cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
NuSTAR observations of the young, energetic radio pulsar PSR B1509-58
Creators: name: Chen, Ge
name: An, Hongjun
name: Kaspi, Victoria M.
name: Harrison, Fiona A.
name: Madsen, Kristin K.
name: Stern, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) hard X-ray observations of the young rotation-powered radio pulsar PSR B1509$-$58 in the supernova remnant MSH 15$-$52. We confirm the previously reported curvature in the hard X-ray spectrum, showing that a log parabolic model provides a statistically superior fit to the spectrum compared with the standard power law. The log parabolic model describes the NuSTAR data, as well as previously published gamma-ray data obtained with COMPTEL and AGILE, all together spanning 3 keV through 500 MeV. Our spectral modelling allows us to constrain the peak of the broadband high energy spectrum to be at 2.6$\pm$0.8 MeV, an improvement of nearly an order of magnitude in precision over previous measurements. In addition, we calculate NuSTAR spectra in 26 pulse phase bins and confirm previously reported variations of photon indices with phase. Finally, we measure the pulsed fraction of PSR B1509$-$58 in the hard X-ray energy band for the first time. Using the energy resolved pulsed fraction results, we estimate that the pulsar's off-pulse emission has a photon index value between 1.26 and 1.96. Our results support a model in which the pulsar's lack of GeV emission is due to viewing geometry, with the X-rays originating from synchrotron emission from secondary pairs in the magnetosphere.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables, ApJ accepted
Dynamics of dark energy in collapsing halo of dark matter
Creators: name: Tsizh, M.
name: Novosyadlyj, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the non-linear evolution of spherical density and velocity perturbations of dark matter and dark energy in the expanding Universe. For that we have used the conservation and Einstein equations to describe the evolution of gravitationally coupled inhomogeneities of dark matter, dark energy and radiation from linear stage in the early Universe to the non-linear one at the current epoch. The simple method of the numerical integration of the system of non-linear differential equations for evolution of the central part of halo is proposed. The results are presented for halo of cluster ($k=2$ Mpc$^{-1}$) and supercluster scales ($k=0.2$ Mpc$^{-1}$) and show that quintessential scalar field dark energy with small value of effective speed of sound $c_s<0.1$ can give noticeable impact on the formation of large scale structures in the expanding Universe.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures; accepted by Advances in Astronomy and Space Physics
An effective method to accurately calculate the phase space factors for $β^- β^-$ decay
Creators: name: Neacsu, Andrei
name: Horoi, Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate calculations of the electron phase space factors are necessary for reliable predictions of double-beta decay rates, and for the analysis of the associated electron angular and energy distributions. We present an effective method to calculate these phase space factors that takes into account the distorted Coulomb field of the daughter nucleus, yet allows one to easily calculate the phase space factors with good accuracy relative to the most exact methods available in the recent literature.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Countering HIV - Three's the charm?
Creators: name: Margolis, David
name: Garcia, J. Victor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Antibodies have grown in importance as medicines
over the more than 40 years since Köhler
and Milstein first produced monoclonal constructs.
1 However, the ability of human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) type 1 (HIV-1) to evade
the humoral immune response has until recently
thwarted the effective use of antibodies in this
important disease. The extraordinary plasticity
of the HIV envelope allows exceptional antigenic
diversity, leading to the rapid escape of the virus
from most antibody responses.
Quantum Quenches in Chern Insulators
Creators: name: Caio, M. D.
name: Cooper, N. R.
name: Bhaseen, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the non-equilibrium response of Chern insulators. Focusing on the Haldane model, we study the dynamics induced by quantum quenches between topological and non-topological phases. A notable feature is that the Chern number, calculated for an infinite system, is unchanged under the dynamics following such a quench. However, in finite geometries, the initial and final Hamiltonians are distinguished by the presence or absence of edge modes. We study the edge excitations and describe their impact on the experimentally-observable edge currents and magnetization. We show that, following a quantum quench, the edge currents relax towards new equilibrium values, and that there is light-cone spreading of the currents into the interior of the sample.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures
title: Tra letteratura e politica: note su alcuni temi di dibattito culturale nell’Italia liberale
Creators: name: Casadei, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università di Bologna
Year: 2023

description: Le vicende dell’Italia liberale, particolarmente per il periodo che va tra la fine del XIX e gli inizi del XX secolo, sono di grande interesse da molti punti di vista: tra questi, spicca l’ampio tema del rapporto tra cultura e politica, che a sua volta riconduce alla questione del ruolo pubblico degli intellettuali italiani: letterati, in primis, ma anche esponenti di un variegato campo di altre aree disciplinari. In queste pagine, facendo riferimento a stampa dell’epoca e ad alcune classiche interpretazioni storiografiche, si discutono alcuni aspetti del rapporto tra intellettuali e politica nel cruciale arco di tempo che conduce dall’età crispina all’età giolittiana, attraversando la cosiddetta “crisi di fine secolo” e la successiva fase di apertura politica, di riforme sociali e di graduale modernizzazione del Paese.
Comparative Analysis of Female Song Structure and Function in Two Temperate and Tropical Oriole Species
Creators: name: Moyer, Michelle J
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Acoustic analysis
Female song
Orchard Oriole
Puerto Rican Oriole
Relaxed selection
Sexual dimorphism

description: Our understanding of the structure and function of elaborate signaling traits, such as coloration or vocalizations, has been dramatically impacted by a long-held bias towards studying these traits in male animals. Many female animals also have functional elaborate signals, but in the past, these traits were not likely to be studied and were often assumed to have only evolved as a consequence of shared genetic architecture with males. Work from our lab has demonstrated that the common ancestor of all songbirds likely had both male and female bird song, but female bird song remains significantly understudied. In tropical species, which are more likely to defend territories year-round and have sexual monomorphism, female song is more common than in temperate-breeding, migratory species. As a result, there is growing interest in the associations of tropical vs. temperate natural history characteristics with the incidence and function of female song. In this dissertation, we compared male and female song in two closely related New World Blackbirds (Icteridae): Orchard Orioles (Icterus spurius), a migratory, temperate-breeding species, and in Puerto Rican Orioles (Icterus portoricensis), a non-migratory, tropical species. We found that female song in Orchard Orioles is significantly reduced compared to male song in acoustic structure, rate, and function. We were able to reliably distinguish between female and male song in the field, and we did not observe female song produced in any consistent functional contexts. Puerto Rican Oriole female song was also acoustically reduced compared to male song, but to a much lesser degree than in Orchard Orioles. We did not find any reliable acoustic metric for distinguishing between female and male Puerto Rican Oriole song in the field, though females did not typically participate in the dawn chorus. However, females did seem to sing more than males sporadically throughout the day. These results suggest that female song in Orchard Orioles is likely under relaxed selection and may be in the process of being lost, which may parallel its loss of elaborate coloration. Female song in Puerto Rican Orioles seems to experience similar selective pressures to male song and is more likely to be functional, which would be predicted in a tropical species with year-round territory defense. To our knowledge, this is the first detailed comparative study of female song in closely related temperate and tropical species.
Opening up the compressed region of stop searches at 13 TeV LHC
Creators: name: An, Haipeng
name: Wang, Lian-Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light top superpartners play a key role in stabilizing the electroweak scale in supersymmetric theories. For $R$-parity conserved supersymmetric models, traditional searches are not sensitive to the compressed regions. In this paper, we propose a new method targeting this region, with stop and neutralino mass splitting ranging from $m_{\tilde t} - m_χ\gtrsim m_t$ to about 20 GeV. In particular, we focus on the signal process in which a pair of stops are produced in association with a hard jet, and define a new observable $R_M$ whose distribution has a peak in this compressed region. The position of the peak is closely correlated with $m_{\tilde t}$. We show that for 13 TeV LHC with a luminosity of 3000 fb$^{-1}$, this analysis can extend the reach of stop in the compressed region to $m_{\tilde t}$ around 800 GeV.
description: 5 pages and 3 figures, references added, final version
Photoemission study of the electronic structure and charge density waves of Na2Ti2Sb2O
Creators: name: Tan, S. Y.
name: Jiang, J.
name: Ye, Z. R.
name: Niu, X. H.
name: Song, Y.
name: Zhang, C. L.
name: Dai, P. C.
name: Xie, B. P.
name: Lai, X. C.
name: Feng, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure of Na2Ti2Sb2O, a parent compound of the newly discovered titanium-based oxypnictide superconductors, is studied by photon energy and polarization dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). The obtained band structure and Fermi surface agree well with the band structure calculation of Na2Ti2Sb2O in the non-magnetic state, which indicating that there is no magnetic order in Na2Ti2Sb2O and the electronic correlation is weak. Polarization dependent ARPES results suggest the multi-band and multi-orbital nature of Na2Ti2Sb2O. Photon energy dependent ARPES results suggest that the electronic structure of Na2Ti2Sb2O is rather two-dimensional. Moreover, we find a density wave energy gap forms below the transition temperature and reaches 65 meV at 7 K, indicating that Na2Ti2Sb2O is likely a weakly correlated CDW material in the strong electron-phonon interaction regime.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Humanized mice: Models for evaluating neuroHIV and cure strategies
Creators: name: Garcia, J. Victor
name: Honeycutt, Jenna B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: While the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic was initially characterized by a high prevalence of severe and widespread neurological pathologies, the development of better treatments to suppress viremia over years and even decades has mitigated many of the severe neurological pathologies previously observed. Despite effective treatment, mild neurocognitive impairment and premature cognitive aging are observed in HIV-infected individuals, suggesting a changing but ongoing role of HIV infection in the central nervous system (CNS). Although current therapies are effective in suppressing viremia, they are not curative and patients must remain on life-long treatment or risk recrudescence of virus. Important for the development and evaluation of a cure for HIV will be animal models that recapitulate critical aspects of infection in vivo. In the following, we seek to summarize some of the recent developments in humanized mouse models and their usefulness in modeling HIV infection of the CNS and HIV cure strategies.
Enumeration of Hypermaps of a Given Genus
Creators: name: Giorgetti, Alain
name: Walsh, Timothy R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C30, 05A15

description: This paper addresses the enumeration of rooted and unrooted hypermaps of a given genus. For rooted hypermaps the enumeration method consists of considering the more general family of multirooted hypermaps, in which darts other than the root dart are distinguished. We give functional equations for the generating series counting multirooted hypermaps of a given genus by number of darts, vertices, edges, faces and the degrees of the vertices containing the distinguished darts. We solve these equations to get parametric expressions of the generating functions of rooted hypermaps of low genus. We also count unrooted hypermaps of given genus by number of darts, vertices, hyperedges and faces.
description: 42 pages
Surface Modifications of InSe and MXene Two-Dimensional (2D) Materials and their Impact on the Chemical Stability and Interactions with Bacterial Models Relevant to the Environment
Creators: name: Sengupta, Shreyasi
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024

description: Nanosheets are layered two-dimensional nanostructures with thickness in the nano-range, but with properties completely different from the bulk precursors or 3D nanomaterials. Layered materials are defined as solids with strong in-plane chemical bonds, but weak out-of-plane van der Waals interactions. Their unique structural properties enable new functional properties that are important for a multitude of applications. The goal of my research project is to investigate the impact of surface chemistry modifications of 2D materials like InSe and MXenes on their stability and interactions with environmentally relevant bacterial organisms. From a basic science perspective, this study increases the molecular level understanding of the interactions between hydrophobic 2D materials like InSe and amphiphilic adsorbates. The primary choice of our 2D material is InSe, which is an emerging semiconductor 2D material having a direct band gap, already used in broadly distributed nanotechnologies. Usage of InSe and similar 2D materials is expected to grow exponentially in the next decade. However, their unique morphology and ability to produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) could adversely affect human health and the environment. There is an urgent need to address these environmental concerns before the expected exponential growth of their use. Aim 1 of the project is to perform surface modifications on originally hydrophobic InSe nanosheets by physisorption of an amphiphilic molecule and a natural organic matter (NOM) simulant to make them water soluble and understand the impact of this modification on the chemical stability of the nanosheets. Physisorption of NOM components on InSe nanosheets is likely to naturally happen in the environment (natural water) when InSe nanosheets are disposed at the end of devices lifetime, and thus they act as model environmental aqueous solutions. Aim 2 is to investigate the impact of the surface-modified InSe 2D materials soluble in aqueous media on Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, which is an environmentally relevant Gram-negative bacterial cell model. Aim 3 is to investigate the environmental impact of a different highly conducting and water-soluble emerging set of 2D material, MXenes, in unmodified and surface-modified forms with different functional groups as well as fabricated on thermoelectric composite materials, on Shewanella oneidensis MR-1.
A multi-component Langmuir-mode source for the observed pulsar coherent emission
Creators: name: Jones, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several classes of neutron star are sources of coherent emission at frequencies of 10^2 - 10^3 MHz: others are radio-quiet. The primary emission spectra are broadly universal in form over many orders of magnitude in rotation period and polar-cap magnetic flux density. The existence of nulls and mode-changes in some radio-loud pulsars can be understood only as a manifestation of magnetospherical bistability. An ion-proton plasma with a possible background of electron-positron pairs is formed at the polar caps of stars with positive corotational charge density and is shown here to be a physical basis for the presence or absence of coherent emission and a likely reason why bistability may be present in the later stages of a pulsar lifetime.
description: 11 pages
Path lifting properties and embedding between RAAGs
Creators: name: Lee, Eon-Kyung
name: Lee, Sang-Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 20F36, Secondary 20F65

description: For a finite simplicial graph $Γ$, let $G(Γ)$ denote the right-angled Artin group on the complement graph of $Γ$. In this article, we introduce the notions of "induced path lifting property" and "semi-induced path lifting property" for immersions between graphs, and obtain graph theoretical criteria for the embedability between right-angled Artin groups. We recover the result of S.-h.{} Kim and T.{} Koberda that an arbitrary $G(Γ)$ admits a quasi-isometric group embedding into $G(T)$ for some finite tree $T$. The upper bound on the number of vertices of $T$ is improved from $2^{2^{(m-1)^2}}$ to $m2^{m-1}$, where $m$ is the number of vertices of $Γ$. We also show that the upper bound on the number of vertices of $T$ is at least $2^{m/4}$. Lastly, we show that $G(C_m)$ embeds in $G(P_n)$ for $n\geqslant 2m-2$, where $C_m$ and $P_n$ denote the cycle and path graphs on $m$ and $n$ vertices, respectively.
description: published version in Journal of Algebra 448 (2016) 575-594
Double pendulum model for tennis stroke including a collision process
Creators: name: Youn, Sun-Hyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of adding a collision process between the ball and racket in double pendulum model, we analyzed the tennis stroke. It is possible that the speed of the rebound ball does not simply depend on the angular velocity of the racket, and higher angular velocity sometimes gives lower ball speed. We numerically showed that the proper time lagged racket rotation increases the speed of the rebound ball by 20%. We also showed that the elbow should move in order to add the angular velocity of the racket.
description: 14 figures
Mass-Radius Relation of Strongly Magnetized White Dwarfs: Dependence on Field Geometry, GR effects and Electrostatic Corrections to the EOS
Creators: name: Bera, Prasanta
name: Bhattacharya, Dipankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent literature has seen an ongoing discussion on the limiting mass of strongly magnetized white dwarfs, since such objects may prove to be a source of over-luminous type-Ia supernovae. In an earlier paper, we have presented the mass-radius relation of white dwarfs with a strong poloidal magnetic field in Newtonian gravity. The inclusion of effects such as general relativistic gravity and many-body corrections to the equation of state can alter the mass-radius relation and the maximum mass. In this work we estimate the extent to which these effects may modify the earlier results. We find that the general relativistic effects tend to reduce the maximum mass by about 2% and many-body corrections by another additional $\sim$2%, for an assumed carbon composition. We also explore field geometries that are purely toroidal or a mixture of poloidal and toroidal and find that the limiting mass of such equilibrium configurations can be substantially higher than in the case of a purely poloidal field.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS
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Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: Barfoed, Niels

description: Begravelsesvers fra 1730 for Niels Barfoed.
description: Et Bind indeholdende 76 personalhist. Tryk ved Begravelser i Kjøbenhavn, 18. Aarh.
Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Modified Acyclic Fleximer Nucleoside Analogues
Creators: name: Thames, Joy Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Acyclic
Acyclovir
Antiviral
Broad-Spectrum Therapeutics
Fleximer
Nucleoside

description: As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic left lingering effects worldwide, it remains clear there is a need for the development of broad-spectrum antiviral therapeutics to not only help fight the pandemic at hand but help fight future pandemics to come. With this in mind nucleos(t)ides have had a rich history as antivirals. A commonly employed modification is the use of an acyclic sugar (lack of 2’ and/or 3’ carbons on the sugar moiety), such as that found in Acyclovir (ACV), an FDA-approved drug for herpes simplex virus or the FDA-approved drug Cidofovir (CDV) for CMV retinitis. Research in the Seley-Radtke group focuses on investigating nucleos(t)ide analogues known as “fleximers”, which feature a purine nucleobase “split” into its imidazole and pyrimidine moieties via a carbon-carbon single bond, thus introducing flexibility to the nucleobase. This novel design has endowed the fleximer analogues with potent activity not seen in the rigid parent nucleosides. Combining the acyclic sugar, with the fleximer technology produced a series of first-generation, doubly flexible Flex-ACV analogues. Some of these analogues have exhibited activity against filoviruses, flaviviruses, and coronaviruses. Given the broad-spectrum activity exhibited by these fleximers, optimization of previously synthesized Flex-ACV analogues was carried out for further investigation into the biological effects of these nucleosides. The first-generation Flex-ACV nucleosides were synthesized using modern organic chemistry techniques such as various cross-coupling methods, as well as microwave assisted chemistry. Synthesis of various monophosphate and triphosphate analogues allowed for elucidation of the metabolism and mechanism of action of the first-generation analogues. A new series of Flex-ACV analogues that feature a bond between carbon 5 of imidazole and carbon 5 of the pyrimidine moiety have been designed and synthesized. The newly designed analogues are of interest to compare them to the typical proximal fleximer design and evaluate their antiviral activity as well as the potential to reach new residues in a viral enzyme binding pocket. Overall, the flexible acyclic nucleosides continue to show broad-spectrum antiviral activity and have the potential to become an antiviral therapeutic.
Search for a low-mass $\tau^+\tau^-$ resonance in association with a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: p p: scattering
p p: colliding beams
resonance: production
resonance: leptonic decay
tau: pair production
jet: associated production
jet: bottom
bottom: particle identification
boson: mass
B: mass
pseudoscalar
channel cross section: branching ratio: upper limit
mass dependence
Higgs particle: pseudoscalar particle
CERN LHC Coll
lepton
CMS
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: A general search is presented for a low-mass $\tau^+\tau^-$ resonance produced in association with a bottom quark. The search is based on proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13\TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. The data are consistent with the standard model expectation. Upper limits at 95% confidence level on the cross section times branching fraction are determined for two signal models: a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson decaying to a pair of $\tau$ leptons produced in association with bottom quarks, and a low-mass boson A decaying to a $\tau$-lepton pair that is produced in the decay of a bottom-like quark B such that B$\to$bA. Masses between 25 and 70 GeV are probed for the light pseudoscalar boson with upper limits ranging from 250 to 44 pb. Upper limits from 20 to 0.3 pb are set on B masses between 170 and 450 GeV for A boson masses between 20 and 70 GeV.
Das H63D-Syndrom
Creators: name: Lazar, Marius
name: Diamandis, Carolina
name: Ivanova, Olga
name: Volunteers
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: H63D-Syndrom
H63D
Syndrom
Oshtoran-Syndrom
Oslo Syndrome

description: Dieser Artikel gibt einen straff gefasste Zusammenfassung des H63D-Syndroms, vor allem des Typ 1. Er wurde von Dr. Marius Lazar initiiert und in weiten Teilen für das so genannte “Flexikon” geschrieben, wo auch andere fachkundige Dritte den Beitrag ausgebaut haben. Wir haben entschieden, den Lexikonartikel als Arbeitspapier zu veröffentlichen (Lizenzangabe im Paper), da das an sich sehr gute Flexikon bei diesem Thema nicht mehr jenen Standards folgte, die wir von einer hochwertigen Publikationsplattform erwarten. Der Stand des Papers ist September 2023. Eine externe Peer-Review erfolgte vor dieser Veröffentlichung.
description: Peer-Review erfolgte durch Prof. Dr. Georg Schuster, abgeschlossen am 10. Oktober 2023.
Allographa marginata Lucking & Kalb 2018, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Kalb, Jutarat
name: Lücking, Robert
name: Kalb, Klaus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Ostropales
Graphidaceae
Allographa
Allographa marginata

description: Allographa marginata (Raddi) Lücking & Kalb, comb. nov.
Mycobank MB 827656
 Basionym: Graphis marginata Raddi, Mem. Mat. Fis. Soc. Italiana Sci. res. Modena 18: 344 (1820).
 Type:— BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro state: Serra da Estrela, Corco-secco mountain, Raddi s.n. (FI, not seen) [the data for the collecting locality is taken from the protologue and Costa (2009)].
 Thallus corticolous, off-white, greyish to pale bluish gray or brownish gray, continuous, smooth to uneven, distinctly corticate and glossy. Lirellae prominent, with a thick lateral thalline margin, elongate, straight or curved, not or sparsely and irregularly branched, labia convergent, entire, disc concealed (marginata- morph). Exciple completely carbonized; hymenium clear; ascospores 4–8/ascus, hyaline, transversely 11–25-septate, 60–120 × 9–18 μm (Lücking et al 2009); 18–21-septate, 96–105 × 10–12 μm (Adawadkar & Makhija 2006).
Chemistry: norstictic acid (major), connorstictic acid (minor).
 Distribution and habitat:—Pantropical, reported from Brazil (type locality), Costa Rica (Lücking et al. 2008), India (Awasthi 1991), Borneo (as G. leucoparypha Kremp.), Taiwan, Papua New Guinea (Aptroot & Sparrius 2008 – present), Solomon Islands and Australia (Archer 2009). Poengsungnoen et al. (2010) reported this species for the first time from Thailand, Loei province, where it was growing on bark in a lower montane scrub, but it was not present in our collections.
 Remarks:—Morphologically and by spore dimensions, A. rustica (Kremp.) Lücking & Kalb (see below) is very similar, but the latter differs in having stictic acid instead of norstictic acid.
description: Published as part of Kalb, Jutarat, Lücking, Robert & Kalb, Klaus, 2018, The lichen genera Allographa and Graphis (Ascomycota: Ostropales, Graphidaceae) in Thailand-eleven new species, forty-seven new records and a key to all one hundred and fifteen species so far recorded for the country, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 377 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.377.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13728852
Das H63D-Syndrom - Typ 1
Creators: name: Lazar, Marius
name: Diamandis, Carolina
name: Ivanova, Olga
name: Volunteers
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: H63D-Syndrom
H63D
Syndrom
Oshtoran-Syndrom
Oslo Syndrome

description: Dieser Artikel gibt einen straff gefasste Zusammenfassung des H63D-Syndroms, vor allem des Typ 1. Er wurde von Dr. Marius Lazar initiiert und in weiten Teilen für das so genannte “Flexikon” geschrieben, wo auch andere fachkundige Dritte den Beitrag ausgebaut haben. Wir haben entschieden, den Lexikonartikel als Arbeitspapier zu veröffentlichen (Lizenzangabe im Paper), da das an sich sehr gute Flexikon bei diesem Thema nicht mehr jenen Standards folgte, die wir von einer hochwertigen Publikationsplattform erwarten. Der Stand des Papers ist September 2023. Eine externe Peer-Review erfolgte vor dieser Veröffentlichung.
description: Peer-Review erfolgte durch Prof. Dr. Georg Schuster, abgeschlossen am 10. Oktober 2023.
Coincidence indices of sublattices and coincidences of colorings
Creators: name: Loquias, Manuel Joseph C.
name: Zeiner, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C07, 11H06, 82D25, 52C23

description: Even though a lattice and its sublattices have the same group of coincidence isometries, the coincidence index of a coincidence isometry with respect to a lattice $Λ_1$ and to a sublattice $Λ_2$ may differ. Here, we examine the coloring of $Λ_1$ induced by $Λ_2$ to identify how the coincidence indices with respect to $Λ_1$ and to $Λ_2$ are related. This leads to a generalization of the notion of color symmetries of lattices to what we call color coincidences of lattices. Examples involving the cubic and hypercubic lattices are given to illustrate these ideas.
description: 15 pages, 1 Figure
Toward a Unified, Hierarchical Ontology of Consensus Proofs in Autonomous Distributed Computing
Creators: name: Bonyadi, Cyrus Jian
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Consensus
subject: Consensus Theory
subject: Distributed Computing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Distributed System Security
subject: Metametaphysics
subject: Ontology

description: Distributed systems studies the ways in which individual systems behave as a group and is often a result of convergent evolution in many fields of study which seek to understand consensus: how the behavior of systems within a group emerges into singular actions by the group.Practitioners in distributed computing (a subset of distributed systems) often try to integrate consensus mechanisms from other fields, seeking improvements in performance and security properties, but the wide variety of origins also makes these mechanisms difficult to compare. There are no existing works which attempt to reconcile the differences between such consensus mechanisms in a clear, communicable fashion without the requirement for additional tooling (e.g., formal methods)---a limitation which this work seeks to correct. Consensus theory across distributed systems relies on the idea that a collection of autonomous systems may, together, take possible actions with or without the involvement of all members.This idea captures the three primary properties to modern consensus in distributed computing: termination, validity, and agreement. The types of consensus algorithms in distributed computing are characterized by synchrony, permissions or privacy, and fault tolerance. The first portion of this thesis discusses the correlations of synchrony and termination, permissions and validity, and fault tolerance and agreement. The original intention for this work was to remedy the divisions in consensus by developing three hybrid consensus mechanisms which enabled multiple algorithms across the primary properties, respectively.While these hybrid consensus mechanisms would have helped establish a common language for the field, these mechanisms, ironically, could not be proven in the general case without a common language. As a result, the need for a common language could only be fulfilled by a basis for the foundational structure, which this work adapts from the philosophical field of metametaphysics. Therefore, the second portion of this work directly addresses the problem defined in its title by presenting a usable methodology. Finally, the latter portions provide the original intended works, then explain and describe usability of the adapted philosophy, along with potential next steps for formalized standardization.
Ultra-long-acting removable drug delivery system for HIV treatment and prevention
Creators: name: Baker, Caroline E.
name: Skinner, Brianna
name: Garcia-Lerma, J. Gerardo
name: Kovarova, Martina
name: Garcia, J. Victor
name: Benhabbour, S. Rahima
name: Sykes, Craig
name: Spagnuolo, Rae Ann
name: Massud, Ivana
name: Kashuba, Angela D.M.
name: Mollan, Katie R.
name: Mumper, Russell J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Non-adherence to medication is an important health care problem, especially in the treatment of chronic conditions. Injectable long-acting (LA) formulations of antiretrovirals (ARVs) represent a viable alternative to improve adherence to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. However, the LA-ARV formulations currently in clinical trials cannot be removed after administration even if adverse events occur. Here we show an ultra-LA removable system that delivers drug for up to 9 months and can be safely removed to stop drug delivery. We use two pre-clinical models for HIV transmission and treatment, non-human primates (NHP) and humanized BLT (bone marrow/liver/thymus) mice and show a single dose of subcutaneously administered ultra-LA dolutegravir effectively delivers the drug in both models and show suppression of viremia and protection from multiple high-dose vaginal HIV challenges in BLT mice. This approach represents a potentially effective strategy for the ultra-LA drug delivery with multiple possible therapeutic applications.
Evaluation of modelled climatologies of O 3 , CO, water vapour and NO y in the upper troposphere – lower stratosphere using regular in situ observations by passenger aircraft
Creators: name: Cohen, Yann
name: Hauglustaine, Didier
name: Sauvage, Bastien
name: Rohs, Susanne
name: Konjari, Patrick
name: Bundke, Ulrich
name: Petzold, Andreas
name: Thouret, Valérie
name: Zahn, Andreas
name: Ziereis, Helmut
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-572
Systemic multilineage engraftment in mice after in utero transplantation with human hematopoietic stem cells
Creators: name: MacKenzie, Tippi C.
name: Schramm, Nathaniel
name: Baker, Chris
name: Moradi, Patriss W.
name: Witt, Russell G.
name: Buckman, Laura B.
name: Garcia, J. Victor
name: Derederian, S. Christopher
name: Cleary, Rachel
name: Tsai, Perry
name: Kreger, Emily M.
name: Ho, Phong T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: In utero hematopoietic cell transplantation (IUHCT) is a potential therapy for the treatment of numerous
genetic diseases such as hemoglobinopathies, immunodeficiencies, and inborn errors of metabolism.1 In
utero therapy offers the benefit of avoiding host myeloablation and immunosuppression and has been
shown to be successful in multiple animal models, including mice,2-5 dogs,6,7 pigs,8,9 and sheep.10-12
The timing of IUHCT exposes the transplanted human cells to the normal fetal migratory and
developmental cues that facilitate proper stem cell distribution and differentiation.11,12 Clinically, IUHCT
has been successful for fetuses with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID),13,14 but therapeutic
uses for other diseases, including hemoglobinopathies, have seen limited success.15 Further
investigations identified multiple barriers to successful engraftment, including lack of space within the
hematopoietic niche16,17 and the maternal immune system.2,18 Among available animal models of
IUHCT, the fetal mouse remains an efficient and reproducible model to study the differentiation of stem
cells in a nonirradiated host. NSG (NOD-SCID IL2Rg-null) mice, which are developed with SCID and
IL-2Rg-null chain mutations, are a robust platform for the engraftment of human hematopoietic cells
because they have no endogenous T, B, or natural killer cells.19-22 In this study, we used IUHCT of
human CD341 cells in NSG mice to create a reproducible mouse model to study stem cell engraftment,
differentiation, and systemic repopulation after IUHCT.
Floral resource distribution and fitness consequences for two solitary bee species in agricultural landscapes
Creators: name: Eckerter, Philipp Wolfgang
name: Albrecht, Matthias
name: Herzog, Felix
name: Entling, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 50102 Ecosystem Function
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: 50205 Environmental Management
subject: 50104 Landscape Ecology
subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management
subject: Palynology

description: Appendix, data andFloral resource distribution and fitness consequences for two solitary bee species in agricultural landscapes" submitted to Basic and Applied Ecology
Advanced Semi-supervised Tensor Decomposition Methods for Malware Characterization
Creators: name: Eren, Maksim Ekin
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: machine learning
malware
malware classification
reject-option
semi-supervised
tensor decomposition

description: Malware continues to be one of the most dangerous and costly cyber threats to national security. As of last year, over 1.3 billion malware specimens have been documented, prompting the use of data-driven machine learning (ML) techniques for their analysis. However, existing ML approaches face significant barriers that limit their widespread implementation. These challenges include the detection of novel malware, maintaining performance with low quantities of labeled data during training, and classifying malware under class imbalance: a scenario where malware families are unevenly represented in the dataset. This dissertation addresses these shortcomings by introducing three novel semi-supervised ML methods based on tensor decomposition. Our methods are based on dimensionality reduction, hierarchical tensor decomposition, automatic model determination, and feature extraction methods with selective classification or reject-option capability. This "reject-option" capability is a form of self-awareness that allows our models to abstain from making a decision under uncertainty, which in return allows for detection of novel threats. In this dissertation, we describe the foundational concepts underlying our methods and describe the approaches we developed: the Random Forest of Tensors (RFoT), HNMFk Classifier, and MalwareDNA. Additionally, we detail the capabilities of our methods to utilize High Performance Computing (HPC), multi-processing, and Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) for accelerated computation. We showcase our experiments with all three methods where we demonstrate stable task performance under extreme class imbalance, low-quantity of labeled data, and extreme quantities of malware families. We also showcase results when simultaneously classifying benign-ware and malware, classifying malware families, and detecting novel malware families. Our results are compared against state-of-the-art semi-supervised and supervised ML baselines on two datasets. We showcase how our method surpasses the performance of our baselines with a trade-off in increased abstention or reject-option rate.
title: Τεχνολογίες αξιοποίησης αποβλήτων ελαιοτριβείων για την ανάπτυξη ολοκληρωμένων βιοδιυλιστηρίων
title: Olive mill waste utilization technologies for the development of integrated biorefineries
Creators: name: Κολλια Αρτεμις-Χριστινα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία επικεντρώθηκε στις τεχνολογίες αξιοποίησης των αποβλήτων διφασικών ελαιοτριβείων. Η διφασική μέθοδος επεξεργασίας αποβλήτων ελαιοτριβείου αποτελεί την οικολογικότερη μέθοδο, χάρη στην παραγωγή μικρής ποσότητας υγρών αποβλήτων, όπως και βιοχημικά απαιτούμενου οξυγόνου συγκριτικά με άλλες μεθόδους. Μέσω βιβλιογραφικής ανασκόπησης, μελετήθηκαν και αναλύθηκαν οι σημαντικότερες τεχνολογίες αξιοποίησης των αποβλήτων ελαιοτριβείων, με έμφαση να δίνεται στις φαινολικές ενώσεις. Η εκχύλιση με διήθηση μεμβράνης με στόχο την κλασματοποίηση των φαινολικών ενώσεων  αναδείχθηκε ως η πιο αποδοτική μέθοδος. Ακολούθησε η μελέτη βιωσιμότητας με στόχο τον υπολογισμό ορισμένων δεικτών αειφορίας, που σχετίζονται με το περιβαλλοντικό αποτύπωμα των σεναρίων που μελετήθηκαν. Συγκεκριμένα, ο περιβαλλοντικός δείκτης «Κλιματική Αλλαγή» απέδωσε ικανοποιητικά αποτελέσματα σε κάθε σενάριο, με τη μέθοδο κατασκευής πέλλετ να αποδίδει καλύτερα, συγκρινόμενη με θερμοχημικές μεθόδους και την κομποστοποίηση. Στη συνέχεια, αναφορικά με τον δείκτης της απόδοσης, η μέθοδος της κομποστοποίησης παρουσίασε καλύτερη τιμή του λόγου προϊόντος ανά πρώτη ύλη. Τέλος, ως προς την κατανάλωση ενέργειας, παρατηρήθηκαν λιγότερες ενεργειακές απαιτήσεις σε μεθόδους βιολογικής μετατροπής, ακολουθούμενες από την παραγωγή μπρικετών και πέλλετ.
description: The present thesis focused on the technologies for the utilization of two-phase olive mill waste. The two-phase mill waste treatment method is the most ecological method, thanks to the production of a small amount of liquid waste, as well as biochemically required oxygen, compared to other methods. Through a literature review, the most important technologies for the utilization of olive mill waste were studied and analyzed, with an emphasis on phenolic compounds. Membrane filtration extraction aimed at the fractionation of phenolic compounds emerged as the most efficient method. Then, followed the sustainability study, with the aim of calculating sustainability indicators, related to the environmental footprint of the scenarios studied. In particular, the "Climate Change" indicator yielded satisfactory results in each scenario, with the pellet manufacturing method performing better, compared to thermochemical methods and composting. Then, regarding the performance indicator, the composting method presented a better value of the ratio of product per raw material. As for the energy consumption, less energy requirements were observed in biological conversion methods, followed by the production of briquettes and pellets.
Landscape maps of floral resources reveal specific effects on wild bees
Creators: name: Eckerter, Philipp Wolfgang
name: Albrecht, Matthias
name: Herzog, Felix
name: Entling, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 50102 Ecosystem Function
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: 50205 Environmental Management
subject: 50104 Landscape Ecology
subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management
subject: Palynology

description: Data and scrips to the the manuscript "Landscape maps of floral resources reveal specific effects on wild bees" submitted to the Journal of Biogeography
Multimodal analysis of drug transporter expression in gastrointestinal tissue
Creators: name: Kashuba, Angela D.M.
name: Garcia, J. Victor
name: Remling-Mulder, Leila
name: Charlins, Paige
name: Schauer, Amanda
name: Thompson, Corbin G.
name: Smith, Philip C.
name: Srinivas, Nithya
name: Luciw, Paul
name: Kovarova, Martina
name: Sykes, Craig
name: Fallon, John K.
name: Akkina, Ramesh
name: Adamson, Lourdes
name: Mathews, Michelle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: Drug transporters affect antiretroviral therapy (ART) tissue disposition, but quantitative measures of drug transporter protein expression across preclinical species are not available. Our objective was to use proteomics to obtain absolute transporter concentrations and assess agreement with corresponding gene and immunometric protein data. Design: In order to make interspecies comparisons, two humanized mouse [hu-HSC-Rag (n = 41); bone marrow-liver-thymus (n = 13)] and one primate [rhesus macaque (nonhuman primate, n = 12)] models were dosed to steady state with combination ART. Ileum and rectum were collected at necropsy and snap frozen for analysis. Methods: Tissues were analyzed for gene (quantitative PCR) and protein [liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) proteomics and western blot] expression and localization (immunohistochemistry) of ART efflux and uptake transporters. Drug concentrations were measured by LC-MS/MS. Multivariable regression was used to determine the ability of transporter data to predict tissue ART penetration. Results: Analytical methods did not agree, with different trends observed for gene and protein expression. For example, quantitative PCR analysis showed a two-fold increase in permeability glycoprotein expression in nonhuman primates versus mice; however, proteomics showed a 200-fold difference in the opposite direction. Proteomics results were supported by immunohistochemistry staining showing extensive efflux transporter localization on the luminal surface of these tissues. ART tissue concentration was variable between species, and multivariable regression showed poor predictive power of transporter data. Conclusion: Lack of agreement between analytical techniques suggests that resources should be focused on generating downstream measures of protein expression to predict drug exposure. Taken together, these data inform the use of preclinical models for studying ART distribution and the design of targeted therapies for HIV eradication.
Status and implications of neutrino masses: a brief panorama
Creators: name: Valle, J. W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the historic discovery of the Higgs boson our picture of particle physics would have been complete were it not for the neutrino sector and cosmology. I briefly discuss the role of neutrino masses and mixing upon gauge coupling unification, electroweak breaking and the flavor sector. Time is ripe for new discoveries such as leptonic CP violation, charged lepton flavor violation and neutrinoless double beta decay. Neutrinos could also play a role in elucidating the nature of dark matter and cosmic inflation.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, latex. To be published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Massive Neutrinos, Singapore, February 9-13, 2015