers that can be allocated to the creditors by these in-struments. The second chapter analyzes the duty of goog faith and fair dealing of the banks which hold financial instruments and the consequences deriving from a breach of these principles. The third chapter draws the responsibility of the banks which hold financial instruments resulting from a violation of the article 2497 of the Italian Civil Code.
IN SILICO SCREENING OF TASTE RECEPTORS: AN INTEGRATE MODELING APPROACH.
Creators: name: LO MONTE, MATTEO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Taste is one of the five senses and accounts for the sensory impression of food or other substances on the tongue. It represents an innate mechanism of defence by which humans and animals detect safety or threat in food. Notably, taste is a whole-body experience since taste receptors, besides being located in the taste buds, are also found in non-sensory tissues, like the gut or the airways, playing still not completely known roles, for example, in glucose metabolism as well as in energy homeostasis. This clearly lays the groundwork for scientific investigations aimed to develop chemical tools through which modulate these physiopathological mechanisms. Although both GPCR and Ion Channels mediate these processes, this Thesis focuses on the latter class, so far less explored than the former one, involving four members of the Transient Potential Receptors family, namely TRPM8, TRPM5, TRPV1 and TRPV4. Although if each study presented its own objectives, peculiarities and relative computational approaches, a common path can be traced for all of them. First, the three-dimensional structure was generated by homology modelling techniques, by exploiting a well validated fragmental approach, then the obtained homology model was tested by docking calculations, which while including preliminary correlative studies, were always aimed at developing reliable strategies for virtual screening campaigns. The here reported results provide further remarkable confirmations for the reliability of the already modelled (and exploited) TRPM8 model, while the here generated TRPM5 and TRPV4 models afford results (despite obtained in a validating preliminary phase) in line with those of TRPM8 further emphasizing the reliability of the fragmental approach. Not to mention that the described targeted strategy to model TRPV1 suggests that previously generated homology models can be then exploited to assist the modeling of highly homologous proteins still obtaining encouraging results but with a significant saving of the required computational efforts. Finally, the here proposed TRPM8 results offer a convincing proof of the potential improvements that may be obtained combining ligand-based and structure-based approaches in a virtual screening analysis.
La normativa sulle riproduzioni di beni culturali: profili critici (alla luce della Direttiva 2019/790 e delle nuove linee guida ministeriali)
Creators: name: Aliprandi, Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: beni culturali
intellectual property
public domain
cultural heritage
diritto d'autore
photography

description: Le slides del seminario tenutosi il 1° dicembre 2022 a Murate Idea Park e intitolato "La normativa sulle riproduzioni di beni culturali: profili critici (alla luce della Direttiva 2019/790 e delle nuove linee guida ministeriali), all'interno dell'incontro pubblico "Opere d'arte del patrimonio italiano: libero utilizzo o autorizzazione da parte dei musei?" organizzato da ISIA Firenze. Video integrale del seminario disponibile qui:
Noncommutative Spacetime in Very Special Relativity
Creators: name: Das, Sudipta
name: Ghosh, Subir
name: Mignemi, Salvatore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Very Special Relativity (VSR) framework, proposed by Cohen and Glashow [1], demonstrated that a proper subgroup of the Poincaré group, (in particular ISIM(2)), is sufficient to describe the spacetime symmetries of the so far observed physical phenomena. Subsequently a deformation of the latter, $DISIM_b(2)$, was suggested by Gibbons, Gomis and Pope [2]. In the present work, we introduce a novel Non-Commutative (NC) spacetime structure, underlying the $DISIM_b(2)$. This allows us to construct explicitly the $DISIM_b(2)$ generators, consisting of a sector of Lorentz rotation generators and the translation generators. Exploiting the Darboux map technique, we construct a point particle Lagrangian that lives in the NC phase space proposed by us and satisfies the modified dispersion relation proposed by Gibbons et. al. [2]. It is interesting to note that in our formulation the momentum algebra becomes non-commutative.
description: 15 pages, no figures, change in Title and Abstract, paper completely rewritten, no change in mathematical results and conclusion; to appear in Phys. Lett. A
Additional file 1 of Enterprise adoption of cloud computing with application portfolio profiling and application portfolio assessment
Creators: name: Ramchand, Kent
name: Chhetri, Mohan Baruwal
name: Kowalczyk, Ryszard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 1: Appendix A. Application Portfolio. Table 9 Application Portfolio Migration Outcome
Dark matter in the Kim-Nilles mechanism
Creators: name: Chun, Eung Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kim-Nilles mechanism relates the $μ$ term with the axion scale $f_a$, leading to the axino-Higgsino-Higgs Yukawa coupling of order $μ/f_a$. This can bring a dangerous thermal production of axinos. If the axino is stable, its mass has to be as small as ${\cal O}$(0.1keV), or the reheat temperature should be lower than ${\cal O}$(10GeV) taking the lower axion scale $10^{10}$ GeV in order not to overclose the Universe. If the axino decays to a neutralino, the overproduced neutralinos can re-annihilate appropriately to saturate the observed dark matter density if the annihilation rate is of order $10^{-8}{GeV}^{-2}$ for the axion scale larger than about $10^{11}$ GeV. Thus, a light Higgsino-like lightest supersymmetric particle with a sizable bino mixture becomes a good dark matter candidate whose nucleonic cross-section is of order $10^{-45}$cm$^2$.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure; Corrected errors in Eq.(7) and in the direct detection cross-section of the Higgsino-like dark matter; Revised Fig.1; Added a discussion on the saxion; Added references; to appear in PRD
Toward an Ising Model of Cancer and Beyond
Creators: name: Torquato, Salvatore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical and computational tools that can be used in the clinic to predict neoplastic progression and propose individualized optimal treatment strategies to control cancer growth is desired. To develop such a predictive model, one must account for the complex mechanisms involved in tumor growth. Here we review resarch work that we have done toward the development of an "Ising model" of cancer. The review begins with a description of a minimalist four-dimensional (three in space and one in time) cellular automaton (CA) model of cancer in which healthy cells transition between states (proliferative, hypoxic, and necrotic) according to simple local rules and their present states, which can viewed as a stripped-down Ising model of cancer. This model is applied to model the growth of glioblastoma multiforme, the most malignant of brain cancers. This is followed by a discussion of the extension of the model to study the effect on the tumor dynamics and geometry of a mutated subpopulation. A discussion of how tumor growth is affected by chemotherapeutic treatment is then described. How angiogenesis as well as the heterogeneous and confined environment in which a tumor grows is incorporated in the CA model is discussed. The characterization of the level of organization of the invasive network around a solid tumor using spanning trees is subsequently described. Then, we describe open problems and future promising avenues for future research, including the need to develop better molecular-based models that incorporate the true heterogeneous environment over wide range of length and time scales (via imaging data), cell motility, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes and cell-cell communication. The need to bring to bear the powerful machinery of the theory of heterogeneous media to better understand the behavior of cancer in its microenvironment is presented.
description: 55 pages, 21 figures and 3 tables. To appear in Physical Biology. Added references
Kinematic quantities of finite elastic and plastic deformation
Creators: name: Fülöp, T.
name: Ván, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kinematic quantities for finite elastic and plastic deformations are defined via an approach that does not rely on auxiliary elements like reference frame and reference configuration, and that gives account of the inertial-noninertial aspects explicitly. These features are achieved by working on Galilean spacetime directly. The quantity expressing elastic deformations is introduced according to its expected role: to measure how different the current metric is from the relaxed/stressless metric. Further, the plastic kinematic quantity is the change rate of the stressless metric. The properties of both are analyzed, and their relationship to frequently used elastic and plastic kinematic quantities is discussed. One important result is that no objective elastic or plastic quantities can be defined from deformation gradient.
description: v5: minor changes, one section moved to an Appendix, 26 pages, 2 figures
A survey of test ideals
Creators: name: Schwede, Karl
name: Tucker, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14B05, 13A35, 14F18, 14J17

description: Test ideals were first introduced by Mel Hochster and Craig Huneke in their celebrated theory of tight closure, and since their invention have been closely tied to the theory of Frobenius splittings. Subsequently, test ideals have also found application far beyond their original scope to questions arising in complex analytic geometry. In this paper we give a contemporary survey of test ideals and their wide-ranging applications.
description: 44 pages, minor corrections and some added/updated references. Comments very welcome (please let us know if we left out something obvious)
Parity-odd multipoles, magnetic charges and chirality in haematite (alfa-Fe2O3)
Creators: name: Lovesey, S. W.
name: Rodriguez-Fernandez, A.
name: Blanco, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collinear and canted magnetic motifs in haematite were investigated by Kokubun et al. (2008) using x-ray Bragg diffraction magnified at the iron K-edge, and analyses of observations led to various potentially interesting conclusions. We demonstrate that the reported analyses for both non-resonant and resonant magnetic diffraction at low energies near the absorption K-edge are not appropriate. In its place, we apply a radically different formulation, thoroughly tried and tested, that incorporates all magnetic contributions to resonant x-ray diffraction allowed by the established chemical and magnetic structures. Essential to a correct formulation of diffraction by a magnetic crystal with resonant ions at sites that are not centres of inversion symmetry are parity-odd atomic multipoles, time-even (polar) and time-odd (magneto-electric), that arise from enhancement by the electric-dipole (E1) - electric-quadrupole (E2) event. Analyses of azimuthal-angle scans on two space-group forbidden reflections, hexagonal (0, 0, 3)h and (0, 0, 9)h, collected by Kokubun et al. above and below the Morin temperature (TM = 250K), allow us to obtain good estimates of contributing polar and magneto-electric multipoles, including the iron anapole. We show, beyond reasonable doubt, that available data are inconsistent with parity-even events only (E1-E1 and E2- E2). For future experiments, we show that chiral states of haematite couple to circular polarization and differentiate E1-E2 and E2-E2 events, while the collinear motif supports magnetic charges.
Additional file 2 of Effect of positive event recording based on positive psychology on healthy behaviors and readmission rate of patients after PCI: a study protocol for a prospective, randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Hu, Yao-Yao
name: Jiang, Xin
name: Mao, Fang-Ying
name: Zhang, Jing
name: Liu, Lin
name: Gu, Jie
name: Wu, Qing
name: Li, Chun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Model consent form (Chinese).
MELANIN-BASED COLOURATION AS A SIGNAL OF INDIVIDUAL QUALITY AND ITS POTENTIAL ROLE IN SEXUAL SELECTION IN THE BARN SWALLOW (HIRUNDO RUSTICA)
Creators: name: COSTANZO, ALESSANDRA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: Bird colours can be structural or can be due to a wide range of pigments incorporated into the feather keratin such as porphyrins, carotenoids and melanins. Melanins are not acquired through diet but are synthesized within dedicated organelles called melanosomes. Despite the strong genetic control of melanin synthesis, environmental variables and physiological condition can influence the expression of melanin ornaments, suggesting that the degree of melanism may honestly signal individual quality and have a role in sexual selection processes. However, studies on the association between melanin-based colour traits and life-history strategies have often provided inconsistent results. Thus, identifying any association between melanisation and fitness traits in populations under a sexual and natural selection regime is pivotal to any study of the evolution of melanism and, more generally, to research on sexual selection . The studies presented in this thesis aimed at investigating the role of melanin-based colouration in the Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) as a signal of individual quality both in nestlings and adults and its role in sexual selection processes. Moreover, the results of a meta-analysis on the intensity of sexual selection on different phenotypic traits across the six Barn swallow subpopulations are presented. By correlative and experimental approaches, this thesis provides novel findings about the role of plumage colouration as a signal of individual quality. Indeed, I demonstrated the parental ability to differentially invest in male and female offspring according to a phenotypic melanin-based trait expressed during early development which will be involved in intersexual competition at sexual maturation; in addition, I provided unprecedented evidence that ventral plumage colouration, involved in parent-offspring communication, reflects telomere length and thus offspring quality. Moreover I demonstrated that, in adult Barn swallows, ventral plumage colouration is a signal of telomere length and predicts seasonal, but not lifetime, reproductive success. Ventral plumage colouration was also found to predict promiscuity in female Barn swallow, suggesting that it may affect male choice of social as well as of potential extra-pair mates. Finally, the present thesis provides a quantitative meta-analytic support for the evidences that different ornaments are subject to different selection regimes among geographically distinct Barn swallow populations, according to the hypothesis that sexual selection plays a major role in speciation processes.
Deterministic Generation of Entangled Photons in Superconducting Resonator Arrays
Creators: name: Hu, Y.
name: Tian, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scheme for the deterministic generation of entangled photon pairs in a superconducting resonator array. The resonators form a Jaynes-Cummings lattice via the coupling to superconducting qubits, and the Kerr-like nonlinearity arises due to the coupling.We show that entangled photons can be generated on demand by applying spectroscopic techniques and exploiting the nonlinearity and symmetry in the resonators. The scheme is robust against small parameter spreads due to fabrication errors. Our findings can be used as a key element for quantum information processing in superconducting quantum circuits.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Associations between sensory processing and electrophysiological and neurochemical measures in children with ASD: an EEG-MRS study
Creators: name: Pierce, Sarah
name: Kadlaskar, Girija
name: Edmondson, David A.
name: Keehn, Rebecca McNally
name: Dydak, Ulrike
name: Keehn, Brandon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Tables
Inelastic Phonon Scattering in Graphene FETs
Creators: name: Chauhan, Jyotsna
name: Guo, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inelastic phonon scattering in graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) is studied by numerically solving the Boltzmann transport equation in three dimensional real and phase spaces (x, kx, ky). A kink behavior due to ambipolar transport agreeing with experiments is observed. While low field behavior has previously been mostly attributed to elastic impurity scattering in earlier studies, it is found in the study that even low field mobility is affected by inelastic phonon scattering in recent graphene FET experiments reporting high mobilities . As the FET is biased in the saturation regime, the average carrier injection velocity at the source end of the device is found to remain almost constant with regard to the applied gate voltage over a wide voltage range, which results in significantly improved transistor linearity compared to what a simpler model would predict. Physical mechanisms for good linearity are explained, showing the potential of graphene FETs for analogue electronics applications.
Microtubules on curved surfaces
Creators: name: Tian, Yi Yang (Tim)
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The self-organization of ordered cortical microtubule arrays plays an important role in the development of plant cells. This is observed to emerge from a combination various factors such as microtubule-microtubule interactions, nucleation, and localization of microtubule-associated proteins. Distilling this process into the interaction of one-dimensional bodies on the two-dimensional cortex, quantitative models have been proposed to emulate array formation. These have assisted in understanding the importance of each aspect in addition to identifying potential avenues of experimentation. Until recently, the direct mechanical influence of cell geometry on the constrained microtubule trajectories have been largely ignored in computational models. Modelling microtubules as thin elastic rods constrained on a surface, it has been found that microtubules shapes may differ significantly from the previously assumed geodesics. Restricting to cylinders, we formulate a model incorporating the mechanics of curvature-induced deflection and examine its implications. First, we introduce a minimal anchoring process necessary to describe the geometry of individual microtubules as they grow and become fixed to the cortex. Curvature-induced deflection is governed by the extent to which microtubules can explore the surface curvature, as prescribed by the segment lengths between anchoring. This, in turn, can be modulated by the anchoring kinetics proposed. We implement this model as an event-driven simulation in Python, accommodating for the curvilinear shapes prescribed by the anchoring process. In doing so, ambiguities between differing models are identified. Although these are not resolved here, these provide a possible explanation to the reported conflicting results among differing models. Based on some preliminary simulations using our model, we find that the curvature mechanics provides strong influence for longitudinal alignment with realistic anchoring rates. In particular, catastrophe-inducing edges are unable to overcome this influence to reproduce the observed transverse arrays during the cell elongation phase. This simulation provides the opportunity for further exploration into mechanical influences on array formation and their regulation by the anchoring process.
Large random correlations in individual mean field spin glass samples
Creators: name: Billoire, Alain
name: Kondor, Imre
name: Lukic, Jovanka
name: Marinari, Enzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that complex systems must possess long range correlations and illustrate this idea on the example of the mean field spin glass model. Defined on the complete graph, this model has no genuine concept of distance, but the long range character of correlations is translated into a broad distribution of the spin-spin correlation coefficients for almost all realizations of the random couplings. When we sample the whole phase space we find that this distribution is so broad indeed that at low temperatures it essentially becomes uniform, with all possible correlation values appearing with the same probability. The distribution of correlations inside a single phase space valley is also studied and found to be much narrower.
description: Added a few references and a comment phrase
SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES BASED ON CLUSTERING FOR THE ANALYSIS OF MOBILITY DATA
Creators: name: HACHEM, FATME
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: La Tesi riguarda l'analisi e applicazione di metodi di segmentazione per il partizionamento delle traiettorie spaziali in sotto-traiettorie semanticamente significative, e il loro utilizzo per l'analisi del comportamento di oggetti in movimento. Le traiettorie spaziali sono dati strutturati complessi costituiti da sequenze ordinate di punti spazio-temporali che campionano il movimento continuo di un oggetto in uno spazio di riferimento. Le tecniche di segmentazione sono essenziali per l'analisi delle traiettorie spaziali. In generale, l'attivit� di segmentazione divide una sequenza di punti dati in una serie di sottosequenze disgiunte basate su criteri di omogeneit�. La Tesi si focalizza, in particolare, sulle tecniche di segmentazione basate su ?density based clustering?. A differenza dei processi di clustering tradizionali, che sono applicati ad ?insiemi? di punti, le tecniche di segmentazione basate su clustering partizionano ?sequenze? in una serie di ?clusters? temporalmente separati. Possibili applicazioni includono l'analisi del movimento di individui in ambito urbano e lo studio del comportamento di animali. Alcune tecniche di segmentazione basate su ?cluster? sono descritte in letteratura, tuttavia nessuna di queste soluzioni permette di gestire in modo efficace i punti non strutturati (noise). Inoltre, le metodologie adottate per validare queste tecniche soffrono di gravi limitazioni, ad esempio le verifiche sperimentale utilizzano dati molto semplici che non riflettono la complessit� del movimento reale, come pure non permettono di effettuare un confronto con ground truth. Questa Tesi si focalizza su una recente tecnica per la segmentazione basata su cluster con noise, chiamata SeqScan, proposta in un lavoro precedente. In particolare, la ricerca ha affrontato i seguenti problemi: i) definizione di un framework rigoroso per l' analisi delle propriet� del modello di segmentazione; ii) validazione del metodo attraverso un'ampia sperimentazione che prevede il confronto con la ground truth; iii) estensione dell'approccio per consentire la individuazione di gatherings. Il gathering � un gruppo di oggetti mobili che condividono la stessa zona, per un certo periodo di tempo con la possibilit� di assenze occasionali; iv) sviluppo di una piattaforma software che integra i diversi algoritmi ed ulteriori strumenti a supporto dell'analisi dei dati di mobilit�.
Growth states of catalytic reaction networks exhibiting energy metabolism
Creators: name: Kondo, Yohei
name: Kaneko, Kunihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All cells derive nutrition by absorbing some chemical and energy resources from the environment; these resources are used by the cells to reproduce the chemicals within them, which in turn leads to an increase in their volume. In this study, we introduce a protocell model exhibiting catalytic reaction dynamics, energy metabolism, and cell growth. Results of extensive simulations of this model show the existence of four phases with regard to the rates of both the influx of resources and the cell growth. These phases include an active phase with high influx and high growth rates, an inefficient phase with high influx but low growth rates, a quasi-static phase with low influx and low growth rates, and a death phase with negative growth rate. A mean field model well explains the transition among these phases as bifurcations. The statistical distribution of the active phase is characterized by a power law and that of the inefficient phase is characterized by a nearly equilibrium distribution. We also discuss the relevance of the results of this study to distinct states in the existing cells.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 4 of Effect of positive event recording based on positive psychology on healthy behaviors and readmission rate of patients after PCI: a study protocol for a prospective, randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Hu, Yao-Yao
name: Jiang, Xin
name: Mao, Fang-Ying
name: Zhang, Jing
name: Liu, Lin
name: Gu, Jie
name: Wu, Qing
name: Li, Chun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Funding documentation (English copy).
The Impact of Personal Income on Airline Preferences
Creators: name: Tantoun, Ashref
name: Dayı, Faruk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Speed, safety, and comfort are key determinants of airline preferences. Individuals opt for airlines when it comes to extended-distance and international journeys. The proliferation of airports, heightened competition, and promotional airfare offerings contribute to the rising demand for air travel. In the past, airline travel was primarily favored by individuals with higher income levels, but today, it is observed that individuals with lower and middle incomes also choose air travel. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of income on airline preferences. The sample consisted of 684 participants recruited using convenience sampling. Data were collected using a questionnaire. Frequency, validity, reliability, correlation, and dissimilarity analyses were conducted. The results showed a positive correlation between income and travel frequency. Individuals with higher income levels travel more throughout the year. However, there was no significant correlation between income and airline preferences.
Additional file 1 of Effect of positive event recording based on positive psychology on healthy behaviors and readmission rate of patients after PCI: a study protocol for a prospective, randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Hu, Yao-Yao
name: Jiang, Xin
name: Mao, Fang-Ying
name: Zhang, Jing
name: Liu, Lin
name: Gu, Jie
name: Wu, Qing
name: Li, Chun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Ethical approval documentation.
DynamO: A free O(N) general event-driven molecular-dynamics simulator
Creators: name: Bannerman, M. N.
name: Sargant, R.
name: Lue, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular-dynamics algorithms for systems of particles interacting through discrete or "hard" potentials are fundamentally different to the methods for continuous or "soft" potential systems. Although many software packages have been developed for continuous potential systems, software for discrete potential systems based on event-driven algorithms are relatively scarce and specialized. We present DynamO, a general event-driven simulation package which displays the optimal O(N) asymptotic scaling of the computational cost with the number of particles N, rather than the O(N log(N)) scaling found in most standard algorithms. DynamO provides reference implementations of the best available event-driven algorithms. These techniques allow the rapid simulation of both complex and large (>10^6 particles) systems for long times. The performance of the program is benchmarked for elastic hard sphere systems, homogeneous cooling and sheared inelastic hard spheres, and equilibrium Lennard-Jones fluids. This software and its documentation are distributed under the GNU General Public license and can be freely downloaded from http://marcusbannerman.co.uk/dynamo .
Adaptive time splitting method for multi-scale evolutionary partial differential equations
Creators: name: Descombes, Stéphane
name: Duarte, Max
name: Dumont, Thierry
name: Louvet, Violaine
name: Massot, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper introduces an adaptive time splitting technique for the solution of stiff evolutionary PDEs that guarantees an effective error control of the simulation, independent of the fastest physical time scale for highly unsteady problems. The strategy considers a second order Strang method and another lower order embedded splitting scheme that takes into account potential loss of order due to the stiffness featured by time-space multi-scale phenomena. The scheme is then built upon a precise numerical analysis of the method and a complementary numerical procedure, conceived to overcome classical restrictions of adaptive time stepping schemes based on lower order embedded methods, whenever asymptotic estimates fail to predict the dynamics of the problem. The performance of the method in terms of control of integration errors is evaluated by numerical simulations of stiff propagating waves coming from nonlinear chemical dynamics models as well as highly multi-scale nanosecond repetitively pulsed gas discharges, which allow to illustrate the method capabilities to consistently describe a broad spectrum of time scales and different physical scenarios for consecutive discharge/post-discharge phases.
description: Accepted to publication in Confluentes Mathematici. Dedication : Cet article est d\'edi\'e \`a la m\'emoire de Michelle Schatzman. Sp\'ecialiste des m\'ethodes de d\'ecomposition d'op\'erateur, sa grande clairvoyance scientifique lui a permis d'orienter plusieurs chercheurs d\'ebutants sur ce sujet \`a un moment o\`u il pouvait sembler achev\'e. Michelle aimait dire qu'il n'y a pas de fronti\`ere entre les branches des math\'ematiques et que seule une grande culture permet de naviguer dans cette for\^et et d'y trouver les bonnes techniques pour r\'esoudre un probl\`eme. Ce travail est un hommage; \`a la crois\'ee des math\'ematiques et de leurs applications effectives, il tente d'illustrer cette assertion. Michelle, ton dynamisme, ton humour et ton plaisir \`a parler math\'ematiques nous manquent
Additional file 3 of “AI’s gonna have an impact on everything in society, so it has to have an impact on public health”: a fundamental qualitative descriptive study of the implications of artificial intelligence for public health
Creators: name: Morgenstern, Jason D.
name: Rosella, Laura C.
name: Daley, Mark J.
name: Goel, Vivek
name: Schünemann, Holger J.
name: Piggott, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3. Description of Interviewers.
Type I interferon signaling and direct cardiomyocyte damages in the pathogenesis of enteroviral myocarditis
Creators: name: Zhao, Guangze
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Viral myocarditis is an inflammatory heart disease caused by viral infection. CVB3 (coxsackievirus B3) is the predominant pathogen for myocarditis. It is generally proposed that both direct cardiac injury and virus-activated immune response contribute to the pathogenesis of viral myocarditis. However, the molecular determinants mediating the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. ICDs (Intercalated Discs) are substantial connections maintaining cardiac structure and mediating signal communication among cardiomyocytes. NFAT5 (Nuclear factor of activated T-cells 5) is an osmosensitive transcription factor that has been studied well in kidney but rarely in the heart, an organ usually not presented to hypertonic condition as the kidney. Previous studies have shown that NFAT5 protein has antiviral activity but is cleaved during CVB3 infection. Thus, the main objective of this dissertation is to delineate the interplay between direct cardiac damage and NFAT5-mediated innate immune response in CVB3 infected conditions. I hypothesize that 1) CVB3 infection induces destruction of ICD structure by decreasing its key proteins and thus damaging cardiomyocytes; 2) CVB3-induced reduction of NFAT5 leads to the perturbation of immune response, which benefits viral replication and enhances viral pathogenesis. In this dissertation, I first performed studies using HL-1 mouse cardiomyocytes and found that desmosomal proteins, γ-catenin, desmocollin-2, and desmoglein-2, were reduced after CVB3 infection. Since γ-catenin shares high sequence homology with β-catenin in binding with the TCF/LEF transcription factor, I further determined that degradation of γ-catenin benefited Wnt/β-catenin signaling and supressed activation of IFNB1 (type I interferon beta). I further generated a cardiac specific NFAT5 knockout (KO) mouse model by using a tamoxifen-inducible Cre-LoxP system. RNA-seq results showed that IFNB1 and many other antiviral cytokines and chemokines were downregulated due to the deficiency of NFAT5. Also, more cardiac damages and inflammatory immune infiltrates were observed in CVB3-infected NFAT5 KO mice heart than in control mice. Finally, I found that NFAT5 deficiency suppressed the formation of antiviral stress granules and benefited viral replication. Taken together, my study shed light on the mechanisms underlying how CVB3 induces viral myocarditis by both direct cardiac injury and perturbation of innate immune response, and thus provided potential therapeutic strategies against CVB3-induced heart diseases.
title: The aporetics of religious diversity
Creators: name: Drieghe, Geert
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Philosophy of religion, philosophy of worldviews, Nicholas Rescher, orientational pluralism, aporetics, problem of religious diversity, Jürgen Habermas, validity claims, George Lindbeck, the nature of doctrine.

description: My thesis situates itself within the field of the Philosophy of Worldviews. Specifically, it aims to address the normative question of what the task should be of such a philosophy when faced with the problem of conflicting beliefs between religious worldviews. To answer this question, I turn to the procedure of aporetical analysis, in short, aporetics. Firstly, aporetics offers a distinct method of consistency restoration within inconsistent sets on the basis of thesis rejection and thesis modification. Secondly, aporetics leads to an understanding of the availability of aporetic exits on the basis of epistemic criteria. On the one hand, this leads us to opt for an orientational monism/pluralism, which steers the middle course between the epistemic stances of exclusivism and pluralism. On the other hand, it allows us to identify epistemic criteria for worldview acquisition on the basis of three distinct superclasses. These superclasses can be derived from Jürgen Habermas' validity claims, and applied to the self-understanding of contemporary theories of religion.
The quantum Arnold transformation
Creators: name: Aldaya, Victor
name: Cossio, Francisco
name: Guerrero, Julio
name: Lopez-Ruiz, Francisco F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By a quantum version of the Arnold transformation of classical mechanics, all quantum dynamical systems whose classical equations of motion are non-homogeneous linear second-order ordinary differential equations, including systems with friction linear in velocity, can be related to the quantum free-particle dynamical system. This transformation provides a basic (Heisenberg-Weyl) algebra of quantum operators, along with well-defined Hermitian operators which can be chosen as evolution-like observables and complete the entire Schrödinger algebra. It also proves to be very helpful in performing certain computations quickly, to obtain, for example, wave functions and closed analytic expressions for time-evolution operators.
description: 19 pages, minor changes, references updated