cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Promoting Sustainability through Inclusive Resource Management: The Role of UNFC and Intergenerational Action
Creators: name: Neumann, Bianca Derya
name: Sabra, Ghadi
name: Wang, Jodi-Ann
name: Zheng, Yuhan
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
The promotion of accessible knowledge and better understanding of raw materials extraction and management is a crucial step towards ensuring sustainable resource management across industries and nations. Intergenerational equity can only be achieved through the inclusion of public stakeholders, including the youth, in decision-making processes and implementation of standards and practices in the industry.

Resource classification tools like CRIRSCO dominated the minerals industry in the past, providing information mainly accessible to geoscientists trained to interpret the assessments and investors. But as the public is an important stakeholder of the global environment, it is important to create an all-inclusive system that can be used by everyone. Thus, standards that cater to investors only do not serve the broader purpose of promoting sustainable resource management. The UNFC classification and UNRM provide easily digestible information that allows non-experts to compare national resources, their implications on the economy, society, and the environment, that, unlike other standards, don’t vary from industry to industry and country to country. However, many questions about the implementation of UNFC are still to be answered. How do we strengthen the UNFC to equitably involve non-experts and future generations from various sectors and industries? And how can a policy implementation, that ensures environmental, social and intergenerational equity be ensured? This proposed talk combines perspectives of industry, government, academia, and NGOs, and provides a rounded discussion on how we demystify, heighten social awareness, and encourage intergenerational action around the UNFC and towards sustainable resource management by and for all.
Discovery of 3-chymotrypsin-like viral protease inhibitors as potential anti-SARS-CoV-2 agents
Creators: name: De Guzman, Joshua Alrenzo Evangelista
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: There is an urgent need for new antivirals against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), because of reduced vaccine effectiveness to emerging variants of concern (VOCs) along with resistance to antibody therapeutics, and limitations present in current SARS-CoV-2 antivirals. A promising antiviral target is the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, also known as the 3-chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro), which plays an essential role in viral polyprotein processing. In a prior study (Ton et al., 2020), a 1.3 billion compound library was screened for potential 3CLpro inhibitors by using a Deep Docking (DD) platform to predict which molecules bind to the 3CLpro catalytic site. I hypothesize that compounds predicted by DD to bind to the SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro will present SARS-CoV-2 antiviral activity through inhibition of the 3CLpro. 604 potential 3CLpro inhibitors identified through DD were screened using an in vitro fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based enzymatic assay with recombinant SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro. 15 of the molecules presented an inhibitory concentration 50 (IC₅₀) between 7-75 μM against 3CLpro. The best compound, C230, had an IC₅₀ of 74 ± 20 μM. In cellulo studies in Calu-3 lung cells showed that C230 had a mean effective concentration 50 (EC₅₀) of 17 μM against mNeonGreen (mNG) reporter SARS-CoV-2, was even more potent against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.5, with EC₅₀ of 5 μM and 6 μM using nucleocapsid and dsRNA staining, respectively, and had a cytotoxic concentration 50 (CC₅₀) of > 100 μM. Additionally, an in cellulo enzymatic assay showed inhibition of recombinantly expressed SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro proteolytic activity in Caco-2 intestinal cells by 3CLpro inhibitors nirmatrelvir and GC376, with EC₅₀ values of 4.8 ± 0.4 μM and 8.0 ± 3.1 μM, respectively. Major findings of this study include the identification of novel 3CLpro inhibitors that display SARS-CoV-2 antiviral activity, validated through in vitro and in cellulo assays.
Coherent Dissociation of Relativistic C-9 Nuclei
Creators: name: Krivenkov, D. O.
name: Artemenkov, D. A.
name: Bradnova, V.
name: Voka, S.
name: Zarubin, P. I.
name: Zarubina, I. G.
name: Kondratieva, N. V.
name: Malakhov, A. I.
name: Moiseenko, A. A.
name: Orlova, G. I.
name: Peresadko, N. G.
name: Polukhina, N. G.
name: Rukoyatkin, P. A.
name: Rusakova, V. V.
name: Sarkisyan, V. R.
name: Stanoeva, R.
name: Haiduc, M.
name: Kharlamov, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results on the coherent dissociation of relativistic $^9$C nuclei in a nuclear track emulsion are described. These results include the charge topology and kinematical features of final states. Events of C-9 to 3He-3 coherent dissociation are identified.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures; ISSN 1063-7788
MPEC 2023-X218 : 2023 XZ9
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 XZ9

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Additional file 1: of Effector function of anti-pyroglutamate-3 Aβ antibodies affects cognitive benefit, glial activation and amyloid clearance in Alzheimer’s-like mice
Creators: name: Crehan, Helen
name: Liu, Bin
name: Kleinschmidt, Martin
name: Rahfeld, Jens-Ulrich
name: Le, Kevin
name: Caldarone, Barbara
name: Frost, Jeffrey
name: Hettmann, Thore
name: Hutter-Paier, Birgit
name: O’Nuallain, Brian
name: Park, Mi-Ae
name: DiCarli, Marcelo
name: Lues, Inge
name: Schilling, Stephan
name: Lemere, Cynthia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplemental online material
Methodological Briefs
Creators: name: Schwarz, Gerald
name: Carolus, Johannes
name: Irvine, Kate
name: Miller, David
name: Smyrniotopoulou, Alexandra
name: Vlahos, George
name: Povellato, Andrea
name: Vanni, Francesco
name: Prazan, Jaroslav
name: Fleury, Philippe
name: Guisepelli, Emmanuel
name: Vincent, Audrey
name: Landert, Jan
name: Albanito, Fabrizio
name: Röös, Elin
name: Cazacu, Mara
name: Fratila, Mihaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Agroecology
Agro-ecological transition
Transdisciplinarity
Multi-Actor Platform
Social Network Analysis
Multi-criteria analysis

description: This report provides methodological briefs that provide short, step-by-step, guidance and lessons learnt on applying key methods used in the H2020 UNISECO project. The briefs are available in electronic form and can be accessed via the Agro-ecological Knowledge Hub as a part of information content for the different target audiences. UNISECO is a European research project aiming to develop innovative approaches to enhance the understanding of socio-economic and policy drivers and barriers for further development and implementation of agro-ecological practices in EU farming systems. Learn more about the project: https://uniseco-project.eu/ This project has received funding from the European Union's H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 773901. This publication reflects only the authors' view and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
Peculiarities of String Theory on AdS(4) x CP(3)
Creators: name: Sorokin, Dmitri
name: Wulff, Linus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review peculiar features of type IIA string theory compactified on AdS(4) x CP(3) superspace, in particular, the structure of the Green-Schwarz action, issues with fixing its kappa-symmetry, classical integrability and the string instanton on CP(3)
description: 1+14 pages, based on talks given by the authors at different seminars and conferences, v2: references added
Probability and complex quantum trajectories: Finding the missing links
Creators: name: John, Moncy V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a normalisable probability density can be defined for the entire complex plane in the modified de Broglie-Bohm quantum mechanics, which gives complex quantum trajectories. This work is in continuation of a previous one that defined a conserved probability for most of the regions in the complex space in terms of a trajectory integral, indicating a dynamical origin of quantum probability. There it was also shown that the quantum trajectories obtained are the same characteristic curves that propagate information about the conserved probability density. Though the probability density we now adopt for those regions left out in the previous work is not conserved locally, the net source of probability for such regions is seen to be zero in the example considered, allowing to make the total probability conserved. The new combined probability density agrees with the Born's probability everywhere on the real line, as required. A major fall out of the present scheme is that it explains why in the classical limit the imaginary parts of trajectories are not observed even indirectly and particles are confined close to the real line.
description: To appear in Annals of Physics
NOVEL HIGH-RATE MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES
Creators: name: Lavorata Anderson, Jessica
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401609
subject: Polymers and plastics
classificationCode: 401602
subject: Composite and hybrid materials
classificationCode: 401408
subject: Manufacturing processes and technologies (excl. textiles)

description: In pursuit of enhanced fuel economy, the automotive industry is exploring the substitution of metal components with lightweight polymer composites. These components must withstand elevated static loading and crash performance, while ideally offering added functionalities and reduced weight. To tackle these challenges, this research presents an innovative manufacturing method aimed at reducing costs and cycle times associated with continuous fiber polymer composites. This method involves producing a linear thermoplastic composite rod known as M-TOW (Multi-tow), which can be molded into intricate shapes to serve as tailored structural reinforcement in hybrid-molded parts. The research encompasses the processing of M-TOW, with a focus on predicting consolidation using Darcy’s law, integrating functional components for thermal and electrical conductivity using overbraided metallic wire or sensing using optical fibers, and its application in real-world scenarios. These advancements showcase the versatility and potential of M-TOW in high-rate continuous fiber manufacturing, paving the way for multifunctional hybrid molded structures.
Additional file 1 of Interprofessional education and collaborative practice policies and law: an international review and reflective questions
Creators: name: Girard, Marie-Andrée
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. GLOSSARY (Quotation from World Health Organization, Health Systems Strengthening Glossary, January 2011 [58]).
Large electric-field induced strain in BiFeO3 ceramics
Creators: name: Rojac, Tadej
name: Kosec, Marija
name: Damjanovic, Dragan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large bipolar strain of up to 0.36% (peak-to-peak value) was measured in BiFeO3 ceramics at low frequency (0.1 Hz) and large amplitude (140 kV/cm) of the driving field. This strain is comparable to that achievable in highly efficient Pb-based perovskite ceramics, such as Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 and Pb(Mg,Nb)O3-PbTiO3. The strain showed a strong dependence on the field frequency and is likely largely associated with domain switching involving predominantly non-180° domain walls. In addition, rearrangement of charged defects by applying electric field of low frequency depins these domain walls, resulting in a more efficient switching and, consequently, an increased response.
Implications of X-Ray Line Variations for 4U1822-371
Creators: name: Ji, Li
name: Schulz, Norbert S.
name: Nowak, Michael A.
name: Canizares, Claude R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 4U 1822-371 is one of the proto-type accretion disk coronal sources with an orbital period of about 5.6 hours. The binary is viewed almost edge-on at a high inclination angle of 83 degrees, which makes it a unique candidate to study binary orbital and accretion disk dynamics in high powered X-ray sources. We observed the X-ray source in 4U 1822-371 with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) for almost nine binary orbits. X-ray eclipse times provide an update of the orbital ephemeris. We find that our result follows the quadratic function implied by previous observations; however, it suggests a flatter trend. Detailed line dynamics also confirm a previous suggestion that the observed photo-ionized line emission originates from a confined region in the outer edge of the accretion disk near the hot spot. Line properties allow us to impose limits on the size of accretion disk, the central corona, and the emission region. The photo-ionized plasma is consistent with ionization parameters of log(xi) > 2, and when combined with disk size and reasonable assumptions for the plasma density, this suggests illuminating disk luminosities which are over an order of magnitude higher than what is actually observed. That is, we do not directly observe the central emitting X-ray source. The spectral continua are best fit by a flat power law with a high energy cut-off and partial covering absorption (N_H ranging from 5.4-6.3x10^{22} cm^{-2}) with a covering fraction of about 50%. We discuss some implications of our findings with respect to the photo-ionized line emission for the basic properties of the X-ray source.
description: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Half-Heusler Topological Insulators: A First-Principle Study with the Tran-Blaha Modified Becke-Johnson Density Functional
Creators: name: Feng, Wanxiang
name: Xiao, Di
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Yao, Yugui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically investigate the topological band structures of half-Heusler compounds using first-principles calculations. The modified Becke-Johnson exchange potential together with local density approximation for the correlation potential (MBJLDA) has been used here to obtain accurate band inversion strength and band order. Our results show that a large number of half-Heusler compounds are candidates for three-dimensional topological insulators. The difference between band structures obtained using the local density approximation (LDA) and MBJLDA potential is also discussed.
description: 5 figures, 1 table
title: A taxonomic Gordian Knot - the sauropodomorph diversity in the Germanic Basin during the Late Triassic
Creators: name: Regalado Fernández, Omar Rafael
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
The sauropodomorph-bearing localities from the Norian-Rhaetian of Europe have been traditionally interpreted as monospecific, attributing the morphological disparity in Plateosaurus to intraspecific variability. The Norian and Rhaetian stages are currently not chronostratigraphically defined, making comparisons between the different deposition environments cumbersome. However, from the base of the Norian to the Rhaetian, the sizes of sauropodomorphs increase, with small to medium-sized sauropodomorphs found in the oldest layers of the Löwenstein Formation, to larger and more robust-sized sauropodomorphs from the Tübingen Sandstone (Rhaetian). This contribution presents the results of a basin analysis to reconstruct the environmental changes in the Germanic Basin during the Late Triassic, integrating stratigraphy, fossil record and structural geology. The results of this are that during the Carnian, the opening of Meliata, Pindos and Maliac Oceans in Western Pangaea created rift zones on the carbonate platforms. Towards the Norian, the sea-spreading ceased as these southern oceans started to close just before the new rifting of the Neothetys began. The complex fault systems generated an epicontinental sea that separated portions of Europe as an archipelago that fully developed when the Rhaetian Sea occupied the Germanic Basin. Independently, several iterations of specimen-level phylogenetics of sauropodomorphs found that the three specimens that have been traditionally referred to as Plateosaurus are placed at the base of a comb-like arrangement that includes robust forms, such as Schleitheimia and Tuebingosaurus—two sauropodomorphs that have been previously nested within sauropodiformes. The phylogenetic patterns in a comb-like arrangement suggest a combination of vicariance and migration in the archipelago.
Additional file 1 of Computational analysis to repurpose drugs for COVID-19 based on transcriptional response of host cells to SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Li, Fuhai
name: Michelson, Andrew P.
name: Foraker, Randi
name: Zhan, Ming
name: Payne, Philip R. O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1: Drugs inhibiting targets on the signaling network.
title: Pedras: Modal mineralogy approximations from assay data using Bayesian inference
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Angela Afonso
name: Grose, Lachlan
name: Ailleres, Laurent
name: Halley, Scott
name: Escolme, Angela
name: Armit, Robin
name: Harandi, Mehrtash
name: Cracknell, Matthew
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Mineralogy evaluation is critical to understand a deposit’s mineralogical variability, and inform decisions associated with ore beneficiation. Elemental-to-mineral conversion techniques (EMC) are a popular method to rapidly estimate a sample’s modal mineralogy from an assay dataset. EMC techniques are based in the principle that the bulk chemistry of a sample is proportional to the product of its modal mineralogy and the mineral’s elemental composition.

In this work, we present a Baeysian framework to infer modal mineralogy from compositional data, Pedras. It builds upon the works of Escolme et al. (2019) and Berry et al. (2011), an EMC method that uses linear programming to minimize coefficients representing the energy required to generate a given mineral assemblage. The minimization process implies thermodynamic equilibrium, which is rarely the case for hydrothermal environments. Instead, the thermodynamic coefficients are defined as a logistic probability distribution function, centred at the mineral assemblage’s equilibrium, which relaxes the thermodynamic coefficient’s minimization.

The framework is tested on synthetic alteration assemblages within a porphyry copper deposit and applied to a geochemical dataset from the Wainaulo porphyry copper deposit (Fiji). The results show that by relaxing thermodynamic minimization constraint, accurate modal mineralogy can be approximated at different stages of hydrothermal alteration in porphyry copper deposit systems. Major mineralogical domains are obtained from mineral approximations, reflecting different lithotypes, alteration and mineralization patterns. The modal mineralogy outputs also provide invaluable insights of mineral associations that vector towards mineralization, The method’s accuracy is enhanced when prior knowledge is objectively included in the modelling stage.
Leptonic mixing, family symmetries, and neutrino phenomenology
Creators: name: Varzielas, I. de Medeiros
name: Felipe, R. Gonzalez
name: Serodio, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tribimaximal leptonic mixing is a mass-independent mixing scheme consistent with the present solar and atmospheric neutrino data. By conveniently decomposing the effective neutrino mass matrix associated to it, we derive generic predictions in terms of the parameters governing the neutrino masses. We extend this phenomenological analysis to other mass-independent mixing schemes which are related to the tribimaximal form by a unitary transformation. We classify models that produce tribimaximal leptonic mixing through the group structure of their family symmetries in order to point out that there is often a direct connection between the group structure and the phenomenological analysis. The type of seesaw mechanism responsible for neutrino masses plays a role here, as it restricts the choices of family representations and affects the viability of leptogenesis. We also present a recipe to generalize a given tribimaximal model to an associated model with a different mass-independent mixing scheme, which preserves the connection between the group structure and phenomenology as in the original model. This procedure is explicitly illustrated by constructing toy models with the transpose tribimaximal, bimaximal, golden ratio, and hexagonal leptonic mixing patterns.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, final version published in Phys. Rev. D
Issue Briefs for Practitioners and Policy-Makers
Creators: name: Cazacu, Mara
name: Balazs, Katalin
name: Schwarz, Gerald
name: Miller, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Agroecology
Agro-ecological transition

description: This report focuses on and summarises the results of the H2020 UNISECO project of formulating recommendations in the form of: Policy briefs for policy-makers at European, national, regional and local levels) Issue briefs for practitioners (e.g. farmers, consultants/advisors, businesses, NGOs), generally associated with the national or regional contexts of the Case Studies ). The aim of the briefings was to disseminate knowledge of practice-related insights and recommendations, and facilitate the knowledge transfer between case studies. These publications are designed to be relevant to the communities of place of the case studies, and communities of interest in other geographic settings. UNISECO is a European research project aiming to develop innovative approaches to enhance the understanding of socio-economic and policy drivers and barriers for further development and implementation of agro-ecological practices in EU farming systems. Learn more about the project: https://uniseco-project.eu/ This project has received funding from the European Union's H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 773901. This publication reflects only the authors' view and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
Superfluid density of states and pseudogap phenomenon in the BCS-BEC crossover regime of a superfluid Fermi gas
Creators: name: Watanabe, Ryota
name: Tsuchiya, Shunji
name: Ohashi, Yoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate single-particle excitations and strong-coupling effects in the BCS-BEC crossover regime of a superfluid Fermi gas. Including phase and amplitude fluctuations of the superfluid order parameter within a $T$-matrix theory, we calculate the superfluid density of states (DOS), as well as single-particle spectral weight, over the entire BCS-BEC crossover region below the superfluid transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$. We clarify how the pseudogap in the normal state evolves into the superfluid gap, as one passes through $T_{\rm c}$. While the pseudogap in DOS continuously evolves into the superfluid gap in the weak-coupling BCS regime, the superfluid gap in the crossover region is shown to appear in DOS after the pseudogap disappears below $T_{\rm c}$. In the phase diagram with respect to the temperature and interaction strength, we determine the region where strong pairing fluctuations dominate over single-particle properties of the system. Our results would be useful for the study of strong-coupling phenomena in the BCS-BEC crossover regime of a superfluid Fermi gas.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures
title: Extending the age model for Lake Bosumtwi (Ghana) for climate- and environmental reconstructions in West Africa during the last million years
Creators: name: Vinnepand, Mathias
name: Zeeden, Christian
name: Noren, Anders
name: Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie
name: Gosling, William
name: Kück, Jochem
name: Wonigk, Thomas
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Lake Bosumtwi, formed after a meteorite impact at ~1.07 Ma, contains a sedimentary archive that yields an excellent high-resolution record of climate- and environmental change in Sub-Saharan West Africa. The region is highly susceptible to climate changes due to shifts of the tropical rain belt and variation in dust dynamics in the tension field between the North African Monsoon (humid, wet) and the Harmattan (dry and dusty winds from the Sahara). Consequently, Lake Bosumtwi has been intensively studied and in 2004, supported by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), sediment cores were recovered and downhole logs were performed that allow for the analysis of the complete ~300 m lacustrine sequence. However, detailed climatic and environmental reconstructions for the record are incomplete, mostly due to the absence of a robust age model prior to 500 ka. In 2022, we conducted core scanning natural gamma ray measurements for the ~300 m lacustrine sedimentary sequence. Based on the resulting data, we are generating a correlative age model that is tested by cyclostratigraphic tools and that can be directly compared to the available independently dated sections, but extends farther back in time. Our age model will provide critical chronologic context for the numerous existing and new proxy data that facilitate a study of changes in climate, environment, and ecosystems. This will allow a robust framework to analyse climatic interferences with archaeological findings that might shed new light on habitat availability for our ancestors in tropical Western Africa.
Aoki Phases in the Lattice Gross-Neveu Model with Flavored Mass terms
Creators: name: Creutz, Michael
name: Kimura, Taro
name: Misumi, Tatsuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the parity-broken phase structure for staggered and naive fermions in the Gross-Neveu model as a toy model of QCD. We consider a generalized staggered Gross-Neveu model including two types of four-point interactions. We use generalized mass terms to split the doublers for both staggered and naive fermions. The phase boundaries derived from the gap equations show that the mass splitting of tastes results in an Aoki phase both in the staggered and naive cases. We also discuss the continuum limit of these models and explore taking the chirally-symmetric limit by fine-tuning a mass parameter and two coupling constants. This supports the idea that in lattice QCD we can derive one- or two-flavor staggered fermions by tuning the mass parameter, which are likely to be less expensive than Wilson fermions in QCD simulation.
description: 31 pages, 14 figures; typos corrected
Additional file 1 of PEPCK-M recoups tumor cell anabolic potential in a PKC-ζ-dependent manner
Creators: name: Hyroššová, Petra
name: Aragó, Marc
name: Moreno-Felici, Juan
name: Xiarong Fu
name: Mendez-Lucas, Andrés
name: García-Rovés, Pablo M.
name: Burgess, Shawn
name: Figueras, Agnès
name: Viñals, Francesc
name: Perales, Jose C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Oncomine datasets reference list. Log2 median centered ratio of PCK1 and PCK2 in different cancers analyzed with Oncomine ( https://www.oncomine.org ; Rhodes et al., 2004). Analysis type: Cancer versus Normal, threshold at p=1E-5 and top gene rank 10%. Missing values for PCK1 expression were not significant or were not analyzed in given dataset. Reference to original study is listed.
Formal Analysis of Session-Handling in Secure Messaging: Lifting Security from Sessions to Conversations
Creators: name: Cremers, Cas
name: Jacomme, Charlie
name: Naska, Aurora
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: The building blocks for secure messaging apps, such as Signal’s X3DH and Double Ratchet (DR) protocols, have received a lot of attention from the research community. They have notably been proved to meet strong security properties even in the case of compromise such as Forward Secrecy (FS) and Post-Compromise Security (PCS). However, there is a lack of formal study of these properties at the application level. Whereas the research works have studied such properties in the context of a single ratcheting chain, a conversation between two persons in a messaging application can in fact be the result of merging multiple ratcheting chains.
In this work, we initiate the formal analysis of secure mes- saging taking the session-handling layer into account, and apply our approach to Sesame, Signal’s session management. We first experimentally show practical scenarios in which PCS can be violated in Signal by a clone attacker, despite its use of the Double Ratchet. We identify how this is enabled by Signal’s session-handling layer. We then design a formal model of the session-handling layer of Signal that is tractable for automated verification with the Tamarin prover, and use this model to rediscover the PCS violation and propose two provably secure mechanisms to offer stronger guarantees.
Formal Analysis of Session-Handling in Secure Messaging: Lifting Security from Sessions to Conversations
Creators: name: Cremers, Cas
name: C01chja
name: Naska, Aurora
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: The building blocks for secure messaging apps, such as Signal’s X3DH and Double Ratchet (DR) protocols, have received a lot of attention from the research community. They have notably been proved to meet strong security properties even in the case of compromise such as Forward Secrecy (FS) and Post-Compromise Security (PCS). However, there is a lack of formal study of these properties at the application level. Whereas the research works have studied such properties in the context of a single ratcheting chain, a conversation between two persons in a messaging application can in fact be the result of merging multiple ratcheting chains.
In this work, we initiate the formal analysis of secure mes- saging taking the session-handling layer into account, and apply our approach to Sesame, Signal’s session management. We first experimentally show practical scenarios in which PCS can be violated in Signal by a clone attacker, despite its use of the Double Ratchet. We identify how this is enabled by Signal’s session-handling layer. We then design a formal model of the session-handling layer of Signal that is tractable for automated verification with the Tamarin prover, and use this model to rediscover the PCS violation and propose two provably secure mechanisms to offer stronger guarantees.
Surveying the effects of data on adversarial robustness
Creators: name: Xiong, Peiyu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Machine Learning (ML) has been widely applied in different aspects of our lives due to its accuracy and scalability. However, the vulnerability to adversarial examples, which are intentionally designed by attackers to confuse the models, impedes the adoption of them in life- and safety-critical applications. To address this problem, the area of adversarial robustness investigates the mechanisms behind adversarial attacks and defenses against these attacks. Literature in this area exhibits an arm-race trend where defense techniques proposed to address existing attacks were "broken" by newly proposed attacks. A line of research has been conducted in response to such a trend, investigating the reasons for adversarial vulnerabilities, some of them focusing on the inherent limitations of data. Existing surveys on adversarial robustness focus on collecting state-of-the-art attacks and defense techniques, and few of them discuss how the model and/or data explain the adversarial vulnerability observed. In this thesis, we review literature that focuses on the effects of data used to train a model on the model’s adversarial robustness. We systematically identified 57 relevant papers from top publication venues, and categorized them based on the properties of the data discussed. This thesis summarizes the impact of data across eight categories of data properties. Seven of these are general to all applications, and one is specific to a particular application domain. Additionally, we discuss gaps in knowledge and promising future research directions to further improve our understanding of adversarial robustness.
Assessing academic resilience, academic buoyancy and academic motivation post-COVID-19
Creators: name: Griffiths, Rhianna
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2024

description: Academic resilience and academic buoyancy encompass a student’s capacity to cope with major adversity or low-level adversity. With the effects of a global pandemic, students have needed to be resilient towards the unpredictable changes that are occurring. This study investigated whether academic resilience and academic buoyancy measured by the Academic Resilience Scale (ARS) and Academic Buoyancy Scale (ABS) developed by Martin and Marsh (2006, 2008) can be empirically distinguished. Results indicated the ARS and ABS had a strong positive correlation. A discriminant function analysis indicated all adversity questions had a higher loading towards the ARS suggesting limited empirical and conceptual distinction between the ARS and ABS. This study also investigated the effects COVID-19 had on academic buoyancy, academic resilience, and motivation. ANOVA results indicated that pre-pandemic cohorts had higher resilience levels, however the post-pandemic cohort had higher motivation levels. These results suggest that 1) resilience has declined because of constant activation, akin to the process of burnout or 2) current academic endeavours may be more challenging compared to pre-pandemic, given previous education deliverance (e.g., face-to-face versus online). Further research is needed to identify possible underlying mechanisms of academic resilience, buoyancy, and motivation in relation to the measurements and constructs.
title: The Preventing TB Overseas Pilot Study (PTOPS): Voluntary Latent Tuberculosis Infection Testing and Treatment for US-Bound Immigrants in Vietnam
Creators: name: Khan, A
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2021

description: In 1989, the United States declared a goal to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2010, with elimination defined as <1 case per million. In 2019, the US reported 27 cases per million with 70% of cases occurring in the foreign-born. Over 80% of cases were reactivation of latent TB infection (LTBI) acquired prior to US arrival. Strategies to address LTBI have been suboptimal and innovations are critical to reach TB elimination. Currently, the pre-arrival immigrant medical examination focuses on identifying TB disease. To address LTBI in immigrants, a potential strategy is to offer voluntary LTBI testing using an interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) and 3 months of weekly isoniazid and rifapentine (3HP) treatment during the examination. A prospective cohort study was conducted among US-bound immigrant visa applicants undergoing the examination in Vietnam. This study assesses uptake, acceptability, and factors associated with three different points of the LTBI care cascade. Of 5311 visa applicants recruited, 2438 (46%) consented; 2276 had an IGRA processed, and 484 (21%) tested positive. Among 452 participants eligible for 3HP, 304 (67%) initiated treatment and 268 (88%) completed treatment. Being female, aged 18-35, bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccinated, currently in school or employed, knowing a family member with TB, or having a private mode of transportation were associated with test acceptance. Immigrating with family was associated with treatment and immigrating >2 months was associated with testing and treatment. No predictors merged for treatment completion. LTBI prevalence was high; however, test acceptance was low. The proportion initiating treatment overseas was similar to immigrant populations in the United States. Among those initiating treatment overseas, the proportion completing treatment was high at 88%. The study demonstrates that using the overseas medical examination to provide voluntary LTBI testing and treatment should be considered to address LTBI in US-bound immigrants to advance TB elimination efforts.
Infektion mit Schistosoma mansoni zur Charakterisierung der immunologischen Kompetenz weiblicher STR/ort-Mäuse
Creators: name: Heuer, Söhnke
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Für die STR/ort-Maus wurden bereits früher eine Hyperostose mit extramedullärer Hämatopoese, Lymphopenie und Hypogammaglobulinämie beschrieben, die wir als Hinweis auf eine Immunschwäche werteten. Zur immunologischen Charakterisierung infizierten wir 6-8 Wochen alte STR/ort-Weibchen mit Schistosoma mansoni, als Referenzstamm dienten C57BL/6-Mäuse. Im Gegensatz zu vergleichbaren histologischen Ergebnissen sahen wir signifikant niedrigere Marker für eine hepatozelluläre Schädigung und eine signifikant geringere Produktion profibrotischer Zytokine der CD4+ T-Lymphozyten im STR/ort-Stamm.
title: Stable zirconium isotope constraints on the petrogenesis of carbonatites
Creators: name: Magna, Tomas
name: Rapprich, Vladislav
name: Tian, Shengyu
name: Moynier, Frederic
name: Giebel, R.Johannes
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Refractory as well as insoluble nature of zirconium (Zr) dictates that its behavior mostly is driven by magmatic fractionation whereby Zr-rich phases, such as zircon or baddeleyite, and to a lesser amount pyroxene, can control stable Zr isotope systematics of silicate systems. In carbonatites, HFSE often are carried by pyrochlore, garnet and/or pyroxene, and scavenging of these phases during magmatic evolution of carbonatite liquids may result in significant depletions, particularly apparent for Ti, Zr and Hf. Therefore, fractional crystallization of HFSE-bearing phases may bear on the understanding of the role of carbonatites for HFSE distribution in the mantle.

We have analyzed Zr stable isotope systematics (δ94/90ZrIPGP-Zr) of several carbonatites from various geotectonic positions to further constrain their petrogenesis. The preliminary data shows ~0.4‰ variation which is not easily related to major element chemistry of carbonatites, nor emplacement age. Samples of unmodified carbonatites from continental rifts and hot-spots plot above the mantle value (δ94/90Zr = 0.04 ± 0.04‰), with δ94/90Zr of up to ~0.35‰ whereas carbonatites from shear zones display resolvedly lower δ94/90Zr. Carbonatites overprinted by F-rich fluids carry distinctly low δ94/90Zr, associated with high Nb/Ta, suggesting high mobility of HFSE in F-rich fluids. In contrast, δ94/90Zr of carbonatites carrying sulfide mineralization does not deviate from that of unmodified carbonatites. These cumulative observations indicate stable Zr isotope fractionation between silicate and carbonate melts in the mantle. Besides, they also indicate strong mineralogical control of HFSE-bearing phases on the stable Zr isotope systematics of carbonatites.
Additional file 1 of The CFIR Card Game: a new approach for working with implementation teams to identify challenges and strategies
Creators: name: Piat, Myra
name: Wainwright, Megan
name: Sofouli, Eleni
name: Albert, Hélène
name: Casey, Regina
name: Marie-Pier Rivest
name: Briand, Catherine
name: Kasdorf, Sarah
name: Labonté, Lise
name: LeBlanc, Sébastien
name: O’Rourke, Joseph J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. CFIR-ERIC Matching Tool v.1 Barrier Narratives (originals and plain language versions)
title: The regional significance of the potash deposits in the Danakhil depression, Ethiopia
Creators: name: van der Klauw, Sebastiaan
name: Fritze, Christian
name: Pfeifer, Stephan
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
The Danakhil depression is a regional structure in Ethiopia that extents over about 450 km from the Gulf of Djibouti to the NW approximately parallel to the Red Sea coast. It has a maximum width of about 75 km. On surface the SE part of the depression is dominated by recent volcanic rocks with only local windows to the sedimentary rocks below. The part NW of the Erte Ale volcanic structure at an elevation lower than 100 m below sea level is dominated by recent evaporite rocks and alluvial fan deposits with only few recent volcanic structures and is the focus for this contribution.

Although already since the early twentieth century potash and sulphur were mined from the region providing an incentive for investigations, the first regional geologic studies were published only in the 1970’s. These studies were based on interpretation of aerial photographs with minor ground checks. Although recently some further papers about the region have been published, the wealth of information about the regional geology that has been obtained from potash exploration that started in 2008 is hidden in publically accessible technical reports, not usually in focus of geo-scientists. The exploration targeted a neogene or quarternary potash-bearing evaporite sequence within the NW part of the depression. In this contribution we want to present some consequences for the understanding of the regional geology that were developed as a by-product of more than 10 years of potash exploration in the Danakhil depression.
MGHyper: Checking Satisfiability of HyperLTL Formulas Beyond the ∃* ∀* Fragment
Creators: name: Finkbeiner, Bernd
name: Hahn, Christopher
name: Hans, Tobias
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Hyperproperties are properties that refer to multiple computation traces. This includes many information-flow security policies,
such as observational determinism, (generalized) noninterference, and
noninference, and other system properties like symmetry or Hamming
distances between in error-resistant codes. We introduce MGHyper, a
tool for automatic satisfiability checking and model generation for hyperproperties expressed in HyperLTL. Unlike previous satisfiability checkers, MGHyper is not limited to the decidable ∃
∗∀
∗
fragment of HyperLTL, but provides a semi-decisionprocedure for the full logic. An
important application of MGHyper is to automatically check equivalences between different hyperproperties (and different formalizations of
the same hyperproperty) and to build counterexamples that disprove
a certain claimed implication. We describe the semi-decisionprocedure
implemented in MGHyper and report on experimental results obtained
both with typical hyperproperties from the literature and with randomly
generated HyperLTL formulas.
Non-Spinning Black Holes in Alternative Theories of Gravity
Creators: name: Yunes, Nicolas
name: Stein, Leo C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study two large classes of alternative theories, modifying the action through algebraic, quadratic curvature invariants coupled to scalar fields. We find one class that admits solutions that solve the vacuum Einstein equations and another that does not. In the latter, we find a deformation to the Schwarzschild metric that solves the modified field equations in the small coupling approximation. We calculate the event horizon shift, the innermost stable circular orbit shift, and corrections to gravitational waves, mapping them to the parametrized post-Einsteinian framework.
description: 7 pages, submitted to PRD