cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cissidium subfoveolatum Darby 2019
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium subfoveolatum

description: Cissidium subfoveolatum Darby, 2019
Fig. 44
Material examined
Holotype MALAYSIA • ♂; Sarawak, 4 th division, on Mulu NP; May–Aug. 1978; comp 5 alluvial forest litter; P.M. Hammond and J.E. Marshall leg.; BM 1978-49; mounted ventral side uppermost; BMNH.
Supplementary description
The following description amplifies the description of Darby (2019) in particular by adding more details of the meso- and metaventral characters, in order to conform with the present paper.
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 44A), length 0.59 mm.
COLOUR. Dark brown, antennae, legs and pubescence yellow.
HEAD. Distance across eyes 0.23 mm; antennomeres III–XI, length 0.39 mm; mentum and submentum as Fig. 4C.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.22 mm, width 0.32 mm, sparsely pubescent, with a row of eight foveae along the posterior margin, the four medial ones tending to form two large ones, the outer two smaller; lateral margins rounded, concave before the acute hind angles, rounded anteriorly, bordered, the border not continuing along the posterior margin, medial emargination in front of scutellum sinuous (Fig. 44B).
ELYTRA. Length 0.49 mm, width 0.55 mm, pubescent, shallowly foveolate, contrasting with the pronotum.
MESOVENTRITE. Medial process of collar broad, tapering, almost meeting raised portion of mid-keel; mid keel broad, sides parallel, hind angles with carinae to anterior margins of mesocoxal borders; keel broad, parallel-sided, with ± four setae, terminated at interruption of mesocoxal margins; mesoventral lateral margins serrate in posterior half; humeri sharply toothed (Fig. 44C).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.19 mm, sparsely pubescent, disc simple, width across spines 0.15 mm, spines short.
GENITALIA. Not dissected.
Remarks
This is the only species of Cissidium from Sarawak in this group.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 69-71, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282
A reversible theory of entanglement and its relation to the second law
Creators: name: Brandao, Fernando G. S. L.
name: Plenio, Martin. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the manipulation of multipartite entangled states in the limit of many copies under quantum operations that asymptotically cannot generate entanglement. As announced in [Brandao and Plenio, Nature Physics 4, 8 (2008)], and in stark contrast to the manipulation of entanglement under local operations and classical communication, the entanglement shared by two or more parties can be reversibly interconverted in this setting. The unique entanglement measure is identified as the regularized relative entropy of entanglement, which is shown to be equal to a regularized and smoothed version of the logarithmic robustness of entanglement. Here we give a rigorous proof of this result, which is fundamentally based on a certain recent extension of quantum Stein's Lemma proved in [Brandao and Plenio, Commun. Math. 295, 791 (2010)], giving the best measurement strategy for discriminating several copies of an entangled state from an arbitrary sequence of non-entangled states, with an optimal distinguishability rate equal to the regularized relative entropy of entanglement. We moreover analyse the connection of our approach to axiomatic formulations of the second law of thermodynamics.
description: 21 pages. revised version
Control of oxidation and spin state in a single-molecule junction
Creators: name: Heinrich, Benjamin W.
name: Ehlert, Christopher
name: Hatter, Nino
name: Braun, Lukas
name: Lotze, Christian
name: Saalfrank, Peter
name: Franke, Katharina J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The oxidation and spin state of a metal-organic molecule determine its chemical reactivity and magnetic properties. Here, we demonstrate the reversible control of the oxidation and spin state in a single Fe-porphyrin molecule in the force field of the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. Within the regimes of half-integer and integer spin state, we can further track the evolution of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy. Our experimental results are corroborated by density functional theory and wave function theory. This combined analysis allows us to draw a complete picture of the molecular states over a large range of intramolecular deformations.
description: Manuscript + Supplementary Information
Photocatalytic degradation of Congo red using doped zinc oxide nanoparticles
Creators: name: Nwaiwu, Blessing Chidinma
name: Oguzie, Emeka Emmanuel
name: Ejiogu, Christopher Chibuzor
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2024

description: The photocatalytic degradation of Congo Red (CR) was studied using zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles as catalyst (ZC, NZ, AZ and ANZ) under UV light, solar and dark. ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized by one-step liquid impregnation and each nanoparticles was calcined at 60 oC for 4 hours. The UV-vis spectra study assured that the band gap decreased as N and Ag doped to ZnO and hence the absorption band shifts toward the longer wavelength region (red shift). The morphological structures of as-synthesized nanomaterials were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The parameters studied were catalyst dosage and the pH of the reaction mixture. The degradation of the dye was found to be effective in the range; catalyst dose of 0.10, 0.20, 0.30 and 0.4 g ZnO catalyst/100 mL of dye solution, initial concentration 10 mg/L, and pH 8.11. Experimentation on different catalyst dosage of ZnO nanoparticles showed that 0.2 g ZnO catalyst/100 mL with the percentage degradation (ZC 70%, ANZ 99.7%, AZ 92.5%, NZ 85.8%) is the most suitable catalyst dosage for degrading CR under UV irradiation at 120 min of irradiation time. Photocatalytic processes were found to work better in basic condition and the best pH value was 8.0. The results showed that a percentage Congo Red degradation of 99.7% could be obtained when treating an effluent with 10 mg/L of Congo Red for 120 mins at 0.2 g ZnO catalyst/100 mL of effluent and pH 8 under UV irradiation using nitrogen doped silver co-doped zinc oxide, ANZ) both under solar and UV than (NZ) and silver- nitrogen doped zinc oxide (A), this was attributed to the lower rate of recombination of the photo-generated electrons and holes as well as its lower gap energy.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 60 (2024)
Object discovery and identification
Creators: name: Kemp, Charles
name: Jern, Alan
name: Xu, Fei
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Humans are typically able to infer how many objects their environment contains and to recognize when the same object is encountered twice. W e present a simple statistical model that helps to explain these abilities and evaluate it in three behavioral experiments. Our first experiment suggests that humans rely on prior knowledge when deciding whether an object token has been previously encountered. Our second and third experiments suggest that humans can infer how many objects they have seen and can learn about categories and their properties even when they are uncertain about which tokens are instances of t he same object
Numerical magnitude representations influence arithmetic learning.
Creators: name: Booth, Julie L.
name: Siegler, Robert
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study examined whether the quality of first graders' (mean age = 7.2 years) numerical magnitude representations is correlated with, predictive of, and causally related to their arithmetic learning. The children's pretest numerical magnitude representations were found to be correlated with their pretest arithmetic knowledge and to be predictive of their learning of answers to unfamiliar arithmetic problems. The relation to learning of unfamiliar problems remained after controlling for prior arithmetic knowledge, short-term memory for numbers, and math achievement test scores. Moreover, presenting randomly chosen children with accurate visual representations of the magnitudes of addends and sums improved their learning of the answers to the problems. Thus, representations of numerical magnitude are both correlationally and causally related to arithmetic learning.
Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between South Asian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919–1926
Creators: name: Bar Sadeh, Roy
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Hijaz
subject: Soviet Union
subject: Mecca
subject: All-India Khilafat Committee
subject: Saudi Arabia
subject: minority rights
subject: worldmaking
subject: post-Ottoman Middle East
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::950 Geschichte Asiens::950 Geschichte Asiens, des Fernen Ostens

description: Between the end of World War I and the Mecca World Muslim Congress of 1926, Soviet officials and Indian Muslim thinkers imagined the possibilities of a post-imperial world through the Hijaz. The All-India Khilafat Committee (AIKC; established 1919), an organization led by prominent Indian Muslim thinkers, and the Soviet Union promoted competing projects to protect the Hijaz, home to some of Islam’s holiest shrines, against European imperialism. Yet, far from limiting themselves to the question of who should rule the Hijaz, the AIKC and the Soviet state engaged in broader debates about religious and social difference, sovereignty, and minority rights. Whereas the AIKC imagined the Hijaz as an international Muslim republic and a place of refuge for Muslims worldwide, Soviet officials contended that the political future of Muslims should only be settled within the framework of ethno-territorial nation-states. Ironically, the programs of both the AIKC and the Soviet state denied the right of self-determination to Hijazis themselves, leaving the region’s inhabitants to choose between two forms of external oversight: a Soviet-supported Saudi ethno-territorialism or limited domestic autonomy under the management and inspection of an international Muslim Council. With very few exceptions, past scholarship on the Hijaz in this period has analyzed the region’s political fortunes through Saudi statecraft or European colonial influence. However, Soviet and Indian Muslim experimental engagement with the Hijaz ultimately proved just as crucial to the consolidation of Saudi governance over the region. The article arrives at these novel insights by bringing rare Soviet archival documents together with the Urdu proceedings of the AIKC’s delegation to the Hijaz, as well as Arabic sources from the period in question.
Interpretation of runaway electron synchrotron and bremsstrahlung images
Creators: name: Hoppe, M.
name: Embréus, O.
name: Paz-Soldan, C.
name: Moyer, R. A.
name: Fülöp, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The crescent spot shape observed in DIII-D runaway electron synchrotron radiation images is shown to result from the high degree of anisotropy in the emitted radiation, the finite spectral range of the camera and the distribution of runaways. The finite spectral camera range is found to be particularly important, as the radiation from the high-field side can be stronger by a factor $10^6$ than the radiation from the low-field side in DIII-D. By combining a kinetic model of the runaway dynamics with a synthetic synchrotron diagnostic we see that physical processes not described by the kinetic model (such as radial transport) are likely to be limiting the energy of the runaways. We show that a population of runaways with lower dominant energies and larger pitch-angles than those predicted by the kinetic model provide a better match to the synchrotron measurements. Using a new synthetic bremsstrahlung diagnostic we also simulate the view of the Gamma Ray Imager (GRI) diagnostic used at DIII-D to resolve the spatial distribution of runaway-generated bremsstrahlung.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures
Double solids, categories and non-rationality
Creators: name: Iliev, Atanas
name: Katzarkov, Ludmil
name: Przyjalkowski, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper suggests a new approach to questions of rationality of threefolds based on category theory. Following M. Ballard, D. Favero, L. Katzarkov (ArXiv:1012.0864) and D. Favero, L. Katzarkov (Noether--Lefschetz Spectra and Algebraic cycles, in preparation) we enhance constructions from A. Kuznetsov (arXiv:0904.4330) by introducing Noether--Lefschetz spectra --- an interplay between Orlov spectra (C. Oliva, Algebraic cycles and Hodge theory on generalized Reye congruences, Compos. Math. 92, No. 1 (1994) 1--22) and Hochschild homology. The main goal of this paper is to suggest a series of interesting examples where above techniques might apply. We start by constructing a sextic double solid $X$ with 35 nodes and torsion in $H^3(X,\mathbb Z)$. This is a novelty --- after the classical example of Artin and Mumford (1972), this is the second example of a Fano threefold with a torsion in the 3-rd integer homology group. In particular $X$ is non-rational. We consider other examples as well --- $V_{10}$ with 10 singular points and double covering of quadric ramified in octic with 20 nodal singular points. After analyzing the geometry of their Landau--Ginzburg models we suggest a general non-rationality picture based on Homological Mirror Symmetry and category theory.
description: 24 pages, 12 figures. Dedicated to Vyacheslav Shokurov on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Index analysis: An approach to understand signal transduction with application to the EGFR signalling pathway
Creators: name: Knöchel, Jane
name: Kloft, Charlotte
name: Huisinga, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signaling networks
subject: Signaling cascades
subject: EGFR signaling
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: In systems biology and pharmacology, large-scale kinetic models are used to study the dynamic response of a system to a specific input or stimulus. While in many applications, a deeper understanding of the input-response behaviour is highly desirable, it is often hindered by the large number of molecular species and the complexity of the interactions. An approach that identifies key molecular species for a given input-response relationship and characterises dynamic properties of states is therefore highly desirable. We introduce the concept of index analysis; it is based on different time- and state-dependent quantities (indices) to identify important dynamic characteristics of molecular species. All indices are defined for a specific pair of input and response variables as well as for a specific magnitude of the input. In application to a large-scale kinetic model of the EGFR signalling cascade, we identified different phases of signal transduction, the peculiar role of Phosphatase3 during signal activation and Ras recycling during signal onset. In addition, we discuss the challenges and pitfalls of interpreting the relevance of molecular species based on knock-out simulation studies, and provide an alternative view on conflicting results on the importance of parallel EGFR downstream pathways. Beyond the applications in model interpretation, index analysis is envisioned to be a valuable tool in model reduction.
Numerical landmarks are useful--except when they're not.
Creators: name: Siegler, Robert
name: Thompson, Clarissa A.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Placing landmarks on number lines, such as marking each tenth on a 0-1 line with a hatch mark and the corresponding decimal, has been recommended as a useful tool for improving children's number sense. Four experiments indicated that some landmarks do have beneficial effects, others have harmful effects, and yet others have no effects on representations of common fractions (N/M). The effects of the landmarks were seen not only on the number line task where they appeared but also on a subsequent magnitude comparison task and on correlations with mathematics achievement tests. Landmarks appeared to exert their effects through the encodings and strategies that they promoted. Theoretical and educational implications are discussed.
Optmisation of cadmium (II) removal onto biodegradable composite using artificial neural networks and response surface methodology: quantum chemical performance
Creators: name: Banza, Jean Claude
name: Onyango, Maurice Stephane
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2024

description: A multifunctional grafted cellulose nanocrystals derivative adsorbent (composites) with carboxyl, amide, and secondary amino groups was successfully developed for Cd2+ removal. The characteristics of CNCs, chitosan, and nanocomposites were determined using FTIR, TGA, SEM,  and BET. The approaches of artificial intelligence and Response Surface Methodology modeling were employed, as well as how well they predicted response (adsorption capacity). The adsorption isotherm and kinetic models were applied to comprehend the process further. Statistical results demonstrated that The response surface model approach performed better than the artificial neural network model approach. The adsorption capacity was 440.01 mg/g with a starting pH of 5.65, a duration of contact of 315 minutes, a starting concentration of 333 mg/L, and an adsorbent dose of 16.93 mg. The FTIR examination revealed that the functional groups of the nanocomposites were equivalent to those of CNCs and chitosan; however, the nanocomposites were more thermally stable than CNCs and chitosan. The nanocomposites' SEM pictures revealed a porous structure, thin particle size, and needle-like shape. The Langmuir model explains the spontaneous nature of the adsorption process, and chemisorption served as the primary control. According to the Dubinin-Radushkevich Model, to adsorb Cd2+, the energy required is larger than 8 kJ mol-1, suggesting that the chemisorption mechanism was involved. The adsorption kinetics were established using the pseudo-second-order rate model. HOMO−LUMO energy binding differences were used to find the best locations for adsorption.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 60 (2024)
BYOC Dicho Latency Microbenchmark Replication Package
Creators: name: Balkind, Jonathan
name: Lim, Katie
name: Schaffner, Michael
name: Gao, Fei
name: Chirkov, Grigory
name: Li, Ang
name: Lavrov, Alexey
name: Nguyen, Tri
name: Fu, Yaosheng
name: Zaruba, Florian
name: Gulati, Kunal
name: Benini, Luca
name: Wentzlaff, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This package contains the necessary files to reproduce the BYOC Dicho latency microbenchmark experiment. The two .bit files are used to program Genesys 2 FPGAs. The two .img files are OS images, which include the pre-built microbenchmark binaries. The two .bin files contain the bootloaders and for the Ariane RISC-V core, includes the Linux kernel/rootfs. The microbenchmark.tar.gz archive includes the source files for the microbenchmarks as well as their pre-compiled binaries. Please contact openpiton@princeton.edu if you need more information on how to reproduce this experiment.
Midgap states in corrugated graphene: Ab-initio calculations and effective field theory
Creators: name: Wehling, T. O.
name: Balatsky, A. V.
name: Tsvelik, A. M.
name: Katsnelson, M. I.
name: Lichtenstein, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the electronic properties of corrugated graphene and show how rippling-induced pseudomagnetic fields alter graphene's low-energy electronic properties by combining first principles calculations with an effective field theory. The formation of flat bands near the Fermi level corresponding to pseudo-Landau levels is studied as a function of the rippling parameters. Quenched and relaxed ripples turn out to be fundamentally different is this respect: It is demonstrated, both numerically and analytically, that annealing of quenched ripples can destroy the flat bands.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, manuscript extended
Efficiency evaluation of sewage treatment plants of Bikaner city (Rajasthan), India
Creators: name: Kaur, Leela
name: Godara, Daleep Kumar
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2024

description: The present case study is the evaluation of the efficiency of sewage treatment plants (STP) of Bikaner city (Rajasthan), India. Bikaner city have two sewage treatment plants which cumulatively treat 52 million litre per day (12 MLD and 40 MLD) wastewater. Both STPs work on sequencing batch reactor technology. The performance of 40 MLD is conducted for 6 months duration (July to December 2022). The inlet and outlet wastewater samples are collected. Samples are analysed for pH, total suspended solids (TSS), Biological oxygen demand (BOD), phosphate and sulphate. The overall removal efficiency of STPs is in the order of TSS > BOD > Sulphate > Phosphate > pH. The results reveal that both STPs are considered efficacious. It is recommended that frequent monitoring and assessment should be done for proper functioning of STP.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 60 (2024)
Birational boundedness of rationally connected Calabi-Yau 3-folds
Creators: name: Chen, Weichung
name: Di Cerbo, Gabriele
name: Han, Jingjun
name: Jiang, Chen
name: Svaldi, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that rationally connected Calabi--Yau 3-folds with kawamata log terminal (klt) singularities form a birationally bounded family, or more generally, rationally connected $3$-folds of $ε$-CY type form a birationally bounded family for $ε>0$. Moreover, we show that the set of $ε$-lc log Calabi--Yau pairs $(X, B)$ with coefficients of $B$ bounded away from zero is log bounded modulo flops. As a consequence, we deduce that rationally connected klt Calabi--Yau $3$-folds with mld bounded away from $1$ are bounded modulo flops.
description: 28 pages, to appear in Advances in Mathematics
Finite separating sets and quasi-affine quotients
Creators: name: Dufresne, Emilie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13A50, 14L30

description: Nagata's famous counterexample to Hilbert's fourteenth problem shows that the ring of invariants of an algebraic group action on an affine algebraic variety is not always finitely generated. In some sense, however, invariant rings are not far from affine. Indeed, invariant rings are always quasi-affine, and there always exist finite separating sets. In this paper, we give a new method for finding a quasi-affine variety on which the ring of regular functions is equal to a given invariant ring, and we give a criterion to recognize separating algebras. The method and criterion are used on some known examples and in a new construction.
description: I corrected typos and fixed the proof of Lemma 5.3, 11 pages
Indigenous and modern soil management practices and its determinant factors in Yayo district, Ilubabor zone Southwest Ethiopia
Creators: name: Assefa, Tekalign
name: Aweke, Kasech
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2024

description: The main objective of this study was to investigate Combination level and Role of Indigenous and Modern Soil Conservation Practices in the   case of Yayo District, Ilubabor zone, southwest Ethiopia. Cross-sectional research designs with both qualitative and quantitative research approaches were employed. Two stage sampling procedures with combination of purposive and simple random sampling procedures were used to select 210 sample household heads for the study. Household survey questionnaires, key informant interview, focus group discussion and field observation were used to collect the data. Binary logistic model was used to identify determinant factors of farmers’ decision to adopt soil conservation practices. The finding of the study showed that contour plowing, farmyard manure and traditional cut-off drain were the most practiced indigenous soil conservation practices. Improved crop seed, use of chemical fertilizer and insecticide and pesticide were the major improved/modern/ soil conservation practiced performed by household of the study areas. Insubstantial level of integration between indigenous and modern soil conservation practices were another finding of the study. The result also indicated as decrease soil erosion, improve income, improve water availability, and increase crop & livestock productivity were to the major contributions of integrating indigenous and modern soil conservation practiced in the study area.. The result of binary logistic regression analysis showed as livestock ownership, distances to farm plot, access to credit services and extension services were significantly (p<0.05) affect household decisions to adopt soil conservation practices. Therefore, farmers should be adopting profitable and sustainable soil management practice and integrate indigenous with modern soil management practices.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 60 (2024)
Investigating the effects of interleukin-11 in the myocardium
Creators: name: Sweeney, Mark
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Interleukin-11 (IL11) is a little studied member of the IL6 family that has gained increasing prominence in recent years as it has been identified as a key mediator of varied pathologies across multiple organ systems. The role that IL11 plays in myocardial function has been extensively debated, with much controversy, and remains unresolved. In this thesis I use a combination of transgenic gain and loss of function mouse models, as well as direct administration of IL11 in vivo and ex vivo to investigate the effects of IL11 in the myocardium and specifically on cardiomyocytes. Using in vivo and ex vivo imaging tools I measure cardiomyocyte function and using a range of genomic approaches I characterise the myocardial transcriptional response to IL11. I proceed to analyse a range of mouse models of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) to identify the role of IL11 in such models. I demonstrate extensive profibrotic and proinflammatory changes in the myocardium in response to acute and chronic IL11 exposure. Direct effects of IL11 on cardiomyocytes impairs contractility and induces a stress response with increased expression of natriuretic peptides and the AP-1 family of transcription factors. IL11 does not appear to play an important role in the HFpEF models tested in this thesis but the models themselves were suboptimal and did not recapitulate the expected disease biology. I highlight future avenues in which anti-IL11 therapy may prove beneficial in the myocardium. Overall, this thesis demonstrates the extensive proinflammatory, profibrotic and negatively inotropic effects of IL11 in the mouse myocardium and explains the cardiac side effect profile seen when IL11 is administered to humans. Understanding the cardiac biology of IL11 will inform future work to identify therapeutic opportunities for IL11 treatment in the heart, while also suggesting recombinant IL11 should no longer be administered to patients.
Decay of low-lying 12C resonances within a 3alpha cluster model
Creators: name: Alvarez-Rodriguez, R.
name: Jensen, A. S.
name: Fedorov, D. V.
name: Fynbo, H. O. U.
name: Garrido, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute energy distributions of three $α$-particles emerging from the decay of $^{12}$C resonances by means of the hyperspherical adiabatic expansion method combined with complex scaling. The large distance continuum properties of the wave functions are crucial and must be accurately calculated. The substantial changes from small to large distances determine the decay mechanisms. We illustrate by computing the energy distributions from decays of the $1^{+}$ and $3^-$-resonances in $^{12}$C. These states are dominated by direct and sequential decays into the three-body continuum respectively.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the Clusters '07 conference held in Stratford-upon-Avon in September 2007
A Hybrid Quantum Memory Enabled Network at Room Temperature
Creators: name: Pang, Xiao-Ling
name: Yang, Ai-Lin
name: Dou, Jian-Peng
name: Li, Hang
name: Zhang, Chao-Ni
name: Poem, Eilon
name: Saunders, Dylan J.
name: Tang, Hao
name: Nunn, Joshua
name: Walmsley, Ian A.
name: Jin, Xian-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum memory capable of storage and retrieval of flying photons on demand is crucial for developing quantum information technologies. However, the devices needed for long-distance links are quite different from those envisioned for local processing. Here, we present the first hybrid quantum memory enabled network by demonstrating the interconnection and simultaneous operation of two types of quantum memory: an atomic-ensemble-based memory and an all-optical loop memory. The former generates and stores single atomic excitations that can then be converted to single photons; and the latter maps incoming photons in and out on demand, at room-temperature and with a broad acceptance bandwidth. Interfacing these two types of quantum memories, we observe a well-preserved quantum cross-correlation, reaching a value of 22, and a violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality up to 549 standard deviations. Furthermore, we demonstrate the creation and storage of a fully operable heralded photon chain state that can achieve memory-built-in combining, swapping, splitting, tuning and chopping single photons in a chain temporally. Such a quantum network allows atomic excitations to be generated, stored, and converted to broadband photons, which are then transferred to the next node, stored, and faithfully retrieved, all at high speed and in a programmable fashion.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, 1 table
Stability analysis of a max-min fair Rate Control Protocol (RCP) in a small buffer regime
Creators: name: Voice, Thomas
name: Raina, Gaurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this note we analyse various stability properties of the max-min fair Rate Control Protocol (RCP) operating with small buffers. We first tackle the issue of stability for networks with arbitrary topologies. We prove that the max-min fair RCP fluid model is globally stable in the absence of propagation delays, and also derive a set of conditions for local stability when arbitrary heterogeneous propagation delays are present. The network delay stability result assumes that, at equilibrium, there is only one bottleneck link along each route. Lastly, in the simpler setting of a single link, single delay model, we investigate the impact of the loss of local stability via a Hopf bifurcation.
description: 13 pages, no figures. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
title: 01_0457
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Cissidium yoruba Darby 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium yoruba

description: Cissidium yoruba sp. nov.
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Fig. 45
Etymology
Named after Yoruba, the West African language. Ile-Ife, known as Ife, in Osun State, Nigeria is believed to be the oldest Yoruba speaking city. Noun in apposition.
Material examined
Holotype NIGERIA • ♂; Ile-Ife; 29 Dec. 1970; black light trap; J.T. Medlar leg.; MMUE.
Paratypes NIGERIA • 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for holotype; one mounted verso; MMUE, BMNH.
Description
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 45A), length 0.59 mm.
COLOUR. Dark brown, shining, antennae, legs and pubescence dusky yellow.
HEAD. With a shallow median depression between the eyes, width across eyes 0.21 mm;. antennomeres III–XI length 0.30 mm, III–IX length 0.16 mm, X–XI length 0.14 mm; mentum obscure.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.15 mm, width 0.24 mm, sparsely pubescent, without foveolae but with a row of ± four foveae along the posterior margin; sides sharply rounded not quite angled, then slightly concave to the rectangular hind angles, lateral borders wide, continued more thinly for a short distance along basal margin to the emargination in front of the scutellum (Fig 45B, tilted forwards)
ELYTRA. Length 0.42 mm, width 0.33 mm, foveolate, densest in basal half, pubescence sparse.
MESOVENTRITE. Collar with a tapering median extension widening posteriorly; mid-keel parallel-sided, the posterior angles with short raised carinae to the mesocoxal anterior borders; keel without setae, narrow, slightly tapering to a point near base of mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins rounded, serrate posteriorly; humeri large, bluntly toothed (Fig. 45C).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.15 mm, sparsely pubescent, disc simple, width across spines 0.11 mm; margins of mesocoxal cavities serrate.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Male aedeagus not found in the dissection. Female spermatheca globular.
Remarks
The only species of Cissidium to have been described from Nigeria.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 71-72, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282
Tuning a Two-Impurity Kondo System by a Moiré Superstructure
Creators: name: Trishin, Sergey
name: Lotze, Christian
name: Lohss, Friedemann
name: Franceschi, Giada
name: Glazman, Leonid I.
name: Oppen, Felix Von
name: Franke, Katharina J.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Kondo effect
subject: Magnetic coupling
subject: Surfaces
subject: Transition metal dichalcogenides
subject: Scanning tunneling microscopy
subject: Scanning tunneling spectroscopy
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::539 Moderne Physik

description: Two-impurity Kondo models are paradigmatic for correlated spin-fermion systems. Working with Mn atoms on Au(111) covered by a monolayer of MoS2, we tune the interadatom exchange via the adatom distance and the adatom-substrate exchange via the location relative to a moiré structure of the substrate. Differential-conductance measurements on isolated adatoms exhibit Kondo peaks with heights depending on the adatom location relative to the moiré structure. Mn dimers spaced by a few atomic lattice sites exhibit split Kondo resonances. In contrast, adatoms in closely spaced dimers couple antiferromagnetically, resulting in a molecular-singlet ground state. Exciting the singlet-triplet transition by tunneling electrons, we find that the singlet-triplet splitting is surprisingly sensitive to the moiré structure. We interpret our results theoretically by relating the variations in the singlet-triplet splitting to the heights of the Kondo peaks of single adatoms, finding evidence for coupling of the adatom spin to multiple conduction electron channels.
Additional file 1 of Obesity-and lipid-related indices as a risk factor of hypertension in mid-aged and elderly Chinese: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Gui, Jiaofeng
name: Li, Yuqing
name: Liu, Haiyang
name: Guo, Lei-lei
name: Li, Jinlong
name: Lei, Yunxiao
name: Li, Xiaoping
name: Sun, Lu
name: Yang, Liu
name: Yuan, Ting
name: Wang, Congzhi
name: Zhang, Dongmei
name: Li, Jing
name: Liu, Mingming
name: Hua, Ying
name: Zhang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Adjusted covariates in statistical models and their classification.
Number reading in pure alexia — A review
Creators: name: Starrfelt, Randi
name: Behrmann, Marlene
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: It is commonly assumed that number reading can be intact in patients with pure alexia, and that this dissociation between letter/word recognition and number reading strongly constrains theories of visual word processing. A truly selective deficit in letter/word processing would strongly support the hypothesis that there is a specialized system or area dedicated to the processing of written words. To date, however, there has not been a systematic review of studies investigating number reading in pure alexia and so the status of this assumed dissociation is unclear. We review the literature on pure alexia from 1892 to 2010, and find no well-documented classical dissociation between intact number reading and impaired letter identification in a patient with pure alexia. A few studies report strong dissociations, with number reading less impaired than letter reading, but when we apply rigorous statistical criteria to evaluate these dissociations, the difference in performance across domains is not statistically significant. There is a trend in many cases of pure alexia, however, for number reading to be less affected than letter identification and word reading. We shed new light on this asymmetry by showing that, under conditions of brief exposure, normal participants are also better at identifying digits than letters. We suggest that the difference observed in some pure alexic patients may possibly reflect an amplification of this normal difference in the processing of letters and digits, and we relate this asymmetry to intrinsic differences between the two types of symbols.
Well-Quasi-Ordering of Matrices under Schur Complement and Applications to Directed Graphs
Creators: name: Kanté, Mamadou Moustapha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.0; G.2.1; G.2.2
subject: 68R05, 68R10, 05C22, 05C50, 05C75

description: In [Rank-Width and Well-Quasi-Ordering of Skew-Symmetric or Symmetric Matrices, arXiv:1007.3807v1] Oum proved that, for a fixed finite field $\mathbf{F}$, any infinite sequence $M_1,M_2,...$ of (skew) symmetric matrices over $\mathbf{F}$ of bounded $\mathbf{F}$-rank-width has a pair $i< j$, such that $M_i$ is isomorphic to a principal submatrix of a principal pivot transform of $M_j$. We generalise this result to $σ$-symmetric matrices introduced by Rao and myself in [The Rank-Width of Edge-Coloured Graphs, arXiv:0709.1433v4]. (Skew) symmetric matrices are special cases of $σ$-symmetric matrices. As a by-product, we obtain that for every infinite sequence $G_1,G_2,...$ of directed graphs of bounded rank-width there exist a pair $i
description: 35 pages. Revised version with a section for directed graphs
A new search strategy for microquasar candidates using NVSS/2MASS and XMM-Newton data
Creators: name: Combi, J. A.
name: Albacete-Colombo, J. F.
name: Marti, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microquasars are ideal natural laboratories for understanding accretion/ejection processes, studying the physics of relativistic jets, and testing gravitational phenomena. Nevertheless, these objects are difficult to find in our Galaxy. The main goal of this work is to increase the number of known systems of this kind. We have developed an improved search strategy based on positional cross-identification with very restrictive selection criteria to find new MQs, taking advantage of more sensitive modern radio and X-ray data. We find 86 sources with positional coincidence in the NVSS/XMM catalogs at |b|<10 deg. Among them, 24 are well-known objects and the remaining 62 sources are unidentified. For the fully coincident sources, whenever possible, we analyzed color-color and hardness ratio diagrams and found that at least 3 of them display high-mass X-ray binary characteristics, making them potential microquasar candidates.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Temperature driven $α$ to $β$ phase-transformation in Ti, Zr and Hf from first principles theory combined with lattice dynamics
Creators: name: Souvatzis, Petros
name: Arapan, Sergiu
name: Eriksson, Olle
name: Katsnelson, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice dynamical methods used to predict phase transformations in crystals typically deal with harmonic phonon spectra and are therefore not applicable in important situations where one of the competing crystal structures is unstable in the harmonic approximation, such as the bcc structure involved in the hcp to bcc martensitic phase transformation in Ti, Zr and Hf. Here we present an expression for the free energy that does not suffer from such shortcomings, and we show by self consistent {\it ab initio} lattice dynamical calculations (SCAILD), that the critical temperature for the hcp to bcc phase transformation in Ti, Zr and Hf, can be effectively calculated from the free energy difference between the two phases. This opens up the possibility to study quantitatively, from first principles theory, temperature induced phase transitions.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Smooth deformations of singular contractions of class VII surfaces
Creators: name: Dloussky, Georges
name: Teleman, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32J15, 32G05, 32G11, 32Q57, 32G13

description: We consider normal compact surfaces $Y$ obtained from a minimal class VII surface $X$ by contraction of a cycle $C$ of $r$ rational curves with $C^2<0$. Our main result states that, if the obtained cusp is smoothable, then $Y$ is globally smoothable. The proof is based on a vanishing theorem for $H^2(Θ_Y)$. If $r
description: 18 pages, to appear in Math. Z. (2020), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-020-02481-0
Environmental and genetic predictors of cardiovascular ageing
Creators: name: Shah, Mit
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Background: Cardiovascular ageing is a process characterised by progressive structural remodelling in the cardiovascular system and associated functional decline. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is routinely performed in healthcare, and enables detailed assessment of this decline at high resolution. The hallmarks of ageing occur at cellular, tissue and organ levels, modulated by various risk factors and genetic contributors, however it is currently unknown how significant these are to cardiovascular ageing. Aims: To model biological, cardiovascular ageing using machine learning approaches in order to study the environmental and genetic associations with this process. Methods: We used a machine learning algorithm called CatBoost, and CMR features as inputs, to predict age in 39,449 UK Biobank participants. We first trained a model of healthy cardiovascular ageing using a development set of 5065 healthy participants that were free from cardiovascular, metabolic and respiratory disease. These participants were also determined to be on no regular medications, with healthy body mass index and also non-smokers. Having trained the healthy ageing model, we predicted cardiovascular age in an evaluation set comprising the remaining UK Biobank participants. This produced a new phenotype, “cardiovascular age delta”, the difference between a participant’s predicted and actual chronological age that was used in multivariable linear regression models to compute the associations with environmental risk factors and single nucleotide polymorphisms in genome wide association studies. We also computed a cardiovascular ageing polygenic risk score in independent participants of the UK Biobank and performed phenome wide association. Results: Cardiovascular ageing was found to be significantly associated with conventional cardiovascular risk factors, and variants in genes that are involved in maintaining sarcomeric structure and function, the immune response to stress, vascular integrity and calcium signalling. Discussion: Modelling cardiovascular ageing using multiple imaging traits has enabled mechanistic insights into this process with potential novel targets for anti-ageing therapy.