cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Does the transmission of monetary policy change when interest rates are low or negative? We shed light on this question by analyzing the international bank lending channels of monetary policy using regulatory data on banks from four small open economies: Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic and Norway.
Creators: name: Cao, Jin
name: Dinger, Valeriya
name: Gómez, Tomás
name: Gric, Zuzana
name: Hodula, Martin
name: Jara, Alejandro
name: Juelsrud, Ragnar
name: Liaudinskas, Karolis
name: Malovaná, Simona
name: Terajima, Yaz
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2021

description: "Does the transmission of monetary policy change when interest rates are low? If so, how? We shed light on these questions by analyzing the cross-border transmission of monetary policy through bank credit channels. Specifically, we ask the following question: how do low and negative policy interest rates in core world economies affect bank lending in four small open economies—specifically, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic and Norway?
We find that when interest rates are high, tightening of monetary policy in core economies can reduce credit supply in small open economies. In contrast, when interest rates in core economies are low, further expansionary monetary policy increases lending in small open economies, consistent with an international bank lending channel.
These results suggest that central banks in small open economies should consider the interest rates of core world economies, especially when those rates shift toward and away from the low end of the distribution."

description: "Est-ce que la transmission de la politique monétaire change quand les taux d’intérêt sont bas? Si c’est le cas, comment change-t-elle? Nous faisons la lumière sur ces questions en analysant la transmission transfrontalière de la politique monétaire par les canaux du crédit bancaire. Plus précisément, nous nous posons la question suivante : quelle est l’incidence des taux directeurs bas et négatifs affichés dans de grandes économies mondiales sur les prêts bancaires consentis dans quatre petites économies ouvertes, soit le Canada, le Chili, la République tchèque et la Norvège?

Nous constatons que quand les taux d’intérêt sont élevés, le resserrement de la politique monétaire dans les grandes économies peut réduire l’offre de crédit dans les petites économies ouvertes. À l’inverse, lorsque les taux d’intérêt sont bas dans les grandes économies, une politique monétaire encore plus expansionniste accroît l’offre de crédit dans les petites économies ouvertes, ce qui concorde avec un canal du crédit bancaire international.

Ces résultats donnent à penser que les banques centrales des petites économies ouvertes devraient prendre en considération les taux d’intérêt des grandes économies mondiales, surtout quand ces taux se rapprochent et s’éloignent de la limite inférieure de la distribution."
Chemically enhanced primary treatment, microsieving, direct membrane filtration and GAC filtration of municipal wastewater: a pilot-scale study
Creators: name: Gidstedt, Simon
name: Betsholtz, Alexander
name: Cimbritz, Michael
name: Davidsson, Åsa
name: Hagman, Marinette
name: Karlsson, Stina
name: Takman, Maria
name: Svahn, Ola
name: Micolucci, Federico
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Chemically enhanced primary treatment (CEPT) followed by microsieving and direct membrane filtration (DMF) as ultrafiltration, was evaluated on pilot scale at a municipal wastewater treatment plant. In addition, a granular activated carbon (GAC) filter downstream of DMF was evaluated for the removal of organic micropollutants. Up to 80% of the total organic carbon (TOC) and 96% of the total phosphorus were removed by CEPT with microsieving. The additional contribution of subsequent DMF was minor, and only five days of downstream GAC filtration was possible due to fouling of the membrane. Of the 21 organic micropollutants analysed, all were removed (≥ 98%) by the GAC filter until 440 bed volumes, while CEPT with microsieving and DMF removed only a few compounds. Measurements of the oxygen uptake rate indicated that the required aeration for supplementary biological treatment downstream of CEPT with microsieving, both with and without subsequent DMF, was 20−25% of that in the influent wastewater. This study demonstrated the potential of using compact physicochemical processes to treat municipal wastewater, including the removal of organic micropollutants.
Comparing Coefficients of Nonlinear Multivariate Regression Models Between Equations
Creators: name: Kern, Christoph
name: Stein, Petra
Publisher: name: European Survey Research Association
Year: 2015
Subjects: non-linear constraints; structural equation modeling; effect comparison

description: The present study discusses the usage of non-linear constraints in regression models with multiple categorical outcomes. With this approach, effect differences between equations are made accessible to statistical tests while potential differences in residual variation are explicitly taken into account. In this context, it can be shown that the techniques reviewed by Williams (2010) are conjointly equivalent to the specification of non-linear constraints in multivariate regression models. However, the application of non-linear constraints extends these approaches into a structural equation modeling framework, which allows the researcher to address a broader range of research questions.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 9, No 3 (2015)
Assessment of utilization potential of biomass volatiles and biochar as a reducing agent for iron ore pellets
Creators: name: Das, Dipika
name: Anand, Amrit
name: Gautam, Shalini
name: Rajak, Vinay Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: India is an agricultural country and near about 500 MT of agricultural wastes are generated each year. India has huge reserves of low-grade iron ore fines. Therefore, considering the availability of these two, the present study mainly focuses on utilization of solid waste in iron and steel industry; also, biomass being carbon-neutral fuel, promotes mitigation of environmental issues. To carry out this study, agricultural wastes like groundnut shell and corn cob which contain more than 70% of volatile matter were considered. Hence, an attempt has been taken to utilize this volatiles as well as char (prepared at 350°C) of corn cob and groundnut shell as a reducing agent for reduction of iron ore pellets. Maximum reduction percentage was achieved at 1000°C and 75 min using corn cob as a reductant, i.e. 78.38% with its volatile and 92.01% using its char. Higher intensity of elemental iron is also reflected by X-ray Diffraction analysis of reduced pellets. Further, cost estimation of reduction of iron ore pellets was also done using both the reducing agents, which signifies that the reduction process using biomass volatiles is much more economical than biochar. The total cost of producing DRI from corn cob volatiles is 56% less than coal followed by groundnut shell volatiles 53.36% and minimum in the case of groundnut shell char 36.17%. HighlightsEffects of biomass volatiles and char on iron ore pellets reduction @ 1000°C at different time interval of 15, 30, 45, 60 & 75 min.Comparative assessment of iron ore pellets reduction through XRD and FESEM analysis.Economic evaluation of iron ore reduction using volatiles and char of biomass. Effects of biomass volatiles and char on iron ore pellets reduction @ 1000°C at different time interval of 15, 30, 45, 60 & 75 min. Comparative assessment of iron ore pellets reduction through XRD and FESEM analysis. Economic evaluation of iron ore reduction using volatiles and char of biomass.
Maintaining Quality
Creators: name: Kohler, Ulrich
Publisher: name: European Survey Research Association
Year: 2015
Subjects: Editorial policies; non-probability samples; experiments; TOP-Guidelines

description: Survey Research Methods has slightly revised its publication policies. Firstly, starting with the publication of this Editorial, SRM will accept -- under specified conditions -- manuscripts that discuss experiments in non-probability samples for peer-review. Secondly, SRM will require authors to publish replication materials of their study as Online supplement to their article. Finally, Survey Research Methods will publish replication studies of articles published in the journal. This Editorial gives reasons for these changes.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 9, No 3 (2015)
Macgrathphora pacifica Brown 2022, new species
Creators: name: Brown, Brian V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Phoridae
Macgrathphora
Macgrathphora pacifica

description: Macgrathphora pacifica new species (Figs. 3, 9, 13) HOLOTYPE. ♂. COSTA RICA: Puntarenas: 3km SW Rincon, 8.68°N, 83.48°W, 10m, ♂, vii–ix, 1990, P.Hanson, Malaise trap [LACMN ENT 043400] (MUCR). PARATYPES. 1♂, same data as holotype. 3♂, 5km SW Rincon, 8.70°N, 83.51°W, 40m, B. V. Brown, V. Berezovskiy, Malaise trap (LACM). ECUADOR: Pichincha: 17 km E Santo Domingo, above Tinalandia, 1150m, 2♂, 9–13.v.1987, B.Brown, L.Coote, montane forest (LACM). Diagnosis. The wing venation of this species differs from that of the otherwise similar M. caribbea in that costal sector 1 is much longer than sector 2, and Rs is less swollen and not increasing in size distally. Otherwise, the two species are extremely similar. The female is unknown. No sequence information is available for this species. Distribution. This species is known from the Pacific lowlands of the base of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, and from a mid-elevation forest in Ecuador. Etymology. The species name pacifica refers to the Pacific Ocean coast of Costa Rica, where most specimens have been collected.
description: Published as part of Brown, Brian V., 2022, Two new genera of phorid flies, Macgrathphora and Aurisetiphora, from Costa Rica (Diptera: Phoridae), with recommendations for naming new genera in the family, pp. 571-581 in Zootaxa 5115 (4) on page 578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/6361679
Improved xylitol production by the novel inhibitor-tolerant yeast Candida tropicalis K2
Creators: name: Singh, Anup Kumar
name: Pandey, Ajay Kumar
name: Kumar, Mohit
name: Paul, Tanushree
name: Gaur, Naseem A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Production of potential value-added products from different lignocellulosic biomass is becoming more common due to the availability of the feedstocks in abundance and the environment- friendly nature of the microbial production process. Due to the large array of its applications in the pharmaceutical and food sectors, xylitol is considered as potential value-added compound for production. In this study, organic waste samples were collected from various habitats and screened for potential yeast isolates for xylitol production. Among 124 tested isolates, Candida tropicalis K2 showed the highest potential for xylitol production as well as inhibitors tolerance (Furfural, 5-hydroxymethyl furfural and acetic acid) phenotypes. C. tropicalis K2 produced 90 g/L of xylitol in batch fermentation (100 g/L xylose supplemented with 20 g/L of glycerol as co-substrate) with the yield and productivity of 0.90 g/g and 1.5 g/L.h, respectively, at pH 5.5 and 30°C temperature. Together, >10% higher xylitol yield was achieved when glycerol was used as a co-substrate with pure xylose. Moreover, with non-detoxified corncob and Albizia pod hydrolysates, C. tropicalis K2 isolate produced 0.62 and 0.69 g/g of xylitol yields and 1.04 and 0.75 g/L.h xylitol productivities, respectively. Thus, C. tropicalis K2 isolate could be considered as promising candidate for xylitol production from different lignocellulosic biomass. HIGHLIGHTSCandia tropicalis K2 isolate was screened from natural sites of biomass degradation and characterized for xylitol production.Non-detoxified Albizia pod and corncob hydrolysates were explored for xylitol production using selected C. tropicalis K2 isolate.A maximum of 0.90 g/g yield and 1.07 g/L.h xylitol productivity was achieved with pure xylose.A >10% increase in xylitol yield was achieved using glycerol as a co-substrate. Candia tropicalis K2 isolate was screened from natural sites of biomass degradation and characterized for xylitol production. Non-detoxified Albizia pod and corncob hydrolysates were explored for xylitol production using selected C. tropicalis K2 isolate. A maximum of 0.90 g/g yield and 1.07 g/L.h xylitol productivity was achieved with pure xylose. A >10% increase in xylitol yield was achieved using glycerol as a co-substrate.
Stable Relationships, Stable Participation? The Effects of Partnership Dissolution and Changes in Relationship Stability on Attrition in a Relationship and Family Panel
Creators: name: Müller, Bettina
name: Castiglioni, Laura
Publisher: name: European Survey Research Association
Year: 2015
Subjects: Panel studies; attrition; nonresponse; life events

description: Underrepresentation of life changes is an important issue for panel studies, which are designed to describe such changes. Little is known, however, about the impact of changes that are related to the survey topic. This paper examines the effects of partnership dissolution and changes in subjective relationship stability on participation in a panel with a focus on relationship and family. We consider both living apart together (LAT) and cohabiting relationships. Using 2008-2014 data from the German Family Panel pairfam (panel analysis of intimate relationships and family dynamics), our analyses support previous findings. Reported separation negatively affects the next wave’s participation probability. Effects can be found at the contact as well as cooperation stage of the response process, whereas cooperation only appears to be affected among respondents in LAT relationships. Changes in subjective relationship instability are not strongly associated with participation in the pairfam study.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 9, No 3 (2015)
Protein binding and antioxidant studies of diimine based emissive surfactant–ruthenium(II) complexes
Creators: name: S. Nehru
name: S. Veeralakshmi
name: S. Kalaiselvam
name: S. P. Subin David
name: J. Sandhya
name: S. Arunachalam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Biophysical interaction of amphiphilic fluorescent surfactant–ruthenium(II) complexes and its precursor ruthenium(II) complexes with drug carrying proteins such as bovine and human serum albumins (BSA and HSA) have been studied through the UV-visible absorption, fluorescence and circular dichroism spectroscopic techniques to correlate the impact of head and tail groups of the metallosurfactants towards the designing of metallodrugs for the biomedical applications. The obtained results showed that both precursor– and surfactant–ruthenium(II) complexes interact with BSA/HSA via ground state protein–complex formation and their quenching follows the static mechanism. The extent of protein quenching and binding parameters resulted that the surfactant–ruthenium(II) complexes effectively interact with protein compared to their precursor–ruthenium(II) complexes, and also those interaction have greatly influenced by the change in the head group size compared to change in the tail group length. Interestingly on increasing the temperature, the protein–complex binding strength was decreased for the precursor–ruthenium(II) complexes, those increased for the surfactant–ruthenium(II) complexes, probably due to the respective involvement of electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions as supported by the thermodynamics of protein–complex interaction. Moreover, the results from UV–visible, synchronous and circular dichroism studies confirmed the occurrence of conformational and micro environmental changes in BSA/HSA upon binding with these complexes. It is also noted that HSA has more binding affinity with surfactant–ruthenium(II) complexes compared to BSA. The free radical scavenging ability against DPPH, ABTS, NO and superoxide free radical assays suggested that surfactant–ruthenium(II) complexes have better free radical scavenging ability compared to precursor–ruthenium(II) complexes.
Charge-induced effects on the structure and properties of silane and disilane derivatives
Creators: name: Balamurugan, D.
name: Prasad, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using ab-initio electronic structure methods we have investigated the ground state structures and properties of neutral and charged SiH$_{m}$(m=1-4) and Si$_{2}$H$_{n}$(n=1-6) clusters which are produced in the plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition process used in the preparation of hydrogenated amorphous silicon({\it{a}}-Si:H). Our results show that charging a neutral cluster distorts it and the distortion mainly occurs through the orientation of Si-H bond. We attribute structural changes in the charged clusters to electrostatic repulsion between the bonded and non-bonded electrons. We find that in addition to the usual Si-H bond, hydrogen atoms form Si-H-H and Si-H-Si bonds in some clusters. The vibrations of Si-H, Si-Si, Si-H-Si bond stretching modes show that the frequencies are shifted significantly upon charging. The frequency shifts in the charged clusters are consistent with their bond length variations. We discuss the fragmentation pathways of silane into binary products and the role of fragmented silane radicals in the cluster formation and {\it{a}}-Si:H film deposition process.
description: To Appear in Phys. Rev. B
Glucose driven self-sustained electro-Fenton platform for remediation of 2,4 –dichlorophenoxy herbicide contaminated water
Creators: name: Aravind, Priyadharshini
name: Vasudevan, Subramanyan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: As electrochemical oxidation technologies are energy-intensive, they are sparsely included in wastewater treatment plants. This study demonstrates a self-reliable glucose driven -electro-Fenton (GD-EF) system for decontamination of 2,4-dichlorophenoxy (2,4-D) herbicides without the supply of external current or voltage. It incorporates a cathode (graphite) which accepts electrons from abiotic glucose oxidation at anode (Pt/Ti or BDD or PbO2/Cu/Ti) and generates in situ H2O2. For the first time, the ability of Pt/Ti, BDD, and PbO2/Cu/Ti anodes in GD-EF and their influence on 2,4-D decontamination rate have been studied. Pt/Ti and PbO2/Cu/Ti exhibited maximum power densities of 60.42 µW cm-2 and 219.3 µW cm-2, respectively than BDD (2.418 µW cm-2­). Even though Pt/Ti fuel cell exhibited lower power density than the PbO2/Cu/Ti- fuel cell, it had a faster 2,4-D degradation rate of k = 18 x10−3 s-1. The generated cathodic potential of -0.275 mV vs. Ag/AgCl in the Pt/Ti-fuel cell was sufficient to produce 23 mg L-1h-1 of H2O2. The high performance liquid chromatography analysis reveals the complete transformation of 2,4-D in 540 min and its degradation by 95% in 1080 min. This finding paves the way for greener decontamination of bio-recalcitrant herbicides with zero electrochemical energy consumption.
$\mathcal{N}$-field cosmology in hyperbolic field space: stability and general solutions
Creators: name: Christodoulidis, Perseas
name: Paliathanasis, Andronikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of a cosmological model with a perfect fluid and $\mathcal{N}$ fields on a hyperbolic field space interacting via a symmetric potential. We list all late-time solutions, investigate their stability and briefly discuss predictions of the theory. Moreover, for the case of two scalar fields and an exponential potential we prove that the field equations are Liouville integrable and we provide for the first time the general solution for a region of the parameter space.
description: v2: refs added and small rearrangements to match published version; v1: 14 pages, 7 figures
2. Begegnung zwischen Theologen der EKD und der Orientalisch-Orthodoxen Kirchen
Creators: name: Lesinski, Markus
name: Künkel, Christoph
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 38 Nr. 3 (1989): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 38, Heft 3
Snmp for mobile computing
Creators: name: Yin, Qing Vincent
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Mobile computing is a popular subject in today's research. For a mobile environment to have industrial strength, it is essential that the system can be managed remotely in a standard way. The standard for today's network management is the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP.) In this thesis, we implement SNMP for two mobile environments: the traditional Mobile IP at the network/transport layer, and the Universal Personal Computing (UPC) at the session layer. We discuss the different approaches of implementation. UPC is a new concept of mobile computing developed by the IWLN project at UBC. We also implement the User Home Agent (UHA) which is the server in the UPC architecture. We also examine a new method of bridging between SNMP and CORBA, and we implement a prototype of an agent-side SNMP/CORBA gateway. The implementation on SNMP over CORBA is new in the academic community. Ideas for future research are also presented, including the implementation of a CORBA/SNMP gateway.
Giving a Feast
Creators: name: Ochurte, Rufino
name: Mixco, Mauricio J.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: klb

description: See Kiliwa Texts: "When I have Donned My Crest of Stars" (University of Utah Press, 1983), p. 137 for transcription, segmentation, glossing, and translation of this story.
Collective behavior in the kinetics and equilibrium of solid-state photoreaction
Creators: name: Bai, Ruobing
name: Teh, Ying Shi
name: Bhattacharya, Kaushik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is current interest in developing photoactive materials that deform on illumination and can thus be used for photomechanical actuation. This is attractive since it can be affected at a distance, different frequencies can be used to actuate different modes and to sense, and corrosion-free lightweight fiber optic cables can deliver significant power over long distances. The strategy for developing new photomechanical materials is to first develop photoactive molecules in solution, and then to incorporate these in the solid-state either by crystallization or by inserting them into polymers. This letter shows that the kinetics and the nature of the photo-induced phase transitions are profoundly different in single molecules (solution) and in the solid state using a lattice spin model. In solution, where the molecules act independently, the photoreaction follows first-order kinetics. However, in the solid state where the photoactive molecules interact with each other and therefore behave collectively during reaction, photoreactions follow the sigmoidal kinetics of nucleation and growth as in a first-order phase transition. Further, we find that the exact nature of the photo-induced strain has a critical effect on the kinetics, equilibrium, and microstructure formation. These predictions agree qualitatively with experimental observations, and provide insights for the development of new photoactive materials.
description: Accepted manuscript by Extreme Mechanics Letters
Homology modeling, structural insights and in-silico screening for selective inhibitors of mycobacterial CysE
Creators: name: Gupta, Sunita
name: Gupta, Vibha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Tuberculosis posses a major threat for health practitioners due to lengthy treatment regimen, increase in the drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) and unavailability of drugs for its persistent form. Therefore, there is an urgent need for discovery of new and improved anti-tubercular drugs. In M. tb, the two step de novo biosynthesis of L-cysteine, an essential metabolic pathway is reported to be up-regulated in the persistent phase of the organism, involves two enzymes CysE and CysK. Although, structural insights for rational drug discovery are available for the later, not much information is known for the former. This study proposes a 3-dimensional model of M. tb CysE followed by in-silico screening of 67,030 anti-tuberculosis bioactive compounds. Subsequently, post-processing of 1000 best hits was carried out and top 200 compounds thus obtained were docked into the active site cleft of E. coli homologue as a control, but revealed unexpected results. Differences in the active site architectures and comparative analysis of molecular electrostatic potentials between the two CysEs provide molecular basis for the compounds C1, C3, C4 and C7 exhibiting preferential binding for M. tb CysE. In addition, shorter N-terminus along with positive and irregular trimeric base of M. tb CysE indicates its biological assembly as trimer. Based on mapping of residues involved in cysteine sensitivity on to the model structure of M. tb CysE, it is hypothesized that feedback inhibition of this homologue by cysteine may be affected. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Discovery of potential inhibitors for phosphodiesterase 5A, sodium-potassium pump and beta-adrenergic receptor from Terminalia arjuna: in silico approach
Creators: name: Dinanath T. Gaikwad
name: Namdeo R. Jadhav
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The aim of this work was to perform in silico analysis of selected biomolecules from Terminalia arjuna (T. arjuna) by using virtual screening, molecular docking and pharmacophore modeling. Reported 30 biomolecules of T. arjuna were used as ligands. Grip-based docking was carried out to produce the target-specific complex model using vLife MDS 4.4 software. Docked conformations of the selected T. arjuna biomolecules resulted in eight potential biomolecules namely Casuarinin, Luteolin, Pelargonidin, Arjunin, Castalagin, Punicalagin, Kaempferol and Quercetin with major interactions and exhibited good affinity to the residues of protein targets. Developed pharmacophore models have suggested minimum pharmacophoric features required in the biomolecule so as to show standard like activity. Interestingly, Casuarinin showed multiple inhibitions on phosphodiesterase 5A and sodium-potassium pump whereas Pelargonidin on phosphodiesterase 5A and beta-adrenergic protein targets. Conclusively, this study provides a suitable platform for discovery of novel inhibitors from natural source for heart disorders. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Optically Driven Gold Nanoparticles Seed Surface Bubble Nucleation in Plasmonic Suspension
Creators: name: Zhang, Qiushi
name: Li, Ruiyang
name: Lee, Eungkyu
name: Luo, Tengfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photothermal surface bubbles play important roles in a wide range of applications like catalysis, microfluidics and biosensing, but their formation on a transparent substrate immersed in a plasmonic nanoparticle (NP) suspension has an unknown origin. Here, we show that NPs deposited on the substrate by dispersive optical forces are responsible for the nucleation of such photothermal surface bubbles. High-speed videography shows that the surface bubble formation is always preceded by the optically driven NPs moving toward and adhering to the surface. We observe that the thresholds of laser power density to form a surface bubble drastically differ depending on if the surface is forward- or backward-facing the light propagation direction, which cannot be explained by a purely thermal process (e.g., volumetric heating by plasmonic NPs). This can be attributed to different optical power densities needed to enable optical pulling and pushing of NPs in the suspension. Optical pulling requires higher light intensity to excite supercavitation around NPs to enable proper optical configuration. Eventually, these optically deposited NPs work as a surface photothermal heater, seeding the surface bubble nucleation. We also find that there is a critical number density of deposited NPs to nucleate a surface bubble at a given laser power density, and it is nearly the same for both the forward- and the backward-facing surfaces. Our finding reveals interesting physics leading to photothermal surface bubble generation in plasmonic NP suspensions.
Sharing the Hunt
Creators: name: Ochurte, Rufino
name: Mixco, Mauricio J.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: klb

description: See Kiliwa Texts: "When I have Donned My Crest of Stars" (University of Utah Press, 1983), p. 159 for transcription, segmentation, glossing, and translation of this story.
The Problem with Grover-Rudolph State Preparation for Quantum Monte-Carlo
Creators: name: Herbert, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that there is no quantum speed-up when using quantum Monte-Carlo to estimate the mean (and other moments) of analytically-defined log-concave probability distributions prepared as quantum states using the Grover-Rudolph method.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. Revision to include appendix on multivariate case
Evaluation of dual-process approach for in-situ groundwater arsenic removal
Creators: name: Wang, Sheng-Wei
name: Pan, Shu-Yuan
name: Kao, Yu-Hsuan
name: Kim, Hyunook
name: Fan, Chihhao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: While the worldwide distribution of geogenic arsenic (As)-affected groundwater is highly overlapped with the areas with abundant groundwater, utilization of As-contained groundwater is an inevitable compromise in those areas where surface water is not enough for irrigation. Since the occurrence of As in groundwater is often accompanied by high iron (Fe) contents, the facilitation of As and Fe precipitation without adding additional oxidizers and adsorbents is considered an environmental-friendly approach to remove As in groundwater. In the present study, the oxidation/filtration dual-process with sprinkling height of 25 cm and 120 kg filter media efficiently increased the dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration (0.36–1.52 mg/L) and oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) (24–63 mV), which facilitated the formation of Fe oxides and As co-precipitation. The correlation of As removal efficiencies with their respective flow rates indicated that a decrease in groundwater Fe and an increase of Fe in sands and gravels filters as the flow rate increased evidenced the rapid oxidation of Fe to form the Fe hydroxides. In a 40-hour continuous aeration/filtration operation, As and Fe concentrations in groundwater were apparently reduced by 79.5% and 64.88% within the 40 hours, respectively. The ease in filter replacement and cost-effectiveness in operation can be the major attractions and innovation for future field practices.
SU(2)-invariant spin-1/2 Hamiltonians with RVB and other valence bond phases
Creators: name: Raman, K. S.
name: Moessner, R.
name: Sondhi, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a family of rotationally invariant, local, S=1/2 Klein Hamiltonians on various lattices that exhibit ground state manifolds spanned by nearest-neighbor valence bond states. We show that with selected perturbations such models can be driven into phases modeled by well understood quantum dimer models on the corresponding lattices. Specifically, we show that the perturbation procedure is arbitrarily well controlled by a new parameter which is the extent of decoration of the reference lattice. This strategy leads to Hamiltonians that exhibit i) $Z_2$ RVB phases in two dimensions, ii) U(1) RVB phases with a gapless ``photon'' in three dimensions, and iii) a Cantor deconfined region in two dimensions. We also construct two models on the pyrochlore lattice, one model exhibiting a $Z_2$ RVB phase and the other a U(1) RVB phase.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures; 1 figure and some references added; some minor typos fixed
Bootstrapping ADE M-strings
Creators: name: Duan, Zhihao
name: Nahmgoong, June
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study elliptic genera of ADE-type M-strings in 6d (2,0) SCFTs from their modularity and explore the relation to topological string partition functions. We find a novel kinematical constraint that elliptic genera should follow, which determines elliptic genera at low base degrees and helps us to conjecture a vanishing bound for the refined Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of related geometries. Using this, we can bootstrap the elliptic genera to arbitrary base degree, including D/E-type theories for which explicit formulas are only partially known. We utilize our results to obtain the 6d Cardy formulas and the superconformal indices for (2,0) theories.
description: 44 pages, 1 figure
Chemically enhanced primary treatment, microsieving, direct membrane filtration and GAC filtration of municipal wastewater: a pilot-scale study
Creators: name: Gidstedt, Simon
name: Betsholtz, Alexander
name: Cimbritz, Michael
name: Davidsson, Åsa
name: Hagman, Marinette
name: Karlsson, Stina
name: Takman, Maria
name: Svahn, Ola
name: Micolucci, Federico
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Chemically enhanced primary treatment (CEPT) followed by microsieving and direct membrane filtration (DMF) as ultrafiltration, was evaluated on pilot scale at a municipal wastewater treatment plant. In addition, a granular activated carbon (GAC) filter downstream of DMF was evaluated for the removal of organic micropollutants. Up to 80% of the total organic carbon (TOC) and 96% of the total phosphorus were removed by CEPT with microsieving. The additional contribution of subsequent DMF was minor, and only short-term operation of downstream GAC filtration was possible due to fouling of the membrane. Of the 21 organic micropollutants analysed, all were removed (≥ 98%) by the GAC filter until 440 bed volumes, while CEPT with microsieving and DMF removed only a few compounds. Measurements of the oxygen uptake rate indicated that the required aeration for supplementary biological treatment downstream of CEPT with microsieving, both with and without subsequent DMF, was 20−25% of that in the influent wastewater. This study demonstrated the potential of using compact physicochemical processes to treat municipal wastewater, including the removal of organic micropollutants.
Inklusion mit Hilfe digitaler Medien – Die Märchenapp StoryToys‘ Schneewittchen und ihr Potenzial zur Leseförderung in heterogenen Lerngruppen
Creators: name: Sahin, Berna
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Universal Design
subject: Inklusion
subject: Digitale Medien
subject: Leseförderung
subject: 430
subject: Leseförderung
subject: Neue Medien
subject: Inklusive Pädagogik

description: DoLiMette;9. Jg. 2021, Heft 1
Modulation of a Chirp Gravitational Wave from a Compact Binary due to Gravitational Lensing
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A possible wave effect in the gravitational lensing phenomenon is discussed. We consider the interference of two coherent gravitational waves of slightly different frequencies from a compact binary, due to the gravitational lensing by a galaxy halo. This system shows the modulation of the wave amplitude. The lensing probability of such the phenomenon is of order 10^{-5} for a high-z source, but it may be advantageous to the observation due to the magnification of the amplitude.
description: 3 pages, PRD in press
title: "It Isn't Hate to Speak the Truth": Anti-(Trans)Gender Politics in the UK and the Development of the 'Gender Critical' Feminist Movement
title: a critical look into the colonial remnants of gender discourse
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Simon, Braedyn Ezra
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Feminism
subject: Transgender
subject: Politics
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: The UK is currently experiencing a backlash against transgender rights coming from a group of people calling themselves gender critical feminists, who debate the existence of transgender people and what political and social rights they should be afforded. Little is known outside of transgender activist circles and scholarship about the impact this movement is having on trans(gender) politics and transgender lives, and so this thesis project hopes to bring greater awareness to the subject within studies of European societies in sociology. Through an extensive literature review of scholarship on the discursive battles in feminism over the concepts of gender and sex, and transgender people’s place within the greater feminist movement, I discuss the implications of the gender critical feminist movement on transgender lives and rights. Despite great work by these scholars, no effort has been made to understand the importance of colonialism in maintaining domination of sex, gender, and intersubjectivity. Using a feminist critical discourse analysis methodology, I analyze 16 different texts from prominent gender critical voices in the UK to examine the question: how is our view of trans(gender) politics and people shaped by gender critical feminist discourse? In order to more completely understand the systems of oppression that construct our gendered reality in the Western world and how they shape transgender experiences and how we understand them, I take a decolonial feminist approach to discussing the results by examining them through the coloniality of gender. This framework provides me with a way to unpack the constructed realities of transgender people in order to think critically about the origins of gender politics in the UK to reveal a legacy of colonialism which is present in the gender critical feminist discourse. The results demonstrate how transgender politics and lives are constructed by a Eurocentric hegemonic gender order where boundary-making around essentialist notions of womanhood promote coercive, violent colonial constructs of gender and sex.
Supermagnonic propagation in two-dimensional antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Fabiani, G.
name: Bouman, M. D.
name: Mentink, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the propagation of magnons after ultrashort perturbations of the exchange interaction in the prototype two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Using the recently proposed neural quantum states, we predict highly anisotropic spreading in space constrained by the symmetry of the perturbation. Interestingly, the propagation speed at the shortest length and time scale is up to 40% higher than the highest magnon velocity. We argue that the enhancement stems from extraordinary strong magnon-magnon interactions, suggesting new avenues for manipulating information transfer on ultrashort length and time scales.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures and supplemental materials. Updates: abstract, introduction, Fig. 3 and discussion about Fig. 3, Figs. S1-S2. Additional results on entanglement dynamics can be found in arXiv:1912.10845
Improved xylitol production by novel inhibitor tolerant yeast Candida tropicalis K2
Creators: name: Singh, Anup Kumar
name: Pandey, Ajay Kumar
name: Kumar, Mohit
name: Paul, Tanushree
name: Gaur, Naseem A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Production of potential value-added products from different lignocellulosic biomass is becoming more common due to the availability of the feedstocks in abundance and environmental friendly nature of the microbial production process. Due to large array of its applications in pharmaceutical and food sectors, xylitol is considered as potential value-added compound for production. In this study, organic waste samples were collected from various habitats and screened for potential yeast isolates for xylitol production. Among 124 tested isolates, Candida tropicalis K2 showed the highest potential for xylitol production as well as inhibitors tolerance (Furfural, 5-hydroxymethyl furfural and acetic acid) phenotypes. C. tropicalis K2 produced 90 g/L of xylitol in a batch fermentation (100 g/L xylose supplemented with 20 g/L of glycerol as co-substrate) with the yield and productivity of 0.90 g/g and 1.5 g/L.h respectively, at pH 5.5 and 30°C temperature. Together, >10% higher xylitol yield was achieved when glycerol was used as co-substrate with pure xylose. Moreover, with non-detoxified corncob and Albizia pod hydrolysates, C. tropicalis K2 isolate produced 0.62 g/g and 0.69 g/g of xylitol yields and 1.04 g/L.h and 0.75 g/L.h xylitol productivities, respectively. Thus, C. tropicalis K2 isolate could be considered as a promising candidate for xylitol production from different lignocellulosic biomass.
Understanding the mechanism of amygdalin’s multifunctional anti-cancer action using computational approach
Creators: name: Khattab Al-Khafaji
name: Tugba Taskin Tok
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Amygdalin possesses anticancer properties and induces apoptosis. Based on experimental studies the presence of amygdalin with cancer cells led to activate the caspase-3 and BAX and inhibits Bcl-2 and Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) but without deep information on action mode of these activities. Herein, we leaped forward to examine the molecular dynamics of the bound amygdalin and free ligand proteins, to identify precise action (conformation changes in targeted proteins) of amygdalin through using double docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for 50 ns time scale. The MD simulations revealed that the binding of amygdalin led to disrupting the interaction between the Bcl-2/BAX complex. We furthermore conducted MD simulation for Bcl-2/amygdalin to investigate the stability of the complex which is responsible for inhibition of Bcl-2. It has been obtained a stable Bcl-2/amygdalin complex during the 50 ns. The results give a detail explanation of how amygdalin activates BAX and inhibits Bcl-2. For caspase-3, the matter is different, we found that amygdalin led to disrupting the interaction of caspase-3’s two chains for intervals during 50 ns and then bind together repeatedly. The mechanism of caspase-3’s activation through switching by disrupt the interacts for periodic intervals manner. For PARP-1, the dynamics simulations results indicated amygdalin interacts with PARP-1’s binding site and forms stable interaction during simulation to render it inactive. Hence, amygdalin revealed a supernatural behavior through the MD simulations: it revealed a further clarification of the mystery amygdalin’s experimental action which can act as a multifunctional drug in the cancer therapeutics. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma