cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Copolymer Construct to Attenuate Mechanotransduction and Enhance Lung Capillary Barrier Function
Creators: name: Giantsos, Kristina Marie
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014

description: Acute lung injury and adult respiratory distress syndrome are characterized by pathological efflux of serum proteins and fluid from capillaries to interstitial tissues and represents a significant complication in the clinical setting with no mitigating therapy. The scope of this research is to lay the foundation for a polymer-based therapy, delivered to inflamed vascular endothelium, that strengthens the capillary barrier. The research spans the use of two polymer prototypes. The first polymer prototype, a tetramethylammonium chloride copolymer with a poly-N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (P-HPMA) backbone that binds to endothelium via ionic interactions, is used to show the efficacy of copolymer delivery to highly permeable endothelium. The second polymer prototype retains the HPMA backbone but exchanges cationic side chains for a peptide that targets E-selectin, an endothelial protein that is upregulated during inflammation and mediates leukocyte tethering and rolling. In this work, we are able to show a significant reduction in solute and solvent flux across endothelial monolayers under cytokine-mediated or mechanical stress in the presence of copolymers. We determined that the attenuation of barrier permeability was due to the polymer's inhibition of cell signaling mechanism(s) and not only a result of an increased physical barrier. The administration of copolymers attenuates capillary permeability in an ex vivo lung model to demonstrate the viability of iv targeted copolymer delivery to vascular endothelium as a treatment for vascular permeability and acute lung injury.
A standardized plan of care for obesity management
Creators: name: Cardines, Amirose
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Purpose of Project: The purpose of this project was to deliver a provider-focused intervention that promotes an effective plan of care for treating obesity in the primary care setting. Methodology: A 30-minute in-service about the 5As for obesity management was provided to a primary care office in Central New Jersey. A total of 60 random patient charts with documented BMI scores of ≥ 25 kg/m² were reviewed pre- and post-implementation of the 5As which included both male and female patients between the ages of 18 and 65 who are overweight (25 – 29.99 kg/m²) or obese (≥ 30 kg/m²).Results: The project yielded statistically significant high scores post-intervention Z = 146, p
Opiate recidivism in a drug treatment program: comparison of hair and urine data using a liquid chromatography mass spectrometry method
Creators: name: Charles, Bradley Kent
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug Testing

description: The objective of this preliminary study was to determine whether hair can be used as an adjunct specimen for the monitoring of opiate use in a drug treatment program.  Subjects (n=10) initiating clinical therapy for opiate addiction were monitored for up to 17 weeks with hair and urinalysis.  Questionnaires were administered weekly to document hair cut and chemical treatments.  Hair specimens were collected weekly by cutting at the scalp and segmented in 1-cm lengths prior to analysis.  (Codeine (COD), morphine (MOR), and 6-monoacetyl-morphine (6-MAM) concentrations in hair were measured by LC/MS (limits of detection (LOD): 20 pg/mg for COD and 6-MAM; 50 pg/mg MOR).  Urine specimens were analyzed by semiquantitative radioimmunoassay (25 ng/mL cutoff) and LC/MS for COD, MOR, morphine-3?-glucuronide (M3G), morphine-6?-glucuronide (M6G), and 6-MAM.  The LOD and limit quantitation (LOQ) in urine for COD, M3G, M6G, and 6-MAM were 10 ng/mL, and 25 ng/mL for MOR.  Interpretation of the segmental hair data in this study was complex and generally was not in agreement with urine data in most cases.  Evaluation of hair data suggested that 6 of 10 subjects discontinued opiate use by the end of the study, while 3 of 10 appeared to have reduced their use.  One subject appeared not to have used opiates throughout the entire study.  In contrast, evaluation of urine data suggest that only 40 of 10 subjects significantly reduced use, while 6 of 10 continued drug use on a least an intermittent basis.  Urine appeared to be more sensitive indicator of changes in the pattern(s) of drug use during the course of clinical drug treatment.
Differential analysis of murine mast cells: function, differentiation, and adhesion
Creators: name: Chen, Yiyou
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: PCR
subject: T Cells
subject: Transcription Factors
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The mast cell is one of die major cellular mediators in allergic responses. There are two different types of tissue mast cells in the mouse, the mucosal mast cell and the connective tissue mast cell. With an in vitro culturing system, murine bone marrow mast cells were analyzed for the expression of cytokines, transcription factors, and novel genes.  IL-3 derived mast cells (MMC) preferentially express IL-4, IL-10, and EL-13, whereas c-kit ligand derived mast cells (CTMC) do not express these transcripts on a constitutive basis. However, when CTMC were either treated with IL-3 or stimulated by IgE-mediated crosslinking, they were able to upregulate the transcription of these genes. Furthermore, IL-10 protein was shown stored in mast cell granules in preformed state.  A lymphoid lineage specific transcription factor, Ikaros, was shown to be constitutively expressed by cultured mast cells. Unlike the T cells which express up to six different forms of Ikaros protein, mast cells only express the protein for form V and VI. However, nuclear extracts from these cells failed to show DNA binding activity when incubated with a DNA binding site from CD3 delta promoter. One the other hand, when increasing mast cell extracts were added to suboptimal amount of T cell nuclear extracts, a DNA binding activity was evident, suggesting that other T cell factors may be required for the complex formation.  A differential screening experiment based on rapid PCR amplification was set up to identify genes that are differentially expressed during mast cell differentiation. One gene, Pactolus, was found to be preferentially expressed by CTMC. Two forms of transcripts have been identified, which are generated through alternative splicing. The Pactolus gene is highly homologous to murine P2 integrin subunit. The two isoforms predict two different proteins, with the shorter one encoding a soluble protein and the longer one encoding a transmembrane protein. Polyclonal antisera against a peptide in the cytoplasmic tail of the full length Pactolus protein, but not the preimmune serum, recognized a prominent protein band about 95kD. This band was not present in the spleen despite prolonged exposure. Interestingly, no associating protein could be identified through co-immunoprecipitation, raising the possibility that Pactolus may function alone instead of forming heteroduplex with other adhesion molecules.
Probing the Inner Circumgalactic Medium and Quasar Illumination around the Reddest `Extremely Red Quasar' (ERQ)
Creators: name: Lau, Marie Wingyee
name: Hamann, Fred
name: Gillette, Jarred
name: Perrotta, Serena
name: Rupke, David S. N.
name: Wylezalek, Dominika
name: Zakamska, Nadia L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dusty quasars might be in a young stage of galaxy evolution with prominent quasar feedback. A recently discovered population of luminous, extremely red quasars at $z\sim$~2--4 has extreme spectral properties related to exceptionally powerful quasar-driven outflows. We present Keck/KCWI observations of the reddest known ERQ, at $z=$\,2.3184, with extremely fast [\ion{O}{III}]~$λ$5007 outflow at $\sim$6000~km~s$^{-1}$. The Ly$α$ halo spans $\sim$100~kpc. The halo is kinematically quiet, with velocity dispersion $\sim$300~km~s$^{-1}$ and no broadening above the dark matter circular velocity down to the spatial resolution $\sim$6~kpc from the quasar. We detect spatially-resolved \ion{He}{II}~$λ$1640 and \ion{C}{IV}~$λ$1549 emissions with kinematics similar to the Ly$α$ halo and a narrow component in the [\ion{O}{III}]~$λ$5007. Quasar reddening acts as a coronagraph allowing views of the innermost halo. A narrow Ly$α$ spike in the quasar spectrum is inner halo emission, confirming the broad \ion{C}{IV}~$λ$1549 in the unresolved quasar is blueshifted by $2240$~km~s$^{-1}$ relative to the halo frame. We propose the inner halo is dominated by moderate-speed outflow driven in the past and the outer halo dominated by inflow. The high central concentration of the halo and the symmetric morphology of the inner region are consistent with the ERQ being in earlier evolutionary stage than blue quasars. The \ion{He}{II}~$λ$1640/Ly$α$ ratio of the inner halo and the asymmetry level of the overall halo are dissimilar to Type~II quasars, suggesting unique physical conditions for this ERQ that are beyond orientation differences from other quasar populations. We find no evidence of mechanical quasar feedback in the Ly$α$-emitting halo.
description: 20 pages, 18 figures, published in MNRAS
Pollution regulation and production in imperfect markets
Creators: name: Giraud-Carrier, Fran¸cois C.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014
Subjects: Cap-and-trade
Carbon tax
Groves
Pollution regulation
Welfare

description: The problem of pollution is not going away. As global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rises, so does pollution. Due to the existence of environmental externalities, polluting firms lack the incentive to abate their pollution, and without regulations, markets do not adequately control pollution. While regulators are responsible for enacting regulations, the firms ultimately determine the environmental outcomes through their production decisions. Furthermore, polluting industries are typically large and concentrated, raising the concern that market power may be present in these industries. In this dissertation, we study the interactions between powerful, strategic, firms operating under pollution regulations and the regulator when markets are imperfectly competitive. An important contribution of this work is our integrated pollution-production model, which incorporates the firms' emissions, abatement technologies, the damage from pollution, and three widely-used regulatory mechanisms-Cap, Cap-and-Trade, and Tax. The firms compete with each other and control prices by setting their production quantities. In our model, the firms have many options to comply with the pollution constraints enforced by the regulator, including abating pollution, reducing output, trading in emission allowances, paying emission taxes, investing in abatement innovations, colluding, and combining some of these options. Following the introduction in Chapter 1, we address three broad questions in three separate chapters. • Chapter 2: What is the e↵ect of the pollution control mechanisms on firms, consumers, and society as a whole? Which mechanisms and policies should regulators use to control pollution in a fair, e↵ective, and practical manner? • Chapter 3: Does Cap-and-Trade enable collusion? If it does, what are the e↵ects of collusion? • Chapter 4: Which mechanisms encourage more investments in abatement innovations? Our results apply to di↵erent types of pollutants and market structures. Our research provides guidelines for both policy-makers and regulated firms.
“Sapore di Sole”: alla scoperta della nostra stella
Creators: Valentina Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

In occasione del 17esimo European Solar Physics meeting, che si tiene a Torino dal 9 al 13 settembre, un gruppo di ricercatori ha prodotto una serie di nove video divulgativi sul Sole, per capire come funziona la nostra stella e come avanza la ricerca scientifica al riguardo. La playlist è disponibile, da oggi, su MediaInaf Tv
Handelsregistereinträge der Firmen Frey, Thurneysen & Christ sowie Thurneysen & Cie., Basel
Creators: name: Thurneysen & Cie
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1883

description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2014 ISAD(G) / HAN Katalogisierungsregeln für Archivbestände Sebastian Preher
Controlling the shape and topology of two-component colloidal membranes
Creators: name: Khanra, Ayantika
name: Jia, Leroy L.
name: Mitchell, Noah P.
name: Balchunas, Andrew
name: Pelcovits, Robert A.
name: Powers, Thomas R.
name: Dogic, Zvonimir
name: Sharma, Prerna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Changes in the geometry and topology of self-assembled membranes underlie diverse processes across cellular biology and engineering. Similar to lipid bilayers, monolayer colloidal membranes have in-plane fluid-like dynamics and out-of-plane bending elasticity. Their open edges and micron length scale provide a tractable system to study the equilibrium energetics and dynamic pathways of membrane assembly and reconfiguration. Here, we find that doping colloidal membranes with short miscible rods transforms disk-shaped membranes into saddle-shaped surfaces with complex edge structures. The saddle-shaped membranes are well-approximated by Enneper's minimal surfaces. Theoretical modeling demonstrates that their formation is driven by increasing positive Gaussian modulus, which in turn is controlled by the fraction of short rods. Further coalescence of saddle-shaped surfaces leads to diverse topologically distinct structures, including catenoids, tri-noids, four-noids, and higher order structures. At long time scales, we observe the formation of a system-spanning, sponge-like phase. The unique features of colloidal membranes reveal the topological transformations that accompany coalescence pathways in real time. We enhance the functionality of these membranes by making their shape responsive to external stimuli. Our results demonstrate a novel pathway towards control of thin elastic sheets' shape and topology -- a pathway driven by the emergent elasticity induced by compositional heterogeneity.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
A Silvia Tosi il premio Sif 2024
Creators: Elisa Nichelli
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

Parte oggi il centodecimo Congresso nazionale della Società italiana di fisica, che si svolgerà a Bologna fino al 13 settembre prossimo. Tra i premiati durante la cerimonia di inaugurazione anche Silvia Tosi, per la sua tesi sulle stelle evolute sviluppata presso l’Inaf di Roma
Implications of the cosmological 21-cm absorption profile for high-redshift star formation and deep JWST surveys
Creators: name: Mittal, Shikhar
name: Kulkarni, Girish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Apart from its anomalously large depth, the cosmological 21-cm absorption signal measured by the EDGES collaboration also has a shape that is distinctly different from theoretical predictions. Models with non-traditional components such as super-adiabatic baryonic cooling or an excess radio background explain the depth of the observed profile, but still conspicuously fail to explain its shape. In this paper, we quantify the requirements imposed by the EDGES measurement on sources of Ly $α$ and X-ray photons in the presence of excess radio background at cosmic dawn. In extreme cases, the Ly $α$ and X-ray emissivities require to be enhanced by up to an order of magnitude relative to traditional models. Furthermore, this enhancement needs to be active only for a short duration. We find that under conventional assumptions for the cosmic star formation rate density, standard stellar populations are incapable of meeting these conditions. Only highly unusual models of massive metal-free stars seem to provide a possible mechanism. Conversely, if the sources of Ly $α$ and X-ray photons are compelled to have standard properties, the EDGES measurement puts strong demands on the cosmic star formation rate density. This provides interesting falsifiable predictions for high-redshift galaxy surveys enabled by \textit{James Webb Space Telescope} (\textit{JWST}). We derive predictions for galaxy UV luminosity functions and number densities, and show that a deep \textit{JWST} survey with a limiting UV magnitude of $m_\mathrm{UV,lim}=32$ would potentially be able to rule out the predictions enforced by the EDGES measurement.
description: Published in MNRAS
The turnover of 14C carbon in forest of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The Ecological Effects of the Chernobyl Disaster. 8 August 2005. Montreal.
Creators: name: Skripkin Vadim
name: Kovaliukh Nikolay
name: Jim, Morris
name: Goni Miguel, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: radiocarbon
C-14
Chernobyl NPP
atmosphere
garss
litter
soil

description: Radioactive isotope 14C is widely used as indicator in the study of carbon turnover. In this presentation we show part of the results which were received while working on the CRDF project - “Distribution of Carbon Isotopes in Forest Ecosystems within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone”. The base regional scale of radiocarbon content in tree rings of 1981-2004 years was created for “clean” pine forest zone. For 50- years old pins from “Clean” Zone and from Chernobyl Exclusion Zone were determined the radiocarbon content in tree rings (1981-2004), in pines, and in roots. 14C content in carbon of various elements of the subsystem: atmosphere-grass-liter –soil, determined for both research sites on the base vacuum thermo-destruction technology has shown noticeable presents of the graphite component of the accidental release.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 25.04.1966, erstellt als erste Tagesaufnahme um 7 h 45 von Annie Hovaere, Observatoire Royal de Belgique in Uccle
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage in Uccle.
Instrument: Merz-Grubb Refraktor Teleskop (Öffnung 160 mm, f = 2450 mm, projiziertes Sonnenbild D = 25 cm)
Una “rapina cosmica” nell’ammasso dell’Idra
Creators: Ufficio stampa Inaf
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

Un team internazionale guidato dall’Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (Inaf) ha realizzato una nuova immagine dell’ammasso di galassie dell’Idra con il telescopio italiano Vst gestito dall’Inaf in Cile, svelando il gas e le stelle “rubate” alle galassie, segno di un’evoluzione ancora in corso
Context-Aware Drift Detection
Creators: name: Cobb, Oliver
name: Van Looveren, Arnaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: When monitoring machine learning systems, two-sample tests of homogeneity form the foundation upon which existing approaches to drift detection build. They are used to test for evidence that the distribution underlying recent deployment data differs from that underlying the historical reference data. Often, however, various factors such as time-induced correlation mean that batches of recent deployment data are not expected to form an i.i.d. sample from the historical data distribution. Instead we may wish to test for differences in the distributions conditional on \textit{context} that is permitted to change. To facilitate this we borrow machinery from the causal inference domain to develop a more general drift detection framework built upon a foundation of two-sample tests for conditional distributional treatment effects. We recommend a particular instantiation of the framework based on maximum conditional mean discrepancies. We then provide an empirical study demonstrating its effectiveness for various drift detection problems of practical interest, such as detecting drift in the distributions underlying subpopulations of data in a manner that is insensitive to their respective prevalences. The study additionally demonstrates applicability to ImageNet-scale vision problems.
description: 25 pages, 26 figures
Ascoltando il “chirp” d’una supernova da collasso
Creators: Redazione Media Inaf
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

Gli attuali interferometri per onde gravitazionali hanno fino a oggi rivelato segnali da eventi di fusione di due oggetti compatti. Stando a uno studio pubblicato oggi su ApJL da Maurice van Putten e Maryam Abchouyeh dell'Università di Sejong e da Massimo Della Valle dell’Inaf, potrebbero però essere in grado di rivelare anche segnali extragalattici emessi da particolari supernove prodotte in seguito al collasso del nucleo di stelle molto massicce
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22160.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.03.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Inquinamento luminoso e Alzheimer
Creators: Valentina Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

Uno studio condotto negli Stati Uniti ha scoperto che l'esposizione alla luce esterna durante la notte potrebbe aumentare il rischio di ammalarsi di Alzheimer più di molti altri fattori di rischio per le persone di età inferiore ai 65 anni. Con i commenti della prima autrice, Robin Michelle Voigt-Zuwala del Rush University Medical Center di Chicago
ESS: Learning Event-based Semantic Segmentation from Still Images
Creators: name: Sun, Zhaoning
name: Messikommer, Nico
name: Gehrig, Daniel
name: Scaramuzza, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Retrieving accurate semantic information in challenging high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed conditions remains an open challenge for image-based algorithms due to severe image degradations. Event cameras promise to address these challenges since they feature a much higher dynamic range and are resilient to motion blur. Nonetheless, semantic segmentation with event cameras is still in its infancy which is chiefly due to the lack of high-quality, labeled datasets. In this work, we introduce ESS (Event-based Semantic Segmentation), which tackles this problem by directly transferring the semantic segmentation task from existing labeled image datasets to unlabeled events via unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). Compared to existing UDA methods, our approach aligns recurrent, motion-invariant event embeddings with image embeddings. For this reason, our method neither requires video data nor per-pixel alignment between images and events and, crucially, does not need to hallucinate motion from still images. Additionally, we introduce DSEC-Semantic, the first large-scale event-based dataset with fine-grained labels. We show that using image labels alone, ESS outperforms existing UDA approaches, and when combined with event labels, it even outperforms state-of-the-art supervised approaches on both DDD17 and DSEC-Semantic. Finally, ESS is general-purpose, which unlocks the vast amount of existing labeled image datasets and paves the way for new and exciting research directions in new fields previously inaccessible for event cameras.
Tailoring functional polymeric gene carriers
Creators: name: Benns, Jonathan Michael
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Therapy

description: A systematic approach to determine the parameters that will dictate the design of functional gene carriers has begun to be implemented. Poly(L-histidine) (PLH) was shown to induce membrane fusion at endosomal pH values, whereas poly(L-lysine) (PLL) has been shown to condense plasmid DNA into small particles. N-Ac-poly(L histidine)-graft-poly(L-lysine) (PLH-g-PLL) was synthesized by grafting poly(L-histidine) to poly(L-lysine). PLH-g PLL formed complexes with DNA, where particle sizes ranged from 117 ± 6 nm to 306 ± 77 nm. PLH-g-PLL showed higher transfection efficiency and lower toxicity in 293T cells compared to PLL at all equivalent weight ratios. For the purpose of targeting cancer cells, folate-polyethylene glycol)-folate-grafted-polyethylenimine (FPF-g-PEI) was synthesized at a range of grafting ratios of folate-polyethylene glycol)-folate (FPF) to polyethylenimine (PEI). FPF-g-PEIs have 2.3, 5.2, 9.3 and 20 FPFs grafted to PEI. Molecular weight was ?34,848, 47,266, 64,823 and 110,640 Da, respectively. Atomic force microscopy showed FPF-2.3g-PEI and PEI condensed DNA into oblique spheroid complexes with a diameter of ?150-200 nm. Transfection efficiency was different for CT-26 colon adenocarcinoma cells, KB oral epidermoid and normal smooth muscle cells (SMC). In CT-26 cells, FPF-2.3g-PEI and FPF-5.2g-PEI/pLuc complexes gave higher transfection efficiencies compared to PEI/pLuc complexes. In KB cells folate targeting was observed at low charge ratios, but nonspecific ionic association was observed at neutral charge ratio of FPF-g-PEI/pLuc. Smooth muscle cells showed no folate receptor activity, where PEI/pLuc complexes had superior transfection efficiencies. Free folic acid was shown to inhibit transfection with FPF-2.3g-PEI/pLuc in CT-26 cells. At neutral charge ratio, increase in the concentrations of complexes increased transfection. At 3/1 (+/?) ratio, increase in complex concentrations increased toxicity, and decreased transfection efficiency. Cytotoxicity was determined using an MTT assay. FPF-g-PEIs were less toxic compared to PEI. This decrease in toxicity was observed in all cell lines. Compared to PEI/pLuc complexes at neutral charge ratio, FPF-g-PEI/pLuc complexes were less toxic to the cells. When neutral complex concentrations increased, toxicity did not markedly increase. However, when charged complex concentrations increased, toxicity was increased.
Calcio all’asse di rotazione di Ganimede
Creators: Federica Loiacono
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

Quattro miliardi di anni fa Ganimede, la maggiore fra le lune di Giove, ha subito una violentissima collisione con un asteroide. Secondo un ricercatore dell’Università di Kobe in Giappone, l’asteroide era venti volte più grande di quello che provocò l’estinzione dei dinosauri e avrebbe modificato l’asse di rotazione del satellite. I segni dell’impatto sono ancora visibili come numerose striature che solcano la superficie di Ganimede
Johann Michaël Sailer
Creators: name: Edlinger, Johann Georg
name: Lavater, Johann Caspar
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1794
Subjects: Sailer, Johann Michael1751-1832

description: Porträt des Theologen und späteren Bischofs von Regensburg Johann Michael Sailer (1751-1832)
description: Publiziert in Hubert Schiel: Johann Michael Sailer, Leben und Briefe, Bd. 1. Regensburg, 1948, Taf. vor S. 177, Text S. 771
description: Zuschreibung an Edlinger gemäss handschriftlicher Notiz auf dem Unterlageblatt
description: Handschriftliche Anmerkung unterhalb des Bildes: "Johann Michaël Sailer. / Kenntlich, ähnlich auch - doch fehlt das kindliche wesen / welches den scharfen Sinn und die wahrheitliebe begleiten. / 22.IX.1794L."
description: Aus der physiognomischen Studiensammlung von Johann Caspar Lavater Exemplar der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Graphische Sammlung und Fotoarchiv
description: Sammlervermerk rechts unterhalb des Bildes: "3049. / Antist. Fissler" Exemplar der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Graphische Sammlung und Fotoarchiv
description: Blatt beschnitten, auf Unterlage kaschiert, mit schwarzem und blauem Rahmen umgeben und mit Textfeld versehen Exemplar der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Graphische Sammlung und Fotoarchiv
L’ultimo lancio di Vega per Copernicus
Creators: Rossella Spiga
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

Il terzo satellite Copernicus Sentinel-2 è stato lanciato ieri in tarda serata a bordo dell'ultimo razzo Vega dallo spazioporto europeo nella Guyana francese. Sentinel-2C continuerà a fornire dati ad alta risoluzione per Copernicus, il programma europeo di osservazione della Terra
Quanto è buio lo spazio?
Creators: Valentina Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

Dal suo punto di vista privilegiato ai confini del Sistema solare, la sonda New Horizons è riuscita a dimostrare che a emettere luce visibile, nell’universo, sono praticamente solo le galassie. Al di fuori di esse, ai nostri occhi è buio vero
Orestes : eine Trilogie nach der "Oresteia" des Aischylos : Op. 30
Creators: name: Weingartner, Felix
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2022

description: Orchester-Partitur. Autogramm. Reinschrift
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2009 Übernahme Rekatalogis. AK UB durch Medea 2002-2005
Affect of the behavior of the nurse toward the baby on the behavior of the mother toward the baby
Creators: name: Sauter, Mary Patricia
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that the behavior of the nurse toward the baby will influence the mother's visible behavior and response in a positive direction.  The study was conducted in the inpatient maternity division of a 740 bed general hospital and extended over a period of approximately five months.  Fourteen women were included in the sample, and systematically placed in one of two groups.   Each of the 14 participants in the study was approached twice, at each of her first two postpartum encounters with the baby.   The investigator, accompanied by a research assistant acting as an independent observer, brought the babies from the nursery to the mothers using two different behavioral approaches.   The subjects in Group A were first approached by the investigator demonstrating positive outward behavior toward the babies.   On the occasion of the second encounter with their babies, members of Group A were approached by the investigator as she demonstrated neutral behavior toward the babies.   The members of Group B were treated the same, but in reverse order, i.e. a neutral encounter first, followed by a positive encounter.   The independent observer marked maternal behavior on a data collection instrument during the encounters.  Data indicated that deliberate exposure of the mother to positive or neutral interactions with her baby did not affect her behavior as a whole. Mothers of Group B in the second encounter touched the baby significantly more often using the whole hand.   Mothers of Group A in their second encounter significantly more often adjusted the baby's position and rocked the baby.   These behaviors could have been a product of the normal progression of the mother-infant relationship.   As determined by this study, influence of a nurse in effecting positive maternal behavior is open to conjecture
Juice nelle fasce di Van Allen
Creators: Valentina Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

Il flyby attorno alla Terra di fine agosto è stata un’occasione importante per la sonda dell’Esa Juice di testare il suo strumento di monitoraggio delle radiazioni Radem. Attraversando le fasce di Van Allen ha infatti potuto misurare i flussi di protoni ed elettroni energetici intrappolati dai campi magnetici terrestri
Appendix S1. Materials and Methods - Figs. S1 to S5 - Tables S1 to S3 from Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands
Creators: name: Pescador, David S.
name: Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel
name: Fiore-Donno, Anna Maria
name: Singh, Brajesh K.
name: Bonkowski, Michael
name: Maestre, Fernando T.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology

description: Determining the influence of climate in driving the global distribution of soil microbial communities is fundamental to help predict potential shifts in soil food webs and ecosystem functioning under global change scenarios. Herein, we used a global survey including 80 dryland ecosystems from six continents, and found that the relative abundance of ecological clusters formed by taxa involved in bacteria-fungi and bacteria-cercozoa bipartite networks was highly sensitive to changes in temperature and aridity. Importantly, such a result was maintained when controlling for soil, geographical location and vegetation attributes, being pH and soil organic carbon important determinants of the relative abundance of the ecological clusters. We also identified potential global associations between important soil microbial taxa, which can be useful to support the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems under global change scenarios. Our results suggest that increases in temperature and aridity such as those forecasted for the next decades in drylands could potentially lead to drastic changes in the community composition of functionally important bipartite networks within soil food webs. This could have important but unknown implications for the provision of key ecosystem functions and associated services driven by the organisms forming these networks if other taxa cannot cope them.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years’.
Mapping the probability and uncertainty of liquefaction-induced ground failure
Creators: name: Gillins, Daniel T.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Earthquakes, Empirical model, Hazards, Lateral displacement, Liquefaction, Uncertainty

description: This paper proposes a probabilistic-based method to produce liquefaction-induced ground failure maps so that hazard levels can be assessed for a large area, such as a county, township, or quadrangle. The method focuses on using probabilistic approaches to map estimates of liquefaction-induced lateral spread displacement, and defining the uncertainty associated with the displacement estimates. The proposed mapping method uses a newly developed empirical model for estimating quantities of lateral spread displacement, current probabilistic liquefaction triggering analyses, probabilistic strong ground motion estimates, surficial geologic maps, digital elevation models, and geotechnical data compiled into a spatial database. The proposed method accounts for variations in soil conditions, age, topography, spatial distribution, and major sources of uncertainty. Such major uncertainties include variability over space, lack of or poor quality data, and limitations of the empirical models to estimate liquefaction phenomena. The proposed mapping method accounts for these uncertainties by Monte Carlo random sampling. Soil type and thickness are important factors in estimating horizontal displacement from lateral spread. Thus, this paper presents a new empirical model for estimating the amount of lateral spread displacement based on these factors, along with other factors such as earthquake magnitude, distance to the seismic source, and topography. In addition, the paper discusses how cone penetration test (CPT) data can be used in conjunction with the proposed empirical model to estimate the amount of lateral spread displacement. To test its suitability and provide an example, the proposed mapping method is implemented to produce probabilistic liquefaction triggering and lateral spread displacement maps for a study area in Weber County, Utah. The new maps indicate substantial risk for liquefaction-induced ground failure in the study area during largemagnitude seismic events. This is because the study area is filled with potentially liquefiable sediments, nearly all subsurface explorations encountered shallow groundwater, and the study area is near the seismically active Wasatch fault zone. Large uncertainties in the mapped estimates leads to producing maps for 16th, 50th, and 84th percentile probabilities-enabling estimation of a distribution of probabilities.
Nello spazio, i batteri intestinali vanno in tilt
Creators: Chiara Badia
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

Un nuovo studio internazionale, guidato dall’University College Dublin e dalla McGill University, in collaborazione con la Nasa, ha messo in luce le profonde alterazioni del microbioma intestinale durante il volo spaziale, rivelando possibili conseguenze significative sulla salute degli astronauti e sul futuro delle missioni spaziali di lunga durata
CP violation and flavor invariants in the seesaw effective field theory
Creators: name: Yu, Bingrong
name: Zhou, Shun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we systematically study the algebraic structure of the ring of the flavor invariants and the sources of CP violation in the seesaw effective field theory (SEFT), which is obtained by integrating out heavy Majorana neutrinos in the type-I seesaw model at the tree level and thus includes the dimension-five Weinberg operator and one dimension-six operator. For the first time, we calculate the Hilbert series and explicitly construct all the primary flavor invariants in the SEFT. We show that all the physical parameters can be extracted using the primary invariants and any CP-violating observable can be expressed as the linear combination of CP-odd flavor invariants. The calculation of the Hilbert series shows that there is an equal number of primary flavor invariants in the SEFT and in the full seesaw model, which reveals the intimate connection between the flavor space of the SEFT and that of its ultraviolet theory. A proper matching procedure of the flavor invariants is accomplished between the SEFT and the full seesaw model, through which one can establish a direct link between the CP asymmetries in leptogenesis and those in low-energy neutrino oscillations.
description: 44 pages, 4 tables, more discussions and references added, version accepted by JHEP
Prevalence of hepatitis B in childbearing Southeast Asian refugees in the Salt Lake area
Creators: name: Bonare, M. Sandae
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Epidemiology
Utah

description: Over 7,000 Southeast Asian refugees live in the Salt Lake area. The hepatitis B carrier rate among Southeast Asians in the United States is 12-14%. A retrospective study was conducted to obtain data concerning the prevalence of hepatitis B virus among Southeast Asian prenatal clients. The study sample consisted of 129 charts reviewed from two Salt Lake area clinics. The time period included all the Southeast Asian women receiving prenatal care who delivered in 1984 and those delivered or undelivered who had prenatal blood drawn prior to February 28, 1985.  Demographic data revealed the sample to be between the ages of 15 and 44 years. Ninety-six percent were married and 60% were Cambodian.  Of the 129 charts reviewed, 75 (58%) were screened for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). There was no significant difference by clinic in the percentage of subjects tested.  Among the 75 subjects screened for HBsAg, 7 were HBsAg positive. The prevalance of HBsAg among Southeast Asians  screened  in this  study was  9.3%.  Inconsistent management of the HBsAg positive subjects and their infants has been noted.  The findings of this study suggest that an inadequate number of Southeast Asians are being screened for hepatitis, and that further research in this area is warranted.
Quartetto I-VI : Opera VI-VII : [für 2 Violinen, Viola und Violoncello]
Creators: name: Sozzi, Francesco
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1810

description: Op. VI: Quartetto I, G-Dur ; Quartetto II, C-Dur ; Quartetto III, F-Dur
description: Op. VII: Quartetto IV, d-Moll ; Quartetto V, B-Dur, Quartetto VI, Es-Dur
description: composto da Francesco Sozzj Fiorentino
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Geschenk 1983 *83 S 14 Partituren
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2009 Übernahme Rekatalogis. AK UB durch Medea 2002-2005
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire März 2018 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln
description: Digitalisierung=Digitization=Numérisation 2018 TIFF
description: Partituren nach den Stimmen hergestellt von Balthasar Hegedüs 1983
Reasons for growth and success in the new model of participatory economics using past research
Creators: name: Mahmoudi, Roya
name: Shakeri, Hassan
name: Zare, Mansoureh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: this is a article about sharing economy that minig alot of article about this subject
Giù al nord della stella di Keplero
Creators: Mario Guarcello
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

L’accelerazione di raggi cosmici nei resti di supernova dipende dall’interazione con il mezzo circumstellare. È quanto emerge da uno studio condotto su Sn 1604 – la supernova di Keplero – da un team guidato da Vincenzo Sapienza dell’Università di Palermo, che conferma come l’accelerazione sia più efficiente nella regione a nord rispetto alle regioni a sud
Questioning development: global integration and the carbon intensity of well-being
Creators: name: Givens, Jennifer Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2015
Subjects: Carbon
Climate
Environment
International
Society
Well-being

description: I investigate the extent to which sociological theories of global integration help explain variation in countries' carbon intensity of well-begin (CIWB) over time. The CIWB approach provides a way to simultaneously measure a country's sustainability in terms of both environmental and human well-being. This is a burgeoning area of inquiry with much focus on the role of economic development; yet, looking at the effects of other aspects of global integration is relatively unexplored for the CIWB. I evaluate complementary theoretical propositions drawn from neoinstitutional world society / world polity theory and from the political economic theory of ecologically unequal exchange. I utilize statistically rigorous longitudinal modeling techniques to analyze data from 81 countries for the period from 1990 to 2011. I also look at subsets of more and less developed countries and compare production and consumption based measures of the CIWB when applicable. With this project I address core sociological issues of inequality, human well-being, and development, I explore areas of inquiry in environmental sociology related to sustainability and the production of carbon dioxide emissions, and I test theoretically derived hypotheses from comparative international sociology. I find world society / world polity integration is only associated with a reduction in the CIWB in more developed nations, and only when using the production measure for CO2 emissions. In less developed countries this form of integration is associated with an increasing CIWB. I find that while the main effect of economic integration is to reduce iv the CIWB of nations over time, this relationship is becoming less negative with time, especially for less developed countries, even becoming positive in the later years of the analysis indicating economic integration is beginning to increase the CIWB in some less developed countries. In terms of ecologically unequal relations of exchange I find evidence to support this theoretical perspective, especially at certain points in time, for less developed countries as the theory suggests. This research aims to contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of global sustainability in an unequal global system.
Esame superato per Micado, la fotocamera di Elt
Creators: Redazione Media Inaf
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2024

La potente fotocamera ad alta risoluzione con ottica adattiva multipla per l’Extremely Large Telescope (Elt) dell’Eso ha superato con successo anche le ultime fasi della “final design review”, vale a dire la revisione finale del progetto. Una volta completato, lo strumento consentirà agli astronomi di produrre immagini dell’universo con una profondità senza precedenti
Electrochemical stability of ZnMn2O4: Understanding Zn-ion rechargeable battery capacity and degradation
Creators: name: Rubel, Oleg
name: Tran, Thuy Nguyen Thanh
name: Gourley, Storm
name: Anand, Sriram
name: Van Bommel, Andrew
name: Adams, Brian D.
name: Ivey, Douglas G.
name: Higgins, Drew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a refined Mn-Zn-H$_2$O Pourbaix diagram with the emphasis on parameters relevant for the Zn/MnO$_2$ rechargeable cells. It maps out boundaries of electrochemical stability for MnO$_2$, ZnMn$_2$O$_4$, ZnMn$_3$O$_7$, and MnOOH. The diagram helps to rationalize experimental observation on processes and phases occurring during charge/discharge, including the position of charge/discharge redox peaks and capacity fade observed in rechargeable aqueous Zn-ion batteries for stationary storage. The proposed Pourbaix diagram is validated by observing the pH-dependent transformation of electrolytic manganese dioxide to hetaerolite and chalcophanite during discharge and charge, respectively. Our results can guide the selection of operating conditions (the potential range and pH) for existing aqueous Zn/MnO$_2$ rechargeable cells to maximise their longevity. In addition, the relation between electrochemical stability boundaries and operating conditions can be used as an additional design criterion in exploration of future cathode materials for aqueous rechargeable batteries.
description: 33 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables
Aerothermoelastic modeling of hypersonic vehicles
Creators: name: Jamison, Ryan Dale
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hypers
Fluid-structure interaction

description: Over the last few decades, aerothermoelasticity has become an ever increasingly important area of study. This has been most notably influenced by the development of hypersonic aircraft that surpass Mach 3. At such speeds, the elastic response of an aircraft to the aerodynamic heating and loading becomes very important.  This thesis presents the aerothermoelastic model of a three-dimensional generic hypersonic vehicle using ANSYS® Advanced Academic Teaching, release 11.0. ANSYS® CFX, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, allows for coupled thermalfluid-structural interaction. The hypersonic vehicle geometry used in this study is similar  to the NASA X-43A research hypersonic vehicle. The total number of elements for the  three-dimensional geometry was 14,988; whereas the total number of elements for the three-dimensional fluid domain was 1,269,878. A model that includes propulsion in the form of scramjet combustion is also presented. For the combustion case, the fluid domain has 1,848,436 elements. For both cases, the freestream conditions for the simulations are the same as those of atmosphere at an altitude of 30km.
Anstellungsvertrag mit Wilhelm Pfister-Wyss, Prokurist der Firma, mit Nachträgen
Creators: name: Thurneysen & Cie
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1909

description: Nachträge von 1871-1908
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2014 ISAD(G) / HAN Katalogisierungsregeln für Archivbestände Sebastian Preher