cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A maximally supersymmetric Kondo model
Creators: name: Harrison, Sarah
name: Kachru, Shamit
name: Torroba, Gonzalo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the maximally supersymmetric Kondo model obtained by adding a fermionic impurity to N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. While the original Kondo problem describes a defect interacting with a free Fermi liquid of itinerant electrons, here the ambient theory is an interacting CFT, and this introduces qualitatively new features into the system. The model arises in string theory by considering the intersection of a stack of M D5-branes with a stack of N D3-branes, at a point in the D3 worldvolume. We analyze the theory holographically, and propose a dictionary between the Kondo problem and antisymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 SYM. We perform an explicit calculation of the D5 fluctuations in the D3 geometry and determine the spectrum of defect operators. This establishes the stability of the Kondo fixed point together with its basic thermodynamic properties. Known supergravity solutions for Wilson loops allow us to go beyond the probe approximation: the D5s disappear and are replaced by three-form flux piercing a new topologically non-trivial three-sphere in the corrected geometry. This describes the Kondo model in terms of a geometric transition. A dual matrix model reflects the basic properties of the corrected gravity solution in its eigenvalue distribution.
description: 46 pages, 2 figures. Minor typos corrected
Evaluation of automated hippocampal segmentation software in a clinically heterogeneous sample
Creators: name: MacRae, Cassie Brieana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Accurate, efficient processing of magnetic resonance images (MRI) offers potential value for both basic and clinical neuroscience; however, the current gold standard method of doing so is manual segmentation, a labor-intensive process with inherent variability. Limitations associated with manual segmentation have motivated the development of automated software programs for structural MRI processing and volumetric analysis of subcortical brain structures. The three most commonly used platforms are FSL, FreeSurfer, and SPM. As each platform uses a unique mathematical algorithm for image analysis, it is necessary to determine which program offers optimal subcortical segmentation, particularly for high field-strength imaging. The current study compared automated volumetric analysis of the human hippocampus with manual segmentation values in a clinically complex population in order to determine which method provides the most robust results in the presence of motion artifact, a common problem in MR, and visible anatomic anomalies of the hippocampi. MRI data included in the current study was obtained from residents of Vancouver B.C’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) social housing projects, the majority of whom experience co-occurring addiction/polysubstance abuse and severe mental illness. A large number of these MRI scans are characterized by abnormal hippocampal morphology, perhaps resultant of neuropsychiatric illness, addiction, infection, or interactions of these factors. Intraclass correlations (ICC) were used to determine which set of automated hippocampal volumes best correlated with manual measures in motion artifact-free MRI data with and without bilateral abnormal hippocampal cavities. FreeSurfer volumes were most correlated with manual measurements regardless of whether MRI data included hippocampal cavities or not (ICC=0.88, no cavities; 0.48 with cavities), followed by FSL/FIRST (ICC=0.64, no cavities; ICC=0.43, with cavities), and SPM8.0/AAL (ICC=0.039, with cavities; ICC=0.035, no cavities). FSL/FIRST was the most sensitive to severe motion artifact (ICC=0.62), followed by FreeSurfer 5.1 (ICC=0.85), manual segmentation (ICC=0.96), and SPM8.0/AAL (ICC=0.99). ICCs for FreeSurfer 5.1 vs. FSL/FIRST were 0.87 (no motion artifact, no hippocampal cavities), 0.87 (no motion artifact, bilateral hippocampal spaces), and 0.64 (MRI scans with severe motion artifact). These data suggest automated segmentation methods are sensitive to MRI data with compromised image quality and deviations in normal hippocampal morphology.
title: Una perspectiva comparativa del teatro español
title: Integración de la »Biblioteca Electrónica Textual del Teatro en Español« en la plataforma »DraCor«
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fischer, Frank
name: Santa María Fernández, Teresa
name: Calvo Tello, José
name: Milling, Carsten
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: DraCor
subject: BETTE
subject: lenguaje de marcado TEI
subject: teatro europeo
subject: API
subject: datos abiertos
subject: 800 Literatur::860 Spanische, portugiesische Literaturen::862 Spanische Dramen

description: En este artículo se describe la integración de la Biblioteca Electrónica Textual del Teatro en Español (1868–1936) – BETTE en la plataforma de investigación del teatro europeo Drama Corpora Project (DraCor). Los textos codificados en TEI-XML del corpus español se pueden trabajar a través de la interfaz de programación de aplicaciones (API) general de la plataforma y, de esta forma, se facilita el acceso a dichos textos dramáticos y la reproducción de los resultados de la investigación. Se hace hincapié en la importancia de tener una estructura de datos en abierto, la colaboración internacional entre grupos de investigación, así como las ventajas para todos los implicados de disponer de dichos datos en abierto y accesibles mediante API.
Surprising Muon and Tau Airshower from Earth edges and Moon shadows
Creators: name: Oliva, Pietro
name: D. Fargion
name: P. G. De Sanctis Lucentini
name: M.Yu. Khlopov
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Telescopes - New Facilities

description: Parallel Flash Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: https://doi.org/10.1142/S021827181841002X
description: {"references": ["https://doi.org/10.1142/S021827181841002X"]}
A Scaling Relation Between Megamaser Disk Radius and Black Hole Mass in Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Wardle, Mark
name: Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several thin, Keplerian, sub-parsec megamaser disks have been discovered in the nuclei of active galaxies and used to precisely determine the mass of their host black holes. We show that there is an empirical linear correlation between the disk radius and the black hole mass. We demonstrate that such disks are naturally formed by the partial capture of molecular clouds passing through the galactic nucleus and temporarily engulfing the central supermassive black hole. Imperfect cancellation of the angular momenta of the cloud material colliding after passing on opposite sides of the hole leads to the formation of a compact disk. The radial extent of the disk is determined by the efficiency of this process and the Bondi-Hoyle capture radius of the black hole, and naturally produces the empirical linear correlation of the radial extent of the maser distribution with black hole mass. The disk has sufficient column density to allow X-ray irradiation from the central source to generate physical and chemical conditions conducive to the formation of 22 GHz H2O masers. For initial cloud column densities less than ~10^{23.5} cm^-2 the disk is non-self gravitating, consistent with the ordered kinematics of the edge-on megamaser disks; for higher cloud columns the disk would fragment and produce a compact stellar disk similar to that observed around Sgr A* at the galactic centre.
description: Minor revisions. Fig 1. corrected. ApJ Letters, in press
Quantum twistors
Creators: name: Cervantes, D.
name: Fioresi, R.
name: Lledó, M. A.
name: Nadal, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We compute explicitly a star product on the Minkowski space whose Poisson bracket is quadratic. This star product corresponds to a deformation of the conformal spacetime, whose big cell is the Minkowski spacetime. The description of Minkowski space is made in the twistor formalism and the quantization follows by substituting the classical conformal group by a quantum group.
description: 47 pages. references added, some parts rewritten. To appear in 'p-adic Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis and Applicarions'
title: Touch and the body. First-hand and others’ tactile experiences reveal the embodied nature of pleasant social touch
Creators: name: Mello, Manuel
Publisher: name: Sapienza University of Rome
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02be6w209
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Winner of the Competition “Prize for PhD Thesis 2023” arranged by Sapienza University Press.
From infancy to adulthood, touch shapes our understanding of self and others, influencing social interactions and emotional bonds. This work delves into the embodied nature of pleasant social touch. Through a series of innovative studies, the author investigates how social context and body location affect touch preferences in typically developing and autistic adults, as well as the influence of virtual body ownership on social touch perception. The thesis also explores the role of embodied simulation in empathy for pleasant touch and examines motor facilitation effects during the observation of others’ tactile experiences. Furthermore, it proposes a potential link between empathy for pleasant touch and prosocial behaviour. By combining cutting-edge techniques with established experimental paradigms, this thesis offers insights into the intricate relationship between touch, body representations, and social cognition. From exploring the roots of touch processing difficulties in autism spectrum disorders to uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying positive empathy, this work bridges crucial gaps in our understanding of social touch. Whether you’re a researcher in neuroscience and psychology, or simply curious about the power of human touch, this thesis provides a comprehensive and thoughtprovoking exploration of how our tactile experiences shape our social world. Discover the embodied phenomenon of pleasant social touch and its implications for human interaction.
Resting time after phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate in THP-1 derived macrophages provides a non-biased model for the study of NLRP3 inflammasome
Creators: name: Giambelluca, Sonia
name: Ochs, Matthias
name: Lopez-Rodriguez, Elena
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)
subject: interleukin-beta (IL-1beta)
subject: pro-caspase-1
subject: cell differentiation
subject: macrophage surface markers
subject: monocyte-macrophage
subject: in vitro
subject: model
subject: ASC speck
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: The activation of NLRP3 inflammasome in macrophages has been proven to play a crucial role in the development of cardiovascular diseases. THP-1 monocytes can be differentiated to macrophages by incubation with phorbol-12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), providing a suitable model for in vitro studies. However, PMA has been shown to have effects on the levels of IL-1 beta, the main mediator of NLRP3 inflammasome, while the effects on the other mediators of the inflammasome have not been reported before. Methods: THP-1 monocytes were incubated without (THP-1), with 5ng/ml PMA for 48h (PMA48h) or with 5ng/ml PMA for 48h plus 24h in fresh medium (PMArest). Morphological changes and the expression of macrophage surface markers (CD14, CD11b, CD36 and CD204) were evaluated by flow cytometry. Changes in intracellular levels of inflammasome components (NLRP3, ASC, pro-caspase-1, pro-IL1 beta) were analyzed by western blot and release of mature IL-1 beta in cell supernatant was analyzed by ELISA. ASC speck formation was determined by immunofluorescence. Results: After 48h incubation with PMA or subsequent rest in fresh medium, cells became adherent, and the differential expression of CD36, CD11b, CD14 and CD204 compared to THP-1 cells confirmed that PMArest resemble macrophages from a molecular point of view. Changes in the levels were detected in PMA48h group for all the NLRP3-related proteins, with increase of NLRP3 and pro-IL-1 beta and secretion of mature IL-1 beta. In PMArest, no pro-IL-1 beta and lower amounts of mature IL-1 beta were detected. No ASC speck was found in PMA treated groups, but the addition of a second stimulus to PMArest resulted in ASC speck formation, together with IL-1 beta production, confirming the responsiveness of the model. Conclusion: Differentiation of THP-1 with 5ng/ml PMA followed by 24h resting period provides a model that morphologically and molecularly resembles macrophages. However, even at low concentrations, PMA induces production of IL-1 beta. The 24h rest period provides for down-regulation of pro-IL-1 beta in PMArest group, without affecting its ability to respond to a second stimulus through activation of inflammasome.
Generation of GHZ entangled states of photons in multiple cavities via a superconducting qutrit or an atom through resonant interaction
Creators: name: Yang, Chui-Ping
name: Su, Qi-Ping
name: Han, Siyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an efficient method to generate a GHZ entangled state of n photons in n microwave cavities (or resonators) via resonant interaction to a single superconducting qutrit. The deployment of a qutrit, instead of a qubit, as the coupler enables us to use resonant interactions exclusively for all qutrit-cavity and qutrit-pulse operations. This unique approach significantly shortens the time of operation which is advantageous to reducing the adverse effects of qutrit decoherence and cavity decay on fidelity of the protocol. Furthermore, the protocol involves no measurement on either the state of qutrit or cavity photons. We also show that the protocol can be generalized to other systems by replacing the superconducting qutrit coupler with different types of physical qutrit, such as an atom in the case of cavity QED, to accomplish the same task.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. A
Modulation of fear-related behaviors by prefrontal cortical GABAergic transmission and its relevance to schizophrenia
Creators: name: Piantadosi, Patrick Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Individuals with schizophrenia are hypothesized to have a “noisy” prefrontal cortex (PFC), resulting from deficient gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) inhibitory neurotransmission. Given that the PFC regulates emotional functioning, it is possible that neuropathological alterations in PFC GABA function contribute to deficits in affective functioning in schizophrenia. In particular, schizophrenic patients have been suggested to apply aberrant motivational salience to cues, often being hyporesponsive to cues that predict reinforcement, and hyperresponsive to cues that do not predict reward. These types of deficits can be assessed in non-human animals using discriminative Pavlovian fear conditioning and latent inhibition paradigms. In the present study, experiments were conducted to elucidate the role of PFC GABAergic transmission in the allocation of motivational salience to conditioned stimuli. Animals were trained to lever press for sucrose reward, after which fear was assessed (using conditioned suppression of lever pressing) on one of the two aversive conditioning paradigms conducted. Saline infused control animals showed normal application of motivational salience, characterized by adaptive discrimination between aversive (CS+) and neutral cues (CS-) during discriminative Pavlovian fear conditioning, and acquired irrelevance to a stimuli that was preexposed during latent inhibition. Pharmacological blockade of GABAA-receptors prior to the conditioning or test phase of the discriminative fear task eliminiated the ability to behaviorally discriminate between a CS+ and CS-. Interestingly, only pre-conditioning infusions resulted in elevated fear to the CS-, suggesting that abnormal hyperresponsivity to a neutral cue is related to deficient GABA function during acquisition, but not recall. Blockade of GABAA-receptors prior to conditioning had no effect on latent inhibition, but did enhance fear in animals that were non-preexposed to the conditioned stimulus. In contrast, latent inhibition was abolished following GABA-blockade prior to the test phase of the task. Taken together, these deficits suggest that PFC GABA transmission is critical for adaptive behavior following aversive conditioning. Such deficits observed in schizophrenia may be causally related to PFC GABA deficiency, predisposing these individuals to aberrant attributions of motivational salience to environmental stimuli.
Second-order matter fluctuations via higher-order galaxy correlators
Creators: name: Bel, J.
name: Marinoni, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a formula for extracting the value of the rms of the linear matter fluctuations on a scale R directly from redshift surveys data. It allows to constrain the real-space amplitude of sigma_R without requiring any modeling of the nature and power spectrum of the matter distribution. Furthermore, the formalism is completely insensitive to the character of the bias function, namely its eventual scale or non-linear dependence. By contrasting measurements of sigma_R with predictions from linear perturbation theory, one can test for eventual departures from the standard description of gravity on large cosmological scales. The proposed estimator exploits the information contained in the 1-point moments and 2-point correlators of the matter and galaxy density fields, and it can be applied on cosmic scales where linear and semi-linear perturbative approximations of the evolution of matter overdensities offer a satisfactory description of the full underlying theory. We implement the test with N-body simulations to quantify potential systematics and successfully show that we are able to recover the present day value of sigma_8 `hidden' in the simulation. We also design a consistency check to gauge the soundness of the results inferred when the formalism is applied to real (as opposed to simulated) data. We expect that this approach will provide a sensitive probe of the clustering of matter when applied to future large redshift survey such as BigBOSS and EUCLID.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Typos corrected, references added, to match the version published by MNRAS
New physics in ε' from chromomagnetic contributions and limits on Left-Right symmetry
Creators: name: Bertolini, Stefano
name: Eeg, Jan O.
name: Maiezza, Alessio
name: Nesti, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New physics in the chromomagnetic flavor changing transition s->dg* can avoid the strong GIM suppression of the Standard Model and lead to large contributions to CP-violating observables, in particular to the epsilon' parameter, that we address here. We discuss the case of the Left-Right symmetric models, where this contribution implies bounds on the phases of the right-handed quark mixing matrix, or in generic models with large phases a strong bound on the Left-Right symmetry scale. To the leading order, a numeric formula for epsilon' as a function of the short-distance coefficients for a wide class of models of new physics is given.
description: 12 pages, Eq. 12 and related numerics amended
Evagetes crassicornis subsp. crassicornis crassicornis (Shuckard 1837
Creators: name: Loktionov, V. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Evagetes
Evagetes crassicornis
Evagetes crassicornis crassicornis (shuckard, 1837)

description: Evagetes crassicornis crassicornis (Shuckard, 1837)
 Evagetes crassicornis: Lelej, 1995: 249, 250.
 Evagetes crassicornis crassicornis: Lelej & Loktionov, 2009: 43; 2012: 410; Loktionov & Lelej, 2014: 279.
MATERIAL. Yakutia: Yakutsk, 22.VII 1986, 1 (Makarkin); Pokrovsk, 21.VII 1986, 1 (Makarkin) [IBSS].
DISTRIBUTION. Russia (Amurskaya oblast, North Sakhalin, Magadanskaya oblast, Chukotka, Yakutia, Zabaikalskii krai, Buryatia, Irkutskaya oblast, European part), Ukraine, Belarus, Western Europe, Georgia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Morocco, North America (Alaska) (Loktionov, Lelej, 2014).
description: Published as part of Loktionov, V. M., 2014, Spider Wasps Of Yakutia (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), pp. 13-16 in Far Eastern Entomologist 276 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10084183
Bootstrap inference for network construction with an application to a breast cancer microarray study
Creators: name: Li, Shuang
name: Hsu, Li
name: Peng, Jie
name: Wang, Pei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) have been used to construct genetic regulatory networks where regularization techniques are widely used since the network inference usually falls into a high-dimension-low-sample-size scenario. Yet, finding the right amount of regularization can be challenging, especially in an unsupervised setting where traditional methods such as BIC or cross-validation often do not work well. In this paper, we propose a new method - Bootstrap Inference for Network COnstruction (BINCO) - to infer networks by directly controlling the false discovery rates (FDRs) of the selected edges. This method fits a mixture model for the distribution of edge selection frequencies to estimate the FDRs, where the selection frequencies are calculated via model aggregation. This method is applicable to a wide range of applications beyond network construction. When we applied our proposed method to building a gene regulatory network with microarray expression breast cancer data, we were able to identify high-confidence edges and well-connected hub genes that could potentially play important roles in understanding the underlying biological processes of breast cancer.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOAS589 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
A NASA Probe-class mission to perform transformational measurements of UHECRs and Cosmic Neutrinos
Creators: name: Krizmanic, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Telescopes - New Facilities

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: for the POEMMA Collaboration
Diffusion Enhancement in Core-softened fluid confined in nanotubes
Creators: name: Bordin, José R.
name: de Oliveira, Alan B.
name: Diehl, Alexandre
name: Barbosa, Marcia C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of confinement in the dynamical behavior of a core-softened fluid. The fluid is modeled as a two length scales potential. This potential in the bulk reproduces the anomalous behavior observed in the density and in the diffusion of liquid water. A series of $NpT$ Molecular Dynamics simulations for this two length scales fluid confined in a nanotube were performed. We obtain that the diffusion coefficient increases with the increase of the nanotube radius for wide channels as expected for normal fluids. However, for narrow channels, the confinement shows an enhancement in the diffusion coefficient when the nanotube radius decreases. This behavior, observed for water, is explained in the framework of the two length scales potential.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures, accept for publication at J. Chem. Phys
Right simple singularities in positive characteristic
Creators: name: Greuel, Gert-Martin
name: Duc, Nguyen Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We classify isolated hypersurface singularities $f\in K[[x_1,..., x_n]]$, $K$ an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$, which are simple w.r.t. right equivalence, that is, which have no moduli up to analytic coordinate change. For $K=\mathbb R$ or $\mathbb C$ this classification was initiated by Arnol'd, resulting in the famous ADE-series. The classification w.r.t. contact equivalence for $p>0$ was done by Greuel and Kröning with a result similar to Arnol'd's. It is surprising that w.r.t. right equivalence and for any given $p>0$ we have only finitely many simple singularities, i.e. there are only finitely many $k$ such that $A_k$ and $D_k$ are right simple, all the others have moduli. A major point of this paper is the generalization of the notion of modality to the algebraic setting, its behaviour under morphisms, and its relations to formal deformation theory. As an application we show that the modality is semicontinuous in any characteristic.
description: 26 pages, final version
Exact Reconstruction Conditions for Regularized Modified Basis Pursuit
Creators: name: Lu, Wei
name: Vaswani, Namrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this correspondence, we obtain exact recovery conditions for regularized modified basis pursuit (reg-mod-BP) and discuss when the obtained conditions are weaker than those for modified-CS or for basis pursuit (BP). The discussion is also supported by simulation comparisons. Reg-mod-BP provides a solution to the sparse recovery problem when both an erroneous estimate of the signal's support, denoted by $T$, and an erroneous estimate of the signal values on $T$ are available.
description: 17 pages
Adoption of World Health Organization Best Practices in Clinical Trial Transparency Among European Medical Research Funder Policies
Creators: name: Bruckner, Till
name: Rodgers, Florence
name: Styrmisdóttir, Lea
name: Keestra, Sarai
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Best Practices
subject: European Medical Research Funder
subject: World Health Organization
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: IMPORTANCE Research funders can reduce research waste and publication bias by requiring their grantees to register and report clinical trials. OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which 21 major European research funders' efforts to reduce research waste and publication bias in clinical trials meet World Health Organization (WHO) best practice benchmarks and to investigate areas for improvement. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional study was based on 2 to 3 independent assessments of each funder's publicly available documentation and validation of results with funders during 2021. Included funders were the 21 largest nonmultilateral public and philanthropic medical research funders in Europe, with a combined budget of more than US $22 billion. EXPOSURES Scoring of funders using an 11-item assessment tool based on WHO best practice benchmarks, grouped into 4 broad categories: trial registries, academic publication, monitoring, and sanctions. Funder references to reporting standards were captured. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The primary outcome was funder adoption or nonadoption of 11 policy and monitoring measures to reduce research waste and publication bias as set out by WHO best practices. The secondary outcomes were whether and how funder policies referred to reporting standards. Outcomes were preregistered after a pilot phase that used the same outcome measures. RESULTS Among 21 of the largest nonmultilateral public and philanthropic funders in Europe, some best practices were more widely adopted than others, with 14 funders (66.7%) mandating prospective trial registration and 6 funders (28.6%) requiring that trial results be made public on trial registries within 12 months of trial completion. Less than half of funders actively monitored whether trials were registered (9 funders [42.9%]) or whether results were made public (8 funders [38.1%]). Funders implemented a mean of 4 of 11 best practices in clinical trial transparency (36.4%) set out by WHO. The extent to which funders adopted WHO best practice items varied widely, ranging from 0 practices for the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the ministries of health of Germany and Italy to 10 practices (90.9%) for the UK National Institute of Health Research. Overall, 9 funders referred to reporting standards in their policies. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE This study found that many European medical research funder policy and monitoring measures fell short of WHO best practices. These findings suggest that funders worldwide may need to identify and address gaps in policies and processes.
Targets of Opportunity with POEMMA
Creators: name: Venters, Tonia
name: M.H. Reno
name: J.F. Krizmanic
name: L.A. Anchordoqui
name: C. Guépin
name: A.V. Olinto
name: And The POEMMA Collaboration
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Telescopes - New Facilities

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: Paper submitted to PRD (arXiv:1906.07209)
description: {"references": ["arXiv:1906.07209", "arXiv:1902.11287", "arXiv:1812.07596", "arXiv: 2012.07945"]}
title: Creating a culture of radioprotection in a tertiary hospital in Argentina
Creators: name: Ulla, Marina
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Action 6 - Clinical audit tool for imaging
subject: Action 12 - Information for and communication with patients
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Quality assurance

description: Background/introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and recommendations Personal/organisational information References
description: Background/introduction: At a meeting in the city of Bonn, Germany, in 2012, 10 priority actions were identified for the improvement of Radiation Protection in Medicine (RPM) and were endorsed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health...
Trajectory handling for LINC-NIRVANA’s Field Derotators
Creators: name: Kittmann, Frank
name: Bertram, Thomas
name: Conrad, Albert
name: Trowitzsch, Jan
name: Briegel, Florian
name: Berwein, Juergen
name: Mohr, Lars
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the AO4ELT2 conference (Publisher: ONERA; Editors: J.-P. Véran, Y. Clénet, T. Fusco)
Year: 2011
Subjects: ADAPTIVE OPTICS
EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES
PATHFINDERS
INSTRUMENTS
WAVEFRONT CORRECTORS
WAVEFRONT SENSING
LASER GUIDE STAR SYSTEMS
ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE
REAL-TIME CONTROL
MODELING
POST-PROCESSING

description: The near infrared interferometer LINC-NIRVANA combines the beams coming from the two primary
mirrors of the Large Binocular Telescope to increase the resolution of the science camera image. LINC-NIRVANA
is using layer-oriented multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) to reduce the influence of the atmospheric turbulence.
The deformable mirrors of the MCAO systems are conjugated to the ground layer and a second layer in the
upper atmosphere, respectively. Ground layer wavefront sensors and high layer wavefront sensors measure the
wavefront in these two layers. Due to geometrical constraints unique to this type of instrument, it is not possible
to provide a single derotator at the entrance of each incoming beam. Due to that fact, field derotation has to be
applied for each wavefront sensor and for the science detector separately. The fields of the high layer wavefront
sensors are derotated by the use of K-Mirrors, whereas the ground layer wavefront sensors and the science detector
rotate themselves to compensate field rotation. All derotators are driven by common software that provides
functionality to generate, execute, and maniulate a trajectory. The trajectory handling for these field derotators will
be discussed in this paper. We introduce an algorithm that translates a requested trajectory into motor controller
commands in due consideration of the required accuracy. Finally, we present the achieved positioning accuracy
of the translated trajectory and compare that result with the traced position path of the derotator.
What Causes Cancer in Women with a gBRCA Pathogenic Variant? Counselees’ Causal Attributions and Associations with Perceived Control
Creators: name: Kendel, Friederike
name: Klein, Katharina
name: Schüürhuis, Stephen
name: Besch, Laura
name: Feufel, Markus A.
name: Speiser, Dorothee
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
subject: gBRCA1/2-PV
subject: causal attributions
subject: personal control
subject: genetic counseling
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Laypersons have a strong need to explain critical life events, such as the development of an illness. Expert explanations do not always match the beliefs of patients. We therefore assessed causal attributions made by women with a pathogenic germline variant in BRCA1/2 (gBRCA1/2-PV), both with and without a cancer diagnosis. We assumed that attributions would be associated with the control experience. We conducted a cross-sectional study of N = 101 women with a gBRCA1/2-PV (mean age 43.3 +/- 10.9). Women answered self-report questionnaires on perceived causes and control. Most women (97%) named genes as a causal factor for the development of cancer. Surprisingly, the majority of women also named stress and health behavior (both 81%), environment (80%), and personality (61%). Women with a cancer diagnosis tended to endorse more causes. The attributions to personality (rho = 0.39, p < 0.01) health behavior (rho = 0.44, p < 0.01), and environment (rho = 0.22, p < 0.05) were significantly associated with personal control, whereas attribution to genes showed a small, albeit significant association with treatment control (rho = 0.20, p < 0.05). Discussing causal beliefs in clinical counseling may provide a "window of opportunity" in which risk factors and health behaviors could be better addressed and individually targeted.
Search for exotic pion decays
Creators: name: Cuen-Rochin, Saul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Masses and Mixing - New Facilities

description: Parallel Flash Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: For the PIENU Collaboration
The holographic superconductors in higher-dimensional AdS soliton
Creators: name: Lee, Chong Oh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the behaviors of the holographic superconductors at zero temperature for a charged scalar field coupled to a Maxwell field in higher-dimensional AdS soliton spacetime via analytical way. In the probe limit, we obtain the critical chemical potentials increase linearly as a total dimension $d$ grows up. We find that the critical exponent for condensation operator is obtained as 1/2 independently of $d$, and the charge density is linearly related to the chemical potential near the critical point. Furthermore, we consider a slightly generalized setup the Einstein-Power-Maxwell field theory, and find that the critical exponent for condensation operator is given as $1/(4-2n)$ in terms of a power parameter $n$ of the Power-Maxwell field, and the charge density is proportional to the chemical potential to the power of $1/(2-n)$.
description: LaTeX, 16 pages, 5 figures, typos corrected, one reference added, version to appear in European Physical Journal C
The Effect of the Instrument Environment on the Altair AO System at Gemini N
Creators: name: Christou, J.
name: Trujillo, C.
name: Neichel, B.
name: Rigaut, F.
name: Walls, B.
name: Coulson, D.
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the AO4ELT2 conference (Publisher: ONERA; Editors: J.-P. Véran, Y. Clénet, T. Fusco)
Year: 2011
Subjects: ADAPTIVE OPTICS
EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES
PATHFINDERS
INSTRUMENTS
WAVEFRONT CORRECTORS
WAVEFRONT SENSING
LASER GUIDE STAR SYSTEMS
ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE
REAL-TIME CONTROL
MODELING
POST-PROCESSING

description: The Altair AO system at Gemini North has been in regular operation since 2004 in NGS
mode. Over the past few years we have been routinely monitoring its performance looking at the telemetry
in the form of circular buffers from the nightly tuning, in particular the residual tip-tilt (TT). We present
analysis of these data which illustrate how the instrument support structure (ISS) environment affects the
residual TT and how different components of the TT signal are affected by the instrument compliment.
Genomic epidemiology of Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis from Germany
Creators: name: Abdel-Glil, Mostafa Y.
name: Hotzel, Helmut
name: Tomaso, Herbert
name: Didelot, Xavier
name: Brandt, Christian
name: Seyboldt, Christian
name: Linde, Jörg
name: Schwarz, Stefan
name: Neubauer, Heinrich
name: El-Adawy, Hosny
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis
subject: dairy cattle
subject: bovine genital campylobacteriosis
subject: genomic epidemiology
subject: ISCfe1
subject: WGS
subject: Germany
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis (Cfv) causes bovine genital campylobacteriosis (BGC), a World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH)-listed trade-relevant disease characterized by severe reproductive losses, such as infertility, early embryonic death and abortion in cattle. BGC has significant economic implications that have prompted several countries to adopt stringent eradication and surveillance measures to contain the disease. In Germany, there has been a low incidence of BGC cases over the past 28 years. This study aimed to illustrate the genomic diversity of German Cfv strains isolated from different federal states in Germany. This study analyzed 63 Cfv strains, collected between 1985 and 2015, by whole-genome sequencing and compared them with genome data of 91 international Cfv isolates. The phylogenetic analysis showed that the Cfv population is genetically conserved and has geographic clusters. In Germany, one phylogenetic lineage comprising all strains was identified. This German lineage was part of a subclade that probably emerged in the nineteenth century and diversified over time. The results of this study point to a non-recurrent cross-border introduction of Cfv in Germany. The BGC control interventions in Germany can be considered successful as no outbreaks were reported since 2015.
title: Challenges and solutions in establishing paediatric DRLs for scoliosis radiography
Creators: name: Seuri, Raija
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 6 - Clinical audit tool for imaging
subject: Action 7 - Radiation protection of children
subject: Paediatric
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Quality assurance

description: Background/introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and recommendations Personal/organisational information References
description: Background/introduction: Scoliosis Scoliosis is usually diagnosed and followed by measuring the Cobb angle form whole spine radiography Repeated radiographies during the growth are frequent in the follow-up Scoliosis and Diagnostic Refrence Levels (DRLs) No DRLs published...
Classical tau-function for quantum spin chains
Creators: name: Alexandrov, Alexander
name: Kazakov, Vladimir
name: Leurent, Sebastien
name: Tsuboi, Zengo
name: Zabrodin, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For an arbitrary generalized quantum integrable spin chain we introduce a "master T -operator" which represents a generating function for commuting quantum transfer matrices constructed by means of the fusion procedure in the auxiliary space. We show that the functional relations for the transfer matrices are equivalent to an infinite set of model-independent bilinear equations of the Hirota form for the master T -operator, which allows one to identify it with τ-function of an integrable hierarchy of classical soliton equations. In this paper we consider spin chains with rational GL(N)-invariant R-matrices but the result is independent of a particular functional form of the transfer matrices and directly applies to quantum integrable models with more general (trigonometric and elliptic) R-matrices and to supersymmetric spin chains.
description: 67 pages, 2 figures; one figure and several explanations added in version 2
Optimal Control of Tip-tilt Modes On-sky Adaptive Optics Demonstration
Creators: name: Doelman, Niek
name: Fraanje, Rufus
name: Den Breeje, Remco
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the AO4ELT2 conference (Publisher: ONERA; Editors: J.-P. Véran, Y. Clénet, T. Fusco)
Year: 2011
Subjects: ADAPTIVE OPTICS
EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES
PATHFINDERS
INSTRUMENTS
WAVEFRONT CORRECTORS
WAVEFRONT SENSING
LASER GUIDE STAR SYSTEMS
ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE
REAL-TIME CONTROL
MODELING
POST-PROCESSING

description: An H2-optimal control approach for Adaptive Optics has been validated in an on-sky experiment on
a solar telescope. A substantial performance improvement over the integrator control approach is demonstrated
for control of the tip-tilt modes. The experimental results correspond reasonably well with simulations based on
measured data.
Stomorhina siamensis Kurahashi et Tumrasvin 1992
Creators: name: Bharti, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Calliphoridae
Stomorhina
Stomorhina siamensis

description: Stomorhina siamensis Kurahashi et Tumrasvin, 1992
Figs 1, 2
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. India: 2 females, Thottilpalam, Kerala; 11 o 68’ N, 75 o 80’ E, altitude 50 m, 19.II 2014, M. Bharti; 1 female, Balehonnur, Karnataka, 13°21’ N, 75°28’ E, altitude 867 m, collected from light source, 5.VII 2007, K.J. David.
DISTRIBUTION. Thailand, Vietnam, India (Kerala, Karnataka). Herein this species is firstly recorded from India.
 REMARKS. Stomorhina can be distinguished from other Rhiniinae by bare proplueron, presence of an outer post-humeral seta and R5 open or closed in the margin, R5 is petiolate only in case of xanthogaster (Dear, 1977). The species, S. siamensis is closely related to S. townsendi but differs from other species of the group due to closed R5 vein at the wing margin. It could be separated from closely related S. townsendi by the characters given in the key.
 ECOLOGY. Stomorhina siamensis has been recorded from the Thottilpalam and Balehonnur areas falling in the state of Kerala and Karnataka. A fresh water stream passes through the town of Thottilpalam. Lagoons and backwaters characterize the state of Kerala, which receives run-off from the rivers. The place features a highly humid tropical climate with highest temperatures recorded in the month of June (40 oC) and lowest in the month of December (17.5 oC). The vegetation of the place is of varied type which includes west-coast tropical evergreen, semi-evergreen, Southern moist mixed deciduous, grasslands and marshy grasslands. Balehonnur on the other hand is a small city located on the banks of river Bhadra with an average rainfall of 80 inches a year and is dominated by coffee estates, arecanut, paddy fields, pepper, vanilla and other spices.
description: Published as part of Bharti, M., 2014, New Record Of Stomorhina Siamensis Kurahashi Et Tumrasvin, 1992 From India, With Revised Key To Indian Species Of The Genus Stomorhina (Diptera: Calliphoridae, pp. 7-11 in Far Eastern Entomologist 281 on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10084208
The Scale of Cosmic Isotropy
Creators: name: Marinoni, C.
name: Bel, J.
name: Buzzi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most fundamental premise to the standard model of the universe, the Cosmological Principle (CP), states that the large-scale properties of the universe are the same in all directions and at all comoving positions. Demonstrating this theoretical hypothesis has proven to be a formidable challenge. The cross-over scale R_{iso} above which the galaxy distribution becomes statistically isotropic is vaguely defined and poorly (if not at all) quantified. Here we report on a formalism that allows us to provide an unambiguous operational definition and an estimate of R_{iso}. We apply the method to galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7, finding that R_{iso}\sim 150h^{-1} Mpc. Besides providing a consistency test of the Copernican principle, this result is in agreement with predictions based on numerical simulations of the spatial distribution of galaxies in cold dark matter dominated cosmological models.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, accepted by JCAP. The text matches the published version
title: Paediatric CT dose optimization in a general hospital
Creators: name: Yanikian Nersissian, Denise
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Action 7 - Radiation protection of children
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Paediatric
subject: CT
subject: Physics
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Background/introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and recommendations Personal/organisational information References
description: Background/introduction: According to the publication HHS 24 - Dosimetry in Diagnostic Radiology for Pediatric Patients - dosimetry for pediatric patients undergoing diagnostic radiology procedures requires special consideration in addition to the dosimetry methods used for...