cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A note on tachyon actions in string theory
Creators: name: Headrick, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of spacetime fields in string theory (notably the metric, dilaton, bosonic and type 0 bulk closed-string tachyon, and bosonic open-string tachyon) have the following property: whenever the spacetime field configuration factorizes in an appropriate sense, the matter sector of the world-sheet theory factorizes into a tensor product of two decoupled theories. Since the beta functions for such a product theory necessarily also factorize, this property strongly constrains the form of the spacetime action encoding those beta functions. We show that this constraint alone--without needing actually to compute any of the beta functions--is sufficient to fix the form of the two-derivative action for the metric-dilaton system, as well as the potential for the bosonic open-string tachyon. We also show that no action consistent with this constraint exists for the closed-string tachyon coupled to the metric and dilaton.
description: 17 pages; v2: comments on implications for string field theory added; refs added
Computer simulation, development and evaluation of a high speed spelled speech code
Creators: name: Suen, China Yee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A high speed spelled speech code has been developed for a reading machine for the blind. Keeping within the constraints of high reading speed and high intelligibility, a main contribution of the work has been to minimize the memory size and thus the cost of the digital spelled speech reading machine. In order to reduce the amount of memory required to generate letter sounds of this code, redundant phonemes were eliminated and a selected set of 18 basic phonemes was extracted by a segmentation program. Letter sounds were then synthesized by concatenation of these basic phonemes. Also, vowels and vowel-like sounds have quasi-periodic waveforms. These sounds were reproduced satisfactorily by repeating over and over again a pitch period extracted from the original waveforms. Another reduction of digital memory storage was accomplished by .providing each individual phoneme with a minimum number of bits per sample. The segmentation program developed runs on a PDP-9 digital computer. This program has the functions of acquisition, graphic display, data print-out, auditory presentation, manipulation and extraction of speech samples. Graphic display of the amplitude-time waveforms of various segments of a speech sample provided an accurate and efficient method of extracting the basic phonemes. Six vowels extracted in this way were experimented in a discrimination test. It was found that even when these vowels were only 10 ms. in duration, the subjects could learn to discriminate them. The PDP-9 computer was also used to synthesize the letter sounds and to simulate a spelled speech machine. Experiment with three blind subjects indicated that they could read spelled sentences between 60 and 70 words per minute with high intelligibility after only one hour of contact with this spoiled speech code. A difference coding scheme was used to reduce further the amount of digital memory required to store the basic phonemes. An attempt was also made to find out whether memory storage could be reduced by lowering the sampling rate. This was studied by reducing the bandwidth of the letter sounds in a subjective test using 16 blind students. Also investigated in this experiment were the intelligibility of the letter sounds and the effects of presentation speed and pause between words. Experimental results confirmed that most blind subjects could learn to recognize all 26 synthesized letter sounds after a short period of training, and they could read spelled sentences between 65 and 75 words per minute with an intelligibility score of about 85% correct. Bandwidth reduction reduced the pleasantness and clarity of the letter sounds. It was concluded that for the reduction of memory storage, the difference coding scheme was preferred and the original bandwidth of 6 kHz. should be retained.
Rheosmittia Brundin 1956
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Hudson, Patrick L.
name: Bogan, Daniel L.
name: Hudson, John P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Rheosmittia

description: Rheosmittia Brundin, 1956
Rheosmittia spinicornis (Brundin, 1956) is one of two species known from the Nearctic. We collected pupae from Wasilla and Clear Creek in the Mat-Su Valley in mid-June and several larvae of this species from Steambath Creek south of Nondalton. This is a new faunistic record for Alaska. We collected Rheosmittia larvae from Arctic Coastal Plain streams (AWQMS 2005), the Koyukuk River, and a tributary to the South Fork Koktuli River (Arctos database 2022). We collected larvae of Rheosmittia in many streams in the Southcoastal and Southwestern Alaska, as well as from rivers in the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge. The larvae of this genus are relatively small and typically found in sandy substrates of streams and rivers (Andersen et al. 2013).
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Hudson, Patrick L., Bogan, Daniel L. & Hudson, John P., 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) of Alaska, USA, with descriptions of new species and a checklist, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 5511 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5511.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13848177
Finite type invariants and fatgraphs
Creators: name: Andersen, Jorgen Ellegaard
name: Bene, Alex James
name: Meilhan, Jean-Baptiste
name: Penner, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We define an invariant $\nabla_G(M)$ of pairs M,G, where M is a 3-manifold obtained by surgery on some framed link in the cylinder $S\times I$, S is a connected surface with at least one boundary component, and G is a fatgraph spine of S. In effect, $\nabla_G$ is the composition with the $ι_n$ maps of Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki of the link invariant of Andersen-Mattes-Reshetikhin computed relative to choices determined by the fatgraph G; this provides a basic connection between 2d geometry and 3d quantum topology. For each fixed G, this invariant is shown to be universal for homology cylinders, i.e., $\nabla_G$ establishes an isomorphism from an appropriate vector space $\bar{H}$ of homology cylinders to a certain algebra of Jacobi diagrams. Via composition $\nabla_{G'}\circ\nabla_G^{-1}$ for any pair of fatgraph spines G,G' of S, we derive a representation of the Ptolemy groupoid, i.e., the combinatorial model for the fundamental path groupoid of Teichmuller space, as a group of automorphisms of this algebra. The space $\bar{H}$ comes equipped with a geometrically natural product induced by stacking cylinders on top of one another and furthermore supports related operations which arise by gluing a homology handlebody to one end of a cylinder or to another homology handlebody. We compute how $\nabla_G$ interacts with all three operations explicitly in terms of natural products on Jacobi diagrams and certain diagrammatic constants. Our main result gives an explicit extension of the LMO invariant of 3-manifolds to the Ptolemy groupoid in terms of these operations, and this groupoid extension nearly fits the paradigm of a TQFT. We finally re-derive the Morita-Penner cocycle representing the first Johnson homomorphism using a variant/generalization of $\nabla_G$.
description: 39 pages
ANIMA D2.3 - Recommendations on noise and health
Creators: name: Kranjec, Natalja
name: Benz, Sarah
name: Burtea, Narcisa Elena
name: Hooper, Paul
name: Hudson, Rebecca
name: Jeram, Sonja
name: Kuhlman, Julia
name: Rajé, Fiona
name: Schreckenberg, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: noise, health, WHO report

description: In this report, the ANIMA consortium begins by providing an outline of the context of a review on the relationship between aircraft noise and health. This is followed by a brief discussion of the approach taken, which includes the aim, guiding principles, and methods applied under them. It does so in a systematic, comprehensible, and – as far as possible – replicable way.
Gravitational wave background from neutron star phase transition for a new class of equation of state
Creators: name: de Araujo, J. C. N.
name: Marranghello, G. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generation of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background produced by a population of neutron stars (NSs) which go over a hadron-quark phase transition in its inner shells. We obtain, for example, that the NS phase transition, in cold dark matter scenarios, could generate a stochastic GW background with a maximum amplitude of $h_{\rm BG} \sim 10^{-24}$, in the frequency band $\simeq 20-2000 {\rm Hz}$ for stars forming at redshifts of up to $z\simeq 20.$ We study the possibility of detection of this isotropic GW background by correlating signals of a pair of `advanced' LIGO observatories.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Microscopic evaluation of the pairing gap
Creators: name: Baldo, M.
name: Lombardo, U.
name: Pankratov, S. S.
name: Saperstein, E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the relevant progress that has been made in the last few years on the microscopic theory of the pairing correlation in nuclei and the open problems that still must be solved in order to reach a satisfactory description and understanding of the nuclear pairing. The similarities and differences with the nuclear matter case are emphasized and described by few illustrative examples. The comparison of calculations of different groups on the same set of nuclei show, besides agreements, also discrepancies that remain to be clarified. The role of the many-body correlations, like screening, that go beyond the BCS scheme, is still uncertain and requires further investigation.
description: 21 pages,7 figures; minor modification, accepted for publication in J. Phys. G
q-Deformed Oscillators and D-branes on Conifold
Creators: name: Okuyama, Kazumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the q-deformed oscillator algebra acting on the wavefunctions of non-compact D-branes in the topological string on conifold. We find that the mirror B-model curve of conifold appears from the commutation relation of the q-deformed oscillators.
description: 13 pages, v3: typos corrected
Organic film thickness influence on the bias stress instability in Sexithiophene Field Effect Transistors
Creators: name: Di Girolamo, F. V.
name: Aruta, C.
name: Barra, M.
name: Angelo, P. D
name: Cassinese, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the dynamics of bias stress phenomenon in Sexithiophene (T6) Field Effect Transistors (FETs) has been investigated. T6 FETs have been fabricated by vacuum depositing films with thickness from 10 nm to 130 nm on Si/SiO2 substrates. After the T6 film structural analysis by X-Ray diffraction and the FET electrical investigation focused on carrier mobility evaluation, bias stress instability parameters have been estimated and discussed in the context of existing models. By increasing the film thickness, a clear correlation between the stress parameters and the structural properties of the organic layer has been highlighted. Conversely, the mobility values result almost thickness independent.
On the multistep processes in the nuclei
Creators: name: Nazaruk, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intermediate-state interaction and structure of amplitudes of complicated processes in medium (decays, reactions and the $n\bar{n}$ transitions) are studied. It is proposed to use the branching ratio of channels of free-space hadron-nucleon interaction as a test in the construction and verification of the models. The corresponding formulas for the processes in the medium are obtained. The connection between particle self-energy and amplitudes of subprocesses are analyzed as well.
description: 5 pages
The principal fibration sequence and the second cohomotopy set
Creators: name: Taylor, Laurence R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55R05 (Primary), 55Q55 (Secondary)

description: Let $p:E -> B$ be a principal fibration with classifying map $w:B -> C$. It is well-known that the group $[X,ΩC]$ acts on $[X,E]$ with orbit space the image of $p_#$, where $p_#: [X,E] -> [X,B]$. The isotropy subgroup of the map of $X$ to the base point of $E$ is also well-known to be the image of $[X, ΩB]$. The isotropy subgroups for other maps $e:X -> E$ can definitely change as $e$ does. The set of homotopy classes of lifts of $f$ to the free loop space on $B$ is a group. If $f$ has a lift to $E$, the set $p_#^{-1}(f)$ is identified with the cokernel of a natural homomorphism from this group of lifts to $[X, ΩC]$. As an example, $[X,S^2]$ is enumerated for $X$ a 4-complex.
description: 12 pages
Wings and freedom, spirit and self : how the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki subverts nation branding and soft power
Creators: name: Shadow, S
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: For close to four decades, the work of Hayao Miyazaki has been presented throughout the world as the pinnacle of Japanese cinematic animation. Often referred to by fans as the Walt Disney of the East‚ÄövÑvp, Miyazaki has created films that delight people of all ages. Yet Miyazaki does not see what he does as providing simple entertainment and distractions. Rather, Miyazaki's entire filmography courses with his personal ideologies; from his environmentalism to his anti-extreme capitalism stance, his views of pacifism, his concern with interpersonal connection as well as the ideas of love and justice intrinsic to his view of humanity. His works have also been used by various vested interests ‚Äö- including the Japanese government and corporate-media entities ‚Äö- to push awareness of, and increase desire for, Japanese brands, media (specifically anime), and cultural products. This thesis focuses on a close reading of two of his works, Porco Rosso (1992) and Spirited Away (2001), where the purpose is to examine how these two films demonstrate Miyazaki's subversion of many national branding and soft power programmes. This is further supported by drawing upon the works of academics such as Susan J. Napier, Ayumi Suzuki, Tai Wei Lim, Kevin M. Moist and Michael Bartholow. Within this context, this thesis demonstrates the central motifs and thematic representations which can be seen as subversive or at least challenging to an imposed ideology. The core of Miyazaki's works can be read as setting up subtle critiques of various social and governmental policies and practices over the past few decades. With many of them centring around how Japan should perceive itself, how its people should behave and how they should codify their identities in order to conform to invented norms. This is done through the use of visual and narrative markers as well as through the construction of characters to be reflections of the times in which they were created ‚Äö- specifically the so-called Lost Decade (1991-2002), a period in which a faltering economy pressured the Japanese government to increase their national branding and soft power programmes in order to combat external and internal perceptions of weakness and failure. With Porco Rosso and Spirited Away coming at the beginning and end of that period, these films best demonstrate Miyazaki's subversion of the way Japanese enactors and investors sought to control all discourses surrounding (self and national) branding and soft power.
Improving the domain generalization and robustness of neural networks for medical imaging
Creators: name: Chen, Chen
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Deep neural networks are powerful tools to process medical images, with great potential to accelerate clinical workflows and facilitate large-scale studies. However, in order to achieve satisfactory performance at deployment, these networks generally require massive labeled data collected from various domains (e.g., hospitals, scanners), which is rarely available in practice. The main goal of this work is to improve the domain generalization and robustness of neural networks for medical imaging when labeled data is limited. First, we develop multi-task learning methods to exploit auxiliary data to enhance networks. We first present a multi-task U-net that performs image classification and MR atrial segmentation simultaneously. We then present a shape-aware multi-view autoencoder together with a multi-view U-net, which enables extracting useful shape priors from complementary long-axis views and short-axis views in order to assist the left ventricular myocardium segmentation task on the short-axis MR images. Experimental results show that the proposed networks successfully leverage complementary information from auxiliary tasks to improve model generalization on the main segmentation task. Second, we consider utilizing unlabeled data. We first present an adversarial data augmentation method with bias fields to improve semi-supervised learning for general medical image segmentation tasks. We further explore a more challenging setting where the source and the target images are from different data distributions. We demonstrate that an unsupervised image style transfer method can bridge the domain gap, successfully transferring the knowledge learned from labeled balanced Steady-State Free Precession (bSSFP) images to unlabeled Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) images, achieving state-of-the-art performance on a public multi-sequence cardiac MR segmentation challenge. For scenarios with limited training data from a single domain, we first propose a general training and testing pipeline to improve cardiac image segmentation across various unseen domains. We then present a latent space data augmentation method with a cooperative training framework to further enhance model robustness against unseen domains and imaging artifacts.
The molecular environment of the massive star forming region NGC 2024: Multi CO transition analysis
Creators: name: Emprechtinger, M.
name: Wiedner, M. C.
name: Simon, R.
name: Wieching, G.
name: Volgenau, N. H.
name: Bielau, F.
name: Graf, U. U.
name: Guesten, R.
name: Honingh, C. E.
name: Jacobs, K.
name: Rabanus, D.
name: Stutzki, J.
name: Wyrowski, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 2024, a sites of massive star formation, have complex internal structures caused by cal heating by young stars, outflows, and stellar winds. These complex cloud structures lead to intricate emission line shapes. The goal of this paper is to show that the complex line shapes of 12 CO lines in NGC 2024 can be explained consistently with a model, whose temperature and velocity structure are based on the well-established scenario of a PDR and the Blister model. We present velocity-resolved spectra of seven CO lines ranging from J=3 to J=13, and we combined these data with CO high-frequency data from the ISO satellite. We find that the bulk of the molecular cloud associated with NGC 2024 consists of warm (75 K) and dense (9e5 cm-3) gas. An additional hot (~ 300 K) component, located at the interface of the HII region and the molecular cloud, is needed to explain the emission of the high-J CO lines. Deep absorption notches indicate that very cold material (20 K) exists in front of the warm material, too. A temperature and column density structure consistent with those predicted by PDR models, combined with the velocity structure of a Blister model, appropriately describes the observed emission line profiles of this massive star forming region. This case study of NGC 2024 shows that, with physical insights into these complex regions and careful modeling, multi-line observations of CO can be used to derive detailed physical conditions in massive star forming regions.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted by A&A for publication
Between the lines : the reading and re-imagination of landscape as text
Creators: name: Sutczak, PR
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The project was a site-specific exploration of the Northern Midlands agricultural property of Oakdene, which became a vehicle to investigate hybrid forms of art practice and intersecting narratives relating to landscape. The Midland region of Tasmania is a tapestry of private farmland and Oakdene was selected as having representative qualities of the greater Midlands ecology. Moving between riparian, pastoral and forest spaces across 4000 acres, the project observed human/non-human transformation in a highly contested landscape. Considering the agricultural landscape as text, the project sought to develop suitable methodologies for navigating and responding to continuous change within the boundaries of the property. Through a constant process of revisitation, walking emerged as my primary mode of engagement, and developed into a methodology for experiencing, mapping, recounting, reframing, and retelling the Oakdene landscape(s). I found working across different mediums to be the most appropriate way of negotiating the tensions between natural ecologies and human intervention revealed over time. Through a myriad of on and off-site studio experiments I explored means of landscape representation using photography, sculpture, and video in response to the fluctuating aspects of the site. Oakdene emerged as an example of ecology under strain, containing intersecting narratives that became central to my investigations. The outcome is a series of speculative works generated by a confrontation with the limits of singular approaches to making and landscape representation, arising from an unexpectedly dynamic Midland environment.
Additional file 1 of Diagnostic performance of classification trees and hematological functions in hematologic disorders: an application of multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis
Creators: name: Rahim, Fakher
name: Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
name: Jahangiri, Mina
name: Malehi, Amal Saki
name: Gohari, Kimiya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Discrimination indices for differentiation between iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and β-thalassemia trait (βTT). Table S2. Descriptive statistics of blood parameters of the study groups and normalized importance (%) of hematological parameters based on the CRUISE tree algorithm (SD: standard deviation and IQR: interquartile range). Table S3. Sensitivity (TPR), specificity (TNR), false positive rate (FPR), false negative rate (FNR), positive predictive values (PPV) and negative predictive values (NPV) of each hematological index and classification tree algorithm for differentiation between iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and β-thalassemia trait (βTT) with their 95% confidence interval.
Cosmic shear requirements on the wavelength-dependence of telescope point spread functions
Creators: name: Cypriano, E. S.
name: Amara, A.
name: Voigt, L. M.
name: Bridle, S. L.
name: Abdalla, F. B.
name: Refregier, A.
name: Seiffert, M.
name: Rhodes, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic shear requires high precision measurement of galaxy shapes in the presence of the observational Point Spread Function (PSF) that smears out the image. The PSF must therefore be known for each galaxy to a high accuracy. However, for several reasons, the PSF is usually wavelength dependent, therefore the differences between the spectral energy distribution of the observed objects introduces further complexity. In this paper we investigate the effect of the wavelength-dependence of the PSF, focusing on instruments in which the PSF size is dominated by the diffraction-limit of the telescope and which use broad-band filters for shape measurement. We first calculate biases on cosmological parameter estimation from cosmic shear when the stellar PSF is used uncorrected. Using realistic galaxy and star spectral energy distributions and populations and a simple three-component circular PSF we find that the colour-dependence must be taken into account for the next generation of telescopes. We then consider two different methods for removing the effect (i) the use of stars of the same colour as the galaxies and (ii) estimation of the galaxy spectral energy distribution using multiple colours and using a telescope model for the PSF. We find that both of these methods correct the effect to levels below the tolerances required for per-cent level measurements of dark energy parameters. Comparison of the two methods favours the template-fitting method because its efficiency is less dependent on galaxy redshift than the broad-band colour method and takes full advantage of deeper photometry.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, version accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 2 of Mediterranean diet in axial spondyloarthritis: an observational study in an Italian monocentric cohort
Creators: name: Ometto, Francesca
name: Ortolan, Augusta
name: Farber, Davide
name: Lorenzin, Mariagrazia
name: Dellamaria, Giulia
name: Cozzi, Giacomo
name: Favero, Marta
name: Valentini, Romina
name: Doria, Andrea
name: Ramonda, Roberta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Title: The Italian version of PREDIMED questionnaire. Description: A figure with the version of the questionnaire used in the study.
Free recall: organization and long-term memory
Creators: name: Schwartz, Robert Marc
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Free recall was examined In order to (1) examine the differences between the clustering of items from a list with an a priori structure and the subjective organization from a list of unrelated words and to (2) describe organizational processes in terms of theoretical constructs. Three sections of experiments found: (1) that two manipulations of organization of lists of unrelated words had asymmetric effects on recognition and recall performance; (2) that order of output and recall performance from two lists of unrelated words was predicted by similarity judgments data; and (3) that order of output from two specially-constructed lists was described by a hierarchical arrangement of categories. The data were interpreted as showing three commonalities between the clustering of items from a list with an a priori structure and the subjective organization from a list of unrelated words. These were: (1) asymmetric effects on recognition and recall can be produced by manipulations of both categorized and unrelated lists;(2) order of output can be predicted by similarity judgments data for both categorized and unrelated lists; and (3) free recall performance can be predicted by conformity to category structures for both categorized and unrelated lists. An informal model of free recall was proposed. The model had the following properties which were abstracted from the experiments: (1) the internal structure of organization was described as hierarchical; (2) the processing which results in this structure was based on similarities between items; and (3) the output was described as representing different processes dependent upon whether recall or recognition tests are used.
Additional file 1 of Mediterranean diet in axial spondyloarthritis: an observational study in an Italian monocentric cohort
Creators: name: Ometto, Francesca
name: Ortolan, Augusta
name: Farber, Davide
name: Lorenzin, Mariagrazia
name: Dellamaria, Giulia
name: Cozzi, Giacomo
name: Favero, Marta
name: Valentini, Romina
name: Doria, Andrea
name: Ramonda, Roberta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Title: Dietary recommendations for optimal adherence to the Mediterranean Diet. Description: A table providing recommendations given by the nutritionist to the patients in the study.
Understanding and improving cross-application interaction in desktop computing
Creators: name: Woodruff, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: Cross-application interaction on modern computer operating systems is becoming more prevalent as users begin to work more dynamically and utilise more applications simultaneously to complete a task. Such tasks could consist of writing a research paper, developing software or preparing a presentation. These tasks all require the use of multiple applications to complete. However, the interaction between these applications is still poorly understood. At present the research community does not have an extensive overview of the ways in which users work with multiple applications to complete tasks. Previous research mainly focusses on interaction within windows which lacks the cross-application element. Data flow between applications is also not fully understood. Research into a more conceptual, higher level approach to working, with a view to understanding how interaction and communication between these applications aids users when completing tasks, is required. This work has two main aims: 1) To understand how users utilise the open application set to complete tasks and 2) To improve cross-application interaction for users. Within (1) MultiLog (an extensive logging framework) is presented. The MultiLog system is used to gather data during a 90 day study logging users’ interactions with their PCs. This data is then analysed and presented. Within (2) this thesis uses these results to inform the design of QuickFileAccess which aids users when locating folders by dynamically managing the Windows Quick Access list. The results of the log study enabled previously published results to be updated. New results in the area of data transfer, covered a deep understanding of not only how users employed the Windows clipboard to transfer data between applications, but also how participants utilised the “drag-and-drop” facility for data transfer. Results informed the design and development of the QuickFileAccess tool.
Lessons Learned from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Operations
Creators: name: Kleinman, S. J.
name: Gunn, J. E.
name: Boroski, B.
name: Long, D.
name: Snedden, S.
name: Nitta, A.
name: Krzesiński, J.
name: Harvanek, M.
name: Neilsen, E.
name: Gillespie, B.
name: Barentine, J. C.
name: Uomoto, A.
name: Tucker, D.
name: York, D.
name: Jester, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Astronomy is changing. Large projects, large collaborations, and large budgets are becoming the norm. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is one example of this new astronomy, and in operating the original survey, we put in place and learned many valuable operating principles. Scientists sometimes have the tendency to invent everything themselves but when budgets are large, deadlines are many, and both are tight, learning from others and applying it appropriately can make the difference between success and failure. We offer here our experiences well as our thoughts, opinions, and beliefs on what we learned in operating the SDSS.
description: Conference Proceedings, SPIE 2008
(3e) Sinfonie a plusieurs instruments récitants [G 505] : Œuvre 16.e [No. 3] : [C-Dur]
Creators: name: Boccherini, Luigi
Publisher: name: De la Chevardiere
Year: 1775

description: Vorhandene gedruckte Stimmen: Viol. II, Viola, Violonc. I & II, Fl. I & II, Corno in C I & II. Ausserdem liegen handschriftlich bei: Viol. I & II
description: Lt. Werkverzeichnis von Gérard in Boccherinis eigenhänd. Werkverzeichnis als op. 12 Nr. 3 (1771) geführt und als "concerto a grande orchestra, opera grande" bezeichnet
Approximate Symmetries of Lagrangians for Plane Symmetric Gravitational Wave-Like Spacetimes
Creators: name: Hussain, Ibrar
name: Qadir, Asghar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Lie symmetry methods for differential equations we have investigated the symmetries of a Lagrangian for a plane symmetric static spacetime. Perturbing this Lagrangian we explore its approximate symmetries. It has a non-trivial first-order approximate symmetry.
description: 5 pages
A commutative algebra on degenerate CP^1 and Macdonald polynomials
Creators: name: Feigin, B.
name: Hashizume, K.
name: Hoshino, A.
name: Shiraishi, J.
name: Yanagida, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05; 81R50

description: We introduce a unital associative algebra A over degenerate CP^1. We show that A is a commutative algebra and whose Poincar'e series is given by the number of partitions. Thereby we can regard A as a smooth degeneration limit of the elliptic algebra introduced by one of the authors and Odesskii. Then we study the commutative family of the Macdonald difference operators acting on the space of symmetric functions. A canonical basis is proposed for this family by using A and the Heisenberg representation of the commutative family studied by one of the authors. It is found that the Ding-Iohara algebra provides us with an algebraic framework for the free filed construction. An elliptic deformation of our construction is discussed, showing connections with the Drinfeld quasi-Hopf twisting a la Babelon Bernard Billey, the Ruijsenaars difference operator and the operator M(q,t_1,t_2) of Okounkov-Pandharipande.
description: 43 pages
Additional file 3 of Mediterranean diet in axial spondyloarthritis: an observational study in an Italian monocentric cohort
Creators: name: Ometto, Francesca
name: Ortolan, Augusta
name: Farber, Davide
name: Lorenzin, Mariagrazia
name: Dellamaria, Giulia
name: Cozzi, Giacomo
name: Favero, Marta
name: Valentini, Romina
name: Doria, Andrea
name: Ramonda, Roberta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Title: Cardiovascular risk indices. Description: A table reporting the description and the computation of the cardiovascular indices for risk assessment used in the study.
Multiconfiguration electron density function for the ATSP2K-package
Creators: name: Borgoo, A.
name: Scharf, O.
name: Gaigalas, G.
name: Godefroid, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new ATSP2K module is presented for evaluating the electron density function of any multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock or configuration interaction wave function in the non relativistic or relativistic Breit-Pauli approximation. It is first stressed that the density function is not a priori spherically symmetric in the general open shell case. Ways of building it as a spherical symmetric function are discussed, from which the radial electron density function emerges. This function is written in second quantized coupled tensorial form for exploring the atomic spherical symmetry. The calculation of its expectation value is performed using the angular momentum theory in orbital, spin, and quasispin spaces, adopting a generalized graphical technique. The natural orbitals are evaluated from the diagonalization of the density matrix.
LoCuSS: A Comparison of Cluster Mass Measurements from XMM-Newton and Subaru - Testing Deviation from Hydrostatic Equilibrium and Non-Thermal Pressure Support
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu-Ying
name: Okabe, Nobuhiro
name: Finoguenov, Alexis
name: Smith, Graham P.
name: Piffaretti, Rocco
name: Valdarnini, Riccardo
name: Babul, Arif
name: Evrard, August E.
name: Mazzotta, Pasquale
name: Sanderson, Alastair J. R.
name: Marrone, Daniel P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare X-ray hydrostatic and weak-lensing mass estimates for a sample of 12 clusters that have been observed with both XMM-Newton and Subaru. At an over-density of Δ=500, we obtain 1-M^{X}/M^{WL}=0.01+/-0.07 for the whole sample. We also divided the sample into undisturbed and disturbed sub-samples based on quantitative X-ray morphologies using asymmetry and fluctuation parameters, obtaining 1-M^{X}/M^{WL}=0.09+/-0.06 and -0.06+/-0.12 for the undisturbed and disturbed clusters, respectively. In addition to non-thermal pressure support, there may be a competing effect associated with adiabatic compression and/or shock heating which leads to overestimate of X-ray hydrostatic masses for disturbed clusters, for example, in the famous merging cluster A1914. Despite the modest statistical significance of the mass discrepancy, on average, in the undisturbed clusters, we detect a clear trend of improving agreement between M^{X} and M^{WL} as a function of increasing over-density, M^{X}/M^{WL}=(0.908+/-0.004)+(0.187+/-0.010) \log_{10}(Δ/500). We also examine the gas mass fractions, f_{gas}=M^{gas}/M^{WL}, finding that they are an increasing function of cluster radius, with no dependence on dynamical state, in agreement with predictions from numerical simulations. Overall, our results demonstrate that XMM-Newton and Subaru are a powerful combination for calibrating systematic uncertainties in cluster mass measurements.
description: ApJ (2010), 711, 1033-1043, 5 figures and 6 tables
Intrinsic flavor violation for massive neutrinos
Creators: name: Nishi, C. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that intrinsic neutrino flavor violation invariably occurs when neutrinos are created within the SM augmented by the known massive neutrinos, with mixing and nondegenerate masses. The effects are very small but much greater than the naive estimate $Δm^2/E_ν^2$ or the branching ratio of indirect flavor violating processes such as $μ\to eγ$ within the SM. We specifically calculate the probability (branching ratio) of pion decay processes with flavor violation, such as $π\to μ\barν_e$, showing nonzero results.
description: v3: published version
Topical methotrexate: percutaneous penetration and clinical efficacy
Creators: name: Wallace, Sylvia Mary Gloria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Because of the effectiveness of systemically administered methotrexate (MTX) in psoriasis, topical application of the drug has been suggested as a possible therapeutic regimen for the disease. However, controversy reigns over the clinical efficacy of such topical therapy and little is known of the absorption kinetics of topically applied MTX. In the present work percutaneous penetration of MTX was investigated in vitro and in vivo using hairless mouse and human skin. Clinical efficacy of topically applied and intralesionally injected MTX was tested in psoriatic patients. An unsuccessful attempt was made to isolate and obtain kinetic data for dihydro-folate reductase, the proposed target enzyme for MTX inhibition, in human skin. However, estimates of kinetic parameters for partially purified dihydrofolate reductase from chicken liver acetone powder are reported and are in agreement with literature values. In vivo topically applied MTX was rapidly absorbed through hairless mouse skin but not through the skin of psoriatic patients. In mice, topically applied MTX was detected by fluorometric analysis in the plasma and liver in amounts comparable to those obtained after intraperitoneal administration. Skin levels were also analyzed. Following topical application in psoriatic patients, MTX could be detected in neither plasma nor skin. In vitro, tritiated MTX penetrated through excised samples of hairless mouse and human autopsy skin at comparable rates when analyzed using liquid scintillation counting techniques. Vehicle pH affected steady state penetration rates. As pH of the suspension vehicle was increased from 3.49 to 8.15, and thus ionization of the weakly acidic MTX, steady state penetration rates decreased. Changes in penetration rates were correlated with changes in solubility and octanol-water partition coefficient as determined spectrophotometrically. Increasing the concentration of MTX in cream and suspension vehicles increased the penetration rates but not the concentration of MTX within the skin. Levels of MTX reached in vitro in hairless mouse skin were within the same range as those reached in vivo. In 17 out of 18 psoriatic patients topically applied (0.2% cream or 5 mg MTX deposited on the skin from an alcohol suspension) or intralesionally injected (0.5 mg) MTX was clinically ineffective. Any changes in the treated areas which suggested clinical improvement in the psoriatic lesions were paralleled by similar changes in control areas. Apparently, neither lack of percutaneous penetration nor low serum folate is the determining factor for activity of topical MTX. Evidence suggests that the site of action of MTX in psoriasis involves tissues other than the affected skin.
Probing Yukawian Gravitational Potential by Numerical Simulations. II. Elliptical Galaxies
Creators: name: Brandao, C. S. S.
name: de Araujo, J. C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the Newtonian gravitation is largely used to model with success the structures of the universe, such as galaxies and clusters of galaxies, for example, a way to probe and constrain alternative theories, in the weak field limit, is to apply them to model the structures of the universe. We then modified the well known Gadget-2 code to probe alternative theories of gravitation through galactic dynamics. In particular, we modified the Gadget-2 code to probe alternatives theories whose weak field limits have a Yukawa-like gravitational potential. As a first application of this modified Gadget-2 code we simulate the evolution of elliptical galaxies. These simulations show that galactic dynamics can be used to constrain the parameters associated with alternative theories of gravitation.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures - To appear in General Relativity and Gravitation
Cryptochironomus Kieffer 1918
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Hudson, Patrick L.
name: Bogan, Daniel L.
name: Hudson, John P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Cryptochironomus

description: Cryptochironomus Kieffer, 1918
Cryptochironomus psittacinus (Meigen, 1830), collected from St. Paul and St. George Islands, is the only species recorded from Alaska (Townes 1945). Sikes et al. (2016) reported Cryptochironomus stylifera Johannsen, 1908 from St. Matthew Island. However, Townes (1945) noted this species as a synonym of C. psittacinus. Saether (1977, 2009) questioned this synonymy and suggested that Townes’ North American specimens of C. psittacinus were not identical to those in Europe and instead were identical to Cryptochironomus redekei (Kruseman, 1933) and, therefore, a junior synonym of C. stylifera. Since Cryptochironmus taxonomy is still poorly developed, we note only the occurrence of C. psittacinus in Alaska until the revision of the genus using both morphological and molecular methods.
The low diversity of Cryptochironmus species in Arctic and subarctic habitats can be related to inadequacy of sampling in northern regions. For instance, Namayandeh & Beresford (2022), only found three species in Far Northern Ontario in comparison to nine reported from Southeastern United States by Hudson et al. (1990) and eight from western Lake Erie by Failla et al. (2015). Butler et al. (1980) and Lougheed et al. (2011) reported unknown Cryptochironomus larvae from the tundra ponds near Utqiagvik. Unknown species of this genus are reported in Arctos (2023), including several small lakes and streams in the Arctic Coastal Plain, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, and an unnamed lake near Scottie Creek. We have larval records from Bob’s Lake on Prince of Wales Island, the Yukon River, and Meadow Creek in the Mat-Su Valley. Cryptochironomus larvae occur in a wide variety of habitats. Morozova (2000) mentions C. psittacinus and C. redekei larvae are obligate predators, which is probably true of all the other species (see Berg 1995).
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Hudson, Patrick L., Bogan, Daniel L. & Hudson, John P., 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) of Alaska, USA, with descriptions of new species and a checklist, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 5511 (1) on pages 77-78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5511.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13848177
Additional file 5 of Mediterranean diet in axial spondyloarthritis: an observational study in an Italian monocentric cohort
Creators: name: Ometto, Francesca
name: Ortolan, Augusta
name: Farber, Davide
name: Lorenzin, Mariagrazia
name: Dellamaria, Giulia
name: Cozzi, Giacomo
name: Favero, Marta
name: Valentini, Romina
name: Doria, Andrea
name: Ramonda, Roberta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Title: Characteristics according to the achievement of an improvement in the PREDIMED score. Description: A table reporting the variables according to the achievement of an improvement in the PREDIMED score and the results of univariate analysis.