cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Multi-Feature Diffusion Model: Rumor Blocking in Social Networks
Creators: name: Guo, Jianxiong
name: Chen, Tiantian
name: Wu, Weili
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Online social networks provide a convenient platform for the spread of rumors, which could lead to serious aftermaths such as economic losses and public panic. The classical rumor blocking problem aims to launch a set of nodes as a positive cascade to compete with misinformation in order to limit the spread of rumors. However, most of the related researches were based on one-dimensional diffusion model. In reality, there are more than one feature associated with an object. The user's impression on this object is determined not just by one feature but by his/her overall evaluation on all of these features. Thus, the influence spread of this object can be decomposed into the spread of multiple features. Based on that, we propose a Multi-Feature diffusion model (MF-model) in this paper, and a novel problem, Multi-Feature Rumor Blocking (MFRB), is formulated on a multi-layer network structure according to this model. To solve MFRB, we design a creative sampling method, called Multi-Sampling, which can be applied to a multi-layer network structure. Inspired by martingale analysis, the Revised-IMM algorithm is proposed, and returns a satisfactory approximate solution to MFRB. Finally, we evaluate our proposed algorithm by conducting experiments on real datasets, and show the effectiveness and accuracy of the Revised-IMM algorithm and significantly outperforms other baseline algorithms.
description: in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Spectral, thermal and morphological studies of fluorescent dye grafted diblock copolymers
Creators: name: Ramasamy Anbarasan
name: Balakrishnan Meenarathi
name: Senthilkumar, Ponnusamy
name: Parthasarathy Vellaichamy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: The preparation of the fluorescent diblock copolymer was carried out between poly(tetrahydrofuran) (PTHF) and poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) via bulk and ring-opening polymerization (ROP) method by using two different dyes such as fluorescent methyl red (MR) and eosin b (EB) as lone chemical initiators at 160 °C under N2 atmosphere for two hours. All the prepared homopolymer and diblock copolymer were examined by NMR and FT-IR like analytical instruments. The molecular weight of the diblock copolymer was higher than the homopolymer. The TGA results showed that the thermal stability of PTHF in the diblock copolymer was lower when compared with dye end capped PCL. In this work, the ROP efficiency of two different dye-based initiators is compared and their results are critically analyzed. The –OH group-containing EB exhibited excellent results. The dye conjugated polymer was prepared by a single-step process.
Additional file 2 of Nebulin nemaline myopathy recapitulated in a compound heterozygous mouse model with both a missense and a nonsense mutation in Neb
Creators: name: Laitila, Jenni
name: Elyshia McNamara
name: Wingate, Catherine
name: Goullee, Hayley
name: Ross, Jacob
name: Taylor, Rhonda
name: Pijl, Robbert Van Der
name: Griffiths, Lisa
name: Harries, Rachel
name: Ravenscroft, Gianina
name: Clayton, Joshua
name: Sewry, Caroline
name: Lawlor, Michael
name: Ottenheijm, Coen
name: Bakker, Anthony
name: Ochala, Julien
name: Laing, Nigel
name: Wallgren-Pettersson, Carina
name: Pelin, Katarina
name: Nowak, Kristen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Summary of the whole muscle physiology results. a Individual muscle mass, maximum specific force, twitch specific force, maximal rate of force production (dF/dt), contraction time (time-to-peak), half-relaxation time. Unpaired t-test. b Force frequency, c eccentric damage, d eccentric peak stretch. Two-way ANOVA (Sidak’s multiple comparisons test). Data presented as mean +/− SEM; n = 8; *p
Theory of copolymer micellization
Creators: name: Duque, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the micellization of block copolymers in solution, employing self consistent field theory with an additional constraint that permits the examination of intermediate structures. From the information for an isolated micelle (structure, binding energy, free energy) we describe how the global thermodynamics of these systems can be obtained, which can be used to build a realistic phase diagram; the role of translational entropy must be addressed in this regard.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures; more at http://www.sfu.ca/~dduque/mic.html
Early childhood education and care : Do we need to develop the physical literacy of educators?
Creators: name: Buckler, E. Jean
name: Puterman, Eli
name: Faulkner, Guy E. J., 1970-
Publisher: name: SpringerLink
Year: 2023

description: The early years are critical for physical literacy and physical activity (PA). With increasing numbers of children attending early childhood education and care (ECEC), educators play a significant role in childhood development and may play an influential role in young children’s physical literacy journey. Educators receive minimal training in physical literacy and PA, but receive increasing direction to integrate these concepts into ECEC learning. The purpose of this study was to assess educator (n=94) physical literacy, and determine which components of their physical literacy were associated with self-reported intentions and behaviours to promote physical literacy and PA. Educator physical literacy was moderate. Self-reported intentions and behaviours to provide physical literacy and PA opportunities were high. Except for understanding, there were no associations between physical literacy components and intentions and behaviours. The physical literacy of educators may not inform intentions and behaviours to provide physical literacy and PA opportunities were high. Except for understanding, there were no associations between physical literacy components and intentions and behaviours. The physical literacy of educators may not inform intentions and behaviours to provide physical literacy and PA within ECEC frameworks.
Design and Evalution of HPMC Matrix Floating Tablets of Doxazosin
Creators: name: Alladi Saritha, Nansri Saha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of the present work was to develop an optimized floating tablet for Antihypertensive drug. Doxazosinwas formulated as a floating layer using hydrophilic swellable polymer like HPMC K4M, HPMC K100M, sodium bicarbonateas a gas generating agent.Preformulation studies were carried out to optimize the ratios required for variousgrades of HPMC. Drug excipient interaction studies performed using techniques FTIR and DSC studies. Prepared floating tablets were subjected to various evaluation parameters like floating lag time, total floating duration, swelling index, in vitro drug release studies. The M3 formulation showed 99.67% drug release in 12 hours with floating lag timeof 42 seconds maintain matrix integrity for 15 hours. The M3 formulation were selected as optimizedfloating tablet which is further investigated for stability studies. The study revealed that the optimized floating tablet found to be stable for 1 month at 250C /75% RH.Hence, the present research work was to study systematically the effect of formulation variables on the release and floating properties of the drug.
Phlegmariurus cuneifolius B. Ollg. 2012, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Øllgaard, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Lycopodiopsida
Lycopodiales
Lycopodiaceae
Phlegmariurus
Phlegmariurus cuneifolius

description: Phlegmariurus cuneifolius (Hieron.) B.Øllg., comb. nov.
 Basionym: Lycopodium cuneifolium Hieronymus (1905: 572).
 Synonym: Huperzia cuneifolia (Hieron.) Holub (1985: 72).
description: Published as part of Øllgaard, Benjamin, 2012, New combinations in Neotropical Lycopodiaceae, pp. 10-22 in Phytotaxa 57 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5061289
A Possible Proof Of The Riemann Hypothesis
Creators: name: KAPLAN, Yunus-Emre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Riemann Hypothesis
Asymptotic Analysis
Prime Numbers
Imbricated Quadratic Equations
Integrals
Zeta Function
Eta Function
Taylor Expansion

description: In this paper, I present my approach to the Riemann Hypothesis, which potentially provides elements for a proof of it, or even an actual proof.

I start by simplifying the equality Eta(s)=0 (which is implied by the nullness of the continued Zeta(s)) by expressing |Eta(s)|^2=0 as Re(Eta(s))^2 + Im(Eta(s))^2 = 0, expressed with cosine and sine functions, then I use trigonometric identities to further break down the sum into a sum of squares purely relying on Re(s) and a double sum relying on both Re(s) and Im(s).

Using the bounded nature of the cosine function, I reformulate the equality as a problem of quadratic equations, to get rid of the dependence on Im(s) as well as the oscillations it induces,

I then consider Re(s) as a map a[n] = Re(s[n]) (n being the number of terms in Zeta(s) or Eta(s)), rather than a fixed value (since we deal with infinity),

It has already been proved that for all the nontrivial zeros, their real part is in ]0,1[,

So, I then use integrals and asymptotic analysis to observe three cases of asymptotic behaviours:

when a[n] converges to a real number in ]0,1/2[

when a[n] converges to a real number in ]1/2,1[

when a[n] converges to 1/2 (where we distinguish some more cases)

Then I conclude that the only logically consistent case is when a[n] converges to 1/2.

NOTE:

I made corrections again, I re-included the part where I deal with infinite orders of expansion, it actually works very well, and there's a wonderful plot twist:

It is actually the imaginary part Im(s) that is a map with a convergence rate, the real part is plainly Re(s)=1/2.

Also I have to mention that in the paper, lamda in the case of a[n]->1/2 has a name, it is actually noted as a gamma, and is called the Euler-Mascheroni constant, which is the difference between the harmonic series and ln(n), and is approximately equal to 0.577

I keep making corrections (and thus new versions) as I spot errors, ambiguous expressions and incomplete statements.

In this version, I corrected some careless mistakes and incomplete statements here and there.

I'm not far from the final version (I hope).

Feedback would be appreciated at: emrekaplan1978@gmail.com

Despite the quite consequent number of downloads, I've received no feedback so far, positive or negative, despite my email address being public.So a review would really be most welcomed.
Quantum Critical Points in Quantum Impurity Systems
Creators: name: Lee, H. -J.
name: Bulla, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The numerical renormalization group method is used to investigate zero temperature phase transitions in quantum impurity systems, in particular in the soft-gap Anderson model, where an impurity couples to a non-trivial fermionic bath. In this case, zero temperature phase transitions occur between two different phases whose fixed points can be built up of non-interacting single-particle states. However, the quantum critical point cannot be described by non-interacting fermionic or bosonic excitations.
description: 2 pages, 3 figures, submitted to SCES'04
Very long baseline astrometry of PSR J1012+5307 and its implications on alternative theories of gravity
Creators: name: Ding, Hao
name: Deller, Adam T.
name: Freire, Paulo
name: Kaplan, David L.
name: Lazio, T. Joseph W.
name: Shannon, Ryan
name: Stappers, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PSR J1012+5307, a millisecond pulsar in orbit with a helium white dwarf (WD), has been timed with high precision for about 25 years. One of the main objectives of this long-term timing is to use the large asymmetry in gravitational binding energy between the neutron star and the WD to test gravitational theories. Such tests, however, will be eventually limited by the accuracy of the distance to the pulsar. Here, we present VLBI (very long baseline interferometry) astrometry results spanning approximately 2.5 years for PSR J1012+5307, obtained with the Very Long Baseline Array as part of the MSPSRPI project. These provide the first proper motion and absolute position for PSR J1012+5307 measured in a quasi-inertial reference frame. From the VLBI results, we measure a distance of $0.83^{+0.06}_{-0.02}$kpc (all the estimates presented in the abstract are at 68% confidence) for PSR J1012+5307, which is the most precise obtained to date. Using the new distance, we improve the uncertainty of measurements of the unmodeled contributions to orbital period decay, which, combined with three other pulsars, places new constraints on the coupling constant for dipole gravitational radiation $κ_D=(-1.7\pm1.7)\times 10^{-4}$ and the fractional time derivative of Newton's gravitational constant $\dot{G}/G = -1.8^{\,+5.6}_{\,-4.7}\times 10^{-13}\,{\rm yr^{-1}}$ in the local universe. As the uncertainties of the observed decays of orbital period for the four leading pulsar-WD systems become negligible in $\approx10$ years, the uncertainties for $\dot{G}/G$ and $κ_D$ will be improved to $\leq1.5\times10^{-13}\,{\rm yr^{-1}}$ and $\leq1.0\times10^{-4}$, respectively, predominantly limited by the distance uncertainties.
description: published in ApJ (2020ApJ...896...85D)
A Possible Proof Of The Riemann Hypothesis
Creators: name: KAPLAN, Yunus-Emre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Riemann Hypothesis
Asymptotic Analysis
Prime Numbers
Imbricated Quadratic Equations
Integrals
Zeta Function
Eta Function
Taylor Expansion

description: This study is my approach to the Riemann Hypothesis, which potentially provides elements for a proof of it, or even an actual proof.

I start by breaking down the equality Eta(s)=0 (which is implied by the nullness of the continued Zeta(s)) by expressing |Eta(s)|^2=0 as Re(Eta(s))^2 + Im(Eta(s))^2 = 0, expressed with cosine and sine functions, then I use trigonometric identities to further break down the sum into a sum of squares purely relying on Re(s) and a double sum relying on both Re(s) and Im(s).

Using the bounded nature of the cosine function, I reformulate the equality as a problem of quadratic equations, to get rid of the dependence on Im(s) as well as the oscillations it induces,

I then consider Re(s) as a map a[n] of complex numbers tending to a real number (n being the number of terms in Zeta(s) or Eta(s)), rather than a fixed value (since we deal with infinity),

It has already been proved that for all the nontrivial zeros, their real part is in ]0,1[,

So, I then use integrals and asymptotic analysis to observe three cases of asymptotic behaviours:

when a[n] converges to a real number in ]0,1/2[

when a[n] converges to a real number in ]1/2,1[

when a[n] converges to 1/2

Then I conclude that the only logically consistent case is when a[n] converges to 1/2.

Actually, I even find that the real part has to be 1/2 all the way, and that it is actually the imaginary part that has a rate of convergence.

NOTES: 

I made big corrections in these last two versions, in the previous versions even though I had mentioned the alternative method of approximating with integrals first and expanding last, I used expand-first-integrate-last approach instead; it actually works fine for lim a[n] in ]0,1/2] but that raises a problem for lim a[n] > 1/2.

So I used the integrate-first-expand-last method for both of the cases where lim a[n] != 1/2, and the expand-first-integrate-last for the lim a[n] = 1/2 case only, to make explicit that the lambda in this precise case is the Euler-Mascheroni constant noted as a gamma 𝛾∼0.5772156649.

I keep making corrections (and thus new versions) as I spot errors, ambiguous expressions and incomplete statements.

I'm not far from the final version (I hope).

Feedback would be appreciated at: emrekaplan1978@gmail.com

Despite the quite consequent number of downloads, I've received no feedback so far, positive or negative, despite my email address being public.So a review would really be most welcomed.
title: Investigating the Role of OCRL, the Gene Mutated In Lowe Syndrome, in Neurons
Creators: name: Morra, Valentina
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2020

description: Lowe syndrome, also known as Oculo-Cerebro-Renal syndrome of Lowe, is a rare X-linked condition that primarily affects the eye, the nervous system and the kidney. OCRL, the gene mutated in Lowe syndrome, encodes an homonymous protein called OCRL which is an inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase acting preferentially on PtdIns(4,5)P2. OCRL is known to exert several relevant functions in both non-neuronal and neuronal cells. In neurons, PtdIns(4,5)P2, by binding its effectors, acts as an important regulator of processes indispensable for synaptic transmission such as exocytosis, endocytosis and recycling of synaptic vesicles. Whereas the roles of OCRL in non-neuronal cells have been widely explored over the last years, studies focused on its roles in neuronal cells are still missing. Hence, the pivotal role of PtdIns(4,5)P2 in neurons together with the main neurological features of Lowe syndrome (intellectual disability and epilepsy) prompted us to investigate the role of OCRL in the brain. Here I show that in the absence of OCRL neurons exhibit impaired recycling of synaptic vesicles accompanied by an imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory functions in OCRL-depleted hippocampi. Moreover, under neuronal stimulation an increase in the levels of PtdIns(4,5)P2 at OCRL-depleted synapses is observed. These defects, which can be attributed to dysfunctional PtdIns(4,5)P2 metabolism due to the absence of OCRL, result in an increased number and size of endocytic structures with a decrease in the number of synaptic vesicles available for neuronal functions. These findings shed light on the role of OCRL in neurons, which, by co-operating with other lipid phosphatases such as synaptojanin 1, ensures a correct balance between PtdIns(4,5)P2 synthesis and degradation at synapses, thus controlling crucial mechanisms in neurotransmission.
Phlegmariurus curvifolius B. Ollg. 2012, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Øllgaard, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Lycopodiopsida
Lycopodiales
Lycopodiaceae
Phlegmariurus
Phlegmariurus curvifolius

description: Phlegmariurus curvifolius (Kunze) B.Øllg., comb. nov.
 Basionym: Lycopodium curvifolium Kunze (1835: 5).
 Synonym: Huperzia curvifolia (Kunze) Holub (1985: 72).
description: Published as part of Øllgaard, Benjamin, 2012, New combinations in Neotropical Lycopodiaceae, pp. 10-22 in Phytotaxa 57 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5061289
For how long and with what relevance do genetics articles retracted due to research misconduct remain active in the scientific literature
Creators: name: Dal-Ré, Rafael
name: Ayuso, Carmen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: We aimed to quantify the number of pre- and post-retraction citations obtained by genetics articles retracted due to research misconduct. All retraction notices available in the Retraction Watch database for genetics articles published in 1970–2016 were assessed. The reasons for retraction were fabrication/falsification and plagiarism. The endpoints were the number of citations of retracted articles and when and how journals reported on retractions and whether this was published on PubMed. Four hundred and sixty retracted genetics articles were cited 34,487 times; 7,945 (23%) were post-retraction citations. Median time to retraction and time to last citation were 3.2 and 3 years, respectively. Most (96%) had a PubMed retraction notice, One percent of these were totally removed from journal websites altogether, and 4% had no information available on either the online or PDF versions. Ninety percent of citations were from articles retracted due to falsification/fabrication. The percentage of post-retraction citations was significantly higher in the case of plagiarism (42%) than in the case of fabrication/falsification (21.5%) (p<0.001). Median time to retraction was shorter (1.3 years) in the case of plagiarism than for fabrication/falsification (4.8 years, p<0.001). The retraction was more frequently reported in the PDFs (70%) for the fabrication/falsification cases than for the plagiarism cases (43%, p<0.001). The highest rate of retracted papers due to falsification/fabrication was among authors in the USA, and the highest rate for plagiarism was in China. Although most retractions were appropriately handled by journals, the gravest issue was that median time to retraction for articles retracted for falsification/fabrication was nearly 5 years, earning close to 6800 post-retraction citations. Journals should implement processes to speed-up the retraction process that will help to minimize post-retraction citations.
Collective heat capacity for quantum thermometry and quantum engine enhancements
Creators: name: Latune, Camille L.
name: Sinayskiy, Ilya
name: Petruccione, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The performances of quantum thermometry in thermal equilibrium together with the output power of certain class of quantum engines share a common characteristic: both are determined by the heat capacity of the probe or working medium. After noticing that the heat capacity of spin ensembles can be significantly modified by collective coupling with a thermal bath, we build on the above observation to investigate the respective impact of such collective effect on quantum thermometry and quantum engines. We find that the precision of the temperature estimation is largely increased at high temperatures, reaching even the Heisenberg scaling - inversely proportional to the number of spins. For Otto engines operating close to the Carnot efficiency, collective coupling always enhances the output power. Some tangible experimental platforms are suggested.
description: Accepted version, 8 + 4 pages, 5 figures
Commensurate Two-Component Bosons in Optical Lattice: Groundstate Phase Diagram
Creators: name: Kuklov, Anatoly
name: Prokof'ev, Nikolay
name: Svistunov, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two sorts of bosons in an optical lattice at commensurate filling factors can form five stable superfluid and insulating groundstates with rich and non-trivial phase diagram. The structure of the groundstate diagram is established by mapping $d$-dimensional quantum system onto a $(d+1)$-dimensional classical loop-current model and Monte Carlo simulations of the latter. Surprisingly, the quantum phase diagram features, besides second-order lines, a first-order transition and two multi-critical points. We explain why first-order transitions are generic for models with paring interactions using microscopic and mean-field arguments.
description: 4 RevTex pages, 3 ps-figures; replaced with revised version accepted by PRL: results of the MC simulations in 4D are briefly discussed
Dog food production using curcumin as antioxidant: effects of intake on animal growth, health and feed conservation
Creators: name: Campigotto, Gabriela
name: Davi F. Alba
name: Maiara M. Sulzbach
name: Daiane S. Dos Santos
name: Souza, Carine F.
name: Matheus D. Baldissera
name: Gundel, Samanta
name: Ourique, Aline F.
name: Zimmer, Fernando
name: Petrolli, Tiago G.
name: Diovani Paiano
name: Aleksandro S. Da Silva
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The objectives of this study were to produce dog food containing curcumin replacing synthetic antioxidants, to evaluate its beneficial effects on animal growth and health. Curcumin (100 mg/kg) was added after the extrusion process along with the other micronutrients. The final concentration of curcumin was 32.9 mg/kg. The control feed was composed of the same ingredients without curcumin. After a storage of 6 months, feed composition and pH did not differ; however, the feed with curcumin showed lower protein oxidation, lipid peroxidation and higher total antioxidant capacity. After 2 months of feed production, 12 young Beagle dogs received either curcumin-containing food (n = 6) or the control diet (n = 6). The animals were fed twice a day using individual kennels. Blood samples were taken on d 1, 35 and 42. During the first 30 d of the study, the animals had natural infectious diseases that were controlled with anti-protozoals and antibiotics. Greater numbers of red blood cells were observed in dogs fed with curcumin (d 35 and 45), and there were greater numbers of white blood cells as a consequence of increased neutrophils on d 42. At the end of the experiment, a significant reduction in the number of lymphocytes was observed in dogs that ingested curcumin (d 42), suggesting an anti-inflammatory effect, manifested as a decrease in globulin levels. In the final 15 d of the experiment, the animals were clinical healthy. Higher serum levels of glucose, urea, triglycerides and cholesterol were observed in dogs fed with curcumin. Curcumin increased the activity of several antioxidant enzymes in addition to non-protein thiols and the total antioxidant capacity in the serum, consequently reducing levels of oxygen reactive species. Curcumin supplementation of dogs did not favour growth or weight gain. Neverthless, it was concluded that curcumin improved animal health, with emphasis on the stimulation of the antioxidant system and evidence of an anti-inflammatory effect.
On the entropy of spanning trees on a large triangular lattice
Creators: name: Glasser, M. L.
name: Wu, F. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The double integral representing the entropy S_{tri} of spanning trees on a large triangular lattice is evaluated using two different methods, one algebraic and one graphical. Both methods lead to the same result S_{tri} = [1/(2 Pi)]^2 \int_0^{2 Pi} dθ\int_0^{2 Pi} dϕln [6-2 cos(θ) - 2 cos(ϕ) -2 cos(θ+ϕ)] = [3(\sqrt 3)/Pi](1 - 5^{-2} + 7^{-2} - 11^{-2} + 13^{-2} - ...)
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, reference added, for Proceedings of the Gainesville Conference on Number Theory and Combinatorics in Physics, Ramanujan Journal
Phlegmariurus dichaeoides B. Ollg. 2012, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Øllgaard, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Lycopodiopsida
Lycopodiales
Lycopodiaceae
Phlegmariurus
Phlegmariurus dichaeoides

description: Phlegmariurus dichaeoides (Maxon) B.Øllg., comb. nov.
 Basionym: Lycopodium dichaeoides Maxon (1905: 231).
 Synonym: Huperzia dichaeoides (Maxon) Holub (1985: 72).
description: Published as part of Øllgaard, Benjamin, 2012, New combinations in Neotropical Lycopodiaceae, pp. 10-22 in Phytotaxa 57 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5061289
The young massive SMC cluster NGC 330 seen by MUSE. I. Observations and stellar content
Creators: name: Bodensteiner, J.
name: Sana, H.
name: Mahy, L.
name: Patrick, L. R.
name: de Koter, A.
name: de Mink, S. E.
name: Evans, C. J.
name: Götberg, Y.
name: Langer, N.
name: Lennon, D. J.
name: Schneider, F. R. N.
name: Tramper, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A majority of massive stars are part of binary systems, a large fraction of which will inevitably interact during their lives. Binary-interaction products (BiPs), i.e. stars affected by such interaction, are expected to be commonly present in stellar populations. BiPs are thus a crucial ingredient in the understanding of stellar evolution. We aim to identify and characterize a statistically significant sample of BiPs by studying clusters of 10-40 Myr, an age at which binary population models predict the abundance of BiPs to be highest. One example of such a cluster is NGC 330 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Using MUSE WFM-AO observations of NGC 330, we resolve the dense cluster core for the first time and are able to extract spectra of its entire massive star population. We develop an automated spectral classification scheme based on the equivalent widths of spectral lines in the red part of the spectrum. We characterize the massive star content of the core of NGC 330 which contains more than 200 B stars, 2 O stars, 6 A-type supergiants and 11 red supergiants. We find a lower limit on the Be star fraction of $32 \pm 3\%$ in the whole sample. It increases to at least $46 \pm 10\%$ when only considering stars brighter than V=17 mag. We estimate an age of the cluster core between 35 and 40 Myr and a total cluster mass of $88^{+17}_{-18} \times 10^3 M_{\odot}$. We find that the population in the cluster core is different than the population in the outskirts: while the stellar content in the core appears to be older than the stars in the outskirts, the Be star fraction and the observed binary fraction are significantly higher. Furthermore, we detect several BiP candidates that will be subject of future studies.
description: 19 pages (incl. appendix), 21 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 1 of School factors and student drinking in high schools: a cross-sectional study of school policies and party regulation
Creators: name: Pisinger, Veronica
name: Bendtsen, Pernille
name: Rod, Morten Hulvej
name: Tolstrup, Janne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Alcohol policies at high schools (to be filled in by students). Party observation questionnaire.
Adhesion clusters under shared linear loading: a stochastic analysis
Creators: name: Erdmann, T.
name: Schwarz, U. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the cooperative rupture of multiple adhesion bonds under shared linear loading. Simulations of the appropriate Master equation are compared with numerical integration of a rate equation for the mean number of bonds and its scaling analysis. In general, force-accelerated rupture is rather abrupt. For small clusters and slow loading, large fluctuations occur regarding the timepoint of final rupture, but not the typical shape of the rupture trajectory. For vanishing rebinding, our numerical results confirm three scaling regimes predicted before for cluster lifetime as a function of loading rate. For finite rebinding, the intermediate loading regime becomes irrelevant, and a sequence of two new scaling laws can be identified in the slow loading regime.
description: Revtex, 6 pages, 4 postscript figures included
Sustainable Development of Local Communities in Serbia and FDI
Creators: name: Stojanovic, Dragica
name: Ilic, Biljana
name: Moracanin, Jelena
name: Stojanovic, Dragica
name: Ilic, Biljana
name: Moracanin, Jelena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Foreign direct investment (FDI)
subject: sustainable development
subject: local communities
subject: determinations of FDI

description: Foreign direct investment as the most common form of international capital movements are very important factors in the development of each economy. Given the fact its characteristics in terms of the impact on long-term economic development, foreign direct investment offer the possibility of achieving goals of sustainable development. In the terms that the effects of foreign capital does not manifest in the same way at all levels in the host country, the paper gives the importance of foreign direct investment for strength the capacity of local communities in achieving the goals of sustainable development. The point of the paper is to show movement of foreign direct investments in municipalities and cities in Serbia and to provide useful recommendations for improving the business climate to attract foreign direct investment in local communities. Starting from the fact that the needs of local communities in Serbia to attract foreign direct investment are big, at the end of the paper it is given that investment location are the most important determinants of the host country by foreign investors when making investment decisions
Measurement of the average time-integrated mixing probability of b-flavored hadrons produced at the Tevatron
Creators: name: Acosta, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the number of like-sign (LS) and opposite-sign (OS) lepton pairs arising from double semileptonic decays of $b$ and $\bar{b}$-hadrons, pair-produced at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The data samples were collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) during the 1992-1995 collider run by triggering on the existence of $μμ$ and $e μ$ candidates in an event. The observed ratio of LS to OS dileptons leads to a measurement of the average time-integrated mixing probability of all produced $b$-flavored hadrons which decay weakly, $\barχ = 0.152 \pm 0.007$ (stat.) $\pm 0.011$ (syst.), that is significantly larger than the world average $\barχ = 0.118 \pm 0.005$.
description: 47 pages, 10 figures, 15 tables Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Trivial to nontrivial topology transition in rare-earth pnictides with epitaxial strain
Creators: name: Khalid, Shoaib
name: Janotti, Anderson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The combination of magneto-transport and topological properties has brought great attention to rare-earth mono-pnictides semimetals. For some of them, like LaSb, it is unclear whether they show non-trivial topology or not based on density functional theory calculations and angular resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements. Here, we use hybrid density functional theory to demonstrate that LaSb is in fact a trivial topological semimetal, in agreement with experiments, but on the verge of a transition to a topological phase. We show that under compressive epitaxial strain, the La $d$ band crosses the Sb $p$ band near the X$_3$ point in the Brillouin zone, stabilizing a topologically non-trivial phase, opening unique opportunities to probe the inter-relation between magneto-transport properties and the effects of band topology by examining epitaxially strained and unstrained thin films of the same material.
description: I want to change the title of my arxiv submission because the published version of this artcile has a slightly different title
Varieties of Regular Pseudocomplemented de Morgan Algebras
Creators: name: Adams, M. E.
name: Sankappanavar, H. P.
name: de Carvalho, Júlia Vaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary \ 06D30, 06D15, 03G25, Secondary \ 08B15, 06D50, 03G10

description: In this paper, we investigate the varieties $\mathbf M_n$ and $\mathbf K_n$ of regular pseudocomplemented de Morgan and Kleene algebras of range $n$, respectively. Priestley duality as it applies to pseudocomplemented de Morgan algebras is used. We characterise the dual spaces of the simple (equivalently, subdirectly irreducible) algebras in $\mathbf M_n$ and explicitly describe the dual spaces of the simple algebras in $\mathbf M_1$ and $\mathbf K_1$. We show that the variety $\mathbf M_1$ is locally finite, but this property does not extend to $\mathbf M_n$ or even $\mathbf K_n$ for $n \geq 2$. We also show that the lattice of subvarieties of $\mathbf K_1$ is an $ω+ 1$ chain and the cardinality of the lattice of subvarieties of either $\mathbf K_2$ or $\mathbf M_1$ is $2^ω$. A description of the lattice of subvarieties of $\mathbf M_1$ is given.
description: 29 pages; 2 figures
Higgs boson couplings to quarks with supersymmetric CP and flavor violations
Creators: name: Demir, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In minimal supersymmetric model (SUSY) with a light Higgs sector, explicit CP violation and most general flavor mixings in the sfermion sector, integration of the superpartners out of the spectrum induces potentially large contributions to the Yukawa couplings of light quarks via those of the heavier ones. These corrections can be sizeable even for moderate values of tan(beta), and remain nonvanishing even if all superpartners decouple. When the SUSY breaking scale is close to the electroweak scale, the Higgs exchange effects can compete with the gauge boson and box diagram contributions to rare processes, and their partial cancellations can lead to relaxation of the existing bounds on flavor violation sources. In this case there exist sizeable enhancements in flavor-changing Higgs decays. When the superpartners completely decouple, however, the Higgs mediation becomes the dominant SUSY contribution to rare processes the saturation of which, without a strong suppression of the flavor mixings, prefers large tan(beta) and certain ranges for the CP-odd phases. The decay rate of the lightest Higgs into light down quarks become comparable with that into the bottom quark. Moreover, the Higgs decay into the up quark is significantly enhanced. There are observable implications for rare processes, atomic electric dipole moments, and collider searches for Higgs bosons.
description: 20 pp. Added references, improved the discussion of FCNC constraints;journal version
Dynamics of ghost domains in spin-glasses
Creators: name: Yoshino, Hajime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the problem of how spin-glasses ``heal'' after being exposed to tortuous perturbations by the temperature/bond chaos effects in temperature/bond cycling protocols. Revised scaling arguments suggest the amplitude of the order parameter within ghost domains recovers very slowly as compared with the rate it is reduced by the strong perturbations. The parallel evolution of the order parameter and the size of the ghost domains can be examined in simulations and experiments by measurements of a memory auto-correlation function which exhibits a ``memory peak'' at the time scale of the age imprinted in the ghost domains. These expectations are confirmed by Monte Calro simulations of an Edwards-Anderson Ising spin-glass model.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
National Minorities, With Special Opening Opinion in the Republic of Serbia
Creators: name: Bogavac, Zivanka Miladinovic
name: Bogavac, Zivanka Miladinovic
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: National minority
subject: protection
subject: constitution
subject: state
subject: agreement

description: The term national minority emerged in the modern age at international conferences. They gain special significance by forming the first international universal organization, the Society of Nations. In Serbia, the issue of the position of minorities appears after gaining independence in 1878. After the Second World War, the existence and position of a minority is determined by new international conventions. Concerning the SFRY, the protection of minorities was guaranteed by the constitution. Serbia and other countries that emerged from the breakup of the SFRY regulated this issue by laws and bilateral agreements. Serbia has bilateral agreements on the protection of minorities from several neighboring countries. The position of minorities in Serbia can be assessed as exceptionally good, which can not be said about the position of the Serb minority in some neighboring countries.
Predicting evaporation from mountain streams
Creators: name: Szeitz, Andras Janos
name: Moore, R. Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Evaporation can be an important control on stream temperature, particularly in summer when it acts to limit daily maximum stream temperature. Evaporation from streams is usually modelled with the use of a wind function that includes empirically derived coefficients. A small number of studies derived wind functions for individual streams; the fitted parameters varied substantially among sites. In this study, stream evaporation and above-stream meteorological conditions (at 0.5 and 1.5 m above the water surface) were measured at nine mountain streams in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, covering a range of stream widths, temperatures, and riparian vegetation. Evaporation was measured on twenty site-days in total, at approximately hourly intervals, using nine floating evaporation pans distributed across the channels. The wind function was fit using mixed-effects models to account for among-stream variability in the parameters. The fixed-effects parameters were tested using leave-one-site-out cross-validation. The model based on 0.5-m measurements provided improved model performance compared to that based on 1.5-m values, with RMSE of 0.0162 and 0.0187 mm/h, respectively, relative to a mean evaporation rate of 0.06 mm/h. Inclusion of atmospheric stability and canopy openness as predictors improved model performance when using the 1.5-m meteorological measurements, with minimal improvement when based on 0.5-m measurements. Of the wind functions reported in the literature, two performed reasonably while five others exhibited substantial bias.
Active and inactive quarantine in epidemic spreading on adaptive activity-driven networks
Creators: name: Mancastroppa, Marco
name: Burioni, Raffaella
name: Colizza, Vittoria
name: Vezzani, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider an epidemic process on adaptive activity-driven temporal networks, with adaptive behaviour modelled as a change in activity and attractiveness due to infection. By using a mean-field approach, we derive an analytical estimate of the epidemic threshold for SIS and SIR epidemic models for a general adaptive strategy, which strongly depends on the correlations between activity and attractiveness in the susceptible and infected states. We focus on strong social distancing, implementing two types of quarantine inspired by recent real case studies: an active quarantine, in which the population compensates the loss of links rewiring the ineffective connections towards non-quarantining nodes, and an inactive quarantine, in which the links with quarantined nodes are not rewired. Both strategies feature the same epidemic threshold but they strongly differ in the dynamics of active phase. We show that the active quarantine is extremely less effective in reducing the impact of the epidemic in the active phase compared to the inactive one, and that in SIR model a late adoption of measures requires inactive quarantine to reach containment.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
THE ROLE OF EXTRAMUSCULOSKELETAL MANIFESTATIONS IN ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
Creators: name: Abdujabborov, Jamshidbek
name: Omonov, Jamshid
name: Tursunboev, Ulugbek
name: Kushboeva, Shabnam
name: Abdurakhmanova, Sayyora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease predominantly affecting the axial skeleton but often extending to involve other systems, including the joints, entheses, eyes, and internal organs. The disease presents a heterogeneous phenotype, ranging from isolated spinal involvement to more extensive extra-skeletal manifestations (EM) such as uveitis, heart defects, and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). The occurrence of EM is common in AS patients, but despite this recognition, various aspects of their pathophysiology, classification, and clinical significance remain poorly understood. Particularly, the relationship between EM and other manifestations of AS, such as peripheral joint damage, inflammatory activity, and structural progression, remains an area of active investigation. This study aims to assess the association between EM and the inflammatory activity, clinical manifestations, and severity of AS.