cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigation of the role of nanochannels on dynamics of anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) microcantilevers in different gas environments
Creators: name: Andalib, Daniyal
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Mechanical

description: Microcantilevers have made a revolutionary impact in the field of physical, chemical, and biological sensors as the most rudimentary form of MEMS devices. An oscillating microcantilever beam is unique in its versatility to study the effects of flow and gas dynamics at micro/nanoscales. When exposed to various ambient conditions at resonance, its dynamics alter and are typically reflected in frequency, dynamic amplitude, and the Q-factor changes. The physical characteristics of the surface play a crucial role in its dynamics. Anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) shows great potential to be used for microcantilever fabrication due to its inherent, uniform nanoporous surface. The AAO-based microcantilevers provide a low Young`s modulus and a high surface area for the interaction of molecules with the surface, all thanks to their porous surface. This research explores a new AAO platform having nanochannels with both ends of the pores open. The role of nanostructures affecting sensitivity to detect analytes has been exploited to an extent in the past. However, the subtle roles of flow regimes across nanoporous or nanostructured surface modifications remain to be investigated. In the presence of gas flow, the nanoporous surface is expected to induce a non-continuum flow regime. In this study, resonating AAO nano-channeled microcantilevers were used as physical sensors to explore the effect of the non-continuum flow regime on the dynamic properties of the cantilevers. The resonance frequency shifts and quality factor changes of different AAO microcantilevers in different flow rates and gases were investigated, showing a nonlinear trend as the pore diameter increases. More interestingly, the resonance frequency increased with respect to the flow velocity, while more energy dissipated. Also, the dynamic properties of the oscillators were tracked via phase portraits to observe the intricate inter/mutual dependency of displacement and velocity of the oscillating beam at resonance conditions. Keywords: AAO, Nanochannel, gas sensors, phase portraits
MOESM3 of Preferential use of Siglec-1 or Siglec-10 by type 1 and type 2 PRRSV strains to infect PK15S1â CD163 and PK15S10â CD163 cells
Creators: name: Xie, Jiexiong
name: Christiaens, Isaura
name: Yang, Bo
name: Trus, Ivan
name: Devriendt, Bert
name: Cui, Tingting
name: Wei, Ruifang
name: Nauwynck, Hans
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Phylogenetic tree of virus isolates used in the present study. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the full genome nucleotide sequences was constructed using the Neighbor-Joining method. Phylogenetic relationships were estimated using the Clustal Omega method. The optimal tree is drawn to scale. Numbers indicate bootstrap values of 100 replicates. Strain nomenclature is as follows: GenBank accession number/Name of the isolate. Filled circles represent the strains used in the present study.
Ramanujan's {_1ψ_1} summation
Creators: name: Warnaar, S. Ole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper gives a short but reasonably comprehensive review of Ramanujan's {_1ψ_1} summation and its generalisations. It covers the history of Ramanujan's summation, simple applications to sums of squares and orthogonal polynomials, non-commutative generalisations, and generalisations to affine root systems.
description: This paper is part of a series of short articles on Ramanujan's mathematics to appear in the Notices of the AMS in commemoration of Ramanujan's 125th birthday; Final updated and corrected version as will appear in the Notices
An Investigation of Multicomponent Gas Flow in Tight and Shale Reservoirs
Creators: name: Azni, Ahmad Shazryz
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Gas Permeability
subject: Tight and Shale Reservoirs
subject: Multicomponent Gas Flow
subject: Gas Flooding
subject: Competitive Adsorption
subject: Binary Gas
subject: Viscous Flow
subject: Knudsen Diffusion
subject: Surface Diffusion
subject: Core Analysis
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum

description: The complex gas dynamics in tight and shale reservoirs have become an important research topic in the oil and gas industry. This study proposes a steady-state flow test using adsorbing and non-adsorbing gases of single and binary gas components through tight adsorbing and non-adsorbing cores to investigate the true permeability value of its diffusion and slip counterparts. A steady-state flow permeability test was chosen to capture the complex gas dynamics in nanopore throats and the presence of organic matter. 1-D experiments in adsorbing (shale) and non-adsorbing (sandstone) cores are conducted under high overburden pressure at room temperature. The pressure difference and gas flow rates across the cores are measured. Helium (base case) is flowed, followed by adsorbing gases (N2 and CH4). This is followed by flowing gas mixtures to verify whether the single component values can be used in multicomponent systems. The results are compared to existing theoretical and analytical models. The apparent gas permeability for shale and sandstone decreases as the gas changes from non-adsorbing to adsorbing. This observation is not in line with the proposed hypothesis of the current models, where the flow mechanisms in tight and shale formations are treated like parallel resistors, where the total permeability is the addition of each component. The adsorbing gas significantly influences gas permeability when comparing the Klinkenberg plots for single and binary gas. The binary gas permeabilities skewed heavily to the gas with higher adsorbing capacity. Besides that, the adsorbing gas permanently changes the shale pore throat morphology by decreasing the pore radius, which significantly affects the flow mechanisms in shale. The study centred on the dissection of the flow mechanisms (viscous flow, surface diffusion, and Knudsen diffusion) contributing to the permeability calculations. Viscous flow dominates the more permeable porous media, while Knudsen diffusion is in the shale. Besides that, the binary gas mixture in a standard steady-state flow test in permeability estimation is introduced. The binary gas mixture in permeability measurement introduces the effect of gas flooding on the measured permeability. The more adsorbing gas actively displaces the less adsorbing gas and contributes to the surface diffusion permeability.
Reversibility conditions for quantum operations
Creators: name: Jencova, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a list of equivalent conditions for reversibility of the adjoint of a unital Schwarz map with respect to a set of quantum states. A large class of such conditions is given by preservation of distinguishability measures: f-divergences, L_1 -distance, quantum Chernoff and Hoeffding distances; here we summarize and extend the known results. Moreover, we prove a number of conditions in terms of the properties of a quantum Radon-Nikodym derivative and factorization of states in the given set. Finally, we show that reversibility is equivalent with preservation of a large class of quantum Fisher informations and χ^2-divergences.
description: 27 pages, version accepted in Rev. Math. Phys. Proof of Lemma 9 changed, some explanations added, typos corrected
Supplementary document for Broadband transverse unidirectional scattering and large range nanoscale displacement measuring based on the interaction between tightly focused azimuthally polarized beam and silicon hollow nanostructure - 6329061.pdf
Creators: name: Hong, Zhu
name: zhang, zhaokun
name: xiang, yuqi
name: xu, wei
name: Guo, Chucai
name: Liu, Ken
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Multipole decomposition and the influence of position and substrate on scattering
On GIT quotients of Hilbert and Chow schemes of curves
Creators: name: Bini, Gilberto
name: Melo, Margarida
name: Viviani, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14L30

description: The aim of this note is to announce some results on the GIT problem for the Hilbert and Chow scheme of curves of degree d and genus g in P^{d-g}, whose full details will appear in a subsequent paper. In particular, we extend the previous results of L. Caporaso up to d>4(2g-2) and we observe that this is sharp. In the range 2(2g-2)
description: 8 pages, final version, to appear in Electron. Res. Announc. Math. Sci
Supplementary document for Broadband transverse unidirectional scattering and large range nanoscale displacement measuring based on the interaction between tightly focused azimuthally polarized beam and silicon hollow nanostructure - 6369940.pdf
Creators: name: zhang, zhaokun
name: xiang, yuqi
name: xu, wei
name: Guo, Chucai
name: Liu, Ken
name: Hong, Zhu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: multipole decomposition and influence of substrate
You Eat What You Are: Sociocultural Factors That Influence and Inform Food Literacies
Creators: name: Farrell, Pamela
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: food literacy
subject: literacy as a social practice
subject: sociocultural factors
subject: case study
subject: narrative writing
subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education--Health
subject: Education--Language and Literature
subject: Education--Social Sciences
subject: Public Health

description: Numerous and varied definitions and understandings of food literacy exist across health, nutrition, and education disciplines. Food literacy is a contested and subjective topic and has been used across health disciplines to combat dietary-related diseases to improve population health outcomes. Often, the common interpretation of food literacy results in a superficial and autonomous view of food literacy that is restricted to food-related knowledge and skills such as knowing how to cook or being able to read and understand a nutrition label, thereby neglecting the wider contextual influences on food literacy. Viewing food literacy from a literacy as a social practice lens allows us to view food literacies as something people do in social, cultural, and historical contexts. This study examined the sociocultural factors and social practices that influence food literacies using a qualitative case study methodology. Using a narrative writing activity, followed by semi-structured interviews, I explored the concept of food literacy from a literacy as a social practice perspective, focusing on the literacy aspect of food literacy. The findings of this study show how food literacy practices are influenced by a wide variety of sociocultural factors, including social relations, health, gender, economic status, and emotions. As a result, I propose the following definition of food literacy: Food literacy is what we do with food, and why we do it. Food literacy, just like conventional literacy, must be critical, allowing us to “read the world through food” (Sumner, 2015, p. 134). Food literacies are developed over time, are contextual, and are influenced by a variety of sociocultural factors. Further, this study found that participants’ sociocultural self-awareness is critical and well developed; it is a strength that needs to be drawn on when developing and delivering food literacy programming.
Analytical Modeling of Nonlinear Propagation in a Strongly Dispersive Optical Communication System
Creators: name: Johannisson, Pontus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently an analytical model was presented that treats the nonlinear signal distortion from the Kerr nonlinearity in optical transmission systems as additive white Gaussian noise. This important model predicts the impact of the Kerr nonlinearity in systems operating at a high symbol rate and where the accumulated dispersion at the receiver is large. Starting from the suggested model for the propagating signal, we here give an independent and different calculation of the main result. The analysis is based on the Manakov equation with attenuation included and a complete and detailed derivation is given using a perturbation analysis. As in the case with the published model, in addition to assuming that the input signal can be written on a specific form, two further assumptions are necessary; the nonlinearity is weak and the signal-noise interaction is neglected. The result is then found without any further approximations.
description: Results are unchanged, but the relation to the results in Ref. [4] is made clear
MOESM6 of The putative Î˛-glucosidase BGL3I regulates cellulase induction in Trichoderma reesei
Creators: name: Zou, Gen
name: Jiang, Yanping
name: Liu, Rui
name: Zhu, Zhihua
name: Zhou, Zhihua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Western blot analysis of BGL3I-his overexpressed in T. reesei QmU2â 3 using promoter pdc, xyn2 and cbh1. Western blot analysis of BGL3I-his in the intracellular protein extract (A) and in the culture supernatant (B) of BGL3I-his overexpressed transformants. Lane 1: transformant of bgl3i overexpressed under control of promoter pdc; lane 2: transformant of bgl3i overexpressed under control of promoter xyn2; lane 2: transformant of bgl3i overexpressed under control of promoter cbh1; M: marker.
Quantum mode filtering of non-Gaussian states for teleportation-based quantum information processing
Creators: name: Takeda, Shuntaro
name: Benichi, Hugo
name: Mizuta, Takahiro
name: Lee, Noriyuki
name: Yoshikawa, Jun-ichi
name: Furusawa, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and demonstrate an effective mode-filtering technique of non-Gaussian states generated by photon-subtraction. More robust non-Gaussian states have been obtained by removing noisy low frequencies from the original mode spectrum. We show that non-Gaussian states preserve their non-classicality after quantum teleportation to a higher degree, when they have been mode-filtered. This is indicated by a stronger negativity $-0.033 \pm 0.005$ of the Wigner function at the origin, compared to $-0.018 \pm 0.007$ for states that have not been mode-filtered. This technique can be straightforwardly applied to various kinds of photon-subtraction protocols, and can be a key ingredient in a variety of applications of non-Gaussian states, especially teleportation-based protocols towards universal quantum information processing.
Process Innovation in Colombia: Engaging Front-Line Employees in a High Power Distance National Culture
Creators: name: Davidson, Philip Miles
Publisher: name: Haskayne School of Business
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Innovation
subject: Culture
subject: Power Distance
subject: Process Innovation
subject: Colombia
subject: Education--Business
subject: Business Administration--Management

description: While hierarchy may benefit efficiency, scholars have shown that hierarchy is not conducive to innovation. Other scholars focus on the importance of innovation in strengthening firms and national economies. Both findings correlate strongly with my extensive practitioner experience in a Central American nation that demonstrates high levels of power distance. However, even in nations with high power distance, innovative firms exist that overcome this challenge. This existence raises the question, how do firms succeed at process innovation under conditions of a national culture of high power distance? This thesis integrates three papers to investigate this problem of practice. The first study presents an integrative paper that combines learnings from the Doctorate of Business Administration program with a conceptual practitioner-scholar model to demonstrate how to pursue this investigation with academic rigor. Critical realism plays a significant role, given the complexities of culture and innovation. Next, a survey-based study explores Colombian employees’ impressions of the impact of power distance on their innovation participation levels and their firm’s ability to reach innovation objectives. This survey also investigates intentional design and communication’s role in increasing lower-level employees’ (implementers) participation in innovation design. Finally, chapter four builds on the survey findings to present a case study of five Colombian firms, all of whom have completed some innovation training yet show different systems and intentionality to incorporate implementers’ tacit knowledge in process innovation. These studies found that innovative firms’ employees see their firm as having less power distance than the typical Colombian firm. Secondly, management’s will to use systems and opportunities to encourage participation impacts implementers’ input into process innovation design more than the system or structure itself. Finally, most firms showed limited implementer involvement at the ideation stage but had extensive use of employee feedback before implementation. Some innovative firms in Colombia intentionally use their existing hierarchy to obtain feedback on ideas proposed by the mid and upper levels of the hierarchy, contrary to the western ideal of inclusion, where innovation leaders and implementers collaborate at the same level.
Supplementary document for Multilevel diffractive lens in the MWIR with extended depth-of-focus and wide field-of-view - 6346825.pdf
Creators: name: Menon, Rajesh
name: Hayward, Tina
name: Qadri, Syed
name: Brimhall, Nicole
name: Santiago, Freddie
name: Christophersen, Marc
name: Dunay, Christopher
name: Espinola, Richard
name: Cheung, Teddy
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary document.
Drosophila pullipes Hardy and Kaneshiro 1972
Creators: name: Rampasso, Augusto Santos
name: O'Grady, Patrick Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Psathyrellaceae
Drosophila
Drosophila pullipes

description: Drosophila pullipes Hardy and Kaneshiro, 1972
Distribution: Endemic: Hawaii
 Additional References: Carson & Kaneshiro (1976); Craddock et al. (2018); Montgomery (1975); O’Grady & DeSalle (2008); Spieth (1982, 1984)  Notes: Nishida (2002) also reports this species from Maui   discreta subgroup
description: Published as part of Rampasso, Augusto Santos & O'Grady, Patrick Michael, 2022, Distribution and Taxonomy of Endemic and Introduced Drosophilidae in Hawaii, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5106 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6336841
Rate and State Friction Analysis of the Upper Devonian Duvernay-Wabamun Interval and the Lower Triassic Montney Formation
Creators: name: Hernandez Borbon, Jose Rogelio
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Engineering--Civil

description: Production of unconventional hydrocarbon resources is an important activity for the economic prosperity of North America. To enhance productivity from unconventional reservoirs in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin hydraulic fracturing (HF) is routinely employed, which involves the injection of highly pressurized fluids into the subsurface to generate multiple fractures within hydrocarbon reservoirs and increase overall permeability. Along with the increase in HF activities, there has been a parallel increase in induced seismic events in the vicinity of the injection wells. Fault reactivation is accepted as the triggering mechanism for induced seismicity. However, the underlying mechanism that leads to fault reactivation is still not very well understood. Recent studies have suggested that seismic slip of a fault, whose epicentre may be at some distance from HF activities, may arise due to loading from HF driven aseismic slip of the fault near the injection zone. The occurrence of aseismic or seismic slip is dependent on the rate and state frictional properties of the rock. To gain insights into the rate and state friction behavior of reservoir rocks that are typically subjected to HF stimulation, and surrounding formations, in Western Canada, a series of direct shear tests including velocity stepping and slide-hold-slide stages were conducted using a double direct shear assembly under a range of stress conditions to capture those that may occur in the subsurface. Simulated fault gouge material was obtained from samples belonging to the Perdrix, Shulphur Mountain, Ireton, Winterburn and Wabamun formations and groups, to assess the range of rate-state frictional behavior that might occur in the subsurface. Results show that frictional strength and slip stability of the rock samples were dependent on applied normal stress conditions and inherent rock mineralogy. For the majority of the rocks tested aseismic slip was the dominant response, although a small number of rock samples exhibited seismic slip at low normal stresses. Understanding of the rate-state behavior of rock formations will help in assessing the potential contribution of aseismic loading on earthquake nucleation in Western Canada, and lead to greater insights into the triggering of seismic events caused by hydraulic fracturing processes.
Additional file 2: of Downregulation of miR-133a-3p promotes prostate cancer bone metastasis via activating PI3K/AKT signaling
Creators: name: Tang, Yubo
name: Pan, Jincheng
name: Huang, Shuai
name: Peng, Xinsheng
name: Zou, Xuenong
name: Luo, Yongxiang
name: Ren, Dong
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Li, Ronggang
name: He, Peiheng
name: Wa, Qingde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S2. A list of primers used in the reactions for real-time RT-PCR. (PDF 60Â kb)
Supplementary document for Atomic and close-to-atomic scale structure of 4H-SiC induced by extreme ultraviolet laser irradiation - 6366734.pdf
Creators: name: An, Haojie
name: Wang, Jinshi
name: Cui, Huaiyu
name: Fang, Fengzhou
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1 shows the Raman spectroscopy and EDS spectroscopy of the initial and irradiated surfaces under 25 shots laser irradiation.
Drosophila villosipedis Hardy 1965
Creators: name: Rampasso, Augusto Santos
name: O'Grady, Patrick Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Psathyrellaceae
Drosophila
Drosophila villosipedis

description: Drosophila villosipedis Hardy, 1965
Distribution: Endemic: Kauai
 Additional References: Bonacum (2001); Carson & Stalker (1968a); Hardy & Kaneshiro (1968); Montgomery (1975); O’Grady et al. (2011); Spieth (1982, 1984); Takada (1966); Throckmorton (1966)  Notes: Nishida (2002) also reports this species from Oahu   punalua subgroup
description: Published as part of Rampasso, Augusto Santos & O'Grady, Patrick Michael, 2022, Distribution and Taxonomy of Endemic and Introduced Drosophilidae in Hawaii, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5106 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6336841
Maximum heart rate as a means of rapidly estimating optimal temperature for aerobic scope in salmon : its potential for application
Creators: name: Casselman, Matthew Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Knowing the optimal temperature (Topt) for aerobic scope of fishes may be useful for predicting responses to warming environmental temperature because Topt is when fish can allocate the most oxygen to activity. However, the broad application of Topt measurements is hampered by the time required to determine Topt of a species. This thesis sought to develop a rapid method of estimating Topt of Pacific salmon species (genus Oncorhynchus) based on evidence that suggests the decline in aerobic scope above Topt is triggered by a limitation on maximum heart rate (fH). Thus, maximum fH at elevated temperature is thought to limit oxygen convection through the circulatory system, and hence limits both maximum metabolic rate and aerobic scope. Measurements of metabolic rate and fH were taken over a range of temperatures at rest and following exhaustive exercise in juvenile coho salmon (O. kisutch) to confirm the association between Topt and maximum fH. In vivo measurements revealed a maximum fH limitation at the Topt for aerobic scope, supporting the use of fH to estimate Topt. The potential for expediting measurements of maximum fH during acute warming was investigated using anaesthetized coho salmon and pharmacological stimulation of fH. In coho salmon sedated with low doses of anaesthetic, pharmacologically stimulated fH was equivalent to the maximum fH measured in vivo. Breakpoint analysis of the relationship between maximum fH and temperature demonstrated a limitation on maximum fH that corresponded closely with the Topt for aerobic scope. Further, while Topt measurements took three weeks to complete, maximum fH measurements were completed in three days. Therefore, the novel maximum fH technique considerably reduced the time needed to estimate Topt and may be broadly suited to estimating Topt both within and outside of the Oncorhynchus genus. Potential application of this rapid Topt estimation method is discussed in relation to temperature data collected from two local coho salmon-bearing streams. Temperature data also allowed for the examination of stream warming and cooling dynamics and identification of habitat critical to buffering anthropogenic disturbances to stream temperature. These data highlight the importance of riparian areas for maintaining the thermal integrity of waterways.
Supplementary document for Analytical model of a diode-pumped cesium laser for investigation of upper-state mixing and quenching reactions - 6355154.pdf
Creators: name: Endo, Masamori
name: Nagaoka, Hiroki
name: Wani, Fumio
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Scaling Solutions in Continuous Dimension
Creators: name: Codello, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study scaling solutions of the RG flow equation for the Z_2-effective potential in continuous dimension. As the dimension is lowered from d=4 we first observe the appearance of the Ising scaling solution and successively the apparence of multi-critical scaling solutions of arbitrary order. Approaching d=2 these multi-critical scaling solutions converge to the unitary minimal models found in CFT.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, published version
Neuroimaging Correlates of Gait Control in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Creators: name: Sharma, Breni
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: cerebral small vessel disease
subject: cerebral amyloid angiopathy
subject: gait
subject: falls
subject: neuroimaging
subject: quantitative susceptibility mapping
subject: Education--Health

description: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is the second most common subtype of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) and is characterized by the buildup of beta-amyloid protein in the walls of small-medium sized arteries and arterioles of the leptomeninges. Much is known about common clinical manifestations of the disease, such as presence of white matter hyperintensities, lacunar infarcts, cerebral microbleeds, cortical superficial siderosis, and phenotypic presentations, such as the cognitive profile of CAA and its contribution to neurodegeneration and dementia. However, little had been known about the gait profile of CAA or the neural correlates underlying any abnormalities observed, such as grey matter atrophy, white matter damage, or brain iron accumulation. To address these gaps in the literature, I first conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the existing literature covering CSVD and its relation to gait and falls. Once evident that gait difficulties were a feature of CSVD as a whole, I examined gait abilities of patients with CAA, when compared to normal controls (NC), patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). With this, I also looked at associations with falls history and fear of falling, as well as the relationships between gait ability and cognition, WMH volume, and CMB count. Significant gait impairments were found in CAA, prompting an examination of associations between these impairments and grey and white matter damage and iron content in select brain regions. In CSVD, there was a general consensus across studies of an association between greater CSVD burden and worse gait and greater falls. Looking specifically at CAA, significant impairments were found in gait compared to NC but not to AD. Further investigation of this lead to associations between worse gait and grey matter atrophy in frontal, AD-affected, and subcortical regions and with greater white matter structural damage. Iron content, however, did not differ between CAA and NC. Overall, gait appears to be negatively impacted by CAA pathology. Further examination of neural correlates may help to better understand the disease and incorporation of the current findings may help to inform clinicians on the functional outcomes of CAA patients.
Glyphocrangon hakuhoae Takeda & Hanamura 1994
Creators: name: Komai, Tomoyuki
name: Yang, Chien-Hui
name: Chan, Tin-Yam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Glyphocrangonidae
Glyphocrangon
Glyphocrangon hakuhoae

description: Glyphocrangon hakuhoae Takeda & Hanamura, 1994 (Fig. 1A) Glyphocrangon (Plastocrangon) faxoni de Man, 1918: 298 (in part); 1920: 243 (in part). Glyphocrangon hakuhoae Takeda & Hanamura, 1994: 24, figs. 11–13 (type locality: Flores Sea, Indonesia). –– Brand & Takeda, 1996: 270 (in part), fig. 5B, C. –– Komai, 2004b: 522, figs. 67, 68, 119. –– Komai & Chan, 2008: 47, fig. 13A1, A2. Material examined. SJADES 2018, stn CP 07, Sunda Strait (between Tabuan Island and Sumatra), 05°44.68′S, 104°51.15′E to 05°44.92′S, 104°52.06′E, 379–409 m, coarse sand, gravel, rubble, and sunken woods, 25 March 2018, beam trawl, 1 male (cl 12.4 mm), ZRC 2020.0295; same station as preceding, 1 female (cl 11.8 mm), 2 males (cl 13.4, 13.8 mm), ZRC 2020.0300. Description. See Komai (2004b), Komai & Chan (2008) (colouration). Distribution. Previously known from Indonesia (Bali Sea, Banda Sea, Flores Sea, Timor Sea) and the Philippines (E of Luzon); 210–367 m (Komai, 2004b; Komai & Chan, 2008). The present specimens were collected at depths of 379–409 m, slightly extending the known bathymetric range.
description: Published as part of Komai, Tomoyuki, Yang, Chien-Hui & Chan, Tin-Yam, 2020, Deep-sea shrimps of the genus Glyphocrangon A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 (Decapoda: Caridea: Glyphocrangonidae) collected by the SJADES 2018 expedition off Java, Indonesia, with description of one new species, pp. 636-653 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 637, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0079, http://zenodo.org/record/5345455
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Supplementary document for A rapid theoretical method for inverse design on Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) probe - 6356543.pdf
Creators: name: Yi, Jun
name: Meng, Zhao-Dong
name: Tian, Zhong-Qun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental note
The recent Higgs boson data and Higgs triplet model with vectorlike quarks
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Han, Xiao-Fang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some vectorlike quarks are added to the Higgs triplet model with the motivation of fitting the recent Higgs boson data released by LHC and Tevatron collaborations. These vectorlike quarks can suppress the cross section of $gg\to h$ sizably, while the charged scalars, especially for the doubly charged scalar, can enhance $Br(h\to γγ)$ more sizably. Besides, the Higgs couplings to $WW$, $ZZ$ and light fermions can be the same as their SM values. Thus, the model will enhance the Higgs production rates into $γγ$ and $jjγγ$, while those for $WW^*$, $ZZ^*$ and $τ\barτ$ at the LHC are reduced relative to their SM predictions. The Higgs production rates into $Vb\bar{b}$ at the Tevatron are the same as the SM values.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Stochastic Tree Ensembles for Regularized Nonlinear Regression
Creators: name: He, Jingyu
name: Hahn, P. Richard
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: This article develops a novel stochastic tree ensemble method for nonlinear regression, referred to as accelerated Bayesian additive regression trees, or XBART. By combining regularization and stochastic search strategies from Bayesian modeling with computationally efficient techniques from recursive partitioning algorithms, XBART attains state-of-the-art performance at prediction and function estimation. Simulation studies demonstrate that XBART provides accurate point-wise estimates of the mean function and does so faster than popular alternatives, such as BART, XGBoost, and neural networks (using Keras) on a variety of test functions. Additionally, it is demonstrated that using XBART to initialize the standard BART MCMC algorithm considerably improves credible interval coverage and reduces total run-time. Finally, two basic theoretical results are established: the single tree version of the model is asymptotically consistent and the Markov chain produced by the ensemble version of the algorithm has a unique stationary distribution.
Silicon Photomultipliers for High Energy Physics Detectors
Creators: name: Garutti, Erika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper I want to review the current status of development of multi-pixel silicon-based avalanche photo-diodes operated in Geiger mode, also known as Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM). Particular emphasis is given to the application of this type of photo-sensors in high energy physics detectors.
One-sided Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution: Security, feasibility, and the connection with steering
Creators: name: Branciard, Cyril
name: Cavalcanti, Eric G.
name: Walborn, Stephen P.
name: Scarani, Valerio
name: Wiseman, Howard M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the security and feasibility of a protocol for Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), in a context where only one of the two parties trusts his measurement apparatus. This scenario lies naturally between standard QKD, where both parties trust their measurement apparatuses, and Device-Independent QKD (DI-QKD), where neither does, and can be a natural assumption in some practical situations. We show that the requirements for obtaining secure keys are much easier to meet than for DI-QKD, which opens promising experimental opportunities. We clarify the link between the security of this one-sided DI-QKD scenario and the demonstration of quantum steering, in analogy to the link between DI-QKD and the violation of Bell inequalities.
description: v2 replaces the 3-page abstract posted as v1: our results are now given with all necessary details. v3: published version
MOESM2 of Genome-wide comparative analysis of the BAHD superfamily in seven Rosaceae species and expression analysis in pear (Pyrus bretschneideri)
Creators: name: Liu, Chunxin
name: Qiao, Xin
name: Li, Qionghou
name: Zeng, Weiwei
name: Wei, Shuwei
name: Wang, Xin
name: Chen, Yangyang
name: Wu, Xiao
name: Wu, Jun
name: Yin, Hao
name: Zhang, Shaoling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Phylogenetic analysis of BAHD from Arabidopsis, Pyrus bretschneideri and Populus. The software MEGA 7.0 was usedÂ to construct the phylogenetic tree. The amino-acid sequences of Arabidopsis and Populus were obtained from phytozome (https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#).
Tension enhancement in branched macromolecules upon adhesion on a solid substrate
Creators: name: Paturej, J.
name: Kuban, L.
name: Milchev, A.
name: Vilgis, T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of self-generated tension in the backbone of a bottle-brush (BB) macromolecule, adsorbed on an attractive surface, is studied by means of Molecular Dynamics simulations of a coarse-grained bead-spring model in the good solvent regime. The BB-molecule is modeled as a backbone chain of $L$ beads, connected by breakable bonds and with side chains, tethered pairwise to each monomer of the backbone. Our investigation is focused on several key questions that determine the bond scission mechanism and the ensuing degradation kinetics: how are frequency of bond scission and self-induced tension distributed along the BB-backbone at different grafting density $σ_g$ of the side chains? How does tension $f$ depend on the length of the side chains $N$, and on the strength of surface adhesion $ε_s$? We examine the monomer density distribution profiles across the BB-backbone at different $ε_s$ and relate it to adsorption-induced morphological changes of the macromolecule whereby side chains partially desorb while the remaining chains spread better on the surface. Our simulation data are found to be in qualitative agreement with experimental results and recent theoretical predictions. Yet we demonstrate that the interval of parameter values where these predictions hold is limited in $N$. Thus, at high values of $ε_s$, too long side chains mutually block each other and freeze effectively the bottle-brush molecule.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures
MOESM7 of The putative β-glucosidase BGL3I regulates cellulase induction in Trichoderma reesei
Creators: name: Zou, Gen
name: Jiang, Yanping
name: Liu, Rui
name: Zhu, Zhihua
name: Zhou, Zhihua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 7. Western blot analysis of BGL3I-his overexpressed in T. reesei QmU2–3 using constitutive promoter tef1. Western blot analysis of BGL3I-his in the intracellular protein extract (A) and in the culture supernatant (B) of BGL3I-his overexpressed transformant. Lane 1: sample cultured for 5 days; lane 2: sample cultured for 7 days; M: marker.
In Vivo Vastus Lateralis Fascicle Excursion During Speed Skating Imitation
Creators: name: Yu, Bryan
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: force-length relationship
subject: speed skating
subject: ultrasonography
subject: torque-angle relationship
subject: muscle fascicle
subject: isometric dynamometry
subject: Anatomy

description: The primary focus of this thesis was to investigate the operating vastus lateralis (VL) fascicle lengths during the turn-cable exercise. The secondary objective was to determine possible changes in the torque-angle relationship in speed skaters caused by preseason training and the potential differences in the torque-angle relationship between sub-elite speed skaters and strength-trained control subjects. In the first study, we recruited 16 long track speed skaters and 16 strength-trained control subjects to perform maximal isometric knee extensions at nine different knee joint angles, ranging from 20- 120°. Maximal voluntary knee extension torque, knee joint angle, and surface electromyography (EMG) were measured before and after 3-months of preseason training in the speed skaters. Maximal torque, optimal knee angle, and torque-angle relationship did not change in the speed skaters following preseason training, nor were there any differences between the skaters and control subjects. Speed skaters were found to operate on the descending limb of the torque-angle relationship during the gliding phase of skating, and the plateau and ascending limb during the push-off phase, using the knee extensors in what appears to be an optimal way. In the second study, 16 long track speed skaters performed the same maximal isometric knee extension test as described before followed by the turn-cable test which required them to perform crossover skating strokes on a treadmill. Maximal voluntary knee extension torque, knee joint angle, surface EMG, and lateral force were measured for both tests. We found that the left VL muscle of sub-elite long track speed skaters operated on the descending limb of the force-length relationship during the gliding phase of the turn-cable exercise while the push-off phase covered the entire plateau region. The findings from the two studies indicate that sub-elite speed skaters maximize their force generating potential by taking advantage of the plateau region of both the knee extensor torque-angle relationship and VL force-length relationship.
Additional file 3: of Downregulation of miR-133a-3p promotes prostate cancer bone metastasis via activating PI3K/AKT signaling
Creators: name: Tang, Yubo
name: Pan, Jincheng
name: Huang, Shuai
name: Peng, Xinsheng
name: Zou, Xuenong
name: Luo, Yongxiang
name: Ren, Dong
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Li, Ronggang
name: He, Peiheng
name: Wa, Qingde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S3. The basic information of 20 paired prostate adenocarcinoma patients for miR-133a-3p expression analysis. (PDF 54Â kb)
Stochastic tree ensembles for regularized nonlinear regression
Creators: name: He, Jingyu
name: Hahn, P. Richard
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: This paper develops a novel stochastic tree ensemble method for nonlinear regression, referred to as Accelerated Bayesian Additive Regression Trees, or XBART. By combining regularization and stochastic search strategies from Bayesian modeling with computationally efficient techniques from recursive partitioning algorithms, XBART attains state-of-the-art performance at prediction and function estimation. Simulation studies demonstrate that XBART provides accurate point-wise estimates of the mean function and does so faster than popular alternatives, such as BART, XGBoost, and neural networks (using Keras) on a variety of test functions. Additionally, it is demonstrated that using XBART to initialize the standard BART MCMC algorithm considerably improves credible interval coverage and reduces total run-time. Finally, two basic theoretical results are established: the single tree version of the model is asymptotically consistent and the Markov chain produced by the ensemble version of the algorithm has a unique stationary distribution.