cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The urokinase/urokinase receptor system in mast cells: effects of its functional interaction with fmlf receptors
Creators: name: Rossi, Francesca Wanda
name: Prevete, Nella
name: Rivellese, Felice
name: Napolitano, Filomena
name: Montuori, Nunzia
name: Postiglione, Loredana
name: Selleri, Carmine
name: De Paulis, Amato
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2016
Subjects: Mast Cells
FPRs
uPA/uPAR
VEGF-A

description: Mast cell and basophils express the high affinity receptor for IgE (FcRI) and are primary effector cells of allergic disorders. The urokinase (uPA)-mediated plasminogen activation system is involved in physiological and pathological events based on cell migration and tissue remodelling, such as inflammation, wound healing, angiogenesis and metastasis. uPA is a serine protease that binds uPAR, a high affinity glycosyl-phosphatidyl-inositol (GPI)- anchored receptor. uPAR focuses uPA activity at the cell surface and activates intracellular signaling through lateral interactions with integrins, receptor tyrosine kinases and the G-protein-coupled family of fMLF chemotaxis receptors (FPRs). We investigated the expression of the uPAuPAR system and its functional interaction with FPRs in human mast cells (MCs). Differently from basophils, MCs produced uPA that was able to induce their chemotaxis. Indeed, MCs also expressed uPAR, both in the intact and in a cleaved form (DIIDIII-uPAR) that can expose, at the N-terminus, the SRSRY sequence, able to interact with FPRs and to mediate cell chemotaxis. MCs also expressed mRNAs for FPRs that were functionally active; indeed, uPA and a soluble peptide (uPAR84-95), containing the SRSRY chemotactic sequence of uPAR and able to interact with FPRs, were able to induce MCs chemotaxis. Thus, uPA is a potent chemoattractant for MCs acting through the exposure of the chemotactic epitope of uPAR, that is an endogenous ligand for FPRs. The same mechanism could be involved in VEGF-A secretion by human MCs, also induced by uPA and uPAR84-95 stimulation.
Study 2, U.S.
Creators: name: Matthews, Scott
name: Hanniman, Kyle
name: Jacques, Olivier
name: Abbott, Christopher
name: Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: In this study we investigate the capacity of central banks to influence fiscal policy attitudes via endorsements of government policy. This study is a follow-up, with a U.S. sample, to a parallel study conducted in Canada.
Comparative effectiveness research in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Creators: name: Lee, Todd A
name: Lindenauer, Peter K
name: Au, David H
name: McBurnie, Mary Ann
name: Mularski, Richard A
name: Vollmer, William M
name: Krishnan, Jerry A
name: Carson, Shannon S
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease affects millions worldwide. It is America’s third leading cause of death, and results in significant morbidity and cost. Although many therapies exist and are being developed to alleviate symptoms and decrease morbidity and mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, most have only been studied in placebo-controlled efficacy studies in highly selected populations. Comparative effectiveness and translational research in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease will require the development of infrastructures to support collaboration between researchers and the stakeholders who generate, disseminate and use new knowledge. Methodologies need to evolve to both prioritize research questions and to conduct collaborative comparative effectiveness research studies. Given the impracticality of testing every clinical intervention in comparative pragmatic trials for comparative effectiveness research in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, we advocate expanding methodology that includes the use of observational databases with serially performed effectiveness analyses and quasi-experimental designs that include following healthcare changes longitudinally over time to assess benefit, harm, subgroups and cost.
Molecular phylogeny and pathogenicity of Fusarium oxysporum f. Sp. elaeidis isolates from oil palm plantations in Cameroon
Creators: name: Tonjock Rosemary Kinge
name: Moforcha Lilian Zemenjuh
name: Bi, Manju Evelyn
name: Godswill Ntsomboh-Ntsefong
name: Mbong Grace Annih
name: Eneke Esoeyang Tambe Bechem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Oil palm, Phylogenetics, Pathogenicity, Vascular wilt, Symptomatic

description: In Cameroon one of the crops of economic importance is oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). However, it is affected by vascular wilt presumed to be caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. elaeidis (FOE). Accurate species identification requires molecular-based comparisons. We hypothesize that FOE is the cause of oil palm wilt in Cameroon. We have tested this hypothesis by molecularly identifying Fusarium species associated with diseased oil palms and by determining the pathogenicity of selected isolates. Fungal samples of diseased palms were collected from the canopies and the soil in five oil palm estates of the Cameroon Development Corporation and characterized by sequencing and comparing the translation elongation factor 1a gene. The result revealed the presence of FOE from approximately 80% of the isolations. Cameroonian isolate within FOE clade 1 exhibited the greatest variability grouping with isolates from Suriname, Brazil and Democratic Republic of Congo. Other isolates found in FOE clade 2 formed a unique group comprised solely of isolates originating from Cameroon. Twenty-two isolates were chosen for pathogenicity tests. Within a short duration, fourteen isolates were demonstrated to be pathogenic to oil palm seedlings. These pathogenic isolates were distributed in both clade 1 and 2. This study reveals the pathogenicity of FOE isolates from Cameroon and has demonstrated that FOE in Africa is more diverse than previously reported including a lineage not previously observed outside of Cameroon. Comparisons among all isolates will ultimately aid to devise appropriate control mechanisms and better pathogen detection methods.
Non-Gaussianity constraints from Planck spectral distortion cross-correlations
Creators: name: Rotti, Aditya
name: Ravenni, Andrea
name: Chluba, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial non-Gaussianity can source $μ$-distortion anisotropies that are correlated with the large-scale temperature and polarization signals of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). A measurement of $μT$ and $μE$ correlations can therefore be used to constrain it on wavelengths of perturbations not directly probed by the standard CMB anisotropies. In this work, we carry out a first rigorous search for $μ$-type spectral distortion anisotropies with \Planck data, applying the well-tested constrained ILC component-separation method combined with the needlet framework. We reconstruct a $μ$ map from \Planck data, which we then correlate with the CMB anisotropies to derive constraints on the amplitude $\fNL$ of the local form bispectrum, specifically on the highly squeezed configurations with effective wavenumbers $k_s \simeq \SI{740}{Mpc^{-1}}$ and $k_L \simeq \SI{0.05}{Mpc^{-1}}$. We improve previously estimated constraints by more than an order of magnitude. This enhancement is owing to the fact that for the first time we are able to use the full multipole information by carefully controlling biases and systematic effects in the final analysis. We also for the first time incorporate constraints from measurements of $μE$ correlations, which further tighten the limits. A combination of the derived \Planck $μT$ and $μE$ power spectra yields $|\fNL| \lesssim 6800$ (95\% c.l.) on this highly squeezed bispectrum. This is only $\simeq 3$ times weaker than the anticipated constraint from \LiteBIRD alone. We show that a combination of \LiteBIRD with \Planck will improve the expected future constraint by $\simeq 20\%$ over \LiteBIRD alone. These limits can be used to constrain multi-field inflation models and primordial black hole formation scenarios, thus providing a promising novel avenue forward in CMB cosmology.
description: Comments welcome. Submitted to MNRAS
The Barbero-Immirzi Parameter: An Enigmatic Parameter of Loop Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Vyas, Rakshit P.
name: Joshi, Mihir J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Barbero-Immirzi parameter ($γ$) is introduced in loop quantum gravity (LQG) whose physical significance is still a biggest open question; because of its profound traits. In some cases, it is real-valued; while, it is complex-valued in other cases. This parameter emerges out in the process of denoting a Lorentz connection with non compact group $SO(3,1)$ in the form of a complex connection with values in a compact group of rotations, either $SO(3)$ or $SU(2)$. Initially, it was appeared in the Ashtekar variables. Fernando Barbero proposed its possibility to include within formalism. Its present value is fixed by counting of micro states in loop quantum gravity and matching with the semi classical black hole entropy computed by Stephen Hawking. This parameter is used to count the size of the quantum of area in Planck units. Until, the discovery of the spectrum of the area operator in LQG; its significance remains unknown. However, its complete physical significance is yet to be explored. In the present article, an introduction to the Barbero-Immirzi parameter in LQG, time line of this research area, various proposals regarding its physical significance are given.
description: 29 pages, 3 figure, 1 table
Revisiting the washout period in the incident user study design: why 6–12 months may not be sufficient
Creators: name: Dusetzina, Stacie B
name: Roberts, Andrew W
name: Farley, Joel F
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of this study was to describe how washout period duration affects the size and accuracy of retrospective incident user cohorts.
Vaccine hesitancy in Portugal: a scoping review
Creators: name: Hilario, Ana
name: Morais, Rita
name: da Silva, Pedro
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Background: The purpose of this study was to conduct a scoping review on the perceptions and behaviors of vaccine hesitancy in Portugal between 2000 and 2021. The research question that guided this review was: “What is the evidence from available studies on the perceptions and behaviors of vaccine hesitancy in Portugal between 2000 and 2021? Methods: A scoping review was developed. A database search was conducted in April 2021 on Web of Science, PubMed and Scopus for papers published between 2000 and 2021. An additional search on Google Scholar was made to identify other relevant papers to include in this review. Keywords: vaccine (and) refusal (and) Portugal; vaccination (and) refusal (and) Portugal; and vaccine (and) hesitancy (and) Portugal. Inclusion: all qualitative and quantitative studies on the perceptions and experiences on vaccine hesitancy in the Portuguese population (2000 and 2021). Exclusion criteria: clinical trials, grey literature, articles without primary or secondary data and published in other languages excluding Portuguese or English. Results: Fifteen articles were identified for this review. Most of the studies were quantitative (n=13) and only a few were literature reviews (n=2). The articles were published between 2007 and 2021, although the majority dated from 2020 to 2021 (n=10). The studies focused on vaccine hesitancy related to specific diseases (n=6), vaccine hesitancy related to childhood vaccination (n=6), general vaccine hesitancy (n=3). Conclusions: Although vaccine coverage rates in Portugal are generally high, there is still some work to do regarding childhood vaccination and other specific diseases. Furthermore, the studies included in this review revealed several factors related to adherence/nonadherence to vaccination that are important to ensure for successful vaccination in the Portuguese population, mainly through healthcare professionals.
Synthesis of sustainable polyesters via ring opening polymerization promoted by phenoxy-imine aluminum complexes
Creators: name: Isnard, Florence
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: CHIM/03 CHIMICA GENERALE E INORGANICA

description: 2017 - 2018
description: Aliphatic polyesters are emerging as an important class of materials alternatives to te petroleum-based polymers. They are often biodegradable and can be produced from renewable feedstocks. In this context, the developmentof controlled polymerization routes such as the ROP of cyclic esters and the ROCOP beteween epoxides and anhydrides, is of high interest... [edited by Author]
Design Study of a Dielectric Laser Undulator
Creators: name: Schmid, Steffen A.
name: Niedermayer, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dielectric laser acceleration (DLA) achieves remarkable gradients from the optical near fields of a grating structure. Tilting the dielectric grating with respect to the electron beam leads to deflection forces and the DLA structure can be utilized as a microchip undulator. We investigate the beam dynamics in such structures analytically and by numerical simulations. A crucial challenge is to keep the beam focused, especially in direction of the narrow channel. An alternating phase focusing scheme is optimized for this purpose and matched lattice functions are obtained. We distinguish synchronous operation with phase jumps in the grating and asynchronous operation with a strictly periodic grating and well-designed synchronicity mismatch. Especially the asynchronous DLA undulator is a promising approach, since a simple, commercially available grating suffices for the focusing lattice design. We pave the way towards experiments of radiation generation in these structures and provide estimates of the emitted radiation wavelength and power. The analytical models are validated by numerical simulations in the dedicated DLA simulation tool DLAtrack6D and Astra, where the underlying laser fields are computed by CST Studio.
Polistes smithii var. defectivus Gerst
Creators: name: Schulthess Rechinger, A. von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1921
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Polistes
Polistes smithii
Var. defectivus gerst

description: d) var. defectivus Gerst. Tergit 1 und 3, manchmal auch Sternit 3 mit schmaler hellgelber Binde, im übrigen wie var. Smithii. Ost- und Westafrika. var. defectivus Gerst.
description: Published as part of Schulthess Rechinger, A. von, 1921, Zur Kenntnis äthiopischer Vespiden (Hym.), pp. 121-126 in Entomologische Mitteilungen 10 (4) on page 126, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15733
The halo 3-point correlation function: a methodological analysis
Creators: name: Veropalumbo, A.
name: Binetti, A.
name: Branchini, E.
name: Moresco, M.
name: Monaco, P.
name: Oddo, A.
name: Sánchez, A. G.
name: Sefusatti, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the 3PCF of 300 halo catalogs from the Minerva simulations covering a total volume of $~1000 h^{-3} \mathrm{Gpc}^3$. Each 3PCF measurement includes all possible triangular configurations with sides between 20 and $130h^{-1}\mathrm{Gpc}$. First, we test different estimates of the covariance matrix, a crucial aspect of the analysis. We compare the covariance computed numerically from the limited but accurate benchmark simulations set to the one obtained from $10000$ approximate halo catalogs generated with the Pinocchio code. We demonstrate that the two numerically-estimated covariance matrices largely match, confirming the validity of approximate methods based on Lagrangian Perturbation Theory for generating mocks suitable for covariance estimation. We also compare the numerical covariance with a theoretical prediction in the Gaussian approximation. We find a good match between the two for separations above 40 $h^{-1} \mathrm{Gpc}$. We test the 3PCF tree-level model in Perturbation Theory. The model is adopted in a likelihood analysis aimed at the determination of bias parameters. We find that, for our sample of halos at redshift $z=1$, the tree-level model performs well for separations $r \geq 40 \, h^{-1}\mathrm{Gpc}$. Results obtained with this scale cut are robust against different choices of covariance matrix. We compare to the analogous analysis of the halo bispectrum already presented in a previous publication, finding a remarkable agreement between the two statistics. We then test different assumptions to build the model defining a robust combination of hypotheses that lead to unbiased parameter estimates. Our results confirm the importance of 3PCF, supplying a solid recipe for its inclusion in likelihood analyses. Moreover, it opens the path for further improvements, especially in modelling, to extract information from non-linear regimes
description: 24 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication to JCAP
Value of a small control group for estimating intervention effectiveness: results from simulations of immunization effectiveness studies
Creators: name: Sollecito, William
name: Hutchins, Sonja S
name: Brown, Cedric
name: Mayberry, Robert
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: To improve evidence for public health practice, the conduct of effectiveness studies by practitioners is needed and may be stimulated if knowledge that smaller than usual samples may provide the same reliability of intervention effect size as larger samples.
Changes in coordination of movement variables during practice of a new skill with different types of feedback
Creators: name: Toth, Michal
name: Rodger, Matthew
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Motor Control
subject: Psychology of Movement
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Life Sciences

description: The current study aims to identify movement variables crucial for the successful completion of the experimental task and compare feedback based on these variables to feedback based on an arbitrary selection of source variables. These crucial movement variables are great candidates for sonification design since sonifying these variables could convey information crucial for the successful completion of the task. A new task was developed for this study – called the ‘plane task’ on the basis of the virtual object that has to be controlled to complete it. Participants will control the virtual object using the lateral velocity of their hand and pressure exerted by their thumb on a pressure sensor. We aim to compare the performance and learning when participants receive two types of concurrent external auditory feedback – sonification. One sonification will utilise the design seen in some sonification studies where control variables are directly mapped onto sound parameters. The other sonification type will map a higher-order variable – the distance to the solution manifold; onto the same sound parameters. The distance to the solution manifold represents a variable that is crucial for the successful completion of the task and can carry information regarding the relationship between the control variables. If higher-order sonification proves to be the more effective type of feedback we can incorporate our methodological steps into an objective framework of sonification design based on task-relevant movement information. Such an objective framework would address the problem that many sonification studies suffer from – lack of justification for the sonified variables.
Disformal Transformations, Veiled General Relativity and Mimetic Gravity
Creators: name: Deruelle, Nathalie
name: Rua, Josephine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Note we show that Einstein's equations for gravity are generically invariant under 'disformations'. We also show that the particular subclass when this is not true yields the equations of motion of 'Mimetic Gravity'. Finally we give the 'mimetic' generalization of the Schwarzschild solution.
One Germany, Two Worlds of Housework? Examining Employed Single and Partnered Women in the Decade after Unification
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Do the different ideological legacies of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) result in persisting differences in women's housework in the unified...
A graph theory-based multi-scale analysis of hierarchical cascade in molecular clouds : Application to the NGC 2264 region
Creators: name: Thomasson, B.
name: Joncour, I.
name: Moraux, E.
name: Crespelle, C.
name: Motte, F.
name: Pouteau, Y.
name: Nony, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spatial properties of small star-clusters suggest that they may originate from a fragmentation cascade of the cloud for which there might be traces up to a few dozen of kAU. Our goal is to investigate the multi-scale spatial structure of gas clumps, to probe the existence of a hierarchical cascade and to evaluate its possible link with star production in terms of multiplicity. From the Herschel emission maps of NGC 2264, clumps are extracted using getsf software at each of their associated spatial resolution, respectively [8.4, 13.5, 18.2, 24.9, 36.3]". Using the spatial distribution of these clumps and the class 0/I Young Stellar Object (YSO) from Spitzer data, we develop a graph-theoretic analysis to represent the multi-scale structure of the cloud as a connected network. From this network, we derive three classes of multi-scale structure in NGC 2264 depending on the number of nodes produced at the deepest level: hierarchical, linear and isolated. The structure class is strongly correlated with the column density $N_{\rm H_2}$ since the hierarchical ones dominate the regions whose N$_{\rm H_2} > 6 \times 10^{22}$cm$^{-2}$. Although the latter are in minority, they contain half of the class 0/I YSOs proving that they are highly efficient in producing stars. We define a novel statistical metric, the fractality coefficient F that measure the fractal index describing the scale-free process of the cascade. For NGC 2264, we estimate F = 1.45$\pm$0.12. However, a single fractal index fails to fully describe a scale-free process since the hierarchical cascade starts at a 13 kAU characteristic spatial scale. Our novel methodology allows us to correlate YSOs with their multi-scale gaseous environment. This hierarchical cascade that drives efficient star formation is suspected to be both hierarchical and rooted by the larger-scale gas environment up to 13 kAU.
title: Apprenticeship migration to three pre-industrial English towns
Creators: name: J. Stiff, P.
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Tudor and Stuart England was a mobile society. The generally high levels of geographical mobility went hand in hand with various degrees of social and occupational mobility. Some of the most important movements were of people from the countryside to the town, as they were significant as a transfer of resources and an agency of social mobilitYJ their chronological and geographical flows provide an index of both changing urban fortunes and of the levels of spatial integration and economic development upon which these changing fortunes were based. Amongst the types of rural-urban migration, the movement of teenagers to a town to serve an apprenticeship is a particularly valuable topic for study. The training of labour is important in any society and in preindustrial England output could only be raised in many industries through a greater input of labour. The areas from which the apprentices were drawn represent the scale of organisation, economic social and spatial, current in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. This gives an indication of the level of development of the country as it underwent the transition from a society largely based on the discrete daily and weekly contacts around the provincial central places, through an increase in scale to a regional integration based upon county towns, to a~hesive national system. Three county towns were selected, Chester, Gloucester and Shrewsbury, as they each had a good series of apprenticeship records; they represented the foci characteristic of the regional scale of integration and they were associated one with another along the England-Wales border, thus forming a convenient spatial system. The results of the study confirm the findings on mobility in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Most migrants moved over short distances and a few made long journeys. The propensity to move varied with the status of the apprentices' backgroundsJ generally the higher the status the longer the distance moved. Many apprentices trained in an occupation different to that of their fathers and some of these represented a significant degree of social mobility. Nevertheless, association within the s~me sub-group was common, either based upon the same raw material or upon the type of work undertaken. The three towns organised a regional scale of integration around themselves, reinforcing their roles as important suppliers of goods and services to their hinterlands, the extent of which remained constant throughout the period studied.
Pheromones in birds: myth or reality?
Creators: name: Balthazart, Jacques
name: Caro, Samuel P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Birds are anosmic or at best microsmatic… This misbelief persisted until very recently and has strongly influenced the outcome of communication studies in birds, with olfaction remaining neglected as compared to acoustic and visual channels. However, there is now clear empirical evidence showing that olfaction is perfectly functional in birds and birds use olfactory information in a variety of ethological contexts. Although the existence of pheromones has never been formally demonstrated in this vertebrate class, different groups of birds, such as petrels, auklets and ducks have been shown to produce specific scents that could play a significant role in within-species social interactions. Behavioral experiments have indeed demonstrated that these odors influence the behavior of conspecifics. Additionally, in quail, deprivation of olfactory inputs decreases neuronal activation induced by sexual interactions with a female. It seems therefore well established that birds enjoy a functional sense of smell and a fast growing body of experimental evidence suggests that they use this channel of olfactory communication to control their social life. The unequivocal identification of an avian pheromone is, however, still ahead of us but there are now many exciting opportunities to unravel the behavioral and physiological particularities of chemical communication in birds.
Star Formation and AGN Feedback in the Local Universe: Combining LOFAR and MaNGA
Creators: name: Mulcahey, C. R.
name: Leslie, S. K.
name: Jackson, T. M.
name: Young, J. E.
name: Prandoni, I.
name: Hardcastle, M. J.
name: Roy, N.
name: Małek, K.
name: Magliocchetti, M.
name: Bonato, M.
name: Röttgering, H. J. A.
name: Drabent, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on their host galaxies -- in particular their levels of star formation -- remains one of the key outstanding questions of galaxy evolution. Successful cosmological models of galaxy evolution require a fraction of energy released by an AGN to be redistributed into the interstellar medium to reproduce the observed stellar mass and luminosity function and to prevent the formation of over-massive galaxies. Observations have confirmed that the radio-AGN population is energetically capable of heating and redistributing gas at all phases, however, direct evidence of AGN enhancing or quenching star formation remains rare. With modern, deep radio surveys and large integral field spectroscopy (IFS) surveys, we can detect fainter synchrotron emission from AGN jets and accurately probe the star-forming properties of galaxies, respectively. In this paper, we combine data from the LOw Frequency ARray Two-meter Sky Survey with data from one of the largest optical IFS surveys, Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory to probe the star-forming properties of 307 local (z $<$ 0.15) galaxies that host radio-detected AGN (RDAGN). We compare our results to a robust control sample of non-active galaxies that each match the stellar mass, redshift, visual morphology, and inclination of a RDAGN host. We find that RDAGN and control galaxies have broad SFR distributions, typically lie below the star-forming main-sequence, and have negative stellar light-weighted age gradients. These results indicate that AGN selected based on their current activity are not responsible for suppressing their host galaxies' star formation. Rather, our results support the maintenance mode role that radio AGN are expected to have in the local Universe.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 24 pages, 14 figures
On non-improvability of full-memory strategies in problems of optimization of the guaranteed result
Creators: name: Serkov, Dmitrii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93C15, 49N30, 49N35

description: The paper addresses the problem of optimization of a guaranteed (worst case) result for a control system driven by a controlling side in presence of a dynamical disturbance. The disturbances as functions of time are subject to functional constraints belonging to a given family of constraints. The latter family is known to the controlling side that does not observe the disturbance and uses full-memory strategies to form the control actions. The study is focused on the case where disturbance varies in open-loop disturbances chosen in advance and the case where the disturbances are restricted to a $L_2$--compact set fixed in advance but unknown to the controlling side. In these cases it is shown that the optimal guaranteed result is non-improvable in the sense that it coincides with that obtained in the class of quasi-strategies -- nonantisipatory transformations of disturbances into controls. An $\varepsilon$--optimal full-memory strategy is constructed. An illustrative nonlinear example is given.
description: This article is the English version of the Russian publication: D.A Serkov. On non-improvability of full--memory strategies in problems of optimization of the guaranteed result. Trudy Inst. Mat. i Mekh. UrO RAN, 20(3), 2014
Literacy Rate in Solapur District- A Geographical Study
Creators: name: Hanumant Shankar Helakar
name: Dr. D. G. Shinde
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: To study male-female literacy rate, Taluka wise distribution of literacy, rural-urban literacy rate, importance of literacy and changes due to it.

description: Abstract: Literacy rate is very important among population components. The distribution of literacy in India appears to be uneven. Literate means a person can read and write. Literacy is seen to affect many factors like birth, death, migration, marriage etc. At the same time, literacy is very important in terms of economic and social development. Because the level of literacy helps to understand more and social development of the population. The present research paper is titled 'Literacy Rate in Solapur District- A geographical Study'. The literacy rate in the district, its importance in economic and social development, It causality has been studied in the said research paper. For that, the data between the decades 2001 to 2011 has been used.
Internationalisation and EAL Student Adjustment at a Higher Educational Institution: A Leap Through the Dragon’s Gate
Creators: name: Dofs, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: International student movement in the world has been significant over the last decades as many international students have taken up studies in countries other than their own, often leaving their familiar networks and support far behind. Moving from a familiar life situation to an unfamiliar educational environment and social setting means that a significant change takes place in their lives. One of these changes may be that they need to start using English as their additional language (EAL), in the new socio-culture, and for studies at higher educational institutions (HEIs). The HEIs typically aspire to offer high quality internationally recognised education, through initiatives of internationalisation set out in policies and plans. The aim of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of social, academic, and language adjustment by English as an Additional Language (EAL) students who study long-term at a Higher Educational Institution (HEI) in New Zealand. Using a multifaceted qualitative methodology - ethnographic with individual case-studies, and multiple analysis approaches, such as thematic, cross-case, and narrative analysis - the study examined the adjustment challenges students faced, how they were dealt with, and the impact of second language identity development on adjustment. This was investigated from the perspective of students, teachers, and advisors, in combination with the internationalisation efforts of the HEI. The main group of participating EAL/international students are presented through narratives. These stories enabled an understanding of both similarities and differences between the individual students, and the students as a group. The findings show that the students participating in the interviews adjusted well in what was, for them, an unfamiliar environment. Moreover, the study showed that language proficiency, and how to improve it, both within the HEI and outside it, played a role in student adjustment, and that language use impacted students differently, depending on the second language identity development phase they were in. Also, for some students, being an EAL learner contributed to achieving high academic results. These students’ experiences contributed to a deeper understanding of the concept of adjustment and mutual adjustment related to studies at HEIs and beyond. It was found that internationalisation at the HEI had a dual function: revenue and provision of excellent education, which created a tension amongst staff around fulfilling students’ needs and adhering to the prevalent teaching and learning, and which in turn caused adjustment challenges amongst the students. The study explored how mutual adjustment can become a joint undertaking by HEIs and international students, through negotiations of suitable areas of teaching and learning.
Photometric redshifts for quasars from WISE-PS1-STRM
Creators: name: Kunsági-Máté, Sándor
name: Beck, Róbert
name: Szapudi, István
name: Csabai, István
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-dimensional wide-field galaxy surveys are fundamental for cosmological studies. For higher redshifts (z > 1.0), where galaxies are too faint, quasars still trace the large-scale structure of the Universe. Since available telescope time limits spectroscopic surveys, photometric methods are efficient for estimating redshifts for many quasars. Recently, machine learning methods are increasingly successful for quasar photometric redshifts, however, they hinge on the distribution of the training set. Therefore a rigorous estimation of reliability is critical. We extracted optical and infrared photometric data from the cross-matched catalogue of the WISE All-Sky and PS1 3$π$ DR2 sky surveys. We trained an XGBoost regressor and an artificial neural network on the relation between color indices and spectroscopic redshift. We approximated the effective training set coverage with the K nearest neighbors algorithm. We estimated reliable photometric redshifts of 2,879,298 quasars which overlap with the training set in feature space. We validated the derived redshifts with an independent, clustering-based redshift estimation technique. The final catalog is publicly available.
Polistes Smithii var. Neavei Rechinger, 1921, nov. var.
Creators: name: Schulthess Rechinger, A. von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1921
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Polistes
Polistes smithii
Var. neavei

description: e) var. Neavei nov. var. Tergit 1, 2 und 3 manchmal auch noch 4 und Sternit 1, 2 und 3 mit strohgelber Binde, die seitlich in schmalen Streifen bis zum Vorderrande des Tergits reichen. Flügel gleichmäßig leicht gebräunt, goldig schillernd, Radialzelle verdunkelt. Ein schmaler Saum am Vorderund am Hinterrande des Pronotums, eine schmale Linie am Vorderrande des Hinterschildchens, die Propleuren, 1 Fleck unter dem Flügelansatze, Flecke auf den Hüften und die Mittel- und Hintertarsen gell). Länge (Kopf bis Ende des 2. Tergits) 11 -13 mm. 3 ♂ 25 ♀ Westafrika. var. Neavei nov. var. NO-Rhodesia, Chinsali, Ost - Loangwa, Hochplateau s. des Tanganyikasees 3900-4000 Fuß: April, August, September (Neave): Rikatla, Delagoa (Junod), Zanzibar, Sierra Leone. (C. m.; Mus Hope Oxford.; Mus. Berlin.) (Schluß folgt.) Anmerkung: Die Varietät Sauss u res Et. Vesp. II p. 60 mit gelber Binde auf Tergit 1 und 2 ist mir unter den 230 vorliegenden Tieren nur 5 mal vorgekommen, dann trug aber stets auch Tergit 3 eine breite, Tergit 2 eine sehr schmale, oft auf den Seiten abgekürzte Binde (Übergang zu var. Neavei m.)
description: Published as part of Schulthess Rechinger, A. von, 1921, Zur Kenntnis äthiopischer Vespiden (Hym.), pp. 121-126 in Entomologische Mitteilungen 10 (4) on page 126, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15733
Disporre del passato: contributi della psicologia allo studio della memoria nella relazione sociale
Creators: name: Rocchetti, Francesco
Publisher: name: F. Rocchetti, Disporre del passato: contributi della psicologia allo studio della memoria nella relazione sociale, «Il capitale culturale», 2020, n. 22, pp. 63-79
Year: 2020

description: L’articolo propone alcune riflessioni sull’apporto che gli studi psicologici possono fornire agli storici che intendano operare a contatto diretto con i mutamenti della mentalità e delle appartenenze. Mettendo in dialogo contributi di psicologia cognitiva, di storia della psicologia e di epistemologia della storia, vengono ricostruite le dinamiche essenziali del processo mnestico, chiarendo le modalità attraverso cui la memoria intesse un rapporto di interdipendenza e di continua costruzione e ricostruzione con gli individui, i gruppi e la collettività più in generale.
description: The article proposes some reflections on contributions that psychological studies might provide to historians who intend to operate in direct contact with changes in mindset and self-belonging. By bringing together contributions from the cognitive psychology, the history of psychology and the epistemology of history, the essential dynamics of the memory process are reconstructed, clarifying the ways in which memory weaves a relationship of interdependence and continuous construction and reconstruction with individuals, groups and the community.
Brazilian television in the 1980's : the making of "Brazilianized" culture
Creators: name: Herold, Cacilda M.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Brazilian television
subject: Brazil
subject: History
subject: Social aspects
subject: Political aspects
subject: Economic aspects
subject: Brazilian television programs
subject: Brazilian television broadcasting
subject: Brazilian culture diffusion
subject: Brazilian TV
subject: 1980s
subject: Television--Brazil--History
subject: Television--Social aspects--Brazil
subject: Television--Political aspects--Brazil
subject: Television--Economic aspects--Brazil
subject: Television broadcasting--Brazil
subject: Culture diffusion--Brazil

description: My aim in this thesis is to investigate the formation of Brazilian culture(s), the historical development of Brazilian television, the concept of "Brazilianization" of that industry, and the most recent trend, i.e., the exporting of Brazilian television programs during the 1980's. Given that "[t]elevision is a human construct, and the job that it does is the result of human choice, cultural decisions and social pressures" (Fiske and Hartley 1978, p. 17), Brazilian television needs to be seen as an expression of the socio-political, cultural, and economic order of that country within the international economic and political context. Therefore, I will place the study of Brazilian television within an understanding of the country's socio-political, cultural and economic order
Ultrasound-evoked immediate early gene expression in the brainstem of the Chinese torrent frog, Odorrana tormota
Creators: name: Burmeister, Sabrina S.
name: Shen, Jun-Xian
name: Feng, Albert S.
name: Narins, Peter M.
name: Arch, Victoria S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The concave-eared torrent frog, Odorrana tormota, has evolved the extraordinary ability to communicate ultrasonically (i.e., using frequencies>20kHz), and electrophysiological experiments have demonstrated that neurons in the frog’s midbrain (torus semicircularis) respond to frequencies up to 34kHz. However, at this time, it is unclear which region(s) of the torus and what other brainstem nuclei are involved in the detection of ultrasound. To gain insight into the anatomical substrate of ultrasound detection, we mapped expression of the activity-dependent gene, egr-1, in the brain in response to a full-spectrum mating call, a filtered, ultrasound-only call, and no sound. We found that the ultrasound-only call elicited egr-1 expression in the superior olivary and principal nucleus of the torus semicircularis. In sampled areas of the principal nucleus, the ultrasound-only call tended to evoke higher egr-1 expression than the full-spectrum call and, in the center of the nucleus, induced significantly higher egr-1 levels than the no-sound control. In the superior olivary nucleus, the full-spectrum and ultrasound-only calls evoked similar levels of expression that were significantly greater than the control, and egr-1 induction in the laminar nucleus showed no evidence of acoustic modulation. These data suggest that the sampled areas of the principal nucleus are among the regions sensitive to ultrasound in this species.
Emergence of Kac-Moody Symmetry in Critical Quantum Spin Chains
Creators: name: Wang, Ruoshui
name: Zou, Yijian
name: Vidal, Guifre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a critical quantum spin chain with a microscopic Lie-group symmetry, corresponding e.g. to $U(1)$ or $SU(2)$ spin isotropy, we numerically investigate the emergence of Kac-Moody symmetry at low energies and long distances. In that regime, one such critical quantum spin chain is described by a conformal field theory where the usual Virasoro algebra associated to conformal invariance is augmented with a Kac-Moody algebra associated to conserved currents. Specifically, we first propose a method to construct lattice operators corresponding to the Kac-Moody generators. We then numerically show that, when projected onto low energy states of the quantum spin chain, these operators indeed approximately fulfill the Kac-Moody algebra. The lattice version of the Kac-Moody generators allow us to compute the so-called level constant and to organize the low-energy eigenstates of the lattice Hamiltonian into Kac-Moody towers. We illustrate the proposal with the XXZ model and the Heisenberg model with a next-to-nearest-neighbor coupling.
description: 12+3 pages, 9+2 figures
Ratios of collective flow observables in high-energy isobar collisions are insensitive to final state interactions
Creators: name: Zhang, Chunjian
name: Bhatta, Somadutta
name: Jia, Jiangyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ratios of bulk observables, such as harmonic flow $v_2$ and $v_3$, between high-energy $^{96}$Ru+$^{96}$Ru and $^{96}$Zr+$^{96}$Zr collisions were recently argued to be a clean probe of the nuclear structure differences between $^{96}$Ru and $^{96}$Zr. Using a transport model simulation of isobar collisions, we quantify this claim from the dependence of the ratios $v_{2,\mathrm{Ru}}/v_{2,\mathrm{Zr}}$ and $v_{3,\mathrm{Ru}}/v_{3,\mathrm{Zr}}$ on various final state effects, such as the shear viscosity, hadronization and hadronic cascade. Although the $v_2$ and $v_3$ change by more than 50% when varying the final state effects, the ratios are unchanged. In addition, these ratios are independent of the transverse momentum $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ and hadron species, despite of up to a factor of two change in $v_n$. The ratio of mean transverse momentum $\left\langle p_{\mathrm{T}}\right\rangle$ is found to be controlled by the nuclear skin and nuclear radius, but is only slightly impacted by the final state effects. Therefore, these isobar ratios serve as a clean probe of the initial condition of the quark-gluon plasma, which in turn is controlled by the collective structure of the colliding nuclei.
description: 6 pages and 6 figures, replaced with version accepted by PRC
Underlying data for "A quick and cost-effective method for DNA-free total RNA isolation using magnetic silica beads"
Creators: name: Das, Aniruddha
name: Das, Debojyoti
name: Das, Arundhati
name: Panda, Amaresh Chandra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Animal cell and molecular biology

description: Underlying data for "A quick and cost-effective method for DNA-free total RNA isolation using magnetic silica beads"
A New F Approximation for the Pillai-Bartlett Trace under H 0
Creators: name: Muller, Keith E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1998

description: Pillai suggested two approximations for the Pillai–Bartlett trace statistic in the null case. The first one matches one moment of a β1 random variable, and corresponds to an F random variable, and the second matches four moments in the Pearson system. Although intuitively appealing and widely used in current statistical packages, the first lacks accuracy even with moderate sample size. The second matches two moment ratios in the Pearson system and provides much greater accuracy. Two new approximations match two moments of a β1 random variable, and hence correspond to an F random variable, yet achieve most of the accuracy of Pillai’s second approximation. The second of the two new approximations provides the best combination of logical properties and numerical accuracy.