cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chemical Characterization of Biomass Pyrolysis Oil Facilitated by Aerosolization and Size Separation
Creators: name: Halpern, Emily R.
name: West, Christopher P.
name: Hettiyadura, Anusha P.S.
name: Darmody, Andrew
name: Johnson, Jillian K.
name: Qian, Kuangnan
name: Laskin, Alexander
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Bio-oils are a promising renewable and carbon-neutral hydrocarbon material that can become a new energy source. Bio-oil mixtures have complex multi-component composition consisting of the pyrolysis products of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin of various molecular sizes with a range of highly oxygenated functional groups. Chemical characterization of bio-oil components is therefore necessary to inform the upgrading process of bio-oil and improve its commercial viability. We utilize aerosol technology to facilitate characterization of bio-oil components resulting in compositional differences specific to its volatility separated fractions. We aerosolize bio-oil mixture, followed by size separation and collection of obtained particles using a cascade impactor, where the collected particles are exposed to sequentially reduced pressures at each of the impaction stages. We characterize components of the impactor separated bio-oil fractions using high-resolution mass spectrometry equipped with interchangeable electrospray ionization and dopant-assisted atmospheric pressure photoionization sources. Through examination of the detected chemical species in each of the separated fractions and assessment of their physiochemical properties, we identify a range of fuel-like aliphatic species with low O/C ratio and low viscosity in the most volatile fraction. The less volatile fractions contained progressively higher portions of more viscous species containing lignin and sugars moieties with characteristic high O/C values. We show that the impactor-based separation of bio-oil fractions facilitates comprehensive characterization of its components with varying fuel viability, capable of guiding upgrading processes.
The volatility of pollen extracts and their main constituents in aerosolized form via the integrated volume method (IVM) and the volatility basis set (VBS)
Creators: name: Axelrod, Kevin
name: Bhattarai, Chiranjivi
name: Bahdanovich, Palina
name: Samburova, Vera
name: Khlystov, Andrey Y.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The volatility of organic aerosol in the atmosphere is an important quality that determines the aerosol/gas partitioning of compounds in the atmosphere and thus influences their ability to participate in gas-phase reactions in the atmosphere. In this research, the volatility of biological aerosols, specifically water-soluble pollen extracts and their chemical constituents, are studied for important thermodynamic properties such as saturation vapor concentration and latent heat of vaporization. The integrated volume method (IVM) was applied to characterize these properties for various free amino acids and saccharides in pollen, and the volatility basis set (VBS) approach was utilized to obtain a distribution of the mass fraction of pollen extracts with respect to saturation vapor concentration. Our results indicate that among seven compounds tested with the IVM, proline, γ-aminobutyric acid, and fructose had semivolatile saturation vapor concentrations of 17.5 ± 2.2, 14.7 ± 0.8, and 4.4 ± 0.5 μg m−3, respectively. Additionally, our VBS measurements indicate that aspen pollen extract contains a greater semivolatile mass fraction (up to 8.5% of total water-soluble mass) than lodgepole pine pollen (up to 2.2%), indicating that different pollen species may contribute to the total atmospheric semivolatile organic compound (SVOC) and low volatile organic compound (LVOC) budgets differently. Depending on estimates of several factors, fluxes and concentrations of SVOCs and LVOCs from pollen could be comparable to other sources such as biomass burning and ambient urban emissions, though further research is needed to better constrain the contribution of pollen and other bioaerosols to organic compounds in the atmosphere.
Field Theory of Nematicity in the Spontaneous Quantum Anomalous Hall effect
Creators: name: You, Yizhi
name: Fradkin, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive from a microscopic model the effective theory of nematic order in a system with a spontaneous quantum anomalous Hall effect in two dimensions. Starting with a model of two-component fermions (a spinor field) with a quadratic band crossing and short range four-fermion marginally relevant interactions we use a 1/N expansion and bosonization methods to derive the effective field theory for the hydrodynamic modes associated with the conserved currents and with the local fluctuations of the nematic order parameter. We focus on the vicinity of the quantum phase transition from the isotropic Mott Chern insulating phase to a phase in which time-reversal symmetry breaking coexists with nematic order, the nematic Chern insulator. The topological sector of the effective field theory is a BF/Chern-Simons gauge theory. We show that the nematic order parameter field couples with the Maxwell-type terms of the gauge fields as the space components of a locally fluctuating metric tensor. The nematic field has $z=2$ dynamic scaling exponent. The low energy dynamics of the nematic order parameter is found to be governed by a Berry phase term. By means of a detailed analysis of the coupling of the spinor field of the fermions to the changes of their local frames originating from long-wavelength lattice deformations we calculate the Hall viscosity of this system and show that in this system is not the same as the Berry phase term in the effective action of the nematic field, but both are related to the concept of torque Hall viscosity which we introduce here.
description: mildly edited version, one new reference; version to be published in Physical Review B; 22 pages, 3 figures (two with 2 subfigures each), 90 references
A cluster randomized trial of an organizational process improvement intervention for improving the assessment and case planning of offenders: a Study Protocol
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Assessment
Case planning
Change teams
Correctional treatment systems
Facilitators
Multi-site cluster randomized design

description: BACKGROUND: The Organizational Process Improvement Intervention (OPII), conducted by the NIDA-funded Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies consortium of nine research centers, examined an organizational intervention to improve the processes used in correctional settings to assess substance abusing offenders, develop case plans, transfer this information to community-based treatment agencies, and monitor the services provided by these community based treatment agencies. METHODS/DESIGN: A multi-site cluster randomized design was used to evaluate an inter-agency organizational process improvement intervention among dyads of correctional agencies and community based treatment agencies. Linked correctional and community based agencies were clustered among nine (9) research centers and randomly assigned to an early or delayed intervention condition. Participants included administrators, managers, and line staff from the participating agencies; some participants served on interagency change teams while other participants performed agency tasks related to offender services. A manualized organizational intervention that includes the use of external organizational coaches was applied to create and support interagency change teams that proceeded through a four-step process over a planned intervention period of 12 months. The primary outcome of the process improvement intervention was to improve processes associated with the assessment, case planning, service referral and service provision processes within the linked organizations. DISCUSSION: Providing substance abuse offenders with coordinated treatment and access to community-based services is critical to reducing offender recidivism. Results from this study protocol will provide new and critical information on strategies and processes that improve the assessment and case planning for such offenders as they transition between correctional and community based systems and settings. Further, this study extends current knowledge of and methods for, the study of evidence-based practice adoption and implementation.
On the transformations generated by the electromagnetic spin and orbital angular momentum operators
Creators: name: Fernandez-Corbaton, Ivan
name: Zambrana-Puyalto, Xavier
name: Molina-Terriza, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the properties of the transversal "spin angular momentum" and "orbital angular momentum" operators. We show that the "spin angular momentum" operators are generators of spatial translations which depend on helicity and frequency and that the "orbital angular momentum" operators generate transformations which are a sequence of this kind of translations and rotations. We give some examples of the use of these operators in light matter interaction problems. Their relationship with the helicity operator allows to involve the electromagnetic duality symmetry in the analysis. We also find that simultaneous eigenstates of the three "spin" operators and parity define a type of standing modes which has been recently singled out for the interaction of light with chiral molecules. With respect to the relationship between "spin angular momentum", polarization, and total angular momentum, we show that, except for the case of a single plane wave, the total angular momentum of the field is decoupled from its vectorial degrees of freedom even in the regime where the paraxial approximation holds. Finally, we point out a relationship between the three "spin" operators and the spatial part of the Pauli-Lubanski four vector.
A couple-based HIV prevention intervention for Latino men who have sex with men: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Couple-based HIV prevention intervention
HIV and AIDS
Health disparities
Implementation science

description: © 2018 The Author(s). Background: Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) experienced a 13% increase in HIV diagnoses from 2010 to 2014, more than any other racial/ethnic subgroup of MSM in the United States. If current HIV diagnoses rates persist, about one in four Latino MSM in the United States will be diagnosed with HIV during their lifetime. Although some efficacious HIV prevention interventions for Latino MSM exist, none have focused on couples. This paper describes the protocol of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test the preliminary efficacy of a couple-based HIV prevention intervention that is culturally tailored for Latino men and their same-sex partners. Methods: The RCT will determine the preliminary efficacy of Connecting Latinos en Pareja (CLP) to increase the proportion of anal sex acts that are HIV protected (i.e., anal sex acts in which condoms, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), treatment as prevention (TasP), or a combination thereof, are used to reduce risk of HIV transmission). CLP builds upon previous couple-based interventions with white and black MSM by incorporating biomedical prevention techniques, such as PrEP and TasP, implementing a framework responsive to the couple's serostatus, and addressing the socio-cultural factors that influence HIV risk among Latino MSM. We also include input from community stakeholders, members of the target population, and a community advisory board as part of intervention development. Assessments will be conducted at baseline, and 3- and 6-months post-intervention to examine the intervention effects on outcomes (HIV-protected sex acts), and factors potentially mediating or moderating intervention effects. Discussion: This paper describes an innovative RCT that incorporates multiple HIV prevention techniques for Latino MSM in couples, regardless of serostatus. The ongoing involvement of community stakeholders, members of the target population, and a community advisory board is emphasized, and plans for widespread dissemination and application of findings into practice are discussed.
Hyomys goliath
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Hyomys
Hyomys goliath

description: Hyomys goliath (Milne-Edwards, 1900). Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 6: 165. TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., highlands of the Aroa River basin. DISTRIBUTION: Interior New Guinea. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011026001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 520, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
A crowdsourced analysis to identify ab initio molecular signatures predictive of susceptibility to viral infection
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gene Expression
Healthy Volunteers
Heme
Humans
Influenza A Virus, H1N2 Subtype
Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype
Respiratory Syncytial Viruses
Rhinovirus

description: © 2018, The Author(s). The response to respiratory viruses varies substantially between individuals, and there are currently no known molecular predictors from the early stages of infection. Here we conduct a community-based analysis to determine whether pre- or early post-exposure molecular factors could predict physiologic responses to viral exposure. Using peripheral blood gene expression profiles collected from healthy subjects prior to exposure to one of four respiratory viruses (H1N1, H3N2, Rhinovirus, and RSV), as well as up to 24 h following exposure, we find that it is possible to construct models predictive of symptomatic response using profiles even prior to viral exposure. Analysis of predictive gene features reveal little overlap among models; however, in aggregate, these genes are enriched for common pathways. Heme metabolism, the most significantly enriched pathway, is associated with a higher risk of developing symptoms following viral exposure. This study demonstrates that pre-exposure molecular predictors can be identified and improves our understanding of the mechanisms of response to respiratory viruses.
A data-driven acute inflammation therapy
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Acute Disease
Algorithms
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Simulation
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Humans
Inflammation
Models, Biological
Outcome Assessment, Health Care

description: Acute inflammation is a severe medical condition defined as an inflammatory response of the body to an infection. Its rapid progression requires quick and accurate decisions from clinicians. Inadequate and delayed decisions makes acute inflammation the 10th leading cause of death overall in United States with the estimated cost of treatment about $17 billion annually. However, despite the need, there are limited number of methods that could assist clinicians to determine optimal therapies for acute inflammation. We developed a data-driven method for suggesting optimal therapy by using machine learning model that is learned on historical patients' behaviors. To reduce both the risk of failure and the expense for clinical trials, our method is evaluated on a virtual patients generated by a mathematical model that emulates inflammatory response. In conducted experiments, acute inflammation was handled with two complimentary pro- and anti-inflammatory medications which adequate timing and doses are crucial for the successful outcome. Our experiments show that the dosage regimen assigned with our data-driven method significantly improves the percentage of healthy patients when compared to results by other methods used in clinical practice and found in literature. Our method saved 88% of patients that would otherwise die within a week, while the best method found in literature saved only 73% of patients. At the same time, our method used lower doses of medications than alternatives. In addition, our method achieved better results than alternatives when only incomplete or noisy measurements were available over time as well as it was less affected by therapy delay. The presented results provide strong evidence that models from the artificial intelligence community have a potential for development of personalized treatment strategies for acute inflammation. © 2013 Radosavljevic et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
SD-LLOD-22 Slides
Creators: name: Gracia, Jorge
name: Chozas, Patricia Martín
name: Khan, Anas Fahad
name: Chiarcos, Christian
name: Ponsoda, Elena Montiel
name: Ahmadi, Sina
name: Declerck, Thierry
name: Dojcinovski, Milan
name: Fäth, Christian
name: Gromann, Dagmar
name: Ionov, Max
name: Sérasset, Gilles
name: Tchechmedjiev, Andon
name: Fiorelli, Manuel
name: Lindemann, David
name: Mambrini, Francesco
name: Stearns, Bernardo
name: Stellato, Armando
name: Revenko, Artem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: datathon
linguistic linked open data
semantic web
language technologies

description: Compilation of all the slides presented during the 5 days of the 4th Summer Datathon in Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD-22), supported by the NexusLinguarum CA18209 COST Action, celebrated from May 30th to June 3rd 2022 in Cercedilla, Madrid, Spain.
A cluster randomized trial of utilizing a local change team approach to improve the delivery of HIV services in correctional settings: study protocol
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Change team
Correctional facility
HIV
NIATx

description: BACKGROUND: Persons held in correctional facilities are at high risk for HIV infection and their prevalence of HIV is substantially higher than in the general population. Thus, the need for proper surveillance and care of this high risk population is a paramount public health issue. This study aims to evaluate an organization-level intervention strategy for improving HIV services for persons in prison or jail. METHODS/DESIGN: HIV Services and Treatment Implementation in Corrections (HIV-STIC) is using a cluster randomized trial design to test an organization-level intervention designed to implement improvements in preventing, detecting, and treating HIV for persons under correctional supervision. Matched pairs of prison or jail facilities were randomized using a SAS algorithm. Facility staff members in both Experimental and Control conditions involved in HIV service delivery are recruited to receive training on HIV infection, the HIV services continuum, and relevant web-based resources. Staff members in both conditions are tasked to implement improvements in HIV prevention, testing, or treatment in their facility. In the Control condition facilities, staff participants use existing techniques for implementing improvement in a selected area of HIV services. In contrast, the Experimental condition staff participants work as a Local Change Team (LCT) with external coaching and use a structured process improvement approach to improve a selected part of the HIV services continuum. The intervention period is 10 months during which data are obtained using survey instruments administered to staff members and aggregate services delivery data. The study is being implemented in 13 pairs of correctional facilities across nine states in the US. Experimental sites are hypothesized to show improvements in both staff attitudes toward HIV services and the number and quality of HIV services provided for inmates. DISCUSSION: The current study examines a range of process and outcome data relevant to the implementation of a Change Team approach across diverse correctional settings in the United States. This initial study represents an important step toward a national best practices approach to implementing change in U.S. correctional settings and could serve as an exemplar for designing similar implementation studies.
Multi-modal chemical characterization of highly viscous submicrometer organic particles
Creators: name: Morales, Ana C.
name: Peterson, Brianna N.
name: Sharpe, Steven A. L.
name: Huston, Shelby M.
name: Tomlin, Jay M.
name: Rivera-Adorno, Felipe A.
name: Moffet, Ryan C.
name: Zelenyuk, Alla
name: Laskin, Alexander
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Distinguishing highly viscous organic particles within complex mixtures of atmospheric aerosol and accurate descriptions of their composition, size distributions, and mixing states are challenges at the forefront of aerosol measurement science and technology. Here, we present results obtained from complementary single-particle measurement techniques employed for the in-depth characterization of highly viscous particles. We demonstrate advantages and synergy of this multi-modal particle characterization approach based on the analysis of individual viscous particles formed in the air-discharged waste produced by a common sewer pipe rehabilitation technology. Using oil immersion flow microscopy, we investigate particle size distributions and morphology of colloidal components present in field-collected aqueous waste condensates. We compare these results with corresponding measurements of viscous particles formed in drying droplets of the aerosolized discharged waste. The colloidal components and viscous particles were found to be approximately 10 µm and 0.5 µm, respectively. The aerosolized viscous particles exhibited a spherical morphology, while the colloidal particles appeared noticeably fractal, resembling fragments of a cured composite material. Chemical imaging of the viscous particles collected on substrates was performed using scanning electron microscopy and soft X-ray spectro-microscopy techniques. Through these methods, comprehensive description of these particles emerged, confirming their high solid-like viscosity, wide-ranging sizes, diverse carbon speciation with high degrees of oxygenation, and high organic volume fractions. The aerosolized viscous particles were further characterized using high-throughput single particle mass spectrometry. This technique provides real-time measurements of composition, size, and morphological metrics for large numbers of individual particles, enabling the identification of their distinct mass spectrometric signatures. Copyright © 2023 American Association for Aerosol Research
Advanced sine wave modulation of continuous wave laser system for atmospheric CO2 differential absorption measurements
Creators: name: Campbell, Joel F.
name: Lin, Bing
name: Nehrir, Amin R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this theoretical study, modulation techniques are developed to support the Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons (ASCENDS) mission. A CW lidar system using sine waves modulated by ML pseudo random noise codes is described for making simultaneous online/offline differential absorption measurements. Amplitude and Phase Shift Keying (PSK) modulated IM carriers, in addition to a hybrid pulse technique are investigated that exhibit optimal autocorrelation properties. A method is presented to bandwidth limit the ML sequence based on a filter implemented in terms of Jacobi theta functions that does not significantly degrade the resolution or introduce side lobes as a means of reducing aliasing and IM carrier bandwidth.
description: Accepted for publication in Applied Optics
title: The Pestilence in the Ditch: Landscapes in Contemporary British Film Culture
Creators: name: Jackson, Lawrence
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: This thesis argues that certain British films of the first two decades of the twenty-first century are defined by their atmospheres of unease, and that these atmospheres grow out of the films’ bold and distinctive treatment of landscape. This approach to landscape simultaneously builds upon and differs from that of past British cinema, because of its association with a sustained tone of alienation, disenfranchisement and intensity. Focusing principally on the films of Andrea Arnold, Clio Barnard, Paddy Considine, Shane Meadows and Ben Wheatley, which together constitute a shadow strain of contemporary British cinema, my thesis uses the concepts of eerie, pastoral, heritage and epic to investigate the landscapes of British film culture in the new century. An introductory section looks at the relation of these contemporary screen landscapes to earlier cinematic and literary traditions, working to build up a methodology for the exploration which follows of the storytelling modes of eerie, pastoral, heritage and epic. Films which utilise, subvert or renew each mode are then explored in detail, facilitating a discussion of their shared aesthetic stance of rebellion. The objective of the filmmakers’ stance is to avoid the falsification of history, and instead to embody authenticity. In their use of landscape, the films cross thresholds between the modes of eerie, pastoral, heritage and epic, and so redefine these modes in the context of twenty-first century British cinema. This thesis asks, how and why do these contemporary British films locate tension within the landscape? It argues that in so doing they hold a mirror up to past, present and future Britain, creating a new space, which is a British anti-landscape.
Kadarsanomys Musser 1981
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Kadarsanomys

description: Kadarsanomys Musser, 1981. Zool. Verhandelingen, 189:5.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 520, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
Multi-modal Chemical Characterization of Highly Viscous Submicrometer Organic Particles.
Creators: name: Morales, Ana C.
name: Peterson, Brianna N.
name: Sharpe, Steven A.
name: Huston, Shelby M.
name: Tomlin, Jay M.
name: Rivera-Adorno, Felipe A.
name: Moffet, Ryan C.
name: Zelenyuk, Alla
name: Laskin, Alexander
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Distinguishing highly viscous organic particles within complex mixtures of atmospheric aerosol and accurate descriptions of their composition, size distributions, and mixing states are challenges at the forefront of aerosol measurement science and technology. Here, we present results obtained from complementary single-particle measurement techniques employed for the in-depth characterization of highly viscous particles. We demonstrate advantages and synergy of this multi-modal particle characterization approach based on the analysis of individual viscous particles formed in the air-discharged waste produced by a common sewer pipe rehabilitation technology. Using oil immersion flow microscopy, we investigate particle size distributions and morphology of colloidal components present in field-collected aqueous waste condensates. We compare these results with corresponding measurements of viscous particles formed in drying droplets of the aerosolized discharged waste. The colloidal components and viscous particles were found to be approximately 10 µm and 0.5 µm, respectively. The aerosolized viscous particles exhibited a spherical morphology, while the colloidal particles appeared noticeably fractal, resembling fragments of a cured composite material. Chemical imaging of the viscous particles collected on substrates was performed using scanning electron microscopy and soft X-ray spectro-microscopy techniques. Through these methods, comprehensive description of these particles emerged, confirming their high solid-like viscosity, wide-ranging sizes, diverse carbon speciation with high degrees of oxygenation, and high organic volume fractions. The aerosolized viscous particles were further characterized using high-throughput single particle mass spectrometry. This technique provides real-time measurements of composition, size, and morphological metrics for large numbers of individual particles, enabling the identification of their distinct mass spectrometric signatures.
A Co-Design-Based Reliable Low-Latency and Energy-Efficient Transmission Protocol for UWSNs
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: MAC and routing
QoS of UWSNs
co-design
energy-efficient
low-latency
reliable
time-critical aquatic applications
transmission protocol

description: Recently, underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have been considered as a powerful technique for many applications. However, acoustic communications in UWSNs bring in huge QoS issues for time-critical applications. Additionally, excessive control packets and multiple copies during the data transmission process exacerbate this challenge. Faced with these problems, we propose a reliable low-latency and energy-efficient transmission protocol for dense 3D underwater wireless sensor networks to improve the QoS of UWSNs. The proposed protocol exploits fewer control packets and reduces data-packet copies effectively through the co-design of routing and media access control (MAC) protocols. The co-design method is divided into two steps. First, the number of handshakes in the MAC process will be greatly reduced via our forwarding-set routing strategy under the guarantee of reliability. Second, with the help of information from the MAC process, network-update messages can be used to replace control packages through mobility prediction when choosing a route. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol has a considerably higher reliability, and lower latency and energy consumption in comparison with existing transmission protocols for a dense underwater wireless sensor network.
Kadarsanomys sodyi
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Kadarsanomys
Kadarsanomys sodyi

description: Kadarsanomys sodyi (Bartels, 1937). Treubia, 16:45. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Java, West Java, Mt. Pangrango Gede, 1000 m. DISTRIBUTION: Java. COMMENT: Formerly included in Rattus and Lenothrix canus; see Musser, 1981, Zool. Verhandelingen, 189:5.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 520, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
A comparison of diarrheal severity scores in the MAL-ED multisite community-based cohort study
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: diarrhea
epidemiology
pediatric

description: Copyright © 2016 by European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition and North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. Objectives: There is a lack of consensus on how to measure diarrheal severity. Within the context of a multisite, prospective cohort study, we evaluated the performance of a modified Vesikari score (MAL-ED), 2 previously published scores (Clark and CODA [a diarrheal severity score (Community DiarrheA) published by Lee et al]), and a modified definition of moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) based on dysentery and health care worker diagnosed dehydration. Methods: Scores were built using maternally reported symptoms or fieldworker-reported clinical signs obtained during the first 7 days of a diarrheal episode. The association between these and the risk of hospitalization were tested using receiver operating characteristic analysis. Severity scores were also related to illness etiology, and the likelihood of the episode subsequently becoming prolonged or persistent. Results: Of 10,159 episodes from 1681 children, 143 (4.0%) resulted in hospitalization. The area under the curve of each score as a predictor of hospitalization was 0.84 (95% confidence interval: 0.81, 0.87) (Clark), 0.85 (0.82, 0.88) (MAL-ED), and 0.87 (0.84, 0.89) (CODA). Severity was also associated with etiology and episode duration. Although families were more likely to seek care for severe diarrhea, approximately half of severe cases never reached the health system. Conclusions: Community-based diarrheal severity scores are predictive of relevant child health outcomes. Because they require no assumptions about health care access or utilization, they are useful in refining estimates of the burden of diarrheal disease, in estimating the effect of disease control interventions, and in triaging children for referral in low- and middle-income countries in which the rates of morbidity and mortality after diarrhea remain high.
5-Brane Webs, Symmetry Enhancement, and Duality in 5d Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Bergman, Oren
name: Rodriguez-Gomez, Diego
name: Zafrir, Gabi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a number of investigations of 5d ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric gauge theories that make use of 5-brane web constructions and the 5d superconformal index. These include an observation of enhanced global symmetry in the 5d fixed point theory corresponding to $SU(N)$ gauge theory with Chern-Simons level $\pm N$, enhanced global symmetries in quiver theories, and dualities between quiver theories and non-quiver theories. Instanton contributions play a crucial role throughout.
description: 50 pages, 36 figures; Typos corrected. Version published in JHEP
Quantum quasicrystals of spin-orbit coupled dipolar bosons
Creators: name: Gopalakrishnan, Sarang
name: Martin, Ivar
name: Demler, Eugene A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quasi-two-dimensional dipolar Bose gases in which the bosons experience a Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We show that the degenerate dispersion minimum due to the spin-orbit coupling, combined with the long-range dipolar interaction, can stabilize a number of quantum crystalline and quasicrystalline ground states. Coupling the bosons to a fermionic species can further stabilize these phases. We estimate that the crystalline and quasicrystalline phases should be detectable in realistic dipolar condensates, e.g., dysprosium, and discuss their symmetries and excitations.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, plus supplementary information. To appear in PRL
Acinetobacter soli modulates resistance to insecticide in pest insects
Creators: name: 任志杰
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2024
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Genome sequencing
Metagenome
Transcriptome or Gene expression
Multispecies
Agricultural

description: Bacterial symbionts are essential for insecticide resistance in pest insects. In the present study, we focus on a prevalent bacterial symbiont, Acinetobacter soli, which modulates insecticide resistance in a broad range of pest insect hosts through an amino acid-supplying-dependent detoxifying pathway activation. Specifically, A. soli orchestrates arginine to enhance the pest insect host's resistance to nitenpyram by regulating the expression of NlCYP6ER1 via downregulation of miRNA novel_85 in N. lugens. A. soli can high potency infection through horizontal and vertical transmission within insect populations. Furthermore, extensive research on diverse insect pest hosts indicate that A. soli ubiquitous in Sogatella furcifera and Chilo suppressalis, and can provide insecticide tolerance to rice pest insects. Our findings unveil a novel mechanism by which A. soli confers resistance in N. lugens via arginine signaling and uncover new insights that bacterial symbionts can play a pervasive role in modulating resistance to multiple insecticides in various pest insect hosts.
Komodomys Musser and Boeadi 1980
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Komodomys

description: Komodomys Musser and Boeadi, 1980. J. Mammal., 61: 397. REVIEWED BY: B. R. Stein (BRS).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 520, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
The characterization of topological properties in Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model
Creators: name: Meng, Zi Yang
name: Hung, Hsiang-Hsuan
name: Lang, Thomas C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological insulators present a bulk gap, but allow for dissipationless spin transport along the edges. These exotic states are characterized by the $Z_2$ topological invariant and are protected by time-reversal symmetry. The Kane-Mele model is one model to realize this topological class in two dimensions, also called the quantum spin Hall state. In this review, we provide a pedagogical introduction to the influence of correlation effects in the quantum spin Hall states, with special focus on the half-filled Kane-Mele-Hubbard model, solved by means of unbiased determinant quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations. We explain the idea of identifying the topological insulator via $π$-flux insertion, the $Z_2$ invariant and the associated behavior of the zero-frequency Green's function, as well as the spin Chern number in parameter-driven topological phase transitions. The examples considered are two descendants of the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model, the generalized and dimerized Kane-Mele-Hubbard model. From the $Z_2$ index, spin Chern numbers and the Green's function behavior, one can observe that correlation effects induce shifts of the topological phase boundaries. Although the implementation of these topological quantities has been successfully employed in QMC simulations to describe the topological phase transition, we also point out their limitations as well as suggest possible future directions in using numerical methods to characterize topological properties of strongly correlated condensed matter systems.
description: 35 pages, 16 figures, brief review for Mod. Phys. Lett B
Structure of transition classes for factor codes on shifts of finite type
Creators: name: Allahbakhshi, Mahsa
name: Hong, Soonjo
name: Jung, Uijin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B10

description: Given a factor code $π$ from a shift of finite type $X$ onto a sofic shift $Y$, the class degree of $π$ is defined to be the minimal number of transition classes over points of $Y$. In this paper we investigate structure of transition classes and present several dynamical properties analogous to the properties of fibers of finite-to-one codes. As a corollary, we show that for an irreducible factor triple there cannot be a transition between two different transition classes over a right transitive point, answering a question raised by Quas.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures
Negative Energy: Why Interdisciplinary Physics Requires Multiple Ontologies
Creators: name: Dreyfus, Benjamin W.
name: Geller, Benjamin D.
name: Gouvea, Julia
name: Sawtelle, Vashti
name: Turpen, Chandra
name: Redish, Edward F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Much recent work in physics education research has focused on ontological metaphors for energy, particularly the substance ontology and its pedagogical affordances. The concept of negative energy problematizes the substance ontology for energy, but in many instructional settings, the specific difficulties around negative energy are outweighed by the general advantages of the substance ontology. However, we claim that our interdisciplinary setting (a physics class that builds deep connections to biology and chemistry) leads to a different set of considerations and conclusions. In a course designed to draw interdisciplinary connections, the centrality of chemical bond energy in biology necessitates foregrounding negative energy from the beginning. We argue that the emphasis on negative energy requires a combination of substance and location ontologies. The location ontology enables energies both "above" and "below" zero. We present preliminary student data that illustrate difficulties in reasoning about negative energy, and the affordances of the location metaphor.
description: 4 pages, submitted to PERC 2013 Proceedings
Komodomys rintjanus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Komodomys
Komodomys rintjanus

description: Komodomys rintjanus (Sody, 1941). Treubia, 18: 310. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Rintja Isl., Lohoboeaja. DISTRIBUTION: Rintja and Padar Isis. (Lesser Sunda Isis.). COMMENT: Formerly included in Rattus by Laurie and Hill, 1954:121; see Musser and Boeadi, 1980, J. Mammal., 61:395-413.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 520, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
description: {"references": ["Laurie, E. M. O., and J. E. Hill. 1954. List of land mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and adjacent islands 1758 - 1952. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 175 pp.", "Musser, G. G., and B. Boeadi. 1980. A new genus of murid rodent from the Komodo islands in Nusatenggara, Indonesia. Journal of Mammalogy, 61: 395 - 413."]}
A computational approach to map nucleosome positions and alternative chromatin states with base pair resolution
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: MNase-seq
S. cerevisiae
base-pair resolution
computational biology
evolutionary biology
gene regulation
genomics
heterogenity
human
nucleosome position
systems biology
template-based model
Chromatin
Computational Biology
DNA
Humans
Nucleosomes
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Sequence Analysis, DNA

description: © Zhou et al. Understanding chromatin function requires knowing the precise location of nucleosomes. MNase-seq methods have been widely applied to characterize nucleosome organization in vivo, but generally lack the accuracy to determine the precise nucleosome positions. Here we develop a computational approach leveraging digestion variability to determine nucleosome positions at a base-pair resolution from MNase-seq data. We generate a variability template as a simple error model for how MNase digestion affects the mapping of individual nucleosomes. Applied to both yeast and human cells, this analysis reveals that alternatively positioned nucleosomes are prevalent and create significant heterogeneity in a cell population. We show that the periodic occurrences of dinucleotide sequences relative to nucleosome dyads can be directly determined from genome-wide nucleosome positions from MNase-seq. Alternatively positioned nucleosomes near transcription start sites likely represent different states of promoter nucleosomes during transcription initiation. Our method can be applied to map nucleosome positions in diverse organisms at base-pair resolution.
A decade of EGFR inhibition in EGFR-mutated non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Old successes and future perspectives
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: EGFR mutations
third generation EGFR TKIs
non small cell lung cancer
tyrosine kinase inhibitors
targeted therapy

description: The discovery of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) mutations in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) launched the era of personalized medicine in advanced NSCLC, leading to a dramatic shift in the therapeutic landscape of this disease. After ten years from the individuation of activating mutations in the tyrosine kinase domain of the EGFR in NSCLC patients responding to the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) Gefitinib, several progresses have been done and first line treatment with EGFR TKIs is a firmly established option in advanced EGFR-mutated NSCLC patients. During the last decade, different EGFR TKIs have been developed and three inhibitors have been approved so far in these selected patients. However, despite great breakthroughs have been made, treatment of these molecularly selected patients poses novel therapeutic challenges, such as emerging of acquired resistance, brain metastases development or the need to translate these treatments in earlier clinical settings, such as adjuvant therapy. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the major progresses reported so far in the EGFR inhibition in this molecularly-selected subgroup of NSCLC patients, from the early successes with first generation EGFR TKIs, Erlotinib and Gefitinib, to the novel irreversible and mutant-selective inhibitors and ultimately the emerging challenges that we, in the next future, are called to deal with.