cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reexamination of The Standard Model Nucleon Electric Dipole Moment
Creators: name: Seng, Chien-Yeah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix in the Standard Model is currently the only experimentally-confirmed source of CP-violation. The intrinsic electric dipole moment of the nucleon induced by this CP-phase via hadronic loop and pole diagrams has been studied more than two decades ago, but the existing calculation is subject to various theoretical issues such as the breakdown of chiral power counting and uncertainties in the determination of low energy constants. We carry out an up-to-date re-analysis on both one-loop and pole diagram contributions to the nucleon electric dipole moment based on Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory in a way that preserves power counting, and redo the determination of the low energy constants following the results of more recent articles. Combined with an estimation of higher-order contributions, we expect the long-distance contribution to the Standard Model nucleon electric dipole moment to be approximately $(1\times10^{-32}-6\times10^{-32})e\,\mathrm{cm}$.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
The signatures of the quintuplet leptons at the LHC
Creators: name: Yu, You
name: Yue, Chong-Xing
name: Yang, Shuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate production and detection prospects of the quintuplet heavy leptons at the LHC in the context of a new model which is proposed as a viable and testable solution to the neutrino masses problem. We classify the signals, carry out a full simulation on the signals and the relevant backgrounds at the 14 TeV LHC. After applying suitable kinematic cuts, the background events are substantially suppressed. The signals of the heavy leptons might be detected at the 14 TeV LHC.
description: 22 pages,8 figures,38 conferences,Final version to appear in Physical Review D
Experimental tests of Lieb-Robinson bounds
Creators: name: Cheneau, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81-05

description: Judging by the enormous body of work that it has inspired, Elliott Lieb and Derek Robinson's 1972 article on the "Finite Group Velocity of Quantum Spin Systems" can be regarded as a \emph{high-impact paper}, as research accountants say. But for more than 30 years this major contribution to quantum physics has remained pretty much confidential. Lieb and Robinson's work eventually found a large audience in the years 2000, with the rapid and concomitant development of quantum information theory and experimental platforms enabling the characterisation and manipulation of isolated quantum systems at the single-particle level. In this short review article, I will first remind the reader of the central result of Lieb and Robinson's work, namely the existence of a maximum group velocity for the propagation of information in non-relativistic quantum systems. I will then review the experiments that most closely relate to this finding, in the sense that they reveal how information propagates in specific -- yet "real" -- quantum systems. Finally, as an outlook, I will attempt to make a connection with the quantum version of the butterfly effect recently studied in chaotic quantum systems.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Dynamic wormholes with particle creation mechanism
Creators: name: Pan, Supriya
name: Chakraborty, Subenoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work deals with a spherically symmetric space-time which is asymptotically (at spatial infinity) FRW space-time and represents wormhole configuration: The matter component is divided into two parts--(a) dissipative but homogeneous and isotropic fluid, and (b) an inhomogeneous and anisotropic barotropic fluid. Evolving wormhole solutions are obtained when isotropic fluid is phantom in nature and there is a big rip singularity at the end. Here the dissipative phenomena is due to the particle creation mechanism in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Using the process to be adiabatic, the dissipative pressure is expressed linearly to the particle creation rate. For two choices of the particle creation rate as a function of the Hubble parameter, the equation of state parameter of the isotropic fluid is constrained to be in the phantom domain, except in one choice, it is possible to have wormhole configuration with normal isotropic fluid.
description: 19 pages, no figures
Associations between long-term fine particulate matter exposure and hospital procedures in heart failure patients
Creators: name: Moyer, J.
name: Weaver, A.
name: Schwartz, J.D.
name: Ward-Caviness, C.K.
name: Catalano, S.
name: Di, Q.
name: Catalano, M.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: Background Ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) contributes to global morbidity and mortality. One way to understand the health effects of PM2.5 is by examining its impact on performed hospital procedures, particularly among those with existing chronic disease. However, such studies are rare. Here, we investigated the associations between annual average PM2.5 and hospital procedures among individuals with heart failure. Methods Using electronic health records from the University of North Carolina Healthcare System, we created a retrospective cohort of 15,979 heart failure patients who had at least one of 53 common (frequency > 10%) procedures. We used daily modeled PM2.5 at 1x1 km resolution to estimate the annual average PM2.5 at the time of heart failure diagnosis. We used quasi- Poisson models to estimate associations between PM2.5 and the number of performed hospital procedures over the follow-up period (12/31/2016 or date of death) while adjusting for age at heart failure diagnosis, race, sex, year of visit, and socioeconomic status. Results A 1 μg/m3 increase in annual average PM2.5 was associated with increased glycosylated hemoglobin tests (10.8%; 95% confidence interval = 6.56%, 15.1%), prothrombin time tests (15.8%; 95% confidence interval = 9.07%, 22.9%), and stress tests (6.84%; 95% confidence interval = 3.65%, 10.1%). Results were stable under multiple sensitivity analyses. Conclusions These results suggest that long-term PM2.5 exposure is associated with an increased need for diagnostic testing on heart failure patients. Overall, these associations give a unique lens into patient morbidity and potential drivers of healthcare costs linked to PM2.5 exposure.
High-order Path Integral Monte Carlo methods for solving quantum dot problems
Creators: name: Chin, Siu A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conventional second-order Path Integral Monte Carlo method is plagued with the sign problem in solving many-fermion systems. This is due to the large number of anti-symmetric free fermion propagators that are needed to extract the ground state wave function at large imaginary time. In this work, we show that optimized fourth-order Path Integral Monte Carlo methods, which use no more than 5 free-fermion propagators, can yield accurate quantum dot energies for up to 20 polarized electrons with the use of the Hamiltonian energy estimator.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRE - revised with a new figure and added larger N calculations
Open Science and Authorship of Supplementary Material. Evidence from a Research Community
Creators: name: Mannocci, Andrea
name: Irrera, Ornella
name: Manghi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Authorship of scientific articles has profoundly changed from early science until now. While once upon a time a paper was authored by a handful of authors, scientific collaborations are much more prominent on average nowadays. As authorship (and citation) is essentially the primary reward mechanism according to the traditional research evaluation frameworks, it turned out to be a rather hot-button topic from which a significant portion of academic disputes stems. However, the novel Open Science practices could be an opportunity to disrupt such dynamics and diversify the credit of the different scientific contributors involved in the diverse phases of the lifecycle of the same research effort. In fact, a paper and research data (or software) contextually published could exhibit different authorship to give credit to the various contributors right where it feels most appropriate. As a preliminary study, in this paper, we leverage the wealth of information contained in Open Science Graphs, such as OpenAIRE, and conduct a focused analysis on a subset of publications with supplementary material drawn from the European Marine Science (MES) research community. The results are promising and suggest our hypothesis is worth exploring further as we registered in 22% of the cases substantial variations between the authors participating in the publication and the authors participating in the supplementary dataset (or software), thus posing the premises for a longitudinal, large-scale analysis of the phenomenon.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures; accepted to the 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022)
Associations between Plasma Lipid Mediators and Chronic Daily Headache Outcomes in Patients Randomized to a Low Linoleic Acid Diet with or without Added Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Creators: name: Mann, J. Douglas
name: Zamora, Daisy
name: Faurot, Keturah R.
name: Ramsden, Christopher E.
name: Horowitz, Mark
name: Shen, Qing
name: Yang, Jun
name: Taha, Ameer Y.
name: MacIntosh, Beth A.
name: Hammock, Bruce D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: A previous report showed that 12-week lowering of dietary omega-6 linoleic acid (LA) coupled with increased omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) intake (H3-L6 diet) reduced headache frequency and improved quality of life in patients with chronic daily headaches (CDHs) compared to dietary LA reduction alone (L6 diet). The trial also showed that targeted dietary manipulation alters PUFA-derived lipid mediators and endocannabinoids. However, several additional classes of lipid mediators associated with pain in preclinical models were not measured. The current secondary analysis investigated whether the clinical benefits of the H3-L6 diet were related to changes in plasma unesterified PUFA-derived lipid mediators known to be involved in nociception, including prostanoids. Lipid mediators were measured by ultra-high-pressure liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass-spectrometry. Compared to baseline, dietary LA lowering with or without added omega-3 fatty acids did not alter unesterified n-6 PUFA-derived lipid mediators, although several species derived from LA, di-homo-gamma-linolenic acid, and arachidonic acid were positively associated with headache frequency and intensity, as well as mental health burden. Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA)-derived metabolites were also associated with increased headache frequency and intensity, although they did not change from the baseline in either dietary group. Compared to baseline, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)-derived epoxides were more elevated in the H3-L6 group compared to the L6 group. Diet-induced elevations in plasma DHA-epoxides were associated with reduced headache frequency, better physical and mental health, and improved quality of life (p < 0.05). Prostanoids were not detected, except for PGF2-alpha, which was not associated with any outcomes. This study demonstrates that diet-induced changes in DHA-epoxides were associated with pain reduction in patients with chronic headaches, whereas n-6 PUFA and ALA metabolites were associated with nociception. Lipid mediator associations with mental health and quality of life paralleled pain management outcomes in this population. The findings point to a network of multiple diet-modifiable lipid mediator targets for pain management in individuals with CDHs.
title: EVALUATION OF DAMAGE INDUCED IN GRAPHITE DUE TO SAMPLE PREPARATION BY STANDARD NON-DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUES
Creators: name: Lasithiotakis, Michael
name: Marrow, James T.
name: Marsden, Barry J.
Publisher: name: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Year: 2020

description: Damage introduced to graphite by mechanical polishing, argon ion beam polishing, fracture, and neutron bombardment has been studied in polycrystalline graphites and Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite (HOPG). Scanning Electron Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy, as well as X-Ray Diffraction and Raman spectroscopy, were employed. The least disturbed surfaces are observed in pristine HOPG or by fracturing techniques that exposed pre-existing defects. A decrease of the mean particle size of the abrading medium and the use of ions and neutrons increased the D band and decreased the pseudo–crystallinity.
Renormalized Entanglement Entropy for BPS Black Branes
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Arpan
name: Haque, S. Shajidul
name: Veliz-Osorio, Alvaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the renormalized entanglement entropy (REE) for BPS black solutions in ${\cal N}=2$, 4d gauged supergravity. We find that this quantity decreases monotonically with the size of the entangling region until it reaches a critical point, then increases and approaches the entropy density of the brane. This behavior can be understood as a consequence of the REE being driven by two competing factors, namely entanglement and the mixedness of the black brane. In the UV entanglement dominates, whereas in the IR the mixedness takes over.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; v2: Typos fixed, citation and clarifying text added, version accepted in Physical Review D
Cephennomicrus
Creators: name: Jałoszyński, Paweł
name: Perkovsky, Evgeny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Cephennomicrus

description: Cephennomicrus sp. 4
(Figs 9, 93–98)
Material studied. Late Eocene of Europe, Rovno amber: sex unknown; inclusion in elongate, irregularly subtriangular piece of amber 9.5 mm long (Fig. 9), collection number K-8912 (SIZK).
Description. Body (Figs 93–98) elongate and strongly convex, nearly black; BL 1.00 mm.
Head (Figs 93–94, 96–97) broadest at eyes, HL 0.13 mm, HW 0.28 mm; head structures poorly visible, vertex and frons confluent, weakly convex and together strongly transverse; supraantennal tubercles weakly marked; eyes large and strongly convex, moderately coarsely faceted. Antennae (Figs 93–98) about as long as half BL, AnL about 0.50 mm, shapes of antennomeres obscured by turbid amber.
Pronotum (Figs 93–94, 96–97) subrectangular, but exact shape difficult to asses in the studied specimen; PL 0.30 mm, PW 0.38 mm; pronotal disc broadest most likely near anterior third, sides rounded; posterior pronotal corners obtuse-angled; posterior margin arcuate; antebasal structures (i.e., pits and grooves), punctures and setae not visible.
Elytra (Figs 93–94, 96–97) elongate oval, strongly convex, EL about 0.58 mm, EW 0.50 mm, EI about 1.15; punctures and setae not visible.
Legs (Figs 95, 98) only partly visible, moderately long and slender.
Remarks. This specimen is poorly preserved, but the general body form and some ventral characters (Fig. 98) allow for placing it in Cephennomicrus. See remarks for Cephennomicrus sp. 2.
description: Published as part of Jałoszyński, Paweł & Perkovsky, Evgeny, 2016, Diversity of Scydmaeninae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Upper Eocene Rovno amber, pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 4157 (1) on pages 31-32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4157.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262413
Biochar and Its Potential Application for the Improvement of the Anaerobic Digestion Process: A Critical Review
Creators: name: Semiyaga, Swaib
name: Boutikos, Panagiotis
name: Muoghalu, Chimdi C.
name: Aragón-Briceño, Christian
name: Manga, Musa
name: Olabinjo, Omotunde
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Poor management of organic waste is a key environmental and public health issue as it contributes to environmental contamination and the spread of diseases. Anaerobic digestion (AD) presents an efficient method for organic waste management while generating energy and nutrient-rich digestate. However, the AD process is limited by key factors, which include process inefficiencies from substrate-induced instability, poor quality digestate, and poor management of effluent and emissions. Lately, there has been more interest in the use of biochar for improving anaerobic digestion. Biochar can improve methane production by speeding up the methanogenesis stage, protecting microorganisms from toxic shocks, and reducing inhibition from ammonia and volatile fatty acids. It can be applied for in situ cleanup of biogas to remove carbon dioxide. Applying biochar in AD is undergoing intensive research and development; however, there are still unresolved factors and challenges, such as the influence of feedstock source and pyrolysis on the performance of biochar when it is added to the AD process. In light of these considerations, this review sheds more light on various potential uses of biochar to complement or improve the AD process. This review also considers the mechanisms through which biochar enhances methane production rate, biochar’s influence on the resulting digestate, and areas for future research.
Christliche Spiritualität unter den Bedingungen der Moderne
Creators: name: Möde, Erwin
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 37 Nr. 6 (2008): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 37, Heft 6
The Subaru FMOS Galaxy Redshift Survey (FastSound). I. Overview of the Survey Targeting on H$α$ Emitters at $z \sim 1.4$
Creators: name: Tonegawa, Motonari
name: Totani, Tomonori
name: Okada, Hiroyuki
name: Akiyama, Masayuki
name: Dalton, Gavin
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Iwamuro, Fumihide
name: Maihara, Toshinori
name: Ohta, Kouji
name: Shimizu, Ikkoh
name: Takato, Naruhisa
name: Tamura, Naoyuki
name: Yabe, Kiyoto
name: Bunker, Andrew J.
name: Coupon, Jean
name: Ferreira, Pedro G.
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
name: Goto, Tomotsugu
name: Hikage, Chiaki
name: Ishikawa, Takashi
name: Matsubara, Takahiko
name: More, Surhud
name: Okumura, Teppei
name: Percival, Will J.
name: Spitler, Lee R.
name: Szapudi, Istvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FastSound is a galaxy redshift survey using the near-infrared Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, targeting H$α$ emitters at $z \sim 1.18$--$1.54$ down to the sensitivity limit of H$α$ flux $\sim 2 \times 10^{-16} \ \rm erg \ cm^{-2} s^{-1}$. The primary goal of the survey is to detect redshift space distortions (RSD), to test General Relativity by measuring the growth rate of large scale structure and to constrain modified gravity models for the origin of the accelerated expansion of the universe. The target galaxies were selected based on photometric redshifts and H$α$ flux estimates calculated by fitting spectral energy distribution (SED) models to the five optical magnitudes of the Canada France Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) Wide catalog. The survey started in March 2012, and all the observations were completed in July 2014. In total, we achieved $121$ pointings of FMOS (each pointing has a $30$ arcmin diameter circular footprint) covering $20.6$ deg$^2$ by tiling the four fields of the CFHTLS Wide in a hexagonal pattern. Emission lines were detected from $\sim 4,000$ star forming galaxies by an automatic line detection algorithm applied to 2D spectral images. This is the first in a series of papers based on FastSound data, and we describe the details of the survey design, target selection, observations, data reduction, and emission line detections.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, and 2 tables, accepted for PASJ
Biomarkers detected in cord blood predict vaccine responses in young infants
Creators: name: De Paris, Kristina
name: Yin, Li
name: Goodenow, Maureen M.
name: Sadder, Liane S.
name: Baloh, Carolyn H.
name: Sleasman, John W.
name: Chan, Cliburn
name: Aldrovandi, Grace M.
name: Kim-Chang, Julie J.
name: Venturi, Guglielmo M.
name: Fischer, Bernard M.
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media
Year: 2023

description: Introduction Factors influencing vaccine immune priming in the first year of life involve both innate and adaptive immunity but there are gaps in understanding how these factors sustain vaccine antibody levels in healthy infants. The hypothesis was that bioprofiles associated with B cell survival best predict sustained vaccine IgG levels at one year. Methods Longitudinal study of plasma bioprofiles in 82 term, healthy infants, who received standard recommended immunizations in the United States, with changes in 15 plasma biomarker concentrations and B cell subsets associated with germinal center development monitored at birth, soon after completion of the initial vaccine series at 6 months, and prior to the 12-month vaccinations. Post vaccination antibody IgG levels to Bordetella pertussis, tetanus toxoid, and conjugated Haemophilus influenzae type B (HiB) were outcome measures. Results Using a least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (lasso) regression model, cord blood (CB) plasma IL-2, IL-17A, IL-31, and soluble CD14 (sCD14) were positively associated with pertussis IgG levels at 12 months, while CB plasma concentrations of APRIL and IL-33 were negatively associated. In contrast, CB concentrations of sCD14 and APRIL were positively associated with sustained tetanus IgG levels. A separate cross-sectional analysis of 18 mother/newborn pairs indicated that CB biomarkers were not due to transplacental transfer, but rather due to immune activation at the fetal/maternal interface. Elevated percentages of cord blood switched memory B cells were positively associated with 12-month HiB IgG levels. BAFF concentrations at 6 and 12 months were positively associated with pertussis and HiB IgG levels respectively. Discussion Sustained B cell immunity is highly influenced by early life immune dynamics beginning prior to birth. The findings provide important insights into how germinal center development shapes vaccine responses in healthy infants and provide a foundation for studies of conditions that impair infant immune development.
Structural 130-K Phase Transition and Emergence of a Two-Ion Kondo State in HT-Ce$_2$Rh$_2$Ga Explored by $^{69,71}$Ga Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Sh.
name: Fujii, T.
name: Luther, S.
name: Yasuoka, H.
name: Sakai, H.
name: Bärtl, F.
name: Ranjith, K. M.
name: Rosner, H.
name: Wosnitza, J.
name: Strydom, A. M.
name: Kühne, H.
name: Baenitz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the microscopic magnetic properties, the nature of the 130-K phase transition, and the ground state in the recently synthesized compound Ce$_2$Rh$_2$Ga by use of $^{69,71}$Ga nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR). The NQR spectra clearly show an unusual phase transition at $T_t$ $\sim$ 130 K yielding a splitting of the high-temperature single NQR line into two clearly resolved NQR lines, providing evidence for two crystallographically inequivalent Ga sites. The NQR frequencies are in good agreement with fully-relativistic calculations of the band structure. Our NQR results indicate the absence of magnetic or charge order down to 0.3 K. The temperature dependence of the spin-lattice relaxation rate, 1/$T_1$, shows three distinct regimes, with onset temperatures at $T_t$ and 2 K. The temperature-independent 1/$T_1$, observed between $T_t$ and 2 K, crosses over to a Korringa process, 1/$T_1$ $\propto$ $T$, below $\sim$ 2 K, which evidences a rare two-ion Kondo scenario: the system goes into a dense Kondo coherent state at 2.0 and 0.8 K for the two different Ga sites.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Hört Gott mich, wenn ich zu ihm rufe?
Creators: name: Werbick, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 37 Nr. 6 (2008): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 37, Heft 6
Predicted properties of multiple images of the strongly lensed supernova SN Refsdal
Creators: name: Oguri, Masamune
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a mass model of the cluster MACS J1149.6+2223 to study the expected properties of multiple images of SN Refsdal, the first example of a gravitationally lensed supernova with resolved multiple images recently reported by Kelly et al. We find that the best-fit model predicts six supernova images in total, i.e., two extra images in addition to the observed four Einstein cross supernova images S1--S4. One extra image is predicted to have appeared about 17 years ago, whereas the other extra image is predicted to appear in about one year from the appearance of S1--S4, which is a testable prediction with near future observations. The predicted magnification factors of individual supernova images range from $\sim 18$ for the brightest image to $\sim 4$ for the faint extra images. Confronting these predictions with future observations should provide an unprecedented opportunity to improve our understanding of cluster mass distributions.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Collimation of the kiloparsec-scale radio jets in NGC 2663
Creators: name: Velović, Velibor
name: Filipović, M. D.
name: Barnes, L.
name: Norris, R. P.
name: Tremblay, C. D.
name: Heald, G.
name: Rudnick, L.
name: Shabala, S. S.
name: Pannuti, T. G.
name: Andernach, H.
name: Titov, O.
name: Waddell, S. G. H.
name: Koribalski, B. S.
name: Grupe, D.
name: Jarrett, T.
name: Alsaberi, R. Z. E.
name: Carretti, E.
name: Collier, J. D.
name: Einecke, S.
name: Galvin, T. J.
name: Hotan, A.
name: Manojlović, P.
name: Marvil, J.
name: Nandra, K.
name: Reiprich, T. H.
name: Rowell, G.
name: Salvato, M.
name: Whiting, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the discovery of highly-collimated radio jets spanning a total of 355 kpc around the nearby elliptical galaxy NGC 2663, and the possible first detection of recollimation on kiloparsec scales. The small distance to the galaxy (~28.5 Mpc) allows us to resolve portions of the jets to examine their structure. We combine multiwavelength data: radio observations by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), and X-ray data from Chandra, Swift and SRG/eROSITA. We present intensity, rotation measure, polarisation, spectral index and X-ray environment maps. Regions of the southern jet show simultaneous narrowing and brightening, which can be interpreted as a signature of the recollimation of the jet by external, environmental pressure, though it is also consistent with an intermittent Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) or complex internal jet structure. X-ray data suggest that the environment is extremely poor; if the jet is indeed recollimating, the large recollimation scale (40 kpc) is consistent with a slow jet in a low-density environment.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Der Psalter - das Gebetbuch der Bibel
Creators: name: Zenger, Erich
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 37 Nr. 6 (2008): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 37, Heft 6
Broadly neutralizing antibodies against sarbecoviruses generated by immunization of macaques with an AS03-adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine
Creators: name: Veesler, D.
name: O'Hagan, D.T.
name: Powers, J.M.
name: Sundaramurthy, S.
name: Moreno, A.
name: Pulendran, B.
name: Mallory, M.L.
name: Baric, R.S.
name: Feng, Y.
name: Sprouse, K.R.
name: Munt, J.E.
name: Zhu, X.
name: Khurana, S.
name: Yuan, M.
name: Bellusci, L.
name: Arunachalam, P.S.
name: Hu, M.
name: Kim, J.
name: Adams, L.E.
name: King, N.P.
name: Wilson, I.A.
name: Villinger, F.J.
name: Leist, S.R.
name: Scobey, T.D.
name: Kleanthous, H.
name: Suthar, M.S.
name: Shirreff, L.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: The rapid emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants that evade immunity elicited by vaccination has placed an imperative on the development of countermeasures that provide broad protection against SARS-CoV-2 and related sarbecoviruses. Here, we identified extremely potent monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that neutralized multiple sarbecoviruses from macaques vaccinated with AS03-adjuvanted monovalent subunit vaccines. Longitudinal analysis revealed progressive accumulation of somatic mutation in the immunoglobulin genes of antigen-specific memory B cells (MBCs) for at least 1 year after primary vaccination. Antibodies generated from these antigen-specific MBCs at 5 to 12 months after vaccination displayed greater potency and breadth relative to those identified at 1.4 months. Fifteen of the 338 (about 4.4%) antibodies isolated at 1.4 to 6 months after the primary vaccination showed potency against SARS-CoV-2 BA.1, despite the absence of serum BA.1 neutralization. 25F9 and 20A7 neutralized authentic clade 1 sarbecoviruses (SARS-CoV, WIV-1, SHC014, SARS-CoV-2 D614G, BA.1, and Pangolin-GD) and vesicular stomatitis virus-pseudotyped clade 3 sarbecoviruses (BtKY72 and PRD-0038). 20A7 and 27A12 showed potent neutralization against all SARS-CoV-2 variants and multiple Omicron sublineages, including BA.1, BA.2, BA.3, BA.4/5, BQ.1, BQ.1.1, and XBB. Crystallography studies revealed the molecular basis of broad and potent neutralization through targeting conserved sites within the RBD. Prophylactic protection of 25F9, 20A7, and 27A12 was confirmed in mice, and administration of 25F9 particularly provided complete protection against SARS-CoV-2, BA.1, SARS-CoV, and SHC014 challenge. These data underscore the extremely potent and broad activity of these mAbs against sarbecoviruses.
Monotonicity formula for complete hypersurfaces in the Hyperbolic space and applications
Creators: name: Alencar, Hilário
name: Neto, Gregório Silva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C42, 53C40

description: In this paper we prove a monotonicity formula for the integral of the mean curvature for complete and proper hypersurfaces of the hyperbolic space and, as consequences, we obtain a lower bound for the integral of the mean curvature and that the integral of the mean curvature is infinity.
description: 10 pages, final version with minor corrections. To appear in Arkiv f\"or Matematik
Evolution, Intelligent Design und die Idee der Schöpfung
Creators: name: Hoping, Helmut
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 37 Nr. 5 (2008): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 37, Heft 5
Can $f(R)$ gravity isotropize a pre-bounce contracting universe?
Creators: name: Arora, Simran
name: Mandal, Sanjay
name: Chakraborty, Saikat
name: Leon, Genly
name: Sahoo, P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the important issue of isotropisation of a pre-bounce contracting phase in $f(R)$ gravity, which would be relevant to construct any viable nonsingular bouncing scenario in $f(R)$ gravity. The main motivation behind this work is to investigate whether the $f(R)$ gravity, by itself, can isotropise a contracting universe starting initially with small anisotropy without incorporating a super-stiff or non-ideal fluid, that is impossible in general relativity. Considering Bianchi I cosmology and employing a dynamical system analysis, we see that this is not possible for $R^n$ ($n>1$) and $R+αR^2$ ($α>0$) theory, but possible for $\frac{1}αe^{αR}$ ($α>0$) theory. On the other hand, if one does not specify an $f(R)$ theory a priori but demands a cosmology smoothly connecting an ekpyrotic contraction phase to a nonsingular bounce, the ekpyrotic phase \emph{may} not fulfil the condition for isotropisation and physically viability simultaneously.
description: 35 pages, 4 figures
Building local decision-making competencies during COVID-19: Accelerating the transition from learning healthcare systems to learning health communities
Creators: name: Holly, M.
name: Barach, P.
name: Ramaswamy, R.
name: Bartels, S.
name: Ramaswamy, V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: The persisting and evolving COVID-19 pandemic has made apparent that no singular policy of mitigation at a regional, national or global level has achieved satisfactory and universally acceptable results. In the United States, carefully planned and executed pandemic policies have been neither effective nor popular and COVID-19 risk management decisions have been relegated to individual citizens and communities. In this paper, we argue that a more effective approach is to equip and strengthen community coalitions to become local learning health communities (LLHCs) that use data over time to make adaptive decisions that can optimize the equity and well-being in their communities. Methods: We used data from the North Carolina (NC) county and zip code levels from May to August 2020 to demonstrate how a LLHC could use statistical process control (SPC) charts and simple statistical analysis to make local decisions about how to respond to COVID-19. Results: We found many patterns of COVID-19 progression at the local (county and zip code) levels during the same time period within the state that were completely different from the aggregate NC state level data used for policy making. Conclusions: Systematic approaches to learning from local data to support effective decisions have promise well beyond the current pandemic. These tools can help address other complex public health issues, and advance outcomes and equity. Building this capacity requires investment in data infrastructure and the strengthening of data competencies in community coalitions to better interpret data with limited need for advanced statistical expertise. Additional incentives that build trust, support data transparency, encourage truth-telling and promote meaningful teamwork are also critical. These must be carefully designed, contextually appropriate and multifaceted to motivate citizens to create and sustain an effective learning system that works for their communities.
Ramond-Ramond gauge fields in superspace with manifest T-duality
Creators: name: Hatsuda, Machiko
name: Kamimura, Kiyoshi
name: Siegel, Warren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A superspace with manifest T-duality including Ramond-Ramond gauge fields is presented. The superspace is defined by the double nondegenerate super-Poincare algebras where Ramond-Ramond charges are introduced by central extension. This formalism allows a simple treatment that all the supergravity multiplets are in a vielbein superfield and all torsions with dimension 1 and less are trivial. A Green-Schwarz superstring action is also presented where the Wess-Zumino term is given in a bilinear form of local currents. Equations of motion are separated into left and right modes in a suitable gauge.
description: 27 pages, to appear in JHEP. A procedure of the dimensional reduction is explained
Cephennomicrus
Creators: name: Jałoszyński, Paweł
name: Perkovsky, Evgeny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Cephennomicrus

description: Cephennomicrus sp. 5
(Figs 10, 99–102)
Material studied. Late Eocene of Europe, Rovno amber: sex unknown; inclusion in rectangular prism of amber 13 mm long (Fig. 10), collection number DU-32 (SIZK).
Description. Body (Figs 99–102) elongate and moderately strongly convex, dark brown; BL 0.76 mm.
Head (Figs 99–102) broadest at eyes, HL 0.10 mm, HW 0.18 mm; frons and vertex confluent, weakly convex and together strongly transverse; supraantennal tubercles weakly marked; compound eyes large and strongly convex, moderately coarsely faceted; punctures on frons sparse and fine; setae sparse, short and nearly recumbent. Antennae (Figs 99–102) much shorter than half BL, AnL about 0.25 mm, shapes of most antennomeres difficult to assess, but IX seems at least as long as broad or elongate, X transverse, XI about as long as IX–X combined or slightly shorter, about as broad as X and less than twice as long as broad, nearly or completely symmetrical.
Pronotum (Figs 99, 102) subrectangular, but exact shape difficult to assess; PL 0.23 mm, PW 0.25 mm; pronotal disc seems to be broadest in front of middle, sides rounded in anterior third and weakly sinuate posteriorly; posterior pronotal corners obtuse-angled; posterior margin shallowly bisinuate with indistinct flattening in front of scutellum; base with two pairs of small and shallow but distinct antebasal pits (Fig. 101; abp), only inner pair connected by narrow antebasal groove (Fig. 101; abg). Punctures on pronotal disc fine but distinct, separated by spaces 1.5–2 × as wide as diameters of punctures; setae short, moderately dense, nearly recumbent (Figs 99, 101).
Elytra (Figs 99, 101) elongate oval, moderately convex, EL about 0.58 mm, EW about 0.30 mm, EI about 1.46; punctures and setae similar to those on pronotum (Figs 99, 101) but slightly denser.
Legs (Figs 100, 102) moderately long, slender, unmodified; all tibiae straight or weakly curved. Remarks. See remarks for Cephennomicrus sp. 3.
description: Published as part of Jałoszyński, Paweł & Perkovsky, Evgeny, 2016, Diversity of Scydmaeninae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Upper Eocene Rovno amber, pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 4157 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4157.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262413
Canonical correlation analysis for multi-omics: Application to cross-cohort analysis
Creators: name: Tracy, Russell P.
name: VanDenBerg, David J.
name: Smith, Josh
name: Sofer, Tamar
name: Liu, Yongmei
name: Durda, Peter
name: Rich, Stephen S.
name: Rotter, Jerome I.
name: Kasela, Silva
name: Lappalainen, Tuuli
name: Love, Michael I.
name: Gabriel, Stacey B.
name: Chen, Jiawen
name: Cruz, Dan
name: Ardlie, Kristin
name: Taylor, Kent D.
name: Gerszten, Robert E.
name: Johnson, Craig W.
name: Raffield, Laura M.
name: Reiner, Alex P.
name: Wilson, James G.
name: Lange, Leslie A.
name: Guo, Xiuqing
name: Cornell, Elaine
name: Aguet, François
name: Jiang, Min-Zhi
name: Li, Yun
name: NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, TOPMed Analysis Working Group
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: Integrative approaches that simultaneously model multi-omics data have gained increasing popularity because they provide holistic system biology views of multiple or all components in a biological system of interest. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is a correlation-based integrative method designed to extract latent features shared between multiple assays by finding the linear combinations of features–referred to as canonical variables (CVs)–within each assay that achieve maximal across-assay correlation. Although widely acknowledged as a powerful approach for multi-omics data, CCA has not been systematically applied to multi-omics data in large cohort studies, which has only recently become available. Here, we adapted sparse multiple CCA (SMCCA), a widely-used derivative of CCA, to proteomics and methylomics data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and Jackson Heart Study (JHS). To tackle challenges encountered when applying SMCCA to MESA and JHS, our adaptations include the incorporation of the Gram-Schmidt (GS) algorithm with SMCCA to improve orthogonality among CVs, and the development of Sparse Supervised Multiple CCA (SSMCCA) to allow supervised integration analysis for more than two assays. Effective application of SMCCA to the two real datasets reveals important findings. Applying our SMCCA-GS to MESA and JHS, we identified strong associations between blood cell counts and protein abundance, suggesting that adjustment of blood cell composition should be considered in protein-based association studies. Importantly, CVs obtained from two independent cohorts also demonstrate transferability across the cohorts. For example, proteomic CVs learned from JHS, when transferred to MESA, explain similar amounts of blood cell count phenotypic variance in MESA, explaining 39.0% ~ 50.0% variation in JHS and 38.9% ~ 49.1% in MESA. Similar transferability was observed for other omics-CV-trait pairs. This suggests that biologically meaningful and cohort-agnostic variation is captured by CVs. We anticipate that applying our SMCCA-GS and SSMCCA on various cohorts would help identify cohort-agnostic biologically meaningful relationships between multi-omics data and phenotypic traits.
Dem Stoff der Geschichte Gestalt geben
Creators: name: Mosebach, Martin
name: Zaborowski, Holger
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 37 Nr. 5 (2008): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 37, Heft 5
On the black hole limit of rotating discs of charged dust
Creators: name: Breithaupt, Martin
name: Liu, Yu-Chun
name: Meinel, Reinhard
name: Palenta, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Investigating the rigidly rotating disc of dust with constant specific charge, we find that it leads to an extreme Kerr-Newman black hole in the ultra-relativistic limit. A necessary and sufficient condition for a black hole limit is, that the electric potential in the co-rotating frame is constant on the disc. In that case certain other relations follow. These relations are reviewed with a highly accurate post-Newtonian expansion. Remarkably it is possible to survey the leading order behaviour close to the black hole limit with the post-Newtonian expansion. We find that the disc solution close to that limit can be approximated very well by a "hyper\-extreme" Kerr-Newman solution with the same gravitational mass, angular momentum and charge.
Topological String Correlators from Matrix Models
Creators: name: Koch, Robert de Mello
name: Nkumane, Lwazi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how to compute connected matrix model correlators for operators related to the gravitational descendants of the puncture operator, for the topological A model on P^1. The relevant correlators are determined by recursion relations that follow from a systematic 1/N expansion of well chosen Schwinger-Dyson equations. Our results provide further compelling evidence for Gopakumar's proposed "simplest gauge string duality" between the Gaussian matrix model and the topological A model on P^1.
description: 25 pages; v2. refs added
Evolution of the electronic structure of ultrathin MnBi2Te4 Films
Creators: name: Xu, Runzhe
name: Bai, Yunhe
name: Zhou, Jingsong
name: Li, Jiaheng
name: Gu, Xu
name: Qin, Na
name: Yin, Zhongxu
name: Du, Xian
name: Zhang, Qinqin
name: Zhao, Wenxuan
name: Li, Yidian
name: Wu, Yang
name: Ding, Cui
name: Wang, Lili
name: Liang, Aiji
name: Liu, Zhongkai
name: Xu, Yong
name: Feng, Xiao
name: He, Ke
name: Chen, Yulin
name: Yang, Lexian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultrathin films of intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 exhibit fascinating quantum properties such as quantum anomalous Hall effect and axion insulator state. In this work, we systematically investigate the evolution of the electronic structure of MnBi2Te4 thin films. With increasing film thickness, the electronic structure changes from an insulator-type with a large energy gap to one with in-gap topological surface states, which is, however, still drastically different from the bulk material. By surface doping of alkali-metal atoms, a Rashba split band gradually emerges and hybridizes with topological surface states, which not only reconciles the puzzling difference between the electronic structures of the bulk and thin film MnBi2Te4 but also provides an interesting platform to establish Rashba ferromagnet that is attractive for (quantum) anomalous Hall effect. Our results provide important insights into the understanding and engineering of the intriguing quantum properties of MnBi2Te4 thin films.
description: Online published in Nano Letters
CC-Chemokine Receptor-2 Expression in Osteoblasts Contributes to Cartilage and Bone Damage during Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Valdés-Fernández, José
name: Arbeeva, Liubov
name: Granero-Moltó, Froilán
name: Prósper, Felipe
name: Willcockson, Helen
name: Musawwir, Layla
name: Ozkan, Huseyin
name: Hooper, Lola B.
name: Mucahit, Esra
name: Longobardi, Lara
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: In osteoarthritis (OA), bone changes are radiological hallmarks and are considered important for disease progression. The C-C chemokine receptor-2 (CCR2) has been shown to play an important role in bone physiology. In this study, we investigated whether Ccr2 osteoblast-specific inactivation at different times during post-traumatic OA (PTOA) progression improves joint structures, bone parameters, and pain. We used a tamoxifen-inducible Ccr2 inactivation in Collagen1α-expressing cells to obtain osteoblasts lacking Ccr2 (CCR2-Col1αKO). We stimulated PTOA changes in CCR2-Col1αKO and CCR2+/+ mice using the destabilization of the meniscus model (DMM), inducing recombination before or after DMM (early- vs. late-inactivation). Joint damage was evaluated at two, four, eight, and twelve weeks post-DMM using multiple scores: articular-cartilage structure (ACS), Safranin-O, histomorphometry, osteophyte size/maturity, subchondral bone thickness and synovial hyperplasia. Spontaneous and evoked pain were assessed for up to 20 weeks. We found that early osteoblast-Ccr2 inactivation delayed articular cartilage damage and matrix degeneration compared to CCR2+/+, as well as DMM-induced bone thickness. Osteophyte formation and maturation were only minimally affected. Late Collagen1α-Ccr2 deletion led to less evident improvements. Osteoblast-Ccr2 deletion also improved static measures of pain, while evoked pain did not change. Our study demonstrates that Ccr2 expression in osteoblasts contributes to PTOA disease progression and pain by affecting both cartilage and bone tissues.