cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cell-mediated immunity in Treponema pallidum infected rabbits: in vitro response of splenic and lymph node lymphocytes to mitogens and specific antigens.
Creators: name: Maret, S.M.
name: Folds, J.D.
name: Baseman, J.B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1980

description: Peripheral blood lymphocytes from Treponema pallidum infected rabbits respond poorly to mitogen and specific antigens when cultured in the presence of autologous serum. Reactivity of lymphocytes from the spleen and popliteal lymph nodes of T. pallidum infected rabbits have therefore been examined by lymphocyte transformation using the mitogens phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and concanavalin A (Con A) and extracts of T. pallidum. Spleen cell populations, both T cell enriched (by nylon wool elution) and non-nylon wool treated, which respond to T. pallidum as early as ten days post infection in normal serum, were suppressed in responses to T. pallidum when cultured in autologous serum. The same lymphocytes responded normally to PHA and Con A. Lymph node cells from infected rabbits responded normally to both T. pallidum antigen and mitogens in either autologous or normal rabbit serum. These data indicate that splenic lymphocytes are sensitive to regulatory factors in autologous serum during the early stages of T. pallidum infection whereas lymph node cells are not.
Morphometric relationships of Sphoeroides pachygaster (Pisces - Tetraodontidae) of the Strait of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea)
Creators: name: RAGONESE, Sergio
name: JEREB, Patrizia
name: MORARA, Ugo
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1997

description: Basic morphometric relationships of the puffer fish Sphoeroides pachygaster of the Strait of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea) are reported. The species is widely distributed in the area, from 80 m to 400 m depth, and is represented by a well established population. The length structure of the sample used showed a main peak for juveniles at 130-140 mm standard length (SL), and a wide size range (83-405 mm, SL), with females reaching a larger size than males. Bivariate relationships of the basic measurements were analysed according to the allometric model after loge linear transformation; standard length was considered as the independent variable. Females and males showed coincident (no sex-related differences) relationships for total length, body height and body thickness, while somatic weight, orbital diameter, interorbital distance and snout length relationships were significantly different according to sex. Length-weight relationships were significantly negatively allometric (slope = 2.6) in both males and females, showing significant differences only in the intercepts.
(208) John Cecil Valentine
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Population structure of the longnose trevally Carangoides chrysophrys (Cuvier, 1833) from the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, Iran
Creators: name: HASHEMIPOUR, Fariborz
name: KAYMARAM, Farhad
name: KAMRANI, Ehsan
name: JAMILI, Shahla
name: RAMEZANI FARD, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2019

description: The carangid fishes are one of economically important constituent of the demersal fisheries in the tropical and subtropical waters. The population structure and growth of the longnose trevally, Carangoides chrysophrys (Cuvier, 1833) were investigated using length-frequency data collected during March 2016 to February 2017 from the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea coasts of Iran. A total of 783 fishes were collected, 395 males (50.45%, 25 to 79 cm total length, TL) and 388 females (49.55%, 25 to 81 cm TL) with an overall sex ratio of 1:0.98, not significantly different from the expected 1:1 proportion. Comparison of total length and weight (W) showed significant differences between months of the year. The von Bertalanffy curve fit to the data showed a TL∞ equal to 83.80, k = 0.40 and t0 = -0.50 for males and a TL∞ equal to 84.25 cm, k = 0.34 yr-1 and t0 = -0.43 years for females. The life span estimated in this study was 7 years for males and 8 for females. Eight and nine modal lengths were recognizable all over the year leading to the occurrence of a maximum of three distinct cohorts for males and females, respectively. The total instantaneous mortality, fishing mortality and natural mortality rates were 1.28, 0.56 and 0.72, for males and 1.34, 0.69 and 0.65 yr-1 for females, respectively. The exploitation rate (E) was 0.43 and 0.51 for males and females, respectively. The length at first capture (Lc) was estimated as 37.69 and 50.71 cm TL for males and females, respectively. The results reveal the slow growth and reduction in length at first capture of C. chrysophrys that it requires a correct fishery management to maintain stock of this species in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea.
(209) Algenor Aylmer Valentine
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Two new species of the genus Styraconyx (Tardigrada : Heterotardigrada)
Creators: name: D A, Maria Ddabbo Gallo
name: LUCIA, Rosaria Maria Morone De
name: ZIO, Susanna Grimaldi De
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1989

description: Two new species : Styraconyx sardiniae and S. tyrrhenus (Tardigrada : Halechiniscidae) were found in organogenous debris and posidonian meadows samples. These samples dredged from the Orosei Gulf (Sardinia, Tyrrhenian Sea), came from depth of -20, -80 m and they were very rich in mciofauna.
A note on the $γ$-coefficients of the "tree Eulerian polynomial"
Creators: name: D'León, Rafael S. González
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15, 05E05

description: We consider the generating polynomial of the number of rooted trees on the set $\{1,2,\dots,n\}$ counted by the number of descending edges (a parent with a greater label than a child). This polynomial is an extension of the descent generating polynomial of the set of permutations of a totally ordered $n$-set, known as the Eulerian polynomial. We show how this extension shares some of the properties of the classical one. B. Drake proved that this polynomial factors completely over the integers. From his product formula it can be concluded that this polynomial has positive coefficients in the $γ$-basis and we show that a formula for these coefficients can also be derived. We discuss various combinatorial interpretations of these positive coefficients in terms of leaf-labeled binary trees and in terms of the Stirling permutations introduced by Gessel and Stanley. These interpretations are derived from previous results of the author and Wachs related to the poset of weighted partitions and the free multibracketed Lie algebra.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, Interpretations derived from results in arXiv:1309.5527 and arXiv:1408.5415
Vorticeros praedatorium sp. nov.(Platyhelminthes: Prolecithophora: Plagiostomidae) from the Pacific coast of North America
Creators: name: KOZLOFF, Eugene N.
name: WESTERVELT, Clinton A.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2001

description: Vorticeros praedatorium sp. nov. is described from Friday Harbor, Washington. This prolecithophoran feeds on
 ooecia of Bugula californica and Dendrobeania lichenoides, and deposits its egg capsules on colonies of these bryozoans.
 The only Vorticeros whose morphology has been described carefully is V. pulchellum, found at various localities in the
 Adriatic. It has been synonymized under Vorticeros auriculatum, known from the North Atlantic region, but until the
 morphology of V. auriculatum has been studied in detail, it is best to recognize V. pulchellum as a valid species. Vorticeros
 praedatorium differs from V. pulchellum in three major respects. It has only one penis sheath, instead of two; its seminal
 vesicle consists of two successive chambers; its two ovovitelline ducts do not unite to form a common duct, but enter the
 genital atrium separately.
Dynamics of the Density of Quantized Vortex-Lines in Superfluid Turbulence
Creators: name: Khomenko, D.
name: Kondaurova, L.
name: L'vov, V. S.
name: Mishra, P.
name: Pomyalov, A.
name: Procaccia, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantization of vortex lines in superfluids requires the introduction of their density $\C L(\B r,t)$ in the description of quantum turbulence. The space homogeneous balance equation for $\C L(t)$, proposed by Vinen on the basis of dimensional and physical considerations, allows a number of competing forms for the production term $\C P$. Attempts to choose the correct one on the basis of time-dependent homogeneous experiments ended inconclusively. To overcome this difficulty we announce here an approach that employs an inhomogeneous channel flow which is excellently suitable to distinguish the implications of the various possible forms of the desired equation. We demonstrate that the originally selected form which was extensively used in the literature is in strong contradiction with our data. We therefore present a new inhomogeneous equation for $\C L(\B r,t)$ that is in agreement with our data and propose that it should be considered for further studies of superfluid turbulence.
description: 6 pages, 3 figs, PRB submitted
Unusual acidic light chains in murine SLE serum.
Creators: name: Cohen, P
name: Dermer, G
name: Eisenberg, R
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1984

description: The sera of autoimmune and other mouse strains were analysed by high resolution two dimensional gel electrophoresis and silver staining. The most striking finding was the presence of unusually acidic immunoglobulin light chains in sera from 4-5 month old MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr mice. Similar light chains were found in lesser amounts in NZB/NZW and BXSB sera, and traces were observed in MRL/Mp-+/+, NZB, and in normal sera. The intensity of the acidic light chain spots increased with age in MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr mice, coincident with the development of autoimmunity. These acidic light chains circulated as components of complete IgG molecules, as they were no longer demonstrable in serum which had been rendered free of IgG by absorption with Cowans strain staphylococci. Because both cryoglobulins and glomerular eluates from MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr mice contained acidic immunoglobulin light chains, these molecules may be involved in immune complex formation and resultant injury.
Degenerations of toric varieties over valuation rings
Creators: name: Foster, Tyler
name: Ranganathan, Dhruv
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a theory of multi-stage degenerations of toric varieties over finite rank valuation rings, extending the Mumford--Gubler theory in rank one. Such degenerations are constructed from fan-like structures over totally ordered abelian groups of finite rank. Our main theorem describes the geometry of successive special fibers in the degeneration in terms of the polyhedral geometry of a system of recession complexes associated to the fan.
description: 13 pages. v3: Added Example 4.1.8 and new references. To appear in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
(211) Emily E W Valentine
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Trophic characterization of the Prévost lagoon (Mediterranean Sea) by the feeding habits of the European eel Anguilla anguilla
Creators: name: BOUCHEREAU, Jean-Luc
name: MARQUES, Catarina
name: PEREIRA, Patricia
name: GUELORGET, Olivier
name: VERGNE, Yvan
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: This study deals with temporal variations in eel diet Anguilla anguilla sampled at each of the four seasons in the
 Languedocian Prévost lagoon (Gulf of Lion) from Autumn 1998 to Summer 1999. The following feeding indices were
 calculated based on observations of 12 categories of prey found in the contents of full stomachs: coefficient of vacuity CV,
 degree of fullness DR, occurrence frequency PP, relative abundance N (in %) and relative weight P (in %). The interpreta-
 tion of results is also based on the Costello's method (1990) which combines PP and N. Anguilla anguilla mainly feeds on
 benthic organisms, primarily Gammarus gr. locusta, Polychaeta, insect larvae, small fish. Based on variations in eel diet,
 seasonal influence is illustrated by a decrease in feeding activity in summer which gradually increases during the following
 seasons. The good trophic quality available to eels in the Prévost lagoon depends on its hydrodynamics which is directly
 related to the movement of water entering and leaving lagoon by a short communication with the sea. This water move-
 ment accelerates the enrichment and production processes of this ecosystem. Changes observed during the four seasons
 illustrate an opportunistic type of feeding behaviour. Eels consume the most available benthic prey. They favour the impor-
 tance of the prey at a given moment without using a particular feeding strategy like specialisation or generalisation. Thus,
 eel adapts its diet in adjusting available energy resources in the ecosystem. Because of this, the lagoon-resident species
 Anguilla anguilla is an obvious indirect bioindicator of the trophic capacity and present level of confinement in the brackish
 water lagoon ecosystem of Prévost.
Spontaneous antiidiotypic antibodies to the NZB Coombs autoantibody.
Creators: name: Riblet, R
name: Cohen, P
name: Lewis, D
name: Eisenberg, R
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1985

description: We have further investigated the phenomenon of spontaneous anti-(Coombs) antiidiotypic antibodies in the Fl hybrids of New Zealand black (NZB) and CBA mice. These mice show an age-related increase in incidence of such antiidiotype during the first year of life. There is no difference between males and females in the occurrence of antiidiotype. Reciprocal hybrids are both affected, so that maternal influence from the NZB strain is not critical. The antiidiotype also occurs in spite of the xid gene. We have so far detected such spontaneous antiidiotype only in (CBA x NZB)F1 hybrids and not in hybrids of NZB with two other strains or in a variety of recombinant inbred strains between NZB and C58. Our results to data suggest extensive shared idiotypy among NZB mice and a limited number of total idiotypes.
(206) Eva C Valentine
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Plastic Utilization in EAF: A Fruitful Example of Circular Economy
Creators: name: Cirilli, Filippo
name: De Santis, Michele
name: Di Sante, Loredana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: plastic recovery, polymers, EAF injection, carbon substitution

description: The annual amount of produced plastic in Europe is about 50 Mt. From the collected waste plastics, about 27.3% is landfilled, 41.6% is used for energetic utilization and only 31.1% is recycled. The H2020 project POLYNSPIRE has been launched to demonstrate a set of innovative, cost effective and sustainable solutions, aiming at improving the energy and resource efficiency of post-consumer and post-industrial plastic recycling processes, targeting 100% waste streams. The technological solution studied in POLYNSPIRE project will be validated with industrial trials, up to TRL 7 (Threshold Readiness Level). The EAF process has been purposely developed to re-melt recycled steel scrap. The EAF based production cycle is already very close to the concept of circular economy. This character can be further reinforced, increasing the process sustainability and maintaining at the same efficiency and productivity constrain of the melting process, transforming the EAF in the core of a more complex industrial eco-system, where materials from other industrial sectors are recycled in EAF and fossil fuels are replaced by biomass and recycled plastic materials. A pluri-disciplinary and cross-sectorial approach, based on circular economy paradigm, coupled with technological innovation, leads to significant reduction of environmental impact and improved sustainability
Cyclosporine inhibition of a murine B cell lymphoma.
Creators: name: Haughton, G
name: Pisetsky, D
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1986

description: The effect of cyclosporine (CsA) on the CH 12 murine B cell lymphoma was investigated to determine whether sensitivity to this agent is retained by malignant B cells. This tumour produces an antibody to bromelain-treated red blood cells and may represent transformation of a B cell with certain activation properties associated with early resting B cells. In in vitro cultures, the growth and proliferation of CH 12 were inhibited by CsA in concentrations of 01-1-0 pg/ml; these levels were ineffective against non-lymphoid tumours, although some non-specific cell toxicity was noted at higher levels. IgM antibody production, as measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), was inhibited over the same range. CH 12 cells stimulated by lipopolysaccharide, however, were less sensitive to CsA than untreated cells. These studies indicate that malignant B cells may be sensitive to CsA, perhaps reflecting their derivation from a functionally distinct B cell population with enhanced drug sensitivity.
FAUNE DES CILIÉS MÉSOPSAMMIQUES DE LA CÔTE OUEST DE LA MER CASPIENNE
Creators: name: AGAMALIEV, F.G.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1967

description: The psammophilous Cillâtes of the western coast of the medium and south parts of the Caspian sea have been investigated taxonomically and ecologically. In all, 205 sand samples from 18 localities were studied, taken usually from water depths between 0 and 1.5 m. Some samples were taken with a special dredge from depths between 5 and 15 m.
The ciliates were studied in vivo and on total mounts stained with Feulgen, haemalum or methyl green-pyronin. Descriptions of most species are given after silver impregnated material (Chatton and Lwoff technics). The content of organic matter in the sand was determined with Tjurin’s method (modification by V.N. Simakov and V.P. Tsiplenkov, 1961), that of CaC03—with the Schebler’s calcimeter. Fifteen representative sand samples were analyzed granulometrically, the results being expressed in form of S-shaped cumulative curves (Fig. 1-3). Various types of sand are present in the region investigated, the fine homogeneous sand (modal grain size 0.12-0.4 mm) being the most widespread one. The content of organic matter was usually between 0.52 and 0.77 per cent.
The sands of the investigated region contained 131 species of psammophilous Ciliates, 14 of which were new species (Holophrya caspica Agamaliev, 1966 b; Trachelonema binucleata Agamaliev, 1966 b; Lacrymaria monilata Agamaliev, 1966 c; Tracheloraphis sarmaticus Agamaliev and Kovaljeva, 1966 c; Remanella dragescoi Agamaliev, 1966 c ; Euplotes apcheronicus Agamaliev, 1966 c ; E. raikovi Agamaliev, 1966 c ; E. poljanskyi Agamaliev, 1966 c ; E. octocirratus n. sp. ; E. dogieli n.sp. ; Diophrys scutoides n. sp. ; D. quadricaudatus n. sp. ; Aspidisca caspica n. sp.).Descriptions of these new species and some caracteristic but little known species (Holophrya vorax, Lacrymaria caudata, Paraspathidium obliquum, Chilodontopsis vorax, Frontonia arenaria, Aspidisca fusca) are given.
The ecological analysis of the ciliate fauna shows it to belong largely to the microporal type. The very fine sand (Mo = 0.07-0.08 mm) contained 43 ciliate
Immunosuppressive macrophages induced by arthropathic peptidoglycan-polysaccharide polymers from bacterial cell walls.
Creators: name: Regan, D.R.
name: Cohen, P.L.
name: Cromartie, W.J.
name: Schwab, J.H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1988

description: Rats injected with peptidoglycan-polysaccharide polymers derived from group A streptococcal cell walls (PG-APS) develop a chronic, remittant, erosive synovitis. Spleen cells from injected rats failed to proliferate when stimulated in vitro by Con A or PHA, unless nylon wool adherent cells were first removed. The suppression could also be reversed by removing phagocytic cells which had ingested carbonyl iron. Cells from control rats were suppressed in vitro by co-culture with unfractionated or nylon wool-adherent cells from PG-APS injected rats, and the suppressor activity was still expressed after exposure of the suppressor cells to 3,000 rad of irradiation. Addition of catalase and indomethacin to cultures only partially reversed the suppression. T lymphocytes from rats given a single arthropathic dose of PG-APS remained suppressed for at least 86 days after injection. Cells from rats given a low, non-arthropathic dose of PG-APS did not become suppressed. Cells from the Buffalo rat, which is resistant to development of PG-APS-induced chronic arthritis, showed less suppression than cells from the susceptible Lewis and Sprague-Dawley rat strains.
Anti-myeloperoxidase autoantibodies react with native but not denatured myeloperoxidase
Creators: name: TERRELL, R.
name: BECKER, M.
name: JENNETTE, J. C.
name: FALK, R. J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: We wondered whether anti-myeloperoxidase (MPO) autoantibodies (MPO-ANCA) found in patients with systemic vasculitis react with a conformational epitope or epitopes on the MPO molecule. Sera from 15 human MPO-ANCA, and a polyclonal and a monoclonal anti-MPO antibodies were reacted with MPO in native and denatured states. Human MPO-ANCA and mouse monoclonal anti-MPO reacted with native MPO, and a 120-kD band representing the MPO hologenzyme, but not with denatured MPO fragments; however, MPO-ANCA and mouse anti-MPO did not demonstrate competitive inhibition of binding to MPO. Polyclonal rabbit anti-MPO reacted with both native and denatured MPO. All MPO-ANCA tested showed the same patterns of reactivity with native and denatured MPO in dot blot and Western blot analyses. Both polyclonal and monoclonal anti-MPO antibodies inhibited MPO's protein iodination by over 90%, whereas MPO-ANCA IgGs, normal IgGs and disease control IgGs did not. These data suggest that (i) MPO-ANCA interact with a conformational epitope on the MPO molecule; and (ii) MPO-ANCA from different patients have similar reactivity with native denatured MPO.
title: Ανάλυση συμπεριφοράς ψηφοφόρων με χρήση πολυκριτήριων μεθόδων και εξόρυξης γνώσης από δεδομένα
title: Voting behaviour analysis using data mining and multiple-criteria decision making methods
Creators: name: Στρατηγακης Παρασκευας-Εμμανουηλ
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Η πολιτική συμπεριφορά των ψηφοφόρων αποτελεί ένα ενδιαφέρον και πολύπλοκο αντικείμενο έρευνας από διαφορετικούς επιστημονικούς χώρους. Σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι αρχικά η παρουσίαση της υφιστάμενης κατάστασης και εν συνεχεία η ανάλυση, η ταξινόμηση και η πρόβλεψη της πολιτικής συμπεριφοράς των ψηφοφόρων με χρήση στατιστικής ανάλυσης, πολυκριτήριων μεθόδων και τεχνικών εξόρυξης γνώσης από δεδομένα. Τα δεδομένα που θα απαιτηθούν θα προέρχονται από πρωτογενή έρευνα αγοράς στην περιοχή των Χανίων.
MORPHOLOGIE ET ANATOMIE DES LARVES DE SPIRORBIS VITREUS (FABRICIUS) ET SPIRORBIS MALARDI (CAULLERY ET MESNIL) (ANN. POLYCHÈTES)
Creators: name: QUIÉVREUX, Catherine
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1962

description: Larvae of Spirorbis vitreus (Fabricius) et Spirorbis malardi (Caullery et Mesnil) are described. They are Serpulidae with four thoracic segments. Spirorbis vitreus (F.) is dextral ; Spirorbis malardi (C. et M.), sinistrai. Their morphology and histology are very similar.
One electron oxygen reduction in room temperature ionic liquids: A comparative study of Butler-Volmer and Symmetric Marcus-Hush theories using microdisc electrodes
Creators: name: Tanner, Eden E. L.
name: Xiong, Linhongjia
name: Barnes, Edward O.
name: Compton, Richard G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The voltammetry for the reduction of oxygen at a microdisc electrode is reported in two room temperature ionic liquids: 1-butyl-1-methylpyyrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide ([Bmpyrr][NTf2]) and trihexyltetradecylphosphonium bis9trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide ([P14,6,6,6][NTf2]) at 298 K. Simulated voltammograms using Butler-Volmer theory and Symmetric Marcus-Hush (SMH) theory were compared with experimental data. Butler-Volmer theory consistently provided experimental parameters with a higher level of certainty than SMH theory. A value of solvent reorganisation energy for oxygen reduction in ionic liquids was inferred for the first time as 0.4-0.5 eV, which is attributable to inner-sphere reorganisation with a negligible contribution from solvent reorganisation. The developed Butler-Volmer and Symmetric Marcus-Hush programs are also used to theoretically study the possibility of kinetically limited steady state currents, and to establish an approximate equivalence relationship between microdisc electrodes and spherical electrodes resting on a surface for steady state voltammetry for both Butler-Volmer and Symmetric Marcus-Hush theory.
(204) Emily Nixon
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Immune complex glomerulonephritis is induced in rats immunized with heterologous myeloperoxidase
Creators: name: YANG, J. J.
name: FALK, R. J.
name: JENNETTE, J. C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA), including anti-myeloperoxidase (MPO) antibodies, are associated with pauci-immune necrotizing small vessel vasculitis or glomerulonephritis, 1n order to substantiate a pathogenic role for ANCA, an animal model of pauci-immune ANCA-induced glomerulonephritis or vasculitis is required. Brouwer reported pauci-immune glomerulonephritis in rats immunized with human MPO followed by perfusion of kidneys with lysosomal enzyme extract combined with HO, and suggested that this could serve as a model of ANCA-induced disease. We repeated these studies in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Brown Norway rats (BNR). We immunized rats with human MPO, When circulating anti-MPO antibodies were detectable by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy and ELISA, blood pressure was measured, then perfusion of the left kidney of each rat was done via the renal artery in a closed, blood-free circuit with either MPO + HO
description: , MPO, HO alone or MPO + HO neutral protease. Rats were killed on day 4 or day 10 after perfusion, and specimens were examined by light and immunofluorescence microscopy. Pathological lesions and deposits of IgG. C3, and MPO were found in immunized rats perfused with MPO + HO with or without neutral protease, or MPO alone, in both rat strains and on both day 4 and day 10, The degree of histologic injury was proportional in intensity to the amount of IgG immune deposits. Spontaneously hypertensive rats sustained more damage and higher blood pressure than Brown Norway rats. No lesion was observed in immunized rats perfused with HO or in the non-perfused right kidneys. Some of the non-immunized rats perfused with MPO + HO developed pathological lesions. In conclusion, these rat models are examples of immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis, and therefore are not similar to human ANCA-associated disease.
From Marennes to Marennes-plage, the management of a mud-flat
Creators: name: BRULAY, Fabien
name: PUPIER-DAUCHEZ, Solange
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: Marennes, on the French Atlantic coast, is typified by a socio-economic activity based almost solely on oyster
 production. At the end of 1990s, the municipality decided to redevelop its sea front by the construction of an artificial area
 and by beach replenishment of its coastal mud-flat. Rather than just an example of coastal redevelopment, this operation
 exemplifies the management of the conflicts between users in a strategy of local development.
Anti-inflammatory activity of phosphodiesterase (PDE)-IV inhibitors in acute and chronic models of inflammation
Creators: name: BATEMAN-FITE, R.
name: STIMPSON, S. A.
name: NOEL, L. S.
name: YARNALL, D.
name: CLARK, R. L.
name: SEKUT, L.
name: CONNOLLY, K. M.
name: BRACKEEN, M. F.
name: MENIUS, J. A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1995

description: Inhibitors of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases are known to suppress lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) production in vitro in human monocytes. The most potent of these have selectivity for type IV PDEs, suggesting that this class of PDE is the major type involved in the regulation of human TNF-alpha production. Using compounds of two distinct chemical structural classes, a quinazolinedione (CP-77059) and a 4 arylpyrrolidinone (rolipram), we show here that PDE-IV-specific inhibitors are also potent in suppressing LPS-induced TNF-alpha production in vitro in sodium periodate-elicited murine macrophages (IC50s of 1 and 33, respectively). We then report the in vivo anti-inflammatory effect of PDE-IV inhibition in five murine models of inflammation: (i) elevation of serum TNF-alpha induced by a sublethal LPS injection; (ii) LPS-induced endotoxic shock; (iii) LPS/galactosamine-induced endotoxic shock; (iv) carrageenan-induced paw oedema; and (v) adjuvant arthritis. Following a sublethal (5 micrograms/mouse) injection of LPS, serum TNF-alpha levels in mice peaked sharply, reaching concentrations of 3-12 ng/ml 90 min after injection. In this sublethal LPS assay, CP-77059 was about 30 times more potent than rolipram, with a minimum effective dose of 0.1 mg/kg versus 3 mg/kg for rolipram. This rank order is in keeping with the relative in vitro IC50s for CP-77059 and rolipram, as well as their relative Ki against the human PDE-IV enzyme (46 nM and 220 nM, respectively). In LPS-induced endotoxic shock, rolipram and CP-77059 at relatively high doses of 30 and 10 mg/kg, respectively, significantly reduced serum TNF-alpha levels, and also inhibited mortality 66%. In the LPS/galactosamine shock model, in which mice are rendered exquisitely sensitive to LPS by co-injection with galactosamine, only 0.1 microgram of LPS/mouse is necessary for serum TNF-alpha elevation and death. Both rolipram and the CP-77059 caused dose-dependent reduction of serum TNF-alpha and lethality. In the carrageenan-induced paw oedema model, in which there is a pronounced local TNF-alpha response (without a serum TNF-alpha elevation), rolipram significantly inhibited paw swelling as well as localized TNF-alpha levels in the paw. In the adjuvant arthritis model, a chronic model of inflammation also possessing localized TNF-alpha elevation in the inflamed paw, rolipram and CP-77059 suppressed ankle swelling and radiological evidence of joint damage. These data are consistent with a major role for PDE-IV in regulation of TNF-alpha production and inflammatory responses in murine systems.
Enhanced photocurrent in solution processed electronically coupled CdSe nanocrystals thin films
Creators: name: Dondapati, Hareesh
name: Ha, Duc
name: Pradhan, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have demonstrated the fabrication of highly continuous and smooth CdSe semiconductor films containing self-assembled nanocrystals (NCs) using a simple, low cost solution-processed deposition technique. The impact of thermal annealing and ethanedithiol (EDT) treatment on oleate capped CdSe NCs films is illustrated. Post deposition EDT treatment enhances strong electron coupling between NCs by reducing the inter-particle distance, which enhances four orders of magnitude of photocurrent in the pn-device. Mild thermal annealing of NC films cause large redshift and significant broadening. Our findings suggest that NCs with short-range organic ligands are suitable for high-performance Thin-Film-Transistors and next generation high-efficiency photovoltaics.
Strongly connectable digraphs and non-transitive dice
Creators: name: Joyce, Simon
name: Schaefer, Alex
name: West, Douglas B.
name: Zaslavsky, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C20

description: We give a new proof of the theorem of Boesch-Tindell and Farzad-Mahdian-Mahmoodian-Saberi-Sadri that a directed graph extends to a strongly connected digraph on the same vertex set if and only if it has no complete directed cut. Our proof bounds the number of edges needed for such an extension; we give examples to demonstrate sharpness. We apply the characterization to a problem on non-transitive dice.
description: 8 pp. V2: 9 pp. Cite previous publication of one theorem. V3: Minor copyedits
(205) Matilda Julia Valentine
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Top Quark Anomalous Electromagnetic Couplings in Photon-Photon Scattering at the LHC
Creators: name: Fayazbakhsh, Sh.
name: Monfared, S. Taheri
name: Najafabadi, M. Mohammadi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The capability of the LHC to study the electromagnetic dipole moments of the top quark is discussed. In particular, the process $pp\to pγγp\to pt\bar{t}p$, which is supposed to be tagged by the forward/backward detectors at the LHC experiments, is used to explore the top quark electric and magnetic moments. We perform analytical calculations and then a numerical analysis on the sensitivity of the total cross section of the top quark pair production in $γγ$ scattering at the LHC to the anomalous top quark couplings with photon. It is shown that improvements in the bounds on the electromagnetic dipole moments of the top quark can be achieved in this channel in comparison with the constraints from the former studies.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
Autoantibodies that stabilize the molecular interaction of Ku antigen with DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit
Creators: name: CARTER, T. H.
name: STOJANOV, L.
name: SATOH, M.
name: DOOLEY, M. A.
name: OGASAWARA, T.
name: AJMANI, A. K.
name: RICHARDS, H. B.
name: WINFIELD, J. B.
name: WANG, J.
name: REEVES, W. H.
name: LANGDON, J. J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) consists of a DNA binding subunit (Ku autoantigen), and a catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs). In the present study, human autoantibodies that recognize novel antigenic determinants of DNA-PK were identified. One type of autoantibody stabilized the interaction of DNA-PKcs with Ku and recognized the DNA-PKcs–Ku complex, but not biochemically purified DNA-PKcs. Another type recognized purified DNA-PKcs. Autoantibodies to Ku (p70/p80 heterodimer), ‘stabilizing’ antibodies, and antibodies to DNA-PKcs comprise a linked autoantibody set, since antibodies recognizing purified DNA-PKcs were strongly associated with stabilizing antibodies, whereas stabilizing antibodies were strongly associated with anti-Ku. This hierarchical pattern of autoantibodies specific for components of DNA-PK (anti-Ku>stabilizing antibodies>anti-DNA-PKcs) may have implications for the pathogenesis of autoimmunity to DNA-PK and other chromatin particles. The data raise the possibility that altered antigen processing and/or stabilization of the DNA-PKcs–Ku complex due to autoantibody binding could play a role in spreading autoimmunity from Ku to the weakly associated antigen DNA-PKcs.
Frequency of anti-bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) and anti-azurocidin in patients with renal disease
Creators: name: FALK, R. J.
name: TUTTLE, R.
name: YANG, J. J.
name: JENNETTE, J. C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The major subtypes of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) detected by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) are P-ANCA and C-ANCA. In patients with vasculitis, myeloperoxidase (MPO) is the major P-ANCA antigen and proteinase 3 (PR3) is the major C-ANCA antigen. BPI and azurocidin, which are also called 57-kD cationic antimicrobial protein (CAP 57) and 37-kD cationic antimicrobial protein (CAP 37), respectively, have been proposed as less frequent target antigens for C-ANCA and P-ANCA. In patients with renal disease, we determined the frequency of antibodies against BPI and azurocidin. By IFA on alcohol-fixed neutrophils, monoclonal and polyclonal anti-BPI antibodies produced a C-ANCA pattern, whereas rabbit anti-azurocidin antibody produced a P-ANCA pattern. By ELISA, sera from 229 P-ANCA-positive patients, 99 C-ANCA-positive patients and 48 ANCA-negative (by IFA) patients with renal biopsies were tested for reactivity with recombinant human BPI and purified human azurocidin. Of these sera, 17.5% of P-ANCA, 30.3% of C-ANCA and 20.8% of IFA-ANCA-negative sera were positive for anti-BPI; and 8.3% of P-ANCA, 3.0% of C-ANCA and 8.3% of IFA-ANCA-negative sera were positive for anti-azurocidin. There was no statistical difference in frequency of anti-BPI between pauci-immune necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis (NCGN) and other glomerular disease (OGD), and there was a lower frequency of anti-azurocidin in NCGN samples than in OGD samples. By Western blot, anti-BPI-positive sera reacted with a 57-kD BPI band and anti-azurocidin-positive sera with a 29-kD azurocidin band. In conclusion, there is a low frequency of anti-BPI and anti-azurocidin antibodies in ANCA-positive patient sera; however, this does not correlate with NCGN, which is a marker for ANCA-associated small vessel vasculitis, and a similar positivity is found in IFA-ANCA-negative patients with renal disease. Therefore, serologic detection of anti-BPI and anti-azurocidin is not diagnostically specific in patients with renal disease.
Estuaries and Gelatinous zooplankton: New records of Ctenophora from the Tropical Coast of Brazil (~3-11°S)
Creators: name: CAMPELO, Renata P.S.
name: DIAZ, Xiomara F. G.
name: SANTANA, Jana R.
name: COSTA, Alejandro E.S.F.
name: NOGUEIRA JÚNIOR, Miodeli
name: SOARES, Marcelo O.
name: NEUMANN-LEITÃO, Sigrid
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: The fauna of ctenophores in the coastal zone of tropical Southwestern Atlantic is virtually unknown. Mnemiopsis leidyi and Beroe ovata are important components of pelagic communities as top predators, which are occasionally abundant and widely distributed on coastal regions of the western Atlantic. However, in this region most of the records are in subtropical areas of SW Atlantic, North Atlantic or in the Caribbean region. In this paper we present information on the occurrence of both species in ten tropical estuaries, located between 3 and 11°S, covering more than 1,000 km of coastal areas. The records were made through visual observation, manual collections (with the aid of a 1 mm mesh size net) and subsurface and bottom zooplankton hauls (200, 300 and 500 µm mesh size). We recorded the occurrence of ctenophores in distinct shallow-water estuaries, including hypersaline and highly polluted environments. These new occurrences expand our knowledge on the distribution of the fauna of ctenophores, as well as on the need to carry out taxonomic works and studies that investigate the influence of environmental variables over the population structure and blooms of these species.
ANNÉLIDES POLYCHÈTES RECUEILLIES DANS L'ARCHIPEL DE MADÈRE AU COURS DE LA CAMPAGNE SCIENTIFIQUE DU NAVIRE OCÉANOGRAPHIQUE « JEAN CHARCOT » (juillet 1966)
Creators: name: BELLAN, Gérard
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1969

description: In July 1966, the oceanographic ship “Jean Charcot” has carried out a biological research cruise in the vicinities of the Madere Archipelago. 81 species of Polychaetous Annelids (Serpulidae excluded) have been collected. On the bio- geographical level, the annelidian fauna presents remarkable analogies with those of the mediterranean Sea. The ecology and bionomie distribution of the species common in these two areas do not appear obviously different. Especially, “Annelidian groupings” are quite similar.
High-performance chemical-bath deposited CdS thin-film transistors with ZrO2 gate dielectric
Creators: name: Dondapati, Hareesh
name: Ha, Duc
name: Jenrette, Erin
name: Xiao, Bo
name: Pradhan, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate high performance chemical bath deposited CdS thin-film transistors TFTs using atomic layer deposited ZrO2 based high-k gate dielectric material.
title: De la singularité en géographie
Creators: name: PUMAIN, Denise
Publisher: name: Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science - JIMIS-CNRS-Episciences-ESPACE-Agorantic
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Singularité
subject: Systèmes complexes
subject: Géographie

description: En géographie, la singularité renvoie d’une part à l’idée d’une irréductible unicité de chaque lieu à la surface de la terre et d’autre part à la possibilité de concevoir cette unicité comme l’une des réalisations, parmi bien d’autres possibles, de trajectoires spatio-temporelles similaires nombreuses dans une évolution faite de dynamiques complexes qui incluent des bifurcations. Je voudrais montrer ici comment la construction de modèles de simulation reconstruisant l’évolution de systèmes géographiques permet de passer d’une conception à l’autre de la singularité, voire de dépasser leur apparente opposition. On me pardonnera peut-être de proposer pour cela le récit d’un cheminement singulier, à partir de la genèse de la série des modèles SIMPOP, parce que ce fut aussi et surtout une aventure collective dans une pratique permanente de collaborations pluri, inter et trans disciplinaires.
Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: An Advanced Short Course
Creators: name: Moretti, Valter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper collects and extends the lectures I gave at the "XXIV International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics" held in Zaragoza (Spain) August 31 - September 4, 2015. Within these lectures I review the formulation of Quantum Mechanics, and quantum theories in general, from a mathematically advanced viewpoint, essentially based on the orthomodular lattice of elementary propositions, discussing some fundamental ideas, mathematical tools and theorems also related to the representation of physical symmetries. The final step consists of an elementary introduction the so-called (C*-) algebraic formulation of quantum theories.
description: 103 pages, no figures. Some text corrections performed, to appear in Int. J. Geometrical Methods in Modern Physics