cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identification of topological superconductivity in magnetic impurity systems using bulk spin-polarization
Creators: name: Mashkoori, Mahdi
name: Pradhan, Saurabh
name: Björnson, Kristofer
name: Fransson, Jonas
name: Black-Schaffer, Annica M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic impurities on the surface of spin-orbit coupled but otherwise conventional superconductors provide a promising way to engineer topological superconductors with Majorana bound states as for boundary modes. In this work, we show that the spin-polarization in the interior of both one-dimensional impurity chains and two-dimensional islands can be used to determine the topological phase, as it changes sign exactly at the topological phase transition. This offers an independent probe of the topological phase, beyond the zero-energy Majorana bound states appearing at the boundaries of the topological region.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures
Fenglin xiangwu 鳳麟翔舞 Q00364_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
How Does Religiosity Enhance Risk-taking of Chinese Private Enterprises: Internal Control or Social Supervision?
Creators: name: Zhu, Zheyi
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350208
subject: Investment and risk management
classificationCode: 500499
subject: Religious studies not elsewhere classified

description: Religious beliefs influence corporate risk-taking through social monitoring. In contrast to previous research findings, using data from Chinese private firms, we find a positive relationship between the level of religious beliefs in the locality and corporate risk-taking. Mechanism analysis further confirms that religious beliefs contribute to the reduction of corporate risk-taking by enhancing internal control mechanisms and fostering charitable behaviour.
The bicovariant differential calculus on the kappa-Poincare and kappa-Weyl groups
Creators: name: Przanowski, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The bicovariant differential calculus on fourdimensional kappa-Poincare group and corresponding Lie-algebra like structure for any metric tensor are described. The bicovariant differential calculus on four-dimensional kappa-Weyl group and corresponding Lie-algebra like structure for any matric tensor in the reference frame in which $g_{00}=0$ are considered.
description: LaTeX, Pages 15
Relativistic treatment of Verlinde's emergent force in Tsallis' statistics
Creators: name: Calderon, L.
name: Martin, M. T.
name: Plastino, A.
name: Rocca, M. C.
name: Vampa, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following Chakrabarti,Chandrasekhar, and Naina [Physica A {\bf 389} (2010) 1571], we attempt a classical relativistic treatment of Verlinde's emergent entropic force conjecture by appealing to a relativistic Hamiltonian in the context of Tsalli's statistics. The ensuing partition function becomes the classical one for small velocities. We show that Tsallis' relativistic (classical) free particle distribution at temperature $T$ can generate Newton's gravitational force's $r^{-2}$ {\it distance's dependence}. If we want to repeat the concomitant argument by appealing to Renyi's distribution, the attempt fails and one needs to modify the conjecture.
Dayan chenliao 大宴臣僚 Q00393_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
The influence of anti-chiral edge states on Andreev reflection in graphene-superconductor junction
Creators: name: Wang, Chao
name: Zhang, Lin
name: Zhang, Peipei
name: Song, Juntao
name: Li, Yu-Xian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the tight binding model and the non-equilibrium Green function method, we study Andreev reflection in graphene-superconductor junction, where graphene has two nonequal Dirac Cones split in energy and therefore time reversal symmetry is broken. Due to the anti-chiral edge states of the current graphene model, an incident electron travelling along the edges makes distinct contribution to Andreev reflections. In a two-terminal device, because Andreev retro-reflection is not allowed for just the anti-chiral edges, in this case the mutual scattering between edge and bulk states is necessary, which leads that the coefficient of Andreev retro-reflection is always symmetrical about the incident energy. In a four-terminal junction, however, the edges are parallel to the interface of superconductor and graphene, so at the interface an incident electron travelling along the edges can be retro-reflected as a hole into bulk modes, or specularly reflected as a hole into anti-chiral edge states again. It is noted that, the coefficient of specular Andreev reflection keeps symmetric as to the incident energy of electron which is consistent with the reported results before, however the coefficient of Andreev retro-reflection shows an unexpected asymmetrical behavior due to the presence of anti-chiral edge states. Our results present some new ideas to study the anti-chiral edge modes and Andreev reflection for a graphene model with the broken time reversal symmetry.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Jet-Induced Nucleosynthesis in Misaligned Microquasars
Creators: name: Butt, Yousaf M.
name: Maccarone, Thomas J.
name: Prantzos, Nikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The jet axes and the orbital planes of microquasar systems are usually assumed to be approximately perpendicular, eventhough this is not currently an observational requirement. On the contrary, in one of the few systems where the relative orientations are well-constrained, V4641Sgr, the jet axis is known to lie not more than ~36 degrees from the binary plane. Such a jet, lying close to the binary plane, and traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light may periodically impact the secondary star initiating nuclear reactions on its surface. The integrated yield of such nuclear reactions over the age of the binary system (less the radiative mass loss) will detectably alter the elemental abundances of the companion star. This scenario may explain the anomalously high Li enhancements (roughly ~20-200 times the sun's photospheric value; or, equivalently, 0.1-1 times the average solar system value) seen in the companions of some black-hole X-ray binary systems. (Such enhancements are puzzling since Li nuclei are exceedingly fragile - being easily destroyed in the interiors of stars - and Li would be expected to be depleted rather than enhanced there.) Gamma-ray line signatures of the proposed process could include the 2.22 MeV neutron capture line as well as the 0.478 MeV 7Li* de-excitation line, both of which may be discernable with the INTEGRAL satellite if produced in an optically thin region during a large outburst. For very energetic jets, a relatively narrow neutral pion gamma-decay signature at 67.5 MeV could also be measurable with the GLAST satellite. We argue that about 10-20% of all microquasar systems ought to be sufficiently misaligned as to be undergoing the proposed jet-secondary impacts.
description: ApJ, accepted. Includes referee's suggestions and some minor clarifications over previous version
Software Development with Feature Toggles: Practices used by Practitioners
Creators: name: Mahdavi-Hezaveh, Rezvan
name: Dremann, Jacob
name: Williams, Laurie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background: Using feature toggles is a technique that allows developers to either turn a feature on or off with a variable in a conditional statement. Feature toggles are increasingly used by software companies to facilitate continuous integration and continuous delivery. However, using feature toggles inappropriately may cause problems which can have a severe impact, such as code complexity, dead code, and system failure. For example, the erroneous repurposing of an old feature toggle caused Knight Capital Group, an American global financial services firm, to go bankrupt due to the implications of the resultant incorrect system behavior. Aim: The goal of this research project is to aid software practitioners in the use of practices to support software development with feature toggles through an empirical study of feature toggle practice usage by practitioners. Method: We conducted a qualitative analysis of 99 artifacts from the grey literature and 10 peer-reviewed papers about feature toggles. We conducted a survey of practitioners from 38 companies. Results: We identified 17 practices in 4 categories: Management practices, Initialization practices, Implementation practices, and Clean-up practices. We observed that all of the survey respondents use a dedicated tool to create and manage feature toggles in their code. Documenting feature toggle's metadata, setting up the default value for feature toggles, and logging the changes made on feature toggles are also frequently-observed practices. Conclusions: The feature toggle development practices discovered and enumerated in this work can help practitioners more effectively use feature toggles. This work can enable future mining of code repositories to automatically identify feature toggle practices.
description: Paper submitted to Empirical Software Engineering Journal
Promoting physical activity in a multi-ethnic population at high risk of diabetes: the 48-month PROPELS randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Khunti, Kamlesh
name: Griffin, Simon
name: Brennan, Alan
name: Dallosso, Helen
name: Davies, Melanie J.
name: Eborall, Helen C.
name: Edwardson, Charlotte L.
name: Gray, Laura J.
name: Hardeman, Wendy
name: Heathcote, Laura
name: Henson, Joe
name: Pollard, Daniel
name: Sharp, Stephen J.
name: Sutton, Stephen
name: Troughton, Jacqui
name: Yates, Tom
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Research Article
Diabetes prevention
mHealth
Randomised controlled trial
Non-diabetic hyperglycaemia
Group-based intervention
Physical activity
Pedometer

description: Abstract: Background: Physical activity is associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease but limited evidence exists for the sustained promotion of increased physical activity within diabetes prevention trials. The aim of the study was to investigate the long-term effectiveness of the Walking Away programme, an established group-based behavioural physical activity intervention with pedometer use, when delivered alone or with a supporting mHealth intervention. Methods: Those at risk of diabetes (nondiabetic hyperglycaemia) were recruited from primary care, 2013–2015, and randomised to (1) Control (information leaflet); (2) Walking Away (WA), a structured group education session followed by annual group-based support; or (3) Walking Away Plus (WAP), comprising WA annual group-based support and an mHealth intervention delivering tailored text messages supported by telephone calls. Follow-up was conducted at 12 and 48 months. The primary outcome was accelerometer measured ambulatory activity (steps/day). Change in primary outcome was analysed using analysis of covariance with adjustment for baseline, randomisation and stratification variables. Results: One thousand three hundred sixty-six individuals were randomised (median age = 61 years, ambulatory activity = 6638 steps/day, women = 49%, ethnic minorities = 28%). Accelerometer data were available for 1017 (74%) individuals at 12 months and 993 (73%) at 48 months. At 12 months, WAP increased their ambulatory activity by 547 (97.5% CI 211, 882) steps/day compared to control and were 1.61 (97.5% CI 1.05, 2.45) times more likely to achieve 150 min/week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Differences were not maintained at 48 months. WA was no different to control at 12 or 48 months. Secondary anthropometric and health outcomes were largely unaltered in both intervention groups apart from small reductions in body weight in WA (~ 1 kg) at 12- and 48-month follow-up. Conclusions: Combining a pragmatic group-based intervention with text messaging and telephone support resulted in modest changes to physical activity at 12 months, but changes were not maintained at 48 months. Trial registration: ISRCTN 83465245 (registered on 14 June 2012).
On the Rayleigh-Taylor unstable dynamics of 3D interfacial coherent structures with time-dependent acceleration
Creators: name: Hill, Desmond L.
name: Bhowmick, Aklant K.
name: Abarzhi, Snezhana I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) occurs in a range of industrial and natural processes. Whereas the vast majority of existing studies have considered constant acceleration, RTI is in most instances driven by variable acceleration. Here we focus on RTI driven by acceleration with a power-law time-dependence, and by applying a group theoretic method find solutions to this classical nonlinear boundary value problem. We deduce that the dynamics is dominated by the acceleration term and that the solutions depend critically on the time dependence for values of the acceleration exponent greater than $-2$. We find that in the early-time dynamics, the RTI growth-rate depends on the acceleration parameters and initial conditions. For the later-time dynamics, we link the interface dynamics with an interfacial shear function, and find a continuous family of regular asymptotic solutions and invariant properties of nonlinear RTI. The essentially interfacial and multi-scale character of the dynamics is also demonstrated. The velocity field is potential in the bulk, and vortical structures appear at the interface due to interfacial shear. The multi-scale character becomes clear from the invariance properties of the dynamics. We also achieve excellent agreement with existing observations and elaborate new benchmarks for future experimental work.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1901.04572
Stability Properties of the Riemann Ellipsoids
Creators: name: Fasso`, Francesco
name: Lewis, Debra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J25 (Primary), 37J40, 70H05, 70H33 (Secondary)

description: We study the ellipticity and the ``Nekhoroshev stability'' (stability properties for finite, but very long, time scales) of the Riemann ellipsoids. We provide numerical evidence that the regions of ellipticity of the ellipsoids of types II and III are larger than those found by Chandrasekhar in the 60's and that all Riemann ellipsoids, except a finite number of codimension one subfamilies, are Nekhoroshev--stable. We base our analysis on a Hamiltonian formulation of the problem on a covering space, using recent results from Hamiltonian perturbation theory.
description: 29 pages, 6 figures
The Royal Palace of Urkesh. Report on the 12th Season at Tell Mozan/Urkesh: Excavations in Area AA, June–October 1999
Creators: name: Buccellati, Giorgio
name: Kelly-Buccellati, Marilyn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Mitteilungen Der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft Zu Berlin 132: 133–83.
Traditional Indian Medicine improves outcome in patients of UrolithiasisSystematic review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Rathi, Bharat
name: CHAUDHARY, PIYUSH
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420899
subject: Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine not elsewhere classified

description: This is a systematic review and meta analysis of traditional Indian medicine and is effect on Urolithiasis.
Human BDNF/TrkB variants impair hippocampal synaptogenesis and associate with neurobehavioural abnormalities
Creators: name: Sonoyama, Takuhiro
name: Stadler, Lukas K. J.
name: Zhu, Mingyan
name: Keogh, Julia M.
name: Henning, Elana
name: Hisama, Fuki
name: Kirwan, Peter
name: Jura, Magdalena
name: Blaszczyk, Beata K.
name: DeWitt, David C.
name: Brouwers, Bas
name: Hyvönen, Marko
name: Barroso, Inês
name: Merkle, Florian T.
name: Appleyard, Suzanne M.
name: Wayman, Gary A.
name: Farooqi, I. Sadaf
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/208
/631/337
/631/378
/692/163
/692/617
article

description: Abstract: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signals through its high affinity receptor Tropomyosin receptor kinase-B (TrkB) to regulate neuronal development, synapse formation and plasticity. In rodents, genetic disruption of Bdnf and TrkB leads to weight gain and a spectrum of neurobehavioural phenotypes. Here, we functionally characterised a de novo missense variant in BDNF and seven rare variants in TrkB identified in a large cohort of people with severe, childhood-onset obesity. In cells, the E183K BDNF variant resulted in impaired processing and secretion of the mature peptide. Multiple variants in the kinase domain and one variant in the extracellular domain of TrkB led to a loss of function through multiple signalling pathways, impaired neurite outgrowth and dominantly inhibited glutamatergic synaptogenesis in hippocampal neurons. BDNF/TrkB variant carriers exhibited learning difficulties, impaired memory, hyperactivity, stereotyped and sometimes, maladaptive behaviours. In conclusion, human loss of function BDNF/TrkB variants that impair hippocampal synaptogenesis may contribute to a spectrum of neurobehavioural disorders.
The Royal Palace and the Daughter of Naram-Sin. Report on the 12th Season of Excavations June October 1999
Creators: name: Buccellati, Giorgio
name: Kelly-Buccellati, Marilyn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Archaeology

description: The Urkesh Bulletin 3: 3–28.
Onthophagus escalerai d'Orbigny 1902
Creators: name: Cambefort, Yves
name: Bordat, Patrice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus escalerai

description: Onthophagus escalerai d’Orbigny, 1902
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Base IFAN, XI.1951 (ML & RR); Bossou, IX.1951 (id.); camp Gouan, 1150 m, V.1992; camp du Yâ, VII.1992.
DISTRIBUTION. — Forêts hygrophiles de Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinée équatoriale.
description: Published as part of Cambefort, Yves & Bordat, Patrice, 2003, Coléoptères Scarabaeidae s. str., Aphodiidae et Ceratocanthidae du mont Nimba et des régions limitrophes, pp. 551-580 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 on page 563
Effect of Micron-scale Photoluminescence Variation on Droop Measurements in InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells
Creators: name: Barrett, R M
name: Ahumada-Lazo, R
name: Alanis, J A
name: Parkinson, P
name: Church, S A
name: Kappers, M J
name: Oliver, R A
name: Binks, D J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Paper

description: Abstract: Micro-photoluminescence maps reveal micron-scale spatial variation in intensity, peak emission energy and bandwidth across InGaN/GaN quantum wells. To investigate the effect of this spatial variation on measurements of the dependence of emission efficiency on carrier density, excitation power-dependent emission was collected from a bright and dark region on each of blue-and green emitting samples. The onset of efficiency droop was found to occur at a greater carrier density in the dark regions than in the bright, by factors of 1.2 and 1.8 in the blue and green-emitting samples, respectively. By spatially integrating the emission from progressively larger areas, it is also shown that collection areas greater than ∼50 μm in diameter are required to reduce the intensity variation to less than 10%.
Kaon B-parameter using Overlap Fermions
Creators: name: DeGrand, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present first results from an in-progress calculation of B_K in quenched approximation using overlap fermions. My particular implementation of the overlap uses a kernel with nearest and next-nearest neighbor interactions and HYP-blocked gauge connections. Matching to the continuum NDR regularization is done perturbatively. I present preliminary results at beta=5.9 and 6.1 (lattice spacings 0.125 and 0.09 fm) for quark masses, pseudoscalar decay constants, and B-parameter -- B_K(NDR(mu=2 GeV) is 0.66(3-4).
description: 3 pages, Latex, 3 postscript figures. COLO-HEP-483; Lattice2002(matrixel)
Quantum simulations with multiphoton Fock states
Creators: name: Sturges, T.
name: McDermott, T.
name: Buraczewski, A.
name: Clements, W. R.
name: Renema, J. J.
name: Nam, S. W.
name: Gerrits, T.
name: Lita, A.
name: Kolthammer, W. S.
name: Eckstein, A.
name: Walmsley, I. A.
name: Stobińska, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum simulations are becoming an essential tool for studying complex phenomena, e.g. quantum topology, quantum information transfer, and relativistic wave equations, beyond the limitations of analytical computations and experimental observations. To date, the primary resources used in proof-of-principle experiments are collections of qubits, coherent states or multiple single-particle Fock states. Here we show the first quantum simulation performed using genuine higher-order Fock states, with two or more indistinguishable particles occupying the same bosonic mode. This was implemented by interfering pairs of Fock states with up to five photons on an interferometer, and measuring the output states with photon-number-resolving detectors. Already this resource-efficient demonstration reveals new topological matter, simulates non-linear systems and elucidates a perfect quantum transfer mechanism which can be used to transport Majorana fermions.
description: New text and results. 19 pages, 13 figures, supplementary material
Onthophagus feai d'Orbigny 1905
Creators: name: Cambefort, Yves
name: Bordat, Patrice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus feai

description: Onthophagus feai d’Orbigny, 1905
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Prairie d’altitude, 1600 m, IV.1992; entre Bakoré et Cavally, V.1992; mare d’hivernage, 1600 m, V.1992.
DISTRIBUTION. — Forêts hygrophiles et mésophiles, de la Guinée à la République Centrafricaine.
description: Published as part of Cambefort, Yves & Bordat, Patrice, 2003, Coléoptères Scarabaeidae s. str., Aphodiidae et Ceratocanthidae du mont Nimba et des régions limitrophes, pp. 551-580 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 on page 563
title: Map labeling heuristics
title: provably good and practically useful
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wagner, Frank
name: Wolff, Alexander
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik

description: The lettering of maps is a classical problem of cartography that consists of placing names, symbols, or other data near to specified sites on a map. Certain design rules have to be obeyed. A practically interesting special case, the Map Labeling Problem, consists of placing axis parallel rectangular labels of common size so that one of its corners is the site, no two labels overlap, and the labels are of maximum size in order to have legible inscriptions. The problem is NP-hard; it is even NP-hard to approximate the solution with quality guaranty better than 50 percent. There is an approximation algorithm A with a quality guaranty of 50 percent and running time O (n log n). So A is the best possible algorithm from a theoretical point of view. This is even true for the running time, since there is a lower bound on the running time of any such approximation algorithm of (n log n). Unfortunately A is useless in practice as it typically produces results that are intolerably far off the maximum size. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of a heuristical approach that has A's advantages while avoiding its disadvantages: 1\. It uses A's result in order to guaranty the same optimal running time efficiency; a method which is new as far as we know. 2\. Its practical results are close to the optimum. The practical quality is analysed by comparing our results to the exact optimum, where this is known; and to lower and upper bounds on the optimum otherwise. The sample data consists of three different classes of random problems and a selection of problems arising in the production of groundwater quality maps by the authorities of the City of München.
Retinal Ganglion Cells—Diversity of Cell Types and Clinical Relevance
Creators: name: Kim, Ungsoo Samuel
name: Mahroo, Omar A.
name: Mollon, John D.
name: Yu-Wai-Man, Patrick
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neurology
retinal ganglion cell
optic neuropathies
hereditary optic neuropathies
acquired optic neuropathies
electrophysiological tests
neuro-ophthalmology

description: Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the bridging neurons that connect the retinal input to the visual processing centres within the central nervous system. There is a remarkable diversity of RGCs and the various subtypes have unique morphological features, distinct functions, and characteristic pathways linking the inner retina to the relevant brain areas. A number of psychophysical and electrophysiological tests have been refined to investigate this large and varied population of RGCs. Technological advances, such as high-resolution optical coherence tomography imaging, have provided additional tools to define the pattern of RGC involvement and the chronological sequence of events in both inherited and acquired optic neuropathies. The mechanistic insights gained from these studies, in particular the selective vulnerability and relative resilience of particular RGC subtypes, are of fundamental importance as they are directly relevant to the development of targeted therapies for these invariably progressive blinding diseases. This review provides a comprehensive description of the various types of RGCs, the developments in proposed methods of classification, and the current gaps in our knowledge of how these RGCs are differentially affected depending on the underlying aetiology. The synthesis of the current body of knowledge on the diversity of RGCs and the pathways that are potentially amenable to therapeutic modulation will hopefully lead to much needed effective treatments for patients with optic neuropathies.
Additional file 1: of LSSR1 facilitates seed setting rate by promoting fertilization in rice
Creators: name: Xiang, Xiaojiao
name: Zhang, Peipei
name: Yu, Ping
name: Zhang, Yingxin
name: Yang, Zhengfu
name: Sun, Lianping
name: Wu, Weixun
name: Khan, Riaz
name: Abbas, Adil
name: Cheng, Shihua
name: Cao, Liyong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S1. The information of LSSR1 (LOC_Os02g38260) from transcriptomic database Rice eFP Browser ( http://www.bar.utoronto.ca/efprice/cgi-bin/efpWeb.cgi ). Different stages of panicle and seed development have been categorized according to panicle length and days after pollination (dap), respectively, based on landmark developmental events as follows: 0–3 cm, floral transition and floral organ development (P1); 3–10 cm, meiotic stage (P2 and P3); 10–15 cm, young microspore stage (P4); 15–22 cm, vacuolated pollen stage (P5); 22–30 cm, mature pollen stage (P6); 0–2 dap, early globular embryo (S1); 3–4 dap, middle and late globular embryo (S2); 5–10 dap, embryo morphogenesis (S3); 11–20 dap, embryo maturation (S4); 21–29 dap, dormancy and desiccation tolerance (S5). These stage specifications are approximations based on information from Itoh et al., 2005, Plant Cell Physiol, 46, 23–47. Figure S2. Co-localization analysis between LSSR1 and EGFP. Bars = 50 μm. Figure S3. LSSR1 protein sequences in WT and lssr1 lines. Amino acids and dotted lines marked with yellow background represent mutation site or domains. L2–1-1 and L2–1-2 indicate the two allelic mutations in L2–1. Figure S4. Pollens on the stigma of WT and lssr1 lines. 30 pistils just after flowering in the room were collected for photographing in every line. Bar, 500 μm. Figure S5. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis of the surfaces of anthers and pollen grains in the WT and lssr1 lines. a1-a4, Integrated anthers. b1-b4, Crushed anthers. c1-c4, Anther epidermal surfaces. d1-d4, Enlarged anther epidermal surfaces. e1-e4, Anther inner surfaces. f1-f4, Enlarged anther inner surfaces. g1-g4, Pollen grains. h1-h4, Enlarged pollen epidermal surfaces. Bars: a1-a4 and b1-b4, 200 μm; c1-c4, d1-d4, e1-e4, f1-f4, and h1-h4, 2 μm; g1-g4, 5 μm. Table S1 Primers used in this study. Table S2 Segregation analysis of heterozygous lssr1/+ lines in T2. (DOCX 4700 kb)
Recent results from systematic parameterizations of Ginsparg-Wilson fermions
Creators: name: Gattringer, Christof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fixed Point Dirac Operator and Chirally Improved Fermions both use large numbers of gauge paths and the full Dirac structure to approximate a solution of the Ginsparg-Wilson equation. After a brief review of the two approaches we present recent results for quenched QCD with pion masses down to 210 MeV. We discuss the limits and advantages of approximate parameterizations and outline future perspectives.
description: Lattice2002(plenary). References and Fig. 5 updated. Final version submitted to the proceedings
Hecke algebras, modular categories and 3-manifolds quantum invariants
Creators: name: Blanchet, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M

description: We construct modular categories from Hecke algebras at roots of unity. For a special choice of the framing parameter, we recover the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of closed 3-manifolds constructed from the quantum groups U_q sl(N) by Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Wenzl, and from skein theory by Yokota. We then discuss the choice of the framing parameter. This leads, for any rank N and level K, to a modular category \tilde H^{N,K} and a reduced invariant \tildeτ_{N,K}. If N and K are coprime, then this invariant coincides with the known PSU(N) invariant at level K. If gcd(N,K)=d>1, then we show that the reduced invariant admits spin or cohomological refinements, with a nice decomposition formula which extends a theorem of H. Murakami.
description: 32 pages. See also http://www.math.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/~blanchet
Robust small area estimation under spatial non-stationarity
Creators: name: Baldermann, Claudia
name: Salvati, Nicola
name: Schmid, Timo
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Bias correction
subject: geographical weighted regression
subject: mean squared error
subject: model-based simulation
subject: spatial statistics
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft

description: Geographically weighted small area methods have been studied in literature for small area estimation. Although these approaches are useful for the estimation of small area means efficiently under strict parametric assumptions, they can be very sensitive to outliers in the data. In this paper, we propose a robust extension of the geographically weighted empirical best linear unbiased predictor (GWEBLUP). In particular, we introduce robust projective and predictive small area estimators under spatial non-stationarity. Mean squared error estimation is performed by two different analytic approaches that account for the spatial structure in the data. The results from the model- based simulations indicate that the proposed approach may lead to gains in terms of efficiency. Finally, the methodology is demonstrated in an illustrative application for estimating the average total cash costs for farms in Australia.
Two-parameter quantum groups and quantum planes
Creators: name: Cho, Sunggoo
name: Kang, Sang-jun
name: Kim, Chung-hum
name: Park, Kwang Sung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Usually the generators of a quantum group are assumed to be commutative with the noncommuting coordinates of a quantum plane. We have relaxed the assumption and investigated its consequences. Not only does a two-parameter quantum group arise naturally, but also the formulation leads us to many probable quantum planes associated with a quantum group. Several examples are presented.
description: Latex, 14 pages with no figure
Lexicase Selection of Specialists
Creators: name: Helmuth, Thomas
name: Pantridge, Edward
name: Spector, Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lexicase parent selection filters the population by considering one random training case at a time, eliminating any individuals with errors for the current case that are worse than the best error in the selection pool, until a single individual remains. This process often stops before considering all training cases, meaning that it will ignore the error values on any cases that were not yet considered. Lexicase selection can therefore select specialist individuals that have poor errors on some training cases, if they have great errors on others and those errors come near the start of the random list of cases used for the parent selection event in question. We hypothesize here that selecting these specialists, which may have poor total error, plays an important role in lexicase selection's observed performance advantages over error-aggregating parent selection methods such as tournament selection, which select specialists much less frequently. We conduct experiments examining this hypothesis, and find that lexicase selection's performance and diversity maintenance degrade when we deprive it of the ability of selecting specialists. These findings help explain the improved performance of lexicase selection compared to tournament selection, and suggest that specialists help drive evolution under lexicase selection toward global solutions.
FDM-Leitlinien.
Creators: name: Strauch-Davey, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: FDM
RDM
FDM-Leitlinien
Policy

description: Leitlinien zum Umgang mit Forschungsdaten an der Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Die “Leitlinien zum Umgang mit Forschungsdaten an der Stiftung Universität Hildesheim” wurden am 05.02.2020 von der Erweiterten Hochschulleitung verabschiedet und bieten den Forschenden der SUH einen Orientierungsrahmen, der Transparenz, Klarheit und Unterstützung im Umgang mit Forschungsdaten schafft. Anlass für diese Leitlinien sind insbesondere die Anforderungen von Forschungsförderern wie die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung oder die Europäische Union zum Umgang mit Forschungsdaten. Im Sinne von Open Science und Open Access fördern die neuen Leitlinien zum Umgang mit Forschungsdaten die Transparenz von Wissenschaft und Forschung ebenso, wie die Leitlinien der Stiftung Universität Hildesheim zum Open Access-Publizieren. Zudem tragen sie dazu bei, die von 160 internationalen Universitäten unterzeichnete Sorbonne-Erklärung zum Zugang zu Forschungsdaten nach dem Prinzip FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) auch an der SUH zu realisieren.

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Additional file 1 of The intersection between migration, HIV, and contraceptive use in Uganda: a cross-sectional population-based study
Creators: name: Namusisi, Prossy
name: Yeh, Ping Teresa
name: Ssekubugu, Robert
name: Chang, Larry William
name: Lutalo, Tom
name: Zimmerman, Linnea
name: Grabowski, Mary Kathryn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Poisson structures on the center of the elliptic algebra A_{p,q}(sl(2)_c)
Creators: name: Avan, J.
name: Frappat, L.
name: Rossi, M.
name: Sorba, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the elliptic algebra A_{p,q}(sl(2)_c) has a non trivial center at the critical level $c=-2$, generalizing the result of Reshetikhin and Semenov-Tian-Shansky for trigonometric algebras. A family of Poisson structures indexed by a non-negative integer $k$ is constructed on this center.
description: LaTeX 2.09 Document (should be run twice)
title: Synthesis of TiO2-Based Nanostructures by Hydrothermal method and Their Applications
Creators: name: Liu, Porun
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Titanium oxide
subject: Liquid phase hydrothermal synthesis
subject: Nanostructures
subject: Hydrothermal method

description: Titanium oxide (TiO2) is a very useful semiconductor with various promising applications such as, environmental hazard removal, solar energy conversion, electrochromics devices and sensors. A variety of approaches have been utilized to synthesize uniform, well defined TiO2-based nanostructures. Among them, liquid phase hydrothermal (LPH) synthesis is an important method. Although numerous efforts have been devoted to investigating the LPH synthesis of TiO2-based nanostructures, there exist some unclear aspects. For example, in an alkaline LPH synthesis of titanate nanotubes, the actual growth process and intermediate structures are still elusive; in an acid LPH synthesis of TiO2 crystals in fluoride solutions, mechanistic roles that adsorbed fluorine species and pH are playing are still mysterious. To tackle these problems, a delicate strategy has been developed. It was based on comprehensive investigations of material morphologies, structures and corresponding solute concentrations in solutions. Ti metal plates were used as substrates and raw materials. Effects of synthesis parameters such as temperatures, pH (alkalinity and acidity), durations, on crystal growths were studied by comparisons of morphological properties obtained with varied parameters. Comprehensive growth mechanisms have been proposed in order to clarify morphological evolutions and solute concentration variations upon changes of parameters in thermodynamics and crystallographic points of view. After synthesis, photocatalytic and photovoltaic efficiencies of resultant electrodes were evaluated by photoelectrocatalysis and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Performance dependences on morphological properties were eventually studied. Based on this methodology, alkaline LPH synthesis of titanate nanotubes on Ti substrate has been investigated. The nanotube formation can be attributed to be an oriented crystal growth process. By using a TiO2 porous film as raw material, 3D titanate nanotube network was obtained. This unique texture was constructed by branching and joining of titanate nanotubes. On a porous Ti substrate, titanate nanotube membrane was fabricated with titanate seed solution. Photoelectrocatalysis, DSSCs and filtration performance of the resultant nanotube structures have been assessed. High surface areas and outstanding mechanic strengths of the resultant nanotubes are beneficial to the high performances.
Onthophagus fimetarius Roth 1851
Creators: name: Cambefort, Yves
name: Bordat, Patrice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus fimetarius

description: Onthophagus fimetarius Roth, 1851
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Mifergui, 700 m, piège lumineux, V.1993 (H. Perrin).
DISTRIBUTION. — Espèce assez répandue dans les savanes d’une grande partie de l’Afrique.
description: Published as part of Cambefort, Yves & Bordat, Patrice, 2003, Coléoptères Scarabaeidae s. str., Aphodiidae et Ceratocanthidae du mont Nimba et des régions limitrophes, pp. 551-580 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 on page 564
Revisiting Incentivism Theory —Testing Barriers to Riches on post-war panel data
Creators: name: Minford, Patrick
name: Meenagh, David
name: Zhu, Zheyi
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350103
subject: Financial accounting
classificationCode: 480106
subject: Taxation law

description: In this monograph. we set out the theory of growth and its relationship to taxes and we also review the empirical evidence on this relationship. The empirical evidence is of two main sorts: ‘reduced form' correlations and individual country studies using a structural (causal) model of the DSGE sort. Of these two the former are able to cover large samples of different counties and episodes, which makes them attractive and persuasive. However, they have the drawback of poor 'identification' of the underlying causality. One cannot be sure that this runs from tax to growth as opposed to either reverse causation or joint causation by some third unmeasured factor.
Clerics, Courts, and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Italy, c. 650 - c. 900
Creators: Heil, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Carolingians
subject: Lombards--Religion
subject: Religious disputations
subject: Middle Ages
subject: Law, Medieval
subject: Lombards
subject: History
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This dissertation examines how clerics in the Lombard and Carolingian Kingdom of Italy prosecuted disputes with each other. It argues for and explores two core features of the clerical legal culture of the kingdom. The first regards the judicial institutions that clerics exploited. While the late eleventh and twelfth centuries would see the elaboration of a coherent system of ecclesiastical justice centered on the papal court, distinct from secular judicial institutions, the situation in the early Middle Ages was radically different. Early medieval Italian clerics made recourse to a wide variety of judicial forums, including both "secular" ones such as the public courts and properly "ecclesiastical" ones such as church synods. The dissertation explores these judicial pathways--some of them well-trodden and enduring ones, others more ad hoc--and the ways clerics navigated between them. Second, this study demonstrates that many early medieval Italian clerics displayed considerable skill and sophistication in crafting and delivering legal arguments against each other. Those arguments frequently hinged on substantive appeal to canon law. This finding presents a challenge to a prevailing view in legal-historical scholarship which downplays or ignores practical legal expertise in the early Middle Ages and often dismisses the period itself as an "age without jurists." This dissertation instead argues for an early medieval clerical legal culture that scholars must take seriously as a prehistory to the well-known legal and judicial developments of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This is the first study to explore in depth the diversity of judicial pathways exploited by clerics in early medieval Italy and the legal arguments they constructed. Proceeding on the basis of case studies, it traces the threads of ecclesiastical legal culture through several genres of sources: in addition to diplomatic sources such as judicial notices, papal bulls, imperial diplomas, and private charters, it also examines the evidence to be found in works of poetry, hagiography, and historiography, and in legal compilations. Among the ecclesiastical disputes that receive extended discussion are those between the bishops of Arezzo and Siena, between the patriarchs of Aquileia and Grado, between the abbots of Nonantola and neighboring bishops, and those within the diocese of Lucca.
title: Measurements and simulations of microscopic damage to DNA in water by 30 keV electrons
title: A general approach applicable to other radiation sources and biological targets
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hahn, Marc Benjamin
name: Meyer, Susann
name: Kunte, Hans-Jörg
name: Solmun, Tihomir
name: Sturm, Heinz
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Radiation
subject: DNA
subject: Dosimetry
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie

description: The determination of the microscopic dose-damage relationship for DNA in an aqueous environment is of a fundamental interest for dosimetry and applications in radiation therapy and protection. We combine geant4 particle- scattering simulations in water with calculations concerning the movement of biomolecules to obtain the energy deposit in the biologically relevant nanoscopic volume. We juxtaposition these results to the experimentally determined damage to obtain the dose-damage relationship at a molecular level. This approach is tested for an experimentally challenging system concerning the direct irradiation of plasmid DNA (pUC19) in water with electrons as primary particles. Here a microscopic target model for the plasmid DNA based on the relation of lineal energy and radiation quality is used to calculate the effective target volume. It was found that on average fewer than two ionizations within a 7.5-nm radius around the sugar-phosphate backbone are sufficient to cause a single strand break, with a corresponding median lethal energy deposit being E1/2=6±4 eV. The presented method is applicable for ionizing radiation (e.g., γ rays, x rays, and electrons) and a variety of targets, such as DNA, proteins, or cells.