cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reforming Authoritarianism in Contemporary China
Creators: name: Schubert, Gunter
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2022

description: Rampant corruption and declining regime legitimacy force the Communist Party to reform the political and legal system of the PRC. There are different opinions on how far these reforms have affected Chinese authoritarianism so far. While some observers have identified higher degree of regime legitimacy achieved by gradual political liberalization in recent years, others have stated reconsolidation of non-democratic one-party rule providing only temporary stability for the political system at best. The PRC leadership, for its part, has repeatedly claimed to work toward' socialist democracy' by separating the Party from the government and subjecting the system to the rule of law. The institutional foundations of 'socialist democracy' may have been spelled out by Beijing scholar Pan Wei by his idea of 'consultative rule of law' modeled along the Hong Kong and Singaporean examples. This paper reconstructs Pan Wei's basic argument for such system and discusses both its conceptual consistency and political practicability. It is suggested in this article that reforming Chinese authoritarianism by implementing legal reforms, modern civil service structure and more mechanisms of political consultation might work for some time. It is argued, however, that 'consultative rule of law' cannot sustain one-party rule in the long run.
description: Asien, Nr. 94 (2005): ASIEN (Januar)
Additional file 1 of Sociodemographic characteristics of patients and their use of post-bariatric contouring surgery in the US
Creators: name: Al-Sumaih, Ibrahim
name: Donnelly, Michael
name: O’Neill, Ciaran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table A1. CPT codes for contouring surgeries. Table A2. ICD 10 codes. Table A3. Total charge for solo procedure in US dollar.
Is Embodied Interaction Beneficial? A Study on Navigating Network Visualizations
Creators: name: Huang, Helen H.
name: Pfister, Hanspeter
name: Yang, Yalong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Network visualizations are commonly used to analyze relationships in various contexts. To efficiently explore a network visualization, the user needs to quickly navigate to different parts of the network and analyze local details. Recent advancements in display and interaction technologies inspire new visions for improved visualization and interaction design. Past research into network design has identified some key benefits to visualizing networks in 3D versus 2D. However, little work has been done to study the impact of varying levels of embodied interaction on network analysis. We present a controlled user study that compared four environments featuring conditions and hardware that leveraged different amounts of embodiment and visual perception ranging from a 2D visualization desktop environment with a standard mouse to a 3D visualization virtual reality environment. We measured the accuracy, speed, perceived workload, and preferences of 20 participants as they completed three network analytic tasks, each of which required unique navigation and substantial effort. For the task that required participants to iterate over the entire visualization rather than focus on a specific area, we found that participants were more accurate using a VR and a trackball mouse than conventional desktop settings. From a workload perspective, VR was generally considered the least mentally demanding and least frustrating in two of our three tasks. It was also preferred and ranked as the most effective and visually appealing condition overall. However, using VR to compare two side-by-side networks was difficult, and it was similar to or slower than other conditions in two of the three tasks. Overall, the accuracy and workload advantages of conditions with greater embodiment in specific tasks suggest promising opportunities to create more effective environments in which to analyze network visualizations.
description: Accepted by the Information Visualization journal
E/S0 GALAXIES ON THE BLUE COLOR-STELLAR MASS SEQUENCE AT z = 0: FADING MERGERS OR FUTURE SPIRALS?
Creators: name: Kannappan, Sheila J.
name: Baker, Andrew J.
name: Guie, Jocelly M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: We identify a population of morphologically defined E/S0 galaxies lying on the blue sequence at the present epoch. Using three samples, we analyze blue-sequence E/S0s with stellar masses >10^8 Msun, arguing that individual objects may be evolving either up toward the red sequence or down into the blue sequence. Blue-sequence E/S0 galaxies become more common with decreasing stellar mass, comprising 5% near the "bimodality mass" M_b ~ 3 x 10^10 Msun, and sharply rising to >20-30% below the "threshold mass" M_t ~ 4-6 x 10^9 Msun. The strong emergence of blue-sequence E/S0s below M_t coincides with a previously reported global increase in mean atomic gas fractions below M_t for galaxies of all types on both sequences, suggesting that the availability of cold gas may be basic to blue-sequence E/S0s' existence. Environmental analysis reveals that many sub-M_b blue-sequence E/S0s reside in low to intermediate density environments. In mass-radius and mass-sigma scaling relations, blue-sequence E/S0s are more similar to red-sequence E/S0s than to late-type galaxies, but they represent a transitional class. While some of them, especially in the high-mass range from M_b to M_s, resemble major-merger remnants that will likely fade onto the red sequence, most blue-sequence E/S0s below M_b show signs of disk and/or pseudobulge building, which may be enhanced by companion interactions. We argue that sub-M_b blue-sequence E/S0s occupy a "sweet spot" in stellar mass and concentration, with both abundant gas and optimally efficient star formation, which may enable the formation of large spiral disks. [abridged] Comment: AJ, submitted, revised, 21 pages with 15 figures (one in two parts, one color); full resolution version available at http://www.physics.unc.edu/~sheila/kgb.pdf
(2146) Francis Mortimer Young
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
STAR CLUSTERS IN M31. I. A CATALOG AND A STUDY OF THE YOUNG CLUSTERS
Creators: name: Kriessler, Jeff
name: Morrison, Heather
name: Schiavon, Ricardo
name: Rose, James A.
name: Caldwell, Nelson
name: Harding, Paul
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: We present an updated catalog of 1300 objects in the field of M31, including 670 likely star clusters of various types, the rest being stars or background galaxies once thought to be clusters. The coordinates in the catalog are accurate to 02, and are based on images from the Local Group Survey (LGS) or from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). Archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images and the LGS were inspected to confirm cluster classifications where possible, but most of the classifications are based on spectra taken of ~1000 objects with the Hectospec fiber positioner and spectrograph on the 6.5 m MMT. The spectra and images of young clusters are analyzed in detail in this paper; analysis of older clusters will appear in a later paper. Ages and reddenings of 140 young clusters are derived by comparing the observed spectra with model spectra. Seven of these clusters also have ages derived from HST color-magnitude diagrams (two of which we present here); these agree well with the spectroscopically determined ages. Combining new V-band photometry with the M/L values that correspond to the derived cluster ages, we derive masses for the young clusters, finding them to have masses as great as 105 with a median of 104M ☉, and a median age of 0.25 Gyr. In comparison, therefore, Milky Way (MW) open clusters have the lowest median mass, the MW and M31 globulars the highest, and the LMC young massive clusters and the M31 young clusters are in between. The young clusters in M31 show a range of structures. Most have the low concentration typical of MW open clusters, but there are a few which have high concentrations. We expect that most of these young clusters will be disrupted in the next Gyr or so; however, some of the more massive and concentrated of the young clusters will likely survive for longer. The spatial distribution of the young clusters is well correlated with the star-forming regions as mapped out by mid-IR emission. A kinematic analysis likewise confirms the spatial association of the young clusters with the star-forming young disk in M31.
Figure S5 from Social behaviour in bees influences the abundance of Sodalis (Enterobacteriaceae) symbionts.
Creators: name: Rubin, Benjamin E. R.
name: Sanders, Jon G.
name: Turner, Kyle M.
name: Pierce, Naomi E.
name: Kocher, Sarah D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Proportion of genes belonging to each functional subsystem in each of the Sodalis lineages discovered in halictids relative to the number of genes identified in the closely-related free-living So. praecaptivus. Subsystem membership was determined using RAST and numbers of genes classified to each function in So. praecaptivus are given in parentheses.
Figure S3 from Social behaviour in bees influences the abundance of Sodalis (Enterobacteriaceae) symbionts
Creators: name: Rubin, Benjamin E. R.
name: Sanders, Jon G.
name: Turner, Kyle M.
name: Pierce, Naomi E.
name: Kocher, Sarah D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Heatmap of the presence or absence of Sodalis classified OTUs that appear in at least 5 samples in all Lasioglossum used in the comparison of social and solitary samples.
On the origin of excess cool gas in quasar host halos
Creators: name: Johnson, Sean D.
name: Chen, Hsiao-Wen
name: Mulchaey, John S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous observations of quasar host halos at z=2 have uncovered large quantities of cool gas that exceed what is found around inactive galaxies of both lower and higher masses. To better understand the source of this excess cool gas, we compiled an exhaustive sample of 195 quasars at z=1 with constraints on chemically enriched, cool gas traced by MgII absorption in background quasar spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This quasar sample spans a broad range of luminosities from Lbol=10^44.4 to 10^46.8 erg/s and allows an investigation of whether halo gas properties are connected with quasar properties. We find a strong correlation between luminosity and cool gas covering fraction. In particular, low-luminosity quasars exhibit a mean gas covering fraction comparable to inactive galaxies of similar masses, but more luminous quasars exhibit excess cool gas approaching what is reported previously at z=2. Moreover, 30-40% of the MgII absorption occurs at radial velocities of |v|>300 km/s from the quasar, inconsistent with gas bound to a typical quasar host halo. The large velocity offsets and observed luminosity dependence of the cool gas near quasars can be explained if the gas arises from: (1) neighboring halos correlated through large-scale structure at Mpc scales, (2) feedback from luminous quasars, or (3) debris from the mergers thought to trigger luminous quasars. The first of these scenarios is in tension with the lack of correlation between quasar luminosity and clustering while the latter two make distinct predictions that can be tested with additional observations.
description: 15 pages with 6 figures. Accepted to MNRAS
STAR FORMATION IN PARTIALLY GAS-DEPLETED SPIRAL GALAXIES
Creators: name: Robertson, Paul
name: Miner, Jesse
name: Levy, Lorenza
name: Rose, James A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Broadband B and R and H-alpha images have been obtained with the 4.1-m SOAR telescope atop Cerro Pachon, Chile for 29 spiral galaxies in the Pegasus I galaxy cluster and for 18 spirals in non-cluster environments. Pegasus I is a spiral-rich cluster with a low density intracluster medium and a low galaxy velocity dispersion. When combined with neutral hydrogen (HI) data obtained with the Arecibo 305-m radiotelescope, acquired by Levy et al. (2007) and by Springob et al. (2005a), we study the star formation rates in disk galaxies as a function of their HI deficiency. To quantify HI deficiency, we use the usual logarithmic deficiency parameter, DEF. The specific star formation rate (SSFR) is quantified by the logarithmic flux ratio of H-alpha flux to R band flux, and thus roughly characterizes the logarithmic SFR per unit stellar mass. We find a clear correlation between the global SFR per unit stellar mass and DEF, such that the SFR is lower in more HI-deficient galaxies. This correlation appears to extend from the most gas-rich to the most gas-poor galaxies. We also find a correlation between the central SFR per unit mass relative to the global values, in the sense that the more HI-deficient galaxies have a higher central SFR per unit mass relative to their global SFR values than do gas-rich galaxies. In fact, approximately half of the HI-depleted galaxies have highly elevated SSFRs in their central regions, indicative of a transient evolutionary state. In addition, we find a correlation between gas-depletion and the size of the H-alpha disk (relative to the R band disk); HI-poor galaxies have truncated disks. Moreover, aside from the elevated central SSFR in many gas-poor spirals, the SSFR is otherwise lower in the H-alpha disks of gas-poor galaxies than in gas-rich spirals.
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF COMPLEX C HALO CLOUDS
Creators: name: Stanimirović, S.
name: Hsu, W. H.
name: Heitsch, F.
name: Clark, S. E.
name: Putman, M. E.
name: Peek, J. E.G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Observations from the Galactic Arecibo L-band Feed Array H I (GALFA-H I ) Survey of the tail of Complex C are presented and the halo clouds associated with this complex are cataloged. The properties of the Complex C clouds are compared to clouds cataloged at the tail of the Magellanic Stream to provide insight into the origin and destruction mechanism of Complex C. Magellanic Stream and Complex C clouds show similarities in their mass distributions (slope = –0.7 and –0.6 ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/1538-3881/141/2/57/aj376037ieqn1.gif] {$\log (N(\log (\rm {mass})))/\log (\rm {mass})$} , respectively) and have a common line width of 20-30 km s –1 (indicative of a warm component), which may indicate a common origin and/or physical process breaking down the clouds. The clouds cataloged at the tail of Complex C extend over a mass range of 10 1.1 -10 4.8 M _ , sizes of 10 1.2 -10 2.6 pc, and have a median volume density and pressure of 0.065 cm –3 and ( P / k ) = 580 K cm –3 . We do not see a prominent two-phase structure in Complex C, possibly due to its low metallicity and inefficient cooling compared to other halo clouds. Assuming that the Complex C clouds are in pressure equilibrium with a hot halo medium, we find a median halo density of 5.8 _ 10 –4 cm –3 , which given a constant distance of 10 kpc is at a z -height of ~3 kpc. Using the same argument for the Stream results in a median halo density of ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/1538-3881/141/2/57/aj376037ieqn2.gif] {$8.4 \times 10^{-5} (60 \,\rm {kpc/d}) \ {\rm cm^{-3}}$} . These densities are consistent with previous observational constraints and cosmological simulations. We also assess the derived cloud and halo properties with three-dimensional grid simulations of halo H I clouds and find that the temperature is generally consistent within a factor of 1.5 and the volume densities, pressures, and halo densities are consistent within a factor of three.
(2148) Francis Young
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Figure S4 from Social behaviour in bees influences the abundance of Sodalis (Enterobacteriaceae) symbionts
Creators: name: Rubin, Benjamin E. R.
name: Sanders, Jon G.
name: Turner, Kyle M.
name: Pierce, Naomi E.
name: Kocher, Sarah D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Phylogeny of recovered Sodalis sequences. Bolded taxa represent genomes assembled de novo in this study. C. calcarata, L. vierecki, L. marginatum, L. malachurum, and H. ligatus all represent Sodalis sequences recovered from shotgun sequencing libraries derived from those bee taxa. So. glossinidius and So. pierantonius are previously assembled symbionts of tsetse flies and weevils, respectively. So. praecaptivus is the previously assembled free-living form of Sodalis. All other tips are derived from L. albipes shotgun sequencing libraries and are labeled with their location of origin and mitochondrial haplotype in parentheses. Each number represents a unique haplotype. We were not able to recover haplotypes for all samples.
Figure S8 from Social behaviour in bees influences the abundance of Sodalis (Enterobacteriaceae) symbionts.
Creators: name: Rubin, Benjamin E. R.
name: Sanders, Jon G.
name: Turner, Kyle M.
name: Pierce, Naomi E.
name: Kocher, Sarah D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Boxplots show the quantity of bacteria present in each sample as determined by qPCR of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. Polymorphic taxa are colored by the behavior of the samples included.
STAR CLUSTERS IN M31. II. OLD CLUSTER METALLICITIES AND AGES FROM HECTOSPEC DATA
Creators: name: Harding, Paul
name: Rose, James A.
name: Morrison, Heather
name: Caldwell, Nelson
name: Schiavon, Ricardo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: We present new high signal-to-noise spectroscopic data on the M31 globular cluster (GC) system, obtained with the Hectospec multifiber spectrograph on the 6.5 m MMT. More than 300 clusters have been observed at a resolution of 5 A and with a median S/N of 75 per A, providing velocities with a median uncertainty of 6 km s{sup -1}. The primary focus of this paper is the determination of mean cluster metallicities, ages, and reddenings. Metallicities were estimated using a calibration of Lick indices with [Fe/H] provided by Galactic GCs. These match well the metallicities of 24 M31 clusters determined from Hubble Space Telescope color-magnitude diagrams, the differences having an rms of 0.2 dex. The metallicity distribution is not generally bimodal, in strong distinction with the bimodal Galactic globular distribution. Rather, the M31 distribution shows a broad peak, centered at [Fe/H] = -1, possibly with minor peaks at [Fe/H] = -1.4, -0.7, and -0.2, suggesting that the cluster systems of M31 and the Milky Way had different formation histories. Ages for clusters with [Fe/H] > - 1 were determined using the automatic stellar population analysis program EZ{sub A}ges. We find no evidence for massive clusters in M31 with intermediate ages, thosemore » between 2 and 6 Gyr. Moreover, we find that the mean ages of the old GCs are remarkably constant over about a decade in metallicity (-0.95{approx}< [Fe/H] {approx}<0.0).« less
(2150) Agnes Mary Young
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
NextGenProteins Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Framework
Creators: name: Lehtinen, Santtu
name: Wessberg, Nina
name: Shrestha, Marie
name: Paasi, Jaakko
name: Stefánsson, Gudmundur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Responsible Research and Innovation, alternative proteins

description: In this deliverable, the RRI framework for the NextGenProteins project is established. First, the objects and impacts of the NextGenProteins project are placed in relation to the concept of RRI. This is done by elaborating on the global grand challenges related to alternative proteins and the ethical, responsibility and sustainability dimensions therein. Next, a matrix consisting of the conceptual dimensions of the RRI framework for the project is rolled out. Finally, the process, actions and interactions that constitute the RRI framework in practice are presented. The RRI framework of the project is summarised and explained in the conceptual matrix. The dimensions of the matrix relate to the process, product, purpose and people of the research and innovation activities, whereas the components of the matrix consist of anticipation & analysis, reflection & reason, engagement & inclusion and act & responsiveness. Furthermore, the Societal Readiness Thinking Tool0F 1 , developed in the New HoRRIzon project2 , is applied to the R&I process of the NextGenProteins project. RRI approaches inform the project in various ways, for example through regular and ad hoc meetings with the executive board and work packages. The RRI framework is further discussed via webinars and workshops organised during the project. In addition to the internal RRI processes of the project, the responsibility issues related to alternative proteins are discussed together with societal stakeholders. Finally, the RRI framework also covers the developmental evaluations of the R&I processes in the middle of the project and in the end of the project. In summation, the process of applying the RRI framework in the NextGenProteins project is envisioned to be highly co-creative process between the project actors and the societal stakeholders. The aim of the process is to develop and ensure high quality R&I project and outcomes, which will be acceptable and desirable for the society and environment.
Role of solvation in pressure-induced helix stabilization
Creators: name: Best, Robert B.
name: Miller, Cayla
name: Mittal, Jeetain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In contrast to the well-known destabilization of globular proteins by high pressure, re- cent work has shown that pressure stabilizes the formation of isolated α-helices. However all simulations to date have obtained a qualitatively opposite result within the experimen- tal pressure range. We show that using a protein force field (Amber03w) parametrized in conjunction with an accurate water model (TIP4P/2005) recovers the correct pressure- dependence and an overall stability diagram for helix formation similar to that from experi- ment; on the other hand, we confirm that using TIP3P water results in a very weak pressure destabilization of helices. By carefully analyzing the contributing factors, we show that this is not merely a consequence of different peptide conformations sampled using TIP3P. Rather, there is a critical role for the solvent itself in determining the dependence of total system volume (peptide and solvent) on helix content. Helical peptide structures exclude a smaller volume to water, relative to non-helical structures with both the water models, but the total system volume for helical conformations is higher than non-helical conformations with TIP3P water at low to intermediate pressures, in contrast to TIP4P/2005 water. Our results further emphasize the importance of using an accurate water model to study protein folding under conditions away from standard temperature and pressure.
description: Main text + SI included
Report on value chain risk assessment
Creators: name: Agnarsson, Sveinn
name: Smárason, Birgir Örn
name: Dillman, Kevin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Protein, microalgae, insects, single-cell, value-chain, risk assessment

description: This report consists of a risk assessment of the value-chain of the four alternative protein producers taking part in the NextGenProteins project. Two of the firms, Mutatec and EntoCube, have developed technology to produce proteins from insects, one, ARBIOM, is engaged in the production of single-cell proteins (SCP) and the fourth, VAXA, produces proteins from microalgae. The risk assessment was conducted using information gathered for the Deliverable 6.3 in NextGenProteins which provided a thorough analysis of the input-output structure of the production and processing of each firm, and this mapping formed the basis for questions that were put to representatives of each of the four firms. The risk assessment is therefore based on a qualitative methodology. In the first step, representatives from each firm were asked to go carefully through each stage in the production and processing of their protein products and identify any risks. Participants were also asked about to identify risk in other stages of the value chain. In the second step, participants in the risk assessment assigned likelihoods to each risk identified. In the third step, participants were asked to estimate the maximum impact of each risk. The final step in the analysis consisted of the risk evaluation. The risk level was defined by a combination of the likelihood level and the impact score. The risk assessment was done in a qualitative manner and involved no numerical values. The risk assessment revealed that the number of risk factors identified in each case varied somewhat between firms. In three of the four case-studies, most of the risks identified were either minor or moderate, but many of the risks identified in the fourth case were either categorized as major or severe. This is not surprising, given that the analysis was qualitative in nature and therefore based on subjective risk evaluation. Although the four companies have all developed technology to produce alternative proteins, the production and processing differ. Some of the risks identified are therefore idiosyncratic and firm-specific. There are, however, two sets of risks that are common to all the four companies. The first concerns the risk of being unable to attract funding, which is of special relevance for start-up firms that may particularlyfind it difficult to attract the necessary funds. The other risk factor concerns the willingness of consumers to accept the new, alternative proteins. This risk can be mitigated by better marketing, more information and greater transparency.
ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCE RATIOS IN STARS OF THE OUTER GALACTIC DISK. IV. A NEW SAMPLE OF OPEN CLUSTERS
Creators: name: Friel, Eileen D.
name: Yong, David
name: Carney, Bruce W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: We present radial velocities and chemical abundances for nine stars in the old, distant open clusters Be 18, Be 21, Be 22, Be 32, and PWM 4. For Be 18 and PWM 4, these are the first chemical abundance measurements. Combining our data with literature results produces a compilation of some 68 chemical abundance measurements in 49 unique clusters. For this combined sample, we study the chemical abundances of open clusters as a function of distance, age, and metallicity. We confirm that the metallicity gradient in the outer disk is flatter than the gradient in the vicinity of the solar neighborhood. We also confirm that the open clusters in the outer disk are metal-poor with enhancements in the ratios [alpha/Fe] and perhaps [Eu/Fe]. All elements show negligible or small trends between [X/Fe] and distance (< 0.02 dex/kpc), but for some elements, there is a hint that the local (RGC < 13 kpc) and distant (RGC > 13 kpc) samples may have different trends with distance. There is no evidence for significant abundance trends versus age (< 0.04 dex/Gyr). We measure the linear relation between [X/Fe] and metallicity, [Fe/H], and find that the scatter about the mean trend is comparable to the measurement uncertainties. Comparison with solar neighborhood field giants shows that the open clusters share similar abundance ratios [X/Fe] at a given metallicity. While the flattening of the metallicity gradient and enhanced [alpha/Fe] ratios in the outer disk suggest a different chemical enrichment history to the solar neighborhood, we echo the sentiments expressed by Friel et al. that definitive conclusions await homogeneous analyses of larger samples of stars in larger numbers of clusters. Arguably, our understanding of the evolution of the outer disk from open clusters is currently limited by systematic abundance differences between various studies.
(2143) Helen Fitzgerald
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
THE DISTANCE TO THE MASSIVE GALACTIC CLUSTER WESTERLUND 2 FROM A SPECTROSCOPIC AND HST PHOTOMETRIC STUDY , ,
Creators: name: Cool, Richard J.
name: Norris, Mark A.
name: Kobulnicky, Henry A.
name: Kannappan, Sheila J.
name: Bradley, David R.
name: Vargas Álvarez, Carlos A.
name: Miller, Brendan P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: We present a spectroscopic and photometric determination of the distance to the young Galactic open cluster Westerlund 2 using WFPC2 imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and ground-based optical spectroscopy. HST imaging in the F336W, F439W, F555W, and F814W filters resolved many sources previously undetected in ground-based observations and yielded photometry for 1136 stars. We identified 15 new O-type stars, along with two probable binary systems, including MSP 188 (O3 + O5.5). We fit reddened spectral energy distributions based on the Padova isochrones to the photometric data to determine individual reddening parameters RV and AV for O-type stars in Wd2. We find average values RV = 3.77 ± 0.09 and AV = 6.51 ± 0.38 mag, which result in a smaller distance than most other spectroscopic and photometric studies. After a statistical distance correction accounting for close unresolved binaries (factor of 1.08), our spectroscopic and photometric data on 29 O-type stars yield that Westerlund 2 has a distance d = 4.16 ± 0.07 (random) +0.26 (systematic) kpc. The cluster's age remains poorly constrained, with an upper limit of 3 Myr. Finally, we report evidence of a faint mid-IR polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ring surrounding the well-known binary candidate MSP 18, which appears to lie at the center of a secondary stellar grouping within Westerlund 2.
Shop Until You Drop: the Unexpected Effects of Anticonsumerism and Environmentalism
Creators: name: Maccarrone, Giovanni
name: Marini, Marco A.
name: Tarola, Ornella
name: Maccarrone, Giovanni
name: Marini, Marco A.
name: Tarola, Ornella
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Environmentalism
subject: Hedonism
subject: Anti-consumerism
subject: Hedonic and environmental product attributes
subject: Vertical product differentiation

description: In an economy where consumers are heterogeneous in their preferences over the hedonic and environmental attributes of goods on sale, we explore the effects of anti-consumerism and environmentalism. We show that when the environmental attributes of products come at the expense of the hedonic attributes, a higher supply of anti-consumerism and environmentalism yields the expected positive effect on the environment. In contrast, when hedonic and environmental attributes are jointly met by a good, higher levels of anti-consumerism and environmentalism negatively affect the society’s environmental footprint. Moreover, the impact of anti-consumerism and environmentalism on social welfare is far from being obvious, giving rise to unexpected redistributive effects between firms and consumers.
Four-top quark physics at the LHC
Creators: name: Blekman, Freya
name: Déliot, Fréderic
name: Dutta, Valentina
name: Usai, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: quark, production
coupling, Yukawa
CERN LHC Coll
new physics
sensitivity
experimental results
enhancement

description: The production of four top quarks is a rare process in the Standard Model that provides unique opportunities and sensitivity to Standard Model observables including potential enhancement from many popular new physics extensions. This article summarises the latest experimental measurements of the four-top quark production cross section at the LHC. An overview of the interpretations of the experimental results in terms of the top quark Yukawa coupling and limits on physics beyond the Standard Model is also given as well as prospects for future measurements and opportunities offered by this challenging final state.
KNOW THE STAR, KNOW THE PLANET. III. DISCOVERY OF LATE-TYPE COMPANIONS TO TWO EXOPLANET HOST STARS
Creators: name: Riddle, Reed L.
name: Tokovinin, Andrei
name: Mason, Brian D.
name: Law, Nicholas M.
name: Hartkopf, William I.
name: Baranec, Christoph
name: Roberts, Lewis C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We discuss two multiple star systems that host known exoplanets: HD 2638 and 30 Ari B. Adaptive optics imagery revealed an additional stellar companion to both stars. We collected multi-epoch images of the systems with Robo-AO and the PALM-3000 adaptive optics systems at Palomar Observatory and provide relative photometry and astrometry. The astrometry indicates that the companions share common proper motion with their respective primaries. Both of the new companions have projected separations less than 30 AU from the exoplanet host star. Using the projected separations to compute orbital periods of the new stellar companions, HD 2638 has a period of 130 yr and 30 Ari B has a period of 80 yr. Previous studies have shown that the true period is most likely within a factor of three of these estimated values. The additional component to 30 Ari makes it the second confirmed quadruple system known to host an exoplanet. HD 2638 hosts a hot Jupiter and the discovery of a new companion strengthens the connection between hot Jupiters and binary stars. We place the systems on a color–magnitude diagram and derive masses for the companions which turn out to be roughly 0.5 solar mass stars.
(2145) Ellen [Fitzgerald]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Azimuthal di-jet correlations with parton branching TMD distributions
Creators: name: Bermudez Martinez, Armando
name: Hautmann, Francesco
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: higher-order, 1
CERN LHC Coll
parton
correlation
quantum chromodynamics
transverse momentum

description: The parton branching formulation of TMD evolution has recently been used to make pre-dictions for jet observables at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), including perturbativematching at next-to-leading order (NLO). This contribution presents results for the az-imuthal ∆φ correlations in events with di-jets at large transverse momentum. It focuseson the back-to-back region of large ∆φ and discusses prospects for detailed studies ofQCD dynamics in this region at the LHC.
KNOW THE STAR, KNOW THE PLANET. IV. A STELLAR COMPANION TO THE HOST STAR OF THE ECCENTRIC EXOPLANET HD 8673b
Creators: name: Baranec, Christoph
name: Croner, Ernest
name: Shelton, J. Christopher
name: McKenna, Dan
name: Bouchez, Antonin
name: Ramaprakash, A. N.
name: Palmer, Dean
name: Neyman, Christopher R.
name: Angione, John
name: Burruss, Rick
name: Chordia, Pravin
name: Milburn, Jennifer
name: Roberts, Jennifer E.
name: Das, Hillol
name: Troy, Mitchell
name: Bui, Khanh
name: Truong, Tuan
name: Kulkarni, Shrinivas
name: Mason, Brian D.
name: Burse, Mahesh
name: Wu, Yanqin
name: Zolkower, Jeff
name: Punnadi, Sujit
name: Tendulkar, Shriharsh P.
name: Hale, David
name: Riddle, Reed L.
name: Dekany, Richard G.
name: Henning, John
name: Roberts, Lewis C.
name: Law, Nicholas
name: Guiwits, Stephen
name: Trinh, Thang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: HD 8673 hosts a massive exoplanet in a highly eccentric orbit (e = 0.723). Based on two epochs of speckle interferometry a previous publication identified a candidate stellar companion. We observed HD 8673 multiple times with the 10 m Keck II telescope, the 5 m Hale telescope, the 3.63 m Advanced Electro-Optical System telescope, and the 1.5 m Palomar telescope in a variety of filters with the aim of confirming and characterizing the stellar companion. We did not detect the candidate companion, which we now conclude was a false detection, but we did detect a fainter companion. We collected astrometry and photometry of the companion on six epochs in a variety of filters. The measured differential photometry enabled us to determine that the companion is an early M dwarf with a mass estimate of 0.33–0.45 M. The companion has a projected separation of 10 AU, which is one of the smallest projected separations of an exoplanet host binary system. Based on the limited astrometry collected, we are able to constrain the orbit of the stellar companion to a semimajor axis of 35–60 AU, an eccentricity 0.5, and an inclination of 75°–85°. The stellar companion has likely strongly influenced the orbit of the exoplanet and quite possibly explains its high eccentricity.
X-ray emission from stellar jets by collision against high-density molecular clouds: an application to HH 248
Creators: name: Lopez-Santiago, Javier
name: Bonito, Rosaria
name: Orellana, Mariana
name: Miceli, Marco
name: Orlando, Salvatore
name: Ustamujic, Sabina
name: Albacete-Colombo, Juan Facundo
name: de Castro, Elisa
name: de Castro, Ana Ines Gomez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the plausibility of detecting X-ray emission from a stellar jet that impacts against a dense molecular cloud. This scenario may be usual for classical T Tauri stars with jets in dense star-forming complexes. We first model the impact of a jet against a dense cloud by 2D axisymmetric hydrodynamic simulations, exploring different configurations of the ambient environment. Then, we compare our results with XMM-Newton observations of the Herbig-Haro object HH 248, where extended X-ray emission aligned with the optical knots is detected at the edge of the nearby IC 434 cloud. Our simulations show that a jet can produce plasma with temperatures up to 10 MK, consistent with production of X-ray emission, after impacting a dense cloud. We find that jets denser than the ambient medium but less dense than the cloud produce detectable X-ray emission only at the impact onto the cloud. From the exploration of the model parameter space, we constrain the physical conditions (jet density and velocity, cloud density) that reproduce well the intrinsic luminosity and emission measure of the X-ray source possibly associated with HH 248. Thus, we suggest that the extended X-ray source close to HH 248 corresponds to the jet impacting on a dense cloud.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. (12 pages, 12 figures)
VARIABLE STARS IN METAL-RICH GLOBULAR CLUSTERS. IV. LONG-PERIOD VARIABLES IN NGC 6496
Creators: name: Abbas, Mohamad A.
name: Reichart, D. E.
name: Nysewander, M. C.
name: Haislip, J. B.
name: Ivarsen, K. M.
name: Welch, Douglas L.
name: Layden, Andrew C.
name: Lacluyze, A. P.
name: Guldenschuh, Katherine A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We present VI-band photometry for stars in the metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6496. Our time-series data were cadenced to search for long period variables (LPVs) over a span of nearly two years, and our variability search yielded the discovery of thirteen new variable stars, of which six are LPVs, two are suspected LPVs, and five are short period eclipsing binaries. An additional star was found in the ASAS database, and we clarify its type and period. We argue that all of the eclipsing binaries are field stars, while 5-6 of the LPVs are members of NGC 6496. We compare the period-luminosity distribution of these LPVs with those of LPVs in the Large Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tucanae, and with theoretical pulsation models. We also present a VI color magnitude diagram, display the evolutionary states of the variables, and match isochrones to determine a reddening of E(B-V) ~ 0.21 mag and apparent distance modulus of ~ 15.60 mag.
Mass models of the Milky Way and estimation of its mass from the GAIA DR3 data-set
Creators: name: Labini, Francesco Sylos
name: Chrobakova, Zofia
name: Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Roberto
name: Lopez-Corredoira, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use data from the Gaia DR3 dataset to estimate the mass of the Milky Way (MW) by analyzing the rotation curve in the range of distances 5 kpc to 28 kpc. We consider three mass models: the first model adds a spherical dark matter (DM) halo, following the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profile, to the known stellar components. The second model assumes that DM is confined to the Galactic disk, following the idea that the observed density of gas in the Galaxy is related to the presence of more massive DM disk (DMD), similar to the observed correlation between DM and gas in other galaxies. The third model only uses the known stellar mass components and is based on the Modified Newton Dynamics (MOND) theory. Our results indicate that the DMD model is comparable in accuracy to the NFW and MOND models and fits the data better at large radii where the rotation curve declines but has the largest errors. For the NFW model we obtain a virial mass $M_{vir}= (6.5 \pm 0.3) \times 10^{11} \; M_\odot$ with concentration parameter $c=14.5$, that is lower than what is typically reported. In the DMD case we find that the MW mass is $M_d = (1.6 \pm 0.5) \times 10^{11} \; M_\odot$ with a disk's characteristic radius of $R_d=17$ kpc.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
EAK : The First Five Seconds Matter - Suppemental appendix
Creators: name: Charansonney, Olivier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Erythrocyte aggregation
Human
Horse

description: Supplemental appendix related to the article Erythrocyte Aggregation kinetics: The First Five Seconds Matter. Incudes : - Techinical note - Clinical protocols and study results
An empirical relation to estimate host galaxy stellar light from AGN spectra
Creators: name: Jalan, Priyanka
name: Rakshit, Suvendu
name: Woo, Jong-Hak
name: Kotilainen, Jari
name: Stalin, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurement of black hole mass for low-$z$ ($z\leq 0.8$) Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is difficult due to the strong contribution from host galaxy stellar light necessitating detailed spectral decomposition to estimate the AGN luminosity. Here, we present an empirical relation to estimate host galaxy stellar luminosity from the optical spectra of AGNs at $z\leq 0.8$. The spectral data were selected from the fourteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR14) quasar catalog having a signal-to-noise ratio at 5100 Å(SNR$_{5100}$) $>$10 containing 11415 quasars. The median total luminosity (log ($L_\text{total}$/[erg s$^{-1}$])), stellar luminosity (log ($L_\text{star}$/[erg s$^{-1}$])), and AGN continuum luminosity (log ($L_\text{cont}$/[erg s$^{-1}$])) in our sample are 44.52, 44.06, and 44.30, respectively. We fit the AGN power-law continuum, host galaxy, and iron blend contribution, simultaneously over the entire available spectrum. We found the host galaxy fraction to anti-correlate with continuum luminosity and can be well-represented by a polynomial function, which can be used to correct the stellar light contribution from AGN spectra. We also found anti-correlation between host galaxy fraction and iron strength, Eddington ratio, and redshift. The empirical relation gives comparable results of host-fraction with the image decomposition method.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, published in MNRASL