cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Highly-Sensitive Textile Pressure Sensors Enabled by Suspended-Type All Carbon Nanotube Fiber Transistor Architecture
Creators: name: Heo, Jae Sang
name: Lee, Keon Woo
name: Lee, Jun Ho
name: Shin, Seung Beom
name: Jo, Jeong Wan
name: Kim, Yong Hoon
name: Kim, Myung Gil
name: Park, Sung Kyu
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: fiber transistors
pressure sensors
e-textile
wearable devices
active-matrix sensors

description: Among various wearable health-monitoring electronics, electronic textiles (e-textiles) have been considered as an appropriate alternative for a convenient self-diagnosis approach. However, for the realization of the wearable e-textiles capable of detecting subtle human physiological signals, the low-sensing performances still remain as a challenge. In this study, a fiber transistor-type ultra-sensitive pressure sensor (FTPS) with a new architecture that is thread-like suspended dry-spun carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber source (S)/drain (D) electrodes is proposed as the first proof of concept for the detection of very low-pressure stimuli. As a result, the pressure sensor shows an ultra-high sensitivity of ~3050 Pa−1 and a response/recovery time of 258/114 ms in the very low-pressure range of 300 Pa as the fiber transistor was operated in the linear region (VDS = −0.1 V). Also, it was observed that the pressure-sensing characteristics are highly dependent on the contact pressure between the top CNT fiber S/D electrodes and the single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) channel layer due to the air-gap made by the suspended S/D electrode fibers on the channel layers of fiber transistors. Furthermore, due to their remarkable sensitivity in the low-pressure range, an acoustic wave that has a very tiny pressure could be detected using the FTPS.
Bose-Einstein condensation in dense matter and the third family of compact stars
Creators: name: Banik, Sarmistha
name: Bandyopadhyay, Debades
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate antikaon condensation in compact star matter using a relativistic mean field model. Antikaon condensates make the equation of state softer resulting in a smaller maximum mass star compared to the case without condensate. It is found that the equation of state including antikaon condensates gives rise to a stable sequence of compact stars called the third family beyond the neutron star branch.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; presented in "Strange Quarks in Matter 2001" conference, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 25-29 September, 2001 and to be published in J. Phys. G
Additional file 4 of The effects of a mitochondrial targeted peptide (elamipretide/SS31) on BAX recruitment and activation during apoptosis
Creators: name: Grosser, Joshua A.
name: Fehrman, Rachel L.
name: Keefe, Dennis
name: Redmon, Martin
name: Nickells, Robert W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. Elamipretide does not delay the onset of BAX recruitment.
Nonequilibrium evolution in scalar O(N) models with spontaneous symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Baacke, J.
name: Michalski, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the out-of-equilibrium evolution of a classical condensate field and its quantum fluctuations for a scalar O(N) model with spontaneously broken symmetry. In contrast to previous studies we do not consider the large N limit, but the case of finite N, including N=1, i.e., plain $λϕ^ 4$ theory. The instabilities encountered in the one-loop approximation are prevented, as in the large-N limit, by back reaction of the fluctuations on themselves, or, equivalently, by including a resummation of bubble diagrams. For this resummation and its renormalization we use formulations developed recently based on the effective action formalism of Cornwall, Jackiw and Tomboulis. The formulation of renormalized equations for finite N derived here represents a useful tool for simulations with realistic models. Here we concentrate on the phase structure of such models. We observe the transition between the spontaneously broken and the symmetric phase at low and high energy densities, respectively. This shows that the typical structures expected in thermal equilibrium are encountered in nonequilibrium dynamics even at early times, i.e., before an efficient rescattering can lead to thermalization.
description: 31 pages, 19 Figures, LaTeX; extended discussion on the basis of: fluctuations, eff. potential, correlations, analytic calculation of parametric resonance for "pion"_and_ "sigma" fields
Additional file 1 of Acute depletion of CTCF rewires genome-wide chromatin accessibility
Creators: name: Xu, Beisi
name: Wang, Hong
name: Wright, Shaela
name: Hyle, Judith
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Shao, Ying
name: Niu, Mingming
name: Fan, Yiping
name: Rosikiewicz, Wojciech
name: Djekidel, Mohamed Nadhir
name: Peng, Junmin
name: Lu, Rui
name: Li, Chunliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figures-Figures S1-S13.
Listronotus weiseri
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus weiseri

description: Listronotus weiseri (Hustache, 1926)
 Hyperodes weiseri Hustache, 1926: 204 (type locality: Argentina: Jujuy, Hornadita, 3400 m; type material: H: MNHN).
 Listronotus weiseri; O’Brien, 1979: 268.
 Distribution. Argentina and Bolivia (Wibmer and O'Brien, 1986).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on pages 48-49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Equation of state of dense matter and the minimum mass of cold neutron stars
Creators: name: Haensel, P.
name: Zdunik, J. L.
name: Douchin, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Equilibrium configurations of cold neutron stars near the minimum mass are studied, using the recent equation of state SLy, which describes in a unified, physically consistent manner, both the solid crust and the liquid core of neutron stars. Results are compared with those obtained using an older FPS equation of state of cold catalyzed matter. The value of M_min\simeq 0.09M_sun depends very weakly on the equation of state of cold catalyzed matter: it is 0.094 M_sun for the SLy model, and 0.088 M_sun for the FPS one. Central density at M_min is significantly lower than the normal nuclear density: for the SLy equation of state we get central density 1.7 10^{14} g/cm^3, to be compared with 2.3 10^{14} g/cm^3 obtained for the FPS one. Even at M_min, neutron stars have a small liquid core of radius of about 4 km, containing some 2-3% of the stellar mass. Neutron stars with 0.09 M_sun
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, uses aa.cls, accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Stability of the interface of an isotropic active fluid
Creators: name: Soni, Harsh
name: Luo, Wan
name: Pelcovits, Robert A.
name: Powers, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the linear stability of an isotropic active fluid in three different geometries: a film of active fluid on a rigid substrate, a cylindrical thread of fluid, and a spherical fluid droplet. The active fluid is modeled by the hydrodynamic theory of an active nematic liquid crystal in the isotropic phase. In each geometry, we calculate the growth rate of sinusoidal modes of deformation of the interface. There are two distinct branches of growth rates; at long wavelength, one corresponds to the deformation of the interface, and one corresponds to the evolution of the liquid crystalline degrees of freedom. The passive cases of the film and the spherical droplet are always stable. For these geometries, a sufficiently large activity leads to instability. Activity also leads to propagating damped or growing modes. The passive cylindrical thread is unstable for perturbations with wavelength longer than the circumference. A sufficiently large activity can make any wavelength unstable, and again leads to propagating damped or growing modes.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
Organic Contaminant-Triggered Self-Healing Soil Mix Cut-Off Wall Materials Incorporating Oil Sorbents
Creators: name: Cao, Benyi
name: Souza, Livia Ribeiro De
name: Al-Tabbaa, Abir
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: self-healing
cut-off wall
organic contaminant
oil sorbent

description: Soil mix cut-off walls have been increasingly used for containment of organic contaminants in polluted land. However, the mixed soil is susceptible to deterioration due to aggressive environmental and mechanical stresses, leading to crack-originated damage and requiring costly maintenance. This paper proposed a novel approach to achieve self-healing properties of soil mix cut-off wall materials triggered by the ingress of organic contaminants. Oil sorbent polymers with high absorption and swelling capacities were incorporated in a cementitious grout and mixed with soil using a laboratory-scale auger setup. The self-healing performance results showed that 500 µm-wide cracks could be bridged and blocked by the swollen oil sorbents, and that the permeability was reduced by almost an order of magnitude after the permeation of liquid paraffin. It was shown by micro-CT scan tests that the network formed by the swollen oil sorbents acted as attachments and binder, preventing the cracked mixed soil sample from crumbling, and that the oil sorbents swelled three times in volume and therefore occupied the air space and blocked the cracks in the matrix. These promising results exhibit the potential for the oil sorbents to provide soil mix cut-off walls in organically-contaminated land with self-healing properties and enhanced durability.
(Non)Commutative Finsler Geometry from String/M--theory
Creators: name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We synthesize and extend the previous ideas about appearance of both noncommutative and Finsler geometry in string theory with nonvanishing B--field and/or anholonomic (super) frame structures \cite{vstring,vstr2,vnonc,vncf}. There are investigated the limits to the Einstein gravity and string generalizations containing locally anisotropic structures modeled by moving frames. The relation of anholonomic frames and nonlinear connection geometry to M--theory and possible noncommutative versions of locally anisotropic supergravity and D--brane physics is discussed. We construct and analyze new classes of exact solutions with noncommutative local anisotropy describing anholonomically deformed black holes (black ellipsoids) in string gravity, embedded Finsler--string two dimensional structures, solitonically moving black holes in extra dimensions and wormholes with noncommutativity and anisotropy induced from string theory.
description: 79 pages, latex2e, version 3 without \tcilatex
Macrostyphlus Kirsch 1889
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Macrostyphlus

description: Macrostyphlus Kirsch, 1889
 Macrostyphlus Kirsch, 1889: 25 (type species: M. gualcalae Kirsch, 1889, by indication, monotypy); Morrone, 1994c: 4 (revision).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Success Factors for Small Entrepreneurs in North Carolina
Creators: name: McDowell, Donald
name: McDowell, Donald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Entreprenuer
subject: Logistic Regression
subject: Case Study
subject: Economic Development
subject: Descriptive Analysis

description: What does it take to be an entrepreneur? The answer to this question has been debated and discussed for centuries. Entrepreneurship programs and courses are taught throughout many secondary and post-secondary educational institutions in this nation. There are also many entrepreneur centers engaged in on-going research and activities. However, most of the information collected and published has been overly theoretical and academic in nature with limited practical application. Unlike quantitative methods of research, like a survey, which focuses on the questions of who, what, where, how much, and how many, and historical analysis, which often situates the participant in some form of historical context, case studies are the preferred strategy when how or why questions are asked. Case studies also extend experience or add strength to what is already known through previous research. Thus, the results from a survey of entrepreneurs operating in North Carolina will be augmented and compared with selected case studies. Thus, the case studies will focus not only on how entrepreneurs survive but more specifically it address and identifies, more in-depth; the institutional, personal, social, and economic factors that can both positively or negatively impact entrepreneurs. Moreover, we can also make an assessment of how much is real and how much is perceived perception of the entrepreneurs.
Transplantation of Neural Precursors Derived from Induced Pluripotent Cells Preserve Perineuronal Nets and Stimulate Neural Plasticity in ALS Rats
Creators: name: Forostyak, Serhiy
name: Forostyak, Oksana
name: Kwok, Jessica C. F.
name: Romanyuk, Nataliya
name: Rehorova, Monika
name: Kriska, Jan
name: Dayanithi, Govindan
name: Raha-Chowdhury, Ruma
name: Jendelova, Pavla
name: Anderova, Miroslava
name: Fawcett, James W.
name: Sykova, Eva
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: proteoglycans
plasticity
neurodegeneration
stem cells
iPS
ALS
motoneuron death
transplantation

description: A promising therapeutic strategy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) treatment is stem cell therapy. Neural progenitors derived from induced pluripotent cells (NP-iPS) might rescue or replace dying motoneurons (MNs). However, the mechanisms responsible for the beneficial effect are not fully understood. The aim here was to investigate the mechanism by studying the effect of intraspinally injected NP-iPS into asymptomatic and early symptomatic superoxide dismutase (SOD)1G93A transgenic rats. Prior to transplantation, NP-iPS were characterized in vitro for their ability to differentiate into a neuronal phenotype. Motor functions were tested in all animals, and the tissue was analyzed by immunohistochemistry, qPCR, and Western blot. NP-iPS transplantation significantly preserved MNs, slowed disease progression, and extended the survival of all treated animals. The dysregulation of spinal chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans was observed in SOD1G93A rats at the terminal stage. NP-iPS application led to normalized host genes expression (versican, has-1, tenascin-R, ngf, igf-1, bdnf, bax, bcl-2, and casp-3) and the protection of perineuronal nets around the preserved MNs. In the host spinal cord, transplanted cells remained as progenitors, many in contact with MNs, but they did not differentiate. The findings suggest that NP-iPS demonstrate neuroprotective properties by regulating local gene expression and regulate plasticity by modulating the central nervous system (CNS) extracellular matrix such as perineuronal nets (PNNs).
Additional file 1 of Ala97Ser transthyretin amyloidosis-associated polyneuropathy, clinical and neurophysiological profiles in a Thai cohort
Creators: name: Nath Pasutharnchat
name: Chamaiporn Taychargumpoo
name: Yongkasem Vorasettakarnkij
name: Jakkrit Amornvit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1
Rapalink-1 Targets Glioblastoma Stem Cells and Acts Synergistically with Tumor Treating Fields to Reduce Resistance against Temozolomide
Creators: name: Vargas-Toscano, Andres
name: Nickel, Ann-Christin
name: Li, Guanzhang
name: Kamp, Marcel Alexander
name: Muhammad, Sajjad
name: Leprivier, Gabriel
name: Fritsche, Ellen
name: Barker, Roger A.
name: Sabel, Michael
name: Steiger, Hans-Jakob
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Hänggi, Daniel
name: Kahlert, Ulf Dietrich
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: glioblastoma
rapalink-1
tumor treating fields
EMT
therapy resistance
human stem cell in vitro platform
drug development
risk assessment
mTOR

description: Glioblastoma (GBM) is a lethal disease with limited clinical treatment options available. Recently, a new inhibitor targeting the prominent cancer signaling pathway mTOR was discovered (Rapalink-1), but its therapeutic potential on stem cell populations of GBM is unknown. We applied a collection of physiological relevant organoid-like stem cell models of GBM and studied the effect of RL1 exposure on various cellular features as well as on the expression of mTOR signaling targets and stem cell molecules. We also undertook combination treatments with this agent and clinical GBM treatments tumor treating fields (TTFields) and the standard-of-care drug temozolomide, TMZ. Low nanomolar (nM) RL1 treatment significantly reduced cell growth, proliferation, migration, and clonogenic potential of our stem cell models. It acted synergistically to reduce cell growth when applied in combination with TMZ and TTFields. We performed an in silico analysis from the molecular data of diverse patient samples to probe for a relationship between the expression of mTOR genes, and mesenchymal markers in different GBM cohorts. We supported the in silico results with correlative protein data retrieved from tumor specimens. Our study further validates mTOR signaling as a druggable target in GBM and supports RL1, representing a promising therapeutic target in brain oncology.
Limits on Sizes of Fundamental Particles and on Gravitational Mass of a Scalar
Creators: name: Dymnikova, Irina
name: Ulbricht, Juergen
name: Zhao, Jiawei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the experimental limits on mass of excited fundamental particles and contact interaction energy scale parameters $Λ$ for QCD, QED and electroweak reactions. In particular we have focused on the QED reaction $ \EEGG $ at the energies from 91GeV{} to 202GeV{} using the differential cross-sections measured by the L3 Collaboration from 1991 to 1999. A global fit leads to lower limits at $ 95 % $ CL on $Λ> 1687$ GeV, which restricts the characteristic QED size of the interaction region to $ R_{e} < 1.17 \times 10^{-17} $ cm. All the interaction regions are found to be smaller than the Compton wavelength of the fundamental particles. This constraint is used to estimate a lower limit on the size of a fundamental particle related to gravitational interaction, applying the model of self-gravitating particle-like structure with the de Sitter vacuum core. It gives $r_τ \geq 2.3 \times {10^{-17}}$ cm and $r_{e} \geq 1.5 \times 10^{-18} $ cm, if leptons get masses at the electroweak scale, and $r_τ \geq 3.3 \times {10^{-27}}$ cm, $r_{e} \geq 4.9 \times 10^{-26} $ cm, as the most stringent limits required by causality arguments. This sets also an upper limit on the gravitational mass of a scalar $m_{scalar} \leq{154} $ GeV{} at the electroweak scale and (m_{scalar} \leq \sqrt{3/8} m_{Pl}) as the most stringent limit.
description: 8 pages, 2 pictures; Minor changes have been made
La Emancipación Conceptual de Número Real de la Idea de Magnitud: Una Mirada Germánica
Creators: name: Ricardo, Luis Giraldo González
name: Fernández, Carlos Sánchez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the present article we study the decisive contributions of three members of the German mathematical school to the separation of the concept of number from the physical concept of magnitude, during the second half of the XIXth century. Besides we analyze the importance of the arithmetization of analysis to later axiomatization of real numbers, process that those three mathematicians promoted in the principal works we review.
description: in Spanish
Material Entanglements of Writing Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus
Creators: name: Steele, Philippa M.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: writing
palaeography
stylus
clay
practice
materiality

description: The present paper explores theoretical aspects of the study of writing systems and practices. It approaches the mesh that constitutes writing practice through one type of agent: the writing instrument used to write clay documents in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus. On the one hand, this investigation will use types of writing implements and their distribution to think through wider issues concerning the development of writing practices across the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus. On the other, it will attempt to establish the place of writing implements within a broader conceptual framework of the people, things and actions that constitute writing practices in this area and period.
Additional file 2 of Management practices in community-based HIV prevention organizations in Nigeria
Creators: name: Akeju, David
name: Nerissa Nance
name: Salas-Ortiz, Andrea
name: Ayoola Fakunmoju
name: Idoteyin Ezirim
name: Adejumoke G. Oluwayinka
name: Omoregie Godpower
name: Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
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 2: Supplementary File 1. Guide for semi-structured interviews. This File shows the tools used for data collection.
Etiology of Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL): Current Directions in Research
Creators: name: Deva, Anand K.
name: Turner, Suzanne D.
name: Kadin, Marshall E.
name: Magnusson, Mark R.
name: Prince, H. Miles
name: Miranda, Roberto N.
name: Inghirami, Giorgio G.
name: Adams, William P.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: antigens
bacterial
breast implants
lymphoma
T-cells

description: Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) is a CD30-positive, anaplastic lymphoma kinase-negative T-cell lymphoma. Where implant history is known, all confirmed cases to date have occurred in patients with exposure to textured implants. There is a spectrum of disease presentation, with the most common occurring as a seroma with an indolent course. A less common presentation occurs as locally advanced or, rarely, as metastatic disease. Here we review the immunological characteristics of BIA-ALCL and potential triggers leading to its development. BIA-ALCL occurs in an inflammatory microenvironment with significant lymphocyte and plasma cell infiltration and a prominent Th1/Th17 phenotype in advanced disease. Genetic lesions affecting the JAK/STAT signaling pathway are commonly present. Proposed triggers for the development of malignancy include mechanical friction, silicone implant shell particulates, silicone leachables, and bacteria. Of these, the bacterial hypothesis has received significant attention, supported by a plausible biologic model. In this model, bacteria form an adherent biofilm in the favorable environment of the textured implant surface, producing a bacterial load that elicits a chronic inflammatory response. Bacterial antigens, primarily of Gram-negative origin, may trigger innate immunity and induce T-cell proliferation with subsequent malignant transformation in genetically susceptible individuals. Although much remains to be elucidated regarding the multifactorial origins of BIA-ALCL, future research should focus on prevention and treatment strategies, recognizing susceptible populations, and whether decreasing the risk of BIA-ALCL is possible.
Forecasting California Pesticide Demand using PUR Dataset
Creators: name: Asci, Serhat
name: Yamazaki, Fumiko
name: Paggi, Mechel
name: Asci, Serhat
name: Yamazaki, Fumiko
name: Paggi, Mechel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Pesticide use
subject: PUR dataset
subject: stochastic simulation

description: Pesticide use related to agriculture and non-agricultural uses has increased six-fold during the last three decades. California has been collecting pesticide use since 1990, and that is recognized as the most comprehensive pesticide reporting program in the world. The program includes the information for 1003 active ingredients and 309 end use commodities. This study aims to develop a relationship between end uses and chemicals to determine the possible impact of end-uses for pesticide demand. In this study, we develop a comprehensive relationship between the pesticide end-uses and active ingredients and analyze pesticide demand using the historical data available from the PUR dataset and agricultural production data using stochastic simulation methods.
Neuromorphic Architecture Optimization for Task-Specific Dynamic Learning
Creators: name: Madireddy, Sandeep
name: Yanguas-Gil, Angel
name: Balaprakash, Prasanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ability to learn and adapt in real time is a central feature of biological systems. Neuromorphic architectures demonstrating such versatility can greatly enhance our ability to efficiently process information at the edge. A key challenge, however, is to understand which learning rules are best suited for specific tasks and how the relevant hyperparameters can be fine-tuned. In this work, we introduce a conceptual framework in which the learning process is integrated into the network itself. This allows us to cast meta-learning as a mathematical optimization problem. We employ DeepHyper, a scalable, asynchronous model-based search, to simultaneously optimize the choice of meta-learning rules and their hyperparameters. We demonstrate our approach with two different datasets, MNIST and FashionMNIST, using a network architecture inspired by the learning center of the insect brain. Our results show that optimal learning rules can be dataset-dependent even within similar tasks. This dependency demonstrates the importance of introducing versatility and flexibility in the learning algorithms. It also illuminates experimental findings in insect neuroscience that have shown a heterogeneity of learning rules within the insect mushroom body.
Effect of Natural Graphite Fineness on the Performance and Electrical Conductivity of Cement Paste Mixes for Self-Sensing Structures
Creators: name: Papanikolaou, Ioanna
name: Litina, Chrysoula
name: Zomorodian, Amir
name: Al-Tabbaa, Abir
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: cement
graphite
additives
electrical conductivity
self-sensing

description: Cementitious composites are the most widely used construction materials; however, their poor durability necessitates frequent monitoring and repairs. The emergence of self-sensing composites could reduce the need for costly and time-consuming structural inspections. Natural graphite, due to its low cost and wide availability, is a promising additive to generate an electrically conductive network which could ultimately lead to a self-sensing mechanism. Despite several studies using natural graphite as a conductive additive, the effect of its fineness on the cementitious composite’s performance has not been explored. This study experimentally investigated the effect of three graphite products of varying fineness on the early age, mechanical, and electrical conductivity performance of cement pastes. The fluidity of the graphite-cement paste reduced significantly with increasing graphite fineness, and graphite did not affect the cement hydration. The finer the graphite, the lower the effect on the mechanical performance, as confirmed by compressive strength testing and micro-indentation. Electrical conductivity testing showed that the percolation threshold depended on the graphite fineness and was found at ~20 wt % for the fine and medium graphite, while it increased to 30−40 wt % for the coarse graphite. This is the first study that has investigated holistically the effect of graphite fineness on the performance of cement pastes and will pave the way for using this material as an additive for self-sensing structures.
The Depth and Breadth of John Bell's Physics
Creators: name: Jackiw, R.
name: Shimony, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: John Bell's investigations in foundations of quantum mechanics, particle physics, and quantum field theory are recalled.
description: 46 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX; editorial corrections; email correspondence to R. Jackiw
Macrostyphlus bilbo Morrone 1994
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Macrostyphlus
Macrostyphlus bilbo

description: Macrostyphlus bilbo Morrone, 1994
 Macrostyphlus bilbo Morrone, 1994c: 7 (type locality: Ecuador: Pichincha, 46 km E Quito, 13,500 feet; type material: H: CNCI).
 Distribution. Northern Ecuador (Morrone, 1994c).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Changing Proportional Distributions of Total Soybean Expenses Over Time Within a State Research Verification Program
Creators: name: Stark, C. Robert
name: Bryant, Kelly J
name: Stark, C. Robert
name: Bryant, Kelly J
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Soybean
subject: verification program
subject: proportional expense distributions
subject: threshold recommendations

description: The Arkansas Soybean Research Verification Program (AR SRVP) has provided demonstrations of optimal management responses in soybean production for 30 years. This period has seen the adoption of early soybean production systems and increasingly widespread use of various irrigation approaches. Cooperating producers across the state have worked with county agents and state extension specialists to produce crops under top management conditions and refine extension recommendations. Individual field and cooperator agronomic and economic results have been published to benefit producers across the state and beyond. While considerable attention has been given to total costs of production, limited study has been made into the changes in distribution of these costs among expense categories. This study examines changes in magnitude of expenses and percentage distributions among major expense categories. Irrigated, early season soybean production system records are examined for a ten year period to identify expense changes that have been experienced. The distribution of expenses by commonly used categories is then calculated and compared to national results from periodic USDA/NASS surveys. A better understanding of the distributional changes in expenses borne by soybean producers can have benefits in crop enterprise decision making and facilitate financing procedures for both producers and land owners.
title: House Price Expectations
Creators: name: Gohl, Niklas
name: Haan, Peter
name: Michelsen, Claus
name: Weinhardt, Felix
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: This study examines short-, medium-, and long-run price expectations in housing markets. We derive and test six hypothesis about the incidence, formation, and relevance of price expectations. To do so, we use data from a tailored household survey, past sale and rental offerings, satellites, and from an information RCT. As novel findings, we show that price expectations exhibit mean reversion in the long-run. Moreover, we do not find evidence for biases related to individual housing tenure decisions or regret aversion. Confirming existing findings, we show that local market characteristics matter for expectations throughout, as well as aggregate price information. Lastly, we corroborate existing evidence that expectations are relevant for portfolio choice.
The Shapes of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Alam, S. M. Khairul
name: Ryden, Barbara S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the distribution of apparent axis ratios $q$ for galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Early Data Release. We divide the galaxies by profile type (de Vaucouleurs versus exponential) as well as by color ($u^* - r^* \leq 2.22$ versus $u^* - r^* > 2.22$). The axis ratios found by fitting models to the surface photometry are generally smaller than those found by taking the second moments of the surface brightness distribution. Using the axis ratios found from fitting models, we find that galaxies with de Vaucouleurs profiles have axis ratio distributions which are inconsistent, at the 99% confidence level, with their being a population of randomly oriented oblate spheroids. Red de Vaucouleurs galaxies are slightly rounder, on average, than blue de Vaucouleurs galaxies. By contrast, blue galaxies with exponential profiles appear very much flatter, on average, than red galaxies with exponential profiles. The red exponential galaxies are primarily disk galaxies seen nearly edge-on, with reddening due to the presence of dust, rather than to an intrinsically red stellar population.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Part I
Macrostyphlus frodo Morrone 1994
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Macrostyphlus
Macrostyphlus frodo

description: Macrostyphlus frodo Morrone, 1994
 Macrostyphlus frodo Morrone, 1994c: 9 (type locality: Colombia: Páramo Chisaca, 3000 feet; type material: H: USNM and P: ICNB).
 Distribution. Central Colombia (Morrone, 1994c).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Supplementary data from Rising floor and dropping ceiling: organ heterogeneity in response to cold acclimation of the largest extant amphibian
Creators: name: Zhu, Wei
name: Zhao, Chunlin
name: Zhao, Tian
name: Chang, Liming
name: Chen, Qiheng
name: Liu, Jiongyu
name: Li, Cheng
name: Xie, Feng
name: Jiang, Jianping
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022

description: Supplementary data 1: Figure S1: Basic information for the aquaculture of captive-bred Chinese giant salamander. Figure S2: The photograph of the circulating water system. Figure S3: The photograph of the digital water bath. To determine the preferred temperature of larvae, two bathes were used to generate the thermal gradient by heating or cooling the circulating water. Figure S4: Length distribution of the predicted ORF. Figure S5: PCoA scatter plots presenting the variations of organ metabolome and transcriptome in response to cold acclimation. Figure S6: Variations in metabolic and transcriptional profiles after cold acclimation. Figure S7: Variations of glycol-metabolites after cold acclimation.
Optimal Storage Capacity Allocation in Grain Merchandizing
Creators: name: Vorotnikova, Ekaterina
name: Vorotnikova, Ekaterina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Grain storage
subject: optimal dynamic allocation
subject: price volatility

description: Grain storage is an important problem for both farmers and grain merchants; however, it is especially central to the success of the grain merchandizing companies because the time, price, and quantity of both the commodity purchases as well as sales determine the company’s profitability over a specific time. Since commodity storage is a finite resource, merchandizers have to dynamically allocate its capacity among competing commodities in face of uncertainty, considering opportunity cost at all times. Important decision making steps can be described as follows: which grain, how much of it, and at what price one should buy in order to sell it profitably in the future while at the same time lining up the capacity for the next commodity’s quantity with a given price. Studies focus on on-site storage for farmers, and many research and extension programs investigate the optimal timing of sales (Musser, 1996; Lai et al., 2003; Kadjo, 2013). However, no studies analyze the storage allocation problem for a grain merchandizing line of business, with such attributes as handling more than one grain and operating under price volatility, various harvesting cycles, and a limited storage capacity. This study incorporates price distributions based on historical data to solve the optimal grain storage problem for a grain merchandizer. An optimal partial selling rule is derived in the model allowing optimal allocation to spread sales out over the storage period.
The quantum geometric tensor from generating functions
Creators: name: Alvarez-Jiménez, J.
name: Vergara, J. David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new method to compute the Quantum Geometric Tensor, this procedure allows us to compute the Quantum Information Metric and the Berry curvature perturbatively for a theory with an arbitrary interaction Hamiltonian. The calculation uses the generating function method, and it is illustrated with the harmonic oscillator with a linear and a quartic perturbation.
description: 19 pages
Community-level Flood Mitigation Effects on Household Flood Insurance and Damage Claims
Creators: name: Frimpong, Eugene
name: Petrolia, Daniel
name: Frimpong, Eugene
name: Petrolia, Daniel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: flood insurance
subject: CRS mitigation activities
subject: geospatial characteristics
subject: propensity score matching
subject: difference-in-differences

description: The Community Rating System (CRS) was introduced to encourage flood mitigation and increase participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). In exchange for undertaking community-level mitigation activities, community residents earn discounts on their flood insurance policies. Little is known, however, about the relative role of specific mitigation activities on NFIP participation (i.e., policies-in-force) and damage claims. Using community-level panel data on policies-in-force, flood insured damage claims and CRS mitigation activities for the period (1998-2013) for the states of Alabama and Mississippi, we examine the effect of individual mitigation activities on both NFIP policies-in-force and damage claims across communities. We also estimate the average effect of community’s participation in the CRS program on NFIP policies-in-force and insured damage claims. We do so while controlling for key geospatial and demographic characteristics. Results are expected to provide guidance in terms of which CRS mitigation activities have the greatest impact on improving NFIP participation and damage reduction.
Macrostyphlus gandalf Morrone 1994
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Macrostyphlus
Macrostyphlus gandalf

description: Macrostyphlus gandalf Morrone, 1994
 Macrostyphlus gandalf Morrone, 1994c: 9 (type locality: Colombia: Cauca, 20 km E Silvia; type material: H: CNCI and P: 2 CMNC, 3 CNCI, and 1 MZFC).
 Distribution. Southwestern Colombia (Morrone, 1994c).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
title: Ananas :
title: Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Prüfung auf Unterscheidbarkeit, Homogenität und Beständigkeit.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Pineapple

description: Zweck dieser Richtlinien („Prüfungsrichtlinien“) ist es, die in der Allgemeinen Einführung (Dokument TG/1/3) und deren verbundenen TGP-Dokumenten enthaltenen Grundsätze in detaillierte praktische Anleitung für die harmonisierte Prüfung der Unterscheidbarkeit, der Homogenität und der Beständigkeit (DUS) umzusetzen und insbesondere geeignete Merkmale für die DUS-Prüfung und die Erstellung harmonisierter Sortenbeschreibungen auszuweisen.
Targeting Acid Ceramidase to Improve the Radiosensitivity of Rectal Cancer
Creators: name: Clifford, Rachael E.
name: Govindarajah, Naren
name: Bowden, David
name: Sutton, Paul
name: Glenn, Mark
name: Darvish-Damavandi, Mahnaz
name: Buczacki, Simon
name: McDermott, Ultan
name: Szulc, Zdzislaw
name: Ogretmen, Besim
name: Parsons, Jason L.
name: Vimalachandran, Dale
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: acid ceramidase
ionizing radiation
LCL521
rectal cancer

description: Previous work utilizing proteomic and immunohistochemical analyses has identified that high levels of acid ceramidase (AC) expression confers a poorer response to neoadjuvant treatment in locally advanced rectal cancer. We aimed to assess the radiosensitising effect of biological and pharmacological manipulation of AC and elucidate the underlying mechanism. AC manipulation in three colorectal cancer cell lines (HT29, HCT116 and LIM1215) was achieved using siRNA and plasmid overexpression. Carmofur and a novel small molecular inhibitor (LCL521) were used as pharmacological AC inhibitors. Using clonogenic assays, we demonstrate that an siRNA knockdown of AC enhanced X-ray radiosensitivity across all colorectal cancer cell lines compared to a non-targeting control siRNA, and conversely, AC protein overexpression increased radioresistance. Using CRISPR gene editing, we also generated AC knockout HCT116 cells that were significantly more radiosensitive compared to AC-expressing cells. Similarly, two patient-derived organoid models containing relatively low AC expression were found to be comparatively more radiosensitive than three other models containing higher levels of AC. Additionally, AC inhibition using carmofur and LCL521 in three colorectal cancer cell lines increased cellular radiosensitivity. Decreased AC protein led to significant poly-ADP ribose polymerase-1 (PARP-1) cleavage and apoptosis post-irradiation, which was shown to be executed through a p53-dependent process. Our study demonstrates that expression of AC within colorectal cancer cell lines modulates the cellular response to radiation, and particularly that AC inhibition leads to significantly enhanced radiosensitivity through an elevation in apoptosis. This work further solidifies AC as a target for improving radiotherapy treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer.
Simulation Study and Analysis of Diffusive Molecular Communications with an Apertured Plane
Creators: name: Gursoy, Mustafa Can
name: Yilmaz, H. Birkan
name: Pusane, Ali Emre
name: Tugcu, Tuna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) is a method of achieving nano- and micro-scale connectivity by utilizing the free diffusion mechanism of information molecules. The randomness in diffusive propagation is the main cause of inter-symbol interference (ISI) and the limiting factor of high data rate MCvD applications. In this paper, an apertured plane is considered between the transmitter and the receiver of an MCvD link. Either after being artificially placed or occurring naturally, surfaces or volumes that resemble an apertured plane only allow a fraction of the molecules to pass. Contrary to intuition, it is observed that such topology may improve communication performance, given the molecules that can pass through the aperture are the ones that take more directed paths towards the receiver. Furthermore, through both computer simulations and a theoretical signal evaluation metric named signal-to-interference and noise amplitude ratio (SINAR), it is found that the size of the aperture imposes a trade-off between the received signal power and the ISI combating capability of an MCvD system, hinting to an optimal aperture size that minimizes the bit error rate (BER). It is observed that the trend of BER is accurately mirrored by SINAR, suggesting the proposed metric's applicability to optimization tasks in MCvD systems, including finding the optimal aperture size of an apertured plane. In addition, computer simulations and SINAR show that said optimal aperture size is affected by the location of the aperture and the bit rate. Lastly, the paper analyzes the effects of radial and angular offsets in the placement of the apertured plane, and finds that a reduction in BER is still in effect up to certain offset values. Overall, our results imply that apertured plane-like surfaces may actually help communication efficiency, even though they reduce the received signal power.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures, accepted to IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience (post-print, before publishing)
Classical Radiation of a Finite Number of Photons
Creators: name: Stodolsky, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under certain conditions the number of photons radiated classically by a charged particle following a prescribed trajectory can be finite. An interesting formula for this number is presented and discussed.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure