cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Arrenurus (Megaluracarus) acuticoxalis Smit 2017, n. sp.
Creators: name: SAVATENALINTON, SUKONTHIP
name: SMIT, HARRY
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus acuticoxalis

description: Arrenurus (Megaluracarus) acuticoxalis n. sp.
(Fig. 9)
Material examined. Holotype male, rice field, Amnat Chareon Province, Thailand, 16° 03.244ʹ N, 104° 38.105ʹ E, 25-x-2010 (RMNH).
Diagnosis. Cauda posteriorly with a rudimentary petiole, second coxae drawn out into a long pointed extension; posterior margin of Cx-IV nearly straight to lateral idioma margin.
Description. Male: Idiosoma green, 656 long and 413 wide. Anterior margin slightly concave, cauda relatively short, nearly as long as wide. Dorsal shield rounded, 267 long and 255 wide. Posterior part of cauda with complex structures, including a short, rudimentary petiole which is upturned (only visible in lateral view). L4 on short humps. Distal margin of first coxae drawn out to a point, second coxae with a large pointed extension extending well beyond the idiosoma. Medial margin of fourth coxae longer than medial margin of third coxae, posterior margin of Cx-IV concave. Gonopore 44 long. Genital plates long and narrow, extending to lateral idiosoma margin. Length of P1-5: 24, 44, 32, 58, 25; P2 medially with one seta. Length of I-leg-4–6: 87, 58, 146 (to tip). Length of IV-leg-4–6: 158, 80, 108 (to tip); IV-leg-4 without a spur. Third and fourth legs with numerous swimming setae.
Female: Unknown.
Etymology. Named after the very pointed first coxae.
Remarks. There are several species of Arrenurus with extended anterior coxae and a rounded complete dorsal plate including A. celyonicus Daday, 1898 and A. egathus Cook, 1966. The new species is most similar to A. cornutus Walter, 1929 recorded from Java. This species lacks the rudimentary petiole, and the posterior margin of the cauda is more concave in A. cornutus. Lundblad (1969), who assigned his specimens from Burma to A. cornutus, noted the absence of a rudimentary petiole but overlooked the differences in the shape of the fourth coxae.
description: Published as part of SAVATENALINTON, SUKONTHIP & SMIT, HARRY, 2017, New records of water mites from standing waters in Thailand, with the description of nine new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 69-91 in Zootaxa 4312 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/852086
Automatic Generation of Fashion Images using Prompting in Generative Machine Learning Models
Creators: name: Argyrou, Georgia
name: Dimitriou, Angeliki
name: Lymperaiou, Maria
name: Filandrianos, Giorgos
name: Stamou, Giorgos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The advent of artificial intelligence has contributed in a groundbreaking transformation of the fashion industry, redefining creativity and innovation in unprecedented ways. This work investigates methodologies for generating tailored fashion descriptions using two distinct Large Language Models and a Stable Diffusion model for fashion image creation. Emphasizing adaptability in AI-driven fashion creativity, we depart from traditional approaches and focus on prompting techniques, such as zero-shot and few-shot learning, as well as Chain-of-Thought (CoT), which results in a variety of colors and textures, enhancing the diversity of the outputs. Central to our methodology is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), enriching models with insights from fashion sources to ensure contemporary representations. Evaluation combines quantitative metrics such as CLIPscore with qualitative human judgment, highlighting strengths in creativity, coherence, and aesthetic appeal across diverse styles. Among the participants, RAG and few-shot learning techniques are preferred for their ability to produce more relevant and appealing fashion descriptions. Our code is provided at https://github.com/georgiarg/AutoFashion.
Poster - Detecting Quality Problems in Research Data: A Model-Driven Approach
Creators: name: Kesper, Arno
name: Wenz, Viola
name: Taentzer, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Accompanying poster to the main track paper "Detecting Quality Problems in Research Data: A Model-Driven Approach" presented at "ACM/IEEE 23rd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS '20)".
Co-designing candidate intervention components to support the use of continuous glucose monitoring among people with serious mental illness and type 2 diabetes
Creators: name: Siddqi, Najma
name: Kellar, Ian
name: Brown, Jennifer Valeska Elli
name: Ajjan, Ramzi
name: Coventry, Peter A
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Health Psychology
subject: Psychiatric and Mental Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: co-design; co-production; intervention development; continous glucose monitoring; severe mental illness

description: Intervention co-design study with service users, carers, and healthcare professionals
Measuring star formation with resolved observations: the test case of M33
Creators: name: Boquien, M.
name: Calzetti, D.
name: Aalto, S.
name: Boselli, A.
name: Braine, J.
name: Buat, V.
name: Combes, F.
name: Israel, F.
name: Kramer, C.
name: Lord, S.
name: Relano, M.
name: Rosolowsky, E.
name: Stacey, G.
name: Tabatabaei, F.
name: van der Tak, F.
name: van der Werf, P.
name: Verley, S.
name: Xilouris, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Measuring star formation at a local scale is important to constrain star formation laws. Yet, it is not clear whether and how the measure of star formation is affected by the spatial scale at which a galaxy is observed. Aims. We want to understand the impact of the resolution on the determination of the spatially resolved star formation rate (SFR) and other directly associated physical parameters such as the attenuation. Methods. We have carried out a multi-scale, pixel-by-pixel study of the nearby galaxy M33. Assembling FUV, Halpha, 8, 24, 70, and 100 micron maps, we have systematically compared the emission in individual bands with various SFR estimators from a resolution of 33 pc to 2084 pc. Results. We have found that there are strong, scale-dependent, discrepancies up to a factor 3 between monochromatic SFR estimators and Halpha+24 micron. The scaling factors between individual IR bands and the SFR show a strong dependence on the spatial scale and on the intensity of star formation. Finally, strong variations of the differential reddening between the nebular emission and the stellar continuum are seen, depending on the specific SFR (sSFR) and on the resolution. At the finest spatial scales, there is little differential reddening at high sSFR. The differential reddening increases with decreasing sSFR. At the coarsest spatial scales the differential reddening is compatible with the canonical value found for starburst galaxies. Conclusions. Our results confirm that monochromatic estimators of the SFR are unreliable at scales smaller than 1 kpc. Furthermore, the extension of local calibrations to high redshift galaxies presents non-trivial challenges as the properties of these systems may be poorly known.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in A&A
A conceptual study of a high gradient trapped field magnet (HG-TFM) toward providing a quasi-zero gravity space on Earth
Creators: name: Takahashi, Keita
name: Fujishiro, Hiroyuki
name: Ainslie, Mark D
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Paper
bulk superconductors
trapped field magnets
high gradient magnets
finite element method
magnetic levitation
quasi-zero gravity

description: Abstract: In this work, we propose a new concept of a high gradient trapped field magnet (HG-TFM). The HG-TFM is made from (RE)BaCuO bulk superconductors, in which slit ring bulks (slit-TFMs) are tightly stacked with TFM cylinders (full-TFMs), and state-of-the-art numerical simulations were used to investigate the magnetic and mechanical properties in detail during and after magnetization. A maximum value of the magnetic field gradient product of Bz⋅dBz/dz = 6040 T2 m−1 was obtained after conventional field cooled magnetization (FCM) with an applied field, B app, of 10 T of the HG-TFM with 60 mm in outer diameter and 10 mm in inner diameter. This value may be the highest value ever reported compared to any other magnetic sources. The Bz⋅dBz/dz value increased with decreasing inner diameter of the HG-TFM and with increasing B app during FCM. The electromagnetic stress in the HG-TFM during the FCM process mainly results from the hoop stress along the circumferential direction. The simulations suggested that there is no fracture risk of the bulk components during FCM from 10 T in a proposed realistic configuration of the HG-TFM where both TFM parts are mounted in Al-alloy rings and the whole HG-TFM is encapsulated in a steel capsule. A quasi-zero gravity space can be realized in the HG-TFM with a high Bz⋅dBz/dz value in an open space outside the vacuum chamber. The HG-TFM device can act as a compact and cryogen-free desktop-type magnetic source to provide a large magnetic force and could be useful in a number of life/medical science applications, such as protein crystallization and cell culture.
Complexity of the XY antiferromagnet at fixed magnetization
Creators: name: Childs, Andrew M.
name: Gosset, David
name: Webb, Zak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that approximating the ground energy of the antiferromagnetic XY model on a simple graph at fixed magnetization (given as part of the instance specification) is QMA-complete. To show this, we strengthen a previous result by establishing QMA-completeness for approximating the ground energy of the Bose-Hubbard model on simple graphs. Using a connection between the XY and Bose-Hubbard models that we exploited in previous work, this establishes QMA-completeness of the XY model.
Low In solubility and band offsets in the small-$x$ $β$-Ga$_2$O$_3$/(Ga$_{1-x}$In$_x$)$_2$O$_3$ system
Creators: name: Maccioni, Maria Barbara
name: Ricci, Francesco
name: Fiorentini, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on first-principles calculations, we show that the maximum reachable concentration $x$ in the (Ga$_{1-x}$In$_x$)$_2$O$_3$ alloy in the low-$x$ regime (i.e. In solubility in $β$-Ga$_2$O$_3$) is around 10%. We then calculate the band alignment at the (100) interface between $β$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ and (Ga$_{1-x}$In$_x$)$_2$O$_3$ at 12%, the nearest computationally treatable concentration. The alignment is strongly strain-dependent: it is of type-B staggered when the alloy is epitaxial on Ga$_2$O$_3$, and type-A straddling in a free-standing superlattice. Our results suggest a limited range of applicability of low-In-content GaInO alloys.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Transport equation driven by a stochastic measure
Creators: name: Radchenko, Vadym
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15, 60G57

description: We consider the stochastic transport equation where the randomness is given by the symmetric integral with respect to stochastic measure. For stochastic measure, we assume only $σ$-additivity in probability and continuity of paths. The existence and uniqueness of the weak solution to the equation are proved.
description: 10 pages
title: Variation in heat shock protein 40 kDa relates to divergence in thermotolerance among cryptic rotifer species
Creators: name: Kiemel, Katrin
name: Gurke, Marie
name: Paraskevopoulou, Sofia
name: Havenstein, Katja
name: Weithoff, Guntram
name: Tiedemann, Ralph
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik

description: Genetic divergence and the frequency of hybridization are central for defining species delimitations, especially among cryptic species where morphological differences are merely absent. Rotifers are known for their high cryptic diversity and therefore are ideal model organisms to investigate such patterns. Here, we used the recently resolved Brachionus calyciflorus species complex to investigate whether previously observed between species differences in thermotolerance and gene expression are also reflected in their genomic footprint. We identified a Heat Shock Protein gene (HSP 40 kDa) which exhibits cross species pronounced sequence variation. This gene exhibits species-specific fixed sites, alleles, and sites putatively under positive selection. These sites are located in protein binding regions involved in chaperoning and may therefore reflect adaptive diversification. By comparing three genetic markers (ITS, COI, HSP 40 kDa), we revealed hybridization events between the cryptic species. The low frequency of introgressive haplotypes/alleles suggest a tight, but not fully impermeable boundary between the cryptic species.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1305
The Burgers equation driven by a stochastic measure
Creators: name: Radchenko, Vadym
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60H15, 60G57

description: We study the class of one-dimensional equations driven by a stochastic measure $μ$. For $μ$ we assume only $σ$-additivity in probability. This class of equations include the Burgers equation and the heat equation. The existence and uniqueness of the solution are proved, and the averaging principle for the equation is studied.
description: 14 pages
Le ascese al Velino e al Sirente nell’Ottocento. Linee di storia dell’esplorazione appenninica di Filiberto Ciaglia
Creators: name: D'Ascenzo, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2022

description: Il volume di Filiberto Ciaglia è un atto di amore per il proprio territorio, lodevole e coraggioso. Dalle pagine traspare infatti il desiderio di indagare la terra natia e renderla spazio di ricerca in prospettiva di una sua scoperta e valorizzazione, personale e pubblica, con la naturalezza di un giovane studioso non schiacciato dalle logiche ministeriali. Rappresenta un esperimento di divulgazione scientifica per un pubblico di appassionati e cultori della montagna, intorno a temi che affondano le proprie radici nella storia della geografia del nostro paese e in quella della scoperta e appropriazione, cognitiva, spirituale e materiale, delle vette della nostra penisola.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2022)
(503017) Wood Gibson
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.
Detachment fault linkage coupled with deep crustal flow
Creators: name: Hongdan Deng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Figure S1. Uninterpreted and interpreted seismic section along the N-S segment of F2 showing the low-angle fault geometry and overlying syn-kinematic strata in shallow level of the linkage zone. Note that the growth strata young towards the south and it has been top-truncated at the T70 and T80 horizons.
(503016) Hugh Edwards
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.
(503015) Edward Cadwaladr
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.
Matrix Fejér-Riesz theorem with gaps
Creators: name: Zalar, Aljaž
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The matrix Fejér-Riesz theorem characterizes positive semidefinite matrix polynomials on the real line $\mathbb{R}$. We extend a characterization to arbitrary closed semialgebraic sets $K\subseteq \mathbb{R}$ by the use of matrix preorderings from real algebraic geometry. In the compact case a denominator-free characterization exists, while in the non-compact case there are counterexamples. However, there is a weaker characterization with denominators in the non-compact case. At the end we extend the results to algebraic curves.
description: 19 pages
La Strategia di bioeconomia è sostenibile? Territori, impatti, scenari di Margherita Ciervo (a cura di)
Creators: name: Guadagno, Eleonora
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2022

description: Il volume corale e multidisciplinare, a cura di Margherita Ciervo, è il risultato delle riflessioni maturate nell’ambito del Progetto di ricerca di ateneo 2020 “La Bioeconomia in Europa e in Italia: politiche e territori. Scenari socio-economici, ambientali e geopolitici” dell’Università degli studi di Foggia e che ha registrato, come attività conclusiva, una conferenza multidisciplinare dal titolo “La Strategia europea di bioeconomia: scenari e impatti territoriali, opportunità e rischi”. Con uno sguardo che vuole superare la retorica degli – spesso inflazionati – concetti di “transizione ecologica” e “bioeconomia” e, soprattutto, alla luce di un’attenta lettura del Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR), il volume si articola in due sezioni. La prima mira ad analizzare lo sviluppo della Strategia di bioeconomia promossa dalla Commissione Europea fin dal 2012 che punta alla sostanziale sostituzione delle materie prime estrattive con materie di origine biologica; la seconda, invece, ne inquadra i riflessi sui cicli vitali e sulla salute. Il fil rouge che intreccia i contributi, fin dalle prime battute della Prefazione (a cura di Massimo Blonda, Margherita Ciervo e Daniela Poli), è quello di comprendere quali sono i limiti della Strategia, declinandoli in vari contesti di analisi e approcciandoli tramite metodologie disciplinari differenti.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2022)
Formation of prestellar cores via non-isothermal gas fragmentation
Creators: name: Anathpindika, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sheet-like clouds are common in turbulent gas and perhaps form via collisions between turbulent gas flows. Having examined the evolution of an isothermal shocked slab in an earlier contribution, in this work we follow the evolution of a sheet-like cloud confined by (thermal)pressure and gas in it is allowed to cool. The extant purpose of this endeavour is to study the early phases of core-formation. The observed evolution of this cloud supports the conjecture that molecular clouds themselves are three-phase media (comprising viz. a stable cold and warm medium, and a third thermally unstable medium), though it appears, clouds may evolve in this manner irrespective of whether they are gravitationally bound. We report, this sheet fragments initially due to the growth of the thermal instability and some fragments are elongated, filament-like. Subsequently, relatively large fragments become gravitationally unstable and sub-fragment into smaller cores. The formation of cores appears to be a three stage process : first, growth of the thermal instability leads to rapid fragmentation of the slab; second, relatively small fragments acquire mass via gas-accretion and/or merger and third, sufficiently massive fragments become susceptible to the gravitational instability and sub-fragment to form smaller cores. We investigate typical properties of clumps (and smaller cores) resulting from this fragmentation process. Findings of this work support the suggestion that the weak velocity field usually observed in dense clumps and smaller cores is likely seeded by the growth of dynamic instabilities. Simulations were performed using the smooth particle hydrodynamics algorithm.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures; To appear in Pub. of Astronomical Soc. of Australia (PASA); Resolution of rendered images has been reduced to make them compatible with astroph. limits
Why the nature needs 1/f-noise
Creators: name: Kuzovlev, Yu. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-frequency 1/f-noise occurs at all levels of the nature organization and became an actual factor of nanotechnologies, but in essence it remains misunderstood by its investigators. Here, once again it is pointed out that such the state of affairs may be caused by uncritical application of probability theory notions to physical random phenomena, first of all the notion of "independence". It is shown that in the framework of statistical mechanics no medium could provide an inner wandering particle with quite certain value of diffusivity and mobility, thereby producing flicker fluctuations of these quantities. This is example of realization of universal 1/f-noise origin in many-particle systems: dependence of time progress of any particular relaxation or transport process on the whole system's detailed initial microstate
description: 12 pages, no figures, latex2e, revtex4-1; several misprints are corrected and three references are added in comparison with v.1; free translation of article published in "Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk" (RF); the source tex file contains also Russian version of this preprint
Rational design of self-assembly pathways for complex multicomponent structures
Creators: name: Jacobs, William M.
name: Reinhardt, Aleks
name: Frenkel, Daan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field of complex self-assembly is moving toward the design of multi-particle structures consisting of thousands of distinct building blocks. To exploit the potential benefits of structures with such `addressable complexity,' we need to understand the factors that optimize the yield and the kinetics of self-assembly. Here we use a simple theoretical method to explain the key features responsible for the unexpected success of DNA-brick experiments, which are currently the only demonstration of reliable self-assembly with such a large number of components. Simulations confirm that our theory accurately predicts the narrow temperature window in which error-free assembly can occur. Even more strikingly, our theory predicts that correct assembly of the complete structure may require a time-dependent experimental protocol. Furthermore, we predict that low coordination numbers result in non-classical nucleation behavior, which we find to be essential for achieving optimal nucleation kinetics under mild growth conditions. We also show that, rather surprisingly, the use of heterogeneous bond energies improves the nucleation kinetics and in fact appears to be necessary for assembling certain intricate three-dimensional structures. This observation makes it possible to sculpt nucleation pathways by tuning the distribution of interaction strengths. These insights not only suggest how to improve the design of structures based on DNA bricks, but also point the way toward the creation of a much wider class of chemical or colloidal structures with addressable complexity.
description: Accompanying code for computing free-energy landscapes of addressable structures can be found at https://github.com/wmjac/pygtsa
Crystalline structures and frustration in a two-component Rydberg gas
Creators: name: Levi, Emanuele
name: Minář, Jiří
name: Garrahan, Juan P.
name: Lesanovsky, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the static behavior of a gas of atoms held in a one-dimensional lattice where two distinct electronically high-lying Rydberg states are simultaneously excited by laser light. We focus on a situation where interactions of van-der-Waals type take place only among atoms that are in the same Rydberg state. We analytically investigate at first the so-called classical limit of vanishing laser driving strength. We show that the system exhibits a surprisingly complex ground state structure with a sequence of compatible to incompatible transitions. The incompatibility between the species leads to mutual frustration, a feature which pertains also in the quantum regime. We perform an analytical and numerical investigation of these features and present an approximative description of the system in terms of a Rokhsar-Kivelson Hamiltonian which permits the analytical understanding of the frustration effects even beyond the classical limit.
Pasolini, il corpo della città di Gianni Biondillo
Creators: name: Maggioli, Marco
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2022

description: Da qualche decennio ormai la quantità di pubblicazioni che scandagliano l’opera e l’universo di Pier Paolo Pasolini conferma il dato che si tratta di uno degli autori italiani maggiormente studiati all’estero. I campi di ricerca vanno dai film studies agli studi di genere, dal postcoloniale alla queer theory e finiscono per avere una inevitabile ricaduta verso l’interesse, contribuendo ad accrescerlo, che in anni recenti la cosiddetta Italian theory ha riscosso all’interno delle scienze umane, muovendosi su territori di confine, spesso intrecciati tra loro, tra gli studi di teoria politica e quelli di teoria letteraria, tra l’antropologia e l’urbanistica, tra la storia dell’arte e la geografia.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2022)
(502661) Evelyn Twysden Wickham
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.
Shotgun DNA sequencing for human identification: Dynamic SNP selection and likelihood ratio calculations accounting for errors
Creators: name: Andersen, Mikkel Meyer
name: Kampmann, Marie-Louise
name: Jepsen, Alberte Honoré
name: Morling, Niels
name: Eriksen, Poul Svante
name: Børsting, Claus
name: Andersen, Jeppe Dyrberg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In forensic genetics, short tandem repeats (STRs) are used for human identification (HID). Degraded biological trace samples with low amounts of short DNA fragments (low-quality DNA samples) pose a challenge for STR typing. Predefined single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can be amplified on short PCR fragments and used to generate SNP profiles from low-quality DNA samples. However, the stochastic results from low-quality DNA samples may result in frequent locus drop-outs and insufficient numbers of SNP genotypes for convincing identification of individuals. Shotgun DNA sequencing potentially analyses all DNA fragments in a sample in contrast to the targeted PCR-based sequencing methods and may be applied to DNA samples of very low quality, like heavily compromised crime-scene samples and ancient DNA samples. Here, we developed a statistical model for shotgun sequencing, sequence alignment, and genotype calling. Results from replicated shotgun sequencing of buccal swab (high-quality samples) and hair samples (low-quality samples) were arranged in a genotype-call confusion matrix to estimate the calling error probability by maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference. We developed formulas for calculating the evidential weight as a likelihood ratio (LR) based on data from dynamically selected SNPs from shotgun DNA sequencing. The method accounts for potential genotyping errors. Different genotype quality filters may be applied to account for genotyping errors. An error probability of zero resulted in the forensically commonly used LR formula. When considering a single SNP marker's contribution to the LR, error probabilities larger than zero reduced the LR contribution of matching genotypes and increased the LR in the case of a mismatch. We developed an open-source R package, wgsLR, which implements the method, including estimating the calling error probability and calculating LR values.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures
Dove ricomincia la città. L’italia delle periferie. Reportage dai luoghi in cui si costruisce un paese diverso di Francesco Erbani
Creators: name: Peterle, Giada
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2022

description: La condizione urbana contemporanea non è leggibile se non in una prospettiva transcalare, che sia in grado di tenere insieme la dimensione globale e quella locale e metta in crisi le tradizionali dicotomie tra centro e periferia. Partendo da questi presupposti, ed affrontando la questione dal punto di vista e con gli strumenti del cronista, Francesco Erbani apre il suo volume con una serie di domande, che guidano il suo percorso, ma interrogano anche i suoi lettori: «Che cos’è oggi una periferia? Dov’è? Quali sono i suoi tratti? Che cosa la caratterizza?» (pp. 5-6). Dove ricomincia la città. L’italia delle periferie nasce dall’urgenza di trovare risposta a queste domande e ci guida in un viaggio che assume la forma di una cronaca periferica alternativa, che prova a rileggere il concetto di “periferia” oltre gli stereotipi che molto spesso l’accompagnano. Il primo passo è quello di riflettere, in senso più ampio, sulla «condizione periferica» (p. 6) nel nostro paese, accogliendo così la pluralità di un termine che resiste alle definizioni univoche e si riferisce a spazi multiformi, spesso ai margini eppure in posizioni centrali nelle nostre città: non esista “la periferia”, dunque, ma un insieme multiforme di condizioni periferiche che aprono squarci sulle contraddizioni della città, certo, sulle disuguaglianze, ma anche sulle alternative urbane possibili.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2022)
Dal Dono per una nuova Convivialità a partire dal Manifesto del convivialismo. Per un “convivialismo” in economia.
Creators: name: QUERQUES, Giulio
Publisher: name: Post-filosofie
Year: 2017

description: Abstract not available
description: Post-filosofie, N. 7 (2013): Anno 7/8. Numero 7. Convivialismo
Fenomenologia del dono e del riconoscimento: un viaggio attraverso gli epistolari di Cristina Campo, Virginia Woolf e Antonio Gramsci.
Creators: name: LOIACONO, Fiorenza
Publisher: name: Post-filosofie
Year: 2017

description: Abstract not available
description: Post-filosofie, N. 7 (2013): Anno 7/8. Numero 7. Convivialismo
Arrenurus (Arrenurus) shoesmithi Wiles 1993
Creators: name: SAVATENALINTON, SUKONTHIP
name: SMIT, HARRY
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus shoesmithi

description: Arrenurus (Arrenurus) shoesmithi Wiles, 1993
Material examined. 1/0/0, rice field, Amnat Chareon Province, 15° 41.034ʹ N, 104° 34.669ʹ E, 25-x-2010; 1/0/0, Nong Ya Ma Reservoir, Roi-Et Province, 16° 01.783ʹ N, 103° 40.894ʹ E, 12-ii-2011.
Remarks. Arrenurus shoesmithi had been known from Malaysia only (Wiles 1993). The present record is new for the fauna of Thailand.
description: Published as part of SAVATENALINTON, SUKONTHIP & SMIT, HARRY, 2017, New records of water mites from standing waters in Thailand, with the description of nine new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 69-91 in Zootaxa 4312 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/852086
Tailoring Strong Lensing Cosmographic Observations
Creators: name: Linder, Eric V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong lensing time delay cosmography has excellent complementarity with other dark energy probes, and will soon have abundant systems detected. We investigate two issues in the imaging and spectroscopic followup required to obtain the time delay distance. The first is optimization of spectroscopic resources. We develop a code to optimize the cosmological leverage under the constraint of constant spectroscopic time, and find that sculpting the lens system redshift distribution can deliver a 40% improvement in dark energy figure of merit. The second is the role of systematics, correlated between different quantities of a given system or model errors common to all systems. We show how the levels of different systematics affect the cosmological parameter estimation, and derive guidance for the fraction of double image vs quad image systems to follow as a function of differing systematics between them.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Arrenurus (Megaluracarus) ceylonicus Daday 1898
Creators: name: SAVATENALINTON, SUKONTHIP
name: SMIT, HARRY
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus ceylonicus

description: Arrenurus (Megaluracarus) ceylonicus Daday, 1898
Material examined. 0/1/0, oxbow lake Kud Seum, Yasothon Province, 15° 47.090ʹ N, 104° 09.269ʹ E, 24-x-2010; 0/1/0, Bueng Nong Khon swamp, Ubon Ratchathani Province, 15° 47.090ʹ N, 104° 43.049ʹ E, 24-x-2010; 0/1/0, Huay Yang Reservoir, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, 14° 35ʹ 17.1ʺ N, 102° 29ʹ 25.9ʺ E, 14-ii-2011; 15/7/0, swamp Kaeng Leang Chan, Maha Sarakham Province, 16° 11.469ʹ N, 103° 12.413ʹ E, 2-xi-2016.
Remarks. The species is widespread in the Oriental region. It was previously reported from Thailand by Imamura (1964).
description: Published as part of SAVATENALINTON, SUKONTHIP & SMIT, HARRY, 2017, New records of water mites from standing waters in Thailand, with the description of nine new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 69-91 in Zootaxa 4312 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/852086
Potere blu. Geopolitica dell’acqua nel Mediterraneo di Francesco Anghelone (a cura di)
Creators: name: Romagnoli, Luca
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2022

description: “L’acqua non rappresenta una semplice risorsa ma una manifestazione del potere” (pag. 148): ecco la sintesi migliore per rappresentare il portato geopolitico dell’acqua. Ed ecco come questa sintesi ben si raccorda alla prefazione di Paolo Sellari, che definisce “idrogeopolitica” (pag. 7), l’insieme dei fattori che, ovviamente a causa della disomogenea distribuzione globale della risorsa, muovono l’azione antropica per la gestione e il controllo dell’acqua (nel caso in specie quella dolce). Il complesso degli studi raccolti nel volume dimostra non solo e non tanto come l’acqua sia un bene economico, ma come attraverso il controllo di essa si veicolino strategie di controllo politico interno e spesso di confronto esterno agli Stati sovrani.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2022)
Whistler waves in the young solar wind: statistics of amplitude and propagation direction from Parker Solar Probe Encounters 1-11
Creators: name: Choi, Kyung-Eun
name: Agapitov, Oleksiy
name: Colomban, Lucas
name: Bonnell, John W.
name: Mozer, Forrest
name: Sydora, Richard D.
name: Raouafi, Nour
name: de Wit, Thierry Dudok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the interplanetary space solar wind plasma, whistler waves are observed in a wide range of heliocentric distance (from ~20 solar radii (RS) to Jupiter's orbit). They are known to interact with solar wind suprathermal electrons (strahl and halo) and to regulate the solar wind heat flux through scattering the strahl electrons. We present the results of applying the technique to determine the whistler wave propagation direction to the spectral data continuously collected by the FIELDS instruments aboard Parker Solar Probe (PSP). The technique was validated based on the results obtained from burst mode magnetic and electric field waveform data collected during Encounter 1. We estimated the effective length of the PSP electric field antennas (EFI) for a variety of solar wind conditions in the whistler wave frequency range and utilized these estimates for determining the whistler wave properties during PSP Encounters 1-11. Our findings show that (1) the enhancement of the whistler wave occurrence rate and wave amplitudes observed between 25-35 RS is predominantly due to the sunward propagating whistler waves population associated with the switchback-related magnetic dips; (2) the anti-sunward or counter-propagating cases are observed at 30-40 RS; (3) between 40-50 RS, sunward and anti-sunward whistlers are observed with comparable occurrence rates; and (4) almost no sunward or counter-propagating whistlers were observed at heliocentric distances above 50 RS.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Crystalline structures in a one-dimensional two-component lattice gas with $1/r^α$ interactions
Creators: name: Levi, Emanuele
name: Minář, Jiří
name: Lesanovsky, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the ground state of a one-dimensional lattice system that hosts two different kinds of excitations (species) which interact with a power-law potential. Interactions are only present between excitations of the same kind and the interaction strength can be species-dependent. For the case in which only one excitation is permitted per site we derive a prescription for determining the ground state configuration as a function of the filling fractions of the two species. We show that depending on the filling fractions compatible or incompatible phases emerge. Furthermore, we discuss in detail the case in which one species is strongly and the other one weakly interacting. In this case the configuration of the strongly interacting (strong) species can be considered frozen and forms an effective inhomogeneous lattice for the other (weak) species. In this limit we work out in detail the microscopic ground state configuration and show that by varying the density of the weak species a series of compatible--incompatible transitions occurs. Finally we determine the stability regions of the weak species in the compatible phase and compare it with numerical simulations.
Nitrogen-containing Surface Ligands Lead to False Positives for Photofixation of N$_2$ on Metal Oxide Nanocrystals: An Experimental and Theoretical Study
Creators: name: Maldonado-Lopez, Daniel
name: Huang, Po-Wei
name: Sanchez-Lievanos, Karla R.
name: Jana, Gourhari
name: Mendoza-Cortes, Jose L.
name: Knowles, Kathryn E.
name: Hatzell, Marta C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many ligands commonly used to prepare nanoparticle catalysts with precise nanoscale features contain nitrogen (e.g., oleylamine); here, we found that the use of nitrogen-containing ligands during the synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticle catalysts substantially impacted product analysis during photocatalytic studies. We confirmed these experimental results via hybrid Density Functional Theory computations of the materials' electronic properties to evaluate their viability as photocatalysts for nitrogen reduction. This nitrogen ligand contamination, and subsequent interference in photocatalytic studies, is avoidable through the careful design of synthetic pathways that exclude nitrogen-containing constituents. This result highlights the urgent need for careful evaluation of catalyst synthesis protocols, as contamination by nitrogen-containing ligands may go unnoticed since the presence of nitrogen is often not detected or probed.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Simulating and exploring Weyl semimetal physics with cold atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice
Creators: name: Zhang, Dan-Wei
name: Zhu, Shi-Liang
name: Wang, Z. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme to simulate and explore Weyl semimetal physics with ultracold fermionic atoms in a two-dimensional square optical lattice subjected to experimentally realizable spin-orbit coupling and an artificial dimension from an external parameter space, which may increase experimental feasibility compared with the cases in three dimensional optical lattices. It is shown that this system with a tight-binding model is able to describe essentially three-dimensional Weyl semimetals with tunable Weyl points. The relevant topological properties are also addressed by means of the Chern number and the gapless edge states. Furthermore, we illustrate that the mimicked Weyl points can be experimentally detected by measuring the atomic transfer fractions in a Bloch-Zener oscillation, and the characteristic topological invariant can be measured with the particle pumping approach.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures; Fig. 6 with discussions added; accepted by PRA
The Optimal Effective Concentration Combination (OPECC) as a Novel Method for Evaluating the Effects of Binary Application of Antibacterial Compounds
Creators: name: Hiller, Karl-Anton
name: Wenzl, Verena
name: Forster, Eva-Maria
name: Cieplik, Fabian
name: Maisch, Tim
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: optimal effective concentration combination (OPECC); synergy; bacterial resistance; checkerboard assay; binary; combination therapy; antibiotics; antiseptics; Escherichia coli
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Combination therapies appear to be beneficial for preventing bacterial resistance to antibacterial approaches. The aim of this study was to define and determine an optimal effective concentration combination (OPECC) for binary application of antibacterial compounds. The antiseptics chlorhexidine (CHX), benzalkonium chloride (BAC), and cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), as well as the antibiotic ciprofloxacin (CIP), were tested against planktonic Escherichia coli in binary combinations by applying a checkerboard assay, and then evaluated according to the established synergism principles. Extending the checkerboard method, the optical density (OD) of the wells was measured photometrically. On the borderline between effective (OD = 0) and non-effective (OD > 0) eradication of the bacterial cultures, the OPECC was determined. Binary combinations of CPC or CHX with BAC were assessed as either synergistic or indifferent, respectively, while there was no OPECC to calculate. For all other binary combinations, an OPECC was derivable, and these were assessed as either synergistic or indifferent. In conclusion, the evaluation of the binary combination application of antibacterial compounds based on the checkerboard method was refined to such an extent that it was possible to determine at least one concentration pair that could be defined and considered as an OPECC, independently of the evaluation of the system according to the different synergy principles. In general, the method presented herein for determining an OPECC can be applied to any conceivable method or system aimed at the eradication of a pathogen.
Enhanced biodiesel properties of Auxenochlorella sp. using chemical mutagenesis and Tralkoxydim
Creators: name: Polat, Ece
name: Altınbaş, Mahmut
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Mutagenesis in microbial strains might result in robust strains with enhanced biofuel properties. Besides that, oleaginous microalgae, Auxenochlorella sp. with enhanced biomass and lipid content, can be a strong candidate for biodiesel production. In this context, a chemical mutagen called ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) was screened at different concentrations. Considering that a lower survival rate can result in a higher mutation rate, an EMS concentration of 0.25M with 13 mins exposure time was selected as the optimum mutation condition. An acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase (ACCase) inhibitor herbicide, tralkoxydim, was used as a selective environment to choose the mutant strains. Using an ACCase inhibitor herbicide would maintain a more desirable mutant strain that had the enhanced characteristics of biodiesel. Multi-scale comparisons between selected mutant strains and a wild strain revealed that by the time there was a remarkable decrease of 12.6% in the lipid content of the wild strain under the addition of Tralkoxydim (34.8%) compared to 39.8% in wild type, the lipid contents of the mutant strains remained higher. A remarkable increase by 1.50-fold and 1.33-fold in biodiesel fuel properties for Tralkoxydim-treated strains emphasizes that the ACCase synthesis pathway for lipid production is influenced by the stress factor that reaches the European biodiesel standards.